Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, September 13, 1946, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text5 f ? ! i: 'i ' i'j'i'" 1 :i 1.4 ,":!' . ! 1 'i ' : S. i. ; A ,i:m ' ..Hyi : i its it: '!: mi liiii fm f, BMftM Btrbtor-gairJ. US, English Chiefs Will Work Together WASHINGTON W Pres Went Truman'i offhand disclosure thit the wartime military collaD oration of the United States and Britain ii to remain intact for a time nroduced little surprise in this capital Friday. But what significance, if any, might be read into It by other world poweri remained an open question. The chief executive was taked at a news conference Thursday if it could be assumed that the com bined chiefs of staff the group of high military and naval com manders of the two nation! who collaborated in planning and pros, ecu tine World War II would con. tinue in existence until the war's end was proclaimed officially. There is, said the President, nothing significant in the visit of the British enter or stair to me United States except that It is a friendly gesture. Elderly Woman Sees, Kills Opposum; Yawns CHESTER, 111 on Miss Marie Marlen got out ot bed and went to her chicken house to find out the reason for the clucking and crowing in the middle of the night. . The 83-year-old woman found full grown opposum killing one of her chickens. She grabbed the marauder by the neck and chopped off its head. Then she dressed the slain Chicken and went back to bed. Diamond Retrieved By Family's Canine MOLMTWOOB WJ Mr!. Doris Hobson's dog Duffy rates an extra ration of hard-to-get hamburger. Mrs. Hobson discovered the diamond in her engagement ring was missing after a shopping trip. Her husband three sisters accompanied her' on a futile search and returned home gloomily. Duffy was there to greet them, but he had something wrong with one foot Wedged in the paw wai the missing diamond. A Ilmburger cheese - miffing contest was held in Monroe, Wis., in 1833. EUGENE HOME PLANNERS INSTITUTE New members may register September Kth and 17th t Chamber of Commerce. New registration limited to 100 for this valuable tree erlee ot expert talks on home-bulldlng. First meeting September 18th, 7:30 P. M., Woodrow Wilson School. New members will be greet ed and old ones welcomed back. k Entire Court FREE Supporting Members Here are the names of the many farsighted Eugene and Springfield firms who al ready through their finan cial support are making the FREE classes of the EU GENE HOME PLANNER'S INSTITUTE available to the people of Lane County. As additional firms make con tributions, their names will be published. Ollbert Bros. CAS Electric Rees Electric Moiin Lumber Co. Twin Oaks Builder Supply Lone-Bell Lumber Co. Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. 1st National Bank of Eugene Broadway, Inc. Russell's U.S. National Bank of Eugene 1st Federal Savings A Loan Security Savings and Loan J. C. Penney Co. Millers Dept. Store Lane County Abstract Co. Title Abstract Co. McDaniel Lumber Co. Giustina Lumber Co. Equitable Saving A Loan Pacific First Federal Savings Loan Sterling Furniture Co. Johnson Furniture Co. Rubensteln Furniture Co, Percy Bentley Eocene Realty Board Seobert Building Material Co. J. W. Boesnana Lumber Co. Nagle Lumber Co. I. O. Olsen Mfg. Co. Mdgley rUnrng Milt Karens Planing Mill Stephens Planing Mill Brighter Homes Store C P. Tillman Goff Meetrie Ce. Oraheaa B. Smith Om Owes Lusher Ce. Eugene Chamber of Commerce Eairene. Ore.. Friay. pt. , mm THE TALLEST BUILDING In trees and other buildings on Fourth of the new $500,000 feed mill and building la nine stories (na'i icei) shire engraving. Construction of Feed Mill, Elevators Nearly Complete Construction of the new $500, 000 feed mill and elevators on Fourth Ave. W, has been virtually completed, Dan Earl, manager of the Pacific Cooperative Poultry Producers Assn., said Friday. In stallation ot machinery will begin very soon. Construction of the nine-story, 149-foot high building, has re quired almost a year. Earl said. Construction of the elevators was begun Sept. 15, 1945. The new