The Cottage Grove sentinel., October 21, 1937, Image 1

dottane (Krone Sentinel
VOLUME XXVIII.
(Established June IA. 1889.)
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, ORBOOM,
AV OCTOBER
OREGON, TUEKSI)
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 21
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Thinfs We Think Radici) Will Stand
Trial October 27
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Circuit Judge Set« Date Af­
George I of England, according ter Grand Jury Brings Second
to the Oregonian, which has never
been caught In an error In history, Degree Murder Indictment.
could neither *|>oak nor understand
the language of those over whom
Frank Radlch, indicted by the
b« ruled
Moat of his subjects
must have been Just out of Ameri­ lanie county grand jury on
charge of second degree murder.
can college*.
arising out of the fatal «hooting
The duke of Windsor is coming here on October 8 of Harry Hun-
to America to study working con- sen, will stand trial in circuit court
dition«
Is Wally already tired of starting W«'dnesday, October 27, it
having the old man loafing abound was announced Tuesday by Circuit
Judge G. F. Skipworth. Radlch has
the bouse?
entered a plea of not guilty to the
No one neems to be certain why Charge and will be defend««! by
Hitler had Mussolini over to see Howard M Brownell.
The grand Jury sifted much
him the other day. ' Maybe Adolph
eras teaching Benito how to hang dene*, investigating many angle* «4
wall paper. Just In case he chances the cime and interviewing many
wltn»»«*«*. before bringing th«- in-
to be out of a Job some day.
dictment late Monday.
Radlch will plead *elf-def«n*e,
That act of balancing the budget
might be a good stunt for a circus claiming that Hansen threatened
that had ring* enough. It certainly him and that at the time the fatal
would attract a capacity r audience. ■hot was fired Hansen wu lung-
Ing toward him.
Hanaen was , fatally wound««!
Our Mayor Joe wants a fleet of
police boat*. Kvklently he want* about 9:20 the night ot October 8,
to be ready to do battle with the dying early the next afternoon af
operation had been perform-
Japanese navy when It arrives.
Hi* experience a* an admit al of ed to remove the bullet. Hanson
th» Aatorla regetta may stand him wa* *h<»t through the left lung.
wen |n hand In such an emergency.
Firemen Plan Benefit
For Inhalator Fund
The first annua) Firemen’s bail
will be a feature of Saturday night,
October 30. at the armory. The
ball will be In th» form of a Hal­
lowe'en dance and ¡»roctedn will be
used to purchase an inhalator for
the use of the community.
The city-owned pul motor, pur-
chased in 1925 by the Lions club,
has been declared antiquated. A
modern Inhalatoi Is considered a
necessary piece of equipment in
first aid work, especially in cases
of asphyxia and drowning. Phy-
slcian. of the city have given the
fire department their full endorse­
ment In their campaign for the
purchase of this equipment. Cost
of the equipment I. not prohibitive
and the firemen urge that the
townsp'-ople get behind this «lance
to provide funds.
Norm Easley and his Eugene
Hotel Ensemble will play for the
dance. The orchestra has come
direct from their recent engage­
ment on one of the transpacific
liners in which they toured the
orient. The band in classed hk one
of th«- b«-wt outside of Portland.
Ticket* for this orchestra ordi­
narily sell for $1 a couple and Cot­
tage Grove dance goers will get 4
50 per cent reduction as the fire­
men are charging only 50 cents ad-
mission.
Tickets will be .«old by member*
of the fire department.
Lorane-Anlaui Road
SurveyWorkPlanned
State Highway Commission
Allots $5,000 for Surveying
Proposed Secondary Route.
Golf Tourney Matches
In Semi Final Stage
NUMBER 10
sed Fires
Less h ?7 Season
The annual fall handicap tourna­
ment of the Cottage Grove Golf
club wa* postponed a week by th*
heavy rain* of last week.
The Umpqua For&
-eports Only
quarter finals are being completed
this week, the semi-finals will be Six; Burned Territory From
run off next week and the finals All Fires Totals 15 Acres.
will be played the following week.
William Zimmerly Jr. defeated
Fred Knickerbocker, Ted Denson
The number of mao-caused fire*
¿•jfeated Ray I>-mley, Carl King de­
in the Umpqua National forest has
feated John Kelly, Pete Nelson de-
been unusually low during the past
feated Harold Swartz, Earl Hill de­
fire season, according to a report
feated Robert Savage, and Crip!
