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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1940)
TLe OEEGOH STATESMAN, Salem. Oreaon. Sunday Morning. December 15. 1843 Pigeon Is Injured Mglit in Sight of Bird Club Meet PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. U-(JP) -Miicky' a Portland pigeon, hIVa1 lila innt tnr an accident. Just as the clinic of the Port land International Canary dan concluded Its meeting In the stu dio building , 'Lucky' fltir Into the aide of a car and knocked Mm elf very, very cold right In front of the place. Club member gave tint aid, tacked on the "Lucky" name, and cared for him overnight. Today he waa released in- front of the building, fully recovered. FULwami F - .rx&'k I , 1 2 t Under P 9 P i i it m Gifts ff W End Tables I Table Lamps i Pillows I W Pictures Overnight Cases I Carpet Sweepers ff W Hassocks I V Smokers if W Card Tables ft Gifts Under H(fl) I 7-Way Floor Lamps i Occasional Chairs u lVlirrors Electric Irons W G-E Toasters 1 W Slipper Chairs I W Bedspreads I W Coffee Tables ff Gifts Under j v Swing Chairs Lounge Chairs I i Desk and Chair Innerspring Mattress f V Boudoir Chairs & u Table Radios W Aluminumware Sets f ffjf Living Room Suites 1 Bedroom Suites 8 Dining Room Suites 8 Rugs Vi Lane Cedar Chests P -K G-E Electric Ranges 8 Washers, Ironers r ' ' FUnrJOTTUQE CO. Open Bids Soons, New Laboratory Highway Department Will Erect Structure on E. State Street (Continued from page 1.) from Penitentiary road, with a broad lawn and sweeping drive way leading to the main entrance. It will extend back 112 feet. A second story will rise from the front half of the building, reach ing 31 feet a bore the ground level. The rear half of the building will be only one story high, with the exception of a covered center court, designed for testing opera tions requiring more ' height. A traveling crane for handling awk ward -or heavy materials and equipment will eventually be in stalled In this courtway. Construction of the new labora tory building will permit removal of the highway testing depart ment Irom the basement of the agriculture building and occupa tion of the latter space by the state printer, who has been cramped for room in his first floor quarters there. The labora tory stall will nave twice as much floorspace in the new build' lng, and the second story section for the present will provide the highway traffic division with modern offices in a move from the second floor of the adjoining wooden structure now occupied also by the sign shop and the state police district patrol office. The 39 rooms on the first floor of the new building will Include in addition to office and reception rooms, a carpenter and machine shop, boiler and storage rooms, conference room . and the follow ing laboratories: Optics, two for aggregate testing, two for chem istry, one for oil, two for soil, with moist room; one for freezing and thawing, with large refrigera tion room producing tempera tures as low as zero Farenheit; and one each for cement, humid ity and physical testing. One large and 12 small offices and a large filing room will be laid out on the second floor. Extension of power lines and construction of an ll.OOO-volt substation, laying of sewers and landscaping are Included in the $95,000 cost estimate for the pro ject. A large parking area for high way employes will be paved at the rear of the laboratory. N. M. Finkbeiner as engineer of materials Is In charge of the department's laboratory testing operations. The structure was planned by Hutchinson under the direction of W. A. Reeves, bridge engineer. ' Duke Flies With US Navy Seattle Unionist Charged as Red (Continued from page 1.) communistic activities." The trial board did not report on the other 15 cases submitted to It. Keppler, in a statement read to the membership, declared: "I am going to prove that this is a company-sponsored program. "I, Don Keppler, am not going to accept this verdict . . . and I am going to exercise my full right as an American citizen and as a 'union brother to see that our local is not wrecked by this type of a frameup. "We are organized to better the conditions and the wages of the members of local 751. "I, as vice president, am going to see that our membership is redirected Into that trade union program." if? v t The US navy flew the Duke of Windsor unexpectedly on m mysterious trip from Miami, Fla., possibly to meet President Roosevelt In the Caribbean. Arriving at the coast guard base at Miami, the duke and an ADC, Capt. Vyvyan Dmry (right), were met by officials. Desert Fight now On Soil of Libya (Continued from page 1.) 26,000, together with vast quan tities of guns, tanks, arms, equipment of all sorts. This estimate, which the Brit ish said was conservative, placed In actual custody more than one fourth of the fascist army which Invaded Egypt in the early aut umn and now has been driven back to the point where it start ed an army which at its peak strength had been estimated by the British at 80,000. The troops which had escaped capture in the flight into Libya were pictured as so disorganized as to be of little present ac count. British air activity continued to set a high tempo of violence for the whole operation. Continuous assaults with bomb and machine gun fire on Italian positions far within Libya at Derna, for example, 160 miles and more within the frontier were reported by the royal air force. Hard hit, said the British, were the Derna barracks, wire less station and other military buildings, i and spreading fires were left in the area. House Totally Burned After Safety Advised GRANTS PASS, Dec. 14-JPh- The Insurance adjuster advised Ethel Milton of Rogue River to be careful until repairs were made. following a flue fire which scorch ed her house Thursday. Today she telephoned