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( - i V.:). -u vx: f AGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON t4. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1959 .'.'.-'.3 ! I. i f r?1 Business News By FLORENCE JENKINS Klamath Falls Greeting Service! with intra-slate operating rights which was established here three in Colorado, Wyoming. Utah and years ago by Catherine Brum baugh and Anne Maun, announces 1 chanse in ownership. . . . Mrs, Mason, who is with Deane Saeh er Realty, has sold her interest tn Marlorle B. Coinslork and has introduced Mrs. Comslock to the list of sponsors. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Comslock (he is with the Bureau of Reclamation) moved to Klamath Falls about lour years ago and have moved recently into a new home on hclma M. . . . iney have i daughter in high school and one in grade school and Mrs. com stock is active in local art circles along with her other interests -0 , B&B Radio and Electric, 316 So. 6th St., has moved out all of the store's extensive stock of 78 rpm records to make way for the new Stereophonic longplay records ... the store had one of the largest stocks of 78s in Oregon. according to Joe W. Einmert, of B&B ... the store was ostab lished here 14 years ago and is a partnership of Harris and Elwin Brown RCA Victor is the line featured and a 16x 10-foot Stereo room has been acoustically treated for Hi-Fi demonstration . . . Stereophonic is explained by Emmert as the splitting of sounds through the use of two speakers, one of which reproduces the strings and the other the percussion in struments . . . B&B gave the records to the noncom officers club at Kingsley Field, Klamath Coimty Nursing Home, Henley High School and the Henley and Peterson elementary schools the gift freed about 100 feet of display space for new record stocks. Charlie McFarlan. with KFLW for the last 12 years and one month will continue his 7 a.m. news broadcast over that station and Monday starts a new associa tion ... he will be a salesman for B&B Radio and Electric. . .' . Stu Wilson, who with his wife, Lorraine, now own KFLW, ex pressed regret over losing Charlie on a fulltime basis, but stated he goes to his new position with the best wishes of the station ... as a newcomer from Southern Califor nia, Wilson said: "Business is ex cellent in the Klamath Basin and we at KFLW are certainly enjoy ing prosperity along with the rest of the Basin." Gerald West, Poe Valley rancher, has sold his 175-acre ranch to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Car roll of Yuba City, Cel., accord ing to Bobby Dehlluger of Slrout Realty who handled the deal. . Carroll was formerly with KFJ1 m Klamath Falls and has been in the radio business at Yuba City . . . new owners to take over at the end of the 1959 harvest sea on . . . purchase price was not announced. Mrs. J. E. Chase of Klamath Agency has been awarded an In-Sink-Erator garbage disposer for her "appraisal of the benefits of supermarket shopping" in the re cent nationwide contest sponsored by Family Circle Magazine . . . she listed her supermarket as the 8th and Pine St. Safeway Store in Klamath Falls. Frederick M. Armstrong, former assistant to the vice president for production at the Johns-Manville Waukegan, III., plant, has been ap pointed director of employe rela tions and management develop ment with headquarters at the company's New York office, we are told by A. J, McSwaln, of the local Johns-Manville operation . . . in his new capacity, Armstrong is expected to visit the local J-M plant ... his objective is to es tablish a list of youung candidates for possible future promotion to positions of higher responsibility 0 Consolidated Freightways, Inc., has contracted to buy the stock of Barlow's Service, Inc., Denvor, It has been announced by J. I.. S. Sncad, Jr., president of Consoli dated and 0. A. Bukhuus, presi dent of the Colorado carrier. . . . nariows service is a common earner of bulk petroleum products New Mexico. . . . Consolidated will file application with ICC for authority to issue 33,500 shares of lU stock to consummate the pur chase, Snead said. . . . Consoli dated maintains a policy of