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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1951)
Thundery & mi Episcopalians Given Control of Medford Hospital IfEBfORD. Dec. 5 -Ufh- The Medford Community hospital was tranaferred today to th Episcopal disccse of Oregon. Bishop Benjamin Dag-well, Port 1m4, was here for the ceremonies, wfeldh came after outstanding stock of the institution was bought W -the church fcr a nominal eameeat. The trar.zfer was made I accordance with wishes of the late Phyllis Swearingen, part water and long-time superintend ent. The present board of directors wHi continue at le?t 10 days, and aetne -may remain longer. Bishop PagweU said administrative poli cies would not be changed. Stock Market Trends Vary, But Oil Gains NEW YORK. Dec. 5-JF-Buy-erf were in a selective mood to day and the stock market as re salt was a jumble cf strong spots and weak areas. Potential oil earnings in the famed Williston basin of Montana-Dakota provid ed tKe most prominent buying in centive. Northern Pacific-, which has mineral rights in something like a million acre? in the basin, shot up 4 joints at 681 and was the day's most active issue. The Associated Press average ef M stocks lost 20 cents at $27.30. The action of the average's com ponents Indicate? the mixed na ture of the general market. The Industrial component was off 40 cents, railroads held unchanged, kand utilities advanced 10 cents. "Despite the overs!) sag of pric es, there were actually more is sues advancing (431) than de clining (397) out of the entire list traded ($1,132). There were 23 new highs and 24 new lows reached during the day. The volume of business contin ued at the comparatively low level of recent sessions with 1, S 30.000 shares traded. The total yesterday was 1,280,000 shares. Bridges Gets Deadline SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. MJP) Harry Bridges today was given until January 10 to file his reply brief In his appeal of a five year perjury conviction. The S 0-day postponement was ta.iHth granted Bridges. Bridges, head of the International Long shoremen's and Waiehousemen's unfon, is joined in the appeal by J. R. Robertson and Henry Schmidt, both of whom are under tw-yeKntences. All three were convicted last year of charges they bed about Bridges' membership 8KWING CLI'B PARTY The Merry Mixers 4-H sewing chib of Salem will hold a Christ mas party for its 14 members Sat urday afternoon at the home of its leader, Mrs. Howard Steen. Ex change of gifts, Christmas songs and games and musical selections by members are scheduled. MILITARY CONVOY DUE A military convoy of about 25 chicles, including trucks and aoroe trailers, is scheduled to pass through Salem about 1 p. m. to day, headed to Eugene from Van couver, Wash. City police- will escort the convoy through the city. 23-Member Clerical. Crew Copies PUC Data for Truckers There was comment in Oregon capitol circles Wednesday on tha presence of a 23-member clerical crew from the trucking industry, Installed in a Public Service building office for a study; of the public records of the state public utilities commission. Officials explained that records of the utilities commission are public and there is nothing unusual about persons consulting these recorus. The comment was based largely on the fact that the number of workers scanning the records is unusually large. Edward Mills, representing in terstate truckers and in charge of a crew of 22 womeb at work in room 2 of the public service build ing, explained that the group was obtaining information on mileage rates on both light weight and gross weight trucks He said this information had been sought na tionally but had not: been provid ed. Source of a report that the in formation was to be used to de feat the ton-mile truck bill could not be determined. Much of the information. It was said, is being obtained from 1931 mileage reports filed by truckers with Public Utilities Commissioner George H. Flagg. Flags was out of Salem Wednesday and could not be contacted. The secretary of state said he had received no rental from the truckers for use of the room and no arrangements had been made for such payments. The crew started work October 1 and the project is not slated for completion before April 1 of next year. High state officials had little to say about the possibility that in formation so obtained by the in dustry might be used in the cur rent moves toward defeat of the ton-mile -truck fee bill passed by the 1931 legislature and since sub jected to referendum. New Cars Cut Lectures; IS o Rest for Feet ST. LOUIS Chalk up the traffic cop as a victim of this streamlined age. For, say St. Louis patrolmen, today's traffic officer just doesn't have a