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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
SPRINGFIELD NE_WS
Published Every Thursday at
Springfield, I.an» 9'ounty. Oregon by
I
T H E W ILLA M E TTE PRESS
U. E
see FARM PROFIT
M A X E Y . K ’ llor
Entered as second class matter, February 34. 1903. at the poetofdre.
Springfield. Oregon
LUMBER CUT IS BELOW
AVERAGE FOR YEAR AGO
Naw Buslnaaa Orders Continue To
Exceed Production; N ew Musi
nas* Gain M Par Cant
Mr, Edwards place.
Niva McPeek and Florence Jor
dun who are adeudlug Stale Nor
mal school at Monmouth were at
A baby girl was horn to Mr. and their bomee at Pleasant Hill over
Mrs Ralph Weaver Saturday after the week end
noon. January 18. Mrs. Weaver
formerly Josephine Mathews Is al !
the home of her parent». Mr. and TW O IN IT IA T E D IN TO
Mre. Roes Mathews of Pleasant
N EED LEC R A FT CLUB
Hill. Mr Weaver who Is employ
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ed lu Portland was down Sunday,
Mrs. Koherl Challertou aud Mrs
January 13. to see bis lidie daugh Marlon Hall were lultlaled lulu
1er Mrs. Weaver Is a graduate of uieiiiherslilp In Needlucrsft club
die Pleasant Hill high school and last Thursday eveulna at the Imme
has eluce graduation been working of Mrs. F II. Flanvry. Mre. I, M.
In Portland
Peterson, Mrs lasureuce Moffitt,
Mrs. Chapin la enjoying a visit and Mrs. It. II. Culberson were lu
from her sister. Mr» Ida t'adw-ll charge of the Initiation Mies Car
of Eugene
rle Fluuery waa a guest at the
A number of young folks gather meeting, ulid Mias IHrrolhy Fiauery
ed at the home of C. 1). McPeek, vulerlained with piano solos. (Iroup
Monday night. Jan 14. to charivari ■ logins was also enjoyed
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Fairfield who
Nelt mesdug of the club will be
were married In Salem January 2. lu die unlure of a potluck dinner
Mrs. Fairfield graduated from die to he held al (he home of Mre.
•Pleasant Hill high school lu 1928 Walter Gossler on February 7, This
and haa hmm keeping house for her will be held at 9 30.
father. C. D McPeek. Mr McPeek
haa turned Ills ranch at Cloverdale
over to the young couple tor a year M E T H O D IS T PASTOR 18
aud has gone east lu visit relative*
A NTI-W AR CROUP HEAD
living lu Colorado and Missouri
The student» of the Lowell high
Rev Dean C. Poindexter. pastor
school gave a farewell purty Io Mr of the Methodlet church In Spring
and Mre Tom Power* Saturday. field. WSe elected preeldenl of the
Jan. 13 Mr. Powere ha» gone Io Lane county chapter of the Na
Monroe where he hue accepted the tional Council fur Prevention of
position a» principal of the Monroe War at the niiuul meeting held al
lilgh school. Delbert Edwards ha» ihi' Christian church lu Kugonn Fri
taken his place at Ixiwell aud Vir day evening
He succeeds Rev,
gil Klngsly of Eugene ha» taken Cecil F 'Itlalow lu the office
Upper Willamette
LUMBER CENSUS
Seattle, Wash Jan. 24—A .total
Both Produce and Payments
of 538 down and operating mills In Stata Ranked Second In Na
Gains Seen In New Year; Oregon and Washington which re tion In Output In 1933;
Cost Rise Predicted
Help Thraa-Fourtha Laao
ported to the West Coast Lumber
MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RAVE
Ose Year in Advance
61.50
Six Mouths
Two Years in advance__ 62.60
Three Months .
