Tlw Sentinel, Cottage
(I hht , Orrfnn
Tburv, Jan. ». 1949
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County Affairs
UN Mediator Back
Oregon 4-H’crs Win National Honors
IX of Oregon*« stato winner« In 1918 received national honor« for
superior rroml» of achí coment l i their n «mdvo 4 H awards
S programs.
Brief outlines of tlidr record« follows
Cstage firm
Cottage Grove. Oregon
(Lester Schlangen)
Established August 15. 1889
Elizabeth Marie King, Delight
Valley, was awarded $8861.90 gen-
W. c. MARTIN_________________________ Editor, Publisher I | erai
damages and $588 special
Rubscription rates, cash in advance. No subscription for less damages Tuesday, when a circuit
tí Mos. 3 Moa court jury found co-defendants
than three months.
1 Yr.
1.00 Glen E. Means and his son Rich
1.50
In Lane and Douglas Counties ........... 2.50
1.50 ard. 15. of Eugene, at fault for
1.75
Outside Thia District
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an automobile accident near Cot
Foreign Rates on Application.
tage Grove a year ago last Feb
Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second el» matter.
ruary.
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EDITORIAL
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THEY
FINALLY CAME THRU
During the eleven years we have been a resident of this
Coutmunity we have heard a great deal of beefing about the
shortcomings df the pronoun. ‘ They*’. It seems to us that
“they” have been rather backward about getting anything
■cdortiplishbd. “They” have missed out on a nnnilter of things
including the failure to encourage or to bring in any new
industries.
“They” is usually used in an abstract term and we have
never really been able to find out whether those making the
objections to the way “They” rnn things are talking about their
grkndpap or Santa Claus.
In pointing the finger of criticism, the objector usually
makes it clear that he or she has had no part of any failure of
any community effort. It is for this reason that we think a com
munity enterprise or undertaking such as the efforts to raise
$235,000 for a hospital is a wholesome undertaking for through
it we irtirn who is in earnest regarding the advancing of the
community and who is merely blowing his top because there is
nothing ever done for the benefit of the community.
Not that we would be critical of the amount any individual
gave for after all under our democratic form of government this
is a matter between the individual and his or her conscience. We
are not too familiar with the list of contributors, but we would
be willing to wager you or anyone else that the “pro belly -
acher’s” name wilt be about as scarce on the contribution list as
are the proverbial hen’s teeth.
As this is written it looks like “they” have raised the neces-
aaty $235,600 for the hospital or we are so near this sum that it
will be a Community calamity if we have failed.
A LUMBERMAN LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
At the turn of the year, a good many of the lumber frater
nities are rather pessimistic over the general price outlook. They
reàlize of course that the price outlook could be changed over
night and is dependertt on several factors, among which are the
amount of foreign export, the demand on the lumber industry in
carrying out the rebuilding of the armed services and federal
housing and slum clearance, which will undoubtedly l>e recom
mended in the president’s state of the nation message.
Over the long pull the above listed factors which might give
the lumbCr market fl temporary boost, won’t count for much
ao far as the prosperity of the industry is concerned, but what
will count is how much progress the industry makes in establish
ing more diversification for lumber uses and greater utilization
for odds and ends now going into the burner of the average mill.
With respect to finding more uses for lumber and greater
utilization of wood wastes, these potential industries are now in
their infancy. War probably stopped experimentation along the
line of developing more uses for lumber. Apparently we have
not been able to pick up where Hitler of Germany left off. As
early as 1938 Germany was producing feed for livestock as well
as alcohol from sawdust, but the most expensive potential wood
alcohol plant, located at Springfield, has been a white elephant
to date, although wood alcohol is being produced commercially
on the west coast we are told.
. The Weyerhauser Lumber Co. is the only lumber concern
.to attempt experimentation on the utilization of wood waste on
a large scale. Experiments of this concern have progressed to
the point where Weyerhauser can use all of the tree. Whether
it has reached the stage to be commercially feasible, we do not
know.
The forest laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin has sdeceeded
in making wood fire resistant: in fact when properly treated
wood is a better fireproofing than steel ; likewise wood can be
treated so that it can bé bent in any shape, form or fashion.
