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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1946)
I'? ! ' I , I-" - ; i " !':' ..1 :' i ..' ! .v - ' ' '' i ' . : ': ' ! r -.'! " ' . im 'ml ) ' : ' ' ' 1 : , ' '.. . i ? '. ' v ' , i . :; t ' i '.' '.:."' ' .'i'W t !-n J'vi:;.i':ir1 :" ' Vi s . I..!-'' Probe Will Be Extended (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) that other companies made the came size shell. Announcing the investigation in a statement, the committee made public a questionnaire it will circulate chiefly among former military men having "first-hand knowledge of the facts." Other Development The announcement came after the committee's activities had pro. duced these other developments 1. James P. McGranery, assist ant to the attorney general, test! fied that the three-year statute of limitations barred any action in connection with the $2500 pay ment from a Tacoma, Wash., de fense contractor to Paul A. Olson, former secretary to Rep. Coffee (D-Wash). Otherwise, McGranery said, he would have submitted the facts to a grand jury. 2. Coffee acknowledged there was "perhaps a question of ethics" involved in the case but denied that either he or Olson was "guilty of any crime." 3. Senator Mitchell (D-Wash), a committee member, raised in the Senate a question as to the "technical compentence" and "moral caliber" of General Waitt whose testimony concerning the chemical shell failures, he said, contained "errors and contradic tions." 4. Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) expressed the hope to the Senate the committee would have some thing to say about what he termed the "arrogance" of General Brehon Somervell, retired chief of the Army Service Forces. Mag nuson contended Somervell had "squandered practically $300,000, 000 of American money" In con nection with the wartime Alaska highway and canal projects. 5. The Erie Basin firm went before the U. S. tax court to fight the governmenl's'effort to get a cash return of $383,875 of alleged excessive profits made in 1943. The War Department's War Con tracts Price Adjustment Board First One-Ton Club Members Reported First "One-Ton Club" mem bers for the 1946 bean harvest to be reported to the Lane County Farm Labor Office are Mrs. E. Garber and Miss Letha Hodges, Miss Lovina Wilson, farm labor assistant, announced Thursday. Both pickers work on the C. G. Rear and Son farm near Santa Clara, Miss Wilson said. Ton Clubs, an original plan borrowed from the Red Cross Gallon Clubs, were set up in Lane County last year to recog nize the accomplishments of workers in the bean harvest, Miss Dilson explained. In 1945 there were four six-ton-club members, nine five-ton-club members, 27 four-ton-club members, 103 three-ton-club members, 317 two-ton-club members and 881 one-ton-club members. Other ton clubs for 1846 will be organized as picking progres ses, Miss Wilson said. 4-H Assistant to Aid With County Club Work Jo Ann Day, Salem, has been named as assistant to E. A, Dan- ielson, 4-H County Club Agent, ccording to a statement from the H office Thursday. A 1946 graduate of Oregon State College, Miss Day will take charge of much of the field work in girls' activities. The new assistant at tended high school in Seaside and has lived for the past few years in Salem. Air Progress Here Is Told (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) drawn nation-wide attention. Copies of the forms and the or dinance have been mailed, on request, to 165 cities, 'many of which have adopted the system. Private flyers pay the city a minimum license fee for use of the Park. The city receives $45 per month per flight from United Air Lines, in addition to land Hon, repairs and sales and serr Ice, The partners are K. H., Rob ert W. and Donald Bevans, C. II. Jensen and Magda Balint. Another first for Eugene is the recently inaugurated "Flowers with Wings" shipments, via Unit ed. The service, started by Ed Rowley with his Oregon Packag ing Co., will allow shipments of flowers from Eugene via plane to anv Doint in the country. Eugene's aviation history actu ally started some 28 years ago, according to Mahlon Sweet, a director of the Oregon Aviation Council, who has been identified with the story of airplanes and Eugene since its beginning. In Mnfnl nnrl rmn ratlin, innmP The latter brings in about S20U0 i 1918 a Canadian-built Jenny, pil annually. claimed that the comnanlea nro- fitsfor one year amounted to 150 1 filiated companies. times its "tangible net worth." Mitchell Rebukes In an address to the Senate, Senator Mitchell remarked that General Waitt had not been able to learn the cause for the shell failures "but found time to go to fancy parties, even a's American boys spilled blood because some body fell down on the job back home." His reference was to attendance by General Waitt and other Chemical Warfare Service officers at a wedding party given by Murray Garsson, one of the pro motors of the Erie Basin and af- The alrtfark, first municipal airport in the Northwest, and one of the few ports Inside any city's limits, boasts two new hangars, recently completed by Pacific Aircraft with surplus war materials. These hangars provide storage and servicing facilities, and six mechanics are employed there regularly, testi fying to the volume of business. Another addition to the Park is a restaurant, opened by Gilbert Lee of Eugene, particularly of convenience to the many transient flyers coming through. Eugeneans are showing consid erable interest in new airplanes, and turn out in force for demon strations. Many have ordered new planes. Earlier this year, about 20 planes, many of them privately owned, flew to Troutdale for a Sunday morning breakfast. A