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Oct. 21, 1954 Th" Sentinel, Cottage O • rove, Oregon Careless Smoking, Match Handling Top Fire Threat I f your house should go up in smoke this year, chance? are one in three that careless smoking or handling of matches w ill be the cause, reports Charles Ross. Ore gon State college forestry special ist. ROSS, who heads the OSC fire prevention campaign, reminds all home owners th a t this week, Oc tober 3 to 9, is N ational Eire Pre vention Week and the tim e to check fo r m ajor causes of fires in Oregon. "The house holder can’t remove a ll fire risks,” Ross says, “ but he can and should take steps to correct those fire threats that strike Oregon, homes and farm s repeatedly.” T h irty -tw o pep cent o f Oregon's 11,303 home fires last year, as re ported by ^he Oregon fire marshal, were caused by careless smoking and matches. N<*xt were over heated or defective heating plants and flues that accounted fo r 22 per cent of home fires. Oils and hot grease in the kitchen caused 15 per cent. Use o f kerosene I o start fires led this group........... O ther m ajor causes of , home fires were 10 per cent by hot m et als. sparks from frictio n and com bustion, and explosions; eight per cent from hot ashes and open fires; and seven per cent from e le ctricity and defective w iring. The six groups accounted fo r 94 per cent of Oregon home fires. As, an accident k ille r, fire in. the United States and Canada is top ped only by fatal m otor vehicle injuries and, by falls. Children under fo ur years run about three times as much risk from fire as Page Churches to Play Great CROP Role Turnbull Returns To J School Staff ITN IVER SITY O E OREGON, Eugene, d Special i George Turn- bull, form er dean of the U niver sity o f Oregon’s school o f journal ism, is returning to the staff of the school sometime- after the firs t of the year to carry out a research project on the history of- Oregon Journalism. Announcement o f T u rn b u lls planned return was made here Saturday by Journalism D e a n Gordon A. Sabinp, at ceremonies m arking the form al opening of Eric W. A lle n 'H a ll, the univer sity's new journalism building. Turnbull, who is presently as sociate editor of the Albany Dem ocrat-Herald, is the author of the o nly ’ work on ' Oregon’s journalism history to date. En title d ’’H istory of Oregon News papers,-”, the book w;js the first of its- kind published in the coun try. It is to expand and update his previous work th a t Turnbull, is returning to the campus. T urn bu ll was acting dean of the journaUstn-rSchool here from 1944 to 1946 and dean from 1!»46 u ntil his retirem ent as emeritus pro fessor in 1948. He has had wide professional experience on s u c h papers as the ¿tregonian, and Se a ttle ' Post-Intelligencer. He is one of the ix-stknown men-in Ore gon newspapering. do people 14 years and older. Ross pojnts out, however, that Oregon is reducing lx»th life and property loss from fire while losses are clinching nationally. Deaths from fire i»»«^)regon drop ped from 80 in 1952 to 53 in 1953, and property loss from fire-w as reduced six per cent. Nationally, property losses climticd 15 per cent .from 1952 to 1953 and arc now close to on<^ billion dollars annually. ? Cottage Grove City Council Recommends Each year the voters are called upon to approve or disapprove a sum of money over and above an exist ing $27,000:00 tax base. Not for many years has the city of Cottage Grove been able to operate city affairs within this $27,000.00 figure. AAA Head Urges Clubs Redouble Safety Efforts Veterans, W idow s I f we are entering a period of E lkhart, Inidana A stepi>cd W ar veterans and widows re greater tra ffic safety, it is a per up food appeal by CROP to the ceiving nonservice - connected pen farmers and churchmen o f Amer sions from the Veterans Adm in iod in which we cannot fo r a mo ment relax in our efforts in be ica w ill reflect the greater role istration were warned this week ' half o f safer motoring, Ralph the churches w ill play in interna of penalties now being Imposed Thomas, president of the Am eri tional relief in 1955. by the VA for failure to report ex-1 can Autorpobile Association has CROP, the Christian Rural cess incomes which would make just urged, in a communication to Overseas Program, is now in the them ineligible to receive the bene each of the 780 a ffilia te d m otor midst of the 1954 canvassing sea fit. clubs. Rather, he adds, our w ork son. Reports show increased spon The nêw VA regulation, as ex in safety must be redoubled. taneous response to the need for plained by Vere A. McCarty, serv In addressing the club presi voluntary g ifts of food for victims ice o fficer fdr the Oregon D epart in disaster areas of Greece, North ment of Veterans’ A ffairs, pro dents. he warned that while most Africa, Indo-China, East Pakistan, vides that where a pension re recent figures compiled in Wash ington, D. C., fo r the fir s t half of India and Korea. cipient fails to report an income- A ll of these countries have suf increase during the year which 1954 are encouraging w ith 1,000 fered loss of life and property in would put him in excess of his fewer tra ffic deaths than fo r the earthquakes, floods and wars. In income lim itation at the end of Same period last year, only by a ll of them great masses of