12 Capital Journal,. Salem, Oregon, Friday, Oct. 25, 1946
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Cheerful Johnny Kuccra, 1940 North Front street, bedridden
with arthritis for 15 years, renews old Christmas cards and keeps
on smiling. He is a member of the local Chin Up club.
Cheerful Johnny Kucera Not
Defeated by Painful Illness
By Ben Maxwell
When down, flat on your back, keep smiling. To you this may
sound just like another pious platitude. But for Johnny Junior
Kucera, 1940 North Front street, who has been flat on his back
with arthritis for 15 years and
still keeps smiling, this matter
of being cheerful is a sustain
ing philosophy.
Johnny is now nearly 23 and
has been bedridden with pain
ful arthritis since the age of
7. In South Dakota, his home
state, he did manage to get in
a little formal education, but
for many years he has received
inspiration and comfort from
Bible reading. He is a mem
ber of the local Chin Up club
and feels that he has received
great benefits from this affilia
tion. Four years ago Johnny and
his five brothers and five sis
ters came to Oregon. He be
lieves that Oregon's warmer
climate has relieved his arth
ritis. Now he is able to exer
cise a half hour each day in his
walker and his weight has in
creased to 62 pounds. He uses
a typewriter and has attained
a speed of 30 words a minute.
Pre-season Christmas cards
now occupy nearly all of John
ny's able hours. He receives
old Christmas cards from friends
(and he needs a lot more), cuts
out the designs and applies
them to new cards bearing ap
propriate seasonal greetings.
His average daily output re
tailed from his home is about
SO.
Johnny has no formal philos
ophy. He has practiced being
cheerful so long that his af
fliction cannot now deny it.
And he finds so much to be
thankful for that he just keeps
on smiling.
Apple Week Runs
To Halloween Day
Observance of national apple
week will begin October 26
and extend to November 2, with
apple day designated as Hal
loween, the state department of
agriculture said today. Spon
sored by the International Ap
ple association, the apple week
is being held this year for the
first time since the war. The
association estimates that the
1946 apple crop in the United
Slates is about 36 pounds or 144
apples per person.
Oregon commercial apple
growers this year will produce
lor market nearly three and
one-third million bushcla of ap
ples, a large portion of which
will be marketed in other states,
department officials pointed
out.
Importance of the apple in
dustry to Oregon is further evi
dent in the fact that cash farm
income from this source in 1945
was more than $9,400,000. Some
15,000 acres of Oregon lands
are planted to apples, however,
this acreage includes both com
mercial and non-commercial
acreage. For the year ending
June 30, 194B, more than 1,800
carloads of Oregon apples were
shipped out under federal-state
certification to other states, the
department said.
Monmouth Students
Man Paper Staffs
Monmouth - Appointments
have been made of the editorial
staff of "Hi-Times," student
publication of Monmouth high
school, and it has been an
nounced that the first issue of
the mimeographed newspaper
will be issued November 1.
Myrna Mollert has been
named editor; Conrad Howard,
assistant editor; Glen Condon
and Lafona Houk, sports edi
tors; Lois Perkins, gossip edi
tor, and Nino Parks, society edi
tor. The slaff of the Monmouth
high school annual, last year
called "The Wolverine," has
also been named, with Nola
Richter editor and Nancy Hub
bard, assistant editor.
Two new students were ad
mitted to Monmouth high school
Monday. They were Augusta
Christopher, who transferred
from McFarland, Calif., and
Bruce Flecncr, who transferred
from Independence high school.
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Joint Operation
This Winter
Large scale joint amphibious
exercises in which the Second
infantry division, stationed at
Fort Lewis, and the Second en
gineer special brigade from Fort
Ord, numerous naval vessels
and army, navy and marine
corps aircraft will participate
are to be held on the southern
California coast in November
and early December.
Joint announcement of the
exercises, in which it is esti
mated 20,000 army troops, navy
crews and other personnel along
with more than 500 planes and
navy warships, was made to
day by Maj. Gen. George P.
Hays, commanding general of
the Sixth army, Rear Adm, A.
D. Slruble, commander of the
amphibious forces. Pacific fleet,
and Maj. Gen. William D. Old,
commanding general, 12th air
force.
Included In the exercises will
be an amphibious landing on the
coast of San Clemente Island
about November 21, followed by
another landing north of Ocean
side. Both will be made under
cover of naval guns with air
support provided by naval
planes, marine corps planes and
army planes of the 12th air
force. However, there will be
no firing at the landing north
of Occanside.
The Second infantry division,
which distinguished itself in the
Normandy and Brittany cam
paigns and is commanded by
Maj. Gen. Paul W. Kendall,
minus one regimental combat
team, and reinforced by two
shore battalions from the Sec
ond engineers and other units,
will make the landings. After
the beachhead north of Ocean
side has been secured the infan
try troops will advance inland
against defensive position by a
battalion of troops from the Sec
ond engineers to simulate an
enemy.
Before embarking for Cali
fornia the Second division will
be given a float type of train
ing by Rear Admiral B. J.
