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18 Capital Journal, Salem,
Board of Control Plans to
Re-organize Penitentiary
I ' Ths state hoard of control announced it would investigate the
If 1 entire state penitentiary with a
U The board s statement was made In connection witn us report
rran T)mwnloB innvirt who committed suicide nn last Marrh
1,91 17, died partially because of carelessness and an error of judg-
Sl'i . i,- J 4U- -,..4..b
f ;r mem on me part ui u gumay
f In charge.
Wii - The board promised is would
g" work out plans to prevent such
Rm n incident from happening
again.
a The board said that Brown
f lee, who came from Lake coun
W ty, died from loss of blood and
fjii a rheumatic heart. Brownlee
"I slashed his wrists in his cell.
W "There was no question," the
?i board wrote, "that Brownlee was
I" Insane and that both the inmates
la and the guards did not take him
li: seriously. Twice before, Brown
L lee had cut his arm in an effort
hi to be sent to the hospital. Both
I" times he was sent there and no
i serious after-effect materialized.
"The last time that he did this
f It was viewed as more or less a
ir. wolf-wolf procedure. There was
a an error of judgment on the part
g? of the guards in charge and some
SV evidence of carelessness.
Ki The board's investigation of
to. the Brownlee case followed
p charges that Brownlee lay in his
Ih cell for six hours before receiv-
E ing medical attention.
L The board of control said its
2 investigation of the prison would
u take some time.
'In the meantime we have
;Jj plans under way to reorganize
e the entire set-up. Particularly
Ji that of medical attention given
C to the inmates. We are not
"a ready, at this time, to disclose
ti the corrections which will be
! made, but we can assure the
' j citizens of the State of Oregon
t that there will be a substantial
improvement in the entire or-
ganization.
. "No building has been done at
p the penitentiary during the last
s IB years, with exception of the
If new cell block which has just
i been comoleted. It is now nos-
ii sible to Improve the conditions
at the penitentiary because of
this new cell block. We are also
' starting another cell block and
Is possibly a correction block, both
of which are vitally needed."
I . The board said it hopes the
. , next legislature will provide
more money for all state institu
,! tions.
. :,The report was signed by all
. j three members of the board.
- They are Governor Douglas Mc
( Kay, Secretary of State Earl T.
Newbry, and State Treasurer
Walter J. Pearson.
Tropical Storm
Veers Off Coast
Los Angeles, Sept. 9 OP)
Southern Californlans relaxed
some today as the weather ex
perts reported that a tropical
storm, originally of hurricane
proportions, was apparently dis
sipating off the coast of Mex
ico. However the U. S. Weather
Bureau here reported that anoth
er tropical storm has been sight
ed 160 miles southwest of Man
zanillo, Mexico. Meager reports
give the new storm 60 MPH
within 100 miles of the center.
It is moving northwest at eight
miles per hour. .
The original storm was 450
miles southwest of San Diego
and was moving out into the Pa
cific. Sizzling temperatures also ap
peared to be abating. Los An
geles had a high of 103 Wednes
day but yesterday the maximum
was 96.
East Salem Hop Grower
Leaves Harvest on Vine
, East Salem, Sept. 9 For the first time in several years there are
no hop picking jobs in East Salem suburban districts. The largest
yard, the "Illihee" hop ranch of 40 acres will not be picked this
year, and the De Sart yard is not being used for hops, most of it
being plowed up and put in grain.
The company leasing the "II--
lihee" ranch because of the hop
control program being used by
the growers this year decided
Just to cut down the entire crop
as they have other ranches and
this ranch would make their
percentage of cut all come in
the one yard Instead of a few
acres in each yard.
"The hops were good and the
many pickers who picked each
year in this yard will note the
loss in wages, especially in Au
burn district where the ranch is.
The expense of preparing the
field for harvest will be noted
s a complete loss.
Beans are still being picked
In some yards. The older part
of the Herr Reinche yard has
been cut down but there will
be one more picking in the new
fields.
The A. R. Nieman Const. Co.
of 2001 Main St
Vancouver, Washington
Phone Portland, TWinoaki 5444
Ask for Sub Bids on
All Phases of Work and Material on New Stat
Highway Department Office Building
Oregon, Friday, Sept. 9, 1949
view toward reorganizing it.
Babe's Truck
Down Again
Albany, Sept. 19 Babe, 85,
the wayward elephant weighing
8V2 tons, made an unscheduled
stop in Albany Wednesday night,
when her owners, the Imperial
Exposition carnival, drove
through town in a fleet of trucks
As usual the Babe's truck broke
down at the north end of the
city limits near Tower Grove.
The marble-eyed old gal spent
the night tethered at the side of
the road alongside her traveling
companion, Smokey, an 85
pound midget horse.
Babe's used to inconvenience
though, as that is all she's had
since she came to Oregon with
the show a year ago. Last sum
mer when in Albany, she broke
loose, to send the town on its
first elephant safari. The next
morning she was found in a
thicket south of the city limits.
She pulled the same stunt this
year and went stomping off at
St.. Helens and was gone for 20
hours before she was again nab
bed by her anxious keepers. She
had gone off to pout after an in
ebriate blew his automobile
horn at her.
