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Kobby Gets His Mall Little did four-year-old Bobby Byers
of Phoenix, Ariz., realize the reception his request for letters
would receive. The boy, who doctors say doesn't have long to
live, suffers from cancer. A short time ago his desire lor
cards and letters became known. Mailman Arthur Hammon
watches as Bobby opens a package, one of 3,000 pieces of
mail which have arrived from throughout the nation.
LATEST: 2,341 POUNDS OF CHERRIES
Ex-Champ Cherry Picker
Challenges New Record
The Dalles, Ore., Aug. 2 U.B
world champion cherry picker,
of 2341 pounds set by Walt Bailey
He racked up this belief by
challenging Bailey to a contest
"anywhere, this year or next."
"I'll take him on regardless of
the variety of fruit," he declared
after reading of Bailey's ex
ploit. "Frankly, my feelings
are a little hurt."
Wooton's previous recora of
2,168 pounds was set in 1946 at
the Roy Webster orchard in
Hood River valley. In 1947 the
East Salem Social Events
Take Interest This Week
East Salem. Aug. 1 Social activities in East Salem the past
week included showers for brides-to-be, birthday parties for
children and one sewing club luncheon
M PhnrlpR A. Rarnev hon-."
ored the ninth birthday of her
son, Paul, with a party at their
Monroe avenue home. His
guests were Paul and Sharon
Suran, Jerald and Orval Prunk,
Paul Richey, Don McLain, Ken
ny and Donald Jacobe, Hershel
Mays and Kay and Ann Barney.
After the refreshment hour Mrs.
Barney took them all to Auburn
school yard for a ball game.
Mrs. Arthur f" to well enter
tained several Monroe avenue
neighbors at her home. Guests
were Mrs. S. M. Hueselman, Mrs.
Charles A. Barney and Ann,
Mrs. Henry Hanson, Mrs. Clar
ice Mahoney, Mrs. Stuart Johns,
Mrs. Glenn Moody and Glenda
Lee, Miss Hazel Stowell, Mrs.
Wilfred Miller and Freddy, Mrs.
Bernard Kenny and Cathy, Mrs.
Loran Richey, Mrs. Walter Lew
is, Miss June Stowell and Mrs.
C. R. Doane from Los Angeles,
Calif. A gift was presented to
Mrs. Moody for her young son
Dennis, who is two months old
As honored guest Mrs. Moody
poured at the luncheon.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hanson
were Sunday guests at the Aug
ust Ramberg home in Canby.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Cuthbert
son were guests Sunday at the
Auburn community home of Mr
and Mrs. Walter Lewis.
Mrs. Clarice Mahoney is a
newcomer on Monroe avenue.
She is taking care of her moth
er, Mrs. J. Hanson, who is living
at the sister's home, Mr. and
Mrs. Jess E. Smith. They have
recently purchased the Blanken
ship home and are away on a
vacation in Arizona.
Miss June Stowell of Auburn
was a guest the past week in
the Dr. I. Mansfield home in
Portland, visiting their daughter,
Marcia. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hickey
of Sacramento, Calif., were
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Henry M. Wooton, dethroned
thinks he can better the mark
at La Grande last week,
slim, wiry Stockton, Cal., mi
grant fruit worker set an apple
picking record that still stands
415 boxes in a Wenatchee
Wash., orchard.
In an apple contest at Hood
River in 1946 Wooton picked
379 boxes in 14 hours. "Bailey
dropped out of the contest at
the 138-box mark," the Califor
nian declares.
house guests the past week in
the C. A. Barney home on Mon
roe avenue. Mr. Hickey is the
nephew of Mr. Barney.
Gustave Bahnsen has sold his
home on Lancaster drive and is
moving to the home of his broth
er, east of Four Corners.
Man Electrocuted
Dallas, Texas, Aug. 1 VP)
Bobby J. John, 27, was electro
cuted yesterday while working
on a home-made television set
with an electric drill. Officers
said the drill apparently shorted
out in John s sweaty hands.
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Youth Project
Good 2 Years
Hollywood, Aug. 1 (U.R) Co
medians Bur Abbott and Lou
Costello announced that their
Youth Foundation is assured of
staying open until August 1,
1951, despite failure of a char
ity lightweight title fight to pay
off the foundation's mortgage,
The screen and radio comics
sponsored the Ike Williams-
Enrique Bolanos championship
bout here July 21 in hopes of
raising enough money to pay off
the $83,000 mortgage on the Lou
Costello, Jr., Youth Foundation
The fight netted only about
$18,000 profit for the founda
tiorv.
