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OPEN HOUSE SLATED Pictured above is an interior view1 able in the previous location. The new building is the culmi-
of Gates Furniture store at 341 North Central ave., which nation of 14 years of planning by the owners, George and
opens Saturday with an "open house" event. The new store, Dora Gates. Added parking space is prodived adjacent to the
which occupies a new building constructed for Gates Fur- new building. Gates Furniture also operates stores in Ashland .
niture, will provide the firm with twice the floor SDace avail- and Grants Pass. -MBrainerd Photo)
Better Conditions Raise Production
Washington (U.R) An ex
perimental post office at Rich
mond, Va., shows how improved
working conditions can raise pro
duction, according to the post
office department here.
After the department had ac
renteA recommendations from
leading light and color engineers,
' there was an eight per cent pro
duction jump in mail handled
between December and January
of 1953.
The department pointed out
that it handles more than 50,
000,000,000 pieces of mail an
nually and employes need to
read the address on each piece of
mail five times or more to route
it properly to the addresses. The
hundreds of billions of visual
operations resulting from this
volume of mail makes proper
lighting conditions a must.
From the experience gained
in the "Richmond experiment,"
the post office department has
embarked on a modernization
program of building larger post
offices as rapjdly as funds per
mit Working with the General
Services Administration, the de
partment's initial ' goal is the
modernization of 8,000,000 feet
of floor space in the largest
buildings within the next three
years.
Ultimately the modernization
program' will be a large under
taking. The department said the
program will involve the instal
lation of modern illumination
and ventilation systems in some
3,200 government-owned build
ings and 20,891 leased buildings.
.The department feels the pro
gram will give the American
people faster, better mail serv
ice at a reduced cost. y
PUBLIC INVITED
The Sunday evening services
at the First Baptist church will
be especially featured and all
interested persons are invited to
attend, church officers have an
nounced. The services will begin
at 7:30 p.m., and members of
the youth choir will present the
music in an informal song serv
ice. ' .. . " ".'
CHRISTMAS TREES DUE
Montreal (U.R) New York
City was down for some 3,000,-
000 Canadian Christmas trees to
day as railways prepared 3500
cars to carry a total of 11,000,000
evergreens to the United States.
Mother Strangles
Daughter; Severely
Cuts Self With Knife
Modesto, Calif. (U.R) Mrs.
Marguerite Blanchard, 38, told
police yesterday that she strang
ed her , nine-year-old daughter,
severely slashed herself with a
paring knife and razor blade,
and then lay for 36 hours near
the body of her child.
The tragedy was discovered
by Don Lapan, Mrs. Blanchard's
brother-in-law, who came to the
house to take the woman and her
daughter out for Thanksgiving
dinner. -Went
To Police
Lapan told police that when
he arrived Mrs. Blanchard
opened the door part way and
whispered, "I think I've, killed
Carol Ann." Lapan -went to the
police . without ' entering the
house.
' Authorities said they found
Mrs. Blanchard lying on the bed
beside the body of her daughter.
There was blood all about the
house. The mother had two deep
slashes on her neck, two on each
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I temple and one on each arm
bove the elbow. She was rushed
to the county hospital where her
condition was reported as "fair.
Recently Divorced
In broken sentences, Mrs.
Blanchard told police what had
happened. She said she was re
cently divorced and had con
sidered killing her daughter and
committing suicide, but lacked
the nerve.
. She said she made her decision
Wednesday morning, after'lying
awake all night. Mrs. Blanchard
said she used a silk scarf to
strangle Carol Ann "but i
took a long time because sne
struggled."
She then tried to take her own
life with a paring knife, but
later switched to a razor blade.
A large pool of blood in the bath
room indicated 'she may have
stood in front of the mirror so
she could see where to strike the
blows. .-;-, ',' .
Mrs. Blanchard said that she
was "up and down" several times
during the 36 hours that elapsed
before Lapan arrived at the
house despite the fact that she
also claimed to have taken 20
sleeping tablets.
She told police:
."Don't know what troubles
caused it . . . just everything . . .
been in. my thoughts for some
time . . . recently divorced . . .
maybe it was just Thanksgiv
ing." !
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Provoo Enters
Innocent Plea To
Charge of Treason
Baltimore (U.R) John David
Pf ovoo, former Army sergeant,
pleaded innocent today to
charges of treason while a pris
er of the Japanese in World
War H. '
r Arraigned before Federal
Judge Rosel Tomson, Provoo
pleaded innocent to all seven
counts 'of the treason indict
ment. Letter Drops Counsel
It was disclosed at the ar
raignment that Provoo had writ
ten a letter to Tomson last Sat
urday asking that James J.
Laughlin, Washington attorney,
be dropped as his counsel. A
court appointed attorney, Joseph
Rosenthal, also said he would
nof be able to serve. i
. Tomson then appointed Hilary
Gann and Reuben'Oppenheimer,
both of Baltimore, to- represent
Provoo. '' "
Trial date was set for March
14. Provoo, 37, former San Fran
cisco bank clerk, was tried once
before in federal court in New
York City and sentenced to life
imprisonment. However, the ver
dict was overthrown by a fed
eral court of appeals. He was
re-indicted in Maryland.
Provoo was. accused of don
ning the robes of a Buddhist
priest while ; a prisoner of the
Japanese and attempting to in
duce fellow prisoners to give
information to the enemy.
Provoo lived in the San Fran
cisco Bay Area until he made
a trip to Japan in 1940.- He
studied Buddhism and the Japa
nese language until he returned
to the United States and entered
the Army: He - was captured
when Corregidor fell in May,
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