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I lu fl
What £ks 1 to dû?
•• I stream Iron! the
to the cheat, Multnomah being
As I considered it tor tha second squeezed the trigger and “froze" as
credited with 1549,996.78, Marion
that was necessary to make up my the bomber seemed to oome back
county, which has a |M>pulatlon
Established August IS, 1889
mind, I remember thinking that my towards me.
near thut ol Lane, reported the
Editor, Publisher
As 1 drew up to less than a hun
loss of thia slop would ba justified
suuprlatng low figure of 95909.07.
W. C. MARTIN _
Hiram Wethwhee who irwtulled
if I shot a Japanese ship down, and dred yards tha big red spots an the
Subscript io
if 1 waa out of fuel above the clouds wing grew wider and wider apart, the flrxt hitntl pump on Harvey
than
3
for
less
ibscription
Subscription rates, cash in
I could dive down and land tn a and 1 saw places come from the Road hud truuhle lately getting
e Moa. 3 Moa.
1 Yr.
months.
rice paddy That would be an »van left engine. I nearly rammed the water. He took it up and found
.75
trade. But 1 guess my ego thought enemy—I still don't sea how 1 that hia good neighbor« hud been
1.25
....200
In Lane-Douglas Counties
1 could shoot the whole formation missed tha radio antenna pole be cutting pieces off of the lend auc
.90
1.50
.2.25
down — and the exchange of the hind the glass canopy; 1 could see tion pipe* to make builds.
100
1.75
,2 50
Outside Oregon in U. S ..............................
Japanese flight tor my one ship the guns waving to and fro, and
John Dokoa aent off and got one
Foreign Rates on Application.
would certainly be favorable to our they shot at me.
of th-we new-fangled iron cook
1.00
1.50
2.00
Armed Forces in U. S....... .......................
side.
But the bomber was going down. .stoves
He
had considerable Expert service on all electrical
1.00
... 1.50
But my mind was already made 1 didn’t pull up as 1 went past him trouble by being smoked out of the
appliances. A ll work guaran*
Armed Forces Overseas ..........................
up. Even then 1 was on my way this time, but dove deeply When I I kiusc until be found that be was
teed. W ill pick tip and deliver.
Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter.
towards the position that 1 thought came out of the dive 1 looked buck
rylng to build the firs* In the oven,
WNV Foetus*».
was Section A-5. there on the pretty for the Zeros but they were not to ■le said the dir«fi'tmns came with
G54 So. F irs t St. I'luute 150.1
be seen. Above and behind me. the I ttllrighl but be couldn't read
white tops of the overcast
(Continued fro m last week )
bomber
was
spinning
slowly
in
ZJ-Jtp-tfc
Calling to Sisscr. 1 U’id him 1
'hern because the jaiek rats had
CHAPTER X V I
thought 1 was just East of Lingling flames, the black smoke making a run off will) bis glosses and be
and vary close to the Jap formation, spiral above the clouda- I saw it hud been unable to find them.
Well, the lost leader looked at his and was going to Uy to intercept. 1 go into the clouds as I mushed
FISH AND TAX DOLLARS
Grandma Seely who is ninety
map and still couldn't see how he dove down until 1 was Just over the through in my pullout. 1 came out ¡even years old and who mokes
Roseburg News—Review
was North of Ihe coursa and really tops of the clouds, at 17.BIHJ feet. below the clouds, which wcie broken the best tallow candles out here
Saturday, January 13, 1945)
Previously we have reported the intention of the Oregon past his destination. So he began , I dodged in among the lops of the in a few places now, but I couldn't s luid up with a misery. She
to argue again. The old Navy op
cumulus, looking ahead for see the Jap ships. 1 made one half >lip)M>d and hurt heraelf while
Fisli eoinmiwion to ask the state legislature for continuing ap erator stood the bickering as long fluffy
the first sign of the black silhouette circle and didn't know where 1 was cutting wood for the fire place
propriations to m aintain its hatchery program . The 1 ish com- as he could; then he "took ever
Finally remembering my fuel sup
of an airplane. As the enemy ships
mission in effect, is asking that tax p ay ers of Oregon be re With the initiative he had devel , had been reported headatg North, ply, I breathlessly glanced al the Ix't us ho|M* she is soon up and
uround again
quired to subsidize u private industry which has already vir oped, he gave off some of the most I estimated where they should now gauges, and they were all bouncing
Our chickens have been cutting
around on—E M P TY ! I turned and
tually destroved salmon runs in ou r coastal stream s and now classic advice that I've ever heard I be and flew to intercept them.
