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Thm Orocon Statesman, Satan, Orsu. Friday, Sept 12. 1947
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No. 144
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Harold E. Stasen's visit to
Oregon this wtk at the requent of
invat following narticularly
more young republicans and the
coming visit I Senator nooen
a Tart to address the Ut re-
k mhiirin 1 club convention two
weeks hence will serve to rouse
interest in the 1948 presidential
bmrvin Ktaaaen is an avowed
' JTt a vr repetitive candidate
f for the republican nomination for
president.- Dewey, In whose be
j half i gaoizational work i now
did not include Ore-
ton in hrs recent grand tour ol
.the writ, but he t . nad ror many
a itrntif local following.
While the three are more or
if mm mim Mnirants for the no mi
nation there is budding an or
ganization in behalf of General
iWieht Eisenhower.- If stems
frnm th lunilowcr state. of Kn
and is said to have ai coach
h rv.tent Rov A. Roberts, man
..,r, A.lryr at the - Kansas City
Star. (who was one of the spon
gers of All Landonl cancuaacy
in 1936). ; Eisenhower has firmly
iir(M nolilical overtures, if
rv,t a reentered voter or identi
fLd with anv Dartv. But be
leaven the army next January to
become D.eMdent ol coiumDi
and hit SUDDOrterS
rgue that move will make him
eligible "as civilian" for politl-
nrrfrmrnt. If Eisenhower
Is of the same mind as General
U'iiliim T Sherman he will have
to roske a declaration about at
positive as Sherman's to wet down
this Kansas Drairie fire.
iJt will be well also to watch
'what devtloDS out of ' t h e
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Bridges to Wait
At County Sites
For Assembly
The disassembled materials for
two bride? recently secured by
Marion coanty from the state will
soon be at the sites where they
are to fee used, but prooamy win
nni h M-nrted until sometime in
1MB. Couinty Commissioner Ed
Refers said Thursday. A con-.
tract involving tne structure
timed hv the countv court
Tuesday with Clackamas county
court. ,; . - ' -'"
Hedda Swart, county engineer,
and Ted Kuena, bridge foreman,
are now in Baker to check on a
90 -foot span which soon will be
transported to Scotts Mills. There
it will cross Butte creek to
Clackamas county, with construc
tion in be by Marion county. Fpr
a half interest in this span,
Clackamas has traded its half in
terest In the former Aurora
bridge.
Marion county will use the Au
rora span, : replaced late in May,
tit McKee. where extensive tem
porary repairs were required
early this summer. The original
fj'an was for use of the bridge,
120 feet in length, at the inter
county Scotts Mills site, said
Rogers. ,,
Rogers reported that the coun
ty's summer road-oiling program
is nearing completion, with the
crew working' this week north
east of Salem, including market
road 50 in the North Hbwell area.
Less than one-half dozen cars of
oil remained to be applied, he
Doted. :
Sheriff Denies
Babe Held in Cell
Charlotte Brundeen, 30-year-old
former school board clerk at
Hillsboro, and her three-months-old
son were not held in a cell
pending the woman's transfer to
Hillsboro to face larceny charges.
Sheriff Denver Young declared
Thursday. The woman was taken
into custody at Detroit, and re
mained in the sheriffs office
while awaiting Washington coun
ty officials, the sheriff said.
Previously, a sheriffs office
rpokerman iwas quoted as stating
that the woman was permitted to
keep her buby with her in a cell
because she requested It and be
cause there was no legal objec
tion to the procedure.
Animal Crackers
. By WARDEN GOODRICH
'How positively unsani
tary . . . I keep mine
in deep-freeze,'
Loggers Study
.
