10 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1950
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Woodburn Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Kaup of 1283 East Lincoln
street, Woodburn, who celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary December 25 at their home. They were married in
Oklahoma December 17, 1899, and came to Oregon in 1914
and have lived in Woodburn since 1042. Their five sons and
daughters who attended the celebration are Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Kaup of Oregon City; Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Kaup of
Klamath Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Laird Kaup, Paul Kaup of Ger
vais; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kaup of Waterman, Calif.; Mrs.
Edgar Horswell of Sheridan. (Alyce Studio, Woodburn)
CHAOS AND FAMINE REIGN
Poor Crops in Shantung Will
Bring Starvation to Millions
By WAYNE RICHARDSON
Aboard Flying Arrow En Route to Kobe, Japan, Jan. 25 IIP)
A black picture of chaos and famine in communist North China
was given to me during the four days I spent ashore on Shantung
peninsula while the Flying Arrow unloaded cargo at Tsingtao,
once the base of the American Asiatic fleet.
My informant was a well-in-9
formed source. His name cannot
be used.
He said:
"Poor crops In Shantung (one
of China's richest agricultural
areas) will make impossible any
surplus for export. Consequently
many millions of people will
tarve before next year's harvest,
despite anything the communist
government could do even if it
was willing. Even now in vari
ous areas people are eating herbs
and leaves.
"The administrative picture is
absolutely a mess, because of
lack of trained personnel and
and communist reluctance to
utilize available experienced
professional men.
"The average Shantungese
thinks even less of the Reds than
he did of the Kuomintang
(Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist
party) but will remain apathetic.
Consequently, by resorting to
gestapo methods, there appears
no reason to believe the armed
communists cannot maintain ef
fective control."
My Informant said there was
no more behind the communist
money than was behind Kuomin
tang currency.
"That is why their exchange
is going to hell, he said bitter
ly. (The exchange rate in Tsing
tao was 21,000 communist dol
lars to $1.)
"The Kuomintang through
sheer corruption and robbery of
the people by their financial
measures lost any remaining
prestige they might have had in
Shantung, he said.
"Having lost to the Reds poli
tically, their (the Kuomintang s)
military defeat was a foregone
conclusion. Such American mili
tary aid, which was considerable,
as was rendered the Nationalist
military authorities in Shantung
directly or indirectly might just
as well have been given the Reds
directly."
He said the communists pre
sent policy of taxation indicates
they intend to drive out all pri
vate trade.
This man said that since last
year's withdrawal of U. S.
Marines from Tsingtao the peo
ple . would welcome back the
Japanese to reestablish law and
order and reasonable taxation.
"Despite the publicity given
in the communist controlled
press concerning friendship with
Russia and the formation in
Tsingtao of a branch of the Sino
Soviet friendship society, the
average Soviet citizen is accord
ed no better treatment than any
other foreigner," he said.
...
All U. S. government property
in Tsingtao has been taken over
by the Reds.
One oldtlme resident of Tsing
tao, who also desires anonymity,
commented:
"The rich are getting poor,
and the poor still poorer."
He told me of the ruse the
communists used to obliterate
robbers and beggars. .
"They arrested one robber,"
he said, "and convinced him that
he would not be molested if he
registered his trade. He register
ed, told his colleagues about it
and thqy registered, too. Then
the police cracked down and
arrested all of them. Since then,
there have been no more rob
beries." The same trick, he said, was
played on beggars. After they all
registered, they were arrested
and sent to the "salt mines" to
labor.
This source said the commun
ist government gained control of
all food in the city through informers.
Fine Old Syrup of Corncob
Variety No Maple in It
By HARMON W. NICHOLS
Romney, W.Va., Jan. 25 (U.R) I'm here to tell you about some
fine old syrup which doesn't have any maple in it.
It's made out of corn cobs.
The man who told me about it is George Williams, who used
to be a senator in the West Virginia state legislature.
Williams, who is the sixths-
generation of his family to live
in the quaint old farm house
near here, says that the recipe
for syrup-a-la-cob has been
handed down by mouth in his
family for many, many years
'And why," he asks with
some reason, "should a ooay
pay $5 a gallon for maple syrup
when you can make your own
for a few cents?"
The ' senator, as everybody
in Romney, a town of 2,000, still
calls him, has this recipe for
corncob syrup."
You go out in the cob house
if you have a cob house, and
pick out eight or 10 nice, clean
red corn cobs.
