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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1958)
Living on Farm Getting Better All the Time, Economist States By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman Living down on the farm isn't what it used to be it's getting bet ter all the time, according to Mrs. Elvera Horrell, Oregon State Col lege extension economist. Mrs. Horrell adds that farm families across the country live much better than they used to, and Pacific Coast families top them all in living conditions. 'Statistics show that the Pacific Coast ranks first among all re gions in the nation in percentage of farm operator families having electricity, mechanical refrigerjf tors, and indoor plumbing. The Pacific Coast families rate second in telephones, share third place with the Northeast in power washers, ranks third in percentage of automobiles and television sets, and fourth in home freezers. Level of living for farm families Is measured by a count of elec- More GOP's Registered in 11 Counties (Story also on page 1.) Eleven of the 36 counties in Ore gon have more Republican voters than Democrats registered for the May 16 primary election, the State Elections- Division reported Thursday.- They are Benton, Gilliam, Grant, Jackson, Josephine, Malheur, Mar ion, Polk, Sherman, Washington and Yamhill. , There were 11 counties which reported smaller registration totals , than they did at the primary two years ago. These are Columbia, Crook, Deschutes, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Wallowa, Was co, Washington and Wheeler. Following is the Democratic, Republican and total registration for each county: First Congressional Dlst. Marion-20.793, 29,987, S1.335. Polk-5,290, 6,397, 11,903. Benton-6,864, 9,136, 15,273. Clackamas 26,272, 24,114, 50.881. Clatsop-7,358, 6,805 14,295. Columbia 6,506, 4,157, 10,775. Lincoln-6,102, 5,170, 11,439. Tillamoolfr-74,648, 4,155, 8,884. Washington 17,796, 21,691, 39,969. Yamhill-y7,066, 8,739, 16,041. Others Baker-4,752, 2,992, 7,857. Coos-13,918, 8,901, 23.219. Crook-2,519, 1,714, 4,314. Curry-3,174. 2,518, 5,796. Deschutes 6.020, 5,126, 11,308. Douglas-16,576, 12,934, 30,097. Gilliam-676, 792, 1,482. Grant-1,792, 2,012, 3,849. Harney-1,737, 1,228, 2,988. Hood River 2,994, 2,875, 6,024. Jacksoo-15,944, 17,165, 33,837. Jefferson 1,552, 1,297. 2,879. Josephine 7,019. 7,459, 14.765. Klamath 11.859, 8.745, 20,886. Lake-1,816, 1,582, 3,428. Lane 36,428, 32,546, 70,415. Linn-13,607, 11,709, 25,625. Malheur 4,102. 4,627, 8,845. Morrow-939, 1,216, 2,167. Multnomah 150,980 119,224 273,783. Sherman 583, 644, 1,241. Umatilla 10,229, 9,416, 19,874. Union-5,091, 3,707, 8,853. Wallowa-2.274, 1,400, 3,695. Wasco-5,150. 4,617, 9,883. Wheeler-711, 656, 1,375. tricity, telephones, automobiles and the value of farm products sold by farmers. The level of living index on the Swimming Pool Pact Approved Salem City Council in a special meeting Thursday authorized a contract with E. E. Batterman of Salem for reconstruction of the city's two outdoor swimming pools. The council stipulated that, the total cost, including engineering and other costs, shall not exceed the $180,000 authorized by city and Salem School District voters at the polls last year. The school board authorized the contract Wednesday as an emer gency measure after throwing out all bids and approving" several cost-reducing changes in plans. Details are to be worked and con tract awarded by a joint city school committee. Parents Council Elects Leader Hubert Williamson, president of Mountain View Community Club, was elected president of Salem Parents Council at a meeting Thursday night in Salem. School District Administration Building. He succeeds Del Strand of Engle wood Parent-Teachers Association. Marvin Sheidel, president of Au burn PTA, was elected vice presi dent. Mrs. Vernon Glass, repre sentative of Middle Grove Parents Club, was elected secretary-treasurer. The council is made up of rep resentatives from all school parent organizations in Salem School District. Car Misses Child, But Strikes Tree A Salem woman's car ran over a parking strip and struck a tree Thursday after she Swerved to miss a child, citypolice were told. She suffered a lipTaceration. Mary Allen Miller, 1048 Winter St. NE, told police she was turning from D into t'.ie 900 block of Cot tage Street NE, about 4:40 p.m. when a small girl darted in front of her car. She avoided hitting the youngster but her 1955 Oldsmo bile was heavily damaged when it lumped a curb and smashed Into tret at '934 Cottage St. NE. U.S. Experts on Teaching Blind Due at Institute National exnerfi nn tMrhln h blind will take nart at 'wlll.m.n University this summer in the western institute tor Houseparents of Visually Handicapped Children, it was announced Thursday hv 1 James R. Lyles, director of Wil lamette summer school. The two-week session, June 30 