t (Sc' D-Staftsman, Salem, Ore., Thurs., June 16 1955
Allstate Firm
Welcomed at
Building Rites
Allstate Insurance Co. was of
ficially welcomed to Salem Wed
nesday as its officials performed
the ceremonies of ground breaking
for a new office buiMing to be oc
cupied at the corner of Ferry and
Commercial Sts. by a new region
al headquarters for the firm.
The insurance company, a sub
sidiary of Sears. Roebuck k. Co..
intends to employ 123 to 200 .here
and to serve all Oregon and South
ern Idaho. The building will be
erected by C. L. Corp., Portland,
for lease to Allstate.
' Instead of the usual polished
shovel for the ceremonious earth
scooping, Allstate Wednesday used
a fresno drawn by a pair of oxen.
The fresno is an oicUme iron dig
ging or grading tooL
The ceremony and a luncheon
which followed for the dignitaries
served to 'introduce Barret Bailey,
who has been selected from the
insurance firm's home office, near
Chicago to become resident man
ager of the new Oregon headquar
ters.
The old time theme was appro
priate to the building site, for the
northeast corner of the Ferry and
Commercial Sts. was the location
of Salem's first store, built in 1847
by Thomas Cox.
This and other . history were
touched on in an address to the
luncheon group by Dr. Burt Brown
"Barker, Portland. Official greet
ings, at the groundbreaking came
from Salem ' Mayor Robert F,
White and from Allstate's Pacific
Coast vice president, Enoch A.
" Frederick, Menlo Park, Calif.
Frederick commended Oregon
for its many high school and other
driver training courses, noting that
SVx , per cent of the public high
schools of Oregon have some form
of driver training, compared with
44 per cent national average.
Several other Allstate officials
were present along with Salem
city; officials, chamber of com
merce leaders and representa
tives of the building corporatiin.
DARBY KITES FRIDAY
SWEGLE Funeral services for
Robert Darby, a former Swegle
community resident who died Mon-
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cay m a aiayion nospiiai, wui oe
Friday. He more recently lived on
a farn. near Scio but was building
a. new house at Swegle Road and
Birchwood Drive.
Groundbreaking Done in Style of 18909$
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Yoked oxen above palled an oldtlme fresno for ground breaking
at site of new Salem office building at Ferry and Commercial
Sts. which will serve for aew regional headquarters of Allstate
Insurance Co. Girls in period costume are Barbara Adamek (left)
and Jane Blazek, Salem employes of Sears, Roebuck which
DAY Delegates
Leave for
State Session
Seven Salem 'members of the
Disabled American Veterans will
be in Tillamook today through Sat
urday attending the department's
annual state convention.
Those elected as Salem delegates
are Arch L. Brewster, Paul Thar
alson, A. J. Harnsberger, Dr. Roy
Reynolds. Dean Byrd, Albert
Schultz and George Kealey. .
Schultz was elected commander
of the Salem chapter at elections
Tuesday night Other officers and
executive committee members are
Vicar Wagers, senior vice -commander;.
Steven Paulus, Junior
vice-commander; William Shinn,
chaplain; Charles Peterson, treas
urer; Gerald McGuire, serge an t-at-arms;
Dean Byrd, adjutant;
Paul Tharalson, state executive
committeeman, and Frank Hunt,
Luther Cook and Dr. Roy Rey
nolds, chapter executive committeemen.
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is parent concern for the insurance company. Hen are Barret
Bailey (left), Chicago,! who win come here as manager, and
Enoch Frederick, Menlo Park, Calif., Alstate vice presi
dent. Oxen, featured in parades and celebrations, came from Sher
idan. (Statesman Photo,) , -
'Primp' Hideouts
Doomed at 'Annex
Two small, unused buildings at
the state prison farm will be
torn down, the board of control
said Wednesday.
Gov.' Paul Patterson noted
that the buildings are good places
for prisoners to hide "pruno" an
alcoholic drink that is made of
anything that wiU ferment
Highway Bids
Called; County
Paving on list
The Oregon Highway Commis
sion called for bids Wednesday
on 34 projects, costing S4,000,000.
Bids will be opened in Portland
June 30 and July 1.
rrojects in, me aaiem area in
clude: , j
Marion Construct -quadrail
and fence on Battle Creek June-tidn-Illahee
unit of Pacific High
way east 9 miles south of Salem.
Linn Pave 4.54 miles of Orleans-Lebanon
road, i from Vk
miles east of Corvallis to 1 mile
north of Tangent; install 5,400
feet of guardrail on North Santi
am and Santiam Highways, 21
miles southeast of Detroit and 18
miles east of Cascadia. j
Marion Grade and -pave .73
miles of Church and ; College
Streets in Mount Angel; seal 9.6
miles of pavement on Salem by
pass.
Marion and Clackamas Install
25,000 feet of guardrail on Port-land-Salem
Expressway, north of
Salem.
Washington, Clackamas and
Multnomah Seal 11.34 miles of
pavement on Portland-Salem Ex
pressway and Banfield Express
way, south and east of Portland.
Yamhill Construct 182-foot
concrete bridge over North Yam
hill River on Moores Valley Road.
8 Salem Men Commissioned
CORVALLIS Eight Oregon
State college seniors from Salem
were among , 125 senior men
sworn into the armed forces at
commissioning ceremonies held
recently at OSC. -
William Duane Noteboom was
commissioned as ensign in the
Navy ' and will report for active
duty immediately on a ship or
flight unit
Commissioned as second lieu
tenants in the Air Force were
William Clark Johnson, Charles
Oliver Hargrave, Robert Law
rence Sullivan, and George Ben
jamin Durham. They will report
for flight training within a year.
Army second lieutenants in
clude Rodney A. Jipp, signal
corps; David L. Massee, artillery
and Walton H. Reeve, engineers.
They- will report for active duty
within 24 months.
All men completed academic
requirements in the OSC reserve
officers training corps programs.
Sixty per cent of the coal
mined in Indiana is produced in
strip mines compared to a na
tional average of 23.6 per cent
Ramey Chosen, Head
Of Red Cross Board
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Lloyfi Ramey, 136 W. Washington
St., ha been elected chairman of
the Marion County Red Cross chap
ter's board, it was announced Wed
nesday. He succeeds Elton Thomp
son, chairman for the past two
years.
Other officers are Sol Schlesin
ger, first vice-chairman; Loren
Hicks, second vice-chairman; Wil
lard Glaze, treasurer; Mrs. Gordon
Shattuck, secretary.
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While costumed girls and business-suited lnsoranceme and city
leaders did the formalities of groundbreaking for Allstate In-'
sura nee Co. office building In downtown Salem Wednesday noon,
workman Clarence Mackintosh swnng his pick in some of the
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