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Far» t The Sentinel, Pottagr Grove, Orogon Thur« . Aprii !A 104» European Life Expectancy Now Longer Than Before War CHARHE» WITH MURBER | "No! no! your honor, do not Ing the Ixird to have mercy on my "Prisoner at the bar. have you । » I«*«' my li|*; I am nearly through, ■mil I will ekme by solemnly ask anything to suy why sentence of j "1 began my downward career ing God to open your blind eyes death shall not b«' pas**d u|xm .it a salmin HAH legalised ami to your own individual responsi By Harris Ellsworth, Rep. In You* I irroteeted proh*cte«l by th«- th*' rotors roters of this bility, h<> that you will crane to Congress from Oregon A solemn hush fell o V e r the town. Aficr the saloons you al- give your support to this dreadful NEW YORK In apite «4 the difficult conditions still jtn-vailing lovved. have made mv a drunkard traffic." Selected. in the war-ravaged parts of Europe, th«’ average inhabitant of the All is quiet on our side of th. crowded court room, and every Paid Adv. and a murderer, 1 nm taken be- |x*rxon waited in almost breath- Old World now has a larger life expectancy than before World [ Capitol ns this is written. Many foro another bar the bar of ju«- War II, the latest statistics on the world's death rate indicate. | members of the house have gone less expectation for the answer i tice, and now the iaw-power will ¡home lor the week or art' on to the judge’s question. According to the current issue I The judge walled In dignified «««••‘Ct n«’ <«> ‘be plats’ of rxeeu- Odd Fact . short vacation trips. I had intend- of the Epidemiological and Vital I tlon, *nt* hasten my soul into eter [od getting in a nxmd of golf or silence. A 18-y«ar old girl was d«l«r»d Statistics Report, published by ■ Not u whisper wks heard anv- ni,y 1 «I4**«- Ix fore another th* dead by an anibulanrs stt«n<lant the U.N. World Health Organiza-'« <■ I two , and perhaps a very lit ...... - WIQWAl bar th<> JUDGMENT HAH t >F 8 i A L tion. all but thr«*e Eur«xx*an I IK«* Hague, the International gardening at home, but the recess where, and the situation had be GOD anti there you, who have who wsa called to treat her la her " _ a a a...al . > «. . SV . . a • . I«. ai v . < «x. . « . . a come painfully oppressive, when New York City hotel room, but a t Q n countries now have a lower death Court of Justh-e Hhe United Na »hows signs of ending befare I get the prisoner was seen to move, his legalized the traffic, will have to patrolman aaalgned to guard the rate than in 1937-39. Basing its tions principal judicial organ) completely caught up with office body later dlacovered algna of life, head was raised, his hand was appear with me. Think you that findings on data received for gave its advisory opinion, that hi work. The last two w«'«-ks before her, and apad her kt hua- Clinch«!, and the blood bud ilished the Great Judge will hold me the revived the recess were busy weeks. House the event of injuries suffered by 1947 from all European countries weak, helpless victim of vital where aha recove r ed into his pale, carcwqrn face. sessions began at eleven o'clock except the I'S.S.R., Poland Yu a United Nations agent in the v EXPLANATION IN ORDER Suddenly he arose to his feet, your traffic alone responsible for performance of his duties, the ami sometimes at ten. am! ad .•niVw/>ulil be moot helpful if the county court had some incut- goslavia. Albania. Greece. Turkey U.N. as an organization has the journed late each day. tYanmittees anti in a low, firm, but distinct th«' murder of my wife? Nay, I, in and the Soviet Zone of Germany. my drunken, frenzied, irrv«|Min- beg,who eottld or would explain th«* county’s present road WHO say* that the general death capacity to bring an international met also. It was next to impos voice, said:— "I have! Your honor, you have ; *•1’1*' condition, have murdensi building policy. Residents of this area, particuiarlv th«»se living rate for 1948 may have been claim against the responsible sible to get anything much don«’ asked me a question, and I now one but you have deliberately government, whether a Member in the office. a few miles distaat have been long suffering in the matter of even lower than in 1947. ask, as the last favor on earth, ' voted for th«* salonnit, which have State or not. with a view to ob putting up with poor road conditions. And while excuses won’t Among the European coUntrit's that you will not interrupt my murderod thuusands. and they arc Recently I was talking with taining the reparation due in re- a build roads, the public certainly would lx* more patient with from which information is avail- in full o|x‘rati>>n today with your lady visitor trom the wx*st who answer until I atn through spect of the damage caused to the frohrt if the public were told if and when the mail could be able. Rumania and Eire have the ronsent. "1 stand here before this liar, had just spent several hours in the United Nations. built and if they cannot be built, why. Also in order is