Rogers. It will then, with its
full organizational equipment,
go aboard navy transports,
AKAs, LSTs and other auxili
aries for the scene of the am
phibious exercises. Practice
landings across the Silver
Strand at Coronado will precede
the main landing exercises.
The maneuvers in California,
army officers have stated, will
not interfere with traffic move
ment over highway 101 and the
Santa Fe railroad tracks which
fringe the coast. However, dur
ing the exercise intinerant air
craft will be warned to stay out
of areas Involved in the exercises.
Centennial Blessing St. Paul
Catholic Church Next Sunday
Most Rev. Edward D. Howard, D.D., Archbishop of Portland,
will sing a Pontifical High Mass in St. Paul
St. Paul, Sunday, Oct. 27. The centennial of
Catholic church is being ob
served at this time.
Very Rev. Francis P. Leip
zig of Eugene, will deliver the
occasional sermon outlining the
early history of the Catholic
community of St. Paul.
Twenty-five students from Mt.
Angel Seminary will sing dur
ing the Pontifical High Mass
under the direction of Rev. Vic
tor Rassier, O.S.B., of St. Bene
dict's Abbey.
History of Church
Unique in the history of the
church in the west and perhaps
in the whole country was the
fact that a church building built
in 1836 awaited the first Catho
lic missionaries to labor in the
present state of Oregon. When
Father Blanchet arrived at the
Willamette mission (which he
named St. Paul) January 5,
5. 1839 his first duty was to
bless the log church which he
found already built. In his
Memoirs he tells us that the
church had originally been built
"a few miles below Fairfield in
1836" but that Dr. McLoughlin
finding it "not properly located
ordered it to be removed and
rebuilt on a large prairie, its
present beautiful site." The
original church stood near the
side of the old cemetery in St.
Paul.
Describing his arrival at St.
Paul, Father Blanchet says:
"The vicar-general took pos
session of a part of the church
at the back of the altar, measur
ing 12 by 30 feet, which being
afterwards divided by an alley
of 6 feet, gave sufficient ac
commodation for two bedrooms
on one side and a kitchen and
dining room on the other. The
whole structure, he reports, was
30 by 70 feet.
Cornerstone Laid
"The following day, January
6, " he continues, "being Sunday
and the Epiphany of our Lord,
the church was blessed under
the patronage of the great apos
tle St. Paul, after which was
celebrated the first mass ever
said in the valley, in the pres
ence of the Canadians, their
wives and children."
The cornerstone of the pres
ent parish church at St. Paul
was laid May 26, 1846, by Fath
er Demers, administrator in the
absence of Bishop Blanchet who
was in Europe. The church was
dedicated November 1 of that
year. It was the first brick
church in the Oregon country.
Enlarged and remodeled it re
mains in use as the parish
parish church. The church was
consecrated May 25, 1898, by
s Catholic church,
the blessing of the
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church to be consecrated In the
Oregon province.
The Sisters of Notre Dame
de Namur opened a school at St.
Paul in the fall of 1844 in a
building which was partly com
pleted in anticipation of their
arrival.
In 1843 early Jesuit Fathers
established a boys' school at St.
Paul, which, however, was sus
pended at the time of the Cali
fornia gold rush.
Three Unhurt When
Auto Strikes Train
Three Salem men were in an
automobile that headed into a
collision, about 1 a.m., Friday,
with the third coach of the
Southern Pacific passenger train
"West Coast" at 12th and Che
mckota streets. They were Ce
cil Rhodes, 1775 Saginaw, the
driver; Carl Gabrielson, 155
North 14th; and William Paulus,
1025 North 14th. None was in
jured. The auto was seriously
damaged.
Rhodes said he did not see
the train. Police said the wig
wag signal was operating.
Prehistoric Pueblo Indians
raised pinto beans in New Mex
ico hundreds of years before
the Spanish conquerors arrived.
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Craig Speaks
On Religion
Speaking before a large
crowd last night at the Senior
high school auditorium on the
subject, "Christian Science: The
Science of Health and Salva
tion," Clayton Bion Craig of
Cincinnati, Ohio, declared sal
vation to be the result of indi
vidual reformation.
"Each must follow the foot
steps of Jesus in the process of
resurrection and spiritual ascen
sion above the claims of mate
riality," Mr. Craig said. "If one
is making an honest effort to
bring his every thought into
conformity with the Christ-idea
and sincerely desires the healing
he seeks, God will answer such
prayer and healthful reforma
tion will be achieved. God's
man will appear and the sinful
mortal sense will begin to dis
appear." He cited the following state
ment by Mary Baker Eddy in
summarizing his discussion of
spiritual rebirth or salvation.
"The New Birth is not the
work of a moment. It begins
with moments, and goes on with
years; moments of surrender to
God, or childlike trust and joy
ful adoption of good; moments
of self-abnegation, self-conse
cration, heaven-born hopes and
spiritual love."
The local apearance of the
member of the board of lecture
ship of The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston.
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is approved by the voters of Oregon at the November 5 general election.
This 2 tax would apply to all gross
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come per month. It coold apply also on
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your wage or salary or sales of products
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