plant, which has a 250,000-bushel storage capacity, Earl said, will, when completed, Motor Companies Halt Light Car Construction DETROIT (IP) General Motors Corp. and the Ford Motor Co. disclosed Friday that they have halted operations on pro jected new low priced, lighter weight passenger automobiles. GM, which planned to market the new vehicle through its Chev rolet division, announced that preparations for the new vehicle had been halted until the basic materials situation plaguing the industry may have improved, he Ford announcement said merely that its light car division had been discontinued about 30 days ago. Approximately one-third of the entire aiea of the United States consists of forest lands. Featured Friday and Sat. at your Safeway Market In Eugene, Springfield, Junction City and Cottage Grove Fancy A A, 4-H Club blue ribbon beef purchased at the Oregon Slat Fair. Yes, and bust ol all, this fancy beef Is being sold at Safe way's regular everyday prices. Shop at your nearest Safeway Market today take home a butter-tender steak or a delldoue mouth-watering roast cut from these 4-H Oregon Stale Fair Blue Ribbon Beef. Your Safeway Slore at 13th and Willamette and Springfield Junction will continue to remain open Sundays for your convenience. wmJIv SiSI cJLfo, Jitf& A 1. A v UiA..JtT .JUS. unJWL Eugene reared Its head above the Ave. W. this week as construction elevators reached completion. The tan. (negisier-uuara pnoio, wui' produce 120 tons of mash per day and will be the largest feed mill and elevators in Lane County and one of the most modern on the Pacific Coast Also to be constructed at the Fourth Ave. W. location is a large feed warehouse and an egg ware' house, Earl said. The new plant is the only Pacific Cooperative Poultry Producers Assn. feed mill and elevators outside Portland and will have about three times the storage capacity of the asso ciation's mills in Portland, Earl said. 80,000 Board Feet Of Lumber Said Stolen With lumber at a premium, Eu gene police are attempting to track down 80,000 board feet of lumber reportedly stolen from the Arkloy Lumber Co. here. Police Chief L. L. Pittenger said Friday that the lumber failed to show on the company's inventory. He said it apparently had been taken from the yard after hours and that the lumber was missing on the company's inventory for the month ot August. It Is said that ground squirrels are potent carriers of deadly plague germs. The United States uses more rubber than all other countries of the world combined. ft 3 Police School Works On Simulated Crimes The usually peaceful Hendricks Park among the hills of east Eu ffiw wm Kwarminz with police officers and FBI men Friday morning as delegates to the Ore gon Police Officer's Training School went to work solving "make-believe" crimes. Complete with dummy bodies, cameramen, and crime detection equipment, the officers made tneir "arrests" and prepared to argue their cases before a moot court Friday afternoon. Friday evening the 82 delegates from 22 western Oregon commun ities will be guests at. a banquet at the Osburn Hotel. Orlando John Hollis, dean of the University f Oregon law school will speaK. The six-day training session will be concluded Saturday morn ing with firearms demonstration, with a member of the FBI in structing. Chancellor Packer Arrives in Eugene (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) cupy the residence, here provided tor the chancellor. Dr. Packer's career includes service as a teacher in Iowa public schools for 11 years and he held the position of superintendent of Detroit public schools for two years. For a year he was acting director of educational research in Detroit. He had received his bachelor's degree from the Uni versity of Iowa in 1918, master's from the University of Michigan in 1921 and his doctorate from Columbia in 1923. Since then he has been at Iowa. Commission Member In 1936 he was a member of a two-man commission which made a survey of the University of the Philippines, and in 1941 aided in reorganization of the University of Vermont. He is a veteran of the last World War and served from January, 1943, until recently, as e lieutenant colonel with the Army's information and educa tion division. The new chancellor succeeds Dr. Frederick M. Hunter, who had asked to retire. Dr. Packer is a member of the National Educa' tion Assn., National Society tor the Study of Education, American Association of School Adminis trators, National Society of Col lege Teachers ot Education, Phi Delta Kappa and Rotary Club. . 