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1956 SERIES LENTEN GUIDEPOSTS PERSONAL MESSAGES OF INSPIRATION FAITH AN ANNUAL DAILY CHRONICLE FEATURE This Is the fourth" in tetltt of stories appearing special Dally Chronicle features each weekday unUl Easter. The includes personal messages el Inspiration and faith, told by famous and successful Americans, Kelly Wanted It That Way By ADF.LA ROGERS ST. JOHNS Magazine and Short Story Writer Just hearing what Jack Dempsey said at Mark Kelly's funeral three years ago would tell you all that Mark had done for his fellow man. Then you would know Mark. Have to.

Mark Kelly was sports editor and feature.columnist of the Los Angeles Examiner. He was the best sports writer west of New York. It was Damon Runyon who christened Mark Bed Rooster of (he Arroya." Runyon used to come out to cover the Rose Bowl game on New Year's Day, and the Rose Bowl Is located in the Arroya Seco, a dry wash near Pasadena, California. At the time of this big game Mark Kelly acted as host fo all the top sports writers. It dtd seem at tlmus as though Mark owned both the Hose Bowl and the whole Arroya; it really did.

Then, too, Kelly was red headed, with a crest of bright red curls standing up like a comb. He was about 5' 7" or 5' 8" tops and had all the assurance nrxt cockiness and fight of a bantam rooster. Broke Sen Scandal Mark tore the cover off anything he didn't think was good for clean of every kind. When stories along with the most important figures from about every field anybody could think of. Mostly men.

Kelly was a man's man. The church, filled with golden light, was jammed. I wish a grea artist could have done a mural those faces as they lifted to follow the service: distinguished faces, tough faces with broken noses am on a Chicago paper In 1919, he ears; esthetic young broke the Black Sox scandal. Thisj' ac sl "'I 56 0 tears was followed by the appointment ha(l been Elran ers of a baseball commissioner with ars a Ion tlme They were all turned toward the casket that stood high and plain between us and the altar. Flower It looked like a big, wooden box and there wasn't a single flower No blanket, no wreaths, no pieces no baskets.

Not one. And that wa a gathering that by nature would have topped any funeral ever given for floral tributes. None of us had dared. It showed how we respeclei she result that baseball has been a suspicion ever since. He was a rough, tough, hard-boiled, lender, loyal, kind, truthful fear- Adele Rogers St.

John; the less man. He was the best read man I ever knew, and he could choke up and get tears in his eyes over delicate Irish story at the same time he was blow- Ing a fixed fighl or a crooked promoter out of game forever. All Loved Him I loved him and so did Demp- anS Gene Fowler and Runyon and hundreds of others who came that morning to the beautiful church of St. Timothy to pay him their last respects. Of course, we had known for time.

Not from Kelly. Kelly didn't talk things like that. He kept right on workii Oie hospital. knew he'd been. But we knew.

We could see. When Harry Brand, his best friend, and Hollywood's wittiest man, called to tell me that this time Kelly hadn't made It, I felt that the world had changed completely. had to be a different without Kelly in it. As Dick Kelly and how scared we were He hadn't wanted flowers and on numerous occasions he had said so He was not, he said, sticking ou his jaw, the type for flowers. So there weren't aoiy.

The caske vas absolutely bare. It was strange, but as the music filled the air around Us with sof beauty, I Sell the lift in the church And Just Uien Dempsey leanee over and whispered In my ear. "Kelly," he said, "is not in the box. "What?" I whispered back. "Kelly Is not In the box," Jack Dempsey said, "Nobody ever go Kelly in a box.

I do not know exactly where he ts right this minis inai. ne xept uie; he Is probably squawking to rking, making trips to St. Peter about his seats but I Usually nobody even 1 know he Is not in the box My heart swelled. I knew it, too. Kelly wasn't in the box.

Everybody in the big church I I A I Centralia-Chehalis, Washington Five Saturday, February 18, 1956 Fourteen Pages Vol. LXV, No. 41 Lost Fliers Rescued Will Investigate Athletic Administration at U. of W. 1 A A Pilot Karl Singhrs, 29, at left, and Harry Kutledje, of Kennewick, survived emergency plane landing In Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon and two davi of cold before rescuers reached them.

