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1 Thm Oregon Stcrtoa-ncm, Salem, Oregon, Friday. May 2. 1952 Flax Industry feature Set Here May 22 Flax Day" on Thursday, May 22, when 75 business leaders of Portland will visit flax and re lated Industries here, Clay Coch ran,manager of the Salem Cham ber of Commerce, said Thursday. Cochran held a preliminary meeting at the Marion Hotel with three of the Portland group Ed ward N. Weinbaum, manager of the Portland Retail Trade Bureau; Edward F. Sinclair, manager of the D. N. and E. Walter & Co., and E. A. Thirkell, manager of the Manning Packing and Supply Co. With the group were Ward Davis, vice president and program chair man of the Salem Chamber, and Clyde Everett, manager of Oregon Flax Textiles. The Portland delegation May 22 will come to the Capitol City via the SP's Shasta Daylight and return via the same route that night. In the interim they will visit the statehouse, inspect flax, linen and woolen mills in this area, attend open house at Ore gon Flax textiles and meet for no-host dinner at the Marion. Broken Main Cuts Water in South Salem Statesman News Service SALEM HEIGHTS - Twenty families along Albert Drive were without water in their homes Thursday and Thursday night be cause a paving crew tore up water mains along the street while pre paring the road bed. While officials of the Salem Heights Water District eontem- lated the matter the residents auled water in buckets from nearby Dickson's Market. Albert street runs east from the Pacific Highway just north of its Junc tion with South 12th Street. Albert street is being paved un der a contract let by Marion Coun ty Court under a plan whereby residents along the street pay for the job. Myron Butler, commissioner for the Salem Heights Water Board fcaid crews working on the road have torn up the main three Howdy Neighbor! Trade in Your Old Watch Band $3.00 Trad In on a New Spiedel or Genex CABLYN'S 460 N. CAPITOL Capitol Shopping Cantor C7 B D. D. Cft A C Market Prug Store Corner Marion and N. Commercial Phone 3-6188 OPEN 8 A. M. TO 7 P. M. PLENTY OF PARKING ON MARION STREET GIFTS FOR MOTHER Beautiful Gift Boxes of Helen Ardele and Brown & Haley Chocolates Flower Pot Holders for Table Plants Pair .59 Pearls in Wine Stick Perfume 1.75 Paper Mate B&B Eversharp Ball Pens 98 75c Nylon Hair Brush 39 Double Size Cheramy Hand Lotion ?69 7 Keys Vitamins. 25 s. $1.25 size 79 PROTAM Nutritional supplement for reducing diet. 8-oz. can BABY PRODUCTS 21-lb. Lactogen 2.09 1-lb. Dextri Maltose ""'""""..'.59 12-oz. Dexin 59 J. 00 Johnson Baby Oil 79 50c Z. B. T. Baby Powder 33 1.00 Q. Tips 69 25c Evenflow Unit 17 50c Johnson Baby Powder 33 15c DIAMOND OR PUTNAM DYE .... 6c $1.1 5 Bath Slippers. Sponge 1 Pint Thermos Vac 1 Pint Thermos Refill NEW 2-QUART METAL FOOD OR DRINK JUG Keeps it hot or cold and refills with 2-crt. Mason Jar Double S&H Green Stamps Friday Choir Festival Slated Tonight A choir festival for Salem Academy students, parents and the public will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the school gymnasium. Eight church choirs will sing separate numbers and then com bine voices in a mass singing of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Hallelujah Chorus. Choirs are from two Dallas churches Evangelical MenHD nite Brethren and the Mennonite Brethren, and six Salem churches, First Nazarene, Kingwood Bible, Calvary Baptist, First Baptist, Pratum Mennonite and Central Lutheran. Pet Show Set At Shopping Center May 3 Capitol Shopping Center mer chants will sponsor