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M l h Í M
Farm Meeting
To Be Held Here
On March 5th
Recommendations
NUMBER 29
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941
VOLUME LI
of
Subchasers for Canadians
Four
Major Committees to
Be Reviewed
AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK
WILL BE DISCUSSED
Farmer« a n d businessmen of
Cottage drove and surrounding
country are Invited to attend a
meeting In the old high school
building In Cottage Grove at 8:00
p. m. next Wednesday, March 5,
for consideration of the general
agricultural situation and outlook
and for a discussion on how the
agricultural conservation program
can be of service to Lane county
farmers. The meeting has been
arranged by the lj»oe County Ag
ricultural Conservation associa
tion cooperating with the Lane
County Agricultural council and
County Agent O. 8. Fletcher,
The county agent will review
recommendations of the four ma
jor committees that served In
connection with the agricultural
economic outlook conference held
In Eugene on February JO. A com
mitteeman of the Lane County
Agricultural Conservation
asso
ciation will explain how the agri
cultural conservation program can
be of assistance to farmers In
carrying out the recommendations
of the ««inference
He
will also discuss the project spon
sored by the AAA. the extension
service of the Oregon State col
lege. and Lane county farm or
ganisations under winch low-in
come rural families ran make
mattresses for themselves at prac
tically no expense with surplus
cotton furnished by the Agricul
tural Adjustment Administration.
Fanners who have placed ten
tative orders for ground agricul
tural lime rock will have oppor
tunity to sign definite orders al
the meeting and all these people
are urged to attend. Miscellane
ous Other problems will also he
discussed at the meeting.
Alert Io Inrrcasin i trnxion between B ritain end Japan In the O rienl,
Canada baa been quietly expanding her lin y Nary with surb meaxurex
as addition ul xubt haoerx lo b rr t'acifle lorrex. Here x one, ihe l l l i -
ten Agassis, built on West (e a s t, and shown relucting a t ban Otego
on secret royage, presumably southward.
John Thies, Age 3, Day of Prayer
Critically Injured To lie Observed
John Thies, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Thi««s, was critically injured
last Thursday afternoon w h e n
struck by a car driven by Herman
Close, Mosby Crei-k farmer. The
accident occurred about 5:30 p. m.
Thursday five miles east of town.
The Thies lad was said to have
been watching his father operate
a tractor near the road and to
have walktsi in front of the Close
auto. M r. Close practically wreck
ed ht* car in an effort to dodge
the lad. hut without avail.
Young Thies suffered a broken
arm. a broken leg. an injured
shoulder and a near skull frac
ture He was rushed to a Eugene
hospital, when* hut condition was
described as serious Later reports
indicate that he is recuperating
satisfactorily.
TRIA Nti LE LAKE (A M P TO
RE ABANDONED.
The annual world day of prayer
service, at which Cottage Grove
church women will unite, in spirit,
with women around the entire
globe, is to he held Friday after-
n«K>n beginning at 2:00 p. m. in
the Presbyterian church auditor
ium.
The theme for the afternoon Is
"Thy Kingdom Come". Following
Is the program. Organ prelude,
Mrs. H. A. Hagen; Call to prayer,
Mrs. H. B. Ferrln: Devotional ser
vice led by Mrs E F. McFarland;
Prayers for all Nations, by women
from the various churches uniting;
Special music, Baptist group: Med
itation and talk. Miss Marie
Church, formerly of the Korean
field; Special music, Christian
women; Offering service, with mu
sic, conducted by the Methodist
group; Benediction.
The oferings for the World Day
of Prayer an* divided each year
among four National and foreign
missions projects: I. e. Christian
Work among the Migrants in the
U. S.; Christian work in the Indian
schools of the U. S.; Women's
Christian colleges in the Orient;
distributing Christian literature in
mission lands.
Tea will he served by the Pres
byterian ladies in the parlors of
the church following the service.
All women Interested in the pro
gram and prayers are invited to
attend, whether members of the
various churches or not.
