Rare Bird from the North This large white owl, whose
natural habitat is in the Arctic, was recently found by a resi
dent of Seaford, Long Island. The bird had an injured wing
and was unable to move for the lack of food. Sometimes
known as the Snowy Owl, the straying bird was taken "under
wing" at the Long Island Museum of Natural History, until it
is well enough to be let loose.
Christmas Cheer Provided
For State Institution Wards
Individual gifts and a special dinner will provide seasonal
cheer for more than 6000 patients and inmates of stale institu
tions in and near Salem this week-end.
Each patient of the 2880 in the 45 wards of the stale hospital
will be visited and left a remembrance, with friends of the in
stitution, relatives and the slate
itself providing the separate
imii under the direction of
Mabel E. Hayles, of the hos
pital staff, who has charge of
focal arrangements.
Musical programs and a patient-directed
and produced play
have been featured during the
week with a dance Friday after
noon. Choral groups were di
rected by Howard Miller with
Victor Palmason directing the
orchestral numbers. Hospital pa
tients presented a program at
the Cottage Farm Saturday aft
ernoon. Prior to the Christmas dinner
at Fairview home Sunday, gifts
will be distributed to each of
the 1274 inmates. A pageant
was given Wednesday for pa
tients and employes and repeat
ed Thursday for the public with
Mrs. Edith M. Gunnar director
and Gretchen Avison accompan
ies!. Movies and dances have
also been offered.
Individual trees for each room
nd personal gifts brightened the
life of patients at the state tu
berculosis hospital.
Christmas at the penitentiary
Is featured chiefly by the an
nual dinner with many extras
for the usual prison fare.
Open house is being held Sat
urday night at the state train
ing school for boys near Wood
burn with around 120 parents
as guests at a dinner at noon.
A smoker and entertainment
highlighted the week.
Distribution of presents for
the 67 girls at Hillcrest school
will be held Christmas eve fol
lowed by a midnight mass and
special Sunday dinner. A mu
sical and dramatic program for
parents was held during the
week and Friday the girls sang
carols at the state house.
Seventy children at the state
school for the blind were given
a Christmas program while gifts
were also left for all 150 chil-
Wanda Hendrix SDurns Tyrone Power in this scene from
"Princes Of Foxes" a 20th Century-Fox picture now at the
Grand.
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This Christmas Day
and
A Very Prosperous Coming Year
Ed Byrkit & Co., Realtors
Ed Bristol, Ins. Agency
Phil Dahl
H. E. Wallar
Ed Bykrit
dren at the state school for the
deaf. Most of the children of
the two schools are with rela
tives or friends for the holidays
with the vacation extending to
January 2.
Many of the gifts were made
possible through donations by
church groups of all denomina
tions, sororities, labor unions,
business houses, patriotic, civic
and social groups and by indi
viduals. 42 Names Drawn for
January Jury Duiy
Listed are 42 names in a jury
panel drawn from the box for
January term of circuit court
to report January 9 at 9 a.m.
The list includes Anna M. Da
vis, Virginia M. Felton. Grace L.
Maddison, Robert E. Anderson,
Howard P. Anderson, George R.
Duke, Clurus A. Brown, Arlie
Anderson, Lowell Curry, Cor
nelia Perkins, William F. John
son Harlan P. Anderson, Doris
Woodburn, Charles M. Robin
son and George W. Dunsmoor,
all of Salem.
Also named, with their pre
cinct numbers listed, were: Mary
Dalke 66, Charles T. Gilbert 170,
Adelbert L. Mason 77, Guy H.
Smith 78, Chester I. Chase 78,
Marie Erekstol 63, Desmond
Rains. 156, E. Worth Coulson
146, Thelma Scharf 69, Cecil C.
Boyd 80 and Helen Kleihege
57.
Lloyd E. Weeks 75, Donald B.
Durette 86, Leland C. Graham
154, Samuel D. Weese 80, Elmer
F. Gaska 72, Frank E Logan
69, Gladys Hoyt 142, Cora Geer
60, Henry Humpert 118, Henry
Zorn 88, David Bates 66, Henry
Deidrich 178, Matilda Crocco 90,
Leore E. Humm 72, Bertha
Schwab 120 and Golden H. Kite
63.
Walt Dovey
Ed Bristol
Mn. Bristol
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Mayor Would
Tax Outsiders
Portland. Ore TW 0 rnpi
IViaVOr DOmihV McHu nuoh Too
of Portland today said she will
reintroduce an ordinance before
the citv Council tn rpmiirn no,.-
sons working in Portland but
living ouisiae the city limits to
pay an annual license fee nf
$25.
Mayor Lee estimated such an
ordinance would yield about
$750,000 to help bolster a sag
ging city budget.
She said nhn.nl an. 35 nnn
called "daylight citizens" could
be taxed under the measure.
Mayor Lee was opposed to a
plan advanced by Finance Com
missioner Ormand R. Bean
which would cut city depart
ments 10 per cent across the
board.
