Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, January 15, 1957 THE CAPITAE JOURNAE Section' 2 Page 3 Mercury Skids 24 to 40 Below In NE Sections Temperatures Remain Below Freezing All Day in Cold Belt By BEN MAXWELL Capital Journal Writer Come February 19. 1957 and i Salem's municipal government will be 100 years old if one ac cepts the intent not the legality I of a charter granted by the legis i lature during January of 1857 B- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS wnicn declared the town to be a A mid-January cold spell held ' body politic and corPrate. f--:t over most of the eastern half1 sahel Bush' edilor ot Salem's of the nation today and no im- n.ewspaper;. "use m-diate relief was indicated about 'ncon"ration though he ex Althnuph irv avtAA i pressed no wish to oppose it be- -KLtfirty dri5ieveRii if Coast ih mi .k ..Called for," said Editor Bush, wST- during"1 Z nPign w , Tom Y' New England southwest lj , burd a"d "" -Texas. Flrit Election Held T,m . . On a setond Monday, being JerTJ Z' area ,w,re February 9, 1857. a city election he 1 d"Rreel lowcriwas held m accordance with pro then yesterday mornine. But the .u. -u uiu... i Missing Poll Book Marked First City Council Meeting Nearly Century Ago Iew ingland and New York s ate, with readings expected to range from 20 to 40 degrees below zero. Temperatures remained below yon was chosen mayor, Chester N. Terry, recorder; Jonathan O. Donald, marshal and C. S. Wood worth, treasurer. John H. Moores, John N. Robb. J. D. Boon, N. A. Cornoyer, G. H. Jones and A. W. freezing all day yesterday over Ferguson were elected aldermen. most of the northern two-thirds of the vast cold belt and were below zero from northern Michigan to northern New England. New York City had the coldest weather in nearly two years this morning. The 3 above was the lowest mark since zero Feb. 3, 1955, and a record low for Jan. 15. The previous low was 6.3 Jan. 15. 1927. Tha frigid air in the Eastern a.'ea was expected to bring the coldest weather of the season as far south as Georgia and north ern sections of the Gulf Coast states. Some slight warming was re ported in the north and central plains eastward into the Mis sissippi Valley and UDDer Great Lakes region but it was not very warm. Temperatures ranged from below zero in the extreme north to 20s in Kansas and Missouri. Subzero marks were reported in most of the Midwest yesterday morning. The immediate outlook in the Midwest was a fresh invasion of cold air and snow The Northeast also appeared in line for more snow, with falls forecast from New York to Tea nessee westward to the Missis sippi Valley, Council Looked Like This 10 Years Ago Man Serves Term For Stock Theft After almost two years of in- restigation by the state depart ment 01 agriculture and state police, an Oregon man was re cently sentenced to six years in the stae penitentiary for larceny of livestock. The case began in January, 1955 when Guy Woodworth, livestock theft investigator for the depart ment, was called by state police to investigate the suspected theft and slaughter of a heifer near Dufur. The crime allegedly was committed by a resident of The Dalles and his accomplice who was still at large. Remains of the calf revealed that the owner was Charles Ken neddy of Willowdale. Contacts with Kcnneddy verified his ownership of the animal and that it had- been stolen. The Dalles resident in volved in the theft was arrested on a livestock larceny charge March 23. 1956. The accused was lodged in Jefferson county jail with bail set at $2,500. Jury trial in Madras on June 11 found him not guilty. His accomplice was arrested in Pine City, Minn, on Nov. 4, 1956, on a Jefferson county warrant charging larceny of livestock. On Dec. 11 he pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to six years in the Oregon state peniten tiary. Not all suspected cases of live State livestock theft investiga 1956 investigators looked into 73 cases of livestock theft which re sulted in 17 arrests. This was just a small portion of the total in vestigations by these department men in 1956. State livestock theft investiga tors also made 337 road checks last year to assure that livestock moving over Oregon highways was in possession of the legal owners. Again Editor Bush had some thing to say. He mentioned that considerable excitement had pre vailed on election day, that nearly everyone who had the right to vote did so and that Quite a number of illegal votes had been cast. In deed, even