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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1945)
trttofie tërove ^entrari W. C M A R T IN Published Every Thursday at Cottage Grove, Oregon Established August 15, 1889 ______________ Editor, Publisher LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELEtTION Subscription Rates, Cash In Advance Notice is hereby given th»t a script ion for less than 3 Special Election w ill be held in 6 Mi«. 3 Mos. the City of Cottage Grove, Lane I Yr. months. 'County, Oregon, on Monday, the .75 1.25 .2.00 In Lane-Douglas Counties ____ ________ 25 th day of June, 1945, for the .90 purpose of voting on a proposed 1.50 .2.25 Outside This Dist. In Oregon ________ 1.00 amendment to the charter of said 175 .2.50 Outside Oregon In U. S . _______________ C ity of Cottage Grove. The polls Foreign Rates on Application. w ill be open for the purpose of 150 1.00 said election between the hours of ..2.00 Armed Forces in U. S. __ _____________ 1.00 .1.50 8 o’clock a. m. in the morning un Armed Forces Overseas ___ ______ ___ til S p. nt. in the evening of said Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter day. The lower floor A F. A A. M. building corner H and Main AUDITORIAL— streets ip the1 firs t ward; council SSOCIATION chamber of the C ity Hall, Sixth street between Main street and Washington avenue in the second ward: and residence Herbert Moon 1031 East Washington in the FACING A PROBLEM third w anl are designated as poll- ing place^. Voters within the city lim its will probably Iw* asked to a p Erank McFarland is hereby prove a special levy of five mills in the near fu tu re to m ake a designated as judge and Gladys s ta rt tow ard eatablishing a sew er fund to extend tru n k and H all and Nellie Blackmore clerks storm sewers and to eventually construct a sew erage disposal in the firs t ward. Blanche Short plant. A gitation for a sewerage disposal plant for m any towns is hereby designated as judge and was strong about the time of the Pearl H arbor attack and will Jessie Matthews and Ethel Mock doubtless be an issue in the imm ediate future. Estim ates then ing as clerks in the second ward. placed the co«t of a complete local plant w ith the necessary e x Neva P. Harvey is hereby desig tensions and storm sewers at approxim ately $1.»0,000. Proceeds nated as judge and Mrs. Tom Biggerstaff and Laura Christen from the special levy w on't be much, but will be a start ami may sen as clerks in the th in ! ward. be im portant p a rticu larly in m atching funds, if such an offer is Done by order of the Common made by the governm ent in the post-w ar period. Council on this 4th day of June. C ottage d ro v e has a long way to go to establish even an 1945. L. W. COINER. City Recorder adequate sewer system. About tw enty percent of the corporate lim its is served by cess pools, which is not according to sta n d The following is the charter ard s of the health departm ent. C onservative estim ates say there amendment to be voted on: CHARTER AM ENDM ENT are good prospects for at least an additional hundred houses AN ACT here counting the forty federal u n its w ithin the* next year. These houses will have to be served somehow and finances are neces To amend the Charter of the C ity of Cottage Grove, by adding sary for such a program . a new Chapter thereto, authoriz- Many are fam iliar with the situation outside of the Eugene ing, empowering and directing the city limit will rem em ber th a t the sta te health departm ent clam p Common Council of the C ity of ed down on the suburban area, calling atten tio n to the danger Cottage Grove to design, con of mixing surface wells with eess pools and the unsanitary, re*; struct. reconstruct, add to and re suits. The suburban area here may face the same d ifficulty in a pair the sewer and drainage sys short time in ad d itio n to g e ttin g dom estic w ater in sufficient tem of the C ity of Cottage Grove, quantities. So the problem isn ’t confined to those who may live including all drains, ditches and outlets, fo r the carrying away of in the corporate limits. sewage and flood waters, and fo r The only reg re t is th at a move fo r a special levy was not the foregoing purpose to levy up started two years ago instead of now, which would have placet! on all taxable property in the C ity the tow n two years ahead of the present setup. a five m ill tax levy each year for a period of five consecutive years, commencing w ith the levy for the AMERICA SELF CONTAINED tax roll of 1945-1946 said levy to be in addition to and in excess of A few may recall th at in the early thirties, about the tim e the constitutional six per cent H itler was rising on the political horizon, one of the popular lim itation upon the City's tax books of the time was one called. “ America Self C ontained.’ levy. A lthough the w rite r has the book in his library, the name of the TH E C I T Y OF COTTAGE au th o r is not recalled. Anyway at the tim e the boon was pub GROVE DOES ORDAIN AS FOL lished, it sounded logical and served its purpose in convincing LOWS: the readers that we could live to ourselves more o r less, produc Be it enacted by the electors of ing about everything the natio n needed w ith the possible ex the C ity of Cottage Grove, Ore. Section 1. That the Common ception of coffee, ru b b er and tin. Now w ith all the talk of co Council of the C ity of Cottage operation about the D um barton Oaks conference and the San Grove is hereby authorized, em b'ranciseo conference, the title o f the book is more or less of a powered and directed to design, jolt. construct, reconstruct, add to and In try in g to w ork out a scheme fo r all nations to live and repair the sewer and drainage sys let live, we hope the prom oters of international peace d o n ’t go tem of the C ity of Cottage Grove to th e o ther extrem e and try to overthrow' our national econo including all drains, ditches and outlets fo r the carrying away of my. To m ention one specific instance, one prom inent speaker has sewage and flood waters, and for suggested th at since South Am erica can raise cotton more cheap the foregoing purpose to levy up ly than the V. S. A., we should let South Am erica produce the on all taxable property in the City cotton a n d we should supply the m achinery. Knowing how of Cottage Grove a five m ill tax deeply rooted the cotton industry is in the south we would re levy each year fo r a period of five g ret to see a radical move of this sort undertaken now or later, consecutive years, commencing if thia is w hat the speaker m eant. We believe the south will w ith the levy fo r the tax roll of eventually solve its problem with reference to its surplus of cot 1945-1946 said levy to be in addi ton ju st as the wheat grow ing regions will solve theirs. In fact tion to and in excess of the con stitutional six per cent lim itation many sections of the nation are getting away from the one crop upon the C ity's tax levy. idea, a process which has been g rad u ally underw ay fo r th e past Section 2. That the money aris th irty years. Am erica we believe has practically lost its world ing from such levy shall be dis cotton m arket and we believe the cotton farm er knows this, but bursed by the Common Council to tell the cotton farm er th a t he must stop grow ing cotton and by warrants drawn by the Com give South Am erica this right, all for the idea of universal mon Council upon a fund which is peace, would be a serious m istake and would seriously dislocate hereby created by this levy, which fund shall be designated "Special ou r industries. Sewer Fund,” said warrants to be To bring this problem closer home, suppose the San F ra n signed by the Mayor and City Re cisco conference should result in the form ation of the D um bar corder. ton Daks security plan and th at the northw est should be told STATE OF OREGON to cease producing lum ber because Canada, let us say. could COUNTY OF LAN E produce lum ber more cheaply th an we. W ould th is sound logical CITY OF COTTAGE GROVE—ss. I, L. W. Coiner, recorder of the to w estern Oregon residents? You can answ er th a t question. ity of Cottage Grove, Oregon, We believe some sort of an agreem ent should be w orked out ' C hereby certify that the foregoing to feed the hungry of the w orld with the surplus crop products is a true and correct copy of the and th a t efforts should be made to raise the sta n d a rd of living proposed Charter Amendment to of the world. (It has been said th a t if the sta n d a rd of living the C harter of the C ity of Cottage of the world w as raised one-sixth, both N orth and South A m eri Grove by adding a new chapter ca could sell all the cotton these countries could produce, at least thereto to be submitted to a vote of the legal voters of the C ity of for several years). Cottage Grove at special election to be held June 35, 1945, as the IMAGINARY CONSTIPATION same appears in the original peti tion calling said election. A m erica is popularly supposed to be a land of constipated Dated June 4th, 1945. people. However, according to an article appearing in Your (C ity Seal) L. W. COINER. City Recorder liody, constipation is largely im aginary in a vast num ber of p e r 43-2t-44 i. i,, „• i. T H l’RRDAV, JVNT3 7. 194ft T1TK S E N T IN E ^ COTTAGE PROVE, Q R E P O N 1'AG'L TW O sons. Dr. M anfred Kraem er, a fte r studying the laxative habits of 300 patients, in a consecutive series, reports as follows: Of the num ber. 21% took a laxative daily, and 53% a t least onee a week. This sta te of “ bowel consciousness” he considers due to physicians, as well as to patent medicine ad v ertising; the question a#» to the activity of the bowels is too often the first asked by the doctor, in reverence to centuries-old trad itio n . The condition of undue attention to the bowels is equally divided be tween men and wom en; the la tte r begin earlier. It is tru e, says Dr. K raem er, th at physical harm h ardly ever results from the use of simple lax ativ es; the trouble is that th e user acquires the m ental characteristics o f a d rug addict. The life of the habitual {,user of c a th a rtics is often as m iserable, from his w orry over this / m atter, as th a t of a person w(ho has a diseased h eart or stom ach, Dytx^onstipation is not a tru e physical disease; and the cases in which it is actually the symptom of a disease arc com paratively few. DR. H. A. HAGEN □ MARTIN MOTORS Pontiab Sales and Service NOTICE TO CREDITORS I have been appointed as Ad m inistrator of the Estate of EM MA JOHNSON by the County Court of Lane County, State of Oregon by an order dated June 5th, 1945. A ll persons having claims against said Estate are re quired to present them, w ith prop er vouchers, w ithin six months of the date hereof, to me, at the Law Office of Herbert W. Lombard, F irst National flank Building, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dated and firs t published Juno 7, 1945. Date of last publication July 5, 1945. W IL L IA M W. LOWER. Adminis trator. HERBERT W. LOMBARD, Attorney fo r Estate. 