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Residents May Have AT' I Three Killed in Crash Flames Engulf Vehicles Death came to a young Eugene mother and her Infant son and a hitch hiker Friday about 6:05 p.m. four miles south of Halsey tn a head-on collision PRICK 10c PER COPY Albany, Linn County. Oregon. Friday. May 22.

1959 To Carry Own Milk l)c. tl resilient m.i i to the tl.iiry plan's here to Ret tlti Mijiply milk ltivam if the tlireat-t rioii sttiko of milk truck drivers takes pi. ire. Possilility of a milk delivery strike litvanif serious yesterday when Medolatul Dairy and teamsters union ocal broke otf negotiations. The truck dri- vers are asking a Hi-cent- In Washington wh theie was i i a milk strike, fanners and dairy-an-hour wage increase and, alloww, tl, Wlvpr some extra holidays.

enough milk to supply hospi- In past years farmers and bakeries, babies, etc. dairvmen brought their milk and In Albany Cooley's Dairy is cream to the dairv plants, but lui nonunion but it could not lx recent vears lame milk tank supplv. the demand. WORLD YflDES I Prom 'I Here Vi-'r 1 ThwtA by nUUI CTX. HOWAXB 1 "rvauis tne local sunny- I'airy is non-union but it between a car and pickup truck.

The crash caused the vehicles to catch fire as a gas tank evidently exploded. Killed In the accident was Mrs. Unacaye all Z2 Eogene and dying enroute to the haupl- J'l -wnn and father. DonaM was inured bu was abk-, be; nlna iusi4 mm In nuctdlA 1 1 hi released from the hospital Tint of the week. Also killed In the accident was a sailor who was hitch- hiking in th other vehicle, who, has been tentative Identified as G.

L. Oriorne. Taroma. but as his bady was badly burned naval authorities will in vestigate the death. duI the sailor from the pickup be oPthe Tn terV "from irnlmr ch milled out cause the burning cab, hut pulled out I vet, -I i "k'M.

COUKI not begin to supply the entire citv, lf the strike docs occur, more than Jon truck drivers and union woikers In the Salem, Albany and Corvallis areas vyould be idle and everyone would learn in Just a short time how Important milk is to their way of life. June 1 Date for Central Linn Budget Vote Pates been announced for public meetings to discuss the STHOLL1NG DOWN STREET In St Trt. I ranee, with unidentified friend tuft), Elizabeth Tavlor and Eddie Fisher enjoy break honeynioim cruise on Mediterranean Sea. Hobby soxei i. Mcgt 1 them for autograph.

-the driver, er, 33. San Merle Herbert Turn- 'of nK rnpf't n' pwularly fitted M'm'irnent to 10 people at the Pablo, Cal, and thl. Regiment, which is In-! urt We under-rs of the Walls fa-j tended to guard and protect our Un'' mof LIIII1 FAT LAF3B, WOOL SHOW DUE AT SCIO THIS WEED tojCcntr.il Linn schixd district bud-I get hich vvill be voted upon in Volume XLVII. Number IS THIS WEEK IN HISTORY May 31. 1885 The property of the Willamette Fall Mlnlnv (Vimninu ar ntA tQda a( Rale oT tne of numw.

creditor. The property Is re- cost not less than X)000i hut th. ful sum of $11,500. May 21. 1848 1 off1' vh 11 1 f- reon lf of oUc rr lit" will produce heart burning wlih all other officers of the same grade Captain Fremont is ral explorations Oregon and California Is an officer an pxrrtiTpn raw man emigrants to Pres.

Jas. K. Polk diary May 21. 1843 Sunday Cooper's wagons, with some others, start out from the encampment in the I go to Fitzhugh's Mill with Squire Burnett and others to sec; the committee and Captain Gantt. In order to see what arrangements had been made to score the captain's service ns pilot.

This day was fine and clear. Took a farewell look at the state of Missouri. We overtook the wagons at a grove of timber, south of the Santa Kc Trail, where we cn camjied for the night. James W. Nesmith diary of the emigration of May 22.

