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Newspaper Page TextPAGE THREE Marjorie Kimbrough Chosen as Queen of StayipnSantia Spree The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, Jnly21, 193ft Cmvningls Event Will Follow Parade, 11:45 With Salem Cherrians ... Doing Honors STAYTON . Marjorie Kim brough, Stayton girt, was chosen queen of the 1939 Santiam Spre as the (ire-day celebration rot underway Tuesday night. - She received a grand total of 1,033, 500 Totes. Princesses .will be Helen Hughes. Stayton; Jessie Reese, Scio; Marjorie Parton, Lebanon; LeVerne Whitehead. . Turner; Marjorie Taylor. Mill City, and Eilene Wlckersbam, Jefferson, who finished in that order In the queen contest. Wedding Is Feature , Besides the close of the queen contest And a queen's ball,' events Tuesday night Included a public wedding on a cedar "bough, deco rated platform on Third street when Edith May Monroe of Jack son, Ore., and Thomas Henry Deters of Boulder, Calo., both with the Browning carniral play ing here this week, were mar ried by Rev. Bruce Gresclose" f Stayton Methodist churcJabefore a large throng. W. A. Weddle, newly elected mayor, made his first public ap pearance, to preside at the wed ding. STAYTON Throngs of people hare been attending the Santiam Spree celebration in Stayton the last two days. The fullest days are ahead though with a full port program Thursday and on Friday the dedication of the new city park, the crowning of .Queen Marjorie I and a Townsend rally as highlights. The industrial parade Friday will begin at 11 a. m.. and Queen Marjorie I will.be crowned by King BIng of the Cherrians at 11:45 a. m. Speakers slated for the dedica tion program Friday afternoon in clude GoTernor Martin. Senator Charles McNary, Congressman James Mott, Secretary of State Earl Snell, . State Treasurer - Ru fus Holman, Clarence Wagoner of Portland ami others. . The rest of Friday v afternoon will be devoted to one of the larg est Townsend rallies ever staged In this section. F, G. Delano of Sa lem will be master of ceremonies. Aumsville Staf i Is now Complete AUMSVILLE Mill Mildred Relchers of Tillamook - and - a graduate of Pacific university has been hired to teach in the biology department of the high school. This completes. the teaching staff. - Word has been received here of the progress of Mrs. Castle, former resident of this place, who was in an automobile wreck some time ago near Cottage Grove and survived a broken neck. She has .been fn Salem at the home of her son Crelghton Castle since the accident. Tues day Mr. Castle took ber by auto mobile to their home in Califor nia. Crelghton Castle and fam ily were also former residents of this place. A number of chances Are in progress at the schoolhouse.. pre paratory to the opening of school In September. The study , ball whlcli has been inadequate to seat .the large number of - stu dents transported in to the school Is being enlarged by removing the partition between the study all and the llbrary-and seating the library for study, hours. The science room will also be fitted up In the room on the first floor. Shipwreck Days Are Recalled bv Dotson's Visitor SALEM HEIGHTS Ivan Ford of Sidney. Mont., spent the past week as a guest at the Delbert Dotson home. Ford was one of the1 charter members of .Kid" night, which originated In the Dotson borne, 14 years ago. With his help. Mr. Dotson built a boat and in company with Mrs. Dotson the three started on a boattrip down the Yellowstone river, frpm Sidney to Memphis. Tennessee, to attend a Kiwanis convention at that place. After 20 days of sailing they were shipwrecked - and never reached Memphis. Frank Hunt formerly of here but now of Rldgefield. Wash.. Is visiting his sister. Miss Lydia Hunt, and Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Fulkerson; also his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Hunt. George Lemery to Start Practice at Cloverdale WACONDA Dr. George Lem ery visited over the weekend at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Lemery, sr. Dr. Lemery will soon leave for Clov erdale to practice medicine, hav ing recently finished . Interne work at the Portland medical school. . DuBain Friday i3k! C939 Fur Shop In New Location 442 State St. - Upstairs HestyUng