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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1957)
i4 ex frt 'Kl th th la bl th i or I: oc th (e i 1. 1 n I i Page 2 Section 2 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, April 16, 1957 By BEN MAXWEI.I, Capital Journal Writer Lumbering and lumber products arc Lynns chief Industries. Four plants employing more than 400 persons give the com munity an annual payroll exceeding $2,000,000. The change from an economy of agriculture to that of lum ber came early for Lyons. J. D. Hiatt and "Gip" Myers had a tie mill there in early days. Nearby limber, associated with rail transportation, gave Lyons an opportunity for industrial growth. Lumber Industry Leads Way at Lyonsfe 4 Plants Employ Simpson Has Large Pond in Lyons Area Some 400 People Counsels Newsmen Growth, however, came slowly. In 1903 the poulation of Lyons was given as 60. Then the town had a sawmill and two general stores. J. D. Hiatt 4 Son and W. H. Trask had general stores. Henry Lyons kept the drug store and W. Farmer who ran the sawmill was also town undertaker. Building booms, following wars and depression, were responsible for expansion of Lyons' lumbering industry. Largest Plant Largest of Lyons wood product plants is the local division of the Simpson Logging Co. It Is now en gaged in the manufacture of ply wood. This new enterprise, built in 1952, now employs 320 persons who re ceive an annual payroll of l.SOO. 000. During 1953 and 1954, as an W k M oncration. the plant en- caeed in the manufacture of veneer. Now the nroduct-is exclu lively plywood in a diversity of patterns. Frercs Lumber Co. employs 62 hands in its sawmill and planer sheds. Annual payroll here .is $270,000. At Mt. Jclterson Lum ber Co. there arc 40 employes re ceiving an annual payroll of 100, 000. General Lumber Co. does custom sawing and planing. Eight are normally employed here. Train and trucks provide trans portation for logs entering Lyons plants and for the products shipped from them. 'Southern Pacific op erates a rail freight service through Lyons on Its Albany-Mill-City branch. Two Lyons Laid Out Lyons was laid out by .lames C. and Henry Lyons who had taken a homestead In the community in 1879. In 1889 the event ol Oregon Pacific Railroad induced them to lay out a townsilc. At first the place was called Lyonsvillc and provision In deeds to lots snccllicd that the properly should never be . the place of salo for spirituous or fermented liquors. (Toduy's tav ern at Lyons does not, presumably. occupy a lot granted by restricted deed from Lyons Bros.) Present population of Lyons Is estimated to be about 400. But the place never became Incorporated to acnicve ciiy status. Even so, Lyons has a strong community spirit. The village has street lights, dial phones and n community water system will anoruy Dceomc operative. Also located at Lyons arc three entireties Assembly ot (iod. Cath olic and Methodist Community Church. Santlam Valley Grange with a hall at Lyons has a large membership. The VFW, nebekah and girl and boy scout organiza tions also have representation there. Several Businesses Among businesses in Lyons arc a restaurant, a realtor, two general tores, a hardware and plumbing supply store, variety store, tavern, two garages and service stations and a ceramic snop. A post office was established at Lyons on Jan. I, lim, wun j. w. Van Order as first postmaster. Now the olfice is third class with Ruth I. Lyons as postmaster lor the past 16 years. When Mrs. Lyons took over the postmastcrship in 1941, the office had 15 box patrons and an annual business of $1,000. Now the Lyons office has 102 box patrons. Busi ness In 1956 amounted to $4,700 and there Is a rural route from the office that serves 318 boxes. Marl - Linn Elementary School, with James Wright as principnl has 13 teachers and 211 pupils. 1'upils arc transported over live dus routes, rarnging from Jordan to within a mile and a half of Mill City. Jersey GOPs Weigh Choice For Governor NEWARK, N.J. Ifl-New Jersey Republicans pick their guberna torial candidate today. The choice: Alty. Wayne uu- Mont Jr. of Phillipsburg or Pub lisher Malcolm S. Forbes of Bed-mister. Despite their relative youth DuMont is 42 and Forbes 37 both men are veteran members ot the State Senate. Their legisla tive voting records arc similar. Both served with the Army in World War II. Their basic campaigning meth ods come trom the some school and are geared for their rural counties handshaking, man-to man I d appreciate your vote approach, and meetings with small groups. But In this primary campaign they made necessary adjust ments: Forbes, hacked by the Re publican party organizations and anxious to avoid any intraparty rids, simply Ignored his opponent and concentrated on November and Democratic Gov. Robert B Meyner. ' '-. r ;'":'--v"'- - rv- y-trayvrrr'',--.n' ' Frciieh Novelist 'Much Improved' PARIS Ml Hospital spokes men said novelist Froncoisc ba- gan showed "definite improve ment Tuesday after spending n relatively quiet night. The 21-yeor-old author was injured seri ously Sunday when her sports car overturned near Fontnlncbleau. Although reporting Miss Sagan's condition Improved, hospital auth orities said it remained so deli cate a complete diagnosis of her injuries still could not be made. and doctors still teored to go ahead with any additional surgery that may be required.. r i.Ui4-H The (op picture shows the log pond of the Simpson Logging Co. at Lynns. The company operates the ply wood mill in (he background. In the lower photo Is