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About The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1956)
.6 The Newt-Review, Roteburg, Or. Thur. Feb. K, 1955 mm Is Mode! Pub! ic-Spirited Community By PAUL JENKINS Drain's first settler. Warren N. Goodell, obtained a donation land claim which included the present town's location, in 1847. Later the claim was purchased by Jesse Ap pleuate who. in 1860, sold it to cnaries vram. are so thoroughly satisfied to lie page. Its 4.51 students, 18 full-time where they are, to live in Drain, i teachers, one hali - lime music There may be other nice towns in teacher (her other duties are at which to live probably are the high school), three cafeteria But what of it. THEY live in Drain workers and two custodians staff a and are glad they do. building of 18 classrooms, a multi- Thev do live in a cood town, purpose room which includes a I The Deoole. there have made it so. I cafeteria, music, health and con- n was the latter who donated 60 i They have developed, gradually I ference rooms, kitchen, library, acres to the O&C railroad for a ! but surely, a spirit of cooperation I two teachers supply rooms, a gym townsite when that road was con- j which, its energies well directed, and its dressing rooms. An aver structcd through the area to Rose-1 has contributed tremendously to age of 300 children patronize the hurg in 1872. u&C officials named j the town's economic and spiritual cafeteria daily. The school's prin the town in the donor's honor. growth. When something needs do- j cipal, Anton Bryant, is proud of it. Drains economy always nas.ng, it is done, iney worn ai n, aim so u everyone eie I with their own hands when neccs-1 Drain's mayor, Ernie Whipple, is Isary. Thus they have provided a lumberman nationally recogniz I parks, playgrounds, public swim;ed in his field. The town's cham pool and a city hall, contributing ber of commerce is surprisingly iheir nwn funds and labor. A fine energetic. It works hard (for Aurirniiiire wh e it wn pnvironmrni it is for their chii i urain all year around, men ceie- imnnriant. ihui has olaved a much dren. too Elmer Winslow, chief Ibrates once annually with a ban- smaller part in Drain's prosperity of police, reports that it has been through the years, than has been 'over two years since the juvenile been integrated with that of saw- milling, the community being anie to boast (and support) two mills even in the town's infancy, each capable of cutting 10,000 board feet court has had a case of delinquen cy. That's something, in this day and age. and didn t result acci dentally. Drain is a good place for kids. Drain has a fine high school, and the ease in most other Douglas County areas. Its present status as a lumber center has been eurncd through the years. The town has. and always has liml a norumi.-llllv Its Cltl7fn kv. hwn smipo hm mm. recently has romnleted a snlendidimav he they just like Drain, placcnt is a much better t e r m. elementary unit, appraised at $300,-1 explanation which at least is un They are complacent because llicy 1 000, which is pictured on t h l s 'derslandable. quet which has become noted for the calibre of the speakers ap pearing there. How these are se cured I wouldn't know, but govern ors, brass-hat men in the business world, noted writers and bigwigs in general seem to hurry there at the chamber slightest bidding. It I a' -i t'.r.-'Tlf L'A t. i v r jf B ' . "Vim p FWm BUILT IT THEMSELVES The Drain City Hall is another monument to the city's Tiercs local prida. Appraised at $67,000, it wot constructed largely from donated ma terials and work of the citizens. j ' H -VMM. ItdlHsMl BURNERS, such as thess "dot the landscape with a fiery glow at night, attesting the lumber activity which supports Drain. These are at the Smith River Lumber Co. BnnTf. .iniii n ii mini mini mum im i m i. ,wMmm. n.M-.,,-.w.,dTf1.-rilf . jagg:Siff,'yrix EDUCATIONAL UNIT The City of Drain has port of elementary sctiool age activities. An ex shown some of its brightest civic spirit in its sup- amplt is the expanded Dram Elementary School 2f ' M 1 above- The town is particularly active in promot ing grade school athletic and recreational events. (All pictures on this page by Paul Jenkins). ELMER WINSLOW . . . police chief V TH STEADY STREAM of logs that comes into Drain form the raw material for the community's economy, the lumber Worth Of United States In Land, Buildings Revealed WASHINGTON tfi Uncle Sam , public Tuesday by the Senate Ap- owned 407,900,000 acres, or about I propriations Committee. 21.4 per cent of the land area of Federally owned land consisted ,. , , . , . , of about 3a7, 200.000 acres in the the continental United States, as of 1,i1ii- ,irt,,:n tnr ,i.ii, c( was listed, and about 50,700,000 last June 30. The government also had 38-1,916 buildings. I hese and other statistics on fed eral real property were contained a new inventory report pre pared by the General Services Ad ministration. The report was made L LP. (, ; . " "TV Vt'l y.f.SW sF I It' Jt' .1T'sassW . S"- .. 4 wrrrr'r wi.AiA.iTf r:.-,'.-r. v -vTT.-assieaMr' acres acquired by purchase, do nation or other means since 1789. This was figured at about $2,369, 000.000. Total real property holdings and buildings, after certain exclusions, consisted of 11,777 installations in every state and the District of Co lumbia. These cost 32W billion dollars. Over 20 billion dollars worth of real property holdings, or til. 9 per cent of the total, were in the hands of the Defense Department. However, the Post Office Depart mo nt led in the number of installa tions with 3.086. An installation was defined as beim? usually a single office build ing or Post Office, a national bank, a military reservation or a hydro electric project. When an installa tion spread across state bound aries, the portions in each state were reported separately. The total federal land holdings were approximately equal to the area of all the states east of the Mississippi River except for Wis consin, Georgia, Michigan and North Carolina. By states the holdings ranged from over 61 million acres in Ne vada to about 6,000 in Connecti cut. California had the most installa tions 903. New York had 679, Texas 545 and Michigan 505. The cost of federal property in California also topped all the states at $31,791,000,000. Washington State was next with $2. 245.000.000 and Tennessee was third with $1,945,-000,000. industry. Two trucks are shown bringing logs in to be dumped In the Holmes Lumber Co. millpond. I LUMBER AND LOGGING, os in most other oreos of the county, form tha basic induslnej for Drain', tconomy. Above is a typical scene of the area ot the Holmes Lun-facr Co. sawmill. The mill sav.s out approximately 35,000 booed feet a doy. Eisenhower Signs Bill For Flood Damage Repair WASHINGTON UP President Kisc nhowi-r has signed a bill Kivins a break to new-home own ers needing federal loans to repair flood damage. The new law cancels, in cases of disaster, the prohibition against j issuance ot home repair loans by ' the Federal Housing Admtnistra ; tion on residents less than six i months old. I me oui was designed to provide relief to home owners in new i housing subdivisions, chiefly in i California and olher Far Western o 'tales, which were inundated by 'flood watr. ERNEST WHIPPLE . . . Drain's mayor Ate Jft Wmmfm h p torrvrtk M? Jfm whom the town was ' . (t Ill ltf. , ,r,i HOMfc Or PIONEER I his is the home of Charles Drain offer named. Mrs. Chorles D. Drain still lives in the picturesque old houe Hn,imijiiu..iiii. t- WMMSfc.'i' M hh iu.'i ii ii w mWTm iTili " : Wri ir ii'aujil..- J SOLID INDICATION of the civic spirit of Droin it this public swim pool. Few other towns of comparable size can support such a monument to civic spirit. It adjoins a city pork and playground and cost about $200,000. Materials and work were donated by the people of Drain. The town also has one of the finest baseball parks in the tote.
