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The 8< ntln< l, I'ottiiK«' Grove. Ore*««
Cottage (¡rove Sentinel
Hubsrrljslnn rst»«. ioti m advsnes. Ni
Thur».. Feb. !î. 1951
eubll*hr,l
bui
OuUkl* iha Uulrk-t
in n six-months perlml t" buy -in
oilier residence. .
Letter From Washington
Soldiers, Taxes Are Main Issues
by Harris Ellsworth
Rrpn'si'iitathe. Fourth District
Among the big problems to come before Con
ess this session will be:
I. shall vie »«'nd ground
t'urop»*'.* iThe President se» ni» :
tion that C ongressional npproi
sary far that decision, but there will be votes
in Congress bearing directly upon the point—
|H>ssilili in connection with appropriations).
18-year-okl boys th' drafted?
3. lloví big and what sort of tax bill will
I»- I’liacti’il?
I. 111.
President
cut lii» 71 billion dollar budget—will t'ongre»»
cut It?
There will Ite mans other Ixitly debiiU-d ques
tarns but these, at least, are in view now.
Li t hin» try to mike tin- ftllows in Korea
believe they urv not "wholly at war." It has
tn-en a mystery to me f«*r years why so many
otlu-rw I m - lnt«'lllK> nt il» u 'p ifH r pnlilislu-r* pay
columnist
mie
big money
w ri 11 ng such driv el.
Capital —
n Paraded
a UM i II í B z !.
“ Mu t ray Wade
commission nt three mcmh«
p >s ernor. w III
|>ointed by
(«öwer to act for the state In
promotion, const ruction und
vimc«*ment of publie and or pri-
\ de projvels in the »nuke H im i
Basin wiib empii isis
fin- colored folks?''
. Jason D'«'.
lax departinenl |H-rsotin«,l. fells of
ast ionomer
o n nebula
that I >ok. 4 like a i louil of inumi-
nati-il iliet ioni leiliin keil, "once
i tilt w i
i plane! Probablj tiny
got to fiMilIng with the II ’ hioi I i "
st hen
in til«'
pro)>osi*d by the United
the
IX« OMI r \\ V II l.D DROPS
Bureau
of
Reclamation.
Collection ol [H'rsonal and cor
Mai
collect ions m UIM Hl t lZlXG
I «orate
l .enin is sup|>osed to hase said "We shall de- Orvoon dm mg Ilòti totaled Si l -
stryy the free nun ket system by printing so many GOO.lKKl. a drop of $8.0ih>.iMHi from session Bills h.itchi d out like ter
newspaper
mites Big issues grtllng compii
bonds and so much money that the cn|4talists will
NATIONAL
X
LIGHTtST
IMKI lower than the UMS receipts. enteil
These legislnturea inn)
PUBLISHERS
choke on them." It he were on earth now lie eer-
Ray Smith, tax commissioner in crawfish on the
ban
3-h.p.
ASSOCIATION
tainly would get a chuckle over the laet that he did charge of the income lax division
.»nd hn»»' their own célébration in
noi even have to go to the trouble of doing the made the report Saturday to the
Suloni on the 4th of July ■ ■. • Frisi
printing.
stale Imard of control.
W P.iekwisHl who writes the dml.v
(In pa id assessments drop|M'd digest «I legislative bills is the
>5 mmi .OOO n the dos.- oi 19411 Io last Hurvivor Iby 20 years » of the
NOT A WORD ABOI T ECONOMY
It Is dittleult. I find, to keep from becoming
Oregon cons til ut amai congrí'»*
$1 lOO.UOO a year later in IO. H>.
both c > nival and a little bitter about the opera-
The Administration’s tax message to Cong.vss calls for
limonili income tuxes (mid in held in Salem 1857 Grandpa Pack
tiou of the Executive Department of our Gov
1950 wen* $.30. lOO.tXtU, down nine
very heavy increases in corporation and individual income
ernment (hiebidiiiK the State Department».
( ht wit from the $32.9U0,'MK) col- tin' walls ol the Capitol, did .1 go <1
Mcmbers of Congress are receiving quite <i
taxes, on top of the boost which went into effect last October.
The Congress ean only make the law. raise the
a
lectod ill 1949 but pnymen;s mi de H>li. So we nomili ile
Sales and Service
It also asks for big jumps in the excise taxes on automobiles, few letters and telegrams from irate citizens de
taxes appropriate the money mid sometime»
linquent accounts dropiied only one member of the seconil congression
aehment
of
the
President
I
hase
manding
the
imi
household appliances and other commodities.
per cent. Withholding t.ix collect- al convemion seheduh'd lor 19 > I
make Ins estimations. Vital. sw ceplug—some-
received a sizeable number of such communications.
