The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, June 25, 1944, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGS crx JhM OSEGON STATESMAN. Solan. Oregon Sunday Mornings Jun 25. 1944 r Children Enjoy Various Play Opportunities at Playgrounds When the city fathers doubled the Salem playground budget, . seven neighborhood"playgrounds were made possible for younger children in. addition! to the two with swimming pool facilities at dinger and Leslie. Pictures on this page typify the work of seven neighborhood playground instructors who daily oversee the re creational activities of Salem's junior citizens. Playgrounds open t 9 o'clock and before the doors are closed as many as 60 boys and girls have participated in the va rious programs. Many interesting projects have been begun by the industrious youngsters. AU sorts of work are on display, including paper furniture, chains, bracelets, kits and in one instance a whole circus. . ; j'i . Clay modeling is by far the most popular feature. Everything from two-color tom-toms to kangaroos (complete with pocket and little one) are among the clay exhibits. Weaving is another, popular activ ity which draws many to the play grounds.' v ' ' P A number 'of Hovelty activities are also embarked upon In the in dividual 'classroom.'. Over Engle wood way, Mrs. Gordon Black plans to help the children in plant ing a sxiiall garden; a kite tourna ment Is slated for Richmond; all types of musical games are the feature at Grant; Washington of fers inside basketball hoops in ad dition to .a wide variety of water color painting; McKinley, Bush and Highland all swing in with plenty of added attractions. Physical Education Director Bob Metzger ' of Parrish Junior high travels to the playgrounds daily to organize participant sports. The play parks are open every day ex cept Saturday and Sunday. : The playground personnel in cludes, t'JSnglewood, . Mrs. Gordon Black; (pictured telling a- group of eager, listners something about the Papa, Rabbit); Highland,, Bessie Shinn Grant, Mrs..CUfton Mudd; Richmond), Mrs. Fok; Bush, Mrs. Lillie. Shipler; Mc'Kinley, Mrs. C. Beaver Boys State Draws 35 Local Boys A delegation of 35 boys will leave Salem this noon for Corval lis where they will represent Sa lem in a one-week conference of Beaver Boys State on the Oregon State college campus. The boys are sponsored by Sa lem merchants while details and arrangements have been handled by the American Legion, Capitol Post rid . -: ' - . '. Boys who will depart from the State library this noon for Corval lis are: William L. Ready; David Turnbull; Virgil Beal; Richard F. Dennis; Phillip A. Janz; Samuel J. Barker; Bennett T. Nelson; Don E. Clarki Clifford R. Girod; Her bert W. Bladorn; Blair D. McCabe; Dalton L. Hobbs; Richard D. Bar ber; Solon P. Shinkle; Warren L. Bacon; Howard T. Beugli; Jack C. Lee; Beldon Owens, Jr; Gene Car ver; Bruce Harbaugh; Tom Wrist on; Robert Elfstrom; Bill A. Hock; Robert E. Cooley; Wayne Brad ford; Bob Wagers; Don Jones; Leonard J. Cooney; Elmer L Kleinke; John H. McConville, Jr.; Eldon F,,Caleyf Bruce K. Boat man; Donald Steinke; Deral Jones; John Stevenson, i Lumbermen Seek New Uses For WasteForest Products By JOHN DE LONG NEW YORK, June 24.-A waste sawdust and slab piles products has been started in a Industrie's near the top in highly Inline with such a program, the Douglas Fir Plywood asso ciation has just 'announced establishment of a new research foun dation with a laboratory at Taco ma. Wash, for development of 'saleable. items from small trees or from logging and mill wastes. W. E. Difford, managing direc tor of the association, said initial cost of the new laboratory will be $100,000. It will be used in un covering forest products "separate and apart from lumber, plywood and pulp" and in the perfection of marketable products and the means of manufacturing them. . The closely knit group, operat ing 30 factories and , accounting for the 'bulk of the nation's $75, 000,000"" yearly plywood output, now owts and controls well