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OREGON, THURSDAY MARCH 19, 19BS
The city went into the ambulance business officially
Monday night, but not in the way it planned.
According to the city attorney, Herbert Lombard, a
non-profit corporation had to be set up to run the service
since, he stated, the charter did not provide any means to
raise tax money to carry on '
the service. Although the
service was hoped to be self
sustaining*, money would have
to be raised in case it wasn't,
j W. Gordon Allen, radio station
was the opinion.
owner and well known especiallj
Should Be Election
Thwing and Joe Bricher in mov­
ing that the ordinance be passed
indicated that the council should
authorize a charter amendment
soon. Another councilman indi-
cated it might go on the ballot
with the budget.
There also was some talk about
the preference of having service
private individual, and
by
Thwing said someone had con­
tacted him' regarding this. How­
ever, Joe Bricher, another coun­
cilman, said that “ambulances do
not operate at a profit and give
good service too,’’ and that this
person would probably not want
to run it unless it did show a
profit.
Robert Mills, a councilman and
local mortician with exjierience in
running ambulances, said they
never showed any profit.
The ordinance accepted the gift
from the two lumbermen and set
up controls, operation, mainte-
nance and replacement for the ve­
hicle, a 1946 Cadillac. It was pur­
chased recently for $1,500 by a
fireman from Ed Deremer, former
operator. The other two men pur­
chased it from the fireman and
gave it to the city.
Board Set
The board, under the ordinance
will be composed of the fire chief
as chairman; the police chief, hos­
pital administrator, a volunteer
fireman and two at large, one to
l>e a doctor. The two at large were
to be named by the mayor for two
year terms. They will serve with
no compensation. The city record­
er will act as an ex-officio mem­
ber to keep records of meetings,
receipts and disbursements.
Mayor Crepeau announced
Wednesday
appointment
of
Robert Mills and Dr. Ray-
mond Spaulding as the two at
large members of the amhu-
lance board and Stan Daugh-
as the volunteer fin-
department member.
The board will fix and regulate
salaries of drivers and attendants
and set up rules governing oper­
ation, establish rates and form a
reserve fund for replacement and
insurance.
Thwing claimed this was "add­
ing another department to city
government” and would mean
"heavy responsibility.”
He said he did not believe that
additional com|>ensation should be
sought by any board members in
the future.
Mayor J. S. Crepeau said, "This
will mean addition of one man to
the fire department, as two days
a week there is only one man on.”
Chief Lines! Shipley told the
council, "I am happy to accept
the responsibility and we can op-
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in the Lebanon area, will address
the Cottage Grove Chamber of
Commerce at an open luncheon
meeting Tuesday March 34. on the
feasibility of a station for Cot-
j tage Grove.
Allen holds the permit for a
station here, transferred to him
' from Phil Holt of Creswell by the
FCC after Holt gave up the proj­
ect. Alien, it is believed, is seeking
¡transfer of the permit, possibly to
1 Springfield, where he has been
given the go ahead for a TV sta­
tion.
The Chamber of Commerce has
expressed interest in a station for
Cottage Grove, and the group
heard at a recent meeting that
steps were being taken to try to
keep the permit here.
letters protesting the “no dial
system for Cottage Grove" and
the telephone service here have
been pouring into the Chamber
of Commerce office this week fol­
lowing the open meeting last week
that started the issue rolling.
An influx of letters has been re­
ceived and more will come in. the
board of directors heard at a
Tuesday noon meeting at the D-M
cafe. The group plans to have as
many as 50 before they are sent
to the San Francisco and Portland
phone offices.
About 60 Chamber members at Transfer Status
the open meeting March 10 pro­ j Allen had told a Chamber board
tested that the city was not to get of directors earlier at a special
a dial system and also spoke meeting that he had no plans for
against “poor service." The pro­ a station in Cottage Grove. He
tests came after appearance in indicated he was merely interested
the Sentinel of a story about a in the permit, which he would
dial system for Drain this year. seek to have transferred. Status of
The group also pointed out that the transferral is not known, but
small communities around Cottage it is expected Allen will have
j something to say on that Tuesday.
