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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Monday, January 18, 1954
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LEBANON Lacomb school Includei the old building left,
till used for classrooms, end tbe new modern building which
wu completed but ftiL Four district were consolidated to
form the present Lacomb school, district 73. In addition,
seventh and eighth grades from the neighbor Salt Lake school
attend elases her.
" LEBANON Main street in Lacomb Is typical of the nation's
mall country towns. The general store, center, is flanked
. with residence neatly fenced with pickets. Far left is the
Lacomb Baptist church and beyond is the school. The grtrge
- hall, post office and community building face the street at
right
Long Dormant Lacomb Stirs,
Prepares for New Prosperity
By KATHERINB HARRIS
' LEBANON Lacomb, one of Linn
county's most eastern communi
ties, is easily accessible from high
way 20 and lies in valley of un
usual beauty To the northeast is
Snow Peak. Crab tree creek. Roar
ing river and the middle fork of the
South Santiam are all water po
tentials to the area.
From the Crabtree has been de
veloped a splendid irrigation dis
trict, which so far has been little
utilised.
' Only a few decades aeo the La
comb section was overgrown with
fern. The clearing of its land and i
the subsequent transformation to
mnlmnH4 mmrhttlttirat ' fa
one of the success atari of Unn '"'
county. . ,
The settlement lie in the foot
hills of the Cascades. Promises of
future development are many, and
wiui its excellent sou, irrigation
system ana equable climate, the
Lacomb area is due to blossom
when its many attribute are rec
ognized and developed. The sec
tion is notable for numerous pock
et farms. Their feet are in the val
ley, and narrow strips of tillable
land run up into draws with thick
sunns of fir bordering small creeks
which flow the year around.
Lacomb, now in somnolent mood,
shows little increase in population.
It school enrollment increased
only U over that of last year and
it is one of the few school! in the
county whose primary clasa was
not bursting this fall. Beginners
numbered only 28, showing no ap
preciable increase over those of a
year ago.
Few Farms Warded
In contacting residents of the
area, one is impressed with the
very few farmers who reallv work
at farming as an occupation. Near-
Shotgun Blast
Wounds Two
' SANTA ANA, Calif. If) - Gary
R. Mark, 19. of Grant Pass, Ore.,
was on of two youths wounded
by a shotgun blast from a shanty
community near here Friday.
Mark and Marvin F. Cooper, 18,
Suite Ana, were in a group that
had been tossing rocks at the
shanty dwelling. Mark faces pos
sible loss of his right eye and
Cooper suffered arm wounds.
A transient who lived in one of
the houses was booked on suspicion
at assault wit a deadly weapon.
Ed Boehnke
GOP Chairman
PORTLAND (UP)-Ed Boehn
ke of Eugene today waa the new
state chairman of the Republi
can party, succeeding Robert El
liott of Medford.
Boehnke wss chosen here Sat
urday by unanimous vote of the
party's state central committee.
Elliott announced some time ago
he was resigning the position. I
Boe rinse said he would resign
aa chairman of the Lane county
Republican central committee and
promised a statewide organiza
tional campaign which he said
would take him to each county
at least twice during the year.
Keizer
ly all are employed in the lumber
indi!!ry or have Jobs in urban
centers, the while maintaining their
homes on the farms.
Some have put a portion of their
wages back into their holdings with
the result that many of the farms
look extremely prosperous with
new fences and machine sheds,
freshly painted homes and In many
cases modern new houses. In spite
oi mis up-ana-coming look, the
fact is that little is being raised
beyond gatden, berries, stock and
a minimum of feed crops.
f.VPrV VM, wa ntit all
spare back into the farm from thLR.?SESUR(5 " Pfci,1,c
wage my husband earn in log- h1?' w" wilhui
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cwnea wnen we must make a living
The town of Lacomb has the us
ual general store, post office,
grange hall, church, community
center and school, the latter on th.
outskirts. Lacombers are planning
vi u miuro ana uieir scnool so
indicates. It was recently ran.
solidated with three other districts
and a new modern unit dm nm'
pleted last summer at an approx
imate COSt Of $52,000, The v.rv h..t
and newest in equipment, includ
ing radiant heat, was installed, and
future plans include kitchen a
multipurpose room, and new cliuw
rooms aa the need arisen. It i .
uated on a five-acre tract which
includes a recently purchased playground.
