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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1954)
aroiiTranli, Son Herald Start of Clearing Site for New Salem Store - . 1 . .- - . . . - . . 1 -L - , . , .1. Ml i4 - "-'Q-fci 2 A- :c:0f TU scale model of the projected $8,000,000 Meier & Frank Store Hifh Street in the foreground. At the right is Center Street. covered parking area is shown at the rear. Building on the roof lalem crowd looks on as Gerry Frank, at microphone atop track flatbed, tells about the new Meier & Frank -Salem store to be bnUt in old school Week bounded by Marion, Church, Center and High Streets. He will be Salem store manager. The crowd saw ceremony which started the demolition program at the former Salem High School building. (Statesman photo.) Civic Dignitaries Attend Ground - Breaking Rites For Meier & Frank Store (Story also on Page I.) Aaron M. Frank, president of Meier & Frank Co., gave a cere monial start to wrecking operations on the downtown site of a new Salem store Tuesday as his company officers and civic dignitaries looked on. , Details ot the $8,000,000 store project were given out as the ceremony unfolded at the old front entrance for the hign scnoo building on Marion Street, dating back a half century. Frank took off his coat, donned a construction helmet and climbed a stepladder to remove the lantern-fixture over the north entrance of the school which has served in recent years as a center of school, county, state and federal offices in Salem. Meier k Frank has bought the entire school block bounded by Marion, High, Center and Church Sts., and other property nearby. Shares Top Hob or Sharing the top honors at the ceremony was Gerry Frank, young bachelor son of Aaron Frank who will manage the Salem store. Young Frank is planning to build a home on Candalaria Heights where he has .purchased a large view lot at Crestview and Downs. Older son Richard Frank also was on hand for the ceremonies, along with other M&F officers, in cluding Lloyd Eckhardt. A. E. Ros enberg. Allen E. Meier, Clinton Eastman, Joseph Thursh. Leslie Sherman and others. Chester R. Duncan of the Portland firm was master of ceremonies. Others Play Part Others playing a part in the cere mony included Associate Archi tect James L. Payne, Salem; Mayor Alfred W. Loucks and Mayor-elect Robert F. White; Ed win H. Armstrong, representing Gov. Paul Patterson; officers of Meier it Frank Co., Emma Deer ing. M&F employe for 62 years with only two days' absence from work: Salem Chamber of Com merce President William H. Ham mond; a band composed of Wil lamette students; the Rtv. Louis White, who gave the invocation; Salem Chiropractic CDoDuk PHYSIOTHEBAPHY EZXCTROTHERAPHT COLON IRRIGATION X-RAY . Dr. J. L. AhlbiB Nerve and Bom Specialist Albert Wiesendanger, Keep Ore gon Green executive, who received a gold charge-plate as the oldest M&F customer of Salem in the company's books. The "new store is to be second in size in Oregon only to the main plant in Portland, officials said. Over 75 Departments Its nearly 160,000 square feet of area "will be a complete entity in itself, a complete department store," and will have covered and roof parking for more than 700 cars. Inside will be more than 75 departments, both selling and service. There are to be seven public en trances, four on the main floor which will house the men's, youths', children's and women's ready-to-wear departments, and a restaurant. Home merchandise of all kinds, a beauty shop and an auditorium for civic use will be on the second floor; special service departments on the mezzanine. Marking, storage, power and air- conditioning faculties and em ployes quarters will be in the base ment. A spiral four-level covered gar age and roof deck are to be cor related with the store itself. The structure will be of reinforced con crete, with mosaic tile and brick facing, and an entrance terrace with planting areas at Center and High Streets, flanked by covered walkways. Silver Birch trees now there will remain in the parkway. Acoustical Ceilings There are to be both elevators and escalators; a combination of fluorescent and incandescent light- Vital Organs Are Controlled Through Nerves Rob 2-6820 For Appolatmont Hour 9 - 6 Dairy Scrt. A. M. Only 1225 S. Commercial in Salem shows The multilevel is for elevators carrying passengers to and from parking areas. The men's wear and sporting goods departments are at the left front. The building will have nearly 160,000 square feet of floor space. Total investment is estimated at more than $8,000,000. Frogman to Seek Ancient Treasure Ship TOBERMORY, Scotland UFi A wartime British frogman said Tuesday he will attempt to recover a Spanish galleon's treasure be lieved buried