The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, December 13, 1940, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text1943 1 Ths) OfiECtOX? fcTATESMAlL Saiex&Otii&t IMdayM Salem Airport Gets $140;000 4000-Foot Rnnway to Be Installed; City Blast Extend . Property (Continued from page 1.) proved- today as part of the na tion's defense efforts. A board consisting of the sec retaries of war. - nary and com merce certified " as "necessary to the national defense' a program inTolrlng construction of 51 new airports and improvements 10 i others. - . Scattered throughout the aUtes and the territories of Hawaii and Alaska, the projects are limited to development of landing ueias. . CoL Donald H. Connolly, Admin. istrator of eirll aeronautics, point ing out that no part of the funds would be used for buildings, han gars or other facilities not actual ly a part of a landing neia, com mented: . . '. ' .. . "Our purpose is to provide completed and useful improve ment units at as many strategic locations as our funds will per mit," The program, he said, was de signed to provide the maximum number of completed and usable units of improvement "possible, rather than the ultimate complex tlon of only a few airports. Oregon Leads Other Northwest States The total allotted to the three Pacific northwest states and Alas ka was $6,54,0e0, allotted as fol lows: Oregon $1,712,800; Wash lngton $1,394,000; Idaho $442,- 460; Alaska $3,000,000. The projects by states were: Oregon Eugene $250,000; Klamath Falls $$254,000; La Grande $35,000; Medford $282,- 000 Pendleton $282,600; Salem $140,000; The Dalles $100,000; Astoria $270,000; Baker $95,000; Portland $4,000. WASHINGTON Wenatchee $300,000; Kitsap county airport (near navy yard) $280,000; Seat tle $223,000; Spokane $200,000; Walls Walla $170,000; Yakima $160,000; Yakima $99,000; Port Angeles $12,000. Idaho Boise $256,000; Poca tello $100,000 Burley $49,160; Idaho Falls $37,300. Christmas Apple Needs Polishing; t Manners Get It PORTLAND, Dec. 1 2-(ip)-With Christmas less than two weeks away, Roosevelt high school stu dents have decided to do some thing about their manners. They proclaimed courtesy week. Slogans announcing the observ ance fluttered from walls of the school building. Some of them were: "Don't yawn in the teacher's face if you can't cover it up with your hand, use your foot. "Meals are Just as good with out sound effects. "Don't honk. Try the doorbell It usually "Works." Dating girls were advised to "order with care your escort is no millionaire." Band Presented, Chapel Program The brightly-uniformed band of Willamette university made its first concert apearance In chapel yesterday and was enthusiastical ly received. It offered a program both classical and popular. Director Maurice W. Brennen, in his first year on the campus, said he plans frequent appear ances at basketball games, 'in ad dition to a spring concert. Fire Destroy iverson Residence at Silverton SILVERTON Fire Wednesday caused an unestimated amount of damage to the Jack Iverson home on North Water street. Of un known origin, but thought, to have started. In a defective - flue, the fire gutted the home destroying much furniture and many per sonal belongings. 0 d d 1 1 1 o o ...in the New NEW ALBANY, Ind.. Dec 12-Jpy-Un. Nellie Gertrude Best 44. moved into a house near a fire station so she could obtain quick aid from an Inhalator squad in her frequent heart attacks.- The squad revived her after a seisure 'a yea r ago and again treated her successfully after . an attack this morning. Later today she suffered another attack and died. ' RAJf DIEGO, Calif., Dee. 13 (-Traffic Officer Tout Rem ington, - surprised but obliging, wrote m ticket for a faulty wind shield at the request of Mrs. Marie L Galvln. In municipal court today Mrs. Galvln explained her un usual request. In municipal court ; here was difficult to see through. I naked my hasbaad to fix It sev eral times, but be Just put It . off. Then I got an Idea. - The ,t idea worked, ; because Judge Clarence Terry Imposed S3 fine, which he suspended on condition the husband have . m new windshield placed in the automobile. '- SAN rRANCISCO, Dee. lS-tf5)- uaDe s weakness lor peanuts caus ed her downfall today.