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T ROSEBURS REW5-REVIEW, fcoSEBtme, 6RE$t. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7, 1945 TftREfi 4 Local News H. E. C. to Meet at Luncheon The Evergreen Home Economics Club will meet Thursday at the hall for a 12:30 o'clock potluck luncheon. All members are re quested to be present. Enjoy Vacation Miss Helen Casey and Miss Naomi Scott re turned to their home on Blake ley Street today, following a va cation trip to Portland and to Victoria and Vancouver, B. C. County Club Ladles to Meet The Ladies of the Roseburg Country Club will hold a white elephant golf tournament Thurs day morning at 8:30 o'clock at the club course, followed by luncheon at 12:30 o'clock at the clubhouse to be served by Mr. Simmons. The contract bridge plav will onon at 1:30 o'clock. Home From Portland Mrs. A. J. Ellison and daughter, Donna Jean, have returned to their home in Roseburg after a week's vacation in Portland. Mothers Club to Meet The Mothers Club of the Edenbower School will hold an important meeting Friday night at 8 o'clock at the school playshed. Goes to San Francisco Mrs. M. Hazel Dixon of Roseburg has left for San Francisco to enjoy two weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. J. L. Cauthorn, nee Beulah Jewett of Roseburg. Leaves for California Mrs. Foster Butner of Roseburg left Mondav night for Oakland, Calif., to spend two months visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. (Mac) Butner, and with friends. Visitors Leave Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Cain and daughters, Letitia Ann and Ruth, and son, Scott, of Oakdale, La., spent the weekend visiting Mr. and Mrs. John H. Robinson and son, John, Jr., at their home on the North Umpqua near Glide. Mrs. Cain and Mrs. Robinson are former school friends. The Cains are en route from Louisiana to Canada on a vacation trio. Initiation to Be Held Pythian Sisters Temple No. 23 will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the K. of P. hall for initiation. Members are asked to bring donations for the children's home. Refresh ments will be served. Leave for California H. B. Carter and daughter. Miss Ann, left today for southern Califor nia, where the latter will attend the Jobs Daughters session In Los Angeles, and Mr. Carter will visit his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Carter, at Orange, Calif. Miss Carter is Honored Queen of Job's Daugh ters tsetnei ino. s ol Kosenurg. They expect to be gone for three weens. Leave for San Francisco Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert A. Young and daughter, Elizabeth, left Tues- ua" lor tneir home in San Fran cisco, following a week's stay at Diamond Lake with their son, John and Mr. Young's parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Young; his brother and sister-in-law and family, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Young and son, Bernie, and his uncle and aunt, Miss Celia and Edward Bieck. John Young is remain ing in Roseburg" to visit his grandparents, the A. J. Youngs, until school opens, when he will return to San Francisco. Today Thru Saturday The Red-Blooded Story Of a Red-Haired Girl.. Thundering out of the untamed West! K - fr v ,n Technico1 t . fjSr TJ most notorial, Will Attend Family Gathering Dr. Charles A. Edwards of Rose burg left Tuesday for Blackfoot, Idaho, to spend two weeks with relatives and to attend a family gathering of relatives of the late Mrs. Edwards. Stops Over in Roseburg Miss Lorraine Peterman, who has been attending school in Port land, spent the weekend in Rose burg visiting Miss Barbradel Fream on South Stephens Street, before continuing on her way to Orland, Calif., to visit her par ents. She plans to attend Ore gon State College at Corvallis this fall. Return to Eugene Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harris, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Cordon, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Dunlap, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Snoddy and Mrs. Herbert West have returned to their homes in Eugene, following a trip to Rose burg to attend the annual picnic of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railway Train men, held in the S. W. Starmer garden Sunday. Visitina From Sacramento Mrs. Margaret E. Arneson and her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Mott, and their small daughter, Margaret, all of Sacramento, arrived in Roseburg Monday for a brief visit at the home of Mrs. Arneson's sister, Mrs. C. G. Stanton, 107 N. Par rott Street. They will leave later this week to visit relatives at Moscow, Idaho. Mrs. Arneson may return to Roseburg for a longer visit on the way home from Moscow. Railroad Car Shortage Hits Lumber Output (Continued from Page One) promising future for Douglas County. GRANTS PASS. Ore.. Aue. 7. OP Imminent shutdown of the entire lumber Industry for this area was iorecast as a distinct possibility today following a sur vey of mill owners, buvers, pro cessors and other dealers af fected. Faced with immediate prospect of a general layoff, affecting hun dreds of thousands of workers, lumbermen placed the blame on shortage of shipping facilities. Without exception, mill operators stated they were able to secure no more than half enough rail load cars to take care of high priority shipments. Southern Pacific officials, rep resenting the only railroad serv ing this area, countered with the statement that cars were being diverted to eastern traffic and that they were pro-rating all cars received to shiDDers with thp highest priorities and greatest! n I Tka .. .. V. .... r .... 1 felt here for approximately a month, during the peak of the lumber season and is growing steadily worse, mill owners say. Workman Dies in Fire From Welding Sparks PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (IP) Al bert W. Abernathy, 32, former Baker resident, burned to death yesterday in a flash fire that en gulfed him within seconds after welding sparks hit the wood pre servative he was applying. Fellow-workmen at the Colum bia Sand and Gravel Company pit played a hose on the bunker underneath which he was work ing in a vain attempt to enable him to escape. Have a Coke SOTTIED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COIA COMPANY IY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF ROSEBURG o Umpqua Chiefs WW Battle Oakland Larks Here Thursday -. S "" " " v i- .w.-v lower than last year. Washing ton had 89, compared with 76 In 19-15. Colorado had 279 cases, with 1120 in Denver. Oklahoma had 77 hospitalized cases and -12 deaths. Montana had 41 cases, against six for the same perlotj last vear. ' LIMBLESS BASEBALL WONDER Sammy Workman, legless, arm less baseball wonder, who will appear here tomorrow in an ex hibition game between the Oakland Larks and the Umpqua Chiefs. An exhibition baseball game be tween the Oakland Larks and the Umpqua Chiefs is scheduled at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, at Finlay Field, it was announced by H. W. Gray. Featured by the Larks is Sammy Workman, legless and armies baseball artist, who will stage his special exhibition of catching, throwing, batting and running. Sammy is a real showman, ac cording to the Larks. He is 22 years old, and amputation of both his arms and legs at the age of two resulted from infections which developed in his arms and legs. Other members of the Oakland, Calif., team include a variety of baseball talent, some wiih big league experience, other being scouted by the big clubs. The Larks are on a tour of cities from California to British Columbia. As reecnt champions of the West Coast Baseball Associa tion, the Larks have registered 36 victories and 12 defeats during the season. U. S. Secret Agents Duel By Mistake; One Wounded FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. f. yp Two U. S. Army secret agents mistook each other for German civilians in Munich last week und fought a gun duel In which one received four bullet wounds. The counter-intelligence agent wounded was James Caywood of Henryetta, Okla. He was re ported improving after being near death. Caywood and Gerard Buhrman, a Dutch national employed by the Army as a special agent, were both working on the same investigation, but did not know it.. When Euhrman saw a man In civilian clothes leave a house he was watching, he started to ar rest him. The "civilian," who vas Caywood in disguise, pulled a pistol but Buhrman beat him to the draw and shot him twice In the neck and twice In the leg before Caywood identified him- selt. Polio Spread Battled In Various States (Continued from Page One) with eight last year. This was the situation in the west and southwest: California Total to date 417, repoited above normal. New Mexico 44 cases to date this year against six in same period of 1945. Arizona 43 cases compared with four this date a year ago, including 28 new cases in July. 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