, Success may be a long way off in many of these ventures,
but until they are successful and adopted into general use. we
may expect to see a wide variation in the prosperity of the
lumber industry.
It seems to us that thé logical step is for the industry as a
whole tb sell its new uses through one or more of its associations,
much in the same manner as wood substitutes are being
promoted.
This may sound crazy to the orthodox lumberman, but when
we recall that it was only about fifty years ago or less that the
carriage makers laughed at the automobiles, it should make
sente.
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SOCIALIZED MEDICINE’S RECORD
Dr. A. Lexington Jones, of Christchurch, New Zealand,
recently spoke at length on the experience with government
medicine in that country. In the course of it. he posed and
answered three practical questions which provide a test of the
kind of service socialized medicine provides.
First, are the people getting their money’s worth? His
answer was an emphatic no—largely for the reason a cumber
some bureaucracy administers the plan.
Second, has the system improved medical service? Again
the-answer is no. Too many people are consulting doctors un-
nedessarily, on the grotinds that they must pay a tax for medical
attention nnd sb may as well get it whether they need it or not.
As | result, overworked doctors simply don’t have the time to
give efleh patient the consideration he should have.
Third, has the system reduced the incidence of disease? Once
more the answer is no. Little Of the money collected by the
Sovernment for the medical scheme is used for research work.
nd Individual physicians have little time or incentive for read
ing investigation, and advanced study.
There are many other arguments against government dom
ination of medicine. These are simply three of the most important
from the people’s point of view. Wherever tried, it has resulted
in a deterioration of Standards—and a sharp upsurge in goverrt-
inent omrts. Exactly the same thing would happen if we were so
foolish as to adopt compulsory government health insurance
hett.
Bohemia Nuggets
] shoe” mining claim for sale. See
O. H. Willard.
cLui. Nordstrom came out from
Bohemia Hotel, special rates to
the Musick mine for the holidays, traveling men. Fong Sing: prop.
and ia spending a couple of weeks
—Items from C. G. Messenger,
at LUndpark, beforq hitting back
Jan. 6, 1899.
into the tali snowdrifts.
The Champion mine is shut
Vegetables Need Water
>wn until tjie road« can be re-
A corn plant uses about 368
O| MSwd ao that supplies can be
pounds of water to produce one
taken in.
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pound of dry matter. Potatoes re
The early and heavy fall of snow
quire 636 pounds of water to make
has blocked transportation earlier ond pound of dry matter.
than it had for many years.
New adding machines available
Years Aga ta Bohemia
One-half interest in the "Horse-
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Richard Means was driving
school friends home from a dan«'
at Cottage Grove when his car
collided with one in which Miss
King was a passenger. Miss King
told the court that her injuries
had hospitalized her for 15 weeks
and kept her under doctor's cate
for 20 months.
The younger Means had no
driver’s license.
Loirging Suspended
Logging operations in the coun
ty have been virtually suspended
by the county court order restrict
ing all hauling to a 4-ton gross
limit on county roads. The order
is effective until Sunday. January
9, but will be extended if sub
freezing temperatures continue.
State roads under closure to
load limits exceeding 96.000
pounds are the McKenzie highway
from Nimrod to Belknap Junction,
the Territorial highway from
Crow to the Lane-Douglas line,
and the Richardson-Elmira high
way.
Marriage Licenses
Robert M. Sutton. 23, Culp
Creek and Sally L Lemon, 16.
Culp Creek. December 27
Ellsworth Morgan Tullar, 22.
B. B. Rt.. Cottage Grove and
Thelma MacNears. 18. Yakima.
Washington. December 29.
Hal Westerfield Skinner. 42.
Eugene, and Grace Adams Cowan.
44, 205 Adams, Cottage Grove, De
cember 30.
Freeman Lee Brewer. 19. 1404
W. Main. Cottage Grove and Billie
Jean Craig. 18, Mena. Arkansas,
January 3.
