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,14 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March 4, 1950
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Lebanon The city's veteran councilman and fire chief, El
mer Fitzgerald and Mrs. Fitzgerald were honored on their
V 40th wedding anniversary Monday evening at the annual ban
quet of the Lebanon volunteer fire department. . Fitzgerald
has been identified with the fire department for 34 years,
. serving as assistant chief for 22 years and heading the de
;' partment as chief since 1940. Also a member of the city
'' council, he is its senior member now serving his 18th year.
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald were married in Bloomfield, Mis-
souri, Feb. 27, 1910. They have lived in Lebanon since 1911.
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World Champ Lebanon
Loggers to Present 'Act'
Lebanon Oregon logging will be featured next month at the
Sportsmen and Vacationist show in Gilmore stadium, Los An
geles, when "Al" and "Hank" Firchau, Lebanon loggers, dem
onstrate the climbing ability that has won world championships
-for them.
The two brothers will be an
attraction at the southern show
April 6 to 16, an annual affair
held in the nation's largest
cities.
No trees could be found grow
ing in California tall enough
for the Lebanon lumberjacks, so
they were required to furnish
their own trees. The two boys
recently dispatched two 110 foot
trees by train to the southern
city. It required three flatcars
to hold them.
Al will leave shortly by car
to supervise erection of the giant
poles. Hank, now in school at
Portland university, will leave
just before opening of the show
flying down in the family plane.
The Firchaus grew up among
Oregon's trees. Al, 24, and Hank
22, were born in Eugene but
lived the past 15 years near
Lebanon. They purchased their
first logging truck when barely
in their teens. From then on the
woods have been their home.
During the war the brothers
were separated, although both
served in the army in Europe.
Al was in the forestry division
while his brother was a radio
operator. Returning home they
hired out as loggers, but soon
began operations of their own
Today they own the Firchau
Logging company, one of the
largest privately owner opera
tions in this area.
The boys have entered num
erous high climbing and tree
topping contests, always plac
ing among the top men. The two
have picked up several cham
pionships, among them, the
world's record set two years
ago by Al. It was broken last
year at the Albany Timber carnival.
Date Announced
For Princesses
" Friday, April 7, was the date
set as Princess Selection night
for the Cherryland Festival at
a meeting of the Festival board
Friday.
The program, at which candi
dates from all of the high
schools in Marion and , Polk
county will vie for the honor of
being selected as a member of
the 1950 Cherryland Festival
court, is to be held at the Salem
high school auditorium. V
At that time the five girls
who will make up the court, all
of whom must be high school
seniors, will be selected. The
queen will be chosen from this
group of five at a later date.
During the Friday meeting the
dates of the two parades to be
held during the festival were
also announced. The children's
parade will be held on Friday,
June 16, and the grand parade,
which in the past has been held
the day before the children's
parade, will be on Saturday,
June 17.
Paul Hale was named business
manager for this year's festival
and the association's office is
being opened this week with
space in Hale s office.
Arrives In Wisconsin
Silverton Mrs. W. L. David
on, mother of Mrs. Clinton
WIeby, who recently visited in
Silverton, has written of having
arrived in Chicago enroute home
after a stay in California for a
brief visit. Mrs. Davdson's home
is In Prairie Du Sac, Wis.
Mush Moore Is
Well on Way
Dawson Creek, B. C, March
(CP) Cecil (Mush) Moore,
who announced some time ago
that he would make history by
being the first man to drive his
dog team from Alaska to Maine,
is well on his way to doing it.
He. arrived in this northern
British Columbia town Wednesr
day night undaunted by many
close shaves ' encountered in
the first 1,600 miles of the
journey. With approximately
3,400 miles still to go, he is as
determined as ever.
The trip so far has taken
Moore over five mountain
ranges, across 129 rivers and
8,000 mountain streams and nu
merous lakes. Through eight
weeks of the trip the tempera
ture never was more than 25
below zero.
One "close shave" occurred
when his dog team picked up the
trail of a caribou and gave
chase. Before he could stop
them, they took him and the
sled over a 75-foot precipice.
