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- PAGE FOUR -.' ' - The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, January IS, 1931 -- , A ljfetoaTO r : ;i:a"!!'"r' 1 ! "KNAV E'S GIR By JOAN CLAYTON- I 1 ,W S T M f M 1 . uNo Favor Sways V$; No Far Shall Awe" ' ' From Fir5t Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CB4RUES A. Spracue - EditorMawiger Sheldon F. Sackxtt Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Preaa is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper. ' : ADVERTISING Portland Representative Gordon B. Bell, Security Building. Portland, Ore. Eastern Advertising Representatives Bryant, Griffith Brunson, Inc., Chicago, New Tork, Detroit. Boston, Atlanta Entered at the Potto ff ice at Salem, Oregon, a Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office, H5 S. Commercial Street. ... " SUBSCRIPTION RATES: MaU Subscription RaUs, In Advance. Within Oregon: Dally and Sunday. 1 Mo. 60 cents; 1 Mo. $1.25; Mo. $2.25: 1 year J4.0Q. Elsewhere (9 cents per Mo., or $5.00 for 1 year In advance. : By City Carrier: 45 cents a month; a.00 a year In advance. Per Copy S cents. On trains and News Standi 6 cents. Reorganizing Savings and Loan Groups T0 worse mess could hardly be imagined than was dumped l A AffiVo nf thp mmnration commissioner in the nu- ah W WV w .v r . . merous busted savings and loan associations, several 01 which had been gutted of mucn or tneir assets uy corrupt promoters and managers, me iraua wouia nave cauaeu lAoooa frt fVio ehnroiiftMprs in cood times. In bad times the impending loss on the basis of present values is bound to be heavy. Such losses are what maKe a depression, or pru Tria rnmnratinn commissioner. Charles H. Carey, who succeeded to the charge when James W. Mott resigned, has . devoted a great deal of study to the proDiem. unless ne snouia turn right in and wind the associations up for whatever he can get for them, which would be very, very little, he either has to manage them sell them as units, or reorganize them. His office is not equipped for the management of properties, and as receiver he is limited in what he can do in making deals. There is practically no market for thg associations as associations. So the only thing left that is practical and of fers some salvage to shareholders is reorganization. The governors advisory commission recommends tnic, ana iur thpr rwnmmpnds nuttintr seven of them in a consolidated group under skilled management. The present shareholders would receive pro rata shares on the basis of current values and also participating certificates by which they would hsro in whatever realization comes on charred off assets. The new association would be strictly mutual. The old assets . e v would be held for the benefit of present snarehoiders. isew investors would not have their jmoneys mixed with the af fairs of the former investors, which provides protection both ways. This plan is endorsed by the state's leading bankers, at torneys, managers of savings and loan associations and otn ra Tt (Mini a vprv renRDnahle nrorjosal. nrotectincr the share holders in what assets there are, giving them a chance at further recovery if times improve ; and getting the institu tions on their feet and again active in a business way on a basis that is sound, and not a racKet. Cuba Unlibre! CUBA seems to be having an epidemic of revolutions. Each president sits on an uncertain seat while the groups plot for his overthrow. The army group, the student, group, leftist groups, all scheme for power, hope to control the executive . . a -a a i . m i - Jl A and the congress. Macnado, nice tne typical jsouin American dictators, ruled with an iron hand, but he ruled. His despot ism has given way to near-anarchy ; and it is difficult to de- , termine which is worse. Now the fifth man in sixth months occupies the presidential palace; perhaps by the time this is printed he will be on the outside, i It is not clear, from this distance, what the, contending factions are fighting over, other than control. The leaders ' of the divisions are Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who is head of the army, and Antonio Guiteras, minister of war, in the old Grau San Martin cabinet. The latter is said to be encour aging a general strike which was voted by leftist groups. The new president, Carlos Helvia, former minister of agriculture, a one-time graduate of Annapolis naval acade my, is the foil between the two factions. Whether he will re main merely a pawn to be swept off the board later on, as Grau San Martin was, or whether he will accumulate force enough to command the situation is one of the uncertainties of the situation. Pres. Roosevelt has announced a policy of non-intervention. This county however has a moral as well as legal re sponsibility under the Piatt amendment. We cannot let Cuba relapse into anarchy, especially after our diplomatic pressure was used to oust the ruling dictator, Machado, from his of fice. Students at the university are starting a campaign to have mem bership In the Associated Students optional, which would reduce - the income considerably. At the same time an effort is made to pay Coach CaJUson ,1000 a year more than his contract calls for. We - thought after Spears and Schissler left the schools would be re , lieved ot the burden of enormous salaries for coaches. In these times when many of the instructors are working only on half pay and un able to keep np their insurance it seems a poor time to overpay the contract by $1000. As one of the board members asked, what if Cal lison loses his games next year? C 1 U.S. ; TREASURY a 15154. Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Gen. Palmer, who put Indians on reservation, friend of Judge J. W. Grim, who helped Keii colonists: S (Continuing from yesterday:) Nor did those who last reached The Dalles arrive in the Willam ette valley any earlier. The same detentions and misfortunes which awaited every - covered wagon company there were meted out to these. S Says Bancroft: "The incidents, pathetic and humorous, which at tended the journeyinga of 3000 persons (the 1845 immigration) would fill a volume." They have filled space that would make up a five foot book shelf.) When the camp of the Palmer company (of 1847) was on Wil low creek, near his mission, Dr. Marcus Whitman preached a Sunday evening sermon to those immigrants. It will be recalled that a number coming in the im migration ot that year stopped over at the mission, for the win ter, or being given employment and that some of them were vic tims of the massacre started Nor. 29, 1847. Joe Baker, until his re cent death the oldest citizen of Salem in point of residence, came near to stopping, and thus becom ing one ot the victims. As the reader has noted, two of the prominent members ot the Palmer company of the 18 47 cov ered wagon train were John W. Grim and Henderson Luelling. Many others became leaders in the territory and state. Grim became a member ot the first territorial legislature of 1849; was elected as Marion county, commissioner acting as probate judge in 1850. and re elected in 1852; was in the state senate from 1858 to 1866 and from 1878 to 1882. His wife was a Geer of the pioneer stock which produced a governor and various other high officials. S S In the winter of 1855-6, when Dr. Wm. Keil was practicing his profession in Portland, and scouts were going -over Oregon lqoklng for the permanent western home of his colony, he met Judge Grim in that city. Grim was engaged in selling apples there. The colony leader, much interested, inquired where the apples were grown. Be ing informed, he asked: "How much land of the quality producing this fruit may be had?" Judge Grim informed him that many thousands of acres were available. The Judge had secured his start of apple and other fruit trees from Henderson Luelling's "traveling nursery," which was the means ot making the begin nings of the pioneer fruit growing industry ot Oregon in a large way, with good grafted varieties. V W Luelling made boxes to fill the bed of his ox drawn covered wag on and filled them with a com post principally ot charcoal and earth in which he planted his young trees, protecting them with a strong frame. His companions entering upon the 2000 mile trek urged him to abandon the nur sery, as making too heavy a load for the plains journey. Texas gives the country a new crop of "southwestern bad men". Clyde Barrow, reputed killer and robber, is the new villain to ba searched out tor his part in an escape at the Texas prison farm. The country thought with the rounding up of the various gangs of kid napers and killing oft ot other high-powered criminals in the south : west that it would be spared ot high crimes tor a season. Apparently the roll of bad men has a few names left; and doubtless new youth are setting themselves up as imitators to lead lives ot crime. .Walter Pierce urged currency inflation instead of more gov ernment bonds to finance the president's farm debt program. James Mott urged the Frailer bill which would reduce the interest rate to 14 a year. About the only difference between the president's pro posal and Pierce's and Mott'a is the rate of acceleration before the country lands in a heap. Sen. Shepard, author of the 18th amendment, says that the re turn ot prohibition la inevitable. It does seem that the era ot "true "temperance" is showing no diminution in the number ot drunks. Strange ' to relate, the Astoria police chief reports an increase In JuvenUe drinking. Wasn't that one ot the complaints against prohi bition! ? L. H. Gregory, sporting editor of the Oregoniaa, comes out with a yarn about Tom Turner tor governor of Oregon, Turner being owner ot the Portland baseball club. That would be an interesting development, tor then the sporting writers would turn in the polit ical copy, and what a change that would be! Editor Brodie of the Oregon City Enterprise draws a compar ison with the ostrich "refusing to face