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THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 21. 1944
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Red Cross Funds
Still Increase
Still rising to set an almost un
believable record, the total in con
tributions to the 1944 Deschutes
county Red Cross war fund drive
has now reached $28,449.17. The
original campaign quota of $22,
500 was achieved within a week
after the drive started March 8,
to place the county in third place
in the state to reach its goal.
Camp Abbot contributions, In
cluded in the county figure, have
reached $3,120.20 with a new
group of gills totaling $439.76, B.
A. Stover, county chairman, has
disclosed.
Other recent contributions pre
viously unreported are as fol
lows: $10 Gifts
Auxiliary of the Jay H. Upton
camp, USW'V; Bankers of MWA
9794; Owl taxi service; Mrs. I.
Gedrase.
$5 Gifts
C. W. Hitchcock of Sisters, and
R. W. Wong.
$3 Gifts
Mrs. John Franks, Mr. and Mrs.
Ellis Edgington of Sisters.
$1.50 Gift
Anonymous.
Pine Forest
Pine Forest, April 21 (Special)
The grange held Its regular
meeting April 18, at which time
several new applications for mem
bership were taken in. The state
grange deputy and his wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Wlcklander, were
guests at the meeting and touched
on subjects of interest to the
grange. An announcement was
made that the next home pro.
nomic club meeting will be May 3 '
at tne home ot Mrs. L. H. Gloss.
Master Van Vleet announced that
Initiation in the first and second
degrees would be given to all the
new members at the next regular
grange meeting on May 2.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Rhodes and
family were dinner guests at the
A. C. McDonald home Sunday.
At the last meeting of the ju
venile grange on April 8, the fol
lowing list of officers were elect
ed for the remaining year: mas-i
ter, irancis wucox; overseer,
Sharon Scott; lecturer, Alice Bur
leigh; steward, Jack Watson;
treasurer, Wilma Burleigh; secre
tary, Gene Watson; gatekeeper,
Ronald Whetzel; chaplain, Jenny
Lee Woods; assistant steward,
Reggie Halligan; lady asst., stew
ard, Eualee Wilcox; Ceres, Kitty
Scott; Pomona, Jean Ann-Hun-gerford;
Flora, Dixie Scott. Six
new members and one honorary
member . were initiated at this
meetlng.Games were played and
refreshments were ' served by
Jnny Lee Woods and- Jean Ann
Waste Paper at Kiska Victory
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Here's history being made on the far northern shores ot bleak Kiska.
American forces are shown landing vital supplies to back op the
fighting lines. More than 700,000 manufactured items, from military
tanks t'j pins and needles, are shipped overseas in PAPER. There's
a desperate need for waste paper. Donald Nelson has called It
America's Number One Raw Material Shortage. What are you doing
to help overcome this shortage? Our boys are counting on you to
back them up!
(Press Association Photo)
Hungerford, Mrs. Evelyn Watson i
is juvenile matron and is assisted
by Mrs. Marion Scott and Mrs.
Betty Huettl.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldin Stookey and
their daughter, Mrs. Vern Vacey,
and grandaughter Tana Lou, were
dinner feuests Sunday of Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Colver.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Rhodes and
family were dinner guests at the
A. C. McDonald home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Allison and
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hayes were
Sunday dinner guests at the
George Allison home.
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Tucker and
Mrs. Frank Stratton were callers
at the F. W. Stratton home Sun
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gugle of
Shevlin and Mrs. Ben Hodges
were callers at the Lester Kramer
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Gilbert and
family were dinner guests at the
R. E. Maddox home Sunday.
Richard Scott, president of local
C. I. O. and member of the inter
national negotiating committee,
left Friday for Washington, D. C,
to attend a joint public hearing
of the War Labor board and the
West Coast Lumber commission.
Nancy Fuller was a guest Sat
urday of Garnet Rae Barton.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hayes of
Burlington, Wash., arrived last
Friday to Spend a week visiting
Mrs. Hayes' sister, Mrs. Cecil Al
lison. Gerald Reid left Wednesday for
Portland where he had enlisted in
the jujyy, and from there he was
FISHING
You can't get that big one un
less you get out on that river
and fish and you can get the
tackle that will hold him at
Freeman's.
FISHING HUNTING
LICENSES
50c
Freeman's Famous
Spanish Gut Tapered Fly Leaders.......