All of inis
this was generally anue.^-u
anticipated before the message
Allot
ae
,inies
Jt Ls smaU ttW,dcr times ssorld-shaklng—decMon«« are made In the t*.r.,s in 1950 were 35 (>er cent < I in Salem......... Just when the ag
the total and were 5 5 per cent riculture committee thought they
was made public. But the startling part of the matt«.t is that
want to remove from office those who name of the Prcshh*nt. Then < engross can only
higher
than in 1949.
had the colored olvo lull strangled
discus» them, ss hich surely docs not do much
Phone 116
not a word is said about cutting non-essential government are deemed to be to blame for our troubles.
Corporation excise taxes wen- Rep Joe Harvey yelled. "Who are
good.
20-tfcxx
costs. That was also true of the President's budget mes
down nearly 30 per cent in I9.'a)
But under our s»*tem the passage by the
compared
with
the
$i9,200,0t'o
as
sage, which went to Congress early in January. This blue Hous - of Representatives of a bill of Impeach-
To end this letter on a slightly brighter note,
Commis-
print for the coming fiscal year actually envisioned substan ment Is practicalix equivalent to making a however, calm and objective appraisal indicates collected in 1949
»loner
Ray
Smith
is
gtatified
with
much
things are not quite as bad as they seem. In our
tial increases in non-defense spending, to be piled onto a criminal indictment. Impeachment
the gixxl showing mad«* by the
own country we have great [anver, fine courage
more
than
merel.v
an
espre»»lon
of
iti-approial.
huge military budget.
fraud department «•vtabltsbcu in
and a wonderful spirit. We can, as we have, win his department about eight months
Lack of ability, incompett'nct' or stuphliti ar«'
Here is a policy which, if we accept it. can only lead to not
through difficulties even against great odds. Over-
crime». The voter» had mon' than Ihr«*«'
During the last two quarter«
the impoverishment of our people, the sapping of our ener year» in which to consider Mr. Truman’» quali seas and throughout the world the fear of the ago.
of 1950 this branch tin x>vvt-i-.I 42
gies and resources, and. in time, to the breakdown ol oui
Kremlin is growing. The peoples and the govern- cases and collected $12tL'»S-l 93.
fications as Presideut before they eiecte«! him
system of government. We are in a very different position in UMS. If they h-ne now i hanged thi-lr mind'» ments of the fret' world are slowly but surely unit- Tl NNF.I. 1MI BOMB MIEI 1» Il
now than we were in 1940, when the last defense program about him they must wait until 1958 before ing with us in opixMition to further aggression by
A six lane tunnel through Colin
the rulers of the Red horde. They are slowly hut ell Crest from Portland to tno Tu
got rolling. Then taxes—local and state as well as Federal—
they can remove him and hia cronies.
surely preparing to resist this aggression with alatin valley is pro(K>««'<l in a bill
were low by comparison with the present. So was the na
In a piece by one of the big-name gossip colum force, if necessary. We can hope, therefore, that just introduced in the house bi
tional debt. And the family cost of living was about half of
nists whose daily effort is printed in numerous before too long there can be a balance of i«ower Rep Earl Fisher of Wash ng'on
today's figure.
throughout the country, appeared this gem of between the Kremlin and the free world When ft ixiunty. The design of the tunnel
It has been authoritatively said that the budget can be cities
would make it useful for nuto n >-
a sentence recently: "Since the start of the conflict becomes too costly and too dangerous for the Soviet
cut by as much as $8,000,000,000 in fields which have nothing in Korea, which is neither wholly war nor wholly dictators to pursue their dream of world control, we bile traffic or as a tomb shelter.
•The »tate highway depat;meut
to do with the defense effort. That is not far from the,
thir have been decidedly abnormal.”
will have peace but not before.
has been asked by Fisher to inv< s-
amount the currently proposed tax bill is designed to raise ------------
tigate other possibt«* shelter sites
Relax in a "weather-
It is the plain duty of Congress to make every possible econ
that could do double duty, with
conditioned” Super
construction to begin if and when
omy before approving new taxes. The people will pay what
Conch at 1 3 the
Mrs. Esther Trunnvll. Reporter emerg -ncy funds were »piiropri-
they have to pay. and make whatever sacrifices are necessary ■
Phon«' 17-F-1I
Dear Mr. Martin:
cost of driving!
ated.
