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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1932)
PAGI FOU» THR COQUILL» VALLEY 8BNTINBL. COQUILLE. OREGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, IMI ------ —»........ .... ......... —’ I except that the discount for prompt payment of bills was discontinued, and he stated that electric bills are A Meo FAMA ia A COSO T0W> 28 per cent lower than they were be H. A. YOUNG pad M. D. GRIMES fore the war. Last year the Mt. States Power Cf. FubUeherv _____ lost 131,000 in theirteperating depart H. A. YOUNG, Editor - , Ji i »a i . n — l ..... -■ i l" ,» l ........ ' .= ment, due principally to the fact that fcAJLLUtedi the cost of fuel increased three times. Had the Coos Bay Lumber Co. plant Claims that the allowance ot five been in continuous operation, so that oents per mile authoriz'd by the it had cost but a third as much to board of control as compensation for produce the juice, there would proba the use of privately owned cars on Subscription Rates Ons Year .......................................... >2.00 bly not have been a lose. The oper state business, is not enough to cover ating expense does not include cost the coat are belied by the records of’ Six Months.............................. 1.00 Money Spent Here Never Sees Wall Street! Three Moattes .................................... 60 of repairs or extensions, only a six departments which operate state No subscription taken unless paid per cent interest charge on the capital owned cars. for in advance. This rule is impera- investment in those extension«. Three of these departments, in each One of every'dollar of income due of which minute records of operating FREE DELIVERY PHONE 166 Advertising Rates the company, 28 cents goes for taxes, costa are kept on every car, show an whether they collect all their bills or operating cost, including deprecia Display advertising. 25 cents per inch: leas than 6 inches, 30 cento per not. The some hundreds of dollays tion ranging from 2.7 cents per mile inch. No advertisement inserted for which the Coquille Lumber mill still to 3.04 cents per mile. leas than 60 cents. Readings notices Heads of the departments in. which 10 cento per line.. No reading notice, owes for power has borne its share or advertisement of any kind, insert- of the 23 per cent taxes. And the these records were compiled admit Feldman’s efficient new Bar. Supplies much needed vitamins. ed for Issa than 26 cents. company’s tax bill for the Coos Bay that owners of private cars would be L¿. No. 2'4 tins EACH ÇC district is increased this year to 8112,- under a slight handicap in that,, the $ Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as 000 from the >80,000 taxes paid last huge buying power of the state en Second Class Mail Matter. Cans .year. 4 ables it to secure gasoline, oil, tires This article is not intended as a rea and other supplies at a lower figure 1 son for maintaining high rates, but than would the individual buyer. Thq the company is at least entitled to Soft as old linen. Oregon was admitted to the sister make known its side of the question. first cost of the car itself, is also much lower in the case of the state. Baked to a Golden Brown. hood of the United States 78 years Mr. Stewart says that the policy of ROLLS Med. size. Reg. 3 for 25c age last Sunday, and considering ite the company is to make low power This handicap, however, it is declar ed, would not be so great but that the unlimited resources it is the least de rates to induce industries to locate EACH veloped state of the Union. But that in Coos county, snd that to maintain private owner could operate hie car condition will not last. The next the 7 per cent net income to which well within the five cent limit fixed by the board, providing, of course, quarter of a century wiU witness a the public utility rules they are en For a white and sanitary wash. greater development than that of all titled, the domestic rates for lights that the mileage volume is at least 1000 miles a month. Pt. Bottles • the years which have gone before and ranges is consequently higher. Try Baked Ham with Pineapple. Credit for the lowest operating cost sines its first settlement by the white In Eugene where the municipally goes to the state police department EACH No. 2*4 cans man. owned power plant furnishes juice for which operates the 13 light weight domestic use at a low figure, the cars included in its patrol fleet at an CONGRESS SHOULD PRUNE power rate is so high that some indus average cost of a little leas than 2.7 Before raising taxes, government tries there are looking for other lo cents per mile, Second honors go to owes it to a long suffering public to cations. America’s Favorite Laundry Soap the state department of labor with makp every effort to reduce waste There is another point which may an average operating cost of slightly and inefficiency, and cut costs. ' It is hot be generally known. When a pub BARS for under three cents per milo and third unquestionably true that the tax lic utility earns more than 7 per cent honors to the department of agricul payers could be saved millions of dol profit, half of the excess goes to the ture whose operating costa show an lars a year without damaging any le state. And Mr. Stewart adds, usually average of 3.04 cents a mile.. gitimate function of government the net is below the 7 per cent. That mileage volume has an im They are looking to their senators portant bearing on the operating cost White or Yellow Fully Tree Ripened. No. 1 tall. and - congressmen to do just that, R. A. Easton’s Weekly Letter u clearly indicated by the experience says the Ferndale Enterprise. IO LB. BAG X9c Cans “Beyers on Taxes” in the last Sen of these departments. In the case of the police bureau, cars run from 2500 tinel is interesting reading. I ask him Unquestionably there are thousands to as high, as 6000 miles a month. In of bureau employees in Washington, what are you going to do about it? the department of labor the average Especially that part of it as repre D. C., who are performing no worth monthly mileage ie just under 1800 while function in government affairs, sented by the >517,184.87 of debts? miles and in the agricultural depart You are going to buckle your