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Thur» , (h t. ÎM, IM» Published Every Thursday at Cottage Grove, Oregon Cottar (5rovr £rntind Established August 15, 1889 W. c. MARTIN ...... ............. Editor, Publisher HubacrijHion rates, cash in advance. No subscription for less than three months. 1 Yr. G Mos. 3 Mos. In Lane and Douglas Counties .......... 2.50 1.50 too 1.50 Outside This District ........... -........... 3.00 1.75 Foreign Rates on Application. Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. Letters to soliciting vsdes bul as pic\ious1y stated, to let you know what my ixisition is. I do not expect to step in and begin to "clean house". 1 I will insure an orderly city. The qualifications of a police will tnuke nixselt familiar with all man are different from that of an •ingles, making changes only when employee in it factory His contact I know they are instilled and in with the citizens should be such line with the final picture. 1 will as to command respect and his apply the same business judgment l would personal life should be such as to to the city affair create confidence in his willing ipply to iny own business, estab ness to enforce the law. He should lishing a program based on sound have a lull and complete knowl business principles. With the advice and assistance edge of both city anil state laws and an honest desire to enforce of the coruicil. ueUng as a board those laws in a just and fair man of directors and the mayor acting ner, treating all classes of [xxiple as the chairman of that l*mni, we with equal courtesy, granting cannot help but establish a sound "Sam Patch" the same civil treat- business administration based on ment as _ “The .... __ _ _ the Honorable Bot- fundamental principles in- rocks' and "Dustpan Sally" in her, volved in the successful o|xr.ition jollapy the same as “Mrs. Buff-1 of any business in w hich there orphington" in her buzz bomb shall la* a minimum number of eight. The proper authority should employees w ith a in a x i in u m set his hours of work, thv streets amount of efficiency. to patrol and his duties while on E. R. LEMLEY. patrol. Any time it becomes neces I assisting less. Next club children are In Ila- primary roolit I meeting will bl with Wauseiile at school and one is in the upper Hindman and ull member* are grades. s men. Hart Johnston and Ruy Stewart The 12 members ol the 4-H tlMW finished Iwu'Vestlng their Forestry club and their leader, of filberts. Johnny Hash ami teacher Frank W A Keen«» s|K'nt the Week end i I n k. enjoyed a camping tup over the week end to the Jess w it 11 Burleson cabin Mr. and Mrs. Harold l.urd and Preti RoUsc joined the. Army children recently visited with Mr Ur Corps for three years last daughters <qxmt one day recently week and Is n o w stationed at Sheppard field, Texas. Mr and Mr*. Lowell Bennion Mrs. Hmley Williams mid Pete Hayes of Cottage Grove tained a group of school children ! made a busines* trip to Medford at her home Friday night honor- i mg her daughter, Susan on het recently mid also stoppl'd to visit Steve Bennton who Is a burlier nt ninth birthday anniversary. Tlie Mountain States Uqwer Co. Central Point. recently extended their line to 1 (iranshopper Huinss« the Ed Brown. William Sharon, I “Rnivshoppcrs In n tingle year Claude Uiwson and William Pur- I have destroyed erupt valued ut cell places w est of here. Mr. and Mrs Brink- over n hundred million dollurt!” water have returned front a trip The foregoing ttatcnient it f< und in U. S. department of agriculture back east where they spent couple ol weeks with relatives and farmert' bulletin IMS which fur also took in the World Series ther ttatee: "Within the regions baseball games Mrs. Drinkwater's mutt object to outbreaks are in mother, Mrs. Stingley of Eugene, cluded the principal wheat, barley and flax producing the stayeil at the Drinkwater place United State*. Included a I mo nr« during their absence. Mrs Aud Ablxitt is home from enormous nerrngex of alfalfa, corn, oats mid rye. All thes<x crops are San Jose, where she hud particularly susceptible in grass spent most ol the summer. Mr. and Mrs. John Kuhles of hopper attack, und there Is never a year in which sumo damage is not Albany and Mrs. Kahles' brother, d ne. Last week I presented what I believed to be the proper policy to follow in order to give the tax- payehs the most for their money as R related to our streets etc , these being part of the over all plan for a better city, one that will induce other good citizens to locate here. As stated at that time I will discuss this week the Water Sys tem and the Police Department. We have recently spent $300.000 for a new water supply and that C ASSOCIATION should be sufficient to take care I LI S ME R S ‘H'SfsiO Ol MT I 0 W ' n’Hxis for some time, it has “ | been estimated by the budget —_ , _-------- ----------------------- ¡committee that the revenue from it should be about $69,000. The POLITICAL MAGICIANS If we could just eash in on some of the political promises $64.