in ex cess of 10 billion feet of standing timber, whereas before 1939 their holdings' were , neglfgible, Difford reported" " ' ' . Ther decision to underwrite the scientific search, for additional Activity at Playgrounds ) I- E. Denhem; Washington, Margaret F. Waite. All come under the di rection of.Gurnee Flesher who is the authorized supervisor for the public schools and the city coun ciL " !' Housewives Predominate Jury Drawing ! Housewives predominate on the jury- drawn Friday for the July j term of circuit court in Marion county with 16 of the 31 listed un der that classification. j In the majority group are Clara E. Feller, Donald; Vida E. Bowers, Salem No., 5; Sylvia JT. j Knox, Hayesvxille; Mary B. rady, En- glewood; Louise H. Johnston, Sid ney; Mildred E. White, Salem No. 23; Althea M. Presnall, Salem No. 14; Clara C. Durbin, Salem No. 2; Zoe K. Chesnut, Breitenbush; Nettie M. Cusiter, West Silverton; Nancy E. Skewis, Salem No. 19; Lucille C. : Lewis, Salem No. 17; Verona A. Myers, Salem No. 1; Louise M. Hager, East Salem; Pearl Holthouse, Mill City and Golda Benner, Englewood. There are four farmers, Bert ButterfieklScollard; Grant: Teter, Rosedale; William H. Barber, Sa lem No. 8, and Thomas J. Neelon, Liberty. IWtired men on the list are William H. Barrett, West Hub bard and Charles W. Sawyer, Sa lem Heights; merchants, Wilber Lesley, Staytott, and George P. Manolis, West Silverton; grocer, William J. . LaRoche, Salem No. 17; apartment ' house operator, Z. Edward DuBois, Salem No. 15; in suranceman, Charles H. Huggins; laborer, Fred Baker, East Silver ton; correspondent,' Ralph Miller, Salem No. 21, instructor, Theodore C. Mountain, Aumsville, and ac countant, Chester G. Zumwalt, Salem No. 8. Snell Gills Attention i To Swim-Health Week Gov. Earl Snell Saturday called attention to national "Swim and Health week," June 28 to July 1. Emphasis will be placed upon "learn to swim" ; campaigns and further popularizing this healthful activity. Snell particularly! men tioned Oregon's ' Cody kids and their national swimming records. NEW YORK-(P)-A nurse who recently had her marriage annull ed received a package from her former,husband today, took it to the district attorney's office and said: . J ; A . "I'm afraid this is a bomb." Bomb squad experts gingerly unwrapped it and found that the former spouse had returned 200 love letters, neatly tied in rib bon. - " - : long range program to convert into a variety of money making move to keep wood processing competitive postwar markets. wood products did not arise from any fear Of exhaustion of timber supplies. The cut j from forests now . owned by association mem bers will this year produce more than 60 percent of ; the "peeler" logs required to produce the est! mated 1,500,000,000 square feet of plywood.- More than half of the cut will be in small logs not suit able for conversion into plywood, which will be sold to lumber mills or exchanged for logs Jto meet re maining needs of the association's plywood factories. Wood ' experts say the problem of waste, which in the past has been a headache and expense to all branches of the Industry, may turn into a profitable major activ ity in which all divisions of the lumber p r.o d u c t s industry wfl. take part AgjOfficials To Study Fruit Moth on First-hand Information on the Oriental Fruit Moth situation in California will be sought by rep resentatives "of the I Oregon ag ricultural department i and state college! experiment Station, , who leaave Sunday for a 10-daya trip to study survey methods, control and the. parasite rearing -Jro- gram. S ::: i"-:. Agricultural department officials selected for the trip are -Frank McKennon, chief of the plant in dustry I division ancrr Ji S. Wei- man, Portland, bureau Of nursery services. Dr.; Don C Mote, Cor- vallis ;. will represent; the .ecpier meht station, .-4 tf - The three men will ;attehd a meeting of the -American Associa tion of j entomologists at Berkeley on;Jun 27 and 28. ? O. K. Beals, chief of the foods and daires division,; state agri cultural department,' and J. Di Patterson, chief , chemist,' also will leave Sunday for; Berkeley to attend the annual Pacific Insecti cide Institute. 