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    r Russia Presents
Big 4 Bill for
Quitting Austria r
G apital m, Joiim
43 Day Drought
Spoils Crops in 8
Connally Urges
Ratification of
Atlantic Pact
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Northern States
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61st Year, No. 158
Entered u ifleond oluf
matter at Salem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, July 5, 1949
(22 Pages) Price 5c
Oil Areas Wanted,
Refining and Shipping
Plants
London. July 5 VP) Russia
itemized her bill for quitting
Austria at four-power talks to
day on an Austrian indepen
dence pact.
Georgi N. Zarubin handed in
a nine-paragraph draft of the
treaty's article five, which deals
with German assets in Austria.
He added five annexes listing all
the pros and cons of Russia's
claims.
Those annexes disclosed for
the first time the exact areas,
properties, plants and assets
Russia wants as part settlement
i,J her general war reparations
claims on Germany. The items
she is claiming in Austria used
to be owned by the Germans,
r Allied Concessions
- The Russian proposal was
based on the agreement on Aus
tria reached by the Big Four
foreign ministers in Paris last
month. . .
The Paris agreement conced
ed Russia extensive oil rights
in east Austria. It allowed Rus
sia properties of the Danube
Shipping company in Bulgaria,
Hungary, Romania as well as in
east Austria. It also bound the
Soviets to turn over all other
former German-held properties
to the Vienna government in re
turn for a lump sum payment of
$130,000,000 by Austria over
the next six years.
The five annexes show
1. Seven areas in east Austria
where Russia would be entitled
to extract oil.
Ask 26 Oil Areas
2. Twenty-six areas where
Russia would be entitled to ex
plore for oil, totalling in area
about 3000 square miles.
3. Five operating oil refining
plants which Russia would re
ceive. 4. Forty-six plants, properties
and other items which were
owned by the. Danube Shipping
company, which Russia wants;
37 of the company's river ves
sels; one of its shipyards; and
' four areas In the port of Vienna
which the Soviets would take
over.
- 5. More than 300 properties
) which Russia would hand back
to Austria in return for the lump
sum settlement.
Pad Signed for
Snake Bridges
Oregon and Idaho have signed
an agreement to improve bridge
crossings over the Snake river,
'State Highway Engineer R. H.
Baldock said today.
The agreement calls for imme
diate construction of new bridges
at Weiser and Payette. And it
also provides for widening or re
placement of the bridges at On
tario and Nyssa, with Oregon to
decide when this work shall be
gin. All costs would be split equal
ly between the two states.
With respect to the new Wei
ser bridge, Idaho will make foun
dation tests, and Oregon will
prepare designs and specifica
tions. For the Payette bridge, Ore
gon will make the foundition
tests and prepare the designs.
The contracts will be award
ed jointly.
Baldock said federal aid funds
will be used on all the four
. bridges.
The new construction on the
Ontario and Nyssa bridges might
be some time away, as the high
way commission has taken no ac
tion on setting a date.
Baldock said the Payette and
Weiser bridges are most critical,
since they are inadequate for
present-day truck loads. The
Payette bridge has a limit of
only 6 or 7 tons, he said.
$85 Million More
Asked for Britain
London, July 5 VP) The labor
government made a surprise re
quest to parliament today for
21,338,894 ($85,355,576) more
spending money.
The supplementary budget es
timates came three months aft
er the chancellor of the ex
chequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, in
a "hard labor' budget speech
called for a whopping .3,826,-
000,000 ($15,304,000,000) to run
the country until next March
31.
. Today's added requests sur
prised members of the house of
commons who recalled that
Cripps' budget speech had
warned that only in "special
cases, such as major changes of
'policy," would supplementary
estimates be submitted.
Most of the new estimates
were earmarked for use in Brit
ish colonies.
U N Calls for
Action to Raise
Economic Level
Lake Success, July S VP) The
United Nations has called for na
tional and international action
"to raise the world level of eco
nomic activity," which it said
was levelling off after the post
war industrial boom.
In its annual economic survey,
the UN noted that in 1948 "for
the first time since the end of
the war, there was a reversal in
the upward trend of prices, a
check to the expansion of pro
duction and some increase in
unemployment in a number of
countries." It said positive ac
tion was necessary "to counter
possible recession."
