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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1942)
Ike OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. June 5. 1942 PAGE THREE 0 Power Pinch Is Probable Electricity Saving in Homes and Business 1 To Aid War Effort By JAMES MARLOW and WILLIAM PINKERTON . If you -have a little list entitled "sacrifices I made to help win the .war," you might write in lightly In nencil. the word "Dower." . Before the year is out, Ameri cans in scattered areas will be learning, by doing without it, the basic role of electricity, in the life of a modern community. The little savings in the home may be voluntary. People will be urged to cut down on the hot water heater, the vacuum cleaner, the radio; to keep home cooking and lighting at a minimum es pecially during those critical "peak load" hours from 5 to 8 or 9 at night. In public places, power short ages will force themselves on your attention theatre marquees will darken, street cars may run unheated, show-windows will black out, great-white-way bill boards will dim and night sports will disappear. Independence News INDEPENDENCE Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Fratzke will be visitors in Portland during the weekend. Mrs. William Mahon returned - to her home Monday after a two months visit in the eastern states. Mr. and Mrs. William Irvine and son of Forest Grove visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Irvine. Miss Clara 45yverson, teacher at Newberg, and Margot Syverson, teacher at Springfield, are spend ing the summer vacation at home in Independence. Mrs. C. G. Skinner has been reelected to teach the primary grades in the Pedee school for the coming year. Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Char boneau were Mr. and Mrs. Willis Merriam and family of Mon mouth. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Robinson and two sons were overnight guests Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. John Foreman drove to Portland to spend the weekend visiting relatives. Funeral f or Swegle Community Leader Held SWEGLE F u n e r a 1 services were held Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Mary L. West, who died Sunday at the Salem General hos pital. W. T. Rigdon was in charge. Mrs. West was pom at Grand Island, Nebraska. Her parents moved to Hubbard when she was four years old and to eastern Ore gon several years later. It was at LaGrande she was married to Roscoe A. West and 19 years ago they moved to Salem community living at the same residence on East Garden Road. Mrs. West is survived by her aged mother, Mrs. Ida Riesland and brother, Edward Riesland of LaGrande; four children, Roscoe J. West of Oakland, Calif., Marion E. West, Mrs. Dillon Jones and Miss Ruby Jane West, all of Sa lem; four grandchildren, Anna Mae, Joyce, Judson West and Ma rie Louise Jones. . She was a member of Jason Lee Methodist church, Royal Neigh bors and an active worker in Swegle Community club, an offi cer in the Parent-Teachers asso ciation, a charter member .and past president ct fcwejlf from an'i club and had served Ca Swe gle school board. Rev. S. Raynor Smith and Rev. N. Sherman Hawk of Hubbard of ficiated at the service with burial in Belcrest Memorial park. Pall bearers were: Fred Roberts, Dr. 3 tVheatlej, Charles Bartels, tlcMahan, A. L. Liftdbeck and William Hartley. Many relatives and friends from LaGrande, Portland, Hubbard, McMinnville, Corvallis and j$y& era Oregon came to Salem foYtnt services. With the sun's cooperation in lighting the land, and enough rain to keep the hydro-electric rivers flowing through the dams, we'll get through the summer without any extra fuss over power. The fall and winter are another story. Late summer often brings a dry season that cuts down the output of water-power plants. The fall will bring hundreds of new or converted) industrial plants into full war production, many on a 24-hour, seven-day basis. Of course, the days lengthen and the weather gets chill, and housewives start lighting the lamps before dinner and cooking good, big, hot meals. Power pinch, say war produc tion board experts, is likely to squeeze such scattered regions as the southeast, the Texas-Arkansas-Louisiana triangle of the southwest, the rapidly-growing industrial section around St. Louis, the Buffalo-Niagara area in New York state, ana possibly the Pa cific northwest. The southeast weathered its power shortage a year ago this way: By connecting together the public utilities ot 17 states, and feeding power from one system to another, more than 40,000,000 kilowau hours of electricity a week was" brought into the snort- aee area. A blackout of non-es sential lighting (signs, show win dows. decorative lighting ( flood lights, etc.) combined with vol untary light-saving in the homes saved some T-,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a week. Portland Woman Is Honor Gnest FAIRVIEW Complimenting their