Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 21, 1957, Page 10, Image 10

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    Salem, Oregon, Monday, January 21, 1957
Page 10 Section 1
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL'
Mechanic Gets
?Hero Credit in
Crash Landing
46 Escape With Slight t-
',, Injuries aw Naval
i Plane Flips
SEATTLE Ifl A crew mem
ber who prepared his passenger
for a crash landing and then aid
ed in their rescue was credited
Monday with helping to avert
what could have been a major
air tragedy here Saturday.
Forty six persons escaped seri
ous injury when a four-engined
Navy transport flipped over, lost
a wing and skidded upside down
during a landing at the Sand
Point Naval Air Station. Fire
broke out but was quickly extin
guished. When the plane came to a slop
most of the passengers were hang
ing upside down from safely belts,
their heads and bodies padded
against the crackup they had been
warned might occur.
No one received more than
scratches and bruises and only
minor treatment was necessary.
Hero of the operation was
James V. Trosper. 2fi, an aviation
mechanic from Torrance, Calif.,
whose duty it was to relay orders
from the pilot to the passengers.
He had seen to it that they were
safely strapped in and more or
less protected.
Then, as the plane cartwheeled
over and skidded upside down,
Trosper, who himself was n o t
strapped in, made his way to the
exit door, opened it and saw that
the passengers got out safclv.
t he K5U carried 42 men ot rc.
serve unit VS891 home to Seattle
from Los Alamitos, Calif., where
they had been on a two-week
training trip, and a crew of eight.
January Record Snowfall Was a 1937 Sneaker
GREENHOUSE, CHURCH COLLAPSE
PW EXCHANGE BEGINS
CAIRO W) The exchange of
war prisoners between Egypt and
Israel began Monday with the
help of the U. N. Emergency
Force. Israel took an estimated
6,000 Egyptian prisoners in its
October invasion and ' Egypt
captured four Israelis.
Valley Dates
AMITY (Special) The Amity
TTA will meet Thursday, Jan. 24,
at 8 p.m. in the Amity high school.
Future Formers of America will
present demonstration of parlia
mentary procedure, with 13 FKA
members participating in the de
bate. Lou Hemrich Is vocational
agriculture instructor. Child care
will be provided.
MOLALLA (Special! Grange
officers meeting and practice will
be held Jucsday. Grangers arc
urged to attend and plan activities
for the year. Social meeting Mon
day, January 21.
February 1, Molalla Grange will
visit Harding Grange.
WOODBURN (Special) Annual
meeting of Buttcvillc Insurance Co.
will be at the Woodburn home of
fice at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.
23.
Election of one director for a
five-year term, is scheduled, to re
place William Schwartz of Silver
ton whose term expires. Annual re
ports will also be read.
WOODBURN (Special) Colum
bian Squires have changed meet
ing time to Tuesday and will meet
Tuesday, January 22.
WOODBltltN (Special) - Family
night at the Woodburn Presbyter
ian church will be Wednesday, Jan.
23. No-host dinner at 6:30 p.m.,
Maria Sandilands Circle in charge.
Speakers will be Dr. and Mrs.
Shanks, who have served many
years in the Camerouns in Africa.
FAIRFIELD (Special) Yeast
rolls will he the project Tuesday
for Fairfield Extension unit at Wa
conda school at 7:.KI p.m. All wom
en of the community ore invited to
attend.
LYONS (Special) Extension
unit will meet Jan. 24. Members
will be notified at n later date con
cerning the Pattern Kilting work
shop. GF.HVA1S (Specinll-Socinl night
for Fairfield Grange members at
at home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Allenhach in Woodburn, Jan. 2..
starting at 8 30 p.m.
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Heaviest Snowfall in Salem
Came Almost 20 Years Ago
3L HERB FARM SH0P.&
PRESENTS
27 Indies Fell
During Storm
In January
By BEN MAXWELL
Capital Journal Writer
Heaviest snowfall ever recorded
in Salem came in as a January
sneaker 20 years ago.
Folks who were up early on Sun
day morning, Jan. 31, 1937, knew
it was cold without looking ana
when they did look they noticed
it had started to snow. It didn't
stop at nine o'clock as early morn
ing snows usually do. It kept right
on snowing and heavier. By dusk
people knew they were in for
something exceptional. And it was
still snowing, snowing heavily.