THURSDAY. JANUARY 24, IMS
men's association tor the weeh end
SulMtantial Improvement Io the ing January 13 produced T7.4a8.399
Washington ranked first and
61 00
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60c i relationship between farm Income board feet of lumber This was Oregon second In the United States
anil farm cost» in Oregon la shown approximately 28.IHIO.OOO feet over In lumber production for 1933 ac
THURSDAY. JANUARY 24. 1935
by data given In the annual report the preceding week which Included cording to U. S census figures
I of the agricultural economics aec- the New Year's holiday. The aver recently complied by the Depart
TO KEEP OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN HEALTHY
j tion of the Oregon agricultural ex
age production of this group of aaw ment of Commerce In cooperation
In the interest of keeping the healthy child healthy tension service on the general out- mills in 1935 has been 93.944.633 with the Fureat Service. The total
the school board instituted a program in the Springfield look for farming in 1936 which has feet; during the same period In national lumber rut for 1933 was
public schools this week. The plan calls for closer check Just been released for distribution 1934 their weekly average was 96. 13.991.134.0(H) board feet as against
10,161.332.000 hoard feel for 1932
and quicker elimination of the pupils with contageous dis through the officea of the county 076.069
ease. Three hours a week s e n ice for this work has been j agricultural agents.
The new business reported last and 19.523 943.000 board feet for
"Farm Income from sales and ad week by 633 mills was 104.383.473 1931. 1933 repreeeata the low water
geuetously donated by a local physician.
Justmeut
payments combined Is ex board feet against a production of mark In lumber production for the
The plan does not call for the school physician to pres
cribe or give medicine to any sick pupils. That responsibil i peeled to be larger during the first 77.438.398 feet and shipments of lael 90 year period. 1933 shows
ity rests with the parents and must be arranged for by half of 1935 than during the first 76.998.540 feet. Their shipments un 37 per cent increase over 1932, and
: half of 1934 but after mid-year the der production of 2.3 percent and estimates point Io a marked Im
them and at their expense.
i situation is more uncertain.” ac their current sales were over pro provement for 1934 over 1933 fig
Measles, chickenpox. mumps, "itch" and other diseases j cording to the circular. However.
In 1939 the national lumber
have been prevalent in the schools since the term opened ' with higher prices for animal pro- duction by 36.4 percent. The orders urea.
cut totaled 39.889.033.000 board
booked
last
week
by
this
group
ot
this year. In some room s more than half the children have ' ducts expected and a greater vol
feet.
been afflicted and conditions are bordering ou a “ epidemic. ume of crops for market probable, Identical mllla were over (he pre
ceding week, a holiday period, by
It is hoped th at the parents will cooperate with the it is likely that farm Income will about 37.600.000 feet or approxi in 1933 Washington cut 3.109.
096,000 board feet and Oregon 3,
school board and school physician to elim inate disease in , he maintained.
mately 39.6 percent. "While thia 259.038.000 board feet. Ixmlslanu
the school and preserve a high standard of health. Spread
In regard to the cost outlook, the week's order record indicates
of disease causes loss of school, doctor bills, undermined I report Indicates some further ad continuation of the encouraging up- was third with a cut of only 839,
health for the pupil and also the sam e thing for other m em vance during 1935. based on the word trend of lumber buying. ' the 009.000 feel. Mississippi ranked
bers of the family if the disease is contageous. In the ag trend of farm and faintly expenses. a sedation stated, "the exception fourth and California fifth. Oregon
and Washington together produced
gregate it represents a great loss to the community.
| While expenses may Increase ally high volume reported la part
38.4 percent of the national cut
It is believed that the new health program in the school
ta n g ly offset the expect ly accidental through the coinci while the eight states of the south
will reduce to a minimum sickness in the whole com m unity ed moderate Increase In (arm In dence of an unusually large num ern district produced 33.3 percent.
since the school is the chief source of disease spread. i cotne.e all types of farming con ber of accumiated order offerings Of the Oregou production 1,407,
Stricter quarantine has been pledged by the city health of I sidered. the report points out that being placed this week.”
000,000 feel was Douglas fir and
certain enterprises will undoubted
ficer. Cooperation is expected from the parents.
A group of 438 Identical mills
981.090.000 feet I’ouderoaa pine.
ly fare better than others.
whose records are complete for Spruce, hemlock, cedar, Sugar plua.
