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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, July 11, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL section u "ae 7 , 1 1 ljudge Vetoes Guardianship For Suspect KLAMATH FALLS W Circuit Judge Charles Foster ot Lake view, presiding here, ruled Tues day that although Zelma Put Ochiho, 40, may be a spendthrift, she doesn't need a guardian to manage her finances while in the Jfounty jail awaiting trial on a imurder charge. J Burdette Ochiho, 43, her hus fband and jointly charged with her vith the second degree murder I Inst February of Edison Duffy, 50, uietitioned the court for the guard ianship. Ochiho testified during a hear ing before Judge Foster that his ,' wife goes on, spending sprees. He 3 ijaid before her arrest she "Threw jiway" $6,400 in Klamath tribal funds allotted her in two months. :l In denying' the guardianship petition, Judge Foster said: ; "This woman has been in the tminiy jail for five months. And it is probable she will be there tor some time to come. I don't sec any need for a guardian to control her spending at this time." Miller Cited For Contempt '.WASHINGTON W - The. House .committee on Un-American Activ ities Tuesday voted contempt pro ceedings against playwright Ar thur Miller, bridegroom of actress Marilyn Monroe. Milter refused on .tune 9 in '.'answer committee questions about persons with whom he attended ! K0'N sportscaster, told Salem Ki Communist Party writers' meet-lwanians Tuesday, ings in 1939 or 1940. Oregon's 1955 toll was 65,741 The 40-vear-old writer told the 'r?!?or.led accidents, 414 persons committee about his own activities but said his conscience would not allow him to identify others. . ' The committee's action is sub, ject to House consideration CI..1J II.- U 'TU " n"" , W'.T f ' , S law enforcement officers who he Justice Department will be asked jsaid conccntrate on driving prac. to Prosecute Miller. ticM that cause acciden"ts on Miller married Miss Monroe last: streets and roads where accidents month, and they plan to leave forlare most numerous and times Europe this coming weekend. when they are most numerous. The committee action presum-.He said a genuine reduction Is ably will not interfere with their being effected in ratio to the con departure since it does not amount stanlly mounting stream of t rat- to an actual legal charge against i Miller. 186 Deaths in State Result From Traffic r '-.Traffic, accidents have killed 186 ' people in Oregon so far this year. The six-month death toll, report ed today by the Department of Motor Vehicles, is 11 more than for the same period lost year. ' Month-by-month, here's the way the state's traffic deaths have mounted: January, 28; February, 28: March, 27; April, 39; May, 28; and June, 35. a '1 he department's traffic safety division, which tallies the deaths and atttempts to promote increas ed highway safety, said that more j skclton, who died Jan. 30, 1954. people were killed during the first j she is survived by her parents, half of this year than in any year j the Rev. and Mrs. Henry Albers, lincc 1950. I Albany; two brothers, Ronald, AN j Accidents and injuries, counted bany; and Egbert Albers, Spring bnly for the first five months of field and three sisters, Mrs. Mar--the year, also show an upward ;tha Dunger, Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. trend, with 24.865 accidents and ! Lucinda Bino, Timber and Mrs. ,5,939 injuries reported. ( Hilka LaFrancis, Albany. I Highway Delay Points Listed 4 Minor delays on several high sway routes because of construc tion were reported Tuesday in the f state Highway Department's week ly road report. They include: Columbia River Highway Bradley Park-Wauna section. 2.4 miles of construction, slight delay. possible J I Umpqua Highway One to eight miles east of Reedsport, construction, possible delay. Coos Bay-Itoscburg Zero to j two miles cast of Coqiulle. con struction, possible minor delay. Willamette Highway From 14 miles east of Odoll Lake to junc tion with U. S. 97, seven miles, construction, possible minor de lay. Sherman Highway From typical rates from Salem Medfortl Bend Astoria Eugene . f Station to station rates, not Including tai. foi 31 minim after 6 p.m. weekdiyj and all da, Sunday Co by number -it's faster U '! wtataM Grand Canyon Air Crash Broke Dozens of Homes, Cut Short Several Bright Careers By BILL BECKER Associated Press Reporter For the 128 victims of history's greatest airline catastrophe, death came swiftly in the Grand Can yon of Arizona.. But it will be a lingering sor row for at Ipact turina that mni kin. including some 150 children 1 left fatherless, motherless or both. Many of the relatives are ex pected to attend a mass burial service today at Flagstaff. Whether from California, New Jersey, Ohio or Missouri, most of the passengers aboard the collid ing Trans World and United air liners June 30 had growing fami lies broken asunder in a few shat tering seconds. To the breaking of dozens of homes can be added the loss of brilliant careers. - The two planes bore a cross section of the American public: industrial tycoons, a Wall Street broker, a young mathematical wizard, a scholarship-winning stewardess, a farm agent, a serv ice station operalor, engineers, lawyers, hucksters, housewives and