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Page 8A Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Sun., Aug. 81, 1949 Glen wood Sets School Opening Registration will be held for the Glenwood Grade School pu pils September 7th between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12 noon. Classes will begin Monday, Sep tember 12th. Parents of the first grade pupils are to have their child's physical examination re. port and birth certificate in order when school opens. Deane Mellum, Principal, has announced that the following .-toff of teachers have been hired to teach for the coming year: First Grade: Mrs. Grace Furnish: second grade, Mrs. Elizabeth Glr- ardin; third grade, Mrs. Leota Davis; fourth grade, Mrs. Virginia Kocer; fifth grade, Mrs. Thelma F.rickson; sixth grade, Mrs. Lu cille Vancil; seventh grade, Miss Clara Gravos; eighth grade, Mrs. Esther Nichols. The Interior of the school building has been completely renovated for the opening of the school term. The rooms have all been repainted in light colors. New tile floor coverings have been laid and now lighting fix tures installed. A new heating plant will be in operation before the winter weather comes. THIS Long McALESTEH, Okla. (P) After a full day's fishing without a single nibble, Jimmy Woody gave up. Disgusted with his luck, he be gan rowing to shore. Just then, a thrce-qunrter pound perch jumped into the boat. HURLBURT'S BODY SHOP AUTO PAINTING BODY & FENDER WORK Estimates Without Obligation Pick-Up & Delivery Service Ph. 4-4732 2850 Cheshire Si Starving Bears Get Cafeterias DULUTH, Minn. MJ Res idents here were hopeful Satur day that the first of a series of "bear cafeterias" woud beep the marauding animals safely outside the city limits. Poor berry crops and shortage of other natural food have driven the bruins into civilized areas in quest of provender. More than 100 have been shot after fright ening dwellers in several north ern Minnesota communities. Most of them were felled in the Dululh area. Oil company employes at outskirts plant set up the first feeding station Friday and others were promised. The Duluth Sani tary Service agreed to keep these stations supplied with garbage, described as "sort of a delicacy" to the starving animals. Jesse James Still Living? VEEDERSBURG, I n d. flJ.R). Ozark Jack" Berlin, who claims to have been a boyhood chum of Jesse James, says he is convinced that J. Frank Dalton really is the notorious bandit. Dalton. who claims to 102, an nounced several months ago that he is Jesse James, and that he has been living under the assumed name of Dalton ever since the bandit leader supposedly was slain. Berlin, who said he played with Jesse James as a boy in the Ozarks, returned from a visit with Dalton at a resort hotel in Stan ton, Mo. f recognized him from his scars and because he talked about the same happenings and people we both knew when we were kids," Berlin said. 2000 APPLY FOR TRIP SHANGHAI, China (U.R) More than 2,000 Americans and other foreigners wishing to leave Shanghai have applied for pas sage on the General Gordon, scheduled to stop here In mid September, officials of the Amer ican President Lines said Saturday. SOS- by COMMERCIAL OFFICE SUPPLY CO "AD-VENTURE In Selling Office Supplies" "Ton hivon'l s tlilnf Is worrr boul. Sir. Cnrlot. Thll in Ink nmovor we lit from COMMERCIAL OFNCE SUrFLT CO. will fin joo up like new." W30.', iff Tmf , V. Mrs. Yockey and Her Fish ... - Reaches Down For A Codfish -Pulls Out A Dangerous Shark Mrs. Russell Yockey has a fish tale that'll stop her ardent an gling husband's future yarns dead cold. The better half caught a shark with her bare hands! But It was no ordinary shark that Mrs. Yockey landed at Lin coln Beach, just north of New port Wednesday, and, of course, it was quite by accident. While on a deep-sea fishing junket to Depoe Bay Mrs. Yockey and the children decided to try their luck along the beaches while the men folk put to sea. Walking along the beach she saw what she thought was 8 Cod fish coming in. She grabbed the sea-devil by the gills and tossed Cushioned Sphere Point V (fill J ) Automatically Adjusts m ft jfyC to Your Writing JM f J)fM PrMSUr8' mil iSx! ' Oiffany - jbaviA jbmg Co. 8lb and Willamette Dial 4.3213 Firemen Extinguish Fire at Alaska Junk Eugene firemen were called out at 5:09 a.m. Saturday morning to a fire at the Alaska Junk Co., 1701 First Ave. W. The blaze started under a loading platform in a sawdust pile. The -flames burned the boards in the platform, but was extinguished before the platform was consumed. Earlier in the morning, a fire believed to have been caused by a cigarette, burned