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Airs. Sigrist, Active in Salem
Library Founding, Tells of Life
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Caroline L. B. Sigrist of Portland, who told in yesterday's
Capital Journal the story of the beginning of Salem Public
library, has been a student and a woman of books all her life.
She has traveled considerably.
After reading her manuscript about the library, Cornelia
Marvin Pierce asked her to fur
nish a sketch of her eventful ca
reer.
She holds degrees in medicine
and in law and is a graduate
librarian. Wherever she has
lived, she has given of her time
and eneary and money to the
community good. She cared for
a family of three adopted chil
dren, and when in Salem did the
family laundry herself so she
could give more money to the
young public library.
Mrs. Sigrist's family name was
Bristol. She was born in West
Sand Lake, Reno county, New
York, on a September 21 in the
decade of the '60s.
She was graduated from Al
bany State Normal school, then
entered Cornell university at
Ithaca with the class of 1888.
She graduated a year ahead of
the class in 1887 with s Ph.B
degree and with honors for gen
eral excellence. She was award
ed a scholarship in Cornell on an
examination given by the county
I school commissioner.
; She wanted a medical career,
so entered Woman's Medical col
lege in Philadelphia in 1887 on
a scholarship of $200 a year for
three years, and was graduated
as an M.D. in 1890. She was
the only one to graduate from
the college in three years be
cause of a typhoid epidemic from
which four of her class suffered.
Miss Bristol was ill seven weeks
at her home where she was nur
sed by a sister.
Upon recovery, she entered as
an interne the Women s and
Children's hospital at Roxbury,
Mass., just out of Boston. She
took the state civil service ex
amination for doctors and was
appointed woman's assistant
physician at St. Lawrence State
hospital at Ogdensburg, N.Y.
After two and a half years there
she was transferred to Willard
State hospital at Seneca Lake.
"I
was determined to study
law," she says, "and went down
to Cornell to see Professor Jones,
my old teacher in mathematics,
and he went with me to inter
view Dean Hutchins of the law
school.
"The arrangement was that I
was to come down on the Lehigh
Valley railroad once a week and
sit in the freshman classes, and
at the end of the school year
the freshmen professors would
each give me a private examina
tion. This turned out all right,
and I passed the junior examina
tion in law. A Cornell profes
sor was on -the board of trustees
at Willard State hospital and I
had his support.
"At the end of the year there
was a vacancy for woman as
sistant physician at Long Island
hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y., and
I was appointed to fill the va
cancy with the understanding
that I could enter the New York
University Law school as a sen
lor. I graduated next May as
Ll.B. The law school gave two
prizes of $100 each for the best
oral and the best written exam
ination. I won the oral."
inat year miss Bristol was
married to A. T. Kelliher. She
left the hospital about 1897, and
they moved to Gladstone, Mich.
They lived there three years and
came to Salem.
Mrs. Kelliher became a widow
while living in Salem, and 18
months later was married to
Jacob Sigrist.
In 1910 she went to Europe on
a trip of five months. Years
later, as a Gold Star Mother, she
went to France in 1931. An
adopted son, who was also her
nephew, had lost his life in the
war.
She added extensively to her
travels.
"When through working," she
writes, "I went around the
world on the Dollar liner, Presi-
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Graduating Prof. Maurice
G. Schultz, U. S. Air Force,
Salem man who March 17
graduates from the Military
Police school at Camp Gor
don, near Augusta, Ga.
Schultz, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William F. Schultz of route 4,
box 1084, Salem, after his
graduation will be assigned to
duty as an air policeman. A
graduate of Salem high school,
he enlisted in the air force Oc
tober 21, 1949. (U. S. 'Air
Force Photo)
Supercarrier 'Scuttled for
Good' Says Louis Johnson
Washineton. March 15 U.R) Defense Secretary Louis Johnson,
who scuttled the navy's proposed supercarrier last April, said
today that as far as he is concerned the big ship was scuttled
for good. ....
