May 2», 1952 on the uplands. Our wilderness trees
stopped no floods.
t
in the northwest and elsewhere. In The Floodless Parana . . .
The River Plate runs dark with the
simple, everyday, language, a flood
is a slopover from rain or snow melt soil of the Argentine Pampas past
By JAMES STEVENS
Buenos Aires, and the mighty Parana
which the land does not take.
The Big Slopover . . .
| river that feeds it flows as muddily
Rain soaks the soil.
Or melting |
When people at table eat only a snow soaks it. The soil will take just through hundreds of miles of treeless
part of what is set before them, there so much of a soaking. Then it slops plains-
Yet ocean ships find a safe channel
are leftovers in dishes and on plates. over and runs off. The runoff gath
up and down the Parana between
Likewise, when lumber buyers and ers in a brook or creek watershed anil
Buenos Aires and Rosario, for there
users balk at buying parts of the wood courses on to join with other such
are no floods on the Parana, no high
in the forest tree, those parts neces streams. They come to a river. The ■
water ,no low. The vast Pampas do
sarily become leftovers from the log river rises. It’s a flood!
1 not slop over into this river that
ging of the tree. "Residuals” is the
All a big slopover. That’s how it matches the Mississippi in size be-
technical term, and "waste” the po has gone since the beginning of things.
cause saturation goes deep in the soil
litical term, for logging and sawmill Our biggest northwest floods were
and runoff is slow always from the
leftovers.
before 1900, that is, when there had flat lands. I’ve been there, on the
So it is with the spring flood here been practically no cutting of forests river and on the ground.
The Pampas and the Parana prove
the contention of the late great scien
tist, Dr. Willis Luther Moore, that
the turning of forest areas into cul
tivated fields, pasture lands, vineyards
and orchards in America have not
“intensified floods, prolonged drouths,
or otherwise harmfully affected the
climate.”
This contention was in a paper writ
ten by Dr. Moore about 25 years ago,
based on his “half century in the study
of these problems, daily watching
changes in the weather, the fall of
precipitation upon various catchment
basins, the gathering of waters into
tributary streams and their culmina-
tion as floods in main-stream arte-
ries.”
He had directed detailed studies of
the Ohio and Tennessee rivers which
proved that the harvests of forests'
from their basins had not increased
floods, “either in intensity, duration, I
or occurrence. In important instances
decreases were shown.” Dr. Moore
found the same order of facts in
studies of inundations of Paris by the
River Seine.
Last year the noted forester, E. H.
MacDanicls, made a similar study of
Willamette river floods, with results
that jibed with Moore’s conclusions.
No Money Slopover . . .
The Moore solution on flood control
ALL ITEMS TO BE SOLI) AT DISCOUNT
was to “expend public money in the
impounding of flood waters instead
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Editorial Comments
MONBAY—
American Legion Auxiliary 3d Mon.
Lions club meeting.
A F. & A M. No. 180 stated meet
ing third Monday.
O.E.S. meeting, 2d Monday month.
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TUESDAY—
Women’s club 8 p.m. 1st, 3rd Tues.
129-J School Board meeting 2d Tues
Lions Auxiliary 4th Tuesday
Riders of the Santiam, 1st Tuesday
WEDNESDAY—
Boy Scouts, 7:30, H. S. Recreation
City council first Wed. 7:30 p.m.
Santiam Eagles and auxiliary 8 p.m.
at Mill City fire hall.
Santiam Rebekah 166—1st and 3rd
Wed. at 8 p.m.
Altar Society 3d Wednesday 8 p.m.
PTA, second Wednesday 8 p.m,
THURSDAY—
Theta Rho (Tub for Girls, meets 2d
and 4th Thursdays.
Gates PTA 1st Thursday 8 p.m.
American Legion 2d and 4th Thurs.
Garden club fourth Thursday.
Firemen Auxiliary meets 3d Thurs.
Toastmistress Club 2d X 4th, 7 p.m.
FRIDAY—
1.0 O F. meeting
Mill City IWA meeting last Frida/
Farmers Union meeting at Mehama
Woman’s club, 2nd
GATES
Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Tumidge of
Cutler City were visitors this past
week to attend the graduation of their
daughter, Carolyn.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Völkel are en
joying a two week vacation in Reno.
