10 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 15, 1949
ONE OF THE BEST
Marine Corps Reserve Unit
Observes Second Birthday
By MARGARET MAGEE
Sunday, July 17, is an important date to many marines in this
area and to a group of citizens who gave their assistance in or
ganizing the reserve unit here.
That date marks the second anniversary of the activation of
the Salem Organized Marine Corps Reserve unit, C battery, 104
"-"howitzer battalion, with Mai.
Leonard G. Hicks as command
ing officer.
Composing the unit when it
was activated two years ago
were four officers and nine en
listed men. Three of those of
ficers and five of the enlisted
men are still on the units rolls.
Officers with the unit when
it was activated and still with it
are Maj. Hicks, Capt. Gene M.
Williams and First Lt. Carl J.
I. No longer with the
First Lt. James A. Hen-
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Queen Shops Blonde Ruth
Khama, 24, former London
typist who married African
Tribal Ruler Seretse Khama,
goes shopping in the British
capital. She is awaiting rul
ing by the British colonial of
fice as to whether she will be
permitted to rejoin her hus
band in Pretoria, South Afri
ca. The wedding of Ruth and
Seretse caused a crisis in his
tribe as several elder members
refused to accent a white
queen. His uncle, who was re
gent in Seretse's absence, ab
dicated in protest against
bringing Ruth to Pretoria.
(AP Wirephoto)
Dayton
Theater at
Sold to Ratliffs
Dayton A transaction was
made recently, when Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Willert sold the Day
ton theater to Mr. and Mrs. Paul
D. Ratliff of Spokane, Wash.,
becoming effective July 1.
The theatre has been re
named the Daytona theater and
will continue the same type of
good pictures that have been
Ihown in the past.
July IS and 16 have been the
planned dates for the opening
observance and an added attrac
tion will be the presentation of
Earl Taylor, well-known Port
land organist, in person at the
keyboard of his Hammond elec
tric organ. Mr. Taylor will play
favorite selections, both classic
al and popular, from 6:30 to 7
and from 9 to 9:30.
Willert is the local postmas
ter. He built the theater and has
operated it since last fall.
First Ripe Peaches
Jefferson J. J. McGill farm
er of Greens Bridge district has
shown his ability as a fruit
grower, He set a four and one
half acres of one year old peach
trees 14 months ago and they
are bearing fruit this year. He
has already picked ripe peaches
off the trees and expects to
pick around two or three
bushels before the season is
over. In all the years he has
been engaged in raising fruit
this is the first time the trees
have born in such a short time
PLASTER
YOUR WALLS
There Is No
SUBSTITUTE .
Pumilite West Salem
mm
THANK HEAVEN
I HEARD EVERY
WORD THE
PREACHER SAID!
"Aodoh.whai
a blessing: tl is'
I miss nothing
i at church oi
the movies.
1 never ask
; people to re
, pest.
A new life
began tor mc
when a marvellous free book fold me
II about correcting bearing loss."
You too, should learn the full facts.
Come in for free demonstration today
JAMES TAFT It ASSO.
228 Oregon Bid.
Salem Dial 2-4491
Batteries for All Aids
Enlisted men with the unit
when it was activated and still
having their names on the rolls
are Staff Sgt. Herman M. Doney,
Sgt. George H. Wilkinson, Cpl.
Emerson V. Murphy, Sgt.
Dwaine C. O'Harra and Pfc.
David S. Berger. Those no longer
with the unit are Tech. Sgt.
James N. Bacon, Staff Sgt.
Thomas A. Roberts, Jr., Cpl.
Robert A. Bailey, and Cpl. John
D. Wiles.
Less than two months after
activation on September 3, the
office of inspector-instructor for
the unit was activated and open
ed on the third floor of City hall.
In the office, when it opened
were Master Sgt. Lloyd W
Barker, who is still in charge of
the office, and Cpl. Arthur A.
Caipponi. Later the office was
moved to the airport and this
spring, when the Naval and Ma
rine Corps Reserve training cen
ter was completed, was moved
there.
Two and a half months after
the units activation it had five
officers and 31 enlisted person
nel. By December 31, 1947
there were six officers and 87
enlisted men in the unit and
February 6, 1948, it reached its
full authorized strength of seven
officers and 135 enlisted men.
Since that time the unit, the
first to reach full authorized
strength in the 13 th Marine
corps reserve district, has main
tained its full strength with a
monthly turnover of approxi
mately five per cent of its en
listed personnel.
