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la the community, endeavor g to be candid but fair and
hateful la the development of eons tructlTe community policy.
Suburban Blight
Proof that unplanned developments,
either in cities or suburban areas, are ex
pensive in the end, is contained in the news
that Montclair, N. J., a suburb of Newark,
is planning a big program of redevelopment.
Montclair, apparently, is making an early
attack on threatened blight but even so the
program is expected to cost $7 million.
Blight generally is thought of as a big
city problem and a major reason why people
move to the suburbs, but eventually it at
tacks the suburbs themselves.
White Plains and Rye, N. Y. are other,
communities launching programs to elimi
nate and prevent blight. All three are com
posed mainly, of commuters and their fam
ilies. They work in the cities but prefer to
live in the suburbs, just as thousands who
work in Eugene and Springfield prefer to
live outside in an attempt to escape city
problems. East of the Willamette River is a
residential area already as large or larger
than Astoria.
. Of the $7 million to be spent at Montclair,
$4 million would be devoted exclusively to
blocking blight by urban redevelopment.
This would be coupled with planning educa
tion carried on through neighborhood associ
ations, organized to protect and improve local
property.
To further stabilize property values,
Montclair planning board recommends in
creased capital investment in schools, recre
ation facilities and off-street parking lots.
More stringent zoning regulations also are
proposed.
Increased capital investment in schools is
an effective means of helping to assure a
high type development in new areas. Such
schools as the Eugene district's new Colin
Kelly Junior High School always attract a
high type of residents to their neighborhoods.
But a good school itself is no guarantee that
developments which cause blight will not
move in, too.
Taxpayers of Eugene have a considerable
investment in the Kelly school an invest
ment which needs protection from develop
ments of the type which destroy values. Thus
Eugene taxpayers have a financial interest
in the orderly development of the region
around this fine new school, even though it
is outside the city.
Now that the State Legislature has
adopted the county zoning bill, residents of
rural areas can set up machinery for zoning
to protect their property values and invest
ments. Fortunately this measure was enacted
before blight. had bitten very deeply into
such fringe regions as the one around the
Kelly school. But it is not difficult to find
spots in the Eugene-Springfield area where
blight already has attacked, with consequent
destruction of values.
By prompt action, suburban areas of Lane
County can insure themselves against such
financial loss as has occurred in communities
like Montclair, where they are planning to
spend $7 million to restore values which
might have been preserved by proper plan
ning and more stringent zoning.
A dietitian says breakfast should be eaten
in silence. Meaning before the kids get up?
WASHINGTON LETTER
By PETER EDSON
NBA Washington Correspondent
SOCIETY. WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS
By ANN CONN ELL -
How Much Should Prices Be Cut?
WASHINGTON, April 21 (NBA) Revived
White House concern over high prices Is something
of i paradox. Six months later you may find people
worrying because prices are too low.
Economic prophets are a dime dozen now.
They are about the only thing on the market which
is cheap. Their predictions run all the way from
continuing boom, through varying stages of tempor
ary recession, to inevitable bust. The reader can
take hi nick. Probable truth of the matter is that
nobody really knows what's ahead and there isn't
much that anybody could do about it it ne aia.
Even the President has admitted that all he can
use to help force prices down is moral suasion. It's
never very effective.
Right after price control were taken off last
June, there was a lot of loose chatter about how
the good housewife would force prices down by her
moral suasion. The theory was that if housewives
refused to pay high prices, sellers would be forced
to cut prices. As every customer and his cats and
dogs well know, it hasn't worked that way. Prices
kept going right on up. .
Today's real problem is to keej! prices from
going any higher. The higher prices go the greater
the danger because price changes always tend to
overshoot themselves. When rising, they go too
high. When falling, they go through the bottom.
Wanted: Magic Wand With Instructions
The trick that business must perform today in
avoiding disaster is to reduce prices so gradually
that the country can absorb a little deflation with- j
out a crash. As the president said, they've got free !
enterprise now let's see if they can make it work.
If someone around the White House had a
magic wand to wave over prices and force them
down, he would be hard put to know Just how
much waving to do.
Theer is no one price index that takes in all
farm, factory, and business activity in the U. S.
Based on 1939 prices as being 100, the consumers'
price index today stands at 153. Wholesale prices
are 176. Industrial production is 188. Construction
activity it 254. Cash farm income is 266. Factory
payrolls are 320. Freight car loadings are 150, and
department store sales are 260. Averaging them
doesn't mean a thing, even when the figures are
"weighted" to give each its proper proportion in
the economy.
