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The Sentinel, Cottage Grove, Oregon Cottage Grove Sentinel Thur»., Jan. 17, 1937 Katsbllatwd A usual IS. IMS t*ublUA«d «wry Thursday al Cotta«« Gror«. Or»«oa ®nt*r»d *1 Oott*** Orow. Or*r*i, u Mcnnd el*** mattar 1 <M Letter From 11 rash ing ton Short Session of Congress Is Prospect . sues will be foreign aid (including military), the defense build-up, completing the legislation on uni versal military training, and the annual appropria I W C MARTIN Baitor. Publisher I Orlen* M*rtm Advertising Manager The first week of the second session of the 82nd ! tions bills. Miriam Ad Pictet > Editor, irones BM, 5M Ml Y j Congress slipped quietly into history without much I m.- J--*n OaUu Managing Editor, Phonee 55Ö, fanfart'. Yes, it is true that the President ol the ' The recent emigre Monal rece»« was somewhat dis- I Until'd States made his report on the State of the aiqmintlng to me 1 had made plans to spend nearly Union to a joint session of the House and Senate two months in our Fourth i ' oiiri es.tonal District PUBLISHERS This appearance is required by the constitution to and so pet up to date on Federal operations there ASSOCIATION be made annually shortly after each session con- I also hoik'd to have an optM>itunit> to talk with venes. I thought his sixx^-h was a good statement I individuals who Hue problems with the fcdt'ral from his, the administration's, poirt of x ww It : > exet nm«'nt. As it turned out, huwexcr, I waa In made the best ot a bad situation. The speech xxns a ; Oregon only about three xveeks and did not get a The time may come again when we will see the north- rather dull campaign speech, it seemed to m? chance to visit all of the cities and counties in the West and csi luecially western Oregon assume a more imjxrrt- xxhich acemed to predict that Mr, Truman xi ill lie district dur personal recess plans were comph'tcly ant role in t :ne production of agricultural products. The fall- a candidate for a third term. changed on the closing day of the session. October ing water level in many of the southern and southwestern Two things about the President's speech struek 20th Helen and I hud planned to leave immediately areas may bring a different production picture within the me as being mildly amusing. For just about the for the west, driving xia Cleveland. Ohio, and Santa next 25 years and a new appreciation for the small patches first time he made a speech without blaming the Fe. Nexx Mexico for brief visits xxith our Ixxo da ugh the part time farmers have passed up for the more lucrative greedy special interests" «nexer saying who they ters and then *tay in Oregon until Christmas. income from logging and sawmilling. In practically all of the arei for ruining the country. The other point is that On the closing day, however, the speaker named sections where irrigation is practiced and particularly where he has adopted the Republican Party attitude about me as one of a delegation of seven house members the irrigation source is from underground water, the level has the Taft-Hartley laxx- that it needs some improving xxhich was sent to Strasbourg, France, by the Con fallen to an alarming degree in the past ten years. Industrial amendments. Heretofore he has demand its repeal, gress to «pend a xxeck discussing the problems of areas are also suffering from the same cause, where an in and a couple of years ago fought our efforts • to unifying Europe xvith delegates from the Cbuncil of creasing amount of water is required. enact the needed amendments. . Europe. That mission was interesting and. 1 tx'licvc. While the use of irrigation has increased tremendously very constructive, but it meant that I »lid not get in western Oregon within the past ten years, there are still This session of Congress should be much shorter home until the end of Novemlier. lots of dry land farming, where winter rains are depended than the one last year. For one thing, this is a upon. We have not exhausted the potential water supply presidential election year. Nominating conventions Our U. 3. Capital is a political hot ted these from underground and we have yet to tap the river water will be held in July and Congress should adjourn by days. In a wax, the statement by General Eiscn- source to any degree. that time. Apparently not very much of xvhat is hower may have cleared the air but it has certainly A Cottage Grove Chamber of Commerce booklet, pub- called major legislation