(M) question is what are we go- whieh are being made over the atAte. the average man could 'n£ U°"? ^king Harris look forward to retiring at an early age, free from any financial over the budget I find the follow- worry. ’No business has ever been operated on the premises some ing sums set aside for certain operation costs. Supervision and sary to leave his beat he should of onr candidates would place it, regardless of whether it’s engineering, $7000, labor SIO.(MX). THE 1'1 XslOX MF \SURE turn in a report as to where he • private or public business. warehouse $6.000. We might start .was and why. There no doubt will By Elmer J. Kent Republican for It’s a weakness of human nature for most of us to hop«» to in by studyihg these particular I >e times during the night or daj With the const nt of our editor get something for nothing: it makes gamblers out of many items to see if they are necessary. when a citizen in the residential I would like to comment briefly otherwise good people. And when a candidate promises the I doubt if it should cost $7.000 to section will call for an officer. on this measure. There are nt voters the moon on one hand and on the other hand assures us supervise $10.000 worth of work There should be a call light lo least a few times in our lives when roUBTII IHNTKK T that he can cut government expenses and lower taxes, the only A couple of properly trained men cated where it can lx* seen anil the we might need a lift, when we l inn, Lane. Douglas. Jackson. could alternate between the street officer on duty can report at come into tins world as helpless reason we can see why he should get a single vote is due to the Josephine. Coos, ( urry CouuUra department and the repair of the once. The present location of this । babies, thru childhixx) anil maybe fact that some have a blind hope that the said candidate can water system when necessary, and light is not desirable or efficient. when we have passed our earning Ptld Adv. Klltwot’h fur Congr.M accomplish the impossible. Cummlllr. I. F. McCUntOeS, Truss., that shouldn't cost $17,000. We are doing a lot of our po years. Insurance statistics show We read just the other day where a group demanded the I believe that considerable oi licing in the city cap. This may or that only a small per cent are spent Sunday at the Conrad and return of price control, higher social security benefits, higher this income should be used to im- may not be necessary. At any able to accumulate enough in Howard Keene homes. The invention of the telegraph made | m * xni I>I o retirement benefits, better wages, less profits from their em- prove the distribution system, but rate this use of the car should be their earning years to assure them publishing of Mr. and Mrs L. Hindman and ployer* and ’ lower taxe . ’ . ___es. This group will vote for the candidate I would not approve the tearing 5as«»d on the need and the benefit security in their declining ones If Hindman's sister at 'Hood River national and foreign news " ‘ promises ‘ - - Candidates — — -— hear much of - these - - ■ up of the present mains at this obtained by such a patrol. our forefather’s could have seen who this. will demands. Lowell Bcnston had a 50 f<x>t but few if any of the average voting class who do not demand ,ime- bu* wheJ’ a action causes Now a lot of the trouble that far enough ahead to have passed a well drill<*d on his place List wivk. ■ - * too much trouble replace it with real honest to goodness scx’ial se Mr. and Mrs. Berry and children anything special will take the trouble to write their represent»- ♦ . j j - .Y .'’H” new. and cut out this continuai the police have to contend with tnes in the state or national congress seeking their stand on diggjng up and patching n cost> is the boys that linger too long curity law, broad enough to cover of Creswell have moved into the all and deep enough to give real Henry Miller house. Two of th«1 matters which affeet us all or to commend trkm when they do; about as much to dig up a section in our public beer parlors. There protection. improving it as we ad is too much disturbance on our a good job. and repair it as it would to re vanced into the machine age. let Likew ise many