Ljtf, December 21, "IMS'
TBI REGISTER. GUARD. EUGENE. OREGON.
Paft ThiM
Jinler Solstice
U Alarm Clocks
rULach of the winter aolstice,
rSv over-burdened alarm
tS today brought the follow
F; . rnm the weather bu-
I ';nmer and cloclt-fix-
fcj, iSU"-
r j tout dock up tight tonight
n the vear
the shortest day
v9 j tn dusk's so near
f0?.- t hear the bell at all
!""? . must
W !' "".m tiriit tonlffht
ioray the spring won't bust."
winter solstice, mancing
Jtai and short of the day and,
Ekihu'iness, occurs at l:du p. m.
IS Dec. 22. It Is the time the
"rfands still" and brings more
i mi tVip nlarm ?lock
!, thidavs get longer and, the-J-i'eally,
"'s easier t0 wae up.-
ir.r piani niBuns ''"
absenteeism on trie ciock
EhI caused bv manufacturers
Rrin. navigation instruments
Efttaie fuses and the reluctance
t..nemoloyes to come to work
that old evuse. "the alarm
IZ ir. off." The clocKless m-
KjdualsJ"st stav at home t0 mvt
L. thev reported.
One lam'- n"- ...-
v.-j .th demands for new
fcnns and emnloyin" a large staff
ffpairmen. iucu vuxw auge"
toa on wnai iu u wwcu v,,
,nn dofsn t go on:
1, Don t PUI navy uu in ii. iv
q. iin We worKs.
Tntp it to n real reDaii man,
L( vieW to the temnitlon to
knit with an ice pick. Ther ar
nty of spare pans 10 iix mcui
II.
i If you do null it anart. when
,i come to the repair counter
U all the extra springs you
3l get bacK in. pia!e reiiaui
U, win": "Lonv at vvnat my
ttle bov cM." Th reppir men
Lr who did it and are tired of
onng that one-
ITX SHORTAGE
ST . LOUIS Un Tne unnsi-
lui rush has uncovered a new
feortage in men's pajamas.
J
New Cattle Prices
Will Aid Canners
PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 21 (U B
New OPA prices for live cattle
on the Portland market, effec
tive Jan. 2, represent a sharp ad
vance for canners and cutters but
virtually no change for choice and
commercial animals, it was re
vealed with announcement of the
new schedules today.
The prices were announced by
the district office of price admin
istration and the iate war food
administration office, in line with
a directive from Dt ector of Sta
bilization Fred Vinson, giving
ceiling and floor prices on Oct. 26
for the Chicago market.
the difference between victory
and defeat in that area.
Bone said Japan's former pre
mier, Mobuyuki Abe, recognized
"the rising tide of United Nations
power," in his recent statement
that "our enemies have planned
an all-out counterotfensive, have
taken the offensive and are car
rying it out persistently."
U. S. 1943 Food Exports
Top Previous Totals
N T " ' y E H 0 W-lMariclan Arnold Furst and Oscar, the white rabbit, put en a .USO
Came show tuht up at the front lines to entertain U. 8. aihlers ia the radfia theater.
Farmers Ask Help
In Losing Battle
With Persistent Deer
ASTORIA Mf Two Astoria
farmers flared at two and a half
acres of gnawed-off rutabagas and
appealed to the state game com
mission for help in a losing battle
against 20 determined deer.
Otto and Victor Olson complain
ed that the animals, admitted to
pasture land as strictly summer
boarders, have moved into their
autabaea field. The Olsons threw
up barbed wire fences. The ani
mals lean over them.
They fired bullets over the heads
of the deer. The animals sniff and
stand still. If dops are loosed,
the deer skip over the fence, cir
cle about till the dogs give up, then
In normal times only two-1 leap back to the rutabagas again.
birds of the men wore pajamas,"
P0!.!!"?; 'Christmas Carol' Ends
Uon during the Christmas season
of 1843 is still appropriate this
Christmas season of 1943.
