f >* < PA O S HtX T H E S P R IN G F I Rl-D N K WS FR EE T E X T B O O K S W ILL T H U R S D A Y . JAN SO. 1930 T? N E E D L E C R A F T CLUB HAD BE MADE ISSUE AGAIN L U N C H E O N ON T H U R S . IN N O VE M B E R E L E C T IO N „ ,, , . Fortner P i/cbn ^ S ltr It N ew Yankee Manager . The Needlccraft club met Thursday The question“ ^ “ publicly owned *' the Roae Uray Koom “ * t e n books for school children ot ,un‘ heon Following thia the mem Oregon « ill probably «.m e up before b*’r8 *'n«a*ed • » afternoon of sew the voters of the state scam this fall *“« ‘,nd ‘» » ’ •« • tlo n . at the g e n ia l election in November I H‘>,“ ‘” *‘8 »««* Mrs. Allan Kafoury as the reeult of action which was and Mrs C. O. Wilson The next taken at the last meeting of the quar '• Announced for February terly board of the Oregon congress of « at ,h * home ** Mra Juhn H enderá the Parent Teacher association, held rlth Mrs F. B. Flanery acting as joint hostess. la Portland .w Saturday. ROYALTY Delegatee at the conference, which Thoa* F » * » l 1»»« Thursday were Fifteen years ago the news that thv Included the presidents of nearly all M®***™»® B. L. Wright, O. H Jarret. Kaiser’s grandson was working in the local P T. A. units and other offl- E E Mav' W K Se famished a topic for (h is city, voted unanimously to take Urd' C ° Allan Kafoury and Sunday pages in the big newspapers steps at once to revive the text book Uoyd " esterfleld . Mrs Clayton Bar- Now the tact that the son ot the question. b®T wa8 an ‘nvlted guest. Crow n Prince has had to go to work under the name of “Doctor Ferdin­ A committee headed by Mrs. WII- Thts meeting of the club was to and“ is hardly a theme for a iWsung liam Kletier. of Portland, was atv have b,‘en held ,h,> week before, but paragraph pointed to investigate the matter of waa P,wtPon’*’l aI Ihe last minute due Some of the results of the Great continuing the campaign which has to ,b e inclement weather at the time, War may be debatable, but that it finally exploded the old idea of royal­ been carried on for years to have the ~ —1' ty ruling by Divine mandate is all te people of the state save their used the good text books for distribution to needy COOPERATION children. The purpose of the Federal Fans The free text book campaign is not Board is to convert farming from I (Continued from I“age 1) a new venture in Oregon, for the P. T hit-or-miss mode of living into i A. In 1922 the Oregon congress spon Seavey, Maxine Vallier. Elisabeth business. It can share m the nation*) sored a m e a ta e introduced before the "ardlow . general prosperity only by sdoptinf business methods In the process state legislature In 1923 advocating Second Grade many farmers will have to give U| public ownership of school books, and Scholarship— Beryl Robertson. Dor- fanning and go into something else again in I92S a similar bill was pro- othy Jean Stewart Slhlrley Neet. That may sound harsh, but it is tht posed, both of which were defeated. Frank Stewart. plain logic of the trend of events William M. Jardine former See re Thr organisation has made a survey Attendant:«— Bonnie Findley, WII- tary of Agriculture and himself k of the manner In which the other lard House. Merle Arthur successful practical farmer, says states in the country have met this Prochnow. Bobby Pugh. Dave Smith, there are too manv farms and farm­ problem during the past ten years. Shirley Houk, Alberta Keeler. Winl­ ers In any sound business, producers regulate their output to the demand and have a Urge amount of valuable fred Lyons. Beryl Robertson. Jeanette for their products Farmers have not data available to be used in their agi- Sweeney. done that because they have never tatlon this year Worked together. First Grade The Farm Board program