Airs. Itiith I. Lyons who has been postmaster at Lyons for the past lb' years. (Capital Journal Photos) SPYING ON WEATHER jProud Papa Proclaims News A- ... I JfaK id K- I I L Navy Alerts Russ To Balloon Tests TOKYO Wl The U. S. Navv announced Tuesday il plans In start sending out more weather balloons from southern Japan next month. It hopes the Russians this time wilt realize any that wind up over Siberia aren't spy ing on anything hut the weather. A Navy spokesman, LI. Cmdr. M. I.ee Lewis, told a news con ference the new series of balloon flights will continue "until such a time as we eon control the weather" in other words in definitely. The balloons carry radio trans mitters which automatically send back meteorological information. Lewis said they would be launched from a permanent transocean soundings station being set up at the Navy's Iwakuni Air Base, 4H0 miles southwest of Tokyo. The Navv export estimated that about 300 balloons would bejNavy's launched this year from Jimnn, '" s beginning between May 15-31. jcessful.' The weather data will be pub lished in a worldwide meteorologi cal report availahle to interested persons everywhere, including the Russians. Lewis described the global task as "like fitting t h e pieces in a giant jig-saw puzzle." The Navy early last year launched 20 big weather balloons from Oppama. Japan, setting off a flurry of spying charges from the Soviet Union when one of the halloons went astray and wound up somewhere in Communist Out er Mongolia. The Navy had ex pected all 20 to move toward the United States on the jet stream. U. S. officials denied Soviet charges that the weather halloons were designed lo photograph Com munist territory for espionage purposes. Lewis, program director for the Rureau of Air, said last flights were "quite sue- LAKKWOOI), Calif. Staff Sr.. Arthur Fast of the Air Force lets the neighborhood In on the good news bv hang In an "It s a Girl" sign nn a 15-foot billboard Image of a pilot in front of his home here. II was his way of an nouncing the arrival, of a new heiress in (he family. (AP , UUtDholo) IS m. i c il: l Mil I ... i Results of research! The results of years of scientific research are shown in our com plete Une of the finest pharma ceuticals available. Your doctor and our pharmacists work toge ther for you. CAPITAL DRUG STORE 1 locations to get prescriptions t 405 State St. 617 Chemeksta We (ilve il-- Green Stamps Mail Delivery to UUman Is Jinxed WASHINGTON Wl As if the Pusi Ohice Department did not have enough troubles, Hop. Ull man (D-Ore) Monday reported receiving a Christmas card mail ed at Baker, Ore., last Dec. 16. It came from Sanford and Louise Adler. Adlcr happens to be postmaster. ' What's more Ullman's mailed news release on it arrived in the House press gallery with the can cellation of the Chicago, 111., rail- Ceylon Area Diseased COLOMBO. Ceylon t Health officials Tuesday declared an area north of Colombo dangerously af flicted wuh smallpox. The area includes the Port of Colombo, an important stop on the route from Europe to the Far East. For near ly a month smallpox cases have been reported from all over Cey lon. Compulsory vaccinations are being carried out in many regions. way post office terminal and the notation, "Missent." VATICAN CITY dB Pope Pius XII offered some advice to a group of American newsmen in a special audience Monday. The Vatican press office released the text Tuesday. , "Your profession," said the 81-year-old head of the Roman Cath olic Church, "holds you very close to this eartn, with its rest less, often enough bewildered, blinded masses and the day-by-day uncertain promises and hopes and menaces . . . You understand the grave responsibility resting on you. Be conscious of it when you write. You have your ethical prin ciples wortny of a noble art; yet you will agree there is an evil press abroad that scorns those norms. Bring the weight of your nonoraDie loyalty and fearless ex ample to thwart the harm it can do. "Calumny and scandal: h o quick-footed they are! A whisper, harmless perhaps though unwar ranted, is blown up to a one-inch neaanne. .and what havoc it can wreak in family life, in the lives of individuals and nations. "A scoop is not worth the deep sense of shame that should come to one guilty of such conduct." New Envoy in Saigon SAIGON - U.S. Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow Tuesday pre sented his credentials to South Viet Nam President Ngo D i n n Diem. The new American envoy, a 53-ycar-old career diplomat, ar rived Saturday. PHONE WORKERS RALLY TOKYO W Japan's Commu, nication Workers Union today staged two-hour workshop rallies in all major cities to support de mands for a wage increase: Th action temporarily snarled tele, phone and cable communications throughout the nation. Austrian Slain By Red Guards EISENSTADT, Austria UH Hun garian border guards opened fire and fatally wounded an Austrian farmer who allegedly trespassed on Hungarian territory, police re ported Tuesday. The farmer, Mathias Fiedler, father of four children, was cut ting reeds in the shallow Neusie dler border lake. He died of his wounds in a Hungarian hospital at Sopron. 3,971 hospital cases prove ... leading doctors agree NEW PAINLESS IODINE STOPS INFECTION FAST Won't burn orslhig the wound! No poison label! Safe even if swallowed accidentally! Pi 1. FROM A FAMOUS HOSPITAL comes star tling news. 1SOD1NE new painless iodine Proved safe by doctors and up to 40 limes Taster than other germ killers 2. STOPS INFICTION AMAZINGLY. 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