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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1946)
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 194« TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON R e lra s rd by W ra U rn Newspaper Union. By V IR G IN IA V A L E AUL MUNI (s ta rrin g in Charles R. Rogers’ ‘‘Angel on My Shoulder” ) tells this one. When he first reach ed Hollywood, under contract to a film company, he was al ready famous as a Broadway star. But for six months he did nothing but collect his pay check. Finally he protested to P G R A IN B IN S A R E H O U SES . . . The Shenandoah (Io w a ) cham ber of com m erce is doing something about the housing shortage. Above • are two houses made from surplus grain bins. The top house has three rooms, all shown. The lower house has a u tility room in the re a r which cannot be seen. Both have bathrooms, two bedrooms, living room and kitchen. The o rig inal grain bins were 14 by 16 feet. his new boss, who told him not to w o rry , ju st to amuse him self—go to Honolulu if he wanted to, leaving word where his check was to be sent. F in a lly “ S< a rfa c e" came along, bringing him fam e as a m ovie s ta r overnight. I t m ade so much money for the company that those months when M uni didn’t work m eant nothing. On hand-knit or crocheted To keep uncooked m eat in a re gloves, leave three or four inches frig e ra to r, place it in a d ry dish of y a m on the inside of each fin w ith a loose-fitting lid ; cooked ger. Catch this lig htly in place m eat should be covered tigh tly to on the wrong side. When gloves prevent drying. —• — begin to show w ear, thread end can be used for mending. P rep ared m ustard and finely —• — ' chopped sour pickles added to The sponge method is ever best h ig h ly seasoned mayonnaise for washing handbags m ade of makes a perfect spread for fra n k plastics or washable coated fab furters and ham burgers. — • — rics. — •— D on't paint o ver whitewash. V ita m in C m ay be lost during Wash off the w hitew ash w ith clear thaw ing — so s ta rt frozen foods i w ater and paint only a fte r w a ll has cooking white th ey’re s till frozen. 1 dried thoroughly. NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS Solving Curtain Problem at Home Due to an unusually larg e dem and and current conditions, slightly m ore tim e is required lr. Alling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send yo ur order to: -- «-- Sewing Circle N re d le e ra ft Dept. Bos IZ I7 Saa Francisco «. C alif. Because it is said to be the most infectious and contagious one in Hollyw ood, social service students a t Loyola university are studying a 15-minute record of Joan Leslie's laughter as it ’s heard in W arner Enclose 18 cents for P attern. No___________ Name Address_____________________________ T O M - P E C - S A W SAYS: Various Tastes Indians Don't Want Country Given Back; They Want Cash O f the five hum an senses, taste varies the most in d ifferen t indi viduals, a fact easily d em onstrat ed by having a n um ber of persons taste a piece of p aper treated with penyl-thio-carbim ide. To some it w ill be tasteless, to others it w ill be sweet, b itte r, sour or salty. PARSONS, KAN.—Tom-Pee-Saw, who lives in Parsons and who is secretary of the legislative council, League of American Indians, says the Pottawatomie and Ottawa tribes don’t want a million and a half acres on Lake Erie, but they do want exactly $1,637,000 in coin-of-the-realm. They don't care w hether it 's i— United States or B ritish money, just E rie . The Britishers got the land, so it can be collected, for the debt but the Indians d id n ’t get the is 140 years old and getting older. money, Tom -Pee-Saw says. It was back in 1805 that a B ritish And if any Ioan is m ade to G reat land company got permission to buy B rita in , Tom -Pee-Saw intends to land from the Indians along Lake slap an attachm ent on itt JOAN L E S L IE Bros. “ C inderella Jones." The re cording was m ade at the request of R ev. G erald D. F lyn n , director of sodalities (social service) for South ern C alifornia. ----t--- PILOTS NEVER QUIT! N E W A IR P O R T S Towns everyw here a re building new airports or airstrips. A report in the Banner, Belzoni, M iss., for instance, tells of a new a irp o rt there. The first runw ay w ill be 150 feet wide and 3,600 feet long—large enough to accommodate a pretty fair-sized plane. Belzoni is in the cotton country, and planes are used there for dusting and defoliating cot ton, and a e ria l seed sowing. • • • F o rm e r arm y-n avy pilots are pep ping up civ ilia n flying a ll over the nation. T ypical of news stories is this one from the Outlook, L a w rence, K a n s .: "T w o Law rence boys, both World W a r I I vets, L t. E v e re tt E. Buhler, navy, and Capt. Lloyd L . W are, a rm y , are now in charge of the a ir port. They offer c h a rte r trip serv ice, passenger rides and flying in struction. The new operators have four ships, three Piper cubs and a Waco advanced tra in e r, and expect to purchase another one." The Seabee A m phibian. The Republic Seabee four-seat am phibian sells for $3,995. F irs t de- HOW B E A C H Y D ID IT Rack about 1911, when Lincoln Beachy wanted to take off. he got from 8 to 10 men to hold the plane while he "re v v e d ” up the 