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2 Th Newt-Review, Roieburg, Local News Ta Mut Wednesday Thei WCTU will meet Wednesday at ' 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Ada Davis, 938 N. Jackson street. VFW Auxiliary to Mt.t The VFW auxiliary will meet at 8 o'clock Wenesday night at Eagles hall. To Mtat Thursday Wives of Elks are requested to meet Thurs day night at 8:30 o'clock at the Elks temple to make plans for the fall style show. An entertainment will follow the business session. Important Meeting An impor tant business meeting has been announced for members of limp qua district, Dental Assistants so ciety, to be held at 8 o'clock Wednesday night at the home ot Mrs. K. T. Bradley, 1015 Harvard. Recant Visiters Recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Starmer of 703 Mill street, Roseburg in cluded their daughter, Mrs. W. R. Connors, and her two children of Eugene; Mrs. Starmer's sister, Mrs. E. V. Hughes, and daughter, . Suel of North Ben, and the Star mers' grandchildren, Louis Star mer of Eugene and Billie Deeds of Portland. Fast service on AUTO GLASS REPAIRS Now 1s the rime to have nji'i gloss 'epoirt made We handle oil types of -la and door hardware. 1 5 years of auto olass service In Roseburg. DOYLE'S Sales & Service Highway 99 at Garden Valley PHONE 611 Corduroy Convertible SI 14 S$ beautiful quality of this fall's pet fabric-corduroy for the jacket of this good little convertible dress, Nelly Don's moulded shoulders give fashionable natural line, yet are padded lightly to make figure look just right. Fly-away collar, cuffs and slim, deep-pocket skirt of sleek crease-resistant rayon gabardine. Brown with beige, all gray, or fell-red, 10 to 16 sizes. 17.95 Jmsk SECOND FLOOR Ort.TuM., Aug. 22, 150 Visits in Rostburg Mrs. Wil- liam Baker of Corvallii wa a vi itor in Roseburg Tuesday evening and Wednesday, Picnic Dated The fast Pres idents club members and their husbands are invited to a 6:W o'clock politick picnic supper t the Veterans hospital picnic grounds Wednesday night. Those attending are asked to bring their table service. Sale Ta Ba Held There will be a white elephant and rummage sale at the Kpisi-onal narish hall Thursday and Friday between 9 and 5 o'clock. The sale, sponsored by the Wimodasi club, is in charge of Mrs. T. W. Bernard. School clothes and canning jars will be especially featured at the sale. Hare For Weak Attorney and Mrs. William W. Knight and son, Philip, and twin daughters, Jeanne and Joanne, of Portland have ar rived in Roseburg for a week's visit with relatives and friends, fol lowing a vacation in the Wallowa mountains. They were accompan ied on their vacation by Mrs. Harry F. Hatfield of this city (mother of Mrs. Knight) and by Attorney Knight's nephew, Doug las Houser. of Portland. Attorney Knight, assistant business manager of the Portland Oregon Journal, is tnc son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred A Knight of this city. R. B. Mitchell Funeral Scheduled For Thursday Funeral services for Rex Beach Mitchell, 38, who died suddenly Aug. 17 while at work on the new Baptist church building, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Mt. Vernon, Wish. The body was ship ped lo Mt. Vernon by the Rose burg Funeral home. Mr. Mitchell was born Feh. 21, 1912 in Springtown, Ark., and had lived in Oregon two years. During World War II he was in the mar ines. Surviving are a brother, Ira Mitchell, Seattle, Wash., and a sis ter, Mrs. Ona Allen, Everett, Wash. Interment will be in the Odd Fellows cemetery, Mt. Vernon. Mary S. Colt Funeral To Be Held At Oakland Funeral services for Mary Starr Cole, Pasadena, Calif., former res ident of Oakland, will be held I Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Chris- tain church in Oakland, interment will be in the IOOF cemetery. Stearns mortuary is in charge of arrangements. lumberjack dress OF FASHIONS Institute On Psychology Will Include Pastors An institute on pastoral psycho logy will be held at the Veterans administration hospital in Rose bu.g. Sept. 25-27, lo whic" all ordained ministers of the state of Oregon have been invited. The principal subjects' to be dis cussed are emotional problems and mental hygiene. Leaders of discussion groups will come from members of the hospital staff and ministers of various denomina-1 Uor.. The conference is being held at the Veterans hospital in Roseburg so that ministers can be conducted on tours through the neuropsychi atry wards and be better able to deal with patients who will be re turning to their homes and placei in society Similar conferences have been held at other VA neuro psychiatric hospitals and have been found to be helpful in rehabil itating mental patients. toundlable and panel discus sions as well as question forums will be held on topics already se lected from questionnaires sent to ministers throughout the state. The chief speaker will be sent