a pet show Saturday morning in conjunction with the current Pioneer Price Pageant. Every child with any type of pet is eligible to enter. There are 11 judging classifications with sev eral awards in each. All entries will receive some recognition award "so the kids just can't miss," sponsors announced. Awards will be given for the largest pet, the smallest pet, the pet with the most colorful feath ers, the pet with the longest hair, the pet with the longest ears, the pet with the longest tail, the best dressed pet, the best trained pet, the most unusual pet, the cleanest pet and the biggest pet family. Judges for the pet show will be Mayor Alfred Loucks, County Judge Rex Hartley and Robert W. Fenix, president of Salem Cham ber of Commerce. Judging will begin promptly at 10 a.m. Illinois Governor To Visit Today Gov. Adlal Stevenson of Illinois will be in Salem briefly today, following his Portland !sit Thurs day for a Jefferson-Jac .son Day banquet. He will confer with Gov. Doug las McKay over an early break fast here, before going on to Cal ifornia where he is to review Illi nois troops at Camp Cooke. Stev enson has. reiterated in Oregon his stand that he is not now a candi date for the Democratic presiden tial nomination. DIVIDEND DECLARED SAN FRANCISCO Crown Zellerbach Corporation Thursday declared a 75 cent dividend on its common stock. times since Saturday. Each time, he said, he has sent his own crews out to repair the damage. He hop ed to have the latest break re paired Friday. GEORGE SHEARING DANCE Crystal Gardens FRIDAY. MAY 2,9 P.M. TICKETS at Holder. Wills. Salem Record Shop 2.25 rubber soles ..79 .1.09 ....63 2.10 In Atomic t - ' ,v- v - - ; Wiley Mala ..:oft-v''' "3. Roy E. Tat Ballots Roll In On Time Change Issue Early returns on a Salem area poll to determine the sentiment for and against daylight saving time were coming in Thursday to City Hall and offices of The Ore gon Statesman. Officials at both places pointed out that ballots can be home-made and returned, so long as they in clude the voter's name and ad dress. A copy of the Informal bal lot appears on Page 1 of today's Statesman. Salem Obituaries GRAYSON Clarence Poncy Grayson, in this city. April 28. Late resident of 615 N. 17th St. Survived By wife, Bessie Grayson, Salem; sons, Aubrey and Warren C. Grayson, both of Salem; Burrell Gray son. Ephrata. Wash., and Moore T. Grayson, Hamburg, la.; daughters, Mrs. Virginia Bachlet, Monarch, Wyo.. and one brother In Emerson, la. Also sur vived by four sisters. Services will be hell Saturday, May 3. at 9 pm. In th W. T. Rlgdon Chapel with Rev. Dudley Strain officiating and Interment at Belcrest Memorial Park. Ph. 3-3173. WAGNER Nan M. Wagner In this city. April 28. Late resident of 1156 Chemeketa St. Survived by a number of cousins. Ser vices will be held Friday, May a. at 1:30 p.m. In the W. T. Rigdon Chapel and entombment at Mt. Crest Abbey. Pit. 3-3173. GAITHER THlmtn Howard Gaither. at La Grande, Ore.. April 28. Survived by wife. Mrs. Nellie Gather, La Grande; daughter. Mrs. Arlene Hamilton. Port land; brothers. Tyra Gaither, Olney, 111.; Ben Gaither, Sumner, 111., and Win Gaither. Bremerton. Wash.; a sister, Mrs. Anna Densmore. Olney, 111. Graveside services will be held Friday, May 2, at 2 p.m. with inter ment at Belcrest Memorial Park, un der the direction of th Virgil T. Goldn Company. EARLS Ronald K. Earls, late resident of Gervais Route 1, at a local hospital. April 29. Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer K. Earls. Gervais. Also surviv ed by the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Emery Fredricks, Salem, and Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Earls, National Ctty. Calif. Services will be held Friday. May 2. at 1:30 p. m. in the Clough-Barrick Chapel with Dr. Brooks Moore officiating and Interment at City View Cemetery. ROSS John Ross, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ross of 1060 Diet Ave., at a local hospital May 1. Announcement of services later by the Howell-Edwards Chapel. DINE and DANCE AMERICAN LEGION CLUB 9 SATURDAY NIGHT Special Music by the 4 Sharps For Legionnaires, Auxiliaries and Their Guests i CHOIR FESTIVAL Salem Academy Gym, Tonight! 8 P. M. (2 Miles West of Bridge on Dallas Highway) FEATURING 250 Voices in Mass Choir singing "Hallelujah" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic" SALEM ACADEMY CHOIR 8 Church Choirs: Calvary Baptist, First Baptist, 1st Church of Nazarene, Central Luthoran, Pratum Mennonite, King wood Bible, Dallas Mennonite Brethern, Dallas Evangelical Mennonite Brethem. r Public Welcome! Plenty of Parklngl Plenty Soatsl (An Offering Will Bo Taken) Bomb Tests !? V Vs,-W KSSS"?:? s. . Is, v f V . J v v s i ' fts- Jral4 C&M ;f.iP:.: .3 ifi flfiLsVisei .Ms. D. X. Kelly H. D. Btaadley Valley Marines Get Baptism of Of Atomic Fire Fiv Willamette Valley Ma rines are among the U. S. troops which played a part in atomic tests conducted Thursday at Camp Desert Rock near Las Vegas, Nev., according to words from the scene to the local Marine recruiting of fice. The men (pictured above) were identified as Cpl. Wiley Muise, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Jenkins, Mill City; Staff Sgt. Roy E. Tate Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Tate, Mt. Angel; Staff Sgt. Don ald E. Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kelly, Mill City; Sgt. Jer ald D. Case, Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Case, Amity; Cpl. Harold D. Standley, son of C. F. Standley, Turner. The exercise unit was made up of 2,000 Marines from Camp Le jeune, N. C, and Camp Pendle ton, Calif. Formed into combat teams, the Marines were occupying pre-de-termfned positions of safety at the instant of the explosion. Minutes later they "attacked" an objective near the center of the burst area. The exercise provided training in operations featuring the use of atomic weapons. The Marines ob served first hand the effects of an atomic blast on equipment and re ceived on-the-spot training in es sential physical protective mea sures. Open House For TB Unit To Continue Open House at the new $900,000 tuberculosis hospital unit of Ore gon Stat Hospital was so popular Thursday it had to be repeated to day. The public may see it from 3 to 8 p.m. Dr. Charles E: Bates, superin tendent, said some 300 citizens in spected the new facilities during the day and many telephoned to ask if they could go through in the evening. So the conducted tours were continued until 8 p.m. and planned again for today. Gov. Douglas McKay and other Board of Control members were among the many state officlAla who inspected the building which houses 144 beds for care of men tal patients who have tuberculosis. With the new surgical facilities available, the state plans to trans fer tuberculosis patients from the Eastern Oregon State Hospital to Salem. AT mmmsmmmmmmmmmmmsm II. Y. Stocks By The Associated Press NEW YORK (P) Thursday's closing quotations: Admiral Corporation 25 Allied Chemical 67 Allis Chalmers 47 American Airlines 12 American Power & Light 244 American Tel. & Tel 