Women Volunteer to Go
On Rugged Jungle Trek
Fort Worth, Tex., March 14 (U.BDan Towns can advance writ
ten evidence that women aren't the so-called weaker sex.
Towns is a 25-year-old student at Texas Christian university
and plans a 25,000-mile jeep expedition beginning Columbus
day, October 12, at the farthermost tip of South America
Aiagaiianes, iniie.
Much of the estimated seven
month trip, which will take him
up through South America,
through the United States and
into Alaska, and back again to
this country, is through unchart
ed jungle in South America.
Towns wants a woman to join
him and three other men on the
jaunt. A woman on the trip, he
explained, will make "the whole
thing more dramatic; it will
make the pictures we expect to
take a lot more salable."
Since announcing his plans,
Towns has received letters from
a school teacher, a nurse, an
airline stewardess, and a switch
board operator, to mention a
few, all wanting to make the
trip. They feel rugged enough.
The nurse from Johnstown
N. Y., wrote that "while a wom
an is very unusual for anyone
to consider on an expedition's
personnel list," she still would
like to go. She delivered numer
ous babies as an army nurse on
a South Pacific island, and
"might do the same along the
route of your expedition and
make much good will for you."
y The airline stewardess from
'State Center, la., said her run
took her from Dallas to New
York, and every time she land
ed there she went around to the
Explorers' club. For eight years,
she said, she has always wanted
to be a writer and explorer.
expedition for six years, ever
since he was on merchant ma
rine duty in Dutch and British
Guiana. He's always wanted to
be a writer, and that's one of
the reasons of the trip to break
into the writing business.
Besides, the three-ieeD exDe-
uuion snouia serve to arouse
public interest in opening the
gaps in the incompleted Pan
American highway, Towns fig
ures.
So far, he has selected onlv
one other person to make the
trip. That is Owen Day, Fort
Worth artist and cartoonist.
Still sought is the woman
who will be selected bv a spe
cial screening committee of the
junior chamber of commerce.
ine main quaiuications are
that she be a college graduate
with an ability to write and the
fortitude to endure such hard
ships as might be encountered
on the trip. If she can drive a
jeep and also cook, then so much
the better, Towns said.
Also needed are a photogra
pher and a radio-mechanic. The
most interesting letter for one
of these positions came from a
man in Virginia, Minn.
He hadn't worked in 18
months and was sleeping and
living in his automobile. He
froze in the winter, and his food
spoiled in the summer, the 31-year-old
applicant wrote.
"I'd do anything to get out of
the back of this automobile." he
Towns has been planning the moaned.
East Salem Finds Lampshade
Project in Great Popularity
East Salem, March 14 One of the most popular projects pre
sented by the home extension units in Marion county this year
is the "Making of Lampshades." A larger number of women
have attended these meetings than any other offered this year
so far. '
The Lansing Neighbors unit
held their meeting at the May
flower hall. Mrs. Zina Sharp
nack and Mrs. William Marsh
were project leaders for the les-
Making shades were Mrs.
James Haskell, Mrs. Roy Lively,
Mrs. Ben Hathjen, Mrs. Marlin
Estep, Sr., Mrs. Irvin H. Sion,
Mrs. I. G. Lermon, Mrs. W. A.
Reeves, Mrs. Ira Mansfield and
a guest, Mrs. James Keys. There
were 18 present. At the busi
ness meeting members voted to
enter a center piece for the ta
bles at the spring festival
luncheon.
Appointed as a committee for
the project were Mrs. Ivan H.
Sion, Mrs. Ben Rathjen and
Mrs. Marcia Aplet. Preparing
the display for the festival ex
hibit will be Mrs. George Pad
rick and Mrs. Roy Lively, and
the units choices were made.
Serving as project leaders for
the "oven meals" project will
be Mrs. James Haskell and Mrs.
Aplet.
