THE SENTINEL
Hi School Opens
In New Building;
Plans Program J. C. Penney Store
VOLUME L COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY. OREGON. T ill RSI,AY. APRII. 4, 1940
School to Resume Monday
in New Union High
Building
'
BAND BENEFIT PROGRAM
PLANNED.
Principals in Business Transfer
Is Robbed Again
The J. C. Penney store here was
robbed again Friday night tor the
second time within about a year,
but the robber or robbers did not
get paid for his efforts. Only
small change was taken from the
c a sh till. N o
m e rc h a n d is e
w as
taken, according to an early check
by local company officials, which
lead to the belief that the break
Into th e store was made for money
only. Entrance into the building
was ma<l«- by cutting a hole in the
front end of the roof and dropping
to the office located in the bal
cony.
"We are thinking seriously of
putting a zipper on the roof so
that burglars won't have so much
trouble In the future.” Damon
Scott, manager, told a Sentinel
representative Saturday.
After a week's vocation the Cot
tage Grove high nehool students
will assemble on next Monday for
the first day’s work In the new
building on th<* hill off Taylor
avenue.
Teachers and students and Jani
tors have been working during
the week getting everything In
readiness for the opening day.
Students will go to their regular
classes for the first period and a
special assembly will be held sec
ond |s*riod In the morning to ac
q u a in t the students with the new
auditorium. Each class will be as
signed sections of the auditorium
and an Impromptu program will
be given.
The contractors completed the
sliding partitions In the gym
nasium this week. The building 1»
now ready for acceptance by the
Sixty-two Lane county census
Union High School District No. 14 enumerators Ix-gan work in I-nne
county Tuesday morning along
The first school event In the with 1,500 enumerators In Oregon.
new union high school auditorium Two hundred and sixty one count
will be held Friday, April 12. ers will work in the nine county
when the high school band and or district. Work of counting the
chestra put on their first concert. (xipulation will be about a three
This concert will be a varied pro months Job and everyone has to
gram Including both hand nnd or be counted. Population figures for
chestra selections, feature dances, cities, towns an«I district« can not
skits nnd baton majorette num possibly be completed before the
bers. Chnrles ( ’hrlstlanson. Instru middle of May.
mental music su|M*rvlsor of the
Enumerators for the county in
schools, will direct the program. clude: Alvin D. Cambell. Bertha
The proceeds for this concert M. Campbell, Gertrude H. Carter.
will go toward purchasing uni Elsie L. Cornell. Juanita Craw
forms for the band and It is hoped ford. Margaret S. Dalton. Eva K.
by the student body that the pub Deffenbaugh. Edward M. Dunn.
lic will generally attend. Every
Clarence J. Edmonds. Ix»ran D.
prediction points toward a fine Emery, Andrew W. Gfxltlard,
performance.
Claude Green. Erbln D. Grous-
The new band uniforms will be beck. Clara H. Halverson. Mar-
seen for the first time on this gueritha Hanns. David M. Hoff
date. Twenty capes and caps have man, Vera E. Holland, Gordon
been ordered. The capes are blue Holland. Geraldine L. Huestis.
outside with a gold emblem and Mlva M Jones, Guy M, Johnston.
gold underneath. The caps are Richard A. Jones. Lawrence M.
blue with gold trimmings. White Jorgensen. Forrest E. K«-efe.
trousers and white skirts and
Beatrice T. Ix*dnicky. Josephine
blouses will complete the uni C. I^ehman. Elgin L. Lester. Mar
forms. The drum majorettes' cos garet A. I-eum. Arthur R. Major.
tumes are blue and gold sateen. Ixittle F Mitchell, Charles L.
The program is varied and de Murphy. Adrian E. Martin. Rich
signed to please all. Included in ard J Maxwell. Helen K. Max-
the numbers is a guest soloist ham. Llnna M Nelson. Harold B.
from the University of Oregon, the Norberg. Elsie R. Orr. Chris A.
drum majorettes In scintillating Ottoman. Ellis R. Parker. Verena
costumes, singing, skits, tumbling, V. Parker. Carl H. Petzold. Ralph
tap dancing, accordion solo, and B. Petzold, Emma W. Porter.
music by the band and orchestra. I-awrence J. P o r t e r , Fannie L.
Patricia Baldwin will sing "I Hear Reid, May Rel. Richard R. Ro-
You Calling Me" and Gladys Lem mane, Mary E. Sederlln.
