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SPLASH! 'Aid Into the Willamette from' the Spanieling Logging company dump
at Winona goes a carload of hemlock logs. These logs, destined to be made into
paper C the Oregon Pulp Paper company mill in Halem, were brought by rail from
I dahlia, loading station on the North Santiam rirer. ; '--Z- v
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CALKED BOOTS, pike poles and a neat sense of balance aid these watermen.
They form the logs dropped from the dnnip into loose raft for transportation dowm
river to the paper milL The Oregon Pulp A Paper Mill uses about three and a
quarter million feet of sach logs monthly in making palp.
POWERFTXi and hard working is the peper mill's tog Mohawk which brings
. the logs down from ITlnona. Some of the logs are' stored 1M the Willamette slongh.
Because the distances, they mast be. to wed are short, logs for the paper mill are
-merely tied together with. single cable running from log to 'log. For longer
tows raft mast be
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Chore Mothered This Invention
and steam pressor piled npxto b per cent. The temple's butlnc
Biped Into the pumper. - bill fell from f S67.. to 1120
By PAUL. F. EWLNG
PORTLAND. Ore.; July 20-(P) pIll
A city firefighter who hated to
stoke a store has. founded a new
industry off sawdust.
Sawmills ot the Pacific .north
west used to spend ; thousands of
When the fire bell clanged, a
hook jerked loose the pipe, a
snap . ralre close the boiler and
the pumper raced a Way to the
Are. . . .
Soon all fire stations In the city
month.
The square, chunky little Irish
man tired of the business.
He sold out and resumed his
career as a fireman.
Some SB burner manufacturers
dollars a year to get rid of saw- Md Hembree's , hurners. Fuel sprung up. In Seattle, Tacoma and
dust. Now, because that fireman costs ' dropped aImot to the ran- Portland after that. They placed
disliked hia nightly; chores, they vhlng int SawmIllg w lad bornere consuming 400,000 tona
are selling the dust for fueL tQ t rid of the dust. : ci sawdust annaallr ' In 80.000
The sawdust hurner is the rea- A few tenturesome firemen put. homes and busineases. Sawdust
son. J Kurtiwi . inin Hnmeo hnt water- heaters followed: more
Harry Hembree of the Portland that was the ultimate of Hem,
fire department, had hia big idea bree'a Idea for 15 years. Hembree,
shortly after 1900.1 To get out a pilot and engineer, turned to
of firing a horse-drawn steam steamboatlng on the Willamette
pumping fire engine! he turned to ; riTer ana- forgot sawdust burners.
invention. : Claude Tackabery. another fire
than S600 are now la use
The result for sawmills?
Where they formerly said to
dispose of sawdust, they now are
able to make a profit on It.
Burners are used principally in
With the aldl of ! an engineer, department engineer? took: up the the. Pacific, northwest but a few
he built a grate and a hopper and Idea, ImproTed the grate and got are scattered 7 tnrouga tne easi,
hooked the gadget; to the ata-. a patent in 1923. I He persuaded :south and mid-westNorth Caro
tion's basement boiler. I - f an apartment house manager to Una, . Virginia, r South uaaota,
Grateful firemen accustomed to ; test the burner, free.of charge. Maine and New Hampshire.
