EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON)
Loan Program for
Veterans Passes
5,000 Granted
Salem, Ore., Apr. 19 U.R
Oregon's farm and loan program
lor veterans of World War II
has passed the 5,000 mark in
numbers of loans granted, the
state department of veterans' af
fairs disclosed today.
Loan No. 5,000 was granted
to Edward John Lindstrom of
Eugene, who saw service in the
late war as a navy radarman in
the south Pacific. Lindstrom, now
a Greyhound bus driver, bor
rowed $5,250 from the state vet
erans' department to apply on
the purchase of a six-room house
In North Eugene.
Four Per Cent Loan
The state veterans' loan is
available to any veteran who
lived in Oregon before World
War II service, who served 90
days or more and was honorably
discharged. The loan act provides
for a four percent loan not to
exceed 75 per cent of the ap
praised value of the property
and not to exceed $6,000. Cur
rent policy limits the repayment
period to 15 years.
The state veterans' department
said a total of $20,462,189 in
loans has been made since 1945,
of which more than $8 million
was loaned in the past 12 months
ending March 31, for a monthly
average of $672,400. The aver
age amount of each loan is run
ning slightly more than $4,000.
SOC Students Plan
Mothers' Week-End
Ashland, Apr. 19 Invitations
have been sent to mothers of all
Southern Oregon college stu
dents to attend a mothers' week
end program that will include a
luncheon, style show, music re
cital and program, honor assem
bly, reception tea and tour of
the campus and Lincoln labora
tory school.
Plans for the week-end are un
der the direction of Barbara Or
vis, general chairman, and Mrs.
Mabel Winston, registrar. Other
committee members are Mari
anne Bronner, Jackie Schmidt,
Adele Sheldon, Pauline Bursik,
Phyllis Wallen, Serlva McCoy,
Rosemary Ring, Joanne Galland,
Marilyn Gorbett and Marilyn
Matheny.
About 150 mothers are expect
ed to attend.
PEAR GROWERS
Your Fruit Growers League board of director! invites
you to attend any of its regular meetings and pre
sent any ideas and suggestions you may have for the
betterment of the pear industry.
This group of 18 growers meets Friday, April 21, in
the Industry Council room in the Holland Hotel at
2:00 P.M.
Why not plan to attend this meeting and make sug
gestions? FRED MORLAN, Secretary
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'Nerve Gas' Seen As Future
Weapon for
Detroit. Apr. 19 U.R) Amer
icans may use a "nerve gas" to
smash a future enemy's will to
resist without bloodshed or de
struction, according to Mai. Gen
Anthony C. McAulife, chief of
the army chemical corps.
He described the fantastic
bloodless warfare to the AmerP
can Chemical society last night.
"The military concept of anni
hilating the enemy's military
Unemployment
Group Occupies
New Office Space
Salem, Ore., Apr. 19 (U.R)
Employees of the state unem
ployment commission have
moved into the new state public
service building here and al
ready are busily at work. They
were the first to move into the
structure, which officially was
opened only last Saturday noon.
The commission, which has more
than 200 employes, made the
move with all its heavy and com
plicated machinery in time to
be at work full scale Monday
morning.
The unemployment compensa
tion commission occupied all of
the fifth floor the top floor
and half of the fourth. The state
industrial accident commission,
which is slated to move to the
new structure Wednesday, will
occupy the other half of the
fourth floor and all of the third.
PUC on Second Foor
The public utilities commis
sion will take over the second
floor.
And on the first floor will be
the state police, the state board
of control and the state civil
service commission.
The five-story office building
is across Court street from the
capitol and across a quadrangle
from the state library building.
All three structures have marble
exteriors as will other buildings
in the capitol zone. A new struc
ture for the state highway de
partment is rising just north of
the new public service building.
Berkeley, Ca., Apr. 19 (U.R)
The University of California re
ported today that a moderate
earthquake centered in the
Aleutian islands at 8:45 a.m. and
lasted over an hour.
