Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, August 13, 1938, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextExclusive News Dispatcher Greater Willamette Valley News By Special Corresponflentl Saturday, August 13, 1938 Flax Festival is Opened with Elaborate Ceremonies Two Business Men Entertain With Noon Luncheon Mt. Angel A large caravan ol members of the Portland Chamber of Commerce were present at the luncheon given In their honor Fn day noon by the Mt. Angel Business Men's club, with Queen Maxlne Bernlng and her court ol the 1938 Flax Festival as special guests, ol flcially opening the three-day flax celebration. Joseph J. Kerber. president ot the Flax Festival committee, welcomed the Portland Chamber of Commerce and Introduced Dr. A. F. E. Schter- baum, president of the Mt. Angel Businessmen club, who acted as toastmaster during the luncheon Clarence Porter, chairman of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, In troduced Leslie M. Scott, president of the Portland Chamber of Com merce, who recalled the early days of the flax Industry when the Port land business organization helped to pioneer and stated that they will en. deaver to do all they can to pro mote the flax project. Other speakers were King Blng Tom Hill of the Salem Cherrlans. C. P. Bishop of Salem. Mayor Ja cob Berchtold of Mt. Angel, Mar vln Headrlck of Salem, Bob Craven of Independence, Joseph Bernt, president, and Fred J. Schwab, man ager of the Mt. Angel Flax Grow ers" association: Victor Elverstrom of Vancouver, W. D. Harris, secre tary of the Mt. Angel Businessmen's club, and E. O. Unger, president of the Flaxariana. 8am Slocum. In charge of the fes tival, Introduced Queen Maxlne and her court, Crown Princess Beatrice Marx and Princesses Beatrice Leo nard. Gladys Matbeson, Gertrude Meier and Beatrice Doty, and also Louann Hasslng. queen of last year's celebration. Mavis DeCosta and Vera Troster. candidates for queen of the Independence Hop Fiesta, were also introduced to the gather ing. Musical numbers Included several vocal solos by Mrs. Maurice J. Butler, accompanied by Mrs. R. D. Elllott. visitors from Independence; several numbers by the Mt. Angel vocal trio, Miss Clara Keber, Miss Pauline Saalfeld, Miss Eustelle Ban man, accompanied by Miss Rozella Blem; vocal solos by Miss Agnes Walker, Miss Clara Keber and Miss Eustelle Bauman. The Portland visitors included Herman Blaeslng, O. Clerlco, A. M. Cronln. Walter L. J. Davles. Albion T. Oerber, A. L. Greenwalt, Major Paul Hathaway, 8. A. Humphrey, George A. Lawrence, O. W. Mason. L. C. Moore. Clarence D. Porter. Robert Robinson. Leslie M. Scott. Vernon Scolt. A. H. Wey, William Whitfield. W. H. Whitfield. Jr., Simon Wolfe, A. L. Green. Edward N. Weinbaum, D. C. Fulton, I. M. Walker, H. J. Stewart, 8. F. How ard and Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Trag lio. Coronation ceremonies were held last night with King Blng Tom HIM of the Cherrlans officiating. This was followed by a dance In honor of the queen. Gladys Dalke Given Party on Birthday 8wegle Mrs. Menno Dalke gave a party honoring her daughter. Gla dys, on her 12th birthday. Games were played after which refresh ments were served with Miss Wllma Watts assisting. Attending the party were Mar garet Smith. Pauline Standley. De lores Dickey, Luella Mae Owens. Olorla Kropelln. Joy Palleson, Mil dred Pauls. Marjorie Blanchard. Alice Blanchard. Florence Dalke. Luella Dalke. Wllma Watts and the honored giiest. Union Service Offered Wood bum A union meeting ol the Woodburn churchea will be held Sunday evening. August 14. at the Church of Christ on East Lin coln street. Rev. Ralph O. Kleen. pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, will deliver Uie sermon. "Tip-Off Girls" with Mary Carlisle . Uoyd Nolan Roscoe Knrns - Larry Crabbe - J. Carrol Nash Evelyn Brent -Anthony Qutnn Benny Baker Added - News and Mickey Mouse SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY C ontinuous rrrformanre Sunday t to 11 P. M. "lit found a beautiful goddess in a jungje hell! 0 VI 1 Added . N I lUtA V--rr"-nn in "1 Lumbermen Protest Smith Reappointment Silverton At its regular business meeting the Sil ver Falls Local 28, industrial employes' union, unanimously adopted a resolution to the president of the United States asking that Donald Wakefield Smltn, national labor relations board mem ber ud for reappointment this month, be dropped from the board The local represents more than 300 lumber workers. Without naming either the CIO or AFL. the men charged Smith with hopeless bias In favor of orthodox labor unions over Independent un ions. Chairman Del Bowen told of wage- Independence Budget Ready Independence A tentative budget for the