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12 ( 14 Capital Journal, Salem,
UUM SOMETHING NEW IN
Opening of State Building
At Hillsboro First in Chain
By WILLIAM WARREN
Hillsboro, Ore., Aug 20 U.R)
tate service in Oregon.
fioputarv nf Statu TTnrl T Wpufhrv raiori thp fluff nn a snanlrimt
FOR new motor vehicle and travel
mew Hillsboro Thursday,
and formally
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Parf of Gorge
Highway Open
,J' Portland, Aug. 20 VP) The
and
first stretch of a highway design
JJK ed to speed traffic between Port
er 0; land and eastern Oregon was
ven. opened to the public east of here
It was a 10'4-mile stretch of
deot the water-grade Columbia river
Tn highway, replacing a scenic, but
Jj winding, route between Trout
dale and Bridal Veil,
dix, Governor McKay snipped a
ribbon at 2 p.m. to open the
g ; route officially,
hot Future links will provide
J-" fast highway through most of
?ui1 the Columbia gorge. The pres-
3 ent highway, winding at a high
" er elevation, will be maintained
g for sight-seers.
Ram Prices
c Slightly Down
Pendleton, Aug. 20 (P) First
sale price at the 23rd annual
Oregon ram sale in Pendleton
today were down a little as com
pared with last year, said Victor
W. Johnson, secretary of the
Oregon Wool Growers associa
tion.
However a larger field of
northwest buyers attended the
sale at the round-up groun.V
than in 1948.
Two rambouillets, owned by
J. K. Madsen's farm of Mt.
Pleasant, Utah, sold for $259
each to the Cunningham Sheep
company of Pendleton to top
the first half of the show. High
buck last year was $289.
Best price for a herd of ram
bouillets in the morning was
$160 a head for a pen of five
aold by Madsen to John Foure
of Walla Walla.
Lincoln - rambouillets cross
breds failed to beat $60 a head
for three lots.
96-Year Old Man
Collects "Wager"
Minneapolis, Aug. 20 (U.R)
Ninty-six-year-old Nels J. Agen
berg won a $2,327 "wager" with
the odds 100,000 to one against
him.
The Mutual Life Insurance
company yesterday paid him the
face value in that amount in a
policy he took out 45 years
ago.
Agenberg could have cashed
In the policy when it was paid
up after 20 years but elected to
leave it in force.
The insurance company paid
him off yesterday when he be
came 96 years old because its
life expectancy tables did not
go beyond that age.
Sister Identifies
Collision Victim
Lebanon, Ore., Aug. 20 W
A motorcyclist killed in a colli
sion at Sweet Home yesterday
was positively identified today
as Ballard Turvey, 29, whose
parents are Mr. and Mrs. John
Turvey of Seligman, Mo.
The identification was made
by a sister, Mrs. Omnr Scrog
gin, whom Turvey had been vis
iting at Sweet Home. Burial will
be at Sweet Home.
Camping Trriod Ends
Turner Returning from
Boy Scout camp this month
were Richard Plugh, Darrel
Mcrtlc, Jimmie Hatfield, Don
ald Mickey. Kenneth and Har
old Mitchell, Philip and Harold
Keith Schollian. Oren Schollian
and Olcn Spiva furnished the
"going" while Mr. Klnion, Chas.
Stanriley and Prof. Dgwillian
provided return transportation.
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CHUCK
SALEM AND
373 No. Church St.
Ore., Saturday, August 20, 1949
STATE SERVICE
Something new has been added to
information branch buildine at
opened the first of what event
dually will be 20 such branches
throughout Oregon.
Shortly after he took office as
secretary of state Newbry be
Ban thinking: Why should tax
payers of the state have to deal
with the main office at Salem,
the main branch at Portland or
a couple of scattered small of
fices elsewhere when they want
ed to do Oregon the favor of
paying their auto license plates
fees or their drivers license fees?
The answer, he thought, was
to bring the state facilities to
the people instead of the people
to the state facilities.
And so he set out to design a
building that would be pleasant
to the eye, simple to build and
easy enough on the pocket book
of the private builder that the
stale could lease it within rea
Hillsboro was the first answer
The structure concrete, one-
sloryhigh with red cement-tile
roof which was dedicated at
Hillsboro Thursday will be the
model for other structures
throughout the state.