Wednesday. April It. 1880
U.S. Soldiers
might and destroying his indus
trial potential has been drastical
ly altered since the end of World
War II," McAuliffe told the so
ciety's 117th annual convention.
"The weapons developed, or
now being developed, by us pro
vide an opportunity at the small
est logistical cost, to reduce a
potential enemy's will to resist
and thereby obtain victory with
out the enormous destruction of
his economy," the general said.
McAuliffe warned, however,
that "we are not the sole posses
sors of the offensive and defen
sive secrets of the new nerve
gases."
McAuliffe, famed for his reply
of "nuts" to a German surrender
demand at Bostogne in the Bat
tle of the Bulge in World War
II, said that biological and radio
logical agents as weapons have
not yet been proven in war.
But he said that the U.S. can
not ignore such trends "because
there is evidence that other na
tions have experimented with
new and untried forms of toxic
chemical warfare."
Medford Firm Gets
Roseburg Contract
Rosebure. Ore.. Aor. 19 (U.R)
The Douglas county court today
awarded a contract to the Mike
Harris Construction company of
Grants Pass as low bidder for the
new Douglas county home on a
basic bid of $144,999.
Other low bids included the
H. E. Hawk Plumbing company.
Medford, with $33,679 for plumb
ing and heating, and the Trow
bridge Electric company, Rose
burg, with $8,925 for electrical
work.
The combined bid of $187,693
was well within estimates of
Architect William Laing, Medford.
Many Astorians See Homes
Slide Down Coxcomb' Hill
Astoria, Ore., Apr. 19 (U.R)
Coxcomb Hill was on the move
again today and the creaking,
grinding noise warned Mrs. A.
E. Johnson that soon she must
move away from the hill with
its spectacular view.
Nine Feet Daily
The surface of the hill, over
looking this city of 18,000, is
slipping nine feet daily as rain
soaked tonsoil skids over slabs
of wet clay-shale underlying the
area.
The hillside's slow, inevitable
slippage has brought personal
tragedy to scores of persons
who have watched their homes
be destroyed, their pretty gar
dens crumble and their land in
vestments disappear.
Twenly-three homes were
wrecked, damaged or threatened
by the chunk of hill, 1,000 by
300 feet in size.
"It's all like a bad dream,"
Mrs. Anderson said. "Our beauti
ful yard is gone. I can't sleep.
A crack in the earth ran right
under our house, split the foun-
Dunlevy Reelected
Rotary President
For Coming Year
James Dunlevy, manager of
radio station KYJC, was elected
president of the Medford Rotary
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James Dunlevy
club at the regular meeting of
the club Tuesday at the Jackson
hotel. Dunlevy, who served dur
ing the unexpired term of H. L.
Brown as president during the
past few months, will hold office
for the ensuing year. George
Gates, Medford furniture store
owner and operator, was elected
vice-president; William Caldwell
was re-elected secretary, and Ed
Hall was chosen as sergeant-at-
arms.
New members of the Rotary
club board of directors elected
to serve during the 1950-51 sea
son are Jorgen Jorgensen, Jack
H. Creager, Joseph Lester. Col.
Herman J. Heiring, George
Gates and Herb Grey. An early
meeting of officers and directors
will be called by Dunlevy to
dations and tipped over our oil
furnace. I heard creaking noises
wnue watching cracks lorm out
side the house.
Home Abandoned
The earth flow damaged the
home of Charles Ordway, a
printer for the Astorian Budget,
and he finally abandoned it
when cracks appeared in the
walls. He had invested his sav
ings for 15 years in the house.
Some residents were moving
their houses to sate ground. But
they complained they d never
find a scenic site like Coxcomb
hill.
"My family used to enjoy
watching the hundreds of fish
ing boats in the Columbia river
during the salmon derby," said
Francis Robinson.
John H. Claussen said "We
could see 15 miles of the river
on clear days."
Six Yean Wasted
"John spent six years building
our home," his wife said. "We
bought the timber as we got the
money. And now this it's sick
ening." Mrs. Lawrence Jackson barely
escaped when a neighbor's home
crumbled a few feet from her as
she dug up expensive flower
bulbs in her garden.
