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The Sentinel, Cottage Grove, Oregon
Thur»., Oct. ID. 19.30
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EDITORIAL
OUR $400,000 PROBLEM CHILD
Voters in the Nov. 7 election will be practically snowed
under by all the sjtecial issues on the ballot. Some have been
referred to the ]>eople by the state legislature, others have ■
been ordered by petition of the people. In all. there will be I
nine state issues and two county matters to settle.
These proposed amendments and laws will be included |
on the large ballot with the various candidates. Cottage
Grove voters, however, will also receive a special ballot on
which they will mark whether or not they approve a $400.000
bond issue to cover the cost of construction of a complete
sewer and drainage system in the city.
Reasons for this bond issue have been presented ini
previous issues of the Sentinel. But essentially, it boils down
to this:
Tht state law says cities may not dump raw sewage
into the rivers or streams of Oregon after a certain
date. This was approved by the legislature as well as
by the people in referendum back in 1988. That date
has since been set at Jan. 1, 1952. Therefore, we must
This is the fourth in a series of
comply with the law.
six articles on the survey of Ore-
The total estimated cost of the sewer program, as out- gon'B elementary and s.-condary
lined in the plan submitted in March, 1948, was placed at . public school* made by Dr. T. <
$450,000. A previous City Council took Steps to raise part i Holy, school organization author
of that sum, and as a result, the north side trunk line seweri‘D of
.0hoL¿',a,'' * nl''er'"'-
is now under construction. More than $50,000 has been set |ea>Jj September'^contains ns
aside to pay for that trunk line.
recommendations, on every aspect
Monthly cost to each water user has been estimated at of the public school system,
approximately $1.50. After eliminating the present 55 cent it is the result of an interim
sewer charge
(which wii' be done if the bond issue .. is . ap-
comnutte.- »Bidy
h' ’J“
°
! last legislature to be made under
proved), each water bill will be increased by only slightly the direction of the State Board
more than a dollar.
of Education.
A new and complete sewer system is a necessity for "Oregon is doing well in support
Cottage Grove. Members of the city council feel that the best of her public schools, in compari
with other states.”
method to finance this project is by issuing bonds. If this son This,
the recently released
measure should fail to pass, it means that a special election "Holy Report
” calls a "reasonable
will be called in a few months and voters will cast an opinion conclusion.” after submitting a
good many pages of comparative
on another way of raising the money.
No one knows whether it will cost more or less later on. statistics. The figures are prelim
to detailed plans for dis
but guesses are that the individual levy will be higher if the inary
tribution of money from the basic
issue is put off. To paraphrase an old saying, he who hesi school fund two plans, one if the
tates may find more cost.—K.C.
pending measure to raise support
Oregon School Support Is High
Compared With Other States
REAPPORTIONMENT ME ASI RE IMPORTANT
Many regard the bi-partisan balanced county plan of
reappbrtionment of the state legislature the most important
of the nine measures to be voted on in the November election
because it vitally affects the welfare of the state. Whether
the state legislature is reapportioned as to its number of
state senators and representatives on the basis of the popu
lation plan, which would give the most populous sections of
the state a bigger voice in state government or the balanced
plan, which would giye recognition to the areas of less popu
lation as in eastern Oregon, will be up to the voters to decide.
Reapportionment of the state legislature can occur
every ten years when the census count has been completed.
If the population plan is adopted, eastern Oregon with its
varied interests would be a political step child of the western
part of the state. The merit of the balanced plan is that each
county would have at least one representative and one sena
tor for any three adjoining counties of smaller population.
Under the plan the remaining 24 representatives would be
placed on the basis of proportionate population.
The balanced plan would prevent a populous county
like Multnomah to dominate everything political in the state,
such as might be a possibility if strong pressure groups de
cided to enter the political field.
The important thing to consider when you cast your
ballot on this measure is to consider what in your judgment
the legislature should represent, whether it should represent
the economic interests, which are tied to forestry and agri
culture often found in the smaller counties or whether it
should represent the population centers only.
