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Died. Douglas McKay, 66, lifetime Oregon Republican politician who became President Eisenhower's first (1953-56) Secretary of the Interior; of a heart ailment; in Salem, Ore. From a humble beginning, spare, jaunty McKay built up a political career along with a thriving Chevrolet agency, rose from state senator to Governor (1949-53). Wary of big government, McKay trimmed operations at Interior, incurred the wrath of trigger-sensitive public-power supporters, none more relentless than his fellow Oregonian Senator Wayne Morse who beat him handily in the 1956 Senate race...
President Bowman Gray of R. J. Reynolds Co., whose Salem is already a mentholated success, was so affected by the sight of all this clamoring at his door that he took a drastic step for the head of a billion-dollar hierarchy. He insisted on answering his own telephone, gave battle orders that he wants to be flashed personally by even the lowliest Reynolds salesman on every development on the cigarette front...
...with Varian Associates this year, six key employees were piqued because they got less than 1% of the swapped stock; in April they stalked off with four others to form Metco (Microwave Electronic Tube Co.) and compete with their former employer. Within nine days they had a plant in Salem, Mass., financing, firm contracts and a production schedule calling for June deliveries of microwave tubes. "Within a year," predicts Founder Richard Broderick, former Bomac treasurer, "we'll have 100 employees. And in three years, we'll be back on the highway...
...Salem College The Rev. Abraham K. Akaka, minister of Honolulu's famed Kawaiahao Church, "the Westminster Abbey of Hawaii" L.H.D. Dana L. Farnsworth, physician, director, University Health Service, Harvard University Sc.D...
...army of 47 MTA buses herded the crowds to the Club for a full day's activities and dancing at night. During the day some families took bus trips to nearby Manchester Yacht Club, to Salem for an historical tour, or to Singing Beach. There a few brave souls, who, according to the class clown, "will never make their 50th., swam in 58 degrees ocean surf. On the links, E. Howard Roorbach, with a gross 82, and William T. Piper Jr., with a 33 putting score, took honors...