Page 8 Section 1 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, January 26, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL' FIVE DEALERS It's Just Junk to Most People But Scrap Metal Is Old Cars, Stoves Among Items In Pile By BEN MAXWELL Capital Journal Writer Sure it's junk. Bui junk is not without value. In (act, from 10.000 to 12,000 tons of scrap metal, ship ped out of Salem annually, is junk At prevailing prices this old metal has a value of around $400,000. And no one, even in this interval of inflailon, would say that $400, 000 is exactly junk. Every user of metal in this lo cality contributes ultimately to the scrap pile. That swank car of 1935, once the family pride and joy, is now junk. Your old Iron cook stove is also Junk. The old ice box that kept your home brew chilled in the 1920s has long been junk. Look at the next gondola railroad car you see being loaded with scrap. Look closely. You'll find nearly everything metal there, from bed pans to differ entials. Yellow pages of Salem's phone book list five persons who arc dealers in junk and the same num ber concerned with scrap metal. This Capital Journal writer lately interviewed three of these dealers to get a better understanding of the local scrap metal picture. Kline Estimates Sam Kline, Salem scrap metal man for the past 34 years, men tioned that he shipped about 1500 tons of scrap from Salem yearly and considered that 10,000 to 12, 000 tons for all dealers was a reasonable estimate. Most of Kline's scrap goes to Oregon "Steel mills in Portland where it is smelted down and manufac tured again into products such as plates and angle irons used in construction fields. Sam pointed out that no iron ore is mined In this locality for smelting and that steel products made in this region are based on scrap metal collect ed and delivered to the mills. Both railroads serving Salem handle scrap. Oregon Electric has lately moved five cars a week. Southern Pacific presumably handled as much. Besides these common carriers, a lot of scrap Is moved to Portland hy trucks owned either by the junk yards or by collectors. Not all scran moved Into Port land goes directly to the steel (Jjjjl) r-The CHAPTER 1 Solving Micro - Dot Puzzle Chapter 18 Ninety-one persons were con victed of spying against the United States from 1938 to 1945. And the shame of it was that 64 of them were American citizens betraying j their own country. The greater number worked for ; the Hitler government because of j loyalty to Germany. A few others! were mere adventurers. A few were recruited by threats of death or injury to loved ones held by the Nazis. A few became enemy agents because they saw a way to easy money. The Nazis tried desperately to establish an espionage and sabo tage apparatus in the United Stales to cqu;il the spy ring organized before World War I. But this lime the FBI was alert to the threat. One enemy agent was caught with a box o( ordinary-looking safety matches. Most of the match es were just that, but four o( them turned out lo be tiny pencils which wrote invisibly. Messages were sealed into fountain pens whose barrels had to he broken to ex tract the note, Codes were con cealed in books nnd magazines by minute pin pricks through certain letters. ClrvriTst WiNiMiii But one of the Kill s most ex city ing achievements was in un covering the Nazi secret of the micro-dots perhaps the cleverest 1 espionage weapon o( World War I " , t i-aiiy in me rm received a lip from a double agent that1 me umnans were cievelupini; a new method for slipping informa tion from Allied countries. The agent said the uiethnd had something to do with a new photo graphic process in which full-page messages would be transmitted on dots no bigger than the head ol a pin. In fact he had been shoun one under a microscope at espion age school and told to watch lor these dots in the n.os.ices he would recche. But he could gtu no lurther information Tinv Mark I)nt Then a vnung Balkan arrived in New York City from South Amer ica. Hi checked into his hotel and rttdn t appear MirpiiMti when he found two FBI acenls waiting in -l.ition was grumbling that while j Thus MW8 added to the eon Ills room. Even though recruited .NIMH s inioi ination was good it i fusion ol reports fed to the der by the Germans as an espionage i was certainly expensive. Hy this agent, it can now tie revealed that tune the Nazis had paid bun ap hc was working for the FBI. proximately $:i4 oon. which was "Did you bring them" an agent (turned oer to the Alien Property asked. Custodian. The young man pulled from Ins I Mv replied: ' Sorry you re pocket our blank telegraph mcvlgard information as too expensive. ages. The papers were sent to ll not satisfactory, will he glad to the FUI Laboratory in Washington : withdraw ns 1,,-nn nnd danger are and under a fluorescent lamp a great " The Nazis hurriedly s laboratory technician saw tiny surril N'lwn that not only .s , btaek duks cinbcdt!Md w the nqr. :work satisi.u torv but t.' iwv re He ppied tree ! Wew liftus?; k vwvcei anotlwr too :a a. time. a tfut ne feiar taoi th pavd. JO lire (vri ti th (niiiiiw. nv-mm1lllMtA, NorniHly on June 6. 