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About The Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1936-195? | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1936)
T h u r s d a y , J u l y a«, iww CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN ( K M R .U , POINT. OREGON PAGE , I W a s h in g to n S n a p S h o ts investigator, but rumor is to the ef fect that he was glad to leave. The committee also has employed < Walter Myers, long-time politician, erstwhile speaker of the Indiana House, and unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Senatorial nomi nation in 1928, as counsel. The expectation is that between! them Oavis and Myers will make some fur fly. They say they are go ing Jo concentrate not on the monev spent directly- by the candidates themselves hut on money spent in directly for political purposes. Dallas Streets of Paris Thronged \Va»hingt»n'a only woman cabiue- iHi-r. Secretary of I.abor Franc«» Perkins, is on the spot again, this time over the law which the New York Times calls a "back-ifoor NRA.” The law is the Walsh-Healey gov ernment contract act. which seeks to regulate wages, hours, and work ing conditions of employes In some establishments that sell things to the government. Organized labor for more than a year demanded passage of the law as a substitute for the discredited and discarded NRA. Labor demand The lust session of Hoy Scout ed a broad, all-inclusive bill. It threatened political defeat for House summer camp at Camp McLoughlin. Judiciary committeemen who twice Lake o' the Woods, opened Sunday. voted to tube the bill, hut finally I.ltty 2Hili, bringing to a close one of yielded to pressure and approved it- the most successful ramping seasons Hut the committee, and Congress, in the history of the Council. Camp deliberately narrowed it so that it registrations for the four weeks to could not, justifiably, be expanded taled 314 Scout weeks. Scouts from to cover all industry. Among other all Districts of the Council being re things, Congress wrote into the law gistered In the four periods, going a. provision exempting all things Into camp with their own Troop which usually may be bought in the leaders and staying from one to four "open market.” weeks. ---------- Many activities are offered the Tile language was exactly the Scouts archery, hiking, swimming, same as the “ open market” except- leatherwork. beadwork. woodwork, tion appearing in a 1912 law which fishing, boating, horseback riding as sought to impose an eight hour day well as Instruction In the many pha- on government contractors. In the sea of Scouting. The Courts of Hon- 24 years since then, federal purchas - 1 or held each Sunday have shown ing agents have ruled innumerable much advancement in rank and ma- u .il t ENTER OT 4 Alii r l N SPO’I,—An uxact reproduction id the oul times upon the "open market" ny awards of merit badges, especial- of the liner Normandie forms the front center of “The Streets of Paris,’ phi ase, holding it left free from the !y those required for higher ranks lines gay fun spot of the $211,000,000 Texas Centennial Exposition which will run eight-hour reguirement everything or Star. Life and Kagle, such as in Dallas until November 20. Flanking the ship is a French Village forming from locomotives to airplanes, in- First Aid. Pioneering, Personal an open-air court of concessions eluding clothing, structural steel and Health, Public Health. Swimming. Iron, and many other articles. ' Life Saving. Camping, Rird Study. ' receiving much benefit from the ’ the Crater Lake Area Council, ai courses. 1 sail boat has been constructed for Congress, therefore, obviously iu- etc. A number of boats this year were j tended the new Walsh-Healey act to This year one of the new and out- exempt those same things. If it had standing activities is archery. A contributed by various organizations j not, it would not have used the'complete range has been set up iu They are large row boats, all con phraseology which has been so well j camp. Two classes of one hour each structed on the same design. The interpreted. j are conducted every day, the Scouts Medford Rotary Club, The Active The rub is that organized labor .being given expert instruction not Cub and the American Legion and Sat. Only which still refuse to admit that the I only in handling bows and arrows. the Central Point IOOF each built : Clarence E. Mulford's NRA was a colossal flop, didn’t get but in the making and care of them. one of the boats, which have added ! HOP-A-LONG CASSIDY much to the water front activities, j The attendance in these classes has the broad law it wanted. Now it Is insisting that “ Madam Secretary" been large, the majority of those In Through funds made available by j With William Uovd give more weight to what labor camp showing a great interest and members of the Executive Board of ] Episode « "Taraan” wants than to what Congress wants. The question, as a Press Cub al- Sun.-Mon.-Tues. literationist put it, is whether Miss Perkins is going to "let labor or lo WALLACE HEERY gic lead.” The betting, this time, is Pure ice through and through, LIONEL BARRYMORE on logic. frozen artificially from pure wa Wed. Only A Senate committee is ready to ter, free from chemical odors and upset another precedent. dependable for cold and food pro Every two years, the Senate and BULLDOG DRUMMOND tection. Guarantee the health of House create committees to investi STRIKES HACK" W ill. N ile la Cash N’lte yourself and family by keeping gate campaign expenditures. Usu ally, the committees simply look your ice box filled with pure Ice. Thurs., 4>i. over reports of expenditures filed with the House clerk and report i "a il’s well.” This year, though, the situation WARREN WILLIAM is different. The Senate committee DELORES DEL RIO promises the most thorough-going investigation in recent years. The reason the Senate was selected for South Fir Street Phone 234 the job, instead of the House, is that no matter what happens In Novem ber. Democrats will maintain con trol of the Senate. It will be 19 in before Republicans can hope to ob tain control there, because only a third of the Senators come up for election every (wo years. Indicative of the fact that the Sen ate commttee means business is that it has employed Louis R. Gavls as its chief investigator. In the last 23 years, Gavis has built up a repu tation as an aggressive prober. Be fore joining the Senate committee he was chief Interior Department ■ Scout Summer Camp at Lake Is Well Attended the older Scouts who will, after the more convenient for cooking and close of the lamping season, form a 1 cleaning and enlarging the apace. Sea Scout unit. Long hikes have been taken each Irving P. Heesley, Scout Execu week by the Scouta. They have hiked tive of the Crater Lake Area Coun up Mt. McLoughlin, to Four Mile cil. has boon acting as camp director l-ake and to Lake Harriet. Horses with Dwight E. Gilchrist, Scout Exe are available and many Scouts have cutive of the Modoc Council, Kla been riding daily. math Falls, as associate director. Camp closes August 2nd, after The Scouts in camp and those re which time a crew will remain iu turning report that they have enjoy camp to prepare for the opening of ed themselves to the fullest and are Girl Scout camp on August 9th. anticipating next year's cainp. Many improvements have been made in the camp again this year, chief of which was the laying of a new pipe line for the water supply. Samples of water from the faucets and swimming area submitted to the State Board of Health have received Time Payments for Remodeling the highest rating. The health of the Scouts Is Insured through pure wa- A IIOOF Hill EVERY HOME er, sanitary facilities, and the best A PAINT t'oit EVERY PURPOSE of food. The camp physician this Phone 243 :tN 8. Bartlett vear is Tom Emmens. 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