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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
May 21, 1048
STAMP SALE
TOTALS IN
: Total amount! of war stamps
bought by students in the county
schools during the year have
been compiled and are as follows
Bonanza elementary ....$1270.45
Bonanza high school . . 734.20
Weyerhaeuser Camp 4 a 147.00
Fort Klamath .
302.00
883.20
Keno ...
Bly
Malln high school .
Merrill elementary
Gilchrist
Shevlln
Sprague River ...
Henley high school, -
2528.60
1839.00
829.05
1017.35
681.85
1801.65
.- approximately 6000.00
Henley elementary.
approximately
Chiloquln high school ...
Chiloquin elementary
Altamont Junior high .
Altamont elementary
. 3000.00
2147.35
2215.15
4694.75
3139.35
Fairhaven 2219.65
Children at the pelican Bay
camp also bought stamps, but the
total amount was not figured
Cora this school.
BOARD TO IIIITEtlVIEW
.according to information re
ceived by Sergeant Frank J. Hu-
bin, commander of the local
army recruiting office, an exam
ining Doard will be In Klamath
Falls on May 24 and 25 for the
purpose of examining applicants
for appointment as aviation ca
dets in the army air corps.
Young men between the ages
of 17 and 26 inclusive who are
-, , 'interested in the type of training
are urgea to suormt tneir appli
cations immediately to the army
recruiting office, 219 post office
building. .-
Applicants musi have reached
their 17th but . not their 27th
birthday, they iriay be married
or single, they may. apply re
gardless of their selective ser
vice classification provided they
have not received orders to re
port for induction. No formal ed
ucation is required but candi
dates must be able to pass' the
mental and physical examina
tions prescribed . by .the air
.- forces.' -' .-'.''
Full information and bdoIics.
tion forms may. be obtained from
xne army recruiting office with
out obligation.'
Hearings Started
On "Sub Standard"
Wages in Oregon
V SEATTLE, May 21. (ff) Dr,.
v George Bernard Noble, former
Reed c o U e gV professor and
t chairman of the regional war
iaDor board, will open a hearing
. on what . constitutes a "sub
'standard" wage of Oregon
workers at Portland tomorrow.
A similar hearing was held in
Seattle earlier this week.
Dr, Noble explained that once
minimum fair pay scale has
been determined the - board
would not be bound by the "lit
tle steel formula" of 15 per
. cent increase in cases Judged
"sub-standard" or below the
minimum fair pay scale. "
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Ellen Tuck Astor
Granted Divorce
From J. J. Astor
' RENO, Nev., May 21 (0) An
eight-minute . private -hearing
won Mrs. Ellen Tuck French
, Astor a divorce yesterday from
John Jacob Astor HI. . . .
i' Mrs. Astor entered the court
house through a rear door and
went directly to Judge William
McKnight's chambers.'
The divorce decree took no
notice of Astor's petition, filed
by his attorney a few hours
earlier, asking that his wife's suit
be dismissed and denying her
charge of "extreme cruelty of a
mental nature." .
REASON TO BLUSH '
- GREAT FALLS, Mont., OT
The police blame war priorities
for their red faces and u'n-red
. automobile.
: When they drive by In their
.newest radio car, they get whis
tles and "yoo-hoos" from the
: sidewalk. . .
x The car is painted pink. ; '.
SCHOOLS TOLD
DANCE
EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT
SICATELAND
615 Klamath Ave., '
Muito Pappy Gordon's Oregon Hillbillies
Auspices Veterans of Foreign Wars
ME AND
WOMEN IN
service:
WITH 8EABEES GusT.
Youngren, seaman 1c, is a well
known . Klamath youth .. now
serving with the
Seabees in Da
visville,. R. , I.
Gus enlisted in
the navy con
struction battal
ion in Novem
ber of 1942. He
is a graduate of
Chiloquin high
school and for
one year oper
ated the Rich-
field service
station .on South Sixth street.
At the time of his enlistment,
Gus was employed in the Se
attle shipyards. He is a brother
of Carl and Knute Youngren.
IN MISSOURI-
-Word has been
received from
Pvt. John A.
Coughran J r.,
that he is sta
tioned at Fort
Leonard Wood
in Missouri. He
Is ' In ' basic
training as ' a
rifleman in the
290th Infantry
of the new 78th
division, which
has just been
activated. in
Missouri. This
division is part
of the second
ar.my of the
United States.
Coughran is a
former employe
of the J. C.
Penney company
here. His wife, Berneal, resides
at 1327 Johnson street.;
INSTRUCTOR Corp. Scott B.
Wolford ' enlisted in October,
1941 and was sent to the recep
tion, center at
t ort Lewti;MKnKxa
Wash., and then!
to Jefferson Bar-V " '.
a. weal v 1
nBur-V -KVX
andV JSA i
re toil I
racks, Mo.
from there
PhnmitA f i a 1 A
HL, where hef
was - graduated-,
from ' th e - air';;
co rp technical !
school. ' He was f '
then selected tol
take an advanc-".
ed . course .. and !
training for- in
structor. . Wo' 1-1
ford is now lo-1
cated at Lincoln air base, Neb.,
as instructor. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Wolford of
Sprague River.- . - - -.
