Utah Officials Seek Polygamists
Who Left 7 Wives, 31 Children
Salt Lake City, Utah J.R
Utah authorities, determined to
wipe out the practice of polyg
amy by members of a dissident
sect, searched today for two men
who left their seven wives and
31 children and fled in an at
tempt to escape prosecution.
Already jailed in the new cam
paign was Louis A. Kelsch, 49, a
stone mason who has five wives
and 31 children in the three
apartments and two adjoining
cabins of his Salt Lake county
farm.
Others Not Revealed
Names of the other two men
were not announced publicly by
County Attorney Frank Moss, di
recting the anti-poligamy cam
paign in Salt Lake county.
Moss said the men both of
whom had been arrested in the
last major drive here 11 years
ago apparently, had learned of
the complaints and had run
away.
At the same time it was re
vealed that the 1955 session of
the Utah Legislature had quietly
appropriated $20,000 to Attor
ney General E. R, Callister Jr.
to be used for "law enforce
ment." '
Fund Understood
C Although nothing was said
about polygamy in the legisla-
4-H Club
Central Point Poultry Club
The first meeting of A the
Chuck's Poultry club was held
Tuesday, Oct. 25, at the home
of the Taylors. It was called to
order by President Joan Dobrot.
We are going to have a different
program by a different member
each meeting. Joan Dobrot is
going to do a demonstration of
culling chickens for our first
program next meeting.
New officers elected were:
president, Bobey Kuest; vice
president, Joan Dobrot; secretary
Alice Thompson; reporter, Phyl
lis Taylor; song leader, - Donna
Debric; and sergeant at arms,
Craig Wrieght.
Joan Dobrot gave a talk on
her trip to Pacific International
Livestock Exposition at Port
land. Chuck told us Just what
breeds of chickens are best for
what we want. He said it is best
to stay with the straight breeds
and not buy crosses.
- We are going to have the mem
bers bring the refreshments in
alphabetical order.
Phyllis Taylor,
Reporter. 1
tion, it was understood that the
fund would be used "to wipe out
plural marriage," a practice that
was outlawed before Utah be
came a state.
Members of the fundamental
ist sect to which all known advo
cates of polygamy belong claim
their strength in Utah to be as
great as 20,000 men, women and
children.
However, state officials be
lieve there are no more than
5000 adults and their offspring
on the rolls of the Fundamental
ists. The sect members purport to
follow original teachings of the
Morman faith. However, the rec
ognized church of Jesus Christ-of-Latter-Day
Saints forbade the
practice of "plural celestial
marriage" in 1890.
Kelsch and the other men were
charged with unlawful cohabi-
Grange .
Sami Valley Grange
The Sams Valley Grange met
Oct. 25 with Master Ralph James
in the chair. During the business
meeting it was voted that the
Grange should send a letter of
appreciation to the county court
for the work done on Tresham
lane. Due to the cooperation of
the county commissioners, the
road has been nicely surfaced
and is now a pleasure to drive
over.
It was also decided that the
next meeting, which falls on
Nov. 22, would be a gala one
with turkey, ham and all the
Thanksgiving trimmings. There
will be entertainment and the
evening will start with the din
ner at 7 p.m. in the' banquet
room of the Grange hall. The
turkey and ham will be fur
nished by the Grange, also the
coffee. The balance of the din
ner will be potluck. All Grange
members and their families are
invited.
The lecturer's hour consisted
of a film on the production of
beef cattle by Monarch Feed and
Seed and also an interesting talk
by their representative. The
theme of the evening was "hard
times," and there were several
interesting costumes. - Donna
Straus and Gilbert Mack won
the prizes. After participating in
some Halloween games the men
did some spirited bidding on the
lunch boxes the ladies had filled
and decorate. , The meeting con
cluded with lunch and coffee in
the banquet room.
tation a crime for which
Kelsch was convicted in 1944.
Polygamy Return Admitted
He spent 31 months in the
Utah State prison before return
ing to his quintet of wives and
his brood of offspring. One of
the wives, Elsie, has 11 children
Another, Susannah, has nine.
Barbara and Eleanor have four
each and Leona has three.
Moss said that Kelsch had ad
mitted returning to polygamy
upon his release from prison and
living with the five women "on
alternate nights and siring child'
ren as fast as he could." The
county attorney quoted Kelsch
as saying that the divine law
which he followed took prece
dence over Utah state law which
bans unlawful cohabitation.
Scene of Mass Raid
Authorities suggested that
some of the suspects might have
left Salt Lake Valley and gone
toward the Arizona side of the
border hamlet of Short Creek.
Short Creek itself was the scene
of a mass raid on July 27, 1953,
by Arizona police who arrested
36 men who had 86 wives and
154 children.