1900 Every business house hut. two and 'most of the dwellings of Lakevicw were destroyed by a fire which swept through Lake- view tonight. The fire started in the upper floor of the Lakevicw Hotel, and Its origin is a mystery. A Republican party raliy was being held in the opera house at time, and a large part of the population was attendlsg so that, because the band was playing, the sound of the fire bell was not immediately heard. There are no lives reported lost hut many of the townspeople are left without shelter and nearly destitute.

May 22. 1902 By net of Congress, Crater Lake National Park was created today, embracing about 250 squar miles, of land in Douglas and Klamath counties. The lake Itself is about six miles in diameter with an area of 21 square miles, and Is known for in great depth and the Intense blueif its waters. It was discovered in by John H. Hillman anil party of prospectors, ami was first named Deep Blue Lake.

The present name was given it by a party of visitors fmni Jacksonville In the year lMKi. May 23. 1868 A tost, or encampment, of the Grand Army of the Kepuhlle was oiganlrcd in Portland today, un der authority of the Department of California ol J. M. Drake Is the Command'T.

We understood that other encampments will be ideal one but is designed to pro mote loyal sentiment and preserve fraternal feelings among soldiers of the L'nlon armies NEW REPAIR MAN Newest business man on North Ninth street in Corvallis is Fred Watkins, who Is associated with Johnson's Saw anil Motor 'service. Watkins has had factory school training in mechanics and Is an experienced motor and saw repairman. three members mlly from their car. Turner was listed In fair condition after being taken to the Albany General hospital. Witnesses told police that Wall was driving northward and was pulling out to pass when he collided with the oncoming pickup driven by Turner which rammed the right front side of the Wall car.

A car driven by Mrs. Vivian R. Embrey, Portland, going south behind the pickup could not avoid the crash and hit the truck and swerved Into the ditch on the east side of the highway. Mrs. Embrey suffered only minor hurts.

The Halsey fire truck was called to eingulsh the blaze. The accident Friday and one earlier the same day brought traffic deaths In Linn county ho far this year to 11. Services for Mrs. Wall and son were held Thursday, May 21 at Squlre-Slmmons-Carr Mortuary. Missoula, with interment in Missoula.

Mrs. Wall has a number of frlentWNn this area. She was born Sept. 12, 1936 in Cutbank, Montana, later living at Spokane, Taeoma and Fort Lewis, and Ft. Sill, and had lived at Eugene since February.

She was married on March 17, 1956 at Missonta to Donald W. Wall, who survives, as do her mother, Mrs. John Schramm, Missoula; her father, Irving E. Slier, Seattle and one brother. Kenneth W.

Slier, Missoula. Local arrangements were handled by Fortmillcr Frederlcksen Funeral home. Asks SI Million For Forest Lab Near Corvallis WASHINGTON Sen. P.ichard L. Neuhergcr D-Ore i Tuesday urged appropriation of-up to one million dollars fur construction of a forest biology laboratory at Corvallis.

He told a Senate appropriations Fumes Fatal to Petals Worker At Wah Chang Donald Willis Raymond. Albany, a furnace operator at the Wah Chang Metals (inn's reduction plant at Albanv. died of Tuesday fioin argon gas fumes. The accident happened about 2:30 a.m. Raymond was preparing to lemove some metal from a tank used for processing n-lumhitim ami titanium.

Ar'nn gas is piped in to the tank and after processing is finished the gas is pumped out and the metal removed. Raymond evidently failed to wait until the tank was cleared of the gas. His body was found by two fellow workmen, who summoned a doctor and started applying artifical respiration, to no avail. 'An autopsy determined death was due to asphyxiation. Eccaiij.e Kawnoin! was standing with his arms and head inside tho tank, fellow workers at first thought nothing was wrong but when he did not move realized something had happened.