- - . r , The elephants at Fleishhacker soo nave a trick of balancing on the edge of a 20-foot deep moat and, reaching their trunks across, feeding' on the peanuts offered by soo -visitors.,--'- r-i-- w,: r t " But - Babe overreached herself today and tumbled Into the moat. gashing a foreleg and spoiling her dis'Kisitlon.- :t ji l'ro attendants built up an ele- p mine stairway ; with - bales of hay to get her out of the moat. Japan's Rulers y- -v." V, N s X I '-" V Seldom photographed, the Em press of Japan is pictured with Emperor Hlrohito at a court dance held in Toklo in connection with the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese em pire. Armored Division Makes Trial Run (Continued from page 1.) eral George S. Patton, Jr., the march set several records. It was the first time a full ar mored division moved across country in the western hemi sphere. On the 90 mile run, only five tanks were stopped for repairs and four of these resumed the march before their organizations were settled In camp. The 400 tanks were the largest concentration of this type of com bat vehicles ever undertaken in the United States. General Patton. obviously high ly pleased by the performance of the division, asserted "there is nothing In the world equal to it." He said the division was mod eled somewhat along the lines of the German Panzer divisions but 'with Improvements." The two American armored divisions are more powerful "than anything in Europe," he said, with equip ment superior both in perform ance and fire power. Scout cars and combat cars are sturdier, with a mechanical device for ditch and embankment climb ing "that nobody in Europe has," he added. The second armored division moved ready to fight in any di rection, on the ground or in the air. Combining training with the trip, the division sent observation cars ahead, aided by aviation. Security Payment Are $76,120 From Portland PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. Z-JP James E. Peebles, manager, an nounced today that insurance payments of 376,120 have been made in Washington and Oregon counties covered by the Portland office of the social security board in the 11 months of 1940. Ill One Eai . . 'Paul Hauter't .Column (Continued from page 1) joined by a red-headed little girl with her mother in tow. The little girl went into ecstasies over the cubs and finally turned to her mother and said: "What are they, mummy? Are they foxes? "Xo," said her mother, "they're lions." "What are lions?" came hack the inevitable question. "Oh," the mother said and she was searching for the an swer, "Oh, It's kind of a puppy or dog . or something." Then with an air of settling the whole thing she said emphati cally, "It's an animal." That cleared up, we walked on. Another old landmark has passed with the removal of the board walk out and around the new addition being built to the Ladd & Bush Etc ' bank. Bank officials noted the return to the Bidewalk with the statement that less people will' be giving the bank the run around now. e Trivial Information Clarence Schrock, the jaloppy king, caught himself a car thief the other night. He came out of a spot in Portland and noticed someone in his car, tinkering with the lock. Brave as if he really had a gun. Schrock stuck his finger against the inside of his overcoat pocket, threw open the car door and de manded gruffly, "What are you doin here?" The guy didn't have a good explanation, so Schrock got into the driver's seat, finger still pressed hard against the pocket