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Oes Moines Sunday Register I Nov. 10, 1968 I Local Section I ANYONE LOSE A Voutlis Sprinkle Gasoline On Possum, Set It Afire By a Staff Writer SEYMOUR, youths "out to make a little mischief" on Halloween night sprinkled gasoline on a live opossum and set it afire in the town square here. Town Marsnal uair Hoibrook and Wayne County Sheriff Richard Willcy have connected the event of the tor- ture with a se-( nnpnre nf nther DES MOINES innMAntn in uiciuciua in me aeymour area, but no ar- SnJZ rests have been made. iff Willey says he found a set of hubcaps and in the trunk, a five-gallon can containing a dead possum, "which apparently looked like it had been burned. "I didn't think too much of it," says the sheriff.

"But I asked the driver about the hub- Hoibrook and City Councilman them in Missouri. Wayne Moore were standing! What did stir the sheriff's in-outside the town's only pool jterest was the five-gallon can in hall when the inridpnt. hannpnpri Which the opossum had been PONY-PLEASE? By Lawrence Pederson Many people would like to own a horse, but Mrs Earl Bresley of 3118 S.E. Fifth st. would like to get rid of the one that wandered into her yard Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. Bresley first became aware of the stray Shetland pony after it chased her 10-year-old daughter Lorraine onto the hood of a car parked at the home. Mrs. Bresley says she then called the police for assistance. "The policeman enticed the horse with a carrot and then slipped a dog chain around its neck and connected it to the clotheslines post.

"I think he was scared to death of the pony," said Mrs. Bresley, "because once he pulled out his black jack." "And I don't know if the chain will hold the horse or not. My little bitty chihuahua breaks it all the time." Mrs. Bresley has some reservations about having the animal in her yard for any length of time. It has already bitten her 16-year-old son Mike three times and kicked her daughter Barbara, 11, once.

"The police said there is nothing they can do about it. They said I just have to wait for someone to claim it," she says. "I called the Animal Rescue League, but they told me the same thing." tmji 4mmtmmiMmmmmmmaimmmmKmmfMiii.iitih, i iiiiu'-wmwim iiiiii m. limn nWa' Mi "ry -V Vj 4 'J 'I f' 2 'V I v-' 1 ix )'' 1 i r. 4 I "Nv -2 Senator Vote Down in All But 2 Areas By George Mills One point of interest in the Iowa election is the fact that the size of the vote for U.S.

Senator went up sharply in Johnson and Story counties but showed a decline statewide compared with 19G0. Johnson County is the location of Iowa City and the University of Iowa. Story County is the location of Ames and Iowa State University. Hughes carried Johnson County over Stanley, 16,396 to 9,373. The Hughes majority in Johnson alone was 7,023, or more than the unofficial Hughes total margin of victory statewide.

The combined Hughes-Stanley total in Johnson was 25,769 votes. Back in 1960, the last time Iowa elected a senator in a presidential election year, the combined senatorial vote was 21,147. Thus, from 1960 to 1968, the total Johnson County vote increased 4,622, or nearly 22 per cent. Republican Senator Jack Miller carried Johnson County over Democrat Hcrschel Loveless in 1960 by 10,717 to 10,430 in contrast to the 1968 Hughes Democratic victory. While the Johnson County vote for senator was showing an increase of 22 per cent over 1960, the statewide vote for senator in 1968 actually was down 94,747 from the I960 total for that office.

Both Miller and Loveless polled more votes in winning and losing in 1960 than Hughes did in winning this time. Miller got 642,463 votes and Loveless 595,119, compared with Hughes' 574,250 figure. Combined Vote 50 Students In Peaceful March Here By Jon Van A group of Drake University students staged a peace march through downtown Des Moines Saturday morning that ended with a rally on the State Capitol steps. It was the second anti-war march held here this week, but attracted significantly fewer participants. Tuesday's election day march included about 250 demonstrators and had some 150 police and Highway Patrol men assigned to it.

50 Students Saturday's march attracted about 50 Drake students and was escorted by three police men. According to Philip S. Chard, a Drake student who organized the march and obtained permits for it, the march had four purposes: To ask President-elect Richard Nixon and Senator-elect Harold Hughes to do their utmost to end the war in Vietnam, to suspend use of napalm as a weapon of war, to lower the voting age to 18 and to reform the Selective Service system. Chard said after the march that he thought it was a success as a "means of expressing our selves. This was not meant to influence others, but was fori those who marched." A letter from Governor Hughes was read at the rally expressing his sympathy with the goals of Drake's Committee of Student Concern, which sponsored the march.

"Barbaric Weapons" He urged the students to work within "the system" for the "abolishment of barbaric and catastrophic weapons of war." During the march there were no incidents. Traffic was slowed only slightly as police directed cars to drive around the marchers, who took up only part of the street. The march was led by students carrying an American flag and a banner reading "Drake Peace Vigil." Marchers sang peace songs as they walked through downtown Des Moines. Fraternity Helps At Child Home Eight members of the Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity gave two hours free labor to the Convalescent Home for Children for general upkeep of the home. The fraternity trys to do one such project every month and once a year it sponsors a Christmas party for needy children in Des Moines.

