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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1956)
tw 0?um )f a ?$. iilli it'iiiiti.i.ini.a iiirriiiini cum- mr Our Valley By CHARLES IRELAND i-i, 18,000 Watch Parade at Dallas One of City's Top Parades; Acc5rding to the Mill City Enterprise, fishing is so good 900 FntriAO that anglers are now catching them without hooks ... At any ontVv Jullll lCo rate, reports the Enterprise, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bell were fishing at the mouth of Rock Creek when Bell hooked onto in abandoned line that had snagged on the bottom of the creek . . . Bell tugged hard on the line and brought it up . . . Snarled up in the line was a wriggling, 15-inch trout . ... It hadn't been hooked, but somehow the line wrapped around behind its gills and it couldn't get loose. Aurora's Centennial Is now history, but one last Incident By HAL NORBERG Yslley Correspondent '(Story also on page 1). ' DALLAS A crowd of 8.000 persons lined a two-mile parade route here Saturday to witness the colorful parade of the Dallas Smilcroo It was one of the (largest pa should be reported ... It concerns the visitor who asked one rdes ver M hcre- "ver 200 of the celebration workers, "How often do you have these een- "tries 'rom the entire valley and tennial affairs'" several coastal points partici- ... Ped. . . Dallas Lumber and Supply canny and Aurora are only four miles apart ... But if a Company walked off with first letter is mailed at Canby, it travels 150 miles before it is de- prize with a clever float, driven livered . . . Mail posted at Canby is trucked north 22 miles to i by a "prospector." It was pulled Portland . . . There it is unloaded, reloaded and shiDDed 75 y burros. Riding the animals mites south to Albany . . . There it is again unloaded, reloaded and shipped back north about 50 miles to Aurora. This peculiar postal situation was called to the attention of Postmaster General Summerfield In a letter yesterday by Rep. Walter Norblad, who suggested that the situation be cor rected ... . The mail traffic pattern apparently dates back many years to a time when there was no better way to route It . . . Situation came into focus the other day when big bundle of Canby Herald newspapers bound for Aurora was delayed a day due to the roundabout mall routing. Just like the U. S. mail, the Statesman news sometimes has trouble getting through, too . . . When Correspondent James Alley found telephone service out of Amity temporarily dead the other day, he got Police Chief Jack Stafford to flash word by short wave radio to McMinnville . . . From that city, a tele phone operator got a circuit through to Amity, enabling Alley to get a call through to The Statesman and report a bad fire. took second place. It depicted a ' triumphant deer returning from a hunt with two tagged hunters. draped over the front fenders of a car. Other entries that pleased the crowd included Pacific Power's I Reddy-Kilowatt float. Clan Mac- leay's Scotch Highlanders. The car division with small sports and old-time vehicles, a Shrine group, Jaycettes smile float, a boat division of pleasure cruisers and the Cherrisns from Salem. A fine array of mounted groups took part. Included were Sher idan's Canter Club, South Salem Junior Saddle Club, Monmouth Mounties, Salem Mounted Posse and several Shetland entries. Leading the parade was State Sen. Walter Leth, followed by Queen Lonna and her Smilerqo court. Adding color were the Dal- knock-on-wood dept When Jefferson and Turner nre-t(am MlM citv Ban(i wjth ma. men held a meeting Tuesday night, Turner Fire Chief Albert jnrettc Mary Jane Wait and uni Jensen remarked that his fire company hadn't battled a blare formed groups. for six months . . . Next noon thev were called to the fire that , 'Hie Firemen scuttled Vlrge Tincknell's big, deep-sea slxe fishing boat. Correspondent Jan Overholser says the Is still chuckling over this family Incident ... Her five-year-old girl, Dixie, tear fully reported that her older brother hit her . . . "Did you hit him first?" asked Mrs. 0. . . . "Yes," the tot replied, "but It was ALMOST in accident." ... Gates and Mill City are going to think up a new name for their new union high school district, and right now "Santiam Union High" is a good bet to be the new name ... At least, that's the opiriion of Julia Bassett, a schoolboard member . . . Naming the school will likely be delayed until fall, she said, giving students a chance to be heard . . . Meanwhile, Mrs. Bas