THE WILLAMINA TIMES,
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CflitH/pAeA, off tLt& Z m esudd
(T h is Is one of a series of articles
w ritten by ..tason K osai.er Sunth.
special correspondent in Europe tor
the N ational Editorial A ssociation of
which the Tiniea is a m em ber. Others
w ill appear in these colum ns from
tim e to time. E ditor)
On the train trip front Dublin to
B elfast you pass across the border
from Eire (pronounced A Y ruh) into
Northern Ireland, th e latter a part
of Great Britain, and the custom s
arc severe. To protect its own su p
plies. Eire prohibits the export of
foods and oth er n ecessities, and all
baggage is exam ined by the Eireann
au th orities before you cross into
North Ireland, w here you are exam
ined again. Since foodstuffs and
cloth in g are in short supply in N or
thern Ireland and Scotland, and as
"spirits" (w h isk ey, etc.) are less e x
pensive in Eire than across the bor
der, there is a strong tem ptation a-
tu o tig the travellers to sm uggle goods
across.
On our train there w ere many
Iiish laborers enroute to work on
fa im s in Scotland, w here labor is
short, and all of these men carried
a box. At the border, the South Ire
land au th orities took from them
hundreds of pounds of butter, eggs
and o th er foodstuffs the men were
carrying to Scotland, where they an
ticipated less available food.
• • •
T he stron gest im pression one ob
tains in the Emerald Isle, is th e fe e l
ing which exists concerning what
th e Irish in Eire call the Partition
o f Ireland.” W hen LJoyd George s e t
tled the Irish question with Eaman
DeV alera, the Irish leader, it was
finally decided that Eire should com
prise som e 27.000 square m iles, by
far the m ajor portion of th e island,
w hile N orthern Ireland, which now
has a parliam ent o f its own, would
be made up of six northern counties,
about 5 200 square miles, including
the large city of B elfast. The reason
for this w as principally religiou s, for
in E ire, th e population s about 93
per cent C atholc, w hile in the north
the predom inant religion is P rotes
tant, principally P resbyterian.
The
political cleavage in the island is
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HOP PICKERS AT
INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
WHOLESALE
MEATS
WE PAY TOP MARKET
PRICES FOR STOCK
B ring u s y o u r livestock or see u s lor lo ck er m eat. O u r
p ric e s a re rig h t. L ocated a t M iller S la u g h te r house, just
e a s t of W illa m in a .
M ishler B roth ers
UNKLE
Oregon Boys Win Craft Awards
(X H tR Ilt’IION
T he Time». last w eek, erred In re
porting the result» or the Plyw ood
Union'» election of advisory and »Ick
com m ittee m em bers. The correct list
follow s: A dvisory com m ittee io the
execu tiv e board, I,, tlrabum , W. Ogle-
vle, II. Shipley, I). N ew kirk, Mux
Hare, (J. R oberts, W Hampton;
Sheridan sick com m ittee. 14. J. W al
lace and L. Miller.
prim arily on th e line of religion.
In Dublin. I had visited th e Dali
Eireann, the Irish parliam ent (th e
floor of the Dali is sh ielded from the
I itors gallery, w here I sat, by a
h eavy w ire, m uch lik e a baseball
backstop, to "prevent people from
tossing in bombs.*’ as one chap in- ;
\IA V AKKIVAIM AT
form ed m e ). It was the question ses- ;
M cM IXNVIlJ.K lltr sP IT A IA
sion. and the d ep u ties were question
Mr. und Mrs. T. L. Sm ith or Wlll-
ing Prim e M inister D eV alera on the
mina
are the parents of a »on, w eigh
p ossib ilities of including Northern
ing H lb. 1 o s., born Aug. 4.
It eland in Eire.
Mr. and Mr». Leonard Q uenelle o f
But on th e other sid e of th e bor- :
Grand Rondo have a new »on, born
der. the a ttitu d e Is quite as stron gly
Aug 11. and w eighing 7 lb. and 10
Hanberg
Bambery
opposed to union w ith E ire, as Eire
Johnson
ounce».
is for It. The N orthern Irishm an feels
A »even pound daughter wa» born
OREGON WILL be represented by division honors in the model car
that E ire "let the Em pire down" by
three of its best boy craftsmen when design competition, and James Bam -
Aug. 10 to Mr. and Mrs. P h ilip Voll-
not joining in th e war with Britain. ,
regional award winners in the 1947 bery, 2570 N.E. 32nd Avenue, Port
inan of W illam ina.
ano th ere seem s to be som e doubt as
competition of the Fisher Body land, who won first place in the
to Just w here Eire stands.
