La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 27, 1945, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextWednesday, June 27, 1945 THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRAWE, OREGON Page Fiya f ! I IS El 3 Gi j Mi ml wc Classified Adverti La,Grande Observer A community and Family Newspaper published Every Afternoon Except Sundays and Holidays By the Grande Rondo Valley Publishing Company 1710 6th Street La Grande, Oregon phone La Grande 000 ThU Is a politically Independent publication, promoting the best in terests of northeastern Oregon, , National Representatives Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City, 1 Loo Angeles, )?ew York, St. Louis, , San Francisco, Cincinnati Lorenzen and Thompson. Inc. Member ABO Subscription Rate By Cimer Per Year 119.00 1.00 Per Month Per Tear ..8.00 4.78 ... 2.60 Six Months ThreA Months All Subscriptions to Advance Entered on ' cond class matter at the Post Office of La Grande, Oregon under the act, of March 8, 1897. United Press . (Full Leased Wire) '. Classified Advertising . . Information ' All Classified Advertising Is accepted ! ' subject to the' rules and regulations nranHn Rnnde Vnllev Publlsh- : " Ing Company, which will not be re- , BpUIlBlUlC '-J i Insertion and-reserves the right to properly classify oil advertisements, delete oDjectipnaDio wui un w ;j J encea or to refuse any advertisement. ' Ji CASH RATES jThe cush rate . shown below repre f tents a 35, discount for payment i. wltfiln five days. minimum insertion Four lines f Insertions Per tin One -- ... !4o f Three ; o " Pour - 8o , Five : 8o . ;b 6U m-. 7i4o Count four, and one-half words to ! the line. Contract Rates on Bequest PHONE 600 J, : ask for the dt-Taker or a represen tative will call at your office. VITALZSTATISTICS Divorces LE CLAHf Finley from Lena, charges desertion. Complaint 'filed. Anr CLASSIFIED row DIRECTORY DEPARTMENT STORES FALK'S Grande's Better Store La furniture; store ZIMMERMAN'S The home,Sjf lovely furniture. GIFTS TH$. GIFT SHOP Gifts, Diamonds and Watches - (Formerly Richardson's Art arid Gift Shop) MELVILLE'S Dinner ware, glass ware and house ware. HARDWARE ' ZIMMERMAN'S Hardware for every use, from lacks to stoves. Florists 1-A ASTER, MAlUGOLDS and some geraniums-, still available at FITZGERALD FLOWER SHOP .ffiione 136 Lost and .Fplinrl 10 LOST: NoiXration book issued to Minnftfrfaiggins. Return to Observer office. Special Notice 12 . DON'T WORRY Take it to the FIXIT SHOP. First class re pairing on all mechanical ap pliances, furniture and radios. THE JFIXIT SHOP 218 Fir St.'; Phone 487-W FAIRWAY ELECTRIC Bring your electrical troubles to us Nothing too large or too small for us to repair. New fixtures for homeland office. L. JOHNSTON 107 Depot 'St. Phone 7G3 Vfernonal Service 13 CH. 1. E. WOODELL Chiroprac tor & Naturopath. West-Jacob-son Bldg., phone 104. Closed Saturday afternoons. (Services fiQse. 15 S.fSHIP YOUR TROUBLES to us 'r We repair bicycles, motorcycles, J tricycle, toys and etc. LA GRAND!! CYCLE SHOP 219 Fir Street Jticnasra kome corsbtby W Girdles, foundations aft!l braa, Airs, conn uates, zim wreen- vtnta nhnnn R19.W V LA GRANDE ELECTRIC T f Wirina. Repairs & Contracting. JVI S1RRINE & ROUMJY Services Misc. (Continued) PROMPT REPAIR of typewrit ers, adding machines, and otner type of office machines. All work guaranteed. Official UN DERWOOD Agency for Union, Baker, Wallowa, Harney and Grant counties. We call for and deliver. HALL'S TYPEWRITER . SERVICE 109 Depot St. Phone 401 CUSTOM WORK, grain