The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, October 21, 1942, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TDI Th OREGON STATESMAN. Satan Oregon, Wednesday Morning. October 21. 1342 v Market Rises On Tax Move Steels, Motors Lead Revival ; . Average . Ties 40.1 Peak 4 NEW YORK, Oct 2&-(-The stock market Tuesday celebrated the extinguishment of worries over 1942 taxes with a new for' ward thrust which was good for gains of fractions to more than a point for the general run of in dustrials. A revival of Interest in steels and motors freshened bullish sen timent to a degree that worked out well for nearly everything ex cept, the rails, which were a bit droppy on a steep fall in reorgan ization rail bonds. - ' Buyers seemed pleased that the revenue measure would go to the president with the lately voted "concession" provisions for bus iness intact V . A final advance of .5 of a point ' in The Associated ' Press 60-stock average duplicated the October 13 peak of 40.1, highest level reached by this composite since last N vember. The turnover was 667,330 shares compared with 401,090 Monday. ' Late buying in the coppers was accompanied by stories . that pro ducing companies might receive better than ceiling prices under a " revision of production quotas said to be under consideration by the WPB. ' Up a point or better at the fin ish were US .Steel, Bethlehem, - uougias Aircran, Anaconaa, iien necott, American Smelting, Phelps Dodge, American Can, . Johns Man ville, Union Carbide and Pa tino mines. Allied chemical jumped 3 and du Pont 2. Chrys ler entered new high territory for a year or more on a rise or . Bird Hunters Are Popular TURNE R Pheasant hunters were out early Saturday morn ing. Farmers will be glad to have fewer birds. They were unusually active at corn ; planting season, .taking many hills, and in some instances almost rows of ' corn, and feeding heavily on other crops. :-k - -" , v ; '; ' i ;" . . F. M. Metcalfe has finished his tomato harvest. : . .- ' - ' Mrs. J. B. Kendall, an invalid for some months, is ' at present convalescing at the W. J. ; Den- hem home. -' !- -' Mr., 'and Mrs. Raymond Titus re pleased to : hear from their son, Glenn, who is in the navy, probably in the Pacific . Mrs. William Spiers has' re turned home from North , Bend, after spending two weeks with her daughter, Mrs. E. B. La Clair, and new granddaughter. Mrs. Frank Ensor is slowly im proving front her long illness. Enlist pes FiliMi f In New Marine PI Applications for enlistment in the US marine corps will be ac cepted now and kept on file until the man is ready to enlist, First Sgt G. H. Bergstrom announced Tuesday. Men will be taken up until- the time they receive their Induction orders. i ) The Salem recruiting office in the Guardian building will ; be open from 8:30 in the morning to 5 o'clock each night to accom modate students who are busy during the day, as well as other workers, Bergstrom said. During the tinw the office is closed the recruiters may be consulted at their homes. The Salem office expects to fill its October quota without diffi culty. Its September quota was one of the largest filled so far, Bergstrom said, but it had a few over.' Legion Asks Bar On CO Teachers PORTLAND, Oct 20--Con-scientious