lining, and wheeled to the police station. Said he was pretty surprised to find out how big ths guy really was when he got out. - A news dispatch from. Walla Walla reports that ' although schools have closed down there . has been only one case of flm J reported emosur the 170O ta- ; mates of the Washington state penitentiary.". Proves again that : there's nothing : like confine -meat to break up cold. Happy Friday, the 13 th. mm HnniTATIon UUUMTCa ermen Protection Seek Legislation ' Based on Experience ; I Say Meeting Demands PORTLAND, Dee. 12-fffV-The lumbering Industry will "support a forest program which will sus tain and . , . encourage state legislation based on the effec tive experience of the industry," C H. Collingwood, National Lum ber Manufacturer association for ester; said today, j He. told the Western Forestry and Conservation association that the - industry wants a program that offers more, complete pro tection from fire, insects and dis ease, and is ready to support a federal education program to aid timber owners and . the public to realise the advantages of a per manent forest policy. : Governor Sprague - urged the association to back vigorously a reforestation, program under which logged-off - lands could be acquired for state forests. States must revise their' forest land taxes, he warned. Low at sessed valuations would not pre- Tie lacks 1GB' M&.M Kfn Ff " ftC it ,r- -v r-v r. , , jt. W s- vMMIK i to the lira mm k t -fexf I Hen's and Uonen's I I fEjBEL I CA1ID1ES 1 I V mm leathered ,', " ' I r-. I W Xc 50 each XL2ASV I mnfT7 490 pair iU.;J I LML yl CLL CoXBrh and I gg)0 " 1 Lien's Gm Ileckties'VT 250 980 4 Hen's Dress Shirts EST 'Kerchiefs Hen's Dress Men's Initialed ' Kerchiefs S in Box Pocket Knives Comb & Brush Sels Gift Boxed Billfolds Hen's Scarfs 50x50 1 Tabic Cloths Inch Tied & Dyed Radio Scarfs 250 Ileial Ded Lamps 980 NoTelty Mexican Glassware 250 Sail, Peppers T&gg.S' 100 Flower Vases 250 Framed Piclnres 29 0 "Fyrex" 1 Ql. Casserole 500 womOil Silk Umbrellas 980 Infants' Daihrohes 59 0 women'SSilIi Gowns 98 0 Women's Rayon Panties 25 0 lien's Ct Boys' Swealors 980. ri 1S3 ilo. CtDminerdal SL rent owners from letting cut over land revert to the state.: He advocated a plan of leaving-"seed trees' In areas being logged. t CoL W. B. Greeley, secretary manager of the West Coast Lum bermen's association, asserted the industry - waa meeting the de mands of the national defense program. " "c He estimated every soldier housed In permanent barracks requires 1500 feet of lumber and every soldier ' in tent encamp ments needs 300 feet. He said that technical needs of engineer-' lng were also being met. - Rescue Is Made From Gas Jet R09EBURO. Dec: ll-VP)-Qulck work by a state polleeman saved Leonard C. Guy. 31, from death over a gas Jet in a tourist camp cabin today. ' The policeman, Clyde Fisk, called by the camp operator, said he found Guy unconscious, hud dled over the jet with a blanket over his head. He had slashed his wrists with a piece of glass, Fisk said. Guy had been ill for several months. Roseburr hospital at- taches said he had a good chance for recovery." - 250 , , i HHe SSS BW F. ess e i- i IBlK 111 U i II Sox i Pair AiJW 1 VI J l;l II 290 290 290 490 250 For Men With Zippers Special The U Ik--!i. J LI A Ik J Election Charged St Helens Dissolution" of -.. PUD Is Asked; Say 5 Outside Precincts Voted ! ST., HELENS. Dec. 13-jpy-Complalnants eharged the No vember election was Illegal and asked dissolution of the Colum bia River People's Utility district today. - .. '. The complaint - asserted that the county court failed to desig nate polling places and that as a result five polling places out side the PUD district voted on the -proposal : The district came into being with a majority of 92 votes. The complaint points out that the majority in favor In the five dis puted districts was 109, enough