INCREASING BASIC SCH(M)L SITPORT
One of the problems facing the state by reason of its
increased population is that of providing school facilities for
an increasing enrollment. The basic school support fund
would provide a S30.00 per capita fund in addition to the
$50.00 per capita fund approved in 1946. While the basic
school fund act to be voted on in November provides for a
state tax levy, the $30.00 per capita additional would be
taken out of the state tax fund.
One other way to meet the problem would be by local
taxes, but we have about reached the limit as to how much
the average advalorem tax payer can pay. The logical way to
provide for the increased enrollment would be through a
state source and the $30.00 per capita tax.
According to the best current estimates, we may expect
the public school enrollment to about double in the next ten
years, which means more teachers as well as more class
rooms. In Lane county alone, public school enrollment has
increased from 12,553 to an actual enrollment of 23,180 in
1950. In another ten years the enrollment is expected to
reach 50,000.
The question to be decided is how shall we meet the
problem of offering even fair school facilities for the future
child and taking care of the increasing numbers. We think
the prime reason that local voters have been willing to in
crease school expenses as the need arises here in the past is
the belief that if we are to remain a strong democracy, we
have a high stake in the kind of training offered by the
public schools.
VOTERS FAC ING SERIOUS RESPONSIBILITY
In looking over the voters pamphlet, which has recently
been distributed over the state, we have concluded that the
voter will face a serious challenge as well as a grave respon
sibility in deciding on the nine measures which will be voted
on in the November election along with a list of the regular
party candidates. Unless you study these measures very
carefull, you may vote “Yes” when you mean “No” or vice
were rcveiM'd IkMi't you think
o • I Fiom "The Mi nding Biiskat”
by Vinlinctt S Martin, Runeburg
What Other
"Pct peeves?"
Her blue eyes s |H>kv volumes
wouldn't
But VOU
know it by going to tlx- store to Mrs Orval W ha lev
buy them about 72 cents a dozen who puts the mull in t he boxes
AVERAGE PAYMENT
while her husband
didn't
lor grade AA large.
j have to wait a split
to tell TO MAN AND WIFE
Representative Mitchell of . me the tirsi one in
answer to my
Washington has lieen protesting
question
are
buying
dried
eggs
that
"It's stamp licking' People put
from Red China, w hich we are
Ami this despite the fact thut out n letter and thnv nuts, may
Uncle Sam had in storage on July *x‘
after day. \So cany stamps
17 s<>me 107 million |x>und* of ja ''vinveiiiotice why cant they
ilritsl anil frozen eggs
and it buy a tew *>xtra lot next lime
takes about lima' dozen shell eggs
‘ could imagine the three n uts
BEFORE
AFTER
to make a |x>und of dried eggs would lx- a problem, tixi. when it
NEW
LAW
EW
LAW
was rainy or cold, and of course,
For market manipulation and ; time-taking. Well, why can’t we
monopolistic withholding Uncle
have a few stumps on hand? tShe
Sani himself is giving the con
didn't catch me on that one, but
sumers the biggest rooking they
she did. later on. when i asked
h ive had for .vein s.
alxiut boxes. t
During the first half of 1950
PERMITS MORE
"We drive 58 miles on our daily
with warehouses bulging with
route," Mrs Whaley said, answer EARNINGS WHILE
eggs Uncle Sam bought $57 mil
ing other questions. Willi what
YOU RECEIVE
lion worth more wit h tax money, i
we drive to and from the post
of course.
BENEFITS
office, it adds up to 70 miles every
A few months ago we sold to dav
have
wonder
Britain for $7 million nearly 32 new car every year! “We have 385
million pounds of eggs that cost boxes and 435 families on our
the U. S. government $40 million route.”
Max
shipped 80,000
She spoke with much feeling
ixiiinds of dried eggs to Hong
about the boxes which still catty
Kong to be given needy persona
the names of |xs>ple long gone!
in China when the Red leaders
"Do you know what I'm going
$50 PER
$14.99
will permit it. And nil the time
to do on my vacation?" There was
PER MONTH
MONTH
we’re importing dried eggs from
determination in the blue eyes
Red China.
you knew she would do it. too!