in the Ht of Tober mory Bay. One estimate places value ot the prize at $68,700,000. Lt. Cmdr. Lionel Kenneth Crabb has been given special leave by the Admiralty to head the expedition. The sunken vessel is believed to be the Duque de Florencia, treas ure ship of the Spanish Armada. In 15 salvage attempts to date, dozens of Spanish relics, including weapons and cannon balls, have been retrieved. But, apart from an occasional doubloon, there has been no sign of any great store of treasure. ' About 15 million people in the United States have some degree of hearing impairment according to estimates of the American Hearing Aid Association. ing; accoustical ceilings; resilient floor-covering. Design will be con temporary. Architects are Welton Becket and Associates. Los Angeles, and James L. Payne, Salem. Wrecking of the old high school building now on the site of the new store is underway by E. S. Bitter & Company. Actual construction is expected to begin Sept 1, with completion scheduled a year hence. 1 ramfoifflnBflBauBa No Witm-JUMp Hi OWN OAIIY V 3-3H1 I IT ?Sn ? k r w -X Aaron M. Frank (center) takes down ornamental lantern at Marion Street entrance of old high school, to signal start of wrecking to clear site for a Meier & Frank store in Salem. Watching their dad do the honors are Richard (left) and Gerry Frank. (Statesman photo.) Poppy Sale At Wobdburn Termed Good Stateim&n News Service WOODBURN Mrs. Kenneth Yoder, poppy sales chairman for the American Legion Auxiliary, and Mrs. Max Warring, who serv ed in a similar capacity for the auxiliary to the Veterans of For eign Wars organization in Wood burn, reported a successful cam paign following Saturday's finish ing sales. Mrs. Yoder had a staff of 24 to aid her in the benefit covering downtown districts and the Birds Eye plant to raise funds for vet erans' rehabilitation services and child welfare work for veterans' families. The following workers for the VFW Auxiliary were enlisted to handle sales in the highway and downtown shopping districts, at the Birds Eye plant, in Gervais, Hubbard, St Louis, Monitor and St Paul: Mrs. Roy Adamson, Mrs. Jay Weber, Mrs. Esther Thomp son, Mrs. O. F. Mulkey, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schwingler, Mrs. Mary Horning, Mrs. Tillie Walker, Mrs. Clara Stange, Mrs. William Stange and Roy Thompson. Mr. Pelto al so handled poppy sales in his business establishment at Broad acres. Red Tape! No Extra Charge for Easy Credit Terms at Semler's. Enjoy Wearing Your Glasses WhiU Poying on your own reasonable credit terms. QUICK SERVICE Glasses in On Day mad to your Registered Optometrist's Prescription. Emergency REPAIR SERVICE for Broken Glasses. Smart Styles SCI fcow modmr. flattonas froara earn Wp torn look Jeungi Lota toMtd tohiom mm ditptaf OFFICES tUf. STATE t COMMERCIAL Saltw, Ort WW CD Workers' Test Thwarted by Pilot RIALTO, CaL (JP) The ground observer corps for civil air de fense went through its paces for a whole week and scheduled for the end of the week a shower of leaflets on the town from several airplanes. Civil defense workers manned their posts throughout the city, scanned the skies and waited for the leaflet attack. No leaflets. Af ter an hour of waiting and prac ticing the work to be done when the leaflets fell, the civil defense workers went home. The 20,000 leaflets were drop ped over nearby Fontana. The pi lots got their signals crossed. ML' 2000 sheets lA" Plywood good as new 4x8 sheet . 100 2'8"x6'8" Glass Doors, like new Frames and Hardware included . . 2000 Sash all sizes a 500 m Ho. 1 Used Lumber, cleaned 10 m 1x3 Maple Flooring, excellent. . . . . 65' Bow String Roof Trusses BRICK BRICK BRICK PIPE Sales Yard 3 miles II. oi Salem on r! ITrt rr i BUILDING WRECKING CONTRACTORS Rout 2. Box 367 SALEM, OREGON Telephone 2-5904 w- 4 Salem Area Schools to Get Awards Today Representatives of Englewood, Bush, Richmond and Keizer ele mentary schools will gather at En glewood School at 10 a.m. today for a program of awards of prizes they won in the recent Freedom Foundations competition" among schools the nation over. Two individual winners of awards from other Oregon cities also will be on hand to receive their recog nition from Supreme Court Just ice George Rossman, a director of Freedoms Foundation. The awards are based on signif icant contributions to a better un derstanding of the American way of life in 1953. Oregon winners: Keizer and Bush Schools As principal award winners, each school wins a medal, a freedom li brary and a trip for one student and one teacher later this year to Valley Forge for a national pro gram. Richmond Freedom library. Englewood Medal. Henry L. Slater, Burns Medal and $50 for an essay. The Rev. Robert Howard Sween ey, University of Portland Medal and $50 for a public address, de livered at Sacred Heart Academy here. On the program honoring these winners today will be music by sixth grade chorus, invocation by the Rev. Lloyd Uecker. welcome by Principal Dorothy Daugherty: a flag salute ceremony with Jim Davis. Gary Reck and Glenn Wold as color bearers. The program will be recorded and rebroadcast over KOCO at 5:30 p.m. today. 