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FAGE TWELVE Ths OREGON STATESMAN. Solam. Oregon. Thursday Morning. February 28. 1946 Lodge Plans Initiation at Bend Sunday Initiation of a largeT class of new members into the Knights of Columbus will take place at Bend, Sunday. March 3, according to an announcement by Edward J. Bell, Stayton, Wednesday. Conferring of the degrees on the candidates is under the direc tion of District Deputy Lowell Dupi'ayj Medford, assisted by Lowell! Jensen, grand knight -of the Bend council, and his offi cers of the Rev. Luke Sheehan parish at Bend. The day's program will begin with Mass and Communion at 7:30 a m., followed by a commun ion breakfast in the j parish hall. Conferring of first , and second degrees will follow' the breakfast climaxed by exemplification of the major degree in the after noon. Plans call for a banquet in the evening. Scheduled initiations of the Knights of Columbus in Oregon in the near future are: Bend, March 3; Portland, March 10; Coos Bay, March 17; St Paul. March 24; Salem. Aprir 7, and PendJelon. April 28. L, Services for Cly de SI lerman Set in Portland Funeral services for Clyde L. Sherman, former Salem resident ho died in a Portland" hospital Monday, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the MrGinnis Ac Wilhelm chapel. 6637 S Mil waukie ave., Portland. Dr. John M. Pa x ton will officiate and in terment will be made in Lincoln memorial park. A Ufelong resident of Oregon and a Portland resident for the last 12 years, Mr. Sherman was born in Stayton Nov. 9, 1888. Surviving are his widow, Edna; two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Neuens and Mrs. Frances Muhs, both of Salem; his mother, Mrs. Nettie Sherman, Jefferson; a lis ter, Mrs. Winifred Jonesj Salem; two brothers, Courtney Sherman, Tacoma, Wash., and John Sher man. Portland, and three grand children. Baptist Cliurcli Adds Cub Pack Calvary Baptist church com pleted its scout family with an installation of the church-sponsored Boy SCout Cub Pack No. 2 at the church Tuesday evening. The church already sponsors a scout troop and senior scout unit. Committeemen appointed at the Tuesday meeting to lead the new i ub pack are Byron W. Troth and Robert N. Evenden and den moth ers appointed were Mrs. Byron Troth. Mrs. Robert Evenden and Mrs. E. M. Larson. Cubmaster is Warren E. Durbin and his den chiefs arc Don Stein er, Thomas Durbin, Roger Gebav' er and David Hile. Assistant Scout Executive Martin Mockford and Commissioner Art Lamka attend ed the installation meeting. nnaii tOWs Dock With UjS. Cigarettes LONDON, Feb. 27-(P)-A ship ld of 2250 Gerrrtan prisoners of war arrived at Liverpool today from the" United- States with 4, OO0.000 cigarettes in their bag Kge. An American sergeant guard said: "Eath prisoner is allowed to travel with personal luggage up to 65 pounds. These lads crammed their kit bags half full of cigarettes they obtained In their camps." Leonardo Da Vinci was a paint er, sculptor, architect, engineer, musician, ' anatomist, inv e n t o r, stage designer artdmoral philosopher. GERMICIDAL LAMPS t Made by General Electric For the Desf ruction of Air-Borne Bacteria Limited Quantity of Fixtures Now Available for DOCTORS DENTISTS. SCHOOLS HOSPITALS CAFES OFFICES Spare la To Limited to Name All the Uses af TbU Remarkable Lamp Order" "Yaurs Today Conrt Street Radio & Appliance Co. 357 Court St Phon 3028 Geologists See Colored Slides Walter Morse showed colored slides of Oregon views and geo logical and mineralogTcal displays were featured Tuesday night when the Salem Geological so ciety observed its fifth anniver sary in the social rooms of the Congregational church. The displays were made by Dr. F. D. Voigt, Mrs. Ted Gordon, Mrs. P. W. Geiser and George L. Tompkins. Included in the late supper served was a birthday cake brought from Portland by three charter members, Mr. and Mrs. Frank,lin Davis and Mrs. Mildred Stockwell. Silverton Unit Holds Meeting Mrs. John Demas Head Of Auxiliary of Marion Post SILVERTON. Feb. 27.