LONDON
I day at Nelson Bemis and E. M.
London Church of Christ vaca McEwen's
Gloria Clark plans to work in
tion Bible school ended Friday
Published Every Thursday at
Private cars were used for trans Ding Bench, California, this «um-
Cottage Grosrc, Oregon
portation since the school bus mer where she I« slaying with
By Harris Ellsworth, Rep. in
Established August 15, 1889
wouldn't start. Visitors and par i friends. Her school wna out June
Congress from Oregon
,
ents
attended t h c program at Alli.
W. C. M ARTIN
.... Editor, Publisher
As soon as word was rcceiwd
10:30 a m. 'IVenty-ninc awarda
Ixivetu Alicene was un over-
Nubocription rates, cuh in advance. No subscription for less that thi* President had signed the
for )X'l*fcct attendance were made ' night guest of Lavonne Jones in
Sixty-six pupils were enrolled this ('nttage Grove Sunday night
than three months.
6 Mos.
3 Mog. . Camp White Hospital bill. I com
1 Yr.
municated with General Carl C.
with an average of forty
Kenneth Uoo)M*r left Tuesday
1 5(i
1.00 Gray, head of the Veterans Ad
In Lane and Douglas Counties
2.50
seven
lor Iwo weeks with the National!
1.80 ministration. urging prompt action
Outside This District ............
1.76
too
Mr. and Mra Emmett Ashlex < it in rd at ('amp Clatsop.
toward putting the hosipital into
Ct « 12
Foreign Rates on Application.
and daughter, of Ontario. Calif .
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Ocum|Miugh ¡
»peration. He replied immediately.
are visiting here with Mm. Ash of Cottage Grove visited Sunday
Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter.
I stating: "I assure you that a high
ley's brother. Sam Medford, whom it the Bert Newton home.
| priority has been given to acti
she had not seen for 20 years, and
Sam Medford will s|M*nk at Um-!
vating this establishment."
with R. W. Beatty, another broth don Church ot Christ next Sunday'
NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL—
Members of the delegations
er. Reunion dinners were held last at 11 a m. on the subject "Hear."
SSOCIATION from Oregon. Washington. Idaho
week at Mr. and Mrs Sam Med lamdon 4 II Mother, quilt
and Montana have been working
fords, Mr and Mrs R. W. Beatty's
A T10 N
lamdon 4-H Mothers' club met
together for Congressional action
and at Mr. and Mrs. Presley Lan- al their regular meeting Wednes
on help for floixi victims. Two
don's in Cottage Grove. Mrs. lum- day June 9, ut the club I hhisc Due
items appear fairly certain as this
don is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ¡to gardening, only 11 members
SYRIA
is written. An Appropriation of
Ashley.
were present Emma Kelley fur
RETIRE AT 50
$10.0(X),00() will be providi-d out of
Mrs. Lawrence Funk and Mrs. nished a table centerpiece of main '
housing
funds
which
will
be
used
A business man attending a meeting last week which had
Syria, whose history reaches back more Arlie Sugg attended Royal Neigh-1 moth Shirley [topples at the cm
a turn out of about twenty per cent or less of the |M»op)e who toward furnishing shelter for
than 5000 years fo the dawn of history, is Imrs convention al Bend June 7. en»d dish luncheon.
a tradition.il meeting ground in the Mid They went by bus.
The business nu*ling wnx con
should have attended, made a pertinent remark. He said. ‘‘It those who have lost their homos.
