Phge S
The Sentine!, Cottage Grove,
Oregon
son is a paratrooper and had just
returned from 40 months of serv
ice in Japan and Korea. He was on
a 30-day furlough and left Monday
for Indiana where lie will be sta
tioned for awhile.
Mis. Donna McNabb has been
feeling quite ill and miserable be
cause of a virus skin infection the
past several weeks. She has been
under a doctor’s care and has been
going to Eugene for violet ray
treatments several times a week
recently. Her mother. Maude Chit-
tester, has been taking care of
little Stevie the help the McNabbs.
Alton and Glenn Chittester
spent a week at Castle Rock
where they were having some ma-
ch nery made for their logging
operations.
The old flu "bug” bit Jim Bar
be,- and "laid him low” so the shop
has been closed for almost a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Kephart,
their small daughter and Dillard
Thur».. Ian. tX, 1S.M
Russia's Big Bluff
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
By ILtrold Lord
Established August 15. ISM)
Published every Thursday at Cottage Grove Oregon
Entered at Cottage Grove Oregon as «econd class matter
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iEditor's note: In this third, and nesia. They are keeping us on an
final portion of "Russia's Big uneasy moral defensive, in the
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W C. Martin
weapons reserve, and the preva ship of the nationalism of the Far
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lent attitude of the American peo East and the irredentism of the
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ple towards the Soviet Union. Var Arab Near East. They are even
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ney’s article appeared in the De nibbling at our own hemisphere
cember, 1953. issue of the Amer by penetrations in Guatemala and
NATIONAL
EDITORIAL
ican Legion magazine. Permission British Guiana and by unwhole
PUBLISHERS
to reprint the article was given some intrigues with Peron.
ASSOCIATION
Th«« Sentinel by the magazine's
At home, the Russian line is
editor, Joseph C. Keeley.)
aided, wittingly or unwittingly,
Detroit
Philadelphia
Chicago
New Yoik
But there is a sizable body of by the ideologies among our own
public opinion which will contend people who place moony interna
Weekly Newspaper Representatives, Inc
that America's peril does not lie tionalist goals ahead of practical
National Advertising Representative
in these facts, but the possibility American Security. It is aided by
of a sneak Russian atom Iximb or their own unextinguished Fifth
hydrogen bomb attack upon Column of false-face Soviet sym-
No First Class Roads
American cities and industries. We pathizers w h o deliberately sow
in American political
Guthner photo cannot wave aside such a pcs-, confusion
From an unofficial source we learn that no first class
ild Hills of Powers,
MAN OF Till. 4 EAR IN < OTTA g E GHO\ E. Mayor Joe Crepeau received Chamber of Commerce nihility, although it leads us into thinking.
Mr
roads are planned for this area in 1954 by the Lane county First Citizen” plaque from Oregon’» Governor Paul Patterson at Chamber banquet held January IX. a realm of admitted conjecture
Today, America stands at the
commissioners. First class roads are usually defined as those
Taylor Young; Taylor Yui.ng, incoming Chamber president; Mayor Crepeau, Gover where provable facts are non-ex- the pinnacle point of her national J. W. Middletons. She will go on
Left to right: M
having a proper base and four coats of oil or asphalt.
istent.
the opport unity lo Portland to visit another sister
power. She
nor Patterson; I light Near. outgoing < liamber president (partially hidden); anil Mrs. Near.
We were fortunate enough to get a few miles of good
Could Russia win a war with for total world leadership in her and do some shopping.
U. Wo<xly and Sid Davis left
roads built in 1953, but one important road around the Lo
the United States by such,an un- hands, if she can overcome the
January JO. 19M
doubts and uncertainties which for North Carolina to bring back
announced terror attack?
rena lake was never properly finished except to the Y. Most
Honorable Joe < repeau
of us recall that the road built around Dorena lake when the
Science fiction addicts and Cap are in her own mind. Russia will his father and a new car.