Government aides are trying to
"I'm going to go over our route
NDER (HE new Social Senility
away to relief
give dried
and mark every box with the right
law now in operation there 1»
agencies and school lunch pro
name if it doesn't have one now." 11 77 h percent aveiage UicreaM in
grams. How many they’ll have to'
I'd heard ot a |>ostm*n going benefits, while bcnefielurles me
dump down the sewer is yet to be
for a walk on hi* day off, but perpiittcd to earn up to $.'>0 a month
thought it just a joke. But maylie
From a commonscnso view point the man in the joke was marking ouUido Per»on» ovci 75 year* of
ngo may earn an unlimited amount
it's one of the nuttiest programs
without suspension of benefits.
since they dumix'd potatoes and
"Height of boxes? Oh, that's an Minimum monthly benefit* arc now
imported them from Canada. And
the Canadian crop is larger than other thing. People never seem to fixed at $20 for a single person and
$30 for husband and wife (C. P.)
ever and headed f o r American realize the new ears are lower
Thirty-eight
inches
is
the
right
markets.
simple solution to the
It’s assumed that the farmers height Well, your box is a little riera' problems and |ier
and egg industry are benefitting high but it’s all right. You do
from this tax-supported scheme have a flag on It. and Use it. anil
that secs Uncle Sam taking ouriY°ur nanle is plain. One woman
tax money and going out and buy complained to the postmaster we iron to do unto them if the
ing eggs which he doesn’t need didn't pick up her letter. Sho
so that we’ll have to pay a higher thought we were mind-readers. 1
postmaster asked. 'Did
price for them.
If a private individual (Hilled you have your flag up?’ She said.
such a trick on such a scale, he'd 'Well, no’ . . We could have told
either be strung up on the nearest him she didn't have any Hag to
i put up. It was broken off."
tree or put in the booby hatch.
We chatted quite a while. A
Oregon Journal
TMnk Right!
Vote Right!
VOTE
• JFJBLICAN!
Tue day. Nov. "th, 1050
WAYNE MOUSE
■ nt a mmm
HARRIS ILLSWORTH
DOUGLAS MCKAY
■ <
This criteria is basic to the
report's recommendations • on
finance.
No stand is taken on the pend
ing measure to raise state support
from $50 to $80 per census child.
However, it is stated, that, if the
extra $3o becomes available, most
of the estimated $11,000,000 it will
bring in could be used as offset
for local pro|>erty taxes or for "in To the editor:
We are much concerned about (
creased educational services". The
from $50 to $80 per census child survey shows that only about $2.- the editorial in the Sentinel of
passes, and one to be used if i’ 500.000 of the $11,000,000 will be Oct. 12. entitled “A Bad Prece
fails to pass.
necessary to lift the level of dent.” We feel that the editorial
The 400-page report which equalization" from $.75 to $1.15 is based on a misunderstanding of
chronicles results of a survey or per day per child, the average op the "Promotive Liquor Advertis
dered by the last session of the erating cost in unified (elemen ing Intitiative Bill' and also the
legislature, was recently released tary and high 1 districts in 1948-49. present functioning of Oregon's
Knox law. Oregon has one of the
by Dr. T. C. Holy, Ohio State Uni
The Holy committee found that
effective liquor control laws
versity school expert, who headed Oregon, which hung behind in its most
in the Vnjtpd Statpg and ,his jn.
the study. Whatever the reception school suptH>rt rather longer than i(jaIivp bu, merel
t r j p „
by the interim committee and the •ts companion states, picked up strPngthPn the Knox law by carry
State Board of Education through rmist creditably begnmmg around .
furthpr
of thc princilJes
whom the survey was sponsored,
a7d now is just alxiut e^
arp clear|
„tabiisheii
it will undoubtedly be background with California and Washington therein
for coming school legislation.