Letting representatives from Oregon will conclude their two-day safety conference today st the state
rapitoL Shown In the above picture, third from left, U Charles M. McBee, state Industrial accident
commission representative, demonstrating safety factors In operation on a model spar rig with s heel
boom. Listening are. left to right, H. V. McMillan. Klamath Falls, Ivory Pine .Co.: Donald B. Whalln,
Med for d. Timber Products Co.: MeBee; Melvtn Gufe, Marco la, Fischer Lumber Co.; E. E. Stanley,
Sbevlln, Rhevlln Ilexan Co.; Joe Ilorn, Hood River; and Ted Kepner, Portland. Crown Zellerbsch
Corp. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.)
Taxicab Driver Slays
Would Be Assailants
ST. HELENS, Ore Sept 11 -(-T)- Two men, ono armed with a
hatchet and one with a bottle, were killed in a fight hero today by
gunfire frdm a third man, who was cleared of blame by a grand jury
within hours. ''-":-
State Police Sgt H V. Holcomb named De Witt Seals, taxicab
driver, as the gun-firing survivor of the battle. Seals was not arrested.
Registration at
Keizer School
Sets Record
KEISER, Sept. 'II Advance
registration at Keizer grade school
has reached an all-time peak of
304 students, an increase of 91 over
last year, Principal Ralph Kelson
reported tonight. f
The student increase wat fairly
evenly divided over the' eight
grades. Nelson reported. Present
plans call for splitting each class
in half except the fifth and eighth
grades, allowing two teachers, to
handle each grade. This year '15
teachers are on the staff, three
more than last year.
The advance registration totals
according to grades are: First, 54;
second, 45; third, 44; fourth, 42;
fifth, 38; sixth, 49; seventh, 47, and
eighth, 36.
Principal Nelson will hold a
teachers' meeting at the school
Saturday at 1:30 p.m. No more reg
istrations will be taken until Mon
day at 9 o'clock when the school
year begins. Later this week Nel
son will publish a revised district
school bus route, he said.'
Nagging Rejected
As Mitigation in
Slaying of Wife
PORTLAND, Sept. 1H)-
Antonio Malfo, 56, Was sentenced
to five years' imprisonment and
fined. $500 today, after pleading
guilty to manslaughter in the
death of his wife, Hazel.
His wife was beaten to death
with a chair. Malfo's attorney
requested parole on the ground
Malfo was driving ot distraction
try his wife's nagging, but Circuit
Judge Walter L. Tooze said a
parole "Would be an Invitation
to other husbands to take the law
in their wn hands under similar
circumstances."
Springfield Alcohol
Plant Closes Doors
SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 11 -JV
The $3,000,000 alcohol-from-wood-waste
plant, a wartime experi
ment to find uses for the north
west's lumber industry discards,
reverted to the government today.
The Willamette Valley Chemical
company, formed by Oregon lum
bermen to operate the big, plant,
cancelled its lease and waived an
option to buy.
The reconstruction finance cor
poration took over the plant, and
will place it in standby condition
pending transfer to the war assets
administration for sale as surplus
property.
Russia Lone 'No
In A-Contrpl Vole
LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 11 -(A1)-The
United Nations atomic energy
commission disregarded bitter
Russian opposition today and ap
proved its second report stating
general principles for creation and
operation of an international atom
ic control agency.
The roll-call vote was 10 to 1.
Russia's Andrei A. Gromyko said
"No" and Poland abstained.
Safety Factors; Model Rig Here
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but volunteered to tell his story
of self-defense to the grand Jury.
The grand jury quickly exoner
ated him. The district attorney
said no further action would be
taken.: .
The dead were William Gib
bons, 26, and Toivo Bloomquist,
30. Holcomb said the battle clim
axed months of Ill-feeling.
He said Seals admitted the
shootings, adding that - Seals as
serted he had been attacked.
Gibbons wielding a hatchet and
Bloomquist bottle.
The light was In Seals cabin
where the ' other two . had been
waiting for him. A year ago Seals
reported an attempt had been
made by two men to ambush him.
