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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1947)
1 Page 2, Regisffr-Guard. Eugene. Ore.. Monday. July ?t. 1947 Medal Found Oil Farm Proves Valuable Relic Farm Labor Office Swamped With Prospective Bean Pickers PITTSBURGH U'J An old bras medal, passed from hand to hand fine It waa dug out of the mud on a MassJilon, O, (arm 40 years ago has been revealed aJ a valuable museum piece. Float Entries Pass Record One hundred fourteen hive been entered In the Eugene's Farm Labor Office waa swamped with requests for re ferrals to bean fields Monday morning, but most of the esti mated 150 persons who applied were destined to wait until the bean crop la more fully matured nil week. Bean Grower Clf m Howell of Goodpasture Island waa tha first to haul a load of pickers from Eugene Monday. Farm Labor Assistant Kenneth Arney said oth er growers are waiting to learn how many pickers will drive to the fields, before making provi sions to haul the pickers from tha city. "We don't want proapactlva bean pickers to become discour aged," said Arney, pointing out that the crop is late and picking will not be In full swing until about August 1. The 150 who ap plied for work Monday Included both local persona and transients. Lnvi Lot Children's Platoon No. 1 will leave the Irlsh-Swartr parking lot at Tenth Ave. and Charnelton St. at 7 a. m. Tuesday. Tha first platoon wilt pick at the Fred Kingsley farm In the Norkenile District. Other platoons will not start picking until lata this week or early next week. Meantime, registration was un der way at Coburg Farm Labor Camp, which will open July 25. The camp Is for families only, and for bean pickers only. Tents and cabins owned by the growers sra rapidly filling up, but several good camping sites still are available for persons who have their own tents. Other types of farm work, aside from bean picklnf. are at a min imum. Only a few persons are being referred to farms for beet pulling, picklnf cucumbers, haying and combining. , "Tha bean picking situation def initely Is a lot different that It waa during tha last few years," siud Arney, pointing out that sup ply and demand are beginning to equalize. j The credit for Identifying the Unla, Pi0nw p3Tzritthe work or a lO'.n cemury iiauan M sculptor goes to the Rev. Clarence af E. Macartney, pastor oi a rrrau- terian church here. floats Cen- larg- est Pioneer parade on record thus Wallace N. Wintler. chairman ' J , ' ' . . ... K . , of the event, said Monday that all The medal which bears the bust ,afrIrouneU of J original owner, was carved Thursday. He issued by Piatrod. Antonio Torregurd for vehicles com, , Fedengo di Montafeltro, Ouk. of surrounding countryside Urbino, Italy, in 14,4. It commem- .,.!,he hi.h. orsted the election of Montefeltrt f .1 , . Yh. r.. "-re "I" be choked with Uefflc to the British Order of the Garter. ' . . Farmer Finds Concrete Pays and It may take, longer than you anticipate to get to the fair- Those who have not yet received their parade position assignments in the mall are to be at the fair grounds at 9 s.m. Thursday, along with the rest The positions will be available there, Wintler said. Loudspeakers will help get the parsde assembled and FOR SALE !( Y4 Sborel with choice oi attachments. Six months use, 1-YcL Shorel and Dragline. 20-Ton Equipment Trailer, full or semi. Sell reason ably. Call EA 6028 Write P.O. Box 4821 Portland, Oregon To relieve bora. Itcb, sod stiof of PricVly Heat PERSPIRING SALESGIRLS NOW USI Ml Xf AN A ThceVt wonderful r-llef for all la MraMn on hot bumld Uy and nlfhtt. Halpt abtorb tcm pttpi ntloa that of ton cautM prickly heU minor kin ruhe. Prrvrnuchaiinf. Dujt Mutant, oo after bath. An excellent deodorant Relieve tirede aching feet and Itchy nuUanca or thlrtr' foot. Beat the ht with ... Economic Report Carries Warning (CONTI.VUKD TROM PAGE 1) fore the war, but the downward trend of his "real Income" in terms of what he can purchase stirs concern. Credit The rapid increase in consumer credit has slowed down; the present Increase can safely be continued through the year, but a more rapid increase would be "unhealthy." Inventories Stocks in the hands of retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers are at sound levels; "they csn probably Increase to some extent with safety." Home Building The number of new home started this year is "far below requirements." Con struction costs csn end "must" be lowered. The Taft-Wsgner-Ulen-der long-range housing bill, which would provide federal sld for low rental projects, "should be enacted without delay." Export Seventy-Eve per cent of the 1947 gain in national production was caused by the un expected boom In exports but for eign buying power is "likely soon to decline." Profit For the last six months, corporate profit, show sn average return of 10 per cent on net worth. CHICAGO D8 A Green field. 