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The Sentinel, Cottage Grove, Oregon ’Huir».. Aug. tA 1 »4® I Eottw (Srove £rntind Published Every Thursday at “ Cottage Grove, Oregon Established August 15, 1889 Washington Letter Letters to the Editor CSC Tests of New By Harris Ellsworth. Rep. in Congress from Oregon COMMI NICATION 1*1’RUSHED Water Wheel Set Many to Building LATHAM (Mn. Esther Tnum<*ll, reporter phone 11F-1I) I .ill ham .School Meeting There will be it meeting of wt ■ ' or* at the schoolhouse August 2*1 w. c. MARTIN .. Editor, Publisher The House of Representatives i 1 it 8 p in. for the purpoev of voting Bulwcription ratea, cash in advance. No subscription for less Just “b01“ readJ ,o adjure for ongle discussion over the ' “ J™'1*1”1’ the money left from than three months. ' " " 'tmon KOAC. e«.m< pi Î »«st year to capital outlay so that Moil 1 thi* session Remaining legislation 6 Moa. 3 ------ । OP on w hich it has not acted consists ago of a small lunnia- £ mtwee may I h - ii^ In Lane and Douglas Counties .2.50 1.50 car|H*nter work finished before i xn m‘*,*y of very large ami contro- Outside Thia District ______ water i>ower-electric generator in the .3.00 1.75 ehool starts. ■*'nl versial bills such as the socialized stallation has “snowballed” year Foreign Kates on Application. medicine bill and th«* Brannan A committee Compost'd of W A after year until today at least HX> Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. farm plan. Such proposals will re installations are known in Oregon Woodard. D W. McKiblM'n anti quire weeks of hearings and long and the O.S.C. engineering experi* Robert Kenady ware recently NATIO NA I EDITORIAL and complete debate on the fkxir of ment station has issued a bulletin eleeted to work with the school assoc A tio ' n both houses of congress. There will i « board in making prv|Miratlon of on the subjesh IT 101 be plenty of time for full and CMn- Such is the unusual story behind the building for the opening of I píete consideration of them next school. year. There will always be pending (Mr*. Gran» Th<Mii|KM>n, reporter the retvnt publication of a bulle Mrs. Carrie Knutson of Eugene tin called " The Banki Water Tur A HOPEFUL SIGN Phene lit«) before any session of congress spent a few- days at the O. M. bine, ’ ' bj Dr A A Mbckmore and A few days ago we had occasion to drive several hundre«! scores of non-cont roversial and Mrs Florence Marvick remain.* Patton home recently, She and miles over the state and in the course of driving passed thru minor bills This session is no dif in Missoula. Montana at the bed Fred Merry field of the civil engin her daughter, Frunces Nichols, eering department. > . , * • - . . . - , I ferent from any other in that re- --------- sid«* of her mother, who is still several cities and towns. A hopeful sign it seems to ns was the This is not a popular extension will soon move to a new location fact that the average motorist was driving slower and driving spect. but the house majority in a critical condition. ty|K* bulletin, by the way. but one Roy Means attended the fair Walter Russell, carjienter, has tilled with engineering graph* ami at Prineville over the werk end. with more care in the hazardous areas. The nearest approach to I leadership properly takes the I position that such legislation just recently completed termite an accident was caused by an impatient motorist who made an formulas, it does however, give a Recent visitors at the las’ Wil should be ha mi led next year. spraying and painting Mrs. Flora report on the testing done with lia ms home other car driver take to the shoulder of a narrow road in passing Mr. and Mrs V. Holt ’ s house. But the fact that the house has this type of water turbine in O.S.C. Monte Seylmkl and on of Port- a truck. completed its work Ika's not mean Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rains have lalior a lories, and indicati** its pos land. The secretary of state has recently issued a map showing that congress can adjorn. The I purchased a horn«' in Drain, the Mr. and Mrs. Gent* V. Hansen the locality where the fatal accidents occurred in 1948. The map lHiu.se must sit around and mark one formerly oevuph'd by the Mar- sibilities for practical use where a small heail of swift water is of Port Townsend visited We<in«*s- might be recommended for study by any high school class taking time until the senate is ready to tin Jay family. They will mov available. day and Thursday with her par- driving tests or training. It would'be beneficial in showing the stop talking and get its wxirk done ¡nto their new home by the first j The Banki turbine was invented ents. