2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 23, 1949
Mayor Says Progress Made
jln Solving Railroad Issue
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Progress has been made, In the opinion of Mayor Robert L.
Elfstrom, toward relieving Salem from its girdle of steel.
I He so expressed himself today when commenting on the Tues-
day night conference between Salem and Southern Pacific of
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j Rites Friday
For Mrs. Hunt
J Graveside services will be
held at the IOOF cemetery here
J Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock for
sMrs. Minnie G. Hunt, former
'Salem resident and late resident
of Berkeley, Calif., who died in
I that city Monday.
! Officiating at the service,
which will be under the direc
tion of W. T. Rigdon company.
will be Rev. Brooks Moore.
' Mrs. Hunt was the widow of
the late M. W. Hunt, Salem at
'torney for a number of years
Sand son of G. W. Hunt, early
Oregon pioneer. Since 1914 she
had made her home in Berkeley
iwith her daughter, Mrs. W. J.
Phillips.
I Surviving besides the daugh
ter are two sons, George W.
iHunt of Madison, Wis., and Ho
imer H. Hunt of Paradise Valley,
! Calif.; two brothers, Fred Mc-
iMonles and John McMonies
both of Los Angeles, Calif.; five
grandchildren and six great
'grandchildren.
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jBrannan Plan
I Washington, June 23 W A
Jgroup of republicans girded to
iday for a fight against ven n
'"trial run" for the Truman ad
ministration's new farm pro-
'grarn.
i The battle may echo in next
'years congressional campaign
ling in farm areas.
A house agriculture subcom
Jmittee yesterday approved 6 to
a new farm bill that would:
J 1. Permit Secretary of Agri
iculture Brannan to experiment
Jon three crops in 1950 with his
iproposcd "production payment"
farm program. Brannan con
tends his program would mean
cheaper food and assured Jn
lOome for farmers.
J 2. Kill the 1948 Aiken law,
which is scheduled to set up
'next year a flexible 60 to 90 per
cent of parity price support pro
'gram for agriculture. Parity is a
iPrice level set arbitrarily some
years ago as a standard consid
ered fair to both farmers and
consumers.
3. Create a new parity-of-farm
'income system, as proposed by
Brannan, and support prices of
imajor crops at 100 percent of
that standard. This might mean
ifor most crops the highest price
supports ever attempted by the
government.
J Prices of crops are now sup
ported at 90 percent of the old
parity standard.
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"Vice President J. W. Corbett
and District Superintendent L.
P. Hopkins of the railroad com
pany came to Salem at our re
quest for the conference," the
mayor said. "It wasn't expected
they would make definite com
mittments at the first meeting.
But they agreed to send engi
neers for further conferences and
studies, and that, I think, is
progress toward a solution
"In other words," said the
mayor, "the situation Is not hope
less, as some seem to believe,
but it is a long-range matter."
The mayor believes the im
portant thing at the start is for
city of Salem, county and state
leaders to decide just what they
want, and then try to convert
the railroad company to the
plan.
"We are considerably unde
cided ourselves," he said.
They mayor doesn't think any
thing was said by Corbett and
Hopkins at the Tuesday night
meeting that would Indicate the
Southern Pacific would refuse
to share in the expense of re
moval or grade separation of
tracks on 12th and other streets.
Some of the figures mention
ed in an off-hand way, he thinks,
were too big.
'The guess that it would cost
$10,000,000 to tunnel the main
line on 12th street is without
any basis on investigation," he
said.
The mayor sees a possibility
of a four or five-way sharing of
of cost In any project under
taken. The city, county, state
and railroad company should be
interested, he said, -and possibly
an angle could be found that
would bring in the federal gov
ernment. Of four proposals that have
been made for relf the mayor
thinks grade separation on the
streets crossing the main line,
by building underpasses, is third
in desirability.
"Most desirable In my opin
ion," he said, "is to carry the
main line down the river, and I
don't think any investigation
has been made to see if it is
practical or not.