de centralized management to main, tain the identity of acquired com' panics. (Irecr Drew, of Drew's M.instore & Boys Wear, 733 Main St., has been named to the executive com mittee of the University of Oregon Alumni Assn ... he is a graduate of the class of '36, according to "Oregon Today Bill Chambers, 4604 Washburn Way, is carrying on the house moving business conducted in Klamath Falls for 14 years by his father, the late William A. Cham. bers. . , . "If it can be moved, we'll move it," Bill Chambers said ... he has complied with all requirements for bonding with city, county and slate and Insur ance provisions and regulations . . . a sergeant in the Oregon National Guard, he is currently sporting sideburns, mustache and a fringe beard. 0 Rill Warren, with Copco at Med ford, was in Klamath Falls last week laying groundwork for the observance of National Engineers Week. . . . Feb. 22 to 28 . after all, George Washington was the first United States professional engineer. 0 Dick Syring and Milton Foland. of the Portland office of Pacific National Advertising Agency, 82!l NW 19th Ave., were Klamath Falls visitors last week ... the agency handles the advertising for White Satin Sugar which is frost ing Oregon's big Centennial birtn- day anniversary cake. u Bob Weaver, Southern Oregon representative for Procter & Gam ble Co., came over Horn nieaioru and has been setting up grocery and supermarket displays for cooperation- with Ivory Soap's 80th birthday anniversary event . . . see next Thursday's big announcement. 0 Silva Construction Co., 5045 Shasta Way, has contracts for con siderable additional motel con struction in the Klamath Falls area, Tony Sllva announces . . . a 13-unit addition to Motalnre's Motel, 100 Main St., will be built . plans and speculations ny Don Byers Universal Plan Serv ice, 1620 SE Ankeny St., fontanel . . . the addition will cover ap proximately 4,000 square feet and will be brick; construction to har monize with' existing units built last year . . . next: project at that site will be construction of a 24x48 tool swimming pool for use of guests of the motel. 0 Van's Motel, Highway 97 North, will be remodeled and enlarged, as another Silva Construction job . 12 new units will be added to the 12 existing units which are being remodeled , . . the new construction will cover approxi mately 3,800 square feet . . . car ports arc being added, loo. wnicn will require 356 lineal fect of plas tic sheeting for cover from weath er .. . also Van's Cafe is being remodeled, redecorated and ex panded with an 800 square foot addition planned for this spring. O White Satin Sugar has created a recipe for Oregon mrtnday Frosting to decorate Oregons birthday anniversary cake for the Feb. 14 birthday anniversary cole bration, according to Harry Moss of Portland, Oregon sales mana ger for White Satin, Oregon's own ugar. Address , on the envelope of a card from Johq B and Teddy Lee Eblnger was P.O. Box 816, Brookings, Ore. -0 Allstate Insurance Co. will start on March 1 to write policies for accident and sickness coverage . . the two Klamath rails agents, Fred Lawrence and Arthur Grlgg, arc starting a five weeks home training course now and it will be Mystery Tale Unfolded Of Missing Widow, Child Buried In Pet Cemetery By JAMES BAAR WASHINGTON ilJPH This is a mystery story about a missing widow and her $50,000 ... a child buried in a pet cemetery. -. .cross country jaunts to Las Vegas. . . and much smooth talk. It can be called the Motherwell mystery, for the central character is a tall, curly-haired charmer named Larry Lord Motherwell. For a starting point in this story, take the lawn of a Wash ington apartment house on a warm summer evening about 10 years ago. Motherwell, then a "recuperat ing wounded war veteran" in his early 30 s, sat on a bench near 3 neighbor, Mrs. Pearl Putney. She was then a 62-year-old widow. And a remarkable friendship soon began. Motherwell did not bother to I He showed up in Washington in enlighten his friends and neigh- 148. His first wife had divorced bors about certain phases of his past which police of many cities now have pieced together. He says he was born in 1916 in Punxsutawncy, Pa. His