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I Ml !f' I I 'i ! 4 V " Two views of one metliod oi brake construction on a Soap Box Derby racer. Two block of 2 x 4 wood, hinged at the cen ter, connect the brake to the body of the car (above photo). When the cable attached to the foot pedal moves forward, the upper portion of the dou ble block straightens out, forc ing the drag-brake down (be low). The brake is pulled up by an ordinary screen-door spring. No Limit on Tools for Bugs By RON GEMMELL The sky's the limit, boys, on the kind of tools you may use building your Soap Box 'Derby racer. But remember, it is not the number or type of tools that counts its the way you use them. Some of the finest "bugs" have been built with a mini mum of hand tools. A good car can be built with a hammer, sifji, screwdriver, ' 'wreiich, plane, brace and bit, chisel and sandpaper. The rest is plan ned, careful work by you. If you have power tools and know how to use them, that's okeh, too. " All types of tools are permissible under the offi cial 1952 set of rules. Your workmanship is what counts and there will be awards for the work you do in addition to that chance at the Salem championship and the trip to Akron, Ohio, for a try at that $5,000 college schol arship. A lot of Salem folks are still searching for a permanent site for your big race, tenta tively set for July 13, including Harold Davis, city engineer. He and his crew are surveying numerous ( potential locations and. reported to City Manager J. L. Franzen on their findings. It is the idea of many that a permanent Derby location, which subsequently can be de veloped into a park site for Salem area kids, should be pro cured if possible. Several places are under study to ascer tain if they meet the official specifications, which require a runway between 800 and 1,000 feet. Two Indicted Oregon City W) Elmer Dor sey Williams, 28, and Bonnie Lee Kuhnhausen, 36, were in dicted by the grand jury Wed nesday on first-degree murder charges. The Indictments stem from the fatal beating that Jalmar Tarkei, 68, suffered - in 'the course of a robbery In a subur ban area southeast of Portland last month. ' Madrid is the largest city in Spain. . 3! S li -V ; BED WETTING CORRECTED Until a child Is 3 or 3 years old, bed wetting Is a normal practice. Bevond this age this habit is called by the medical term En uresis and becomes a vexing problem that many parents find great difficulty In solving. The Enurtone method can solve this problem for you In 3 to 4 weeks. For further information without obligation Phone 4-2248 THE ENURTONE CO. 139 Pacific Bldf . 13 Promotion Days Announced March 27, 28 and 29, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, were announced today as the dates for three big selling promotion days to be sponsored by the Downtown Salem Merchants as sociation. The dates were announced by John Adlon, president of the association, following a meeting of the board of directors Wednes day morning. The big three-day event will be spurred and sparked by s social dinner meeting of all as sociation members and guests to be held in the Mirror room of Marion hotel, the . evening of Wednesday, March 5. It will start at 6 o'clock. : The slogan of the three-day spring promotion event will be You can clean-up with bar gains galore at every Salem store," and all lines of merchan dise, from the delicate things of milady's boudoir to the clatter ing things of the great outdoors are to be covered. The spring theme will prevail. Tickets will be issued which will give customers a chance to win prizes. The tickets, will de given out both with purchases and by request, and without cost to the takers. Burglars Going After Sheets and Shirts Now Now it is s h e e 1 8 and shirts that Salem burglars are stealing. according to city police reports from Fairview home and from Mrs. F. D. Kibbe of 695 South Commercial street. Someone took the bed sheets off her back porch clothesline. reported Mrs. Kibbe. Three Fairview home doctors lost 20 shirts in a burglary of the laundry there. Also mining, cording to the official report, are several pairs of work pants, some jackets, a pipe and a can ox tobacco. Jupiter is a mean distance of 483,900,000 miles away from the sun. THE SMART "OPEN Chest of Drawers . Mr. and Mrs. Dresser (With Mirror) Panel Bed . . . . Cabinet Bed ... $48.95 (Includes Footboard) Bench v .; . $6.95 OPEN STOCK, buy the binetien of your choice, Close Ordered Back to Prison by Parole Board By RON GEMMELL Ill Portland meeting of the.ence at the Portland session of state parole and probation board, that commenced at 10 a.m. Thursday and didn't con clude until nearly 2 p.m., Jewell Chester Close, Oregon state pen itentiary parolee who married the warden's secretary without sanction of the board, had his parole revoked. And, according to H. M. Ran- dell, executive secretary of the board, the reasons why Close's parole was revoked have to do with many more violations than ms marriage to Anne M. Carty shortly after his release from prison on January 11. Randall was not authorized to disclose what those other viola tions are, he stated in a telepho nic interview from Portland soon after the board's meeting ended. According to Randall, the of ficial record reflects that Jew ell's parole was revoked and he will be returned to the peniten tiary on the grounds of his "im mediate and continued violation of various parole rules contra ry to specific instructions given him by his parole supervisor.' His marriage, consummated after denial of permission, was only one of his violations and not the sole cause of the revocation said Randall. All the members of the board, including Chairman James J Richardson of Portland and Members Harry V. Collins and Charles H. Huggins were in at tendance at the session. Both Close and his bride were in attendance at the session, ad mission to which was denied to newsmen and