22-h. p. motor. When the human brakes let go, the plane roared into the a ir ! Tests M ay D elay D eliveries. N ot all the new models of a ir planes announced for 1946 w ill be* * produced in sufficient numbers to be seen at a ll airports. Before a plane is certified as airw o rth y by ' the C ivil Aeronautics ad m in istra tion, it must undergo rigid tests, results of which m ay dictate changes in design, Consequently some firm s that have optim istically advertised their product for e a rly delivery w ill be obliged to delay pro duction models. • • • The w eather m an has saved more pilots than parachutes ever did. Aeronca C ham pion.......... All A m erican Ensign . . . Cessna Model HO De Luxe " Model 120 Standard Com monwealth Skyranger Culver Model V .................. Funk B e e ............................. Globe Swift G C -1A .......... » “ GC-1B Piper Cub Special JSC-65 T a y lo rc ra ft Twosom e----- S kycraft Model 246.......... Johnson Rocket 185.......... P ip er Cub Super C ru is e r.. Rellanca C ru isair S e n io r.. F a irc h ild F-24 (R anger) " " (W a rn e r) S kycraft Model 446.......... Stinson Voyager 150.......... S E A B E E — R epublic’s am phibian. The nose door is a fisherm an's d re a m ! liveries w ill be m ade to distribu tors in A p ril, and 400 planes a month are expected to be turned out be ginning in June. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 S 3 4 4 4 4 4 P rice $2,095 $3,000 $2.995 $2,495 $2,750 $3,750 $3,350 $3,495 $3,995 $2.010 $2,295 $3.800 $5,000 $2,905 $5,375 $8,875 $8,500 $5,800 $5,000 On the set of M e tro ’s "T h e Show- O ff," they brought in a G re a t Dane who plays an im po rtant role. Red Skelton held out his hand, but the dog d id n 't extend a paw — be knocked Skelton down. Skelton looked up with dawning recognition — It was the dog that was specially train ed for M e tro ’s “ B athing B e a u ty ” two years before, trained to knock Skelton down every tim e he saw h im ! The first postwar building project a t the W arner studio w ill be an $11,000 addition to the studio school- house; th e re ’ll be la rg e r classroom fa c ilitie s fo r young players, a w ait ing room for mothers, and special equipm ent for the care and feeding of in fan t actors. S H O P P E R ’S G U ID E F O R 1946 P L A N E S No. of Seats It's a good thing R ay M illand isn’t jitte r y ; in “ C a lifo rn ia ” he gets shaved while sitting in a barber c h a ir in which a m an was scalped and m urdered. That was way back in 1848, and the m urder took place during an Indian uprising, but the blood stains are still visible on the head rest. L a te r, the c h a ir was used in G eneral F rem ont's headquarters in M onterey. Engine (h p ) Cruising 65 85 85 85 85 85 75 85 125 65 65 115 185 104 150 175 165 190 150 90 112 100 100 105 120 100 125 140 73 95 125 185 103 145 118 117 142 125 Speed 270 500 400 400 700 720 350 700 600 200 385 445 — 600 600 620 639 615 500 Land. Range 38 50 ___ 38 50 37 40 43 39 38 43 50 48 50 53 53 50 50 R E your curtains shrunken? T a k e heart . . . here's not one but six ways of m aking them over i or of sewing new ones w ith little ' fab ric. • • • A The budget'll balance it you reuse old curtains Y o u 'll be delighted at their smartness. In s tr u -t’ons 829 has direc tions fo r 6 curtains. Cats and People The following essay on " C a ts ” was turned in by a 10-year-old pu p il: "C ats and people are funny ani m als. Cats have four paws but only one m a. People have fore fathers and only one m other. “ When a cat sm ells a r a t he gets excited; so do people. “ Cats c a rry tails and a lot of people c a rry tales, also. " A ll cats have fu r coats. Some people have fu r coats and the ones who don't have fu r coats say c a tty things about the ones who do have th e m ." I How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat ot the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial m ucous m e m branes. T ell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis M ad elein e Pierce, ra d io ’s baby specialist who is three-year-old " J i l l ” in “ Young D r. M a lo n e ,” in sists on being introduced to her a u d ie n c e before perform ances. Once as she approached the m ike the a u d ie n c e , expecting a d u l t speech, burst into giggles when M ad elein e began; she was playing a baby, and only a couple of gurgles and a stream of goos cam e from behind the pillow used as a prop. Ann Sothern’s w orking in pic tures again for the first tim e since the birth of her daughter, P a tric ia Ann Sterling, in D ecem ber of 1944. She’s doing another " M a is ie " film . Speed A recent Hooperating lists Bob H ope as the leader of the first 15 evening radio program s, w ith F ib ber M cG ee and M o lly, second, and F re d Allen th ird; Jac k B enny’s fo urth. Ten years ago the popular ity rating ran M a jo r Bowes, Burns and Allen, Rudy V allee, Jack Ben ny. In those days Bing Crosby was 14th; he’s 6th on the list now, though he’s been back on the a ir so short a tim e. — * ----- T he new M arch of T im e , " R e p o rt on G re e c e ," is a fa c tu a l picture sto ry, photographed on the spot, re vealing the situation there from the incredible inflation and paralysis of transportation to the rise of new p olitical parties. NOW! 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