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S Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, August SO, 1949
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Finh Lure Perfected Here is Martin Neustel, Lebanon
xhlbiting a new fish lure that he has pattented and will place
on the market as soon as necessary arrangements can be com
pleted, '
Fishing Lure Invented by
Martin Neustel, Lebanon
Fishermen will be interested in a new lure which Martin L.
Neustel, 1270 Grove, Lebanon, expects to put on the market as
soon as patent office drawings compiled By J. I. Anaerson, t-ori-land
coordinator of patents, are approved.
The new lure is especially adapted to fishing through the ice
or from docks or boats wherein"
movement is absent over the wa
ter surface. By simply raising
and lowering the fishline, the
lure will travel in a spiral circle
and in its operations it is either
diving or climbing but always
following a circle.
Action Is caused by the de
sign of the outwardly extend
ing fins from the lure together
with a properly located weight
within the body of the lure as
well as a specially curved tail.
When the line is raised the nose
end of the lure will nose up
wardly and forward and at the
same time the tail causes it to
circle.
The new lure will be shown
at the State Fair in the moving
picture "What's New on Re
view" at the agricultural build
lng under the sponsorship of the
fair and the direction of And
erson.
This show has many other
other inventions to be shown on
the screen and on exhibit. These
range from household gadgets
toys, apparel for women up to
huge lumber machinery. Ander
son handled the patents for the
hop picking machines now in
use in the valley.
Peaches for Schools
Washington, Aug. 30 W The
agriculture department an
nounced today it has brought
937,210 cases of canned peaches
for school lunch program.
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Edgar Recalls Some Thrills
Of Early Polk County Days
By BEN MAXWELL
J. W. Edgar, who has lived in Polk county 82 years, remembers
when there was no West Salem. But his keen memory goes back
even further, and he recalls years in the 1870s when a manually
operated drift ferry crossed the Willamette from Salem's Ferry
street to a landing a little north of the present bridge.
Mr. Edgar, now a resident on
Route 1, was born 12 miles south
of Portland in December, '1866.
His family had just arrived by
covered wagon from Missouri
and paused near Oregon City
long enough to refresh them
selves and welcome birth of the
child.
Then the journey was resum
ed until the father found a
suitable location northeast of
Dallas. J. W. Edgar was then
six weeks old and he ha lived
in Polk county almost continu
ously during the past 82 years.
From the 1890's until recently
he was a resident in the Pop
corn district.
'Certainly I remember 70 and
more years ago when there was
a ferry across the Willamette
between the Salem and the Polk
county county side," Mr. Edgar
said. "That was before Matheny
started his steam ferry and about
10 years before the first bridge
was built. It was a manpower
ferry that was coaxed across the
river aided by current and the
operator's muscles. As a ferry
it wasn't much. Two loads of
cordwood or four teams was
about its limit.
Fuel was Cheap'
"Later a steam ferry was
started by Matheny, and Tom
Holman succeeded him. That
ferry also left Ferry street and
landed a little north of the pres
ent bridge. In the early 1880s,
just before the bridge was built,
crossing schedules were main
tained at half hour intervals.. I
hauled scrub oak cordwood to
Salem and crossed the ferry to
make deliveries. In those days
oak wood was $2.50 a cord.'
Mr. Edgar recalls that there
was then not enough West Salem
to give it a name. The Matheny
house stood near the end of
the present bridge (it was dis
mantled about two years ago).
Then or a few years later came
me unurcnui, tergusoa and
Skinner homes. Sixty-five years
ago i-n ram bmnner owned most
of what is now West Salem and
a big share to today's Kingwood
Heights. Even then, however.
the first schoolhouse in the com
munity (now occupied by Mrs,
Sally Damrell) appeared to Mr,
Edgar as an old building.
Mr. Edgar recalls the first in
ter-county .bridge as a filmsy af
fair cheaply constructed to meet
a pressing need for better trans
portation. When the structure
opened for traffic in early De
cember of 1886 is appeared as a
light steel and wooden structure
scarcely wide enough to allow
two loaded wagons to pass. On
February 3, 1890, it became
known around Salem that the
surging and flooded Willamette
would reach 37 feet and know
ing persons declared the bridge
could not long resist the torrent.
