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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1954)
Parts TEARS AND VICTORY G STiMTanlfcnrv- ti V'r r - - .-- Belle Cooke, Salem's poeten In the Victorian era, whose ilim volume, Tears and Victory." published by E. M. Waite, local book and job printer In 1871, was favorably received by critics of distinction. The volume is now rare and the name of Salem's one distinguished poet is lost in obscurity. (Photo made by J. H. Montgomery, of the Court Street photographer, about 85 years ago, now in the Hal Patton, collection). Story of Belle Cooke Salem's Victorian Poet By BEN MAXWELL Obscurity has been the fate of Belle Cooke, Salem poetess for generation now old, and her modest volume, "Tears and Vic tory," handsomely printed by E. M. Waite in 1871, is now but rarely read or ever found in private libraries. , Life was not easy for Belle Cooke. Born Belle Walker at Meriden, Connecticut, in 1834 she contracted scarlet fever early in life and lost her sense of smell. Her father took the dis- Cooks took care of their child, Maud, for months. Francis Ful ler Vistor was also a guest at the Cooke home and may have ac complished some of her histor ical work there. "Tears and Victory' which gave Belle Cooke an abidinig but obscure fame was published as an attractive small volume of 253 pages by E. M. Waite. the local book tnd job printer, in 1871. Tk i i: . me sentimental manner of a Howard Miller To Conference Howard P. Miller, vocal music instructor, Salem Senior High School, will leave Salem Friday, January IS, to attend an execu tive board meeting of the Na tional Inleracholastic llusie Ac tivities commission. section of the Music Educaton National Conference, at the Palmer House in Chicago, January 18-17. As a member at large repre senting the western slices and chairman of vocal music affairs, Miller will help plan the ses sions of the Intersrholartie Mu sic Activities commission for the Natonal Conference of music ed ucators to be held in Chicago, March 231. The executive board will also set up committees and plans for reviewing new music published since the lsst national recom mem' tioni ini 1951. The major responsibility of this organiita ton is to publsh natonal judg ng forms for music contests, lists of recommended music, and sug gested picans for music contests and festivals. Miller was elected to the exe cutive board at the national meeting in 1950 and re-elected in 1952. He was eligible for the office because of his second vice presidency in the North West Music Educators organisation. Other members of the execu tive board are from New York, Florida, Illinois, and Kansas. Weather permitting, Miller will return to Salem, Monday, January 18. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem. Oregon '. Wednesday, January 18. 1954 Schools Doing Good Job Serving Student Lunches By FRED ZIMMERMAN Serving some J 600 lunches five ' whicib to take care of other esseo days a week and keeping the eat-1 tials. era fairly well satisfied is quite a ! There is no attempt to make siieable job in anybody's culinary money out of the lunch program, department. But regardless of the i If the system breaks even, every, size of the task the Salem schools body concerned is satisfied, under the direction fo Mrs. Emma ; Buying foodstuffs to supplement Wesson, director of school lunch. I those orovided bv lh is handling such a project with J is the responsibility of the direc- dispatch and economy. Naturally not all the Dunils of the system patronize one of the 2t cafeterias being operated in as tor. Various sources are taoDed for these articles wholesale houses and canneries in particu lar, "Denis" are purchased from many schools. The dinner pail ! the canneries at a nrir mn.irirr. and the sack lunch remain a part i ably below the regular rrtail of the scene. But the attractive i cost and nourishing hot meals being' While the lunch director does served, varied from day to day ana week to week, are attracting more and more patronage. The cost? Twenty-five cents If the luncher buys a meal ticket calling for 10 meals. Sheets Views Astoria Slide State Civil Defense Director Arthur M. Sheets returned to day from Astoria, where he rep resented Gov. Paul L. Patter- tan at the slide area, and praised the efficient manner in which Red Cross, police and other ag encies carried out the relief work. He described it as "the fin est example of neighbor helping neighbor." People there opened their homes to evacuees: police re serves worked on a 24-hour ba sis; and volunteers performed every job they could, which in cluded helping to pack dishes and move furniture. ease from Us child and died. At somewhat maudlin era and the the age ot 17, in 1851, ahe trav-1 dedication is to "My Uncle, the eled across the plains with an uncle, Rev, George Chandler who later became the first president 'of McMlnnville College. During the winter of J 851 ahe waa , teacher at Old Oregon Institute and the following year married Joseph cooae. Soon the Cookes moved to Marion County and settled on a claim south of Salem. Presently they came to Salem where Cooke, with others, established a sash and door factory. For a number of years the family lived on Commercial Street between Division and Fir and in 1889 the address was 513 Commercial Street Six children were born among whom were Clyde Benton Cooke, the artist. Dr. Clinton Cooke, Gaylord Cooke