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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1952)
23 Skidoo! Flatiron is 50 Years 6ldl By SAVL PETT AF NrwtiturM WrlUr New York The once-famous Flatiron building it observing its 90th birthday like a lonely old freak too short to show up on today's skyline, too far down town to have any glamor, too durable to excite alarmists any more. Today, only a handful of tour ists visit the 21-story building and most of them want to go up in the Flatiron only to take pic tures of other taller buildings. : Today, nobody is afraid to walk on the Flatiron's side of the street Years ago, many pedes trians stayed on the other side. They feared that a strong wind would topple the thin structure which is shaped, as one critic said in 1902, like a "stingy piece of pie." By now? the Flatiron has con vinced the public it's here to stay. "And it will be here another 150 years," says superintendent George Bonhag. "This was one of the first skyscrapers in New York built on a steel frame." In 1902, when the Flatiron was completed, it became the number one tourist attraction of its day. Its picture was repro duced on postcards sent all over the world. In 1904 William Ordway Part ridge, an artist, called it "a mon strosity, disgrace to our city, an outrage to our sense of the artisic and a menace to life." It was built on a small trian gular island on 23rd Street, where Fifth Ave. reluctantly crosses Broadway. It stands 280 feet high. It has frontages of 214.8 feet on Broadway, 85 feet on 22nd St., 197.8 feet on Fifth ill I "i : fit V AM i mm its strange design increased the wind. It's still one of the windi est corners in New York. In the old days, local drug store cowboys used to watch wo men's skirts blowing up. The cop on the 23rd street beat was for ever chasing them. This, accord ing to legend, gave birth to the expression, "twenty-three ski doo." . The Flatiron building is strange in various ways. It's top floor is above the attic. Orig inally, the building was built to a height of 20 stories, plus an attic. Later a 21st floor was! added. The attic, used only for water tanks and equipment, still lies between the 20th and 21st floors. The very top of the building's apex is adorned by statues of two cherubic boys holding scrolls around a big tablet bear ing the initials of the builder, George A. Fuller. Pari-Mutuel Head Named at Lebanon Lebanon Dr. J. G. Gill, Le banon dentist, has been named to the newly organized taxpay ers committee to retain pan mutuel revenues, according to Schoolbook Landmark The famous Flatiron Building. Ave., and only four or five feet on 23rd St. unices occupying me apexjan announcement by acting come to a point only three or I chairman, Henry W. CoUins of four feet wide inside, only wide t Portland. enough to get a chair In. Frank j qo fa accepting the position Munsey, the publisher, used to for Linn county said, "Should have an office on the 18th floor, 1 pari-mutuel revenues be lost it ' " rmmf mm V f- ...'. I Bench for Barnch Bernard M. Baruch (right) sits with California'! Governor Earl Warren on a bench hewn from redwood log and dedicated at Dyerville, Calif., by the gover nor in honor of Baruch. The event took place on Baruch's 80th birthday. The bench is located in a redwood grove at the foot of a 364-foot tree. (AP Wirephoto.) in the corner. He had the floor raised so that he could get a bet ter view of the two rivers bound' ing Manhattan and also better view of employes working be fore the throne room. When the Flatiron was built. some neighbors complained that PV l ; MjWStSSLC Bnrning Through Steel A saw without teeth. New Saw Without Teeth Cuts Steel With Ease . By NORMAN BELL (AP Newilestures) San Diego, Calif. A saw i analyst, discovered the teethless without teeth that cuts costs as saw. He noticed that regular well as hard metal is being blades cut as well with the hailed here as revolutionary, It slides through stainless steel like a hot blade through butter, a literal comparison, engineers at Solar Aircraft Co. say. smooth back of the blade as they did with the toothed edge. Band saws, Prince explained, actually burn through stainless steel and harder metals, but the The saw so simple that one, teethless blades do not work on observer suggested it be called soft metals, such as aluminum or the "pshaw saw" is nothing but smooth-edged band of steel. Solar officials said they found that box strapping, used for se- i .pin rr flhlnnlna ppnlo, ArvoH excellently as blade. They put! InTlirpfl Mfln HfK it in the high-speed band saw atjlHJUICU Flliil. IIU) a cost of 10 cents a band, and cut away at stainless steel parts for as long as 29 hours without changing the band. ' By substituting spring steel for the box strapping, at 50 cents a band, they got a 70-hour per formance., 1 Regular band saw blades, the copper, or on wood, where actual cutting, rather than melting, is necessary. Slight Polio Case Canyon City, Ore. A man hospitalized' for several weeks with automobile accident hurts, now has a mild case of polio. John David Laura nee, 20, who suffered back and other injuries officials reported, cost $3 each some weeks ago and has been and last on the average less than I j the hospital since, complained two hours. I of new pains in his arm. A check Jack Prince, a Solar methods revealed polio in a mild form. iitii imiiiNCi til III ' IKI9I BASIC PROTECTION Under all the land it the title. Wherever your property is located, it is yours only as long as you can prove title to it A T and T" title in surance policy is your guarantee that your title is sound... that no one can deprive you of your investment in