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Valley News Statesman News Service Gtizenship Awaits Seven In Polk Co. (Story also on page 1). . DALLAS Seven new citizens will be guests of honor " at a special luncheon here Thursday following naturalization cere monies in Judge Arlie G. Walk er's Polk County Circuit Court at 11:30 a. m. . State Sen. Paul Geddes, Rose burg, will be speaker at the luncheon which will be held at noon in the Chamber of Com merce Room at City Hall. Mayor Hollis Smith of Dallas will be toastmastef and County Judge Cal M. Barnhart will give the address of welcome. The event is being arranged by the Dallas Business and Profes sional Women's Club in coopera tion with virtually every Dallas civic and .patriotic group, accord ing to Mrs. H. D. Peterson, BPW president ' This is the first citizenship ceremony to be held here in six years. Similar events will become a continuing project of the BPW group. Silverton Church j Unit Progresses Statesmaa News Service SILVERTON The social unit of the new Silverton Methodist Church is progressing rapidly, the Rev. Paul Wayne Henry, pas tor reports. ; The kitchen lis already in use and needs only a few finishing touches. The j women of the church reporting that they "were lucky" to have it completed in time to care for the various ser vice clubs while Toney's restaur ant at Silverton is closed, starting last Monday and last for three weeks. Adding to the convenience of the kitchen are the many gifts brought to the kitchen shower held in the new unit on Friday. Chicago Girl; So Rich She Has to Work Junior Play Scheduled at i Cascade HS Br WILLIAM J. COXWAY CHICAGO l, Mollie Netcher Bragnb is in the extraordinary po sition of a girl who has become so rich she has had to go to work. She is the heiress to an esti mated 13 million dollars. Han dling the fortune is her new job. She sat at her desk and told in an interview how a young heiress to millions can lead a normal, hap py life. j It was a riew topic for her. She had. it seems, led a normal, happy life but hadn't thought much about the reasons why. ; Mrs. Bragno is the glamor girl type. She's : 28, has outsize blue eyes and "brunette hair that flows in a series of gentle waves to her shoulders, i Under the terms of her grand mother's will, filed in January, she will receive an estate estimated at 11H million dollars before tax es. She also eventually will receive half of the estimated four million dollar estate of her grandfather, Charles Netcher Sr. j Mrs. Bragno was named execu trix of her; grandmother's estate. She accepted the assignment and went to work for the first time in her life. j Dollar signs in large quantities nave figured in tne formula un- happiness for a number of heir esses. They usually bear the label "Poor little rich girt." Statesman Newt Service . TURNER The Junior Class play will be i presented in the Cascade Union High School gym Thursday and. Friday, March 24 and 25, at 8 p. m. The play, j "You Can't Kiss Caroline," written by Anne Coul ter Stevens, will be portrayed by the following students: Roberta Campbell, Margie Dra ger, Dorothyi Franzen, Laurel Warner, Charlotte Hilton, Joyce Cruehow, Ron Bartels, Ron Kor kow, Leroy Horsley, Bob Smith, Spencer Etzel, Fred Brown, Carl Lacey, Keith1 Christenson, Betty. Walsh, Donna Brown, Mildred Foster, Gaylene Potter, Sandra Edwards and Verla Shirley. There will also be a matinee on Thursday, March 24, at 1:30 p. m. ' j River Project Backer Denied Park to Suffer! - - - : ;: -... I WASHINGTON (UP) Sen.' Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo urged Congress Wednesday to re ject the "emotional appeal" . of conservationists and approve the Upper Colorado River Project ! s He said the conserva'iorists claim that the Echo Park Dam would flood out the Dinosaur Na tional Monument in a precedent shattering invasion of national parks just isn't true, 1 The veteran congressman aid Sen. Frank -A. Barrett (R-Wyo) were members of a Wyoming dele gation of legislators, state officials and water experts and engineers that appeared before a House In terior Subcomitte on . lehalf of the proposed billion-dollar-plus un dertaking. , i f President Eisenhower meanwhile told a news conference that he is standing firm on the administra tion's endorsement of the Upper Colorado Project. I He declined to comment on the court fight that Southern California has started to block the project, but said that his own view of what is necessary to conserve water in the Rocky Mountain states has not changed since he recomended approval of the project. j Mr. Eisenhower said water is rapidly becoming, if it is not al ready, our most precious natural resource, and the nation has got to take measures to save water at the proper places. j Babv-Si J : tter The average American consum ed 352 pounds of fluid milk in 1954 compare to 399 "pounds in 1954. Charged With Infant's Death EPHRATA. Wash. tf A 28-year-old woman now , living in San Francisco was charged with first degree murder v Wednesday, for the death of an infant with whom she was baby-sitting last summer. Grant County Prosecutor Paul Klasen Jr. filed ' the charges against Miss Kathleen Carnaghan and. left later with a deputy sheriff for the Bay City to take her into custody.. ' The child, Deena ' Maree Stan man, 21 - months - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dutch Starzman, was mortally wounded 'in a man ner and by means unknown" to the prosecutor's office, the com plaint said. The Starzmans live at Grand Coulee. The death was reported at the time to have been caused by drowning in a puddle while Miss Carnaghan was sprinkling the lawn. Some time ago. Klasen said, his office received information raising doubt as to whether the baby ac tually drowned. He obtained a Lin coln County court order March 1 to exhume the body. It was taken from the Wilbur cemetery and on March 9 Dr. Charles Larson, Tacoma patholo gist, reported the death was caused by head injuries, Klasen said. He continued his investiga tion of the case and decided to file the murder charges. Boost in Sales Tax Possible In Washington By LYLE BURT OLYMPIA Iff) - A boost in the sales tax to balance the state budg et was predicted Wednesday by the chairman of a Senate Committee on Revenue and Taxation. Sen. Eugene D. Ivy said the 60 million dollars or more in new taxes that wQl have to be raised probably will include some form of an increase in the sales tax. The exact amount will not be known until a final determination is made on the size of the state spending budget, the Yakima Re publican said. ' The spending budget was turned over Wednesday to a Senate-House conference committee to try and reconcile the difference between th 830 million dollar . bill passed by the House and the 800 million dollar version approved by the Senate. 