Capital journal., July 21, 1952, Image 13

Old Newspaper
Tells Tornado
Everett C. Holt, 4325 Sunny
view, Salem, hai a copy of the
"Afton-Friscoe Meteor" ol April
29, 1904. It was printed in Alton,
Indian territory, Cherokee na
tion, which later became Okla
homa. The faded, weathered paper
told of a tornado toll of five dead
nd nine Injured nearby.
One ad tells of a "daily hack
line to Grove, Indian territory."
Grove is about 20 miles from
Alton. Noted the ad: "the hack
line ... is elegantly equipped
with fast horses and easy-riding
vehicles, and the comfort of
he passengers is assured by the
management. Hack leaves Afton
very day but Sunday making
round trips. Meet it at the post
office by 7:10 o'clock of a morn
ing if you want to go to Grove."
Levi Beals managed the service.
The Holts were near Aiton
this summer on vacation and
Anna L. Holt, his wife, received
it from a sister, Mrs. Clyde An
drews. The newspaper had been
in an old trunk. Subscription
rates for the weekly were $1 per
year "cash".
Afton is on the Frisco rail
road and was then.
Mr. Holt is going to have the
pre-statehood paper framed for
his den.
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Bruce Williams Reports
On Defense Bond Sales
United States defense bonds than in 1941 when the first sav
sold to Marion county buyers for I ings bonds were issued. This is
the first half of 19S2, end. ig partly due to the new three per
June 30, totaled 11,244 855, says cent interest on the new E and
a report prepared by Bruce Wil-jH defense bonds," he said, "and
liams, county defense bond to the growing number of pay
chairman. I roll savers in state and nation-
Of these $585,177 was in 1 wid' industries."
bonds designated as E and Hi Williams anticipates an in-
and $679,738 was F and G and ; crease in defense bond purchases
J and K bonds.
Marion was the only county
in the state outside of Multno
mah to pass the million-dollar fiee- "We have en issuing 'in
terim receipts, ne stated, "and
many persons have withheld
purchases until they can actual
ly receive the new engraved
bonds. Distribution of the new
series should take place within
a week or two."
just as soon as the new bonds
are printed, engraved, and dis
tributed to banks and post of
mark.
Totals for other counties in
cluded: Lane, $826,748: Lincoln,
$106,308; Linn, $262,322; Polk,
$71,737; Benton, $203,455; Yam
hill, $174,186. In Multnomah
county the total was $5,382,377.
wnue the cost of living rose fa in i ft il
during the first half of 1952. JlOfK D6QIS lCQlll
uicguii resiuems purcnasea over
11 million dollars in series E
defense bonds an amount equal
to the corresponding period last
year.
"Throughout the state a total
of $11,201,406 in E bonds was
purchased," Williams said. "An
additional $2,497,152 were
bought in all other series de
fense bonds, to brine the total
sales for the first half of 1952.
to $13,698,558. The substantial
purchase of small denomination
series E bonds, primarily by pay
roll savers, rellects a healthy
thrift pattern that is highly com
mendable and desirable for a
sound business economy."
Williams pointed out that de-
fensp hnnrf nnnhnifl itnrina Iho
last two months in Oregon and.'3'-
In Linn Co. Race '
Albany Births outnumbered
deaths in Linn county by 94 or
more than 370 per cent during
June, according to the vital sta
tistical report of Dr. John W.I
Guepex, Linn county health of
ficer. !
The health officer reported
that 132 babies, including 75
boys and 57 girls, were born in
the county during the month,
while 38 persons died, including
22 men and 16 women.
The June birth rate was high
er tha nthan in May by 37 while
the May death total was only
three under the June death to-
Popular Lifeguard Lifeguard Joyce Mitchell, 15, has
the boy "drowning" all over the place when she comet on
duty at Oakland City swimming pool in Atlanta, Ga.
Old Friends at
Salem Picnic
throughout the nation took a big,,, . . ch,j
jump to overcome the slack sales JS?..8"'?,
earlier in the year.
"Over 150 per cent more
bonds were purchased in May
and June of this year, moreover,
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their annual picnic.