eager kids getting the trip as a summer reward, For adults, several,' children and ; it was the first flight. At least two servicemen were KiwanisTold Accident Toll Highway accidents are taking a terrible toll of life, limb and property and most of them could be avoided, Johnny Carpenter, killed, 15,442 injured and a prop erly loss of $38,500,000, Carpen ter said, with Salem's share 2393 accidents, seven deaths, 362 in juries and loss ot $1,115,560. aiywmci yoiu a ill Carpenter paid a tribute to lie. Dr. Henry Morris announced that Tuesday, July 10, was the 35th anniversary of the organi zation of the Salem Kiwanis club. President Ken Perry presided. MarySkelton, Albany, Dies ALBANY Mrs. Mary Skellon, 59. Route 2, died at an Albany hos pital Monday following a long ill ness. Burial will be in Willamette Memorial park following services at 10 a.m., Thursday, at the Fish er Funeral home. Mrs. Skclton had spent her entire life in Albany and the Dever community. She had lived near Dever the past 35 years. On Oct. 20, 1920, at Millcrsburg, she was married to Herbert James Moro to Grass Valley, construc tion, possible minor delay. New Portland-Salem Express way Closed from Willamette River to Hayesville interchange at North Salem, construction, traffic required to use old route from Salem north through Wood- burn to Hubbard interchange. Pacific Highway Roseburg- Myrtle Creek, construction, pos sible minor delay from Myrtle Creek to four miles north. Oregon Coast Highway Kern vic l0 rjepoe Bay. construction, possible short delays, and II miles south of Bandon, construc tion, possible minor delay. Crater Lake Park East en trance and East Rim Road closed. Paulina Secondary Construc tion, Post to five miles west, pos sible minor delay. -BO 6 55 40 Ml" "i" " flying home on emergency leave their 5-year-old son Michael were to be at the bedside of sick rela-j flying to their former home in Uvea. Other young men were get-1 Cape Girardeau, Mo., to locate ting out of the service or return-1 living quarters before he joined ing from special duty on the West 'them. Mrs. Laxton was pregnant. Coast., ( j Both Mrs. Laxton and Bessie One-month old Howard Maagj Whitman, 36, St. Louis, got aboard was sitting in his mother's lap 'on last-minute cancellations. An brd the TWA plane. Hugo Pek iruhn, 8.1, retired widower aboard I the United airliner, doubtless was 1 service station operator. His thii'.l.ing of the wonderful months j brother had talked him into visit he had spent with one daughter , ing with his, wife and two children in Rcdondo Beach, Calif. Now he was to spend the summer with another daughter near his home in Steubenville, Ohio. Dennis Phelan, 31, a fresh-faced TWA engineer, was especially an xious to get home. He had been working on a net project at San Diego when he received a tele phone call from Kansas City that his wife Dorothy, 21, was about to give birth to their second child. Phelan would have been in plenty of time if .A 6-pound, 15 ounce girl was born the next morning. John E. Yaeger, 39, a Tilton ville, Ohio, chemist, was speeding home to his wife and six children via United. On the other Diane hurtling through the thunderhcads s;t William H. Mirkcy, 46, of St. Louis, director of financial serv ices for the Catholic Hospital Assn. He had five youngsters. Sixteen children perished in the accident. At least two families were wiped out. Orphaned are the three chil dren of Ally, and Mrs. Wallace Hatcher of Ventura, Calif. Hatch er, 42, was going to Indianapolis for "a business meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kite of Prairie Village, Kan., were going home with their daughters, Shar on, 10, and Linda Jo, 6, who had realized their dream of seeing Disneyland. The Maag baby's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Maag of Los Angeles, also were killed. Another Los Angeles man. Rich ard H. Payne, changed places with his wife at the last moment. He was taking 14-year-old Dick and 9-year-old Monica for a summer visit on their aunt's Iowa farm. A Santa Barbara, Calif., divor cee, Mrs. J. K. Robinson, and her sons, Jeffrey, 9, and David, 11, were bound for a Kansas City visit. The tragedy was the second blow recently for plumber Howard Laxton. Last Thanksgiving his 3-month- old baby died. His wife Lois and I No Other Starch Gives You The Va no Touch that means so KMo HT1 I . . .waste If youVe not usingAino yourc working too hard other late boarder was Andrew Nasalroad, 31, Pacoima, Calif., Missouri before they were to come home this week. Mrs. Marie Braughton and her daughters Linda, 9, and Connie, 6, were to rejoin Daddy in Kansas City. All these were among the 70 persons on the -TWA Super Con stellation. Up front sat Capt. Jack Gandy, 41, Mission, Kan., father of four; his copilot Jim Ritner, 31, Fairmont, Mo., father of three; and two flight, engineers, Forrest Breyfogle, 37, Kansas City, and Horry H. Allen, of Los Angeles, each twice a dad. Two fathers also sat the con trols of the United DC7.Capt. R. F. Shirley, 48, Los Angeles, and First officer Bob Harms, 36, Bur bank, each left a widow and a daughter. The stewardess two aboard each plane were the clear-eyed, smiling, efficient girls you'd ex pect. Unitcd's Nancy Kemnitz, 24, was a former Moline, 111., cheer leader who recently turned down a supervisory job. TWA's bright Beth Ellis Davis, 25, Richfield Springs, N.Y., had just won her 11th scholarship. She planned to complete work for her master's degree at Cornell Uni versity and become a teacher. Copilot Harms, a friend re called, recently had summed up flying problems: "Nothing ever happens if you keep your right altitude and stay on course." MORE On the Uniled plane was 12-year-old Fred Staccker, whose leg had just mended from a football injury last fall. What fun it would be to fish with Grandpa, Hans , Staecker Sr., in Wisconsin on Co lumbus Lake or any other! j Peter Austin Whyte. 