Margaret G. Soleim, Maude L.
ley will play "Serenade" by Ravl-
nl. both numbers with orchestral Swango. Theron V. Swanson.
accompaniment. A trumpet quar Elizabeth L. Smith, Price C.
tet composed of Doris Wltteklnd. Speer, Clarence L. Taylor, Helen
Don Christian, Bob Daugherty W. Towne, Jane F. Walsh, Thelma
and Bob Moody will play "Llebe- C. Warlifk. Madge H. Wlllian.
Sidney II. Wtxxlhouse, Erma C.
straum."
Wright. Bernice I. Zabriskie.
Taking of Census
Started Tuesday
Local Students
CCC Camp Will
To Sing in Chorus Welcome Visitors
Pictured a b o v e are Harold
Swartz, retired manager of the
Cottage Grove Irish-Swartz store,
and Harold Wolfard, new man
ager. who has assumed his duties
after moving down from Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. Swartz m o v e d
to Eugene last week where he has
assume management of the new
Irish-Swartz Drive-in Market, re
cently constructed on West 6th
street. His move will end fourteen
years of residence in Cottage
Grove, “but I expect to come back
frequently and am retaining my
business interests here.” he added.
”1 like Cbttage Grove and think
it has a good future,” he said.
Mr. Swartz came to Oregon
from North Dakota, first living in
Eugene before coming here with
the Gray Cash and Carry grocery,
located then in the building now
occupied by the Cottage Grove
Auto Supply Co. Nine years ago
Mr. Swartz and M. R. Irish of Eu
gene formed a partnership, Irish-
Swartz Inc., and moved into the
present location at the corner of
7th and Main. Growth of the
Irish organization has been phen-
ominal during the time. Now the
organization maintains e l e v e n
stores in the Willamette valley.
Harold Wolfard, the new man
ager, is no stranger to this sec
tion. He was employed here three
years before moving to Eugene
nine years ago, where he has been
employed by the Irish organization
six years as m a n a g e r of an
Irish store. Mr. Wolfard and fam
ily are domiciled in the house
formerly occupied by the Robert
Savage family on Madjson avenue.
COTTAGE GKOVE, THE
WINDY CITY
NEW RESIDENCE ON
SIXTH STREET
Although Cottage Grove has the
reputation of having the lowest
wind velocity of any municipality
in the w e s t (maybe we are
stretching it a bit. but it won’t
hurt to lie a little) the reputation
was almost lost Friday when a
spring wind reached gale propor
tions. While some parts of the
state suffered, the damage here
was minor Outside of splitting a
few trees, blowing down signs,
littering lawns and yards with
small tree limbs, breaking out a
few window panes, the wind did
little harm to the city, but south
of here in the Black Butte com
munity. residents were without
lights and power for about twenty
hours. In the Latham district
a cherry tree near the Overgaard
home was blown over by the wind
and struck the house, doing slight
damage to the building.
In some parts of the state the
wind velocity reached fifty miles
per hour. Loggers were recalled
from the woods in most places
after the strong wind hit.
Aside from one new residence
on South Sixth street, that of R. C.
Shanley, north of Taylor avenue,
building permits and repairs is
sued by the city were light far
March.
Repair permits were issued to
Jack Maulding for a residence at
743 north 9th street. M<3dernizing
front of business building at 518
Main street for Mrs. Faye Allison
and repairs to residence of C.' O.
Butler at 139 north 8th street and
new roof for the Pete Nelson resi
dence at 5th and Adams.
The two Harolds, w h o have
played and will play an important
part in the business life of Cot
tage Grove.
Alvis Wicks. Associated station
operator, has found that adver
tising pays, at least he ought to
be a believer. In Wick’s Stude-
baker ad of last week, he adver
tised a 1935 Ford V-8 for sale. The
copy was written a “ '35 V-8"
and in setting the copy the lino
operator touched the wrong key.
making the sentence read $35 V-8
Ford for sale. When The Sentinel
was finally out (we were late last
EARLY PRINTING BOOK 18 w eek ) Wicks had a call for a pros
FOUND BY UO ALUMNUS
pective buyer by 8:00 o'clock the
following morning and inquiries
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, continued to pour in Friday and
Eugene—The first known written Saturday.
account of the technique of print
ing. previously believed to have ATTEND HI-Y CONFERENCE
been 1683. has been established as
1567, by Ray .Nash, graduate of
A number of local high school
the University of Oregon school of students were among the 100 dele
Journalism and now a director of gates attending the Hi-Y confer
the graphic arts workshop at ence in Eugene Saturday. Attend
Dartmouth College, according to ing from here were: Bill Spies.
word received here by Eric W. Ray Garnet. Jim Blickle. Dick
Allen, dean of the school.
