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Valley News
Statesman News Service
Strawberry Festival Set June 10-12
LEBANON The 42nd annual Strawberry Festival featuring
the world's largest strawberry shortcake will be held here June
10-12.
Big day will be Friday, June 11, when the 5,358-pound short
cake will be served free at noon. Well over a ton of strawberry
will top the big cake which will be cut into 12,000 portions.
Opening day of the festival will be Children's Day with a
junior court to be crowned at 3:30 p.m. The senior festival queen
will be crowned at 7:30 p.m.
Other features on June 11 the day the shortcake will be
served, include tours of Lebanon industries, free vaudeville, a
grand parade at 11 a.m. and a flower show.
Final day entertainment will include an 11 a.m. children's
parade, motorcycle racing in the afternoon at Lebanon Meadows,
and folk dancing on Main Street at night Browning Bros. Carnival
will be on hand.
Mill Citv Gets New Shingle Mill
MILL CITY Nat A. Wills and John T. Wills of Sweet Home,
owners of Wills Brothers Shingle Co., have purchased a tract of
land in the Jahnke addition to Mill City, and have begun the pro
cess preparatory' to erecting a shingle mill there.
A building 24 by 70 feet will be put up for the mill. A pond
will also be constructed. The present Wills mill has been manu
facturing red cedar shingles. About nine men will be employed
on one shift at the beginning of operations here.
Christian and Hickson Logging Co. of Eugene is aso expected
to locate here in the Kenny Creek district for Vancouver Plywood
Co., the firm planning to hire all help from this area.
Dallas Church Set to Serve 1,000
DALLAS The Methodist Church is busy this week setting up
a huge smorgasbord to feed an estimated 1,000 diners Friday from
5 to 9 p.m.
Nearly 200 church people are engaged in producing this second
annual smorgasbord under the direction of chairman Ernest Jacob
son. The entire church basement will be devoted to serving the
dinner.
Scenic travel movies will be shown in the main auditorium to
provide a diversion before and after the dinner. An effort is being
made to regulate the size of the crowd by selling different 'colored
tickets designating different hours for eating. This system was used
with success last year.
Proceeds will go towards installation of the new organ pre
sented recently to the church.
OCE Grads to Hear Rev. Moore
MONMOUTH Plans for commencement exercises at Oregon
College in Monmouth, were near completion Thursday as the Rev.
Brooks H. Moore, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Salem,
was selected as" speaker for baccalaureate services, scheduled Sun
day, May 30, at 3:00 p.m.. in Campbell Hall Auditorium.
Following baccalaureate ceremonies, there will be a reception
for graduates and their parents in the faculty lounge of the library
building.
As announced previously, Gov. Paul Patterson has accepted
the Invitation to be the commencement speaker on June 4, at 2:30
p.m. in Campbell Hall Auditorium.
Baccalaureate and commencement exercises this year will fea
ture the awarding of the Master of Science Degree in Education.
The 12 candidates who have completed the requirements for this
degree are the first to do so in the history of the institution.
Abbev Plans Open House Sunday
MT. ANGEL Laity Dav open house at Mt. Angel Abbey and
Seminary will be held Sunday afternoon, for the sixth consecutive
year. The public is welcome.
Students will conduct visitors through the" entire Seminary
tuilding, the abbey Church, St Joseph's Chapel, the natural his
tory museum and the ancient-book museum. The private, walled
monastery gardens, which according to rule may not be entered
by the laity, may be viewed from the open garden gate.
The unusual and modern mosaic stations, pictured In Time
Magazine last vear, are located in St Joseph's chapel which forms
the crypt of the abbev church. Chalices and vestments will be
displayed in the church and their use explained by clerics ap
pointed for the purpose. At intervals, the Very Rev. Martin Pollard
will lecture on the stations and their significance. Colored slides
and a colored film on the Abbey and Seminary will also be shown.
The Seminary Mothers Club will sponsor a baked food sale
and fancy work booth. Proceeds will go toward furnishing recrea
tion rooms in the new seminary building now under construction.
J. A. Stickler
Dies Enroute
To Hospital
Statesman News Service
MONMOUTH Joseph Albert
Rtichler. 72, of 191 South Broad St..
Monmouth, died of a heart attack
enroute in an ambulance to a Sa
lem hospital Wednesday.
Stichler was born in Dubuque,
Iowa. Jan. 17, 1882, and had been
a resident of Monmouth and com
munity for over 30 years. He was
a retired farmer.
He was a veteran of World War
I. serving in Company L. 163 In
fantry, overseas for over two
years.
The deceased is survived by his
wife. Edith L. Stichler, Monmouth:
two brothers, Thomas and Clarence
Stichler. and four sisters. Mrs.
Marv Banks, Banks. Mrs. Alice
Shuck, Gaston. Mrs. Eliza Davis,
Albany, and Mrs. Hattie Davis,
Forest Grove.
Funeral services will be held
from the Smith Mortuary Chapel.