But take the Bureau of Labor Statistics consum
ers' price Index as the most familiar figure of the
lot. It shows prices of consumers' cost of living
items for moderate income families in the larger
cities to be 53 per cent higher than they were in
1939.
There is general agreement that the prices mak
ing up this index aren't going to come down until
there is more than enough of everything food,
furniture, housing, clothing, and so on to go
around.
Job Ahead for Free Enterprise
If maximum employment and production are
maintained, there can be an increase of supplies
for consumers, and there will be enough purchasing
power to soak it up. Say that a 10 per cent increase
in production would do this trick.
The question then would become: How much
should prices be dropped so as to absorb this extra
production and still maintain a stable economy,
without a crash and without even a recession?
A few economists who have worked on this
problem have come up with an answer of from 7
to 8 per cent. In other words, if the consumers'
price index cguld be dropped from 10 to 13 points
down to 140 or 143, it would be a healthy thing for
the whole economy.
This was where the index stood last Julv. That
was Just after the first round of postwar strikes
and wage increases was over. Wage adjustments
maae up to mat time were supposed to cover the
increases in the cost of living up to that time.
Things were supposed to be on an even keel..
If the country hadn't been so anxious to get out
from under price controls and if Congress hadn't
killed them off, the index might have stayed around
140.
The job still ahead of the free enterprise system
to to get prices back to that level with a minimum
of disturbance. If it doesn't, well as Harry Truman
says another round of wage Increases would be
justified.
Wiltshire enfravlnc
MISS 81XIJMAN
The engagement of M1m Jo
anna Marie SllUman to Frank S.
Lesiak, Jr., hes been told. Their
wedding Is to take plaee In June.
: Salem Club Invites
Obsidians to Party
Obsidians have been invited by
the Chemekatans of Salem to at
tend a picture party April 24 at
8 pjn. in Englewood School audi
torium, Nineteenth and Nebraska
on., saiem.
TCnrlnhrAme sn On...
from all parte of Oregon will be
shown. A small admission will
be charged.
COLLEGE CREST CLUB
PLANS PARTY
- Collect Crpst rVwnm
Will be held Thnrsrfflv vn1na
the clubhouse. This is to be a cov
ered dish dinner, for entire fam
.ilies, and will be served at seven
o'clock. A program will follow the
dinner, and games will be played
later. All families in the com
munity are welcome.
MEETING POSTPONE)
Annual meeting of the Ellen
Hawkins Club, scheduled for
Wednesday afternoon has been
postponed until April 30. Meeting
place will be announced later.
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Electrlo Cleaners, 1210 Willamette
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9x12 Rugs Cleaned. Electric
Cleaners, 1210 Willamette St
SEWING CLASSES
START TUESDAY
A new class in the making of
draperies, bed spreads and other
home accessories will begin at
Eugene Vocational School April
a.
The class will meet from one to
four o'clock each Tuesday after
noon for six weeks. It will be on
the "workshop" basis, each student
bringing her own materials.
A new class in home decorating
will open April 23, to meet from
seven to nine-thirty o'clock Wed
nesday evenings for six weeks,
Persons interested in enrolling
may sign up at the school. Fourth
and Madison Streets.
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BOARD TO MEET
F.YPlli1vJk Ttftirfl A rantl
Presbyterian Women's Union will
meet in fellowship wall Tuesday,
at two o ciock.
GETCHELL CLUB pf Royal
Neighbors of America will meet
Thursday afternoon at one
thirty o'clock for dessert with
Mrs. C. E. Smith, 445 Nine
teenth Avenue West. Mrs. W. E.
Barker will assist.
AUXILIARY to Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen will meet
for its social afternoon meeting
Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Max Powers for a one o'clock
dessert. Assisting the hostess
will be Mrs. Joe Nicholson and
Mrs. Frank Porter.
NEEDLE CLUB of the Wom
en's Relief Corps is to meet with
Mrs. Howard Finner, 1091
Eleventh Avenue West, Wednes
day afternoon it two o'clock.
SELBY
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DAMES CLUB MEETING
ON CAMPUS TUESDAY
University of Oregon . Dames
Club will meet Tuesday evening
at eiehl o'clock at th vwre.
Bungalow on the campus. The
topic ior discussion this week will
be "Home Decoration," led by
Miss Valliere Decker of the. Home
Economics department.
