12 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Jan
Gibson Wants
Gavel Position
Slate Sen. Angus Gibson,
Junction City, said here Friday
he would run for president of
the state senate.
Gibson has served three ses
sions in the senate and two in
the house, and has been chair
man of the powerful ways and
means committees of each house.
He is an automobile dealer.
Sen. William E. Walsh, Coos
Bay, also has indicated he would
seek the post again, while other
candidates are expected to be
Sens. Rex Ellis. Pendleton, and
Ernest R. Fatland, Condon, a
former speaker of the house.
Gibson, who represents Lane
and Linn counties, said he has
not yet asked other senators to
pledge their votes to him, as he
considers it too early. The next
legislature meets in January,
1949.
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One Escapee
Gives Self Up
Seattle, Jan. 3 tJPi One of
four escaped prisoners from the
Grays Harbor county jail at
Montesano gave himself up at
the sheriff's office here today
and said the other three had
compelled him to join in the
break Thursday night.
The escapee who appeared at
the sheriff's office in company
with his father was Thomas John
Stafford, 20, who was serving a
six-month jail term for attempt
ed burglary.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Mike Kil
gore said at Montesano there was
no clue to the other three since
an abandoned stolen car was
found at Shclton, about 40 miles
from the scene of the break.
The other three in the break
were Silas Ralph Barkley, 42;
Milton H. Lough, 23. and Ray A.
Oszcrg, 20, a "trustic." Sheriff
Kilgore said Barkley, who was
serving a year's sentence for pe
tit larceny in a safe-cracking,
was an Indian from Klamath
Falls, Ore., and was wanted in
Oregon City in connection with
a burglary there.
The escape was engineered by
threatening a jailer with a
butcher knife at his chest when
he transferred a prisoner from
one cell block to another.
Stanford said the others com
pelled him to tie and gag the
jailer but "I didn't tie him very
tight. Then we searched the jail
office for guns but didn't find
any."
Rescuers Cut Into Wrecked Passenger Car Rescuers work in cold and snowy weather to re
move bodies from a Missouri-Facific passenger train car near Otterville, Mo. At least 12 persons
and possibly 16 holiday travelers were killed in the rear-end crash of two Missouri-Pacific trains
ploughing their way behind schedule through a raging snow storm. (AP Wirephoto)
South Santiam Valley
Lashed by Winter Storm
Lebanon, Jan. 3 Heavy, wind-driven rain lashed the south
Santiam valley on the first day of the new year, ponding water
in Lebanon streets, bringing the river to flood-stage level as the
stream carried debris northward
Bresser Hearing
Dated January 12
Santa Barbara, Cal., Jan. 3 (U.R)
Application for probation of Roy
Bresser, 36, Salem, Ore., who
pleaded guilty to bigamy, will be
heard January 12, Superior
Judge Ernest Wagner said today.
Bresser is charged with having
a wife and two children in Sa
lem besides a bride of a month
here.
Granf Appointment
Confirmed Friday
The legislative interim com
mittee on executive appoint
ments Friday confirmed the ap
pointment by Gov. John H. Hall
of A. S. Grant, Baker demo
eral, to the slate board of high
er education.
Grant was appointed to fill
the vacancy created by the death
of Wlllard S. Marks, Albany.
Such appointments are sub
ject to senate confirmation, but
between legislative sessions, the
interim committee has power to
confirm.
During the California gold
rush in the last century, Cornel
ius Vanderbilt operated a line of
river boats and stage coaches to
take gold seekers across Nicaragua.
Gravel Contract
Awarded Vomers
F. L. Somcrs, Klamath Falls.
today was awarded a contract
for production of 20,000 cubic
yards of crushed gravel in stock
piles on the Fremont highway,
the highway commission an
nounced.
Somcrs' submitted a combina
tion bid of $53,000 for the Silver
Lake-Harvey Creek and Harvey
Lreek - Chewaucan river rock
production projects. Somcrs'
single bids for the two jobs were
$26,500 each.
Homer G. Johnson, Portland
submitted bids identical with
those of Somcrs' when bids wore
opened December 30, but the
awarding was referred to High
way Engineer R. H. Baldock.
Each project calls for pro
duction of 10.000 cubic yards.
Ekman Will Address
Independence Clubs
Independence Members o f
the Independence Chamber of
Commerce, their wives and the
husbands of the members of
the Independence Woman's club
will be special guests at the next
regular meeting to be held on
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
Ernest Ekman of Silvcrton will
be the guest speaker and will
show moving pictures from his
collection. Hostesses for the
tea hour will include Mrs. El
mer Addison. Mrs. Thelma Tal
lent. Mrs. Clara Williams. Mrs.
William Darling and Miss Mary
Donaldson.
East Salem Phone Lines
Are Damaged by Storm
East Salem, Jan. 3 The severe rain and windstorm which swept
over Salem on Wednesday night and Thursday did some damage
to local telephone lines with some telephones in most localities.
