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About The American. (Central Point, Or.) 1928-1936 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1932)
Thursday, May The AMERICAN, CENTRAL POINT, OREGON Page 2 Work of completing the grading on tae middle sector of the Camas creek grade on the Pendleton-John Day high way Is now being carried on by two shifts. It is expected to complete the grading by July 1. While leading a search for Marion Long, 70 years old. missing from his Ashland home, O. W. Dunford, county Jailer, was bitten by a rattlesnake when beating through the brush. His condition was not serious. Ten thousand fingerllng trout were prematurely released Into Crabtree creek recently when a truck bearing the fish broke through a bridge at Is land inn and crashed into the stream. The fish and truck and driver were un harmed by their 12-foot fall. OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Through Mists of Memory Principal Events ot the Week ^ rrr Assembled for Information ot Our Readers. T » IE ! great war i* a memory now, shrouded in the mist* of years into which men vanish . . . but out of the rain and the darkness on the long road to Flanders comes the sound of hobnails clanking . . . and faces flash out from the night and fade again . . . men of the diamond, the gridiron and the track . . . Hank Gowdy, brav. est of the Braves, the first big leaguer to go . . . Tommy Hitchcock, trading his seat in the sad ■ die for a ride on the back of a war eagle . . . John Miljus. he of the wild pitch, tossing fast ball grenades at the pill boxes at Varennes. . . . Red-shirted Shawkey standing by at the sur render of the German grand fleet. . . . Major Frank Cavanaugh, sitting down to fumble at the shrapnel in his shoulder. . . . Tommy Armour, fighting the darkness with shell-tom eyes. . . . Jess Petty and Joe Harris, with the bases loaded and mud up to their hips. . . . Eddie Ricken- backer, cruising the c'ouds like a bird of prey. . . . Johnny Poe, Johnny Overton, crashing that Hindehburg line. . . . Tony Wi'ding, Captain Cheape, Tommy O'Brien, Jeon Bouin, Cyril Tolly, Gene Tunney—faces marching past into the mists . . . a face flashes past that will not return— Eddie Grant, stopping his last terrific line drive with his heart . . . into the darkness and rain they march again . . . but the war is old now and memories of men vanish in the mists of years. — Detroit News. g I I % n r T H E M ARKETS Portland Wheat — Big Bend bluestem. hard winter, 71c; soft white and western white, 61 %c; hard winter, northern spring and western red, S9Hc. Hay—Buying prices, f. o. b. Port land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $14. Butterfat—Pound 13® 15c. Eggs—Ranch, 11 & 12c. Hogs—Good to choice, $3.2504.10. Cattle—Choice steers. $6 5007. Lamb»—Spring, $4.9005.00. Seattle Wheat—Soft white, western white, hard winter, 60Hc; western red, 59%c; northern spring, 61%c; blue- stem, 70Hc. Eggs—Ranch, 13015c. Butterfat—Pound 17c. Hogs—Good to choice, $404.15. Cattle—Choice steers, $607. Sheep— Spring Iambs, $5® 6. Spokane Cattle—Steers, good. $606.75. Hogs—Good to choice, $3.6003.75. Lambs—Good to choice, $4.7505.50. Chiloquln won school track meet Its score was 70 grade school was third. Those I^ast Hours of the Great Conflict Memorial to the Nation’s War Heroes N THE darkness of thnt unhappy RLINGTON was never destined night of devastation, the lust night to be a battlefield. It was fated of the World war, the old fighting to be Instead a vast monument Eighty ninth—by that time one of the to the fruits of bnttle. There were crack shock divisions of the A. K. F.— brought the dead from those terrible bridged Powder river, near Slenay, fields where, for four years, the youth tinder the fire of those dendly bat of North and South slew each other In teries from the eustern shore, nnd fratricidal warfare. There rose, In threw the Three Hundred nnd Fifty token that North nnd South should third Infantry, the sunflower regiment, no longer shed each other's blood, a on Into enemy land. I'p the gentle monument to the Confederacy. There, slopes of the Meuse they went, "main without distinction of state or section, talnlng contact with the enemy.’' now lie dead from the Spanish war— What meunlng In those five simple Including the sailors of the Maine— words! Perhaps back In nor homes the Philippine Insurrection, and the In America, after all these soft and World war. The monuments are often peaceful years, we forget—doubtless distinctive, nnd there are atones carved most of us would like to forget 1 Hut with the last brave words of dying the comhut men of the A. E. F.