This was the first industii.il fatality at Wah Chang during its three years of oicratlon. Raymond was born Oct. 30, 'at and came lo Albany in after his dis charge from the Army, having been In the Korean conflict He never married. He beloiuied to the Albanv Eagle Indue. Ite-sides his father, Clayton Kay.

tnonil. McMinuv ille, he is survived by his grandfather, three sisters and five brolheis, including Robert W. Raymond. Albanv. Services will In- held at Fort-mlller-Frederlcksen funeral chapel Saturday, May 23 at 2 p.m Rev.

James H. llurlhess of the Faith Lutheran church will officiate. Mrs. Robert Wilhorn will sing and Mrs. Ralph Helns will be organist Burial will be In Willamette, Memorial park.

Circus Coming Here Thursday The 5 ames Bros, Variety Circus will appear In Albany Thursday, May 28 under auspices of the Linn county Forty and Eight Voiture No. WM. at the Junior high schmd' auditorium. Third and Railroad streets. The show will have clowns, acrobats ahd a variety of animals, bringing the children of the area the thrills of the old time circus.

The show will feature the famous James Bros Liberty pony drill team of movie fame under the direction of Cap'. Johnnie Cline This act Includes the world's smallest performing elephant, a baby only Inches high. Also on the bill will be the famous "V'olantes" of television fame, performing on the high unicycles. This tr has been In many HollywiKid movies and on a number of TV programs. There will be two performances, at 4 pm and at 8 p.m Admission to the benefit show Is 50 cents for children snd $1 10 for adults, plus tax.

Bargain tickets, 10 cents each for kiddies can tie purchased school. Lebanon To Vote Friday on Budget Lebanon citizen will again be asked to exceed the six percent limitation on the city budget for the 1959 60 fiscal year. A resolution and an srdlnance passed by the city council Tuesday night calls for a special election to be held Friday, May 22 at which time voters will decide whether to exceed the constitutional limit on the Budget by Folia will be open front 8 a.m. to 8 m. Polling pla.f will be at Hoeck'a Chevrolet garage, Ward Lebanon Junior High school.

Ward II, and the city hall. Ward nr. This will be the fourth year- in a row that voters will be asked to exceed the budget limit with the past amounts ranging up to (JOO. Council men said that paring the budget redmsyd the total by about S.1,V from last year. MARRIAGE LICENSES Jody Ray Towry, 21 and Kay Sharon Burroughs, 19, both of Eugene, Larry Allen Coakley, 19, and Joann It.

Hanson, 17, both of Lebanon. truck have been directly to the farms to pick up thc These trucks an r.t.-il by drivers who are members of! the teamsters union At Corvallis, milk is brought to the Mcdoland plant in hue trucks from Eugene and the local supply would be completely cut off If such at lion is ordered by the union. In Albany the milk supply Is from local dairies In Linn, Benton and Marion counties and the Snow Peak dairy could continue to operate if the milk arrives at their processing plant. In this case also the milk Is brought to the Albany plant by unlo.i drivers, and they could be ordered not to pick up milk from the rural routes. In order to supply local hospitals, homes and customers with babies and infants.

It is believed that at least some dairymen' would bring milk the Snow Peak plant. The problem Is, of course, whether farmers would pass picket lines around the creamery and no doubt union plant ooerators would refuse to cross picket lines if established. Planned Here Plans for a 51 bed convalescent hospital In Albany were revealed Wednesday by developer MJrvlu Johnson, to Im constructed near Queen avenue and Hill street. The hospital would cost about $120,000. It would have a staff of 10 persons and an annual pay-oil of about $1110,000.

Johnson said he has been trying to get the hospital started for more than a year and that he hopes to add another 51 bed unit besides the one first built. The first unit would have 9,300 sipiare feet. Plana call for an X-shaped structure with room for kitchen, laundry and recreation facilities. The single-story hospital eventually would total 16,500 square fck. The rick veneer building "wiir.havc un IhmI and four-bed wants and individual rooms.