Ho said one had a gun, but ho es
caped by throwing an overcoat
over one of the men, then leap
ing over an embankment to hide
in the darkness, Holcomb said.
6-Inch Snow
jHits Rockies
By The Associated Press
Six-inch snows and freezing
weather were , recorded in the
Rocky Mountains Thursday and a
severe tropical storm with winds
of near hurricane force was mov
ing up the Atlantic,
t The tropical storm was approx
imately 1,000 miles away from
the battleship Missouri, returning
President Truman home from the
Rio de Janeiro conference, a and
both were headed in the same
general direction. a.
The Missouri, however, was ca
pable of twice the 15 mile an hour
rpeed of the storm. -
Pikes Peak ,near Colorado
Springs was covered with a six
inch snow cap and Big Piney,
Wyo., In the mountains, had
minimum of 21 degrees.
Wainwright May
Oppose O'Daniel
CHICAGO, Sept. 11 -- Gen.
Jonathan Wainwright, hero of 3a
taan, said today that "if the peo
ple of Texas desire me to serve
them in the United States senate
I shall be happy to do go."
. The Dallas Morning News re
ported yesterday a draft movement
was under way for Wainwright as
a demqpratic candidate to oppose
the r en omi nation of Senator W.
Lee O'Daniel.
Stassen Doubts Labor
Opposition to T-II Law
BILLINGS, Mont., Sept. U-(jp)
Harold E. Stassen, presidential
aspirant, declared today that la
bor leaders in their attacks on
the ?Taft-Hartley labor law did
not Reflect the actual opinion of
most workers.
"Organized labor does not
agree with its leaders in their
extreme attacks against the law,"
the former Minnesota governor
declared here en route to Oregon.
10 Truck Drivers Fined
Under Fender Flap Law
PORTLAND, Sept. 1 l-P)-Ten
truck drivers were fined $5 each
today for operating a truck with
out rear fender flaps the first
cases of the kind here since the
new law requiring trucks to
carry such equipment.
The law is intended, to keep
vehicles from splashing dirt and
mud. ,
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Officials Seek
To Cut Hazards
Of Log Hauling
A two-da v conference on tneth.
ods of reducing log hauling acci
dents opened in Salem Thursday
under the sponsorship of the acd-
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state Industrial accident commis
sion.
Representatives of the induitrv.
labor and state departments at
tended tne meeting.
Speakers were:
Rollo W. Moore. Portland, dis
trict manager of the White Truck
company, who talked about the
selection of log trucks; Lloyd
Christensen, Seaside, truck su-
ferintendent of the Crown Zel
erbach Corp., who spoke on log
truck maintenance; and A. W.
Mackie, Portland, manager of the
Pointer Willamette Co., whose
address was on trailer selection
and maintenance.
Paul E. Gurske, chairman of
the accident commission, said the
lumoer industry is the most haz
ardous of any industry in the
state. He said 47 ner cent of th
fatalities in Industry and 25 per
cent or an industrial accidents
occurred In the lumber Industry.
He said the majority of lumber
Industry accidents occur to
truck drivers and loaders.
Robert M. Evenden, director of
the commission's accident preven
tion division, said he has devel
oped a long-ransre oroffram to re.
duce log truck accidents. This in
cludes mailing posters and warn
ing signs for trucks to the 2,800
lumber firms in the state, radio
talks, newspaper publicity and
talks before civic groups.
Help Call for
Berries Next
Emphasis, in local crop labor
needs Is shifting this week to
blackberries, grown principally
in the Mt Angel area, according
to Mrs. Gladys Turnbull, farm la
bor assistant here. She urged that
family groups use the last pre
school week end to assist with
the crop and increase cash with
the ZlA cents per pound paid for
the "good and fat" berries.
Transportation will bo fur
nished from the farm labor office
today and . Saturday, while per
sons who can drive to the field
may call the office for location.
