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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1951)
t Th PHI "ti SqUm Orqon t tv 1 tccit J&xcnan gen iO vnersMp of Stock Broadened nro(iin the cwnershla of ' prise 4s a cure method of corn bating communism, a .governor of the Kw Tm stock exchange said here Tuesday rdght. I "When more and more persona out secunnesr said bianey Schwartz ot New York aty it ft dinner meeting in the Senator hotel, it will become tnfrf rg'y diffimit i lit rinviv Hlffiiilt penie trouble." ! : Ad I 'don't - cart -whether the stock owner hat one or 1,000 shares. -He has stake in private enterprise. And when, enough of these .people own enough shares of ; enough enterprises we can then say that we, the people, own the nation"-- ' ' Schwartz spoke to an overflow crowd in the Senator hotel's Capi tol roam. He was in Salem through sponsorship of the J. Henry Heber It Cm- investment managers. . Also sneaking at the meeting were Helser, Charles T. Sill, resi dent partner of Francis L duPont & Co, -Los Angeles; J. J. Gillespie of a San Francisco investment firm, and Maurice Hudson; state corporation commissioner. . Describing thevstock exchange as fairty simple auction market where "buyers and sellers meet at a .distance through agents, Schwartz said the New York exchange Is pushing a program seeking to ex pand ownership of stocks. . A survey of present ownership is being conducted over the nation. Schwartz cuessed it would show there are about 10,000,000 stock holders 4n America. The exchange governor said this figure should be increased to safeguard free enter- nrise in this country. MIf we wish to maintain our his toric system of enterprise and keep the nation solvent, then" as many citizens as possible should be in velved in the ownership of private business.1 Large Crowds way Store Preview Crowds Jammed the new Cen ter street Safeway store during Its open house preview Tuesday aurhl w i rack Sate The aisles were packed with .persons, mostly adults, inspecting the 13,000 square feet of sales area plus the store's storage, re frigeration and stock and pacx ". ins room. . . No one could give an accurate count on the number of persons who came through the two en trance doors but one doorman said he had given out merchandise cou Dens at the rate of several hun dred -an hour during the early evening. . - The 188-car parking lot was full all evening and cars were parked bumper to bumper far up each nearby aide-street. No purchases were -made Tuesday night. The store will open for business this morning at 8 o clock. Lexie McCrew, 77, Succumbs AtWoodburn Ctatasmaa News Strvlce WOODBURN, Nov. 13 Lexis McCrew, 77, a resident of Wood burn for 33 years, died at a nurs ing home Monday afternoon. She was born in Iowa March 28, 1874, and came to Oregon in 1907. fihe was a member ot the Metho dist church. Survivors are her widower. Wil 11 am W. McCrew cf Molalla; one , son. Henry, Lebanon; four daugh ters, Rosa Broyal of Scotts Mills; Daisy Fragerson of Juneau, Alas ka; Mary Zuber of Molalla, and Beulah Kromling of Jennings Lod ge, Ore.: eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Ringo Funeral home at 2 pjn. Wednesday, the Rev. Orvile Par nell of Molalla officiating. Inter ment In Belle Pass! cemetery in woodburn. i City Obituaries r WATT Florence EUiabeth Watt. SS. at the rwMence ot ber daughter, Mrs. 1(11 Urad Carrath. Salem route 4. Novem ber IX Survived dt two other dauch teas Mrs. Pearl Speight. Cottage Grove, aad 'Mrs. Ilarruerit Hindman. Yam hftt Announcement of ervices later or ueweu-Eawarcu cfaapeL Th Three Diss Ilcles Tuee. & Wed. Nile Fine Feeds Ne Cover Charge tVCDrJGCDAV V ft 'P-N VILLAGE IUU S3S7 Portland Road I 1 J T7wn aayITor. 