The Disston Mothers club met
tan Video cultists will say pos endeavor, unceasingly, to deepen
dam was being completed was never properly constructed
itively that she could. Chronic those uncertainties, and to exploit Tuesday, January, 19 with a pret
and was accepted by the court, despite the fact that it was
viewers with alarm have already them. Her preoccupation, in the ty fair number present. The date
paid for by the federal government.
conceded
defeat. A soberer view next twenty years, will be with to put the quilt on the frame was
It was a privilege for me to attend the dinner in Cottage Grove at which you
The present court had nothing to do with the road or
of this threat, however, must seri the psychological war with Ameri set for Tuesday. January 26. The
community and to have tlie opportunity of
named
its acceptance, nevertheless a gooid many jieople have felt
next meeting will lx? Tuesday,
ously question whether Russia ca not the physical war.
that there was an obligation on the part of the county to
Will the United States fall into February 2 and everyone is urged
either has the long range, non
I am very keenly aware that my work would bo
make this road at least a good second class road.
stop bombers to deliver the bomb this yawning trap? We can avoid to attend as this is the last meet
much heavier, If not overwhelming, were it not for the fact that so many people
over American targets, o r the it, but not if we continue to I k ' ing Lafore the dinner for the club
There can be no quarrel with the present method, which
m mbers and their families Feb-
stockpile to sustain the stupend hand-'ed by our myth-makers.
are giving of their time anil themselves to carry out their civic duty and governmental
we understand the county uses in selecting the most impor
(The End.)
ous follow-up duel which would
ruary 12 and there are a few
task* in their communities. No finer tribute could be paid to a citizen than that his
tant roads and constructing a system of roadways based on
things need.ng everyone's atten
come with our counter-attack. Il
friends and neighbors select him as their First ( itizen for the work In- has done in
this method, but at the same time each community contribut
Fl IX COPY AVAILABLE
tion.
Russia attacked now and it is
ing taxes for roads is entitled to consideration on the basis
their community.
Folks, I'm sorry the telephone
If you have missed a part of
the present we are talking about
I wish to add my congratulations to you for this honor anil to thank you for
of taxes paid. There is a chance that this important factor
she would unquestionably hint ••Russia's Big Bluff," (final part didn't work again, it seems to lx?
might be overlooked if the selection of the roads to receive
Hie assistance you are giving In making our way of government a success.
l’t d? I gUCM
America terrifically, but enough of wlrch appears today), or would a.i old
Sincerely yours.
improvement is left up to the judgment of one individual,
of us would survive to stage a like to send the entire article on you will just have to keep trying.
such as we understand is the case in this instance.
deadly reprisal. When that second to a friend, we are delighted to The bad weather that is causing
Past county administrations have promised to oil and
phase developed. Russia's fearful tell you than many full-copies of so much trouble will be over one
been of these days. 1 will be glad to get
inferiority would immediately be the Varney
improve the Delight Valley road, but apparently this promise
come obvious. Her only hope of printed. Just stop by the Sentinel the news anytime. Try during the
has fallen by the wayside as has the promise to improve the
crushing us would be through a office and ask for your copy. If middle of the week, or leave your
Lorane highway. The county road department according to "Flying High"
I Mrs. Suiter Installed
one-shot operation, which could you would like more than one news at the stores, if it is incon
present plans will build a first class road for a distance of
(Continued from page 1)
not be repeated. Without stock copy, and the amount is not too venient to come to my house. I am
five miles from Lorane in the direction of Eugene, but this by a lovable old rascal Jeb ! Chaplain at Grange 22nd Governor Commi nds Chamber
piles for a second assult, she large, we’ll see if that's possible. also ready to take your renewals
won’t aid us any or make it any easier for people from Lo- Purdy. A curious assemblage of !
STATE
GF
OREGON
By Mrs. Ruby Meacham
would quickly succumb to the ter The Sentinel is reprinting “Rus or new subscriptions anytime.
Executive Department
rane to get into Cottage Grove.
Phone Ö9XR4
hotel guests prov ide many amus- l
rific attack which our B-47’s sia's Big Bluff” in this manner so
Salem
Aside from the facts cited above the present road plan ing situations.
Show us the man who never
could make upon her 70 major
CURTIN The North Douglas
January 20, 1954 targets, from all or most of our an oportunity to read tile article makes a mistake and we will show
is to be commended if succeeding officials see fit to carry Cast members and their roles Grange held its regular meeting
Dear
Mr.
