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Grange Hears
Crop Reports
Committees Discuss -Problems
; Junior
Grange Instigated'
i ANKENY Ankeny grange met
Saturday night to hold memorial
cervices for T. B. Simpson, who
passed away since the last meet
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. Reports, were heard from com
: mitteemen, Jake Gilmour speaking
on agriculture, said the farmers
were taking advantage of the sea
sonable weather and doing de
layed plowing. Mint and hop grow
ers were cleaning up from the late
.floods, the former are putting out
mint, while the hop men are find
ing iVa very difficult job to re
'place poles and wire. Bean grow
ers are in the same position. Scar
city of labor and high: wages are
creating part of the problem.
Mrs. Leone Henderson reported
on the national. farm hour broad-
. cast from St. Louis, Mo. Senators
speaking on this program dis-
cussed the black meat market.
Rex Hartley, speaking for leg
islature, touched briefly upon the
state session but gave a very thor
ough explanation of the activities
of the ODT committee of which
he is a member, explaining short
age of rubber and farming equip
ment which are vital for future
production.
Mrs. George Marlatt reported
for the home economics commit-
... tee. She announced she would call
. a meeting of the neighborhood
' leaders soon to make plans for
first aid supplies to be placed in
the hall in case of , emergency
: needs. Mr. and Mrs. Rex: Hartley
comprise the refreshment commit
tee for March. ;
" Lecturer, Mrs. Leone Henderson,
conducted the following program:
' Roll call; items of "things you
should know," read by members;
. poem by . Dale Gilmour; reading
by Florence Marlatt; quiz game,
Mrs. J. O. Farr.
Only one meeting will be held
a month until further notice, it
being the first Saturday of the
month. Next meeting will be on
March 6.
Mrs. Marlatt was appointed to
formulate plans for a juvenile
grange or club to meet at the hall
. the same night as grange meetings.
Lunch followed closing of the
grange.
Out-of-State
Guests Visit
JEFFERSON Mr. and Mrs. S.
H. Goin left for Portland Monday,
where Mr. Goin will serve on the
federal grand jury this ireek. Mrs.
Goin will visit her daughter, Mrs.
Carl Livingston, and .family.
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Preddy ar
rived Sunday from Duncan, Okla-,
for a visit at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Brown and family
Mrs. Preddy is a sister of Mr.
Brown. ' -"
Mr. and Mrs. -Charles Duncan
and daughter. Vera, have moved
from Cottage Grove into Delbert
Murphy's house on Second street.
Duncan is 'employed in Portland.
Mrs. Claude Armstrong of Liv
ingston, ,Mont., arrived Sunday
for a visit at the home of her
brothers, Harold and "Elmer
Knight, and families.
Mrs. Georgia Whitman, who is
employed at Camp Adair, is con
fined to her home with a bad case
of poison oak. Mrs. Whitman , re
ceived word from her husband,
John Holly Whitman, who is in
the navy, that he has gone over
. seas. He had been stationed at
Farragut, Idaho, and came to San
Francisco and to Portland, where
Mrs. Whitman visited her hus
band. Roosevelt to Talk
'For Red Cross
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23-P)
, President Roosevelt will partici
pate in a radio program Sunday
afternoon inaugurating the spring
drive for funds of 4 the American
Red Cross. ''
rThe White House? announced he
would deliver a short address dur
ing, the program, which is sched
uled from 1:15 to 1:30 p. m. Pa
cific war time. ' ,
Fresh Vegetable
Prices Checked
; PORTLAND, Feb. rSHHPA
enforcement investigators began
checking retail prices Tuesday of
five fresh vegetables placed un
der emergency price ceilings for
"60 days.
