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East Salem Acreage Sold;
Residents Welcome Visitors
East Salem, Aug. IS One of the larger East Salem acreages
sold this past week was that of Earl Wood on Lancaster drive,
which includes the filbert orchard, the large new home and
several acres to the north and east. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Capps of Salem are the new owners, and the Wood family moved
to 1573 N. 19th street in Salem
I to a home which they bought
some time ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fromm
of Middle Grove community ac
companied by their son, Gordon,
and her father, Charles Mattson,
left Monday for Sacramento
Calif., where they will attend
the wedding of friends. They
will also visit at the home of
their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr, and Mrs. Phillip Judson at
Medford.
Guests the past week in the
Fromm home on Silverton road
were Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hein-
lie from Missoula, Montana.
Mrs. Harold Remmer and
daughters, Dorothy from Mpla,
Minn., have been visiting in the
John Meir home on Osborne
street for the past week, and on
Sunday were taken for a picnic
at Silver Creek Falls park.
Mrs. E. Kelm and daughters,
Sharron and Marane from Ed
monton, Canada, are enjoying a
three week vacation at the Rob
ert Manling home on Thorndale
avenue and staying on for two
months are Mr. J. Kucesa, Mrs
Manlong's father and her sister,
Irma Kucesa all from Edmon
ton. Scenic trips around Salem
are being taken for the guests'
enjoyment.
Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Hanson
and daughter of Portland were
week-end guests of the Henry
Hanson family on Monroe ave.
Mrs. Ray Alexander enter
tained the Monroe Sewing club
at her home on Thorndale ave
nue Wednesday afternoon. In
attendance were Mrs. John
Meier and Linda; Mrs. Henry
Hanson, Mrs. Stuart Johns, Mrs.
Clarice Mahoney, Mrs. Bernard
Kenney and Cathy; Mrs. Wilfred
Wilier and Freddy; Mrs. War
ren Shrake and ttregg; Mrs.
Robert Manling and Rodney
and Sharron Kelm and the host-
Harvest
Given Start
Independence, Aug. 15 The
1949 hop harvest got under way
in the Independence district this
week with several of the smaller
yards starting to pick the early
varieties. Most of the larger
yards will start on the earlies
next week.
One of the three picking ma
chines of Hop Harvester, Inc.,
located at the McLaughlin ranch
was started Tuesday and the
other two machines went into
use Thursday. It was reported
that the hop picking machines at
A. J. Heaner ranch would be
started Mondav.
From all indications there will
be plenty of work for several
thousand pickers the next montn
in this district. With the added
acreage of beans, (over 100
acres) which are just now reach
ing full picking, work will be
plentiful.
The harvesting of the early
crop should be completed with
in the next two weeks and will
be followed by the late varieties
which will be ready for harvest
the later part of this month and
the first of September. From
all indications the late varieties
will be better this year than the
earlies.
The picking price for hops this
year has been set at three cents
a pound and harvesters should
be able to earn some good money
this year.
Most of the Independence mer
chants are taking hop tickets in
trade again this year and pick
ers can readily buy their needs
by cashing the tickets. Local
stores are planning to kqep
longer hours and will be open
on Sundays starting August 21
Amity Judging Team
Prepares for Season
Amity Prof. Jesse G. Cron
in, agriculture instructor, Amity
high school, has completed a two
week term of summer school
at Oregon State college, and is
preparing his stock judging
team for competition at county
fairs, Tillamook and Gresham
Seven members of the H-man
team from last year will parti
cipate this year. He will also
draw some of this year's fresh
men class to enter judging
teams.
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Woodburn Highway
Mart Opening Soon
Woodburn J. M. Mays and
John Vigus, owners of the new
Highway Market on the Pacific
highway at Woodburn, expect
to open their new place of busi
ness next weekend. They are
also operators of the Canby Hl-
Way Market.
The new building adjoins the
Bank of Oregon on the north
and will have 6,000 square feet
of floor space plus parking areas
on all four sides of the store,
Equipment and stock is now
being placed in the store pre
paratory to the opening.
Baby Called Veteran Swimmer
At Only Seven Months of Age
Los Angeles, Aug. 15 W) Little Robin Leigh Whltford Is a
veteran swimmer at the age of seven months.
If you think that's unusual, listen: She started learning by
paddling in her bathinette, when she was but four days old!
Robin put on a demonstration for photographers at the
Ambassador hotel pool yesterday. Her swim coach, Mrs.
Crystal Scarborough, tossed her in the pool,
Robin sank and a photographer started peeling off his
coat. But the infant emerged without a splutter and swam
to the edge of the pool, using a junior version of the Australian
crawl.
Her mother, Mrs. Marie Whitford, said Robin can't yet
crawl on a floor. But she's been swimming for three months.
If placed on her back in 'he water, Robin will swim that
way. She can travel about 30 feet.
Testimony from Hunt's Secretary Mildred Ortmeyer, secre
tary to James V. Hunt, watches William Rogers, chief counsel
for senate investigating committee, check a point (Aug. 12)
in a transcript of testimony she gave July 7 to committee and
army investigators. Rogers read the transcript at the "five
percenter" probe session. Miss Ortmeyer said she delivered
to the office of Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, presidential aide,
in the White House last spring a memorandum from Maj.