—but they cannot be expected to supinely accept "politics as i
Enclosed is some additional in
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Chilson DEPARTMENT OF WiVHON
usual” in this grim era of our history.
formation concerning the course I and two children of Tigard visited
am taking here at General Motors Saturday at the home of his uncle,
board of aeronautics to a depuT-
Institute.,
Ben Chilson.
ment of aviation Is pro|«oscd in a
SILENCE NEVER SOLVED ANY PROBLEMS
The weather has been pretty un
Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, bill sponsored by Sen Flm«» E
pleasant, with snow and ice and
daughter Vicki Lee and s >n Sid Smith of John Day. an ex|x i eneed
The other day after Dr. H. A. Hagen, former mayor, dis
temperatures as low as 14 degrees
ney who had spent two months in flyer who has managed airnort>
cussed the city's parking problems and the parking meten-
below zero. I'll take the Oregon California with her relatives stop The new board would lx- sei,-sus
before the Chamber of Commerce group, he asked if then !
rain any day.
ped overnight Tuesday with his taining; financed by a one cent tax
This week we had a lecture on aunt Mrs. Hugh Trunncll. They on every gallon of aviation ga.* -
were any questions and he was greeted with silence. Whethe:
l.x
Mr.
J.
H
public relations
the local business men realize it, our parking problem is a
also visited his great aunt Lydia line sold and aircraft rcglstra’ion
Blackmore of General Motors
Van Buren in Cottage Grove. In and pilot rcgi.-tratlon fee
grave one and one that must receive attention if we are tc
Corp., and he began his talk by
Portland they visited his cousin
The bill WOUld h IVO V ■ stat.
retain our importance as a trading center.
commenting on the fact that there Mrs. R. E Yates, his unde Harold highway commission selr> t i sup-
From the appearance ot auction
What Doc said in substance was that the parking mete: lots at the regional meet ngs «.nd were two men from Canada in the Vilas and his aunt Mrs. C. F ervisor of aviation who
lass, and one from Cottage Grove,
Gray all former residents. They minimum of I3XA) hours as > a pilot
revenue was originally intended to supply and develop park also the mail auction
. t ie
Jeegon, which he said, "is one ol
1
were on the return trip to their ' an«l be a holder of the eu-rent
plate
number
collectors
-are
cither
ing lots, which isn't being done at the present time. Nor sc
the nicest towns in the coqntry."
federal airman's certificate
home near C*ut Bank. Mont.
»how mg less interest or they are
far as we can see is any effort being made to solve the off Jigging
He then asked me if the Bohemia
down into accumulated
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Ray who DI'TI.INE or I
Mines were still operating and if
street parking problem. One of the best partial solutions of st«x?k.
sold out on West Main about two
Bills recently landing in the
the
hotel
still
had
those
big
stuffed
fered here in making a one way street out of Whiteaker was
Local president I-orcn Lind cougars in the lobby. After his months ago »pent Sunday night hopper would:
with
her
sister.
Mrs.
M
irion
Yun-
junked by the city council after a few months trial and at states that the large stocks of talk, he told me that he helped
ntiik
Repeal that ]
the insistence of only one business man. And it was junked sheets of stamps of the U.S. are organize the Cottage Grove Cham- kin. They left Monday morning lor control act above th<
pr >-
where they have pur duction and submit the issue to
without hearing what others living on or near this street had tx-ing sold to those that can alford ixr of Commerce back in the Terrebonne
chased a 15 acre tract with i new the (mople.
the minimum for 19 per cent off , twenties.
to say in the matter.
log house. A truck came from Red
face value.
Amend the anti-price law by
Ruth, and our 14-
My
mond
to move their household ef making it unlawful to issue trail
When the one way street was abandoned and the present
Dealers of stamps in the United . month old boy, Stewart, are stay
ing stamps.
regulation of parking on one side of the street was instituted, States are overstocked with ing in Detroit at the home of one fects.
Snowdrops were omitted from
the city lost parking space for 27 cars. This situation does sheets and the age of our stamps of her sisters. She is enjoying her the list of winter flowers and dnf* Except under the employ« r»‘
liability act the maximum amount
to the early part of the cen i visit with her family, including her
not bother too much until Saturday comes and during the back
..
.u
: , _ and
„„,i „ i,„ fodils were in bloom before Val- which r^ay be recovered in court
tury doesn't seem too much in mother,
three .sisters,
a bro-
..
.
10 No. 8th
entines day.
Saturday rush shoppers have to park several blocks away demand except in cases of limited ther, all of whom are married.
MERI. RINE
for the negligent or wrongful
Elsie Hlckethcir has returned death of another is $15,(XM). A new
from the business section. /~ottage Grove is still largely a and high value issues.
We hoi»e to be home in the early
home after four days at the li-isjii- bill provides that the jury may
Saturday town as the term goes. We can't retain much ad The trend of authentic docu- . («art of March.