The teaching lff (a k..j.j w
Ralpll Gibbs. and his assistant in
structors are FMricia Gray, Mae
uuiumca, vera urge, vera Barry
and two special teachers. Ben War.
rick, music, and Kreta Ayers. ape-
mmuni. inairman ot the
uv.ru is n. a. Ayers.
Han at Highways
A number of market roads con
verge in Lacomb like apokes to a
wheel bub. The area Is well pro
vided with power lines and served
by the Linn County Telephone com
pany. Ills post office, a small frame
tuilding, receives mail through
Lebanon by a star route.
Recently the little office received
national notice when it was bur
glarized and robbed of n
Even for the theft of this smali
amount, postal authorities are trac
ing the culprit with the zeal that
traditionally makes the pilfering
of the U. S. mail an offense to be
reckoned with.
, Lacomb, for many years noted
for its berry crops, saw a dropping
off of thi- product during the last
two seasons. A blight on blsck
caps has steadily endangered the
crop until the harvest was very
short last summer. Growers of
some of these largest acreages are
grubbing out their vines. Some
plan to return to strawberries
which was an important crop in
earUer decades.
Agriculture in the Lacomb area,
though now large inactive, offer
unusual attraction for diversified
farming. That its development
there will make Lacomb on of
western Oregon's garden snot is
hour Saturday night when water
seeped into a coaxial cab le about
so nuiea south of here.
The cable, which link Sacra
mento and Portland, also rrri-
regular telephone calls and im
leased by the Associated Press.
Repairs were completed at about
10 a.m. Sunday. A spokesman for
me racific Telephone and Te e-
graph Co. said the water seened
in when a landslide weakened the
cabL
The network TV blackout affected
stations in Portland, Seattle, Ta
coma and Yakima.
Commendation Won
By Mainwaring
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON,
Eugene (Special) William L.
Mainwaring, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bernsrd Mainwaring of 2540 Sko
pil, Salem, has been awarded the
Military Science I Cnmm-nH.tlnn
Award from the Army ROTC de
partment of the University of
Oregon.
This award was presented to
four freshman cadets for main
taining highest standards In the
ory in cla&aroom work and on
the drill field during the fall aca
demic term.
Mainwsring, who attended high
lw"i jii rxampa, laano. Is a
freshman In journalism at the
university.
KEIZER Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard Morgan presented an assem
bly program. "Adventure with
th Indians of the West." in Kei
scr school Jan. 18 at 1 p.m.
Student council meetings were
held at Cununuigs school and
Keizer school. v
Flags will be presented to the
nine rooms at Cummings school
this week.
A health clinic wss held at the
Cummings school Jsn. 13, with
immunisations.
This clinic was held under the
auspice of Mrs. Hugh Adams
and the health committee of the
Keizer P-TA.
An assembly program will be
held Jan. 20 with Mr. Summers'
sixth grsde in charge of the pro
gram. "Strange Things Are Happen
ing" wu presented in the Keizer
school auditorium Friday eve
ning, Jaa 15. Benefits go to
Keizer Scout activity.
Kay Shidler performed the
original modern ballet Joyce
Mount both sang and played the
piano. Mrs. Harvey Lea sang,
snd Mrs. William Nufeldt played
"Bumble Boogie" as a piano se
lection. Larry Powell who took
the part of "Grandma" kept the
play at high pitch.
Parrish junior high school
bsnd played several numbers.
Sharon Bowles did some danc
ing numbers also. Director was
Marvin Black who no doubt was
responsible for the excellent performance.
The Home Economics club of
the Keizer Grange met Jan. 14
st the home of Mrs. Emma Seely.
Chairman, Mrs. Nan Francisco,
opened the meeting. Attending
were Mrs. Francisco, Mrs. Thel-
ms Evans. Mrs. Mae Nekuda,
Mrs. Dorothy Goldsby, Mrs. Elsa
Black, Mrs. Betty Goldsby, Mrs.