photographers. Mrs. Close wasn't at her desk in Warden Virgil O'Malley's of fice as late as 11 a.m. Thursday, despite the fact she is scheduled for duty at 8 a.m. Too, she hadn't been in her quarters on the second floor of the prison all night and all those contact ed at the prison were unable to say where she had been. Harry V. Collins, member of the state- parole board, early Thursday advised that her pres THE IES OF. THE' MONTH ! HOMEMAKER BUYS THE STOCK WAY" $39.95 Vanity . . ; . $49.75 $69.75 Night Stand . . $22.95 Open Friday Nights FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE i com-1 the board had not been request ed as the hearing had to do with her husband, Jewell C. Close, paroled convict, only. Close married Anne M. Carty, 29-year-old secretary to the warden on January 29 18 days after his release, January 11, from state incarceration on a forgery conviction from Mult nomah county without the neces sary permission from the parole board. , - She and Close were wed in Kelso, Wash., and she entered into the marriage contract de spite the fact she had access to prison records that reveal Close has prior arrest records on charges of larceny, child molestation and indecent ex posure that date back to 1935, Mrs. Close, who has stated that she was aware that they were violating Close's paroje agreement by marrying without approval of the parole board, spent most of Wednesday in the seclusion of her barred dormi tory room at the prison. She came to the Oregon prison from the California penal system, in which she served 20 years and is characterized by those who know her as an extremely ef ficient secretary.' Close, presently employed by a Portland service station, first intended to remarry his former wife upon his release from the prison, but changed his mind and married Anne Carty. His Portland employer is Repre sentative Graham Killam, Mult nomah county republican, who is. disturbed with the parole board's attitude in the case. By sending investigators to the service station to interview the manager relative to Close's activities, Killam maintains the parole board violated a confi dence in that no one at the sta tion knew that Close, whom he characterizes as a model em ploye, is an ex-convict. Prison officials also state that Close, who became acquainted with Miss Carty while serving as a trusty in the penitentiary office, was a model prisoner. ANNOUNCE $9 95 finish Sale of Bonds Here $141,089 State-wide purchases of de tense bonds during January were over three million dollars, which reflects one of the highest sales volumes in months. A total of $3,026,525 was pur chased in all series. Of this amount 83 per cent were in Ser ies bonds. Purchases in Mar ion county amounted to $141,- 089 in all series. "Aside from the increase in E bond sales, the redemptions throughout the country during January show an encouraging trend," Bruce Williams, county defense bond chairman, stated. Purchases of E bonds exceeded redemptions by 21 million dol lars. "In addition to this," Williams emphasized, "only 12 per cent of matured E defense bonds, those issued in January 1942, were presented for payment. Since the first E bonds began maturing in May of last year, close to 75 per cent of bond holders have elect ed to hold on to their bonds." Under the treasury's new ex tension plan, defense bonds may be held for another 10 years af ter they mature. The interest rate on the face' value of the extended bonds is 2.5 per cent for the first 7 years of the extended maturity and 2.9 per cent if held for the full 10 years Debate Competition Begins at McMinnville Twenty-four debaters from Salem high school began first round competition at the Lin- LISTEN TO "COULD THIS BE YOU?" On the spot Interviews with drunken drivers reckless driven and other traffic violators. 7 30 Tonight BUY. IN THIS DRAMATICALLY NEW MODERN BEDROOM FURNITURE FEATURING THREE PIECES Double Dresser (with Landscape Mirror) - Bed - Chest of Drawers Your Choice of Brown Walnut or Silver Walnut Finish AT THIS AMAZING INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF ONLY If your tastes run to modern . . you'll love this beautiful furniture on sight. It's one of our very newest styles , . , priced to you can't offord to pan it by! These gorgeous pieces with clean cut functional lines and modern plate glan mirrors are all finished in a choice of beautiful, soft brown walnut or dramatic silver walnut . . . either will enhance the beauty of your field tournament ' in McMinn ville this afternoon. There are about 40 schools participating in the tournament with junior and senior divisions in each event. Besides debat ing, students from Salem high have been entered in after-din ner speaking, interview, radio, and - congress speaking, extem pore, impromptu and acting. There will also be serious and humorous declamation. The tournament will last until Saturday night. As a special feature there is to be a talent show Friday night. An entry from Salem high school is Mac Barker, who will play a piano solo. Land Drawing Set for April Boise, Idaho (f) The Bureau of Reclamation has announced a new pickle-jar drawing to be held some time after April 6 for 42 federally owned farm units on the Columbia Basin project near Othello, Wash. The units, 135 miles south west of Spokane and 185 miles southeast of Seattle are in the first blocks of Columbia Basin propect land to receive irriga tion water in 1953 from Potholes East Canal. Thev vary in size from 51 to 115 irrigable acres and will sell for from $708 to $2,266, depend ing on size and quality of the land. A public drawing will be held to determine which applicants shall have priority in buying the property from the govern ment. Applications will be re ceived from Feb. 21 to April 6 at the bureau's Ephrata, Wash, office. KSLM Sponsored by: The Preferred Insurance Exchange bedroom or your home! 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