s'»me
queer capers lately. They
and
he
gave
it
straight
from
the
headed
West
with
my
throttle
re
1'U never forget. 1 had Just looked
asks public support while it is in the process of com pleting the
taking off und
shoulder.
.
at the fi/cl gauge for the hundredth tarded and the prop set back for all take turns
task of extinction.
trapping their eggs while air
"Goddamit." he called, "who the time, and as my eyes left the in cruising. Now 1 called Sasser, bav
Again we ask the question, why should Oregon taxpayer.« hell's lost, you or me? Now you fly
strument board to go buck to tny ing forgotten to call him at the tno- 1 txirne al an object on the ground
be required to subsidise private in d u stry ! There m ipht be a the course I'm telling you and we U diligent search, I saw the clock, and ment of contact with the enemy. I Some of thorn have achieved re
reasonable answer it' a su hstanatial proportion of our popu meet you.”
the hour was 9 08. At that instant told him about the interception, 'markable accuracy too They did-
And so another man of the Occi I saw an enemy airplane—one sil that I knew 1 had shot down the n't lay very well u ntil 1 conceived
lation was absolutely dependent upon com m ercial tishing for
a livelihood. But, with the possible exception of the t olumhw dent failed to change the East, and houette. From that second on. 1 bomber and had gotten some bursts ! the idea of tuklng the uxe w ith
and W illam ette rivers, such is not the ease, Foim nereial fisher in failing learned a little and be know 1 moved automatically 1 »aw on the fighters. Sasser told me that me when I fed them
came a little more like the E ast It that on our courses we were going there waa a flight on the way fignn
C. E. (C liff! Huberts
m en on the Rogue river quickly learned.w hen that stream was saved
twenty-five airplanes.
Hengyang. lad by C il Bright.
to
meet
head-on.
closed to net fishing, th at guide service at $10 to $20 per da\
The other ship was now much
My altitude was ten thousand now
was fa r more profitable and pleasant than arduous net tishing.
People have asked me what made nearer, and closing fast. It was a and I held it while 1 Just about gild
Many of our lower Umpqua fisherm en have reached the same me able to shoot down my first twin-engine bomber and was right cd with power lo the West, where I
C L A R K At the M cFarland m a
Jap, and probably they expected me down low over the clouds. Just as should see the Hengyang-Kweiim
eonelusion.
.
ternity hum«* on Tuesday, January
j , M5 to M[. UIM, M pj s T b o m .
All our coastal stream s, aside from the Columbia, are ta r to say that I had practised on tow I was Dcwn below now were holes railroad. As I finished my report
more valuable for recreational purposes than for commercial targets until I could put every shot m the overcist, and 1 imagine the over the radio, Sasser in Kweiun as C la rk if London, u son, L a rry
in the black. Or thut 1 had been bomber was trying to locate Its po told me S-3. and Richardson at
fishing.
. .
t
i to ail the schools from Leavenworth sition to go down through. He didn't Hengyang said S-3 also. Bui MiUer Dean. •
But Ralph W atson, political editor of the Oregon Jo u rn al. to Mount Holyoke, and had learned
my ship, and 1 kept hidden by al Lingling told me I sounded very
WALLS At t h e McFarland
P o rtlan d , in the edition published Sunday. Ja n . 7, reports: tactics. Or perhaps that I was bet see
the clouds as much as possible. 1 close to his station, and guve me Die maternity home on Wednesday.
