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if-
Fisher Given
Several Gifts
Going-away gifts that "came
ut of the hearts of the employ
ees' were presented Thursday to
Earl Fisher, State Tax Commis
lioner who Is leaving June 4.
Moody Benner, presenting the
table lighter set. billfold with
dime for good luck in it, and
two pieces of cowhide luggage,
aid the gifts came "out of the
hearts of the employees," who
nave found Fisher always cour
teous, considerate and efficient.
He added that funds for the
gifts had come unsolicited from
commission employes in both
Portland and Salem.
Fisher, visibly moved, smil
ed: "I didn't know you were
to glad to get rid of me." Then
seriously he told the employes:
"I wish you all success and hap
piness." On the committee in charge
of arrangements were E. D.
Lindburg, chairman; E. B. Dag
get, Violet Mooney and Muriel
Eshlemao.
Over the vigorous objections
of Gov. Douglas McKay, the
other two members of the state
Board of Control, State Treas
urer Walter J. Pearson and Sec
retary of State Earl T. Newbry,
voted not to renew Fisher's
term, expiring June 4, and to
replace him with Ray Smith.
Portland republican. The switch
was widely criticised through
out the state, as was the appoint
ment of Robert MacLean, Wald
port democrat, to succeed Wal
lace S. Wharton as tax commissioner.
Tired Railroad
Is all Through
iminlly hauls a few nostalgic
passengers who can relate the
bonanza road's once glamorous
past.
Warninas Sounded on
Reoo. May 27 HIP) More than
350 nostalgic railroad fans will lca n( HfCOn Frtrtfl
gather this weekend to attend U3C Ul VACQll I UUU
"final rites" for the tired old I , . . , , , . .
Virginia and Truckee Railroad. Coastal rcs.dent, and beach
vacationists are being warned
ine w-miie line, pan ana , by Dr Harold M . Erickson .state
parcel or tne days or Nevada Sjh,alth o(ficor- not to fat mus.
np-snorting mining boom days. and uncieanei ciams which
is in its 84th year of operation. at (ni, time of 1h? v(,ar mav
It has petitioned the inter-(Contain a stong alkaloid poison
slate commerce commission andjsimilar to strychnine,
the Nevada public service com- He urges persons consuming
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 27, 1949 IS
mission for permission to store
its two remaining rickety loco
motives and tear up its tracks.
Officials of the historic line.
clams dug on Oregon or Wash
ington beaches to make sure the
clams are cleaned before eating.
I with the black portion, or di-
which hauled more than $600.-,gestive tract, being completelv
000.000 worth of gold and ail-1 removed. The portions removed,
ver from the Comstock Lode at he slates, should be completely
Virginia City, claim the rail-jdestroyed because they can be
road has been losing money; fatal to chickens or pets,
steadily for the past several; Fatal illness may result from
Newport Plans
Monday Event
Newport, May 28 Nine vet
erans organizations are joining1
forces here Memorial day to
honor those who died in far with
iemphasis placed upon a flower
boat ceremony.
The' 12-foot craft will carry
on its decked flower wreaths
for those who lost their lives
at sea and will be launched from
the coast guard dock at three
o'clock.
The flower - bedecked vessel
will be guided into the channel
stream by a coast guard vessel
and from there will be allowed
to drift with the tide outside
the harbor, across the bar and
thus to the open sea.
Memorial services will b held
by the American Legion at the
Eureka cemetery at 10 o'clock.
$$ MONEY $$
FHA
4'j Real Estate Loans
Farm or City
Personal and Auto Loans.
State Finance Co.
153 S. High St. Mr. S1 3-StZJ
eating mussels or the digestive
glands in which the poison is
harbored, Dr. Erickson points
State Tax Employes Honor Commissioner Earl L. Fisher
Eall L. Fisher, veteran state tax commissioner whose reap
pointment was rejected by two members of the board of con
trol, was presented with these bags and other gifts by Moody
Brenner in behalf of his employes at a presentation ceremony
held Thursday morning.
fall in the performance of its
duly, sit where it may
though it were a desert."
years.