Short, Creek is also a Funda-
mentalist center and other units
of the sect reportedly are thriv
ing in several Southwestern and
Northwestern ; Utah communi
ties and in Sonora, Mexico, and
Cranston, British Columbia.
Porllander Arrested
For Lewd Pictures
Portland (U.R) A 33-year-
old Portland barber who claims
to be the "most publicized bar
ber in the Northwest" was ar
rested here yesterday on a charge
of possession of "lewd pictures
and conducting a lottery.
Robert Cummings posted $500
bail after his arrest. Multnomah
County Sheriff Terry Schrunk
said a cache of lewd pictures con
fiscated at Cummings' barber
shop may be the largest ever
seized in the Portland area. ,.
Taken by deputies were rolls
ol motion picture film, 500 still
pictures, bundles of football pool
receipts and lottery tickets and
a pinball machine.
Cummings' publicity stunts
have including shaving a man
while blindfolded, cutting a pole
sitter's hair and cutting a giant's
hair while standing on a ladder.
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Catholic Church Establishing Foothold in Southern States
Washington (U.R) The Ro
man Catholic Church has fig
ures to indicate a steady mem
bership gain in the American
South a resolutely Protestant
area for more than three cen
turies. The number of Catholics in the
so-called "Bible Belt" is still
quite small compared to the Pro
testant population. But it has
been growing steadily since
World War II.
Figures compiled by the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence show that Catholic dioceses
in 17 southern and border states
had a total membership of 4,157,
512 at the start of 1955, a gain
of more than 40 per cent over the
1945 total of 2,778,381.
Establishing Foothold
The Catholic Church is final
ly establishing a firm foothold
in such states as Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and
Florida which have a, long his
tory of open hostility toward
Catholicism.
Catholic population in North
Carolina has nearly tripled in
the past 10 years. It has aproxi
mately doubled in South Caro
lina, Virginia and Florida. '
Despite these gains the 'Deep
South remains by a wide mar
gin the "least Catholic" section
of the United States. Nation
wide, about 20 per cent of the
population is Catholic. But in
the South, Catholics constitute
less than one per cent in each
state except Maryland, Louisiana
and Texas.
Spanish Heritage
Maryland, about 25 per cent
Catholic, and Louisiana, 33 per
cent, were settled originally by
Catholics from Europe. The 1,
550.000 Catholics in Texas re
flect in part its Spanish heritage
and in part immigration from
Catholic Mexico,
A Catholic historian, The Rev.
James P. Shannon of St. Thomas
College at St. Paul, Minn., be
lieves three factors- have con
tributed to the postwar spread
of Catholicism in the South.
In a recent issue of the Cath
olic magazine "America" he
listed them as:
1. The vigorous stand against
Red Rulers Claim Famine
Due To Bad Distribution
Hong Kong (U.R) Like old
Mother Hubbard, many a per
son in Communist China is find
ing the cupboard bare . these
days.
The Peiping rulers admit it,
but they stoutly insist it is not
because of a nationwide food
shortage. It can be traced direct
ly, they say, -to improper distri
bution of "adequate" supplies
on hand.
The government on Aug. 25
decreed strict rationing of grain,
something the Reds thought
about as far back as 1953. '
In November, 1953, the coun
try came under what the Com
munists labeled "planned pur
chase and planned supply" of
grain. This was not really ra
tioning but involved the govern
ment buying surplus' grain from
farmers and then selling it back
to those who needed 'it.-"
In some areas, a loosely-connected
rationing system was im
posed oh sales, but this was no
where near being nationwide nor
was it very effective.
Last year's, terrible floods, the
worst in a century, further dent
ed production, and in March of
this year the situation bordered
on outright disaster. The gov
ernment was having - a tough
time providing grain to the 240,
000,000 persons who do not grow
their ' own,t such as fishermen
and laborers, and to persons who
are stricken by floods and by
drought.
Distribution Faulty
Those peasants who kept pro
duction up to snuff had become
worried by this time and were
buying back their own grain
even though they didn't have
any immediate need for it. That
imposed a further drain on exist
ing supplies. ' '
The central committee of the
Communist Party acted on April
28, to ease the strains. It direct
ed that a reorganization of grain
distribution be made.
" By June 18, the Peiping Peo
ples Daily was saying that the
situation had eased but that, con
tinued efforts were of absolute
necessity.
The economic boss, Chen Yu,
then got up before the National
People's Congress July 21 and
spoke, on the grain crisis,' an
item not on the agenda. He pooh
poohed any thought of iood
shortages . and said there was
enough- food for China to con
tinue to export foodstuffs, and
that importing food wouldn't
help matters.-
He charged that the hungry
were getting hungrier and the
fat were getting fatter because
officials had not kept a tight
grip on distribution. He accus
ed peasants of hoarding grain
they didn't need, thereby pre
venting adequate supplies being
sent to calamity-stricken regions.
