j The .Statesman. Salem. Oregon, Tuesdayf January 1
Construction
-In Salem Cut
During 1951
Salem tnillding during 1951 feU
more than $2 million below 1950
figures, nd was the 'owest since
the end of the war. This year" to
tal building, according to the city
building inspection office was $5,
S45.614 down from the $7,B5S,04J
volume of the year before.
Highest post-war building came
In 1948, when permits totaling $7,
913,063 were issued. Figures for
1947 and 1948 showed building
above the $6 million mark.
Only January and May recorded
more building than the same
months last year, the reports,
showed, with the $1,017,604 in new
contraction during May the hlgh
es ever recorded for that month.
The January figures were slightly
less than $42,000 more than Janu
ai of the year before.
New dwellings during 1951 ac
counted for $2,734,242 of the total
1951 building figures, down from
the record high of $3,436,560 rea
soned during 1950.
Heaviest building month during
the last year was June, when con
struction was recorded, for
school, a sawmill and a super-market,
which with other construction
brought the total to more than $1
million. A $225,000 sawmill per
mit topped all others. It was is
sued to Oregon Pulp and Paper
Co. Safeway Stores drew a $165,
72S permit for its new Center
street store. The new Baker School
" cost $8,274. Alteration at West
Salem School was $63,048.
Other heavy 1951 construction
A. G. Hamilton AparVnents on
Miller Street, $70,000: First Bap
tist Church, $226,000: Doolittle's
Courtway Building, $60,000; Lar
mer Transfer & Storage ware
house, $42,600; Pacific Mutual Life
Insurance Co. for Capitol Shop
ping Center construction, $160,
403, Capital City Transfer ware
house, $50,000; Oregon Pulp and
Paper Co. mill chip storage house,
$50,000; Sears. Roebuck and Co.
warehouse, $90,000; Oregon Flax
Textiles, $43,600.
The year's figures by months,
with the portion going into new
borne constr ction were:
January $446,818: $283,500; Feb
ruary, $306,289. $243,935: March,
$394,141. $295,220; April, $461,546,
$314,150; May $1,017,604. $362,050;
June, $781,201, $232,512; July,
$332,332. $215,600; August, $305,
641, $182,300; September, $487,
693. $206,100; October, $378,253,
$144,575; November $286,571;
$164,400; December, $146,525, $89,
800. (Idaho Ready
To Discuss
Truck Treaty
BOISE-CPVGov. Len Jordan said
today that Idaho will be glad to
meet with Oregon and Washing
ton motor vehicle authorities "at
the earliest opportunity" to discuss
the states' truck reciprocity agree
ment. He talked today with William E.
Healy, assistant Secretary of State
of Oregon, by telephone. He will
fix the time and place for the con
ference. "We're going to sit down and
talk it over at the earliest oppor
tunity," Jordan said.
4 Healy said in Salem that the- re
ciprocity agreement, under which
the states don't tax each others'
trucks, will be continued until Jan.
15.
Under a new Idaho law which
goes into effect tomorrow, out-of-state
trucks of more than 26,000
pounds gross weight are required
to pay a ton-mile tax the same as
Idaho trucks. State law enforce
ment commissioner Wavne Sum
mers has said that trucks between
6.000 to 26.000 pounds also will
have to buy license plates since the
hew law makes no provision for
reciprocity agreements.
Washington and Oregon have
threatened to require Idaho truck
ers operating in those states to buy
Washington and Oregon license
plates.
Healy said in Salem that he
thinks reciprocity an be contin
ued even under the new law Jor
dan declined to comment on whe
ther he thinks it can.
Mats. MA HONEY DIES
PORTLAND (JF)- Requiem mass
Thursday at St. Rosa
Catholic Church for Mrs. Mary
Alice Mahoney. 82, who died hera
Sunday. She was the mother of
State Senator Thomas E. Mahoney.
JITO OPTIMISTIC
UF&P - JP - M"hal Tito
told Yugoslav citizens in a radio
broadcast as the New Year broka
Vt chances for peace had im
proved but that no weakness must
be shown aggressors.
