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Page 12 Eugene Register-Guard, Wednesday, June 21, 1944. Eugene Invalid Teaching Army Airmen How To Fly! Westslders who walk home on Tenth Avenue west note a particu lar friendliness about the old house with the L-shaped veranda at No. 556. Paul Davis lives there. Every day when weather allows, he'i lying on his portable couch, on the tront porch. He doesn't wave, because he has been an in valid for 16 years from arthritis, What Goes on at the Statehouse n rmc w. ALLEN. JR. ' SALEM. Ore. 41 One of the most imoorunt and least known jobs in the sate executive depart ment is that of the public util ities commusicmer, a post now held by George H. Flagg of the Dalles. Flags, currently recovering from an automobile accident, was ap pointed to the position for a four year term, beginning June 1 of last year. ' His job includes any number of duties including the primary one of licensing and regulating trans portation, both rail and automo tive, in the state, at which he is assisted by A. F. Harvey super intendent of motor transportation, and John H. Carkin, superintend ent of rail transportation. -The Oregon timber industry is very largely under the supervi lion. of the commission, inasmuch as it is dependent on both tail and truck transportation. Bate Supervision Regulation and supervision of the rates, services, practices and regulations of all public utilities, including railroads, truck and bus companies, telephone companies, water, gas, electric and steam heating companies, are among the jobs handled by the commission, which is granted extensive powers governing the reasonableness of fares, rates and service condi tions. As a matter of fact, the duties of the commission are among the most extensive of those' of any state department. A partial list of additional duties includes the representing of patrons, users of aervices and consumers of pro ducts of any public utility, and the public generally in all con troversies respecting rates, charg es, valuation, service and kindred matters; the commission is charg ed with classifying, governing and regulating operations of minor vehicles engaged by carriers, the licensing and regulation of for warders engaged in assembling for compensation property to be transported by minor carriers, and brokers engaged in selling or ar ranging such transportation. Rates, practices and accounts of such carriers are all under the com mission's control. Born In St. Helena Flagg, 66, was born in St. Helens and was educated in Salem. Ha married Henrietta Spencer of La Grande in 1914. He has been in newspaper work for a number of years, and for a time was pub lisher of The Grant County Journ al, Prairie City, The Condon Globe-Times, Condon, the Cen tral Oregonian, Prineville, and The Dalles Optimist, The Dalles. He was chief deputy secretary of state for several years prior to his appointment to the public utilities commission. Fan D2 Fare By Glenn Hasselrooth Communique: FROM HOLLYWOOD, ETC. Fredrlc March and Betty Field will costar in the motion picture version ot "Tomorrow the World. The play tries to answer the question, "What would you do if you had a little nazi in your home?" Right now, one might force him to read the daily re ports from Normandy. fcieanor Parker, a newcomer, has been given the role of Mil dred, which made Bette Davis famous 10 years ago, in Warner's remake of "Of Human Bondage." She played Ambassador Davies' daughter In "Mission to Moscow." Paul Henreid will have the part played earlier by Leslie Howard, After months of preparation. Bing Crosby will begin produc tion lat in June on "The Great John L." movie based on the life ot Sullivan, which has been held up until a suitable lead could be found. The fighter will be played by Greg McClure, 26, graduate of Oakland Junior college where he was a football star. McClure wns born in Allantu, has worked as salesman, longshoreman, railroad laborer, and fnrmhand. Linda Darnell and Barbara Britton will play Sullivnn's wives. Laura Nidever says that bump on her head wasn't caused by fall ing out of a highchair but from being bumped by a belligerent microphone. Her program emits from KORE. Rita Beery, ex-wlfe of Wally, returns to films after an absence ot 22 years in "Dark Waters." The Jilm stars Merle Obcron, Fran chot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, and Fay Baintcr, and is being pro duced by Joan Harrison, who did a honey of a job on "Phantom Lady." Robert While, 17, juvenile lead In the original Broadway produc tion of "Kiss and Tell," will make Ms film debut in Columbia's "Meet Miss Bobby Socks," star ring Bob Crosby. is scarcely able to move, and he has papers to correct. He will never be able to walk, or hardly move without help, but Paul Jiavis, nevertheless, is teaching young soldiers how to fly! His work, done through the University of Oregon extension service, the physics department, and recently through the campus ASTP, actually started 10 years ago when he took up astronmy and air navigation as a hobby. This branched into aeronautics and air craft design. He . wrote several books, on the latter topics, com piled a number of navigation ta bles. Stovall Needs Help Then, a few years ago when James CV Stovall, was conducting civilian pilot training classes on the campus, he ran into trouble. The active program expired as pilot training abandoned mufti, but there was still a demand for training from young men who were planning to enter the air forces. Texts were needed for those wanting to take "ground school" through extension serv-1 ice correspondence. j With Sotvall's cooperation, Dav is wrote three books, one each on ; air navigation, aerodynamics, and i elements of navigation (celestial! navigation). With help of these j books, courses in these subjects j became a virtually permanent part of University of Oregon cor- j respondence Vork. Davis cor-1 recied the papers of the men who ; learned from his texts. The cousre j is for three hours (equal to a col- lege quarter) and includes 18 les sons. Some of the men who started j his course have gone into the arm ed services; others already in have ! started to take it, so his non-i civilian "students" at present to-' tal 12. They include an army maj or, two navy lieutenants, two ser geants; some of them are in the transport service; they have fleet postoffices and APO numbers. 1 Each man pays half of his tuition, and the government pays half. Takes Engineering Davis was taking civil engineer ing at the University of Oregon when that department was trans ferred to Oregon State college at the end of his sophomore year in 114; he completed his studies at University of Washington. Not until war came and brought with it, to the University of Ore gon, the army specialized training units, did Davis reach his probable peak in work. Students in aero nautics totaled 400 last fall, and correctors of papers were badly needed. Davis was given the job to add to his work for extension and the physics department, Uni versity officials knew he could rise to the responsibility. Each youth was given three sets of problems, each containing three proDiems, to do each week. Every seven days he had to correct 1200 papers, 3600 problems in all. Start ing with winter term, 1944, this load was cut in half because there were only 200 taking the course. Then, according to Davis, his work was a real joy. Home Wfth Parents Davis makes his home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Davis. He has a telephone at his bedside, a radio and the newspapers to get the air news. He was especially pleased Thursday when he heard that the second raid on Japan had been accomplished by B-29 Super fortresses. "I was wondering," he said, "when they were going to start using them against the ene my." ' Paul Davis doesn't complain, though the joints of his body have hardened and the cords have drawn taut. The physical pain of his disease has left him, and has been replaced by a knowledge that he is contributing materially to the war effort and to society. OPA Urges Tenants to i Report Rent Abuses Eugene had another hint Wednesday that rent control might be on Its way as the local wari price and rationing board re quested tenants to make com plaints immediately on possible overcharges. The request was made on In struction of the rent control di vision, Portland. Several increases in rentals have been reported since the recent local meeting with Daniel G. Gage Jr., Portland, who said that declaring Eueene-Snrine- field a rent control area was not justified at that time. Recently, however, some landlords have raised their rents as much as $15 per month, OPA said. Those making complaints are asked to list landlord and his ad dress, type of housing, property and location, and amount of rent 1 increase. : There are more than 50 differ ent types of landing craft in serv. Ice by the Allies for use in Euro pean waters. 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