real property because of title defects not shown by the records. Give your noma ownership a firm lovndatiom. Get "T mni T" till insvrwice TCk)t Irstt COMPAIVV . m 1 W. tart fee. rmUmt 4. (nasa i mM) WfMi mmm, Sum . awi SMSBMT Unal SfcHil would cost Oregon a total of $992,812 a year. Linn county alone would lose next year an estimated $12,500 in fair money. Our organization feels we can not afford to lose that revenue." Eagles Not So Powerful Carriers as Some Believe Portland f) A federal biol-1 carrying a full-grown jackrab ogist said here Thursday that bit weighing six to seven a lot of talk about eagles isn't pounds. The flight was labored so. I because the load was heavy," They aren't comparable to he said. flying boxcars, for instance. "There is no actual record The biologist, Ralph H. Im-: oi an eagle carrying as mucn as who is regarded in the 13 Puna- len pounu u near fih ' uie aosoiuie limn. Imler said he was moved to Polk County Trapper Appointed by Court Dallas Larry Bivan, 120 Dim mick St., has recently been ap- nointed bv the Polk countv court as countv traDDer for the nreda- i ler. torv animal controL Bivan is also regional office of the U.S. cervine in the name canaeitv in. and wilflife service here where Linn county. ; be works, as a top-flight eagle : comment because of a recent All rennesti for the assistant man. said it's this way: I Associated Press story from of the traDDer will be handled; Thr i. nn nHHonro n hnnr i Chehalis telling of golden through the county court. Phone; an eagle can fly off with any-.ea&es, killing lambs and flying requests can De placed through thing that weighs more than ou- w"a ulusc wc's,mi Dallas 2206. it does. And most eagles weigh . 40 Pounds. In addition to the trapper,' g to 10 pounds, with a few bald I Imler said that in the first bounties are paid by the county j eagles getting up around 13 place he would be more inclin- on certain predatory animals. A list of the bounties is available in the county clerk's office at the courthouse inallas. Radar For Philippines Manila W) Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay said Thursday a vast radar warning network, using equipment from the U.S., will be woven around the Philip- pounds. Yet there are recurrent stor ies of eagles flying off with a! ed to believe the eagles at Che balis are bald eagles the na tional bird rather than Gold- lamb weighing anywhere fromen- There are some golden 30 to 40 pounds. "Wholly impossible," said Imler, who has studied that par ticular subject all the way from Colorado to Alaska. "Eagles have been observed CAMIAl, llirill IIIIIVI 011 IMss.tOt Pigs That Smell Like Wisteria Secancus, N. J. VP) Secaneuj pigs may not be social oat easts from now on. A New York firm is spraying a deodorant on the hog habitants of Charles Sch oca's farm as an experiment If the secret scents wafted over his wallows itiffle odors, says Sochs, all of the township's 55,000 hogs probably will get the perfume treatment Schoch, president of the Stock Farmers Association of Se eanens, is confident of success. "Doris Dnke has pigs that don't smell," he said.. "After to day we will have pigs that smell like wisteria." Miss Dnke, heiress to a tobacco fortune, raises pigs on a model farm in Somerville, complete with an atomiser in every pen. eagles around, but not as many as there are bald eagles, he said It takes an expert to tell the difference between a golden eagle and a young bald eagle, be said. Until about three years of age, the bald eagle lacks the distinctive white head and tail and looks very much like the golden eagle. Neither is normally very im portant as a predator, Imler said. If farmers find a bird or, a pair, to be inflicting losses, they can get relief by calling the fish and wildlife service, which will institute any needed con trols. The bald Vagle is protected. There are no federal laws pro tecting the golden eagle. Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Aug. 21, 1952 It Pen-Pal Romance Fades Dingle,- Ireland W) Frank Bayostak started back to his Johnstown, Pa., home last night without even a final wavs from bine-eyed Breda O'Sullivan, his Irish pen-pal who found his name and address in a bottle. Breda, in fact harvested oats oa her mother's farm while Frank climbed aboard the bus for Tralee. No one else came to see him off either, not even the dis appointed Dingle folk who hoped that a romance would cap the couple's six years of letter writing. Frank flew to Ireland two weeks sgo to meet the young colleen he had known only through letters that started the day she found the bottle with his name and address on the Dingle shore. Frank had thrown the bottle overboard from the troopship on which he was returning from World War army service la Europe. A week after his srrival, both flatly denied there was sny romance. But one of the local folk said that Frank "looked a very disappointed man, Indeed," as he rode away last night in the rear of the bus. Cabbie Finds He Can't Win New York UJJ Cab driver Tony Tolve of the Bronx took the traffic ticket Patrolman Joe Powers handed him and tors It np in the presence of the officer. Powers then charged Tolve with violating the city sani tary code by littering the streets. Police said Tolve paid a $2 fine Wednesday. Represents Bong Kong Hong Kong (JP) General man ager Yin Chin-Chung of Ta Chung Great China Industrial Co., Ltd., will leave Saturday for Seattle to represent Hong Kong at the Far Eastern International Trade Exhibition. SCHAEFER'S . RECTAL OINTMENT 75c TUBE (With Applicator) Why suffer tht discomfort of irritating and itching of piles? 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