2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 1949
War on Rats Declared
By Salem's Council
By STEPHEN A. STONE
War was declared on rats by the city council Monday night.
An ordinance was enacted requiring the ratproofing of build
ings, and a letter was received from the Salem Woman's club
asking for universal disposal of garbage in the city, and one rea-
son for that is control of rats.
Supreme Court
Reverses 3 Cases
The state supreme court or
dered today a new trial In the
suit of a Portland coal stoker
dealer against the Iron Fireman
Manufacturing company.
The dealer, Chelsea N. How-
land, won $27,564 damages
against the company in the cir
cuit court of Judge Frank J.
Lonergan. But today's decision,
by Justice James T. Brand, said
there must be a new trial be
cause neither party had a fair
trial in the lower court.
Howland claimed that the
company, in 1944, gave him an
exclusive dealership for sale of
home-size coal stokers in Mult
nomah county. He said the com
pany later came out with a new
type, which it sold through oth
er dealers and which it also sold
direct to purchasers.
Howland claimed this caused
him to lose money, and brought
the suit.
The high court was in a re
versing mood today. At its
weeklv opinion day session, it
had five opinions. Three of
them reversed circuit judges,
another upheld the lower court,
and the fifth opinion threw a
case out of court.
Sam Pace, 50, who was con
victed and sentenced to 20 years
in orison for raping his 14-year-
old daughter, won a new trial
when the high court reversed
Circuit Judge Victor Olliver of
Linn county. The opinion was
hv Justice Harry H. Belt. The
case occurred in Albany.
Other decisions today were:
8. L. and Maty E. Rose v. Henry Denn
and othcra, appellants. Appeal from Doua
laa county. 8ult over right to uae a pri
vate road, opinion by Justice oeorae
Bossman. Ju carl E. Wlmberly, al-
In the matter of the estate of Annie
Wells, deceased: A. J. W. Brown and
ethera w. Mabel Irwin, executrix of the
estate, appellant. Appeal from Multnomah
county. Motion allowed to dismiss appeal.
Opinion by Chief Justice Hall S. Lusk.
Wilfred H. and Joey June Wldmer ya.
A. J. Leffelman. appellant. Appeal from
Multnomah county. Suit to cancel contract
to sell restaurant. Opinion by Justice
j, o. Bailey. Judta Jamea R. Bain, re
versed. .
Blood Donor
Drive lo Start
The campaign to secure a long
list of names for volunteer blood
donors will get under way In the
near future, it was decided by
the board of directors of Marion
county chapter, American Red
Cross, meeting last night. Date
for start of the campaign will be
announced in a few days.
This is a campaign that in
volves no money, merely the
sign-up of names of persons who
wish to be on the list of blood
donors. It is hoped around 4000
names can be secured, thus as
suring the chapter has a contin
uous list to call upon for each
monthly visitation of the mobile
unit from the Portland regional
blood center to Salem.
With the visitation of the mo
bile unit here Tuesday the chap
ter exhausted its last card in
lining up donors for the stop, it
was pointed out. With the unit
stopping here each month it is
imperative that the chapter have
a ready source of names' to call
each time, It was stated.
Rest of the board session was
taken up with reports. Mrs.
Mark Astrup. Junior Red Cross
chairman, stated girls at Hill
crest school nre to do sewing and
older students at Chemawa
school will be making toys, all
for the benefit of the Navajo In
dians. The home service department
listed a caseload of 191 for the
past month with a total of $464
extended in loans and grants to
veterans and servicemen and
their dependents.
Veterans Hobby
Shop Contemplated
The possibility of members of
the various veterans organiza
tions setting up and operating
a centrally located hobby shop
has progressed beyond the talk
stage, reported W. ' H. Ballllc.
manager of the Salem office for
the state employment service.
bstaDiisnmeni ot sucn a cen
ter where veterans who have
hobbies on which they could
capitalize has attracted not only
the interest of the employment
eervice but of the veterans state
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Second Feature
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The Woman's club request was
made by letter, and also in a
brief talk by Mrs. Arthur Jones,
chairman of the club commit
tee. The letter was placed on
file lor later consideration.
The bill to put a $20 annual
license on coin-ln-the-slot vend
ing machines was tabled on mo
tion of its sponsor, Alderman
David O'Hara. A petition sign
ed by about 200 names was re
ceiving urging passage of the bill
which is strongly opposed by
tne vending machine people.
A bill was passed which
amends a recent ordinance au
thorizing the city treasurer to
borrow $240,000 to tide over to
the first tax collections of the
new tax year. It was explained
that the new bill is more gener
ally satisfactory to the banks
than the previous one.