spending the night In endless 1 ; When fuel costs declined there. ; What about Claude TackaberyT
stoking shoreled sawdust Into ' other apartments followed suit. He heats hia home with oiu
the hopper only once or twice a The Portland Labor , temple r or-, ."Now - there's a nice fuel, ne
shift.4 It fed down to the grate,- dered a-burner with the proTiso ;aays. rNo filling Jiopper or stoa
flames billowed Into . the boiler, ' that it must cut costa 60 to 01ng furnace . :
It TalcesLotsbi Loss to Hake Paper
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Logs Are SjrtHirig m
From Albany to Canby there's hardly a fminute when a ; log or a iot of logs aren't
splashing into the waters of the Willamette at log dumps along the river. " -z . ;
.'. . For logs moving out of Willamette valley lumber camps to the big mills in Portland
and on the Columbia river, the Willamette is the main artery of traffic." In fact, nearly i
all its traffic, aside f rom pleasure'boats, above the Oregon City locks, is log tows moving
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, The Salein Newberg and Canby 'areas are' the main dumping points: for logs brought
. by trucks from the Cascades and the coast range. In and around galem are three dump
ages. One of them, the old Spaulding dumpage at Winona, is a rail dump. Here, where
logs from Black Rock used to be dumped for the Spaulding. mill, hemlock logs hauled by
rail from Idanha on the North Santiam are "plunked" into the Willamette for a short haul
: to the paper mill. . . '
-Another dump just outside West Salem's city limits receives logs for the Pope &
Talbot mills at St Helens. Most of the logs come from the Rickreall country. , -
In Salem is the third dumping point, just below the Reid Murdoch cannery on Front
street, where logs from the Santiam timber regions are dumped for formation into rafts
to be towed down river. ' ; - r - ' r - '
..The logs destined for. lumber mills down the river are rafted up here and towed by
powerful tugs to Oregon City The tugs draw little water, because of the often shallow
channel of the Willamette; Steamboats and larger tugs take the logs in tow on the other
side of the locks. Through the locks at .Oregon City pass b
etween 125 and 140 million feet of logs monthly. Approximately a fifth of this vor
nme comes from Salem. Z
LOOK OCT FOB LOG TRUCKS ts a warning sign yoa see often on highways
through the timber lands. Here's one at the end of Its Journey, across the river Just
beyond West Salem, ready for Its load of big logs to be tilted orer; onto
on which they will roar Into the Willamette. These logs eame from the Klckreau
country near Dallas. . Several hundred men are employed In Marion and Polk counties
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I KJfD OF THE LIKE.' Here at the back door of the paper mill the hemlock logs
-are drawn wp Into the pnlp plant where they are masticated Into chips front which
"la the basis f paper la made.- ' . . " - :
Family Bookshelf
y" A recent Sunday paper carried now an American citizen, has Just
a wise editorial entitled "How to Isau ed his "Collected Poems,
Allay: aaf Allergy" which gave 1917-1989." Mr. Davison's poems
found advice . on the reading of strike a calm, dignified note which
goeiS books as -an antidote to- the make reading hla .work a distinct
Salem Leads Way to Statehood
This is the sixth and last of a series of articles dealing with the historical background of the
Centennial to be observed in Salem, July 81 and August 1 to 4.
By MATILDA SIEGMUND JONES '
At the time the first permanent settlement was made In what is now Salem the vicinity of which
the Indiana called : Chemeketa It 'Is recorded that in' the entire Willamette valley there were but a
few score of settlers.
or these, some were French Canadians who had been in the employ of the Hudson's Bay company;
others were sailors, who upon landing in California from Atlantic ports, had deserted and come north;
a few. had crossed the Rockies either independently or" with fur traders.) In the Methodist mission
there were about 20 men and their families.
In the fall of 1841, about 15 or 20 emigrants arrived. A party of 112, consisting of men with
families, came a year later. Some located for the winter at, or near "The Mills;; others at the Oregon
institute 2H miles "north by eastO-
from the Mission mills."
Tear by year, (his isolated set
tlement of hardy pioneers . in
creased in numbers and In wealth.
Many of those who came in 1842,
became dissatisfied - with Oregon
and left for California early ' In
1843, A few returned later. In
1843, three years after the birth
of "The Mills'," there were but
three dwellings in the town; but
later that same year .the larg
est emigration up. to their .time
came across the plains. ,T here
were in all about 900 people with
probably 300 wagons. M- '
1SSOO Come ta 1845 ' - r.
The number which ' arrived in
1844, was as large or larger, than
that which came In " 1843. - Ap
proximately 1200, i the - largest
number so far,' camejn 1845;
The population on "Chemeketa
Plains" had Increased so steadily
that the trustees of the Oregon
institute decided to lay out a
town. This was done in 1849.
The survey Included , only - the
portion of Salem . lying between
Church street on the east and the
river on the . weet.vTJiere was
but, one building within the limits
of this survey. r.TwoVyears after
the town .was , surveyed; the .' first
building waa put-up; on the north
east corner of - Commercial and
Ferry . streets.' - Thisfbuildlng waa
used . for a', store; and ; dweUlngT
There were then but a 4osen per-. eiasseV- of the Oregon Institute
manent dwellings - with a popu-were- held : it' was then-changed
latlon:of about. 100 -i'.- , . Tha Inatttnt imtcinh..
