Stlnrdty, August 15, 1953
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem, Oregon
OLD MAN RIVER KEEPS ERODING ALONG
Top, left: This dead end channel of the Willamette on
the west aide of Hayden! island used to take a heavy'bank
of erosin until a long and expensive revetment was con- 1
structed here. Now the river flows on the east side of
the Island and the channel shown Is dead end for months
on end. Left, center: Pomt of deep bank erosin at sharp
Sola bend where the river Is getting perilously close -to
railroad tracks and Dallas road. Lower, left: Trim motor
boats of N. W. Kennedy who boats for "observation;"
Upper, right: Exposed root pattern of a tenacious alder
that struggles to survive despite river bank erosin.
Lower, right: La Boca Grande . . , mouth of the Rick
reall creek at its confluence with the' Willamette at Ecola.
Steamboats entered the Rickreall in the 1890s.
You Learn Many Things
Aboard a Motor Boat
By BEN MAXWELL ' . '
Salem Boat club has a mem
bership of SO persons who own
boats large and small. Some
like to fish, others are fond of
racing, some boat for relaxa
tion. Others boat Just to ob
serve. .
N. W. Kennedy, state high
way employe living at 1374
Elm street, is an observing
boatman. He Invited a Capital
Journal representative to take
ride in his new and trim 13
foot boat with a 10-horse pow
er outboard and do a bit of ob
serving, too. At the beginning
Kennedy said that one need
not motorboat far on' the Wil
lamette to see a Jot. He pro
posed boating upstream and ob-
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John L. Canble, Pastor
SUMMER SCHEDULE
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ALL ARE INVITED
serving downstream.
Observation started about a
half mile above Eola where the
government constructed leng
thy and expensive Grey Eagle
revetment about 12 years ago.
A few years ago, during a pro
longer high 'water, this break
water wa seriously damaged
and the Willamette threatened
to r e v e r t into an old channel
that placed Brown's island in
Polk county when it went that
way 80 or more years ago. -
Why should river pressure
suddenly accumulate against
Grey, Eagle revetment? The
most likely reason is that riv
ers, like most human beings,
follow the path of least resist
ance. Willamette is an old riv
er flowing through a wide al
luvial plain that narrows as
the stream approached Salem.
' It forms ox-bows here and ox
bows there. When this winding
course offers too much resist
ance the stream has a disposi
tion to straighten itself out
jwithout regard to property
I lines and sometimes without
too much regard for engineers In those times one mouth of !ne" on the birth of sons, Mrs.
who attempt to restrain it in, the Rickreall debouched
an established channel. the Willamette at Eola, another
A ew: years before Grey I flowed. along the base of the
Eagle revetment was built in 1 hills and formed the confluence
SALEM FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Center ot Thirteenth
SUNDAY, AUG. 16
1:45 Church School
1:45 "The Open Road"
1:30 Youth Derotional
Hour
7: JO "One Minute and
Then Eternity"
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William f. Clir, tattr
1939 Willamette had an open,
year-around channel on the
west side ot Hayden island.
Southward from the confluence
with the Rickreall it took gen
erous bits out of the Williams
tc Thatcher hopyard. Finally
the engineers assented to build
a revetment at this point of
erosion. It was a great consola
tion for the hopeyard proprie
tors to stand on the bank of the
Willamette at certain flood
stages and observe old man
river, raging with erosive in
tent, exhausting hia fury
against a wall of resistant rock.
But that joy was short lived.
Now the river flows on the
east side of Hayden Island
throughout most the year and
the William & Thacker revet
ment is being buried beneath
a wash ot gravel that is build
ing up there. Theirs is now a
land accretion, not a depletion.
But old man river is always
looking for a soft spot and he
has found it at sharp Eola bend.
Each winter large slabs of esrth
are undercut and drop into the
turgid stream. Already the rail
road tracks are uncomfortably
close to this latest erosion and
the Dallas highway is not dis
tantly removed from the re
current destruction. Soon a re
straining revetment will be in
order here.