-several at Four Corners and on
(Lancaster Drive, being still
out of order Friday afternoon.
No interruption of light wires
was reported.
The first full week of (lie new
year will have meeting dates for
several East Salem social or
ganizations with groups meeting
on their regular scheduled dates.
Swegle Woman's club will
meet at one o'clock Tuesday af
ternoon at the home of Mrs. Al
bert Patz on Swegle Road.
Lansing Neighbors Garden
club held their December meet
ing last Saturday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Ben Rathjen
on Lansing avenue. This group
meets but once a month through
out the winter.
The E. E. Brandt family of
East Garden Road spent last
Sunday in Portland at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ames.
Joanne returned home with them
to spend a week visiting with her
grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. K. V. Krusc of
Grand Rapids, Nebraska, came
west a few days before Christ
mas to visit in the home of
their daughter. Mrs. Carl Dibb
ern and family on Lancaster
Drive. Mr. Kruse is returning
home next week but she will
remain for a longer visit in the
home.
New Year's day guests in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Van Loh on Lancaster Drive
were Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Mc
Cracken from Vancouver. Wash ,
and her mother, Mrs. Sevcrson
of South Salem.
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To Become Nun Evangeline
De Castro (above), 17-year-old
Miss Philippines in last sum
mcr's Miss America contest at
Atlantic City, laid in Manila she
would become nun because,
she said, "I am bored with social
life and so many dances." She is
a high school freshman at Ba
guio. (AP Wirephoto)
on a swift current, and falling
trees kept Mountain States Pow
er company's service crew on a
36-hour run of line repairs.
Four of the company's poles
on the Tangent-Lebanon line
were toppled by heavy gusts
early New Year's morning and
though service was restored
within a few hours, falling tim
ber continued to interrupt cir
cuits in localized areas through
out the day, Ken Sims, resident
manager, reported.
Little danger of a new Santiam
flood was in sight as the refilled
and rock protected river bank,
washed out in 1945, appeared
strong with the river remaining
an estimated six feet below the
embankment rim.
The plug mill of the Lebanon
Wood Products company on
East Grant was flooded as rain
water ponded on all sides of the
plant, extending 50 to 75 feet in
all directions.
The Santiam pass was reported
clear January 2, with no slide
interference due to the storm,
according to state highway patrol.
Japanese Mine Off
Warrenfon Blasted
Warrenton, Ore., Jan. 3 W)
Navy Lt. D. F. Winslow, who
destroys the Japanese mines that
drift ashore in the northwest,
blew up the latest derelict near
here last night shortly before
midnight.
It went off with a roar heard
at the Point Adams coast guard
station two miles away.
The mine had drifted in two
miles south of the Columbia
river south jetty and a mile
north of the hulk of the Peter
Iredale, a ship wrecked in 1906
and a landmark in this area. The
mine was exploded on the spot.
Trembly Run Down
By His Own Car
Lebanon, Ore., Jan. 3 (U.R)
O'Neil Trembly, 23, Lebanon,
was in a hospital here today with
head injuries suffered after he
was run down by his own car
New Year's eve.
Trembly explained he had
parked his vehicle in front of his
home and w a s underneath it
making repairs on the front end.
An automobile driven by Del-
bert E. Glascr, Lebanon, collided
into the rear end of Trembly's
vehicle causing it to strike its
owner.
Aurora Mrs. Elsie Wiegand
entertained the Needy-Ninety-One
Idle Hour club with a no
hostess dinner in her home. An
exchange of gifts followed.
Guests were Mrs. Ada Kin
zer. Mrs. Mary Roach, Mrs. Nora
Martin. Mrs. Goldic Gibson.
Mrs. Mable Wilbroad, Mrs.
Grace Foltz, Miss Inez Hilton,
Miss Annette Gibson and Bobby
Gibson.
Trader Paul F. llcGuirc
(above), associated chief of fi
nancial affairs of the state de
partment, poses in his Washing
ton office after he was record
ed as being "short" 10,000 bush
els of wheat in a listing of wheat
futures traders issued by Secre
tary of Agriculture Clinton An
derson. McGuire said the listing
was correct. (AP Wirephoto)
Bank Will Open
Branch at Wheeler
Portland, Jan. 3 (fl1) The
Commercial bank of Tillamook
said here today it has filed an
application to open a branch at
Wheeler.
Donald B. Peterson, vice presi
dent and manager, said it would
be called the North Tillamook
county branch, and the Tilla
mook bank would increase its
capital structure from $170,000
to $200,000.
Butfeville Youths
Form Cooking Club
Butteville "Tin Ton fhofore"
4-H Cooking club was organiz
ed at Butteville during the past
week with the following officers
elected: President, Jack Rasmus
sen; vice president, Tom Dul
lum; secretary, Kenneth Carr:
yell leader, Bill Shober; song
leader, Minnie Gibson; report
er. Rinholri Hillnpr Huh 1mH
er, Mrs. Richard Shober. Addi
tional members are C o n n i e
Beard, Lyndell Kuns, Bobby
Powell. Llovd Clark. Jimmv
Jackson, John Freeman. Robert
Fitzsimmons and Sammy Humphreys.
