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CENTRAL POINT STAR
FRIDAY, J l'N E 6. 1930
VOLUME TWO
Coast Highway
Gets Federal
Aid Allotment
Break <»f Nature
Provides Many Thrills
Food Speculators Attack
Farm Board Program
Up on the left fork of Sardine
Creek, at the old Grey Eagle Min
ing Company's diggings is a queer
freak in the form of a bouse. The
building is tin* old assay house
m aintained ut that property in its
hey day when the Gray Eagle was
among the producers of tills sec
tion. The building as built upon
l.urg«* Sutii li Allocated fur Graillng tile side hill witli one side set upon
underpinning.
In the years that
In Florence Section
have pusseil Hie old house lias grad
Allocution by the federal govern ually settled down until now the
nicnl of $600,000 for Orogon high- one side of Hie house rests upon the
way convlruction will make possible hill side in the actual contour of
I
tlic completion of the Oregon Count the slope.
By Caleb Johnson
As a result of the alignment of
Highwny in much sh orter time tliun
One of the tilings whi.cli every in
tin* (dd house it provides a peculiar
w in expected.
telligent person knew would happen
The iinnounceinent of the ullocu- sensation for anyone attem iiting Io as soon as the Federal Furin Board
tinu of the feilerul money was rnnile enter. Il has come to be knosCn as got itself organized and into action,
lust week ut u m eeting of the elute the .'Crazy House" of Sardine Creek has happened.
highw ay held in Portland. Of the ami manv iieoplc from ull over
The knockers have begun to
totul sum, ttie Oregon ('oust higli- Southern O ngon have journeyed
knock.
wuy will receive $2511.000 which will up Sardine Creek to solve the m ys
Criticism of the Hoard, of its me
he used in meeting the cost of 5.3 tery of the building and decide why
miles of highwuy in the Florence those who enter are greeted with thods and policies, of tin* law under
such a peculiar feeling. There are which il operates, were expected
district north o f Itccdsporl.
The cunlrncl for the grading of many solutions offered but we be- j 'I hey were inevitable. Something
this 5.3 m ile s will he aw arded some lieve that it is merely a m ailer of new is being undertaken and uny
time this summer. Completion of the freak lay of the building. At tiling new always brings to the iront
this work will leave less than 14 any rate many of tin* valley have tlie interests w hich do not want
miles of ttie Oregon ('oast highway been treated to a queer sensation, anything changed.
Some of the criticism is honest,
not completed or not under contract some have even fainted upon e n ter
some dishonest. Some come* from
uud even completion of thia section ing the idil building.
disgruntled farm er
organizations
is now fairly possible.
¡ i i k I groups who dont waul tlie Farm
If the plans of the highway com
T h i t tl t R a ilin g P ro fita b le
Board plan in the first place and
mission are fulfilled, every foot of
Th»
t«a»»l, a cactus-ilka th lstie. pro
don't want it now. Some comes
the scenic roust highw ay will lie
•id*-» I t s only entirely eatlsfuetnrj
open for travel by the time the m esa s o f curding wool, rem oving th< from political farm ers who* want to
Hogue river briitge nt Gold Beach burr and bringing up the uap. ConiH* em barrass W ashington for political
purposes of their own. And a good
is finished lute in 1931.
quently Io som e parts o f the worbl
The rem aining portion of the fed esp ecially In Bngland, In northern deal of it comes from private in te r,
eral allocation w*is distributed oil New fo r k end In Oregon, raising i sts who see their control of the
ttie federal aid roads throughout th istles for the wool aianurscturins grain trade, the livestock trade and
the state, of which 9H2^>00 will he Industry Is s regulnr business. T esset» other commodities, slipping aw ay
expended on Hie Siuslnw dike sec were Introduced Into A jn eth a by Wll out of their hands and into the
gain Kiiooka. a s Bngltabman. Is IS2<’ hands of the farm ers themselves.
tion.
Tin* attack upon tlie Farm Board
by the United States Cham ber of
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Commerce is the one which has got
the most publicity. The Chairm an
of the Chandler of Commerce of
the United Statesi s Mr. Julius Bar
nes Mr. Barnes is also one of the
NEW S
A C T IV IT IE S
largest
p rlv at- dealers in w heat in
H ealth Oflicer
By Ur. B. C. Wilson
the I'n ited Stales He does not want
tlie wheal trade to pass out of p ri
vate hands. N either do the private
dealer« in other agricultural com
cause much dislurlianc Io tin* child modities who joined with Dr Barnes
THE BABY TEETH
The bnhv teeth are all there nt while they are comin;. through the in denouncing the F arm Bourd Act.
birth just In-low Hie gum. although gums, because of their knifc-like They included representatives of
tlie National I’outry and Egg Dealers
you cannot see them. The roots or eutliiig shape.
