Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 1

University of Oregon 11193 7376 ri 7 -n iuirea.fl 7.. ff if' wear Under Dbschsse itq CORVALLIS, OREGON, VOL NO. 194 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1952 I Ml -'UJ, I Lumbermen Benton OSC Economists See Dairy Prices Higher, NEW YORK (UP) President-elect Eisenhower and Gen. MacArthur in an historic two-hour conference Wednesday discussed "problems of peace in Korea and the world in general." MacArthur met with Eisenhower over the luncheon table in the home of Secretary of State designate John Foster Dulles with Dulles in attendance. Emerging from Dulles upper east side residence at 3:19 p.m., MacArthur and Eisenhower each issued a brief, extemporaneous statement about the meeting.

"We discussed problems of peace in Korea and the world in general," MacArthur said. Face Federal Court Three of Benton county's most prominent lumbermen were free on $2500 bail each today after being arrested on a federal warrant charging them with a conspiracy to defraud. Two other men were also arrested. Jailed yesterday until they were permitted to post bail were Ben Ellia, 51, route 2, Corvallis George Edward Shroy-er, 45, Philomath and John Morris Fields, 39, Philomath. NEW YORK (UP) President-elect Eisenhower's headquarters announced Wednesday that Eisenhower and Gen.

Douglas MacArthur were meeting at lunch in the home of Secretary of State-designate John Foster Dulles. Thus three days after Eisenhower's return from his trip to Korea he met with his former commander to get MacArthur's announced new "clear and definite" solution to the Korean conflict. Ag Conference Draws Extension Workers to OSC Oregon State college extension and experiment station workers from all over the state are in Corvallis meeting with resident mem bers in the annual all-ag start conference. Aims of Oregon State college were discussed by a special committee at the meeting opening the conference Tuesday morning in the, campus playhouse. Introductory remarks were given by President A.

L. Strand and Dean of Agriculture F. E. Price. The committee, which has been working on the problem for two years, in more than 50 meetings, presented six main points.

The aim of OSC. according to the committee, is' to provide the opportunity for gaining knowledge and for developing attitudes and abilities essential to living in a democratic society. This aim requires the development of the individual and of society, as well as the development and conservation of resources through instruction, research, and extension. The aim is to be achieved by promoting the following points: 1. Well being of the individual to the limit of his capacities through improvement of intellectual, physical, economic, social aesthetic and ethical attainments.

2. The growth of social institutions responsive to the needs of people. 3. The improvement of government through encouragement of an informed and actively participating citizenry. 1 4.

Development oi business and. the professions through improve- ment of personnel, faculties, techniques, and services. 5. Conservation of natural re sources through improvement of production, processing, marketing, and utilization. 6.

Advancement of knowledge and the pursuit of truth. Making news at the annual con Rex Clemens, about 55, Philo- about 55, math, was on the state police list for arrest, but was in the Good Samaritan hospital with a serious heart condition. Clemens, Shroyer and Ellis are considered among the wealthiest men in the county and have con tributed extensively to various wel fare organizations. Shroyer, Ellis and Fields were arrested by state police here and Francis W. Featherstone, former Corvallis resident, now of Eugene, was arrested at Eugene.

Conspiracy to Defraud Charged The five are accused of conspiring "to defraud in false statements to the war assets commission, ac cording to the booking sheets made out when they were lodged in the county jail. The details of the were not known as the indictment was reportedly issued by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles. The indictment is being held secret until official notice of the arrests is received, according to the United Press. U. S.

Marshal Jack Caufield told Press at Portland that he held a 15-page complaint against the men. The gist of the complaint, he said, was that Feath-erstone had purchased war surplus trucks which were specified for personal use only. However, he sold them to the other men Involved. Caufield said it wasn't necessary that the other men have knowledge of the law prohibiting the re-sale in order to be brought into the charge. The transaction was said to have occurred about 1945.

Featherstone was identified by the United Press as being a logging truck driver of Eugene. He is about 40 years old, and formerly lived in Corvailia. He posted $2500 bail in Eugene. Fields is a truck driver for a sand and gravel company, while Ellis, 'Shroyer and Clemens have large land holdings, timber, livestock and mill operations in the county. The warrants calling for the ar rests came through.

the office of caufield at Portland, who requested the state police at Salem to pick up the men. Held in Jail Fields was the first to be arrested. He has lodged in the jail shortiv before noon. Ellis followed about 1:30 p.m. and.

