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A grant of $2500 for research
been awarded Willamette university by the Research Cor
poration of New York, Dr. Robert W. Fenix, vice president,
-lnounced here Saturday.
The grant, one of several set up by Chemist Frederick Gardner
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Cleveland, Dec. 31 W) A
kth-grade lad who came to
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gicked an armed robber in his
ather's beverage store,
ii John Badovinac, Jr., 12, Is the
ero.
Last night a robber, his face
overed by a stocking, pointed
. .38 caliber revolver at John
nd ordered him to open the
ash register in the store.
. "I don't know how," the
.oungster replied.
As the gunman repeated his
"lemand, Clarence Lavan, 27, a
Iriver for the store, picked up a
arton of canned beer and heav
d it at the masked man. His aim
vas wild, and the carton crash
ed on the floor.
But while the robber was dis
racted, young Badovinac knock
ed the revolver from the intrud
wr's hand and leaped on his
pack. He was thrown off, but he
Snatched the man's mask from
lis face.
By that time John Badovinac,
(Sr., 38, came out of a stock
oom and kicked the robber In
;he stomach,
That was enough for the dls
irmed gunman who fled
Jirough the plate glass door
without opening it. Two de
tectives arrested him a short
distance away. They identified
him as George A. Green, 24, un
employed. Alexis Smith in Doghouse
Los Angeles, Dec. 31 VP) Al
exis Smith is In Warner Broth
ers' doghouse.
The studio sued yesterday to
cancel its contract with the act
ress and asked for the return of
$40,000 allegedly paid her just
before she is said to have refused
a picture assignment last Oct.
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Former Jacque Mercer Spurns
Challenge by Mrs. America
Litchfield Park, Ariz., Dec. 31 U.B Miss America of 1949 said
today she wasn't interested in entering any more beauty contests.
Former Jacque Mercer, now Mrs. Douglas Cook, made the
statement in declining a second challenge to compete in an "open"
beauty contest with Mrs. America, Mrs. Francis Cloyd of San
Diego, Calif.
The 18-year-old college stu
dent, contacted at her parents
home here, said she still felt the
way she did when Mrs. Cloyd
challenged her after she won the
Miss America title at Atlantic
City In September.
"I am proud of the title I
won," Jacque said, "and I am not
Interested in any more contests.
Mrs. Cook, who married her
school days sweetheart In a sur
prise ceremony here Tuesday
night, returned from a shorl
honeymoon Thursday night. She
said she and her 20-year-old art
student husband planned to re
main at her parents' ranch here
for several days before deciding
where they will make their
home.
They will go to California next
spring where Cook will study
art and Jacque pursue a film
career.
The dark-haired beauty said
she wasn't interested in meeting
Mrs America "for any title." In
a telegram to Miss America, Mrs.
Cloyd suggested they could now
meet on "common ground" since
Jacque's recent marriage.
Mrs. Cloyd, who extended her
latest challenge through Bert
Nevins, director of the national
Mrs. America contest at Miami
Beach, Fla., told the Arizona
beauty that "no woman is truly
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Research Post
In the structure of molecules
Cottrell, will permit Willamette
to purchase special equipment
and offer advanced students op
portunities for original research
1
Assignment of the project
went to Physicist Robert L. Pur-
brick, 30-year old specialist in
nuclear physics who did exten
sive research for the atomic
bomb project at the Argonne
laboratory at the University of
Chicago. It was at the Argonne
that the first sustained reaction
involving fissionable materials
was carried out.
Many of Purbrick's papers on
atomic energy are not yet pub
lished. A graduate of Salem high
school, he earned his bachelor's
degree at Willamette in 1942.
His master's and doctor's degree
both in physics were award
ed by the University of Wiscon
sin, where he was a Wisconsin
Alumni Research Foundation
fellow.
Just what might develop from
the assigned research, Professor
Purbrick says, is a matter of
speculation, but he hopes to
spend a good share of time an
alyzing light given off by mole
cules. Practical application of
the research might well lead to
revolutionary changes and tre
mendously increased efficiency
in the field of light, Purbrick
pointed out.
Chief personal desire of the
Willamette professor, however,
is to confirm his hunch that
there are more existing mole
cules than have been discover
ed. Once found and confirmed,
and that is the chief aim of the
research grant, the next step
would be analization of their
makeup and determination of a
channelized use for them.
Purchase of special spectro
graphic equipment by the uni
versity has begun, school offi
cials announced.
The research grant Is the sec
ond in as many months for Wil
lamette. Professor James Nichol
is directing research concerning
proteins under a $2500 grant, al
so from the Research Corpora
tion of New York.
beautiful until she is married."
But Mrs. Cook stuck by her guns,
and refused to be baited.