Economic Report Filed
The 117-page world economic
report for 1948 was' compiled
by the UN secretariat primarily
for the use of delegates to the
UN economic and social coun
cil which opens its ninth ses
sion in Geneva, Switzerland, to
day. Continued on Page S, Column 7)
Czech Bishops
Branded Nazis
Prague, July 5 UP) Czecho
slovakia's Roman Catholic
bishops were accused today by
a government official of having
collaborated with the nazis dur
ing the occupation!
This is one of the charges the
government apparently intends
to press against the church hier
archy to break their resistance
to communist control. The com
munist regime claims that the
church leaders are "unpatriotic
and waging anti-state activities"
because they refuse to negotiate
new state-church accord on
government terms.
The charge of collaboration
with the nazis was made despite
the fact that the whole nation
knows that Archbishop Josef
Beran of Prague, the nation's
primate and leader in Dachau
concentration camp.
The collaboration charge
against the Catholic leaders was
made by Prof. Laco Novomesky
commissioner of education for
Slovakia.
He spoke at ceremonies com
memorating founding of the an
cient monastery at Devin, New
Bratislava. The ceremonies were
part of a long week-end of high
regilious holidays.
Congress Meets in
Temporary Quarters
Washington, July 5 VP) Con
gress met for the first time today
in its temporary summer quar
ters.
The house convened in the not-
so-spacious ways and means
committee room in the new
house office building. The sen
ate met in the old supreme court
chamber in the senate wing of
the Capitol.
They moved out of their reg
ular chambers so that workmen
could remodel them.
It was apparent right off the
bat that the new quarters would
cramp the style of the lawmak
ers.
For one thing, the public is
barred. There is no room for
visitors to look on in admira
tion while senators and repre
sentatives fling the forensics around.
Record Holiday Death Toll;
678 Are Killed
lay me Aasociatea rrew
A record accidental death toll for the Fourth of July marked
the nation's observance of this year's extended Independence day
holiday.
Latest figures showed 678 killed in violent accidents.
The grim report on the country's celebration of the three-day
holiday was: traffic fatalities,
son- rtroumin. 24S- vlnlpnt sent millions to lakes and rivers
deaths from miscellaneous!
causes, 134. The country-wide
survey covered violent deaths
from 6 p.m. local time Friday
to midnight Monday.
The 1949 toll was the highest
ever recorded for any Fourth of
July. The previous record of ac
cidental deaths on the Independ
ence day holiday was 628 in the
three-day period in 1941. This
year's mark compared with 571
deaths reported over a three
day period in 1948.
Sweltering weather across the
nation brought an outpouring
of millions onto the highways
headed for vacation lands and
resorts. The traffic toll, as gen
erally expected, was the leader,
with 289 fatalities on the high
ways. The national safety coun
cil had estimated 290 persons
would lose their lives in traffic
mishaps over the holiday.
The hot and humid weather
Manhunt for
Rapist-Slayer
In California
Sonoma, Calif., July 5 VP)
Peace officers patrolled north
ern California highways today
in their search for a man known
as Hank tq question him in a
double slaying and rape in Jack
London's scenic Valley of the
Moon.
A woman clad only in a T
shirt and bleeding from a beat
ing fled hysterically down a
mountain road yesterday to tell
a picnic party of the crimes. Of
ficers who investigated found
two men dead in the mountain
home from which she had fled
The two dead men evidently
had been clubbed with a four
poung stone pestle once used by
Indians to grind grain. It was
found, bloody and hair-covered,
outside the house.
Victims Identified
Chief Criminal Investigator
Andy Johansen of the sheriff's
office identified the victims as
Peter J. Jensen, 55, owner of
the house and chief landscape
gardener of the Sonoma state
home; and Peter J. Flint, 31,
newly - commissioned merchant
marine lieutenant of Richmond,
Calif.
Flint, member of a Sonoma
valley family which dated from
the days of 1849, was reported
a long-time friend of Jensen.
Officers issued an all-points
bulletin for a mystery man iden
tified to them only as "Hank."
He last was seen driving Flint's
1941 Buick convertible.
Mother of Two Raped
In a serious, but apparently
not critical condition in a hos
pital here was Mrs. Eva Paget
of Berkeley, Calif., 27-year-old
mother of two children. It was
her story of being beaten and
raped which led officers to the
slayings.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Truman Lists
Major Musts
Washington, July 5 (U.R) The
democratic high command made
up its mind today to fight for
action on social security, mini
mum wage and farm legislation
before congress quits for 1949.