—God boys. - help them—will never remove from No soldier, from the Unknown In their seared memories of those days his magnificent emplacement above the thoughts which "contact” brings, the river to the humble Vermont or mustard gas, shrapnel, wire, machine Iowa private brought with the other guns, the deadly bayonet, the high ex shattered wreckage of the Wilderness plosive, the dirt, the filth, the hnvoc or tha Rappahannock, could ask a o f action. lovelier resting place, or one more The morning wore on. Fighting peaceful. Despite the constant going men went down, never to rise again. and coming of visitors, the place Is Others Clawed the brown grnss and qulef— far quieter, probably, than It soil tn agony from wounds they will was In the early days when Mr. Custls carry until the sunset day of life. used to allow the people of Washing Put still the Americans pressed on. ton to hold picnics down near the And then came the first order of river In Custls grove. No one dances change, from the commanding ofllcer. In Arlington now as they did In those watch In hand, of a battery of the days before Ita somber glory had been "heavies" miles In the rear. "(Vase bestowed upon It. Rut one can wan Firing." A little later the same Idea der along shaded roads and paths and had transferred Itself to the fussy 7.1a he aware of the heavy march o f his Then came 11 o'clock and silence! tory. of exquisite natural beauty. It was the end! Four long years of O f old. u n h a p p y f a r -o ff things. travail were over. And there the men And battle« long ago, Stood, "with their hnnds still ctas|>ed of yesterduy's bereavement, and of on their empty gats and their thoughts •corsa the seas.” Mother, sweetheart, a pain so old that It has long since wife—they would see them again!— ceased to he pain. The visitor may pass In review Kansas Farmer. 0 almost the whole history o f the H» puhlle— pioneer days, for Arlington VIRGINIA S TRIBUTE was once a wilderness sold for a few hogsheads of tobacco; Revolutionary days; years of far flung Internecine warfare, shaking the nation to Its foundations; records of fighting on the western plain* and on the Islands of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; nnd finally, the sacrificial years of 11*17 and 1918. Rut he will come hack to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an unanswered question—with the question. Indeed, which more than any other In these latter days troubles humanity. For there Is still »puce for other valiant dust. I Impressive memorial to her bravi ions, dedicated by the state cd Virginia fat the national capital at Richmond. A In Mvntorism In grateful memory of the soldiers who fought In the French and Indian war; soldiers and sailors of the American Revolution; heroea of the War of |H12 and the Mexican war; soldiers and sailors who fought la ihe War fhr the Union. IMI-IMB; veteran* of the Spanish American war and the World war; oo!d!era and frontiersmen who fought In the In dlan wars; and those hardy pioneer men and women who endures! danger ' and privation amt death by torture at the ha nits of the aa isrrs In order to idvance American civilisation upon this continent—we how tn reverence Memorial day —St. Louis Poet Dts •atrk W h o Was W ho? By Louise If. Comstock iV.V.VAV.V.V.V.V.V.v. DEVIL JUDD TOLLIVER u P \ EVIL," John Fox. Jr., called hi* • S in "The Trail of the Lon«™, Spinach harvest has started tn the Troutdale and Corbett communities. The sudden change of weather from cool, moist days to heat Is hastening the harvesting and cutting down the value of the crop. However, many fields are turning out good yields. Salaries of city employes of Eugene, beginning June 1, will be cut 10 per cent, according to action of the city council. The resolution did not in clude elective officers, but R. S. Bray- son, city recorder, voluntarily asked that he be reduced 10 per