grinding $2.50 ton on your place, mowing and plowing, nuvsi yv ave nue. Orville Pellett. Insurance 16 CROP INSURANCE NOW Is the time to insure your crops against loss by fire and hail. Costs no more to insure now than a month later. We have a rate cover age for a period until Nov ember 30. For further in formation call or see . Claude Berry 207 Depot St. Phone 108 Building Buyplies 19 SPECIAL THIS WEEK We have 24 different patterns ot wallpaper bundles in room lots, 50 off on the price. Come in and make your selection early at the HOME LUMBER & COAL CO. FOR SALE: Bathroom fixtures. Call 5F2, after 7 p.m. PAINTS Enamolized house paint, a super treated oil pro duct. Plastik Roof paint in red and green. Stops leaks, ex? tends life and improves with exposure. Buy these paints at TEEL'S PAINT STORE Hauling & Storage 20 MOVING Anywhere in Ore gon, Washington and Idaho. Insured Carriers. Office in La Grande and Baker. SMITH BROS. MOVING SERVICE 25Vi Fir St. Phone 88 Help Wanted 24 WANTED: Secretary Prefer girl with experience. Phone 790. CARRIERS! CARRIERS! WE NEED BOYS & GIRLS To facilitate the release of older boys and girls for agri cultural work, we require boys and girls with bicycles about 12 years of age; poss sibly younger; whose parents will co-operate in their hand ling of money and maintain ing records. The probability of these youngsters performing this task efficiently and accurate ly without parental guidance Is remote. This is an essential war time task which younger boys and girls can suc cessfully perform. Not more than two hours daily required except when collecting at the first of each month. No early morning or Sunday delivery. ALL CARRYING IN DAYLIGHT HOURS One of the best programs for developing depend ability, personal discipline; meeting the public. INTERVIEW OUR CIRCULATION MANAGER AT ONCE. Phone 600 for appointment. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER WANTED: Woman tor cabin work part time. Wages 65c per hour. Oregon Trail Auto Court. Phone 985-W. Merchandise 25A FLAGS . . FLAGS . . Display a flag on the 4th of July. Get your flag at MELVILLE'S 1 EXTRA NICE Guitar, nice bird cages, 5-gal. oil cans, good log chains, 1 snare drum, car horns, 1 garden plow, car jacks and many useful things for the home. F & T TRADING POST Miscellaneous for Sale 26 HOME LIGHTING FIXTURES for the entire house. Electri cal repairing. TALBOTT ELECTRIC CO. 220 Fir St. Phone 666 AT GAMBLES STORE 5-gal. Army type gas cans, tack boxes, large tool boxes, pump oil cans, 8-point hand saws, hack saws, car cushions, fog lights, trac tor lights, metal flashlights and flashlight batteries, tire reliners, tire boots and tube patching. MEXICAN BASKETS We have a nice selection of sewing, fruit, muffin and waste baskets in colorful Mexican styles. See them at MELVILLE'S. FANCY PLAQUES & CANDLBS Something new and differ ent. Also imported Mexican novelties at SHORB'S STATIONERY Typewrites Phone 111 FULLER BRUSHES B. T. Kit terman. Try our all purpose cleaner, tooth brushes, mops, hair brushes, wastes. 403 Spring street, phono) 346-J or flJU-W. : If You Miss Your Paper Call ttflA Before SPECIAL on COSTUME JEWELRY AND PURSES Pins Combs Beads Earrings Barrettes THE GIFT SHOP (Formerly Richardson's Art and Gift Shop) ELECTRIC SAW -CHIEF, Mall Saws, Skill Saws and Drills. CORY COFFEE MAKERS and extra parts, Cory rods, lids and etc. ROSENBAUM'S . 1412 Adams Avenue Home Furnishings 26A FOR SALE: Nearly new bed, also Vt rollaway. 