That decision was reached at
a White House conference be
tween President Truman and his
"Big Four" congressional lead
ers. They reviewed the whole
legislative situation and their
chances of making good on at
least part of their party's cam
paign promises before the end
of this session.
They left open the question of
whether to give labor legislation
another whirl in the house. But
it looks like efforts to repeal
the Taft-Hartley law will go
over another year or two.
Speaker Sam' Rayburn told
reporters he and House Major
ity Leader John W. McCormack
of Massachusetts informed the
president that they expected the
house to act on the social secur
ity, minimum wage and farm
bills before it adjourns next
month.
Legislation to increase the
minimum wage standard from
40 to 75 cents an hour is also
out of committee in the senate
and awaiting floor action there.
Senate Majority Leader Scott
W. Lucas of Illinois, who also
sat in on the White House par
ley, has pledged senate action on
at least a "trial run" for the ad
ministration's farm plan.
Violently
the three-day period was a rec
ord-breaking 240.
The previous high was 192 last
year.
Michigan's hundreds of lakes
lured thousands and 25 persons
drowned in the state. Twenty
one drowned in New York, in
eluding at least four in New
York City when a sudden storm
swamped hundreds of small
boats off-shore.
The survey showed no fatali
ties from fireworks.
The death toll was the heavi
est in- Texas 47 killed in vi
olent accidents. Thirty-two were
killed in traffic mishaps; eight
drowned and seven lost their
lives in other accidents of a
violent nature. New York's 45
fatalities ranked second and
Michigan's toll was 42.
No violent deaths were report
ed in Kansas. Nevada or the
District of Columbia.
Wounded Youth Married in Hospital Alwyn (Sonny)
Ivers, 19, seriously wounded in a battle with a gunman Friday
whom he shot and killed in "lovers' lane" battle, is married to
his 16-year-old sweetheart Betty Bowen in a ceremony held
at his bedside in General hospital, Los Angeles. Left to right:
The Rev. Walter Pegg, who officiated; Betty Bowen; Norma
Bowen, 14, the bride's sister and maid-of-honor; Alwyn (in
bed); Arthur Cranfield, 17, the bestman; Leslie Ivers, Al
wyn's brother; Mrs. Ruth Ivers, Alwyn's mother; Mrs. Sybil
Drake, Betty's mother and Gust Drake, Betty's step-father.
(AP Wirephoto)
Initial Steps Taken in
Reforestation Program
Gov. Douglas McKay, chairman of the Oregon state board, of
forestry, this week announced
to inaugurate the state's forest
The program made possible
last general election, which provided for the issuance of general
Firecrackers
Started Fires
B7 the Associated Pre&i)
Firecrackers started scores of
fires in Oregon yesterday, and
several burned on today.
At least one home was de
stroyed. Several hundred acres
of range land in eastern Oregon
were blackened.. . Scores of
smaller fires in western Oregon
did lesser damage..- ' i - -
The home destroyed was on
route 2, Tigard. Children of
one of the two families living
there shot firecrackers on the
porch and were blamed for the
blaze.
S. R. Bennett, range manager
of the bureau of land manage
ment at Baker, said a fire crew
fought one blaze near Pondosa
24 hours before getting it under
control. A hundred acres of
range were burned. Another 100
acres burned near Telocaset, and
80 acres in Pyle Canyon, near
La Grande.
Eugene called in all its volun
teers and off-duty firemen to
cope with a dozen grass fires on
the city s outskirts last night.
None was serious.
Roseburg's Mt. Nebo cast a
smokey pall over the city yes
terday after a firecracker set
grass flaming up the butte that
rises sharply from the city's
western edge.
Buried Alive for
Record 45 Days
Zanesville, O., July 5 VP)
Raymond "Demp" Emmert of
Zanesville walked around among
the living today proud of be
ing called "t h e buried alive
champion."
The 40-year-old unemployed
World War II veteran emerged
from a deluxe "grave" yester
day. He had been underground
just 40 minutes short of 45
days.
"I feel fine," he said. Then he
sat down until he could get
some strength in his legs.
The Zanesville man announc
ed he was ready to defend his
title anytime someone wanted
to set a new mark. The old one,
set in 1938, belonging to another
Zanesville resident, L. G. Mc
Intyre, who did his horizontal
hibernation in Chicago.