Mor. Production . Needed
1 The' whole blame, in other
words, rested squarely on the
sagging shoulders of the people
themselves. Grain production
(169,500,000 tons in 1954) was
sufficient,' if .everyone played
ball. And exports (roughly 1,000,-
racial segregation taken by
Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Ral
eigh, N. C. A decree issued by
Bishop Waters on June 12, 1953,
banning segregation in all Cath
olic churches in North Carolina,
has "convinced many a southern
Negro that he is genuinely wel
come in the Catholic Church."
Industry Movement Cited
fZ. The movement of industries
from Massachusetts and other
tnditionally Catholic areas to
new sites in the South.
"The percentage of Catholic
managers and key personnel
taken south from New England
by migrating industries has been
well in excess of the national
average," wrote Father Shannon.
"Southern towns which never
had a Catholic parish are now
finding themselves with a resi
dent priest, a Catholic church,
and a nucleus of Catholic resi
dei ts who automatically deserve
social recognition in the com
munity because of their position
within the much-coveted indus
try." Television Helps
3. "The television has helped
to make the. Catholic Church
better known;- and less . suspect
among Southerners." ,
In support of this statement.
Father Shannon told the story of
s- southern mountaineer who had
always refused to speak to the
local Catholic priest. One day,
after TV became commonplace
in the area, the mountaineer ap
proached the priest on the street
and inquired:
"Preacher, do you belong to
Mr . Sheen's persuasion?".
The priest replied that he and
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, a tele
vision regular, were both Cath
olic priests.
"Whereupon," said Father
Shannon, "the old gentleman in
vited the j missionary into his
home and announced to a
startled family, 'This here is a
man of God same as Mr.
Sheen'."
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Wonan Given 30 Days
To Decide on Sentence
Ventura, Calif. (U.R) A judge
Wednesday gave Mrs. Florence
Alene Sandberg, 33, of . Cam
arillo, Calif., 30 days to choose
between a $6 fine or a two-day
jail sentence for " driving her
automobile after dark without
lights.
The judge refused to accept
Mrs. Sandberg's , defense that
she didn't need the lights be
cause she can "see like an owl."
Police Question
Suspect at Distance
Detroit (U.R) Police ques
tioned John E. Stinson, 29, at a
distance Wednesday and decided
they did not want to jail him
"just because I got into a little
old restaurant fight."
The officers found Stinson hid
ing under a pile of refuse in a
000 tons last year) weren't hurt
ing anyone. x
Production, of course, "must be.
raised to keep in step with the
ever-increasing consumer de
mand, he added.
Then, on Aug. 25, the state
council lowered the boom and
ordered outright rationing.. . It
calls for persons doing "excep
tionally heavy physical labor to
get 600 catties (798 pounds) of
grain per year. Those doing mere
heavy work will get 638 pounds. !
Persons doing light work and
university and middleschool stu
dents will receive 511 pounds,'
white collar workers 447, pounds,
adults and children over 10
years of age 400 pounds and
children under. 10 smaller am
ounts depending on age.
Thp ratinns arp a ffrim rpminrl-
er xo ine population inai me
Peiping regime has not .achiev
ed all it promised. . , .
In 1953, an official Communist
report set at 840, catties (1,117
pounds) the per capita require
ments of China. All this 'sounded
rosy to the people. But actual
per capita production that year
hit only 600 catties, and it has
dropped each year since
Would -Be-Bride, 13,
Returned To Mother
Portland (U.R) Juvenile
authorities said 13-year-old Vir
ginia Bevelhymer, who almost
married a 53-year-old man last
month, would be put on a plane
today' to join her mother in
Michigan. - - - . r , . .
The case camfrto attention of
authorities after the girl and Roy
Franklin applied for a marriage
license at Vancouver. The wed
ding was halted.
Mrs. Barbara O'Callaghan,
counselor at the juvenile home
here, said Mrs. Emil Bandurske,
the girl's mother, had been lo
oted in Michigan and that the
girl would be sent there.
Porcupine Cooking
Recipes Requested
Portland (U.R) The Western
Pine Association today appealed
to i the public for recipes for
cooking porcupine meat.' .
The"- Association said porcu
pine damage to pine "trees was
becoming as serious as forest
fires and insect damage. It hoped
that promotion of the , prickly
animal as a table delicacy might
reduce its . population in the
forests.
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Lincoln,. Nebr. (U.R) L. E.
Coles of Prineville, Ore., was
elected first vice-president ofthe
National Reclamation association
yesterday,' putting ' him " in line
for.' the . presidency next . year.
Guy C. Jackson Jr., Anahuac,
Tex., is the. new president.
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