cent, also. The campaign to rid the state high ways of overloaded trucks, and restrict the speed of all commercial vehicles within the legal limitations, is to be continued vigorously by the state high way commission. It. H. Baldlck, state highway engineer at Salem, has an nounced. The Southern -Pacific depot and ticket office at Central Point, Jackson county, has been closed for lack of business. Miss Cora Smith of Monmouth does a large part of her garden work with a spade which has been continuously in use in her family for 47 years. The blade Is approximately 7H by 11 inches and worn much shorter on the left side. The original handle Is in excellent condition. the county grade at Klamath Falls. points. Altamont second and Malln More than 500 idle workers of Wasco j The yearly wool shipments have county will be given employment with started from eastern Oregon, mostly in the next two weeXs, when $10,000 I by truck, and over the Waplnitia cut la to be expended for the picking of off. Some is coming 60 miles from the pea crop. beyond Burns and two trips weekly The board of directors of the Marsh are all that can be made. The wool field Chamber of Commerce has gone goes to the Woolgrowers’ Co-operative on record in favor of placing a tax of association in Portland. 10 cents per pound on all butter sub Severe winter conditions in Oregon stitutes sold in Oregon. uplands, especially in the Blue moun- Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus C. Wheaton , tain range, together with famished of Tigard celebrated their 60 th wed predatory animala, made heavy in- ding anniversary recently. Mr. and roads into the number of deer during Mrs. Wheaton were married in San the past season, according to the April Francisco, Calif., In 1882. report of Stanley G. Jewett of the Contracts have been signed by 18 United States biological survey. farmers of Tillamook county to raise Laying of the 141 tons of submarine lettuce, following the visit there of j cable to form the main river unit of Walter S. Roberts of Forest Grove. the transmission system of the North- Planting is now in progress. western Electric company between 1932 j Pine,” "DevIP’ Judd Tolliver, but u up and down the borderland of Kt* tuoky. from the Big Sandy to thecui* tier land nnd far Into the Blue nidge mountains of Virginia he «a* bum as “ Rad,” "Bad” John Wright, straight, shooting son of the hills, a had m« to pick u quarrel with. If you doubt« that the lanky old man who died Jus a few years ago at the age of ninety had earned that ominous title, you bn only to look at the thirty odd notch« on his gun. or nt "Wright's cemetery; a little plot so called because “BaV John had filled more graves in It than any other cause. It is only fair to give credence to Wright's claim that all of Ills killings were in the cause of law and order,ot at least under circumstances under which, somebody being bound to be killed. Justice was with the keene« eye and the straight est aim. Rut light ing was his second nature. During the Civil war he served first as scout fot Morgan's Raiders on the Confederate side, was captured and Imprisoned at old Fort Smith nnd on his releaae Joined up with the Union army and fought with It through to the ®nd of the war. He was quite a family -nan, loo, several limes n husband and fa ther of over thirty children wtu>m he kept track of in his own mind by the ingenious device o f associating them with their mother's maiden name. Alice Wright, the original of June of the novel, for instance, was a Harmon. When John Fox, Jr., knew Wright, he owned 3,000 ncres o f land In Lonesome cove. All except the burial ground which held his ancestors hack to the days of Daniel Roone Wright later sold out for a ridiculously low price to u coal company. THE TEDDY BEAR j T 'H E Teddy Rear, essential to every i A nursery twenty years ago and still ! a popular toy, was o f course named for Teddy Roosevelt, but how a Presi j dent of the United States became asso ciated with a humble little stuffed bear Is Just another proof of the so called “ power of Hie press.” T WAS the armistice. The eleventh About 1888 In a title village In Ger hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918, marking the j many a crippled dressmaker named Margarete