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Umpqua Residents Visit In Medford By MRS. GEORGE MUNSON Mr. and Mrs. Frizbie and Mrs. Bessie Edwards drove to Med ford on business recently. They were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott. Driva Ta Turrttr Mr. and Mrs. Tom Myers and children drove to Turner one day last week. They were dinner guests at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford White. A baby son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor of Umpqua last week. Mrs. Geny Murphy and daugh- 'TrTf-i ter Pegcy drove to Cottase Grove recently where they were dinner! guests at tbe Home of Mri. Emma Lansing. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Richard son of Albany were recent week end guests at the home of his par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Rich ardson, on their ranch near Ump qua. Last Clan Given The last class in sewing machine know-how was given recently at ine ainger bcwmg center. An all day meeting for the 4-H leaders of Central Douglas County as held. Miss Jane Gates and Mrs. Jessie Reed were instructors. The boys and girls of the fifth and sixth grades of Umpqua School were taken on a skating party to Roseburg Wednesday. They were accompanied by Mrs. Geny Murphy and Mr. and Mrs. Mun son. Mr. and Mrs. Phil McKinney and Richard McKinney from Yuba City, Calif., are house guests at the horn? of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McKinney, near Umpqua. Eastern Star Chapter Has Initiation Service Chapter 91. Order of Eastern Star of Oakland, met this week with Helen Stuwe, worthy matron, and Lyle Stuwe, worthy patron, presiding. Initiation was held for Ruth Petherick. Mabel McCord was courtesy candidate. Irma Cornish was appointed by the worthy grand matron to serve as grand representative from the State of New Mexico in Oregon. She was presented her commis sion by Irma Martin, grand Ruth of the grand chapter. Refreshments were served by El eanor and Kenneth Dorman, Wan da Hopkins, Dorothy and Harold Austin and Velma Erickson. Dec orations were designed by Grace Wood. Naomi Risgs, Olga Bielman and Gertrude Hebard. Ike Urges School Heads To Use Wisdom, Courage ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. uri President Eisenhower called on school administrators Monday to use "wisdom and courage" in seeking to solve the "serious prob lems in education." In a message of greeting to the 82nd annual convention of the American Assn. of School Admin istrators (AASA), the President said it will take a combined effort on local, state and federal levels to ''provide the kind of education we all desire for our children." Dillard Man Identified With New Industry Plan Paul B. Hull of Dillard is one of two Oregon directors in the organ ization which plans to re-open part of the idle Doernbecher furniture plant in Portland. The organiza tion is called the Rose City Ply wood Corp. He said the corporation plans a plywood layup and lumber opera tion at the plant which will employ initially 100 men. These 100 will be shareholders in the new firm. FORD HOSPITAL AID BAKER OP A $22,800 Ford Foundation grant will be used to replace St. Elizabeth's Hospital floors and stairways with concrete, hospital officials report. The remodeling is expected to take about three months with doubling up of patients necessary. Tu. Fab. 11,' 1956 The Nawc-IUview, Rota-burr, Ore. 9 Former Roseburg Street Superintendent Reminisces mm y - doubts that Roseburg had bothlent streets and equipment and men to keep them cleaned and repaired long before 1948. He related that the first streets were paved in 1909. Others fol lowed and by 192S, the city had 30 miles of street paved. Frew himself came to work for the department on May IS, 1922. George Grimm was then superin tendent and Walter Hamilton was mayor. Three-Men Department The street department then con sisted of three men. They had two teams of horses and a wagon and a horse-drawn street broom. As- Ehalt for paving was mixed by and. The department got its first as phalt plant and street flusher in 1925 under Mayor George Houck, now one of the deans of Oregon physicians who lives in Portland. Frew was appointed superintend- AVE M ON THIS WESTINGHOUSE PAIR BIG in size! BIG in value! New 12.5 cu. ft.Westinghouse with AUTOMATIC DEFROSTING SAVE $100 Was 399.95, Now $299" if 1 ' ' 3 This big new- WnaLingbouM . mtomalically defrost at thm push of a button ... and it does ! it bo fart that frozen foods ttay anfely, firmly fronsn. ' 70 Lb. of Frown Sttrog Pull-Width ffw Cold Storage Troy V4-bu. Vtgctabl- , Humidrawor Egg Sholvos In th Doot Bonui Bottlt Storago In Door U. 1. Fnt UnU. Nt. 1.3I4.J09 YOU CAN BS SUK...IF It's WstillghoUSe SAVE s140 ON WESTINGHOUSE 40" RANGE World's largest, most economical oven! Costs only 2c more a month to operate than regular, smaller oven Color cooking, too! Was 339.95, NOW 199 95 BUY BOTH, A $739.90 VALUE FOR ONLY . . . . 