parents named him Frank Eugene Cav enter. But in 1952 he legally changed his name to Larry Lord Motherwell. He settled with his first wife,, Dorothy, and their two children in Youngstown, Ohio, in the late 1930's. During World War II he worked on a railroad. He has no record of military service then or ever. In 1945 he was in Minneapolis where he was convicted of illegal ly wearing a military discharge button. He served six months in prison for that him. He got an apartment which happened to be next door to Mrs. Putney's. As usual, he got along famously with everyone particu larly Mrs. Putney. In August of 1949 he married a frail girl from Alabama. Sarah McLurkin, who was a librarian at the noted Carnegie Institution here. They set up house in an other part of Washington, but Motherwell often returned to his former apartment house for visjts with Mrs. Putney and other old neighbors. But Motherwell had troubles. His second wife gave birth to a mentally defective child in 1953. The Motherwells named her OREGON'S CENTENNIAL ALBUM NEWSPAPERMAN AND BANKER. (1824-1913) ORGANIZED DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 0RE6ON. RULED STATE FOR TEN YEARS (IMI-M) OREGON STATESMAN BROKE THE KNOW-NOTHING y mRTT IN OKEGON Ti SV 015- COVERING) E.'W AND PUS- IISHIN8 ITS MCDfTC PACE 1 l r ' in WITM WS.LADD. HE FORMED LAPP bush bank (isea), EXERCISING 6REAT INFLUENCE IN OREGON FINANCIAL AFFAIRS UNTIL HIS DEATH TERRITORIAL 60V. GAINES, A POLITICAL ENEMY.ONCE THREATENED TO HORSEWHIP HIM. BUSH DREW A PISTOL AND THREATENED v TO SHOOT... - followed by a final week's training nd examinations at Portland at the end of February. . . . B. M. Barrett, regional manager of All stale's Salem office since its es tablishment in 1955, has been pro moted to manager of the com pany's regional office at Hartford, Conn., according to Jim R. Banks, of Salem. . . . Barrett is being succeeded at Salem by Charles E. Colbert, formerly fire loss di rector in the company s home ot Hce claim department at Skokie, 111. I Tidewater Oil Co. announces I hat base salaries and wages of all regular employes of Tidewa ter, except seagoing, casual and certain management personnel, were increased on Jan. 21 in an amount equal to five per cent of base salaries or wage rates in ef fect that day . . . in all cases where employes are represented bv recognized bargaining agents, such bargaining agents have been notified of the proposal of the company and it will become ef fective upon acceptance. 0 Herman Oliver, widely known Grant County stockman and bank er, and Thomas K. sanaoz, pres ident of Columbia River Packers Assn., have bcen named as di rectors of First National Bank of Oregon, according t'o C. B. Steph enson, U.S. National president at Portland. 0 Top figures in Oregon's big beet sugar industry were invited to at tend a meeting on Jan. 30 in San Francisco at which Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson was .-Oated to deliver an address. Oregon industry leaders invited In clude William M. Carson, president of the slate's growers in the Nvs-sa-Nampa Beet Growers Assn., A. E. Bennlng, vice president and gi.neral manager of the Amalga mated Sugar Co., producers of Oregon's own White Satin, and J. Arthur Wood, president of the Utah-Idaho SugarCo. processors of beets grown in Umatilla County. 250 Exhibits Shown In Trial TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - The government introduced 250 ex hibits containing hundreds of sheets showing financial transac tions totaling more than one mil lion dollars as it began winding up its long case against Dave Beck Friday. The exhibits contained figures the defense , had already stipu lated as correct. : The Federal Court jury sat through the document reading after the government's last civil ian witness had been dismissed Three Treasury agents are sched uled to testiiy before the govern ment enas its case. The former Teamster Onion president is charged with evading $240,000 in income taxes for the years 1950 through 1953. The trial began Nov. 10. The government has attempted to show an increase in Beck's net worth for the years, without de tailing sources of Income. The defense has indicated