Mrs. Turnbull said that needs
are now chiefly in hops, for both
hand and machine picking, corn
and onions. The bean crop is ex
pected to be generally completed
this week.
Poll Books Show Republicans
Hold 2-1 Edge Over Democrats
Republicans in Marion county
have more than sustained last
election's approximately 2 to 1 reg
istration odds over the democrats,
while the-county's total registra
tion is down 6,722 from that of No
vember, 1946, according to figures
tabulated, Thursday by Mrs.
Gladys White, registrar in the
county clerk's office.
The books closed September 6
in preparation for the October 7
special election. For last Novem
ber's general election, 34,975 in
the county had registered. The
names of persons who did not vote
at that time were removed from
the books, with notification cards
sent to them. Registration since
then, including about 600 on the
final day last week, brought the
present total to 28,253? Salem has
4Not True'
Bill Giyen
For Delfel
Five indictments were reported
out as "true" bills Thursday by
the Mairon county grand jury,
which also brought out two "not
true' bills. None of the indict
ments was secret. Two of the in
dicted individuals are now in the
county jail and three are free on
bond.
Released from indictment were
Charles W. Delfel, former Port
land and Salem realtor, on a
charge of larceny by bailee, and
Joseph S. Bohall, 595 N. Front
st, on a charge of threatening
commission of a felony.
Arrested Here
Delfel was arrested in Salem
July 3 after a "month's search for
him through the state following
the filing of several criminal and
civil suits against him by Portland
and upstate citizens claiming he
had embezzled earnest money and
down payments aggregating over
$25,000.
Local charge against the real
tor involved the sale of property
valued at $4,300 and belonging to
Walter Brackhahn of Oak Orove.
A Multnomah county grand jury
had indicted Delfel on a charge
of embezzlement in June. Delfel
pleaded innocent Wednesday to
two Portland charges ol emDez
zlement. Trie Bills Found
The bills found true were
against the following:
Fremont Russell Stevenson, 285
W Commercial st.. charsed with
assault with intent to kill. John.
Snyder, who was shot in the in
cident in which Stevenson, vic
tim of and was allegedly involved
August 9 in a downtown hotel, is
still In a Portland hospital recov
ering from bullet wounds.
. Carl McDowell, proprietor of
Mai's place, Hubbard, charged
with promoting and setting up a
lottery, arrested July 19 for al
leged operation of a punchboard,
free on own recognizance.
Curtis Stegall, Turner, charged
with assault with a dangerous
weapon, arrested July 28 after an
alleged attack on a fellow railroad
worker with an iron bar.
Edwin William Fogel, Salem
route 2, box 224-B, charged with
adultery, arrested August 8, free
on $1,000 bail.
Don Flodstrom, Philomath,
charged with contributing to the
delinquency of a minor, arrested
on May 10, free on $2,500 bond.
Joe Land to Head
Marion County
Republican Club
R. W. "Joe" Land, Salem busi
ness man. Is the new president
of the Marion county republican
club, following his election last
night In the chamber of com
merce rooms. He replaces W. W.
McKlnney. t
Fred Schwab, Mt Angel, was
elected vice president, succeeding
Harry Humphreys of Stayton.
Other officers elected include
Robert M. Fischer, secretary; Ross
Cappock, treasurer, and Harry V.
Collins, sergeant-at-arms. Elect
ed for two-year terms to the ad
visory board are Giles Smith and
Marian Lowry Fischer.
Delegates to the state party
convention at Gearhart Septem
ber 28-27 were elected. They in
clude Ernest Crockett, Fred Lam
port, Dr. Edward Boring, Douglas
Yeater, Adam Lefor, R. W. Land,
Charles Bollinger, Glenn Wadet
Cliff Lewi. Giles Smith. Henry
Werner, Denver Young, Mrs.
Florence Young, Virginia Nich
oils, Mrs. James W. Mott, Mrs.
Dorothy Woodring, Mrs. Nettie
Spaulding, Mrs. Helen Ficke, R.