They were finally taken to civilization by snow tractor. Rutltdge, son of Mr. and Mrs John Kutledgc of Cenlralia, recently moved to eastern Washington from --AP ir the bwt column written after Mark's death, Kelly as a teacher. Thinking it over I knew that It was true. He taught you how to live.

A RunyoD Dream The attendance was a Runyon dream. Newspaper publishers of papers Kelly had worked for and that Lewis County Farm Values Show Gains in U. S. Census I'd felt. Their fjces were peaceful, the toughest of hey wore little lingering smiles' Uiat grew out of their memories of! manner of man Kelly had! Acre TM acre, farms in Lewis farm, values also rose against, hoodlums universi Jiuu been.

Grew out of their love for and belief in him and their knowl edge that he wasn't in the bar box up there in front the allar What more can a man do for his' an them happens fo his body in a box PUt hlS falm rial sou: oaenes ana stars, producers and fight reteiees, lanihropists and wrestlers. TV and I A 1 1 NEXT--Rosalind Russell, radio War shots and con men, cor- star, tells an un poratlon heads and baseball Halll ing in old Wend of Fame candHates all the and a rescue characters out the Hunyonla man the value Hazing Brings Youth's Death WALTHAM, Mass. l5WDst. Ally. Ephraim Martin moved today for an inquest into the death of Thomas Clark, 18, Nfnssachuseits In- stitule of Technologj- student drowned in the aftermath of a fraternity hazing.

Clark's body was found yesler-. day in 40 feet of water in the' Cambridge reservoir, about two miles from where he was last seen I alive eight d-iys ago. His body, trapped in weeds, was recovered by frogmen after an al-ilay probe of the ice-covered waters. Tne Harvey, youth was taken to lonely spot near the. Waliham-Lincoln Town line short- ly after midnight Feb.

10, blindfolded. He was told to find his way back to NUT before 8 a.m. to qmlify as a membsr of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. He had removed the blindfold police said, when he walked across the frozen surface of the reservoir and fell through weak ice i Police theorized the youth, fused at his surroundings, bel the reiervoir was an open meadow. Martin said he would nsk the Middlesex County Superior Court Io order an inquest within two weeks after pathological findings are completed.

Tne prosecutor members of the fraternity i questioned by si-ate police in his office Monday as a prelude to the Inquest. Earlier, the youth's father, Alfred Clark, an Illinois telephone executive, had branded fraternity initiation practices as "criminal." i After a preliminary aulopsy, Dr. Peter Angelo, medical examiner, said "Thomas Clark died from drowning in Hobbs Brook Basin. There is no evidence of foul play. There is no evidence of any injur- Deciszve Signature GAINESVILLE, Pia.

Picture on the "wanted" poster from Washington looked familiar to sheriff's i It looked just a man they questioned a few days earlier, but the name was different. They i up the man again, but he steadfastly insisted his name was not Herman Clark, the man wanted for Investigation of murder id Washington, D. C. But after he was fingerprinted and asked to sign the police form, he forgot the alias penned "Herman Clark," Sheriff Joe Crevasse reported. School Move To Get Study Proposed reorganization of two western Lewis county school dis- those of Boistlort and Ad- came under study of ului toa ly committee on district organi- fused at his surroundings, bellevedl at lts m'd-February ses- 6 ea sion, County Superintendent Florence Kennicott said Saturday, The county body accepted positions filed by both the Boistfort and Adna districts favoring their consolidation, and moved for a said several reor anlzati PTMb- ln lbf vtslm part of les indicating such." After the President Killlan issued a statement spying excesses associated with hazings will be eliminated.

Mrs. Kennicolt said the county group will discuss, on an informal basis phases of reorganization plans with directors of the Boistfort and Adna districts and also with Ell district directors. Speaker for the county organization body was Tillman Peterson, supervisor of school district organization for the state, who outlined principles and policies prepared by the state to guide county committees in meeting the legislative requirement lhat Casualties Tagged IWO JIMA OB U.S. Marines taking part in maneuvers on Iwo Jimd are tagging captured "enemy" troops with signs reading: "You are dead," or "You head injury." One sign, said county today are commanding higher prices than do those in most other paris of the nation. The high value aspect of Lewis county agriculture had been disclosed Saturday in the results of a survey being issued by the U.

