Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 30, 1950, Page 2, Image 2

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    2 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore, Monday, January 30, 1950
ONG Flies Food
To a Rancher
Oregon's Air National Guard
flew its first "airlift" operation
of this winter last Saturday aft
ernoon when a C-47 of the
Guard flew supplies to a snow
bound rancher near Clatskanie.
The air outfit, which a year
ago flew about eight operations
carrying feed for cattle in east
ern Oregon, on the Saturday
afternoon flight carried groc
eries and livestock feed.
Directing the pilots on the
flights were Red Cross officials,
who supplied the food and Capt.
Bob Fulton, manager of the St.
Helens airport. Feed for the
cattle included 11 bales of hay
and nine sacks of grain, collected
by ranchers near St. Helens and
wrapped by them for air drop
ping.
A neighbor of the rancher
when he had not been heard from
two weeks after telling the
neighbors that he had only
enough food to last two weeks,
contacted the Rod Cross and told
them of his plight.
Piloting the National Guard
plane was Brig. Gen. R. Robert
Dodson, commanding general of
the Air National Guard for ore
gon. Crew members with him
were Col. Gordon Doolittle, com
mander of the 123rd fighter
squadron, as co-pilot; Maj. Wal
do Timm, administrative officer
for the 142nd fighter group; Sgt.
Leroy Lee, engineer; and Sgts.
Jim Underdahl and Len Sutton,
who pushed the provisions from
the plane.
The Air Guard attempted the
"airlift" flight Friday afternoon
but were prevented in making it
by bad weather.
Crackdown on
Bad Check for Fine
The first crackdown under a
liberalized check cashing plan
at Salem police headquarters
was due for an airing Monday
in district court, but weather ap
parently kept the principal from
appearing.
Police reported that Daniel
Wendell Danielson of Spring
field had been arrested by Port
land officers on a warrant which
charged him with writing a
check with insufficient funds. He
posted $500 bail on the charge
and was due to appear in dis
trict court.
Police charged that Danielson
had issued them a check for a
traffic violation on an account
which was closed.
Only recently, Chief Clyde A.
Warren put Into effect a liber
alized plan for convenience of
persons who conduct financial
affairs by check.' Under the new
order, desk officers were in
structed to take checks for bail
provided proper identification
was offered.
Community Chest
Officials to Meet
Marion county Community
Chest officials will meet Tues
day night at the Community
Chest headquarters at 241 North
Liberty street and at this time
will make preliminary plans for
the 1050 Chest.
During the meeting the repre
scntatives will set up machinery
for better functioning of the
Chest next fall and will dis
cuss the appointment of lead
ers for the various areas in the
county.
Also to be discussed will be
the disposition of funds now
available.
Darning Sissors
Help Deliver Twins
Grand Rapids, Mich.. Jan. 30
(U.R An ambulance driver de
livered Mrs. Cecil Krussei's
twin boys with a pair of darn
ing sissors Inst night.
Wnrren riyman, 23, and his
helper, Russell Wheeler, 21,
were rushing Mrs. Russell to the
hospital when the 19-year-old
mother went into labor.
The youths, deftly using the
darning sissors, delivered the
twins in about 25 minutes. The
babies were crying lustily and
the mother was smiling by the
time they reached the hospital.
VIOLENT DEATH, U.S.
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Daryl Girod, Salem high
school senior who was elected
Rotarian of the month for Feb
ruary. Gatch Gives
Views on W
Portland, Ore., Jan. 30 u.R
Retired Vice Admiral Thomas L.
Gatch, who commanded the bat
tleship South Dakota in World
Word II, today said Chesapeake
bay, where the U.S.S. Missouri
is mud-fast, has a restricted
channel that doesn't permit mis
takes,
"The channel Itself probably
doesn't allow more than a foot
of water below the Missouri's
keel," he said. "The buoys which
mark the edge of the channel
sometimes shift enough with the
tide that if you rely on them
alone you can get into trouble.
"You have to watch the Thim
ble shoal and Old Point Comfort
range lights, and sometimes in
heavy weather they are hard to
see."
Adm. Gatch complained thai
it was hard for a ship's captain
to forget mistakes. "The differ
ence between a battleship cap
tain and an aviator, is that when
the captain makes a mistake, he
lives and has to suffer for it,
he said.
Adm. Catch's South Dakota
ran aground on a South Pacific
coral reef during the war.
Gunmen Hold Woman
And Son as Hostages
Portland, Jan. 30 (P) Gun
men hold a woman and her son
as hostages to force a chain store
manager to drive from his home
to the store and open the strong
box Saturday night.