M. Fischer, jr., Paul Warren. W.
W. Cradwick, B. E. 'Kelly"
Owens, Mrs. Florence Wright and
Harry V. Collins.
S3 precincts; the remainder of the
county 56.
A comparison of the 1946 and
present figures shows the follow
ing: City total, 16,817 and 13,311;
non-Salem total 18,158 and 14,942;
total republicans 21,171 and 18.014;
total democrats 12.554 and 9,936;
Salem republican 10,600 and 8,869;
non-Salem republicans 10.571 and
9,145; Salem democrats 5.579 and
4,295; non-Salem democrats 6,975
and 5,614.
Other facts shown by the tally
include a comparison of the men's
and women's registration totals.
Last year republicans had 10,596
men and 10,575 women signed up,
while now there are 9,707 men and
8,907 women. Democrats had 6,346
men and 6,208 women in 1946 and
5,151 men and 4,785 women this
time.
Truman Talks Way Out
Of Dunking at Equator
By Ernest B. Vaeearo
ABOARD the U.S.S. MIS
SOURI WITH PRESIDENT
TRUMAN, Sept. 11-0D- Presi
dent Truman faced the awful
wrath of King Neptune and
talked himself out of it, but top
White House aides got "the
works" in traditional cross-the-equator
hazing ceremonies
today.
While Mr. Truman chuckled
gleefully, his dignified military
and diplomatic aides ran the ga
mut of punishment meted out by
King Neptune's minions.
Willy - nilly, they clutched
electrified "shocking" ladders,
gulped noxious fluids, got
smeared with paint and grease,
submitted to mustard massages,
smarted under violent paddling,
and were ignominiously tossed
backward from chairs into a
dunking tank.
The looks on the faces of the
presidential big shots delighted
Mr. Truman.
. Among other things, Mr. Tru
Policeman Plays
Role of Victim in
Traffic Accident
Well, it finally happened a
motorist ran down a policeman.
The officer was Salem Patrol
man Charles Creasy. The motor-"
1st was, according to Creasy's re
port, Alfred C. Gregory, 1995
Center st, who posted $10 bail
Wednesday night on a charge of
failure to give right of way to a
pedestrian.
According to Officer Creasy, he
was walking across Ferry street
at South Liberty street Wednes
day at about 9:25 p. m. He saw
Gregory coming, he said, and
leaped for the curb. But the car
caught him and rolled him over
a fender.
"Neither , the car nor ' myself,"
Creasy's report ends, "was in
jured." Section Hand
Charged with
Ax Wielding
Hubert Cooper of Washington,
D. C, a section hand for a South
ern Pacific crew at Turner, was
arrested by the Marion county
sheriff's department Thursday
after a fellow worker, Walter
Davis of Rush ton. Ore., swore out
a complaint charging assault with
a deadly weapon.
The 1 sheriffs report stated
Cooper allegedly attacked Davis
with a single-blade ax during a
fight after their crew had stopped
work. Thursday afternoon. Davis
was released from Salem Dea
coness hospital after stitches were
taken to close a light wound in his
right leg, the sheriffs office re
ported. Cooper Is to be ararigned in
Marion county district court to
day. Bail was set at $1,500.
British Mine
Strike Settled
r
LONDON, Sept. ll-WVA wild
cat strike that had crippled in
dustries and deepened Britain's
economic gloom was settled today
with a back-to-work vote on
Grimethorpe colliery workers at
Yorkshire.
Two thousand workers voted
unanimously to end the five
week wlakout on Monday. La
bor sources said the 38,000 who
were still striking in sympathy
would go back to work automa
tically, joining the 20,000 other
sympathy strikers who already
had returned to the pita.
Indian Boy Prefers
Death to School
POLSON, Mont, Sept. 11 -W-A
coroner's jury decided today
that a 15-year-old Flathead Indian
reservation boy shot and killed
himself yesterday because he hat
ed to go to school.