Throng to Gold lands s ', :the first plat was filed, the town
. During the winter "of 1848-9," WM named Salem. : ; - :
business In Salem was almost sus-'VThe capital of the Oregon terri
pended, due to 'the' gold- rush to"; lory, : jwhich had been 'located at
California. New - !j immigration,- Of egpluf City, was moved to Sa
too; waa diminished because a lem in 1851. Five years later the
large portion had tbeen turned capltot building waa burned. From
toward California from, near Fort" this territorial . seat of rovern.
flood . of - depressing war news.
Our public library Joins the edi
torial writer in : urging, the read-;
lng of other than war books as
an allergy to wartime jitters and
ooseflesh.
. Here' are several books which
will divert the most serious mind
from.war-toru Europe. !The Male
Animal" , by James Thurber, the
author - Illustrator; , and Elliott
Nugent. This comedy . of campus
and particularly ' acuity life is
a Broadway play this season and
it is sure to bring out laughs ga
lore. A personal - chronicle of
great charm to lovers of the
dance is the autobiography, "Ruth
St. Denis, an Unfinished Life."
The artist ' has already contrib
uted much, to. American culture,
and, this story of her colorful ca
reer as a dancer successfully seta
forth . the reason for her . great
influence. : Edward
pleasure.
- An inspiring personal story is
told in "More Than Mere Living"
by H. Thompson . Rich. Realizing
that they would never have more
than just enough jnoney to meet
the bare necessities of life, Mr.
and Mrs. Rich methodically or
ganized their habits of lite with
the Idea of getting the most out
of life on a limited but safe in
come. The ' fact that they faced
a situation squarely early in life
and that they were able to suc
cessfully adjust ' their, affairs to
make a 83000 Income provide a
86000 scale of living, make this
inspirational and true success sto
ry worth your reading time.
Two books Issued this week are
of great Importance, to - Salem
residents because they both 'deal
with the' electric power problem
as it affects' domestic users of
electricity. "Power In Transition'
HalL The immigration which
arrived late in 1849, however,
was larger than any , preceding
one. : The country . which,; now
comprises Marlon; Linn, Polk, and tlhued ;to remain at Salem.
semon -counues was rapidly be- Thro n ebon t . th
Tie l aiA aa ua
nglUh poet. who ha Uved in the bf Ernest Rcbrams la a survey
Suited Stato for is rear, and la the federal government's pre
- - . gram of dambuudlng; the book
gives - facts and figures. Because
the' discussion and facts are on
a national scale, and because of
the impending political campaign
to be concerned closely with elec
tric power production -and distri
bution, this book 1 ia 'important.
The " final report .of the hydro
electric commission-of Oregon on
the ''Advisability of Creating the
Marion County People's Utility
District" Is -now available at the
public library. Both ; books can
be studied with' profit by all lo
cal, taxpayers. ... . -
ment. located in Salem came the
state or: Oregon, which was ad
mitted, to statehood on February
a, jis. -ji ne capital has con-
vears. 1 from
1S4W, wnen embryo Salem, boast
ed but. one bouse and a few fami
lies, the city has grown steadily
in population to - a' - present-day
30,773, a city noted for its beau
tiful Civil. an 1. ; i. -
The town bad continued" to be' educational
.i":." "on.. of governmentTna
o.uAum, jjii, wucu mi vycuuig. i mUUSines.' ' -: V"--
eoming settled and ' the outlook
for. a rapid development of ,the
new. town which had Just been
surveyed at Salem was encourag
ing. - : 1-. - "
"Salem Xamed in 18SO
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Vacation at Coast
ears
: . FOV , VALLETrMr. and Mrs.
Bert Lyons and, :two daughteni
are Tacationing.for a week at the
coast. They " will 'visit at Cutler
City and other points before re
turning home. They are celebrat
ing their 30th wedding anniver
sary whicv was July 16th. -;.