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JANUARY 2
LEAP YEAR
DANCE
LOTS OF LADIES
CHOICE WALTZES
AMD OTHER DANCES
Old Tine
And Ilodern
Dancing
Mask By
Fe Edward's Orchestra
Asuau 74 (Tax IneL)
CRYSTAL
GARDENS
Ferry Liberty
Officials Preview 1952 City
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Heads af Smleza municipal departmenta arc shawa preavriaa; a preview af etty activities far tha new
year ef 1552. Left ta right E. L. Smith, assistant fira chief; Mayar A. W. Laacks; Police Chief Clyde
Warren; Dave Hoss, KSLM program director; Charles Barclay, airport manager; Carl Goenther,
water department manager; and J. II. Davis, city engineer. (Statesman photo.)
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City Departments Plan
New Projects for 1 952
Just as the citizens of Salem are planning new activities and pro
jects for the new year of 1952, so are the department heads of Salem
municipal government.
Police Chief Clyde Warren is announcing plans for an extended
personnel training program, including the use of firearms. Along with
the education of members of the force. Chief Warren would like to
Immorality in
Boston Night
Clubs Charged
BOSTON IP) - Mayor John B.
Hynes Monday called a meeting
of state and city officials for Fri
day to consider charges made by
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing
that some Boston night clubs were
presenting, "vile, iniquitous and
immoral" performances.
The Archbishop, in a column
written for the Boston Sunday
Advertiser, complained of "Bos
ton's vile burlesque theaters and
iniquitous night spots that feature
nude, shameless women, smut
slinging masters of ceremonies and
the so-called 'female Impersona
tors, who must be classified with
the lowest animal form of life."
Mayor Hynes said that under
present law the mayor's authority
extends only to Sunday entertain
ment In so-called night clubs.
BANK CLEARINGS HIGH
PORTLAND (tfVBank clearings
for 1951 Portland totaled $8,179
544,223, according to figures com
piled Monday night by clearing
houses. It was an all-time record
high, topping the previous 1950
high of $7,990,764,037.
151 MORE CASUALTIES
WASHINGTON (P) - The De
fense Department Monday Identi
fied 151 more battle casualties In
Korea. A new list No. 470 re
ported 44 killed. 84 wounded, 15
injured and 8 missing.
PORTLAND (-On Jan. 15 the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rail
road will run its last passenger
train between Portland and Sea
side. Freight service win not be
affected.
CLAIM 10,000 CASUALTIES
SAIGON, Indo-China (Jp) - The
French High Command claimed
Sunday night to have inflicted
10,000 casualties upon Communist
led Vietminh troops in repulsing
their attacks along the Black Riv
er in tha last four weeks.
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institute a public education pro-
gram aimed at better traffic safe
ty habits for both motorists and
pedestrians, in an attempt to give
Salem a cleaner accident record
for 1952.
Completion of the instrument
landing system at McNary Field is
forecast by Charles Barclay, air
port manager. The new, highly
complicated electronic system for
landing aircraft in bad weather
will be in operation b.y summer,
Barclay also tells of plans to ask
the Salem voters to approve a
high-intensity landing light instal
lation to complete modernization of
the airport. To increase airport
revenues a more intensive farming
program will be utilized, Barclay
reveals.
The Salem fire department
would like to extend its home in
spection facilities to a majority of
Salem homes, according to E. L
Smith, assistant chief. Smith points
out that most fires originate in the
home from carelessness or from
overlooked hazards. The main aim
of the department in 1952 will be
to give the property owners the
best in fire protection. Smith as
serts. High on the water department's
projects list is an auxiliary water
supply replacing the Minto Island
water plant which will ultimately
be abandoned. Carl Guenther, wa
ter department manager, tells of
the possibility of Salem using Wil
lamette river water as an auxil
iary, and the department's ability
to serve a population of 100,000
without increasing rates or floating
a bond issue.
J. H. Davis, city engineer, says
that the new $800,000 sewage
treatment plant will be completed
by mid-summer. This and con
struction of sewage lines will place
Salem in the lead in sewage dis
posal in the Willamette valley
area. Also projected by the en
gineering department is the pav
ing of approximately 50 blocks of
residential streets, and an attempt
to construct four bridges, if steel
will be available.
Forecasts in city council activi
ties will be aired over KSLM at
3:45 p. m. today.