Albert Millsap visited the past week
in Portland at the homes of his Ralph
and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bayley.
Mr. and Mrs. George Clise are en
tertaining Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Mc-
Kennon of Los Angeles and Mr. and
Mrs. P. G. Fitzpatrick and daughter
Genevieve of LaHabra, Cal.
Mr. and Mrs. William Struckmeyer
from Alturas, Cal., were house guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Garrison.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zunk and two
I children were Salem visitors this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Davis have re
ceived word that their son, Pfc. Ed
mund Davis Jr. has arrived in Japan.
Mrs. Roy Taylor of Dallas spent
a few days in Gates visiting her
' daughter, Mrs. Glen Henness and to
HOW TO PLEASE YOUR HUS
BAND at mealtime can be a real
puzzler when spring sets in and
appetites are fickle. Hut it’s no prob
lem at all with chicken so plentiful,
because there’s a dish folks can’t
resist. Bring out every bit tof tender
goodness in the biro by serving it
Mushroom Smothered style.
This lusciously - sauced combina
tion is just the one to turn dinner
into a big event. And you can please
yourself — as
well as Dad —
by planning a
chick n dinner
for Mother’s
Day. Happily
t h I s main
course won’t
keep you in the
k i tchen long
The sauce is
the best and ready made, condensed
cream of mushroom soup. Simply
pour it over the meat and let it
simmer until done.
Mushroom Smothered Chicken
Mi cup flour
teaspoon« paprika
_
1 teaspoon salt
teaspoon
pepper
'A
< to 5 pound chicken, drawn and
cut into pieces (or about 3
pounds ready-to-cook chicken)
<np shortening, melted
2 cans (2Mr cups) condensed cream
of mushroom soup
(Continued front Page 2)
i Washington (usually 10 months out of
Put flour, paprika, salt and pep
the 12), and all their travel costs as per in a paper sack. Put in 3 or
deductions from taxable income—are 4 pieces of chicken at a time and
no way to solve the problem. And shake until thoroughly coated
Hiown chicken on both sides in
when such a dubious solution is hot melted shortening In a heavy
“sneaked” into the legislative hopper skillet. Pour soup over chicken; stir
the performance is impossible to de well. Cover and simmer over low
heat for 1 hour. Makes 6 to 8 serv
fend.
ings.
Enough corruptible public servants,
A LUCKY LUNCH—the kind that
enough
unscrupulous
politicians, makes
everyone feel cheerful—is
enough irresponsible commentators this combination. The main features
who cultivate the hate-market, seem are brimming bbwls of rosy tomato
to be doing their best to create a soup and cheeseburgers. Make up
a relish plate from your garden:
national attitude of cynicism toward little green onions, golden baby car
'all government. Does Congress have rots and red radishes. Dessert can
to join the wrecking crew? We trust come from the garden too It’s fresh
the Senate will see the folly of leger rhubarb sauce, with cookies on the
side.
demain and meet the pay issue forth
rightly and in the open.— From Chris
tian Science Monitor.
Coming Events . . .
STRAWBERRY
FESTIVAL
wasting it in protecting bushlots.
still appears that little dams up
the high draws are the right way
do it.
But where’s the money coming
from? Latest reports show us run
ning into the red on expending public
money, with 83 per cent of the federal
government budget slated for the mil
itary.
The slopover of funds for
flood control can’t amount to much.
Meanwhile, the tree-killing bud
worm and bark beetles are menaces on
the land that can be dealt with at
comparatively small cost, There’s a
real and most vital problem on which
to put Uncle Sam’s small change to
work.
of
It
in
to
attend the graduation of her grand
son. Earl Henness, who is graduating
from high school.
Mr. and Mrs. George Mielke and
baby daughter are staying at her par
ents home while they visit in Cali
fornia. Mrs. Mielke is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Lyons of Lyons.
House guests at the Edmund Davis
home this past week were Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Jones of Gold Hill. The
Jones' were former residents of Gates
when he served at principal of the
high school for 14 years.
X
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The Maples
Cafe & Tavern
Highway 222
Hi miles East of Gates
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