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I State Roadway Srned To County r f the old WUlam e ending from the jit out of Goshen 'J the Merriam and w ns a'd ending at the "Jt2k bridge, has been C"?L the state highway P4-Jto Lane county, to be fcouW road. 1 , " t0 this effect was Stunty court Tuesday Je Willamette high- n the hop house and beePn in use for 'TJwl'v commission' has ?e of the old high '.hfend of theClover rhe new highway, as dary highway system KeondW ...in rve as a I PESwe the two. The r ' i, e ving back to the ol WUson hiU road If M . COMPOST Woman Who Won Her Fight Against Liquor Scheduled To Speak PORTLAND, Ore. UI.R Holder of national recognition lor win ning her personal battle against chronic alcoholism and daring to tell the world about it to help others with a similar battle Mrs. Marty Mann, New York socialite and now executive director of the national committee for educa tion on alcoholism, will be a fea tured speaker at next week's Pacific coast alcoholic study con ference to be held in Portland, conference officials announced. Mrs. Mann, daughter of the general manager of Marshall Field's Chicago store and a Chi cago debutante a few years ago, was the first woman to join the famed Alcoholics Anonymous group of rehabilitated drinkers banded together to help those still In the wishful thinking stage. The group is now nation-wide with many Pacific coast mem-g bers. Mrs. Mann wiu discuss us work and problems of the alco holic Nov. 30, as the conference ends Its fourth day. 'Scheduled to start Nov. 27 and last through Dec. 1, the series of meetings Is being sponsored by Gov. Earl Snell and the Oregon liquor control commission with its educational advisory commit tee. Active leadership In the five- day program is being taken by a group of widely-known Yale unl verslty experts coming to Port land for the first such confer ence ever held In this part of the United States. ( HEN leaves; .eMsftaOardfn Refuse AKE VALUABLE rDTII I7CR Wm wHh MILLEH'M Wi MMPfiST M1KER ...n ...... 'Aase Gardens SI Cast Broadway Telephone 4240 MI-ENAMEL 1Mb Best Stays Best SKWART'S that formerly was a part of the state highway. In addition to these changes, the highway commission Is giving the county an easement for a road along the south bank of the Coast Fork river between the old and new highway bridges. Ideal Christmas Gifts Miniature Games Compact, convenient games for soldier or civilian. Sturdy leather ette cover. BINGO GIN RUMMY CHESS CRIBBAGE BACKGAMMON 1.00 and up Your Photographic Dealer I Next to Register-Guard Flaskes of Life (By the Associated Press) NSHS SHORTAGE CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. W) Salvage collectors gathered up several neatly wrapped bun dles of paper from a Chattanooga street corner. Then the telephones began to ring in the circulation depart ment of The News-Free Press. The bundles were afternoon newspapers dropped off delivery trucks for carriers. The readers got extra copies. TON MY SOLE CAMP LES, VA,. ) In a hurry, WAC Pvt. Dortha Deveau of the quartermaster school here, sent her shoes out for repair. A short time later she received a note from Cpl. R. H. Williams of Camp Lee repair unit, saying that "We are more than glad to repair your shoes, but feel that better cooperation on your part is necessary," because "after careful study we find that it Is Impossible for anybody to have two left feet." BOTTOMS CP COLLEGE STATION. TEX W) When a speaker told a farm Industry conference at Texas A. and M. college that Alabamans had quit fighting Johnson grass and were using Its roots for chemurgic production of sugar, a Lamar county farmer said: "I suggest that instead of too much chemurgy being .used on Johnson grass that some of t be saved to make good drinking whiskey." TAX UPON TAX KANSAS CITY W W. O. Austin, manager of the mer chants' association, says some stores are charging the 2 percent Missouri sales tax on the federal tax. For example, the federal lux ury tax on a $300 fur coat would be $60. The store charges the 2 percent on $360, not $300. Austin says he's going to ad vise stores how to compute taxes. NO. THANKS DES MOINES. I A. W) A 60-year-old Iowa woman who has been receiving a monthly old-age assistance grant of $17 has writ ten the state board of social wel fare that she doesn't need any additional money. After the board had advised her that her grant had been in creased to $19, she ' wrote: "I don't want it because I don't need it. I just couldn't use any more money." Major Torgerson lsv Kiwanis Speaker Some of the privileges and op portunities enjoyed by people of this day and age were commented on briefly in a Thanksgiving day talk presented at Kiwanis club Monday noon by Major Iver Tor gerson of the local Salvation Army. Pointing out the idea of a thanksgiving is very old and that it has been observed in many ways through the ages, the speak er said he paid tribute to his par ents who handed on a heritage not a heritage of dollars and cents, but something beyond. The challenge to all today is that they also will hand down to their children that something which means fat1 more than dol lars and cents, Major Torgerson said, commenting