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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1950)
The Sentinel, Cottage drove, Oregon Thur«., Feb. I«. 1950 AND I THOUGHT THE A-BOMB WAS TOPSi Published Every Thursday at Cottage Grove. Oregon Established August 15, 1S89 . . . .| p i». i engineer to examine thc property zCtifrs to the Editord 1 'h' " •'•»•)'<• turbici uwy LEGAL NOTICES will give you advice how to call) NOTH E TO < UI OITOKS on your mining development work, W. C. MARTIN ................. for your benefit, as you own the Some men engaged in mining, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. Suhiu* ript ion rates, cash in advance. No subscription consider there is too much reti mine. Tlie government Is asking That I he undersigned Ims bren up than three months. ] Yr. tí Mos. 3 Mos. tape with the government to make •‘eriousiy. Air mining men to help |*>inlcd uh exneutor <>l tin* Lust In Lane anil Douglas Counties .......... 2.5O Will and Testami'nt of (¡RACE the hunt for uranium oxide profit '»nd new de|xi.sits 1 ->o 1.00 Outside This District............................. 3.00 able; wlien the verdict is distinct- It’s fortunate for the United BKNNE'Fr, Dvei'ased by the Ch 1 ¡0 l.v otherwise Some men consider Staten that Great Bi Ham and her run Court of lane County, (»re- Foreign rates on application. if they start mining for uranium I Colonies, such as Canada. South gon. Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. ore they will soon be tangled up I Africa. Belgium etc have lound All having claims with thc government. This idea in some gixul deposits. hut more are against said estate are hereby rc- N t W S PA P E R tLA Î I o N A L EDITORIAL alKsolutelv incorrect, the govern- urgently wanted to lie lound in quired to present the Mime, duly PUBLISHERS ment wants to help in every way . the U. S. A. ns. though we have verified with pro|M*r vouchers to bona-fide prospectors; ami Imlds many known areas of great prom- the undersigned at the law office ASSOCIATION ——■EBBDKazm out magnificent profits for any one | ise. J et w e have not I lie supply ot HERBERT W. LOMBARD. Wi finding new deposits; required. scr Building, Cottage (¡rove, Ore gon within ti months of the date of It is true the Atomic Commis Arthur E Hepburn, F M GERRYMANDER UNLIMITED sion will absolutely control all February K, 1950 the first publication of this notice A Freeman Holmer, assistant professor of political sci Date and first publication. Feb uranium orcs which are produced, Mr. Hepburn has been here ence at Willamette University, told the Salem Lions Chib but w ill pay you well for every ii|xm | mh sonai business, and will ruary 9. I9ÖO RAYMOND THIES, Thursday thab the population for plan reapportionment of ixttind of uranium oxide. $3.50 per be returning to Colorado mid Exiiutor HERBERT W M>M The kiddies bring their the state legislature would be better named "Gerrvmandei BARD, Attorney. 27M-3I lb plus a price for any other me other field* in a few days. Unlimited.” offering tallic metal of value in such orc. To Mother's newest joy— Wedding Announcements a n d With that as the theme of his address, Holmer analysed or any concentrate made; the Use of 2 billion pounds of frozen itivit.itions You just can 1s t it's our The Sentinel the propositions filed by Oregon labor organizations and minimum price guaranteed is for foods rc|x»rted in 1949. pure milk— 10 years, namely $3.50 Cents per Young Democrats last November. That s liest for girl or Imy. lb. for 1 ’ 309 turanium oxide) con Largest crowd to date to see a Holmer explained that under the method of equal pro tained in the ore. or concentrates , , basketball game in Oregon State's । . portions, one of many possible mathematical devices used less milling coats; $10.000 )M> dol- s|uieious new Gill coliseum w as in apportioning legislature, and the one used in this plan lars bonus is payable after detW- th,. sn '.’I turnout for the sreond would have provided Multnomah with 10 senators and 20 rep cry of the first 20 tons of ore. or Washington game on February I resentatives, Lane county would get four senators and six "oncent rates containing at least __ _.......... ... representatives, Marion and Clackamas would receive three 20 per cent U30K from any single Something new in fricndlv tela senators and five representatives each, Washington countv deposit. Provisions are made for tlon, th<- two old meh adjusting shipping costs and for rUnK Oregon State and Oregon 'would be entitled to two senators and three representatives. ' purchasing associated minerals or waR „.ached recently when the Douglas, Linn, Klamath. Umatilla. Coos