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»•««e « The Sentinel. ('attain drove, Oregon fcöttaßf 6rove Mmtinrl W. C. MARTIN Thur«., Feb. 7. 19.» Publinhed Every Thursday at (’ottave <trove. Oregon Established August 15, 1SS9 Editor, Publisher DPs Press Keeps Rolling; From Tractor» to Printer*» Ink in Rrfnnee Camp» Concrete Products * Refugees Get News In Own Newspapers Nulldlng Blocks, all alseai Iler Blocks; elc. I>urnllte Aluminum Windows. Waterproofing. Subscription rates, cash in advance. Xu subscription for less WASHINGTON The desire to 6 Mos. 1 Yr. 3 Mos. "keep covered with printers ink" than three months. 1.50 1.00 piompts the publient ion of 22 In Lane and Douglas Counties .... ...... 2.50 newspajiers and magazines by dis 1.50 placed 1.75 Outside This District........................ .......3.00 persons in the U S. Zone Foreign rates on application. of Germany alone, the Inter Entered nt Cottage (¡rove, Oregon, as second class matter. I oited Nations Relief and Re- babilitation Administration and later from IRO, a United Nation« Spivialiaed Agency. An initial problem was to find tyi.» and typesetters for nowapa- national Refugee Organization jx'rs pr inted in Estonian. Arme JIRO) here reports. The paix*ra nian. Kalmook. Russian. Sloveni and magazines have a total circu an. Hebrew. Hungarian and many lation of 72.250 and are directed ither languages. Stocks of news print wore uncertain and expen to readers of 11 nationalities. As recently as a year ago. refu sive. until IRO and some of the gee editors were turning out 76 . voluntary aid agencies contrib- newspapers and magazines, quite ited the major portion used. professional in appearance and rrans|x>rtation for news-gather a long step from the mimeo- I ing journeys was scarse The graphed camp bulletins issued | cost of news services was pro shortly after liberation. Several hibitive Licensing regulations of months ago. the rate of resettle the Occupation Authorities lim ment of subscribers and staff led ited the number of papers which to the termination of sow publi could appear in any given nation cations and the consolidation of ality group, as well as the con others, so that only 35 appeared, tents of such publications Office with a total circulation of 140,000. space and housing were difficult Refugee journalists have had a to obtain when editors sought to hard time of it — despite some bring staffs together from various material supjx»rt, first from the parts of the zone. It is extremely unfortunate that for the past two years, one of the most worthy campaigns which comes to our com munity has been hampered with the worst weather of the year. We refer to the March of Dimes campaign, which got underway on January 16 and which ended in most places on January 31. Because’ of the weather the campaign will un doubtedly be extended but even then it will not be the suc cess it might have been with seasonal weather. _______________________________________________________ So far the fight against infantile paralysis has been by public support and this support has been very gratifying nut like some other undertakings, the cause could conceivably Washington Letter be taken over by some government agency, if public contribu tions fail to do the job and in a case of this kind, we might The Fair Employment Practice« see a sharp rise in administration cost. More especially if the bill, better known as FEPC, has government followed the usual pattern. This should not be been much discussed here lately. allowed to happen. In fact. I think you could almost Today we are reprinting by request a letter about a polio say that the bill has been kicked DRAIN. ORE.: Taken in vain is Victim, Byron Goff of Oakland. Perhaps he is known to around quite a bit. The fight in the name of Drain! Yes, in this 28 Colliers (page 56» many. The striking thing about the experience of Mr. Goff is the House over FEPC is mostly January they've used this Oregon town's on the Democratic side of the aisle the lesson he says he has learned and we quote here the last The principle of FEPC having postmark along with those of six paragraph of his letter : approved in the Republican others to make a senseless sen “I was made very happy last week when my physiother been platfoi m. will have considerable tence under a corny bathtub car apist measured me for braces as that is a definite step Republican support when the bill toon. toward returning home and enjoying life with my wife and ' comes to the floor. Note: Some humorists really two small children. I might add that when I have overcome The scrap on the floor—or per- reach for it! this ordeal I will have learned a great lesson in my life to । haps we should say the running appreciate the smaller things, such as taking a step, feeding : battle on the floor left a few SALEM. ORE.: Murray Wade, myself, holding a book and so many other things that most scars on the majority side. About who edits the popular Capital Pa the only thing the Democrats sal rade column, is actually a Dr. of us take for granted.” Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. vaged politically was to put Re He’s an accomplished artist, as publican members on the spot > when the question of a change in well as writer, but few know it. RUSSIAN METHOD ÖE BUILDING MORALE House rules was brought to the His illustrations are in some of Who invented the electric light? If you say Edison, you floor. That issue was made to the Northwest’s most valuable col * are wrong—it was a Russian named Yablochkov. Who de | sound pretty big but actually it I lections. ________ vised the telegraph ? If you say Morse, you’re wrong again— was a tempest in a teapot. The PORTLAND, ORE Louise Pal it was another Russian named Yakobi. The radio? No, it ; opponents to the rules change in- mer Webber - - the tremendous sisted that unless the suggested wasn’t Marconi—it was still another Russian named Popov. I change defeated, members blond lobbyist who has been com- How about the first successful flying machine? If you answer i would not was get a chance to vote on i |>ared by some to the Duchess of I Alice in Wonderland is gravely “the Wright brothers" you’ll have to go to the bottom of the ! the FEPC bill class—a Rusian called Mozhaisky flew like a bird near St. Weil, the iu!e was not chan.ged ill. She's tiemg missed now in the Petersburg 20 years before the Wrights took off at Kitty but a day or so later when the City Hall, where she audibly Hawk. chairman of the Lab r Committc< audited council sessions for so will he. in the "third These, and similar revelations, are disclosed by Edmund sought recognition un 'er the rule, 'ong, and of the legislature come Stevens in the Christian Science Monitor. He found them in a he was ignored by the Spcakci house" Soviet magazine called the Literary Gazette. They show, he who recognized another committee 1951. Louise Webber is one of Orc- says, one of the ways the Soviet party "woos Russian na chairman to present other legis I gon’s most colorful characters lation. Five other chairmen wen- tional pride. The move corresponds to a vital need of Rus eligible for recognition at that | whose personal life is a mystery. sians to vindicate their self-respect and destroy the residue time. It is obvious that the so-call of an old sense of inferiority. It also increnafs the Russian's ed 21-day rule, which the House GERVAIS, ORE.: There may be confidence in their capacity to catch up with Ind outstrip the voted to retain, was of no benefit a Ford in some people's futures, rest of the world technically at the present time." It is, in i at all to the FEPC proponents. but there's one in Chevrolet dealer other words, an example of the kind of morale-building prop The bill can never come up under Governor McKay's past. Just last lie got stuck in the ice and aganda the government is now feeding the Russian masses. that rule. The FEPC bill can. and week probably will, come to the floor his gubernatorial SOS was an under the regular Cadendar swered by a Ford rescue car. CHANCE FOR ARGUMENT Wednesday procedure which has ♦ *- EUGENE, ORE.: You'll have been a rule of the House for many There are those who will take issue with the weather years. The Labor Committee chair e irtliquake insurance whether you bureau’s estimate of some 141 inches of snow up to January man will have his right to bring like it or not if the League oí Ore 26th, claiming that this amount of snow represents approxi up the bill under that rule in about gon Cities has its way. mately 12 feet of water. This is one argument which would be five weeks. Also the bill may be According to their recent re brought to the floor by petition port, during the last 94 years we too technical for us to enter, not being a weather expert. before that time or it may finally have had more than 100 quakes, Regardless of your opinion as to the number of inches of and since there are