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With Changing Conditions
Went Easy Picking and
Living of Yore.
NEW ORLEANS. — The spring
floods have subsided and 86-year-old
Orlando H. Colton is buzzing about
the battu re here, channeling a d rift
PER
O r e c ] o 0 H m ^ s i
wood h arv est tow ard his singing
I AT I 0 I
P ublisher ,
saw .
"D ay w as,” says Colton, swing
ing a bare brown knee acro ss a
bucking log, "w hen a m an could
I th e h u m d r u m e x i s t e n c e of p e a c e t i m e , j d rift down the riv er living easy
t h i s o r g a n i z i n g g e n u is , t r a d i t i o n a l to |
and picking up all the cash ha
th e U n ited S tates, n e v e r seem ed very
needed,
but now a riv e rm a n ’s got
im p o rta n t.
M a n a g e m e n t w a s often
d e rid e d .
B u t s u d d e n l y w h e n o u r a r to tie up and ru stle stick s if he
m ie s h it t h e b e a c h e s of N o r m a n d y , w ants to eat re g u la r.”
F or m ore than 60 y ea rs, Colton
everyone p ra y e d th a t n o th in g had
been overlooked.
T h e y p r a y e d t h a t j rode his houseboat down the Mis
m a n a g e m e n t in i n d u s t r y , In g o v e r n - , sissippi in the fall, and g rab b ed a
m e n t a n d in t h e a r m y h a d d o n e a tow back to St. Louis in the spring.
g o o d job.
C o u n t l e s s lives d e p e n d e d But since 1940 his boat h as been
on g o o d m a n a g e m e n t .
beached here.
I f a s in g le p h a s e in t h e m a n a g e
M akes R iver Feed H im .
m e n t of t h e in v a s io n h a d failed , t h e |
“ One tim e ,” he said, " I m et two
w h o le p r o j e c t
w o u ld
have
been ,
greenhorns in a houseboat who
t h r o w n o u t of g e a r .
F o r in s t a n c e , '
Something to Think About
t h o u s a n d s of lan d , s e a a n d a i r c r a f t , ! didn’t even have food. I told them
f r o m g i a n t t a n k s , je e p s , etc., h a d to be I d show them how to m ak e the
In a r e c e n t t r i a l o f a film s t a r w h o m a d e r e a d y to g o o n t h e i n s t a n t o f H - \ riv er feed them . On the way to
\ is n e c u s e d of c o n t r i b u t i n g to t h e H o u r .
I t w a s d o n e w t h o u t a h itc h , i Helena. Ark., I tied on 15 good
d e l i n q u e n c y of t w o g irls, b u t a c q u i t
A f t e r t h e w a r is o v e r, g o o d m a n a g e cypress logs sca tte red along the
The saw m ill paid
ted , t h e r e f e re p A lb e r t L. D oyle said, m e n t will he n e e d e d t o k e e p i n d u s t r y . backw aters.
in a n n o u n c i n g h is d e c is io n :
g o i n g in t h e t o u g h d a y s o f r e c o n v e r close to $50 for them .
" T h e r e a r e t w o t y p e s o f g i r l s in t h i s sion.
I t w ill be n e e d e d n o t o n ly in
"A nother trip I picked up bot
w o rld .
T h o s e w h o c a n n o t be p ic k e d o n e i n d u s t r y b u t in e v e r y e n t e r p r i s e
tles and bones floating in the back
u p by s t r a n g e r s a n d t h o s e w h o c a n . It s a v e d liv es in t h e i n v a s io n s .
I n w aters and sold them a t New O r
II all g i r l s w e r e of t h e f o r m e r v a r i e t y p e a c e t i m e it w ill s a v e job s.
T h e r e is leans for m ore than $150.
c a s e s s u c h a s t h i s w o u k l n e v e r o c c u r . no b e t t e r m a n a g e r t h a n t h e i n d e p e n d
"M an y ’s the tim e a riv e r packet
B u t, u n f o r t u n a t e l y , s o m e p a r e n t s e n t A m e r i c a n
business m an .
