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18 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, August 21, 1950 High Award Won by Gooch Earl A. Gooch has received word from New York and con gratulations from his home of fice on his successful completion of Section One of the L.U.T.C. (A national insurance training course). Gooch is one of only two Salem insurance men who were successful in passing the examinations. As a leading writer of busi ness insurance, he has earned an all expense trip to the Manu facturers Life's Educational Conference at the Empress hotel, Victoria, B.C. the week of Sep tember 4. For several years he has been a vary active mem ber in the Oregon Quarter Mil lion Round Table, in which hon orary organization he is a life member. His outstanding production this year has placed him on schedule for qualifying for the trip to the company's education al conference to be held during June, 1051, at Bigwin Inn, Lake of Bays, Muskoka, Canada. One of the company's leading prod ucers in Oregon, Gooch has been consistently on the production honor roll since joining the com pany in 1945. Leaving September 3, Mr. and Mrs. Gooch will accompany Gil bert Cato, Oregon manager for the company, and his wife, on a motor trip to the Victoria conference. The Nunatagmiut Eskimos had rather advanced culture con sidering the difficulties of life in northern Alaska. lite jsr X'W-X- 7.,- f Earl A. Gooch July Home Boom Biggest in History Washington, Aug. 21 U. The bureau of labor statistics said today that July was the best homebuilding month in history. The bureau said the sustained housing boom this summer has been helped by builders' efforts to start construction before prices rise further and before materials became scarce. A survey by the bureau show ed that 144,000 new non-farm dwelling units were started last month. The year's total so far is 839,000. Each month of the year, home- builders have broken records for comparable months in pre vious years. By the end of July, new housing activity was 54 per cent over last year's volume, the survey showed. Marion County Has 32,378 Home Units, Salem 13,971 Marion county has 32,373 dwelling units, according to pre liminary figures of the 1950 census, as against 23,569 in 1940. Of these Salem, on the Marion county side of the river, has 12,887, and it has 1084 on the Polk county side. Ten years ago Salem had 9434 dwelling units. Polk county is given a tota ' 9989 dwelling units by the new census, and 10 years ago nao. 6220. The state of Oregon has ap proximately 526,000 units, Roy V. Peel, director of the bureau of the census, said in Washington. The preliminady count on hous ing was based on April 1, 1950, figures and compared to 369,811 dwelling units in the state in 1940. Peel said the counts for the state, counties -and places of 5000 inhabitants or more were based on preliminary field tab ulations. MM Baker Count; .T7 5,H Baker our 31" MM Clackamas Count! 31,313 30.753 Oregoo Cltr 3. 825 3.083 Clatsop County 12.784 9.447 Ajtorla Cltr 4.785 3.484 Coos Countr ' 14.351 11.313 Coax Bar Cltr i,a" North Bend Cttr 3.058 1.500 Deschutes Countr. 7.388 5.788 Bend Cltr s.ujo Hood River Countr 5,723 4.348 Jackson Countr 30.483 13.509 Ashland Cltr 3,75 1.,S3 Medford Cltr 6.177 3,930 Klamath Countr 14,878 13.133 Klamath Falls Cltr ... 5.788 8.293 Lane Countr 41.189 33.195 Eugene Cltr 11.873 8,948 Borlnglleld Cltr 3.493 1.100 Linn Countr 17.153 9.838 Albany Cltr 3,393 1.934 Lebanon Cltr 1.848 883 liarlon Countr 33.378 S3. 589 Salem Cltr 1Z.SB7 9.434 Uultnomah Countr 185.343 135.047 Portland Cltr 133.010 308.745 Polk Countr 9.989 6.320 saiem Cltr (part) .... 1.0B4 Umatilla Countr 14.136 6.331 Pendleton Cltr 3.719 3.481 Union Countr 6.227 5,744 La orande cur z.976 3.040 Wasco Countr 5.354 4,400 rne uauej cltr z.740 z.ibo Two-Car Smashup , On North River Road Rodney Gordon Woods, Port land, was cited Sunday after noon with driving on the wrong side of the road when his north bound car collided with a vehi cle driven by Wilfqrd Hugh Muncrief, Independence, about 3 p.m. on the North River road, IV2 miles north of Keizer dis trict. State police said that Woods attempted a left hand turn off the highway and collided with Muncrief s southbound car. Both cars sustained considerable dam age to the front ends. Dallas Woman Hurt In Fatal Car Wreck , Oregon City, Aug. 21 Gust Bergstedt, 