Grove had dial also.
Allen is owner of a Lebanon
No Grove Plan
The phone company has indi- station that currently is conduct­
cated there is no plan for a sys- •ng 4 heavy publicity campaign
tem for Cottage Grove for about against the private power com-
panies’ surcharge. This contro-
four years.
versy plus the Springfield TV set-
The Chamber at an earlier meet­
up has brought him much into the
ing had protested proposed rises
news.
in phone rates, which it claimed
Allen radio interests operate
were not justified for the service
stations KGAL at Lebanon. KGAE
rendered, and the city council in
at Salem and KSGA at Redmond-
a resolution backed up the group.
Bend.
Dwight Near, C of C president,
said Tuesday that Thaxter Reed,
company manager, had talked to
him last Thursday and Near said
he had told him, “We are interest­
ed here in better service, a new
building and a dial system.”
“He said that in case of emer­
Off-street parking came into
gency crews would be sent in to view at council session again Mon­
take care of the situation.” (The day night, and Cleo Morelock of
emergency generally referred to the Chamber of Commerce com­
fire, where water used in fighting mittee asked council to put some
it might cut off communications parking, meter money into a spe­
for several days, as alleged by the cial fund for the project. Council
fire chief. )
said it would discuss this at a
Near said, "I told him why wait budget session soon.
Morelock. W.
Martin and
for an emergency?"
Miles Wicks, chairman of the Hap Wolfard of the Chamber com-
C of C utilities committee, said mittee and the council traffic com-
that Reed also had contacted him mittee headed by Joe Bricher had
and that he had told him the met Monday noon to iron out
Chamber would go ahead and send parking problems.
Bricher said, “The city should
the letters.
attempt off-street parking. And
Meantime several local mer­
in order to get going we should
chants have stated that phone op­ start with the Morelock lot.”
erators have protested to them
(Morelock has offered to allow the
the stand of the Chamber of Com­
city to use his lot back of the
merce.
Arcade theater if the city would
maintain it.)
Bricher said that plans were
discussed to install meters on the
lot and have them checked by po­
A Washington man was cited lice, He said, however, that tile
for failing to yield the right of city w'ould have to demand at
way following a two-car accident least a five-year lease in order foi
about 8:40 a.m. Wednesday at it to be "self sustaining and repay
the capital investment."
Sixth and Washington streets.
Roek and Pave
The man, E. Mervin Harthrong.
Previously Morelock had offered
53, of Edmonton, Wash., ap|>eared
to let the city have it for five
in municipal court following the
years with the clause that he
incident and after pleading not
could take it over again for pri-
guilty posted $25 hail. Driver of
vate use by reimbursing the city
the other car, which sustained
for its cost.
about $250 damage, was Marian
Pass Creek Paving Co. present-
Lucillq Mitchell of Cottage Grove.
ed an estimate that would amount
No one was injured.
to about $5,000 to rock and pave
According to police reports the area.
Harthrong’s car pulled out from
Lighting also would have to be
Washington into the intersection provided, Morelock added.
at Sixth without clearance and
The committee indicated
hit the Mitchell auto which was would meet further to work out
going south on Sixth.
details.
AF Man ‘Shocked’ at Skywatch
Shutdown
Cottage Grote received a black eye this week with dis­
closure that the (»iteration Skywatch program had bogged down.
It Is listed as THE ONLY OREGON CITY that has failed in
the project called vital to defense efforts.
A U. S. zYir Force sergeant in charge of this area, Ia*onard
G. Bradley, said Wednesday on a trip here that he was “shocked”
when he heard of the stoppage of the operation and called on all
local groups to answer the call. Any individual or group wishing
to help stand Walches may contact the chief observer, Mrs. Nel­
lie Peterson, phone 887-J.
"We are closer to war than we ever were, and Cottage Grove
is less than eight hours away from Russian pole bases,” he said.
"People must be made to- realize the responsibility,” Sgt.
Bradley said.
