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Aged Man Plans 2nd Rehearsal Of Own Funeral BURLINGTON, Colo W Jim fternhart ii nlnnnlna a - r -, f lnl per- lormance of his own "funeral." "Ain't got my plans all made yet," he told newsmen Monday. "But there'll be something this year." Jim. who Is approaching his 75th birthday, presided at his own "fu neral" in June, 1951. It cost him an estimated $15,000 which includ ed a $4,000 copper coffin, $2,500 granite monument and incidentals. "Don't think it will be near as big a blowout as it was last time," be said of this year's event. "Those big funerals are mighty tiring, you know ... a man can take just so Iinlnass Man's Assurance Company OFFICE 321 E Douglas Telephone; 3-5160 Eugene V. Lincoln Roseburg, Oregon WanYeu I WALNUT MEATS WEBER'S BAKERY PHONE 3-8126 J miiT oit35i' tz&fe j? taint' i&sim& skips' Your Nickel Buys More at the Big--- Fred Meyer 5' SALE U Buy One at Regular Price . . . 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Jim, a retired farmer, ran Into mild opposition from some of the Burlington townspeople soon after announcing plans for last year's Kroceedings, which he (undertook e sai, partly to make sure he wasn't "buried like a dog," and partly to spend some of his esti mated $75,000 fortune before his death "so that relatives won't get it." But if his neighbors were op posed to the funeral, they didn't show it when the big day came. Almost to a man Burlington turned out for the services, rubbing shoul ders with curious visitors from half a dozen states. Another event in the area is threatening to "mess up my plans this year, he said. "I put a notice in the paper that I was going to have & service June 1," he explained. "So what do they Co, put they schedule the dedica tion of this dam for that day!" The dam is Bonny Dam, a rec tarnation bureau project. "I suppose I'll have to put my S"""1'' off fii n "--ok on aef"""t of this," he said. "It would serve tnem right, wiousih, if I went a.:.id with my plans and took the crowd away trom tnem. ICRIJR 1490 lie. UCMAINiNO HOURS TUUAT 4:00 UneU Bob'i Story Urn 4:1ft Maaalaf wa HRI 4:30 Curt Muu; Show MBS 4:45 Sam Hajae MBS 5:00 Bobby Btiuon MBS 8 30 Wild BUI Hlckok MBS 855 Cacil Brown MBS 40 Migtc U&rtu il Warld ( Ipor 4 J BrtibWr Side 1 4 m ruy MBS :M Bill Henry MBS TOO Womin of the Year MBS TJt Ciaaa KM MBS 8 00 Let George Do It MBS 0:30 Hollywood Playhouaa MBS 9 ,e Citrus Hardy MBS 4:14 TMltoei Lewie Jr MSB 9:30 Mutual Newireel MBS : Fereonelity Ttene 9 JS Flva Minute Final MBS 10:001 Love A Myiery MBS 10:15 Here's to Veterane 10:30 War rroit-Homt Front MBS 11)0 Nite Watrh 11:25 News Nltecap 11:30 Sign OK TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, WSS 4 00 Coffe Club Capers 5:30 Newe-Co (fee Club 6:43 Way of Life 1:00 Hemingway MBS 7:13 Break ait Gang MBS 7:4o Muaical Roundup 8:00 Cecil Brown MBS 4:13 News MBS 8: Haven of Reet MBS 8:00 Over The Coffee Cup 9:13 Capitol Commentary MBS 9:33 VuilC MBS 9:30 Man About Town 9:45 Joy of a Shut-In 10: (JO Glenn Hardy MBS 10:1 3 Tello-T8t MBS 10:30 Second Spring 10.45 Betty and Bob 11:00 Ladlea Fair MBS 11:23 Sam Hayes, News MBS 11:30 Queen For A Day MBS 12:00 Bob Grant and the Newt 12:15 Modern Mood Muilc 12:30 Man On The Street 12:43 Bob Grant Local News 12:33 Market Reports 1:00 Jack Klrkwood Show MBS 1:30 Standard School 2:00 Relay Quia 2:30 Musle You Want 3:00 Poor