Hcpairin Cleaning Storage I Another British Freighter Sunk j ' - f - I 1 s hvKvrcic vi Mute ; testimony to the destruction wrought by bombing planes of Spanish insurgent flyers is this Franz Will Attend Mennonite Confab Pratuni Croup Present at Epworth League's Y Lake Institute PRATUM Rev. J. M. Frans and sons Arthur and Landy are leaving j for Saskatoon, Saskat chewan. Canada, next Monday where the Mennonite conference will be held the first week of August. They will stop on their way' going in Montana at a for mer charge of Rev. Franz. On their return they will stop in Minnesota visiting relatives: O. Whitman- and a group of young people are attending Ep worth League institute at Suttle lake. iProf. Schultze preached here Sunday morning in Mr. Whitman's place. On Institute Program Olivia deVries returned home from Little River where she was a member of the faculty of the Epworth League institute, of southern Oregon. She left Mon day for Twin Rocks Epworth League institute where she has part In the program. . . Mrs. I E. W e 1 1 y is receiving treatment in the Deaconess hos pital in Salem. Buy Xew Combines Fred Hersch. " Frank Frailer and son, and Val Gerig and son, will all do their harvesting with new combines. Mr. and Mrs. James Hutching son and daughter Carolyn from Antioch. .Calif., have been visit ing for the past week at the home of . her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Kleen. The i Kleen clan was reorgan ized at a meeting In Silverton park Sunday. Hewitt Reunion Draws 85 Folks To Pioneer Site UNIONVALE The annual re union of the descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hewitt to the number of 85 gathered Saturday, at the j grove of L. L. Thornton, which Is a portion of the" original donation land claim taken by the pioneer couple who came to Ore gon in 1843. H. W. Hewitt of Roseville. Cal., came the farthest: he and Dr. . Loren L. Hewitt of Estarada were the .three broth ers attending. One other brother. Matthew Hewitt of Roseville, Cal.. was unable to attend. Memorials were read for L. M. Thornton, Guy Hewitt, Ruth Hewitt, Nunn and Charles Oti. The 11939 reunion win De neia the second Saturday in July. Majority of . the relatives re mained over to honor Mrs. Mary Hewitt on occasion of her 81st birthday with a ' dinner In the grove at the Smith bar Sunday. VI SELL SLEEP on thQ Friendly Pullman Conductor GEORGE KRUWEL . hasn't ha4 the ageless experience of old slumber merchant r Morpheus, but those six Wrs on bis sleeve indicate mat he has been ia the "sleep business' for over 30 years. George Kruwel is typical of the GucadSs veteran crew. He takes a personal pride in the Pullman service provided by this superb train between here and San Francisco. He speaks with authority when be says: -Fmssgers slp Hit top on the Cascade. Tb trip it fst ami smooth, cltan smd omut. Steel tort, bumlmtei mgmmst moist, sir tooled nd mir-codiiiod, girt rtat trtvel comfort. Accommo dations? Most tm jibing yon icisb, from mm mtxpensivt standard berth to m sp scions dr suing room or deluxe comportment! Next time you go to San Francisco, try the Csscsde, the finest, fastest train between here and California. Here's the schedule: Lv. SALEM .7:19 P.M. Ar. SAN FRANCISCO 1:32 P. M. - For fares and reservations please call: -A, F. NOTH, Ticket Agent, Telephone 440S ' - " ' Lb V ' ' - -Mt A : -Y hulk of the British freighter Thorpehaven, sunk in Alicante harbor. Important Loyalist port. Farmers' Union News h LIBERTY The Liberty, local of the Farmers' Union met for its regular meeting, Tuesday night. Harry Evans reported for the weed control committee to the effect that Marion county has a law providing for the cutting of weeds along roadsides but that no rt Tha InUte tl7A bills to appear on the November ballot were read by the president, John Dasch, and discussed. It . was decided that the F.U. Cooperative cannery enter a float i Saturday's parade in Salem. An. invitation from the Labor Label league was accepted to Join with that group in a picnic Sun day, June 24. at Wendland park. John Tnrnbull. president of theRosedale local, spoke on mat ters relating to the youth organ ization.; ' ; County convention reports were made by John Dasch, J. K. Crab tree and Mr. and Mrs. G. Weav er. A piano