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WANTED: Companion: long, red
haired shaggy dog. Slightly un
conventional and shy. Contact
H Dec Witherspoon 6-1775 after
10 p.m. H. Dee. 108
1-OK SALK: Satin wedding gown,
size 18. Original cost $100.00,
w ill sell for $40 00. Phone 43980.
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i OK SALE: $20 Zenith portable
radio. Plastic ease battery of
house current. Originally $46.00.
6-4257 ufter 6. 108
J/OST : Electric razor Remington
threesome. Reward. Ph. 4-2894.
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hi I960, there were about four
j>aft< Mger cars for every commer
cial vehicle in the United States,
but the average commercial car
traveled nearly four tiraea as far
as the average pleasure car. Yet
there were 32,140 passenger cars
involved (n fatal accidents, and
only 9,320 commercial ears.
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Spencer Tracy
Joan Bennett
Elizabeth Taylor
'Father’s Little Dividend”
“Hit Parade of 1951“
Judy Holliday
“Born Yesterday”
LAN E*c* i
“West Point Story”
with
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
also
“Three Secrets”
with Eleanor Barker ,
Patricia Neal
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Jane Powell
Fred Astaire
“Royal Wedding”
Alexis Smith
Scott Brady
“Under Cover Girl’
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Pat O’Brien
“Johnny One-Eye”
Dan Duryea
“The Under World Story’
CASCADE
Drive In Theatre
“Winchester 73”
with
James Stewart, Shelly Winters
also
“Peggy”
with.
Diana Lynn, Charles Coburn
Gen. Gray — an Oregonian
VA Chief Finds 'Homecoming' in Willamette Valley Visit
The gravel-voiced Adminlstra
tor of Veterans' Affairs was in
Eugene Monday night, and the
visit was like an unannounccil
homecoming for hirn.
Buck in the days when the Ore
gon Electric and the Kouthn ri
Pacific Railway lines were fight
ing a track-laying battle up the
Willamette Valley, with Kan Fran
cisco the destination, young Carl
It. Gray was heading the Oregon
Electric forces. His contribution
was the construction of the Oregon
Electric track from Salem to Eu
gene in 1912.
Today 62-ycar-oia Carl R. Gray
is a Major General in the United
States Army and over-lord of the
massive Veterans' Administration,
having succeeded Gen. Omar N.
Bradley to the position in Novem
ber 1947. As VA administrator
Gen. Gray is watchdog of the larg
est medical program, educational
and rehabitational systems, and in
surance business in the world.
Gen. Gray, stopped overnight at |
the Kngcnc Hotel, while enroutej
from .Seattle, where he officiated!
at ttie opening of the new VA hos-!
pital there, to Kan Francisco.}
While in Portland Monday he in-!
spected the facilities of the Vete- ■
rans' Administration there. Tues
day morning the 'General left by!
automobile for Koseberg, Medford,
Klamath Falls, and San Francisco.
He expects to stay on the West
Coast until May 1 at which time}
he will return to Washington, L). C.
estimate* (if Benefits
Gen. Gray estimated that there!
were still 1,500,000 veterans of
World War II receiving GI educa-1
tional benefits. This figure repre
sents a irop of 500,000 since 1948.
Wrhen he stepped into his present
Job Gen. Gray set about streamlin
ing what he considered to be the
inefficient handling of the huge
task of administering the National
Service Life Insurance program
operated by the YrA. The former
railroad executive and veteran of i
two World Wars called in Frank-,
lin D'OIier, president of Prudential1
Life Insurance Company, to do the '
job. He said Monday night that as
a result of his efforts the insur
ance program had been operating,
smoothly for quite some time.
"Ask Congress, they pass the:
bills, I just administer them,” the !
General said when queried about1
possibilities of a more stringent'
handling of veterans affairs.
Kccalls Kauroad History
The ruddy-faced military man
enjoyed recalling his part in the
historic Willamette Valley railroad
construction race! At the time he
participated in it (1911-12) he was,
only 23-years-oId; but he left his’
mark on the local countryside in
the form of the Oregon Electric !
trackage from Salem to Eugene,
the railroad's single-span lift 1
bridge over the Willamette between
Fa-risburg and Junction City, and
the Oregon Electric depot now'
controlled by the Spokane, Po t
land. and Seattle Railroad ISP &
S) at Fifth and Willamette m
Eugene. The general recalled that
he "built the depot about 39 years
ago'i
According to R. V. Mills, assist
ant professor of English and ex
peit on Oregon railroads, Gray was
forced to build the expensive singie
.‘■pan lift bridge (similar to the
Steel Bridge in Portland) across
the V\ illamette when the river was
declared navigable to Eugene.
After the OE had built its com
plicated bridge the river was ce
clared unnavigabie allowing t'.e
SP to build a simpler and cheaper
type bridge.
The steamer employed by Giay
to haul steel to the bridge site from
Portland was the last river boat
to navigate the Willamette to
Harrisburg.
The Oregon Electric, though 'o
longer electric, still operates an
the Portland-Eugene run.
Major Norn Hays, Oklahoma A&M, *401
-Aviation Executive, US. Air force! |
A native of Grove, Oklahoma, Norman
Hays graduated from Grove High School
in 1935. The following year he entered
Oklahoma A&M, where he majored In
engineering; also took puBlic speaking.
Sent to an RAF Navigation School in
Canada, he graduated with the highest
possible rating of Specialist. Norman
served overseas for 18 months' in the
Aleutians, Italy and Saipan.
—* fiSsajir" 1
Active in national 4H Club work -while in
college, he helped organize its statewide
activities, won a national 4H champion
ship in Public Speaking. In 1940 he re
ceived his BS degree in engineering.
Accepting a regular commission after
the war, he was assigned to development
of navigation instruments; navigated the
B-29 “Pacusan Dreamboat” on its famed
Hawaii-Cairo non-6top flight in 1946.
A month later he began navigator train- <
ing as an Aviation Cadet. In 1941, ha
received his navigator's wings and s
commission as Second Lieutenant . , , j
married his college sweetheart. ■'A
Typical of college graduates who have
found their place in the U. S. Air Force,
Major Hays is Chief. Navigation Section,
at Headquarters in Washington . . . with
a secure career ... a promising future.
If you are single, between the ages of SO
and 26bs, with at least two years of college,
consider a flying career as an officer in the
V. S. Air Force. You may be able to meet
the high physical and moral requirements
and be selected for training. If you do not
complete Aviation Cadet training, you may
return to civilian life or have opportunity to
train for an important officer assignment in
non-flying fields.
Air Force officer procurement teams are
visiting tunny colleges and universities to
explain about these career opportunities.
Watch, for their arrival or get full details
at your nearest Air Force Base, local re
cruiting station, or by writing to the Chief
of Staff. U. S. Air Force, Attention: Avia
tion Cadet Branch, Washington £5, D. C.
U. S. AIR FORCE
ONLY THE BEST CAN BE AVIATION CADETS!