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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1952)
Noisy Mailmen Given Citation Ford )ntemDt SALT LAKE CITY (fl U.S. District Judge Willis R. Ritter goi to ire p Wednesday over a noisy freight elevator in the federal building and cited the postmaster and 25 postal workers for con tempt of court Judge Ritter said Postmaster David R. Trevithick and his clerks created an "intolerable" racket nauluig the mail in the elevator and violated a court order, i r. Francis Newman, foreman In the Post Office "finance section, was fined $100 for contempt of court but the fine later was sus pended. He and two mail handlers dropped a bulky package of stamp ed envelopes in the courtroom, in terrupting a witness on the stand. . Newman explained he was per sonally! refponsible for the en velopes and had to bring them to the court room, when arrested by a deputy U.S. marshal. ; ? I Judge ritter dismissed the oth ers without fines and said: ' "Of course the U.S. court can not suspend operation ) of the Post Office, , . and, we cannot sus pend operation of the court. That is why I. have a proposal to make to see if the Post Office cannot be run with less noise." The elevator is used to haul mail to and from the sorting , rooms. - The judge kept the postal em ployes sitting In his courtroom for more than an hour while he dis posed of other business, then or dered them to return later in the day. - They were arrested by. Deputy U.S. Marshal John L. Babcock on charges of contempt, accused of violating a court order which spec ified that the elevator should not be operated after 10:30 a.m. Trevithick commented: "How are we to explain to the public why we can't get the mail out just be cause Judge Ritter won't let us run the elevators." In Britain the automobile trans mission Is called the gearbox. IVeic Arrival on Okinawa i . . . ; . - k - r ,'-.. , v! t- , y : ' "i I' I ' - - ; - X - ' - . . I .... ; . - -' , ; ! ; . . -, ; - . . y ;-. -, v t -. ; OKINAWA Capt. Uoyd Chapman of Salem (left), new arrival en Okinawa from Korea, Is shown being briefed on the strategie loca tion of the island by the deputy commander of the Rynkyns Com mand, CoL Warren A. Robinson (seated) along with Capt John P Hoover, assistant director of plans and operations. (U. S. Army t pnoto.) . , During the warm season the Ice I Ranking behind chlorine as the near the edge of a glacier may most abundant element in sea wa- , - . w uiica ycj. I icr are sooium, magnesium, sulfur. day on the average, says the Na- calcium, potassium, bromine, car tional GeoeraDhie SoHt. I k i.T - mwm HllU BUUUUUUl, Cap k Chapman on Duly in Okinawa -bklNAWA-JCapt Lloyd Chap man .of Salem has reported for duty with the Ryukyus Command on Okinawa, transferring from Korean service, the Army report- d. - ' " m ' His title in the new post is as sistant post engineer property officer..- . Capt. Chapman, whose wife, Barbara, and son, Scott, live at 223 Miller St scent nino mnnftti In Korea. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. C. Z. Forbis of 2865 liberty Rd.i . Abe Burroughs Aclsnowledees Link to Reds WASHINGTON (J! AV- TW. rows, a prosperous writer of gags acknowledged Wednesday that he uacu w associate wiia Communlxti but he said it was because he was "stupid" at the m. Rumnn cvnr tiafM 4k. tr Un-American Activities Committee that he never toined the Cnmmn. nist party or contributed to it from ma saiary, which be fixed at 50. 000 a year in 1944 and 1945. Burrows is co-author d the Broadway musical hit "Guys and Dolls". Owen Vinson, identfied by the committee as a one-time Com munist, has testified that he' knew Burrows as a party member in Hollywood in 1945 and 1948. "I was-seen with them," Bur rows conceded. "I don't want to feav tfc im pression with the committee that aeny naving been with them. My own" sloppiness of action, my own thoughtlessness, gave them" the right to think I was a member." At one point Rep. Velde (R. ni.) commented that he thought the writer had been "naive." said Burrows, "and say that I was stupid." In 1S51 farmers mad tm bwmi4 15 per cent of the U. S. population. Letter Pictures Giant At Blast oraic inPacific SALT LAKE P1TV (M A t otnic explosion that mushroomed a while cloud eight miles mgh and nearly knocked observers down 30 miles away was described by a uk