Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, August 08, 1949, Page 2, Image 2

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    2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, August 8, 1949
FEPA Applies lo
School Districts
The fair employment practices
act of the 1949 legislature ap
plies to school districts, since
they are not specifically excep
ted from its provisions, Attor
ney General George Neuner held
here today. The opinion was re
quested by District Attorney C.
E. Luckey of Lane county.
The state engineering board
sets the salary of its secretary
because of an amendment by the
1949 legislature, Neuner declar
ed in an opinion sought by E. A.
Buckhorn, secretary of the
board. Prior to July 16, when
the amendment became opera
tive, the salary was fixed- by
statute.
Failure of notices of a school
election to specify the time of
day the polls would be opened
and closed should not invalidate
the election, Neuner held in an
opinion requested by the board
of school district 103, Wood
burn, Marion county, and the
board was advised it has both
authority and duty to issue and
sell bonds voted by the district
in an election July 29 of this
year. Votes favoring the issue to
taled 433; against, 300.
A constable cannot serve two
districts, Neuner advised James
A. Norman, Coos county district
attorney, suggesting that justice
districts 1 and 2 of that county
could be consolidated if each or
either is too small to require
regular services of a constable.
A justice of the peace may ap
point someone to serve papers,
too, Neuner's opinion pointed
out.
Pick Site for
SOE Library
Ashland, Aug. 8 W) The
building committee of the state
board of higher education ap
proved a site for the new south
ern Oregon College of education
library today.
Howard Kable, Portland arch
itect, was chosen to design the
building, which will be on Ash
land street nearer to the cen
ter of the campus than a previously-planned
site.
The building committee re
ceived a detailed survey of the
college's expansion plans, and
authorized a survey of the pos
sibility of installing central
heating.
The architectural firm of
Wolfe and Phillips, Portland,
was chosen to design library
buildings at both Oregon Col
lege of Education, Monmouth,
and Eastern Oregon College of
Education, La Grande. The
building committee explained
money would be saved by one
firm doing the two structures
simultaneously.
The regular meeting of the
state board of higher education
will be held here tomorrow.
Ask Bids on Union
School at Staylon
Bids for the construction of a
high school to serve an area in
Marion and Linn counties wiil
be received by the board of dis
trict No. YH-4 at Stayton until
8 p.m., August 23, according to
Edward J. Bell, clerk. Estimat
ed cost of the proposed struc
ture is $225,000.
Plans call for a one-store
building of frame and brick
veneer construction with a heat
ing plant to be included in the
contract. The new school is de
signed to accommodate approxi
mately 300 students.
The building will contain a
library, classrooms, home eco
nomics department, music room
and an auditorium-gymnasium.
Materials to be used Include
asphalt tile, accoustical tile and
ceremic tile. The building will
be constructed over concrete
slab on the ground, with a pitch
ed roof and composition shin
gles. There will be no base
ment. Lost Aged Estacada
Man Found in Forest
Zigzag, Ore., Aug. 8 UP) An
aged man, lost since July In the
wooded country near Mount
Hood, was found today alive,
but in poor condition by two
searchers.
District Forest Ranger Jim
Langdon was notified that the
two men came upon John Harri
son Tracy, 76, shortly before
noon in a trail shelter at Mud
creek.
The report said Tracy was
very weak, and foresters plan
ned to carry him out.
Ray Godleskl, Sandy, and Ben
Franklin. Estacada, found Tracy
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MONDAY, TUESDAY j
August 8-9
Ma and Pa
Kettle
If-
just a few hours after his rela
tives increased a reward for
finding him to $1,000.
Relatives, friends and forest
ers had been combing the woods
for Tracy since his car aban
doned, and its door open was
found on a mountain road July
29. The elderly Estacada, Ore.,
resident had gone alone into the
area after hearing reports that
gold ore might be located there.
Hospital Drive
Gets Results
Salem residents today re
sponded enthusiastically today
as a telephone canvass began
with the purpose of contacting
every home in the city in behalf
of the Hospital Development
program.
Five minutes after the cam
paign office opened this morn
ing, two women workers recall
ed to report five promises of
gifts from their contacts. '"I've
had three to say they want to
give," Mrs. Eugene Anderson re
ported to Mrs. Chandler P.
Brown, co-chairman of the wom
en's section of the city drive.
"They were the Pumalite Block
Supply Co. in West Salem; Chris
Renschler of 2864 Brooks Ave.;
and E. G. Quine, 2035 Bruce, of
the Salem Pump and Meter Co."
Meanwhile, Lois Maederer,
headquarters office employe,
was taking a call from Mrs. Phil
Brovvnell, one of the 92 volun
teers engaged in the dialing sys
tem of solicitations. Mrs. Brown-
ell said that Mrs. W. A. Merri-
field 101 Second St., and Mrs.