What then will happen? Well,
Old Man River will be deflect
ed with destructive violence
against the south bank ot the
stream. An accretion will come
to this writer and he may get
a restoration of some part of
the land that existed before old
man river swooshed through
decades ago and bisected his
estate of stumps and boulders,
Old Joel Palmer appeared at
The Mills, now Salem, In the
early 1840s and saw Rickreall
creek flowing into the Wlllanv
ette just west of where the
Pumilite plant now stands and
where Elbert's bean patch
flourishes in West Salem. A
government surveyor evho came
along a few years later made a
map dated 1851, a copy of
which is now a possession of
Union Title Insurance Co.
observed by Palmer
Eola had industrial aspira
tions in the 1850s. The channel
ot the Rickreall here was wid
ened and improved to better
enable wheezy little river
steamers, such as Captain A. S.
Murray's sidewheeler Wash
ington, to enter the metropolis
in 1851 and take care of a
real or Imaginary commerce.
As the "commerce" declined
the expanded channel became
overgrown and filled with logs
and river drift.- . -
During a tinder dry summer
decades ago some addle-pated
fellow decided it would be
great sport to set that accumu
lation on fire, For days on end
Eola was thoroughly dried and
smoked.
That was distressing but the
worst was yet to come. The
following winter brought a
flood of no small proportions
and the old, soft channel ot the
Rickreal gave old man river
the chance he coveted. With a
surge of satisfaction . wuiam- i
ette adopted the Palmer chan-
nel of the sluggish Rickreall
creek and went roaring through 1
to leave the island of that il
lustrious tosspot, "Whiskey"
Brown, in Marion county and
caused a confusion In real es
tate titles that prevails to this
day.
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Catholic Daughters
Commend Members j
Stayton At its regular
meeting, the Catholic Daugh
ters of America, issued con
gratulation! to the Knights of
Columbus on their winning
float in the festival parade, to
Mrs. Corrlne Marcella and
Norma Etzel for their second
prize winner.
They congratulated Mrs.
Yvonne Ditter, Mrs. Louella
Neilson and Mrs. Peggy Frora-
Molly Pietrok and Mrs. Eliza-
beth Murphy on the birth of
daughters. The CDA will start
its annual rummage sale Au
gust. 13.
Howell School
In Homecoming
Stayton The 20th annual
Howell homecoming picnic
wss held at the HoweU school
on Aug. f beginning at noon
with a jtotluck dinner.
A short business meeting
was held with Luther Stout
as president. One item dis
cussed was the leasing of the
building and grounds to the
Sportsman'! club, which was
approved.
It also was voted to give the
old school books to the Chin-
up club in Salem. The books
are In good condition but out
of date. .
Margbret War was asked to
continue with the historian
work for another year.
Roll call of families was
held, with the Kinch family
being represented by 25 mem
bers, the Silbernagel family
ran a close second with 23
member! present. Next year is
to be the 0th anniversary of
the building of the school
house, and everyone waa re
quested to bring pictures and
mementoes they may have, to
the homecoming next year.
Officer! elected for the com
ing year are, president, Mrs.
John Apple; vice president,
Mrs. Barney Kirsch, and secretary-treasurer,
Mr!. Harold
Wodtly.
Those signing the register
for the day were: Miss Agnes
Kirsch, Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Herrling ot Salem, Mr. and
Mrs. Ira Kinch and family.
Mr. and Mrs. John Apple, Mr.
Paul Kirsch, Mr. and Mrs. Al
fred Herrling ot Bend, Mr.
and .Mrs. B. L. Kirsch of Ly
ons, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hays,
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Stout,
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Kirsch of
Maupin Miss Lois Blum, Miss
Jean Kimsey, Mrs. Arch Klm
sey, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Kirsch
and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Paradise, Mr. and Mrs.