The Fish commission intends to ask the legislature to ter at piloting than the Jap. I must felt my left hard go to the instr- report S-5. These mean, in radio January 24. 1945. to M r. und Mrs
have disappointed them. For if any ment panel to turn on the gun- technical language, that my volume
put it back on a straig h t appropriatioti-baaed arrangem ent
Hotn-rt Walls. Ihsaion route, Cot
one thing more than another enabled switch. Then, as I looked at the red was louder In Lingling than at either
where it would tu rn all poundage fees into the general
tage Grove, a son.
me
to
meet
the
Japanese
fighter
pi
switch. 1 saw that 1 had evidently of the other two stations More than
fund and ask fo r an appropriation sufficiently in excess
lots in the air and shoot them down turned It on without being conscious likely 1 was closer to the middle
of th at revenue to enable it to m aintain hatcheries enough
LANE < ONTKIBI TION TO
while I escaped, it was an American of the act. 1 moved it off. then town. 1 assumed this and flew West,
to increase th e salmon run. or at least not to let it dw indle.
CHERT DIM lAt.HED
girl.
back on again, as a kind of test. 1 letting down gradually.
Chairm an Jo h n Veateh explains he has been try in g to sell
First of all, I don't know exactly turned the gun-sight rheostat on and
Ixine county people gave $»>7,•
Just then Miller must have re
the idea for several sessions but this tim e is buttressed by
what democracy is, or the real, com got the lighted sight reflected on ceived a report from a town that 233.73 to the Oregon war chest
All Work Guaranteed
mon-sense meaning of a republic. my glass armor In front of my heard my engine, lor he said, (luring the year ltH4. according to
a $20.000 deficiency covered by the em ergency board.
We would need no expensive hatchery program in th is state But as we used to talk things over eyes. The enemy ship came on. "You're Northeast of the field." I the financial report from chest
27 SOUTH 6th STREET
if it were not fo r comm ercial fishing. If we had abundant runs in China, we all used to agree that •mushrooming" in my vision; our turned a little South und saw Die headquarters, filed in the office
of salmon, our rivers would quickly restock themselves, not on we were fighting for The American relative speed of approach was per welcome red clay of t ingling 1 | of the (xiurity clerk, as provided
G irl. She to us was America. De haps five hundred miles an hour. started feeling happy then — I'd been by law
Phone 254R
ly with salmon but with o ther species of fish.
mocracy. Coca Colas, Hamburgers.
By now I had shoved everything In the air on a cross-country lor
Lane
county
lx
second
to
Mult
This continuing fight betw een commercial anil sport-. lish- Clean Places to Sleep, or The Amer forward on the throttle quadrant— nearly four hours, and knew that
nomah in the amount contributed
ing interests involves more th an salmon. We are led to believt ican Way of Life.
the engine was pulling full power, I'd shot down at least one plane
the problem can be solved by p e rm ittin g n etters to tak e the
To hurriedly explain this theory, and the prop pitch was set to high I couldn't buzz the field though, for
salmon, leaving other game fish to sportsm en. But w ithout let me say that I learned to tly as speed, low pitch.
any minute I expected the engine
Then. Just before I pressed the to cough and the prop to start
salmon runs there will be few of the o th er species to m aintain anybody else did—with an instructor
in a flying school. That is, I learned trigger, I saw the other planes. ' "windm illing"—out of gas
I put
sports fishing.
to lake a trainer off and to land it
N atu re has created an interdependence between salmon riu w But to correct this. I learned to be two enemy fighters above and be tha wheels down and landed without
W E NOW HAVE AN EXPERIENCED ELECTRICIAN
and o th er species of fish in our rivers. This relationship is sel a combat pilot by flying all over the hind the bomber. I hod evidently even looking to see which way the
BESIDES MYSELF TO DO YOUR WIRINO
wind
was
on
the
runway
1
got
the
dom tak e n into account when considering the ind u strial side o f Western Hemisphere to see an not been seen by any of the three ship parked without the engine s dy
ALL KINDS OF WIRINO AND ELECTRICAL WORK
ships, for after all I was coming on
American Girl. I went from every very close to the clouds
the fishing question.
