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ROSEBURS NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MXRCR- 2 f, 1945 THREE c 11 Local! News, Guardians to f tt Friday The Camp File Guardians are asked 1o attend an especially important meeting Friday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock at the library In the Junior High School. , Benefit Card Party Evergreen Grange has invited the public to attend a benefit card party Fri day night at 8 o'clock at the hall. Prizes will be awarded winners In five-hundred and pinochle anc refreshments will be served. To Play Over KRNR Wanda W. Althaus will present Robert Franks, Mary Ann Green. Bar bara Lee Casey, Rae Carl and Dorothy Morberg, piano students, on the program, Recital Hall of the Air, over KRNR this evening ut 8:15 o'clock. D. of U. V. to Meet Florence Nightingale Tent No. 15, Daugn ters of Union Veterans of the Civil War will meet Friday night at 7:30 o'clock at the K. of . hall, at which time Mrs. Laura England, Eugene, department president, will pay her official visit. Social Niqht Planned Rlv rrsdale Grange has invited all members and friends to attend the March social night affair to be held at 8:30 Saturday evening at the hall. Entertainment and dancing will be enjoyed. The committee in charpe include: Mr. and Mrs. Eric Trozelle and Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Ogle. Paint Rislit Over MIRACLE WALL FINISH COSTS ONLY A GALLON Umpqua Valley Hardwart 202 N. Jackson Phone 7) I Your . Optometrist Is qualified by thousands of hours of eye study To care for your precious sight Trust him to save, preserve & strengthen Your greatest sense. EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FURNISHED Dr. Dean Bubar 108 N. Jackson Roseburg PHONE 214 WALLPAPER! r t. y Y. F. W. and AUXILIARY POST 2468 Meetings First and Third Thursdays of Every Month 8:00 P. M. Eagles Hall DANCE At South Myrtle Saturday, March 23rd Music by Melody Mountain Boys Admission: $1.25 per couple Midnight Refreshments- Hutchinson III Cuunty Com missioner J. Ross Hutchinson was ill in bed with influenza today, on his retur n from a trip to Eugene. Council To Meet The Junior Woman's Club Council has an nounced an important meeting lor Monday niht at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Jack Josse. H-t.'t Madrone avenue, Laurelwood, for the purpose of discussing the year book and making a nominating report. Concert Dated by Methodist Choir The choir of the First Metho dist Cnurch, under the direction of Tom McNeill, will present a concert Sunday evening at 7:30, at the church. Mrs. Gorden Stew art will be ori'anist. The proram will be as follows: Joyful, Jovful. We Adore Thee Van Dvke-Beethoven. Hark, Hark, My Soul Shelley. The .Choir Baritone, solo (selected) II. D. Scott. Give Unto the Lord Cadman The Choir Sprano solo Selected Miss Ruth Collelte Bless Thou the Lord Ivanoff Send Out Thy Lieht Guonod The Choir The public is invited. Similar Erograms will be given monthly y the choir. Truman Appoints Two WASHINGTON, March 21. LV) President Truman today an nounced his selection of Rosel H. Hyde of Idaho to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission. Hyde has been counsel for the FCC. The President also announced the reappointment of fl. Russell Young as a member of tie District of Columbia Commissren, under which the City of Washington functions. Hyde, the President said, was selected for the Republican va cancy on the FCC. The song of the hummingbird is so high-pitched that human ears cannot record it. RUMMAGE SALE Job's Daughters Saturday morning, 8:30 A. M. Back Entrance Powell's Hardware Store RUSSELL'S Typewriter Service Office Machine Service and 8uppliea 335 N. Jackson Phone 320 Let Us Check Your Brakes Now Prompt Service on Brake Relining CORKRUM MOTORS DeSoto 114 N. Rose Plymouth Phone 408 MONEY Real Estate Leans For Building Refinancing Purchasing Monthly Repayment Plan Umpqua Sayings & Loan Association Phone 608 Baseball, Track Schedules Drawn For Roseburg High Spring schedules for track and baseball teams at Roseburg High School were announced todav by Coach Mel Ingram. The schedules were drawn uo at Salem in a state high school activities confer ence which Ingram and Omer J. Monger, principal, attended last week. Track will open April 11 and 12 with Interclass meets, Ingram said. The Inter-school schedule in cludes a meet with Cottage Grove in Roseburg, April 2G. The In dians will also run at the Hav ward relays in Eugene, Aoril 19; the tri counlv meet, Eugene, May 3: the district meet, Eugene, May 10 and 11. and the state meet at