from the chaplaincy department of the Veterans administration in Wash ington. D. C, and has not yet been named. Invitations have been sent to denominational headquar ters rather than to individual min isters, although all ordained min isters are invited to attend. The ministers of Roseburg will provide housing for visiting minis ters of ihcir denominations as well as denominational dinners for all groups represented. About 100 minister have already signified their intention of attending, with more to be contacted. The program is being sponsored jointly by the Veterans adminis tration hospital and the Roseburg Ministerial association, with Chap lain Albert feller in charge of ar rangements. Programs for the conierence can be obtained oy writing the Roseburg Veterans hospital. Sportmsmen Hold Annual Picnic At Cleawox Lake The second annual exchange pic nic between the Umpqua Basin Conservation council and the Southwestern Oregon Sportsmen's association was held Sunday a t Camp Cleawox on the Oregon coast. Among those present were C.'C. Schcnck of Portland, president of the Columbia River Sportsmen's council, and officials and mem bers of the Southwestern Oregon group. Attending from Roseburg were Carl Hill, chairman of the game commission; James Vaughn, district director of fish and game management; Bruce Yeagcr and Charles dinger. . The host group served coffee and clam chowder and participants brought potluck dishes. Afternoon activities included a trap shoot and exchange of conservation and game views. ! The first such exchange picnic was held last year at the Rose burg Rod and Gun club grounds. The annual picnics are open to the public. Minerva A. DeGree Dies Following Brief Illness Minerva A. DeGree, 64, resident of Wincher'cr for seven years, died Aug. 19 after a short illness. She was born Oct. 24, 1885, in Ger manlown, Penn. She was a com municant of St. George's Episco pal church. Surviving are her husband, Vince, Winchester; a daughter, Miss Lillian DeGree, Winchester; three sisters: Mrs. Lavina Aufdcr 'Heide, Rogers, Ark.; Mrs. Alica Brandon, Covina, Calif., and Mrs. Lucy Houser, Covina, Calif. Funeral services will be held in The Chapel of the Roses, Rose burg Funeral home, Wednesday, at 10 a.m., with Father Alfred S. Tyson officiating. Interment will follow in the Masonic cemetery. The joys of an open fireplace Only Spark provides the visible fan-shaped flame that sends nut radiant heat waves like an open fireplace. And with Spark, there is no wood or coal to carry no dirt or ashes to clean up. SPARK lTuTL CIRCULATING HEATERsH Model shown here gives both circulating and radiant heat and provides every modern deluxe heating fea ture. It is finished in the new, magic Spark Neutra- tone that takes on the tones of your furnish ings and blends perfectlyin any setting. "THI HOMI 131 N. Jackson St. 109" Vse' Robert Boshford Given Boy Scout Finance Post Robert Bashford, above, has been appointed finance chairman for the Douglas county district of the Boy Scouts of America. Bashford. a former Boy Scout, automatically becomes a member ROBERT BASHFORD of the Oregon Trail council finance committee. He will coordinate fi nancial policies and fund-raising Scouts. Bashford succeeds Al Henninger, now district Boy Scout chairman. The Boy Scouts are expected to be active this year because of a 100 percent increase in the roster of the organization. Bashford was head of a com mittee which handled business so licitation for the polio drive lat year. He is a member of the Ki wanis, Elks and the chamber of commerce. Eligible Asked To Get First Aid Certificates . The following persons were asked by the Red Cross to pick up their first aid certificates at Red Cross offices in the armory: Charles Edward Allen, Joseph Howard Campbell, Wright M. Mal lory, Ray Benjamin Hampton, Ro bert Franklin Harvic, Eugene Ford Northrop, George William Churchill and H. Glenn Brady, in structors. Merrill Hargis, Lee Eaton, Les C. Jantzen, Oscar Sludman, Oro ville Reece and George McClue, ad vanced. John Carlson, Harold Carlson, Burney Tennison, Mike Sulich and Everett Nelson, standard. Instructors cards for swimming, life saving and water safety courses are ready for the follow ing: Gordon Gene Culver. Mrs. Dorothy Jay Moore and Shirley Moraine White. Whereabouts Of Couple . Sought By Red Cross The local chapter of the Amer ican Red Cross today asked per sons knowing the whereabouts of M. H. "Bill" Rogers or his wife, Florcen, to contact the Red Cross office, telephone 832. The Rogers are believed to have been in Roseburg about two months, coming here from Pilot Rock. Rogers is believed to be employed as a "cat" skinner in this locality. WITH NONE. OF THE DIRT OR BOTHER OF HOTPOINT" Phone 123 -7 sum Six Vagrancy Cases Occupy Municipal Court Three women were being held in the county jail today each on $750 bail, according to Justice of Peace A. J. Geddes. The three were charged with