seaman. In a let ter releacMf WinM)t w wi. mother. - Seaman DarreS Fullmer wrote his mother. Mrs. Melva Fullmer, that the blast near Eniwetok on Nov. 1 made a large crater out of an entire island. On a ship 30 miles away. Full mer said that with bis back turned to the blast and his hands over his eves. lirfet ent-4 i.v. through my bands it was so in- KUK, looked xxx," Fullmer wrote. ine water as far as I could see as wdl as the clouds and sky were a vivid scarlet. The water spout was already at cloudy height and rising rapid ly. It was a rmuTuf kt. tw. base of the water spout was about mun m diameter. "Then the mushroom appeared above the clouds and went up and up. ever billowing out farther. The height was estimated by our ex ecutive officer it IH miles." . : He said the shock wave hit about two minutes after the blast and -it damn near knocked me down." "We steamed past the island on which the blast was set off four days later." bis letter said. -I know you have seen shell and bomb craters in the movies. WelL the whole island is like 'a large bomb crater. Onlv th Letters from other Navy per- uuuu aescnoing an atomic ex plosion on the Pacific, island have been received in various cities this week. The Atomic Energy Commission in Washington has re fused to comment. : la the past 20 years the amount of money used for agricultural ex tension service work among Ne groes in 17 Southern states has more than tripled. Rep. Stockman Sees Chance of -Special Session ; PORTLAND Ut tn Stockman (R-Ore) said Wednesday u om laouxsi tne c nances were goed that President Truman would call special tessko of congress before January. purpose wouia t to increase cccgressional salaries, said Stock man. Who Is leavtrr- rtTLr t. year after declining to run again. v locreas nun dc voted be fore the end of the year, if It is w oe received by the t2rd Con fress, the Pendleton repretecUtire said. U,N. to G)nsider Lie's Successor UNITED NATinv; wr v The U. N. Asemblys "Steering Committee Wednrfv n n i muly recommended, without a wuu V4. uiww, uii me Assem bly take up the politically-hot question of naming a successor to Secretary General Trygve Lie. The Assembly itself is expected to agree with the recommcada- . ... . T , , . . f . - , . . ' TU Stateiacta, Sclaaa. Ora. Thsrsdjy, Kmxh It. Ill tion late this week or early next wcc man una ocx iae cxpiov Issue to a committee for fun de bate. There Is no Indication when the subject actually wia be debated. Germans Visit State Department Three members of a German exchange group, sponsored by the tLS. State Department, spent Wed nesday la Salem larpectiBg state governmental departments and cwoferrm with cmcials. , Included in the group were Her mann Dcetischeldt. personnel ce partmetst of the city of Dusarn dorf: Dr. Karl Brizsgmann. editor of the Rbeiniscbe Port, largest Dusseadorf daily newspaper, and Paul Schwktxke. director of a larre touadry there. The visitors said the Orrfoa landscape reminded tem ef tbeir own country. Leirte4t Salem the group went to Eusene to Inspect the University cf Oregon. In 1931 the Black Rapids Gla cier In Alatka moved at the speedy rate et 11$ feet pr day, says the hstional Geogrsph Society. 20 Oeparlores DaU7 la . VPOBSiaijD - Trom Solea ; What eenvenknee! Freseat. dependable service. What Aarlnrs! Om wit, $Lli. Samad trip, tUti. plu tax. J. L. TTeua, Agent 451 N. Charch SL Fbeae 2-I4U Go GHEYOOUnD Gmdidates File 0 Campaign Cost- Si aadlstes for Markw CLr4 ty oflkt ta the reaeral krlic4 Urt week hire Lied tair W penae accounts. Coustv Ckrk Hen ry a?tx reported WedaeKy. . Roy J. Rice, successful esn&cat far county comznissiooer. C4 an . ccount Lstog f7La rrmV.:tti His Detroerat exponent, Pret lea W. Hw, rpect 14 If, accordxf to. his fUed ruteznenL T Accounts of four other eaadi-s dates inlkated tbey syeoj iK-gJ "J campairs foe rtJectkai. ; Aa were tmcpposed. Tty pre' Cornier Lestoa W. 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WOOL JERSEY CREPES GABARDINES ' AND OTHERS Values to $16.98 COLORS RED','," GREEN MOWN i - j GREY TAN T I ; wHmr black' I AND OTHER) ) Values to $22.98 THREE VAYS TO CHARGE V Regular 30-Day Account . . V 90-Dy Eudset Plan V Uyaway Plan I If you have a charge account anywhere In Salem you can chars It at Sally's! Corner Court end -".srty n 11 - ) ' "1 , " V - 1 "A ; Open Every Friday flight 'Til 9 P. fl
