Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, September 04, 1953, Page 9, Image 9

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Top: Johnny Graber, state fair employe for 30 yean
in owner of 1905 Oldsmobile uied to transport pas
sengers from Salem to the Lewli It Clark exposition,
( examines 1901 Crestmobile that will be a concession fea-
ture. This buggy-like vehicle had a one-cylinder engine
mounted at the front, was driven by a series of chains
and steered with a tiller. The machine originally cost
about $700 and is today a rarity among" antique auto- t
mobiles. Lower: Baker electric of 1907 wal deigned for '
use by ladies who abhorred noisy gasoline contraptions
that smoked and sometimes caught on fire. This Victoria
model, comparable to a machine operated in Salem 45
years ago by Miss Sally Bush, reflects dignity, refinement
and effiminate taste.
Real Old-Timers Will Be
Seen Among Aged Cars
By BEN MAXWELL
Montgomery, Ala. () With
a mumbled prayer for forgive
ness, Mrs. Earle Dennisoa was
put to death early today for the
bizarre poison slaying of an in
fant niece whose life she had
Insured for 95.600.
The frail, trembling former
surgical nurse made uo protest
six was seated la KUby
prison's yellow electric chair,
but winced and uttered faint
cry when the straps were pulled
too tight
She was the first white
woman aver electrocuted in
Alabama. Mrs. Dennison, who
fed arsenic to 3-year-old Shir
ley Diann Weldon for the in-
y MX THOMAS
surance she hid taken out on
her, met death calmly despite
ner nervousness.
To the prison authorities and
witnesses who watched her die.
the 55-year-old widow had
only this to say:
"Please forgive me for every,
thing I did. I forgive every
body." With those final words,
the black cloth mask was hook
ed into place and 2.500 volts of
electricity were hnt h,-n...h
the nurses's body. The time was i tr"P'
Doctor Draft
Rapped byAMA
Chicago () The American
Medical Association today eon-
tended the armed forces have
more doctors than they need
and labeled the latest physician
draft call "unnecessary.'
In an editorial in the AMA
Jaumal, the association said
the August call for 524 nhvii.
ciaus was sept in lorce al
though the services had
ceeded a newly established ra.
uo of three doctors per 1,000
' Antique automobiles, one
dating to before 1900 and oth
ers distinguished as winners
in races of international re
nown, will be a concession
feature at the Oregon State
Fair opening Saturday.
Lindley BothweU, Wood
land Hills, Calif., has assured
the fair management that he
will have on display, among
others, a.' 1899 Locomobile,
1901 Crestwell, 1902 OMimn
bile, 1901 Bsker electric, 1911
Rolls Royce, 1911 . Peugeot
rscer, ' 1917 Hudson racer,
1914 Ford racer, 1912 Cadil
lac racer, 1908 Bent racer and
a 1914 N&tional sports model.
Johnny Graber, fair em
ploye for about 20 years,
looked at the exhibit Thurs
day and concluded that the
1901 Oldsmobile was, per
haps, the most interesting of
the six cars then on hand. And
Johnny Graber ought to
know. He owned a 1905 Olds
mobile that accommodated
five passengrt and was paid
$60 a round trip for taking a
car load from Salem to the
Lewis & Clark fair. One day
in 1905 he made two round
trips from Salem to Portland.
The 1901 Crestmobile is lit
tle more than a buggy with
an engine out in front No
hood covered the engine, it
was Just a one cylinder en
gine set out in front of a
buggy and started by twisting
a leather strap around a pully
and turning her over. (This
writer's modern garden trac
tor starts just that way when it
starts at all). This Crestmobile
of 52 years ago is chain driven
and steers with a tiller.
That 1899 Locomobile, old
est Item in the collection, was
not on hand Thursday but it
cannot be much different than
a 1902 model owned by Ralph
Wnrtmin. McM nnville bsn
er. A short ride this writer had
in Wortman's car demonstrat
ed that those early steam Lo
comobiles had a get-a-way that
would make some modern su-
per-dupers sputter to equal.
