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f S-tao Sttcrtaeancm. Scdem Qrocjc Meeting Slate pushed as Spring Nears By LILXJE L. MAD SEN Farm Editor. The Statesman In the final days before the busy field work gets underway, farmers of the Willamette Valley are crowding a number of meetings Into their time. Three meetings are set for Fri day, Feb. 8, alone. At Salem tur key men will gather at 1 pjn. at Mayflower Hall to hear reports on turkey problems by the experts in the field. Yamhill Jersey folk will meet at the Frank Finnicum Grand Island ranch to hear Oscar Hagg. A no host luncheon will be served at noon. Dallas Meeting Set At 1:30 p.m. Friday, at the Dal las City Hall, the annual meeting of the Polk County Dusting Co operative will be held. Wesley Shenk is chairman. John Hardison, plant patholo gist. U. S. Department of Agricul ture, will be the featured speaker. At Dallas he will discuss diseases of peas and vetches in the Willam ette Valley. Hardison, in charge of investigational work on diseases, has handled all of the work with the blind seed disease in ryegrass. His attention is now being placed on the disease problems of the leg umes, and some preliminary in formation will be given at the dusting meeting. The annual business meeting of the dusting group will also be held at this time. This will include a report of the past year's activities, election of two directors and gen eral discussion. Wiley Gardner, Dallas and Gerald Freeman, Bick reall are the retiring directors. Other members of the board in clude Shenk; William Fraxer, In dependence, and Frank Neufeld, Dallas. Neufeld was recently elect ed by the board to fill out the unexpired term of Charles Ross, Dallas, who resigned. Bit. Ant-el to Have Meet Marion County Farmers Union Oil Company, a cooperative, will meet Saturday, Feb. 9, at 10:30 at St. Mary's school auditorium in Mt. AngeL Here two directors for two year terms each will be elect ed to fill the expired terms of Rob ert Harper and George Kruse. Sheep management will be the subject of the regular 20-40 Club meeting set for Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m. at the Rickreall Grange Hall, Fred Warren, president, re ports. Robert Hamilton, Rickreall, Is chairman of the committee arrang ing the program which will In clude a panel of Polk County sheep breeders to discuss problems, and talk by Joe Johnson, state col lege animal husbandryman. John son will also summarize the panel discussion and answer questions regarding sheep management. A business meeting will include nomination and election of officers for. the coining year. JOB FOR QUEEN MOTHER LONDON tP) Lord Beaver brook's Daily Express suggested Friday that a government post be found for Queen Mother Eliza beth. It suggested the job be governor-general of Australia or Can ada. WOODROFFE'S SAN SHOP SPECIAL Southern Creamed Shrimp on Hot Biscuit For Friday, Feb. 8th Mashed Potatoes, Col Slaw, Hot Biscuit and r. Butter DC The Fantasy Players Present Johnny Rainbow In Person In 'The Emperor and the Chinese Nightingale" SAT. FED. 9 H. S. Auditorium 2 Matinee Performances 10:30 1:00 A. M. P. M. Adm. - Children 30c, Adults, 50c Tickets on Sale at Door SPECIAL RACK SPORT COATS JACKETS LEISURE COATS SUEDE COATS She. M on. and Frl,t A.M.U I P.M. Taes WeeU Them. Sat a, m. te C b. m. Friday Fohruiri:&l3S2 Police Captain's Borrowing From Gambler Defended SAN FRANCISCO CP) - Police Chief Michael Gaffey said Wed nesday he could find nothing "il legal" in the fact that Police Capt. Aloysius O'Brien had borrowed $20,000 from the late J. B. Jack Scarlett, Reno gambler. Gaffey declared he considered that O'Brien "used poor judgment in borrowing money from a gam bler," but said that neither he nor the Police Commission could find where the captain had "broken any rule or law." The loan was disclosed by a Treasury agent at an income tax trial at Carson City, Nev. Hillman Gives Phone Speech To Chicago G rover Hillman sat down at his office telephone Thursday and de livered an address to a large Chi cago audience of bakery products salesmen. .This long-distance performance by the proprietor of Salem's Cher ry City Baking Co. was a feature of the closing day of a salesman ship school conducted at Chicago by E. J. S perry and LJoyd Wolfe, considered by the baking industry as experts in special schooling for salesmen. As an attention - getter and practical "lesson", Hillman and two or three other bakery execu tives in different parts of the country were asked to speak to the class by special telephone con nection. Each address was ampli fied in the meeting hall for the class. Hillman