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THURSDAY. JUNE 10. 1980
Adventist Church
Room Ransacked
, Burglars broke Into the
' Seventh Day Adventiat
church; Beatty and Edwards
ata.j sometime during the past
two ' days, ransacked one
. room and took several ar
ticles from another, according
to police.
; Medford police said four
bOxes of slides, a viewer and
approximately $1 in change
was -, taken. In one room,
burglars' pulled everything
from tile; shelves and threw
them on the floor, police said.
.' Entry was gained by prying
pen a basement door.
: I The first grenades, used in
the 15th century, were balls
of baked earth filled with ex
plosives. '. .
Widow of Former
Salem Mayor Dies
Salem-(UPD-Mr. Edna Lives.
ley, widow of former Salem
Mayor Thomas A. Livesley
died Wednesday night.
The Livesley had been Sal'
em residents since 1908.
Livesley was a prominent bus
inessman. Funeral services are pend
ing at W. T. Rigdon mortuary
DISTINGUISHED SERVER
Derby, Colo.-IUPD-St. Cath
erine's Roman Catholic
Church here has a distinguish
ed altar boy. Any more, par
ishioners are not surprised to
see Col. William James Allen
Jr., serving early Mass for
the Rev. Dominic Albino. Al
len, S3, is commander of the
sprawling Rocky Mountain
Arsenal run by the Army
northeast of Denver.
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Demo Convention Delegates
By S. A. ST. AMANT
Los Angeles-ltlPIi-The best
seat in the house at the Sports
Arena for the Democratic Na
tional Convention is hidden
out of sight.
The chair, for it is a chair,
Is located in a small room on
the east side of the building
in a kind of electronic Gar
den of Eden.
The chair is a reclining,
vibrating affair and it gently
tickles your backbone, to say
nothing of your risibilities.
Callad Health Haven
The room is called VIP
Health Haven and it was built
by a radio and television net
work, initials of which are
the first three letters of the
alphabet.
The vibrating chair is not
the only therapeutic device
at hand. There are foot mas
sagers, handy little oxygen
cans, and a new Gadget call
ed an "ionaire' which charges
the atomosphere with a mys
terious pick-me-up element.
The ionaire, about the size
of a desk clock, contains
radioactive element which
sends negative ions into the
air. This, in the words of the
maker, "stimulates a sense of
exhilaration, and contributes
to clearer thinking and more
positive attitude and behavior
pattern.
Gadget Tasttd
In a preview Wednesday,
the chair and the other gad
gets in the room were tested
Congress Clearing
Decks for Recess
Washington IUPD Congress
began clearing the decks to
day for its month-long con
vention recess with some
members unhappy about the
-prospect and some frankly
concerned about its political
repercussions.
Token shows of opposition
wer? under discussion in
both houses. No one doubled,
however, that the Senate
and House would override
those displays if they mate
rializeand recess Saturday
as decreed by Democratic
leaders.
Before then Speaker Sam
Rayburri (D-Tex.) and Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon
B. Johnnon (Tex.) plan an at
tempt to override President
Eisenhower's veto of a fed
eral pay raise bill.
Both Senate and House ori
ginally approved the pay
raise for federal workers and
post office employees by bet
er than the two-thirds margin
required to override a presi
dential veto.
The Senate and House also
must pass a continuing reso
lution to keep money flow
ing lo federal agencies after
the end of the fiscal year to
night and until all the regular
money bills can be approved.
The Rayburn-Johnson deci
sion to recess was announced
Wednesday. It provoked no
enthusiasm, but many legisla
tors felt that Congress could
not complete its program or
the meaningful parts of it
before July 11 when the
Democratic convention starts
in Los Angeles.
Congressional discontent at
the prospect of returning to
Washington on or about Aug.
8 were understandable in a
year when one-third of the
Senate and (he entire mem
bership of the House must
spend the summer running
for reelection.
Other congressional news:
Minimum Wage: Demo
cratic Leader John W. McCor
mick (Mass.) predicted the
House would pass today one
of two rival election-year
plans to hike the $l-an-hour
federal minimum wage and
cover additional workers.
Liberal Democrats thought
they could put across their
measure, designed to boost the
wage floor to $1.25 over three
by a number of politicians
who rate as VIPs and a num
ber of newsmen who do not.
Mark Boyar, convention fi
nance chairman. Democratic
delegates Ernest Debs and
Edith Seros, and Jerry Pacht,
a member of the host commit
tee, tried out the chair and
the oxygen.
The oxygen was administer
ed by young blonde and love
ly Miss Georgine Darcy, a by
product of nearby Hollywood.
Stmi-Hypnotic State
This correspondent took a
turn in the seat and was pull
ed into a semi-hypnotic state
caused probably as much by
the proximity of the oxygen
dispenser as by the oxygen.
This chair may become a
piece of Americana like that
bed Washington slept in, if
the Democratic presidential
nominee gets a crack at it.
Unfortunately, Miss Darcy
will not be on hand to ad
minister to the weary VIPs
She will be busy making a
filmed TV series called "Har
rigan and Son." She plays the
part of a secretary who does
not know how to type or take
shorthand.
