I'fMV ï The Coquille Chamber of Commerce * • , ■ ’ needs and is entitled to the unanimous support of everyone in Coquille and vicinity during the year 1931. The organization, working for civic improvements and de­ velopment, with capable representatives on all committees, is planning a program for the year which will advance Co­ quille's industrial and commercial interests to a greater ex­ tent than ever before. » , . a- -i. ’ Below is given a recapitulation of moneys received and spent last year, the figures being in round numbers and not carrying odd dollars nor cents: Balance, Jan. 1, 1930 $ - Contributions “Western Out-of-Doors” advertising 250 «7 Membership Dues 450 1100 4 Total Receipts Tuesday and Wednesday March 3 and 4 has been designated by the membership committee for the annual membership drive and soliciting of funds for prose­ cuting the most active Chamber of Commerce campaign qyer seen in Coquille. New industrial plants, Becking locations adjacent to the timber source of supply, are thinking of Coquille and this city's advantages, from location, production and shipping $1,800 1 * The secretary’s salary of $450 last year included an item of $4 per month for rent of typewriter. Half of her salary, $87.50 per month, was paid by the Chamber of Commerce, and an equal amount was paid by the Oregon State Motor Association which will also contribute $37.50 per month to the salary of the secretary, Miss Lois Kay, beginning March 1. As directors of your Chamber of Commerce we ask that every business and professional man in Coquille, every in­ dustry and Coquille booster, and every dairyman or farmer ’in the Coquille district, support the activity of the Chamber * this year, financially and morally. We need your co-oper­ ation to make 1931 the beat in the history of Coquille. Expenses Secretary’s salary and offlee expenses I 530 - Boy Scout Council 200 Streamer lights for streets and Christinas tree globes 20 Repair and reflooring Community Bldg. 300 State and County Chamber of Commerce 200 Advertising “Western Out-of-Doors” ? The membership campaign next week, March 8 and 4, will enable the directors to know howt enthusiastically you, and each of you, are boosting Coquille development. 325 Financing Smith-Hughes boys’ attendance at Stock WM. A. ZOSEL, President viewpoint, are being presented by,the industrial committee, of which J. E. Paulson is chairman. R. L. STEWART, Vice President $1,770 W. S. SICKELS, Treasurer C. C. FARR, Director There is a possibility that by fall both of the lumber mills here will be in operation. It is frequently heard, “What does the Chamber of Com- . merce do? And where does the money go? GEO. W. BRYANT, Director C. E. NILES, Director The‘financial report at the annual meeting tot month showed a balance on hand of $28. GEO. E. OERDING, Director J. R- BUNCH, Director O. T. GANT, Director I The answer to' this was apparent to anyone who heard or read President G C. Farr’s report for 1930, and it should be remembered that last year was one of depression all over the country. There is not one of the above expense items which should be dropped for this year, but there will be little or no Com­ munity Building expense. The “Western Out-of-Doors advertising has already been discontinued. W. V. FERGUSON, Director “I doubt very much whether the vision made for financing these insti­ reoentative Norton and others pro­ taxes, coupled with the incom* tax, it ar* neglected, is expected by m*mb*rs of th* the* “County commissioner«, on public st large is greatly concerned tution* except through th* property viding for a Saturday afternoon half­ .tat* tax comtqiasion, will, under other hand, are the business head of about Whether there la one man or tax. Th* resolution was killed by a holiday for officials and employees of normal conditions practically wipe th* county government and feel them- three men on the public service com- vote of 32 to 27. R*pre*eptative Coo* county waa killed in the senate out all state taxes on real property selves responsible for th* conduct of misuion and I, personally seriously Knapp also opposed th* bill with hi* thia week When it came in with an including the special millag* taxes th* county’s business. Given th* re­ question whether any good la to be vote. adverse report from the committee fer the support of th* stat*’* institu- sponsibility for th* collection of taxes accomplished by this change but it on counties. tions on high«- learning but not in- I' they -------- ■” give “ ■** th* ------- e-i >- is what the - administration j -.-.-.—.------------------ ---------- --- thie »am* — careful wants and _ will Senator Hall in supporting th* free give to other ‘ business ' I am willing to grant it," he declared. text book bill told hi* colleagues that -11—1 they ‘ eluding th* *l*sn*ntary school tax, ' attention Senator Hall waa one of 21 sena­ he had been raised on free text* back which is properly a local tax and of the county with th* result that the tor* who helped to paa* the bill cre­ . Urged on by the demands voiced by should never have been placed on th* efficiency of the tax department Senator Hall of Coos county, foT in th* schools of Pennsylvania where ating the state department of agri­ farmers and other land owners in state tax levy. should be materially increased in ev­ years recognised aa on* of th* beat he grew up a* a boy. If it had not culture thia week. The Coo* county •very section of the state J$*Jpg*la- condition* ery county in th* state.” . Depressed busin*** friends the state highway system has for th* generosity of th* Pennsyl­ senator, however, waa absent from ture in the closing days of its assem­ Norton explained that the idea was