. , ' T. W. Veness, OPA district at
torney, warned -that prices on to
matoes, .green and waxed snap
beans, carrots, cabbage and peas
could not be more than charged
between February s 18-22. ; '
Meat Shop Enjoined
PORTLAND, Feb. 23-4VFed-eral
Judge Claude McColloch or
dered the Newberg meat market
of Portland to adhere . to price
ceiling regulations Tuesday. An
injunction was Issued, on request
of OPA officials, who charged the
market was ignoring ceiling prices.
Field Heads Change
PENDLETON, Feb. 23-P)-Col.
Haynie McCormick, -a veteran f
the army balloon service, Tues
day became commanding officer
of the Pendleton air field, suc
ceeding CoL Lyman L. Phillips.
Col. Phillips I remaining mm m i
service squadron commander.
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Where They Are What They Are Doing
FORT MONMOUTH, NJ Sec
ond Lt. Rupert Park was a gradu
ate of the officer candidate, depart
ment of the eastern signal corps
school, Fort Monmouth, NJ. He
was commissioned a second lieu
tenant in the US arm on Febru
ary 19 and assigned to duty with
the signal corps. Lt Park was a
former resident of 691 Union
street, Salem, Ore. He is the son
of Mrs. Lenore Park.
' Glen V. Allen, Salem officer
' on duty at Fort Lawton, Seattle,
Wash has been promoted to the
rank, of captain. It , was an
nounced Tuesday by CoL Harry
L. Branson, post commander.
Capt. Allen has been on active
duty since December, 1941, and
has been at Fort Lawton for the
past 14 months. Prior to his call
to service he was with the Pacific
Fruit and Produce company.'
He is the son-in-law of Mrs.
Warren Richardson of Salem.
LL! Roger Cochran, from Rapid
City, : and Mrs. Cochran arrived
unexpectedly in Salem over the
weekend to visit th young flying
officer's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clay i C Cochran. They were
guests of the chamber, of com
merce, of which the senior Coch
ran is manager, at noon Monday.
LEBANON Law rence
Schmidt passed all of the tests
given upon induction into the
army air force so creditably that
his commanding officer wrote to
his father, Nick Schmidt, con
gratulating him upon having a
son who conld pass both physical
and mental tests so successfully.
Lawrence is now in the junior
college in Santa Ana, Calif., tak
ing the training for a pilot. He
was ; given his choice of which
position he would train for' be
cause of his record. When he
tried out for the pilot's work he
made a perfect score, nine points.
In the tests for bombardier and
navigator he made eight out of a
possible nine points.
In the altitude test he went to
18,000 feet before he had to put
on his mask though most pilots
expect to need masks at 10,000
feet One other trainee went ,.to
18,000 feet without a mask but
he was blue by the time that
altitude was reached and as it had
not troubled Lawrence he made
the record. Lawrence enlisted
last June but was not called until
January.
PORTLAND, Feb. 23-(PV-Navv
enlistments announced Tuesdav
included Gilbert E. Hoffer. Mt
Angel, Maynard C. D r a w s o n ,
Frederich W. Pfenning, Salem.
Raymond Le Doux. son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. A. Le Doux, Mt. An
gel, has been transferred from the
army replacement center. Kelly
Field, Tex., to Corsicana Field,
Tex, where he will receive pri
mary flight training.
Enrolled in the naval training
school for e 1 e c t r i cians at th
University of Minnesota at Min
neapolis, Minn., is George Corne
lius Wolf, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Wolf, route seven, box 255,
Salem. .
Pvt. Donald P. Wegner, a Salem
high school graduate, has reported
at San Francisco, Calif., for army
air cadet training. He will be sta
tioned at Santa Ana, Calif. Pvt
Wenger, who studied at Willam
ette university for two years, en
listed last May on the 25th anni
versary of his father's enlistment
during the first World war.
Norman Scott, yeoman second
class, is attending a navy school at
Williamsburg, Va., from which he
expects to go over seas. Scott, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scott,
1625 Court street, is a graduate of
Salem high school and the Uni
versity of Oregon. Before enlist
ing, Scot t was employed on the
Mem
advertising staff of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. Among : his rel
atives are 14 cousins in the Brit
fish army or navy. A brother-in-law
is a US navy medical officer.