Another $6,000,000 will be approp
dle East ol" hundreds of peoples .mil cul
Jim Barnes is working in Eu [ducted by Gladys Kelley, vici*
seems like when people reach the age of fifty in this town they riated for the repair and replace
tures. The Republic of Sy ria was separated gene at the International Hur- president.
want to retire and shake off all responsibility.” Most any kind ment of federal installations dam-
Word of appi t'élut ion mid
from tin* Ottoman Empire in 1918 and has
of a task that carries any responsibility is turned down with iged or destroyed.
been self-governing since 1941, when a
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wood have thanks was sent the chib by Mrs
the remark that “I’ve served my time, now let somebody elsi
We are working on other seg I tnrac of Nations mandate held by France was ended. Most of her gone to Monmouth for the sum ('harlie Woods fur the tluwerini;
ake over.”
ments of the problem. Special leg 3.00«.000 people work at farmini. stm k-raWng and trading in her mer when* Mr. Wood will attend plant sent Mr Woods by the chib1
during his rivent illness
However we all know that communities need the benefit of islation may lie needed to help the 73,000 square miles of territory. Syria, which is a member of the summer schisi).
Mr and Mis R L. Cantwell an.’
A L'tt«r was nnd by secretary'
he experience of the older heads. In communities that go ahead. states and counties restore washed United Nations Security Council, is represented at IN Headquar
roads which an» not on the lets by Faris bey el-Khouri, President of Parliament. The Syrian baby have moved to Monmouth [Lawaria Sugg from Jeanne Mor-j
,’ou w ill find both young and old working side by side- Neither out
fixierai highway system It is like
vould we think much of the individual that would say in times ly also that some method of aid flag has horizontal green, white and black stripes and three red stars. for eleven weeks summer achool. ton rontxTnlng a 4-H scholarship I
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Woodward available to the next highest win
f emergency, “I have fought one war. now let somebody else ing communities which hail their
visited a friend, Jimmy Hunt in ner in achievement, since Thenu :
!o the fighting”. As a matter of fact we know of several indi- water supply and sanitary sytems
Alwene was unable to use it. Zen - l
Lorane Sunday.
idual.s who have had a part in at least two wars and would fight destroyed by the fkxxls will be
da Lee Garman was chosen and1
Mrs. Mae Andetann has two lav reported she would Is* able to go
worked out. We have lxx»n kept
1 another if the occasion demanded.
ender baby orchids growing in lo 4-H summer camp in July.
This is “Salad Week" in Cottage
It’s nice to I m » able to quit, but the ordinary fellow ean’t well informed on the situation by
federal authorities, kx-al officials.
coconut shells ns a souvenir of
A second quilt was started, the
fiord it. There are a number of organizations hero trying to and by the Red Cross. I think 1 Grove. Source of this designation
Hawaii, sent her by her daughter first one being completed Mince
is tin* concentrated advertising
perate. but are having quite a st niggle in trying to do it be- rm speaking for the entire mem campaign now ingig conducted
Marion who has been an army last meeting. This one is for Mrs.
ause too many have quit and turned the task over to someone bership of both houses when 1 say with the emigration of most fixxi
nurse in Hawaii for three years. Vernon Warren of Downs, Kan
’sc. We would not have to go very far to cite specific instances, that Congress has great sympathy stores in this area by the Frank
The Pacific Telephone and Tele
Miss Marion Anderson who has sas. formerly Mary Amu* Banton.
he Boy anil Girl Scout movements are ones that have suffered for. and a genuine desire to help, Fink Co., distributors for Best graph Company Thursday filed been visiting her parents. Mr. and ! compliments ot lp*r grandmother
ince their inception for lack of leadership, in the process of the sufferers in the devastated Food products in this area.
with the IMhlic Utilities Com Mrs. Leche Anderson the past two । and pieced by her great-grand
•ying to keep these organizations functioning, some have been Columbia flood area.
George Hardin and Chet Cowls, missioner of Oregon new schedules weeks since her discharge in May | mother. The afternoon was s|M-nt
No matter how diligently the sales representatives of the Fink providing for a general state-wide in Hawaii, went to California last i quilting.
verworked and have had to shoulder so much of the respon-
week for her brother Ray’s grad
Members in any session of Con
Housekeepers for the day were
are in charge of the local city increase in rates.
bility that they have become disgusted.
gress may work, the closing days ! wide ■ event. The salesmen report
"If the pixiple wc serve in Ore ualmn from Junior College in lais Norma Patton and Mabel Funk
are always hectic. However, most that fresh and larger stocks of gon are to have the amount and Angeli s Saturday. They w ill both
Don't forget the annual school
if the bills which appear to be Best Foods Products as well as a kind of telephone service they an* ■return here for the summer.
meeting to th* held nt the Izmdon
FORECASTING THE PRICE TREND
jammed through with startling I w*ide variety of salad ingredients iemanding and should be furnish
Munday evening.