July 11, it sponsored by the Ameri can Association of Instructors of the Blind and the American Foun dation for the Blind. It was held last year at St. Louis. Mo. Directing the institute will be Dr. John A. Rademaker, Willam ette professor of sociology, and Everett E. Wilcox, superintendent of the Oregon State School for the Blind. Leading the daily seminar-type sessions will be top authorities in the field of education of the blind. including Donald Overbeay, super intendent of the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School; Berthold Lowenfeld, superintendent of the California School for the Blind; Pauline M. Moor, consultant in the American F o u n d a 1 1 o n for the Blind; Dr. Kenneth L. 6wan, dir ector of the department of opthal mology. University of Oregon Med ical School; Walter R. Dry, super intendent emeritus of the Oregon State School for the Blind, and Dr. Charles R. Strother, education con sultant, Oregon State Department of Public Instruction. Pacific Coast has climbed only 23 per cent since 1946, which leaves it considerably behind in rate of advancement. The nation's average increase is 45 per cent And yet Oregon remains at the top. Living up to tradition, the South is at the bottom of the list. However, its rate of improvement shot up rapidly in recent years. According to Mrs. Horrell, one reason . why farmers may have more money to put into home im provements is that more of them are supplementing onJarm in comes with off-farm jobs. Although recent reports show that the amounts farmers received from farming were up last year, the average that each farmer re ceived from the farm still lagged behind the three peak years, 1948, 1951 and 1952. Salem Firm Bids Low for Adair Work A Salem firm was apparent low bidder on construction of off-site utilities at the Camp Adair SAGE facilities. Salem Sand & Gravel Co. bid $277,199 it was announced in Se attle after bids were opened by the district office of the Army En gineers. Tom Hill, vice president of the Salem company, said Thursday sub-contractors for the project probably would be announced about May 15. Hill's company bid on the construction of water lines, sew age system and roads. The government estimate for this work was $279,296. On April 24 W. H. Shields Con struction Co., Eugene, was the ap parent low bidder at $1,924,384 for the installation of SAGE facilities at Camp Adair. Bids on 150 houses at the camp will be opened in June, i Young Heart Patient Blows Bubbles Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fri., May 2, '58 (Sec. II)-17 S . ; f.. u C'' ,'-V - T . VV."" s v - t . . J - - 1 ' i fl 1 - immi 11 11 i f'i mn A mm i r - '"-r- - Parking Survey Due Downtown An all-day survey to measure parking habits of shoppers in the downtown area will be held next Friday. All. parking movements in 75 metered spaces will be checked for amount of time the space is used, hdw often, destination of parker and time the parker spends looking for -a space. The results will be gathered by volunteer per sonnel from downtown stores. The results will be used in reach ing a solution to the vexing prob lem of downtown parking. A meet ing to brief the volunteers will be held Thursday at 4 p.m. at city hall. MINNEAPOLIS Henri DeVllIe, 8, of St. Felix, France, blows bubbles la University of Minnesota Hospital, where he is recovering from heart surgery. Watching happily Is his mother, Mrs. Georgette DeVMle. Henri was taken off the critical list Thursday. (AP) WU Group to Interview Migrant Workers Interviews with migrant workers in Eastern Oregon will be taken this weekend by 12 Willamette Uni versity students and Mark Infante, director of the migrant labor sur vey of the State Bureau of Labor. The students are completing sur vey work for the governor's inter agency committee on migrant la bor headed by Mrs. Cecelia Galey,' chairman of the State Unemploy ment Compensation Commission. "They hope to find out how Ore gon agriculture can best be or ganized so an adequate amount of labor will be available to cultivate and harvest crops under conditions which will be humane and attrac tive to labor," according to Dr. Jphn A. Rademaker, whose stu dents are assisting in the study. They have already interviewed 1 businessmen and farmers on the problem and their Eastern Oregon trip will begin their conversations with the workers. Students taking part are Dale Daniels, Arcadia, Calif.; Claude Garvin, Barbara Simon and Janice Warbeck, Portland; Ann Harper, Pasadena, Calif.; Louise Hender son, Jo Gannon and David Patch, Salem; John Rasmussen, Aurora; Larry Stratton, Madras; Joyce Robinsoix Redlands, Calif, and Ce sar Balmaseda, Pasay City, R. I. W. A. Wilson of Monmouth Dies tatesnwB Ntws Service MONMOUTH William Andrew Wilson, 72, retired plumber, died at his residence at Monmouth Rt. 1, Box 121, Wednesday following a heart attack. He was born May 10, 1885, in