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2 Capita Journal, Salem, Ore., Saturday, April 21, 1951 Fire Protection Outside City Is Recommended Monday The city council Monday night expects to hear a special com mittee report recommending what should be done about city fire protection for property owners outside the city limits who have failed to contract either with the city or a fire district. The attitude of some property owners that the city will protect W. P. Wafkins Dies af Astoria Word was received In Salem Saturday of the death in Astoria at a hospital there this week of W. P. Watklns, former Salem resident. He had been ill since last summer. Watklns, who prior to moving to Astoria about 10 years ago, had operated a service station and tire shop in Salem, made his home in Salem for about 20 years. Since going to Astoria he had been employed at the naval depot in that city. A veteran of army service in World War I, Watklns was a member of Capital Post No. 9, American Legion here, and was also a member of the Masons. Surviving are his wife, Alice Watklns of Astoria; a daughter, Mrs. Thayne Cole of Salem; his mother, Mrs. Clara Watkins of Portland; two brothers, Parker and John Watkins of Portland and a granddaughter, Nancy Ann Cole of Salem, Funeral services for Watklns are to be held In Astoria Mon day. Safeway Starts Salem Building Three steps were announced Friday advancing the Safeway store project on the old Wash ington school grounds. It was announced that the na tional production authority has approved the project, and that construction has started by the razing of the old school building, for which a permit was issued by the city building inspector. The building will be 120 by 170 feet, of reinforced concrete, with brick veneer walls and bol stering trusses. Plans for the Salem building and for 14 other Safeways either being built or remodeled were prepared by William & Smeed, during the New Pork hearings Portland architects. Speech by MacArthur Available to Public New York, April 21 W Gen eral MacArthur's address to con gress is to be available, to the public. In Chicago, the Chicago Tri bune said last night it will sell recordings of the speech at cost starting Wednesday. The news paper said a long-playing (33 Mi rpm) disc would cost $1.85 over-the-counter or $2 by mail; and a set of four standard (78 rpm) records will be $2.75 over-the-counter or $3 by mail. Columbia Records announced last night in New York that it will issue complete speech re cordings beginning Tuesday, - Radio station WOR (Mutual) announced that it would market recordings of the MacArthur speech in the New York City metropolitan area. WOR said distribution would begin Mon day, but gave no price, Long-playing records will car ry the entire speech, WOR said, while 12-lnch standard records will have excerpts only. Dormitory Bond Refunding Passed The house passed and sent to the senate today a bill to let the state board of higher education refund $7,079,000 worth of rev enue dormitory bonds. The refunding, authorized by the people in constitutional amendment passed last Novem ber, will save $1,200,000, The new general obligation bonds will draw lower interest rates. The house put an $8,000,000 limit on the amount of general obligation bonds that can be is sued. ENDS TODAY1 "KANSAS RAIDERS" In Technicolor! Co-hit: "JAMBOREE Stan TOMORROW) Cont 1:451 - "'1'.' BrttBHWWI mm Second FMtural "HEART Or VIRGINIA" Janet Martin Dobert Lower? ?them regardless of agreement and regardless of any compen- sation to the city caused a dis cussion in the council two weeks ago and is expected to bring a proposed policy before the alder men. It is understood the recom mendation will be about like this: To give the property owners until July 1 to show evidence of trying to help themselves in one of the following ways: First, by forming their own district and securing their own equipment; second, by forming their own district and contracting with an existing district for equipment service; and third, forming their own district and contracting with the city of Salem. According to this recom mendation, any unprotected area that does not show such evidence by July 1 would be denied pro tection by the city after that date. Any area that does show such evidence, the proposed agree ment will say, will be given un til January 1, 1952, in which to complete legal formation of the district through the county court, If it does not do so pro tection by the city will be de nied. The council will have peti tions for three street improve ment projects, two of which are signed by sufficient property representatives and will be rec ommended. They are Royal street from North 19th to North 20th, 62 per cent signing; and Wonder Way, from State street south one block, signed by 54 per cent. A petition for the improve ment of John street from Rural to the end of John has only 21 per cent signatures and will not go on the program. A letter will be read from A A. Larsen offering the city