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CHIPS AND WATER fly1 as a trnckload of logs goes rolling down to water where
booaunen wait to add them to the log booms in which they will be towed downriver to
St. Helens. There the Pope A Talbot mill will saw them into lumber. Water Is now
low and another log dump, at the foot of Market street in Salem, is not operating. .
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FOUR MEN ON A RAFT. It takes more time and work to prepare a boom for
tewing down past Portland than for a short tow to the paper mill here. These logs
snast be secured both eroeswise and lengthwise. Permanent forins, held in place by
stretcbea from bank- to bank, make shaping the booms easier.
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READY TO GO are these logs and are leing allowed to drift downriver where
they win be picked up by a contract tag which will haul them to the locks at Ore
goat City. -There the long tows must be broken an into sections to go through the
locks. On the other side they are picked np by' larger tags and hauled the rest or
the way to their destination. Between 123 and 140 million feet of logs pass through
.eeaeiiiist
- B:Bc!EAT1S r r t0 h. amoved, i7 twobay areg Qundlach, thiversity ofW developed by Dr
Ajld Pun 8fi Write - ' surgeous. "Ut: li I : ..--t. ton nchn1nr1 - -.t -. . w- - tr r.im.'-V Z , " rr
BERKELEY. Calif.. -July 10.- t ri bert J' B.ely. phy--
(JPV-Bears apparently are the only movaiof a cancerouriungta 1 9 " ColiboJtln th . others ;,uck tfl olBOa trm
ASerlcan wUd animal which have t.LouS sgeon- D?PauI r? M 8Weholom.nf war, snake bite ound or an insect
tooth decay, and their notorious & SuZ of OakUnd --Sdv.JJ- that patriotic JtoRjrowtf before medical aid
weakness for sweets may be the Emii Holman '
reason, reported. Dr. K. Raymond rersity medical school have per- --5"r c-?nfl;t hd become an It comprises two rubber suction
Hall. University of California soo- formed six simUar operaUonsT S s!rm.eBi f?r B n,aM ercise Cups which win cling to the skin
loglst.,.,,- -Z v s . : Two of the aiz'.paUenta .died,t tLVtV90-' f "--wlUiont;tahn.
: Dr. Hall eiamlned.the teeth ct but not from the shock of the op-- Jr belpr a small; lancet to open .
8817 animal species, among them orations, la both cases the right uXTw At lht W0Und !,Uf t. enalt-
the skulls of 380 bears. Eight of lung was removed, and in process iKtortenl rtn S lli h-Jil7 fd 3lnea -f
the bears had decayed teeth. None .: the air tube leading tromVSS.J0 Ies. for a tourniquet. When not in use;
ef the other animals had dental ndpipe to the extited orgaa
cavities. : - f ' necessarily had, to be closed. to2tnliA lancet .and .cord. 1 '
Even more significant. Dr. Gall . The surgeons aald It seemingly , -TrTna tll Ai lt J,Z Tne tfit differs from other
said, was the fact that tto decay was t more difficult, to close the - JJrL lhYii - hite suction cups. Dr. Cut-'
was found. In the teeth of polar tube of the right side t h a n In S!'-?! amrda,Up ter saidrn that it Is much small
bears captured in their, natural eases where the left lung was re- ; t tile to tinker With the er and that it clings to the
habitat. There their diet contained moved and the left. tube closed. techniques of internal political or- .wound and does its own pumping. -few
If any sweets. ' -. " The ability of the left lung to ranlxation. with the national po- . Tourniquets should be applied
. The findings coincided in many the extra work imposed upon - I"1 organization. f . We must only lightly to snahe and Insect
respects with t h o s e of several it In such cases is less marked that our current InsUtutlons bites. Dr. Cutter added, because
dental ! schools which hsve con- they added, than that of the right are wrong in so far as they ett- the main object Is to prevent the
eluded that : sweets, particularly lung. - . - . ... courage .success through the :.dom-, lymph, i not the bloody," from
the refined types, are largely re- . . HOW TO CURB WAR , lnance of man by man. Our goJ eprteading the poison. In such rn-
sponsible for tooth decay., r SEATTLE There will be little i8t be a society whire explolU- sunces, he said, the poison usual-
.IIIGHT LUNG STROXCICItT real 5 progress toward eliminating tion-of human beings, is impoa- ly is distributed by the lymph clr-
SAN ' FRANCISCO T) rirht war and tta causes u 1 1 1 man ' slble." v ,-.-..:.,., - f culatlng-Just u n d e-r the - skin. -
lurg apparently is better fti:e to learns to direct his natural desire SXAKB BITE FIRST AID There is no point, in choking off
do extra, duty tfcan the left for conquest against things rather - BERKELEY A soft, rubber the blood flow through the veins,
cases where one or .the o'Jier.t&s than people, says Dr. ; Ralph - H. ; object about the size of a cigar he reported. , ' ,
HWACOWash.July 2q-i down the7 tilr Jieadquar-t biy vand ' planted the -American, a! half 'easf if town on BakeJ's
Swtoilb.