Also passed was a bill author-!
lzing the issuance of $117,667.90
in Bancroft Improvement bonds.
Referred to the chief of police
was an application from Ore
gon Auto Wreckers for a license
to do business.
The council tabled a resolu
tlon that would prohibit park-l
ing ot ail motor vehicles at all
times on the north side of Madi
son street between Capitol and
incuoy. City Engineer J. H. Da
vis said the street is only 30 feet
wide and the traffic situation
dangerous. The congestion is
caused mainly it was said, by
an apartment house in the dis
trict. The sale of property on the
North Commercial street exten
sion to Walter Lansing and wife
for $3300 had council approval,
but an Investigation is to be
made of right of way width in
the district, as to whether it
will be 60 or 66 feet. 1
County Districts for
Testing Bangs Disease
The county court Tuesday adopted proposals increasing the
number of county veterinarians
four to six, set up six districts
each one should be a county veterinarian, rather than one county
veterinarian as now with a corps of deputies, and each to be
made responsible for his owrr
district. The new. set-up will l
become effective around Janu
ary 1, but not sooner.
The new alignment adds Dr.
Ernest Henkel, Silverton, and
Dr. Glen Schwenke, Woodburn,
to the roster of veterinarians and
assigns the six to the following
districts:
District No. 1, Dr. Glen
Schwenke, to the east and north
of Woodburn.
District No. 2, Dr.. John Han-
rahan, to the west and north of
Woodburn.
District No. S, Dr. Fred Lang.
north and south of Salem, in the
Salem area.
District No. 4, Dr. A. W. Sim
mons, north of Silverton and
in an area to two miles south
of Silverton.
District No. 5, Dr. Ernest Hen
kel, starts at the point two miles
south of Silverton and on into
the Stayton-Dctroit-Mill Citv
and inclusive areas.
District No. 6. Dr. Kermit
Peterson, along South River road
and on into Jefferson and to the
Stayton areas.
All of the district lines are to
be subject to review later as ex
perience would indicate.
Also a change was marie In
fees to be charged. Under the
present setup there is a charoe
of $2 for the first cow, when only
one cow is tested, from two to
live cows, 75 cents a head
charged and for 6 or more cows
SO cents a head. Under the
change there will still be a
charge of $2 for only one cow,
out the next four cows will bo
charged at 25 cents a head each.
and the old schedule of 50 cents
a cow will stand for a herd of
six cows or more. These fees
will be changed when the other
changes become effective.
aid commission.
In an effort to ferret nnt inst
how much can be done alnntf tho
hobby line among the veterans'
memseives, E. B. Hamilton and
wouuc -iicniieia ot the em
ployment service made a trip to
the various communities in the
aantiam canyon Tuesday.
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Elected King Bing Cedric
Reaney who at the Cherrian
meeting Monday night was
elected King Bing of the Cher
rians for the coming year.
(McEwan photo)
Reaney Elected
1950 King Bing
Salem Cherrians at a meeting
Monday night elected Cedric
Reaney as their King Bing for
the coming year.
Reaney, who is manager of the
Senator hotel, will succeed
Deryl Myers as King Bing. Plans
for the public installation of the
new officers are to be announc
ed later.
Other officers elected at the
meeting were: Lord Governor
Wood, Fred Starrett; Marquis of
Maraschino, Vince Rodakowski;
Duke of Lambert, Robert M.
Fischer, Jr.; king's jester, Wal
lace Doerfler; Earl of Woods,
Claude Bird; keeper of the orch
ard, Hunt Clark; Archbishop of
Rickrcall, Marvin VanCleave;
Queen Ann's consort, Ed Randle;
and chancellor of the rolls, Paul
Hale.
New members of the Cher
rians will be initiated at the or
ganization's annual banquet the
night of January 9.
testing for Bangs disease from
for them to operate in, decided
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Delay Action on
Name Change
When H. G. Neikirk went out
to his mail box one day last Sep
tember he found a couple of men
there, from the post office evi
dently, who said the road ought
to have a name for the conveni
ence of mail carriers.
They suggested Neikirk road.
Mr. Neikirk said "Okay."
But the name wasn't agreea
ble to all the neighbors because,
they said, Mr. Neikirk hadn't
lived there long enough. They
wanted It called Mize road, for
a man not now living, but who
once taught school in the dis
trict and lived there for a long
time.
So they took it up with the
planning and zoning commission,
and the commission recommend
ed to the city council that it be
Mize road.
