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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1957)
r Salem, Oregon, Friday, February 22, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section I Figi I 15 CENTS PER YEAH Dr. Morris Explains Educational TV Costs Television as an adjunct to public education can be provided tome 1,300,000 persons at a per capita cost of 52 cents tor instal lation of equipment and a con tinuing charge of 15 cents per year for operations. These statistics were presented by Dr. James Morris, director of programs for radio station KOAC while addressing the Salem Lions club Thursday noon at the Marion hotel. Incidentally, Dr. School Heads Slate Confab For Eugene A number of Salem area school administrators will be in the Bethel district, in the suburbs of Eugene, Saturday for participation in the annual winter conference of the western region of the Oregon Ele mentary School Principals associa tion. Leading discussion groups on various phases of the general theme, "Making the Work of the Elementary School Principals More Effective in Plant and Per sonnel Management," will be Wal lace Turnidge, Liberty, building maintenance; Alvin Hoerauf, Bush, miscellaneous; Carmalita Weddle, Keiser, bus drivers, and Ralph Gibbs, Lacomb elementary school, Lebanon, building cleanliness. Kenneth L. Mohncy, Hayesville principal will act as discussion coordinator. Morris said, KOAC's radio opera tions on an annual basis were equivalent to the price of a pack of gum for every person in the state. Dr. Morris said there were J educational TV stations operating throughout the United States. They reach some 50,000,000 per sons. One of the stations is lo cated in Seattle and another in the San Francisco Bay area. The speaker touched upon the financial difficulties encountered by. the community sponsored sta tions. Keeping the stations on the air is a serious problem, he said. The station in the Bay area was literally being "starved to death," commented Dr. Morris. As for a TV station under KOAC's direction, Dr. Morris said two transmitters would be estab lished, one on top of Mary's peak and another in Portland. Programs at first would be provided by Ore gon State, University of Oregon and Portland State college. Girl Gets Injuries In 2Car Collision Loretta DeBrule of Baldwin Park, Calif., was injured Thurs day when two automobiles col lided at Shipping and North Sum mer streets, receiving cuts on hand and knee and possible chest injuries. She was in a car driven by Thomas Olesen of Vancouver, B.C., which collided with a vehicle driv en by Raymond Edward Peeren boom, 2160 Munkers St. Winner Kathleen Deeney, above, a freshman at Oregon State college, won two awards at a recent speech tournament. Salem Girl Wins Speech Meet Honors OREGON STATE COLLEGE A Salem freshman at Oregon State college, Kathleen Deeney, won a first and third place in the recent College of Puget Sound speech tournament. A 1956 graduate of South Salem high school, Miss Deeney, 19, is a freshman in home economics at OSC. She is the daughter of Mrs. W. E. Deeney, 1760 Fairmount. HERE IN THE HOMETOWN Law Students Elect Officers Robert Thompson, Salem, a sec end year law student at Willam ette university, has been named president of the college of law stu dent body for the coming year. A graduate of Oregon State col lege in forestry, Thompson was secretary-treasurer of the law stu dent body last year and is affili ated with Phi Delta Phi legal fra ternity. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elton H. Thompson. Other officers of the law student body are vice president, Robert Sailor, Fall Creek, vice president; Gino Pieretti, Portland, secretary treasurer; John Skimas, Camas, Wash., student council representa tive. To Discuss Plants C. L. McDonald, Salem dwarf rhododendron fancier, will discuss the small plants at the meeting of the Salem Camellia and Rhodo dendron society meeting at the YMCA at 8 p.m. Tuesday. He will also show slides of rock gardens. Entertainment at the meeting will be furnished by a 10 piece accordion band. Class Slated A training class for persons who deal with providing food to the public will be given six times next week at the county