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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
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for our MEDFORD store opening in the near future.
Applicant must be available to start training in our
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Applications Held in Strictest Confidence
Interviews Will Be Arranged
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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.
Thursday, August 18, 1955
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French Farm Girl, Stranger in Paradise,
Learning About Hamburgers and Steaks
By TOM MILLER
United Press Correspondent
Topeka, Kan. (U.R) A pretty
French girl named Monique is
learning a lot as a stranger in
Paradise. Paradise, Kan., that is.
She's learning about charcoal
broiled steaks, and hamburgers
in buns . . . about food mixers,
rubber dish scrapers, and super
markets. Monique is Monique Demyt-
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ANNIVERSARY &
REMODELING SALE
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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
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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
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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
. Moved from "BIG Y"
Market Building
to a
Down Town Location
309 East 8th
Between Bartlett & Riverside
DIAL 3-5923
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