The Triangle ta k e CCC camp,
which was established in the
spring of 1935. will he abandoned
on February 28, in accordance
with instructions received recent
ly from Washington. D. C.. to the
eff««ct that one of the Oregon
camps would have to be abolished
on that date. This camp was se
lected largely because of the fact
that its work projects were most
Twenty-seven members w e r e nearly completed and there was
taken Into the Pomona grange a definite possibility of continuing
when the county organization met the work from some other camp.
at Lorane Saturday. The session
THIRTY-EIGHT CCC
was attended by 150 members
8H0 REGISTER IN CAFE
ENROLLEES IN TRAINING.
from practically all sections of the
SATURDAY.
county.
Thirty-eight eflrollees from the
Several Important resolutions
Mrs. Helen Smith, who, Satur
were taken by the grangers In various CCC camjis over this sec
cluding a resolution asking the tion aie blvouaced in the Brice day opened up n new cafe on 6th
state and national grange to draft Creek CCC camp for a short peri street, yesterday announced that
a bill for congress which would od of training in the Eugene Vo a total of 880 were registered dur
give the farmer cost of produc cational school according to Capt. ing the opening day and over 500
people served during
the day.
tion. A resolution favoring a Byron Gray, camp commander.
graduated land tax in the slate.
A resolution asking the sultordi-
nate granges to act on the Penn
sylvania plan of dues paying En
dorsement of the m atter making
BY JACK KELLY, FORT STEVENS
project for families of low income
to help use the surplus cotton.
One of Ihe reasons why some of order for an hour and then a din
Mrs. Claude Am c of the Dorena the boys haven't been home more ner of mulligan was served. All
grange headed an advisory com often is that after sl«*eping with schedules were met and the bat
mittee for the young grangers of sand in their beds for so long, the talion returned to the post at the
America. Other members were only way they can sleep at home proper time. .
Mrs. M. H. Stewart of Four Oaks is to toss in a handful first. The
A new wrinkle for most of the
and Harry Chase of the Willakcn- unheralded sacrifices m o t h e r s fellows wns the gas school of this
must make In times of nutionul week. Training masks were issued
zie Grange.
The next grange m«*ctlng will emergency.
and Corporal Howard Arnest In
be held at Lowell March 24th.
structed in their use to the Bat
News and Events.
No longer arc we an anti-air tery. It is really something to see
craft battery. The order was pass around 80 men decked out in these
ed down the middle of the week little rubber jobs. I don't know
that we would be transferred to much ahout Orson Welles and his
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jones of the 12-lnch mortars. The old guns little man hut I imagine that if
Disstnn route are the parents of were clean<>d, oiled and painted some unsuspecting citizen should
a baby daughter born Ht the Sa for the last time and set into see us so attired he would think
cred Heart hospital. Eugene, Mon march order for duly scheduled of nil those men from down un
day morning, the 7,000th baby for elsewhere. The above was accom der. We had to run a couple of
this Institution, and was almost plished with no small feeling of hundred yards with them on and If
the 1,000th baby of Ihe year for regret, as after five months of you ever Saw a bad case of asthma
Ihe hospital, according lo infor care and practice, we were sorter or a horse with the heaves then
mation from Eugene. The new ar attached to them and these new you can just about picture our
rival was named Bonnie Lee Jones guns are unlike anything we have snorting charge.
Battery Briefs.
and weighed 7.8 pounds at birth. tackled before. Well, one consola
H e’s just a little yaller dog. He
She will receive a silver spoon as tion we won’t be Carrying these
guns around on mobile maneu , never had a blue-ribboned rela-
a gift from the hospital.
I tive nor even a paper to prove his
vers.
We covered 62 miles on our mo heritage. He is just dog. Hut this
WAI.I.AMET SCOUTS ANNUAL
bile movement this week. Travel little fellow has more personality,
MEETING MUNDAY.
ing southward we passed Seaside, dignity and understanding than
The Wallamel Area Council of Cannon Beach and the multitude your first school teacher. He has
the Boy Scouts of America which of bench settlements. It was a brown eyes that sparkle and re
serves Curry, Dougins, Coos, Ben swell, clear dny with miles of vis flect good humor and when he
ton, Lincoln and Lane counties ibility. Arriving at our designated smiles he laughs all over. Clever,
will hold its 1941 annual dinner location, the field kitchen was set my gosh, he can apple-polish the
and planning conference at thel up amid the bristling machine officers and they in turn beam and
Osburn hotel In Eugene on Sun-J guns and dinner prepared. Several scratch his cars and he has an
day afternoon and evening, March sea lions were spotted and foot- inexhaustible catalogue of tricks.
