Eugene register-guard., March 21, 1946, Image 7

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lem, complicated as it ii by the
fact that there-is hunger in many
other parts of the world, thus add
ing to the difficulties of bringing
adequate relief to this continent.
Spring and early summer are
going to-be a critical time. In
digenous food supplies have been
largely exhausted and many coun
tries are mainly dependent on im
ports. -
But unfortunately the crisis isn't
likely to end there. Although
this first day of spring gives prom
ise of an early season for the tillers
of the .soil, it doesn't bring the
cheer of normal times. The dis
couraging fact is that misfortunes
are swarming the farmlands like
an army of locusts, making it
certain that the fall harvest will
be far short of the customary yield
in most areas.
Starred Soil .
One of the worst handicaps is
a great shortage of fertilizer. The
soil already is impoverished for
lack of nitrates which were di
verted to war purposes, and now
the nitrate plants aren't function
ing. That's heart-break enough
for any farmer, but there is an
even worse trial in the scarcity of
seed, especially grain.
There is a great scarcity of
farm implements, owing partly to
destruction wrought in the war
and partly to curtailment of the
manufacture of such tools. And
then, of course, the' conflict has
robbed thousands upon thousands
of farms of the sturdy youths who
were their mainstay.
Displaced Persona
Even if .crops were normal, there
still would be great problems to
meet. One of these is the feeding
of the displaced persons who have
been moved In huge numbers
about the continent
Even if there were food enpugh
in Europe to meet requirements,
still it would be impossible to dis
tribute' it readily because of the
disorganization of transport and
the lack of rolling stock.
Rom where I sit ... Joe Marsh.
Shaking Heads and
Human Liberties
jisfaay tUa. Now that
I li snr, there's a lot of
(laarhf la en tows. People
if: "Wilt's the younger gen-
toting tot "How can we
tfaautrfos?'' "The country's
jfa0 dogil "There ought
Uibwlletb
I at ria the younger genera-
tm aallopiat the Axis "super-'-Ud
labor was doing the
eeriotnl job is history 70a
keirf a manasr. Bat new
WnH btci to oar traditional
pi (email liberty! jnst see
bow the heads begin to shake again.
I guess there'll always be head
shakers folks who feel "there
ought to be a law" who believe
that the best form of regulation is
suppression, whether it's applied
to beer or baseball.
Bat from where I sit, America's
done pretty well with the idea of
personal choice and individual lib
erty. I gness that's jnst the wsy
Americans are nude.
Copyright, 1946, United Stata Bnwm FmaiaHem
ENTERTAINERS William El
cota, xylophonist, and Beatrice,
dance comedienne, are featured
entertainers appearing nightly
tnrougn Sunday at Tne Holland.
Eugene Eagles Organize
First Band in State
A new band is using organized
by the Eugene Aerie, Fraternal
Order of Eagles, with Elbert De
Moss as band master.
The first rehearsal will be held
Friday at 7:30 p. m. at the Eagles
Hall, with all interested musicians
invited to attend. Band members
need not be members of the
Eagles Lodge. This will be the
first Eagles band in the state.
BED DEMOBILIZING
MOSCOW U.R Six more
classes of Red Army and air force
enlisted men will be demobilized
between May and September of
this year under a decree of the
Presidium of the Supreme, Soviet
puMished today.
EXPERT
REPAIRING
Prompt Service
Typewriters
Adding Machines
OFFICE MACH. & SUPPLY CO.
3011th Ave. East
Phone 148
Tree Planting
Event Slated
At Reedsport
REEDSPORT This commun
ity's first annual tree-olantina
will take place next Monday,
launching a project designed
eventually to reforest all logged
off areas in this district of Doug
las county.
Gov. Earl Snell and other state
and county officials will take part
In the event, which is sponsored
jointly by the Reedsport schools,
the city, Chamber of Commerce,
Lions Club, CIO, AFL, State For
estry Department, O & C Revest
ed Lands Administration, local
lumber and logging companies and
the Coos County Fire Patrol Assn.
The planting will take place on
a logged-off area on Highway 101
in the vicinity of the Umpqua
River lighthouse and lifeboat sta
tion. Trees will be supplied by the
State Forestry Department and
equipment by the Coos County
Fire Patrol Assn., which also will
direct the planting activities of
students from Reedsport High
School, and the Reedsport, Gar
diner and Loon Lake grade
schools. The project committee
consists of Mayor John Skaaluren,
J. E. Seabloom, High Hamilton, M.
H. Durbin and James W. Ford, M.
F. Wrenn, J. A. Samuelson, Jack
Flug and Ed Morris. Dean Paul
Dunn of Oregon State College will
talk to students on Friday after
noon and the students will leave i
the high school at 9 a. m. Monday
morning for the planting site near
Winchester iSay. Lunch will be
served at noon by teachers of the
different schools.
