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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1954)
City Mews UBirSeffs MEETING DATE CHANGED The Salem Used Car Dealers Association will meet at 6:30 this evening at Nick's Inn. The meet ing was changed from the last Monday in the month because of the Memorial Day weekend. Marshalls Open for lunch daily 11:30 a.m. Special Sunday din ners. Close out sale. Save up to 50" & more. Drugs, cosmetics, 4 fix tures go Also soda fountain. Crown Drug Store. 150 S. Com'l. Fresh killed broad breasted hen turkeys 35c lb. Orwig's Market, 3975 Silverton Rd. or Ph. 4-5742. For Memorial Dav cut flowers and potted plants. Jay Morns, 135 E Ewald at Liberty Road. Death Claims A. H. Sears. 76 Alden Harry Sears, 76. farmer In the Chemawa district for the past 18 years, died Sunday morn ing at his home at V7fi5 Quinaby Rd . apparently of a heart condi tion He ua born at Hanorck. Iowa. July 8. 1877 and spent several year in South Dakota and Cali fornia before moving to Oregon In 192fi He first settled near Sil verton where he was in the lum ber industry before moing to Sa lem in 1935. Sears is survived by the widow, Mrs. Amy E. Sears whom he mar ried in Iowa in 1907. two sons, Irving Sears. Gervais. and Duane Sears of Salem: daughter. Mrs. Emma Otto. Salem: sisters Miss Flora Sears, Miss Lettie Sears and Mrs. Beryl Foote. all of Sa Iey: 10 grandchildren and two great grandchildren Funeral services will be an nounced later by the Rowell-Ed-wardj Co. Speaker to Add Humor to Safety Humor will be added to the ser ious business of safety Monday for the Salem Chamber of Com merce when Tom A Burke, as sistant director of the we.slern re gional office of the National Safe ty Council will be guest speaker. Burke, a native of Iowa and graduate of the University of Oregon, has been in safety pro motion positions since 1928 and is a special guest lecturer at North western University Traffic Insti tute and the Southern Police In stitute. Over 3.500 Visit Silverton Garden Statesman Ntwi Serrlf SILVERTON Over 3.500 per sons visited the Cooley garden's iris display here Sunday. Present for the annual open gar den event were two nationally known iris hybridizers. Davie Hall of Willamette. Ill . and Dr. R. E. Kleinsorge of Silverton. Following the Silverton tour the two experts visited the Schreiner gardens at Quinaby. Births SHELTON To Mr and Mrs. Roy Shelton, 1191 Hawthorne Ave., a son. Sunday. May 23. at Salem General Hospital. MILLIGAN To Mr and Leonard Milhgan. 237 Richmond Ave . a daughter. Sunday. May 23. at Salem General Hospital. SCANDL1NG To Mr and Mrs. Richard Scandhng. 1280 N IRth St . a son. Sunday. May 23, at Sa lem General Hospital. NORRIS To Mr and Mrs George Norris. 3130 Lansing Ave., a son. Sunday. May 23. at Salem General Hospital. GESNER To Mr and Mrs. Richard Gesner. 859 Gaines St. a daughter. Sunday. May SaJem General Hospital. 3 a( , HUVTER To Mr and Mrs. Samuel L D Hunter. Salem Route i 3 a daughter. Sunday. May 23. at j Salem Memorial Hospital I mm TWO MONTHS COURSE OF INSTRUCTION On Any Musiccl Instrument of Your Choice Including Piano and Organ rhm The um of the Instrument in your own home! This is the chance oi lr H iLfl A a tim discorer the musical ability oi ANY or ALL members lw family if ara 8 to 80 you are eligible! Come in to our store and leam the details of this unusual plan. -EiraoLUiEirr open uiitil june isth- Lachelle's, 134B Ferry St., have a beautiful line of fur scarfs and stoles. Complete fur service and cold storage on premises. Johns-Manville asphalt shingles ap plied right over your old roof. No down payment 38 mo. to pay. Call Mathis Bros. 3-4642. Looking Ahead: Every day this month folks will be selling, renting, hiring through Want Ads. Be among 'em; dial 2-2441 for an ad All Faculty at ?J Silverton High Offered Jobs Statesman News Service SILVERTON All present Sil verton High School faculty mem bers were offered new contracts with the new Silverton Union High School at a school board meeting here Saturday night. Cordell Woodall. principal of the junior high here, will join the high school staff next fall to teach so cial subjects and mathematics. Thomas Cutshall. Bandon. was of fered n contract for the junior high school post. Negotiations were underway to sign Howard Baldcrstone, Silver ton superintendent for two years, to a new contract with the system. ! Baldcrstone will receive his doc torate from the University of Ore gon in June. A meeting of the board is sched uled Wednesday to discuss apprais al of present high school facilities which the new union district will buy. Fred Schwab, board chairman, also announced that a bond elec tion to raise funds for the new school will