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MacLaren School Population Shows Significant Drop Salem - (DPI) - The inmate population at MacLaren School for Boys has "signifi cantly decreased", in the past two years, the Legislative Fis cal Conference has been told, and one reason is that foster and group home placements have quadrupled. The average number . of boys in 1957-59 was "304 and in this biennium it is 281. The current budget provides for a maximum of 400. ' ' MacLaren Supt. Amos Reed said along with the place ments, other factors are in creased population at Mac Laren's two work camps on the coast and a reduction in commitments. Marjorie McBride, superin tendent of Hillcrest some times has more staff mem bers than inmates. At pres ent there are 142 girls and 120 staff members. Freer Atmosphere She explained that Hill crest's intent is to provide a "freer" atmosphere and this calls for three shifts of ma tron a day on a 24-hour basis. Also, Hillcrest takes care of its own parole duties through out the state. Ralph Miner of the Finance Department explained that un der the governor's new bud get, psychiatric and chaplain services at Hillcrest would be doubled. Miner said the major pro grams in the budget are $800, 000 for a separate women's prison and a new vocational building at the state correc tional institution. The prison would initially house 60 to 70 women and be built at the extreme south end of Fairview home, near Sa lem. Women prisoners are now housed in the state prison. Packed Snow, Ice On Some Highways Salem-(UP1I-The State High way department today report ed packed snow at Govern ment Camp, Warm Springs Junction, Santiam Pass. Ocho co Summit, Lapine, Willam ette Pass, Chemult and Aus tin. There were icy spots at Burns, Baker, Meacham, Bly, Silver Lake, Brothers and Bend. - . - - . ' ' -" Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1960 PAGES 1 to 10 THIS WAS THE CIVIL WAR IT PEOPLE WENT WILD South Carolina seceded from the Union on Dec. 20, 1860. The city and its people, long in favor of this disunion, went wild. Church bells were rung, cannon fired and business throughout the city was supended. The day so many had waited and hoped for had finally come. This drawing shows a typical scene in, Charleston just before the secession. Troops are marching in a parade while citizens cheer them on from the street, left fore ground, and from the steps of the building, background. (UPI Telephoto) South Carolina Quits Union By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent The Charleston Mercury blazoned the news: "The Union Is Dissolved." South Carolina had seceded, the first crack in a nation in its four score and four years of being. The- decision was unani mous, 169 yeas, nays none. It came at 1:15 p.m. Dec. 20, 1860. The resolution, called an Ordinance of Secession, stated in full: "We, the people of South Carolina in convention assem- r.Ciinrler Mcmhor Tho Rnnrknn IncllllltA. Slr'icM Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey 86 f' JiS!KLii i '''' lii &w h i r k-lnri Hi if wlaffes hut iilr- 1 A V 3 V iVantnnko's finest bourDon Deauuruiiy gui rpF 'colorful foU design -In pinto and fifths at no extra cost. 325 Pt Kentucky Bourbon Agd 6 years 5 oo fifth bled, do declare and ordain and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance on the twenty - third day of May, in the year of Our Lord one - thousand - seven - hun dred - and - eighty - eight whereby the Constitution of the United States of Ameri ca was ratified, and also, all Acts and parts of Acts of. the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting be tween South Carolina and the other States under the name of 'the United States of Amer ica' is hereby dissolved." - Smallpox Epidemic Develops Three days before in Co lumbia, the capital, the dele gates had met under the chair manship of David Flavel Jam ison, owner of 2.000 acres and 70 slaves. A slight hitch developed at the outset when is was found that the state law required the delegates must take an oath of alleg iance to the United Stales. But that finally was waived. Then the subject of a small pox epidemic in Columbia came up and the delegates de cided to adjourn to Charles ton the next day. One delegate resented the move. "It will be asked on all sides is this the chivalry of South Carolina? They are pre pared to face the world but they run away from the small pox?" queried William Por cher Miles a South Carolina Congressman doubling as a secessionist delegate. But they went on to Charleston. On Dec. 19 they debated on procedure. Then the delegates were ready to act. Prayer Precedes Action j One Northerner wearing the ' blue uniform of the U.S. Army was in the audience in Insti- j tute Hall on Meeting St., Dr. j Samuel Wylie Crawford, a j surgeon of , the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Moultrie, the only doctor in Maj. Ander son's pitiful Union command He wrote: The convention opened with a prayer to God. It was understood that the committee was ready to report the Ordi- j nance of Secession and that 1 it would pass that day. There ; was no visible sign that the Commonwealth of South Caro lina was about to take a step more momentous for weal or woe than had yet been known in her hitory. Chancellor Ing- lis of Chesterfield, the chair man of the committee to re port an Ordinance of Seces sion, then arose and called the attention of the president. Si lence pervaded the assem blage as every eye turned on the speaker. Addressing the chair, he said that the com mittee would best meet the exigencies of the occasion by expressing in the fewest and simplest words all that was necessary to effect the end proposed." Starts Celebration The chairman read