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o TEWr-MTOTORD (OREOOK) MAIL TRIBUNE G O 0 Thursday, September I, 19S5 J, j) , BMm T g L . rrr. iitnvr nD T nvri lC ir Pnlifnrnia VlprA are 11 finalists from 41 COUntieS COm- peting for title "Maid of California" at State Fair Sept 1 through 11. From left: Marcia Malatesta, Amador, Marilyn Van Deusen, San Bernardino; Joan Beckett, Sacramento; Joye Monroe, Fresno; Nancy Smith, Alameda; Elaine Herrmann, Monterey; Patricia Hutchens, Trinity;' Gay Cowie, San Diego; Judy Kileen, Kern; Margie Morec, San Mateo, and Arlyta Grove, Contra Costa County. Winner will preside over major Fair activities. (International) A Nichol's Worth of Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Fra Futaw Writer r3 m. fit; i Washington (U.R) I'm a lit tle perturbed about a letter I got from Miss Gertrude Whit tum of Spring- JJ J' ' I field, Mass. f lntM ine iaay gui ail woricea up about a piece I wrote saying that some man ufacturers still are turning out such articles as button shoes, long under- wear with the Human Nichols drop -down or "barn-door" rear, and high col ' lars. Miss Whittum mentioned in a nice letter to me that she had no interest in antiques like the high-button shoes, or night caps with tails on. All she was con cerned about, she said, was the; hich collars for men. She was interested, she said, because she I had a young friend who "isnr comfortable unless he is uncom fortable." She explained that her friend just doesn't feel right un less he is running around in a high collar. I had a mind to sick Miss Whittum 'onto forfter President Herbert Hoover, who brought the high collar back in the B.R. (before Roosevelt) days or to some of the bartenders I know who put more collar in a glass of beer than they do beer. But I didn't "I'm taking a trip," she said, ''and what n young friend; wants more than a new Cadil lac is a bunch of stand-up col lars. He has been making them himself out of cardboard, but what with the hurricanes, wet weather and all, they won't stand the strain of buttons, Either the fore one, or the one aft." In desperation, Miss Whittum confessed that her young friend has managed, at no little ex pense, to get himself a few old celluloid collars. But these have a distressing habit of catching fire when a pipe, is lighted if a man gets reckless. Also he has some of the starched kind, but she says these cannot be scrubbed and starched properly where he lives, wher ever that is. The lady sys that her friend had been mailing what collars he has to her to send to a Chi nese laundry. "Time was," the lady said, "when we had 26 Chinese laun dries here in Springfield. Today ye have only five and they are far apart, and not only that, they are pretty slow on doing up high collars." A deplorable situation, indeed. Miss Whittum said she finally wrote to England and somebody sent her back a collar four inches high. "They got the wrong measure ments," she added. "Not only is it a choker around the neck. It is so high that it makes him hic cup and gurgle. He has to take it off when he eats, because he can't swallow. Not only that, it's the wrong color. Who wants to wear a green collar with a blue suit?" Hospital for Horses Is Builder's Project Chicago (U.R) Joe Prince makes a living building homes, but he spends much of his time on another project, a hospital for horses. Prince and his late partner, Stanley Bartecki, who owned and raced horses, had planned the horse hospital together. After Bartecki died, Prince went ahead alone. First, he purchased a run down 60-acre cattle farm on the southwest side of Chicago. Then he began refurnishing, painting, rebuilding. Now he has facilities for 100 horses of all. typres. These facilities include a $25, 000 hydraulic operating . table, an X-ray machine for therapy, padded recovery stalls for in jured horses and numerous other aids. ' "We have a veterinarian here all the time," he said, "but any vet can come in and work. We make all facilities available to him." Since Miss Whittum read the first story I .wrote, she knows by now that she doesn't have to go clear to Britain to get high collars. She can prowl around most any country store and , find a few. Or if she has a bundle of long green, she can go . to a maker of custom shirts and col lars fin a big city. These outfits will sell her all the collars she can afford, and tailor them clean up to the jowls. 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After one taste, youll under stand why we can make the challenge: "If you can find a better bourbon . . . buy it!" nrrcn fig KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 6 YEARS OLD 86 proof . 