and Clatsop would ------------- CUti CKfAM -------------- metallies Owners and prospectors Beaver swimming and wrestling have one senato rand two representatives each, Yamhill 505 $0 5* $T. ••• PHONE 321 should cheek old mining dlimpa.1 ¡„juad,, nnd the webfoot tank team have one senator and two representatives each. Yamhill (Mrs. C. A. Peteraon, reporter with thc Geiger counter, and if't traveled —- — -■ together in a chartered 6th & Highway Polk. Columbia, Benton and Deschutes would get one repre Ph. 25 phone IB-F-U) any wants arc obtained, then thc bus for a scries of matches in thc You ll find it In the clnasificd. sentative each, Jackson would get one senator and three mine underground workings Inland Empire. Page 12 and 13. A special meeting was held at representatives. There lias been a lot of talk should also lie checked to find thc the school house Friday, Feb. 10 “The other eighteen counties are also provided for in around Washington during the it which time Mrs Lucille Kling place where such ore was mined Be on the look-out fbr any black this ^considered plan." Holmer ithat remarked caustically. The U9ng We £h°Äbame7^ “in CaST “y COUnty ST än^^uio spend and the State Building Inspector vein material, It might be pitch were present and discussion was blende, which may carry uranium shall not have the requisite population to entitle such county some of our time at home know held on the proposed new gym. oxide of great value. to a member, then such county shall be attached to or differently, but it lias looked that Jimmy Bridges has been eon- It is very important that patri grouped with some adjoining county or counties for sen- way in this city _ . populated by ad- fined to his home several days with . otic men of fair means assist all atorial or representative purposes." ministration payrollees. Recently. I illness. in thetr (tower to find uranium * however, the language, republicans ” staged a i Nb. and Mrs C|arence Wood. “ _________________ If I understand the English the Willamette ores, and help thc government educator asserted, “this means that after applying the meth- blg Lincoln <kiy p.irty here Every- bury are th(, proud grandparents build up a stock-pile of concen od of equal proportions, that 18 small count.« will be joined. X«“¿“'w!,«' KoSTUi'i * trate for use. Should any one find « equitably as the board of control could do it. to {he indications of uranium ore. they larger counties entitled to representation. But what an oppor- estimated 3.000 were turned away Rk-i^rd WoodburvUlc?t Sund iv'm should carefully map the area where the Geiger counter counts ; tunity to join counties so as to gain political advantage' In for lack of room. There has been help k care for the mother ‘ and child, are observed, and mark on the the senate the opportunities would be even greater. Twenty- considerable optimism in repub Clarence W. Horn has been dis- mftP ,he number of counts at thc three small counties would be joined to 13 large ones. What’a lican circles here since that event ' charged from the army and is now different places where the counts travesty!” are observed, also give thc approx- residing at his home here “Now I could be wrong. But it wouldn't help the pro- Under the heading of “now it Mrs. Margaret Mosby received ‘"la,e of ,hc io™«tion at . *1,h “,le ,o ponnents of gerrymander unlimited much. There is an alter can be told.” I can reveal the fact : word of the birth of a new grand- ,hls P?*'” Th“ , to do Kt. with „ A daughter, born to her son. and Ti TT'Tri' native. The board of control could gerrymander first, join that I had considerable the recently published daugtUer-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Jer- ta,lvc Of ,hp sh"uM ing counties into representative or senate districts and then drafting statement of pnnaples and objec-| rv Mosb on Febr 13th a , sent to the director of the Atomic apply the method of equal proportions. With no limits, with fives of the republican party. Rep- New f This is their Comnnssion. Washington D C.. | no restrictions. I do not think that the language of their resentative Joe Martin, republican da h and shc has for exammaUon Ifreek The Gci- proposal would permit this action but even with the gerry minority leader of the house jov^> Kcr counter costs approximately mandering involved, it might prove preferable to the pro asked me to be a member of a । • ' ,$350.00, and it is imperative to At Quincy and So. Iliwuj !H> yf8' "obe*^ Hanson of Oakland, obtain one for field work. Its cedure first described. I do not think the people of Oregon three-man drafting committee. Af- ter drafting our own version we al >*ornia, sister of Mr. James weight is about 8 pounds, light can be hoodwinked into voting for ‘equal proportions’ if it is met with the three members of ' Dridges and his niece and family, and easy to carry. an alias for ‘Gerrymander Unlimited’.” ' ,, , . . the senate drafting group and -Mr. and Mrs. Norman Turner and Generally we find uranium ore The astute political scientist concluded by urging sup with visited several days at ki his .. representatives of the repub son, ' in the extrusive igneous rocks, port for the balanced representation plan, in the formulation lican national committee and ham . such as pitch-blende. of which he waM a key figure. This plan, which is to be filed mered out a final consolidated I Thp "*“»d Prospecting with the secretary of state next week, would give one repre draft which was approved and re ?wo wik “ t0 UM’ roumer which sentative to each county and distribute the remainder by the leased. It was an interesting expe Eldon Gcnho has returned home Ii8 «“ eng.neers as I will endeavor to give old and new patron*« thc name courteouN method of “equal proportions.” Senators to be distributed rience for me and I feel that the standard in exploration work. Ev according to population, except that, no senate district job we turned out was a pretty from an extended visit in New ery one should realize that should service I have in the paid 5 yearn at the Square Deal Barber Shop. should include more than three counties and no county would good one. One thing about the re York. they find any indication of uran- cent republican statement which ium. they arc to advise only thc have more than one-fourth of the total membership in either is different from most platform Vanishing Horse house. Atomic Commission; and under no documents is that it contains 23 Twelve million horses and mules conditions are you allowed to pub short, positive statements under have disappeared from farms in lish the exact location, without SHADES OF THE PIG KILLING ERA the several headings which recite America since 1933. a third of the commission's consent. The Although we have not seen where it was officially an in plain language what the repub them during the past nine years. Atomic Commission ______ ______________ authorities 28-ltc nounced, the latest brain child of Secretary of Agriculture licans propose to do when they are In their places are 3.500.000 trac- w ill gladly test any samples sent. I Brannan to relieve the farm crop surplus is to import a mil voted into power. When these *ors- ■ and if of value, arrange to send an . lion farmers into the industrial areas of the United States. positive and definite short state I erhaps the potato surplus, which threatens to surpass the ments are set out by themselves pig killing era in 1933 as wanton waste may be remotely re they represent an effective answer the question: "Why don't thc sponsible for this fantastic idea, which has neither rhyme to republicans tell us what they nor reason. stand for?” • Jh?re who have mad? a study of the population trend Obviously there is nothing star in the United States realize that the population shift, like tling or new in the recent repub the law of supply and demand, has pretty well taken lican statement. It’s chief value care of itself and that the population of the rural areas has lies in the fact that it is a short gradually dwindled as labor demands in the industrial cen summary of what we have been ters have been taken care of. The migration has been a nat saying. It seems to me the only ural process and has not cost the taxpayers a penny, but serious failure of the republican Secretary Brannan wants to throw’ some more Washington party is its inability to get its ac and its philosophy properly money around by asking congress to appropriate some four tions accurately publicized. We hundred and fifty million dollars to move farmers and their and have been a little bit like the IKAMUM I OR THE U. S. 1. vroMit commission KIDDIES Complete Lubrication Jobs Washington Letter Nolt’s Chevron Station MT. VIEW RALPH'S BARBER SHOP UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT AFTER FEB. 20 MAXINE THOMAS families away from the L.