Wednesday, August 8, 1945
THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA tJRANDE, OREGON
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jfo ZIMMERMAN'S
The home (.of lovely furniture.
k Gifts
. THE GIFT SHOP
(lifts. Diamonds and Watches
$J (Fnrmprlv R iehardson's
Art and Gift Shop)
Hardware
ZIMMERMAN'S
Hardware for every use,
from tacks to stoves.
Lost and. Found
10
STRAYED K STOLEN Six
weeks-old brown male cocker
puppy frorn 2010 East H St.
Reward. none uiy-n.
Personal Service
13
DR. -T F. WOODELL. ChiroDrac
tor and -.Naturopath-.' wesc-
Jacobson ..tSldg.,. phone iu.
Closed Saturday aiternoon.
Special Notice
12
NOTICE -Sft;Qur many patrons
and frieidis. We announce
our new,,", address, 1117 Adams
Ave.
LA G.lvtoE' ELECTRIC
Services Misc.
If
WILL CARE; Tor children by day,
week or 'month in my home.
Inquire 3002 N. Walnut.
BiCYCLE -At MOTORCYCLE
REPAIRING.
' LA GRANDE CYCLE SHOP
210 Fir Sti t;. Phone 720
GENERAL REPAIRING Mech
anical anqVfilectrical appliance,
machine work, welding and
- furniture'' repairing.
THE FlXIT SHOP
218 Fir St.-u. Phone 487-W
CHARIS HOME CORSETRY
Girdles, foundations and bras.
Mrs. Celia- Gates, 2104 Green
wood street. Phone 812-W.
COMMERCIAL &
HOUSBHOLD WIRING
FAIRWAY ELECTRIC
107 Depot St. Phone 703
CUSTOM WORK, grain grinding
$2.50 ton on your place, mow
ing and seed treating. 1411
W avenue. Orville Pellett.
RADIO REPAIRING Our ex
perienced radio repairman re
pairs all makes of radios and
we have a good'supply of radio
tubes and radio batteries also
flashlight batteries.
ROSENBAUM'S
1412 Adams Avenue
LA CRANIO ELECTRIC Wir
ing, repairs and contracting.
O SIRRIXE AND ROUNDY
1117 Adams Ave. Phone 03
Services Misc.. (Con't.)
FOR TEN YEARS we have given
tne people the kind of type'
writer service they want. We
still guarantee our work. Don't
shop around. It costs no more
to have your work done hy a
responsible firm.
SHORB'S STATIONNERY
Royal Typewriters
A. B. Dick Mimeograph
Phone 111
PROMPT REPAIR of typewriters,
adding machines, and other
types of office machines. All
work guaranteed. Official
UNDERWOOD agency for Un
ion,. Baker, Wallowa, Harney
and Grant counties. We call
for and deliver.
HALL'S TYPEWRITER ,
SERVICE
109 Depot St. Phone 401
Hauling: & Storage
20
TRANSFER & STORAGE
Local and long distance
moving.
SMITH BROTHERS
MOVING SERVICE
215 Fir St. Phone 88
Situations Wanted
23
WANTED: Wall washing and
kalsomining or janitor work.
: Inquire 1603 Adams and ask for
Frank Hasty.
Help Wanted
24
WANTED: Woman for part time
cabin work at 05c per hour.
Phone 085-W. Oregon Trail
Auto Court.
THE LA GRANDE
EVENING OBSERVER
WILL NEED CARRIERS
AVAILABLE SEPT. FIRST
For Autumn and Winter car
rying we require boys and
girls of seventh and eighth
grade ages and older.
We then require carriers cap
able of scheduling and main
taining required school work.
We will need boy and girls
whose homes co-operate in
the supervision and direction
of their time.
This requires above-average
boys and girls preparing
themselves for a post-war
world in which they recog
nize there may only be op
portunity for the ablest in
private industry. It requires
boy and girls of the sort who
may earn much of their own
way through college. We pre
fer boys and girls who, in
addition to performing their
school and home duties and
administrating an even ing
newspaper route successfully;
recognize, the advantages of
the Sunday school and of
scouting or other character
building organizations or pro
grams. ;
We believe the finest gener
ation of youth ever reared in
America are growing ' into
manhood today and we seek ;
those who aspire to be lead
ers of that group when they
reach maturity.