Lloyd G. Logan, stationed In
the 43rd general hospital at
Camp Livingston, Ll, haa been
promoted to 'private first class,
according to information receiv
ed by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Logan, 239 South Cot
tare street. Pfe. Logan, former
ly a wood dealer, was inducted
into the army on August 4, 1942.
Darwirt-Shinn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Shinn of 704 North
Cottage, left this week for Santa
Ana, Calif., for the army air corps
Prior to enlisting in August, he
was employed at Boeing Aircraft
in Seattle. His wife, the former
Shirley Turner of Eugene, : will
follow him later. j
JEFFERSON James Wilier,
who passed his final examination
last week, left Wednesday morn
ing for Fort Lewis for training.
MARION Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Wilson received a telegram Fri
day night from their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Bonman, stating that they were
being transferred from his station
at Cheyenne, Wyo., to Vancouver,
Wash. Bonman has been taking
officers training at Cheyenne.
Mr. and Mrs. George McCay
have received word indirectly
that their son, Sgt. George Mc
Cay is in North Africa. He Js a
mechanic with a bombing squad.
Northwest Lumber
Importance in i
War to Be Told
The importance of lumber from,
the forests of the Pacific north
west to the American armies
fighting abroad will be carried
into the logging camps during
the next two weeks by three
army officers fresh from the
fighting fronts.
Lt CoL Charles W. Kerwood,
World war I flier, will be in
charge, accompanied , by Maj.
William James Daley and Lt. Ed
win Dale Taylor, both with 22
months of combat service with
the RAF where they flew planes
built of wood from Pacific coast,
recently transferred to the US
army air force.
The army plans to hold meet
ings in logging camps and near
by towns. These meetings, which
are being arranged through the
labor unions, will be open to the
loggers, their families and the
general public, and will be the
opening with the cooperation of
management, of an informational
campaign to bring home to the
men in the lumber industry the
vital importance of the lumber
production in the successful pros
ecution of the war.
Meetings already arranged in
clude: March 8 Lebanon; Lyons and
Sweet Home participating, 8
p. m.
March 12 Willamina, 8 p. m.
Thomas Beecham
Marries Pianist
NEW YORK, Feb. 23-iP)-Sir
Thomas Beecham, famous British
conductor of symphony orches
tras, has married Betty Humby,
English pianist who has appeared
with him in concerts in London,
the United States and Canadian
cities, it was disclosed Tuesday.
Hans W. Heinsheimer, the con
ductor's agent said that Sir Thom
as is 63 and his bride is 34-. Both
have been married previously.
Miss Humby has an 11-year-old
son in a Massachusetts school,
Heinsheimer said. No details of
the wedding were announced.
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Master Sgt Bose, an artillery dog,
poses with CpL James Cnnning-
ham after winning the title of
champion service mascot of the
Pacific northwest Bos is
- brown dog who has served with
an artillery battery for 12 years.
Bom wears a real sweaterwlth
his sergeant's chevrons on one
. shoulder. The contest was open
to northwest service men's pets,
which included dogs, bears, cats,
parrots, monkeys3 and goats.
Runnernp -was "Dutchess," a
sailor's goat The contest was
berun by Royal Brougham,
sports editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer-UN
Photo.
Minesweeper
Total Loss'
MARSHFI ELD, Ore., Feb. 23
(vP)-Cmdr. W. R. Brust, com
mandant at the navy base at Coos
Bay, said Tuesday night he con
sidered the lost minesweeper
YMS133 beyond salvage.
The craft which went down with
a.i apparent loss of 13 men Sat
urday night washed ashore later
but took a heavy buffeting from
the surf and seemed to be sink
ing in the sands Tuesday.
