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THE CENTRAL POINT
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Re-established,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 18it
CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN, CENTRAL POINT, OREGON
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7« it necessary to be a high
school graduate in order to en
list in the Navy?
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ARTHUR EDWARD POWELL
Editor and Proprietor
EDITORIALS
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BEAT IT TO THE PUNCH
YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE
$126 a month by the end of your
firat term of enlistment, snd re
member that your clothing, lodg
ing, medical and dental care are
all aupplied free.
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No. Navy enlistees need not be
high school graduates. All appli
cants will be given an examina
tion containing approximately 10#
questions. A grade of 50 per cent
or better on this exsmination is
sufficiently high to pass the Navy
educational standards. However,
a high achool education will be
valuable to the seaman daring hie
Nary enlistment.
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Depending on your rate and
length of service, you can get a
cash bonus up to 3300 plus 30 days
leave with pay.
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If I enlist in the Navy or Naval
Reserve, will I be sent to a
Navy Trade School?
What doe» the term "ash can”
mean in the Navy?
Build defenses against fire in the
All new recruits are rent to one of
interest of national defense. That
four Naval Training Stationa and
program should be follower! aggres
after a training period they may
sively now by every community,
take examinations for entrance
whither it be a village of 100 or a
into Navy Trade Schoola. Those
millions,
recruita who pass their examina
metropolis of teeming
tions with sufficiently high grades
Fire prevention Is one of today’s
are sent to Navy Trade Schoola
urgent ''musts.” We must save the
before assignment to the fleet.
resources that fire destroys, We
While attending these schools,
must save the time and effort that
they will receive regular Navy
fire dissipate«. We must save foi
pay and free schooling valued at
productive purpose the Uvea, the
$1500.
money, and the materials that feed
see
fire’s insatiable appetite.
What is the greatest possible
There Is but one way that can be
pay 1 can expect to earn during
done. That way Is the voluntary, en
my first term of enlistment?
thusiastic cooperation of theAmerlcan
It is possible to earn as much as
people in the gr««atest all-out effort to
prevent fire that the world has ever
known. Teach fire prevention In the
factories of America—the homes of are now carrying. As Mr. Robey
America—the schools of America. also points out, In Greet Britain ap
And teach it vividly, dramatically, so proximately 80 per cent of all govern
that the lessons will be remembered. ment expenditures are for military
Any community which is not carry purposes, Here only about 50 per
ing on a continuous, persistent fire cent is used at present for those pur
prevention drive at thi« time, is poses. Half the cost of government,
shirking its duty to the nation. Th» in other words, is for non-defenwe
same thing goes for industries and activity, and Congress and our local
individuals. Fire destroys hunderds governments have shown absolutely
of millions of dollars worth of materi no wleh to make reductions in any
al every year—«materials that could Important direction.
and should be used for the manifold,
To quote Mr. Robey once more,
growing needs of defense, and for the "No nation In the world, regardless
needs of normal life.
of how strong it may be, can stand
The most potent community weap such a financial policy indefinitely
on against fire Is a modern, enforced and maintain a democratic form of
ordinance which will adequately cover government. With our tax bill now
such vital matters as building con above that of Great Britain, it clearly
struction Inspection of properties, etc. is time to come to our senses.” We
One forgotten fire-trap could be th* are rolling merrily along toward na
source of a blaze that might wipe out tional bankruptcy notv. and only a
the heart of a town. Fire is ever public understanding of the conse-
lurking, ever ready to strike. We. quences of reckless. unbridled nun-
the people, can beat It to the punch. defense ".-«pending us usual" can
"For the first time In history the
relative tax burden of the United
Statin has now became heavier than
that of England." That astonishing
fact is stated by Ralph Robey in
Newsweek.
tax bill, the per
Under the now
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capita tax In this country will be
*180 a year. . It is $173 In Great
Britain, Our taxes will amount to
about 25 per cent of our national in-
come, as against 22 per cent In Eng-
land.
It is true, of course, that English
income taxes are greater than ours.
But the English are not burdened
with the vast numbers of sales taxes,
excise taxes and "nuisance” taxes on
which our government depends for
much of its revenue. Lastly, the
English are not burdened so heavily
with taxes levied by local government.
In Great Britain, the national govern
ment collects 90 per cent of all taxes;
here the Federal government collects
only 80 per cent.
We cannot blame the cost of de
fense for the staggering tax load we
t*
save us.
Essay Contest on
Oregon History
To Be Held Soon
After I have served my term of
enlistment, what benefit* do 1
get for re-enlistment?
An “ash can" ia a slang term ap
plied to the depth charge used to
combat aubmarinea. The average
“ash can” ia a container filled
with approzimately 300 pounds of
T.N.T. and can be dropped over
board from a ship and so con
trolled aa to explode at depths
ranging from 36 to 300 feet. These
are generally «carried by the fast
shipa in the fleet, as a boat drop
ping a charge regulated to ex
plode at 70 feet depth must move
away from the exploaion area at a
speed of 25 knots or more. These
“ash cans” are either rolled off
the stern or shot from “y-guns”
which hurl one right snd one left
simultaneously.
A kick-off Democratic Rally for
Floyd K. Dover-for-Congress will
place in the city of Rogue River in
the Girl Scout Hall on Friday, Nov-
t nicer 14th. at 8 o’clock p.m.
Mr. Lester Mathes, general chair
man of the Floyd K. Dover-for-Con-
gre-s Committee in Jackson County,
ay the meeting at Rogue River will
be the official kick-off meeting to
open the campaign for the new 4th
Congressional District for which Mr.
Dover is the candidate on the Demo
cratic ticket in the May Primaries.
