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" ' ; '-'--. ... . .. ... . New Freeway Will Shave Nine Miles From Albany-Eugene Route t . '41 jSPWNGFIELD ... ty foSakm EUGENE VX --site . L H . ha. L..k f: - cv Isss ' I?5- U4.f: . ' - HARRIS BURG""; CjZft I . . ' , . ORLEANS --LEGEND- JX'., ' , .-LT . "J . U ' 4vr ,sJUNCTI0N CITY ' . ' ' Proposed New Highway ' - . ' Existing H;grway "c , " Our Valley By CHARLES IRELAND Pilgrimages Continue at Little Chapel Br LORETTA E. DEHf ER Villry Carrrtpondrnl MT. ANGKL A Marian pilgrim age of one mile walkin; distance ALBANY Route of proposed Freeway 99 between Albany and Eugene It showa (heavy black line) n m,i SI - public at hearinf here. New route will (have nine miles from present 43-mlle highway distan.-e between Albany and Engene, according to W. C. Williams, deputy atate highway en-r.neer, who rid t-avel time will be reduced even more, pro portionately, by elimination cf traffic congestion, curvet. Town of Tangent, Shedd. HalMy, Harrisburtr fif ."-.r-t'-n ' - .' p. lane freeway. Circle depict proposed Inter change! wher Ireffic cp tct on or off f.ccwa . interchange at extreme led it South Mfern Junction. Interchange desisatted " lur.!- . r-ould tjrve new Western Kraft paper mill area Work on pro?s:ed routs is expected tj start wl .in three year. Property Appraisal Top Item For Farms in Path of Air Base Heads Order SUIcinun Nr'i trrvkf (Story alio on page 1.) FAIRFIELD The appraisal property is a cinch to command nant ones. For some, like "old timers" Freeman Marthaler and Bradford J. Miller, it will mean A couple of chaps on our beat who haven't been in the news for some time bobbed up again Friday . . . They were Les John son, the valley's indefatigable uranium prospector, and Johnnie little Holy Rosary Chapel in Ray, the cry singer who calls Dallas his home town. I Crooked Finer is being arranged ' ' jfor Friday. The walking pilgrim- Johnson, pictured In yesterday's Statesman, remains con- age will start at 7:30 p.m. at the fldent that his uranium claims in the Wilhoit Springs area Mat Bielenberg farm at the foot are going to be worthwhile ... He says radiometric (Geiger of the hill that leads to the chapel, counter) readings indicate the sample shipment he is sendine to the Atomic Energy Commission Station at Salt Lake Citypaved highway. Mass will be cele- when the overnment starU ,0 ac" tills 202 will assav nnt at S14D a Inn ahnut flv tlmi h minimnm t . ... Quire land for its "Greater Port- ought to 7. 7 . . ' - --.- - .. orgiea m me cnapei at p.m. .. . u. . ,h. . i. . ; mn.h.r ... .... land aip Has. Tiu fimir anno fiTOwm."i. lerwaras mere wiu oe a procession i ; : . . . . . in 1857. tn th thrin. in tk 0rnv .inin cres has been mentioned in con-1 i Arttno. - -j- u :. w tne snrine in tne grove adjoin- , jrairfield farmers have For Fatafield as a community, ino th .Snrok Punu n.M. tn nection with sue of tne air base, j j u in w. i., h, k. .i bpnngs sector . . . About a month ago he staked a claim on waIk the (ull mjle may join the but in this area the figure is not a bit or new Nations. And they the line. The school is already gone Bald Top Mountain in Polk County . . . And now he says he's pilgrimage at any point. jconsidered a firm one. jwin'ce when they are asked about and the Air Base threatens to wipe working on a claim within three miles of Salem that he thinks Granted By Pope I With no official word since news- prices. out the time-honored Grange that is as promising as his Wilhoit claims I June 1 is the day on which the papers headlined selection of this i '"They'll drive us all clear out P' community name alive. www n iiii.minj o.ii ui yun:ii?iiii uiva iur me air uusc un may o, Johnnie Ray didn't come to Salem but he did have a choice f ""rynfi,,hl "ST.'liJ rumu" "7 and "117 H.n,lnt. gmI nn fh Mrr-. P.,cn.,.P.,c. TV ?"e ? ,he vf" eat for number of stones as to probable -r . . ... wnlcn ,ne pope n Wamea a boundaries of the base. uay nigni . . . .nurrow miroaucea mm as a person pronaoiy plenary indulgence to those mak ure that makes uranium ore worth mining. Johnson hasn't been confining his activity to the Wilhoit mately $100 for certain "white I land" to as much as $1,000 an acre ..'for ton river bottom silt. . . 