stern realities with a head burled In the sand," It ocean to as, when an ostrich has its head in the sand,' all one can see are "stern" realities. Was Greta Garbo beginning to need a little publicity to restore her box office glamorf Competition is fierce in the world ot stars, there are Helen Hayes and Katherlne Hepburn you know. ,.lU Slel ted awhile we could hare gotten a fln airport without the $60,000 bond issue. But then we've had the profits from the port aU these years. . Rudy Vallee says he is through crocking to Fay. his estranged wife. No such prospect Is in store for the rest ef the people how ever. - - " y Daily Health Talk By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M.D. i - ? I V ? Dr. Copeland By ROYAL S. COPELAND. M. D. United States senator from New Tork Former Commissioner of Health, Kev Tork Citv FREQUENT REFERENCE Is made to the Importance of the "res piratory system". I wonder how many are familiar with what actually constitutes this vital system of our bodies. The respira tory system la the "breathing apparatus" and neglect or care lessness In re gard to disorders ot this mechan ism is danger ous. By its op eration we inhale air from the at mosphere and obtain the cry gen it contains. The oxygen Is carried to the blood through the ves sels of th lungs and serves to purify the blood. When -we exhale we breathe out the Impurities, especially carbon dioxide. Together with the food us eat, this process supplies the elements neces sary for proper growth and develop ment. Respiratory Tracts The breathing device begins at the nose and ends In the vast number of air cells which make up the major portion of the lungs. For conven ience. It Is divided Into two parts; the upper respiratory tract, and 'the tower respiratory tract The former consists of the nose and throat; the latter is made up of the voice-bos or larynx, the trachea or windpipe, and the bronchial tubes located In the lungs. When we Inspire or breathe In, the air passes through the nose where it is filtered or cleansed by the fine hairs located in each nostra. The air U warmed as tt passes ever the moist lining of the nose. By these wise provisions cold and unclean air la prevented from reaching the delicate membranes of the bronchi and lungs. "Month Breathers" Ton will see that when the air passes through the mouth, as it does in "mouth breathers", these Impor tant adjustments are not made. For this reason sufferers from nasal ob struction are more subject to colds and coughs. In addition. Interference with free breathing permits the ac cumulation of carbon dioxide In the blood. The oxygen is Inadequate and the normal expansion ot the lungs is not accomplished. Any neglect of the respiratory sys tem encourages disease In some part of the tract. Colds, nasal sinus dis ease, tons lilt is, grippe, "flu" and other respiratory diseases are en couraged by this neglect. Lowered resistance to the common infectious diseases naturally follows and they are met more freauentiy In persona who have some xtaaal defect. Flat chest and other physical deformities may be traced to faulty breathing. , Such defects a twisting of the partition or thickening of the In ternal tissues in the nose, require Im mediate correction It normal breath ing and good health' ere to be ex pected, in children adenoids and dis eased tonsils should be removed. Bear in mind that proper breathing is a protection against disease. - - , Answers to Health Queries lira. E. O. H. Q. What can be done for a child who always becomes "car sick"? Is there anything that could be taken beforehand to relieve this tendency? A. First of aU make sure that the child's system Is clear. Do not take the child out driving directly after a meal, and avoid long drives. For further particulars send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and repeat your question. (Copyright, 19S4. g. T. Inc.) But he persevered through dit ficultles beyond description in short, he brought his nursery through, and that wagon load of trees contained health, wealth and comfort for the early set tlers was the mother of all the first orchards and nurseries ot the Beaver state. Those living trees brought more riches to Ore gon than any ship that ever en tered the Columbia river. i. The first apples brought $1 each. In 1853, four bushels of Oregon apples were sold in San Francisco for $500. The following year 40 bushels were grabbed up at $2500 for the lot. In 1861 the shipment ot apples from Oregon amounted to orer 75,000 bushels. Judge Grim's start came from the traveling nursery, and he had by IS 55-6 become a comparatively considerable producer. Thus ap ples led the colonists to Aurora. Dr. Keil's followers were excep tionally able orchardists. Nord hoff, in his book on American colonies found, in 1872, at Au rora, "the most extensive orch ards in the state." S Judge Grim became the life long friend of Dr. Keil and his colonists, and he was always wel come among them. He was a near neighbor, his