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About The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1949)
0Vt lo SELECTION NOW, AT WA3DSI WIDER 1 A I iiinil . 1 1 Lffl-P i ' li ,e,'T c'1 Roseburg, Oregon SEE WARDS EXCITING NEW SELECTION OF GIFT ROBES RICH RAYON QUILTED ROBES Glamorous robes or study coals In pastel or vivid shades. Rayon satin or taffeta prints or solids lined to match or contrast! Misses sizes. Were 12.98 last yearl 98 PIN-POINT CHENILLE ROBES Fluffy, soft, washable! Pretty pastel shades with contrasting, gay, overlay trim. Sizes 12-20, 38-44. Warm and welcome "gifts. Wonderful buys they cost 5.98 last year. 198 MEN'S LUXURY RAYON ROBES g95 A handsome gilt! lustrous rayon jacquard robe with a rich satin trim. Smart wrap around style with popular shawl collar. In Navy Blue or Maroon. Gilt boxed. MEN'S 100 WOOL ROBES Warm and practical robe of softly napped virgin wool. Popular wrap-around style with double shawl collar and facing. In solid colors Maroon or Navy. Gift boxed. 8 95 31 RID icWoVy- ;t0V. J kl I" v . f.nCOV"' Thun., Dt. 1, 1949 Th Nw-RtvUw, Kowburg, Or. 7 r , Off- .ZJh .: I... J i,iV,J7 v Ji. - Si LV . 1 " , --V ih I . ' . J? 1 N I W 'i N " uuiug iu yueenit new XOrK. Lincoln County Rancher Goes To Trial For Murder TOLEDO. Ore.. Nov. 30 UP) Homer Edwards, 52 year old rancher went on trial Monday for the slaying of one of two brothers lound dead on a brushv Dath Oct. 13. A jury panel of 116 Dersons probably the largest ever called in Lincoln county was on deck as the jury selection began. The prospective jurors crowd ed circuit judge Fred McHenry's court room so much that no spec tators could come In at all. The county engineer has limited the number of spectators to 100 throughout the trial, as a safety precaution in the old frame court house building. Edwards was charged with first degree murder in the slay ing of Melvin Longvear, 26, and Charles Longyear, 22. A sheriff's posse found them on a trail In the Nashville district in eastern Lincoln county, after Edward? came to the sheriff to say there had been a quarrel. The trial is based on Melvin Longyear's slaying. Gasoline Prices Slipping From 23-Year Peak By RADER WINGET NEW YORK Iff) There's a tiny dip in gasoline prices that will bear watching. The average cost of fuel to the motorist is slipping away from the highest peak in 23 years. The cause is the weather which has been blowing hot and cold at me wrong time, carefully made calculations of petroleum exnerts nave oeen upset, in their efforts to do something about it, they have shaved prices on various types of fuel. But in the midst of it, fllllne station price wars have broken out here and there around the country. The motorist has the ad vantage of this cut-throat com petition. Such price wars are a red flag to the big operators. They watch them carefully and note their extent and duration. You shouldn't get the Idea from all this that you can drive Into your corner gas station and fill er up at a big saving today. Gas oline prices are on a regional ba sis. Some dealers have cut and some haven't.' And the price war areas are small. Throughout the United States. the average price of gasoline in filling stations of 50 representa tive cities started out this month at 20.33 cents a gallon. That Is without taxes. These average 6.64 cents a gallon, a record. In mid -summer the average price was 20.41 cents a gallon in these same cities. That's the highest price on gas since the av erage for 1926 which was 20.97 cents. - . , : So this month's average It only 8-100ths of a cent lower than that 23-year high point. But it Is loweK That's the im portant point. And right now the big producers ' and distributors are inching their wholesale prices still lower by a few tenth of a cent along the eastern sea board and sections of the soutn and midwest. Some have cut their prices at the retail level. So far that has been restrained. The wholesale cuts are so new and the general situation is so uncertain that there hasn't been a general move yet to pass the savings along to the ultimate consumer. The crystal detector, means ot Introducing radio to a lot of folks In the early days of radio, was the result of work of Greenleai W.- Pickard, American scientist. The average hen will lay some, where between 180 and 343 eggs per year depending upon the breed and various other condi tions. , 1 - 1 . ' ; DOORS West Coast Building Supply Co. Mill and Mother Bill Neighbors Phone 362 Jay Clark No. 300 can j Running ihort on that Chritrmat gift list? Here's a tuggestion to get extra dollars. Start shopping at Fairhaven Market today and let the savings buy added presents tor you. Look at these: WEEK-END SPECIALS Joan of Are Kidney Beans Mission Tomatoes Haley's Beef Stew Drifted Snow Flour 10 ib bag 79c Gold Medal Flour 5 ib bag 43c FRESH PRODUCE No. 303 can With Vegetables No. 2'2 Can 2 cans 19c 2 cans 27c 31c -MEATS- SWIFT' BACON by th pleet, fry oriip and tasty for breakfast, sJCJq PICNIC HAMS, sweet and tender, very tasty, Ib BACON JOWLS, mildly cured, Ib. 38c 27c LETTUCE CABBAGE CELERY Crisp, solid heads Sweet, Fresh from the field Firm and crunchy healthful 2 heads 17c lb. 2c Ib. 3c FREEll PRIZES A to Coatet Mt Addition home-ownere annual Christ- m' mu decoration -fl conte.t. See us for complete (Mr detalli. 1 COMHI OF FAIRHAVSN, MELROSE fiX 2 t