- .
MEN IN SERViaE-WITH PDC
IN TUB SOUTHaf M-MM
Corporal- $
the us -army p
is somewhere in
new uuinea he
writes his par
ents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Bell
of .4077 Freida
street. Bell likes
his- work "just
fine" but every
letter states
there is no place
in - the world
like the "USA."
Bell enlisted
March 9, 1942.
Long Distance Call Earl
Emerick of Honolulu talked to
his mother, Mrs. W. C. Kohler,
Hillside avenue, by-long distance
on Mother's Day. Earl has been
at Pearl Harbor for 18 months,
Sgt Clair Martin is home on a
16-day furlough visiting his
mother and brother at their home
on 2200 Wantland avenue. Set.
Martin is in the radio division
of the field artillery at Camp
wniie. Martin says that he likes
the: army, and his . work very
mucn,
Aviation Cadet. Wayne Ken
neth Galloway, son .of Mr.' and
Mrs.; C. D. Galloway. 715 St.
Francis street, is a member of
class 43E of student officers and
aviation cadets to be graduated
soon from the army air forces'
advanced flying school at Yuma.
Ariz.
Before entering the final and
advanced training course at
Yuma army air field, Cadet Gal
loway completed., his, primary
and basic training at Seauoia
field, Vlsalla, Calif.; and- Chlco
army flying school, Chico, Calif.
" He graduated from Grant
county high school and received
letters in football," baseball and
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OPA EXTENDS
EXPIRATION
'DATE ON BLUES
WASHINGTON. May 31 ft
To avert an end-oMhe-month
buying rush,' the office of price
administration today extended
for one week the expiration date
of blue stamps G. H. and J in
war ration book No. 2.
Previously scheduled to ex
pire May 31, the three processed
food stamps will be good through
June 7.
OPA at the same time made
the next three sets of blue
stamps K, L, and M good be
ginning Monday, May 24, and ex
tended their expiration date from
the end o f June .to July 7. -
Blue stamps G, H and J which
have been valid -through May,
and K. li and M therefore will
all be valid during a two-week
overlap period from May 24 to
June 7.
OPA pointed . out, however,
that sugar and coffee stamps, will
expire May 30 and 31, respect
ively, and cautioned shoppers
against waiting - to spend their
stamps until May 31 Memorial
Day when stores will be closed.
The faculty cups, .Klamath
union, high school awards
given annually at this time,
went this year to Mary. Lan
dry and Richard Newman.-. In
yesterday's paper, it was stated
erroneously that the girls' cup
went to another girl. .-
These awards are based .on
scholarship, citizenship and gen'
eral contribution to the welfare
of the schools. The choice is
made by faculty members.
Names; of , the winners, are en
graved each year on the large
trophies, which remain on dis
play at the school building. : ; J
- Superintendent Arnold Gra
lapp presented the awards at the
commencement exercises. .
Submarine Sailors
Riot at Union Meet
Following Remarks
GROTON, Conn., May 21 UP)
Submarine sailors tossed a pub
lic address system microphone
over a fence yesterday-at the
Electric Boat - company, . tore-
down union 'signs,' stamped- on
union buttons and smashed a
table during a CIO organizer's
attempt to speak to a luncheon
crowd at the submarine building
plant;
Officer H. T. Perry of the Gro
ton police, who was present, said
the sailors charged that Maurice
Miller, the organizer, had refer
red to them during his remarks
as "$50-a-month punks" but that
Miller had . denied . using the
phrase. .-',.. :'.:; ,;..'"'..;.
basketball. He also attended
Friends ' university, .Wichita,
Kans., and Colorado university,
Boulder, Colo. - v
Summer
Swagger
The Stetson
Step through the summer in
a hand-made - Stetson "Pan
duro"! Genuine. Panama
weave, its . smartness . lies in
its diamond-blocked .crown,
and the two-tone pleated pug
gree band. Wide, rakish brim
looks good ventilated crown
makes you FEEL good on the
hottest days.
'380
and
DREW'S
MANSTORE
733 Main
Trade News
Interesting Notes of Herald
and New Advertisers, Their
Products and Activities
UP ENGINE. PRODUCTION
DEARBORN, Mich. Air
plane engine production by the
Ford Motor - company will be
Increased three-fold through
conversion of several plants and
reorganization of engine-building
facilities In the Detroit area
under an additional government
contract of .34.a02,773. it has
been announced by company
ouiciais. .. - ;
The new contract brings the
defense plant corporation com
mitment with the company on
2000-h. p. Pratt and Whitney
airplane engines to $88,000,000
and makes Ford the nation'
largest producer of heavy
horsepower aircraft engines.