Bob'i Almanac 3:43 Assembly of God 4:00 Uncle Bob's Storytlm 4:13 Hemingway MUS 4:30 Curt Massey Show MBS 4 43 Sam Hayes MBS 5 00 SftL Preston of Yukon MBS 5:30 Sky King MBS 5:35 Cerit Brown MBS 6:00 Gabriel Heatter MBS 415 World of Sports 30 Brighter Side 4:43 Sara Hayes MBS . .. :5 Bill Henry MBS 7:00 Black Museum MBS 7:30 Dollars and Sense 7:45 Chuckwagon Jamboree 8:00 MGM Theater of Air MBS 9 00 Glenn Hardy MBS t:15 Fulton Lewis Jr MBS 9:30 Joe Massey & Guitar 9:45 Personality Time 9:55 Five Minute Finale MBS, 10:001 Love a Mystery MBS 10:15 Smiley Burnett Show 10:30 Mutual Mystery MBS 11:00 Nlte Watch 11:23 News Nltecap 11:30 Sign Off The Eye-Bank for Sight Restora tion located in New York City is a non-profit organization that collects healthy corneal tissue for trans planting to blind persons with cor neal defects. 2 for 74' 2 for 74' 2 for 44' 2 for 30' 2 for 48' 2 for 64' 2 for 28' 1240 lie. KRKL BXMA1N1NO BOUBS TOUAf 4:30 Once Upon A Tim 4.43 Unci Hemua LBS 5:00 Ac of Space LBS 5:1ft Rhythm At Random A: SO Tun For Muslo 3:33 Weather Bulletin 6 00 SporU Spotlight :15 Th Lamplighters 1:30 Modern News 0:43 John W. V andercook LBS TOO Prologue T:15 Dateline Kore 7 30 The Spinners T:45 Claude Thornhill T:43 National Guar a Show :W LBS New :13 Heidelberg Harmonaln :30 Allen Jonea Show :00 Joseph U. Harsh LBS 9:15 Curtain Time 30 Spotlight on U. N. 9:45 Dream Time 10:00 Melody Hour 10:30 Jim McCulla New LBS 10:45 Midnight I' Iyer 11:30 Sign Off TUESDAY, JANUARY 39, 1933 6 00 sign On 6:01 Newt In A Nutshell C:M Dawnbusteri 6:45 News LBS 7:00 Sleepyhead Serenade 7:15 Sagebrush Symphony 7:30 Cal Tinney Is On LBS 7:45 Ranger's Quartet LBS 8:00 Breakfast In Phoenix 8:30 Morning Newt 8:45 Sugar and Sptc 9iH) Modern Home 8:15 Say it With Music 0:308:30 Dateline 9:45 Top O The MornliV 10.00 Ten O'Clock Tune 10:30 T. B. A. 11:00 The Bookshelf 11:13 Stork Club 11:20 Town Crier 11:30 Stop the Record 12:00 Minute of Prayer 12:01 Variety Time 12:15 Roving Reporter 12:30 Mid Day News 12:45 Market Report . 12:50 Music 1:00 Paula Stone Show LBS 1:15 Franklin Kennedy LBS 1:30 Music At You Like It 1 :45 Alexander's Ragtime Review 2:00 Melody Matinee 3:30 Liberty Jamboree LBS . 2:45 News Capsule 2:50 Today's Menu 2:55 J-'ive Minute Musical 3:00 Afternoon Carousel ' 3:30 Open House 4:30 One Upon A Tim 4:45 Unci Remus LBS 5:00 Ace of Space LBS 5:15 Rythm At Random 5:30 Time For Music 5:55 Weather Bullciln 6:00 Sports Spotlight 6:15 The Lamplignter 6:30 Modern News 6:45 John W. Vandercook "LBS 7:00 Meet the Band 7:30 March of Dime 8:00 LBS News 8:15 Cote Glee Club 8:30 Melody Merry 'Go Round 8:00 Frailer Hunt LBS 9:15 Curtain Time 9:30 Adventure Ij Your Herltag 9:45 Music From th Shalimar 10:00 Melody Hour 10:30 Jim McCulla News LBS 10:45 Midnight Flyer 11:30 Sign Off NO ROOM FOR ROMANCE: Cu pid really takes a beating during "Woman of the Year,- starring Bette Davis and George Brent, to night at 7:00, when tils darts are offset by a U. S. Statt Department request 8:30 to 9:00 tonight, romantic screen star Ceasar Romero is starred in Hollywood Playhouse. He will be heard in Lawrance Dupont's drama. "Velvet Noc- turne," the story of a concert pi anist who reclaims his career aft- USED RADIOS Good Selection of Home and Auto Radios 7.00 up Kent RADIO Service 405 W. Cass, Phone 3-3446 y 1 i V jo much more V ' much le55 THIS NEW ESTATE. 