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t- The Stert man. Saieau Orecon, Todar. Jons 3. 1947 ga, ilflciltS O0.IH Minor Injuries Many in Traffic Awards Durin Accidents Here Uver AVeek Lnd Rnj) Assembly or VP In the- rain- and holiday traffic of the weekend, Salem counted six automobile accidents. Sx person were treated and released from Salem Deaconess hospital ifier a Sunday morning collision at 12th and Mill streets of cars driven by Dorothy A- Carl-1 on cf route 2. Turner, and Mm. 'Wilson H, Pykes of Seal Beach, Calif, according to city police. !. Treitedltor cut .and- bruises were 1 Dorothy Carlson- Ramona Wartenson, route 4. Salem; Esther Walters, Mrs. Tekla Carlson and AUce.Cartaon, an of route 2, Tur- mtAr air riAtnw in Uut rarlmn f r. Mrs. Dyi was also treated; : ; Three of'- "the six accidents in volved left 'turns by one of the ears involved, and all three were at Center and Commerrial streets. police report. Two' of the three occurred Saturday after 10 p. m when, according to police, the . stop-co traffic lights automatic ally becwne red and yellow flash er, signal and police have' no means of changing the operation at Center's crossings with Com mercial. High and Liberty streets If traffic thickens. The Center and Commercial ac cidents, which caused no reported Injury, inveived autoa operated by DonaW E. Dress of route .3 and Robert O. Hudson of route 9, Sa lem: Moses I Plumb of Wood- burn and . Claude U. Kilcore of 1I5 S. Lancaster dr.. both Satur day sucht. Also Involved were the car driven bv George. ! Turnaull of 135 N. 21st at. and motorcy eJe operated by Ciyxa Van Ant werp of S5 S. 12th at. -Sunday Autoa driven by Delbert J. La ter of Portland and Forrest Kelly of MJton. collided- at High and Palm Reading Supervision To JHuckabay WEST SALEM, June 2 W. L. Huckabay, city building Inspect or, -wa entrusted with the nrob- lem of regulating palm readings through his power under the city building code to regulate "Change of occupancy, by West Salem city council tonight, v When City Attorney Elmer Cook was directed to prepare an ordinance for the licensing of electricians, the matter of licens ing palmists came up, and it was stated such an ordinance was ready to be introduced, y X-; Elmer Cook, city attorney, gave as his opinion "that "the building Inspector has : power under- the city building code to regulate this by granting or refusing to grant permits for change of occupancy.'' Later a petition was read from a list of West Salem - business firms stating they had no objec tion to the- palm readers. When the recorder stopped reading the petition. Cook demanded he com plete the list and was informed several names had been' crossed off. Conversation among the couneilmeQ indicated several of rrrv rtrects Sundav afternoon: 1 been among those -pestermgr of- by Jack . M. McVauhiv Portland, f f Idahv to ha ve - something done Pre-Cut Houses Rise Rapidly and by Latimer B. Chambers, 695 V. Hh, st, Sunday night. . , . .; TOOLS TAKEN TtOM CAR " About $100 worth of tool were stolen from his car Sunday night wfcite parked In the 300-blnek of Nrtb Cottage st., G. It. Shelton, 35f N. Cottage st, reported to Sa lem po4 tee. The toots were in a bx contamirig 15 wrenches, 5 screw drivers, 2 pairs of pliers, a awminer end set of sockets. ' ItEAL FIREWORKS v BARGAINS - Pistols Free With Caps ' Agents Wanted Everywhere Fink Fireworks. Co. - Bn 114, Darten, Ohla , about the matter. BIlSEEMi TOxMGIIX 8:15 Water Field SIIS Graduates Plan on Banquet, Graduation! Fete' Graduation exercises beared for mora- than S00 Salem hign school seniors Monday h icholntlc awards were made and last-min-uta preparations Were ' rushed for the Wednesday '- evening senior banaueL The commencement pro- 'gram wilt be Thursday eight- in ttbe school auditorium. : ' -v " I - Caps and gowns were donned j Sunday evening as the school's ; largest graduating ' class aem ; bled for the baccalaureate service. The Rev. i eth-P. Huntington, pastor of F t r s t Congregational church here, addressed the class on the importance of continuing ! character - building discipline of mind and body. A person must understand the world about hjm to be of use to hi society, the minister declared, and to under Fifteen scholarships and num erous awards were presented to members of the senior class at Salem .high school by Principal E. A. Carleton Monday afternoon at the annual senior farewell as sembly; Cornelius 'Bateson received two scholarships and two prizes: four year naval ROTC scholarship to Stanford; university, the national ; honor society scholarship, $50 award in the Pepsi-Cola scholar ship contest, and the, American Legion auxiliary $5 prize for win ning the competitive American