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El " 1 Local; - News 1 Vltltt Parents Miss Jerl John son o( Billings, Mont., spent the holiday, weekend . in Roseburg with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Johnson. Back From Eugone Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Patterson and daugh ter, Lois, have returned to Rose burg alter spending the holiday weekend jn Eugene with rela tives. ... ! Back From Corvalllt Mr. arid .Mrs. Robert Phillips and family have returned to their home on Winchester street, following a visit over the holiday weekend In Corvallis with Mrs. Phillips' rel ativesr . ' i Local Visitors Mrs. Irvin T. Whitney and Jean Whitney of Portland are visitors in Roseburg "with Mrs. Roy Hufham and Mrs. Walter Kurtz. This is Mrs. Whit ney's first visit to Roseburg in 12 years. ...... To Monmouth Mr. and Mrs. Perry Thiele and children left today tor Monmouth to visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wil " liam Stolkholm. They will spend .. the weekend in Eugene before returning to Roseburg. . . , . :. Visits Hero Mr. , and Mm. Dick Reyman ot Gervais were i - visitors in Roseburg over the weekend. Mr. Reyman was with, the state police force and Mrs. " Reyman on the faculty at Junior high school last-year. Visit Parent Mr. and Mrs. H. . L. Elkins and children of Sta ters, Ore., are guests at the home of Mrs. Elkins' parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Powell, at Tyee. She' Is a sister of Mrs. Perry Thiele of this city. " At Berg Home Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Knauss of Portland are spending the. remainder of the week in Roseburg as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Horace C. Berg In Laurelwood. They formerly made their home here. Visitors Leave Mr. and Mrs. William Davis of Tacoma, Mrs." Waldo Campbell and children, Danny and Sharon, of Oakridge, and Melvln Ellison of Taft have returned to their homes, follow ing a visit in Roseburg with Mrs. Davis' and Mr. Ellison's mother,-Mrs. Lou Ellison. Mrs. Camp bell was formerly Irene Cooney of this city, i Leave For Game Mr. and Mrs., A., J. Ellison and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Motschenbacher of Roseburg left Thursday for San Francisco ,,to jattend the East West fqotball game Saturday. They will return here next week. While In California, they will vis It Mrs. Ellison's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Butner.. ... Baby Born Mr. and Mrs. Claude. Baker of this city have received word of the birth of a daughter to their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Varney Baker,- tn Seattle,' Wash. The baby, " -named Patti-Jo", weighed TOP PERFORMANCE AMAZINGLY LOW COST IN THI THIIFT MODIl I ' AUTOMATiC 299.95 y l 1 Coupon t i FMTURMY-FEATURE WITH ANT OTHER WASHER This amazing, work-saving automatic chases away your washday blue, forever. At the touch of the dial, it per forms the complete cycle, ;. from filling and washing to damp drying. leak a rasse pi (Mm-W -Ik. eeeatlty Handy tea 14 Inf Flexible cycle ye. ran iM er step ym whk 7 eanetre. Inf rime. Extra Hieresifli Aft. earer .cnee) a s-yvar warranty an kammltilaa a Ad Vrhiripaal't M'-savln. liii-Mlnrli at anal, slight wiM al. BERGH'S ; Appliance Service 1200 S. Stephens T ' Phone 805 Both Christmas Presents, Bills Reach Record Peak This Year, Says Writer . , " , By SAM DAWSON , ' ' -" NEW YORK CB This is the time to dear the Christmas pre sents out of the living room and start worrying about the bills. Both presents and bills are apparently at a record high this year. Merchants report they sold more presents than ever before. Even with the lower prices most customer's favored, the total dollar sales appear, in preliminary reports, to be higher than last year. . - seven pounds 10 ounces at birth, Dec. 21. The Bakers, accompani ed by their daughter, Miss Betty, plan to spend tne new rears weekend tn Seattle visiting Mrs. Varney Baker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Eggers, and the Var ney Bakers. Flying Saucers? Aren't Any, Navy Probe Discloses WASHINGTON. UP) After checking up on 375 rumors of weird and wondrous sights in the sky, the Air Force has concluded that there aren't any "flying saucers." . It took two years, a special team from the USAF's science staff, and help from . university consultants to trace down the rumors of strange discs whizzing Wrought the air. The Air Force savs ."project flying saucer" the investigation started by the air mateiral com mand at Wright base, Dayton Ohio, on January 22, 1948 has Deen ordered ended because there is nothing to show that the repoiv were "not the results of natural phenomena." All evidence, it added, points to three factors "misinterpreta tion of various