Oregon Stale College, Corvullis, Mav 17 and 18. Home-and awav baseball sched ules have not been arranged to date, Ingram said, but home games with Springfield, Junction Citv, University Hrgh, Eugene, Grants Pass, Medford, Myrtle Creek, and a few more "B" schools have been scheduled. Coach Homer Grow's tennis team will play Grants Pass, Med ford. Klamath Falls Springfield, Corvallis. Salem and Eugene in home-and-away eames. Tentative football schedules for next autumn were also planned, Ingram said. While they were attending the conference in Salem, Monger and Ingram alo went to sessions of the state basketball tournament. The three outstanding teams there were Eugene, Medford and Lebanon, Ingram said, and a number of teams In the state tournament were not able to fin ish better than the lower divis fon teams in the Tri-County League of which Eugene was champion, the Roseburg coach re ported. Magazine Has Article by Highway Engineer Lytle The current issue of Western Construction News, a trade maga zine published at San Francisco, carries an interesting article by K. D. Lytle, of Roseburg, division engineer of the Oregon State Highway Department. Mr. Lytle has furnished a de tailed and technical report on construction features of the Grave Creek-Coyote Creek section of the Pacific Highway, involving ex penditure of $660,000 for grading and surfacing 4.4 miles of new roadway, on which 4,218 degrees of curvature will be reduced to 480 degrees and the number of curves reduced from 100 to 10. The project, Engineer Lytle points out, is characterized by heavy excavation and improved embankment stabilization pro cedure. ' i. Boy Scouts, Parents to Unite in Rally Here Boy Scouts and their parents in the Douglas District will hold a rally at 7:30 tomorrow night in the Roseburg Armory, It was an nounced today by Dave Taylor, chairman of the camping and activities committee. The pro gram will include entertainment and demonstrations of Scouting activities. The committee in charge of the rally includes, in addition to Tay lor, V. V. Harpham and Jim Stoop. The Douglas District of the Boy Scouts Includes communities in the county from Drain to Glen dale. Two Courts Levy Fines On Traffic Violators Two traffic violators were fined today by Justice of the Peace Thomas C. Hartfiel, he re ported this morning: Fred H. Wolkse, overload, $10, and Wil liam T. Evan, Jr., overload, $25. Two other traffic violators were fined yesterday by City Re corder A. J. Geddes, he reported this morning: Thomas Lamour eaux, operating a car without a driver's license, $15, and Gcorze F. Hughes, speeding, $7.50. What Size? PORTLAND, Me.. March 21. t7P The men's clothing situation is no better here than elsewhere. So police scratched their heads when William A. Glen brought In a brand new mnn's suit, eomnlete Evenings 4:459:15 This Double Bill Will Tickle the Funny Bone of the Whole Family f V .ft TUGBOAT ANNIE . Also V-WV' A MONEY ,.Tfrl0At' STORM RIO AN Jj t DAILY DEVOTIONAL PR. CHARLES A. EDWARDS "May the good lrd grant you happy landings." said the Chief of Army Chaplains as he grasped the hand of Bishop Adna W. Ionard, Just be lore the latter climled into a trans Atlantic plane in April, "Especiall" If one is the final landing," replide the bishop. Soon lie was off on the first lap of a tour to visit the United Siati-s forces in Great Britain, North Africa, India and China. He went as the representative of Protestants of America. On Easter Sunday. Bishop I-eonard spoke at an open-air service in Hyde Park, London. He made the rounds of the American camps. Next he preached In Weslev's chapel, I-ondon, and then came the trip to Iceland. On Monday. May 3, there was a vlane crash and Bishop Leon ard made the final landing. He was in the line of duty and finished his course with loy, in far away Iceland, where he lies at rest. Thii final landing was a hapnv landing for the bishop, like John Wesley at the close of a lonp life, could say. "The best of all is, God is with us." "Servant of God, well done. Thv florious warfare's past, the battles fought, the victory's won. and thou art crowned at last." Amen. with tooled leather, belt and $21.30 in a pants pocket, which he said he found laid out In the entry way to his home. Two Resignations End School Students' Strike UNION, Ore., March 21. 