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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1955)
NAGY EXPELLED 1 1 1 Ailing Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy (right) was dismissed" from office and expelled from his Communist Party post. Nagy was accused of putting consumer goods ahead of heavy indus-" try, same charge that brought downfall of Soviet leader Georgl JIalenkov. Succeeding Nagy was Andras Hegedues (far left), . former Agriculture Minister. Above, the latter -listens as Nagy delivers inauguration speech at Budapest in 1953. (UP Tele photo) ' SalemMeier&Frankto Have $1,500000 Payroll An annual payroll of onr and a ; training or. soon wiU be, said flialf million dollars will Jbe repre sented by the Meier .ind Frank ijiore which will open for business Jate in October, members ot we Salem Hotary club were told at t h e i r Wednesday luncheon by Cerry Frank, who will manage the enterprise. ' The store wilt have an aggrega tion of 409 employes, a number of the kev positions being occupied by Salem persons who are now in Governor Patterson Praises Ivan Oakes Ivan E. Oakes, secretary for Hie Willamette River Basin Com mission since 1945 until his re tirement last month, was praised by Governor Patterson and the Natural Resources Committee Wednesday for outstanding ser ,ivice to the state of Oregon. ii Oakes. who once served as a tsbtate legislator from Malheur 5 Jcounty in 1925, was born in Sheri tcian, Oregon, in 1883. He has been lipctive in conservation and recla 'Jmation projects since 1905 when ff he obtained a civil engineering de ISferec from the University of Ore fjgon. If He has served as chief engineer Jfon many private projects and I transferred to public work in 1934 when he was with the WPA and t. later for the War Production It Q,nPrl J',nn UTnrU War Tl Oakes, leaving state service at the age of 72, will continue on with tne Natural Resources Com mittee without remuneration. Frank. He -added that more than 700 persons had made application for positions in the store a circum stance that had been greatly ap preciated by the organization. The first floor space, double that of the parent store in Portland, will contain a "youth center" among its various departments, where Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and similar organizations will be made welcome. Speaking- of the parking situa tion, Frank said that space for 1000 automobiles, under cover would be made available through the construction of a "butterfly facility", something new in park ing. This is more space than is provided by any store in the state. Frank asserted that the Meier and Frank organization isn't com ing to Salem to disturb anything, but plans to be a "good neighbor" to all. He predicted that the en trance of the firm into the valley would draw business from consid erable distance, and that all enter prises would benefit. , Frank repeated the statement that the firm knows of no large industry that contemplates settling in Salem. They decided to enter the capital, he added, because it was felt that Salem would continue to expand. The speaker briefly outlined the history of the Meier and Frank organization, since it first opened its doors in Portland almost a hun dred years ago. It has become the largest private business in the state, locally owned, he, declared. The speaker was introduced by Coburn Grabenhorst, Salem real tor, and then presented a few of the department heads who will be affiliated with the Salem store, including Ritchey Turner, assist ant manager. Barbara Smith, South Salem high school student, provided two piano selections. Rainfall Hits Some Sections By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thunderstorms continued in parts of the mid-continent and rain fell in sections of the East and Far West but other parts of the country had fair weather Thursday. The dust storms that swept across Southwest areas appeared to have ended as winds diminished. A narrow belt of heavy thunder storms extended from extreme Southern Indiana southwestward across Western Tennessee and to Eastern Oklahoma. More than two inches of rain fell in Memphis and more than one inch in parts of Arkansas and Kentucky-. Hail and heavy rain hit Little Rock, Ark. More rain fell in coastal sections of Northern California and. Oregon with scattered light showers ex tending inland to Idaho and ex treme Western Montana, It was mild weather in the Southeast with temperatures in the 60s and tapering off to the 40s over most of the North Atlantic states. They Vso were in the 40s in the Great Lakes region westward across the northern tier of states to the Pacific. Near or below freezing readings were reported to local areas in Northern Maine, the higher Rocky Mountain region and northwestern North Dakota. Testimony to Start Today NEWPORT, Ore. Wi -Testimony was .scheduled to begin Thursdav in the second trial of Richard i Thomson, accused of trying to kill his business partner, James Meuler, 31, in 1953. Thomson was convicted in the first trial, but a new trial was ordered by the State Supreme Court on the ground improper evidence was introduced. Selection of a jury was completed Wednesday, and the jury at once went to the scene where Meuler went over a bluff in an automobile. Thomson