La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 26, 1945, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextThursday. . July 2. 1945 IWnr Contracts Cut h Billions in June ' WASHINGTON, July 20 .'(UP) War contracts .were 'reduced $3,478,000,000 in June, and as a result 160,g0 workers J in 972 plants wilUbe laid off by the first of next year, the war . pro duction board revealed today. Approximately 35,000 workers in 365 plan were laid off im mediately, MPB said. Another 116,000 will.., be laid off during July, August and September, (i,000 durifcC;.October, November and , Decoltbei!, and 2,700 the first of tluyvVar. I );.;.;. The Juin "contract cutbacks, l r..fin-ti.i.r ihifvhift to a one-point i war, brought Vtotal cutbacks for the first sixfVnonths of 1945 to ' SI 6,300,000,000, The heaviest June '.' ,. ei ni7 nnnr.nn in army service?i' forces contractsx -$i,lllJ,UUU,uuu in miy tui luitra .,$432,000,000 ii navy and $u.wi, 000 in maritime commission 1 1.1 1 jSgfSg - No Priorities - AVAILABLE! $ Asphalt Roofing & Shingles wood Shingles Asbestos Siding & ; trick Asphalt Siding Wood Shakes for Walls LA GRANDE and UNION "(Formerly Home Lumber & Coal Co.) ''!! i . la mm it; kkamii FIRST S A Tl 0 A L H A A K OF PORTLAND . . Oregon's Leading Merchant of Credit . MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Vaughn Home. After 22 Months Navy Service UNION. July 26 (Special) "Billy Vaughn, RMM 2C. son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Vaughn, re turned to Union Saturday after 22 months service, the last six months of which was spent at Pearl Harbor. Vaughn will re main for a 30-day leave when he reports to Bremerton, Washington for reassignment. . , Sgt. Lyle Helm'an arrived Sat urday evening frpm Colorado haying been re-assigned to March field in California, after a short visit with friends in Union he .will go to Sacramento to' spend the remainder of his ten day leave with his wife and baby who are now living in Sacramento. . 1 M. L. Watts from Olympian Wash., arrived in Union Monday evening, accompanied by his son, Cpl. Robert Watts, his grandr daughter, Miss Margaret Cleve land and his grandsonj Donald Anderson and are guests at the' home of Mrs. Charles Strode. The family will remain a week visit ing with relatives and friends. Funeral of- Mrs. D.- H. Crouter held at the Methodist Church in Union Monday afternoon was largely attended by relatives and friends of the family. Two sons and their families,. Mr. and -Mrs. Paul H. Crouter and son Dan of Malta, Monrnnu, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crouter and family of Prosser, Wash., a daughter, Mrs. D. R. Dunnington and husband of Alderton, Wash., as were Miss Musa Geer of Goodnough Hills, Wash., and Bert Geer of Murray hill, Wash., sister and brother of the deceased. Other relatives from out of the city were Clarence Crouter of Baker, Mrs. Tom Mur tha of Haines, and Mr. and Mrs. Welden V e d d e r of La Grande. Friends attending from La Grande were Mrs. Marvin Hartle, Miss Earlyn Maslen and Miss Grace Snook. LARGE SELECTION So many patents were filed on butter churns between the years 1830 and 1900 that a new type of churn could have been available every two weeks. umber Company GRAIN GROWERS ...SPICJfY FIRST iWIOML Bill When your County Agricultural Conservation Committee prepares your loan papers, be sure to specify this Branch of the First National Bank of Portland. You'll receive prompt and efficient service. FLASH FLOODS SWEEP FOUR STATES Rampaging Kinderhook creek, swollen to river size in cloudburst, swept Slevenlown, N. Y home off Us foundation and washed away Rutland & Chatham railroad bridge. Damage to highway and other property in Slevenlown was high and flash floods caused millions oi dollars worth of damage in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Balance Shown In County Tax Funds Bulances, in the semi-annual report of county funds, according to Al Harlow, county treasurer, are iis follows: general fund, $59, 654.39; road fund, $25,470.58; murket road, $30,877.47; county school fund, $11,090,933; employ er's bond fund, $59.59; trust fund, $51.88; . public utilities fund, $692.83; bond fund, $80,680; road construction sinking