But Ray A. Myers, who heads
the building firm which holds
the mortgage, said he had ac
cepted $15,000 now with the
balance to be paid off in $500
monthly payments until August,
1951, when th,e comedians will
pay off the rest of the mortgage.
The monthly payments won't
start until December,
"I am satisfied that they did
their very best to make the
fight a financial success and 1
realize that the illness of Cos
tello made it necessary for Ab
bot to carry most of the burden
alone," Myers said. "I am hap
py that I can see my way clear
to enable these men to save the
property from foreclosure at
this time."
The comedy team said they
did not know where they would
get the rest of the money but
they were sure of one thing:
"It won't come from any more
fight promotions."
Nearly 20,000 tons of tobacco
was gathered in Mexico last
season.
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WONDERS
Lack of a phone was Wsj
no problem to a man
who thought the piano
Harold Mitchell offer- W
ed for sale in the Claa- t'x
silled section ofaBre-
merton (Wash.) news- y2f&
paper might be Just fiia
what his church need- f-M
ed. He used his am- :fxf
ateur radio set to get iSpf
a message to Mitchell 'My
to hold the piano until m
a church committee Mw
1' Wor
HTa 2-59 II
could inspect it.
Classified Advertising's
popularity stems from Re- '$&
ault-Action embracing ev- 0;
conceivable kind of fjf
personal and commercial f'
need. '
DOESN'T LIKE MEN
Kiki, Martini-Drinking Cat,
On Wagon Back in U. S.
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington U.R) Kiki, an old foreign toper, came to the land
of plenty today and promptly went on the wagon.
Kiki, to be real plain about it, couldn't stomach our martinis.
Not sweet enough.
Kiki, who was raised on gin
and vermouth, is a cat. A fugi
tive from the back alleys of Old
Matrid; a gray and white rascal
of doubtful parentage and the
property of Mrs. Winifred Hunt
er, a 52-year-old widow who has
just returned from an official
tour of duty in Spain.
Mrs. H. as of now is waiting
for re-assignment, after 26 years
of foreign service with our gov
ernment. When we walked into the
Hunter-Kiki hotel room for a
chat, the lovely Mrs. Hunter,
who looks half her age, said "Be
careful." This reporter disre
garded the warning and has a
couple of Kiki's toothmarks on
his left arm to prove it.
Mrs. Hunter, after she band
daged the damage, explained
that 1) Kiki doesn't like men.
2) He is no sissy.
There was no argument on
either count.
Before she told me about the
drinking habits of her pet, Mrs.
Hunter admitted there had been
trouble before over Kiki, who
came to this country billed as a
"Martini-Drinking, Boxing Tab
by."
"I taught him to box," she
said. "He was raised around chil
dren, and so I made him some
boxing gloves so he wouldn't
scratch the little ones."
Why gasoline costs
Stat and Approx.
Gasotln f edtral Aw. hrt. to arn
pr ton per hourly lOgolloM
gallon! . gallon wago ptuttai
1922 24f0 . & .52 5
1939 13 6f0t .63 3
1949 20fo $1.37 2
tAverage SO U. 5. elites. Includes ell taxes except
Federal and State highway taxes.)
'Average for 48 States.
U. S. Bureau of tabor statistics for foctory workers.
1. The price of gasoline today is higher than
it was in 1939. But it actually costs you less. In
1939, for example, 10 gallons of "regular" gaso
line cost the average U. S. factory worker 3
hours' pay. Today, 10 gallons of considerably
better "regular" gasoline costs him less than 2
hours' pay.
4. Are the industry'! raw-material, tax and
other"cost-of-doing-business" expenses lower?
Quite the contrary. Are the owners taking less
profit? No, dividend payments have been run
ning higher, although they average only about
3H of gross sales and represent a return of
4lA on invested capital. What is the answer
then? Simply this: greater efficiency and lower
costs through more and better "tools" refin
eries, terminals, pipe lines, drilling rigs, etc
UNION OIL COMPANY
Well, when Mrs. Hunter and
Kiki landed in New York in the
middle of July the cat demon
strated both of his talents.
Ship reporters wanted pic
tures for the papers. Kiki was
accommodating enough to lap up
a Martini a sweet one like he
was accustomed to in Spain.