1955 ancient age distilling CO.. frank; ort. ky. Military Reservation Sees Area As NY Port Camp Drum, N. Y. (U.R) This northern New York mili tary reservation is being en visioned as a staging area and the nearby Black River as a port of embarkation by the Watertown Chamber of Com merce. The group proposes that Black River Bay, an arm of Lake On tario, be utilized to take deep draft ships and be named the "Port of Northern New' York." It was pointed out that such a port would be about 225 miles closer to. Europe than is New York City. Traffic Loses Whistle And Man Loses Cows Williston, Vt. (U.R) Farmer Eugene Blair usually listens for the whistle of the train before he drives his cows across the Central Vermont Railroad tracks. Recently he cocked an ear but all he could hear was the noise of cars on a nearby high way. He was halfway across the tracks when a train swept down and killed four of his cows. Complained Blair: "The traffic these days is so noisy you can't even hear a train whistle no more." Mystery of Missing Greenlease Ransom Money- Continues To -Baffle Police and FBI Agents St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) Roger Lind, an airport employee, walk ed into a Minot, N.D., bank some weeks ago to cash hi paychecE. He left the bank with the first clue to a 5300,000 mystery that has baffled the shrewdest inves tigators in the United States for almost two years. The clue Lind carried from the North Dakota bank was a $20 bill, one of 17,000 bills paid to the kidnap-killers of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease. In the days that followed three more of the ransom bills turned up. Then they stopped It was the first time any of the ransom notes had been seen in circulation since two business associates of wealthy automobile dealer Robert C. Greenlease put $600,000 into a duffle bag and tossed it from a speeding car near a culvert on a lonely road outside Kansas City. Largest Ever Paid The ransom, largest ever paid in a kidnap case, was delivered according to instructions of the kidnapers in eirly October. With in 48 hours the-body of Bobby Greenlease was discovered in a shallow grave in St. Joseph, Mo. and Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonni&rHeady were arrested in St. Louis for the crime. When he was captured Hall had thousands of the ransom bills packed in his luggage. The luggage was opened at the New stead District Police station. It Air Force Nylon Cord To Defy Rope-Stealer Washington U.R) Parade watchers in the nation's capital have been getting a little too much rope. After each parade culprits pull out pocket knives, slash off some of the rope used to hold back crowds, and haul it away before workmen have time to get things cleaned up. Police figure the rope thefts average upwards of 150 feet per parade, and Washington has lots of parades. So the police have asked the General Services Administration for 167,000 feet of surplus nylon rope once used by the Air Force to tow aerial targets. Worked in side the nylon are four strands of knife-proof heavy wire. held $293,000 of the $600,000 delivered by the Greenlease fam ily. Hall insisted he had most of the $600,000 with him when he was arrested. The officers who took him into custody, Lt. Louis Shoulders and Patrolman Elmer Dolan, were equally insistent that all Hall's luggage was brought into the station. Sentenced io Prison The two officers were even tually dismissed from the police force, convicted of perjury and sentenced to prison terms. They were convicted mostly on the testimony of witnesses who said they saw Hall brought into the police station and that the luggage was not brought in with him. The mystery of the missing $300,000 grew deeper with the execution of Hall and Mrs. Heady and the insistence of Shoulders and Dolan that they knew noth ing of the missing money. The FBI speculated unoffic ially that the ransom was paid in 13,401 $20 bills and 3,570 $10 bills. Serial numbers of the bills were made puDlic. For more than a year the mys tery of the missing money . re mained one . of the greatest in the history of crime. It was often compared with another famous crime money mystery: The $1 -000,000 cash holdup of a Brink's vault in ston. Then the mysterious ransom notes began seeping into circu lation. After Lind discovered the first missing $20 bill, three other $20 bills were found at the fed eral reserve bank in St? Louis by FBI agents. One of the bills was traced to the Union National Bank at Springfield, Mo." A second was traced to the Sedalia Bank and Trust Co., at Sedalia, Mo. There was no indication -where the third bill came from. The FBI still doesn't know who is putting the bills into em ulation;" whether the remainder of the ransom money is intact; or whether it will ever be found. But agents are sure that it still exists, that it hasn't been de stroyed and that there is a chance of finding it. Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. s 1 buys oil 1ICED 'BAC0H Easier, tared re ocoiis uia rasmoneu Ends and Pieces At Its Best ISm ItV k I II -racod. BUTTEi BEEP B WfJ BEfllJ mimm Yorkshire Farm Creamery lb. o)(o iawnj)J3af"i7zi IT Li 3 lb. lb. 58 $1 ni n nil mm Picnic Style Ready to Eat aj) ib. Caswell Coffee POUND. Libbys NO. 2Vi CANS pounds $I100 ran skud Pillsbury TOMATO. . Just add water Pkg. Quart Jar n Libby 46-oz. 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