Wednesday, June 27, 1945
THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRAWE, OREGON
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VITALZSTATISTICS
Divorces
LE CLAHf Finley from Lena,
charges desertion. Complaint
'filed.
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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
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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
$60 monthly for their support.
HEART
, Pipri-Cola Company, Long aland CUy, N.Y.
rVanchlsed Bottleri Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Pendleton
USE
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MEMIEI P. D.I. C.I
' Calender of
Coming Events
' June 29: fa Grande lodge A. F.
& M., Masonic temple.
June 29 Junior band summer
concert, high school auditorium,
8 p.m. -
June 30: Union Council Royal
and Select Masters, dinner 6:30
p. m. Degree work. R, and A. M.,1
7:30 p. m,, Masonic temple.
Many Hard of Hoarfna
Can Hear JorriQrrw
with Ourlot dnpt a$a with tlmpU tyring. II
you mn deuenft), both rW by ringing turning hud
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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.
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