1 . ag W:Ks3l IN SALEM mills. Light scrap, called 'shect iron" by the trade, may first be baled. Huge hydraulic presses up to three stories in height and. cost ing around (200,000 to construct, do the job. Such a mighty machine receives an entire car body with its frame and reduces it to a fraction of its original size in less time than it takes to write about the crunching. Car bodies, fenders, a lot of farm junk and light ma chinery are classified as light scrap. Enjoys Business W. H. Harris, a "johnny-comc-lately" in the local scrap metal fraternity who enjoys the business because ofits diversity, mentions that a lot of so-called mild steel scrap springs, crank-shafts and like is, now in demand by regional electric steel foundHries. Steel scran, says Harris, is elassiiied as No. 1 and No. 2. Basically the No. 1 stuff is heavier per cubic fool and less bulky, therefore less expensive for smelters to handle efficiently. .No. 2 scrap may be just as good mctallurgically, but it is more bulky and some of it needs to be baled before it is smelted. (Baling. Harris under stands, prevents the light scrap from vaporizing in high furnace heat during the process of smelt ing Clean cast iron and being clean Holmes Slated For WU Talk Gov. Robert D. Holmes has been secured as the main speaker at the 1957 Oregon Federation of Col legiate Leaders conference on the Willamette university campus, Feb. 8-9. The purpose of the conference is to enable the leaders of Oregon colleges to mutually discuss prob lems of college leadership. The forthcoming conference will be the first in two years, although the group has been functioning since 1947. Fourteen Oregon schools will be represented, and approximately 10 leaders of each college student body will attend. Willamette students working as committee chairmen are George lloyl, Portland; Dean Bishoprick, Woodhurn; Norm Dyer, Newberg; Steve Mason, Chemult; and Wil lard Bunney, Vancouver. Story - "periods" loose from the papers and found all of them were mes sages reduced to midget size. This was the secret of the dots, a triumph in photography. ND98 Ilcneges Discovery of the micro-dot secret opened a door through which the FBI got onto the trail of espionage agents and their con federates, a trail that led through the United States nnd South Amer ica, and helped the FBI break up a German espionage ring in Mex ico in cooperation with the Mexi can government. One of the most successful dou ble agents developed by the FBI had the code name of NUM. He was operating an import -export husiness in Germany when he was recruited for espionage hy t h e Nazis. Like the others, he was schooled in secret writing, tele graphy and codes, and given in structions reproduced on the easily hidden microphotographs. One day in 1941, a Nazi official fold him: "You will go lo Uruguay . . . Here are your papers ami instruc tions." NDilfl had a pleasant voyage to Montevideo. But once he was cer tain that he wasn't being watched, he met a U S. Stale Department official. ND98 was willing to sell his services. Was the United States inter ted- K.i pensive Data A few d. later ND9R advised his Mm tinges: "Impossible lo establish radio station and obtain information de sired. Am iinins to United States v here 1 will he able to operate more freely." In New York City, be was taken in tow by the FBI. Under FBI guidance. NP98 made radio contact with Germany from a secluded Long Island radio sta tion similar to t he one the FBI had set up for double agent Wil liam Sebold. The Nazis asked for information as quickly as possible en aircraft, ship and arms pro- li''n '' '"lP "' cargo move- inrnt.s. and (nr any reports on new ' wr.ip.inv i In AiijiM el the llamburi! ! Cm. .! Domic Aims: tii iwaf bf pl.oed es and oilier valuables to the I'nil n tV Siiir.!n ict,of mos-jed States to finance their espion sagi Mtt iM Lof' the Allied i age. The w ife ol one agent tried ... . . -..I- 1. .tn,tl.t it. l,r TM Ucrmaiu cr told that Valuable docs not mean that it is free If rust or grime is largely dispos ed of to local foundaries where it is melted down and again cast into useful metal products for re gional