8 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon. Friday, Sept. 16, 1949
NORTH MARION COUNTY FAIR
Needle in the Haystack?
Three to Find at Fair
By WILLIAM WARREN
(Unit4l PHu Blkfl Correspondent)
Woodburn, Sept. 16 U. From the Pudding river south to
the 45th parallel, where a Pacific highway ign read "Half way
to the Equator," kid contestants will converge on Woodburn next
week and try to find a needle in a haystack.
While farmers vie for honors of best grain and biggest beet;
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prettiest peas
and tallest cornj?'
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filberts sndv
largest o n 1 o n.p
the youngsters !
will hold a
Iractor - driving!
contest and willl
look for a nee-jf
oie in nj
stack. J
These will be
features of the
North Marion ounty Fair, Sept.
22-24, where directors have
come up with the idea of giving
the fair back to the farmers,
their wives and their youngsters.
Produce of the farms and the
handiwork of housewives will be
on display from Spongs Landing
on the wniameue 10 n"
Mills at the Eastern border of
the county. St. Louis will be
represented, and so will Logan
ville, Broadacres and Concom
ley. There'll be two Joint winners
in the haystack contest, limit
ed to lads under 13. Three large
needles the kind you sew up
grain sacks with will be hid
den in a haystack.
The first two youngsters to
find a needle each will be de
clared Joint winners Just as
soon as they look through the
eyes of their needle and see eye
to eye with each other. The boy
who finds the third needle will
get a consolation prize.
Only Future Farmers of
America will be eligible for the
tractor-driving contest to be held
over an obstacle-strewn course
on the grounds of Lincoln Grade
school, near the shed where the
4-H and FFA youngsters will
hold their livestock show.
The North Marion County
Fair will be opened officially at
10:30 a.m., Thursday when Gov.
Douglas McKay, wielding a
large pair of hedge shears, cuts
a cornstalk barrier and clears
the entrance to the National
Guard Armory, official head
quarters of the fair.
Garden entries will be dis
played in the Armory, and so
will food and textile entries.
Woodburn's National Guard
unit, heavy tank, 186th Infantry,
will exhibit two 32-ton tanks,
a jeep, signal equipment and
machine guns.
Catty-corner across the street,
the large building of the North
Marion Country Fruit Co. has
been turned over for fair ex
hibits. Unite of the Grange and
Farmers Union throughout
North Marion county will dis
play their produces there, and
so will farmers, In the open or
Individual competition.
Machinery displays will be on
the grounds In front of this
building. Brand new equip
ment, never shown before at any
iair anywncre, will include a
sweet corn picker, a new hy
draulic operated and mounted
three bottom berry plow (the
three bottoms are the three sep
arate Diane of the plow)
cub, or pint-sized bulldozer.
and a hydraulic twin Jack
truck life invented and develop
ed by a Woodburn citizen.
Prominent highlights of this
W4 year's fair will be the novelty
v fit 'division, where size will be the
S'iVfi t factor tallest corn stalk, big-
"iL-oi.' , J factor tallest corn stalk, big
"V. '4 '1r nest ear of corn, largest tomato,
squasn, poiaio, pumpKin, car
rot, largest apple, beet, head of
cabbage, largest onion
And largest family attend
ing the fair.
This division, brain child of
Gene Malecki, fair manager who
also dreamed up the needle in
the haystack and tractor-driving
contest, goes back to the direct
origin of the North Marion
County fair, which started in
1936 as the Woodburn fair.
Let Winton Hunt, one of the
fair directors, explain:
"Back in the old days, one
farmer would bring in a tall
stalk of corn to the old office
of the Woodburn Independent,
and challenge anyone to beat it.
Another farmer would shrug his
shoulders as if to say who cares?
And he'd bring in his bid for
biggest pumpkin.
"Another would come In with
the largest spud or onion. So
we decided if there was that
much interest, we might as well
have a fair and give the boys
prizes for their king-size prod
uce." The first Woodburn fair was
held in 1936. It grew in size
and popularity, until the direc
tors decided to widen the com
petition. It became the North
Marion County Fair in 1941.
Then came World War II and op
erations were suspended until
last year, when the fair was resumed.
fe-tlliir MiiiisiiMii
Petty Thieves
Become Felons
Gearhart, Sept. 16 IIP) A lot
of petty thieves are becoming
felons these days, and it's all
the fault of inflation.
It used to be that a shoplifter
could take a topcoat, and, if
caught, get only petit larcey
sentence.
That was when the topcoat
was worth about $25. But now
the coat is worth $50 and any
theft over $40 is a felony and
brings a stiffer sentence.
But the Oregon state bar is
trying to do something about it.
The attorneys at the annual bar
convention recommended yes
terday that the petit larceny lim
it be lifted to $100.
The convention also proposed
a change in the bar's code of
ethics to prohibit attorneys from
advertising in newspapers.
Some speakers suggested tight
er restriction! on state commis
sions, so that publication of reg
ulations would be required, re
strictions on court appeals be
removed and hearsay evidence
be limited.
Thousands of bottl- 1 ring
the likeness of Georgi filing
ton were made during slave trade
days, filled with spirits and used
by American traders throughout
I the world.
McCarrans Sail Sen. Pat McCarran (D., Nev.), and Mrs.
