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VOLUME LII Teaching Staff Of High School Now Completed • COTTAGE GKOVE, LANE COUNTY OREGON, TH1 TIMOA Y, SEPTEMBER 4, 19*1 NI M BER 4 Near Race Riot Timbers As Rig As Runyans Rackhone August Heaviest Pupils Requested Friday as Whites Month of Year To Get Supplies And Negroes Fight Ruilding, Repairs For Grade Schools Russo-British Aviators Gang Up on Germany August was the heaviest month Elem entary School« To Be Ready of the year in the building trades For S ta rt of Term records of the city office show, September Mth Berlin Rocked by RAF Bombs with permits issued for three new dwellings, two new service sta The Cottage Grove Elementary As Huge Fires Are istration I» Meld on tions and a number of repair Schools will begin their work on A race riot, which might have jobs. Building actjvity in the city Monday, September 8 a 9 o'clock. Started Wednesday been a serloua «(fair lor this sec only is listed. Data is not avail The teachers are holding meetings tion, was narrowly averted hen1 able for the outside distiret. Friday night when («•are was <•»- Friday and Saturday of this week NEW TEACHERS ARE TO tnblished laftween white and col Permits were Issued for new and everything will be in readiness GERMAN POCKET BATTLE residences to: Henry Berge, at 842 for the opening day. ored soldiers and white civilians SHIP DAMAGED MEET FRIDAY and colored soldiers, when the Paul Bunyan, m y th ic a l giant doer o f big job« and sym bol •South 8th street: to John Kelly, Students are requested to se ■' ■" ■" soldiers returning to Fort Ord, o f the West Coast lum ber in d u s try , is e n jo y in g a great re v iv in Cherry court; to Jack Fox. at cure necessary school supplies The all-out "war on two fronts” 15i>4 Ash Avenue. Permits were from local merchants so as to be With the election of George C. California, were blvouaced for the al in 1941. N ever since the year he w orked so hard he sweat that Adolph Hitler always tried also issued to the Standard Oil West of Chappell, Nebraska as night. ready to put in a full day of work to avoid looked more like a prob out the Great Salt Luke, according to the logger«, has he done Smith Hughes Agricultural In- A USO dance planned for the more big things all at once. T y p ic a l o f P a u l’s productions fo r CO., for new station at corner 9th on Monday. ability than a possibility last and Main and to the Texaco Oil struelor a completer staff of 53rd Infantry was underway at Grades 5 to 8 are to go to the night. For the Russians and the nationa l defense are Dougina f i r keel tim bers fo r the N a v y ’s Co., for new station at South Pa teeachers have been selected for the armory. The dance floor was Jefferson school and thc first four British ganged up, each after his Cottage Grove Union High School ordered cleared of all negro soldi- new fleet o f minesweepers, o f w hich a few are pictured on a cific highway. Construction, how grades to the Adams building. own fashion, to give back to Ger and all Is In readiness for o|>rning ers by a lieutenant and after the tru c k -h a u l. Each stick is 110 feet long, Hi'/-. inches wide and ever. has not been started on the Students entering the first grade many what Germany had given to latter two permits. IO I. m inches th ic k . “ .Just tw o axhandles short o f Is-iug as long day Monday, September 8. negro soldiers were told to get who have not already secured Repair permits were issued to: health certificates should obtain them. Mr West has been teaching in nl 'be officers said as Paul B unyan's backbone,’ ’ says the o ld -tim e tim bernian. Britain gave the bombs. Swarms N. E. Compton. 958 South 6th, Each keel tim b e r is clear o f knots on a ll fo u r sides. The Nebraska for several years and 'bey began '« «dl«-ct in small these from their local doctor. It is of the RAF”« heaviest bombers new roof; Clyde Sturdevant. 