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Qucon of Pioneers in
Siveot Hcmo Festival
Sweet Horn "Ortodma '
Thomson, 94, WM crowned
Queen of Pioneer it the Pio
neer picnle held In the Sweet
Home City park Saturday
noon with the Queen el Fron
tier Day. Geraldean Guthrie,
placinf the crown upon the re
gal old lady,
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Mm. Thompson's throne wai
an antique rocker ai eld a
iu occupant which wa pre
sented to Mrs. Thompson by
"Klondike Kate" (Mr. W, L.
Van Duren).
At the picninc dinner where
more than 100 were present.
B, Ross Evans, pastor of the
Sweet Home Church of Christ,
Sweet Home Grandma Thompson, 94, left, was crowned -Queen
of Pioneer at the Pioneer picnic held at Sweet
Home Saturday as part of the frontier Day celebration.
The crown was placed by Geraldean Guthrie, Frontier
Days Queen, center, and Klondike Kate (Mr. W. L. Van
Duren), right, presented Grandma Thompson with hei
throne a 100-year-old rocking chair. (Hub photo.)
'Flying Paul Revere1 to Visit
Salem on National Tour
Waihlngton (Special) A
"Flying Paul Revere" will
leave here in a small plane
August 17 and fly to all the 48
state capitals to report to the
governor and citizen on the
progress in this year's celebra
tion of the 50th annlvewary of
powered flight
The flight will include an
Mrn icht ston at Salem. Ore,
September 3, where he will be
guest of the Salem Junior
rhamber of Commerce in an
observance of the anniversary
The trip will be climaxed
three week later with a non
tnn flieht from San Franeltco
to New York in an attempt to
break the woria alliance rec
ord for light plane.
Max Conrad. 50 year old
tw nt 10 children and hold
r n icveral world air record,
wlU be the fint pilot to vUit
il 48 eanital by air (inca
anno and Charles Lindbergh
did it over a period of everal
months in 1929. He will be ac
companied on the flight by Joe
Lubin, field repreiemauve oi
General Jame H. Doollttle'a
National Committee to oberve
the 50th Anniversary of Pow
ered Flight.
Tho flight will ba sponsored
by the National Anniversary
Committee, with the coopera
tion of the Air Transport As
aociation, Civil Air Patrol, Ci
vil Aeronautics Administration,
U.S. Junior Chamber of Com
merce and the Aircraft Indu
trles AModation.
The 14,500-mile flight to the
48 capital will be made In the
same plane in which Conrad
twlra manned the Atlantic,
flew non-itop from Lo Angeles
to New York. It i a Piper
Pacer weighing leu than a
thousand pounds, with a wing
pan of 28 feet, a 125-horse-Tiower
Lycoming engine, and
gaioline cipacity of 1(5 gal'
Ion.
He will deliver four me
cage in each capital: one from
General Doolittle to the gov
ernor, for delivery to the chair.
man of the itate 50th anniver
sary celebration committee;
from Ma). Gen. Lucas V. Beau,
national commander of the Ci
vil Air Patrol, to the comman
der of the state' CAP wing;
from Civil Aeronautic Admin
is trator Frederick B. Lee to the
tat director of aviation; ana
from Deln J. Domich, national
president of the Junior Cham-
oar of Commerce, to each state
Jaycee president.
Mexican Mob Attacks
Protestant Missionary
Toluca, Mexico (fl Official
reported today that an angry
mob attacked a Protestant mu
sionary in nearby San Francis
co Tepexuxuca and fired on a
Protestant church in which he
took refuge for four hour.
The missionary was identi
fied a Felipe Vazquez Aguirre.
Police finally drove off hi assailants.
Bifocal glasses were Invented
by Benjamin Franklin.
Naguib Garbed in
White Visits Mecca
Cairo, Egypt V-President
Mohammed Naguib put on the
traditional white robes of a
Moslem pilgrim today. Then
be took a modern airplane for
the holy city of Mecca and lnu
portant political conference in
Saudi Arabia.
After competing the pilgrim
age to Mecca, holiest of the
Moslem shrine, the Egyptian
soldier-chief of state wilt meet
Saudi Arabia' King Ibn Saud
at Taif, near Mecca, on Saturday,
wm the speaker of the after
noon,
Ira Pickens of Foster, who
is the oldest resident born In
the 8wet Horn valley, was
present. Other elderly resi
dent were called upon to give
short talk during the after
noon, i
Chairman of the picnic was
John T. Russell, who gave an
appropriate poem of reminis
cence, "Bill and Joe.'' Other
committee helper were Susie
Paddock and Dee Kolfe.