sett said, all residents of the district are welcome to suggest names. were a goat, chicken and dog, Shrridaa Second The eye-catching entry of Sheridan Chamber of Commerce Ended Just in Time DALLAS This city's Smileroo parade ended la the nick at time or Dallas liremea. j Fire trucks, which were nn at the bend at the parade, had bare ly traversed the two-mile parade route when the tire slrea blrw, sending them to put out a grass fire Laudahl Avenue. , . , : : ' 1 . , ' '" " : : ! l NJ I . ' ' m . -. - ' , "" 1 ' "'" f' rHliii i . i'iH-h'imXiii'ihii ... II nil- I DALLAS Float at Crlder's Storage carried out Dallas Smileroo eclrbratioa theme Saturday and woa third prize la parade that attracted ZOO entries. The t" rider float depleted clown and was made ( rumpled tissue paper. Tub from Disneyland emitted from hidden speaker. Aa estimated I,t00 watched the parade. (Photos for The Statesman by Wet Sherman). Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., July 29, '56 (Sec. II)-9 Vacant, Hand-Hewed Log House Is Sturdy Tribute to Axeman's Skill "J? 'e,irnr, wswao. oarTp u n ' Kiplinger's current "Changing Times" magazine carries story that has been making the rounds of valley Volkswagen owners for it least a year . . . Volkswagens, you know, are the little German cars with motor in the rear . . . Seems two female Volkswagen owners were parked beside each other It a super market . . . "Oh, dear," exclaimed one of them, opening the hood, "someone has stolen my motor . . . "Well, never mind," said the other woman, "I've got a spare one in my trunk." Abiqua Ranchers To Sell Hereford's SILVERTOV - Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Oehler, whose registered Here fords on their Abiqua ranch, have attracted many Hereford breeders to Silverton. have announced a Si Williams of the Western Live stock Journal. Los Angeles, will cry the sale, Oehler said Saturday in making announcement of the There was the usual comple ment of clowns, the Dallas and McMinnville "hick" fire depart ments and the Dallas Jaycee cov ered wagon, guided by two old, crones. 2 Valley Youths Enroll at Lin field Statesman News aenrlco McMINNVILLE Gene Small, Stayton. and Charles Driggers, Canby, are among mid-valley stu dents included in the 18 new stu dents registered for the second summer session at Linficld College. Summer school will end August 25. Small is a senior English major. salr. A total of 110 head will be and Driggers is a graduate atudent complete dispersal sale for Oct. 13. sold. in physical education. C3 ' : M 1 1 1 I rl I I i-' im . ''fi" i' 4 La ' I Q L Dallas Smlleroo celebration, sow la Ha second year. Community auctions hare been an Important money maker, and here Jack Eakla Jr. (left) and Auctioaeer Larry Roth are show a auctioning a live rabbit. Almos LeFori Is la background.' A Saturday afternoon auction brought la flS7; another session Is slated Sunday at t p.m. There's No Business (Anymore) Like The Valley's Oldtime Show Business By JAMES ALLEY Valley Correspondent Clark Gable was a young actor, broke and hungry. He came down to the hop yards at Independence to earn some money to tide him over until he could find another job. That is where Gable learned about Oregon's long - lived small town shows. Here is where he met the late Cyrus Hoyt and "Oreeon Rose." Hoyt's wife, who was nationally famed as a marks man. Came to Salem "Doc" Hoyt came to Salem as a young vaudeville performer. He walked down to the historic Ladd and Bush Bank, plomped down seventy - five dollars in gold to make his initial deposit, and told Bush, airily, that he was in show business. And that he intended to spend the rest of his days as a traveling showman in the great Oregon country. Hoyt sued to rear as he told how Bush acted and what he said. Being a natural mlmle be would screw bis fare ta a fort lorn look and shake his head solemnly. And cluek his tongue In warning. Imitating Bush's voice he would say, "My dear young mnn. you should get Into a business with more promise." Many years after Bush's death. Doc Hoyt was still going strong in Oregon's small movie houses, grange, lodge and community halls. With his wife "Oregon Rose" by his side in his home made house car, he hit the road early each spring and stayed out most of the winter. Globe Performer The two Hoyts were quite tal ented. "Doc" was a good monolo gist and impersonator and a fair magician. Rose was a fair con tortionist and rolling globe pcr , former, and one of the all-time greats as a rifle shot. Doc was not far