will be attempted this year. generated considerable conversation and numerous by Jim Stevens lished in 1903 and recently exhibited by W. A. Hemenway it is pretty certain that there will not be another statements and speeches. Unless some startling showed a picture of a patch of spring wheat about ready for tax bill. The cradle-to-the-grave. so-called Truman changes take place between now and tiien, the .Money for You . . . harvest. The picture ought to have and probably did lure a program, although mentioned in his message to Republican nominating convention in Chicago in There will he at least $10,000,- 000,000 (ten round billions) a year good many people into the local area. Since that time farming Congress will not be considered. The important is- July will be a battle royal. spent on new homes and on re methods have changed to large large scaie scale iarming farming with wnn uie the result -------------------- —. ............. p t----------- -------------- ----------------------- pairs and remodeling of old homes that the owners of the little patches have found lumbering Millinn tn Tract in the U, S. A. for the next ten e profitable. The small farms have either "V I t III j IVI! Ill 11 CC and logging more years. estimators grown up in weeds or have been poorly attended in most have summed it up. This is the instances. All this has caused us to neglect our early day heart and core of the national -a»arn basic industry. And we have never tried to exploit some of Z—IM market for lumber products the the products we can grow to the best advantage. Least of all ex|ierts are guessing alxiut, Short I we have never seriously tried the combination of fertilizer of an all-out «ar economy, ten billions a year will lie s|x'nt on What does the future hold for home construction, say they. A Under normal conditions we might continue to neglect S^p^r roSVSZ dairymen who do not produce half-million more lia lues our early day basic industry, that of farming, but if the ooo.ooo- Not many, but the keen grade A milk? born last year than the Census water level continues to recede in both agricultural and in- eyed j girl inspectors • - - at the Forest That’s a question being mulled sharks had estimated. Record dustrial sections we might be in position to attract some new Industries Tree Nursery- here will over by members of a statewide breaking savings were salted <way comers in industry and farming. tell you that’s lots of numbers and , dairy committee headed bx S. B by families in 1951. ■Money for j for them, lots of trees. Hall. Troutdale, which is making homes. Sometime this week the 40,000.- pre|>arations for the agricultural And money <«>r you. Here's how. 000 seedling tree will roll along conference to tie held on the Ore- Researches by that tall red fir Trying to prevent or cut the highway death toll is a job I the sorting belt, past alert girl AUSTRIA gon State college campus March among forestry statisticians. Nor we will have with us as long as we have motor vehicles be i inspectors to be counted by the , 27, 28 and 29. man E. Bjorklund, have yielded a cause every year we get a new crop of drivers. When w’e | photoelectric eye mechanism . D. W. Morse, OSC extension figure of $1,659.302,000 for th* think of the f$ct that the railroad engineer is required to , which tumbles every 50 trees into ' dairy specialist and commit tec sec value of 1950’s forest products in have considerable experience before he is permitted on a a xvrapping hopper. retary. reports some discussion the northwest corner states, with regular run and even then rail accidents occur, we need not Ten Crops Raised । relative to eliminating grade and home building the base market. Since the founding of this tre- ! be surprised that the traffic death toll is as high as it is. : eventually getting on a basis where Forest wages paid were $606,914.