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9th.
I hanll and baaeball games were in
Pomona Grange
Meets at Lorane
FROM THE REAR RANKS
7,000th Baby
Chinese Operetta Flying Club Purchases Piper Plane
To Be March 7th To A ccept Delivery A bou t March 5
The Chinese operetta, "The Tea
House of Sing Lo,” will be pre
sented In the high school auditor
ium next Friday, March 7. by the
combined hoys’ and girls’ glee
club under the direction of Miss
Marian Jelinek. T h e operetta
promises to be one of the most
colorful ever produced by this
high school. The scene is laid in
a Chinese tea garden, decorated
with bright flowers and Chinese
lanterns.
Business is dull at the Tea
House of Sing Lo. due to the con
servatism of the owner, who de
tests modern advertising methods.
J, Mortim er Maxwell (played by
Bob Grewell), proprietor of “Sho-
Glo" Electric Signs, arrives to
capture the China market, accom
panied by his Wife ( Marjorie
E a rl); his daughter June
(Pat
Baldwin- and his salesman, Bert
McKee ( B i l l W orkman) who
aspires to win June's hand. Goad
ed by Bert, Maxwell agrees to the
marriage provided pert proves his
business mettle by selling a sign
to Sing Lo (Kenny W hitlocki who
has given orders to have all sales
men thrown out. June suggests to
Sing Lo's daughter, Ah Me iJoan
King i, and So He (Joyce Bald
win! the idea of increasing busi
ness by interesting fashionable pa
trons. and recommends a recep
tion in honor of the new Ameri
can C o n s u l , Hon. Alexander
Appletrec (Bud McCoyi. Bert is
mistaken for the Consul, and is
entertained with elaborate cere
mony at the Tea House; while
Applctree, arriving l a t e r ,
is
thrown out by the porter (Dick
Sm ith). Bert insists on an electric
sign and Sing Lo. fearing he will
lose favor of the supposed Consul,
reluctantly departs from the cus
toms of his ancestors and signs
the prof cred conUjjct Bert wins
his bride, the real consul is pla
cated because of Sing Lo's prog
ressive business policy, and the
prosperity ot the Tea Hoiwe is as
sured. The chorus, consisting of
about 40 boys and girls will be
dressed in Chinese costumes.
At a special meeting of the fly
ing club last Thursday evening at
Kent's Market a slightly used
Piper Cub Tandem training ship
was purchased. Mr. King, head
salesman for the A rt W hitaker
Piper Cub dealer in Portland, flew
the plane down from Portland
Thursday and completed the deal
with the club. He returned Friday.
Delivery of the ship will be ac
cepted about March 5th.
Monday the Mountain States
Power company lowered the pow
er lines at the north end of the
L«x-al officers w e r e puzzling
Monday over a way to handle an
aged transient, who was living in
a [»per house on the south high
way near the steel bridge. Myron
Perry, chief of police, who. with
James Mercer, state patrolman,
visited the man Monday. The man
is a hospital case, but there is no
funds with which to hospitalize
him. according to Perry.
Perry said the man, aged 68.
who gave his name as Orin Bea
ber. was living in a small paper
house without fuel or food and
was confined to an improvised
bed. He could not walk and his
hands were drawn.
He landed
here six weeks ago hunting work
and except for provisions given by
Merle Porter has had no care. He
has a daughter in Bellingham,
Washington, but the daughter has
recently undergone a serious op
eration. making financial assist
ance impossible at this time,
Beaber told officers.
Perry said unless some church
or organization would care for the
man he probably would arrest him
on a charge of vagrancy and let
the county take him over. The of
ficer said the logical place for the
man would probably be in an old
folks home.