Andrew Messman, of Route 6,
had asked that representatives of
the program call on them.
The telephone push is sched
uled to be completed Tuesday
night, but a preliminary report
of progress will be had in a
Tuesday luncheon meeting of
group and team leaders.
Weekly report meeting of the
larger gifts committee is sched
uled Thursday noon. W. L. (Bill)
Phillips, temporarily in charge
of that pha.se of the enterprise,
said that every member of the
committee is expected lo report
at that time, and "we have rea
son to hope that we will be able
to announce an unusually large
gift total."
Installed by UAL
United Air Lines radio tech
nicians from Denver and Port
land last week completed the
reconversion of United radio
range (localizer) to an H-facility
to be used until such time as
the instrument landing system
is installed by the CAA.
The facility has also been
flight tested and checked by
Assistant Flight Manager John
Hodson from the Seattle office
of UAL and by a CAA air car
rier inspector. During the-tests
which showed the power output
to be greatly increased with the
Salem identifying signal heard
south of Eugene and North of
Portland.
United now Is in the process of
preparing a let-down procedure
for the revised facility. This
is expected to be commissioned
and approved by the CAA in
the very near future. The new
United equipment will in all
probability lower the landing
mlnlmums permitting planes to
come into the local airport un
der lower ceilings and visibility
aim uius improving the regular
ity of the Salem facility.
The recent changes in the
United equipment will meet with
the approval of the airline pi
lots, who had formally objected
to the old facility.
Attorney General
Falls, Breaks Ribs
Slate's Attorney General
ticorge Neuner, whose deep and
resounding voice has been heard
in many an Oregon courtroom,
was speaking in low tones today.
Until the X-ray films have
been studied by his physician
he won't know for sure, but
both he and the doctor are of
the opinion that he fractured
two ribs in a fall at his McMinn
villc home Friday night. He
broke his left wrist in the fall
and that is in a cast and sling.
but to be on the safe side the
damaged ribs are encased in
what Neuner terms "my first
corset," a tape device which lim
its his breathing and consequent
ly his speaking.
GLENWOOD BALLROOM
4 Mtlrs North of Snlrm on 9E
MONDAY, Aug. 15
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City Directory
Work Started
A crew of 15 enumerators and
a small office force have been
working for the past four weeks
preparing a new Salem city di
rectory for publication by the
R. L. Polk company. The new
directory, which will be pat
terned after the 1947 edition,
will be available for purchase
sometime this fall.
Canvassers will finish their
job of contacting every resident
and business establishment in
Marion county in about five
weeks.
In the event an enumerator
finds no one home at a resi
dence, he leaves an information
blank, requesting the occupant
of that residence to fill in cer
tain information and mail it to
Salem headquarters at 426 Ore
gon building.
The city directory will carry
an alphabetical list of persons
and businesses, numerical list of
streets numbers for each street
showing the occupant of each
building, and a classified busi
ness section.
McKay Presents
Vail Trophies
Two of the five Theodore N
Vail awards made nationally for
"noteworthy public service" in
1948 went lo Oregon employes
of the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company.
The awards were presented at
the Telephone employes' annual
picnic at Viking park east of
Portland with Gov. Douglas Mc
Kay making the presentation.
Receiving the silver Vail and
$500 in cash was Wesley R.
Schulz, Portland installer, who
helped extricate two men buried
by a cave-in and is credited with
saving the lite of one of the vic
tims. The other award, a bronze
plaque, was presented 11 tele
phone operators and switchmen.
who during the Vanport flood
remained at their posts in the
Vanport Tyler office, warning
residents until the power sup
ply failed.
Another Portland employe of
the company an engineering as
sistant, Howard M. Sidwell, re
ceived a Vail certificate of hon
orable mention for giving first
aid to resuscitate an infant over
come by carbon monoxide pois
oning in his parents' car. He
also received the President's
medal of the National Safety
council and a National Red Cross
certificate of merit.
Soldier Pleads
Innocent to Theft
Pvt. Aurelio Martinez, a Ft.
Lewis soldier who was nabbed
by a group of Astoria Legion
naires after driving a stolen car
In a hit-run accident, pleaded in
nocent to car larceny charges
Monday in district court.
He was ordered held in lieu
of $1,500 bail for hearing on
August 15.
At the time of his arrest by
a private prosecutor on a hit
run accident charge, Martinez
told police he had been picked
up by a girl and invited to drive
the car while she left it for an
errand. He claimed to be follow
ing her instructions when the
accident occurred early Friday
morning.
The car he was driving had
been stolen from a John Turrin
tine, Jr., 239 S. Cottage.
