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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon Saturday, February 13, ocie let Membership of Salem unit No. 136, American Legion auxiliary, ii now at 141,-it was reported at this week's meeting, Mrs. Jerome Hansen giving the re port. She also told of the quota certificate of membership re ceived by tho unit at. the district No. 2 conference in Silverton re cently, Mrs. Forrest Erickson, de partment prcident, giving the cer tificate. ' , ' . Under the Americanism report, Mrs. Joe Marcroft. said ?5 had heen donated to the Crusade for Freedom drive. She also an nounced the banquet of the Fed eration of Patriotic Orders on February 24. Mrs. Wayne Perdue reported poppies had been received for 4h onmial sale. Mrs. James De- Laney reported all schools had been contacted relative to the poppy posters, airs, muuui iuc, reporting for the polio cannisters said all had been picked up and turned in. . . " Th unit voted 45 , for the VTnnHnn C'hurch f UHd. Mrs. Henry Sierp announced March 5 as date for the card party to be sponsored by the unit. It is a benefit.. a letter was read from Mrs. Bert A. Walker, a past president, who moved recently to Kodiak, Alaska. The unit voted $3.00 for the flag code contest wmcn is spon sored by the Marion County as. ipmhlv. " V The auxiliary is planning no- host dinner in March. Mrs. joe Marcroft has been appointed gen tral chairman. Mrs. Ted Ullakko has been ap pointed Girls State chairman re placing Mrs. Lenn Davis who re signed. Hostess for the tvening were Mrs. Walter Wood, and Mrs. Lenn Davis. LEBANON Hollandia has teen chosen as the name of the Town and Country Garden club's spring flower show on April 23. Plans for the event were the main business when the group met tms week at the home of Mrs. William Crover. In keeping with the show theme, displays of wooden shoes. Dutch . figures and similar ar rangements will be welcomed. The program Included a talk by Mrs. C, M. Pearson on snow. drops. Mrs. George Vawter spoke on apnid control.- After the meeting, Mrs. Crover was assisted by Mrs. Clarence Bates in serving refreshments from a table decorated with Val entines. -WOODBURN Mrs. John Cole man, president of the Woodburn Woman s Rural Club, who re- turned Wednesday from an ex tended eastern trip, presided over the business meeting of the club Thursday, following the no host luncheon. The committee in charge of the luncheon and program included Mrs. Charles Yuranek, Mrs. Jay Weber, Mrs. George Winnepen ninkz, Mrs. Thomas Rciling, Mrs, Fred Schihdlcr and Mrs. J. C, Owrc. Guests were Mrs. Frank Wag. enveld, Mrs. Frank Purdy, Mrs. 0. E. Meisenheimer and Mrs. Al fred Moon. Thirty-nine members answered roll call. During the business meeting the club voted $5 to the Wood burn library board for the pur chase of new books. An invitation was read from the Woodburn Woman's club to attend the an nual Martha Washington tea to be Feb. 19 in the library club rooms for the benefit of the li brary. A silent auction of "white ele phants" was staged followed by the distribution of "secret pal" gins and valentines. The annual auction is planned for the next meeting which will be March 11. The committee in charge will include Mrs. Leota Porter, Mrs. Charles Conyne, Mrs. Mary Byer, Mrs. John Kosse, Mrs. Clifford Applegate and Mrs. Gertrude Shultz. Aloha from .Hawaii. Truly the Paradise of the Pacific- We lust returned -from , a famous drive up to the Pall, a division point in the hills where you can see the panorama of the windward side of the island. All along the way. In fact every where I've been was the lush growth of variety upon variety of tree shrub, vine and ground cover. The trees never lose all their leaves at once, so it's really a no-seaort island. We passed banks of poinsettias, blossoms ablaze and literally covering the hedge. Tall iron wood trees, clinging pothos vines and giant elephant leaves, all the various shades of greens making a lattiswork with the sunlight filtering through. Along the way we slowed down to view the lovely island homes, beautiful modern lines with orivnte Hardens and Iann is, perched up In the hills with a marvelous view stretching from Diamond Head to Pearl Harbor. When we relumed we had a refreshing dish, half a pine apple filled with island fruits, papaya, bananas and pineapple oh. these lovely fresh fruits! We've been down on the beach, (as Wnikiki Beach is called), and already sunburn ed, so we look just like the rest of the malihinls here. And Ihev're here from all over. We attended the "Hnwnii Calls" luncheon and broadcast yester day held under the huge Ban yan tree in the Banyan Court of the Moana Hotel. The rourt goes right to the sand, as do all the lawns and Iannis of the hotels. The M. C. Weblcy Edwards, asked for a show of hands from each state, Canada and Austra-1 liii, and it was fun to see the hands go up as each was