S. T. Clark and Mr. and Mrs. school
Will commodity prices go up? (Jo down? Stay where they rapidity are in the classification .will be available in the coopcrat- 'd." declared F. D. Tellwright, Flank Taylor of Blackbuttc wi re June 21. id 8:18) pm. Everyone is
of minor legislation. I am indebted mg food stores to back up the vice president and general man- in Dorona Sunday.
urged to attend.
Newsweek recently asked 50 leading economists, connected to Representative Carl Curtis of Cottage Grove Saiad Weed, first ager for Oregon, "we must huve
Mrs. Vernon Warren of Downs.
jeuaig the
me fol-
,ur of its kind to lx» held here,
enough price relief to meet cur- Kansas has written her mother.
ith business, labor, governmental, statistical and educational Nebraska for compiling
rent wages and coats and to keep Mrs (lien Banton that she’d Ini n
1stitutions to forecast the price trend for the balance of the lowing figures in the way of a I
summary of this Second Session FATHER-SON BANQUET
<ur credit sound.
to Oklahoma, visiting the cities,
ar. Twenty-six thought prices would continue upward*. 14 of
the Eightieth Congress.
"Our present intrastate earn Elrino and Enid.
A men and boys or father am
lid they will remain about the same, and the remaining ten
From January 6. 19-18. when the Ison banquet will hi- held at thi
... ings in Oregon, which include the
Mr. and Mrs.
L
elieve they will be lower by the year’s end.
Second Session began, until May j First Baptist church next Tuesday rate revisions granted last Janu went to Falls City. Wednesday for
Averaging the answers, the concensus is that prices won’t 31. the House spent 84 days in 1 the 22nd, beginning at 7:00 p.m ary, are rapidly approaching the the funeral of Mr. Fletcher's cous
lange substantially one way or the other. That may be a dis- Session, the Senate 85. for a total Enrl Britton of Eugene, agricul vanishing point.
in, 13, who was drow tied u hile
npohitment to the consumer, who has watched his dollar shrink of 7S|ft hours. The House to that tUre editor of Station KUGN an<
"Between now and the end of fishing,
ke wool in water, bur it is completely understandable. Spend- date had enacted 98 public bills veteran training officer will I m next year t h e Company should
Barbara Banton is in Eugene,
LOUISE WALTHER
ig—by government, business, and the individuals — goes to into law. the Senate 69. One hund the guest speaker. E. L. Clark will ¡pend $26,500.000 to enlarge and staying with Charlotte Warren.
red
eighty-seven
private
bills
went
l
’
h
II6Y, (’ottnirc Grove
serve as toastmaster.
gher and higher peaks. The vast sums being spent for foreign
mprove the telephone system in Mrs Chet Gdharn has several cute
through during the same period.
Affiliated
with the
Other
program
numbers
will
in
)regon.
To
do
this
we
must
go
puppies
to
give
away.
id and military purposes will further strain the supply-demand The House passed 762 measures,
; elude vocal selections by Daniel to investors for money. Investors
alance. And millions of Americans have a higher standard of the Senate 632.
Sylvia Stimmel is back for the
EUGENE ACCORDION
Andressian and W. C. Martin Jr., ire alike in one thing they put summer with her grandmother
iving than they ever had before.
CENTER
Among executive nominations a piano solo by Richard Bush an<
heir dollars where they can ex- Mrs. Lillian Stimmel, having come
eceived
during
the
So. when you go shopping, don’t expect to find a lot of har-
"ve-month a reading by Chas. Parrett.