Bothwell's 1907 Baker ele
trie is a Victoria model and
practically identical with a
machine owned by Sally Busn
45 years ago (the one, old
timers will recall, that "Aunt"
Sally drove through the Opera
House pharmacy to create a
chaos In spilled pills). About
this time Mrs. R. P. Boise also
owned an electric a favorite
with the ladies since electrics
did not run much beyond 25
miles an hour, were practically
noiseless and denoted elegance.
Those who closely inspect the
old Baker at the fair will agree
that it is delicately modeled to
become the lady's taste for ef
feminacy and refinement
But the nearby Benz nas no
such characteristics. Barney
Oldfield It said to have burned
up the track with bis roaring
German monster in ihus.
BothweU does not say to but
this ear may well be the cele
brated Blitzen Benz in which
Barney Oldfield attained the
speed record for 1910 when he
accomplished 131.72 miles an
hour.
Another racer of distinction
in the exhibit is 1913 Peu
geot, a French car, that attain
ed international distinction in
1913 when it carried Goux
around the Indianapoli sspeed
way at a speed of 75.93 miles
an hour.
Another BothweU exhibit
yet to arrive it a 1902 Oldsmo
bile. Salem fanciers of antique
automobiles should observe
this ancient Oldsmobile close
ly. This model of the curved
dash Olds that steered with a
tiller is almost a facsimile of
the 1903 machine Otto Wilson
acquired snd, according to the
Capital Journal for April 15,
1903, was Just U""1 uncraling.
That was Salem's first home
owned automobile.
MARKETS CLOSE S DATS
United States and canaoian
securities and commodity ex
changes will be dosed Sstur
dsy, Sunday and Monday for
a long Labor Day holiday. Mar
kets abroad will operate as
umal.
2 Small Boys
In Mail Theft
Albany Mystery that had
venea a local mail theft since
Aug. 15 has been lifted by city
police.
According to the report of an
investigation by city police two
small boys on August 15, with
a Jacknife as their only burglar
tool, unscrewed the cover plate
from a mail slot at the Cascade
Distributing Co., building at
Hill and Water Sis., and ex
tracted a handful of mail. In
the collection of envelopes was
only one that contained any
thing of value a check which
was given - by one of the boys
to his father.
Solution of the crime was
made possible by a police in
terview early in the week with
three other .boys, two aged
and the other 7, one of them
from Independence. -'
This trio was caught taking
valve caps from cars parked In
the vicinity of Hill and Muin
and they told the police they
had seen the two diminutive
mail robbers extract the mail
and hide it under a bush.
The boys pointed out- the
bush and the officers recovered
the missing mail, all of which
had come from the office of
City School Superintendent L
R. Halseth. The check, the po
lice later found, was forwarded
by the young purloiner's father
to the Bank of Lebanon, on
which it had been drawn.
Parents of the youthful rob
bers proved fully co-operative.
Disposition is being left to'
the post office department
Air Force Curbs Its
Order for Releases
Washington The Air
Force packed down yesterday
from plans to discharge anoth
er 4000 reserve officers who
want to stay In service.
Assistant Secretary H. Lee
White said only the 6S00 re
serve officers who already
have been notified will be sep
arated. He added that 1900 of
these are getting out volun
tarily. The Air Force said, "a report
that it intended to separate an 1
additional 4000 officers from
the service is in error." The
Air Force itself had said an
other 4000 would be discharged.
Keizer School
Sets Schedule
Keizer JCeiier school will
open Tuesday, Sept , with a
tnree flay work shop for tea
chers. All pupils will report
Friday, Sept. 11. at 10:30 a.m.
Buses will leave the school at
10 a.m. to pick up the trans
ported pupils and will return
them to their homes at 12:15
p.m.
The first full day of school
will be on Monday Sept 14.