Steiff concocted out of left end of modern man's most terrible de bauch of blood-letting; starting the Canyon City’s traditional “ Whiskey Portland and Ariel hydro-electric pow- over scraps ot material n little stuffed desolating hangover period from Gulch” '62 celebration has been an er plant in \V asliington, was complet hear which she presented to a child of the neighborhod. The hear proved which the combatants of the World nounced for June 17 and 18. Friday ed by the Phoenix Utility company. so popular that her brother, Richard war—both victors and vanquished— will be Pioneer day and Saturday’s The three oil-filled cables were laid Steiff, with an eye to business, had are Just emerging. program will feature an emigrant ; from Vancouver to Hayden island last other hears nmnufartnred nnd put on And around the world there was j week. train. the market. The first stuffed heart universal rejoicing and peace. The blaring or sirens, the blowing Fire hazards In the national forests All public utilities operating in the 801,1 ln this country were Imported of whistles, the ringing of hells, the this summer will be at the minimum, j state of Oregon were ordered by In 1902 liy Rorgfeldt A Co. . waving of flags. Streets littered with in the opinion of C. C. Hall, super j Charles M. Thomas, public utilities Ilia! same fall President Roosevelt paper, surging crowds, parades and visor for Linn county. There Is more commissioner, to file in his depart- went hunting In Mississippi. Soon the demonstrations; Caruso singing from snow in the mountains than for 15 or | “lent by July 1 complete and detailed ever watchful press informed the couu the fifteenth-floor balcony of Ids 20 years. | inventories of their properties. Thomas • r> that its President had refused to Broadwny hotel; negro red caps In shoot a small bear which had been If the high school tuition law is de j said the inventories would be used in captured and brought Into camp foi Grand Central station rnke-walking through the concourse behind one clared unconstitutional 518 pupils, or connection with future Investigations h "i to kill. Clifford E. Berryman* porter who was paahing an Invalid 23.5 per cent of the enrollment In of the rates, charges and practices of cartoonist, proceeded to make tile l!> utilities. chair In which was a stuffed figure of Salem junior and senior high school* culent subject for a cartoon In which ths kaiser. will be affected, according to Super oosevelt, gun in one hand and the The Apple Growers' association can The President's and Mrs. Wilson's intendent Hug. ier raised traffic cop fashion as if nery at Hood River will commence automobile escorted to the Whit* operations early In June. V. C. Follen- to prevent such a deed, stood with his Resolutions opposing designation ol House by cheering throngs. '" ,ur,ied to another man leading Clemenceau—the old Tiger of France one group of doctors in a community I lus- « eneral manager, has announced, * liny hear on a rope, labeled "Draw —expressing hts satisfaction of vic for the treatment of patients subject j Processing and canning of straw- tory before the French chamber. to Industrial accidents have been , berries will be the first operation, ! * ,he Llne In Mississippi.” the car o°n took the country by storm. Berry- Rome—wild with victory; Tokyo echo adopted by the Polk Yamhill-Marion j which will be carried on until cherries man subsequent,, adopted the hear as ing with cheers—an silled world d » Medical society. ! are ready. Full-time operation Is ex- isco, or all of his Roosevelt car- llrlnus with Joy. The Linn county court has an ! pected during the strawberry, cherry *n', M" r “ « r r t e S te lfT s "stuffed Happy, dancing, singing groups all and pear seasons. or th» i *00" M n 8 sold as Teddy'» houetted around the campfires, and In nounced a new schedule of wages that Ranchers In the vicinity of Hood or tlle Teddy bear. the villages behind the lines, lights represents a cut of 20 to 25 per cent, appeared In windows that had been as compared with last year. It calls River are puzzled over an unusual darkened throughout the ear, welcom- for an eight-hour day with no allow phenomenon in local cherry orchards SAM PATCH this spring. From some unknown Ing beams of yellow radiance