I’h. 4HI7-H, Eugene
poet safety and fair return."
over from Nampa. Idaho, with her
ains soon. What you will find, however, are merchants who period. 2.654 Army nominations
In general, the filing by the father, Gordon Stimmel, last
were
confirmed,
as
well
as
1.230
ell you what you w*ant at a far lower profit margin than most
MISS EDITH HAZELL
Company would increase one- week.
irople realize. The profits per sale are so small, generally speak- for the Air Force, 1,117 for the TO RECEIVE A. H. IHCGREE
»arty residence service $1.00 per
Mr. and Mrs. J i m Brownlee
Navy, 707 for the Marine Corps,
ng, that if they didn’t exist at all it would make little differeniT and 1,084 civilian nominations
Edith Frances Hazell of Cot .nonth; two-party residence. 75c have moved from Woodard's
n your purchasing power- Retail trade whether we realize it other than postmasters.
tage Grove is one of the 638 stu per month, and four-party rcsi- Blackbutte camp' to Lakeview in
Jence and suburban service. 50c
ir not, deserves much of the credit for the abundance that exists
The final figures on bills passed dents who will receive A. B. de per month. No change is proposed Eastern Oregon.
The London Merrymaker card
n this nation.
at this session will be somewhat grees, associate of arts degree; n present farmer line rates. Busi-
club met in Cottage Grove, Thuni-
larger. I recall one day last week and or teaching credentials at thi
the House passed 136 bills in three annual commencement exercises iess rates would be increased day. with Mrs. Margaret Ritter.
jas. A. Putnam visited the
THE VANISHING TEACHERS
hours. Most of tlje bills dealt with of San Jose State .College, San $3.50 for one-party and $3 00 for
small private claims and certain Jose, Calif., on Friday. June 18 two-party in Portland, and $2.50 Blackbutte post office recently,
We noted recently that there are some 3fM> teachers grad matters of purely local interest. The graduation program will tn for one-party and $2.00 for two- He was postmaster at Blackbuttc
uating this year to take their place in Oregon schools. The pres It should be noted, however, that held in the Spartan Stadium fot party elsewhere throughout thi pj years ago having come thera
ent graduating class can’t even fill half of the present demand during that period of time, 50 the first time in the history of date. There also would be in- with hta bride at that time He j
for we are told that there are 8.000 publie school teachers in the other bills were refused passage. the college and is scheduled for Teases in certain steps on the was also bookkeeper for the Black '
present intrastate long distance (Butte mines then. His daughter, I
The remarks made by the presi- •1 p.m.
state and there is roughly a ten per eent turnover or better, all of
ichedulcs, including an increase Mrs. P. F. Prescott now lives near
The
only
Cottage
Grove
student
denton
his
Western
trip
have
not
wnien means that the state could use more than 500 teachers
O 10c on all present 5c long dist-1 Ixmdon.
arousd as much anger or comment in the June graduating class wii
if they were available.
Mrs. Mary Jo Phillips returned
on the part of the Members of receive a Bachelor of Arts degrer ance routes.
To keep the schools going under conditions of this sort Congress as one might expect. in psychology.
In all. it was said, the increase . home last week frofti three weeks
x'ould total on a current annual s|x-nt at Oakridge.
means that a lot of ex-teachers must be pressed into service. As Western Members know from
asís about $5,500,0«), or. pre-
.axis
Mrs Elmer Baker anil
and
Mr. and Mrs.
during the war, many retired teachers must again reenter the the mail we receive, that people
entagewise, an average of only sons are moving this week to Ë11-
WEEK'S
QUOTE:
service.
in the western states are pretty
6'¿G over the company's pres- gene where Mr. Rak<*r will be
Two factors are blamed for a condition of this sort. The generally aware of what Congress
"Although it is painful for many •nt intrastate revenues This $5.- transferred by Safeway from Cot-
has
done
and
is
doing
this
session.
