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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1948)
Th* Want inri, Colta<r Urine, Oregon DORENA stakes" So law* concerning gam bling would seem to have some The PTA meeting was held Fri Published Every Thursday at to winning on machim-s day evening with a large attend Cottar ®rovr ^mtinrl Once Over Lightly relation Cottage Grove, Oregon Cottage Grove. Oregon that pay off in mono) or other ance Business meeting was opened Dear Editor- Established August 15, 1889 stakes, wouldn't they " The whole I'nu) DeVaux Last weeks Sentinel had a big at 8 30 by the president. Mrs Min *. C. MARTIN___ ____ ________ Editor, Publisher litwil Hpix-ar* to be another illustin- nie Wagner, and lasted until 9:30. story telling us of the wonders BuhscripUon ratea, caah in advance. No aubteription for lesa than 3 Palestine is the test, the acid tion of the case by which offenders performed by the C. G. dam. It after which lunch of pie and coffee fcontha. 1 Yr. 6 Mos. 3 Moa. told us how many cubic fret of was served test, for the United Nations Or c g n and do manage to esea|x Mrs Lillian Doolittle was a vis ^anization All members are Ixound 1 through multiple meaning law*, 1.00 water was held back |n<i how In Lane-Douglas Counties ..2.50 1.50 impos.ible 1.75 Dutaide This District .3.00 1.50 much the water level raised in the itor this week of Mr. and Mrs U. by the charter to stand by the I*1“/* partitiomng order and if the V N 0 »"enVeted dam. Birt the story didn't tell u* - „ , Foreign Rates on Application. that most of that w ater whs held * 15 8idne> Hales received word calls for tro<4>s |t 1» up to the 1 My primary objection to the Kdtarod at Cottage Grove, Oregon, aa second class matter. back after the worst of the fkxHi ’b1'* n,o'her. Mrs Ira Lee of member nations to furnisfi them, nmehines is that the) are located The U. S. included must Iw willing ln place* where the school kids was over At 2:30 Tuesdai after- 1 Drudge is seriously ill. to throw troo|>s in to support the ‘ fiml it convenient to waste their EDITORIAL— i noon the water was still roaring Raleigh ilson had the misfor- ixutitioning We have airead) ta- tini«* amt mones Atul 1 don’t Just th»' dam so tast fast that that the the 'une 'his week of losing his milk CCCX^I ATIC^M out out of of the dam so ken steps toward this end. mill- mean High School kids cither, river was completely full just be-!00" A covered dish supper was given tary authoritim figure we need at When they get that old they know the small streams and drainage at the Row river hall Saturday least 50.000 troops This prepara what they are doing, or reaaonnbly FACTS, FICTION AND FANCY between the dam and Cottage । evening at seven o'clock. About 50 tion may lead to very hot discus so anyway. These machines, ban Monday we received another letter from Mrs. Virgie Quimby Grove, a distance of six miles and guests were present. Afterwind, sions in Washington but it is our dits, in my opinion, even if they don't pay off anything but free complaining on the manner in which the flood waters are you can plainly see why residents nine tables of 500 were the amuse duty if the United Nations is not games, promote the spirit of gam ment of the evening. High scores to be another league of Nations handled at the Cottage Grove Lake. This is either the second or of Silk Creek were forced to leave were won by Ida Gamutte of Cot We must stand by it now or it will bling and can eat up nickels faster third such letter which Mrs. Quimby has written us regarding their homes. The Register Guard tage Grove and Raymond Wicks ;ail from the very date we decline than the kids can get their dimes , conditions at the dam. We would have to refer to our files to had two items in it about residents Low scores were w on by Ruby Wil to enforce this first disputed law changed The very fact that the of Cottage Grove seeing water be determine the exact number of times, hut the current letter is ing released from the dam when a son and Howard Campbell. law «as passed infers that the of world order * being published in this issue and should clarify the position of spokesman at the dam said no Rat Creekers report the creek (leople do not want thia kind of To the city manager I wish to recreation. Mrs. Quimby for sometime to come; at least we hope it does. water was being released. The very high during the heavy rain, retract my statement in last Those favorable to the mu- Yes. the big story we told in the last issue of the Sentinel $64 00 question is “Who is this but no damage done. The road grader was at work week's column under the title of. chinos, hold that the machines are was taken from the data supplied us by the I'. S. Engineers and spokesman at the dam. who is so a legitimate form of entertain if the data can he proved incorrect, we will gladly apologize. nearly blind and deaf that he can on the Rat Creek road Monday. "Til» to the city manager”. A special meeting of the Busy 1 was under the impression that ment, and that players ina> spend Otherwise we must conclude that since the engineers have made not see and hear water being re Ree club was given Ruby Wilson a nickel, engage in a game of skill a study of dam building, they should know how to build and leased from the dam at a very- Friday The day was spent in mak