, 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.
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' 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."
Tavlorcraft
AIRPLANES
Available toon. Place your
order now.
Eastern Oregon Airways
Phone 8R13
Shipyards go On
40 Hour Week Now
PORTLAND, Aug. 28 (UP)
All privately owned shipyards in
the 13th naval district, including
the four Portland shipyards and
Swan island,, went on a 40-hour itimeyards has gone on
week Monday. None of the mari-1 basis.
a 40-hour
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LOAFER JACKETS FOR
LITTLE BOYS
2.98
4.89
Sizes 4 fo 10. toncj wearing blends
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tuede cloth fronts with herring
bone or checked backs. Brown,
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ALL WOOL SWEATERS IN
WONDERFUL COLORS
Sizes 7 to 14. They're one of tho most practical Itoms In her
Fall and Winter wardrobe because she can combine them to
make so many different outfits. She'll wear them with suits,
jerkins, skirts and jumpers for school or Saturday's shopping.
She'll wear them with slacks and shorts for playtime. Boxy
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BOYS' REVERSIBLE
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8.98
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In fin. cottoni.
SERVICEABLE SKIRTS
SIZES l-6x. 1.98
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Bright ploidi, rich lull ton.t.
Smartly pl.al.d or gor.d.
DRESS OR SPORT BELTS
FOR BOYS 49c
For his back-toichoo! wardrobe.
Embossed wostern styles and
smooth g.rtfin leothersl
SMART TW IIP TOPCOATS
FOR LITTU BOYS
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Smart twds in serviceable bluti
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11.98
A BOY'S HAT SHOULD BE
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WELL MADE KOUSEfi
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IN THESEI 1.37
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