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About The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1961)
Early-Day Speed Merchant Recalls First Dawn-To-Dusk Portland Trip Automobiles are thick at flics in Rouburg nowdays, but at on ime, thay were highly unpredict able oddities. This is tha first in a sarias of three articles in which an early-day "speed merchant" does some reflecting. By CHARLES V. STANTON When was the first successful dawn to-dusk automobile trip be tween Roseburg and Portland? The date of that trip was re called here this week by the man who piloted the automobile. The driver was Hal Fancher, and he won $75 for the car's owner by traversing the distance, a little over 200 miles, just 52 years ago this month. State Reclamation Meeting Scheduled Future development of Western Oregon's water resources will be a major topic at the 51st annual meeting of the Oregon Reclama tion Congress, Sept. 21 and 22, in Salem. Harold Hursh, Huntington, state president of the Congress, says he expects a record attendance from across the state. Registration will start Thursday at 8 a.m. (PST) at the Marion Hotel. Flood control, irrigation, and drainage past, present, and fu ture will be discussed by a pan el of western Oregon farmers: Glenn Hogg, Rickreall: Uid Hey man, Albany, Henry Hagg, Reed ville; and Frank Rood, Jr., North Bend. Moderator will be Art King, Oregon State University extension conservation specialist. The affect of state legislation o use, development, and conservn tion of water will be critically re viewed by a panel of legislators who were actively involved in leg islation affecting water resources and agriculture during the 1961 session. LaSelle Coles, Prinevillo, presi dent of the National Reclamation Congress, will be featured speak er the second day. He will cover the national outlook for reclama tion and water resource development. The car was owned by Julian W. Perkins. Prekins had previously com pleted a successful land promo tion in the Rogue River Valley. He became interested in the or ganization of the Sutherlin Land Co., which then was subdividing land in "Sutherlin Swale." and was selling off tracts with the pur pose of growing fruit. The automobile, a Thomas Fly er, was the first four-cylinder car in Roseburg. It was quite an "im posing rig," says Fancher, and was used to carry prospective land purchasers between Roseburg and Sutherlin. Francher's parents had moved to the West Coast in 1908. He was employed in an automobile fact ory in Minneapolis, The parents wrote such glowing letters con cerning the Pacific Northwest, he decided to settle in the area. He came in February 1909 looking for a job and location. Travel in those days chiefly was by train or wagon. There were few automobiles. People who did n't live along the railroad track travelled on or behind horses. Roseburg was a railroad termin al. Trains stopped in Roseburg for about 20 minutes for a change of locomotives and crews. Fancher was passing through Roseburg and got off the train to stretch his legs on the station plat form. Sitting at the curb was Ju lian Perkins' elegant Thomas Fly er. Fancher went to take a look. He engaged in conversation with the driver. The driver asked who he was and where he came from. Fancher told him he had been working in an automobile factory was was looking for a job. "Your hired," Fancher was told. "From now on you're the driver of this contraption." So Fancher became Perkins' private chauffeur. As the driver of Perkins' auto mobile. Fancher made the first daylight run by automobile from Roseburg to Portland. Frank Waitc was a land owner at Sutherlin and was one of the prime movers of the Sutherlin Land Co. and -the Sutherlin pro motion project. He and Perkins were great cronies. Perkins was quite proud of his "powerful" automobile. When Waite made him a bet of $50 that he couldn't drive from Roseburg to Portland between daylight and dark, Perkins took the bet. Then Waite made a side bet of $25 that Perkins couldn't get to Portland at all. So that was the way things stood on the day selected for the mo mentous trip. ' Tomorrow: The race with time. lOtaHUisrsa am CALENDAR OF EVENTS ) ccio morrow a Thur., Sept. 21, 1961 -Tha News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 5 Don't Marry, Girls, To Keep From Working By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Don't get married, girls, to keep