U Th Ntwi-Rvlw, Roieburg, Or, Sot., Dtc. 21, 1951
Farm Land Values Upped 15 Percent During 1951
WASHINGTON UP) The Ag
riculture department reports that
farm land values increaied 15
Rercent during the year ending
ov. 1 under the influence of fa
vorable agricultural returns.
Values are no 20 percent above
the pre-Korean war level.
The department said, however,
that the rate of land price increase
had slacked during the four
months before November. During
this period values increased an
average of 2 percent compared
with 4 percent in the correspond
ing period a year ago.
The department said fewer farm
sales were made during 1951 than
last year. It said that in the bet
tor farming areas it has been
difficult for real estate agents to
get listings of farms because of
favorable farm income and a de
sire on the part of owners to keep
their investments In real estate.
Elsewhere, it said, many of the
farms listed for sale are less
desirable and are priced too high.
The department said, however,
there still appears to be sufficient
WITNESSES INVITED
TO OPERATION
This city's chairman today an
nounced that witnesses are now be
ing invited to watch operations per
formed here daily, lie pointed out
that, even though an arm or leg
is occasionally removed, the tech
nique employed makes it a faci
nating spectacle.
The chairman, sometimes known
as the sofa man, but better known
at Mrs. C. Wolf of Expert Furni
ture Cleaners & Upholsterers, 2132
Hollis, directly behind Richie's
Hoot Beer Drive-In on Highway 09
North, has this to say: "Everyone
in this upholstery shop proudly wel-,
comes your watching the operation
on your chair or sofa". You'll say:
"Sofa, so good". We say: "Our
phone is 3-3191. , . It's an ad.
demand in most areas for the lim
ited number of farms on the mar
ket to maintain prices at least at
their present level.
"However, in contrast to a year
ago when all available larms sola
readily at sharply higher prices,
some prospective buyers are again
showing a reluctance to meet
current asking prices," the agency
said.
Wilbur
By ELSII BROSZIO
Mr., and Mrs. Kenneth Barrett
and family, Wilamina, and Mrs.
Mamie Bruce, of Hebo, were
weekend guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Russell.
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Lerwill of
Tiller spent Monday at the home
of Mrs. I.erwill's mother, Mrs,
Carrie Blakely, in Wilbur.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Harvey and
family of Weiser, Ida., are spend
ing a few days visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. I.loyd Harvey.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Grubbe
and son, Rollie, motored to Port
land for the holidays to visit rela
tlves and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Neiss and
family of Bayonne, N. J., spent
the Christmas holidays visiting at
the home of Mrs. Neiss' parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Stout, in Wil
bur.
Neiss is with the US navy and ex
pects to leave for Yokahama,
Japan soon.
The Neiss' are now in San Fran
cisco until he leaves for overseas
duty, after which Mrs. Neiss will
return to Wilbur for a two months'
visit with her parents. She then
expects to join her husband in
Honolulu.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Brown spent
the weekend in Portland visiting
at the home of their daughter and
family, Mr. ana Mrs. N. E. Lei
theiser. They expect to meet their
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Barney Van Cleve, there and
return home together.
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All Kinds of Mixers
OPEN
New Years Day
"WHERE GOOD MIXERS MEET"
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Va Block South of Pott Office
Umpqua Valley Appliance
WILL BE
CLOSED
MONDAY, DECEMBER 31
to give our employees
a 3-day year-end holiday
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YULE FESTIVITIES TURN INTO HORROR The city of Tijuana, Mexico was plunged into mourning
as grieving relatives searched among the 42 charred victims of the worst fire in the history of Mexico.
More than 200 persons were attending an annual Christmas party for needy children and orphans
in the auditorium when the fire broke out. Some were trampled and othera burned as the crowd
stampeded for the single exit that could be opened. The roof collapaed before all could escape.
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PRISONERS WILL GET MAIL-After hearing that there will be
an exchange of letters between prisoners of war in the Korean
conflict and their relatives, Mrs. William F. Dean pens a note to
her husband, Maj. Gen. Dean, in her Berkeley, Calif., home. The
photo on the desk of the general was made two days before in
the North Korean prison camp where he is held.