"Second, I favor tunneling the
main line. Then comes grade
separation, and in fourth place
I would put the plan to segre
gate the tracks to make possible
the Installation of a signal sys
tem at the Intersections."
Army Warehouses Burn
Honolulu, June 23 OP) Fire
early today razed eight former
army warehouses, destroying an
estimated $500,000 worth of
electrical equipment and food.
The warehouses were part of a
group of 25 now used commer
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Negroes Accept
A White Queen
Johannesburg, South Africa,
June 23 UP Bamangwato
tribesmen defied their regent
today and voted overwhelming
ly to accept a white queen.
She is Ruth Williams, a for
mer London typist who married
ithe chief-designate of the tribe,
Seretse Khama, last October.
After three days of complicat
ed ritualistic conferences at
their capital, Serowe, Bechuana
land, only about a fifth of the
9000 pow-wowlng natives voted
against accepting Seretse and
his white wife as their leaders.
Seretse is 27 and his wife is 24.
Earlier in the day the aged
regent, Tshekedi Khame, told
the gathering: "The white wom
an is unsuitable to Seretse and
the tribe. I will hand over the
throne to him, but if he brings
his white .wife I will fight him
to the end."
The regent had attempted to
lay down the law but was over
ruled on a vote by a show of
hands.
Since Tuesday the tribesmen
have been discussing whether
Seretse should rule them. Speak
er after speaker arose before the
throng gathered under the thorn
trees of Serowe to denounce the
marriage.
Seretse went to London four
years ago to study law at Ox
ford university. While in Britain
he married 24-year-old Ruth
Williams, a former typist, with
out getting permission from the
tribe's elders.
Road Repair Work
On 50-50 Basis Starts
Work on the county's 50-mile
program for reconstruction of
oiled roads damaged by freezing
of last winter got under way
Monday. Priming of 15 miles of
these roads was completed re
cently and actual oiling of these
and 25 miles of other road wflich
need repair now has the go
ahead with the arrival of the
first car of oil at the Quinaby
loading station early Thursday
morning.
First work is being done on
market road 22, the Geer road
where there are three patches
totalling about half a mile to
be done. From there the crew
will move to market road 44,
Pratum-Centerview road for a
700 foot stretch and from there
go to market road 51, Gervais
Simmons church - Macleay road
where the longest strip of the
summer's program will be done
about 5 Mi miles which was scari
fied and given a priming coat
earlier.
Hospital Donation Voted
The board of directors of the
Oregon Pulp & Paper company,
meeting Thursday, voted a con
tribution of $15,000 to the Sa
lem Hospital Development Pro
gram. The announcement w&3
made following the meeting. .
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A'ALAN BAXTER
Salem's Company B Wins
Honors at Fort Lewis
Salem's company B, 182nd infantry regiment, Oregon National
Guard, now training at Fort Lewis, has taken honors at summer
training again this year.
The company, commanded by Capt. Burl Cox, Thursday was
chosen by a committee of three officers of the Oregon National
Guard, as the unit to receive the
Portland 41st Division Post, Am
erican Legion, efficiency trophy.
The trophy is presented for
top efficiency in armory drill at
tendance, field training atten
dance, federal inspection and ar
mory and field training. Last
year company B was rated as
one of the top companies at sum
mer training at Camp Clatsop.
Other officers of the company,
are First Lt. Byron Hazelton,
First Lt. Joseph P. Meier, Sec
ond Lt. Waldo Gilbert, Second
Lt. Louis L. Osborn, Jr., and
Second Lt. Roger B. Todd.
At the same time that the
award of the trophy was an
nounced wire services reported
the naming of Lt. Col. Arthur L.
Lowe, veteran 41st division of
ficer of Corvallis, as civil affairs
and military government officer
for the 41st division, effective
July 1. Lowe, who was with the
division in the South Pacific
Mrs. Fones Held for Theft
Of $1,135 University Funds
Mrs. Selma Fones, 28-year-old mother of two children and an
employe of Willamette university, Thursday awaited a hearing
in district court on larceny charges involving the disappearance
of $1,135.60 in school funds.