called. I Several reunions were made I before the dny was over. A huge contingent is hern from Canada almost everyone I've talked to so far is from Van couver, Calgary or somewhere. And Judging from their home temperature I don't blame them for coming in droves. We took In a Samoan Hula show on the terrace of the Halnkulane Hotel the other night. Samoan dances arc very vigorous and carefree, yet with perfection of timing and rhvthm. Our hotel is right in the middle of everything, so we take in the things that ap peal to us all around, a de lightful arrangement. We had a gourmet's delight today at the Royal Hawaiian, a buffet luncheon fit for a king. And Fisherman's Wharf last night a'hrre we discovered Mamma- hi, a white fish and said to be the best llsn ol me isianas. We 'leave tomorrow on the 8 dny outer Island trip, so next time I'll be anxious to .tell you about Maul, Hawaii and fam ous Kona Inn. Alo ha Mary Thoma Interior Decorator Roberts Bros. Talbot Fifteen members of the Talbot Woman's club were entertained last week at Mrs. J. McNallie's home north of Jeffer son. Mrs. 0. Jorgerson, presi dent, won the prize, noli call was on "Original Valentine Verse." Music was chosen by the host ess for the special program fea ture. Mrs. Oakley M. Cochran sang several solos accompanying herself on the piano. Mrs. J. Mc- Nallie read a poem, "Touch of th Master's Hand." Mrs. Albert Cole, secretary, won the game prize. The Valentine motif was carried out in the refreshments that followed. During the business session plans were discussed for the an nual family dinner to be in the basment of Talbot Community church, Monday evening. Hus bands and families of club mem bers are invited as guests. Mrs. Al. Gurguricl- is chairman of the fond committee. Mrs. E. Freeman, entertain ment committee Chairman for the evening, reports there will be films shown, games played and a travel talk given. Lebanon A popular bride elect is Miss Anne Swanson whose marriage to Don Benson will be an event of Sunday, Feb. 14 at the Methodist church. Several showers in her honor have included one given by Mrs. M. O. Perkins at her east Vine street home. A treasure hunt was arranged, the honored guest dis covering clues from red roses. Miss Swanson, who teaches in Sisters high school, was also complimented by wives of fac ulty members at a miscellaneous shower and members of the stu dent body gave their teacher a going away party. The bride-to-be was also enter tained in C'orvallis Monday night at an informal dinner followed by a shower. Hostesses were Mrs. Bernard Byers and Mrs. Harold Bates of Lebanon. Lebanon Dean Karl Onthank of the University of Oregon will he guest speaker at the Lebanon- Sweet Home University of Ore gon Mothers club for its no-host dinner in the rrcshyterian church next Monday night. Members are extending invita tions to their husbands and all U of O alumni. Other guests are also welcome. Each family will bring a cov ered dish and table servire. The club will furnish coffee and rolls. THEY WERE TEACHERS - . i jh J w C Amy (left) and Jessie Martin, Salem sisters, whose combined careers as teachers in Salem and other Oregon schools totaled around 80 years. Pictures above show them as they were recently photographed at their home, 1548 Lee Street, and below are pictures made when they were young teachers. LIVES WELL LIVED Teaching Careers of Sisters In Oregon Total 80 Years By NANCY ASHBAUGH The Misses Jessie Martin, 80 years old, and Amy Martin, 72, were for some 80 years, adding their time teaching in Salem and other public schools in Oregon. Today they live in a four-room, tidy house on Lee Street, but they must move soon, because the school teaching pension Miss Amy receives, $84.48, is not enough to cover living expenses for both. Miss Jessie has no pension, since she was dismissed from the Salem schools at a private hear ing before retirement age and be fore pension laws were passed. All because she couldn't agree with the authorities about some new teaching practices. Other sources of income Tor the Misses Martin are precarious and dependent upon many things, as will he seen. In 1885 the Misses Marlin, with Ihcir mother, came by train from Michigan to Portland where their father met them. Miss Jessie, then 12, cannot remember now. but she thinks they took the boat up the river to Salem. She remembers they had a sewing machine and a walnut bureau with them which may still be seen at their house. The;.r mother had locks put on the bu-1 Salem branch reau and packed all their clothes in it. Hope to Live in Methodist Home Miss Amy taught 43 years and was retired in 1947. In addition to her pension, the sisters sometimes rent a small house at $40 but taxes and upkeep prevent a steady income in any amount to be count ed on. The Misses Martin have decid ed to enter the Methodist Home, and to acquire the necessary en try fee they hope to sell both the