Illinois V alley News, Thursday, December 9, 1948
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O'Brien News Notes
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By Ruby Thompson
MARCH OF DIMES
MUST INCREASE
An independent newspaper devoted to the development of the richeat C arl P reston retu rn ed from Los P ortland, Dec. 9— A request for '
valley in the world, the Illinois Valley and it« surrounding districts Angeles recently and was accom advances of $12,950 to enable four
panied home by Mrs. Preston's Oregon counties to carry on polio
m other, Mrs. Lindahl, who will program s in the face of epidemic I
visit here fo r a while.
conditions was telegraphed to the |
N ational Foundation for Infantile
Em m a Lemm entertain ed at a Paralysis in New York city today.
stork show er Sunday afternoon
The action, taken by the Found- I
fo r Hallie Waggy at the home of atio n ’s O regon's representative,
M. C. Athey - - - - - - - - - - -
Editor Mrs. Jim Curnow. Many lovely
Felix Montes, was announced by
g ifts were received by the honoree. Dr. E. T. Hedlund. P ortland post
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
,
In Josephine County
m aster and chairm an of the 1949
One y ea r ........................ .......>2 50
Oregon March of Dimes.
O R £ C W ) N L W S ( iP E R
Six Months .......................... $$1.25 Legion Membership Drive
Dr. Hedlund said th at advances
P U B I I S h | e R,S 4
A T I 0 N
Outside Josephine County
are
being sought for Polk, Des
Now Under Way
chutes, Benton and M alheur coun
One Year ................................ $3.00
F o r the past two weeks the ties. Tw enty five hundred dollars
The Illinois Valley News reserves the right to reject any advertising A m erican Legion Post has been was asked fo r Polk county, $1,750
copy whieh it deems objectionable. Advertising rates upon application striving to reach a quota o f mem fo r Deschutes, $3,400 fo r Benton,
bers set by N ational headquarters and $5,350 for M alheur.
Four
with two team s chosen and the other counties, Lincoln, Wasco,)
ENTIRE STATE STUNNED
contest will end December 25. So Yamhill and U m atilla, also have
experienced polio of epidemic in
When the whole truth of one of the worst bus fa r results are very g ra tify in g
The Legion dues of $3.50 per cidence this year, and Dr. Hedlund
accidents in the state was finally known, it so stunned year
go tow ards the support of the said th a t although th e ir funds are
Southern Oregon that business was about at a stand local Post, Legion m agazine, Leg virtually exhausted, the fo u r “ ap
still. Josephine county didn’t muçh care whether ion new spaper, sta te and nation pear able to squeeze through w ith
school kept or not, as far as business was concerned. al h eadquarteis. O ther Post ac out direct assistance from N ation
tivities p articipated in are w elfare al” .
The people were absolutely depressed.
F irst advances are being re
work, children school luncheons
To try to comfort the bereaved parents with words and com m unity chest drive.
quested for Polk, Deschutes and
of sympathy might seem to them a nice motive, but A cem ent sidewalk has been put Benton counties, but M alheur has
$10,700 from the N ational
only good old nature can heal the wound that hap in fro n t of the hall and work is received
gettin g under way to a lte r the club- Foundation this year, according
pened without notice or warning. Yet all of us send room to allow fo r b e tte r venti to the state March of Dimes chair
our deepest sympathy to the families of Sterling lation. A new flag pole will soon man. In all, M alheur has spent
Heater and A1 Newman, and to the Grants Pass high be erected to replace the old one nearly $23,000 in the past 18
recently blown down in the last months as a result of its 1947
school in this terrific loss.
epidemic and a few scattered cases
storm.
this year.
Coming home with the greatest laurels they could
In addition, many Oregon coun
possibly win, and in the shadow of their own dooryard
ties— plus hundreds throughout the
Oregon
4-H
Members
Win
to be so terribly disrupted, was almost more than we
nation— have weakened their chap
humans could assimilate for a time.
Six Awards Nationally
te rs’ financial position by making
Grants Pass won and lost, yet in losing, the entire
The 17 4-H m em bers who made substantial advances to the N ation
al Foundation, Dr. Hedlund said.
state and the Pacific Northwest send their deepest up the Oregon delegation to the Epidemics
in N orth Carolina, Tex
recent N ational 4-H d u b Congress
sympathy. Yet we can’t help but believe, Sterling | in Chicago m ade an extrem ely as and California riddled N ation
and A1 will he swarming around the Grants Pass foot high record of accom plishm ent al’s epidemic aid fund, and Dr.
ball team next year in spirit, urging those boys to with club contests when six of their Hedlund warned th a t "th e situ a
tion in general m eans th a t the
greater laurels, for those two spirits are eternal and num ber won national recognition next
March of Dimes m ust succeed
in com petition with club members
will never die.
as never befo re” .
from all other states.