the highest death rates. The general "All <if you know in your hearts convicted of the wilful murder Court also considered that th«* visitors galleries of th«* hous«* of my wife, explanation as to why the court sees fit to tear up long stretches death rate in Rumania in 1947 the Th«' l nit«'*l Truthful witnesses that th«*se words of mine arc not and senate. Sh«* was quite disturb- Nations could bring of'road and leave them for the motorists anil truckers to get was 21.1 per 1000 the highest an International claim against thv I «si by the fact that so few memlx*rs have testified to the fact that I the ravings of an unsound mind, in that country for th«* witv on the floor an«i that, as she was a loafer, a drunkard, and a but tin- truth of the Alnui;bl> over the best they can, rather than rebuilding the road in short registered last 15 years and far above the responsible government with a said, those who were there were wretch; that 1 returned from one God. stretches. view to obtaining the reparation rate for any other European my prolonged debauches, and "You legalized the saloons ’that Residents of both the Row River - Dorena area an«l the country. Eire with 14.9 per 1000, due in respect of the damage not listening to the member speak* of fired the fatal shot that killed the made me a drunkard and a mur- ing. 1 have often thought that caused to the victim or to persons I London community have been before the court to air their came next. The United Kingdom By "Mhorty" Mmltk visitors watching the house in ses wife 1 had sworn to love, cherish, tk'ror, and you are guilty with me grievances. So far as we know, these representatives have not and the Western Zones of Ger entitled through him. sion must lx* quite disappoint<>d - and protect. While I have no rc- before God and man for th«’ mur been given a satisfa«*tory answer as to why they have to endure many had rates of approximately In the General Assembly’s Po if not disillusion«**!. Only a few membranev of committing the der of my wife. Howdy Folk«; Thia country la roads that will soon demolish the best of cars. Several have pre-war levels, the report says, litical Committee, Egypt has tim«’s each week is the house fearful deed, I have no right to "Your honor, I ant done. I am quite a handicap. It can made the statement that they cannot understand the attitude of but figures for the first nine calk'd for the independenc«' of ehamlxT actually filled with mem complain or to condemn the ver now ready to rccrive my sentence, under Io anything any other ixointry months of 1948 showed marked , Libya and for annexation of dict of the twelve gtxxi men who and be led forth to th«’ place of the present court and that they would gladly pay more taxes, bers. When minor routin«* business ran do except borrow money Western Eritrea by the Sudan. [ if it is finances the county needs. It seems odd that the county improvement. । is being transacted or when a set have acted us jury in the case; execution. You will close by t »k- from the Inlti-d N ta tea. The Egyptian representatives also period of general deliatc is being for their verdict is in accordance The Latin countries of southern taxpayers have not been able to get any sort of satisfactory ex- demand the return of certain conducted on a bill, there is no with the evidence. and western Europe showed the pUnatiou out of the court; at least this is the complaint that The modern version «houM “But. may it please the court. I remarkable reduction in border areas of Lybia taken from real n«*cessity for a member to bi hr ’’handout« aerosa the has bt-en voiced to us. For this reason we think it w«Hild be a most his country by Italy. mortality. France, which until on th«* floor. As a matter of fact, wish to show that I am not alone fine thing if the court could be represented at the meeting of the last two years never had a Also in the Political Committee th«* pressure of committee nnd of responsible for the murder of my citizens helil at the Row River community hall Friday night death-rate under 15 per thousand. Cuba has submitted a resolution fice work is so heavy on all mem wife!” I'rrtnqM our diplomats could m. This startling statement created had a rate of 13 per 1000 in 1947. asking that a special committee bers that for them to be on th«* a tremendous sensation. The judge The death-rate of Italy is now be set up to carry out on-the-spot floor at such times would lx* an as low as that of Switzerland investigations of the alleged per unproductive use of time. On the leaned over the desk, the lawyers THAT AIN'T THE WAY WE HEERD IT and low’er than that of the United secutions in the Mindszenty case oth»>r hand, when an important wheeled around and faced the W hen Stalin agrrcs, there's ozen people witness an accident or a tragedy, they all Kingdom, while Spain is almost in Hungary and the trial and bill is being road for amendnu'nt, prisoner, the jutors kmked at each fereut story probably because each sees the incident as low, and Portugal has reached sentencing