had in the state legislature and for vania taxpayers in providing him which ar* expected to reflect them­ the chamber on Saturday when final bly this week has written into it* rec­ selves in decreased nevenues from all not new with him at this seeeion. He several sessions chairman of thb san­ with fre* school books. Hall feared action was taken on the game code, ord a tax program which, it is ex­ three of thee* tax** during th* next had been considering the matter for ate committee on roads and highways that Oregon might hav* been de­ the tunnel bill and the bill providing pected, will eventually lift th* state year or two, may, it is explained, several years and at th* 1929 session committee, threw his influence to the prived of the services of a mightly for standard gradea for butter. tax burden entirely from real prop­ mak* it necessary to resort to a introduced a bill similar to thia on* support of th* Kiddle bill repealing good senator. In addition to studying erty. small levy against real property for in order to educate tb* legislators up the one-mill market road tax whan out of books furnished by the state, While the House by a vote of 82 to another year or two but the stat* tax to an appreciation of the merit that Safety First! Ue* Cow Bell opponents of th* measure put forth Hall said that be had later taught in 27 voted down th* Mott resolution on property, it is generally conceded, lay back of th* suggestion. the argument that th* bill would a school in Pennsylvania where th* Dairy’» Pasteurised MUk and protect which would hav* submitted to th* is doomed to go. book* war* furnished by th* taxpay- ; your health, crippl* th* state highway program. voter* of the state th* question of th* In order that the fate of th* new ___ “The bill I* a good measure," Hall era and he wa* thoroughly sold on ’ ------------------- ------- - ■ t .... Representative Norton of Coo* repeal of state taxes on real proper­ intangib)*» tax measure may be de­ th* idea of fee* text books. Th* I NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT advised hi* colleagues. “In th*** de­ county wa* on* of th* 50 memebrs of ty, this action was not prompted so cided at the earliest possible moment, pressed time* when all other buri- meaaur* passed th* senate by a vote In th* Matter of the Estate of Viola much by opposition to th* idea back and to prevent its being tied up for th« House who “bowed to th« man­ j 1 M. nees is siowed down and whan tax- of 17 to 18. M. Collier, Collier, decerned. dec«wed. date of the p*opl« ” in support of the of the proposal as it was by the re­ two years through a referendum at­ ---------- I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, payers ar* pleadii for relief, ft b Lawrence bill changing the public alisation that before such a drastic tack which would delay its operation servie« commission from a three-man only right and proper that the state H.n we*. move could be taken some substitute until after the general etection in organisation to a one-man commis­ h.ghway program be slowed down a ity in support of the “basic science" I gon, gon, her her Final Final Account Account aa aa Adminis- Adminii- revenue must be provided lest th* November, 1982, the legislature has sion. little, too, if that is necessary in or­ bill which was killed in th* senate by tratrix of the Estate of Viola M- business of the state suffer. Collier, dec*M*d and" that the"’said iure of ~ re- a vote of 14 to 14. The measure was ¿1 “"u called a special etectioa to be held in Norton. howev«r, refused to follow der to afford a small maaacr: On every »ide there has been evi­ Court ha* set March 30th, 1931, at June for the purpose of passing on th* ----------------------------- ,,---------- majority in support of „ th« — meas- lief to those who foot the tax biHs.” sponsored by the medical wing of the the hour of 10;00 o’clock ’A denced a keen sympathy for the own­ this tax. At that time also the peo­ ure repealing th* certificate of eon- Twenty-five members of th* senate h*aling profession and waa bitterly the County Court mom in Coquille er of real estate and his tax burden. ple will be asked to pass on another venience and necessity.------------------------ voted for the bill on final paaaage. | opposed by the drugteas heater*. Oregon, a* the time and place for The realisation that the time has ar­ I hearing objections to such final ac- measure clearing up a question which “I have lived long enough not to In »ddition to repealing th* market ------ rived when passive sympathy must , eount and the settlement of said es- has grown up around the constitu- b, «wept off my feet with these ar- roa<^ *** the measure also creates a Over the vigorous opposition of tat*. give way to definite action wa* clearly tional six per cent limitation. gument. about competition among «y»tom of secondary state highways Senator HaM of Coos county, the *sn- -r " Eva 8. Curri«, set forth in a statement which Gov­ Administratrix. ___________ —---------- | publie service corporations," he de- 00t ot P’*»*'>1 market roads which ate this week, followed the lead o’ 7tfi ernor Meier made at a meeting of the Among th« freak bihs introduced clared in explanation of his propoai- th* highway commission is authorised the House in support of the Gill- three taxation and revenue commit­ at the special session might be in- j tjon to this measure. **I have aeon t*be over at its discretion and Winslow bill changing th* name of tees of the House and Senate at a con­ .-iuded one by Senator Bennett of «xpensive railroads built over themaintafn ont «f state fund»- This the Roosevelt Military Highway to ference in the executive office during Multnomah county providing for th* Rocky mountains by competing line*, provision wa* written into the m**s- the “Oregon Coast Highway.