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--- IS . . . THE VALLEY NEWS From The Oregon Statesman's Valley Correspondents , . ....... . ... ... M Flower Show Staged at Four Corners FOUR CORNERS, Sept. 5 The fourth annual flower show of the Rickey Garden club was- held last week in the Community Hall. There were 104 fruit, vegetable and flower entries ranging from the" wild carrot or Qneen Anne's lacr dyed ,in artistic, and unique arrangements. - The Judges were Mr. and Mrs. J. b: VanCleve and Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Cole of. Salem. The sweepstakes award went to Mrs. E. r,E. Walker. Other awarded (listed in- first, second and third place order) included Mrs. E. M. White, and Mrs. Loren Richey; small arrangements, Mrs. Orville Rehfeld, Mrs. G. L. Halsted, and Mrs. Jess "Mcllnay; dining room w formal, Mrs. O. D. Binegar, Warren Shrake, and Mrs. Beuna McKee; dining room' informal Mrs. L. J. Stewart, Mrs. Waldo Miller, and Mrs. Harvey Meyer; honorable mention Mrs. O. D. Binegar; living room tall, Mrs. Waldo Miller, Mrs. E. E. Walker and Mrs. O. D. Binegar; low, Mrs. R. Nicholson, Mrs. Harold Half man, and Mrs. L. J. Stewart; dry arrangement Mrs. E. E. Wal ker, Mrs. Jess Mcllnay, and Mrs. Harvey Meyer; mantel Mrs. L. J. Stewart, Mrs. Jess Mcllnay and Mrs. Jejss Mcllnay; odd arrange ments Mrs. Edward White, Mrs. E. E. Walker, and Mrs. Albert Brant; corsage Mrs. Jess Mc llnay; potted plants Mrs. O. D. Binegar, Mrs: Doyle Moore, and Mrs. Jess Mcllnay; vegetables and fruit apples, Mrs. Harvey Meyer, potatoes; S. H. Cable; pears Mrs, Jess Mcllany; red tomatoes, Mrs. E. E. Walker; corn, Mrs. E. E. Walker and Mrs. Waldo Miller; onions, Edward C. White and S. H. Cable; yellow tomatoes, Mrs. E. E. Walker; mixed vegetables, Mrs. E. M. White and Mrs. Hardie Phillips. Flower show committee includ ed Mrs. E. E. Walter, Mrs. E. M. White, Mrs. Jess Mcllnay, Mrs. Waldo Miller, Mrs. Harold Halfj man. Hostesses were Mrs. Edf ward Walker, Mrs, Robert Burns1, Mrs. G. M. Deen. Richard Mc Kee and Mrs. S. H. Cable. it tph' - ' V J '' ' -1 v 1 VV ! 1 VifJit'X AFRICA-INSPI RE D Mrs. Armand Denis, wife of a leader of,the:ptnls-CotIow Afrl ' can expedition.' wears a hat of ostrich feathers designed by Lenesta on an' African theme. Valley Dinner Bids Farewell to Fuhr Family SILVERTON The Rev. M. J. K. Fuhr and family Nyere honored at a farewell dinner Sunday noon immediately following the Rev. Fuhr's farewell sermon at Trinity church. Raymond Dahlen of Sa lem was guest soloist at the morn ing services. More than 200 attended the din ner at which Harold A. LarseH, chairman, of the church board; served as toastmaster. Alf U. Nel son, representing the congregation presented a purse to the Fuhr family. Nettie Hatteberg, in .be half of the women of the congre gation presented a corsage to Mrs. Fuhr and Barbara Jean Arrell representing the Sunday school ted a corsage to 11-y tar-old elv Fuhr. ' guests wtr the Rev. Hovland of Salem, and the Rev. and Mrs. S. L. Almlia of Immanuel Lutheran church. Both pastors spoice briefly. Paul Aim quist represented Calvary Luther an church, whose pastor, the Rev. James A. Tofte, was unable to be present Vocal soloists were Mrs. J. Lan som and Kay Berguson, the., for mer accompanied by Mrs. Harlan Moe andthe latter by Loretta Toft. Mrs. L. A. Meyer represent ed Dorcas society in a brief greet ing, and Mrs. Alf O. Nelson gave a piano solo for the Ladies Aid society. Both Rev. and Mrs. Fuhr and their son. Milton, responded. The Rev. Fuhr will leave Sil verton, where he has served Trinity church for almost 14 years, Tuesday for Arlington, Wash, where he has accepted a call, His successor has not yet been named. HUBBARD SCHOOL READY HUBBARD The Hubbard grade school will 'open for a half ;ay Monday, September 12. Pup ils wui attend lor tne iorenoon only. The school bus will pick the children up beginning . on highway 99 and east first and then on theNjvest side. There will be a teachers meeting in the after Albany Man j Ends 45 Years j Qn Railroad i'. ! ALBANY, Sept. 4 - (Special ) -Forty-five years of almost contin ual railroading came to an end for Clifford Maguren of Albany re cently when he turned in his last time slip, i y' Maguren I began his railroad career in 1904, at the age of 20, with the Great Northern in Min nesota and ended it here last Wed nesday. He was with the Great Northern until 1917, f when he joined the army and was sent to Washington. That was his first trip to the great northwest, and he decided to re? main on the coast , Upon being released from ser vice he joined the, Spokane, Port land and Seattle railroad com pany, and in 1920 he started work ing for The Southern Pacific, remaining with that line since. He has been in Albany since 1921. Since early this year he has been, a baggage clerk, and through most of his career has done clerical work for the company- j !; - The Magurens have two child ren. Bob, who like his father ; is following a railroad career, and is an engineer on the Southern Pa cific line, and Mrs. Ada Longberg, who also lives in Albany. I When asked what his plans Were, Maguren said that first he and Mrs. Maguren plan on leaving hext week on a train trip which Will take them south through Cali fornia, Texas and to the eastern coast, and back to Albany over the northern route. After that he