V
John Purely,
Valsetz Man,
Dies at Dallas
Statesman Newt Service
DALLAS Funeral services for
John Henry Purdy, 61, resident
of Valsetz the last 12 years, will
be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at
Bolhnan Funeral Chapel here.
Burial will be at Dallas Ceme
tery. Purdy was born Jan. 3, 1893,
at Klamath Falls. He was mar
ried to Ruth Abel in 1921 at Co
quille. Before coming to Valsetz he
imu ueen ai aaiem, niwi vuy ana
Coos County. He was a sawmill
worker.
Purdy died at a Dallas hospital
Tuesday, after a short iltyes.
- Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Letha L. ToaL Valsetz; three sons,
Keith L. of Dallas, Oswald 1. and
John W., both in the U.S. Navy;
four grandchildren.
Rabbits Wear Wool Coat
Linn Pioneer
Ike Offers French
Stertetmem, Salem. Ore., Friday, lunt II. 1954 (Sec 21 II
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Program Sunday
At Oathout Home
Statesman News Service
ELLIOTT PRAIRIE Mr. and
Mrm. C. W. Oathout were hosts at
a picnic at their home Sunday to
54 guests.
Kenenth Haecker of Portland
gave several accordian numbers.
Mrs. Valda Burkert, Mrs. Ver
nita Brown and Mr. Oathout re
ceived a "Happy Birthday" ren
dition as they have birthdays in
June. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Losey
were honored with an accordion
number "Anniversary Waltz" for
their 25th wedding anniversary.
Guests attended from Portland,
Barlow, Salem, Newberg and Wil
lamette. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Losey were
the honor guests Saturday even
ing at a party at Crystal Gardens
in Salem in honor of their 25th
wedding anniversary. Those pres
ent were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ev
ans, Mr. and Mrs. John Schwab
auer, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Baker,
and Dave Dehut
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DALLAS Mrs. James A. Taylor display two Angora wool rabbits
to Ronnie Norberj;, an admiring visitor who smiles because he
knows very well that wool comes from sheep. Although a warm
day, the rabbits huddle in their insulated wool to keep cool.
Riekreall Pair Finds Hobby,
Income With Angora Rabbits
Statesman Newt Service
BROWNSVILLE There'll be
plenty of good old-fashioned fun
here next week when this little
city on the Calapooya river of Or
egon will be host to thousands
of persons for the 67th annual
Linn County Pioneer Picnic.
Dates for this year's event are
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
June 17, 18 and 19.
The big Pioneer Parade will be
staged on Thursday morning,
June 19, at 10 a.m., instead of
Friday of Picnic week as in the
past two years. The Children's
parade will be at 2 p.m., Fri
day. There will be a series of night
ly dances, a talk by Sen. Warren
Gill on Friday and daily fun-raak-ing
races such as wheelbarrow fe
lays, sack races, three-legged
races, etc. Feature of Saturday
afternoon is the challenge issued
by Brownsville's firemen to the
firemen of Halsey, Sweet Home
and Lebanon to compete in re
lays and other picnic races.
Homecoming Set .
At North Santiam
Statesman Newi Serrtce
NORTH SANTIAM The an
nual homecoming picnic for for
mer residents and pupils here
will be jeld at North Santiam
School grounds on Sunday, June
20.
Coffee and ice cream will be
provided for a no-host dinner at
1 p.m. The program will include
games, prizes, a speaker.
President of the homecoming
group which meets here annually
is Louis Scofield.
Donald Folk Undergo
Surgery, Skin Grafts
Statesman News Service
DONALD Danny O'Mara. six-year-old
son of Mrs. Virginia,
O'Mara, who caught his arm in a
washing machine wringer last
week is now in the Dornbecher
hospital in Portland, awaiting to
have some skin grafts performed.
Mrs. Delbert Feller is now in an
Oregon City hospital undergoing
surgery. Mrs. Linwood Cromwell
war in a Salem hospital Sunday
night and Monday for treatments.
Mrs. Charles Gregory returned
home this week with her new son
from the Woodburr. hospital.
