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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1955)
BOCK AT FIRST SIGHT SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -A cock at first sight has led to love for Hollywood film players Julie Adams and Ray Danton. Danton, 24, was required to slug Miss Ad ams, 26, in their first movie scene together. Yesterday they were married by the Rev. Paul M. Gam mons at the El Montecito Pres byterian Church. Notes on the News 6-(Sec. 4)-Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Mon., Feb. 21, 1933 Dr. Cook Dies By Suicide LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (IP) A 48- year-old pediatrician, the presi dent of the Los Alamos Medical Society, was found shot to death in his apartment yesterday. Police Chief Ralph Kopansky laid Dr. Malcolm M. Cook ap parently chose suicide rather than face the morals charges for which he had been indicted. Kopansky found the body, sprawled in the apartment. He Slid Cook had been shot once be hind the right ear. A .45-caliber automatic was found near the body. Dr. Cook, free on $5,000 bond, had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Albuquerque Fri day on morals charges involving two girls, one 0 and the other 10. He was charged with transporting them across state lines for im moral purposes. Kopansky said Dr. Cook, a bachelor, had a dinner engage ment last night with some friends. They became alarmed when Conk did not arrive and called police. IV, "The Dixon-Yates matter isn't settled. They're just erecting a building to store all the official papers." Julian and Gregorian Calendars Draw Interest By J. HUGH PRUETT (Astronomer. Extension Division Oregon Higher Education System) The recent article on the Julian and Gregorian calendars brought inquiries from several. 11. C. L. of Portland asks: "If the Julian calendar was started in 45 B. C, then when was the calendar changed to start iff """"siJ 423ZJ mmm tnc mwn I IV 111 I r- rm mimm ffr nmn u t . hi IAS 7t ir-"Titei r rii Guaranteed to Cost Less to Own! $C00 Pay Only J Per Month 24-Hr. Emergency Service LET US KEEP YOU IN HOT WATER year 1 with the birth of Christ? Why then was not January 1 start ed with the birth date? Or why not on ine equinox change? We who are accustomed to use so glibly various dates with the letters B. C. or A. D. attached to them, seem to assume that the sys tem we employ was adopted at the time of the birth of Christ and has been in use continuously ever since. In the history of the world nu merous system for dating events have been used. The old time Jew ish calendar had their year 1 start ing with what corresponds to our 3760 B. C, the supposed date of the creation of the world. Arch bishop Usher at about A. D. 1600 decided this should be 4004 B. C. In Roman history we find dates given followed by the letters A. U. C This stood for Anno Urbis Condi tae, the Latin for "In the year of the founding of the city. Thus 100 A. U. C. was the 100th year after the founding of Home. Julius Caesar s revised calendar was put into effect in 708 A. U. C. This cor responds to our present 45 B. C, but Caesar knew nothing about B. C. The beginning of the Christ ian era would then be dated 753 A. U. C. The Mohammedan calendar has for its year 1 the date we call A. D. 622. This marks the Hegira. or the flight of Mohammed from Mec ca. Various other methods of start ing dates were employed by an cient peoples. When then was our present sys tem of dates, now followed by all so-called Christian nations and some others, put into use? The best authorities tell us that this method was introduced by Diony- ijius the Little, an abbot of a Jio- man monastery almost 600 years after the time of Christ. Previous ly the Christians evidently used the methods of dating extant in the countries in which they lived. Dionysius' system gradually was adopted by various countries, but not without great confusion. He used March 21, about the vernal equinox and nine months before Christmas, as the start of year 1. Others used March 25, the sup posed dato of the Annunciation. (It is said this method prevailed in England until A. D. 1752). In the 8th century after Christ, the Diony sius chronology was in use in Gaul; England, before the close of that century. In Germany and some Italian cities about the 11th century, the year was starting on Christmas day. Present day scholars believe the