of Protestant Clergy - most members stay in the chamber other in amazement. The prisoner A friend »f our« advanced the from a different angle. If you were assigned to write a story the level of Belgium. Thus, the men in Bulgaria. until the final roll call. Gallery paused a few seconds, und then Idea that a good way to end In Jerusalem, a mixed armis- visitors at such times are not dis- continued in the same firm, dis fot; a newspaper on the incident, the chances are that you would Latin area of Europe, which be dlpliinuwy wouM be to have to interview each of the twelve people to get anything like fore the war had death rates tice commission of Arabs and appointed, There is usually plenty tinct voice:— minili women to the dlphmtatle “ I repeat, your honor, that I Jews has begun work on im- of action. a presentable story and then the chances are that some of the ranging from 14 to 20. now has am not the only one guilty of the plementing the Tranxjonlan- - - - NOW is the time to readers or that newspaper would remark that the story in the rates of from 11 to 13 per 1000. murder of my wife. The judge on Israeli armistice agrément con- Lately I have spent several The area comprising Austria. have your watch cleaned! It's well that paper was incorrect, that the paper never had anything right, clu<k*d recently at Rhodes. hours reading and carefully study this bench, th«' jury in the box. et$ Perhaps the average newspaper has room for considerable Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia and The place is HERE I th«* lawyers within this bar. and ing the new Columbia Valley with telling rffrrt. improvement, but if we printed half the stories we hear we Hungary had death-rates of from It carries a 1 year written Authority bill sent to congress by m«»st ol the witnesses, incliuling wuuld be in hot water all the time and our reputation for truth 12 to 13 per 1000 in 1917. The the pastor of the old church, ar«' [ the President acc«Mnpani«*d by a guarantee. reductions there, compared to Mrn or women, a »errei ti«ually would be seriously impaired. message urging its passage. When also guilty before Almighty God. conditions 15 to 20 years ago. elreulateti rapMIy. and will have to stand with me (Roger T. Tctlow) Not too long ago we heard from several sources the story of were particularly noteworthy in the subject was mentioned earlier ho a member of the eity police force was beaten up after the Hungary and Bulgaria this year. I took out my rather before His judgment throne, In that (smnrctlon. It's no Marriage IJems«*s voluminous CVA file, obtained where we shall all be righteously col tad made some catty remark to a logger and of what the The Netherlands, the report Kenneth Hawley Ward, 39. 29 J judged. logger said to the police judge and what the judge said to him. says, continued in a class by it street. Cottage Grove and Elsie some additional material, and "If it had not h»*«'n for the After, hearing the story repeated several times naturally we self, having the lowest general Marie Wiese, 35, 1420 W. Main made a careful review of the whole saloons of my town. I never would subject. I was actually surprised, death rate in the world: 8.1 per 38 No. 6th Phone 301 we^e Whined to place a little credence in it. until we investi- street. Cottage Grove. April 18. after reading most every thing said have bt'come a drunkard; my wife 1000 in 1947. gated. would not have* been murdered; I and written of CVA, to find that Walch Inspector In America, as in Europe. It is 6OO Main Mt ree« The county school superinten- ; nn recent accident involving a pedestrian being struck by so pitifully little specific evidence would not be here now, ready to the Latin countries which show dent's office has announced that an aw mito in a pedestrian lane, we heard the victim was jay showing the need for such an all- be burk'd into eternity. Had it not walk» that the driver of the auto did not have a license ami the greatest reduction in the gen the unofficial returns on the 6% powerful authority has been put Ix'cn for these human tru|M, I death rate during the last limitation vote for the rural that tbe victim was immediately hospitalized and was in a eral forth by thos»- who desire the pas would have tx-en a sober man, an ten years. The greatest fall was | district budget is: yes, 168. tender sage of this legislation. If a case industrious workman. aeiiotl»Condition. It developed that none of the three reports recorded in Chile and Mexico, school no. 107. father, and a loving husband. But could be made for such a bill, thi were correct. both until recently areas of very Out of a total of districts should have mad«- it in today my home is «iestroyed, my high mortality. Conditions also voting, 53 have turned in their I ■ ITcsident special message. A careful wife murtlrrcd, my hub- children have improved greatly during re votes. THE WAY OF JUSTICE (kxl bless ami care for them I reading of his very honest state- years in the northern coun- I ment regarding the present de- cast