Independence schools has been arranged by the committee and was accepted by the budget committee at the meeting this week. It calls for total expenditure of 137.905 for the school year. It will require a six per cent In crease In the tax levy on all pro perty within the district. This was made necessary, as was explained by the board members, by an Item of $3750 for repairs and maintenance of the high school building; retirement of an addition al 1500 bond; $500 additional for Interest; provision for added ex pense of operating the school plants and additional fire Insurance In anticipation of a new high school building. Salaries for teachers In the high school remain the same with ex ception of the agriculture teacher. Howard Bennett, whose salary was Increased $200 for the year. September A was the date set by the board for presentation of the budget to the patrons of the district for adoption or rejection. The meeting will be held In the train ing school auditorium at 7:30 o' clock. Z. C. Kimball acted as chairman for the meeting. A. L. Thomas was secretary, and other members pres ent were R. A. Sylvester, together with the board members, A. W. Fos ter. W. A. Barnum, Elmer Barhart. and C. G. Irvine, clerk, constitut ed the group. Polk Lodge Picnic Scheduled Sunday Dallas The annual picnic for members and families of Polk conn ty Odd Fellows and Rcbekaha will be held Sunday at the Dallas city park. It Is expected that a crowd of several hundred will be In at tendance. The state officers of both or ganizations have been invited and lodges of Marion, Polk and Ben ton counties have been asked to come. The picnic will start at noon with picnic dinner, with coffee, sugar. and cream furnished by the com mittee. Each family la asked to bring table service and basket of lunch. The program will be provided bv the six Polk county lodges with each lodge furnishing one number. Fred J. Holman. president of the organi zation, has appointed the noble grand of each lodge to serve on the reception committee for the rtav. DANCE KENT,' HALL Every Wed. and Sat. Nile J Miles North Independence ADMISSION 25c Al.. BAN1NG and nil a Pc Orrhertra Ijist Times Tonight Two Bisr Features BOB BAKER In 'Border Wolves' in "Mickey's Amateurs' L MimImI The i Rtooiea In 1 " THE HATCHET board report at Eugene, stating that the IEU wage rates were not lower ed. Al Noren was elected to serve I two-year term on the seven-man arbitration board set up at the wage board meeting. Quentin Ise- ley reported on membership com mittee with twenty-two new mem bers, which brings the total mem bershlp up to 340 in this local. Lew Deverlcks reported on group In su ranee oommlttee and submitted new rules and by-laws, which were adopted by the local. The conference committee report ed the meeting was held with them by M. C. Woodard. 8everal griev ances were submitted for his consid eration. Means will be taken to end the troubles. The $5 initiation fee was stricken off for 30 days. All present officers were renomln ated for election next month. They Include Del Bowen, chairman; E. J Boesch, secretary; Lew Devertcks treasurer; Al Noren, Lee Morrison. C. E. Hlglnbotham. Ted Flnley and Al Anderson, members of the con ference committee. Bowen, chairman, named Lea El liott, Don Fletcher and Kenneth Seeley on the membership commit tee. Edgar Huddleston was awarded door prize. Jefferson Has Phone Cut-over Jefferson The cut-over, chang ing the manual aystem of the Paci fic Telephone and Telegraph com pany office here to the new auto matic dial system, took place at promptly 8 o'clock Wednesday eve ning. About 20 officials of the com pany from Portland, 8alem and Al bany were present The new system, which Includes all of the farmer lines operating out of Jefferson, Is the flrstof the kind on the west coast, giving the customers the best there Is in mo dem, up-to-date service. A. O. Huppke. Western Electric installer from Portland, with his assistant, Duncan Gray, Installed the dial equipment here. Other Installations In the office were made by Charles Kldwell, fore man, and 8. C. Inkley. of the Paci fic Tel. & Tel. company. Cable splicers were Bert Smith, fore man, and Harold Neville. Mr. Benz and Mr. Desle assisted in making tests. J. Wimmer of Portland was In charge of supervising the farmer and local lines and Installing the telephones. He was assisted bv Mr. Chenowlth and Mr. McDonald W. L. Jones, who has managed the local exchange here beginning about 1897, when there was noth ing but a long distance station, will continue in charge and will re ceive the collections. It was through his eiioris mat rne exchange was bunt up to Its present efficiency. Mrs. Rose Jacob has been asso ciated with the company as chief operator for the past JO years. Monmouth Visitors Monmouth Mr. and Mrs. J. Hard ing of Salem, accompanied by Mrs. Harding's father. Robert Cheney of Portland, visited Chaney's sister. Mrs. R. J. Hampton, Thursday. Chnney remained for a longer visit. 