Interview our Circulation
Manager.
Phone 600
LA GRANDE
EVENING OBSERVER
OPENINGS AVAILABLE for
canable salesmen and. sales
women who have the ability
to manage one or more lines
of merchandise.
MONTGOMERY WARD
Merchandise
25A
NOW AVAILABLE! A and B
RADIO BATTERIES for farm
and portable sets.
MONTGOMERY' WARD
PIE-AIRE THE CHEF Insert
him in the center of the pie
releases the steam of the bak
ing pie, but seals in the value
of- the juice itself. Result no
messy oven no smoke. For
sale at MELVILLE'S.
FULLER BRUSHES - B. T. Kit-
terman. Try our all-purpose
cleaner, tooth brushes, mops,
hair brushes, and waxes. 403
Spring street, phone 348-J or
950-W.
MIRRORS Improve the looks
of your room with a mirror,
plate or shock, plane or bevel,
round or square with or with
out frames.
ZIMMERMAN'S
Miscellaneous for Sale
26
PICTURES We have just re
ceived a new shipment oi pic
tures, florals, scenes and etch
ings. Many hand painted oils.
. MIRRORS
Plate glass mirrors, in many
styles and shapes, with or with
out frames.
TEEL'S PAINT STORE
LAWN MOWERS, phonographs,
tables, dining taoies ana cnana,
baby buggies, bedroom suites,
dressers. One 8x10 tent, 1 good
saddle and many other useful
''I"" T TRADING POST
CANNING SEASON New fruit
jars, Kerr self-sealing jars in
pints, quarts and half-gallons.
A special on economy jar lids
and Mason jar lids.
TURN'S FURNITURE STORE
A NEW SHIPMENT of Built-
Well davenos, all hardwood
frame, coil spring construction
and well tailored in a variety
of colors.
ZIMMERMAN'S
Miscellaneous for Sale
Continued
GIFT SUGGESTIONS
Scrap Books, Photograph Al
bums, Guest Books, Diaries
and Portfoldios with leather,
wood and composition covers.
WAR SAVING BOND
HOLDERS
with leather covers in a
variety of colors.
THE GJFT SHOP
(Formerly Richardson's
Art and Gift Shop)
Used Welding
Machines
Lincolns', Wilsons, Hoborts,
P & H, Mavquetflps. Also
Rod, Hoods, Leads and
Stingers. Reasonably priced.
Without Priority
Contact: State Division of
Vocational Education, Room
105, State Library Building,
Salem, Oregon. Phone 4171,
Extension 279. .
FOR SALE: Brown Russian
squirrel coat, size 16, practic
ally new. Box 353, La Grande
Evening Observer.
SYRACUSE CHINA Three
lovely patterns, Victoria,, Suz
anne,' and Stansbury in service
for eight or twelve at
MELVILLE'S
PINUP LAMPS, Lamp Shades,
soldering irons, extension cords,
flash lights.
TALBOTT ELECTRIC CO
220 Fir St. Phone 606
Home Furnishings
26A
FOR SALE: Household furni
ture, 402 Washington, or phone
1015-J.
PIANO FOR SALE:
1312 W ave-
nue.
FOR SALE: Coal burning heater.
uaii lau-w.
FOR SALE: Household furni
ture piano, pictures, chairs,
curtains, rugs, dishes, cooking
utensils at Epling Distribut
ing Co. Warehouse, Thursday
from 9 to 12 and 1 to 4.
DAVENOS and matching chairs,
platform rockers and ottomans
in a variety of beautiful colors.
We have a new shipment of
bedroom suites. Come in and
make your selection now at
TURN'S FURNITURE STORE
FOR SALE: One good heating
stove in excellent condition.
$10.00. 2001 Second St.
FOR SALE: Modern ,used. cook
stove in good condition. Price
$40. One single coil, $5.00. 1405
6th St. Phone 499-J.
DINETTE SETS consisting of a
table and four chairs in maple,
oak, walnut and enamel finish;
all- hardwood and leatherette
slip seat chairs.
ZIMMERMAN'S ' '
FLOOR LAMP, all metal base in
ivory, bronze and silver, 'three
filliment light and silk shades.