sister, Miss Evelyn Camp bell of Portland, Mr. and Mrs Lowell Campbell entertained at their home with a surprise shower Saturday evening. Miss Campbell, daughter of Mrs. Frank Campbell and the late Mr. Campbell, will become the bride of Martin Beusekamp of Portland Sunday, June 21. There were 52 relatives and friends present. The program in cluded numbers by Mrs. Stanley Sargeant, Mrs. Edward Terrill, Mrs. Waldo Maker, Mrs. Ray Ken nedy, and Mrs. Merle Campbell. Betty Carson and Donald Sar geant were the eighth grade graduates of the Hopewell Sev enth Day Adventist school Sun day nieht. Elder H. S. Han sen of Portland was the speaker Invocation was by Lowell Camp bell. Ailene and Shirley Allison were patients at the General hospital in McMinnville where they under went minor operations a few days ago. ' Mr. and Mrs. John Allison were business visitors in Portland Thursday and purchased a piano for the girls. Mrs. Toivo Bautsari and Ila Taskinen attended the annual homecoming at Dayton Prairie school. imm mm e the inside lining? . . . s "Joyce" of course. , . White . . . Red or Natural . . . If power runs short in the months to come, don't expect any national panacea. Power people say shortages will develop on a regional basis, and the remedies will vary from place to place. As a precaution, power lines already are cutting across the old feuding grounds between govern ment ownership and private own ership, linking together both kinds I power for a single delivery to shortage-centers in areas like the Pacific northwest, and southeast and the southwest. When power runs short in places, these "pool" wires con necting one power system with another will maintain the flow of electricity into necessary war plants. , . Many Aurora Folk Are Reported 111 AURORA William Thamer is seriously ill in the Hutchinson hos pital, Oregon City. H. J. Ziegler has been ill in a Portland hospital for sometime. G. A. Ehlen has been confined to his bed for the past month with heart trouble. Ray Schuntz, who received a back injury some two years ago, was taken to the Veterans hos pital in Portland this week. Family Moves Back UNIOiN VALE Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Westfall of Summit are moving back here after residing there two years. Family Moves Back to Former Pioneer Home OAKDALE Mr. and Mrs. M. Ferry and children Noel and Joyce, have moved back to Pio neer on the George Cooper farm. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper have mov ed to Salem where Mr. Cooper has work. OUT OF THE WOODS By JIM STEVENS The other day a forester friend of mine was running a line through timber in southwest Washington when he prowled in to what; had once been a rugged house of shakes and logs. The sides were still holding up and the roof, though sagging dismally, was able to stave off rain. What had plainly been a good sized clearing around, the house was" now second-growth timber. Right up to the mossgrown door step, which was a nice slab of fieldstone, grew Douglas fir trees almost as thick through as a man's waist, thicker than a boy's. No where could the sunlight cn.wl through to the clammy sides of the four-roomed house. A place where you might expect to find a skeleton. Plowing through the timber and undergrowth, the forester entered the main .room of the 1 house. A packrat stared, then - scurried out. The stove had set ' there; you could tell by the four . deep markings In the floor, still sound enough. Rust spots told of a stovepipe in the roof through ; which had dripped the snow and ' rain of how many years?, V That's what my friend was curi ous to know. How long? One of the rooms had been sheathed with newspapers, now brawn, and damp, hanging there in shreds, here in long half sheets. Mildew had all but obliterated the type. But Whoa here , was a page, a front page, still fairly dear, in type and picture, with a headline telling of a time long ago. "THE JAPS AND PORT ARTHUR," it aid. Underneath in closely, set type was a 'dispatch from Tokyo reporting the bombardment of the Russian-held city by little brown men who even then shot first without warning and declared war later. The date of the paper was January, 190K. ... Well, that gave this new forest a fairly certain age, this forest that . had swamped the clearing and smothered the house. It was 35 years old, probably. But who had papered this home, then gone away? The forester got Jhe story later, from an old citizen of good memory. It had been a squatter and his wife. Never troubled about a deed or things like that They just went in there, into the woods, in '85, maybe it was '84. Bred and raised a family, they had, two boys end two girls. The kids grew up here, then went away into the world. The old folks, too, went away, and none came back. Slowly at first, then faster, ever faster, the forest grew In from the edges of the clearing. It closed in over the potato patch. 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