Independence. Saturday at 10:30
a.m. Interment will follow in Fir
Crest Cemetery. Monmouth
Mill Citv Lions
Club Nominates
Slate of Officers
Statesman News Service
MILL CITY At this week s
meeting of the Lions Club, the
following list of officers was pre
sented by the nominating com
mittee: For president, Howard Means
and Frank Hunter: 1st vice pres
ident. Homer Thacker and Bob
Hill: 2nd vice president, Martin
Hansen and Bill McCoy: 3rd vice
president, Harold Kliewer and Al
Nesbitt; secretary. Bob Thorpe
and Jay Mason: tail-twister, Low
ell Fleetwood and Don Moffatt:
lion-tamer, Jim Poole and Val
WhiCe, and board member. Bur
ton Boroughs and Huh Walkup.
Serving on the nominating
committee were the past presi
dents, Vernon Todd, Lee Ross,
Carl Kelly and Shields ReMine.
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Polk County
Court News
Statesman News Service
DALLAS Dale R. Walker
seeks a judgment of $1,911 from
George Wesley Etheridge in an
auto accident suit filed Tuesday
in Polk County Circuit Court. The
complaint alleges that an accident
happened .June 9. 1952: three miles
south of Monmouth on Highway
99-W.
Guy Travis seeks a judgement
of $11,704 from W. T. Stone and
Barbara Stone in a complaint filed
here this week. The complaint al
leges damages as the result of an
auto accident Sept. 1, 1953. on
highway 99-W near the Gun Club
Road intersection.
The following new complaints
seeking divorce were on file here
Thursday:
Lorene Choquette vs Kenneth
Choquette. alleges cruelty, seeks
custody of minor child. $100 month
ly child support, $50 monthly ali
mony for one year, and household
poods. Married Oct. 26. 1940. at
Vancouver, Wash.
William M. Dodson vs Helen
Dodson. alleges cruelty. Married
Feb. 6. 1953 at Dallas, v
Marriage license applications
have been obtained here iky the
following:
Donald L. Teal. 36. and Letha
Lorraine Slyh. 26. waitress, both
of V'alsetz.
Marvin James McKee. 25. Perry
dale farmer, and Joan Marie
Langford, 22. clerk, of 474 N. 18th
St.. Salem.
Donald Johnson. 28. logger, and
Verla Ross Hubbs. 29, both of
Falls City.
FARM AT DEVER SOLD
JEFFERSON Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Thorn have sole' their farm
in the Dever community to Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Snodgrass.
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SALEM HEIGHTS The 29 third
an original play, "Margaret in Fairyland" Friday at 1:30 p.m. for their parents and upper graders
at Salem Heights School. Caught in this springtime pose at dress rehearsal Thursday were Judy Ma
son (center) and, left to right, Denice Ward, Bonny Ireland, Penny Nelson, Judith Suntjer, Karen
Martin and Gail Miller. Play is scheduled to he repeated at 7 p.m. Friday in the school auditorium
for the public. (Statesman photo.)
Gates Man
Succumbs to
Heart Attack
Statesman News Servir
MILL CITY George Clise, 51,
Gates trailer court proprietor,
died unexpectedly of a heart -attack
here Wednesday night.
Clise and his wife had come here
to notify Mrs. Oswald K. Hirte of
Lyons that her husband had been
injured in an auto accident near
Gates a few minutes previously.
Mrs. Hirte was attending a Rain
bow Girls banquet at Mill City.
Clise remained in the car while
his wife went into the lodge hall
and notified Mrs. Hirte. He was
stricken before his wife returned
and died a few minutes later.
Clise had lived in the Gates area
for five years. He was born March
10. 1903.
Surviving are his wife, Margar
et, at Gates; his mother. Sarh Sel
lers. Ventura. Calif.; his grand
mother, Ella M. Bennett, Cody.
Wyo.; a brother. Paul Clise. Rich
land, Wash., and a sister, Xaomi
Theurer, Ventura.
Services will be held at 2 p.m.
Saturday at Weddle Mortuary in
Stayton. The Mill City Masonic
Lodge will perform ritualistic serv
ice. Burial will be in California.
Lola Bennett
Dies, Rites
Set at Dallas
Statesman News Service
DALLAS Funeral services for
Mrs. Lola Mae Bennett, 50, will
be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the
Bollman Funeral Chapel with the
Rev. W. Harold Lyman officiating.
Burial will be at Dallas Cemetery.
Mrs. Bennett died Wednesday at
a Dallas rest home after an illness
of four months. Her home address
was 1217 S Main St.. Dallas. She
was a member of the Christian
Church.
Born July 4. 1903. at Elk City,
Okla.. she was married to George
H. Bennett on May 21. 1921. at
Lawton, Okla. She moved to Salem
in 1942 and to Sheridan in 1948.
coming to Dallas, the following
year.
Surviving are four daughters,
Mrs. Edna Lane, Mrs. Martha
Phillips and Miss Stella Bennett,
all of Salem, and Mrs. Judy Burns
in Missouri: four sons. Charles,
Paul, Melvin and Donald Bennett,
all of Salem; also six gradchild-
ren.