consumption. Unclcancd iron, the iron and steel that has not been sorted in respect to met allurgical differences old auj" mobile engines with both cast and steel components, for instance has n lesser price and is oiten shipped overseas for use in lanJs where labor is cheap. Phil Steinbock, an oldtimcr in the Salem scrap business, explains that rust on iron Is not objection able to smelters, that rust, which is iron oxide, somehow seems to enhance the smelling process. Phil now ships three cars of heavy iron and one car of light scrap each month. Much of his iron comes from farms and old mill machin ery. Shipments to Japan In recent months relaxation of federal restrictions has allowed scrap shipments to Japan. Most of this is baled or unclcancd, unstrip- ped scrap. The demand for this metal abroad may account to a considerable d6grcc for the pres ent lirmness in the Western scrap market. Portland prices for scrap range up to $47 a ton for the best grade of heavy, cleaned Iron. No. 2 stuff is less valuable by a third or less. Wall Street Journal for Jon. 21, quoted No. 1 scrap at $63 a tun. But that price was the mill price at Pittsburgh and not in Salem or in Portland, either. A farmer with a busted up har row for junk may not know the Pittsburgh quotation but the big outfit supplying lots of scrap, you can dci your Douom dollar, does know the price and deals shrewd ly with the junkies on that basis. And when the local boys, making truck deliveries to Portland out lets, don't like the price offered they, too, 'gypsy" around a bit for a better quotation. Some scrap dealers appear to take It as it comes and sell it by the same token. Others meticu lously sort for the best price avail able on clean stuff. Cost iron goes here. No. 1 and No. 2 steel to Portland, lend to Seattle, brass to California and copper and alum inum where the market for the best grade is highest. Dealing in scrnp metal is a cagey business and those who hang on and pros per are not lacking in foresight and perception. MIDDLE lOF) DECEMBER - 0 ,N NEW CHINERY FMM A BE SH1PPED FOR ORLEANS AND ALVKTOl; ARE TU CASABLANCA AND RABAYHEt eACH TO BUILD THERE ONE SEMB F 0DUCTl0N ORDER TO TAKE UP LMER TOJ TH BY MAKING USE OF AFRICA S A SHIPMENT WILL TAKE PL OF EACH LINERS. THREE HUNDRED VJpg WILL BE AT. FIRM ARE J!l TACHED TO CONVOY. TECHNICAL MR1CAN ALREADY DEPARTED 3Y WAY OF 6ALVESTo'n, WUGLAS LOCKHEED, CASABLANCA, RABAT. invaMon pl.ins had been delayed bv a breakdown in the production 0f inxasion boats and that troops' had sailed from New York for the I Mediterranean mans on the Allied invasion plans The first Long Island radio in- ! stallalion was established on Dec. 4. lint, nnd until the final radio conlact with Germany was re cened on May . IMo. a total of 2.L'y messages were transmitted j lo Germany in connection with the eial double ii'tenl toys tnvolv-' fng these installation. TH C.r- mans sent H;N iess3C I The Nazis sent moor, cbibiv rings, diainems. expensne waien lo smuggle in HO.OOd hidden in ner girdle. A seaman courier nia Scrap F'r frT U4.'",f"'f " ' ! .' -n V V.'mmm. Linn mrm.,.,1.., .1,,.., ;: Ti n : IfifP Shown In these photographs - is scrap metal ranging from a mower seat to the kitchen sink being loaded Into cars at the Oregon Klectrlc freight depot for shipment to Portland steel mills. About 12,000 tons of scrap with a value of ap Dam, Highway Work to Break Records, Publication Predicts Work on seven major dams inttwecn Trouidale and The Dalles Oregon will continue in 1957 and I to four lanes. Another project is extensive work wilt be put in on the creation of a four and two Hy. 99. including completion of a ' lane highway between Baker and Salcm-Eucene four-lane route. ac-!oids Ferrv. .cording to predictions in Pacific Builder and Engineer, Seattle trade publication. Even though 1956 was a record year, the publication forecasts a sharp increase in heavy construc tion in the six Northwest states and Alaska during 1957 will be ap parent. Taking into account work of all types. Pacific Builder and Engi neer in its January issue says that Oregon will spend a total of 600 million dollars this year as com pared to 490 millions in lt)5li. In addition to the dam work and the Hy. iffl completion, the publi cation predicts that 39 miles ol highway will he widened to four lanes from Emigrant hill to La Grande. It also says that plans call for a five-year program of widening 67 miles of highway be- .,, ikiC PARTS AND MA- Marge bill in his bridsrork. Final accounting showed that $.isi,l.'