'Statesman, Salem, Or Thurs., March 17, 1955-Sec 1 4 jSfS HAAJ122 lTM4.16.2Ml Jf . t may ai Lad Admits He Wounded Father CENTRAL POINT ( Business sessions of the annual state con vention of the Future Farmers of America began Wednesday after comDetitive events Tuesday eve ning. Donn Johnson, Crater 'High of Central Point, won the speaking contest. 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(TV Circuit Judge Dale Souter, who wrote' his congressman that this year s income tax xorm is "atro cious," says he has been flooded with congratulatory mail from across the nation since his pub lished blast He wrote': "Who ever is responsible for this form of statement shoula be looking for a job elsewhere." The population of States increased by in 1954. the United 2 per cent Complete Income Tax Service LEON A. FISCUS Phone 3-5285 1509 N. Fourth St. FFA State Meet I Gets Underway MORO (A Donald Mclntyre, " 20, accused in the shotgun wound- . ing of his father, pleaded guilty here Wednesday to an information charging assault while armed with ? dangerous weapon. Circuit Judge E. H. Howell sen- -.. tenced him to three years, then put him on probation. '"' His father, A. H. Mclntyre, a Wasco wheat rancher, was wound- '- ed in the stomach Feb. 9 after an ' argument at the family home. 'He "" recently was released from a hos- w pitaL .. COURT ORDER WON r LOUISVILLE, Ky. UH The Louisville & Nashville Railroad, , battling to restore its strike-crip- . pled passenger and freight serv .. ice, Tuesday won a court order C requiring train crews to cross pick et lines set up by 25,000 non-operat ing workers. GO Party Fetes Zena Couple .. Statesman News Service ZENA Mr j and Mrs. Ted Burns were honored with a goodbye sur prise party Saturday night. The Burns are moving to Brush College and the Kenneth Hunts are taking over the Burns farm. . Chairmen for the affair were Mr. and Mrs. Al Ellison, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Muller and Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Hunt. ! Guests invited to bid the Burns farewell were! Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shepard, Darla and Delmar, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Chapler.! Mr. and Mrs. Walt Hunt. Mr. Phil Brant. Phil. Lark and Billy, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Washburn, Hal and Bobby, Mr. and Mrs. W. Frank Crawford and the chairmen Mr, and Mrs. Al Ellison and Dale, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mul ler. and Mr; and Mrs. Kenneth Hunt and Iris. "Kir 1 1H1 Kloh r.lrl" 1 she's Embezzlement L.narge Brings Polk Co; Arrest Mrs. Bragno is different; a rich little rich girl. "I've been very fortunate," she said. "I had nice parents and v I have a nice husband. I've been married seven years and I'm happily married." ! " Her husband, Edward A. Bragno, is head of a wine manufacturing and wholesaling firm. Except for the added work and responsibility, her new inheritance didn't change her way of life. "I live in the house I was bora in." she said. It's a 20-room place on Chicago's Gold Coast. Ia Many Schools "I've traveled all over the world," she said. "I went to school in Europe Italy, France, Eng land. "I was 12 and 13 then. That's the time to travel. You take notes. Older people just have fun. "I like to live well. I haven't any extravagant tastes. 1 don't care for jewelry." "No yachts," she said with a laugh, and no stable of expensive automobiles. "I don't even drive," she added. Mrs. Bragno goes to work each day in a -small suite of offices in the First National Bank Building. The lettering on the door reads simply: "Estate of Mollie Netcher Newbury." Founded Store DALLAS An anonymous tip from Falls iCity resulted in the arrest here Wednesday of Albert Frederick Berry, 37, on a Lane County warrant charging em bezzlement Berry was arrested Wednesday morning by Dallas Police Chief Paul KitzmUler and Deputy Sheriff Robert LeFors. Bail was placed at $2,500. LeFors said Berry had been visiting his mother and step father at Falls City. The deputy said the charge involved the al leged theft of $1,300 from an employer in Lane County. Bra? Sickness Declines In Silverton Area i . - i . . Statesman Nwi Service SILVERTON Mrs. Lewis Yates, wife of Silverton's city water superintendent, returned home from Silverton Hospital Tuesday following major surgery a weeic ago. Mrs. Yates was re- showing normal re- as Mrs. Newbury was Mrs no s grandmother. Back m the first Mollie married Charles Netcher Sr., who founded the Bos ton store, a State Street depart ment store. When Netcher died in 1903, she took over the business and became a merchant princess. "She was one of the flirt wept businesswomen." her granddaugh ter comments admiringly. that was at a time when women didn't even vote." The grandmother died last Dec. 12 at 87. Staff of Three Mrs. Bragno is handling the es tate stocks and bonds with the aid of a staff of three. "I previously made a study of Investments for myself." Mrs. Bragno said. Tm still in the learning stage." I In her office are a desk, three chairs, photographs of her late parents and grandmother, three dainty paintings, a small etching) and a bookcase containing a die-1 tionary and books on finance and taxes. , Mollie Netcher Bragnio. a young ! lady who might be living it up on! the pleasure circuit, sat af the! desk. "I think," she said, "great wealth is an enormousresponsibfl ity. 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