Gervais Girl to
Head Students at
Mt Angel College
Statesman News Service
MT. ANGEL Ruth Schmerber
of Gervais was elected student
body president of ML Angel Wo
men's College at the regular Ap
ril meeting.
,She succeeds Mary Callaghan.
""Portland, who was presented with
a gift in recognition of her serv
ice during the past year.
Other officers selected are:
I Frances Dieker, Mt. Angel, vice
j president: Carol Wachter, ML An-
gel, secretary : Elaine Wilson,
' Scotts Mills, treasurer, and Anna
; Mae Leftis, Oakridge, sergeant-
at-arms.
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Tag Skeleton
Man 25-40
Statesman News Service
ALBANY The human skele
ton found hanging from a tree
Sunday in Linn County was
that of a man aged 25-40, the
state crime laboratory at Port
land reported Thursday.
The laboratory gave the fol
1 owing description: height,
about five feet seven; m scular
build; light brown hair; large,
prominent nose; heavy eye
brows; rugged facial appear
ance; no dental fillings but
three extractions; wet ring blue
jeans, s u n t a n Army shirts,
width-E shoes.
Identity of the victim remain
ed undetermined Thursday. The
skeleton was discovered by two
hunters. Authorities here be
lieve the man committed suicide.
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Music Festival
Tonight at Dallas
Jr. High School
Statesman News Service
DALLAS The Dallas Junior
High Spring Festival will be a
musical presented Friday at 7:30
p.m. in the junior high school
auditorium.
Appearing on the program will
be the junior high band, directed
by John Kienzle; sixth grade mix
ed chorus under the direction of
Mrs. Eve Van Den Bosch and
Mrs. Alice Frantz; the seventh
eighth grade girls' chorus and
boys' chorus, ninth grade mixed
chorus and girls' trio, all under
the direction of George Thomp
son. Singing in the trio are Jayann
Grooms, Lorraine Quiring and
Mary Ellen McCleary. Admission
is free.
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Henry Graves,
Independence
Resident, Dies
Statesman .News Service
INDEPENDENCE Final rites
for Henry A. Graves. 74, longtime
employe at the Horst Ranch near
Independence, will be held at 2
p.m. Saturday at Smith Mortuary
Chapel, Independence.
The Rev. Paul E. Boomer will
officiate. Interment will be at Bel
crest Memorial Park, Salem.
Graves died at a Salem hospital
April 24 after a lingering illness.
He had lived here for 18 years.
The deceased was born Feb. 22,
1880 at Marysville, Mo. He is sur
vived by Jiis wife, Mrs. Susie
Graves, Independence; four sons,
Kenneth Graves, Sweet Home,
Avery and Dale Graves of Inde
pendence and PFC Russell Graves
of the U. S. Army stationed at
Trieste (who will attend the fun
eral); one daughter, Mrs. George
Kisler, of Independence; two bro
thers, Andrew and Ora Graves,
Clarks, Nebr.; and one sister, Mrs.
L. R. Irwin, Belgrade, Nebr.; also
12 grandchildren.
WIN HAWAIIAN TRIP
MONMOUTH The Philco Com
pany recently issued as prizes an
expense trip to Hawaii 'or 10 days
to stores selling the -nost mer
chandise. Monmouth Furniture
Company was the winner in its
category. Mr. and Mrs. Q. L.
Jacobson will leave by airliner on
May 13 for their 'trip and will
return by ship.
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19 Prizes Lure Da lias
Anglers in JC Derby
Statesman News Berries
DALLAS Nineteen big prizes
for adult and junior anglers are
being offered by Dallas Jaycees
in their first annual trout derby.
The derby, which opens Satur
day, will run for eight weeks.
The longest trout caught by jun
ior and adult anglers will win the
weekly prizes in each division.
Juniors are those under 17 years
of age.
Grand prizes offered in addi
tion to the weekly prizes are an
outdoor motor, twin Stag sleep
ing bags and a spinning rod and
reel.
Foster Home and Auto is the
official judging station and cat
ches must be brought in by 6
p.m. each Monday to qualify for
the contest ending at that time
each week.
Fishermen qualify by purchas
ing derby tickets prior to May 29.
One ticket is good until the con
test closes June 28 and the hold
er is eligible for all weekly prizes
and for grand prizes.
Any kind of trout is allowed
with the provision that it is
caught within Oregon's boundar
ies and under state game commis
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Several other derbies for young
sters are being sponsored here,
Foster Home and Auto's contest it
open to children up to 14 years
who catch trout in Rickreall
Creek. They must register by 6
p.m. Friday and enter their cat
ches by 6 p.m. Saturday for eligi
bility toward prizes.
Crider's derby is for youngsters
to 16 years and no registration
is required. Three prizes are of
fered for trout entered' from any
stream prior to closing time Saturday.
Mayor Draws
Traffic Fine
Statesman News Service
JEFFERSON Charles K. Mc
Cormack. identified as mayor of
Albany, was fined $5.50 in Jeffer
son Justice Court on a charge of
driving on the wrong side of the
highway. Justice of the Peace
Marvin Hutchings said Thursday.
McCormack was arrested two
miles south of Salem on highway
99-E Monday night by state police.
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