10 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Oct. 21. 1950 1
Edna, 5, Gets a Bike
Gl, Stranger to Her, Makes Gift
Marshalltown, la., Oct 3101.19 This is a report to SRt. John A.
Walbcl of the 89th medium tank battalion, fighting somewhere
Is Korea if he la itill alive.
Sergeant, little five-year-old Edna Aman thinks the bike you
aunt her is lust wonderful.
She wai having a fine time
with It today, riding up and
down the aidewalki ouUide her
home. Her hair wai flying in
the breeze and her eyea weac
bright with happineu.
Today wai Saturday, her first
full day out of school since she
got the bike. She made the most
of it.
Edna was practically speech
less when Mayor Don Taylor
himself came to her school, call
ed her out of a class and gave
her the bike.
Edna knows the bike waa
your gift to her. But she's the
sort of hasy en the details.
And she knowa nothing about
that deal involving her pop,
Charles Aman.
Next to him, she thinks
you're Just about the swellest
guy in the world. She's going
to write yon herself to tell you
The mayor let the people of
Marshalltown know the whole
story. Here it is:
Edna has been wanting a bike
badly for a long time now. But
her father couldn't really afford
one.
A month ago, however, he
took his last $4.33 and bought
Edna a broken-down, second
hand one. It wasn't much, but it
made Edna happy.
Then Aman became afraid
that his wife would be sore be
cause he had spent the $4.33. So
he reported to police that he had
been robbed of the money.
Later, however, Aman's piti
ful little hoax was exposed.
- Newspapers
had reported the false
story of the robbery so that he
could buy his little girl a bike.
Somehow, a clipping of the
story as carried by United Press
reached Sergeant Waibel In
Korea.
This week, Mayor Taylor re
ceived a letter from Waioel en
closing the clipping and a money
order for $30. The letter said:
"Dear Sir: Please do me a
favor and take this money and
see that this girl gets a bicy
cle. If by any chance she has
already received a bicycle,
take the money and fix her up
with clothes."
...
It wasn't long after that be
fore a store reduced the price
of a $65 bike to $30.
And so, Sergeant, Edna got
her bike.
The mayor said a lot of fine
words when he handed It to
her. You probably would have
been embarrassed If you had
heard them.
They boiled down to this:
Mayor Taylor says he did
n't know yon, yonr hometown,
how old you are, or anything
about you. He doesn't think
you're a Marshalltown resi
dent. But he said that from now
on you're an honorary ciliien
of this town. And the people
here would be right proud to
have you aettle 'own here
when you get through with
that Job you're doing now.
In the meantime, if there's
anything you need or want, you
Just let the mayor know about
it.
Portland Fears
Milk Shortage
Portland, Oct. 21 (JP) A stu
dy to determine whether Port-
land's milk supply will be ade
quate this winter was ordered
today.
Dairymen said In a hearing
yesterday that the supply was
getting short, because of the;
usual seasonal decline and be
cause of growing military re
quirements, i
Dairymen said some milk now
is being brought in from Tills-!
mook and Hood River to meet;
demand, but Portland will not I
be able to fall back on Astoria'
and Chehalis as in some form
er years because the military
now is taking the surplus irora
those areas.
Thomas Ohlsen, milk adminis
trator, said he did not at this
time favor admitting new pro
ducers to the Portland market
135,000 Lbs.
Inform Voters
of Pamphlets
on Candidates
By WILLIAM WARREN
(United Pre, fluff Correspondent)
Some 135,000 pounds of pamphlets have spread through the
mails to all parts of Oregon so that you and you and all other
Oregon voters may be better informed when you trek to the
polls Nov. 7.
It's a tremendous task, getting the voters' pamphlet into shape,
printed and mailed, a task that-
Abandon Search
For Deer Hunter
Portland, Oct 21 W The or
ganized search for Lester L.
Barger, 83, missing Portland
deer hunter, waa abandoned
yesterday.
A few searchers indicated they
still would try to find Barger
in the wet hills of the Tillamook
burn, where he last was aeen
Sunday.
A son, William Barger, said
the family agreed there waa lit
tie possibility the missing man
could be alive If still in the
hills.
They held a slight hope,
though, that he might have
wandered out in a dazed condi
tion. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Thorscn,
restaurant operators on the
Sunset highway, said a man re
sembling Barger stumbled into
their place Tuesday, ate, and
then left with other customers
with whom he had struck up a
conversation.
Claude Shaw, state policeman
who had directed the search,
said there waa a chance Barger
had been injured, lost his mem
ory, and found the restaurant.
Army Want Wool
Washington, Oct. 21 I The
army has asked the agriculture
department's commodity credit
corporation to act as Its agent In
buying 30,000,000 pounds of
raw wool. In announcing this
action yesterday, the army aaid
It was the first step toward pur
chasing a total of 100,000.000
pounds of wool and woolen
goods to help meet reserve
needs of the armed services.
reached its ell
max this weektj";
with the mail- '
ing of the final?
regular copies.,
A few straggl
ers will be sent
out as requested
but the big Job.
is over.
Winiaa ffVarrea
The job be
gins with Dave
O'Hara, veteran
manager of the state elections
bureau, who makes up the
pamphlets. Have you noticed the
absence of typographical errors?
That's teamwork of the state
printing shop where all hands
working on the book are some
thing special, and O'Hara, who
personally proof reads every
letter and punctuation mark of
every statement.
