The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 13, 1954, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text2 Statesman Salem, Oregon, Cash Prizes Parade on Despite a large turnout of ticketholdew cash prizes went begging Friday night at the week ly drawing for prizes in the Salem Downtown ' Merchants Association Spring Festival program. Festival activities will continue today with a kiddies parade through downtown streets with Heck Harper, Portland TV west ern star, as grand marshalL f All kids in this varea are elig ible to enter the parade and must "be on hand at 8:30 o'clock this morning at the Capitol malL The parade with its five divisions for Republicans Seekto'Calnr GOP Waters Sen. Joseph McCarthy's activi ties are contributing to the dis unity of the Republican Party, the executive committee of the Oregon Republican Club stated here Fri day night in a telegram to aen Guy Cordon. The telegram took no swipes at McCarthy himself, but the com mittee requested the wire be read by Cordon on the Senate floor. George Haley, Salem, president of the Oregon Republican Club, presided at the Hotel Senator din er meeting at which plans were made for the Republican State Convention which will be held in Salem in September or October. Plans for organizing about a dozen new clubs throughout the state were also discussed. Party members present included Jess Gard. Portland, national com mitteeman; T. Lawson McCall, Portland, candidate for U. S. Rep resentative; Mrs. James . Mott, West Salem, vice-chairman of the state central committee; and Ger hard Pagenstecher, Salem, presi dent of the Marion County Repub lican Club. Fall on Street ; r Hurts Woman An 80 year old Salem woman suffered a broken right hip Fri day morning when she was knock ed to the sidewalk, apparently ac cidentally, by a young girl. Mrs. Bertha McMahon of 891 N. Front St was taken to Salem Gen eral Hospital by Willamette Am . glance Service after treatment at tnecene by first aidmen. The hospital reported her condition as good last night Police said the incident occur red in front of 387 State Street Mrs. McMahon was standing on the sidewalk and a seven-year-old boy and two unidentified young girls started running around and f basing each other when one of he girls knocked the elderly woman down. - The girls fled, police said, but the boy remained at the scene. Accident Claims Workman's Life PORTLAND (J) An accident at the Western Cooperage Co. here Friday claimed the life of Calvin Gross, 53, of Hillsboro. He was cut an the neck by a saw which broke as he was at tempting to cut through a knot in a large piece of wood. Brother of Salem Woman Succumbs Word has been received here of the death Thursday in Fargo, N. D., Veteran Hospital of Valdemar O. Hage, brother of Mrs. Earl E. Wiper, 2735 Alvarado Ter., Salem, Hage. a resident of Detroit Lakes, Minn., lived In Vancouver, Wash, during World War II. Fu neral services will be at Detroit Lakes Monday. Youngster Drowns COQUILLE Lf) A three-year-old boy at play with other young sterr fell into a small pond and drowned on the outskirts of Co- quille near his home Friday night ; He was Johnny Barnett, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Barnett of Co- quille, i - IKE AT HIDEAWAY i THRUMONT. Md. GH Presi dent Eisenhower arrived at his cabin retreat in . the snowclad Catoctin Mountains Friday for a week end of rest combined with work on the tax speech he win make to the nation Monday night pmomi -sr NOW PLAYJNG! tt!''9 m a garias aiTEBUTCiut pkxuksJ Saturday. March 13 1854 Unclaimed; Today's Slate decorated bicycles, costumes, pets, decorated doll buggies and floats and mounted groups will move out promptly at 9 o'clock, rain or shine, according to Dick Schlup, association president Line of march will be west on Ohemeketa