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Trunnell prospective driver where most of the fatal accidents occur ami Dur solution to this problem will of the month. and devekiped in Germany. Dmg and with his relatives in Cottage in addition it would indicate the degree if any as to whether the be to recess but continue in ses The pond for th«' Forest Veneer before World War II, Dr Mock- Grove and Jasper. They brought particular spot contributed anything to the cause of the sion technically until the senate is j Company w a s istrtiaily cleaned more obtained a report on this Grandma Hansen to visit her sons ready to adjourn the session. accident. development and translated it. A Ervin and Curtis. out th«' first part of the week. nioiiel was then built and tested in In this section of the country we note there were thre< Threshing was finished in this Mr. and Mrs. Sid Billings ac The U. S. Department of Agri- j the engineering lalwratories. lead community Tuesday at Ira Beid- hazardous places on the 99 highway. One was south of Saginaw, companied Mr. ami Mrs. Earl culture is apparently large enough near the Abbott farm, where several accidents have occurred, a for one of its bureaus to forget ■ Rains to Portland last Sunday ing to the report of it made by Dr. ler’s ami Hugh Trunncll’s places Ronald and Donald Hull found straight stretch of highway north of Creswell only a mile or the existence of another. The where they visited Joan Higgin Muckmore over the radio. The responso to the radio talk their Hereford cow dead in the ho and a section of the highway at Divide. All three spots have forest service is charged with the botham and Leona Arzie at the was so great that Dr. Mockmorc’s pasture last Friday evening provided their share of accidents in the years past. task, among other things, of help Shriner’s hospital. Both are get office was swamped with requests had been shot with a shot gun ami ting along nicely and will perhaps ing stabilize the lumber industry for more details anil installation they found nine holes just I m *I ow by stimulating new uses for wood be allowed to comi* home soon. PROGRESS WITHOUT POLITICS instructions. He arranged to have the heart. Neighbors have Iwimled Mr. Spradlin and son left the According to a statistical bulletin published by a large products. The Commodity Credit first part of the week for Arkan a mimeographed report issued together to put a stop to the en which was list'd to answer corres- tirely unnecessary loss of stock life insurance company, a typical baby girl l>orn in 1900 could Corporation, in the same depart sas. ment. has charge of the grain stor Mr. and Mrs. Clay Galdabini. pondence that continued for many and property as practically every count on surviving for 50 years. In 1946, the expectancy was 69 age and price support program. one has at some time lost a heifer, Ronald. Sharon, and Duane, ac years. Accordingly, the lumber industry- companied by Harley Remington Meanwhile several Oregon firms sheep, cow or had prop«Tty dc- In the last 20 years, according to the same study, maternal in the Pacific Northwest is still began manufacturing the small stroyi'd. It is unfortunate that deaths connected with child bearing have dropped to one-fifth wondering why the CCC, in its made a trip over the week end turbine and nozzle, the only parts fanners are forced to close their to Eastern Oregon, returning via of the former prevailing rate. In a brief period of time, there ha- first call for bids on storage bins The Dalles, visiting Bonneville that can’t b<* homemade A farmer places to even a casual trespasser been an amazingly heavy decline in child death rates from such for Midwest corn, prepared specifi dam and other interesting places could install one of these, hook a but circuinstancea force them to diseases as measles, diphtheria and scarlet fever. cations which required the use of enroute home. little generator to it. and have his <k> no. Such facts as these have a great significance today. because all steel, thereby precluding the R. E. Yates of Portland spent Relatives from Tacoma, Wash own electric light plant. Si-ores Wednesday night at the Hugh of the organized effort now being made to force this country to lumber and the plywood makers ington have been visiting at the did just that. Installation is simple. A small Trunnell home. accept compulsory government health insurance, on the theory from even a competitive chance at Bullard home the past several the business. wooden dam may be built across Mads Overgaard i* in the Eu days. that our health standards are woefully low. The truth is that After strong protests from Con Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hcnderer a small stream, and the water gene hoapital whi re he is taking during the present eentury absolutely revolutionary progress diverted into a wooden flume treatments. has been made in treating the ill. in preventive medicine, and gressmen and the industry, the of Eugene, anil Mr. and Mrs. Dio where a head of 10 to 20 feet may Mrs. Julia Watts left