on the training and the interest needed for all ages in the church, We can be thankful for being able to worship according to our own conscience, ,and the speaker went on to say what a privilege that is. The spirit of doing something for others and the need for greater effort on the part of all organized groups to place the spiritual above material were other points stressed by the speaker. L. Clifton Culp was in charge of the program. for Jobs For All Blind Persons In State New Proaram's Goal PORTLAND W A job every blind person in Oregon is the goal of Clifford A. Stocker, new director of the federal-state vocational rehabitation service for the blind. Stocker, one of the first of 200 agents to be appointed in various states, said tests showed that 95 per cent of trained blind persons have proved able in factory tests to turn out work at least as fast usually faster than the average worker. - Blind persons can handle such difficult tasks as milling machines, lathes, drill presses and grinders, Stocker said. Among Oregon plants which .could utilize sight less workers Stocker cited ire cream and candy manufacturers. laundries, bakeries, machine shops and airplane wing assemblies. He predicted that up to 500 bund persons would be trained and placed in jobs in Oregon through the program within five years. 'Food Bombardiers' Of Oregon Honored WASHINGTON. W Three Oregon "food bombardiers " army quartermaster fliers who drop food and supplies to Amer ican and Chinese combat troops in northern Burma jungles, have been decorated. The three: James F. Fry, Medford, awarded air medal. ' Harvey L. Fridlund, Tech. 5th Gr., Beaver Creek, awarded two oak leaf clusters to DFC and two oak leaf clusters toJlr medal, John C. Martin, Tech 5th Gr., Portland, awarded DFC with two oak leaf clusters and air medal with three oak leaf clusters. OlAFSEN'S NEWEST! AYTINAL Multiple Vitamin CAPSULES ADVERTISING MEN ELECT VANCOUVER, B. C. Nov. 21 (Canadian Press) John H. Jes sup, publisher of The Bremerton, Wash., News-Searchlight, w a f named president of the Pacific Northwest Advertising Executives association here yesterday. A. B. Wallace, national advertising manager of The' Oregon Journal, was elected secretary. . Sleepv Baby Gives Dad Disappointment INDEPENDENCE, Mo. U.B Lt. Eugene C. Davies, stationed somewhere in the Pacific, saved up for weeks so that when his son arrived ha could call home and hear him cry.- Two weeks after the baby was born Davies called his wife in Independence from his South Pa cific station. But little John had just fallen asleep following his scheduled meal,. and no amount of shaking could -get a sound out of him. Nazi Convoys Battle Each Other Off Italy ROME. (U.CJ A naval communi que has disclosed how two Ger man convoys, cruising oft the Ital ian shore between Spezia and Genoa, engaged each other in the darkness recently and ttien were fired on by their own shore bat teries. Light allied coastal forces, pa trolling the area, obmrved the battle but had to withdraw when they came in range of the three way enemy gunfire. Later," the allied ships moved in under heavy fire and launched a number of torpedoes. One enemy ship blew up with cuch force it rocked the engines in the allied craft. Two allied vessels suffered su perficial damage but no casualties. Norwegian Province Ravaged By Germans LONDON W) Crown Prince Olav of Norway said here the Norwegian province of Finnmack, burned and laid waste by Ger mans in full retreat from the Rus sians, may be uninhabitable for "years to come." Thousands of men, women and children have been sent wander ing over snowbound roads In zero temperatures, Olav said, and in valids and young children are dying by the wayside. Olav told a press conference that the German, in evacuating the far north of Norway, were forcing the Norwegian population to accompany their troops in order to assure them protection from allied air attacks and bom- Eugene Register-Guard, Tuesday, Not. 21, .1144 . Paf I bardment from the sea. "The Germans," he said, "ap pear to be preparing defense lines north of Narvik, where lt is only 30 miles from the sea to the Swedish frontier." All the towns in Finnmack, which is larger than Holland, have been evacuated, Olav said. 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BUY YOUR HOLIDAY Dessert WINES NOW PORT SHERRY A MADEIRA VERMOUTHS TOKAY MUSCATEL ANGELICA Remember: As soon as the law becomes effective you will have to huy these famous wines with a permit and only at the state liquor tore or agencies. ' TIME IS SHORT PLAN TO BUY NOW Wine council, or oregon PKARiiOrMTH AVE. BUILDINO, PORTLAND, OREGON Arc there hard-to-pleasc people on your Christmas list? Arc you worried about giving the right size and color? Solve your problems by giving Montgomery Ward's merchandise coupon books. Bach person can spend the coupons like cash to buy anything she wants. Coupon books come in $5, $10, $15 and $20 denominations. You can buy them for cash or on credit. Ask' for the attractive Christmas envelope when you buy a coupon book for a gift. AND COUPONS A III SO USIFUL WHIN YOU SHOP FOR YOUR OWN HOLIDAY NIIDS! Mont gomery Ward 1059 WIIUTTE PHONE 4200