be held next month with the amount to be decided after the appraisal of present fac ilities is completed. Perley Hysler, Citv Resident 43 Years, Dies Perley Hysler. resident of Sa lem since 1911. died Sunday after noon at a Salem hospital follow ing an illness of about two years. He was 72 Born at Somersviile, Maine. Hy sler was married to Miss Annie Isherwood at Salem in 1912. Until ill health forced him to retire, he worked at the ship yards in Port Land and later as a custodian. He was a member of tne Methodist Church. Hysler is survived by the wi dow. Mrs. Annie Hysler, Salem; daughters, Mrs. Hazel Taylor and Mrs. Oscar Phillips, both of Sa lem: son, Kenneth H. Hysler. Portland: nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Catholic Youth Join Voices in Peace Praver ROME (JT Children of Rome joined Roman Catholic children everywhere Sunday in a prayer for peace. Composed by the Pope, the pray er was directed to Jesus. "If men." said the praying chil dren, "with our help will love one another, there will be true peace on earth, and we children will be able to live without fear of the horrors of a new war." City Now Has Latest Thing in Search Lights Salem now has the latest thing in search lights, but they are not a part of the Civil Defense effort. The three new 60-inch lights have been purchased by the re- j eently formed Nite Sky Lites com pany for night advertising pur poses i hey will te rented out. singly or logemer. ai'iuiuing iu i . vv b. Nelson, operator ot me new firm, a part of West Salem Ma- chinery Co. The lights are armed forces' surplus recently bought by the company at a California depot. MS M I City Council to Get Letter on Fluoridation Flouridatkra of Salem water sup ply is endorsed in a letter from the Marion County Tuberculosis and Health Association which will be received tonight by the Salem City Council. On a short agenda the council will also hold public hearings on vacation of portions of 17th and Mission Streets where the two streets would intersect if 17th wese entended and on plans to improve Trade Street from Cottage to Win ter Streets. A resolution to construct a 22 foot driveway in front of a drive in restaurant now under construc tion at Rural and 12th St. will also be considered. Rezoning of Silverton Road areas from a class 2 business district to class 3 and to amend the zoning map accordingly will be up for first reading by the council. Second reading is due on an ordinance to exempt wrecker's license on demolition of buildings of a public housing authority and to vacate the 17th and Mission Street inter section property. Also included on the council agenda are: 1. A letter from C. W. Bartell re questing a 40-foot driveway to ac commodate a new motel at 2505 S. Commercial St. 2. Petition for a sanitary sewer on McGilchrist Street from S. Church to S. Cottage. 3. Petition for improvement of High Street from McGilchrist to the south city limits. Reauiem Mass Tuesday for Ex-Farmer Statesman News Service WOODBURN Requiem mass will be held at 9:30 Tuesday morn ing for Herman H. Surmeyer, re ired Wood burn farmer, who died at his home on Queen City Blvd. Saturday. He was 77 years old. Surmeyer was born in Germany Jan. 17, 1877 and came to Amer ica when he was 17 years old. He had operated a farm near Wood burn since 1912. retiring in 1945. He was a member of the Catho lic Church and the Catholic Ord er of Foresters. His wife Kather ine preceded him in death in 1929 Surviving are two sons, Al- phonse Surmeyer. Areata, Calif., and Frank Surmeyer, Estacada; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Martens. Portland, and Mrs. Rita Winnepenniakx, Woodburn; also eight grand children. Recitation of the Rosary will be at St. Lukes Catholic Church at 8:30 p. m. Monday. Miss will also be at the church. Burial will be in St. Lukes Cemetery beside his wife with the Ringo-Cornwell Funeral Chapel in charge. Tot, 3, Takes Solo Jaunt A 3-year-old Salem lad took off on a solo jaunt Sunday afternoon and wandered nearly a mile, and a half from home before he was located by city police and return ed to his parents. David Ray Phelps, son of Mr and Mrs. Ray E. Phelps. 1275 E. Vista Ave , was finally located by officers at 340 Jerris Ave. The young traveler had little to- say of his adventure, police reported. BOND SPEAKER SLATED Milton Rice of the U. S. Na tional Bank of Portland will speak on the June defense bond com paign at the Salem Rotary Club meeting Wednesday. Bruce Wil liams is chairman of the pro gram. Peis, leraweTesderBess a lettsss at Ftt Tat tha taateot relief imag inable, um Super-Soft Dr. Scboll'a Zino-pada. Thay caiiooaea oaa 01 tba qnii k ways known to wliral actanca. At Urag, Sbom. Dpt. 6-10 Storaa. 