She said such cuts would re
sult in "substandard" service.
Amity School
Is Recognized
Amity Amity high school
has been admitted to member
ship in the Northwest Associa
tion of Secondary and Higher
schools.
For the past two years school
officials at Amity have been
working to improve the school,
its plant and program to qualify
for membership. Word was re
ceived from George H. Fields,
chairman of the commission on
secondary schools that Amity's
report was satisfactory and
membership granted. Chairman
Fields is principal of the Boise,
Idaho, senior high school. D. A.
Emerson, assistant state super
intendent, is Oregon state chair
man, and will probably call at
Amity in the near future to
confirm the membership.
The Northwest Association of
Secondary and Higher Schools
is a voluntary association of
schools in the four northwestern
states for the purpose of stand
ardization and improving of
schools. Membership in this or
ganization is considered an
honor. In Yamhill county Mc
Minnville and Dayton already
are members of the association.
Knocked From Bike
By Silverion Auto
Jasper D. Hail, 1723 N. Sum
mer, received shock and concus
sion when he was knocked from
his bicycle by an automobile
driven by Robert Stanley Kol
odge, Silverton. Hill was knock
ed into a ditch on Mission street.
The accident occurred about 5:30
o'clock Friday afternoon.
Kolodge told city police that
he did not see the man on the
bicycle and approaching traffic
prevented him from swerving
until too late to avoid the colli
sion. He said the bicycle did not
carry a light or reflector. Kol
odge was not cited by police.
Mill Production
Halts for Holiday
Lebanon The Douglas Fir
Products company suspended
operations this week for the
Christmas vacation and annual
Birthday Ball for Man
Who's Been Dead 23 Years
West Minot. Me.. Dec. 24 ffl
been the previous 22 years, but
dance."
Young folks and old folks
danced the old square sets that
well at his birthday ball in the
village Grange hall. There were
modern dances, too.
Jerry has been dead since
1926. A fun-loving farmer he
left $30 a year for an annual
dance on his birthday through
1951, when he would have been
100.
Just before "Haymakers' Jig,"
okn dlxarleS Jliomad
and
The Kings Men
Monday through Friday, 9:45 a.m.
KOCO- 1490 KC.
Village of Extra Fingers This man and his wife have
seven fingers on each hand, but this is not unusual in their
Spanish mountain village of Cervera de Buitrago, where
almost every one of the 300 inhabitants has at least six fingers
on one or both hands, sometimes even seven or nine. The
restrictions keeping out settlers with the normal number of
fingers and close intermarriage have produced this commu
nity where a man with five fingers on each hand is a freak.
Tell Daddy I
Love Him.' Mom
Dies Under Train
Sacramento, Calif., Dec. 24
yp) The car stopped near the
railroad track.
The young mother of six
small children cried out to her
7-year-old daughter:
"Tell your father I love
him very much. And always
will. Now don't watch what
I'm going to do."
Then, as the child looked on
in horror, she fled to the
track and threw herself in
front of an onrushing train.
The woman, Mrs. Faith M.
Land, 26, was fatally injured.
She died yesterday.
Her body fell between the
tracks and a head injury
caused her death.
Deputy sheriffs said Mrs.
Land had been under treat
ment for a nervous disorder.
The woman's husband, Tip
had argued as they were driv
ing around town. He got out
of the car at their home, he
told authorities. His wife
drove off with 7-year-old Pat
ty Lou, who with two broth
ers and three sisters, were left
motherless by the pre-Christ-mas
tragedy.
Bank Staff Feted
Monmouth A Christmas
party was held for the staff of
rh Mnnmnnth hranch of tne
its National hank of Portland
The party started at the bank
at 5:30 o clock with the trim
mine nf a Christmas tree. It con
tinued with a dinner at the lo
cal hotel with 16 present includ
ing staff members and their
families. Mrs. Fred J. Hill dec
orated the long table. Gifts were
presented to the children pres
ent.
repair of plant machinery. All
operations will be resumed im
mediately after the first of the
year with the full complement
of personnel, it is announced By
Joe Clark, office manager.
The host was absent, as he had
that didn't spoil the fun at "Jerry's
150 of them, in all last night
Jairus "Jerry" Hilborn loved so
Jerry's favorite, orchestra lead
er Leslie Jones called for a mo
ment of silence. It was observ
ed scrupulously.
It has to be, for that was the
sole condition to Jerry's be
quest. If the moment of silence
ever were broken, his will said.
the dances would not continue.
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Springfield Mayor
Faced With Recall
Eueene. Dec. 24 tA'i i.. ,
charges against Mayor B. P. Lar
son 01 apringneid will be filed
in the bpringfield city hall in
earlv Januarv. a snnkenman nf
the Good Government league
said b riday.
U. S. Burt, league chairman,
indicated that formal recall
charges would not he filpri with
the city recorder until after
January 1. He declared that
members of the Good Govern
ment league felt that it was no
longer possible for cooperation
between the council anri thf
people as long as Larson was in
omce.