with the passage of the no gam rapid rate." The item in the Sen- bling machine law that all the and go happily on their way when operate them after they are built. Our report carried the infor | tinel said the water level in the ing pot-holders for the hostess machines would go. It seems the game is over What do you mation that water was being released from the dam at the rate dam raised 10 feet. I'm not dis There was an attendance of nine though, that it takes more than think? of 2,100 second feet, which is contrary to the item carried in the puting this but unless you saw it ladies A nice covered d:»h dinner Philadelphia lawyers to decipher I, for one. believe that the kids Register Guard according to Mrs. Quimby. We can add further for yourself you wouldn't believe was served at -noon the new law and that ail over the around here deserve a better font) The members of telephone line state the law's meaning is being ot entertainment than the nickel that what flood there was in Cottage Grove was not caused by what a small raise that would be the i No. 9-F held a meeting at the specula'..'' Though a 11 kinds of snatchers provide But. since 1 compared to the capacity of the Coast Fork overflowing its banks but by the surface waters __ I home of Roderick Doolittle Mon-1 1 s|M>culation is a fad those days want to drop this hot potato. 1 t which our sewer system could not carry. Surface waters at 6th dam. a . no time during . the k flood did a j i dav “- [jaw. I thought, was a rule that have not investigated the iHtsabd- 32 pres- At ■ evening .. , • There were 22 , r~ and Washington came from the south part of Second Street and ent. At the close of the meeting is enforced: Webster says gamble ities of the city passing an ordin the dam come anywhere near ■ be Mrs. Roderick Doolittle served not from any overflow of the river. means “to play for money or other ance to control the machines < rs Nor had we heard that because of a flooded Coast Fork. ing full. We noticed lots of ca driving out this way during the coffee and cake. Silk Creek ran several people out of their homes, as stated in flood so I know there are lots of the letter. people who know that I’m telling , OUR corxn FARM By Elmer J. Kent We don’t expect the Cottage Grove dam to supply an um the truth And to the ones who, brella for the entire Willamette watershed nor do we expect the think the dam is a wonderful ' This subject has been pretty engineers to be weather prophets enough to foretell an approach-1 thing and saves C. G. from being much discussed in other papers ing storm a week or ten days ahead. That’s where the resident washed away every time it < but we here in southern Lane engineer would be gambling if he shut the gates down and let I sprinkles a little, just drive out I county should be equally inter- | next time we have a bad storm | ested It was very regrettable that the lake fill to capacity during a storm. It’s possible but not [ j and see for yourself what is being | anyone should even think of probable that we might have two bad rain storms a few days ’ i done to "save you ” : ’ brewing out the older people who apart. In the event the lake was permitted to be filled to We are above the river where ; havp 'his »heir home for a capacity during the first storm, the lake would be valueless as Roods do not bother us but it number of years on the mercy of fur as the second storm goes and what a howl would be raised makes me boiling mad to hear of l"1*1'*« or PUb»c at large, if a happening like this occurred. people's homes being flooded and I but P‘\rhaPs 'he;r Ca7J1S ,O? During the midst of the recent storm we heard a rumor then to hear and see so much ' m“ch d'^nt from thousands of to the effect that the lake was filled and some people ware water being released thru the dam °’here wpr our country who find worrying for fear that the lake could not hold enough water when there is plenty of space to I 'hemselves facing these high living ” w,th meaKer chccks back to prevent a flood here. We have also run across those who hold it ail back The papers are i ! «* We re hoping out of this will conn- always telling us something that worry during heavy rains for fear the dam will break. In faet the U. S. Engineers said about the some good, some unity of action. if we paid attention to all the rumors, we might soon he ready flood and flood control. Wonder This writer, like many others over 811 Main Street Telenhdne 308 Y for the insane asylum. In our shop a mark on the wall tells of the why they don't say a little more 1 the state interested in the welfare ’ of our older folks, has found in high waters a number of years ago. In 1945 according to the and tell us why more water isn't records we had just as much rain, but the water never left the held back during floods. Possibly many instances those most diffi- river banks. That to us was evidence of the value of the Cottage they don't want the dams to de j cult to approach on this subject’, ; were our churches, educators and Grove lake as a flood control dam. This is our opinion and if you . too much good for then the people our younger people, but in this wouldn't be in favor of more and believe otherwise, that is your privilege. more dams for they'd think the they seem to be very much united a " datit tut uhcdttat cTTv ones we have are