Smith, Elmer Hendricks. Roy
Mr. Nash’s research, which led Barr. George Dugan. Paul Daven
to this discovery has resulted in a port. Vinal Randall. Harry Stur-
small volume published by the ges„ Alden Garroute, Allen Reed
Harvard college library The pub and Bob Moody.
The young people were accom
lication shows that Christopher
Plantin’s dialogue on calligraphy panied by Mr. Gilchrist, Hi-Y ad
and printing, published in 1567, visor. Joe Smith, advisor, and
preceded Moxon’s "M e c h a n i c Supt. H. B. Ferrin attended the
Exercises.” considered by experts banquet in the evening.
to be the earliest work on print
ing. by 116 years.
CAR REGISTRATION UP
Brice Creek CCC camp will Join
with other CCC camps over the
nation Sunday in holding open
house in observance of the 7th an
niversary of the CCC organiza
tion. P. R. Chaplin, commanding
officer of the Brice creek camp,
announced here yesterday. The
camp will be open from 10:00 to
4:00 o'clock at which time the
public is cordially invited to in
spect the camp facilities and see
what the camp is doing. Guides
will be available for the visitors
during this period and the Brice
creek camp hopes to have a large
number of visitors.
Also of interest is the fact that
the boys are building a new side
«•amp up Sharps creek. The side
«•amp is being estnblish«'d for the
purpose of working the road into
Bohemia up Sharps creek and the
project will employ forty-seven
RHODENDRON DAY MAY 19
men all summer.
Sixty-eight new enrollees are
Mrs. O. H. Hawley of Florence
Rhododendrons, the flower mon
visited at the home of her hus expected April 12th from Georgia, arch of the low and sandy coast
band’s mother. Mrs. Mary Hnm- which will bring the camp up to lake country, will be in their full
full strength.
brick, Mondny night.
est bloom at Mid-May, the Boost -
er club nt Florence has decided,
tagging May 19 as the annual fes
tival day.
Rhododendron day will lx1 fi
nanced by a button sale, to be
held in conjunction with the queen
Moro than 175 people attended times, using methods available.
contest an«l a benefit program to
County Agent Fletcher pointed lx* held April 25 at the theater.
the irrigation equipment demon
stration held at Chulu Vista Dairy nut that the first irrigation equip
farm near Coburg Inst Saturday ment demonstraion in Lane coun
TO OPERATE CLAY MINE
afternoon and saw latest ty|x*s of t y w a s h e ld in c o n n e c tio n w it h th e
county
fair
in
the
fall
of
1926
and
irrigation equipment demonstrat
(From London News.)
ed by five dealers. The event was thnt tours have been held annu
arranged by the soils project com ally since 1925 to assist Lane ‘ O. K. Edwards of Wilamina,
mlttee of the Lane County Agri county farmers on their irrigation owner of the brick clay mine on
cultural council cooperating with problems. lie stated that the Hobart Butte, was in the London
acreage of irrigated land in Lane community l a s t week getting
O. S. Fletcher, county agent.
things in readiness to begin work
“The type and mnke of equip county increases every year.
Arrangements have been made nt the mine soon.
menl or the method of irrigation
is not of first importance,’’ said for extra help from Oregon State
TAX TURNOVER
Arthur King, extension soils spe college to assist fanners on irri j
cialist of the Oregon State col gation problems. Anyone desiring
A tax turnover of $215,138.92
lege, at the beginning of the dem help should plnce his request at
on 1940 taxes was made by the
onstration. Mr. King was of the
opinion thnt the main thing is to the office of County Agent Fletch sheriff’s office to County Treasur
er Grace Schiska Tuesday.
irrigate adequately and at proper er.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON.
Eugene. Two University of Ore
gon student« from Cottage Grove
are participating in the lead-off
musical attraction of spring term
April 7, when Mendelssohn’s ’’Eli
jah” will be presented by the
University choral union and the
symphony orchestra.
Dorothy Clark, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Clark o f Cottage
Grove, will sing in the alto section
of the 400 voice choral union.