460 this summer compleh-d «penal group« I in u tile « ta ile d WRMI Douglas f i r region o f Oregon and W ashington is the o n ly required that all beginning stu spread fiery damage over several work In agriculture at Oregon Butler, a white soldier with aouree o f such special m aterial. To produce it fo r Uncle Sam. South 10th, general repairs; L. W. dents have a clean bill of health sections of Berlin. One RAF pilot McKay, 115 South 8th, new gar before starting school. According said “a hell of a fire” was left State College He is highly re- 'be 700,h ‘""k ««mpany. battery and to meet other defense demands and m a in ta in lum ber sup commended by the State Depart- D. made a remark about a group p ly fo r home b u ild in g at a rate 31 per cent over 1940. Paul age; S. L. Godard, Madison ave., to Oregon School Law only those burning in the heart of Nazidom's mrnt of Vocation«! Education. Mr. negro Moldlera and wan knock- B u n y a n ’s West Coast in d u s try is o jx r a tin g above its norm al general repairs; George Smith. entering students who are six capital Tuesday night when the 1104 Ash avenue, new roof; D. J. years of age by November 15 will West is a graduate of the Unlver- c<l through a show window at rate«! capacity. Sullivan. 325 South 2nd. new roof; be eligible to enter the first grade. last British bomber pulled away slty of Nebraska and has taken Petersen* store by Joe Jerks, a and headed for home. General Johnson, 11th and East advanced work at the Colorado private wilh company D. James Harold Sprague, principal of the Russia gave the men. Legions Main, general repairs; G. C. Hood. state College and Oklahoma A S'erlner of Drain, a former CC elementary schools, urges that all of Soviet soldiers in a series of 732 Gibbs, new roof; S. L. Godard. and M ('ollege He is married and enrollee Involved In an argument students enter on the opening day 1504 West Mam. general repairs; to avoid the necessity of making counter-thrusts developing into has two children He Is expected *i'b a negro soldier over a re- Ed Wiese, roof repairs, 109 North up work lost. No first grader will the full fury of a major offensive to arrive here by the end of the mark made about hl* escort was River Road; Ed Welse, 428 Madi be permitted to enter school after were said by Moscow to have re »«id to have been kn<x*ked down son, new roof; Chas. Miller, 107 the first two weeks as provided captured 22 villages and driven . .. . ... . _ by the soldier and to have jumped Albert Duffy is wanted by local After registration on Wednes- J w.|H) * kntfe h|g hand the Germans back a full 30 miles Monroe, garage. by state school law. <«■ It > showed wwM more than ....... ....» ^ac’ 'b**' some of the coun- officers on charges of drunken in a sector believed to be the cen day one hun- • The list of necessary school sup tral front. dred" freshmen and seventy-five b’gedly slashing another negro ty roads in south Lane county driving hit and run driving and plies for each grade follows: soDhomore* These figure* com- and cu**btg a long gash o n 'b e carry a traffic almost as heavy as failure to stop and give aid after To all of this. Germany said First grade: Two pencils, soft her vast military machine was nare favorably with the retistrn- Mldp bt* iaPP Eight negro M Ps highway 99 may be news to many, causing two wrecks, one near ser- lead: crayolas, 16 colors; Second tlon of last vear with an Indies- WPr"' ’brown In the city jail over hut this was established in a re- mux over Labor day Duffy, how- still doing a more-than-competent grade: 2 pencils. No. 2. eraser, job of work for itself. Berlin de tlon that a large freshman class *b<? “Hair and later released to cent survey made by the county ever . left for Louisiana before be- crayolas. 