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FECMPAEEGI.E SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2004 jWEWNJOURNAL 2A StatesmanJournal.com Statesman Journal StatesmanJournal.com 503-399-6622 Coming in the Statesman Journal: mm 1 1 Ml Page 1 A 1 Weekend I Real Livin9 ll Why does cXt A preview of Outdoor Living pp, Salem produce Memorial series continues: fVLj 5 so many Day winery JNuV-' The Living Room Bg IHMliVI 1 Then and now Dailyvisitors 45 2,500 feT Items In library 100 548,364 K. yrrtl JyW Cardholders 716 129,595 T- "TmmZL 1 Population served 4,258 136,924 -l- ift' Annual circulation 17,555 1,381,362 fMag NS)' tfV -v 7 First books IJT I -l i ii IN CARNEGIE BUILDING: The Carnegie building housed the Salem Public Library in 1950. The library celebrates its 100th anniversary today. Special to the Statesman Journal -js me is 'i Internet service, open.org. The service provides home and business Internet access and free Internet use at the library.

The next change under discussion for the library is of a fiscal nature. As the city's budget has tightened in recent years, the library has faced cuts to its hours and its offerings. Now, library supporters are campaigning for the creation of a Salem Library District that would include the entire Salem-Keizer School District minus the city of Keizer. The district would operate on funds gathered through a per-" manent property tax of 62 cents per $1,000 assessed value. Supporters say that would provide a fixed, stable source of money for the library.

Library proponents recently raised 14,562 certified signatures to have the district proposal placed on the November ballot. "If we simply turn out those already identified supporters, that's a significant portion of the yes vote we need to win," Burton said. "It was really an eye-opener for me to see the broad spectrum in our community who uses the library." Dennis Thompson Jr. can be reached at (503) 399-6719 or dthompsoStatesman Journal.com The following are some of the first 50 books donated for the Salem library. They were gathered during a 1904 book social held by the Salem Women's Club.

"LIFE OF CHRIST" by Cunningham Geikie "THE ORIGIN of Species" by Charles Darwin 12TH CENSUS of the United States, Volumes 1-10 "SECRET RITUAL of the Pythian Knighthood" by James Carnahan WEBSTER'S Unabridged Dictionary "WHAT I BELIEVE" by Leo Tolstoy "GREAT EXPECTATIONS," "Child's History of England," "Our Mutual Friend," "Barnaby Ridge," "Bleak House," "Oliver Twist," "Martin Chuzzlewit," "Old Curiosity Shop," "Christmas Stories," "Nicholas Nickleby" and "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens "THE STORY of My Life" by Helen Keller "STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY" by Herbert Spencer just knew everybody when they came in." But by the late 1960s, the library's collection had exceeded 100,000 items and was beginning to overwhelm the building. "That Carnegie library was just bursting at the seams and no parking whatsoever," said Wes Sullivan, who was head of the library board at the time. The city began a campaign in 1968 to float a bond for a civic center that would combine a city hall, a fire station and a new library on one piece of land. A similar measure had failed two years earlier, but supporters were worried that new state laws were in the works that would make it impossible to fund a new building. Two possible sites were chosen, the current location as well as one in northeast Salem.

"People got to arguing over How it would work A new Salem Library District would serve about 185,000 residents who live in the Salem-Keizer School District boundary, excluding the city of Keizer, which chose not to participate. A new property tax of 62 cents per $1 ,000 assessed value would raise about $6.4 million annually to where the site would be, and it precluded the argument over whether there should even be a bond passed," Sullivan said. The new library opened in July 1972. By the early 1990s, it was almost out of room. "The library was built to last for 15 years, and by then we'd filled up the library pretty well," Sullivan said.

Volunteers, Boy Scouts, National Guardsmen and library workers moved the collection some 300,000 items to the Smith's Home Furnishings building on Fairgrounds Road while a major expansion of the library building took place. Then-library director George Happ said city officials prevailed upon citizens to borrow as many books as they could prior to the move to make things easier. "About a third of the collection was checked out, so we didn't have to move so much," he said. Statesman Journal StatesmanJournal.com Home Delivery STARTING A SUBSCRIPTION nBFnR r. IRTOMER SERVICE Phone: (503) 399-6622 or (800) 452-251 1 Hours: 5:30 a.m.

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CONTINUED FROM 1A The library opened in May 1904 as a project of the Salem Women's Club, with 12 visitors dropping by on opening day. The library's, original collection of about 50 donated books were gathered at a club social, and after some haggling, the Salem City Council agreed to let the women keep the books at the east end of council chambers. "The original deal was they could use the council chambers as long as it didn't cost the council any money," library spokeswoman Sonja Somerville said. The members worked shifts to run the library and were fined 25 cents for each shift they missed, Somerville said. The library's collection and clientele grew during the next decade, to the point where councilors began to be irritated by all the activity going on in the corner of their chambers.