15378 American Tobacco 56 i Anaconda Copper 42 V Atchison Railroad 79 V Bethlehem Steel 46 Boeing Airplane Co. 46 Borg Warner 67 Va Burroughs Adding Machine 17 California Packing 24 Canadian Pacific 35 V Caterpiller Tractor 49 Vi Celanese Corporation 39 y Chrysler Corporation 72 Vz Cities Service 98 Vi Consolidated Edison 34 Consolidated Vultee 17 Crown Zellerbach 49 Curtis Wright 7 Douglas Aircraft 53 duPorlt de Nemours 80 Eastman Kodak 42 Vz Emerson Radio 13 General Electric 56 Ts General Foods 43 General Motors 53 Georgia Pac Plywood 19 Goodyear Tire 40 Vs Homestake Mining Co. 36 International Harvester 31 International Paper 42 Johns Manville 68 Kennecott Copper 70 Labby, McNeal 7 Lockheed Aircraft 18 Lew's Incorporated 15 Long Bell A 37 V Montgomery Ward 59 Nash Kelvinator 18 New York Central 18 Northern Pacific 73 Pacific American Fish 14 Pacific Gas & Electric 33 Pacific Tel. & Tel 108 Packard Motor Car 4 Penney, J. C. Co 65 Pennsylvania R.R. 18 Pepsi Cola Co 9 Philco Radio 28 Radio Corporation 25 Rayonier Incorp. 24 Republic Steel 38 Reynolds Metals 49 Richfield Oil 59 Safeway Stores Inc. 30 Scott Paper Co 50 Sears Roebuck & Co 53 Socony-Vacuum Oil 36 Southern Pacific 70 Standard Oil Calif 53 Standard Oil N. J. 74 Studebakcr Corp 36 Sunshine Mining 9 Swift &c Company 31 Transameriea Corp 24 Twentieth Century Fox 16 Union Oil Company 40 Union Pacific 109 United Airlines 24 United Aircraft 28 United Corporation 5 United States Plywood 30 United States Steel 37 Western Union Tel 38 Westinghouse Air Brake 25 Westinghouse Electric 36 Wool worth Company 43 Hotel Garage Business Sold Sale of the Senator Garage at 250 N. High St., to Foster Win termute, Salem resident for 32 years, was announced Thursday. Wintermute took the proprietor ship from Elmer Baron and Ed J. Lucas, who have operated the garage for seven years. Paradise Islands Open for Your Pleasure Ne Alcoholic Drinks Allowed Admission 25c (Under 6 Years Freo) Tonight! W. L Leagrue Class "A" BASEBALL SALEM SENATORS vs. SPOKANE FREEI 8x10 Team Pictures Waters Park - 8:15 P. M. i:Jt i Jf- . , - i'l'f"- mumt mi rii- m mil rinir r -.-... tka -t,.vj) mmi , Steel Strike Crisis Sends Stocks Down NEW YORK (7P-The steel strike crisis Thursday jolted the stock market down for the second straight session, but a sizable re covery movement appeared near the close. Rails, steels, oils, motors, rub bers, and non-ferrous metals were down substantially. Other sections of the market showed moderate losses. Steels didn't do so badly. U. S. Steel, ninth most active issue, was down at 37 after touching a low of 37. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks declined 90 cents at $99. 30 with the industrial average ofi 80 cents, rails off $1.60, and utili ties off 20 cents. The industrials at $131.20 hit a new low for the year. Railroads are still well above their low. Portland Livestock PORTLAND (API - USDA Cattle ble 200: holdover 60; market un even, cows fairly active, mostlv steady at week's 50c advance: steers slow, few sales about steady but some unsold: few lots good 757-1082 lb fed steers 33.00-33 50: few utility and low com mercial steers 26.00-30 00; odd good light feeder steers 32 00: heifers slow: part load beef heifers unsold; few commercial heifers 28.50-31 00; utility grades 22.00-27.00: canner and cut ter cows largely 18 00-22.00: utility cows 22.50-26.00; part load commercial grades 26.50 with some held above 27.00; utilitv and commercial bulls 25 50-29.25: 1 heavy beef bull 30.50. Calves salable 25: market about steady; few good