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Ray Lyman Wilbur
Dr. Wilbur Dies
In California
Stanford, Calif, June 27 (U.R)
Former Secretary of Interior
Ray Lyman Wilbur was mourn
ed today by the men who served
with him in the government and
those who knew him more re
cently as chancellor of Stanford
university.
Wilbur, a physician who earn
, ed eminence as an educator and
humanitarian, died yesterday of
a stroke. He was 79.
Wilbur had been ailing since
he was stricken by a heart at
tack five years ago.
His lifelong friend, former
President Herbert Hoover,
whom he served as a cabinet
member, said Wilbur's death
was "a great loss to our coun
try."
"America Is a better place for
his having lived in it," Hoover
said in New York.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow morning at the Stan
ford chapel. Interment will be
private at Alta Mesa cemetery.
Mrs. Tompkins Home
Wheatland Mrs. Willard
Tompkins and children have re
turned home after visiting for
one week at Culver. Mrs. An
thony Perzigian of Waukegan,
111., who came here to be at the
bedside of'her mother, Mrs. W.
B. Magness, 56, has returned
home.
Parking Meiers
Are Selected
Silverton The Miller park
ing meters is the type decided
upon for placement on the
streets of Silverton during the
coming month as "being the
most practicable," was announc
ed the last of the week by the
council committee named to in
vestigate the kind best to in
stall, following the decision at
the June meeting of the alder
men. The investigating committee
estimates revenue from the met
ers at $13,500. A penny insert
ed is said to be for a period of
12 minutes, two cents worth, 24
minutes, five cents for one hour,
and 10 cents for two.
City officials say that 200
meters will be installed, the
time for the work of placing will
require around two weeks.
The cost of installing is $5
each, the meters and bases are
valued at $67.50 each. The com
pany receives one third of the
revenue, if not less than $1.50
per month, the city to claim two
thirds, the city estimating the
first year's gross receipts as
$13,500 with an option of reject
ing at that time.
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Canadians Have
General Election
Montreal, June 27 (U.B Eight
million Canadians vote today in
a general election to choose a
new parliament. ,
The polls open at 8 a. m. and
close at 6 p. m., local standard
time.
After a 60-day campaign
which has been placid by the
United States standards, the li
berals were favdred to retain
their 14-year hold on govern
ment reins.
The party which elects a ma
jority of the 262 members of
the 21st parliament will form
the government, choosing a cab
inetn and a prime minister.
The largest government ar
senal is located on Rock Island,
111., close to the city which took
its name from the island.
TENTING TONIGHT
On the New Campgrounds?
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(Bur not in GREAT quantity ... so hurry! You
Sportsmen, Campers!)
Seven Clubs in
4th Annual Ride
Seven clubs were represented
by the 76 riders who took part
l nthe fourth annual Silverton
trail ride Sunday after a buck
aroo breakfast served by the
Union Hill grange home econo
mics club at the Grange hall,
with Mrs. Vern Scott chairman.
The meal was served 138 peo
ple.
The route of 18 miles was
over the Drift creek ridge trail
to the old CCC camp, where the
group met the chuck wagons at
noon, and back over the Silver
creek canyon trail.
The Salem Saddle club with
Benlhoscope Gets First Dunking The University of South
ern California's new diving bell, called a Benthoscope, with
which scientists hope to explore unplumbed ocean depths,
got its first dunking at Long Beach, Calif. Otis Barton, who
made the initial descent, gets final instructions from Dr.
Maurice Nelles (right) before being sealed into the bell. At
left it descends into water but sprung minor leak at 35-feet.
It is iVt feet in diameter, made of 1-inch steel and sus
pended by 5s-inch steel rope. (AP Wirephoto)
20 members taking part, had
the greatest number of riders,
followed by the Molalla club
with 18. The Portland mounted
posse was first for coming the
greatest distance. Other clubs
were the Linn county posse
from Albany; St. Paul rodeo
riders; Oregon City Territorial
Riders and the host club.
Ronnie Heggie, 6, "veteran"
rider of four years, was the
youngest boy rider, coming from
Sandy, and Rosella Knopp, 11,
Oregon City, the youngest girl
rider. Each received a pair of
spurs. W. A. Heater, Union Hill,
at 71 was the oldest man rider
and Myrtle Stracham, Albany,
first for the "oldest woman ri
der over 40 years." Prizes were
presented by Ted Riches, mas
ter of ceremonies, at the close of
the breakfast.
Coast Bishops
On Pilgrimage i
Cherbourg, France, June 27 1
U.R)iSome 200 members of the!
inaugural Pacific coast pilgrim- j
age arrived today abord the ,
Queen Mary to begin a tour of
historic European shrines.
Led by Archbishop John J.
Mitty of San Francisco, the
group will visit Pans, Lourdes,
Rome, Switzerland and England. ;
It is the biggest pilgrimage from
the American west coast to
visit Europe. By the end of the
summer the pilgrims will have
covered 15,000 miles.
In Paris they will be greeted
by the Catholic hierarchy and
participate in special religious
ceremonies in Notre Dame cathe
dral and the Sacre Coeur. At
Lourdes, Archbishop Mitty will
celebrate a special mass.
Eight prelates in addition to
Archbishop Mitty were in the
group. They were the most
Rev. Edward D. Howard, arch
bishop of Portland, Ore.; the
most Rev. William J. Condon,
bishop of Great Falls, Mont.; the
Most Rev. Hubert M. Newell, co
adjutor bishop of Cheyenne,
Wyo.; the Most Rev. Apollinaris
W. Baumgartner, vicar apostolic
of Guam; the Most Rev. Robert
J. Armstrong, bishop of Sacra
mento, Calif.; the Most Rev.
Thomas K. Gorman, bishop of
Reno, Nev.; the Most Rev. James
J. Sweeney, bishop of Honolulu.
capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, June 27, I949-r3
Famed Cop Dies
Portland, Ore., June 27 W
Louis S. Sonney, 61, the former
Centralia policeman who cap
tured the notorious Roy Gard
ner, bank robber, died here Sat
urday night.
Almost one-third of Canada's
surface is covered by forest.
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