donation cjaim later being almost if not quite surrounded by colony lands. These were started with two quar ter sections, at what was called Aurora Mills (a saw and a grist mill), with a down payment of $1000 by Dr. Keil; and the acre age grew in 25 years to 18,000. o Judge Grim's donation land claim of 640 acres was a short distance northwest of Hubbard and southwest of Aurora. At one time he had there 1500 acres of land. Most of the original dona tion claim acreage is still in the ownership of members of the Grim family. The. original Grim donation claim cabin was only a few rods west ot the present house ot Byron Grim, son of the judge. Byron came across the plains when he was a year old, which the reader will see, gives blm the honor of celebrating his 88 th year during 1934. He knew nearly all the first settlers in that vicinity in his youth known as the "low er end of French Prairie." He recalls the French Canadians with their Indian and half caste wires and their half and quarter breed children, and is able to say that they were generally good neighbors. When the Grim fam ily needed meat, and Judge Grim sought to buy a beet animal, he was told to take his pick from his Canadian French neighbor's herds, but he was not allowed to pay for it In fact it would have been considered an insult to in 8ist, s s General Joel Palmer's donation claim was at Dayton, Yamhill county, and he always considered himself a neighbor to the Grims. and was so regarded. That was not an unusual case in early Ore gon. Byron Grim recalls many an evening when the two fellow trav elers and leaders of the 1847 cov ered wagon company sat around the Grim fireplace and recounted their experience on the plains, and after they had become prom Inent in Oregon affairs. (Jim Smith, Marion county commis sioner, remembers well the big house ot Gen. Palmer, just west of Dayton. He recalls that he used to buy beet cattle of Pal mer; but Jim was then a young fellow, and did not realise that he was dealing with a historic character. To the youthful Jim, Palmer was just a nice old gen tleman who had cattle for sale.) Speaking ot meat. The Grims at first needed very little beef. Deer filled that section, and venison was so plentiful that Byron got tired ot it, and, to .this day, has S CHAPTER FD7TT-FIYE l Eileen had come here to inflict this stupid cruelty. This was her chance. StilL she was frightened as she took it Her eyes were bright and sharp, there was no mercy in the mi but she was flushed, her plump gray satin breast was agi tated. "I knew Patricia when," she an nounced it in a hurried rush, her tones distinct and carrying. 1 knew her in the days when she was Patricia Warren." With the swift ness of a rapier thrust she had turned to face the girL "What's this nonsense, dear, about your be ing Patricia Haverholt? If that publicity too?" There was a deathly silence. Pa tricia saw Clark's terrible look. It was not for her, it was for Marthe. But there were looks enough for her. Half her little world, half the world of bridge, had heard Eileen Sycott's words. Half her world was staring. Blair was brightening out of momentary stupefaction. Sand ers and the referee, countless otn ers who had heard the amazing words, accepted them at once, and were now drawing swift conclu sions. The silence lasted, lasted. Why would no one speak? Just then, someone did. It was Julian, contained and cold, magnificent as he looked at the bridling Mrs. Sycott. "So," he said it calmly, "so you've discovered our little secret." "Your little secret!" said Marthe sharply. "What's this, Haverholt?" de manded Blair, attempting to lead the pack. "What's this all about?" Haverholt made no reply, not just then. Unconcernedly he stroll ed forward to take his place beside Patricia, to drop a careless arm about her rigid shoulder. "Shall we tell them?" he asked it casually. "Shall we tell them now, Patricia." She must have nodded. Haverholt said, his manner easy, his arm still linked about the girl, "We had hoped to make our own announcement but unfortunately Mrs. Sycott chose to anticipate us." He sent that lady a contemptuous glance, continued, "Yon have some of the facts as it happens, Mrs. Sycott, not all." He said, "It's quite true that Patricia is not my niece." "Not your niece I" "It was, in a way, publicity," mused Julian, accepting the aston ishment, the shock, without the flicker of an eyelash to show that he understood its meaning. "The idea in the first place was pub licity, my idea, I mean, that I "should introduce this youngster as my niece. I knew for instance that you, Reuben," he said, directly ad dressing his enemy, "I knew that you would never be half so im pressed by a first flight bridge player named Patricia Warren as by one named Patricia Haverholt. Now, isn't that the truth?" Blair struggled, found no answer, He knew, no one better, that a scandalous exposure had taken place. How to reap advantage from the situation, how to say the damn ing word, that was a