Tuesday order was amended to include Rader of Springfield visited rela in improving longevity. And every impartial observer has found be obtained. Near the < nd of the to visit .Mrs. Kittic Kime Ditto in wooden bins but suppliers were tives here over the week end. that in this regard we are far ahead of the countries which have given only ten days in which to Mrs. Black suffered a severe flume a vertical box, or. penstock Portland until Friday when she accepted socialized and regimented medicine, where the doctor prepare bids and get them to the heart attack Sunday. A doctor is constructed, to which the tur will go by car with friends to is nothing but a civil servant and politicians establish the pol Nation’s Capitol. bine nozzle Is bolted. When the Pullman and Pasco where she will was called for her. icies and give the orders. Word has reached here of the turbine is not in use the water visit friends and a daughter, Mrs. Incidentally, the CCC prepared No one denies that we must seek by every sound means to its call for steel bins at a time sudden death of Millard Hutchi simply discharges over the flume. Helen Getchell. The new bulletin is a more de Mr. and Mrs Art Anderson of attain higher health standards yet, and to see that the masses when an industry-wide strike in son in Cottage Grove. The Hutch tailed engineering repot t on th«* Eugene and Mrs. Burke San- of people get the best possible attention. But if we are to reach the steel mills was expected; if isons were former residents. The Arthur Brown family has tests made with the Banki water bourne of Bend visited Mrs. .I' i I m that goal, we must keep politics out of the picture. Socialized that had happened, could the steel turbine at O.S.C. Watts at th«' Merk* Porter Itomi* bins have been erected by harvest gone on a trip to Washington. medicine is not the answer. ■Saturday evening The Galdabini family reunion time? Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Joris was held Saturday evening at the LESS MOO, MORE MILK Johnson and son Paul of Eugene Considerable publicity has been home of Mrs. Pauline Brown with visitisi at the Porters. The well known ingenuity of the American farmer in find given the passage by the house of a good attendance. The birthdays ing ways of growing two blades of alfalfa where one grew before a bill to increase the % minimum were also celebrated. FARM LAHOHEKS NEEDED Several from here attended the is again demonstrated in a comparison of dairy statistics com w-age law from 40c an hour to 75c The Oregon State Employment piled by a maker of cans. The figures show that while the num an hour. Actually this bill, if it is funeral for Mrs. Vera Linch Sun-^ The Mountain States Power Co., Service Monday estimated that day at Drain. passed by the senate and liecomes will continue to serve the Spring- ber of cows in the country has been decreasing since 1945 at the 2,000 laborers wen* ne«*<lcd to help Quite a large crowd attended rate of more than a million head a year, the supply of milk is at law, will not be of much impor field area regardless of the plan harvest the farm crops in the va the Old Timers ’ picnic Sunday at tance in Oregon so far as the rate least as plentiful as ever. the home of Mrs. Mabel Sowles. of the Springfield city council to rious parts of the state. Harvest The bovine population now figures out to one milch eow per hour is concerned. People who After the bountiful dinner several distribute municipal power in the activity is centered in the Salem are employed in our state are city of Springfield. The city of for every six persons. In 1920 it was one for five, and back in either working at much higher hours were spent in visiting and Springfield offered to purchase the area where 1.300 workers, It is said, will be nccdi-d to help har- 1870, one in four. recalling past events. hourly rates or are doing work Visitors at the Orville Hodges distribution of the Mountain States v«*st the bean and hop crops. Hops A comforting note for those who would shed a tear over the that is not involved in interstate Power Co. in Springfield and set seeming disappearance of Old Bossy is the report that there still commerce and hence not subject to home are the son-in-law ami August 20th as the deadline. Z. E. cucumbers, blackls*rries and other are 24,450,000 cows and heifers in the country today, and they regulation by congressional action. daughter and children from Cali- Merrill, company president nd- farm crops will claim the atten tion of workers in other sections are producing just about as much milk as 27.770.000 did in 1945. What we are mostly concerned fornia. School bells will ring the start dressed a letter to the Springfield of the state later. Thanks to more scientific and efficient dairy methods, the aver- with is the fact that the pending power users last week setting Pear picking