74, of 516 N. 47th, Seattle, was killed Saturday night in a two-car collision south of here. Two other persons were injured. The Seattle victim's son, Fen ton, 45, suffered a fractured leg. Mrs. Irene M. McCarthy, 60, Dallas, Ore., passenger in the other car, suffered serious inter nal injuries. Her son, Charles, 28, the drvier, was not hurt. Firm Opens New Drapery Unit Rheinhold & Lewis, 560 South 21st street, Salem, - are announcing the opening of their new drapery department as of August 1, under the supervision of F. Tyler Stone. Stone has been connected with yocational education and the Salem public schools adult education department in Salem since the end of the war. In addition, he has been self-employed as a draftsman and de signer for a short period. Prior to coming to Salem, Stone was connected with some of the largest stores in Portland, in the interior decorating de partment and is thoroughly in formed on the latest in drapery designing and installation. Dur ing the war, Stone was in the Seabees. Reinholdt & Lewis have been in the business of manufactur ing Venetian blinds and window shades, since 1933, being one of the oldest Venetian blind and shade dealers in Oregon. Prior to coming to Salem and estab lishing the- business, Reinholdt was with the national firm of Charles W. Breneman Com pany, wholesale manufacturer of Brenlin window shades, from 1922 to 1930. In 1936, R. O. Lewis, long a resident of Salem, became a partner, forming the company of Reinholdt & Lewis. The management feels very" fortunate in securing the serv ices of Mr. Stone who is taking over the drapery department and they expect to make many more new friends through this department. They have been fortunate in securing a number of nationally 322 New Oil Wells Produce In Alberta Fields This Year Calgary, Alta., Aug. 21 U.FD Indicative of the tremendously increased activity in Alberta oil fields this year over 1949 was a petroleum and natural gas conservation board report which said that in the first six months of 1950, 322 new wells went into production. In 1949, only 228 new wells 25 percent less than this year were brought in over the same period. Oil production was up more than 2,500,000 barrels. During the first six months of 1949, Alberta fields turned out 8,931,207 barrels of crude, while this year, production: to the end of June was 11,563,818 barrels. The Turner valley field, upon advertised lines for all depart ments, featuring particularly in draperies: the Walco Line Portland and San Francisco; the Edson Products Chicago; Bar rett Fabrics New York; O'Bie of California and the Queen Val ley and Sunshine Curtains. Other lines are being added rapidly. In window shades, it s Du Font's Tontine, and in . the Venetian blinds they feature Flexfclum aulminum slats and plastic tape. HASHES?!! Are yon going thru the functional middle-age' period peculiar to wom en (38-52 yrs.)? Dow tola make you auffer from hot flashes, feel bo ner vous, high-strung, tired? Then do try Lydla E. Pin it ham's Vegetable Com pound to relieve such symptoms! Pinkham's Compound also has what Doctors call a stomachlo tonlo effect! UYDIA L PINKHAM'SS its discovery, had an estimated reserve of 125,000,000 barrels. Today, it had about 25,000,000 barrels left. And that, in the oil industry, is considered not much more than a drop in the bucket. Among the semi-annual fig ures released by the board to day was the fact that the six months ending June, 1950, 14 new gas producers were brought in, as compared to only four dur ing the same period last year. The petroleum and natural gas conservation board has un der consideration several appli cations for permissions to export gas to the American and Cana dian west coast. Alberta had been estimated to have gas re serves of some 12,000,000,000, 000 cubic feet. The board was trying to decide whether there was enough gas to serve Alberta for the next 50 years, and for export, too. Meanwhile, the companies were having to contend with a severe pipe shortage as the Ko rean war had started a stamped among steel users, and oil pip was very scarce, the board reported. POISON rl Science has dis- yEiJ& cv,e,red x- m B-snla eel lent new treatment for ivy, oak or snmae poisoning. It's gentle and safe, dries op the blisters in a surpris ingly short time, often within 24 hours. 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