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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, December 6, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section Z Page 1 REMEMBER ...15 YEARS ACQ Salem Sees Many Day Bombs Fell on es Since Pearl Harbor Chang By FRED ZIMMERMAN Capital Journal Writer Remember Pearl Harbor? It was just 15 years ago Friday on December 7 when the Japanese unleashed a sneak attack upon that highly strategic harbor of the Hawaiian Islands, , Then followed four years of global warfare, a period of re adjustment, a higher standard of living and mounting costs in vir tually every field of endeavor,' not excepting that oi taxation. What have the 15 years brought to Salem? Most certainly many changes. Some unfavorable but mostly that are just opposite. Population Growth Noted Fifteen years ago Salem had a population of 30,773. Now it is around the 45,000 mark. Postal re ceipts are reflected in the boom of people. In 1941 when World War II came lo the United States, the Salem post oiiice. reported it had taken in $354,000. Last year it processed more than a million dollars. How about automobile traffic? When the Japanese made their attack, a motorist had little diffi culty in finding a parking slot downtown. Moreover he didn't have to pay a nickel lor the privilege of the streets with a piece of chalk on the end of a slick. He made marks on rear tires. If those marks will still in evidence when he re-' turned one or two hours later, the driver got a ticket. Parking Tricks Then Ton But there were tricks then as there are now. Many car owners would natch for the traffic officer and wlien he disappeared they would go out and back th'iir veh icle into the street and cilher drive back into the same slot or an adjoining one. Presto! The chalk mark had disappeared. Traffic problems, far from being solved as compared with 1941, have caused something like a decentral ization in Salem's retail trade. In 1941, wilh the exception of a few areas like Hollywood, East State street and South Commercial street, most of the larger retail stores were Ideated "down town". Now we have the Capitol Shop ping Center wilh its divcrsilied re tail establishments, and a Candal aria district which boasts even a bank. Downtown Area Grows But in spite of the difficulty in finding a place to park, the older business area is far from being deserted. For instance there is Meier and Frank with its modern five-floor parking annex. Lipman's saw fit to establish a modern re tail outlet on Liberty street as did Newberry's and Grant's. Industrially Salem ' has lost ground in some particulars but has gained in others., The once-flourishing flax industry has all but dis appeared. Then, too, the old Salem Brewery, which manufactured a well known brand of suds for years, has disappeared. But offsetting this flight of dol lars, it can be related that a large can manufacturing concern has built a fine plant here, while a nation-wide insurance firm' has established a regional department. Food Processing' Expands Salem has lost none of its pres tige as a food processing center : during the past decade and a half even though Hunt Brothers recently saw fit to discontinue local opera tions. Paulus Brothers and Blue Lake have not only enlarged their plants but extended the variety of their packs. The freezing process of preserv ing fruits and vegetables has ex panded materially, keeping pace with the hundreds of -additional acres planted to strawberries, cane berries, snap beans, cauliflower and the like. . Television was in the experi mental stage on Dec. 7, 1941. That (act may be the reason why there has been a reduction in the num ber of theaters during the 15-year 'period. When the bombs dropped over reari Hamor ana Honolulu, Salem supported a half dozen mo tion" picture houses. Now, in spite of increased population, the com munity can support no more than three. A drive-in suspends oper ation in the winter. Willamette Grldders Caught During the 15 years the number o! churches has grown from 46 to 54, denominations from 31 to 37; books in the Salem public library Irom 4o,000 to 56,600; paved streets from 76 to 128 miles and banks from two to seven. Members of the 1941 Willamette university football team will recall the incident quite vividly. But there oi e many persons who have for gotten that the Bearcats were ma rooned in the Hawaiian Islands lor Add Military Secrets: Where Servicemen Can Buy Whiskey WASHINGTON UP The Pen tagon admits it's really no military -scent that some of its military bases sell whiskey to servicemen. But Assistant Defense Secretary Hobcrt Tripp Ross says he doesn't like telling ''jus everybody" which bases do. - Travises Win Custody Fight LOS ANGELES Wl-Merle Tra vis, singer of western songs, and his wife Bcttie, have von their court suit for custody of her two sons by a former marriage. Ward W. Robinson, welding company owner, had asked cus today of the children on the ground that they were in an un fit home, charging that Travis be came . intoxicated last January and created a disturbance that gj'incd notoriety. Travis admitted he was drunk but said hn f'red his target pistol into the base of a living room clock only to show his wife he wasn't as intoxicated as she thought. Several witnesses testified he is a model husband, stepfather, neighbor and friend. He particularly doesn't want to tell the Women's Christian Tem perance Union, .which can raise a tremendous fuss about liquor sales. Besides, Is on one base might find GIs on another base arc get ting' a better deal on whiskey. That would only cause "needless controversy," according to Ross. Ross tried to explain the tick lish problem in a letter to Chair man John E. Moss D-Calif., of a House subcommittee investigat ing suppression of public information. APPEAL EXTENDS TERM ST. LOUIS Wl Monroe Mitchell,. 