MINGLERS MEET
EAST SALEM Merry Ming
lers will meet Wednesday, Jan.
2 at tha home of Mrs. Cleo
Keppinger on Lancaster Dr., at
1 p. m.
m MR Greeth
A New Year is here . 7 . and with it come
new opportunities for making our nation
our town ourselves, better than ever
before. Our wish that 52 will leave
fond memories for the years to come I
Quisenberry Pharmacy
Activities
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State Settles
Fire Claim
Out of Court
EUGENE (JPy-An out-of-court
settlement has ended a suit by the
state of Oregon to collect $80,000
spent fighting a 1950 forest fire.
Still pending is a suit of more than
$300,000 in damages sought by a
firm whose timber was damaged
by the spreading fire on Little Fall
Creek.
The fire broke out on land
owned by Portland Manufacturing
Co, and M. and M. Woodworking
Co. C. W. Guerrier Lumber Co,
had bought part of the timber and
hired Rasor Logging Co, to cut
it. Those four firms were sued
by the state.
The Lane County circuit court
dismissed the suit last Friday on
receipt of a statement from Eliot
Jenkins, president of the Eastern
Lane Forest Protectio Associa
tion, saying settlement had been
reached. Terms were not made
public.
The still-pending, larger suit, was
brought against the same four
firms by Booth-Kelly Lumber Co.
Before the fire ended it lasted
three months Booth-Kelly timber
was involved.
Price Ceiling on
Potatoes Ready
PRINEVILLZ (Potatoes are
selling above parity and a price
ceiling ran be expected within 10
days unless price boss Mike Di
Salle listens to grower protests.
That Is what Ben Davidson re
ported Monday.
Davidson, administrator of the
Oregon Potato Commission, said
he had a telegram from Whitney
Tharin, executive secretary of the
National Potato Council, saying
the price regulation had been
drafted and only awaited clear
ance before being put into effect.
But, Davidson said, many grow
er groups and Individuals in Ore
gon and Idaho have sent protests
to DiSalle.
Logger's Wallet, $4,080
Missing After Wreck
PORTLAND (P)-Lewis E. Bal
derson, 48, logger from Kinzua,
Ore, went to a hospital Sunday
after a highway accident. When
his effects were inventoried, he
reported his wallet missing. In it,
he said, was his savings since
1940 $4,080. Police searched the
crash scene without finding it.
1951 Weather
Less Severe
Than in 1950
Plenty of rain and snow came
to Salem during 1951, but the;
weather year still couldn't match
1950 for severity, a year-end re
port of the McNary Field Weather
Bureau indicated Monday.
Snowfall was about a third of
the I year before. There was 11
inches of snow in Salem during
the i year, considerably less than
the 33.9 which was almost a record-breaker
for this area. Rain
fall of 47.47 inches was still 9.08
inches below 1950, although al
most ten inches greater than the
normal for Salem.
Biggest contrast of the weather
over 1950, was the sudden, late-
winter snow which piled 4.40
inches on the city March 5. The
heaviest during 1950, 6.4 inches,
fell Jan. 30. The year's heaviest
rainfall, however, came several
months ahead of the heaviest of
1950. But the .07 inches of rain
on Oct. 1 and 2, was .75 less than
the Dec. 16 record of 1950.
Salem's comparatively mild
weather year was typified by 102
completely clear days, more to a
happy extent than the 76 of the
year before. A total of 194 cloudy
and 69 partly cloudy days filled
out the year.
The high temperature, 99, was
one degree higher than 1950, but
the 16 degree low temperature
was far warmer than the 10 be
low zero record set the year be
fore. Average low temperature
was 40.4.
.December weather was average
colder than last year, averaging
37.3 down from 1950's 47.4. High
est temperature was 55 on Dec. 1,
and Christmas Day accounted for
the low of 20.
The rainfall for the month, 6.73,
was .17 above normal, with the
greatest amount, 1.37 inches, fall
ing on Dec. 4 th. There was also .2
of snow. The month saw one clear
day, four partly cloudy days, with
the remaining 26 days all cloudy.
