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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON League To Open' Thrift Shop Here The Junior Service league Thrift shop will open Thuri day, Sept. 13, and will operate thereafter each Thursday and Friday from 9:30 a.m. until noon during the school year, the league has announced. Located at Priddy st. and McAndrews rd., the Thrift Shop offers for sale used men's, women's, and child ren's clothing, shoes, and household items. Proceeds from the Thrift Shop go toward maintenance of the Junior Service league kindergarten for hard-of-hear-ing children. REQUEST REJECTED Salem - flJPIl - The Salem City Council has rejected a Chamber of Commerce re quest to cal off a SS.S-million sewer bond election Sept. 21. Mystery Woman In San Francisco Killings Arrested San Diego - lUPli - Mrs. Iva Kroeger, 44, sought through out the nation since two bodies were found buried in her San Francisco home has been arrested by FBI agents in the apartment of a San Diego couple. The mystery woman had successfully evaded police and federal agents since the bodies of a Santa Rosa, Calif., couple were unearthed in the Kroeger basement Aug. 21 and 22. The FBI said Mrs. Kroeger, who had been using the name June Price Smith, readily ad mitted her identity. "I'm glad it's over," she told the arresting officers. Dangerously Deceptive Word: "Averages" Stop and think about this if you are an investor. You can take all the stocks in the market and average Ihem out and not get a true picture at all. In today's market there are some stocks that are good buys, some not so good, and, in some industries downright bad. This subject is care fully explored in Harris, Upham's new Market Review. For instance, it lisls 15 stocks bought by professional investors during the second quarter of '62. And a list of 20 stocks showing better than average promise. Another section covers 16 industries (and maybe you're in sonic of them) that have been significantly out of favor with investors. And 2 1 others in favor. Just a few highlights of the new Market Review. Send for your complimentary copy today. r Harris, Upham & CQ i Members New York Stock tschange and other leading security and commodity exchanges 47 Offices from Coast to Coast 44 South Central Ave. Medford, Oregon 773-7701 Gentlemen: Please send me your new Market Review. j j Clly I I .J The San Diego couple whose identity the FBI has refused to disclose, told agents they met Mrs. Kroeger on the street Sat urday, befriended her and took her Into their home. But they became suspicious about their guest when they read an article about Mrs. Kroeger in a San Diego news paper. They notified the FBI which made the arrest shortly after 9 p.m. Mrs. Kroeger's hus band Ralph, 61, is being held in San Francisco on a murder charge in connection with the deaths of Jay Arneson, 70 and his former wife, Mildred, 58. However, Kroeger main. taincd throughout the long search for his wife that i"I don't know a damn thing about it- Police found the body of Arneson, strangled with a belt, stuffed head first into a hole four feet deep beneath a new concrete floor In the Kroeger basement. Mrs. Arneson's body was found buried nearby in a steamer trunk the fol lowing day. The Kroegers and the Arne sons were associated in a motel deal in Santa Rosa. During last December and January the Arnesons disap peared, and the Kroegers took over the motel. Mrs. Arneson disappeared in December- after buying $1,500 worth of . traveling checks and telling relatives she planned to go to South America with a friend. Santa Rosa police said Mrs. Kroeger later forged $750 worth of the checks. Worker Hired Jay Arneson was at Mrs. Kroeger's home in mid-Janu ary when Mrs. Kroeger hired Santa Rosa construction worker to dig a four-foot deep hole in the basement, presum- aDiy lor plumbing repairs. It was a chance remark bv the .construction worker, Wal ter Hughes, that led to the discovery of the bodies. He apparently had not known of the Arnesons disappearance and the Kroegers' possible connection with it. When Hughes told authori ties that he had seen Arneson at the Kroeger home while he was digging the hole in the basement, police entered the Kroeger residence with a search warrant and dug up the bodies. tt I .. , '. L , . . . . X r , . irt - OLDEST VETERAN living at the VA Domiciliary, White City, is James E. Helms. He is 86 and a veteran of the World War I. He was 40 at the outbreak of that war and almost too old to fight, and he was too young to volunteer in the Spanish America War. Helms is a life member of the newly organized Post 192 of the American Legion and an Oregon member of the Veterans of WW I. During the war he served in the Navy. He is a carpenter and was born June 29, 1876, at Lincoln, Neb. (Barnett Photo) The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council cunsiits of m judge, a pliychtitrtst, three rlerjrynien. three