-(Special) Mrs. Lewis A. Hall was chairman of the Monday night program of Delbert Reeves Unit No. 7 of the American Legion auxiliary. Pro gram arrangements were all in charge of the Past Presidents' club. Mrs. John Demas, president, conducted the meeting. New mem bers are Mrs. Frank Porter, Mrs. Frank Porter, Mrs. Orville El liott, and Mrs. Lester Oehler. Mrs. C. II. Dickerson, accom panied by Mrs. Demas and Mrs. Hall made the presentation of February 22. The poppy poster contest will include the seventh and eighth grades as well as the high schools with prizes to be awarded in both divisions. Junior girls will meet March 14. A sandwich and salad luncheon will be held at the next meeting. March 11, instead of the no-host 6:30 dinner at first planned. During the program hour com munity singing wa enjoyed; Mrs. T. P. Heidenstrom . gave a read ing, and in a dressing contest, Pat Grogan won first prize with sec ond prize going to Frank Porter. Dr. Young to Tell of Travels Dr. Beatrice Young of Pacific university will describe her tra vels in Spain before the Salem Spanish club Friday evening, March 8, at the YMCA here, it was announced Wednesday by the club's program, chairman, Mrs. Pauline Goldensticn of Til lamook. At the group's meeting last Friday a talk on Mexico was given by Senora Victoria Villago mez de Macaulay, a native of that country and now the acting Mexican counsel in Portland. Ac companying her were her two adopted children, formerly of Madrid, Spain.' Her husband, Hal E. Macauley, was an engineer in Mexico for many years. Cement Block Plant to Start Machinery for the manufacture of mortarless interlocking cement blocks for building purposes is anticipated daily by W. G. Stan ton, who is erecting a frame plant on properties recently purchased near East Hoyt and 14th streets, Stanton said -Wednesday. Boilers already are in place, kilns are being prepared and ma terials for the blocks, popular in many new building uses and for pardon wall construction, have already arrived, he said. Work on a similar plant in Polk county, where he also holds a franchise -r-for manufacture of the patented building material, will start sometime this year, Stanton said. Stanton came to Salem re cently from Boise, Idaho. Only other plant in Oregon manufac turing the blocks is at Klamath Falls, he declares. NURSERIES HOTELS HOMES Smither Tells Soroptimists - Of Investments Hows and whys of investments were discussed before the Salem Soroptimist club's Wednesday noon meeting by A. W. Smither of Conrad Bruce & Co. either men nor money should be made to. work too long and too hard, " Smither maintained, explaining why markets break As prices mount beyond reason. He presented members with Dow Jones industrial average charts and with investment timetables indicating what share of the in vested dollar should, be in "de fensive" (government bonds, mortgages, postal savings, etc.) investments and how much in "aggressive' securities. Large investors ordinarily rely almost solely upon investment counsel, paying well for the ser vice, he said. Smither spoke on a "Soropti mist day" program, featuring the employment of one of the mem bers of the classified women's service club. Esther Werner, ofv fice manager for his firm in Sa lem, provided the program. Rotarians Hear Of Low Cost Transportation Development of low cost inland transportation is a pressing need of the Willamette valley, Kit C. Congers, who directed army transportation in th Bristol area during the war, told Salem Ro tarians Wednesday noon. The clays of the Washington, Columbia and Molalla areas which will be made into alumina were among the products which would benefit in particular Jrom suh. low cost transportation. Forty per cent of inland trans portation in northern France is by canal barge and 60 per cent of transportation within Germany before the war was by inland waterways, the army transport man said. Suh form of transpor tation is almost completely un developed in the northwest. Agricultural Groups to Meet Agricultural committees of chambers of commerce through out western Oregon, including Portland's, will be guests of the Salem chamber Friday for an alj- aay conierence on many pn$ses pi the agricultural industry. Featured speaker will be Dclos L. James of Washington, D.C manager of the argicultural divi sion of the U.S. Chamber of Com merce. t is expected that many execu tives and managers "as well as agricultural committees of cham bers of commerce, will attend. 