The Swegle home extension
unit met in the club rooms of
the YWCA. Making shades were
Mrs. Keith La Due, Mrs. Boyd
Wilkinson, Mrs. Alfred Pauli
Mrs. V. Fordise, Mrs. Glenn Lar-
kins, Mrs. Dan Stauffer, Mrs.
Oscar Wigle, Mrs. Clifford Yost,
Mrs. Mary Swingle, and Mrs.
William Hartley.
Helping were Mrs. Menno
Dalke, Mrs. Julia Jennings and
a guest, Mrs. George Brown.
Project leaders in charge were
Mrs. Harold Holler and Mrs.
Melvin La Due. This unit will
enter a table piece in the contest
for table decorations at the
spring festival, and serving on
the committee will be Mrs. Dan
Stauffer, Mrs. Alfred Pauli and
Mrs. Fordise.
Arranging the exhibit will be
Mrs. Oscar Forgard, Mrs. V. M,
La Due, Mrs. Harold Holler and
Mrs. William Hartley. Serving
on the nominating committee
will be Mrs. Walter Fisher, Mrs
Charles Norton and Mrs. Hart-
ley.
Mrs. Jess Hatch will be host
ess for a 1 o'clock luncheon at
her Garden road home Friday
afternoon for members of the
Garden road Neighborhood club,
15 Men Owe Lives
To Orderly Plane Exit
Tamoa. Fla.. March 14 (U.R) -
Fifteen men owed their lives
today to an orderly exit from a
burning B-29.
The plane crashed on a McDill
field air force base runway
Sunday as it tried to land
through a thick fog. Capt.
Charles L. Erickson of Shreve
port, La., suffered a spinal in
jury, but the others escaped
with only scratches.
The plane and a companion
bomber were prevented by bad
weather from making a sched
uled landing at Maxwell air
base, Montgomery, Ala., after a
training flight from Barksdale
air force base near Shreveport.
As control operators tried to
"talk it in," the front wheel
buckled, the fuselage skidded
along the runway and flames
spurted. The crew scrambled
out singly as crash wagons hos
ed the flames.
Ann Sheridan Gets
Title Role in 'Stella'
Hollywood, March 14 (UB
Actress Ann Sheridan took over
the title role in the picture
Stella" today after 20th Cen
tury-Fox suspended Susan Hay-
Prune Growers
Dale Meeting
Polk county prune growers
will meet March 16 at 8 o'clock
in the Dallas City hall to dis
cuss the outlook for the 1950
crop, according to Frank Neu
feld, president of the Polk Coun
ty Prune Growers association,
and N. John Hansen, county ex
tension agents, co-sponsors of
the meeting.
On the program will be in
cluded a discussion of the
canned prune outlook for 1950
by a representative of the can
ning industry, and a report on
the dried prune outlook for 1950
by a representative of the dried
prune industry. Also on the pro
gram is scheduled a representa
tive from W. J. Broadhead's of
fice in Portland. Broadhead, rep
resentative of the secretary of
agriculture, will discuss the mar
keting agreements and how they
could be used by prune growers.
Frank Neufeld states that the
purpose of the meeting, after
hearing the general outlook and
discussion by Broadhead's rep
resentative, will be for the
group to determine whether or
not prune marketing agreements
would be desirable and should
be requested by the growers in
the Willamette valley.
Salem Heights Club
Mothers at Luncheon
Salem Heights Mrs. Fred
Cords was hostess to the execu
tive committee of the Salem
Heights Mothers club Monday
at a noon luncheon at her home
on Madrona avenue. Mrs. Rollin
Baker assisted.
The committee discussed the
club's annual chicken dinner to
be held at the school lunchroom
from 6 to 7:30 o'clock on March
24. Also the program the club
will sponsor for the Community
club on Friday, March 17, at
the Community hall at 8 o clock.
Present were Mrs. Ed A.
Carleton, Mrs. Roy McElroy,
Mrs. Herbert Marggi. Mrs. John
Ramage, Mrs. Lyle Zobel, Mrs.
Lyle Bayne, Mrs. Louis Kurth,
Mrs. Rollin Baker and Mrs. Fred
Cords.
