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Ik : GIZGO:? CTATSrilAII, Cdsar Ortcau Yeistsdsy UeaSsy, JI;rl 7 ISI3 Where Tfcy Are What They Are Doing - ; Cpl. - Oren McDowell, Jr, who was ' formerly ' stationed in the coast artillery - anti aircraft ' di vision, is home after seeing active duty in the Hawaiian Islands. He is. visiting In Salem on a 20 day fur lough, with his wife and his par ents,' Mrs. Monroe Cheek, and Oren McDowell, sr. Following" . his -visit, he will go to Camp Haan, Calif- where he will train new recruits. : Pfc. Clarence W. Lynch, of the quartermasters section "7 at Ft. Lewis, spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. Mary M. Lynch and his son Norman in :; West Salem. - Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. E. C Mennis, rente 7, box 129, that their son, Byron, has been promoted from the rank of enslg-n in the naval air corps to llentenant Junior grade. IX Mennis, an instructor at 1 the Jacksonville, Fla air station for over a year, has b e e n transferred to doty with a bombing squadron and Is now said to be stationed ' at - Qoonset Point. KL . Among those recently com missioned second lieutenants In the 'United States marine corps was Gordon G. Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Black, 219 K. Commercial street, Salem. ' The newly commissioned offi cer is now enrolled In reserve LT. BLACK officers school, Qnantieo, Vir ginia, for the second half of .his officer training. - He received his commission after beinx traduated from of ficer candidates' class. Lt. Black, whose home b in Portland, is a rraduate of Ore son State college, where he star red In wrestling for three years, and swimming and rowing for one year. He was graduated from Ore gon State with a BS decree in forestry. . . j Ray Anderson, an engineer in the merchant marine, phoned from New York City Monday night to his sister, Mrs. H. F. Haldeman, 1126 Nebraska street, saying that lie had arrived in the United States again after leaving the country from the . Pacific coast last October. Pfc. Joseph Blasick. armv air corps manr has arrived at Scott Field, 111., for a radio course in we technical training school there. Pfc Blasick is the husband of Mrs. Mae Blasick, 2365 Claude Street, Salem. - . Alfin G. Van Valkenburgh. sta . tioned at March Field. Calif- has been promoted to the grade of tecnmcai corporal. Cpl. Valken burgh is the brother of Mrs. Ken neth Russell of Illihee. ! Hal Cross, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cross of Eueene. who had been at Fort Meade, Md'4 for the past , year -in r personnel work, is home this weekend on a short fur lough before leaving for Vancou ver barracks, where he will be stationed on the personnel staff as an instructor; in field baking for the quartermaster's utility train ing corps. Dean F. Jewell, third class petty officer, , husband of Helen Cross Jewell; formerly of 4 Salem, is in .Eugene this weekend from San Diego before reoortiru? to his shin. ' He was formerly employed at the rannount market before enlisting In the navy, f . ' Russel K. Tomoluns. pharmacist mate 2-C, husband of Arlene Cross Tompkins of Eugene, was trans ferred from Pensacola, Fla, to a minesweeper in the Pacific: He spent a brief furlough in Eugene before reporting to his ship. -. Additional guests at the Cross borne were Miss Doris Kruger of Salem, and Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Cross, and Wendolin.' I Four sons of Mrs. Fabian Nel son, 8S8 Trade street, are serving In army artillery services. They are Sgt Grover Wilson, anti-aircraft; Cpl. John F. Wilson, coast artillery; Cpl. ' William Wilson, anti-aircraft, and Pvt. Fabian Nel son, anti-aircraft. Their names were listed erroneously in an earlier service note. , ABIQUA F. VanDeWeiL who formerly lived here and who re cently has been employed in the Portland shipyards, has joined the navy and now is stationed in Vir ginia. Mrs.' Van DeWeil is the for mer Miss Ruth. Boebert and she j 'Honor lMan' r i -:' -"i - MBBsWssBsMBssOsssBosssssssssWk r ' IsaaBBHsHSBsssssssssMSI Cpl. Walter G. Espliq, (above) ; former Salem policeman, who ' stood second in j his class upon graduation from a marine corps school at Jacksonville, Fla. with her daughter. Joan, will live with her parents the. Lou Rob- ens, nere zor a time. RIVERDALE CpL Alfred J. Zielinski was home on a ten day luriougn. He is j the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Zielinski of Hazel Green. He left for Camp Hood. lexas, Sunday, j SUNNYSIDE -4 Neal Hapfvinm son of Mr. and Mrs. Rov Haee- dorn, of Sunnyside, left for the navy Wednesday J- The Hagedorn family have lived in the Sunnv- side district for about seven years. f ' .