the or dinance, the question was put and the deed done. The proclamation touched off a celebration which Sur geon Crawford, USA, described: "At once the whole audi ence broke into a storm of cheers: the ladies joined in the demonstrations; a rush was made to secure memen toes of the occasion. Outside, the whole city was wild with excitement as the news spread liker wildfire through the -streets. Business was suspend. Technical Journal Publications Earn S250000aYear Los Angeles - (UPD - Other than having done the hula at Billy Rose's Diamond Horse shoe, standing six feet tall in her stocking feet and owning a business that earns $250, 000 a year, there's nothing too unique about Miss Dolly Dahle. Dolly, 34, owns Publishing Production Service, Inc., an outfit that produces technical manuals, classified reports, government contract propos als, house organ releases and the like for such industrial "names" as Hughes, Convair, North America, Douglas and Lockheed. . The beautiful and unmar ried Miss Dahle (rhymes with mail) is quite a contrast to the public's image of the obese business executive with a copy of the Wall Street Jour nal in one hand and a fork in the other Launched in 1S55 She launched her firm in 1955, borrowing $600 from her mother and banking on ex perience gained as a produc tion supervisor at H. L. Yoh ed everywhere; the peafs of church bells, mingling with salvos of artillery from the Citadel. Old men ran shout ing down the streets. Every one entitled to it appeared at once in a uniform. In less than 15 minutes after its passage the principal newspaper of Charleston had Placed in the hands of the eager multitude a copy of the Ordinance of Secession. (The Mercury sold 6,000 copies of the extra.) Pri vate residences were illumi nated, while military organi zations marched in every di rection, the music of their bands lost amid the shouts of the people . . . The heart of the people had spoken." i Dissenter Speaks Few South Carolinians questioned the action, except old Judge J. L. Pettigru, a Unionist throughout the clam or of secession. These are his words: "South Carolina is too small for a republic and too big for a lunatic asylum." In Washington, President Buchanan was attending a wedding when the news came. The wife of a Virginia con-! gressman, Mrs. Roger Pryor, described the scene: ' "The President was seated1 in an armchair and I stood behind him. Presently he looked over his shoulder and said: 'Madam, do you suppose the house is on fire? I hear unusual commotion.' "I went out and there I found Mr.' Lawrence Keitl, member (of - Congress) from South Carolina, leaping in the air, shaking a paper over his head, exclaiming, 'Thank God! Oh thank God! South Carolina has seceded!'. I re turned, and bending over Mr. Buchanan's chair, said in a low voice: 'It appears, Mr. President, . that South Caro lina has seceded from the Union.' He looked at me, stunned for a moment..; "Falling back and grasp ing the arms of his chair, he whispered: 'Madam might I beg of you to have my car riage called?' There was no more thought of bride, bride groom, wedding cake or wedding breakfast." Aide Arrives Late Another Northerner was in Charleston that day, Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts. He had been sent by President Buchanan to try to keep South Carolina in the Union. He ar rived on the morning of Dec. 20, saw Gov. Francis Pickens, who had succeeded ' Henry Gist, just in time to learn that secession was a fact. In-, viled to,the proclamation cere mony, he refused, went back to his hotel and took the next train back to Washington. ' On that Dec. 20, Abraham Lincoln was conferring with Thurlow Weed, New York Re publican boss, In Springfield, 111. - Jefferson Davis, a U.S. sen ator from Mississippi, was at his post in Washington. Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry, was en route back to Fort Mason, Tex.: from a tour of duty in San Antonio where he had been temporarily in charge of the Texas Military District. Ulysses S. Grant, a leather merchant of Galena, 111., and a former captain in the U.S. Army, was somewhere in Wisconsin collecting bills. (Next Week - Union forcei move to Ft. Sumter.) DOLLY DAHLE Nothing Too Unique Engineering and Production manager of catalogue and ad vertising producers. The business world didn't exactly welcome her with open arms and her net profit the first year was $18. Now Publishing Production Serv ice grosses $250,000 a year and Dolly is pointed toward joining the Young Presidents club, reserved for persons un der 40 who gross a million in a business they started them selves. Should Quadruple Tho future is rosy, she says, because the technical publica tion business, even with strict specifications set down by the government, should quadruple in the next five years. Success doesn't seem to come as a surprise to' Dolly, who spent seven years of her childhood in an orphanage be cause of a broken home and had to finish high school at night while working at Pack ard Motors in Detroit during the war. At USO shows during this period, she started entertain ing by doing the classic hula, taught to her by a friend of her mother's. This led to Billy Rose talent sliow in which the act with the most applause won. "1 got plenty of whistles, but not the most applause," Dolly says. As a result, she worked for a year at the Diamond Horse- shoe in New York, . doing the hula and walking around forming a pretty background for various acts. She was one of a group of tall, beautiful girls that Rose nicknamed his "Big Bruisers." Worked for Earl Carroll She also did showgirl work for the old Earl Carroll's night club in Hollywood and fashion modeling. 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