Echoes Of The Past
From the Sentinel Files
50 Years Ago—Jan. 20. 1899
As stated in last weeks Mes
senger the Booth-Kelly Lumber
Co., a corporation, leased for a
period of 90 years Lane county’s
right and interests in the Mohawk
river. Mill creek and tributaries
thereof, in said Lane county.
This lease goes into effect 90
days from date, Jan. 10, 1899.
The above is a pretty good indi
cation that something of a gigan
tic nature will develop in the mill
business of Lane county at no far
distant day.
40 Years Ago—Jan. 5, 1909
Both Cottage Grove publica
tions are devoting columns of val
uable space to the county division
proposition -and we ask why not?
Would such a division as proposed
vest the citizens of that place
greater powers heretofore not en
joyed? We believe it would, inas
much as Cottage Grove would
undoubtedly become possessed cf
the county seat of the new dis
trict. We do not blame the citizens
of that area for the interest they
are taking in the matter nor do
we criticize the action of either
paper in furthering the interests
of their home community.
We believe that such a division
as is proposed at the present time,
will never pass the legislature at
the coming session, because both
the Douglas and Lane county rep
resentatives being opposed to the
move and as yet we have heard no
cry from the residents in Northern
Douglas which bears out, the con
tention that they are satisfied
under the present administration.
(Reprint from Umpqua Valley
News).
10 Years Ago—Jan. 5. 1939
Sale of E. R. Lemley’s interest
in the Cottage Grove Lumber Co.
to his partner George Jacobsen,,
was announced Jan. 1.
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High single bowling score of the
week goes to DeYoung of Quality
Market.
Mardis Maier
ACTING U N. MEDIATOR for Pales
tine, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche is shown
with his wife, and son, Ralph Jr., 5,
in New York, following their arriv
al on the liner Nieuw Amsterdam.
Dr. Bunche asserted that the
Israeli-Arab war was ended and
the new State of Israel was “firmly
established.”
(International)
1». 4 P. W. <1.1 H TO SPONSOR
BAND CONCERT
At the regular meeting of the
local Business and Professional
Women's club Monday night in the
city library the members decided
to sponsor a band concert by the
University of Oregon band under
the direction of John Stein. This
concert by the 55-member band
will lie presented in the local high
school auditorium the evening of
January 27 at 8:00 o'clock. The
percentage made by the chib will
CO for the purchase of uniform-
for the local high school band
General chairman for the concert
is Ruth Stewart Caldwell: ticket-
;.nd sales, Lottie Lee Lamb, Joan
Gallo, Della Gallo and Edna Piller
¡»stc?, Dorothy Wood. Following
the concert the club will serve re
freshments to the band members
in th«' cafeteria with Edna Burle
son in charge.
It was voted Io contribute to the
March of Dimes, and if a booth is
installed, they agreed to assist one
or two days.
Two new members welcomed
were Dr. Cora Stockfleth and
Katherine Jack.
The next meeting was an
nounced for January 17th at 6:30.
the place to be announced later.
There will be initiation for new
members at this time and the
Drain and Yoncalla clubs, which
the local group sponsored, will be
guests at the initiation. The pro
gram will be on “United Nations,”
in charge of Grace Cowan Skinner.
Biggest Orc Boat
Biggest and fastest Great Lakes
ore carrier will be launched before
1950 by the Inland Steel company
of Chicago. The new ship, designed
by American Ship Building com
pany, will be 668 feet long—over
two-thirds the length of the Queen
Elizabeth—and will carry an es
timated 20,000 gross tons of cargo.
Powered by a geared turbine de
livering 7,000 horsepower, the ves
sel will make 13% knots when fully
loaded.
Treating Fence Posts
When treating fence posts with
the new cold-soak pentachlorophenol
method, soak them in an old oil
drum that has been set into the
ground a foot or so. It makes it
easier to handle the posts.
Wrought Farm Miracle
From the pre-historic forked stlcl
to the modern tractor plow on rub
ber. from the flail to the combine
modern farm machinery has trans
formed a world of scarcity into on<
of plenty.
Msrgsrst Waller
Charlat Hornaclar
Margie Meier. 15, of Hillsboro,
National 4 11 Ih olth winner, «1«
able through a project in vision
improvement to restore the sb lit
in an almost useless eye. 1‘roper
medical aid and correct lUlcl-i -
in her homo neeonipllsh««! tilts.