- WOODBURN-4Mr. and Mrs William Nelson received a letter recently from their son. Staff Sgt Aicme H. Nelson, announcing hi arrival in Africa. He enlisted in the air corps following the bomb ing of Pearl Harbor. This makes tne third son to eo overseas, on being in New Guinea and anoth er in Trinidad. Nelson reports that the native children1 seem to have been with-1 out candy for about two years. Jt any rate, he said, they are begging it from the soldiers in an effort to make up for lost time. 1XXJHEE Mrs. Kenneth Bassell has received word that her brother, Alvin G. Tan Val kenbnrgh, has been promoted to technical ' corporal in the air force. He is stationed at March Field, Calif. PLEASANTDALE Pvt Alln W. Nichols of the Pleasan Wale dis trict, who has been in artillery training since October 8, 1942, at several posts in California, has ceived an honorable discharge at Pomona and returned to his home here Sunday afternoon. His aunt, Miss Esther Nichols. RN. and hi twin brother. Andrew, met him at Salem. He visited relatives in California en route home. He will resume farming jactivities. Letters from Unionvale men in the service, botei overseas and in training m the United States, were read when "service men's night" was observed by the young people of the Evaneelical church Sunday. The service men's cor ner was decorated with American flags and postoffice. with pieeon holes over which each man's name was posted, was erected so that Christian Endeavor members may consult the holes for letters from their friends. Those whose letters were read were Everett Lien. Or. ville Asher, Delmar Stoutenburg ana two other overseas men: let ters from those training at home, Curtis and Erwin Douglas, James - - Rev. Gerald K. Jaffe lead the religious exercises and special singing followed. SILVERTON Ted Finlay, jr now is at Norman. Okla.. attend ing an aviatiort machinist's school, j parents nave learned. He is not very comblimentat-v i-r ing Oklahoma weather, with dust one week and j deep mud the next. Young Finlay took his preliminary navy training at Farrsgut, Idaho The David jtwihs, as Raymond and Don David were known at Silverton. are! no lonsrer fnspthor Raymond is now at Shepherd Field, Texas, jwith the army avia tion cadets ahd Don is with the army cadets kt Santa Ana, Calif. Rth 117rsl fit i tKa rtnnAM.:4. they were called. Thev are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Victor David of Cow ing Addition) at Silverton. . Mr. David recentljy was honorably dis charged from1 the armv for over. age, and has returned to Silverton. Leslie Ralph Veach. son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Veach. enlist in the navy this week and left for Farragut, Idaho, for preliminary training. j Merl Larson, son of W. C I .ar son of the Brush Creek district, nowsta tioned in Texas, writes that he is enjoying army life. Mrs. Larson has 'gone south- also and now is employed in a. store there. George Hayes, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hayes, is now chief drill Instructor of a training group at the basic training center . at the air corps technical school at Kees- ler Field, Miss. WALDO HILLS Mrs. John Tomminger j has learned that her son-in-law,!; Courtney Sherman, has received bis army orders and will report I to. Virginia. He will h assigned tn the naw construc tion battalion. He has been await- Superintendents r Adopt Blanks For Sclaool Fund . County school superintendenta rrom all sections of Oregon gath ered nere TuesdsT and adopted re. port : blanks required for, the dis tribution of the maximum of $5, 000,000 of state income tax reve nues . under the so-called state school support law of the 1943 leg islature. ...'( r The act provides that the $5, 000,000 ceiling of income tax rev enues shal be distributed among the counties of the state and be used exclusively as an. offset against the school district tax lev ies. -The first apportionment shall be made on warrants drawn by the secretary of state against the state treasurer on or before Octo ber 30 and the second apportion ment on or before April 30. j The county school superinten dents are required to file their re ports showing the total daily pu pil school attendance of their school districts with the state sup erintendent of public instruction prior to June 30 of each year. ! 