of us who have heard of So much opposition place it. I understand that some streets around midnight, especi- ting all contribute toward it ac ally on Saturday nights. Any un to the so-called Taft-Hartley law often wontier what the opposi sections that were finally replaced cording to their earnings, then old necessary noise at that time of tion is based on whether it’s because the law has worked a hard < had as many as 30 patches on night should be classed as a dis- age pensions would not lx- a neces ship on the common laborer or whether the law cramps the them, we might profitably employ turbane?. We should see that sity, but they didn’t and the rath- flimsy security law style of the labor leaders. We have read the statements from an air drill to dig up the pave proper patrol of this area is main- In a mettar of minut««, on November 2nd. you will ment. instead of using a pick and passed a few years ago. leaves a number of candidates saying they are opposetl to the Taft- ained during those hours so that shovel. select the public officials who will serve you for many in the class of the forgotten »copie in hotels and apartment Hartley law. but we never hate heard of any sort of an explana I question the judgment in ex years to come. louses are not unnecessarily dis- man or woman. Th«» group who tion as to why the law was bad for any laborer. tending our water system to presented this measure composed lurlx'd. It is against both city and Dut of the election there also may be confusion on the 12 people outside the city limits, in' of men from different parts <f by GENE WARE measures to be voted on, as we have remarked before. What our eagerness to secure revenue. state laws to sell liquor to an Oregon had the council of some of Make a real study of all candidates offering ntoxicated person or permit them apparently looks good as a measure or law may not work so well ■ We should bear in mind that we The Milky Way might lx- a the state's bett attorneys as well themselves for public office in this election. to loiter in their place of business. would like these people to come from a practical standpoint. tieautiful sight to some (wople as the opinion of some of the state Forget for a moment your own party affiliation into the city limits but if we give Unless then- is an honest effort to officers who called it a sound . . . but it's just a "Hiss" to and that of the candidate you are investigating. them all our conveniences it isn't .■omply with these laws we arc measure, not one of this entire -cientists and aslronomers who MIGHT BE WORSE THAN THE OPEN SALOON Think only "la this man. is this woman, the likely that they would ever ask loaded back to prohibition, local group received as much as a single arc now studying the secret* of If the voters of the state approve the Oregon liquor dis »ption, or no license. candidate best suited by personal liackground, us for admission. the universe by radio. (The dime for services they rendered. pensing licensing act which appears on the ballot as 314 yes or I do not favor either of these ability and record in public and private life for I believe we need a place to hiss is the answer they get It'was drawn up in simple under 315 no, we might have a condition worse than that which pre keep our equipment, it is not good solutions as being workable or this particular office?” Do this honestly and we from the hcavensi The new standable language merely setting vailed under the old time saloon, which eveu the liquor interests business to leave it outside. It practical. If we prevent them $50 as a minimum of decent living, are sure that you, too, will vote Republican. radio telescopes look like rmlnr admitted was an evil. In addition to the 138 liquor stores, this might be best to purchase a Quon from operating in town they will of course any income they other apparatus for tin anti-aircrifl Remerribtr, vote for the best man. measure would add 382 restaurants and cafe» in addition to a set type building such as now on move just outside where there is wise received would lx- deductible. Iwittcry, but instead of aiming 'ess control. There must be coop May the best man win! East Main st. I would hesitate to' a gun, its function is to “sec" number of hotels and common carriers. It would place liquor by As the average welfare payments set it up on the property now be eration between the iiolice and the past year are about $13 and through the haze of cosmic the drink in the places patronized by women and children. ing used as that can be made into these places. The stile should be the expense of administration dust (hat hides many parts of Proponents of the measure contend that the easier whiskey a beautiful addition to our present limited to those that do cooperate. about 1554, the cost of this the universe. Although this is to get, the less people will want it. but that “ain’t the way we city park some time in the future. I also believe that these places new method will never replace 'heerd it.” There is just as much logic in this argument as there There may be other property we should be closed on Sunday. In measure should be very little dit the optical one, it will give us ferent, and nearly all moneys ap AND YOU, TOO, WILL is to the proposition of sitting a person on a diet down to a own that is not so valuable and view of the fact that a large per valuable information that must propriated for this work would go centage of our citizens are op table loaded with everything to eat. On the face of the argument which would be suitable for lo remain invisible. to the case workers, as this to the that the easier w hiskey is to get. the less people will want it. one cating the barn. Our water sys posed to their operation on any measure limits the overhead to Mount Palomar 2uo inch mir- day of the week then we should tem should also include adequate would naturally assume that the liquor interests would rather one per cent. It was drawn to have whiskey.sold thru the liquor stores to keep up the output. reservoir capacity which we do be willing to grant them their federal government standards so Saturday, Dec. 11th, has P«l. Adv RepubLcon Stata Central Commit I « mi of Oregon, wish on at least one day. I da not . 320 $ W Brouchvoy, Portland. Orason, been chosen as the definite We can’t imagine the brewers voluntarily cutting their produc not have at present. It was an en make this statement for the pur the same amount would be paid gineering mistake when we built by that branch as our present set date for the huge Bazaar at the tion thru their own proposal to sell liquor by the glass to make it the new reservoir on a different pose of gaining the favor of any Armory. This i< Iving rpm- easier to get so fewer people will want it. They are in the level from the old one thereby- group of people but lx Ta Use I sin- up. We call our country the rich sored by the Catholic Church business to make whiskey and the more they make, the better preventing their use as one upit. cerely believe that it is fair and est in the world, with communism ami the and all the other ideqs rampant, they will be satisfied. We have about 2500 line feet of just. donated their new school w-ith our country giving untold 14 inch steel pipe left over from As long as the American people millions for foreign relief, can we fund. Be sure and circle this the recent job, no doubt there is a THIS COULD BE A NEW INDUSTRY ! demand these places I believe the afford not to care for our older date oq your calendar as you Efforts to make this section any sort of farming country reason for this surplus pipe being , final solution rests with either a folks? Let’s give them a better won't want to miss this all day have been more or less laughed off in the years past, but at the on hand but whatever the purpose, state or city controlled place of break by supporting this measure. affair. You don’t need a telescope same time it is generally admitted that we have not been living the investment should be put in business where the salary of the use. bartender depends more on his to hunt for fine values . . . not up to our opportunities. Last week W. B. Parker, assistant coun Our main problem is to take ability to control than the number while COMMUNITY JEWEL ty agent made what we think was a very worthwhile suggestion care of what we have and not let of drinks he sells. The Friendly Neighbors club ERS are so near to you! C.itne in calling attention to the opportunity of. growing certified it go to ruin. We should begin to There are many other problems; held their first meeting since June to 612 Main Street and see our strawberry plants in the county. Since there are few commercial lay away a few dollars for such zoning of the residential section at the home of Mrs. George Getty array of watches, jewelry and strawberry farms in the county and none in this section so far as improvements and when material' is one. I believe that instead of recently. Ten memlvrs were pres small electric appliances, if and labor is at its proper level i classifying large areas as com- ent and Mrs. Lillian Thompson be we know, the chance to grow plants on soil that has not been con you're thinking of that Christ- then make the