Floyd K. Dover, a lifelong Demo
crat and active in the party since the
World War, is a native Oregonian
and a great graniteon of the late
Clinton Kelly who helped build the
erected
first Methodist church to be
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in the City of Portland.
I gn and which will be held in Eugene Blakely, vice-chairman, and William
Hartman, Sr., «secretary.
in 1942.
In the past ten years. Mr. Dover
Mr. Worth Smith of Tah-Wah-WI
was active in the Northwest and Ore of Rogue River is honorary chairman
gon in the Townsend and Old Age for the meeting on November 14th.
Pension groups, and was the nation
al delegate to both the Chicago and
Cleveland Townsend National Con
ventions serving as chairman of the
Oregon Delegation, who numbered
320, at the Clevelanl Convention.
Response to Mr. Dover’s candidacy
for the 4th Congressional District has-
been very favorable wherever con-
throughout
been
th f
tacts have
seven counties of the new 4th Dis-
trict.
The meeting at Rogue River La
sponsored by the Floyd K. Dover-
for-oCngress Committee for which
Earl Grizzell is chairman. Sandy
¡!
Sewing Club Meets
At Hazen Hom«
The Wednesday sewing club ni t
at the Selma Hazen home for a hous»
warming. Those present were Mes-
dames Alta Kelly,
Freda Jantzer,
Mary Perry, Ethel McCoy, Foresteen
Powell, violet I’owell, Mary Ijing«-
ton, Ilene Pendleton, Bonnie Hlgin-
botham, Hulburt. and
the host«*-
Mrs. Selma Hazen.
Plum pudding,
coffee and hot punch were served.
The honor guest received many nice
gifts.
Celebrate Armistice Dav
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Active in veteran affairs amie his
return from France, Floyd K. Dover
is at present the Immediate Past De-
partaient Commander of the Dis-
abled American eVterans. At the
state legislature—in March 1941 —
Mr. Dovei took the successful lead In
securing an appropriation for *10,-
000 from the State of Oregon to se
cure the National Convention of the
Disabled American Veterans for Ore-
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petltlon must not exceed two thou
sand words In length.
(2) The essay may be in handwrit
ing or In typewritten form, prefer
ably upon paper of commercial let
ENDS SAT. NITE!
ter Isze, either ruled or unruled, the
several sheets being numbered con-
FRANK CAPRA’S
secutively and written on one
only, with blank «pace of about
and one-quarter inches at top
left-hand margin.
(3) The essay shall be accom-
SUN—MON.
panied by a separate sheet containing
JEFFREY LYNN In
the name and post office address of
the writer, the date of his or her
birth, and the name of the school at
tended.
(4) There .shall also be delivered
with the ewsay a certificate signed
by the principal or a teacher of the
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educational institution attended, stat
ing that the writer of he essay is a
LUPE VF.I,ZE In
student attending the same.
(5) In order to be considered in
competition the essay must be de
livered, by mall or In person, to the
Public
Oregon Historical Society,
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Auditorium, 235 S. W. Market Street,
JOHNNY MACK BROWN in
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than
Portland, Oregon, not
later
Monday, March 16, 1942.
(6) All etisays submitted in com-
petition will be numbered and nub-
mltted, without the names of the
SUN—MON—TUE
writers or other identifying marks,
Don Ameche—Betty Grable
to three judges selected by the
committee.
(7) All competitive essays will ne
judged according to their general
merit and excellence; but the judges
will also take into consideration, in
WED—THUR
passing thereon, neatness of «manu
Jamen Cagney—Rita Hayworth
script, accurate orthography,
rect grammar and composition,
purity and clarity of diction.
The Oregon Historical Society has
selected “The Old Oregon Country"
as the subject for the 1942 C. C.
Beekman essay contest, The prizes
offered are four In number. viz.,
first, sixty dollars; second, fifty dol
lars; third, forty dollars; and fourth,
thirty dollars; and will be awarded
for the best four original essays on
the above named subject written and
submitted by girls or boys over fif
teen years of age and under eighteen
years of age, attending any public
or private school, academy, seminary,
college. university or othoi educa
tional Institution within the State of
Oregon. Each of the four prize win
ners will also receive a handsome
bronze medal.
BY Ralph Biasing
The conditions governing the can-
The Oregon State College student
petition are as follows:
body Is making hasty preparations to
(1) The essay submitted In com-
welcome the alumni when they return
to participate in the annual Home-
coming on November 8-9, and to se«-
the U.C.L.A. football game which will
be held in Bell field.
Invitations have been sent to alum
ni members at all point« on the globe.
About
1000 Varsity "O" aluinni
members have received invitationi«
from Tercey Locey, head of student
activities at O.S.C.
A Complete program is being pian
ned for the Homecoming, on Friday
night the rook bonfire will be fired,
and effigies of the U.C.L.A. Bruins
will be burned. This bonsflre is an
annual event. an<1 is built by free li
man boys.
After the bonfire the students will
retire to the Memorial Union ball
room. where a rally dance la to be In
progress.
The rook-frosh football tilt is also
scheduled, and fans are urged to
attend, because thi« game promises
to be very exciting. Saturday, the
main feature will be the f«K>tlNill
game between O.S.C. Beavers
V C LA Bruins.
All living organizations will make
house signs representing the desired
victory over the Bruins These signs
will be placed outside the houses, and
prizes are awarded to the organiza
tion which displays the most Ingen
ious sign.
Red Cross workers are on ths job In all Army and Navy camps and stations
throughout ths country to ssslst In ths Importsnt task of maintaining moral».
Above, an Army flier leaves unfinished perianal matters for the Red Cross
field director to take cars of while he embarks on an emergency flight serosa
country. The Red Cross is the official means of communication between service
men and their families back heme.
1 Democratic Rally to
Be Held Nov. 14
At Rogue River
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