- This year there will be particular stress laid on the pre nursery by the private forest lana- | all milk would be of quality fit 765. Most of the remainder was vention of accidents, but unless the drivers of some 35 million owners back in 1911 ten big crops ! for human consumption. If this expanded within the two states of seedling forest trees have been motor vehicle drivers are impressed with the need of safety, raised. Lifting of the current crop I xiere true, surplus milk would be for taxes, supplies, interest, freight, reforestation and protec all we may do and say will not amount to much. Young driv is marketed as dairy by-products now- in progress and will con ers need to be taught to drive properly and we all need to tinue until April. After the 40 mil cheese, butter, powdered milk, ice tion. new road anil plant construe- tion, and many ot het- related never forget the consequences of carelessness and speeding. lionth tree has been packed and cream mix and similar products. It would mean, the committee items Safety engineers tell us the greatest cause of accidents shipped to some landowner hi : beliexes, that processing plants The Green Gblil Rush . . is speed, which means the ability of the driver to control his western Orep>n or Washington, National construction market | would pay producers on the same car under certain conditions. Experience teaches us our lim another 6,000.000 trees will be has caused a rush of supplient i price basis and the price would dc- lifted and shipped this year. itations so far as safe driving goes, but even then we do not HOHÍN- | pend on what a plant could get for into the Oregon timber And high always drive within our limitations. The fact that we drive This 46 million tree crop will ZOUttN time, too, in the view of the for- its entire whole milk volume. have planted 82,000 acres of idle faster than we should or take certain chances may be a mat A milk production sub-commit- patches in over-aged stands of ter of pride, but if it is a false pride, it may be fatal eventu forest land, according to N. E. Bjorklund. Nursery manager. MEROER OF THREE German states, teetee headed by R. M. Lyon. Junc Douglas fir is a chronic complaint ally or we may be a driver who insists on his or her rights, Cover 130 Square Miles shown on maps above, into one, tion City, is in the midst of prepar of foresters that I first heard 30 regardless of what the other fellow does. This attitude can "These* trees will cover 130 voted overwhelmingly by the ing a report covering this phase of years ago ther«' are even be-just as fatal as if we are dead wrong. square miles," Bjorklund pointed combined 8,593,000 population, is the industry. The dairy roughage specially designed plyxvood rigs to After one sees a few fatal accidents, the blood, the gore, out, “or an area a mile wide from believed certain of approval by program, the committee believes, handle the conky butts. And $103,- the groans of the dying and the smashed up cars make a due Portland to Cottage Grove south ■ the Allied high commission. One should be aimed toward more' 976,000 worth of piywixid war; impression on us, but the next driver you meet may have or north from Portland to Olym- state, Hohenzollern, was the milk per acre. produced in Oregon alone during home of the World War I Kaiser. never seen an accident. pia.” In terms of management, some 1950, with the $661,000,000 In fir, Capital Is expected to be Stutt of the problems being studied Trees from the non-profit forest gart. Prior to World War II the which reduced milk "yield" are hemlock and pine lumber. nursery have been planted on tax Oregon’s pulp crop in 1950 came area was governed as two states, over-grazing, absence of rotational to $62.250,WX), and pa(x-r (iroduced forest lands throughout but the Allies divided it into three We are living in an age when the fine art of trying to paying grazing, failure to use fertilizer western and Oregon, added $30,750.000. Shingles to fit occupation zone boundaries. get something for nothing is being practiced by nations, B^kiind Washington *S°n Douglas fir ’ A constitution must be drawn up. correctly, harvesting hay and si brought in $6.200,(MM), f i r doors states, cities, and on down to the lowliest pickpocket and makes up the hulk of trees grown lage at the impr<»[MT maturity $13,832.0<X). and Christmas trees professional writers of bad checks. here, the forester said, but hem- stage, and lack of knowledge about and H'lahNl min«»r forest products Fred Johnson, vice president of the American Stores of lock, cedar and spruce have been palatability of various feedstuffs. a cool, green million.' Total re Here are some questions that turns from the West Side alon<* Continued from page 1 Philadelphia, has compiled information on the growth of strewn in limited numbers and the bad check racket. It reads like a fast moving story. For even a few rare dawn redw<x>d Kemp style was developed later, have arisen relative to the econom were $759,000,000 not including In example, he points out that in the trading area of the Amer- i 2?