S. Census Bureau's new census of agriculture. issued now in preliminary form for each of the 3,067 counties of the United States are i I 4IQO JllVrt IIV results of the census, which was ail decline in net farm locally since the last census. The average value in the county, excluding machinery and equipment but including- land and buildings has climbed to 515,333 per farm! according to the current census. It had been 510,091 per farm hi 1950.

The downward drift of agricultural prices, which has become a matter of major concern to the entire nation, has meant an over- the first thorough study of its kind since 1950. Average Value Up The survey disclosed that the average value of farms (land plus buildings only) in Lewis county is $163.19 an acre, which is an increase over the 1950 -figure of 5114.99 an acre. The value figure of 4163.18 an acre is more than farmers can get for their property in most parti of ttie nation, for the average price Is S84.31 an acre, it was shown. The Lewis county figure is better also than that for the western United States as has a value of whole, which pr acre. In terms of total dollars Decline Cushioned Its effect, according to the Agriculture Department, has been somewhat cushioned by -the fact that' there has been a large drop in farm population.

Farm income, therefore, on a per capita basis has declined io a smaller degree. Some measure of relief is expected through enactment by Con' Death Met by 38 Marines in Crash Of Transport Plane Against Ridge OAKLAND, Calif, Saturday began the. i i job of removing the bodies of 38 plane crash victims--all Marines--through I 2 miles of scrubby, thick brush toward a temporary morgue. The Marines died Friday when their transport jbelow the crest of a fog-covered ridge in a canyon joutheart of Oakland. No one survived.

The crash was the second major military air W)--The Legislative Council's executivej within 24 hours in the San Francisco Bay area. Four men committee Saturday ordered a "study and survey" of Thursday and four others escaped when an Air athletic administration at the University of Washington. B52 jet bomber blew up i -The council's subcommittee on education, headed byinearby Tracy. I I State Sen. William A.

Gissberg of Marysville, was assigned! The big Marine plane was i i A I i the study. Gissberg, a lawyer.i 21 miles--9 a land- lAUJIlV UUlllilllcL was a basketball star at i i 111" 8 A1 Navr Air Sla I A i on a flight from El Toro and 1 AT Pendlcton Bases in PW lC Qrrt rt AliCl J. I university. Tlie executive committee reported to file council at its regulariwwjri quarterly meeting that a full-scale 1 Uan investigation would, be too IICI1 and would prolong the turmoil on the campus. Concessions To Be Studied Gissberg will probe the athletic printing and food and drink concessions let by tee Associated Students of the University of Wash- Plane Crashes VALLETTA, Malta four enginecl plane carrying Iritish and i Pendleton Marine Bases in Southern California.

The RD5. equivalent of the DC4, carried five The others, clad in dungerees, j. were being transferred to Treasure Island Navy Base for reassignment. One passenger was from' El Toro: (he others from Camp' EW YORI Tne Pendleton. was coasting this week but there were that it might be igns of Life Pilot Was War Hero Tne pilot was Maj.

Alexander' getting primed for another forward tagton, apparently without me iromi a 3 2 of Sama Ana Ca if Things were stirring in a couple for bMs. t-gypt crashed and burned at a Silver Siar winner in Korean si lines Uiat haven't been The "chain of command," as re-p uqa Airport Saturday, killing lated to the Board of Regents, the' a 'l 5 1 persons aboard, includ- Umverfiity administration and ing a stewardess. ASUW, also will be a subject of study. A War Office announcement said 'doing that haven't been too well lately. Mijor.