While they last $17.40. We also
have a nice selection of table
lamps, pin-up lamps, desk
lamps, bed lamps and lamp
shades.
ZIMMERMAN'S
Farm Products
& Equipment
27
FOR SALE: New straw, $1.00 a
load. A. Conley, Cove Ave.
GET YOUR ORDER In for barb
wire, field fence, poultry wire,
drive and walk gates. SHIP
MENT JUST RECEIVED.
W. H. BOHNENKAMP CO.
Livestock, Poultry, Pets 29
FOR SALE: Weaner pigs, sow
with pigs and milking Short
horn heifers. Prospect Farm,
phone 4R3.
NOW IS THE TIME to select
your Jersey herd sire. Some
young bulls of exceptional
breeding and records on hand.
Visit the W. O. CHRISTENSEN
& SONS herd at NORTH
POWDER, OREGON.
WANTED: Calf to run with cow.
FOR SALE: Young veal.
Phone 890.
Wanted to Trade or Buy 30
WANTED TO BUY: Model A
coupe, must be in good condi
tion and have good rubber.
Phone 173-W. -
EGGS, HENS, FRYERS, wanted.
Highest cah prices paid. Why
take less? Nessly and Nessly,
1325 V Ave., phone 295-R.
WANTED TO BUY: Some good
California Springer cows. L. C.
Pipes. Phone 349-W.
WANTED: Two-bottom 12-inch
tractor plow, also want hay
baled. Prospect Farm, phone
4R3.
Wanted to Rent or Lease
' on long term basis
Furnished house for member
of Evening Observer Staff
o Call 600'
La Grande Evening Observer
Wanted to Trade or Buy
(Continued)
WANTED TO BUY: Girl's bicycle
for paper carrier. Phone 986-J.
Horses & Dogs
32
FOR SALE: Sorrel mare, cheap.
, Call 937-W or can be seen at
Orchard Auto Camp.
Apartment for Rent
36
FOR RENT: 2-room apartment.
Gas equipped. 2004 Adams of
phone 1074-R.
FOR RENT: Small 2-room furn-
ished apartment. 707 Fourth
, street, phone 262-W.
Wanted to Rent
44
Wanted To Rent
6-ROOM MODERN HOUSE
by Permanent Tenant
Call 600
WANTED TO RENT: Furnished
apartment by state police
i officer and wife. Call 600.
WANTED TO RENT: House or
; an apartment. Phone 972-R.
WANTED TO RENT: Modern
furnished home by Karl R.
Stone, phone 962-J or 718.
Real Estate
50
FOR SALE: Five-room modern
house, furnished or unfurnish
ed. 1500 Madison.
FOR SALE: 2-bedroom bunga
low type modern home. Nice
size living room and dining
room, hardwood floors, plenty
of built-ins in the kitchen,
breakfast nook, glassed in back
porch, full basement and fur
nace heat. Located near Joel's
Grocery.
WILLIAMSON REAL ESTATE
& INSURANCE SERVICE
IF YOU HAVE a home or other
Real Estate you want sold call
or see
CLAUDE BERRY '
Real Estate & Insurance
207 Depot St. Phone 100
FOR SALE: Grocery Store, slock
and fixtures. Phone 180 or in
quire 2814 Second St.
Automobile Services
56
JOHN'S BODY SHOP Expert
body and fender work. Paint
ing and general overhauling.
Mr, Carman, S Ave. Phone
932-J.
WASHING . . SIMONIZING
and LUBRICATION
SACAJAWEA HOTEL
- GARAGE
Phone 830 ;
Automobile Supplies
57
TIRE PUMPS, bumper jacks,
600x16 reliners, twin horns,
tire boots and patching, waxes,
polishes and1 cheese cloth.
GAMBLE STORE
CIO Candidate
Leads Detroit
Mayoralty Race
DETROIT, Aug. 8 (UP) Rich
ard T. Frankentseen, United Auto-
! mobile Workers international vice
president is No. 1 candidate for
mayor today in a CIO sweep of
the primary election yesterday.
Frankensteen gained one of
two mayoralty nominations in
the non-politieal ballot, leading
Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, jr
and a field of five other contend
ers.