A sieclal zoning permit was granted Johrson by the planning commission to allow construction of the hospital on pro perly located lietween lHth and r.lih avenue west of Hill, street. Jury Indicts 2 On Death Charge Two men were Indicited here for negligent homicide Involving traffic deaths when the Linn county giand Jury met Tuesday. Harold Harrison. 20, of Sweet Home, was arrested Wednesday and ball was set at $1,000. He was driver of a car March 30 which left the road two miles south of libation and crashed Into a power jxile.

Fatally injured was a passenger In his car. Pvt. David A. Waillngford, 17, of Rt. 1, Sweet Home.

Indicted for negligent homicide and also for manslaughter was Walter John Burbank, -21, Monmouth, who was driving a car Involved In an accident Jan. 12, 1958 on Highway 20 a half mile east of Albany. Killed In the head on collision wera Frederkk M. Smith, 27, Albany and Robert L. Harlan, 25, Corvallis, who was driving the other car.

Burbank is free on $3,000 balL hi liew Hospital ANOTHER WAREHOUSE This week the Dodd Machinery Corp. 'announces it will build a 'xlustrial park. It will give purchased sites in the new Draper Industrial park In Albany and that mie Industry Is negotiating. In the near future several thousand workers will be employed at this location and the demand for homes will be brisk. MAN TAKES WIFE HOME Many men take their wives home, bui Dave Gurley of Miami, Florida Is not only the most for-( giving husband, but also the i bravest, His wife, Beatrice, has; admitted In court that she paid SLOW to have her husband killed.

The judge In the attempted murder trial which found the wife guilty, asked the husband if he wasn't afraid to sleep In the same house with Beatrice after she had tried to have him killed. Dave said. "No. not at all. Beatrice just gut a little mixed up." THREATENS TOTAL STRIKE James Hoffa, teamsters union head, has threatened U'lth it I ulrlb.i" it 1 passes an anti-trust law for the unions.

It amounts to the same thing as a revolution and could cause untold damage and suffering in our country. AFL and CIO President tJeorge Meaney said yesterday (hat Hoffa could not count on support from the AFL and CIO unions. At the present time the nation Is almost under control of the teamsters union. 300 LOST BIKES More than 300 bicycles were sold at auction last week bv the Portland police department. These bikes, plus a lot of trlkes were left In parks, on lawns and vacant lots by absent minded children.

100 LOGGERS PICKET While Governor Hatfield was speaking In the Eugene hotel Thursday night, 100 loggers drove their unloaded trucks around and around the hotel. They were protesting the veto by Hatfield of their truck bill. BIG PAUL BUNYAN Kenton businessmen are erect ing a toot high Paul uunyan statue as a boost for the Oregon Centennial, which opens on June lo Just three Wednesdays froni now. This huge statue will stand for the of birthday party at the intersection of Interstate Ave. and N.

IX'tiver street. WORLD'S LARGEST TOTEM Work will start this week on the final touches of a 30 ton, 50 foot log being carved into the world's largest totem pole for the Centennial. The pole is more than six feet in diameter and is a cedar log furnished by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. An Indian "Lclooska" of Hubbard, who weigh 300 pounds, is doing the carving. INCOME TAX TAKE DROPS Personal income tax receipt! dropped from S64.63fl.Ml In 1958 to in 1359, according to the atate tax commission.

Corporation excise tax receipts were down from fl 1,009.970 to $5,529,082. Now more than 25 percent of Income goes to pay Income taxes. After other taxps are paid there ton't much left. GINGER IN ROGERS Ginger Rogers will get on May 18 for playing In a Lon don TV show on May IS One London paper in reporting th show aid. "There is plenty of ginger in Rogers et." MR.

LOONET RECOVERING Mrs M. Uxmey and Milton New jioft of Tjngent, in Mr New-jjor! station wagon, motored to Portland Friday and brought Mr U.inf-y home fom Emanuel hospital where he had been transferred afw his recent auto accident His frierrds -sili be glad to hear Mr Looncy Is recovering slowly but satisfactorily from his injuriei. a special election June 1, Meetings will lie held on the following dates: Shedd gymnasium. May 21; Brownsville elementary id tilt i purpose room. May and Halsey sixth grade room, May i'li.