is the Mrs. William T. Brice, state presi . „» .t, o f * «■ Scholarship — Gladys Pederson. greatest experiment in cooperation . Juanita Burnham. Clover Jean Cox. ever attempted in the world. Its suc­ ^ \ | P7 ? ° ” V 7 m n,i,,~ ,O Billy Dawson. R elth . Young. Nancy cess will depend upon the intelligence handle the securing of signature, on and viaioo of the men who run iL Mow oo Dû MISriMR RO Rt KT JOM M « jhavi L iey J petitions »m e time o „ Te Johangen within the next two weeks. Mrs. G . ... L. Buland. legislative chairman of the . association, will head this committee The petitions for signatures will be distributed to the 250 parent-teachers associations, which represent about 18,000 members. Ptans are also being made for a series of radio broadcasts and for speakers' bureau. The members o fthe conference did „ not decide Saturday what the scope of the measure should be The ques- tlon of extending the provisions of the bill to include the high schools of the state will be decided at a later meeting. ________________ S C A R I F T F F U F B |C S b A h L t l 1 - t V t K lb * . „ „ Attendance— Flora Bertsch. Olive _ . Johansen. Genevieve Palmer. Sldnev . u ■. r.... ~ Ward. Donald Hughes. Billy Dawson Brattain Honor Roll n , e foIlow1n< lg the honor ro„ fo[ the Brattain school: Sixth Grade Scholarship—JoLana Putman. Attendance—Lloyd Harris. Wood- row Bates. Eugene May, Charles Uchytll. Colene Corne„ Norm> Jen nlnga Hasel Nesbitt, Nellie Howes Shlrley Smitn> i ^ Moyne Black Jo Lana f»utman Detore. Nice Louk Fifth A Grade Scholarship — Barbara Barnell. Florence May. Gordon Gillette. Rol- H IG H L Y C O N TAG EO U S laud Farnsworth. Margaret Meek, Vila Weight. Floyd Green, Frances Keeler, Roscoe Cole, Lois Wilson Stephen Rice, James Young A tt.n d .n ce-B a rb a ra Barnell Ber- nice Barne3. chaae rio )d Grpen M# , DAWES They are talking about Charles G Dawes lor Mayor ot Chicago. The clectiuo will be in April, 19J1 If the former viee-Preudent. present Ambassador to Great Britain, can be nominated, he probably can be elected I ( he it elected, Chicago will get the most complete cleaning-up it hat ever had. The trouble will be to gvt the nominally Republican but actually bi­ partisan machine which control, Chi­ cago politics to kt him he nominated The ostensible basis of opposition will be that he it not a resident of Chi­ cago but of the adjoining city of Evanston. POPULATION By Oregon State Board of Health In 192», 1.24» cases of scarlet fever were rep o rts In the State of , iregon. Last month there was an «„crease in the number of cases. Fortunately. tni. VtaWOvwo case - «1 a A of ZVF w gvvxwlw« fever W * the (S average scarlet is Gordon Gillette. Frances Keeler. light, nevertheless, seventeen child- Stephen Rice, James Young. Mary ren died last year of this disease. Moore. Scarlet fever is known as one of the Fifth B Grade most dangerous of the children', Scholarship—Lillian Butler, Ruth diseases. The after effects, though often remote are frequent and se­ Keeler. Francis Jean Loyd. Florence ! vere. and they include not only rheu­ Roberts. Bernice Smith, Juan Strat­ ton . matism, but hear! diseas» and kidnev Attendance—Billv Burnett, Jean diseases. The most common compli­ cation of scarlet fever running Daniela. William Fletcher, Clifford ears, and the inflammation that is Hornberger. Earl House, Robert Rich- •et up is tthe outstanding cause of ar a t“an Fletcher, Macel Jen fire and add a cup of powdered sugar (11 ng8’ ®*arlan Phair, beaten with the yolks of three eggs, ( First Grade s t lr until nearly cool, then add a j Scholsrshlp—Ione Severson, June tablespoon of butter, the Juice of four Mullholand, Dorothy JHanery, Donna oranges and one lemon, and cool. Bennett, Roy Fulop. ®°b Adan*’ ' VaUghn, Ethel