Over 2000 Phones Added to
Salem System in Last Year
The telephone as an indicator of the growth a community is ex
neriencing is a well known factor, said Harry V. Collins, district
manager for the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company as he
stated that the baiem excnange now has a total of 20,200 instru
Clients.
A year ago the number was
18,072 and at the end of 1947
the exchange had 14,955 con
nection. The number listed at
the close of 1940 was 8,983
As of December 29, the local
exchange had 290 orders for in
stallations, a number that was
expected to be reduced to some
extent at the close of the year.
Mechanics were slated to work
throughout Saturday in an effort
to take care of as many orders
as possible.
A high percentage of the re
quests for service are from the
outlying sections where line ex
tensions are necessary before the
job can be completed.
Long distance calls have been
averaging around the 4,500
mark daily for many months
and as far as the district man
ager could forsee there was no
indication of a falling off in this1
department of the telephone
business.
The rapid growth of Salem as
a trading center has meant the
investment of many hundreds of
thousands of dollars on the part
ot tne P.T. & T. company, Col
lins pointed out. The work of
augmenting the plant has by no
means been completed although
me urgency of the task has abat
ed to some extent.
Claim $10 Bills
Are Not Money
Los Angeles, Dec. 30 W) Are
those $10 bills in your pocket
or the late Wallace Beery's cash
box honest-to-goodness money?
Attorney Adrian Kragen for
the Beery estate says they are
not.
How does the man get that
way? Listen to Kragen:
"If you look in the corner of
what you call a $10 bill, but
which is a federal reserve bank
note, you will see that it says
'this note is legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and is
redeemable in lawful money at
the United States treasury, or at
any federal reserve bank.' Notice
how it calls your ten-spot a
'note' and that It's 'redeemable
In lawful money.'
"That's our whole point it
isn't money, it's a note. And
notes, if they are taxed at all,
should be taxed under the coun
ty's solvent credit classifica
tion, like accounts receivable or
bank accounts, at only $1 a
thousand instead of more than
$5 a hundred."
The estate is demanding a re
fund of some $33,000 which Los
Angeles county taxed the $670,
000 in currency which Beery left
in safety deposit boxes. The
county took the orthodox view
that it was money and levied a
personal property tax of about
$5.50 a $100.
Kragen says he'll carry the
issue to the U.S. supreme court
If necessary.
Thomas May
Oppose Norblad
Dallas, Ore., Dec. 30 (U-B)
State Rep. Lyle Thomas said to
day that he is considering run
ning against Congressman Wal
ter W. Norblad next year. He
will seek the republican nomi
nation in the May primary. Nor
blad also Is a republican.
Mayor Hollis Smith has said
he would run for Thomas' seat
in the legislature if Thomas does
not seek another term.
Thomas is secretary of the
Oregon State Farmers union.
He has opposed the sales tax in
legislative sessions. He has serv
ed as a representative from Folk
county since 1935. Norblad has
been in congress from Oregon's
first district since 1946.
Portland Lumberman
Dead in Apartment
.Lebanon. Dec. 30 m Run
jamin F. Johnson, 46, Portland
lumberman, died suddenly here
Thursday on a business trip.
Johnson, owner of the -B. F.
Johnson Lumber Company, was
louna dead in his apartment
here bv the manager of John
son's sawmill here.
Coroner Glenn Huston said
death was nrobablv dm tn a
heart ailment but an nntnncv wa
ordered. Police broke into John
son's apartment after the Port
lander failed to answer either
telephone calls or knnrks nnH
found him dead on a couch.
He is survived by the widow
and three children.
Rocket Plane
Record Denied
Washington, Dec. 30 ( The
air force has denied a report
that its experimental X-l rocket
plane has flown 1989 miles an
hour.
"Rprpn t rpnnrts of SDecific
speeds which have appeared in
the press," it said in a siaiemeni
late yesterday, "are not correct."
The report was printed by
Marvin Miles, aviation editor of
the Los Angeles Times. He said
ho had rorpived it from "reliable
informants" who had related
that the needle-nosed little plane
had made the flight over Muroc
Dry Lake, Calif.
Military and aviation experts,
commenting on Miles' story be
fore the air force statement ap
peared, said the X-l probably
could reach sucn a speea. nut
they expressed doubt that the
nfiparv encine changes could
have been made in the relative
ly short time since the plane
was reported to have flown 964
miles an hour.
Great Ferry System
Yisioned by Truman
Washington, Dec. 30 OJ.B
President Truman said today he
dreams of a time when the
United States and the islands of
the Carribean will be connected
by a great system of ferries.
The President told his idea
to Warren R. Austin, United
States representative to the Unit
ed Nations.
Austin leaves Jan. 26 for a
visit to the Carribean at the in
vitation of the president of
Austin said his trip is part of
the job o solidifying tne -ratner
remarkable harmony" between
IU Amai-inan ertntdS and that it
UlC JllHtlll-t". "v . ,
has nothing specifically to do
with Mr Truman's iaea oi a
Carribean ferry system.
Capital Journal. Salem, Ore.. Friday, December 30, HH3
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Red 'Mystery' Ship
Enters Panama Canal
Panama, Panama, Dec. 30 UP
The Panama Canal zone was host
today to one Russian ' mystery'
ship and two more were expect
ed momentarily.
The Soviet vessel Trepang ar
rived at Cristobal last night. The
Peramutr is due today and the
Chiaka also is on the way. All
are due to pass through the Pa
nama canal, enroute from the
Baltic to Vladivostok.
In Washington the vessels
were described as fishing ships,
but they were reported there to
be without fishing gear and to
have extremely powerful radios.
U.S. civil and military officials
were reported in Washington to
be keeping a close watch on the
progress of the ships through
waters where large U.S. army-navy-marine-air
force exercises
will be held from January to
mid-March.
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