Ital with a sinus infliction. She is give such damages as. under all
Best wishes
vantage over the metropolitan areas on the busiest shopping mentation of stami«s has increased
’ rapidly improving and expects to circumstances ot the case, in iy be
John Albee
period so far as convenience of shopping goes and once we during the past few years and
' be back in school next week.
just.
with legible cancella- 1 P.S. Our class has visited a num-
Many cases of measles, flu in
lose this, the community may lose heavily with improved envelopes
Captial gains under the income
bcr of plants in this area, in
lions and slogans depicting the era
various forms, and even a light tax law derived from lh«- sale -f
highways.
eluding Cadillac Motor Division
or issuance of the stamp in that
case of polio have be‘'n in lh«' the recidence of the faxpiyer may
in Detroit, Pontiac Motor Divi
period are going more and more
-Howio makegood fdephone sendee even better...
neighborhood recently. Th»- latter I m - offset if said sum Is usen wiih-
sion in Pontiac, and Fisher Body
into the specialized albums of
was cared for at home and is pro
SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT
plant No. 1 in Flint.
collectors, especially «hose of k»cal
gressing nicely.
¿ zh time to intwer
and state history.
Mrs. Robert Ken tdy. Divide re
It was on Jan. 29, 1861 that the commandant at New
How many time* have you
With the passing of the old
porter, is improving alt« r a :na i r
Orleans received this order: “If anyone attempts to haul timers, much is and has been lost
answered the telephone just us
operation at Sacred Heart hos
Turay, Reporter
down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.” The inter of the early history oi local com- । Mr». Milton
someone hangs up? You know
pital,
Feb.
9.
Phone 4SI J
vening years have so softened us Americans that we coddle munities. The cancellations of a
Clare Chapman, with the help
the telephone the moment it
and cuddle those who would haul down our flag until wc town, say about 1860, mean more, Little Cheryl Woodson celebrat of his cousin Charlie Chapman of
to some are of more value. ed her fifth birthday which was Bandon, are overhauling his cat-
rings. S<> best way to make sure
APEX, precision « hain grinding1
now have among us a million or so who stand ready and and
than the stamp issued in that pe- Valentine’s day. with a birthday erpiller. They went to Eug'-no and
you get the person you're
willing to do so if and when an opportunity presents.
riod.
'patty at her home. Invited small Roseburg for (»arts and ’ ¡sited
HORNET, price» n-duci-d to
calling is to give him a full
Stamps issued in this period are guests were Jeannie and David relatives at Yoncalla on the way
It seems that we Americans are going to have to get as
$399.00 —- $311.00
minute to answer.
hard-boiled as we were 90 years ago if we clean up the nasty quite expensive to the average col- Chapman, Mary Stewart, Wally home Saturday.
lector but the same stamp on an Turay. Donnie Gwyn, Sally Schao-
Mrs. Adolph Lindst rom is '-[lend
Cox
-
Disnton
-
Atkins
-
Titan
mess we are now in.
Good way Wretch your telephone dollar
envelope sometimes jumps to 10 fer, and Kath' Xndregg.
ing two weeks visiting their son
(Tialiis
He who deports himself as a sheep will be attacked by times its value. Many stamps are [ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haverman at Kennewick. Washington.
When you m ike a Long Distance call, you can get the
Mr and Mrs. Roy Means and
the wolves. We Americans have been bleating too long for not recognized as authentic unless and two children of Fox Hollow
most for your money if, ahca«I of time, you make notes of the
•
were
week
end
guests
of
the
Ar-
they
have
been
thru
the
mails.
daughters
spent
the
week
end
at
our own good. It’s time we trained our guns on the wolves.
Kenyons.
things yon uant to talk about. I hen, «luring your call,
John Day. Monday they visi'ed in
—Lebanon Express The V. S. collector has become leigh
Arleigh Kenyon was one of the Redmond. Tuesday they ip« nt in
jot down the things you want
less interested in trying to com
vvi- finance «tales
plete his collection due to the students taking part in the March Cottage Grove but returned to
to make sure to rcinember.
Power saw rental
North Bend that evening. After
high purchase price asked for of Dimes program last Sunday.
