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The Cottage Grove Sentinel Letter From Washington THE GLORIOUS FOURTH OF JTTÎ yon ties voting for i tne battle < n«k-d ■e inci'ided in the I amounts larger amendments ’me a: this letter appears in print I w ill be »regor. I hope to be able to spend all nak bu I I m on the House for that week NATIONAL l.ke of «Mih they had never laid eyes a or. before a Douglas Fir log €9 inches in diame’er and 22 fe»t long It was brought here right from the hassle Oregon forest on a big k»»eirg truck Two young m«*n. driver Gerry Rucser and co-r«lot Wayne Mc Call, have dnven the giant rig w ith its giant log aboard a« row the coot nint Tliey are repre»vn’ing lowever tha the Oregon State Jun. Chamber of Commerce and nvc Nx! were head ng for the J C NatkmaJ Convention at did noi Atlanta Georgia, where the truck and !og will be the official state floa EDITORIAL * z FUBIISHEBS iusraiNfMC alani association Weekly Newspaper Representatives, Inc Ed Henry Family Moves to Wyoming long ago a man dr a rented low- One mor priced car pulled into a gaa station in a town in Texas The drivdg leaned out the window and began with the attendant. Seems hke a nice town heie. How do vou like it?" he asked. “I like it fine." said the attendant. In a few minutes the stranger drove off. The station attendant never knew it ! that could have been a million- dollar conversation. In jus this way industry representatives for a new plant. “size up ' p This gi es on in hundreds of towns in the United States every’ month. Of course those inspectors look at other factors such as the availability of raw materials, markets, rail and truck services, labor supply water and power, tax rates, and suit able tracts of land. But the most important factors—the human side—don't show up in statistics and charts. Industrial management nowadays puts a lot of stock in whether a town is a good place for their executives, tech- niciaE« and employees to live. They find this has a direct bearang on production. So many companies send “site sleuths" out striking up seemingly casual conversations. ■ king around quietly. A tow’n never knows when it is being looked over for many reasons. For one thing, the plant doesn t want the town to get up its hopes and be let down From this information, furnished by Town Journal, it seems that every small town in the market for new payrolls should do its best to improve its facilities for good living. Plant executives like: m<xiem schools, well-kept lawns, at tractive stores with well-stocked shelves, plenty of rental property, adequate hotels, a good newspaper, well-supported major church denominations, and—a new requirement these days—an area of good TV reception. They also like a town with a planning board, land zoned for industry or a local in dustrial committee to serve them in locating easily. (The Gilmer (Tex.) Mirror). Yon can never overcome the universal material revolu tion by conceding to it materially, you can only overcome it by st res ing the moral, intellectual, and spiritual side of your existence.—Dr. Charles Malik. Poise is that state of consciousness which is at rest and jieacoful when no one praises, and undisturbed when cen sured, opposed, or misunderstood. Clarence H Howard. Coffee prices have gone down some more, but you may never see a five cent cup of coffee any more. That is gen- eially speaking. You can get an umbrella for the front of your auto so you won t have to keep the wipers going at a drive-in theater. Great men are They who see that spiritual is stronger than any matenal force; that thoughts rule the world.— Ralph Waldo Emerson. Wisdom consists, not in stumbling on truth by chance but in marking, learning, and inwardly digesting it. I-a R<x:hefoucauld. Innocence is its own defense.—Benjamin Franklin YDUR MERCHANT MARINE Ours is an economic system .nder which practical!' all the p xh five iacilities of the na tion are owned directly by the people themselves The people al rx not their government nor tlx sr pol it icans determine wr it wages shall be paid for what services and without government- al coercion they decide how much <p a! shall be’ invested, in what »mpeting enterprises, at what po respective profit. Fx .do liberals with their ci-ak of respectability. may do more to further the Communist ca .se in America than the Com- themselves People who ar. otherwise respectable and gent pt isons. per- ki w ngly aid the Commu nists in many ways. J Edgar Hoover. Nature hath appointed the twilight as a bridge, to pass us out of night into day. George Fuller Coon and I attended ’he ceremonies conducted at ’he h e . «g' when Driver Rucker, who is a national director of «he J C’s : 'vsented J C aw ards for out- of standir.g public sen.ee to District of Columb.a and