4 9 Pimmttf W m m m ma m m m m at m m 49 I l . . . . AN D RAYONS Lahor Shortage Seen On Pacific Coast PORTLAND. Ore., Feb. 27-UP) Western states will be confronted by a labor shortage in 1947, Dr. Nat H. Engle predicted today in a talk: before the Oregon Ad club. A member of the national committee of, economic develop ment which made a survey of la bor needs, Dr. Engle said the 11 western states would have six mitjion jobs requiring 140,000 moife. men than now are available. : ; 1-1 U.S. Ports to Receive 9341 Xroops Today Four U.S. ports are scheduled to ! receive 9341 returning veter ans aboard 12 vessels today. Two east coast points expect 4625 personnel aboard six ships. while another six vessels carrying 4716 personnel will dock at two west coast points. Ships and units arriving in clude: At San Diego Miscellaneous on following: Es cort carrier Puget Sound, 315 navy and marines; escort carrier Cape Gloucester, 520 navy and marines. At San Francisco Miscellaneous on following: Capie Mendocino from t lula, 1685 army; Louis A. Milne from Ma nila, 789 army; Oberon from Guam, 36 navy; Dominican Vic tory from Pearl Harbor, 1371 ar my. Mrs. Barrfett, Dies in Hospital X WOODJBURN, Feb. 27-(Spe-cial)-Mrs. Maggie Barrett, resi dent of route 1 Woodburn for 15 years, died Tuesday at a Salem" hospital after four days hospital ization. The wife of Sylvester Barrett, she was a natrve of An selmo, Nebr., where she was born Aug. 10, 1888. Funeral services will be con ducted at Ringo chapel at 1 p.m. Saturday, followed by Interment in Belle Passi cemetery. Surviving, besides her widow er, are four sons, Edwin Sylves ter of Milton, Ore., John Rigley of Turlock, Calif., Marshall Man ley of Salem and Donald Melvin of Woodburn; two daughters, Mrs. LuellaJM. Berkey of Salem and Mrs. Frances E. Carlson of Seattle; father, James Whittle of Portland'; brother, HarrV Whittle of Portland, and five sisters, Mrs. Anna Hollister bf South Dakota, Mrs. Olive Charles of Los An geles, Mrs. Edith Schmidt of Montana and Miss Lida Whittle and Mrs. Lydia Cooper, both of Portland, and eight grandchil dren. Nine hundred thousand square miles of Russia were planted with mines and shells and booby traps by the German invaders. tm fe x Jap M -Rtywv 7 ife. - Inter Racial Talks Given at Toastmistress Four Navajo Indians, U.S. ma rine corps signal men, were the subject of a talk by Don C. Nel son, district president of Toast masters, in a talk before Salem Toastmistress last night. Nelson was a guest at the 'brotherhood of man" program of the women's group for which Isa bel Childs was toastmistress. The Navajos needed no special code in their work in the south Pacific, ft- -jvfc'-i t. Vr-vr-; using their own native language. Nelson aid in telling of his meet ing v.ith the lone survivor of the group. White children in a Portland school, attended also by a large number of Negroes, have no spe cial reaction to the situation ex cept where it reflects adults, Mrs. Jess Daughcrty, Englewood prin cipal, said in her talk. The ex periences of Harryette Masonic, former toastmistress, now teach ing in the Portland school, were the basis of Mrs. Daugherty's talk. Lois Hamer Epoke on Negro contributions to American litera ture, and Esther Gulley spoke of "My Friends, the Chinese." Mrs. L. O. Arens Was table topic chair man; Loretta Friedrich, general critic; Marie Ling, timekeeper. Grace Bottler, president, con- Acclaimed DON KAYE His piano and his orrhestra Last two days at Normandy Manor OPENING SATURDAY m SAL CARSON - - PRACTICAL TO LIVE IN It's spring cotton time, aiul your dress-up wardrobe ean now be reserved for special occasions wbile you wear pretty, practical cottons all day! You'll find thee lovable, washable cottons the most flattering frocks imaginable, and easy to get into, besides. Basque waistcd styles in bright waffle weave prints, princess-line faorites in pas tels, coat dresses in slimming, white-spiced woven stripes, and charm-time of your chore-time! Rales of low-priced comfort for jour budget, too! A to mp tin (7 oaaortmont of gay cottons, arlod In price, but not In crisp newneta. or th way thy b Com you I Prints, strip, solids. ducted tt- brief business meeting, Mrs. Mull Grass of Woodburn is a r w member of the group by Salem I a fcS SOCIET'i S. 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