The Salem outfit, which this
year takes its summer training
August 20 to September 3,
had it; first summer training
period in the summer of 1948
with 73 enlisted men and four
officers going to Camp Joseph
Pendleton, Calif., for two weeks'
period. The year before four
enlisted men from the Salem
unit took their summer training
with a Portland unit.
The mission of the Marine
Corps Reserve is to furnish per
sonnel effectively trained for
integration with and assimila
tion by the Fleet Marine Forces
in event of immediate mobiliza
tion. The training objective is
preparation of each individual
of the unit so that he may fill
a mobilization billet within a
Fleet Marine Force unit with a
minimum of additional prelim
inary training.
However, the unit here does
not limit its activities to this
but has participated in local
parades, furnishes firing squads
for military funerals for return
ed Marine war dead upon re
quest of the next of kin and has
had both a basketball and soft
ball team through 1948 and
1949.
During 1948-49 the Salem
unit maintained a pistol and
rifle team with the following
members: First Lt. W. D. Sims,
Tech. Sgt. E. J. Kelm, Pfc. G. B.
Crump, Staff Sgt. Herman M.
Doney. Staff Sgt. R. E. Unruh,
Cpl. W. T. Baldwin, Pfc. K. H.
Johnson, Sgt. J. W. Marcroft and
Pfc. B. C. Jeffcries.
The unit won the Northwest
Company Pistol league cham-
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Marine Unit's Birthday Sunday Salem's organized Ma
rine Corps Reserve unit, C battery of the Fourth 105 mm
Howitzer battalion (above) which Sunday celebrates the
second anniversary of its activation is pictured at Camp Pen
dleton, Calif., August 26 of last year just prior to taking
part in a battalion parade in which formal presentation of
colors was made. In front at right is the commander of the
unit, Maj. Leonard G. Hicks. (Below) is a picture taken just
after the unit was organized here. In picture are (front row,
left to right) Staff Sgt. Herman M. Doney, Sgt. Dwaine G.
O'Harra, Staff Sgt. Robert E. Unruh, Cpl. Alonzo A. Esau,
Cpl. Kester D. Leibolt and Cpl. Emerson V. Murphy; (second
row, left to right) Wilbur Cammeron, Earl L. Ishan, Tech.
Sgt. Donald H. Burt, Cpl. Robert A. Bailey, First Lt. James A.
Henry and Cpl. Rado T. Sutich; and (third row, left to right)
Michael Borschowa, Sgt. William H. Whiles, Sgt. Robert L.
Newell, Arnold J. Olson, Cpl. Gene R. Anderson, Cpl. Bruce
T. Banks, Sgt. Ray B. Moor and Cpl. Harvey D. Weitman.
Men in the picture still with the unit are Doney, O'Harra,
Unruh, Esau, Murphy, Burt, Whiles, Newell and Anderson.
pionship this year with an un
defeated record of 10 wins and
no losses and an average score
of 901.4 points. The unit was
in second place in 1949 in the
Company Rifle league with a
score of 780.10. First place was
taken by a Portland unit which
had a score of 819.80 points.
About five months after acti
vation of the unit, on November
10, 1947, (the 172nd anniversary
of the Marine corps, a publicity
campaign, both local and na
tional, was instigated for the
Marine Corps Reserve. Janu
ary 12-20 was designated as Cit
izens' Marine Corps Reserve
week.
In Salem a civilian committee
organized November 10, 1947,
assisted in securing men for the
unit here. Members of that
committee were Clarence R
Schrock, Milan Boniface, Craig
Carver, W. J. Brown, Lee
Bishop, Kelly Owen, Fred Star
rctt. Rex Kimmell and Carl
Greidcr.
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Abiqua River Flow
Will Be Determined
Silverto n At a belated
monthly meeting of the city
council, the aldermen voted
$500 for the measuring the flow
of water in the Abiqua during
low water season, to be conduct
ed by the city planning commis
sion under the direction of City
Manager Robert E. Borland.
The city parking meters have
been installed and were accept
ed for use by the council. Re
ports of a filtering plant will
be computed.
A total tax levy of $23,521 of
which $12,354 is out-side the
six-percent limitation, was ap
proved by the council, which
Accuser Screen Actress
Paula Drew (above), 23, has
accused her internationally
famous psychiatrist husband,
Dr. I. Altshuler of Detroit,
Mich., of trying to drive her
crazy. Dr. Altshuler is re
nowned for his treatment of
patients with the aid of mu
sic. (Acme Telephoto)
Lebanon Doctor Named
Lebanon Dr. David E. Reid
of Lebanon, has been selected
as a member of the house of
delegates of the American Osteo
pathic associatin, holding its
annual convention in St. Louis,
July 11-15. The house of dele
gates is the policy making body
of the association. Dr. Reid will
represent the Oregon Osteo
pathic association.
makes a city budget of $115,521
for the coming year's expenses.