satisfactory place to plant his foot while writing a ticket for a motorist. No running boards, sighed Lt. J. A. McNamara, a veteran of 33 years. Things were : different, he says, in theh Pierce-Arrow and Stutz Bearcat day when a cop could lecture with dignity. McNamara adds that now with the low-slung cars, the policeman has to bend over so far that a lecture Just isn't worth the effort. Man Booked on Hit-Run Charge PORTLAND. Dec. 5-UPV-Har- old J. Blakely, 46, was booked for a hit-run charge today after Capt. Eugene Ferguson of: the Portland police said Blakely admitted driv ing a car that killed Joseph W. Whitty, 65, here Saturday night. Blakely, a truck driver, was ar rested at Klamath Falls the fol lowing day. Ferguson said he signed a state ment in which he told of drinking beer for two or three hours before setting out with the; car Saturday night. Bond was set at $3,500. j "Tear Friendly Theatre" i Now Showinr Open S:45 'Paramount Psnh" HEE5CCESS Comedy Featnrette -KID FROM BORNEO" With The Little Rascals TONIGHT 8 P. M. 1 CIVIC DRAMA FESTIVAL A Season of Professional Broadway Theatre, in Salami PRESENTING "HeavenCan Wait The Hilarious Comedy by Harry Segal : First in a series of stage performances presented in Salem under sponsorship of the SALEM 20-30 CLUB At Salem Hi-School Auditorium Season Tickets on Sale at Holders Reserved - $3.00 - Gon. Adm.i $3.00 OncJvdmg Tex) thdhriduel Performances US and 1.25 Tickets on Sale at High School, 7:30 P. M. Tonight Republicans To Attend Duff Talk Saturday A delegation of 23 will repre sses t the Marion county chapter of the Oregon Republican clubs at tha iTiiiai convention in .Portland Saturday. Pennsylvania's Sen. Ja mes ,Duff will be the principal speaker at the evening banquet. Heading the delegation is Win ton Hunt of Woodburn, president of the local club. Others attending will be County Commissioner E. I Rogers, Judge and Mrs. Joseph Felton, Sheriff and Mrs. Denver Young, County Recorder Herman Lanke, County Judge Rex Hartley, State Senators Douglas Yeater and Frederick S. Lamport, State Rep resentative Mark Hatfield, Marian Lowry Fischer, Mrs. Dorothy Woodring, Mrs. Helen Demarest, Mrs. Peery T. Buren, Fred Wil liams, W. W. Chad wick, George Haley, Dr. E. E. Boring, Frank A. Doerfler, Edward B. S tolls of Mt. Angel and Adam Lefor. Mrs. McElhaney Succumbs, Rites Planned Saturday DALLAS Mrs. Elizabeth Mary McElhaney, 68, Dallas resident for several years in the 1940s, died Wednesday at her residence in Salem. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Saturday, December 8. at Bollman funeral home in Dallas with Dr. Earl Benbow of ficiating. Burial will be at Dallas cemetery. She was born Sept. 4, 1883, in Kansas. On Nov. 2, 1902, she was married to Pies McElhaney at Walla Walla, Wash. She remained there until 1927 when she came to Oregon. Mrs. McElhenay was a mem ber of the Presbyterian church and Rebekah lodge at Walla Walla. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Ruth Bickell. Salem; two sons, Homer M. McElhaney, Rose- burg, and Joseph A. McElhaney Walla Walla; two grandchildren. West Shriners Add 3 Players SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5-JP)- Three more players for the West squad were named today to play in the Dec. 29 Shrine East-West game for the crippled children's hospital. They were Gino Marchetti, Uni versity of San Francisco guard; Glenn Lippman, halfback from Texas A&M, and Bud Roffler, halfback from Washington State college. BIG BEAR NATAL, B. C.-GD-Ben Volpat- ti. hunting in the Elk Valley, dropped one of the largest bears ever shot in this district. The big bruin weighed 900 pounds, with a giant head and skin measuring 7Vi square feet. RIGHT NOW! asm IIII2 US ELEANOR PARKER WUMM max. in hi w mini nYiHrc Cathy ANDI "THIS IS KOREA NOW! - Continues! Rhonda Fleming Forrest Tucker John Payne m CKOSSWINDS And! Panlette Goddard in "THE TORCH NOW! - Centtameos! Ray Milland In "RHUBARB' And! Shelley Wlattera la "HE KAN ALL. THE WAY" New! - Open 1:43 "GIKLS UNDER XI" And! "GIRLS OF THE ROAD" N yUUl3L0uY?1 New! Open f:U RANDY SCOTT tm Dalteas And! Quafl Knocking Themselves Out Against Window ' BELIXVIIJfJE, III -(flV The quail are knocking themselves out for Mr. and Mrs. Armin Gantner. They live In a bouse with a large picture window fronting a lake. Apparently the reflection from the lake on the window in the sun shine blinds tha birds. The only thing the Gantners have gotten out of their unwitting trap so far is a lot of noise. Most of the quail, stunned at first, pick themselves up and take off again. Horse History SubjectofTalk The horse existed In the north west more than 15,000 years ago, but mysteriously disappeared long before the arrival of the animal to the