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Iranians Set I .'iWj'P .vr" JiL- H f'TT """'M'.1""" run mw M . Rctjistcr-Gtmrd, Euffcne, Ore., FrI., Dec. 21, 1951 Page fMf fc V'tf r Smooth cs Ocean-Rocked f?k I v ftS r. Vv- f J: whiskies of oit fefr ! n..,.i Vnar .ringfield Group . iomes Comm.ttees dield Kiwanians have pre r another busy year of ,t,ir club and commu- th app1UL",w ir 1952. ; Z Herb Hamilton Willi the committee on pub i"1 . ... .tfnii-5. Chairman :iwffliam D. Bollman. Com .iSche. is headed by ?jir and includes J. ii and Bob Taylor. (Cmmittees ,t committees follow: JLml reports, - Cliff Fool, ,n.Tack McCarron;.at- f;'and membership, Perce , chairman, a"" - 'stevens, Jack McCarron 'all Pittam; finance, Earl .7 chairman, and Bob ; prce Pullen, Owen Sabin, jl Brandt. n . Moflfplswpilpr. K, and Albert Hansen and fz inter-club. Har- imif chairman, and Ed Lak ". dj.!, Nirholas: Ki- r.jtinn. Ray McCormack, Ca,, and Dean Stevens, Cliff u ana ren-c Vims, Music chairman, anu ""-"i uArmack. William D. Boll- L with Robert B. Carmichael -Qg leader; puuui: uiowuuo, ? Stevens, chairman, and B. :,1a Bill Pittam, and Al U- reception, Ed Laksonen, Ln. and Niel Pollard, B. P. Rob Taylor, ana ucan ins. tbairman, ana ta cenneu, u Hazelton, Tom Massey, Bob Weed: underprivileged lldren, Harold Rock . chairman, and J. C. Cook, i Ramsey, and Ralph Mason. I IMiKXv mu 1 i lifif i iiiii'iiiit iS&IL rm. ii hi ii iriiiHm rail Hi ffVi.-,..,jvi1.I:in 4- 0 Living in 'Mobile Home' Appeals to Retired Folk M'mnmwi rmMM open Tonight & sot. TiH 9 p;m. J ' 1 6-- i i i COMMUNITY at Westport, Conn., Arthur Diver putters with rose trellis uuiMue nis moDiie Home" while his sister. Mrs. Emma Whi for less than $20 a month. Whitlock, relaxes. Plot rents f 1 I J, 3 Barbers On Saturdays To Serve You DEAN'S ' Paramount Barber Shop Look Trim for Christmas Get-to-getherfe OPEN !:!0 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Till Christmas Sit., 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Located at 20th & Main from Ihe Greenwood In the ..uniuiu snapping Ulstrlct By RICHARD KLEINER NEA Staff Correspondent WESTPORT, Conn. (NEA) When Arthur Diver retired in 1939, he found himself face to face with a problem. He and his Wife were rattling around in a 12 room house set on 316 acres of pretty Connecticut soil. His daughter was married, his son in the army. So he bought a trailer. The idea was first suggested by Mrs. Diver, but he didn't think too much of it. "I always thought a trailer was just a box on wheels and that only gypsies lived in them," he says, looking over his spectacles with his twinkling eyes. "But Mrs. Diver, she said, 'Well, it can't do any harm to look at them.' We bought one, arid I've never gretted it; wish I'd a-done it ten years sooner. Retire to Trailers The Divers are representative of a trend among retired people to live in trailers or "mobile homes," as some of them prefer to say. According to the Trailer Coach Manufacturers Assn. which keeps track of such things, retired persons are the third largest mar ket for trailers. Actually, more than 15 per cent of all trailers are occupied by the pensioned set. The two bigger classes of purchasers, incidentally, are mobile workers and temporary home-seekers. For a retired couple, a trailer offers certain advantages. The in! tial expense is low, upkeep and ; operating expenses are low, they provide mobility and the house iwork is simple. Helps Boosts Sales I These factors' have helped boost trailer sales 400 per cent since 1937. In that year, $4,500,000 worth of trailers were sold; in 1950, the figure was $22,500,000, With people retiring earlier in life, because of pension plans, the trailer manufacturers expect the trend to continue. A contributing factor is the spread of trailer parks, where trailerites can live permanently. Some of them, such i as a big one in Bradenton, Fla., ac- commodate as many as 2500 trail ers. I The Divers' trailer, after log- 1N TRAILER KITCHEN, Mrs. Emma Whitlock tries out the sink to prove her brother's argument that there's plenty of room. Park at Westport hns 110 trailer families, some as many as 2500. ging 136.000 miles, is now at home buy trailers because it offers such in a trailer park on the busy Bos- cheap living. You can get a four ton Post Road at Westport. The room trailer for somewhere wheels are off, there's a cement! around $5500, and that includes patio in front and a little plot of i all furnishings. ground. "The rental here is less than $20 a month," he says, "and that in cludes all utilities. Everybody has a plot of about 30 to 50 feet. There are 110 families here, about 20 of them retired people. The others are nurses, accountants, real es tate men, sales