Her National 4 11 Club Congress
trip award was provided by tho
Kellogg Company.
Chsilvr Huqhton
Charles Hornecker. 16. of C ir-
iw II im . National HI Farm Sat tv
winner. Is a leafier of two safety prlro roses and dahlias. Iter all-
chibs, which study nnd practice expense trip hward to Club Con
safety on tho highways and tho Riess was provided by Mrs.
safety measures necesonry in Charles It. Wah reen.
Chester Hoghson. Albany. Ns
handling Tartu machinery. His
$200 college scholarship was pro th nal 4-H Meat Animal winner,
has n herd of loo owes and this
vided by General Motors.
Joanne Perry. 16, of Portland, year fed nnd marketed 127 swine
National 4-H Clothing winner, has Ho also raised two beef calves
made or remodeled til garments limi produced the fe. «I needed
and has learned the proper colon for his livestock on tho home
and styles to complement her fair farm. Chester’s IWO collego
coloring. She gave tho top homo avholnrsliip was provided by Thus.
economics demonstration nt tho E. Wilson.
Margaret Walker, 16. of Crea-
State Fair. Her WOO collego
scholarship was provided by tho well. National 4-H Girls’ Record
Spool Cotton Company, Educa winner, helped organise a now
4-H Club three years ago. Hoi
tional Bureau. •
Charlotte Smudla. ¡6. of Port group helped In community Im
land. National 4-H Homo Grounds provement drives ami did much
Beautification winner. Is a city to encourage better living through
dwelling 4 H’er and in her live better farm and home practices
years as a member has conocn- Margaret’s $300 college scholar
tratitd on home beautification, be ship was provided by Montgom
coming proficient as a grower of ery Ward.
All these national 4-H awards programs, which wore conducted
under the supervision of tho Extension Service, are being continued
in 1949.
Brown Rot Again Team Work Will
Help on Northwest
Threat to Fruit
Many of the news articles and
Lands in Oregon I much
of th«' talk about the Pa-
I cific Northwest power shortag«'
Sanitation methods now and have been confusing. Profile say.
thorough spraying in the spring "there has been an unusual
are recommended to Oregon ; amount of rainfall. There is plenty
growers of stone fruit to avert .if water in all the rivers. Why.
then, should there be a ¡siwer
what appears to tie a serious I shortage?”
season of brown rot in the making,
There are two types ot hydro-
announces A. P. Steenland. as j electric power shortage caused by
sistant plant pathologist of the i totally different conditions, one
OSC experiment station.
type of shortage is causiM by n
Last year was an exceptionally i lack of water to turn the gener
'tad year for brown rot in western ators. Certainly, there is no such
Oregon and in many parts cast ' lack at present. This condition
of the Cascades where the disease could «x'cur only when water in
>n prunes, peaches, cherries an«l 1 the rivers is nt a much lower
ipricots had not previously been •Hage. Th«' other typ«' of shortage
erious. Steenland has found that I is caused by not having c nough
■pore masses are already forming i dams and generators to w the
n some orchards ready to cause I available water
and this Is the
erious blossom blight ..nytiiw con«lition our region of the North
‘emperature and moisture condi- west is facing today. It affects
'Jons are favorable.
>nly the hours of "peak" power
Two kinds of brown rot arc demand when the installed ma
prevalent in Oregon, Steenland ex chine capacity is too little to sup
plains. The American type pro- ply the requirements.
luces spores only from old mum-
The daily “peak" is from 11:00
nied fruits from the previous a.tn. until 12:00 noon, and th«'
-eason, while the European type ix'riod from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
produces spore masses also in dead Housewives are using electricity
twigs and leaves. Peach leaves af • for cooking during these hours
fected by the serious infection of and electric water heaters nrc
leaf curl last year made a particu usually in operation. The lights
larly favorable medium in which are on in homes anil downtown.
the fungus grew aryl is now over Normally, most of th«' Industri«'«
wintering.