But I ing. but the mechanics said they
DONE PROMPTLY.
N atu re provides th at salmon shall e n te r fresh-w ater stream s State in the Union to Georgia to sec nearly stopped my aiming from the couldn't sea any fuel in the tanks
to spaw n. A fter spaw ning they die and th eir carcasses are dis her. I went from South America to surprise of seeing them. They were
Rattier excitedly I told my story.
trib u te d along the riv e r bed from source to m outh, furnishing Panama to see the same girl. I about three thousand feel above the We counted the holes in my ship
went from Central America to the bomber, and were weaving back and and then went over to count those in
food for the salm on fingerlings as they s ta rt back to the ocean Canal
Zone to see her. AU on gov
1049 East Main
Phone 73
with the first freshets. Then, too. these carcasses are used as ernment missions certainly, but that forth in loose formation. I saw the one of the fighters that had been in
another battle that morning. Just
«4TFC
food fo r craw fish and o th er form s of aq uatic life which, in mission was more to develop my sell square wing-tip that told they were then Miller came dashing up in a
Navy Zeros. There flatbed in my
tu rn , become fish food.
. into being a pilot who could navigate mind the warning that 1 had heard jeep to say that my air engage
The num ber of fish any given area of w ater will sustain is ever the world, or fly instruments from General Chenr.ault about at ment had been reported over Lei-
lim ited only by the am ount of n atu ral food available. \\ hen when I had to. or fly at night, than tacking bombers when there was yang, sixty miles to the East, and
we destroy or lim it salmon runs we are reducing the amount it was to carry out the routine flight fighter escort. Everyone in China that confirmation had already come
I was on. I always imagined
had always neglected to consider in on my bomber, it had crashed
of fish food in our stream s and. consequently, th ere is not that
that my sole duty was to get odds on the side of the enemy—they and burned eight miles from the
enough to support ab u n d an t fish life. As a result we have through with the ship safely. I knew
That noon I was so excited
seen a steady dw indling of A ,J . species w ith the related ne that if I could get through in peace were used to that.. Personally, 1 town.
just didn't know enough about aerial that I couldn't eat my lunch—I Just
time I could get through in war
cessity of reduction in bag lim its on game f*8^.
combat to worry much, or 1 might sat there and relived the battle
E xperim ents by the federal governm ent in A laskan w aters Then if I could fly the ship as an have gone on anyway. My six guns The sergeant came in to tell me
have proven th a t stream s can be kept well stocked providing expert, I would only have to point would neutralize their four; I could there were seventeen holes In my ,
th ere is ample escapement of salmon. H atcheries need be onlv the guns at the right place and the shoot the bomber down and dive into ship, and two of them were from the
enemy would go down.
the clouds before the Zeros could cannon of the Zeros—they were all '
a supplem ental source of supply.
To prove this, 1 go on and answer
back near the tail; so maybe George
But the commercial fishing interests in Oregon are not in the question further by saying, "No. get me.
Paxton had been right, and maybe 1
I
really
don't
know
whether
I
terested in escapement. They have fought every effort to ma'am. I didn't learn it in school
it all out or not. for by now the little bastards couldn't shoot
shorten open seasons. They have spent thousands of dollars Why, my greatest victory in the air I , I thought
was shooting The tracers seemed Well, we were to find out during the i
to defeat every conservation m easure brought before the leg was on a cross-country—that's what ( to go towards the enemy all right next ten days, very vividly
I flew on to Hengyang that after i
islature.
