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SPEED QUEST RUINOUS Thoroughbred Horses Of Today Faster And Slimmer But Wear Out Too Young By JACK SEATTLE .n Horse racing tell you, to improving the breed, proving it out of existence. . . . Bred for speed, the pipestem legged thoroughbreds of today outrun the wind but quite often end up without a leg to stand on. Sometimes the legs fail but they reach the age of top perform ance. Remember Blue Peter and Mr. Busher, great as two-year-olds but sidelined In their third years by leg complaints? Many great gallopers have had to retire from the tracks to home pastures and give their legs a rest. Citation, Stymie, Assault, Armed, Count Fleet and the Irish-bred ball of fire, Mafosla, come back. Dinner Gong, this year's west coast sensation, had to be destroyed. Some students of equinology blame the practice of sending twoyera-olds to the racing wars. The weights assigned the horses may contribute to break downs, as some trainers insist and most handicappers deny. More likely the real reason is the quest for speed that has influ enced breeders, especially In the last half-century. Gradually the thoroughbred has become slim mer, faster, more brittle. Racing in the past was an en durance contest. Eclipse, fore father of the modern thorough breds, started racing as a five-year-old back in the 1760s and considered three miles a mere sprint. Now the preferred dis tance is under a mile. If they ever get it down to two or three furlongs the thoroughbred men will find the sturdy little quarter horse bred for quick starts and bursts of speed for a quarter mile waiting to dip into the rac ing gravy. HEWINS is dedicated, all horsemen will It begins to look like they're lm- Homt Loans To Veterans Show Market Increase G. I. loans to veterans for th purchase of homes have shown a marked upswing during the past few months, after nearly a year of declining activity, the Veterans Administration announced. The main factors making It easier for veterans to get loans have been the opening up of a secondary loan market by the fed eral government and a renewed interest by lending institutions in four per cent loans, the VA said. Veterans are reminded that the VA does not lend money, it only guarantees a portion of the loan in order to make it easier for them to arrange financing for the purchase of a home. Application for a loan should be made directly to a bank, sav ings and loan association or. other agency. The VA will certify the veteran's eligibility to the lending institution and issue the loan guaranty if the purchase price of the house meets VA appraisal standards of reasonable value. Amount of the guarantee Is limited to 50 per cent of the loan, with a maximum of $4000. Inter est chargeable is limited by law to four per cent. Eligible veterans have until Julv 25, 1957, to take advantage of this G. I. benefit. Lowest official temperature ever recorded in the United States was 66 degrees below zero, recorded at Yellowstone Nation al Park, Wyoming side, In Feb ruary, 1933. Employment And Pay Rolls Said Below Year Ago Employment and pay rolls re ported by 17,580 covered firms for the first quarter of 1949 were from four to five per cent below the same period the year before, the State Unemployment Com pensation commission announced today. Despite a prolonged cold spell that cut into production early in the year, wages paid to an ave rage of about 275.000 employes reached $206,303,631 as compared with $215,477,491 during the rec ord first opening quarter of 1948. Lumber, logging and construc tion workers received $59,151,581 up to March 31, 1949, against $73, 048,006 a year ago, but trade, transportation, utilities, finance and other service employes were paid nearlv five millions more than in 1948. Fewer than 54,000 were employed by lumber and logging concerns in January and February as compared with 68,000 the previous winter and the all time high of 91,000 In August, 1948. Wages paid to employes of lum ber and logging concerns dropped to 22.2 per cent of the total as compared with 24 per cent before the war and 27.2 per cent In ear ly 1948. Trade concerns with pay rolls aggregating $60,837,668 ac counted for 29.5 per cent against 27.4 per cent last year. Although retail stores reversed the general trend by reporting $2,242,888 or 6.3 per cent more payrolls than in early 1948, ave rage enployment remained about the same. The financial, Insur ance and realty group spt the pace with a pay roll gain of 12 per cent and employment up 6 per cent. ' Current reports to the commis sion from representative firms all over the state Indicate summer-time employment also run ning about 5 per cent below last year with heavy industries ac counting for most of the loss. Pay rolls for 1948 so far tabulated are within $30 millions of the billion dollar mark, although agriculture, government, domestics and many other groups art not covered and firms with fewer than four employes also are exempt. Theater Ads Criticised By Portland's Mayor PORTLAND, Aug. 29 (.) Mayor Dorothy Lee said Friday she thought some theaters were Jumping a little overboard in their advertising. She asked the municipal board of review to consider movie ads, some of which she said appeared "quite objectionable." Actually, she added, the actual movies are often not objection able at all. "Perhaps this dis parity between the advertising and the picture Is something of a fraud on the customer," the mayor said. "If he goes to the theater expecting to see what the ads suggest, in most cases he'll be disappointed." f jlj THIS IS MO CT OOTT BLAME ( SPORT TOR A fl THAT OM KAE