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.
How about a few letters from
people who drove out to the dam
during the flood, Am I right or
wrong in saying the water was
not held back?
Virgie Quimby.
Letter
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tage Grove Sentinel is no excep
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gained when skiing the week after
Christmas affected the other parts
of the body. With profound apol
ogies to Mrs. Arnes t and Art
Weinkauf the manager will put1
forth more effort in the coming
year to eliminate as many mis-1
takes as possible. But first, some-1
one must rid her of the source of
trouble—the skis. Seriously, we
! are a little rushed and until we
move to our new location on North
Sixth street, everyone will have
to bear with us.
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