Brust said he did not think her
smashed hull contained any bodies
of the missing.
Kaiser Ship Experts
Aid Eastern Yards
PORTLAND, Feb 2$-JF)-An-other
Kaiser shipbuilding expert
Joe Grimes, Swan island yards
fabrication superintendent, has
been called east to aid in reorgan
izing the Rheems Manufacturing
yards at Providence, RI.
Edgar F. Kaiser, former head
of Kaiser yards here, already is
working in the Providence yards.
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UM LETTEES
George Davis Appointed Mead
Of County tizens' Corps ;
; Appointment of. George W. "Jud" Davis as director of
the US Citizens Service corps in Marion county was announced
Tuesday night by Bryan H. Conley, county civilian defense
coordinator. .
- . Davis, who is with Credit bureaus and is secretary of the
Salem junior chamber of ' com'
merce, thus becomes director of
the neighborhood block leaders
organization, defense housing,
salvage, . cultural resources, war
savings, consumer interests
(rationing), transportation, . agri
culture (victory' gardens) , educa
tion, J labor supply and training,
health, public welfare (child wel
fare), recreationr nutrition and
physical fitness programs, most
of , which are r already organized
and functioning in the county.
First on his program of activi
ties, Davis said Tuesday ' night
would be the problems of provid
ing encouragement and assistance
in the victory gardening program.
In Salem, he said, an excellent
impetus had been given by the
contest sponsored jointly by the
Salem Men's - Garden club and
The Oregon Statesman. . - -
' No organized and working unit
Is to be disturbed, both Conley
and Davis emphasized, explaining
that the director is to serve in a
unifying - capacity, providing co
operation between groups when
ever' possible.
Probability that an informa
tion bureau to assist in this co
operation was talked by E. 1
Crawford commander of the citi
zens defense corps and Davis.
With Miss Hazel Harper, who
heads the neighborhood block
leaders' organization in the coun
ty, Davis went over plans for es
tablishment of a chain telephone
system,- by which some of the cur
rent need for rooms for service
men might be met in short order;
once again, it was explained that
the information gathered is to be
presented through the agency al
ready established by the USO and
Hostess league.
Portland Machinist
Honored for Idea
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23-(yP)
The war production board Tues
day honored William Sweeney,
former truck driver now operat
ing a machine at the Willamette
Hyster company in Portland, for
"a unique and effective applica
tion of a die head to a threading
operation."
The' board explained in the ci
tation that Sweeney's suggestion
saves 10.08Q minutes (168 hours
of machine time) on every 2100
threading operations.
ALL OVER THE WORLD
America's 900,000 aviation workers
combine their skill and experience to satisfy today's
demand for vital war necessities. Thanlcs to our air
plane makers, ground crews and pilots like Capf.
Haakon Gulbransen (shown here), of Pan American
Airways, needed supplies ore flown to our fighting
men all over the world.
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Kurth Calls
Executive Meet,
Labish Center :
LABISH CENTER Nathan
Kurth, superintendent of the Sun
day school, has called an executive
meeting to be held Thursday night
at the W. F. Klarhpe home after
prayer meeting.
Mrs, Horace : Bibby entertained
the Ladies' Aid society Wednesday.
Members worked on a quilt for
the, Red Cross. . .
Choir practice has been can
celled this week because -of the
interference of rationing.
Weekend guests at the Nathan
Kurth home were Mrs. Kurth's
sister, Mrs. Ernest Nichols, and
children, Dick and Mary Ann of
Portland.
Miss Doris and Miss Donna
Lovre spent the weekend in Sa
lem with their aunt.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Weinman,
Miss Connie Weinman and Mrs.
Clyde Leedy went to Portland Sat
urday to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. W,
McFadden, who remain in a hos
pital there.
Saturday the Clemens moving
outfit moved the Arthur Rasmus
sen house purchased in Keizer.