McCarran, are shown aboard the Queen Mary shortly before
they sailed for a European tour. Sen. McCarran said he
would visit Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain to discuss
diplomatic recognition by the United States. However, in
Washington, President Truman said that McCarran, who is
chairman of the senate judiciary committee, is acting on his
own in his visit to Franco and does not represent this gov
ernment in anyway. AP Wirephoto)
Rodman Will Manage
Lebanon Elks Temple
Lebanon Ted Rodman, real
estate dealer and prominent in
civic affairs, has closed his busi
ness office to serve Elk's lodge,
1663, as house manager of the
new temple.
He will supervise the work of
various employees, plan club
activities, and act as host-at-large.
Assisting Rodman are Karl W.
Caswell and Eldo Anerson.
stewards.
11 Injured in
Plane Explosion
Seattle. Sept. 16 UP) Flaming
gasoline fumes shot through a
huge B-50 bomber at the Boeing
Aimlane company plant here
yesterday, touching off an ex
plosion that in J urea ii men,
two seriously.
Firemen said a sheet of flame
sprang from two empty gasoline
tanks in the middle ol tne plane,
which the crew was removing.
The flames traveled into the left
wing, blowing up a tank there.
The two most seriously injur
ed, Eugene C. Hilman and How
ard E. Bowers, Jr., jumped from
the wing and ran as their
clothes caught fire. Witnesses
said they resembled human
torches.
A Boeing emergency fire crew
brought the flames under con
trol before city firemen arriv
ed. The explosion did more dam
age to the plane than the fire,
a company spokesman said.
Ten of the injured men were
from Seattle and the home town
of another, Clark B. Young, was
not known.
Besides the two seriously in
jured, five were severely burn
ed, three were treated for minor
injuries in a hospital and one
was sent home after treatment
at the scene.
Rilev Weeks has charge of
all janitor work in the new
temple.
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STCKE?
Over twenty years ago, the Congress of
the United Stetes passed the Railway Labor
Act It was bailed by union leaders as a
model for the seititssent of labor disputes.
or exncrrracally If the leaders of the i
Acjnetoento or laws.
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Trb Uamon of tin Brotherhood of kocomo
tiva Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Haflwuy Con
ductor, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men on the Missouri Pacific Railroad have refused
to avail themselves of the peaceful means pro
Tided by this Act for settling their disputes. They
insist that they be the sole umpire of their own
disputes over the aoeanine; of contracts.
There Is No Need For Strikes
With all of the available methods for the interpre
tation of contracts, there is no need for a strike or
even a threat of a strike, but the leaders of these
railroad unions have ignored the ordinary pro
cedures established by law and insist upon impos
ing their own interpretations of their contracts by
means of a strike.
The wheels have stopped rolling on the Mis
souri Pacific. They may stop rolling on other rail
roads at any time. Recently the Wabash Raflroad
was forced to discontinue operation for several
days ander svmflsr csreurnstances.
What Are These Striken About?
These strikes and strike threats are not about
. wage nsa or hours. They weak from disputes
over Iris manning of existing contracts. They
cover etnims for a ful day's pay for less than a
day's work, or for payments for set vices per
formed by ethers who wees fully paid for the
work dona.
President Truman's Board
Condemns Strike
There is an established legal method for uandling
disputes involving existing written contracts
just as there is such a method of settling any con
tract dispute which you may have m your daily
life.
The President of the United States appointed a
Fact Finding Board to investigate and adjust the
Missouri Pacific dispute. This Board reported, in
part, as follows:
"... it is with a deep sense of regret that we are
obliged to report the failure of oar mission. It
seems inconceivable to as that a coercive strike
should occur on one of the nation's major trans
portation systems, with all of the losses and
hardships that would follow, in view of the fact
that the Railway Labor Act provides an orderly,
efficient and complete remedy for the fair and
jnst settlement of the matters m dispate. Griev
ance of the character here ander disease! os, an
so numerous and of such frequent occurrence ssi
all railroads that the general adoption of the
policy pursued by the organizations in this ease
woald soon result in the complete nallineano. sf
the Railway Labor Art. . . ."
Obviously therawjoade rananr be same
Provisions of the Law Which
Are Disregarded
1 .e are five ways under the Railway Labor
Act to settle disputes over the meaning of con
tracts: 1 Decision by National Raflroad Adjuuiiimut
Board.
2 Decision by System Adjustment Board lot
the specific railroad.
S Decision by arbitration.
4 Decision by neutral referee.
5 Decision by courts.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad has been and h
entirely willing to have these disputes settled in
accordance with the requirements of the Railway
Labor Act. Regardless of this fact, the. union
leaders have shot down that railroad.
Innocent Bystanders Suffer
Losses and Hardships
There are about 5,000 engineers, firemen, conduc
tors and trainmen on the Missouri Pacific. They
re known as "operating" employes, and are the
most highly paid of all employes on the nation's
railroads, but their stike action has resulted in the
loss of work to 22,500 other employes of the Mis
souri Pacific In addition, they have imposed
great inconvenience and hardship upon the pub
lic and the communities served by that railroad.
The Railway Labor Act was designed to pro
tect the public against just such mterruptions of
com meres.
If these mea will not comply with the prerisioas of
the law for the settlement of surh disputes, then al
thinking Americans must face the question, TWhat
k the neat step V.
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