Tlie first tem porary —pre-m olars Association, tlie Michigan canning
are not entirely form ed; hut the
crow ns of the teeth, tin* part which as they are generally called—(there industry, (lie Philadelphia Wool and
will cvenluuly show in the mouth, are no bicuspids in the first set Textile Assoeiaiion, tlie American
arc eompctcy formed mid arc w ail o f teeth)— «generally appear by ttie Assoeiaiion of Cream ery Butter
ing for the lime when the child is end of the first year. The cuspid M anufacturers and num erous sim
developed enough to use llicm, then teeth, or eye teeth, as they are some ilar organizations o f business men.
Mr. Dan A. Millet, investm ent
tin* roots develop and the crow n of limes called erupt about the eight
the tooth is pushed up through the eenth month. They push their way hanker and stockman of Denver,
gum and we gel our first glimpse through ttie gum between the late Colo, was selected by the cham ber
of baby’» tooth. Tin* lime of the ral incisor and the first pre-m olar. to lead tin* attack, the essence of
eruption of the deciduous, or baby , The second pre-m olars arrive us which was that it would be better
teeth varies greatly, owing to ttie ually about the third year. This to go hack Io the first principles,
deelopnient of I hat part of the bo makes tw enty deciduous, or baby witli no artificial interference with
dy; usually Hie first tooth appears teeth, which is all of tin* tem porary economic laws; to abolish tariffs
and al! artificial aids to business,
from five Io eight m onths after teeth
When the baby is one year old he labor and industry.
Mr. Millet's
birth.
One of the front teeth (central should have twelve teeth; and it is philosophy seems to be expressed
pear, and usually w ithin Ihc next about this time (hat he should have in tin* following quotation from his
Incisors) is tin* first tooth to ap- his first tooth brush and his tra in address: ‘ Let no nuin think that
two months all four front teeth ing in the care of his mouth and living standards in America can be
have arrived—two upper anil Iwo and teeth should begin. Keen them perm anently m aintained at a m easu
lower. When tin* front teeth are in just as w hite shiny as when they rably higher level than those of
place, those on each side will show first appeared. The child soon be oilier civilized countries.
Thai expression indeales the point
up. These usually erupt anyw here comes accustomed to having his
from the seventh to ninth month. teeth brushed after each meal, and of view of tlie business and specu
These eight incisors— four upper as lie grows this routine will be lation interest w hich are opposing
and four low er — usually do not come a part of his life. He should any form of relief for Ihe farm er.
lx* encouraged as early as possible
The effective answ er, made by
to brush liis own teeth and so cre C. C. Teague, a mem ber of the Farm
B oard,w as:
SAMBO'S PHILOSOPH Y ate tlie habit nt an early age.
A great many people do not be
"We have been m easurably suc
lieve that il is necessary to care cessful for 101) years in keeping
for Hu* baby teeth because, so they the living standards of American
reason, Hie child will soon lose labor and American farm ers above
them ami gain a good set of teeth the peasantry of Europe and the
In their stead. This m istaken eon- earning power of American capital
eptlon lias caused a great deal of above that of Europe and I do not
unnecessary suffering and serious believe th at our people are yet
after results that could have been realty to abandon that policy.”
prevented so easily. Of course the
Tlie operations of the Board that
baby teeth will all he gone usually have brought about the most criti
h.v tlie lime Ihc child is twelve cism are those in wheat and ro l
years of age, but the fact that these lon. During October and Novem
teelli were put there for a purpose ber, there was a stock panic when
and that some of them are going Io probably 51) per cent of the sup
slay even that long makes it nec posed values of industrial slock was
Tlie country lias
essary that we make every effort squeezed out.
to keep llienj as healthy and free been suffering from the effect of
from decay as possible. Aside from this ever since; wheat and cotton
this the prem ature loss of one of were headed in (he same dow n
these little teeth results oftentimes w ard direction.
“Me an' muh I'nlnliiali, a n ’ mah
In an effort to revent any further
In a serious deform ity of Ihc face
Pahdnati's frlen' Picked Mo cotton
anil Jaws as well as a serious c rip serious decline in these commodity
dnn de gins con.d gin. Ain' got no
money, hut All'll s< on have «nine. pling of the child's chewing mach prices the Farm Board offered to
inery at a time in his life when loan to co-operatives $1.25 a bushel
Aoou'a da o f Indy gits de w ashln
it is cost vitally needed.
on wheat and 10 cantf on cotton
NUMBER If.
/\gcd Boots Creek
Man Dies Y esterday
Charles A. Wahl a native of Ba
varia, Germany and a retired ra il
road engineer, passed aw ay at a
Medforil hospital Wednesday m orn
ing following a long illness.