1 lAmrtntf t Via sinlit knma Iknu hA i "I iust hope thev II let us trade w'"' u,c' non Toyman ihirrf. ever known. top interest in this community ,n(.r,iion Fairfield farmer who! Marthaler lives on the SDOt where diversified acres. They his grandiather proved up a give us enough to buy a donation land claim, and where his was born in a log cabin ercfiontatesiiian' Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun. May 27, 56 (Sec. Canary-Grass New Silverton Area Crop SUtriRua Ntwi ttrykt SILVERTON - Strictly for the birds it the lCO-acre planting of Canary-grass (phalaris canaries sis) which is being grown by Mar ion County farmers this year to help supply a "terrific demand" from the nation's growing popu lation of "cultivated" song birds. keeU are said to have particularly healthy appetites for the teed, but it has long been a substantial part of, all cage bird mixes. Th plant Is native to countries near the western end of the Mediterranean and much of this Country's dome tie supply hat been Imported from there in recent years. "Getting the seed into the tack is the big problem (or farmers. The seed here Is being planted! at all the bids to Marios County under contract with Sanford Seed 'are apt to congregate and help la W00DBURN Tramaa Baird, ton af Mr. and Mr. Layman person known as well in England, South Africa, Japan, Australia, etc., as he is in the United States . . . And that's going a long way for a boy who was singing for free with a Salem radio station less than 10 years ago. When Murrow asked Johnnie what he thought of his own singing. Johnnie replied that he didn't think of himself as a "singer" but rather as a "performer" ... He told Murrow that he got interested in singing when he was 11 years old and "used to put on shows in our back yard in my home town of Dallas, Oregon." A lot of people thought Johnnie Ray was just a flash in the pan but time already has proved they were wrong . . . Thursday night he started an engagement at New York's plushy Latin Quarter and apparently his press notices were very good . . . Television isn't his medium but he has an "hi person" magnetism that appeals to many . . . Looks like John- Wnrlh A mg a pilgrimage to Holy Rosary! farmers say it would be worth Cnapei. a lot to them to know risht now Every Tuesday throughout the ; whether they will be permitted to of Marion County if they ask too Cemetery la Path much for their farms," said Mrs. Longtime residents ar e con D. B. DuRettc. Her husband al- cerned, too, about Fairfield Cemc ready has looked at farms as far lery. Centrally located to the pro- Company, Silverton, which has orders for 1000 bags from Ferry Baird. was iMUlled Friday at Morril gj Company in Califor uemoiay tnapier. i j.wi-j . uic vruiT uin DC uuuuicu bcai yrar, according to Austin B. Sanford month of May, a small group of people from Mt. Angel and Crook ed Finger have been walking the two mile pilgrimage from the Bruno Schmidt farm near the high way to the church. 12-Mile Walk On April 18, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, two women made the l-mile walk from Mt. Angel to the chapel, taking five hours. A small group will again make the 12 - mile pilgrimage on Friday spend another winter on their farms. v The quality of soil- varies greatly here and there's little doubt that it will be a thorny task to establish values that both sides consider fair. Observers have estimated that land values range from approxi- Church Services 12 - mile pilgrimage on Friday, -ri 171 11 f. ? starting their walk from Mt. Angel, t OT t allS L.11V 8 at 2:30 p.m. to coincide their ar- 0 . rr 1 rival with that of the people mak-'heillOrS lOIllffllt ing the one-mile pilgrimage. Preparations are already under- nie Ray will be around as long as there are folks who like to ! maj?r"fu?' Marian cry in their champagne. State Archivist David Duniway pulled the surprise of the week out at Macleay School's eighth grade graduation exer cises Wednesday night . . . Asked to deliver the graduation address, Dave bowled 'em over by calmly announcing that it was Macleay School's centennial year . . . Apparently no one else n command had realized it, at least, no advance centennial preparations had been made. 1856 must have been quite a year in the valley . . . Almost every week a new centennial observance pops up , . . Mon mouth, Aurora, Pringle School, Macleay and Linn County's Providence Cemetery . . . It's easy for a group such as a school district to go right past the 100 year mark without realizing it ... We wonder if some others are not being overlooked. News