Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, July 23, 1956, Image 21

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Newspaper Page Textr Salem, Oregon, Monday, July 23, ,1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 2 Page 9 if Children's pen Oak Finally laken Over, '15 By State Br BEN MAXWELL Salem General hospital has a Continuity o( history extending hack io 1866. On October 3, of that ear urpnan unnaren s Aid society Jvas in"irporated by ladies o( the aielhodist. church, Mrs. J. L. Par ish, Mrs. S. A. Clarke, Mrs. Julia . smiin ana Mrs. h. j. Moores. apital stock amounted to $1000. Sirs. Elizabeth Parrish was named president of the society and her tjirst act of benevolence was con Kribution of a 10 acre site for the ilMuuum, Salem city directory for 1871 ailed the institution Glen Oak Or han home and named Mrs. Eliza eth Parrish, Virginia L. Moores, larriet T. Clarke and Julia A. Smith as directors. A structure 30 by 30 leet, two stories in Height, 'along with other improvemens for .the grounds, cost $3000. Now the in stitution was open for the recep tion of orphans and friendless Children who received the kindest tare from the matron, Mrs. Ray. 'niond. I " I In earl) Ladies Managed It early years Glen Oak Orphan Jiome was supported by voluntary, state wide contributions though after 1874 the state legislature made a small appropriation in be half of its support. Then its af fairs were managed by 12 ladies, the executive committee consisting of Mrs. D. Leslie, president; Mrs. 1. N. Gilbert, vice president; Mrs. G. W. Gray, treasurer and Mrs. L. T. Woodward, corresponding secre , tary. Come 1880 and there were 12 ' children in the home, all reported , is looking "clean, happy and com .fortable." Meanwhile the property had been enclosed by a good fence and an orchard of choice fruit planted 1 as well as small fruits and a gar den. In 1887 the small, original home was superceded by a struc t u r e costing $12,000 (it still stands), funds being supplied par tially by the state and partially by private contributions in behalf of charity. Five acres additional were purchased to augment the original 10. In 1899 all acreage was under intensive cultivation to a degree that made the home self sustain ing to a considerable extent. During this last year of the 19th century Mrs. L. L. Brandt was matron and there were 21 children In the home ranging in ages from ' l'h years t6 13, Absence of state , aid at this time and poor financial ' condition of the institution made employment of a teacher impos- sible and 18 of the children were ff sent to East school for primary ;j education. August 9, 1899 Glen Oak Orphan home was transferred to Salem hospital by conditional deed con ditional because therein it was specified that the hospital must at all times be provided with a ward for children in compliance with f the general purpose of the orphan- i age. A Considerable difficulty was ex- j perienced in remodelling Glen Oak for medical usage and it was 1900 I before the hospital was able to j use its new location. A new sur- j gery was added in 1906. For many i jcars, oldtimers will recall. Miss I Lillian McNary was Salem hospital 5 superintendent. . State Acquired Property I Oregon State Hospital for the Insane in 1915-16, through a pro ; gram of expansion and a necessary process of condemnation acquired 1 Salem hospital buildings and about ''six acres of old orphanage land for their own use. Until 1921, when the first and center, rein- ? forced concrete unit was built at a ' cost of $25,000, the institution oc ,: cupied several improvised acconv i Enjoy An Evening of mm SALEM'S FOURTH ANNUAL ORGAN i CONCERT IN THE PARK Tuesday Eve., 7:30 p.m. In Beautiful Willson Park (Just west of the Capitol Bldg.) . featuring, ED SYRING at the SPINET MODEL Hammond Organ Cotirfr.ti of PIANO COMPANY THE VALLIY'S MNItT PIANO ItOHl 1280 Stele SI. Aid Society Formed Here In 1 866 and Started Orphans' Home ' Glen Oak Orphanage Became Salem Hospital ' v- - it U TL 4l. B Jld . r. Salem General hospital traces its lineage back to 1866 when Glen Oak ' Orphanage was established and housed In a small building. The structure shown above was' the second orphanage built in 1887 and home for Salem hospital between 1899 and 1915. That structure somewhat modified still stands as a dormitory for Oregon State hospital nurses-. Salem hospital became General hospital In 1926 when a new wing costing $40,000 was added to the institution. British Fashion Expert Says Marilyn's a Dowdy Dresser LONDON m A British fashion i hardly stagger across the tarmac, expert took a long, cold look at L crumpled coat slung over her SffiKh. a"? tousled hair dowdy dresser. Tnc most prominent thing The exner't. a woman natiirallv. I about hcr was her sPare lM- Lots was Jean Soward Chronicle. Miss Soward said Hollywood's most fabulous blonde has a spare tire around her midriff and ought to wear a corset. Her skirts are too tight. She wears the wrong skirt-and-blouse combinations. She's careless about combing her hair