By HAL NORBERG
Statesman Correspondent
DALLAS Furry creatures that
look like rabbits from a dream
world are a source of fncome for
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Taylor of
Riekreall.
These unique animals are An
gora rabbits which are valuable
for their utility rather than their
api arance, for they produce a
wool with one of the best fibers
known.
The Taylors took up Angora rab
bit raising as a hobby when they
retired in the Dallas area three
years ago. About a year ago, they
moved from Dallas to a one-acre
home site a quarter of a mile west
f Riekreall on the Dallas-Salem
highway.
At the present time 150 adult
Angoras and two new litters are at
home in the Taylor rabbitry. Al
falfa, kale, clover and root vege
tables were planted on the acre
plot this spring to provide feed.
Grain feed and some pellets also
are used.
Angora wool is graded accord
ing to kngti. and condition and is
used in making textiles of all kinds
and related materials. A blanket
made of Angora rabbit wool is
lighter and warmer than a blanket
made of ordinary wool, according
to Mrs. Taylor.
Angora wool is lighter and eight
times warmer than sheep wool as
Angora fibers are hollow while
sheep fibers are solid, Mrs. Tay
lor said.
Graded, the wool is worth from
$6.50 a pound up to $9 for the
super grade with 3-inch fibers.
Number 4 wool, which is made
up of clean mats gathered after
the rabbit starts shedding, is worth
$2 to $2.50 per pound. Soiled or
stained wool from the feet and
other extremities is worth $1.50
per pound and there isn't much
of this quality available.
The Taylors pointed out that if
rabbits are properly cared for
with clean hutches and sheared on
time they will give 90 per cent
No. 1 wool. '
A No. 1 mature Angora will shear
a quarter of a pound every eight
weeks, or about 18 ounces a year,
j Each rabbit earns about $8 or $9
I per year for its wool.
I Several strains of Angoras are
; being perpetuated throughout the
j world. The English Angora is
j generally considered the best wool
, producer for size, length and qual
; ity of fleece. The Taylors have
I developed rabbits larger than the
average English Angoras. inis
resulted from good feeding and
care, they believe.
The Taylors have sold breeding
stock to four other raisers in this
area.
About 400 Angoras are necessary
to produce a living for a family,
but Jim and Alice Taylor are con
tent with their smaller number.
These unusual rabbits fill the bill
for both of their keepers, who have
led stimulating lives.
Mrs. Taylor has been a teacher,
farmer and free lance writer, while
Jim was in the government serv
ice for many years. His work in
cluded a period when he served as
a border patrolman between Mexi
co and the U. S.
Square Dance
Ball Attracts
Large Crowd
Statesman Newi Service
R1CKREALL More than 400
people attended the Square
Dance Ball Saturday evening at
Riekreall
The Dallas Hoppers,.who spon
sored the affair, carried out the
Coronation theme, many of the
dances being favorites of Queen
Elizabeth.
King and Queen were Mr. and
Mrs. John Geisler from Dayton.
The orchestra was from Albany.
Exhibition dances presented in
cluded: Highland Fling by Mr.
and Mrs. Earnie Pederson; Moon
light Saunter by the Dallas Hop
pers; Salem Folk Dancers pre
sented four dances Las Alteni
tas (Mexican), Der Walgaster
(German), Rio Rimbau (Brazil
ian), and I Have Lost My Stock
ings in the Brook (German).
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON i .President
Eisenhower said Thursday that the
French certainly could use some
outside military helo to strpnethpn
j their position , in the critical battle
for Hanoi in Indochina. But he of-
, fered them no prospect of help
from the United States.
His remarks at a news confer-
, ence, taken in conjunction with
Emergency
Board Mav
Meet June 25
A tentative date of June 25
was set here Thursday for a meet
ing of the stale emergency board
to consider further construction
of the proposed state intermedi-
j ate penal institution approved by
I the voters at the 1952 general
election.
Cost of the institution, under
an appropriation of the 1953 leg
islature, is $1,250,000. The emerg
ency board, at its last meeting
here, deferred action on the proj
ect pending further investigation.
The institution will be located in
Marion County.
