14 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, June 18, 1949
Founder of Father's Day
Thanks Merchants for Aid
Br CARL L. ANDERSON
(United Prej Staff CorrMpondentt
Spokane, Wash., June 18 UP) Mrs. John Bruce Dodd founded
Father'i Day here 39 years ago. But the yean have not worn
her enthusiasm for the tradition.
Every year about this time she if kept busy answering ques
tions from reporters from newspapers, wire services and radio
Agents Given
Quality Awards
"Life Insurance Is the bul
wark of our democracy and pro
tection against uncertainty at
well as protection for the Amer
ican way of life," Gus Moore,
secretary of Salem Y. M. C. A.,
said Friday at the annual Na
tional Quality Award luncheon
of the Salem Life Underwriters
association.
Mr. Moore presented National
Quality Award certificates the
the following Salem Hie unaer
writers: Stuart Johnson, Sun
Life; Burton C. Selberg and Ed
ward Majek, Equitable Life As
surance society; Bland N. Speer,
Minnesota Mutual; Anthony J
Tillman. Ohio National Life;
Walter F. Toy, New York Life
Orville E. Cox. Prudential; Os
car H. Specht, Mutual Life of
New York; Harvey G. Hamann
Lutheran Brotherhood, and Gil
bert L. Harger, Atlas Life.
Moore was introduced by Ed
ward Majek, representative of
the Equitable Life Assurance
Society of the United States,
who presided in the absence of
Burton C. Selberg, chairman of
the National Quality Award
committee.
The National Quality Award
Is given by the Life Insurance
Management association, nan
ford, and the National Associa
tion of Life Underwriters, New
York. Based on factors measur
ing Quality of service, rather
than simply volume, the Na
tional Quality Award is a cov
eted honor sought by underwrit
ers in the United States and
Canada,
Six-Day Schedule
For Health Office
The Marian county depart
ment of health has a six-day
schedule of activitiy for the
coming week. It follows:
Monday Immunization for
children at health department,
10-12 noon and S-5 p. m.
Tuesday Regular parent
nurse conference hour at Wood
burn, public library (immuniza
tion will be given upon request),
1:30-2:30 p. m.
Wednesday Fluoroscope cheat
clinic at Salem Memorial hos
pital (by appointment), 1-2 p. m.
Thursday Well baby confer
ence at health department (by
nointment), 9:30-11:30. Immu
nization clinc at farm labor
camp, 8 p. m.
Friday Immunizations at
health department for adults and
children, 10-12 and 8-8. Food
handler's examination, milk
handler's examination and blood
tests, 8:30-12 noon, 1-4 p. m.
Saturday Immunizations for
adults and children at health
department, 9-11:45.
Lebanon Lions Club
Observe Anniversary
Lebanon Plans for a silver
anniversary dinner at Melody
Lane on June 21, are announced
at the meeting of the Lebanon
Lions club, by William Warden,
chairman for the event.
The Lebanon club received its
charter on June 18, 1924. It is
planned to honor several charter
members at the meeting.
, Speaker of the evening will
be W. A. Dahlberg, University
of Oregon. Lions from neighbor
ing club are expected in addition
to state officials of Lions inter
national. Brooks Lodge Meets
Brooks The l.O.O.F. lodge
will sponsor a program Saturday
night June 18, at the Royal
Neighbors hall south of Quina
by, on the river road. This will
be the last meeting of the Ger
vais Odd Fellows until fall.
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"How did you found Father's
day?" they ask over and over
again. "What do you plan to
do this year to celebrate Fath
er's day?"
It sounds like It could be
come very trying after 39 years
and she would become tired of
the same old story.
But Just call Mrs. Dodd and
ask her about Father's day. The
response will sound like some
one who heard about Fathers
day only yesterday. And even
after 39 years, she has new
things to say about the day
She still tells with a slight
tremor of proudness in her voice
how she was struck with the idea
'one morning in 1909. And
about her wonderful father,
William Smart, who inspired the
great day.
Mrs. Dodd also came up with
the idea of giving presents to
the honored gentleman the third
Sunday of each June. As the
reminisced of this, she wasn't
sure if she gave father a smart
flag or gold coin for his col
lection the first Father's day
I think it was the flag,"
Mrs. Dodd reflects. "I remem
ber he was very proud of it.
It was the nicest in town, he al
ways said."
Mrs. Dodd doesn't worry about
the taint of commercialism
which many say has spoiled
all such holidays.
"The merchants were the ones
who got Father's day off to
good start," she says. "If it
hadn't been for them and the
ministers in Spokane, there
probably wouldn't have been a
Father's day founded in 1910
"I asKed them to give it a
little boost. And, my goodness.
they put in some of the most
beautiful window displays you
can imagine. So they deserve
whatever they get from it. And
always, I believe, they keep
tneir advertising on such a high
plane."