Already a similar building is
rising at Grants Pass, and land
has been selected for one at
Tillamook. Others eventually
will be in Bend, Medford, Coos
Bay. Pendleton, Baker, Klamath
Falls, Ontario, Roseburg, Gresh
am, Hood River, The Dalles, La
Grande, Astoria, McMinnville
and other spots not yet designat
ed, for a total of 20.
Here's the gimmick.
A private operator builds the
structure and leases it to the
stale. At Hillsboro, the branch
was built by Bruce Ellis at a
cost of $15,000 and leased to
the state for $150 a month.
This office alone is expected
to do about $325,000 worth of
business a year for the state-
auto license plates, drivers' lic
enses, and other functions. It
will serve all of Washington
county, which has 24,000 reg
istered vehicle and 38,000 lic
ensed drivers.
The branch, within the city
limits at the edge of Hillsboro
on the Portland highway, is
situated on more than an acre
of ground, allowing for ample
parking facilities.
Jim McGilchrist, the affable
guide of the capito? building in
Salem, brought down a box load
of pamphlets, maps and what
have you to give the tourist
formation division of the Hills
boro branch its start.
The branch will also serve as
a handy place for the making of
gas tax refunds, and once a
week a man from the secretary
of state's office of financial re
sponsiblity will drop in to in
form any who want to know
about the liability of motorists.
Mother of Quads
Sues for Divorce
Portland, Aug. 20 (P) The
mother of quadruplets, and five
other children besides, charged
her husband with non-suoDort
here yesterday.
Mrs. L. D. Tigner, mother of
Portland's only q u a d r uplets,
swore out a warrant for the ar
rest of the husband.
She said the quads two boys
and two girls who will observe
their third birthday Monday
are not in want. They have a
private income from advertising
contracts.
Attorney Wills Widow
Sorrow and Sufferings
San Francisco, Aug. 20 (U.R)
The late Attorney Maurice N.
Swim willed his first wife, Ro
salea Silva Swim, "All of the
sorrow and suffering she cre
ated and cast upon me and into
my life when she deserted me in
my hour of need and ill health,
in order that she may enjoy and
relish the like sorrow and suf
fering to the last moment of her
life."
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The Last Shot While an officer (second from right) holds
up a portable light, another policeman (second from left)
pumps final shot into Ernest Craig (arrow), 28, as he makes
futile attempt to escape from his home after three-hour gun
battle. Craig, a Negro, was wanted for shooting a child.
After police set fire to his house on Chicago's west side,
Craig attempted escape from second-story window through
18-inch passageway (center) between his house and the
neighboring home. Policeman at left carries bullet shield.
(AP Wirephoto)
NEW YORK CITIES
Is Unemployment Serious?
Sawyer Checks to Find Out
By RAYMOND E. WILSON
Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 20 One out of every 10 employable
persons in this western new
for a job. But there is some improvement in sight,
In Rome and Utica, N. Y., how -
ever, more tnan one in eigm is
out of work and prospects for
an early pickup are slim,
These facts and other first
hand information on the econo
mic outlook of these two impor
tant production centers were
gathered personally by Secre
tary of Commerce Charles Saw
ycr Tuesday as part of his nation-wide
study of employment
and business conditions.
After a day of conferences
with management, labor and
government officials from the
two areas, Sawyer prepared
report to presidential assistant
John R. Steelman. It is Steel
man's job to channel government
contracts and construction to
areas of critical unemployment
Sawyer earlier visited New
England, the midwest and south.
Later this summer he will make
similar studies in Pittsburgh,
Chicago, New York, New
Orleans, on the West Coast and
in Texas.
With the aid of a half-dozen
members of his staff, Sawyer
has a firm pattern on conducting
the conferences. They are oper
ated on a rigid schedule in which
every minute counts.
His Buffalo visit was typical.
At 7 a.m., he left Washington
by air and was in Buffalo less
than two hours later. By lunch
time he had met with Mayor
Bernard J. Dowd's full employ
ment committee, held two news
conferences to keep reporters up
to date on the discussions, made
a radio broadcast and conducted
two-hour discussion among
New York state industralists.