CIO registered a heavy labor
vote as it backed its first offi
cial candidate for a major public
office and succeded in naming
three candidates for the city's
common council.
Unofficial complete returns
from the city's 1,136 voting pre
cincts gave: Frankensteen 82,!K)0
votes; Jeffries 08,754, and County
Auditor James D. Frield, 35,720.
Four other candidates trailed far
behind.
Aiken Endorses
Hess For Position
PORTLAND, Aug. 8 (UP)-
Henry C. Aiken, chairman of the
Democratic State central commit
tee, has added his endorsement of
Henry Hess, La Grande attorney,
for the appointment of U. S. at
torney for Oregon.
Hess seconded the recommenda
tion of national committeeman
Lew Wallace who had already
telegraphed Washington for Hess
after Elton Watkins withdrew
from the race.
National committeewoman Nan
cy Robinson and Celia Gavin, vice
chairman of the state committee,
are still understood to be stick
ing to Watkins.
30
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ATOMIC BOMBS PRODUCED IN HANFORD PLANT Vast production area at Hanford, Wash.,
plant for production of world's most powerful explosive, the atomic bomb. Workers in this gigantic
industry, scattered over more than 400,000 acres, received first hint of what they were making with
us quantities of materials gu through successive president's announcement of the bombs. Enormo
without being seen. processess by remote control of dials and panels.
Three Senators
To Probe Coast
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UP)
Three senators' will start an in
vestigation on- the Pacific coast
this month of lumber and aircraft
production, paying particular at
tention to manpower problems,
It was announced today.
Sens. Hugh Mitchell, D., Wash,,
Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., and
Harley M. Kilgore, D., W. Vu.,
members of the senate war in
vestiguting committee, expect , to
leave for the west in 10 days.
City News
In Brief
COLLISION Auto mobiles
driven by Pauline Stewart, Is
land City, and John Knight, Al
icel, collided yesterday morning
on Jackson and Fir streets. There
was no damage, police records
show.
LEADERS MEET Union Coun
ty 4-H Leaders association will
meet 8:15 p. m. Friday in the
Union county agricultural agent's
office, it was announced today.
The meeting will bo held to for
mulate plans for a 4-H fair to be
held early in the fall.
SEES STUDENTS Ruth Fab
ian, representative of Oregon
State college, will be in La
Grande Friday and Saturday to
interview, prospective students
for the college.. Anyone interest
ed may call Miss Joyce McPher
son.
TESTING LINES Eastern Or
egon light and power company is
testing power lines for radio in
terference today.
VISIT LAKE Mr. and Mrs
Lynne Bohnenkamp and daugh
ter Carolyn are spending the
week at Wallowa lake, with Mary
Jasper as their guest.
FOR OPERATION Mr. and
Mrs. R. H. Harper of Wallowa
are here in La Grande for a few
days to be with their daughter-in-law,
Mrs. fialvln G. Harper,
and their grandson, David Calvin,
who is in Grande Ronde hospital
where he unduavent an abdom
inal operation. The boy, 5'A
weeks old, is .-believed to be the
youngest ever lo undergo such
an operation in this era. The
(laughter-in-law is the former
Lily Carper of Promise, daughter
of Mrs. Promise Carper. Her hus
band, Cpl. Calvin, is in India.
NOT FOUND Cultus Mc
Clothen, 10, for whom city police
are searching, has not yet been
found, it was announced today.
Young McClothen, believed to be
in or around La Grande, is want
ed at McCall, Ida., where his
grandmother, seriously injured in
an automobile accident, has been
calling fur him.
HEADS NEW LODGE Ernest
R. Ringo, fur many years a La
Grande attorney, and junior war
den of Masonic lodge No. 41, has
been elected worshipful master
of the newly instituted Ains
worth lodge at Salem.
WILL FILED Will of Leon
idas L. McKennon, 92, who died
Jan. 10, 1945, has been filed foi
probate. The will bequeaths $1
lo son-in-law- W. R. Ledbettei
and children of his deceasco
daughters Elsie E. Lcdbetter: Ray
Ledbctter, Klamath Falls; Ruby
Leonnig, Haines; Eva Miller, San
Antonio, Tex.; Edna Parris, L
(Jrande; Marie Ledbetter, La
Grande; Glenn Ledbetter, Santa
Cruz, Calif.; Lyle Lcdhr-tter.