^ from breught in from Skinnay’s voice became one of its ics of dairying: What size herd to come from furniture, wo»xirn hav«<? How docs dairy enterprise boxes, poles, piling, coojicragr and ican Stores a certain group of banks formerly turned back , ina wer? carcfully tended as an highlights. income compare with other agri fuel, for which no 1950 figures Plays in .Movie from three to five worthless checks a day. Now they turn . backeighty each day. The recent crime investigation? have J? aonf ^.extreme3 In 1938, after having served cultural pursuits? What type are available. with Hal for twelve years, he was buildings will the dairyman of the Oregon’s wood wages in 1950 caused certain lawless elements to switch their activities into I tdken to make certain that seeds offered a part in "College Swing" future own? What is the invest amounted to $325,151,393, paid to other types of swindling, particularly the pushing of bad are picked only from selected by Paramount, ment per cow required for the and Kemp gave checks among merchants, with shoplifting, and counterfeit trees and sedlings returned to the him his release, happy that Skin- average dairy? Should the major 87,160 employees. This all repre money as side lines. : district and elevation where the nay had a chance to make good in dairy emphasis be shifted to areas sents local markets for Oregon of cheaper landand wheremost of farm products, trade fob retail After listing scores of examples of the way merchants P^nt trees grew. his own name. stores, business for banks, just as and individuals are imposed on and bilked by the bad check ~ ‘—- With his picture chores finished, ther oughage requirements can be the amazing mass of forest prod produced more economically. he organized his own band and artists, Mr. Johnson gives some sound advice: “Checks, ucts themselves represent the opened at the Victor Hugo in Bev should never be cashed on the basis of casual acquaintance, greater share of all the tonnage erly Hills on a two week engage sympathy, hard luck tales, distress telegrams, vague an carried by railroads and shijm and He stayed five months. (Continued from page 1) motor trucks from Oregon and in swers, altered credentials, haste, bluff and bluster, offended Oregon’s “Covered Wagon Cen- ment. Ennis, at that time, used thir- success for their own ends without Oregon during 1950. dignity, personal resentment, threats to report to the main tennial” gets under way in Port teen men in his band; four office, or alleged friendship with an official of the company. land next week with a gala two rhythms, four saxophones, three a faith in the otherness to life is And taxes? Man, where would Oregon's publicans collect, were Phoned instructions to cash checks, regardless of the source, day kick-off program featuring trumpets and two trombones, wrong, he said. Attack* School* colorful parades, a formal ball, an it not for the green gold rush in should be disregarded.” Combining his distinctive voice all-Oregon-delicacy banquet, a In talking of problems of chil the Douglas firs and Ponderosa There is one safe rule to follow. Don’t cash a check for square dance jamboree, stern with a staccato-brass background he blamed the school system pin-:.? All government units in anyone whom you don’t know, who cannot furnish you with wheeler race on the Columbia behind subtoned clarinets, Skin- dren, for setting up too many restraints Oregon also have a colossal stake nav had the foundation of a hand Oraaoa ......... ................ Foreign r«t«» on applicati «. « 00 Fred Buell First 5 ’ County Candidate To Make Filing THE FRESH AIR FIEND F red Buell, county roroiwr and Spnngtirld mortk'lan, ha» thrown his hat in th«' ring for the |»»sl of coroner January 9th, he enten'd his nain* as a candklati1 for this imsl, subject to th«' action of th»' republican prlmaiy in May. Buell was appointed io the posi tion of coroner two years ago. when l’hll Bartholomew, hl« buai- ness iMirtiier resigned. Buell, a former student of Springfield high school atul th«' University ot Ore gon. Ilves In Springfield and I« prvaident of Hi«' Springfield Uhnni- bcr of Conimert'e He I» sis«» serv ing us March of Dimes chairman. by Harris Ellsworth Il«*pn*M*ntativc, Fourth District The Time May Come Again Out of the IFooJs 3'State Merger From Ore. Nursery To Roll This Week Dairy Problems Considered by State Comrnittee Cutting the Death Toll Youths Nabbed After Robbery By Mr» C. I Kent ( ’retwvll ( ’»»respondent lM-liexcd to be the onM who robbed Eugene Reynold’s Kv cream »hop in Creswell Into Sunday night or early Monday morning, were taken into custody south of Suth erlin Monday afternoon by state Iwing held on They charges of burglary of Ihr Ite cream store and Ihr thrft of two and dollar returns were both a third over On-gon’». Total 1950 forest products value was $779.