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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1943)
(Yiiletide Cards on Ration List; Tree Shortage Also Expected For several years now the adage, “Do Your Christmas Shop ping Early” has been told to buyers of gifts, but this yuletide the warning may even apply to the item most often sent at Chrretmas^me—-the Christmas card. Usually door-to-door sales of cards are highly competitive, but this year most Eugene stores and salesmen are keeping quiet; hoping that their stocks will hold out, Will Lindlev, Em - r e rata ‘pnotograpner. ana tcegister - .Guard staff member, discovered - after-iookingtwerthe locaLacene. Even These Are Rationed 'fiber shortage of cards oh the •j market is generally attributed tt> . restrictions on- paper by the war . i production . board. Newspapers and magazines -have already felt the..paper shortage and now it has come to the Christmas card. Salesmen here report that there is an unusually heavy demand for' greeting cards and further orders are being declined. Local stationers are using vari ous means to get by until after the holidays—one even rationing iOut cards ' to his customers. An other ventured to say people had better get on the boat if they expected to get any this year. The bright spot in this dreary ■ 1 As a Supplement to Your College Career and to fit yourself for the battle on the home front . . . EUGENE BUSINESS COLLEGE offers special training- in Short hand, Typing and business ma chines, at a reasonable cost. Da)" and Evening Classes PHONE 666 364 BROADWAY outlook is here on the campus. The Co-op has done its Christ mas shopping early and has the largest supply of cards and the biggest variety in years, M. F. McClain, Co-op manager, proud ly announced. _ . .— Fortunately service men over seas will not have to go without holiday greetings for they came under the earlier mailing dead lines when cards were plehtiful. These Trees Get Around Unless Santa Claus can per form a miracle shortages will dominate the Christmas scene. Trees will be scarce and high priced outside of. immediate areas where they are grown, mainly because, few cutters are Wording in the forests. Orders from as far away as Texas have come for Oregon fir and , sprupe- trees. Californians hauling fruit to the Northwest are popeful of carrying back a full load of trees. Look at the Time Saved Most stores have only last year’s left-over stock of tree dec orations. No new string lights have been manufactured since war restrictions were clamped down and no replacement tree lights available. But there’s one thing to be hap py about—there will be no more screwing and unscrewing of light bulbs up and down the string to find that light that went out. A large mural is being done in fresco in the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism by Jean Chariot. Westminster college alumni in the service now number more than 650. 1wM £ Her private life Requires a gift of per sonal appeal. Robes in prints and plain satins. $16.95 -$25.00 Charge and Budget Accounts Beauty Salon on mezzanine Christmas Color All varieties of jewel ry are to be found at our gift box . . . Extensive line of Jewels by Karu A Dainty-JianHy A* lovely white or >atlyrcolored hanky i-s. ~ a gift-that’s beautiful A;., ah'd useful. . T '"\ ;’\ '''' Feminine Loveliness that she’ll enjoy. A new shipment of slips ^ has just arrived—' hurry while they fast.' All prices. [f You Want A Gift For Him M era’s Toiletries', packed in clever mas.-.‘A.' culine boxes. Gift Bar • t Phone 633 UO Student in Spars Heard on Radio Show •* Mary Lou Goff, former Uni- , versify student, who recently joined the Spars, was inter viewed on the Vox Pop radio pro gram. from New York City-last jveek, as a feature of the first anniversary of the coast guard woman’s reserve. ■ Miss Goff joined the Spars last January with a rating of store keeper, third class,. apd is sta tioned at the Manhattan Beach training station in Brooklyn, N.Y. r She was interviewed on the Vox Pop program by Parks Johnson and Warren Hull, the program coming over the CBS network through KOIN in Port land. r HAPPY: HOLIDAYS We’re wishing - you the best. You’ll find it always pays to see that you’re well dressed. .. So' Come to THE BONNET NOOK Monticello college, Alton, 111., s now in its 106th year. GLAMOR GIFTS IT’S WHAT SHE WEARS WITH IT—that adds fire and life to her costume. Sparkling clips, nacklaces, bracelets, and earrings . . . smartest for Christmas. HER SPECIAL LOVE —a fabric glove. Really han^pme fabrics score on all (5Pnnts! Long or short, dress, street, and sport—a gift she’ll really enjoy. Personal Gifts Lingerie Hose Robes Hankies IF YOU ASKED i HER—she’d ask ,for . a hjag! Tli<*$e 'are -the • - - - styles slic'd1 chose, herself. Designed to I he’carried with pride. j -,i 'A FORMERLY BEARD'S 870 Willamette Stl ,, ,