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VlC &yz Fry I er Today in Salem Mrs. John C. Benish went to Seaside to a bridge tournament over the weekend and won a first prize in a camelia show. Confusing, Isn't it? . It seems that after Mrs; Benish left for Seaside as a babysitter for a granddaughter and two grandnieces while their parents played in the tournament her neighbor, Mary T. Sehloettle, 626 N Winter St.. decided Mrs. Ben- ish's camellias were too beautiful to be left to bloom unseen, especi ally while a camellia show was be ing held in town. So she picked several beauties from the garden ana entered them under Mrs. Ben ish's name. Result: one blue rib bon and one red ribbon. Miss Schoettle didn't do so bad in the show, herself. Camellias from her garden won two blue rib bons and several other honors. And to keep the winning rec ord going, Mrs. Benish's daughter, Mrs. Arthur Lewis, teamed np with Elmer Berg to win one of the trophies at the bridge tounrament while Mrs. Benish was babysitting with their daughter and with the two daughters of Mr, and Mrs, Harvey Fronz. Archibald says the importance of a comma as a punctuation mark takes on new significance when you see something like the title of the current popular movie, "Heav en Knows, Mr. Allison, minus the tiny mark. Or like the story of the school teacher who reprimanded a stu dent for leaving a comma out of a sentence. The principal over heard her and comforted the sob bing boy with the advice that a little old comma wasn't such an Important thing, after all. Whereupon, the teacher or dered the boy to go to the blackboard and write the sent ence, "The principal says the teacher Is wrong." The boy complied. "Now," she said, "Put a comma after 'principal' and after 'teacher'." On Willamette campus next week will be the Stan Kenton All Stars minus Kenton. The jazz concert features Pete Jolly and other for mer Kenton players, but Kenton himself does not travel with it. Presented by Jazz Showcase '57. It's at 8 p.m., 25th, at the Fine Arts auditorium and is open to the public. Tickets available at three downtown locations. Ah! There's nothing like a warm spring day for a picnic and a wiener roast, as one group of OSC students can vouchsafe through Itchy, swol len faces. It seems that a men's living organization and a women's ditto paired up (for some rea son a popular arrangement there) on such a shindig the other day. Unfortunately an unknowing city sticker was as signed to cut the sticks to roast the wieners on. One morn later itching hands and faces. You guessed It. Poison oak roasting sticks. Students Hear Talks on Job Responsibility Speeches Made as Part Of Safety-Info Program North Salem High School stu dents Monday heard about job re sponsibility in one of the final ses sions of a safety and general in formation program for students who may be working this summer in the food processing plants.. The course has been mainly con cerned with three phases, includ ing employment of minors and ac cident hazards. It has been of fered this month in 12 Willamette Valley schools. - Mrs. Groves Talks The first phase, minor employ ment, was given by Mrs. Lora M. Groves, supervisor of employment of minors tor the state Depart ment of Labor. She explained that persons be tween the ages of 16 and 18 must get permits from the state labor commissioner before going to work in processing plants and that they must be prepared to show birth certificates or other satisfactory proof of age. Accident prevention and safety was treated by James Wiles, su pervisor of special services for the Mate industrial Accident Commis sion. As the main causes nf acci. dents he mentioned slips and falls, "horseplay" among workers, fail ure to observe rules of safety and failure to make use of first aid fa cilities. Describes Safety Devices E. S. Benjamin, of Cannery Workers Local 670 in Salem, dis cussed several phases, including kind Of shoes and clothing neces sary for safety and sanitation, types of work found in processing plants and registration for employment. A total of about 2.000 students heard the lectures, which were sponsored jointly by the State In dustrial Accident Commission and the Bureau of Labor. C apital JJournal J?u Section 2 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, April 16, 1957 Page 1 ncan Gives Prison Terms to 3 Area Men Laib Student Wives Ready For 'Classes9 Wives of law students will be educated Wednesday instead of their husbands, when the Wil lamette University college of law hosts its annual Law Wives Day. Since more than one-half of the law student body Is married and many of the wives work to help their husbands through school, the law faculty decided that wives should be educated into a back ground of law. An informal coffee hour at 9 a.m. will open Wives' Day, followed by attendance in the class in which each husband is enrolled. Final event of the morning will be a trial prepared by third year students for their practice court class. Lumber Lacks 'Spring Boom' .EUGENE tfl The usual spring boom in green lumber