Reforesting and beautifying the
logged land along the highway
south of Reedsport is the immedi
ate aim of the .committee. Land
that does not respond to natural
reseeding and land that requires
a change of crop eventually will
also, be embraced, according to
Mayor Skaaluren.
Others who will take part in the
event are: County Judge Busen
bark, Lynn Cronemieler, assistant
state forester, Lyle Byers and K.
Young, of the state forestry office,
Ross A. Youngblood of the O & C.
C. L. Wood and W. FiKurdson of
the Crown-Willamette Corp.
. : ,
Eugeneans to Attend .
Jackson Day Dinner
Dr. Lcuis A; Wood, Democratic
candidate to represent Oregon's
fourth district in Congress and
Mrs. Wood were among Eu
geneans going to Portland Thurs
day to attend the Jackson Day
dinner at which Secretary of
Labor Lewis B. - Schwellenbach
wus scheduled as principal speaker.
Others planning to 'attend the
dinner from Eugene were Lee C
StuartyLane County Democratic
chairman; Mr. and Mrs. Marvin T.
Warlick and Ethan L Newman.
Roseburg Judge '
Hears Civil Case
With Judge Carl Wimberly of
Roseburg on the bench, the La
County Circuit Court Thursaay
continued with the case of Eliza
beth Irene DeYoung vs. Edward
C. Adams,
The plaintiff, represented by H.
E. Slattery, seeks recovery of
property valued, at $337 plus pun
itive damages of ?1500. The de
fense is represented by Calkins
and Calkins.
Judge Wimherly initially sat on
the Lane Martin vs. LeRoy Chase
case, opened Wednesday and set
tled out of court. The plaintiff
sought more than $12,000 dam
ages as the result of a December,
1943 automobile accident.
Young-Adams case are: Pauline
Frank, Mabel E. Bailey, Myrtle
CogiU, Clayton I. Collins, Iona V.
Lusk, W. L. Dunham, Henry L.
Hilliard, Ispm Cox, Darwin Hale,
Grace Skinner, Ben Kingsbury
and Clarence W. Iddings.
Friday's session of court was
scheduled to open with the State
of Oregon vs. Olive Emery Fuqua.
He is charged with possesion of
stolen property.
SNOW IN CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, March 21 M
Southern California ushered in
Spring last night with snow. It
fell within 20 miles o downtown
Los Angeles in the foothills
and reached a depth of 13 inches
at Big Bear Lake, 90 miles away
in the mountains to the east.
Eugene Register-Guard, Thursday, March 21, 1948 Psy 1
Perhaps Salem Got
Right Man for Rat
Committee Head
SALEM (U.RJ A story of
what may have prompted the
Salem Chamber of Commerce
to set up a rat control com
mittee was related here today.
According to the Salem
Capital Journal an unidentified
woman was watching a movie
from a Salem theater balcony.
Behind her she could hear
tittering among the patrons but
she passed it off as some friends
having a bit of fun.
A minute later she felt some
thing at the back of her neck,
the Journal said, but again the
woman passed it off, believing
her friends were throwing paper
wads at her. r
Suddenly she felt something
dig into her flesh. She turned ,
her head and eyed a large, rat
perched on her shoulder.
"My gawd," she screamed,
and brushed the rodent from its
perch.
On her way out she paused
long enough to mention the', in
cident to the attendant at. -the
door. or
"We don't have rats here,"
he replied rather indignantly. ,
"I'm sure I'm not having (de
lirium tremens," the woman
retorted.
Later the chamber launched
its rat extermination campaign
and a theater manager. was
named to head the program;,
X .
The swordfish's sword is pearly
half as long as the fish itself:
Let's Face the Tacts
About HOWIE
BUILDING
h the confusion created about the shortage of homes
America, one point stands out clearly:
YOU CAN'T BUILD HOMES WITHOUT
MATERIALS' A .
hmbw and building material dealers and eontrac
w obviously have a vital interest in obtaining ma
""all for home building.
J1nJport Beylfc h such materials are
n,uowto, through the yards; mat they have not
BB Jr to 09' hem- Thwefare. the Government's
h JZ i o8w,d to Babl and oft
"Wain hone. are simply home hunting licenses
- material, In quantity are not available.
long as OPA continues Us wartime control policy
j JJf, an,a VHcy of adjustment to edd reconversion,
diZL? i be abl" te Pw an inflation or a
CZ wU1 only "M prevent reconversion
i4Coura'm9 Production of needed home building
hl xamP1' i Instance of OPA action
BobiS ' j'?8ul,ed m creased production. After 6
hZL i! ta?' 0PA flwntod o to 10 price ad
p,' "I allowed 125 of 400 closed brick and Hie
Pt&k -.TI8, Price adjustment allowed these
iZ"0 utos that had been operating, to Wre
"35y " rUlt' ta n,xt 4uort' Pro1
'iiw0od flooring, siding, plywood, millwork.