on th«* mercy of the work), ! long ago we heard a resident remark that it looks im- cent tries The county surveyor’s office has I velopmcnt program of the while I am to be hanged by the jfor a man or woman to be convicted of a charge of ica. of South and Central Amer- announced that county road crews I Columbia River area rather tends strong arm ot the state. m r manslaughter in Lane county and in looking back In the United States and other are finishing up a second coat of "God knows I tried to reform, over sojiie of the trials by jury including a recent one, we are non-European English speaking gravel which has been laid on the I to prove that it is proce«sling at n hut as long as the open saloon was I splendid rate. Instead of proving inqlipj^to believe that the resident was-right. We have not countries, a marked change in road on the south side of the Do- I that a CVA must be established In in my pathway, my weak, dis reached the point in our judicial system where we have been the age distribution of the popu- rena reservoir. The gravel is being I order to develop the Columbia eased will power was no match able ¿¿Exclude all of the irrelevance connected with the case lation has long been in progress, -taken from the quarry on Sharp’s I properly, the text of the Prcsi- against the fearful, consuming. and Wone often the defendant escapes conviction, particularly A slow decrease in the general creek. I dent’s message causes me to have I : agonizing appetite for liquor. “For one year our town was 4 The state highway commission even more serious doubts as to th«1 if L* is able to afford the services of a good criminal attorney. death-rate has continued in the without a saloon. For one year I 'ou happened to be called on a jury and have your inind UJS. since 1940, and the crude is preparing plans for the con need for any such legislation. was 10.1 in 1947, with struction of a 105-foot truss which m ion a particular ease, the chances are that your services death-rate The CVA bill itself (Identified was a sober man. For one year my Have your fur cleaned, glazed and stored for the summer little, if any, change in view for will cross the upper end of the wife and children were happy, and as juror wjll be rejected, but you can have an unusual amount 1948; while Canada had 9.4, reservoir. The new structure will is H R 4286 or H R 1287 since our little home was a paradise. of ¡sympathy, for say separating a family you can still be ac Australia 9.7, New Zealand 9.4; replace the old covered bridge on Representatives Mitchell an«l ”1 was one of those who signed Jackson of Washington intnxluc*sl cepted on the jury. This sympathy might still prevent you from and the white population of the Row river. remonstrances against reopening identical bills I would place almost PICK UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE rendering a verdict of conviction, which according to law should Union of South Africa 8.7. In unlimited power in the hands of a the salmins of our town. One-half ; Australia and New Zealand, the be | done. Mrs. Melba Hiede, county ex tioard of three men appointed by of this jury, the prosecuting attor death rate was about the same tension agent (4-H) has notified III the President. The passage of this ney on this case, and the judge as in 1937-1939. all members of Cooking 3 clubs bill would empower the board to who sits on this tx-nch. all voted TWO SLOW MONTHS III Little information is available that there will be a meeting at •¡'Maybe the threat of a recession is going to be a recurring regarding do almost anything in the region for the saloons. By their vote and Asia, Africa and the influence saloons were reopened, American visitation each year in the 10 weeks or so following Near East, according to the WHO the Junction City high school, from regulating hunting and fish and they have made me what I Saturday, May 7, at 10 a.m. ing to building industrial “ practi (Tmstnias. According to a new study, it eouid be the heavy hand report, but in India, where the Bread baking will be discussed cal demonstration" plants, power am," of khe personal income tax that makes business seem to slow up death rate has never been below and demonstrated. Mrs. Hiede also The impassioned words of the so'tbueh every January and February. The analysis shows that 21 per 1000, the rate was 17.5 in plans to discuss the Dollar Dinner dams, stream plants, transmission prisoner fell like coals of fire upin lines and other facilities. Local in ¡tnose two months we Americans forked over »2,818,000,000 1946 and 18.1 in 1947. hearts of those present, and contest with the members attend- people would not have the slight- the 1 Japan has also shown a re- ¡ng. (that’s billions) in income taxes, over and above our regularly est power over, or effective voice many of the spectators and some markable fall in mortality after the lawyers were moved to "It’s the Know How That Excels All Others" "withheld” taxes. in, the operation of this all-power- of ' tears. The judge made a motion as That means that we make three-fifths of our whole year’s the war. Data for the first seven ful board of three. 