In 1910, club members approached the Carnegie Corp. to request a $30,000 grant to build a true public library in Salem. By that time, industrialist Andrew Carnegie had established himself as an international supporter of libraries and ultimately contributed to the construction of more than 2,800 libraries worldwide. Salem accepted the Carnegie grant the next year and set to work building a public library at State and Winter streets. The women's club donated its entire collection to the city.

The Carnegie library opened in September 1912 and remained open for 60 years. The building now is used by the YWCA. Library In transition Sue Morrison's first job, while she still was in high school, was as a librarian at the Carnegie building. She went on to become president of the library board later in life. "It was a cozy building," she recalled.

"It had a fireplace and it was small. The children's room was in the basement. It was a folksy sort of place. You 1904: Florella Phillips was the first professional librarian to serve Salem. Special to the Statesman Journal CONTINUED FROM 1A "It looks like Oregon is not going to get the funds it needs to carry out a federal mandate and we are not happy about that.

The federal government is devolving more costs on the states, and that is not helpful to us, because those funds have got to be made up someplace." Thompson's announcement came a week after Kulongoski reorganized agencies to put emergency planning and security measures under a single roof. He also designated public-safety adviser Craig Campbell as his liaison on homeland security matters. Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Appro "A 1 i i support the library and expand the system. The new district is expected to save Salem about $3 million that It currently spends to operate the library.

Marion County and other taxing districts would lose about $330,000 because of compression. The furniture store proved a popular location for the year in which the library operated there. "It was kind of a funky location," Happ said. "There were little display rooms for bedrooms and living rooms, and we just put the collection in as it was." The '90s and beyond The main library reopened in January 1991 and featured its own parking garage as well as more book space and meeting rooms. "It was like a new library," Happ said.

"There have been some cosmetic and lighting enhancements over the years, but the way it was rebuilt in the '90s is the way it is now." The changes since then have been mostly in terms of offerings. For example, in 1995, the library decided to start its own yet issued grant-writing guidance for money that is due to go out on Sept. 1. Part of the reason for the dispute centers on how government accounting works. State health departments do not "draw down" federal dollars until they have received a bill for a new piece of lab equipment, for example.

In many instances, Selecky said, the money is pledged but states have not yet requested reimbursement. "They still haven't defined what preparedness is," said one frustrated public health leader who asked not to be named for fear of exacerbating the situation. "If we had all agreed on what we were going to do, there could be some rational deployment of resources." Within hours of sending his 2003: Alex the Salem Special to the Statesman Journal 1 950: This photo is among a group of shots taken inside Salem's Carnegie building around 1950. Special to the Statesman Journal 1938: The library had a service in which it visited Memorial and Salem General hospital weekly. THOMAS PATTERSON Statesman Journal file Garibay peruses the shelves at Public Library.

eral officials have repeatedly changed priorities and the instructions they have given states. "First, we were asked to prepare for an all-hazards approach" but then got sidetracked by the last year's push for an extensive smallpox immunization program, she said. "Now, we're being told we're getting less next year so the national priority of these 21 cities can be funded." Relations between the states and HHS have grown increasingly tense in recent weeks with the two sides squabbling about bioterrorism money. Thompson has accused states of being slow to spend the money Congress has allocated, but Selecky and other state officials noted that the Bush administration has not priations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, praised Thompson's move, saying that in a time of tight federal budgets it makes sense to shift money to "high-risk cities" most likely to be targeted by terrorists. However, others governors, lawmakers and public health leaders protested what Shelley Hearne, head of the Trust for America's Health, a nonpartisan public health advocacy group, called a "shell game" with potentially dangerous consequences.

Tapping letter carriers to deliver emergency supplies is an "innovative idea with great possibilities," she said, but it should not be paid for with money promised to states. Hearne complained that fed AHt? I request to lawmakers on the appropriations committees, Thompson received letters of protest from a bipartisan group of senators and the National Governors Association. "We shouldn't have to choose between filling the national vaccine stockpile or having a warning system at the state and local level," said Sen. Evan Bayh, the Indiana Democrat who drafted the senators' protest letter to Thompson. "That's a false choice and a manifestation of the budget problems we have." At least one Senate Appropriations Committee member, Sen.

Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, "strongly objects to taking money away from states," according to a spokeswoman. He will urge Specter to deny Thompson's request, she said. on 14 3) TMS CAR! BET i Prelude IK A We're much more than a carpet store 425 PINE ST. NE. SALEM 503-371 -7556 Save ChlmeMn Stock Patterns Installation tc Cdurt CCBI32916 Preparation extra.

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