Consumer Price Index
m
1951 V
1U - jr
115 I Op J
.
ml i i i 7t i I i . .,
. I f. M. A. M. J. J. A. $. O. K D
1939 '41 '44 '45 '44 '47 '41 '49 '50
The cost of living for 1951, measured by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics' Consumer Price Index, continued to reach record highs
each month as shown on Newschart at right In October the index
hit an all-time high of 187.8 with government experts predicting
more inflation and higher cost of living for the immediate future.
Chart on left shows the index from 1943-50 using the 1935-39
average of 100 as the "norm,"
The Hotel Umpqua ond the Hotel Umpqua Coffee Shop,
Management and Employees, wish to extend to all of our
patrons and friends A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.
THE COFFEE SHOP WILL BE OPEN ON
NEW YEAR'S DAY TO SERVE YOU FROM
9:00 A M. TO 8:00 P.M.
A SPECIAL NEW YEAR'S DAY DINNER
WILL BE SERVED FROM
11:30 A.M. TO 8:00 P.M.
PLAN YOUR NEW YEAR'S DAY DINNER
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News
Highway Income,
Disbursements
Shown In Report
Income of the Oregon state high
way commission for the claendar
year 1951-largest in its history was
approximately 38 million; its dis
bursements, exclusive of bond
fund income, totalled $40 million
in round figures, according to the
commission's annual statement
covering activities for the year
1951.
Gross revenues from road user-
sources (gasoline taxes, etc.) are
expected to total S44.20O.O0O, or
$1,700,000 in excess of the year
1950. Of this sum $8,500,000 will
have been paid to counties for
county roads; $4,350,000 to cities
for city streets; $1,050,000 to the
state police department, thus leav
ing approximately $30,300,000 to
the highway commission for its
share. Added to this latter figure
the highway commission will re
ceive during 1951 $7 million from
the federal government for use in
highway construction work plus
$1,600,000 from other sources
bringing the final total income ap
proximately to $38,900,000.
During l!)51 highway mainten
ance has cost approximately $11,
100,000 due in large part to the
great increase in heavier and
faster commercial hauling. High
way construction, exclusive of
rightj of way costs, has cost $19,-
000,000. Rights of way purchases
have taken $3,400,000; capital out
lays $1,600,000 and operating ex
pense', (Including park operation,
travel information, debt service
and bridge and ferry operation)
$4 million; grand total $40 million.
Approximately 70 percent of the
construction program for the year
was federally aided, which means
60 percent of the cost exclusive
of rihtsof way is furnished by
the federal bureau of roads and
40 percent by the highway com
mission. This federal aid amounted to
$7,450,000. Both federal and stale
funds will finance an annual con
struction program of approxi
mately $12,900,000. The record
shows that 96 percent of the 1950
51 program ($18,900,000) and 47
percent of the 1952-53 program
($25,800,000) either is completed
or under contract as of December
31.1951, with Oregon standing in
first place among all the states
of the union in percentage of
available federal aid completed or
under contract.
In supplement of current high
way revenues, acting under the
bonding act of 1951 legislature, the
commisson has awarded construc
tion contracts totalling $11,600,000
of which $1,200,000 presently has
been expended for work done; this
out of the initial annual bond al
lotment of $15,000,000.
Salt Water Or Natural Gas Injection
Revives Old Oil Fields In Attempt
To Increase Fuel For Defense Needs
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK (AP) Oilmen know exactly where
billions and billions of barrels of oil lie under the United
States that they haven't yet been able to coax to the surface.
Some of them think they're going to be able to find the
way and soon. Defense needs of the nation for oil re
serves that can be used spur the oil engineers and chemists
on.
Other billions of barrels that oil
men once gave up as lost forever
they have now learned now to
bring forth. By injecting salt water
or natural gas deep into the earth
they have brought back to life old
oil fields they once thought milked
dry. They expect this way to re
cover an estimated 75 billion bar
rels once thought lost.
But that still leaves oil they know
is there but can't pull out of the
pores of the rock and sand where
nature produced it.
