' 2-Sc D-Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sunday, Sept. 25, 1955
Fire in Gas-Filled
Basemen t Fa ta I to
Two Portland Tots
Tragedy9 s Victim
Seven Firemen Overcome in Futile
Attempt to Rescue Four-Year-Olds
PORTLAND ("). Tht killed two. 4-year-old boys in a gu-.
filled basement Saturday.; 5 A V , u .... a- I
Hundreds of spectators milled outside the burning house in the r
northeast residential district and the boys' parents were near col
lapse as firemen failed in repeated rescue efforts.
Seven fife men, overcome by the gas, were hospitalized but re
; responded well to treatment.
iixon sure
Eisenhower
To Recover
WASHINGTON UH Vke Presi
dent Nixon was , said Saturday
nizht to be "confident that every.
. i rl -rc lire Biancu ma un-njr i,nci-;
nilYntl llVP son anl bis p3l Rickey Scales
Emerson home. - , i
When firemen arrived, smoke!
was pouring 'out of the windows
and there "was the sharp hiss of
escaping gxs from what appeared
to be a leaking basement pipe. .
Gas Didn't Igalte
Reinforcements were called and
three companies in all stood - by
hg U going t7b an right- with! f f
President Eteenhower. , ,Tcars J" fafS
4 . , - ... I of many of the spectators as the
That word ame from Nixon s , u watched tinmen
secretary Miss Rosemary Woods. of house.
who declined however to tay. M Emerson. Dicky's
M" Plntw.h mother, sat on the ground and as
eept that he was sun in ashing-; fircmei; bfought mall Mao.
' ton. ; . - I , Wpt.wrannH hrwiv hr hnshand
Eis whereabouts had been some- collapsed sobbing iff her arms.
what of a mystery since early in Leaned Sa Victim .
the evening, i - ''' Rickey's mother, Mrs. Richard
Miss Woods said Nixon had been Scales, attracted by the fire.
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Stock Judging Completed
there her son too was a
Neighbors supported her
walked draggingly to her
in constant touch with Denver,
w;ere the Pre-ident was stricken
with, a heart attack. .J
' Bothhe vice president and Mrs.
Nixon have sent a message to the
President expressing best wishes
and ' the prayerful hope for his
speedy recovery.
Shortly after 11:30 p. W (EDT)
a Secret Service man drew up in
front of Nixon's house. He told
newsmen keeping vigil outside that
he had been told to tell them that
Nixon wouldn't be there Saturday
night and that there was no point
in their staying. "
The reporters told him. however.
that they intended to keen watch i
through the night He said that if, D-.-.''- 'CaT -M
they were going to stay, he would I MJ iCtCGS ijWICIl
too.
learned
victim.
as she
home.
Another 4-year-old boy, Steve
Urquhart, said he had looked
through a basement window ear
lier and had seen the two bogs in
side the house playing with match
es. ' ' ''! '
The boys had taken refuge under
a mattress in the fruit closet of
the basement, but fumes from the
blaze overcame them there.
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PORTLAND Mrs. Richard Emerson, suported by friend, watches
as blanket-wrapped bodies f two little boys were taken from
her burning home Saturday. One was her son, DicKy, 4. utner
was his friend Rickey Scales, also 4. Cause of fire thai trapped
- them In basement was not immediately known. (AP Wirephoto)
' (Story also on page 1) '
SUtesmi Ktmt Sertie
WOODBURN Dennis Krueger.
Salem, for the second straight
year won the Van Brocklin trophy
for bert -swine showman as judg
ing was completed Saturday in the
junior livestock . division of the
North Marion County Fair.
Blue ribbon winners in the
swine division:
. Hampshire sows John Weisx
Jr., Gervais. Yorkshire sows
James 2elinski. Yearling sows.
Yorkshire -James ZeliMki. Hamp.
shire yearling sows Tom Black
burn. Junior Gilts. Chester Whites
Dennis Krueger; duroc Sam
Myers. Yorkshires James Zelin
skL Poland China James Zelin
ski. Berkshires Charles Lenhardt.
Hamps hires Gerald Blackburn.
(Fat Hogs) Poland China James
ZelinskL Chester Whites Den
nis Krueger.
(Aged Ewes division) Romney ,
Gerry Staff ak. Southdpwn Max-i
lne Bressler. Suffolk . 'Johnr
Friend. Hampshire Mark Rost
bold. Cotswold John Weisz Jr.
Columbia Larry Crook. (Year
ling Ewes) Romney Mason
Burnham. Hampshire Mark Rost
bold. Southdown Maxine Bress
ler. (Ram Lambs) Hampshire
Mark Rostbold. (Ewe Lambs)
Romney Gerry Staffek. Hamp
shire Mark Rostbold. South
down ' Karen Crook. Columbia
Karen Crook. .
(Yearling beef) Hereford-Dean
Ellison. Angus Wayne Lowrie.
(Dairy Cows) Guernsey Sam
Myers. Jersey John Weisz Jr.