Iwnwon lumber. OPA clings to its wartime
sjZSr- lJd. OPA folows the unrealistic policy of
far jjj? Smium Prices to mills for producing lumber
- " 01 Prt o foreign countries, and for
01 nid is wartime Industry.
Today's question Is not essentially one of price eon
trol ii there were plenty of homes, no price controls
would be necessary, the important question is one of
production and manpower.
So far, OPA and Government officialdom In general
have contented themselves with controls, allocations
and priority systems which at best can do nothing but
Juggle an insufficient supply of building materials
and at worst delay and retard production and the
employment of manpower.
Homes will not be built in the United States unless
the Building Industry builds them. Whether they are
labeled "Public ' Housing" or "Private Homes," the
same materials, the same labor, the same building in
dustry will build them.
Production' can be un-blocked by the removal or
adiustment of OPA's wartime policies. But such a
realistic approach cannot be attained as long as Gov
ernment action is based on a philosophy of lack rather
than a philosophy of abundant supply for peacetime
prosperity.
The lumber dealers, builders and contractors stand
ready to build or rebuild America. But it Is up to the
people to demand that the way be cleared for the
production of materials for homes.
Any government program that does not
FIRST remove the obstacles blocking pro
duction of materials will simply add addi
tional difficulties to the problem facing
the building industry.
Western Retail Lumbermen's Association
. TELL YOUR CUSTOMERS THE TRUTH ABOUT HOME BUILDING
national . retail lumber dealers association
WASHWGTOK, D. C
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TIME IS GETTING SHORT
JUST A FEW DAYS LEFT AT
CALLAHAN'S FINAL CLOSING OUT
This is the area test Furniture Sale in the Northwest and one Iona to be remembered. Witl
merchandise which is practically impossible to get, people are wondering why the drasj
reduction in prices but we feel that the people of Eugene, who are responsible for the succe
of Mr. Callahan, are entitled to share in the profits.
SO DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE! BUY NOW
Living Room
CHAIRS
Values to 89.75 '
Now 49.50
BEDROOM SUITE
BEAUTIFUL
6-PIECE ,.
Now 129.00
They Are Going Fasti
Occasional
CHAIRS
Just a Few Left at .
8.95
END TABLES
Were 4.50 ,
Now 2.19
DAVENPORT
and CHAIR
Inner-Spring Cushions
Were 225.00
Now 149.50
SB?"!
NUMBDAH
RUGS
Were 6.43
Now 3.95
MASON JARS
Pints 59c doz.
Quarts 79c doz.
V2 Gallons 99c doz.
3-PIECE GROUP
Coil Metal Spring Mattress
Jinny Lind Bed
Complete
39.95
BOX SPRINGS
Spring Air
Made of the highest quality and workmanship.
Celling Price 39.50
Now - 31.95
$5,000
Worth of
FIGURINES
Statues Birds Vases Book Ends
Mirrors Pictures Lamps
and many more beautiful gifts
50 OFF and Less
FROM THE REGULAR PRICE
KITCHEN
DEPT.
Drinking Glasses
49c doz.
Cups 95c doz.
Dinner Plates 95c doz.
Aluminum Pots 69c ea.
Kitchen Knives 69c ea.
CHILDS
DEPT.'
Car Seats
Blackboards
Bassinettes
Folding, can be
put in your car
Bassinet Pads
Nursery Chairs
All-Leatherette
Rocker
2.19
3.19
3.79
1.69
2.19
7.95
NOW IS THE TIME
SHOP TODAY!
Callahan's Furniture Store
' Now '
MANOR
FURNITURE STORE
660-672 Willamette Heilig Bldg.
Baby Buggie ;
While They Last! ;
$109i 1
KRIBS
Metal Springs
Were 37.50
Now 16.75!
STROLLERS!
AUMotal j
Rubber Tires f
While they lastl
Wen 1840
Now 6.95
u
TOYS
YOUR CHOICE
FROM i
49c to 1.49
CHILD'S 3-PIECE SET
MAPLE
Was 18.50
Now 9.85
INLAID
LINOLEUMS
FOR DRAIN BOARDS
ONLY
With metal moulding. YU
will have to hurry to get
on this.
DICTATOR
MATTRESSI
CEILING PRICE 19.05 N(
10
95