numerous snow you’ll probably admit that w’e have lived through a be brought to the floor by the fault lines on the earth's crust in Rules Committee. record snowfall so far as this section goes; at least the The point of this discussion is the Northwest, their forecast is amount of snow which fell during January has not been re that the FEPC bill, or any other for bigger and better quakes in corded in recent years. legislation, can always be brought the future. to the floor under the Calendar OREGON - AT - LARGE: Some Wednesday rule or by petition IS CHANGE OF CUSTOMS NECESSARY These rules have been the protec huckster's triumph is a current ad which pictures an Among the difficult things for the newcomer to this tion of the House against an auto national ideal husband, waving boodbye cratic Rules Committee since that section to understand is why we persist in closing down prac- was created as the re- from the inside of a cozy train to tieaity all the social activities of the community during the ; committee suit of a revolt against Speaker his Great American M o m and .summer months and declaring the summer a season of pic- | Cannofi some 40 years ago. The their two moppets. Under it reads, d»ics. If we are to endure this frigid weather in the winter . new 21-day rule has clearly prov "I have three good reasons for go ijnonths, perhaps we will be forced to reverse the customary en to have little value. Neverthe ing Pullman. Comfortable, depen ¡process of shutting everything off in the summer and take less, the fight on it made mighty dable and — above ail — safe!" Pretty high-flown verbage in «our vacations and picnics in the winter. good political hay for the Demo any copywriter's language! High • cratic members who were thus . — able to embarrass Republican enough almost to score a direct members who voted for it. The hit on the railroads’ most threat Glasses have an amazing effect on vision—especially great game of politics is some ening competitor—the airlines. «fter they have been filled and emptied several times!—The times wonderful. The fight on the Maybe some skyway’s scribe turning Question. 21-day rule helped some members will come back with one showing politically, hurt others, furnished an ice-encrusted streamliner rest a lot of newspaper copy—but, as ing its orange caterpillar splendor was demonstrated on the floor al In one of this winter’s snowdrifts. most immediately, the outcome of He could caption it "Adrift or the vote was of very little impor Aloft” or “To be or not to be there!!” tance to the country. Note: Comparing the histories • • » Before the war Oregon people of the railroads and airlines in the contributed money and provided light of traffic fatalities, the air a supposed final berth for the lines are away ahead in safety famous old Battleship Oregon. It records as well as in time. was to be set permanently in the Portland harbor and used as a museum and place of scenic inter est. Then the war came along. The Navy, which had commissioned the Oregon, again took possession of Salem, Jan 28—(Special) Farm it. The ship was sold for salvage woodland owners in the state re because of the need for war ma ceived an income of $130,636 from ferial. Here is the rest of the story; the sale of forest products on their The Navy received $35,000 for the lands during the last quarter of warship. The Government then 1949, according to Charles H. turned around and paid the sal Ladd, senior farm forester with vage firm. Edward M. Ricker & the state forestry department. Co., $101,731 for material from Broken down into terms of for the ship. Still later, the Navy took est products, Ladd pointed out the hull back from the company that this included 4,125,000 board and now faces a suit from the feet of sawlogs, 667 cords of pulp company for compensation for the wood, 2,000 pieces of piling, 1,050 old hull. posts and miscellaneous materials consisting of Christmas trees, floral products and crude drugs that can be listed only in terms of (Mrs. E. I). Sherrill, rrpirter cash value which has been placed phone 648R4) at $10,000. Residents of the valley are re During this three-month period, minded of the necessity of reregis services have been extended to tering since the change of ad 230 woodland owners in the man dresses from Disston route to agement of 12,210 acres of farm Route 1. woodlands. In addition, special forestry advice has been extended QUICK RESULTS FROM to 230 farmers through