7P) The resignation of the superin tendent and another teacher has ended the walk-out of 130 Union High School students, who pro tested the school board's failure to rehire two "favorite" instruc tors. The pupils, who struck Monday upon learning that Coach William Durant and Lawrence Lopez, manual training teacher, had not been re-hired, filed back to classes yesterday. Student action followed the board's accepting the resignations of Supt. William Meldinger and Orman Weaver, agriculture in structor. Board members refused to change their decision on Lopez and Durant, who said the board accused them cf "failure to co operate." Durant and Lopez have left school, but Meidinger and Weaver will complete the term. Hammer-Gun Attack on 9-Year-Old Girl Charged JOILET, 111.. March 21. (JTy State's Attorney James E. Burke today Issued a warrant charging assault with intent to kill against James F. Lincoln, Jr., 30. son of a wealthy Cleveland industrialist, in connection with the hammer beating and shooting of a nine-year-old girl yesterday. Victim of the attack, Carol Wil liams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Williams, who live on a farm four miles east of Joilet, suffered a possible skull fracture, the result of the hammer blows, bullet wounds in the right hip. in the upper arm and shoulder and in the left side of the chest. Vital Statistics BORN SMITH-To Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam D. Smith, Sutherlin, at Mercy Hospital, Monday, March 18, a son, Keith Carlye; weight five pounds three ounces. Marriage Licenses PATTERSON - JOHNSON Claude Leon Patterson and Bon nie Jean Johnson, both of Rose burg. , MARRCYRUS James Frank lin Marr and Virginia Ruth Cy rus, both of Roseburg. Fillet Price Boost Asked ASTORIA. Ore., March 21. P Lower Columbia fish buyers want the OPA to boost the cell ing price on consumer packages of fillets, to pay for the cost of containers suitable' for civilian trade. Buyers said military needs for five and ten-pound lots took nearly all the fillets during the wn r Matinee Sat. 1:45 LOVABLE! LAUGHABLE I DtLIUHIrUl Playing OF A HIT lJ 1 Truman Will Omit Candidacy Phase In Talk to Demos WASHINGTON. March 21.-I.W - President Truman said today that he would make no announce ment on Saturday night that he will he a candidate for reelection In 1948. The chief executive Is scheduled to speak then to a Jackson day dinner sponsored by the Demo cratic National Committee. He told a news conference it would be a political speech. But he re plied In the negative and with a chuckle to an inquiry whether lie would announce at the time his candidacy for reelection. Politics figured in the news con ference at another point when Mr. Truman was asked whether he agreed with Secretary of Com merce Wallace that party mem bers who get out of line should be disciplined. The President laughed and said that he and Wallace never had discussed that. But it is necessary, he added, to hold the party in power in line to get Its program over. There is no set way of doing that, he said, although several plans have been tried none suc cessfully. The President remarked that he would have no objection to Repub licans joining with Democrats in putting over progressive meas ures. In fact, he said he would be happy to have them so It. Mrs. Cecilia Banister Funeral Services Set Mrs. Cecelia Banister. 68. resi dent of Myrtle Creek for eight vears. died at her home Tuesday. She was born Dec. 28, 1877, In Rensselaer. Indiana, and lived number of years in Chicago be fore coming to Oregon. Surviving are her husband. Ernest W. Banister, Myrtle Creek; one brother. Nelson Griggs, Shel by, Indiana; one sister, Mrs. Eve- lvn Mallcoth. Walcott. Indiana and a number of nieces and neDhews. Funeral services In charge of the Roseburg F uneral Home will be held Saturday, at 2 P. M. in the Methodist Church of Myrtle Creek with Rev. E. W. Perry or ficiating. Interment will be in the Odd Fellows cemetery in Myrtle Creek. Longshore Head Spurns Wage Increase Offer SAN FRANCISCO, March 21. (Jpu An hourly pay Increase of 23 cents, five cents of which would be In lieu of an annual va cation, has been rejected by Pa cific Coast CIO Longshore Leader Harry Bridges. The Increase, which would bring hourly pay to $1.38 and overtime to $2.07, was offered by Pacific Coast waterfront employ ers yesterday as a counter offer to demands by the dock workers for $1.50. Bridges quickly informed em ployes he was "definitely not In terested" and charged that the offer was "double talk." Bank Messenger Faces Embezzlement Charge PORTLAND, March 21. (JF A federal complaint was on file today charging Ralph Waldo Rees, 23-year-old messenger, with embezzling $136.75 from funds of the United Stales NaHYmal Bank. FBI officers accused Rees of taking the money from deposi tors' letters. Klamath Falls Child Killed by Blow of Auto KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., March 21. (JP) James Raymond Herm ant, 5, son of Joseph L. Hermant died at midnight Wednesday of in- Saturday Sunday Your Favorite Cowboy in JIMMY ' WAKELY In - AtfEK l Arrrm WHITE AND Ma tine Every Saturday and Sunday 2 P. M, juries sustained a few hours earlier when he ran In front of a car operated by Roberta Allen I-ee, 17-ycarold high school stu dent. Sluie Police said the child ran from a driveway onto Slate Highway Ui ami the diiver was held blameless lor the tragedy. Toy Railway Sound Invention Success Of Blind Genius NEW YORK Eric Carlson. 