Decision to Close Vets
Housing Colony Upheld
After talks with the City Coun
cil Wednesday, the Salem Hous
ing 'Authority stood pat on its
recent action directing that the
Veterans Housing Colony , be
shot down by Sept 1.-
Most of the councilman pres
ent said they didn't want to see
jany part of the project turned
: over to the city; tbeyhoprd resi
( dents would be gi7n ample time
to find housing; they would like
some further thought given to
selling some of the bousing units
to private landlords.
Also In the . conference were
owners of the property in South
east Salem leased by the Housing
Authority Duane Gibson and
Leo Child, who said they would
rent out apartments in . the six
Bus Service
Curtailment
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Plea Granted
Public- utilities commissioner
Charles H. Heltzel granted inter
city buses permission Wednesday
to reduce its schedules between
Portland and Oregon City on the
east side of the Willamette River.
There will be no change in
schedules on the-west side of the
river. r - i :
Heltzel said that in the four
months ended May 31, the com
pany's total income was $31,831,
while its expenses were $38,693.
The -schedules will cut the .daily
mileage on the Oatfield Road oper
ation from 371 to 22, and the
Super Highway from 350 to 184.
However, Heltzel .said, the
schedules siU will offer more
service than was given before
last February, when the company
took over the operations of Oregon
Motor Stages on the run.
'Few Party -Fights'
Noted
In Legislature
Partisanship was not conspicu
ous at the recent session of the
Legislature, reported .Rep. Alfred
W. Loucks to the Salem Rotary
Club Wednesday. V
Only five or six measures
stirred up party fights, said the
Marion County legislator. Most
of the members went to work, he
said, laboring to pass good laws
for the benefit, of the state.. '
. Loucks also praised the lead
ershio: Gov. Patterson, Speaker
Ed Gearv and President of the
Senate Elmo Smith. He bint"
that Smith might be a candidate
for some state office, rather than
to succeed himself. t V
Loucks predicted the sf ate will
have a sales tax within six years.
He based his prophecy on the re
actions from the people he had
received to the sales tax when it
was under consideration this last
session. , '
Loucks endorsed the amend
ment referred to the people
which will permit the Assembly
to attach the emergency clause
to tax legislation. This, he said,
would enable the Legislature to
work out a tax program and have
if on into effect. Then K the peo
ple did not like it they could in,
tiate a repeal or coma w
from office, those who favored it,
Mrs. DePew
Succumbs to
Long Illness
Mrs. Martha E. DePew, 85,
vnHnv of a decessed Lebanon
contractor, died early Wednesaay (
si the 555 N. 14th St home ot her
daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Arm-i
-.,. orith vhnnr h hsd been?
..living. .
Mrs DePew had been in poor
health since a 1945 auto accident j
and hprffact for the cast five'
Trinnths. t
Born July 26, 1869 at Fredrick: j
burg, Ohio, Mrs. De few came 10
Olympia, Wash, in 1895 with her
parents and in 1900 married the
late Charles L. DePew who died
in 1925 in Lebanon where the
couple moved from Washington
in 1915. She moved here in 1926.
Besides the daughter Mrs. De
Pew leaves a son William DePew,
Klamath Falls, and a grandson.
Services will be L30 p.m. Fri
day at the W. .T. Rigdon chapel.
Burial will be at the Masonic,
section of Lebanon Cemetery.
two-story buildings considered in
better condition than the numer
ous one-story structures, pro
vided they could buy the build
ings from the Housing Authority.
Low Cost L'nits
The landlords said their plans
otherwise would be confined to
platting remainder of the 20-acre
tract for sale to builders who
would put up low cost houses
for workingmen.
The six larger buildings on
east side of the housing project
would house 24 families. Present
population is 61 families and a
survey recently indicated only
about half of them could find
rental homes they cduld afford
elsewhere in Salem.
Housing Authority members
said upstairs apartments in the
big units hadn't been rented for
htwo or three years because of
difficulty of putting in fuel and
because of noise difficulties.
Decision Problem
They and the aldermen agreed
it would be quite a problem to
decide which tenants could stay
in the low-rental places and
which would have to move. The
residents of the housing colony
have signed petitions in protest
to the recent housing authority
decision".
Chairman W. J. Braun of the
Housing Authority said a provi
sion of the original housing con
tract was that the wartime build
ings would belcleared from the
property when the housing auth
ority went out of existence.
City Attorney Chris Kowitz
said the City Council has no legal
authority over the housing issue
other than appointment of hous
ing commissioners .and receiving
any surplus funds or physical
assets at time the housing auth
ority votes itself out of existence.
Set Up in 1941
The housing colony was set up
in 1946 -with war housing area
units irom tne Portland area.f
under federal auspices. Later the
federal government withdrew
and local housing authorities
were permitted by state law.