Everett Child, son of Mr. nnd
Mrs. George Child, will sing one
of the tenor parts. The choral
union will be accompanied by the
70-piece University symphony or
chestra.
The musical Is under the direc
tion of Dr. Theodore Kratt, dean
of the school of music. Solo lends
in the oratorio are being sung by
outside guest artists.
175 Present at Demonstration of
Irrigation Equipment Saturday
SENTINEL ADVERTISING
GETS RESULTS
NT.MBER 34
Annual Meeting
Rod and Gun Club
To Be April Sth
Monday, April 8th, is a red let
ter day for the Rod and Gun club
organization as this is the annual
special meeting of that club. A
banquet will be served to mem
bers and visitors at the Cottage
Grove hotel coffee shop beginning
at 6:30 p. m. One Important busi
ness transaction will be election
of officers.
Speakers who will appear on the
program following the banquet
are Bob Drenner and N. J. Nelson
and a guest speaker from Oregon
State college, R. E. Dimick of the
department of fish and game
management. Mr. Dimick will
speak on the subject of "What
Can Be Done to Improve Game
Fishing." Hillbilly music will be
supplied by LaBlue Brothers.
It was also announced that the
opening of the digger contest will
be April 15th. Prizes will be an
nounced later.
Laurelwood Club
Defeats Grovers
If the Laurelwood golf club of
Eugene was looking for revenge
for a previous defeat, club mem
bers got it here Sunday to the
tune of 41 to 19. Twenty six play
ers came down, the best Cottage
Grove could do for the occasion
was to muster fourteen.
Speaking about something more
pleasant, the Coquille club is
bringing a twenty man team here
for the first match of the season
April 14th.
Summary of the Cottage Grove-
Laurelwood match. The Cottage
Grove player is named second:
L. Brown, 76 ______ ___ 244
Zimmerly, 78 ______ ___
Omlid. 76 ............................3
Lemley, 80 .........................
B. Rosson. 7 5 ____________ .3
Morelock, 8 2 ___________
L. Comyers. 76
.......... .244
Denson. 78 _____________
44
C. Sutton, 81 __________ 3
Jones, 86 ____ __________
B. Rasmussen, 84 ---------- 3
Gasper. 90 ____________
D. Omlid, M ____* - -
Langston. 82 ___________
244
Omlid, 84 ............................3
Zimmerly Jr.. 90 ........ ..
R. Taylor. 7 6 ........ - ...........3
Trask’ 92 ______________
C. Webster, 89 _________0
Leonard. 84 _________
F. Curtis. 8 7 ________
44
Swartz, 83 _____________
244
W. Arey, 82 ______ _____ 1
Wolfard. 80 ____________
Tuttle. 83 .......................... J
Spillman. 90 ------ ----------
Anderson, 85 ....... ..............3
Elliot. 86 ______________
B. Simmons, 85 ............3
Hendricks, 90 __________
J. Stinson. 82 ........ ..........3
Mickey. 85 -------------- .—
B. Walden. 102 ________ 0
P. Parker. 100 _________
H. Andrews. 90 ---------- .3
B. Saunders, 1 0 0 ------------
*
Cottage Grove Rod
And Gun Club Among
Eleven High Clubs
To Stay In City
After June First
?
Allowed to Give Protec-
‘o Restricted Areas
**
’util Then.
CITY Ä*.
LATHAM
TO REMOVE
./OSTER PUMP
After June 1st, the city fire
truck will not answer fire calls
outside of the city limits. The
city council meeting in regular
session Monday evening approved
a motion to the effect that from
henceforth the truck would only
make runs to restricted districts
and after June 1st, the fire truck
is to remain in the city limits.
This action follows similar aetkm
of other municipalities over the
state. If districts adjoining the
city wish fire protection they must
organize into fire districts, which
will probably entail the expense
of buying a fire truck.
May Remove Booster Pump
W. A. Woodard of the Woodard
Lumber Co. appeared before the
council and asked the city to re
move a booster pump located in
the Latham district about a mile
south. The pump is located in a
projected railroad right-of-way.
which will be built if the Woodard
Lumber Co. constructs a new mill
in the Latham section. Under
present plans, it is understood the
Woodard Lumber Co. plans to
abandon the flume connecting the
mill in the London district to the
resaw mill at Latham and con
struct a roalroad for the trans
portation of lumber and logs. It is
understood this railroad may
eventually become a common car
rier. Mayor Morelock appointed
the watter committee consisting
of Councilmen William Thum.
