Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, January 21, 1946, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextI . Page 8 Eugene Reglster-Guarcf, Monday, Jannary 21, 1948 More Support Urged in Clothing Drive First week efforts in Lane county's current drive to provide old but usable clothing for the war needy of Europe and Asia were not strong, Chairman J. J. Kamerman said Monday. In order to uphold Lane's po sition in the state and national drive, Kamerman urged every citizen of Eugene and the county to turn out every possible piece of excess clothing or bedding. It has been suggested that each con tribution include a message of friendship and cheer to the re cipient, along with the donor's address to encourage international goodwill. - Kamerman has urged the young folks to reserve next Saturday morning to attend a free showing of Zane Grey's "Riders of the Purple Sage" at the McDonald theater Doors will open at 9:30 for the 10 a. m. program and the only price of admission will be a bundle of clothes. - There is also a need for card board cartons In which to pack the anticipated material, the chair man said, urging merchants, es pecially, to get them to the fair grounds collection point. Other places where clothes may be de posted include all the schools and churches in Eugene and the fire department and the public market, where a special booth has been set aside. ; . 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After studying it, the men reported installa tion of sound-measuring equip ment in the water appeared possible. Soil Committee To Place Proposals . Before Farm Parley The soil improvement commit tee of the Farm Planning confer ence, which will be held Tuesday at the Masonic temple in Eugene, has made ready certain recom mendations on soil fertility, drain age and irrigation to be placed before the delegates. This announcement came Mon day after a Friday afternoon meeting of the committee under County Agent O. S. Fletcher. H. H. Myers, Springfield, as chair man, will make the recommenda tions drawn up with the assistance of C. D. Hale, Crow Stage route, Harry Harbert, Route 2, Stephen Ford, Route 5, P. A. Flynn, Route 4, F. B. Simmons, Springfield, O. H. Bruce, Mohawk, A. G. Johnson, Junction City, Noland Huntington, Florence, L. N. Ashley, Lorane, and Hugh Trunnel, Cottage Grove. The conference will open at 10 a.m. Tuesday with the outlining of the program and opening state ment by Fred G. Knox, president of the Lane County Agricultural council. Reports of the various commit tees, which will make up the ma jority of the program after Fletcher talks on "The County's Agriculture" and "Some Major Problems," will be held short enough to allow discussion from the floor. Besides soils, committees will report on livestock, dairy, horti culture, farm labor, rural youth. land use, farm crops, farm home and rural life arfd poultry. "Opportunities for Improvement In Rural Life" will be the subject of Miss Frances Clinton, assistant state home demonstration leader, from O. S. C. Those attending the conference will lunch on sandwiches and salad which they will supply, and coffee and ice cream, which will be provided without charge. There will be noontime entertainment. Lane Gets $39,832 From Highway Fund Lane county has received $39,- H.iz as us snare of the state high way fund for 1945, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell Jr. has announced. Oregon counties as a whole received $2,598,427, repre senting i3. per cent or the reve nue from motor vehicle registrar tions, fuels taxes, carrier fees and fines. Lane county also received $634 as its portion of amusement de vice taxes for the three -month period ending Dee. 31, 1945. SCOUT DATE CHANGED The regular monthly meeting of Boy Scout committeemen at Santa Clara has been changed from the second Thursday of the month to the first Thursday, in order to avoid a conflict with the Boy Scout court of honor, to be held in Eugene on the latter date. Arrangements for a special Scout room, in the basement of the Santa Clara school, have been completed and the room will be appropriately decorated, it was announced. HEATERS to 33.95 Electric Appliances PARTS RENTALS Saturday) Phone 5174 Con 217 travel agent More Service By Red Cross Here Outlined Editor's Note: This is the second of two articles based on the an nual report of the Lane county chanter of the American Red Cross. One of the active Red Cross committees in 1945 was the group of nurses's aides, according to the annual report of the Lane county chapter, just made public. Sixty four members serveJ during the year, working 6427 hours. Mrs. . E. Foss, most active of the aides, was placed on the na tional nurse's aide honor roll for having given more than 2000 hours of volunteer service in local hospitals as of Sept. 1, 1945. Mrs. Mary Brockelbank is chairman of the nurse's aide group, and Mrs. Condon McCornack contributed to the success of the program dur ing 1945. Mrs. McCornack is a former chairman of the commit tee.. Six members of the Red Cross motor corps traveled 21,666 miles in 1945 on Red Cross mission, and 111 persons were graduated from the basic first aid courses taught by the Red Cross. Mrs. C. E. Wethered was motor corps chair man. The camp and hospital com mittee, under leadership of Mrs. C. A. Huntington, channeled dona tions of all county residents and groups to the naval hospital at Corvallis. Among their activities were obtaining enough musical instruments to outfit a band, giv ing each boy a birthday party, and each overseas veteran a free call home upon arrival at the hospital. Weekly entertainment and refreshments were given in the wards. 