Cayuse; and to Evelyn McKen
non, daughter of his son Routh.
Rest of the property, personal
and mixed, is to be divided
equally between his eight child
ren: Nora Webb, Spokane: Ino
Kelter, La Grande; Bliss Mc
Kennon, Wayward, Calif.; Alice
Wright, Sheiidan; Floyd McKen
non, Snohomish, Wash.; Frank
McKennon, Salem; Routh Mc
Kennon, Portland, and fanny
Sackett, She ridan. The will,
dated Oct. 2, 1942, appointed
Frank McKennon and Alice
Wrjftjht as executors'.
Markets
S tock Prices Back
After Early, Rally
NEW YORK, Aug. 8. (UP)
Stock prices settled back late in
today's. sessiSn after rallying
fractions to around 2 points from
the lows of the previous day.
Trading was considerably less
active than on Tuesday when
' peace scare" selling tumbled
quotations.
The electrifying announcement
of. Russia's declaiation of war on
Japan came just as the closing
gong rang, on the New York stock
exchage, There had been abso
lutely no earlier indication that
such a development was In the
offing,
CHICAGO
LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO, Aug. 8 (UP) Hogs,
4,000; active, fully steady; good
and choice, barrows and gilts 140
lb?., a n d up at $14.75 ceiling;
good and. choice sows at $14;
complete clearance.
Cattle: 10,000; calvesi 800. Gen
eral market more active; choice
fed steers and yearlings 10 to 15
cents higher; other grades fully
steady; 10 loads fed steers with
weights $18, the ceiling, sizeable
supply $17.00-17.75, most grassy
ind warm - up steers $12.00-15;
heifers fully steady, choice offer
ings -held: around" $17.50; cahner
and cutter cows scarce, firm, in
creased supply of beef cows clos
ing firm to shade higher, at $9.50
12.50; bulls steady, with weighty
sausage offering to $13.25; heavy
fat bulls $15; vealers fully steady
at $10; stock cattle slow, steady.
Sheep, 0,000. Bidding weak to
mostly 25 cents lower on western
slaughter spring lambs; early
sales native on that basis, good
and choice native spring lambs
$14.25; common $11.00-12; shorn
aged ewes fully steady, package
good to choice Washington $0.74
odd lots natives $0.50 down.
PORTLAND
LIVESTOCK
PORTLAND, Aug. 8 (UP)
Cattle 250, calves 25. Fairly ac
tive, steady. Common-low me
dium slec-rs $12.00-14; common
nedium heifers $10.00-13.50; few
fairly good heifers $14.50; can-ner-cutter
cows $0.50-9; fat dairy
type cows $10.50; medium beef
cows to $12.00; good heavy beef
bulls up to $12.50; good-choice
vealers salable to $14.50.
Hogs 50. Active, steady. Bar
rows and gilts $15.75; sows $15.00;
feeders scarce.
Sheep 400. Slow, asking steady
with few sales nearly steady, but
most bids unevenly lower. Few
good-choice lambs $13.25; most
bids below $13; good-choice ewes
up to $6.23; wooled ewes to $8.
Army Captures
Nazis' Editor
MUNICH, Aug. 8 (UP) Third
army authorities revealed today
they have taken into custody Gen.
tVilhelm Weiss, for 19 years ed
itor of the Nazi party organ Voel
(ischer Beobaehter, who qualifies
Kith as a probable war criminal
ind potential witness in the
Nuremberg war crimes trials.
The 54-year-old one-legged ed
tor whose bitter pen incited
thousands of Germans to race
hatred faced his confinement
calmly.
BEGIN SHIPPING LUMBER
HEED SPORT, Aug. 8 (UP) -Army
engineers will begin ship
ping lumber from Reedsport tn
Oakland, Calif., by barge Aug. 15,
Sid Samuelson, president of the
Reedsport chamber of commerce,
aid today. The lumber will then
be redeployed to the south Paci
fic. '
ijks. hk;c;s & biggs
ciiiiiopractors
Palmer Graduatts
X-Ray Nourocalometcr Ser.