.are still operating nnd all of these
Sanitation methods now include added together cause the so-called
removal of all mummies and dead i “fieak” [xriod.
twigs from trees *and burning
The annual peak, or the great
these. Whether it will pay also to est for the year occurs during De
gather up mummies under trees
cember an«l January when days
lepends on the individual situa
tion, Steenland advises. Usually aré short, dark and cold and the
the fallen mummies are handled
by early discing in the spring be
fore blossom buds start to open.
This may mean sacrificing Home
cover crop growth, but the threat
of brown rot is so serious that
this may be the price of having a
crop at all, he points out.
No sprays have been developed
to prevent spore production during
the dormant season, though rc-
tearch on this possibility is being
carried on. Blossom sprays are of
several types, but Steenland re-
■ommends that at least the first
‘popcorn stage” spray be with a
tew phenyl mercury compound
told as puratized agricultural
tpray. This is a spore oradlcator
as well as a preventative of in
fection. Other sprays arc Phygon,
Z<rlatc or Fermatc and th< former
standby, sulfur.
ONLY ONCI IN $00,000 TIMM doea • row «Ira
their rarity doe.nl afTect their
Nor does their mother. May. a l «evin
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bv fame. She b owned by Carl Campbell, Bulfler, 1 «.
Cottage Grove
Credit Service
Collection Specialists
Room 1, Stewart Bldg.
731 Main St.
Phone 533
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Tlic obvious Immediate solution
a real "headache" for anyone con-
is the one now being undertaken
nectixl with power supply
voluntary curtaibnent <>f use
The first step tnken by the pow
er producer«, both public and pri during the dally peak hours of th»'
vate, has Iwen to radically allocate 1 winter month«.
If th«' Pacific Northweat sliould
the power needs of Industry dur
have a poor water year, there
ing the daily |>cak |M>riod*.
This reduct Ion ha« not been would be '»n extreme power ahort-
enough. So. the jxiwcr producers age. not only during th« daily
of the Northwest are now np|«ca1- penk period of winter month», hut
ing to the public for voluntary throughout the entire day and for
curtailment of electric power us many month».
If such n calamity should befall
age during the daily |>enk jierlod»
Some further queationa are nat th«' Pacific Northwest, govern
urally advanced by everyone. Why mental agendea a n d regulatory
haven't enough dam« been built authorities probably wouhl liavr
and <’n«>ugh generatora Insialh'd? . to deer«’ drastic retrenchment
The answers are that 6 or 8 ami force curtailment. Everyone
years are required, normally, to
build a large dam. nnd 2% Io 3 would suffer
years for th«' manufacturer to
build a large generator. The na
tion waa nt war until late 1945
nnd no on«' lh«'n ilid foresee a
post-war demand for electric en
ergy of the proportions now re-
qulrvd.
Some dam« are being built. Ad
ditional gcncratoni are under «in
struction for installation nt Grand
Coulee. The bc«t. however, that
can lie expected during the next
by GENE WARE
three or four years Is that in
creased p «i w e r product ion may
This is the time of the year
keep abreast with the increasing
demand, though* this is “hopeful when we look back over 1948
to pick the "Woman of the
Year.” Unlike the experts, we
find tlw job nn easy hw We
always come up with the sanw
"It1» funny. A woman will «ay
candidate . . . Mom! The aver
olu-'a shopping when »I m - haan’t
age Mother never geta her pic
(■ought a thing.”
ture in the paper, ami the apo*-
light of fame aerm» to always
“Yew, »ml a man will nay be’»
flvhliig when hr hnon't «aught
|inss her by. Yet day In and day
a thing.”
out she <-omc« through with
flying color» n» far ar her fam
Do you say you're doing bu»i-
ily is concerned. We set aside
ncss when you extend credit to
«inc day a year for Mom
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customer« who forget to pay?
If this kind of businc«» has | but H isn't enough . . . every
lasn disappointing, you may i day should be "Mothers I lay ."
improve the situation by pine- I
We tip our humble hats Io the
ing these forgotten accounts ।
"Moms" all over tlw world.
with
Yes we really should do more
for Mom. So why mil start how
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