10 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1949
Tonic Needed to Revitalize
Sick Flax Industry in State
Need of a tonic to revitalize a "sick" flax industry was ex
pressed by Henry R. Crawford, chairman of the new state flax
board, at a meeting of the group here Tuesday.
"Definite grading and processing to make fiber uniform will
be of great benefit to flax growers in reestablishing the industry,
Crawford declared. He said thai
while some flax fiber has been
very good and some very bad,
but by mixing the two grades
the over-all result was a poor
quality.
Much of the condition now
faced by growers is due to the
poor growing weather the last
two years which has resulted in
around 300 tons of fiber that
the growers now have on hand.
Crawford feels that the first
duty of the board to the grow
ers is to help them get rid of
this hold-over with every effort
to be made to cooperate with the
growers and stabilize the in
dutry. Towards this end the
board agreed upon a general
policy embracing three definite
moves.
First step toward rehabilita
tion In the industry is good
seed, with the group discussing
Hi
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JarmaD W. Nleboij
chants. The invited guests were
the football players, their coach,
the high school faculty and
wives, the ladies who prepared
the meal and three high school
girls who did the waiting upon
the invited guests.
Amity Louis Lynch and Ar
thur Lippin of Plum Valley
IOOF lodge, McCoy, and John
Gibbs of Amity lodge, No. 67
attended a meeting at Aloha,
where Grand Master Warren
Young instituted a new lodge.
Greeks Welcome Grady Henry F. Grady, U. S. ambassador
to Greece, Is carried shoulder-high by Greeks on his arrival
at Salonika for a week-long lecture tour of their country.
GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR IT
Fat Lady Who Got in Midget's
Bathtub Should Look at Record
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
(United Prtu Staff Oorrupondeot)
Washington, Dec. 7 (U.PJ The fat lady who got herself stuck in
a midget's bathtub In Council Bluffs, la., should have looked
at the record.
This lady took over the house of a midget friend who was
away. Come bath-time, she tried to shoe-horn herself Into a
tub only 36 in
ches long. She
got In, accord
ing to her own
testimony later,
and then stuck
there for 60
hours, until the
neighbors got
worried and
busted in the
door.
All of this set
me to looking
into the record.
The Greeks, who seem to have
had a word for everything, in
cluding "tub," were the first to
use bathtubs. , Only they weren't
exactly bathtubs. More correctly,
they were bowls, described In
the language of the times as
"overgrown punchbowls."
They were, it seems, fine
bowls for filling with water for
the bath. They rested on pedes
tals about three feet high. Only
trouble was they were not big
enough for the bather.
But the Greek of olden days,
a resourceful man, solved that.
He stood on a big slab of stone,
dinned his hand InalrU the
bowl and slopped water over
himself, as in taking a sponge
bath without a sponge.
The first bathtub ever instal
led in America was plenty big
enough for several people. Ac
cording to a bnnk nn ftln In
the Library of Congress, this tub
was installed by Adam Thomp
son, a wealthy cotton and grain
oeaier or Cincinnati.
The tub WAX primer. In Mina
raguan mahogany, and was lined
with sheet metal. It was 7 feet
long and four feet wide. It
weighed 1750 pounds.
Thf Wfttpr wn nnmnMl In
One of the papers of the day
reports that on Dec. 20, 1842,
Thompson had an open house at
xi is piitce xo snow on me "new
invention." Hp lnvlln1 launril
guests to try the thing on for
size and several of them dirt
The word spread around the
country and created a furor. The
news got as far as Virginia,
where the legislators promptly
put a 53U tax on bathtubs "in
case thev ever romp hl wav "
plus an Increase in the water
tax ior tUDDcrs.
There has been a lot of con
troversv as to whv fhp Vmih
tubs of the olden days and many
of the modern ones, slant In
the bark. Snmp nlitmrtlntr nan.
pie claim that the old-time kings
ana kiurihs nad their servants
stand by to splash water over the
oia man s oacK. it sounds rea
aonable.
Other sources say that the tub
leaned Back for relaxation and
mayDe reading a good book.
Todnv WP hnvp miiora iiVn
round tubs, some of them sunk
a foot or so.