the poll books for ward two had disappeared. Then he went on to recall that he had op posed incorporation from the start because it would likely prove bur densome, excite prejudice against the town in the surrounding coun try and was broadly rcdiculous. Poll Books Stolen Thomas Jefferson Dryer, editor for the Weekly Oregonian, was not just then seeing "eye to eye with Editor Bush. He commented: "We understand that the poll books in one ward were stolen, by which operation the Bush party suc ceeded in electing their candidate for mayor. "They stop at nothing, to the end that they may carry out their nefarious purposes, steal ing poll books, disenfranchising counties and withholding election returns is a game the Bushites play with adroitness seldom equalled and never excelled." Editor Bush may have preferred Wiley Kenyon for mayor over N. W. Colwell, his opponent, but after 100 years, that is a point difficult to determine. Anyway, Bush denounced Dryer's comment as a lie and implied that the Port land editor had imbibed too much free champagne when he wrote it. First Meeting Held On Thursday, Feb. 19, 1857, a first regular session of Salem city council was held m the council room of Marion county court house. "His Honor Wiley Kenyon, mayor, took the chair" says the fadine script of Recorder Chester N. Terry. A resolution introduced by Alderman Jones resolved that the mayor should appoint a com mittee of two to draft rules tor government of the common coun cil. Another resolution by Jones set the date for the next meeting of the council as Feb. 24, at "6V o'clock. Several officials associated with Salem's first corporate go- em inent became prominent in munici pal and county affairs. A. W. Fer guson, a builder-contractor who erected Marion county's first courthouse, submitted along with his bill for construction an item asking $25 for "damn abuse." Old- timers declared he deserved pay ment. C. N. Terry was Marion county judge in 1807-72. J. H. Moores, a local capitalist, was later Salem's mayor and postmaster. Major N. A. Cornoyer was county sheriff in the 1870s. J. D. Boon was Oregon's last territorial and first state treas urer. In 1860 he built the brick structure occupied by Karrs, 888 North Liberty St., among Salem's older business buildings. C. S. Woodworth was a Salem merchant who became chief clerk in the In dian service. Photographer First Mayor Mayor Wiley Kenyon who came to Salem about 1854 was the town's first regular photographer. Also, he was proprietor of the City books'tore on State street. Wiley was a Eo-eetter. He left Salem in late Civil War times and estab lished a gallery at Crawfordsville, lnd. Did he call it the Oregon gal lery after the state of his adop- M. Cain Dropped From Divorce Trial in LA. LOS ANGELES ufl Former V. S. Sen. Harry P. Cain has been eliminated from a complaint which had named him as one of 10 co-respondents in a divorce trial. The court ruled Monday that accusations charging Cain and two California men with miscon- duct with Mrs. Alice Eleanor Madden, 45, were too remote as to time or not specific enough for consideration in the trial. Dr. Earl E. Madden, 58, a Re dondo Beach, Calif., physician, had charged his wife with cruelty and misconduct with ten men: Seven John Does, Cain, Gordon Keith McCormac, Bakersfield, Calif., businessman and former Kern County political leader, and James Cumpston. retired Twenty Nine Palms, Calif., businessman. The court's ruling loft only the John Doe allegations in Dr. Mad' den's cross-complaint, plus the cruelty charge. Mrs. Madden, a Republican leader in her community, has de nied the accusations of misconduct. After a duration of almost 90 years council manic form of government for Salem ended Dec. 31, 1946, shortly after Capital Journal's photographer made this photograph of Mayor I. M, Doughton, his council and city officials. From left: City Recorder Alfred Mundt, G. F. Chambers, R. A. Forkner, Howard Maple, C. F. French, K. O. Lewis, David O'llara, Mayor I. Doughton, City Attorney Lawrence Brown, Ken neth C Perry, City Engineer J, H. Davis, Al bert H. Gllle, Ed Acklin, Claud Jorgensen and Lloyd T, RIgdon. Absent aldermen were Lewis Mitchell; Jas. A. Byers and Tom Armstrong. First Mayor LT2 Lucien Heath, Salem mayor In 1860 under a second act of In corporation wan the town's first legal mayor. Simultaneously he served as Oregon's first iecre ary of state. BUSINESS MIRROR r orporate Bonds Yield More Than Many Blue Chip Stocks