15, mem-, bcr of a prominent Detroit fam , was going back to start bis- first real job after being given a trip to see tnends on the West Coast. Too young for big dreams were Jeffrey Crider, 5, Granada Hills, much Withfi&M Liquid Starch Do away wilh . , . ...sticking... scorching ...lumping. ..mixing ...boiling... guessing VanO Liquid Starch gives you perfect starching every time Concnfrafetf: On quart of VanO makes f iv quarts for avoragt starching I I Easier Ironing Calif., and Carol Church, 6. San Diego. The latter died with her grandfather, Albert Vogt. Evan ston, 111.; Jeffrey with his mother. Mrs. Rosemary Bishop, 50, Camarillo, Calif., mother of three, had only her youngest, Stephen. 3 months, with her. They were go ing to visit grandmother in Brazil, Ind. Coincidental, there was a Stephen Bishop aboard the TWA plane too. Stephen R. Bishop, 19, TWA file clerk, was returning to Kansas City after a Hollywood va cation. Aboard United. Navy S3C Christopher Balsat, 19, was rush ing to the bedside of his father who had undergone a series of major operations in Fosloria, Ohio. T On TWA Air Force Pfc. Robert Sontag was flying to his mother's bedside in Little Rock, Ark. A few seats away Bob Beatly, 23, looked forward to his first glimpse of his second child, only b weeks old, in Wichita, Kan. Beatty had just been delached from the Air Force as a staff sergeant. . Aboard the same plane a for mer Navy commander, John N. Payne, 44. national secretary of the Propeller Club of the U.S., an organization ot shipping men. Payne, father ot four, was en route home to Orange, N.J., after a business trip. Shortly before his departure from Los Angeles ho reminisced with on old friend. City Editor Agness Underwood of the evening Herald-Express, about a ball he and a former Navy pal had attended wilh Mrs. Under wood years ago. The friend had been killed just before World War II. "His plane went into a dive and never came out of it. It nosed right in," Payne said. "Isn't that a hell of a way to die?" A Message to the People of the Willamette Valley For years Marilyn's has been known as a store of prestige. All the shoes offered during this sale are our regular famous nationally advertisod brands from bur shelves. In order that we might open our new location with ALL NEW STOCK we are offering even further reductions for the remainder of our sale. Shipments of new spring and summer men's, women's and chldren's shoes previously ordered are also included In our BIG PRICE REDUCTIONS. Only a short time left so hurry while there is still a good selection. MARILYN'S SHOE STORE Thousands of Pairs of Fine Shoes from Our Reg. Stock MUST BE SACRIFICED!! 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Mrs. Furtseva, who looks much younger than her 46 years, took over the post as secretary of the Moscow city party organization March 31, 1954. It is the largest party group in the Soviet Union and the secretary's post is one of the most important jobs in the land. Among those who held It in the past is Soviet party head Niki tn S. Khrushchev. Long active in Communist parly circles, Mrs. Furtseva received special prominent on May Day, 1955, when Khrushchev summoned her to join him atop the tomb of Lenin and Stalin on Red Square to review the traditional parade. Mrs. Furtseva entered the top policy making level wilh the cur rent Kremlin leaders in the fall of 1954, when she accompanied Khrushchev and Premier Bulgan In to Pciping for talks with Chi nese Communist leaders. A sturdy, well-proportioned wom an, Mrs. Furtseva has light blond hair waiving softly away from her face and gathered in a bun at the nape of the neck. She uses no makeup and has sparkling blue eyes. bliDTr. NO EXCHANGES OR REFUNDSI riNESHOES 387 Court ' I i'Hl Sin nwt i9 She also has a lusty sense of humor which she brings into play at official receptions where she al ways engages Western correspond ents in conversation. - Over the past year marked im provementby Western standards has been noticed in her style of dress. Her wardrobe for public ap- .. ' pearances now includes a consid- lnOlaPqKln nmk. r .:..HJ "ouit tiumuvi ui weir - lauui 111 suits, her usual costume. Mrs. Furtseva has one daughter by her marriage to the Soviet Uni on's ambassador to Yugoslavia. CHEST X-RAYS MADE LAFAYETTE Workers in th chest X-ray survey held In Lafay ette Friday expressed gratifica tion at the large turnout. The sur vey was conducted by the Yam hill County Health and Tuberculo sis Association, with Mrs. Jose phine Wascher serving as local chairman. . Mak your yard a sofa playground with CYCLONE FEIiCE! Small Mnthly InitalliMiiff 111 filtrri pun Ittj. Itawtrs, tit fill. 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