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12 The Newt-Review, Roieburg, Or Men., Oct. 17, 1949 Fire Prevention Doubly Vital To Rural Sectors It may not always be the "other fellow" who suffers. Odds against your home suffer ing fire damage duting the next 12 months are about 1 in 50. ac cording to Charles R. Ross, O.C. C. forestry specialist, who head ed up the National Klre Preven tion week campaign in the state for the extension service. Burns, for example, are the largest single source of fatal ac cidenta for children up to four years of age, Ross points out. Despite our comparatively high standard of living, one authority has stated that a higher per centage of United States citizens live in fire traps than do the in habitants of any other country. This is due, the authority rea sons, to our architecture, build ing materials, use of appliances and oils, and our smoking habits. Since approximately one-half ol Oregon's families live in rural areas where fire fighting equip ment is either nonexistent or must be transported over long distances, fire prevention is doubly important. Damage to Oregon Insured city and farm homes during the year 19-i7 amounted to about $3,000,000. Taking the country as a whole, 3,500 farm persons die In fires each year; 10.000 others are in jured. Property damage costs around $100,000,000. Vet carelessness In one way or the other is a major factor In 90 percent of all farm fires, Ross states. Common fire hazards are faulty chimneys, flues. Improper ly stored gasoline and oil, hot ashes and open fires, defective wiring, and spontaneous combus tion. The fire hazard Inventory Is worthless without follow-up act Ion to make sure the hazards are removed, Ross concludes. Billions Asked In Biggest Damage Action In History LOS ANGELES. Oct. 17 (JS An outsize $72,100,000,000 suit claimed to be the largest dam age action In history is on file in federal court here. Arthur R. Van Wyke and A.E. Harrison, management consul, tantf of Los Angples, lodged the mammoth complaint yesterday, alleging that amount was their potential profit from a metalll'! lubricant which they were going to sell world wide. Defendants In the suit Include Standard Oil co. of California, A. D. Innis and associates, I eral former employes and 100 John Does. IwiaValnDwartfore! fcj'jf I Urt yiu m MILK OF il w. mx.. " .. ASPIRIN " tOC II iaDt huin I t ... , m CPU IIIHU I Ha 1 iiitrooN 1 bt Mi aiiTiciBTir TT,,u A'2nfrr AH I lair IH Itfr.f jNin ..h,n t9t -""iTm lcOHl ' 0, M TOOTH sn ..... m 7s9'i-40' 2h,76t to' 3 1 OWISTIUSCMM uaM.tsSUVwfi, MIHIRAlOll TOOTH MUSKr I ?, ts ffr . I 2 Ar 60' 2t6e 3 -;rotr,''- ; ... i 1.01 l kflViil-rL,2r.i-aM. 2 for 76 1 frj2 TP I MTS f tA ..1.. t"l w, m 1 for lOt 1111 HI'wAM 1 I for 6 . . ..ill w w ti. . M mma I ' mil a waih tomi 1 a 89' J3ii:'2rrr.r...- itt I I fill il I I ill IT il llillf. SUM FULLERTON'S REXALL STORE YMCA Craft Meeting Is Scheduled Tuesday Tuesday night at 8 p.m., In the basement ol the Methodist church, an important YMCA meeting ts to be held. The pur pose is to find out if there are enougn people, wno nave Know ledge of dne craft or more, to in struct other adults in crafts. The program w ill be so arrang ed that no one person will have to do a larger share ol the work than others, according to Mar ton Yoder, YMCA secretary. Yo der urged all people, who know a craft, to show up at the meet ing so the program may be plan ned. East Germany Regime Rapped By Secy. Acheson WASHINGTON, Oct. 17-tP) Secretary of State Acheson Wed nesday denounced the newly-created regime In Eastern Germany as run from behind the senes by "soviet masters." Acheson declared in a state mpnt that the new regime Is "ob viously afraid to risk the verdict of the people of the soviet zone." He restated American support for the new Bonn government In Western Germany. Declaring that the East Ger man regime can speak neither for the German people in the Soviet zone nor In the name of Germany as a whole, Acheson said high sounding talk about a peace treaty and the withdraw al of occupaiion troops were de. signed only tor propaganda ap peal to the German people." At a news conference, Acheson also rejected outright a recent protest by the communist-run government of Poland, Czecho slovakia, Hungary and Romania against establishment of the Bonn regime. He said the protests were made "in the interest of a foreign power" soviet Russia rather lhan in the interests of their own people. m. k 2 f or 6 . 