;g2 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Friday, December 9, 1949
Attractive State Department
Branches Rise in Many Cities
r By WILLIAM WARREN
(United PreM BUM Correspondent)
" Simple but attractive red-tiled structures are beginning to dot
the state Oregon from North Bend to Ontario, from The Dalles
to Klamath Falls branches of the secretary of state's office which
'-come in for a lot of discussion and questioning since the first one
was opened at Hillsboro last August. .
: Tho fart that State Sen. Rexe
Ellis and his brother, Bruce El
lis, both of Pendleton, built the
first or are building the first
four at Hillsboro, Grants Pass,
North Bend and Hood River.
This brought a lot of queries to
Secretary of State Earl T. New
bry about the prospects of lo
calecapital putting up the build
ings. Newbry said local capital
would be not only encouraged
but welcomed in any locality,
but it was difficult to get peo-1
pie interested at first, while the
Ellis brothers were willing to
build.
, Assistant Secretary of State
William E. Healy, who has been
handling a lot of the details,
gave a picture of the situation
as it is, statewide today.
Already completed are the
branches at Hillsboro, Grants
Pass and Hood River. Under
construction are the ones at On
tario and Eugene.
Sites have been approved in
North Bend, Bend, Oregon City,
Opening Set
At Academy
, Salem College and Academy
plans an opening program in the
new gymnasium-auditorium for
the afternoon of December 11 at
8.
i The program will feature
greetings from the Department
.of education, the city of Salem,
and various civic and religious
organizations from Salem and
Dallas.
'j Rev. Oscar Brown, chairman
of the board of trustees, will
ipeak on behalf of the board.
and Rev. Robert G. Hovland,
resident of the school, will
peak on the theme: "Another
Milestone."
i Professor Ronald J. Lush will
be there with his choir and band
to furnish the music.
;; Salem College and Academy is
now In its fifth year of opera
tion with an enrollment of 238
aiudents and an administrative
and teaching staff of 20 people.
The campus consists of 28 acres
on College Heights Vk miles
west of Salem overlooking the
city and Willamette valley.
Three new buildings have been
erected since May 1947: The ad
ministrative and classroom
building, the chapel, and the
new gymnasium now under con
struction. A college sized foot
ball field provides the facilities
for a well-rounded educational
program.
Except for a few from Wash
ington, Idaho and California,
most students come from the
area in and around Salem and
Dallas.
Tragic Twist
To Xmas Hope
Scranton, Pa., Dec. 9 VP)
William J. Boston, 49, decid
ed he would sell his shotgun
and use the, money to buy
Christmas presents for his five
children.
Yesterday, Boston got the
gun out of a closet and began
cleaning the barrel. His wife,
working in the kitchen, heard
an explosion and ran Into the
living room to find Boston
shot dead.
Lackawanna county Coroner
Paul E. Kubasko said the shot
gun had been discharged acci
dentally. The charge struck
Boston In the head.
Albany, Lebanon and Newport.
Other branches will be Bum
at Medford, Klamath Falls, The
Dalles, Pendleton, La Grande,
Baker, Gresham, Astoria and
Corvallis.
In Medford, the site under
consideration is owned by the
county. A Jackson county ranch
er and republican leader, John
Neidermeyer, wants to build the
structure for lease, as the oth
ers are, to the secretary of state.
Attorney General George weu
ner has been asked for an opin
ion as to whether the county
can sell the property, which is
part of an old fairgrounds property.
Sites and builders are being
sought in the other places.
Healy said:
"It isn't always easy to get
local capital interested in these
projects, because they are not
always a particularly profitable
investment, when cost is consid
ered.
"Here's the way it is. The sec
retary of state's office specifies
that the building, if it is to lease
it, must meet certain conditions.
It must follow the same general
plan. The building, 24 by 44
feet, must be on a lot 100 by 100
feet which must have black top
pavement for parking. It is a
one-story concrete building with
white stucco exterior walls and
red-tiled roof. It must be on a
main highway and outside the
congested area of the city where
it is located.