7 , Rex Putnam, state superin ten- dent of public instruction, presid ed at the meeting of county schoo superintendents. . f " i I The law directing distribution of income tax revenues among -the counties to reduce school district tax levies was approved by the voters at the last general election but later was revamped by the last legislature. The original act provided that all income tax reve nues in evcess of $7,750,000 should be distributed among the school aistricts. County school superintendents at Tuesday's meeting here said the legislative act was satisfactory and would prove a material benefit to the taxpayers of the state's school aistricts. Falls From Fence RIVERDALE Lucille Rogers, me aaugnter of Mrs. Nellie Rog ers, was hurt when she fell off a fence Saturday morning and ras taxen to trie Salem General hos pital. She is in a serious condi tion. She has had crwrsl Mrwr? transfusions. Mr. and Mrs. Onas Olson pur chased the N. A. Kerny place and moved to.it last Saturday and Sunday. Jeffersoniahs at Rite JEFFERSON Relative fr. Jefferson and community who .at tended the memorial services Fri day afternoon at the Fisher Fu neral home in Albany for Edward Zimmerman, 73. of Shedd. who passed away in Eugene March 4 were Charles Zimmerman, Gilbert uiiiiprman, KoDert Ternune. Mr ana Airs. jj. c. Buchner, and-Mrs i-eta 1 nomas. r River Victim Found REEDSPORT. April W coroner Harry Stearns Monday was trying to identify the bodv of a man found floating near the moutn or the Umpqua river yes teraay. He said the man was about five feet six inches tall land wore shoes which were not of army or navy pattern. He esti mated the body had been in the water from four to six weeks. Morrison Moves SILVERTON E. G. Morrison, who recently sold his suburban home at Silverton, Is moving to Camas, Wash, to be employed there In the mill defense pro gram. The home here was sold to the Ben S prick famllv. Mr. Morrison moved the last of his material to Camas Saturday r Legal Notice NOTICE OF STREET VACATION NOTICE is hereby riven that the Common Council of the Citv of Salem, Oregon, by resolution amy and regularly adopted and filed on the 1 5 th day of March. 1943, has declared its intention to vacate, and has initiated proceed ings to vacate that certain alley running in a Northerly and South erly direction through Block 4 of tne Amended Plan of Capital Park Addition to the City of Salem, Marion tounty, Oregon; and Tne ISth day of AoriL 1943. at the hour of 7:30 o'clock P. M, in tne Council Chambers of the City Hall and in the said City of Sa lem, Oregon, have beenf fixed as the .time and place for considera tion of such vacation and for hear ing any objections or - remon strances thereto. Objections, If any, to such vacation, must be filed in writing with the undersigned prior to the time herein fixed for hearing the same. i. ALFRED MUNDT, City Recorder j : City of Salem, Oregon M17-24-31-A7-14. 'erniits Are Problem I ; PORTLAND. April e-GFV-Port- land's : meat problem was . com plicated Tuesday by failure .of farm slaughterers hold feder al permits to the discomfort I of wholesalers. Wholesalers v said they are. taking; meat offered by permit-less farmers ; rather than let the meat spoiL ing his call since he was sworn in five mouths ago. 1 LINCOLN Mr. and Mrs. L.1 L Mickey . have . received a cable- gram from their son, Robert Mick ey, saying briefly: "Arrived over seas safely, all welL all safe all my love First Lady Visits Wounded Wounded men who served with the Seattle naval hospital as they Roosevelt, wife of the president. The mea were, wounded ta the battles on Guadalcanal in the Solomons." Left to right, they, are: Corporal James Strosier, Private First Class Donald Daniels' and Sergeant L..J. Lang. ITN Photo. Around Oregon " ' By The Asocited Preas The fOPA warned at Portland that butchers would have to re duce price on meats and fats if they desired to lower point values. . . . Baker civilian defense crews were tested in the largest simu lated attack staged in that eastern Oregon City. ... Cmdr. W. R. Brust of the Coos bay navy sec tion base said hope for the recov ery of the bodies of seven men still missing after a minesweeper capsizing Feb. 20 has faded but beach patrols are being contin ued. ... Assistant US Attorney ' Mason Dillard . filed . a motion in federal court at Portland for dismissal of an. injunction action against the wartime civil control administra tion instituted by Henry L. Beach, who charged he was threatened with expulsion from the western defense zone. . . . Baker Fire Chief Karg called for women to start training as volunteer city firemen . . . George Hill, Jr., 8, struck by a truck near his Vanport home Monday, died in a Portland hos pitaL . . . The Coos county repub lican central committee said it would support Dr. Aalph T. Mil ne, Coquille, as successor to Coun ty Judge E. L. Peterson. .