OCR Text |
Show Gunnison's Mayor Gets Fair Souvenir When the old battleship Oregon, the once prized fighting unit of Uncle Sam's fleet, better known as the Bull Dog of the navy, was about to- be sent out to sea and sunk as a target, the Knights of Electra, through the assistance of former Congressman Elton Watkins of Oregon, procured from the navy department a limited amount of bronze metal scrapped from the grand old ship. This precious metal, and it certainly cer-tainly is precious, has been coined into beautifully designed souvenir tokens. , Manager F. E. Jones of the local J. C. Penney company store, called upon Mayor Parley Christensen Tuesday Tues-day and presented him with one of these historic souvenirs. One side of the medallion shows a picture of the old battleship Oregon, now permanently domiciled in the navy yard at Bremerton, Washington. Encircling the picture is the inscription, inscrip-tion, "Souvenir Metal from the Battleship Bat-tleship Oregon, Bull Dog of the Navy." Upon the obverse side is a symbolic sym-bolic picture denoting progress to ward the land of the setting sun with inscription, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way," and encoding encod-ing this, "Pacific-American-Interna-tional Exposition 1930, Portland, Oregon, Ore-gon, U. S. A." Like a beacon light blazmg from the crest of the topmost wave of pros perity the Pacific American International Interna-tional Exposition a ten million dollar dol-lar corporation will light the way of the world to Oregon in 1930. It is the purpose to unite ten Pacific Paci-fic coast states in a powerful union pledged for a community of interests in the forthcoming world's fair and universal exposition. Governor Walter M. Pierce, chief executive of Oregon, has expressed h;s earnest desire for the success of this gigantic undertaking, and the governor gov-ernor of the other far western states are deeply impressed and are favorable favor-able to every laudable enterprise that will upbuild their respective states. This coalition will mean a stupendous force for good. Each state will have a voice in the councils of the exposition. |