Acting Coroner Gordon Giper
said testimony brought out that
Louis, Ashley, son of Mrs. Morris
Colbert, objected to school, and
when caught "playing hookey"
Tuesday was told he would have to
return to classes.
Instead, the youth went to a
bunkhouse near here. Rot a .22
caliber rifle and shot himself in
the head, the testimony revealed.
CHOLERA STRIKES IN INDIA
NEW DELHI, Sept. 1 1 The
first outbreaks of long-feared epi
demic disease were reported in
the refugee camps of the Punjab
today as communal rioting dwin
dled in old and new Delhi. A high
military spokesman said 400 cases
of cholera wore reported
man had been indicted by the
mythological god of the seas as
"a vile landlubber and polli
wog." With deadpan solemnity, Mr.
Truman began to plead his case.
He had "no adequate defense,"
he said, to the charges against
him.
"I cannot deny the fact that I
am a democrat with a littleH
'd, he continued.
"I sincerely hope that you will
be as merciful as possible to
these poor polliwogs," he went
on, gesturing to his aides. They
have no prerogative - not until
they arrive back in the United
States.,
"But the commander-in-chief
of the navy does have .a pre
rogative which he does not
intend to use, however."
Presidential Assistant John R.
Steelman, Brig. Gen. Wallace H.
Graham, the president's physi
cian; Secretary Matthew J.i Con
nelly and . other top ranking
members of the White, House co
terie took a drubbing. -
Butter, Eggs
To Take New
Jumps Today
PORTLAND, Sept 11-MVBut-ter
and eggs are scheduled for
another price increase on the
Portland market tomorrow.
Distributors said butter prices
will go up two cents on all grades,
making the prices to retailers 89
cents on Grade AA; 87 cents on
Grade A and 83 cents on Grade B.
Retail prices today were 86 to 93
cents a pound.
Egg$ are expected to Increase
one cent on laree mdn AA inrf
A. Retailers will pay 77 cents
ror large tirade AA and 70 cents
for Grade A. plus two cents for
carton. Retail prices today were
75 to 85 cents dozen for Grade
A large.
CHICAGO,, Sept. ll-(4VMany
commodities In the nation's pri
mary market advanced again to
day, with hogs setting new all
time records, but a break in the
upward swirl developed in grains
on the Chicago Board of Trade.
U. S. Consulate
In Egypt Stoned
CAIRO, Egypt, Sept ll-iJP)-The
American consulate was
stoned without any damage being
done, the statute of Ferdinand de
Lesseps, Suez Canal builder,
damaged and an attempt made
to burn the British consulate to
day by angry crowds said to be
Egyptians protesting at failure
of the U.N. security council to
oust British troops from the Nile
valley. . ( -
Other crowds at Alexandria
threw rocks at police and were
routed by gunfire over their heads.
Assembly Advice
Sought on Greece
LAKE SUCCESS. Sept 11
The Balkan controversy flared up
in the United Nations again today
when the United States proposed
that the security council call on
the general assembly to find a so
lution to the j dispute between
Greece and her " soviet satellite
neighbors.
The U.S. maneuver was intend
ed to remove technical obstacles,
under the UJ. ' charter, which
might stand in the way of assem
bly action. It was expected to run
into immediate opposition from
soviet Russia. .
SUtsften toMakc Public
Address at Reception
PORTLAND, Sept 1 -JP)-Harold
E. Stassen, former Minn
esota governor and avowed pre
sidential candidate will give his
only public talk in Oregon at a
reception here Saturday night
Oregon republican officials will
be in the receiving line. Stassen
is coming here after attending the
Pendleton round-up.
1
18 KILLED IN SHIP BLAST
BELFAST, Northern Ireland.