-. i uregon snipDuuoing corpora tion's scheduled launching of the Liberty freighter Henry Failing was postponed one day. until Wednesday. University of Oregon held its army day observance with a goodbye rally for 200 students leaving Wednesday to join the armed forces. . . . President A. L. Powers of the Oregon Bankers' as sociation, urged all bankers in the state to boost the sale of war bonds during the second war loan drive starting April 12. I The state salvage committee said 485 tons of tin cans shipped from Ore gon in the last four months would uicoii ozt,auu pounas 01 copper M . OA A r AA and 9,700 pounds of tin for the war effort . . . Umatilla countv. once noted for its virility a&. a western frontier area, came to a circuit court session without a case on the docket Salmon Pack To Be Larger PORTLAND, April dPV-The 1943 slamon pack will be in creased over last year by about 200,000 cases because of a new program of concentrating the in dustry, the Oregon office of war information said Tuesday it had been informed by Fisheries Co ordinator Harold Ickes. i Ickes estimated the pack would total 5,500,000 cases and that transportation and equipment needs of the industry would be adequate. Canning will be done this year by 74 of the most mod ern plants instead of . 120 as last yea'. - . w- ' .- ' Dam Site Surveyed i PORTLAND, Ore., April 5 -VP) US army engineers have begun surveys on a projected interior department . dam.,, project near Newport, Wash., to boost the cat pacity of hydro-electric plants in the Pacific northwest the Bonne ville power administration said Monday. Too Late to Classify GARDEN HOSE- snrinkW. half In. pipe. S bladed axe. wedges, laundry rack. x!2 fiigelow rug and pad. Mod el A rear end and other parts. Call evening, sow. C33 N. Front. quipment...;. la evory department iioia flows blander to delivery trucks, only Modern. Sanitary auipment is ., used . in producina Master Bread. - - 7 AT YOUn GROCER'S v. James Roosevelt ' are pictured In received a visit from Mrs. Eleanor Elden Spragues Move East of Woodburn HAZEL GREEN Mr. and Mrs. Elden Sprague and children mov ed Saturday from the Frank Zie linski house to the Joe Schaffer place four miles east of Woodburn. The six children will now attend the Grassespond school. Mrs. Ellen Van Cleave, who has been ill for the last two weeks, is improving. - Mrs. "Joe Henry and infant son of Brooks, stayed at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C A. Zielinski, for several days after leaving the Deaconess hospital. The baby was born March 20 and named Charles Joseph. Baker. Receives Award - SUNNYSIDE Mrs. Lafe Sher wood la Showing Signs of im provement She has been in the Deaconess hospital for about ten days. R. E. Baker of Sunnyside re ceived $40 from the Gilmore ra dio program "Furlough Fun", for an, exceptionally -. old -: hand corn planter. . ,. ... . - !. " . "xv - 7 !" . . ? ! .:..?::..:.::......:. : .. , . i :. ... . - ;-'! - .. f . .-.i- . 1 .. . . I Salem ; High , ASB Election Candidates Named Vi Twenty eight juniors and two sophomore will vie for the eleven student body offices at Sal em' sen ior ; high school Friday, morning as a result of nominations .made before an all-school assembly Tuesday.-. 'v'-i, -V-:.-- Speeches by the candidates are scheduled for, . Thursday . morning at. 10 o'clock with balloting slated Friday. -Results of the election will then be concealed until the ASB dance Friday night t- Nominees Tuesday Include: President, Bill Reinhart, Travis cross, Jim Phillips. Vice ; president Nancy . Mont gomery, Joan Remington, r Secretary, Martha Weller, Rose mary Gaiser, Jean Seichrist, Ger trude Meier. Clarion editor,, Ruth Anderson, oary .marker. -Clarion manager, Ellis TeeL -Annual editor, Pat Schneider. - Annual manager, Irving Stein- bock. ' -.,;.,;;;7. ... ; Sergeajit-at-arms, Stuart Comp ton, David Getzendaner, Dan Fry, Howard lwood. v - - - Forensic manager. Bob Zeller, Bob Busick, Bill Juza, Richard Page. ! Song queen, Joy Randall, Donna Unruh, . Corinne : : Wade, June Young, Mary Ann Brady, Norma Jean Newgent Yell king, Newell Williams, Bob bKOpiI. ' First Snake Reported BKUSH CHEEK That spring is actually here was reported this week when a large