The Rasmussens bought a tract
of land from Mr. and Mrs. Coch
ran on which they moved the
house. Fred Pugh of Salem worked
several days helping prepare the
farms and make the new founda
tion. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Aker were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Cole In Gaston Sunday.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Starker Thursday were the T. J.
Starkers and Miss Jean Starker
of Corvallis. They were en route
to Portland with their son, Bruce,
who left last Thursday for Con
necticut where he will enter of
ficers training school.
Dinner guests at the W. R.
Daugherty home Sunday were Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Dunsmoor of Port
land, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Neu
bauer of Seattle, Archie Dunsmoor
of Monmouth and Mr. and Mrs. E.
M. Boies and Patsy Kay.
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"Fair Clare Congresswoman Lace
- Is pictured in .this Seandpboto
. as she emphatically Impressed
: upon the house foreign affairs
committee that complete free
dom of the air, or an "open sky
policy as defined by Great Brit
ain, would be dangerous - mili
tarily and economically. The
Connecticut r e p r e sentative's
freshman speech as delegate
from Fairfield county pleaded
that the United States give im
mediate attention to . postwar
aviation to the end that the gov
ernment would control Its skies
and airports. Challenging her.
Democratic Congressman J. Wil
liam Fulbright, a Rhodes scholar
of '37, deciaired she advocated
a "policy of grab" and asserted
there should be no greater air
control than there presently is
"port control under our policy
of freedom of the seas. . He
referred humorously to Clare
Booth. Luce's term "globaloney
(having reference to Vice Presi
dent Wallace's global thinking)
- as a "gallery convulsing word.
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Jury Probe Dropped
PORTLAND, Feb. 23-CT-Dis-trict
Attorney James R. Bain said
Tuesday a Mulnomah county
grand jury investigation of the
sinking of the tugboat May wpuld
be abandoned in order to v avoid
conflict with federal charges of
negligence against the tugboat's
owner and pilot. The May sank in
the Columbia river .February 10
while ferrying shipyard workers
to Vancouver. Nine lives were
lost
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Sheepmenl Tell
Heavy Losses,
Lebanon Area
LEBANON Sheepmen in
this part of the valley have been
suffering tremendous losses. A
resident having one of the lar
ger bands of sheep Is said U
have had 400 die this winter.
Another saya that out of 18S
y sheep he now has only 80. In
one pasture SO dead sheep were
counted by a local business man
who drove past the place. Many
ranchers ; with smaller bands
suffered proportionate losses.
Many feared that it might in
dicate some ' disease was getting
started among the animals in this
state which' might make sheep-
raising here unprofitable. But
those who have given the situa
tion a good deal of. study feel that
there is no cause for alarm, that
the death of these sheep has been
due to a combination of unfortu
nate conditions.
In the fall there was no early
rain to start the grass and assure
winter pasture. Then after a long
rainy spell, the snow made dry
feeding necessary and the sheep
weighted by their heavy fleeces
often fell in the wet snow and
could not get up. :
In this country sheep do not
prosper on dry feed. Moreover
most sheep men do not put in
enough feed to be sure that they
can carry their bands over a very
long period. ,
A few farmers who had suffi
cient shed room to protect small
bands of sheep and who fed very
well and gave the animals a great
deal of care, report that they did .
not lost any, which bears out the
idea that the heavy loss has been ,
due not to any epidemic en
tirely to outside conditions.
Arraignment
Friday, Albany
S ALBANY. Fe b . 23 - UP -Ar
raignment of Robert E. Lee Folkes,
20, Los Angeles dining car cook,
on an indictment charging first
degree murder was set Tuesday .
for Friday by District Attorney
Harlow L. Weinrick. V
' Folkes is accused of knifing to
death Mrs. Martha Virginia James
as she lay in lower 13 aboard a
train en route to California
through Oregon the morning of
January 23. ; -
Folkes was arrested in Los An
geles and, according to Weinrick,
confessed verbally. .
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