In the south, with its long
growing season, two crops often
are grown the same year, sum
mer and winter legumes being
grown in one or two year rota
tions with cotton and corn.
Drew Pearson
(Continued from Page 4)
Truman's Election Worries
NOTES FROM YOUR RE
PORTER UNDER THE PRESI
DENT'S DESK: The biggest
story right now is the new year
Like everyone else, President
Truman has his eye on the hor
izon of 1948. For one thing he
wishes it were not an election
year. He is worried that polit
ical warfare may shake the
country's peace efforts.
He spoke off-the-cuff on t h e
subject the other day when fel
low Free Masons paid their an
nual call at the White House.
From my vantage point, I watch
them gather solemnly in a cir
cle to hear the President.
"Almost my entire time is
taken up with the problems
of keeping the peace," Tru
man said. Then he added, half
musing: "It's too bad that next
year is an election year. For
the good of the country and
the food of the world, it
would be better if our peace
efforts were not stirred up by
a political contest."
He admitted that the picture
at times looks "extremely dis
couraging," but he reminded his
visitors of the post-revolution
struggles of the 13 original col
onies. Many individual differ
ences had to be ironed out be
fore they were able to achieve
peace and unity, he recalled.
My hope," he declared, 1 is
that thinking men and men in
high places will lend every ef
fort to contribute to the men in
government who are striving for
peace."
As the Free Masons said
their good-byes, one murmur
ed: "God bless you, Mr. Pres
ident." "I certainly need him," ear
nestly replied the first citi
zen. Peron Hokum
The dramatic announcement
by Diego Molinari, Argentina's
chief delegate to the world con
ference on trade and employ
bent at Havana that his country
could offer the rest of Latin
America five billion dollars in
credits, is actually the hugest
hunk of Hokum yet put out by
the Peron regime.
What it means in practice
is that the Argentine govern
ment grain monopoly would
like to unload about 20,000,
000 tons of wheat on its neigh
bors at the fabulous prices
which the United States has
forbidden Marshall plan par
ticipants to pay. That is the
beginning of the end of the
so-called "Peron Plan."
As a matter of fact, it is sheer
impertinence for the Peron gov
ernment to talk about lending
dollars to anybody. Argentina's
gold and dollar reserve are now
so low that Britain can't collect
for the railroads she sold Peron
last year. The only thing which
he can offer, in spite of all the
big talk, is a lot of grain at al
most double the inflated world
market price.
Capital Chaff
Latest stunt of jet-powered
Robert Young, C. and O. rail
road chairman, was a press con
ference on wheels. Washington
newsmen were limousined across
the Potomac to Alexandria, Va.,
where they boarded Young s
private ear, in transit to Wash
ington, for some late bulletins
on the C. and O. chief's battle
with the interstate commerce
commission and the ruling pow
ers of the New York Central.
Louisiana's popular repre
sentative, Ed Hebert, recently
assigned to the house un-American
investigating committee,
says he plans to "keep quiet"
his first two or three months on
the committee, until he acclim
ates himself. With two such vo
calists as Chairman P a r n e 1 1
Thomas of New Jersey and "Si
lent John" Rankin of Mississippi
for colleagues, Ed shouldn't find
this too difficult.
GOP Representative L e r o y
Johnson of California will spark
plug legislation in the new ses
sion of congress to clear up long
standing abuses in the army
navy disability retirement rack
et. Under Johnson's bill, instead
of an officer getting full . dis
ability benefits for a minor dis
ability that bars him from mil
itary service, his Tension would
be based on his fitness for a ci
vilian job. Thus, a retired offi
cer with a 20 per cent disability
couldn't draw a 100 per cent
pension in addition to his in'
come from a civilian occupa
tion, as a number have been do
ing.
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Girl and Boy Babies
Divide Honors
Hnnnrs for the first baby of
th vear are eouallv divided at
Silverton and Dallas with a boy
the first to arrive in the former
city and a girl in the latter.
Kenneth Earl, weighing 7
nminric anrt 10 ounces Was bom
to Mr. and Mrs. David Rickard,
Silverton route 2, at the bilver
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4 o'clock and is the recipient of
many gifts donated by local merchants.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
SALEM FEDERAL
SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
390 State St.
December 31, 1947
ASSETS
First Mortgage Loans $3,252,653.63
Loans on Passbooks 12,197.70
Federal Home Loan Bank Stock 30,000.00
United States Bonds 600,000.00
Cash in Bank 85,425 30
Other Assets 523.43
TOTAL $3,980,800.06
LIABILITIES
Members' Shore Accounts $3,474,842 61
Borrowed Money 200,000.00
Loans in Process 94 444,51
Other Liabilities 1,512.94
General Reserves 160,000.00
Undivided Profits 50,000.00
TOTAL $3,980,800.06
2Va - Insured Savings - 214
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