fund, $60; county fair fund, $9,659.44; irre ducible school fund, $30.45; real estate sales, $33,393.72; boundary board fund, $697.57; fire patrol fund, $,074.03; game law fund, $17; non-high school, $22,808.67; special cities fund, $9,057.60; spe cial schools fund,. $13,032.15; in digent soldiers' fund, $1,735.68; library, $702.79; county law li brary, $93.40; dog fund, $446.70; cash on hand, $287,353.92. British Fighters Break up Attacks By EARNEST HOBERECHT . ABOARD ADM. McCAIN'S FLAGSHIP OFF JAPAN, July 26 (UP) Fighter planes from British aircraft carriers operating fom the wold's largest task force bokc up a Japanese torpedo plane attack yesterday in the first instance of a direct enemy laid against the third fleet since ,it opened its attack July 10. 'British piiots'woht into 'actiort against ten raiding Japanese planes and shot down three. ! American fighters accounted for a fourth. The attempted attack came as our massive fleet of carrier planes completed its second day of continuous blows against the Japanese fleet bottled on its in land sea bases. Damaging of 20 warships and scores- of- other- craft,- and de.. struction of many precious Jap anese aircraft, evidently stung the enemy into action against us for the first time since we began this operation at Tokyo 16 days ago. THE f .r THE. LA GRANDE EVENINGOnSERyEn, LA OIUN'DE, ORROON Lindbergh Believes Third War in Making CHICAGO, July 6 (UP) The Chicago Tribune reported today Col. Charles A. Lindbergh be lieves a third world war already is in the making in Europe. Colonel Lindbergh, recently re turned from a research mission in Europe, passed through Chicago on a business trip, the Tribune said. "The fear of continued warfare and revolution is widespread in Europe," Lindbergh was quoted as saying. "Seldom in history has a nation been defeated as completely as Germany." "Most of her cities are in ruins; millions of her people are dead. "Yet the disturbing fact re mains that, while our armies have been victorious in arms, we have not so far accomplished the ob- I iectives for which we wont to war. we iiave noi esiarjnsneu peace or liberty in Europe." Chopin Tunes Bring Drama to Film The old single theme song the violins used to sob and wail through early sound pictures was replaced by the five or six songs of the modern musical. And sometimes two or three of them are hits. But in Columbia's technicolor picture,'"A Song to Remember," Mme. Sand's romantic interlude with Frederic Chopin, opening theater, Sunday at the Liberty In voor gge. $r the hooJ ? want U-UM lo ft", ,at auton-ati-the trunk cally goes - - 0 U . Ncw8erm;c;cuumps - .fr pure in the nursrW' bathroom - ffCSimm Lighting research Is "moving the sun" indoors, bringing tis the benefits of outdoor daylight, for healthier, brighter living. Conserve on light today. Plan for a brighter home tomorrow. Eastern Oregon Light & Power Co. tile music department found it self delegated ;the pleasant task of putting 18 (count 'em) hit pieces into a single picture. ' The 18 Chopin pieces put into tlie Paul Muni-Merle Oberon star icd in which Cornel Wilde por trays Chopin, ' have been hit P'cces for over a hundred years. When baked for weddings, buklawa, a cake of the Near East, may have as many as a thousand paper-thin lyersi i I I ' ' ' 1 .' ' ' 1 . CrC. a clever cent ligb'eJ - : ..nit inC tuv J" Un Ueep the ;idplhcrewai . for yr SINCE 1855 PIONEER BREWING CO. WALLA WALLA, WASH. J !L- J. 1 1 1 " ; , tzryjfim m 'J"" ' 'fryMiSsa lining' Another clever o of lmu5.,c ,,,, vv.O. UdWP"c,1",.tud."l ht f " conceale" Army in Control Of Piy'upod fane tor y SPRINGFIELD, Ore., July 26 (UP) The army today controlled the Springfield plywood corpora tion' plant under a presidential order to resume production of critically reeded war material. The 300 worker plant closed last Thursday when AFL mem bers walked out because the CIO holds a contract with the com pany. Six army officers seized the plant last night. Both unions announced cooperation in Retting their members back to work. It was anticipated full produc tion would be resumed today or tomorrow. The plant turns out five million feet of plywod a month but is nine million feci behind on war orders. .' Armed Forces-Cut Claims on Beef 1 WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP) Armed forces today reduced their claim on the nation's beef supply. This will leave a some what larger share available for civilians. The war' department announc ed it had asked the percentage ol choice, good and commercial grade beef set aside for the arm ed forces be reduce from 25 to 20 percent. The military set-aside of utility, can tier and cutler grades would be reduced from 65 to 55 percent. Tlie order, which will be put into ffect by the department of agriculture July 30, applies, to beef processed in federally-Inspected plants. . 