houses. However, they must wait to enter even with the fee, for there is a waiting list. Miss Amy recently spent 41 days in the hospital with a broken pelvic bone and insurance covered only a part of the expense. She was no sooner home than she broke her arm and had to relin quish her extra work, baby sitting, tutoring and mending coveralls for a plumbing company, until it heals. Today bnlh the Misses Marlin belong to Circle 3 of a Methodist Church woman's club, of which Miss Amy is treasurer. She is also a memher of a retired teacher's association at Portland and plans o transfer her membership to the Miss Amy taught intermediate grades and mathematics at Leslie Junior High. She took library training at the University of Ore gon and was full time librarian at Leslie before being retired. She finished the normal school course at Willamette and had three and one-half years of college training. Miss Jessie at 80 walks with a slender cane and is a dramatic personality. She is petite, dynamic of speech, perfect of facial fea tures, with the sensitive, tip tilted nose of a Katherine Hep burn. She has brilliant blue eyes, and snow white hair, softly part ed and crisply bobbed to the tips of her ears. She wears crystal nosepiece eyeglasses, hanging by a slender gold chain at one side of her face. Both sisters wore best dresses made by themselves. Miss Jessie's was made with an artist's eye for color, of deep burgandy red, with delph blue tiny flowers, and smart collar and cuffs of the blue to match. Miss Amy of the curly grey hair, more rugged figure, but same bright blue eyes, wore a dress of wine color with small rhinestone buttons fastening up the front. Hobby In Art Miss Jessie displayed her many water colors, graceful and deli cate, which, framed and colorful, hang on the walls of the parlor and both bedrooms. She can be proud, too, of the prizes she has won. There are also some fine pencil sketches, petite, yet strong like their artist, Miss Jessie. The sisters arise early. Miss Jessie at 7, for she builds the fire in the huge wood range, while Miss Amy, with- her slowly mend ing bones, joins her in the kitchen at 8. Matter of factly and with no bid for sympathy, the Misses Martin explain that there is not much to get up early for now. In lieu of coffee or tea. both have a cup of hot water at break fast, which reminded Miss Jessie to say: "I don't apologize for my asso ciation there, and I still -believe the things they stand for, but the WCTU and I parted company- I think they're a pack of ignoram ouses, the lot of them." Miss Jessie has hot cereal and Miss Amy eats cold. Alter the washing up Miss Jessie does the laundry and ironing, as she has done for the family since she was 12, she tells you brusquely. During the day Miss Amy cleans and scrubs, they both do some sewing and embroidering they have a proper dinner at 1 p.m., and then s cold snack at night. Miss Jessie once did the yard work, but now in the summer she occasionally asks someone to mow the lawn. At 9 they retire. Sisters Like Books . Both read a great deal, espe cially Miss Amy, and she pointed out that they were always book ey." Both sisters are members of a Methodist, Sunday School class that meets for dinners now and again and these they look for ward to. Miss Jessie traces her family background to many years ago and a man named Francis Blood, an Englishman with a touch of Irish, who came to this country in the time of the Revolutionary War. Miss Jessie considers her self mostly Irish. "He was a teacher, all teachers, my family," said Miss Jessie. "I've noticed this: You will find farmers, farmers, farmers, or ministers, ministers, ministers; my family, there were teachers, like that, all the way back." Miss Amy dissented, saying she was certain it was New Hamp shire rather than Vermont the man had come from, but Miss Jes sie brushed ahead. "In any case," she said. "I was 12, came out with mother, 1885. Dad had been here scouting about for six months. When I began teaching schools lasted only six months. At 20, I taught in two schools at the same time, three months in each. I spent 37 years teaching." Miss Jessie explained that in those days there was an unwritten law preventing a ninth grade in tne schools. The pioneers felt if a person wanted more education than eighth grade he should get out and earn it. There was a high school at Portland and perhaps one at Pendleton, Miss Jessie thought. Miss Jessie was one of those who made her own way to get an education, and 'in mv case, old Harry took place after I got one," she said, thinking ahead of ner oismissal from teaching. "We had a teacher in Davton who gave us 'bootleg' education. we would secretly agree, some of us, to come to the school at night and he would give us ninth grade algebra and he sneaked in literature, too, Lady of the Lake, etc. In the Salem schools Miss Jes-; sie taught the primary grades, and she