It went to public hearing in
the council Monday night.
Donald Griffith favored the
change, and so did Mrs. Lilly
Jones. J. S. Kunkel saw no rea
son to change it.
Mr. Neikirk just told the coun
cil how it all happened.
Alderman Dan Fry wanted to
refer it back to the planning and
zoning commission, but that
wasn't done. The council will
act later.
In a public hearing on the
question of changing the name of
Bruce avenue to Morningside
street no one appeared on eith
er side. The commission rec
ommended the change because
there is another Bruce street in
the city.
Firemen Busy
Portland, Dec. 13 W) Fire
fighters were kept hopping as
flames destroyed an office, re
pair shop and ammunition ware
house at the Portland Gun club
east of here yesterday. About
50 cases ot shotgun shells were
in the flames, the shells popping
like firecrackers.
1 Price
74c
Includes
Tax
And Admits, to
Both Floors
Road Location
Up to State
It will be up to the state high
way commission to determine
the location of the route for the
federal aid improvement on the
Silverton highway from Stef
fen's corners into Silverton.
This agreement was reached
Monday at a conference between
commission representatives, of
ficials from the bureau of pub
lic roads and members of the
county court.
Both proposed sites for the
roads were viewed by the group
followed by the afternoon con
ference. Options have been secured on
most of the rights of way for
both the proposed new route
and also a realignment of the old
route. The county court has
had a number of hearings at
which each side has expressed
its preferences and objections
and huge petitions have been
filed both for and against each
of the routes.
Under the present setup the
county will furnish the right of
way and the road will be built
by the state highway department
with federal and state funds.
Goes Berserk to
Enforce Peace
Snoqualmle, Wash., Dec. 13 VP)
A state patrolman was dead to
day and three persons nursed
bullet wounds because a "meek
little gray haired man" wanted
his neighborhood to be '"peace
ful."
The neighbors said they al
ways thought Walter Peden, 59.
was quiet and harmless until he
picked up his rifle yesterday and
terrorized a settlement near here
for three hours. But they had
sought a sanity hearing for him
before the trouble started.
Peden, now held at the King
county jail in Seattle, killed his
cat, his beloved dog and most of
his 30 chickens.
Brawny George Fitzgerald, 38,
Peden's neighbor and one of the
victims, finally ended the little
man's reign of terror. While Pe
den peeked for more targets,
Fitzgerald circled his own house
and seized the gunman from be
hind.
The state patrolman, Paul
Johnson, 30, was shot in the
head as he looked around his
squad car at Peden. Seriously
hurt were two other neighbors,
C. F. Johnstone, 64, and Gordon
L, Peters, 58. Fitzgerald was
grazed on the arm by a bullet.
State Patrolman Clare Pow
ers said it all began when Peden
went to Johnston's home and
shot him in the face. After his
capture he mumbled that "John
stone had whipped my dog."
Fitzgerald, sitting in a car near
by, felt the next bullet. He
rushed Johnstone to a hospital
and returned to learn that Peden
had shot Peters in the chest.
Powers and Johnson arrived
and Peden shot the latter from
a window. Sending a radio call
for aid, Powers started the 25
mile trip to a Seattle hospital
with the injured Johnstone, who
died about 10 hours later.
Campbell Returned
On Check Charges
James O. Campbell, returned
from Klamath Falls Monday
night by state and county law
officers, was given a continua
tion in district court Tuesday
where he was taken to answer
forgery charges.
Campbell was nabbed in the
southern Oregon city by police
on information furnished by Sa
lem detectives. At the same
time, Robert Fries was arrest
ed in Salem on forgery charges.
The arrests broke a check
writing team which had forged
some checks on a Salem area
farmer's account.
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Jean Arthur "Arliont"
Victor Mature
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Clifton Webb
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Stray Sewer
Line Uncovered
In excavating for the new
state highway office building in
the capitol building zone the
contractor's crew uncovered a
city lateral sewer that does not
appear on any map.
It was above the level of the
bottom of the excavation bot
tom and in a letter to the city
council Monday night R. H. Bal-
dock, state highway engineer,
suggested it was a matter for
city correction.
To this the ouncil agreed, and
a crew will be put on he job
Wednesday by the city engineer.
The laying of about half a block
of eight-inch sewer is involved.
An ordinance bill was intro
duced for vacation of an alley
in Block 86, which will be occu
pied by the new building.