No shift has been working in the hut atop the City Hall
since March 9 when the American Legion manned the last one.
The Legion group said it did not feel it could continue when
other groups had dropped out.
Sgt. Bodley is in charge of this area for the Portland Air
Defense Filter Center. < alls on planes spotted were called in by
phone direct to this center.
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Portland Bank Buys
Latham School Bonds
The First National Bank of
Portland was successful bidder on
the $6.000 Latham school district
bonds with interest at 2.91 per­
cent. Bids were opened at the
school board meeting Tuesday-
night.
Bids on the new school bus it­
self will be opened at another
board meeting April 6. Voters in
the district recently authorized
the bond issue.
SSA MAN HERE MARCH 23
A representative of the Eugene
Social Security office will be in
Cottage Grove at the city hall
council chambers on Monday, Mar.
23, between the hours of 10:30
a.m. and noon.
Mrs. Nona Kelly returned home I
Monday after spending the week I
end with her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Loretta Hastings in Eugene.
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NUMBER 31
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City Council Monday night for the first time in the his­
E. L. Mochel, jMistal inspector,
who is working out of Spokane.
Wash., was here Friday looking
into the matter of securing new
quarters for a post office. Mr.
Mochel said the postal department
had asked for rev ised bids on a
building, which would afford 5,000
square feet or better.
He said the matter of new- quar-
ters would be settled by April, but
did not say how many bids the
department was considering under
a revision schedule.
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Ex Local Man Gives
First Hand Coverage
Of Nevada A Tests
BEAI TIFI 1. CATHOLIC CHI RCH being built in Casa­
blanca was caption for above picture taken by John Van­
Nortwick, who is serving with Army Air Force in Africa.
IN EKONT OF MY HIT
on base, was title for this one,
showing John VanNortwick
(— himself, writer of the in­
teresting letter from Africa
printed below in part.
AF Man in Africa
Writes Experiences
Meter Fund Asked
For Parking Plan
Washington Driver
Cited After Mishap
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Postal Inspector
tory of the town adopted standards for maintaining paved
streets. Maintenance before has been ”by the goodness of our
Views P. O. Sites;
hearts," as one councilman put it, but not down in writing.
Revised Bid Asked
Standards were outlined in a street committee report
Allen to Address
Chamber March 24
Chamber Gets On Radio Station
Phone Protest
Letters Here
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Ambulance Service
Afoul of Charter
As Temporary Non-Profit Corporation Set
Council passed ordinance 1419
creating a six-member board to
run the service on “a non-profit
basis.” The ambulance itself was
donated to the city by W. A.
Woodard and W. H. Daugherty.
Richard Thwing, a councilman
and local attorney, went into the
technicalities of the city operating
such a service and asked the city
attorney directly, "Does the city
have tin* power to run such a serv­
ice?”
"Yes, but no power to raise
money from taxes to operate. The
only way it could do that would
be to amend the charter,” Lom­
bard said.
The Weather
(Courtesy Cottage Grove
Lake Weather Station!
Magic Show Raises
$670 for Recreation
John VanNortwick of Delight
Vaile; currently serving with the
Ar
Air Force in Africa, recent­
ly wrote an interesting letter to
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
F. B. VanNortwick, telling of his
I work and some side trips.
The letter, written March 4, is
as follows:
"Now I’m working in the Crypto
branch of the squadron. I deal
with coding and decoding mes­
sages that are sent and received
at this station. It’s interesting
work, but it gets kind of tiresome.
I don’t care much about wwking
inside when the weather is warm
like it is now. I hate to think
about how hot it will be this sum­
mer. It got up to 139 degrees last
and that is too hot to suit me.
\ Hit Rabat
A friend of mine bought a
1951 Ford not long ago and we
have been spending the past few
Sundays driving around Morocco.
A week ago last Sunday three of
us drove to Rabat, the capital of
Morocco. It is located about 80
miles north of this base. We went
through an old palace that was
used by the Sultan years ago. The
place had a high wall around it
and a large garden in the center.