first is poor pay of the average teachi-r as compared with other
profile to admit it, the conocienc» >00,000 figure would not the Com-' tago Grove.
professions or occupations. The second is that now days the Western Members and people of of the next generation should tn >any, after federal taxes, etc..!
uJwrpnrp Lukens enter-
schools are supposed to do a lot of training that used to be done theWest know that appropriations vastly different from that of thi.* 53,311,000.
tained at a Stanley demonstration
for Western development projects generation because unless the con
in the home. The unfortunate part about the last factor is that made during this session
According to Oregon law, the June 2.
of Con-
some parent« refuse to take any responsibility toward training gress are the largest in m a n y sciences of the next generation, ir ¡ling made by Company would tie-
According to reports of a num-
enough places, include higher de
onto effective in 30 days, unless her of young jxople. <^in Crc-
their youngsters and what training they do get must come from years.
green of responsibility toward thi
usponded by the Public Utilities peau Sworn Hie kike one evening
the school or church.
human race than has been fount
'ommissionor, who then would last week from the float across to
Precaution for Mctorls's
in ours, there will be no genera-
all hearings and issue an order j a rocky point above the dam and
Motorists leaving flooded area; tion following that." Dr. Brock within 6 months.
I back. She was accompanied by her
THE PARKING DILEMMA IN LARGER CENTERS
or driving through heavy rain Chisholm, Executive Secretary ol
In the Company's first filing brother swimming with an in-
storms
should
test
their
brakes
be
the World Health Organization.
The parking problem is a headache for both the large and
’.•nade on April 28. 1917, and flatcxl inner tube.
fore resuming normal driving
tmended on June IO, 1947, the
small cities, hut is unquestionably a worse headache for the speeds, as wet brakebands often
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Ripjx»e and
San Antonio, Texas, Is one ol ilfng wns suspended and exten baby have moved from Voung-
big centers. None has yet found an answer without almost a render brakes partially or totally
the largest aviation and military sive hearings were held through- blood’x mill to Collage Grove.
prohibitive cost. As result the suburbs have profited. Here’s the useless.
centers in the United States.
>ut the summer and faH last year,
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Garman and
parking dilemma of Cleveland as set forth in the Oregon Voter,
rhe Company had rei|U<*xted rate family and Mr. and Mrs. Max
which we quote:
revisions totaling annually $2,249,- Bradford visited in Sutherlin Suh-
J'JOE BEAVER
By Ed Nofzigtf
Parking is a public problem. Cleveland’s Planning Com-
KM), based on operations the last day.
-mission has stated. “Unless it is solved, downtown business in
ialf of 1946, but was granted only
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Banton and
any city will ultimately move out and the heart of the city will
51,560,000.
> ivtr
at
Mr. and
and Mrs.
Mrs. Harold
Harold Abcene
Alx
rot.” Commission studies showed that for a fl-story building.
It is of interest to note, the tended church in Cottage Grove
Phone 375 R
'ompany pointed out, that the Sunday.
2^2 times the area it occupies is needed for parking of ears of
>regon Public Utilities Commit-
Sheep shearing finished up Sun-
those who work in the building, plus an indeterminate amount of
doner in his January 10 order de- '
additional space needed for those visiting the building.
dared: "In view of the rapid
changes in our general economic1
’onditions ... it will no doubt
to necessary for some adjustments ,
'in rates) to be marie in the fore-1
wralde future."'
The Nentinrl, Cottage Grove, Oregon
Cottane
Thur«. June 17. IH4M I
jhntmrl
Washington Letter
SYRIA
U.N. Facts and Faces
I*
Local Merchants
Feature Salad Week
William Borstel
Funeral Friday, Ì8
William Borstel, age 87. South
River Road passed a(( ay Tuesday,
June 15, at a bospllnl in Eugene.