We
fail o r r e f u s e to t e a c h t h e i r d a u g h t e r s s h o u l d r e m e m b e r t h i s in t h e d a y s to has given me two whistles, and the
captain and the cook hung over the
t h e s a n c t i t y of m i n d s a n d p e r s o n s , o r c o m e.
rail to dicker for a few wild geese
t h o s e d a u g h t e r s fail o r r e f u s e t o heed
to feed the crew ," he added.
t h e te a c h i n g s . "
“ W ill w r i t e l a t e r .
K in d o f b u s y
Colton sees the periodic M issis
e t t e r r e c e i v e d by M rs. W . F. sippi floods* as windfalls for river-
Meaning oi Good Management | n M o e w e ."—L
k e r , O k la., f r o m s o l d ie r h u s b a n d m en. "A fter a levee b re a k s,” he
i f i g h t i n g In F r a n c e .
said, " th e re ’s everything in the
The
a io s t
a m a z in g ly successful
riv er from a good fat hen in a coop
m a n a g e m e n t jo b in h i s t o r y w a s th e
.
It is e a s y to r e b u i ld lost f o r t u n e s to a front room sofa.”
p r e p a r a t i o n f o r o p e n i n g o f t h e se c o n d
During one flood, he related , a
la r g e o r s m a ll .
B ut lib erties a n d
front.
M en a n d m a t e r i a l s w e r e as-
n n h l e d at th e
r i g h t p la c e
a t t h e h u m a n r i g h t s , o n c e t a k e n a w a y , a r e riverside grocer sought to buy his
r i g h t t i m e to d o a s p e c ific job .
In n o t e a s i ly r e c a p t u r e d .
boat to save a stock of m erch an
dise from th reaten in g w aters. “ I
asked $300 for the b o at,” he said,
“ and he turned m e down. E v ery day
the w a te r—and my price—got high
er. He bought at $600 ju st in tim e
to get his goods aboard before the
levee broke and w ashed his store
away.
L ittle Work for D rifter.
"B ut now adays,” Colton said,
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riding the cu rren t from St. Louis to
New O rleans," he chuckled.
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•® 1
ANNOUNCEMENT
Johnson Lumber Yard
u
Friday, October 13, 1944
BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE, Beaverton, Oregon
Page 2
EVERYTHING
for the BUILDER”
H . "H E R B " JOHNSON, O w ner, M g r.
10075 S. W. Pacific
Highway at 45th Drive
Telephone just installed
C H ER R Y 1089
Electrical Workers Get
Hurry Up Call From Army
WASHINGTON.—The arm y issued
i an ex trao rd in ary appeal for skilled
electrical w orkers to volunteer for
i jobs of at least 90 days on “ vital
i w ar construction jobs” at the Han-
1 ford E ngineer works, Pasco, Wash.,
and the Clinton E ngineer works,
Knox ille, Tenn.
“ U nder the p lan ,” said the appeal,
"electric al w orkers now employed
by con: truction contractors, utility
com panicj and electric shops of all
types will be asked to tak e a leave
of absence for work on one or the
other of these two critical projects.
“ The w ar d ep a rtm en t has req u est
ed the cooperation of em ployers to
m a k e ’certain th at m en who volun
teer will retain th eir seniority rights
and will have a job open for them
j upon th eir return.
“ Men volunteering for service,
upon com pleting 90 days of satisfac
tory work, will be issued a certifi
cate of service signed by the under
sec retary of war. This certificate
will acknowledge the service of
these m en to th eir country in this
w ar em ergency. E m ployers grant-
! ing leaves of absence to th eir men
to work on these projects also will
receive recognition in the form of
letters from the u n d ersecretary of
w a r.”
Total of Employes in
Federal Jobs Is Lower
W ASHINGTON.-The total of gov
ernm ent civilian em p lo y ees' de
creased 163,672 in the fiscal y ear ju st
ended,«w ith a drop of 253,004 in
“white collar” workers offset p a rt
ly by an increase of 89,392 in other
categories, the budget bureau rep o rt
ed to congress.
At the end of the year there were
2,839,366 governm ent em ployees,
com pared with 3,003,038 on June 30,
1943
Of the total, 1,640,687 were so-
called white collar w orkers paid on
a regular monthly basis by execu
tive departm ents and agencies. In
the last q u arter, the total of these
employees decreased 31,400. Other
governm ent em ployees on the pay
roll are classed as “ wage e a rn e rs,”
and are paid on a daily or hourly
basis.
