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The Sentinel, Cottage Grove, Oregon _ ^rovt '3 Have Narrow at Escape in Auto Accident May 4th Thur»., May 8. 1918 Published Every Thursday- Cottage Grove. Oregon Established August 15. 18,89 At least three people had a nar W. Ç MARTIN ..... Editor. Publisher row escape in an auto accident , . । which occurred Tuesday night Subscription rates, cash in advance. No subscription for less . ncar 10:20, a mile and a half south than three months. 1 Yr. 6 Mos. 3 Mos. of town on highway 99 Henry A I Qi) i .Dobbs. driving a 19118 DeSoto ae- In Lane and Douglas Counties „2.50 1.50 dan struck a 1938 Plymouth driv- .3.00 Outside This District ............ . 1-50'gn by orald Dean Smith. Jr., as ' Smith was attempting to turn off Foreign Rates on Application. | the highway to go home. Dobbs, a Entered at Cottage Grove. Oregon, ns second class matter. i resident of Ward's butte com- . munity told investigating officers AliDfTORIAl— I he did not see the Smith car until Z ACtXXiATirTki w“hin 25 or 30 i<et of '• T** I lytw Dobbs car followed the Smith car * into ’he ditch. smashing the top. • ’7 ' । Mr. and Mrs. Smith and baby, oc- cupying the front seat of the Ply mouth were said to have escaped WATCH OUT FOR THE CHISELERS Old timers will recall the name of Chas. Ponzi, a familiar death by being thrown on the hack of the car by the impact of name in the news of the late 1820’s. He was the guy who did n seat collision, otherwise they might land office business with suckers with headquarters in Boston. the have been crushed to death by the He handled around two million dollars of the public money smashed top. with a promise of a return of $1.50 for every dollar invested Mr. Dobbs suffered a badly He’s now a patient in a charity ward in Argentina. Ponzi wrenched left knee A companion flourished after the first work! war. riding with him. whose name was There have been no more Ponzi’s sprung up since the second ! not learned was less seriously in world war. but according to the Portland Better Business jured. Both cars were badly Bureau, he has a few rivals. They are looking for suckers, prom- i wrecked. Small Timber and Logging Operators Hold Meet May 1 The Pacific Northwest’s small lumber and log operators Satur day at Portland renewed their fight aguinst cooperative logging units. Mon- than 590 independent lum bermen were in session at Ihirt- land at a Western Forest Indus tries Association meeting. The heard R. T. Titus, execu tive secretary of the organization, assert Saturday that the forestry laws of 1937. which provided for the cooperative logging units, eventually will have to be ehangixl A debate was scheduled today with H. J. Andrews, regional for ester, ami W. H Horning, regional director of the Bureau of Land Management, defending the units and Ellery Foster of the CIO-IWA and Leif Erickson, Helena, Mont , opposing New directors elected were: L G, Paun, Hoquiam, Wash.; Wil liam Griswold, Drain, Ore.; J. P. O'Neil, Eugene; J os»'ph Crahane, Brownsville. Ore.; Maurice Lie berman. Albuquerque. Re-elected were: H. S Vernon. Boise, and John Harris, Redding, Calif. I BIRTHS GILHAM At tlie Butler ma ternity home, Monday, May 3, 1948. In Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gil- ham. Black Butte route, Cottage Grove, u daughter, Carol Elaine NElJiDN At the Butler nw- ternity home, Tuesday, Muy 4. 1943. to Mr. anil Mrs Rotiert Nel- son, Cottage Grove, a son, Eric Bluer. HEYEN At the Smith mater- nity hvispital. Thursday. April 29. 1948. to Mr. and Mrs. Merrian Heyen of Black Butte route. Cot- i lagt'Grove, a son. Marvin Virgil. WILLIAMS At the Smi.lh maternity hox pit al, Thursday., April 29. 1948. to Mr ami Mrs. Frank Williams. Disston route, Qt C Dronnor I« Cottage Grove, a daughter. H.uiuhtnr Pa- n». tricia Genevieve. FOSTER At the Smith ma ternity hospital, Friday, April 30,. 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Orville Fos-1 R S. Drenner of Culp Creek w as ter of Drain, a daughter, Claretta appointed one uf a committee of Mnrie. 14 to make a survey of the dump MACKINSON At the Smith ground and garbage situation maternity hospital, Tuesday, May facing practically all the commun 4. 19-18. to Mr .and Mrs. Paul ities in Lane county. The meeting Mackinson, Disston route, Cottage attended by repi’Mentativea of all Grove, a daughter, Sue Ann. parts of Lane county, was held in JOHNSON At the Smith ma- Eugene Friday and was presidisi ternity hospital. Monday. Muy 3. over by Dr. A. Trfolo, Lane county 1948, to Mr. a n d Mrs. k'c । health offici'r. The lame county Johnson. Cottage Grove, a son. j conMniasinncrx court wax also rep« George Grant. J resented at the meeting. At the At Iho LEACH the Smith nutter- mater- 'suggestion [suggestion of Ben Heinz, city man. nity hospital. Wednesday. May 5. ager, a committee was named to 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Lester survey the dump grounds of the Leach, Cottage Grove, a son. Dean various communities the Allen. county and Vidor Morgan, senior PHILLIPS At the Smith ma- sanithrian. wait named as head of ternity hospital. Thursday. April the committee 29, 1948, to Mr anil Mrs. Forrest Phillips. Disston route. Cottage Grove, a daughter. Susan Naomi. PALMER At the Butler ma ternity home, Thursday, April 2!), 1948, to Mr and Mrs. William Pal mer, Disston route. Cottage Grove, a daughter, Crfndace Ann.