New Town Named
Draperville
Albany, Ore., Dec. 24 By a
vote of 36 to 9 out of the 53
registered voters, residents of a
community near Knox Butle de
cided to incorporate and named
the new town Draperville at a
special election Friday.
Draper, the sponsor, promoter
and builder of the community
purchased 35 acres of land about
four miles east of here and
erected dwellings on half-acre
tracts.
Barry Fitzgerald and Shirley Temple seem satisfied with
the results of the "Biscuit s" work-out in a scene from the
Technicolor film, 'The Story of Seabiscuit," produced by
Warner Bros, and currently on the Capitol screen.
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Miss America to
Wed Art Student
Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 24 (fP)
Miss America has announced
her engagement to her high
school and college boy friend
who haled beauty contests.
Jacque Mercer, vivacious bru
nette from Litchfield Park,
Ariz., breezed in 45 minutes late
last night for the engagement
parly at which it was revealed
she will marry Douglas Cook,
20-year-old art student, on July
4.
A big sign, "We'll Lose Our
Independence on Independence
Day" announced to the 400
guests that 18-year-old Jacque
and her "steady of five years
standing planned to visit the
preacher. They don t think she'll
have to give up her Miss Amer
ica title when she becomes a
Mrs.
Draperies Are Made
By Webfoot Women
Webfoot Seventeen mem
bers of the Webfoot home dem
onstration unit attended the De
cember meeting held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Cra
ven. Making draperies was sub
ject of the demonstration, with
Mrs. Craven project leader.
Dinner was served at noon.
Exchange of gifts was a feature
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Carr with Mrs. James Watts and
Mrs. Carl Wood project leaders.
Ca'pllal Journal, HtilenvOrejrnn, Saturday, Dec. 24, 194917
Pick 'Nastiest' Ail-American
Team of Destructive Insects
, By FRANK CAREY
(Associated Prc-a Science Reporter)
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 24 VP) The grasshopper is the out
standing player on the 1949 "nastiest" ail-American team of de
structive insects.
This rating was given today
Department of Agriculture's
quarantine, here to attend an-
insect-control meeting sponsored
by the National Cotton council,
He also listed the other top
ten members of a bug eleven
that damaged the nation's crops
in much the same way that No
tre Dame and the professional
Philadelphia Eagles gave the
business to their foes.
Bishopp offered the list in re
sponse to the query of a report
er who figured that virtually ev
eryone except insects had got
ten into the act on the outstand
ing this-and-that for 1R49.
Here's the lineup of the year's
nastiest bugs from the stand
point of economic damage al
though they're not all necessar
ily in the exact order of impor
tance because Bishopp didn't
have his "form" book handy:
1. The grasshopper. In a host
of varieties, he hopped broken-
field through range areas and
rich croplands particularly in
Wyoming and Montana. The
government had to launch a
C-47 airplane laden with bait to
slow him down.
2. The cotton boll weevil.
Long a dangerous performer in
deep-dixie and far-western com
petition, he ventured in destruc
tive strength to more northerly
areas of the cotton belt this year.
3. An agricultural worm that
is a true triple-threat being
known variously as the corn ear
worm, the cotton bowl worm,
and the tomato fruit worm, de
pending on where he strikes.
4. The European corn borer.
Believed to have been imported
in cane designed for kitchen
brooms, he's become a terror of
the nation's main corn belt.
Strictly big-ten calibre.
5. The "cattle grub." Opens
up holes in cows hides, ruining
them for market.
5. The Mexican bean beetle.
A tramp player who somehow
came east and hit hard in the
ivy league and the southern con
ference. 7. The bark beetles. Literally
hotter than a forest fire because
they do more damage to pine
and spruce than flames do.
8. The "horn fly" of cattle. No
kin to the horned toads of Texas,
this competitor will take on
sheep and goats as well as cattle.
9. Poultry lice. They're play
ers from away back. They ac
count for millions in lost egg
production, stunted growth of
fowl.
10. The 'iygus bugs" of cot
ton, alfalfa and other crops
They're aerial artists as distin
guished from certain pests which
feature a ground game.
11. The "confused flower
beetle." They're hot when at-
s
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by Dr. F. C. Bishopp of the U.S.
bureau of entomology and plant
I tacking stored products such as
wheat, corn and cereals but
are likely to run for the wrong
goal line at any time. Destruc
tive, but need better quarter
backing. Bishopp listed the Japanese
beetle, cabbage worms and the
red scale of citrus on his second
team for "dishonorable men
tion." And he said old timers like
the gypsy moth of New England
and the malaria mosquito
while benched now because of
inability to cope with modern
insecticidal T-formations will
always rank as potential threats.
He said the department of ag
riculture alone is spending $12,
000,000 annually to fight all
these and other insect big shots
and nearly $1,000,000 is ear
marked for quarantine measures
against "ringers" from foreign
teams.
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presenting
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in DICKENS'
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