objectors would hot be permitted to serve as public school administrators or teachers under a law proposed Tuesday. by the American Legion. v The Oregon department s exec utive committee said the propo sal would be presented to the next legislature along with one which would create a state service de partment to handle rehabilitation 'Compensations claims hospitaliza tion and similar affairs for veter ans of all wars. FVlzih Kishest Cash Price- Z:rrb HI:rf:b ' i. J WW CJ North Front Street Telephone 7633 - "Strictly Private" PEAR UDM'- SMEARBUT I GUESS ST MB VO& I GOT SO Salem Market The prices below supplied by a lo cal grocer are Indicative of the daily market prices paid to growers by Sa lem buyers but are not guaranteed by The Statesman: VEGETABLES Potatoes 100 lbs No. 1 new S.OO Turnips, beets J65 Lettuce ,. U0 GRAIN. BAY AND SEEDS Buying Prices) Oats. No. 1 28.00 30 00 26 00 27 00 16 00 18.00 16 00018 00 SI Feed barley, ton Clover hay, ton Oat and vetch bay Wheat BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY Andiesen't Buying Price (Subiect to change without notice.) BUTTERFAT Premium No. J No. 2 BUTTER PRINTS 32'i Jl,s 23i .43 .40 AO 24 24 B Quarters EGGS Extra large Medium Standards Pullets Cracks POULTRY Colored fry 29-29 Quotations at Produce Exchange PORTLAND. Ore, Oct " 20 AP) PORTLAND. Ore., Oct 20 (AP) Produce exchange: Butter:, extras 49; prune firsts 47g; firsts 454. Butterfat: 53.s-54. : MUBV V.LI.I V. MU.WXU medium extras 41; standards 38; small extras 30; standards 28. Cheese: triplets 25a; loaf 27,k. Portland Produce PORTLAND. Ore- Oct. 20 (AP) Buttr prinU: A grade 53-52 c in J pnoinwni wrappers. N-NVkC in .ear tons; B grade 51-51 ',c in parchment wrappers, 52-5Zc in cartons. Butterfat First quality, maximum of . of 1 per cent acidity, delivered In Portland 53',k-54c lb.; premium quality, maximum of 25 of 1 per cent acidity. 54,i-55c lb.; valley routes and country points 2c less than first or 52c; second quality at Portland 2c under first or 81-S2c Cheese Selling prices Jo Portland retailers: Tillamook triplets 31e lb.; loaf Sic lb. TriDleta to wholesalers 29c lb.; loaf 30c FOB Tillamook. Eggs .Prices to producers: A large 46c; B large 40c; A . medium 39c; B medium 36c doz. Resale to retailers 3-4c higher for cases;, cartons 5c higher uve poultry ouying prices: no. 1 grade Leghorn broilers. Its to 2 lbs. 27c: colored fryers. 2l.i to 4 lbs. 27c; colored hens 23c; colored roast ers over 4 lbs. 29c: Leghorn hens under 2 lbs. 19c; over 3',i lbs. 21c; colored hens' 23c; No. 2 grade hens Sc less; No. 3 grade 10c .less; roost ers 10c lb. Dressed Turkeys selling prices: New. crop 38-40c; old crop 37 -38c lb. iuddiu average country killed 32c lb. Country meats selline prices to retailer: Country killed hogs, best buachers. 129 to 14 lbs. 20c; vealers, fancy 23c lb.: food heavy 15-18c lb.: rough heavy 15c lb.: canner cows 12- 13C 10.: -cutters 14c lb.: bulls 16c lb.: spring lambs 22c lb.; ewes 9-10c lb. Wool 1942 contracts. Oreton ranch. nominal 34-37c lb.; crossbreds 40-42C. Mohair 1942 12-month. 4Sc lb. Hops Seed stock. 1942 croo, 1.10 lb.; seedless 125 lb. Onions ffreen'. 75c dnz . bunches; Oregon dry $15-1.40; Idaho. $1.15; Yakima $1.25 50-lb. bag; pickling. 