The Willamina times., February 21, 1930, Image 1

Willamina—Where opportunity await men and capital for lucrative activity
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WILLAMINA. YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. FEB. 21 1930
VOLUME 23. NO. 27
$1.50 A YEAR
NEW ROAD PROGRAM WILL WIDEN
AND STRAIGHTEN MAIN HIGHWAYS
A new logging operation has
been started near Willamina
this week. A company in Port­
land has purchased the alder
timber on the Brown place in the
upper Willamina and has started
Great Heavy Carrying Highways in Present Condition, Not
Thousands of Visitors Will Soon Be With Us to Enjoy Rich to log it out ,
Capable of Caring for Load Now Placed Upon Them
Scienery in Our Norwest—Organizations Over Ore­
E. H. Willis has charge of the
work.
White
and
Mendenhall
By Demands of Present Immense Traffic
gon Urge Co-Operation in General Clean-up
will do the logging. The logs
Warm, balmy weather, burst­ dition. In other words, clean- w*11 be dumped into the river,1 Whoever drives over our great er cut-off will be permanently op­
____ and floated to the McMillan mil! main highways today as one unit ened. This short piece of road
ing buds, singing birds and many up time is here. Let’s make
our
oceanside,
highway
routes.
H’te in Willamina, where thev in a steady stream of thousands looks like a very small factor at
other demonstrations of Mother
mounnain
valleys,
countryside
then will be haded onto cars for of panting, darting cars, some the present time, but those who
Nature, give us assurance that
slowly driven, otheas traveling are studying the situation, know
spring is here. With the arri­ and village greens spic and span shipment to Portland.
Wnile running the loading with the speed of the wind, and that the time will come in the
val of this new season of the and in readiness for the coming
year, there is impressed upon visitors. Every man, woman donkey at Red Wagner’s camp watches and experiences the J not too far distant future, when
Ronde, Bernie skidding, twisting, dodging ve- this will become one o'the great-
our minds the fact that now, and child a unit in this task will near Grand
livening experiences must take bring wonderful resulns.
Churchman recieved a painful hides, jostling one another to- i est connecting roadways in the
hold upon us that we mav be in
¡injury to his knee which will gether in the streets and high- entire United States. It will be
harmony with those activities
doubtless lay him up for a month ways, can come to but one con- the great connecting link be-
or more. A spring on the don- clusion and that is this: The tween the Pacific ocean and the
of nature which are being enact­
struck Mr. highways which we have builded j rest of the country east, north
ed all ar round us in tree leaf,
Churchman.
with the millions of dollars tha and south. Connected with the
grass blade and opening flower
are
gathered in year bv year, are , valley highway running into
bud.
A paragraph of a story on cou-1 TTNDIKH fUTIfTMC DC already out ot date. Thev are Portland, it will be called upon
With the breaking of spring, gar, or mountain lion, which ap- 1 DlWUDll LUXlYEnd DC'
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not sufficient or efficient to to handle an immense volume of
comes the arousing of man and peered recently in The Nature
handle the traffic of the mar- traffic, and it will certainly then
an infilling of a deep-born desire Magazine and found its way in­
velous speed machines that are be very inadequate for the task
to pick up and move go some­ to the Literary Digest as a re­
Among Willaminas industries, now being manufactured and built as it now is constructed,
where— eo that we may witt- print, has somewhat aroused
the
Tenbush poultry farm stanos driven in America.
The same is true of the highway
nens changes and find ourselves Harold Clifiord. state game war­
The
roadways
are
too
narrow,
running on into Portland. It is
out
preeminently.
Not
only
is
in strange places where we may den. who I’ke others who are in­
this
a
local
institution,
but
one
the
pavements
too
light
and
certain
that it will have to be
be thrilled with the atmosphere terested in the preservation of
of diversities. Spring means, dter and other game have no that is known far and wide over where pavement has not yet re- straightened and widened to at
the country.
placed the crushed rock surfaced least double its present width,
certainly, that there is soon to love for the “big cats.”
Henry
Tenbush,
the
proprietor,
highways, they are almost im- A movement is now under way
be a revival of the travel spirit.
The United States Government makes a business o f custom possible. This one overmaster- to bring about this very widen­
In a very short time, Oregon does not consider mountain lions
will entertain tens of thousands as game, but merely as crea­ hatching and of hatching and ing conclusion forces itself upon ing and straightening, and it is
dav old chicks ftom us and before our vision there now coming into popularity,
of traveling
visitors. Many tures so contemptible that pro- I marketing
qaulity leghorn hens, but arises a future picture of what Meetings are being held to dis-
thousands were here last year,
ft-ssional hunters are hired at, the work in which he prides nim- the highways must sooner ori cuss its possibilities and doubt-
and every indication points to
tive dollars a dav to do awav self the most is the development later become if the teriffic strain less the project will be pressed
the very probaole fact there will with them, ’ reads the paragraph an(j breeding of his famous Jersey now placed upon them is to beji as time
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goes on until it will come
be many thousands more here 1 in question.
