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8 Capital Journal, Salem, River Rages The American ' and melting snow, swirls around the Horst ranch near Sac ramento. The city of Sacramento is shown at upper left 'above the "H" street bridge. The first line of trees in the 'picture (upper center) is the highway while the second line of , trees is the bank of the American river normally. Waves ' In the water make the ranch buildings look as if they were ' planted in the ocean. ( AP Wirephoto) Pleasant and Unpleasant Things in History of Salem By BEN MAXWELL . Salem's salad days were ebbing with the 1880s. The 1870s brought a railroad, a water system of sorts, gas for illumination and a feeling of civic pride along cation. . ,i "When Rev. O. Dickensen, church and proprietor of a seedf garden on Garden- road (now Market; street), wrote in his di ary for January 3, 1864, he rec orded some basic facts. Salem then had a population of 1130 family men. 100 single men ana the number of dwellings was . In that year this frontier town had Congregational, Metnoaisi, Episcopal and Baptist churches with a total membership or ioj The Episcopal thurch still stands on Chemeketa street, aajacem to the. alley and lust across the street from Stan Baker's gar age. Taxable property within the corporate limits for 1863 am ounted to 699,261. Average daily school attendance was ISO By then, no doubt, the terrl- tale stench-arising from behind the Bennett house and so of fensive to an editorial nose in 1860 had been abated. The exe cution of Beale and Baker, that attracted a crowd of curious townspeople and a horde of gap in yokels from three counties, was yet a year in the offing. That spectacle was accomplished near Church and Mill streets. May it, 1869. Old timers remembered this "hanging" until the end of their days and were happy to re call it for any occasion. In 1867, says the Pacific Coast Business Directory. Salem was to miles from Portland and 710 mile from San Francisco. Dis tances have not much changed Only routes and means of trans portation are different. When Tim Davenport left Sa lem for Oregon City on the morning of October 5, 1862, he paid $7 In gold coin for stage tare. And he arrived late, too, because enroute passengers had to' lend a hand in getting the coach out of a mud hole. V In 1867 overland stages pass ing through Salem to Sacra mento 514 days, fare $50 had a depot at the Capitol hotel on the site now occupied by An ita's apparel store.. Earlier R. N May had run the Marion hotel on this site and there, in the late 1850's James O'Mearas slum bers were disturbed by desper ately social bedbugs. Bugs,, beds and the hotel were reduced to ashes by a spectacular fire that burned down the Marion in July of 1864. 4 . ' Homer- Smith was proprietor of the Capitol hotel In 1867. Sa lent - Dally Record proclaimed that his was the best hotel in the' city; open all night, with a hospitable bar and a fireproof safe., Though the safe may have been fireproof Capitol hotel was not It blazed to final glory at 1:3,0 in the morning of Novem ber 1, 1869. - Stages for Portland left Cap itol hotel at 6 o'clock In the morning and arrived at 7 in the evening. During winter months this was a four horse pull. A Concord coach acquired for the run In 1859 cost $1 100. In Overland stag coach days teams were housed ia a large barn situated about where the The really smart g I thing to sen is $ !-Jbtriilane Oregon, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1950 -- w. aMyAj' river, swollen by heavy rains with a sense of quiet sophisti , v. . . preacher' at the Congregational armory now stands. Attached to or near this barn was a gage in dicating maximum height of that flood of floods in 1861. When that old barn was razed in early March of 1910 one of the last landmarks showing that the Wil lamette reached 39 feet at Salem about 6 o'clock in the evening of December 3, 1861, was obliter ated. No bridge spanned the Wil lamette here in 1867 and none was built until nearly two dec ades later. During the summer of that year, however, a steam ferry, estimated to cost nearly $8000, was under construction for operation at the Salem-Polk county crossing. J. N. Matheny St Co. were proud to announce that it would carry a saloon deck and had capacity for eight teams and wagons. Launching was an event for November 25, 1867. Leabo operated another ferry between Salem and Indepen dence on the so-called short route to Corvallls. In the Sa lem Dally Record for October 25. 