Ahead of Flood
When the news reached Mr
Edgar, then in Salem, he TP.
solved to start for home and at
once. The west anDroach was
J. W. Edgar
already deeply flooded and he
paid 50 cents for skiff fare to
get ashore. In less than an
hour, at 1:40 p.m., to be exact,
there was a snapping of timbers
and a resounding crash at the
structure folded into the seeth
ing flood.
Today a narrow road leading
northward through Holman park
steeply ascends the Eola hills to
follow a route that was once
used to reach Doak's ferry,
later Lincoln, Even today the
remnants form no part of a good
road and in winter it is impassi
ble, Sixty years ago it had that
characteristic even in summ
When a boy, Mr. Edgar drove
four straining horses hitched to
a threshing engine headed up
the hill. Several men rode on
the hillside to keep the rig from
tipping over. Two or 300 yards
up the hill young Edgar glanced
into the ravine and there saw
the wreckage of another thresh
ing rig that had tried for the
top of the hill a few days be
fore. That outfit had tipped
over and crashed 200 feet be
low. Finally Edgar and his rig
counterbalanced as it was by
heavy men, reached the top.
No One was Hurt
Crossroads Methodist church
stood where this road intersect
ed the Popcorn road about three
miles from Salem. E. F. Hos-
ford donated the site for the
church and cemetery. Mr. Ed
gar, who first attended services
here in the early 1870s recalls
that the church was in use un
til about 40 years ago. The
Good Templars occupied up
stairs quarters.
About 50 years ago Mr. Edgar
and another were frantically
trying to finish opening a grave
in the churchyard before funer
al services were concluded. A
rock, too heavy for both to lift
out, was the big obstacle. Mr.
Edgar's assistant had a bright
idea. He dashed to his nearby
home for an explosive and when
he returned he had plenty of
powder and a short fuse. Mr.
Edgar expressed ekepticism
about so short a fuse but that
did not lenghten it and the
hearse was due to arrive at any
moment. So the charge was
placed and the fuse lighted.
Edgar leaped out of the grave
and started for protection. His
assistant jumped too buj. he
stumbled and fell back into the
grave where the smoking fuse
was hissing. This was no time
for procrastination. Edgar re
turned to the grave and
Citrus Fruit Lost by Hurricane Mrs. James Granere of
Vero Beach, Fla., is surrounded by Indian River grapefruit
blown from trees by the Florida hurricane. Estimates of total
citrus losses throughout the great grovelands of Florida
range from $20,000,000 to $30,000,000. (AP Wirephoto)
tended his hand to his assistant,
now frantically scrambling for
another footing. In an instant
he was out and in another in
stant, with the pair less than
10 feet from the excavation, the
charge exploded. Both were
showered by dust and pelted by
rock fragments. None was in
jured.
Even now, after 50 odd years,
Mr. Edgar grows tense as he ap
proaches the climax of that
grave digging adventure. It
came so near being a grave for
three Instead of one.
Clay Urges U.S. Lead
Fight on 'Aggressor'
Philadelphia, Aug. 30 UP) Re
tired Gen. Luscius D. Clay, for
mer commander of U. S. military
forces in Germany, spoke last
night at the American Legion
convention. He urged the U. S.
to lead the fight against the "ag
gressor," which he never named.
Clay addressed 700 persons at
a banquet honoring Perry
Brown, Beaumont, Tex., nation
al commander of the Legion. He
Crippled Vet Beaten Frank W. Chase (right) appears pen
sive after being taken into custody by police at Montesano,
Wash-, in connection with torturing and beating of his step
son, Henry Chum, 29 (left), a one-legged air force veteran.
The scars on Chum's body are plainly visible. Police said
Chase confessed the beatings over a period of 18 months, said
the motive had something to do with an insurance policy.
(Acme Telephoto) .
said the "aggressors will ever beiit Is dangerous for the aggressor
a threat until it is evident that I to move from his own territory."
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