behind her as an expert with the pistol. They featured their rifle act. They carried gasoline lanterns to light the halls and platforms they played In la the 'Oregon Sticks'. And It was by the light of these lanterns that Oregon Rose shot chalk out of Doe Hoyt's hand. .A band from "n clear held In his mouth. And poker chips clipped to the hnlr f his head. Doc Hoyt died of i heart seii- ' ure in his house car while on one of his annual Oregon tours. The two made their home in Grants Pass. Personal search there uncovered only one person who remembered the Hoyts. The Yenger Family The Yeager Family Show, con sisting of the father, mother, their grown sons, and their wives, and children was a favorite cry where in Oregon. They seldom advertised in ad vance that they were coming. They just pulled into town in their Model T trucks loaded with tents, seats and light plants and began jill tiiis vEEii Under the Big Tent pyler&Varney Players f Prices 10c and 20c HATIHSI SntDHKSDAf. tATUBDAT TEN NIGHTS IN A I DARROOM j anw M ok- Tvflka LIFE'S LIKE THAT CH Me D rot her Gerald A Hishd for Mary L r a haaWS ton mt, k m to set up on a vacant piece of ground. The word soon got around that "The Yeagers are back in town". The news spread like a crown-fire in a dry forest. It was not long until a crowd was gathering. Everybody Loved Comic "Hiya Louie". He was the 'show's comedian. He seemed to love everybody, and everybody surely loved Louie. There was a lot of handshaking and backslapping. Then every one jumped in and helped to put up the tent. When the tent was up, the seats were in place and the light plant was 'tried out', the show was ready to go. Admission was 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children 25 cents more for reserved scats. Pure Rag Time - The show opened with the Yea ger Brothers playing violin and piano before the curtain. It was ! pure rag time, the Kind .mat js popular on the juke boxes now. There were movies for about an hour, then an intermission and a candy "pitch." Then came the vaudeville. That Is what everyone had come for, anyway. Father Yrager did a magic turn. This was followed by a tabloid play. Always a farce-comedy. The final art each night would be Louie Yeager's wonderful black fnee comedy, singing nnd dancing. Although not a native of the South he had a perfect southern drawl. And when Louie got through telling 'the audience all about his troubles they had com pletely forgotten all of their own. His comedy was clean. The songs he sang were all patter, nonsense ditties that brought more howls of laughter. Liked His Dancing Then Louie danced. It was a sort of clog-soft shoe and he fin ished with his own version of buck-and-wing dancing. This set his audiences wild. The Yeager family lived in Portland,vwhere they had property and were members of the First Baptist Church. They were a got his start In and around Salem. He is a direct decendent of the Mulkey families who came to Oregon In 1044 and settled south east of. Amity in the Bethel dis trict. Virgil started out as a magician playing churches and grange meetings. From these he gradu ated to playing the vaudeville cir cuits. Then, about 15 years ago, he framed the great magic show that was to take him around the world. Troupers Listed Among some of. the other enter tainers that played the small towns of the Willamette Valley were Bert Waring, the magician; the Bonner Brothers, a variety show; H. Kay Lewis and Com pany, a family show; The J. J. Jennings Players: a stock com pany that played from Santa Cruz, Calif., to Oregon City each year; The Plunkett tent show, a large and talented family still on the road; Henry Brothers Circus, an other family show that put on a full circus, under canvas; and the Tex Murphy's, a man and wile combination of novelty acts. "One-Man Show" Probahlv the strangest show 'House Party' For Baptist Women Slated Slalriman News Srrvlro McMINNVILLE - More than 200 Oregon Baptist women will ar rive on the Linficld College campus Monday afternoon for a four-day "House Party" sponsored by the Oregon Baptist Convention. Speakers for the conference in clude Mrs. M. B. Hodge. Portland, chairman of North American Wo men's Division. Baptist World Al liance: Mrs. Elton E. Smith, Mc Minnville church leader; Mrs. Max Chance, missionary to Gologhat, Assam, and Miss Dorothy O. Buck lin, secretary to the Home Missions Board of the American Baptist con vention. Mrs. W. C. Martin. Cottage Grove, is in charge of arrange ments for the House Party. Santiam Bean