22 Eugene Girls Win Greek Pledge Pins (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) ens, both ot Reedsport; Maxine Landon, Sweethome. ALPHA GAMMA DFLTA: Ann Collins, Bernice Oakes and Ju dith Potter, all of Eugene; Nancy Gleason, Lebanon: Augusta John son, Springfield. ' ALPHA OMICRON PI: Dorothy Chapman and Lorene Gresham, both Eugene. ALPHA PHI: Jeanne Fryden- lund, Eugene. CHI OMEGA: Phyllis Hlxon, Pat Lochner and Greta Skillern, all of Eugene. DELTA DELTA DELTA Elaine Terry, Eugene; Marie Lom bard, Cottage Grove; Beverly Belle-Isle, Junction City. DELTA GAMMA Anne Hinds, Phyllis Morgan, both of Eugene; Peggy Dye, Reedsport. x DELTA ZETA Mary E. Hen- drickson, Eugene; Gayle R. Ja cobs, Harrisburg; Patty Mauney, Springfield. GAMMA PHI BETA Pat Sterling, Eugene. KAPPA ALPHA THETA Sally Waller, Eugene; Alice Elii abeth Jones, Springfield. KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA Luwayne Engwall, Virginia Fletcher and Sally Moore, all of Eugene; Phyllis Henry and Pa tricia Thompson, both ot Spring field. ZETA TAU ALPHA Lauretta Williams, Eugene; Beverly Ben ton, Cottage Grove. Chartered Flights Set For Portland-Hawaii PORTLAND W The Matson Navigation Company will run a round-trip chartered flight be tween Portland and Honolulu once a week, officials said Thursday. The first airplane ot the sched ule was to arrive here Friday and leave for the islands next week. Decision to fly the unscheduled! runs came after the Civil Aero nautics Board denied Matson a regular schedule permit and the subsequent flying of two trial charter hops. Health Bulletin Reports Two Lane Polio Cases There were two cases of polio myelitis in Lane County for the week ending Sept. 7, it was re ported in the bulletin of the state board of health this week. The death figure from all com municable diseases in the county during July was 10, with six re sulting from pneumonia-influenza, two from tuberculosis, one each from syphilis and whooping cough. Infant deaths In the county dur ing July totalled five, with the total for the first seven months of 1946 set at 32. For the same period in 1945, there were 21 deaths. . The acanthodian. a fish that lived on earth millions of years ago. was the first creature to have Delivery Factor Speed Guided United Press Staff Correspondent WASHlNUiUW Vl.ni now 10 deliver the atomic bomb swiftly nnri aiirAlv tn imemv targets Per haps thousands of miles away ap pears to be .the most urgent con cern of the U. S. military high command. Two official announcements support this belief. One was White VM.mm it4e.ln.or. that th tflint chiefs of staff have decided to put off indefiintely tne tnira aiomic irh had been tenta tively scheduled or next April at Bikini. Ships To Carry TVia nlhw lira. KflW Sn- nonncement that the uncompleted 45,000-ton battleship Kentucky anc 27,000-ton battle cruiser Ha waii would be made into "guided ni'ssile warships." With what it nas ten 01 men th hish command now evidently intends to concen trate on development of long- iana mlaallM for delivering the bomb. In the months to come It will employ its dwindling re sources primarily to -this end in stead of scattering them to con tinue studies into the already proved capacity of splitting atoms to destroy. . Survey Reveals Proportions Of Shortages, Unemployment BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Meat is the scarcest food item in the nation's cupboard; hundreds of thousands of workers are un employed in strike-hit cities, and the housing shortage nas reacnea critical proportions in many com munities. These facts were disclosed Fri day in a nation-wide survey con ducted by