Out of town guests were
Mrs. Ethel Barnes, Rainier,
Ore.;. Mrs. Tike Sorsetb and
sons of Burns. Fred Davis,
Portland; Delia Davis, Dayton;
T. F. Chance. Albany; Mrs. R,
C. Robinson and Ella Splawn,
both of Lebanon.
Lebanon Appoints
School Principal
Lebanon Richard Loon
Cantwell ha been appointed
principal ' of Green Acre
school, one of Lebanon' ele
mentary schools. .
Cantwell, with (even year
experience, lucceed William
Baldwin who resigned to teach
at an American air base in
France.
For the pait two year,
Cantwell wa principal at Sag
inaw. He hold a B.A. degree
Exam for School
Principal Soon
State Civil Service Director
James Clinton said Friday that
the Hillcrest School for Girls,
at Salem, has a vacancy for
school principal.
This position Involves the
heading up of the institution'
educational program. Appli-
cants should have two years of
teaching experience or one year
of experience as the principal
of a school. The starting pay 1
$364 month.
The Hlllcreat School also ha
a vacancy for a teacher who
ha had experience or training
in th tfh i M n TnlUK
commercial courses, and social
studies. Tho starting salary is
$284 a month, but may be high.
er depending upon qualifica
tions.
Other vacancies with the
stats government Include an
opening for a wood technolo
gist at the Forest Products La
boratory in Corvallis. Appli
cants should be college gradu
ate with specialization in for
esry, engineering or mathema
tics, or have an equivalent
amount of experience and
training. The starting pay 1
$31$ a month.
from George Pepperdine col
lege, ha done graduated work
at Oregon Colege of Education,
and Is now completing work
for his masters degree at the
University of Oregon.
H Is married and has three
children.
Grave Sirvict Here
For Dorothy Goodman
Graveside itrvlce were bald
at the City View cemetery
Tuesday afternoon at I o'clock
for Mr. Dorothy DeRoa Good
man, former Salem resident
who died in Portland Friday,
Funeral services were in Port
land at the Colonial Mortuary
Tuesday morning.
. Surviving Mrs. Goodman are
her husband, Ross Goodman;
her mother, Mr. Martha De
Ross; and a brother, William
DeRoss, all of Portland, .
Woods Strike
Stoppage Ends
Lebanon Ending a three-
weeks old wood and sawmill
strike, Snow Peak logging
crews went back to work Mon
day morning. Santiam lumber
company's two mills at Leb
anon and Sweat Home and
their logging division are slat
ed to begin work Tuesday.
Willamette National Lumber
company will resume opera
tion at Foster Wednesday,
with maintenance craws back
on the lob Monday.
IWA-CIO union demands
were not met by the strike
bound firms under the new
eontrscta, which are drawn for
on, year and expire next April
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Men of Jesenwang. Austria,
ride their farm hones to tho
church altar for the annual
"Blessing of the Animal" cere
mony.
Oddfellows h
Picnic Sundx
Willamette Zneamament.
IOOF, will be host to Odd Fel'
lows and all branches of th
order at picnle at Bush Pas
ture Sunday, August S3, at
1:30 p.m. it was announces as
meeting Monday ntgnv.
Tallowlna the Iodic session
Monday Miss Margorie Prlch
ard of Lyons entertained with
a talk on bar trip to wo umw
Nations session in New York
last month. She Illustrate
her talk with slides. -
Next Monday evening will
be social night The refresh
ment committee wlU include
Mrs. Mable Joy, Mrs. Roy
Pusa. Mrs. Clyde Moor. Mr.
Matt Hall. Mrs. Chios Branch
and Mrs, Maybelle Prlchrad.
Thomas Says U. S. ct
AII-Timelow,Eurc?3
New York (I Socialist
Norman Thomas believes that
United States prestige in Eu
rope is "at an all tune low"
because of ''McCarthyism" and
reduced foreign spending.
Thomas, who returned yes
terday from at weeks Euro
pean tour, said ha hopes to
tee President Elsenhower to
ask him two question: "Who
Is running the show, tho prest
dent or the McCarthys or Me
Leod?" And "I State Depart
ment policy so narrow that
you much agree with Scott
McLeod'a Interpretation of it?"
New Manager (or
Silverton Store
Silverton Mrs. William
"Tec" Rue, has accepted the
local managership of the retail
tore of the Green Thumb, the
Silverton branch of the Salem
headauarter.
For eight years, Mr. and
Mr. Rue were proprietor of
the Rue Gardens and floral
shoo located near Silverton on
the east hill road and for the
immediate past eight year
have operated a larger farm
ing acreage on the Abiqua.
Mr. Rue took over her new
assignment over the past week
end.
The use of cascara a a drug
goes back to pre-Columbian
American Indians.
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