1 Portland Schedules July 4 Bond Show PORTLAND, June 24 -(JP)- An Independence day show, to-be held at Multnomah stadium with a war "bond as admission price, will feature Eddie Cantor.radio and screen actor, and members of his radio program, f ; Nora Lou Martin, former Port land girl, and Bert Gordon, who plays the "Mad Russian" on Can tor's -radio broadcast, will also appear fat 'the war bond show. sponsored by Portland's Retail Trade bureau, radio stations, and theatre operators. Attention All I Hard of Hearing 5 (down comes "high cost of Hearing Radionic aring Aid $40 i i'. : . 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Brpi '- Believing his visitor to probably be. a Jiavy mother Intent on ob taining some sort of information concerning her Bluejacket ton, Re- 2 Merrpie in Navy j Training Plane. Crash SEATTLE, ' June . 24 -(JPy- An officer and n enlisted man were killed today when their : small- TSPE navy I training plane crash ed near Cape Disappointment. Thirteenth naval district head uarters here said the plane was on a routine mision from the Clat sop navy airfield. The plane was demolished. "Names of the victims were withheld. FOR ' TOMORROW! ( - ill Check these value headliners ber, yon can bay en convenient v -WTT v JT.T I "f t 169.00 Massive modern living room suite with carved frame, spring cu shions!; . i ' Quahl! 119.73 But sturdy and practical is attractive Colonial bedroom in maple. 4 pieces. " Sircrdfccd! 4 Pc Ii24.75 Sleek, modern styling In rich wal- nut veneers. . Waterfall fronts; I plate glass mirrors. r-URrjoToriE-'C.- cruiter Kennedy little short of fell out of his chair when the hand some lady withf graying hair answered with simple, directness: You can. I want to know if there is any possibility of my joining the WAVES. I realize Tm somewhat above the age limit, (38 years Is the top age for WAVE enlistees) . but I thought there might be some possibility of an age waiver. -1 i-" You see, I'm a navy wife and have1 been one for 30 years. I've traveled all over the world and in peacetime, there was no one who : could have a ' better time lazing, around than I could. But now, t every one of . us is needed and I want to get Into the fight It hurts me to stay out." I Said Recruiter ' Kennedy hesi tantly: . r I know this is an undiplomatic question to ask any j lady, " but would you mind telling me your ."Not at all," the woman visitor replied. Tm 57." - "I'm physically fit,: too," she added with pride. I can do any kind ' of work that, any. younger woman tan do and I'm willing and anxious. I want to help win this war and I can't understand why so many of our; younger girls don't have the ' same desire. , The navy is the best organization in the world and the! WAVES are the best girls in the 'world. I think the WAVES offer women the best jobs they could get anywhere in the country." ' - 1 ; ' ' '. j. "There," mused Recruiter Ken nedy to himself as he digested his visitor's conversation, I "is a , real woman patriot It's too bad so many of our younger girls don't feel the same way." i - And then, aloud:! ; I "Madam, I can only tell you that your: patriotism and desire to be of service to your country in this war is at -once appreciated, grati fying and refreshing, the latter particularly In viewi of the reluct ant attitude of many eligible and qualified younger-women -to wear the uniform of their country's mil itary forces. However, age- limita tomorrow at'Gevnrtz! Remeta- credit terms.! COFFEE TABLE $8.75 I.nvTirifme.1 In rich walnut finish on hardwood. top. PANEL- dUB ; S2i-75 Sturdy crib; with dec-, orated panel, ends; drop side. ? . . this suite ; MODERN SET. - 029-75 5-piece breakfast set in modem blond fin ish. Walnut finish, full size. III liJT- I SPOOL LID V 7C tions for the navy and for 'its WAVES are fixed by high author ity and cannot be waived. "If enough of pur younger