vagrancy. They are Ruby Kelly, 34, and Dolly Carr, 35, both of Reed sport and Judy L. Anderson, 25, of Port land. The women were arrested Sunday at Reedsport by deputies and reserves of the sheriff's of fice. Two vagrancy charges were filed also against John Edward Water man, 35, of Corvallis and Leonard A. Van Horn, 43 of Butte, Mont., reported Sheriff O. T. Carter. The two mer were arrested by the state police. John Martin Tuttle, 19, of Rose burg was also charged with vag rancy and released on $50 bail pay ment, .said Geddes. Tuttle was ar rested by the state police. Two Minor Fires Are Brought Under Control A 50-acre fire on the Herman Oden place at Dodson mountain was burnirfg itself out today after being brought under control, the Douglas Forest Protective assoc iation reported. The fire had been brought under control after it had fed on grass, brush and logging slash. Another fire destroyed an o I d barn belonging to a Mr. Slear" near the Hinkle creek station of the association. The fire spread out over an acre of grass but was brought under control. The barn was located across the Calapooia river from the Io nian fire station. Fire fighters speculated that the fire may have been started by children playing with matches because a half-full box of matches was found near the barn. ' Jennie Laswell Funeral To Be Held At Yoncalla Funeral services for Jennie Las well will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the Methodist church in Yoncalla and vault entombment will be at the Riverside cemetery and mausoleum in Portland. She was a resident of Oakland and Yon calla since 1919. Stearns mortuary of Oakland is in charge ot ar rangements. LICENSE EXAM DATED A driver's license examiner will be on duty in Roseburg at t h e city hall Thursday and Friday be tween 9 a.m. and S p.m. to remove rower-robbing If gasoline gum and making supreme Gives you that IS Home Front Controls Voted To President (Continued from Page One) designate scarce items. Violators would be subject to penalties rang ing up to a $10,000 fine and a year in jail. 3. Government seizure of pri vately owned plants and other facilities if they were needed in the defense effort. Provision is made for just compensation and return to owners after the emer gency. 4. A $2,000,000,000 government loan and loan guarantee program to encourage defense production 5. Consideration by the Presi dent of the wage and price levels of the period May-June 24, 1950, in the fixing of wage-price call ings. The bill permits but does not require a rcfiback to that per iod, with some exceptions which might include all farm commodi ties. 6. Setting up special machinery for the mediation and arbitration of labor disputes affecting national defense. The procedure would have to be in line with terms of the Taft Hartley law and other existing la bor acts. 7. Exemption from the anti-trust laws and the federal trade act in the case of voluntary agreements entered into by business firms at the request of the President. Mr. Truman did not ask for auth ority to invoke wage-price controls and rationing, but he said he would be glad to have the standby power if congress did not restrict the use of it. He also has said that he sees no need for using those powers at this time. Senate administration leader protested that Mrs. Truman cert ainly would have no free hand under the amendment requiring him to put wage-price controls !nto effect at the same time and vir tually across the board if he in voked the controls at all. NAME WRONGLY SPELLED Chuck Wagner's name was in correctly spelled in a News-Review story appearing Monday dealing with the amateur irogram at the fairgrounds. Chuck was a guest performer Friday and Saturday nights. INSURANCE LIFE AUTO FIRE State Farm Mutual Insurance O. L. Ron S. C Campbell P. O. Box 489 Phone 288 116 W. 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The Lions club has signified j the desire to have the program a part of club meeting and will be tuned in at 6:55 p.m. Hiatt said the same service will be given the Roseburg chamber of . com merce when that group begins holding regular meetings on Mon day noons. In charge of the special courtesy feature will be Bob Grant, KRNR news editor, whose voice will be heard delivering the five-munite news summary. PLAYER'S LEO BROKEN A fast slide into third base re sulted in a broken leg last Sun day for George Roberts, member of the Yoncalla baseball team. Mr. Roberts was taken to Drain for X-Ray and treatment. Roseburg Cabinet AND SUPPLY 440 N. JACKSON PHONE 303 See why Westerners favor Super-Refined Chevron Gasolines nearly 2-to-l! "new-car feeling!" you want: fast warm-up, purring pick up, bonus mileage ... in the latest high-compression engines and in older models as well. Try a tankful for the "New-Car Feeling" that more motor ists are discovering every day! REPLACEMENT CRANKSHAFTS! 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