Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, July 11, 1956
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
section u "ae 7
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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
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'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
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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.
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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
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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."
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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,
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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.
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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?"
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LOS ANGELES Actor Hobby Driscoll, 19, stands In the police
station here Inst nlghl after, police said, he was arrested on a
felony narcotics charge. The youthful actor, who has been making
movies since he was 5 and Is best remembered for his role In
"Treasure Island," was taken Into custody at his home in sub
urban Pacific Palisades. Officers said they received a bag of
marijuana thrown from the car of a friend who had just left
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No. 1 Woman Red
To Visit London
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW Wl The West this
week gets its first close look at
Wkaterina Furtseva, the world's
No. 1 woman Communist.
Mrs. Furtseva will head a 16
member delegation on a visit to
Britain at the invitation of the
British Parliament. The groim,
which includes members
Supreme Soviet (Parliament),
leaves Moscow by plane tomor
row. '
Reaching heights no other wom
an has attained in the Soviet gov
ernment structure, Mrs. Furtseva
Is first secretary of the Moscow
city Communist party group, a
Supreme Soviet deputy and a can
didate member of the Communist
party's powerful Presidium.
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.
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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-
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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. .
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