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AT I N G 1 30 Y
1938
Oregon Guest Stickers
— Siuslaw Oar Vol. 38, No. 32
January 7, 1938
New guest stickers are available
which non-resident motorists will
carry on their windshields while trav-
eling in Oregon in 1938. The stickers
are attractively reproduced in two
colors. The 1938 stickers show a view
of Crater Lake, with the nonresident
registration blank printed on the re-
verse.
1939
1940
No North — No South
— Siuslaw Oar Vol. 39, No. 25
November 24, 1939
Florence Gains Over 1/3 Count
— Siuslaw Oar Vol. 50, No. 50
May 17, 1940
While we may become weary of
changes that march down thru the
corridor of time there are some
changes that greet the mass of
American people with sustaining
comfort. Despite the smiling face
and the jests of our pleasant presi-
dent, we have an example of one of
his own rulings that makes the Unit-
ed States one union, firmly insepa-
rable.
This paper comes to you on the
morning of Roosevelt Thanksgiving
Day. All the states along our coast
are willing observers. But just half
of the states in the Union are not.
According to a map published in
some of the daily papers, it is possi-
ble to start at the Canadian border
in Idaho and wend your way to the
uttermost tips of Florida without
stepping on a foot of soil where the
governors have approved the presi-
dent’s proclamation.
It is gratifying for us younger folks
that this is so. The line — which
separated the North and South —
is gone forever and the smiles of all
the presidents to come will never
bring it back.
For this, yesterday, today and to-
morrow, we are thankful.
The sad news comes that Flor-
ence now has but 448 people when
everybody expected, or at least had
hopes, that within the city limits
there would be more than 500 peo-
ple.
Ten years ago, Florence had
328, the present census show-
ing an increase of 36 percent
— which, after all, is not so bad.
There are glowing reports coming
in, not mentioning the increased
valuation of improvements actually
made in homes and business struc-
tures, the new water system, blocks
and blocks of substantial street im-
provement, modernized power and
light facilities, new industries and
port development, and the pick-up
of hundreds of tax-title lots soon to
be utilized. In all, doubling the val-
uation of 10 years ago.
While these things are all the cor-
porate limits, there is now a popu-
lation along our highways leading
into Florence, from no more than
six miles by
actual count.
So far as the
figures
are
available, a
substantial
building up
of
homes
which house
as many peo-
ple as Flor-
ence does it-
self.
A
pretty
good start for
the next 10
years.
1941
While the rest of the world was fully
embroiled in World War II beginning
in 1939, America didn’t enter the war
until December 7, 1941, with Pearl
Harbor.
The Siuslaw Oar regularly featured
tales of the war and political cartoons,
along with wartime movies playing at
the Florence Theater.
Happy Anniversary
Florence, Oregon!
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