Page 2, Register-Guard. Eugene. Ore., Frl Aug. B, 1948
because of shortages of castings,
indicated it had no immediate
plans for recalling the 20,000
workers now idle.
Another 9000 workers will be
idled by a one-week closing, com
mencing Friday night, of the Pack
ard Motor Car Co. assembly lines
and the Briggs Manufacturing Co.
Conner Avenue plant. Briggs
makes bodies for Packard.
About 3500 Lincoln Motor Car
Co. employes, idle for several days
Hudson Motor Car Co.. which because of a supplier s strike, have
closed its assembly lines last week1 not yet been recalled.
Auto Workers
Ideal Soon
DETROIT W At least 32,500
Detroit area auto workers will be
idle next week because of mater
ials shortages.
Production, .meanwhile, prob
ably will suffer a drop of more
than 10,000 passenger cars,
WANTED
EXPERIENCED TIRE RETREADER
Good Pay and Working Conditions
WYATTS
0 101 West Broadway Eugene, Ore. if
Army Engineers Start Building
In U S, OverseasPossessions
WASHINGTON U.R) Army
Engineers announced Friday that
work will begin immediately on
more than $65,000,000 in new mili
tary construction in the United
States and overseas possessions.
The list does not include air
force construction. In all, Congress
authorized $151,000,000 In the cur
rent fiscal year for new (Army
and Air Force) projects.
Housing Work
Congress also authorized the en
gineers to spend $32,700,000 on
work already under way in Alaska,
Guam and Okinawa. This is mostly
housing. !v
The program, both new and con
tinuing construction, calls for work
Tot Weathers
Rough Night
fOR SALE
KNOTTY PINE
PONDOBOSA PINE, SUGAR PINE
2x12 ROUGH LUMBER
$50 per M At Mill
Write
Box 143 Junction City, Ore.
or Phone 100-W
Oregon Gets
Forest Funds
SALEM (U.R Oregon received
a $100,000 cut in its share of the
Clark-McNary federal forest funds j
for the current iiseai year, ine
State Forestry Department . said
Friday.
1 The state's allotment has been
fixed at $761,469. Last year Ore
gon's share was $863,817. Other
western states also received cuts.
The department said the cut was
due to a material increase in pro
tection funds that have been
made available by the southern
states which made it possible for
the southern states to qualify for
more federal money, and conse
quently, resulted in less for west
ern states to share.
in 27 states and 10 overseas areas.
Most of the $65,000,000 for new
construction went to Alaska for
Droiects totaling $40,907,085.
About $63,400,000, or 42 per cent
of total construction funds, will be shivering
spent on housing. Operational
facilities will get $64,900,000 or 43
per cent.
Emergency Work
Emergency construction ac
counts for $22,700,000, or 15 per
cent.
Out of the $151,000,000 for new
construction, $65,679,300 is for
army projects and $85,420,700 for
air force construction.
The Army program includes:
Colorado Fitziimons General
Hospital, Denver, family units.
$324,760.
New Mexico White Sands
proving ground, $3,525,100.
Washington Fort Lewis, fam
ily units, $2,131,632.
Alaska $40,907,085.
Hawaii $2,692,585.
Marianas $2,700,000.
Philippine Islands Clark-Stot-senberg
area, $669,300.
Puerto Rico Fort Brooks, $161,
000; Fort Buchanan, $150,000;
Henry Barracks, $576,200.
Guam $600,000.
ZANESVILLE, Ohio U.R A
three-year-old boy, trapped all
night without clothes in barbed
wire and vines in a cornfield, was
reported in good condition follow
ing his rescue early Friday.
A pet collie led searchers to the
youngster, jerry use
Huffman, who was trapped in a
barbed wire fence with grade
vines wrapped around his neck.
The wire and the vines had held
the boy in such a position that he
had to spend the night on his
hands and knees, unable to move
tn n more comfortable position.
Hospital officials here said the
tot had suffered exposure in the
unusually cold August tempera
ture, but that otherwise he seemed
to have come through the exper
ience with little more than a few
scratches. He was given a warm
bath, fed warm milk and placed
under the care of a nurse.
Blasting Caps
Injure Youth
Dean Streetor, 14-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde aireeior.j wasn., would be turned over with
has lost most of his left hand and; out cost to those cities under leeis.
! faces the possible losi of sight in lation proposed Friday by the four
Senalors Propose
Housing Delivery
ti nve
war housing projects in or near
Portland, Ore., and Vancomw
"oked, t'.C1
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SUNDAY SCHOOL
-RALLY & PICNIC -
BETHANY CHURCH
Franklin, Oregon
Sunday, August 8th
Basket Lunch & Afternoon
Rally In Church Yard
Seven Neighboring Sunday Schools
Participating '
Anna Douglas Friend
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna
Douglas Friend, former resident
of Reedsport, who died July 31 at
Fort Wayne, Indiana, will be held
Saturday at z p.m. at me unger
Chapel, Reedsport, with interment
in the Reedsport Masonic Ceme
tery. Graveside services will be
conducted by Martha Chapter
No. 48, Order of Eastern Star,
Gardiner, of- which she was a
member for many years.
Mrs. Friend was born Anna
Prahser at Stockton, Calif.,
Jan. 27. 1889. She lived at Reeds.
port many years before moving to
Port Orford and then to Fort
Wayne.
She is survived by her widower,
Charles Friend, Fort Wayne; four
sons, John Douglas, with the U.S.