Last week end Dr. Hedlund con
L. J Allen, sta te 4-H club leader,
-O-
reports th at fo u r of the six Oregon ferred in Portland with K athleen
club mem bers will receive $200 Allen of New York, director of the
VVHD ELECTED HARRY TRUMAN?
college scholarships in recognition N ational F oundation’s medical-
Ever since the election, some of the more prominent of th e ir aw ards. One member, social service, and was told th at
harlotte Jean Sm udla, 16, P o rt the nation’s num ber of polio cases
labor leaders have been claiming that the unions C land,
received her trip to N ational in 1948 would approxim ate 30,000
elected Mr. Truman. According to them, the biggest 1-H Club Congress as one of eight an all-tim e record.
single issue was the Taft Hartley Act.
national w inners in the 4-H beauti
fication
of home grounds contest.
1 hat will take a good deal of proving to anyone who
H EA LTH C LIN IC
Margie Meier, 14, Hillsboro, was
has made even a cursory examination of the final adjudged on the eight national The follow ing work was done by
returns. Gov. Dewey ran strongly in the industrial health contest w inners, but sh- Dr. S. B. Osgood and sta ff of
states, where the labor vote is proportionately largest, received n0 aw ard beyond the trip G rants Pass at W ednesday’s clinic;
3 laboratory tests done; 8 children
and carried most of them. The President, on the other to Chicago.
exam ined; 8 diphtheria shots and
hand, did extremely well in the agricultural regions
one smallpox vaccination given. |
where organized labor amounts to a small minority Local Retail Stores
The next clinic will be W ednesday,
December 22.
of the population.
And the Community
Junction, Oregon, by the Illinois NATIONAL tD i lO nl/Al_
Valley Publishing Company.
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at Cave Junction, Oregon, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
Arizona provides the most interesting example.
The prim ary function of a re
Mr. I ruman carried it easily. YeT, at the same time, the tail store is to provide a place
OUR ERROR
voters approved a measure outlawing the closed shop. where people may buy th eir food An e rro r in last w eek’s issue of
clothes and hardw are and all
That certainly doesn’t look as if the people want labor and
the rest of the necessities and lux the News, the dance date in tbe
to hold the whip hand over the government or the uries of life. The m erchant is pur advertisem ent should have read
people
chasing agent fo r the consumer. December 4 instead of December
Beyond that, retailing serves 11, and we apologize. The dance
Mr. I ruman does not owe h is ,success to any group
highly im portant and often over com m ittee wish to announce th at
or any class. He wasn t elected by labor or capital or a looked
function It is one of the Legion dances have been tem por
agriculture or any other segment of the nation. He Kieat builders of the community. arily discontinued, until a new
was elected by the American people, and he is the Pres The stores all com pete to a ttra c t schedule has been form ulated.
ident ot all the people. He doesn’t even owe allegiance business— but they pull solidly to
g ether in m atters that effect civic
to the Democratic leaders—-most of them deserted him progress and the creation of a
when they thought his cause was lust, and he won in b etter town. This is good business
for them — and good business for
spite of these unadmirahle defections.
everyone else too.
H arry S. 1 ruman has a chance to go down in history
The retail m erchant is the foun
as one of the great Presidents—as a man who, when dation of A m erican com m unity
of LASTING
the world was torn between slavery and freedom, life. Why not patronize your local
stores?
PLEA SU R E
stood staunchly for the liberties of mankind, and was
too big to admit allegiance to special interests of any
Radios, Radio Phono
kind. The whole civilized world hopes that he may '¡nwdust Club 's Next Meet
graphs. Records
measure up to the enormous responsibilities that have 'n their Own Clubhouse
Electric Irons, etc.
The Sawdust Club met with
tallen upon him. He has a chance now to ^ise above
Mrs. Verla P enninger Iwst week
The finest presents you can
group prejudice or group selfishness.
CHRISTMAS
G IF T S
YOU CAN’T QUIT ADVEKTISING
YOU’RE TAI.KING TO A PARADE
NOT A MASS MEETING
for their fifth m eeting of the Red
< ross N ursing course.
Members recently made an in
teresting trip to the Illinois Valley
Dairy where Mr. M artin showed
them how milk is pasteurized and
the cleanliness th ru o u t the dairy.
The Club will hold their next
m eeting December 15th, in their
club house. New members and
visitors are extended a cordial in
vitation to attend these meetings.
give to the entire family.
Come
in and .e, uj explain
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