sufficient. Then We don t place too much blame on W. h« 1 i M ; E hospital site the E ngineers wouldn t have the 1 our administrator or case workers, We had a letter from someone, left under our door on the fun of figlinng out how to spend but on our laws that make these subject of Why Spoil Our City Park?” We have never pub- $200.000.000 more in Lane county worthy people dependent on liquor revenues, while millions of lished an unsigned communication where the identity of the for dams as they want to do. frozen funds lie unused in other author was unknown to us. The publie will have opportunity of I think the dams could be a departments. We were very much voting on this issue and can reject the idea of locating the great help in time of emergency pleased to see that labor and the hospital in the city park if they so choose. if they would be used to hold back tarm groups propose to do some The committee chosen to select a site, picked the park site more flood water as well as for thing about the idle millions, and te because of the fact that this was within walking distance of the swimming and boating in the sum hope that pension minded groups SMA PORMELA is essentially the wune • center of town and because the committee felt that the remaining mer. But that doesn't seem to be of all kinds unite with them and the policy of the Engineers as with the help of our churches and human milk. part of the park eould still be used as a play ground. shown during this flood and also As we said before the idea can still be rejected if the public the one in 1945. In '45 during the all right thinking people, place 3Oc Liquid concentrate, the can has interest enough to express opinion at an election. In a school i bad flood the dam wasn't half full measures on the ballot this year Powdered form, the can . . . . election sometime ago. only six people voted on an increased at ‘ any time during the flood but that will permit our legislators to use these funds that these people budget while some 230 votes were cast for directors. This sort the people were under the impres may have more and better care STORK NI’RSERS — a complete feeding unit of an election- does not refleet the public opinion. If you have 1 sion that it was full after reading Surely our own people should an opinion on the subject' it is jour duty, if you live within the papers. The Engineers and the come first. Cap protected and saintary .. 35c Cottage Grove Chamber of Com the city to vote on the issue. merce (who incidentally thinks PROPOSED BAPTIST MARSHALL DANA FOR GOVERNORSHIP NOMINEE the dam is one of the seven won dll’X DISPOSABLE DI A PLUS *1.69 Clackamas < ounty Democrats have started a movement to ders of the world! gave several HOME REJECTED An application to permit estab draft Marshall N. Dana, editor of Oregon Journal editorial page, excuses for the dam. One was that GLYCERIN SEPPOS I TOH I ES PurctesL for nomination for governor. Already the knockers are busy w ith the dam was holding back the lishment of a children's home on a Infant size............................ intimations that the gambling fraternity will find him accept water. No. 2. They had to save farm nPar Eugene was rejected able unless Governor Hall is nominated by the republicans. some room in the dam for it might jFiiday by the State Police Wel- Those who know him regard that intimation’as slanderous. His rain some more. Ha Ha! 3. The run fare Commission at Portland. matter had been before the nomination would be peculiarly acceptable to wives, mothers and off between the dam and Cottage Grove was what filled the river to 'x>ard once before and at Friday’s tiác iat.iers to whom gambling, liquor and commercial vice are a overflowing and. 4. Compared to session, called especially to hear chief worry as corrupting youth. Educators and church people mighty Row River why what was 'he proposal argued, the commis- 11IIK* look to him as a champion of decency. let out of this dam wouldn't s'on ruled that the program failed to meet requirements for child- Dana for many ¿ears has been a resilient of Clackamas amount to anything anyway. 4 jars an<l a tray .. County, just south of Milwaukie —Oregon Voter These contradictory statements caring institutions. Survey State remind one of the excuses a small Rocking toy TK K TOK The commission, at the same boy might make when he was time, however, voted to survey caught robbing the cookie jar. I think we the people who pay the entire problem of child care the wages of the U. S. Army En- in the state to develop a program Tune in your NBC station each Wed. evening at 7:30 gineers should demand that the to meet the needs. dams should be used for the pur- for the Rexall Radio Show. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Thrasher ' pose for vQiich they were intended — Relax and Laugh With Millions— — namely flood control or else our of Roseburg have been visiting here with Mrs. Thrasher ’ s parents, ' money should be spent on more worthwhile projects like channel Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Whitlock, ing out the rivers so they will car and other relatives and friends. ry more water and then we won't Try a Sentinel Wantad. need so many dams or so many Salesbooks — The Sentinel. high salaried employes to care for them. 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