Neither he nor any of his dogs
was seriously injured but it took
several hours to untangle the
harness.
Moore said he hit some cold
weather on the journey and the
most uncomfortable he felt was
when trying to keep warm in
his sleeping bag at 65 below
zero. He and the dogs bucked
heavy snow throughout the trip.
Problem of food has not aris
en. Game along the way has
been plentiful, he said.
Moore hesitated to say when
he expected to reach his desti
nation but was definite about
one thing, he is going to get
there and by dog team.
Oregon Young Demos
To Meet in Portland
Portland, Ore., March 4 (UB.
The Young Democratic Clubs
of Oregon today announced they
will hold a convention in Port
land March 24-26, with demo
cratic candidates for governor
attending to participate in a
panel discussion.
Chairman John M. Winkler
said that "as of this writing"
Lew Wallace, Walter J. Pearson
and Austin F. Flegel, guberna
torial candidates, have accepted
invitations to appear on the
panel.
2,430 Traffic Deaths in January
Chicago, March 4 W The nation's traffic accidents killed 2,430
persons in the first month of 1950, the national safety council
laid today.
The January toll was four per cent higher than the 2,340
traffic fatalities in January, 1949
Despite the national In
crease, the south central states
cut traffic deaths five per cent
over a year ago, and the Paci
fic states averaged a 27 per
cent reduction.
All other regions reported
Increases.
The nation's largest cities
those with more than 1,000,000
residents, made the best show
ing a 28 per cent drop In
deaths over a year ago.
Three hundred cities had
perfect records in January,
Providence, R. I. was the lar
gest of these. Salt Lake City,
Utah, was second, and Witchl
ta, Kas., third.
Cities with the fewest deaths
for January in each population
group, ranked according to the
number of traffic deaths per
10,000 registered vehicles, in
cluded:
Over 1,000,000 population:
Los Angeles, 2.1 deaths: Detroit,
4.4. 10,000 to 25.000: Lake
Charles, La.; Vancouver, Wash.,
and Billings, Mont., all 0.
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Critical Issues of Red China
May Lead to Special UN Meet
By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER
Lake Success, March 4 ) The critical issues of Red China and
the atomic bomb appeared headed today for a special session of
the U. N. General assembly in New York in mid-May. But U. N.
leaders privately expressed little belief thaj such a meeting would
entice the Russians back to the fold unless an unexpected break
The Soviet delegation and its
eastern European allies have
been on a walkout strike
against U.N. organi; I tions since
January, refusing to sit with
delegates of nationalist China.
Informed delegates at the U.
N. said the feeling is growing
that something must be done;
that the U.N. cannot go on for
ever with some of its members
refusing to take part and with
the east-west tension increasing
So far, these sources said, the
best bet appeared to be a spe
cial session.
The session might be called
primarily to settle the China
question and get the Russians
and their satellites back into
the meetings if possible.
Then, the assembly could be
faced with the atomic control
question. If there is a special
session it might begin about
mid-May. The regular 1950 ses
sion is scheduled next fall.
The Soviet delegation, mean
while, kept up operations from
its luxurious Park avenue head
quarters in New York city in-
Teen-Ager Tells Others Off
For 'Disgraceful' Acts of Some
By PATRICIA CLARY
Hollywood, March 4 (U.R) A lot of the nation's teen agers are
a disgrace, one of them contends.
They tear the clothes off crooners, they nang arouna movie
stars when they ought to be home in bed, and they waste their
time collecting autographs instead of doing something con
structive.
A bunch of those bad apples,"
Joan Evans said, "are giving all
us teen agers a bad name. Plenty
of us are perfectly nice, normal
people."
Even such well-bred teen agers
as Miss Evans, Elizabeth Taylor
and Jane Powell find Holly-
woodites eyeing them with sus
picion and distaste, impossible as
that sounds, every time a bobby
sox mob goes made.
'They think all teen agers are
alike," Miss Evans asid. "I even
get nasty letters saying, 'Why
don't you kids behave your
selves?' "
It was "disgraceful, simply dis
graceful," Miss Evans said, when
the Pittsburgh fan club of
crooner Ricci Vallo greeted him
so warmly that he went to a hos
pital, minus his shirt and most of
his pants.