Babe's truck, a rather decrepit
affair, has a habit of breaking
down under the weight of the
animal.
The truck was en route to
Springfield when its breakdown
came Wednesday.
Babe covers her mouth with
her trunk and says, "Ho hum!
One place is just like another to
me same old routine, but I do
meet a lot of interesting peo
ple."
Rent Control Ends in K. F.
Washington, Sept. 9 P) Rent
control was ended today in Kla
math county, Ore., comprising
the entire Klamath Falls de
fense-rental area. Housing Ex
pediter Tighe E. Woods ended
the control on his own initiative.
LIKE TO OWN AN ISLE?
Uncle Sam Wants to Find
Buyer for 50-Ac re Island
By LEE LINDER
(AP Newfeatures)
Wilmington, Del. Uncle Sam would like to sell the 50-acre,
tree-studded spit of land in the
island. The island originally was the main quarantine station
for the Port of Philadelphia.
Not long ago Shelby D. Collins, a 7,g-year-old Port Penn con
tractor, offered $7500 for thefe-
island. The government turned
it down as "unrealistic
Collins wanted everything
nailed down or not. His bid in
cluded the land, an office build
ing, barracks, hospital building,
recreation and mess hall, car
penter shop, storage buildings,
water towers and pump houses,
wharves, salt water fire nains
and coal bins containing 200 tons
left by the Navy.
The Army, now custodian of
the property, said Collins must
be joking. Collins replied his of
fer still goes. He admits, how
ever, he doesn't know what he'd
do with the island if he ever got
it.
Reedy Island originally be
longed to the State of Delaware.
That the season is much ear
lier this year is also being not
ed in the filbert orchards as this
week many of the smaller or
chards had their first picking.
Usually it is in October he fil
berts are picked up.
Fall plowing has begun in the
fields to the east of the city,
grain has been combined and
most of the straw was baled this
year as the price of feed is still
high.
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14 Playing in
Fiddler Show
Fourteen performers partici
pated Thursday night in the
third annual old fiddlers contest
sponsored by Salem post of the
Disabled American Veterans.
The contest is being held at
the Hollywood theater and will
reach the finals Friday night,
with award of prizes to the
winners. The contest will start
at 8 o'clock.
The fiddlers come from all
over the state ot uregon. All
day Thursday they played at the
Sears, Roebuck & Co. store and
attracted much attention.
Proceeds of the contest go to
the DAV building fund.
Delaware river called Reedy
The U.S. got the land as a gift
in 1873. Now Delaware refuses
to take it back.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service was asked to accept the
island as a bird refuge. The Ser
vice said it didn't think the. birds
would like it.
The Navy was in possession
for a year or so before the end
of World War II but surrendered
it as soon as Japan surrendered.
Right now the island is in
charge of John Mitchell, a care
taker appointed by the Army in
January,- 1948. With Mitchell
are his wife, two children and a
dog.
During the last 55 years the
U.S. has spent between $400,000
and $500,000 on the jungle-like
strip. The island lies 20 miles
south of Wilmington and 40
miles from Philidelphla.
So far Collins is the only per
son who has shown interest in
the property.
"I helped put the first stick of
lumber on the place in 1893,
Collins, says, "but don't ask me
what it's good for today.
A duck flies by once in a
while in the fall or winter and
some folks have caught a musk
rat or two there but that's all.
"I'd like to have the buildings
because some of them are in
pretty good shape but it would
take a tugboat and a barge and
a crew of men to move them to
the mainland."
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Salem plant of the Oregon Pulp & Paper company, which has
large paper making and lumber manufacturing operations and
is a major industry in Oregon. The annual payroll of the
Salem plant is $2,800,000, and it employs from 650 to 700
persons, of whom about 500 are in the paper manufacturing di
vision. The Salem plant makes an average of 34,000 tons of
paper and cuts 25,000,000 feet of lumber annually. The
capital investment is in excess of $10,000,000.
SURVEY IN NATION
Price of a New Home
Expected to Stay the Same
(By Ue rnltKl PtM)
The Drice of a new home will stay about the same for the next
year and may go slightly higher, contractors across the nation
predicted today.
Their consensus was obtained
of building costs in 22 widely
Few home builders saw much
prospect for lower prices.
The average price of a five
room frame house in a middle
class residential neighborhood
in the 22 cities was estimated
roughly at $9,090, not including
the lot.
Highest building costs were
found in Chicago and Louisville,
Ky., where contractors said an
average five-room frame resi
dence would cost about $12,000.
In Oklahoma City, contrac
tors said the same house would
cost about $6,800, the lowest
price uncovered in the survey.
In' Louisville, several builders
said they have quit constructing
small homes because costs are
too high and they cannot be sold
at a profit.
Most contractors cited high
wages in the construction indus
try, higher freight rates and few
substantial cuts in material
prices to support their belief
that prices for homes will not
drop.
m
In some cities, contractors
predicted even higher prices be
cause of local slum clearance
and government housing pro
jects. These, they said, would in
crease the demand for materials
and boost their costs.