“ The the week. issuance of 850,000,000 in currency by j j have seen these lines engage in bit- ure a* an amendment to the original vote for the bill was 21 to 9. “The owners of real property ar* the state ™ government to b* loan*d on I ' ter Warn of VU111 competition, hauling Kiddle bit! which would ha • dive-t”! sc-I warn Ul fzw vi nullf IlMUllTl^ Senator Hall objected to the name now organising in all *ections of th* real property without interest in or-, freight and paasengers at far below mon®y f''om the highway fund to th« a* not sufficiently descriptive of the state to give expression to a reason­ der to re* to re prosperity. “Have been taking Krzschen Salt cost until one or th* other was run counties to reimburse them for the importance of the coast road which, able demand for equitable taxation," am on mv ««cor. out of the field, the rails pulled up loss of the market road tax. It was he declared, would soon form a part Lor . 1 the governor declared. “They ar* de­ The Norton bill transferring ihe and competition destroy«!. Then I believed that this system would be of a great transcontinental highway bottla—I lout 11 rounds in six w ek manding and hav* a right to demand, and feel “Kruachen tur« giv a collecting department from th* juris- hav* seen the remaining line boost ita mor* acceptable inasmuch aa ft en­ connecting the three nation« of Can­ you a lot of vim and pop.” that the tax load be more fairly dis­ diction of the sheriff’s office to the charges to such heights that patrons ables the highway commission to re­ ada, the United States and Mexico. Kruschen Salts are t.s d da l ’ b tributed; that th* time honored maxim county commieeioners passed the have operated freight wagons for tain control over the expenditure of its He also objected to the abandonment millions ail over the world not mly that taxes should be baaed on ability to take off fat from overwei -ht p o House this week with only aix votee more than a hundred miles parallel- I : ,,ndrt to supervie* the improve- of the name “Roosevelt” in connec­ to pay shaM be regarded as something t*mbUt 10 r^uvenate the entire sys opposed. 1 ing the railroads in protest against ’ m*nt sse highways on which the tion with the coast highway, pointing more than an empty phraae.“ As explained by ita author, Repre­ this robbery of the consuming public state money i* to bo spent One bottle of Kruschen Salts (last 4 out that this was th* only highway in While a majority of the members o’ sentative Norton of Coquille, the weeks) costa but 85c an! one bottl by unregulated corporations. The th« United Staten which had been will prove of vast henelt to neople both houses had already made up their measure repr*a*nta only an attempt utility must be regulated in th* in­ Until such time as other revenue officially christened with the name cf who have constipat on, headaches, in- mind* to the imperative need of some to put the collection of tax*« on a terest of the consumer and if we are measures are provided to finance th« the great statesman and calling at­ digestion, nervousness. r eumatisn, program of tax relief it waa this state­ business basis. a“to >ntosic :- to regulate w* must also protect the state government it would be ill-ad­ tention to the value of the advertis­ tion*** 0"' •eW,ty ment on the part of the governor and -- “This is in no wise a criticism of weaker utility from the encroachment vised to attempt to repeal the state ing which had accrued to thia high­ . ,NotJ»nlr th»t but on* bottle wil his demand for immediate action nec­ the sheriff* of the state," Norton ex- of ita larger and more powerful com­ tax on real property Representative way during the past ten years. bring about body activity increase in essary to bring the session'. big tax dained to his colleague* in urging petitor which is just what this o*rti- Norton of Coos county argued in *~ry, vigor and ambition, «parkl ng Senator Francisovieh of Clatsop program into being and to insure it* support of the measure. “For th* freedom from nim I*, and ____ | ficate dose." ■ opposing the Mott resolution which county who led thi fight for the new blemishes—millions know all thte- adoption by both branches of the as­ ■MM part thsse officials are out-door! Explaining hi* support of tb* one- nans*, however, read letter* from the sought to refer to th« voter* of th* ki"°’r 'kTak* half sembly. men, elected for the qualification aa man commission Mil Norton declared state the question of repeal of th* commercial dubs of a number of teaspoon in a glass of hot water very Thia program, in brief, includes th« peace officers and not as tax collec- that he wa. voting for the measure state tax repeal. Enactment of such Coos county cities, including Co- re-enactment of th* intangible* tax tora As a rul* they give the bn«- because the administration wanted it *nd _____ a law, _ ______ Norton , pointed out, would quill*, to show that the name “Oregon fet act with a higher rate of taxation and nees of collecting the tame into the »nd not becaus* he conceived It to mean the closing down of al of tha Coast" , met with their spprovaL Sold by Fuhrman’s Pharmacy. Inc. increased exemptions and an increase hands of a deputy and forget about be what the public wanted or voted !?dJ™*? 4,J.,ta America with th» state’s institutions of higher learning I ---------- » XX*>t* America over over wim th- ’ in th* excie* tax rate. Okasa two it with th* result that tax eoll«ctlons for in the nrmt etoetioa. Th* House MH sponsored by Rep- wiI1 i£j,1u^>,rfel>dl"F that on* bottle | because there has aa yet bam no pro- • «