Craftsman's Guild assemble in D e Nupoleonic Coach competition. Han
Harry Connlck received an Injury
Southern Ireland has abolished a l
troit August 19-22 to compete for berg, a regional award winner in
over
his right eye, Monday n ight,
eight university scholarships, valued 1946, is making a second try for a
leg ia n ce to the King ("The very
w hile he waa working on the night
university
scholarship.
An
education
from
$2,000
to
$5,000.
The
trio
in
foundation o f all our personal lo y a l
sh ift at the W illam ina Lum ber Com
cludes Ronald Johnson, 5102 N.E. al organization sponsored by General
ties" as a Northern Irishm an describ
pany's plant when he fell from the
Motors, the Craftsman's Guild en
60th
Avenue,
Portland,
who
won
ed it ) , hut on the other hand, the
platform
to the conveyor. T hree
the first place junior award, and courages the development of crea
B ritish King sig n s th e cred en tials of
Louis Hanberg. 5424 North Warren tive ability, handiwork and crafts-
stitch es were required to clo se th e
all the diplom ats of Eire. "We feel."
Street, Portland, who took senior manship among 'teen-age hoys.
! wound.
.
he said , “— and DeValera has con
firm ed it in h is ow n w ords— that
the grass and flow ers grow ing up in
Eire is a part o f the Em pire only In
betw een.
so far as sh e can use us. If it pro
T he fu el crisis, felt sev erely in
fits h er to work w ith us. sh e does
Britain. Is equally severe in this land,
Bui sh e a ccep ts no other loyalty.
SHERIDAN. OREGON
for all of Ireland Is dependent on
. . .
Britain for coal. The Irish railroads
B elfast, the great industrial city have had to curtail their operations,
O
of the north fam ed tor its shipbuild- and all local residents are urged to
yards and its linen, sh ow s sig n s of curb! th e use of electricity and coal.
L ocated 2 m iles E ast of W illam in a
the war. She got it in th e “ blltx” . | A sign In your hotel bathrocn» re
on H ig h w ay
m
inds
you
to
use
as
little
hot
water
though not as badly as m any cities
ax
possible
for
"water
m
eans
fuel."
in E ngland. One w hole city block
O
A cam paign for w aste paper Is
w en t up in one b la st— it is now only
an em pty space, used for a public con stan tly underway and all people
WIRING — MOTORS — LINES — SERVICE CALLS
parking lot and open air m arket, the are urged to preserve the “con ten ts
b uildin gs ad jacen t to it chipped and of your d ustbin.” W aste paper Is con
m arked by bomb fragm ents. In an verted Into wallboard. cardboard and
O
o th er section of the city, the "Jer- | w rapping paper The seriou sn ess of
ries" m issed their aim on th e sh ip th e situ ation Is beat described by
W e h a v e C o m p lete E lectric Line B uilding E quipm ent
yards and spilled their bombs on two h uge sig n s In the m ain thorough
fare
of
B
elfa
st:
"W
aste
Paper
is
in
w orkers' hom es. T he sh e lls of som e
of th ese are still stand in g, though I'rgent Demand. One Ton o f W aste
m ost o f the d eb ris has been taken Paper W ill Make Celling Board for
aw ay. It Is an occasional but strange 12 H o u ses’’ and W aste Paper and
sigh t, on a street car (tr a m ) ride Still More W aste Paper is Required
through out the city, now and then to for T otal Em ploym ent In Local P a
see th e grim charred shell of a honse. per M ills."
Food is p len tifu l and varied in the
th e w indow fram es all blow n in and
h
otels,
but private hom es are sub
only a portion of the w alls standing.
ject to strict rationing— tw o to four
e g g s per person per m onth, h alf a
pound of m eat per person per w eek.
CUSTOM
SLAUGHTERING
Phones W illa m in a 482
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21. 1947
WILLAMINA. OREGON
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T v m n K ABOUT N O 3 O O V
$3b0 PER HUNDRED
ALBANY C O fP L K H IIL D IN G
SI MMER IB »ME ON NESTI < <’A
Mr. and Mrs. J essie S avage o f A l
bany were in W ilam ina on business
T uesday, connected with the b uild
ing of their new sum m er home on
the L ittle N estucca river on the road
out from Dolph. Mr. S avage has a
cold storage plant In Albany.
1)1 RHAM HOME N EA R S
COMPLETION' STAGE
W ork is progressing rapidly on
the new home Mr. and Mrs. Roy
E. Durham are building tw o m iles
northw est of W illam ina and they ex
pect to move into it soon. Isjcated on
a hill in a natural forest se ttin g that
requires little or no landscaping, the
site atfords a m agnificent view from
the picture w indow s In the living
room. The Yam hill v a lley as far as
' M cM innville can be seen plainly.
HARVEST STARTS AUGUST 25
AND CONTINUES TO THE MIDDLE O r SEPTEMBER
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and the Munson brothers of S a cra
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