570. gifts, food and decorations were supplied for the Christmas celebrations, and many books and magazines were col lected and taken to the hospital. College Unit Aids Members of the college unit, operating at the University of Ore gon, assisted during 1945 With the blood donor program, surgical dressings, the nurse's aide pro gram and worked in other capaci ties. They knitted four afghans, collected gifts, food and Christ mas tree lights for the Christmas Droeram at the naval hospital in Corvallis, and did sewing in the Red Cross production, rooms. Mary Landry is president of the college unit, and adviser for 1946 will be Mrs. Paul B. Means. Committee chairmen pointed out that the. number of recorded hours should be more than doubled in order to obtain an accurate estimate of time spent by Lane county men and women in serving the Red Cross. In many cases, such as during the flood, volunteer workers kept no records of their hours of service. Thousands of hours were given by volunteers in the surgical dressing and pro duction units without records be ing kept also, the chairmen said. One of the most important re sponsibilities of the Lane County Red Cross is that ot disaster re lief. An example of the county disaster relief system was seen during the recent flood, when the Red Cross assumed the responsi bility of warning persons in dan cer areas, assisted with evacua tions, fed, sheltered and provided clothing for flood victims. Before the flood is written off Red Cross records, many persons will have had their homes rebuilt and their possessions replaced by the Red Cross. Rehabilitation Work The Red Cross relief program for the recent flood has now reached the rehabilitation stage, with extent of total damage not yet compiled. During the flood Mrs. Wellington T. Switzer was acting chairman of disaster relief, and superintended the temporary shelter of 1000 evacuated persons, as well as the housing of persons stranded in Eugene by tangled transportation systems. In Cottage Grove, where Larry Levans was in charge ot disaster relief, quar ters were found for between two and three hundred bus passengers forced by high waters to stay in that city. Roy Woodruff super vised relief activities in the River Road district, Antone Rasmussen in Junction City and William Fort in Springfield. Almost every Red Cross service group and a large number of local organizations co operated with the Red Cross dur ing the flood, according to Mrs: Cora Plrtle, executive director of the Lane County Red Cross chap ter. Disaster relief also operated during the year in many single family cases, where homes were destroyed by fire. "From this annual report of Red Cross activities it may be clearly seen that the Red Cross must carry on," Mrs. Pirtle said. "It is almost impossible for us to reach and thank properly the thousands of persons and groups throughout the county who have donated their time and efforts to various branches of Red Cross service, but their cooperation has been magnificent, and we know it will continue." The Andes mountains lie across more degrees of latitude than any other range. I0M0M0W AlllCHI 4-VIOITMU UXATIVI ...tie. i. ic,l GET A 2St BOX .ffffigZKfl PROMPT Auto Repairs ALL MAKES 31 Jl rPLUMMER-SIGL0Hj 200 Cities' Leaders Will Air Problems More than 200 Oregon city leaders and finance officers will discuss reconversion problems and confer with federal and state of ficials and national authorities at a meeting in Portland Monday through Wednesday. Dr. Harry K. Newburn, presi dent of the University of Oregon, will speak Tuesday evening at a dinner. The gathering will be a joint convention of the League of Oregon Cities and the Oregon Finance Officers association. Eugene City Manager Deane Seeger will be chairman of a panel discussion on airport mat ters. Mayor Earl McNutt plans to attend Tuesday's meetings, and several Eugene councilmen also expect to attend the session. Karl Belser, University of Ore gon, and Robert Pierson, planning consultant for the League of Ore gon Cities, will take part in a panel ot planning experts Monday afternoon. Howard Buford, Eugene, mem ber of the central Lane county planning survey committee, is scheduled to report on recent planning developments at a city planning clinic Monday morning. Henry Gunn, Eugene school superintendent, will discuss school district revenues at a meeting to be headed by Carl H. Chatters of the finance officers association. Highlights Monday will be a luncheon speech by Gov. Earl Snell, a city planning clinic head ed by Charles