Sparta, 111. He lived in1 the Mon mouth area about nine years, mov ing here from Santa Monica, Calif. Surviving is his widow, Delia Wilson, Monmouth. Funeral services will be from Monmouth Evangelical United Brethren Church on Saturday at 2 p.m. Interment will be at Fir Crest Cemetery. Rev. Marshall Kortlev er will officiate. Arrangements are in charge of Smith-Krueger Mortuary. Military Roundup Mt. Angel Marine Busy in Hawaii Island Gun Matches Hawaii Marine 1st Lt. Thomas J. Ebner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clement J. Ebner, Mt. Angel, Ore., is competing in the annual Pacific Division rifle and pistol matches being held on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Winners of the Pacific division matches, ending May 10, will return to California for com- Urban Fringe Area Services 'Satisfying' CORVALLIS Most persons are satisfied with the services provided by the patchwork of special dis tricts of urban fringe areas. That's the conclusion of Dr. Russell Maddox, Oregon State College political science professor, who has made a study of the problems and prospects 01 tne urban fringe in Oregon.' An interim committee was ap pointed by the 1955 Oregon Legis lature to study aroblems of urban fringe areas. Within the Portland urban area alone, the committee found, there were 187 active, in dependent units of local govern ment In seven other areas studied, 93 such governmental units were discovered. "People are familiar with the results of this arrangement, and they prefer to live with these re sults rather than risk unknown consequences of new and different) systems, Maddox reported. With the exception of school dis tricts, the most encountered spe cial districts provided water, fire protection, sanitation and highway lighting, in that order. This order is significant, Dr. Maddox said because it reflects a characteristic of suburban areas. That is, that needs commonly develop and find expression in action by residents one at a tune. Other districts are for zoning. drainage, parks and recreational facilities, cemeteries, hospitals and irrigation. ' The major municipal service not provided anywhere by a special district is police protec tion, a function not authorized by law. Most police protection in ur ban fringe areas is considered to tally inadequate by city standards, Maddox emphasized. , petition between winners of East and West Coast Divisions. Top contenders then shoot it out this summer at Camp Perry, Ohio. El Centro, Calif. Marine 1st Lt. John A. Reese Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Reese, 3294 Nohlgren Ave., Salem, Ore., participated with Marine Fighter Squadron 333 in the third annual Naval Air Weapons Meet held here recently. The squadron, selected as one of three teams to represent the At lantic Fleet Marine Air Force, is based at Miami, Fla. U.S. Seventh Fleet Sylvester L. Phvlicek, fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Pavlicek, Aurora, Ore., is aboard the heavy cruiser USS Toledo with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Pacific. The Toledo will represent the U.S. Navy at the Coral Sea Celebration in Australia from April 30 to May 10. commemorating the Battle of the Coral Sea in which the Navy stopped the Japanese threat to Australia and New Zealand in 1942. Fort McClellan, Ala.-Pvt. Eliza beth C. Walsh, of Salem and Pvt. Sonia K. Epley of Stayton, wero graduated from a clerical cours at Women's Army Corps School here. Miss Walsh is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Walsh, 1060 14th St. SE. and Miss Epley is the daughter of Mrs. Fern Wil ladsen, Stayton. Both women en tered the Army in 1957. Schwabisch Gmeund, Germany Pvt. Fred O. Sandgren, 23, son of Mrs. Merle Sandgren, Scotts Mills, Ore., recently participated with the 802d Field Artillery Battalion in a six-week training exercise ia Germany. Sandgren is 'a cannon eer in the battalion's Battery A. He was graduated from Molalla Union High School in 1953 and attended University of Oregon. Munich, Germany Specialist Second Class Douglas B. Hawkins, 33, of Hubbard. Ore., recently was graduated from the Seven ti Army's Non-Commlssioned Officer Academy in Munich, Germany. A squad leader in the 594th Trans portation Company, Specialist Hawkins is the sod of Mr. and Mrs. John Hawkins. He entered the Army in 1946. Traction Issue to Go Before Supreme Court Thursday Oral arguments on a Public Uti lities Commission motion for an order requiring Portland Traction Company to restore interurban passenger service on its Oregon City-Bellrose lines have been set for next Thursday by the State Supreme Court. The traction company abandoned passenger service on the lines last January and has ignored orders trom ooui tne Multnomah County Circuit Court and PUC to restore service, according to PUC Com missioner Howard Morgan. mms. 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