DEEDS OF KINDNESS
Playmates Club Organized
By Juveniles at Stayton
By FLORENCE CARLETON
Stayton Oid you ever wish that bov or sir! of yours had an
Interest to keep them occupied during the hours after school is
out ior me day and during summer vacation?
A group of Stayton youngsters have found the answer and have
provided themselves many hours of pleasure and at the same time
helped those less fortunate than"81
themselves.
Known as Play Mates club
the group was organized about
a year ago and patterned after
a suggested club of the Play
Mate magazine for children,
with Mrs. Tomina Shower as
supervisor.
Each membership card bears
a promise which the members
agree to follow: "I promise to
do my best at all times to help
those who are lonely, needy, ill
or shut-in.
A little girl from the Chil
dren's Farm Home near Corval
lis was chosen as the playmate
to help this year. She has been
remembered with useful gifts as
well as toys at Christmas, at
Easter time and on her birthday.
A short program was presented
at the Eva Rebekah Christmas
party by the club. They were
joined at that time by their
adopted playmate, Darlene Run-
yan. Christmas carols were sung
to the shut-ins by the group at
Christmas time,
A May Day program, with
a aueen crowning and a pro
gram of acts was presented in
the yard of the C. P. Burmester
home, for which the costumes
were designed and made by
Harry Burmester, 12. Yvonna
Myers was queen; Harry Bur
mester, king; Ralph Shower,
master of ceremonies; and the
acts were presented with the
program presented by other
members, including Shirley
Freeman, Karen Petersen, Gary
and Erol Boyle, and Harriett
Burmester. Bob Carleton was
ticket taker. The acts consisted
of songs, tumbling acts and a
puppet show. Betty Caskey was
away at the time of the show,
and Bobby Weddle and Doris
Stevens have joined the club
since school closed.
Only a couple of pennies was
the cost of the tickets for the
May Day program but a group
of parents and interested friends
witnessed the show and pur
chased the refreshments which
consisted of cake, ice cream,
punch, coffee and cookies. By
this means nearly $4 was added
to the club fund.
The club is quite proud that
its entry in the Children's pa
rade of the Santiam Bean festi
val which was held in Stay
ton recently, won the grand
sweepstake, and of the purple
ribbon given it. Using the old
four - wheeled fire department
trailer which has been stand
ing in the yard of the former
fire chief, the youngsters built
a large brown boot of crepe
paper to form a house for the
"Old Woman Who Lived in a
Shoe."
Now everyone knows who has
ever prepared a very modest
float that it is really work, but
the boys and girls really did an
excellent job on their float. The
shutters in the windows of the
boot house were covered in
sweetpeas and the name of the
club was outlined in the same
flowers. Club members were
the children with Yvonna Myers
as the Old Woman.
The club wishes to thank
Chris Neitling for the use of the
trailer, and those who were so
kind in giving flowers for the
float. The club is planning an
other program some time in the
future to defray the cost of
crepe paper and other items pur
chased for the float.
Regular meeting place of the
club has been the attic of the
Burmester home which young
Harry has decorated in red
paint to make the club rooms
mor attractive. Last weeks hot
weather caused them to abandon
their attic meeting place for a
small house in the yard at the
Weddle home.
Gallery by the Sea
Will Show Quigley
An exhibition of the paintings
of E. B. Quigley will open Au
gust 14 at The Gallery by the
Sea, the Lincoln county art cen
ter at Delake.
In the show will be 22 paint
ings in oil of the eastern Oregon
country, including horses and
cattle, in which Quigley specializes.
The gallery will be open ev
ery day except Monday, from
1:30 to 5 p.m. On the opening
day the gallery hours will be
1:30 to 8 p.m.
The exhibition will hold un
til September 11, and will be
followed immediately by another.
The Gutenburg Bible first
book printed with movable
type, was given the appearance
of a hand-copied manuscript
by the printers so that their
invention would not be . discovered.
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Leaning Over Backward this Fukul building was wrecked.
SEVERE SHAKES
Speed of Earth's Moves
In 'Quakes Is Great
By FRANK L. WHITE
(AP Newsfe.turej)
Tokyo The great Fukui earthquake of June 28, 1948,- "ranks
among the most severe of all well-known earthquakes," with an
earth movement that may have reached a speed of 20 feet a second,
U.S. army engineers report.
They have just concluded a
year-long geological and engi
neering study of the Fukui dis
aster, which killed 5,236 persons
and wrecked 35,437 buildings.
While many earthquakes
have taken more lives in va
rious parts of the world, the
one centering around Fukui,
in west-central Honshu, is rat
ed as one of the major trem
ors of history because of its
shock intensity.
The army's study rates its
highest intensity at .6 gravity.
This is the highest recorded fig
ure on any recognized scale. One
'G," for gravity, is 32 feet a
second the speed of the pull
that gravity exercises on a free
body in the first second.
Six-tenths of a "G" therefore
would be about 20 feet a second,
the speed at which the earth
shook at the height of the quake.
This movement could be ver
tical or horizontal, or both.