Some contractors believed
that stiffer competition might
cut costs slightly.
The average price of a five-
room frame house, not counting
the lot, was estimated in various
cities as follows:
Portland and Seattle $8,500.
San Francisco bay area, $8,100
(higher in San Francisco prop
er) and Los Angeles $7,200.
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First Aid Car
Has Busy Days
An unusual run of emergency
injury calls is reported by city
First Aid for the last two days.
Traffic and industrial accidents
accounted for most of them. The
list includes:
Lorene Elgin, 29, of 95" South
20th, leg injury in automobile
collision in West Salem, Friday,
The following all on Thurs
day:
Duane Durkee, 1000 State
street, became ill while driving
on State by State House and
collided with two parked vehi
cles.
John S. Hicks, 61, Tennessee
transient riding on freight train
struck on head by unidentified
person and scalp lacerated.
Walter Biggerstaff, 69, route
6, face lacerations and shock, in
two-car wreck at Lancaster
drive and Center street, taken
to Salem General hospital. Betty
Nateboon, 24, of Bay City, in
the other car, suffered ankle
injury, taken to doctor.
Frank Parkhurst, 67, of 1170
Kenilwood drive, left hand cut
in machine accident, at Kelley,
Farquhar cannery, taken to doc
tor.
Carol Talley, 2, of 2260 Hazel,
bitten on face by dog.
Miss L. M. Hunter, 78, of 105
West Miller, overcome by heat
at store on South Commercial,
taken to her home.
Ray Strause, race track
jockey, collar bone fracture in
collision on track, taken to Sa-1
lem General hospital.
Connie Anglin, 3, right an
kle injured in mechanism of
bicycle.
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Fight Planned
On Budworms
Portland, Sept. 9 VP) Aerial
war plans against the spruce
budworm were in the making to
day. Eastern Oregon seemed
certain to be the principal bat
tleground next year.
Foresters met here to draw up
plans for 1950 spraying of in
fested areas. They said 2,232,,
250 acres already have been in
fested with 865,000 in drastic
need of spraying.
The timber involved is worth
$32,980,000, they estimated,
Most of the infestation is in Ore
gon.
Speakers said the budworm
besides destroying timber, is a
fire hazard and threatens the wa
ter resources of Pendleton, Wal
la Walla, Baker, Milton-Freewa-
ter and other Blue mountain
communities.
A committee was named to se
lect the areas to be sprayed first
and to make financing plans. E
L. Kolbe, chief forester of the
western fine association, was
named chairman. The final plan
is not expected until next month,
Cabins Are Purchased
Gates Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Edwards who recently sold their
trailer court and tourist cabins
have purchased two lots in Gates
from Davis and Park and are
having them erect a modern one
bedroom house, which it is re
ported will be for rent, when
completed. Following an ex
tended trip east the Edwards
plan to have built a larger home
on the remaining lot.
Dale Herr, 30 Duncan, thrown
from a motorcycle at 410 Ever
green when cycle hit chuckhole,
bruised.
Beth Dimick, 70, of 820 South
21st, nose hemorrhage, taken to
Salem General hospital.
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Auto Model Changes Not'
To Close Down Plants Long
By DAVID
noirnlf Kent. 0 OP) The new
to close down any of the auto plants for extended periods.
Certainly prolonged shutdowns aren't needed to change models.
This has been demonstrated in the switch overs already made to
1950 cars. Studebaker, with radical style changes, halted its as
sembly lines for only a week:
Buick brought .out a wholly
new model wnnoui lmerruyi-
ing its output. Nash took three
weeks to switch over to 1950
units, but eould have done it in
less time.
Other car makers yet to
change over probably will do
it in less than two weeks, even
where outstanding changes are
planned. This means, of course,
that the auto makers are more
concerned about competition
than they have been at any time
since the war. New car orders
have become increasingly im
portant to manufacturers of all
makes of cars.
So the switch-overs generally
will be made with a minimum of
delay.
In the pre-war days a model
change-over invariably meant a
shutdown of from six to eight
weeks. And when production
was resumed volume didn't al
ways materialize in a hurry.
Production difficulties weren't
always to blame. Considerably
more than half the shutdown
period often was counted upon
to permit dealers to clear out
stocks of unsold new models.
In some instances a current mod
el eould be had at reduced
price.
Of course this happened only
when a dealer had more new
than orders. There are
some retailers in that situation
right now. When their factor
ies close for new model output
they will trade though to make
quick sales.
Next of the 1950 models to
appear will be Nash. It return
ed to production yesterday after
me cnange - over shutdown.
There has been no advance in
formation from company sources
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about the new models. It is un
derstood, however, that both
body and chassis changes are
planned. Also, more powerful
engines are said to be among
the mechanical changes.
Trade circle gossip has it that
about half the 1950 models yet
to come will haow drastic styl
ing changes. It isn't likely.
though, that many of the manu
facturers will be able to use the
time-worn phrase "a completely
re - designed model from the
ground up."
That sort of thing costs a lot
more money than most of the
auto makers want to Invest soon
after bringing out their new
postwar cars.
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