be,WT " ,h ’ ‘“^ r 8 and ^ e r Ruth wlth »range Icing. ----------------------------- -- EXPERTS W O R K IN G IN T H IS C IT Y M *** c»P«d "Bob“ Sbawkey when he psechrd for the Y s uhees - g J L w T “ "•«’»«’’l «wcceaao» of the lata M tUer ttuggm s as ta £ " d u r 'ii rr» i lk" » " I * * — ni* " r*" a R o b e îtj o h . Shawkev «o»*»««" the apposatasent. sata aa a puaarbte saccesaua H IG H SC H O O L C O N C E R T S Two reptVsefitatlves from the Chicago office of the Bllleaby I’ower company arrived In Springfield on Monday to si cure slallsliral Informa­ tion on a research project for that national electric power concern. II. 11. Waltermlre and II T Wakefield who are conducting (he Investigation here In connection with the local Mountain States Cower substation plan Io remain In Ihe city ur.tll the end of the week. From here they go to Cottage Grove, Tillamook, Albauy and Cortland P O S T P O N E D T H IS W E E K Orange Ruffs The high school glee club and or­ chestra concert, which was to have been presented on the baicony of the McMorron and Washburne store In Eugene, on Saturday afternoon and also broadcast over the radio station KORE by the local high school or­ ganisations, has been poatponwd in­ definitely. according to Ernest Mc­ Kinney. Karl Thuneman, advertis­ ing manager of the store, who la also handl'ng the program detail, la III ard has not been able to be at the store for a few days. The concert will be given at a later date which ■ will be announced beforehand. A L FA LFA C H A M P IO N S H IP C U P A W A R D E D ON FR ID A Y Sift Into a mixing howl one and one-fourth cupa of pastry flour, one- half cup of sugar, add one half cup milk mixed with two egg yolks, one tablespoon butter, melted, and one. half teaspoon grated orange rind Beat two minutes, pour Into six greasml muffin tins and bake twenty- five minutes. Serve hot with orange Fuff sauce. From Vida—Mrs A T Donoho. of Vida, was a caller In this city this morning. Dewey, professor at Co4 Uinbia University. New York, who, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, is being hon . -d all m et the world for his notable contribw- ttusia in the field of philosophy Guy Gilmore, Four-H member ot T H E H E A L T H F U L O R ANG E Junction City, was formally presented Perhaps If you took a census of with the O. 8. Fletcher cup Friday at the annual meeting of the Lane the fruit tastes of your friends you County Farm Crops conference, which would find that the orange was was held at the Chamber of Com’ ' " J " 1 ,,r"‘ cholce ,n «“"’’ “ ’Ing like Take out your watch and look at thr seconds hand. Count thirteen •econds. Somewhere in the United States a baby has been born. Follow the hand to the 23-second mark. Someone has died. Watch it for a minute and a half. Another immi- grant has landed on our shores. Hold it for five and a half minutes. Some­ body has tailed away from America to stay. The average of all tl >je computa­ tions, worked out by the United States Census office, is the addition of one person to our total popula- tlon every 23 seconds. While you slept eight hours last night, 2,215 babies were born. 1^U6 persons died. The net increase in population is 3.624 a day. At midnight on Decem­ ber 31, as the first stroke of 19J0 •ounded, there were 121.873.140 living inhabitants of the United Stales, the Census people figured. If there were no immigration and nobody left the country, the excess of births over deaths would add 3.000 a dav to our population, or more than a million a year. The Springfield high school bus kethall team took another defeat lust night. Thia tints It was administered hy the University high leant at Kit gene. The local boys held their op­ ponents to a 9 9 score at the close of the first half, but