Thursday, June 29, 1933
TIMES, WILLAMINA. OREGON
Page 2
OREGON STATE NEWS
ITEMS JJNNTEREST
Brief Resume of
Happenings
ef the Week Collected for
0 « r Readers
W ith the co-operation of County
▲gent R. O. Larson, a number of
Malheur county farmers are grow
ing flax on an experimental scale.
Trials on the A. V. Fee and R. C.
McCallum farms show fine stands
with promise of a good crop when in
spected recently. Two new trials have
been started on the farms of John
Reece of Nyssa and B. G. Roberta of
Big Bend.
John Marple. Cutler City, caught
a 16-inch blueback salmon on the
fly recently. While fishing in Silets
PORTLAND
bay he noted two gulls ftghting over
■^’heat — Big Bend bluestem, hard the fish, one of them finally break
wheat. 67c; soft white and west ing away with the fish in its beak.
ern white, 68c; hard winter, The gull flew directly over Marple's
northern spring and western red, boat and the fish was too heavy for
it to make clearance. Marple reached
67c.
Hay — Buying prices, f. o. b. Port up and caught the fish by the tail,
giving the bird the air.
land; Alfalfa, Yakima. >16.00.
Butterfat— 22 & 23c.
The recent low tides brought out
Eggs— Ranch. 17 @ 18c.
the clam diggers, as many as 4000
Cattle— Steers, good, >5.00 0 6.00.
people having been on the North Ya
Hogs — Good to choice, >4.85 @
chats beach at one time. Clams are
6.15.
plentiful and laqge. Ocean fishing
Lambs — Good to choice. >5.00 @
is good and lim it catches of trout in
5.50.
the streams are daily reported. A
Seattle
number of whales have been seen
^Vbeat — Soft white and western lying close in to feed off the smelt
white, 58c; hard winter, western run.
red and northern spring, 66c;
Buddie, the groundhog which was
bluestem. 56c.
raised to five weeks old by Tiger,
Butterfat, 20c.
the cat belonging to Mrs. William
Eggs— Ranch, 18 @ 19c.
Hogs— Good to choice, >4.80 @ 5.00. Newton at Powell Butte, was acci
Cattle— Choice steers, >5.00 0 6.00 dentally killed by a wagon box fall
gheep— Spring lambs, >5.00 0 5.75. ing on him. Buddie had grown to
the age where he would play with
Spokane
the kittens in a very awkward way.
Cattle— Steers, good, >6.00 & 6.35. The baby groundhog was adopted by
Hogs— Good to choice, >4.75 @ 4.85. the cat when it was two days old.
Lambs— Medium to good. >5.00 @
Canning equipment has been in
6.50.
stalled at the county farm by The
Dalles chapter of the Red Cross, and
John C. Brickley of Sherwood died it is planned to can all surplus fruits
at his home on June 8, leaving 10 and vegetables for use by the unem
living brothers and sisters whose ployed next winter. A large quantity
ages total »09 years. The oldest is of food was preserved in this man
92 and the youngest 67, papers filed ner last year and materially reduced
unemployment budgets during the
In probate court revealed.
winter.
The Hubbard Fruit Growers asso
ciation has opened its berry house to
Another 1000 tomato plants, part
receive strawberries. The berries have of the hundreds of thousands bving
been sold to the Starr Packing com experimented with to determine the
pany of Portland and Salem. The best variety by the new cannery re
strawberry crop is sh ort
cently established at Brookings, Just
south of Gold Beach, have been set
Wayne Gulley of Creswell was kill out on the Gilmore ranch, in the
ed at the Frank Bybee ranch, near Bear creek district of the Chetco
Jacksonville, when a team of horses
he was driving in the hay field ran river valley.
away, pinning him under the wagon
Wasco county pea growers have
and crushing his chest.
been receiving >2.50 per hundred
Plans for a drive to save the radio pounds in the Portland market. Out
compass stations at Klipsan Beach of this they pay 75 cents for pick
and Fort Stevens are being made by ing and 35 cents for transportation
the Astoria Chamber of Commerce. to Portland. This leaves the grower
The stations have been ordered dis a net return of >1.40, which, they
say, fails to cover cost of production.
continued June 2 4.
