i AY,
SEPTEMBER 19, 1924
,irE CHIEF RELATES EXPERI­
TILLAMOOK
ENCE
HEADLIGHT
PAGE
the Oregon Walnut exchange and ex­ California buyers. ■
Coos Bay—Hoop factory producing
pect this year to handle 150 to 200
tons of Walnuts. The plant will be quantity lots with heavy advance
local unit through a period of six to orders.
Ashland—Skyline mine will spend
seven years. The local buildings com­
$100,000
on concentrator, ore mille
mittee consists of G. A. Dearborne,
W. V. Dolph and W. H. Bently, with and other improvements.
Roseburg to get natatoriurn, gym-
Charles Ertz as architect.
It is planned that the building shall nasium and auditorium to cost $100,-
be completed by October 1, at which 000.
Hood River—Checks for $55,000
time there will be held on all-day
plant dedication service. Weather per­ forwarded to fruit growers for part
mitting there will be a daylight tour of payment of 1923 crop.
surrounding wainu. gru«ea
««. or. 'Vedderburn—Macleav Estate sal-
followed by a speaking program and!“0"
«'» available help
an evening banquet and other enter­ for what promises to be record sea-
son run.
tainment.—Oregon Farmer.
5
Astoria—Steamer loads 1200 ton*
wheat for English market, and Ger-
The exper'cnces oi a man buried
man steamer loads 6,000 bbls, flour
Lf a mass of brick and burning
for London.
r^r thinking that hia plight was
Sutherlin shipping prunes and
Lnown and that he must slowly be
pears to eastern and southern mar-
to death were related in the
kets.
Lowing letter read at the fire
Big Run, Pa., is anxious to secure
Lfs convention in Astoria last
new
industries. It is in heart of soft
L The writer is the fire chief of
coal
region,
has excellent water—both
Lord and the experience he tells
for domestic and nidustrial use—is 98
L tx>k place during the recent dis-
per cent American—born population,
Ltf, fire at the place.
nrogressive. and has lots of «»*••*
L president and Chiefs Assembly:
for mdusirua which qualif,
Foi
[The subject assigned me seems
further information address Editor.
Lt fitting at this time after my re-
Tribune, Big Run. Pa.
L experienc of December 30th. I
L endeavor to give you a few de-
FEED ROUGHAGE
L preliminary to the subject as-
Led me.
|T-e alarm was given by two men
Addressing the farmers of Massa­
L were just starting on a duck |
chusetts, Professor O. E. Reed of the
Ling trip on Sunday morning at
department of dairy husbandry at
ho A. M. They came rushing down
the Michigan Agricultural college,
| die “fire” station and shouted
L" from the street, “the Page
his topic, “The Health of the Dairy
Ltre is on fire.”
Herd,” declared that recent work at
Re took all our apparatus on the
the Michigan experiment station in­
L call and laid in four lines, using
dicates roughage is the most import­
¡50 feet of hose. The entire build-
ant article in cattle feed. Cows fed
on heavy grain with a relatively
L was in flames, leaping out of the
small amount of roughage do not
Lows and doors all over, and the
maintain their vigor and good health
L< just ready to fall in when we
Cred.
as when fed with a ration with large
I content of legume hay, good silage, i
I knew we could do nothing more
I or roots, he said.
L keep it confined to the building,
“Cattle fed rations deficient in min­
[was soon gutted, leaving all the
eral matter become less resistant to
k standing, with burnt members
; hardships and disease,” he continued,
[wood hanging around the front
j “Minerals keep up the alkaline reserve
■cony, some clinging here and there
of the blood of animals. The alkaline
bund and the cross wall, making
reserve consists chiefly of minerals
I front of the stage. An iron beam told them a wall had fallen and cov­ for it seemed like a foot to me. Get through luck
or whatever you may in the blood stream which are present
sporting the arch in the center, ered up some of the firemen. They an ax and cut this timber! We can’t
call it, that I am able to be with you to neutralize acid produced in the
Lh was of brick, was still stand- cranked the truck, piled on and hast­
uncover the other end! I heard one today.
body or absorbed from the digestive
L This is the wall that fell on ened to the scene. Each one grabbed
of
them
say.