You wash them and break
them into little pieces, either
with a knife or if you re
strong enough with your hands
and put a half gallon of wa
ter on the stove to boil; cobs
Mrs. Dixon Home
Fairview Mrs. Robert Dixon
has returned home after one
week spent at the McMlnnvllle
hospital. Her Sunday guests in
cluded Mr. and Mrs. Marion
John Stoutcnburg, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Gisler of Salem. Mrs. Les
ter Holt of Unionvale was her
Monday guest.
FOR SALE
WALNUT SHELLS
makes hot Fuel
15 Socks for $1
$3 per ton.
MORRIS KLORFEIN
PACKING CO.
460 North Front St.
Watch the water and when it
simmers to one quarter, strain
it off and throw the cobs away,
"I call that cob liquor," said
Williams.
You take this stuff, which by
this time is a dark amber color,
and add to it two pounds of
white sugar and one pound of
brown sugar.
You boil this until you have a
syrup.
'That's all there is to it," the
former state senator said.
When you get through you
have about the finest maple
syrup you'd ever want to find.
The "senator" is sure right.
On hot biscuits, it was fine.
Williams' production is strict
ly private.
At one time he had thought
of going into commercial out
put. He thought he had some
fine connections with the food
and drug administration in
Washington, but he ran into dif
ficulties.
The F.D.A. fellows all accept
ed gallon samples of his home
made product and reported back
that it was swell stuff, but they
wouldn't put their conclusions
on paper.
Finally he wormed a written
report out of the administration.
It said, in effect, that the syr
up tasted fine on buckwheat
cakes and the like but the food
and drug people couldn't under
the law go along with calling
anything made out of corn cobs
maple syrup."
That made Williams pretty
sore.
He got madder as he read
along in the dispatch from the
F.D.A.
The administration suggested
that he call his delicious con
coction "imitation maple syrup."
That was when the former
state senator of West Virginia
popped his roof.
He said that he wasn't making
imitation maple syrup, but
corncob syrup, and would the
maple people, if they felt that
way about it, maybe like to
have their product called "imi
tation corncob syrup?"
"Something like," he told me,
"a maker of a fine corncob pipe
having the patent office dub it
an imitation briar."
Just that silly.
Nitrocellulose is another name
for guncotton.
Bullet Victim
Considered Fair
Silverton Reports from the
local hospital are that eight-
year-old Ruby Ann Briggs,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Andrew Briggs, was considered
in fair condition providing no
complications develop.
The child was in the home of
her parents, Sunday, shortly
after noon when a stray bullet
from a high powered "Japanese'
rifle crashed the room where
several other children were and
entered the fleshy part of the
hip of Ruby Ann who was at the
time sitting in a chair. The in
jury is diagnosed as an entirely
flesh wound, described as plow
ing from the hip muscles into the
leg and in some indescribable
fashion leaving the leg and re
entering the muscles.
Ruby Ann was entered into
the local hospital Monday eve
ning.
George Alexander Peters, Sil
verton, and Nuberg Delbert
Davis, Portland, both in early
20s were apprehended late
Monday by Constable Emery
Jackson and plead "guilty" to a
charge of firing across a public
highway when hawk hunting.
The young men assumed all re
sponsibility for the child and
her treatment and will be re
called' for sentence by Judge Alf
O. Nelson early in February as
soon as the out-come of the acci
dent is fully determined.
Report Chinese Reds
Move Info Indo China
Taipei, Formosa, Jan. 25 (U.R)
Nationalist reports said today
that Chinese communist troops
have crossed the border into In-do-China
and are cooperating
with communist -forces there.
These rports, distributed by
the nationalist central news
agency and the central China
command headquarters, said the
joint communist forces are con
sidering armed action against
some 30,000 nationalist troops
who fled China and took refuge
in Indo-China.
It was understood a request
for money and supplies has been
received by the National defense
ministry from Gen. Huang
Chieh, commander of one of the
army groups interned by the
French. The request was turned
over to the Nationalist foreign
office.
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Woodburn Mr. and Mrs. John Stecklein of Mt. Angel,
who celebrated their golden wedding anniversary recently.
They were married in Austria-Hungary January 14, 1900, and
have lived in Mt. Angel since 1903. Six of their nine children
are living and attended the anniversary. They are Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Meduna (Anna) of Oswego; Miss Mary Steck
lein at home; Miss Theresa Stecklein of Portland; Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Stecklein of West Fir, Ore.; Mr. and Mrs. John
Stecklein, Jr., of Portland and Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Lauby
(Louise) of Lebanon. Four grandchildren and two great
grandchildren were also present. (Alyce Studio, Woodburn)
Websters Honored Guests
On 35th Wed Anniversary
Four Corners, Jan. 25 Honored at dinner were Mr. and
Mrs. Michael Kroll when Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Webster entertained
in honor of the Kroll's 35th wedding anniversary. Out of town
guests were Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kroll Jr., of Portland, Mrs.