1 Eggs keep fresher if they are stood with the small ends down. A, -LMOST EVERY DAY someone asks us, "Whot kind of lighting are we going to have after the war? Will it be new and different?" The pros pect is really exciting, and the time is not far distant when all of us can live in a new world of indoor sunshine. ' ' . 1 ... II 1 I 111111 1 U mm that will gj- " - . window at .." T7 l Milk Stool, Block Salt Taken; Owner Says: 'Take Cow' WATSEKA, III., July 20 (UP) Mrs. H. Burghardt has a cow, but she isn't sure for how much longer. Kor the last week someone has been milking the cow be fore Mrs. Burghardt has, had a chance to get down to the barn. Monday, someone took the milking stool, and yester day the cow's block of salt was missing. In desperation, Mrs. Burghardt entered the follow ing classified advertisement to day in the Watsewa Times: "Will the party who has been milking my cow, stole my milk stool, and now the cow's suit please call at the house and I'll give you the cow. You need her worse than I do." CASUALTY INCREASE WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP) U. S. combat casualties reach ed 1,058,842 today, an increase of 5,741 over last week's com pilation. The total included 020,220 army and 138,622 navy, marine corps, and coast guard casualties. Last Days of Wards Many Prices Are Further Reduced! Regular $14M Bobby CoqlS . l()l)wo(il in beautiful pastel plaidji, Clearance priced at only : ......r,,,.. Regular $4.98 Summer Handbags Attractive styles in white with "jj 77 plastic trims. Now priced at A O Many other handbags reduced! Women's Reg. $4.98 Sweaters All wool in red, blue and tan ffSClj pastels. Now selling at mifmJ $2.98 M en's Straw Hals Reduced ' (Not only these, hut all in Hlockare . , M t clearance priced). The 2.9S are JLfl:tF Sanforized Men's Work Pants Choice of light green or tan. ''Cfc Will give gond service. Now Mm W 1.W Men's Slacks Now Reduced Buy a pair for summer at this money -saving clearance price ttf W $2.98 Boys Coat Sweaters Ciet one for school while they flC are priced so very .low JL mli9 Reg, S3c Ball Mason Jars Qts. 59c Doz. During Clearance Sale! A Huge Overstock ! Metal Pot Cleaner Pads t (ialvanii'd wire. Large size. Buy t a number of them al this price Folding Clothes Baskets Folding wooden frame with clolh basket. CW Don't miss this one at Clothes Pins Now Reduced Flat wooden pins are imlujled in ic this clearance. Dozen only Q-M 5-lb. Pkgs. Washable Kalsomine A variety of colors. Kiisy to apply. ffc The clearance price is f 79c Self Polishing Wax No nibbing: no polishing. A flljf A full (iiart now for JLttr-' Reg. 59c Box of Machine Bolls 50 assorted sizes and kinds. Handy to have in shop or home i09Jr Carriage Holts, box of ."0 2i)c $2GM Metal Lawn Chairs Tubular incla! I'raiiH1 with lilue, padded hack and set. Special at . Regular $9.45 Shag Rugs I're-shrunk. Washalile. .'Slx.'il oval size. Pastel colors One Lot High Chairs Reduced Natural wood finish. Teddy bear M ST (h'caJcoiiiania decorated. Now J"-Ji:J Montgomery Ward Page Fiv A liberty ship was named for Mason L. Wsems, early biogra pher of Washington and reputed originator of the cherry tree story. ' ' . i v KINGSLEY , GROCERY 1704 Adams Phone "1" "A Friendly Store" Potatoes New White Cobbler, - if 10 Pounds D Fine fur Mushing Coifee Wadham's Milk" 31c lb. Jar Tall r.ni 10c Morning Sego - Carnation COril canned Sweet Shurf ine No. 2 f Z . Cream Stylo Can Whole Kernel '.. 18c Cocoa 16oi.pkg.10c Mother's Juice Grapefruit Shurline 42-oj. can Jt Ward's Supreme Quality Motor Oil 40c Gal. (Plus 6c tax. 46c gal.) Tn Your Own Container 12.81! ...