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-
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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.
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Served 10 Mayors
Frew proudly proved
I said.
now number 38 boys and has run
the city 72 years,
With a precise memory for his continuously sines its origin five
s, he quickly dispelled any years ago.
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