THE MARKETS
The directors have approved the
dates of September 14, 15, and 16,
for the annual Pendleton Round-up
and are now making plans for the
event. Some financial matters must
be Ironed out y e t
The Klamath Falls Chamber of
Commerce has asked all local firms
and industries to employ only authen
tic residents of the city and also
that former employes be given pref
erence.
After being in the water since
March 28, the body of George E.
Wood, secretary of the Eugene lodge
of Elks, has been found in the Wil
lamette river a few miles below Eu
gene.
Then, Now on
Fourth of July
The state highway commission can
not expect Lane county to pay >10,-
000 as its share on the Cheshire
highway until after a new budget
is made, according to an opinion giv
en the county court by the county
attorney. No provision was made for
the payment in this year s budget
The date for the annual shrine pic
nic for southwestern Oregon has
been changed from August 13 to Au
gust 20 to accommodate members of
A1 Kader temple of Portland and
Hillah temple of Ashland, it was
announced by Charles Q. Vau Duyn
of the Marshfield Shrine club.
Plans to strengthen the Columbia
River Fishermen's Protective union,
which led the recent strike, are be
A united effort will be made by ing considered. Boatpullprs and can
Southern Oregon communities on the nery workers are to be admitted to
Pacific highway to secure the im the union in order to solidify all
provement of the Siskiyou section labor elements connected with the
out of federal funds that are to be fishing industry.
made available for Oregon highways.
From all section of the Lower
Plans to oil the Roseburg-Dixon Umpqua region come reports of seri
ville section of the North Cmpqua ous damage being done by hordes of
highway are being considered by the wild pigeons. While the pigeon Is
Douglas county couril^lt is also plan protected, permission can be obtain
ned to straighten^ and widen this ed from the state department to kill
section of the highway.
them when It la shown they have be
Only two candidates have filed for come a pest.
school director at Roseburg to fill
On and after September 1 a fee of
two vacancies on the board. The two >1 a year will be charged non-resi
are Horace Berg and W. F. Harris, dent patrons of the Astoria publio
who are up for re-election.
library. Heretofore residents of the
county have been permitted to en
Flood waters of the W illamette in
joy the privileges of the library free,
flicted >5000 damage upon farmers
although It Is maintained entirely by
and truck gardeners on Grand Is
land, according to estimates. Several the city.
acres of hay was destroyed.
Klamath county
has practically
gone on a cash basis. Current ex
The board of the First Christian
pense warrants amounting to >5800
tnurch of Salem has recommended
have been called in. The county road
to the congregation that no patron
fund Is the only one with outstand
age be given to business houses that
ing warrants, which amount to >2 5,-
sell 3.2 beer.
U00 »o* will be called in A ugust
The smallest strawberry crop in
A. H. /<oolsbey, a bee man of
40 years, due to the heavy rains and Haines, h « - been appointed chief
harsh winter, is reported at Hood
deputy bee inspector for Baker, Mal
River. No carload shipments will be heur, Union and Wallowa counties
made.
The appointment was made under the
The big Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. terms of the bee inspection law en
m ill at Eugene will reopen shortly acted by the last legislature.
after Julv 1 after a shut-down of two
Relocation of the Pacific highway
years. The mill will employ about 125 between Junction City and Goshen
men.
to avoid flood conditions and elim
Redmond and Prineville will join inate a railroad crossing, besides
with Bend in a two days’ Fourth of shortening the distance, is the ob
July celebration at Bend. They will ject of a survey to bes madc by tha
also take part In the queen con test state highway department.
BSERVANCE of the first
Fourth of July can in no
way be compared with the
x x g present fashion of celebrat-
s J l l n f ing the day. Fireworks,
recreation and a day of rest
1»x ' f o r some, now go to mark
I_____the anniversary of the adop
tion or the Declaration of Independ
ence. A casual glance back through
the pages of history, however, IS
enough to convince anybody that few
days have been filled with so many
other events of world-sweeping char
acter and importance.
Long before the Depuration was
adopted. July 4 was a marked day.
and it has been ever since. To pick
only a few of the events that have oc
curred on this day:
John Adams died, aged ninety, 1826.
Thomas Jefferson died, aged eighty-
three, 1826.
James Monroe died, aged seventy-
three, 1831.
Calvin Coolidge born, 1872.
Nathaniel Hawthorne born, 1804.
Giuseppe Garibaldi born, 1826.