Large Plane Picks Up
Glider Without a Stop
A F IE L D IN NORMANDY.—A
C-47 tran sp o rt plane swooped over
this field, snatched a D-day glider
up in the air and towed it back to
England recently, beginning a new
salvage program for the m otorless
boxcars.
This is the first tim e the gliders
have been reclaim ed on the fly from
the com bat areas, from anything but
prepared landing strips, said Col.
Glynne M. Jones of L aF ay ette, La.,
adding, "W e hope to salvage a con
siderable num ber of the hundred«
th at landed during the invasion as
sau lt.”
Youth Hangs to Bush an
-Hour in Precipice Fall
GOLDEN, C O L O '-W hile a com
panion raced four miles for aid, Kirk
j Cam m ack J r., 17, Denver, clung
| desperately to a sm all bush over
hanging a 175-foot chasm .
C am m ack and seven friends s ta rt
ed out to clim b the wall of the can
yon when he lost his footing and
grabbed the sm all bush as he slid
over the Side of the precipice.
His com panions were unable to
reach him and he clung to the bush
for an hour until sheriff George
j Koch and two deputies dragged him
to safety with a rope.
Service Reported Cut
On Two Nazi Rail Lines
PORT BOU, SPAIN..—Service on
two m ain railro ad lines in southern
F rance, near the Spanish border,
was suspended, frontier rep o rts said.
The G erm ans them selves w ere said
to have issued an order halting all
use of the B eziers-Perpignan line
along the fortified M editerranean
coast to the Spanish border. There
was no explanation of the action.
B a b so n S a y s
C on tin u ed
P«se
....
1
She Sneezed, Then
Her Foot Slipped
ROCK ISLAND, IL L .—M rs. R.
C. M itchell was about to co n g rat
will be nil.
T h e m e m b e rs h ip of th e
ulate herself on the n eat m an n er
u n i o n s will t h e n a g a i n d r o p o f f ; w h ile
in which she had parked h er
t h e in c o m e o f t h e la b o r l e a d e r s will
autom obile, but ju st as she was
t h e n t u m b l e a s d id t h e p r o f i t s of W a ll
S t r e e t b r o k e r s in 1929.
L a b o r ' s in
m aking the final m an eu v ers she
fl u e n c e is n o w a t it s p e a k f o r t h i s
sneezed, her foot slipped off the
cycle.
I t s h o n e y m o o n is a b o u t o v er.
brake, and her m achine ram m ed
V e t e r a n s vs I .a h o r
into another c a r. She told police
P resent
in d icatio n s a re
th a t th e
the sneeze was to blam e for the
W o r l d W a r v e t e r a n s w ill n o t be v e r y
collision.
f r i e n d l y to la b o r a f t e r t h e i r
return .
They, who have been risk in g th e ir
liv es in f o r e i g n l a n d s a t a s m a l l p i t
B e f o r e H e n g y a n g , C h i n a , fell in t o
t a n c e a n d liv in g u n d e r t h e h a r d e s t i J a p a n e s e h a n d s , 22 J a p a n e s e s o l d i e r s
i m a g i n a b l e c o n d it io n s , n a t u r a l l y will g o t lost, a n d , a s t h e s t o r y is to l d in
n o t feel f r i e n d l y to t h o s e w h o h a v e t h e o ff ic ia l C h i n e s e M a g a z i n e , “C h i
b e e n r e m a i n i n g a t h o m e w i t h a ll t h e n a a t W a r , ” t h e J a p s " s h a n g h a i e d ” a
h o m e c o m fo rts a n d th e h ig h e s t w a I C hinese f a r m e r a n d o rd e r e d h im to
g e s in h i s to r y .
If l a b o r h a s s e n s e g u i d e
t h e m in
th e
d irectio n
of
e n o u g h to k e e p o u t o f p o li ti c s a n d C h a n g s h a , a c it y t h a t
had
alread y
q u i t a s k i n g f o r a n y f a v o r s a f t e r t h e f a l le n i n t o
Japanese
hands.
The
b o y s r e t u r n , v e r y w ell.
