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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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