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' Don Hostetler," veteran from Lebanon, Or., adjusts the
camera amplifier of the Eugene Vocational School'i new
closed circuit television transmitter.
Noisy Muffler
Just Too Bad
- A mlx-up in directions and a
noisy muffler put 17-year-old
Sumner, Washington, youth in
the Salem city Jail Saturday
night on a charge of larceny of
an auto;
The vouth. Francis Paul Wel
der, told police that he stole the
ear and started out for Portland
but found he was heading soutn
after getting about five miles
' from town. Coming back through
town an officer heard the noisy
car and started to stop Mm lor
violation of the noise ordin
ance.
- .Walder ifinored three sound-
- Ings of the police siren so the
officers pulled wide to tne leu,
opened the siren wide open and
cut in front of the car forcing it
to the curb.
-As the officer approached the
parked car, he noticed Walter
reaching behind the seat as if
after a weapon so he quickly
Jerked the door open and pulled
the youth from, the car.
He found that there was a
weapon all right, but the boy
had been trying to hide it in
stead of getting it. It was a
German make revolver that Wal
der said he found in the car.
He also said he was a Wash
ington parole violator and had
been convicted there on charges
ol larceny of autos and burglary.
He recently stole a ear in Chey
enne, Wyoming, he said.
. Walder said he prowled sev
eral cars hi Salem before find
ing a car with the keys in it.
It Wis the ear he wu driving
when stopped. The ear was re
gistered to Wayne I. Wlllard,
ISM North fourth street
. The youth ia being held lor
possible return to Washington or
Juvenile court action here.
Pre-Season Fires
Strike Forests
Oregon is already having
fires that are getting into its
forest areas.
The unseasonable weather is
blamed for these fires, which
were started to burn off old fern
in farm lands and got into the
forested area.
Kd Schroeder, district warden
for northwest Oregon, reported
several such, fires, over .the
week-end in his district. There
were also fires of this nature
in Lincoln county near Burnt
Woods and Toledo.
Both . State Forester George
Spaur and Albert Wiesendanger,
executive secretary - for Keep
Oregon Green, are urging farm
ers burning fern to exercise ex
treme caution, noting that frosts
and east winds make the ferns
even more combustible.
It was pointed out that fires
getting out of control and burn
ing through the forests' are de
stroying the small trees hidden
away among the ferns.
Soon Available
A 1 modern television trans
mitter, complete with . camera
and other necessary equipment,
will be available within a few
day for the training of radio
students, the .Eugene vocation
al school announecd today.
The complex piece of elec
tronic, equipment using 8 0
radio tubes will be used in two
major -fields of instruction,
school officials said. Radio
servlclnc trainees will be pro
vided with a steady, reliable
test signal essential tor making
adjustments on television re
ceivers.. At the same time stu
dents in the school's radio com
munications course will have
the opportunity of making clr-
cuit adjustments on an actual
television transmitter and ob
serving the results on a tele
vision receiver. Other possible
uses of the equipment include
training in television studio
technlaues in such field as
lighting, staging and program
production. .
Present plans call for opera
tion of the television trans
mitter on a "closed-circuit"
basis confined to the building.
If used with an Iconoscope
camera tube, ; of commercial
type, a picture of standard 525
Mnes-per-ineh quality would be
obtainable. The equipment was
was designed and constructed
by Calvert . Applegate, chief
engineer of station KERG of
Eugene. The synchronizing
generator and associated cir
cuits operate In accordance
with Federal Communications
Commission standards for tele
vision transmitters. It is be
lieved to be one of the first in
stallations of television equip
ment for training purposes in
the Pacific Northwest
and will feature the Salem High
school and Willamette university
bands in final numbers with the
massed choirs.
Salter Weathers - is chairman
of the committee in charge of
arrangements. Mr. and Mrs.
John Schmidt, Mrs. A. A. Seger-
sten, and Miss Muriel Fitts are
committee members.
May 3 Set as Date for
Annual Choir Festival
The Salem Music Teacher as
sociation has selected' Sunday.
May 8, as the date of its 1953
Choir Festival. . ,
The festival, en annual affair
sponsored by the local teachers
group, presents the choirs of all
local churches who desire to nar-
ticlpate. Each choir nuur nre-
sent a number and the combined
choirs will present two selections
unaer the direction of Den Mel
vin Gelst.
The festival will be held In
the new Baptist church this year
New Dental Office
Opens on Westside
. A new dental office has been
opened in West Salem by Dr. F.
L. Dilger, DDS, in his home at
1S43 Edgewater street.
' Dr. Dilger is a graduate 'of
Creighton university, Omaha,
Neb. He practiced a short time
at Yankton, S. D., and then or
some time at St Helens, Ore.
He has lust returned from two
years duty in Germany with the
U. 5, Army,
. Dr. Dilger is married and lives
with his wife, Rosemary, and
three sons, aged 5, 2, and
eight months, at 1343 Edgewater
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Early-Day Legislatures
Had Their Humorists Too
Legislative levities in Oreson
started early.