different ques tion, a question that Blair, eager as he was, found himself incapable of solving. Helpless, he realized that sentiment was shifting. Some how, Haverholt was wiggling out. Julian's lightness was indecent, in decent, but alas! effective. Blair could have stamped his feet in rage. "Patricia was a genius when I met her," Haverholt told them quite simply, sparing an angelic smile for the pop-eyed, purple Blair. "She was a genius at the game of bridge. It seemed too bad that she should start at the bottom of the ladder, fight to win the recognition that was justly hers, all f r the lack of a name tfear would impress certain people, who unfortunately need to be impressed by names." He looked again at Blair, he looked speculatively at Marthe, he "Patricia's name will soon be Haverholt in fact," he announced dearly. "She has premised to marry sae." almost laughed in Mrs. Sycott's face. He said, "This idea oecured to me: Why should Patricia go through all the bother when she might borrow my fairly well-known tag? I was willing, she was will ing. We're laughed a thousand times at how well our little plot succeeded." Julian knew his crowd. He spoke straight from the shoulder. He made it all so simple, this little business understanding, this agree ment between the famous expert and the unknown brilliant girL The thing that clinched it was that he really did not care. For their good win and good opinion he eared nothing. He made his own rules, he always had. Let them like it. Let them . not. It was all one to him. He and Patricia belonged to a dif ferent, a more exciting, a more glamorous world, world where conventions didnt matter. AH these things were implicit in his intona tions, in his gestures, in the tim bre of his careless speech. "Isn't that right, Patricia?" he asked the girl with a charming def erence that certain of the ladies found entirely winning:. "Isn't that right?" "I guess so," she murmured faintly. "Yes," she said defiantly. and faced the crowd with brilliant eyes. "Well," said Marthe suddenly bitter, sullen, resentful, on the verge of angry tears. "Well, I never " "You never what, Marthe?" ask ed Julian gently. "You never once suspected? I'm sure you did. I thought so more than once. It was sporting of you to keep our secret. You see," he continued, addressing them all once more, "We've had a reason lately for desiring that our secret should be kept. That's what I spoke of earlier, the information that Mrs. Sycott lacked to fill in her picture." Patricia, torn by a thousand con flicting emotions, stared at the man in mute astonishment. What next? Julian drew her closer to his aide and delivered his final bolt. "Patricia's name will s o o n be Haverholt in fact," he announced it dearly, regarding the palely beautiful girl with a look of com plete devotion. "She has promised to marry me. We had planned a quiet ceremony for the seventh. I'm afraid," he said in light, half rueful complaint, "I'm Afraid it cant be so quiet now." i Like some helpless pawn in a game of which she had no under standing, Patricia accepted this as part of tha fantastic madness of the evening. She and Haverholt were instantly surrounded. These were people who prided themselves upon sophistication; Haverholt had presented them an opportunity to show exactly how sophisticated they really were. They seized that opportunity, one and all, bubbling with eagerness and with excite ment and with a sense of being part of what would certainly be the most sensational romanoe of the season. From niece to wife? Amazing, isnt it? Bow like Julian Haverholt? Isnt he amusing? Did you ever see a man more complete ly subjugated? He can hardly keep his eyes off that lovely girL The girl too, look she's clinging to his arm as if she couldn't bear to let him go. "What a surprise you're given us, Julian." "JuHan, yon could have bowled me over with the lightest feather." "You're announcing it at once, then?" i Indeed they were announcing it Newspaper men were even at that moment clamoring at the door, begging' for admittance. Cameras were primed and ready in the cor ridors. A bridge romance I Julian Haverholt to marry Patricia War ren, until lately known as Patricia Haverholt, his partner in the fa mous marathon. Oh, this would lead the morning papers. Lore and bridge and a secret publicly re vealed a perfect combination. Haverholt had grabbed the spot light with a vengeance. i Only once did the fog that en veloped Patricia roll aside.