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
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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.
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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
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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
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Democrats Edge Up
The democratic voters, both
lin e state' Ahn the ith.congression-
al district, are edging up on the
republicans. A count at the close
of the registration deadline. Octo-
Iter 2, reveals that out of 819,703
votes in the state, the republicans'
lead by 2,490 votes. In the 4th
congressional d istrict, republicans
have a total of 96.391 to 94,284
fo r the democrats. In lame coun
ty, the count is 33,562 for the re
publicans, to 32,165 fo r the demo
crats.
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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.
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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.
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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
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