and keeping her clothes tidy. Miss Soward said she had "wad ed through oceans of print and stared at hundreds of pictures" since Marilyn arrived in"England July 14 to make a movie. "Always." she complained, "it's Marilyn through a man's eyes. And my, oh my, just how starry eyed can a man gazing at Marilyn become? Let's have another look this time through the less easi ly distracted eye of a woman. "Marilyn left the plane at Lon don airport in a dress which looked as though she had slept in it, with a skirt so tight she could modations including M c K i n 1 e y school. Name of Salem hospital was changed to General in 1926 when a new wing was added at a cost of $40,000. Then the institution was recognized as a standard, 78 bed hospital. Cornerstone for an entirely new and modern wing for General hos pital was laid by Milton L. Meyers, a board member of long standing. May 23, 1953. Dedication of the new 68 bed unit with ample pedia tric facilities and built at a cost of $920,000 was a ceremony of 1954. t u i Brought to You This Week By Meier & Frank of Salem . "Salem's Finest Jewelry Store" Bring the Whole Family! Ask About Stone's "Lesson Rental Plan". Learn to play, before you pay. fi I ..PTl'eWr, 1 1 of the Ncws!of us hae one, but most of us j I dress to disguise it. "At press conference No. 2 she exposed in a veiled sort of way the only cxposable bit of a woman left unpublicized a chiffon-covered midriff brought that spare tire into prominence again. Let's face it, Miss Monroe, Indian wom en have been doing this more at tractively for hundreds of years." Studio Signs Carol Morris HOLLYWOOD (UP) Carol Morris reaps the first of her Miss Universe rewards today when she signs a movie contract. The tall, dark-haired Ottumwa, Iowa, beauty was scheduled to vis it Universal-International studios to sign a six-month, $250 a week contract. Most of the 72 pageant entrants packed their cosmetics and head ed home. Miss Universe's parents, the Rev. and Mrs. La Verne Morris, gave their permission Sunday for their beautiful daughter to cm bark on an acting career. Earlier the couple said they hoped she would still consider teaching. Vacuum Cleaners ALL MAKES TERMS GUARANTEE LARGE TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE Some of These Cleaners Are Almost New As Low Electrolux f ' rr T;Mf'm"f'mT "' V """If "Hoover ! - fcOTi ' I t! - ii Jiiirf 1 Sanitizer F? .v - V. All Mikes of I-- Jt 7 ..'SVCiilk.'v' 'J Vacuum G-E Swivel Top 8 1 1 "ThififrrnTi lSShjK ,'. S3 COMPACT VACUUM CLEANERS 1321 North Capitol Street Phone 3-7067 Open Daily 9:00 A.M. to 9:30 P.M., Salem Oregon, Stop at the Big Sign on Capitol Hoover: Russ Leaders Have Bloody Hands FBI Chief Says Soviet Prexy Bragged About Killing 11,000 WASHINGTON W Describing Russia's bosses as 'godless men, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover says Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev has directed blood purges and Soviet President Klc mcnti Voroshilov once bragged about executing 11,000 Czarist of ficers. Voicing his distrust of Russia's chiefs, Hoover said "I would cer tainly want to see acts of indica tion of peaceful coexistence rather then mere, words. Hoover discussed the back grounds of Khruschev and Voro shilov in a filmed television inter view yesterday, saying that "men of that kind have no character." He said Khrushchev was in charge of purges in Moscow and the, Ukraine, and that in the Ukraine "he insisted, under Stalin, some of the most extreme anti Semitic measures . . ." Voroshilov, he said, once "open ly boasted" to William C. Bullitt death at Kiev after they had sur rendered on the understanding they and their families would be allowed to go home safely. Bullitt was U.S. ambassador to Moscow in 1933-1936. Hoover said Voroshilov also told Bullitt he had executed all the sons of the officers and had put their wives and daughters in- $19.95 as Ringling Brothers Wouldn't Have Let Circus Die " By GENE PLOWDEN .his sons left a mark on the Ameri-IOtto was the financier and Charles i leaving John with one-third Inter-1 voice In management. JjJ SARASOTA. Fla. W The Ring- can scene that will not soon be was in charge of personnel. est In the circus the other went - Numerous lawsuits were filed 'A. ling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus lies sleeping in its 284-acre winter quarters five miles south east of this Florida tourist city dead of a multitude of ailments. The big show is dead; the big top put away for the last time; employes scattered to all parts of the land: double length rail road cars once gleaming in silver and red, now rusting and deserted. The show came home last week, a corpse. It died in Pittsburgh a week ago. Malnutrition they said it was, but it had boon dying a long time. It took a combination of circumstances to kill it, and there are some who says it 'wouldn't have died if the Ringling brothers had been alive. The Ringlings started this gigantic amusement enterprise long before our time. August Ringling, an im migrant harness maker, had sev en