Police said Wesley K. Bailey
and his son, 14 were taken from
the home while one gunman re
mained with Mrs. Bailey.
The gunman held a revolver
muzzle to the body of the boy
while Bailey drove to the store
and opened the safe. He was
then forced to return to the
house, where the two gunmen
lined the family up along the
wall before fleeing. The tele
phone wires had been cut ear
lier.
March of Dimes Gets
Funeral Flower Costs
Because one of the last re
quests of Cliff L. Gardner, state
highway department employe
who died recently, was that
friends send money to the March
of Dimes rather than purchase
flowers, the March of Dimes
headquarters are $25 richer to
day.
Accompanying the personal
check of R. C. Barrio, Glcndnlc,
Calif., is this explanation for the
contribution. Barrie did not
otherwise identify himself.
Gardner's request previously
had resulted in receipt of a $10
check from the highway depart
ment employes in addition to
several individual checks from
employes of the department.
Hess Confirmed by Senate
Washington, Jan. 30 W The
nomination of Henry L. Hess as
U. S. attorney for Oregon was
approved by the senate judiciary
committee today. President Tru
man had nominated Hess to con
tinue In office.
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OFFICE, OF VITAL SUIISflCSJ-
Legion Against
Draft Extension
, V'ashington, Jan. 30 VP) The
American Legion today came
out against President Truman's
proposal to continue the draft
law. Instead, the Legion advo
cated a program of universal
military training.
The Legion's position was out
lined to the house armed serv
ices committee by Miles D. Ken
nedy, director of its national
legislative commission. The com
mittec is considering Mr. Tru
man's request for a three-year
extension of the draft act be
yond next June.
Several other foes of keep
ing the draft law alive also ap
peared before the committee.
Kennedy said the Legion had
supported past peacetime draft
laws "as a temporary expe
dient," but "the value of select
ive service as a deterent to en
emy aggression has long since
passed."
"The potential strength of
the American nation can best
be organized through national
security training, and now is the
time for enactment of this pro
gram," he added.
Robert S. Tubbs, a member of
the Kent county, Mich., draft
board, also opposed extension
of selective service.
The Women's Christian Tem
perance union registered its op
position through Miss Elizabeth
A. Smart of Evanston, 111., who
said the draft is not necessary.
Ice Blamed for
Sinking Tug
Walla Walla, Wash., Jan. 30
(U.R) Flowing ice in the Colum
bia river was blamed today for
the sinking of the army engi
neers' tug Umatilla at its moor
ings near North McNary, Wash.,
yesterday.
Just after crossing the river,
the Umatilla sank slowly to the
bottom, leaving about half her
superstructure above water. A
six-car barge attached to the tug
remained afloat.
Until the Umatilla is refloat
ed, a lug operated by the dam
contractors will be used to trans
port McNary dam workers to
their jobs, Col. William Whip
ple, district engineer, said.
Broadcasters Meet
At State University
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Jan. 30 Representatives of ra
dio stations throughout the state
are expected to attend the Ore
gon Slate Broadcasters associa
tion meeting at the University
February 10 and 11.
Coinciding with the dedica
tion of new University build
ings, Dr. H. K. Newburn and
Gov. Douglas McKay will speak
at the annual conference Both
speeches will be released for
broadcast.
Associate professor of speech
in the university, William H.
Ewing, is in charge of broadcasts
from the campus and Lyle
irommlitz of KERG will super
vise downtown broadcasts. Ma
ny special broadcasts are plann
ed. Women attending the confer
ence will have a special pro
gram, including a guided tour of
tugene shops.
Schedule of the meeting is ar
ranged to permit delegates to
attend University Theatre pro
ductions and the February 10
basketball game with Oregon
btalc and the February 11 bas
ketball game with St. Mary's.
Compton Cuties
Hay Play in Salem
The Compton Cuties, famous
Iirls sot h:il team frnm Pnmrv
ton. Calif., mnv hr vpn in no.
tion against a Salem team here
this summer.
A letter to the Chamber of
Commerce from Howard L. H:in
riy, publicity director for the
:irls. asks for n Snlem rtnfp Tlini.
offer to play any kind of team
here a regular team, a civic
club team, a game for charity
or what not.
The pirls nn snflhiill nhvn
but not that alone. They enter
tain. Among them are "Burles
que Gertie," who does a pseudo
striptease, and "Hirmingham
Bertha," comedy singer. No
the girls aren't Negroes.