wo-' men had as earnest a desire to help as you have; this war could be won much more quickly. If that attitude prevailed generally among them, .we'd aim! at recruiting a fullcompany of 120 new WAVES from this area instead of a platoon of SO hew WAVES which this sta tion now U setting out to enlist within the next few weeks to re lease navy men tor sea and com bat duty r -rv ii:jy v ;v, Still anxious to be helpful, the WAVE-conscious Woman only 51 years "young, before leaving pro vided the navy representative with a list of half a dozen young wo men whom, . she flatly stated "should be in the WAVES." ' Her parting comment was this: "If you should ever hear of the possibility of an age waiver being granted for the I WAVES please let me know . ! - 1 For obvious "reasons involving possibility of embarrassment to herself, Recruiter I Kennedy asked that the 57-yearUoId WAVE ap plicant's identity be withheld. 4 i II I Count on Gevurtz to be ready wim new merchandise as soon as it becomes available! I II I We are receiving shipments of new home1 furnishings every day, and, though war- I II I time conditions make some Items scarce, you will still find varied selections and H I top furniture values on our floors! k : , ; 5 ' I Twin-Ban!: U-Wtn l.-Bed'Onllill'' " ,te&f 0 1 Complete with-1 'Sprints '. ' f '- - .--MfSf ill , Smartly styled, - space-sav- ' !!j5 f I II big bunk beds; or attractive 4$(s i i :V ut- ZrVWV I - -twin beds . . .this.versatfle . Rfcfi t 1 & YSf- ll , outfit can be - used either H4n?5fS0V IV'Ynil ' I IHI ; way. -Complete group in- I -" Hffet fli I :'-tHfSSk- ruFA 1 I dudes pair of bunk beds, J A mp tHsfA CtVvl I II mattressesjand 2 sprmgs!.r ; x - RSH ' j $1.25 Weeklx . ' -KJ V J ill rvs- ' 'In modern wheat finish on jl llll stur4y, solid oak. Includes ex- II llll ' r tr' 's zZjtu ir& tension table and 4 chairs. II II f ' i&ic1 It Tablf opns to 54 inches wh?Q I Hi K ijgf extended. Upholstered seats. j II i fttato domt mm 9 at Gevurtz ; Beautiful 5-Piece ' ;UaInal Dsflrcon : l Sails Consists of vknily, chest, bed, bench and night st&nd. O HopMnsNew' Portland SP Superintendent Appointment of L. P. Hopkins as superintendent of the Portland division of the Southern Pacific, effective July. 1, was announced Saturday by J. W Corbett, gen eral manager for the company Hopkins, who is now on the Salt Lake division of the road, succeeds M. L. Jennings, who has been promoted to superintendency of the Sacramento division. Starting, as a ' car repairman, Hopkins has had nearly. 38 years' service with the Southern Pacific. He -became an assistant .train master I on the company's coast division in 1918, then night general yardmaster on the Salt. Lake and coast division. In 1935 be was ad vanced to become assistant super intendent of the San Joaquin div ision with headquarters at Bakers field, Calif. He took the same posi tion at San Francisco on the coast division In 1937 and two years later became assistant to the gen 7 ; . - V - J V. T J L'L:::::"! eral manager at San Francisco. In August, 1940, he went to Ogden as superintendent of the Salt Lake division, ' ' . " ' Jennings, who takes over the Sacramento superintendency with the retirement of W. L, Hack, is returning to the division where he started railroading as a yard man in 1906. He has been head of the Portland division since April, 1942. v. . K- -B 'V---- 2 Juveniles Arriesled : For Station Burglary ' iCity police early' Saturday morning arrested two ; juveniles, one 18 and one 13 years of age, in connection with the burglary June 20 at the Don Madison serv ice station. Suspicion on the part of one of the purchasers of a 30-30 rifle led to the arrest k I ADDY, Wash, -(ft? Eddie Stae4 heli, ' 4, nonchalantly twirling a snake by the taiL inquired: Where did ' this - thing " come from?" B:- if V,.,,' , ;At his mower's horrified shout, EdcuVgave the snake a toss : and his father, Ernest Staeheli, ' killed it It was sHaattlesnake. J jr Lovely Bczsxr Ctair Attractively upholstered , in cretonne. Spring seat. .95 ... go.