that fire completely destroyed the house last night. In One Enx . . Paul Hauler's Column (Continued from page 1) (reconnaisance ears to you, general) and more motorized anti-aircraft guns than you could find in the whole Canal aone (48 words censored here). All in all we decided the five and ten army was a lot better equipped than the regular one. And cheaper, tool " There are the usual Christ mas stories about kids and Santa dans floating around at this time of year, but we choose the one about the burly young ster who walked up to a de partment store Santa Clans, kicked him in the shin and said, "Hey you, for the fourth and last time, I want a cowboy suit." The official reports made to the chief of police by policemen of duties performed are usually routine and often dull reading matter which you wouldn't select for your library, but last week a gem appeared in the report has ket at the police station. One of the policemen chron lcled in routine fashion the ran tine corralling of a drunk, noting at the end of the report that the drunken man, somewhat belliger ent, had expressed the hope of sometime meeting the officer when the latter was not in uni form on which occasion, if it should come to pass, he would administer the policeman the darnedest beating he ever had. And under the signature on the report were the wordst PS: And he looks big enough to do it, too. Ml rm9! CP 2vMj GET BOWM ABOUT THE NEW DRIVES Oldsmobfle's "no clutch" Hydra Matic Drive has proved such a sensational success that many manufacturers have brought out new devices for 1941 with sim ilar sounding names and with olalms to similar advantages. There are new kinds of shifts, new kinds of transmissions, new clutch systems, new controls, new "drives." What these de vices really do, in comparison with Hydra -Matic Drive, is shown in the chart below. Check their accomplishments carefully. You'll find this fact remains: Just one kind of drive Is com pletely automatic has no clutch pedal at all and never requires any manual shifting, even for quick accel eration. That is the original Hydra-Marie Drive, built and backed by General Motors, introduced by Oldsmobile and now proved by millions miles of driving in the hands of nearly fifty thousand owners j:r? Names devices compered I , with Hydre-Mauc Drive to the I ill 1 aJ3flr- 11 chart below will be fumiehed I " Xt"0! y 2.rrVjCm iiiii Mora then a fluid coupling. ..even more , 1 1 1 a than an automane traasnrieeloii. .. Hydra- ) : r-J ' , VSSSS1 Matic Drive is a combination of both. XV- Bruce Spaulding Elected by DAs S ta t e Association Aska : Many; Cod ' Changes,"; ;-llIlliig's)rqifie r : PORTLAND, Dec; !4-aVRob- rt Chrisman,- Wallowa county, was elected president of the Ore gon . District Attorneys associa tion at the closing session, of Its annual convention here today. .- Bruce Spaulding. Polk county. was named vice-president' and Warren A. McMlnimee, Tilla mook, 'secretary-treasurer. Other executive committee .officers elected Included Earl A. Nott, Yamhill county, . and Oeorge . Anderson, Jr., Union county. . - The district attorneys passed resolutions asking the legislature to: V . - Amend the manslaughter code relating . to - fatal motor . vehicle accidents, because of the difficul ty of obtaining convictions under the present severe law: Amend criminal action codes to permit disposal of cases in justice court, the Justice sitting as com mitting magistrate,- on motion of the district attorney at any time before trial. Amend the codes to provide that the justice, district and cir cuit courts all have concurrent jurisdiction. Permit Justices to sit as com mitting magistrates in the case of persons accused of drunken driv ing, either discharging the de fendant or holding him to answer before the circuit court. A proposal to amend the pres ent law establishing the basic rule so that speed limits could be fixed was voted down. The district attorneys also ask ed that the governor be given' power to fill their offices tem porarily if they should be called to active service with the army. Duke Heir and Bride to Hawaii it S ... - . : f t - - En route to Hawaii on their honeymoon, Angler Biddle Duke, Man - . m i. I w v M .ill .Hfl 9i4.v r"n looacco new m cwism i vam;M, bride, the former Margaret Screven Tuck, are pictured tn hM An geles. They were "wed at Minden Nevada, immediately alter Mrs. Tuck obtained a divorce front Alexander J. M. Tuck, socialite bro ker. US photo. . State "Radiomen Elect Officers PORTLAND, Dec le-ifl-Lee Bishop of radio station KMED, Medford, was elected president of the newly organised Oregon State Broadcasters association here to day. Other officers included w. Car ey Jennings, ruw-kea, Port land, vice-president; Frank Log- gan, KBND. Bend, secretary and treasurer; Tom Symons, KXL, Portland, and Frank H1IL KORE, Eugene, directors. . . . Former Merchant Here Dies of Heart Trouble PORTLAND, Dec 14-(F)-Alex L. Goldstein, 46, former owner of the Army Navy store, Salem, died here today of a heart ail ment. He retired a year ago. 445 Center SL Phcnn 6133 12 Tears in Salens as Purveyors of High Grade New Can and the "Home of Good Used Gars" I Dr. Huxi j Kemler. Dentist DONT DELAY needed optical attention be cause you plan to use your ready, cash for ahoppina. My Liberal Credit Flan will enable you to take care of both. X mean very word of It when I say. "Come la and hare your eyee attended to RIGHT NOW and arrange to pay me Next Year.", Dr. Semler's Optical Department In charge of Dr. Fred Pageler. Associate Optometrists: Dr. W. W. Frame, Dr. Robert Gilbert and Dr.. M. J. Kelly. a At the first sign of eytshzln, heedzchs cr nervousness, tcie tdrentcge of cur Free Optics! ExtInaticn. ... we will est srescriae alessss ealees aseeletely aeceseery. 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