an area of land as a gift for perpet ual use as a city park and play ground. The land is six lots in South Village which is south of the present city limits. It 'fronts 244.83. feet on Ewald avenue and extends northerly 200 feet. With the letter is a petition from the adjacent property own ers in which they pledged to pro vide the city sufficient play ground equipment to carry out the wishes of A. A. Larsen and Mary Helen Larsen that the nark be developed for the benefit of children. City Engineer J. H. Davis will report that a remonstrance against the improvement of Broadway from Hickory to Lo cust is insufficient to defeat the improvement. Ordinance bills to be introduc ed are: To change from a first class residential district to a Class III business district premises locat ed on the south side of Center Between 12 and 13th immedi ately west of the doctor's clinic. lo grant permission for a ne on sign over the sidewalk at 1463 North Capitol. Establishing a snccial anthm-v line on the south side of Rural in front of Lot 1, Block 9, E. A. nnoten subdivision Saalfeld Promoted To Air Captaincy Receiving a promotion to a captain in the Air Force reserves this month was H. C. (Hub) Saalfcld, who has been notified that the promotion was effective April 9, 1951. Saalfcld, veteran of World War II, has been Marion county veterans' service officer since the office was established In De cember, 1945, and this week pre sented his resignation for that office. Entering the Air Force in 1943, Sallfeld was a bombardier-nava- gator during the last war and for a time served as an instructor. Ho has been a member of the re serves since released from act ive duty and now Is a member of the USAFR selective service training unit of Portland, Ore gon, attached to the Continental Air Command at Mitchell field, N. Y. LAST TIMES TODAY Open : SUrt 7:15 Dennis Morgan Patricia Neal Steve Cochran RATON PASS" Gene Evans Steve Brody James Edwards "STEEL HELMET" I 1 L Trail Blazing Flight Ended Sydney, Australia, April 21 W) Capt. P. G. Taylor landed his fishing boat, Frigate Bird II, at Rose Bay base here early today, winding up his trail-blazing trip across the Pacific from Sydney to Valparaiso, Chile, and back. Taylor made the flight to map a Trans-Pacific route for future commercial airline traffic. Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies and new south Wales Premier James McGirr were among the cheering thousands on hand to greet Taylor when his plane touched down in the Har bor. - In a brief speech, Menzies praised Taylor and his crew. Taylor flew today from Bris bane where he landed last night on completion of a 17,000-mile double crossing of the Atlantic. Tin Pan Alley Bnsy on Ballad New York. APr11 21 W Tin Pan alley juggled its sharps and flats today to the tune of "Old Soldiers Never Die," the ballad quoted by General MacArthur. Composers said they were working hard on ditties based on the theme MacArthur quoted in a speech before congress Thurs day. The general said the ballad harked back to his days at West Point. Gene Autrey, Columbia Rec ords said, was to record the orig inal tune at his California home last night. Bing Crosby also plans to croon the ballad. Crosby said in Hollywood he thinks he has found the song referred to by MacArthur in a collection titled "Lane London Daily Express Community Song Book." He says he'll sing it on his next Wednesday radio show. Meanwhile, a West Point spokesman said yesterday it was believed Gen. Charles P. Sum merall (Ret.) introduced the song at the U. S. military acad emy. But Summerall denied this, saying the ballad "Came after my day." Other sources said the ballad was written in 1855 .by Abbey Hutchinson, a trooper, and was popular among allied troops dur ing World War I. Today, it looked like a good prospect for the popular hit song parades. FLf Council Meeljng Set for Monday Night The Farmer - Labor - Consum ers council will hold its regular monthly meeting at Labor tem ple, 445 Center street, Monday, April 23, at 8:00 p.m. Prof. John Rademaker, chair man of the council's legislative committee, will make a complete report on the activities of the committee since the last meet ing. Moving pictures, as usual, will be shown, Members are urged to be in at tendance, and to bring their lam ilies and friends. C.l.t h TECHN1COLOI CONT. FROM 1 P.M. NOW! ROARING FUN! Abbott ft Costello "KEEP EM FLYING" and "RIDE 'EM COWBOY" rm Open 6:45 Starts 7:15" P" 1 1 Dean Martin 1 1 1 1 Jerry Lewis 1 1 1 1 Polly Bergen 1 1 II "At Wor With the If III James Whitmore Iff ill Nancy Davis III l "The Next III III Voice You Hear" III Cont. From 1 P.M. NOW! THRILLS! I SUSPENSE Bill to Bar Touts From Tracks Eyed Sacramento, April 21 U.R A bill allowing race tracks to bar persons with criminal records, known touts, and bookies from their grounds was introduced in the state assembly yesterday by Charles Lynn (R.), -Beverly Hills. Under terms of the bill, track police would have the respon sibility of enforcing the meas