7 Foot, Diamond Drawn. 7'j Foot, 55c
Freeman's Nationally Advertised
Deschutes Dry Flies 2 for 25c
And Bucktails. Buy a dozen ($1.50) and you'll buy another dozen.
Alwavs Insist on Freeman's Flies.
Large Fresh Night Crawlers
We Have 'em!
Pete's 8-oz. Cluster Salmon Eggs ..or 35c
Pete's Single Salmon Eggs. ...... 3-oi. jar 35c
Natural Cluster Eggs 8-oz. jar 35c
Single Eggs 2-oz. jar only 10c
Tackle Boxes $2.25 to $9.50
Children's Life Saver Jackets.... $1.95
Pyrashell Fly Boxes by DeWitt 1.90c to $2.25
Ted Merrel Lake Trolls each 75c
ARCHERY more popular every day! Beautiful Blue A CA
Purple Lemonwood Flat Bows, only Oei? U
Others Priced from $1.75 up
Bow staves, lemon wood, Osage orange.
Remember, if it's Archery, we have it Everything!
GUNS We've several good used guns.
SPECIAL 25-20 with 1 12 boxes shells, reloading tAO CA
outfit, primers, blanks, powder ll for f
USED OUTBOARD MOTORS
5 Horse Sea King 4 Horse Neptune, etc.
LINES Remember we have the line you want at the price you
want to pay.
NETS to repair your old landing net.
Line dressing, fly oil, bait boes, wrapping silk all colors, rod
ferrules. If it is to be had, we have it and remember our business
is built on your demand for the best in quality and price.
FREEMAN'S TACKLE CO.
404 E. Third, on South Highway Phone 673-R
sent to his basic training base.
Miss Malsie Smead left for
Portland Monday where she en
tered the Immanuel hospital for
two weeks of medical treatment
Mr. and Mrs. John Gumm were
callers Sunday at the L. H. Gless
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Allison en
tertained at a birthday dinner
party In honor of Mrs. George
Allison and Mrs. Fred Wolf last
Thursday evening. Guests includ
ed Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hayes,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Aiken and
boys, John McRaney, and Mrs.
Bob Simmers.
Mrs. Betty Huettl left Monday
for San Diego where she will visit
her husband, Tom Huettl, ma
chinist's mate 2c, who is sta
tioned at the naval base in that
city.
Mrs. Bruce Gilbert and children
and Mrs. James Wood were call
ers at the V. R. Her home on Fri
day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. A. A.
Pierce of Bend and Mr. and Mrs.
Emmett North and children of
Lakeview were callers in the eve
ning.
Mrs. E. M. Myers and son were
dinner guests with Mrs. Hal Hun
gerford Tuesday.
Mrs. R. C. Colver entertained
at a 7 o'clock dinner Wednesday
evening the past presidents of the
women's benefit association.
Those present were Daisy Hill,
Freida Pickett, Ola Denton, Mar
ion Dubois, Clarlc Nelson, Bea
Spencer, the hostess, and her
daughter, Mrs. V. L. Whetzel.
Friends and neighbors of Mr.
A. J. Lighthill will be glad to
know that he Is moch-improved
since he was taken to the hospital
last week for treatment of in
juries resulting from a very bad
fall.
Extension Asked
For Bus Service
Officials of the Pacific Trail
ways, including Myrl P. Hoover,
president, William Nlskttnen, secretary-treasurer,
and Jerry Ches
ter, traffic manager, were back
in Bend today after attending
a four-day hearing in Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the Pacific Trail
ways' request for extension of
bus service from Boise, Ida., to
Knit I-ake Citv. The hearing was
continued until May 1, when the
Idaho phase will be discussea in
Eoise and witnesses from North
ern Idaho and Oregon will ap
pear for Pacific Trailways.
Presiding at the hearing, which
was held in the Utah capitol build
ing, were W. E. Lee, Interstate
commerce commissioner from
Washington, D. C; members of
the Utah public utilities commis
sinn whose chairman is Donald
Hackine: J. W. Cornell, Idaho
DUblic utilities commissioner; and
L. Owentine, middle west rep
resentative of ICC.
witnesses Named
Among those appearing on the
behalf of Pacific Trailways were
the following officials: Bernard
Wahle, national TraBways presi
dent; I. V. James of Chicago,
head of Burlington Trailways,
Russell R James, their counsel,
H. E. Huggins, .regional manager
from Salt Lake, and J. W. Fox,
traveling passenger agent; Gene
Allen, general manager of Santa
Fe Trailways, western division,
Llovd Neal. assistant manager.