With
the right pl inning, you
TAX EXEMPT PROPERTIES VALVED AT $548,080,096
Last Wednesday evening, Mrs. a few days they will move to Can
Overhauling on All Makes
earlier stamps and the limited is
can say as mucn in a three-
Chapman gave a baby yonville where he will work for
minute call as in an exchange
Tax exempt properties in Oregon have a total valuation sue of these early stamps forces Frank
849 No. Lane St.
the collector to turn to specializ shower for her niece, Mrs. Mary about a month.
of letters. And did you know
of $648,080,006 according to a recent summary prepared by ing. This has caused a fad in sev McBee, who recently moved here
One Block Back of
you can make a three-minute
the state commission and quoted in a news letter issued by eral fields of collecting and soon from Coos Bay. There were many Scr. tches may be removed from
Del's Steak Hous«
station call, dear across
the League of Oregon Cities. If you guessed that churches ne finds he has an accumulation guests from Coos Ba', Cottage the car's windshield by making a
Day or Night Nervic«
the country, for just
and vicinity. Those from gluey paste of water, glycerine
and religious organizations had the lion's share of the exemp with little demand or trading Grove
Closed Sundays
$2.00, plus tax,
■JI'
this
area
included
Mesdama
and
jeweler's
rouge
»iron
oxide
1.
value.
tions you were wrong. The biggest tax evador in this case is
after six in rhe
’■j
After he comes to a dead end in Lydia Kline, Ethel Thomas, Ellen Rub it on the scratches with a
k’hone 789J
your Uncle Samuel or the federal government, which has his L’.S. collection, he turns to Eller, Jessie McBee, Hazel Gilbert, hard felt pad, using a circular
K
evening.
Us
over fifty per cent of the tax exempt properties or a total of foreign stamps, and there are sev Bertha Aagaard, hostess. Mrs. motion. Flush off with water.
$364,346.920. The valuation of all church proparty is placed eral countries that can be com Frank Chapman, and the honored
Mrs. McBee.
at only $28.846,740 while the tax exempt properties of the pleted or nearly completed and he guest,
Visitors from Eugene on Sun
finds he has a greater field to cor
public libraries are the lowest of the thirteen governmental, respond to his needs.
day at the Milton Turay home
charitable and church organizations listed with a total valua The first day covers, or the first were Mr. and Mrs. Rex Wakefield
day that a stamp is issued and and daughters, Betty Jane and
tion of $1,616,720.
mailed from the post office desig Nancy.
On last Wednesday, a bridal
nated. has liecn specialized by col
Open to Question—It has been a popular misapprehen lectors of U.S. jiostage for many shower was given for Eunice
sion that the state legislature is usually overloaded with years. It is now creating demands Chapman at the home of Mrs.
lawyers, and although it is true that each session does have a of first day issues of foreign W. A. Hcmenway. Miss Chapman
is to be married to Bill Roberts,
number of lawyers, the 1951 legislative assembly at Salem, stamps and is becoming jMîpular who
is in the navy and is on his
in other countries.
with a total of 22 in both houses, is actually short of legal South Lane Stamp Society way home from Japan. The wed
talent and the shortage is being felt.—Oregon City Enter meets Thursday, Feb. ¿2, 8 p.m. at ding date will be announced later.
you fake the hnks Ouf
Last week, Helen Williams of
prise-Courier.
the Cottage Grove library.
of your telephone cord, you help
Junction City visited her brother,
protect your own service. For too many
A Christian will find it cheaper Mark Williams, at the R. B. Dixon
S|x>aking of Government, there is a bright mystery in to pardon than to resent. For home.
twists may break some of the tiny
wires in the cord, causing you to
the world today. Who elected President Truman? When you giveness saves the expense of an Professor Albert White of Pon
hear a "frying" nnise. Let the
start asking around to find out you can’t find one of ten ger, the cost of hatred the waste tiac, Illinois, visited one day last
receiver unwind by itself... then keep
Hannah More week with his cousin, Harvy Hin
who voted for the man, and yet he boomed into office with a of spirits.
Professor White was former
the curls out by remembering
comfortable margin. How come?—Bill Jenkins in Klamath Some 500.000 pounds of Christ man.
ly a superintendent of schools at
not to put a turn in the cord as v^u
Falls Herald and News.
mas gifts from various U. S. civic Junction City and is now on a
handle tnc zSx
groups arrived in the Far East vacation tour of the Northwest.
Ph. S.5
receiver.
PaC jf IC Te 16Ph 0D6
Iliway
99
So.
and
Wash.
Command in time for pre-holiday
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distribution.
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W.
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Ki-nnclh CuBhman
Orlon* Martin
Mrs Miriam Adkin
M c C ulloch
Chain
Free
Demonstrations
Pat’s Saw Shop
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No Weather Worries!
No Traffic Troubles!
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LATHAM
Go GREYHOUND
Chezem
Saw Shop
Thornton Corners
Hornet — Titan
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Complete
Lubrication
Service
Auto Accessories — Car Wash
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