Now
everybody
who
tract.
The feeding of a heavy grain
Gentlemen, 1 have endeavored to
[ floor of the stage, under which a bar, an ax or anything they could
are not firemen get back out of the tell you as best I can my thoughts ration tends to lower the alkaline re­
were at the time.
way and let them work! I knew this and feelings and the little incidents serve. Where plenty of minerals are
ke took up all the lines in front of get hold of ran to the spot.
Suddenly I thought I heard voices, was the police talking. Hurry boys that came to me. I had fifteen min­ not available in the ration normally
I building but left one laid to the
fed, the addition of calcium carbon-
tee door. I sent two trucks back they sounded a mile away. Again I that wall is liable to fall any minute utes «to think of these things and if
ate aids in keeping up the alkaline
[the station with the hose rolled up thought I must be mistaken. “Where he said. It don’t make any difference you don’t think one can think of that
deserve.
k piled in, to get them in shape are they” came to my ears. No mis­ we got to get them out, came the much and more just try it.
“Rickets in calves, convulsions and
Ln, and left this one line to wet take about it this time. Everything reply. Oh! Don’t! I said as one of
My partner at the time Mr. Amos other conditions
which rest riet
seemed
to
light
up
as
bright
as
the
the
boys
lifted
my
arm
off
the
buried
Ls down and put out small fires
Willitts, who was with me, I regret growth are unusually traceable to
brightest
day.
I
saw
the
Heavens
timber. This arm is broken I heard to say was less fortunate than I. He
r might spring up later.
faulty diet. Sunshine has a remark­
then started around inspecting light up as bright as if the judgment him say, and to me it sure felt like was a little farther down the stairs able effect upon the health and well
day
had
come,
before
even
a
brick
the ends of the bones grating togeth­ and was killed instantly. I do not
I ruins to see that it was safe to
being of the dairy cow. The milk
er. As they chopped the timber thinks he ever knew what struck him.
n, when I noticed a small blaze was removed.
“
Here
’
s
one
man,
here
’
s
his
hair,
”
every stroke nearly set me wild, I Mr. Willitts was a volunteer and a from animals kept in sunlight is more
•und the dressing rooms in the
nutritious and more healthful," he
■sent I took the hose down the I heard them say. It was the boys at was so badly bruised on that side. good fireman.
concluded, “than milk from cows kept
last.
No
one
except
a
man
buried
in
Finally
they
pulled
the
timber
away
Our fire loss up to this time was in dark barns.”—Oregon Farmer.
in and Mr. Willitts, one of our
wteer firemen, went down with me a burning building can ever tell how from my side and the pain was great­ only $2609.00 which we thought very
help. We had extinguished the good the voices of the boys sound er than ever. I suppose the nerves good. I thank you.
Roseburg—Two camps established
be, laid the hose down and were from beneath tons of brick. Every­ had become partially paralized or
for construction of North Umpqua
body
throw
brick
someone
said,
and
numbed
till
the
timber
was
removed.
WALNUT
GRADING
PLANT
ling around when without any
highway.
Then they lifted my head and
ruin? whatever we heard a crash. as they commenced to uncover my
Klamath— 15,000 lambs will be
A large new walnut grading and shipped out of Klamath county to
[ started running for the stairs head one said, “here’s the other man, shoulders up and it seemed like they
when we got about halfway up, he’s dead. Get the live man, came a would pull me in to. My legs felt warehousing plant is under construc­
[her crash and we were under a shout. Let the dead man go and get like they were still covered up, and tion at Dundee by the Dundee Wal­
the live man out, came the voice of that they were trying to pull me out nut association, the largest local unit
R of brick and timbers.
another.
As the brick was removed instead of uncovering me.
of the recently organized Oregon
[1 was dark as I lay face down
They carried me outside and laid Walnut Exchange, Cooperative.
