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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1957)
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March 13, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 2 Pag & Strawberry Men Of Polk County Sign For Grower Association Emil Marx Will Be Chairman of Group DALLAS (Special) Formal organization ot the Polk County Strawberry Growers Association was completed at Rickreall at a recent meeting. According to Kim Roberts, coun ty horticultural agent, approx imately 90 per cent of the total acreage of Polk County was rep resented. The group unanimously agreed to cooperate in a tlOO.OOO research foundation program for the strawberry industry in Oregon. Emil Marx, Rickreall, was elec (ed chairman of the newly formed organization, with Gerald Morlan, Independence, vice - president; Ovid Long, Independence, secre tary - treasurer; Joe Lucas, West Salem, one year director; and Allen Stevens, Rickreall, two-year director. BY-LAWS DISCUSSED The constitution and by-laws were discussed and plans made for another meeting prior to berry harvest. Growers feel that such an organization will serve Polk coun ty in discussing labor needs, har vesting prices, and other problems and projects important to this lo cal industry, Roberts said. The main purpose of this organ ization will be to cooperate with the Oregon State Strawberry Coun cil in a state - wide promotional program. Members will be eligible to serve on an advisory committee of a five - year research program to be inaugurated this spring. The strawberry industry of the Willa mette Valley, in initiating this re search foundation program for the next five years, will be pointed toward exploration into new vari eties and cultural methods -to boost total production of berries, and reduce costs to compete with other areas now producing greater tonnages per acre. The slate Strawberry Council and the Polk County Association, if ooperating with packer fieldmen, ! nave signed approximately 90 per cent ot the acreage ot berries in the county. Each Ion of berries will be assessed $1 to be placed in the research foundation pro gram. DeMolay Initiates MOLALLA (Special) Initiatory degree was conferred on Terry Seethoff, Larry Parmemer and John Massey at the recent Mo lalla DeMolay meeting, with the new master councilor, Don Craw ford, presiding. Judy Kappler was voted to represent the chapter at the district Sweetheart Ball in April. YESTERDAY'S CLOSE New York Stock Quotations By The Associated Press Admiral Corporation Allied Chemical Allis Chalmers Aluminum Co. America American Airlines American Can American Cyanamide American Motors American Tel. & Tel. American Tobacco Anaconda Copper Armco Steel Atchison Railroad Bethlehem Steel Boeing Airplane Co. Borg Warner Burroughs Adding Mach. California Packing Canadian Pacific Caterpillar Tractor Celanese Croporation Chrysler Corporation Cities Service Consolidated Edison Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright Douglas Aircraft duPont de Nemours Eastman Kodak Emerson Radio Ford Motor General Electric General Foods General Motors Georgia Pac Plywood Goodyear Tire International Harvester International Paper Johns Manville Kaiser Aluminum Kennecott Copper Libby, McNeill Lockheed Aircraft 11 Vi Loew's Incorporated 18 87 .Montgomery Ward 37 32 New York Central , 30 87 Northern Pacific 41 Vi 18 Vt Pacific Gas & Electric 49 42 Pacific Tel. & Tel. 129 Vs 75 Penney (J.C.) Co. 84 IVi Pennsylvania R.R. 20 Y, 177 to Pepsi Cola Co. . 21 75 Philco Radio 14 60 Puget Sound P & L 27 Mi 53 to Radio Corporation 33 & 24 Rayonier Incorp. 29 42 Republic Steel 50 V 47 Reynolds Metals 52 41 Richfield Oil 64 37 Safeway Stores Inc. 67 14 40 St. Regis 41 to 31 to Scott Paper Co. 61 91 Sears Roebuck 4 Co, 27 16 to Shell Oil Co. 81 75 Sinclair Oil 59 58 'A Socony Mobile Oil 52 45 Southern Pacific 42 51 Standard Oil Calif. 