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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1954)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1954 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH PALLS, OREGON Seed Growers Plan Meeting OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Corvallis Dwindling government- j owned seed stocks and prospects for a growing foreign trade aro sharpening interest in the annual Oregon Seed Growers' League convention, December 8 to 10, it Portland, according to Secretary Rex Warren, Oregon Stale College farm crops specialist. Small 1954 seed crops in this country, Canada and Europe have permitted (low of 50 million pounds of seed since July 1 from Commodity Credit Corporation holdings of slightly more than 100 million pounds. Main conference speakers sched uled to fan interest in foreign seed trade include W. H. Youne- man, USDA economist who recent ly returned from sizing up market potentials in me Near East. For eign seed production reports will be made by Stanley Weston, Ca nadian grower; Ed Geary, Klam ath Falls farmer who spent the past year in New Zealand; and Dick Baum, Pendleton, secretary of the Oregon Wheat League, just back from two months in the Far East. Proposed changes in the Oregon seed law ore up for panel discus sion by Frank McKennon, state department of agriculture; Wal lace Rice, Grants Pass warehouse operator; Mrs. Louisa Jensen, head of Oregon State College seed testing laboratory; and George Itoyce, Imbler seed grower. Tulsa Grandmother Admiis Poisoning Four Husbands ruption of her Interrogation yes terday long enough to make an appearance for television camera men. She sat through a filmed interview at which only questions from authorities were permitted. Officers said before the filming. TULSA, Okla. tfl Affable Grand-j administered the poison into the insisted on prettying herself mother Nannie Doss signed addi- food and drink of spouses from j tional statements last night that four states. she used liquid rat poisoning to County Atty. J. Howard Edmond- snuff out the lives of four of herjson said a murder charge will be five husbands. Ifllcd today against the 49-year-old bne calmly smoked a. cigarette piumplsh. Jovial widow for the Oct for the occasion. She smiled and i around with another woman and seemed to enjoy, herself during the had bought some rings." brief questioning. &dmonason said she told him Qt'OTED ... ishe poisoned Doss twice because She was quoted as saying she "he was mean to me." Once she poisoned Morton because "I lost poured "a lot of poison on his my head and blew up when I i prunes." After eating them he found out he had been running 'went to the hospital for 23 days. The day after ha returned, she was quoted, she gave him t tablespoonful of poison in a cup of coffee. Doss drank the coffee and died th next day at the hospital, she recalled. "He aura did like prunes," she said. "I fixed he ate them all. PAGE FIVE whole box and n "riSZMft I FOR "mm"'!!- w. as she described in detail how ahe J. C. Penney Pay Planned 6 death of Samuel Doss, 58, of Tulsa. Fdmondbon said the other poi soned husbands and the dates they died are: Frank Harrelson; Jacksonville. Ala., 1945. Harley Lanning, Lexington, N.C., 1952. Richard L. Morton, 64, Emporia, Kan., May 19. 1953. The prosecutor, with city offl- IPenney's NEW YORK J. C. Pennev Company, nationwide department store organization. announced to-icei-K und Kansas and Oklahomu day that its directors have author-! acents. has questioned the woman lzea a special year-end payment 5U1C6 her arrest Friday night and tor more man ou.ixra-arsociaies inisaid investigations into the deaths the company's 1,639 stores, offices jD- (0ur 0f her relatives probably Los Angeles Smog Lifting LOS ANGELES. I A heavy siege of fog in southern California, with strong doses of smocr added in the Los Angeles area, appears to be lifting. Visibility Improved last night aft er the fog had slowed highway, sea and air traffic for five days. The Weather Bureau reported that clearing weather could be expected today, although low clouds were predicted for the morning hours. Yesterday morning motorists on Los Angeles streets kept headlights burning as the fog cut visibility to less than a block. But In the after noon the fog began to thin out and In many sections visibility was not impaired. Los Angeles International Airport resumed operations