16 colors: Third grade: precated the RAF raid on the Ger w ill he en ro lled military authorities Sterlner was under direction of James Dalford, jng caught and apparently made released after a brief Incarcera- south Lane road supervisor. Mr. good his escape. ruler, steel edge, 12 inches: scis man capital, said the damage was The Rubject of S|»anish k* being , lon jn ,j,(. «-tty jail and taken out Tedford said the freight tonnage u e ,s charged with causing a sors, sharp pointed: crayolas, 16 slight. taught here for the first time with of town. ----- " ' ‘ " • highway ■ - - colors; eraser. Fourth grade: Rul over the "' Blackbutte to wreck a mile north of Shady On the second anniversary of an indication that a large class __ -- the Cottage Grove dam was heavi- Brook on thc highway, er, 12 inch: eraser; 2 pencils, wa the Franco-British declaration of Rites for Dorothy Emily Tonoli. will enroll In the subject Special _ _ _ ter colors, 8 colors; penholder, pen er than the highway and that both where two returning elk hunters, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al points. Palmer No. 7 or 9; scis war on Germany, there were new emphasis I* being placed on music M W p t f p c f truck and passenger traffic over Ernest Douglas and Carroll Bush troubles elsewhere in the war- w ith two classes in band work. l U U l l U U y B C l l C O l ’be road to Disston had jumped were injured and .the car driven bert Tonoli of Divide, were held sors, sharp pointed; crayolas, 16 troubled world. North Africa took .at the Catholic church Monday one for beginner, and «me fo r ml- « ■ p« considerably in the last few ^y ,p(. m,.n damaged. After caus- color; 1 dlrttt/tiary. following pre the spotlight again as a communi vanced students; and a general I p h f iT IJ ilV months due to increaaed lumber- ,ng a near wreek of two or three morning at 10:00 a. m. with Fath ferred: Thorndika Century Jr. dic que pointed to a major revival of er Gerace officiating. Rosary ser tionary. Webster's Elementary choral singing class A number of **✓ ing operations. cars near the Shady Brook area activity there. British planes raid vices were held at the Smith Fun new band Instruments will t»e a- ■ ar « ty Notwithstanding the increa.M-d Duffy is alleged to have returned eral Chapel Sunday evening at dictionary, Winston Simplified ed Axis-held North African bases; vallahle for those students who I n / » llTFlnPY" J POTS traffic on the county roads of this to town by a rural road and to 7:30 p. m. and interment follow dictionary’ for schools. Fifth and heavy fighting continued at To wish to play the bass, baritone section the county road crew has have cut in the line of traffic on ing Monday's services was made sixth grades: 2 pencils, pencil bruk. Fascist planes blasted Brit and mellophone. i„ ,„ ir n>v mnerieneml had less money to operate than in west Main street causing Max tablet, wide ruled: penholder, pen in the I.O.O.F.-Masonic cemetery-’ points, Palmer 7 or 9; paints, 8 ish motor columns along the » r i ‘L ^ 7 n g hK d a \ChX r n ‘X m rnt western Oregon in several years ,and ,bpy bavp. ,bad Buffington to sideswipe the Duffy Egyptian frontier, and in thc Med Miss Tonoli passed away at the color; crayolas, 16 color; ruler, 12 are meeting rrida> afternoon at the enthusiasm ,o do ’be best job Ihey could on car as he came into Main street. home of her parents Saturday inch: eraser, scissors, sharp point iterranean. the RAF attacked vil 2:90 ami the entire staff will hold thousands during the two day ,b*’ binds available The road Duffy abandoned his car and be- morning following an extendi-d lages in Sicily. ed; looseleaf notebook and filler. ns-elings Saturday morning ami „ / w h o sought th e coast the prpw hax no’ been ab,p ,o build f° r officers could find trace of New rumbling came from the r i m ^ thOir’ w l J ^ \ nd ’hose who visited “ ™uph ncw as bad him. had left by hu|. for Louisiana, illness. She was born May 1, 1925, 1 dictionary, following preferred: Far East. Premier Prince Fumi- at Divide, where she spent all of tiers and their wives and learners ho|ied for nor do as much main- Thorndike Century Jr, Webster's maro Konoye of Japan told the her life. Surviving are her par • . ..u „.i ,.„.i ..i..n,..n the state fair. ............ I here was an inch . tenanee • . n t b oth high school a n il elem en- w o rk . N ow th e y are about TH R E M II' \G FI. AX. Elementary'. Winston Simplified Nipponese people that they face ents. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tonoli; _<*,.n a half of moisture fell here .. , .. .. ' . , lary grade», will i„, he an .v«ni event of a™ ... ...... .............. through with the major [»art of to measure, five sisters: Linda, Lucille. Neva, Dictionary for School?, and tennis "the gravest crisis since the be Saturday afternoon at the Union "weati^r ’he work, except clean out ditches A flax crop, the-1 first grown in Jainette and Judy, all of Divide, shoes. Seventh and eighth grades: ginning of the country’s history.” vart. weather High School building 1 pencil tablet, lined; 1 ink tablet, While Japan worried over Rus observer. Tilts was for the twen- and get the roads , ready for the this section, has , been partly v and her grandfathers. Antonio Superintendent H B Ferrin has frtllr h_..p Hn,i hv o.nn winter Hie Blackbutte highway threshed. The flax was grown by Tonoli and George Scheufele, and 1 notebook, pencil, paints. 8 col sia. the Soviets were in the midst or; Palmer penholder. Palmer pen of the most concerted counter-at announced the staff of high school . f(1i,,)W.nl. morning an- wiH P^bably be rebuilt another Bart Johnston. Bifljne Humphrey many other relatives. teachers with their assignments as „ (.h ))f rn(n hu(J year hut not until after the and ErI Decker is fe in g threshed points No. 9, eraser, steel-edged tack of the entire war. The Ger ruler, gymnasium suit, tennis mans were reported in Moscow to follows: gravel hauling to the Grove dam for seed since growers were r i f r a n n i . n rin eln al anrln- *" <’”rr”n,’,’’*nK f,n the August ,s fin|Mh(-<i. Until the rebuilding not able to get the.' fiber process- shoes, and 1 dictionary, following be retreating in several sectors. n. nii<-s* I j t i i v <' Bei'htnl in- w<',,’bpr- Mr Stewart said the js undertaken the road crew ed. Flax is being successfully preferred: Thorndike Century Jr., Meanwhile Air Minister Arch a.i.ira.i .pi«- Mild« i>d F D eal rnax,n’urn temperature for the w i|j kc(,p , kp grHV,.| patehixl up grown in other pans of the state Webster's Elementary. Winston ibald Sinclair disclosed in London ih .m .iie . elrls' nhvsic il edu mon,b '*** r,'a<'b<*d on the open in the best pos- and could be grown here if a pro Simplified Dictionary for Schools. that the 10,000-ton German pocket mathematics. girls physical edu- ?, h and , 9(h w „ h „ n.adlng of 95 manner cessing nlant was available The complete list of teachers battleship Luetzow had been tor cation; Curtis L French, sciences. Thp mlnlmum was 4,, on r|rst. s'bb ccss,nK PlarU waa avH able. with their assignments as an pedoed from the air a few weeks boys physical education, coach, ¡\jumbor of clear days was fifteen. ‘ r’ 0 expres. a ojie Market outlook for turkey rais nounced by Superintendent H. B. LIOXK <T,I B TO RESUM E ago--a crippling blow to Ger Winston A. Gilchrist, U. S. his number partly cloudy five, cloudy ,ba' ? he coun'> w" ^ d sce fH ers is promising at the present Ferrin, follows: S E SS IO N S SEPTEM BER II. many's remaining capital fleet. *• eleven tory, elementary social science. p|pvt.n The Th(. precipitation was 65 l‘'*«-baBP « P-nver d rive n mow'er time, which is in line with other Harold Sprague, principal; lima and world cultures; Harold He- nf Hn jnch In 1;M0 th(. rainfall for the roads of this section bc- farm livestock. Growers are hop L. Thum. vice-prine'pal, arithmet At a meeting of the board of bard, band and orchestra, grade. was only .05. The normal moisture fore the close of another year. A mower would pay for itself in a directors of the Cottage Grove ing for an eight to ten cents per ic; Frances Schilling. 7th and Sth and high school, and physical Ev for August is 5H of an Inch. short time and would permit the Lions club yesterday it was de pound increase over last year, grade home room, librarian; Fran elyn lirssel, shorthand and typ road crew to keep the roadsides elded to resume regular sessions which did not prove very profit ces Temple, 7th and 8th grade ing; Kenneth Hlckok, bookkeep home room; Eva Wolfe, 6th grade clean and the weeds and briar of the club next Thursday the able. ing. elementary business science, The turkey crop in practically home room: Willard ,C. Newton, 11th at the Rainbow cafe, after a |»atches cut. advanced