JtnIfii ildiR tt .IitUe8t- n-toom atorefront-XormerlyV front yard; UIZ ; - be reached by- r 1 r t excurslSS
. Everything la It will be minis- even on the main street of thla named the : Columbia River Inter- great ahortcoming la housing for
tUre. - little' fUh anf rnVm .t - ."'T onI- tor
lit Ue fish and cranberry center. . national exposlUon, and May 11, the fair's visitors.
..AH this should make excellent 1 4 z was set. as opening oay. -sales
' material : for t h e - midget. :, Howerton started hustling.' He
fair's goodwill ambassador, Ed- won the backing of nearby towns
ward . Everett Horton, the film ! Chinook, population 500 ; Sea
comedian, who spends many, of view. 600: Long Beach, 700:
his summers at 11 waco.
Although Funnyman H o r t o n
. i v ha lull. Iiowtirtnn nlina .
fleet f passenger vessels for use
as floating hotels. They will an
chor la Baker's bay, Guests will
have launch service to the main-
iTh fairground covers only 85
acres, . less than the square root
of - the size .of the: site of the
World's fair, in New York.
s r Exhibits are "pint-size. - -
. The first one to be completed
a model of the exnlorlnr shin.
ltlLb,llhi set the pace, Hwato world's
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Factories and laboratories, gi- an ordinary, small town.falr. But Washington introduced a bill .'in Upened. Tills T7eek
; ganuc at the fairs In New York after everv bod r ttn-inA itntnr mamu - . tiM aiii f,i . ..
"frf11 :F?cIaeo 'lriU. hrlnk- to the major got serious. He went o appropriation. ?: ri Z Z: X ; V SlLVERTON-i-Norton J Cowd
Tr." ".. . 1.. f; b n"ry boosj lorw inspira- The Oregon.,' a n.d 4 .Washington and CrTal
.Cm r concessions; use-, uon, . , . v , i - legislatures will come through-- land h
t . V yu, ... iwwinon gna - no nniess iiovertoa a mistaken..
- for instance, is planning, a mlnla- most ' of southwestern Washing-' The show Is Incorporated as' a
: ture sunken garden; with dwarf ton-rfound that May 11. 1942. non-profit - organization, - with
plants. . .; . 4 - f will be the 160th anniversary of Howerton as president, - An ex-
- A troupe or midgets has been the discovery if AmericA'a mmh nr n Mm t,... k-
. utswii w ouien aa ucxet .largest, river, . tne Columbia,' by
sellers. . . . Captain Robert Cray in 1793.
The theme-ef smallaess Is ear- Gray dropped anchor in .Baker's
OcP.rk,?0;WCOtU; 500; swimming Juet ; outside the
and Oystervllle 100.V . , port holes, and miles of beach to
''.The Washington progress com- loll on. .
mission ....beeanie ; tnterested.'": fie-7 Z'Z-y r "
land - fell ; Into line. Democratic' Mill, at Silverton ' ' "
brought . from' San'
help plan details.
- Ilwaco's ..airport-
Francisco . to
- mile and
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Miller both of Port-
as ve leased the Holland lum
ber mill.- here 'and : opened . this
wetk for t daily run. the mill
cuts-75,000 feet a Say. ,
Cowden is the . son cf R.' A,
Cowden of Eilvertou and "former
tartner in the eld Silverton Lum
ber, company. , v .