discussed the import ance of advertising and concen trating on the basic bakery pro duct, bread. Egg, Poultry Prices Down Reports released Thursday show that, nationally, the prices receiv ed by farmers for eggs and poul try, dropped sharply during the past month. The price decline for these commodities amounted to about 14 per cent. Egg prices dropped the most during this period. Turkey prices also declined. Poultry prices, on the other hand, are slightly high er. Egg prices received not only dropped during the past month, but are now below a year ago. Turkey prices, which at the farm level worked about 2Vz cents a pound lower during the month, however, are holding above a year ago. In the Pacific Northwest price changes have not been quite so much as at other markets. At Port land the Jobbing price of eggs is unchanged to but a cent lower, and poultry prices have advanced around one cent a pound on heavy fowl, to as much as 5 cents a pound on fryers. In Oregon, the placement of baby chicks for broiler and fryer production during the week end ing Feb. 5, amounted to 95,400. This is an increase of 6,200 over the previous week, but is 26,300 less than were placed 10 weeks ago. Fggy Frosty Weather Seen Fog and an early morning freeze made Thursday a little chillier than the past few days, but weath ermen predicted today would be warmer. The temperature dropped to SO at 5 ajn. Thursday but climbed back up to a high of 53 during the afternoon. Morning fog and some cloudiness this afternoon is also expected. Tonight's low is expect ed to be 33. High waters, brought on by re cent heavy rains, continued to re cede Thursday, with the Willam ette River at Salem down to 14.2 Still closed however Is South River Road near the Independence bridge approach and the Wilson ville Ferry. MODERN PIANO Learn to play by ear, the quick end easy way. Inquire et Music Center in Capitol Shop ping Center - Phone 2-5371. NOW PRICE In the Capitol Shopping Center Pfc.2-7174 Firemen Seek Captain Posts In Examination Examinations for two captains in the Salem Fire Department will be held Feb. 21, the Civil Service Commission announced. Entrance examinations for the police de partment will -be held Feb. 28. Fire department openings in clude one captaincy in the first aid crew and a captaincy in the regular service. In addition, en trance examinations will be held for both the police and fire de partments. Application deadline for the fire department is Feb. 14, and for the police Feb. 21. Three years continuous service under permanent appointment in the fire department is required for trie captains. First aid captains must have a general knowledge based on first aid experience and a Red Cross first aid course. The regular captain must have a gen eral knowledge of the city and a thorough knowledge of the depart ment study manual. Men applying for appointment to either department must have been residents of Salem for at least one year immediately prior to the date of the examination and must be registered voters. Age limit for police is 21 to 31 and for fireman 21 to 35. Beginning policemen re ceive 286 a month and firemen $264. Blood Donated By 269 in Gty Salem area citizens gave 269 pints of their own blood in a Red Cross blood collection at the Ar mory in downtown Salem Thurs day. This raised the month's total collection to date to 446 pints, with two Blood Days remaining in February t Willamette Uni versity Feb. 18 and at Mt. Angel Feb. 19. More than 300 offered blood Thursday, but many rejections were necessary for physical rea sons. Among the donors Thursday were Mrs. Paul Griebenow, 805 Fairview Ave., who became a "galloner" by giving her eighth pint; Richard Hayward, Union Oil Co. manager here, who donated his 13th pint since 1949, and Sgt Milford Oliver, surgical technic ian who has Just returned from Korean battle service in which he had the experience of administer ing to a wounded soldier a pint of blood he himself had donated through Red Cross just before going overseas. Feed Grains Show Decline Feed grains during the past couple of weeks have shown low er price trends, the United States Department of Agriculture releas es Thursday showed. The main drops have been on corn and oats. Some mid western feed barley mar kets are also lower. At Portland feed grains all drop ped in price during the past seven days. Oats are off the most and are $3 to $4 a ton less than a week ago. Feed barley and wheat both dropped 50 cents a tone this past week at Portland. Alfalfa hay markets during the past seven days showed mixed price trends. Prices in the Pacific Northwest and at some midwest ern markets