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Salem, Oregon, Monday, July 23, ,1956
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
Section 2 Page 9
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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.
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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home was superceded by a struc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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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ARE MY TERMS
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Prices Quoted In Advance
Plates Repaired
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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
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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
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