Rex Fifield, general passenger
agent, and S. Brittingham, coun
sel: Ted James of Denver, presi
dent and general manager of Rio
(Grande Trailwavs and O. V.
White, counsel: Ken B. Charles
worth of Denver, general mana
ger of Denver, Salt Lake, ana
Pacific Trailwavs.
On Sunday the local group, and
the Pacific Trailways counsel,
Donald Schafer of Portland who
accompanied them to the hearing,
were among those to be conducted
through the gigantic Geneva steel
mills near Salt Lake city.
War Briefs
(By Unitid Fran)
Air War-More than 1100 Brit
ish bombers, largest air fleet ever
sent out by RAF, carry allied
aerial offensive against Ger
many's wectern defense to pre
invasion pitch with paralyzing
blows at Cologne, Paris, and two
Key rail centers serving the chan
nel coast.
Russia Cerman command
hurls hordes of tanks and tens
of thousands of troops against
soviet forces massing for spring
and summer offensives, but Rus
sians hold firm and report heavy
slaughter of enemy; German
stand at Sevastopol believed in fi
nal hours as two red armies press
slowly toward doomed garrison.
Italy Allied bombing fleets,
spearheaded by American Flying
fortresses and Liberators, carry
cut bridge-bustin' assault on net
work of German operated rail
lines in central and north Italy.
Pacific! A m e r I c a n bombers
bombers from south and central
Pacific attack Truk and protec
tive bases In Carolines; Japanese
ground troops reported to have
driven southern prong of pincers
attack on Chenghsien within nine
miles of the important rail Junc
tion in eastern Honan province.
Foreign Student House
Opened at Michigan U.
Ann Arbor, Mich. tlP For the
first time in its 127-year history
the University of Michigan is now
operating a residence hall exclu
sively for foreign students.
Known as the J. Raleigh Nel
son House, after the former head
of the international center, for
eign students' organization, the
residence already houses IS stu
dents from China, India and Latin
America.
No. 3-3
Synopsis of Annual Statement of the
American Mutual L.if Insurance Com
Dany ol Des Moines. In the atate of
Jowo. on the thirty-tint day ot De
cember. 1SH3. made to the Insurance
Commissioner of the State ol Oregon,
pursuant to law:
CAPITAL
Amount of capital stock paid up,
Mutual Company. None.
INCOME
Total premium income for the year,
$2,42.(15.w. . . ,
Interest, dividend! and rents receiv
ed during tne year, $1.476,203.6.
Income from other source received
during the year. S422.tH4.51.
Total income. $4,326,463.17.
i DISBURSEMENTS
Paid for losses, endowments, annui
ties and surrender values. $2,157,182.78.
Dividends paid to policyholders dur
ing the year. iaa.05S6.
Dividends paid on capital stock dur
; lng Uie year. None.
Commissions and salaries paid dur
' lng the year, S433.SU8.il.
Taxes, licenses and feel paid during
: the year, 1 13.478.19.
Amount of aU other expenditures,
8750 570 24
i Total expenditures. 3,838.817J.
I Deal estate contracts. $691,648.20.
Value of real estate owned (market
value), $1,136,467.68.
Loans on mortgages and collateral,
' etc.. $970,541.88.
1 Value ot bonds owned (amortized),
$23.41)2.421.56.
i Value of stocks owned (market val-
1 uel. None.
i Premium note and policy loans,
$5 011,657.90.
Cash in banks and on hand, $354,
S7840. ,
Interest' and rents due and accrued.
$314,697.34.
Net uncollected and deferred prem
iums. $204.177 99.
Other assets (net), $846.12 Red.
; Total admitted assets, $32,046,542.81.
LIABILITIES
Net reserves, $28.609.103 84.
Gross claims lor losses unpaid,
$132,706 16.
All other liabilities. Premium! it In
terest paid In adv. $413,783.54.
Contingency reserve, $400.000 00.
$890.759 06.
Total liabilities, except capita), .
446.352 59.
Capital pa:d up. None.
Surplus over all liabilities. $1,800.