By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK ( Higher inter est rates on corporate bonds have brought a clamor for better re turns on U.S. Savings Bonds the stepchildren of the financial world. The higher returns have also lured big investors into the cor porate debt market and away from common stocks, making possible the easy placement of a near-record volume of new cor porate debt issues. The money market comes in for close scrutiny just now as Con gress prepares to look into the problem of tight money, climbing interest charges and their role in inflation that is. in the threat ened further rise in uie cost oi livinR. liw eomDarative yields on Sav- Ines Bonds (3 per cent if held to maturity) have led to a drop in their sale and a rise in redemp tions. Last week a telephone company common stocks, the big investors like the insurance companies and the pension funds entered the market and made a success of the offering of more than 300 mil lion dollars of corporate debt is sues last week. About 100 million including a number of tax exempt governmental issues are being of fered this week. The 3 per cent yield on Sav ings Bonds fails to lure sophis ticated buyers any longer. To sweeten their yield the U.S. Treasury would have to get per mission from Congress. There has been considerable speculation that such would be made, but some bankers here doubt it. Their reasoning is that since Savings Bonds come the closest to being a riskiess investment for the small income man. he is likely to remain faith ful to them apparently only the sophisticated investor is switch ing from Savings Bonds. There is also some belief here Unt sold debentures yieiaing b mai imeresi rait-s Biuiuugn r-r cent, the highest since 1929 still apparently climbing may It similar issues: while inves-1 be near their peak and could be rould set a 'yield of 4 5 per c?nt on an electric utility deben ture, highest rate for such an is sue since 19M. at the turn in the road. Some bankers doubt if the Treasury will saddle itself with higher interest payments on Savings Bonds until another act to incorporate passed that winter powers of city authori ties would be much more re stricted and that the limit of taxa tion fixed much lower not above one half mill, if anything at all. And he went on to say that "there seems to be a sort of city mania in Oregon and as soon as a little village has a name it must have a charter. "Don't Need Incorporation" "We have a fine thrifty village," Editor Bush assured his readers, "but we don't, and for several years will not need an act of in corporation." But Bush's jibes and jeremaids did not long prevail, nor did his charge that the black Republicans had created a scandal by besieg ing the legislature in behalf of Salem's charter bill long prevent a legal corporate status. On Oct. 22, the bill to incorporate the City of balem passed the legislature and a date for the election of offi cers was set as Oct. 29, I860. Actually, a full set of city offi cers had been chosen May 19, I860 in anticipation of speedy passage of the charter bill at the fall ses sion of the legislature. Doubtless location of the capitol at Salem was responsible to a degree for the expedition of a corporate sta tus. First Legal Government Salem's first legal municipal government consisted of Lucien Heath, mayor; W. S. Barker, mar shal: C. N. Terry, recorder; Charles Uzafovage, treasurer and J. H. Moores, James Brown. H. Thatcher, E. N. Cooke, M. Hirsch and W. H. Rector, aldermen, Lucien Heath had the distinction of being first secretary of state and mayor of Salem at the same time. He left Salem on account of his wife's health and Capital Journal reported his death as oc curring at Santa Cruz, Calif., Dec. 21. 1888. In i860 the population of Salem was probably near 700 persons. Census for that year gives 1,527 as the total population for North and South Salem precincts that far exceeded the corporate boundar ies of the town. In 1862 the town s boundaries were expanded to in clude a fourth ward and there they remained for another 40 years: Mill creek on the north, 21st and 22nd streets on the east, Hines, Cross and Mission streets on the south and the Willamette river on the west. Between 1870 and 1900 when the population reached 4,258 Salem changed from a frontier village to a more or less modern town. Lven so, in 1900 shacks with false fronts faced wooden sidewalks in the downtown area, no street was yet paved and few homes had electric lights. Many homes still obtained water from a well beneath the back porch, outhouses were com mon enough and street fights in downtown Salem were not unusual on Saturday afternoon. Institu tional sewage still emptied into Mill creek. 