executives and the like. We re all very congenial.' Some residents had fixed their "mobile homes" into miniature estates. There were picket fences and rose-covered trellises, patios with big awnings covering them, television aerials sprouting from the roofs, and that absolute sign of permanence the milk box outside every front door. Today, said Diver, many people Wilson Appeal Sent to Langlie PORTLAND (VP) An at torney for the condemned Wil son brothers made another plea this week for Gov. Arthur Lang lie of Washington to commute their sentences to life imprison ment. Attorney Irvin Goodman said in a letter to the governor that he now has evidence casting doubt on the authenticity of a fingerprint that played an im portant part in the trial of Utah and Turman Wilson for the slay ing of Jo Ann Dewey, 18, last year. The print was identified as Utah's. Goodman said Stanley MacDon ald, Portland fingerprint expert, told him that he could not iden tify the print. Goodman asked the, governor to talk vith MacDorjald, who is head of the criminal iden tification bureau for Multnomah County at Portland. BUY NOW FOR CHRISTMAS NO MONEY DOWN NEW 05YAIL nly Portable Wth MAGIC MARGIN GOLDEN GUERNSEY MILK Echo Hollow Dairy Phone 5-6809 Phone 4-5929 Just Spare Room "Lots of folks buy them without ever intending to pull them," he says. "They buy them, take the wheels off and then sell the tires back." To the argument that they're cramped, Diver points to his Thanksgiving dinner. He spent the holiday with his son, who has a trailer in Naugatuck. There were 14 people in the trailer s dining room, with plenty of room for the turkey. The only thing we lack," he says, with a smile, "is an attic and cellar for storing things. Butl that s a good thing. We keep only what we really need. She Buys China "When we bought our first trailer. Mrs. Diver had three sets of china the everyday, the Sun day and the best set. She decided to keep six settings of each. She put it all in a basket. I didn't say nothing, but I was chuckling to myself. She was over in the trailer with that basket a few minutes, trying to put the things away. Then she came back. She wound up keeping a serving for four of just one set. Driving a trailer was no prob. lem, after he got used to it. "The first day, I sweat blood," he remembers. "I worried some thing awful. I'd turn my head around every 10 seconds to see that the trailer was still there. But I learned there are only four things you have to remember. "A trailer is eight feet wide, a car only five. You have to allow for that extra width when you're passing. Then you have to learn to use the trailer brakes they're mounted on the steering wheel and you operate them with one finger. "You have to learn to make a bigger sweep for a right turn. And lastly, you've got to be awful careful driving through a city." Mayor Coughs Up I For 'License Plates Among those paying $5 tickets for expired license plates Thurs day at Eugene police headquar ters was the city's mayor, V. E. Johnson. Mayor or not, a cop spotted his car carrying outdated plates Sunday and promptly wrote out a court citation. Johnson indicated Thursday that he will forfeit his five-spot bail, admitting the case against him is open-and-shut. PRECISION JEWELED CHRONOMETER WRIST WATCH Labor Disputes Said Settled WASHINGTON (fl1) Labor disputes at aluminum plants of the Reynolds Metal Co. at both Troutdale, Ore., and Phoenix, Ariz., have been settled by the federal mediation service. Both disputes originated over disagreements between union stewards and management fore men. The union is the CIO Steel Workers. The disputing parties decided at the government sponsored talks on a basis for settling the disputes, but did not announce the terms. The mediation service said workers will return to work at both plants in the near future. The trouble at Troutdale was said to have involved worker abandonment of electrically heat ed melting equipment (pot linos) which will take some time to put back into operation. About 1600 workers were in volved in the Phoenix stoppage but government officials said they did not know the number involved at Troutdale. Pendleton Man Takes Own Life PENDLETON (P) Lee B. Mc- Cullough, resident of Hamby': trailer court at Hcrmiston, is dead and his brother-in-law John Pine is wounded as the result of shooting at Hcrmiston Wednesday night. McCullough shot Pine in the head and arm with a revolver and then turned the gun on himself, death coming instantly. State Po lice Sgt. N. W. Smith reported Thursday. Smith said detailed Information is still lacking. But he said the shooting resulted from a "family quarrel." Between the two men. 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