Hoibrook says they saw the flames and rushed across the street to the scene. "I thought perhaps the city's bandstand was afire," Hoibrook says. "But then we saw the possum running around on fire." Hoibrook says he then stamped out the fire which had started in some dry leaves and Moore put the opossum out of its misery. Stopped Car About 45 minutes later, sheriff Willey having no report of the incident in Seymour -rStopped a car containing three youths at Allerton, about 20 miles away. "I was just making spot checks of cars," says Willey, "because there had been some reports of vandalism in the area." In his search of the car, Sher- REGISTER PHOTO i 1 ImHki tt i icaps and he told me he bought placed.

Stealing Gasoline Sheriff Willey says the night before he had a report of someone stealing gasoline from a farm in the area. At the farm, says the sheriff, "I found a plastic "flex-: spout" which exactly matches the can in the car. Sheriff Willey says, however, he did not have enough evidence to do much. "I told the boy he could come to my home and pick up the spout if he wanted it," says the sheriff. It wasn't until the next morning that the sheriff found out about the torture of the opossum.

"Marshal Hoibrook was in my office and told me about various mischief the night before including the burned opossum and also some missing hubcaps." Hubcaps Returned Sheriff Willey says the hub caps were returned to the owner the next day. Willey said the owner did not want to press charges. Hoibrook says the problem will probably be settled by the boy's parents since there is only circumstantial evidence so far uncovered in the case. "The boy's parents will be told and he will probably be walking for a while and be grounded," says Hoibrook. Police Tell Correct Address of Raid Police reported that a raid at 3:50 a.m.

Saturday was on a house at 1442 Eleventh correcting an earlier police report which gave an address in the same block, but for which there is no house. Twenty-four persons were arrested and charged with resorting to a disorderly house. FATAL CRASH GRINNELL, IA. (AP) -Christopher B. Wigner, 18, of Rockford, 111., was killed Satur day when his car hit a culvert and flipped end over end on Interstate 80 two miles east of here.

DIES IN ACCIDENT LONE TREE, IA. Benjamin F. Keller, 60, of City, was killed in an automobile accident two miles north of here Friday night. REGISTER PHOTO Barges on Barges ply the Mississippi River between Bellevue enough to cause white caps on the river. Finds Collecting Oil Rags Can Make Life Interesting By Robert Kistlcr (Register Staff Writer) TAMA, IA.

All men have a secret desire to be different. if A Naughty Pony Tale Mike, 16, and Lorraine Bresley, 10, children of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bresley of 3118 S.E. Fifth caress a somewhat troublesome pony which Saturday afternoon wandered into their yard.

The Shetland pony, which was still unclaimed Saturday night, bit Mike three times, kicked another Bresley daughter, Barbara, 11, and caused a policeman to threaten to use his blackjack on the animal before chaining it to a clothesline. Haberman, a 57-year-old clerk admits that. Haberman collects oil For the last 12 years, he's been picking up greasy, dis carded oil rags nnrl prrhanpinff 1 o--o them at a serv ice station for clean, new rags. t- fftt He's got 735 of them white ones, blue ones, orange ones, burnt -brown ones perhaps the world's largest, private col lection of oil But that's not the important thing. Can't Explain It "What really counts," Haberman says, "is that I've en joyed myself.

It's something most people can't under-stand. But, it's something that kind of makes Tama I DES MOINES my life a little more interesting. "I can't explain it, really. I've never been interested in collecting stamps. "But, oil rags, I watch for them all the time now.

I've got them in my system. I haven't been able to walk or drive past an oil rag lying in the street or gutter for years. That's part of what being a "collector" means. What you're collecting doesn't count. It's the collecting that's important.

"I know it sounds silly, but I can't stop pickin them up," Heberman says. Any City "Heck, I to be honest, I'd have to say I don't WANT to stop pickin' them up. Haberman has "hustled" dis carded oil and grease rags from the streets and cutters in al most any U.S. city you care to name. He's even snatched a few from Canada.

His stack of grease rags is about 4'i-fcet high piled neatly in the cluttered basement of his home. What does he do with them? "Not much you CAN do with oil rags," Heberman points out. "But, I count them pretty SOMEONE SPECIAL ON YOUR fr fl I' mu ED HABERMAN Mississippi and Dubuque on a day windy admits she may be biased about her husband's rag collection. Dusted Furniture It wasn't long ago that she filched one of his clean grease rags and used it to dust the furniture. She says she just took one rag out of Ed's pile of more than 700.

"He didn't see me take it, but within a couple of days, he came charging up from the basement and asked if I hadn't taken one of his precious rags," Mrs. Haberman said. "Since then. I don't touch them." It probably won't make be lievers out of people who have never been addicted to collect ing things any kind of things but, after talking to Haber man, you have to conclude that he collects grease rags primarily because they, like the moun tain, are "there. Just Laugh "People come to my base ment," Haberman says, "look at my pile of rags, and just stand there laughing.