B. Bennett, direc tor of the Los Angeles city plan ning department; a finance offic ers' general session meeting, and a banquet address by Carl H. Chatters, executive director of the Municipal Finance Officers' association of the United States and Canada. Families Of Veterans To Get Vacancies As vacancies occur, public housing units in Eugene and at Veneta will now be held for occu pancy for distressed families of veterans, navy and military per sonnel and civilian employes of firms engaged in the completion of specific war contracts, accord ing to an announcement by George W. Coplen, regional rep resentative of the national hous ing agency. This action is being taken to aid the increasing number of re turning veterans to find living ac commodations in this area. Pres ent occupants of the public hous ing may continue to occupy the Units in which they are already housed and the applications pres ently on hand at the project will not be affected, he said. Springfield Wins State Safety Award SPRINGFIELD Presentation ot an honorable mention plaque in the 1945 Oregon traffic safety contest was made by Chief of Police Arthur Williams at the Springfield council meeting Fri day night. The award, which was given to the city and signed by Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., was in group III for cities of 2,000 to 5,000 population. The small map of Oregon on the lower part of the plaque has a gold star meaning no serious accidents or deaths caused by accidents in Springfield during 1945. The last safety award, won by Springfield in 1942, was presented by the American Automobile as sociation. Mrs. Gunn Addresses Lane County Teachers Mrs. Henry M. Gunn of Eugene was guest speaker at a joint meet ing of the Lane county primary and intermediate teachers associ ations at the Eugene hotelSatur day. Mrs. Maria Carstensen of Cot tage Grove presided over the meeting. Guests included Mrs. Lucille Kennedy, Lane county school superintendent, and Mrs. Myrtle Clark, county school sup ervisor. Mrs. Kennedy discussed Drieny tne leacners worKsnop scheduled lor Jan. Ztt and 29. Do You Feel NERVOUS .ASATITCir On "CERTAIN DAYS" of the month? Do female functional monthly dls turbances make you feel restless, nervous, perhaps cranky and a bit , blue at such times? J Then try famous Lydla E. Pink hnm's Vegetable compound to re lieve such symptoms. Plnkham's Compound does moik than relieve such monthly cramps, headache, backache. It also relieves accom panying weak, tired, nervous feel- , lugs of thla nature. f Taken' throughout the month 1 this great medicine helps build up resistance against such distress. Also a fine atomachlo tonic! ITDI1 E. PINKHAM'S S5XS NOW AVAILABLE SAMSON CARD TABLES Mahlon Sweet, First Citizen, To Be Honored Eugene's First Citizen for 1946, Mahlon Sweet, was drawn to make his home here to attend the University of Oregon. Born in 1886 in Western Springs, 111., just a few miles west of Chicago, he came west to San Francisco to study at a chemical arts school. There he met Fred Mullen, who persuaded him to come to the university here, commencing his course in 1909. Sweet, designated by the Eu gene Realty board, will be hon ored at the yearly first citizen banquet to be held the night of Feb. 14 at the Osburn hotel. Guest speaker will be Sen. Wayne L. Morse. Realty President James Rod man jr. has announced, that tic kets are obtainable at the OS burn. A '500-person limit has been set. Sweet, while still in school, worked for Mullen and Zacharias in a garage and took an early interest in roads and transporta tion which culminated in the nam ing of Eugene's new airport for him a few years ago. Jn 1913 Swet formed a busi ness partnership with Rollo Drain. When his partner died in 1927 Sweet continued alon'e. First To Drive Over Pass In 1921 Sweet became the first person to drive a car over the Willamette pass. The road had been an old military road, hard ly more than a trail at the sum mit, however. A meeting was set for the Klamath county court and tne L,ane county court at Crescent lake to plan building a road over th mountains. Sweet, the late Sen. Charles McNarv. Walter Griffin and Lee Bown planned to drive to a point short of the sum mit. There they had made ar rangements with Jasper Hill to haul them over the top with a team. Sweet and Bown. after lookine over the thoroughfare- by foot, however, decided they could nego tiate the route in Sweet's car. so they refused the horses, stepped on the starter and made it. Loan Association Reports G.I. Service Frank Cashman. manaeer of Pacific First Federal, reports that Pacific has made 66 G.I. loans. fourteen have been made dur ing the month of Januarv sn far. Under the new setup the veterans auitiiLuaLiduuji js guaranteeing 50 percent of the loans. Loans are available for the purchase of existing homes or for the con struction of new homes. In many cases the veteran does not have to put up any money. New materials for construction are becoming available. Cash- man advises that veterans should plan now to purchase lots and prepare plans if they contemplate new homes. LIONS TO PAY VISIT Members of the Eugene Lions club will go to Junction City Mon day evening to be guests of the Lions club there. The local club will have no Wednesday meeting this week. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. This is what's behind those CHEVRON SCW No, when the Chevron sign goes up over a gas station it doesn't mean that the station has changed hands. The new name, the new paint job are just to establish it at an independent business. tots ot motorists who like the personal service they get at independent gas stations don't always know they are "home-owned." We're taking this means of making the fact plain to folks around here. REM EMBER ...the same products, Rehearsals Started For Ice Follies Here - Rehearsals have started for the Ice Follies sponsored by the Eu gene Shrine club and dates for the event have been set for Feb. 22, 23, and 24, and March 1, 2, and 3. Margie Lee, young skat ing expert, will be director of the show. Miss Lee began dancing at the age of five .appearing in an MGM film production and as an acro batic dancer in the Fox West Coast theaters. At the age of nine she started skating, and skated for. two years at Westwood, Calif., re ceiving instruction from Fritz Dietl. She then went 'to New York, where she continued her skating under the same instruc tor. At the age of 14 she turned pro fessional, appearing in the Holly wood Ice Revels of 1944. Later she skated in "Circus Daze" and "Fantasy on Ice." Her parents recently bought a ranch near Cot tage Grove, where they will make their home until their daughter finishes high school. In addition to Miss Lee, who will star in the show, the Ice Follies will offer a variety of other professional and amateur talent. The Shrine hospital for crippled children in Portland will share proceeds of the show. Matinees will be held Saturday afternoon each of the two weeks, with all students, including university stu dents, admitted at a reduced price. For the evening performances, all seats will be reserved, and dates for the ticket sale will be announced later. Evening shows will start at 8 p.m. at the local ice arena. Money Taken From Aged Man's Wallet Although his lost wallet was re turned, H. A. Helt, 83, of 132 Eighth Avenue west, doesn't feel a great deal better about it. The wallet was rifled and the $38 which it contained was gone. Hett, who has lived in Eugene since 1875, lost the wallet about 1 p.m. Friday in a local store. About an hour later an empty wallet, tattered ' and . torn, was turned in at The Register-Guard office by someone who apparently picked it up from the store .floor where it had been discarded.' a. SNIFFLING? YOU CAN FEEL BETTER. FASTI Relieve sneezy cold miseries almost in stantly with penetro use only as mreciea. nvapaaasassjl BBBaJaMBBJaBMali Laundry Troubles! Can be solved by taking your clothes to Cox's Sesrevl'ce Laundry 2nd & Polk Phone 2034 1 t . 1 vn 1 1 SHI lots of folks are curious about the new Chevron Gas Stations. So here are the answers to the questions you've been asking the story of how Standard of California is helping us Establish our identity as independent merchants. BROWN MOTOR CO.. Sprinofiold HAROLD CARVER. 6th & Garfield ART CRAFT. Sprinfaield Junction CHAS. FARMER, 2799 Friendly St. VERN JOHNSON. East Springfield Army Rescue Unit To Cover Oregon Forests PORTLAND CP Rescue ser vice for missing civilian fliers, hunters and others has been auth orized for the 475th rescue unit at Portland army air base, Maj. James M. Keck, commanding of ficer, said today. The unit has three L-5 type light planes and two more en route here, an AT-11 twin-engined plane, a 42-foot crash boat a 20-foot speed boat, a tractor for use on steep slopes or deep snow known as a "snowmobile," and a "swamo glider" driven by an air plane propellor which can skim along on four incnes ot water. Mai. Keck said heliocopters and a C-47 plane are expected to be assigned here later. . Propose Use For 0. and C. Tax Money A proposal that some of the Oregon and California revested lands tax money be expended for reforestation and fire protection has been forwarded to congress for action, County Commissioner Allen P. Wheeler said Saturday. The officials of the 18 counties concerned met in Portland Friday to take final action and dispatch the proposal to Sen. Guy Cordon, who has promised his support. Wheeler represented Lane county in the action. Trnmifinn . pi aa3 uunnLnn xor rmuit 661 West 4th Ave. FORMALS PHONE 300 Jig 1210 WIllAMSTTS 'You bet we will continue to handle Standard1 pro nets. We want to offer our customers the finest Out service and accessories will be just the same, too.- Sure, Chevron Gas Stations honor Standard of Cauto nia's National Credit Cards. And they're mighty hinoy when you come in for Chevron Gasolines, KPM Motof Oil and other products and services. Just drop in any OB" the same service, the same folks to served PLUMMER-SIGLOH. 8th & Pearl ART PURSER. 13th & Hqh J. E. STONE. 2900 Willamette E. E. WYATT, Broadway & Olive I5? "WOB rjpn,. W1VHI1jA. .Ta . I of atrocities and SlSs! 1945. 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