Since the new school is not
ready, it will be necessary to
double ahift first and second
grade pupils in the 1st and
2nd and the 2nd grade nunils
living in Carl Haven addition
will attend school from 12:30
noon to 4:30 p.m. All other
pupils in the 1st and 2nd
grades will be in attendance
from 8 a.m. to 12 noon of the
morning session.
The following schedule it
for nunils in th 9 irt anH
tnd grades attending the morn
ing session:
1. Bus No. 1 will leave the
school at 7:25 a.m. and pick
up those pupils in the 1st and
2nd grade living on Apple
Blossom Drive, Cade, Candle-
wood, Brooks, Pleasant View.
Alder and Cherry Ave.
"2. Bus No. 2 will leave the
school at 7:23 a.m. and pick up
1st and 2nd graders living On
Chemawa and Claxter . Roads
and the first graders living in
Carl Haven addition.
3. Bus No. 3 wiU leave the
school at 7:23 a.m. and pick :
up 1st and 2nd graders living
on Quinaby Road, Tepper
Lane, and McCloud Lase.
4. Bus No. 4 will leave the
school at 7:25 a.m. and pick
up 1st and 2nd graders living
on Windsor Island road and
in the Lake-Brook Area.
The above students will be
returned home at noon and the
buses will pick up 1st and 2nd
grade pupils in Msnbrin Gar
dens, Plymouth Drive and
North River road from Ply
mouth Drive to Coomlers J
Hardware store. This bus will
also pick up the 2nd grade pu
pils living in the Carl Haven
addition.
Pupils in grades 3 through
8 will be transported at the
usual time with the same
routes which were used last
year. ,
Low Tides Forecast
Over Labor Day
Seaside, Ore. M Pacific
tides will be favorable for
clam diggers here over the
Labor Day week-end. Minus
tides will extend from today
through Tuesday on Clatsop
beaches with the lowest at
minus .8 Saturday and Sunday
mornings at I a.m. and 1:30
a.m.
.m a.m. wi. Al 11:11 a.m
two physicians pronounced her
lueiess.
' Mrs. Dennison wore a loou.
fitting blue denim prison dress
ana oiacx sandals with no hoa
Her head had been completely
shaved.-
A brother-in-law of the con
demned woman, W. p. Guin of
Winnsboro, La., was among the
witnesses, so was James Crow-
en of Wetumpka, Ala, whose
brother married one of Mrs.
Dennison's sisters.
In a final anneal to Gov. Gar-
don Persons yesterday, the
graying widow begged for
mercy and grieving members of
ner tamlly prayed. But the ov-
ernor aft-fused to be influenced
by the fact that no other white
woman had ever been electro
cuted in this state.
The bizarre details of Shlrlev
Diann'a death came to lieht on
May 8, 1952, when the aunt was
taken into custody and charged
with murder. That was just one
week after the child had died
in convulsions at the very hos
pital where the nurse worked.
In two signed statements ad
mitted as evidence later at her
trial, Mrs. Dennison told of
poisoning the child who only
m moment before had greeted
ner wun an affectionate hug.
Shirley Diann'a death was
similar to the mysterious .illness
which took the life of another
weldon child, Polly Ann. two
years before.
Polly Ann's body was due
from its grave and i showed
traces of arsenic. Mrs. Denni
son was Indicted for her death
as well as Shirley Diann'a but
tried only for the latter.
The editorial said that after
the August call was announced.
mm armea forces received "a
flood of applications for re
serve commissions and active
duty orders" from physicians
who had been temporarily de-
lerrea.
"These volunteers now ex
ceed 1,200, a number far in ex
cess of the present medical re
quirements" of aU branches of
the military, it tald.
The journal added the selec
tive service system "refused to
cancel its pending" draft call
"not withstanding this excess
of medical officers.''
$5000 Damages to
Troy W. Gillespie
A Marlon ' county circuit
court grand Jury, folio wine an
hour and a half s considera
tion, returned verdict award
ing Troy W. Gillespie special
damages in the sum of 32500
and punitive damages of It,-1
500 against C V. Loosley. Both !
men are Calif orn Una.