- On Dump Ground Survey Committee ising either something for nothing or double your money back Perhaps flourishing as much or more are the phony phil-1 Jack Bartlett Is CURTIN anthropists. who according to the “ ’48 Magazine of the Year’’ Chamber Speaker Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Peronto deliberately take out the staggering sum of over $600.000.001^: grandson. Clifford, visited at annually from the American public. As pointed out in a previous 1 Jack Bartlett, state director of and the Ladore Groleau home in Suth article, those of us who live in the smaller communities can the b0“1^ oi aeronautics, guest erlin Sunday afternoon. .find real aid in the Chamber of Commerce and more especially at the regular meeting of Jack Westfail returned from ’ the Chamber of Commerce employing a full time manager, where ' ^v evemn/ E°avf°^fn^^ California Sunday and has again such organization takes pains to investigate the claims of the address on the growth and deveb entered the eighth grade at Curtin school. straiiger among us. opment of the aviation industry The 48 Magazine of the tear” says there are ten ways 1 and what it means to the state, The relatives and a few friends > ABE MARTIN at the Fred Thompson. to avoid confidence men whose pleas are hidden behind false This industry has not only addi gathered Jr. home Saturday evening to help tional employment of several charitable enterprises. These are: Fred Thompson, Sr., celebrate his ; ' (1) “Don’t be carried away by your enthusiasm for human thousand in the state, but it has birthday. offered a quick way of getting itarian aims; . The Curtin post office has re fresh produce on the markets 42) “Don’t hoed appeals by mail from unknown institu across the nation. He cited two ceived some of the new issue of tions. in the case of those claiming to perform a local service in instances where aviation had en stamps with the word Mississippi some other area, it’s well to heed the rule that charity begins abled producers to get on the mar misspelled on them. Ernest Hanumck, foreman of at home; ket a few hours after preparing (3) “Don’t fall for high-pressure telephone solicitations. produce. One was cherries from the Newbridge Lumber Company, statra that the company has dis Insist that the solicitor put his proposition in a letter. That way. the Dalles, placed on the eastern continued plans.for rebuilding the he is liable to a mail-fraud charge if the appeal should lie phony; market a few hours after pack mill. Mr. Hammick finished his ing and another was crabs from (4) “Don’t shell out to collectors who come begging for Newport placed in individual work here Saturday and plans to obscure charities. Be especially wary of men anil women in packages shipped a few hours go to Coos Bay. religious garb claiming to represent loosely identified ehureh ! after being and caught. • A birthday party was held at benevolences; In comparison with the prewar the Oleson home Monday in honor (5) “Don’t be humbugged by the ‘benefit’ approach. Before period, the aviation industry has of Mrs. Dorothy Oleson's birthday, you buy tickets to a baseball game or invest in a ear raffle, find shown gains as high as 800 per Those present for the potluck din ner were Mmes. Goins. Marvick. oilt now much of your money goes to a promoter and his aides. i cent, he said and will become a Suiter, Meacheam. Grace Thomp (6) “Don’t be misled by a deliberate similarity of names. major industry because there is son. Oleson and Miss Minnie Jokin’ In eonipany at her hus no expense of road building con The ‘American Volunteer Army’ would be neither the ‘Sal Zeigler. band's expense I* only one o' th' nected with it, he said. vation Army’ nor the ‘Volunteers of America’; School Boosters' club meeting fifty-seven varieties o’ At the suggestion of Dr. H. A. (7) “Don’t pay for and don’t return unordered merchan Hagen, Ben Heinz and George Ma was held Thursday evening at the dise. If you have scruples about using something not paid for. cready will serve as a committee school house. Mrs. Helen Suiter ganee some women indulge In. O' simply throw it in the wastebasket. You’re under no obligation, to get business men to join the resigned as vice president because all th' malcontent» th' non-pro- legal or moral, to return the stuff foisted on you; Dorena dam tour scheduled for of ill health and Mrs. Grace ducer I. th' worst. Thompson was elected to fill the (8) “Don’t be dazzled by an imposing list of sponsors. Such Saturday., The chamber was asked to give vacancy. Present plans are to go „lists can be faked ; - - (8) “Don’t give indiscriminately to tag days and street- moral support to the coming rodeo ahead and purchase a projector. of the Cottage Grove Riding club. corner collections. Even poppy sales have been abused; Mr. and Mrs. Will Wells and Texaco Station (10) “Don’t send money, food or clothing to strangers in Mrs. Wells mother, Mrs- Edna MOUNT VIEW response to begging letters.’’ Raymond, of Eugene spent Sunday Humorettes Perhaps It Was Not as Bad as Pictured by R-G Counties should never have sold! their llmlicr land* Marlon county which had coinpaiativrly gitle foreclosed tlmlierland has turned over lo the state 17,871 acn-a which ure la-ing administered by the stale torvxler; und the county The following wnt clipped from will receive for distribution among u recent Issue of the Oregon taxing units 75 per cent of the income from sales of furcat prod Stateunan, under the heading ucts. “It Keema to Me”, by Chax. Sprague. URI': HAMAiiFH At Eugene the Register-Guard IH'FFY RUMIIIENI K has reported the l<mx of many Fire of unknown migin dam thousands of dollar» to the county aged the reslik'nce of I'hisMlore because the county court sold off Duffy, near Hu* vusl city limit its foreckised timber laud* at Thursday afterrusin. The Naze prices liaxcd on floc or $1 <xi jut started in the llvipg room where thousand boanl feet of xtnnding moxt of the damage was ixMiflned. timber. It cites this us un argu- Firemen eslimnliil tlie dunuige nM-nt for a county manager form would run in the ncigliborhood of of government a churler for which >75000 |o $1,1100 00 is to I m - voted on in lame county next month. The Register-Guard did not re port however that Lane county tuts turned over for adminixtra tion ax slxto forests some 20,000 acres of its lands. On one imrtkm of these lands where the delin quent tax was $2.500, the state forester's office has made u cruise und sold the old timber st $24 a I thousand, which will bring in Hy UBNE WARE By Woodson-Wicks Electric 4 McKenzie OF INTEREST TO US ALL Perhaps you have read some of Radio Ray’s ideas in making ‘ a better community which have appeared weekly in this news paper. We think Ray is on the right track in his appeal for the local merchants to stock a greater variety of merchandise, thereby eliminating some of the excuses' for shopping in other centerp. A community approaching 5.000 population ought to be *able to offer its customers anything from a spool of thread ^to a monkey wrench. In a trading center of this size, a customer .^has a right to expect to have his or her needs filled, but should not be unreasonable enough to expect the variety that larger ».centers have to offer. The mistake in merchandising that has been made in the «past is that store windows might be full of popular items, while < the slow moving items could not be found. Nor according to some prospective buyers have merchants always shown a ¡^willingness to get what they did not have. We know of at least «a few instances where shoppers have taken time off from their jobs to go elsewhere to try and find something they needed and »•they did this after searching the business district over. When lithis is done the entire community loses because the shopper •■usually buys other things too. The smaller shopping centers may Ait I m - able to offer the “variety, but they usually can offer a parking place within a few ¿blocks and with the present traffic situation, this is worth a •great deal to busy people. This to our minds and to the minds of • many offers the small town merchant an unusual opportunity, *whi$h ought to be considered. So when the talk of trade at home is revived as it may be ^soon, the above suggestions are made with the hope that if ' carried out, we won’t have to do so much to get results. BUT THINGS ARE NOT THAT WAY NOW We noted from a pres« dispatch tl\e other day that the ’ American coal miner is drawing an average wage of around *$75.00 weekly now as compared witn an average wage of $23.40 prior to World War 11. The same story could be told of a num- . ber of other industries. There is hardly a business enterprise in our own community, whose receipts are not twice what they ''were before the last war. And yet when it comes to voting addi- ’'tional funds for the support of oui4*a-hools, the city and other ’tax supported institutions, some can’t get away from the fact that government expense was just Iialf the present cost eight / or nine years ago. As long as we have public schools, paved streets, roads and , other modern day necessities, we either have our choice of pay ing for them or going back to the horse and buggy. The only advantage we would think x>f is that in going back, the horse '.fly wouldn’t worry us quite so much. We could at least thin his numbers with DDT. That is if the control method was not too expensive. nôfn with li 11 li relatives . 