Emmert was buried six feet
under in a wooden casket, with
a shaft leading from his face to
the surface. Down the shaft
came his food and wine, and
thousands visited his burial place
for a peek down the shaft.
WEATHER
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Partly cloudy tonight and
Wednesday. Little change lp
temperature. Lowest tempera
ture expected tonight, 48 de
grees: highest Wednesday, 72.
Conditions will be favorable for
farm work. Maximum yesterday
79. Minimum today 51. Mean
temperature yesterday 61 which
was 4 below normal. Total 24
hour precipitation to 11:30 .m.
today 0. Total pdeclpltatlon for
the month 0. which is .12 of an
Inch below normal. Willamette
river height rt Salem Tuesday
morning. -1.7 feet.
that initial steps had been taken
rehabilitation program.
by a referendum passed at the
obligation bonds by the state, is
to be formally launched at a cer
emony planned by the board of
forestry for July 18 at Owl Camp
at the edge of the Tillamook
burn. At this time the board is
to play host to representatives
from forest conservation groups,
lumber men and civic and gov
ernmental leaders.
Actual rehabilitation work
has been started bv 10 survey
ing crews now running boundary
surveys and type mapmg and
given first priority will be the
area near Owl camp, at the Til
lamook burn.
i tUnder the referendum provid
ing for the forest rehabilitation
a tax of three-fourths of one per
cent, based on the ajsessed val
uation of Oregon property is to
provide the funds for the pro
gram. It is estimated that the
tax will raise $10,500,000.
The state board of forestry at
its recent meeting approved a
two-year budget amounting to
$681,000 for the biennium end
ing June 30, 1951.
Principal item in the budget is
the provision for six tons of for
est tree seed to be used in air
plane seeding with one third of a
pound of seed used per acre.
In addition to direct seeding
the program is to include field
planting, forest fire presuppres-
sion, fire protection, access road
construction, salvage and relog
ging operations, rodent and in
sect control and water and soil
conservation.
Also included in the program
is to be emphasis on increase in
wildlife population.
The forestry board made no
estimate of the cost to the state
of the reforestation program but
emphasized the fact that the for
estry department would feel its
way carefully in the program
and not spend any more money
than necessary.
State Forester Nels Rogers.
however, pointed out that the
program will return to the state
in taxes and other revenues
many times the amount of mon
ey that will be expended and
members of the board concurred
with this.
(Concluded on Pace S, Column 6)
Hiss Trial Goes
To Jury Thursday
New York, July 5 VP) The
perjury trial of Alger Hill will
go to the jury Thursday after
noon, Federal Judge Samuel H.
Kaufman announced today.
A recess was taken until to
morrow morning when Judge
Kaufman said there would be '
very few minutes of testimony
The judge said that following
testimony tomorrow the defense
would have the rev of the day
for its summation. The govern
ment will sum up its case Thurs
day morning. Then the jury
will have lunch in the custody
of the U. S. marshal
After lunch Thursday Judge
Kaufman said he would deliver
his charge to the jury and that
body would begin its delibera
tions. The prosecution rested
its case today after Assistant
U. S. Attorney Thomas F. Mur
phy failed in an attempt to have
the court reconsider its ruling
last week excluding testimony
by a former wife of Gcrhart
Eisler.
Miners on Jobs
Minus Contract
Pittsburgh, July 5 VP) Al
most all of the nation's 480,000
hard and soft coal miners re
turned to the pits today without
a contract at the end of their
annual paid vacation
The work resumption started
the first of an indefinite num
ber of three-day work weeks ex
pressly ordered by John L. Lew
is for miners east of the Missis
sippi. The short work-week or
der scrapped the United Mine
Workers' long-standing "no con
tract, no work" policy.
The new plan will remain in
effect while negotiations be
tween the union and the opera
tors continue on a new contract
to replace the pact that expired
last Thursday.
At least 7,000 of the 55,000
western Pennsylvania soft coal
diggers were forced to remain
idle. Several producers were un
able to resume production this
week because anticipating a
mine shutdown under the old
UMW policy they had given
superintendents and other super-
v l s o r y personnel vacations.
Some of those mines' key per
sonnel was scattered from Cali
fornia to Canada.
in otner instances, repair
work undertaken during the va
cation period has not been com
pleted. Many of the miners will
be able to work again by next
Monday.
Lewis and the soft coal oper
ators resume talks July 12 to
try and reach a new agreement.