sons and a daughter. Five of BUSINESS MIRROR Despite Japanese Competition By SAM DAWSON CHARLOTTE, N.C. ifl The I American cotton textile industry although complaining bitterly to- day of present and potential Jap- anese competition hopes its soft' markets are firming up a little. Longer than usual vacation shut- downs of the mills this summer , and cutback in work weeks from six to five days should help whit tle down stocks on hand. Produc tion has - been watched closely since the February slump in sales, . it The Japanese are only part of concentrating on one product, like the competition. The textile and i velveteens or ginghams, and un apparel industries will have to 1 derselline "to the point of drivino try hard to woo dollars out of Americor pockets for clothing and home furnishings. Striving just as hard to capture those dol lars will be makers ot household appliances, of cars, and all the service industries peddling recrea tion, health, beauty and comfort. Industry spokesmen dwell most ly on the immediate problems. They emphasize that in the last 30 days four mills have announced II l I-.. ... In XTn. Cnrf- land, one in South Carolina 'and ' i- viroinin . I Employmcnt is from last year. One-week vacations around the Fourth of July are traditional in many mills. This summer mjrc than halt the mills are taking two weeks vacations. Many are shav ing work weeks. Textile men are also critical of Washington's export program, which seeks to move government owned surplus cotton onto the world market at prices lower than the domestic mills must pay. They charge this gives foreign mills an unfair cost advantage. In partial answer, Washington promises next month to start pay ing American mills a cash sub sidy, making up the difference in cotton costs in any yardage ex ported by domestic mills. ! F. Sadler Love, secretary of the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, notes that the Japanese can buy American cotton for eight cents a pound less than can Amer icans because of our price support to brothels "for the use of the Red army." One of Hoover's aides said this happened during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Voroshilov then was in command of Red armies at Kiev in the Ukraine. and up FLOOR POLISHERS All Makes 1995 up We Shampoo Rugs, 10c Sq. Ft. x Floors II for Estimate Cleaners erased They had been two seasons on the road as a "classic and comic concert ' company" before joining with old Yankee Robinson, a fa mous showman of his day, to form the "Yankee Robinson and Ring ling Bros. Great Double Shows, Circus and Caravan." They had only nine wagons aol 17 in personnel when they gave their first performance at Bara boo, Wis., on May 19, 1884, but they had ability and they had de termination. Yankee Robinson died that sum mer, at Jefferson. Iowa, but the Ringling boys were just beginning. They made a perfect team. Al bert, or Al, was the leader. He was the oldest . and had a little experience managing the Parson Roy Circus. Alt T. was the show man, writing music, performing, directing, playing in the band. program, and can get Mexican eotton for even less. He says the Japanese have a W ' r - --' vantage in' wage costs, due to 'hr-'r low scales. Another advantage Love says i,ne Japanese textile industry en- 'joys is the new and more efficient T'pment in.sta!!fd s-ince '.he war' uai'mii-ae n-.uii: lllliuri Mere are about two or three per cent of total U.S. consumption. But what American mill owners say they are worried about was the rapid growth of imports from Ja- nnn Inst venr and Ihiii- haWtl nt American mills out of business." Cyanide Drink Basis for Suit Against Store NORFOLK, Va. Wl-The opera tors of a Norfolk jewelry store are b Ss,,cd for j50-.000 ,he ''T of a merchant seaman who he suffered "coniDlete destruction" of the upper brain from drinking diluted cyanide in the establishment. ; Mrs. Everett F. Johnson said her husband had lost his sight, nearing, speech and taste. In her suit, she said he had "completely lost his reason" and had been taken to a governmental mental hospital. Johnson allegedly took a swal low of diluted cyanide when he mistook a crockery jar containing the poison for a water fountain. According to his attorney, the crockery jar had a spigot and paper cups were nearby. Associated Barr Stores Inc. of; Delaware, operator of the jewelry 1 store, is defendant. AT VALLEY TELEVISION PROFIT TO THE WIND-THIS IS NO GIMMICK-ASK TO SEE OUR COST SHEET WE NEED CASH FOR' 57 MODEL Every Set Brand New 1956 Models-30 Sets to Choose from in Motorola, DuMont and Hoffman EXAMPLE: 21" DuMont 30 Tube, All Channel, All Wood Deluxe Chassis, Regular $289.95, Now Wholeiale $188.88 PLUS ONE CENT Selection of: 17" Portablei, 21" Table Models and Coniolei, 24" Table Modeli and Coniolei, Plui a Good Selection of Uled Scti at Very Low Pricei a Good Time for Your Second Set! 10 No Tradci Accepted LIMITED STOCK ON HAND SALE Begins at 9:00 A.M. MONDAY JULY 23rd. We Will Be Open for Your Convenience from 9:00 A.M. till 9:00 P.M. from July 23 to July 