By then city police were getting
worried. Marquees on Salem build
ing fronts were designed for no
such weight of snow. They were
groaning under the load and the
few pedestrians on downtown side
walks were in jeopardy. So the po
lice called for volunteers among
the jail population, paid them a
price, and set them to shovelling
snow off marquees.
Marquees Crash
Their efforts saved some mar
quees, not others. Those around
the Miller store crashed before
dawn. All over downtown Salem
the snap of chains and the crash
of marquees disturbed the sleep
ing population. Fortunately all too
feeble to withstand the load
crashed before pedestrians were
about on the streets. I
Soon it became apparent that
other sections of the city had ex
tensive damage from this record
snowfall of 27 inches. A big range
of greenhouses on Market street
collapsed. A tabernacle on Ferry
street was not built to withstand
a load of heavy, wet snow and
crashed. Dreamland rink became
a snambles of broken twisted lum
ber, Mellow Moon dancehall suf
fered heavy damage. A milk short
age appeared imminent since
Fumes Cling
To Portland
PORTLAND (fl Fumes with
an odor "like chemicals" were
noted strongly in parts of down
town Portland Sunday night and
the Weather Bureau said a tem
perature inversion likely was at
fault.
A layer of warm air at 1,000
to 1.500 feet acted as a blanket,
weathermen said, in keeping
fumes from industrial plants from
escaping upward.
At one theater the fumes were
so thick the projectionists had to j
wipe oil lenses between reels.
snow blocked streets would not
permit delivery.
On that day 20 years ago every
shovel in Salem was sold and
stores ordered an additional sup
ply from Portland. Schools were
closed and when the fire depart
ment endeavored to respond to a
call at the courthouse the big hook
and ladder wagon stalled in deep
snow at the city hall station en
trance. It took the five boys more
than an hour to get the rig back
inside. Chief Harry "Buck" Hut
ton was not slow about issuing a
warning that day to householders
about being careful with fire.
Ms ML '
VOROSHILOV TO CHINA
LONDON Ml Peiping Radio
announced Monday Soviet Presi
dent Voroshilov will visit Com
munist China from April 15 to
May 15. He was invited by Mao
Tze-Tung. Red Chinese boss, the
broadcast said.
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JANUARY
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Downtown marquees were not designed to enrry 27 inches of heavy, wet snow and ninny collapsed
as did this one on the Court street side of Milters store. Center: Snow on the night of January
31, J9.I7, cm .shod this largo ranfle of greenhouitrs on Market St. Lower: Churches nlso suffered in
heaviest snowfall ever recorded in Salem. Shown is wreckage of the Christian Missionary Alli
ance fahernnrlc on Kerry St,
Oregon's Population
Gain Slowing Down
PORTLAND un Oregon's pop- 31.3,' Josephine 20,
ukition Is gaining, but not nt the
rate of the previous decade, the
Stale Board of Health reports.
The population as of July 1,
11)51), was estimated nt ljM.hsO
14 per cent increase over the
JtfiO census figure. The estimate
was made by applying n formula
which lakes into consideration
birth and death registrations and
county elementary school enroll
ments.
Kight counties were reported to
have lost residents in the past six
years. They are Wheeler, down
15.5 per rent; Polk, 9.3 per cent:
Yamhill, 8.1 per cent; Deschutes
3 :t per cent; Morrow, .9 per cent:
Klamath and Columbia, each .7
per cent; and Crouk, 1 per cent.
Curry County showed the groat
est gain 102 per cent. The m
population was (1,018 and the liWi
estimate is 12,210.
Other counties and their per
centage gams: Baker 9 3, Benton
Ifi.ii, Clackamas ID, Clatsop .8,
Coos 33. (i, Douglas 37.7, (iilliam
H : (irant H. Ilm'ney 9. Hood
Hivcr .1, Jackson 21.1, Jefferson
Lake .2, I.anc
:0.1, Lincoln 21.6, Linn 6,9, Mal
heur .7, Marion 11.8, Multnomah
22.3 (Portland fl.6, Sherman 8.5,
Tillamook 7. Umatilla 8.7. Union
.9, Wallowa 2.7, Wasco 54.9, nnd
Washington 32.9.
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