.i in cah and valuables had been seized troin German Intelligence anents and turned over to the Treasury Department. (Monday. Whv the Saboteurs Failed RADIANT OLISS11EAT By Continental "the yuaiJurM Ueat" N Fir nannr4 N hovm t N Dn4 or Cblar 4 ( BuiHUMtaft' e fit mt hittv outtu.srw kwul iOwmHKnnrl in FiW fry Iftunmtr fhtw - m 4aft IS40 FiirnrOiJ. ft '!" Metal Is Valuable Jimk In setting a new record for ; heavy engineering construction, the Northwest is expected to be come the nation's third largest market for heavy construction equipment, materials and man power. It may be surpassed only by the populous North Atlantic and South Central areas. Dams and highways will set the pace in the Northwest, with dam building reaching a volume far greater than during the bygone heydays of Bonneville, Grand Cou lee and Hungry Horse dams. High- Kill Asks for Revival Of Has in Commission Restoration of the Upper Co lumbia Basin Commission to map a program for flood control, pow er, drainage and otner projects was proposed in a bill introduced Friday by Rep. Charles A. Tom (Rt, Rufus. A similar commission was abol ished by the 1955 Legislature when it created the State Water Re sources Board. The commission would have seven members appointed by the governor. They would receive nn pay. The bill asks a $50,000 appropriation. JP eerle&! 2)eii PRESENTED BY The Ryans-who are specialists in the field of fancy pastries and cake decorating, have joined the staff of the Peerless Bakery, bring ing to Salem the finest pastries from the most exclusive of Califor nia Bakeries for your enjoyment! NOW AVAILABLE SPECIAL PARTY ORDERS FOR Rum Baba . . . Brioche . . Bouchettes . . . Petit-Fours Tea Cakes BY ADVANCE ORDERS ONLY! " ' "BAKERS TO HER MAJESTY THE HOUSEWIFE" j-eertcSS (13 ah 170 N. Cliimt to, proximately (400,000 Is annually shipped from Salem to regional mills where It Is melted down and again manufactured Into useful metal pro ducts. (Capital Journal Photo) way construction will be up about 20 per cent. In the building field, the publi cation concludes that although the number of new residential starts will be down, the individual units will be higher priced, and com mercial and industrial work will hold the dollar volume high. Keizer Water Staff Installed!?' KEIZER (Special) The board of commissioners for Keizer Water District held us regular January meeting at the Keizer fire hall to install the newly elected com missioner, James Nightengale. The board heard proposals from engineering firms from Salem, Corvallis and Portland in connec tion with planning for contemplat ed construction. The proposals arc now under consideration and some action is expected in a few days. No ac tion will be taken toward any ac tual construction until after a bond issue has been voted on by resi dents of the district. Officers of the board, all re elected, are chairman, Robert O, Smith; secretary, Jack Frisbie; and Wesley Wilson, treasurer. It was decided that the board should undertake to determine the location and extent of existing com munity water systems in the dis trict. To that end it is requested that the owner or proprietor of .each such system contact the board. kir(y and f-at OF SAN FRANCISCO ' . j ;', y INCOME TAX TIPS Deciding on Joint Tax Form Important, Can When you have determined which teaerai income x mm is most advantageous, your next step if you are or recently were married likely should be to deter mine whether to file jointly or separately. Most couples save tax money via the joint return instead of the separate one. This is true because the tax is figured -on a joint re turn as though hubby and wife each had half the total income. This income-splitting may place the couple into a lower bracket. But, beware of exceptions, for they may prove costly. For instance: 2nd Decisions Program Set For Sunday The second in a scries of eight Great Decisions programs will be held Sunday afternoon. More than 270 people in the Salem area will be taking part, according to Alan Berg, general chairman of t h c program in this vicinity. Sunday's topic is "U.S. Policy for Europe and Germany." The problem will be discussed over both radio and television and then 17 separate groups in the Salem area will hold their own confabs on the same topic. Alter each group has aired the prbblem thoroughly and each per son has been given a chance to participate in trie discussion a vote will be taken to see just how the people think the U.S. should handle the problem. Three authorities on the Euro pean situation will discuss the problem over radio station KSL.M Sunday at 4 p.m. They are: Supreme Court Justice James C. who served on a German war crimes tribunal: Dr. Julius Einis, a native of Switzerland and now working in the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture, and