Shroyer about an hour later. Because of lack of knowledge on how to proceed on a federal warrant, the three were not permitted to post bail immediately. Corvallis Attorney Karl Huston, who is representing Clemens, Ellis iContinued on page 8. column 2) Judge Gives $50, Then Takes $200 Fine DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (UP) Judge Hariam H.

Keller "gave" Thomas Sweeney, 31, of Bristol, $50 Tuesday then took $150 away from him. Keller fined Sweeney $200 on a charge of drunken driving but deducted $50 as a combined Christmas and wedding present when he learned the defendant was to be married this Saturday. ference banquet Tuesday, Established 1862 Paul Patterson Governor Today SALEM -(UP)- Douglas McKay resigned Wednesday as governor of Oregon, effective at 10 a.m; Paul L. Patterson of Hillsboro, who was president of the Oregon senate at the last legislature, was sworn in as governor by Chief Justice James T. Brand of the Oregon supreme court.

McKay is slated to become secretary bf the interior in the cabinet of President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower. He said he wanted to resign as soon as possible to give Patterson an opportunity to become familiar with the duties of governor and to give Patterson a chance to prepare his message to the 1953 legislature. McKay issued this statement: "The resignation that I have filed today ending my service as governor of Oregon is the result of the most difficult decision. It was possible only because 1 hoped that I could be of service to the people of Oregon as well as the people of the nation 'by active participation in the new administration.

Dwight D. Eisenhower inspires the best the man has to offer. Faith in Patterson "The decision could not have been made had I not felt that the governorship would pass into qualr MONROE-(Special)-Paul Patterson, sworn in as Oregon governor this morning, telegraphed Wayne Giesy, secretary-manager of the South Benton chamber of commerce here, today that he would definitely speak Friday hoonbefore the chamber meeting and that he would extend an invitation to Ex-Governor Douglas McKay to be on hand also. It was not yet certain whether McKay would accept. ified and capable hands.

The splendid record of Paul Patterson in all his distineuished public service is guarantee of courageous 'and vigorous leadership, The state will go forward under his administra ticn. "It would be impossible ade auately to thank all those who worked with me in the state ad ministration and the thousands of sincere citizens whose encouragement, support and counsel sustained our efforts. I can only say that I shall remain forever grate ful and shall endeavor in my new responsibilities in Washington, to justify their confidence and faith." The governor's formal office was well filled with legislative and other leaders of Oregon, and with friends of both McKay and Patter (Continued on Page 4. Column 1) Swedish King Loses Hat; Buys Big Supply STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UP. King Gustaf Adolf's hat vanished while he was Christmas shopping in a bookstore, newspapers reported Wednesday.

Another customer mistook the royal gray fedora for his own and walked off with it. An aide de camp hurried to a hatshop next door, grabbed an armload of gray hats and took them to the king. Gustaf Adolf selected a British number and liked it so much he ordered two more just like it. printed in a dingy wooden building at the southeast corner of Third and Jefferson. It later moved to the eaually dingy but bigger "old opera houpe" at Fourth and Madi r.l.a" Jefferson, but on the southwest corner, when the present building was erected in 1927.

From the four-page paper of those days with limited circulation and news content, the Gazette-Times has steadily moved ahead and now averuges 12 pages per day with a circulation double the population of the entire city in 1909. In the early days the Gazette was printed with less than half a dozen employes, and the early daily had only a few more workers. Over a hundred persons are now engaged in bringing your daily paper to your porch, including delivery boys, mechanical staff, news and business office staffs and 20 rural correspondents plus the literally thousands of press association workers who bring in the news, via leased teletype wire from all corners of the globe. The G-T is 90 yars old, but it feels young. It feels it is growing with this fast-growing community.

In 1902, when it passes the century mark, there'll be a big celebration. Ninety years Horn now other hands will be dir feting the G-T, but we hope it 11 still measure I of community ilwuys been the up to the standar service which, has aim to provide Becomes Oregon leal Down in 1953 Dairy product prices are likely to be higher in 1953, but meat prices will continue down, according to Agricultural economists of the Oregon State college extension service. Milk production may increase a little next year but it is not expected to keep pace with population growth and strong buying powert Economist M. D. Thomas points out in the latest issue of "Oregon Agricultural Situation and Outlook." Copies of the circular may be obtained from county agents or OSC Thomas believes consumers will continue to shift from butter to lower-priced substitutes but will increase their demand for dairy products in fluid form or as cheese.