Gillespie charged Looslev
with malicious prosecution inj
connection with the sale of va-1
cuum cleaners. The plaintiff
had been employed by Loosley
who eharged Gillespie with
larceny by bailee involving 11
cleaners. A grand jury subse
quently freed Gillespie.
Gillespie had asked damages
totalling $20,000.
The male emu hatches the
egfs, sitting on them from 54
10 si nays, unui tney natch
and then caring for the chicks
until they are well grown. ..
Chos.R.Muikey
Dies On Hunt
Woodburn Charles R. Mul
key, 88, of Astoria, died of a
newt attack Sent 1 while hunt
ing near Jewell.
He was born at Mehama.
April 29, 1885, and was a for
mer resident of Woodburn. He
married Mattle Larson at
Woodburn. July 3, 1917, who
survives nun. He also leaves
three daughters, Mrs.. Harold
Sorensen of Seio, Mrs. Leslie
Buell of Portland and Miss Ro
berto Mulkex of Portland; a
brother, Kenneth Mulkey of
Yoocalla, Ore : two sisters. Mrs.
J. S. McDonald of Portland and
Mrs. W. T. Maltby of Des
Moines, Iowa, and five grand-
.LIUU.
Funeral services were held I
la V
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at 10 a m. Friday, Sept 4, at
the Hughes-Ram ion memorial
chapel in Astoria. Graveside
services were at Belle Pass!
cemetery, Woodburn, at 3 p.m.
Friday with Dr. David Fergu
son officiating and the Masonic
ritualistic services by Wood
burn lodge No. 108, AF & AM.
UNDERTAKERS
RESTRICTED
Bahia Blanca, Argentina JJ
Councilman Felix Sedan has
proposed an ordinance re
stricting advertising by' un
dertakers. He said such ad
vertising was often posted in
front of hospitals and had a
depressing effect on patient
and visitors.
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MEN & WOMEN
To Register for work on Peaches'
and Prunes. ,;;
PAULUS BROS.
14th & Oxfords Sts. -
SCHAEFER'S
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t r TuncttMial alittura
mcm, aervant headaches,
nervous, irriNbilify, excita
bility, sleeplessness.
1.00-M.75
SCHAEFER'S
DRUG STORE
Opea Dally, 1M aja. I Ja,
RaMara, t am 4 pja.
13S N. Commercial
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Jusf Sfop in and You'll See l'Jhy
Nowdays everyone is trying to help ease the strain on the bid budget. Well, take a tip
from me . . . You can afford to EAT MEAT 3 TIMES A DAY when you shop at RANDALL'S
. . . For a long time now RANDALL'S has been supplying Salem with Quality Easttm
Oregon Hereford Beef. You housewives know how nice it is to have plenty of good beef
in the Deep Freeze or locker. Why not shop at RANDALL'S and see how TERRY RANDALL
can save you money ... He II give you friendly service and honest weight, plus all cuts
double-wrapped for your locker or freezer , . .FREE. Remember, you can buy as much meat
as you want one half, quarter or whole AND JUST LOOK AT THESE PRICES . . .
Fancy Eastern Orafon Hereford
Boef Roast
Arm Cuts Blade Cuts Rumps
aby leef
LIVER
aw
Fancy lastem Oregon Hereford
Beef Steak
T-Bone Rib Steaks
Fresh leef
Tonguos
New Low Prices on Locker leef
Best selection of Fancy Eastern Oregon Hereford beef.
iin down a full year to pay.
may be arranged. .Nothii
Half of Whole
.Don't fell to take advantage of these prices. .Convenient credit
Front Quarter
Hind Quarter
ROUND STEAKS
BONELESS NEW YORK CUT
SIRLOIN TIP ROAST OR STEAK
BEEF TENDER LOIN .
FRESH BEEF HEARTS
COUNTRY STYLE SAUSAGE . . .
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