Lena Ettner, Mrs. Agnes Lutz,
Mrs. Anna Claggett, Mrs. Ruby
Girod, Mrs. Wild Savage, Mrs.
Audra Whelan, Mrs. Ruth Hutch
ins, and the hostess Mrs. Emma
Seely. The Pinochle party un
der the direction of Mrs. Mabel
Bentson, was well attended.
There will be more of these.
The next meeting of Home
Economics club will be with Mrs.
Ruth Hutchins on Feb. 11.
The next Grange meeting will
be at the Grange hall, Feb. 3, be
ginning with a 6:30 pot-luck supper.
The Keizer Garden club will
meet Tuesday evening, Jan. 18
at tbe fire hall. The speaker for
the evening will be A. G. Bou
quet, from Corvallis. His topic
will be "Vegetable Gardening."
Marvin Black, program chair
man, will announce the speakers
of the year.
The Knit th Stitch 4-H club
met Friday, with Mrs. Roy Mog
ster, their leader. Prancia Mc
Creight served the refreshments.
The Burn 'Em Crisp club, a
Cooking I and II group of 4-H
bas bad several meetings mak
ing two kinds of soup and angel
food cake. The other group has
made golden rod eggs, toast and
cocoa. There are nine member
in the .club. Officer re: Presi
dent, Ionebelle Lappen; vice-
president, Carol Harland; secre
tary, Shirley Bagger; song lead
er, Nancy Walker; and news re
porter, Ann Welty. Their leader
is Mrs. Maurice Walker.
The Jolly Bakers met Wednes
day,, Jan. 6 at the home of Mrs.
Straw. All members were pres
ent The project was canning
cherries. Toy Esch served re
freshments.
Staff Sergeant H. Dodson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Dodson,
3640 Cherry Ave,, has returned
to the United States after being
in French Morocco for 13 months.
He will now be stationed at Mer
ced, Calif., until his discharge
which he expects on March 14.
The Keizer P-TA met Thurs-
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day, Jan. 14 at the Keitcr school
auditorium. President Leo John
son opened tbe meeting. Rev.
E. I. Berry of the Church of
Christ gave the opening prsyer.
Mrs. Stealer made her report on
tbe welfare committee. Fifteen
needy families were helped at
Christmas time. ,
The nominating committee for
1955 officers waa chosen. They
are: Mrs, Hugh Adams, Tom
Pomeroy, Mrs. Barbara Smith,
and Mrs. Dorthea Hansen.
Shirley Schultz, program chair
man, presented seventh and
eighth grade boys and girls in
tumbling. About 40 boy under
the direction of Mr. Wood per
formed, and about 45 girls under
Mrs. Macnamsra did some ex
ercises and folk dancing.
Mrs. Adams gave a report on
the work of the health commit
tee. A film on mental health was
ed, led by Dr. Trevelen, psycht
shown, and discussion follow
atrist Mrs. Macoamara's room won
the room count
Tbe February meeting wilt be
by the men of P-TA. The March ;
meeting will be given to the!
women.
Serving refreshment were
Mrs. Donald McCue, chairman; 1
Mrs. Harley Cordrey, Mrs. James
Moreley, Mrs. Chas. Ronk, and
Mrs. David Friesen. !
Banquet in Honor
Of Junior Citizen
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tbe Distinguished Service Award
banquet honoring Charles B.
Cornwell as Woodburn's junior
first citizen for 1953, are now on
sale at tbe Woodburn Pharmacy,
Piper's Jewelry or from any
Jaycee member.
Phil Branson is chairman of
the event which will be held at 7
p.m. Thursdsy, Jsn. 21, at the
Woodburn Ameriesi. Legion ball.
The new officers of the Wood
burn Jsycees will also he instal
led at this meeting.
Sig Unander, stale treasurer,
will be the featured speaker at
the banquet The distinguished
service award certificate and key
will be presented to Cornwell by
Harlan Roth of Silverton, Jay
cee district vice-president, and L.
H. Hilderbrandt, retiring Jaycee
president will be toastmaster.
The public is invited.
Cornwell recently received an
other honor when he was ap
pointed as a member of the Ore
gon State Board -of Funeral Di
rectors and Embalmer for a two
year term, by Governor Paul
Patterson.
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