Voting Starts in
German Election
Frankfurt. Gormanv. Aim fi
iP) A contest so close that nn
party will win a parliamentary
majority was forecast by allied
observers today in West Ger
many's first federal election
It will take a coalition of two
or more parties to form the gov
ernment, they predicted.
llns forecast unofficial but
founded on neutral survevs
was made as the camDaiun roar
ed into its final week.
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Involved in Money Dispute Mrs. Daniel Stamm, pictured
with five children at Monterey, Calif. Mrs. Stamm's former
mother-in-law, Mrs. Nettie Capps, was jailed in Salt Lake
City for contempt of court for refusing to obey court order
to sign over her son's war service insurance money to Mrs.
Stamm and her three children by Jacob L. Capps who was
killed in the Battle of the Bulge. The children, including two
of Stamm's by a previous marriage, are (left to right): Danny
Sta.mm, 12; Donalce Stamm, 11; Russell Capps, 8; Carolyn
Capps, 6; and John Capps, 10. (AP Wirephoto)
Strange Case of Leaking
Roof at Track Explained
Washington, Aug. 8 UP) Paul Grindle, New England manu
facturer, told senators today about
roof at the Foxboro trotting track clubhouse and what caused it.
The track, located 19 miles from Boston, was built during 1946-
47 with what Grindle described
James V. Hunt of Washington,
key figure in the senate's "five
percenter" investigation.
Grindle, one of the opening
witnesses before the senate in
vestigating committee, said Hunt
told him this story of how he
helped get the track built:
Paul Bowser of Boston, presi
dent of the track, went to hunt
for help In getting the then-
required government okay. Hunt
went to Frank Creedon, then
housing expediter now with the
Hanford, Wash., atomic plant,
and Creedon told him what to
do about "getting around reg
ulations."
The "loophole" was that i
building could be moved onto a
site and housing officials would
approve alterations for it. So at
Foxboro some small buildings
were moved to the track site and
remodeled into a single building
for a clubhouse.
But Boston housing officials,
when they Inspected the job, de
cided the track had gone too far
outside regulations. So they or
dered the buildings separated
by cutting three two-foot slots
across the structure.
This let in the sky and the rain
Bowser protested.
Bowser notified Hunt of what
had happened and Hunt again
went to Creedon. Creedon call
ed the Boston office by telephone
and demanded to know if they
were trying to make him "the
laughing stock of the country
Boston officials told Creedon
the slots already had been cut
and it would cost too much to
plug them.
Grindle, a Framingham. Mass
manufacturer, never did get
around to saying whether the
slots had been covered over. He
did say Hunt told him he col
lected a $15,000 fee from the
track.
Grasshopper Bill Signed
Washington, Aug. 8 UP) Pres
ident Truman today signed I
bill appropriating $1,750,000 to
combat a grasshopper invasion
threatening crops In the west
and midwest.
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the strange case of the leaking
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Recruiters to
Go to Ft. Lewis
Army orders received this
month by Sgt. 1c Lester B
Lent and Sgt. 1c Melvin Haines
have transferred them from
duty at the local Army and Air
Force recruiting station to duty
with the 36th engineer combat
group at Fort Lewis.
Lent, veteran of 18 months of
duty with the Americal division
in the Pacific, has been at the
Salem recruiting station since it
was reopened after the war,
coming here September 12, 1945.
He is to report to Fort Lewis
the middle of this month. Mrs.
Lent will accompany the serge
ant to the army post but the cou
ple will maintain their perma
nent address in Salem.
Sgt. Haines, a resident of Sa
lem prior to re-entering the army
for duty here as a recruiter,
joined the staff at the local sta
tion in January, 1948. He en
tered the service in 1940 with
the Arkansas National Guard
and was in the army for almost
six years, before his discharge
in 1945.
Haines, who saw service in Al
aska and in Europe during the
war reports to Fort Lewis Aug
ust 22. He and his wife and
their two children left Salem
Monday to take up their resi
dence in Tacoma.
Training School
Escapee Captured
Portland, Aug. 8 OT A 16
year-old Woodburn training
school escapee was held here in
the county jail today on bur
glary charges after being arrest
ed with a pistol in hi3 pocket.
Detectives' Capt. Howard Kel
ley said Donald Mullen, Port
land, was under $3,000 bail in
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Klan Routed in
Pitched Battle
Iron City, Ga., Aug. 8 UP)
A one-armed Georgia mayor
and some of his friends renewed
a shooting war against robed,
night-riding Ku Klux Klansmen
yesterday.
To top it off, the mayor chas
ed a Klan official into Alabama
at a 100-mile-an-hour pace and
had him jailed.
The shooting spree started,
said Mayor C. L. Drake of Iron
City, when 12 or 15 carloads of
robed Klansmen rolled into this
little southwest Georgia hamlet
in the dark, early Sunday morn
ing hours. One unidentified
Klansman received a flesh
wound. Drake reported none of
his fighters was hurt.