solo was played by Jacqueline Jndd. I Doan Gets Permit For new Theatre Plans to Build $25,000 Play House, West Salem Near Sloper's j WEST SALEM G. C. Doan of Toledo Wednesday morning took out a permit for construction of a $25,000 theatre inVWest Salem, on Edgewater street adjacent to the new L. L. Sloper building which was opened just last week. This will be the first theatre for West Salem, and presumably is the structure about which. Ed Lewis, former Saicm theatre manager Inquired into at a recent meeting of the city ocuncil. Plan Carnival in August The locar community club has made arrangements to sponsor appearance of the : Browning amusement ' company carnival here August 17 to 20. Mrs. Fannie Moore is at th Salem general hospital, where gb is reported seriously ill. ' . Mr. and .Mrs. Fred Kuhn ar in McMinnville for the convention of thy3 Spanish American war vet erans. .. ')!'' 1 Daphney. Seth and Ervin I Un-f derwood and Tommy Shipler are spending the week at DeLake. At Coast Daring Heat Mrs. T. J. Shipler and daugh ters, Margaret and Ruth, and Ella Brown left Tuesday ! for Taft. where they will spend the week.- - .'.': Mrs. W. D. Phillips is seriously ill at the Deaconess hospital. Disagreeable at Coast RICKREALL Mrs. Elizabeth Wait accompanied Mr. and Mrs. George White to Depoe Bay Tues day. She Bald the weather was disagreeable on account of heavy fog. ; ;j by' Insurgents Woman Suffers Burns to Palms Result of Attempting to Tear Down Blazing Awning at Home WALDO HILLS Mrs. Henry Jackson is suffering from" burns received Sunday forenoon when the Ervin Kaser. house, in which they are living,, caught fire. Mrs. Jackson saw the awning over one window on fire - and in her excitement tried to tear it down. The supporting rods were extremely hot and ' the palms of both her hands were blistered. Neighbors had helped get the fire under control before the Silverton fire department ar rived. Mr. and Mrs. William Haver nick and two grandsons, Robert and Harold Dickman, left early Tuesday morning by motor for Snohomish. Wash. to visit Mrs. Ella Newton, who was their neighbor in Morton, Minn:, more than 35 years ago. They expect to be away 10 days. Miss Rue Camp Norse Mr. and Mrs. K. O. Rue have learned that their youngest daughter, , Ruth Rue, a nurse at the Salem Deaconess hospital, has been chosen as nurse for the girls' youth camp Boon to be held at the new recreational project at Silver Creek Falls. E. Kellerhals, Evergreen farm er and hop grower is ill at his home with pneumonia. ' Santiam Spree Queen Crowning Is Friday Morn Crowning of Queen Marjorie I by King Bing Tom Hill and his Salem Cherrians will be held Friday morning at about 11:45 o'clock or directly after the big' parade, instead of Sat urday morning as inadvertently reported in - the Wednesday Statesman. A big industrial parade will also be held -Saturday morning at 11 o'clock, but no crowning that day. ls Bros. Fimiitiie I Is Never Undersold Simmons Bed, Coil Spring & JMattress . Reg. $24.50 $13.95: NOW Reg. S 1.1 5 Value V Walnut End Tables Sturdy Construction 99c NOW IES Lamp and Shade Values to $12.75 ce no SPECIAL V 189. SO . . - j. 9 x 12 WILTON-RUG Moderne Design j Lifetime Wear" , ' SPECIAL 375 Qiemeketa mm Factory Goes To 40 Hours Townsend Club Sets Goal of 400 for Membership : Drive now on ALBANY Men at the Veal chair factory commenced & 40- hour week Monday, on a schedule of eight hours a day, five days a week. A schedule of a seven-hoar day, five days a week, has been the plan recently. Previously the schedule had been a 44 hour weeS. Manager L. L-. Swan stated that while bus iness - was far from good yet, it was hoped to maintain the pres ent 40-hour schedule if possible.' ALBANY Falling from a 10 foot trestle on Bryant island. Earl Nichols, aged seven, suffered a broken wrist. ALBANY Albany Townsend club No. 1, has set as Its objective In the new membership campaign, 400 members. The campaign which started July 1, will end De cember 31. , ! So far this month the club has augmented its membership by 9 new members. ALBANY The Albany fire de partment responded to a call from the, Dever community Monday night, More than 300 cords of wood belonging to . the Cummings Fuel company of Albany were de stroyed in the blaze. The fire originated