Little Loot Taken
in Lebanon Prowls
Lebanon, Jan. 30 Though
four business places were found
to have been burglarized the
combined loot was comparative
ly small, according to a report
o unu Price, chief of police.
The F & F food market lost
$23 in change, several steaks
and some cigarettes and canned
goods. Flashlights, candy, soft
drinks and small change was
taken from the Walter Truax
service on North Santlam high
way while the windows at the
Triangle service station were
broken and the interior ran
sacked. An electrical testing
device is missing from the Leb
anon Radio Service.
One-Year Family Mrs. Thelma Gibbs, of Atlanta. Ga., sits
with her twins, Jane and Wayne, born Jan. 16, 1949, and
triplets, Lynda, Brenda and Glenda, born Nov. 5 the same year.
New Buildings
For Colleges
Portland, Jan. 30 VP) The
building committee of the state
board of higher education today
approved construction of a $1,-
500,000 science building at the
University of Oregon.
The committee also said the
structure, originally planned to
cost $300,000 more, would be
adapted to a new site on the
Oregon campus. It was to have
gone up on the west side of the
campus. It now is scheduled for
the northeast campus corner.
The $300,000 was lopped off
in an economy move that will
eliminate a brick exterior cut
out a few large classrooms and
combine some laboratories.
The committee approved fi
nal plans for this structure, a
$250,000 library at Oregon Col
lege of Education and a $200,-
000 library-museum at Eastern
Oregon College of Education.
It also decided on a tenta
tive location for the "upside-
down hospital" at the medical
school. That is a six-story struc
ture to be constructed on the
side of a deep ravine, resulting
in an entrance on the top floor.
It will be located south of the
present medical school in Port
land. The board has about $2,
000,000 available for the hos
pital. Plans have not yet been
drawn.
A committee authorized the
University of Oregon to consult
engineers on building a perma
nent athletic stadium on the
campus. No plans have been
drawn.
New Tacoma School
Burns; Loss $100,000
Tacoma, Jan. 30 VP) Fire
swept through the almost-com
pleted Lister school here today,
destroying the 12-room wooden
structure with a loss "in excess
of $100,000," according to school
officials. The building was to
have been occupied early next
month.
Supt. Howard R. Goold said
the blaze started when an oil
burning salamander, being used
to warm the building for work
men, was upset. The oil ran
through the halls, swiftly spread
ing the flames to other heaters
in the building. A workman. Pe
ter Olson, was cut by glass as
he fled through a window.
The building, located in Sali-
shan, a Tacoma federal housing
project, made up one-half of a
24-room structure which is need
ed to ease the housing of pupils
in the area. The uncompleted
other half, of masonry construc
tion, was not harmed. It will not
be ready before fall, however
Goold said.
Pilot Killed When
Plane Hits Highway
Medford, Jan. 30 VP) -A tail
spin and crash on a highway
brought a fatal ending yester
day to the afternoon plane ride
of private pilot John Charles
Bighler, 25, Medford.
The plane crashed on the Sams
Valley highway 10 miles north
of here. Bieghler died in the
Sacred Heart hospital.
He leaves a widow and two
young sons.
Life Sentence Given
Roseburg, Ore., Jan. 30 (U.Ri
Wallace Green, 20, was under
life sentence in the Oreoon tt
prison today after his convic
tion oi sccona degree murder
for clubbine his ernnrifjithnr tn
death with a piece of stove wood
inanKsgiving nay. Kobe Thorn
as Lireen, 77, was found dead in
his Dilhird. Ore. hnmp lnet
Thanksgiving day.
BOB HOPE
Khnnda Fleming
in
"THE GREAT
LOVER"
Roddy MrDowall
In
"Black Midnight"
Search for Lighthouse
Keeper Brings No Hope
Victoria, B.C., Jan. 30 ttl.PJ
Searchers held little hope today
of finding Lighthouse Keeper
Arthur Anderson, missing one
week from Race Rock Light in
the Strait of Juan De Fuca.
The Canadian department of
transport reported Anderson
vanished in a sevre storm while
returning from Rocky Point
aboard his 14-foot boat after his
weekly call for mail and sup
plies.
CIO Union Claim
Rejected by Lee
Portland, Jan. 30 VP) A
claim by a CIO sponsored com
mittee that city police have in
timidated members of the long
shoremen's union has been re
jected by the mayor.