7 2 Ex-Teachers In Y alley Area Draw Honors A new lectureship at Harvard Universtiy honoring two former Willamette Valley teachers . has- been announced by Dean Francis Keppel of the school. The Burton Lectureship in Ele mentary Education will honor the donors, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Burton. Dr. Burton who has been in the field of education and teach er training for 42 years, has been director of apprentice teaching at Harvard for the last 16 years. Dr. Burton taught in a number of Willamette Valley school sys tems between 1912 and 1917 and was a close friend of the late George W. Hug of Salem. He is the brother of Mrs. E. G. Sanders of Salem. Mrs. Burton taught at Carlton. McMinnville and Portland schools and is joint author with her hus band of the Burton Civics Informa tion Test. U.S. Motion Picture Said Conspiracy9 MOSCOW ufl A Moscow news paper calls the renowned motion picture "Gone With The Wind" a conspiracy carefully organized in Wall Street to arouse race-hatred against American Negroes. The official organ of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, Soviet Cul ture, labelled the picture, now be ing revived in American theatres anti-Negro propaganda, and de clared: "The propaganda of racism was very subtle. They paid special at tention to this film in Wall Street. Thev spent a lot of time in its staging. "The premiere of the film was in the center of the Ku Klux Klan country, Atlanta, Georgia. It was a particularly reactionary film about the Civil War in the United States." The paper accused the American motion picture industry of waging a war against Negroes and other minority groups in the United States in other films, too. SSMBMka. auw. Mh. JSBnnk mum, Annual Horse Show in Salem 'Big Success9 The Salem Saddle Club's 12th annual horse show which closed Sunday afternoon at the State Fair Grounds was termed a great suc cess by Graham Sharkey, general chairman, and, drew a field of en tries from Eugene to Vancouver, Wash. Young Salem riders in the juior horsemanship event won four of the first five places with Teddy McKenney in first place. Others were Mike Youngquist, second, Phil and Clark Jackson, fourth and fifth respectively. Dee Ann Shalier of Portland won third. Mrs. Gladys Ferry of Portland, won first place in the handy jump er event class with Adel Williams of Newberg, second. Takes Top Honor The Oregon Mounted Posse of Salem took top honors in the five man team flag relay followed in order by Silverton and Albany. Burdon's Golden Treasurer, rid den by Rose Franke Wilhelm of Salem, won first in the Palomino clan. Ginger, owned by Graham Sharkey and ridden by Yolanda RobI, was second. In the fine harness class. Tommy Dale, driven by Bill Fyock of Eu gene, was first followed by Stone wall Madge, driven by Bud Tuck er of Corvallis. Jimmy Cricket, owned by Lewis Pfeifer of Port land, took top honors in the Shet- my mmmimtmmmmmsm i v!? HiioMe fiiaid Dishwasher O Pre-rinses . . . Washes . . . rinses . . . dries O Takes a King-Size Load of dishes, glasses, silver yes, pots ond pans, too! O Roll-around Convenience load it in your dining room ... roll it to your sink for wash ing ... to your storage cobinets for unloading. "WW Only Pay Just MO00 Dn.-Only s3 Per Wk. m for mm mm dumstratiom tjowi riVriirirrLAC rU rLQ LSO, .Green liftlAl IUCT1IC No Immediate Surgery Due For Godfrey BOSTON 11 The bone special ist who helped operate on Arthur Godfrey's hip last year said Sun day night no further surgery is planned for at least three months. Dr. Otto Aufrsnc and Dr. Joseph Barr made adetailed examination of the radio-TV star who flew to Boston Sunday is his own plane. "It was felt that more time should be given for corrective ex ercises and training in walking with the use of crutches," Dr. Auf ranc said. He reported "an almost normal range of motion in the operated hip." land pony class for the second day in a row. Wins First Place Albany owner J. C. Gray's Mr. Flash won first place in the five gaited class and Dusty, ridden by Rusty Lawrence of Salem, was winner in the Texas barrel clover leaf. Lawrence and Frank Crail, also of Salem, teamed to win the cow hide race and Robert Franke of Silverton, won the rags and bags race. Each of the 11 boys entered in the calf scramble was awarded one dollar. In a single season one aphid multiplying with no deaths could produce progeny equal to the number 156 with 22 zeroes after it P Statesman, Salem, Ore. Mon-, Eskimo Scouts See CHICAGO (INS) In Alaska, the land of the Midnight Sun, 300 Eskimo Scouts recently sot their first glimpse of some of the other "wonders" of the universe Jack Benny and I Love Lucy. 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