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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1950)
iatii - . 'f i ! 'in HMI III innHtf ' " -n lfM Optometry College To Erect Building Portland, Dec. 12 A new building for the College of Op tometry at Pacific university is planned with a $90,000 fund ob tained from an estate held by the university. Dr. Walter C. Giersbach, pre sident of the university, told Northwest Optometric Congress delegates of the fund last night. Dr. Clarence G. Carkner, chair man of an optometrist advisory board, said the licensed optome trists of the region would be Sixty Years of Progress Portrayed Shown at the top is a contemporary view of the Sears section of the Capitol Shopping Center made from the roof of old Washington school. Below is the same locality photographed 63 years ago by W. P. Johnson. The fenced pasture of 1887 is now a lead ing business area in Salem. asked to double a previous $30, 000 fund they had raised for the building. Delegates were told by Dr. Fred Sutor, Philadelphia, that many work difficulties from the youngster in school to the man who can't clear his desk of work were traceable to visual problems. Americans bought a record $23.6 billion worth of life in surance in 1949. Boy Dies in Iron Lung Ontario, Ore., Dec. 12 (JP) A boy rushed to a hospital here from an automobile accident, died in an iron lung yesterday. Oscar McWhinney, 13, Nyssa, suffered a head injury in the two-car crash south of Nyssa. Four others were hurt. McWhin ney was kept alive by artificial respiration, then placed in the iron lung at the Malheur hospi tal Sunday. Glass Negatives of Old Salem Treasured in Collection By BEN MAXWELL During the 1880c, at 269 Commercial street in Salem, was the studio of W. P. Johnson, a photographer with a feeling for his torical values. About 1887, as the East Salem school neared com pletion (now old Washington school and shortly to be razed) he trudged to the roof with his heavy plate camera and made views from cardinal points of the com- pass. Today these glass negatives of 60 years ago are treasured items in the Cronise collection of early Salem views. From time to time other Johnson pho tographs, made from the East school roof, along with contem porary pictures made from near the same position and approach ing the same angle, ha-e appear ed in the Capital Journal. To day's Journal carries the final Johnson view and a recent pho tograph covering a portion of the same area. C In 1887 oaks in the school yard were small, now they tow er to the roof of the building and obstruct the view. In John son's time Marion street was an unpaved and rather unpopulous street with wooden sidewalks, if any existed at all, in the vicinity of East school. No warning sign directed pedestrians or horse and buggy travelers to the rail road crossing at Marion and 12th streets. A railroad switch at this point did not come until 1912, or thereabouts, and the semaphore was placed there more than 50 years after John son's time. A house at the right in the modern view is located near what was a pasture fence cor ner in 1887. Somewhat removed and near the center of this pas ture was a large home occupied about this time by Salmon Brown, son of old John Brown whose "body lies a-mouldering in the grave." Salmon Brown operated a meat market at 13th and Center streets about where the First Nazarene church now stands. Across 12th street another fence corner is shown and there, until the Capitol Shopping Cen ter was initiated, stood the home of Frank Southwick, the build er. But Southwick's home had not been erected when Johnson made his photograph and the immediate area and beyond is devoted to an orchard. This old orchard, now the site of Sears, belonged to Rev. J. L. Parrish in the 1880s and when the boys of that day raided it Father Parrish bounced out from his residence at Capitol and Marion streets and chased them out. Obscured by the Sears build ing, except for a tall conifer that rises above It, is the inter section of Summer and Union streets. Here, in 1887, lived Wil liam Waldo who, in 1872, ob tained from an itinerant Cali fornia peddler the specimen of Yosemne sequoia now growing in the nation's smallest park lo cated on Summer street near Union. Eventually it appeared that the tree was growing in what was surveyed to become Sum mer street. Waldo would not contribute land for the street until assured that the tree would not be felled during the devel opment. Years later other move ments were initiated to dispense with the tree but patriotic groups resisted. Today this va riety of redwood growing in an area 10 by 15 feet, is rated smallest park in the United States. Princess Leaves Greece Athens, Greece, Dec. 12 UP)- Britain's Princess Elizabeth left Piraeus, the port of Athens, to day after a six-day visit in the Greek capital. With her husband Prince Philip, the heiress appar ent to the British throne has been the guest of King Paul and Queen Frederika. Women Try Out 'Prize' Recipes New York, Dec. 12 U.R)One hundred women and girls, from 12 to 71 years old, dressed in house dresses and aprons, put together their favorite recipes in the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria yesterday, competing for a $25,000 grand prize in the Pillsbury grand