George Knoff, a former German business man who is now an economics stu dent at Willamette university. Moderator of the discussion will be Dr. Howard W. Runkel. head of the Willamette speech depart ment. All persons who are interested in joining into the Great Decisions program are urged to call either Berg or Mrs. Marvin Nettlcton. Mainwaring Re-named As Editor of Emerald EUGENE Ul William Main waring, editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald since last fall, has been reappointed to the post by the student publications board. He is the son of the late Ber nard Mainwaring, publisher of the Salem Capital Journal, who died last Saturday. cacied ' ' tan em Phone EM 3-5704 Mean Savings I 1. If you had capital losses or m , , probably should igure both ,o,n ly and separately to see which re sults in less tax. 2. On a joint return, both hus band and wife are liable for the entire tax. This could be quite a blow to a widow when a de ficiency is assessed after the hus band s death. ir k.k v,,... -,ri m,.,i income, it is doubly important that , n.nrn ,i, -nC1,ii!: irnm iw,,h joint and separate filing. Advice ii ,.h nari ruino Advice from your public accountant may help you determine how to file to obtain the greatest saving Some other factors to remember in deciding whether to file jointly or separately: 1. Husband and wife may file a joint return even though one has no income nor deductions. 2. A joint return can be filed if the taxpayers were husband and wife on the last day of the tax year or on the date one spouse died, provided tne survivor aoesn t remarry during the year. 3. Spouses who were divorced or legally separated by the last day of the taxable year, or on the date one spouse died, cannot fib jointly. But tney stilt can it au they had was an interlocutory decree. 4. Spouses filing separately can change to joint return at any time before the limitation statute expires generally, within three years from the due date of the return. But after the due date, they can't switch from joint to separate returns. 5. Filing separate declarations of estimated tax does not preclude filing a joint return, or visa versa. 6. The spouses who file jointly must have the same taxable year (except in cases of death.) If the tax years are different, per mission must be obtained from the commissioner of internal revenue to change to the same tax year. 7. If the spouses use different accounting methods, they may still file a joint return, provided their accounting methods clearly reflect income. 8. Joint returns may be filed on form 1040-A, short form 1040 or long form 1040. 9. On separate returns, if one spouse itemizes deductions, the other must also itemize and can not file a short form return nor claim the standard deduction. 10. If one spouse dies, the other can get split-income benefits for two years after the year of death. if certain 'conditions are met. me survivor and the deceased must have been eligible to file jointly in the year of death. The survivor must maintain a household which is the home of a child for whom the survivor is entitled to claim an exemption. The survivor can't get the benefit on form 1040-A. Naturally, if the survivor remar ries, the only way to split income is to file jointly with the new spouse. "THE WISE MAN IS HE WHO KNOWS THE RELATIVE VALUE OF THINGS" (Authar'i Nam B.low) How valuable is that piece of paper on which your prescription has been writ ten? Your physician studied in a hospital to iearn how for many years in a medi cal university and interned Before w e pharmacists can compound it, we spend years in a college of phar macy and serve an appren ticeship to gain actual ex perience. Both of us have to pass a state examination to prove our knowledge and ability All this training is yours for just the few dollars fee you pay each of us. YOUR PHYSICIAN , CAN PHONE EM 4-3336150 S. Liberty St. EM 3-9123-310 Court St. EM 3-31 57-2440 Grear St. WHEN YOU NEED A MEDICINE Pick up your prescription if shopping near us, or let us de liver at 12:30 and 4:00 daily without extra charge. A great many people entrust us with the responsibility of filling their prescriptions. May we compound yours? . Remember: At 150 South Liberty Street we are pre pared to supply your Drug Store needs Z hours a day. Night and day. We are open at this address until 11:00 P.M. At anv other time vou need ll just dial KM 4-3336 or KM 3-9123. Sunday hours are 12:00 until 2:00 and 6:00 until 9:00 P.M. We are pleased to be able to give this 24-hour service to the people of our community. Medical Tenter Branch 2440 (, rear Phone KM 3-315" Salem. Oregon Court and Commercial