2019 1st SI. Bolh Phones 651
Bakor, Ore.
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Atomic Power For
Every Day Use In
Distant Future
I By T. W. KIENLEN
; NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UP) It
will be a long time before atomic
power opines into every-day use,
luading Industrialists jigtce . al
most unanimously.
In time a long time it
will- be developed tor peaceful
pursuits," said Dr. M. Iulyn Brun
in, technical consultant of Bitum
inous Coal institute. "It will un-'
tloubtedly be generations before
the atom will make all the na
tion's steel, power the nation's
locomotives, generate the electri
city or furnish the billions of
hours of industrial horsepower
that coal does now, let alone heat
the nation's home."
No Control
Charles W. Kellogg, president
of the Edison Electric institute,
said atomic power In its present
stage of development is akin to
lightning,
"Wo all know what lightning
is and can do, but we haven't
learned yet how to control it" he
said.
Actually, the nation's top In
dustrialists were nut let in on
the secret of the atom-smashing
developments until news of the
atomic bomb came out this week.
In Wartime ,
One stumbling block is the
cost. It was pointed out only in
waitime can a $2,000,000,000 ex
perimental cost such us that on
the atomic bomb be borne.
There was little trendency in
industry, however, to belittle the
ultimate effects of atomic power.
It was reculled Brig. Gen. Duvid
Sarnoff, president of the Radio
Corporation of America, said in
a speech to the Association of
Commerce in Chicago, Jan. 30,
1041, that "the most Important
event" of 1840 was "the isolation
of the atomic component of the
element uranium known as
U-235."
TOP FUGHt
Pevri-Cola Company,
t'ranchlsed BoitUai Pepsi -
Materials From
Atomic Plants
Not Identical
Work Could Go
On if Either
Stopped
RICHLAND, Wash., August 8
(UP) Atomic bomb materials,
made here and at another hush
hush army project at Oak Ridge,
Tenn., are not identical, It was
disclosed today
Production of the new, terri
fying atomic weapon could con
tinue even if for some reason this
project closed up, officials said. '
Col. Franklin T, Matthias, 37-yoar-old
prohect director, told
newsmen there is no' interde
pendence between the Hanford;
plant and its counterpart at Oak,'
Ridge, -
. Ouisid VUw
Muj. Joseph F. Sully, 32, pro
ject civil engineer, explained,
"we were betting on two horses,
and they both won."
: A slight relaxation in. security ''
regulations allowed reporters to
get an innocuous outside view at
the production area today. ,
. Matthias also disclosed at a'
press conference last night that:.
1 The late . President Roose
velt, who knew about the project,
from its beginning,, deliberately ,
avoided visiting Hanford.
2 The Truman committea also ,
avoided visiting the plant.. Tru-;
mun was fully informed of the.
project.
WPB Not In .
3 The atomic muterial used In;
the test explosion In New Mexico.
came from here, and Matthias is
' reasonably sure" muterial used.
In the bomb dropped on Hiro-1
shimn, Japan, also was a Hanford
product, , '
4f There, has been no activity
identified as sabotage, '
5 The financing of the pro
ject was. facilitated1 by allowing
members of the appropriations'
committee to see some opera
tions, Or Eleven persons were killed,
in two accidents a train wreck
and cdllapse of a large tank,
7 While the project could' ob
tain, ivn overriding priority, it.
was not given a triple A priority,,
to avoid letting the war produc
tion board in,
Superforts Arrive
At Base on Okinawa
HDQTRS., EIGHTH AAF, Oki
nawa, Aug. 8 (UP) Flights of
Superfortresses, forerunner of
about 1,000, have arrived here
nearly to complete conversion of
Okinawa - into another gigantic
B-29 base, less than a third the
distance of the Marianas from the
Japanese homeland.
This was announced today by
Lt, Gen. James H. Doolittle, com
mander of the eighth air force,
whose first 'strlkcs against Japan
he said, will be made before the
end of this month.
The eighth's Superforts are
brand new, fresh from factories
in the United States. Each will
carry a 15-ton bomb, load against
the Japanese empire. The pilots
are not yet tried in combat, but
there are many veteran crew
men. ' '
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