and low choice veal ers 31.00-35.50; utilitv and commercial grades weak at 21 00-30 00. Hogs salable 250: holdover 150; market active, steady compared with Wednesday's best time or mostly 25c higher than Monday; choice No. 1 and No. 2 butchers from 180-235 lbs 19 50 1975: few 240 lbs 19 00 ; 250-280 lbs REOPENING CLUB TUMBLE INN MAY 3rd Good food . . . and music By "The 4 Aces" Dancing 10 Til 1 3 Miles North of Albany on the Old Highway 'Salem's oaly home-ewasd Tbeatra" Now Showinf Open 6:45 2a. Plus Special Short Attraction "YOU HIT THE SPOT" With Johnny Coy, Tap Dancer t1' " - 't 2-7829 7 NOW SHOWING T1 p I Starts at Dusk IL V 1 Cartoon Carnival i I I I Tonight at 7:40 II IB James Mason J Vi "DESERT FOX" r I Edmond O'Brien I I ill "SILVER CITY" !J j 111 In Technicolor II Color Cartoon Jy -J M aw m M m i M J r ft. m 18.00-18.50. choice 270-550 lb sows steady at 16.50-17.23; heavier weights slow; few 400-900 lbs 15.00-16.00: medi um sow down to 14.00; god and choice feeder pigs salable 17.OO-18.00. Sheep salable 60: market nominally steady good and choice spring lambs Lquotable 29 00-30.00; under 110 lb good and choice wooied lambs nominally 27.00-17 JO; few good No. 3 pelt lambs 26.00. good No. 3 pelt ewes 11 00; good wooied ewes quotable to 13.00 Salem Market Quotations (As of tate vesterday ) tlTTfcK AT- Premium No. 1 i No. 2 BUTTfR Wholesale Retail .76 .74 .64 .74 1 KUGS (Buying) Wholesale at ices rang from to 7 rents ver buying ortce 1 Lrge AA . Large A Medium AA Medium .44 .40 .40 J7 9 .1 .19 7 .14 .27 Small i I TRY Leghorn hens . Colored Hens ... Colored Fryers Old roosters Roasters FOR 15 FRIENDLY MINUTES "tonight And E Si 1 TON W -fC? JL SALEM L ; . . i, -U ij j fr lf Tomorrow Only DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CIRCUS REVUE - 12 ACTS -t BEN YOST'S ROYAL GUARDSMEN Direct from the Roxy Theatre, New York k THE TUCKERETTES Five lovely young ladies Headline Act, Portland Auto Show k PENNY PARKER World's greatest Clown Aerialist k EL COTO & BEATRICE Acclaimed as world's finest Xylophonist k MISS PATRICIA PARKER Canine Fun and Antics k TOSCANELLI Famous European Juggler k CHIN6 Oriental Mystifier k MISS PATSY JEAN Artistic agility k WALLY RAND The walking man k SALEM'S OWN WAYNI ALLEN Wizard of the Console SATURDAY, MAY 3rd Salem High School Auditorium Matinee, 2:15 Evening, 8:15 Tickets on Sale at Stevens and Son, Jewelers SEE POT Jerry Woods with "Jimmy Sliwers," Salem High School's popular ventriloquist team, just back from visit to Hollywood's famous Edgar Bergen will be at Pay Less CATIIMV 10 a.m. s "SUGAR LOAF' "y black cub f WW. .nth. U89H-f" SKADDEN TO SPEAK William E. Ska dden, humorist and lecturer, will address the Salem Knife and Fork Club at 6:30 pjn. Monday, May 12, at a Marion Hotel dinner meeting, the club' announced Thursday. LIVESTOCK Valley Packing. Com pa y Qnetatl ees) Fat Dairy 19.00 to 21.09 Cutter 17 00 to S.0O Heifers 20.00 to 4 M Bulls 25.00 to rroo Good Veal 30.00 te 34.00 Calves , 24 00 to 32.00 Spring Lambs 26.00 to -S.00 Yearling Lambs 23 00 to 26.00 Yearlings over 113 lbs 20.00 to 24.00 ( f. Less for Sheared Sheep) f-wrs ZJOO-IOJOQ (9 Open at 6:45 k "BRONCO BUSTER" I In Technicolor I J And! ) "THE WELL" Ceatinuoas! Abbott and Costello in "JACK & THE BEANSTALK" And! "CAPTAIN BLOOD" Dean Martin Jerry Lewis in "SAILOR BEWARE" And! "RETURN OF THE TEXAN" Open at 6:45 'THE WILD BLUE YONDER" And! Jndy Canova in "HONEYCHILE" General Admission T.20 1.80 Reserves N mm AT to 2 p.m, now off htTZ Smmi m i i i i ill II 1 1' .-IV. '. 1, t " .'.y . '1