belt up such* as the fellows who get out bul Nutritious, economical ment the monthly mileage averages Ideal food for growing i chil letins. and send to the newspapers all another notch and help pay it. For approximately 1000 miles. C & H this is a time when the fiddler has to dren. 4 JJ,,. over, the country, who could I* sep In all three departments the depre arated from their pap without anyone pay for the dance, as well as the LBS. ciation charge is based on what ex but themselves feeling the loss. Their dancers. That is all there is to it. Come perience has proven to be a liberal across with a smile. For the most of effusions only help to clutter up the that debt money the various depart allowance. The police department office waste basket. Tra Blu—slightly salted. ments of the county have gotten value figures this item at one-third of the Fresh in bulk original cost of the car each year. received. . HOARDING 18 ONE EVIL The roads are not in the mud. And In the department of agriculture de Pressing forward steadily, persis the towns that have built elaborate preciation represents the original cost Swift’s Premium tently—one might almost say relent I school houses so that they may look less the trade-in value of the car and lessly—his program of reconstruc big on the map to the stranger within in the department of labor a monthly LB. tion, rehabilitation and recovery, the gates still have the educational charge of >14 50 is made against each Packed in vacuum cans Uniat a, Sperry’s hard wheat President Hoover last week gave out ornaments and the debt, too, that eats car for depreciation. from the White House a statement day and night. All the other stuff we, calling upon the nation to put an end The new cell block at the state as a county in Its various divisions, to hoarding and thus return to the have run in debt for, we have and the prison is at last completed and was channels of trade and business the debt, too. We are just where we occupied for the first time last week, i more than one billion, three hundred SQUARES started from in debt and growing. Prisoners who were transferred to millions of money that has been with Locally made. Rich in vit Brown or Powdered And when we pay our taxes and re this new unit have been housed dur drawn from circulation and is now LB. amins. member that 83.31 percent of it goes ing the past in a so-called dormitory serving’ no useful purpose whatever. to reduce debts, not pay them, we have above the prison garage outside the Following this statement the Presi cause to be thankful that there ie an walls of the institution, in the base dent called into conference represen other notch in the belt It is my can ment of the old structure and in tatives of same 60 nation-wide civic did opinion that the cry of many peo sundry nooks and corners where it and commercial organizations in the ple, “I can’t pay my taxes,” in a false was possible to find room enough for terial improvement over the situation hope of enlisting every constructive note. That it is more the whimper of * bunk. The new unit provides ac a year ago when there were 90 pa element in our population in the ef unwillingness to stand up in the collar commodations for 320 prisoners and tients clamoring for admittance to fort he is making to bring about nor will go far toward relieving the seri the two state hospitals at Salem and and help move the load. mal conditions, and all of them There were those who bucked ex ous congestion which has handicapped The Dalles. pledged hearty co-operation. travagant expenditures and promisee the institution for several years past. Pointing out the fact that every Some county courts are still labor Incidentally the steel fronts and to pay in county and state govern dollar hoarded means a destruction of doors for the new cells have also been ing under the misapprehension that ment but words of caution were from >5.00 to >10.00 of credit, and drowned out in the whoopee for money paid for, a check for >19,886, the con counties are to be charged for the that crédit ia the blood stream of our in sight Our noises may be on the tract price, being made out to King care of feeble minded patienta com Agents for McLain Coal economic life, the President urged the Brothers of Portland last week, thus mitted to the state institution, Dr. R. people to put their dollars to work, grindstone but there is no need of t4 ending, for the time being at least, D. Byrd, superintendent, told the bearing on for the stone is turning either by conservative investments or one of the most turbulent political board of control at its meeting this and it only grinds when it turns. by deposit in sound institutions, in I am as thoroughly opposed to the chapters in the state’s recent history. week. order that it may thus return into the “county unit system” for schools as channels of economic life. ‘'Every A. H. Averill, state insurance com- Members of the Women's Greater doflar returned from hoarding to cir Mr. Beyers is for it; for a flat county Oregon association are demanding miMioner, haa started a little war of tax under the present law can now culation,” declared the President, the appointment of a woman proba his own. Averill is out to rid the “means putting men to work. It give all the school districts a Square tion officer in connection with the state of so-called “insurance bodtleg- deal and the districts keep their af means help to agriculture. Everyone state police department. A delega gem," that is, agents operating with hoarding currency injures nqf only fairs in their own hands. And the ex travagances of the districts may be tion appearing before the board of out a state license and representing hie own prospects and those of his checked by the county court. The control last week were advieed to con companies not authorized to do busi family, but- is acting contrary to the This past week couraged, often sullen and very un county unit system gives the county fer with Governor Meier who exer ness in the state. common good.” And the President different cities, cannot help but bene cise« exclusive jurisdiction over this complaints were filed agsinst several happy about school. school superintendent too much oppor calls upon the people for “the same fit your city, for they can glean im