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Page Two HILLSBORO ARGUS, HILLSBORO, OREGON Survivors oí Zamzam Sinking Hold Evangelistic Meeting in Hillsboro Better Look Out Hillsboro Builder Has Narrow Escape Survivors of the sinking of an English passenger ship, the Zamzam, by a German raider in south Atlantic waters in April. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Johnson have been Hillsboro this month appearing at evangelistic where he la describing adventures* of the pair in their sea escape. Mrs. Johnson is the former Golda Colvin of Forest Giove. The couple was married September 15. 1937. ns a result of meeting at Walla Walla college, Walla Walla. Wash., where they were both studying With 200 other passengers, they w on the Zamzam headed across the Atlantic from New York An unusually favorable market en route to Palestine where Mr. Johnson was scheduled to do mis outlook for poultry and dairy pro ducts and fcr meats and wool dur sionary work. ing the 1941-42 marketing Five Lifeboat»» At dawn on April 17. the Ger indicated by man raider approached the 14.000- ! the Oregon agricultural report also po.nts out ton Zamzam. which was flying the I Egyptian flag, and fired on the ! that farm labor and other costs vessel without warning. Four life- ' have advanced materially during boats were disabled by the volley. | the past year and may be expected according to Johnson, but about i to increase further, although gains 175 passengers of the ship took to I made in farm prices for eggs, milk sea in the five remaining life- j meat and wool have been more rapid. boats. The German ship, which pillaged ! The longer-1.me cutlook is prob the Zamzam until afternoon when ( lematical. as animal numbers are It was sunk by bombers, rescued increasing and much uncertainty the remaining passengers. No one exists as to the duration of the was lost in the sinking. Johnson present extremely high level of said, although 15 passengers were I consumer purchasing power. On? seriously injured by the firing j indicator of the current strength which came when passengers were consumer purchasing power i< t in bed. I record high level of industrial pi I ducticn. already 60 per cent grz, Actual sinking cf the Zamzam [ er than, before the European war after it had been pillaged by the i started. Additional strength is given to raider, took only about five min utes under a bombing attack, ac the market demand for animal pro cording to Johnson. ducts by the government call for of th. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were held I more milk. meat, and eggs in the wing the t enter- by Germany as civilian prisoners food-for-defense program. These in occupied France and were la-1 conditions have helped boost farm manner, spiked With plenty ter allowed to return to the United, prices for dairy products 35 per States from Spain on an Ameri- cent since the war started, meat the iBy Roy L. Iki vidson I can ship. They have been in this I 56 per cent, eggs end chickens 30 appi o the train country for two months and never per cent, and wool 62 per cent. That they began On an April day. 1889. th reached the original destination of Further increase in the level of in ;ly -try and :o Dundee call.ng Tir ere that prohibited Palestine where they planned to dustrial production appears prob from Portland, lurched into the make ; ortland and tching mules, oxen or do missionary work. able within the next year. station at Smockville ar 1 screech- The demand fcr milk products is ed to a top. Instantly ? very thing Fa runner of present day yellow lines being emphasized by the govern was all bustle, with ?d it >ng ack and when the curbs adjacent to hydrants ment. particularly, to supply con banging open, greetir be i n g i to refuel, all i Morback points cut. there sumers in this country and for shouted out and crewmer began .ib, ard turned out. x teams on the streets those shipment to England, and much and at the risk of ig pitch more meat and eggs are wanted in ingk off baggage and expi all over their Sunda . helped ing. William Adams filed suit in the 1942 Although prices for feed are was usually the case, m "Our con oilmen wanted to beau- circuit court of Judge R. Frank higher than a year ago. the total passengers came dewn th ips of 4s up a bit. vn. so our councilman- Peters Monday for general dam- supply cf feeds in the United f. if ou couid liave undertaker drafted an ordinance, ages of $16,500 and special dam- States is larger than last year and and get a breath of fresh air. ages cf $553.55 against Gottfred providing t lat all residents set out Among them was a sprightly than a store and Johnson and Della Jchnson for in far above average. The number of animals is enough greater to young fellow. ; pparently in his houses connected by juries reportedly sustained in a First each tree to br heighth slightly more than offset the in early twenties. He walked the citizen of the’ ’80s traffic mishap. August 11. 