15c lb. PoUtoes Klamath 3.00-3.25 een- Ul; Yakima 2.85-3.00; Deschutes 2 25 3.00 cental; local 2.50-2.7 cental. " Hay selling prices on trucks: Al falfa No. 1 23.00-23 JO ton; oats-vetch 16.00 ton, valley points; clover 16.00 ton. Portland Grain PORTLAND. Ore- Oct 20 (API Dee. u : 1.10 1.10 U0 1J0 Gash grain No. 1 flax. 2.43. Cash Wheat Ibid): soft whit 1.13U: soft white excluding Rex 1.15'; white elub 1.16li. western red 1.15. tiara red winter: ordinary 1.10; 16 per cent 1.14; 11 per cent U6; 12 per cent 1.18; hard white baart: 10 per cent 1.17: 11 ner cent 1.19; 12 ner . Todays ear receipts: wheat 6: bar ley 2; flour 4; corn 1; oats 2; millfeed 2; flaxseed 9. Portland Livestock PORTLAND. Ore, Oct 20 AP) (USDA) Cattle saleable and total 100. calves 35: market active, strong. In stances 23 higher on canner cutter cows; few common steers 9.00-10.50; odd head 11.00: cutters downward to 7 JO; common heifers 8.00-9.00; canner -cutter cows 4.50-5.73; fat dairy type cows 50; medium-good beef cows' 7.50-9.00; medium-good -bulla 9 .50-10 .50; common 8.00: odd good vealers 14.00; choice quotable to 15.00; cull calves down to 630. . Hogs: saleable 300. total 500: mar ket active, uneven, 10-25 htrher: good Choice 175-220 lbs. 14.50-75: 230-290 lbs. 13.75-14.00; light-liphts 13.50-14.00; good 400-eoo lb. sows 12.50-75: choice light feeder pigs quotable 15.25. Sheep: saleable 400. total 450; mar f,t. t'a?y. w good-choice lambs 11.15; cull and common grades 5.00- Isi UM ia 8 mIm m SaaLa ymm awasy kack t mia niMirfc ueii mm sainral. Mflant mt su. mmt mtmutM tmi kMnbwa. rhmwi iwii, u frti-, mSr&ZlrtZ Ttxima. We Mtuttoe, BUm kriaa mtoft hi a juqrstwf una mm Um tmt fctfc. m. re By Quinn Hall mt 1 UKES (T. WE KSSED IP M COULD I Quotations Colored bens White Leghorn trys White Leghorn hens 21 21 47 Marion Creamery's Bnlni Prices. (Subject to change without notice) EGGS Large A , - , ,, " 45 Medium A ' AO Large B .40 PulJets : . Checks, undergrades 20 Large dirty .32 POULTRY Colored frys XI 21 29 Colored hens Leghorn fryers Leghorr hens, over 3',i lbs. . J9 Leghorn hens, under 3,i lbs. . J7 Old roosters , M No 2 poultry 6c less. LIVESTOCK Buying prices for No 1 stock, based on conditions ana sales reported. Spring lambs . 11.50 Ewes 3.00 to-3 50 Hogs, top 160-223 lbs. , 14.25 Sows ; 12.00 Veal top - 13.00 Dairy type cows Beef type cows - Bulls , , Heifers "; 5.50 to 6.50 . 6.50 to 8.00 8.10 7X0 to 8 00 21 Dressed veal WOOL AND MOHAIR Wool -Mohair .tt 43 Portland 9.50: medium-food shorn lamha with No. 2 pelts 10.40; common-medium wct i-Jw-J.uu; xew good slaughter Wool in Boston BOSTON, Oct 19 ; (AP) (USDA) keta itimulated inquiries on foreign ----a wa wws VX1 7US Ul 5flB fTrSt1a thriiitar4aw m.wA 4k.. eifhth. oflering to bo cither 100 per wh uviutrsuc, iuv per ceni zoreign, or 50 per cent domestic and 50 per CIH AWSfJBSI. , - .... CaUa n .I.,... mmtl M mm ' wm-w.. wvaaassvuv WVU1 VaV MS SrSaCS were mode at clean prices of 1J6 Stocks and Bonds October 19 I Compiled by the Associated 30 19 13 Indus Rails UU1 Tuesday 67 a las mo 60 Stks 40.1 Previous day 56 3 19 J 25S 39.6 saonut ago 53.8 17.6 232 Year ago 59.0 16.7 31.1 1942 high 37 J ' 18.8 27 J 1942 low 46.0 14.4 j 21.1 37.2 41 J 40.1 32.0 BOND AVERAGES 20 10 10 10 ren Tuesday 64 9 1035 97.7 50.8 80.4 Tevious amy S5J 103.5 97.7 Month