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PAGE TWO VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON NOSE COUNTERS Jap-Russ War-—G. O. P. Principles—Medical Trust? CLASSIFIED ■ DEPARTMENT MOTORS at New and Re BARGAINS built— »Ingle and S phase —V4 to 200 H.P. All volt- ages—AC or DC. Write for Bargain Prices First and Taylor. PORTLAND. OREGON FARM SUPPLIES TANKS $29.85 For WATER—GAS—OIL Irrigation pipe—Furnaces KING BROS. 3500 S. E. 17th Ave. Portland) -------- . HOTELS ---------- I Campbell Hill Hotel IN UNCLE SAM’S census bu- * reau at Washington America’s official nose counters are already preparing for the 1940 population check, a stupendous job that re quires intricate equipment,skilled workers. From all corners of the nation come census reports by registered mail. These are sort ed, checked, edited, and finally translated into figures on the card puncher below. 2255 W. Burnside Portland, Oregon RATES FROM 11.00 Coffee Shop In connection There’s Something About It You’ll Like 1—Warfare on the Siberian-Manchurian frontier has resulted in bloody encounters between the armies of Japan and Soviet Russia. Soldiers of the Mikado such as these have engaged the Red forces. 2—Formulation of principles for the guidance of the Republican party are discussed at a Chicago meeting of the program committee, of which Dr. Glenn Frank, left, John D. M. Hamilton and Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., are mem bers. 3—Dr. Irvin Abel, president of the American Medical association, now the target of a U. S. depart ment of justice investigation to determine whether “organized medicine” has violated antitrust laws in oppos ing co-operative health societies. BABE’S RIVAL Typical American Girl SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Moler Beauty Schools Only Nat’l Organization in the North west. Earn your tuition. Write Seattle Tacoma Spokane FREE BEAUTY COURSE For a short time only. In one of the largest and oldest beauty schools in the Northwest. Must have high school education. Our graduates are always in demand. Palace Beauty School 1404 2nd Ave.— Seattle, Wash. Earn Board and Room AT BURNS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS We train outstanding secretaries, ex pert bookkeepers and accountants. Ef ficient business executives. Placement Service. Write 5016 N. E. Union, Portland ENGINES AND PARTS New and Rebuilt Gasoline and Diesel for truck and industrial use. Expert en gine rebuilding. Buda Engine Agency, —566 First Avenue. So., Seattle. WASHER PARTS Wringer Rolls, parts and repairs for All makes of washers. W. L. MAY Co. Security Bldg., Portland. HEARING AIDS DEAFNESS Information compiled each 10 years by the U S. census bureau finds Threatening to surpass the great its way into thousands of hands and is used for thousands of constructive Babe Ruth’s record of 60 home runs purposes. The bureau provides Uncle Sam’s only method of discovering set in 1927, Hank Greenberg, the what his people are doing, and of uncovering the popular trends of the slugging Detroit Tigers’ first base Meet Miss Frances Donelon who has been chosen as the “Typical times More frequent ‘‘nose counts" have often been proposed. man, is already well ahead of the American Girl” following a nation-wide poll on the ten most beautiful and pace set by the Babe in the year of, popular artists’ and photographers’ models. She is shown relaxing on his greatest glory. the sands at Atlantic City. Travel in Fair Style CZECH MEDIATOR weight instrument Practically invis ible. No cords. No battery. Small cost Results guaranteed or money refunded. Write Dictograph Products Co. 917 American Bank Bldg. Portland, Oregon EŒ0 IF YOU SUFFER FROM or other Rectal trouble no matter how lonar. WRITE TODAY FOR MY FREE 32 PG. BOOK It tells how thousands have been restored to HEALTH and HAPPINESS without going to the hospital by my guaranteed Lifetime Methods. Quick. Lasting Results HINKLEY CLINIC Broadway Bldg., Portland Sales Talk A vacuum cleaner salesman was trying to convince a housewife of the good qualities of his product Taking a handful of ashes he dropped it on the floor, then he took a handful of garden dirt and sprin* kled it around. He then asked, “Madam, where is your electric switch?” “Switch!” echoed the surprised woman. “We use gas.”—American GirL Here is a "gang puncher" which records identical information on any given group of punch cards, such as states, cities, kinds of businesses, etc. Later cards are run through an electrical tabulator which adds figures for final publication. Below: Uncle Sam stores census records with micro-films. Each page of the report is photographed in miniature and filed. later “blown-up" again. Sitting pretty in the ricksha is Zoe Dell Lantis, model for the 1939 Golden Gate International exposition at San Francisco, Calif., as Ruth Peterson, another exposition beauty, takes her for a spin around Treasure 1 island, site of the world's fair of the West. Viscount Runciman, former presi dent of the British Board of Trade, who as an official mediator is at tempting to avert an open break be tween Germany and Czechoslovakia over the Sudeten problem. The Brit ish emissary has urged the Czech government to make further con cessions to the Sudeten German population. 82-Year-Old Watchman Father of 26th Child Scotch Welcome Donald—Come to my house to night and we’ll talk over old times. Angus—I'll be there at 8. “When you arrive put your elbow to the button and push hard, and when it rings I’ll know it’s you.” “Why do I have to use my elbow to push the button?” “You’re not coming empty-hand ed, are you?”—Stray Stories Maga. zine. A Bit Old-Fashioned “Good gracious.” said the lady Visitor; “that bull seems very an gry, doesn’t he?” “It’s your red hat, ma’am,” ex plained the farmer. She flushed, and looked upset. "I know it is a bit old-fashioned,” she murmured. “But who would have thought a stupid old country bull would have noticed it?”—Hous, ton Post. They’ll Stretch Said John to Joe at a meeting of the hot stove league: “I think I'll plant rubber plants in my vegetable garden.” ‘ Rubber plants!" exclaimed Joe. “What you going to do with them?” “Shucks, that's simple,” replied John. ’’I’m going to raise tires for my garden truck, of course.” George Boarman. eighty-two-year-old Washington, D. C.. watchman, with his twenty-one-year-old wife and their newly born son. Mr. Boarman. who has been married three times, is the father of 25 other children, Il of whom are living. Just an Argument The argument raged among a sur geon, an architect and a politician. The question: Whose profession 1» the oldest in the world? "It was a surgical operation when Eve was made from Adam’s rib,” boasted the surgeon. "Yes,” returned the architect "but before that order was created from chaos, and that wa, an archi tectural job.” "WelL" broke in the politician, “somebody must have created the chaos!”—Washington Post