190 22.
Surplus as regards policyholders,
$1,600,190 2.
Total. S32 046 541 81.
BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR
THE YEAR
Net premiums and annuities receiv
ed during the year. M2.796J0.
Dividends paid during the year, $4.-
703 32. .
Net losses and claims, endowments,
surrenders, and annulUes paid during
the year. $5.100 00.
Name of Company. American Mu
tual Life Insurance Company.
, Name of President. E. B. Mountain.
, Nan.e of Secretary, B. B. Reynolds
Florida Air School
Moving to Oklahoma
Norman, Okla. tlP The trans
fer of the Hollywood, Fla., naval
air navigation school to Shawnee,
Okla., was announced recently
bv Cant. W. N. Updegraff, com
manding officer of the naval air
station here.
Uransfer of the Florida's school
personnel will be completed as
soon as feasible, said (japt. upoe
eraff. The Shawnee school will
consist of several hundred aerial
navigation trainees in addition
to about 100 administrative of
ficers, he said.
RADIO TOPIC ANNOUNCED
Using the topic "Early diagno
sis control of tuberculosis , Mrs.
W. H. Coahran at 6:45 p. m. today
will interview Mrs. tdlth Kostol,
executive secretary of the Bend
health association, at the regular
American Legion auxiliary broad
cast over radio station KBND, it
was announced today.
FIRE LOSS MOUNTS
Portland, April 21 UPi An estl
mated $50,000 loss from a fire
which Thursday swept through
the basement of the Owl drug
store nere naa increased to about
$70,000 today when it was learned
that stock in the drug store would
be almost a total loss.
Eqq Producers'
Aid Union Goal
Problem for the "What-Goes-On?"
department ot Detroit's
Belle Isle Zoo, is the pony, Alice,
at left, above. Whan she recently
gave birth to the colt pictured
with her. It turned out to be a
mule, causing considerable eyebrow-raising
among zoo folk.
kinlreuaanla f Successful experimental flights have been made with a new type
"lairzymuie I at a claimed speed of 100 m.p.h. of helicopter.
WtfmwSJKCICH
UJRRTIIT1E OQllflR
We are confident that you are pmmrily InteresteJ In making
that wartime dollar go as far as possible . . . that you probably
need many items of hardware. Miclstate's stocks are now com
plete with new items arriving dally. Mldstate's prewar prices
are Indications that tcday and every day we help" you to make
your dollar do Its duty. .
SUGGESTIONS FROM MIDSTATE
Published here are but a few Items to acquaint you with our
storks. We hope that you will visit us for your every need.
prices, scheduled a year ahead,
the ceiling price to the consumer
to be closely adjusted to seasonal
variations, the government ab
sorbing the difference, whether
profit or loss.
2. "Supplies of feed at prices I
ana in amounts needed to main
tain the agreed-upon production
of eggs at the prices set, the gov
ernment to subsidize whatever in-!
creases in feed prices become nec-
needs.'
Washington, April 21 tP The
National Farmers union, declar
ing that egg producers were be
ing squeezed between fluctuating , setting aside and allocat-
k "-"Ming supplies to meet producers'
day to help producers by setting
iixea prices.
in recent months. President
James G. Patton said, "egg pro
ducers have taken a severe beat
ing in widely fluctuating egg
irtces while the middlemen spool
ators have taken advantage of
the same swing in prices below
the ceiling."
He urged the war food adminis
tration to conclude new agree
ments with egg producers to in
clude the following provisions:
1. "Firm prices lor eggs, in
stead ol celling and
WORKER'S IDEA EARNS $584
South Bend, Ind. IP Stanley
Koselak, a war worker, received
$584 from Bendix Aviation corp.
for developing an automatic
switch which prevents precision
drills from breaking in the manu
facture of carburetors. The drill,
which broke when casting moved
out of adjustment, is stopped au
tomatically If a casting moves as
much as the width of a sheet of
support paper.
Glass Wash Hack Saw Screw Drivers
Beards Blades i
A popular board Cuts all materials- WeU temperei
that will clean your a complete stork blades, all sized,
clothe. available.
Vigoro Kester Solder Light Bulbs
The Ideal fertilizer Pick up a coil next Use enough globed
for your victory time you are In the and keep s supply
garden, store 25c. In reserve.
