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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1945)
, Tuesday, August 28, 1945 THE LA GRAN UK EVENING OBSERVER, LA URANDE, OREGON iPage Fiy City' News In Brief PANEL MEETING Tire pa 1 of the rationing board will mr H Friday afternoon this week, '"ip fi board! will meet but once v Illy from now on. 4 ; ' J-HOUR WEEK The ration i Ijard office will be on a 40-hour week from now on, consequently R will be closed every Saturday. It will also be, closed next Mon day lor Labor day. JacK ttaie, eeional OPA official, returned from Portland with tho closing order Monday. ACCIDENT Automobile driv en .by Frank Schiro, La Grande, Sunday evening struck a cow near Enterprise on the Wallowa county stale highway. Damage to the automobile is estimated at $10, police records show. EXAMINER HERE Traveling Examiner of operators and chauf feurs is scheduled to be on duty at the city hall from 9 a. m. to 4 p, m. Friday; Those wishing per mits or licenses to drive cars are asked to got in touch with the examiner during these hours. Today We Pay Tribute to HAVE WIENER ROAST Cub pack No. 114 returned Saturday night from' Cove, where the 25 boys had enjoyed a wiener roast that evening, after taking their swimming lessons during the af tornon. Den mothers were also ppesenl. They are Mrs. Gordon L. Cnpps, Mrs. C. Carrol, Mrs. Wesley Barnes and Mrs. C. B. Miirquis. A. B. Olson is cub mas , ter.for pack 114. MEN RELEASED Union county men who received their discharges fiom the service re cently are: Boyd Winthrop, army; Harold SponceiT army; Ben Ward, navy; Delmar Richards, army; and Irim Sloan, army. A INJURES WRIST George Cifeerron, 17;. 2708 North Fourth street, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Herron, is . recovering from in juries received Saturday when ' he slipped while at work icing a railroad car. He stumbled over a sack of rock salt, his mother said today. His wrist has a cracked bone. ;. CARMEN, RELEASED Paul Carmen, 17, one of eight 'teen agers injured Aug. 18 in an auto mobile accident near Island City, has been released from Grande Hondo hospital. Only one of the eight, Robert" 'BradsHaw, is still in the hospital, the others having been released some time ago. ONE FINED: William Paul Wells, La Grande, was fined $5 fa justice court Saturday on charge of not having an oper ator's license. V MEETS CLUB Miss Doris 'McWhortcr, Union county home demonstration agent, went to Elgin today for a meeting of Mrs. -Edith Thompson's Sewing II club and Mrs. Noel Sentt's Cooking I club at 2 p.m. to make final plans for exhibiting projects at the county 4-H club fair to lie held Sept. 19 and 2a NEW CLERK Mrs. Jean II. Cummins will-replace Miss Nolle Grimmelt as. chk'f clerk of the local ration board, following Miss GrimmettV resignation effective Sept, 1, it was announced today. Mrs. Cummins has been em ployed as ration clerk for the past 15 months. SECRETARY RESIGNS: Miss June Barrus, secretary to the home demonstration agent fnr the past three months, has resign ed effective Saturday, il was an nounced today. Miss Evelyn iimting will replace her. UNITS TO MEET County committee of extension units will meet at 2 p.m. today in the office of the Union county home dem onstration agent. The committee will mak--' plans for the officers' training school to be held Sept. 18. Cpl. John Howard Hitlit, 24, son of L. V. Hulit, Hills boro. He entered the service Sept. 11, 1944 at Portland, and is now stationed at Camp Van Horn, Miss. February 19, 1941, he married Xena Hayes, who now lives in Portland. They have a small son. Be fore entering the service he worked in the water service division of the Union Pacific railroad, and belonged to the FOE of La Grande. im Niwsoroui 1 MEN f WOMEN IN UNIFORM Ll. Emma Vernita Mullen, NC, USNR, has been transferred from Bainbridge island, Port Blakely, Wash., to the U. S. naval hospital, Oakland, Calif. George Denny ' has been promoted to commander in the navy, according to word received here by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Denny. Com mander Denny is at San Fran cisco at present awaiting orders to go to an advanced Pacific base, where he will be in charge of a dental corps consisting of four dentists and nine assistants. His wife and two children will stay in San Diego. A brother, Jack, also lives here. Eldon Harry Shaffer, S 1 c, USNR, Route 1, La Grande, serves aboard the USS Santce, the only carrier to take a loaded Kamikazor through her top and a torpedo through her side in the same action' without halting oper ations. She was also the first carrier to support a landing, to intercept a blockade runner, to wage successful antisubmarine warfare and the first to be crash ed by a suicide Jap. The Santce, which carried on fleet operations for two days at Leyte despite her damage, also saw action in the invasion of 'North Africa, Palau, Aitape, Hollandia, Guam and Morotai. Cpl. Dale Pierson is here on a 30-day leave after returning from 10 months service in Germany with the U. S. army field artillery, and is visiting his sister, Miss Ruth Pierson, before going to Longview, Wash., to see his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Pierson, former La Grande resi dents. At the termination of his leave he will report to a camp in Texas for further assignment. Max McKenzie of Wallowa, was in La Grande Saturday and Sunday, enroute to his army base, after visiting in Wallowa with relatives. YOU CAN I1UY AU, KINDS OF FOODS AT THIS STORE It is a complete food market carrying meats, staple foods, bakery goods, canned goods and fresh fruits and vege tables. Prices are low. We Deliver! Sinden's Grocery 1323 V Ave Phonp HH I HOME LOANS toileted to jit YOUR income. III gal Tou II life our modern, low-cost financing plan. TO BUY OR RFinflnC ' Eastern Oregon Federal , Savings and Loan Assn. . . 2014 Ui-oudway Baker, Oregon Glamour Glows In New Musical Hit The kind of musical you loved in Columbia 'pictures' "Cover Girl" . . . now leaches a tower ing height in the same studio's technicolor production, "Tonight and Every Night," today and Wednesday at the Liberty thea ter. Besides the stars, Rita Hay worth, Janet Blair and Lee Bow man, "Tonight and Every Night" has a cast featuring Marc Piatt and Leslie Brooks and including Piofessr Lamberti, Dusty An derson, Stephen Crane, Jim Ban non, Florence Bales, Ernest Cos sart, Richard Haydn, Philip Meri vale, Patrick O'Moore and Adele Jergens. - Cockroaches can live for five years. Floyd Hammack Of Los tine Dies Funeral services were held in Lostinc Tluusday for Floyd W. Hammack ot Enterprise, who died of heart attack Tuesday at his ranch near Lostine. He was serv ing his third term as county com missioner and had been a mem ber of the Lostine school board for. 20 years, prior to moving to Enterprise three years ago. He was a member of the Lions club and was active in civic work, and had been a member of the IOOF for more than 40 years. Survivers are his wife of Enter prise, six children, Lye W., of Portland, Edna (Mrs. Harold Glenn) of La Grande, Charles of Portland, Velva (Mrs. Ed Hoff man) of La Grande, Albert, on the farm at Lostine, and Ross of Portland, 10 grandchildren and five sisters, Mrs. Hattie Leonard, Mrs. Carrie and Mrs. Effie Cook of Lostine, Mrs. Emma Gastin of Wallowa, Mrs. Josephine King of Ashland, a nld a brother, Late Hammack of Stanficld. ANXIOUS TO HEAR SKANEATELES, N. Y., Aug. 28 (UP) Mrs. Jonathan Wain wright said today on being in formed that her husband had arrived in Chungking after his liberation from a Japanese pri son camp, that she was "most impatient to heir from him." 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