Colleges Seek
Federal Funds
Portland, Dec. 13 (ff) The
state board of higher education
applied today for federal funds
for use in planning two addition
al buildings at the University
of Oregon and Oregon State col
lege. The federal government is of
fering to advance money for
such advance planning of public
buildings, the amount to be re
turned if and when the struc
tures are built, the board was
told.
Application was authorized
for $56,000 to plan an addition
to and remodeling of the home
economics building at OSC, and
an addition to the business ad
ministration at the U of O. Each
is estimated to cost about $750,
000. No funds are available now.
All other action on buildings
and real estate purchases rec
ommended by committees Mon
day were approved by the full
board today, including approval
of preliminary plans for food in
dustries and aninmal industries
buildings at Oregon State, a
$70,000 remodeling and moving
project there, and the addition
of $100,000 to the fund to build
the new combined heating and
electrical generating plant at
the university.
Summer session budgets for
the system totaling $384,962 for
next summer were approved,
based on an enrollment the same
as this year but a drop in vet
erans. A limited budget for the
marine biology station at Coos
Head was approved after this
had earlier been dropped for
next year.
The Oregon division of trie
Izaak Walton League of Ameri
ca submitted a request through
George Christenson, Silverton.
for degree work in human ecolo
gy looking toward management
of natural resources. The board
voted to reply that most of the
courses requested are already
offered, mostly at Oregon State
college.
Only about one half of one per
cent ot a modern "tin"can is tin.
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Maguire Talks
On Nazi Regime
No man or no political party
is wise enough to be entrusted
with unlimited power, power
that cannot be recalled or that
the people have no recourse,
warned Robert Maguire during
a talk before the Salem Ki
wanis club.
Maguire, a Portland attorney,
who spent 18 months in Ger
many in connection with the
war crimes trials, reviewed the
circumstances and conditions
that brought Hitler into power.
Then he pointed out that Hit
ler's techniques and those of
Mussolini in Italy were identical
with the Caesars who brought
about the destruction of Rome
and those of Napoleon in France.
'I would not suggest that we
are in any great danger from
any single individual or any
party now in power," said Ma
guire, but he added that the
trend cannot be mistaken.
"When a country grants pow
er with no chance of review, or
compensating power to take
away authority already granted
we lay the foundation for the
destruction of our democracy,"
declared the attorney. "Free
government and free men exist
by means of constant vigilance.
If we are to remain free, you
and I owe an inescapable duty
of vigilance."
Maguire traced the course of
events that brought Hitler into
power in Germany.
Larry Moore Heads
Jaycee Service Group
Larry Moore, Commercial
book stoore employe, was elect
ed president of the Salem Junior
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
to head a slate of new candidates
who will take over the service
group.
Also carried into office' by
landslide proportions were War
ren Cooley for first vice presi
dent, Mel Bedsaul for second
vice president, Charles Lovett,
secretary, and Jim Elliott, treas
urer. The vote Tuesday also named
a new board of control for the
organization. The new members
of the board are Dick Cox
Maurice Cohn, Rev. John Good
enberger, Tom Riches, Bob Ma
son and George Huggins.
Frank Ward, who will retire
as president of the organization
automatically became a member
of the new board of control.
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Wife of Santa Claus to
Appear Here Friday Eve
r..4- -Man was TYinrrier. . . . Thoilffht
0SnadTisfern"aHfo'oUfhereon the shoulder and say "life
VH "'sinta Claus," you'll get a prize of $100 in good
rrit.j et, mnnev. It will be-
presented forthwith by Mayor
Rnh Elfstrom in front of tne
Chamber of Commerce.
Thi. all decided on by tne
Salem Retail Trade bureau on
account of the success of last
Friday night's Santa (Jiaus evem.
And come Friday nigm i i...
i. will be a larger
number of Santa Clauses on the
streets. Twenty last i rioay, you
remember.
"This week it will be the
kiinui ihine vou ever saw in
Salem," is the word that comes
f tt,A 4iaH bureau.
Some stores that participatea
last week say the Friday night
business was six times that of the
previous Friday. The same pro
cedure will be f oliowea t n i s
week. Each of the participating
sfnrps will have its Santa on the
street in plain clothes. If you
rm nmpnne wno nas a eieam in
his eye, you prod him and say
Tag, youre Santa L-iaus.
If you've guessed rightly he
takes you to the store for your
orize. worth at least $12, and
very likely more.
Coast Hop Growers
Meet Next
Februarys
Pnnific pnast hno crowers wiil
hold the fourth annual Horn
Lirowers convention at otuem,
February 9 to 11, 1950, under;
sponsorship of the Oregon Grow
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