After lunch he made another
radio broadcast and held a series
of conferences with his staff and
with regional commerce depart
ment officials.
In addition to Buffalo union
leaders and businessmen, Sawyer
talked with similar leaders from
Rome, Utica, Tonawanda, Syra
cuse, Rochester and Lackawan
na, who came to this lake Erie
port for the opportunity of talk
ing over their problems direct
ly with a member of the presi-
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We fulfill the needs of humanity
by serving each individual family
to the best of out ability.
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TESTING GROUND
York industrial center is looking
-
Sawyer believes it is a good
thing for a cabinet member to
get away from Washington and
find out what the people are
thinking. The purpose of this
particular group of trips is to
supplement statistics, with in
dividual business studies.
Big Circus 'War'
Flares Up Again
Seattle, Aug. 20 (U.R) A summer-long
circus "war" between
the two biggest shows on the
road flared into new hostilities
today when Cole Bros, cut its
admission prices 50 per cent.
The Cole circus started the
show fight last May by invading
the territory of Ringling Bros.,
Barnum and Bailey ahead of the
"big show."
Ringling fired back with a
"paper war." In every city Cole
played, it posted billboards
screaming for circus-goers to
'Wait for the big show."
Weary of the battle waged
since they showed at Harris-
burg, Pa., Cole announced its
price cut today in a newspaper
ad spiced with obvious cracks
at the "wait" notices.
Phone Workers
To Choose Union
Washington, Aug. 20 (P) Five
thousand Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company employes in
Oregon will hold secret collec
tive bargaining agency elections
in the next month.
The elections were ordered
yesterday by the National La
bor Relations Board.
For most of the workers In 21
cities of the state it will be a
choice of whether or not they
want to be represented by the
CIO Communications Workers.
The Council of Independent
Plant Telephone Unions, an inde
pendent organization, was barred
from the ballot by the NLRB.
Fine Vaudeville
At State Fair
Helene Hughes, veteran San
Francisco stage producer, let it
be known this week that her
1949 Oregon State Fair night
time vaudeville presentation
will be the best since she took
over the show at the exposition
plant in 1946.
Miss Hughes, whose show last
year played to capacity houses
every night of the fair, has con
tracted some of the top vaude
ville acts of the nation, includ
ing recent appearances at the
better eastern showplaces.
Included on the billing is
O'Donnell and Blair, a comedy
sight act, which has been a
success on the Milton Berle tele
vision show. In fact, Berle now
has the team as a feature of a
movie he is now making in Hol
lywood. Ben McAttee, another New
York stage veteran, will act as
master of ceremonies of the
show, and is billed "not recom
mended by Duncan Hines."
Another talented comedy act
for fairgoers is the Mastin Trio,
recently featured with Frank
Sinatra at the Paramount the
atre in New York. The Noncha
lants, acrobatic and tumbling
troupe of comedians, will come
to the state fair direct from the
Music Hall theater in New York.
George Bruns and his orches
tra of Portland will play for the
show which again will head
line the Helene Hughes dancers,
one of California's better danc
ing lines.
Applications for residence
building permits in Northern
Ireland are now over 500 a day
with the number increasing.
In
'WHISPERING HOPE' 81
$35 Hymn, Cast Aside
Years Ago, Is Sensation
By PATRICIA CLARY
Hollywood (U.m A $35 hymn written by a Philadelphia com
poser who's been dead for 47 years is the newest sensation to set
Hollywood on its ear.
The song is "Whisperings
Hope, and the man who jotted
it down 81 years ago thought so
little of it that he put it out
under a woman's name.
But singer Jo Stafford record
ed a modern version, and the
old hymn is a new rage in cock
tail bars and juke box joints.
The close-harmony song goes
like this:
"Soft as the voice of an angel,
breathing a lesson on earth
Hope, with a gentle persuasion,
whispers a comforting word.
Whispering hope, whispering
hope,
oh how welcome they voice.
Oh how welcome they voice,
making
my heart in its sorrow rejoice."
The song was the last impor
tant composition among 2,000
pieces written by the late Sep
timus Winner, whose other songs
include "Listen to the Mocking
Bird" and "Oh Where, Oh Where
Has My Little Dog Gone." He
wrote "Hope" under the name
pf Alice Hawthorne.
