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(Brous Sentinel VOLUME XL1X ( Entabiixhed June 15, 1889.) COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939 Start of Actual Construction on Dams Indefinite Hop Allotment Asked County School Reorganization Board Named; Lemley Member For Pacific Coast Building, Repairs More Active Now NUMBER 48 Rink ’ Gun Club Starts Plans for League Meeting E. R Lemley wax named ax a TO ENFORCE DRIVER«’ LICENSE LAW PORTLAND. Oregon - A* the ™mber ot ' the Lane county school Building and repairs are more r«*»ult of a proposal adopted by ’•°rK®>tbMtion committee at the active now over this area with first meeting of the new commit Friday will be the last day mo- the coming of the summer weath the Baclfic coast hop control board, officials announced Mon- tee at Eugene yesterday. The torixtx may drive a car without er. The first part of July todate day that Pacific coaxt states will committee will function under the renewing their driver»’ license. has shown considerably more school district reorganization Monday over 200,000 car driver» activity than any like period of August 20th Tentative Date Rumor That Reservoir» May ask Secretary of Agriculture r>cw Wallace to allot a saleable quan- law, passed by the last state in the »tate had failed to obtain the year. June permits issued in legislature, which has for its pur- licenses and Saturday will be clude: C. M. Parker, repairs to Be Used for Navy Landing tlty of 150,000 bal««* of 1939 hops. Set for State Convention Th«« m«w figure to only a »light pose the reorganization of dis "crack down day" for those who residence at 12 South 11th street; Baae Unconfirmed to Be Held Here. incr««ase over the quantity allot tricts for an improved school set have not yet renewed their 11- D. H. Huff. 1017 Ash, new roof ted for the 1938 crop. Public up. The committee is charged cense permit for on this «late to residence : Wcxxlard, meetings will be held in the hop with making a report to the state state policemen will start arrest comer 13th and East Main, new NEGOTIATIONS PURCHASE renters of Yakima. Washington, board of education not later than ing those without new licenses. residence; Cecil Caldwell, 353 TROUT TO BE PLANTED The state department is prepared Madison, repairs to residence; Salcm, Oregon, and Santa Rosa, January 1, 1941. OF LAND PROCEEDING California, The ¡xTxonnel of the committee to handle 20,000 IN LOCAL STREAMS applications Clyde Sturdevant, South Tenth to further discuss the includes: Clinton county Hurd, daily. Local motorists had their proposal and Monroe, woodshed; William The hop control lioard under judge; L. C. Moffitt, county last opportunity to renew licenses Bartels, corner 3rd and Quincy, There te no definite time for school superintendent; Welby Preparations were started by Monday before the crack down. new residence; C. N. VanBuren, starting construction on the two the direction of C. W. Paulus, Steven», axsexxor, and A. R. Bee- the Cottage Grove Rod and Gun 1653 West Main, alterations and local flood control reservoirs, R. managing agent, set to work to be, non-high school board chair club at the regular club meeting GAME MEN NAMED day estimating the individual hop improvements to residence; T. J. H. Kipp, executive secretary of yards of the three states. The man. The four above named the Denson, roof repairs to residence Monday evening for entertaining the Willamette basin told th«« three appointees of the board ---- PORTLAND, Oregon — The work is expected to be completed at 349 South 6th; Wayne Monroe, delegates to the state convention Sentinel Tuesday. Although pre who are: L. E. Newcomb, western state game commission Monday July 22. 1229 South Sixth, repairs to roof. of the Izaak Walton league to be vious information wax that actual Lane; E. _ • „ I^mley, southern announced that management of held here around the 20th of construction might start by Oc Lan«« and F. W. Beaver of Pleas- Oregon’s four game farms will be August, the exact date to be set tober, Mr. Kipp says that work ant Hili, castem Lane. later. The convention is expected dividefl between two men to suc- may »tart anywhere within the I >uties of the reorganization c<?ed the late Gene M. Simpson, to attract several hundred visi next four to nine months, depend lioard are to prepare a plan, con dean of American game bird tors. ing on th«« obstacle to be over forming to the standards estab raiser». Club members revealed that a come. No one knows at this time lished by the state commission for substantial profit had been made In addition to his regular du- which reservoir or dam will tie the reorganization of sc'iool dis ties as head of the Corvallis game from recent club shoots. Appre started first, this again depends The first aid and swimming ciation was expressed for the pub trict boundary lines, giving at- farm, Ben Snider will supervise 'I’he attention of the public is tention to the convenience of class instruction under the direc lic