399 95 -floeei . Compare it, ftaturt for ftaturo, with far mora costly models. St why thil booullful ntw EltoU Eltctric Rang it today's most sonsational rongt VALUE! fa Automatic Control for either oven ir Bar-B-Kewer C Apoliance Outlet k Hide-Away Grid-All HORN'S ROSEBURG REFRIGERATION 324 North Jackson ' s ej' 1 """'fi mm mt in n : ..WSMMfciiiiiMW'TTiir aMa ACCORDION MUSIC was added to the variety of activities In-' front of the Howard Hardware in Winston Saturday as part of augurated to raise money for the March of Dimes polio fund, a county-wide project to raise money for the care and treat In the picture above, Arelene Botsford, left, and her twin sis- ment of polio victims. Mrs. J. V. Butler, March of Dimes ter, Darlene, are shown as they pumped their accordions in chairman for Winston, stands at left.KPicture by Paul Jenkins) er losing bis eyesight in an acci dent Jeanne Bates is heard as the pianist's courageous young wife. IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING, hear the summary of the days news as given bv 4J, J Glenn Hardy, ,wj nicture herein. 'NSa The Alka Seltzer v ..... v. v. 'ifi come a tradition on Mutual Don Lee. hear it twice a day, 10:00 a.m., and 9:00 p.m. Although a little late. . . or a tri fle early. . . to say a word about Christmas, we would like to men tion the results of the "Santa Claus Hemingway" campaign. For several years now, Frank Heming way, Mutual-Don Lee newscaster has organized a "roundup" of gifts to be passed along to the wounded men in west coast service hos pitals. His newscasts, which are aired In the west exclusively, car ried a total of 12 announcements during the week of Dec. 14. That was all it took for the west to come through. His listeners do nated a grand total of 28,220 gifts . , , putting the Christmas 1951 total over all previous seasons. Tom Moore's toy contest was SO successful, now this kind of gives you a warm glow, doen't it? May be this world's not as hard as it sometimes seems. JOYS OF A SHUT-IN comes your way again tomorrow morn ing. 9:45 a.m. Hear Mrs. Nathan Fullcrton give with her heart warming philosophy, and a litlte music. A refreshing pause in a busy day. Of Everything You Want Than You Thought You'd Have To Pay. Electric Range 334.95 NOW fc Chrome fluorescent top lamp 4r Minute Minder Individual Tel-U-Litei Oven I'ght & window Dial 3-5033 ifcr Eskimo Scouts Of Alaska Top. Notch Riflemen B BERNIE KOSINSKI ivmmntnn n i. ,n . group of "o frontier sharpsilooTerr fome of whom speak no English and never had ridden in an auto mobile or seen a city, are in train-1 ing here as one of the nation's . unique military units. I They are the Eskimo Scouts of Alaska's year-old National Guard.! They're easy to spot on Anchor age streets. They walk along the: sidewalks trapper fashion in single file. Expert riflemen who can hit the eye of a seal on an ice floe from a distance of 100 yards, they com plain that Army targets are too big. They're disappointed if they fail to make perfect scores. as memuers oi tne isi ana zna Provisional Scout Battalion of the All-Eskimo unit of the Alaska Na tional Guard, these natives from1 north of the Aretie Circle are tak ing part in their first field en campment at Fort Richardson. Their intensive training runs through Jan. 27 Easily Dead Shots j Capt. Frank Clayton, Bethel, commander of the 2nd Scout Bat talion, told of the snapshooting. He said his men shot 10 consecu-! tive bulls-eyes with no effort and prefer a one-inch target at 200 yards to a 10-inch target. j After encampment, the guards men will return to their villages ' to instruct men unable to come to (lie sessions. Master Set. Carl Kawalclev. Aki- ak, and Sfc. Edward Sallison, Beth I el, said the weekly guard drills are big events in the natives home communities. 