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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.
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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
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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.
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Work, all Antique Ware!
As a specially, have your
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to a beautifully shining
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modern use.
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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
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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 $
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bomnea veterans or J
World War Two $ep!.H JM"l
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Stale and Local Government
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(9 a. m. to 2 p. m. except Sunday)
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