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j be government White Giant and Jersey Black borne.
into full relization.
this year than ever before.
uses tax money for this purpose, Qjant hens. He has a fine type We are in a time of all but un
People of the East who have '^ut the Government through the of these splendid chickens, and believable facts of what is now riniu nriTn CI 1IUP
mians — and there are thousands department of agriculture, does year bv year he brings them to being accomplished in the travel LAlkLI DLA I H LLAliflj
of them to take to the road for not actually send men to kill the eve- higher standards. Besides field. It is nothing at all for a
an extended trip overland to beetles on my fruit trees. It on- these, he raises a number of oth- man to step into a high powered,
and storied lands of the I'Y
| ly tell« me how
I
kill
strange
snd
Kill them.
tnem.
great
nortwest,
will soon be busy , As leu«
I climbed now
the i may
mountain
(this
of fowls—Bronze comfortable machine and drive a
Miss Mary Doran was born in
getting ready for the journey 1 after witnessing the slaying of a “r
ou louse geese, Buff hundred miles to take baeakfast
and anxious to be on their way. I hilt cougar) I wondered whether rplnKton ducks and pigeons.
with his family. We often won- Rockvale Colo., on Sept. 18, 1913
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Scores of thousands will visit । the American poeple were giving ne88 |ocai]y> 8e||ing hi8 We||. t he limit of speed in travel upon m. on Feb. 14. at the McMinn.
our
land who .. have never
been
deal to their only native Known
known poultry
nnnitrv all
Un through k this Lu
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• the
*u machines
u-
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the earth
that
here before. . Many
.
j driven.
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section fm™
rrom u/.n.
Willamina - * to .u
the are now . being
But . even 11 months she moved with her par-
be entranced, thrilled, captivated
According to Mr. Clifford the coast, and he also has a very with these machines that we > ents to Grand Ronde. Oregon,
and firmly ensnared wihh Ore- only deal the cougar is entitled considerable foreign trade, that now have, our highways are not where she resided until her
gon’s glorious wonders, and thev to is in the shape of a bullet.
is, he ships large numbers of-capable of carrying the load that death.
will not have the power to break
“Only the most fanatical na-1 ____
She became a member of the
that enchantment, but willl be ture lover would waste sympathy
Christian church in 1924 and she
wooed into deciding to make ourjUoon a cougar, says Mr. Clif- ani
also was an active member of the
land their future home.
ford. “This predatory animal is a
Epworth League for a number of
A great responsibility rests up- more destructive of deer than Jg
years preceeding her death. She
on ever) citizen in our va-t and the most vicious elements of na- ug
was of a very lovable nature and
gloiious domain where the handi- ture and the combined game law
। was a friend of everybody. She
work of nature has been so lav- j violators. He lays in wait in
will be greatly nrssed in her
ishly bestowed. Everything is the favorite haunts of deer and
1 large circle of friends.
indiscribably beautiful
trom kills them at the rate of one a
She is survived by her parents,
god’s standpoint, but man in his week. Once having made his
Mr.
and Mrs. Owen Doran, one
attempt to ad his bit to make. kill he devours the vitals of the Hfg
sister Irene, four brothers Owen,
things more attractive, oftimes (animal and leaves the quarters
John, Albert, and Chauncey, her
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When hunger .
miserably fails, and his efforts
to * other
animals.
grand parents, many other re­
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all to often mar the beautiful returns he goes forth and kills \
latives and a host of friends.
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face of nature and turn a spot of another deer.
Funeral services were held
The Pou in y house
"Our game department is
lovliness into a splotch of ugli’
¡from the Methodist church in
ness.
milking a derermined effort to
Grand Ronde Sunday afternoon
Carelesness is one of Nature’s rid the Oregon woods of cougar.
at 1:00 o’clock. Rev. Withnell
iis placed upon them.
greatest enemies. A tin can, We desire encouragement and chicks to other states.
officiating. The remains were
We vision the time when it
very useful in its place, becomes cooperation rather than sym­ The Tenbush ranch is located
laid to rest in McMinnville ceme­
in
the
rich
valley
of
the
Upper
will
tie strictly out of question tery.
a deadly weapon to mar natural
heauty, as soon as it is tossed by pathy. Out of our game pro­ Willamina and is reached by the for our road builders to make a
The entire community extends
the wayside by an unthinking tection fund which is obtained highway running up the river) turn in the road in order to pass j sympathy to the bereaved family.
culprit. And when a lot of this entirely from the sale of licenses from Willamina across the bridge around somebody’s farm. The
sort of rubbish is scattered along we offering cash prizes totaling from the brick plant—about two highways will be straightened
Card of Thanks
our highways, spread over vac­ $500 to the men who bag the miles from Willamina. The farm until they will run like a plumb-
has
modern
buildings
and
equip
­
ant lots or piled up in places most cougars in the year which
We wish to express our heart­
ment. There are incubators and line over the earth. They must
where we may think it will not
felt
thanks for the sympathy and
be built much wider than what
be seen, the sight becomes a ends with June. Our problem is other facilities for hatching thou­
kindness
extended to us during
to conserve and protect deer and sands of baby chicks atone time. they now are, and every possible
most disgusting one.
the
sickness
and death of our be­
Mr. Tenbnsh expects to do a
It is time for us to resolve this may in a great measure be large business this season, and grade must be taken out of the loved daughter. Also for the
that we are going to do our part solved by killing every cougar now has his incubators in opera­ way.
beautiful floral offerings.
as individuals to change thiscon- that infests the mountains,”
In a little time, the Salmon riv-
tion.
Owen Doran and Family.
SPRINGTIME AND CLEAN-UP TIME AKE
NOW KNOCKING AT OUR DOORS
COUGAR ARE MOST DE-
STRUTTIVE ANIMALS
COMING POPULAR
MARY DORAN
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