Federa. g-vernment officials Site Sleuths Like a Living Town An envelope marked "Secretary: Plea.se Pla at for Im mediate Action" gives us a bit of cause for suspicion of the contents. We don't have a secretary; we don't have an in coming mail basket marked “immediate action"; and mail marked on the outside “emergency”, "of utmost im|>ort- ance etc. so frequently turns out to be just a bunch of junk inside. OVR Î792* BIRTH©AV OCR SYSTEM Ekelunds Attend Funeral Service Hv Mr* Harry < a»He Phon«- 9»»MS SBY CREEK Mr and Mr Pete Ekelund and three children went to Vancouvei Saturday and attended th«' funeial of Mi> Mary Walisch. grandmother of Mrs Ekelund They went on to Clats- kanie and visited Mr and John Walisch. parents of Mrs Ekelund. Hardtop Wins laxal Hani Top No. 50 of Cot tage Grove, belonging to Carl Hoff and Berta! Petit of Mosby Creek. did well ac.nn Sunday at Eugene Speedway. It took first place in A main event, most important race of the day It was driven by Mr and Mrs Everett Wright of Reedsport were Sunday visi- tors of Mr and Mrs Oiren Ijind. ( oiisln in.•» M i Floyd Jones i Sunday that her o isin Ediths husband. Harry Michael, of Dex ter had passed away Mrs Michael was th«- form« r Edith Brumbaugh Callers th veek at the home of Mr. and Mis Sam Rus- sum and Mr and Mrs Ed I >av is were Mrs. Dorothy D kstra and childrcn and M' B A. Bivin» and family of Sacramento, Calif Doris Black and Vivinene Camp. tM»H of Eugene spent Sunday with Mrs Ardetla Black By Mrs Roy L. tttoae Phone 1IUR5 DELIGHT VALLEY Mr. and Mrs. Ed Henry and children have moved to Torrington. Wyo . w hen? Henry has accepted a pastorate at the Church of Christ. Mr and Mrs Ray Derby have moved into the Jarr. r Hemenway apartment. Mr and Mi's. James yemenway, Ruth and pavid spent several days last week vacationing in eastern Oregon. Linda Schilling returned home on Friday from Corvallis, where she had attended 4-H summer school for ten days Mr and Mrs. Russell Dutton have moved into the former Rich ard Moody home on Horn Lane. Mr md Mrs. Izigsdon and baby now reside in the house just va- cated by the Duttons M -s LaVelle Schilling :s home for the summer from OSC at Cor vallis and is employed by Robbins Accounting. Dcl^yne Hollis, who has iiecn attending OTI at Klamath Falls, ¡s working at a sawmill at Oak- ridge during the summer. High school students who arc working during the summer Bill Olson Jr . who works at Bo- hernia Lumber Company at Culp Creek and Bob Way. who is cm- ployed on the William Schilling ranch. The annua) school election was held on Monday and the following directors elected to the school board Mrs William Olson. M h Roy Stone Weston Cameron and Kenneth Zumwalt. R. P. years, and ijinv Augenstein is also a direct or R. C. Oster was elected to the three years Mrs. Jim Fox gave a birthday Rural School Board from Zone dinner Thursday evening honoring 1. The measur« to approve excecd- he: mother Mrs Ethel Clark, of ng the 6G tax limitation passed. hove Another daughter Car Demolished Bill Olson Jr. had ’he misfor Mrs Jam •» Grisham, and daughter Mai pe also i of Grove tune of an auto accident enroute to work at Culp Creek on Friday were at the dinner. Mr and Mrs Jay Winklemar afternoon His car collided with a truck. He wa.» unhurt hut the of Florence spent Sunday at the auto was completely demolished. horn»- of hi» parents Mr and Mr- M md M - . • ; Myers and A. C. Winkleman. of Walden. Kandy, accompanied by R a y Friends ol Mrs. Robert I.and- Myers left on Saturday for a two wher were shocked to hear of her weeks vacation in Canada death Sunday. June 19. at As Mrs Earl Peterson and children toria Her funeral was Wednesday have been attending Bible school at Astoria. She is survived b' her in Eugene. widower and four children. Mr and Mrs Jimmy Kinkcad have moved into »the home they purchased at Roswell. N M Kin- Eugene Dist. BLM kead will again teach at the Mexico Military Institute this Sells 5 Timber com'ng term Children who attended Daily ___ .. Tracts Recently Vacation Bible school were Ruth The Eugene Forest District of and David Hemenway. Sue. Jo je the Bureau of I-a nd Management and David Henry Sherry Robin Jimmy ■old five tracts of salvage timber son. Clifford. Teddy and Janet and at a special weekly sale recently McKillop. Gwcncth containing a volume of 1 339.<M»> board feet, principally Douglas- fir. for a total purchase price of The successful bidders were inson Lumber Co. one tract I co aining 237.OIJO board feet at , S » per thousand for Douglas. I Hi Forvia Lumbcr Co one tract aining 201.000 board feet at » per thousand for Douglas- fir; Forcia Lumber Co one tract containing 524.000 board feet at thousand for Douglas- Ralph Johnson Lumber Co ■itockdale ract containing 157.0110 board ess for the Get-together club • ' ; ; • per thousand for Thursday. The next mcetin Doudas-Fir: Ralph Johnson Lum be at Walden Community hall ber Co. one tract containing 219.