99 Years for
Lee Scott, 16
Roanoke, Va., July 5 (IP) At
torneys lor L,ee Scott, 16, are
expected to take steps Wednes
day toward obtaining a modifi
cation of the 99-year prison sen
tence that faces him for the
strangulation slaying of 16-year-
old Dana Marie Weaver.
It is then that Chief Defense
Counsel T. Warren Messick will
tell Judge Kirk A. Kuyk why
he thinks the first degree mur
der verdict should be set aside.
If the judge of Roanoke's Hus
tings (circuit) court does not set
aside the verdict, Scott, Eagle
Scout and choir singer, probab
ly will be formally sentenced by
tne judge Wednesday.
If he is, his counsel has said
the case may be taken to the
Virginia supreme court of ap
peals. A jury Saturday found Scott
guilty of slaying Dana Marie, his
blonde classmate in the kitchen
of Christ Episcopal church here
and fixed his punishment at 99
years in prison
So far Scott has appeared un
affected by the verdict.
His only comment on the pun
ishment has been:
now many books do you
think I could read in that time?
Finest Sweet Cherry Crop
In Recent Years Harvested
The valley's sweet cherry crop has been harvested as far as
the Willamette Cherry Growers, Inc., arc concerned at least,
handlers of the big bulk of the local cherries, and for the first
time since 1946 there is a good crop to report running a little
better than what is considered an average for the valley.
What showers threatened to',5;
damage the crop a time or two
turned out as he predicted
states Robert Shinn, manager of
the association, they benefited
rather than damaged the crop
and caused but a very slight per
centage of cracking. He states
that not only was the moisture
somewhat beneficial in itself
but it cooled the atmosphere and
a better quality resulted, a cool
harvest season always being
helpful to the crop.
The cherry crop this year
wound up pretty well uniform
ly between the hills and the
lower levels. As a rule the hills
produce some late cherries but
Dry Area Stretches
From New Jersey
Through New England
(By the Associated Press)
A scorching 43-day drought
apparently has killed or spoiled
more than $50,000,000 worth of
crops in the farmlands of eight
northeastern states.
Moreover, farm experts warn.
the damage in the area's rich
fruit, vegetable and diary reg
ions will soar to a vastly higher
figure if rains do not come in a
few days.
ine parclied drought region
stretches from southern New
Jersey's truck orop areas up
through the dairies and farms of
New York state, and then fans
out over almost the whole of
southern New England.
High Pressure Area
ine arougnt, wnicn has in
flicted its searing damage for
more than six weeks, ci-mes from
sluggish high pressure area
that fights off potential rain
storms.
Until that high pressure area
is shoved aside, the drought will
last.
New Jersey's draught damage
has reached an estimated $28,
000,000 loss in the potato crop
alone accounts for $4,500,000.
And, along with the tempera
ture, prices of fruit and vegeta
bles have been climbing.
(Concluded on fnge 5, Column 8)
Chiang Asks U.S
Aid Against Reds
New York, July 5 (U.B Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek said
today that he will lead national
ist China's struggle against the
communists and asked the Unit
ed States to help if it wishes to
avert another world war.
Chiang broke his long silence
in an interview with Clyde
Farnsworth, Scripps - Howard
staff writer, and another Amer
ican reporter at Tailpeh, For
mosa.
The 62-year-old Chiang took
a leave of absence as president
of nationalist China last Janu
ary to clear the way for the gov
ernment to make its futile at
tempt to negotiate a peace set
tlement with the communists.
He still is director-general of
the Kuomintang (government
party).
He told the two American
newsmen:
l. Although he may never
resume political office, he can
not give up the "revolutionary
leadership" of China he inherit
ed from Dr. Sun Yat-Sen.
2. If communism is not check
ed in China, it will spread over
the whole of Asia. Should that
occur, another world war would
be inevitable."
3. "The first step, it seems to
me, is for the United States to
reactivate its policy of giving
moral support to the Chinese
government in its fight against
communism."
Italy's Merchant
Fleet Strike Ends
Rome, July 5 VP) Italy's
merchant fleet came back to life
today after settlement of the
seamen's strike which had tied
up most of her ships since June
17.
The strike, which had forced
more than 4000 passengers
bound for New York and South
America to seek other means of
transportation, came at the
height of the tourist season
Shipowners said the walkout
cost them $2,000,000 worth of
business.