in average amount spent i>er child I 1
This law does not prohibit all
Core of the extensive study and per year $250. (In Oregon, how- liquor sales or advertising, as you'
its 275 recommendations, is urgent ever, considerably less of the total j imply, but is aimed at the promo-1
advice to Oregonians that they school budget comes from the tive, glamorous type of advert is-'
must reorganize their hit-and-miss state.)
ing which has nothing to do with
collection of local school districts
In comparison with the nation. the quality of the product, and
if they are to get value received Oregon’s expenditures per pupil which tries to persuade non-
have been rising. Her josition drinking young people that social
among the 48 states in the years: prestige depends upon social drink-
1937. 1911. 1945, and 1947, was ing.
21. 15. 12, and 9 from the highest,
The principle always has been
respectively.
recognized in Oregon that liquor
Oregon has just about average COnstitutes a social problem and
ability to .upport schools, accord- (hat ¡,s sa)e nnd ildvertisjnK nw><ls
mg to the report figures. In 1947- ,o
r,.gul,.lted more than thei
18. the ratio of school expenditure
;iny othpr product This is
to the state’s income was 2 32 per PvidpnPPd by the Knox Liquor law
ELGIN, OREGON: Mayor Rex cent. This put her in the 20th wbjcb bas no jpss than thirty-seven
Raulet and a party of three just place among the states. Washing- dpfjnjfp restrictions on promotivc
made a three and half day trip ton. that year, spent 2,3.> per cent |jqUor advertising originating in
down the Snake river in two small of her income for schools, and thi, statp onp of which doPS not
rubber boats. The crew is full of < ajiforma 1.91 per cent.
permit promotive liquor advert is-'
stories relating to the dangerous
Dr. Holy and his staff believe jng of any )<ind over a Sunday date
voyage—not the least of which is ’^at ® f11^' J°b of the legislature |jnp por Pxarnp|P_ the Oregonian
about the large sturgeon that could should be repeal of the 6 [>er cent distributes a quarter million i
not be discouraged from following hmitatmn, but ’ as it appears this Hparst American Weeklies each
even when they rapped‘them with is Unlikely to happen the report Sunday Wlth a]| |iquor advprtj.sing
their oars.
recommends that the law be dp|Pted, yet it is filled with liquor
amended to permit school districts ■ advPrti,in where it ig distributed
SEATTLE. WASH.: Who’s do to set their own tax bases.
| jn othpr sfatpg
ing what to whom? That’s what
Oregon is praised for progress, At present the Liquor Control
a federal narcotic agent is wonder in "equalization” the educational
ing now, as a one John Joseph term for the plan for state subsidy Commission is powerless with rc-
Becket, alleged dope peddler, is of school districts which do not spect to glamorous, colorful, youth
coming to trial for bilking the have money enough to maintain enticing, promotive liquor adver
tising originating outside the state.
agent out of $50.
standard schools.
That is interstate advertising. In
In general, the equalization fea itiative Bill “316 Yes" makes these
It seems the agent posing as a
customer bought a half pound ture of the 1947 state support restrictions applicable to all pro-
of talcum powder with the under measure is good, the report states, (motive liquor advertising regard
standing it was heroin. He made although the survey experts would less of where it originates, if dis
the purchase in the .best of faith like to see more of the basic tributed in On-gon.
and sure too that he had Becket school money go toward lifting up
As far as the argument that mis- (
cold, but now the case doesn’t look the sub-standard districts.
labeling which would encourage ,
so hot.
bootlegging and 1 ackctecring goes, '
The lumber industry has recent
the Liquor Control Commission
ly
perfected
a
new
soil
improver,
JOSEPH. OREGON: Sign of
will continue as the only purchaser
the week award goes to one read tentatively called fersolin, which of distilled liquors from the dis- '
ing: ‘This little town is Heaven is essentially sawdust treated by |
Ml8,abc|i
¡„ a crirnIna)
d ,f
£cticpd in vio|a.
to us. Don’t drive like Hell through s.mple chemical means. Prehmi- ()ff
nary tests o the sod improver on
of h
d
„
vegetable plant, indicate higher an addlf.on^ 'ffi,nsc
SEATTLE: WASH.: Veep, our germination, earlier ripening and. We commend the Sentinel on its
Valentine vice-president, is bring increased weights.
wise and public spirited policy in
ing his pretty Mrs. to Seattle for
regard to liquor advertising.