1874 Committees In 1874 standing council com mittees were ways and means, ordinances, accounts and current expenses, streets and public pro perties, fire and water, health and police. Thirty years later public buildings, sewage, plumbing, lights and public parks had committee representation, in 1946 airport and aviation, building regulation, lights and electric signs, public utilities. real property and rules and revi sion of minutes were in addition to those of 1905. Between 1857 and 1946 a funda mental officialdom existed for Salem consisting of a mayor, al dermen, recorder, marshal, treas urer, street com miss inner, sur They included: vevnr and nrtnrnpv AHHilin.t of m Appropriations Moran ot i health officer, police matron, sani- nasnuiEion ana ouav m mono. tary inspector, city engineer (ex- Israeli Troops Pull Out of Sinai Center; UN Soldiers Move In Estimate of Death Toll in Gaza of 452 Disputed JKRl'SAI.EM UP Israeli troops withdrew Tuesday from El 'Arish. the administrative center of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Yugo slav units of the U. N. Emergen cy Force moved in a few minutes later. ty figures were obtained from sources of questionable accuracy. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman claimed the dead "were largely personnel of the Palestine units attached to the regular Egyptian army who took an active part in the fighting in Tractor Sinks In Polar Ice; Seabee Killed By DOM GUY MCMURDO SOUND. Antarctica uet A 22-year-old Seabee has be come the eighth fatality of the American campaign into tht frozen antarctic. - Ollie Barrett Bartley of Slaught ers, Ky., drowned Monday when a weasel snow tractor in which he and five other men were rid ing plunged through thin ice. the 'notional guard units and asjBartley's companions escaped al- uiuukii iney suiieren snocK irnm being dashed into the icy water The vehicle tipped over and dis mav ho nlivn in .Inrrian nnri pltr There was no direct contact be- where tween the Israelis, and the Yugo- Labmlisse said ,he casuallv . s lures drew on evewitness accounts Egyptian spokesmen have said;(rom refugees, 'the UNKWA staff i ieMurm nflaMM a w uu jj "UUU1 1 nnri others fedayeen (commandos) He also declared that many Arab? lisled ns casualties mav have fled the Gaza area and now i appeared beneath the surface only 50 yards from the spot where a weathered wooden cross mark of J. L. Franzen as Salem's first city manager under the council- manager form of city government, (forecaster. Weatherman Delayed By Flood iYo Matter LOS ANGELES W Weather forecaster Henry Weiss had to call the office and tell them he'd be late to work because his car got caught at a flooded intersec tion after a two-inch rainstorm hit Los Angeles. But it didn't matter much. When Weiss finally arrived at the office Monday he did mostly paperwork. He's the bureau's fire-weather enter the base, 30 miles southwest of the old Palestine border, Wed nesday. After their withdrawal, Israeli forces still occupied about one- fourth of the Sinai Peninsula which they won in their lightning attack last October, Israel has challenged a U. N. report estimating at least 452 Arabs were killed in the invasion and occupation of the Gaza Strip of Palestine northeast of El 'Arish. The report was made to the U.N. General Assembly in New York by Henry R. Labouisse, di rector of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refu gees. It said 291 of the victims were refugees of the 1948 Pales tine War and the others were Arab residents of the strip. An Israeli spokesman at U.N. headquarters declared the casual- The report also said hospitals in the strip virtually were para lyzed, schools were unmanned and living costs increased sharp ly after the invasion. It said or der was emerging slowly and that food supplies have improved. In a note issued in Damascus, the Syrian governmont accused Israel of following a "Nazi anni hilation" policy against Egyp tians in the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. The note urged U.N. action. The Gaza Strip, 28 miles long and eight miles wide on the Med iterranean, was occupied by Egypt under the 1949 Palestine armistice and became the home of some 250.000 Arab refugees displaced by the 1948 war. Israel, maintaining the area was used as a base for fedayeen raiders, has