2718 Ash or phone 4 13-J. FOR SALE: Yt', and I horse power electric motors at BOHNENKAMP'S AT GAMBLE'S STORE House brooms, , clothes driers, waste baskets, nursery cnas's anq child's toilet seats, magazine racks, 32-piece dish sets, plush pillows, glass roasters. BAUER POTTERY We have just received a large smpmem of t,he very popular Bauer Pot tery in k variety of colors. . MELVILLE'S " FOR SALE: Refrigerator, 4arge Z-aoor, brand new. westen: skow Supply, Union, Oregon, Phone 2591. Farm Products & Equipment 27 FOR SALE: Horse drawn mower and wheel tractor with goverr . nor and belt pulley. Dale Standley, phone 19R7. FOR SALE: 1 Tractor pea duster. 1 24-ft. grain elevator. Several horse buck rakes. ' Hay cable. Moore knife grinder. Grease guns and electric fence controllers. CLAUDE WRIGHT FOR SALE OR TRADE Home made tractor. 1101 D Ave. HAY FOR SALE: Mixed alfalfa, priced for quick selling. Phone 822 or 314. FOR SALE: Overshot hay stack er. T. S. Teeter, Imbler, Ore. Plants, Garden Supplies 28 FOR SALE: 3 Guernsey bulls of good breeding, 1 one-year-ola registered bull, 1 six-months- old registered bull, 1 one-mo.- old grade bull, 2 Guernsey J year-old cows to freshen n.-a week or two. Phone Cove 11F13. FOR SALE: Tomato and cab bage plants 50c per hundred. F & T TRADING POST Livestock, Poultry, Pets 29 FOR SALE: Three saddle horses, well broke. Can be seen be tween 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. at 1605 X Ave. FOR SALE OR TRADE Good 2-year-old Blackface buck sheep. 1302 B Ave. FOR SALE: Two fat heifers and weaner pigs. Phone 1065-W. Wanted to Trade or Bar 30 WANTED: H.P. air-cooled gas engine for bike. Phone 412-W. WANTED TO BUY: 6-20 box camera In good condition. Call 799 after 5 p.m. WANT TO BUY: Electric range in good condition. Phone 511-W. Horses & Dogs 32 FOR SALE: Cocker Spaniel pup pies. Phone 1077-J. FOR SALE: Gaited saddle mare, phone 847-J. FOR RENT: 5-room modern un furnished house on south side. Inquire 1214 Y Ave. after 5 p.m. WANT TO BUY: Male or female Collie pup. Phone 363-J. FOR SALE: Man's saddle horse. Phone 164-R or 927-J. Wanted to Rent 44 WANTED TO RENT: Modern furnished home by Karl R. Stone, phone 962-J or 718. WANTED TO RENT: By perm anent agent of Consolidated Freightways, 2 or 3 bedroom house. Children grown. Phone Bill Harvey 491-W or see us at 1608 First street. PIANO WANTED to rent or store for the use. Dr. Sterne, 1708 Oak street. Wanted To Rent 6-ROOM MODERN HOUSE by Permanent Tenant. Call 600 (tad Bala to 50 FOR SALE: 7 Vi -acre place, some machinery, go,d buildings. Al so 80 acres timber. See Frank Ne((fsr, Cove, Oregon. FOR SALE: Incrarne property with small business brings up to, or exceeding $3600 per year. Cash price $14,000. Write Box 339, Evening Observer. sing Continued Real Estate R0 FOR SALE: 20 acres joining city limits, with new house partly finished. Inquire after 8 p.m. at 1402 B avenue. FOR SALE 186 ACRES at Hermiston, one'of the best on the Umatilla river. Ill acres irrigated, this has the finest pasture close in. $10,000, one-half down. 68 ACRES all under ditch at Kennewick, raise anything, B grade dairy, gdod improve. ments, machinery and crop. $12,500, one-half down. 750-ACRE stock ranch, reserve right for 200 head good im provements and climate. Power machinery and all the stock 200 or more,. $50,000. 