faltered In the last half and made only four free throws and no baskets. The final score was 12 to 16 I Springfield has lost three confer­ ence games now and has won one. She has played all the games on for­ eign floors Next Wednesday the team plays Its first home game, a return game with the University high aggregation, and It Is expected that the boys will turn In more wins dur­ ing the next few weeks. S T A T IC T IC A L HONOJÌ ROLL the necessary U N IV E R S IT Y H IG H TEA M O V E R W H E L M S LOCALS Doctor at Medford Dr R C Mor­ tensen drove to Medford on a buslnea, trip this morning Shoe Doctor III— W A. Hall, well known as the shoe doctor, Is III at his home with the flu. Jasper Resident Here—Mrs W R • p” ’dl"« a merce rooms In Eugene (n in ety per cent of the y ----------- -------------------------------- haps It would stand favorite at e r e u P The Fletch“r cup was pr -s -” e-l ’r better odds. Perhaps not. At any S ROCK R IV E R O. 8. Fletcher. Lane Ccnnty atri "I rate. the „range Is almost unlver- i C O T TO N B A T TS lural agent to Gilmore for be'ng the ' Ha||y champion alfalfa grow n t Four I I 1 member In Lane county dur'ng tb Tonsllt Removed Ralph ilici- mao. year 1928-29. son of Mr. and Mrs. J II Hickman. had h!s tonsils removed Mon 98c L U M B E R M E N 'S M E E T IN G PO S T P O N E D ON M O N DA Y The regnlar monthly meeting of the local 4-L group which w to have been on Monday evening, was postponed Indefinitely. Charlps Cnd dock, chairman of the local organiza­ tion. stated that the unfavorable • weather of the past three weeks and j the fact that the milt Is not operating were responsible for postponement, j M A R K E T S T A L L S W IL L BE Selectivity PLUS ! A C H IC K E N HO U SE SOON The old market building which stood at the south end of Sixth street will soon be a chicken house. The City council voted to sell the struc- fare at their last meeting and A. T. Brewer purchased the lumber and tore down the stalls this week. He wl11 ,hp l"mber ,0 bulld “ chlrk •*» coop, he says. The market stalls were built as a civic enterprise In 1926. hut have not been used for some time. ( ! I ' . ATWATER KENT P R IS C IL L A G R O U P M E E T S A T LARSON H O M E H E R E Mr«. Jack Larson entertained the members of the Priscilla club at her home here last Friday afternoon. Games and card« occupied the after­ noon for the members. High prizes _______________________ were won by Mrs. John _________ Parker. _ Mrs. H. O. Dlbblee, and Mrs. Norman Howard. Those who were present for the afternoon were Mrs. John Seavey, and Mrs. . Howard Freeland, both of Eugene. nd Mrs. Riley Snodgrass. Mrs. William Curtis, Mrs. H. O. Dlb- blee, Mrs. Norman Howard, Mrs. William Stearmer, Mrs. John Parker !U1d the hostess. ! REBEKAH LODGT m EETS ^ISTANCB without intarfemneeF Surely, You can tune out the locale w ith thia new super-set— the Screen-Grid 60. T h a t’s eelecthrity p lu u t F o r tone and power and sim­ plicity i t ’s a wonder, too. Uee it w ith an indoor antenna, if you like. A demonstration here w ill show you all the other remarkable qual­ ities th at have made thia the flneet o t all Atwater K e n t seta. L e t ua demn»- •trata todayl FOR B U S IN E S S SE SS IO N Attenda nei Donna Jean Ernest, Guard Peeeivea Checks The Rebekah I^odge held Its regu­ June Mullholand. Ruth Phair, Bob lar business meeting at the lodge Adams, Raymon Bainbridge, Harrison The quarterly checks for the Nation- hall Monday evening. Only the Billings, Billie Haek, George Horton, al Guard unit here were received last usual business session and regular Russell Hennager, Francis Hennager. Friday and distributed to the men- organisation work was carried on at Wayne Lansbery, Vernon McKInnls bere. the meeting. WRIGHT & SONS > <