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o o o o O o O O o Co, o G o o. o G Q O G 0 CD e o O e O G cVolunteer Fire Companies Still Stand Guard Over Many American Communities - By UNITED PRESS If you think the volunteer fire man went out with the bucket brigade you're wrong. There are more volunteer fire companies standing guard over our life and property than at any time in history. For instance the Anthracite mining center of Reading, Pa., with 110,000 persons big enough years ago to have a paid fire department is one city that still clings enthusiastically to the volunteer tradition. Allen town, Pa., with a population of 106.000, is another. 750.000 Volunteers Robert Schuette of the Nation al Fire Protective Association at Boston estimates there are 750, 000 volunteer firemen in the United States, making up 30,000 companies. Their numbers are rising, not declining. A New York state official said the Empire State has 1.589 vol unteer fire companies and the figure goes up about four per cent a year. The companies range from one truck outfits with 20 or 25 vol unteers to companies that boast 20 pieces of equipment and 600 men. There are both practical and sentimental reasons for keeping up the cooperative firefighting tradition, which goes back to Colonial days in America. 'Lillle Boy in All of Us' "There"s a certain amount of 'Little Boy in all of us", said B. Richter Townsend, general man ager of the International Asso ciation of Fire Chiefs. "Most men don"t mind having to serve in a fire department they like it." But many volunteer engine companies are matters of neces sity. The population is moving to the suburbs around most big fr Wanted CASHIER with NCR Machine Experience for our MEDFORD store opening in the near future. Applicant must be available to start training in our Eugene Store immediately and at our expense. Applications Held in Strictest Confidence Interviews Will Be Arranged GIVE COMPLETE INFORMATION IN FIRST LETTER Send Applications to WEISFIELD'S JEWELERS Att: Mr. Janofsky 1511 Fifth Ave. Seattle, Wash. U.S. cities. With booming resi dential develop me n t many "country'' towns need more fire protection or local insurance rates go sky high. Volunteers are the best answer. Nowhere as in Reading do so many little boys grow up to be firemen. The city has 8.000 vol unteers, or about one for every 13 citizens. The City pays salaries to the fire chief, two deputies and 76 drivers for the 30 pieces of equip ment. The rest of the firemen work for nothing. The fire companies verge on being social clubs. Some have clubrooms, and maintain relief associations which pay benefits to survivors if a member is killed or dies. There is talk from time to time of setting up a paid fire depart ment. The closest this ever came to happening was in 1914, when the city council passed an ordi nance creating a paid fire depart ment. But the people of Reading didn't like the idea even if the city council did. They defeated the ordinance overwhelmingly in a referendum. Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson has appointed Eliot H. Jenkins of Springfield to the State Board of Forestry, repre senting West Coast Lumber men's association. Jenkins suc ceeds the late Floyd Hart of Med-iord. Portland (U.R) The body of a boy was found in the Willam ette river near the west end of the Sellwood bridge yesterday. Police said the youth was tenta- i tively identified as 13-year-old ' Robert Popiel. 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She's learning about charcoal broiled steaks, and hamburgers in buns . . . about food mixers, rubber dish scrapers, and super markets. Monique is Monique Demyt- A y o ANNIVERSARY & REMODELING SALE Si tenaere, 21, brown-eyed and comely, and the daughter of a well-to-do French farming fam ily of north central France. She is in the United States for six months as part of the internation al farm youth exchange program. To Visit Several Sections Monique is scheduled to visit with farm families in several sections of the United States . . . and right now she's staying with the A. E. Rodgers family of Paradise ... a little wheat coun try village, population 144. Monique has found life in a country village in America is quite different from life at home in a French farming community. Take shorts for example. Monique never wore a pair be fore she got to Paradise. She says in France city girls some times wear shorts when they visit the country, but farm girls consider them immodest. Then there's the chrome food mixer in the Rodgers kitchen. Monique's parents are prosper ' ous they have large land hold ings in three farms but there's nothing to equal that gleaming mixer in Monique s motner s kitchen. Monique plans to send one home soon. Outdoor Meals .New Sandwiches and outdoor meals Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday FREE TREAT FOR THE KIDDIES 3L BEIN5 servFd filr WITH CAKE UK) FREE PRIZES! GIVEN AT 8 P.M. SATURDAY One Chance Given With Each Purchase During Sale! HUNrS-Heavy Syrup-No. 2Vi cans Apricots 4S1.00 Cat $5.79 HUNT'S-303 cant Fruit Cocktail . . . 