Both the state board of control
and the emergency board have
inspected four proposed sites for
the institution but have not reach
ed agreement on a selection. The
institution would house younger
offenders now received at the
state penitentiary and older of
fenders committed to the Mac
Laren School for Boys.
Bonnie Oppemd Gets
Water Office Position
Statesman News Service
SILVERTON Mrs. Keith Berg,
who has been employed at the
Silverton water office in City
Hall for the past three years, has
resigned, effective June 19.
Her sister, Miss Bonnie Oppe
md, who has been employed at
the Silverton Drug Store, has ac
cepted the position. Miss Opperud
is on vacation this week and will
begin her new job next week.
Mill City Couple Enjoy
Scandinavian Travels
MILL CITY In recent cards
from Sweden and Norway, the
D. B. Hills mention their most
scenic trips in the Scandinavian
countries.
Mrs. Hill states that it is day
light there all but four hours a
day, and those four not very dark.
It gets dusk about 11 p.m., and
gets light again around 2 a.m.
Beautiful lakes, snow-peaks, and
waterfalls are described, with
farm homes and green fields on
the lower slopes.
Officers Take
Gibson Back
To Deschutes
George Gibson, 44, of Salem,
who surrendered himself to local
police Wednesday night on a Des
chutes County felony warrant,
was returned to Deschutes County
Thursday.
Gibson called police here and
gave himself up after alerting
officers to the fact that he was
wanted in Deschutes on a war
rant charging him with threaten
ing the commission of a felony.
Another Marion County jail
prisoner, James E. Shouse, will
leave today for Louisiana under
custody where he is wanted on a
charge of escaping from Louisi
ana State Prison several years
ago.
Shouse, recently released from
Oregon State Prison, lost his fight
against extradition to Louisiana
when habeas corpus proceedings,
started by him, were dismissed in
Marion County Circuit Court fol
lowing a hearing Thursday.
FROM NEBRASKA
CENTRAL HOWELL Mr. and
i Mrs. Robert Way and son Al; n
and daughter, Kathy, of Fremont,
j Neb., are visiting at the home of
' Mr. Way's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
I F. E. Way.
Diploma, Degree
To Hubbard Girl
' HUBBARD Miss Martha Mor
rison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Morrison 'of Hubbard, will
receive her diploma in nursing
and Bachelor of Science degree
in ceremonies in the University of
Oregon Medical School auditori
um, Portland, at 8 p. m. Friday.
Construction Permit
Issued for Dwelling
A construction permit was Is
sued Thursday by the city engi
neer's office to- Ed Byrkit, to
build an $8,500 dwelling at 1075
Lavona Dr.
Other permits issued Thursday
went to Jack Bartelt, move a ga
rage at 1645 N. 18th St., $150;
C. E. Pierpoint, reroof dwelling,
1574 Mill St., $100, and altera
tion permits to Clifford Jorgen
son, 3165 Bonham St., $200, and
W. L. Krause, 2090 N. 19th St.,
$458.
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Secretary of State Dulles' speech
at Seattle, increased a growing im
pression here that the administra
tion has no plan for intervening in
the Indochina War in the predict
able future.
Thus what happens there will be
strictly up to the French and Viet
namese anti - Communist forces,
backed with American military
supplies.
No Optimism
Whether these forces can hold
the Hanoi area, infiltrated as it is
with Communist guerrillas and
sympathizers and weakened-by de
fections to the Red side, remains
to be demonstrated. But there is
no real optimism in American quar
ters about the prospect of an anti
Communist victory.
In fact, there is a feeling that
the Red combine Russia, Red Chi
na and Viet Mmh is employing a
shrewd diplomatic-military strate
gy designed to stall Western policy
developments while pressing the
military campaign in Indochina.
In this strategy the Reds have
division to exploit among the West
ern allies andf in the case of
France, they have a political crisis
at Paris which may shortly render
the French nation virtually'helpless
by depriving it of an effective gov
ernment. Could Lead to Conquest
Events growing out of the present
situation could very rapidly lead
to complete Communist conquest of
Indochina in the next few weeks,
or months at the outside.
Even an armistice agreement at
Geneva, American officials fear,
might prove to be simply one more
device by which the Reds would
take over the strategic land.