street to High street, then to State, west on State to Commercial, south to Ferry, nortbJ to Court, east on Court to High and disband - at the reviewing stand on the N. High street sideJ ot tne couitnouse square. ;.! After the parade free ice cream will be given to paradcrs and all other kids present t the review ing stand. A free show will follow for all kids at the ' Elsinore Theatre at 10:30 a.m. with Heck Harper as master of ceremonies. At the drawing last night R. S. McDonald of. Monmouth won a wrist watch but missed a $200 cash bonus by being absent H. Krattcbol, 2175 Chemeketa St won two prizes, a watch and a pair of shoes, but also missed the $100 bonus by. failing to ap pear. Janie Baker, 760 Kingwood Dr., won an electric roaster, but failed to collect $25 bonus. ; f The cash bonuses will go over to next Friday night drawing. Police Step Up Enforcement j; For Parkins I C ; i: City police aren't waiting for delivery of a third three-wheel motorcycle to step up parking enforcement This week the department put an old model three-wheel cycle into action which has been loan ed by Scott's Motorcycle Center where the order, for the . new cycle has been placed. Police Chief Clyde Warren said delivery on the new ma chine should be in about ft month. Meanwhile, a patrolman has been taken off one of the patrol cars to man the third cycle. His chief, job is checking cars at meters in the Shopping Center and J2th and State streets areas as well as unmetered sections where parking limits are posted. Two other officers on motor cycles are concentrating on the downtown sector. Monday night the City Coun cil authorized purchase of the third cycle as well as an addi tional patrolman to man it The extra man will not be available until police Civil Service begin ners exams are given at the end of this month. Sunshine Due Again Today Sunshine streamed down on the mid-vlHey again Friday and the weatherman is predicting Old Sol will be around for some of the week-end. Crisp temperatures are fore cast again for early this morning when the mercury will probably go down to 22. the weatherman says. Low for yesterday morning was 23. shortly after sunrise. j Patches of fog are in the pie ture this morning and slightly warmer temperatures Simday. Collision Causes Damage to Auto i Cars driven by C a 1 v i n ! W Brown, 2230 N. 4th St., and Edwi O. Sahnaw, 1344 Court St., col lided in the 300 block of North Capitol street about 4.13 Friday afternoon, city police reported. Extensive front end damage was done to the Sahnaw car and none to the other vehicle, said po- V nn ROOSEVELT FILES f LOS ANGELES UP) James Roosevelt filed Friday as' a candi date for the Democratic nomina tion in the 26th California congres sional district He did not file also for the Republican nomination, as be could do under California's elec tion laws, j ! mm REGULAR PRICES: PLUS 15c FOR VIEWERS! SEE IT ON OUR GIANT f . CURVED SCREEN! t ivSSr ram izu:. r. Other prize winners ' Friday night were Betty. Ann Pierce, Silem, Route 4; Agnes Davis, Salem route 8; Pearl Gould, Ger vais route 1; R. T. Buren, 246 E. Superior St; Kay Orr, Independ ence rout 1. Winner of a berth in the Miss Downtown Salem contest was Miss Joan Hickerson, state em ploye in the department of finan cial responsibility. :f Tickets for the weekly festival drawing are given out free at all downtown stores displaying the Merchants Association 'emblem. Two Sisters Reunited. 