, x .. ,
. we call a navigation flight.” And but now the Jap came into my sight
noon, und with Lieutenant Cluck in J
They want only one thing and that is every last tish th a t here's the story.
so fast that I don't know whethei
a Jeep we drove to Leivang We had ,
they hit him then or not
I dov«
can be dragged out of Oregon stream s. And now they are
information that som e of the ere* '
Early
one
morning—July
31,
1M2
right
under
the
nose
of
the
twin
asking the taxpayers to help them drain off the final vestiges
>r passenser» had jumped from ih<
I —I took off from Kunming head engine ship, and I'll bet he was on»
of the rapidly dw indling fishing resources.
* quarters to return to the eastern surprised pilot. 1 noted that he har bomber that morning and had beei
The commercial fishing in d u stry has been practicing the theater at Kweilin and Hengyang started to turn and maybe tha capluicd. and we neid- d the prison
same w asteful plan followed fo r so m any years by the lum ber High mountains are on this flve- made me miss
ors for information
With Climes'
guides we climbed on fool over the
in d u sirv ; “ C ut it all and move o n .’’ B ut the lum ber industry hundred-mile route to the East, and
As the ship crossed over my hea
has reached its last fro n tie r and. at last, is learning the neees- I went on top of the overcast right I pulled around in the tighten tun rice paddies built on the hills, to
Kity fo r conservation. The fiwhin^ industry, ap p a re n tly , does away. From my twenty-thousand- I have ever made mushing d o w i wards the scene of the crash'd
not propose to practice conservation unletts compelled to do so. foot altitude 1 kept looking down at in the clouds a good distance, ano plane. Even before we'd covered
tiie ten or more miles thdl we had
the solid cloud layer just below me.
that must have hid me »r-m entaril,
to walk. I saw evidence of the a ir
and I guess that subconsciously I
from the fighter escort As I tame
prayed there would be breaks at my
out. the bomber was completing its plane It seemed as if every coolie
destination. There were mountains
turn opposite to the way I had that came towards us was carrying
a piece of the Jap plane Near the
at my destination too, and it's still
turned, and I moved in for a full
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Riggs of
not the best feeling to have to dive deflection shot—a shot possible when wreck I saw pieces of aluminum on
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Rites
for
Ida
Catherine
Taylor,
Vida visited recently with his
the houses covering holes In the
through overcast into hilly country
the other ship is crossing your path
71,
were
held
from
the
Mills
chap
GUARANTEED
brother and family, Roy Riggs, of
roofs, and saw some of the clothes
with a fighter ship—or with any
at W degrees. I had slowed d iwn.
el Saturday afternoon with the ship, for that matter.
Row River community.
however, and had to reef in and from the Jap airmen. These we
Rev.
Wendell
Small
officiating.
Rev. Mr. Hocker, a former res
examined, and found a notebook, a
As the minutes rolled by and the
shoot at it from beneath and behind
map. and a pistol
Later the sol
ident, has been visiting his church Interment was in the Taylor-Lane miles spun behind the P-40. 1 still I got a good burst in here.
members at Culp Creek. Both cemetery.
didn't see the welcome shadow of
But now I saw tracers ail around diers at the wreck gave us a chute
Miss Taylor, a life long resident a hole in the clouds. In just a little
Mr. and Mrs. Hocker are teaching
me and felt a couple of hits: the ant) some other things of military
and preaching in the Mountain of this section, died at the family over two hours I arrived over the Zeros were shooting at me. One of value.
home on West Main street, Jan point above the clouds where Ling- the enemy fighters dove in front of
633 North 9th Street
Phone 224R
When we came to the burned
missions near Knoxville, Tenn.