Led against the wall covered up from around my head and from the
me on something till the ambulance
This plant, which will be the only
f and foot, with my partner just back of my neck, I heard two or
[nd me laying at my feet. The three of them say at the same time came, and I was rushed to the hos­ one of the sort on the Pacific coast
pital. For days as I lay in my room north of San Francisco bay, will be
bore from all sides was tremen- “It’s the Chief.” And as they talked
banked with flowers at the hospital, a fire-proof concrete building, with
k the brick were hot and the tim- with wild excitement in their voices,
not able to be turned over, and the most modern of machinery. It
and
worked
as
I
know
they
never
I along my left side and across
crowds there all the time, when per­ will handle from one to one and a
ihoulder, which is no doubt what worked before, I knew they were all
mitted. But sympathy does not bring half cars of walnuts a day, grading,
there.
bd me, seemed to be burning.
I don’t know whether I can stand back health. The thoughts of the sorting and sacking, The use of this
could hardly breathe and could
whole affair ran through my mind plant will cut in two the former cost
holler. Thoughts traveled thru the strain till they get me out or many, many times. I will always re­ of handling walnuts in Orgon, be-
not,
was
my
thoughts
at
that
time,
[mind it seemed at the rate of a
member the sound that seems to one sides insuring a better graded pro­
I a minute. I thought of all the under the weight of the load which
buried under a burning building. The duct for the market. The building
for
the
moment
was
un-noticed.
I
[things and of all the good things
will be 50-100 feet, conveniently lo­
voices of the Boys.
[I had ever done, in the twinkling know they are doing their best, but
It is an an awful experience, one cated between the highway and the
it
seems
like
hours,
the
pressure
is
b eye. I could think of nothing
so great. The load gets lighter as which I trust that none present will railroad track. The cost of the build
’he last, of the horror of burning
they work and as the pressure is re­ ever be called upon to meet and only ing will bo approximately $8000 and
r I felt sure the timber on my
financed through a revolving fund, the machinery about $2000.
[side must be burning and that it moved the pain seems to get worse. built up by a deduction of 2 1-2 per
The Dundee local controls a
Do that again, I said as the timber
r he getting closer and closer to
larger
acreage than any other unit of
cent
from
the
gross
receipts
of
the
against my left side is moved an inch,
F the time. But Oh, the pres-
I o» my hips and shoulders and
Mack of my neck, I felt that I
F»t stand it for another minute.
F* sot hear a sound from my
HOUS A NDS of owners have proved it!
her nor anyone else. I thought
They’ve driven it nearly a year now,
W father and mother who are
over all kinds of roads and in every climate.
r of my brothers and sisters and
There
’s simply no question about its
r the people that I know, and
power, economy or rugged endurance!
I brighter thoughts flashed thru
P®d like lightning. Could any-
So why should we change it? Instead, we
F*>w 1 was buried? Could the
have done the more logical thing — we’ve
I let me out if they did know it?
refined
it, added a newer grace— beautified
kthey even get fo me? And how
it with enduring Duco Satin finish instead
[*ould it take to get me out. All
of paint.
f*”d many others things flashed
p" my mind over and over
It’s the Refined Oldsniobile Six! Not a
not a sound, not a thoughtI
new car — but an improved one. A proved
F^ragement came. It seemed
car IMPROVED. You should see it! Stop
phour, it must be two by now
at an Oldsmobile showroom—soon I
I thought, as I lay there,
h able to breathe and not able
• 1049
P* • muscle,
1179
pdon’t they come? The load is
1150
P heavier and heavier. The
1J5O
[**med to be getting hotter and
the timbers must be burn- j
P*r *11 the time. It something
MX happen to end it all. If
P at last go unconscious so I
I "v-1 re,''xe- I know it’s all
I • 0 one knows I am here, or
can not get to me with fire
p*t|d- I give up, it’s no use,;
nnth ne seems to get darker
PJthts of life seem to go out.
I * meantime which was not
■
minutes, two of the vol-
*ho werp near ran around to
and were told by an-
**-' of the volunters who just
wr- that some of the boys
'cod up. On of them caught
Hashed to the engine house
1 w|)»r» the regulars and some
’nteers were at work, and
Let s Cali It a Proved t
improved ;
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