Friday,, Sept 12 -Ay- Eighteen
men were killed and 34 others
"terribly burned" by an engine
room explosion aboard the refit
ted British luxury liner Reina
del Pacifico last night, a doctor
who attended the men reported
early today.
AMMUNITION FOR GREEKS
NEW YORK, Sept. 11-0P) The
New York port of embarkation
said today a cargo ship sailed re
cently from an eastern port with
a shipload of ammunition lor the
Greek government.
'Drastic
Action?
Unlikely
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Return of Liquor;
To Distillers
PORTLAND. Sept lM-Ths
Oregon liquor control (coromissiosi
as advised todly that the In
ternal revenue bureau. Washing
ton, D. C, is 'looking into" th
recent sale of bulki whiskey by
the commission to jdistilleries,
and the return purchey th
commission of caw grxl7
A spokesman for the bureaai
said the investigation was beinf
made under the feJeral status
which forbids any return to th
distillers.
He added: "It Is likely that the
federal and state governments)
can work out something in that
case without drastic action."
George P. Lilley( commission
chairman, said tne commission "is
not greatly concerned" over tht
investigation.
Distillers Net Concerned?
The distillers apparently ant
not concerned, either. he added,
"thoee who have contacted ua
today have offered every coop
eration In the matter." !
Lllley said he had been In tele
phonic communication with Wash
ington officials of the alcohol tax
unit of the internal revenue bur
eau and will confer with there la
Atlantic City, N. J, m Septem
ber 22.
If it Is determined that th
transaction violated th law, the
chairman said, the commission
would cancel the contracts, with-.
out financial loss to the state.
Every Efrort Made
Lilley said "every ef tort" was) ,
made to see that the transaction
did not violate federal laws, or
to appear to be in restraint ol
trade. 4
Under the transaction, the com
mission sold , gnoo barrels n
straight whiskey to 1! distilleries,
and; agreed In return to buy
blended whiskey. j
Registration !
At ML Angel
Seliools High
MT. ANGEL. Scptj II Ad
vanced registration at the Ms.
Angel Academy high school totals
157, school officials ! reported
Thursday. School will open Tues
day, j ..
Students who boarjt at th
school may register yet on Sun
day and Monday stndj advanced
applications for these! students
now stands at 42. Day students
are urged to also register in ad
vance, and their number of ap
plication totals 115. Last year reg
istration for the entire high,
school came to 170 pupils.
This year advanced! regijtit
tion indicates 39 seniors, 44 ji-n-iors,
39 sophomores and 35 frrrh
men. ML Angel Women's cot- -
formerly the Mt Angel acadr-ny,
will begin a 4-year turrirv'-m
this year leading to a bat ' or
of science, degree In elemc ?ry
education. The school 1 will con
tinue to offer the three-.' r
course leading to a teacher's -rr.
tificate and liberal arts cc
also will continue to be avail.b e,
school officials said, j
Curry to Head
Toastmasters
Marion Curry was elected pre
ident of the Capitol TojastmaMei s
club last night succeeding Will
iam Blivens. ! j
Also elected were Robert Bat
dorff, vice president, succeeding
Curry; secretary-treasurer. Elmer
Amundsen, replacing Clarence
Greig, and sergeant at arm. El
mer Boyer, succeeding Harold
McMillin. The terms are for the
next six months.
The elections took place at the
club's regular weekly meetinsr in
the Hollywood Lions den and was
louowea oy a speaking program.
Elmer Amundsen I wais acting
toastmaster, Wayne! Smith was
general critic and sneakers in-
eluded Marion Curry, A! Cramer,
winiam Biivens ana Julius Cuin
toni. I
First Aiders Pull jTeeth
Somewhere in Salem last night
a woman opened her mouth and
noming out ner teetn came out.
Ever-vigilant city first aid men
answered a late call from a wom
an who said she wanted to take
her false teeth out but they
wouldn't come. The first aiders
calmly took over, removed the
china clippers, and. chalked an
other on OA the wall.