improvements. I mercial or industrial, that each came a member. Noreen Sells was taminated are ext'ellent. mas Gjft for HER, why not The success of any business de- application should be decided on elected secretary and treasurer to Parker calls attention to the fact that large growing centers chcxisc‘a practical gift . . , a fill the unexpired term of Maric pends largely on the ability of the its own merits based on the type Toastmaster? Liberal Credit at like Salem and ^¡resham are having trouble growing certified management to correctly estimate of business, the kind of building Bash who is unable to attend reg no extra charge. Phone: 351. plants which meet the standard of growers. Here our red soil is future conditions. Let us not make and the kind of a “housekeeper'’ ularly owing to illness in the fam particularly fitted for growing good strawberries. the mistakes we have in the past. he expects to be with the vacant ily. It was voted to entertain the Why could not some of the small farmers of this area at- When the water system was fall portion of the site. This method I members’ husbands Friday eve tempt to grow certified strawberry plants? It would be a step ing apart and it could have been believe would come nearer pro ning November 5 with a chicken toward establishing farming and provide a more stable rebuilt for $100,000 we were told tecting the interests of those liv- dinner and program at the school house and also for the teachers. that the revenue then received ing in that vicinity. ___ , economy. We cannot drive business out of Mrs. Woods and Mr. Clark. Those wpuld be able to replace it, and By ".Shorty” Nmltn then after spending that revenue the city by refusing to Jet themJ appointed on the entertainment A $92,000,000 DEBT for several years, finally end up build but I believe wc can .still I committee were: Wauseiile Hind- The Oregon Business and Tax Research estimates that a by spending $300,000. encourage them and at the same Edith Luckey and Lillian debt of $92,000.000 yearly would lie created if both the soldiers’ Police Department: In order to time give a little more consider- Fhompson. (in the dinner commit- bonus of World War II and the Townsend pension plan are get a clear picture let us set up ation to the man in the house. tec are Ruby Benston, Betty Laird voted in th«» Novemlter 2nd election. The soldiers’ bonus would a desirable plan best suited for Now I have presented this out and Ruth Schwarzer. In the create a debt of $42,000,000 and the Townsend plan a debt of out particular needs and which i line, not with the intention of guessing contest given, Minnie Keene won the prize. Other prizes $50,000.000. So far there has not been a suggestion as to where given were to Ruby Bcnston for • the funds for these two measures are coming from. best groomed hair; Aud Abbott, one having the nearest birthday Shopper (after looking at everything in the department): date; Lillian Thompson, new ‘’Thank you. but 1 am just looking for a friend.” member; and to Noreen Si lis for Disgusted Clerk: “Well here’s one bolt of green silk you Howdy Folks; One of our cus haven’t seen. Do you think she could be in«that?” tomers remarked that the time wlfl come when more anil more Kashmir Ilie Security Council debated the The man who is waiting for something to turn up might do city folks will have to go hack The fertile Vale of Kashmir is issues and then set up a five- well to start with his shirt sleeves. to the farm one of the world's scenic gems. nation commission to iron out dif ferences between India and Paki Nestled under the towering Him Barlows are former residents of The hardest thing to learn Latham. Juanita was graduated alayan peaks along the Indian stan, neither of which wore com ahmit farming Is getting School carnival in the gym Fri pletely satisfied with the terms with the class of ’48 from C. G. U. sub-continent's northwestern bor up at It a.m. day night. Fun for all. I Toiv ‘H. S. Mr. Barlow served two ders, the valley is cut through by of the Security Council’s action. TOI J NOT a blue river which reflects the The special task of the Commis Latham school club will hold years in the navy. TO HAVI We learned how the former snow - capped mountains above sion on India and Pakistan is to their regular meeting November A dinner in their honor will be DIGXV / gets lean and fat streak* In 2nd. it. As in Switzerland, the prov arrange for a plebiscite to deter PUMP Ul'I . given for relatives Wednesday the haron, though. He feed* Mrs. Maud Boswell of Yuba I evening by the bride’s mother ince's scenic counterpart in Eu mine whether