I860
ll<* wax bout Drcvml>rl,
nt Iowa City, lows He had Ixvn
u lesldent of Cottage Grow fur 30
years, mid of Oregon for 40 years,
coming troni Arizona
He I h survived by a step daugh
ter. Mis Flora Troxel ot Olympia
and mir step sister In town
Funeral services will be held
FT iiLiy. June 18. at 2:30 pin , nt
Mills Mortuary with interment in
the Masonic-IOOF cemetery The
Rev. IThr Bakker will officiate.
A Patch In Time
A patch of Imitation or real lea-
hter sewed on tha knees of boys*
play knickers save time and knick-
Everybody reads the Classified
Pages I t mid 15
Hews
Views
by GENE WARE
I see when' Italy Is planning
tn harness some of Its volcaiwx-s
to pnxlucr rlrcfrienl power
Like tile fellow who tried to
o|x*n 11 safe with a Wet tooth
pick, this wcins to lx* doing
things the hard way. Solnelxaly
once said. "When in Rome, use
Roman candle:; ” Rut the say
ing went out with Ilie candle
Any way, there's a definite |xiw-
er shortage in tin* land of tin*
Caesars, and the Italluna are
trying to make light of it with
nn assist from the I cm ' h I fire-
K|s>ut. Under this system, wlirn
a fuse blows out liie house will
probably go with it . . . and
radios are apt to feature the
song, “Lnva, Come Back to
Me!"
Pacific Tel. & Tel
Co. Asks for 26V2
Per Cent Increase
Accordion
Instruction
and Rentals
The 21st of Jliue is stip|xMcd
to lx* the longest day in the
year, but it would lx* tough try
ing to convince a child of that
on the 24th of December We're
not
plugging Christmas in
June! We just want you to
know that in any season you
will
n friendly wrlenme!
at 17 IMMUNITY JEWELERS.
612 Main Street! And if you
want to give dud a royal wcl
come on Father's I »ny, stop in
now and g e t him a Ronson
pxkct lighter . . . you cun Ui
he'd like that! Phone: 351.
I
Hold er
There’s DANGER AHEAD, if you
don’t investigate this opportunity.
Trade in your old radio on a new
PACKARD - BELL Phonocord and
enjoy the benefits of radio, phono
graph and home recording at Its
best.
You’ll be surprised at the amount
of the allowance on your old radio
(the older the better).
The SOUNDMIRROR tape record
er with its full half hour of continu
ous recording will also interest you.
The tape can be used over and over
again. Come in and investigate its
possibilities.
And the same as always
ways - FINE
RADIO REPAIRS am d PACKARD -
BELL RADIOS
Cottage Grove Radio Shop
FIRE!
John Robinson
Rites Are Monday
John (Jack) Robinson died early
Saturday morning at a hospital in
Eugene following a long iBneto.
His age is 77. He was Ixnn August
5, 1870, in Chirk County, Wash
ington He is survived by his wid-
iw, Alice, two children, Philip W.
Robinson, Cottage Grove, and Mrs
Lucelia Johnson, of Eugene; two
grandchildren, Mrs. Ethel Fergu
son, Blur Lake, California, arid
Dale Robinson, West Virginia, and I
four great-grandchildren. Services
were held from Mills Mortuary,
Monday, June 14, at 2:30 p.m ,
with Rev. Frank Brown officiat
ing Interment was in the Masonic
IOOF cemetery.
CAN T STOP US
We Are Again Operating to Full
Capacity
We hope to meet and serve our many customers
as we have in the nast.
Cottage Grove Ice Works
Phene 25S
’j have no'us« for a b«av«r who'd start a lob like that and
then hot Anish if I
Tip For Farms;«
When selling timber fr 1 r
farm, a few seed trees rlioulj bi
left to insure a new stand cf seed
Ungs.
t
727 Mftin
We Warn You!
It’s hard to break a habit.
' 4
J
t form the habit of asking for
HAND DIPPED ICE CREAM
GUSTAFSON'S
Super Creamed Ice Cream Parlor
003 Main
Phone 31