1867, he advertised in these refrains: "So come one, come all We are always glad to hear you call, So come by night or come by day . We are always glad to work for pay." me Label Told Me -The Whisky Sold Me!" I :' tsl- I ,1 O lfCSTtlfpS I AS dDlLID) FdDMIESTEl 100 PROOF BOTTLED IN BOND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY BR0WNJ0RMAN DISTILLERS CORPORATION Ailovitvill.hKthKk-t r Union Would Put Teamsters On Unfair List Portland, Nov. 21 (IP) AFL engineers who operate building heating systems have asked the Central Labor Council to put the AFL Teamsters on the coun cil's unfair-to-labor list. The engineers claim of jur isdiction over a worker class ified at the Teamsters' hall as a Janitor. The engineers say he handles the automatic heat ing system and thus ia an en gineer. Progressive Party Picks '52 Candidate Washington, Nov. 21 (U.PJ The communist-sparked progressive party has selected Elmer A. Ben son of Appleton, Minn., as its 1952 presidential candidate. Vlto Marcantonio - desclosed this strategy to the communist newspaper Daily: Worker in a discussion of the recent general election. . . Marcantonio was defeated for re-election in the house by a New York City coalition of democratic, republican and lib eral parties in his district. In the house Marcantonio always voted the communist party line. He is boss of the American labor party in New York state and master of the progressive party nationally. - Tm for Benson for presi dent," Marcantonio told the Daily Worker. "I feel that the progressive party is the only political apparatus to mobilize the people in the right direc tion." Local transportation in the 1860s was geared to the roads and streets that sustained it. (Continued Tomorrow) IT SAYS ON THI lABElt In Parliament Local members ofthe Atlantic Union national council. Justice James T. Brand, Miss Laura Kel lar, and Steve Anderson, were informed yesterday that an At lantic Union resolution has been introduced to the British houses of Parliament by 46 members, with the approval of Winston Churchill. The Atlantic Union resolution calls for a convention of the At lantic democracies to explore the possibility of joining togeth er in the formation of one large nation. A similar resolution was introduced in the last session of congress and has received the support of about 80 representa tives and senators. In July the Canadian senate passed a resolution almost iden tical in content with the one previously introduced in con gress and now submitted in the English parliament. A meeting of the local mem bers of the Atlantic Union or ganization, headed by Dean Gregg of Willamette university, will be held at the Marion hotel, Wednesday, November 29, at 8 p.m. , Fire Destroys Alaska Hospital Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 21 VP) Fire destroyed the Alaska native service hospital at Bethel last night, forcing several score evac uated patients to take tempo rary refuge in a nearby quon set hut. Temperatures hovered near zero. Bethel is approximately 1,000 air miles northwest of Juneau. Hugh Wade, area director for the Alaska native service, said he understood none of the pa tients was injured. One hospital employe was flown to Anchor age for treatment of Injuries. The $300,000 bulding was a complete loss, said Dr. Duncan Chalmers, head of the hospital. Wade was unable to say how many patients it held but all 70 beds were filled. The patients including 27 in need of immediate hospitaliza tion probably will be flown to other hospitals in Alaska. Chalmers said the blaze be gan in the boiler room but its cause was not known. Eisenhower Buys Gettysburg Home Philadelphia, Nov. 21 VP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has bought a 200-acre farm near historic Gettysburg, Pa., and will make it his permanent family home, it was disclosed today. Attorney Richard A. Brown said that he and John C. Bream, a real estate dealer, closed the deal last week. The property is a dairy and general farm, with a nine-room house, three , miles south of Gettysburg. It has a good view of the Civil War battlefield. Russ Rewrite To Prove Reds By DANIEL Berlin, Nov. 21 UP) Men with apparently the shortest memories in the world are rewriting modern history for 800,000,000 inhabi tants of the Soviet bloc. What they claim to be historical truths are being dinned into all peoples under Moscow's domination in Europe and Asia. The