With some exceptions, the mar both periods, show total orders While ftr. larch and White pine
TH E GOVERNOR S PROGRAM
I ket outlook during the next year Is 1936 to date of 178.687.404 board also figured In the production, and
The county unit plan of school adm inistration is the . more favorable for animal products feet, compared with 113.993.161
only one of Governor-General M artin's four point proposals > than for crop products, says the clr board feet for the same period In alder, cottonwood and maple added
to the legislature we can give whole-hearted support and , cular. Prices for meat animals will 1934. an Increase of 66.7 percent. approximately 30 million heard
it was turned down by the people of Lane county at last undoubtedly be much higher thun The unfilled order file at these feet.
Give your children plenty of milk to drink. It
election. We think that when school problems are better in 1934. while feed grains and hay mills stood at 391.937,363 board
gives growing children atrength and energy for ntudy
understood that schools will be adm inistered in larger units. . produced in 1935 are likely to be feet, auproximutely 29.000,000 feet PASTURE COST FACTS
and play. Every child needs Iota of milk and it need»
The tendency has been in that direction for a num ber of much lower, as the supply of feed over the week before. The aggre
SOUGHT IN PROJECT
to be pure und safe by piiHteiirlzatlon.
years both for efficiency and economy sake.
gate
inventories
of
438
mllla
are
in relation to livestock numbers in
Federal approval has been re-
No doubt there should be some consolidations in com the county as a whole is expected 9 9 percent more than at this time elved for conducting a compre
Maid O 'l'ream milk, delivered dally at your door, In
missions but to put the sole authority in the hands of the to be much larger If growing con last year.
hensive pasture coat study In Ore
handled
under modern nuultary conditions Htibject to
ditlons
are
about
average,
accord
governor who has never had previous experience with state
gon to be financed with Purnell re
rigid atate inspection.
affairs in Oregon seems to us unwise. It is laying the ing to the report.
T H R E E STARS APPEAR IN
search funds The study Is to con
foundation for a condition similar to that which exists in
FORSAKING ALL O TH ER S' tinue over three years, durlug
Louisiana where one man m akes a m onkey out of the rest OREGON LEADS W EST
which actual data will be gathered
of the state.
• Forsaking All Others.” the most from between 600 and 1000 pasture
WITH SOIL SURVEYS
studded film since "Dinner at enterprises scattered throughout
In the m atter of planning for long range development
Oregon leads all other western Eight,” comes to the McDonald the state of Oregon.
there can be no quarrel but with appointing a large com
mission with a big appropriation to spend there must be »tales In detailed toil surveys and theatre Sunday. The new picture From the studies It la hoped to
some question. The suggestion that the planning com m is , invoices of soil resources, reports is revolutionary in several respects. determine for the different kinds
sion be organized from heads of present state departm ents Dr. W. L. Powers, chief of soils at In the first place the cast Is headed of pasture their relative produc
by three outstanding stars. Joan
with civilian members drawn like the highway commission Oregon State college, following
■ conference with Dr. J. O. Lippman. Crawford. Clark Gable and Robert tiveness under varying conditions,
and serving without pay is worthy of consideration. We
the coat of the feed produced and
can not blame the legislature for being concerned when the director of the agricultural experi Montgomery, who. while they have the factors affecting It, means of
governor recom mends the elimination and consolidation ment station la New Jersey, who Is played In teams, have never before reducing this cost, and the coat of
of commissions on one hand and then urged the appoint now in the west in the interests of appeared togother.
establishing pastures.
m ent of a super commission with great powers on the the National Resources board. One Secondly, the new picture has a
representative from each of the verve and pace not the slightest
other.
The Oregon dairy cost study con
western states attended the con bit weighted or slowed down by
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ducted In a similar manner a few
ference at Berkeley called by Dr. the enormity of its cast.
CITY OFFICERS AND HARMONY
years ago showed that rrom a third
Lippman.
As a light comedienne. Joan
one-half of the feed of dairy
One councilman takes issue with us in our rem arks
The work in Oregon has recently Crawford reveals a new side to In cows is obtained from pasture. It
editorially last week that personal ill feelings were enter received impetus through the grant manv admirers. She is par excel is presumable that pasture Is an
ing into councilm en’s action. He disclaims that there is ing of an SERA project for tabulat lence as Mary. Parkavenue-lte who even more Important factor In
any ill feeling by council m em bers toward the recorder and ing and summarizing the data al- is left standing at the altar one other livestock enterprises, says
points out that cooperation m ust come from both parties. ready gathered and making addi minute and Is pursued by two of H. E. Selby, farm management spe
To this of course everyone must agree and w hat we said tional chemical analysis. Dr. Lipp New York’s most dashing males the cialist. who will head (he new pro
about councilmen and harm ony goes for the recorder or man reports that the basic task ot next.