showed the first weekness for some time. Californ ia markets, on the other hand, continue very firm with prices ad vancing as much as $2 a tone this past week for certain top quality alfalfa hay grades. At Portland alfalfa hay is being quoted at $49.50 to $50 a ton as the week closes. This is unchanged to 50 cents less than a week ago. in 1 1 1 1 in 1 1 iMMfrmy, You Have OPEN MON. ft FRI. TIL 9 P.M. All lessons are given In our soundproof, air con ditioned studios. i - Arvin Pacquette Taken by Death The district manager of Air ways vacuum cleaners, Harold Ar vin Pacquette, 53, died unexpect edly at his home, 674 N. Church St during the noon hour Thurs day. Death was attributed to a heart attacks Funeral arraangements are un der the direction of Howell-Edwards Chapel. With him at the. time of his death were his widow, Helen, and daughter, Carol Irene. He is also survived by a brother, Arvin, in Vermont. Center Street Sewer Link Project Begun City sewer connecting work is underway at Center and Church Streets to ready the big intercep tor sewer for its prime job when the Salem sewage treatment plant starts operating this spring. The sewer serving the block bounded by Liberty, High, Center and Chemeketa Streets is being conencted with the Interceptor on Church Street. For many years this service sewer has been tied in with the state sewer which carries sew age from the state institutions to the Willamette River. City Engineer J. H. Davis re ports the connection of the state sewer with the interceptor already is complete, thus eliminating the discharge of sewage under the Center Street bridge. Leadership School Set At Willamette A collegiate leadership school, sponsored by students of Willam ette University, will be held Sat urday on the local campus. Representatives of Marylhurst, Oregon State College and Univer sity of Oregon will participate. Walter E. Erickson, vice prin cipal of Cleveland High School in Portland, will be main speaker. He will deliver the opening ad dress at 10 a. m. in Collins HalL Sherman Bliss, president of the Willamette student body, will lead a panel discussion, "Elements of Participation." Assisting general chairman Nancy Lumijarvi, Astoria, are Marjorie Aldinger, Douglas Ni ce 11, Judy Fullager and Joyce Frost, all of Portland; and Tom Scheidel, Salem. Two Chamber Officers Visit Two officials of the United States Chamber of Commerce will be in Salem Monday to confer with the local chamber. They are James F. Steiner, field man for the western division of the national group, and Kenneth God dard, assistant to Executive Vice President Arch Booth in the na tional affairs division of the U. S. Chamber. They will attend the noon luncheon and an afternoon conference of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. The Monday luncheon meeting will be addressed by Donald C. Sloan, Portland investment broker, who has recently returned from an EC A mission in Europe. His sub ject will be "Selling and Advertis ing in U. S. Economy. Tnf friendly Theatre " ' " " i I M : NOW 8HOWTNG OPEN 4:45 ! i Comedy Ce-Featore . "He's A Cockeyed Wonder i Mickey Sooner, Terry Moore j Always Wanted to . . . NOW . . . TRY IT! Learn to Play the Accordion If you ere young enough, (18 to 80) you can leam to play. We furnish the instrument and the Instructions. You pay only 1 0.00 per month. Take the accordion home with you and practice all you wish. One lesson each week, day or evening. WIN $25 YOU WIN $25 credit on an instrument if you car to buy in 3 months. Coma in Today I ONLY mm mm Capitol Shopping Center - Phono 2-5371 Everything Musical Portland Pair File for GOP Delegate Spots Phil Metschan and Lowell Pa get, both of Portland, filed Thurs day for delegate to the Republican National Convention for the sta teat-large. Both men, who are veter an Republicans, filed by petition. Candidates who file by petition do not have to sign the pledge that they will support the candi date who wins the state Republi can presidential primary. There were two filings Thurs day for Republican state represen tative from the 5th district, Mult nomah County. They were Ben jamin F. (Benny) La Ford, Port land; and Robert E. Duniway of Portland. Filing for representative from the 22nd district, Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman and Wheeler Counties, was Democrat Robert E. Smith, of Condon, and J. P. Steiwer, Fossil Republican. Another filing for Republican delegate to the National Conven tion was Lars P. Peterson, Coos Bay, representing the 4th Con gressional district. Hi-Y Leaders Hold Session Presidents and advisers of Sa lem's Hi-Y Clubs met Thursday evening