Perhaps 150 billion or 200 billion
barrels are in known oil fields
but beyond the reach of current
methods of recovery. Inn oil is
a prize worth working for espe
cially in the nation's defense.
Mow they are turning to chemis
try to get at it. They are sticking
hypodermic needles of acid deep
into the earth to eject the oil from
the rocks. Some are using deter
gents to flush oil loose from the
porous rocks in which it hides.
Some use carbon dioxide in the
water with which they flood old
oil fields to push the oil toward the
bottom of wells that are going dry.
Fatty acids and ammonia salts
are also said to induce the rocks
Defrocked Priest,
Girl Wed After
Hectic Romance
to cast off the oil that clings to
them.
Other chemists are experiment
ing with bacteria to stimulate the
underground flow of oil from the
oil-bearing sands to the bottom of
oil wells. Some are testing out the
effects of heat on the reluctant
oil stores.
Much of this oil was once
thought lost because in the early
days of the oil industry men knew
only one way of getting oil
pumping out the petroleum which
flowed by natural means to the
bottom of the well. The natural
meas was pressure. The fruitful
sands bore not only oil but gas
and water.
Experience Teachers
Oilmen were reconciled to aban
doning an oil field after getting
anywhere from 15 to at most 50
per cent of the oil which their
wells had tapped.
Then they learned that by pump
ing back this gas and water down
dry wells into the oil-bearing sands
they could create the pressure to
bring up more oil. By this method
called secondary recovery--they
are now able to get from 70 to 80
per cent of the oil content of the
fields.
But it's in the laboratory that
the new methods may be found
the tertiary recovery through
chemistry. In laboratories core
samples that is, cylindrical bor
ings of rock from the oil bearing
formations at the bottom of wells
are treated. Chemists say they
know now how to set all but five
to eight per cent of the oil out I
of the sample cores contrasted to
the 25 to 30 per cent that remains
in the rock under methods of
secondary recovery now used.
ine trick is to turn these labora-
MILAN. Italy UP) Claire
Young, a Chicago girl, 21 was
married Wednesday to Luciano
N"3riri, 43. a fnrmpr Roman Cath
olic priest and missionary.
ine way to marriage had been
tangled with red tape that took
months to untangle.
flair CI 3 l'n ,,n hat- 1 m ar-ii. . n
CitizenshiD. Necrini was defrorkert ! tory methods into commercial field
by the church during their ro- methods that are cheap enough to
mance. I be practical.
The ceremony took place in Mil-i
lan's city hall. !
Claire also was a member of the
Catholic church.
The ceremony was nerformed
by Carlo Pedroglio, the city as-1
lessor, representing Milan a may
or.
The bride, an ash blonde, is the
daughter of James J. Young of
Chicago, a professor at Loyola :
University, Chicago, a Catholic .
institution.
The wedding climaxed a eries
of "hectic events that began last
year in Chicago where the couple
met while he was doing China .
mission promotion work.
The rugged road to romance
included a short stay for Claire in
Milan' San Vittore jail, and a
trip to Milan by her mother, Mrs.
Eileen Brady Young, who tried to
break up the love match. Claire
was jailed for making a disturb
ance and allegedly striking a po
liceman while trying to get her
Italian visa extended.
Negrini was expelled from the
priesthood while Claire was in jail.
Claire underwent a sanity hearing
and was declared to be of sound
mind before she was freed on
Aug. 2.
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ACCLAIMED - Chet AUen, 12-year-old
soprano from Columbus,
O., was acclaimed by critica in
his role as a crippled boy in Gian
Carlo Menotti's opera that wai"
telecasted Christmas Eve. Critic,
say the yeung singer helped bring
television "of age."
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At Patty Home Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart Patty and daughter, Bar
bara, of Enterprise, Ore., are
spending a few days in Roseburg
as guests of Mr. Patty's brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Patty, in Westmoreland.
Raturn To Medford Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Doss have returned to
their home in Medford, following
a visit over Christmas with their
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Mrs. A. D. Parr, and son, Don,
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discharge from Mercy hospital,
where he has been a medical pa
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several days by illness.
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