The organization
Patsy Caroline Willi Bogart
of Portland to the presidency
and agreed to hold the 1953
nirnif In PnrtlnnH Mrc Pn.
Ontario, Ore. P) Some 500 .,.. wm ,.- hPr own Lr.
cars of red bliss triumph pota- tary
toes about half this year's crop j Qs Wcst former governor,
have been shipped from this,waa unable attend owinlI lo
Merrill Moore of Portland,
recalled a visit he had with
Herbert Hoover in his apart
ment at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel in Portland. He reported
that the former president kept
numerous secretaries working
Some 100 persons, including on Projects of interest to peoples
former residents and those who over the globe, all at his own
continue to live in Salem, re-jexDense-
lived old times as they gathered Some oI 'he out-of-town per
near the west entrance to the sons at the Picnic were Rose,
state fair grounds Sunday for Ed and Tny Metschan, Mrs.
jitaymona u. waters, Helen
elected Hibbard Paset, and Lillian Met-
at-iiaii ridiiuers. sister oi me
area, C. H. Stanberry, state-federal
inspector, reported. Farm
ers have been getting $3 to $3.10
a hundred.
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Now Available in Salem
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ISM Dallaa Blfbway (Weil Salaam)
illness but his letter directed
to the gathering 'was read by
Herbert Salisbury, assistant
the audience.
Entertainment in the form of
magic by Jack Spong was ap
preciated by the approximately
100 persons in attendance.
late Phil Metschan.
155 N. Liberty
Phone 3-3191
Clearance Sale
TIMELY SAVINGS ON
1952 Hop Quota
Is Curtailed
Portland W) Only 63 i per
state archivist. A communica-1 01 the 1952 hop crop would
tion written by Ben Maxwell i1 offered for sale under a
concerning one of Salem's first Quota program approved Sat-
automobiles was also read to uraay Dy tne west coast hop
control board.
The recommendation will be
submitted to Secretary of Agri
culture Brannan for approval.
The board estimated that the
1952 crops would be 61,720,000
pounds. The salable amount
would be 39.200,000 pounds
about 11 million pounds less
than in 1951.
The board said the reduction
would cut the carryover cron
from 29 million pounds this year
to 26 million next year.
The board re-elected these
officers: Dean H. Walker, In
dependence, O r e., chaplain;
Ralph V. Williams, Portland,
vice chairman, and William S.
Walton, Salem, treasurer.
Benjamin Franklin projected
the first subscription library in
what later became the Unitpri
States.
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Sears Parly
Comes Tuesday
One of four Sears, Roebuck
and Co. planes, a Beechciaft
bearing members of the Sears
board of directors on western
inspection trip of the company's
properties is scheduled to arrive
at Salem at 10:10 A M, Tuesday,
July 22. on a flight from San
Francisco.
Aboard the Sears plane stop
pinping here will be G. B. Hat
tersley, vice president of Sears'
in charge of its eastern territory,
of Philadelphia; C. H. Kellstadt,
vice president in charge of Sears
southern territory, of Atlanta,
and Crowdus Baker, treasurer of
the company.
The trio of Sears directors will
be met at the airport by J. F.
Mosolt, Salem Sears manager,
and members of his staff who
will take the directors to lunch
at the Sears store where they
will be given an opportunity to
inspect the institution.
In the nearly quarter century
that has passed since Sears first
established a store in Oregon,
Mosolf pointed out that purchas
es by Sears of merchandise man
ufactured in the Pacific north
west have increased from an
unimportant figure annually to
the total of more than $17,000,
000 that was spent last year for
'products bought from 342 manu-
After completing an inspec
tion of the Sears store, Hatters
ley, Kellstadt and Baker will de
part from Salem, accompanied
by Mosolf, at 1:30 P.M. for Se
attle where the directors stop
ping here will again join the
remainder of the directorate of
the company for meetings and
visitations to Sears properties
there.
Missing Bend Couple
Phone They're Safe
Bend U.R) A state-wide search
for a missing Bend couple was
called off Saturday after the
man and his wife telephoned
friends here that they were vis
iting in Portland.