similiar flight to Redmond is plan ned for this coming Sunday, weather permitting. . Instructors for the commercial services at the Aairpark are keep ing busy with the number of local people who want to learn to fly. Minimum requirements for a pri vate license include: 30 hours solo time, 10 hours dual, one cross country flight with landings at two "fields other than home base and three hours elapsed time, and passing of a Civil Aeronautics Authority written test and a flight check. A new airport has been start ed west of Eugene, which the five partners will call Bev's Airpark. Located on Eleventh Ave. W., the park will provide charter service, student Instruc ted by one Lt. Hoagland, from Mather field. Calif., ran low on gas and dropped into a big field on the old Conger farm on 11th Ave. W. On July 4 of the next year, an Army flying exhibition was put on here, largely at the instigation of Sweet, Earle Sim mons and other aviation enthusi asts, who were instrumental shortly thereafter in getting the city to purchase land where the first plane landed to start the old airport, which was rated one of the best on the Pacific Coast. In the 1920's, aviation went into a slump here, as the first field became too small for ever growing planes. In 1939, with the assistance of Paul Morris, regional CAA director, a new field wag located here, and the city, by aid of a two-year spe cial tax levy of three mills, especially voted, financed pur chase of 900 acres. The city in vested some $75,000, and the federal government spent $1, 200,000 on runways and im provements. The new field went into exten sive use when United placed Eu gene on its list of regular stops in 1943. Now it boasts a new admin istration building, with the U. S. weather bureau and c'ommunica- J tions facilities. Under construe-! tion now is a $65,000 installation for blind-flying facilities. In 1919 to 1921, Sweet relates, the Army forest patrols were located here, and, because the pilots liked the town and its resi dents, the 1924 round-the-world Army flight, record-making event, really was thought up here and the planes stopped in Eugene for final tuning-up and overhauling before going to Seattle for take- off. In the late 1920's, Pacific Air Transport made Eugene an emer gency stop, and many times planes landed here in bad weather. The first plane bought locally was purchased in 1919 by R. A. McCully and R. H. Pierce, who operated for nearly two years on a commercial basis, charging $15 for 15 minutes for local pas sengers. Herman Hobi of Aberdeen, Wash., opened an air service here during the "doldrums" period and acted as airport manager. He was succeeded by Harold Sanders, who was followed by Joe Harrell. Har rell provided primary training for Civil Air Patrol pilots. Sweet asserts that Paul Love, of Aberdeen was in Eugene when he designed the first retractable landing sear, although he is not sure whether the youth ever re ceived official credit for the in vention, v Yugoslavia Rejects Plan (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) New Rural Supervisor Named for Lane Schools Mrs. Lucille Kennedy Thursday announced the appointment of Mrs. Opal V. Doty to the post of rural school supervisor. Mrs. Doty replaces Mrs. Myrtle R. Clark, who resigned Wednesday to ac cept a position as principal of Mt. Vernon Grade School in Spring field. The new supervisor, a graduate of Southern Oregon College of Education, comes to the post from Willakenzie elementary school, where she has been principal for the past two years. Mrs. Doty also taught school at Fall Creek, , All Cherry Processing To End This Saturday Processing of both sweet and sour cherries at the Eugene Fruit Growers' Assn., will end this week, Carl Robertson, field man I ager, announced Thursday. ! No deliveries of cherries will be accepted tfter Saturday, August 3, Robertson said. a bitter wrangle between mem hir of the Soviet bloc and Greece. Greece wanted the com' mission to agree that any item pertaining to a "just and durable peace could Be aaaea 10 ine-cuu-ference agenda by a simple ma jority vote. Molotov's compromise allows the conference to put on its agenda at the request of any delegation "any questions per taining to the peace treaties." It does not mention what vote will be required and this issue will be decided when the commission takes up the Big Four proposal for two-thirds rule. The seoond Molotov compromise was offered in place of a Dutch suggestion that all of the 21 na tions at the conference have a place on each of the five com missions which will handle the treaties for Italy, Bulgaria, Hun gary, Romania and Finland. The Big Four recommended that membership of each com mission be restricted to nations actually participating in war against each satellite. Molotov said that the Big Four suggestion should be followed but that all nations should be allowed to sit in on the commissions with the right to participate in delib erations but without the right to vote. Pate 8, Eugene Reirlster-Gnsrd. Eggen or. Dow-Jones Dow Jones closing bond aver ages: 40 bonds, 107.49, up 0.03. 10 higher grade rails, 115.43, off 0.10. 10 second grade rails, 100.46, up 0.18. 10 industrials, 105.42, up 0.06. at which SS'NJ new union 7'rC "litre, each an u 5 TemnT.VB 8:30 piT TOP HAT Special Cake A family cake as fresh and flavorsome as though right from your own oven. Two layer cakes, generously frosted and packed in a box. Full family size, only slxty-nin9 cents. At You Grocer's ;! mi i nmnMiln ill il AWOL CHARGED Robert Vitatoe, 18, U. S. Army, was arrested at the Smeed Hotel Thursday morning. He is In the county jail charged with being AWOL. 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