He says these trends are recognized by dairymen who are adjusting to changing market demands by shifting from fat to milk production. The Outlook notes that a record supply of beef is now on its way to market and should keep coming in larger amounts at lower prices for several years. Cattle and calf slaughter in another three to five years could be 40 percent greater than this year kill. However, beef prices, in the long rue, will depend largely on employ-; ment and consumer income, ac-1 cording to the economist. "'Consumers have shown that they would pay high prices for beef when they have jobs and are work ing hard," Thomas says.

The OSC specialists believe a farm flock of sheep offer better promise for using native pasture and other cheap forage than do cattle. High cost of labor is con-' tinuing as a serious obstacle to range sheep. Wool supports will continue in 1953 near this year's level with little change in prices to growers, barring increased military activity. Pork production is expected to decline in 1953, but increased beef supplies and week demand for lard will tend to keep hog prices from Benfon Officials Ask Increase in Salaries Benton county officials have requested salary increases from tne state legislature. County Clerk Ralph P.

Schind-ler has filed a list of salary increases recommended for the elective officers of the county. The increases for the officials must be approved by the legislature, and the Benton county recommendations will go to the committee on local government in the 1953 Session. Increases would include: Sheriff, from $4320 to $4560; county clerk, $3960 to $4200; county assessor, $3960 to $4200; treasurer, from $3240 to $3480; county school superintendent, from $3600 to $3840; county judge, from $4800 to $5040, and county commissioners $3600 to $3840. Shifty Firemen Work CINCINNATI, O. (UP)- Cincinnati firemen worked in shifts Tuesday to put out an oven blaze because temperatures reached 675 degrees.

Outside the thermometer was below freezing. Johnson bought the short-lived Chronicle at sheriff's sale in February of 1888 and changed its pame to the Weekly newspapets appeared to be a dime and the Corvallis Leader was established in 1892. In January 1893 It was absorbed, by the Times, which then became a semi-weekly. The first daily newspaper in Corvallis became the Gazette, which first appeared in that form on May 1, 1909. Next month it was consolidated with the the flip of a coin determining which name would come first in the masthead.

The first issue of the new combination came off the press June 15, 1909. So far as is known, only two scheduled publication dates have been missed since that day, both because of power difficulties caused by the weather. The paper was launched as a daily at the time when the city contained about 3000 population, and it became a daily largely at the insistence of the merchants, who desired to put their advertising matter before the citizens every day instead of once or twice a week. Solid advertising contracts with Kline's and Nolan's, major stores of the time, actually made it possible for the venture to be launched. Back at Old Spot Since 1909 the G-T, as it is familiarly known to Its staff and subscribers, has "come home to The first daily edition was I By JACKIE McKENZIE Poking my head up through tacks of Christmas cards to take i bleary eyed (and I might add ioinewhat desperate) look at the lalendar, I find that it not only is time for me once again to scribble kit a slightly "Off The Beam" col-limn but that life everywhere is suddenly in a state of complete Until now I have been entirely reccupied with Christmas cards hich I send out each year to notify friends that luring the 365 jays since they Jast heard from jne I have been Jerribly, dreadfully, awfully busy to intimate jthat my right rm has been jbroken, or crushed, fractured or otherwise injured preventing tae from writing Naturally this explains that I Tiave not yet left for the happy Jiunting ground and naturally I jssure one and all that this coming Jyear I will sit down and write them a long and complete letter.

What with. these intimations, hints, explanations and assurances, Christ-Jraas cards take a heck of a long 'time to complete. I Now I find myself with but six fmore shopping days until Christ-fmas. The eleventh hour hath ar-Jrived, which is right and proper traditionally, but which creates this turmoil for as tradition fdecrees I have purchased nary a and must start soon. During the past few weeks I have received nearly enough helpful gift suggestion propaganda to paper the walls of Gill coliseum inside and out.

One such article suggests that the only thing to purchase this season for either friends or relatives is jewelry, spe cifically diamonds. This seemed like a lovely idea and I speculated on whether Mother would prefer a diamond studded rolling pin or a diamond encrusted egg beater. While toying with this problem, read that diamond tiaras are all the rage this season with the reign of the new Queen Elizabeth now underway. The writer cpnvinced me that one of these would be the perfect gift for any friend who is planning to attend the coronation. This of course leaves me with he perfect Christmas gift and only six more days to find the right friend.