She doesn't have to
years and extend coverage to
3.S million more employees.
Medical: The Senate fi
nance committee held the last
of two days of public hear
ings on rival programs of
medical care for the aged
But the rush to clear a bill for
Senate action sudsided with
the decision of Congress to
meet again in August after
the political conventions. Sen.
John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.)
opposed the modest House-
passed medical plan and
urged approval of a broader
program based on expansion
of Social Security. The
American Medical Association
favored the House bill.
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UNDERWRITERS Newly-installed officers
of the Rogue Valley Life Under
writers association shown above are (left
to right) Glen McCullough, Provident Life,
secretary-treasurer; Jerry Gastineau, Equit
able Life Assurance society, president; and
Dave Cutting, Northern Life, vice president.
Board of directors for the term will be Ted
Holmes, West Coast Life insurance; Gene
Williams, 1 Standard Insurance company;
William Salade, Security insurance; and
Wayne Safley, Hopkins and Safley associ
ates. Guest speaker for the installation meet
was State Sen. Dr. Edwin R. Durno, who
spoke on the bills before congress and how
they affect the people in Oregon. The
RVLUA will participate in the state con
vention in Seaside July 21 to 23.
Famed New York Opera House Draws
Big Audience for final Performance
Salem Civic Leader
Dies at Age of 77
fealom-MPD-Funeral services
were held today for Mrs. Lil
lie M. Magee, 77, Salem civic
leader, who died Monday
night.
Mrs. Magee, a former teach
er, was active in numeroui
organizations including the
Republican party. She had
been a Capital Journal newt
correspondent since 1909.
Wachinotnn -IUPD- President
Eisenhower has urged AmerU
cans to turn more to tnelr
local governments than to
th federal sovernment for
assistance in their problems.
New York-WPD-The streets
were lighted by gas lamps.
Hansom cabs and shiny
broughams halted amid a clat
ter of hoof beats before the
white marble facade of the
ornate Italian Renaissance
style theater to discharge
their passengers.
The ladies were swathed in
furs, ostrich plumed hats and
the low cut, wasp-waisted fin
ery of nearly a century ago.
The gentlemen wore toppers,
waistcoats, spats and heavy
gold watch chains.
The toasts of the town were
Josie Mansfield-inamorata of
railroad tycoon Jim Fisk-Lil-lian
Russell and Modjeska.
The place was the Grand
Opera House-near 23rd st.
and 8th ave. on the fringe of
Hell's Kitchen-then consider
ed the heart of the uptown
area.
Daiiroyad by Fir
But that was long ago.
Wednesday the dusty, desert
ed shell of the opera house
was swept by a five-alarm
fire and destroyed.
Before its demise in flames
that flashed 50 feet into the
air and spread to an adjoin
ing, once-fashionable hotel,
the Grand Opera House had
deteriorated into a potpourri
of small commercial enterprises.
There was little left of its
past glory. The box office had
become a bar. The auditorium
a second-rate movie house.
The lobby a drug store and
the plush offices that once
served as headquarters for
the Erie Railroad a billiard
parlor.
One dim ghost of its past
fame, barely readable on a
wall that had been obscured
by a tenement until it recent
ly was demolished, remained.
It was a sign that proudly
proclaimed:
Grand Opera House
The Most Elegant Theater
In The World
The theater had been va
cated and was to be torn
down to make way for an
apartment house project when
the fire broke out Wednesday
afternoon.
Five alarms were sounded
and more than 180 firemen
battled the blaze before it
was brought under control.
Ambulances were rushed
to the scene but only one
person - a fireman - was in
jured. Tycoon. Buy Theater
The theater opened in 1888
as Pike's Opera House. Its
builder, Samuel N. Pike, could
not make a go of the enter
prise and sold it to Jim Fisk
and Jay Gould, flamboyant
railroad financiers of yester
year. Fisk wanted the theater as
a showpiece for his leading
lady companion, Josie Mans
field. She is said to have in
sisted on having a theater of
her own,
Fisk and Gould moved the
offices of their Erie Railroad
there and then invested $250,
000 for a grand staircase,
bronze statuary and other
luxuries.
The theater became Mis
Mansfield's home after Fisk
built an apartment in the
building for her. He also in
stalled a banquet hall.
Three years later, how
ever, Miss Mansfield became
interested in another man,
Edward J. Stokes. In a dis
pute with Fisk over the at
tentions of Miss Mansfield,
Stokes shot and killed the
railroad tycoon.
Stokes went lo Jail and
Miss Mansfield disappeared.
She died in poverty in South
Springfield To Get
Planning Advance
Washington -(IW- The com
munity facilities administra
tion today approved an
S18.000 advance to Spring
field, Ore., for preliminary
planning of extensions and im
provements to the eMMting
sewage system.
Construction on the pro
posed $2.7 million project it
expected to start July 1
Dakota
The Grand Opera House's
finale was a show-stopper
that played to its last standing
room only audience. But there
was no applause when the
smoke cleared-the show was
over and the end of an era
lay etched in smoldering
ruins.
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