45 41 Standard Oil N.J. 58 V 75 Vi Studebaker Packard - 7 to 179 Sunshine Mining 6 83 Vi Swift & Company 38 5 Transamerica . Corp. 38 57 Twentieth Century Fox 24 56 Vi Union Oil Company 53 43 Union Pacific 27 to 39 United Airlines 31 27 United Aircraft 75 74 Mi United Corporation 6 44 Vi United Stales Plywood 32 Vk 46 United States Steel 58 to 46 Warner Pictures 25 41 Western Union Tel. 18 108 Westinghouse Air Brake 28 to 12 Westinghouse Electric 54 45 to Woolworth Company 43 Vi Vision Clinic at Lebanon Set for Thursday, Friday LEBANON f Special) Thurs day and Friday wilt be Free Vision Clinic days In the City hall auditorium, sponsored by the Lions club. School-age chil dren are eligible to attend. Hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Genera) chairman Is Dr, John Burdell, who will participate with Dr, Merle Wiggins, and Dr. Terry Pace ol Lebanon; with Dr. Merle Landis, Dr. James Climb and Dr. William Shackleford of Albany; and with Dr. Edward Bunn and Dr. Sam Goodman of Sweet Home. Assisting will be Lfons Ladles Mrs. Charles McConnetl, Mrs. Fred Van Lob, Mrs. H. R. Groves, Mrs. Paul Sheridan, Mrs. R. H. Johnson, Mrs. Glenn Huston, .Mrs. Laddie Pesek, Mrs. George Britton and Mrs. Harold Montgomery. Valley Dates SUBLIMITY - Members of the Marion County Firemen's Associ ation will meet at 8 p.m. Wednes day at the Sublimity fire hail. Special speakers will be present. LINCOLN The March meeting of the Lincoln Goodwill club, an nounced to be held at the home of Mrs. Lloyd Koxie, is to be held instead at the Lincoln home of Mrs. H. D. Burns, Thursday for a 1:30 dessert preceding a business ses sion and social hour. SUBLIMITV Spring Style Show with "Fashions by Johnson's of Salem" sponsored by Mother Ca brini Altar Society Circle will be Thursday at 8 p.m. at Parish Hall Sublimity. WOODRURN Woodburn Jaycce ettes will meet at the home ol Mrs. Robert Sawlclle Thursday, at 8 p.m. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. Vernon Eaden, Mrs. Richard Jennings and Mrs. Harry Wood ward. A hard times party is planned for Saturday, March 16, for members and husbands at the Grange hall. Mrs. Don Burlin: ham and Mrs. Lynn Simon are co- chairmen. W1LLAMINA A Well Child con ference will be held in Willamina Thursday, from 9:30 a.m. until noon. Pre-school children may re ceive polio shots at this time. RICKREALL The Rickreall Home Extension Unit will meet in the Grange hail Thursday morn ing for a "broiler meal." Leaders will be Mrs. Knight and Mrs. Har per from Salem. A pot luck dinner will be served at noon. JEFFERSON The Jefferson Woman's Club will hold its regular monthly meeting March 14 in the library rooms ol the City Hall. Hostesses will be Mrs. Earnest Powell, Mrs. Virgil Bailes, Mrs. Walter Kropp, Mrs. Walton Looney, Mrs. R. H. Beai, Mrs. Harold Wynd. The Talbot Woman's Club will be special guests. Mrs. E. C. Fisher will be the speaker. Mrs. Frank Jones will give a five-minute book revue. MONMOUTH The Civic club will meet Thursday and the speak er will be Charles Noxon of the OSC department of social science. Donald Co-op Adds Ammonia Tank to Plant 16,000 Galon Unit to Supply Farmers Of District DONALD (Special 1 The Don ald Famer's Co-op has completed installation of a 16.000 gallon Aqua Ammonia tank, and six applicators are ready for the farmers to use in applying the lertilizer as soon as the weather permits. An experienced operator delivers the filled applicator to the farmer, the machine is then calibrated to insure an accurate application at whatever nitrogen levels the farm er desires. After tho machine is correctly adjusted the farmer fin ishes his field unaided. Since the material is placed in the soil at a shallow three to tour inch root 2one depth, it is not necessary to have a large power ful tractor in order to pull the applicator. A two plow tractor can handle a 16 foot applicator under normal conditions. Talbot Farmer to Tell of Visits in Missionary Field JEFFERSON (Special! Eldon Turnidge, mint farmer at Talbot, will tell ol his experiences in Ecua dor and Columbia and show