Waison's last report was! Home building, pretty much on at p.m., notifying Oakland downgrade since last summer, Miiniuipal Airport he was starting! bezan to show new signs of life. an approach toward the nearby'. Federal housing officials said the he rivate P' ane chartered tojnaval air i mortgage money situation rt players ferry British soldiers and their -The fog and mist was so heavy loosening up ac 1 ep rldent i between Britain and helicopters failed for hours to ftnd, Applications for govemment-hv crashed on take-off at the wreckage 1.3M feel up in FHA mortgages in January John that TOrchvl inai n.o. (forchy) Torran ce, who handles a downtown fund for sub- Luqa, the principal airport on theldense brush country Mediterranean island. an 18 per cent jump That from Miles on the eastern side of! a the first gain since August s2 i a IB IMd uves tion spokesman said all aboard--, i 1hree majur plane crashes with-' uetro 't apparently was betting tb Husky riddcrs i n( 5 the food and drink concessions.

The llv sam au i.iam; wun-' cated ftaTu lu. 45 BrUish and six crew! in Besides the 38 killed, 0 a upturn, too. Auio-mak- a i immaryi members-were killed. i'n accident, 36 were killed 1 were 5tm Doming down ille 1 20, 1053; in a ductlon out ut id cars lh week was of the io the University. ir engined high-wing monoplane anyone knows," commented Sena-' The York carri to tor 1 Action Follows Hearing by (he executive committee, which also includes House Speaker John li 0 Bnen and Rep.

Floyd C. Miller', fallowed a preliminary, informal hearing.on the University of Washington campus earlier in the Rancher Ray Stephens narrowed another SO. 1 United Air! rom weelc before and a per cent from a year ago. dent of the University Board of Regents; former athletic director Harvey Cassili, and ChertMrg Cherberff had been fired as foot' coach prior to the hearing ball ment of the Bomber i develop wartime ianc Youth Is Held For Matricide PAWTTJCKBT, R.T. IS--Police today planned to seek Cour Noise Unemployment in the motor Industry was close fo 50,000.

But used car sales were pert- MI ir.g along at the best rate in low flying plane caused him "to!" 1011 5 And market for new run outside his house. He said: cars was expected to show two seconds after I saw "derably more zip by the end. ol it and thought it was going to hit the hill opposite me I heard a terrific crash." Ktscoers Have Slow Coins Rescue parties bad slow.Agoing March. Construction Glorlnj The construction industry took stock of its 1956 prospects this i week, and the outlook was never tor of the Associated General Con- Court ing a broken marriage. ifying the others would take some; Tne annual meeting of the Amer- ume Paper Pulp As and Cassili resigned as athleti and the gress of the President's soil bank (clouded with the University regents appear to be Records in 'Court showed farm land This years agO' con5lnlctlon program, said its Japanese' Postwar expansion will lotal $4- one day and four the next.

200.000,000 when projects now un' firs: such accident forj wa hav been completed. 111 at were designed to 1 Dupont Economist Ira Ellis carr nuclear weapons. "Expandin" industrial Providence County Al 52s Grounded on is the big news tnat Mrs. Harris. i behind the forecasts for a irocri wee petitions the 1 uefln at Seattle, ground)year ui 1956." now panted" to.

crops! nualV an mes "TMa" TM of the explosive of up to 6,349 acres in Lewis co ty, where there were 62,480 normally planted to crops, it was in excess members Annies more than i mil- Da nci witn drunkeness and extreme- ars and has a cash reserve cruelt l'- last was filed Jan 31 i vesti of S600.0CO, the committee Tne firsi two apparently were' reported. withdrawn. Presic said. Aeries Set to Meet Sunday CenlralU's aerie of RigVes will be host Sunday afternoon to more than 200 aerie members from over Southwest Washington, Io gather In the city for a district meeting and initiation of- a class of candidates: for the visitors, to come from Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Montesano, Shelton, Olympia, Tenino, Raymond', South Bend and C'nehalis, will come from Walter Smith, Centralia aerie president. The session will open at 1 p.m.