The 1845 session at Oregon
City illustrates the point. Jesse
Applegate, breathless and burst
ing with excitement, dashed in
to the house and demanded that
all rules be Instantly suspend
ed. After the disconcerted
members bad regained their
composure Applegate introduc
ed a bill to prohibit dueling
and hurried it to final passage
within an hour.
He hoped his law would be
come effective soon enough to
stop Sam Holderness from gun
ning ror ur. .Elijah White, a
member of the Methodist mis
sion on the Willamette. Dr.
White's friends were forever
grateful to Jesse Applegate for
that law against dueling. Sam
Holderness had a reputation for
being a lethal man with a pis
tol.
Since 1846 legislatures have
occupied many buildings serv
ing as capitols In at least three
Oregon towns. But it was that
year, 1846, that 16 members of
the . provisional legislature
agreed to pay H. M. Knighton
?2 a day as rental for the ses
sion conducted in his Oregon
City home. Actually it worked
out even better than that for
Knighton. He got himself ap
pointed sergeant-at-arms and
received additional pay.
When the 1847 session came
around times were tough in the
Oregon country.
"Maybe," the legislators rum
inated, "we've been paying too
much for session rentals. So
they offered Stephen Meek,
By BEN MAXWELL
brother of the more illustrious
Joe, $1.25 a day for use of his
modest Oregon City dwelling
But they stayed with Steve for
only a single day. Next morn
ing they adjourned for 20 min
utes and reassembled in the
Methodist church where rent
was free.
Then, it was that James W
Nesmith, later Oregon's distin
guished Civil War senator in
congress, pulled a fast one. He
succeed 1 in .amputating the
south end of Yamhill county to
form Polk. While, his opponents
were amusing themselves with
refreshments and . horse . billi
ards in Lee Barton's tenpln
alley Nesmith called up his bill
and got the measure passed. ,
Provisional and early terri
torial legislatures heard dl
vorce cases and granted- de.
crees. They were numerous,
too, but the legislators were
considerate. Rev. Thomas H,
Fearne, the Methodist circuit
rider who came to Oregon in
1851, tells why.
Shortly after his arrival Rev.
Mr. Pearne made acquaintance
with an interesting little girl,
apparently eight or nine years
old, "whom I caressed and pet
ted as a child." A few weeks
later he saw her in another part
or the country. He renewed
his attention to the child and
Inquired:
"Have you left home to at
tend school?
"La, no," the precocious
youngster replied. . "I'm mar
ried.".--: ....v....-:.-.. :'. . ... i .
"Amazed," Rev. Pearne re
called, "I let her down from'
my knee. I thought you were
only a child. How old are you.1
"I'm 10, going on 11," she
answered.
Before that child was 18,
Rev. Pearne sadly mentions,
she had several times been mar
ried and divorced. Oregon's
donation . land law for 1848
gave to each married person a
half section of land and a full,
square mile section to those
joined by wedlock. , And the
age for wedlock did not' seem
to matter. .
Swing Young, whom Meth
odist missionaries dissuaded
from starting a distillery and
making firewater from black
strap molasses, died early in
1841. He was well-to-do and
probation of his estate was jus
tification enough for laying the
foundation for a provisional
government. His estate' was
taxed to defray the expeness
of a session of the provisional
legislature and $1500 appropri
ated out of his funds to build
Oregon's first jail at Oregon
City. ...
Came 1848 and the gold rush
ghost session. Members of the
legislature for that year num
bered 23. On opening day only
nine showed up. The rest had
Joined the gold rush to Califor
nia. -John Carey, Yamhill pio
neer, commemorated the event
in poetry: ,
"At sound of gold, .
Both young and old - . .
Forsook their occupation: '
And wild confusion seemed to
rule ' . . ' .-
In every situation."
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In early statehood times the
legislature needed a chaplain
and some of the members
thought it would be diverting
to engage Rev. Joab Powell,
Baptist brimstone preacher
from the forks of the Santiam,
whose hell fire and damnation
theolosv was distinctive. ' On
the morning that the sessior
opened Joab looked them ovei
cooly and then prayed:
; "Oh, Lord, forgive them, for
they know not what they do."
; No shorter prayer has been
beard by any legislature.
.
' First woman to attend the
legislature in an official capa
city was Mrs. Woodworth who;
in 1877. acted as correspondent
for the Portland Standard,
Members protested and avow
ed that some ' subjects - could
not. with propriety, be discuss
ed in her presenee. '
Sixty . year ago Oregon's
senators in congress were elect
ed by a joint vote of both
legislative houses.. In 1882 and
again in 1897 no' senator was
chosen because political ant
noiitles became so violent that
n .ereement on any candidate
?ould not be reached.
.
And when graft was mention
ed in later years there was this
story about a rustic member
from a remote county in an
early-day legislature:
The Janitor entered the
chamber after the house had
adjourned sine die. He saw
this hill-billy huddled by the
stove. .
... "Sick?" the janitor asked.
"Nope," the yokel replied,
"just waiting for this old stove
to cool, off so I can take it
home, too." ' . ,
The aboriginal inhabitants of
Formosa practiced head-hunting
until a few years ago. i
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