20- year-old lawyer, who is a minia ture railroad Ian, has equioped his model railroad system of four locomotives and 35 pieces of roll ing stock with complete sound .effects. "I have actual recordings of lo comotives going through moun tain tunnels, across prairies, the sound effects of cars going over rails where they cross rails- vou know, real railroad sounds," Carl son explains. So whether one of his stream liners or an old fashioned engine is coming Into the sttaicin you can hear the sounds of sand being put on, brakes lxne applied and steam being let off. The reason Carlson is so par ticular about the sound is that he is blind. Before a childhood afflieation deprived him of his si"ht he watched trains making up in a Staten Island yard and the sights still stand out vividly in his mem ory. Army Menus Reduced in Food Conservation Plan WASHINGTON, March 21. (.Tl In line with President Truman's food conservation plan to help feed a hungry world, the Army is tightening its belt. The quartermaster corps has revised its master menus to cut by six and one half pounds for each vegetable tne amounts oi canned asparagus, beans, spinach and tomatoes served to 100 men. Mess cooks in preparing meals for 100 men also will fix only 10 pounds of beets instead of 15; 20 pounds of cabbage instead oi tt and 65 pounds of potatoes Instead of 75. Bread has been cut from 15 pounds to 12 for each 100 men at each meal. There are also smaller portions of breakfast foods. Ex-Eugenean Will Head Regional Office of VA SEATTLE, March 21. Lester H. Hall, veteran of both wars, was named manager today of the regional office here of the Veterans Administration, effec tive Auril 1. Hall, a native of the north west, was a colonel in the Army. He was with a Kutienp, Ore., lum ber company manv years. CARD OF THANKS WE WISH la take this opportunity to express our appreciation for the kind nrii and sympathy extended by our friends during our recent bereave ment. Mr. Lottie E. Wcatherford and Family. CARD Or THANKS OUR HEAHTKEL.T thanks to all who ex tended comforting sympathy and help In our recent sorrow. For the beauti ful service, floral offerings, and other kindnesses, we are deeply grateful. Mr. and Mrs. L M. Owen and Family. roitUMoAji trifMCitlR . wwnKimrvXBfr1"1 Alrffinob CmRtfY S S Hirriibur Tt) unction City j Cotliji Cftt USuttwIH f . . & . ft IbMtarf JfCrarttPm lr.filfll Poinl Coos Boy Iron Works Ordered to Cut Charges SAN FRANCISCO, March 21. (.Il The regional OPA yesterday ordered Coos Bay Iron Works to reduce its service charges from $2.50 to $2 an hour- the rate ef fective In 1H42. The company said the 50 cent increase was put into effect fol (pwnpvarjMnrreesrM TODAY Come SHE LOVED nOLtmX..i$&jr JEALOUSlY...POSSESSIVaY 1 s "f . ... A LOVE THAT WILL W4 SHOCK YOU AS IT SHOCKED V THE MAN SHE IOVEDI 7 V Q 4 Hers was the I I . - jr deadliest-tf th 111 I ft Heaven H SlarrlMf PHOTOGRAPHED IN GENE TIERNEY 7&. CORNEL WILDE D JEANNE CRAIN fl Shows 111 "h VINCENT PRICE Daily '11' 1:456:45 -vt r-v Also s L 2 J Tom & Jerry ! V V IS Cartoon j vvV Newi fllu S I "There Goes Another Greyhound Bus! That's Real Local Service!" 17 Departures Daily from ROSEBURG The many friendly comment heard dally abooi Greyhound service make it a pleasure for Greyhound folks to give your community the kind of top-notch highway transportation you now enjoy. Greyhound' numerous, well-timed schedules .; bring coast communities together for both business and pleasure, providing convenient, low-cost travel unequalled by any other form of transportation. For the hnt in bus service . . . count ex Grty hound. R. J. Hughes, Agent 344 S. Stephens Phon S8& . . Missing VANCOUVER, Wash., March 21. MV Clark County's huge road 'gradfpg machine one with a 12 foot blade has disappeared, liuacl crewmen parked It on a lonely road two months ago. When the county eummlsslon-1 ers called for the grader, It wa gone. Crews said they had left it unguarded as customary be cause nobody ever expected to lote anything that big. 5 DAYS Early! iJ seven deadly sins! II
