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6-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thur., May 15, '58 West Salem Principal To Retire; Started His Career 44 Years Ago By RUSSELL BIERAUGEL Staff Writer, The Statesman Thomas J. Means, who started his teaching career in a country school 44 years ago, will round another corner with the end of this school year. He is retiring as principal of West Salem School. But, he says, he does not plan to take it easy. He has some lines out but has not decided on his next move. Means has been principal at West Salem for 12 years. When he came here from Hermiston, West Salem was a separate city and not a part of Salem School District. He had eight grades and about 350 pupils. School's Size Increases The size of the school has been just about doubled with the addi. tion of 12 classrooms, kitchen and dining room during Means' prin cipalship. Four of the rooms are now used , for adult education. Means is an Oregon native, born at The Dalles. He attended Philo math Academy and then taught country schools in the area for three years before entering the service in 1917. After World War II he farmed and worked in construction for awhile before attending Oregon College of Education and return ing to teaching. He taught at Wheeler, Mill City for about four years around 1930. and TheDalIes. He was a principal at Hermiston for three years before coming to West Salem. In the meantime, he attended school summers to get a bachelor's degree at Uni versity of Oregon and a master's at Willamette University. Wife Teaches at Keiier Means lives at 720 Tulip Lane : NW with his wife, the former Zazana Emerich of Philomath, third grade teacher at Keizer school. They have two children, Howard Means, Salem district vo cational rehabilitation counselor, and Mrs. Ruth Moos, wife of a wheat farmer at Sprague, Wash. In the shuffle caused by Means' retirement, Mrs. Carolyn Blake, teacher-principal at Mountain View School, will take over the top job at West Salem. Arthur Bradley, teacher-principal at Halls View. Richard Hodges, sixth grade teacher at Salem Heights School, is slated for the opening at Halls Ferry. Will Retire Public Records w fmm., Ob 3 t ' i A V w & y ' 1 1 CIRCUIT COURT ' Christine Brown vs- Leo G, Brown: Legal separation complaint charges cruelty, asks custody of two children, and $50 a month sup port for each, and $100 a 'month support for plaintiff. Married June 7, 1937, at Aberdeen, S. D. State vs Dims Howard Freeman: Warrant charging desertion dis missed as divorce pending between defendant and complaining wit ness. Loder Bros. Co. and Northwest ern Mutual Insurance Co. vs Jack Savage: Order dismisses case with prejudice. State Finance Co. vs John E. Lee and others:. Decree forecloses mortgage and allows for sale. . State Unemployment Compensa tion Commission vs Francis G. Pavey as Pavey's Coffee Shop: Complaint seeks $148 judgment, penalties and interest for alleged unpaid contributions. Commercial Credit Compensa tion Corporation, Inc., vs K. G. Thompson as Oregon Country Es tates: Order dismisses action as cause settled. State as Director of Veterans Affairs vs Marvin E. and Alida B. Headrick and Santiam Co., Inc.: Decree forecloses mortgage, s Vivian J. Stone vs Frank T. Stone: Case dismissed without prejudice. ' State vs Dale L. Biles as Dale L. Biles, Builder: Plaintiff awarded $729 judgment for alleged unpaid contributions. Earl V. Johnson vs Norma B. Johnsoi: Defendant adjudged in default. Geraldine Centers vs Arthur Ed ward Centers: Divorce complaint charges cruelty. Married June 7, 1955, at Eugene. Ola Virginia Alderman vs Carl Emery Alderman Jr.: Satisfaction j of judgment filed. Beverly A. Ewlng vs William Thomas Ewing: Divorce complaint charges cruelty, asks custody of child and $50 a month support. Married Jan. 18, 1952, at Eugene, Adelbert A. Allen vs Marion County and Joseph Robl: Damage complaint seeks $7,852 judgment concerning accident March 25, 1958, on Highway 22 involving county vehicle. Frances Moellman vs George W. Schwabauer:. Plaintiff awarded $1,000 judgment for injuries al legedly received in auto accident Aug. 4, 1957, at Woodburn. DISTRICT COURT Eva Mae Lowe, Portland, case taken under advisement by court after preliminary hearing on charge of obtaining money and property by false pretense. PROBATE COURT Chester C. Cannon Estate: Ordef sets June 27 at 10 a.m. for final account hearing. MARRIAGE APPLICATIONS Willard L. Cox. 19, laborer, 1906 Summer St. NE, and Judith A. Hill, 17, waitress, 1908 Summer St. NE. Gerhard E. Bakke, 25, painter. 