- 295,000. a liuiulnd million lew than tn Oregon. Washing ton’s Iw using emiiloyees numbenti 7.5.H32 1 in 1950 atul »'iirned $281.763.372 in I xxnges An interesting item is that of IO' ii million d«x>rs ot Douglas Hr produced In the two states, Wit'l no figures given for pine, 'cedar, hemlock a n <1 spruce. Tlunk of that rate fur the nest ten j<nrs 150 million new doors from here for America bahg, bang, Jxing' Another Is 3,700,000 sqURrvs of shingl's. each loo sqtiar» feet. Figure this one for ten years and in s«|uarc miles of rooting for homes and barns You figure It, > not me My concern is how much more money each item means for growing more trees. Hear Psychologist absohitelv «atiafactArv crAdontiala Henrik Kurt Carlsen Will Be Remembered Henrik Kurt Carlsen, captain of the ill fated ship, Flying Enterprise, which sank last Thursday after a fifteen day battle will be remembered both for his courage and because he refused to commercialize his experience. After the end of his 15 day epic fight, press reports say he was offered more than $50,000 by radio, television, a newspaper syndicate and the movies for the rights of his struggle against a sinking ship, but refused because he did not wish to commercialize his experience. How many men would have done so? Few would have had the courage to say no. OPS CAR FACTS The OPS ceiling price regulation of resellers of new passenger auto mobiles specifically forbids: (1) Requiring the purchaser to make payment over a period of time, or to finance his car through a par ticular lending agency; (2) Re quiring a purchaser to buy extra, special or optional equipment, ac cessories or sendees or other com modity in order to get delivery; <31 Requiring a purchaser to trade in a used car to get delivery on a new car; (4) Granting less than • reasonable allowance for a car Universal International's techni color production "Bend of the River,” starring James Stewart, which was filmed in Oregon last summer. The celebration, commemorat ing the 100th anniversary of peak year pioneer travel over the Old Oregon Trail, is being presented by a special Governor's Committee headed by George Hailing of Port land. • Deputy Collectors To Visit Section Before Tax Time renting or leas traded in; and (5) ing a new car under a rental con tract with an option to buy at an agreed price which, together with the rental paid, is higher than the applicable ceiling price of the new car plus services rendered during the rental period. Among the effective safeguards I for consumers is an OPS require ment that meat retailers must dis play different grades of beef in separate trays or compartments, with each display labled according to its grade and its selling price. Deputy collectors of the bureau of internal revenue have arranged to visit various localities over the state between now and March 15th to assist taxpayers in pre paring their income tax reports. A deputy collector wilt be at the city recorder's office in Drain. ‘February 15; in the Sutherlin hotel, February 26; in the Oak land bank, February 27; Reeds port city hall, February 28. A deputy collector will be here at the city hall, February 14, and at 209 Post Office building, Eu gene, March 3 to 15 inclusive. style mat was destined to take its place among the top stylized bands of the country, along with Kemp, Lombardo, Kyser and Fields. Hobbies terns that allowed children of jun ior high age up to work out their own disciplinary courts to punish wrongdoers of their own age. "Children should be taught to practice self discipline and judg ment, learn how to think for them selves,” he said. He gave as an example the Uni versity of Chicago experimental school where children remained in kindergarten for four years then started school, graduating from high school at 13 and college at 15 and 16. He said the first four years taught them how to live together; then they took to learning very rapidly. He also attacked the low sal- aries of school teachers, asking, “How can we exn-'et the best brains to go Into teaching unless they are better paid?,” Personable and clean-cut, Skin- nay