business science and summer's vacation A full attend all the major producing centers is physical education, music: Alyce commercial law; Jean I n g l i s . Rains have practically stopped ance of all membership is urged. less than last year. Locally the Schneider, arts and crafts, girjs' all construction at the .Cottage Smith-Hughes home economics; TOM N SE M » <T.UB PLA N S situation is no different. The crop physical education: Anthony D. F O U N D E R 'S DAY PROGRAM Lo Dene Jackson, music supervi this year is five to ten per cent Sokouch. arts and crafts, physical Grove dam as well as relocating RAILROAD RELOI ATION sor, choral music; Myrtle Kern, less than last year and about the education, coach; Elizabeth Tren- the highway and railroad in the Organization of the Lane county CONTRACT AW ARDED. At the regular meeting of the English three and four; Borghild same decrease was registered last ary, fourth grade; Helen Olson, Dorena section. Crews are mark Mehlen. Latin, English, library; air observation service is under- Townsend club Monday evening. ing time at the Cottage Grove year over the previous year. The awarding of a $6,768 eon- Shortage of poults at the start of fifth grade home room; Belva dam and are getting the gravel Dorothy Parks, English I, social way with naming of a number of plans were made for the observ- Waggoner, fourth grade; Jean sciences; Tom Preeee, biology, spotters from each section of thc ance of Founder’s Day at the next tract for the relocation of Ore- the season was a factor in the Rose, primary grades; Dorothy pits ready for use. A rock quarry general mathematics, physical ed -' county, Howard Merriam, county regular meeting September 8th. gon. Pacific and Eastern Railway short crop this year, especially in Moore, primary grades; Lillian is being opened up three miles up ucation, and coach; Julia Tomlin- coordinator, announced Tuesday Founder's Day however falls on tracks in the vicinity of Dorena California. McLeod, primary grades; Vivian the Coast Fork, the rock to be son, English II, public s,»caking. a’ Eugene. Observers will hold a September 14th. The committee dam reservoir has been announc- Locally there is also a shortage Johnston, primary grades: Alice used in rip rap work. dramatlcs, Spanish; Ora Lea Van- meeting at the Eugene armory appointed to make plans for the ed by the war department in Road work around the dam has of weaner pigs, good milch cows Haldeman, primary grades, and nice, clothing I and II, related Friday when Major William J. program included Mrs. Anna Pe- Washington, D. C. and chickens. Until recently there Dorothy Gesme, primary grades. also slowed down with the west science, and general science; and Herllhy, member of the second trie, Mrs. Kate Adams, Mrs. Mae road about graded and a small were no weaner pigs on the local George C. West, vocational agri- Interceptor command of air corps Barton. Ed Finnerty, Pete Brit H IT KI.EBEKRY CROP crew working on the grade on the market. culture. j °I Portland will be present to give ton and James Bennett. Mi’s. Bes DESTROYED east road. further instructions. A staff of ex- sie l^ike has been Invited to at COUNTY SCHOOLS SHORT pert technicians of the Pacific tend and give a resume of her trip A hail storm In the Bohemia O F TEACH ERS. Telephone and Telegraph Co. has lo the national convention at Buf- district has practically destroyed lieen installing equipment for falò. the huckleberry crop according to Five or six one-room grade several days. a report of the forest service. schools in Lane county will not Little information is available Crops in other r.reas are described open this year unless teachers are as this is written on the prospects Spotters named for this section Labor for harvesting crops of A N N U A L NORTH DOUGLAS 1 as fair. include: Roy VnnSchoiaek, Diss- FAIR. found within two weeks before of a successful elk hunting sea the Willamette valley is urgently i ton route; Floyd Jones, Disston the start of classes. County School son which opened Sunday in needed. The hop and prune crop The war department officially