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Page 10 Section 2 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL' Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 12, 1957 j Silverton Boasts Varied Industries, Distinguished Past Cannery, Hospital Lead in Payrolls I Next largest in seasonal em- By BEN MAXWELL ployment is Silver Falls Turkey Capital Journal Writer Processors with 90 hands at the Misfortune, fruits and vegetables , peak of the season and an annual afford Silverton its largest pay. roils. Kolstad Cannery, with 300 em ployes at the season's peak, has an annual payroll of $175,000. That same amount is the annual pay roll lor bilvertons community payroll of ilOO.OOO, This firm ships 2,500,000 pounds of fresh iced and frozen birds to outlets in the Northwest during a busy season of six weeks in the spring and five months in fall and winter months.1 William Everitt is owned hospital with 72 employes manager and O. L. Kuykendall during February, 1957. -sales manager of the group. Breeding Is Specialty Not distant from the Turkey Processors is Silver Falls Hatch- 1' ."' V jY" The view of the west aide of Eist Main Street In Silver ; ton pictured above, depicts structures' In the clyt's past and present history. Some were familiar to Homer Dav enport In the 1890s while others are entirely modern. Below Is shown Sllverton'j community owned hospital which has a ? 175,000 annual payroll which Is equal to the city's largest industry. The new and modern hospital has 52 beds and a staff of 11 doctors. (Capital Journal Photos) Teamsters Control Said Taken By English, Hoffa; Exit Beck? NEW YORK Ufi The Herald Tribune says Dave Beck's leader ship of the 1 canisters Union has been curbed to the vanishing point by tacit agreement of (he union's 13-memher Executive Board, It said Beck is slated to "get the boot" at the Teamsters con vention in Miami Beach in Sep tember despite his assertions that he will be re-elected for another five-year term. Compact OKd By California SACRAMENTO, Calif. M -Legislation ratifying the Klamath River Basin Compact between California and Oregon was sent . to Gov. Goodwin Knight's desk Thursday. The Oregon Legislature has passed a similar hill. Knight announced he and Oregon Gov. Robert D. Holmes will hold simultaneous signing ceremonies next Wednesday, wilh a long dis tance telephone hookup arranged so they can synchronize their timing. Assemblywoman Pauline L. Davis (D-Portola) told the Assem bly the compact means that 100, 000 acres of California "land can be irrigated. She said the compact permits construction of a project In either slate to supply irrigation water, regardless in which state it will be used. Policy-making and adminislra tive control of the 1,350,000-mem- ber union has been taken over, in effect, by John F, English, secretary-treasurer, and James R. Iloffii, ninth vice president, who has been indicted on bribery charges, the newspaper said. It continued: "A principal goal of English and Holla, it was reliably reported, is to keep the union in the AFL- L1U, whose own corruption and malfeasance charges against the teamsters union and Mr. Beck Indicate that only a thoroughgo ing clean-up could avert ultimate ouster. . . "How Hoffa proposes to accom plish a 'clean-up' and keep his own official skin intact is current ly tne stiDjcci oi leverisn discus sions and planning between him and his chief supporters and law yers, with the possibility of his conviction for bribery making any strategy tentative, .to say the least. 'Hoffa. If convicted, would auto matically be disqualified from leadership under AFL-CIO law." The newspaper said Beck never had total control of the union and had to make deals with Hoffa and Frank Brewster. West Coast Teamsters leader, for support. It said Beck was certain to denv his authority has in any way di minished but that "the fact is that Hoffa. English, and a major ity of the Teamsters Executive Board are now not paying any at tention to what he says." Over 20 Pel. of U.S. Nrwsixiiiprs Sell for ' More. Than a Nickel NEW YORK (UP) More than 10 per cent of the dally newspap ers in the United Stales are now charging more than a nickel for a single copy, the American News paper Publishers Association re ported Wednesday. i A report on the ANPA's annual survey of the nallon's 1.73S Eng lish language dailies said 379 have had lo raise their single copy price to 6, 7, or 10 cents. Altcntion to Comfort OKLAHOMA CITY ( The Oklahoma Legislature is looking out for the comfort of railroad section hands. Gov. Raymond Gary signed into law a bill requir ing railroad track motor cars to have tops and electric windshield wipers. Silverton has had a distinguished past. It now has an industry with a world-wide distribution. Homer Davenport, born on a farm near Silverton in 1867, be came, as an employe of Hearst newspapers, a cartoonist of inter national distinction. He wrote a number of books, the more popular being 'The Country Boy" relating his amus ing experiences as a youth in Sil verton during the 1880s. Coolcys Found Garden Cooley garden, founded by Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Cooley in 1922, specializes in iris and has a wide distribution for its bulbs and rhi zomes. Silverton also attained distinc tion and criticism in the late 1890s for an institution founded there by J. E. Hosmcr, Minnie Hosmer and Pearl Gecr. Liberal University was first located over John' Wolfard's store, but later acquired a 44 acre cam pus and housing for 200 students. Liberal had three departments, cosmology, biology and sociology. The aim of the school was to educate workers in the field of free thought. Internal dissensions wrecked Liberal University and the buildings were later occupied by a Catholic center. Work for 1,500 A Chamber of Commerce bro chure says Silverton has industrial employment for 1,500 persons. Present population is given as 080. Largest industrial plant in Sil verton, in respect to employment, is the Kolstad plant where beans. corn, pumpkins and prunes are tne principal pack. factory, specializing in mop nan dies. Handles are manufactured at Valsetz and shipped to Silverton for finishing. This plant, founded in 1934, has five regular and part time employes. Of course there are other In dustries located in Silverton. But, most are small and have not been brought to the attention of this writer. Twenty years ago the town had one of the larger and more modern sawmills in the Willamette Valley. Hundreds of persons found em ployment there and in logging camps ' that supplied the mill. Closure of the mill left Silverton with an unemployment problem that has gradually been reduced by a diversity of small, local industries. 