Jacque and her husband re
fused to say where they had
spent their two-day honeymoon
"That's our secret," Jacque
said.
Their wedding came as a sur
prise to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Mer
cer, the bride's parents. Only
last week, the young couple had
announced they would be mar
ried next July 4 but decided not
to wait "because we don't like
being separated."
Government statisticians
timate that the rat population
of the United States is at least
140,000,000, about equally di
vided between farm and city.
SALEM
Professor Robert L. Purbrick, Willamette university physi
cist, who has been assigned to the project of research in the
structure of molecules. A grant of $2500 for the project has
been awarded Willamette by the Research corporation of
New York.
New Year's Eve Idea Is Old
World Stuff-but Not Hangover
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Dec. 31 U.R) We inherited the idea of a New
Year's eve celebration from the
hangover on the next day is our
Here, we lift a cup, kiss all
stroke of 12 and wish everyone a
Next day we vow never
again to mix Scotch, bourbon.
wine, gin and beer. Perhaps to
ease the pain, we tune in on a
bowl football game.
Research shows that although
some American observances are
unique, others are just copies of
celebrations held abroad.
Take France and Scotland for
instance.
Over there, New Year's day
has been an important festival
of the year. It's a time for ex
changing gifts, cards and visits
with kinfolk and old friends,
The Scot in the long ago
pitched tradition to the winds
and called his New Year's eve,
'Hogmanay," grouping it with
New Year's day as the "daft
days."
Hogmanay" still is the cry
of Scottish youngsters who flood
the streets on the eve of the new
year and demand cakes and
fruits from the neighbors. Every
one has a gay time.
On New Year's eve in Spain,
a dozen grapes are a part of the
celebration in the P u e r t a Sel
Sol, which is the Times Square
of Madrid. At the stroke of mid
night, the grapes are held high
and eaten for luck one grape
for each month of the year.
Britain follows still a differ
ent custom.
There, a glass of wine and a
slice of bun loaf are rewards
for visitors who "first-foot."
That is, those who arrive first at
a home following the start of the
new year.
Sometimes they call a "first
foot" a "lucky bird." The honor
is supposed to bring this person
the symbols of warmth and pros
perity. That would be coal,
bread and salt.
' This fellow is welcomed in
England because he "lets in" the
new year. But he represents the
old year, too. So he leaves by
the back door.
Apart from lifting a glass to
"Auld Lang Syne," America has
its New Year s traditions, too.
mere are tne "mummers pa
rade" in Philadelphia each year,
and the Mobile, Ala., carnival.
ine "mummer s parade is a
fourth cousin of the old English
mummer s plays and had its
start in the city of brotherly
t Yew
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old world, but the business of a
own invention.
the ladies in the party at the
happy and prosperous New Year.
love in 1876. A year ago the
event had grown to a point
where 2,000,000 spectators from
all over the east watched the
masqueraders troop up Broad
street.
In Mobile, the carnival grew
out of a spontaneous celebra
tion in 1831. At that time, a
group of men dining at a Cre
ole restaurant felt the urge to
wake up everybody in the early
morning hours of New Year's
day.
The custom certainly will not
be confined to Mobile in to
night's celebration of New
Year's. It's typically American
now, and many a phone will
ring and many a door will be
knocked in the early hours of
Jan. 1.
G. I. Insurance
Rebates Begin
Washington, Dec. 31 (IP) Mil
lions of World War II veterans
will start slicing the $2,800,000,-
000 GI insurance refund melon
January 16.
The Veterans Administration
said yesterday that on that date
checks will start rolling out at
the rate of 200,000 a day. June
30 is the target date for complet
ing the operation.
The checks, ranging from 90
cents to ,$528, will average about
$175 per veteran.
Government economists expect
a stimulating effect on business.
They have given the big wind
falla result of excess funds
built up by premium payments
on GI insurance No. 1 spot
among factors they expect to
bring good business conditions
throughout the first half of
1950.
George N. Craig, national com
mander of the American Legion,
said Legion surveys indicate the
money will be spent for payment
of old debts, and the purchase of
homes, real estate, and cars, in
that order.
Of 16,000,100 veterans who
took out GI policies, more than
400,000 have died. Payments to
beneficiaries of these will be
handled separately from the
mailings starting January 16.
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90 of 435 House Members
Have Relatives on Payroll
Washington. Dec. 31 (U.PJ At least 90 of the 435 members of
the house of representatives have
payroll.
Nine congressmen had two
payroll, the latest available for
by United Press reporters. One
congressman Rep. Norris Poul
son, (R., Calif.) had three
daughters on the list
Senate payroll records are not
now open for public inspection
but Senate Secretary Leslie L,
Biffle has announced that they
soon will be.
Employment of relatives by
members of congress is perfect
ly legal. Wives or other mem
bers of the family in many nota
ble instances have been key fig
ures in running important con
gressional offices.
