The Sentinel
TWENTY YEARS AGO
H. A. YOUNG
Jean Pointer one day not long ago.
The baby was Jack Noah, the fifteen
months’ old child of Mr. and Mrs.
A. D. Noah. ... All the shouting for
a “rope” and a “ladder” and what
not, finally convinced Lee Goodman
that it was something more than or
dinary children’s racket that he was
hearing. . . . Goodman decided that
they must wait for the ladder which
presently appeared and up which
Jean reached terra firma again.
H. A. YOUNG.
George Bryant brought the Myrtle
Point mail through Wednesday but he
wouldn’t have made it if his carbu
retor hadn’t been on top of the engine
and so above high water mark.
the tangled skeins of many
Fragment» of Fact
and Fancy
Britain. Since the rise of
Churchill’s warnings of Ger-
military intentions went un-
by his own government.
2967 Enlist In
Oregon Past Year
With 191 enlistments for the regu
lar army during the month of De
cember, the Oregon recruiting district
of the regular army recruiting service
finished the year 1940 with 2,967 en
listments to the state’s credit, accord
ing to figures recently announced by
Lieutenant Colonel B. H. Hensley,
district recruiting office** This fig
ure set the best annual total recorded
locally since the recruiting district,
Was established in Oregon in 1922.
Local recruiting activities brought
their best results during the month
of October with the enlistment of
454 young Oregonians. Among dis
trict sub-stations, Salem was accord
ed first place with 237 enlistments for
the year. The Marshfield office re
ported 166 enlistments.
County Clerk Oddy lost no time on
the expiration of his term of office
last Saturday but started Monday for
his ranch up the East Fork in the
Gravel Ford section. Whether he has
yet arrived there his friends are un
certain, owing to the • difficulties of
travel now.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Catton, of
I d troeder"^ ~Aasen’s burg at Nor
way, spent holiday week in Portland,
returning Saturday afternoon.
Coon A Rickard have sold their
meat market here just east of the
Farmers’ store, to C. D. Ritter, of
Marshfield, and A. E. Martin, of Riv
erton, whb took charge on New
Year’s day.
IMO compared to $4,052,888 in 1830
and $5,916,399 in 1938, according to
* report by the state unemployment
compensation commission. Claimants
for jobless insurance in 1940 drew an
average of *71.07 compared to an
average of $88.29 in 1939, indicating
a shorter period of unemployment
during the past year. Employers con
tributed a total of *8,138,978 in pay-
reii taxes last year compared to *5,-
«16,830 in 1939 and *6,878,482 in 1938.
The reserve in the commission’s trust
fund was up to slightly more than
The state highway department
spent a total of *13,100,000 during
1940, a report by R. H. Baldock, state
highway engineer, shows. This total
includes *7,100,000 for new construc
tion; *3,530,000 for maintenance of
roads and bridges; *2,075,000 for bond
retirement, and *685,000 for payment
of bond interest. Most noteworthy
accomplishments of the year as noted
by Baldock include completion of
the Pacific highway route from Ash
land south to the California line,
grading and oiling of the last link in
the new Willamette highway and
completion of the new Pacific high
way route through the city of Albany.
Yet Offered at this Annual Event
brings gnu till these great
FEATURES and ECONOMY, tao!
Prisoners who are domiciled at the
new pententiary annex south of Sa
lem, will have to be content with a
stairway as a means of reaching their
sleeping quarters on the third floor
of the new building. The state board
of control this week turned down a
request of $5300 to cover the cost of
an elevator for the building, on the
ground that the “trusties” had plenty
of time to walk up the three flights.
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The State Land Board has em
ployed Marvin Klemme to supervise
the “blocking” of the state’s 700,0001
acres of school lands. This is the
first definite step in a program that
has been under consideration for
more than five years. The program
involves the exchange of school sec
tions scattered throughout the public
domain to the federal government for
an equal acreage grouped in larger
tracts and more conveniently accessi
ble to stockmen to whom it is propos
ed to lease the "blocks" for grazing
with the federal grazing service in
charge of grazing interests in Ore
gon and is thoroughly acquainted
with the problem presented by the
blocking program. It is expected that
the "blocking” will require the better
pqrt Of two years. The first blocks
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