Phone KM 3-9123 150 South l.ibertv St Pione KM 4-1336 QgUtisM ky tt Ing (1160-1954) Cpr"jM 15 (13W4I Preps, Parents Get Invitations To Conference Invitations are in the mail to ... . , , rf . ; JL1? ern Washington area to the Wil lamette university college night counseling conference. The annual meeting will be held Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. in the Empire Room of the Multnomah hotel. Purpose of the yearly counseling meeting is to provide more sue- i F'fic "Pj Personal guidance than t is possible in the high school con- ' 'crences. Following a talk by Dr. G. Herbert Smith, president of : ,n university, students and par- cnts will be able to meet and talk with heads of the departments in which they are interested. Faculty members will be repre sented from all departments of liberal arts, science, music and law. In addition, the student deans and head of the AFROTC detach ment will be present to counsel with students. WU Students May Sponsor Hungarians The possibility of sponsoring Hungarian students at Willamette university is being investigated by members of the student body, in answer to a request from the World university service commit tee for student sponsorship. Student Body President Neil Causbie, Albany, and Unesco Pres ident Joe Stewart, Lebanon, form ed the local committee after at tending meetings of collegiate leaders and WUS representatives in Portland last week. The committee has succeeded in finding two homes willing lo receive students, part-time jobs, possible summer work, and pro vision for tuition and books, all pending university approval. The Salem Council of Chuches has joined the students' search for support for the foreign students. Members of the steering com mittees are Dick White, Salem; George Gray Ashland; Charlotte Means, Eugene; Lucy Myers, Che shire; Marge Stout, Oak Grove; and Mary Lou Krou.se, Seattle. f A fundamental principle to keep in mind when decorating a home of taste ts suitability. ' Bunding interiors suitable to the owner's taste, purse and mode of ; living is of paramount import ; ance if the home is to be a good . background for happy family liv ing. . . . Just as a new, modern 1 home suggests the furniture do sign and placement to be simp e but comfortable, using, perhap. low tables and larger curvsn ; : sofas and the larger lamps, so th j older traditional house speaks a need for a more ornate dceor. ... The Colonial and Victor ian types of homes are stili the 'choice of many families who have strong family ties or even of those who feel a need for them. Often they have accumu lated a few heirloom pieces nf home furnishings and so are de sirous of adding to them in the same style, thus giving thir homes a warm, lived-in quality. ... There are beautiful copies of the very finest of traditional : furniture available to us. This makes it possible to decorate the , cottage type homes with quaint pieces of yesterday as well as the firetentious town house with its ovely English, French or classic styles of European ancestry. . . . Today let's decorate the dinitig room of a Colonial home for a ! family who still likes to eat by candlelight in beautiful sur roundings, by painting the pan i elled dado and window woodwork bone ivory. On the floor we'll lay our beautiful, new ivory-colored, imported wool carpeting. Over the large, paned window , very fine, very sheer ivory-colored ninon curtains would be nice if the same shade in a heav ier fabric is used for draperies. These should be made with a graceful swag edged in loop fringe of the same color. . . . Now let's paper the walls over the ivory dado with a rich, red flocked wallpaper of traditional damask design, giving the walls the feeling of being fabric-covered in velvet. ... In the center of the room we'll place a Duncan Phyfe table with shield D3ck chairs covered in lipstick red an tique satin. The two host chairs should he painted bone ivory to keen the room's balance light in feeling. . . . Tall, silver candela bra on the beautiful mahoflnny sideboard, with a smaller match ing pair on the table at meal time would be lovely. ... A large crystal chandelier hung at the standard height of 30 inches above the table with matching wall sconce at either side of the window would add sparkle to the room. . . . Before we leave let's set the table with Spodes Jewel dmnerware. from our china de partment, placing it on heavy, ivorv-colored lace mats. Tall stemmrd eoblets of crvstal and a low arrangement of fresh, red roes in a crvstal bowl would add a last crowning Jouch. 'Bve till later, lipmftn's hftNM Btetttf 285 N. Li I Salem, Orejijrt I Let's I I Decorate I f IE $ o