There were several rooms fixed up
like a museum which contained
various old weapons, clothing, and
pieces of Arab jewelry and handi-
work. There were several old cop-
ies of the Koran, the Moslem
equivalent of our Bible.
Later on that same day we
visited some ancient Roman ruins
that dated back to the fourth
century. Of course there wasn’t
much there except a lot of crum­
bling walls, but it was very inter­
Easter Seal sales returns for esting to realize that it had been
the Cottage Grove area were there for some 1,600 years.
$265.75 for the first week, accord- Casablanca Surprising
The town of Casablanca is kind
ing to Catherine Sedergren, drive
of surprising to me. I exjiected to
chairman.
At the same time the chairman । see no one but Arabs on the
announced that a table would be streets and I figured that there
in the bank all next week for would be no regular business dis­
persons to make contributions and trict as we are used to back home.
that the annual Lily Sale would Actually the main part of town is
be Saturday, March 28, on the very much like Portland, for in­
stance.
downtown streets.
There are a lot of new buildings
in town and some of them are as
¡tall as 15 stories. There are some
parts of town that are exactly as
I imagined, but they are giving
¡way
under the current building
A group of interested parents
program and one of these days
here are forming plans for
the# may be replaced with decent
starting a high school PTA for
housing. Most of the Arabs live in
the first time. Initial meeting
places
that would make an ordi­
will he at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
nary pig pen seem like a mansion.
March 23. in the high sehool
You have to see this country to
library.
realize just how run down it is.
school
sttl-
Parents of high
"I have been taking a few pic­
dents arc I tn ited. Election of
tures whenever I go someplace
officers and organization will
' and I’ll put a few in this letter for
be discussed.
you.” (Two of them are shown
The same night the grade
school PTA will meet at 8 p.m. 1 above.!
The Lions club Magic Show at-
tended by about 600 persons, many
if them children, raised $670 for
the Cottage Grove Recreation
Fund. The performance, given by
The Hamblens of Eugene, w a s
held last Friday night at the high
school auditorium.
The magicians, man and wife.
delighted the audience with all
sorts of sleight of hand tricks, a
ring trick, card tricks and also
made a radio disappear. They do-
nated their act free of charge and
appeared thru the courtesy of
Parmenter Pontiac and Parmenter
Insurance of Eugene.
Early Seals Drive
Returns Are $265.75
H. S., Grade
PTA News
at the Harrison school to hear
a talk on "Youth Problems” by
Ted Brown, Eugene police chief.
He will he introduced by Ed
Jones, C ottage Grove chief.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Land and
; children, Charles, Berton and Mar­
garet, left Saturday afternoon for
a week’s vacation in San Fran­
cisco.
By Mrs. Esther Trunnell
A native of Cottage Grove and
graduate of its high school, Her­
man Edwards, who is now military-
editor of the Oregonian, gave first
hand coverage of the atomic
plosives test near Las Vegas.
He has written articles on the
preparations as well as th/* ac-
tual explosions. Mr. Edwards at-
tended the first A-bomb tests in
Bikini in 1946. He also had wide
experience in Korea, of which he
wrote for the Oregonian. He is the
brother of Warren Edwards of
Cottage Grove.
adopted by the council. They were somewhat relaxed from
the committee’s previous
stand,
but were still termed
Only the Budget
“
good"
by the mayor.
For March 23
City Council in a desperation
move set Monday night. March
After wading thru other mat­
ters Monday night, considered
also of vital importance, the
budget still was untouched at
ambulance a nd
parking matters
on the
but not
the budget.
will
"Next Monday night
talk about the budget and noth­
ing else. The press and any in-
come, but no one can talk abdut
anything but the budget," the
mayor said.
Council held one preliminary
budget
Marcii 9 but
got only a quick look-see into
department requests and even
these were not complete.
A Chamber of Commerce
member indicated to council
that interested persons from
that group would be present
next Monday.
The city 'attorney was author­
ized to draw up an ordinance out­
lining the standards, termed "to
facilitate housing and make streets
easier to get and maintain and
to get rid of some bad ones we
have, according to Gil Gardner,
I chairman of the street group.