stands 6 feet, 1 inch tall, weighs 160 pounds, has light brown hair and blue-green eyes. He is happily married to Carmene, a stately blond charmer who was formerly a vocalist with his or chestra. They have one son, who also wants to be a musician. He's a lover of the great outdoors and plays a whale of a game of golf. In addition, he likes to ride the gee-gees and rope calves. Tickets for the dance are on sale locally at the following loca tions: Cottage Grove Pharmacy, Petersen’s Dept. Store, Chamber of Commerce office, Cecil Beck Motors and Steele’s Grocery on Dorcna Lake. In Drain they are OPS has removed corn cobs from available at the Red and White price control to encourage collec Store. tion of cobs to meet the increased demand for them in the production ODD FACT of furfural. Furfural is a chemical A Denver, Colo., man came home in demand for over 50 uses, includ- to find a stranger sleeping in his i ing synthetic rubber, nylon cor- living-room. Jailed, the intruder rosion resistors, naval stores and said he had simpily gotten tired, other defense needs. rtructlon market, 01.1 For ■, t<> New . . . Washington'»! lumber yield, in both board feet and dollars, was about half of Oregon’s in 1950. The >ulp yield, however, was three time.! a:; many tons in Washington and about twice as much in paper tonnage. And plywood production REGISTERING I'EIHOD HHI m ; w SEMESTER THIN MEEK IN FINAL Bob DuM-nbcrry, (irindpal of Union High school, has rrmind«*d students, especially any who may Amy Elizabeth Mapes , Amy Elizatxrtb Maiw*. Lorane Rt , Cottage Grove, died Monday, January 14. 1952, following a king Ulness She was 60 years old Bom Amy Simcoxx, nt Galena. । III., she was married to Hurshel ; S Maja's in Casper, Wyu, June 6. 1921, They came to Cottage Groxe 12 years ago. Mrs. Mapes ¡ was a member of thc V.FW Auxiliary. Surviving are her husband; two sons, Raleigh, of PllihfTIPTbfTV.. and I^is Angeleg; a Gene granddaughter; a brother, Raleigh Simcoxx, of Calilornia; and a sis- ter. Effie Mosely, of Iowa. Funeral si’rvices were held Wednesday, at 2 p.m., at Mills Mortuary with Rev. Clark Enz of ficiating Cremation followed. » n Ä fo1 ,he «»tnestar. which '**nrts January 21 ''nld 'h<"“' mtermg the high "' hool for th«- first time should, come into th«1 office this week. • LIT ENNEN Nt NPENDED Walter Alton Woodard was fined $250.00 and costs and his driver’s license was suspended for 90 days in Justice court Monday. He was charged with driving un der the Influence of alcohol. He was arrested Sunday evening by State Officer Ned Crippen. 34 IN( HEN OF NNOW KEI*<>KTEI> AT CAMP Mrs. Gale Roby, our Ixmdon correspondent, reports 34 Inches of snow measured early this week by company offlcnls at Wo<xlard's Blackbuttc logging camp. ()|x*ra- If you make too many promises I tions have ticen shut down In- nnd fall to come through you are. I definitely INCOME TAX SERVICE Having trouble filing your income tax returns or Skinnay Ennis Oregon Centennial Set In Portland The 15-ycar-old boy», Robert iH'lano David and Ronald I*«*«' Ijinr, were re|iort<*d by |x»licc to have stolen a «'nr In Seattle. Ieav> ing it tn Vancouver, and then to have stolen another one. At C’reswell they were rc|iort«xl by polli'e to have broken the front giaM window' of the »torr, but were unable to enter ihnt way, so n screen was taken oil u back window by which entry u«» gained A considerable amount of cigarettes, gum, candy and |>astry was taken, but moat of It was found in the abandoned, »tailed car which they had left on Rice Hill. The boya were hitchhiking when picked up by stat»* officer*. your social security tax, if self-employed? MRS. ELLEN B. LAND Stewart Bldg. — over Pioneer Hardware I’h. No. X2!> P pm . Phone. No, 973J3 23-3U-25 Cottage Grove Sentinel Long Term Subscription Rates We have decided to offer for the find time under the preM'nt management an attractive long terin nub- Mcription rate for prrlodn of two to three yearn. No Hubscription accepted for more than three yearn. Thin offer I n o|w*n to both new and prewnt stihwrilNTN. Send your remittance now and nave. In Oregon, 2 years $5.00 In Oregon, 3 years $7.50 Outside of Oregon, 2 years $7.50 Outside of Oregon, 3 years $10.50 You nave $1.00 You nave $1.50 'You save 50c Yon wave $1.50 McGuire & Calonico CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL New Work — Remodeling Concrete and Concrete Block Construction 412KI ............. — — — — . — — PHONES ______ 71flL 22-2tp-23