1 RoOt" nrr .... pur bun, .SPECIAL John Ward Plunges lo His Drain from (he 17th Story Window of a New York Hotel. ! I v, JVODVuTS ! "i." .WAjkX Times Todaykj ! .J Bobby ' . J Gilbert &Co. ,1T,A Billy Grace t mt:N J CARMEN Victor jl MrLaglen Norman Nasarr BrUn 1 Jack A J i"7 M Adele "Rattle on I r"'"e In i lu te3 I i 'a 1 sun. M Thru Thura MAT. m eve. Girl Scouts Keep Council Authorities Lebanon Mrs. E. H. Bohle was re-elected as commissioner to head the Girl Scout council for the com lng year at a meeting following luncheon at the scout camp, Flrlinn. All other officers were also asked to retain their places again for tills year. Mrs. Peter Tweed, vice-commissioner; Mrs. Elmer Whetstone, sec retary, and Mrs. John. Zimbrick treasurer, complete the group of officers. Special committees will be named In the near future. Also Important during this meet ing were the plans for a rummage sale to be held early next month and the announcement ot a special meeting to be held September 9. when leaders will be chosen for troops and other business relative to the opening of the regular troop meetings win be discussed. Approximately 12 members of the council attended the meeting and inspected the camp before the lun cheon hour. Mrs. Peter Tweed and Mrs. Harry Fredericks are prepar ing a detailed report of the work of the camp which closed Sunday, the tenth season since It was first undertaken by the Lebanon council for recreation and Instruction of local scouts. The tour of the coun cil showed that the large group of scouts attending were enjoying the work and were reaching high etfl clency in class Instruction. Instructor Resigns Lebanon Milton E. Coe, superin tendent of the Lebanon school sys tem, announced yesterday that Carl Merryman, high and Junior high school Instructor, had turned in his resignation to the school board. Merryman was Instructor in science, mathematics and In Junior high shop work, and was also assistant conch for the past school year. He resigned In favor of a new post In Corvallls high school. The Leban on board Is expected to fill the va cancy shortly. Revival Meeting Held Lebanon A series of revival meet ings at the Assembly of God church Is being conducted here by Hilton Park, youthful evangelist from Cali fornia. Rev. Park, who has held revivals in many parts of the na tion, Is speaking nightly except Mondays at 7:45 o'clock with il lustrated sermons on Sunday eve nings. The services will last for two weeks. Amity Entertaining Quarterly Session Amity The quarterly convention I J of the Churches of Christ of Yam hill county will be held Sunday in the Christian church at Amity, be ginning with a basket dinner in the , y V. I tr" 'S2Sk-: r4 L A tmf most ti.kko or - Nk Vv-TtiLj" Y - ' riiTiKK in i.tM' V.', 51.. 2s r '"'.- s 4 V W --'l'' CP. ' " I Timea Mondsy .. O-" 1 ' fill y 7. a - " v -a a. . basement of the church at 1 o'clock p. m. Rev. Guy L. Drill, pastor of the Christian church at Salem, will preach at i p. m. A communion ser vice will be held at 3:30 p. m. The Christian Endeavor service will be held at 6:30 p m. with representa tives from all the Endeavor socie ties In the county and from other places. The evening service will begin at 7:30 o'clock and will be in charge of the young people. Miss Marjorlre Peters, president of Yamhill county Christian Endeavor, will have charge of the opening devotions and How ard C. Cole, pastor of the Christian church at Dayton, will speak on "Christ for the Crisis." There will be special music and a song service. Everyone is cordially Invited to at tend their services. River Project Is Up For Bid Independence Another big pro ject for the Independence district is being presented for bids to con tractors and bids for same will be opened in Portland next Tuesday at 3 o'clock at the engineer's office In the Plttock block. This calls for the revetment and improvement of the big bend up stream from Independence and will entail an expense ot around $50, 000. The project Involves the fur nishing of all plant, labor and ma terials and performance of all the work for clearing, bank sloping, gra vel excavation, overhaul and con struction of approximately 1880 feet of stone rip-rap revetment. The work includea 0J acres clearing. 200 cubic yards of bank sloping. 