- That was when Clark spoke te her. Eileen's bitter-sweet congratula tions, Martha's open sneer, Blair's thin-lipped suggestiv smile, these could not touch her. But, Clark could touch her as he always had. He stood before her, tail, his browned face pale, Clark, so dear to her, so lost to her. "I wish for you, Patricia," he said, "I wish for you great happi ness." "I " she faltered. "Aren't yoa surprised?" "No," he said. She was too lost in pain herself to see the pain up on his face. "I guessed it long ago," he said. "Long ago, I knew that you loved Julian Haverholt." (To B Coo tinned) 1932. Wj Kane Features Syndicate, Imc. no relish for it. Members of the Keil colony often went on hunts and employed the "circle meth od, and brought home great amounts ot meat to dry. Henry T. Finck, until 18 in the colony, when he became the first student from Oregon at Harvard, said in the last of his 18 books, that the taste of dried venison lingered with him yet. in his seventies. S S Then there were native grouse in and under halt the high trees, and native pheasants, too, in great abundance, and geese and ducks that almost fiUed the sky and covered the Willamette river and the lakes. There were swans, too, in quite plentiful numbers, for several years after ,1847, and they were considered a delicacy, along with the other water fowl and the grouse and pheasants. Tes, and quail, too. S With the generaUy mUd win ters ot those years, providing grass for their emaciated stock, and the abundance ot game and fish, it is no wonder that the half starred people just oft the plains thought, when they had arrived in the Willamette valley, they had come from their weary pil grimages almost as it were through the gates of paradise and It is little wonder that they were followed (and preceded,) first to last, by 350,000 other pil grims, their faces toward the set ting sun. VISIT BEBINGERS MEHAMA, Jan. 17. Mr. and Mrs. Gale Beringer were surpris ed early this week by a visit from Washington friends, the Bairds. who were en route home from California. Mr. Baird lived here many years ago. REVIVALS ATTUACTIOX MEHAMA, Jan. 16. Several from here have been attending the revival services held In Sil verton by Rev. Watson and a group also plans to attend the services being held In Scto by Rev. Britton Ross of Salem. FUN MB EBAL TODAY FOR S.C.Z 1MHI AURORA, Jan. 17. Catherine Zimmerman of Aurora, nassml away at her home Tuesday, Janu ary is at ii:60 a. m. at the age of 82 years, 11 days. Mrs. Zimmerman was the daughter of Henry and Margaurlte Will, and came "across the plains with her parents from Bethel, Mo., where she was born, settling near Aurora In the fall of 1863. She was united In marriage to Chris Zimmerman who preceded her in death in 1920. Mrs. Zim merman lived In and near Aurora ever since the time she came here with her parents, and leaves sur viving her tire sons and one daughter: Augustas D. ot San Francisco, Julius A. of Albany, Ralph C. ot Aurora, Allen J. ot Aurora, Elmer M. of Portland, and Mrs. Louis Webert of Aurora; besides two two sisters, Mrs. Sar ah McFadden of Anacortes, Wash., and Miss Flora Will of Coeur d Alene, Idaho, beside 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren, several neices and nephews and numerous friends. Funeral services will be held in Aurora from Miller's undertaking parlors, Friday, January ljr at 2 p. m. 4-H Club Activity At Brmri College School Resumed BRUSH COLLEGE!, Jan. 17. f Activities in 4-H work were re sumed at Brush College school when the two newly organized clubs met tor the Initial meet ings. Mrs. F. C. Ewins Is local leader for the girls' cooking clab, whose officers and members In clude: President, Ruth Munson; rice - president. Marine Olaen; secretary, Hazel Rivet and Ruby and Pauline Johnson, Margaret Ewing, Myrtle Meyers, Blanch and Marjorle Bliss, Charlotte Rock and Mildred Munson. The boys club, "Brush College Bakers," has taken up camp cook ing. Mrs. Harry Bonney is teacher and officers are: President, Alvin Ewing: vice - president. Corvdbn Blodgett; secretary, Robert Ewing ana otner members are Willard Giase, Ralph Ewing, Loyal. Whit ney, Otis Rock and Melvin Tuel. Community Happy As Infant's Eyes Found All Right RICKEY, Jan. 17. There is rejoicing not only in the Ralph Miller family but in the whole community over the fact that tne iasi Danaage nas been removed from the face of six - month - old Dorothy Miller who was severely burned two months ago when the family residence was destroyed by fire and that her sight is not im paired nor her face badly scarred. The three children, Harold 4. Bobbie, 2, and little Dorothy were taking their afternoon nap and the mother had left the house a short time previous to help the father who was working a short distance from the house when the house burst Into flames, presum ably from a defect in the flue. The parents barely rescued the children. Dorothy's bed was afire by the time her mother got to her. GIRL TO DUXDASES STAYTON, Jan. 17. Stayton friends are In receipt of the an nouncement ot the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dundas of Bell, Gal. Mrs. Dundas will be remembered as Louene Thomas. This Is their second child, both girls. Mrs. Paul Ross of Lyons un derwent ah Operation for appendi citis Monday at the local hospital. DOvnTTfrr nrnujiG AUMSVIX.LE, Jan. 17. Ev angelistic services are being con ducted at the Bethel church by Henry Aarhus. The meetings are proving popular as Mr. Aarhus ts an excellent singer and preacher.