Mrs. Dodd today is a gra
cious, gray-haired businesswom
an in Spokane. And her en
thusiasm, which has helped
make Father's day an important
holiday, also spreads into her
business activities. She is as
sociated with one of the city's
large mortuaries, a trade which
she learned after her husband
died.
An Indication of how spark
ling Mrs. Dodd has remained
through the years (she doesn't
think it's good for business to
reveal her age) is toast which
she thought up while talking
about Father's day last week.
It goes like this:
Father! May the glory that
is yours keep on a-gloryin'."
California's Budget
Tops $1 Million
Sacramento, Calif., June 17
(P) Both houses of the Cali
fornia legislature acted swiftly
today to approve a compromise
state budget of 81,035,000,000
for 1949-50.
The total is 825.800.000 less
than Governor Earl Warren ask
ed for. But it is still the largest
budget in the 100-year history
of California.
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Says He was Always Loyal American Dr. Frank F. Op
penheimer (left), atomic scientist, told the House Un-American
Activities committee in Washington that he always was
a loyal American, but that he was a Communist three and
a half years before he worked on the atom bomb project.
He is shown here talking with his attorney, Clifford Durr
(center) and Mrs. Oppenheimer before he testified. Durr
holds the Congressional record. (AP Wirephoto).
Fragments Galore From
Kansas-Nebraska Meteor
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Ailrenomer. Estrntlan Dlvleien. Oregon
Hieher Edueetle. System
Although meteorites, those
down from the clear, blue sky,
yet it is surprising what recoveries are occasionally made by de
termined searchers who are ableT-
to calculate just where to look
This BDDlies amply to the
work of the Institute of Me-
teoritics of the University of
New Mexico in the case of the
remains" which fell from the
thundering and smoking meteor
that flashed over Kansas at 4:56
p.m., CST, February 18, 1948.
In a long article in the April
1949 issue of Publications of the
Astronomical Society of the Pa
cific and in personal letters
Dr. Lincoln La Paz, head of the
Institute of Mcteoritics, de
scribes most interestingly the
arduous work involved and the
ample rewards finally attained
The perliminary work con
sisted of tracing the path of the
visible meteor as it blazed
through the atmosphere. Al
though most observers were sure
the fireball was never more
than a few miles from them,
multitudes were mistaken, for
it was seen by some from dis
tances of 250 miles.
By obtaining directions and
anuglar heights in the sky for
the meteor's appearance and dis
appearance as seen by many
widely separated observers, it
was possible to calculate mathe
matically where it traveled and,
about where unburned frag-;
ments may have landed. This
region of search, the "strown
field," was computed by Dr.
La Paz to be an ellipse four by
eight miles with its center about
on the Kansas-Nebraska border
north of Norton and with its
major axis extending 25 de-'
grees east of north, about the
direction of travel of the me
teor.
The Institute of Mcteoritics'
stones which sometimes hurtle
are rare objects and hard to find.
scientists asked the residents of
this region to be on the lookout
for meteoritic material. The
first was found by Bill Tansill
on April 6. This started a gen
eral search. It was said that
soon every field held a farmer,
carefully searching for treasure.
Many small pieces were re
covered. One was later stolen
"celestial larceny," they
called it. On May 1, 14-year-old
Ralph De Wester found,
well buried in the ground, a
130-pounder, the prize of all up
to that time.
Other specimens continued to
be found, but the record-breaker
came to light July 3 when
workmen on the Whitney farm
in Nebraska just north of the
state line thought their tractor
was falling into a coyote den
in the stubble-covered field.
Investigation revealed a one-ton
meteorite which by the force
of the impact had furrowed over
ten feet into the ground. This
was later purchased jointly
from the farm owner by the
Universities of "Nebraska and
New Mexico.
The meteorites from this fall
are of the achronditic stony type.
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Amity Approves
Fund for School
Amity A school warrant
election was held at Amity high
school Tuesday from 2 to 7
o'clock on the question, "Shall
Union high school district No
5, Yamhill county, contract a
warrant indebtedness in the sum
of $15,000 for the purpose of
reconstructing, improving, re
modeling, and repairing the
high school building?"
There were 38 votes cast, 25
yes, 12 no, and one blank. One
of the major improvements to
be made is the enlargement of
the Home Economics classroom
which will meet the approval of
the state department of voca
tional education.
When completed, this depart
ment will qualify for state re
imbursement of one-half of the
Home Economics teacher's sal
ary. New filing cabinets and
book shelves have been built in
the office and new tables for
typing machines.
