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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1940)
1 ftjL -" .THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE. OREGON Tigs TRrw. lot STOOD TOO If there are any sour notes, "Robbie" r t mention them, since the player is his chum, FrT..-f Raltimore. "Robbie" was befriended by the Phjlvjlter his escape from a cat, loh Budd Knows Snarls fTransoortation ter Successful Career I ......Mir A 13 Budd drives his mind 1 . ....i. m-nhem and W .m"u."..-.r Oration In how ra r -i ... him L He men L j how the transportation L (or national defense is de L by men who watch him lalional transponauon UiB... fcs back of the national de rV,. in meet such to onvc, i"uj v , E. kw. may arise. Ittt their first check of trains, L planes, and ships and de L 'materials to be moved Horessed full commence m" Ivith straight addition, with- insort to any complex luim- 1111.18 when America was fj ahead into war and doing incredible things as turning li ship a day at Hog lsiana, ijokload for the railroads ran ) II percent above ordinary rercial levels, the business spurt between May and last October, car t-c leaped 50 per cent. fclkemiore. the railroads were Bring almost the whole of the kn'i hauling burden between band 1918. The truck business i puny thing then, handi- m by a lack of paved roads. airplane was a smaller ln ; tven the Mississippi barge i did not grow up until after World War. fctow Budd has all four forms Importation ready to respond null o! national need. a pleasant man with pink to, receding hair lines, and bl blue eyes that lie back mess glasses. His 41 years He railroading business have te him Into manv lobs and fc dirabs since he started out i rod man for the Chicago I Western. W. like a lot of other re tans, was born in Iowa. He got a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Highland park college in Des Moines. Three years after he went to the Chicago Great Western to help measure distances and angles, he moved up to the rank of assistant engineer. After that things came fast. He became roadmaster, general sup erintendent of construction and finally division engineer for the Rock Island and Pacific. Then he went to Panama where in various capacities between 1906 and 1909 he helped to turn the Panama railroad into an instru ment of aid in the construction of the Panama canal. Next he moved to the railroad triumvirate of the Oregon trunk, Spokane, Portland and Seattle and the Spokane and Inland Empire. In 1913, he began his connection with the Great Northern as chief engineer, and successively served as assistant to President Carl R. Gray, executive vice president and president. He moved over to the presidency of the Chicago, Burl ington and Quincy, an affiliate of the Great Northern, in 1931. But before then he had helped to push the longest railroad tunnel ever built through almost eight miles of solid granite in the Cas cade range. Two crews dug and laid track form opposite sides of a high mountain. When they finally met in the middle of the mountain, the two lines of track were only nine inches apart and there was only three inches dif ference in the grade. After he went to the Burlington, he helped to put through the idea of fast trains of the new "super" , era. The mile-a-minute zephyr, i glistening train of stainless steel,! went into service in 1934. The United States is not the first government he has been asked to advise. In 1930, he went to Russia to spend 73 days and travel 16,000 miles making a sur vey of the Russian railroad system at the request of the U. S. S. R. ON MERCER LAKE MERCER LAKE, Aug. 13. (Special) The V. C. Mowreader family have moved to the Baker ranch which he has leased. The state grange master, Ray W. Gill and Elmer McClure, a state deputy, stayed over night at the Gill cottage at Mercer Lake re cently, then went on to San Francisco to a conference of the Farmers Automobile Insurance commission. Overton Dowell Jr. accompanied them from here and will visit the fair and other places of interest Six fine veal were butchered at the Baker ranch Sunday and shipped to Albany. G. L. Hulett, stock buyer of Springfield, took out a truckload of spring lambs last week, pur chased from Floyd DowelL AT GREENXEAF GREENLEAF, Aug. 13. (Spe cial) A new yellow mark is be ing painted In the middle of the road. Our school starts September 9, with Bern ice Zcllar teaching the grades. Oliver Wilcut made a trip to Scquim, Wash, .the last of the week. The Misses June Keck and Helen Wcstfall returned with him. after a summer's vacation, here. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Ross have been staying in Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gotz arc staying at Greenleat cabin city. They may locate here. Bud Shoup has moved into the new house but is still working on it, William East, Eugene attorney, was on the creek recently. ARROW MESSENGER Ph. 610 BIGGEST BASS 'i MEMPHIS Jeff Johnson is a contender for first place in the)', national bass fishing contest. He) i caught one weighing eight pounds six ounces. During the year 1939, oil men,,,, drilled more than 2000 wildcat oil wells. ''' ill Award Givon !,,M""'J VIIVII ionor Court iinoLutkvBov fall s Y Ms Pr lad Kiel m midie io xne ason at Lucky Boy one IMestanrt m, :..t . s given at the regular romr. This award, the I To edo. This well-liked with 5 ""LTa p- iofrmr;,.:.'"a y.. ms , ,arg0 Vlsltlrlg J1 """y cities in Ore 1 surmtm,- -..,. "-"""'s Kmiory. i tw,. i . fi i '". m,Pnt award S.i Scout "dvance- i totalis grouP of me"t rcceived'olZ; law reason ,or this laT.,.wea,1: :toJhoSweck t - ere outstanding. -S:r,hrtore- L - ' court of honor pi... t Wt5Ut ,Advance tc. -Con all s: .Tnhn IW'-nwrnce: Dan- rilVnce'"'nts: trte'Hank- --"''iin;ia. join C.. r Marsh fiipld, P 1. r,.d'e Advancements- ,"5"'! "rtni. r ,Gaylord. P.Em.tion: John tX Ikh" Wsonal h.. ral'h; Grahm Corvallis, Duane Appleman, life saving, cooking, carpentry; troop 3, Eugene, Elliot Wirt, conserva tion; troop 4, Roseburg: Jack Weaver, conservation physical development; Lee Wimberly, camping, pioneering, conservation; troop 9, North Bend: Bill Gianotti, leathercraft; troop 12, Eugene: Bill Bartholomew, swimming; Jack Costello,:life saving, swim ming; Danny Dion, camping, stamp collecting pioneering; Ed Gothe, pioneering, life saving, camping, swimming; Paul Greig, pioneering, camping, swimming; Bill Harer, leathercraft; Patrick Harrington, swimming; Bill Hunt er, swimming; Walter Kremmel, canoeing, swimming, rowing; Wal ter Kremer, camping; Bill O'Hearn, camping rowing; Bob Pendergast. personal health; Tom Pendergast, cooking, pioneering, scholarship, camping; Howard Rooen, canoe ing, pioneering, life saving, camp ing, rowing; troop 14, Coquillc: Gerald Ulett, handicraft, first aid; Bill Unsold pioneering, signaling; troop 15, Junction City: Bob Rog ers, public health, rowing; troop 18, Marshficld: Jack Pendleton, carpentry; Gerald Berry, ath letics; Wade Cowen, handicraft, signaling; Bruce Hoffinc. athletics, cooking; troop 30, Toledo: Harley Werner, conservation, rowing, leathercraft, plumbing, bugling; troop 46, Eugene: Charles Gill anders, personal health; troop 47, Florence; Paul Morris, swim ming; troop 49, Corvallis: Edmonrt Sumpter, swimming; troop 54, Eu gene: Walter Banks, firemanship pathfinding, handicraft; Bertranc! Giffin, plumbing; troop 61, Eu gene: Harold Coe, athletics: tronp ing, pioneering, camping, patli 62, Eugene: Leroy Latham chok ing, pathfinding, canoeing, wo"d carving, life saving, swimming, woodturning, rowing; troop 67, Eugene, Bob Harms, cooking. Star Scout Advancement: Troop I, Corvallis John Sluipc; troop 12. Eusiene: Bill Hunter, Paul Greig, Billy Bartholomew. Life Scout Advancement: Troop 1 Eugene: Al Stockstad; troop 12. Eugene: Jack Costello, Danny Dion, Edward Gothe; troop 14, Coquille. Bill Unsold. Special Award: Gold Palm: Harley Werner, trooo 30. Toledo, Oregon, SAVE M TO 4n S i m . (9 I! 1. I ill' nil r It 1 i VS r'id . ' 1 H n II "11 II II I r II . . - -.!'..- , I I ' : t - W t f L. , fl Si I ft liW I ill II II II II -II Ui f. ......... ' lrlm. r 1 .Amu- -gjr I k v- , -i ' Ik y YMWk : 1 A L J .A ' h . - i . : . in AMAZING 1041 CONSOLE! 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