is in full sway in of the new school year on Tuesday age cow’s yield is now about two and a half tons of milk a year. legislation serves to clarify and September 6 with Mrs. Myrtle forth the plan of the company and the Medford area and will soon be make specific the old "Wages and up 10 per cent from 1945. advising power users the company Hours" law. There has been some Gleason of Cottage Grove as pri had no plans at present of selling underway here in two or three local pear orchards. mary teacher and Mr. Leo Epps of doubt as to which businesses are its distribution system and sug BUT PAPA DOES NOT ALWAYS REALIZE IT covered under the law and which Grants Pass as upper grade teach gested that the power users there Typewriter covers for «nie Juvenile vandals cost Boston more than $100.000 yearly, ac are exempt. The bill passed by the er. A general clean-up day is to be enter no agreement which might cording to Mayor Janies M. Curley. As he signed a contract for house clearly spells out the matter held before school starts and all interfere with their freedom of patrons are asked to come out and nearly 10 carloads of street light globes and glass for school of exemptions. I cannot give de lend a hand to help do the several action. winduws-he explained that most of the damage was caused by tails of the bill here but will be tasks that will improve our school. B. P. Lawson, mayor recently school children. “They should realize the ultimate cost comes glad to answer any inquiries or indicated that the city council send a copy of the bill to anyone back to their mothers and fathers,” he said. there would conduct a customer who wants one. A letter or post- RI SII DATES HET sign up campaign. FOR OSC MEN I card addressed to me at the House Oregon State College — Students Office Building, tVashington, D. C. planning to join fraternities this will receive a prompt reply. fall will have two rush periods, September 22 to 25, and 26 to 29, Great Smoky Trail* Will Be Available Each Wednesday inclusive. Dan Poling, dean of men There are 800 miles of horse and Beginning August 10th. has announced. An all-campus hiking trails in the Great Smoky PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW "moving day" is set for Saturday, mountains national park. October 1. Those who have dormi tory or boarding house reserva Early Visit tions who pledge fraternities will Marco Polo visited Sumatra in not be allowed to cancel these but New Location: Howe Lane 1292 on his way home to Venice may nxive if exchanges can be (See sign on Hiway 99, two miles south of Creswell). from the Chinese court of Emperor made. Most rushees live in the Kublai Khan. Phone Creswell 1F2 fraternities during the two periods. 1-tfexx 1 I , We would like to remind our readers again that no unsigned communication will la» publish«*«! regardless of its merit. Only last Tuesday what wc thought was a very fine letter, but wer» disappointed because the writer used a ficticious name. If requesh'd. "Letter* to Editor" col umn do not have to be signed, but the identity of the writer must be known to us. Corn Aereage Tiili year’* buinpvr corn crop Is belng produced on Iho smsll.st corn aereago Ui 15 years. 100 0 HATUII Mill!J PACIFIC - OGAN r' l«H(UN(*i| K"* Ä1 ■ tihrtoun GUANO a------ ' j^RIOBAMBA , ECUADOR X a THJI* // CURTIN Mt. States Power Will Continue to Serve Springfield PERU tuvo SUPER SERVICE • Hi UNOFFICIAL death toll in earth* i • - is what our experienced quake-ravaged central Ecuador personnel offer you! continues to rise a* rescue workers pour into the disaster area. Indi Prompt, reliable, careful and cated on map Hardest hit of the 20 courteous SERVICE. mountain town* wu Pellleo (1), where at least 3.200 persons wore reported dead. Eyewitnesses re turning from Ambato (3), largest city hit, said the area now is only u cemetery. Other towns In the vicin ity wore completely wiped from Ilie uu » cintas : mtn Phone 99 32 8 10th Cottage Grove- Eugene Freight and Transfer SHORT’S PLUMBING Stock Complete PLUMBERS LICENSED 314 Main St. — Phone 281 or 722R 24 tfr xx NOTICE MY OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 DR. H. A. HAGEN Chiropractor 834 Main Phone 30 Stop Shop on your SCHOOL SUPPLIES TOWN TALK VARIETY & CAFE 205 Pac. Hy. So. Phone 706 BABY CHICKS r V¡at { Jroue KIDDIES Creswell Hatchery MAN-0 MAN! WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT, WATSON?" Have you seen those swell THERE’S AN ART -THOR- TO DRY CLEANING I AND WE’VE PERFECTED IT! NEWEST EQUIPMENT, EXPERT CLEANERS AND PRESSERS, EXTRA CARE WITH EVERY GARMENT ASSURES YOU THE FINEST DRY CLEANING IN TOWN SEND US YOUR CLOTHES TODAY hi ra D*I«A nt Pono WANTED FOR MURDER SIX look« m i ■■ h t y like a Nine Turned ’round the other way; If you would look quite big and fine Drink our pure milk each day! 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