1196 13th St. SE, and Dorothy J. Bakke, 31, at home, 1430 12th St. SE. David John Wise, 21, mechanic, 756 Mill St. SE, and Shirley Jean Banns, 18, none, 755 Illinois Ave. NE. Ward F. Nelson, 11, plywood worker, and Marjorie C. Shewey, 16, none, both of Albany. MUNICIPAL COURT Roe Junior Wellman, 464 Winter St. NE, charge of driving while license suspended, dismissed. Enianuel V. Mintinez, transient, pleaded innocent to charge of car rying a concealed weapon, trial set May 15. State Employes Win $700 Sixteen state employes -have been awarded $700 for suggestions which will save Oregon an esti mated $3,533 annually, Gordon Shattuck, secretary to the State Employe Suggestions Awards Board, said Wednesday. ' Robert R. Floch, Highway De partment employe from Pendleton, received the top award of $150-for his shield 'to- protect creosoted posts when painting steel rails. Fairview Home had four winners with a total of $205. in awards Jean Ewing, Salem, won $75 for suggesting that bathroom scales be mounted on a moveable plat form f or weighing bedridden patients. Edith J. Page, Brooks, won $30 Mrs. Johnston, Woodburn, Dies SUUinuo News Service WOODBURN Mrs. Nancy M. Johnston of Woodburn died Wed nesday in a Salem hospital at the age of 87. She had been 111 for one week. " , ' Mrs. Johnston was an Oregon native, born at Sherwood on Feb. 9, 1871. . She attended Friends Academy, now George Fox Col lege, at Newberg. Her son, William H. Baillie of Salem is a former State Liauor Commission administrator, super intendent of MacLaren School for Boys, Salem manager ior the State Employment. Service, president of Salem Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce director. Besides her son. she leaves five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Services win be 1:30 n.m. Satur day in Ringo-Cornwefi Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Sherwood. Thomas J. Means, who is re tiring this spring after 12 years as principal of West Salem School. Army Names New Portland Engineer PORTLAND () The new dep uty division engineer for Army Engineers at Portland is Col. Har ry R. Davis, a native of Wisconsin who came here from Chicago. He succeeds Col. Richard F. Ebbs, who retired. Davis served in Europe and the Pacific, in addition to domestic Ferry School, will go to Mountain i duty with the Army. Roy Asmussen Of Lyons Dies SUtetmaa News Service LYONS Roy Asmussen, superin tendent of Bonneville Power Ad- Man Bites Man TUCSON, Ariz. W" Tucson po lice officer Donald Guenther said a 47-year-old man he arrested on a drunk charge was armed to the teeth. Guenther said Hilario Migues had a thin metal- strip across a partial plate on. his upper . frtnt teeth that was "razor sharp" and the man snapped at the offi cer several times. ministration substations at Lyons and Redmond, died unexpectedly Wednesday night of a heart attack while mowing the lawn at his home here. He was 56. Asmussen was born May 10, 1902, at Watertown, Minn. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Don na Asmussen, and one daughter. Miss Mildred Asmussen, both of Lyons, and one sister, one brother, one half-sister and one half-brother, all in Minneapolis, Minn. Arrangements are pending at Weddle's Funeral Home. J. M. Watzling Committal Rites Will Be Friday Committal services for John Martin Watzling, former West Sa lem resident who died Tuesday in a Seattle hospital, will be 11:30 a.m. Friday in St. Barbara Catho lic Cemetery. The casket will be open at Virgil T. Golden Mortuary until 11 a.m. Watzling, a logger, was 79. He lived in West Salem in the 1920s His wife, Agnes Marie, died here in 1929. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Lloyd Porter, Seattle, and Mrs. J. Erik Townsend, Portland; one son, Harold John Watzling, Myrtle Point! one sister, Mrs. Emma M. Hicks, Oakr Grove ; five grandchil dren and one great-granddaughter. Services will be todav in Seattle. Cambridge to Name New School After Sir Winston LONDON 11 A new college to emphasize science and tech nology and named for Sir Winston Churchill is planned for Cam' priage university, it was an nounced Wednesday. .'