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THE VALLEY NEWS
From The Oregon Statesman's Valley Correspondents
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. Palmer, curriculum director,
stated that it was expected both
first grade and' high school senior
attendance would far exceed these
numbers. ;
First grade registration at Mad
ison was 84 while for Maple school
it was 64. Neither of the three
new school buildings will be ready
for occupancy at the beginning of
school. September 12, and as result
all first graders will either enter
Madison or Maple schools. As
a result it is expected there will
some double shifting for a time in
this grade and possibly in the
second grade at Madison.
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