conventional ob jects; a mild form of mass hys teria: or hoaxes as the origin of the flying saucer reports. under air iorce aennition, "various conventional objects" include such things as meteors, balloons, birds in flight or just ordinary optical ' illusions. The effect of the Air Force an nouncement was to deny a story appearing in the current edition of the magazine "True." The mag azine said it nad learned mat "a rocket authority stationed at Wright field has told 'projct saucer' personnel flatly that the saucers are Interplanetary and that no other conclusion is possible.", Old Ft. Stevens Now Owned By City Of Hammond ASTORIA m Historic Fort Stevens, whose parade ground echoed to the tread of soldiers in the days of the Indian wars and along whose beach Japanese shells burst in 1942, belongs to th city of Hammond and the school district. ,";'! 'Formal transfer papers have boen received, Mayor Merton Ol ney of Hamrnon said. The two local governments get the 155-acre hub of the old fort whose greatest claim to fame was the firing incident in 1942 when a Japanese sub surfaced and turn ed its guns on the fort. There was no damage, but since it was the first continental army post brought under enemy fire sjnce the war of 1812, it created in tense excitement. The fort's old guns did not fire back: Sen. Rufus Holman said it was because they wouldn't shoot far enough and that, in the security-conscious days of the war, stirred up more talk on coastal defenses. The city has 10 years In which to -pay the federal government $51,000 for its property. The school district pays only $308 and gets the parade ground, ball park, barracks, nurses' quarters, an old officers club and one du- But the Federal Reserve board reports that more people put more things on the cuff this year than ever oefore. Even before the Christmas buying rush, install ment credit was at record peaks. And the large sales which stores report for home appliances, tele vision sets, refrigerators, wash ers, radios, this month forecast another sharp rise in the total of buying on time, wnen tne iinai pre-Christmas sales figures are gathered and analyzed. : Two Contributors - Two things contributed to the pre-Christmas rush of install ment buying: First, the generally higher degree of confidence in the business future; and, second, the $2.8 billion that veterans ex pect to be getting in he next couple of months from Insurance refunds. Americans owe more. than $17 billion on goods they are using on credit. More than $10 billion of that is for goods they are buy ing on time. These range from the familv automobile to the stenographer's winter toat, with cars accounting lor $J Diuion oi ic The present consumer credit of $17 billion compares with $71 bil lion at tne time ol tne itua iinan cial crash. Not Dangerous Those dealing in consumer credit which includes charge ac counts In the stores, service credit, and single payment loans at loan companies, as well as installment credit say the total is not dan gerous, because of the similar growth since 1929 in national in come, personal savings, and wages and salaries. The popula tion nas grown, too, ana tne cen sus bureau now estimates it at more than 150 million. Every thing is bigger and better in cluding your debts. Commerce Secretary Sawyer reports national income at $222 billion for 1949 as a whole, and personal Income at $212 billion. In the record year of 1948 na tional income stood at $226 bil lion, and personal income hit its all-time peaK ol &in Dinion in December, 1948. Both have de clined in 1949. but consumer credit totals kept climbing since the federal Reserve boards au thority to curb them was dropped by congress last June. Consumer Spending Down Consumer expenditures 'as a whole have also dropped $21 bil lion from a year ago, so that the continuing growth of consumer credit means an ever larger per centage of purchases are being made on the cuff. The Federal Reserve board ex pects easier Installment credit terms to be offered by producers and merchants in 1950, and it thinks there wlfl be more money In circulation next year than this. The board brings the matter up at this time because it is expected to ask congress to reinstate the board's control over consumer credit. . You had a marvelous Christmas this time let's hope that paying for it isn't too painful. fMf 1 HAVE 7 I'LL SCREAM AW' THEY THINK WE'RE 1 I REFEREMCES.Y FAINT IF HEEVEKi I SHORT Ols) BRAINS 1 -fl 5IR--CHIEF ) GIVES THAT CASi J) HERE AND THAT'S CONSULTING J A SMILE FOR TEN THEIR TROUBLE WHY, ENGINEER YEARS I BEEN I RIGHT NOW HE'S TRYIN' I 'H WITH EIFFEL 1 WAITlN' FOR THE TO TALK TH' BULL OUT J OF PARIS. I NEXT STEP UP AN' If OF HIS JOB, NOT -r a-vl I TOWERS OF (STHEM GUYS COME V OURS' ct TMS OLWtC PIKllH 12-30 