Chamber of Commerce
To Join in Clean Up
Paint Up Campaign
Kipp to Address
Rod and Gun Club
Friday Evening
District Tourney
Cubs to Play in
Annual Firemen’s
Banquet Tuesday Eve
Gustafson’s Will Have
Anniversary Saturday
Gustafson's super creamed ice
cream s t o r e will celebrate its
third anniversary here Saturday,
according to W a y n e
Mackln,
manager, with sjiecial values in
frosted malts. The malts will be
served in large cup cakes. A big
serving will be made for ten cents
and a second serving for one cent
or the two for eleven cents.
Painters h aw decorated both
the interior and exterior of the
building In anticipation of the
coming event. Gustafson's should
be a popular place Saturday, es
pecially with the kiddies.
All kinds of ice cream products
will be served in addition to sand
wiches and coffee.
INSTALLING NEW SYSTEM IN
ASSESSOR’S OFFICE.
field about ten feet. Permission
has been received to cut the tops
out of the t ill trees at the south
end of the field. At the last regu
lar meeting of the club it was
voted unanimously to hire Lloyd
Brown, formerly of Nebraska, as
Vanguard of
resident instructor as soon as he Troop« From
receives his instructor’s rating.
120,000 Soon to Confront
He is in Portland now taking his
Greece
final examinations Another spe
cial meeting was held Monday
evening and the n e x t regular
meeting will be held on Monday. BERLIN REPORT DENIES
March 3rd.
INFILTRATION
Local Officers Puzzle Over Plight
Of Aged Man Found Here Monday
Dr. H. A. Hagen, president of
the Cottage Grove Chamber of
Commerce urged members of that
organization and citizens in gen
eral to get back of civic projects
and to name projects which they,
the citizens, would like to have
carried through. The remarks of
Dr. Hagen made at the luncheon
m«-eting Tuesday was occasioned
by the discussion of a paint up.
clean up campaign soon to be un
dertaken In the rural communi
ties by the various 4-H clubs.
Tuesday the organization voted
to take out an associate member
ship in the Oregon W ildlife Fed
eration.
James Ordway of Eugene, trav
eling freight and passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific, was in
troduced and made a brief talk on
(By Ed Johnson)
The Jefferson C u b s w ill play business conditions as they affect
host to three basketball teams at ed the operation of his road.
the Southern Lane County Bas
ketball tournament Saturday at
the Jefferson gymnasium. This is
one of the four district tourna
ments in the county being played
Saturday. The winners of these
Twenty-three attended the third
tournaments will enter the Lane annual firemen's banquet at the
county play-off the next Saturday new 6th street cafe Tuesday eve
at Santa Clara. The Cubs will be ning. Sid Milligan presided over
trying for their fifth straight jaunt the banquet as toastmaster and
to the county tournament.
introduced the guests. Speakers at
Jefferson will scramble it out the program following the ban
with Lorane in the first tilt at quet included George Matthews,
9:30. The Cubs will have to put H. B. Ferrin. L, C. Schroeder and
on the pressure to beat L/arane.
George Machen.
The admission will be ten and
The firemen made plans to co
twenty cents, one ticket admitting operate with the city officials and
the bearer to every game.
the 4-H clubs in staging the an
Schedule:
nual clean-up paint-up campaign
9:30 A. M .—Cubs vs. Lorane. soon to be staged over this dis
10:30 A. M .— Dorena vs Cres trict.
well.
As a happy ending the firemen
1:00 P. M . — Cub Midgets vs. engaged the city officials in a vol
Lorane Midgets.
leyball contest at the new union
2:00 P. M .~P lay-o ff.
high gym. The best the firemen
could do was to win three of the
six games played.
12,000 German
Troops Stream
Into Bulgaria
R. H. Kipp, executive secretary
of the W illam ette basin commis
sion, will address the «Cottage
Grove Rod and Gun club here F ri
day evening, according to a tele
gram received by John Wilson,
club secretary, Tuesday, however
the subject of Mr. Kipp's address
was not announced.
M r. Wilson said the club was
making preparations to accommo
date a capacity house and that the
general public was invited.
Other important m a t t e r s to
claim the attention of the club
members was arrangements for
the state telegraphic shoot which
starts Sunday. Committees will be
appointed at this time to arrange
details.
The club will also hear a report
from the stream pollution commit
tee and also a report from the
committee which attended a house
hearing on senate bill No. 53,
which relates to the conservation
of game and fish.
