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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem. Qrtra
Tuesday. December 8. 1953
ELECTRIC CONDUITS COLLAPSED AND STARTED SCHOOL FIRE
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Milk Case
Postponed
Oregon City ) A circuit
court bearing in the cm of
Elmer DeeU, Canby dairyman
accused of illegal milk salei,
wai postponed Monday.
Deetz had been ordered to
how why he shouldn't be
topped from celling raw milk
directly to consumers. The
State Board of Agriculture
contended this wss a violation
of the state milk control laws
tributor'i license.
Deets attorney, Glenn R.
Jack of Oregon City, with
drew from the case at the last
minute. Jack said that as at
torney for the Orgon Indepen
dent Milk Producers Associa
tion, he could not get involv
ed in a case which directly
challenged the milk control
law.
Circuit Judge P. K. Ham
mond poitponed the case until
December 21 to give Deetz
time to find another lawyer.
Harpooned a p e r m whales
are highly dangerous. One
charged and sank the Ameri-
because he did not have a dis- csn bark Kathleen in 1902.
Father finds
Son in Car Dead
Lexington. Ky. W-George
Rengro. who came here yes
terday hunting a son he hadn't
n torn wks. fOlffid him
in the trunk of an auto, shot
to death.
The victim wss William
Delmer Renfro. 28-year-old
unemployed Madison county
farmer. Police ssid after the
hk n Rrnfra'a head wai
torn away by a shotgun blast,
tne ooay was siuuea in uie
victim's own car.
The elder Renfro made the
discovery after visiting w
grocery to check on the son's ,
whereabouts. When he came "j
out of the store, he noticed the
auto parked on the street. j
Police said an acquaintance -
of Renfro' son had tipped the
father to the car's where- 2
bouts. 3
The murder hsd police baf-
fled tuliy. "We're working -
on this case without any
clues." commented LL Stan- i
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Fruit Growers
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Wenatchee, Wash. W) Apple
marketing and merchandising
problems Tuesday occupied the
attention of more than 1,200
fruit growers and fruit industry
representatives in the second
day of the three-day Washing
ton State Horticultural Assn.
meeting here.
Monday the delegates consid
ered fruit diseases and insect
pest, dealing for the most part
with the coddling moth and ap
ple scab.
Dr. Rod Sprague of the
Washington State College Tree
Fruit Experiment Station here,
said apple growers in the Oka
nogan County area are becom
ing bothered more and more
by apple scab.
Growers in the infected area
were advised by Dr. Sprague
to spray early with recom
mended fungicides.
' These conduits for electric wiring, temporarily at
tached to the overhead structure, collapsed and started a
short but spectacular fire at the new South Salem high
school building. Damage was about $1500.
Short Spectacular Fire
At South Salem High
A brilliant eiectrlcal display
in the new South Salem High
School startled residents in the
area late Monday night as a se
ries of large electrical conduits
pulled loose from their sup
ports and crashed to the floor,
shorting out the wires.
Apparently something gave
IN RUNNING
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t. L. Rogers, county com
missioner, who has an
nounced his candidacy for
re-election.
E. L. Rogers
To Run Again
County Commissioner E. L.
Rogers, resident of Oregon for
45 years, announced Tuesday
that he would seek re-election
in 1954.
Commissioner Rogers joined
the county court in May 1946
when he was sworn in by
County Judge Grant Murphy.
He succeeded Commissioner
Jim Smith who died a few days
preceding the 1946 primaries.
Rogers was a candidate for the
office and was unopposed
Rogers was re-elected in
1951, so he will be seeking his
third term next year.
County work was not new to
Rogers when he became a com
missioner in his own right. He
served as foreman in connec
tion with road and bridge work
and during the last year of
Commissioner Smith's term sc
companied him on his tours
over the county.
Rogers and his fellow mem
bers of the county court. Judge
Rex Hartley and Commissioner
Roy Rice are responsible for
the handling of county business
which operates on a budget
slightly under three million
dollars.
Rogers lives in the Quinsby
district where he served as
Oregon Electric company agent
for about four years. He and
his wife have four children, all
living in Oregon. The commis
sioner Is member of the Sa
lem Lions club, BPO Elks and
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South Salem
Rejects Bonds
South Salem A $30,000
bond Issue for a new fire hall
and equipment was defeated
Monday at the regular election
of the Liberty-Salem Heights
fire district.