story in the May 12 issue of the Bakersfield, Califor nian came to our attention yesterday ... A family, enroute from Salem to Needles, Calif, to pick cotton, pulled off to the side of the road and slept in their car near Mojave . . . When they awoke next morning, their 11-day-old baby girl was dead nr bronchoDneumonia . . . Parents were listed as Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Nail . . . Statesman files show the infant was boh May 1 at a Salem hospital . . . The family had been living on Salem route 1. but told investigating police that Calico Rock, Ark., was their home. attracts thousands of people from the valley, state and even other states. This year arrangements are be ing made to have all the people take part in singing the high mass. Father David Nicholson, OSB, di rector of Mt. Angel Seminary choir, has been appointed to direct the singing. CHOSEN FOR BOYS', ST ATE - DAYTON Merlyn Gubser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Gubser, has been selected to attend Boys' State at Oregon State College in June. He is a junior at Dayton High School and will be sponsored by the Dayton American Legion Post. SUteimta Newi Srrvict FALLS CITY Baccalaureate services for the class of 1956 of Falls City High School will be on Sunday at I p.m. Christian Church. The sermon, "Remember", will be given by the Rev. James Roy er, pastor of the Falls City Metho dist Church. The Rev. Claude Wells, pastor of the Christian Church will give the invocation and the Rev. Paul Arnett, of the Free Methodist Church, the bene diction. Dean Carver, president of the graduating class, will read the scripture; Darrel Talmer will sing a solo; Miss Judy Wells will play the processional; Verjean Rancore and Judy Ferguson will sing a duet, accompanied by Marjorie Palmer; the high school choir also will sing. away as the Eugene area. "How much time are they going to give us to move?" farmer Frank Saalfeld wanted to know. It was a question echoed by many. "We .don't know whether to chop our hay into the barn or bale it," said DuRettc. "If we are going to have to move by fall, we ought to be bailing most of it. It's almost impossible to move it after we chop it into the barn . Pat Roof Oi SIU? "And I ought to be putting a new roof on my silo now, while it's empty. But will I need it next fall? I wish they'd come around and give us some idea when we might have to move." "If they don't buy our property until September we can't go out and buy a farm in five minutes," said Saalfeld. "And by October we at the First ' should start t0 P" in new crop- 1 nai 1 our loiai suunc ui uituiuc for a year." Are they going to con sider that?" To most Fairfield folks, the ques tions of how much they will get for their farms and when and where they will move are, of neces sity, the most pressing. Poignant Thought But there are other, more poig- posed Air Base, the deep concrete runways may pass right over it, Some 100 who lie buried there are expected to be disinterred and removd to a new "final' resting place. "I'd always planned on awaiting resurrection day in that little ceme tery, said DuRette, smiling wry ly, ''And now they're even going to take that away from me." SCHOOL YEAR ENDS atattima Nawa Brrvtct SALT CREEK The Salt Creek School closed for the school year Thursday. A school picnic was held the day before at Buell Park. This has bees the final year for the school to operate under the Salt . Creek School district as it was recently voted into the Perry' dale School district.' and Roy R. Wilcox of the Silver ton firm. , , The plant is an annual one, somewhat similar to barley In growth habit and toil requirements. It is not. says Sanford, to be con tused with Reed s canary gran which It a leafy perennial wet-land cow-pasture grass. - The seed of the bird past fa light yellow, in color and about the size of Sudan grass seed. Para- the harvest," says Harry Schoth, Otegoa State College crops' spe cialist ' The teed firm managers say they plan to hold part of the crop her so "local" songsters . will have something to go an. ; t ft Boehme Gets Eagle Badge Statesman Nfwi Srrvlc AUMSVILLE Martin Boehme, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Boehme. has received his Eagle Scout badge. Doug Parks, who started the Boy Scout movement in Aumsville community five year ago, pre sented the award. 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