editors and a women's editor. Each article Is a summary of a faintly disagreement presented to the Council The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselor and loclal wurkers. Edited by by Mrs. Alma Denny (Copyright by General Features Corp.) Back Stairs: Protection at Sea By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter Washington-lUPU- Backstairs at the White House: Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon might be in terested in the swashbuckling seamanship being displayed by some of his Coast Guards men in the Newport, R.I., har bor, all in the name of protect ing President Kennedy. In fairness to fie President, it should be pointed out that he probably does not see one of the Coast Guard boats as signed to his yac.it bully small craft which venture too close to the vessel Kennedy and his family may be using at the time. The main patrol boat is under command of Lt. (J.G.) John McDonough, whose training and ordinary duties would seem to indicate ex emplary seamanship. Never theless, when small craft come so close to a boat bearing the President that McDonough deems it an invasion of presi dential privacy, the fun be gins. The powerful 40-foot patrol boat roars directly at the of fending craft, then veers off a few feet away in a sliding turn which sends torrents of sea water wer the private craft. This Coast Guard patrol boat has been using the same tactics in Cape Cod waters, and the past few weeks in and off of Newport. The Coast Guard is part of the Treasury, but patrol units involved with presidential movement of various vessels of a government fleet it Ken nedy's disposal are under gen eral orders of the White House staff. No one at the White House, however, has told young skipper McDonough to discipline private craft by roaring his patrol boat into them on collision courses. There would have been a serious collision off Newport last Saturday if the skipper of a large private cabin cruiser, the Sappho, had not spun his helm over hard as the Coast Guard craft plowed at high speed to within a few feet of Sappho's side. A wall of water crashed onto Sappho and into her cockpit. The President was cruising at the time on a Coast Guard yawl, Manitou, and apparently was unaware of the seamanship being con ducted in his behalf. At the time the Sappho was over 300 yards from the Manitou- and other cruising pri vate craft slipped in much closer. Not the First There have been similar in stances involving this Coast Guard patrol craft. Boat own ers in the Newport Harbor, at least those who have been chased similarly by McDon ough and his boys, are hope ful that the Coast Guard der ring-do does not result in a bad sr.iashup. This becomes a particular source of concern to some small craft operators this week when the harbor will be increasingly crowded with yachts and cabin cruisers ar riving for the American Cup yacht races. The performance of this Coast Guard boat is an un fortunate byproduct of ef forts to keep the President safe and reasonably private. When he is cruising on an open waterway, it is much like a highway. Police units and Secret Service agents fre quently wave cars from a highway as a presidential mo torcade is about to pass, but MAY DRAFT DOCTORS Washington -HOT- The Pen tagon said Tuesday that the armed forces may call up as many as 1,000 medical offi cers in the draft unless there ! is a sharp increase in volun-' teers between now and Oc tober. A spokesman said an in- creasing trend toward medical specialization contributed to the shortage of doctors in the service. - they would not threaten an other vehicle with a deliberate head-on collision except under the most extreme emergency. Much More Active With no emergency what ever involved or indicated, the Coast Guard uses the much more active technique. Boat owners see the President cruise by and gaily attempt to zip alongside for a wave or a look at the famous family at play. As many as 20 to 30 boats fall in behind a boat bearing the Kennedys at times in Newport or Cape Cod. When a private boat-in a river, harbor or the open sea comes too close in the opinion of the Coast Guard, the pow erful patrol boat slams direct ly at the offender, then veers off with only a few feet left to spare. , This can scare the daylights out of the most seasoned mar iner. Men normally accustomed to operating power boats do not use them recklessly. PLAN SOVIET VISIT Helsinki - (UPD - President Urho Kekkonen and his wife leave for a 10-day visit to the Soviet Union Oct. 3, it was an nounced Tuesday. LITTLE DAISY'S BACK! ksmm .mm mr Martha E. - She'd better not mention us in her novel. Beth T. - The others don't care. Why should Martha? Martha E. - My cousin Beth won a snort-story contest in college and now she's out to write a novel. She says she wrote a few chapters already and sent them to a publisher who is encouraging her to fin ish the thing. When she sat down with me a few days