support; the support and fine on the difficulties to be met. <«alk«d to the fact that fire per children attending school. the the Eugene farm. Harold Sevey, tion of Miss Margaret Claska and cooperation of the public is re- Because th«« dams are to be chief of the Ontario farm, will earth-filird, the engineer» are mits an- required to build fire» welfare of the teachers and offi take over the management of the sponsored by the Lions club will Gected in the high scores of some end its first period Saturday af of the shooters. studying the context of the soil within the national forests. Per cers. economies of transportation, Pendleton farm in addition. ternoon with a swimming demon N. J. Nelson Jr. reported that very carefully. Some unfavorable mits are required at this season the use of buildings, taxable re stration at the Scott place at plans had been made for obtain conditions cncounterod must be of the year, except in designated sources, etc. LOCAL EAGLES WIN HONORS 2:00 p. m. This is the conclusion ing 300.000 cutthroat trout from overcome. Also there liave been camp grounds. H. E. D. Brown, of the first program in which «ime extravagant claims for ranger at the Rujada station, also A belated news item concern Jean Savage and Betty McCoy the game and fish commission to damages for property under the calls attention to the fact that ing the honors won by the local have been assisting. All classes be planted in local streams, or to smoking is not permitted while as many trout as the com reservoirs, he says. Eagles lodge at the state conven will take part in the demonstra obtain traveling in the forest boundary. mission thinks necessary. Of un Ateo it is impossible to say how It has been necessary to enforce tion in Roseburg may be of gen tion. usual interest is the fact that many men are to be employed on this rule during the fin« season eral interest. At the convention Another Red Cross swimming some fish will be brought here in each dam at the beginning of con and inform 1 those not familiar June 29th to July 1. the mixed program will be started July 17th struction. but each of the three with the regulation. men's and ladies’ drill team won with Miss Ellen Bird as teacher. special cans to be transported by Tax collections in Lane county pack horses to the small and re dams as started will probably em It wax learned that the CCC for the first half of 1939 total the cup as the most outstanding A fifty cent registration fee will motely located streams. This is ploy around 200 men. which num- cnrolled« team of that division. The cup have under construction more than $1,000.000 and since apply in the second period as in the first attempt to stock I mt will be increased as the work road in the direction of Oak tax payments usually reflect the will be on display at the Starr the first. streams of this nature. ing conditions justify same de- a ridge. Jewelry store. Henry Ellsworth the road will be used for Bob Drenner, club member, ex vclop, until there will probably be fire protection and will probably tempo of business, it may be safe was elected state treasurer of the plained that fish ladders should around 500 men or more on each lx» completed at some future date, to assume that conditions are im lodge. This, an unsought honor by proving. Taxes collected from Mr. Ellsworth, was a complete be constructed in the new reser dam. the completion will depend on voirs, if the cutthroat trout There is little doubt but that whether or not a CCC contingent January 1 to June 30, 1939, are surprise to him. spawning grounds are to be prop the present engin««cring office in is kept in this territory. If and given as $1.268.143.72, an increase erly maintained. Mr. Drenner, N. the old post office building will be when completed the road will fur of $189.079.63 over 1938 at the CHILD HEALTH CONFERENCE J. Nelson Jr. and Homer Nelson retained, although official infor- nish a short outlet to the Oak corresponding period. The total taxes collected equate 65.11 per were appointed as a committee The community band will play matton on this scon« te lacking. The monthly child health con ridge territory during the sum- cent of the current roll. Covering for the WCTU conven’ icn to be to contact the dam authorities re- So far as the Sentinel could met ference for all pre-sch<ol children months. back a ten-year period the total and infants will be held July 20th held here Friday, R. G. Dykstra, garding the fish ladders. learn, there te nothing to the The Brice Creek camp strength taxes are $1.495.709.50. John Wilson was nominated as rumor that either one or both of at the office of the public health director, announced Monday. If the weather is fair the band will a delegate to the wild life fed the local reservoirs will be used is about 150. Fifty recruit» are nurse. These conferences are held as a landing field for navy planes. expected from the east over the ARMY ASSIGNMENTS OPEN the third Thursday of each month play for the convention