30 Capital Journal, Salem,
Mined With Guns A guard armed with a deer ritie walcnes
tht lint load of coal to come out of the Lingle Coal company
mine at Clearfield, Pa., as non-union worker! went back
to their jobi In defiance of John L. Lewis' striking United
Mine Workeri. The guard refused hia name and turned hit
heed from the camera to prevent Identification. (AP Wire-photo)
BEYOND DUTIES TO ENJOY LIFE
Housewife Teaches Men
Carpentry at Trade School
By LEO SOROKA
Prairie, Miss. U.R) Mrs. Mattie Lou Gann, with the unusual
title "lady carpenter," thinks it's high time women looked out
their kitchen window to tackle
themselves.
Mrs. Gann is an average housewife who goes beyond her culuv
ary duties to' enjoy life.
Many a housewife has reached
for hammer and nails to adjust
curtain rods. Others wait for
hubby to handle carpentry work
around the house.
Not so with Mrs. Gann. Her
war veteran son is amazed at his
mother's talents with hammer
and saw in working out a car
pentry problem.
Mrs. Gann is known as the
lady carpenter" at school,
where she instructs men students
on how to become good carpen
ters. She is on the faculty at
Trades Training Institute of Mis
sissippi State college in northeast
Mississippi.
During the war Mrs. Gann
used to turn out shells which
made her an expert on precision
Instrument reading.
At first, Mrs. Gann handled in
struction on precision instru
ments used in different shops at
the Institute, except for the
framing square which was used
In the carpentry and cabinet
making shops. Now she even In
structs on the complicated fram
ing square.
John Echols, veteran carpenter
at Memphis, Tenn., was some
what wary of Mrs. Gann's talents
until he learned of her framing
aquare knowledge.
"That snakes her an expert
earpenter, Echols said. "Any
one with the ability to under
stand the framing square is every
bit a earpenter."
Mrs. uann moves from one
work bench to another while her
students hammer and saw on
their work problems. In moth
erly fashion she'll lend a hand
... rip out a board . . . and re
place it the right way.
Mrs. Gann applies her carp
entry knowledge away from
school, too. Right now the Ganns
are in the process of repairing
their home. All three mother,
father and son are on the Job.
Mrs. Gann says the trouble
with a lot of women Is that they
stay in their kitchen instead of
seeing what their menfolk are
doing for a living.
"Women are Just as capable
If they'd look out the window at
other Jobs." she says "Women
can hold down many a job now
strictly in the hands of men
It Just takes effort to learn the
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some of the jobs menfolk keep to
other fellows Job."
According to Mrs. Gann,
"You're never to old to learn
Asked about her age, Mrs. Gann
will tell you: "I think a person
is only as old as she feels or acts
and I still feel fine."
Hesslers End Visit
With Dayton Parents
Dayton Mr. and Mrs. George
Hessler, Jr., of Boise, Ida., have
left for their home after spend
ing a few days with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Co
burn and other relatives.
The Hesslers brought their
daughter, Joyce, and two other
girls from Boise, to Eugene
where the girls have enrolled as
students at Northwestern Chris
tian College..
The Hesslers are well ac
quainted in this community as
they wera both studlnts in the
high school here; he graduating
from Oregon State college and
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FORCED SALES AT LOW POINT
West Coast Land Values
In '49 Drop Less Than 1
By WILLIAM . LOWELL
Washington, Sept. 29 ) Farm buyers and sellers were about
at a stalemate in the western states this year.
The agriculture department reports that despite sliding crop
prices, land values dropped less than one per cent in the Rocky
mountain and Pacific coast areas from March to July and that
onlv about 82 farms in a thou
sand changed hands during the
year ended March 19.
Voluntary sales in the moun
tain state, were down about 10
per cent from the peak of 61.5
per thousand in 1948. In the
Pacific states, the peak was
reached at 70.3 per thousand in
1947 and the ratio per thousand
farms had dropped to 52.3 as of
March 15 this year.
Forced sales in the mountain
states were at their lowest point
in the past quarter century a
fraction over one in a thousand
farms. Such sales in the coast
states reached bottom with 1.1
per thousand two years ago.
They represent 1.7 in a thousand
this year.
The department's survey in
dicated most buyers through
out the country are in a general
ly safe financial situation, and It
predicted that the volume of
farm sales will drop gradually
during the next year, even if
there are further declines In
farm real estate values.
In the four months ended
July 1, land values in four of
the 11 Far Western states were
unchanged. These were Califor
nia, Idaho, Utah and Arizona.
In five others, there was a
decrease of but one per cent.