taught music, art and ! penmanship, too, and taught pi ano fundamentals on the side. Decided to Stay Single After 37 years Miss Jessie knew quite bit about the art of teaching, and no one, she empha sized, could say, "My child could know and do thus and so if it wasn't for that 'lazy Miss Mar tin'," for, she added, "When I teach a school I teach it, and slu dent's standings were marked ac cording to the student's ability." "Jessie had plenty of chances to get married, too," Miss Amy put in, not In the least envious. Miss Jessie, blue eyes spark ling, remarked, "I decided to take my chances alone. After you marry old Harry takes place sometimes." In 1931, the blow came, not un heralded, however. Miss Jessie expected it after a year of har assing. JSut even now, it broke her a little to think of it, and she took out .her handkerchief and cried quietly for a moment at thoughts of that crushing blow to her pride in her art of teach ing. "I was dismissed from the pub lic schools," she said, overcome even now at the enormity of it. ' "For pure cussedness," she added, her high spirit returning. Unbeknown to Miss Jessie then, from a Columbia teacher's college in New York City, and men like Dewey, Kirkpatrick and so forth, a new "ism" called pro gressivism, revolutionary ideas for the public schools, were seep ing out rapidly to the west coast. Sparked back there, lighted at the Ashland and Monmouth nor mal schools, three 'of Miss Jes sie's supervisors and two princi pals were carrying the torch high with the cry of the extremist at a new cult. Out would go phonetics, music syllables, fundamentals, penman ship, the aids to scholarship which she held dear. At the private hearing which supposedly was to give her a chance to defend herself, it was all a "cut and drier! affair before she got there," said Miss Amy quietly. Who Sent the Five Dollars The two principals and three supervisors testified that she was "too old-fashioned." But one school board member, she said, came to Miss Jessie afterward and told her candidly that with this new idea in the schools it was either her or the three su pervisors and the two principals, and the Salem schools could not Federal ,d State Income Tax Returns Prepared Leon A. Fiscus 1509 N. 4th Ph. 3-5285 stand such a big stink. After the hearing other teach ers sought out Miss Jessie and thanked her for the scholastic foundations she had given pupils who were now their pupils. One person sent her five dol lars to help her to become rein stated, but Miss Jessie was too shocked to fight, and they never knew whom to thank for the money. After Miss Jessie was declared insubordinate and dismissed, she kept house for Miss Amy, who was not as lacking in tact in dealing with the new cult, and since then, like all fads, the pen dulum has swung back. Miss Jessie did private tutor ing and no doubt contributed much to lifting the burden of other teachers. The depression years of the '30s was not the time to stand on beliefs in scholarship and learning, Miss Jessie found, but she confessed sadly, "I would have to do the same thing now if circumstances were the same." She believes that nothing worthwhile .comes easy with the student unaware; a child should be well aware Of his growth and accomplishment, through his own hard work; competition makes character. "The excellence of the school depends on the teacher's colleges and the teacher, and nothing else. Thorough training in the subject matter makes good teach ers and smart pupils. Let meth ods of teaching go hang," said Miss Jessie. Wistfully Miss Amy spoke: "I always hoped we could have our own place to spend the rest of our lives, but I imagine it will be better this way. I won't break as many bones, and Jessie won't have to work so hard. "We will give the old clock and the bureau to our niece. We will sell our double beds for we will have one room to share and they won't, fit in it. We will buy twin beds." METALLURGIST DIES TOKYO Mt Dr. Kotaro Honda, 82, internationally known metallur gist, died today at Tokyo Univer sity hospital. Gold produced in South Dako ta in 1952 weighed a total of 18.048 tons and, if assembled in one place, would occupy 29.931 cubic feet. I DO IT WITH 1 LEWYT 455 Court Street YOUR NORGE DEALER IS CHERRY CITY ELECTRIC 339 CHEMEKETA Dallas Names Aichele ToWaterDeparlmenl DAIXAS-Dale Aichele, 54, has heen appointed by the Dallas Wa ter commission to assist W. !,. Sncltrrn. acting manager, with administrative duties of operat ing the city water system. An agricultural engineering gra duate (rom Oregon State college, Aichele has been engineer for drainage ditch projects on Ash creek and Salt creek working through the l'MA office, for the past 2'i years. He was a resident of Milton Frecwater before coming to Dallas. The United States has ski re sorts in 29 slates. I WHAT'S i COOKING! With Marie Gilford? 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