28 THESE SETS MUST GO TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE 1957 MODELS COMING Valley Television Center 142 Candalaria Blvd. John, youngest of them all, was the flamboyant promotoer, the daring front man who laid out routes, mingled with politicians and business leaders, promoting the show and himself. P. T. Barum and James A. Bailey took their circus to Europe where it stayed until 1902. By now Bailey also owned the Adam Fore paugh Circus and had enough left over to outfit a 22-car Wild West show under Col. William F. Cody, otherwise known as Buffalo Bill. Bailey also merged the Adam Forcpaugh and Sells Bros, cir circuscs but the Ringlings kept go ing and growing, meeting all op position and never giving an inch. Bailey died in 1906. Within a year the Ringlings had bought the Forepaugh-Sells and Barnum and Bailey circuses, 1 the latter for $410,000. , ' The Ringling Bros. Circus, oper ating as the "World's Greatest Railroad Shows," shared patron age with their Barnum and Bailey "Greatest Show on Earth," from 1907 until they combined in the spring of 1919. Three of the Ringlings were dead by now. But Charles and John carried on, riding the rest of the mid-1920s to even greator ac- livity and prosperity. Both invest- cd heavily in Florida real estate,. especially in Sarasota where they built mansions, laid out subdivi- sions, erected business buildings and expanded their holdings. Charles Ringling died in 1926, Bring Your Dental DR. J. J. COLTON Phone 2-0337 YOUR TERMS ARE MY TERMS On Approved Credit Make Your Own Terms Within Reason Prices Quoted In Advance Plates Repaired While You Weir . i DR. J. J. COLTON LIBERTY AND COURT STS. o Down - 24 Months to Pay Balance on This Sole You Will Have ALSO: FREE GIFTS FOR "Your Quality to heirs of Charles and his broth ersand numerous properties in a half dozen states. John bought art and erected a museum to house it at a cost which he once said was 11 million dollars. He sponsored an art school, drilled for oil and became so enamored of Florida that ho took over the old county fair grounds and moved his circus here in the fall of 1927. It has been win ter quarters ever since. The year 1929 marked the fall of John Ringling. He planned to open the season in Madison Square Garden as usual, but the American Circus Corp. which had recently come upon the scene, booked its Sells-Floto show into New York instead. It was up to John to let Sells Floto play his dates in the Garden or buy the American Circus Corp for two million dollars. John bought, paying $.100,000 cash and giving his note for the balance. When the depression of 19.12 j came along, John defaulted on his i note which was taken over by a group called Allied Owners, Inc. Allied Owners Incorporated the circus in Delaware and put Sam Gumpertz in as senior vice presi dent and general manager. John stayed on as president in name but with no authority. Ringling and Gumpertz had been friends for many years but from then on John Ringling sel dom visited the circus and had no to DR. COLTON Consult Me Personally This Is not chain office, but PERSONALLY conducted dental practice. After many years of practice in Portland I am now a resident of Salem. Come in and tea me Person ally. NO APPOINTMENT NEEDED FOR EXAMINATION. I'll be looking forward to meeting you. Artistic arid scientifically constructed dental plates can re store that natural expression by removing premature wrin kles and build up drooping younger end feel better. Com o o to See Thii fo Believe It- JUST STOPPING IN Television Store" FillingTl ""crown"""'! j"""jj",,M mmmmmmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmtim () ( against Ringling and in 1933 ht got the shocking news the circus had paid taxes on profits of only four million dollars from 1918 through 1932. The Internal Reve nue agents claimed owners and .' heirs had taken something like ::'', ten million dollars from circus ' i coffers during that time. The government's tax bill 'l amounted to $2,826,000, including ' interest. - " i ' John Ringling claimed he knew nothing of the income lax gyps, , r . and that some circus executives ' k..J I f k.i. biM ML!: iittu uccii laiviiijg iiuiii uuiti mill and the circus. Six men were in- " dieted, and three of them went to jail. Meanwhile, Ringllng's health imnrnunH tho 'ii-ii: wtg rnmin4 out of the business depression, and he had visions of taking command ' ' once more, although he" was 70 , !. . years old. . '- , He went to New York In mid- , j November, 1936, contracted a heavy cold and came down with bronchial . pneumonia. He died Dec. 2.. When the word reached Sara-. sota, flags flew at half staff over the sprawling winter quarters.' "What'll happen now?' circus people asked. - . No one could answer, for "Mr. ' John" was dead. Now, the big top itself is dead. But before it died, a brilliant young man and his able brother kept it alive through 20 thrilling years. Troubles and sagging muscles, look In tomorrow. ( CREDIT DENTISTRY PHONE 2-0337 CENTER -Nothing Like It Before Phone 2-1913 1)1 in!