Values in Montana and Wy
oming dropped two per cent, to
equal the national average,
The average decline for the
Western area thus was but one
per cent for the four months,
compared to drops of 5 per cent
in tne mountain area and S per
cent in the coast section in the
previous four months.
Land values in the mountain
states are still more than dou
ble those of 1940, while those
along the coast are only slightly
less than 100 per cent greater
For purposes of comparison,
tne department uses acreage
values of 191Z-14 as 100.
The March 1949 ratios, with
comparable figures for 1948 and
for 1940, Includes:
Washington 188, 181 and 100:
Oregon 151, 168 and 100.
The amount of energy you
use, not the hot weather, de
termines the amount of food you
need in the summertime.
she, a graduate of Linfield col
lege, where she majored in mu
sic. Mrs. Hessler plays the or
gan for two daily radio pro
grams from the Boise station.
Hessler is associated with the
New York Life Insurance of
fice there.
. It
Gates School Year
Finds Packed Rooms
Gates The Gates schools
have completed their first two
weeks of this term with the larg
est enrollment In its history and
with the prospect of more to
come.
The high school registered 55
the first day which was an In
crease of more than 100 per
cent The first six grades have
a total of 102 pupils.
Due to the crowded condition
of the primary room with Mrs.
Mary Champ in charge of the
first and second grades, it was
necessary to secure" another
teacher for the second grade.
Mrs. Bently of Lyons has been
engaged and that class is held
in the hallway of the grade
school. Other arrangements are
being studied including the pos
sibility of building a new room.
The odor of musk still clings
to the rooms of the Empress
Josephine sixty years after her
death In spite of washings and
paintings. She loved the scent
and perfumed her rooms with it
constantly.
W jar""""' vaV r v .
Saves Life of Pup Danny
Ryan, 14, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
cuddles his pup, Teddy, in In
terstate park near Alpine, N.
J., where police found him
camping in woods. Danny ran
away from home with the pup
to save it from destruction ad
vised by ASPCA when his
mother agreed to the verdict
after the pup's hind legs were
found to be paralyzed. Sym
pathetic police took Teddy to
another veterinarian who said
the pup could be cured. Danny
and Teddy were sent home
happy. (AP Wirephoto)
"DARLING...
HAVEN'T YOU
GONE TO
SLEEP yET?"
Tiny thotjgbte gnaw at a man's mind in the dead of
"Can't forget the man from the Community Chest
who rang my doorbell this evening . . . I wasn't polite
. . . Told him I was short of money and couldn't give
W way I did last year ... 7 think he knew I was
kidding him . . . He saw my ear on the drive, the kids'
bikes, the big dinner on the table ... 7 guess I'll call
him back and double my pledge . . . Now, conscience,
let me go to afaep, will you t "
A man's most valuable possession is not his money
but his peace of mind. If a man could but we with
Us aaaa eyes the people who benefit from the Red
WEDDING BELLS SIX
Girl Who Wrote Fan Letter
Marries Zany Disc Jockey
By PATRICIA CLARY
Hollywood ) This should happen to girls who write fan
letters to Cary Grant and Clark Gable.
A girl who wrote a fan letter to zany disk jockey Jim Haw
thorne married him.
The former Miss Lee Uransky Just wanted to see a radio show.
And look what happened.
Hawthorne he dropped his
first name because it was "hard
to remember" now is a come
dian with a weekly television
show. But the stocky, owl-eyer
comic was just a disk Jockey
136 S. HIGH
On door away from
the Elsinore Theater
To give you faster service in a more convenient
the Willamette Valley Division of Portland
Electric Company has moved to new and larger
at 136 South High Street.
PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
WILLAMITTI VAllIT DIVISION, SALIM, OIieON
MONTHS LATER
on a small aiauon wncn raiw
Uransky started listening to his
program.
"I was a loyal Royal Hogan
ite," she said. That's what he
calls all his most faithful fans.
One day I wrote him a letter
"CANT SLEEP...
My CONSCIENCE
BOTHERS ME."
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Feather services of health, child care, character
building, family strengthening, then he could never
be selfish about giving.
Let each man give what his conscience tells him
to and we'll have a better town for living and
sleeping!
MANY1
OS
and incidentally asked for some
tickets to his show for my girl
friend and me."
The two girls went to Pas
adena, east of Hollywood, to see
the show and met Hawthorne in
person. He was driving to North
Hollywood, where they lived,
after the show and so he took
them home.
"He asked me for a date,"
Lee said. "We went to a Mexican
restaurant in his new conver
tible."
On June 13, 1948, six months
to the day after they met, they
were married. Now they have a
home in suburban Woodland
Hills and a new arrival, Darr
Christopher Hawthorne.
location,
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