said it will not consent to turning the strip hack to Egypt. the loss of a British seaman from the Scott expedition of 1902. Bartley's body was recovered nine hours after the accident by Navy frogmen flown in by heli copter from the cargo ship Arneb, The weasel was traveling ovef ice formed in the year since the icebreaker Glacier broke a chan nel to Hut Point. Most of the frozen surface is four feet thick, but it was believed that currents near the shore weakened the spot where the vehicle broke through. Baver Boys Slate Sot June 9-15 in Corvallis CORVALLIS m The 21st annual Beaver Boys State will be in session here on the Oregon State College campus next June fi to 15. The dates were announced Monday for the event sponsored hy the American Legion. Dan McDade, Portland, is chairman for tho legion. tion? Oh no! It was the California gallery, a name of prominence and distinction. City ordinance No. 1 proposed m the city's council pertained to elections and the mode of filling vacancies. Ordinance No. 6, the first concerned with municipal im provements, required street gut ters along Commercial. The next ordinance was aimed at fast driv ing through town and the one that followed was positive about riding on the sidewalk. And just to show Editor Bush how they felt about his stand against the new city government an early council meeting author ized the city recorder to contract with the Pacific Christian Advo cate for printing city ordinances at 50 cents a square, or less, in brevier type. Swine Ordinance Passed Additional ordinances passed by the city council early m 1857 pre vented swine from running at large, levied a tax on pleasure carriages (also probably aimed at Bush i, provided that sidewalks should be built of red or yellow fir timber, licensed bar rooms, theatricals, billiard tables and bowling alleys. Ordinance No. 11 prohibited gaming. On Oct. 9, 1857 the council as sessed a tax and thereafter there was trouble. Fulfillment of Editor Bush's prediction was at hand and his warning about a corporate sta tus being "burdensome and use less" came to mind. Came April 10. 1858 and Alderman Louis Wes- tacott moved that the legality of the city charter be submitted to his honor the judge of the district court, for his decision. Charter Found Void Editor Bush published Judge Geo. H. William's decision Dec. 8, 1857. His honor had declared Salem's city charter void since it had never in its entirety passed both houses of the territorial as semblv. Bush gloated a bit and again ex pressed himself about corporate status for Salem. He hoped that if Norblad Given Services Spot WASHINGTON 11 Seven Pa cific Northwest representatives Monday were appointed to com mittees by the House Republican move ! Committee on Committees. Armed Services Norblad of Oregon. Interior and Insular Affairs Westland of Washington. Merchant Marine and Fisheries - Tollefson and Pelly of Wash ington. cept for the engineer in the fire department! came after 1890. After 1910 complications about the business of living multiplied with profusion. Scientific knowl edge and efficiency were becom ing essentials for modern govern- thru Yields are hifhersure that other interest rates tea fe on ar blut chip 1 won't 8 tettr tie rear, iter eleatiw. Ways and Means Holmes ofjment. In 1946 a sufficient number Washington. !of voters in Salem accepted the The committee gave the coveted I viewpoint that their archaic coun rules group post to Rep. Hugh j cilmanic form of government was Scott of Pennsylvania. Westerners outmoded and should be stream had sought the rules vacancy, lined to become an age of execu caused by the defeat of Harris ttive efficiency and scientific spe Kllsworth R-Ore) in the Novem eialization Capital Journal for I Dec 27, 1M6 reported the election mam wmm IllWfll RGURST A !LKN9 1 A MOTE mm 0) A record 40,000 Big M's being built In January... a 43 Increase over December. A Mercury a minute, every minute of the day and mghtl All Mercury assembly plants are working overtime with the largest work, force in Mercury history to meet the tremendous buyer demand. The landeWe swing to Mercury is solid evidence that the new Big M Is the most exerting car value of 1957. Never before has so much bigness and luxury cost so Httle, Prices for America's most beautiful and advanced car are just an easy ytep above the low-price three. Why not stop In at your Mercury dealer's today? MERCURY for with DREAM-CAR DESIGN Don't KiUt It. 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