1C ltHJ oveimor h&ss stock la America'! private enter- for tha niHon tA fit into neo. I for the nation to get into eco-l 'Slow Sabotage (Story also on page ont) uirreeaom Seen by Mac s 5 SEATTLE,! NoV. IS -UPi- Gen.hlehs are now virtually fulL Sa-1 Douglas MaeArthur said tonight I a "creeping sabotage of freedom"! oy me xeaeru government inreaviand the proposed south Salem ens to put "an irbn Cttrtain" Over hich schools for annroximatelv America and wreck its living standards, i 1 - I In a blistering attack on ad- ministration nolides. the five-star I general also charged that the! democratic leadershiD Is "taking I steps which! inexorably tend to I lead towards war." I Ht deplored rbombastic and provocative Statements" which inmau -rietin m,ra-A tninm I and said America should hold it- self on a high moral nlane as tnl impartial and Just arbiter to pro-1 t a 1 - l juacATinurs siaiemenis were m a speech prepared for the opening of. Seattle's iyeaxrlong centennial celebration, i 1 . I Monntina Taxeal I He charged that the administra-1 tion "covertly and bv devious I means" was I strangling traditional I American freedoms, and that I ever-mountins taxation imneriled I the whole structure ox the re-1 public. j e in the Keizer school would be re- "Expendinire Upon expenditure, moved, under Salem policy, al extravagance upon extravagance though duplicated equipment nave so burdened our neonla with taxation and fed the forces of I inGation. - that our traditionally hi eh standard of I life has become I largely fictitious and illusory," be 1 8-5 higher than Salem's at pres said. 9 i lent (49 comoared with 40 J): The national tax potential has been so depleted,- he said, that if the "reckless policies of govern- ment continue unchecked, the di- rect confiscation of capital" is al- most inevitable. Demand for; Money There is an lalmost insatiate demand for money to finance pol icies seemingly designed but to spend and spend! and spend," he said. lii If the trend continues, he said. I "the federal government may well become lor all practical purposes the sole taxing power." thus mak ing states and cities subservient to federal direction. MaeArthur noted pointedly that the tax-power, "administered des potically," has been possibly the greatest single cause of political revolt throughout the history of tne numan race.1 He lashed, out at President Tru man's recent security order as an "information, blackout . . . the like of which was never before attempted even during the war.' The former supreme Far East ern commander, Who was relieved of his post on grounds he opposed U. S. policies, said free speech is "no longer untrarnmeled.7 Carlt i oniDrown Grange Master Carlton Brown was elected master of the West Salem Grange at a meeting held Tuesday night. named to serve with Brown for the next year iwere, Theodore Nelson, overseef; Ed England, steward; Charles? Burns, assistant steward; Mrs. Charles Brown, lec turer; MrsJ Harold Black chap lain; Mrs. Robert Sattison, secre tary; Mrs. Ed England, treasurer; Herman Kortemjer, gate keeper: Mrs. Herman Koremier, Ceres; Mrs. Freda Brog, Pomona; Mrs. Guy Cook, Flora Mrs. Hazel An derson, lady assistant steward. The t executive board will be Robert Patterson; Sara Chamber lain, and the Rev. Harold Black. Installation of ithe new officers will te at i the Ricxreaii grange Saturday, December 1. 'Woman SAN FRANCISCO. Nor. 15-yp) -A 60-year Kld widow opened ber eyes today! and ? spoke six days after a physician removed his j stethoscopei front her cold form and said "she's dead." A slight movement of her Jaw at a morgue started the medical battle which brought Mrs. Ther esa Butler; back to the world which physicians4 said she sought to leave in grief over her dead husband. ! I , Today, the wealthy widow amazed doctors not only by speak ing but by displaying a clear mind.; j - j Physicians had feared her brain would be Impaired that she might, as one doctor put it, be just a "living vegetable." Omt? Starts Teday 0ea f:45 - ' ; j j - " JtiJjCjti nek Ok Weans MneMaMMn 9M ek Was f fjh MMM em Srconfl futuie "CALL OF TXtS KLONDIKE" Dead Able to peak Salem, Ja eizer School Boards CIam a 1 I Salem and Kelzer school board t- v Ujnu uu uu . l mi t w uw issues at siue in uie pro- i school districts. Leaders of both boards stressed they hoped voters would be fully Informed -when they cast ballots In a consolidation election expect ed to be called in the near future. Besides bus transportation. other Questions referred from Keizer brought these comments from the Salem board: Junior high pupils Seventh and eighth graders of Keizer would not be transported immed iately tn Salem where the lunior lem's long range plan calls f or I junior high units in the present fly, years, until construction of four new lunior hiehs. One of these would be at Keizer if the districts consolidate. Teaehers Under Salem's tenure plan teachers would be taken in from Keizer at the next highest pay bracket over their Prtsent salary. This would tend lowmpensaie xor tneur years m service at Keizer: the Salem ays- credt rvi to ,tn Salem district. Salem's salary schedule U higher. Salem district does not accept Aaiprn ninnrT rai - 7Zrrr - 'Z' ZIZT Za ZXS1 . . t combination, but permits one of to be jpder tenure wou iae omer teacnes iclluuij as an assigned substitute. me aaiem supennxenaenx oi- fered to provide the Keizer board with a schedule of the salaries to wnicn me neizer leacners wouia be entitled. sqnipmens noimng neeaea migni oe xraaea xor ouer uems and replacement could be expect- ed as necessary, Taxation - Keizer millage Is Keizer assessed valuation is about one-twentieth of Salem's. With- out considering other potential consolidations or any changes in costs nexi year, wis wouia inai-1 cate that the combined niUage under consolidation wouia do about four-tenths of a mill in ex cess of the present Salem millage. under consolidation tne indebt edness of both district would be pooled. 27020 Open 6:45 - Show 7:15 Siarls Tcnile! The One and Only - -'TIM THORPE AIX-AMERICAN" Portrayed by Burt Lancaster Plus TON Tnr 6 Men at Sea On An Open Kaft S d ' CART GRANT JEANNE CHAIN in TEOPU WIU TALK" And! "ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET 2ND JUIQ Hill "SMUGGLERS' GOLD" NOVfl - Open at C:U . ni3INTISCa2 XXAN . TNTISnSLE MAN HETUBlNS- Air Merger I 1 f ii I r VVI r. J$ravo& ' Follow Jan Peeress Songs at Symphony Concert By tXaxlne Cures Statesman Music Xditor It was a perfect evening for heard the Portland Symphony and auuituvs er- en aaaia ewmua ys ntat ek.ijti jannA sa4 et t rrK a nrsrarlftnt e-4 vMn nrtvrM mmA tm tK -,m,i,mm .tv.-, k number by Jan Peerce, Vest! La Guibba from -Pagliacci' and singer's , , , . , Collins Backs T am not one who holds that the republicans have only one candidate worthy of tha tmslfon. tial nomination, James Collins, former state chairman of - the i Young Republicans told members of the Marion-Polk county rouT ox the organization Tuesday night. "But of all the good men who could get it, I personally feel that Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio is "best qualified," the Multnomah county deputy district attorney added. ' 1 Collins spoke to the group .at a meeting to name delegates to the xoung Republicans convention in Portland November 29, 30 and December 1. ! ; He said that he was not asso ciated with any Taft movement in P hI.poken? r himself In suDPortiM.Taft. He added that at thl ttm h. who JouS sakfSciSS SfS,RS oaicif for Oregon republicans. Collins' pro-Taft speech waa in vited by the Marion-Polk Youne Republicans following criticism of a pro-Eisenhower speech given by i Lawson McCalL the governor's executive secretary to the group iasi weex. Lowell C. Paget of Portland. leader of the Taft suonorters in uregon, said that McCaH's speech was one sided and should be bal anced by a speaker who favored sen. Taft. The Young Republicans voted at the meeting to name the dele gates when the Portland conven non opens. Members of the group taking part in arrangements for the convention are Walt Foster, Steve Anderson, Bob Packwood, jawson jucuau, Marx Hatfield, I Sid Schlesinger, Francis Scott and i frands Smith. Taft at Young GOP Meeting STARTS TODAY! - AVE-II1SPIIUIIG BEY0CD AU If.lAGIIIATlOtl! Demonic Machines and Strange Men from A Distant ! Planet Who Came to Threaten Earth! ' ; ! : r j- ; . -I K-- .i r s ' ' ' : '1 Vi. ' I EXTRA TUATSI I Voody Woodpecker COLOR CARTOON AIRMAIL FOX NEWS the auditorium full of people who Jan Peerce tenor on Tuesday night ui yy cwi fciuiig uu uav muoiyieiia aiiMaA(MM mmA iVa mhaIaIam i iji- ..jim. n. signs of giving in, Peerce returned to repeat the favored number. The orchestra. ' . directed again this; year, by James Sample,; de served and received its share of the ovation. The program was plea santly diversified as to composer, subject matter, and age. Included were two numbers by. Wagner: the well-loved prelude to "Die Meis tersinger" and another favorite Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Die Goetterdaemmerung. - The suite in F sharp minor by Dohnanyi was an outstanding suc cess as was thai final symphony number, the rhythmic Huapango by the young Mexican composer, Moncayd. ; ' ' Herrmann's Tor the Fallen' wnicn tne orchestra played on Sunday night broadcast was I re peated here, much to the satisfac tion of those who heard It, for it sounded far better in the audito rium than on the air. Jan Peerce was a favorite from the moment he appeared to sing the rousing sound the Alarm from Handera "Judas Maccabeus" and Don Giovanni," n Mio Tesoro by Mozart. Singing the dramatic1 Rachel Quand du Signeur from "La Juive by Halevy and finally Canias song "Vesti la Guibba" really brought lortn tne ovauon. The entire evening was complet ely successful, the symphony show ing continued improvement under the able direction of the conductor, James Sample. Hearings Start 1 - ' I ; Cross-examination of telephone company officials took up most of the first day of hearings Tuesday on Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company's application for an annual rate increase of $5,111, 000. ' The hearing was resumed be fore Public Utilities Commission er George H. Flagg, It was not D; STUDIO SNEAK PREVIEW! of a great, color-byTechnicolor adventure romance from 20th Century-Fox studios! " ' ' TONIGHT AT 8:40 P. f.U NOTE: Due to preview, "Disc Jockey" will not be shown j after 5:45 todayl j j Hut TKU Song nd hmfOti Co-tl I lfTSn" GST ' School Includes Lisp ectmg Demonstration Practical demonstration of fire inspecting procedure highlighted the concluding session - Tuesday night of the fire inspection school sponsored by, the Salem, fire de partment, j . T. . . The 47 firemen attending the class inspected the basement of the city hall, which simulated an ap partment house, and the garage of the Schrock ; Motor company at Church and Chemeketa. . All the members of the Salem .fire department took part In the series of five classes, and repre sentatives came from the follow ing fire departments: Liberty-Salem Heights, Albany, Lebanon, Hubbard, Keizer, Woodburn, Wil lamina, Portland, Dallas; Mon mouth, Four Corners. Sheridan and Corvallls. The school, the first of its kind ever held in Oregon, Salem Fire Chief W. P. Roble said, was de signed to teach firemen what to look for when inspecting buildings. Among the instructors during the five meetings were Elmer Hal stead, state supervisor of public service training in the division of vocational education: Miles Wood worth, Portland fire marshal; Jim Kerr, Portland fire department captain; M. ! J. Gibson, and Joe Gault, deputy state fire marsnalls; BUI Cooke and . H. Marqueling, of the Oregon Insurance Rating bureau. 1 j Among the subjects discussed were heating and installation haz ards, electrical hazards, rubbish and fire extinguisher hazards, wa ter supply, the economic loss of fire, insurance rates and penal ties. expected that the hearina would be completed before Friday or Saturday, j The city of Portland is opposing the application. Telephone com pany testimony was heard last month before the commission. Marian Rushing, Portland dep uty city , attorney, said she would show that revenues per telephone in Oregon for the first six months of 193 1 were $9.71 per month as compared with $8.93 for the av erage of other states in the west served by the company. She said also that testimony would show