1941. Smock. ef ten feet abov d. That crease in feed supplies, especially length of the board platform a time The complaint stated that Adams after whom the town took its a g 'od undertaker, but was struck by a machine operated of grain. Hay supplies in relation or two, his bright eyes missing e store, the grist ak r or nurseryman to livestock are as large as last noth ng; he gazed longin by the defendants while walking mill, the commun r threshing ma- u year and near the record level. low hills laden with all along the Tualatin highway with- chine—just about Beef Plentiful and in the city limits cf Reedville. and portance. The Vil ar M rb.ick Ducks, turkeys, geest ck- With respect to beef cattle the back up the steps and into the car. charges reckless driving. a forward is had to be kept up report says that "from a long-time But he was back again in a min kville. The busy of viewpoint the outlook for cattle ute and in his hand was a battered and out they could roam the street wculd be better if marketings in1 old suitcase. He had decided on a - later in ‘93, they will. But just yi 1941-42 were heavy enough while stopover! when 'he radishes prices are high to stop the increase his past er ti nder shoots w re making their in numbers. Already there are April, and no all this y hit on Sher- 1 first appear enough cattle on hand to prov.de time has that ycung fellow failed | d for a name Well here were World. Fir t ng you knew the more beef and veal per capita than to enjoy the color and wizardry that ; Engl imen in town and they1 marshal woe have them in hock Boy Scouts. Cub Sccuts, and Sea has been consumed for many years, Scouts of the Hillsboro district- although not as much as a quarter spring brings to Smockville each . ! didn't ctye at all for Smockville and would be h wing up to toll staged their part of a national century ago. This is in line with year. He's turned 73 now, and ther as a name. It wasn't appropriate you about it. Then .f you did not have been changes; they no longer! for so beautiful a wooded region— "loyalty dedication ceremony" at and pay i fine within the food-for-defense goals for Ore call it Smockville, but Sherwood. i why those w ded hills were as hree H Ilsboro high school Monday night gon. . the arm of the law and he's been the town's may i grand as the before a group of interested per in could sell them and p icket the en The complete report which con better than 25 years now. His name. ! old Engkland. sons. tire proceeds for his bother, and Participating '«’ere Scout troops tains several charts and statistical just in case there's anyone who Well, why noi 222 of Orenco. 227 of Cornelius, tables may be had in printed form hasn't already guessed it. is Mor a across and it and 216. 226 261, and 285. Cub from county agents or direct from back—J. E. Morback—better known j been Sherwood er since. of crooked politics. Or ■ election Pack 511. and the Sea Scout Ship the college, free to citizens of Ore- as Mayor Morback. And if you Fiftieth anniversary of the town's 35 voters turned out and wh.n the gon. please, he's Oregon's oldest mayor platting was held in'1939, and wha ballots were counted, there were Rainbow cf Hillsboro. Demcnstra- t.ons included first class signaling in number of years served—25 plu.