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THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON
Thursday, April 26, 1945
Senate Votes To
Cuf Gold Reserve
'Washington, April 26 up)
i The senate today passed by un
anirnous voice vote and sent to
jthajihouse a bill to reduce the
gol(g reserve requirements of the
federal reserve system. The bill
would reduce the required gold
reserve against federal reserve
currency and deposits from 40 to
25 per cent.
1 The action came after rejec
.tiqljf of technical amendments,
one. of which would have raised
the prioj of gold from $35 to $30
announce. ..
Business Meeting
Qf Church Called
The annual congregational
meeting of the Church of the
, NaZarene will be held at 8
o'clock tomorrow evening at the
church, Birch and Y avenues. At
j that time the various depart
nients will give their annual re-
' PKts, and officers will be clcct-
I ed -for the ensuing year.
Delegates will be elected to
! the. district assomly to be held at
. Nampa, May 16 to .18. Rev. O.
. A.'.,Crofford is pastor of the
' church.
Movie Will Be
Shown in Church
Rev. L. J. Smith f Portland
today completed the showing of
the film, "It's the Brain That
Counts" in La Crande public
schools. The film was produced
by the Women s Christian Tem
perance Union, and was shown
at Central, Greenwood. Willow,
Rivcria and the high school.
I He will show the film, "The
Man Who Forgot God" in the.
First Baptist church at 8 o'clock
and will be the last of the series
he brought to La Grande. The
public is invited.
Rev. Smith last night showed
the film entitled "We Too Re
ceive," depicting the work of
missionaries in the South Pacific
islands.
President Gives Newsmen Merry Time
Keeping Up With "Mr. T." Is Tough Job
j Now Many Wear
j FALSE TEETH
: With More Comfort
MSTEBTH. a pleaaant alkaline (new.
fcelal powder, holds false Math mora
firmly, To cat and talk In mora com.
fort, juat sprinkle a llllla KASTBKTH
i rour piatea. no futnmy, moony, pnaly
lata or feellnir. Chocks ''plnls odor'
, dntura breath)
uy drur stors
Ul FABXKETil at
Children's Diseases
In County Are Few
Communicable diseases were at
their lowest ebb in weeks in Un
ion county last week, when the
only case reported to the state
board of health was one of scar
let fever.
There were 35 cases of scarlet
fever reported in tho state f
the week ending April 21, the
board of health report shows,
which is far below the 139 cases
in the same week a. year ago.
A sharp increase in mumps,
measles, whooping cough and
chicken pox was reported else
where in the state during the
week.
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UP)
The White House correspond
ents, who produce those bulletins
you read in the paper about the
president, have been moaning
(sad, but not low) about tho exi
gencies of keeping up with Mr.
1. : ...
' Meaning President, Truman.
Having set my alarm clock to
ring before dawn so I wouldn't
miss anything, I spent yesterday
with the wretches who aren't
rupposed to let'the president out
of their sight. At 8 a. m when
I arrived qt Blair house on Penn
sylvania avenue, the correspond
ents were standing in the rain.
At 8:32 a. m., President Truman
ankled down the front steps in a
black overcoat and a wide grin.
"Still on guard," he observed.
"Yes, but it's killing us," re
plied a watcher.
"Haw," said ' Mr. Truman,
trudging across tho street to the
White House, with the secret
service and the press in tow.
About 50 citizens stood on a cor
ner and applauded. I heard a girl
squeal: "Isn't he wonderful!"
At 8 a. m., the correspondents
sent out for coffee, At 9:09 came
Senator Kenneth McKellar of
Tennessee to talk about rural
electrification. The coffee never
did get drunk. Every 15 minutes
came a new senator or a ntv'
representative to see the presi
dent, Came 1 also some added
starters,' including four beauties,
SUNDAY, MAY 13th
Servicemen's Wives . . .
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Thanks for
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(Add 'M'Yv Tax on All Cof-niolic Hems)
who said they wanted to present
him with a spiritual bouquet,
which I understand was some
kind of a prayer wheel. I never
got to see it.
If you tore out page 148 of the
congressional directory, you'd get
a pretty good idea of the other
callers. I'll skip 'em, all but
third Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Roy North. He came to
peddle the president the first
sheet of five cent postage stamps
commemorating the San Fran
cisco peace meeting. "I didn't
give him these stamps," North
said. "I charged him $2.50 for
them and I grabbed the money
in a hurry."
At I p. m., it was lunchtime.
The correspondents said it looked
like too busy a day to go . out.
They ordered up hamburgers.
They'd hardly taken the first bite
before they were informed the
president was going to the Pent
rgon. They grabbed a cab and high
tailed after him, only to sit
downstairs for an hour and a half
while the president did whatever
lie was doing. They never did
learn what, but they'd barely re
turned to the White House be
fore a clerk handed out copies
of Mr. Truman's radio speech to
the San Francisco conference.
The press brushed the hamburg-
l ers off its desks and leaped at
telephones.
At 4 p. m., the president had
a date at Blair house to say good
bye to some of his ambassadors
heading for places like Iceland,
Iran and Turkey. He left by the
front door and as he stepped into
his limousine to ride across the
street, he said "H-m-m-m, quite
a crowd hero this afternoon."
It was hungry, it was tired,
and its hands were dirty. It was
quite a crowd, all right.
Defeat of School
Fund, Building
Proposals Feared
(Continued from Page 1)
schools. But mosr parent and
teacher groups have come out in
favor of it.