Educational toys are supposed to be just the thing for" the kids in the family this However, for the adults it is often difficult to determine just which toys are most educational or in fact educational at all. Last week the kids came to. the rescue. Judging from the safe cracking escapade of two of the younger generation, I would say that a "fix-it kit" complete with screw driver nd hammer would be one of the most educational toys you could purchase. Lots more practical than the old fashioned cap gun or a silly water pistol.

Speaking of juveniles, I had heard that some of the younger Continued on page 4, coL 4) Six Children Perish In Kerosene Blast LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP)-Six children perished in a fire caused by a kerosene explosion in a three-room farm home near here early Wednesday. Their parents wore in critical condition from burns suffered when we father tried to light a chimney 'ire with kerosene. The dead were identified as Ruth Ann Bryant, Patsy, Billy, Ronnie, Jean, 2, and Johnny, 9 months. TODAY'S FIRST CASH AD ThU It the first cash ad of 10 or more words taken for this Uiue.

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If wy1 The dramatic eet-toeether waa the first between the "old soldier" who, was fired from his Far Eastern commands by President Tru man and t-tsenhower since 1945 when Eisenhower, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited MacArtnur xokyo. The announcement of the mea. ing was made at Eisenhower's Commodore Hotel, headquarters by Press Secretary James C. Hag- erty, wno said: "I understand that r. 1 Eisenhower and Mr.

Dulles nr having lunch with Gen. MacArthur in Mr. Dulles' home." No Advance Word Eisenhower's headquarters and MacArthur'S aides had declined in gjve information Jn advance about the meeting. Earlier today. Eisenhower an nounced he.

will hold a series of "cooperation meetings" with leading Republican legislations. Eisenhower's announcement of the meetings with congressmen and senators said the purpose will be ''to discuss the best methods of cooperation between the execu tive ana legislative branches of the government." The first meeting will be Thursday morning with Reps. Joseph Charle Halleck (R-Ind), and Leslie C. Arends (R-IH.) There be another mMtna which Hagerty said probably would between Christmas and New ears Sens. H.

Stylp Bridges Robert 'A. Tart" Eugene Millikin and Leverett Saltonstall Eisenhower's statement said: "These meetings will he in developing a legislative program which will deserve the united siirw port of Congress and of thejpeople." LONDON -UP- Prime Minu ter Winston Churchill will go to wo uiuiea oiaies February or March for talks with Present Dwight D. Eisenhower, a hichlv placed source said Wednesrtnv night. It was assumed here that fhi.r. chill will take with him some of ins xop leaders, probably Foreign Secretary Anthonv F.

ri an a Chancellor of the Exchequer A. Butler. Informants said specific ar rangements for the visit can not be made until after Eisenhower has been inauaurated President Jan. 20. Divorce Plus Pets Awarded Tibbett Kin LOS ANGELES (UP) Four cats, two dogs and a divorce were wnai Mrs.

Norma Fletcher Tibbett wanted from the son of famed opera singer Lawrence Tibbett. Superior Judge Benjamin J. Scheinman Tuesday granted all her requests, including the divorce from Lawrence Tibbett Jr. Mrs. Tibbett.

a natent meriiolna heiress, said her husband waa cruel and inhuman." She de scribed herself as "dutiful and loving." The couple were married March 1950, in Las Cruces. N. M. WEATHER FORECAST West Oregon: Partly cloudy through Thursday; fog and low clouds in valleys; high both dayi 45 to 55; low Wednesday night 28 to 38 except 45 on coast; winds off coast northwest 10 to 22. East Oregon: Fog and low clouda with occasional drizzle or freezing drizzle north half and fair but local valley fog south hall through Thursday; high both days 28 to north and 32 to 42 south; low Wednesday night 20 to 32.

Portland and Willamette valley: Partly Cloudy through Thursday! considerable fog except patchy in Portland area; high both days 38 to 47; low Wednesday night 28 to 37, 30 in Portland. Local temperatures in 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. today: Maximum 46, minimum 32. shopping co) days left ation Contract Ready SALEM. (UP) An agreement under which half a million acres of fertile Willamette valley land can be irrigated was disclosed Wednesday at the annual meetins of the Willamette Basins Proiect Committee here.