107 N. 7th months of 1948 gave a rate of 12.6 Phone 717 The Columbia region as defined if ! to stop further speech, when , to^il of cash-on-the-line personal income tax payments in those per thousand, as against 16 for the speaker hastily said: in the bill includes all of the twp months! Naturally in that period John Q. Citizen is less the corresponding period of 1947. Fourth Congressional district. I qu^k to buy a new hat for the Missus or a baseball glove for shall be glad to send a copy of Juiuor, for he’s saving up to meet the demands of that other the hill to anyone requesting one member of the family, his ever-reaching Uncle—you guessed Clarence O. Willis, resident of I hop*- careful study will be given it-r-pam. Cottage Grove for the past 50 the bill by the people concerned ! Of course, far more important than the actual absence of the years, passed away in a hospital because w'c arc all going to lx- cash itself (though that is considerable) is the depressing effect Body of Clarence Andruss, 40, in North Bend. April 25, 1949, seriously affected by it if it should this annual nightmare has on the spirit of spending. Perhaps one of Reedsport, one of three victims following a short illness. He was become law. good eventually may come of it, though: This whole routine does of drowning when the towboat 78 years of age, and was born in seyve to remind us <»f the staggering price everyone is paying Adel sank in the Umpqua River Pennsylvania, September 17, 1870. a young boy he moved with now for government—and of the extent to which those pay- at Scottsburg Feb. 23. was found When Friday noon four miles below his parents to Nebraska, and came msijts affect the normal flow of money in trade. ! to Oregon about 60 years ago, set- Gardiner, The body was found by four । tling at Salem. There he married clam diggers on the north side of Anna Wicinski in 1894. They CHANGE OF TUNE the river, at Barrett’s Landing. moved to Cottage Grove in 1901, mriM« LOOH WHAT HAPPENED Coast Guardsmen from the Ump and had lived here since. His wife Criar about . WHEN I ADVISED HIM TO "DU I’It'TURKS qua River Station brought the passed away in 1922. He was a UBcáíJí*»* the WRtcK To millie 5 T ail body to the Unger Funeral Home member of the Catholic church. TO KEEP IT FROM SWISHINKj Survivors include three sons and at Reedsport, where identification HIM— HAW MILK FROM was made from papers found in a five daughters, Leonard Willis of movie cameras Cosmopolis, Wn., Mrs. Rose Davis Gltorf MAIO DAWY billfold, according to Deputy Cor and Mrs. Magdalin Kennedy, both sure develops one > oner Jack Unger. CfMM OF HUMOR. , of Coos Bay, Frank Willis, Mrs. I’ROJEI TORS The four clam diggers who HAW HAW” y found Andruss’ body, caught In Katie Hopman, Antone Willis, ANO ITS A LUCKY driftwood on the beach, were Mrs. Haddle Morris, and Mrs. Clara Batchelder, al) of Cottage THING named as Delbert Pittncr, Clar ARCTIC KODAKS THE ence Pittner, Art Wolfgram, and Grove; 25 grandchildren; six great WKT ONES grandchildren; two brothers and James Ragan, all of Reedsport. COME ON' ¡ three sisters. Funeral services were held to fKWAHft FILMS Recitation of the Rosary was day with interment in the Reeds held at the Smith Funeral Chape) port Masonic Cemetery. Andruss’ was the last of three Wednesday at 7:30 p.m Funeral LIGHT METE Its bodies to be found. The others, those of Capt. Alden Leach, 51 1-^ Wi’h and Vernon Thornton, 28, were r f ‘U‘ M cr o^datlng. found nearer the scene it the In,™nt wa>1 ‘he IOOF ” > fH« AMMUOAM WHOKATf tragedy, at the E. K. Wood Lum- cem<t«ry2 , Published Every Thursday at (5r0VC Cottage Greve, Oregon Established August 15, 1889 W. C. MARTIN ----- ---------------------- ------- — Editor, Publisher Subscription rates, cash in advance. No subscription for less than three months. 1 Yr. Mos. 3 M ok In Lane and Douglas Counties _____ 2.50 1.50 1.00 Outside Thia District ______________ 3.00 1.75 1.50 Foreign Rates on Application. Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. 4» 4, Washington Letter UN REVIEW I Mostly Static WATCH YOUR TIME | County Affairs I THEO. KANGAS Jeweler Smith Electric Come On In Our Dry Cleaning proud of the service we offer you CLEANERS Third Victim Feb’y 23rd Drowning Is Found In Umpaua Clarence 0. Willis Funeral Thursday Gifts DAIRY-TALES ber Co.’s log pond at Scottsburg. —Roseburg New's Review. India Buys Dollars WASHINGTON India p u r- ehased $7,500,(XX) in United States currency from the Interna tional Monetary Fund in return for rupees during March. FOR ANY AND ALL TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES _______ Word» of the Wise Nothing in Ufa is more wonder ful than faith—the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor teat in the crucible. —(Sir William Osler) Sec míTtUUllD MMK ----------------asciti AM--------------- 505 50.5«* $T. ••• PHONE: 321 Clark’s 21 South 6th Pilone 343-J
