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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1950)
20 Capita Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 21, 1950 Rockefeller Refused Divorce Chicago, Sept. 21 W The Chicago Tribune laid today that Mrs. Winthrop (Bobo) Rockefel ler, who in 1948 married one of the heira to oil million, "never will give" her husband a di vorce. ,The Tribune quoted Bobo as saying that aa far ai her hus band, grandson of John D. Rockefeller, is concerned: "I want him to suffer the way he has made me suffer; as he has humiliated me before the world." Bobo, the former Eva Paule klute, daughter of Lithuanian Immigrants, made her state ments, the Tribune said, at the Lowel, Ind., farm home of her stepfather and her mother, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Neveckas. She and her two-year-old son, Win throp, Jr., have been visiting at the farm for the last seven weeks. The Tribune said Mrs. Rocke feller said "she is afraid Rocke feller may start legal action in an attempt to have the child removed from her custody, but she added she would fight any such attempt with every possible means." Bobo said she plans to return t$ New York late next month and will spend some time there Oldest Gates Club Honors Mrs. Dean Gates Members of the Gates Birthday club were entertained at the home of Mrs. Martha Bowes recently by Mrs. Blanch Dean In observance of her 89th birthday. Mrs. Dean is the old est member and a charter mem ber of this club, which was or ganized and has been in exlst ance for more than SO years. Following a luncheon, served by the hostess, Mrs. Dean, as sisted by her sister, Mrs. Bowes, euchre was in play for the re mainder of the afternoon. High score was held by Mrs. Gwen Schaer; second by Mrs. Arnold Syverson and consolation was awarded Mrs. Lula Collins. Others present were Mrs. Ed Davis, Mrs. Clarence Johnson, Mrs. Riley Champ, Mrs. Gerald Heath, Mrs. Walter Brisbln, Mrs. Robert Levon, Mrs. Elmer Stewart and Mrs. Floyd Bassett. Mrs. Dean was also honored at dinner, on the eve of her birthday, at the home of Mrs. Joe Joaquin, assisted by her mother-in-law, Mrs. Laura Joa quin. Places were laid at the table for the guest of honor, Mrs. Dean, Mrs. Martha Bowes and son Joseph. Joe Joaquin and daughter Darleen and the hos tesses, the two Mrs. Joaquins. before going to Florida for the winter. Facility Gels City Wafer Salem's Naval Air Facility, which has had Its water supply from a well on the east side of the air field will soon be getting Its water supply from the city lines. The facility has secured 4,000 feet of eight-Inch water pipe from a navy Installation at Ar cadia, Calif., and is laying it on top of the group preparatory to its being laid by the city water department. City Manager J. L. Franzen stated that the pipe will be laid as soon as possible by the water department and will be connect ed to the water main at 25th street. That building now occupied by the navay facility and for merly used by United Air Lines has been getting its water sup ply from a one-inch pipe which comes off a wooden main laid during the war by the army from Fairview home. The wooden main is now deteriorat ing and has several leaks and as soon as new pipe is laid the one-inch pipe will be cut off. Maryland's choice of the white oak as the official state tree is credited to the majestic Wye Oak at Wye Mills, on the state's "eastern shore." It is 95 feet high and about four cen turies old. - 11 WL-'.I fr-h l - '"' ' ' '."- vr..; n Ex-Movie Star To Preach Here Stuart Hamblein, former star, radio and television personality from Hollywood, will be the guest of the Christian Business Men's committee of Salem at the Senior high school auditorium, Friday evening, at 7:45. Hamblein recently received nation-wide publicity in several found life. Taking No Chances This group of North Korean prisoners, stripped as a precautionary measure, are marched to the rear by their marine captors. They were captured on the road to Seoul. Exclusive NEA-Acme photo by Staff Corre spondent Tretick. (Acme Telephoto) leading magazines and newspap ers after "hitting the sawdust trail" in Billy Graham's Los An geles tent meetings. He owned a string of fast race horses, in cluding one that won over $145,- 000 for him. After his conversion he sold his horses and began the job of telling others about his new- In his younger years he was a cowpoke in Texas. He will be singing some of his songs that he recently composed and will give his life story. Everyone is invited There will be no ad mission charge. Experiments indicate that dogs have no perception of color: that life to them is a study in black and white. Polio Death in Umatilla County Portland, Sept. 21 Wl Uma tilla and Linn counties are areas of "mild" polio epidemics, the state health officer said yesterday. One of the 17 cases reported for Umatilla county resulted yesterday in the death of Dale Patineau, 18, of Lexington. He had been uder treatment in a Walla Walla hospital. Linn county has had 14 reported cases so far this year. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, the health officer, noted that the Portland-Multnomah county area has had 59 cases, but said this was far from epidemic pro portions because of the greater population. A new case in the city boosted the year's tally to 51, of which five have resulted in deaths. Last year there were 28 cases and six deaths in the same period. The disease incidence appear ed to Dr. Thomas L. Meador, city health officer, to have reached its peak. "It has followed the pattern of other years, starting late in July's hot weather, gath ering momentum in August and then tapering off with the ad vent of cooler weather," he said. The latest Umatilla county ..J - in nu cases luvuivcu lu-jwiiiu Stanfield girl and a 35-year-old Ainena man. Rolling Log Crushes, Kills Marvin Ritchey Dallas, Sept. 21 Marvin Ritchey, 38, donkey engine oper ator for tha King Brothers Log ging company operation near Hoskins, about 25 miles south of Dallas, was fatally injured Wednesday noon when a log rolled off a truck and pinned him against the trailer. Ritchey suffered a crushed chest and a fractured leg. He died in the ambulance while en route to Dallas, about 1 p.m. Ritchey was born May 27, 1912, in Silverton and had lived in Dallas for the past 10 years. He is survived by a son and a daughter, Larry and Judy, both of Dallas: his mother, Mrs. Eula Ritchey, Palo Alto, Calif.; and two sisters, Mrs. Thelma Farrens and Mrs. Ellen Ingham, both of Redwood City, Calif. Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 23 at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the Bollman funeral home. Interment will be In Mt. Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem. Aurora Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schneider, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Schrenk and son, Ronald and Mrs. Harry Walrod of Aurora, attended the 40th wedding anni versary of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Wallace (Mabel Seward, for mer Aurora resident) late ot Ncwberg, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gale Merwin, son-in-law and daughter of the C. A. 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