Previously there has been no
written statement in city files
calling for street maintenance and
what has been done in the past
has been "out of the goodness of
our hearts," a councilman quipped.
The standards were sought first
by real estate developers who
stated no FHA loans could be
made unless the city agreed in
writing to maintain certain types
of streets. The standards were
lowered somewhat from original
ones after the council committee
met with real estate men and
Chamber of Commerce street
committee members that claimed
too high standards would "discour­
age building.”
Two types of streets that would
be taken over would I m * those in
new developments that are not
heavily traveled and those with
heavy traffic such as Tenth and
Delinquency Count Dropped by Court; la-1 r rwen,lv pa-•
State-Wide Alarm Out for Other Man
These in terms of the report are
"stage development of new streets
and finished streets.”
"The primary consideration in
Latest developments this week lowing notification of their par­ the construction of streets should
be that no major work should be
in the current crime wave involv­ ents.
done that must be removed when
In a different type of Justice the street reaches the finished
ing juveniles in Cottage Grove in­
cluded charges for contributing to Court case, hearing for D. P. Pot- standard," the report read.
the delinquency of a minor dropped ter of Mosby Creek, charged with Adequate Drainage
“In both stage development and
against one man, with another ixiinting a gun at another, was
finished street, adequate drainage
postponed
until
April
9.
Charge
man being sought in a state-wide
against him was made by E. and adequate sub-base approved
alarm on the same charge.
Wayne C’ari>enter, Creswell logger, by the city engineer and city coun­
The district attorney, Ed Luck­ who alleged Potter forced him off cil must be provided before sur­
face material has been applied on
ey, dropped charges at a hearing a logging road at gun point.
the street.”
Tuesday morning in Justice Court
The report went on to say that
here against Oren Simmons, but
adequate drainage means “con­
warned Simmons <tt the time
struction of catch basins and
against “any further covering up
storm sewers which would carry
for youngsters."
run-off.”
Simmons alleged he had taken a
The pavement of streets is to be
13 and a 14-year-old girl March 8
The Sweeney family story un­ asphaltic mixture as approved by
to a home owned by Fred Cline folded again here this week with
the city engineer, with wearing
in oj'der “to keep them from run­ the amputation of the foot and
surface to tie a minimum of two
ning away from home.”
part of the leg of Don, a Korean inches in thickness “on streets
Imtufficient Evidence
veteran, as his sister, Rosemary, where it is determined that there
The case was dropped due to whose dream of becoming a nurse
will be little traffic, and to be
insufficient evidence as to “will­ was inspired by her brother’s
thicker than two inches as re­
ful" contributing, according to wounds, was capped in special
quired by traffic conditions.”
Luckey. He warned Simmons how­ ceremonies.
The section on curbs indicated
ever that he deliberately kept the
Another drama was still being that "rolled curb” can be used
girls from their parents and the played in a Philadelphia hospital
that can be replaced by concrete
law. Cline had signed the com­ where an infant niece of Don and
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plaint against Simmons.
Rosemary, little Rose Ann, was
In the meantime a state-wide fighting for her life.
alarm was out for the arrest of
Don, severely injured in 1950
Raymond Keith Williams of l^>- in Korea, had his right foot and
rane route, who allegedly was with part of his leg amputated at
the same two girls before Sim­ Barnes General hospital in Van­
mons picked them up. The man’s couver Friday and is reported re­
parents informed police this week covering “as well as can be ex­
he had received his draft notice, | pected" by his family.
but officers said this did not ex­
Sweeney was injured by shrap­
empt him from arrest. He is be­ nel early in the Korean war and
Gale Roberts. SpringfieM, was
lieved to be in the neighborhood a series of treatments the past awarded the contract on the Cot­
of Eureka, Calif., according to one few year in various hospitals tage Grove high school addition
officer.
failed to save his feet. Osteo­ Friday and initial surveys and ex­
myelitis had set in and he may cavation work was to get under­
Wednesday Chief of Police
lose his left foot also. His Korean way this week.