some trash at the base of a telephone pole in an alley near SO Eighth Ave. W. The fire orginated in a pile of old empty sacks stacked against the pole, firemen said. There was no damage. A flue fire at the home of Greta Elsworth, 340 Eighth Ave. E. at noon Friday was confined to the chimney and did no damage. it upon the beach, "When I got It there still very much alive, I saw it's teeth just like glass and sharp as needles. Believe me I let it die without my help after that sight. "When it was quite dead I took the fish to the Marine Gardens and learned that it was a Lan cet shark a native of tropical waters and to anyone's knowl edge never before seen along the northern Pacific coast", she said. Mr. Yockey had a terse "no comment" on his deep-sea fish ing success. GAR Commander Theo Penland Sets Final Encampment Plans VANCOUVER, Wash. (U.R) Theodore Augustus Feniana, me 100-vear-old commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, madei final plans Friday for a trip to ine last encamDment of Civil War veterans from the armies of the North. He remarked sadly that there would not be a bugler remaining from "the ranks of the boys in blue" to play taps at the meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 28. The old soldier said the as sembly of four survivors would take place where the original j grand army formed under Gen. John A. Logan in 1867 the Clay pool Hotel. Fenland will have no succes sor as commander. He villi head the GAR until, as he put it, "the books are closed." All told there are 17 members alive, but only fnur will be there. He was born Jan. 23, 1849 in Goshen, Ind., the son of a farmer. He served with the Indiana Volun teers, principally on picket duties but he was on the fringe of the second battle of Bull Run in which his father was fatally wounded by a rifle ball. Were Tounher Then' 'People were tougher then, he declared. "My father walked three miles with a hole in his belt-line before he dropped dead." Penland attributes his long life to travel, clean living and walking. He once walked 1400 miles on the trail to California after Ap pomattox. He enlisted at the illegal age of 16 by writing "18" on a scrap of paper, wedging it in his shoe and swearing he was "over 18." He'll Speak this Time 'I was on the skirts of the crowd at the first encampment in Indianapolis, and I didn't hear any of the speakers," he retlectea. "This time I'm going to give a ship-launching speech that I com posed during the last war." He recited It without a slip in a firm, resonant, drill-sergeant's voice. It began: "Guide this ship to victory for America . . ." Doesn't Plan Marrlare The spry, bespectacled cente narian has 12 great-grandchildren and 19 great-great grandchildren. He doesn't expect to marry again, soon. "I'm going to wait a little while . , . until I get older," he said. "And take this down," he said. "Take this down. A jeep will never replace an army mule. You had respect for an army mule. It could kick." Then he told of his trip in 1936 to Gettysburg for the unveiling of a monument, dedicated to both the Union and Confederate armies. "After they lit the gas flame that will burn forever, they rounded up 800 Boy Scouts and 800 wheelchairs to trundle us off to the train. I asked my Boy Scout what it was for. After he told me I said, 'Get .in son. Let me push you'." Police Cife Drivers After Car Accidents Two minor automobile accidents resulted in citation by city police Friday afternoon and evening A car driven by Eugene' T Glasgow, 31. Rt. 5, Box 420 Eu gene, was traveling east on Broad way when Bernard L. Moser 24 Gen. Del., Eugene, made a' left turn off the highway while going west and the two cars collided There were no injuries and there was little damage to either car. but Moser was riiBrf f- having a driver's license. An accident at the intersection of Madison St. and Sixth Ave. W. at 9:05 p.m. involved . ' ated by Byron J. Hoskins, 29, 444 Liincom 1st., and a parked vehicle Hoskins, while in the left hand tlan.trv.. 'forru .... " e - r.nea car ... t il few u. car I tebasii-if Rev. Ryan, Others Go to Conference JUNCTION CITY Rev. Phil Ryan, pastor of the Christian Church, accompanied by Mrs. Ryan and her mother, Mrs. A. D. Wodell, will leave immediately following church services Sunday morning, for Bridge, Ore., where they are all on the teaching staff of the annual conference of the Christian Churches, being held at Bridge that week. Distributor Wanted Good 6rJrClK fan. ""t. u BOX 92) jessb G0DL0VE PLUMBEI AT YOUR SERVICE Now is the time to think about II O T WATER for the nam mer. 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