ago 64.5 -103.2 97.1 Year ago 62.7 103.1 102.0 61.1 49,8 51.2 412 1942 high 1942 low .65.6 103.7 ' 100.6 --59.4 102.6 93 S Silverton Calls Up Its Retired Nurses SILVERTON Shortage of nurses has been felt in the Sil verton locality and a recnt m opt ing was called in the community w register retired nurses to help out with part time work at th local hospital. : - 7 Nurses registering were Mrs T. R. Hobart who has alreadv been assisting for several months and Mrs. Victor Elvestrom, Mrs. M. S. Hoblitt and Mrs, R. J. VanCleave. . Tip to Drivers You can save rubber and help win the war IX you will do these things: L Drive only when absolute ly necessary. Z. Keep nder 35 miles as boor.' 3. Keep your tires properly inflated. 4. Have them inspected rega larly. 5. Share year ear with then. WILLIAM M. JLTFERS, Robber Director. Or.y.TJjm. N.D. Or.G.Cbaa.NJ. " CHAN LAM CBl.NESR Berbalixu 141 Netth Uberty . tTpstalrs FrtUa6 General electric C. Office epea Tuesday and Sat urday only 1 ai. U I pjn.; 6 to 1 9-m. Ceasulution, Biaed res tnre and artne tests are free of charge. Practiced Since 1911. A n o News Boosts Wheat Prices CHICAGO, Oct 20 ff) -Tak ing . some inspiration from two overnight news developments which -were interpreted favorably, traders pushed wheat prices high er Tuesday: Otner grains made an effort to follow the bread cer eal upward, but lost their gains before the close, ; ; Wheat was up more than a cent at one time, with trading more active than in recent sessions, and closed on gains of cent Corn finished lower, oats lower to Y higher, rye Y low er to higher and soybeans V lower to higher. ? The - two - news t developments which encouraged traders were: First, the introduction of a reso lution in the senate by Sen. Clyde M. Reed .R-Kans.)' designed to modify office of price administra tion ceilings on flour; and, second, announcement that the commod ity credit corporation had been instructed to purchase No. 2 or better cash wheat at .the loan price. ; : . The Reed resolution , provided that it was the sense of the sen ate that flour ceilings should not be fixed below parity, and fur thermore, soil conservation or other benefit I payments should not be deducted from parity in arriving at the ceiling. If the resolution ' were ' passed, traders MOT IS AMONG THE EAGER A4STERS " INSTRUCTION IN TH PLANES OF RANDOLPH HOP HARRIGAN OUST HOW.ES.CK AH SA CANT DO NOTHiN' Jf I BARNEY GOOGLE MICKEY MOUSE THIMBLE THEATBE- AmnE AT LASTS ' APPROACH YOui? I VODOS t WE )-f SNIP FfiOM THE V tZZsPCHTli LEFTAS YOy, - JTORGTl WOULD A NORSE. f TO RELAX Vl - ' HECKS . . r I JtrcD STA Y OUT) "you're ( . . .1 HAVUsl' ALL. Si I If trie fvncHi-. i T ' : . 86 : a m it Ae ft ' ..samw THEKJKIAJrJ'T M ARE X3U SURE M3U UAVE 1 . f I PLENTY OFSPEND4N6 MOMEY? 1 V DEBSy TELLS ME EVERY- rV THING COSTS MORE c&& ; 1 TDOAY THAN IT DID th7&-C I EOOKEY i J? tor VWrp yuh 5 l TALK -A GtVETUH Massive Mere than 80 army air force mechanics are perched atop this Con solidated B-24 Liberator, at Saa 'Diego, dramatle evidence of the : raggedBess that makes combat pilots say, JEnemy fighters know It's a tough ship to knock down!" This leviathan bomber, setting record en all fronts, has the speed and maneuverability ef a pnr- said the OPA would have to re vise its flour