Mr. Wahl has been a resident of
tlie Foots Greek section for Ihe
past fifteen years and was a very
beloved neigtibor. Mr W ahl is su r
vived by his wife, Pauline Wahl
and three sons, Carl and Will of
Waterloo, Iowa, and F red Wahl,
lashier of the Farm ers & Fruit
Growers Bank of Medforil.
The remains w ere taken this ev
ening to W aterloo, Iowa for in ter
ment.
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wilh (lie eustoinary grade, variety
.BUSINESS MEN TO
anil freight differentials Io ttie var
ATTEND SCHOOLS
ious term inal m arkets. This proved
effective for several m onths, but
L oral
I n /lilu le s
to
B rin g
L ate
later when there was a sharp decline
M eth od s in M er c h a n d isin g
in the price of wheat the Board,
C o lle g e Men C o m in g
under tlie term s of the agricultural
m arketing act, authorized an em er
With business methods for m er
gency stabilization operation in
chants
changing as rapidly as wo- i
wheat The purposes of this stab
m en’s styles, commercial leaders o f ■
ilization operation was to take off 29 Oregon cities have again sclie- I
the market w hatever quantity of
wheat was necessary to prevent any duled summer institutes this y e a r ,
as a means of keeping in touch I
considerable decline in the price.
with the most modern developments
In accordance w ith its announce in th eir field.
ment last Octolier the Bourd contin
These institutes have been devel
ued making these loans to the wheat oped as a co-operative
project
and cotton co-operatives over a p er among (tie Oregon Betail Merchants
iod of more than six months, re association, Ihe school of commerce
gardless of tlie fact that the market at Oregon State College, and the
part of this lime was below the loan college extension service.
They
vulucs. The policy of fixed loans j have proved so popular that the
values on cotton anil w heat, togelti
i schedule has grown to five times
er with the subsequent stabilization the proportion of the first year
operation in wheat undoubtedly when only six w ere held.
saved a panic in these commodities
A staff of three men will hold
which would have cost the farm ers the institutes at each place, two
of the country many m illions of days being sent in each city. I-ocal
dollars, and the business depression com m ittees arrange for the meeting
had been added to Ihe business de and invite in business men from su r
pression caused by industrial stock rounding towns in the various
losses it perhaps might have cost counties.
the country billions of dollars. This
H. T. Vance, in charge of courses
action was taken in a national em er in m erchandising at O. S. C. will
gency and in the opinion of the give lectures and dem onstrations
Board was entirely justified and In in advertising and salesm anship. E.
the interest of all the jieople even if E. Bosworth, head of courses in
later the action cost the taxpayers accounting, will handle phases of
some money.
business management, and O. F.
Another form which Ihe attack Shate, Secretary of the Betail Mer
upon the Farm Board is taking is chants Association, will deal w ith
the wide-spread effort to convey store arrangem ent.
tlie im pression that its operations
The schedule will begin at Albany,
will increase prices to the consum June 30 and July 1, and includes
ers for farm products, the idea ap Cottage Grove, Roseburg, Grants
parently being tc get cities who are Pass, Medford, Ashjand, Klamath
strictly consumers, lined up in op Falls, Lakeview, Burns, O ntario,
position to the producing farm ers. Baker, LaGrande, E nterprise, Pen
The law under which the Farm dleton. Heppner, Arlington, The
Board operates directly charges the Dalles, Redmond, Bend. Toledo, T il
Board not to support co-operative lamook. McMinnville, Hillsboro, O re
organization or stabilization opera gon City, Newberg, Salem, Indepen
tions to a point that brings on any dence, Hood River and Corvallis.
distress to the consum ers.
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other reason that consum ers need WORKMAN AT QUARRY
have no fear is thal it is not pos
OVERCOME FROM GAS
sible to get a monopoly in food pro
ducts because of the ease and quick
Elm er Fuller, an employee of the
ness w ith which producers can get Lively Lime Products Co., was
into agricultural production, the brought to the city in a very cri
small am ount of capital required tical condition yesterday as a re
and because of the always available sult of monoxide poisoning. Mr.
land inviting Ihe producer when Fuller was employed in the Lively
ever there is an opportunity for qu arry and while tunneling broke
profit. Therefore, any attem pt to into some old diggings from which
arb ritarily raise profits to a level a quantity of w ater and gas was
where unreasonable profits are giv relieved with the result that the
en the producer is sure to bring a unfortunate man was overcome. He
flood of production that will de was brought to town and given first
feat the attem pt and bring disaster aid by Dr. Chisholm. He wqs taken
Io the producers.
to his home near this city and is
The old speculative system of dis now resting quite easy.
tribution has been proved ofttimes
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wasteful and inefficient. It has of
O ldcit F o r t t t
ten failed to pay the producer a
An
Inter-glacial
forest—one which
living price for his products and
at tlie same time tlie consum er has grew betw een two glacial eras and
w as covered ever by the second
often had to pay high prices. On glucter, thus being preserved for ceu-
the other hand it has been dem on turiea— has been discovered on the
strated that in many eases where north side o f M endenhall glacier oeai
producers are organized into effec Juneau. Alaska.
tive co-operative sales organizations
they have been able to prosper and
at Ihe same time not to put a b u r
den on tlie consum ers of the country
That w hich makes this seeming in
consistency possible is that through
co-operative organization producers
are able Io effect many savings in
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wastes and im proper charges be
tween the producers and the con
sumers w hich are reflected in a
larger percentage of the consum er’s
dollar being returned to the pro
ducer.