snake, measuring almost two feet was spotted lying lazily in the grass. This is the first snake reported seen In this community this sea son, bat a number of hamming birds are reported. Hop Work Starts BSUSH CREEK Hop mea in the district are boar now do ing the early spring- work in the hop yards. Hoeing especially Is going ahead this week. ' 1 1 Dairymea are reporting that ( Brass Is finally . growing. Pas-. tare . growths have been ' very -slow this season. It is said. " ... . . vhat ,- : :'::-:.:-:::::::;.:::;':'- TTar Chest Units v f PlanjState Group . - War chest' representatives from all parts of. the state met to Port land Mondaj if or the purpose i of planning for a-ratate organization of war fund agencies. Salem rep resentatives 1 who ; attended were T. M. Hicks, president of the Sa lem United War Chest; H. L. Bra den,! executive secretary; Jesse Gard, director; and C. A. KeUs, campaign manager. Inj response to national pressure suggesting that a state or group bo organized, either by local agencies autonomously or by a national ag ency holding full contro 1the group decided ta ask ' Gov. Earl Snell to call another meeting : in order tp formulate a corporation which could centralize all Oregon war fund drives. -Frank Lonergan was appointed chairman of a com mittee commissioned to draft doc uments necessary' for 'incorpora tion!. Jesse Gard Heads a commit tee to jrooperate with the gover nor in planning the next meeting. Shingling Plan j WEST SALEM Bert Crumm, 1081 Sixth street, was granted a permit j to shingle a house at an estimated cost of $100. He was also granted a permit to shingle a house at 1079 Sixth street at a cost of $100.' - ! Jap CBapimnlbg riff This is No. three In series of five daily articles on the bombs now in actual Um by our enemies, and th way to handle them. The Oregon state defense! .council emphasizes the (act that there is no assurance that some other type of bomb may not be used In any I attacks made on the - Pacific coast but those pictured and described in this series are the-most recent types used by the Japs on other fronts. 1 - 50 Kilo Incendiary Aiul Explosive This bomb weighing 110 pounds is approximately . 30 inches ; in length including tail and is 8 inches in diameter. On .impact it throws out 60 email metal con tainers with thermit, filling and winning more mokors with MILDER BETTER In thousands more EVERY DAY you will find the cigarette that is giving smokers they want.' Chesterfield's Real Mildness and Better Taste could come only from Chesterfield's right combination of the world's best cigarette tobaccos. It's a Com"' binatioit that Can't Be Beaten. : n Amos Better ; " SILVERTON C. C. Amos, cn of the building custodians for the school district, is reported as im proving at the Silverton hospital, where he has been this past week following a fall from a ladder when he was employed in repair ing a leak in the roof of the Eu gene Field school.. He is' past 70 year of and while no bones were broken, he was.a badly bruised. ' " !'. Toledo Folk Visit McALPIN Mr. and Mrs. Pus- sell Gray of Toledo (were week end guests at the O. W. Humph reys home. Russell returned home t Sunday night . but !Mrs. Gray ! (Thelma Humphreys) - remained to visit with her parents and other relatives for a week. i. Sunday dinner guests of the Theodore Fishers were Ida Sand- ner, John Sandner and Andrew Fisher- ;-'"7 ' ' -. ' Union Hill Has Visitors UNION HILL Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Scott and family. on Sunday were Mrs. Harley Johnston and Walter, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Downer and small daughter, all of Mehama. 7 Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Trasp and daughter, Jeanne, of Hillsboro were Sunday guests of Mr. and. Mrs. Verny Scott and family, j 1 six larger tumbler-shaped fire pots containing . magnesium type filler'" which is pre-ignited. Al most Immediately after ejecting the ' incendiary units,; a 12-pound charge of high explosive in the nise of the bomb is detonated, ' . The purpose of this bomb is clear. First to scatter a large number of ' units consisting ' of magnesium ahd thermit capable of starting fires which" will be fol lowed immediately by the explo- , sion of 12 pounds of TNT which will cretate a considerable amount of inflammable debris to provide fuel to feed the burning incenf-: daries. Water and lots of it, un der pressure will be needed to combat this , type of ammunition. and mora thoir TASTE pockets Chesterfield OSKWWW. uMnVMMAyv o 777 'TP- LU'lJs'J'.