a film strip, at the 6:45 p.m. dinner meet ing ol the Albany Christian Busi nessmen's association at the River side community hail Thursday night. With five other laymen, Turnidge spent three weeks in South Amer ica recently, visiting Peru, Pana ma, Columbia, and Ecuador, Pur pose of the trip was tD see mis sions in action. The men visited the Auca illage area of the head-shrinking Jivaros Indians where live missionaries lost their 'lives a year ago in an attack by the natives. Interested men are invited. Aurora PTA Elects Staff AURORA (Special) New offic ers were elected at the March meeting of the Aurora Parent-' Teacher's Association. Fred Kahle ! was re-elected president, Mrs. Don ; Ballrot was elected vice-president, ' Mrs. Webb Traglio was re-elected ! treasurer and Mrs. "Bud" Giesy ; is the secretary for the coming ' year. Room count was won by Mrs. John Todd's fifth and sisth grade. Happy birthday was sung lor the ! principal, Vcrn Compton. Rickey Kahle played two accordion num bers. The Ji)m, "The Sibling Re lationship" was shown followed by a pane! discussion. Members of 1 the pane) were Mrs. Harmon! Yeary and Mrs. Marion Baker of ; the Marion county Health Depart ment, William Lowrie, Mrs. Leon ard Peters and Compton. Follow ing the discussion, Mrs. Yeary answered questions regarding the Salk polio shots. Hostesses were Mrs. Eugene Cole, Mrs. Fred Wilmes and Mrs. Cecil McCarty. Mrs. Levere Leiser, membership chairman, reported that there are now 63 PTA members. The next meeting of the PTA, April 1 will be in the form of a no host supper with the eighth grade students and their parents as guests. Toastmasters Change Time SILVERTON (Special) The Silverton Toastmasters Club, for merly a breakfast club, recently changed the meetings to the din ner hour and meet at the Silver ton Cafe at p.m. on Tuesdays. Tom Myers, of the loca) club, will represent Silverton in the area speech contest in Albany, March 16. At Tuesday evening's meeting Wiliard Hayne was toastmaster. George McNeill was in charge of table topics and evaiualors were Tom Myers, Jack Fish, Bill Iron and Quintin Estell. General evai uator was Walt Kruse, evaluator of the toastmaster was Karl Kahle and timekeeper for the session was Rholin Cooley. Speakers were Bill Block, I. M. Nelson, Ben Eckley and Ole Paulson. Meeting Postponed MOLALA (Special) - Molalia Farm Bureau center meeting, which was to have been held Saturday evening, March 16 in the Verdon Sandberg home, has been changed to Friday evening, March 22, reports Mrs. waiter Hardy, center chairman. He will tell of "Jerusalcs as I Saw It." The meeting will be in the faculty lounge of the OCE library beginning at 2 p.m. DONALD The next meeting of the Women's Benefit Association of Donald will be Thursday. $275000 for ChevroletYluchj Travelers! Exciting as a Clievrolet ride. ThaVs Clievys whopping newltichy Traveler 'Contest! FOUR top ivinners each get $25,000 and a beautiful new Clievrolet car of their choice -even a Corvette. Next 53 winners each get a '57 Chevrolet Bel Air 4-Door Sedan and a (500 vacation fund! Club Opposes Bank Closing At Silverton Women Ask Regulation Of Billboards on Freeways SILVERTOff-(Special! The Silverton Women's Club went on record at this week's meeting as definitely opposing the current bill before the state legislature which would Jorce banks to close on Sat urdays and approved the bill which would regulate billboard ad vertising on freeways. The president, Mrs. Ear) Drd rick, announced that progress is being made in the Club's efforts to arouse interest in poiio inocu lations for the pabiie and that the local medical men were cooperat ing in the plan. Mrs. Floyd Fox Sr. displayed articles collected on bet recent world tour and told of her trip, showing slides as a feature ol the program. Guests at the mooting wore Mes dames Jieivin Brenden, Wiliard Benson, Albert Ttasmussen Alice Harrington, Magda Frank, Geneva Hubbard, Paul Henry and Ida Palmer. Presiding al the tea table