It is a gigantic job which the
Farm Board has undertaken. It
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STOCKBfc<P€E
M URDER
One person out of every ten thou
sand is murdered every year in tlie
United States. That does not mean
that your chance of not being mur
dered is only ten thousand to one. For
the ordinary peaceable citizen the
chance is nearer a million to on«* that
he will flie at the hands of a murderer.
Most of the murderers' victims are
themselves potential murderers. In
probably half of the killings it is a
question of which criminal got the
drop on the other.
I lived several years in Chicago,
many years in New York. My work
as a newspaper man took me into tlie
most dangerous parts of both cities
at all hours of die night. I never (elt
the need of carrying a weapon and I
never new of anybody not a crook,
who was sober, unarmed, and not dis-
plaing signs of wealth to tempt a foot
pad or a burglar, being murdered ex
cept by some crazy man. which might
have happened anywhere.
PROPH ETS
The voice of the prophet is still
beard in the land, but it is the voice
of the scientific research worker dis
covering new processes which will re
volutionize some industry, and of the
tra Ir
commissioner
reporting
these
new developments to manufacturers.
A short time ago one of the Govern
ment's trade commissioners reported
from Berlin that German chemists had
found a new and cheap way to make
methanol, usually called “wood al
cohol.” The Department of Com
merce broadcast that news to every
producer of methanol in America.
Only one paid any attention; he
sent a man to Germany to find out
more about it. The ethers sat tight
until, a few months later a shipload
of the new German methanol arrived
in New York, to be sold at less than
the American cost o i production. Then
the manufacturers demanded to know
why they had not been told. They
simply had not listened. T
All of the old plants for making
methanol had to be scrapped and new
ones constructed to make it by the new
process, and the man who had listened
to the prophets was the first American
in the field with cheap methanol.
MOON
The hottest Qbject anywhere near
the Earth is die Moon. Also it is the
coldest. Observers using the 100-inch
telescope on Mount Wilson have been
measuring the moon's temperature for
a year. They report that the parts of
the moon on which the sun shines are
hotter than boiling water, and the side
away from the sun is at least 254 de
grees below zero. •
The reason for this is that moon is
a dry, dead mass of cooled-off lava,
or melted rock. It has no water, no
vegetation, no life, nothing to make
clouds to temper the rays of the sun.
If it were not for water vapor in the
earth's atmosphere we could not live
on i t The blanket of vapor keeps the
heat from the sun from burning us up
in the daytime, prevents that heat
from escaping at n igh t
One way astronomers can tell
«'■•’her other planets than our» are
p , \ . .! 'y inhabited or not is by study-
;ig :1 eir atmosphere through their
c real telescope. The only one on
which it seems possible for life as we
know it to exist is Mars. When the
new ¿lO-inch telescope is finished we
shall probably get some evidence as to
the population of Mars.
SPERRY
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Elmer Sperry, inventor, has just re
tired from business at 72. He prob
ably will keep on inventing. He built
the first electric lighting station in
the world, using arc lights, before
Edison invented the incandescent bulb.
He invented the modern electric coal
mining machinery. H e made the first
electric automobile. He invented a
process for extracting chlorine and
alkali from common salt which forms
the basis of one of the great electric
power industries at Niagara Falla.
He discovered a way of reclaiming tin
from old tin cans, founding a business
which buys tin scraps from the can
factories, removes the tin and sells it
to silk manufactures to weight their
goods and melts up the iron plates
into window-sash weights. H e in
vented and built the most powerful
searchlights in the world, giving off
more candlepower per square inch of
surface than the sun itself, and now
used by every Army and Navy in the
world.
'
Sperry is best known as the Inventor
o f “Metal Mike,” the automatic
steersman for ships, utilizing the mys
terious principle of the gyroscope.
H e invented the gyroscopic compass,
the gyroscopic stabilizer for ships and
for airplanes. One of his recent in
ventions tells railroad men whether
there are any hidden flaws in their
rails. H is latest Is a light weight
Diesel type engine for airplanes.
Only Edison het produced more useful
inventions 4a» Kiner Sperry.