Firemen to Dip
Into Icy Surf
ROCKAWAY, Ore. (P)-Several
members of the Rockaway fire
department, known as "shark eat
ing sons of the beaches," will take
their annual dip in the icy surf
here Tuesday.
The beach already Is frozen and
surface waters are coated with
ice.
The group has made the plunge
for the past five years on New
Year's Day.
Lt. Cameron
To Return to
Salem Soon
First Lt. Robert C. Cameron,
employe of the State Forestry De
partment when called to active
duty with the Marine Corps, is
due for release from the service
and will return to Salem later
this month, it was learned here
Monday.
Cameron, with the Marine re
serve unit here, was called to ac
tive duty Aug. 8, 1950 and left for
Korea soon after. He was in ac
tion until May 27, 1951 when he
was wounded. He was returned
to the States on July 2 and hos
pitalized at Bremerton, Wash.
Now executive officer at Mar
ine Barracks, U. S. Naval Maga
zine, Port Chicago, Calif., Cam
eron will be released from the
service Jan. 7 and expects to re
turn to Salem with his family
Jan. 16.
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Grain Price
Rise Continues
CHI1AGO C-P)-Price- advanced
hi all pits on the board of trade
Monday,-putting a bullish tag on
a year which has been good to the
bulls.
At the opening it looked as if
the market was going to continue
the rapid retreat of Saturday's ses-i
sion. Losses ranging to a cent or
more were posted. But it didn't
take long before the accumulated
over-the-weekend selling orders
had been absorbed.
Wheat closed -l high, corn
s to 1 cent higher, oats -lft
higher, rye 3 to 4 cents higher, soy
beans i-25i higher and lard 3
cents lower to 13 cents a hundred
pounds higher.
Stock Market
Rises Slightly
NEW YORK (P) - The stock
market bowed out the old year
with a mild advance Monday and
a rush of last minute trading.
The upward tilt maintained the
tradition of a year-end rally, at
least as far as December was
concerned, and Wall Street looked
forward to the beginning of a
prosperous new year.
The Associated Press average of
60 stocks gained 10 cents at $98.50
ros.
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Roast Turkey and Dressing
COLE SLAW with Sour Cream Dressing
Mashed Potatoes and Giblet Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
Hot Biscuit and Butter
Served from 11:30 a. m. to 8 p. m.
In our Beautiful Dining Room
Or In the Privacy of Your Car
Woodroffe's
SAN SHOP
At Salem's North City Limit
THE NORTHWEST'S FINEST
HOTEL MARION
MENU
CHOICE OF
Fresh Shrimps, Crab Meat or Fruit Cocktail
Chicken Soup or Clear Consomme en Tasse
ENTREE PRICE IS FOR COMPLETE DINNER
Roast Young Oregon Turkey,
Cranberry Sauce $2.00
Baked Sugar Cured Ham.
Champaane Sauce
Chicken Fried Steak. Country Gravy
Chinook Salmon Steak, Lemon Butter 1.85
Baked Chicken, Celery Dressing
Roast Leg of Spring Lamb, Mint Jelly
Roast Prime Steer Ribs pf Beef au Jus
Choice Tender Thick Prime Steer Steak
Scalloped) Potatoes -4 New Garden Peas
Cottage Cheese Pineapple Salad
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Desserts: Hot Mince, 'Apple or Pumpkin Pie,
Plum Pudding. Brandy Sauce, Ice Cream
Sherbet or Sundae. Coffee, Milk or Tea.
Oregon's Most Elaborate LOUNGE and
DANCING AREA Provides a Spot for
Pleasant Relaxation and Entertainment.
CLOSED SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS.
. . . Open Week Days From 4 P. M. to
1A.M.
with the industrial component up
20 cents and the rails and utilities
each up 10 cents.
Volume mounted to 1,440,000
shares as compared with 1,470,000
shares traded Friday.
PLANE CRASH KILLS 4
HONG KONG (iTVFour persons
were killed Monday when a U. S.
Navy seaplane crashed and sank
in Hong Kong harbor.
There were eight persons aboard
the two-engined Martin Mariner
which crashed shortly after the
takeoff.
The average American eats
about 148 pounds of red meat a
year.
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head of the bacteriology depart
beach home near W aid port. The
attack came as he attempted to.
move log which washed up on
the beach.
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