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Morelock defeated 8 Carl«»
matches already played this week. ^hlch
Jn fhe
dl8,
Pa^edl trict thi. year, only six were caused
m hi. bracket j O.
man
I93O then; ha,
Williarn Zimmerly Sr. and F. Mills
of
man-ca««ed fires
vaL W. Coiner
thlg Heaaon
.
tOr^ M*n‘-I,inal* 'o’*
Thunder and lightning storms
low. William Zimmerly Jr. vs. the were the cau«« of 74 fires in the
winner of the Wllson-Zimmerly Sr. fore9t thJg
none of which
match; Denson va the winner of burned any appreclable acreage
the Coiner-Mill, match; Carl King The tataj burned area for fires of
vi. Pete Nelson; Earl HM) v*. Crip alJ
amounted to only 15
Morelock.
aerei.
The previous burned acreage
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Play in the consolation matches • slnce 1930 hag
Use
has been veiy slow and very few of lmprOved forest fire fighting
¡natche* have been run off.
methods, more highly trained pei>
’sonnel, together with the fine spir­
it and support of the forest guard*,
were contributing factors in the
establishment of this efficiency rec-
ord.
K. P. McReynolds, who has been
in charge of forest fire control
activities during the
tributes the unusually low number
of man-caused fires to the splendid
A different type of report card cooperation on the part of forest
will be used in the first six grades visitors with the forest service. He
of the city schools thia year, it also pointed out that the low rec-
was announced by Superintendent ord was established by the public
H. B. Ferrin Wednesday.
The in spite of a decided increase in
report wiH show both progress the number of forest usees.
in the development of personality
No incendiary fires occurred the
traits and in scholarship.
past season. These maliciously set
Pupils will be marked m relation fires, in the past, have been re­
to their own ability. It is the pur­ sponsible for the greatest loss of
pose of the report to show how timber in the Umpqua forest.
nearly a student is working up to
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what he may reasonably be expect­
ed to do. The subjects which the
child take* will be marked Excel­
lent, if the work Is of a high order;
Satisfactory, if the child is doing
passing work; and Unsatisfactory,
With both the high school and
if the work is not of passing qual­ grade schools showing an increase,
ity. Minus and plus signs will be enrollment in the city schools for
added to show the amount of effort the first month of the present term
being put forth.
total* 896, it was announced this
Because of the nature of the re­ week by H. B- Ferrin, city school
port honor rolls will not be issued superintendent. For the same per­
in grades one to six this year. It is iod last year the enrollment was
believed by school officials that this 830. The high school shows an in­
new type of report will be of more crease of 52 and the grade schools
14.
value to both parents and pupils.
Analysis of the figures show an
equal number of boys and girls in
the high school. The freshmen,
sophomore and senior classes have
registered more boys than gills In
the grade schools, there are 57 more
The annual meeting of the city girls than boy*
tax levying board will be held at
Enrollment by schools, compared
8 o’clock Thursday evening, Octob­ to last year’s figures, follows:
er 28, in the council chamber of the
1936-37 1937-38
city hall to give persons subject to Cottage Grove High
ax'/?
418
the tax levy an opportunity to be
Central School
252
269
heard in favor of or against the Westside School
209
212
proposed levy.
Totals
ree
830
The total city budget for 1938 is
$27,937 75, which is 3618.75 higher
than the 1937. The city budget is
well within the six per cent tax
limitation.
Work will start next week on a
survey of the proposed state high­
way route from Lorane to Aniauf,
it was announced Tuesda) by J. A.
Phelps, locating engineer for the
state highway commission. A crew
of ten will be, employed under the
direction of Mr. Phelp*.
Some work was done last year
on this route but was stopped
Hhoitly after the Bandon fire and
the crew moved to the Bandon-
Marshfield area Mr Phelps had
been In that area on survey work
until recently.
Th«? highway commission has al-
lotted approximately $5000 for this
work, It 1* announced that the pro­
posed route will be only a second-
ary route, designed especially to
give that area better roads but well
grounded rumors say that this
route is to be a continuation of the
wait side Pacific highway and may
in time supplant the main Pacific
highway through this section of the
WiHamelte valley.