"I liked it because of its de
lightfully close harmony," Miss
Stafford said. "Sometimes the
voices are only a note apart. And
I think its lyrics are significant."
Music publishers made $3,000,-
000 from Winner's songs, but
the copyright on them now has
expired.
The trend toward church
hymns has other followers in this
unsaintly town.
At a Vine Street jazz heaven
known as "The Hangover,"
bandleader Red Nichols is toot
ing both "Whispering Hope" and
Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Russ Morgan is playing the
organ at the Palladium and his
Heart Beat" quartet is mem
orizing hymns.
I never thought I'd see the
day," a bartender sighed, "when
the juke box would be giving
with church music."
Presbyterians Plan
Sunday School Picnic
Woodburn The Presbyterian
Sunday school will hold a picnic
at Settlemier park Saturday
evening, Aug. 20, from 5 to 7
o'clock p.m. with a no-host sup
per at 6 o'clock. Those attending
are to bring their own table ser
vice. Games, softball, horseshoe
pitching and swimming will be
enjoyed.
This will also be a farewell
party for Mr. and Mrs. Perry
Williams and f a m i ly who are
moving to California Mondav
and those who wish are asked to
bring a small donation for a
gift. Coffee and cold drinks will
be furnished. All members and
friends of the church and fami
lies are invited.
Those
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3 Ambulances
Pick Up Injured
Three ambulances were used
to hospitalize four persons in
jured in an automobile accident
just south of the Jefferson junc
tion on the Pacific highway
about 10 o'clock Friday night.
Injured were Mr. and Mrs,
Raymond M. Mullin, Sutherlin
and Joel Kersey and M. L. Boyd
Modesto, Calif., hitch-hikers.
Treated but not hospitalized was
Robert Gene Brumbeck, 21, Cor
vallis. Brumbeck, who had picked up
the two Californians near Salem,
told state police that he attempt
ed to pass an oil truck and trail
er and though he swerved to the
left of the pavement was unable
to avoid colliding with the north
bound Mullin automobile. Both
automobiles were literally de
molished in the crash.
General Slump in
Slate Wool Market
Portland, Ore.. Aug. 20 U.R)
A general slump in the wool
market was seen here today with
private storage holdings reach
ing 6,000,000 pounds.
Trade sources said that before
World War II as much as 11,
000,000 pounds had been stored
in Portland at one time, but since
the war's end new cut wool has
been moved rapidly to eastern
markets.
The department of agriculture
reported that every western state
except Colorado, New Mexico,
and California, showed a decline
in wool output.
Punchboard Brings Fine
Portland, Aug. 20 (Pi The
city made its first crackdown in
the anti-punchboard campaign
nere yesterday.
Mrs. Bessie Pugh, 47, a tavern
operator, was fined $50 in muni
cipal court on conviction of dis-
playing punchboards other than
the few question-and-answer
kinds that are legal.
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Personal and Auto Loans
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Building Bids
Open Sept. 20
Bids for the construction of
the new $1,600,000 state high
way building on the block
bounded by Capitol, Chemeketa,
Center and Summer streets, will
be opened by the state highway
commission September 20.
The commission has approved
plans and specifications prepar
ed by Whitehouse, Church, New
berry and Roher, architects who
designed the state library build
ing, ihe new state office building
and were associated with eastern
architects in designing the state
capitol.
The commission in a brief ses
sion Friday in Portland approv
ed expending $930,000 as the
state's contribution toward a
proposed $4,400,000 highway
around Meridam dam in Lane
county.
A 10-ton load limit was set on
the bridge over the South San
tiam river at Cascadia.
Sword to Fill
Calvary Pulpit
Dr. Victor Hugh Sword, rep
resentative of the American
Baptist Foreign Mission Society
of Assam, India, will be guest
pastor for both Sunday services
at Calvary Baptist church Sun
day. As a friend of Gandhi, Dr.
Sword was appointed to a com
mittee to set up a world peace
conference on a non-violence
basis. This committee consists of
representatives from various
parts of the world and will meet
December 19 in India.
Dr. Sword's subject Sunday
morning will be "Life Begins
Now" and for the evening, "Pro
fitable Examinations."
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