Defroif Will
Open Library
Detroit Detroit Women's Ci
vic club met at the home of Jane
Welsgerber Wednesday evening.
Topics of discussion included
the Mobile Unit to be In this
vicinity on June 13. and a park
for the new townsite. The trav
eling can was opened and found
to contain $8.30.
The library has been installed
in the old grade school building.
It haa been repainted and the
club has put linoleum on the
floor. The books will be shelved
in readiness for the opening on
Tuesday afternoon. The library
will be open for the public on
Tuesdav afternoon from 2 to 4
and on Friday evenings from t
to 8 every week. Mrs. Joe
Wright is the librarian.
Hostesses for the meeting
not been accompanied by a cor
responding reduction of manu
jfacturing costs." He said pro
jducers must ook to expanded
has urged speedy approval hy,
the house public works commit
tee of the revised and enlarged'
plans of the U.S. army engineers
for the Willamette valley prol-l
Capital Journal, Salem, Orejjon. Monday, May 2.Tj 1949 .1
Citizens Committee
Seeking Better Road
Aurora A committee of five
formerly with the Washington
state highway department; Sam
Amundson and Abbe Johnson.
All of them were strongly In
favor of the five-year tax for
road construction.
were Esther Cllne and Alice
Moore. There were 32 guests
present.
sales volume to ward off "sub
stantial losses."
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Koutonen said plywood was
in good supply for the first time
in years, although production Is
running slightly behind lat
vear'i record output of nearly
two billion square feet.
He said 38 firms operating 44
ifKiiiyuig ueinre me commit-
tee, Norblad stated that the da
mage to the valley since 1900
alone had been in excess of the
iriywuuu inuumy
The lax is expected to yield
$3.10.000 per year, which will
be divided equally among the
five county districts, giving each
area approximately $68,000 a
year for lis own roads.
The county-wide plan Is to
employ an expert road builder,
who will work under the super
vision of Ralph Milln, engineer
and deputy county surveyor.
citizens to supervise road con
struction in road district No. S
of Clackamas county, a far-flung
area stretching from Canby
south through Molalla and Mar-
Plans Ad Campaign
Tacoma, Wash., May S3 Ue
The northwest plywood indus
try faced with financial losses
because of continued high man
ufacturing costs, today announc
ed beginning of a one-year $1.-1
000.000 advertising program to
incease sales volume.
Arnold Koutonen, Olympia,
president of the Douglas Fir
Plywood association, said "the
entire cost of the nrnnnspd nrnl-!
ect.
! "This is probably the most
important program being under-1
taken in the Pacific northwest
at the present time and Its early;
separate factories In 30 Wash
ington, Oregon and northern
California cities were subscrib
ing money to the advertising
program.
WY ProJecTs Urged
By Walter Norblad
Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore)
quam, was named at a meeting
in Lone Elder hall.
Speakers at the meeting in
cluded Senator Howard C. Bel
ton; Paul Erb, representing the
Meadowbrook-Collon farm bur
eau and South Molalla Farm
ers' union: Bill Curry of the
Oregon City Toastmasters club;
Wesley Brooks, civil engineer.
completion will not only bene
fit that part of the country but
collaterally the entire United
States," Norblad declared.
Anne Lee, the "Mother Ann"
of the Shaker sect, lies buried
In the Shaker cemetery, next to
the Albany, N. Y., airport.
readjustment of price levels has
Electrifyinr Event White House tide Russell McMullin
gives President Truman time check as the president presses
a gold key In Washington, D. C giving the signal to put the
10th main generator at Grand Coulee Dam, Wash., into com
mercial operation. The president hailed the event as one more
step in harnessing the almost limitless power potential of our
great northwest. (Acme Telephoto)
Silverton Special Election
Stirs Up High Local Feeling
Silverton, May 23 Not in recent years has special election
stirred up so much feeling as has the question of a general obli
gation bond issue for $90,000 for the improvement of the Silverton
water system which will be decided at the polls Tuesday from 8 to
8 o'clock. A portion of the - J
amount requested would be for a cessity be an increase in water
n.u, concrete dam 3600 f e e t rates.
above the present pumping site
on the Abiqua and the remain
der for new and replacement
Pipe-
MimeoRraphed petitions, un
signed, were sent through the
mails over the week-end with
the charge that the election in
volves health, Insurance rates
and progress. Those, favoring
the project point to the previous
arguments against wells, stream
polutlon, lack of taxes Involved
and the governing of Insurance
rates by the construction of the
dam.
Dr. W. A. Simmons, member
of the water commission for
many years, denies that the two
wells described e "useless" are
to be so regarded. He states that
when the two wells were taken
over from the former water com
mission they were fully equip
ped and capable of producing
750.000 gallons of water a day
and during the time they were
In use no money was spent for
pumping. He adds that the con
crete dam in a new location can
not possibly Insure any more wa
ter than the creek run nor any
Improvement In health condi
tions. Opponents point out that the
old log dam, washed out with
the 1942 flood, had been In use
for 27 years and had cost S2700,
with a new log dam to replace it
would cost only SROOO and be
sides the dam the city could drill
an additional deep well for uv
lllary supply. It Is also stated
that eventually water may be
obtained from the Detroit dam
and also that If the bond Issue
Is approved there would of ne-
Student Charged Lawrence
Jean Sharp. 20, (above), Uni
versity of Washington student
was under arrest, accused by
FBI of setting dynamite ex
plosion which destroyed government-owned
home of his
parents In Vancouver, Wash.
(AP Wirephoto)
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