peo the calendar year, the VA may greater e ffo rt can this favorable ple are on the verge .of starvation request refuncTof all pension pay trend be maintained. "There were 600 less deaths In and can Survive only w ith outside ments fo r that year. the firs t six months than in help. M illions of refugees are The veteran or widow w ithout 1952,” M r. Thomas points out, flooding displaced persons ramps dependents may not receive non- "and six per certt fewer deaths and other relief renters, reducing serivce-connected pension if his or compared to a year ago this time. present supplies to a dangerous, her income -from o the r sources I f the trend continues at the same .now low. exceeds $1,400 annually. The in«- pace 'fo r the remainder of this The national CROP food appeal come lim itation is $2,700 fo r th<- yean 1954 w ill have the lowest is underrthe direction of the Rev-1 beneficiary w ith dependents. etend A lb eit W. Farmer. CROP To avoid the penalty o f govern seeks farm-grown staple food ment indebtedness, the beneficiary« > which is not available from gov is advised to n o tify the VA region ernment surplus stocks and gifts al office in Portland immediately to facilitate surplus distribution i Arc and Acetylene when he commences receiving an overseas. The government, so far income which would tçnd to make makes available free dairy prod him exceed the lim ita tio n The ucts and cottonseed oil to Church VA then w ill term inate his pen W orld Service a n d -o th e r relief sion as of the date o f last pay agencies. ment and there w ill be no penalty. The World Council of Churches The pension may be reinstated Assembly at Evanston in August later, should the person’s income gave expression to its increased again drop to w ith in the allow concern over .expanding distress able lim it Portable Welding Any Place around the world. This was fol lowed by a' reappraisal and 1030 Madison —Phone 181-Y There are more than 25 m illion strengthening of church relief ma- chin'Ty. including the appoint TV sets in use in the U.S.—they’re ment of form er national CROP di in 55% of all our homes. rector Johh D. Metzler to the World Council sta ff in Geneva. Mr. Metzler w ill coordinate the distribution of food relief to pre vent disruption of agricultural economies in receiving countries. Cottage Grove Welding Works number of deaths attributable to motor vehicles since 1950." In terms of miles driven and in view of the tremendous increase o f number of cars on the road, there has been a heartening down ward trend in death rate," M r. Thomas said, but what the AA A is really strivin g fo r is a reduct ion in the actual number o f men, women and children killed or in jured each year. To know the laws o f Ood In nature and revelation, and then to fashion the affections and w ill into harmony w ith those, laws - this is education. Sylvester Scovel It's Time for a Change! Elect Olga Freeman Democrat County Treasurer and effect a change after 30 years! Competent Courteous Cooperative Pd. Adv. Olga Freeman, 1431 E 22d, Eugene. i0 - 2 tp - ll Ztwz Can't Beat The Natural Way ta Health When you need Health make sure you get the real thing—Natural Health through Chiropractic. No palliative treatment can build Health so, effectively, so readily, as Chiropractic. Instead ol masking symptoms . . the Chirçpractlc way-to health is tojdeteet and correct the cause oi disease. When the cause is corrected health is the natural result because M is natural to be well. 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In lame coun ty, the count is 33,562 for the re publicans, to 32,165 fo r the demo crats. - -- let th e "automatic m aid do your dishes! ' / * • “ The state law now allows communities to discard the unrealistic tax ba.se for a new workable, modern tax base built on new imputation figures an<Tpresent dollar values. ___ ______■ ._____ ,___ __________ _____ Adoption of the new base will eliminate th<* need of future budget elections in the foreseeable future. The City Council of Cottage Grove after a great deal of discussion and stud^ recommend a new tax has«" of $110,000.00. The adoption of a new tax base of $110,000.00 does not mean that the cost of operating Cottage Grove will be any greater than is absolutely necessary to pay current operating expenses. Failure to pass this measure would make it im perative to call a costly special eks-tion each year for voter approval and this election adds to the operating costs of the City. — T he'M ayor and City Council urge adoption of the new $110,000.00 tax base to eliAiinate unneci-ssari expense by bringing operating costs. (Signed) KK HAKI) TIIWING, Councilman Z. A. COOP, Councilman KOBFKT MII.IA, Councilman GILKKKT G AKIIN FK, Councilman JESS HILE, Councilman On Television Friday Station KVAL-TV at 6:15 P.M. Join your fam ily-or your guests - in the living room. While you relax, all your dishes, glasses, silver, pots and pans come sparkling clean automatically with an electric dishwasherl All of sudden, doing dishes is actually fun! No more long hours of dull work, no more red, water-soaked hands! This perfect companion to the dishwasher belongs in your kitchen, too! The automatic electric garbage disposer does away with most disposal problems, helps keep your kitchen neat and clean. 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