- a gala occasion that turned out to 43 all That requirements, second class first aid,, Flansburg to Run The old Peavine Express has long- be. with Mayor Morback giving the time that 1 cal opta problems, and knot-tying done in since gone into discard; a modern i complete darkness. General Station standard gauge line replacet John West, former skipper of the Í Lease of the modern three-pump narrow gauge track of that r "Rainbow" and co-chairman of the General Petroleum service station et train. But what fun and program with B. B. Richards, dis at First avenue and Baseline street natured raillery that wood I trict commissioner, explained the in Hillsboro was announced this ing Toonerville provided the purpose of the gathering and in week by Ralph Flansburg. day patrons while it la; troduced R. R. Easter, district chair Flansburg leased the station called it Peavine, man of the Boy Scouts, who spoke from the General Petroleum com because its rcadbed had briefly on the place of Scouting pany. He has been employed at ballast, and come the in the country. Spencer Motor company in Hills rains. the ground became sof • HOTPLATES boro. lowing the rads to zig here, there. Crooked as a peavine—? • WAFFLE IRONS was out cf the question. PLBLIC NOTICES Sometimes would-be pass, -NOTICE is hereby given that the • TOASTERS undersigned has been app.inted trekked to the depot with The conversion of the telephone adm.nistrator with the will annex tions to visit Portland or a • COFFEE MAKERS exchange at Stafford to dial auto ed of the estate of GILLARD A. boring tewn. They would matic switching will be completed ROYER, deceased, by the County hour after hour visi this week, according to L. A. Grit- Court of the State cf Oregon for all the while for a burst < Washington Countv. All persons ten. district manager of the West having claims against said estate tale smoke that would hers Coast Telephone company. The en are required to present them, with Peavine’s approach. Ti ien tire outside plant will have been proper vouchers, within six months lengthening shadows of rehabilitated, old style telephones from the date hereof, to the ad- ning they would wend the replaced by modern dial instru m nistrator at the office of Harcld d szustedly homeward. on ments. The old manually operated M. Slade in the First National switchboard gives place to a mod Bank Building. Hillsboro. Wash ern automatic installation. This ington County. Oregon. conversion will link up Stafford Datei this 13th day of Ncvem- subscribers with tho-e at th - Alo ber. 1941. ha, Beaverton, Scholls, Sherwood HAROLD M. SLADE. adminis- and Tigard exchange, these having trator with will annexed of said all been similarly changed to auto- estate. matic switching during the past <NC, Nov. 13. 20. 27, Dec. 4. 11. ‘411 few months. NOTICE: The County Court of the State of Oregon for Wa.shing- Honors Presented at • ELECTRIC IRONS , ton County has appointed the un- I dersigned executor of the last will • CORN POPPERS W. At a meeting of the Hillsboro and b foment of LIBBIE Lions club Wednesday noon, a < LARK, d ceased. All persons hav • HEATING PADS past president's pin was presented ing claims against said estate are to Earle Bowman by Jack Mur- required to present them, with • MIXERS ton. past president of the organ proper vouchers, to the undersign ization. Frank Park of Portland, ed at the office of E. J. McAlear. First National Bank Budding. district governor, assisted in the Hillsboro. Oregon, within six ceremony. months from this date. November Jerry Wieber was presented with 13. 1941 a Lion key membership for se CLARENCE ENNES, Executor. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES — FARM MACHINERY curing two new members to the E. J. McALEAR, Attorney. 126 S. 3rd Ave. HILLSBORO Phone 1011 organization. <NC, Nov. 13, 20. 27. Dec. 4. 11. '411 Markel Prospect Good for Oregon Animal Products suuntii hi u illune quirkh t 1111 s h a k t • i all • Makes the most of your powo because its so light running ... all work ing parts on one shaft with pressure lubricated ball bearings. Moro ca pacity because its 22- inch diameter rotor has the best balance of cen trifugal action and angle of hammers to screen. Hammer tips are heat- treated each with 8 po sitions to renew grinding edge. Hammers tan, and pulley all semi-rigid on shaft for safety. V. F. W. Head Says Nation Needs Unity ROY W. HEINRICH Sherivood s Mayor Morback Oldest in Point of Service in State—25 Plus J. I. Case Farm Machinery Dealer West Baseline at l ily Limits Hillsboro “IX YOl'R CASE Hl A < Phone KHJ2 .Continued o» page 4i WHY WAIT ? Come on Down and Shop al Our USED CAR BARGAIN LOT!! Damage Suit Filed By William Àdams BARGAINS ALL—So Make Us Your Oiler When You Call 1941 Studebaker Land Cruiser Sedan, new '37 '33 '35 '33 Stude. Diet. 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