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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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Crater Lake will be wired for
sound today.
Men who accompanied Fed
eral Geologist F. W. Cater to
Crater Lake lodge and installed
him there to watch for any re
currence of the lake's smoke
burping, said the job could be
done.
The rim is covered with 1214
feet of snow. From it a mile-and-a-halt
path leads to the lake
1000 feet below. 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.
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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."
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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