THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 21, 1956
Missouri Gets
"Soaking Rain,
'k Not Enough
Woman Claims Modern Wives Kill Husbands With Tasks
chance to relax when he gets
home after working all day. And I
believe wives are pushing their
husbands into heart attacks by
ances and other labor-saving
Love Birds
Only Goods
In Divorce
Judge Dallas A. Blankenshlp
awarded the male bird to Spencer
and the female to Mrs. Spencer.
Mrs. Spencer pointed out that
this is the mating season and to
separate the birds would be a
cruel injustice.
Thp iudee amended his order to
gadgets, to say nothing of syn
thetic fabrics and goods you don't
even have to iron. ...
"We mothers didn't have kaffee
klatches as I believe the daily
habit now is called. We didn't
have time. But 1 did take about
an hour each day to rest and to
be alone just to think."
lEVlTTOW.V, Pa. Ofc-An out
spoken woman with the iron of
self-reliance in her blood says
that many a modern American
husband dies too soon because his
home from (heir jobs," asserted
78-year-old Mrs, Agnes Ferguson
Murdoch.
"And it's all done in the name
of cooperation!
"All this talk you hear these
days about cooperation. Which
really means things like the hus
band taking over the children as
soon as he walks in the door,
pitching in on a lot of housework,
and all the rest of it. Oh, it's all
so familiar, as the men know."
Mrs. Murdoch reared six chil
dren of her own and had a big
hand in the upbringing of three
What's more, she thrived on it.
Not many would guess that she's
oemanarag too much ol them.
crowding 80, nor question her
proud boast of "grand" health.
Her husband Alexander has
As Mrs. Murdoch sees it, too
many modern women fall victim
to self-pity, and self-pity leads to
general flabbiness of mind and
spirit.
"1 managed fine," she said,
"even if we didn't have the bene
fit of all these automatic appli
wife saddles him with endless
household tasks.
done all right too. He's a sunny,
pink-checked, eye-twinkling 91.
On the subject of what she calls
men's rights, Mrs. Murdoch said:
"I think a husband deserves a
DALLAS Ut The only property
Mr. and Mrs. George Spencer had
stepchildren besioes. for most of
the 44 years of her married life
she took care of a 15-room house
with little outside help.
provide that "reasonable visita
j tion periods are granted' for the
male bird to visit the female bird
I during the mating season."
"Your. wives are killing their
husbands by expecting them to dnj
too much work when they get
re
'lOvcr Inch Fall Fails j
A 200-pound man would weigh
only 74 pounds on Mars.
to divide when they were divorced
yesterday was a pair of love birds.
-To Bring Increase in
Betlianv Reservoir
BETHANY, Mo. IP-Good, wak
ing rains came lo northwest Mis
souri's drought belt yesterday but
farmers said it wasn't enough and
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Mayor Raymond K. Wheeler of
Bethany said "it didn't do a thing
for us here in town."
Bethany has been pinched for
water for months.
Yesterday's rain almost two
inches h?re by some measure
ments but only 1.09 on the Weath
er Bureau gauge didn't lift the
level of the town's reservoir ap
preciably. Mayor Wheeler said it held no
more than enough for three days.
The town's 3,000 residents
pinned their hopes on East Big
Creek after hearing three inches
of rain had fallen 12 miles up
tlream at Hidgeway.
But hours later, the creek still
was only a trickle. Most of the
rain had soaked into the ground.
Pools and the dry sand bottom
had absorbed the scant runoff.
Wheeler said Bethany probably
would recover enougli from East
Big and West Big Creeks to get
along another 10 days.
Bethany has had only six inches
of rain in eight months, and has
been under severe water restric
tions. When Mrs. W. P. Young and
children came to town to visit her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Crouch
her father bought 1.000 gallons of
water and had it delivered to the
reservoir to compensate for the
extra consumption. Crouch is edi
tor of the Republican Ifl Clipper,
Bethany's weekly newspaper.
Mayor Wheeler said the town
couldn't afford the expense of
hauling water. He said emergen
cy plans were being drawn up if
the supply fails completely. He
still had hopes the Army or some ;
other government agency will
step in and build an emergency
pipeline to Grand River.
Farmers said the rain was won
derful for current crops.
As the rains came yesterday,
Robert Hall, from the Department
of Agriculture in ' Washington,
wound up a survey of the 11 coun
ties to determine if they should
be declared a drought disaster
area.
The department recently reject
ed a plea by Missouri's governor
for such a designation but now is
having another look. It would
make farmers eligible for emerg
ency feed and easier credit. And
It probably would bring the Army
in to set up an emergency water
upply.
The forecast for today: Chance
of widely scattered thundcrshow-ers.
Lodge Speaks
At Unveiling
Of UN Plaque
UNITED NATIONS, N Y. W -Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr., chiof U.S.
doIt'Kale to the U.N. loday said
the existence of the U.N. depends
on the willingness of its members
(o back up words by deeds and
the blood of their sons.
Lodse spoke briefly at the un
veiling of a plaque honoring the
men of U.N. member countries
who died In Korea fidMing the
Communist forces. Among those
present for the ceremony in the
public lobby of the U.N. Assem
bly building was Vice Adm. Ar
thur I). Strublc, member of the
UlN. military staff committee who
commanded the naval forces in
the Inchon landing operation dur
ing the Korean War.
Speaking on behalf of the Iti
U.N. members who sent troops to
Korea Australia. Belgium. Can
ada, Columbia, Ethiopia, France,
Greece, Luxembourg, the Nether
lands. New Zealand, the Philip
pines, Thailand, Turkey, South
Africa, Hritaiu and the United
States Lodge said that men of
those countries plus those of the
Republic of Korea sustained the
losses and won a victory in Korea.
The U S, delegate, in his pre
pared talk, said the -passage of
time since the men died in Ko
rea "has marie it all the clearer
that this victory was worth win
ning.'' He said they preserved
"for us the chance lo go for
ward." "For the future," he said, "let
the memories of our U.N. dead
inspire us with the thought that
the very existence of the U N.
must always depend on the w ill -incness
of the members to hack
up words by deeds in some cases
by the blood of our sons,"
Paralyzed Man
Goes to Jail
CAMllltlDCK, Mass. M- Wil
liam L .Korster, of Smen ille.
paralyzed from the waist (inwn
and unable to walk, was sentenced
yesterday to seven to 10 years in
slate prison for a series of house
breaks last month.
While sitting in a wheel chair.
Forster pleaded guilty to charges
of breaking and entering and
thefts from horiies
He admitted sitting in a car
while a colleague, Hoberl Mas
lerson, 20. neling on his directions,
committed the actual crimes
Masterson also pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to four to six
years.
Forster was shot and paralyzed
by a police bullet during an at
tempted liquor store robbery in
1955. His condition won him a pa
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