at the erations to be held throughout According to Mr. Kipp this te the week end which will bring the and are for the purpose of keep city park. Otherwise the conven the state during the coming year. For the first time in more than ing contention of the people In the camp up to full strength^ the well baby well. Dr. E. L. tion band program will be held at Vinal Randall was named alter Moisture at the Rujada station a year the U. S. Army Recruiting nate. vicinity of each reservoir and Gardner will give examinations, the Methodist church. each has figured out In their own has measured slightly over a half •Sergeant, Eugene, has authority immunizations and vaccinations Director Dykstra also announc way why their reservoir te especi inch or .59 of an inch up to July to accept two men for the infan upon request. Any abnormal con ed that he was adding another try in the Panama Canal. Inter ally favored for this purpose. 11th. will be referred to the fam harmonica group to the summer ested parties should contact the dition Neither te there any plan for in ily physician for correction. This recreation musical program. Both sergeant without delay. There are is a free conference creasing the height of the Cottage sponsored by the attendance and interest in the other vacancies in the different the Oregon State Board Grove dam thirty-four feet and of Health summer’s program has been branches of the army in the no thought of the change at this division of maternal and child gratifying. There are now twenty - northwest and for California sta health. time and then« are many things four members in the band, in ad tions. Call or write the U. S. to be considen«d before the army dition to the harmonica groups. Army Cecruiting Office. Room 10, engineers will »tart spending ( LARK ENLISTS IN NAVY Petitions for the consolidation Post Office Building, Eugene. money on this particular dam. HOMEMAKERS’ CAMP Charles Carlton Clark was en- Negotiations for the purchase of the Walker and Delight Valley ANNOUNCED Ernest Christopherson of Ione WOODARDS RETURN FROM listed in the U. S. Navy Tuesday grade schools have been present of land under the reservoirs are in Morrow county and George L. ALASKA ALASKA through the Navy recruiting sta- proceeding. This te another fac ed to the county boundary board, The annual Lane county home- Barnett of Kent in Sherman coun tion at Corvallis. He left that tor in determining when and if the last petition from Delight Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Woodard same evening for the naval train makers' camp at Lake Cleawox ty are the two first Oregon wheat the work will be started. Valley was presented Saturday. returned Friday from Alaska, vis ing station at San Diego, Califor will be held August 1 to 6, Miss growers to have their applications At proxent engineers are mak Under the present plan if the Louis Lutz, county home demon ing a survey of the contour of the voters of the two districts ap iting Yukon and points in the in nia, where he will be given three stration agent, announced Satur for crop insurance payments ap proved by the state office, an months of terior. The trip consumed twenty- military training be- land surrounding the dams as prove the consolidation, the De day. Miss Lutz, who is at St. Vin well ax surveying the shore line light Valley school building would five days and Mr. Woodard said fore being transferred to some cent’s hospital in Portland fol nounces Clyde Kiddle, supervisor of each dam. In the case of the be used and two teachers would he saw about all of the Alaskan Man-o-War for duty. Charles is lowing an appendectomy, will not of the federal crop insurance pro gram in Oregon under the AAA. territory he cared to see and was a graduate of the Cottage Grove Cottage Grove dam. the shore be employed. . Christopherson had 953 acres not particularly impressed with high school and is the son of Mr. be able to take an active part in line will be much higher than the camp and in her place will be insured under four policies. He is the country, except for its beauty. and Mrs. Truman Clark of the was first anticipated if »one sur KENT’S MARKET MOVED Miss Julia Bennett, home demon asking indemnities on two of them Hebron district. vey stands. stration agent of Coos county. involving 512 acres which will Denton of Leola. South About 100 to 125 men are em Kent's Market and Grocery, lo The homemakers of that county yield below normal. Dakota is making an extended Colen Garoutte and Oscar New ployed in the preliminary work cated at 319 Main street, has will join those of Lane county at "This is the first crop failure of the three dams, the Dorena, been moved across the street to visit - at the W’. H. Ostrander ton were at Waldo lake over the the camp. in my history of farming." said week end. Cottage Grove and Fem Ridge the Knight building. Moving op- borne The camp is primarily a rest Christopherson in regard to his dam. «•rations were completed without camp but interesting