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rEDFCffiT) VATL TRTBTTN"F, rETFORI, OREGON. FRTTVXT. NOVEMBER 12. 1937. PAGE NTNT5 ERA ON I E OLD BOA! DOOMED DAYTON, Mtnn. (UP) The lut of tsh ferryboats which once did a thriving business on the leisurely weep of the mighty Mississippi has been doomed. Fate of the boat hung In the bal ance for a time this summer. Then elderly Ca.pt. Duffy Martin sat down, grabbed a stub of a pencil and chew ed his voluminous mustache as he figured. When he had added up the cost of a new cable and of repairing the cable towers he realized It would y coat htm more than he would ever f get out of It. Today the boat Hes on the bank at the end of a dusty trail In Dayton, 28 miles upriver from the Twin Cities Its floor planks are ripped up. Its besmt and timbers are drying In the fall sun, and Its cable Is wound around a pair of convenient trees, The towers are down and the river before Martin's frame house for the first time In half a century Is clear. So one of the toughest hangerson of the old romantic rrver occupations on the Mississippi is dead. Born Adolf Martin in New Bruns wick, Duffy, as everyone knows him. came to Dayton In 1B81. He bought the ferry in 1903. He has no Idea how long it had been run prior to that time. Its total life span has oeen At least 50 years, he calculates. Five owners had It before Martin got hold of It most of them for sev eral years at a stretch. Of late years business hasn't been good. Travelers are only occasional Tha ferry would hold two automo- biles, or a team and wagon. & Time was. Martin recalls, when bus iness wss brisk on the muddy Mis sissippi. Travelers couldn't spend the time to drive teams to the bridges. Btesmboats chugged up the river then. When they did one of the tow era was lowered and the cable was dropped to the bottom. Log Jama came down the river then, and toe floes backed against the sturdy craft. In those" days, a trip took three minutes eastward and two minutes return. The return was faster because a bend in the river shot 'the current to the farther bank. The ferry moved by the current's power. The- forward end wa kept close to the cable, the stsrn end allowed to fall away. And the current thus pulled the scow across. On the other side of the river the captain reversed the position of the ends. Martin Is satisfied (at 75) that he's been the last ferryman on the big river. The ,heavy currents used to me.ke the cable twang like a bull fid dle string. Now It's down and put away. Tnafs all right with Martin. He likes It better quiet now. , SIOUX CITY. la., Nov. 12(AV) A father who wonted to awaken three of his boys to participate In a birth day celebration found them dead in their bed here early today, victims of escaping Illuminating gas. The vic tims were Raymond LaPerrlere. 13; Jerome LaFe triers, 10, and Fabtne La Perrlere, 9. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is l :30 p. m. Menus of the Day (By Mrs. Alexander George) Sandwich Fillings (Each recipe makes enough filling for four sand tehee). Cheese and Relish 8 tablespoons cream cheese I tablespoon chill sauce 1 tablespoon chopped celery 3 teaspoons salad dressing Mix with a fork and spread on buttered slices of white bread. Meat and Egg 1 hard-cooked egg Vi cup chopped cooked meat Va teaspoon salt teaspoon celery salt 3 taoleapoons cream Mix Ingredients and spread on buttered slices of graham bread. Peanut Butter Savory 4 tablespoons peanut butter 1 teaspoon minced onions 3 tablespoons yellow cream cheese! 4 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons salad dressing Mix ingredients with a fork and spread on buttered slices of white of graham bread. -J Jam Delight 3 tablespoons thick Jam 4 marshmallowt, diced j Va cup nuts Mix Ingredients and spread on graham crackers. Tuna Salad ' cup tuna j a tablespoons diced celery 1 hard-cooked egg. diced j 1 teaspoon chopped pickles K teaspoon salt ! a tablespoons salad dressing Mix Ingredients and spread on buttered slices of white bread. Fig Surprise 3 tablespoons chopped figs 3 tablespoons Jellf 3 tablespoons soft butter 1 teaspoon lemon Juice 14 teaspoon salt Mix Ingredients until soft. Spread on graham or white crackers. Marmalade Cheese Special 4 tablespoons orange marmalade 4 tablespoons yellow cream cheese 1-8 cup nuts teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon cream Mix ingredients and use as filling for graham bread or cracker sandwiches. Pope to Create New Cardinals VATICAN CITY, Nox 13. ( AP) Pope Plus has decided to hold a consistory for creation of new car dinals and Is expected to set De cember 13 for a sfcrt session and December 18 for the public cere monies, semi-official Vatican sources natd today. The consistory would be the first since June, 1036. Since an elaborate ceremonial would be Involved, the decision was regarded as new