"All that's left on our land Is
a cedar tree, crushed rabbit
hutches, and a tangled clothes
line," said Mrs. E. E. Rorabaugh.
"We had a lot of fun in our
home. But all we have to show
for our land is a piece of paper
saying '!lt5 Irving Avenue.
Episcopal Women
Refused Diocese Vote
Portland. Ore., Apr. 19 (U.R)
The all-male delegation to the
62nd annual, convention of the
Episcopal diocese of Oregon to
day refused women Episcopalians
any voice in convention or of
ficial diocesan matters.
An amendment to the diocesan
constitution, proposed by the
Rev. Alexander Anderson, rector
of St. David's church, Portland,
was killed. The amendment
would have changed the wording
of the constitution to include "fe
males" and to double the num
ber of delegates to give women
an equal voice in diocesan af
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Wife, Lover
To Airplane
Los Angeles, Apr. 19 (U.R)
The wife he plotted to murder
and the sweetheart he strung
along with promises of marriage
both said today they would stand
by time-bomb Lothario John W.
Grant. i
Dark-haired Mrs. Betty Grant
and golden-haired airline stew
ardess Elizabeth buomeia botn
pledged themselves to help the
31 -year -old aircraft engineer
who plotted to time-bomb last
Monday an airliner with 16 per
sons aboard to collect $25,000
insurance on his wife and two
children.
Caused by Love
The curly-haired Grant, in jail
facing 16 counts of attempted
murder, complained that all his
troubles stemmed from love.
He said he planned to collect
the insurance money to pay off
$8,000 in debts from another
love entanglement a paternity
suit he lost in New York three
years ago to Helene Kozicka
Hansen, a tall dark secretary.
At that time he admitted he was
the father of her baby girl and
agreed to pay her $10 a week
for the baby's support.
Former fellow -employees of
plan the club's program for the
ensuing year.
Members of the debate team
of the University of Oregon pre
sented the Tuesday program
under the direction of Program
Chairman Frank J. Van Dyke.
The question of nationalization
of basic industries was argued.
It was pointed out that govern
ment control creates the largest,
tightest, most inefficient monop
olies whose policies and prac
tices would be continually af
fected by four year elections,
and that such a course would
seriously hamper free enter
prize and individual incentive.
On the other hand, advocates
of government control stressed
the need for nationalization of
power and communications af
fecting the lives of the public as
a whole, and scored the "sharp
business practices , cut-throat
tactics and monopolistic trends
in big business."
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Grant in New York and Califor
nia said he was noted for the
many girls he liked to take out
for a good time.
But his wife and his sweet
heart, Miss Suomela, who have
never met each other, said they
would not abandon him.
Women To Help
"I intend to stand by him,"
said plump and motherly-looking
Betty Grant, 29. "I don't feel bit
ter toward him. I don't have any
feelings."
"I want to help him if I can.
I did love him."
Even as Miss Suomela vowed
to aid her lover, he told police
he "was just stringing her along
with a pack of lies" to keep their
three-year affair alive. He re
peatedly discounted the possibil
ity that he put a time bomb
aboard the United Air lines
DC-3 in order to pave the way
for his marriage to the 31-year-old
stewardess.
Agent Suggests Spray
To Stop Apple Pests
The pink bud spray for apples
should be applied at this time,
County Agent C. B. Cordy an
nounced yesterday. Pests to be
controlled with this spray are
scab, mildew, green fruitworm
and woolly aphis.
Lime sulphur would be the
most effective material for scab
and mildew control but it may
injure red delicious buds. Cordy
warned, and it is not compatible
with parathion. Since parathion
is about the only effective spray
material available for control of
woolly aphis, it should be used
and materials which are compat
ible with it will have to be added
for control of scab and mildew.
Cordy recommends one pound
of parathion, three pounds of
wettable sulphur and three-quarters
pound of ferbam per 100 gal
lons for effective control of all
four pests. On varieties other
than red delicious apples, a
cheaper mixture is six pounds of
wettable sulphur and one pound
of parathion per 100 gallons.
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