birth of Christ most likely occurred in 4 B. C. Those who care to study further on our present system of starting dates will find much in any good encyclopedia under the topic Chronology. I . " ,1 You Get What You Pat For One of the basic and Irrevocable lcw of economic Is that w get no more and no less than what v pan for. This law applies to the purchase not onlu, of food, clothing, and Shelter but also of pharmaceuticals. Because we know that there Is no natural market for Inferior or "cheap" medicine. w maintain a supplu, of pharmaceuticals that are as fine as can b obtained. Therefore, we are prepared at all time to fill u,our physician's prescriptions with Ingredient of the highest qualitu CAPITAL DRUG STORE Main Store: 40S Stair, Corner oi l.ihrrlv Prescription Shop: 617 chrmrketa. (irilfin Bldg. We Givo Green Stamps vl! 4 ill 11 m "ft m 56 111 New Buildings For East Salem EAST SALEM Two new home building projects have been planned for East Salem this month. A sale of interest to many who have picked filberts on Lan caster Drive for the past 25 years is the sale by Mrs. C. B. George of her 23 acre orchard to a Sa lem contractor who plans to take nut trees and open up streets for home building. This joins a 12 acre project which also was a fil bert orchard to the north, and leaves only a small orchard on Lancaster Drive. The second is the first house on Sunnyview just west of Holly wood Drive corner on a four acre tract and several houses arc planned for this. A new home under construc tion on Fisher Rd., is the J. D. Watson's. Two new homes have been adrled to the row of new houses being built by Fordyce and Sam ple on Sunnyview Ave., just north of Brown Rd. Making the business district at the corner of Silverton Rd. and Lancaster Drive more up to city form is the large Jeon.sign recently put up by the "Leon ards Used Car Lot." This corner is under new management. Society Thursday by an initia- tinn team from North Salem high; school at the regular student! body meeting Thursday after noon. Those initiated were Angela Krupicka, Naomi Westwood, Ralph Merrill, Donna Vergen, Keith Driver and Nancy Bar endse. Coming from North Salem high school were Jim Hardy, Danell Hamilton, Bob Archibald, Ken neth Nntbloom, Kathy Busick, Elane .Morrow and Gaynelle Met- heny. MEMBERS INITIATED NORTH MARION HIGH SCHOOL Six new members were initiated into the National Honor Judge Douglas Praises Work Done by Nehru LOS ANGELES (UP I Justice William O. Douglas of the U. S. Supreme Court believes democra cy's prospects are far brighter tnan most Americans think. Speaking before several hundred listeners at the WesLside Jewish Community Center last night, Douglas said the competition be tween democratic and Communis tic forces "is not going to the Communists, as so many people fear." "The great work being done by Prime Minister Nehru in India is stemming the Communist tide, rolling back their forces," he said. "They are doing a brilliant job for democracy in Burma, too, and our prospects are extremely bright in Viet Nam." SmUMITV WOMAN ILL SUBLIMITY Mrs. Louis Hend ricks is a patient in Santiam Me morial hospital, having undergone j surgery onjuonaay. Central Howell Women Meet CENTRAL HOWELL Mrs. Silas Torvend opened her home to mem' bers of the Central Howell Farm' ers Union Auxiliary on Friday for an all day meeting with a no host luncheon at noon. Mrs. Clarence Johnson was honored with the group singing the traditional birth day song and cutting a birthday cake. Mrs. Leon Flux conducted the business meeting in the afternoon, with Mrs. Albert Mantie assisting as secretary. Reports were given on the recent dinner served by the group to the Soil Conservation Association. Present for the day were Mrs. A. E. Kuenzi, one of the charter members, who is not a regular attendant, Mr .and Mrs. Leon Flux, and two children. Mr. and Mrs. James Phillips. Mrs. Earl DeSart, Mrs. Albert Mantie, Mrs. Clarence Johnson, Mrs. George Plane. Mrs. Milo Wilcox. Mrs. Frank Beuller, Mrs. John Kock, Mrs. Henry Tor vend, and Mrs. Frank Way. Mrs. Johnson was also honored with a handkerchief shower. GENERAL RETURNS. TAfPEI W Brig. Gen. Har old W. Grant, commander of the U.S. task force in Formosa, re turned yesterday after a week's visit to Japan, where he conferred with Gen. Earlc E. Patridgc, com mander of the Far East Air Forces. 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