I GIRL-IS HE I ZLl THAT5 A TOUGH INJURING OUR J LEER--HER ' V FACE? rZ-i FIGHTIW FACE V lvfj 1 1M TAK.IKJ Trf I E T fl ZZA COUNT OF EIGHT ) Tf NjLiCj yFROM "AVW'- WHy MOTHERS GET GRAV IfStSbTZEi J By J. R. Williams OUT OUR WAY 'Demokrassie' Now Appeals To Jap Princesses TOKYO, Aug. 29 (.f) The princesses of Japan are just crazy about this new "demokrassie that arrived with the occupation. f rees em to go winnow snop ping, even ride a bicycle If they feel like It. A princess riding a bicycle in the old days would have rocked imperial court circles like a Iirst-ciass earthquake. Not now, though, under Japan s democratic constitution which holds that a prince is no better than the next man. Four princesses told how they like their new freedom In a roundtable reported in the Sep tember Issue of the Home Journal of Japan. They are Princesses Asako Fushlml, Nanko Kan-In, Toshiko Kaya and Yoshikorl. (All are members of Japan's princely (amilles although none is of the family of Emperor Hirohito.) Here are some reasons they gave for doting on democracy: They got rid of a lot of boring ceremony. They can window shop, enter restaurants, tide streetcars and even talk with the passengers. - They can have a hot meal. As they put It: "Never were our meals hot because the kitchen was so far away the dishes cooled while the servants carried them down the long halls. Now we even bring pans right to the table." And on top of all these boons, they point out that a princess now can marry for love! (All four already are married.) Boys, Squirrels Are Power Line Headaches ELGIN, Ore., Aug. 29 (.P Repairmen for the California-Pacific Power company are a bit tired of squirrels. First a group of youngsters found some unexploded 20 milli meter shells: set them up be neath the main Elgin power line; and started target shotoing. A shell tore through the power line and blacked out the entire town of Elgin for more than an hour. Just after that was repaired, a pine squirrel scurried up another power line. It put its feet on one bushing, Its tall on another. The squirrel died and the power line went out. That, too, took an hour to fix. Sea NORGE Bsfera You luy $5 per Month Rebuild Repair Repaint Add years of service te your Washing Machine. Material and Workmanship Guaranteed. Easy paymenta as low as i per month. Phont 80S BERGH'S Appliance Service 1200 S. Stephens See NORGE Before Yeu Buy Maragon'i Acct. Shows Tickets To Demo Feast WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (. One Item on John Maragon's $9. 500 expense account when he worked for the Albert Verley per fume company: Three tickets for the Democra tic party's 1946 Jackson day din ner at a Washington hotel $300. At the five percenter Inquiry. Senator Mundt (R-SDI said he didn't want to drag politics Into the Investigation, but that he couldn't refrain from calling at tention to the Item. Pearls may he white, pink, gray or black. yellow, Mo., Aug. 29, 1949 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3 Grants Pass Fire Hits Davison Hop Yards GRANTS PASS, Aug 29. Fate took a hand In helping the federal hop-control commission in Its 1949 curtailment program here Friday when the Roy Dav ison dual drying kilns were de stroyed by fire of undetermined origin. The owner said the crop from nine acres, approximately 100 bales, was totally destroyed. The wooden structures and their Inflamahle contents sent a mass of flames 200 feet into the air, witnesses said. Approximately a third of Davi son's entire crop was lost. In ad dition, he Is confronted with the problem of finding drying facili ties for the balance. Repelled Assailant Returns, Shoots Woman OREGON CITY, Aug. 29-.P A young house.wlfe was recover ing today from a bullet wound, which she said was indicted by an Intruder Into her farm home near Wilsonvllle. Mrs. Ruby Butler, 18. said she drove an assailant away last Monday with a pistol after ne had walked into her kitchen and threatened her. He returned Friday, she sail. She again got the household pis tol, but he wrenched it away from her and fired. The bullet struck her shoulder. The man. whom she described as about 25, then fled. Protect Your ramily with the B. M. A. Polio plan. Call Mr. Lincoln, 9.T8-J-4 u drop card to Box l"9 Melrose Route. Competive Award Won By Ship Of Roseburg Youths Two Roseburg men, James K. Neavall and James G. Armson, both seamen apprentices, are at tached to the aircraft carrier U&J Valley Forge which has Just been awarded the battle efficiency pennant and "E" for her general excellence throughout the fiscal year July 1, 1948, to July 30, 1949. Neavall lists his Roseburg ad dress as 1454 Cedar street and Armson as 922 Harvard ave. The award Is a competitive one, based on overall battle ef ficiency. Each department of the ship is graded to determine the vessel's final mark in the com petition. The pennant Is a red triangle with a black circle In the center and is therefore termed a "meat, hall." In addition to the "meat, ball" each enlisted man having Served on board the Valley Forge for at least six months of the competition year is entitled to wear an "E" on the sleeve of his uniform and receives a cash award as well. The Valley Forge is presently operating out of San Diego, Calif. PIANO LESSONS with Wanda W. Althaut Classes start September 1st. Students please register NOW. Studio 608 W. Lane looks good Feels good Jutt t bock on a "Sofa-Wide" Soot that offer, more htp ond eSoutder roOM Nwa Ony other cor In ford'. Clan. TW, MIWTI . Mow toudi the tortor bvrton. Wi Mi ford otid only ford givet your ohoies of a 100 K.O. 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