Invited ance for overtime. to warmth and comfort within. The Directors of the Klamath County cause a profusion of twin cherries r j , ’ E, nan“' ” r Sam became, sound of popping corks In crowded have formed on many cherry trees in Chamber of Commerce have voted In for , **n m ,,"t'» ago, a synonym cafes and estamlnets. All of It wns the middle and lower valleys. While j was nK’ " " li*urc foolhardiness. It a part of that corridor of light across ' opposition to the payment ot the sol the number of twin cherries on some did > ," “rh « f what he diera' bonus at the present time and war-tonj Europe, the glow, the hestj ; trees will not exceed 2 per cent, there | and the warmth. It was peace— have recommended that the Oregon 8 .» ,h* d l d «■ are a number of trees on which dual he sure Fr 'rH' ,> " '“ nt" Jumper to Washington Post. delegation In congress do its utmost ! cherries will number from 20 to 40 per bridge* Into^thl lN," n* ho,dl» ott to balance the budget. j cent, especially In Bings. fn.ru . he *,re»m below and HEROISM REMEMBERED The city council of Albany has de The dates for the 23rd annual Leban '»need in h ' ^ r T , ’,lnd" ',IU’ he ■* cided to maintain this summer the he leaned su, h a M n t ,haf on strawberry fair have 'been an municipal playground for children in nounced for June 3 and 4. Chairman Takenah park, which proved so sue ."•1». ..n ....... hl*h~ ' Walter Alvin and bis executive com cesaful last year. The city will pro Nli.gara ' and "n«1 the water mitte# of 12 business men have been vide a supervisor for three m -nibs at «'»o advanced o f course. working hard preparing to make the a salary ot $60 per month. rr''"' » humble , „ ? * nd I fair bigger and better than ever. Many tuck«, u . . '" n "Pinner for,un'* In Puw- The annual meeting of the Pin» new features are to be on the program born In 'n * hith place he was Eagle Dairymen's Co-operative Cream and the largest shortcake ever made In* down * p" hllc feure, draw- ery association resulted In selection ol will be on exhibition and will be cut '" » " I b, «dn,iringnit ? r*r,IOD ^ Gtl Wright of Newbridge nnd L. E and given away at noon on the first hr went * wherever Garltngbcuse. Halfway, as directors day of the fair. The cake will be 1} s«tn wayah t_ for three-year terms. The annual re by 14 feet in size and about a foot tl-h. At I.., ,,h c" nn,|'*nce and ambl port submitted to some ISO members thick and it will take about two days h* r»<-"l an cxc R h " . la2>- who attended showed *67.0*9 pounds to make and assemble the cake and t° *"* him i„,., . au,l"’ nce gathered * ’ ’"beaneo falls on of butter manufactured during the ;t will feed a good sized piece to 6000 the Geneas»» V, am, , 'r Rochester, N. year at Halfway and Richland. ; eople. ma* and ( ‘ ' ''" ‘'"on was a great '""eral Me con Further efforts are to be -nade to The Dcnglas county court win make 1u-t>d armies na,i"n* hut couldn't obtain the removal of the dai on the a bid for the grading of the Tiller lump th» r»l|a t*f* ' 'b* '¡eness»*. That north fork of the Nchnlcm rivt r by the Trail road, which is to be put under ' And *sm * **• »«*d do It I Nehalim Neroslrum Highway assort» contract eoon by the United State* dra-h uw,vl * r,kb '«Twd. to his tioa. The dam. It la claimed, prevents bur >u of public roads. Local labot *-‘iar )u„i|l#ri h"t »\»n famous fish from ascending the stioam te will be used U the county gets tbs " " r '»•ten.., must meet spawn. contract. * “ W * -1 ^ * Resolutions as’.ln* that the Philip Both wholesale and retail pricru tn pin# Islands te given their Independ :h* Willamette valley have declined in i ence ns a prevent!vs of tree shipment $3 1$ per cent or more since u ;g * man S,r" l«8t » « ’ " t h » If K . of copra and other vegetable oils Into Professor John M. Ra*. assistant pro rmi’ ** m. ^ U «ni. tha* the United State* have bees adopted f ssor of bus.ness edmin at ration told » r ..g. «'»a y s more by the Pomona grange of Columbia the Alt ny Ad cicb at their meetios (1 ■ Soldiers’ snd Sailors' monument county. * in* th» • "et **ut when wh»a nit la it sack. lowering above the Hudson rivar w J**’ »hie* ^ 11 "f *w*1 , „ un^ Riverside driva. New York. Marking the End of War’s I^ong Debauch I -I - T i ’¿¡T"" c .... .. j J R nra* »us,nra,