health depart ment building, 2455 Franzcn St. The classes are being repeated to make them available to all food service personnel. The sessions are especially for operators and employes of restau rants, cafes, fountains, coffee shops, school cafeteria workers and food service people of lodges, churches and other places where meals are served, the health de partment pointed out. The sessions will be held in the sanitation section of the health building at 2 and 8 p.m, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Bound Over to Jury Two Portland men, arrested in that city early this week were bound over to the Marion county Brand iurv on charges of grand larceny following preliminary hearings Thursday before District Judge E. O. Stadter, Jr. Roosevelt Jenkins, 34, ana van Glosson, 28, are accused of the theft of pipe and equipment valued at $500 from the Willamette Drill ing company near Brooks. Damage Suit Filed An accident on the Baldock Freeway in November. 1955, in volving a pedestrian and a motor vehicle has resulted in a sjsusu damage suit being filed In Marion county circuit court. The plaintiff, Joseph William Murphy, says lie was walking on the shoulder of the highway near Havesville when he was struck by an automobile driven by Donald Lehman. As a consequence, Mur phy claims he has not been able to work for 15 months and asks $3,500 to cover wages lost during that period. . In addition Lehman seeks $35,000 general damages and $890 to cov er medical expenses. Delta Gamma Sorority Tops WU in Grades Mark Average Is 3.117 ; Beta Theta Pi Leads Men Delta Gamma sorority at Wil lamette university led the school in scholarship for the fall sem ester. Top men's organization was Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Each will receive a trophy for scholastic achievement. The trophies rotate each semester between living organizations. Statistics on Willamette students' grades, according to women's liv ing groups, follow: Delta Gamma, 3.U7; Pi Beta Phi, 3.013; Town Women, 2.901; Alpha Chi Omega, 2.841; Chi Omega, 2.801; Doney hall, 2.801; Lausanne hall, 2.519; and University house, 2.466. Leading the fraternities are Beta Theta Pi, 3.087; Phi Delta Theta, 2.715; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 2.618; South hall, 2.5611; Baxter hall, 2.524; Town Men, 2.494; and Sig ma Chi, 2.442. The all-school average was 2.703: all-sorority, 2.962; all-fraternity, 2.733; all-women, 2.824; and all men, 2.619, County Body Mulls Refund To 8 Schools Refunds to some eight Marion county schools, who had agreed to pay a part of the cost of Gciger counters to be provided by the Federal Civil Defense association, has been taken under consideration of the county commissioners. A report by W. S. Wharton, Mar ion county civil defense director, to the commissoners, said the original plan was for each of the eight participating schools to con tribute to the cost of the counters. The total was approximately $70. Since then the situation has changed, and each of the schools will receive four Geigcr counters, five dosimeters and lab equip ment for testing. In addition they will likely get their money back. Traffic Accidents Jump During '56 Traffic accidents In Oregon in creased nearly four per cent last vear. but the worst news came in the injury column where state safety officials said today a 12 per cent increase over 1955 was re ported. . As statisticians finished compil ing the stato-wide accident figures, here's the way the state record slacked up: accidents, 68,299; per sons injured, 17,298; people miica 421. HOGG BROS. GIGANTIC CONTINUES THRU SUNDAY Open Fri. 'til 9 P.M.-Sat. 'til 5:30-Sun. 1 P.M. to 6 P.M. HERE ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES: OF THE MANY, MANY VALUES OF THIS SALE WESTINGHOUSE a WASHER A 135 30x40 FRAMED MIRRORS S& 9 USED OCCASIONAL CHAIRS $4'V6" COTTON BR0ADL00M CARPET ?r$2",2: No Down Payment On Approved Credit Free Parking Hurry! Hurry! WILLAMETTE VALLEY'S LEADING APPLIANCE 4 HOME FURNISHERS SALEM OREGON CITY 12 State St. Ph. EM 3-9148 I ROEBUCK AND CaJfflW ft f uVVSlv' If I : SAVE N prusa SAVE ALMOST at 2 Sears! Ann. Mm . Rv I I I r4 ra P cUeLJ m m . 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