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Tut., Junt 21, 1949 Tht Nwi-Riviiw, Rsiaburg, 0r. 7 Hotel Hermit's $43,000 Estat Has No Claimant SPOKANE. Wash.. June 21. 1 The court annotated Mn. Mabel -a (P) No helr have been found to Terry, manager ol the hotel claim $43,000 left by a hotel room where Lane lived, to administer his estate In Washington. He had hermit who died last May. Attorney Jack D. Freeman made this report In Superior Court on the estate of William Lane. 62. "This man was a hermit," Freeman said. "He lived In the sam hotel room for 21 years. In all those years he never had a single caller. "His closet was crammed full $20,000 in cash and bonds here and another $23,000 In three Cali fornia banks. Freeman said if no heirs are lo cated, the Washington estate will go to the state. He said the states of California and Washington might argue over which gets the money in California. Lane apparently came from Denmark out no relatives have been found there. "One of his sisters married a Los Angeles man by the name of A. pel) DUt we have been unabla to find him," Freeman said. 7 of everything and In the back of ' it was a new steamer trunk. The trunk was packed with new cloth ing and everything looked as though he planned on taking a IP trip, but he never took one." I V i.' ? I1!? t v-; IT5 'm$um,t ' 4 SW1 .r,-. - til; 1 7 vztfi l H i i7 f- '-----t.-m DENN-GERRETSEN CO. . . sends its best wishes and heartiest Congratulations to i the Associated Plywood Mills, Inc. It is a privilege to have been selected to supply our products in the construction and building of your fine modern sawmill. Best of Luck for a long and prosperous future. DENN-GERRETSEN CO. BUILDING MATERIALS 402 W Oak St. Roseburg fcij Sabers, Helpers Get Increase In Wages ! PORTLAND, June 20. fTI 1 Bakers and helpers have reached a contract agreement with 25 : Portland bakeries calling for a : six percent wage boost. Union Secretary Al Kalla said Ihe increases would amount to i 2.80 to $4 weekly. More liberal vacations were also provided. Drivers and confection workers in the union are conducting separate negotiations. Molders and foundry shop work- ; C' S in uregon and southwest Washington have voted to accept the same wage scale and 40-hour work week of their old contract. H. W. Sprague, union business agent, said the new agreement has a few minor changes. The scale for journeymen is $1.75. Thirty six plants are Involved. Idaho Motto Motto of the state of Idaho Is ' Esto Perpetua," or Mayest Thou ast Forever. hi1-) 1 v. If; . jbs CAMP IN THE WOODS Partial view of th Aissociated Plywood Mills, Inc., logging camp on Little River it shown above (upper left). The camp is a small city in itself, containing modern dwellings, cook house, shops, and other buildings and installations. Th camp is located on the Little River Road, about 30 miles east of Roseburg. Neat homes of loggers (middle left) are comfortable family dwellings. Soma of tha camp's 85 employes live in these houses. In the mess hall (lower left) loggers ara fed breakfast and dinner at approximate cost of 80 cants per meal. They ara given makings for their own lunches. Cooks (upper right) are, left ot right, Frank Bistak, Letha Pedan, Kay Smith, Jean Criffin, Edith and Frank Cowan, Ted McCuire and An toinette Slakis., Company officials and their guests (lewtr right) aat In the mess hall during inspection tour. (Pictures by Photo Lab) ' t , . . GUNDERS0N BROS. ENGINEERING CORP. SENDS ITS . BEST WISHES TO THE ASSOCIATED PLYWOOD MILLS, INC. Congratulations to 1 Roseburg on Gaining This New, Modern Lumber Plant ANDERSON BROS. ENGINEERING CORPORATION Eugent, Or. Swindler Dupes Woman; Both Sought By Police CHICAGO, June 20. VP) A dapper, 73-year-old man with p national police record and in aliases was hunted today as the swindler of a Chicago widow whom he wooed. A daughter of the woman who lost $5,000 identified him from a rogue s gallery picture. The nhoto was that of Sfgmund Z. Engel. i The daughter said he had posed ; as Sam Engel, a Hollywood pro-1 ducer. The real Sam Engel has j been In England a month or , longer. The cnattcr-artlst disappeared June 5 after he had persuaded at tractive Mrs. Reseda Corrigan, 33. and her three teen-aged children to draw $5,000 from a bank and give it to him. A 19-year-old daughter, Reseda J. Corrigan, identified a rogue' gallery photograph from poller files as the man her mothev promised to marrv and who re. ceived the money. He ducked out. the girl said, on the eve ol Ini planned wedding. And Mrs. Corrigan also is missing.- ' . Meantime, iew ioik ponce sought a man answering the same description as "Engel. and who also used that name. They starter! trailing him after Miss Pauline D. Langston reported he vanished with her Jewelry five days ago after their marriage. Dahlias of the Unwln .'.train can be grown from seed as easll" as zinnias. They will bear double flowers in abundance and form tubers which can be saved over winter and planted again the fol lowing spring. Dividenf To Veterans On National Life Insurance Policies Slated Next Year WASHINGTON, June 20 (TP) I Veterans Administrator Carl R. Gray Jr. today authorized pay I ment next vear of a special , $2,800,000,000 dividend on nation al service life insurance policies. I Gray said he hopr-s veterans ! will begin receiving checks "some ; time In January, 1950," with pay ment substantially completed in the first half of that year. The dividend payment has been hopefully anticipated by some economists as a stimulant to purchasing power which might help offset declining busi ness activity. About 16,000,000 vetprans of World War II will receive the dividends. I This would average about $175 j for each ex'ierviceman, but the i agency saiA Individual calcula tions have not been completed. ' In general, every VPteran who took out national service insur 1 ance and kept It in force at least three months will be eligible. Where policy-holders have died, the henficiarles will receive the funds, Gray said. Application blanks for the divi dends are being prepared and may be available In August in postoffices, veterans' service or ganizations, and VA offices. Meantime the administrator a-.ked veterans not to write now about their dividends because let ters "will only cause the pay ment to be delayed." The special dividend will not be paid on policies Issued after January 1, 1948. But such poli cies may participate In some later dividend, Gray said. The cut-off dae that Is. the limit of time on which dividend accumulations will be allowed is the anniversary date of the policy In 1948. Government officials expect the dividends to be spent prompt ly and to provide a notleeahle "shot In the arm" for business. est Wishes to THE ASSOCIATED PLYWOOD MILLS, INC. 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