ject. He will be assisted by A. 8.
any other city employee. They must above all things obey classifying the soil resources of the
Billie Burke as tne nervous so Burrler. E. R. Jackman, and O. M
"Where the Servies Is D lfferent"^ ^
orders and be loyal to the duly elected adm inistration or country will probably be continued lely matron; Charles Butterworth Nelson of the experiment atatlou
discention results and the public business suffers.
(of the ''dead pan”) as Gable' staff.
until completed.
closest friend; Frances Drake as
We do not expect any councilman to sacrifice his per
the dark-haired Iren, and Rosalind
sonal convictions just for the sake of getting along. Rut DAIRY C H IE F TO SPEAK
Russell as Eleanor, the girl friend
now that both sides say they are going to do their utm ost
AT O.D.A. M EET FEB. 4-5 all turn in brilliant performances
to preserve harm ony we shall be interested to see them
The modernized Victorian set
dem onstrate it. We are glad to hear there is no ill feel
The forty-second annual meeting
tings by Cedric Gibbons and E
ing to sta rt with.
of the Oregon Dairymen's associa
Willis are the best you’ll see thia
tion will be held at McMinnville year.
February 4 and 5. with A. H. Laut-
erbach, chief of the dairy section of
the AAA as one of the principal W H E A T CONTROL PLAN
speakers.
C O N TIN U A TIO N SEEN
The complete program for the
While northwest wheat grow-rs
session has not yet been announ
sad width con tain» Four Great T rea aira
ced but it is known that Mr. Lau- are urging speed in disposing
terbach will speak on Tuesday the accumulated wheat surplus In
afternoon and again at the annual this region, Chester C. Davis, ad
THE MODERN MARKET PLACE
minfstrator of the AAA, has Just
banquet Tuesday evening.
announced to middle west wheat
The national visitor Is a dairy
“You m ean th at we ought to do street preaching,” a
growers that the present, plan of
preacher once asked me.
farmer himself, and was formerly
wheat acreage control will in ail
manager of the Wisconsin Coop
t
street preaching is not at all analogous to w hat eratlve Cheese Producers associa probability be continued after the
current three-year contracts expire
Jesus did. The cities in which He worked were both small tion.
at the end of 1935. This coincides
and leisurely; the m arket was a gathering place where
with the opinion expressed by
everybody cam e at some time—the tran sfer place for all
m erchandise and for ideas. Where will you find such a STA TE EVEN TS ISTED FOR George M. Farrell, chief of the
m arket-place in modern days? A corner of Fifth Avenue’
FARMERS, HOM EM AKERS wheat section, when he spoke to
the Eastern Oregon Wheat league
A block on Broadway? Only a tiny fraction of the city’s
Coming events in agriculture and at Arlington recently.
people pass any given point in the down-town district on
Mr. Davis said that while there
day’ A m an m ight stand and preach for years home economics of state-wide In
a t Fifth Aevnue and Thirtieth Street, and ony one in a hun terest In the next few weeks In are some disadvantages in the
clude the following:
present type of program. It will not
dred thousand would ever know th a t he lived.
Fourteenth
annual
Canner's be dropped until something better
No, the present day m arket-place is the newspaper and school, Oregon State college, Feb Is presented. Regarding the single
magazine. Printed colum ns are the modern thoroughfares- ruary 4 to 16.
contract Idea to cover several com
published advertisem ents are the cross-roads where the
Oregon Dairymen's association, modities, he said a practical plan
sellers and the buyers meet. Any issue of a national m aga forty-second annual convention, of that sort would be welcomed,
zine is a world’s fair, a bazaar filled with the products of McMinnville, February 4 and 6.
but up-to-date no Improvement over
the w orlds work. Clothes and clocks and candlesticks-
Oregon Cooperative council, an the present type of program Involv
soup and soap and cigarettes; lingeries and limousines— nual meeting, Portland, February ing processing taxes and benefit
the best of all of them are there, proclaimed by their m ak 7 and 8.