national bake off contest. A nervous bridegroom leaned over a balcony railing to watch his bride of one week, Jackie Marshall Rossow, of Reno, Nev., make "chocolate surprise cookies." Jackie, standing in front of one of the 100 electric ranges lined up in the glittering ball room, explained that she was only 19 when she entered the contest, making her eligible for junior division and also allow ing her to bring a chaperone. "We were going to get mar ried anyway but we rushed it a little so Leo could be my chaperone. I thought it would be more fun than coming with mother," Jackie explained, lift ing a pan of cookies out of the oven. Prizes were awarded at a luncheon today, with a grand prize of $25,000 going to winner of the senior division, and $5,000 to one of the 25 girls from 12 to 19 entered in the junior division. Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 195021 Husband Gets 'Reminder' of. Ex-Girl Friend Redding, Calif., Dec. 12 U.R An ex-girl friend walked up to Floyd Sutton and told him she would never forget him. And then his wife gave him something to remember her by. The Suttons told authorities this story. They were sitting in a bar and Sutton was cleaning his fingernails with a pocket knife. A nurse Sutton dated before his marriage walked in. She threw her arms around Sutton, told him she was leaving town, but said she would never forget him. Mrs. Sutton grabbed the pock etknife and stabbed Sutton in the stomach. Then she took him to the hospital. Hospital offic ials called police, and they took the Suttons story. Sutton will recover. About 40 per cent of the land area of the United States has too little rain for safe general farming. The oldest contestant, 71-year-old Mrs. Birdie M. Lahue, of Marty ave., Kansas City, Kan., took the contest excitement calmly, "I'm baking these dinner rolls from n recipe my mother taught me," she said. Record Firm Ups Disc Price New York, Dec. 12 (U.R) Decca Records announced today an in crease in prices on Its discs ef fective Dec. 15. Sidney N. Oldeberg, vice pres ident and general sales manager of Decca Distributing Corp., said all Decca 78 and 45 rpm single recordings would be raised in price to 85 cents plus federal excise tax and the firm's black label 10-inch long playing series would be listed at $3, federal excise tax included. Previously the Decca single recordings sold for 75 cents plus tax, and the long playing discs at $2.85. Goldbery said "ever increas ing costs" of material, labor and other factors made the price in crease necessary. RCA-Victor said any announ cement on its price would come from its Camden, N.J., office. Capitol records said it had no word on a price hike from its headquarters in Hollywood. Co lumbia records officials said they had "no comment." Rebckahs Set Session Hubbard Tuesday evening, Dec. 12, Thalia Rebekah Lodge will meet. Following the busi ness meeting the members will entertain their families with a Christmas party. our hats are off to LUCIEN LELONG, Paris, who DARES to introduce fine French perfumes at $9 for a large, 2 oz. bottle How? By stripping, off the trimmings. By a modern approach to the Paris production of top Lucien Lelong perfumes. Now you know that you're paying for the perfume not the bottle. Now you can enjoy great perfume to your heart's content Drop in today for your first bottles of Lucien Lelong SIX, a spicy petal fragrance-and SEVEN, a more worldly scent Both are CREATED, BOTTLED, PACKAGED AND SEALED IN FRANCE. ACTUAL SIZS parfum 5 and parfum 7 each, 2 02s. plui tax It's oilskin time again... and telephone repairmen all over the West are ready to match nature to keep your calls moving, THEY ROLL OUT WHEN STORMS ROLL IN How we prepare today to protect your service tomorrow 1 ' Vv Mlar. l """" " "Ill fj . -.. n't 1. Old Man Winter can be mighty tough on telephone lines. ..with floods in the cities and valleys and snow piled high in the Sierra and the Cascades. We can't tell where trouble may strike next. So we're always ready to pull highly trained crews from non-emergency jobs and send them on their way in special trucks and other equipment like this "sno-cat" to repair any break, wherever it happens. 3. Getting your call through when you want it, within your own town or across the country, is part of the value you've come to expect from your telephone service. And with rates, on the average, up less than half as much as the cost of living, your telephone is a real bargain today. In spite of high prices on most other things, a time-saving, step-saving telephone call is yours for just a few pennies. It's one of the best buys in your family budget. Pacific Telephone 2. Helicopters have been used sometimes to patrol snowbound lines and speed crews to a repair job. But even before they get there, calls have been re-routed to get your message through with as little delay as possible. For mod ern communications demands teamwork among all tele phone people...people who know theirs are important jobs, particularly in these critical days for our nation. Price increases since 1940 FOOD UP 121 ' COST OF ; LIVWIG i I UP 73W 3V Jt AVERAGE t'CC' f: TELEPHONE NJ? i UMK- RATS up IN TERRITORY WE SERVE Your telephone is one of today's best bargains 1 .ti- OS- orld Mrs. whom J34; nd cou- , Kenne-Cverireea