1 rs • ■ ■ • äm and - - -- -S friends, t — t ~ A— ' 5th and Wash. Phone 163 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jensen were here pleasantly surprised one evening last week when the shop crew and their wives came out from Cot-[ tage Grove and gave them a house warming. They also presented them with a new table lamp. They, have now moved into one of their, Nk-e 2 bedroom modern home, Ir. living ami dining room com., duplexes. lovely kitchen, beautiful lawn and shrubberies, on »ewer, clone Mrs. Cleta Worley and two, daughters were called to the sick t »tore and II. 8. fruit and berries for family use. bed of her mother, Mrs. Conklin A modern home with living room, dining, room, one bedroom, in Washington. kitchen, full bathroom downstair», three room apt. and bath up Mrs. Cora Teeters went to Salem Monday to attend the stair», and apt. now rented: 2 lots on sewer, wired for range, funeral of her cousin. J. L Sloan about 2 biks from main including linoleums, >7»5b.—terms. He had lived in Cottage Grove several years ago. t One cabin 12x20 composition roof can lease ground, price >900.00. Mt. View Extension Unit club rwo bedroom home, good location priced for quick »ale, at >5250. will hold its last meeting of the Terms. Kitchen range and circulator with deal. year at the home of Mrs. Walter, Dowens, Friday. May 14th. Proj- i One »err, with nice three bedroom home, living room, dinette and ect of the day will be "Frozen kitchen, utility, garage, woodehed, well ami electric pump, chlx Foods". house, very neat little home about S'-j ml. out, linoleums and There are several cases of j chickenpox in the neighborhood. | butane gas range included. Price >7250.00. Authough the weather was. 3 acres, 2 bedroom house, fruit room, garage, woodshed, t’/J story cloudy and not so warm, many ’ ebix house 24x72 will take care of 1000 chk-kens, barn 24x48, were out trying their fisherman, luck, Saturday. well and electric pump. Edna Ann Peterson is still con- j fined to her home with illness. “HUMPH! The reason she won was because she has a new FRIGIDAIRE ELECTRIC RANGE from WOODSON WICKS ELECTRIC.” Mother's .Day. Muy 9, r» minds us Mom is human aMR would like Mime it» Hot it ion tigpt her devotion to duty through out all the other Mays in ihe year lx aiipreeluled. I don I re call anyone trying to organize mothers on a I kmus of regulur hours, minimum pay. and all the tiling» that worker» In oth er fields receive. Mollier» an* expected to be on call 24 hours a day for U m - hundred» of dif ferent demands they get from Pop ami the kids ... und 1 think Mom would be Ihe first to object t<> any change Hut that doean't mean »he d<»»n t like a juil on the buck ... so let's nut forget her on her one big ilay In th«' year! < la-t'x all get behind the AUCHf >N sponsored by the Jr Ouimla-r of Commerce Muy 15th l‘ro<-<iiis will help taiild our much mx'ded hoxpital. Many of u« aren't In the | xm | Hon lo give cash but every ikumlum will certainly I n - con- stdered n valimblc ixinlribu lion to this worthy cause. A n Indiana schoolteacher was fired for waking up sleepy students by giving them a "Itoi* foot." he was just working on the wrong end S|a*eial note to fathers amt rhtldren: L.»>king for Mxnething nice In give Mom on Mother't Day" Then you'db belter "hol-fool" it over lol COMMUNITY JEWELERS. n<| 612 Main Street, where yuii'lll find a cianplete aeh*ction of gift! items Hut you'd Iwtter hurry I not iiuich time left! I’honevl r,i II New Listings on Real Estate Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Denney and daughter Marjorie Jane and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Land visited over the week end in Dunsmuir, Cali fornia with Mr. and Mrs. R. D. . Sheary, former residents. Alice J. Breedlove Real Estate Broker AMAZING VALUES 10% to 40% REDUCTIONS on several hundred pairs of Dress, Street, Casual and Sport Shoos-------- We appreciate the public approval that has been extended to us through the past months — we want you to know that Phone 126R 1120 West Main Graham and Thorp u the place to buy ■ your footwear — The amazing values of fered is best proof — Como in early, select TO WARM THE HEART OF ANY your needs—and see your dollars stretch. ¿MOTHER ■ EVERYONE W^NTS Mirrors LOWER PRICES— HERE THEY ARE! ARE AT BIG SAVINGS, End Tables Has Struck Cottage Grove Again! Are You Properly Insured? Lamps SHOES. fl«flfn>THORP 8H0JS Hr Leonard Insurance Service Wiser Bldg., 617 Main Residence 8F4 ON FINE QUALITY Magazine Racks SEE US BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE. mfe 84 : $360.000 of which the county will get 75 per cent » 411 Main FOR FURNITURE IL street buildiito