American continent with the Spanish conquistidores, an Oregon College of Education pro fessor told members of the Salem Rotary club Wednesday noon. Dr. Francis Haines, professor of history and sociology, said fossils indicate the horse was present centuries before Lewis and Clark arrived with the first horses known in the northwest. He gave credit to the Nez Pearce Indians for turning out the best horses in the country, using a method of selected breeding. Baby Elephant Statue Found : PORTLAND, Dee. MflVA gold colored baby elephant statue that disappeared at the close of the Young Republican state conven tion here Saturday turned up in Salem and is being returned. Phil Roth, convention chairman, appealed through the press for re turn of the GOP emblem. He said he got an anonymous telephone call from Salem today, telling him it was being returned. "It was Just taken for a lark by enthusiastic delegates," Roth said. Seixas Shoots For Cup Berth MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. i-P)-Vic Seixas. the darkhorseof the American Davis cup squad, will seek to nail down a cup berth tomorrow when he faces formid able Frank Sedgman, the Austra lian ace, in a semi-final of the Victorian tennis championships. The lean, net-storming Phila delphian has become a favorite of the Australian fans with his smashing plan and a capacity crowd of 7,500 is expected to jam Kooyong stadium for his return engagement with the Aussie Davis cup star. Dick Savitt, the Australian and Wimbledon champion from Orange, N. J., meets Ken McGre gor, the No. 2 Australian, in the other semi-final. Turkey Show Judging Starts McMINNVTLLE, Ore, Dec 5 (AV-Loren Johnson of Scappoose had. four winners today as judg ing got underway at the Pacific coast turkey exhibit here. He had the champion dressed bird, champion dressed bronze hen, champion dressed hen and champion dressed bronze torn. Eugene Garrett, Independence, had top winners in both the torn and hen divisions. E. L.Fisher McMinnville, entered the winning adult BeltsviDe white torn, pther winners included Gath brothers. Turner. Italy Checking Up on Cupid ROME-CflVItaiys new census, now being tabulated, is expected to show whether Rome's marriage rate is still below that of Paris, Berlin and London. In the past, Cupid's aim here just hasn't been as good, as in the other' major European capitals. Rome's average of marriages per 1,000 has been S to 7 since the start of the first World War. In 1918 it hit a low of 3 per 1,000. The census bureau says in the same period London has averaged 9 to 10 per 1,000, Paris 9 to 11 and Berlin 10 to 13. Douglas Criticizes Quick S witcli by ill i u issioners CORVALUS, Dec. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ul) today cri ticized the practice of officials re signing from government commis sions to represent private industry before the same commissions. ; He suggests in an address to 4. 000 at the Oregon State college coliseum that legislation be passed to prohibit a resigned government com mission erfrom appearing be fore the commission in anyone's behalf for a two-year period. Douglas said that candidates are often forced to accept campaign funds from large companies be cause the average citizen is reluct ant to give time and money to his political party. Hope Denies Death Report PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Dec. . 5-(iP-Comedian Bob Hope, here on a brief vacation, as sured bis friends today that he feels fine. Concerning Minneapolis rumors of his death, Hope com mented: "I just finished 18 holes of golf and feel great. However, I putted like a dead man. He is scheduled to make e movie after Christmas. Planes Rattle Salem Dislies . ' Planes flying over Salem Wed nesday night caused residents in th eastern parts of the city to complain to The Statesman that "windows were shaking," and "vases being knocked off tables. The planes were probably mili tary transports, Stanley DUatush of the Civil Aeronautics! Adminis tration control tower said. He could give - no reason for the number of planes, nor why they caused "ground reaction." Military aircraft, mostly C-46's, bound for Portland, and California cities, fly over Salem regularly, he salda " Churchill May Talk on - Europe Army Issue LONDON, Dec. eHPrime Minister Churchill may clear up tomorrow Britain's cloudy attitude toward a unified European army. The issue is rapidly becoming a touchy one in the United States, France and Britain. , f As his own minister of defense, Churchill is expected to lay down his policy in a peech opening a defense debate in the f house of commons. j Musical Entertainment Evefy Night Fine Feed No Cover VILLAGE KIN 3057 Portland ltd. 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