The meeting starts at 8:00 p. m.
Refreshments will be served at the
conclusion of the meeting.
1,000 Trees Planted
At Blue Mt. 4-H Camp
Saturday was three planting at
the 4-H club camp in the Blue
Mountain district and
approxi
mately 1,000 trees were planted in
the park under the supervision of
R C. Kuehner, county 4-H club
agent, assisted by a crew of 4-H
boys.
The trees were supplied by the
state forest nursery and cons is t-
ed of redwood, spruce, cedar and
chittum.
Will Manage Safeways New Store
B U D A PE ST--Tw elve thousand
fk-rman troops have rolled into
Bulgaria from Rumania in the last
24 hours, reports filtering through
frequently interrupted communi
cations with Sofia said last night.
These troops form the vanguard
ot 120,000 nazis soon to stream
across the Danube to confront
Greece, the reports asserted.
(Authorized quarters in Berlin
continued to deny that German
troops have invaded Bulgaria, or
that even an infiltration move
ment is under way. German au
thorities asserted, however, that
a number of English agents have
been arrested in Sofia, and this
was taken as an indication that
British representatives are trying
to sabotage Bulgar-German rela
tions.)
The initial 12,000 German in
vaders. according to word from
Sofia, poured into Bulgaria from
Rumanian Dobrudja across the
Danube bridge near Chernavoda.
Most of them were motorized de
tachments.
In addition, the Sofia reports
said, three German troop« trains
left Vidin in the direction of Sofia.
Vidan is near the Yugoslavian
frontier.
W. J. Sturges, 93,
Dies at Medford
W illiam James Sturges. father
of D. W. Sturges, well known lo
cal garageman. passed away Sun
day morning, February 23, 1941,
at the home of his daughter, Mfs.
W. E. Nicholson, 1417 W . Main
street, Medford. Oregon, at the
age of 93 years. 6 months, 15 days.
M r. Sturges was well known to
many here, having visited his son
on a number of occasions.
He was born in Birmingham,
England, August 8, 1847, and
moved to the United States w ith
his parents at the age of 6 months.
He was married to Armina Jane
Howell at the age of 23 years,
who preceded him in death five
years. Unto this union was bom
seven children, five of whom are
surviving, Mrs. E l l a
Doxsee.
Brownsville. Oregon; Mrs. Laura
Calhoun, Grants Pass: Mrs. Nellie
Nicholson, Medford:
Mrs. Belle
Neil, Redding. California;
Dale
Sturges. Cottage Grove. Also ten
grandchildren, seventeen g r e a t
grandchildren and one groat,
great grandchild.
Other survivors are one broth
er. L. E. Sturges, Everett, Wash
ington, and nieces and nephews.
Mr. Sturges came to Oregon in
1894 making his home in Grants
Pass, Brownsville, and Medford.
He was a faithful member of
the Methodist church for over
eighty years.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from the Perl funeral home on
Tuesday afternoon, February 25.
at 2:30 o'clock, with the Rev.
Joseph Knotts, pastor of the First
Methodist church, officiating. In
terment was in the family plot In
the Medford I. O. O. F. cemetery.
Willamette District
Council A. F. of Lx to
Meet Here March 7th
The Willamette valley district
council A. F. of L. w ill m eet hero
March 7th for an evening session,
Carl Plunkett, secretary o f the lo
cal A. F. of L. Lumber Workers
union announced here yesterday.
Fifty to seventy-five visitors atk
expected from as far north as Mc
Minnville. Plunkett satd he plan
ned to Invite the city officials and
others to attend the session. The
place ot the meeting is
the
Townsend hall and the time Is
8:15 p. m.
A large crew is busy in the of
fice of County Assessor Welby
Stevens, making the transfers in
cidental to the installation of a
new business machine system.
Once the transfer is completed,
the task of gathering the informa
tion on the tax renditions, delin Chas. (Chuck) Nielsen, manager A. P. Christensen, manager of the
quent taxes and making out tax of the new drivein market, which meat market. He's the man be-
statements will bo considerably opened Friday.
hind the new fixtures.
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simplified.
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