The Capital Journal from Salem, Oregon • 23

Capitals Journal i Saturday, Nov. 20, 1965 HER BREAD MISSES THE MIDDLEMAN i of One Woman Many Mem. arfee ell Directly to 1 chickens in every Saturday and sell them all by! 9 Fowler now is on the ho-pitality committee; there's free coffee and cake for the early arrivals. He doesn't sell anything at the market, and is retired from his business of selling wholesale auto accessories. Burdened with 25 to 30 loaves of bread, a Salem businesswoman, Mrs.

A. J. Gils-dorf, arrives by 8 a.m. each Saturday at 1240 Rural St. SE.

By 9:30 a.m. each Saturday she's out of business, her wares snapped up by a hungry public. She is just one of more than a dozen farmers, farmers' wives, craftsmen and retired people who sell their wares through the Salem Public Market, i At one time that's the way most business was conducted, and still is in some parts of the world. People with something to sell take themselves and their products to a central location. People who want to buy know where to look.

.1 HS" A 7 ft V-V ft (A ir-i ii irfii i in imiTrfS here's no middleman. They sell direct or not at Mr. and Mrs. Gilsdorf are retired. They supplement their income by selling Mrs.

G's white and whole wheat bread. Her bread doesn't cost less it's 35 cents for a iy2-pound loaf but the people who buy it aren't looking ior a bargain bijt for something good to eat. "This is the only place I sell," Mrs. Gilsdorf said, "except for some people who come out to the house when they can't come to the market." 'MISS ANNA' at the Salem Public Market is Anna Neits, who sells flowers to her admiring customers each Saturday." She has a diversified "business," selling cookies, cake and rolls as well as bread. So do many of the other people who pay $1.25 each Saturday as the price of space at the nonprofit market.

Even more diversified is Mrs. Edwin Barton, who has a half acre in cultivation out past the Illahe Hills. i She makes a lint brush named "The Lupie," which she sells also through Meier and Frank, Lipman's, Miller's and other stores. "That's the business part," she said. "This," she added, pointing at the vegetables, "is the work." The vegetables she sells represent the overflow from her garden.

She began at the Public Market by selling notepaper, but branched out with Lupies and vegetables. Since then she's added corn yeast bread husband's hooked on it so I have to bake it whether I come here or All kinds of vegetables potatoes, squash, pickles, carrots, cabbage, for instance jewelry, handiwork, eggs, baked goods and flowers are sold there, Saturdays only. The old building housing the Salem Public Market once stood at Marion and High streets NE. Before that people with produce to sell used to hawk their wares from trucks at Marion Square Park. It isn't a pretty building, but then it has been in service a long time.

Evidence of this is tacked to the inside of the front door. produce may be sold. The proper current number of points for each such sale shall be collected by the vendor and turned in to he market master. That's one of the "rules" of the market, and it obviously no longer applies since rationing ended at about the same time as World War II. There are other restrictions on the old list: It is "forbidden to attract attention to their wares by outcry, other noise or entertainment." Charles H.

Fowler was one of those who helped start the public market. "About 22 of us threw in $25 each and we were started." The posted rules allow the sale of poultry, but no one does. Fowler recalls how it was. "You can't economically grow poultry for sale anymore. I when a woman from Hubbard used to bring 40 "I come down every Saturday unless I'm out of town." he says.

"I just come down to help keep things running." Most of the people selling at the market are looking for and in need of a little extra -change. One of them is Anna Neits, who lives across the street at 1265 Rural St. SE. This day was a short one for Miss Anna, as she's known, for her flowers were selling well. Flowers are her only product.

"Oh, the asters," she sighed, bunching up a bouquet. "They cost me more money than I make." But it's what the public wants, and Miss Anna likes to please the public. jj She does make a little money each Saturday to "help pay the doctor bills," and Miss Anna appreciates this because "nobody will hire you when you are so old." Anna is 68. Another with a booth at the market is Ruth Torgerson, 1645 Capitol St. SE.

"This is my first year here, and it helps in getting known so I can do jobs for people at home. I get welfare assistance, but I'm trying to get something going on my own." She sells pot holder sets, rag dolls, pillow slips, runs a "doll hospital." She advertises that she can do any mending or sewing job. Mrs. Thelma Henderson keeps four kilns busy producing ceramic plates, decorative items made of old wine bottles, earrings containing dried and pressed flowers in resin. Mrs.

Stanley Michalek has been a Public Market businesswoman for six years. She explains how she got started: "You have to pick cucumbers (for pickles) when they're ready, not when the cannery is. So here I am with them." Mrs. Albert Francke is retired and "this is a nice little extra income. Our prices aren't too much cheaper, but the produce and baked goods are a lot jj' She then proceeds to tell you 'why: i "Everything here was picked yesterday or this morning.

We got here at 7 aim. but by then we had already gone out and 5 i II lis picked the corn." 5 Inimrff '-si. Capital Journal Story and Photos ATTENTIVE TO her customer is Mrs. Public Market. She also sells a corn Edwin Barton who sells the "overflow" yeast bread which she says her husband from her vegetable garden at the Salem is "hooked on." By GENE MAUDLIN.