The woman was arrested Wednesday night by Salem detec
tives as the climax to an invest!-
gauon 01 seve, auj.. o,
January with recommendations
which were acceptable, accord
ing to Robert Fenix, financial
vice president of the school. She
was identified as a former W AC.
But shortly after she joined
the office staff, cash began to
disappear from the cash drawer
to which she had access. Con
fronted with the information,
Mrs. Fones signed two separate
statements for city detectives ad
mitting the thefts.
The first money to be missed
was noticed on February 21
when a total of $76.95 disap
peared from the cash drawer.
The cash drawer, to which Mrs.
Fones had access, was also short
on March 3, April 7 and 8.
On April 29, a total of $390
was removed from a wooden
box stored in a walk-in vault in
the university office, and on
June 17, $645 in additional funds
was reported taken from a safe.
After the charge was lodged,
Mrs. Fones was taken to the
Marion county jail and held in
lieu of $1500 bail, but the po
lice investigation is expected to
continue in an effort to find the
unnamed man to whom Mrs.
Fones said she delivered the
money.
No statement concerning the
purpose behind the thefts could
be obtained from Mrs. Fones, po
lice were expected to probe the
possibility of the truth of her
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NEWS!
during the last war, is a staff
member of the Corvallis Ga
zette Times.
Wednesday an individual com
mendation was issued to an Ore
gon National Guardsman, First
Sgt. Clinton L. Teems. The ser
geant, member of Astoria's com
pany C, 162nd engineer combat
battalion, was cited for "initia
tive and judgment in the extin
guishing of a grass fire in the
demolition area" last week.
Maj. Gen. William R. Carroll,
division commander, stated that
Teems organized his men into
effective fire fighting crews and
prevented spread of the flames
to nearby heavy timber.
The pay line at Fort Lewis
Friday will bring end to the
summer training for the units of
the 41st division. Men of the
Oregon and Washington guards
will take home with them pay
amounting to $650,000.
story that she had stolen
the
funds for another person's use.
Her husband, Richard, was
nabbed by Salem police on Jan
uary 30, 1949, on a charge of
obtaining money under false
pretenses. He pleaded guilty to
the charge and on March 31 he
was placed on three year's pro
bation. At that time, the court
ordered him to obey all laws,
work and support his family and
to make restitution of the funds
he had obtained.
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Anne Gibbens
Wins Award
Miss Anne Gibbens, Salem
high school student who has won
national recognition in her mu
sic work and numerous awards,
has been awarded another schol
arship, this one a special schol
arship given to all 78 students
who participated in the Week
end of Music last winter. It Is
for a stay and training at Lake
Arrowhead Music camp, June 26
to August 7.
Miss Gibbens will leave for
the camp Friday. John Barnett,
associate conductor of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, will be
director for the group. Miss Gib
bens is to take private oboe les
sons from Joseph Rizzo, who is
the first chair oboist with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic, and
she will take private piano les
sons from Doris Knell Rizzo.
Eugene Ormandy Is to be guest
conductor for the symphony,
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FRIDAY
SATAN'S
HELL DRIVERS
8:00 P.M.
Hollywood Bowl
Thrills! Chills! Suspense!
Portland Rd. Just north of
Salem City Limits.
Soonsored by Salem Folic
Aerial Patrol
Admission 1.50 tax
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which is billed as the Symphony
Beneath the Pines. The students
will have opportunity to take in
Hollywood Bowl concerts ana
other events.
Miss Gibbens is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gibbens.
Scripps Buys into
The Dalles Chronicle
The Dalles. Ore.. June 23 11
Scripps Newspapers, Inc., Seat
tle, has bought an interest in
The Dalles Chronicle and the
Newspaper will become a mem
ber of the Scripps league.
Chronicle Publisher Robert S.
Howard reported today.
The Scripps organization pub
lishes the Provo (Utah) Herald.
Logan (Utah) Herald-Journal
and Coeur D'Alene (Idaho)
Press and operates radio stations
KNEW at Spokane and KVNI
at Coeur D'Alene.
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