If, h o w e v e r , C h i n e s e f a r m e r , k n o w i n g h i s c o u n t r y
l a b o r c o n t i n u e s a p o s t w a r s t r u g g l e f o r side, d e l i b e r a t e l y led t h e J a p s o n a
h i g h e r w a g e s , m o r e p o w e r a n d o t h e r w i n d i n g c o u r s e t h a t f i n a ll y l a n d e d all
b e n e f i ts , t h e r e is b o u n d to be t r o u b l e . I 22 o f t h e m i n t o t h e h a n d s o f C h i n e s e
T h e above sh o u ld m e a n t h a t th e re j tr o o p s —a s p ris o n e rs of w a r.
t u r n i n g v e t e r a n s m a y be a c o n s e r v a
t i v e i n f lu e n c e .
T h e v e t e r a n s ’ bloc
“ C lo sed f o r t h e w e e k e n d .
H usband
m a y u n i t e w i t h t h e c o n s e r v a t i v e bloc h o m e o n f u r l o u g h ’”—S i g n in a n I n d i
a n d k e e p t h e s h i p of s t a t e o f f t h e a n a p o l i s b e a u t y p a r l o r .
ro c k s .
If so, t h e m o n e y w h i c h b u s i
n e s s m e n a n d i n v e s t o r s , t h r o u g h ta x e s ,
" T h e y a r e w a i t i n g f o r m e th e r e . I t
w ill p a y f o r p e n s i o n s m a y be g o o d in h a s b e e n a lo n g t i m e . ”—G e n . M ac-
surance.
H e n c e , a l t h o u g h t a x e s will A r t h u r , s h o o t i n g h is w a y b a c k t o t h e
c o n t i n u e h i g h in t h e p o s t w a r e r a d u e P h i l i p p i n e s .
t o t h e t r e m e n d o u s p e n s i o n bill, a r m y
a n d n a v y a p p r o p r i a t i o n s , etc., ye*
t h e s e m a y be g o o d i n v e s t m e n t s .
In
t h i s w o rld , it is r e a l l y n o t a q u e s t i o n C u t t h i s o u t a n d k e e p it in y o u r
o f w h a t w e s p e n d , b u t w h a t w e h a v e p u r s e o r billfold.
.MEAT, B L T T K K , C H E E S E :
left.
R e d S t a m p s A8 t h r o u g h K 5 a r e
C o m m u n ism Scare
B u s i n e s s m e n a n d i n v e s t o r s w ill t h e n g o o d in d e f in i te l y .
g e t p a n i c k y a n d r u n fo r c o v e r , b u t I S T .AMP F O R L A M B —
S p a r e s t a m p 25 in b o o k N o. 4 v a l i d
b e lie v e t h e r e will be n o t h i n g f o r u s to
fear.
A lth o u g h
R u ssia m ay
t h e n S e p t. 3 t h r u O c t. 21 f o r la m b .
W a s te k itc h e n fa ts e x c h a n g e d for
h a v e th e a r m y to t a k e w h a t sh e w ish
e s in l a n d , s h e will w a n t l o a n s also. t w o p o i n t s a n d f o u r c e n t s a p o u n d .
G r e a t B r i t a i n a n d A m e r i c a w ill c o n P R O C E S S E D F O O D S —
B o o k 4— B l u e s t a m p s A8 t h r o u g h
t i n u e to h o ld t h e p u r s e s t r i n g s .
Our
r e t u r n i n g s e r v i c e m e n w ill n o t o n ly A5 v a li d in d e f in i te l y .
be a b u l w a r k a g a i n s t u n f a i r l a b o r d e S U G A R —
S t a m p s N o. 30, 31, 32 a n d 33 In b o o k
m a n d s , b u t t h e y w ill a l s o s t a n d f o r
f r e e e n t e r p r i s e , n o t C o m m u n i s m , T h e y 4 v a l i d i n d e f i n i t e l y f o r fiv e p o u n d s .
For
can n in g
o n ly : S u g a r S ta m p
s h o u l d be a s t a b i l i z i n g i n f l u e n c e on
l e g i t i m a t e b u s i n e s s a n d i n v e s t m e n t s , 40 v a l i d f o r 5 p o u n d s t h r o u g h F e b .
f a v o r i n g t h e g o o d f e a t u r e s o f co-op 28, 1945.
e r a t i o n ; b u t s u p p r e s s i n g all u n f a i r S H O E S — L o o s e S t a m p s I n v a l i d
Book
3— A i r p l a n e s t a m p s N o'«. 1
practices.
a n d 2, i n d e f i n i t e l y f o r o n e p a ir .