The bond issue lost by a vote
of 122 against and 79 for the
issue. Two hundred and five
votes were cast, making this
the largest regular fire district
election since the beginning of
the district
The fire code was approved
by the voters with vote of
131 to 70, and the annexations
carried by 133 to 43. This area
is lust south of the present
boundary and roughly between
Sunnyside road and IT. S. 99E.
Five directors elected to the
board were Walter Schendel,
Donald K. Griffith, Louis E.
Kurth, Theodore Thompson
and Lyle Sultter.
Judges serving were Mrs.
Ernest Free, Mrs. Nina Brown
ing and Mrs. Louis Kurth.
Other elections held in the
South Salem area on Monday
were Vista Heights water dis
trict and Salem Heights water
district.
In the Vista Heights water
district, two directors were el
ectedLawrence Rich and
William Troth with 31 votes
cast. Serving on the election
board were Mrs. John Douglas,
Mrs. Myra Taylor and Mrs. L.
L. Bennett.
In the Salem Heights water
district, Elbert Dickson was el
ected director over two who
appeared on the ballot and
three write-ins. He will fill the
office of treasurer. One hun
dred eighty-four votes were
cast.
Approved by a large margin
of vote were the annexations,
one in the South Village area
and the east and west Brown-
! ing Ave. area. Judges were
I Mrs. O. B. Gorton, Mrs. Hale
Mickey and Mrs R. R. Ritchie.
way in one area of the long hall
way and the heavy conduits
along the ceiling snapped sup
ports one after another for a
distance of about 150 feet down
the north-south corridor of the
school.
Near the juncture where the
supports held, the bending pipe
short-circuited the wiring and
the current burned through the
heavy conduit pipe for several
feet.
City firemen rushed to the
scene but found there was no
fire. The electrical breaker sys
tem had cut off the current and
the flashing electrical display.
There was little else there to
burn, firemen said.
Voltage in the wires was the
standard household voltage of
120, Portland General Electric
men said, but the large capa
city of the lines and electrical
system allowed increased cur
rent to flow Into the lines until
the shorting was sufficient to
actuate the breaker system.
A tentative estimate of the
damage was placed at $4,000 to
$5,000 Tuesday by City Engi
neer Harold Davis. He said his
office would investigate the in
cident in an attempt to find
the cause of the failure.
There were six of the S'.i
Inch conduits that fell and one
smaller one, firemen said. Also
damaged was a large switch-
box in the basement from which
the lines fed.
New Minister
At Silver! on
Silverton The Rev. Paul
W. Henry appeared before a
record attendance group of
parishioners welcoming their
new pastor in his first sermon
Sunday morning at the First
Methodist church. His sermon
topic was: "Days of prepara
tion.
Rev. Henry succeeds the Rev.
Douglas Harrell who left dur
ing the past week for his south
ern California assignment.
Rev. Henry comes to Silver-
ton from a pastorate at the
Portland Woodlawn church.
He received his early educa
tion in the elementary and
high schools of South Dakota,
his native state. Rev. Henry
received his B.A. degree from
Western Maryland college,
Westminster, Md., and his B.D.
degree from Drew university,
Madison. N. J.
While at Drew, he served
as pastor at the Grace Method
ist church in Newark, and a
circuit of four churches near
Baltimore, Md., during the six
years previous to accepting the
pastorate of Woodlawn in Port
land, two years ago.
Mrs. Henry was born in West
Virginia, grew to womanhood
in Baltimore, was an instruc
tor of Latin and French before
her marriage, and is a talented
vocalist.
The two daughters of the
Henrys are Paula, 6, and Chris
tie, 2.
Low Prices Irk
Spud Growers
Prlneville ( Central Ore
gon potato growers met with
the roweil Buiie club Monday
night to talk over the low re
turn they are getting for pota
toes. They came up with no so
lution.
However, Roy Snabel, chair
man of the Oregon-California
Potato Marketing Agreement
Committee, gave them a sug
gestlon: He proposed that stan
dards be raised, with 6 ounce
substituted for 4 ounce as the
standard minimum.
There was no agreement
among the 75 growers present
that this would be the best so
lution. However Snabel is ex-
pected to advance it again at a
meeting of the marketing com
mittee at Klamath Falls late
Tuesday.
Growers said carlots were
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