department. It is known that Super ' agents in Multnomah county and tunity for big head growth. service, the same confidence in our portant information as to how their We read in the Oregonian of the intendent Charles Pray does not view Averill has promised that his cam Pity the poor public employee. sister towns are handling problems government and our institutions, the home going of Mrs. W. H. Bunch. It the proposal with enthusiasm and if paign will be carried into other What with two holidays thia month, same unity and solidarity of courag the women- do succeed in putting over counties in which aimilar violations not to mention the four Saturday which are troubling them. eous action which they gave during caused us to draw a long breath. “Again, taxation of municipal util Mrs. Bunch was a neighbor and friend their program it will be over the op are uncovered. half-holidays and four Sundays, he the great war” to the end that this ities, such as water systems, golf position of the head of the depart who did one ’ s soul good to to know. still has to put in a total of 21 days depression may be quickly ended. ment. , To supply the electric power and before he can expect a full month’s courses, electric plants, etc., is receiv R. A. Easton. t light needs of the state in snd around pay check, leap year adding an extra ing much agitation, and it would be 23 PERCENT GOES FOR TAXES State Treasurer Holman after a Salem would require the construction day t0 h|g lo>d To<j bad - Febni well for city officials to understand A few weeks ago the Myrtle j Editor’s note—The Sentinel cannot swing around the circle through east- of a two-unit plant of 600 kilowattta didn>t <et day earjier go M J both sides of the controversy." agree with Mr. Easton on the county Point Chamber of Commerce adopted Or<Tn U evinced capacity to the unit, L. E. Kurtichan-I provide for an #xtra Sunday and <n resolutions requesting that, in view unit system in school affairs. It is that it is the duty of every state of- of, Portland engineer, declares in k additional day of rest of the general drop in the price of the only fair and equitable way of ficial to keep in closer touch with the report to the board of control based commodities, the two utility compan- educating the coming generations. people. Holman expects to visit ev- ; on a survey which he has been making League of Oregon Cities ~iei; the Mt. State Power Co., and the That one district, with hundreds of ery section of the state at least three,1 during th< past month. The report West Coast Telephone Co. revise thousands in valuable timber should if — . • — ----- — v — . 'contains no recommendations .as to The League of Oregon Cities will not four, times each year so long only pay a few dollars for a chiM’« their rates downward. the feasibility of such a project which hold ite annual conference in Eugene as he continues in office. Mm. Betty Luedeke, of Dayton, education while the next district At the chamber meeting in Myrtle will be left to the advisory committee on Friday and Saturday of next writes, “I am using Kruschen to re Point last week, R. L. Stewart, of the should pay hundreds ie not a just nor week, February 26-27. The purposes duce weight—I lost 10 pounds in one Oregon has cause to be proud of named by Governor Meier. potrer company, and G. E. Kreiger, of justifiable system. the progress which this state is mak of thio organisation are set out in week and cannot say too much to Nor is it any more centralized an the telephone company, were present Eighty percent of the definitely this extract from a letter by the pres recommend it” ing in ite fight against the white To take off fat easily, SAFELY to give their company’s side of the idea of handling tax matters than is plague, in the opinion of Dr. G. C. feebleminded have no physical or out ident, Wm. M. Briggs, of Ashland: and HARMLESSLY—take one half question. Mr. Krieger stated, and the proposal to have all tax levying Bellinger, superintendent of the two ward sign of their mental deficiency "Too long the cities of Oregon have teaspoonful of Kruschen in a glass of without contradiction, that the West bodies submit their acts to the State state hospitals for the treatment of and are not recognized until educa acted selfishly and as individual unite, . 1 .w-at*r *n morning before Tax Commission. —it is the safe way to lose Coast local service rates are lower tuberculosis. The death rate from tional failures in the public school without regard to the problems of breakfast unsightly fat and one bottle that lasts The “big-headed” idea expressed is than are the rates outside. Only the tuberculosis in this state, Dr. Bellin draw attention to them, Dr. R. I). other cities, and never before has 4 weeks costs but a trifle. Get it at toll rates are higher here than they not the view of a broad outlook. ger pointe out, is well below that of Byrd, superintendent of the state in there been a moans for exchange of Fuhrman’s Pharmacy, lac., or any are in other sections. the nation as a whole. However, ad stitution for feeble minded, pointe out ideas. Some cities accomplish cer drugstore in America. If this first bottle fails to convince you this is Mr. Stewart’s remarks from the ________________ If you want to subscribe for a Port ditional hospital facilities are needed in a report to the board of control, tain things exceedingly well, but are the safest way to lose fat—money power company angle were few, but land daily the clubbing combination even in this state with 66 patients ‘ By the time these patients are sent to handling other matters poorly. A back. gave food for thought. During the we offer with the Sentinel will eave now on the waiting list of the two ' the state institution they have lost meeting, such as is scheduled, with • ?* ?ure ,n<* get Kruschen Salto— war the electric rates were not raised, you money. institutions. This, however, ie a ma- all self confidence, have became die- the exchange of ideas of officials from imitations are numerous and you most safeguard yoar health. The Sentinel MEDFORD’S GROCERY A Home Owned Store We all know the benefits derived from keeping our money at home. This home owned store offers you greater values at lower prices. 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