Featured guests will be Joe Batistta, Hoquiani, district director, and Bill Oliver and Ed Stanley, Aberdeen, and Ervin Kain. Che- halls, past state presidents. Raymond aerie officers are to conduct the initiatory work for To'sv tr a nd id Th are "lling for a br long cold spell more wetness. Steal His Pigeons LOS ANGELES McGarry was in jail, police say five of his friends invited themselves over for a barbecued pigeon dinner--McGarry's pigeons. "They were my special birds.

was trying to breed a different colored pigeon." complained Frank McGarry from his jail cell, where he is serving a SO- day misdemeanor sentence. The five so-called i were booked on suspicion of burglary. They denied stealing the birds. Escapee Back In Death Cell MICHIGAN CITY Ind. cf ti! TM- am M.

ditions: "Burins in IhTv upsurge which char a gave ess con- sort of "I on killing her for 1 es I 1 a move Tne youth Indiana Slate Prison today. Irvin, called the "Mad Do called the "Mad Dog" kill- TIT. because of six robbcry-slayingsiVllSS rged (o him, is scheduled Lrasli 111 die in the electric chair June 12 Tne 31-year-oM pipe insulator slipped out of the Gibson Coumv an ,3, history near Tracy, out of Kin? Street station Thursday. at 7:45 a.m. Saturday bound for don't want to risk any lives Ho iuiam.

or airplanes until we learn the The depariure marked the end cause of crash, if we can of passenger travel on the 65-year- and correct Alien said. "It old line which once was a maio- i Arcerlc an procedure. link in Western Washington's raif- OWEN'SBORO. Ky r.Ti--Twenty- Boc sent seven engineers to road network. Although no one was ready to he had sto1 a 55c at t.e scene where the It sheared off a wine, nosed over Freieht trains I believe him, the weatherman is- found MIT such committees present overal plans for school district reorganization In each county by this autumn.

Lewis county organization members ere Io go to Kelso on March 2 for a regional session on the nsw Uw. The organization Mrs. H. G. England, of the Evaline district, has been appointed to succeed Don Sweelman, who has moved from the county.

Presiding the evening was Dick- Bick- Jack Minkler, Lyle Conzatti, Robert Owens, Lyle Anderson. Harry Flelcher, Robert Fothergill, William Haynes, Dean Si-afford, John Jenningtoa and William McElroy. Quail Hunted By President THOMASVILLE, Ga. --President Eisenhower went hunting (oraches and lwo7uccesslve" 1 quail again Saturday. jM-degree cold marksln me RoilSP Aller playing.hU first round of'? tle to rural areas, the snow- golf Friday since his Sept.

24 ept ran ged from 12 inches in' WESTERHAM, England tain tl eCaSt TM cer 'nio 5 0 from dpath or 'njun cu loa sn windows' tarn it would be warmer. His of Wesley Kerr, EvansvilJe. was the plane's safely Thev Tracy orei 32 be- diction called for occasional 1 sUtion attendant. He also had kind words fo th wdav wwkenti; a uo 3 in the deaths of Schrotr ot Chica 80. the ne lecm ralure maximum ndlans women and three He was credited with keeping the he rf 3wt tem crature ycmber of a Kentucky farm passengers calm.

The combination snow and spel turned Lewis county into a i 7 for Fails To lth snow depths totaling fivei attack, the President was up eavly Saturday morning and was reported by aides to be feeling fine. Elsenhower and his host here. Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey, set out in quest of quail on the cabinet officer's plantation estate shortly after 9 a.m. The President hunted Thursday and brought down the daily limit of lutiici ui ijiigwna, LH unaiaska to 20 inches of snow in Slr Winston Churchill slept peace- Pack Deplane said as "we nol hit vlJl AluK A mother anything and us of her TM died Satur a fire which firemen in Home to Six A mother and ip- I parently started from an oil The plane was enroule from Evansv-ille. to Chicago via Owcnsboro and Louisville.

1V111 LiltieS I uiroujh smaH two- Carlton Mike Brj-wnt 32 A brick home. Packwood. fully Saturday while a fire flared miraculously, traffic on 'y a few feet from his bedroom if 531 had been reported fames were extinguished inl' VICHY COUIttv Or a i Collector -vs: offices will be closed Wednesd.iv Trnuno of rOUp6 the birthday of VIENNA, Austria --Radio (ol Prague said Saturday the Czecho- of Commerce In the f'ovsk ol Culture put on the New York Troupe which and Bess' 'in press said the op- a realistically showed ex- Thursday. No public cere- P'onaL'oa of the American Negroes planned for tfie Whiter, and the poor and prim- of.