4300-ACRE stock ranch, will handle 400 head, a fine buy, 300 acres cultivated. $43,000. $10,000 down. - Sacjawea Saturday & Sun. ' A. C. HENDERSON 323 E. Birch St. Walla Walla, Washington FOR SALE: One acre of ground, 2-bedroom modern house, also 2-in. centrifugal pump with pipe, and a wood saw. Freda Remington, Rt. No, 2, La Grande. Automobiles Used Car Prices To Be Cut 4 . July First (O.P.A. Regulatlfln) If you have a car that you are considering selling see us today for an appraisal. REMEMBER If you want the highest price for your car sell it before July first. GETTINGS- LYNCH MOTOR CO. Phone 532 " La Grande, Oregon Automobile Services 56 JOHN'S BODY SHOP Expert body and fender work. Paint ing and general overhauling. Mr. Carman, S Ave. Phone 832-J. Summer School Band Group Will Present Concert (Continued from Page I1'"" Bennett, Kenneth Swart, Dick Zimmerman, Elloise Tucker, Al vin Madsen, John Combs, Flor ence Cramton, Edwin Geralds, Dick Quinn, Bonnie Barnes and Walter Baum. Intermediates Marilyn Reed er, Patty O'Neil, Betty Wilhelm, Betty Marie Stoneking, Jim Het rick, Lonnie Carroll, Lyle Dull, Burl Green, John Combs. Junior band John Bennett, Dick Brown, Charles Dawson, Bob Gilbert, Ronnie Carroll, Bill torn Roberts, John Gruelich, Bruce Patton, Walter Wahl, Lyle Dull, Harold Crawford, Jim Wal ter, Max E. Winn, Lawrence Richardson, Mnrjorie Blokland, Mary Snider, Ellen McCormick, Curtis Cowell, Don Swart, Betty Stoneking, John Combs, Dale Patton, Wesley Ball, Laneva Eld ridge, Shirley Remilland, Floyd Cade, Jack Thompson, Dale White, Roger Cowell, Jerry Brad shaw, Joyce Schiro, Bill Wahl, Morris Buckwalter, Billy Wil liamson, Patty O'Neill Marylin R e e d e r, Raymond Winterton, Kenneth Landers, Garth Sander son, Betty Wilhelm, Jim Hetrick, Duanc Westenskow, Mary Ann Davics, John Lcffle, Don Blacker, Yvonne Hyde, Dick Zimmerman and Jane Hudspeth. David Stitzel, 4, Is Claimed By Death David LcRoy Stitzel, 4, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Stit zel of La Grande, died yesterday in a local hospital following u long illness. He was born April 13, 1941 in La Grande and had lived here all his life. Survivors besides his parents are a sister, Hazel Jean, a bro ther, Laurence Muiiel, his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Geke lyr, all of (La Grande, and Mr. and Mrs. Amos Stitzel of Union. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Snodgruss funeral home. Interment will be in the family plot in the Masonic cemetery. Hospital Notes fit. Joseph's hospital: Admitted: Mrs. Hermina Pal las, La Grande, medical. Grande Ronde botpitoli Admitted Stella Shirley, Vio la Fullmer, La Grande, accidentf) Alice Hofmann, Eileen Nolnnd, La Grande, medical; Sharon Kay Cupper, Jerry Norton Cupper, Kimberly, minor surgery. Discharged: Mrs. Paul Hansen, Gary Rahn, La Grande, Beverly Falconer, Enterprise. Markets Stock Market Has Irregular Trend NEW YORK, June 27 (UP) A rise of around a point in Ameri can Telephone capital shares to a new high since 1937 and higher prices for airline issues featured an otherwise irregular stock mar ket today. . Some of the hesitation stem med from rumors the federal re serve board will raise its present so per cent margins, probably to 74 to 100 per cent. In the airlines, gains toward the close ranged to around five points in Pennsylvania-Central, Pan-American rose more than 3 points. American telephone hit 175, up y. Motors sagged. Steels firmed. . PORTLAND LIVESTOCK PORTLAND, Ore., June 27 (UP) Livestock: Cuttle suluble 150, calves 35, rather slow but about steady, load good holdover steers 16.50, sorted ot 14.50; common to medi um grade 11-14.50; common heif ers 10.50-11; cutters down to 8.00, cannor and cutter cows 6.50-8.50i common-medium beef cows 9 11.50, asking 15-16.00 for good to choice