A general meeting will lie held, in 1 tie high school library at Hat -si-y un May 2f, All meetings will start at p.m. School district voters on May 4 rejected a bndet Which was over the six percent stale limitation. Since then the budget board has trimmed about $3,000 from.the total. After the election, budget, board members said they felt many persons did not realize what budget Items were responsible for increased costs. Collision Fatal ToHan.Voman HALSEY A head-on collision on Highway 99 two miles south of here about 10:15 Friday sent two persons to the Albany hospital fatally Injured.

They were George Neely, 1 220 NE HUHh Portland, who died Monday at 6:10 a.m., and Mrs. Doris Sigenthaler of Eugene. Sh suffered a compound fracture of the right arm and facial Injuries. State police said ohe was travel- Ing north on the highway and had Just passed a string of, cars. She lost control of the car when her right wheel hit the shoulder.

i She swung back to the left and struck nearlv head-on bv th hbound car operated by Neely. The Impact was so terrific that the motor of her car flew through the air anl struck the Inst car she had pased in the string. This car was ouerafod by Holder Rood- jell. Taeoma No one was Injured in his car. Poliis? Bnid if Mrs.

Slgenthtler had had her seat belt fastened she would probably be alive today, as her Injuries rame from being thrown violently against the right side of the car whereas the driver's aide was hardly scratched. BABY BOY FALLS FROM CAR BUT ONLY RECEIVES BRUISES A little boy escaped with Just scratches and bruises when he fell from his parents' car about two miles south of Halsey Wednesday. Doctors said It was a mlra.ia he was not seriously Injured when he opened the right front door and fell out of the car, going about 60 miles an hour when the mishap occurred. The child was Reld Smith, 2H year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Richard A. Smith at Pendleton. 1v JusttHt nil 1 The iTh annual Linn County I'll I inin nil, I Ht will le this week-1 end. getting underway Frldjyj evening with the queen's ban-I ipiet and coronation rev ue. I The 7 p.m.

banquet, oen to jtlni puhlic, will be held at the grade school gymnasium, to be followed by the coronation and I revue at 8 m. in the hili school gymnasium. The three princesses are Carol i hrisman. Karen McDonald and I.urlyn Neusehwandcr, but which one will be crowned queen Will he kept secret until Friday. I The program after the corona- lion will feature a home talent revue and old fashioned style I show, announces Festival President Arvo'i Bates.

A full day of activity Is slated Saturday, starting with the big 1,1 Tl. 1. I JrtraH- ai 10 n.in. i in- uii'iiu- tn this year's fair is "Progress 1839 1959," although judging of parade entries will not be on the Centennial theme but on originality, workmanship and design. Two new festival features this I year are a lamb barbecue and a greased pig scramble, the latter open to children 12 years old and under and to women weighing over 200 pounds.

The winner gels the pig if they catch one unassisted. The scramble and barbecue will be held on Sclo's main1 street Immediately after the parade. I Paul Drushella will.lte chair man of the harlwcue, which barbecued lamb andwlches will be old. Other events include judging of fat lambs and wool fleeces, knitted and woolen handwork exhibits, and sheep dog trials. The wool division as well as the annual flower show will be held at the grade school gym, "Through the Years" is theme of the flower show, sponsored by the Sclo.

lew. Jordan, SHo Countryside and Friendly Farmers garden clubs. 20,000 Damage Suit Filed Here Suit for $20.00 general damag es has been filed In circuit court here by tary D. Gortmaker, ad ministrator of the estate of Joseph A. Fordyce, who was killed In an automobile accident May 27, a bout sIk miles west of Sweet Home.