President Truman had his wife
working for him when he was
a member of the senate. John
Nance Garner was notably as
sisted by Mrs. Garner when he
was vice president and former
speaker of the house.
Members of congress now get
an annual salary of $12,500' plus
tax-free expense account of
$2,500 and allowances for tele
phone, telegraph and stationery
expenses. ,
Each congressman is allowed
a maximum of roughly $20,000
a year to pay office help. No
one employe can be paid more
than $7,700.
Regardless of the amount of
work done, a congressman can
put any relative he desires on
the payroll without in any wav
doing anything illegal.
It is a violation of law, how
ever, for a congressman to take
a kickback from one of his em
ployes. That's what Rep. J. Par
nell Thomas, (R., N.J.), went to
j an lor.
Rep. Usher L. Burdick. (R.
N.D.), has called for an investi
gation of reports of other al
leged casees of kickbacks. He
proposed that a special house
senate committee be established
to make the investigation.
Members of congress are re-
luctant, however, to investigate
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relatives on the congressional
relatives each on their November
inspection, which was examined
themselves or their fellow mem
bers.
Washington, Dec. 31 U.R)
Members of the house of repre
sentatives who had relatives on
their November payroll, the
identities of the relatives, and
their salaries include:
Ellsworth, (R., Ore.) Patricia
J. Ellsworth, daughter Novem
ber salary, $331.71.
Horan, (R., Wash.) Helen L.
Horan, wife November salary,
$101.06.
Tollefson, (R., Wash.) Eva
M. Tollefson, wife November
salary, $392.06.
Gangster Faces
Murder Charge
Chicago, Dec. 31 (IP) A
charge of murder was made by
police last night against Julius
Jones, 52, member of a prohibi
tion era kidnap gang, in the
"mistake" slaying of his wife.
Police Lt. John Hennessy also
ordered a charge of assault to
commit murder against Jones in
the shooting of his friend, John
Fitzgerald, 50 year old newsven-
dor.
Police said Jones admitted he
fired six shots from a .32 caliber
pistol at his wife, Grace, 45, and
Fitzgerald as they entered the
Jones' South Side apartment
about 4 a.m. yesterday. But, po
lice quoted Jones as saying, he
was "in a trance'" from alcohol
and fired in the belief they were
gunmen seeking vengeance be
cause his evidence helped con
vict thre companions in two kid-
napings.
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Beery's Ex-wife
Attacks Last Will
Los Angeles. Dec. 31 WV Wal
lace Beery's ex-wife has filed
court claim to $1,524,300 of the
late actor's estate, estimated in
excess of $2,000,000.
Mrs. Mary Areta Beery Foyt,
51, wed 15 years to the actor
until their divorce in 1939,
charged that he defrauded her
in a property settlement. She
said he induced her to take
$7500 cash and an interest in a
$92,000 trust fund when they
parted, revealing only assets of
$200,000 to her. Later, she
claimed, she found he was worth
nearly $3,000,000.
Under Beery's will, his adopt
ed daughter Carol Ann, nephew
Noah Beery, Jr., and a broth
er, William, were to have the
major shares of the estate. The
brother recently died. The actor,
64, died last April 15.
Linn County Scouts
Named for Jamboree
Albany, Dec. 31 Four Linn
county Boy Scouts have been
chosen to attend the National
Scout jamboree in Valley Forge,
Pa., June 30 to July 6, Erick So
derberg, district executive for
the organization revealed Fri
day.
So far registered to attend the
affair are Jim Waggoner and
ueraia white, of Albany Metho
dist men-sponsored troon 21:
narvie Rose, Lebanon, IOOF-
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sponsored troop SO, and Darrell
Carlson, Lebanon, troop 51.
Sweet Home troop 63 has re
served a position on the trip for
one of its members, but who will
go has not yet been determined.
The local scout executive re
ported that several more Linn
county members are expected to
sign up for the Jamboree next
week.
Snyder Will Direct
Linn Mercy Drive
Albany T. M. Snyder, local
oil products dealer, was named
this week to head the 1950 Red
Cross fund campaign, according
to an announcement released by
W. R. Thomas, chapter chair
man.
Snyder has been a member of
the chapter executive commit
tee for several years, serving as
chairman of the disaster divis
ion, and as chapter chairman.
Thomas reported that a quota
of $17,200 has been set for the
spring drive of the chapter, 76
percent of which will be used
within Linn county.
Newport to Have ,
3 Mail Carriers
Newport, Ore., Dec. 31 VP)
This coastal city, which has been
distributing its mail only
through postoffice boxes, will
start the new year with three
postmen.
The carriers will be making
house-to-house deliveries Tues
day. Best Wishes
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