The company revealed plans
to utilize - the Memphis, Tenn.,
and Kansas City, Mo., ' plants
and perhaps part of one other
large assembly, factory after it
was disclosed that the govern
ment had authorized the addi
tional expenditure for develop
ing the manufacturing facilities
in. these plants, at the Highland
Park plant and at a number of
smaller factories to the. Detroit
area.,'; V
TIRE MADE FROM ALCOHOL
AKRON, O. The Industrial
use of farm crops to make tools
for the- farmer received a big
boost, today when, for the first
time, grain was used as the base
for a synthetic rubbe r farm
tractor tire.r ' ''''';-;.--'."
' Harvey S. Firestone- Jr.,
whose father put 'the farm on
rubber by developing' the first
practical pneumatic tractor tire,
was present to inspect the first
of the new tires as it' came from
the mold at the Firestone com
pany's Akron . plants." The his
toric tire is one of a set being
completed . for- testing on the
Firestone farms at Columbiana,
o.. i,;. ,
' Nearly 10 b U h e IV or 600
pounds of shelled corn were re
quired to - make the butadiene
for the first set of tires; all of
the famous ground grip variety.
ii MILL TO RISE -The
-Albert Milling company,
manufacturers of cereals and of
poultry and animal feeds for 47
years, has- received. . authority
from the war production board
to ' proceed at once - with the
reconstruction and equipping of
their mill at Oakland,. Calif . -!
. Located at the foot of Sev
enth street,; the mill was dam
aged ', and partially destroyed
February 28, 1943, in Oakland's
worst fire disaster. X -
- OFFICIAL
U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS
39th Fighter
Squadron Insigne
FREE with
War Stamps
bought this week at
Shell Dealers
arid Shell Sta tions
Get your U.S. Fighter and Ob-'
servation Squadron insignia
the kind youngsters are collect
ing now I In full color on cloth,
they're just right to sew on.
pockets, caps or sweaters. You
get one of these insignia FREE
, while the supply lasts every
time you buy War Stamps from
your Shell Dealer or Shell Serv
ice Station. And OTK
watch for the "ct f(L.A:
new iwigne I ' ; HIIIW
PCARI FOR YOUR CAR
FOR YOUR COUNTRY" -
. Remember, not the tfudmiUr, but th
tattndar li your belt guldt nowaday 1 1
Once a Week: '.
ATTUT Reduced driving mikel
Shell check-upi of water level and
charge more important-than ever.
TIMS Maintaining correct sir
' preMure tavei tlrei and gawlioe. "
Every 2 Months i
.' OH Hart erankcaia drained,
fluihed and refilled with Ooldeo
Shell Motor Oil.
SHUlUIRfCATIOM Thorough,
. correct lubrication vital In mak
ing foot ca hut for the duration,
SHELL OIL COMPANY
Wag Increases
For Cannery Help
Certain of Okay
; SEATTLE, May 21 M)A 10
cent hourly pay increase for
CAROL BRINT
WAISTS
1.98
It ftneit awnlnlaaMnt rayon
f to wear wlAi your ntcat
taeka and ilackwltil 5li.a 32"
40, h white end paslela,
SMOOTH RAYON
SLACKS
3.98
Knaslna finding royon gabor
ihn at Mi prkal Rayon Mile
too, In a good ouortm.nl of
eolortl 24-32
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We --i.Vn
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1
mm
as.s- it
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80,000 cannery workers In Wash
ington and Oregon, granted by
the1 regional war labor board, Is
virtually certain of approval by
the national board, Dr. Goorga
B.iNoblo, regional board chair
-lucj
Us -busv-to-b).
It'' .an
aW,' ,1 to
..t,a. ol "
man, said last night,
Dr. Noble said he had boon In
formed by -top' officials of the
national board that "this Import
ant case has the green light''
because of the urgency of assur
smooth slack suits
tov play:... SM
Have you ver seen to much Interesting ' detail on slack suits
at this price? Controlling piping I Fitted acketl And we've
,others with stitching and novelty buttons, boxy (ackets or soft
tie-front belts. Rayon gabardine, rayon luana cloth In sizes 1 2-20.
Blacksults In popular Mlml rayon cloth. 12-20... ...4.98
Experi tailoring In Mlml rayon cloth. 14-20.. . ... . . . .6.98
UCliV
KNtTTID SPORT
SHIRTS
Jot what yea want far Wei,'
facte or eelflil Snwl, nedlm'
nd targa r)ne In gay.awlnV
wered tkiaaa, Svy eeverall
THIS! ARI SPUN
RAYONS
The long-wearing, good-nob-
Sg ilacki you went ,
kigly Iwarkad at Wardil
Choo yowi In krown op Rsjvy
a. 24 re 32.
90c a
sport shoes far
all (jour activities!
Wear them for work, for rparkattng, for tporltl Ideal for
any ob that keapi you on your test all day for air raid
duty, canteen world Thai sturdy iport oxfords ware
mad. to take It made to give good, hard wearl Com.
In today and try a palrl You'll like their comfortable fit,
their smart looktl Bring coupon Ne. 17
ing record pack of fruits and
vegetiibloa this year,
Elovon gunernts wore killed Q
or fatally wounded In the bat
tlo of Gettysburg.
MONTOOMIRV WARD
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Ninth Street, cor. Pine
Phone 3188