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SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1959
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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WITM WS.LADD.
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bush bank (isea),
EXERCISING 6REAT
INFLUENCE IN
OREGON FINANCIAL
AFFAIRS UNTIL
HIS DEATH
TERRITORIAL 60V.
GAINES, A POLITICAL
ENEMY.ONCE
THREATENED TO
HORSEWHIP HIM.
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PISTOL AND
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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