Poultry Founts Fishing Needs . Garden Hose
Heavy glass, mold- Files, hooks, trolls, Well made garden
ed glass base for sinkers, nets, etc-, a hose In 25 and SO
young chicks. good assortment, foot lengths.
Unseed Oil Brooms Sava-Brush -
Turpentine A good grade Restores old paint
" "lteml! whSr. broom weH wed brush ""most like
painting. strong handle, magic.
Midstate Hardware Co.
"Serving All Central Oregon"
903 Wall Street
Phone 600
No. 27-S
Svnonsia of Annual Statement of the
National Casualty Company of De
troit. 20, in the stale ol Micnigan. on
the thirty-first day of December. 1843,
made to the Insurance Commissioner
of the State ox Oregon, pursuant to law
CAPITAL
Amount of capital stock paid up.
il.ouo.uuu.uu.
INCOME
Net premiums received during the
year. $4.722. lM.tn.
interest, dividends and rents receiv
ed during the year, I1S5.247.28.
Income from other sources received
during the year. $202,37.11.
Total income. S5.U7u.ti4u.34. .
DISBURSEMENTS
Net losses paid during the year In
cluding adjustment expenses, $2,138,-
272 20.
Commissions and salaries paid dur
ing the year. l.tOMM.ai.
Taxes, licenses and fees paid during
the year, $317,045.03.
Dividends paid on capital stock dur
ing the year. $123,000 00.
Dividends paid to policyholders dur
ing the year. None,
Amount ot all other expenditures,
$422,319 90.
Total expenditures, $4,811,624.20.
ADMITTED ASSETS
Value of real estate owned (market
value), $1,578.29.
Loans on mortgages and collateral,
etc.. None.
Value of bonds owned (amortized),
$3,688,572.20.
Value of stocks owned (market val
ue), $1,099,050.00.
Cash In banks and on hand, $839,-
468 08.
Premiums In course of collection
written since September 30, 1943, $775.-
91021.
Interest and rents due and accrued,
$20,845.12.
Other assets (net), $216,858 65.
ToUl admitted assets. $6.639,88.g3.
LIABILITIES
Gross claims for losses unpaid, $1,-
$48,409.93.
Amount of unearned premiums on all
outstanding risks. 11,329,521184.
Due for commission and brokerage,
$213,149 09.
All other liabilities. $821,71484.
Voluntary Contingency Reserve,
$523,079.37.
Total ltablllUes. except capital. $4,-
135.882 83.
Capital paid up. $1.000.060 00.
Surplus over all liabilities, $1,500,-
000 00.
Surplus as regards policyholders,
$2.500.000 00.
Total. $6.615.881 83.
BUSINESS IN OREGON' FOR
THE YEAR
Net premiums received during the
year. $12.472 76.
Net losses paid during the rear,
$2 707 54.
Name of Company, National Cas
ualty Company.
Name of President, w. O. Curtis.
Name of Secretary, W, C. Butler-
fkld.
Statutory resident attorney for ser
vice, H. if. Daus, Portland, Oregon.
ORIGINAL AIR-WOVEN y.
Tat s .'I '4r'-V.' -a
Box Springs
Same Price
Other SUPER SEALY VALUES
SEALY SEALCRAFT, Q CA
Sateen Tapestry Cover ityeW
SEALY WHITE SWAN A 7C
A Healthized Mattres$ i,tee
SEALY DOWNEY REST OQ fffl
Brings Better Sleep to Millions MaW e4V
SEALY 48 LB. COTTON i Q CA
Mattress Only lafteiifW
LenuUte
JtoUf-Staple
Ail-Wove
Cotton!
REST TO THE KING'S
TASTE ON A "PILLOW
FOR YOUR BODY!"
Famous imported "Old Clock" cover.
SO lbs. of air-woven staple cotton,
compressed Into one great batt,
Outside-roll, firm-edge border, with
convenient handles.
4 Famous ior tr-lonjg Ufa and su
perior sleeping comfort.
Entirely hand-made by expert Sesly
craftsmen.
CONVENIENT TERMS
sat.
SQUAE&E IDE AIL FUJESTOEIS
O EASY TERMS O COMPANY LARGE STOCKS O
Phone 144
REDMOND
H. G. RAINEY. Owner
Phone 324
BEND
Phone 331
PRINEVILLE