27 Years Apart SAN DIEGO, Calif. W Two sisters who found each: other 27 years after they were parted as babies were continuing a reunion at the home of their mother here Friday. . ' '. .f . They are Mrs. Betty Canny, 27, of Areata. Calif., who was Betty Stryker, of Lebanon, Ore., before her marriage to D. J. Canny, and Mrs. Louise Sawyer, ; 28, af San Diego. Mrs. Canny located her sister and mother, now Mrs. F. T. Coffey, through a letter to the San Diego Evening Tribune after other means. including an appeal to the FBI, had failed. t The mother and Mrs. Sawyer went to Areata and brought Mrs. Canny and her two children here for the visit after an exchange of letters. I Mrs. Coffey said Betty remained with her former husband, Roy M. Stryker, in Oregon and she took Louise when separation and di vorce broke up the marriage. Mrs. Canny said she was told by an aunt when she was; 14, three years after her father's death, that she hail a mother aod sister some where. She has been trying to find them since. i Police to Host Pistol Matches Salem police department will be host Sunday to the annual Oregon Association of City Police Officers marksmanship ' contest to be held on the police -range at McNary Field. J Pistol teams from Klamath Falls, Eugene, Corvallis and Astor ia as well as individual police offi cers will compete for two team trophies and three individual tro phies. Members of the Salem team are officers William DeVall, Bob Schwartz, Charles Creasey and Sgt, Walter Esplin. Petitions Seek New LaneJCity EUGENE Oft Petitions were circulated Friday in a area north west of here asking incorporation of a new municipality to be known as Bethel City. The area, which covers 3.3 square miles, has an" - assessed valuation of 4 Vi million dollars, Some 5,500 persons live in the area which also has considerable industry. . Sponsors said incorporation was the only way the community could finance a needed drainage system. REDS CUT RAILWAY HANOI, Indochina OH Com munist led Vietminh troops Fri day cut in five placer the main railway line linking this war cap ital of . northern Indochina with Haiphong, the seaport 14 miles to the east. . $ BENNETT RUNS AGAIN PORTLAND 11 J. IE. "Jake' Bennett a controversial Oregon political figure for years, filed Friday for the City Council posi tion from which he was recalled in 1952. I KM ALSO Short Subts News Color Cartoon Driver Bests Meter Feeder Charge by $1 r"' - V- ' j- ; A Salem man who took his "meterx feeding charge to" mu nicipal court came out Friday 50 cents losers but $1 winners. He is Donald A. Hendrie. head of Hendrie Medical Laboratories in the Livesley Building, who received a police citation I and $130 bail notice for leaving his car parked longer than one hour in a one-hour meter zone on State Street . near the office building. i Hendrie was the first to plead innocent to meter feeding since the City Council ordered an en forcement campaign earlier this year. : In court Friday Hendrie ad mitted i oevrparking but denied "feeding" the meter, that is con tinuing to put coins in the same meter beyond the time limit for parking there. i ! Hendrie . explained that i be cause of the nature of his work he often was held up inside and couldnt get his car out before the time expired. For the incident in question, Hendrie said he went out for his car, expecting to pay a 50 cent overparking charge ' but he found instead that a friend had put another nickel in his meter and the police had ticket ed his car for parking overtime, which has been carrying a $1.50 charge. Municipal Judge Douglas Hay found Hendrie guilty, fined! him 50 cents. Despite the standard police bail schedule, the judge has dis cretion: over the amount of fine to levy if a defendant comes to court instead of forfeiting bail Fire Destroys Garage, Shed Fire did an estimated $500 dam age to a garage and woodshed at the residence of Leonard Whitten- berg, 1761 S. Liberty St, early Friday afternoon. The woodshed, containing about two cords of wood, was almost en tirely destroyed, firemen said. A wall and part of the roof of the attached garage were also ruined, and a tricycle and scooter in the buildings were