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.
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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.
Lookingglass Grange card party,
at the Grange Hall, 7:30 p.m. Priz
es and refreshments, public invited.
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