ago to ask me what I remembered about our grandmother, I sud denly put two and two togeth er. Her contemplated book will be about the family! Has she a right to blazon forth our intimate family se crets? Can't she think of any thing else lo write about? I'll tell her this much - I don't want her to put anything about mc, my husband or my children in her story. If she docs we'll get a lawyer. There must be some protection a Where put this to WHY --IN YOUR ELECTRIC HOME FREEZER, OF COURSE! fisherman's luck can be the homemaker's despair. Whot'i the poor housewife to do, when her fishermen have been too successful? Where docs she keep a bountiful harvest of fresh fish? The onswer it obvious: in en electric HOME FOOD FREEZER, of course: Freeze and preserve your angler's catch in all their froth flavor and nutritious gnodncs: Serve 'em ony lime you're ready, the year oround. Remember: freezing preserves vitamins, minerals, oml riavor oellcr than any clber method nf preservation and is cosier, too. Talk to your lavorile Col Ore Electrical League Apnlionce dealer about an electric HOME FOOD FREEZER today! See your favorite C Appliance Mart - 772-4131 Edt Transfer S Furniture - 772-7111 Feldman t Olson - 773-7751 Home Appliance Co. - 773-5395 Johnston Stores - 773-3619 leonerd Electric Co. - 773-4541 Montgomery Ward ft Co. - 773-7301 il Ore Electrical League Dealer today HOME FOOD FREEZER obou -s or! orelv. Sears Roebuck t Co. 773-6661 Trowbridge Electric 773-6241 Western Auto Supply - 772-6217 Cray's Furniture Barn, Inc. Central Point - 664-1226 Paulsen ft Gates Thrift Market Central Point - 664-1259 person can get against the blabbermouths she's related i ... Beth T. - So much tumult ! and shouting from Martha, and all about nothing. In try ing to fill in some background gaps in my own knowledge of family matters, I've been ask ing my aunts, uncles, broth ers, sisters and cousins to scrape their own memories for interesting recollections. Ev eryone's been pleased about my project. It's only Martha who thinks I'll be telling talcs out of school. I can't figure out her antipa thy. Certainly there's nothing about her own life to be ashamed of. Strangely one of my uncles who's really the black sheep" of the family has been the most cooperative. He bends my car every day now with lus revelations, many of which should be kept under wraps. With Martha's ! attitude, nothing would ever be written. ... The Council: Martha may take heart - even though part of the reason comes at Beth's expense. Not all neatly typed novels reach publication, and not all published novels get widely read. Further, since most first novels are assumed by perceptive critics to be au tobiographical, However mucn camouflaged, Beth will be A'ary about what she reveals about herself and her own roots. So the chances of any thing juicy about Martha be ing served up to the world at larjjc are just about nil. On the other hand, Beth must bear in mind the lines in the statute books about "inva sion of privacy." Bitter expe rience, including lawsuits, ac counts for the familiar line in prefaces: "Any resemblance to living persons, etc . . . is co incidental." By means of true artistry, honest motives and tasteful delicacy, our truly great writers have managed to protect their "sources," even when there are immediate family and close friends. A moving example at hand lo interest Beth is a brand new novel called "A Family's Affairs," winner of the Hough ton Mifllin-Esquirc Fellowship Award for its author, Ellen Douglas. And who is she? We don't know, because to spare her living relatives, she writes under a pseudonym. The tale digs into skeletons in the fam ily closet and feuds, as well as high points of glory and tri umph. Sensitively and affec tionately recounted, the work conies across as pure fiction and no member of Miss Doug las" family is likely to be look ing for a lawyer. Other writers have used other means to pour out their impressions about kin. Somer set Maugham. Eugene O'Neill and Fanny Hurst are among those who have made it known that some of their writinss are locked up and may not be published until alter their own death, or that of certain members of their families. Tom Wolfe, one re calls, masked the names of his home town and his family Nevertheless, some embarrass ment ensued But today, i'i years after "Look Homeward. Angel" appeared, all is forgiv en and the home folks lionize him. So lo Martha and Beth we siy, if a book is good it s be cause it helps us understand ourselves, it deals with uni vcrsals and eternals. Petty nips between cousins wouldn't even get past the first desk. A True Western Galloping Horse! Here is a Brand New Idea in Hobby Horses . . . NOT A Merry - Go - Round Horse, BUT A WESTERN HORSE, designed by one of the Nation's Noted Cowboy Artists. A beautiful horse that every red blooded youngster will want INDOORS! OUTDOORS! 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