Mr. Phelps was not pr«spared to
where the survey would run
but talk last year was to the ef-
N. J. Nelson Attends National feet that the proposed route prob-
fVoeldent Roosevelt visited all
the power dam* of the west, but
ably wouid follow the old territori-
Postmasters Convention
didn’t give hi* electrifying speech
Postmaster and Mrs. N J. Nd- al road from Lorane to Anlauf
«until hr got ba« k to Chicago.
son are in San Francisco this week
for the national postmasters con-
Th« always authentic Corvallis
vention which opened October 19
Gazette-Time* relate* that a postal
for a three-day session. The fore­
department survey show« that at
The great granddaddy of all to- noon s<.4sion* are devoted to busi­
loaat 2500 home* in that city are
ness session* and the afternoons
Mrs. Annie B. Wright, who had
occupied by a family
A family matoe* wa* displayed here by T. have been given over to sightsee­
been
in for several months, died
that occupies 2500 home* is one to Kearney of 311 south First street. ing and entertainment. One of the
make even Pop Dionn* a trifle en- This behemoth measured 12*4 inch­ trip» arranged was a boat tour of Saturday morning at the family
home on south Third street. Fun­
es in girth and 11'4 inch** around
the stem end. Its weight was es­ San Francisco bay, viewing «spec­ eral services w«we held at 2 o’clock
ially the new bay bridges.
Monday afternoon at the Presby­
Franklin Delano *ays he I* not timated at a pound. It was Im­
Mr and Mrs. Nelson left early terian church Rev. James A. Smith
possible
to
weigh
It
alone
as
it
coasting through hi* second term.
Sunday for Portland, where Mr.
Not that the republican* weren't grew In a cluster with four other Nelson was on the reception and of the local church and Rev. George
Cromley of Salem officiating. In­
good-.ised
tomatoes
that
were
ready to provide the skid*.
dwarfed by the *i«e of the big one. entertainment committee to greet terment was in the Creswell ceme­
and entertain visiting post masters tery.
The original idea of labor unions, The cluster weighed almost three that day. They joined
the special
She was bom January 27, 1860.
pound*
and a good one It was. wan to pro­
car
for
Oregon
and
Washington
at Osco, 11!. She moved to Missouri
The tomato wa* of. the Break o'
tect th* workman in hi* Job.
Day variety. Mr. Kearney train* postmaster* for the trip to San with her parent« when she was a
small child. Later the family mov­
his
tomatoes a* vines instead of Francisco.
A servile legislature has given
They expect to «pend the entire ed to Manitou, Colo.
She was
Governor Aberhart of Alberta con­ bushes and the vine on which the week in the south.
united in marriage to Fred Wright
’•os nine
trol over the pr**s of the province. 5-tomato
on February 8. 1881, at Manitou,
Aborhart, It will be remembered, feet tall, One tomato almost a* •McKibben Family Reunion Held.
Colo. They came west in 1887 and
proposed a social credit panacea large as the giant o . k brought in
Thirty-four attended the McKib­
that made the Townsend plan look to The Scntlnel office, grew a ben family reunion held Sunday at they located on a farm south of
Creswell in 1891. They lived there
foot
from
the
top
of
the
vine,
Mr.
like a serious proposal by a Wall
The variety is an the Eliza McKibben home In honor until 1922 when they moved to this
street banker. The Albert* execu- Kearney said
of Mr*. McKibben'* eighty-seventh
Uve probably wlll get a* far con- exceptionally good producer, ac­ birthday anniversary. The event city. Mr. and Mrs. Wright cele­
brated their golden wedding anni­
trolling the press as he ha* been cording to Mr. Kearney.
also celebrated the birthday anni- versary here in 1931.
with his soc ial credit plan.
versa ries of Mrs. McKibben’s
Surviving relatives include the
daughter. Mrs. Cora Teeters of Do- widower, Fred Wright of this city:
Ye Smudge Pot Perry of Medford
rena, and «on. Melvin McKibben of three children, Mrs. Oscar Jackson
Mail-Tribune Informa us that in
Prineville.
of this city and Clyde E. and Ralph
Africa alfalfa la used a* the foun­
Those attnnding were Mrs. Eliza E. Wright of Creswell; eight grand­
dation for salad A foundation of
The Lane county budget commit­ McKibben, Mr. and Mrs. Jean La- children, one great grandchild, and
that kind would «Mm to fit some of tee, composed of members of the bow, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McKib­ a sister, Mrs. L. M. Harding of Cor-
the salads we have seen served over
county court and Ernest Sears of ben. Mr. and Mr*. Charles Teeters, vallis. A daughter Ruth died in in-
this community, George Wilhelm Mr. and Mrs. L. W. McKibben and fancy.
of Junction City and E U. Lee of family. Melvin McKibben (Prine-
Former Judge Fehl of Jackson Eugene, started work Tuesday to ville), Mr and Mrs George Sweet, WaJker Community Will Give
county Is suing Governor Martin outline the county’s budget for Mr. and Mr*. Mack Tonole (Eu-
for $548,000 because that doughty 1938. County Judge Fred Fisk is gene), Mt. and Mrs. Tony Tonoie Fund-Raising Program Oct. 29
An interesting program will be
democrat refused to give the for­ chairman of the committee and Mr. and son, Mrs. Ray Girlie and fam­
ily, Mr. and Mr*. Robert Combs and held at 7:30 Friday night, October
mer county official full credit for Lee is secretary.
