I
Reunited Berndt Voight, 8, is reunited with his mother,
Mrs. Donald K. Fraser of Palo Alto, Calif., after a two-year
separation. They are shown as he arrived at the San Fran
cisco airport, concluding a 39-hour flight alone from Frank
furt, Ger. He told an airline agent in German that his
mother married a former U. S. soldier and he had not seen
her for two years. His father, a doctor, was killed during
the war and he has been living with his grandmother at
Frankfurt. (AP Wirephoto)
County Judge Murphy Tells
Of 50 Years of Progress
By GRANT MURPHY, County Judge
The turn of the century In Marion county was greeted by a
population of 27,913 as compared to a population of over 100,000
at the 50-year mark.
The expenditure for county governrment for the year 1900 was
$52,322.20. The appropriation for 1949-50 fiscal year is $2,181,-
778.00. Appropriation for roads'
during the period has soared
considerably with an expendi
ture of $7,877.03 for 1900 as
against an appropriation of the
last fiscal year of $585,000.
At the beginning of the cen
tury the county had no perma
nent improved roads. They con
sisted of graded dirt roads with
some having gravel base. Dur
ing the half century, the road
program has expanded until the
system has 1.300 miles of roads
of which 300 miles are paved,
which represents about 25 per
cent of the county highways.
The assessed valuation of the
county 50 years ago was $8,300,
000 whereas the 1949 roll shows
a valuation of $61,000,000.
Year Brings
Navy Facility
Salem in 1949 got another
naval installation, the Salem Na
val Air Facility, where men of
the naval air reserve and Ma
rine Corps Reserve pilots may
fly
Navy men came here in April
start work on renovation of
the hangar on the east side of
the field. Commissioning cere
monies were held September 5,
and September 22 the facility
received the planes to be flown
by the reservists.
By the end of 1949, 41 Naval
reserve pilots and four Marine
Corps reserve pilots had been
checked in for flying at the fa
cility.
Planes, when the facility se
cured the afternoon of Decern
ber 31. had been in the air a
total of 545.3 hours since their
arrival here. Of that time, 398.4
hours were flown by the re
serves and 146.9 hours by the
station keepers and other navy
men. At the same time 422
flights had been made.
December figures showed 98
flights made for a total of 143.9
hours. Of the total flight time
in December 117.7 hours were
flown by volunteers and 26.2
hours by station keepers and
other naval fliers.
Ihe facility is used as a train
ing center for Naval reserve pi
lots from three areas. Portland,
Salem and Corvallis-Eugene. In
charge of the Salem section of
the volunteers, which has a po
tential of about 90 officers, is
Lt. Ernest Eldridge.
What's Your Hope for '50?
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
This reporter went roving during the first 60 minutes of 1950.
Between midnight and 1 a.m. Sunday, I asked several persons
to name their foremost hope for the year which had then just
begun. Every person contacted expressed some specific hope
for the upcoming 365 days. '
The various new year s wishes
were widespread in nature. Some
hoped for personal improvement,
nthnrs for betterment of the
1950
to have to go to war in
or any other year."
An unidentified man who had
obviously started his celebrating
health and welfare of all man-j too early and had kept it up too
kind. A few hoped for a bright-jlong just wanted "about a gal-
national ana lmernauunai "- oici . . . ..(," ......
picture tuinpieie me years iusv
At the exact moment when
Saturday became Sunday and
1949 became 1950, I took pad In
hand and set out.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, January 2, 1930 3
hour interviews, I climbed 150
feet of steps at the McNary field
control tower. I found Walt
Traglio of 1635 Madison street
on duty at one of the loneliest
jobs in Salem.
"By coincidence," Traglio said.
"I was siting here a few minutes
ago thinking what I'd like to
see in 1950. I'm hoping for the
con.pletion of the airport ad
ministration building this year, So if you're still here, reader.
as well as the completion of the1 thanks a lot.
instrument landing system and
tho lengthening of the runways."
Traglio also hopes that more
Salem people will become in
terested in flying.
Those are the hopes for the
new year as gleaned from
cross-section of Salem people
during the first hour of 1950.
P. S. No one asked me about
my hopes. But one of them is
that my articles will be read.
Santiam Saddle Club
Names New Officers
Mill City Santiam Saddle
club met recently for the pur
pose of electing officers for the
coming year. Fred Gnuschkc
was named president; Barney
Roye, vice president, and Pete
Peterson, re-elected secretary
treasurer. A Christmas party
was held by the riders of the
Saddle club and friends with
about 75 persons in attendance.
There was dancing and refresh
ments, also gift exchange.
Among public buildings that
have been constructed in the
county during the half century
are the State Capital building,
the State Library, two state of
fice buildings, penitentiary an
nex. Boys Training school, and
many other such as additions to
the Falrview home and Hillcrest
school and many school build
lngs throughout the county.