payments to growers has been of
ers in persuasive tones. T hat every other voice should be Oregon Butter and Ice Cream Mak fered.
raised in such great m arket-places, and the voice of Jesus ers association, twenty-fourth an
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of Nazareth be still—this is a vital omission which He nual convention and short course,
NOTED ENGLISHW OM AN
would find a way to correct. He would be a national ad Corvallis, February 11 to 16.
la your radio Handing in the oonor xilent, d u ty, uaueed—oerryia*
SPEAKS AT U. O. FRIDAY
vertiser today, la m sure, as He was the great advertiser of
raemoriea to all the family of waird, diHurblag noiae. or la H a m u.l<3
Fifth annual Home Interests con
J?8
To t l e minds of those who hurry through ference, Oregon State college, Feb
instrument, a oompanion for all the family, to which you point with prida.
Muriel Lester, British novelist,
the bristling pages, He too would send his call:
ruary 12 to 16.
and the Jane Addams of London will
Thia year's radio will prove a revelation to those whooe sots era four or
What shall It profit a man If he shall gain the whole
speak at Villard hall on the unlver-
world and lose his own soul; or what shall a man give in
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five yean old. AU extreneoue noiaoa practically eliminated T n ^ __ u ._
TAKE TR A FFIC VIO LATO RS [ slty campus Friday afternoon at 4
exchange for his soul?
of ««eh purity it must be hoard to be believed N a t u r a l ^
t*J
IN S T A T E -W ID E D R IVE oclock The noted relief worker
A
thrllh, aad beauty that inspire.
<*•<* to o . that
entertained Gandhi when he was
riiis would be His challenge in every newspaper and
Oregon motorists In the number ln London to attend the peace con
m agazine; and with it would be coupled an invitation to
ni 775 were found guilty of traffic ! ,erence. a»d has written a book
Half the money paid before wiU gat a radio today that ia a rood a«.
share in the joyous enterprise of His work.
violations over the state during the about thl* experlece. She also
. k Why not trade in your old lot? I t will prove the beet investment in « U rto in
A very successful publisher has a rule th a t no photo month of December according to v,H,ted Gandhi when she was In
meat end eompenionehip for the entire family you have ever mad«
graph shall ever be printed in his newspaper unless it con- figures compiled by the Secretary i ,nflla She Is enroute from Los
i
" ° \ MU radl° ' ’ bnt y<mr kx* 1
d<aUr "B I be proud to Aow
tain« hum an beings. You and I are interested most of all of State. Of this number 59 were Ar’K*’1«» to Seattle.
^ b ° T r 1V?a: ne,Xt 1° ,t h at we are int erested in other people. deprived of their operator's license,
Several Springfield people ; are
yon the lateet instrum ent A new radio for Ohrietmae would prove a reveia-
.Yhat, do they look ike? How old are they? What have 10 on recommendation of Oregon I>lann,nB to attend the lecture Fri
| tion to the entire family. Ask your dealer about radio« today.
they done and said. With unerring instinct Jesus recognized Judges, and the remainder because ! ,lay “fternoon.
and used this trait in hum an nature. One of the most re of the state law which specifies ,
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vealing of all verses to those who would understand the this punishment for certain con LEGION GROUPS PLAN
untn he m Uii,Or T ‘8 t h m
thin«8 8pake Je8U8 victions.
POTLUCK FOR T O N IG H T
until the m ultitude in parables; and without a parable spake
Fourteen licenses have been re
He not unto them.
A parable is a story. He told them voked during the first five days of
Springfield
American
Legion
stories, stories about people, and let the stories carry His January and one was suspended.
post number 40 and members of
In Lane county two operators the Auxiliary will have their regu
message. He m ight have adopted very different m ethods -
many teachers and would-be leaders do. He m ight have had their licenses revoked and one lar meetings this evening at Taylor
dealt in generalities.
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suspended during the month of hall. A potlcuk supper at 6:30
December.
will precede the business meetings.
i *nou«h *°
Boys Have
Big Appetites
Springfield Creamery Co.
GIVE H E R B
CANDY
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R G G IM A N N ’S
I UN
HAPPINESS ON THE AIR TONIGHT
M ountain S ta tes P ow er Com pany