Ed Jones said Williams’ fa­
Roberts’ low bid of $269.792 in­
story ran in the Sentinel in con­
ther had informed h i m he
nection with a blood drive a year cluded six new classrooms to be
thought his son was in the
built on the west side of the pres­
ago.
Elkton area and state police
The veteran has currently been ent building and a large gym and
were searching for him there.
serving on the Cottage Grove music rooms that will be erected
The father posted $300 bond
[olice force. His wife is the former on the east side. Part of the pres­
in Justice Court Wednesday.
Joan Crepeau, daughter of Cot­ ent gym will be converted for use
Williams is also booked on tage Grove's mayor. His mother is as a cafeteria at lunch time, and
the entire present building will be
the contributing charge follow­ Mrs. L. E. Story.
insulated. The insulation program
ing a complaint signed by the Climax of Dream
In the meantime no report was was okayed by the school board
girls' mothers. Clarence R. Adams,
who was also charged to have available on the condition of Don’s to prevent purchase of an addi­
been with Williams, has been niece, little Rose Ann Sweeney, tional furnace.
Completion date for the class­
bound over to the grand jury on who is being treated in a Philadel­
the contributing count after waiv­ phia hospital for t) iaro heart con­ rooms and cafeteria conversion
has been scheduled for September
dition.
ing preliminary hearing.
As another sidelight to the fam­ 1, with September 15 set for fin­
In the meantime two other mon,
Dave Williams and Richard Par­ ily story, Rosemary Sweeney, ishing the gym and music rooms.
sons, whose charges were reduced Don's sister, w ho began her dream Other Bidders
Bids were opened at the school
to after hours, did not appear in of being a nurse when Don re­
municipal court as scheduled Sat­ turned from Korea, was cap[>ed in board meeting last Wednesday but
urday. Police Chief Ed Jones said ceremonies at Sacred Heart hos­ were not let until Friday night
Williams was in California and pital in Eugene Sunday afternoon following study by the board. The
would appear on his return. He She is attending nurses’ school on contract also was signed at that
time.
said Parsonsv was going to Wyo­ a 40 et 8 scholarship.
Alternate bids for a bus loading
Attending the services from
ming and charges might be
dropped against him If he left hero were Mr. and Mrs. Story, Mr. zone in front of the classrooms
the state for good. Two other and Mrs. James Sweeney, who are and public toilets in the new gym
teen-age girls arrested two week the parents of little Rose Ann; were turned down by the school
ends ago with them were fined in Mr. and Mrs, Frank Gierau and board, since it voted not to include
these items in the expansion plans.
city court on the after-hours Father Carl Mai.
Other bidders were Albert Vik.
count.
Eugene, $274,069; Waldo Hardie
JAY< EES TO AUDITION
Girl Missing
& Son, Eugene. $275,468; Indus­
Another 18-year-old girl was re­ FOR TALENT SHOW SAT.
Auditions for the Jaycee Talent trial Builders, Eugene, $279,946
ported missing over the week end
by her mother. The same girl, ac­ Show will be held all day Satur­ and J. S. Crepeau, Cottage Grove.
cording to Judge Wells, has been day at the high school auditorium, $287,890. Vik was contractor for
warned by him against “fixing up" beginning at 10 a.m. The actual the recently completed Harrison
school.
dates between minor girls and show is set for April 17.
The expansion program for the
All amateur artists who have
men.
Two 16-year-old youths from applied for auditioning may con­ high school was authorized by vot­
Eugene were picked up by city jio- tact either Marvin Jacobsen, show ers in a $347,000 bond issue elec-
lice about 8:20 am. Wednesday chairman, or Robert Bauder for , tion last November, with the First
at Sixth street and the highway apjiointments if they have not al­ । National Bank of Cottage Grove
' purchasing the bonds.
and put in a detention ward fol- ready received them.
Family Story Told
In Leg Amputation,
Capping of Nurse
Contract Awarded
On Hi School Job;
Excavation Begins