Stephen Foster (author of “My Old
KAitucky Home”) born, 1826.
Surrender of Vicksburg, 1863.
Cornerstone of Washington monu
ment laid, 1848.
Providence, R. L, founded by Roger
Williams, 1636.
Work on Erie canal begun. 1817.
The first Fourth of July that re
ceives historic mention after the adop
tion of the Declaration of Independ
ence was only two years later. On
that day the Tory John Butler, with
a party of loyalists and Indians, raid
ed the beautiful Wyoming valley In
Pennsylvania while moat of the men
How Key Wrote
Immortal Song
RANCIS SCOTT KEY, a
resident
of Georgetown.
D. C-, wrote “The Star
Spangled Banner1 while he
was detained on board a
British ship during the
bombardment of Fort Mc-
/'4'zV' ' Henry.
With a friend he visited the British
commander shortly before the attack
began to plead for the release of an
influential Washington physician who
had been taken prisoner. The Brit
ish commander agreed to release the
physician, but declined to let him or
were absent on duty with the army.
The women nnd children, the old per
sons and the sick ones, hnd tnken
refuge in the wooden fort, but under
promise of protection they surrendered
nnd were butchered. The mnsnncre,
one of the most brutal recorded any-
Nation
Sscure in the Loyalty
“Young America."
of
where, forms the basis of Campbell's
“Gertrude of Wyoming.”
On the Fourth of July, 1863, Vicks
burg, after a siege of three months,
surrendered to General Grant, and the
Fourth of July the following year was
celebrated by General Butler by a 12
hours' cannonading of Pettersburg. at
a cost of a vast amount of money. No
his pleaders leave the fleet at that
time, as the bombardment was about
to begin.
The Americans were placed on a
ship beyond danger anil, though
treated courteously, were held there
during the attack. Thus from the
deck of the British ship the three
Americans watched the bombard
ment of Fort McHenry.
The firing censed before dawn, and
the anxious prisoners did not kuow
whether the fort had surrendered or
not But the morning light revealed
the star-spangled banner still afloat
above the fort; It had successfully
withstood the bombardment. And
Key, while watching anxiously, was
moved to write his famous ode.
It was because he was writing It
at the very moment when the event
it celebrated was being enacted that
lives were lost and no pro|>erty de
stroyed.
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Going back still further Into the
history of this country. It was on July
4. 1584. that two barks which hnd
been sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to
discover and annex the American con
tinent north of Florida arrived off the
coast They landed on Roanoke Is
land, afterwnrd occupied by the first
English settlement in the New World.
On the Fourth of July. 1754. Col.
George Washington surrendered an
army. It was only a small army, but
a fort went with ,L In this he ex
perienced his first defeat in war, at
the hands of the French Although
only twenty-two. he had been placed
In Command of a body of troops which
was marching toward Fort Duquesne.
Forty miles from his destination he
heard of the approach of a party of
French and Indians sent to Intercept
him. and he fell back nnd erected a
stockade which he called Fort Neces
sity.
A few days later Fort Necessity
was attacked by 1,500 Indians and
French, nnd Washington surrendered
on honorable terms. This was on the
morning of July 4. He marched out
with his little army of 400 mpn. drums
beating and flags flying, nnd he end
his soldiers returned peaceably to their
homes.
On the same day Benjamin Franklin
laid before the commissioners of the
colonies at Albany a plan for a fed
eral constitution, aimed to accomplish
a union for defense against French en
croachment It was adopted but later
was rejected by some of the colonies
and by the British government This
was Just 22 yenrs before the adop
tion of the Declaration of Independ
ence. Oddly enough, the document was
rejected by the colonies because It put
too much power In the hands of the
king, nnd It was vetoed In England
because It put too much power In the
assemblies of the colonies.
made It so vividly realistic.
•‘The
rockets' red glare, bombs bursting in
air," were before his eyes as he
wrote, giving ample proof “that our
flng was still there,” proof which “the
dawn’s early light” confirmed.
D e c la ra tio n W as Signed
by Congressmen Present
HE Declaration of independence
was adopted by the continental
congress on July 4, 1776. On August
2. 1776, the Declaration of Independ
ence was signed by all members of
congress present on that day. and
thereafter by other members as they
arrived at various times until early
in 1777. Some who voted for the reso
lution of Independence and the sup
port of the declaration did uot sign
it
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