Chapman points out that "if
any large sum were expended to
defeat it, the very expenditure
might tend to advertise the tax so
much that the people would vote
for it. So, there may be little
organized campaigning either for
or aguinst this tax measure."
But he says: "Unless there is
an organized campaign for the
cigarette tax,, or against it, it
may not carry. Or it may. Who
knows' And who cares? . If any
one cares, it is high time to get
busy organizing."
Title Held Misleading
Chapman also believes that
the ballot title of the $10,000,000
measure may be misleading, by
the fact that it is called a "tax
levy," and that adverse votes
might be cast by those who do
not understand that the entire
fund will come from income,
rather than property, taxes.
The titles of the measures as
they will appear on the ballot
follow:
Bill authorizing tax levy for
state building fun purpose:
Levies tax for two years outside
limitation fixed by section 11.
article XI, Oregon constitution.
of $5,000,000 annually, creating
state building fund of $10,000,000,
to be offset by income taxes; ap
propriating $0,000,000 for the con
struction, alteration and reoair
of buildings required for stale '
institutions under the jurisdiction
of tho state board of control, and
for Ifurnishings and (equipping j
such buildings; appropriating ,
$4,000,000 for the construction, I
alteration and repair of buildings j
required for institutions under
the jurisdiction of the state board
ot higher education, and for fur-1
n l s n i n g and equipping such
buildings; continuing each appro
priation until epended.
Vote yes or no. i
Bill authorizing cigarette' tax
to support public schools pur
pose: Levies tax of one-tenth of
one cent on every cigarette sold,
offered for sale or given away;
requires dealers to affix stamps
purchased from the state tax
commission on all Paretics and
cigarette-vending machines; pni-
m. u.r segregation of stocks in
interstate business; directs ad
ministration and enforcement of
:he act and provides penalties
for violations; prescribes proce
dure for the confiscation, sale
md release of seized cigareltrs
nt vehiclts; tmnsfeu all moneys
in excess of ?.iutH) mer adminis
trative expenses t,i the flute pub
lic school assistance fund; and
lirects distribution thereof.
Vote yes or no.
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VFW Auxiliary To.
Have Area Meeting
Here on Sunday ,
Mrs. Edith Alderman, Portland,
department secretary of the Vet-e-ans
of Foreign Wars auxiliary,
and Cora Bontty, Portland, de
partment treasurer, will be
speakers at the district meeting
of the auxiliary and post at 2 p.
m. Sunday in the K. of P. hall.
A potluck dinner will be serv
ed under the chairmanship of
Mrs. L. R. Erwards. Mrs. Earl
Courtney, district president, is
conference chairman.
Representatives of units in
Pendleton and Baker also will be
present. The post will hold a
district conference in the K. of
P. hall at the same time, and
have arranged for state officers
to be present.
Members of the auxiliary are
asked to take table service.
Campaign Planned
On Fishing Curb
PORTLAND, Ore., April 26
(UP) The Oregon wildlife fed
eration will lay plans Saturday
at a meeting in Eugene to meet
proposed referendum attack on
the new bill limiting commercial
fishing in coastal streams. The
1945 legislature passed the meas
ure. President C. C. Schenck of the
wildlife group said grange, farm
ers' union and labor representa
tives have been invited.
Destruction in Germany Awes Yaiik
,
Citizens Are Depressed "But Still Faf .
Destruction wrought on some German cities by allied bombings is
almost unbelievable, and while the citizenry is very depressed they
still are "very fat."
These are some of the impressions of Capt. John Groupe, formerly
of La Grande, in a letter to his father, C. O, Groupe, now a resident
of Washougal, Wash.
I wish you could see some of
the German cities that have been
high on the priority lists of the
allied air forces," he said.
"It is almost unbelievable, but
I have seen some fairly large
cities that have been all but
wiped off the map. There are
few Germans in those places now,
because there is no place to live.
The smaller towns are full of
very depressed but still very fat
Germans and most every homo
is now flying a white surrender
flag from the same polo that was
used for Hitler's German swas
tika not too many days ago.
"Have heard many of the boys
say they would like to be back
in France for awhile. Most all
Americans have a hard time stay
ing away from civilians, even if
they are Krauts. Some of these
German girls are lovely, too, but
it is not worth paying a $65 fine
to speak to any civilian. And
that is what it is supposed to
Illinium, element No. 81, was
discovered by Dr. B. S. Hopkins
rf the University of Illinois, and
ii named after that university.
cost any allied soldier who frat
ernizes with a German."
The civilian population' of thV:
United States consumes m per",
cent of allajhe milk produced, for'
the United States our men in
uniform getting only 16 per cent
of the total milk production.
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vow rieparaiiom oi directed
From where I sit ...ly Joe Marsl
Dick Newcomb '
Goes Fishing by Proxy
Bob Newcomb used to be the
best fly caster In the county.
Never missed a Saturday at Se
ward's Creek. But come the war,
and Bob's son going off in uni
form, he just Iqst interest in
things like fishing.
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But the other day Bob got a
letter from the Sooth Pacific.
. . . kind of a homesick letter:
"I'm thinking of yon, Dad, fish
ing in Seward's Creek; cooking
trout over an open fire; and
keeping the beer cool in tho
stream. Keep an extra bottle
cool for me."
So Bob spent' his nejrt day off.
exactly as Dick dreamed of his
doing-fished Seward's Creek
again, and cooked the trout, and
kept the beer cool in the stream
And you knew he was doing it
for Dick.
From where I sit, It's what tie
men overseas would haye ns do
keep alive the little customs,
the small pleasures, they re
memberkeep them alive till
they come home to share them.
No. 114 of a Series
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