Roscoe Poole and Rodell, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Taylor, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Wodtly, Shirley
and Nancy, Mr. and Mrs. J. K.
McCall, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Poole, Mrs. Evs Humphreys,
Mrs. Clara Steward, Mr. and
Mrs. George Glover, Mr, Jack
Richards, Mrs. Jennie Bohan-
non, Tomrale Yeoman, Mr. and
Mrs. Ted Kirsch and family.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Apple of
Albany, Mr. and Mrs. P. A.
Ruef and family of Mt Angel,
Mr. and Mrs. George Andres
and Marvin, Mr. and Mrs. -Ed
Herrling. A. P. Kirsch, Mrs.
Angus War ' and Judy, Mrs.
Jo Silbernagel, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Peters and family, Mr.
and Mn. Peter Ruef of Salem,
Miss Agnes Silbernagel, Mr.
and Mrs. Jo Peters, Carol
Freres, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Fery and family.
New Phone Directory
Published Nov. 4
The Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company will begin
delivery of a new directory No
vember 4, Elmer Berglund,
manager of the local exchange,
states.
However, October 2 has been
fixed as the deadline tor the
Insertion ot new subscribers
name. Telephone must be in
and operating by that time.
The current directory was
Issued in September, 10&2. .
CIO Groan to Meale '
Portland O Oregon and
Southwest Washington. CIO
group will hold their annual
picnic her Sunday.
The main speaker will be B
J. Schafer, Denver, vie presi
dent ot the International Oil
Worker. Some 8,000 union
memers art expected to attend.
UnioavdsPOV
Enroulo I dr.:
rfc. Edward avafv. tU
a prisoner of war for si
month, Is scheduled to arrf
t San Francisco, Callt, Aug
ust 24.
Hi! father, Z4 Clevenger,
Sr., of Unionval, and uncle,
Leonard Clevenger, elao of
Unionval. will meet him.
Leonard Clevenger -srUl
drlv down, accompanied by
Edward Clevenger, Sr. They
expect to start Saturday, Aug.
22, and return within two
three dsys.
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"Indoor Memorials In Morbl and Bronx
. (THE TWO BETTER WAYS)
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Salem Maojoleam Js Cremator! am, U.
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HEAR
J Rev. Lloyd Killgore
ir xouin cpeaxer
Cornetist
Just returned from
the Orient
: HALBERT MEMORIAL
BAPTIST CHURCH
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Sunday, 7:30 P.M., Aug. IS
Featuring
Musical program
it Youth choir
it Colored slides
Joyful singing
"No Foolish Fanaticism!
No Frigid Formalism!"
ROBERT E. SANDERS,
Minister
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For many years now, science has known that exposure to light has certain undesirable effects upon the
keeping qualities and vitomln content of milk. After considerable research, Prof. D. V. Josephson of
Ohio State University says this: . .
'The problem of the "sunlight" flavor Is Important because It can be produced by short,
periods of exposure to sunlight ond even in the shade., We hove produced this flavor In
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the production of this flavor ond the roys responsible for riboflavin destruction are un
likely to pass through amber glass. ,
Ever on the fookout for new services ond developments that will benefit our customers, Curls Dairy
recently learned of a new omber-type bottle, specially designed to filter out these harmful fight roys.
To prove to ourselves the effectiveness of this new bottle, wo took two quarts of our homogenized
milk, identical in every woy. One was In the regular clear gloss bottle and the other was In the
special amber bottle. We placed both the bottles in the daylight for one hour and then put them owoy
In our refrigerator for several doys.
At the end of that time, several persons were asked to taste-test samples of both bottles. In every
case, without knowing which milk had been In the protective bottle, all agreed thot the unprotected
milk had developed a definite, strong taste, while the protected milk wos still delicious ond sweet. We
repeated the experiment ot various times ond under varying weather conditions, but the results re
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In keeping with our policy to give our customers every possible
protection and benefit, Curls Dairy once again establishes
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