uary 17th. She was born on the
The Row River Community club Joseph Taylor donation land claim ling should have been. You see this me and I got a snap shot at it from bomber we found it pretty well scat
a hundred yards. I dove under the tered. Tli> fabric was gone from
met a» the home of Mrs. Glenn in the Hebron section July 23, point was in flat country, and be
Cellars on Thursday. A luncheon 1865. She resided at the family tween Kweilin and Hengyang. By bomber again, and with the speed the parts that hadn't burned, but
was served at noon. The day was homestead up until a few years intentionally making an error tn the that I gained, tried to make a belly the larger part was Just a mass of
spent finishing Mrs. Cellar's quilt. ago when she moved nearer town. North I knew at least what side of attack; I got tn another shot burst burned metal. 1 noticed that the
Kweilin 1 was on. and knew further
and felt some more bits on my bodiea of four Japs were lying where
Mr. and Mrs. B. Hilleman, who
She was a life long member of
they bad fallen, and «several day«
ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE AND SURETY BONDS.
purchased the iCorbit Smith place the Christian church. Surviving is more that I could go down much ship.
later other visitor« reported them
more safely there than farther South
As
I
pulled
up,
the
Zero
that
had
Good reliable companies that make generous
at Culp Creek have moved into one sister. Miss Lillian J. Taylor. in the mountains that surrounded
been shooting at me made the mis atill in the aame positions I looked
their new home.
adjustments of losses.
in
vain
through
the
wreexage
for
a
Kweilin.
take of rolling at the top of his
The Girl Scouts held their meet
Samurai
sword,
which
is
the
souve
4-H CLUB WORK TO BE
NOTHING
TOO LAROE OR TOO SMALL
1 called Lingling over the radio,
climb, and I dove at him and gave
ing on Thursday night at the Row
MARCH 3-11
but before I could get a reply. Sas
him about two hundred rounds with nir we value most from the Jap.
Office Phones 34 or 43
Residence 122R
River community hall with a large
National 4-H club week has ser, the operator at Kweilin, broke a no-defleetion shot; I know the burst
(Continued next wrekj
attendance. Mrs. Audry Ponton been set for the week of March in with an "alert” warning. He hit him badly. I shot at the other
and Mrs. Carlson, scout leaders, 3 to 11, according to word receiv said: "Chinese net reports noise ol fighter from long range as he tried
had a planned social hour and re ed by the state club office in the enemy airplanes coming up the Can
lilMiovrrs Pikes Peak
a head-on run. But the clouds were
freshments for the troop.
On November 15, lfitlfl. Lieut. Zeb
O. 8. C. Extension service. This I ton-Hengyang Railway at high al worrying the Japs—they seerred to
Mrs. C. Morris has been the was formerly called national ,-H titude. Last report Section A-5." have trouble seeing me. As my ulon M. Pike discovered the moun
house guest of her son and family, mobilization week, but Washing Looking at my map, which was dive at the Zero built my speed up, tain peak in Color ido that today
Mr. and Mrs. Len Morris, this ton authorities have requested marked off in squares with letter I turned towards the bomber again; bears his name— Pikes Peak.
past week.
that the term mobilization not be and numeral co-ordinates. I saw that it saw me and 'started a turn to
I was very close to that section
A surprise party was given Glen used in connection with govern But at the same time I was really the right. I snapped a short head-on
AT FIRST
shot, and before I got to the enemy
mental
activities
other
than
mili
Cellers Saturday night. Those
! not oriented as to position, and was
SIGN OF A
ship. I tossed caution to the winds
present were Mr. and Mrs. Willie tary.
I into the last twenty or so gallons of
arid made a hundred and eighty de
Vaughn, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
my fuel. Here was a chance at last
Bloomer, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sho- WANTED: 25 volunteers to help to intercept enemy planes; by the gree turn—the Jap was right in
berg, Mr. and Mrs. C. Vaughn, with tag day sales in polio fund. i time the P-40's from our fighter sta front of my guns and 1 was already
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Crisman Apply to N. d. NeTson Jr., chair tions could get there, the enemy shooting. I held the trigger down
and the host and hostess, Mr. and man at post office after liOO p.m. would Lav«. Conj-QD with their mis- and saw the tracers hit the big wing,
Qjg. fusejage, and ggw .the .glass
Mrs. Glen Cellers.
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Culp Creek
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Saturday, Jan. 27th.
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