The year 1949 was greeted
early in the year by a history
making freeze which lasted for
33 consecutive days and caused
a frost penetration in the Wil
lamette valley to a depth of 30
Inches. As the frozen condi
tion of the earth thawed, the
road damage appeared to be the
largest and heaviest caused ex
clusively from freeze that ever
had been experienced in the
county. The damage was parti
cularly high on the surfaced
roads which affected our road
system severely on account of
the large number of surfaced
road miles in the county,
i- The legislature recognizing
the heavy damage to roads, pass
ed special legislation making
loans available to the county for
road repair.. Marion county used
$100,000 of this fund. Together
with all of the appropriations
that were set aside for building
new roads the county was able
to make repair on nearly all
road damage in this classifica
tion but it eliminated all new
construction during the year.
Looking into the future for
the year 1950, it would be pos
sible to put the new courthouse
underway in the latter part of
the year provided the architect
comes up with a plan that meets
the approval of the courthouse
commission and with a cost esti
mate within the fund limits
available at that time.
The inter-county bridge at In
dependence is scheduled for
completion during the year,
which would replace a ferry
operated between Marion and
Polk county at that place which
has been in continuous opera
tion with the exception of flood
interruptions for a period of
more than 60 years.
Another inter-county) bridge is
scheduled between Marion and
Clackamas county to be located
at Hcotts Mills.
In all probability the county
will be able to pave about 15
miles of surface roads in the
next year.
mure man uu war crimes
trials have been completed by
U. S. military commissions in
Yokohama and Manila.
Table Aid to
logping Men
A red alder volume table de
signed to aid all hardwood log
gers and mill men in Oregon
has been completed through the
cooperative efforts of the Ore
gon state board of forestry, the
Pacific northwest forest and
range experiment station, Brit
ish Columbia forest service, and
the Weyerhaeuser Timber com
pany, according to George
Spaur, state forester.
The forester said increased
logging and milling operations
in alder stands created a de
mand for the volume table. The
tables have been printed on a
convenient pocket size card and
indicate the board foot volumes
of standing or felled and bucked
alder timber.
Spaur stated that the pocket
card and a five-page research
bulletin containing additional
information may be obtained
free of charge by writing to the
state forester's office in Salem
Compilation of the alder vol
ume table was made possible bv
funds obtained from the forest
research and experimental tax
act of 1947.
The courthouse clock had bare
ly stopped vibrating from the
last stroke of 12 when I talked1
with Dudley Strain, pastor of
First Christian church, who had
just delivered a message at a
midnight worship service.
The Rev. Strain said, "My
fondest prayer is that the spirit
of Christ will control the lives
of man and nations of man."
Edith Tripp, a high school
senior living at 1547 Market
street, stated her No. 1 hope
for the new year was . . to grad
uate from high school.
Dick Greenewald of 1935 Ma
ple avenue, while checking -the
oil in a customer's car.'at Doo
little's service station, said he
hoped for a "better position and
a raise."
The first event of 1950 for
Earl Butoit, 440 Larsen street
was a flat tire. Butoit was
changing a wheel on his car a
few minutes after midnight. He
thought about his hopes awhile.
then rated this one first:
"I would like my wife to stay
the way she is a Christian."
C. B. (Sonny) Bentson, pro
prietor of a South Commercial
street tavern, hoped for "peace
and prosperity for nations in
1950."
Glen Vergels, 1535 Broadway.
hopes that auto manufacturers
will "stop making holes in new
cars."
Legislative matters coming be
fore the county in 1949 involved
the probability that the 1950
census would show a population
In excess of 100,000.
Research shows there are
some 60 measures in the state
statutes applying to counties of
100,000 which were designed
for all Intents and purposes for
Multnomah county which was
the only county up to this date
having reached a population in
excess of 100,000. As a matter
ef fact, its population was In
excess of 300,000, making much
of this special legislation parti
cularly adapted to counties of
300,000 or more.
In November of this year a
garbage disposal plant was es
tablished near Macleay for the
purpose of serving small cities
and rural areas in the south
eastern portion of the county.
A matter of unfinished busi
ness is plans for the proposed
new courthouse which have
been submitted by the arch
itect. It will fairly well meet
the needs of the county for a
number of years in the future
but the plans have not met final
approval of the courthouse
commission.
The cost of public assistance
in the county raised from $1,
154,381 in 1948 to $1,308,949 in
1949.
The Department of Agricul
ture is distributing the first 100
pounds of seed for a new onion
to commercial nurseries.
Police Captain Stanley K
Frlese, on duty at the city po
lice desk, expressed several
hopes for the new year.
"Above all," said Friese, "I
would like to see progress made
in the battle against cancer.
Next, I hope to see a settlement
of the cold war, so our children
won't have to clean up the mess
this generation is making. I also
want to see Salem continue to
grow in size and general im
provements, as it did in 1949
And I want to wish everyone
a happy new year."
A tough-looking fellow at the
scene of an arrest told me, "If
you're a bull (slang for detec
tive) I don't know nothin'."
The year 1950 was still in it;
first 45 minutes when I picked up
a telephone and was connected
with a Pacific Telegraph opera
tor in Portland. Asked about
her hopes for the new year,
she replied, "I'm always wor
ried about war. I don't want
I the person I am going to marry
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