damaged. Firemen from central and South Salem stations, called at 12:30 p. m., said the fire started in the woodshed from unknown causes. Albany Youth Hurt ih Jump FT. BRAGG, N. C. m Exer cise Long Thrust, a training prob lem for about 9,000 82nd Division paratroopers, wound up Friday. Two men were lulled and about suffered minor, to serious in juries in Thursday's mass drop of men and equipment ' The public information office made public a list of hospitalized, Including these Oregon mem CpL Raymond Wooden, 20, Pow ers, and Pfc. Miles J. Santo, 19, Albany. Candidates Obtain Space in Pamphlet j The usual percentage of can didates filing for the primary election here Friday purchased space in the Voters' Pamphlet for their statements and photo graphs, David O'Hara, in charge of the state elections bureau re ported. The pamphlets will be dis tributed among all registered voters in the state 85 days be fore the primary election. DIES IN COLLISION , SANDY, Ore. OT) A panel truck and a logging truck collided on the Mt Hood Highway four miles east of here Friday. 'killing Elbert George Davidson, 50, Port land. ; BLAZE IN BUFFALO BUFFALO, N. Y. IB A five story warehouse was wrecked to day in a quarter million dollar fire. Buffalo's second major blaze in five days. ' nmvE-iri THEATn UIIJH fAMMU. HltHWAT 7T& ENDS TONIGHT . i 2 Technicolor Hits Randolph Scott Claire Trevor in "STRANGER WORE A GUN" ; Also Jane Wyaaaa "LET'S DO ' IT AGAIN" -STARTS TOMORROW- 1 2TeehnicnorHits j ; , Clark Gable 1 . Ava Gardner "MOGAMBO" 1 A1IO II nir Yaonr . ""ST" AJ ''ARENA" ( E Four Girls Spelling (Story also on page 1) MT. ANGEL Two more girls have joined the list of Grand Finalists in The Statesman-KSLM Spelling ; Contest, but-two other girls gave them a real race for the honors here Friday night !; The winner was Karen Oveross of Evergreen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Casper Oveross. whose teacher is Mrs. Odelia J. Park. Runner-up was Loree King of Victor Point daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Verle King, Route s, Salem, wnose teacher is Mrs. ; Dorothy Carpenter. The girls who gave them the battle for the two top spots were Arlene Ebner of St Mary's, the host school, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. C J. Ebner. Ronte 1, Box 604, Mt Angel, and Diana Obrist of Union, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Albert Obrist Route 2, Box 30, 'Woodburn. y Arlene won third place, Her teacher is Walter StickeL Fourth place went to Diana, whose teach er is Mrs. Ruth BlackwelL Five girls and one boy had been spelled down by the time the most difficult of the 1,000 words published in The Statesman had been called. But Karen, Loree, Arlene and Diane were Driver Unhurt As Truck Turns Over Ollie W. SchendeV 1390 Boone Rd, escaped - unhurt Friday af ternoon when his truck collided with another truck at Laurel avenue and South street and rolled over on its side. Melvin ' McNeill, Aumsville, driver of the other truck, a Ham ilton Furniture Co. van type ve hicle, told police he was going south of Laurel avenue and was nearly stopped when his truck collided with the right side of Schendel's panel truck. Schendel told officers he was driving west on South street The front end of the McNeill vehicle was damaged and both sides of the other truck were smashed, said police. . A fire truck was called to the scene to wash down gas which spilled on the street ment Up in February WASHINGTON I The census Bureau reported 'Friday , the na tion's unemployment rose 584,000 in February to a total of 3,671,000. mis was on tne basis of a new sampling method adopted by the bureau. Unemployment as reflected by an old sampling method, which Secretary of Commerce Weeks said is; being discontinued,! rose over one million in February to a total of; 3,385,000. MILL CITY THEATRE ENDS TONIGHT ' Elroy "Craxylegs Hirsch la CRAZYLEGS ; PLUS : JudyCanova "OKLAHOMA ANNIE" Unemploy t)lRtCT FROf.l EUROPEAN TRIUMPHS! "THE BIST BALLET COMPANY IN THE l.S."