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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.
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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
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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
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