children (Springfield), Mr. and 29. in the Walker high school to
the good time he had coming when
An optimistic picture of county Mr*. Clarence Peterson and chil- raise funds toward the purchase of
No opposition has been voiced to
he asked release from the state
Clarence Chestnut has sold bis
finance* was painted by Judge dren, George Wilson. Mias Esther a piano for the Walker Community the . „ proposed
budget since it was
.
prison. If Fehl gets his half mil­ Fisk at the opening session and no
Volgamore.
Sunday school. A play and motion Pub ’’h*d and
is anticipated that interest in the Chestnut Transfer
lion he can yet have his good time.
company to H. L Chewman of Al­
tax boost Is anticipated by the
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pictures will be interesting features n w " be passed with no trouble.
bany, who took
possession last
committee.
Evangelistic Meetings Scheduled. of the program.
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a»-,,
week. The consideration involved
Restoration of county salaries to
Samuel S. Scull, well known
-An auction sale is being arrang-
In the deal was not announced.
1932 levels, care of the poor and evangelist, who h«n rorked for a ed as another interesting feature
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Part of the purchase price was a
the general relief situation, and number of years in .ollfornla, Ari- o| the program. Member* of the
52-acre ranch about four and a half
provisions for meeting road pay- son* and Colorado, will conduct a community and business men and
mile* from Albany which Mr.
The C. G. Ncwsette, the Cottage ment contracts are a few of the series of evangelistic meetings at merchants of the Cottage Grove |
Cheesman
turned over to Mr.
The
safe
at
the
Cottage
Grove
Grove high school paper, has been I problems that the committee is the Pentecostal Assembly of God, district have contributed many
Chestnut. In addition to the trans­
Any Flour Mill was blown open some
entered In the high school press ironing out before submitting their starting Sunday. He will speak articles for the auction.
each night for a week, including other donations for this auction time late Friday night or early fer company Mr. Cheesman bought
contest, according to word sent out budget estimate to the taxpayers.
the Chestnut house on south
Sunday. October 31.
sale will be welcomed by the com­ Saturday morning and the thieves Seventh. At present Mr. Cheesman
by the school of Journalism at Uni­
obtained
-approximately
$10
in
silv
­
mittee.
versity of Oregon. The local high
and his wife and two sons Jack and
Ixiglon Group Goe* to Eugene
A small admission will be charg- er. The safe was practically de­ Chester are located at 737 north
school also will be represented at
molished. City and state police in­
Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Wicks, Ches­
the high school conference to be
vestigated but no clues were found. 10th street.
ter Van Denburg, Miss Eunice Van
he)«! October 29 and 30 at the Unl-
Mr. Cheesman’s two sons will be
The combination of the safe was
Denburg. Mrs. Peter Nelson and BiNe School Institute Enroll* 41
verslty.
A mass meeting of Townsend Mrs. Byrom Reed were among the
associated
with him in the trans­
knocked
off
and
the
explosive
put
The Bible school institute, held
Thiny-seven high school ¡mpera, club members and others Interested
American Legion and American last week at the First Christian in the hole. The Charge blew the fer business. He plans to run the
a record number, are entered in the
In this movement has been called Legion auxiliary members who at- church under the direction of C. F. safo door off and damaged the In- business along the same lines as
contest and five silver loving cups for 7:30 Monday night, October
He will
25. tended
the
Willamette council Swander, state Bible school sup- terior. It was thought that ama- the former management.
-
await winners In the five olassea;
in the armory. There will be
erintendent
of
the
Church
of
Christ
te
u
r
safecrackers
did
the
job
to
nan^e
the
local
Rail-
meeting
held
Wednesday
night
In
Arnold Bennett Hall cup. for best speaker from Rosenurg and it
of Oregon, had ar. enrollment of 41. cause of the exceptionally long fuse waX »press Agency. The transfer
Eugene.
paper In entire state, now held by expected that a large delegation
-- the
- explosive,
company has three trucks and
of
The church Is arranging a program used to set - off
Eugene high; Harris Ellsworth Roseburg Townsendites
holds a P.U.C. for hire permit to
will attend. Sunday School Board Plan* Work for future work and will appoint a---------------------------
cup, for best school notes In local
operate
anywhere in the state.