for dinner and confer ence with two members of the YMCA boys' work commi'tee. Committeemen Douglas Cham bers and Richard Gahlsdorf re ported their findings in a recent series of meetings with officers of the various Hl-Y groups to review program and procedure of The general critique last night at Nohlgren's Restaurant was de signed to exchange Information and otherwise advise the young clubmen on how to make their club activity more worthwhile. Truck Reciprocity Agreement Signed Secretary of State Earl T. New bry signed Thursday the new truck reciprocity agreement be tween Oregon and Idaho. It already had been signed by Gov. Len Jordan of Idaho. The agreement will permit pas senger, farm and certain types of trucks to move freely across the Idaho-Oregon border. Police of both states will recognize the lic ence plates of the state in which the vehicle owner lives. Hartley Released After Year's Service in Korea James William Hartley, HM3c becomes a civilian effective today, following a year's service in Korea. He returned Wednesday to his home, 1120 Hood St. Hartley Is married and has a son, James Jr. He returned to the States In Janu ary but had been hospitalized in San Diego for several weeks. He served with the First Marine di vision. BEND ADD8 FLOURTUE BEND OPy-The city council vot ed Wednesday night to add flou ride to the Bend drinking water supply. FOR . Annoying Surface PIMPLES DER-MA-M0L Relieves Irritation due to ex ternal causes. Only at SCHAEFER'S DRUG STORE 135 N. Commercial a "" Mo. Wood on Staff of ' Service School Capt Richard H. Wood, whose wife lives at 1710 Ferry St, has been assigned as a metater of the faculty of the XVI Corps Leaders' school at Camp "ittsushima, Japan, the Army announced. The school is designed to give non-commissioned and company grade officers a full knowledge of responsibilities and skills needed for their duties. Capt Wood entered the Army in Oct. 1S50 from Klamath Falls. A graduate of Portland's Grant High School, his parents live In Oswego. He attended the Universi ty of Oregon for two years. Five Promoted In AAA Battery Names of five men who have been promoted in Battery D, Sa lem's unit of the 722nd anti-aircraft artillery of the National Guard, were announced Thursday by Capt. Walter A. Haskens, com mander. Named warrant officer and unit administrator is Robert D. Dryer of 2194 Vaughn Ave. Dryer served as unit administrator while he was a sergeant first class. Promoted to private first class were: Ronald E. Boyes, 3970 Au burn Rd.; Robert D. Schaeffer, 842 N. Front St: Jerry E. Taylor, 635 Glen Creek Dr., and Thomas R. Walden, 1105 Mission St Two new enlistees to the unit are Thomas Colleran, 740 Che meketa St., and Harold W. Nich ols, Salem Route 3, Box 689-R. Heavy Rescue Unit Sought for County Marion County civil defense di rectors have been asked by state headquarters to organize four "En gineering and Heavy Rescue" crews, involving about 98 persons. The rescue units, part of a state wide plan, would have the Job of freeing people from collapsed or shattered structures , in the event of an emergency. Other counties in this area asked to form such units include Polk and Benton, one unit each with 24 men, and Linn, three units with 72 men. Salem's Popular Piano Stylist Appearing Nightly At CHUCK'S STEAK HOUSE North of Underpass on 99E You're in for a Big Time Here's an Eyeful . . and Earful . An Armful of mm i i : Of fill COMPANION ADVENTURE TREATI -ElUot Reld Carta Balenda vrirm u mm la KKO's New TODAY! Maas Nabbed; Violation of Parole Claimed A 20-year-old paroled convict was arrested Thursday by city police on charges of parole viola tion and forgery and is being held for the State Parole Board. He is Melvin Keith Maas of 3335 Midway Dr. charged with forging and passing a check for $80 at Sears Roebuck Co. Jan. 26, on a McMinn ville back. Maas was sentenced to the Ore gon State Penitentiary on Aug. 28, 1950 from Marion County to serve three years for larceny. He was released from the Prison on April 28, 1951 on three years parole. City detectives said Maas ad mitted the forgery. GRAIN DEALER INDICTED AMARTLLO (-Herman Daw son, Fort Worth grain dealer, was indicted by a federal grand uxy Thursday on charges of convert ing more than $400,000 worth of government grain to his own use. FOR GUARANTEED WATCH REPAIR THE JEWEL BOX 443 STATE Hurry, Folk si -BEND OF 0 NEW TOMORROW! Stoti-. ) ff: Music snda Stewfir of Stan' 2ND BIG HU1 LAU6HTD UKTIL With WILLIAM BENDIX - JAMES GLEASON -Digger- ODeU - Rosemary DeCamp EXTRA TREATS! COLOR CARTOON LATI NEWS . -V? IS Ml Kill III! 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