laid he expected to Just "putter" round, which means working in his garden and small workshop. - " . JLawyer Incomes Average Above 8,000 a Year j WASHINGTON -OP)- The fret income of American lawyers averaged $8,315 in 1948, the com merce department reported today, I Reporting" on a- survey it took py mail, the department said law yers on salary do better than those in dependent practice, for the latter average only. $8,121 Although they make up two-thirds bt all lawyers. The, report said, however, the averages are distorted on the high iide by the fact that many law yers receive very high incomes, f A more typical , figure, it said, 4'as $5,719. That was the median figure for lawyers, meaning that The Statesman. Salem. Oregon, Monday. September 3 19493 Movie! Tickets Under Penny To Fight Tax TOKYO-(INS)-Movie house op erators in Tschiura. fighting a city amusement tax ordinance, have cut their admission prices from the equivalent of U. S. 11 cents to less than a penny and find their business booming. This new twist came when the Tsuchiura city assembly threaten ed seizure proceeding against the theatres on charges of tax eva sion. ; The theater operators contended very few people could afford to spend 40 yen, which included a 150 percent city amusement tax. To prove their point the oper ators cut admission to 3 yen, less than a penny U. S. The theatre op erators say they now : can make both ends meet even paying the 150 percent tax. But the city assembly realizes it can never finance its police ex penditures now that this source of revenue has been drastically cut KUSSIA PLANS MOKE BOOKS it MOSCOW-(jp-A big Increase in the number of books published in the Soviet Union Is planned for 1950. The editorial council of the State Publishing House of litera ture said in the last pre-war year they published 179 book titles to taling 3,100,000 copies. In 1950 It Is; proposed to publish 381 titles totaling 37.100,000 copies. I . Americans, reports the. Tea Bur mu, use about 23 million pounds of tea year for Iced tea. half their incomes were above and half below that figure. Custom (Made f i! j 1 Servico Uniforms For all Business A Profes sions, Service Stations, Res taurants, Garages, Trucking I Delivery, Nwrsti I Pro fessional People, Markets, Bewll ng Teams, Drill Teams, etc By appointment only. Phone 27983. Harold Ellis On School Post ALBANY Harold Ellis was elected a director on the board of Crawford school district 89, atan election held last week. - Ellis defeated Martin Mariner, by a vote of 89 to 45, to take the position of Clarence Barbes, who has resigned. Other board members include Nels Erlcksen, chairman, and Larry Parker. The board also opened, but took no action on, bids on installa tion of a furnace in the school building. Bids r were submitted , by Allen & Bushby of Lebanon, Bowne Bros., of Salem and Ar nett's of Albany. Jefferson Homes Have Visitors JEFFERSON Mr. and Mrs. Russell Miller of Longview, Wn., were recent overnight guests at the Paul McKee home. They were ' on their way to Los Angeles, Calif. - Sam McGee will leave the first of next week to visit a cousin at Buhannan, Kn... near Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. John Voss and Charles -Fisher of Boston, Mass., were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs, D. W. Porter on Scravelhill. Voss, an instructor at Harvard, 4s a nephew of Porter. SUIT PRICES GO DOWN FRANKFORT - (JP) - Complete men's suits are being offered in Frankfurt for $6.00 and even less these days. Street peddlers are buying them and have a roaring trade selling them in the1 outskirts of the city. Two months ago the same suits were priced at $33.00 to $36.00., The. prices fell when stores accumulated surplus quantifies of summer-weight suits. The peddlers bought them up almost for noth ing. . Oakdaie The Oakdale school is slated to slajrt September 19. j Lpcal women ' ill meet at the 'school September 10 to clean the ! building. Work? already has been done on the building by the men. i I Pioneer Mrs. John Calavan will be the teacher at the Pioneer j school which opens September 19. j Amity Difficulty in finding a j ready market for prunes in this! area has caused at least one j grower here to j remain undecided J as to whether lie will harvest his ; crop. j flubbard A son,. James Ro- I bert Evans, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert i jEvans' Thursday morning, August 25, at Hutchin-N son hospital in Oregon City. Auburn ktr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith have returned home from Kalispell, Mont j after spending six j weeks there wttn menus ana rel atives. :.i Oikdile Mr. and Mrs. Fink and three son have arrived here ! from McMirinvitle. Mrs. Fink will be the teacher; ln the school this ; year. ll Amity Through a recent ar- ' rarigement high school students ; living at BallsUin will attend Am- ity high school this year in Amity J district buses. )t I j Hubbard 1H. H. Hansen of j Hubbard has purchased the regis- i it was reported by the American Jersey Cattle i club. The animal comes from the herd owned by Ralph J. Wolfe; of Woodburn. Albany Pre-Scliool Registration Soars ALBANY With pre-school registrations for the first grade standing at 14ft and for the seniors in the high school at 151, Arthur E. 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