Coast Guard at Port Angeles,
Wash., Donald Douglas, Seward,
Alaska, Bruce Douglas, North
Bend and Joe Douglas, Port Or
ford; a daughter in Reedsport, and
three brothers and a sister.
Special Music Visiting Orchestra
Inspirational Singing
Chalk Artist Rally Speakers
Bring Your Lunch or Stay All Day, or loin Us After
Your Morning Church Service
EVERYONE WELCOME
Richfield Company
Profits Reported
LOS ANGELES U.R A profit
of $8,489,525 was reported Friday
by the Richfield Oil Corp. for the
first six months of the year.
The amount equaled $2.12 per
share. A 76-cent increase over the
same 'period last year. Profit for
the first six months of 1947 was
$5,438,807.
Property In Oregon
Assessed Over Million
SALEM (P) The assessed
valuation of all property In Ore
gon is at an all-time record of
$1,401,429,535, State Tax Com
missioner Wallace S. Wharton said
Friday.
The total is 55 per cent more
than in 1937.
John F. Andrews
Masonic services for John F. An
drews, a long time resident of this
vicinity who died at his home in
Portland August 3 following a long
iilnpss. will be held Sunday at
1:30 n.m. at the Unger Chapel
with interment in Scottsburg
ipmetfrv.
Mr. Andrews was born Oct. 24,
1878. near Gardiner and lived in
this vicinity most of his life. When
pomnelled to retire from active
work because of poor health, Mr.
and Mrs. Andrews moved to Ban
don and later to Portland. Mr.
Andrews served in France with
the army during World War I and
was a member of Reedsport Post
No. 62 American Legion and of
Aurora Lodge No. 59, A.F. & A.M.,
of Gardiner, having been present
ed a Fifty Year Emblem by that
organization on April 18, 1948. He
is survived by his widow and two
sons, Frank and John L. Andrews,
both of North Bend.
one eye, oecause laauiig .av
were lying along the side of
Eleventh Ave. W. Tuesday events-
. . ......
Young Streetor is now in r-u-
gene Hospital, ano win remain
there for some time yet, his doctor
stated. Two fingers and part of
his thumb were blown off in the
accident, and fragments were
hlnwn into one eye.
The boy, who lives on willow
Creek Road, lft. 5, Box 411C, was
waiting for his father to come
home from work at the Junction
of Willow Creek Road and Elev.
enth. Two younger boys had gone
with him, but their fathers arrived
prior to the accident, and took the
youngsters away witn inem,
The boys were picking up rocks
and bottles along the side of. the
road when they discovered the
detonating caps. The boys played ,
with them, and Streetor stuffed!
some in his pockets. I
After the other boys had left,!
young Streetor prodded a cap
with a three-inch safety pin, I
causing the cap to explode. For-i
tunately, his father arrived on I
the scene about that time, and the '
boy was rushed to a hospital.
The box and other caps werei
found strewn along the right-of-j
way the next day. They were!
taken to the city police. I
Officers said the caps either
were thrown or fell from a mov
ing vehicle.
Oregon and Washington senators.
Ihey presented the proposal as
an amendment to the public hous
ing bill pending in the Senate.
The projects to be delivered to
Portland would be Guild Lake
72 acres and 488 housing units'
University Homes, 102 acres, and
4UU9 dwellings.
inose ror Vancouver aro
scriDeo only By numbers: Wash
ington 45176, 135 acres and a mm.
munity house; Washington 45175
143 acres; Washington 45122, 500
one-family dwellings.
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TRAFFIC UP
SALEM W) Oregon highway
traffic has increased 50 per cent
since 1941, and 6 per cent since
last year, State Highway Engi
neer R. H. Baldocg said Friday
The information was compiled
from figures obtained at traffic
recording stations.
We Have Lots of ThemJ
SLACKS
The Man's Shop
East 10th
Postoffice Receipts
Show July Increase
Eugene Postoffice Friday re
ported better than 15 per cent in
crease in postal receipts during
the month of July, compared with
the same month in 1947.
Receipts during July last year
totaled $36,809.76. Last month they
had climbed to $42,420.60.
FOR FOOT TROUBLES
See Eugene's leading Foot Spe
cialist Dr. Handshuh, 874 Wil
lamette. Phone 308. 18 years in
Eugene. Examination free.
O & C Counties Plan
Brief On Yield Issue
A brief citing the urgency of
a solution to the controversial
sustained yield cooperative unit
question is being prepared by the
Association of O and C Counties,
accarding to Lane . County Com
missioner Walter Holland. It will
be presented to the Senate sub
committee hearing in September.
Returning from an executive
session of the group this week in
Portland, Holland said he favored
the idea of sustained yield units
but with adjustments made to
prevent the present "monopolistic
advantages In it.
Air can be made to glow if it Is
reduced to very low pressure and
if a hieh vnltaee electrical dis
charge is passed through it.
Electric Water Heater
Smith Way Permaglass
Empire Porcelain Lined
(20 YEAR WARRANTY) '
Thermador t Seidelhuber
HEAVY GALVANIZED
BARKER ELECTS!
1070 Lawrence
(Friendly Service)
EASY TO PARK
Phom
Home's Underpinnings
Damaged By Blaze
The underpinnings of the W.
Hargreaves home at 1025 River
Road were damaged by fire Thurs
day night, after a blaze apparently
started from defective wiring.
Firemen sent one truck and
three men, who used 300 gallons
from the booster pump to extin
guish the blaze. The home owners
did not have a damage estimate
Friday.
The leaning tower of Pisa is 179
leet tall and inclines 16Ms feet
from the perpendicular.
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