sales "noticeably absent," the weekly market . news letter Random Lengths reported Monday. It blamed adverse weather con ditions in eastern and midwestern consuming areas for "a marked decrease in housing starts." Until there is an upswing in house construction, the letter add ed, chances are dim for any ma terial improvement in either de mand or prices. The only bright spot in the mar ket now is in timber and heavy items which only a limited num ber of mills produce. Stud prices advanced sharply several weeks ago but are now erratic, the let ter said. The plywood market has kept the "firmness gained slowly dur ing the past few weeks," the let ter added, and the pine market shows a steady volume. Church Confab Series Billed The Division of Christian Educa tion of the Salem Council of Churches will sponsor a scries of weekly conferences regarding the ' Use and understanding or the Bible," beginning' Thursday night, April 25. The conferences will be held each Thursday through May 16 at the first Presbyterian Church, The meetings will be under the di rection of a committee headed by the Rev. W. Berkeley Ormond, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Workshops for all age levels, concerning the study of the Bible, will be available at the conferences. Advance registrations are now being taken by church school su perintendents and pastors of the various churches. Spitzbart Ends 22 Years With Fair --( . jEyggw '1, i "" ----- I'.-tvw, y"""" ' 'Sr ,5-" .w-v- A trio of men, who had pre viously entered guilty pleas to a charge of burglary not in a dwel ling, were sentenced to 18 months in the penitcntary Monday by Cir cuit Judge George R. Duncan. The three were part of a group of 19 who made their appearances before Judge Duncan during the afternoon. They were George Ed ward Tenncs, 23, 143014 N. Liber ty St., Phillip Wayne Brower, 20, Woodburn, and Delmer Lee Frahm, 20, Rt. 3, Salem. They were implicated in the theft of several cases of beer from the Gideon Stolz Co. warehouse. Much of the evidence was later recovered from a creek in the vicinity of the plant. Pleads Guilty Pleading guilty to the larceny HERE IN THE HOMETOWN Edwards WinsAssistantship Leo Spitzbart, manager of the Oregon State Fair for the past 22 years, moved out of his office at the fairgrounds Mon day. He told the new Oregon Fair Com mission last week he wouldn't accept a new one-year contract. The commission was scheduled to pick a new fair manager today. (Capital Journal Photo) NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED New Stamp CoU Told Beginning April 25, the Salem Post Office will have in its stock of stamps, coils of 100 stamps of the three-cent denomination. Here tofore coils have been available only in five hundreds. The 100 stamo coils will sell for three dol lars. Plastic containers for the coiled stamps will be made avail able at a later date, Postmaster Albert C. Gragg reported. Death Takes B. F. Wedel Benjamin F. Wedel, who had farmed in the Keizer district since 1936, and a late resident of 4809 Delight St., died Monday evening at a local hospital. wedel had been hospitalized since Sunday afternoon when he had suffered a heart attack. Born at Knewton, Kan., May 16, 1895, Wedel moved with his family from that state to Idaho and came to the Salem area from Idaho. Surviving Wedel are his wife, Mary Cathryn Wedel, Salem; two sons, Paul J. Wedel, Salem, and rranic wedel, Eugene; a brother, Frank Wedel, Salem; two ne phews, Dr. E. Paul Wedel, and Ir win F. Wedel, Salem; and four grandchildren, Terry Jean and Randall Joseph and Janet Wedel, Salem. Announcement of funeral serv ices will be made later by the Clough-Barrick Chapel. Derby Inspectors On 'Wanted9 List A call for inspectors for the 1957 Willamette Valley area boys com- Salem Soap Box Derby was voiced by Inspection Committee Chair man Don Mup ka, 178 W. Wil son St., Tues day. Parents, busi nessmen, for mer derbyists or anyone else who would like to donate two or three hours a week to helping mid- Holmes Proclaims Secretaries Week Week-long observance of Na tional Secretaries Week is planned in Salem starting next Sunday under the sponsorship of the Cas cade chapter of the National Sec retaries Assn. A proclamation designating the week in the state was signed Mon day by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Present at the signing was Mrs. J. B. Hansen, Salem, secretary of Drawing Nets 34 Pints of Blood For Infant Son of Salem Man Thirty-four pints of blood were donated Monday night by mem bers of the Salem Marine Corps Reserve unit, 3rd 155mm Gun Bat tery, for transfusions for little Mi chael Dean Jones, Hopmere. The baby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Jones, Rt. 2. Salem, has been having transfusions regularly since the amputation of a leg and a foot after a crib fire on Jan. 20 at his home. The child's father, who operates Jones Way Grocery in Hopmere, has been a staff sergeant with the unit since October, 1947. The Joneses have one other child, Rex, aae 3 years. Still listed in a critical condition