the Associated Fress. Samplings of conditions in cit ies from coast to coast also showed that the family larder was short of sugar, soaps, fats and oils. Housing Needed In the housing field, public housing authorities said they had long waiting lists from applicants for practically non-existing living quarters, and that apartments were "impossible to find" in some places. Seattle Strikes, three, Involv ing 2,750 persons. Unemployment: state agency figures show 60,000 out of work in the entire state; Cargo Plane Delivers Load of Plywood (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) p.m. Before loading, the airline permitted persons on the field to make an inspection of the plane's interior. Plywood Sheets The plywood was in 770 four by seven-foot sheets, which were loaded by backing the truck up to the door of the plane. Loading was supervised by Ed Anderson, shipping foreman for Springfield Plywood Corp. and by United Air Lines engineers. The plane took off at 9:40 p.m.. and the pilot was ordered to circle Eugene for five minutes to make certain the load was properly balanced. The pilot, Capt Guy Cain, reported shortly after take off that everything was in perfect order, and the plane landed safe ly at 12:47 a.m., just three hours and seven minutes after takeoff. 57,000 Founds At takeoff the huge C-230, sim ilar to the Army C-54. weighed 57,000 pounds. C. A. Eberhardt. United Air Lines station manager, said the next shipment will be made Mon day, with the plane landing at 8 a.m. and taking off at 11 a.m. The pilot of the plane. Cant. Guy Cain, is a veteran Army pi lot wno participated in the inva sion ot Sicily. Richard Johnston Flies from Shanghai Richard (Pick) Johnston, Shanghai representative for Time and Life Magazine, and former Register-Guard staff member, ar rived in Eugene by plane Thurs day alternoon from Shanghai. After receiving word of the ill ness of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Johnston, he left Shanghai Mon day and arrived here only tour days later. The diamond was used in the ancient world as an antidote for poison. DOUBLE COCKPIT MOTOR BOAT Christ Craft design Inboard speedboat, new red leather up holstering in double cockpit, recent motor overhaul, new propeller and drive shaft. Fort Orford cedar hull with recent paint job inside and out. natural finish with clear varnish and red bottom. SISOt.te cash. A. R. HAWLEY Phone 4787-W In the Evenings CALL VALLEY LBR. SALES Your lumber Doctor Specialising in Shiplap Dimensions and Timbers. Estimates Figured Prompt Service 131 West 8th Pb,4817-W Sees Military Missile Tests Obviously other factors demo bilization of trained scientific and service personnel, money cost, and the successful Able and Baker nav tests at Bikini entered into the decision to cancel preparations for a deep underwater test next spring. Rut the most comrjelling factor I appeared to be the urgent desire of both major brancnes 01 tne mil itary to speed development of the nnth-hutton weaDons with which many persons believe a .third world war would oe lougnt Push Research Determined never again to en ter a new war with weapons of the last one, both the Army ana navy have been pushing research into oniH.ri missiles. Both ere con vinced that such weapons re motely controlled oy raoio, equip ped with atomic warheads, and ..nakia nt snnTiiilnff oceans and continents are feasible and in evitable. Both want the United States to perfect the new weapons first. Tjt tViA Nm fears it may fall behind the Army in its studies. While the Bikini atom bomb tests were being 'held the Army was shooting off V-2 rockets in the iNew Mexican desert. housing: public housing authorityy director said body has had a steady list of 2,400 applicants for project homes each month this year. Portland Noted Portland, Ore. Strikes: mari time affecting possibly 5,000 per sons. Unemployment: USES esti mated 17,000 jobless. Foods: pork, lard and honey scarcest items. Housing: scarce with apartments "almost impossible to find." Salt Lake City Food: meat, ex cept lamb, scarcest item. Strikes: none. Unemployment: 