features are application. "I have farmed the interruption of service and they DON'T SPREAD! being arranged, Several crafts present land since 1916. It surely opened as usual Monday in the will be included. is lucky for me that I took out in- new location. In the new quarters There will be a camp cook and surance this year." The crop in a more compact arrangement of several assistants who will take surance corporation will doubtless stock was effected which enables entire charge of the preparing pay Christopherson in cash rather the market and grocery to give and serving of the meals. The than in wheat, according to Kid Construction on the new union better and quicker service. Elmer campers have no responsibilities dle. high school building is progress- Kent, senior member of the firm, of this type. While a program is George Barnett had a policy ing satisfactorily now with about plans to devote more time to out- arranged, every woman is free covering 171 acres of winter 250 yards of the concrete in the side duties as soon as all details to participate as she chooses. wheat with a guaranteed produc foundation poured and work eonne«cted with moving have been tion of 1552 bushels. Drouth and started on the walls the first of completed. See the announcement LUMBER SHIPMENTS DOWN frosts, however, reduced his yield the week. With the erection of of the Kent Grocery and Market' to only about 427 bushels. As a the wall begun, the building te ex- in this issue. Due to a shut-down over the result, he will receive 1125 bush pected to take form rapidly with- ------------------------ 4th, lumber shipments over the els from stored wheat held by the in the next few weeks. COUNTY-WIDE 4-H- PICNIC Southern Pacific fell considerab insurance corporation. His prem ly under normal the past week ium amounted to 248 bushels. The annual county-wide 4-H! ATTEND RICHARDS FUNERAL and totaled seventy cars. Only Oregon wheat growers have 708 ------------ club picnic will be held at Fall one car of pilings was moved from policies in effect this year out of A number of local people at- Creek Sunday with coffee, salad, the district during the period. a total of 834 insurance applica tended rites for G««orge D. Rich- sandwiches, baked beans and des Some of the mills remained shut tions filed. It is too early to pre ards, held at the Veatch chapel sert furnished free to those at- down until the 6th and some dict the extent of losses to be in Eugene Monday afternoon at tending. This is the occasion for made up for loss of time by op paid, says Kiddle, but preliminary 3:00 p. m. Mr. Richards, well th«« formal opening of the campl erating Saturday and Sunday. reports coming in from Killiam, known lumbermen here, died July and a large number of people ex- Jefferson, Morrow and Sherman 5th at a Eugene hospital after pect to attend, SOUTH LANE 4-H PICNIC counties, particularly, indicate suffering an internal hemorrhage. The camp can be reached by that growers will collect indemni- Among those attending from hero turning on highway 58 at Goshen At the Southern Lane picnic ty payments amounting to some- were Mr. and Mrs. Nels Nielson, and following the signs up the held at the Fisk-Blue Mt. 4-H where under 100,000 bushels, per Mr. and Mrs. Damon Scott, Les- [ Willamette. camp last Sunday there were haps no more than 70,000. lie Conn and mother, Mrs. Conn, about 100 in attendance. A short The Corvallis AAA office has Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Schmelling, j MAKING BOHEMIA LOOP meeting was held and an execu just been notified that details of Mrs. J. Ross and Miss Juanita ! tive meeting regarding summer the 1940 crop insurance program Morriss. Several motorists have recent camp at Fall Creek Camp was have been approved and that ly mad«« what is known as the held. Ice cream as a special treat these provide for a somewhat CALLED TO FLUE FIRE "Bohemia Loop,” going up to the was furnished for the picnic by simplified and improved plan for Bohemia district by way of the Gustafson’s of Cottage Grove. the coming year. More of the The fire department was called । Brice creek road and coming work of issuing policies will be to 1136 east Main to extinguish a । down by way of Sharps creek Mr. and Mrs. Damon Scott and done in the counties and here flue fire in a dwelling belonging road. Wild flowers are said to be children visited Sunday at Grand after the insurance will be writ to Worth Harvey Monday morn especially beautiful in spots along Ronde at the home of Mrs. Scott’s ten at the same time the appli ing. No damage was done. ; the roadway. sister. cation is filed. Fire Permits Are Required Traveling In National Forests First Aid, Swimming Classes End Period With Demonstration Tax Collections Are Over Million Dollars 1st 6 Months of 1939 Community Band to Play for the WCTU Convention Friday First Insurance Of Wheat Losses Paid in Oregon Petitions for Merging Two Grade Schools Presented to Board Construction on High School Bldg. Moving LET IT