The first earthquake rated on
this comparatively recent scale
was that at Long Beach, Calif.,
in 1933, which was figured at
.3 G-plus, or about 10 feet a
second. Until Fukui, this was the
highest recorded since the , be
ginning the G measurement.
The army report, compiled
with the aid of Geologists
John J, Collins and Helen L.
Folster, notes that, "the num
ber of casualties and the dam
age resulting from the Fukui
earthquake were exceptional
ly large, considering the rela
tively small area in which the
shocks were severe
200 square miles."
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The most damaging quake in
Japan's history remains that in
the Tokyo-Yokohama area in
1923, which took 143,000 lives,
but it spread over a far wider
region.
A check indicates the Fukui
ground level moved up and
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A horizontal shift of the earth
GETTING TO WORK ON TIME
When Deaf, Alarm Difficult
To 'Hear' So as to Awaken
By JAMES DUNNE
Cleveland U.B It is often a problem for deaf people to awake
so they can get to work on time.
During the convention of the National Association for the
Deaf, the delegates were asked how they managed the waking
problem. The answers varied.
A tall, middle-aged bachelor
described to a reporter in sign
language through an interpreter
that he has a hammer connected
with a spring and tripped by an
alarm-clock that beats on the
bed posts. The vibrations of the
bed rather than the sounds
awake him.
as much as 5.5 feet was noted
at points within two miles of
each other.
Fissures in the ground opened
as wide as four feet but most of
them returned to widths of a
few inches. Seven witnesses are
quoted as seeing a woman
crushed to death in one of these
opening and closing fissures.
Another representative has
members of his family who can
hear, so he could not employ
such a "loud" voice. Instead he
wound a piece of string around
the alarm handle on the back
of the clock. He passed the cord
through a hook in the ceiling
and tied the loose end about a
pillow.
The pillow was placed above
his head. When the alarm un
wound, so did the cord, and the
pillow fell on the sleeper's face.
.
A small, bald-headed dele
gate wagged with his hands a
tale of awakening calmly and
easily. He hooked a switch on
the alarm clock and connected
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the wires to several sealed beam
lights mounted on his dresser
and pointed towards his bed.
The lights flashed on and off
when the alarm was tripped.
Usually the ringing of the
telephone in a hotel room for a
few seconds would wake up a
hearing person. But for the deaf
delegates, the telephone bells
took a beating. Usually La Du
would have to ring the bell for a
solid five minutes before his
roomers would awake.
Sometimes the vibrations
would not be great enough, and
two bellhops accompanied by La
Du would go to the various
rooms and beat on the doors.
Sometimes even these sounds
were no. enough and La Du had
to enter the rooms with a spe
cial pass key.
"The people who fell In the
last category," La Du said,
"seemed not to be worried at all
if they ever got up."
"In fact," he added, "one man
said he has been late so many
times that the act of not being
punctual has become a habit
just like eating and sleeping."
La Du's problems started all
over again when the delegates
arrived at the coffee shop for a
bite of, breakfast before the
business sessions began.
Hnurpvor his wnrrlpt wprs er
ased when he was informed that E
one of the waitresses had deaf
parents and that she knew sign
language.
Immediately La Du employed
her as a sort of "head waitress"
and all the orders were taken
without a second word or sign.
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concealed a
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SUCCESS COMES MINT-FIAVORED
Meet Mr. and Mrs. William Towery,
Stayton mint growers, and their five huskj
ions. From left Billy, Jimmy, Richard,
Mrs. Towery, Mr. Towery, Maxey and
Marion. The ambitious Towerys earned
farming success in Oregon, after 14
disappointing years elsewhere.
"We reached the North Santiam are
almost broke in 1939," Towery said.
"The First National Bank helped us buy
our 52-acre 'home place' and, later, 80 acre
near Jefferson." Today these Oregon
building ranches yield 100 acres of quality
mint annually for distillation into
flavoring. They also produce many
vegetable crops and steady jobs fof
five non-family workers.
IRIS BULBS REWARD HOBBYIST
Twenty-five years ago, at the age of
57, Ben C. Offins (center) reared
from lumbering to enjoy his hobby
of raising Dutch irises. Soon his acre
of land in Grants Pass was crowded
with these white, yellow and blue
flowers. Florists began buying the
bulbs for force-blooming purposes.
Now 82, Offins, with his sons,
Harold W. (left) and Don A., directs
modern iris culture on 30 acres of
land growing approximately
8,000,000 quality bulbs annually. Their
firm, B. C Offins & Sons, relies on the
Grants Pass Branch of First National
for helpful banking services,
THE DILLARDS PROVIDE HOUSING
W. H. Dillard began building a
small home in 1938 on an acre plot
on Prineville's outskirts. Dillard,
then a sawmill worker newly
arrived fromOklahoma.hardly had
the fob started before he had rental
inquiries. "If folks want places like
these, let's build more," Dillard
suggested to his wife, Violet. Today
they own nine acres, 18 low-rental
houses, a 27-place trailer park and
room to build a modern tourist court. .
"We really 'started on a shoestring',"
Dillard says, "and we credit the First
National of Prineville for much of
nur success. We got both financial
Selp and sound business advice."
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