Martin:
a man who never makes anything.
surrounding ling of advance air
it out. Former administrations have wasted hundreds of include: Jeb Purdy, Cecil Gum; Friday evening at the grange hajj
It was nice to meet you at the bases in England, continental Eu
1!. L. Way land
thousands of dollars of the taxpayers’ money in trying to Betty Green, Joan Metcalf; Mrs. Tlie meeting was opened by Mr. First
Citizen's dinner at Cottage rope, Morocco, Libya, Turkey.
build narrow concrete roads, which in time will prove prac Augusta Van Sneerington, Vir- Allen, the master of the grange.
Mistakes are lessons of wisdom.
Saudi Arabia and Iceland, or by
giniä Bricher; Robert Van Sneer- Two of the members were report-
tically useless, if they have not already been proven so.
I feel that these things have a our 4.000 mile non-stop I l-36s,
The past cannot be changed. The
ington, 3rd, Harold Monighan; ed ill. Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Sowles,
definite contribution to make taking off from United States
Mrs. J. G. Barber
future is yet in your power.
Mary Lou Milford, Shirley Bar ■but hope they will soon lie able
toward communities, in that they bases.
Most Disheartening Development
Phone 6X667
Hugh White
nett; Beulah Potts (colored maidt j to be around again. Mrs. Helen
encourage our people to perform
Darla Hogate,
DISSTON
Russia, despite all her propa-
Al Wakefield; Gabby Hopkins. ' Suiter was installed as chaplain
The most disheartening domestic development of recent Bertha Kenady; Prof. Boomer K. I of the grange.
their civic work and then they re ganda, knows with painful clear- daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Clair
moving 1 CALI
ward them for a job well done. ness that she is not presently pre Hogate was crowned queen of the
times has been the growing dependence of millions of people Bamsmeller,
James Barnett; Titus i Tlie executive committee« served
on government, mainly the federal government, to provide Pincham, Warren Edwards; Ted hamburgers before and after the I believe the Chamber is to be pared for sustained atom combat. Sweetheart Swirl Dance at the
services and benefits, if a free system is to be preserved, Sterling, Ted Anderson.
This fact makes the likelihood Cottage Grove high school, Friday
meeting. The hamburgers were congratulated u[x>n the program
to be that she will risk everything upon January 15.
must remain the responsibility of the individual and the Admission to the play is $1 for sold at 25 cents, coffee 5 cent- and (he community
NATION-WIDE FURNITURE MOVERS
family group. There has been a blind seeking for a kind of adults,
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lay ng and
for high school and i>op 10 cents. The proceeds an thanked for the support that they the A and H bombs extremely
to it. I enjoyed very much remote. And so current talk about their daughter Walda spent the
cradle-to-the-grave security whose end, in the sweep of his students and 25 cents for young to be used to help pay for the gave
with the people in the com A-bombs, like the chatter about week end with the Hogate fam-
tory, has always been the sapping of moral fibre and spir sters. Tickets may be purchased at . range and piano. The cooks were being
munity and the opportunity of the Flying Saucers, belongs to ily, recently.
itual values and ultimate slavery. The most obvious manifes the high school the evening of the Wanda Crane, Donna Drake «and saying "Hello" to you.
fantasy rather than to serious po
Betty Thompson. Needless to say
Olaf Morton and his daughter
tations of super-government are crushing taxes and mount performance.
Sincerely yours,
litical discussion. To pivot our Jeanette of Los Angeles visited
lhe hamburgers were all sold out
Included
in
evening
ing national debts, and the inevitable undermining of eco formances will be specialty acts with patrons stating they ho[x«d
PAUL PATTERSON
thinking about American prepar recenily with all the Carr family
Governor
nomic and political freedoms.
edness on such a supposition is at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
The Safe. C mj
and a Kiddies' circus featuring 40 the idea would lx- continued. Next
Way to riovato
Mr. Walter C. Martin, Publisher
Another phase of the debit side is found in the long or 50 children from the first, sec- meeting is to be February 12.
not only unrealistic: it is down Claude Carr.
or from ail 48
Cottage Grove Sentinel
right dangerous.
strides that have been made in either socializing outright and and third grades at Adams I
Statoa & ¿añado
Mrs. Claude Carr’s brother, Cliff
American enterprises, or in subjecting them to so much gov school.
