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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1945)
( Wednesday, -"August 15, 1945 THE LA GRANDE EVENING OKSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Victory Special Pago Five If Shipyards Celebrate But Future Uncertain PORTLAND, (UP) Impact of peace upon the shipyards of the Portland-Vancouver area is expected to touch off a big celebration but the future of the wartime enterprises is uncertain. , ' From the peak of 125,000 shipyard workers last year, em ployment has tapered off until there are now about 80,000 workers on the job. The three Kaiser yards employ about 65,000 of this number. Admiral Howard Vickery ol Jine maritime commission has as sured KaiS'r and other shipyard heads repeatedly any cutback in operations will be gradual. But practical - minded e m ployment bosses-believe that the workeis will not wait for a closedown but will leave in large numbers. Many already have left for their former homes to get restablished. On the basis of existing con tracts, however, there is Aplenty ofwork lined up. The Vancouver shipyard of the Kaiser company is building large troop trans ports on a schedule through 1946, and the ships are adaptable to merchant marine cargo purposes. So are the Victory ships con structed at Oregon shipyard, with contracts at least through-1945. Large Supply ' The tanker contracts at. Swan Island are more likely to be cut, as there is undoubtedly a large supply of tankers available. Many of the shipyard opera tions in this area can do ship re pair work but tile yards built for Air Strips Now Building in Chile PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (UP) Work is going on to connect the extreme south of Chile to the rest of the world by air. Airfields are being constructed at Porven ir, Springhill, Felipe bay, Gente Grande, Cape Catalina and Cape Delgada with the co-operation of local sheep interests. These modern installations will be the stepping stones for the Chilean Air Line "LAN" services to the Punta Arenas, Tierra del Fuego and Ultima Esperanza regions. new construction are not too likely to be converted into other industries, one high official said. He pointed out a shipyard, like most other wartime enterprises, is made for one specific purpose and is expendable for the war effort. Postwar Plans . Should Begin Today in Earnest , . Plans for the Returning Serviceman Plans for a Better America. We have planned for Victory, now let's plan for progress without let down or change of pace. Shell has gone all out for war NOW all out for peace. . M. Sherrill Selling Agent SHELL OIL COMPANY, Inc. - if ' vV v 8 THIS DAY IS COMING, TOO! Just a little longer and the drearrts so long put off will come true.;. We have worked to back him up on the battlefield, now we must work for him until he gets back home and after he is home. J. H. PE ARE 8 SON JEWELERS & OPTOMETRISTS il r hi) I Yanks Bargain and Barter In Paris Exchange Mart By ROSETTE HARGROVE NEA Staff Corrsspondeni PARIS Parisians in the market for cameras, fieldglasses, lighters, fountain pens, watches, radios all articles which have long since disappeared from French stores are finding their way to G. I. exchange mart. Its location is in that section of Paris which goes from Rainbow corner to the Mad eleine. It operates somewhat er ratically. As a matter of fact, it largely depends on tiocp move ments no longer a miiltai y secret but there's more of a crowd at the "aperitif" hour than at any time of the day. Paris is one of the largest leave centers for U. S. forces. Into the city every day pour thousands of GI's on passes. Many of them be long to our occupation troops in Germany and there are few- Joes who, in their passage through the Reich, have not picked up some "souvenirs." Expensive Cily Paris is an expensive city, espe cially in terms of GI pay. The "souvenirs" can only be acquired by the French at Black Market prices. It didn't take long for men on furlough to find they could ex change a watch or a camera for quite a respectable number of francs. Enough, at any rate to buy champagne in night clubs and costume jewelry and perfume for the girl friends back home. Prices are at least 50 per cent below current rates and French buyers consider this a fair deal. . The GI "exchange and mart" Crowds gather dally in Paris, In the area between the Madeleine and the Opera, to attend the GI exchange mart. Here Yanks sell souvenirs, most of them picked up in Germany. Parisians pur chase scarce cameras, watches, lighters, field glasses, and fountain pens. Black Market prices prevail. , $ lots Mry&S X-ray Field Offers Places For Women CHICAGO (UP) Women who are skilled in the use of X-ray will find a growing demand for their services after the war, ac cording to the U. S. department of labor. Approximately 80 per cent of the 20,000 registered X-ray tech nicians working ill hospitals, doc tors' offices, and other medical establishments during 194S arc women, the department reported. The X-raying millions of men for selective service accelerated the demand for technicians. Or thopedic injuries resulting from the war further have Increased This enterprising Yank bought a bicycle ii England and brought it to Paris. At the exchange mart, Parisians will test their limited Englsh vocabulary on Ya.iKs with goods to sell, while GIs improve their bargaining abilities. Soldiers are constantly accosted by French men and women, and even by youngsters, anxious to .-Lure a bargain. Negotiations is wide open and above-board. The light of free dom now shines on the entire world. May We Hold It Fast For All Time Smith Bros. MOVING SERVICE 215 Vi Fir Street Phone 88 usually a'.tract a sizeable crowd ofj Interested spectators. the demand, the labor depart-, ment report stated. In the years to come, the re port predicted, periodic chest X-. days will be; generally recognized to be as important as periodic dental examinations. Although the plural of goose is geese, the plural of mongoose is mongooses. Work for a Lasting Peace La Grande's part in solving the problems of wartime has been your job and ours. And, now that peace spreads over the county like a rainbow, the problems of a peaceful future will be yours. ' "' l' We have the leadership, the resources, the ,', opportunity to build soundly and well to make La Grande the place our boys have dreamed of coming back to. How well we , . ' succeed will depend on all of us, and the part we take in making our own community the place we and all our boys want to live . in, ... fliti ,li i'r ii". illi'.i. i" ' Mo Jo 0(D5 STUDE11AKER CHEVROLET The Wheels of War... are stopped. Now we must speed the wh e e l s of progress for the creation of peacetime jobs and prosperity. First National Bank ol Portland La Grande Branch We Carved not a line . . . We Raised Not a Stone, But We Left Him A lone With His Glory! 4 m mL 6 A 3 Let Us Not Foifct Those Who WJW Retant No More Snodgrass Funeral Home ss a -1 I L ! i 1JZ