and Mrs. George Lee of Portland. During her early years in Sa lem Belle gave music lessons, probably on the small, folding me lodeon she had brought across the plains. At other times she waa in charge of the primary department at Willamette Uni versity, a school teacher at As toria and, despite her loss of ola factory perception, was an en thusiastic student of botany. Joaquin Miller and Minnie Myr tle Miller were frequent visitors at the Cooke home and, after Minnie Myrtle became estranged from Joiquin Miller. Belle Friend and Helper ot My Child. hood." Somewhat in the man ner of the Greek anthology the poems are presented fn categor ies, memories. pictures, wood land voices and miscellaneous. Abigail Scott Dumiwav. then editor of the New Northwest. gave Tears and Victory a warm hearted review and urfed the public to purchase the little vol ume to encourage the author. Willamette Farmer, a Salem journal of that interval, com mented upon the beautiful vol ume, spoke of the author's gen ius and hoped the poems would find a place in every librarv in the state. John Grecnleaf Whit tier, American poet with an in ternational reputation, esteemed Tears and Victory and concluded by saying: "Fame is of small comfort to anyone. If our writ ings give pleasure to our dear friends the select few we need not care for the great world outside." Belle Cook left Salem for Cal. ifornia in 1896. She returned to Oregon late in life, however, and died at Ncwberg January 19, 1919 at the age of 85. She is buried on the Chandler lot in Mountain Vic cemetery at Forest Grove. "It was an example of town hall democracy and it provides a lesson for all civil defense or ganizations," Sheets said. "This type of emergency might not compare in size to wartime de- structian, but the co-ordinated manner In which city and county groups functioned proves the worth of disaster planning. It brings out an old dimensioin of community life a quality of neighborly helpfulness." not prepare the menus for ths ju nior and senior high schools, their food requirements are taken care of in the overall purchase plan. These schools have their own 1 home economics deoartmenti ine menus? juage lor yourseu wnicn arranges the menus, from the list that covered the Jan- i Parrish tops the list in the num uary 11-15 period: ; ber of lunches served some 300 Monday: American chop suey. I daily. ,At the other end is Halls buttered rice, any raw vegetable ' where the average is 18. or fruit, whole wheat bread and 1 ar 585.000 lunches were butter, canned peaches, milk. Tuesday: Meat balls in tomato sauce, buttered boiled potatoes, celery sticks, whole wheat bread and butter, pears and apricots, milk. Wednesday: Barbecued beef, but tered whole kernel corn, mixed vegetable aalad, whole wheat bread and butter, brownie pudding, milk. Thursday: chili, turnip wedge. biscuits with honey butter, two tone fruit gelatine, milk. Friday: Pineapple, cottage cheese salad, creamed or glazed carrots, buttered green beans, tuna sandwich, fruit cake with butter sauce, milk. Admittedly meals of this nature could not be served at the price for which they are sold if gov ernment commodities were not available. These commodities change from time to time. Cur rently the government is providing beef and butter and a few other less important articles, such as pea nut butter, ana occasionally tuna in cans. With surplus commodities Dlav-i ing such an important part in the formation of the menus. Mrs. Was son plans her meals around what the government makes available. This is necesary in view of the fact that a half pint of milk now costs 6ft cents and the labor cost in each meal served amounts to 8 cent s This leaves but 8 cents with I served and it is expected this fig ure win oe loppea tins year. Garfield which had no cafeteria service in former years because of a lack of facilities, was added to the list Monday with food being prepareo. at Hoover. It is trans ported to Garfield where it csn be kept hot. Nothing but the large containers are transported since Garfield is now equipped with dishes and dish washing equip ment. The Salem school lunch program follows the outline of the Type A lunch suggested on the national level. And while the government contributes food it does not at tempt to dictate as to the menus. It holds that each lunch should include a half pint of whole milk, 2 ounces of lean meat, poultry or fish, or one egg, or one half cup peas or soybeans, or four table spoons of peanut butter; three fourths cup of vegetable or fruit or boths; one or more portions of bread or muffins or other bread made of whole grain en riched flour or cereal, and two tespoons of butter or fortified margarine. Mrs. Wasson reports that her staff of 43 employed persons take a real interest in the program and attend regular workshops and courses of instruction. They are checked for disease and are assisted by pupils who are taught the necessity of cleanli- Gas Turbine Car Announced The first gas turbine automo bile ever to be built and tested In the United States was an nounced today by Harlow H. Curtice, president of General Motors. The ci.r is purely an experi mental vehicle, not intended for highway use. It has been test run at the GM proving grounds. The XP-21 Firebird, a sleek, white single seater with aero dynamic styling will make its first publie appearance at the GM Motorama of 1954 in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at New York, January 21-26. It also will be shown at the GM Motors mas to be held later at Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Constructed as an experiment tr study future possibilites of the gas turbine for commercial uses, the XP-21 has undergone preliminary tests since last Oc tober at the General Motors Proving Ground at Milford, Mich, a.nd the GM Desert Proving Ground near Phoenix, Ariz. High School Students Plan to Clean Premises Residents near North Salem Senior High School should no tice both a cleaner campus and neighborhood as a recent student resolution to dean up the build ing and campus is put into ef fect, said Neil Brown, high school desn of boys and advisor to the Student Council. 