18 DIE IS PLANE CRASH RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil OP Eighteen persons, all Brazilians, were killed Monday when a Na tional Airline plane crashed and burned on a mountain 60 miles from Belo Horizonte, Meridional news agency reported. Sft: -4- si 4-i Jks3 ' ' This Caterpillar 212 Motor Grader helps keep Salem city streets in condition. "Just the right size for city work," says Jake Wright, Salem Street Superin tendent. Equipped with 10-foot moldboard, leaning front wheels and tandem drive, the 212 is made with the same high quality and precision as the larger models, and is capable of all grading and reshaping operations including cut ting bank slopes and flat bottom ditches. It was purchased from Interstate Tractor and Equipment Co., Caterpillar dealer in this area at 2355 Silverton Road, Urecking Bid Salem ESigh School mm o IP II II1 Stcrtotaan, Sdkau Cfrfy KfaSg fmm I9S4 Sq, 3) 3 1 Mouse Passes Social Security Expansion Plan By WILMOT HERCHER WASHINGTON UP) A bill to open the social security rolls to almost 10 million more Americans, increase the benefits and boost the tax take was passed over whelmingly by the House Tuesday. The rollcall vote was 355-8. Now the5 big expansion measure goes to the Senate for final con gressional action. It embodies most of President Eisenhower's social security rec ommendations and is designed to make 75 per cent of the nation's old folks eligible for benefits by 1960. An estimated 47 Der cent of I the population is conveTed now. An estimated 3.600.000 fanners would become eligible for social security under the expanded sys tem, as well as about 3,500,000 state and municipal employes, a large group of professional peo ple, clergymen and others not cov ered now. The legislation also provides for a minimum boost of $5 a month in benefit payments, larger annual contributions, or taxes, by many employes and employers, and more liberal provisions for old folks who want to continue work after their payments start. Brief Debate Drafted by the House Ways and Means Committee, the bill was thrown open to brief debate under a rule barring any amendments. Thus the House was limited to vot ing for or against the bill in its entirety. Some members who thought the changes in the 17-year-old social security plan didn't go far enough, or thought they went too far, ob jected to what they called "a gag rule." Rep. Lyle (D-Tex) complained the rule "disenfranchises members of Congress." Majority leader Halleck (R-Ind) CITY SLICKER MB PLUMBING ELECTRIC FIXTURES Highway 99E Beyond Tolem Pole LARGE SELECTION OF NEW and USED BUILDING MATERIAL told the House a bill ao big and complicated must be presented oi a basis of "acturial soundness.". To permit important changes to bi made on the spur of the moment, he said, might jeopardize the en tire social security structure. Raises Wage Minimum , One major provision would raisa from $3,600 a year to $4,200 to the maximum wage on which both ben efits and taxes are based. Thia would mean an additional contri bution of $12 annually by each cov ered worker earning $4,200 or more and a similar payment by his em ployer. The current tax rate for both is 2 per cent. About six mijlion Americans are now receiving social security pay ments. The bill aims to increase minimum monthly payments from $25 to $30 and maximum montflly payments from $85 to $98.50. These increases would go into effect two months after the bill becomes law. Most of the other changes would become operative next Jan. 1. For covered workers not yet re tired, the maximum monthly bene fit in the future would rise from $85 to $108.50. The top for a retired worker and his wife, if she is over 65, would jump from $127.50 to $162.75. Can Earn $1,000 Existing law cuts off persons al ready retired from benefits for any month in which they earn mora than $75 in covered employment. But the new provisions would al low them to earn at least $1,000 from covered or uncovered employ ment. Above that, thpv uinnlH lnc one month's benefits for each month in which they earned more than $80. In addition to farm owners and operators, about 1,300,000 farm workers who earn $200 or more a year from the same employer would come in under the program. 7! ! 'A - $1.50 ea. $1000 ea. 50? io $500 $4500 per m . $10000 m $25000 ea. 2 w 1 ... AlSMNSJMCk OPTiCMNS
