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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1940)
Illinois Valley News, Thursday. December 19, 1940 c Prepare For War Abroad Legion Head Milo J. Warner, national com mander of the American Legion, said recently that the American people “must be prepared to do our fighting outside the United States, not for the salvation of any other country, but for America I» He made this statement in an address at a luncheon which the Indianapolis Chamber of Com- merce gave for him and Legion de- partment officers for their annual conference at national headquar- ters. Í 4 I gamzing of many State Guard OFF IN A CORNER units. »» WITH PHIL SNORT Judge Patterson, himself World War veteran, expressed the Dear Ed: hope that “thousands of Legion- Yesterday. Jack Endert and I .»» naires' would join the State made a trip over on the Rough- Guards. and-Ready, two miles from the main surfaced highway and eight -o- -o* miles from my hime. Jack went Bloat Deaths Caused By for a material purpose and I sim Poison (¡as. Not Pressure ply to meet old friends, which dis tance and oppirtunity forbid me doing except on rare orcasions. To- That death from cattle bloat is da.v it struck me that that place caused by the poisonous nature of and those friends are a good theme the gases concerned rather than for this letter. The place is the last by the pressure of those gases, is place west of the highway and the conclusion of R. W. Dougher north if Rough-and-Ready creek. ty, asistant professor of veterinary known as the Wing ranch. Here is medicine, after extensive research where the Oregon mountains come into this ancient malady conducted down to meet the valley floor, at the Oregon experiment station. where the shores of an ancient Dr. Dougherty recently reporter! lake once was and where boulders his findings to the American Vet- and wash gravel do not exist, but erinary Medical association at its where fine alluvial soil does. On national convention in Washington, this slightly rolling alluvium glade D. C. stands a roomy, unpretentious It was found that carbon mon- home with the unwritten word wel oxide, which is the poisonous ex- come over the door, that can be haust gas of automobiles, and hy- seen a furlong away; yes, visible drogen sulphide, sometimes called to my eye from my home in Elk IÍ. rotten-egg” gas because of a valley. similar odor, were generated in ab- The first time I saw Ida Wing normal quantities under bliat con- was the winter of 1904-05, a ditions. young woman in her early 30's. Experiments were carried on She was at the Albright hime, here with an animal which had been in Elk valley, caring for the family provided with an artificial open who were all down with bad colds. ing from the side into the stom I guess we call it the flu these ach through which the nature of days. The two miles from the high the gases generated could be stud way to the Wing home is rough ied. If these two gases mentioned and hard to negotiate now, by car. were introduced into the stomach What must it have been 37 years under moderate pressure, she soon ago when the only means of loco showed symptoms of bloat distress motion was horse and wagon, or on and had to be relieved to avoid death. Ordinary air, on the other foot, and the miles out and in to He recalled that the Legion in convention had “declared that we can not properly protect America unless we make it strong enough to meet any possible invasion be- for it arrives so that our homes re main intact, our families secure »» He said that this country should “give all practicable aid to Great Britain and to those aligned with her in her fight,” adding: This does not mean that we send troops to Europe. It is our duty as citizens of America to face facts as they actually are and not as we would like to have them. “With that, at all times, goes the keen desire and determination to . avoid war if possible, but in any event to preserve our own Amer- i ican form of government and its hand, could be introduced under basic concepts.” great pressure without causing any The War Department is making serious difficulty. plans for state civil-defense units j Tests made on a heifer which whose main job in a national emer actually died of bloat revealed the gency would be to watch over vital the gases in the paunch in about industrial and transportation facil the proportions found dangerous ities, Robert P. Patterson, assist samples of the blood showed that ant secretary of war, said. He out it had absorbed large quantities lined these plans in a speech to of hydrogen sulphide gas into the commanders and adjutants of the blood stream, whicli was the prob Legion’s 58 departments. able cause of death. He said that the department Studies are being continued to was drawing up regulations for reveal, if possible, methods of pre organization of “State Guards” venting or curing bloat, based on similar to the “Home Guards" these hitherto unknown facts con- which in the World war reached a I j cerning it. total strength of 79,000 in 27 --------------o-------------- states. Subscribe for The News. “The State Guard will be alert to the fact.” Judge Patterson said, “that the wars of today know no front line; that a tiny village hun dreds of miles behind the theoreti irti cal front may suddenly become the j scene of desperate and blazing ac- 1 tion.” He explained that states plan-1 ning such establishments must prepare “a comprehensive program of organization and training for guard duty, handling disorderly ’ crowds and overcoming the light j resistance of armed forces. “The attention of the State ' Guard,” he went on, “will be par- ticularly directed toward the guarding of utilities, power plants, water works, industrial plants, docks, railroad yards, air fields and other sensitive areas.” Judge Patterson said that the units would be formed under State | laws “as infantry or as military police” and the War Department would issue 1917 Enfield rifles and small accessories and sell certain other enuipment to each “for a force not more than one-half the strength of the National Guard of the State.” New legislation will be necessary in many cases, he said, and “since most State legislatures wi'l not meet until January, there will in evitably be some delay in the or- the Wing place were tripled. Yet in sickness, accident or death one would find Ida where she was needed most, to administer as doc- tor, nurse or friend, a soul stead fast to her fellow creatures in ad versity. In those days we only had one doctor for the whole Illinois valley. Dr. Spence, who was held in the same esteem that our own Dr. Collman is today; but most always the way to Dr. Spence was long and travel was slow and hard, then people would say “Get Ida Wing," and Ida was gotten. The rest of this story will be told next week. o- Mr. and M rs. Earl Boyd will leave next Sunday for Hanford, California, where they will spend the Christmas holidays with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Martin. F r < * HAYNES CLOTHING SHOP Mr. and Mrs. Billy Haynes 19 BEST WISHES for C h r i a t m a s - i i m e FORGOTTEN SOMEONE? 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