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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1954)
v 14 Girls. 6 -Boys , R jp ! HTo TT70 11 tor; b-pelling Jb.inais Fourteen' girls and six boys wfll be on the stage in the Grand Finals of the Statesman-KSLM Spelling Contest at Parrish Junior -Sigh School, Wednesday night, March 24 . - These 20 comprise the top two contestants from each of the 10 semi-finals held within, the -last two weeks at Dallas, Keizer. School for the 'Blind, Turner, Dayton, "Woodburn. Independence, Mill City. Greenwood and Mt. Angel. Of the 20, 14 -are in the 8th grade, six in the 7th. Eighty schools were' entered in the contest which involved . well over 3,000 7th and 8th grade pupils in Marion, Polk, Yamhill and Linn Counties. - Winners in the semi-finals received Webster's New Col legiate Dictionaries. The top three spellers in the-Grand Finals will receive $100, $30 and $25 govern ment bonds, respectively. - - All 20 of the Grand Finalists, with their teachers, will be guests of the sponsors at a dinner at Par rish Junior High immediately pre ceding the March 24 event. Big Crop of Phone Booths Sprouting By WAYNE OLIVER ' NEW YORK if The telephone, which has flowered indoors since Alexander Graham Bell invented it, bow is sprouting in the wide open spaces. Outdoor telephone . booths are springing up along superhighways, in parks, on public squares and ether places where a lot of people pass by or congregate. American Telephone fc Telegraph Co. reports its Bell System companies now have about 50,000 in operation compared with 6,000 in 1945, with the number increasing fast State Library Development On Agenda Plans for library development in Oregon and the importance of books to the public will be dis cussed at a meeting, open to the public, slated for the con ference room of the Oregon State Library Wednesday, March 17. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m., Ainsley Whitman, Sa lem. president of the Oregon Li brary Association, which is sponsoring the development pro gram, has announced. Miss Eloise Ebert of the Ore gon State library will preside Library boards and library friends in Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties are especially invited to attend. Those who will discuss the panel questions include Miss Eleanor Stephens, state librar ian. Mrs. Pauline Howard of Reed College, Miss Ebert and Whitman. Similar meetings have been held in Portland, Tillamook, Oregon City and Corvallis, and Whitman reports, they have all been well attended, which he said he hoped would also be the story at the next Wednesday's meeting in Salem. P-T A Chooses Nominating Committee Members of the nominating committee for Salem High School P-TA were elected Thursday night and include Miss Mary Eyre, Mrs. George Hill, Mrs. Roy Lockenour, Mrs. Dennis Patch and Earl Saling. Officers will be elected at the April 13 P-TA meeting. Four exchange students enrol led in Portland high schools spoke at the meeting. They said they were impresssed by the friendliness of Americans, the large number of cars, and the freedom in families and high school social life. , . -The students were Inge Teisch roan and Eilert Busch, both of Germany, Monique Van Damme, France, and Helge Lie, Norway. Mental Health Session Called A special meeting of the board of directors of the Mental Health Association of Oregon has been called by Gov. Paul Patterson for Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in the State House board of c o n t r o room. Twenty three educational and state officials interested in mental health work have been invited and will head a report by Melvin Murphy, executive director of the MHAO, on the governors confer ence on mental health, last month at Detroit, Mich. Murphy was Pat terson's special representative at the meeting. Because of the growing popular ity of the outdoor telephone, A T T s Bell laboratories recently designed a standard booth that now is being mass produced. . The booth has removable side panels which come in transparent safety glass or red, blue or green aluminum. X Color can make a difference, as the New York Telephone Co. found when a painter who was supposed to put a conservative maroon fin ish on a booth in a subway sta tion decided to do it in brilliant. Chinese red. The painter wasn't in the dog house long. That particu lar booth trebled its take of coins. The outdoor booth, including the highway booth, isn't particularly new but only since the end of World War II has it started- to take hold in a big way. The New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., for in stance, installed its first highway booth in 1938 on U. S. Route 1. The Pacific Telephone & Tele graph Co., also a Bell company, has been particularly active in the outdoor telephone field in the past two or three years. It has found from surveys that outdoor booths are attracting added usage rather than diverting calls from other tel ephones. And being available 24 hours a day, they are in use at hours when most indoor public tel ephones are behind locked doors. There are many around the country in what appear to be un usual locations but whose usage indicate they are well situated such as at zoos, near bus stops, and on beaches. Companies have found that in spotting outdoor booths for both motorists and pedestrians, the most congested spots are not al ways the best The most important consideration seems to be that they are in spots where it is con venient to stop. The 20, in alphabetical order,! with their teachers, are: Vendra Aadersoa, li, 8th grade, Parrish Junior- .High (Roberta Rogers).' - ? - r- : Judy Baker, 13, Sth,! Leslie Jun ior High (Mary Ann Foley). ', . Mary Ana Cain, 12, 7tb, Turner (Norma Goddard). ; ' Kennie Rath Carlsea, . 13. 8th, Brush College (Raleigh Carothers). Dewey Cummins m, 13, 8th, Pe dee (Vernon Haefer). Mary Freemaa, 13,1 Sth, Bethal School (Russell Tuma). Charlie Kanble. 12. 7th. Wflla mina, Curtis. Benefiel).' Louie Kilmer. 12. 7th, BaBston School (Minnie B. Smith). Leree King. 12, 7th, .Victor Point (Dorothy Carpenter). - Pauline Knenri. 14, 8th, Willard (Emma Schreder). X' YvMae Lofton, 13,1 Sth, Dayton (Vance Noble). 1 Sham McKlmmey, 13, 8th, Hazel Green (Darrel D Brown). James Oberg. 13, 7th, St Paul (Frances Draper). 1 CUudette Olson. 13.18th, Stayton (Eulalia L. Macbeth), Allen Purchases San Jose Station Radio station KSJO in San Jose, Calif., has been sold to W. Gordon Allen of Salem and Louis E. Pett of Los Angeles, Allen announced Friday. I Purchase price . of I the station was listed at $133,000. Former owner has construction permits for stations in Springfield arid in Seattle. Wash. fi : : ... . . i . .-. :- . .. i - Karen Oveross, 12 7th, Ever green (Odelia J. Park.) .-; Frank (Tom) Thomas. 13. Jtth Cloverdale (Mildred Meunier). Roert Rkhardsaa. 12. Sth. VaU sets (Ralph A. Miller). Mario Rogers. 14. Sth, Eldriedge (Theresa Dehler). David Vaaderhoff, 13. 8th, Green wood (Gertrude Gragg). Cam Lee WhJtten, 12, 8th, De troit (Albert W. Warby). ' The Grand Finals- are open to the public without charge or col lection of any kind. They will be broadcast direct from the stage by Radio Station KSLM. 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