Jesse Lansing Sr. and A. W. Shof-
stall to confer with Mr. Wcxxlard
Friday evening, with the hope of
working out a plan where the
problem might be disposed of.
The city’s wcxxl bid was let to
A. L. Biggerstaff.
FSA Assistance Is
Available to Lane
County Farmers
F a r m Security administration
aid for Lane county from families
whose operations are in jeopardy,
is available through county FSA
offices in the new postoffice build
ing, Eugene, reports Dale R. Winn,
local supervisor. Operators on
family-sized farms whose liveli
hood is threatened by lack of ade
quate credit facilities or similar
causes are eligible for FSA as
sistance.
Sufficient funds have been al
lotted to this district to provide
for estimated needs of all eligible
farm families through FSA oper
ating goods, livestock, feed and
cooperative loans, M well as debt
adjustment and supervisory ser
vices. Cooperative farm and home
plans stressing business-like man
agement and production of home
food needs is the basis of each re
habilitation loan.
Farmers expecting to request
aid for this spring’s operation are
asked to file applications as soon
as possible so plans can be com
pleted and facilities made avail
able for the coming crop season.
Where emergencies exist, sub
sistence grants can be made to
destitute farm
families
from
drouth areas or resident families
eligible for rehabilitation.
Complete information as to the
Farm Security program may be
obtained at the Eugene office and
applications can be filed from 9
a. m. to 5 p. m. on any day of the
week except Saturday.
Cottage Grove Rod and Gun
club were among the eleven state
clubs to register a perfect score
in the fourth round of the 15th
annual state telegraphic shoot
Sunday. The perfect sexi re was
made despite the fact that a num
ber of l«x?al shooters attended the
registered shoot at Corvallis. The
club shot against Medford, Mc
Kenzie - Gateway and Eugene.
Medford was the only competitor
shooting a perfect score. Eugene
shot a 74 and McKenzie-Gateway WIND RUINS LARGE TULIP
a 73. Shooters for Cottage Grove
Friday’s w i n d storm ruined
were Dr. C. H. Kime, Victor
three
large tulips for A. E. Smith,
Chambers
and
Harry
Rentle,
each
Registration of motor vehicles
local grower. Mr. Smith had one
in Oregon totaled 325,831 at the with a 25.
bloom from a bulb imported from
end of February. 1940. a report
Holland, which measured nine and
COUGAR
BEND
ROAD
TO
from the Secretary of State indi
a half inches in diameter. Two
BE EXTENDED
cated yesterday.
Lane county, cooperating with other buds had not reached ma
This represents an increase of
18,302 vehicles or 5.59 percent lumbermen and loggers, plans a turity when hit by the wind.
over the registration for the same two and a half mile extension to These would have been even larg
the Cougar Bend road in the vici er Mr. Smith said. The bulbs were
perkxi in 1939.
Fees so far this year totaled nity of London. Lumber and log from the largest tulips in the
$2.185.019.46 compared to $2,039,- ging interests will build the grade. world.
874.63 last year.
There were 272,124 private pas
senger cars registered in the state,
these cars showing an increase of
5.36 percent.
Construction of Flood Lights to
Start at Kelly Field This Week
CMT CAMP
Word has been received that the
Citizens’ Military Training Camp
will be held at Vancouver Bar
racks. Washington, this year dur
ing the period July 2nd to July
31st. The Vancouver Barracks
District is comprised of the State
of Oregon and the counties of
Clark, Cowlitz. Klickitat. Skaman
ia, and Wahkiakum of the state of
Washington. The quota for this
year has been tentatively set at
593.
Construction of lighting equip
ment for Kelly field will likely be
started this week. E. R. Lemley,
secretary of the Softball ass«x?ia-
tion, announced yesterday. The
city council in regular session
authorized H. W. Lombard, city
attorney, to draw up the necees-
sary contract granting the asso
ciation permission to use the field
and to erect lights. The equipment
will consist of eight poles and
eighteen lights to cost approxi
mately $500.00. Much of the labor
will be donated and the associa-
tion expects to have lights ready
for use within two weeks from
the time construction is com
menced and everything will be in
readiness for the opening of the
softball season the latter part of
May.
Repairs to the park fence and
to the grandstand will likely be
made along with the installation
of the lights. The lights will be
available for use in open air meet
ings during the summer season at
a nominal charge, Mr. Lemley
said.