at the Docrnbecher Children's Hos pital in Portland, the Jones infant last week underwent his first skin crafting in an extensive series. His left foot and the right leg above the knee were amputated. Bronchial pneumonia and other complications have caused delay of the skin grafting. Michael re ceived third degree burns on both legs when his crib caught fire from an unknown origin. The blood for little Michael was given during collections made by the Red Cross btooomoonc jion- day night at the Army Reserve Armory. The total amount drawn, including the allotment for the Jones baby, was 68 pints. The quota had been 75 pints, but offi cials said they would be happy if 65 pints were drawn. April 23, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., a special drawing will be held on the Willamette University campus for students and townspeople. The regular May drawing will be May 2 from noon until 4 p.m. at the Salem Armory. the Oregon division of the Nation al Secretaries Assn. Previously the week had been designated by Secretary of Com merce Sinclair Weeks. During the week the public will be informed of the Certified Pro fessional Secretary program, which annually gives certifying ex aminations aimed at giving secre taryship profession status. Among activities planned during the week are: a Chamber of Com merce luncheon program April 22 honoring all secretaries; no-host dinner and Fashion show on the evening of April 22; and the fifth annual Bosses Breakfast at 7 a.m. April 24. Governors to Sign Compact Govs. Knight of California and Holmes of Oregon will sign the Klamath Basin Compact at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, Gov. Holmes said Monday. Each will be sitting in his own office, united by a telephone con nection. The compact must be approved by Congress. Under its terms, the two states would jointly plan the develop ment and use of the basin's wa ters. Both state legislatures have voted to ratify the compact. pete in Salem's biggest annual boys' event are invited to volun teer as inspectors, Stupka said. Inspectors will be assigned about five boys each to supervise in the construction of their racers for the Derby. He will be asked to check on each boy every week or so to see that the boy is building his ra cer according to the rule book and to give advice and answer any questions the boy might have, Stupka said. Persons interested in being an inspector, but a bit doubtful of their knowledge of the subject, may volunteer anyway, he said A clinic to acquaint inspectors with their lob will be held soon. Anyone with a basic knowledge of how to use a hammer, saw, pliers and wrenches can qualify as Derby inspector, he said. Boys generally will be assigned to an Inspector in the neighbor- hdod in which they live, Stupka said, Sub in Surprise Visit to Portland PORTLAND (UP) The USS Volador, a submarine on a shake down cruise, was paying a sur prise visit to Portland today after a trip from San Francisco. Lt. Com. C. H. Cbuhr, skipper, said it was decided to visit Port land because- the city has such a good reputation as a liberty port. Control Board OKs Finance Building Plan Preliminary plans for finishing of unused space on the second story of the State Finance Building was approved Tuesday by the State Board of Control. Last fall the State Emergency Board allocated 505,000 to cover the cost of the work and Salem architect James Payne, who pres ented the plans, said while some changes had been made in the orig inal plans, he felt the work could be kept within the allocation, Three state agencies will occupy the newly available space when the alterations are completed some time next September. They are the state engineer, the State Water Resources Board and the State Natural Resources Commission. Tlio board accepted a gift of $500 from Smith, Kline, and French, Philadelphia laboratories, for pro ducing a 15 minute film on the state mental institutions. William Ryan, secretary of the board, said there were no strings attached to the offer and the film, to be produced by the visual ed ucation department of the State Board of Higher Education would be available to state and institu tional heads for use in talks con cerning the institutions. by embezzlement of approximate ly $5,000 from the J. W. Copeland lumber yard in St. Paul, Willis C. Fenton of that community, re ceived a four year prison sentence. Gary Lee Wright, 18, 4312 Mar ket St., was placed on probation until he reaches his majority. Sen tencing was suspended on a charge that involved the removal of a safe from Swegle School last January. Lewis Ross McDaniel, Athens, Ohio, was placed on three years' probation following indictment on a charge of attempting to obtain property by false pretenses. The charge involved an effort to cash a worthless check in Salem. A Portland woman, Mildred Geraldinc Perkins, was given one year's probation . on a charge of obtaining property by false pre tenses.' Her arrest followed the passing of a $12 check at a Four Corners store. Polygamy Char?. Ap the request of the state, a