16.100 cubic yards overhaul and 14.550 tons of stone rip-rap in place. Repair of the old revetment rip rap is being done down stream from Independence by a crew of men un der the direction of Bob Stewart, government engineer, and a replace ment of about 2500 square yards of riprap on the old revetment will be necessary. The work originally done In 1005 Is protected by piling, and rock Is being placed at tire base for protection. Club Meets Tuesday Rockey Mrs. M. M. Masee and I Mrs. W. H. Humphreys will enter- j tain members of the Macleay home i economics club at the Magee home 1 Tuesday afternoon. Mellow Moon Roller Rink PRESENTS TONIGHT GRAND FLOOR SHOW OF OREGON'S FINEST SKATERS Don't miss thin No advance in price Skating from 8 to 12 I ' Zm! J t! O U U r Clock Assured New Courthouse Albany Is Told Albany Linn county's new court house will have clock, but what sort of clock, or where It will be located, has not been determined, it was stated by Judge J. J. Bar rett, spokesman for the county court Friday, following a meeting with members of the Albany city council to discuss a fire alarm sys tem to be attached to the clock. One thing , is certain, however. Albany's citizenry will bear the same familiar tone of the bell which is attached to the clock In the old courthouse tower, the coun ty court stated. Judge Barrett stated that no prices on new clocks had had been obtained by the court, nor had it been learned how much It would cost to move the old clock works to the new building, so nothing defi nite, except that a clock would be on the new courthouse and that the same bell would be used, had been CAPITOLA Roller Rink Reopening TONITE New Ever ret Organ ENTIRE ROOM NEWLY DECORATED Surprise features, gala enter tainment for all Call your friends and don't let anything keep yon away from Capltola ' Saturday night. DOORS OPEN 1 P. M. DAILY coca THE SCREEN'S SUPREME THRill .. .THE BEAT Of AN UNBORN BAB YS HEART! : i B a I U R I i I . .V i, 1 1 decided. The clock will face north and it waa not known whether the clock would have more than one face, the judge declared. Since it was first known that Linn county would have a new courthouse much speculation and talking has been done about a clock on the building, as Albany persons as a unit wanted a clock retained. Livestock Paralysed Albany Otto Engle, farmer on route No. 1, received a great shock this week whe" he walked out In a stubble field on his farm and 162 'j N. Commercial ft J LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! ! Do you want your body strong? We shall invite you to come to the Chinese Tea Garden. We can cook the best Chinese dinners for you to make your body very healthy, and make your skin beautiful because the Chinese Gar den cooks these dinners always fresh and sanitary food, and cook these dinners very different from any others. We have fun in our place, music and dancing. Open until 3 A. M. Sundays and Holidays until 4 A. M. We serve only tbe best Cbp str. Chaw Mtln, NmSIm as Amtrlrsn Diintft, al SuklaSi iMtlsl rrlH IColortJ) Chlekcn, 4Sc Bnt CofiM. HJ.B. Pork Chop Suey 35e Pork Chow Meln for one. 3Sc Pork Chow Meln for two S0 162, N. Com'l. St., Upstairs AIR CONDITIONED STARTS i , -Hi.-.y.v JOAN BENNETT RANDOLPH SCOTT THE TEXflnS m ROBSON WALTER BRENNAN ROBERT CUMMINGS EXTRA ADDED Billy Rose's "Casa Manana Revue' I Color Cartoon and News of the T)ay LAST TIMES 9 TODAY mmummn "amaWaMaMKMMr AIR CONDITIONED COOL 4 5 am ah if SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Popular Return Engagement of Two Sensational Hits! ALEXANDRE DUMAS' IMMORTAL STORY fe lROBERTDONATr E1.1SSA LANDI Z Plot nd Return Hit CLAUDETTE COLBERT In Cover the Waterfront" with BFN I YON Last Times Today Joe Penner found his nine Jersey heifers all down in the field suffering from an illness which paralyzed them. Engle Immediately sought the aid of an Albany veterinarian who de termined the animals were suffer lng from weed poisoning. The vet erinarian revived seven of the cows, but two were too far gone to be re vived, he said. Before he left the Engle farm, he said, the seven re maining cows were up on their feet and walking about Engle took the cows from the stubble field, which was said to be heavttv Infested with weeds. Upstairs, Phone 5747 Large Pork Chow Meio for three 75e Pork Fried Rice 35c Egg Fooyong -....35c We specialize In banquets for clubs and parties Free Delivery Within Reasonable Distance between State & Court Sts. COOI. MIDNITE PREVUE TONITE 11:30 SUNDAY ...THEY FACED A THOUSAND FRONTIER TERRORS FOR LOVE! Should lo shoulder, neve' knowing whol moment mighl be their last, on unconqu.r.d ton and daughter at Texas march to glory 1" Paramount. mighrypi",,h,0'M Souihweitl ATTRACTIONS I "Racket Busters" "Desperate I Geo. Brent - Humphrey Botart Adventure" Huge 3 Unit Bill in ADDED SMASH Chapter S Serial ws. "tau. nyri V J lUnfrew of the Mounted "On the OrMt -its&fr. "I'm From the CitV While Trail"