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.
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'tmon KOAC. e«.m< pi Î »«st year to capital outlay so that
Moil 1 thi* session Remaining legislation
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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,
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bj
Dr
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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.
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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.
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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
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ECUADOR
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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.
—
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24 tfr xx
NOTICE
MY OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
DR. H. A. HAGEN
Chiropractor
834 Main
Phone 30
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Shop
on your
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{ Jroue
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