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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
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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.
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