Road Bosters Meet
Lebanon Regular meeting of
the Cascade highway association
will be held in Stayton next
Monday,' it was announced by
highway secretary Lawrence
Spraker. Dinner will be served
to the group in the Bon Ton
cafe at 7 o'clock. The business
meeting will follow the dinner
hour.
The fusion crust covering un
broken pieces is mostly a "light
muddy gray." The interior is
principally "bluish gray and
chalky white material in which
are embedded silvery nickel
iron grains, some as large as
marbles."
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Dashiells Will
Fly to Burma
Dallas Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Dashiell will leave San Fran
cisco by China National Air
ways on June 23 for Burma
where he has been given a gov
ernment grant under the Ful-
bright act. His work will be In
geography and land utilization.
A graduate of the Dallas high
school in 1934, Dashiell complet
ed a two-year course at Oregon
College of Education, Mon
mouth, in 1938. He received his
B.A. degree from the jJUnlver-
sity, Worchester, Mass., in 1939
and 1940. He completed work
for his master's degree while In
the army, having entered serv
ice in 1940.
In 1947 and 1948 Dashiell
studied for his Ph.D. degree at
the University of Washington.
The work that he will be doing
in Burma will furnish material
for his degree.
Mrs. Dashiell is a cartograph
er and will assist her husband
in the research work.
Under the Fulbright act, the
transportation and living ex
penses of the couple will be nalH
for a year. The trip will not be
tne first time that Dashiell has
been in Burma since he spent
1945 and 1948 in Burma and
India while in service. Their
headquarters will be at Ran
goon. Dashiell is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Dashiell of Dallas.
Three Card Tables
Played at Applebys
Mt. Angel Mrs. R. O. Apple
by entertained at three tables
of bridge at their home. Mrs.
Frank Aman and Mrs. N. G
Mickel assisted the hostess at
serving the dessert snnrwr Wiv.
score honors was won by Mrs.
nenry .ouner; special prize
went to Mrs. Joseph Rosno and
Mrs. L. A. LeDoux another .ra
cial award. Other guests pres
ent were Mrs. ti. a. Ebner, Mrs.
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t " A
Charles W. (Bill) Hall,
candidate for the position of
director on the Salem school
board, at Monday afternoon's
election.
Henry Saalfeld, Mrs. K. Kruse,
Mrs, M. A. Wagner, Mrs. Alois
Keber, Mrs. P. N. Smith and
Mrs. Leo Barr.
It Took a
But old age finally took a swipe at me. My "Doc" tells me
I've got to get off my feet or be laid up; he claims I've got
rather close veins, or something like that. I'm quite dis
gusted, because, up to now I've had darn good service out
of these old legs.
When "Doc" pronounced his sentence I yelled like a
Comanche Indian. "How the heck is the restaurant going
to run without me?" "Doc" squelched me with this answer:
"You've done a lot of bragging about your efficient help,
GOOD FOOD and I've eaten your FAMOUS ROYAL
FISH N CHIPS, they sell themselves, so unless you've been
feeding the public a lotta bunk in your advertising, the
restaurant will operate just as well without you cluttering
up the place." Darn his hide; I know he's right.
Oh Well! ! At least it gives me a chance to get out of a
lot of hard work and maybe someone who reads this adv.
will phone me, or better yet, come and eat one of our de
licious CHICKEN FRIED STEAKS and then when he has
his bill paid, offer me A POSITION where I can sit in a
nice soft chair and let me put my feet on the desk. I'll let
you know what happens next Saturday. So long until then.
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Timber Carnival
Queen Race Starts
Albany, June 18 June Ruark,
22, stood at the top of the list of
ten candidates for 1949 Timber
Carnival Queen as the first tab
ulation of votes was made.
According to Larry Allen, pin
sales chairman, the Elks-sponsored
candidate totaled 12,850
points from the sale of Timber
Carnival buttons and car tickets.
Standings of the other queen
aspirants are as follows: Audrey
Hill, Maxine Rae, Gloria Fintell,
Lenora Maynard, Georgine Plat
tener, Laura Belle Tigner, Bar
bara Roy; Clara Jane Briggs,
Virginia Schroeder.
The winner will be crowned
at Waverly lake Friday night,
July 1, it was announced.
Aumsville Teaching
Positions Filled
Aumsville The Aumsville
school board has hired the fol
lowing teachers for the coming
year: Roy Girod, eighth; Mrs.
Cleora Parks, seventh; Mrs.
Mary Sehon, sixth; Miss Ger
trude Scovil, fifth, Mrs. Teslia
Kennon, fourth; Miss Grace
Richards, third; Mrs. Margaret
Fellers, second, and Miss
Mayme Bostrach, first grade.
Long Time
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