The season won a 200 per cent
increase in pensions, a bonus of
five dollars a month in unem
ployment benefits and a defi
nite hiring schedule.
there was an unusual bloom last
spring, all the orchards coming
on pretty well together and as
a result the harvest went off
much the same way.
"It is a good clean crop," com
mented Manager Shinn, "the
best quality being shown for
many years."
Harvesting of the Montmoren
cy sour or pie cherries is now
in progress. The crop is report
ed to be good although the acre
age is very small compared to
that of the sweet varieties.
Willamette Cherry Growers
plant will be busy well up to
the next harvest time handling
and pitting the cherries.
Declares It "Flaming
Sign" to Reds As
Debate Opens
Washington, July 5 U.R) Sen.
Tom Connally, (D., Tex.), asked
the senate today to ratify the
North Atlantic defense pact as a
"flaming sign" to world com
munism that it can advance only
at the risk of war.
Opening debate on the 12-na-
tion treaty, the foreign rela
tions committe chairman told his
colleagues they face a "momen
tous decision" made necessary
by Russia's "divide and conquer"
tactics and the "hostile threat"
of communism.
"The North Atlantic treaty,"
said Connally, "is a flaming sign
to any aggressor, to any nations
that contemplates armed attack
upon a peaceful and law-abiding
nation 'do not enter' the North
Atlantic area."
Not Siamese Twins"
Anticipating a question cer
tain to be raised during the de
bate. Connally asserted that the
pact and the proposed $1,450,-
000,000 arms program are "not
Siamese twins." A vote for the
pact, he said, would not bind a
senator to support the arms plan
as well. However, he expressed
the earnest hope that both would
be approved at this session of
congress.
The mutual defense pact, sign
ed here April 4, pledges the sig
natory powers to regard an arm
ed attack on one as an attack on
all. Each nation promises to
take such action, including use
of force, as it deems necessary
to protect the North Atlantic
security zone.
Docs Not Involve War
The treaty must be ratified by
two-thirds vote in the senate
before it is binding on the Unit
ed States. Administration lead
ers were confident that fewer
than 10 votes would be cast in
opposition to the pact, but they
were not sure that the compan
ion arms program would get
through congress this year.
Connally gave a "categoric
no" to suggestions that the treaty
involves an automatic war com
mitment for this nation. Each
nation would determine for it
self its actions in event of an
armed attack, he said.
But he added a solemn word
of caution.
"Let us not avoid cold realty
by searching for escape clauses,"
he said.
In the event that war should
come, Connally said, the pact
would join together almost 300,
000,000 people of the western
world, along with their armies
and their industrial output.
Fire Raging in
Mine at Baker
Baker, July 5 VP) Installa
tions worth at least $150,000 and
covering some 400 acres are in
danger of compete destruction at
the Virtue mine near here today
as grazing service and Baker
city firemen wage a losing battle
against a fire in the mine shaft
believed to have been caused by
combustion of electrical equip
ment. The fire, noticed early Sunday
at the mine, probably had been
burning for a number of hours,
says Otto Karg, Baker fire chief.
Fire fighting is almost impossi
ble since there is danger of the
mine shaft caving in. The mine
operators are following a policy
of letting the fire in the shaft
burn itself out and Billie Wendt,
president of the Virtue Mine
company, said this morning that
the blaze will not get any worse.
The Virtue mine, located 11
miles east of Baker, has been one
of the most prolific producers in
this state. In its heyday it is be
lieved that the mine produced a
hundred and fifty million dollars y
worth of ore. Production since
the 1860's has been steady' but
not spectacular. Recently the
mine company has employed
only six full time workers but
was intending to increase t h 1 a
force for a new operation to get
under way soon.
5 Girls and 2 Boys
Fourth of July Babes
Five girls and two boys will
observe the Fourth of July as
their birthdays, according to re
ports from Salem hospitals.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence J.
Wichman. 1690 N. 19th and Mr,
and Mrs. R. H. Arnold, 2461 S.
Commercial, are parents of boys
born at the Salem General hos
pital. Daughters were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Beck
with, 565 Vista; Mr. and Mrs.
Roy I. Foster, 1395 Park, and
Mr. and Mrs. John Ankeny, 645
S. 25th.
Two girls were born at the
Salem Memorial hospital. Par
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Oren
Ryals. 5090 Chehalis, and Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Rull, Rt. 4, Box
86.
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