-tlrt Portland Auditorium -2 Nights Wed. and Thura., March 17-1 8, 8:30 I ; i. K. Gill Box Offkt: jjlF $4, $3; 14, $4, $3; 2-B, $2, $1 CLw Exempt) 'Phil Hart, Concert Mgr. FlAMINa PASSIONS sad VIOLENCE IN LUSTY. LAWLESS ROME! j! f, : All hoil the mott honoid pictvro of ho fi 1 i ; year. ..nominated for MCM pr(ont William JULIUS CAESAR - " Slorrinf : ' , MARLON DRANDO JAMES MASON JOHN GIELGUD LOUIS CALHERN EDMOND O'BRIEN r.nprn G X ) DEDORAH KERR Directed by JOSEPH U MANKICWiCZ ENDS TONTTE Robert Taylor Stewart Graoser . I "ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT" : ' I ALSO ;; Giacer Rogers - William Holdea ' - i: l -TOREVER FEMALE" , ' in Real I ' Bee Contest still in the running when; the word caller was forced to resort to a list of unpublished words. ! It was Loree's turn. She spelled "monotonous." Diane went out on rhododendron' and Arlene on f,legionnair,, From that point on, it was nip and tuck between Karen and Loree. They both missed "abbreviate. Then they waded through "diphtheria,"f cir cumstance, "psychology," "tuber culosis. Both missed acquain tance, but hurdled "narcissus. ! Loree missed "guillotine" and Karen spelled it "but Karen, miss ed the required next word, fpie- nicung." Loree also missed it Then both missed "fuchsia,' but got past "alleviate.' Both missed ''assailant", and "surveillance,' and traded their way through such words as "obsolete, super flous," both missed "suburban," roiaphragm,- "satellite" and "as phyxiate." Then came the break on "an onymous." Loree missed it and Karen spelled both "anonymous' and the required next word. which was domicile. Chief judge was Mrs. Betty Sanders, county school supervis or. Master of ceremonies 1 was Dave Hoss, manager of KSLM. Wendell Webb of The Statesman called th words. r- " ENDS TODAY! STARTS 5:45 - 2 TOP HITS IN COLOR! -"CALAMITY JANE" "ROYAL AFRICAN RIFLES" Starts Tomorrow - Cont 1:45 Adults 50c Children 20c A world of adventure! HOLLYWOOD KIDS MATINEE i Today -1:90 to 4:00 P.M. CARTOONS SERIAL . THE LOST PLANET" 2 Special Matinee Features "BLACK HILLS AMBUSH" With Rocky Lane 1 "FORGOTTEN BABIES" with the Little Rascals also. Benson's Birthday Cake for Sandy Collens. Kathryn Lan- ham. Irene Haller. George Bent Gary Schroeder; There sa Ripp, Lyle Cordray, Robert Clark, Patsy Holoubek, Bar bara Barton. Patricia Morris. Bobby FraveL Roberta John son. Donald Nettleton, Mar ilyn Martin, Steven Lieser, Linda Dolge, Jerry Boenn, In imaui x i ccuuiu, a ucvuin c Henderson. ' Mrf t Graetoif Stan EH - COMEDY CO-HIT I HALL AioNSo TousiEvrroi xtru moyun COMPMT Of IN MUST TNMTtt SYMPHONY OtOUCTU Academy Aware I 1 II Shakttpoaro's rs arson Starts Tomorrow! Pricei for ThU Show Only: . Adultf, 1.01 Stadeats, Kids, 50c - 1 Ji -NN lMl .ti 1 a! the iooi cf lbs Bridge j A7est Salem Open Every Day;. . Prices Good Friday 800 BRAND Sorry Folks! (gPJ Wa Ran Out Last Time. Will Hara Plonty TUs TLma, ' L UMTT ! m Hesile's Tall CansCanned" mm j i LIMIT Regular; lSie Large Quick or Regular! Quaker x - i LIMIT ! Large PkgJ LIMIT SUNSHINE I SHREDDED WHEAT LIMIT Radishes & Gr California Beg. 2 GOLDEN SPUR t j DAFFODILS : OCEAH FRESH SEA FOODS r imu aiiurr SALIIOIMIALlBUT 7 SHELT-CRABS Fraahs -! ! Doilmg Qesl GImch Boast ' ft . " '" " " - ' - "-- - i i- Porh ILiver: Emm Vi Iliie Hcrlh cf ihe Underpass Salem ; 8 a. m. to 10 pi Saturday - Sunday SAVE 180 Und or Vacuum Packed Coffeo. (2 EACH SAVE 2c Per Caa Refolar ile SAVE 6 EA. Regular 47e SAVE 100 I Regular 19c SAVE 5c Onions 3 10c Bun. for 25c SAVE 100 1 r - ; : , -: - - 3fc 3?c ' -Beg. 25c SAVE 100 Dox. jbii - u x a 1 Mia - LB. LB. LB. A LB.