111., farmer made en extra sprawling profit of 19.4S2 by building a con- on its way. crete feed lot that kept his beef promptly at 10 e.m. the long cattle out of the mud. parade will leave the fairgrounds, Henry Longmeyer's barnyard, moving behind Grand Marshal like most of them In the middle jCal Young down Eleventh Ave. west, turns Into a quagmire In tha to Olive St., north on Olive to spring after the thaws and sea-I Seventh Ave., east on Seventh to sonal rains. He figured It was ; Willamette St., south on Wlllam costing him a lot of money with ett to Thirteenth Ave., and west the cattle losing weight by slosh- on Thirteenth to the fairgrounds, ing through the mud. Also a lot of i At Thirteenth and Willamette high priced corn wss wasted. Csl Young will step to the side Gained Weight ""d review the entire parsde the Tk. , ..a An first time In his life that the man something-even if it was expen- j who hss been chairman of every sive. 8o last fall he paved an srea 1 previous Pioneer Parsde will have 180 feet by 140 feet with concrete, j wm the psrsde using his regular hired man for ; - labor. The total cost was $3,800. in Defective War Shells December he put 480 head of cat tle on the floor to fatten for mar ket and fed them for 110 days. They gained an average of 2.0S pounds a day. Up to that time his steers never had picked up more than two pounds a day. I figure, Longmeyer said, Utah Opens Own Pageant SALT LAKE CITY Tr.e curtain goes up Monday night on Utah's centennial musical drama "Promised Valley," by Arnold Saundgaard, and before it csmes down on the last performance the 100th anniversary of the settling of Utah will have passed. Openir.g a major week irt the year long centennial celebration, the musical is being put on at a cost of $150,000 by Sundgaard.1 author of "Triple-A Plowed Under," and "Power," both pro duced by the federal theater pro ject of the old WPA. and ether nationally known directors. The Mormon tabernacle choir presented "The Restorstion" Sun day night, another feature in the crowded program of events for the centennial. Some 5000 boy scouts from all states of the West, Canada and Mexico opened encampment on the Fort Douglas reservation Monday, combining scout activi ties and competition with parti cipation in centennial events, in cluding the first of the two ma jor street parades scheduled for the coming week. A motorized trek of the sons of Utah pioneers which began at Nauvoo, 111., a week ago, will ar rive in Salt Lake City Tuesday after completing their modern day reproduction of the march of Mormon pioneers to Utah 100 years sgo. Forest Blaze " Nears Seward SEWARD. Alaska l The Kensi Peninsula forest fire which has consumed 400.000 acres of timber waa within 25 miles of Seward Monday. The blare was to the northwest of here and appeared to be veer ing to the southwest at its closest spprosch to the city. Citijens. Alaska Fire Control Service employes and soldiers pre pared to move into the heavy tim ber stands outside the city to con struct fire breaks to prevent the blaze from reaching Seward. Dayton GiUiland, pilot for the Pacific Flyways who arrived here with in injured fire fighter, said I the fire was moving southward j along a 50-mile front and was ap- preaching the Kasilof River. Fred j Rinaidi. the Injured man. suffered a broken pelvis when he was knocked down a mountainside by a rolline boulder. Rinaidi reported that weary sol diers from Ft. Richardson near Anchorage had apparently saved Kenai village on the northwest tip of the peninsula. They bulldozed a wide fire break and started back fires Sunday. Rinaidi said the fire was so hot that soldiers were forced to spray Laid to Candy Bars DENVER (U.X The GI headache of Jamming machine gun cartridges hss been laid at the door of an American institution the candy bsr. J. L. Glllllland. Jr.. chief of the "that the concrete floor accounted i Denver laboratory of the bureau now jowis AvraAOis o. anna. ioxau, up Q.l. 0 Hlftor Crd lull. 110 4T, ue 0 H. 0 Sonil Or4 SUlll. SI M. up A M. 0 Publlr UttllMM. 107 7t. 110 A . ft Inrtutuuu, 104 41, us 0 08. for the extra 0.63 pounds per day per head, which made a total gain of 32,284 pounds for the 40$ head. With beef at 20 cents a pound, that mesnt I had a clear profit of $9,652 on the extra weight." Saved Manure Not only that, but the farmer was able to salvage all of the manure a total of 600 tons which of reclamation, lifted the lid on re search conducted Into the shells during the war years for the army The military sent e hurried plea for help when the faulty shells be gan jamming machine guns, some times at critical times. Gillilland's experts noticed small resln-Uke spots in the cases. Micro-chemical tests In the bu reau lttVwiratrtr rAttiltAjt In an Ar. he used to cover 60 acres. Manure, der to at glrls m the ,ctory. Po he figures. Is worth about $4 s ton, utely but fjrmly they w4Te Bskwl or In this esse $2,400. On a muddy not t0 Mt c,ndv wnll, they lot it would have been trampled i worksd. The days of the defective Into the earth and much of It lost. ! cartridge ended shortly thereafter. There was an sdded saving Inn- com, he says. His men noted thattn, J(1,d wei,ht o o,. cattJe." with the concrete underfoot, the Lon.,.,. ,,, ..,n(1 f,er oe hogt missed very Utile corn as , dung $3,600 for the cost of the they cleaned up after the cattle. ( lot, I still had a clear profit of "Adding the $2,400 vslue of the $9,452 on the one bunch of csttle manure to the $8,852 realized from alone." 23 -V r FOR ',Z Women's Shoes Only '2 PAIRS FOR EXACTLY THE PRICE OF ONE PAIR PUMPS, TIES, OXFORDS ? . . 2forl PLAY SHOES. 2 pairs for the price of 1 No Rifunds or Exchanges THE EVENT MADE FAMOUS BY BUSTER BROWN I FOR SALE BUSTER BROWN SHOE STORE 933 WILLAMETTE LIQUOR SALES DIP PORTLAND fAP) Sale sf liquor in the state dropped from 510,152 cases the first six months lest year to 450,451 eases In the same period 'his year, the Oro gon Liquor Control Commission reports. Because of increased prices, however, dollar volume wss down only 6 1 percent. Miller & Harvey Sheet Metal Co. 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