A water users' contract was agreed upon by Army engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation and, the Willamette River Basin Commission which calls for individuals and groups to pay for irrigation as they pay for electric current, or by the amount used. The Basin Commission called the contract a "forward step so important that it may mark the beginning of a new chapter in Oregon history." Officials predicted an increase in production of many millions of dollars annually with a corresponding expansion of fruit and vegetable canneries and other industries based upon agricultural proaucts. Under the agreement there will be no liens on the land as in con- ventially organized districts, under national reclamation law. The contract conveys the right to have delivered the full amount of water Col. Thomas H.

Lipscomb, Portland district engineer, said 60,000 acre feet of water, would be avail able for distribution in 1953. The water stored behind dams on branches of the Willamette river. Officials explained irrigation was needed despite heavy annual rainfall in the valley because 60 per cent of the precipitation occurs in the winter months with less than 10 per cent in the four summer months and only one per cent in July and August, respectively. End of Federal SEATTLE (UP) Two proposals advocating that and nancing of hydroelectric power in the Pacific Northwest be divorced from the federal government were advanced Tuesday at the 23rd meeting of the Bonneville Re gional Advisory Council. Dr.

Paul J. Raver, Bonneville power advocated elimination of the federal government from the generating, distribution and sale of hydroelectric power in the area. He said his proposal was made for "exploratory purposes" an4 he urged the creation of a regional board to take over the functions of the federal government. "I suggest we take power completely out of the hands of the federal government," Dr. Raver said.

"And place it in the hands of a regional board, either elected or appointed by the governors of the states concerned. "This board should be given the power to build dams and finance them. It would be nothing but a power agency set up to conduct a power business only." In a research committee report, Dr. Maurice W. Lee, dean of the School of Economics and Business at Washington State College, set up two criteria for the financing program and advanced a bond issue plan to meet those criteria.

The report stated that a revenue bond program instead of appropriations, as at present, would meet the criteria for financing. It recommended that revenue bonds be issued by the Bonneville Power Administration and sold either to the treasury of the United States or to private markets, depending upon which would receive the most favorable rate. Ho Chains Heeded On Male Highways SALEM (UP) All roads in Oregon were open to traffic without use of chains, the Oregon State Highway Department reported. The department said, however, that icy pavements and ground fog continued to make driving haz ardous in some areas. Ice spots I were reported at Government ICamp, Timberline.

Warm Springs i Junction, Bly, Ochoco summit and i Austin. Fog patches were reported at summit of the Wilsron River and Sunset highways. Corvallis. Eugene. Medford.

Siskiyou mountains. Prospect. Lapine, Mitchell, Ochoco summit. Brothers, La i Grande and Seneca. tlevlrriij Power Is Urged New Witnesses To Be Surprise In Perjury Case WASHINGTON (UP)-Justice Department sources said Wednesday the FBI has lined up several "surprise'! witnesses io testify in the perjury trial of far eastern specialist Owen Lattimore.

While informants refused to identify any of the potential witnesses, they said some are from foreign countries, mainly in therient. Lattimore, 52-year oldt Johns Hopkins University professor and one-time State Department consult ant, was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges he lied seven times during his testi mony last winter before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee. He promptly protested his innocence. One count of the indictment charged Lattimore lied when he denied under oath he has ever been a promoter of Communism or Com munist interests. If convicted of all seven counts, he would be liable to a maximum penalty of 70 years in prison.

Dr. Deuev W. Bronk. president of Johns Hopkins University, announced that Lattimora would be given "leave of absence, with salary" from the university faculty while answering the charges. Bronk said he acted on the advice of Johns Hopkins faculty members, and with the approval of the Board of Trustees.

Lattimore heads the university's Walter Hines Page School of International Relations. Arraignment Uncertain Lattimore's arraignment was tentatively set for 10 a.m. EST Friday. But government attorneys said the date for his first appearance in court may be postponed to permit his attorneys, the firm of Arnold, Foras St Porter, to file motions in his behalf. Prosecutors conceded there wasn't a "ghost of a chance" that they could bring the case to trial before Attorney General-designate Herbert Brownell Jr.

takes over the department for the Republicans on Jan. 20, Lattimore, who conferred at length with his attorneys Tuesday night, indicated he will fight the charges all the way up to the Supreme Court if necessary. "If I should not, it would be an evil day in our country for freedom of conscience, of research, and of comment," he said. "These are freedoms that should be guarded by all, but by university professors with a special devotion." He said he will follow the advice which a namesake. Hugh Latimer, gave to Nicholas Ridley as the two men were burned at the stake for heresy on Oct.