T. MO. IH. MT. OPR inis r-llMKgri m.ifBYHUuYKi1m. J OUT OUR WAY By J. R. William Deficit Spending Major Issue For Congress Session WASHINGTON () - Return ing lawmakers have chalked up red Ink spending as the top do mestic issue in the new session of Congress opening next week. Democrats joined Republicans in deploring a state of financial affairs in which the government will have to go on borrowing from the people because its outgo is bigger than its income from taxes. At that point, members of the two major parties parted violent ly In their comments. Over many Democratic pro tests, Republicans put the finger on the Truman administration's "fair deal" program as the cause of the treasury's present finan cial woes. Senator Taft of Ohio, who heads the Senate GOP Policy committee, said even worse trou bles are ahead if the Democrats can push the Brannan farm sub sidy payment through Congress. In a weekly report to Ohio vot ers, he -estimated that subsidies under such a plan would run to $6,000,000,000 yearly. The scheme would guarantee the farmer's Income on some per ishable products, letting those iroducts reach their own price evel on the market. Under the plan the consumer would benefit from the lower prices. "Since the farmer and the con sumers are the taxpayers, they would simply get a bill from the government for the benefits they are supposed to receive, plus a sum added in to pay salaries to several hundred thousand em ployes required to administer the plan," Taft said. Some Democrats, Including Senate majority leader Lucas of Illinois, defended red ink spend ing as a necessary measure to insure world peace. Lucas said the country is pros perous and ridiculed Republican leaders "who tell us we are on he way to the poorhouse. He predicted, howve" military outlays will be cut $2, 000,000,000 In the next yeai- m . that a $1,000,000,000 cut can be made In Marshall Plan economic aid to western Europe. Thurt., Dec. 29, 1949 The Newt-Review, Roseburf, Ore. 7 lair ot CliarlM Wllllim Mllna. deceased, havlnf filed hla final account and re- ?iort for final eettlernent of the ee ate of aald decedent, alleges that aald aetata la fully Battled, all debte paid and all Juat clalma and expetuoe cf ad mlnlatratlon paid In full and the re aldue thereof reedy for distribution; IT IS. THEREFORE, ORDERED thai the 13th day of January. 1D50, at 9:30 o'clock In the forenoon, at the County Courtroom in the Douglae County Court house, Roaeburg, Oregon, be, and lha aama la hereby aat ea the lme and ouco for hearing oblecttons to said account and for final aettletnent of aald aetata, and It la further ordered that nouce Da puouaned aa required by law. Dated In la tlh day of December, IM. ttr 0. H, BU8ENBARK ' County Judge IN THE CODNTT COURT Of THE STATE OF OREGON ' FOE DOUOI.AS COUNTT ORDER FOR SETTING TIME FOR HEARING ON FINAL ACCOUNT In the Matter of tha Estate of CHARLES MILNE Deceased. Bert McCoy, Administrator ol tha estate of Charlaa Milne, deceeaed. hat ing filed his final account ana report for final eotUement of the aetata of aald decadent, alleges thai said estate la fully Battled, all debla paid, and ull juat claims and expenses of administra tion paid in full and tha reisdue there of ready ' for distribution: IT IH, TflEHErUHC, UflUEIUll WBl the 13th day of Jenuary. 11S0. at t:30 o'clock in tha forenoon, at tha Count Courtroom in the County Courthouse, Roeeburg. Oregon, be, and the aama la hereby set aB tha time and place lor. hearing oblectiona to said account and . for final settlement of aald aetata, and It la further ordered that noUca be publlshsd aa required by law. weiea mm sui s.r ui uninuw, . w a D. N. BUSENBARK County Judge NOTICE TO CREDITORS ' All ' persona having clalma against tha aetata of Frances C. Berg. Deceased, now pending in the County Court of Douglee County, Oregon, ara hereby notified to present the same, verified aa required by law. to tha undersigned at tha office of.Oeddea ei Felker. At torneys, Roaeburg, Oregon, within aix ibonthe from tha data hereof. Dated and first published thla IStk day of December, 1940. ESTHER M. ANDERSON Administratrix of tha Estate of Francea C, Berg, De ' ceased. NEW CHEVROLET MODEL DETROIT, Dec. 29 lP) Chevrolet will introduce Its new 1950 model automobiles publicly on Jan. 7 with automatic trans missions as optional equipment.' Announcing this, W, E. Fish, general sales manager, said pr motion of the new models will be the moit widespread in Chevro let history. LEGAL IN THE COUNTY COURT OF OF THE STATE OF OREGON rOR DOUGLAS COUNTT ORDER FOR SETTING TIME FOB HEARING ON FINAL ACCOUNT In the Matter of the Estate of CHARLES WILLIAM MILNE, deceased. Bert McCoy, Administrator of tha os- SAVE.,. SAVE Hav. 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