The Salem authority based its
recent action on the , fact that
losses are piling up; rents are
hard to collect; the buildings are
deteriorating. One member said
at the conference yesterday that
a purpose of the Housing Auth
ority was to avoid having slum
areas, but further continuing the
project here might result in just
such a slum area,
Morrow to Build
Safeway Store
Safeway Stores, Inc. reported
Wednesday it is completing con
tract arrangements with: Robert
D. Morrow, Salem, for construc
tion of the new South Salem Safe
way store.
The supermarket will be loc f -ed
at S. Commercial and Boice
Sts. It will probably be com
pleted in about four months, said
O. R.' Blair, Safeway real estate
manager in Portland.
State Teacher
Shortage to
Remain in '56
Oregon's teacher shortage, seri
ous during the past few years,
will continue unsatisfactory dur
ing the 1955-56 fall and winter
terms. Rex Putnam, State Super
intendent of Public Instruction,
said Wednesday.
Putnam said figures prepared
by , his department' show that
1,200 teacher replacements will
be required, against a total of
752 new teachers provided by the
Oregon colleges and universities.
This leaves a deficit of approxi
mately 500 teachers. -
Teachers estimated for em
ployment under the. teachers
emerftenlcy certificate act of the
Legislature will continue at ap
proximately 2,000. These emer
gency teachers are not required
to comply with the top standards
of the Oregon education laws.
Putnam predicted an act of the
1955 Legislature increasing the
minimum salaries to $3,000 a year
probably would play an import- j A
am pan in auracung leacaers iu
Oregon in future years.
Non-Suit Ruling Upheld by
Court in Fall of Laundress
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thursday, July 7, 1955 Sec. 1 9
A Judgment of involuntary non
suit given by Circuit Judge Frank
lin C Howell, Multnomah County,
against a laundress who bad
sued a householder for injuries
sustained when she fell down a
stairway, was affirmed by the
State Supreme Court here Wed
nesday. The suit was brought by Selma
Larson against Julie PapsL Judge
Howell was affirmed in an opin
ion by Justice Earl Latourette.
The plaintiff, while gathering
up soiled clothes at the top of the
stairway tripped and feu. She
claimed the defendant was negli
gent in failing to provide a laun
dry bag and in failing to have a
handrail along the steps
THe opinion was written .by
Justice Hall S. Lusk.
Also affirmed by the Supreme
Court was a decree of Circuit
Judge Howell, Multnomah, in the
case of Robert H. Snow Jr,
against Morton Tompkins et al
involving recovery from Tomp
kins and the City Realty Company
of $2,000 earnest money paid by
Snow In connection with the pro
posed purchase of a .ranch in
Yamhill county.
Although the defendants claim
ed Snow had refused to consum
mate the deal and that the earn
est' money had been forfeited.
Snow's evidence was that he was
induced to sign the earnest money
agreement by fraudulant repre-
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The court said a laundress ' senUUoM. Defendant objected
carrying laundry down a stairway
is not engaged in a hazardous em
ployment, that there is not a com
mon law and duty, to install a
handrail along a stairway in a
home, and that failure to provide
a laundry bag was not a proxi
mate cause of the accident.
The court further held that if
there was any negligence it was
that of the plaintiff in failing to
tie securely the laundry which
the had picked up.
Affirms Opinion
The high court affirmed Circuit
Judge Charles Combs, Deschutes
County, in a suit brought by
Veona Williams in which she was
awarded a judgement for $966.80
and $350 attorney fees againsti
William Corbett for services as a
housekeeper in the Colonial Inn
at Bend. Plaintiff claimed the
wages were due for overtime.
to this evidence on technicalities.
but it was admitted by the trial
court and the jury- decreed the
return of the money to Snow. ,.
The Supreme Court affirmed
the proposition thaO when one
has received money from another
which he should not in equity
and good conscience retain, a
promise to pay is implied. Opin
ion in this case was written by
Justice James T. Brand.
The court, in an opinion , by
Justice Latourette, denied a peti
tion of the Heppner Lumber'
Company for a rehearing in the
case of Hughes against the Hepp--per
Lumber Company which the
court previously decided in favor
of the plaintiff. j
; Petitions for rehearing in Lem
on vs. Madden and Oxley vs, Linn
ton Plywood Association also;
were denied without opinion.
Vets to Meet at
Taft July 11-14
. The state convention of Veter
ans of World War I will be held!
at Taft July 11-14, following the 1
Veterans of Foreign Wars con-i
vention which is in progress '
there this week. The Auxiliary of
the VWW will meet there at the
same time.
A mixed program of reports, ad
dresses and entertainment is
planned, with a deep sea excur
sion set for Wednesday afternoon.
Election of officers will take
place Thursday afternoon. . ,
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Apportioned
Marion County's share of liquor j
privilege taxi money for the
quarter ending June 30 is $11,747. ;
Distribution of the . money,'
which is handled by the secretary
estate's office, calls for 75 per
cent goinsr to counties and 25 per
cent to the state general fund.j
Money must be used for old agej
pensions, mothers' aid. and direct
relief of indigent persons.
Other county share include:
Linn, $6,292: Polk, $3,048; and
Yamhill, $3,879.
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