that revenues have Increased in Oregon $1.61 per telephone per month since 1946, in comparison with $1.31 for the other states. Dog Kills 13 Ewes Near Rosedale Killing of 13 ewes by dogs near Rosedale over the week end was reported Tuesday by Ervin Ward. Marion county dog control officer. wno saia tne two ponce dogs which did it were caught. .The ewes were owned by Ansel and, Turner ranch of Silverton. from whose flock another 21 sheep were crippled. Owners of the dogs admitted the damage, but no char ges were made, said Ward. The officer warned that dogs should be confined at night now because : ewes are carrying lambs and dogs can do considerable dam age in a flock by running the sheep. DAVChapter Plans Dinner Salem chapter No. 6 of the Dis abled American Veterans will ob serve its 20th charter anniversary Thursday night at a turkey dinner at the Salem Women's club, begin ning at 0:30 o'clock. Guests will be charter members. life members, past commanders, and past state department officers. Wives of chapter members will assist in preparing the dinner and will join the men for a social hour after the meeting.. Business to.be taken up includes membership and veterans rehabilitation. Busiest day this year was .re corded Tuesday in Marion county tax collection office, as nearly 1,000 persons paid over the coun ter. Deadline for payment in time to get the cash discount is Thurs day at S p.m. in the office and at midnight for mail. .' One of the county's larger tax payers paid up yesterday, as Portland Gas and Coke company's $20,983.52 for .real and .personal property levies was delivered by Joseph A. H. Dodd, Salem district manager. DOORS OPEN AT :U ENDS TONIGHT. "RED BADGE County Tax Office Busy it NEW TOMORROW! (305 mm HE'S ALL MAN.... j ; initiating or 1 j IS onywherel ier , ij -a i -.. .-1 .. t . c , i I Hr di4 I'm fciTl I starring i f bro"- bv fo f l JEFF CIIOLERL L' EVELYII KEYES MTEPIIEIUlcIIALLY sa' re sB'wwwww ww w ws sjj a - .- asiessJ 2NDMAJOXHITI yv " S ADDED TRZATSI Voocfy Weodpecker 3 Seriously v Injured as Car Strikes Pole Three persons were' seriously In jured earlyTuesday morning when , a car, driven by Thomas Yanct Franklin, sailor from Tongue Point naval station, crashed, into a power pole In front ot. 1584 Center st : . ; Given emergencr treatment by dty first aidmen and taken to Sa- 4em General hospital by City am bulance were Thomas Watkins, 23-year-old sailor from Tongue Point naval station, Shirley Davenport, 19, 380 s. 23rd st- and Betty I Brinn, 860 Trade st. ; . Watkins was the most seriously injured of the brio. He suffered a ' possible skull fracture, ; com pound fractured leg, and multi ple lacerations.; Miss .Brinn sus tained a fractured leg and lacer ations, and Miss Davenport, lacer ations about the face and neck, and possible Internal injuries. Franklin received minor lacera tions. ' l . AU three 'were reported In fair ly good condition by hospital at tendants' ' '..:.! .A 4 , - f Franklin appeared Tuesday be fore Municipal Judge Perry T. Bu ren and pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving. He was fined $150 and given a 30-day jail sen tence, to be suspended on payment of the fin. ! According to officer's reports, he had been speeding at an estimated 60 miles an hour at the time of the collision and the i Impact ' of the car snapped the power pole in two. . i " X MEN HELD IN JAIL Two Silverton men (were held In the dty Jail Tuesday on in toxication charges. The driver of the car, Willie M. Ingram, Silver ton route 4, was charged with driving while intoxicated.-A pas senger with: Ingram : was Elmer Dick, 306 High st, charged with being intoxicated. ; -. i FAINTS AT ARMORY i Mrs. Goldie Johnson, 1984 State st, was taken- to Salem Memorial hospital late Tuesday night after she apparently fainted while watching the wrestling matches at the armory' Attendants said her condition was "good" and that she was resting comfortably, i . T. JL ON WEEK NIGHTS! "TEXAS CAKNIVAl" j OF COUXAGr j M mom mi 4,wtvtwt'Wiuriimwcw Cartoon Warner Mewl