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Page 2. Register-Guard. Eugene, Ore., Sunday. Fen. 1. 1948 log Weights 'Cause Worries (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) - i miles an hour apply en bridges, 3S miles an hour on the road '' when loaded, and 43 miles an ' hour when empty. . 7. That It be the res.ponslbil ity of the logger to remove his ' dropped logs; after 10 days the ; county can appropriate them. 8. That the county welgh , pinaster may require a trucker to f have his load weighed on state scales; the permit may be taken i". away if the trucker refuses, !" Commissioner Walter Holland Jays the laws should be enforced, Jut he believes the proposed regu lations to be too strict. X "Over 65 per cent of our iiounty's income in from logging," h said, "and logging shouldn't be restricted too much." ' We used to have a weighmaster, Holland recalled, "but the loggers )ust made fun of the old fellow," 'llolland doesn't believe the sug gested regulations would apply so jjvell. "Those other counties are Smaller and don't have the same -problem," he said. 'Hard on Little Fellow" J Holland also believes the regu lations would work a hardship on ;the "little fellow." "'. It would cost too much, even if Jhe county did adopt the program, lithe commissioner said. He sug gested the addition of $5 to the .'annual state license fee and one ' cent a gallon to the state gasoline ;tax. (Counties get 19.7 per cent of Mho state gas tax apportioned on population.) '. Besides the restrictions wouldn't '."help the roads any," said Hol land. "Send the state police out if I the truckers get too bad." "Too Strict" Wheeler f r State police officers weigh on county roads only when they are !; supplied with loadometers by the , state highway department. I . (Last week an expedition like ? this caught one logger with 95,900 pounds on his truck 27,900 pounds ( overweight.) 1 ''Commissioner Wheeler said he 'favors some regulations, but J doesn't approve of the cost, the 1' speed limits required, truckers' , responsibility for road damage, or (NEA TeUnholat Elmer A .Benson (above), one-tune Governor and Senator of Minne sota, was named national chair man of Henry A. Wallace's third party. Benson rates more than 30 citations In reports of the House Un-American Activities committee which record alleged Communist front affiliations. the restrictions on hauling after dark. He said it would be hard on the trucker who uses only a quarter of a mile of county road before he hits the state highway. AT LONE PINE LONE PINE Mrs. John Scott was honor guest at a pink and blue shower given Jan. 29 in the Nathan Lemert home, with Mrs. Lemert and Mrs. Lester Gunson as hostesses. Twenty-five, women attended. Eniwetok, where new atomic energy experiments are being de veloped, is 190 miles from Bikini where the first post-war atomic bomb was tested. It is estimated that England's population was reduced from about four million to about two million In the great plague of the 14th Century. Storms that are commonly called "northeasters" along the Atlantic coast of the United States usually move up from the south or southwest. mX3 DASHER, nn FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Now available the famous Thor Washer . . . complete with automatic pump and balloon roller wringer, with finger tip control. Buy now C fl .f K ? ... get immediate de- I JLB'' II very! " 0,0 You wont believe your eyes when you ee the new AUTOMAGIC THOR 6LADIRON1 Women mH the Thor Glad ircm couldn't be improved but wh "tlH too see the new Automagic Gladlroal It tnke emi the btuultptri oat of Ironing you'll w Tour bitrxU onh for gnid iag dotbes throng h the iGUJirco soft Johnson Furniture Co. 849 Willamette Telephone 2693 Success Shown By 'Heat Pump (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) tubing, containing the refrigera-' tlon gas, Freon, would be required beneath the surface of the earth, for heating and air conditioning a; five-room house. Very Low Boiling Point The heat units are extracted from the earth by the Freon. and additional heat units come from friction in the refrigeration com pressor: As a liquid Freon has an extremely low boiling point. When it passes through the tub ing it takes heat from the ground, boils Into gaseous form and re turns to the heat pump unit where It Is compressed. Putting It under j higher pressure brings out the; heat and the gas then is passed through a radiator. A fan blowing through the ra diator carries the heat into the building's heating pipes and also cools the Freon. As it cools it be comes liquid again. The fluid passes througTi an expansion valve on its way to the outside tubing. The liquid Freon is used in the refrigerating end of the system, working on the same principle as any other refrigerating unit. Koch Refrigeration has set up a make-shift unit which ii'-es water on the same principle. The firm is using an ordinary refrigeration unit to obtain the heat units from water instead of the earth. The water Is piped Into a copper tube from the bathroom faucet. The tube containing the stream of water Is housed in a larger tube, which contains the Freon. Al though the Freon and the water never mix, the gas still extracts the heat units from the water. Keeps 72 Degrees The same type of blower system, with thermostatic control, has heated the firm's office In recent few weeks. The use of well water on the same principle is more ef ficient than tap water, since the constantly-running faucet Water gets-too cold. In addition, the wa ter can be circulated only once through the tubing, and It Is lost down the drain after It Is once The firm has been able to main used. tain a temperature of 72 degrees despite the icy coldness of the tap water. A heat pump for a house with 1200 square feet of floor space Is listed at about $2100, Including In stallatlon and air condltlonalng. It would be about $250 less without the air conditioning. The local firm estimated that a three horsepower motor would be needed to operate the compressor In a five-room house. A check with the Eugene Water Bo;tc1 showed that a unit of that size could be operated 24 hours a dav for a year at a maximum cost of $15 a month. The unft Is thermostatically con trolled, however, and wouid