from having to go to work, a fam ily life specialist of the Oregon State University Extension Serv ice warned today. Mrs. Roberta Frasier said the idea many girls have' that they won't have to work if they get married often turns out to be a pipedreain. Chances are, she de clared, the bride is going to have to work both at home and at a job outside as well. Mrs. Frasier said 58 per cent of Oregon's brides are 19 years old or younger and a large share of these are having babies in the first year of marriage. Girls are marrying younger. having babies earlier, and can ex pect to spend about 25 years of married Me working outside the home, she added. Mt. Hope Cemetery Gets Bulk Of Large Estate BAKER (AP) The late John Schmitz, a former banker, left the bulk of his estate for the main tenance and upkeep of Mt. Hope Cemetery. Appraisal of the estate has not been completed, but estimates in dicates its value is between $100, 000 and $200,000. Schmitz, whose banking career spanned more than a half century, left $24,000 in bequests to rela tives. He died Sept. 6 at the age of 96. Thursday, Sept. 11 Driver's License Examiner, 837 SE Roberts St., 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Army Reserve, 1614 W. Harvard, 8 to 10 p.m. IOOF, IOOF Hall, Jackson hi., 8 p.m. Roseburg Lions Club, Umpqua Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Umpqua Duplicate Bridge Club, home of Mrs. Morris Bowker, 7:30 p.m. Glide Shufflers beginners square dance lessons. Community Build ing, 8 p.m., Ernie Gilbert instruc tor. ' Civil Air Patrol, at the airport, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Lady Elks, Elks Club, 8 p.m., cards. Barbershop Singing, Rickctt's Music Store, 8 p.m. Elks, Elks Lodge, 8 p.m. Hayloft Squares pattern dance workshop at the barn on Melrose Road 8-10 p.m. Women of Roseburg Country Club, clubhouse, noon luncheon fol lowed by weekly bridge play. Spaak Back In Belgium After Talks With Khru BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak arrived home Tuesday from talks on the Berlin crisis with So viet Premier Khrushchev in Mos cow. "Our conversation was sincere and useful," Spaak said. "We made an effort to understand each other. When there is inter national tension, 1 have always been in favor of negotiations. Mr Khrushchev appeared sincere and relaxed, but firm on certain points." Spaak, former secretary-general of NATO, visited Moscow at Khrushchev's invitation. T HARVEST DINNER SET The Lookingglass PTA will serve a "Harvest Dinner" from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the school cafeteria. The menu will in clude a complete turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Family tables will be provided, with high chairs for the children. Timber City Chapter of Sweet Adelines, Inc., Riverside School, room 19, call OR 2-4313 for in formation, 8 p.m. Roseburg Rotary Club, Umpqua Hotel, noon. Sutherlin Rebekah Lodge, IOOF Hall, 8 p.m. Order of Eastern Star, Roseburg Chapter No. 8 Masonic Tmple, 8 p.m. Roseburg Toastmasters Interna, tional 604, dinner meeting at Turn Around Inn, 7 p.m. Visitors wel come. Upper Olalla Apron Club, upper Olalla Community Building, noon potluck luncheon. Sutherlin Garden Club, Commu nity Building, board meeting at 12:30 p.m., regular meeting at 1:30 p.m. Green Recreation Association meeting, at Green School gym, 8 p.m.- Sutherlin Garden Club, first Fall meeting, round-table discussion, 1:30 p.m. Hostesses, Mrs. Larry Armstrong and Mrs. Dwight Beck. North Douglas Rainbow Assem bly, Elkton Lodge Hall, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22 Roseburg Duplicate Bridge Club, 12:30 p.m., Umpqua Hotel, open to all players of Douglas County. Driver's License Examiner, 837 SE Roberts. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sheriff's Posse, at the Fair grounds, 8 p.m. Loyal Order of Moose, game night, Moose Hall, 8 p.m. Home Group of Alcoholics Anony mous, call OR 2-4059, 8 p.m. Christ's Ambassadors of the As sembly of God Church, Winston, 7 p.m. PNG Club of Roseburg Rebekah Lodge, rummage sale, 9 a.m. 4 p.m., basement of IOOF Hall. Umpqua Radio Club meeting, at the clubhouse on Klamath Ave., 7:30 p.m. Evergreen Grange, Grange Hall, 8 p.m. potluck, 7 p.m. Boots and Calico Square Dance Club, Winston Community Club, 9 p.m. Glide Shufflers Square Dance Club, Ernie Gilbert caller, guests welcome. 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