I know they re probably laughing at me, but I don't care. "Really, I don't. They don't understand. I just laugh along with them. But, all the time, I know I've done something no one else has.

"It's important for a man to accomplish something. For me, it's collecting oil rags. I happen to enjoy doing it." Ed Haberman's oil rag collection, along with Arthur Martin's large bottle collection, will be on display next Sunday at the twelfth annual Hobby Show on the main floor of the Odd Fellows Hall here. Will "success" spoil Ed Haberman? It's not likely. "I'm not "going to quit now," he says.

"It's not important that I've already got 735 oil rags. What really counts is to keep on collecting them." Ye! Ye! HEARING IS FOR ACTIVE PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO HEAR NEW MODEL A465 ALL-IN-THE-EARAID Slips In Place Instantfyf RECAPTURE THE SOUND AND FUN YOU MAY BE MISSING DUE TO MILD NERVE IMPAIRMENT. coiistcon Acousticon Woodard Co. 301 SECURITIES BLDG. DES MOINES, IOWA 5030 Nam Address eitv I Ilea Hughes carried Story County over Stanley this time, 13,094 to 10,368.

Their combined total vote was 23.462, an Increase of 3,182 votes in that county over the Miller-Loveless vote of 1963 which totaled 20.230. The 1960 Story vote for sena tor was upward of 15 per cent greater than the 1908 vote for that office. Miller carried Story on the Republican ticket over Loveless in 1960 by 12,360 to 7.920. Republican Richard Nixon carried Story over Democrat Hubert Humphrey for president this time by 13.327 to 9.456. Humphrey defeated Nixon in Johnson County, 13.541 to 11,484.

Republican sources are inclined to believe that the strong Hughes showing in the two "university" counties may have been due to Democratic activity and voting by students who are devoted to Senator Eugene McCarthy. Hughes delivered the speech nominating Senator McCarthy for president at the Democratic national convention last summer. Republicans are also inclined to believe that the large Johnson-Story vote this time ran be explained by the constant increases in enrollments at both universities and the fact that eligible students perhaps voted at school rather than by absentee voter ballots at home. Democratic State Chairman Clark Rasmusscn said the strong Democratic showing in Johnson "may have been due in part to the fact that we had a full-time man in Iowa City for six weeks." As a result, Rasmussen said, the Democrats had 300 workers "on the streets" election day in Iowa City. State Totals The drop-off in the total Iowa vote surprised everybody.

The unofficial state totals for president gave Nixon 616,320, Humphrey 477,686 and George Wallace, the third-party candidate, 66.258. The combined total was 1,160.264. Pheasant Hunter DiesbyOwnGun MONTEZUMA, IA. (AP) -An Ottumwa man was killed in a shotgun accident Saturday less than two hours after the pheasant hunting season opened. The victim was Delbert D.

West, 22. The Poweshiek County sheriff's office said West was hunting with two companions and was climbing through a fence when his shotgun dis charged, striking him in the head. The accident occurred along-' side a gravel county road three miles northeast of Montezuma. Christmas Casualty DOON, IA. Kenneth Schouten is the first casualty of Christmas this year.

Kenneth, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Schouten, was playing ping-pong in the basement of the family home when he made a lunge for the ball, cutting himself on a Christmas ornament made from tin can lids. The ornaments, being made by women in Doon, were hanging In the basement. join the i I Ed in a small variety store here, often and, once in a while, I just go down in the basement to look at all of them again.

"When you get right down to it, I guess you could say I'm proud of my collection. "For one thing, they're mine. It was my idea, and I'm the one who picked them up. I doubt if anybody else has got as many oil rags as I've got. "Nice Feeling" "Every so often, it's just a nice feeling to walk by that pile of rags and slap 'em on the top and go on." It all started in 1956 when the walk-in cooler in the now-defunct Haberman's Royal Dairy here spang a grease leak.

To keep the grease from drip- ping on his clean floor, Haber man went over to Wilkinson service station and bought an oil rag for 8 cents. After that, it was one oil rag after another. "I kept exchangin' dirty oil rags for clean ones at Wilkin son's," he says. "Pretty soon, I decided I needed more than one rag. I guess it was when I had about nine oil rags that it suddenly occurred to me to collect them.

Take it Back "Pretty soon, I was watchin' for discarded oil rags all the time you can find them almost anywhere. When I'd find one, I'd take it back to Tama and exchange it for a clean. new one." There is little rhyme or reason to Haberman's method. For example, he quickly dis carded the idea of keeping dirty oil rags because his wife, Eleanor, 52, would have none of it. "I don't even care much for his CLEAN oil rags," she said last week.

"In fact, I think the whole idea is pretty stupid. "It gets pretty nerve-racking when we re out on a trip and he keeps stopping the car every time he sees a dirty old oil rag. "But, I guess as long as he keeps them in a neat pile and out of my way, it all right." However, Mrs. Haberman The cost is so low on Sunday. Call anywhere in 48 states for 85c or less all Dial direct-fast and easy.

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