"Some men who have been
interested in building have de
clined to go through with it af
ter finding that costs wouldn't
make the limited rent a profit
able venture. Under the most fa
vorable conditions it costs $9,
200 for building, black topping,
blueprints and engineering. On
top of that must be added the
value of the land sometimes as
high as $10,000 or $12,000.
'We specify that we won't
sign any lease until the structure
is built and approved. That
means it is the owner's risk un
til completion. And then we
sign a 10-year lease at rent rang
ing from $110 to $130 a month."
Healy said that on a county
level, the amount of money paid
for rent will be about the same
as that paid now. In several
cases the secretary of state's of
fices are scattered in a county,
and these will be consolidated
into the one building. '
The secretary of state has a
man in each office to handle mo
tor vehicle registration, issuance
of drivers' licenses, and the fur
nishing of tourist information. A
man from the office of financial
responsibility drops in once a
week at each place for consul
tation of motor vehicle Insur
ance. The public utilities commis
sion will have a representative
in each of the structures, so that
truck drivers, when they get
their motor vehicles licenses,
can get their PUC permits at
the same time. As an example of
what this will save the driver in
time, Healy said that a man who
gets his truck license in Grants
Pass at the present time has to
go to Medford for the nearest
place where he can get his PUC
license.
During the heavy state income
tax collection period about five
or six weeks each year the
state tax commission will have
a representative at each branch
to help persons with their tax
forms.
) J . Saieti '
In Tragedy's Wake Guarded by a sad-faced bulldog, three
bikes stand idle beneath the shot-pierced window of the
John Conner home at Alexandria, Va. Police said Conner
methodically shot down his three children, one after the
other. Part of the shotgun charge which killed one child
pierced the window. The dog was the Conner children's
pet and the bikes, their toys. (AP Wirephoto)
Jury Acquits
Willie Joe Dunn
Bremerton, Dec. 9 M" A su
perior court jury acquitted Wil
lie Joe Dunn, 27, last night of
first degree murder charges for
the killing of his wife and her
lover.
Ruby Dunn, 28, and James
Dickens Jr., 22, were killed in
the bedroom of Dickens' home
Oct. 1. All principals in the case
were negroes.
Prosecutor James Munro had
asked for the death penalty.
Dunn's attorney, Curtis H.
Coons, pleaded self-defense in
the shooting of Dickens and
temporary insanity in the kill
ing of Mrs. Dunn.
The jury deliberated five and
a half hours while Dunn, an un
employed former shipyard
worker and the father of three
children, read the Bible in his
jail cell. :
The jury decided in a special
verdict that Dunn now was sane
and safe to be a free man.
Dunn testified that he enter
ed the Dickens house after
Dickens and his wife had twice
gnored his previous knocks and
shouts. He said Dickens reached
under his clothing, as though
for a weapon, and threatened to
pre-him
kill him. He said Dickens
viously had threatened
when he warned the man
against his attentions to Mrs.
Dunn. Dunn testified that he
did not recall shooting either of
his victims, and that he "came
to" three blocks from the scene.
at nearby Freysville yesterday.
The tree fell on top ot mm.
Forty-five minutes later, Young
died at York hospital. Deputy
Coroner Ralph Keech said both
his legs had been fractured.
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Lebanon Opening
New Funeral Home
Lebanon The city's newest
funeral home, Warner and Mc
Henry, will be opened to public
inspection Saturday and Sun
day,, it was announced by Joe
McHenry this week. The new
business is located at the corner
of Grant and Park streets in the
building formerly occupied by
the United Evangelical church.
The structure originally was
built and used for a funeral
home by the late Cas and Nathan
Lowe before its sale to the
church.
Both Joe McHenry, who will
manage the local parlor, and his
partner, Frank Warner, operate
the Warner and McHenry Fu
neral home in Corvallis.
Falling Tree Kills Man '
York, Pa., Dec. 9 P) Sixty-seven-year-old
Edwin Young
chopped down' a tree on his farm
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