4S1.C0 HUNT'S-2'i Can Plums 431.00 HUNT'S-300 Size Peaches 531.00 HUNT'S-Courrtry Style Corn ... 831.00 (Case of 24 $2.95) HUNT'S-14-Oz. Bottle Catsup 3 57c HUNT'S-300 Size Tomato Juice . . .1131.00 HUNT'S-2'2 Tin Tomatoes 4S1.00 CHILI BEANS Hwrrwoo $. RED BEANS Or. S PORK & BEANS U Forv u Golden Ripe Bananas . : : : . 3 lbs. 29c FRESH MEATS Good Choice Ground Chuck 3 lbs. for J .00 Roasts Blade & Arm 39c ib Steaks Top Round & T-Bones 79c ib Rib Steaks 59c ib Swiffs Bacon Sliced 49c ib Distilled Cider Vinegar gal. jug 69c HUNT'S Tomato Sauce ..... 649c HUNT'S-46-Oz. Tin Tomato Juice 431.00 HUNT'S-2'2 Tin Pork & Beans 5 $1-00 HUNT'S-New Pack-300 Size Peas . . . 6 $1.00 (24 Can Case $3.95) HUNT'S-300 Size ' Flew Potatoes . . . 10 S1.00 HUNT'S-2'A Jar Sliced Dill Pickles ... . . . 29c HUNT'S-No. 2 Cans Stewed Tomatoes . . 591.00 HUNT'S-300 Size Spinach 8$1.00 EXTRA LARGE, FANCY HEAD LETTUCE 10c head O 2 19c We Have Many Other Specials We Cannot Advertise, Due to Space Limitations! g e market wr on all Corner of Free PUitemsSE Stewart & Cherry Parking! also are new to the French .girl. She ate her first hamburger in Washington . . ."and she never had a barbecued steak until she visited the Rodgers. Shopping, too has been a treat and a puzzle for the easy-smiling French girl. The rubber dish- scrapers she saw for -the first time at a hardware store in- triaued her so she bought a handful of them to take back to France. Grocery stores still amaze her, too. She says in her home territory everyone raises his own produce, so there are no grocery stores in most French villages. The French girl will go to Dodge City in southwest Kansas after her visit in Paradise, then to the state of Washington to live with other farm families be fore returning home for Christ mas. Touring Her Homeland Meantime John Rogers, the son of Monique's present hosts, is in France. He is touring Moniques homeland, also as part of the international farm youth ex change program. The two met in Washington, where John was interpreter for the contingent of French dele gates. before he took off for Eu rope. They hope to meet again, What every good cook knows: Just a little difference in ingredients makes a big difference in cooking results Snowdrift is just a little lighter than any other shorten ing and that can make the big difference in giving your family lighter, more digestible foods. Snowdrift gives just a little more safety than ordinary shorten . irigs, because it fries perfectly at correct high temperatures. That can make the big difference in digestibility of fried foods. Snowdrift's ingredients are just a little costlier than any other solid shortening's (yet you pay no more). That can make the big difference in better tasting foods, whether fried or baked. No other shortening at any price is so creamy, so digestible - and so light! 100 PURE ALL-VEGETABLE SHORTENING . MADE BY THE WESSON OIL PEOPLE ORDER SIGNED Salem (U.R) A formal order removing all standards for con tainers used for apples and pears was signed this week by J. F. Short, State Director of Agricul ture. The action follows a hear ing held last month. The order now is in effect. TANK KILLS SOLDIERS Tilshead, England CU.P.) A runaway tank rumbled through a row of tents filled with sleep ing British soldiers today and killed four men and injured four others. and exchange notes on their ex periences, during an American Thanksgiving dinner at the Rodgers home, just before Moni que returns to Franqe. Meantime, Monique hopes John is having as good a time in France as she is in America. As she put it in her last letter home to her mother, i father and two smaller sisters, "I'm having a wonderful time in paradise." Dr. Robert E. Lee Optometrist . 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