Let's start with Dave in de
veloping the pamphlet. First he
gets in all the statements from
all the candidates and all argu
ments for and against the meas
ures. Then he outlines roughly
four "case books, one for each
congressional district.
The law specifies that the
pamphlet be mailed to the remot
est localities first, working in
ward toward the capital. So the
first case book is for the Sec
ond Congressional district made
up of the 18 counties east of the
Cascades.
Now, to start with, the first
38 pages of the pamphlet are
the same in all case books the
measures and their arguments.
Statewide offices U. S. Sena
tor, governor are the same.
Then in each case book, the can
didates for congress will be the
same. But there are different
state senators, representatives,
district attorneys.
So each case book Is broken
up Into numbered districts. In
the second congressional dis
trict, the first case book is brok
en up into 13 different pamph
lets because there are 13 dif
ferent slates of local state offic
es. No. 1 (look at your pamph
let and that large number on
the lower right hand corner of
the cover gives you the number
of your district) takes in Gil
liam, Malheur, Sherman and
Wheeler counties. Remotest
from the capital you see,
Next case book is for the
fourth congressional district
Curry, Jackson, Josephine, Coos,
Douglas, Linn and Lane coun
ties. The case book is broken up
into 7 scries of pamphlets num
bers 14 to 20, one for each coun
ty.
The first congressional district
is case book No. 3, for Clatsop,
Columbia, Tillamook, Washing
ton, Lincoln, Benton, Clacka
mas, Yamhill, Polk and .Marion
county, pamphlets 21 to 30.'
Then comes congressional dis
trict No. 4. Multnomah county,
and that's a story and a pamph
let in Itself. The Multnomah
book No. 31 is the biggest
(112 pages against 68 pages In
the smallest pamphlets). Work
has to start from the beginning
on that one so it can be complet
ed, printed and mailed by Oct.
23, the deadline. (Actually the
job was completed this week,
eh will spend a short time visit
well ahead of the next Monday
deadline.) Being the biggest and
bulkiest, work has to start on
the Multnomah pamphlet at
once. The book is put together
while the other three case books
are being readied for press. The
Multnomah pamphlet is "farmed
out" to a Portland printing firm
for publication only. The compo
sition work is done here. Like
wise, the Marion county pamph
let was "farmed out" this year
to a Salem printing firm.
The state printer sends over
two proofs of every page. One
proof goes to Dave for scrutiny
and the other goes to the candi
date for any last minute correc
tion he may want to make. Once
Dave has given the pages the
green light, the job of printing
begins.
E. C. Hobbs, state printer, said
his shop used 1,300,000 sheets of
24 by 36 inches, weighing 82
pounds to the 1,000 sheets to
complete the pamphlet. In addi
tion, 45,000 pounds of paper on
35 inch rolls about 45 inches in
diameter went to Portland for
the Multnomah job.
Once the pamphlets are print
ed, the mailing starts. The
pamphlets are baled into bun
dles about a foot and a half long,
tied and made ready for mailing.
The postoffice sends a specially
trained man up to the statehouse.
He supervises sacking of the
mail, and the weighing of It, and
then state trucks take it direct
ly to the depot, where the sacks
are put on northbound and
southbound trains for eventual
distribution throughout the state.
The pamphlets are bundled
for each locality, Dave explain
ed, because that way the state
gets a rate of 10 cents a pound.
That's some $13,500 postage
alone for the 135,000 pounds of
pamphlets. Dave makes out a
check for the postoffice in ad
vance and finally a cleanup:
check. He s careful not to make
the last one too big. Because if
there's a refund coming, it goes
flop into the state's general fund
and is forever lost to the election
bureau.
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to announce the addition
of
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Selective Dinners
Served S to 11 P.M.
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State and Liberty
"Tour Prescription Store"
THE
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TWO LOCATIONS
111 S. Liberty St
AND
Z234 Fairgrounds Rd.
Open Sunday! 11 A.M.
to 11 P.M.
ORCUTT'S
Market
4200 No. River Rd.
"In the Keiser Area"
OPEN SUNDAYS
10 a.m. to t p.m.
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Roast Prime Beef
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Country-style Fried
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Erickson Super Markets
OPEN SUNDAY
2 Big Stores
9 A. M. to 8 P. M.
3060 Portland Rd.
3720 E. State St.
RED CROSS
Pharmacy
Stata and High Sts.
OPEN SUNDAY
8 a.m. 1 p.m.
4 p.m. 10 p.m.
Drags and Prescriptions
Senator Hotel
Coffee Shop
We Specialise in
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7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Daily
6:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Dine in Cool Comfort
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Billiards Lunch
Alleys Reserved for Parties
Winter leagues now being
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Open 4 P.M. to Midnight
8. & B. BOWLING
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30S5 Portland Rd.
GOLDEN
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OPEN
12 Noon Til 8:30
SUNDAY
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Phone 3-8733
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3045 South Commercial
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TINDALL'S
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"THE HOLLYWOOD
DRUG STORE"
1998 No. Capitol ,
Phone t-1424
Night Phone 1-6871
Open I a.m. Till 9 p.m.
STATE ST.
MARKET
1230 State St.
Open Sunday
JO A. M.to9P. M.
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In the
Capitol Shopping Center
8 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Every Day
WILES
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19S No. High St.
OPEN SUNDAY
8 A. M. to 1 P.M.
4P.M.t 10P.M.
PHONI 8-8792
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1705 S. 12th
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