Gen. Alden H. Waitt on the fitness of certain army officers
to succeed Waitt as army chemical corps chief. (AP Wire-photo.)
RADIO BROADCASTS UNDER WATER
Portland Bathers Swim
In Gallons of Danny Kaye
Portland, Ore., Aug. 15 (U.R) Bathers sat on the brink of the
pool, paddling barefooted in 500,000 gallons of Danny Kaye
today.
Sammy Taylor, a former navy sonar man and now a disc
jockey (at Portland radio station KWJJ), put the name bands
and vocalists of the nation total-
ly under water when he installed
amplifiers in the Jantzen beach
park swimming pool.
The broadcast is audible to
anybody with his head in the
tank. Sun bathers can t hear a
thing.
The amusement park opera
tors found their convoys of sum
mer swimmers increased 30 per
cent, that life-saving lessons
could be given to sub-surface
bathers and that the deaf could
swim and listen to radio.
Taylor Insisted a nine-year-old
went scampering off once with
a pail full of Betty Hutton for
his mother.
Still restless with the scheme,
Taylor immersed- the "mellow
larks" quartet and broadcast a
song from the bottom of the
pool. The mellow-larks wore
diving helmets. One of them
said that everytime he took a
breath, water rose to his chin.
Taylor failed with a submarine
guitar strummer.
State Fair Is
Year-round Job
Production of the 84th an
nual Oregon State Fair in Sa
lem. September 5 to 11, is a
year around task for seven days
full of geared activity, riow-
ever, if years ot experience
mean a great performance, me
1949 exposition should be the
best of them all.
Manager Leo Spitzbart first
first took over as fair head in
1935 although he had been as
sociated with the State Fair for
fiver a decade before assuming
the top job. This will be his
14th year as fair manager.
His able assistant, Mrs. Ella
Wilson, has been directly con
nected with the fair since 1915
and numbers thousands of Ore
gonian exhibitiors and patrons
among her friends. In the late
1920's. Mrs. Wilson served
secretary before the exposition
became a part of the agricul
tural department.
John Graber, long time Sa
lem resident, has been in charge
of the fair's many miles of
plumbing on the 167 acres of
fairgrounds, since 1916. Damon
Fleener who supervises the fair's
electrical outlets first came on
the fair scene in 1946 as did Joe
Cook, who is the caretaker and
overseer for all new fair con
struction. Art Keene, in charge
of ground and building main
tenance, also is a comparative
newcomer, having first been em
ployed in 1946.
Division heads, all of whom
are veterans in their fair de
partments, include Joe Sim
eral, ticket sales manager, and
Charles A. Evans, who heads
the horse racing programs. Ben
Newell, Marion county agent,
will be back for his fourth year
at the fair as head of the live
stock division.
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listening tor Japanese subs in
World War II. "Every once in
a while I would pick up the cry
of the bull black fish, and that
started me thinking," he ex
plained.
"If this thing is put in re
verse, we might go fishing for
sea lions, walruses and whales,
he mused. They all have sen
sitive ears, being mammals.
We d park the ship and start
sending mating calls."
Three weeks of experiment
proved the idea practical. A
tolerance of 15 decibells (a unit
of sound intensity) turned out
to be about right.
Outside the pool, musical
water is musical if you have
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, August 15, 1949 1
Dental and Health
Checkups Urged
Portland, Aug. 15 W) The
state health officer urged par
ents today to give youngsters
medical and dental checkups be
fore school starts.
Dr. Harold M. Erickson said
children should be Immunized
against smallpox and diphtheria
or have booster shots if the
immunization was done earlier.
Physical examinations a
particularly important for chi
dren entering the first grade,
said.
Eagle Contest Winners
Detroit, Aug. 15 m Resul
in contests held at the nations!
convention of the Fraternal Oi
der of Eagles announced toda
included: National quartet: firs
Lorain, O.; second, Aurora, Ind
third, Klamath Falls, Ore.
stethescope. Though the intens
ity can be built up to a point
four feet above the water, it
would damage a swimmer's eardrums.
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In addition to the huge power dams being
planned and built here in the Northwest, there
are many smaller dams primarily designed for
flood control and irrigation purposes. But
these, too, have a valuable power potential.
Such a one is Meridian Dam, which will be
located on the Willamette River's middle fork,
22 miles southeast of Eugene in Lane County.
Ultimately it will add 115,900 kilowatts for
use in the Northwest Power Pool.
Under direction of the Army Engineers,
railroad and highway relocation work is under
way preparatory to actual construction of tho
dam in 1950-51. Primarily a flood control dam
of earth and gravel fill with concrete spillways,
Meridian ultimately will have three main
power units in operation.
Even these and other power sources pro
posed for development in the Pacific North
west (a total of 10 million kilowatts) do not
mean an immediate end to our need for mora
electricity. Big plans take time, and the next
several winters like the last one may call
for sparing use of electric power. However,
as the great dams are built, adding new
power little by little, the demand will be met
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