is accused of hitting Meuler over the head with a piece of pipe, and then rollong him off the bluff in the car. ice car plunged into the surf far below, but Meuler bounced out part way down, and recovered to testify against Thomson in the previous trial. Defense attorneys have indicated they may plead temporary insanity for Thomson. This led Dist. Attv. William Hollen to request an examination of Thomson by Dr. Rogers Smith of Portland Wednes day. The defense agreed. After the examination, there was no announcement of Smith's opinion. COOL VACCINE " 1 ft ' jmn (Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thurs., Apr. 21, 1955-(Sec. 1)-U Rotary Elects Claude Miller Claude Miller of Moore Busi ness Forms, was elected president of the Salem Rotary club at the annual election held Wednesday. He will succeed George A. (Shar key) Arbuckle early in July. Mil ler was nominated without op position. Paul Bale was named vice pres ident over Tom Kelly and Del Milne and Edgar Pierce was elect ed treasurer. His opponent was Don Woodry. Hugh Morrow was rs t 1 1 1 m4 !r h 9' I A l (1 TULSON, Ariz. City and county olficials, caught off guard by the early arrival of Salk anti-polio vaccine, keep the precious vaccine well refrigerated in a meat locker. Butcher Wade Bunt ing goes about his business as though veal and vaccine, were standard items in his shop. Meanwhile a vaccina locker is being readied. (AP Wirephoto) i Mrs. S .Chin Dies, Portland PORTLAND Ifl Mrs. Stanley Chin, 58, a leading figure in Chi nese women's affairs here for many years, died Tuesday. She was a member of the Portland League of Women Voters, formed the first Chinese Girl Reserves unit in the YWCA here some 20 years ago, and had lectured extensively in Oregon on Chinese affairs. Mrs. Chin was born Feb. 18, 1897, at Vancouver, Wash. Her grand father, Seid Back, contracted a large part of the Chirese labor for Northwest and Alaska canneries in the latter part of the 19th century. Survivors Include her widower, a son Stanley Jr., who is a student at the University of Washington: two daughters, Mrs. Kay Chin of New York and Mrs. Renaud Leon of Los Angeles; and her grand mother, Mrs. Seid Back. Tides in Maine's Passamaquoddy Bay average 19 feet, says the Na tional Geographic Society, Urges Burial For Old Oregon WASHINGTON I UP) Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) today urged that the battleship Oregon, veteran of the Spanish-American war, be given a proper military burial "with all possible honors." The ship, stripped of all fittings; was used as a breakwater at Guam during the war and is still at the Pacific island. Norblad said the cost of towing the hull to Port land had been explored and found prohibitive, and its value for scrap was "questionable." The Oregon Republican, in i letter to Rear Admiral W. D. Leg gett, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of ships ir. Washington, urged that the Admiral take appropriate ac tion and arrange for the fprcgon'f burial, "with appropriate patriotic-ceremonies." re elected secretary and Reynolds Allen and Joe Dodd were named to the board of directors. Robert Sprague was given a three year term on the classification com FATAL LABOR SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. W Carl H. Tomlinson, 13, worked for a week building a log raft. He sailed it just 10 feet before it tipped over and he was drowned. SERVICEMAN HOME WILLAMINA Mr. and Mra Curtis Peterson and family of Anaconda, Mont., moved back to Willamina this week after being in Montana where Mr. Peterson was serving with the army. L3 r rarTw i Meet the Oregon finalists in the 1955 Mrs. America Contest and see the Oregon winner announced on "SEE HEAR" Tomorrow at 6:00 P. M. Contest sponsored by, Portland Gas and Coke Companv in conjunction with KPTV .J PART. OF SHOW WASHINGTON (UP) Mrs. J, Borden Harriman, member of the Democratic National Comittee, and Adm. Neill Phillips paid their income taxes to Treasury Secre tary George M. Humphrey and pro tested i against "taxation without renresentation." I 9 complaint rally and parade by flfti tinar rA V7K V nrh District of Columbia residents who VCI I IIICJ) Ul yiJ LUV.II must pay federal taxes although they cannot vote in federal elections. Nine Portland Bakers DENOUNCES REDS , -V r '..ii..-'-.P PORTLAND w A district judge fined managers of nine Portland bakers $25 each Wednes day on charges they sold under weight bread loaves. The fines were suspended on motion of - a deputy district attorney, who said he was ' con vinced the violations were not intentional. He said the loaves were only a fraction under the minimum legal weight of 221-4 ounces. NEW EXPLORER TROOP WILLAMINA Explorer Scout Troop 452 feceived their charier this week from committeeman James Buswell, Joe Doyle ac cepted the charter for the Scouls as chairman of the sponsoring Scouts' Dad's club. 20,000,000: AMERICANS suffer from .' POST NASAL PMF SUPER iANAHIST ANTIBIOTIC N AS Al' SPRAY will. 'give you PASt RELIEF tsS; 98 Fadhil Jamali, Foreign Min ister of Iraq, denounced inter national Communism before the Asian - African conference at Bandoeng, Indonesia. His speech drew prolonged ap plause from many of the 29 delegations. 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