Dayton Installs
New City Pump
Dayton The new Dayton
city pump was hooked up and
water turned into the city
mains. The new well, situated
on a low hill one mile north of
Dayton, is 12 inches in diameter
and 208 feet deep. It is lined
with steel casing, the entire
depth, the bottom 85 feet be
ing perforated to admit the
water. The drillers struck solid
rock at 80 ft., the rest of the
way down was nearly all rock.
The pump is a modern deep
well turbine operated by a thir
ty horse three phase motor. It
is delivering 250,000 gallons of
water to the reservoir every 24
hours of continuous run. This
with the supply from the
springs, gives Dayton 400,000
gallons every day, about twice
the usual consumption during
the summer months, allowing
two hours sprinkling for each
user.
The well was drilled by Jant-
zen Drilling Co. of Portland,
and the pump was furnished by
Mi Van Company. Howard
Lovely connected the pump
motor to the General Electric
power lines and Arthur Mos
grove put in the foundation and
will erect the pump house.
Leigh Freeman, the new water
commissioner, is in charge of
operation.
At the time the pump was
started, the city reservoir was
emptied down to the two foot
mark. By the next morning it
was full and running over
Word was given to start sprink
ling. Soon everyone was using
the maximum that they could
draw. Pressure in the mains
dropped and the master meter,
on the main showed, that there
were poured out 300,000 gal
lons Sunday and about the same
Monday
Meters are now being install
ed and it is the intention to have
every outlet metered. The new
source in connection with the
springs, should give Dayton an
adequate supply of water for
many years.
The first U. S. Census of Bus
iness, then known as the Census
of Distribution, was conducted
in 1930, and covered operations
of about 1.645,000 retail and
wholesale stores.
PARROTTING PARROTS
Dotty Started Squawking,
Coined Money on Noise
By PATRICIA CLARY
Hollywood (U.R Movie-makers here pay good money to hire
talking parrots for pictures. Then, because you can't depend on
what the parrot will say, they hire Dorothy Lloyd to talk for
them.
Miss Lloyd consequently makes a handsome living parroting
parrots, and in any language.
She has been the voice of the
Polly In more pictures than you
can shake a parrot at.
"Tan grandote y tan bruto!"
squawks Miss Lloyd, while the
real parrot stares at her and
blinks. "Awrrk! Awrrk! Adrrk!
Miss Lloyd learned to imitate
parrots from one that spoke only
French. An inmate of an aviary
owned by A. G. Spaulding, the
sporting goods king, he swore
all day outside her high school
classroom in Point Loma, Cal.
"One day I got mad and felt
like squawking back," she re
lates. "So I opened my mouth
and found out I could."
Miss Lloyd didn't have a
chance to carry on her chosen
career as a dancer after that.
People who found out she could
make like a bird made her stop
dancing and start squawking.
It was such a hilarious en
tertainment in Point Loma, Cal.,
that Miss Lloyd came with high
hopes to movieland.
"I thought a talking parrot
could be made into a very funny
character like a feathered Lau
rel and Hardy," she said.
Nobody else thought so until
Walt Disney created Joe Cari
oca 20 years later.
1 Meanwhile Miss Lloyd In
jected her parrot calls into
minor movie roles. She spoke
for the screen's first talking par
rot in ar. Adolphe Menjou epic
entitled "The Great Love."
The parrotrayal of Miss
Lloyd's career was in "Treasure
Island." After she screeched
whistled and rasped "Pieces of
eight," through 12 reels as the
mad-tempered bird on Wallace
Berry's shoulder, she abandoned
thoughts of any other vocation
"I have had parts since," she
added, as a cockatoo, macaw
hen, rooster, baby chick, cat, kit
ten, pig, frog, goat, dove, dog,
horse, turkey cow and loon."
Her current job is putting
words into the beak of s
Spanish-speaking parrot in Rob
ert Mitchum's RKO picture,
"The Big Steal."
Somewhat out of Miss Lloyd's
line but still worth money
was a job to furnish a series of
ghoulish howls and shrieks for
a Boris Karloff spine-chiller.
"I we"nt to cemeteries but I
couldn't hear a thing," she said.
"So I just had to improvise."
She improvised so realistical
ly she has had three offers to
haunt a house.
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