interviews WANT ADS and correspondence, Ladd stated. Woodland Owners Get $130,636 From Forest Products DELIGHT VALLEY Cecil C. Wooley Fast Main 8 tree I KIDDIES Refugees, now awaiting resettlement in European camps operated by the International Krfugcc Organisation UK<>>, a U. N. Specialised Agency, are learning new trades to earn livings in new homes and at the same time are keeping their skills at their former professions. A group of newspaper writers and editors (left) prnctiee their new knowledge of tractor repairing. After finishing their work at mechanics, they turn out newspaper copy for one of 35 journals published in refugee camps. At right, displaced editors of a Latvian language refugee paper al work. I Glancing Backward Our threat America Twenty Years Ago Glen Arne win home from the University of Oregon over the week end । Harry Castle of Blue Mountain rcccnliy purchased a radio. lii Dilin land all thing»» arc bright * And chmn and full of * cheer; When plenty of our milk Ten Year« Age High School News Arlene An ' you drink derson and Margaret Monson led | You travel in high-gear! , school yells Safeway grocery at the corner <>f 6th and Main, the first of the I week ta>gan the Installation of I ' new furniture and fixtures thru- ' out the store. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wolfaid ! and children of Eugene were Sun- | day visitors at the home of Mi I । mid Mrs. L-e Nixon. «MU A »1M». Fu« -D< You'll find it In the classified. Page 12 and 13. « | _AIRY HUTlurHt» i. MH A a>u/CffAM-------- “ ••• PW0NÍ 321 Sell it through the classified. Pages 12 and 13. «WroMOcC» ÌT ’ OMURA LOUi«<A*A, »ANUU, or tu « rv rr« o» IM LYNX HOLLOW CULP CREEK (Mrs. Cr.U! (Mrs. R. R. Groat, reporter) The news out Culp Creek way is a little different from tlw rest of the country correspondents and Lane county in that school is in progress in all five rooms in spite of the zero weather. All Line county schools were reported closed over the radio Tuesday morning, but evidently the station hadn't consulted Culp Creek. About 40 were in attendance January 24 at the scliool social elub at the schoolhouse. Mrs Billy Hiatt, Mrs. Alta Colson and Mrs Greta Estabrook were named to make out menus for the scliool lunclies. Mrs. Glen Violet ha-, returned home from Rhoades hospital in Eugene where she underwent ma jor surgery last week. Mrs. Viola Walters returned home after spending a month at Astoria visiting relatives. Mrs. William Earnshaw is still reported on the sick list and un able to do her housework. Skating on the Lovegren mill |x>nd is the favorite jwistime of the Culp Creek residents. As its share in the distribution of the revenues from the 1919 O & C income, Lane County is to receive $267,436X17, District For ester Otto C. F. Krueger announ ced from his headquarters in Eu gene last week. lounb, reporter) The weather is still the main topic of conversation. The snow fall in the higher areas has Ix-en 114 inches during these past w< eks . of snow, but reaching only a three foot depth at one tune, but it is I still snowing. During the coldest ‘ nights tree branches were Snapp-. mg off constantly, reminding ex-1 GI s of machine gunfuc. An apple tree in the Orville Limb orchard Ux< heavily burden-1 cd with snow uprooted and fell over. The orchard has lost a lot | of big branches from the trees I A large fir tree tell missing the I Kotninek home by a few yards, the tractor by about six feet with the upper [»art of the Hec falling across the highlmc and into the highway. Though the highhnr was brought to the ground it did not break but Miap|ied back into place when the tree top was chopped a- way, Young rabbits and some chick en» were frozen to death. The roads arc in bad condition, many curs have been stalled, club meetings postponed and no school at present. Some ex-GI's have received their G I insurance checks here already. Mrs. JoKn Macauley who recent ly underwent major surgery at Eugene is convelescing at the home of her mother, Mrs. Z. R. Davis at Creswell. Individually is the salt of com A people, it appears, may be progressive for a certain length of | mon life. You may have to live in time, and then stop. When does it a crowd, but you do not have to stop? When it ceases to possess I live like it, nor subsist on its food. individuality. John Stuart Mill. 1 Henry Van Dyke. ...You'll Be Warm All Winter with MOBILHEAT BURNER OIL... 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