Moving Pyramid Members of the Valley Rangerettes,
prize-winning horsewomen from towns in California's San
Fernando Valley, form a pyramid in practice at Van Nuys.
Incorporation Vote
Advanced at Gates
Gates, March 14 Reschedule
of the vote on proposed incorpor
ation has been advanced from
April 19 to April 14 by the Mar
ion county court, enabling eli
gible voters to register for the
May primary election.
Registration for 30 days prior
to a special election is forbidden
by state law, according to Har
lan Judd, county clerk, and reg
istration, closed Monday, will be
re-opened April 15 with a spe
cial staff of registrars on duty
here April 15 through the 18th.
ward for refusing the part.
A studio spokesman said Miss
Hayward will be suspended for
eight weeks.
Two School Districts
OK Consolidation
Hubbard, March 14 Patrons
of the Hubbard and White school
districts approved consolidation
of the two schools by a vote of
87 to 21 at a special election
Monday.
The change, asked by both dis
tricts, raises White district from
third to second class.
Both districts favored the mer
ger, Hubbard voting 51 to 1
and White residents 35 to 20.
Millions Spent
In NW by EC A
Washington, March 14 ()
More than $10,000,000 of for
eign aid funds were spent in
Washington, Oregon and Idaho
from September, 1948, to No
vember, 1949 the commerce de
partment reports.
The report was furnished to
Rep. Tollefson (R-Wash), who
made it public today. It showed
that during that period the Eco
nomic Cooperation administra
tion's purchases in the north
west were principally lumber
and plywood, canned salmon,
cheese, apples, steel ingots and
bars, chemicals and machinery.
The department said more
northwest products probably
were shipped to ECA countries
although sold to the ECA firms
outside the states.
Tollefson said that in addi
tion there were substantial
shipments of wood pulp but the
main sals offices of the pro
ducers are outside the area. He
said that since Nov. 10, 1949,
415,000 boxes of Washington
apples have been purchased for
shipment to Europe.
Tollefson said reports show
Washington's total shipments
were $4,572,170, Oregon's $5,
249,126 and Idaho's $397,672.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, March 14, 1950 17
Apologizes for Being Poor Shot
And Missing Hooded Riders
Eastman, Ga., March 14 (P) Robed and hooded night riders
who fled before a rifle-toting south Georgia farmer now have his
apology and an invitation to return.
The farmer, Otho Wiggins, apologized for being such a poor
shot with a rifle.
Wiggins used a .22 rifle to
rout the mob after his Negro
farmhand had been beaten on
the night of March 2. Some of
the robed figures returned his
fire.
Wiggins' alopogy was contain
ed in a letter he wrote Editor
Edwin T. Methvin of the week
ly Eastman Times-Journal. Meth
vin has been crusading against
the Ku Klux Klan. It was he
who broke the news of Wiggins'
routing of the nightriders.
Wiggins' letter said in part:
"I extend to you loyal mem
bers of the hooded brotherhood
my humble apologies for being
such a poor shot with a rifle. I
hope to see you soon."
It was signed: "Your neigh
bor, Otho Wiggins."
Two white farmers have been
arrested in the case. They are
free on $1,000 bond each on
charges of assault and battery
and shooting at another.
visited the Carlton Nurseries to
select shrubs for the new grade
school here. After their choices
meet with the approval of th
grade school staff, the shrubs
will be ordered through a Sher
idan florist.
School Shrubs Selected
Willamina Nina Heider, Beu
lah Parrett, and Berniece Soules
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Bequest of $4,000
Goes to Willamette
A bequest of $4,000 has been
received by Williamette univer
sity from the estate of the late
Clarence J. Edwards of Tilla
mook, it was announced today.
The benefactor, a long time
trustee of Willamette, requested
that the donation be added to
the building fund or the perma
nent endowment of the univer
sity to be distributed at the dis
cretion of the board of trustees.
Until his death two years ago,
Edwards was a prominent bank
er and businessman in Tilla
mook.
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