ure. . Half ield Names Both Tickets Portland, April 21 A sug gestion for Douglas and Douglas for the democrats and Duff and Morse for the republicans in the 1952 president-vice presidential spotlights was made here to night by State Representative Mark O. Hatfield. Addressing the Multnomah County Young Republican club, the Willamette university poli tical science professor and dean of students referred to Illinois Senator Paul Douglas and Su preme Court Justice William' O. Douglas as a democratic "bat tery" for 1952. Pennsylvania Senator James Duff and Oregon Solon Wayne Morse were advo cated for the republicans. Asked by the Young GOP's to give them a freshman eye's viewpoint of the state legisla ture, the 28-year-old representa tive said that if the people of Oregon "... want to move a man up'from the senate to the governor's desk in 1954, they have excellent potential in Sen ators Hitchcock of Klamath Falls, Patterson of Hillsboro, or Walsh of Coos Bay." Russian People Friendly to U. S. Frederick, Md., April 21 (JP) Secretary of Defense Marshall said today he believed Russian people are friendly but their minds have ' been "poisoned against the U.S. "I think for many years they had a decided leaning toward this country, but now are stea dily being turned against us," Marshall said in an address pre pared for delivery at a convoca tion of Hood college. His prepar ed text made no reference to the controversy over the firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. 'When one pauses to consider the problem we have in dealing with Russia where their people never hear the truth regarding us and our friendly nations, it is not difficult to comprehend how nearly impossible it is to reach a ge n e r o u s understanding with them," Marshall said. Casey Jones Heads Editors Washington, April 21 m Al exander F. (Casey) Jones of the Syracuse Herald-Tribune today was elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He succeeds Dwight Young of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald. At least 40 players have batted 400 or better in the World Ser ies. Babe Ruth's .625 average in 1928 is the all-time high. STARTS TOMORROW! SAVAGE BEAUTIES HUNT DOWN MATES! PRIMITIVIl jv'iSjr,iS!V SHOCKINOI fK-hri. u nnMnraTCjnnni 7? Fire Destroys 3 lumber s (By the Auoclated Freu) Logging operations shut down in many parts of Oregon today as another dry, rainless day dawned over the already dried forests. Two lumber mills burned down as the dry spell continued, one near Eugene at a loss esti mated at $300,000, and the other near Coquille at a losst of some $50,000. A third northwest mill, at Winlock, Wash., burned at a loss of over $500,000. Foresters warned the fire dan ger was critical. QLAST DAY! "WATCH THE BIRDIE" - "WYOMING MAIL" J The Laughs Start Tomorrow ! L. 1,11, IJIIUIIIII. Ill JUDY HOLIDAY . Hev or L one oHhosL I talkers . Also WILLIAM H0LDEN PLUS THRILLED 11 WfflljjV1 PH. 3-3467 MATINEE DAJUf FROM 1 P.M. Ph. 3-3467 CATACLYSMIC ADVENTURES! SCWXi. IXCITINOI. 1 1 I Not since March 30 has any appreciable rain fallen in Ore gon. The weather bureau said none yet is in sight. The long, dry spell set a record of 22 con secutive days In Portland. It brought the forest fire sea son lli months ahead of nor mal, and caught many areas without preparation. In southwestern Oregon, as in most other areas, fire lookouts had not been stationed in the forests yet. The Coos Forest Pro tective association patrolled the timber by airplane today, look ing for tell-tale smoke columns. Some' lookouts were to be post ed in that area this week-end. Throughout the state burning permits were cancelled. Some Koreans call an hell copter an "Infuriated palm tree." BEST ACTRESS OF THE YEAR j The Girl Everybody Is Talking About Starring BRODERICK CRAWFORD PACKED CO-HIT! iu.it rtmir fltw J tUrjorieREYMOtOS f j SUPER THRILLS! Added Fun ! "HORSESHOE WIZARDRY" COLOR CARTOON "MICE PARADISE" AIRMAIL FOX NEWS "PRESIDENT REMOVES MacARTHUR" Graphic News Resume ! Gallon Club To Start Again Starting May 3, the "Gallon club" is to be reactivated in the American Red Cross chapter here for all those persons who have donated eight times or ' sr""""'"'- h V'T-" UAO A Uil, I J "Vengeance I vi Tricolor U II "The V II MacArthur - V" ' f ;J4 forgivesl POUII Q)AW)$ JANE COWL KENT TAYLOR BETTY LYNN FRANCES DEE PLUS THIS ALL STAR MUSICAL VARIETY TREAT ! A M MutJcal law fncludnn ALSO: COLOR CARTOON - WARNER NEWS LAURA ELLIOTT KM ARNCSS GLORIA PtTROff more to the blood program. The Gallon club was featured during the war for donors who had given eight pints or more of blood. Next visitation of the mobile unit in Marion county is next Monday, at Union Hill Grange hall. Dr. Dean Brooks from Sa lem is to be the doctor in charge at the unit, which is to be in op eration between 2 and 6 p. m. NEW I JU . . a mm Your "All About Eve" Star . . . GREATER THAN EVER IN A THRILLING NEW DRAMATIC TREAT! "I MADE HIM . . . NOW I'LL BREAK HIM!" 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