last war? Russia fought alone they say. American lend - lease aid? Never heard of it, Winston Churchill? A blood sucker imperialist who always plotted the enslavement of Rus sia. Roosevelt? A weak progres- Ive behind whose back Wall Street senators flew to Berlin seeking a separate peace with Hitler. The exterminated Jews? Nev er heard of them, either. It was the Soviet people who bore all the sacrifices. General Eisenhower? He nev er fought a battle. The Nazis just quit on his phony Western iront. Allied bombing? It was car ried on to terrorize Innocent German civilians, destroy world industrial competition and lay waste the cultural heritage of Europe. Russia disapproved, Stalin? Genius of revolution, builder of Socialism, generalis simo of victory, leader of the world peace camp. Because illiteracy is high among Iron Curtain peoples, tnese Russian allegations are most effectively illustrated in documentary films. People can see and hear when they can not read or write. The documentaries compare favor ably with Moscow radio broad casts in influence and seem far more impressive for the untutor- ed masses than communist books or newspapers. Two super epics from So viet studios now are making the rounds of village theaters from the Elbe river to the China coast. Both are in color, number their casts in thousands, and cost upward of 10,000,000 rubles to produce. Each calls itself a literal recreation of wartime events, based on Soviet official records. In the schools, press and pub lic forums, ruling communists now are ballyhooing the Soviet war pictures as the gospel truth. Publisher to Retire Baltimore, Nov. 21 VP) Paul Patterson,- a newspaperman for more than 50 years and for the last 31 president of the A. S. Abell company, publisher of the Baltimore Sun papers, will re tire next January 31. When . r,v- you need vVWjni money... ;f KM for unexpected I o y expenses... History in Film Fought Alone DE LUCE , Gospel Crusade Plans Formed A banquet meeting of those responsible for the success of the Greater Salem Gospel Cru sade has been called for 5:15 p.m., November 25 at the Mar ion hotel. At that time. Dr. Paul Rood, world wide evangelist will be introduced. Dr. Rood recently returned to this country from Europe and he will be asked to give a brief report concerning his tour and discuss his aspirations in the campaign which will open in Salem November 26 in the Sa lem high school auditorium and continue for two weeks. The crusade is sponsored by the Christian Business Men's committee, Youth for Christ, Child Evangelism Fellowship and several churches and Chris tian organizations. It is com mended by the Salem Minis terial association. At the head of the local or ganization are: Gary Risher, general chairman; Rev. Lloyd Anderson, vice chairman; Sarah Heinrichs, secretary; Ralph Eyre, treasurer; Fred Kruse, prayer chairman; Dr. J. R. Turn bull, personal workers chair man; Chris Seely, financial chairman; Rev. W. S. Frederick, publicity chairman; Paul W. Evitt, transportation and Ron Rush, music. Rep. Macy Quits GOP Post Following Defeat Great River, N. Y., Nov. 21 VP) Rep. W. Kingsland Macy, beaten for reelection in his tra ditionally strong republican dis trict, has resigned as Suffolk county GOP chairman, a post he had held since 1926. Macy, an intra-party foe of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, an nounced last night he was step ping out of party leadership in the eastern Long Island county. He was nosed out of his con gress seat at the Nov. 7 election by retired schoolmaster Ernest Greenwood, a comparative new comer to politics. A reeanvass, completed yes terday, showed that Greenwood, democratic- liberal party nom inee, won by 138 votes out of more than 150,000 cast. fllTS BUILD OREGON TOGETHER Silverton Corn Show Readjed Silverton Craig Clark has been named as host chairman for the state corn show welcoming and entertaining committee the big event to be at Silverton, December 8-9, at the Silverton armory. Committee personnel assisting Clark are Bruce M. Billings, H. A. Barnes, Maurice Schnoren berg and T. J. Denson. Meeting with the local cim- mittee during the last of the week were R. E. Fore and Rex Warren of Corvallls, co-chair men for the Oregon Corn Show. Also at this meeting were Harry Riches, Marion county agricul tural agent, Silas Torvend, mem ber of the state committee, and Roy Rutschman of Central Howell. 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