The action Is brought on behalf of Juanita Marie Fordyce, 17 year old daughter of the accident victim. Funeral expenses of $112 also are sought. Named defendants are Heber O. Rogers, Sweet Home, and Orle Blackwell and Albert Van Eppa, both of Rt. 1.

Lebanon. According to authorities, the Fordyce station wagon had overturned and Blackwell, who was towing Van Eppa' ear. had stopped to give help when the station wagon was struck by an oncoming car driven by Rogers. The plaintiff charget that Van Eppa and Blackwell had been negligent In parking their can so that the headlights" blinded oncoming traffic, and that Rogers had been negligent In drtv- In too fast to stop within the distance covered by his head lights. RECOVERING FROM FALL Mrs.

Alvin Carnegie 1 making good progress In recovery from a broken hip and is reported be coming quite agile with tfie wheel chair Slu is at the home of her son and family, the Orris Car negie In Albany, and Is glad to see visitors. Letters Fail To Help End Strike The letters to the employees sent out by the sand and gravel companies on strike In Corvalll-and Salem which were received Saturday by strikers apparently evoked no response. -Officials of the Teamsters Union and die leaders of the Cascade Employers Group held a closed meeting In Salem to talk terms on Monday night, but apparently no satisfactory solution had been made, as the strikers still are outside the two plants in Corval lis Corvallis Sand 4 Grarel, and Builders' Supply. Sweet Home Logger Crushed At Kings Valley In a logging accident Monday near Kings Valley northwest of Corvallis John Post ma of Sweet Home was fatally injured. Postma, who was logging for himself, was crushed beneath a tractor which rolled over on hWn.

He was attempting to bring co large logs down a steep incline when the logs slid and pulled the cat against a stump, causing It to overturn. The accident omirrcd alum' 3 p.m.. four miles east of Kr Valley. Services, arranged by Tine-well Funeral home, were ln- -uled Thursday, May 21 at 2 n. at the Sweet Home Chun li of Christ with burial In Gilliloid cemetery.

Postma, who was burn April 18. 1922 In Platte, SI), was an Air Force veteran of World Wtr H. He Is survived by his 'e, Betty; four children. Pat i Betty Nell, Kenneth and Dc.nvs, all at home; two sisters, s. Henrietta Farmer, Portland nd Mrs.

Grace Ellcrbrook. Till-mook; two brothers, Harold of Sweet Home and Dave, Ast.ir and his father, Joseph, Post a. 1000 Linn Hen Hay Have Strike To give support to nego'ia-tlona for new contracts, Interra-tlonal Woodworkers of Ameriea locals have voted to go on strike this summer if "satisfactory settlement" is not reached Contracts expire June 1. More than a thousand I'A'A members working in Lch.m' n. Sweet Home, Foster and Mi.i 1-ty area woodworking plants voted to Join other union members In such a strike.

The IWA represent about 45,000 lumber- worker In California and in 'he Northwest. Byron Msbee, financial -e-tary for fWA at Sweet Horn. Mid the total vote was giving the union negotiating full backing, with 3.319 against YTSrTTNG FROM ALASKA William Obermever as been In Alaska for several ir Is now visiting at the hoi of his son Bill, In New York 'y. where he plans to stay a year. Bill Obermeyer.

wb-, it- tended Albany high school lias been teaching at Columbia uil-versity In the medical department far the past four years. subcommittece the laboratory 'organized. The order Is not a pol would provide research to overcome insect and disease which destroy the equivalent of 21 billion board feet of timber yearly. He said he had been advised Corvallis Mould be an Ideal location for the laboratory because of its nearness to Oregon State College. Neuberger also asked the committee to vote an additional timber sale administration by the Bureau of Land Management 4 Vt 4 i 'f mf SJ SPORTIMi BATTING AVERAGE above 4H0-mai.

Hank Aaron, Milwaukee Braves' outfielder. uti baU that must iordt tike this to San Francisco Giants, latest victim. STANDING ATOP MARKET, these notorMs ere res rued by SL Joseph firemen after Rash flood wLt cars against store will from neart; parking spot..

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