ea;! yesterday after being closed down during the hight hours. Police reported that from Wednesday night until last night there were more than 2,000 traffic accidents in Los Angeles Counly, most of them blamed on the fog. Many of them were of a minor nature but approximately 300 per sons were listed as injured. United States. The payment will be an amount equal to two weeks' pay lor all fulltime associates who have been employed for the full year 1954. and proportionate amounts for ex tra and part-time associates and those employed less than a year. All Penney associates will share in the payment except manage ment staff members whose earn ings are determined largely by the company's longstanding profit sharing plan. It will be made De cember 15. In a letter to the firm's asso ciates, A. W. Hughes, president, said the payment was based upon the company's result- for 1954. "We are particularly happy to be able to make this payment as a result of what has been accom plished this past year," he sail. "The possibility of future pay ments of course will continue to depend upon year to year results." The payment is In addition to regular company provisions for as sociates' benefits, including sick benefit, gratuitous death and dis memberment benefit, thrift and profit sharing retirement fund plans, discounts on company pur chases and others. in Bonanza Parents Plan Meeting ; : BONANZA The Bonanza Par ents and Patrons Club will meet at the elementary gym, December 1, at 8 p.m., combining the No vember and December meetings. Roger Reid is Parent - Patrons president. Lenore Sparks and Ruth Pepple will be in charge of the program and will present a display of min erals,' aluminum, plastic, copper and plaster of paris. High school students will speak on the pre cious gems of Oregon. Refreshments will be served. Shrine Club Plans Projects Two important projects are the offing for the Klamath Falls Shrine Club in the near future. Saturday, December 4, the club will sponsor one of lis semi-annual dances for club members. The din ner dance will start at 7 p.m. in tne armory. Dinner will be served at 8; dancing later to the music of the Ben All Oriental Band, Chico, California. Tickets are available at (lie door only; there will be no advance sales. The local Shrine Club has also offered to sponsor the Klamath Union High School band's trip to the East-West game, at which it has been Invited to participate musically. The band will pay its own expenses as far as possible from the benefit concert to bo presented Friday, December 10. Shriners- -will provide remaining funds necessary. RKLATIVES He identified the relatives, whom he said succumbed under strange circumstances, as Mrs. Doss' mother, two sisters and. a step-grandson. After making her confession, j Edmondson related, Mrs. Doss de- ' clared, "My conscience is clear." 1 ne Bum it was u vuiiimcn, ant : ; -x uttered after each formal state- j ment. The only surviving husband is Charley Braggs, of Alabama City, Ala. Edmondson said Mrs. Doss told him the marriage to Braggs in 1921 produced four daughters, two now living. They were di vorced in 1928. County Investigator W. A. Lang said Mrs. Doss gave the following reasons for poisoning her spouses; She poisoned Lanmng by doping lils food. She said she poisoned him on a Tuesday or . a Wednes day and that he .died the following Friday. JK ALOIS She said she had been jealous if Lanning because he was popu- j lar with the. women. That was the j same reason she gave for placing the rodent killer in the coffee of Morton, a native . of Okmulgee, i Okla.. and of Indian descent. I She claimed Harrelson beat her so she poured liquid poison Into his Jug of corn whisky. ... Edmondson said she denied any : connection with the deaths of her sisters, her mother or Harrelson's 2 '-.-year-old grandson, who. pre ceded Harrelspn in. death by two! months. 1 ." Mrs. . Doss permitted an inter- VICTIMS TOKYO Wl Rescue teams poked in vain Monday through a mass of snow, rock and splintered trees for a trace of at least 14 college students engulfed by a mammoth avalanche that roared ( down the slopes of world famous i Mt.- Fuji. The body of one student Jwas found Sunday night. ' Hescock Mass To Be Held Dec. 1 A requiem low Mass will be of-! fcrcd in Sacred ,Heart Catholic Church Wednesday, December l, at 9 a.m.' for Leland Hescock, 'who droWned August 9. 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