vealcrsj lout demand gen eral. J Hogs, salabji 50, market ac tive,' steady, w barrows and gilts 15.75; clows 15.00; feeder pigs scarce; suMible 20-20.60. Sheep, salable 1,000, market very active, steady, following full clearance Tuesday, good-choice spring mostly j 14.00; one choice lot 14.50; common-medium 10 1.00; good ewt'S 6.00; deck cull ewes 2.00. I PORTLAND I ' DAIRY PORTLAND, June 27 (UP) Eggs receipts on the Portland dairy market are reported down about 70 per cent and dealers are having a hard time keeping sup plies for steady customers. No improvement is in sight. Butter stocks are piling up, us woll as cheese, Prices are unchanged. Butter Cube 93 score 42c; 32 score 42'Ac; 90 score 42c; 89 core 41 V4c pound. ' Eggs prices to retailers (cases) AA large, 47c; A large, 45c; medium, 42c; small 38c dozen. Cheese To wholesalers f. o. b. factory; Oregon triplets 28.1c; daisies (blank); Oregon loaf 28.3c. Jobbers pay Vi below quota tions. CHICAGO. ,3 ,'.,1 ! GRAIN CHICAGO, June 27 (UP) Mill-buying and short - covering lifted wheat futures fractionally on the board of trade today. Other grains firmed with wheat. Wheat furthered gains on the close to finish up to 1 cent a bushel; corn, was unchanged tp up .Vi; oats up Vi to , rye up to 1, and barley off Vi to up . Interest centered in wheat where current government flour buying and prospects ,of heavy demand from the army and bak ing trade offset southwestern hedge selling Southwest trade advices indicated that a larger percentage of the new wheat is being sold tha'nflast year. ' rt-. Cove Woman Dies Of Heart Attack Mary M. Harris, 77, died early today at her -home In Cove, fol lowing a heart attack. She was bofn May 11, 1808, in Floyd countyi"Virginia, and had lived in Union county 44 years. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Nannie Belt of La Grande, and Mrs. Bertha Beylin, Anchor age, Alaska, and three sons, Thomas of La Grande, James of Yakima, Wash., and Ben of Re dondo, Wash. Eleven grandchild ren and one great grandchild also survive. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Accidents Send Two Women to Hospital Mrs. Viola Fulmer is under treatment in the Grande Ronde hospital toduy as the result of a fall which caused a fracture of her ankle. She accompanied some child ren on a picnic on Catherine creek yesterday, when she step ped on a rock which caused her to full, incurring the Injury. Stella Shirley also is a patient in the hospital where she is be ing treated for a head injury in curred when she fell at her home following a heart attack.- RANSOM U. S. flyers rescued from drowning arc sometimes held for "ransom" by 'their rescuers. U. S. Vtniarines and destroyers which have rescued a downed flyer will IWld the flyer until they'dre paid a rausum of ftum 20 to 30 gallons of ice cream by the rescued fly er's base carrier. The ransom is always paid. You ar able to think at a speed of 155 miles per hour, the rute at which impulses travel over nerve fibers. Invasion of Kume island By Yanks Reported By Tokyo (Continued from Page 1) ' signed to sever communications between Japan and the Asiatic continent unci hamper "the trans portation of fighting forces, mili tary supplies ad foodstuffs into our homelund, the newspaper said, . ' Oil Plant Blasted Fifty B-2(ls last night bombed the Utsube river oil refinery, Japan's larges surviving gasoline plant, 18 miles Southwest of Nagoya, only 14 hours after nearly 500 of the big bombers raided 10 aircraft and arms plunts in Japan the first time Super fortresses