Festival to Open Tuesday SUUiniaa News Srrvka STAYTON The 17th Santiam Bean Festival will begin Tuesday with the selection of the queen and her coronation at p.m. The carnival will open on Tues day evening and will operate each evening during the festival. The talent show will be Wednes day at p.m.; the pet parade Thursday at 6:30 p.m.; grand pa rade, Friday at 7 p.m. Program for the concluding day, Saturday, will be, horse parade at 1:30 p.m.; horse show at t p.m.: bean-hole bean teed at S p.m.; bean-hoppers' ball at 9 p.m. There will be a treat for children on Saturday when Kids' Carnival Day'will be observed from 1:30 to 4 p.m. All mechanical rides will be reduced to 10 cents. The free talent show lists entries from Woodburn, Salem, Albany, Bend. Corvallis, Oregon City and towns In the vicinity of Stayton, also two out-of-state parties. . The Marion County Citizen's Band will present a concert on Saturday. By JEAN ROBERTS Valley Correspondent MEHAMA The log house at Freres old mill, one of the few if not the only remaining hand' hewed log house in Oregon, is now vacant. This house, owned by Ted Freres and located on the House Mt. Road above Mehama, has long been familiar landmark. It is a two-story structure, built nearly 70 years ago by one man, Billy Smith, an expert axe-man who came to rhis area to build and operate a water-powered sawmilL Looks Like Lumber Before Smith's family arrived he built the huge log house. So skillful was he with an axe, that many people fail to recognize that the house is of logs. Many think it is just unpainted lumber. Built in the period when high ceilings were considered neces sary, the huge log house has a 10-foot ceiling downstairs and up stairs, and above that a spacious attic. Supporting all the logs is i full basement of native rock. No nails were used la the con struction. Even the floor sills are hand-hewed logs and such a true axrmaa was Rilly Smith, thai the flooring Is laid on the log sills. Remains of his water-powered sawmill can still be seen down on the river unc Little rorth Fork' below the house. ' The in terior of the house was finished with sawed lumber. Only Flowers Remain Ted Freres lived in this house and operated a saw mill nearby for many years. At one time a cook house flourished and many family houses were built. Work men and families comprised a small town atop the hill near the log house. Flowers set out in vari ous yards are the only remnants of this sawmill town. , A huge sawdust pile, accumu lated in many years of steady sawing, can be seen from the Elk horn Road. An attempt was made to burn the sawdust and although the mill has not operated for over 10 years, smoke still drifts up ,. : ' i . .. v t JIT r tin I'M" .---.IV!:.-.. .'. -. - ' ' - ... MEHAMA This hand hewed tog honoe al Freres' old mill, a bora Ma nama oa the Houst ML Road, was built nearly 7t yearn age by Billy . Smith. His only help waa a bone. (Statesman Photo). from the sawdust pile. Although in constant use for 70 years, the log house is still in good repair. The water-powered saw mill is gone: Freres Lumber Co. is gone; the many families who lived and worked there are gone; but the log house still stands staunchly atop the hill. Many families in this area boast of having lived in the big log house. Among them are Joe Par rish, Leo Wagner, and recently Ray Roberta. One family however claims the house as permanent headquar ten and despite various inter- family of bats which have adopted ' the unfinished attic and each.' spring move in to raise their young. Of l20ft!Hcnry Miller, 79, Uies at Monmouth Canning Stayton Beans Vnlley Ilriefe Linficld Gets Federal Loan For Dormitory Itattsmaa Newt Strvleo McMinnville Word has been re ceived here of the approval of a $210,000 federal loan to Linfield College for building purposes. The loan will he used to help construct a $235,000 men's dormi tory on which work has already started on the Linfield campus. The dormitory will be a Georgian style, three-story brick. It will house 78 students. Ground has been broken for the newest Linfield structure next to another new dormitory which will be completed for use this fall. The latter dormitory will house 40 students. Uteusaa News Service STAYTON A record number of workers waa busy canning beans aaiuraay at ine Dig aiayion canning to. co-op. Cannery Manager F. M. Smith said the number of worker- Was increased because the cannery has added a third shift oa beans, re placing two ' long snitts that worked on Deans in previous years. Personnel