* rural areas and farms. We are oegin- begin- > Wlow who w^nks at his girl in thc ♦î, C , u iarms. we are nmg to believe that tnat being in Washington and associatinp' associating dark. He knows what he is doing witn the vast army irmy of bureaucrats, somehow affects the but no one else does. I hope the average person and leads him to believe that the United party statement which I heljied to States still has billions to throw to the winds. We are already create will do a little toward cur committed to vast expenditures for armaments, for the H ing this situation. bomb, for federal subsidies, for federal housing, for the The house during this session of building of power and flood control dams, for RFC loans, tor relief, for social security, for the Marshall plan and many Congress has tieen plagued with drawn and ill-considered Rovoenment activities which the administration en poorly legislation coming to the floor. It gaged m and which the average person knows little or noth has also been frustrated by delay ing about. And now comes thc most asinine proposal of all. ing tactics. The postal rate in Instead of trying to spread out the industrialization as a crease bill passed recently was a matter of national safety, we would further crowd the metro jumble of bad guesses on how to politan sections of the country by moving in a million people raise more revenue and was and making these sections sitting ducks for the next A bomb amended on the floor to such an or H bomb attack, if another war should come. Crowding extent that few members knew popuiatmn together in the larger centers would also add to what was in it when the final vote the ills of the overpopulated areas. In addition to the four came. The bill to aid Korea first came to the floor with thc decla Hundred and fifty million appropriated for moving the farm- ration that $120 millions were re « ^Wn’ the m.ove mi^ht also cal1 for more federal hous- quired. It was rejected by a close several million more. In fact if congress should vote. Warmed over it was brought oe toolish enough to appropriate money for a venture of this back and passed for half that a move would make us equal to England in the amount. race to adopt socialism. wiser course would be to industrialize sections of Turkey Outlook to aSJ8 already h6*"8 done’ thank« Be Talked Feb. 21 modern transportation and modern facilities. BUSINESS OUGHT NOT TO HAVE TO SUBSIDIZE PARKING METERS An item recently from The Dalles, tells of a forn*r city ,ma" °f that,clty Setting a franchise for placing adveZ P&rk'n^ meters in The Dalles. The franchise caused quite a ruckus in that city since it was passed as an reH aPParently Without a deflate or con sideration of all factors involved. numb?r of enterprises which have sprung up oyer the country, which seek to extract money from the h I i S 18 ^^‘l^Wering to the average merchant. 1 k can t take on all of the new schemes and expect to stay in business. In localities the size of Cottage Grove or smaller the business people don’t particularly appreciate the parking meters and they certainly do not think enough of the meters to subwdize them, even though advertising on parking meters might bring the city a little revenue. Streets on which the meters are placed are public prop erty and in one state recently the court held that any attempt was nilgai' “ RPaCe °n m*16” 10Cated °n public P^rty The turkey situation and out look, management of thc breeding flock and recent turkey research work will be discussed at the an nual meeting of the Lane County Turkey Growers Association fo tie held in the 4-H Club building on the county fair grounds in Eugene at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21. Speakers will be N. L. Bennion, extension poultry specialist, and J. A. Harper, professor of poultry husbandry, both of Oregon State College. Officers of the Association for the coming year will be elected -and any other business that may regularly come before the meeting will be transacted. In announcing the meeting, Clint Hartmen, president of the Turkey Growers Association, said fhat all interested people arc in vited to attend. Nof since the gold rush swept the West has there boon such a scramble Io get there first and get it fast. With the quickness of rumor the news is spreading that Mercury is having a sensational February BOOMI PaOSPECTING? Everywhere you look people are staking a claim to February's higher trade-in allowances, and striking it rich in a wonderful new Mercury for as little as $49 a month And pardner, you haven't heard the half of it I Our biggest bonanza Is a value-packed NEW model of the 1950 Mercury that just arrived al the Mercury digginsl It sells for only 2ll1Af .. but if you team up with Mercury's big February Trade-in Offer, you'll think you've stumbled on the mother lode I Floyd Git hens Motors, Inc. So don't I om a day. It's as plain as pay dirt that a sleek responsive 1950 M3« Main Cottage Gruve Phone 27 Mercury can easily cost you less than repairs and falling values on your old car during coming months! Particularly at ’2161“ (plu, ,als, tax, llcsne« »••) R1ERHIRY