Representative
Jame*
W.
Mott
of
committee
to
head
the
entire
edu-
Group
to
Go
to
Grants
Pas*
The Sunday school board of the
papers, held by Baker high; Eric
Rev. and Mrs. Ellsworth M. Til-i Mr.
A\r' Chestnut,
t3,eetnuL at present, has
W. Allen cup, for best mimeo­ the first congrenlonal district in Methodist church, at a recent cational program. Modern equip­
graphed paper In the state, now Oregon Is expected to attend the night meeting, discussed plans for ment and modern methods will be ton and a group of members of the ma“e no Plans for the future but
a leadership training course to be used throughout the entire school. । Methodist church will go to Grants exPects to remain in Cottage Grove,
held by Carleton high;
Eugene meeting.
(
Pass Wednesday, October 27. to at- spendlng som® time on h,s new
Register cup, for the host paper in
The public has b«'»n Invited to st­ held October 28 and 29 by Miss De­
Vries, religious education director C. I. O. Meeting Held Here
tend a meeting of Methodist ranch near Albany.
schools under 500, hold by Pendle- tend this meeting.
for th« Oregon conference. A study
Approximately 50 persons at-• ministers and laymen.
Bishop
ton high; the Eugene Guard cup,
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Child Suffers Head Injury.
for the best paper in schools over County Orusher to Be Located of the book, "How Shall I Learn to tended the mass meeting called Titus Lowe will address the meet-
Teach Religion" by Blanche Carrie, here Friday night at the armory, jng.
Fairview. Oct. 19. — (Special.) ~
500, now held by Franklin high of Near Lorane by November 1
wa* begun.
Delbert Van Scholack sustained a
by the C. I. O. Don Helmick, C. I.
Portland.
The new county rock quarry, lo-
O. officia«!. wag in charge and
Treasure Island at San Francisco severe cut on his head Monday
I rated a mile east of Lorane, was Oolr Plan* Holiday Music
number
of
speeches
were
given.
is the largest man-made island in while playing in the school yard.
Addison Lumber Oo Cuts
|..ghot„ Monday and the county The Methodist choir at the reg­
He was taken to a physician and
the
world.
Production to Five-Dfty Week crusher that was jn operation on ular pracitce last Tuesday evening Group Attend* District Meet
several stitches were needed to
Englishmen drink 3.000,000 gal­ close the wound. He was unable to
Lorane, Oct. 19. — (Special.)—Be- the McKenzie above Hendricks made plans for special Thanksglv-I Members of the ladle* aid so-
4 ta <7 music
vinaio and
* Ylxl a
a ¿iUelol
cause of a slump In the lumber bridge will be moved there. It is ing
Christmas a cantata, ciety of the Methodist church who lon« of British Empire wine annu­ attend school for several days.
market and lack of orders the Ad­ expected that the crusher will be
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attended the district meeting held ally.
The boy struck his head against
dison Lumber company has cur­ in operation by November 1, ac­
Paul Revere was a pioneer cop- * corner of a post on the school
The World’s Fair at San Fran- Tuesday in Wendling were Mrs.
tailed production and 1* now op­ cording to P. M. Morse, county cisco will open on February 18, Byrom Reed, Mrs. W. I. Mills. Mrs. per
an excellent
. - manufacturer,
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erating on a five-day week instead engineer.
1939.
George Fullerton. Mrs. Harry Reed, । versmith and a noted cartoonist.
Holm and company have the
of a six-day week. Wages also have
Imperia) Airways of England re- Mrs. Alvis Wicks. Mr*. Jee Land-
~
“ “
*
* this
“ I Treasure Island, site of the 1939
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the middle
of * August
been reduced and several men have contract to get out the surfacing cently totaled up a million miles on ess. Mrs. Albert Woodard, Mrs. । year automobile touring reached Golden Gate International Exposi-
rock from this quarry.
heen laid off.
one plane, the Heracles.
Olaf Olson and Mrs. D. W Sturges, an all-time peak.
tlon, took 18 months to build
Tomato Cluster
Containing Five
Weighs 3 Pounds
New Type Report
Card Will Show
Child's Progress
Mrs. Fred Wright
Dies Here Saturday
Enrollment in Schools
For Month Totals 896
Lane Budget Sessions
Started This Week
City Budget Meeting
Scheduled for Oct. 28
Albany Man Buys
Chestnut Transfer
Newsette Entered In
State Press Contest
Safe at Flour Mill
Blown Open Saturday
Townsend Cluu Plans
Mass Meeting Oct. 25