T o r e f r e s h a c h i n g f e e t a f t e r a tire - F U E L O I L —
P e r i o d 4-5 c o u p o n s v a li d t h r u A u g .
I som e day, b a th e
th em
w i t h te p i d
N ew 1 coupon valid now.
[ w a t e r a n d m i ld s o a p .
Then
p la c e 31, 1945.
s e v e r a l ice c u b e s in a t h i n c lo th , a n d G A S O L I N E C O U P O N S —
i r u b ’t h i s i c e - p a c k all o v e r y o u r f e e t N o t V a lid u n l e s s E n d o r s e d
A No. 13 e x p i r e s D ec. 21.
' a n d an k les.
D ry th o ro u g h ly w ith a
W O OD . COAL, S A W D U S T —
I s o f t tow el.
D eliv ery by p rio ritie s b a se d on w r it
" I w o u ld s a y t h a t 98 p e r c e n t of t e n s t a t e m e n t s o f n e e d s.
! A m e r i c a n s w a n t to k e e p t h e c a p i t a l - P R I C E C O N T R O L —
R e fe r price
In q u iries a n d
com
I Istic s y s te m .
W e h a v e a lo n g w a y to
j g o .’”— E a r l B r o w d e r , t e s t i f y i n g a s p l a i n t s t o p r i c e c l e r k a t y o u r lo c a l
board.
C o m m u n i s t i c le a d e r .
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+ 0*0
+ 0 *0
H. A. Starr
Contractor for Concrete Work
Champion Forgetter
Left $27,000 in Car
NEW YORK. - One of the
w o r l d ’s c h a m p i o n fo rgetters
hailed a cab near P ennsylvania
station, rode to Fifth avenue and
59th street and walked aw ay, leav
ing on the seat $27,200 in 100 dol
lar bills. The taxi driv er discov
ered the money and turned it
over to police. Under local law
it is his unless claim ed within six
months.
from
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Great Sums Are Being
Spent Abroad by U. S.
*
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tiaM
wmn
MONDAY through FRIDAY
WASHINGTON - The govern
m ent purchased $265.800,000 of s tra
tegic com m odities from other na
tions during the first three m onths
of this year, Foreign Econom ic Ad
m inistrato r Leo T. Crowley reported
j recently.
The m aterials, im ported under the
F*EA p ro cu rem en t program , in
cluded m etals and m iners. $145,200.-
000; foodstuffs, $52.500,000; fibers
and hides, $49,000,000 and general
com m odities, $17,200,000.
The p u rchases av erag ed $3.600,-
000 a m onth—som e $11.000,000 m ore
than the 1943 m onthly average.
English Girls Skeptical
About Yanks’ Tall Tales
Fulton lew is can
alto be heard at
4 in the afternoon
DENVER — P o stm aster J . L.
Stevie got busy when he received a
le tte r signed by two English girls
asking him to give them nam es of
! four young ran ch ers with whom
; they could correspond. They ex-
1 plained th at some Yanks in England
had told such tall tales of the west- I
em cow country th at they w anted I
| to find out if what they had been !
told about the fam ed ranges was
really true
Turn w *r stands Into Bond«
"T he war sure has made a lot of changes in
this old world of ours, hasn't it. Judge?”
"Plenty of them. John. One that few
people realize is that the rubber producing
center of the world is now right here in the
United State*.
" When the Japs conquered the big natural
rubber producing centers of the world they
thought they had us licked But in two
short years, thanks to American industry,
we are now producing synthetic rubber
enough to supply all our m ilitary and
essential civilian needs.
“ Our rubber experts knew how to maka
it but the problem was to get the huge
amounts of industrial alcohol needed. AI-
mc»st overnight the country’s beverage dis
tillers stopped making whiskey and converted
10 0 ^ to the production of this vital in
gredient. A high government official said
recently this was '... an almost unparalleled
example of the overnight conversion of an
entire industry from peace to war.’”
"Come to think of it. Judge, it was a
mighty fortunate thing the beverage distil
ling industry was in existence, wasn't it?”
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