"The considerations wnicn supponea my original decision are
still controlling, and I can see no
dent Johnson, next had a Med
iterranean cruise in the summer,
a trip around South America,
then went around the world in
an English freighter.
"This was quite interesting.
"We left Portland, went to
Vancouver, B.C., for cargo, then
to San Francisco, through the
Panama canal, and north beyond
New Orleans for cargo. Then
we went down the Mississippi
through the Gulf to Beaumont,
Texas, for oil. Then the ship
went back to New Orleans for
sugar machinery, and from there
to Cape Town, South Africa,
"There a friend and I left the
ship for a train and about 13
nights on a sleeper. We went to
Bloomfontein, Kimberly, Johan
nesburg, Pretoria, Bulawayo, to
Victoria Falls, and back to Bul
awayo.
"We spent a day at Cecil
Rhodes' grave, then went across
country to Beira where we met
our ship. From there we went
into India, Malay Peninsula, to
Drosoect of being able to recom
mend its construction in the im
mediate future," he said.
The defense secretary reaf
firmed his verdict against the
proposed 65,000-ton flush deck
carrier in a letter to congress.
In it, he expressed opposition to
a bill to name the big ship,
"when and if" it is built, the
James V. Forrcstal in honor of
his late predecessor.
Johnson pointed out that with
one exception the Franklin D.
Roosevelt carriers never have
been named for persons. Ordi
narily, he said, personal names
are used only on destroyers and
transports.
Aside from that, he said,
establishment of a proper me
morial to the late defense secre
tary is under study by the James
Forrestal memorial committee.
He suggested that action on any
memorial await the committee's
decisions.
Johnons reiterated his own
high opinion of Forrestal. He
was an outstanding patriot, citi
zen and government servant
whose "fine work" should be
recognized in every appropriate
fashion, Johnson wrote.
But he said he was "particu
larlv anxious that my views m
the question of a supercarrier
and on a memorial to Mr. for
restal not be linked together.
Johnson said that although the
bill does not specifically author
ize construction of a supercarri
er, it "implies" that at some point
one will be built. He said his
views on this are well known
and that they haven't changed.
Diamond Shoals, off the coast
of North Carolina, is called the
"graveyard of the Atlantic" by
sailors.
Coalition Aim
Of Finn Leader
Helsinki, Finland, March
(Pi President Juho Paasikivi
asked agrarian leader Urho Kek-
wonen, speaker of the Finnish
parliament, today to become
premier at the head of a new co
alition cabinet containing communists.
The move to include commun
ists out of the government
since July, 1948 in a national
unity cabinet was viewed as a
move to answer recent Russian
charges that Finland was pur
suing an anti-Soviet policy and
lining up with the west.
Paasikivi immediately be
gan conferences with leaders of
various political parties to see
if he could get agreement for a
broad coalition government.
Formation of a broad coalition
hinged on agreement by the so
cial democrats of Karl-August
Fagerholm, who followed Fin
ing after Paasikivi was installed
as president for a second term
on March 1. Some social demo
crats were talking of staying
outside the coalition and acting
as the principal opposition par
ty in parliament.
If the social democrats refus
ed to join a coalition govern-
m e n t , political observers
thought that Kckkonen also
would exclude the communists
and try to form a cabinet con
taining only moderate Darties.
Both Paasikivi and Fager
holm had been under bitter fire
from the Soviet press. Russia al
so sent diplomatic notes accus
ing Finland of harboring So
viet war criminals. The notes
were viewed by political ob
servers here as being timed to
bring pressure in support of the
Finnish communist party during
the recent election campaign.
When Paasikivi was sworn in
to office after his re-election he
announced he would work un
swervingly for good and trust
ful relations between Finland
and the neighboring Soviet un
ion.
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time quietly at her Portland
home, "reading books from the
public library and listening to
the radio."
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