All wiVM nf nnlvietfo hiA.l.
are invited to attend and to join
in the discussion.
HELMETTA CLUB of Py
thian Sisters will meet Wed
nesday at the home of Mrs. J.
M. Spurgin, 365 Seventeenth
Avenue West for a six-thirty
potluck dinner. The committee
in charge is Mrs. Spurgin, Mrs.
Ralph Ward, Mrs. Francis
Shrode, Mrs. R. M. Bedortha,
Mrs. David Ward and Mrs. T.
T. Parker. The evening will be
spent playing games.
Mrs. Lewis Myers, 1775
Eleventh Avenue West, will be
hostess for the War Relief Sew
ing Group of Helmetta Temple
Monday evening at seven-thirty
o'clock.
1
FRIENDLY BIBLE CLASS
will meet with Mrs. R. P. Sut
ton, 745 Nineteenth Avenue
East, Friday afternon at twelve
thirty o'clock. The monthly
Sunday School party is planned.
WOMEN'S UNION of Fair
mount Presbyterian Church will
meet at the church Thursday af
ternoon at two o'clock. Mrs.. H.
S. Wingard and Mrs. Ralph Pat
terson are hostesses.
VFW Auxiliary
Installs Officers
Before more than two hundred
members of Willamette Post, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, the Auxili
ary and guests from Drain, Cot
tage Grove, Creswell, Marcola,
Springfield and Junction City,
Mrs. Eldon Olin was installed as
president of the local auxiliary
for the coming year, Thursday
evening. Serving with her will be
senior vice-president, Mrs. Bess
Harnden; junior vice-president,
Mrs. Leonard Jensen; secretary,
Mrs. Charles Humphrey, treasurer,
Mrs. Walter Burkhardt; chaplain,
Mrs. William Wise; conductress,
Mrs. Robert Hill; assistant con
ductress, Mrs. W. L. Cameron;
guard, Mrs. L. L. Overton; three
year trustee, Mrs. William White;
color bearers, Mrs. Allen D. Jes
sen, Mrs. Thomas W. Keiss, Mrs.
Robert E. Wiltshire and Mrs. F. D.
Witbeck. flag bearer, Mrs. Maxine
Walls; banner bearer, Mrs. George
Heddinger; historian, Mrs. Thomas
Wil'' ims; patriotic Instructor,
Mrs. Thomas E. Morarity, and mu
sician, Mrs. William D. Elkins.
Mrs. Lester Hill, department
junior vice-president was install
ing officer. She was assisted by
six past presidents of the auxili
ary, Mrs. Louisa Conner, conduc
tress; assistant conductress, Mrs.
Arthur Schneider; color bearers,
Mrs. Ross Beeson, Mrs. Bessie
Marshall, Mrs. Frank Clark and
Mrs. Leory Peterson.
With the exception of Mrs.
Harnden, who is a World War II
mother, Mrs. Burkhardt, Mrs. Wise
and Mrs. White, all of the offi
cers of Willamette Auxiliary for
the coming year are wives of
World War II veterans.
Mrs. Olin appointed the follow
ing committee chairmen: ways
and means, Mrs. Archie Matlock;
Red Cross, Mrs. Ross Beeson. pop
py chairman, Mrs. Arthur Lind
strum; rehabilitation, Mrs. H. M.
Davenport; hospitality, Mrs. Will
iam White; membership, Mrs.
Leonard Jensen; hospital and
service officer, Mrs. Lee Moore;
Americanization, Mrs. Bess Harn
den; legislative, Mrs. Arthur
Schneider, cards and flowers, Mrs.
David Petersen; publicity, Mrs.
Ross Beeson.
Refreshments were served fol
lowing the Installation,
SOCIAL CLUB of Auxiliary
to Sons of Union Veterans will
meet Friday afternoon with
Mrs. Minnie Furman, 248 Fifth
Avenue West, at two o'clock.
Mrs. Myra Coombs will be as
sistant hostess.