49990 LIBERAL TRADE IN ALLOWANCES EASY BUDGET TERMS HE KNOWS STREETS George Frew thoughtfully contem plates thoughtfully of the good old days in Roseburg. He was street superintendent for 23 years before the present superintendent Guy Meigs. He served under mayors Wal ter Hamilton, Napoleon Rice, Dr. George Houck, Dr. E V. Hoover, J. E. McClintock, Charles Clark, A. J. Young, w! F. Harris, Chorles Horton and Al Flegel. Frew is retired now as the result of illness. (Paul Jenkins). I did have such a department, and he was just the man to do it. He PKonaoiy holds the record for the loosest tenure as head of the de partment. He served under 10 Roseburg mayors from the m i d Twenties to the date of his retire ment in 1948. He looked thoughtfully out t h By GEORGE CASTILLO City Editor, Naws-Rtvitw You'd think we never had a street department before 1946," said George Frew. He was unnappy about what he considered recent intimations in News-Review stories from t h e I street department. He said it ap- peared in the stories from present I window of his home at 1647 NE cirpnt Hpnartmpnt iwrcnnn.1 ih.i I Commercial Ave. "Some of the Roseburg didn't even have a street 1 patches on the joints of the street missal. department during and before ! ou? .mere, i put on in 13Z5, he cub Scout Pack 29 of Oakland Oakland Cub Scouts Have Dinner Meet Cup Scout Pack 29 of Oakland had a dinner and' anniversary meeting at the Veterans' Memor ial Building recently. A "mulligan stew" dinner was served by the Cub Scout commit tee, with Vernon Little and Herb ert Parker doing the catering to the 80 Cub Scouts, family mem bers and friends present. The program which followed was directed by the Cubinastcr, Dr. Homer M. Noble, who intro duced Edell Bryant, Cubmaster of f ack 4, bdgewater area of Rose burg, who with den mothers from that pack were special guests of the evening. Eugene W. Todd, scoutmaster of Troop No. 29 of Oakland, was also introduced as the special liaison representative of the American Le gion of Oakland and all forms of scouting. In the Pack program, the Bob cat pin was awarded to Ronny Bodine. Two year pins were given to Eddie Todd, Roger Boehrs, and Cyril Longton. and a one year pin was given to Jackie Kessinger. Each of the four dens of the pack put on a Cub Scout stunt, which was followed hy the octopus race, the living circle and the dis- 1925 and never misterf city paycheck until his retirement July 1, 1948. In the late Twenties, Roseburg got its first motor-driven rolling stock. First it got a Model T Ford pickup and put a tip-up body on it. Then came another truck, a roller and a new mixer. Flra Strikes The Picture suddenly darten.rf however, in 1932. In that year the city barn, located on the present site of the city shops on South east Court Avenue and Rose street, caugni ure one nigni ana aesiroy ed everything but the roller. With a three-man department, the job of keeping the streets in shape was difficult after that fire. The streets had to be swept by hand. But the first section of the f resent city shops was rebuilt in ate 1932 and by 1944, the city had a flusher, pickup, one-ton truck, flatbed and sweeper. Frew has some fond memories of the town. He said Roseburg was a "wonderful town to live in. hv eryone had a rose garden and 1 knew everybody in town." He relates that his street crew consited of three men with extra help in the summer for pavim work. He said his crew washei down all the streets in Roseburg twice a month and washed the downtown area daily. Frew came to Oregon from Illi nois in 1914. He and his wite had planned to go to Mooseiaw in Sas- katchewan, Canada, but at the last minute decided to come to Or egon, where they settled at Green. A BEEF I New Veidousf NALLEYS CORNED BEEF HASH World War II. 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