2 for S0 u. 2 for 66: . 2 for 66t 2 for 1.01 .. 2 for 1.90 m . 2 for 50c 2 for 2.01 I FLOOR SANDING l! end m FINISHING Wk Estimates IP lesliePfaff It ' U 320 Word St. ""tSlS Phon. 1349-J I ' Second Growth Fir SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. (Jfy Second growth timber, being used In Increasing quantities, is all right for home building and other light construction but is not as strong as virgin growth, two forestry experts reported here. "New crop'' Douglas fir is somewhat lighter, coarser grain ed and more easily broken than the "old growth" or virgin ma terial, J. B. Alexander, of the for est products laboratories of Can ada, told the American Society for Testing Materials. The same thing Is true gener ally of redwood. Prof. Eugene Fritz of the University of Cali fornia, reported. Douglas fir Is the number 1 timber crop of the Pacific north west. In British Columbia, Wash ington and Oregon there are about 12 '4 million acres of the virgin growth remaining, and CIGARETTES WON'T BURN IT I GREASE WON'T STAIN ITl mi w Mit OK For Homes But 1 about the same acreage of second : growth, Alexander said. I Second growth stuff Is being used more and more. Ultimately there will be no more lumber I from virgin Douglas fir. However, second growth trees j I can be made virtually as good as : tne originals, Alexander sam, oy slowing down their rate of ; growth. I The new trees are coarser grained and the wood is lighter in weight because of rapid growth, he added. Where old trees have been cleared away, young ones have lots of room, no competition for moisture or plant food. They come up fast. This rapid growth produces large wood fibres, which means coarse grain. If growth can be slowed so that annual tree rings are less than one-sixth of an inch i :m ; Ml lf(v i -Jiff ow l Don'f be satisfied with anything less than Frigidaire UMPQUA VALLEY APPLIANCE Virgin Growth Is Stronger wide, they will make satisfactory timber for heavy construction. In the Redwood country, the coastal areas of Northern Cali fornia and Southern Oregon, there are about 100,000 acres of new growth trees ranging in age from less than 50 years to 100 years. Under proper forest manage ment selected second growth trees could be left longer and Ihelr growth Influenced so that they could produce lumber com paring favorably with that from virgin trees, Fritz said. Federal Buy Of Prunes Set For School Lunches WASHINGTON, Oct 17-OP) The Agriculture department an nounced offers Friday to buy 1.- 4 r X " W..mm,X.--. f., -...i...i:'- . J7 HOT IRONS SCBAPINS A t WON'T MAR M v PfS 000 tons of processed packed dri ed prunes for the national school lunch and institutional feeding programs. Offers went to processors and packers in Oregon and Washing ton. The department said it will buy prunes of U.S. grade B or better of sizes 40-50. 50-60. 60-70 and 70 80 of the 19-19 crop produced In Oregon and Washington. All acceptances will be condi tioned upon payment by proces sors or packers to prune produc ers of not less than a base price of 7.5 cents a pound. Offers must be received no la ter than Oct. 27. Radio microphones are getting smaller and smaller. The latest is about the size of an overcoat button. xiiem votes Acceptance Of West Salem To City SALEM, Oct. 17. (.P) Salem scon will extend into Polk coun ty. ty. Voters here approved Friday, the annexation of West Salem, the community across the Wil-1 lamette river from the state cap ital. The vote unofficially was .26 to 307. Residents of West Salem ear lier had approved the merger. Another merger proposal failed as residents of a 400-acre araa southeast of Salem voted 138 to 108 agains annexation. WINDOWS DOORS FRAMES PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 It's hard, it's tough, yet glistening white and beautiful.That's Frigidaire Porcelain made to last a lifetime even under hard usage made by Frigidaire in Ut own porcelain plant. That's your assurance of finest quality; assurance that your new Frigidaire Automatic Washer will never rust out. Come in. 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