'Kveryone wants to be a sol dier," Sgt. Kawatgley said. "They-I re all eager to learn." I The scouts will be on 24-hour i duty at their Bering Sea and Arctic 1 Ocean coastal homes. I Local News Returns To North Umpqua Mrs. C. E. Gordon has returned to her home at North Umpqua Lodge, following a five-day stay in Koscburg as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schwartz. Spending Winter H.r. Mrs. Maltha I'latz of La Crosse, Wis., is spending the winter In Hoseburg visiting her brother-in-law and sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schwartz, on East Douglas Street. Stoodllv Improving B. If. Laird, who has been ill the last two months, is reported t obe stead ily improving at his home on Win chester Street, lie was a patient six weeks In Mercy Hospital, prior to being discharged to convalesce at his home. Visits in Portland Mrs. Al bert DeVoc was in Portland over the weekend to visit her husband, a mupping engineer for the Doug las County Forest Appraisal De pjrtment now working with the Bureau of Land Management on a cooperative map making proj ect. Mr. DeVoe expects to be In Portland for another week or two. Will Move To Eugene Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Rogers are moving from the Oak Hill Apartments at 480 S. Main Street in Roseburg the first of the month to Eugene, whcie Mr. Rogers has been trans ferred by Whcelcr-Hallock of Port land. Mr. Rogers is a lumber buy er for the company. While here, Mrs. Rogers has been employed 1 by the Douglas Abstract Company. IVAN EDWARDS 1st Closs Construction Contracting or Time ond Material Ph. 3-7493 1251 Harrison Mon., Jan. 28, 1952 TW Newt-Review, Roubera, Ore. I Rthirn to Work Mr. and Mrs. Merle F. Pugh returned to their work at the News-Review this morning, following a 10-day honey moon trip to California. Mrs. Pugh, " "J ' L'uiuia nao I'jter ueiure uer mar- 3" "J" home 00 905 Winchester Street. Here From Klamath Falls Jess Shirley, who is attending Oregon Tech at Klamath Falls, spent the weekend visiting bis Now - All Week OREGON'S Columbia Rivar and Mt. Hood Behind the Greatness, the Glory, the Fury of the Northwest Frontier. JAMES STEWART ARTHUR KENNEDY. , JULIA ADAMS ROCK HUDSON tan PI 7T act ato:-io"' J, to ' yS, SR' EVERVB0D1 GETS WESAMESOOD SERVICE HEREj mUTTlSMAU THE BIG MAN LIKES OUR FAIR. PRICED FRIENDLY AUTO SERVICES -FOILOUJ TNE CARS TO - " L0CKW00D MOTORS INC. ROSE ond OAK PHONE 3-4486 father, John Shirley Sr. Jess was formerly employed at the News Review, prior (a going to Klamath Falls to attend school. (Paid Adverttitmftnt) ITCH Scablas) la blfhir eon- tafioua and will eon mui lor ma u not topped. Ita tola cam la th Itch mita which li Immune ta ordinary treatment EXSORA kllia the itch-mita almost Instantly. Only thr days EXSORA treatment t required. Mail orders given 1 ca promnt attention. PostnnM FRED MEYER DRUGS, ROSEBURG NOW STORY Of A I0Y IN MTTUIACX IN 11621 I Audi Bill MURPHY-MAULDIN A MTO-OOUrWYH-MArft MCTUM 2ND FEATURE WEDNESDAY AND DAY nujgi ISQt lAllFT HMnfM cm llgf I., -J'