The nation's book shops report
ed "The Carol" still ranked high
on Christmas book lists, and Dean
Frank Luther Mott of the school
of journalism of the University of
Highway Commission
Settles S. P. Lawsuit
WASHINGTON IW The for-
i eign economic administration an
! nouueed recently that this coun-
try in the first 10 months of 1943
stepped up considerably its ex-
ports of food under lend-lease,
shipping in that period 9.5 per
Theodore T. Swenson, in charge , cent of its meat supply as com-
of the food distribution adminis
tration market news service at
the Portland union stockyards,
said that while packers have been
paying from $4.50 to $6 per cwt.
for canners and cutters, the new
floor is $7.30 with an $8.80 ceiling.
Packers must pay these prices
to qualify for full subsidy pay
ments. .
The minimum and maximum
prices, based on IS cents above
those of Spokane, follow:
Choice, $15.75-16.75; good,
$14.95-15.95; commercial, $12.20-
13.75; utility, $10.15-11.65; can-ner-cutter,
$7.30-8.80; bulls, $8.65-
10.15.
pared with 6.1 per cent for all of
1942.
In only one major category,
milk products, was the 10-months
percentage lower than the 1942
figure. Milk products sent to for
eign countrien since last Jan. 1
totaled 3.3 per cent of the national
supply as compared with 3.6 per
cent for 1942.
The agriculture department in
a separate report said lend-lease
shipments tor the 10 months total
ed 8,688,400,000 pounds. Non-food
deliveries in the same period, this
report added, totaled 866,454,000
pounds,
Christmas Pageant
Thursday Evening
December 23rd
7:30 P. M.
We
Invite
You
to
Attend
The
Story
of)
Christ
EACH SCENE WILL BE PRESENTED
IN COLORED TABLEAU LIGHTING
First Evangelical Church
8th Avnu at Monro S tract
Allied Supply Power
Raised; Japs' Lowered
Mord the luxury of pajamas."
UMIAKT MINUS CANDY
STOCKHOLM W) Candy pro-
lijction is to be outlawed In Ger-
fciny after Jan. 1, 1944, advices
Iftom Berlin said recently.
About 10,000 women are em-
toyed in U, S. petroleum refiner-
700 Years As Best Seller
NEW YORK UP) Charles
Dickens "A Christmas Carol"
ended its first 100 years Saturday
as a best seller.
"A Most prodigious success"
Dickens' own description of the
reception given his Christmas
ghost story, "which sold 6000 cop
ies within a few days of publica-
SALEM W The state high
way commission announced its
$49,000 suit against the Southern
Pacific railroad and the Califor-
Missouri, said that well over two ! nia-Oregon Power company has WASHINGTON UP) Allied
million copies had been sold in ' been settled out of court for $30,- j ability to supply and reinforce
the United States since miblica- 1 000. troops in the distant south Pacific
Uon. The commission contended that j theater is growing, as Japanese
. In r4afat,i.A 1 , 1. - 1 , .tfUluim, ot thm Dam. (nh film.
"UicKens was the Best selling ir . ., C ,, " ,rr ---- .
pan niihlUhino " cairi n!.n Mntt I " t the Dalles-California high- inishes. Senator Bone (D-Waih)
author in the history of Ameri- wa5 near Algoma in Klamath declared in an address broadcast
an authority on best sellers in c0"nty; ' . , , overseas by the OWI.
America. "Nine of his novels sold Twe v companies. Includ ng Superior abll ty in supplying
more than 1 000 000 each in this several lumber concerns, had filed ' troops, the senator said, will mean
country, and seven more around !slmar suits against the railroad
a half-million. But "A Christmas I and P.w" company, but these
Carol" tops them all and is among j f aIs .have eltte$, f
tutam ht..iiin.hm,.m. The suits were filed in
nffBri hv American booksellers. K'a"ath county circuit Court.
"It is still the most popular
Christmas story outside of the
Bible."
An Army order for 800,000 wood
en folding chairs saved 4,000 tons
of steel.
A former woman veterinary sur
geon in Hollywood is now a WAC
veterinarian.
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