They ought to have some
thing better to do than carry on
like that," she said. "Do they
think that's smart?"
The asme thing happens to
Farley Granger, with whom Miss
Evans stars in Samuel Gold
wyn's "Our Very Own," when
they make appearances.
"They grab at him, at his
clothes, or anything," she said
"First It's three or four, then
they all go wild. It's mass hys
teria." Another time the 15-year-old
star went to a preview with Lu
cille Ball.
'All the kids were calling for
autographs and shaking their
pens at her," she said. "They
splashed ink all over us.
'I never could see the fascina
tion of getting the signature of
somebody you don't know, any
way."
Another batch of autograph
hounds cornered Miss Evans one
night when she was late for a
Screen Actors Guild meeting.
'That's business," she said.
"I told them I'd stop when I got
out. They all were waiting for
us three hours later I knew
they would be. But gee, they
were real nasty about it.
"Everybody in show business
is very grateful that kids like
movies and go to them. We all
want them to be our fans. But
why can't they be constructive
about it?
"I know a lot of stars who
have real nice fans. They make
scrapbooks of pictures of them
or get groups together to see
their movies or write them nice
letters, and the stars answer
back.
"I wish all the fans were like
that."
stead of coming out to Lake
Success. Late Wednesday, Ja
kob A. Malik, Soviet deputy
foreign minister, sent a tele
gram to U.N. Secretary-General
Trygve Lie and U.N. Assem
bly President Carlos P. Romulo
appealing to them to intervene
to save eight Greek trade un
ioi leaders from death sen
tences. On other occasions the Rus
sians have issued statements at
their headquarters and sent co
pies "to the press area at Lake
Success for the reporters cover
ing the U.N. They have picked
up UN records to keep abreast
of developments.
A spokesman for Malik said
there was no comment on the
suggestion of Senator McMahon
(D-Conn.) in the senate in
Washington that the assembly
meet in Moscow on the atomic
problem.
This spokesman grinned and
said "The assembly in Moscow
in 1953; no comment on Sena
tor McMahon."
He was referring to an offer
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky was reported to
have made at a private diploma
tic dinner last fall to invite the
assembly to the Soviet capital
in 1953. But no one at the table
took him seriously and no for
mal invitation ever has appear
ed from Moscow.
The decision of Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek to assume the
presidency of nationalist China
on Formosa had repercussions
the nationalist delegation
here. For the first time the chief
delegate, T. F. Tsiang, came out
definitely in the camp of Chiang
Kai-Shek against Li Tsung-Jen,
wno insisted he is the acting
president and Chiang had no
right to take the post again.
Tsiang issued a statement
saying the differences between
the two leaders did not affect
the work of the delegation since
it receives its instructions from
What's a Fall
Of Nine Stories?
Kansas City, March 4 VP)
Dean Ward, a construction
worker, stepped aboard a
building hoist nine floors
above the ground.
The hoist gave way, plung
ing all the way to the base
ment of the partly constructed
building. It hit with such im
pact Ward was thrown 25
feet from the platform.
His injuries? Only strain
ed muscles, said examining
doctors.
The hoist, used for carrying
materials and equipment up
and down in the building,
consists of a platform and a
lifting mechanism.
The incident occurred Wed
nesday. But Ward, 24, treated
the matter lightly. Police and
other authorities didn't hear
about It until yesterday.
Three Girls Killed
In Oil Heater Blast
Gary, Ind., March 4 VP)-An
exploding oil heater set fire to
a steel worker's small home in
nearby Hobart last night and
took the-lives of three. little
girls.
Their mother, Mrs James Ro
bert Stamey, 27, said their oil
burner had gone out, and be
fore she noticed it the fumes
had filled the stove. She said
it exploded when she tried to re
light it.
The young mother got out of
the house but tried to re-enter
it to rescue her children. The
home was a mass of flames and
she was held back by firemen.
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"As a citizen of China, how
ever, I favor President Chiang's
resumption of presidential du
ties. The step is in accordance
with the constitution of China
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