route; Willard Petersen, Black- Preparations are being made to Superintendent L. C. Moffit said Douglas and Coos counties. Fear is said to be suffering from lack notified Governor Charles A. Butte route; Harold Brown, Diss- hold the North Douglas fair at of forest fires in elk hunting of pickers. Farmers have been Saturday at Eugene. Sprague Friday at Salem that the ton. Drain, September 12 and 13. An An unusual shortage of teach country was dispelled by heavy plagued by rains, which have par Oregon national guard, which was Increase in practically every de- Mr. and Mrs. Bob Gordineer are ers is apparent this year, Moffit rains. Twelve hundred hunters tially destroyed the remaining Inducted Into federal service Sep SULLIV A N RANCH SOLD. parlment is anticipated. Fair of- the parents of a seven pound son revealed, and the smaller schools are expected to enter the regula fruit and vegetable crops. Hop tember 15, 1940, would remain in flcials took up the queen idea and horn this morning. September 4th have been unable to obtain any. ted forest areas during the season picking was getting underway in the regular army another 18 The Sullivan ranch located in five candidates have been nomi- at the McFarland maternity home. If no teachers apply for the posi which closes the 7th. Camping good fashion when the rains hit, months. Delight Valley has been purchased nated, Delilah Harrold. Rosalie _______ _ tions by the time school starts, permits were issued in 33 desig but since the rains have let up It added, however, that “Indl- by Joe G. Crick of Uplands, Cali Rentz, Vera Swearington, Valine growers cannot secure enough An 8'» pound daughter was children of the districts will be nated grounds. virtual members of the national i fornln, it was learned here Mon Harris and Lois Henderer. Checking stations were estab pickers. born to Mr. and Mrs. William An- sent to adjacent schools, Moffit guard will be released from time ¡day, Mrs. F. J. Sullivan moved It was indicated yesterday that nett of Oakridge Monday, Sep said. lished at Elkton, Reedsport, Co CEDAR SCHOOL TO START to time as the situation permits." Monday in order to give the new Lane county schools had a total quille, Marshfield, Reston. Melrose 115 WPA projects may be closefl tember 1st a, the Butler mater SEPTE M BE R «2nd. down until after the hops are The guard's 249th coast artll- owner PoiwMslon. who moved Im- nity home. The baby has been enrollment last year of 15,040— and Sutherlin. lery regiment is manning the Col- mediately to his new home with named Darlene Yvonne. 10,695 in the grade schools and Horace Sutherland of Marsh gathered. The Cedar grade school will 4.345 in high schools. field. former Cottage Grove resi lumhia river defenses at Fort Ste- b’s fa,T,ily. It is understood the Chas. Boslaugh is recuperating dent. was the only successful elk vens While the rest n f the m in rd s - 1 new own,‘r ’wil1 a,o<',< ,bp ,anpb start a,art September sp I” pmher 22nd instead of Stopping at the Oregon Caves K with Hereford cattle. September 8th as had been plan-, National Monument Monday, Sep- Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Stewart hunter reported in Tuesday. Sutlv from a major operation in a Eu men are at Fort u*wis, Washing-1 Mrs. Sullivan Is staying in town ned. Mrs. R. C. Lowrance is the tetnber 1. were Mr. and Mrs. Earl spent tlie week end visiting at erland, it was said, killed a large gene hospital and hopes to be able •on. 1 with friends for the present. i Cedars teacher this year. Mntry, of Cottage Grove. to return home in a short time. Agate Bench and Marshfield. ( bull elk near Ten Mile lake. W hltr Moldler Knocked Through Dl*|»l»y Window o t I .ora I Store Freshman and Sophomore Reg Traffic Increasing « On County Roads J )u ffy is Charged With Two Collisions Labor Day Rites for Dorothy E. Tonoli Held on Monday Morning Outlook of Turkey Market Improved Rains Hold Up the Work at C. G. Dam Spotters Named In Air Service 1,200 Hunters Are Expected in Elk Hunting Country National Guard to Remain Eighteen Months in Army B IR T H S Labor for Harvesting Badly Needed Now