43-5t-47 Tanka Give Lesson A m erican tanks are giving the railroads a few lessons that w ill ! greatly im prove postwar transporta tion. Introduction of triple-acting hydraulic shock absorbers on tanks proved so effective in easing jolt.', and im proving gun accuracy that today every new tank has them By cushioning the shock of rid in g over rough te rra in , they keep the chassis level and help Keep the guns d i rected at the target. day. Hostesses were Mi's. MoDon- was given Hostesses for the next joyed a I rip anil picnic up Sharp Creswell ah, Mi's. E. Schwering, Mrs J. meeting are Mrs. E. A Green, Creek Sunday, Walkup. Guest speaker was Mi's. Mrs. O. II. Harrold. Mrs. Fred Schools all over the state are M yrtle Carter, home demonstra T riA ih ly. Buy W ar Bonds and keep them. rapidly closing for the summer tion agent.. Ten guests were pres M r and Mrs, II. S. Joslin anil vacation. Creswell grade school ent, and un interesting program Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S lr itlto n en Huy W ar Bonds and keep them. has more than made a record, hav ing sold over $69001X1 w orth of b aids and w ar saving <amps. In a recognition letter from the VS. treasury, dceulcomanias giving name and address of I he Creswell school have been placed on the three je e i* and an ambulance, their work has bought. Former .Croswell postmistress, Mrs. Olive Parsons, who has made her home in Eugene tor several years, has returned to Creswell where she plans to make her home. In a letter from her nephew M ajor R. K. Schroeder to Mr-- II S Joslin, he says: "Took i flight the other day. Saw Antwerp, Man nheim, Strasshurg, Maginol Line, ________ Heidelberg. L ik e Constance In Switzerland the Alps, Munich, H itler's home in Bervhesdarden, Stadium at Nurhemburg. Col ogne, Frankfurt and the Saar val ley. I t was a wonderful trip. At from 300 ft. to 12000 ft. and to not see any lighting you don't know how thankful I was' the Alps looked like Glacier Park m Montana", he added, " I t remind ed me of home." M ajor Schroed e r is from Whitefish, Montana. The joint birthday anniversar ies of Jenenne Emerson and Faye Schwering was celebrated w iih a skating party, w ith a lunch fol lowing the party, at the Everson home. The Creswell grade school tu rn ed in five afgans and 27 wash cloths to the Junior Red Cross of fice. A number of lily growers from Creswell attended the Monday evening meeting at Cottage Grove of the Southern Lane Easter Lily- Growers, at the I. Q. O. F. hall, and listened to a talk by A rth u r S. King, extension soil special ist. who helped the growers solve their many problems. Mr. King O P T O M E T R IS T S visited a number of farms in the C ottage (¡rove Oregon valley. The .Civic club met last Tues- If Dad needs new glasses, no more appropriate Father’s day remembrance could be made him. New and modern glasses will not only improve his vision, they will improve his appearance. Arrange today for an examina tion. M O N A H A N ’S M ----------- KEEP A MOMENT'S CARELESSNESS . . . and millions of dollars in payrolls and thousands of happy days of sport go up in smoke! Our forests offer more than just payrolls and sport — although each acre of forest land provides more than 30 days of work in harvesting and processing the wood alone. They offer more than th a t! Forest products industries are the •’heart” of prosperity in this area . . . a great natural resource that starts dollars rolling through grocery stores, banks, clothing stores and all community business. They are the original source of a great volume of taxes that support schools and government itself. Fllh and g a m . cannot t u , . I * . In ba-ren mountain,; Ihoy Ih r l.. in sur evergreen l o r .,II . Our forests are a sacred heritage — yours, and all who live here. W ith this heritage goes the responsibility of preservation. Members of the indus* try are preventing and fighting fires — and they are growing new trees to replace those harvested. But your help is needed, too! Each of us must act as a good neighbor in preserving our mutual wealth. PASS THE WORD ALONG! Warn all to be extremely careful of fire In the woods. Report every fire the moment you sec i t ; (just call “operator”). These simple neighborly but important acts will Keep Fire Out I W ood product. Induilrlon account l . r 6 9 % ol our economi« wealth. The Bohemia Lumber Sales Co. Cottage Grove Lumber Company Scott Lumber Company J. H. Chambers & Son Row River Lumber Company