Manager Jerry Butler said nearly 1,200 were at work on the three shifts Saturday and that the total would likely rise above 1,400 at peak season. Response to area appeals for workers has been good. Manager Smith said, and the number cur rently registered for work is ade quate. Terming the quality of beans received to date "good", Smith said the cannery packed 325 tons of beans on Friday. The total is rising gradually. Figure for Wed nesday was 270 tons. Total bean acreage the cannery contracted for this year is ap proximately the same as last year. Smith said, but - the green bean acreage was reduced and replaced with wax beans. CONTRACT AWARDED JEFFERSON A $93,335 contract for construction of derrick stone revetment along the right bank of the Santiam River at Wickham and Millar locations, west of Jefferson, has been awarded to Harbert Brothers, Estacada, the Portland Corps of Army Engineers reported saiuraay. Rites at Baker Stalt tun Mows rvtea MONMOUTH Services for Hen ry Arthur Miller 79, Monmouth resident for four yean,,- will be held at 2 p to. Monday at Baker where bo itvtd tor many yean before coming hero, ; - Miller died following a brief Al ness Wednesday at his home at - 460 Church St. 4 Oregon survivor include hi wife-May Miller,' at Monmouth: a daughter, Mrs. Jessa Pope, Ar lington; brother, Carl Miller. Bak er, and sister. Mrs. Mary Chris ti man, North Powder. Smith-Kreuger Mortuary waa ia ' charge of arrangements here. ' Valley Births OCE Group Makes Trek Statesman Ntwt Servlro MONMOUTH A group of 25 summer session students at Ore gon College of Mutation spent the past weekend at Crater Lake Na tional Park under tht sponsorship of the college. Mrs. Omabelle McBee and Dr. Anton Postl, OCE faculty mem bers, acted as chaperoncs and guides for the group which viewed and took a trek to nearby Gar field Peak. STAYTON To Mr. and Mrs. Jake Perkins, Mill City, a son, July 26, at Santiam .Memorial Hospital. SILVERTON To Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Yates, Silverton, a son, July 27, at the Silverton Hospital. Yates is a member of the Silver ton police force. QUISEflOERRY'S PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY AT ISO SOUTH LIBERTY . IS OPEN SUNDAYS " 12 Noon to 2 P. M.-4 f. M. to f. M. Weekday- A. M. to 11 P. M. (Other Hour. Call 3-9123 or 44336) SUtfiman News Servlro Dayton Annual Old Timers pic nic will he hld in thp D.ivlnn Cilv ever to play the small towns of.pork Sunday. Former residents nmy come to picnic and visit with gician. He had two thumbs and five well developed finucrs on each hand. He made much of this deformity. He was what is known as a 'one-man show'. He gave an evening of magic, "Punch and Judy" and vcntriquilism and mind reading. He had a rubber-tired push cart that he would put his equipment in and push it from village to village where he -was i plaving. Many of the act, slunls, oonii nnd gags that people nre howl ing nt now an television were heard 13 years or more ago In the halls of Stayton, Sclo. Tur ner, Aumsvllle, Independence, Amity nnd Dayton by those dear aid troupers, many of whom passed an before televlslonSwas ever dreamed possible. v Oregon lindi a living theater years ago. Men and women who owned property. And good solid citizens those troupers were of wholesome family and brought a lot of joy to the Oregoninns of ! yesteryear. Thev knew good times Show bills like this are collector's Willamette Land from before and hard limes. The show must Items now but they were ence, World War I until after the dc- go on regardless, plastered rou..d every valley pression of the '30s. I It chd go nn. They brought clean town when traveling troupers! The Great Virgil, who has been : entertainment (in, mystery, arrived. Note prices, "10c and j on a world tour for the last three thrills add an occasional tear lo lc", years with his huge magic show, J the small towns of our valley. En rill Movers Hite Into New Bypass on IK SUIrimin Nfwt Srrvlro ' SHERIDAN Hugh earth-moving Wlllnmln. E. L. -Adams has ! "'""V"' ' n."w "P"8'1"" "n liikcn over managership of the j ,nc an mrri-nngr ann iiiKn- presont Dnylonitcs during the day. Or T.I Lan.N D Or.Q Chaa.N.D DRS. CHAN and LAM CHINESE NATUROPATHS I'pstalrs. 4(1 Court 8L orrlta oota Sa-nrSay only. IS a n to I m m.; Solon taainluuoa Olooa protMifo an orlno testa oro frro of oharfo. Prattle itnrt 117 writ for attractive sin. no OFFICE SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT . . . OFFICE. 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