16, 1555, at Oxford, England. "Play the man, Master Ridley," said Latimer then. "We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." Warm, Dry 30 Days Forecast for West WASHINGTON (UP)- The Wea. thcr Bureau said Wednesday its 30-day outlopk for mid-December to mid-January "calls for temperatures to average below seasonal normals east of the Continental Divide except for near normal in the northern tier of states from the eastward to New England." ''Warmer than normal conditions are indicated west of the Continental Divide," the bureau said. "Precipitation is expected to exceed normal over the southern third of the nation and along the Atlantic Seaboard.

Subnormal amounts are indicated in the Pacific Northwest and in the northern plains, but near normal elsewhere. A white Christmas is likely over most areas north of a line from the Texas Panhandle to Virginia," New Operator Takes Santiam Lodge Job BEND (UP) Harold Hanson, Salem, announced Wednesday the purchase of the concession rights at Santiam Ski lodge, large moun tain recreation facility built and owned by the U.S. forest service. Hanson said he would have the lodge in full operation In time for the Christmas vacation period. He ipurchuscd the management rights irom Aircrt tanson, Lebanon.

Gazette -Times Passes 90th Birthday Date; Still Feels Young, Planning More. Growth staff members and their wives was the fact htat there was no speaker. This was deliberate on the part of banquet program planner, Jessa-lee Mallalieu, jrecreation specialist, who kept things active all evening with singing, games, and square dancing. The program for Wednesday included a discussion on internation-j al relations, led by E. L.

Potter, with panel members Earl Pricf, Janet Taylor, H. A. Schoth, and H. F. Hollands.

Henry Hartman, head of horticulture, discussed new developments in horticulture; S. M. Dietz, head of botany and plant pathology, discussed new development in plant diseases; Dr. Horace Cheney, head of soils department, discussed new developments in soil science; Mary DuBois, head of home economics education, discussed new developments in home economics education. The annual B.

A. initiation and banquet begins at 4:45 this afternoon at the American Legion, while the D.D.D., women's group, holds initiation and. a banquet at 6:30 at the Country Club. BULLETIN ABERDEEN. Wain.

-(UP)- The grounded freighter Yorkmar was pulled perpendicular to tha beach and towed ovar a small tand bar for about 100 yard at noon Wednesday during high tide. Lincoln, pro-union policy. The first actual newspaper in Corvallis was the Occidental Messenger, which was established in 1857 by Joseph C. Avery, co-founder with William Dixon of the city itself. This paper two years later left Avery's hands, was first known as the Democratic Crisis, and then had its name changed to the Oregon Weekly Union.

Despite this name, it was a pro-slavery paper and was suppressed for Southern sympathies in 1863 and never revived. The Gazette was founded expressly for the purpose of promoting the Republican party and the federal union and its politics have been Republican for almost the entire 90 years of its existence. The Gazette has been -in continuous existence ever since 1862, never losing its identity completely. In 1897 anbther Oregon Union paper was founded, and this was combined in February of 1899 with the Gazette' and the combination became known as the Union-Gazette, a weekly. In April, 1900, the name was changed back to the Corvallis Gazette and It published on a semi-weekly basis.

Bob Johnson Founder Robert (Bob) Johnson, now president of the First Corvallis Bank and a prominent Corvallis citizen for much of the 96 years of his life, was the founder of the Times, the other half of the Gazette-Times' family tree. By BRUCE K. MYERS The Gazette-Times is now a nonagenarian. In December of 1862 the exact date uncertain T. B.

Ode-neal published the first edition of the weekly Corvallis Gazette, from which paper and the Corvallis Times, founded in 1888, the present newspaper is a direct descended. Unfortunately, we have no copies of the original edition, so we can't say how Corvallis celebrated, or planned to celebrate, Christmas in that tivil War year and historians who have conducted research into newspaper history in Corvallis can't shed any light on the subject, or as We said, provide the exact date of the first publication. As a matter of fact, considerable haziness surrounds early-day Corvallis newspapering and all these researchers don't agree on all the details of about the first 20 years. The earliest copy of the Gazette in current files is that of April 22, 1865, when W. F.

Boyakin was the editor and almost the entire issue was given over to accounts of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the news received via "overland telegraph" and all the column rules in the paper turned upside down to provide heavy black mourning lines. Pro-Lincoln Paper The death-of the martyred president, of course, was tremendous national news, but even more so for the Gazette, since the principal reason for its founding was a pro- -v I'VE AWeeioTlM I Tt, 0.