History examination. Other scholarships were award ed as follows: Willamette univer sity, Janice Middleton, Pat Za- hare and. Grace Widdows: four- year Rotary club scholarship to Willamette. Tom Bartlett: Lions' club scholarship to a teachers? college, Hilda Fox; University of Oregon, Dick Mase; Oregon State college, - Warren Bacon, Barbara Smith, Mel Boggs, Jeraldine Reitzenstein; ' Oregon- College of Education, Donna Cha stain; Na tional Scholastic Art scholarship. Peggy Hedges; Reed college, Ed Possehl and Richard Tisinger. ' The Joseph H. Albert prize of 15 went to Dick; Mase. Other awards: Bausch and Lomb science award which enables the recip ients to compete for a scholar ship. Dick Tisinger and Ed Pos sehl; Nelson cup. for outstanding work in history and a 315 cash award, Tom Bartlett; Nelson me morial fund prizes, Richard Tis inger and Nancy Motley; senior home economics $19 award, Bon- ita Engje; senior band award. Bob Gof frier; senior orchestra award. Phil Blankenship; civic club $25 awards . Dick Allison; crescendo club award. Diane Rlggs and Hil da Fox; Girls' letter club plaque. Evelyn - Benz; commercial club plaque and $10 award, Verlain Walker; ; "S club award, Dick Hendrie; DAR pin and $5 award for citizenship. Peggy. Burroughs Snikpon - Dramatic society $25 award.: Tom Bartlett and Betty Bores; Paletteers club $15 awards. Peggy Hedges and. Cat Douglas. T7-- -..Ji " - ' - ' - .' ' . 1 - -!.- ,'j iff"'-:- . , i - - I -rrjj-. ' I:: '- Waste Paper Totals 2 Cars Vacccavcr Box Seat Reservations Phone 4617 The usual two carloads of waste paper - wet this time- -were collected by about 100 Salem Bay Scouts Sunday in their quarterly paper drive, Gardner Knapp, Cherry City disti-lct ampin chairman, announced Monday. Scouts from -11 troops, in a fleet of 20 trucks, arranged for by stand the comnlex sattern of life I Commissioner Ralph Johnson, today, that person' his mind to think.: MONMOUTH Workmen Monday began work here an a new type pre-eat bans designed far mass predaetian, Fenndatiens and fleer -Inc are laid and than the sides, completely ballt. are pat la place a wbale aeetlan at time.. taking bat one day to erect. Maamfae tared in Taeaaaa, the hemes are being dlstribated In Monmeath by C Fred GUletta. All wuing. plum bine, plastertag and caustrne tien Is bandied by can tractors from Dallam. Cervallls and Mon aaanth. (SUteseaaa photo by Den DUL staff phatecrapber.) Curlcy Loses Appeal; Test Case Granted Lee Moody Dies; Invalid Busy Here Despite 10-year Illness Lea Moody." well known resident of Salem and an invalid for 'about 10 years following a severe attack of arthritis, died of pneu monia Sunday at a local hospital, where he was taken Thursday. He was noted for his activities as sales (subscription) represen tative for several magazine firms, as operator of the doctors' tele phone exchange and other tele phone services and dispatcher for the -Red Cab, company. Funeral services will be at 130 pm. Wednesday in Clough- Barrick chapel. Father Reidy of Corvallis officiating.. Interment will be at Belcrest Memorial park. Bom at Morgan ton, N.C, March 21, 191 U Moody moved to Salem with his parents. Mr. .and Mrs. Charles Moody, as a small child. His father, died several years ago. Moody attended school here un til his high school education was interrupted when he was taken HI with tuberculosis and was taken to the state tuberculosis hospital at the age of 18. Arthritis developed later. He left the tu berculosis hospital about five years ago to begin the businesses in which he was widely known and praised for his success despite physical handicaps. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Lulu Moody Copeland, and a brother, Glenn C. Moody, both of Salem. 5 BUILDING PERMIT SOUGHT Robert E. Sullivan of Salem has applied for permission td build a $15,000 grocery store building here, according to news from the housing expediters olfice lnort-land. must prepare i covered the town despite the hea vy rain. Kesiaems wnose Dunaies were missed are asked by Knapp to contact the local scout office and the Salem Waste Paper com pany will pick up the paper. Pro ceeds of the drive are to go to building-up the scouts Camp Pio neer. - " IlEU D070-TILLEE1 t JUST RECEIVED LARGE STOCK . " Y HURRY WHILE THEY LAST V Tciirjus Ilolor Conpariy - 555 N. liberty Salem, Oregon Tel. 7001 $2,000 Rin Loss Probed :fkte mi J A. - ; Egb School Sindenir Wo Will Have Special Classes for You this Summer O Shorthand . O Accounting ' O" Typing ' O Mathematics - ' "JO .Filing O Penmanship J OFFICE IACniNES . ! You May Go Part or Full Day . New Summer Classes Will '.. Start June 9 . Ask for Catalog : Cnnild Business Collcgo " 3t5 Cowt Street Phona 5S37 Loss or theft of a $2,000 dia mond' ring owned by a former Sa lem turl now attending the Uni versity of Oregonls being inves tigated by city police in Eugene. The girl is Ailsa Bynonj daugh- Oregon. ter OI Airs. Aiian zsynon. 