it will use the argument that money Beck got from the union was in the form of loans and not taxable. FHA Statement Brings Charge PORTLAND (AP) - Edward Curran, 41, of Salem, was re leased on $1,000 bond Friday fol lowing his arrest on a charge of making false statements on Federal Housing Administration loan. Curran was arrested in Salem on an indictment from an Albu querque, N.M. grand jury, depu ty U.S. Marshal George Franizan said. Curran has lived in Salem for ahout three years. IN EASTMAN COLOR FRED MAGGIE MacMURRAY HAYES Ton A HANGING' ROBfRT VAUGHN -JOAN UACKMAN Bloody, blistering violence is i tuby-fice soon explodes against the jirl who loves him... while the mob stands ready to teir out his guts t (cn) the Uw can HaHg him! Tha BnutoZ SHOCKER that OUTSHOCKS ThmA! Mdd T0BAY! Hi ifirrri r.t THE RiViERAf n LNS Bloody.blfet.ringvio.enc, 1 rf I .TJ; v 'y iiiX is i baby-face goon explodes yr LA li'il ' igainst the girl ho loves p-Jf 9 1 "'L him.-..while the mob stands tfs I 11 Li 'L-V. af, viiSiLKl L Mora rn taw unhaVs him! I I I V f-fr r lmf-L SHOCKER snvVART Granger, SENDER? VJMIE G1AKNA MARIA CANALE fJQrv5 ARTIST ROCK 'N' ROLL Gene Yincent will be ap pearing with Clayton Wat son and the Silhouettes next Saturday night at the Klam ath Auditorium. Sene racked up a sale of nearly two million with his first Capitol record, "Be-Bop-A-Lula." Car Shortage Danner Seen PORTLAND (AP) - An acute boxcar shortage could lead to widespread plant shutdowns and unemployment in the plywood and lumber industry, 35 lumber and railroad men were told Friday. William Cole, Georgia-Pacific Corp. traffic manager, said the boxcar situation is complicated by the forest product industry's need for double-door cars which can be loaded mechanically. Eastern lines do not build many of the double-door cars because of the expense and the need of grain growers for narrow-door cars. y, , . Speakers suggested the boxcar shortage might be eased : this summer by requiring all cars to he loaded to capacity and by banning round-about routes used by some lumber sellers while they seek buyers. Heather Robin and put her in a .Beaumont, Tex. nearby home for retarded chil dren. ' Then Motherwell's wife drowned in her bathtub that fall. Police said she was alone at the time. Tbey called her death ac cidental. Motherwell had her cre mated three days later: Soon he moved to Frederick, Md., and worked as a construction foreman. The next spring Motherwell took 14-month-old Heather Robin out of the home for retarded children. He said he planned to put her in a home in Florida. The following afternoon he called at the farm of E. Dwight McCain near Frederick. McCain has a kennel and a private pet cemetery where he buries his dogs. Motherwell had a small home made coffin and a special re quest. He said sadly that the coffin its lid was screwed on contained the remains of his "be loved dog" who had saved his life behind enemy lines in Korea. Would McCain mind if Motherwell gave his old friend a decent burial in the pet cemetery? Motherwell personally dug the grave. And in the following years he often returned to see it. In the ensuing months, life went i about the usual pattern for Motherwell. . . He was convicted in Knox- ville, Tenn., in December, 1954, for impersonating a Naval officer. Sentence: Two-years probation. He continued to call on his many friends particularly Mrs. Putney. He married for a third time in June, 1956. The third Mrs. Motherwell was a small, rather plain girl named Josephone Smir aldo. She has described Mother well as a devoted husband who frequently traveled on "secret military missions." Then Mrs. Putney's 93-year-old mother died. She left Mrs. Put ney more than $50,000- Neighbors agreed that Motherwell was most helpful to Mrs. Putney during a trying period. Last June Mrs. Putney began selling some of her furniture. She also sold her cooperative apart ment. Motherwell helped. The new owner recalls that Mother well was introduced to her by Mrs. Puutney as my stepbrother, Dr. Motherwell." Finally, Mrs. Putney Stored her remaining possessions, took about $20,000 in cash and $30,000 in se curities out of the bank and drove away with Motherwell. First