President Eisenhower and Sec
retary Dulles so far have avoided
any declaration that the defense of
Indochina is essential to the secur
ity of the United States.
However, they have taken sub
stantially that position with respect
to defense of Southeast Asia of
which Indochina is a part. If the
Reds win in Indochina the policy
question here becomes one of
where to draw the line.
Four Fronts
The Indochina conflict has de
veloped on four fronts since March
29 when Dulles made an urgent
call for united action.
They are: The battlefront in In
dochina, the diplomatic front in
Geneva and the political fronts in
Paris and Washington.
Events in any one of these places
have sometimes deeply influenced
events in all the others. This un
doubtedly will be true again.
Sudden breakup of the Geneva
conference, a dramatic turn of the
military tide, an unexpected show
of national strength at Paris, some
new resolve toward action on the
part of the British, could perhaps
change the attitude in Washington.
But at the moment it appears to
be more one of waiting for the in
evitable to happen rather than de
termination to reembark on some
dramatic new action.
BPA Awards
Transmission
Line Contract
PORTLAND UPi A $1,788,727
contract was awarded Thursday
for construction of the Bonneville
Power Administration's Entiat -Gold
Bar section of the 345,000-volt
Chief Joseph-Snohomish transmis
sion line.-'
The award, one of the largest
made by Bonneville in recent
years, twent to two Portland firms,
Mongomery-Macri Co. and West
ern Line Construction Co.
When completed the lines will
carry about ftalf of the generation
from Chief Joseph Dam to Puget
Sound load centers by way of
Snohomish and Covington substa
tions, William A. Pearl, Bonne
ville administrator, said.
Contractors will have 450 days
to complete the 66-mile Entiat
Gold Bar section. Contracts for
construction of the 47-mile Chief
Joseph-Entiat section will be
awarded in August and for the
21-mile Gold Bar -Snohomish sec
tion next May.
Pearl said the Chief Joseph
Snohomish circuits are scheduled
to be energized in November, 1955.
at 230,000 volts. Energization at
the ultimate voltage of 345.000 is
scheduled for November, 1959, and
will double the power-carrying
Final Rites for
Mrs. Schnltz
Due Saturday
STAYTON Funeral services
will be held Saturdav at 5 n m
i at the Wed die Funeral Home here
jfor Mrs. Anna Clara Schultz who
died Wednesday at the home of a
daughter on Scio Route 1.
Mrs. Schult was born April 15,
1885 at Rockham. S. D., and had
been a resident of the Mt Pleas
ant Community for the past 33
yeajs. She had been invalided by
a stroke last December.
Surviving are the widower,
John Sehultz, Scio: daughter. Ma
bel Smith. Scio: sons, Robert
Sehultz and Donald Sehultz, both
of Scio; brother. Edward Kissner,
Rockham; sisters, Mrs. Theresa
Moldrzek and Mrs. Lizzie Lebt
zow, both of Rockham; five
grardchildren and several nieces
ai nephews.
The Rev. V. L. Loucks will of
ficiate at chapel services. Burial
will be in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
capacity of the transmission lines.
Pearl added that the 345,000-volt
lines from Chief Joseph Dam to
Puget Sound and from McNary
Dam to Portland-Vancouver area
load centers will be the highest
transmission voltage operating in
the United States.
Fabulous Friday
LUNCHEON
SPECIAL
Today
and
Saturday
11 A.M.
to
3 P.M.
Chicken a la King
On Hot Baking Powder Biscuit
With Mashed Potatoes
And Pickled Beets
Miller's Cafeteria
Downstain Store
Mi
liter's 52nd
Anniversary Sale!
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Here Are The Awards
1st Prize Boy's Bicycle!
2nd Prize Girl's Bicycle!
3 Prize Portable Radio!
Use Crayons Clip This and Mail to
"Smarty" the Parrot Contest, co Sa
lem Chamber of Commerce by Midnight
June 30, 1954.
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Shop
the Down-
Town Stores
Displaying
the Red and
White Emblem
Your Symbol
Of "SMART
BUYING"
"Co.--..
jiuuny
the Parrot
Downtown Salem
Merchants Association
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