Operatic Program
To Be Presented
By Music Students
Selections from "La Traviata"
and "Der Rosenkavelier" will be
Included In a program of vocal
music to be presented Thursday
evening in the University of Ore
gon's music school auditorium un
der the direction of German Gel
hausen, associate professor of
voice. '
A scene from act two of Verdi's
popular opera, "La Traviata," will
be offered by Clair Lewis, Camas,
Wash., in the role of Violetta, and
William Putnam, Albany, as
Germont. They will be accom
panied by Johnette King of North
Bend- . j
The trio and duet from Richard
Strauss' "Der Rosenkavelier" will
be sung by Virginia Walker,
Portland, as Marschallin; Ann
Revee Whitaker, Seattle, as So
phie; and Mary Louise Stone,
Creswell, as Octavian. Mary Mar
garet Dundore, Portland, will be
accompanist.
Bach's "The Coffee Cantata"
will be presented by Helen Tims,
Portland as Lieschen; James bc
Mullen, Junction City, as
Sphlendrlan: and Lowell Chase,
Eugene, as the Narrator. The uni
versity a-capella chorus, under
the direction of Donald W. Allton,
assistant professor in the music
school, will assist, and Patricia
Metcalf Chase, Eugene, will be
accompanist.
Six love songs, by Jonannea
Brahms, will be sung by Helen
Thorburn and Phillip Green, bom
of Portland; Eleanor Culver, Mar
garet McAdams, Lowell Chase,
and Jack Naff, all of Eugene.
Elizabeth Nelson, Salem; and
William O'Leary, Grants Pass.
Accompanists will be Mrs. Chase
and Mary Nash, Dash Point, Wash.
duh (alendt
MARINE WOMEN
PLAN MEETING
The new women's auxiliary to
Gerald Dwain Herbert detach
ment, U. S. Marine- Corps, will
meet Monday evening at eight
o'clock at the Armory. Mrs. Helen
Strong is president
Wiltshire enfravlns.
MR.. MRS. WALKER
A wedding of late March la
Portland was that of Mr. and
Mn. EJden G. Walker of Port
land, the bride (Doris Craig)
formerly of Drain.
Garden Club
Plans Meeting
"District meeting of the Oregon
Federation of Garden Club will
be held in Eugene, Tuesday, April
22 with Eugene Garden Club en
tertaining clubs of the Willamette
district. Mrs. George P. Saunders
vice-president of this district, an
nounces that registration will take
place at the Osburn Hotel meeting
room, at ten o'clock. The all day
session will be held at this hotel
with a no-host luncheon also
served there.
Mrs. C. A. Wilhclm, state presi
dent of the Oregon federation will
be the featured speaker for the
program. ' State officers from
Portland, Corvallis and Albany are
also expected to be present. Mrs,
Dudley Holland and Mrs. John
Kalkhoven of the Eugene Club
will serve at chairman of the hos
pitality committee. Mrs. J. Ern
est Brunton, president of the Eu.
gene club is general chairman.
CARD PARTY HMr.
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ROBES
Jersey, cotton
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PANTIK
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PAJAMAS
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GOWNS crape, shear., and cotton 1-98 to 191
SLACKS assorted colors and sites 3.98 to RK
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Tuesday
Graduate Regents of Women
of the Moose, with Mrs. Claud
Allumbaugh, 8 p. m.
Willamette Women's Post of
American Legion, Armory, eve
ning. Circles of Women's Society of
Christian Service, First Metho
dist Church, 1:15 p. m.
American Legion Auxiliary,
River Road Women's clubhouse,
evening.
Eagles Auxiliary, Eagles Hall,
8 p. m.
First Division of St. Mary's
Catholic Altar Society, with
Mrs. Sam Watson, 2 p.m.
Letter Csivic-r's Auxiliary,
with Mrs. Wayne Lewis, 7:80 p.
m. j
McKenzle River Masons and
Blue River Chapter, OES, Joint
potluck, 6:30 p. m.
Y's Wives, Community Center,
2:30 p. m.
Credit Women's Breakfast
Club's Intra-City club break
fast, Osburn Hotel, 7:30 a. m.
AAUW CONVENTION
IN 1949 AT SEATTLE
Seattle will be host to the Am
erican Association of University
Women at their next biennial con
vention in 1949.
Selection of the Pacific North
west city featured closing sessions
of this year's convention at Dallas,
Texas last week. Dr. Altnea Kratz
Hottel of Philadelphia was named
association president and Mrs. Enc
Allen Johnston of Spokane, Wash.,
North Pacific regional vice presi.
dent.
ALUMNAE TO MEET
Alpha Phi alumna will meet
Monday evening for a work ses
sion in the clothing laboratory of
Chapman Hall. Plans will be dis
cussed for installation of the Ore
gon State College chapter of the
sorority at Corvallis, In May.
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