they drove south . . . then west. Police reconstructed their transcontinental trail through gay postcards about scenery sent by Mrs. Putney to her brother, Cas tro M. Dabrohua in Winnetka, Mrs. Putney wrote from Ashe- ville, N.C., Gainesville and Thom ville, Ga., and Sarasota, Fla. She also paused at Sarasota to draw $13,000 from a bank to which she had transferred some of her cash from Washington. She wrote again from New Orleans. . . Corpus C h r i s t i. Flagstaff. Ariz. Las Vegas, Nev., where she also rented a mail box, but never called to pick up any mail. . .and finally Marysville, Calif. Then on Aug. 16, 1958, Dab rohua received a telegram from San Francisco International Air. port. It said: "By the time you read this, I will be married. . . we are flying to Mexico for the ceremony." Motherwell flew to Washington Aug. 20, paid off $2,000 that he owed on his car and flew back to San Francisco with his wife and infant daughter Denise to pick up the car. By Sept. 18 they were back in Washington again. Dabrohua contacted Washington police. He had heard nothing from his sister since the telegram. He was worried. He suggested Moth erwell might be able to help. ine police asked Motherwell to drop by. He did, telling them lit-, tie. Then he disappeared. His wife said he told her he was going on another secret military mission and would be gone some time. Police picked up Motherwell s trail at Miami. An auto dealer re ported having bought a car Oct. 10 trom Motherwell. The trail went cold. So did the trail of Mrs. Putney. That had stopped at a motel in Marysville, Calif., police said, she had not sent the telegram to her brother, but that Motherwell had. They also estimated that Moth erwell had spent about $8,000 in a matter of months without any visible means of support. Police, trying to find Mother well, started looking for Heather Robin too. No one had seen her since she was removed from the home for retarded children in 1954. This trail led to the McCain farm. On Nov. 19 they dug up Motherwell's "beloved dog." The coffin contained the remains of a child, a few baby bottles and rattle. The search for Motherwell was intensified. On Jan. 18 a Las Ve gas newspaper ran his picture. Tipsters almost immediately re ported him and on Jan. 1!) police found him at the Baghdad Motel near Las Vegas' famous "strip." He had Sl.fioo. a new green station wagon and a new name: "Art Rivers, foreign correspondent." Guests said he told them he re cently had been covering the Cu ban revolution. Under questioning, Motherwell admitted to police that he had bur ied Heather Robin in the pet cem etery. But he insisted she bad choken to death accidentally. He also insisted that he last had seen Mrs. Putney in Las Vegas last August. He said they drove there after leaving Marysville and that she left to marrr anothpr man. Motherwell said she had di rected him to meet her again in Las Vegas in December or Jan uary, he said he had been waiting for her. i Maryland police flew to Las Ve gas with a warrant charging Motherwell with murdering Heath er Robin. Then they brought him back to Maryland this week in his own green station wagon. They found him charming company all the way. But they still don't know: Where is Mrs. Putney? "DENNIS THE MENACE" ,Mom,wulo you expmin to Joey mv BOYS DOUt PLAY WITH 0OU.S ? J FORGPT. Continuous Today from 12:45 NOW! THE ONE AND STARRING ON THE SCREEN ! k THE WHOLE MAO. MAM MARVELOUS AUNTIE MAME' MOB! Vtf Tht Duchitt from Pitlibufffh Bibcock Thi Htekhng Bin' Burntid Tut P.hlt eHfitt' ONLY -V 'fbflfon Tht Hairy ieytr Gruttomt st Oooch i Ft s TFfHWIPAXAA TECHNICOLOR .Top the beet-seller, top the play I Top ovary picture that ever mad anybody laughl (With those wonderful little heart-fugs, fool) CORAL BROWNE FRED CLARK with PATR1C KN0WLES LEE PATRICK WILUR0 WATERMAN-ROBIN HUGHES Tl IPITD Screenplay by BETTY C0MDEN end AD0LPH GREEN From the novel "Aunt Mime" by Patrick Dennis As adipted I UlylStK tor the stage by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E.Lee Directed by MORTON D COSTA irTjrJl FromWARNER BROS. Haw imi tcsmw mm y FEATURE AT: 2:15- 5:30 & 8:45 DOORS OPEN 12:45 P.M. FEATURE AT: 12:50-4:05-7:20 & 10:35 1