The mayor, a Klan foe of long
standing, declared "some of the
bullets whizzed by within five
feet of me" while he hastily-
scribbled down the robed fig
ures' auto tag numbers.
Drake said he didn't have a
gun but that some of his friends
did and they peppered the Klan
convoy with shotgun and pistol
fire. The night riders retaliat
ed, he related.
Several hours elapsed be
tween the shooting and the dare
devil automobile chase to Doth
an, Ala., 38-miles away.
The klan official, booked as
Bill Hendrix of Tallahassee, Fla.,
said he is an organizer for a new
hooded order, the Southern Ku
Klux Klan." The mayor had him
jailed on a warrant charging as
sault with intent to murder.
Honeymooners
In Auto Crash
Mr. and Mrs. John Maulding
started on their wedding trip
after their marriage Saturday
night but it took two days and
two attempts before they really
got under way.
Mrs. Maulding, the former
Margaret Cooley, and her hus
band were involved in a three-
way accident near Junction
City as they, were on their
honeymoon to California. The
automobile, a wedding gift to
the young people from Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph H. Cooley, was sev
erely damaged but they were
able to drive it into Eugene
where they spent the night.
The Mauldings returned to
Salem Sunday and obtained the
Cooley car and started out again.
The damage to the new car was
covered by insurance.
Maulding had - pulled to the
side of the road when he saw
another car driven by Theodore
Little, Albany route 2, coming
towards him. The Little car
struck the Maulding vehicle
and then struck a following
automobile, pulling a trailer
loaded with household goods,
causing considerable damage
and spilling the trailer-load over
the highway. No one was in
jured in the accident which
took considerable time to clear
from the highway.
Stolen Legion Banner
Found in Boy's Room
Juvenile authorities in Salem
were called upon Monday to
deal with a 15-year-old youth
who was found to have an
American Legion "Welcome"
banner tacked to his bedroom
wall.
Police were tipped off on the
suspect by an unidentified man
and a subsequent investigation
located the banner. It had been
part of the decorations purch
ased by many downtown merch
ants prior to the convention in
Salem last week.
Many store owner complained
to police that the welcome signs
and bunting had been torn down
by vandals, and one merchant
offered a reward for locating the
criminal or criminals.
two Portland holdups. He had
been on a check writing spree
in California since escaping in
Six Bottle.
Buy a
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Today!
Mrs. F.D.R. Is
Grandmother
Portland. Ore.. Aug. 8 U.R
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow
of the late president, was a
great-grandmother today.
A nine-pound, one-ounce boy
was born Sunday to Mrs. Van
H. Seagraves, the former "Sis
tie" Boettiger and Mrs. Roose
velt's granddaughter. It was
the first great grandchild of the
late president.
Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boetti
ger said the baby would be nam
ed Nicholas Delano Seagraves,
explaining that both were his
toric Roosevelt family names.
"Buzzie and I were at the hos
pital with Van for the event,"
she said.
Van Seagraves, the father, is
employed by the Bonneville
power administration.
The time of birth was 12:26
p.m. (PDT).
Viola Lyons Sets
Pace in Air Race
Portland, Aug. 8 UP) Viola
Lyons, 30-year-old housewife of
John Day, set the pace in a 60-
mile air race that was staged
yesterday during the Oregon
Civil Air patrol's third annual
flying circus.
One mishap marred the day
of aerial acrobatics and demon
strations by military and civil
ian craft. Donna Seip, 19, Cen
tralia, Wash., pilot in the wom
en's pilots race made a forced
landing in a berry patch near
Oregon City. Her plane engine
halted. She was unhurt.
Lost Spaniel Awaits
Call by Owner
Has anyone lost a beautiful
female Springer spaniel dog?
Deputy Ervin Ward of the
RIGHT NOW!
Every
TUESDAY MORNING
During August
at the
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Mothers Must Brlnr
Children to the
Theatre Entrance!
Unattended Children
Wilr Not Be Admitted!
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sheriff! office was called to the
Liberty district early Monday
where, he was told, the dog was
running from one place to an-.
other. He was requested to de
stroy the dog.
But when Ward found the ani
mal he decided to try to find
her owner. She wore a collar
with the name Heywood Wake
field stamped on the leather.
The dog was fat and in fine con
dition.
She will be held In the cus
tody of the sheriff for a possible
claimant.
Mrs. Sumner Welles
Dies at Laussane
Laussane, Switzerland, Aug.
8 VP) Mrs. Sumner Welles, wife
of the former U. S. undersecre
tary of stale, djed in her hotel
here last night, hotel officials
disclosed today.
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