1,457 Use Water Silverton has a municipally- owned water system with 1.457 ery, specializing in the silver, users as well as a city-maintained Falls breeding line of Broad sewage disposal plant. Within the Breasted Bronze poults. This fam ily enterprise, headed by Felix T. wright. hatches 150.000 turkey eggs annually and has four regular and part time employes. Significant among employers of labor in Silverton is Valley Farm ers Co-op with 15 regular and 20 seasonal employes. Co-op's annual payroll is $80,000. During 1956, the Co-op cleaned 10.876,976 pounds of grain and grass seed and during four months of the year operated on a 24-hour a day basis. There are 1,000 mem bers and C. M. Brownell is manager. Jonas J. Byberg Co. is a spe cialized Silverton industry engaged in the design and manufacture of farm machinery. Byberg special izes in production of automatic feed grinders, power dusters, mix ing and molasses sizing machines. A modern plant built in 1941 nas 25,000 square feci of floor space. Truck Line Employes 5 Comparable in size and payroll is Sanford Seed Co., handling field seeds, chewing fescue and high land bent. O. B. Sanford is man ager. And in the same bracket is S & M Truck line, operating be tween Silverton, Portland and Mt. Angel with five employes and five pieces of equipment. . Among operating timber indus try plants located in and near Silverton is the Johnson Bros. Lum ber Co. with 15 employes and an $80,000 annual payroll. A smaller one is Pacific Handle Mayor y ?:'''' 1 CARL IIANDE city there are 8.2 miles of paved streets. 4.7 miles of surfaced streets and one mile of graded streets. The fire department consists nf 21 volunteers under . Chief Larrv Silverton Hospital, a modern Carpenter. Equipment consists of j PIant complete with laboratories five pumpers, three for city and . and X-ray facilities, has 50 beds two for rural fire protection usage. Rell R. Main is chief of police. Silvcrton's post office was open ed July 16, 1855, with Charles Miller as postmaster. Henry Aim, present postmaster, has held the position since 1934. Since 1950 the office has been first class. Managerial form of municipal government has prevailed at Sil verton for the past 16 years. Dur ing the past 12 years, Robert E. Borland has served as manager. Carl Handc, a resident of Silver ton since 1931, is serving his first term as mayor. Previously he served for six years in the City Council. Carl is proprietor of a local hardware store. . Mlllage Is 13.3 Assessed valuation of Silverton, based upon a 35 per cent of true valuation, is $1,796,371. City mil- Iage is 13.3. The city has been incorporated since 1891. Silverton Appeal-Tribune, Mah- lon S. Hoblitt, publisher, has been a family enterprise since -1914. A consolidation between the Appeal and the Tribune was accomplished in 1931 when John T. Hoblitt ac quired the Tribune. The news paper has seven employes. Its circulation is 2,250. and a staff of 11 doctors. It is community owned. Among local institutions with a -i ancestry is Silverton branch of the First National Bank. . .... .iis of this ' institution were Ai Coolidge and Jake McClaine back in 1830. Four schools comprise Silvcr ton's public school system with Milt R. Baum as superintendent. Evans Valley, a grade school has one teacher and 24 pupils. Eugene Field, an elementary school with M. B. Ford as prin cipal, has 20 teachers and 510 pupils. New Mark Twain Junior High with Thomas Cutshall as principal, has 11 teachers and 252 pupils. Silverton High School, Karl Kohle, principal, has 497 students. St. Paul Parochial School, Sister Jean, principal, has 100 pupils. Centennial In 1954 Silverton celebrated its centen nial in 1954. The town presumably not its name from Silver Creek. which in turn got its name from "Silver" Smith, who brought a lot of silver dollars into the impecu nious community in 1846. In that year Silver Smith and John Barger started a sawmill at Milford, two miles above Silverton on Silver Creek, and Silverton evolved from this settlement. In 1890. when Homer Davenport was firing a locomotive of the Orcgonian Railroad and the train stopped for the crew to hunt pheasants and go swimming, the town had a population of 511. i In 1910 (he population had increased to 1,580 and by 1940 reached 2,925. , As early as 1867 the village had three general stores and a harness shop and a plat of the town pub lished in 1878 shows the location of the Coolidge and McClaine grist mill with a capacity of 100 barrels a day, the Odd Fellows and Ma sonic Hall, post office and hotel. Then the village consisted of 15 blocks of four lots each and four half blocks. j 300 Walk Out In Coos Hassle On Boom Crew COOS BAY (fl More than 300 woods crew workers '..of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. walked off the job T.iursday in a dispute over a boom crew. , Max' Barber, president of local 2562 of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, said the walkout followed a company attempt to change the size of the boom crew and the hours of work unilater lly. - . ' .. . : i He said the union is insisting the company follow past practice and negotiate on any change, i He said the dispute involves what has been a seven-man crew starting work at 8 a.m. The company Wednesday refused to put all of them on the job, insist ing that four mtn go to work at 7 a.m. and five others at 11 a.m.; Barber said. ' Multnomah's Solon Handed Ouster Bill A House-passed bill to coninel the Governor to suspend indicted pumic otllcinls from office has been referred to the Senate Mul tnomah County delegation. 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