Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 15, 1957, Page 13, Image 13

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    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
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