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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1957)
Salem, Oregon, Friday, Illiterate Held As Suspect in Girls' Deaths Skid Row Dishwasher Is Said to Have Been With Sisters CHICAGO Wl-The ever widen ing investipfltiftn nf tu m,. r the Grimes sisters appeared cen tered loaay on further questioning of a young skid row dishwasher. Sheriff Joseph Lohman said Bennie BedwiU, 21, has been iden tified by five persons as being in the company of the teen-age sis ters in two restaurants Dec. 28. The nude, frozen bodies of Barbara Grimes, 15 and her 13-year-old sister Patricia were found Tues-i day in a ditch along a road in suburban Willow Springs. Lohman said BedwiU, whom he described as illiterate, was given lie detector tests and questioned for hours yesterday in connection with the slayings. "He is definitely not telling the truth," Lohman told reporters. "He lied on so many points 1 can't enumerate them. He contradicts himself repeatedly." The sheriff said BedwiU, for merly of Paris, Tcnn., was held for further questioning today, saying "the evidence against this man warrants further investiga tion." Lohman said BedwiU, who has an Elvis Presley type haircut, ad mitted he and an unidentified man were with two girls the night of Dec. S8, but denied they were the , Grimes sisters. He added their clothing did not match that worn by the Grimes girls when they disappeared. The sheriff said owners of a restaurant on West Madison Street in the skid row district where Bcdwill worked part-time as a dishwasher told him they saw BedwiU in their restaurant Dec. 30 with two girls they iden tified as the Grimes, sisters. The owners, Mr. and Mrs. John Duros. told Lohman a man of Mexican or Puerto Rican descent was with the girls and Bcdwill. Lohman said Casey Jarzen, 42, operator of a drive-in restaurant in suburban Stickney, his wife Mary and daughter Donna, 15, al so placed the then miSsing girls in the company of BedwiU and an other man in their establishment Jan. II. Lohman said Chester Wiziecki, 34, a cook in the restaurant, said one of the girls wore a black jacket with the name "Pat" em broidered on the left collar. The sheriff said the girls' mother, Mrs. Lorelta Grimes, j, said Patricia wore such a sweater the night she and Barbara left their South Side home to attend a movie. Mrs. Knowles To Keep Post, Get Pay Raise PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. W Mrs. Mary Knwoles who was covictcd of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about Communist affiliations has been retained ,in her job at a Quaker library and will be given a salary rais A board of the Quaker-operated William Jeanes Memorial Library said yesterday it wanted to "re state our confidence" in Mrs. Knowles. She is free on bail pending an appeal of a 120-day jail sentence and a $500 fine given her in Fed eral District Court in Washington by Judge Ross Rizley. The 4fi-year-old librarian was found guilty of 53 of 58 contempt counts for declining to answer questions asked her by a Senate Internal Security subcommittee in 1955. She denied under oath that she was presently a Communist but refused to answer questions about past Communist activity. The announcement said her pay will be raised $200 to $3,400 a year. ACTRESS SLEEPS FEARLESSLY HOLLYWOOD (UP) Mamie Van Dorcn told Thursday about her bed in her new house. It is reported as being nearly wall-to-wall and having black sheets. "I'm not afraid of falling out," she said. "It's so big that I never think about it." YOU GET Prices Effective Friday and Allsweet Margarine lb. Pkg. with 10c Coupon Without Coupon 29c SWIFT'S FRESH FROZEN HAMBURGER PATTIES With 15c Coupon Without 15c VISTA IGA-STATE ST. IGA-ORCUTT'S IGA EMERY'S end SQUALL'S IGA FOODUNERS IGA I torn Bnme. Right to limit VnntiSti 'January 25, 1957 132- Year-Old Almanac Sassy as Ever By RUSSELL LANDSTROM LANCASTER, Pa. Ifl John Baer's Almanac, 132 years old and as buoyant as ever, serves a pungent and sometimes provoca tive 1957 smorgasbord of weather prophecy, folklore, irony and homely philosophy. The flavor is ail-American, with out a trace of exotic subtleties. The lightest sampling conjures the savor of maple sugar, corn pone, farm-cured bacon, and all the ripeness of this Pennsylvania Dutch country. The Almanac prides Itself on keeping up with the times. Tra dition counts for much, naturally, considering that the almanac is only 49 years younger than Amer ican independence, itself. The editors feel they needn't be ashamed of their weather fore casting. They called the shots for inauguration day wet, foggy, generally mucky. Most people would be pleased to let it go at that, for, as Baer s sees it, the outlook for the rest of the year is hardly inspiring. A summing up of month-by-month forecasts indicates most sections of the country will have to put up with a-lot of unpleasant weather, including chilly spells in the sum mer. With editorial wryness. the A1- manac makers say: "So long as none of us can do anything about the weather, why not just for fun?" Passing from weather to other predictions, the Almanac reports the finding of a manuscript, 100 years old, hidden in an old stone Ike Due to Ask Revolutionary GI Pay System NEW YORK Lfl-The New York Times said today the Eisenhower administration is expected to sendi to Congress in March a plan to. revolutionize the pay system for enlisted men in the