The line has sold most of its
historic engines and coaches to
Hollywood movie companies. It:out. The poison is a tiny organ
manages to operate a singleism occasionally washed in by
train dailv making a round triDithe ocean at this time of vear
even.between Reno and Minden and'and eaten by the clams.
moment
Senate Soon to Move Into Old
Hall Replete With Memories
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
united Pr.M Sufi Corrponaeni '
Washington !M! Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1859, was a bitter cold day
in Washington.
The wood in the fireplaces of the old
crackled and the 62 senators-
Akutan Volcano
Belches Lava
Washington, May 27 U.W The
U.S. geological i u r v e y an
nounced today that Akutan vol
cano, a 4,200-foot cone in the
Aleutian islands, has been act
ing up again after two years of
quiet.
The volcano, 27 miles north
east of Dutch Harbor and eight
miles west of the village of Aku
tan, dropped one-eighth of an
inch of ash on Akutan during
the night of April 29.
Quoting Akutan Postmaster
Hugh McGlashan, the geological
survey added that both ash and
sleet fell on the village the fol
lowing day, and that the erup
tion continued full-scale until
May 10, when it decreased in in
tensity. On May 17, the postmaster re
ported, villagers approached the
volcano and found that lava was
flowing down the northwest
slope. Considerable steam was
generated when the hot flow en
countered the snow.
Straus and Boke
Kept Off Payroll
Washington, May 27 (Ft Cali
fornia's senators joined today
in a new effort to keep Reclama
tion Commissioner Michael W.
Straus and his California region
al director, Richard L. Boke off
the federal payroll after July 1
The amendment would require
that no money be paid to the
reclamation commissioner, as
' sistant commissioners and re
gional directors until they have
been appointed by the Presl
dent and confirmed by the
senate.
Straus and Boke have been
unpaid since January 31 under
a limitation on the interior de
partment appropriation bill for
the current fiscal year. It re-
quires that no money be paid
to men in their positions unless
they are engneers of at least
five years experience. Neither
Boke nor Straus is an engineer.
all there were in those days
rubbed the numbness out of
their hands.
The honorable John Cabell
Breckinridge, the vice-president
of the United States, removed
the glove from his gavel hand
and demanded order. This, he
announced solemnly, was to be
the last day the senate would
hold sessions at the old stand.
That noble body was about to
move to new quarters, equipped
with brass spittoons, fancy snuff
boxes and plush surroundings.
The senate is getting ready to
move again back to the old
place. The roof is about to
crash on the "dignified heads be
low. Workmen will jack up the
roof supports and do the kind
of a re-make job they are plan
ning on the White House.
This isn't the first time that
the senate has moved back into
the old room which once echoed
to the golden oratory of Clay
and Webster and Calhoun.- It's
gone back several times before
for similar reasons repairs to
the present quarters.
The old chamber, to the left
of the capitol rolunda, probably
is Washington's most useful spare
room. After the 35th senate
moved out, the supreme court
moved in and stayed for 75 years;
until the tribunal moved across
the street to its magnificient.
white marble home in 1935. It
has been a museum since.
On that January day in 1859,
the senators interrupted business
long enough to pay respect to a
friend the old room.
Sen. John J. Crittenden of
Kentucky arose to say that the
35th congress could spare a mo
ment, surely, so he could in
dulge "in a few words of part
ing from this chamber."
The gentleman from the blue
There was
silence.
Then Vice-president Breckin
ridge spoke up:
"Let us devoutly trust that an
other senate, in another age,
shall bear to a new and larger
chamber, this constitution vigor
' ous and inviolate, and that the
1 last general of posteritv shall
gas-lit senate chamber i witness the deliberations of the
representatives of American
states still united, prosperous
and free. . . . The body will now i
proceed to the new chamber."
Those were the last words
uttered in the old room by the
35th senate.
Soon, the ghosts of the great
of bygone years will have com
pany again. The senate is going
back.
But only for awhile.
grass pulled out all the stops.
"Mr. president," he said, "we
cannot quit this chamber with
out some feeling of sacred sad
ness . . . here questions of Ameri
can constitutions and laws have
been debated; questions of peace
and war have been debated:
questions of empires . . . they
give a sort of consecrated char
acter to this hall. No matter un
der what sky we may sit; no
matter what dome may cover
Although transparency is
us; me great patriotic spirit oti distinguishing characteristic of
the senate of the United States fine American hand-made glass
will be there and I have an abid- ware, it is made almost en
lng confidence that it will never tirelv from opaque materials.
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