39-year-old laborer, appealed a 60 day sentence imposed by a judge on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. A jury in the Court of Criminal Correction heard the case . on appeal and sentenced sentenced Mitchell to a year in the city workhouse. N.Y. Walkout Threatened by News Carriers NEW YORK (UP) Federal me diators today resume thcir-efforts to avert a threatened strike of newspaper deliveries that could disrupt publication of nine major New York City newspapers. Representatives of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Serv ice, which entered the dispute last Friday, meet with negotiators for the Publishers' Association of New York and the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union. The union, - which represents more than 2,500- workers who make newspaper' truck deliveries, has said it will call a strike un less the publishers meet its de mands in a new cent .-act to re place the one expiring at midnight Friday. .,- days following the bombing attack. They were beaten by the University ol Hawaii, 20-6, Dee. 6. The Bearcats, headed by Coach and Mrs. R. S. "Spec" Keene, did not get back to the mainland until Dec. 26. A Zlg-Zag Return During their enforced stay in Honolulu, the Willamette gridders saw guard service at essential in stallations. Their return to San World War I Vets Hosts MOLALLA (Special) At the monthly social meeting of Cham poeg Barrauks Veterans of World War I and the auxiliary this past week, several out-of-town guests were introduced including Mr. and Mrs. Cutler, Mr. and Mrs. Emery and Fred Doebler of Salem Bar racks; Mrs. Bobbie Hooker of Al bany Barracks, president of third district auxiliary; Commander R. J. Freeman and Quartermaf'er Leonard Hatteberg of Silver Falls Barrack. Mrs. Alderman of Sa lem, Oregon, a Civil War widow also was a special guest. Group singing and entertainment followed the no-host dinner and meeting. George G. Wright of route 1, Colton, and Henry B. Mc- Tighc of Rt. 1, Canby, joined the local barracks. Quartermaster Or- val S, Karns announced that the next meeting of the barracks is set for Dec. 13. Lions Auxiliary Will Help Blind KEIZER (Special)-The Keizer's Lions' Auxiliary had its monthly meeting recently at the home of Mrs. Ray Larky, with Mrs. John Coomler assisting as co-hostess. The regular business meeting was preceded by a visit with Mrs. Charles Woodcock, principal of the State School for the Blind and two of the boys who are students there, Stanley Notak, 13, from Univak, Alaska, and Leonard Ko kel, 12, of Silvcrton. Leonard dem onstrated the use of the Braille writer among other things. The next meeting will be held at the home ol Mrs. Stanley Wat son, with Mrs. Vern Billings as sisting as co-hostess, Dec. 18, when stuffed toys will be prepared to be given to the blind school for Christmas. Mrs. Robert Davis was a guest Francisco was shrouded in secrecy as the ship zig-zagged across the Pacific. Women members of the Willamette party acted as nurses aboard the vessel which carried a number of wounded American scr fice men. - . The Bearcat gridders, for the most part eventually received their degrees and now,, 15 years later, they are engaged in many business one' professional enterprises. Ted Ogdahl, a halfback, returned tu his alma mater as head football coach; Earl Hampton is principal at Leslie junior high; Ken Jacob- sen, who quartcrbacked the Cats, is football coach at Dallas; and wally Olson is in business for him self in Salem. Blackouts Serious Business The illumination of 12th street Is in striking contrast to the blackout that engulfed Salem after the at tack on Pearl Harbor. Charles P. Pray, then head of the state police. issued regulations governing head lights on motor vehicles. Head lights were to be hooded, with a slit a half inch wide and three inches long, providing a minimum amount of light. These openings were covered with two thicknesses of blue cellophane or bluo lacquer paint. Needless to say, traffic moved at a very moderate rate of speed. . ; At first street lights were turned off and windows were blacked out at night. However, the regulations overlooked skylights and these openings at night, if an attack had come, would have provided excel lent bomb targets. Yes, Salem has undergone many changes in 15 years. It's anybody's guess what the next decade and a half will bring, WORKS IN SEATTLE DONALD (Special) Clinton Bule has obtaihed employment with the Boeing Aircraft corpora tion in Seattle, and is coming home weekends for the present. The Buies ' arc living in one of Lin Cromwell's houses. 68 Listed on Honor Roll at Sacred Heart Sixty-eight students were listed on Sacred Heart's honor roll at the 'ed of the second, six-week period. Of this number the following re ceived first honors with a grade point average between 3.6 and 4.0: Darlenc Michels, Susan Van, Eli zabeth O'Brien and Kathy Fischer, juniors; Joan Korn, Kathryn Burke, Anne Meuscy, Susan Ham st.ect, Judy Nielson, Beverly Po lensky and Judy Woodry, sopho mores; Mary Ellen Johnson and Lynda Thompson, freshmen. Second honors for a grade point average between 3.0 and 3.59 went to: Marlene Burton, Gloria Koch, Beverly Lambert; Janet Larson, Janet McOarty, Dorothy Rupp and Jonie Stein, seniors; Evelyn Fis cher, Marilynn Ripp, Judy Boet ticher, Catherine Leehtenberg, Ma ry Jo Mcusey, Louise Schroedcr and Janice Suing, juniors; Joann Weigol, Jeanette Edwards and Ro berta Schlageler, sophomores and Anna Decker, Linda Kay Thomp son, Roberta Meusey, Jo Ann My ers. Marianne Schaffcrs, Marie Steincr, Beverly Weiss, Donna Strauch, Linda Coleman, Rose Ma rie Fischer, Margaret Wilson and Sandra Shaw, freshmen. Hunter Bags Deer But Warden Gets the Meat OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N. J. UV-P.ay-Worrell finally bagged a deer but he won't get any venison out of it. . Worrell, who has ben travel ing up to New Hampshire hunt ing deer without success for the past thro weeks, hit a buck with his car a few hundred yards from his home. Under New Jersey law, how ever, he must turn the carcass over to the game warden, 'Upset Car' in Lake Just Practical Joke BRADLEY BEACH, N.J. W Someonc reported an overturned car stuck in Sylvan Lake in this seashore town. The first aid squad and hook and ladder truck rushed to the sceno to find four tires stuck . in the mud, properly spaced to look like an overturned car. The practical joko was staged in front of the home of Commis sioner Albert Kirms, who directs the town's police and firemen. ' VISIT SEATTLE . 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