charge of polygamy against Har old Lloyd Brown, will be brought to the attention of the grand Jury. The resubmission will include the date when Brown is said to have married a 15-year-old Salem girl. The request for a grand jury hearing from Richard Vernon Brawdy, 475 S. 17th St., was al lowed by Judge Duncan. Brawdy is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor girl. Pre-sentence investigation for Joseph Eugene Barbara, Silverton, was ordered after Barbara had pleaded guilty to a charge of ob taining money and property by false pretenses. A graduate assistantship In his tory for the coming year has been awarded by American University in Washington, D. C, to Paul Ed- Lwards, senior at Willamette Uni versity. Senior scholar in the history de partment, Edwards will use the $900 scholarship to work toward his master's degree. He eventual ly wants to get a Ph.D. and teach in college. - , At Willamette he has been presi dent of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, and president of the Inter- fraterraty Council. He was junior class vice president, Rotarian of the Month, secretary of the Letter man's Club, and treasurer of the band. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Edwards of Woodburn. Debaters Plan Event Debate students from Willamette University will present their sixth annual symposium before the Hood River Union High School student body Tuesday, April 23. Pat Farley of Salem will act as moderator for the topic, "What Should the Federal Government Do About Desegregation of the Schools?" Answering the question will be Katherine Ruberg. Salem: Lewis Bright, Medford; and Emil Muhs, Livcrmore, -Calif. Ritter, both of Serra Catholic High School. The three were among the first and second place winners of se lected events at the Oregon High School Speech League Tournament held last weekend in Corvallis. Dosher and Ritter were tied for second in the debate competition for schools of less than 300 stu dents while Ford won second in extempore spenking. . Clinic Begins The ninth annual clinic for pre school children and their parents registered 18 Monday at the State School for the Deaf, 50 per cent more than any time previously. M. B. Clatterbuck, superintend ent, believes the increased interest -was brought about by better under standing of the advantages to be gained by early training for deaf chifuren as well as by greater pub licity on the program. , The opening ' session Monday night consisted of demonstrations and displays of 4-H clubs, Boy Scouts, rhythm band and a liter ary society. Lectures and attend ance at regular school classes will occupy the group for the most part Wednesday and Thursday. Name Left Out The name of Keith Wondcrlv. pupil at Bush School, should have been among the list of Salem stu dents who were first place prize winners in the State Science Ex position held in Corvallis last week Keith, winner in the physical sci ences section of the intermediate division, accounted for one of the 15 first place awards won by Salem students. Three to Compete Tests on the United States Consti tution and the life and accomplish ments of Alexander Hamilton will be taken April 27 by three Salem students in a contest for a $1,000 scholarship and trip to Philadelphia. Taking the examination at Ore gon State College will be William Ford, South Salem High School, and Frederick Dosher and Daniel CAP Slates McNary Field Parents' Day Sunday, May S, will be parents' day at McNary Field. The day has been set apart by the Civil Air Patrol to introduce the public to the CAP cadet program and the generat scope of CAP operation. At a meeting of the CAP unit Monday night it was also an nounced that the annual summer encampment of the air patrol will be held June 16-29 at the Portland Air Base. One of the high points of the encampment will be an air trip to McChord Field near Ta coma to see first line jet fighters in action. For the Salem event cadet drills exhibits and free airplane rides are announced, and concession stands will operate. Maundy Thursday Service jrlanned Maundy Thursday will be ob served with the traditional com munion service at 7:30 p.m. by the congregation of St. John's Lutheran Church. The pastor, the Rev. Walter G. Boss, will take as his 'sermon topic "A Lesson in Thanksgiving." Pastor Hartwig will assist. The Good Friday service at 7:30 p.m. will be one of meditation and prayer emphasizing the Savior's death. Salem Group Plans Flight To CAB Meet A Salem group of a dozen men will present the case in support of United Airlines before an exami ner of the. Civil Aeronautics Board in Seattle Wednesday. The group will , contend that Unlted's trunk service must con tinue in Salem whether or not a feeder line is permitted to come in here. Feeder lines applying are West Coast Airlines and Southwest Airways. The Seattle hearing will be pre liminary. The examiner will re port to the Civil Aeronautics Board and the main hearing will be be fore that board in Washington, probably on June 16. ! 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