Seldom do you find any leg!
on tubs.
Most folks prefer a shower
anyhow.
And that probably goes for
tne jaay irom council Bluffs
Honor Roll at
Sacred Heart
Names of pupils who are list
ed on the honor rolls of Sacred
Heart high school during the
second six weeks period included:
Senior: First honors Donns Marie
Barry. Audrey- Pearson; second honors
Nancr Brown. Mariaret Day, Otorla Kel
ieher, Alan Pearl. Uarlene Raschko. Bar
bara VanCleer, Dwyn Anne Herberger;
third honors Mariorle Daver, Margaret
Jasoskl, Geraldlne Klser, Jere McCarthy,
Doris Rohland. William Schwarz, Betty
Btadler, Jo Ana Washburn.
Juniors: First honors Robert Kavarllc;
second honors Donna Bclscher, Joanne
Coleman, Grace Corey, Kenneth Krebs;
third honors, Janice Jackson.
Sophomores: First honors Joan Saw
chuck. Maxlne Rentz, Betty Rose Nclke:
second honors Mary Ann Fischer, Mildred
Melthof. Vivlcone Brown, Harold Koch.
Frank Lebold, Jacnuelyn Rom, Mlchaei
Raschko, Ines Zumsteln: third honors
Sharon Rothenflush, Catherine McCor
mack, Muriel French. Larry Hamstreet.
Connie Rentfra. Janette Hills. Shirley
Koutney, Jack Kropp, Lillian Palmer.
Freshmen: First honors Dlonne Bel
cha, Joann Stelner, Robert Stevens, Stan
ley Dvorak, Jacqueline Larson, Shirley
Etzel: second honors Teresa Bcllo, San
dra Bllven, Joann Brown, Vance Cooney,
Donald Pear, Barbara Snook. Robert Jo
seph, Carol Rentz, Chnrlone Foust, Pat
ricia allies, Mcrlrleth Haves, Janet Con
net, Delores Sclimltz, Mary Angela Suing:
third honors Margaret Bocb. Joann Pol
ster, William Thompson, Mary Louise
Vannek, Robert Lange, Colleen Maxwell,
Donna Klrschner, Donna Lennlnger, Lyle
Sheperd. Shirley Tasgert.
rector, was unable to meet with
the group but has been working
closely with the members.
Gervais Is Pleased
By Class Production
Gervais The Junior class
play, "Grandad Steps Out," giv
en at the Gervais Union high
school auditorium, was a great
success. Members of the cast
included Charles Fitzgerald, Lou
Dobson, Roberta Jones, Stanley
Dodd, Dorothy Jaenicke, Thelma
Vandehey, Dorothy Zysset, Hel
en Scholz, Earl McCollum, Doug
las Hall, Earl Belleque, Mary
Lynn Peck, Paul Martin and
Vera Helmig. The play was di
rected by Miss Addyse Lane,
dramatic instructor.
Honor Court Slated
Willamina The local Boy
Scout troop is planning a Court .
of Honor for December 15. Dur- K
ing November ten new boys
joined the Scout troop.
possibility of the state making
the purchase and selling it
through cooperatives. Deter
mination of the best type of sou
and proper fertilization should
be the second step and selection
of the correct time to pull the
flax the third step. A central
selling agency was also discus
sed. .The market situation does not
provide a problem to flax pro
duction for a good flax always
finds a good market, Crawford
said. The board was agreed that
length should not be the prin
cipal factor in judging quality
of flax.
The board also agreed upon
the need of one or two com
petent field men to work with
the cooperatives to help get the
industry back on its feet.
Other board members were
Raymond P. Smith, St. Paul;
Dean William A. Schoenfeld,
Corvallis;; A. E. Krahmer, Hills
boro and Frank King, Portland
Harry Dorman, state budget di-
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Presbyterians Offer
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Gervais The monthly supper
and fellowship night of the Pres
byterian church will be held
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lors. Following will be a sound
picture, "Into the Good Ground,"
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Oregon field representative of
the board of national missions
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cation of the Presbyterian
church.
Dinner Honors Eleven
Falls City A 7 o'clock tur
key dinner was served honoring
the football players in the high
school dining room by the mer-
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