Women's Industrial Forum
To Stress Needs of Stat
To direct attention among women's organizations of the state to
Oregon's need for industrial development and to its ricb and undeveloped natural resources, a new
organization, to be known as the
Oregon Women's Industrial Forum,
is coming into being this month.
The forum is choosing as its specific work a thorough study of the
state's raw and manufactured materials and resources, including its
forestry and wood products, its
mineral- deposits, its wool and its
flax, its dairying and its agriculture.
Mrs. W. W. .Gabriel, will serve as
president of the new group, which
is identified as a '"nonpoli.tical,
noncommercial, .volunteer organization for the advancement of Oregon." V
The state planning board will act
as a co-operating agency in providing authentic material for programs and studies built around
Oregon's new era in industrial development. As its first project, the
forum is undertaking a study of
conditions surrounding the adjustment of future rates on hydroelectric power to be generated at Bonneville dam, which it considers a
matter of vital importance to Oregon and its citizens.
Other officers who will assist in
idirecting this and other forum
jactivities are, as vice-presidents,
jMrs. A. King Wilson,. Mrs. Max S.
(Hirsch and Miss Birdine Merrill
land, as recording secretary, Mrs.
|W. J. Gotthardt.
| Directors are:
I Mrs. A. E. Hockey, Mrs. C. S. Jackson, Mrs. Frank R. Kerr, Mrs. George
G. Root, Mrs. Albert H. Schmidt, Mrs.
A. R. Zeller, Mrs. Jessie M. Honey-
jman, Mrs. E. Paris Zehntbauer, Mrs.
Verne Dusenbery, Mrs. C. W. Walls,
Mrs. Roy T. Bishop, Mrs. Lee Davenport, Mrs. Dorothy M. Watney, Mrs.
Louis J. Gerlinger Jr., Mrs. Ferdinand
Smith, Miss Anne Mulherbn and Miss
Manche Langley,
Regional directors are:
Mrs. Charles E. Wells of Hillsboro,
Mrs. Joseph Stadelman of The Dalles,
Mrs. C. E. Dennis of Klamath Falls,
Mrs. W. S. Nicholson of Marshfield,
Mrs. Norman Frees of La Grande,
Mrs. J. M. Devers of Salem, Mrs.:
Grace Kent Magruder of Clatskanie,
Mrs. Ralph C. Crow of Eugene, Mrs.;
Floy F. Campbell of Hood River, Mrs.1
Isabelle Mallett of Ontario, Mrs. R. W.J
Clarke of Grants Pass and Mrs. W. G.j
Homan of Burns.
Governor Martin will head ani
advisory board, which includes!
Commissioner OR. Bean, chairman
of the state planning board; Mayor;
Carson, Paul R. Kelty, W. D. B.
Dodson, Walter W. R. May, Philip
A. Parsons, W. A. Schoenfeld, Donald J. Sterling and Tom E. Shea.