01 wego. Chamber Sees Scenic Film The newest motion Diet ure boosting Oregon scenery, busineu and hospitality - -a lavish 30- minute color travelogue with con versational-type narration - was shown to Salem Chamber of Com merce members Monday at the chamber luncheon. Made by a Portland firm for Standard Oil Co. 'a distribution as a travel promotion feature, the film, . This Is Oregon, was in troduced to the chamber audience by Manley Robinson of the state highway travel department. In the film are scenic views of the Oregon coast, the valleys, Co lumbia gorge, the Cascades and eastern mountains and central Auto Crashes Fatal to Four Eugene police were Informed AVflllir TCVlPflQCl Uta I lug uic wccaciiu v ie I t Bynon missed We ring - alter I tt . TFT f meeting her mother in Corvallis, frf fin; lFl V lP(lr believed she had left it in her Eu- . - gene sorority house room, butt Arthur B. Kneass, property upon telephoning learned it was manager , for the state highway not there. - department here, was in "critical The ring, partly insured, was of condition" Monday night at Sa- gold and platinum with three lem General hospital, following a Urge family diamonds mounted head-on colliaion of automobiles In it Ion the Pacific highway north of Brooks Sunday. Mrs. Kneass, who had been riding in the sedan her husband was driving, incurred minor injuries-, and was released - after treatment at the hospital The Kneass' live at 1340 Fairmount st. Investieatma: state Police said PORTLAND. June 2 - UP) - the Kneass' ear. beins! driven Truck-automobile collisions killed south lust this side of Mannlns'a four persona on the outskirts of corner, vas struck by a Portland Portland today. u v (car coming from the opposite di- nV Beaverton a seoan i rection and attemntina' to Dass skidded into the path of t, truck, third car. A heavy truck behind trillix Hfn CnAm Tntlatl aKmit k TAt'J . V kumiii m buiiuc umh wuituiv ruiuou car swerven o 50, Beaver ton; her daughter, Mrs. I avoid the accident and rolled anto Bernice Agnes Searts, 22. Vern-1 its side in a ditch. Dolice added oma, and Mrs. sear is son, Larry Searls. 5. On the eastern outskirts of the city an automobile collided with a bakery truck fatally injuring the car driver, Samuel Hagstrom, It, Portland. The , truck driver. George Stankovich, 35, Portland, injured a shoulder and suffered cuts. WASHINGTON. June 2 -V Mayor James M. Curley of Boston lost his i appeal to the supreme court today from a mail fraud con viction. The court refused to comider it and thus left In effect the con viction and sentence of 6 to It months in jail and $1000 fm against the 72-year-old political figure. : TKe court did grant a hearing, however, in another cae of wide public Interent a test of whether religious instruction may be givm in public schools. It was brought by an "Illinois atheist. Curley, serving his fourth term as mayor, commented in Boston that' his attorneys wilt exhaust their final maneuver a petition to reconsider. its denial of appeal. They have 25 days to ask the su preme court to reconsider, but it seldom does. Curley has indicated he has no intention of reijrnine. and city counsel have ruled that he could ! continue as mayor" even if forced to serve his jail term. Mrs. Vashtl McCollum. 3i. of Champaign. 111., wife of a Univer sity of Illinois professor, filed the religious instruction case. She de scribed herself as "a rationalist or atheist." Mrs. McCollum complained that James Terry, eldest of her three children, was embarrassed by be- ng the only student in his room not taking the religious instruc tion. She contended that the class es constitute union of church and state such as the Illinois and fed eral constitutions prohibit. 9 at Hospital" Get Diplomas For Schooling Commencement for eight nigh school seniors and one eighth graduate graduate wiU be held at the state tuberculosa hospital to night at 7:30 p. m. Dr. Lawrence A. Riggs of Wil lamette university will be the speaker, and diplomas will be presented by Harry B. Johnson, Salem school curriculum director. Candidates for graduation will be d resented by Dr. Grover C Bel linger, superintendent of the hoe-, High school graduates are un tie Barnes, Lebanon; Charles Ice land Drugg. Gladys Worthington, Jayme Young ond Corrinne Wil liams, all of Portland; Mary Loo Howell. Eugene: Carroll Jeppsen. Sweet Home; Mickey Philip. Sa lem. Theodore It Jones. Roseburg. is the eighth grade graduate. Pa rrish junior high school will furnish music for the commence