evi dence of the pope's confidence In his ability to carry on hia work de spite his weak physical condition. French Novels Win 1937 Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13. ( AP) The 1937 Nobel prize for literature was awarded today... to- the French au thor, Martin du Gard, who wrote a series of novels "Les Thlbaults." When "Les Thlbaults" first ap peared it won tor Du Card the cov eted French literary award, Prix de Goii court. This novel, a lengthy work along "lines similar to those of John Gals worthy's "Forsyte Saga," follows the developments of a typical French family through many years. WHEAT AND CORN CROPS ESTIMATED FAR ABOVE 1936 WASHINGTON,' Nov. H. (AP) The agriculture department estimated this year's corn crop at 2,851,393,000 bush els today. A month ago the department's crop board put Indicated production at 2.601.938,000 bushels. Last year's corn crop was 1,538.337,000 bushels aod the five-year period, 192S-33, av erage was 2,554.773,000 bushels. The department estimated potato production at 301.707.000 bushels, compared with 398.785.000 bushels Indicated a month ago: 329:997.000 bushels produced last year, and a five-year average production of 373,- 115.000 bushels. :Prellminary estimates of other im portant crops, made previously by the board. Included: Wheat, 888,896.000 bushels, compar ed with 826,461,000 last year, and a five-year average of 864,533,000 bushels. Oats, 1,152.433,000 bushels, com pared with 789.100.000, last year, and 1,315, 102,000-bushel, five-year aver age. Estimates of other crops announced today, with comparative figures for )astyear and the 1936-'33 average included: Apples. 311.100.000 bushels, com pared with 117,506.000 and 164.358.- 000. Pears. -30,139.000 bushels, compared With 36.956.000 and 34.334.000. Grapes, 3,733,000 tons, compared with 1,916.000 and 3.314,000. Too Many Autos. ASTORIA. Nov. 13. (API John Jacobson had more automobiles at his Hillside home yesterday than he could un. One runaway car crashed into his front porch, an other landed In his back yard and a third rolled crazily up his drive way and leaped a stone wall into a neighbor's lot. . New Track Record. . BALTIMORE, Nov. 13. (ff) Esposa. owned by William Ziegler. Jr.. set a new track record here Thursday to defeat Seablscult, thts year's money winning champion. In a photo finish. Shandon Farm's Burning Star was third. ' ROSEBURG. Nov. 13. ( AP Mrs. Edgar B. Kennedy, wife of the noted film actor, was In the hospital here today for treatment of an ankle sprained as she slipped and fell short ly after arrival here last night with her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy ar on a coast mtoor trip Schilling pepper aU..-,.f.-iaK.. SALLY, YOU STUDIED HOME ECONOMICS, AND SEE YOU USE NUCOA I OHVfS.AUNT JANET! NUCOA IS SO WHOLESOME . AND HAVEN'T YOU HEARD, IT CONTAINS VITAMIN A NOW! ITS VERY DIFFERENT FROM 010 -FASHIONED MARGARINES J ! NUCOA FITS RIGHT INTO THE DIET GROWING CHILDREN NEED. BESIDES VITAMIN A, IT SUPPLItS AS MUCH OOD INIR0Y AS THE MOST EXPENSIVE SPREAD FOR BREAD! AND THE VITAMIN A IN NUCOA NIVIR VARIES WINTER AN0 SUMMER IT5 ALWAYS THE SAME I yr-tjrs-' mmm L ' THE WHOLESOME "THRIFT SPREAD" FOR BREAD yOU SAVl AT ItAST 1S ON IVtRY POUND WELL I I 0UESS IVE -BEEN BEHIND THE TIMES ! NO REASON WHY I shouldn't SAVE MONIV Jr ft 3 NO REASON AT ALII YOlAl LOVE ITS FRESH TASTE ON BREAD AN0 ITS DELICIOUS RICHNESS FOR SEASONIN SHORTENING AN0 FRYING V m gtMlf Busy YOUESELF Somme IPffospeffiitty In Cooperation with IPEAIR WEEK We Are Featuring a Special Sale of Canned and Fresh Pears See our display of local scientifically ripened Medford pears. Try them, you will be surprised how good they taste in comparison to ordinarily ripened pears. Also on display, gift boxes ready for shipping. Why not send a friend a box of these delicious Medford Pears? Just leave the mailing address at your SAFEWAY STORE. We will gladly mail it for you. The pear growing, packing and shipping industry means much to everyone in the Rogue River Valley you owe it to yourself and your community to interest yourself in NATIONAL PEAR WEEK. Safeway Will- Save You Money Consistently on Flour Drifted Snow . 49 lbs. S1.49 Kitchen Craft . 49 lbs. S1.69 Sunset Gold . . 49 ibs. SI. 29 We Reserve the Right to Limit Quantities BROWN OR POWDERED. High grade sugar lor vour Holiday cake and candles. 3 lbi. Extra fine granulated Sugar Sugar Oleomargarine Walnuts Peanuts 10 lb. cloth bag Dinner Bell whole fome. nourUhlng; fine (or cooking 2 lbs. New crop large fancy Oregon Nuts Fresh roasted Lb. 2 lbs. 17c 53c 29c 25c 25 c SOAPS I I IV flakes, small pk. 2 for 19 LUA Lge. pkg. 2 for 45 19r Toilet Soap 3 for Lux itlllaU Lge. pkg. 2 for 43? Lifebuoy 19c Mincemeat Maximum Crammed with spices and fruits 2 lbs. Tall tint S for Hillsdale. 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