Mayor Dorothy McCullough
Lee said Francis J. Murnane
had failed to submit evidence
on which to base an investiga
tion of the charges. Murnane,
chairman of an iLWU commit
tee for the defense of union Pres
ident Harry Bridges, claimed
that City Detective M. R. Ba
con had "harassed and intimi
dated" union men, particularly
foreign born members.
Murnane said the detective
had tried to get information that
might prove embarrassing to the
union leader now under trial in
San Francisco. '
Polk Seeking
Better Herds
Dallas All dairymen are urg
ed to attend the annual meeting
of the dairy herd improvement
association which will be held
Wednesday, February 8, in the
Rickreall Grange hall at Rick-
reall.
In addition to the regular bus
iness meeting, Ben Simondson,
manager of the dairy breeders
association, will discuss the or
ganization of an artificial breed
ing unit in Polk county.
A committee headed by M. 3.
Findley, Rickreall, is already go
ing ahead with plans to start
such a unit in Polk county. A
minimum of 1200 cows is need
ed to start a unit in this county
In the afternoon Tom Ohleson
administrator of the milk mark
eting administration will dis
cuss the milk pricing situation
He has been on the milk control
board from the beginning and
knows the marketing problem.
The meeting starts at 10 o
clock with a pot luck dinner at
noon, and will adjourn in mid-
afternoon. ,
Memoriam Program
Is Held for Hubbs
Silverton At the regular
meeting of the Rotary club Mon
day, a period of In Memoriam
honoring the late George W.
Hubbs was observed.
Mr. Hubbs had been a member
of the Rotarians for more than
fourteen years.
Appointment was made for
the personnel of Ladies Night
committee to include Rev. S.
L. Almlic, chairman assisted by
Austin Sanford and Bob Nelson.
This group will name sub-committees
for the general plans.
16214 N. Commercial
You walking up
over paint store
Ship Damages
Tacoma Dock
Tacoma, Jan. 30 VP) An esti
mated $35,000 damage was done
to the DuPont Power works dock
south of here early yesterday
when the freighter Sulphur
Mines slashed through the wharf
and went aground while attempt
ing to dock. Frank E. Jacquot,
DuPont plant manager, said Pi
lot Floyd E. Smith had blamed
a swift-running tide for the mis
hap. Jacquot said approximately 50
feet of the dock had been de
stroyed and a rubber conveyor
system put out of commission in
the early-morning accident.
The ship was pulled free 7'z
hours later by three Foss Launch
and Tug company tugs after 500
tons of water ballast was pumped
from the vessel. There were no
injuries or damage, although
Jacquot said he understood a
diver would examine the ship's
hull later.
Red Charges on
Envoy 'Tripe'
Washington, Jan. 30 VP) The
state department said today an
American vice consul accused
by the Chinese communists of
"spying" has been unheard from
since Sept. 27. That was the day
he started a hazardous journey
out of China, under orders.
Press Officer Michael J. Mc
Dermott called the Red charges
"The usual tripe," He implied
in talking with newsmen, that
the vice consul, Douglas Mac
Kiernan of Stoughton, Mass.,
would have his hands full just
getting out.
MacKiernan was left behind to
close up the consulate in Tihwa,
capital of China s vast north
west border province of Sin
kiang, when Consul J Hall Pax
ton and . other Americans were
ordered out last August. The
Paxton group finally reached
India in October after an ard
uous trip on foot and horseback
across the Himalaya mountains
MacKiernan radioed on Sept.
27 that he was leaving, over the
same general route taken by the
Paxton party.
The only American left in
Tihwa, he was just ahead of
communist forces. i
The Chinese Red radio, heard
by the Associated Press in San
Francisco, pictured MacKiernan
as a hard-riding "s p y" who
sought to organize the bandits
of the Sinklang wilderness
against the communist advance.
Federal Income Tax
Assistance Offered
Independence The .bureau
of internal revenue is sending a
deputy collector to assist in pre
paring 1949 federal income tax
returns. He will be in Independ
ence at the First National bank
on February 16. He will be in
Dallas at the Gale hotel Febru
ary 14 and 15, and in Monmouth
city hall February 17.
Taxpayers Offered
Help from Experts
Lebanon Taxpayers who
need assistance in filling out the
tax forms arc urged to contact
the state income tax agents who
will be in Lebanon February 6
and 7 for that purpose. They
will be at the city hall between
9 a. m. and 4 p. m. each day.
Similar service will be extend
ed to Sweet Home residents at
their city hall on February 2
and 3, at the same hours. The
service by the tax agents is of
fered free.
