HST Receives Honorary
"Ozark Hillbilly" Award
At World War I Reunion
Springfield, Mo. IU.PJ
While a red-jacketed quintet
lang "Nothing Like a Dame"
and a man in a serge suit howl
td like a fox hound, President
Truman became an honorary Oz
ark hillbilly Saturday.
The President started a busy
day at the annual reunion of the
35th Division, his World War I
outfit, by attending a breakfast,
unusual in the fact that it fea
tured a floor show.
Solemn as Carnival
In past reunions, the Presi-
Pickers Needed
For West Oregon
Strawberry Crop
Salem (U.R) The big
strawberry harvest Season has
barely started In western Ore
gon, and already a shortage of
X i state employment service, it said
Saturday.
Local offices of the service no
ted the need also for 1,000 ex
tra workers in pea fields, fruit
thinning and gathering of early
cherries.
Most acute demand for berry
pickers comes from the Portland
area where schools will be in
session for another week while
the crop gradually approaches
the peak. About 2,000 are asked
for the Gresham district, Hills
boro wants 1,000 more.
Other Areas
In the Willamette valley about
1,000 outside pickers are need'
ed, reports from Salem, McMinn
ville and Oregon City indicate,
Hood River berries will not be
ready until about June 11, but
the district can use 100 thinners
for apple and pear orchards.
First calls for pea harvest
workers come from Pendleton
and Milton-Freewater. Work for
several weeks is promised 450
more field men. Milton-Freewater
also expects to find lobs for
500 cherry pickers beginning
June 9. The Dalles cherry crop
will be ready a few days later,
but growers are not certain yet
bdoui neeas.
dent made a ceremonial occasion
of breakfasting with the surviv
ors of Battery D -which he com
manded in France in 1918. This
year's event, however, was
about as solemn as a carnival
and open to all reunion dele
gates, their wives and children,
plus the county Democratic or
ganization and an assortment of
movie stars working around the
clock to tie in their new picture
with the President's visit here.
The President was up early
and walked at 7':30 a.m. from his
hotel up a hill to the Shrine
Mosque where breakfast was
served by red-fezzed Shriners.
Ranives Special Medal
The President's hosts present
ed him with a special medal
making him an honorary hill
billy, to which he responded
with a story - of how he had
awarded more. Congressional
Medals of Honor to war heroes
than all the other presidents of
the country put together.
"A president," he saidr "sel
dom gets a medal himself. Usu
ally he gets brickbats."
The President left the base
ment of the Mosque where
breakfast was served to attend
memorial services in the up
stairs auditorium joining with
the men of the 35th in praying
for their departed buddies
and for world peace.
COUNTRY THAWING OUT
Kennebec, S. D. U.R) Henry
Schelle and Mary Bower made
news here by getting a mar
riage license Thursday. It was
the first issued since the bliz
zards started last November.
Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at
noon Saturdays.
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House Granted New
Chance To Approve
Old Age Benefits
Washington (U.R) Demo
crats have bowed to the demands
of the old folks and agreed to
give the House another chance
to increase old age insurance
benefits by about $5 a month.
The House rejected the bill on
the first round May 19 after Re
publican leaders opposed it on
grounds that one provision might
open the way lor "socialized
medicine."
When those who stood to bene
fit by the bill learned what had
been done, they started writing
critical letters to their congress
men. The pressure for reconsid
eration of the bill has been build
ing up ever since, especially
among Republicans who voted
against it the first time and who
are anxious not to alienate elder
ly voters in an election year.
Support Seen Certain
Chairman Robert L. Doughton,
D-N.C of the House Ways and
Means Committee said he will go
.before the Rules Committee next
'week to ask that the bill be re
turned to the floor for reconsid
eration. It appeared certain that
the Republicans will support
Doughton's request.
The bill calls for an increase
in old age insurance benefits of
$5 a month or 12V4 per cent.
whichever is larger, for the 4,-
500,000 persons now on the rolls.
Those who go on the rolls in the
future would get an increase of
up to $5 a month.
Mercury, Venus Invisible
Bv J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer, Extension Division
Oreion Higher Education System
Totally invisible to the unaid
ed eye this month are the two
planets nearest the sun. Mercury
and Venus. At present they are
apparently in a close huddle with
old Sol. Mercury will be on the
other side of the sun from us,
superior conjunction, on June 8.
Venus will be in a similar con
junction June 24, and after that
will be in the twilight sky, set
ting after the sun. However, it
will not be far enough from the
sun to be easily seen for several
weeks yet. Then on until the end
of the year, Venus will again be
our glorious "evening star."
The bright planet Jupiter is
now in the dawn, rising some
what north of east almost two
hours before sunrise. It is bright
er than any starlike object In
the sky at that time.
Mars Conspicuous '
For objects in the evening sky,
let us observe about 1V4 hours
after sunet. Well up in the south
the red planet Mars is still very
conspicuous. A little to the rigni
is the bright star Spica; still far
ther right and higher, the yellow
planet Saturn. Mars, Spica, and
Saturn form an almost straight
line of bright objects.
Notice how low in the south
the full moon hangs. It rises in
the southeast, crosses the sky
low in the south in about eight
hours, and sets in the southwest.
The full moon takes the sky path
the sun followed six months
earlier.
Arctutus Mar Be Seen
Only a little south of directly
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Below Vega and considerably
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High in the heavens and near
ly in the west, Regulus is shining
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a reversed question mark, has
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Low in the sky, considerably
north of northwest, bright Ca-
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hours will be moving eastward
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Greek Mess Steward
Wins Sweepstakes
Coos Bay (U.R) A Greek
mess steward aboard the S. S.
Norlandla here won 10,000 Aus
tralian pounds in the Tasmanian
Sweepstakes and he plans to use
the money to continue a medical
career Interrupted several years
ago.
George Adams received word
Friday that he had won the
money ($23,300 in IT. S. cur-
rency) on a sweepstakes ticket
purchased in Australia several
months ago.
There is only one hitch. Adams
can't collect the money until he
returns to Australia and the Nor-
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South Africa when it leaves Coos
Bay. But Adams said he would
stick with the ship and pick up
his winnings when he gets back
to Australia.
He said he studied medicine in
Athens until a few years ago and
would like to use the money to
continue his studies in medical
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