But he got a little unhappy with
a reporter from the New York
Herald Tribune who got a little
too folksy.
"One of Kiki's gloves had
blown overboard, but I had one
on his left paw for safety,"
said Mrs. Hunter. "Kiki is
right pawed and he could have
been mean about it. But he is
a gentleman. He let the man
have a good one with his left,
or gloved hand. The man did
not appreciate it."
If Kiki says anything at all,
except "meow," he says it in
Spanish, since he understands
very little, if any, English.
Kiki makes a catline for un
der the bed when Mrs. Hunter
says "malo malo." That means
"bad bad." Or to a cat, "spanky,
spanky."
"Quieta," spoken to the pus
hy means about what it says.
Quiet!
"Tamo" means "take it" or
"eat your supper."
Kiki knows.
...
But back to the martinis and
OF CALIFORNIA
INCOIPOIAMB IN CAMIOtNIA, OClOllt 17, H0
Xoung President Paul A.
Wagner, 31, of Chicago, takes
over the presidency of Rollins
college, Winter Park, Fla., Au
gust 1, as one of the youngest
college heads in U. S.
how Kiki developed the habit,
Mrs Hunter pitched a cock
tail party in Madrid soon after
she got her alley cat as a gift
from a Spanish princess. A
gentleman guest came rushing
into the room and said that Kiki
was stealing his martinis.
"I had trouble with the cat
ever after," she said.
On the way over here, Kiki
made sort of a nuisance of him
self running up and down the
bar, lapping up the dregs.
He's cured now, though.
These American martinis are
too tough. Almost cured, that
is.
While I was talking to Mrs
H., somebody stole my olive.
you less today than it
2 In 1 939 one bushel of wheat would buy the
average U. S. farmer 3H gallons of gasoline.
Today, one bushel will buy him 7.9 gallons. And
what's true of the factory worker and the
farmer is true to a large extent of most other
gainfully employed people in this country.
5. Since 1939 the industry has not only plowed
back every cent of profits after dividends into
enlarged and improved facilities but has bor
rowed additional money as well all in order to
meet the increased demand for petroleum prod
ucts and to improve efficiency. In the last 10
years Union Oil -in addition to $178,000,000
used for replacement has spent $80,000,000
on "plant" improvement and expansion.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore.,
Walker Gets
Seattle Video
Independence, Aug. 1 Bev
Walker, owner of the Independ
ence Electric, can receive the
Seattle stations on his Strom-berg-Carlson
television set. He
stated that this is the fartherest
southern point a set has received
a Seattle station.
Normal reception is limited to
about a five mile radius at the
present, but between 5:30 and
10 p.m., he has received boxing
matches, cartoons, and other
features from a distance of 200
miles.
When the four Portland sta
tions are In operation, Independ
ence and this territory will have
wonderful results with tele
vision, Walker stated.
Rifa Hayworth Khan
Expect Stork Visit
Deuville, France, Aug. 1 (U.R)
Movie Actress Rita Hayworth
has gone into virtual seclusion
to await the stork expected some
months from now, her servants
reported today.
They said the Hollywood
dancing star now confines her
public appearances to 15 min
utes daily, when she rolls mar
bles on the beach with her
daughter and step-sons.
They would not reveal the
date when Miss Hayworth ex
pects her baby, but it was re
ported that she has a suite re
3. In other words, the price of gasoline has
gone up less than wage rates and less than the
price of most other commodities. Consequently,
it actually costs you less in "real" dollars than
it cost you in '39. What's the reason for this?
Are the industry's labor costs down? No. Oil
workers are among the highest paid wage
earners in the country.
6. 64 of this came out of profits that were
left over during those years after dividends.
The rest was borrowed. So oil company profits
have a very real bearing on keeping down the
cost of gasoline to you. For most profits go right
back into improved facilities that mean greater
efficiency and lower costs.
This eric, sponsored by the people of Union Oil Company, it
dedicated to a discussion of how and why American business
functions. We hope you'll feel free to send in any suggestion
or criticisms you have to offer. Writs: The President, Union Oil
Company, Union Oil Building, Lot Angeles U, California,
Monday, August 1, 1949 IS
served at the American hospital
in Paris for some months frnm
now. However, the hospital r-
lused to confirm the report.
The glamorous movie queen
and Indian Prinno Alv ITh
were married last May.
Peru is encouraging the mak
ing of woolen carpets by hand.
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