Tugs Bang Ice Floes
Troutdale, Jan. 30 VP) Tugs
banged through ice floes on the
lower Columbia river today.
All barging to upriver points
ended. Shipping on the lower
river continued to move, al
though cautiously.
Tyrone Power
Orson Welles
Wndft Hendrix In
"PRINCE
OF FOXES"
and
"FORBIDD11N STItEET'
HHlo Friends
Last wefk very cold weather
llAame winter In China man? peo
ple, especially lady-folks, come up
my place tet hot Chinese tea. oo!
Very healthful for system and
make very warm and cozy quick
like everybhim. Lady nowdaya not
have much outside to keep warm,
very Important have somethlns In
side to make warm or set very
nick. You come my place. Chinese
Tea Garden on Commercial street
nearest state street, we have Rood
hot food too. I make for you spec
ial Chinese dish you llklnc very,
very much. I know, many many
people exclamation how good htm
U. Excuse Please, having diffi
cult with American language to
day, cook hundreds Chinese d'?h
yesterday niKht. very very tired
today. I talk ts you soon, man
Jiut shake my hand say "You my
friend, you bring ma noodle."
YEES1NG
(that's my name, sure)
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Mat Wagner, chairman for
the 1950 "March of Dimes"
campaign in Mt. Angel.
March of Dimes
Marching On
Plagued by weather condi
tions that have been on the un
favorable side virtually all
through January, the "March of
Dimes" campaign Monday was
struggling to get back on some
semblance of a schedule.
Although the drive was slated
to end Tuesday night, Howard
Ragan, county chairman, has an
nounced that it will be continued
until mid-February at least. Ap
proximately $7000 has been real
ized through the various efforts
so far.
The talent show slated for
Monday night at Mt. Angel has
been postponed. When it will
be held has not been determined.
Mat Wagner is the chairman for
Mt. Angel activities.
In Portland, Dr. E. T. Hed
lund, state chairman said state
wide response for the campaign
has been almost up to par in
spite of the "most crippling
weather" he has experienced in
the past 12 years.
As for infantile paralysis. Ore
gon just missed epidemic inci
dence last year by a whisker.
The state's 19 cases per 100,000
placed it in 34th position in the
nation. Idaho ranked first with
a case rate of 28.7. California
was 27th with a 24.4 rate and
Washington was 30th with a rate
of 23.
Hogg Sues for Pigg
Dallas, Tex., Jan. 30 VP) At
torney Stanley G. Hogg filed a
suit today in behalf of his client,
Stanley Pigg. Hogg asks that
Pigg be awarded $750 in back
wages which Hogg claims is
owed to Pigg by a Dallas firm.
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In Maneuvers
Pope Air Force Base, Fort
Bragg, N. C, Jan 30 Among
those men slated to participate
Exercise "Portrex a joint
amphibious-airborne exercise to"
be held in the Caribbean in- -February
and March is a Salem,?:
Oregon man, Lt. Col. Frank
Douglas Sharp, son of Mr. and? ;'
Mrs. F. D. Sharp of Evergreen J
avenue, Salem.
The colonel, the assistant de-i.
puty for operations for the Tacti- V
cal Air Force, will soon depart ji
for Puerto Rico on the U.S.S. f
Mt. Olympus. On completion oft;
"Portrex" Sharp will return
here.
The maneuver in which 80,
000 personel of the army, navy
and air force will participate is
the largest held by the armed
forces since the war. It is set up
to provide joint training for all
services and increase combat
efficiency of the armed forces
as a whole.
Participating forces have been
divided into a defense force and
an aggressor force. Climax of
the exercise will be the amphi-bious-airborn
assault on the ifr
land of Vieques off the coast of
Puerto Rico.
Northwest Cold
Killing Off Fruit '
Wenatchee, Jan. 30 VP) Horti
tultural experts warned today
that the record cold of last night
may have killed off much of the
valley's soft fruit trees.
The thermometer at the tree
fruit experiment station here
last night went to 22 degrees
below zero. That is as low as it
will record. -
Fred Overley, superintendent,
said "generally 18 below zero
will kill peach, apricot, and
sweet cherry trees." If trees are
in good condition before the
cold they may survive, he said.
Overley pointed out that last
winter's cold damaged many val
ley trees. Last night's cold may
be the last straw, he said.
18 Inches Snow Forest Grove
Forest Grove, Jan. 30 VP)
Traffic was at a virtual stand
still in this northwestern Ore
gon community today after yes
terday's day-long snowfall. Res
idents estimated the snowfall at
18 inches.
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