That is not to say that Russian Robinson, and his family and her
1 Zipper Note Bornes—The Sentinel Cottage Grove, Oregon
atomic power, as a long-range mother, Mis. Robinson, all of Phil
ernment dictation and control that socialization comes ever
amuz
Brake ‘Know-How’ threat, is not nightmarishly real. omath
nearer. And socialism, historically, is but the forerunner of
visited in Disston Sunday
Give
the
Kremlin
another
twenty
MOVING
•
STOtiUl
. PACKING • CRATING
communism or some similar system of government by op
before last.
Useful in Winter
years to link the incalculable re
50-tfnxx
pression and terror.
Lefty and Lois Baehler of Myr
sources of her Siberian and Chi
State
Motor
Associa-
Oregon
It is true that our present government is pledged to re
tle Point spent the week end with
tion in a winter seasonal bulletin nese hinterlands to h e r atomic Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson and
verse this deadly process. It is true that some heartening
different
power
program
and
suggests many perilous skidding
visited other friends in the com
steps in that direction have been made It is equally true that
••thrills" or accidents could lie Russia, freed of her present de munity a couple of weeks ago.
the forces that would destroy our free system and replace it
pendence
U|x>n
oil
and
coal,
will
avoided if more drivers would
Charles Johnson son of Mr. and
with a very different kind of system are still awaiting their
learn how to handle their brakes confront America. Then, and not Mrs. Alfred Johnson has gone to
now, will we face.the full horror
chance.
on slippery pavement.
West Fir, where he is employed by
of the atom threat. The logic of
As a matter of self preservation we must put the welfare
The notice, "Slippery When Wet this outkxjk demands, as a matter the Hines Logging Company.
of the nation first in considering important national issues,
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Harring
Or Frosty,” is not a casual sign of life and death, that we main
liecause our jobs, our businesses, our farms, ami our liberties
ton of Cottage Grove visited at
cau-
to
the
seasoned
driver,
they
Y
tain our present wide lead over
depend upon the perpetuation of a strong nation of self-
slows im- Russia, in every power field, as the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
tion. The
governing people.
mediately when outside weather the central objective of our long- Jones, a week ago Saturday, and
Ship and receive by
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sears anil th"ir
conditions make the sign mean- pull defense planning.
in
family of Mount View were re
ingful.
all of her calculations, is counting cent callers.
Applying the Moral Brake?
upon America to make the politi
"I .inning" Technique
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Chittester
There are a lot of folks who argue that we have to live
The experienced driver also has cal blunders w h i c h will throw visited her mother Mrs. George
away
this
lead.
with a number of evils, otherwise if they are suppressed they
learned the art of "fanning” or
Butler in Castle Rock and Boyd
The greatest of these mistakes Chittester also visited friends
’•feathering" t h e brakes vv hen
will return in a sort of clandestine form. Robert Thornton,
slowing down so as to avoid lock would lx« to misread our enemy. there the week end of Sunday the
the present attorney general of Oregon has been making a
ing the wheels on slippery pave It would lx« to gamble our all 17th.of January.
vigorous fight on the red light districts over the state and
ments; thereby throwing the ve upon war in 1954 or 1955. when
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Carter and
says the situation is bad on the west coast. Yet even now
the war we have to light will not family of Springfield called on the
hicle into the inevitable skid.
thiAe are those who will argue a red light district is neces
The "fanning” technique, em come until the Nineteen Seventies. Barbers in spite of the snow Sun
sary to protect the womanhood, but on the basis of a study
Our greatest present danger lies day before last. They had quite a
ployed by experienced drivers, is
made by Mr. Thornton this argument is refuted. He says
a series of quick applications on in the realm of political psychol time getting here, their car going
those who patronize the red light district do not ordinarily
the brake pedal, being sure to ogy: it lies in ourselves. The into a skid because of the snow on
attack women, but such attacks are made by the rapist re
release the brake after each quick American people, superbly great Gleason hill and scaring them
gardless of the existence of such a district. What the study
application. "Feathering." another in moments of high crisis, are all pretty badly.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Spellman and
of Mr. Thornton concludes is that the existence of a red light
method, fequircs "feeling" for a not pitched to long sustained po-
district is a nuisance rather than to be tolerated and should
point at which the brakes begin to liticai efforts which call for pa- Clint Brice of Cottage Grove at
Overnight from
be stam|)ed out by the law enforcing officers.
lock, then releasing them slightly. tient restrained planning over a tended t h e Oregon-Wash.ngton
no
con-
span
of
decades.