were Mrs. P. L. Brown and Mrs. George HcNeill. On the committee were Hiesdames W. F. Xrenz, Reber Al len, Ed Zitievrilz, F. B. Remvitk and Ear! G. Dcdrick. GUESTS FBOM BEND SCOTTS MILLS iSpecia!) Mr. and Mrs. Ray Keffis of Bono, Nov., arrived Sunday at the home of her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. BusseH Nelson and son to visit a few days. Rock Hounds Will Stage Show At Sweet Home Over Weekend SWEET HOME tSoeeiat) Ninth annual rock, jem and mineral ttmn witt fee feel fiat, urday and Sunday, March K-tT, by the Sweet Home Rack and Mineral Society (a the Sweet Home high school. Mrs. Harold Derby, president, it general cttairniaa The show will be open from 19 a.m. to It o.vn. Saturday and IS .;!. te I p.m. Sunday, wltk a snack bar on Sunday until i p.m. Trochlea will be awarded at the banquet Saturday nlgM In the high tcflool cafeteria. Banquet ticked may tie a- talued (mm Mr. Beroy, or rem Hurley Johnson Admission to (he show in free both days. EjMMIs )!) be brought hoot Hertford, Deschutes, Salem, Al bany, Lebanon, CorvaHfs, North. Bend and other places, aald Mrs, Derby. 0(K!t display sectkwis of travel lies wli) be exceptionally large this ytm, she added. New officers wiK he Installed at foe banquet, John Benson president; Frank Groves ol Le banon, vice-president; Sue jean ton, secretary - treasurer; sad Jess Emmtri, federation direct- Resolutions to Be Considered ' LEBANON Soeciail Points judges look lor in sewing contests will be discussed by EuIb Winler motc, Linn county home extension agent, at a Linn county Pomona Grange meeting March il at Scio Grange hall. An all day meeting, the session will open at 10:30 a.m. with potluck dinner at noon. Resolutions on labelling Oregon processed ioods as Oregon prod ucts, on correct marking of eggs, and on Grange procedures will he considered, said Mrs. Wenonah Wiley, Pomona icporler. . Lodge Initiates LEBANON (Special) la a candlelight ceremony vrivh daf fodils and heather for background, Hoyal Neighbors lodge initiated four new members Monday night, Mrs. Lorraine Kaufman, Mrs. Dorothy Hoffman, Mrs. Marguerite Van Lovon and Mrs. Dorolhy Turner. - Molalia Dates Talent Show MGLALLA Specia!) JIolaHa FFA has set the date of March 29 for the annual amateur show, its main fund-raising project of the year. The acts of the show will be divided into two divisions, grade and high school. There Kill be a grand ptiit in each division valued at about $25; a first prae in each class; ail other contestants will receive pri2es and there will db three spe cial prizes. Wcs ifoglanri, footbaii and WTesthng coach, wii be mas ter of ceremonies. Funds raised by the event wiii be used to establish a swine co operative to be made up of ap proximately 1 purebred animals. These aaireals will be given to individual members Jor home pro jects. The chapter also voted to give 25 per cent of lis net receipts from the IsScnt fliosv to Moialia recreation center fund. Grangers Visit At Scotts Mills SCOTTS MILLS (Special) - At reeeat meeting of tire Sectts M!s Grange, wVicn was annual visits tion night, there were 71 mem bers, M officers from Silverton Hffis Grange. Thirty one mem bers, IS offers from Scotts Mills grange were present. Two new uHirere were elected. Pomona, Mrs. Harold Burroughs, and Flora, Mrs. Atasand Rich. An other visitor, Mrs. Winsiua Teliy of North Hovreii, was present. A program was presented by lecturer Mrs, Bonald Sleyens; a reading y Mrs. Harold WooIsev; a skit, by Mr. and Mrs. lais Vetter and Mrs. Marion Grnsbong. music (sy Mr. and Mrs. Glenn SSentz and Almond and Artfcor Rich. Silverton Kills furnished two numbers music by Ciarenee Tay lor ana" Mrs. Petty, and a read iug isy Otto Oafcl. On Monday nig! of ihts week the Seatts Miiis Grange isiled Kortb Howeii- MBS. WEBEBT JU, AUBOBA iSperiaJi Mrs. TriiJa Webert is back in Aurora after a 13 day stay in tfee hospital. She is now in Ibe home of her broBim-s, Ralph and A. J. 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