State police took on the search
for Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert
Keyes Friday when relatives be
came alarmed over their ab
sence. The relatives told police the
Keyes were expected back in
Bend from a trip to the Oregon
coast on July 11. But Keyes said
it was all a misunderstanding.
He said he returned to Bend
July 6 and tdld friends he was
leaving again and wouldn't be
back in the central Oregon city
until July 20.
Keyes telephoned friends in
Bend after reading an account
of the search for him and Mrs.
Keyes in a Portland newspaper.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, July 21, 195213
Eastern Visitors Guests in
Many East Salem Homes
East Salem Guests in East
Salem homes this summer have
been from many mid-west and
eastern states.
At the home of Mr. and Mrs.
i Verne Imler on Sunnwipur Av
they have had as their guests
,Mr. and Mrs. Paul Imler and
daughter. Margaret, from Flint,
jMich. The men are brothers
and they also visitei their sis
ter, Mrs. Irene Gereis of Silver
ton. They are returning home
by way of Yellowstone Park.
Visitors the past week at the
L. W. Currcy home on Dawes
Ave. were Mr. and Mrs. Elton
Duncan and Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Hulse from Favetteviile. Ark.
This was the former hnmp nf
Mrs. Curry, and Duncan is her
Drotner and Mrs. Hulse a sister.
Entertained Wednesday after
noon at the Donald Criswald
home on Monroe Ave. were Mrs.
Donald Rollofson and children,
Mrs. Wilfred Miller and -hil.
dren, Mrs. Donald Townsend and
sons, Mrs. Paul Gilmer and sons,
Mrs. Stuart Johns and a special
KUest. MrS. Molvin .Tonlrc
children, Lynn and Tim, of Al-
oany.
Mrs. Rav Gardner ha rrtnmnIi
to her home on Monroe Ave.
witn her new daughter, Barbara,
who has two brothers, Larry and
Tom.
Swcgle Neighbors were enter
tained Thursday afternoon with
a lawn party at the home of
Mrs. Clark McCall on Market
i St. Assisting hostesses were
Mrs. Otis Dawes and Mrs. Sam
uel Curry. Present were Mrs.
Grant Bowder and daughter,
Mrs. R. M. Giersch and daugh
ter, Mrs. Conrad Hofstedt and
daughter. Mrs. L. W. Curry, Mrs.
Austin Kyle, Mrs. George Shull,
Mrs. "alph Hein, Mrs. William
Hari and the hostesses.
113 Drown In Formosa Floods
Taipeh, Formosa P) At least
113 persons were officially list
ed Sunday as drowned or miss
ing in rain caused floods in
Southern Formosa. The two-day
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Four Corners Mrs. S. H.
Cable will be hastess in her
home to the White Cross group
of the Four Corners Baptist
church, Tuesday, July 22. It
will be an all day meeting with
a covered dish dinner at noon.
Members are to bring hand tow
els 8x12, face towels, epsom
salts.
Mrs. David Behm and daugh
ters, DaVeen and Barbara left
Monday morning for Gering,
Neb., where they were called by
the death of Mrs. Behm a father,
James McKinley.
A daughter, Geraldine Ed
ith, eight pounds and one
fourth ounce, was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Boyd Stormer (Carroll
Meyer) Wednesday, July 16, at
Salem General hospital. She has
a sister, Carolee Marie. Grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ern
est Stormer, Portland, and Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Meyer, Coos
Bay, Ore.; great grandmother,
Mrs. Sahas Stormer, Mt. Ver
non, Ore.
A son, Filomino Jr., nine
pounds, one ounce, was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Filomino Apilado
(Mary Elgin) Friday, July 18, at
Salem General hospital. He has
two sisters, Jeanette and Jo Ann
and a grandfather, Andrew El
gin, Salem.
Mrs. William Simons left on
Friday for Lynden, Wash., where
she was called by the death of
her mother, Mrs. Anna Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. Minard Herman
sen have returned from a trip
to Minneapolis and other points
in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Visitors in the Jess Mcllnay
home are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Coates, Crete, Neb.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Gould are
home from a vacation trip to
the coast.
Lichens are very widely dis
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parts of the earth.
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