There
is
basketball
game
Saturday
night.
Portland via.
The same could be said of many things we tolerate in
Experts warn, that the hand
in our
M. Sgt. LeRoy Danielson and
cluding dirty movies, although the supreme court says no
brake which gives little or no tinuity of top leadership
McCracken Bros
Russia possesses his mother, Mrs. Clarence Em
“feel" of contact, even though system, such as
one has a right to censor a movie, regardless of how im
The
curve
of
our
mons,
of
Castle
Rock
and
Bremer
in
her
presidium,
applied gently while going down
moral. There are movie producers, who are only interested in
almost certain to lock progression is a zig-zag, not an ton, spent several days visiting at
hill.
the money the film makes, notwithstanding how immoral
the Chittester homes. Sgt. Daniel-
the
rear
wheels and send the car unbroken line.
the film may be or how it may affect the moral life of the
Because we are the people that
into
a
skid
while
the
driver
has
young people.
but one hand on the wheel. It is we are. Russia and her well-wish
By the same argument we could say, “don't interfere with
A ‘Positive’ March
well to avoid use cf the hand ers are opposing us with an astute
of psychological warfare
the personal liberties of the dope peddler, let him sell his
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Today the local
March of __
Dimes
Fund Drive officially brake, sometimes referred to er program
wares." It all depends on how liberally we would interpret enters its last few days. The time allotted for the drive has roneously as an "emergency which plays diabolically upon our
weaknesses. They are disbalancing
the morals we live by and how we apply them in the teaching passed unbelievably fast. We’ve seen, during that time, var brake.”
us with a distracting series of
of the youth.
ious groups and individuals in this area work tremendously
Koreas, and Tibets, and I.aoscs.
hard to make the drive a successful one. And tonight, more
and Irans. They ere keeping us
re.
jittery with contrived disagree
Challenge for Today
than 50 women will be calling at homes in the area as they
ments with our British. French
participate in the Mothers' March on Polio.
and other allies. They are disori
The other morning, as we sat down and consumed our
We find this fact, that these women have worked many
enting our Asiatic policies by con
usual breakfast, we took notice of what was on the table. long hours to prepare their "march," a significantly impres
tinuous intrigues with the "neu
We. were« surprised. There was cereal. One of thore "quick to sive one. They realize that in these times there are many
tralists," India, Burma and Indo-
prepare" varieties that is made by adding so much water to
rem
Editor's Mail Bag
Disston Mothers
To Meet February 2
r MAYFLOWER
Prescription to be Filled
Your Local
Freight Company
Cottage
Groye-
Freicht
Co,
Phone 99
Amazing
«Value!
WE SUPPORT
facets for your dimes and dollars, just as you do. But they
also know that this great fight to lick poliomyelitis can only
be won with the dimes and dollars each of us contributes.
So, as these local residents call on you tonight, and seek
your March of Dimes contribution, we urge all of you to dig
just a little deeper into that pocketbook or pocket to help
this nation win the battle against polio.
And we wish the women of Beta Sigma Phi, Jayceettes
and BPW a most successful "March." (L.O.)
a certain amount of pre-prepared cereal grains. Next to the
cereal bowl stood the glass of orange juice. Easily prepared
by adding so much water to an amount of pre-prepared con
centrated orange juice. As our cereal cooled, we poured some
boiling water over some instant coffee. We waited a few
moments before stirring the concentrated cream in the coffee
since the directions say to "let the cream sink below the
surface of the coffee.” Then we ate the cereal, drank the
juice, consumed the coffee, burning some stomach tissue in
the process, and hurried off to work. We have reached one
There was a woman who reduced greatly. Lost five
conclusion about breakfast. Chickens held their own when pounds eight times.
powdered eggn were introduced. It's encouraging. Maybe
we'll have scrambled eggs for breakfast tomorrow. It would
A heel often makes the heaviest footprint on the samls
present a real cooking challenge. (L.O.)
of time.
The March
cf Dimes
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because:
the battle of polio must
w ^ ïstops
be won as soon as pos
sible, and we know our
contribution will help.
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