'ine resolution, product of newly formed building and grounds committee of the Stu dent Council, was passed over whelming iy by the high school students. Presentation of the res olution indicated two areaa af fected by a lack of cleanliness. First, criticisms have been voiced by citizens about paper and lunch refuse left on walks, lawns and streets; second, numerous cus todial hours are wasted in clean ing up after careless students. At present the resolution is in the talking and planning stage witn nome rooms carrying on discussions centered around re fuse, citizenship, and poor hab its. Kay Taylor, Student Body president, appointed each stu- South Salem High Will Have Enrollment of 911 dent a committee of one to see waste paper is deposited in the proper place; to pick op waste paper where seen; and to believe in and watch for improvement. As passed, the resolution spe cifically established the follow ing campaign: To accept the challenge to clean up building and campus. To use methods trial are educa tional and attitude building. To carry out the campaign utilizing all means of communi- fcation. To climax the campaign with a speaker from the city govern ment ' To organize discussion groups in home rooms to further the purposes of the resolution. The resolution was presented to the students after careful study of problems concerning the physi cal plant and grounds. Members of the committee who presented the proposal were seniors Betty Boehm; chairman, and Vernon Coats; juniors Jerry Berg and Shirley Blush: and sophomores Tom DeSart and Dave Merchant. By FRED ZIMMERMAN The new South Salem High School will have in the neigh borhood of 911 pupils, reported SupL Wslter Snyder to the di rectors Tuesday night This will leave approximately 1100 at the North High School. The registration at South High will consist of 348 sophomores, 309 juniors and 254 seniors. The superintendent said that of the juniors living south of State Street, only 61 have expressed a desire to graduate from North HUh School with the class of 1955. Formation of the 1954-55 school budget will begin in the near future with a review of the situa tion being available for the citi zens committee March 23. The ness in connection with the serv ing of food. The meals are served cafeteria style and each pupil assists in the clean up process by carrying his tray to the proper place after con suming his food. citizens committee will Include William J. Entress. Coburn Gr-ibenborst, W. L. Phillips, El ton Thompson and J. H. Willett Thompson who was named to fill out the unexpired term of the late Donald Young, was re-elected to the position. The budget election will be held April 23. Resignations of Mrs. Virginia Gant at Morningside. and Mrs. Olga M. Roberts of Englewood, now on leave, were accepted. The superintendent submitted a report concerning' the compara tive costs of school buildings in Salem and other districts, on the square foot and the per pupil bases. "You get what you pay for when constructing school build ings," remarked the superintend ent He added that shaving the original costs could be more than offset in maintenance charges. Morningside school, the last unit constructed in the Salem dis trict, cost $10.59 per square foot and $896.57 per pupil. However, Power Production in Northwest Up Again NEW YORK Wl -Electrical energy distributed last week to taled 8.824.801.000 kilowatthours, up 7.8 per cent over the 8.185,- 429,000 in the same week a year ago. Edison Electric Institute re ported Wednesday. The revised figure for output ' the week before last was 8,198, 112,000 kilowatthours, the institu- tute said. All sections of tlie country showed gains last week over the same week of 1953. The Pacific Northwest was up 26.9 per cent the building is s j arranged that additional rooms rzcj be added which would reduce the over all charge materially. Miss Constance Weinman, di rector of audio-visual materials, was given permission to attend a national convention in Chicago. March 2-5. She will pay a part of the expense. Superintendent Snyder will at tend the annual convention of the Association of School Admin istrators to be held in Atlantic City, NJ., providing he can get the budget situation in hand. Four members ot the American Hockey League staff of linesmen were former star players in that loop. Lebanon Taps Junior Citizen LEBANON Named as Lebanon's distinguished junior citizen for 1953 at a Monday dinner meeting of chamber and Jaycees was Jack wentworth, Jaycee president, whose efforts in park development, traffic safety, strawberry fair ac tivities and united fund drive, and aviation day effort won him the honor. 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