ment under direction of Gretrh en Kreamer. It will include violin solos and treble triad numbers. Teachers at the school ..main tained for the young patients are nirahth Bovlan. hirh school and rarrte Thoma. Junior high school. The work is supervised by Salem school district 24. Stocks Show . Down-Trend NEW YORK. June 2--Socks generally turned downward in to day's market although dealings were among hte; slowest of the past year. j Aviation Daced a forenoon re treat.) following the holiday plane crashes, but most were not par ticularly active, i Steels, motors, rubbers and rails slipped with the ticker tape frequently Idle. Ex treme declines running to z or more points were reduced In number of rates and a few piv otals showed modest plus sign at the close. Transfers of 320.OOO xharrs compared with 900,000 Thursday and were a bottom for a full smaion since July 5. 1948. The Associated Pres o-ork composite was off .7 of a point at 03, widest dtp since May 17 - Opens C:45 p. an, "Holiday In Mexico" with Walter Pidxeen - Jane Pewel! A Masleal Comedy In . Techaieolar Klcbard Cant - Faya Marlowe "THE SPIDER" Wheat Weak; Corn Spurts CHICAGO, June 2 H4- Pro nounced weakness developed in wheat on the bard of trade to day, prices dropping more than S rents as the grain trad adjusted iUelf to start of the billion bush el winter wheat harvest. While wheat ran Into fairly heavy selling, corn spurted under aggressive buying as more rain fell In the mid-west and private reports said some land was under water in parts of Iowa and Illi nois. The strength In com was reflected by a moderate upturn in oats. Wheat closed 3t-5t lower. July'$2.25'4.i, corn was l to 3 cents higher. July $I.7S-L?, and oats were -l higher. July 0-T.. Cramer, Jrltr Namrtl To Collections Board Members of the collections ag encies advisory board, created by a law of the 1947 legislature, were named by Gov. Earl Snell Mon day. They are Joseph Fearey and David Turtledove, both of Port land, and Al Cramer and Loring Crier of Salem. The state real estate commis sioner also is a member of toe board and will serve as chair man. Purpose of me board is to Inquire Into the requirements of the public in relation to collec tion sgencies." -. Policy Told . For Schools Support Fund emergency funds available to Oregon . public schools under the J new basic school support rund will cover only such emergency situations as arise after July 5 this 'year, when the school fund law goes Into effect. This is the policy, of the state board of education, decided re cently, lr was disc Wed Monday by Rex Putnam, state superin tendent of public Instruction. Of the total $18.000.000 ; fund. about $550,000 is earmarked, for; such emergencies as attendance ; increase oi more man peri i mttt In nv nn arhnnl. ttaatrl damages and other specified J emergencies. Putnam explained. Other policy matters outlined by Putnam show: The 20 cent distribution to schools baaed en ' attendance win not include cov erage for students after nine days i absence, and $10,000 of the $100.-! 000 administrative fund will be 1 1 withheld until $40,000 It accum- ulated for an extensive school! survey ta Oregon. Carl Petzel, Farmer, Dies Carl Albert Petsel, farmer and! lifelong Salem area resident, died ' Monday morning at his home at, box 253. Salem route 2, at the age ; C as years. lie leaves a widow, Mary, and, six sons and daughters, all In the' Salem area. Joseph. Carl. Frank, i Roy and Ciie Prtzet and Mrs. Grace Liadqubt; three gTandchfl drrn; a brother. Dr. A. F. Prtaef, Portland, end tw sisters, Mrs. Frances Moison, Salem, and Mrs. Christine Hayes, Portland. Arrangements are beir s&d by Unger Funeral home of -ML Angel for the funeral tentatively set for Friday tn St. Vincent n Paul church. RerltaUons of th rosary are punned for a P. as. Wednesday in the Unger cnapei at Ml Angti and at p. m. Thursday in the Petset family residence. Dally frsaa 1 sv. am. Now! Sparks Fiji ' r , l--0e,OCOU5 Ca-Feataes! Tal Keflj Tear in Ike Night" n.i.r. finds Mosrr Salem police said Monday night that Clyde O. Bales. 150 Beck ae.. had found m his room the $390 which he had reported Sun day night to police as stolen front his auto while it was parked on the Silvertnn road In Salem. i-arf . rrito-rvi inrffnn Opens f l p. am. rxwi tod at crtta.) Too Mle to Classify WANTED, tint r ntarrWd raupl for Grade, A 4a)ry and (enersl farm work. Room aad board furataltod. M. B rtndler. 1 mil E. of RM-krealt. ' SMALL Rooii forl. sir:, ax. rhone sti. c mu C AG;D:Q.O;; cue B P 7 0 U tl DAV . Direct basses lesrre erery $ min- -trtes from 5th mod -Stark in Port- ' s Ian4...erer7 39 tninutet from Jfb and liain ia Vancouver. 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