- and Mrs Eljin Crane will be host- "») hold feet at $4625 per thou sand for Douglas-fir This repre Nona Cline of I ikndgr »pent sents an increase of 139G above from Wednesday tc «»turril w ith appraised pnce of $24 4 .30. her grandparents Mr and The next re monthly .ale Arnold fXierst w ill he held July 1 1 1955. in Room Mr. rs. Cliff and 12 New Post Office Budding. 520 d family i Albany Wcdn< day Willamette Street. Eugene Ore «on. De» 1 n He gon. in the 1 ther with injurie A» a result of Monday's Rural to hi» back ar he receive« School election at Blue Mountain a truck backed into him for three new directors, C. L and pinned him Aliev stayed to Itavid««5n wa» elected for a three- visit a w«-«'k with her brother and year term Jim Fox for a four- wife. Mr and Mrs I lean D'bow year term and Cliff -reen for a Birthd.iv I’.trtv ar term The budget wa Mrs Raymond Powers I wa» elected as son. Jerry 12. and d ;hter a director of the Rural School birthda Brenda, two, a Bfwird from zon«' 4 Friday at their horn« I Mtn Friends of Mrs Robert Land- Park About 40 gi ed the nr xk.d to hear of her aftern«K>n in gam ftexhments wire in the the former Lucy L.ineha igh and evening to th« group w •< born «and reared on Mosby Tre«.»« Tullet of Eugene «pent Creek Her funeral was Wednes- the weekend at the home "f Mr d. 50 a m in As- and Mr* I.r Dugan of Walden Her and four chil- Wallace Mllei Mr a son torr Sun have a new I establish- hospital He has been named Wal ed not long ’r the Corps wa lace Edward and weighed eight xm earned a rep' pounds. 13 ounces This is th« tation for being th«' best band in first grandson for th«' Bob Seidel the vicinity of Washington A- and I’< arkin.» \ •tiller familic« Mr and Mi» Arvet Herrin.; and cd at a White House reception l, Tex visited four and later in th«» same year at of- ne of M< and Mrs ftrial parties given at h days at th> tn Washington Ray nxitd ! At the ue Mt Thi Cliff Gn Jim Fox f •e weather art th«' rr »t productive In k«-ep them that >ntlng forest fires James posed to the sun's heat. Tms con Jimmy Augenstein dition partially exhausts a bat Hemenway taught a class Mary. Karen Charles and Don tery before it is taken "off the nie Seablom attended the Luth shelf." The predictor will help before eran Bible School where Mrs evaluate such batteries John SJablom taught one class. they are issued for use. Lorna Jean Hansen ci Walden and The new instruments, manufac Donna M ils of Drain stayed at tured by the Hickok Electrical the Seablom home while they at Manufacturing company Cleve tended Bible school land. Ohio were patterned after The Methodist Bible School was experimental m'dfLs built by the attended y Judy and Larry Nor Signal Corps. They are undergo ris. Clay and Mike Zumwalt. Kar ing extensive field trials to obtain en. Jimmy and Paul Hendricx.- more detailed "norm data for all Danny Daniels of Central Val types of batteries. ley. Calif., spen' several days visit ing at the home of hi* uncle. Roy Stone. t Trouble is only oppqgtunit Edwyn Johnsen of Chicago. Ill.. , work clothe*. —Henry J. Kaiser Many do with opportunities as was a recent visitor at the home of his brother-in-law. William children do at the seashore; they fill their little hand» with sand at thc Rice and then let the grains fail Weekend one. til! ail are Hays home were Mr and Mrs through, one by Thomas R. Jones Frank Treadwell. France- Ann gone Carol Jean, Ixanna and Mary and Jane Hays of Suthc Chester Hays of Eugene ased Cla ide Davidson was from the local hospital - day and is convalescing and flipped on hl« indio to get the morning new«. How's your radio w o r k I n g? Ed's w ill put in in top shape ipiiekly and a< curately. "TTS 1117 E. MAIN 59OR joty New Army Device Measures Life Left In Dry-Cell Battery of the worst handicaps of a com mand’ r in combat radio com munication breakdown because of battery failure will be limimtcd by a new instrument devised by V S. Army Signa! Corp» Engm- The device measures tlie amount oF hfe left in a dry-cell battery. Previously, testing dev ices meas ured the condition of a battery at the moment of testing, but gave no indication of the amount of use left in the battery, whether that be five minutes or five hours. With the new instrument, com munications men will he able to determine when new batteries will be req: med A dial, calibrated m percentage figures, does the trick A new battery, fresh off the as sembly line, shows a readin” of 109 percent. Later testings show a percentage which represents the remaining life of the battery Battery hfe is affected by other factors than normal use. 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