to defeat the PUD if the election is declared UlegaL . The five polling: places were: Scappoose, Rainier precincts 1, 2 and 3, fend Delena. i The complaint was brought by Byron Monlsh, Ben Pasero, James A. Moore. Edward R. Wleneke and Eugene Hegele. WOOD BURN ING SETS DOCTOR or NURSE SET .. DOLL BUGGIES 9gc 49c 9gc STANDING fiOr BLACK BOARDS O FOOT BALLS ... MECHANICAL TRAIN SETS .... MUSICAL TOPS PLUSH TEDDY BEARS TABLE TENNIS WOODEN WAGONS TIN DRUMS ALL KINDS BOOKS - 79c 98 c 25c 25c 25c 39c JLOc iOc 25 c STEEL CARS, TRUCKS Illegal, m ii v u i t it I i ix ii mm mwm m 3m ii tra i T M M II 1 II t i Ii W f I it I II AS , 1 i 1 If HI I I Rat mm m . sv ? ma it m m si m mm Ilany Clhcr Toys l:a Ilcneross 13 ; Ilealiss ' . d Csrrjaia Prices. ' " : ' m , Store of Better Vilaes" Bishop Is Sorry; - - Wife' Invited v To Hear Speech " PORTLAND, Dec lt-ff)-The Rt, Rev. Benjamin D. DagwelL Episcopal bishop of Oregon, drop ped his dignity long enough . to day to chuckle over this one: ' A Portland nta naked him by telephone to make a speech. The bishop .said ; he accepted. A mo ment later the same mam called back: ' ".- . ' "I'm awfully - sorry; rve been remiss. I meant to Invito Mrs. Dagwell, also.- Replied the bishop: "1 guess I've been remiss, too. There Isn't any Mrs. DagwelL" ' ' - " ' . s - Doctor Keeps His Word; Brings Boy - BETHANT. Mo., Dee. 43-47). Raymond King voiced disappoint ment as he was told his wife had given birth to a girL He said he had hoped for a boy. . "I'll go back and get you one, promised the doctor. An hour later the doctor made good his promise. King was the father of twins. Genuine Horsman DOLLS HUMMING TOPS METAL ROCKERS CLIMBING TRACTORS PLUTO (he roils over) 98c aoc 1.19 49 c 49 c Hammer, Boards, 4 g for tSy tots . a3' MECHANICAL TOYS TYPE WRITERS ALL KINDS GAMES RUBBER BALLS 25 c 98 10c 5C MODEL flflc AEROPLANES . iLUU 7-piece' "OCa? WATER SETS - Cm" TIN DISHES Set TOOL CHESTS 10c 49 c Death of Lothian Ctes Problem : (Continued from page 1) shock at ths death of his friend of a quarter eentryi . T am very certain that If he had been - allowed by providence to leave .W a last - message, fMr. Roosevelt eon tiued, h would have told ' us that : the greatest of all efforts t retain democracy In the world must and will su'e- eeed. ' ' -Z$ -' Secretary: Hull referred ; to the diplomat.' who cam., here four days v before the - European war Started la 1139, as "a true In terpreter "to us of his country at a i imf when It - was excep tionally Important that both na tions - should - have . a knowledge and understanding of - their - mu tual problems and interests. Lord Lothian, a bulky, six-foot man who retained the informality of his years as a journalist, had been ill since Sunday, but his condition had not been consider ed serious an til last night. Luth er P. Cudworth of Boston, CJ5.B. (Bachelor of Christian Science), attended the diplomat. A Wash ington physician also was called 35)e5iraiiEB)iffiG Tree Light Sets 8 Assorted Colored Bulbs, Complete with Cord & Socket Tree Light Sets TREE ORNA- Qr MENTS box of 12 iWU TREE ORNA3IENTS Small size box of 12 TINSEL ICICLES 5c&!0c Graula Prpperell Stamped Pillow Cases 49 c pair L-Modlste HwHincU Wonen's Slips No-rlp flesh bmI colors Chinese Brassware Tesv Bells" GaskDe Holders Asia Trays ) Gastdy Dishes Vs IOc eadb Yr. Diirics BesvOar 10e -flowered cimm ta and notified the coroner cf ths -eatV...;j:' " - - - -; ' Only a few hours before it died the ambassador had sent ta a . Baltimore audience an appeal for. American aid for Britain, say ing It would insure victory over Nasi Germany. The address was read by Neville Butler, 'embassy counsellor, who : becomes Lothi an's temporary successor. ThexOkwas much Interest In government and diplomatic cir cles - as to the - British govern--ment's choice of a new envoy. 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