have hit Japan in stiength twice in 24 hours. The Utsube river refinery was Japan's largest producer of avia tion fuel. The Japanese Domol news agency reported that two Super fortresses had keen observed scouting the southern section of Hokkaido, the most northern of the main Jap islands. Mustangs escorting the bom bers shot down two intercepting enemy planes, and damaged six, out five B-29B were lost., One Mustang was also hut, but the pilot was rescued at sea. More thun 70 Superfortresses made emergency landings on Iwo, at one time funding ut the rate of one every 30 to 45 seconds. Most ran short of gasoline, but others had been dumuged oor Jupun. Rousing Welcome Given President By Home Town Crowd 1 1 .. i ., . - (Continued from Page 1 traveled with the presidential party to Kansas City. Ha was en route to the governor's confer ence at Macinac Island, Mich. A 50-mile-an-hour wind which beat President Truman to his homo town by a dozen hours brought street cleaning and re pair crews out under emergency orders to brush up the town for his arrival. Torn down and tultered by the gale were many of the bunners and bunting which decked the town square, and streets were littered with debris of broken trees. Civil leaders scheduled only two informal gatherings, both to night. The president was oxpect- ed to make a brief address at each. Tomorrow he will be feted ip nearby Kansas City.., The last two days of his four-Hay visit to Missouri he will rest ut his sum mer White House here. Brazil nuts grow clustered to gether in a lough, heavy pod that weighs up to a pound. La Grando Branch Office of The United States National Bank 0 27 BRANCH OFFICES IN OREGON 'J Stove Starts Fire At Camp Prescott MEDFORD, Ore , Juna 27 (UP) A mess- hull, kitchen and store room at Camp Prescolt, three miles east of here, were destroy. od last night by a fire starting in an on cook stove. A fire truck from Medford and forest service equipment pre vented the fire from spreading to other buildings,, ; DIVORCE 18 SOUGHT Finley Le Clair has filed suit for divorce frbm Lena Promise Finley, charging desertion. They married June 29, 1929, and have three minor children. They have been separated sine? Jpne, 1943. Le Clair agreed to give her custody of the children -and pay $60 monthly for their support. HEART , Pipri-Cola Company, Long aland CUy, N.Y. rVanchlsed Bottleri Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Pendleton USE j MEMIEI P. D.I. C.I ' Calender of Coming Events ' June 29: fa Grande lodge A. F. & M., Masonic temple. June 29 Junior band summer concert, high school auditorium, 8 p.m. - June 30: Union Council Royal and Select Masters, dinner 6:30 p. m. Degree work. R, and A. M.,1 7:30 p. m,, Masonic temple. Many Hard of Hoarfna Can Hear JorriQrrw with Ourlot dnpt a$a with tlmpU tyring. II you mn deuenft), both rW by ringing turning hud aolmtju loltirdennlDrcouaulautlvui (r rumen), try in Ourlo Horn MthJ tt that m many Mr tin tnablva thtm to svur well MJn.' Yew mutt Mar btter alter ntfklnf th) tlaiple lrtl or you gt Mr money bKk i once. ;W moRltncntl Ourla ' Payless Drug Stor ' FLUTTER. BECAUSE THEY ARE... Easy to Obtain! Convenient to Use! Inexpensive! You do not have to be a customer of 'this bank to obtain a Bank Money Order. Enjoy the ease and conven ience of sending money anywhere by this modern and economical method. Bank Money Orders are issued by The United Stales National Bank in) any amount up to 1300. Remember' ' . the name of the purchaser anpeaxs on the receipt. lib uepot at. fnone a J i