2,578 re ceiving unemployment, readjust ment benefits. Housing: mayor's committee says 4,500 units need ed. War housing agency says 1600 units needed. San Francisco Food: Meat scarcest. Strikes live. 14,000 on strike affecting 260 firms with an estimated 184,000 laid off. Hous ing: Chamber of Commerce esti mates housing is short 35,000 family units. Wfiere, Oft Where Has My Little Car Gone? ST. JOSEPH, Mo. OP) Three days ago Orville Rosso's car broke down near here as he and his family were on the way from Kansas City to Fort Dodge, He sent his family home and had the car hauled into a farm yard. Later when he tried to di rest a mechanic to the car he couldn't remember how to get back to the farm. For three days he and police, covered every mile of every gravel road in the area with no success. At last, Adelrick Heng--geler called the police and asked them to help find the man who had left the car in his farm yard. North America contains 25 spe cies of Ludwigiz, a bog plant. LIGHTING FIXTURES! On Our Meszanlne V ELECTRIC iJ 1070 Willamette Phone 284 BAftGER ELECTROPLATING COMPANY Plating Expertly Done en Silver, Chrome, NlckeL Copper Also Fine Burnishing Work, all Antique Ware! As a specially, have your old Aladdin lamps burnished to a beautifully shining brass and electrified for modern use. CALL AT 1529't WiilMMtte Street or Phone 551-1 FourJng THRU srvic in av .aTar m m m w linking California, .Oregon, and Washington Ce ea yew frhndly Trelrweys agent of 957, Pearl Street Phone 15408 WEST COAST TBAILWATS JAMES M. MORRIS, whose ap pointment as manager of the state owned radio station KOAC was announed recently. A former local resident, he is a graduate of Eu. gene High SchooL Springfield School Schedule Announced SPRINGFIELD All Spring. field grade schools from the first to the eighth grades will be in session all day Monday, Sept. 16. Buses will run their regular schedule. The high school registration will continue Monday for grades nine to twelve. The first full day of school will be Sept. 17. Pupils who completed their registration Thursday or Friday need not re port until Tuesday at 8:30 . m. Oregon Unemployment Continues to Decline PORTLAND (U.R) The number of jobless persons in Ore gon continues to decline, figures from the U. S. Employment Serv ice Labor Market- Bulletin showed Friday. A report on July conditions listed 32,000 unemployed, includ ing 10,000 veterans and. 9000 wo men. Will at 1434 WILLAMETTE ST, Equipment formerly We will cleat used by Ditter the Hatter your hat by facte will be used in our shop. ode for only Si JjO. COMIM OAKO rTfa OOVT. SAII JfcsttVjfJ OWNED no. 4 tumut BARGAIN For Veterans and Priority Groups (L (Future ads will announce date of sale el rtsUej non-priority buyers) -FEATURING- Parka Jackets .. $MW Shirrs and Drawer .'. $ MM Bedding (Mlse.) .$ IW Textiles (Misc.) $ JIM Miscellaneous: Shirts, trousers, raincoats, leather, rubber and felt boots, shoe repair accessories, canvas-bam. eJuffol.hnni fasd.Baas. utility-bags, and many otners $ CHECK YOUR DATE! bomnea veterans or J World War Two $ep!.H JM"l .... M Ml K.r.t. tor small Businesses . r'''7 Stale and Local Government Non-profit Institution (9 a. m. to 2 p. m. except Sunday) War Assets Administratis GEOP6E A Bill I EP COMPANY' .w . ... . . l . ... . . - . nl 41 wooer lonrraci vena ffu wn botpim 1710 SOUTH MDWOOD ROAD SALT IAKI CITY li P. O. IOX 134 redenl newTaTr-conditioned bu$s Mr. and m 3 Mr. and Mrs. C tlN agents for the OrJ?i Insurance Co from Timberita?S Hood, whereVS three day annuZj agents of the of 14 agents, ""ting. BtS !!ent in orgiS teenwithe . WASHINGTON JH Went Truman k..? ""I weel of Oct. There inth." SWIFTS .-! DrH v., iik.. J Nov. and Dec, Ideal . 1 Swift's HaJ 5th and Hlih pj NATURAL wij HEALTH 1 IHtJ mini yountl! and m. victor r. svor Phyilothtrtplii Member, ol Aatfaik Hon of Hcdltu MumH , . t'r Attala I Appointment, WMwiJ SWED1SI tMiui" U Barapton Bldf. as m 3 THE MAT SH Open Sora Over $3,000! Low Fixed M Salt at tin I Writ lap Catalan anil Price! " DIAL 7-H" I DLD-TIIU1 .raciobsi: i bid a lower jaw. W if.'! WW::