armed services. A Washington dispatch to the Times said that under the new pay plan which has been dubbed the "Green Pasture" sys temthere would be higher pay! for higher skills and rewards for performance. The story also said, in part: The plan provides for the even tual abandonment of the present system, which is based on length of service. Under the present sys tem two sergeants one a truck driver and the other an electron ics mechanic who have equal time in grade draw the same pay. In the words of the experts who have drafted the new plan, men would be paid according to their "contribution" to the service and according to their "productivity." The plan was worked out by the Defense Advisory Committee on Professional and Technical Com pensation, which was appointed by Secretary of Defense Wilson last May to examine the' military pay system and make recommenda tions. The committee is headed by Ralph J. Cordiner, president of the General Electric Co. Because of the stature and ex perience of the Cordiner commit tee, it is expected that Wilson will approve 1 1 s recommendations without major revision, Fall Off Train Fatal to Peer AYLESBURY. England v-Thc 79-ycar-old Earl of Courtown died of injuries suffered when he ap parently fell from a train. The aged peer was found lying on the railroad tracks at nearby Great Misscndcn. Police said they believed he had tumbled from a London-to-Aylesbury train last night. Lord Courtown fought in the Boer War and World War I, and rejoined the British army in 1939 to serve at the War Office with ihe War Graves Commission. OIL TO HEAT YOUR HOME CAIL Geo. Codwell Oil Co. We Hurryl Phone EM 2-7431 MORE IGA 8 Saturday, Jan. 25 and 26 00 C 34 Coupon 49c barn by one "Abner Americanus," who in reality probably was Joe or Steve or Elmer somebody-or-other. Abner, in an access of clairvoyance, said that in 1957 "people will spend more for their playthings than for their tools; will give more excuses than mon f SE rsj at WESTERN t l , i P0.000 A 2715 South Commercial In the Candalaria Shopping Center ey to charity; will perform a new arithmetic in which they will mul tiply speed, divide distance, add alcohol and subtract lives." What's more, he prophesied, "many homes will have what are known as picture windows, with out having anything for the win SATURDAY-10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. Your 100 home-owned Western Security Bank invites you to help celebrate it's first birthday. Because of you, we have much to be thankful for, such as our steady and solid growth in assets: Jan. 27, 1956-$301, 100.00 Mar. 30, 1956-$740,700.00 June 30, 1956-$1,076,700.00 Sept. 29 ,1956-$1,306,300.00 Dec.311956-$1500100.00 Come out to the Candalaria Shopping District and enjoy Western Security's hospitality during this all day open house and celebration. The whole staff invites you to drop by and enjoy the entertainment while you partake of the refreshments. Come as you are. Bring the family. c n n LOTS OF EREE PARKING - DRIVE-IN THE CAPITAL JOURNAE dows to picture. The forerunner of Baer's, pre sumably, was a German language atiair, aiso puDiisnea in Lancas ter. It was that Almanac, says Baer's, which first called George Washington "The Father of His Country." 1 SECUMTTY BANK 9 9 9 8 GCUtltXI 3arJ Port Strike Ruled Illegal SEATTLE (A A short-lived strike by six cold storage work men at the Port of Seattle died Thursday on legal shoals as Su perior Court Judge George H. Revelle ruled it was an illegal i I . . . BANKING 8:30 TO 5:30 because the port is a unit of gov ernment. The walkout, tying up approx imately half the city's waterfront, was called by the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse men's Union Ind) because t'.e cold storage workers had not re ceived a wage increase given longshoremen. A temporary restraining order stopped the strike last week after AiT m 8 va a i 1 i 8 a two-day walkout. The order by Judge Revelle made the restrain er permanent. The union said It would abide by the decision. . WESLEY OWENS ILL SCOTTS MILLS (Special)-Wes-ley Owens, who has been a patient in the Silverton hospital the past two weeks, underwent surgery to day for the amputation of a leg. . . For the Refreshments on the House Served In our lobby through out Saturday banking hours. for nc. 3 3". c.nn For the Young-in-nearU v r RED DUNNNING AND HIS "BAR S" OUTFIT will be on hand to alng and play for the young cow pokes. Red wants to meet all his young wrangler friends and their Momi and Dads from Snlcm, and will bo looking lor a mess of small fry between the hours of 1:00 and 3:00. . For the Esthetic: re . r a. ! Neighbor, tflX! REV. MELVILLE T. WIRE nationally recognized for his paintings of Oregon scenery, will he painting in our lobby Saturday afternoon. A number of hit recent works will bo on display. . . For the Thriity: FREE RENTAL ON A SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX for one whole year Enjoy the security of your own safe deposit box; offered today with every new account of $100.00 or more, opened on our birthday. Se'ctioii I PagS 8 WHOLE BRIDGE tTOLEN "ERBA, Italy (UP) -People of this mountain hamlet would like to join forces to catch some thieves who have upset the daily life of the entire village. They can't, however. The thieves stole the wood and cement bridge which spanned the River Bova. The Bova runs through the center of Erba. tluntfry: Punch bi. ' you. r7 .-. ,11 .p 11 7