Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-09
Committee To Place
No Objections In Path
OfGOUefnOrS Scheme

III there are to be any rocks in
The way Of the realization of Gov
ernor Olcott's ambition for a new
state training school for boys as
distinguished from the present com
bination of state training school
and reformatory they will not be
placed there by the joint ways and
means committee. At least there
are no surface indications of ap-
position TO the plan as proposed by
| the governor in his message and as
! now set out and provided for in
two bills pending before the legis-
lators. one before the house ami
the other before the senate TO the
contrary practically every one of
The members of this committee,
having personal knowledge of the
hepl0rabie condifi rns now obtain
ing at this institution wherein boys
Of young and tenuer years uIe
herded together with the more
hardened criminals of older years,
evince keen sympathy for the gov
ernor's move.
AS explained TO the ways and
means committee, Tuesday night by /
Don II. Upjohn. private secretary
to the governor. the plan for the
new institution contemplates the |
construction of training school
Tor boys on the most modern and!
approved cottage system. This will
neceSsitate the erection of five cot
tages to accommodate aproximatelvI
forty boys each. an administration
building, hospital an Industrial
building with shops, manual train
ing department and class rooms, a
central heating plant and such 9TH
er buildings as are necessary to the
operation of an institution of this
character. The entire cost of con-
Struction and equipment is estima-
ted at 100000 which is provided
In bill introduced by Senator's
Ritner and Patterson. Construc-
ton work Is expected to occupy the
better part of two years. Should thoi
new institution materialize 1t is
proposed by some to convert the
present castle on the hill" which,
now constitutes the state training
school into q refOrmatory or inter- p,
penal institution for the !.
care of first termers and boys who ,
would not belong in tr4Iining ,
school.
The need for an addition to the l
eastern Oregon state hospital at {
Pendleton was presented to the {
committee by w. d. McNary, su-
lerintendent OF the Pendleton in
titutlon and DR.. II. Il, Lee Steiner,
OF the Salem insti-
ution. Both hospitals, 1t was point
"a out were now crowded to capac-
ty. The Salem institution had al
eady reached size where 1t was
Inwieldy and further additions n
we're impractical. Should the newl c
wing be constructed at the eastern
oregon hospital as contemplated in ;,
he Ritner- Patterson bill at cost 1,
II 100000 1t could be half filled n
With patients now in that institu- :,
ion who are crowded in with other =
-, IL
The committee also gave a sym 2,
athletic ear to the presentation by 9,
l. II. Compton, warden of the state n
rison, of the needs of an industry =,
t that institution which will give :,
mployment to convicts and enable ~
hem to contribute toward he sup d,
ort of their dependants on the d,
utside. ol
The plan f0r the proposed new a
contemplated the installa- "
on of sawmill and box factory 81
I cost of approximately $4,000 az
'hich would take the logs from b!
ne prison pond and convert them W
lto box shocks orscompleted boxes d'
$ the occasion. demanded. There CT
as a real need for such an in
ustry, Compton assured the COM
litteemen, and so far as he had
cen able to learn there was no op- OF
osition either on the part of labor &C
industry to such plant at the eC
rison. n,
|. III. Van Wrinkle, attorney gen in
'al almost broke up the commit A
'e meeting when he appeared TO &c
SIX that $4,000 which had been in W
uded in his buGgct through error
pruned therefrom. The attor-
" general budget now total ap- to
'oximately $500 less than was bl
two years ago n con- n,
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