not be operating when the desired temperature had been reached. The cost of operation would im pend greatly upon the highest de sired temperature, and upon I he outside temperatures. During the summer, the system is reversed for air conditioning, and again would not be operating when the weather was comfortably cool. Koch installed its first unit in h new River Road home, where soil conditions and drainage con ditions meant burying the copper tubing only three feet under the surface. Robert Wllmsen, young Eugene architect, Is planning the use of the pump In a new home for his family on Mallbar Hill. Wilmsen will use the tubing in the walls and floor, thus eliminating entire ly the need for registers. The first persons known to have installed the new system In Lane County were Earl Darrow and Don Hughey, owners of the Sportsman's Cafe In Oakrldge. They said they "wouldn't trade it for anything." The unit they bought cost $1750. Freight and Installation charges brought the price to $1950. They use city water Instead of a ground wen. Freon ! harmless, and Koch says It can be drunk "If you like tne taste oi it. rreon was used ai an effective Insecticide by troopi oversees during the war. and mi difficult to obtain In the state, Koch added. Chemically, Freon Is gas one molecule of which contains one atom of carbon, two atoms of chlorine, and two atoms of fluorine. Tragic Story of Oregon Pioneers Of 1849 Traced; Kin Living Here (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) into the hollow, our eyes again caught sight of the wind-swept Irail tipping the crest of 'Wind lass' and thence into the des cent. "I walked the trail ami came upon a wayside grave that led us on to a tireless search lasting nearly five and one-half years before we contacted relatives who gave up the story of the life and death of a beautiful young bride, who died and was buried beside the Irail nearly a century aid. "On the grassy slope near the broad opening of Ash Hollow is the grave. Someone had knelt beside the grave and with a pocket knife carved deep into the rough-hewn marker the crude inscription, '1849, Rachel E. Pattison, age 18, June 19.' " No Clue H as Found Morrison searched old diaries, but found no clue to Rachel's home or her family. Then he sent out letters, state by state, county by county, until the following story was finally revealed: Rachel E. Warren and Nathan Pattison were sweethearts who lived in a rural settlement of a frontier county in southern Illi nois. Nathan lived with his father and mother, William and Pattison, and his five brothers. The family sold its acreage be fore the trek west. Rachel and Nathan married April 2, 1849, and the Pattison family left April 10. The parly consisted of Will- :4 , t y i ifi pll!'! . 1 A GREAT GRANDDACGHER Is Mrs. Waldo Hardie of Eugene, of William and Mary Pattison (Staff Photo, Wiltshire Engraving). lam and Mary, six sons, two daughters-in-law, Rachel and lane, a grandchild, and two Marvi others. They had three wagons, horses, mules, and oxen. While going through Missouri, near St. Joseph, lightning struck the train, killing five of the mules J from her grandmother's side, set and one horse. They crossed the' tied in Eugene. Stuart Aiken was Mitfcnnri River Mav 18 and en tered Indian country. They reach ed the Blue River June 2 and Fort Kearney, Neb., June 5. Struck by Cholera They crossed the South Platte June IS and reached the North Platte the next day. They camped on Sunday, June 17. That day three steers died of what they thought was some kind of food poisoning, but was actually chol era. ' In the early afternoon of June 18 the company reached Ash Hol low and the next morning Rachel took to her bed with cholera. She died that evening on a makeshift bed of blankets beneath the can "as of a covered wagon. The Pattlsons pushed on. An aunt, Charlotte, died of trail hardships In the Blue Mountains of Oregon and is buried in a pass just east of Pendleton. On Nov. 3 they arrived at The Dalles. A month later, wagonless, with only two mules left, and many of the family barefoot (they nad traded tneir snoes ana dom ing to Indians for food) the Patti- sons reached Fort Vancouver. Descendants are reported living in Eugene, Corvalus, Olympia and other parts of Washington. Never Married Again Nathan Pattison never married again, but went on into Washing ton with one brother. Mrs. Bardie's grandfather, Robert Pattison, set tled here. The Aikens and McCornacks one of the founders of the First National Bunk of Eugene. Until Morrison traced the family history, Mrs. Hardie says she didn't know the story of Rachel, nor of the hardships the Paulsons experienced. "My grandfather wasn't much of a talker," she explains. School Radio Station Unique (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) cational School, who superintend ed Its installation at a cost of ap proximately $10,000. The main studios are on tho top floor of the vocational school, and the trans mitter is located in that building with the transmitting antenna Jut ting skyward from its cupola. Another studio, connected by direct wire hook-up, is located at Eugene High School. To carry the KRVM programs into individual classrooms, each of the three junior high schools has a central sound (public address) system. A sound system to serve 60 rooms is now being installed j at Eugene High, and all the other I schools In the city system have Isome provisions for receiving the j programs. At present, Houglum has an nounced,. students at the vocation al school are constructing sound systems for all the schools not so equipped already. Wide Benefits Part of the educational worth of the station, Houglum explained Saturday, lies In Its use in training vocational school students in the technical theory of frequency modulation broadcasting and the their da!' !rta, participation In" ; shnw " "it! m . .Miss LuciH.e A. a"a in M. a. history, .v1" I tent,,.. .'"'.'SIM OflrA 7 Ul lA. other rid,-:. OS- "-""uciice I. T. rvj basest trier ,,:. the,. -i. . . ma. "r,,.. i 1non .. . HS WiVi I lOOO, lip aiJ ... ii : and ti. ; es mat h,ve sin- of KHVM rtTOT 40 " Eugene .SALEM-wS .,, oaiuMav.,,. "'n n. nail as saviniV ask Public uti,,,, Post Th 'election. 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