Milo DeRosia and Sandra DeRosia of Turner.
Coming later to extend con
gratulations to the honored
Man Admits Trying
To Run Down Wife
Boise, Ida., Jan. 25 U.R) Po
lice Chief George Haskin said
Tuesday that Carl Cannaday, 29,
Boise, admitted in a signed state
ment that he tried to kill his
wife by running her down with
an automobile
Cannaday's wife Rose, 21, was
m St. Luke s hospital here. Hos
pital authorities said X-rays
would be taken to determine the
extent of the young woman's
injuries. She was reported in
'satisfactory" condition.
no fuss no muss
no bother no dirt
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WANTED
WALNUT MEATS
and FILBERT MEATS
ALL GRADES
LIGHT
HALVES
60c
LIGHT
AMBER
50c
WE BUY ANY AMOUNT, ANY TIME
MORRIS KLORFEIN PACKING CO.
460 N. Front Tle. 3-7633
ones were Mr. and Mrs. George
Gregor. Mr. and Mrs. Osie 01-
sen, Teddy and Roy Olsen, all
of Salem.
Mrs. Kroll displayed the gifts
and cut the wedding cake and
Mrs. Webster served the coffee.
Mrs. Kroll and Mrs. Webster are
sisters. The K r o 1 1 s have a
daughter, Mrs. Edward Smith of
Anderson, Calif., and a son,
Chief Petty Officer Paul Kroll
of the coast guard at Tacoma,
Wash., who were unable to at
tend the celebration.
The North Elma Sewing club
entertained their husbands and
families in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. O. Gilming. Canasta was
in play, followed with dessert.
Members and families were Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Mayden, Mr.
and Mrs. Ervin Pankratz, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Dillard, Shar
on Dillard, Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Harrelson, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Snook, Allen, Marilyn and Sybil
Snook.
Mr. and Mrs. K A. Snook
were hosts on Sunday at 1
o'clock dinner honoring their
son, Cecil Snook upon his birth
day anniversary. Covers were
also laid' for Mrs. Cecil Snook,
Marilyn, Allen and Sybil Snook.
Sunday dinner guests in the
Warren Shrake home were Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Scorgie and son,
Gary and Mr. Scorgie's father,
William Scorgie.
Berry Yield of
State Reported
Oregon berry production
(strawberries, cane fruits and
cranberries) in 1949 aggregated
78,520,000 pounds 17 per
cent less than the record crop of
94,960,000 pounds in 1948, but
otherwise the largest crop since
1941.
Strawberry production was 28
per cent below the large 1948
crop as a result of the severe
winter and late spring freezes,
followed by a dry growing sea
son which culminated in both a
reduced set and small size of
fruit.
B o y s e n and youngberries
were also seriously affected by
the same adverse weather con
ditions resulting in -a crop 18
per cent less than last year. In
creased plantings of other cane
fruits offset the reduced yields
and consequently total produc
tion of all cane fruits (including
Boysen and Youngs) equaled
the crop of 1948.
The 1949 cranberry crop of
1,380,000 pounds was only 4
per cent larger than the 1,
330,000 pounds produced in
1948 despite an increased bear
ing acreage.
Due to the decreased produc
tion and sharply lowered level
of prices for most kinds, total
value of the 1949 berry crops
was 40 per cent below 1948. Ne
vertheless, the aggregate value
of the 1949 berry crops has been
exceeded .only by 1948 and
1946.
The Pacific northwest (Ore
gon and Washington), impor
tant in the production of berries
for processing, produced a total
of 148,690,000 pounds of berries
during the 1949 season or 84
per cent of the 177,690,000
pounds produced during the
1948 season.
Tha rpHurpH production is
due entirely to reduced yields
brought about by i4h-4 win
toi. Hamae and a drv growing
season. Estimated value of the
harvested crop (fresh and pro
cessing sales plus farm con
sumption) amounted to $19,
512,000 or 66 per cent of the
1948 value of S29. 591,000 be
cause of low prices.
An early measurement was
the "hand," the distance across
the palm and is still used in
determing the height of horses.
INCOME TAX
Returns Prepared
LEON A. FISCUS
4947 N. River Rd.
295 Pine St. Dial 35285
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