Holstein George Racette. (Milk
ing shorthorns) Jay Mount. Ayr
shireMichael Denham." (Year
ling heifers, dairy) Ayrshire Ar
nold Andres. Guernsey Darlene
Ogren. Holstein Cherrill Doty.'
Jersey Joe Kloft.
(Senior Heifer Calf, dairy)
Guernsey Sharon Lee Brown.
Jersey Joe Kloft Milking short
horn Jay Mount. Holstein
Michael Brittan. Ayrshire Ar
nold Andres. (Junior Heifer calf,
dairy) Guernsey Adrienne El
lison. Jersey Joe Kloft. .
(Showmanship, senior) Swine
Dennis Krueger... Sheep John
Friend: Dairy Cattle Sam Myers.
Beef Cattle Wayne Lowrie.
(Showmanship, junior) Swine
Charles Bernards. Sheeep Max
ine Bressler. Dairy1 Cattle Dar-j
lene Ugren.. , ,. , .
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Infant Girl
Glenda Leigh Brown, two-day-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William B. Brown, 3611 Market
St., died Saturday at a Salem
hospital. She was born Thursday.
Surviving in addition to the
parents are three sisters, Marie
Charyl and Cynthia Brown, all of
Salem; grandparents. Mrs. S. B.
SAN FRANCISCO - Dolores!
Chambers' honeymoon was all
but ruined Saturday by a thief
who stole the braces that make it
possible for ber to walk without
crutches. .
The Portland. Ore..' woman had
gone on crutches, with her hus
band Donald, to take a photograph
in Golden Gate Park, leaving their
car for not more than five min
utes. . When they returned they
found two suitcases missing.
In the cases were her 1 e g
braces, orthopedic shoes and back
braces as well as ber trousseau.
Mrs. Chambers, injured in a
Brown, Portland: Mrs. Mable
Keese, Salem: and Joe wodifc hospital, accident' look her sirst
Funeral services, will be held
Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.,-at the Howell
Edwards Chapel. t
l steps in seven yeari'IasrSimday,
Author to Bicycle
Across America
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CAPRI. Italy UR Italian author
Curzio Malaparte plans to ride a
bicycle across the United States
from New York this fall to keep
Hollywood engagements for the
filming of one of his books. '
The writer of "The Skin" and
other novels says it's a one-man
protest against a mechanization of
society, adding. "For me, time is
of no importance."
to walk down the aisle at Portland
for her marriage.
Her back had been injured seven
years ago when she attempted to
keep a patient from falling out of
bed at a hospital where she was
a student nurse.
RESEARCH CENTER DUE
NEW YORK m A site for a
muscle research center has been
approved by Muscular Dystrophy
Association of America.' INC. The
group has put , aside two million
dollars for the project to be locat
ed next to the New York Hospital
Cornell Medical Center.
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THE MAN FROM LARAMIE"
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Liquor Jury to
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PORTLAND (A Multnomah
County's second grand jury quiz
into the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission will go into its sec
ond week Monday with Atty. Gen.
Robert Y. Thornton called to testi-
The first probe ended when it
developed that a juror was related
to a commission employe under
questioning. The second started
this week with Dist. Atty. William
Langley seeking information on
charges aired by Thornton.
Thornton had said Important
bribe evidence uncovered in a
probe ordered by Gov. Patterson,
had been withheld. Patterson said
this was not so. u v
The grand jury (his week heard
from investigators and commis
sion employes.
Publisher of
Walla Walla
Paper Retires
WALLA WALLA. Wash. W)
John G. Kelly, publisher of the
Walla Walla Union -Bulletin, will
retire September 25. ' '
Named to succeed him as editor
and publisher is Roland E. Miller,
; assistant publisher since 1948.
Kelly, who will become chairman
of the board. has been a news
paper publisher in Wall Walla!
since-1910.
Starting his newspaper career
as a newsboy on the Kansas City,
Mo. Journal. Kelly later Joined the
circulation department while in
high school. He then went to
Omaha. Neb. on the staff of The
Drovers Daily Telegram as adver
tising salesman., later becoming
business manager. '
I In 1910 he purchased The Walla
walla Bulletin from Eugene ' Lor
ton and in 1934 he acquired The
Walla Walla Morning Union from
the late W. H. Cowles oL'spokane.
The papers were merged to form
the Union Bulletin with morning
and evening editions.
Miller joined The Union-Bulletin
in 1935. He came here from St.
Louis where he attended public
schools and Washington Univer
sity, and Harvard business school.
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BOY PUNCHED
A 15-year-old boy was punched
Friday night by another juvenilt
in the 1800 block of S. 12th
Street, according to a complaint
received by city police. Officers
said they later questioned a
youth about the incident.
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GIRLS MISSING
Two inmates of Hillcrest Girls
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institution Saturday, according to
state police. The twp were listed
as Jeannette Powers, 15, and Vi
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CAR HITS DITCH
Larry W. Sipe, Salem, was shak
en up Saturday evening when his
car veered from control on the
Vita Springs Road south of Salem
and plunged into a ditch, state
police said.
The United Nations says the
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