in the tim ber In which the wood was being cut No insurance was carried.. Luke and Mulkey p Reunion Is Staged STAYTON -The ! Luke-Mulkey annual reunion was v held In the Stayton city park Sunday. The business meeting w.as pre sided over by the president, Mrs. R. H. Scott, Woodburn. Offi cers were elected : Ben Mulkey of Portland, president; Mrs. Na oml Fresh, Monmouth, vice-president; Mrs. H. A. Beauchamp i of Stayton, secretary.. The 1939 reunion will be held In the city park here also. Those present were:: Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Mulkey and son, B. F. Mulkey, Mr. and Mrs.lM.sG. Wil liams and daughter, Ben Mulkey, L. M. Hawley, all of Portland; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Scott, Wood burn; Miss Nancy Lou Berthle son of Spokane; Dr. and Mrs.B. F. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Marfan Fresh and son, C. C. Mulkeyi of Monmouth: and Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Beauchamp of Stayton. Legion and Auxiliary 1 Hold Annual Gathering With Over 100 Attending DAYTON The annual picnic of the Dayton American Legion and auxiliary was held Sunday at the L. .S. Loremens bar with more than 100 people attending. A basket dinner was served! at noon and aquatic sports - and races were enjoyed during the afternoon.; ' Two members of the Legion observed their birthday by at tending the picnic; they were Virgil Dixon and Floyd B. Wil lert. Reg. $7.959x12 Gold Seal ' f Congoleum Rugs 'REDUCED TO . $4.95 Regr $59.50 -Bed Davenports Hardwood Frame Bedding Compartment $29.95 SPECIAL" $139.50 Biltwell Davenport and Chair Choice of Velours ..,.' 069.95 NOW Reg. $7.95 9x12 All Hair Waffle- MOTHPROOFED RUG PAD . ' - SPECIAL 0399 T7T- TT? : Dodger Fan Kills Detractor 4 Brooklyn N. Y, police T hold Robert Joyce, 33-year-old postoffice clerk, shown left with policeman, following the fatal shooting of one man and the wounding of another In a bar as a result of a baseball argument over the mers of play of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ac cording to police, Joyce ahot and killed Frank Krug and wounded the bartender. William Diamond, when be objected to talk against the Dodgers. . 1 must have gone haywire," Joyce told police. He said. j he lad consumed 18 beers. G ranger s MACLEAY George Tompkins and his daughter, Virginia, gave an excellent program ; at the grange social at the grange hall Saturday night. IJ ' Miss Virginia furnished the music and Tompkins gave the history of the early Indians of the Willamette valley and exhibited some of his collection -jof over 2000 arrowheads. ;. RICKREALL At grange meet ing this Friday night, ; the pro gram will be given by the agri culture committee, J. H Harland, chairman. -.- . Saturday the Pomona picnic will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Adams.. KatherineLowry enertained the members of the grange or chestra . Tuesday night i at. ,the home of Mrs. H. A. Derajpsey, di rector. ; ? 3 ROBERTS Mrs. E. A. Rhoten i opened her home In Salem to the H. E. Club for a dessert luncheon with Mrs. Jesse Johns !s assist ing hostess. Covers wer'e placed for 17 members. v A talk was given by Mrs. Albert Blankenship during the after noon. Mrs. J. L. Strawn will en tertain the club in Augulst. . ROBERTS The grange met Saturday night, when Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Pj-uitt, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Newton were ac cepted as new members A spe cial meeting win De cauea 10 give them the first and second degree by the Roberts degree team. .The team is going to Fair mount grange at Albany Saturjday night to give the first and. second de grees. I S : ' The program Included a con test, first prize going to Mr. and Mrs. Strawn and second to .Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Johnston; report Reg. $99.50 ; Beautiful Walnut Bedroom Suites Waterfall Style" Large Round Mirror , SPECIAL Reg. $69.50 Large! Size . Tapestry Covered Davenport and Chair Guaranteed Construction $29.95 SPECIAL $149.50 T Curly Mohair Davenport and Chair il Set Only at This $35.00 SPECIAL Values $19.50 to. $34.50 SPRING FILLED MATTRESS Any Sixe : Best Value In Town 09.75 SPECIAL 49,95 Opcki Sat; UntU 9 p.m -1 ve .. Goli column on cherry fly by Mrs. Johnston; report on state grange conven tion by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blankenship; skit by Laura. Nel son, Clara Nelson, Mildred Hey den, Maxlne Pettyjohn, Rose Howland, Rebecca Goodrich and Lois Cummins. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rice invited the grange for a covered dish din ner on the lawn at her home Aug ust 6. Barnharts Return From Mill Work INDEPENDENCE Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Barnhart and family have returned home for a short time. Barnhart has a sawmill in Peedee. Miss "Bobby" Rnef is enjoying the ocean breezes at Newport for a week. Friends gathered in . the par lor of the Presbyterian church for dinner after which Dr. -George Knott entertained the group with pictures of his trip in the east, also to Mexico. Goes to Minnesota AMITY William R. Pender- grass left the first of the week for a visit to his old home in JMin nesota. :' , 1 N'JTT' 4 Vfc a- 'YiffflsrmvzH v- r - - - r- ' -! V A - that are nearly as tender as the heart ... In addi tion to improving quality, potash is very impor tant in increasing yields. Good yields of celery remove as much as 150 pounds of actual potash (KaO) per acre, which is three times the amount of nitrogen removed and more than three times the removal of phosphoric acid . . . Make sure that your fertilizer program carries enough pct&sh to develop the crop prdsrly and insure the mar ket premiums that fine quality commands. Consult your fertilizer dealer regarding fertilizers high in potash. You will be surprised how little extra it. costs to apply enough of this plant food to insure " profits. ' . DTCOEPCAtlO tNVrSTJtSTCT SUILDINO . WASHIHOTOS. D. C PACIFIC COAST OTTlCXi SZAKS SCILEIMa. SAM lOSX. C.IT. . I Taft to Feature Kissing Machine Mayor Robison to Be First to Test new Register - ; at Roundup TAFT The kiss-register, the new machine for measuring the "klck":, in an osculatory embrace is to be shown for the first time in the west at the anneal Red bead Roundup at Taft, August 6 and 7, is creating wide inter est,! according to Manvilie Robi son, president of the Redhead roundup. Inquiries regarding the Instru ment have been received from a number of cities in Oregon, v Washington. Idaho and Califor nia. Over 50 volunteers of both sexes hav. already offered to act as subjects for the kiss reg ister, demonstrations. Mayor ' Fred Robison of Taft, who recently chided the mayors of Portland and Seattle for re fusing to kiss visiting feminine dignitaries will be the first man to officially test the machine. His feminine partner is yet to be se lected, but she will be a red- tiaat i Other Events Slated Other events scheduled for the two-day "carrot top" show in clude: The Redskin Revue; a comic skit by members of the Salem - Cherrians; the redhead bathing beauty contest, the win ner of which will be given an expense free trip to the San Francisco exposition where she will complete with California's "Golden Girl" for Pacifie coast form and beauty honors; a car nival; redhead contests of vari ous kinds; life saving demonstra tion by US coast guardsmen; Sea scout maneuvers; band concerts; water sports; and the colorful queen's ball. "Eric, the Red." king of the roundup. In private life Marvin Headrick, of Salem, who has charge of the appointing of the redhead bathing beauty judges, reports that he is swamped with applications from members of the male sex ranging in age from 18 to 80 years, all of whom claim to possess extraordinary qualifi cations for the positions they seek. Gregory Named To Water Board DALLAS The regular meet ing of the Dallas city council was held In the new city hall Mon day night. . ' Mayor Leif Finseth,announ3d the , appointment of Charles Gregory as a member of the Dal las water commission to fill the unexpired term of the late N. L. Guy. 1 Mayor Finseth also named Erie Fulgham as a member of the elty park board to serve dur ing the unexpired term of the late N. L. Guy. CELERY that not only "sounds" good but tastes good, as well finds ready favor on consumer markets. Potash makes celery crisp, solid and sweet, and over comes the tendency to punky and stringy stalks. A plentiful supply of potash will produce outer stalks Wrifa v fr 'urt,ljsrr : f informcKon end Dsrcfurs. I r 7