- f v-. Churchill, who would M chair man of the first board of trustee has offered to contribute- $70,000 from his 80th birthday trust fund it an appeal, raises the-$9,800,000 necessary to build and, equip the conege. - inaustriair : commercial and financial' institutions and in dividuals -'have been asked , tQ contribute . ,' ,'r V' - Th university, rivernmeBt offi cial, and industrialist , pager" to increase the; number " of- British scientists are cooperating W the enterprise. . ' Double Fireman: -rJ COLUMBUS, ,OMe -AF4hUng fires is Walter H. Haycock's job7 In fact, fighting; '.fires is both his jobs. , , i. . He's chief of the volunteer par bydale Fire Department near here, and his full-time job is be ing assistant chief of the Jackson Twp. Fire Department in neigh boring Grove City.' I for a bed back rest: ' Calvin C. Cooper, Salem, earned $45 with his plan for a special stairway for teaching youngsters to climb stairs; Leora I. Goodwin, Salem, received $25 for recontmending a new procedure for keeping per sonnel records current. Oscar Wargnier, Unemployment Compensation commission In Sa lem, received $85 for a modifica tion in the commission s dexlsrapb Helen L. Hill, Salem, Department of Veterans' Affairs, won $25 for a suggestion on streamlining the mall room. Syvilla Hoffman. Dallas. TB Hospital employe, earned $65 for form revision. Ardys A. Miller. Oregon State Hospital, won $50 for suggesting patients make certain record files. five omer, Mignway winners were: J. O. Apple. C.' R. Nelson and D. B. Parkes of Salem, who share. $80 for de-designing a form) into size small enough to fit into a standard typewriter: Leonard J. Hatteberg, Silverton. $20 for a Mneehanical suggestion; and George w Tayior, Jaiem, a certificate of Merit". for a suggested change in maps, i . Two University''1, of. Oreeon em ployes. ,W. Irving Apgar and Au drey M. Streeter each received a $10 award. Douglas J. White Jr.. and Lois H? Ferris of Salem; and Carrell D. Stowe, Corvallis received Cer tificates of Merit -It Nova Scotia has some of the highest tides in the world. The highest tide was 103 feet in 1869 at Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia. Supermarkets account for almost one-third of the nation's grocery, sales, reports the National Indus' trial Conference Board. cood-dVe conns Enjoy quick rellei and ; apaadily Mmove aching . eorna wit tain, euahiea Inc Dr. Scaoll'a Ziao pada. Cut but a triAa. fa r i Intelligent Impartial Industrious RE-ELECT n 'lllll ,. f .-VHAM' Judge of the SUPREME COURT , 9ttfff)K sWINee)! 7 IMTUM JUDGMENT eeilifla) Jirfft KonaiM hr K-alecUM. OKtKNCEO-M yam a Upnm Caart. e VISOROUS b ah mft-ta 1SS7, aleaa ne- eaiej awn Una 20 at eatltiaai imaj st mticota Pa.. Pal. Adv. Judge Oeerge Rots ma CeaiM. Peter Omnar, IN Jerri Ave Salem, chrm.j M L Clark Jr, 5511 Swegte It)., Salem, ct-hrm.; Wart) Davit, 530 Wath., II, trtaa. 11 mmm tmmmmms rj-Tin t ' , , i 0,0000J0' " Money Down I sMjA "f gi ' ' l? rr Try-and use Newberrys I U' T W W mm "chit" WBwl The First District Needs a Working Congressman! Who'll fill the bill? Id) If ml in HITCHCOCK iK.'.yi .-.v.: :.yi pnuum I J iey-yv'r'.i iee.L..w. PHIL WILL be on the job and will stay on the job when he is elected to congress. He will be present and voting when important legislation is before the house. He will answer his mail. He will spend his time between sessions at home in the First District where he can learn the voters' views first-hand. f r ' ? . I ,. : x tf . JBHinB- ,!L-':.aTaaWBWi PHIL WILL bring a broad legislative and busi ness experience to his task as con gressman. He was in business for himself in Oregon for 24 years in trucking, sawmill operation, logging, and farm equipment sales. He knows lumbering and farming from tha inside out. He served 6 years in the Oregon State Senate. He knows the problems of Oregon intimately. P U 1 1 ki III devofe oil hi rime and energy tj the rl I lm YY I L.aU problems of the First District. He will work for a better balance between resources and jobs. He will work for an up-to-date timber inventory and more access roods so more timber will be available at more reasonable prices. He will work for a farm program that fits Oregon's diversified agriculture, rather than one that benefits only the one-crop states. He is informed en these problems and will represent all the people of the First District in working toward their solution. The First District Needs a Working Congressman! Vote For iriruuLt uuu See Phil on "Know Your Candi dates" at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15, on Channel 12. Republican for Congress First District Primary Election May 16 Paid Pol. Adv. Phil Hitchcock for Congress Committee W. E. Kimsey Chairman P.O. 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