Kashmir's people the lings one day and starves want to join India or Pakistan. rope, many of Kashmir's 4, (XX),- it m«: City, Calif, is spending two weeks | Mrs. Earl Marcy, at home. them the next. ruse The Commission made its in- , 000 people peacefully tend ani at the home of her son Elvis Bos- New subscribers to the Sentinel mals and practice AFTER the artistic vestigation close to the scene of well. : HE'P | may secure it through your com skills of cottage industries. Hog rai*lng comes’ natural trouble and dealt directly with John Kebelbcck and Hugh munity correspondent, telephone DRINKIN«! ,• ; to us, though. Father India and Pakistan in their own The tranquil appearance of the Trunnell attended the meeting of 17F11. vitality raised a big hog, once. valley and the surrounding coun capital-.. After discussing the ques ppodiximci \3 the Lane Co. Co-op in Eugene Sat Hebron Grange What are we saying. tion with both governments, the try, which has been under the MILK FBO n K). urday. The Home Economics club will Commission decided to pro for Among affairs held in honor of hold a cooked food sale and ba jurisdiction of the Kashmir gov a cease-fire agreement, followed Father got n Job In a flower Juanita Marcy, bride-elect, was zaar at Githens Motors Nov. 13 ernment, began to change last by negotiations toward solving show HH Judge, once, hut lie a' shower held at the Hebron beginning at 10 o'clock. Thus it fall, however, after British In the overall problem. However, ! didn’t do so well. Folks said he Grange hall October 16, attended was decided at the H. E. C. meet dia became the two independent when a cease-fire agreement was ’ didn't smell so good. Dominions of India and Pakistan. by more I han 60 people. I lostesaek ing held Friday, Oct. Z2 at the proposed, the Commission was un- j It was then that Kashmir began wcer Mrs. Roy Geer and Mrs. home of Mrs. W. L. Baker. Every We rnlseil rabbits, too. to suffer from tribal raids which able to secure full agreement Glen Means. One of onr rabbits had six grange woman will have an oppor resulted in destruction and death from both nations. bunnies. Sin» heat the Ca- A party honoring her eighteenth tunity to contribute. The money for her villages and people. Then The result is that the Commis Srne.CAU u( nadian record by a hare. birthday was given at her home made will add to the Hebron India's army was called upon to sion is now preparing an interim grange hall fund. October 22. refrort for the Security Council | protect the area and the Kaskmir We're beating some record*, October 23 the groom-elect, The next regular meeting of the government asked to become part on its experience thus far but no' oiirsclvew, with our Monarch*. between India and Charles Barlow of Anchorage, grange will be held November 6 of India, subject to a plebiscite. agreement You'll he enthused, too, If you Alaska, arrived by plane. The in the hall at which time officers | The question of which country Pakistan could bo reported. Ncv- will give them a try. for the coming yoar will be crtheless, observers point out, couple will be united in marriage elected. Kashmir would join caused the danger of war between India I this week and leave this week end ; Pd. Adv. McKoy for Governor Comm , W L. (Bill) Phillip*, Chm., The H. E. C.. will give a dinner growing friction between Indin* and Pakistan over Kaskmir ha* for Anchorage where Mr. Barlow and Pakistan and, finally, the Ix’comc much less menacing since I MfTÍUffltD HOMOÿfWalDMUK 510 N. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon. ------------ a^oí cfiíAM —— is assistant to his father, Oscar for all grangers later in Novem- United Nations was asked to help the Security (Council has dealt I 505 $0.5“$T. ••• PM0NE 321 500 Main Htrret Bur low, in a service station. The ber. I settle the entire question of raids. with the question. NATI lALtDlTORIAt— Hews t^iews O RE ELECT ELLSWORTH CONGRESS MINUTES T. VOTE YEARS t . SERVE HERE IS A CHALLENGE FOR YOU. VOTE FOR THE BEST MAN VOTE REPUBLICAN A man consistent record of achievement SAGINAW Douglas McKay Mostly Static UNITED NATIONS GOVERNOR IN ACTION ★ State Senator since 1935. ★ Chairman Willamette Valley Project Comm. ★ Mayor of City of Salem, 1933-1934. ★ Past President, Salem Chamber of Commerce. ★ Successful business man. DAIRY-TALES LATHAM * The only veteran candidate for Governor. You can count on Doug McKay You’ll like Doug McKay ... you’ll like his GROVE MAIO DAIRY record. A capable and sincere administra tor, his name is associated with jobs that have been finished and well done. E General Election Nov. 2 Smith Electric