Everything in a modern homo
a Democratic rally. This will be
(Signed)
the second lady’s first visit to the is controlled by a switch except
Rev Wm. W. Sutterlin
the
children.
West.
Rev. Clark S. Enz
Rev. D. Hujjh Peniston
versa. The ballot is undoubtedly the most complicated one to
F. Sherwood Smith
face the voters.
Rev. R. E. Parrish
Letters to the Editor
Conversation, in its better part,
Many be esteem'd a gift and not
an art,
Yet much depends, as in the
filler's toil,
On culture, and the sowing of the
soil.
Cowper
The happiest conversation is
that of which nothing is distinctly
remembered, but a general effect
of pleasing impression.
Johnson
itrvMasui or nt* *i KkAU or
V.’ILLIAM E. KIMSEY
TRUMAN A. CHASE
ANOUS GIBSON
>11 I ’ 1« I » STATtV*. r.->w."<h
i. .. I’ .GH»
I-®»*
EARL H. HILL
DONALD R. HUSBAND
LORAN L. STEWART
U
from their educational dollar.
Nearly all recommendations,
from those on reorganization of
the State Department) of Educa
tion. to the school lunch program,
taxation -and curriculum, are
linked to this plan for a state-wide
network of strong and indepen-
dent local districts.
Inadequate districts. run by
poor professional and business
staffs are expensive in themselves
and. worse yet, they bri-ed "un
desirable" state controls w hich are
even more expensive, Dr. Holy
One of the problems the state is facing through the
legislature is the revision of the state tax structure to meet
the growing demands of the public as well as the demands
of the so-called pressure groups. The state is facing the pos
sibility of a state tax levy, higher state income taxes or a
sales tax. Eventually we may find a so-called new source
of taxable revenue, but the important thing to remember is
that it is impossible to uncover any new source of revenue
without cost to the taxpayers. We will pay either directly or
indirectly and the decision as to how strong we want to go
depends on us.
SOCIAL SECURITY
COUNT
GEORGE A. STOCK
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UMlvUi
ROBERT D. MACLAY
rox i' 1 •'« Jvi'-r
DAY T. BAYLY
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MV TXgVM Iirx
GRACE SCHISKA
Reelect
Cottage Grove
Sand and Gravel
GRACE SCHISKA
Republican Candidate for
County Treasurer
Fill Dirt - Loam
and
Bar Run
Phone 684
She promises » <'<»ntimiiitlon of a Imsinrsslike
adiiiinislrat ion dispatched with courtesy
and efficiency.
Vote 38 X Grace Schiska
IS 5 MINUTES OF YOUR LIME
WORTH 1000?
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5 M/NUr£S 8£H/N0 TH£ WH££L SOÍD ME
ON D0D6£.. ./WD SAVED ME woof
-says Earl H Mit
IPs I k -II c . New York
a
VALVE
YOU (OUlD Mr
every day are finding out for th< inselves
P LOI-I.E
. . . you can make 5 minutes of your time worth
$J,(X)() by spending it at vonr Drslge dealer’s. He'll
demonstrate liow you could pay $1.090 more and not
get all the extra rrsanincss. tin- driving ease, the rugged
dependability of this smartly styled Dodge!
Youll see that Dodge gives you real stmt« h out roomi
ness you can’t find In cars costing hundreds of dollars
more. And a few minutes behind the wheel will open
your eyes to ease of handling you never thought pos
sible. Five minutes . . . that’s al! we ask!
NEW BIGGER VALUE
to Cotât
DODGE
^Ous RUGGH) '
°F DODGE
i4y/ a few dollars more
flan tie lowest-priced cars/
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711 So. Par. Ily
Phone 105