ceiling or openly defy, the senate. -:"- - ; . The CCC was instructed to pur chase wheat grading No. 2 or bet ter and containing not more than 13 percent moisture at loan" rate levels. Ankle Is Burned . EVANS VALLEY Mrs. Oscar Loe is recovering from a badly burned ankle sustained a few .days ago when a can of tomatoes which she was putting up, broke. - MgAUWUILt: ( WEAR THESE EYE -GLASSES BASIC TRAINING r truce jutnAJCAir iiki-rit vnu m TURM THEM FIELO. OVER TO THE COLONEL! ME? WEAR "S. -J QHeA7Ett J T n AND SPOIL affiv ' I MY LOOKS ? , rji txNAYu 2 WWS, t All tm tm VS, X CAN'T STAND BM AN'SEfeTH1 PORE VARMINT " tMC MS &. JEROKE HEARTj 4V OVER LOWtR VALLEV V.' .-THEIK T KiPfcNEu: tSr OH, THANK Enr ' m . - MODp avmpv tuan ! ANY KID COULD SKENU FOR ! CANDY AN' AVOVIES 4A.44 . i " l sn few . "" 1 " in ' 1 ',, ,f iiiiilm!"' i,,,7-i Liberator has Maneuverability 1 Pursuit Ship Of. McBIinnville Family Moves to Rethel . . . - BETHEL -Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rorex are r new." residents who have recently 'moved - into the Bethel ; neighborhood ' from ' Mc Minnvflle. They are living on the Boles farm, recently occupied by the O. H. Harkreaders. I - They have ' daughter, Mrs. John F. Hardy, woh lives in Sa lem j "a i son, Edward, who is in the navy; and a son Robert, who is through1 high school -helping on the farm and dairy.'-" i . TNAT ROLL IS A AKg YOU'LL tVEAA V. 'I THESE GLASSES ACROSS THE LENS tS A T&ASIZPAREHT FLM WHICH CONTAINS THE? V - M REAL PLANS VSJBLE ONLY UNDEfii ULTRA RAY! ITS TRICK!,., C0W&0N. L- V4WAT IPO WHEN I evr 5 rORTH BQ SMOKIES, U;ea.Y gee. wrm CROP WONT DAKfe EARLY AkJL7 ALREADY - '. X4 HARVESTtP: f AHOV, tji Acnn i too n.MatT-rf- niunwcy TO Vif YOU, MRS. SO I TAKE i UXJKil ALJVnLTr liOTTA WIT1 I- i - I nAM m sr- ta a uevfls. ruu, WJs. r . M ft. K I - a mm m s a r l a a a JSATVAR??j suit ship." It also) holds the record for a transatlantic crossing, folly loaded, of 406) minutes, or less than seven hoars. These are the kind of craft that poured tons upon tons of bombs on Jap Installations and warcraft in Klska barber this week. UN Photo. r . swy c Moaaiiiii in h ' There Is ne personal or bos in ess emergency which we , cannot help yoa meet with a conveniently, speedily arranged loan! Drop Into oar offices for fall details . ' STATE FINAIICE CO. . 212-522 Guardian Bldgw Corner Liberty and State Telephone S16S i C Lie. 8-212 M-222 OF BLUEPRINTS. BECAUSE Jf AW. WHO'S - 7VD. VIOLET i w - - AN OLD SPY JUST IN CASE-i iall tmem: t-INl A PULL ANYTHlM&f THIW& TD TAKE IT EASY, OKAY; MR. VA HEr IS 1- il-ti TAKE CARE OF 1SELF 77: 2 MY SPENOtN' MONEY GEE! " - r . ' . - -1 WAW SAVINGS II CI n STAMPS? Vni I awftrAttJ U;U(4IU7 it r l a A Silver chut! i nunny YAH. RED HAIR MIT CURLS YET UND FAT. HE HAS DER BLUE BRINTS. ANY FEMALE AGENT CAN "TAKE HIM! CONTACT SAN ANTONIO, DOZE BLANS MUST AlEFERi REACH DE COLONEL! rW.KWI"inPM DMVhbr ViOcf THE SAFEST PO I FOWGOT OU HARDLY EVER VJDULDNTV I OUR COUNTRY AT WAR! WHAT SELFISH, WICKED CREATURE: Ty I I V r 6RAWTE TW VARMINT V JWw s i s rx In t. I . .. Jl yV-K fc- 101 vV'",,yt A V Cfi. lXl, Bag toslitr las, tW ttfca sssnwaT LL ft g - i sr I ... ? i ll 1 If O FROM TWL IOC RANGER.4 VE (3 HERE HE'LL SOLVE MYSTERY OF TUE MAWC Or THE TARAKTUL.' ins lciit nAircra