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TBB COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLB, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1953. PAGB FOUR The Sentinel a soon wets t» a good tows H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES Publishers H. A. YOUNG, Editor FREE DELIVERY billalJi DUNHAMS of Course * Subscription Kates Two weeks ago this column declar One Year.......................................... $2.00 ed that “a special session of the state Six Months ..................................... I«®® legislature is now taken for granted Three Months.......... .............. •••• -60 in capitol circles.” 9- lb No subscription taken unless paid BAG OoC Between the time that particular for in advance. This rule is impera- paragraph was written and its publi • 100% Pure Pennsylvania cation Governor Meier broke into print with a statement to the effect that he had no intention of convening the lawmakers. Hie position, how Gallon ever, was hedged about by a number' CAN of qualifications which provided ample avenues of escape in event it' Dunham’s are complying strictly with the word Advertising Rates became necessary to back up. and intent of the National Industrial Recovery Act. Display advertising. 25 cents per Gradually, it now appears, even the. inch: less than 5 Inches, 30 cent# per governor ia beginning to realize the We believe this is true of all merchants in this terri Pure Vegetable Shortening inch No advertisement inserted for necessity for legislative action if the j tory. The intent of the Act is to employ more labor les» thun 50 cents. Readings notices 10 cents per line. No reading notice, state is to escape serious embarrass-| at a wage that will provide a good standard of living. or advertisement of any kind, insert ment from several sources. ed for less than 25 cents. ________ The ultimatum of the federal gov In other worlds we have signed a contract to keep our Purity ernment, long predicted, ' that the Entered a* the Coquille Postoffice as stores open a minimum of 63 hours a week, but we can states must “put up or shut'up" Second Class Mail Matter. only work our employees who receive less than 35 dol about unemployment relief has put the lars a week 48 hours in any week. This means that in Office Corner W. First and Willard St. Oregon right up against one of « mosjt serious financial situation« this Pound order to keep our stores open this number of hours state has ever faced. During the PUBLIC WORKS UNDER WAY Barley Bloom "•ast two years Oregon has been fair weekly we must employ additional help at the mini Nearly one-third of the money au ly generous in its treatment of the mum wage ‘stipulated in the code which is $14.00 per thorized under the public works act needy unemployed so long as Uncle week in cities over 2500 and $12.00 per week where the has already been set aside for specific Sam was putting up the money. Now purposes. To put it in good round that the state itself has been called population is less than 2500 according to the 1930 cen Can numbers-, $1,000,000,000 of the total upon to do some of the “putting up”. $3,300,000,000 fund has been allotted. It finds the cupboard bare and its sus. Juice It is not expected that the remain credit at the comer grocery seriously der of the fund will be allocated so embarrassed if not entirely dissipat In order to do our part, we have employed ap hastily as enough has been made ed. available to start the wheels turning Certainly nothing can be done proximately twelve extra people, adding something without legislative action and there at a fine rate. like $800.00 to our monthly payroll. The whole idea The $400,000,000 set aside for pub are grave doubts as tj> the ability of as laid out by President Roosevelt and General John lic roads has actually been released the lawmakers themselves to do a for expenditure and there are several Treat deal that will be helpful. While son seems to be sound and we, regardless of what other federal projects getting under the administration and the legislators others may say or do, are going to DO OUR PART; way immediately. The Tennessee may be willing to help the needy CAN Valley project is to get $50,000,000 there ia the problem of just what to not by just hanging the Blue Eagle on our windows to begin operations and the main of use for money in providing needed re Big Special and going ahead as before, but by following out the in fice has been established at Muscle lief. The only reasonable suggestion tent of the act to the letter. We are sure if we will all Shoals with branch offices to be advanced to date involves a tax on opened at Knoxville and Chattanooga. beer and hard liquor. Sponsors of do this, the plan will prove a great success and it will In addition there has been allotted this^ax estimate that it could be ex DOZ. bring steady employment, and a good standard of liv $338,000,000 for naval construction; pected to yield approximately $1,000,- $63,000,000 for the Grand Coulee dam 000 a year, maybe more, assuming, of. ing to us all. in the Columbia river; $22,000,000, course, that the eighteenth amend for the Casper-Alcova irrigation pro ment is repealed and sale of hard li ject in Wyoming and $50,000,000 is quor is again legalized so that it can to be used for highways and trails in he taxed. To provide any additional Gallon .. national forests, parks and reserva revenue for emergency relief or any tion's. other purpose such a tax would have Another $20,000,000 is for the Civil to stand alone and not as an off-set ian Conservation Corps that has been to property tax. Free Delivery at work for some time and indica Of course, the legislature could, tion.. are that this civilian army will with the approval of the governor, extend its work for a year instead of make an appropriation for emergency six months. Of the remainder, $11,- relief regardless of available revenue. 500,000 will go towards helping with There is ample precedent for such a work already started on the upper Procedure. In fact pursuit of just that Mississippi, dredging the channel to policy by legislatures during the past POUND permit the passage of deep draft riv ten years is what brought on the huge er boats. deficit under which the state is now Cut from Choice Local Beef The Geologic Survey gets $2,500,- laboring. Under the circumstances 000 atfd a sum of $2,600,000 goes to it is hardly probable that the govern the Coast and Geodetic Survey to car or would stand for such a program, ry on their work of surveys and map even to provide relief for the unem ping. In addition to these, the Agri ployed. It would preclude the pos cultural Adjustment and Farm Credit sibility for a reduction in the general Administration will get $100,000,000. fund deficit and would forestall for I —Pathfinder. another year or two any prospect of » relief for the property owner through STATE DOES NOT SUFFER a reduction of the state tax levy. from enforcing the multitudinous 'of transportation under appointment populous areas are useless because An artilce in last week's Oregon This problem, together with that regulations imposed upon so-called by the board of control. practically all of the waters are con Voter, entitled "Tax Delinquency En of liquor control, present two very contract carriers. No such regula taminated. The degree of pollution couraged by Law," appears the fol strong arguments in favor of the Sponsors of the proposed initiative varies with the density of the popu tion« were imposed against log haul lowing paragraph which should cause special session and between them er« who are classed as “special car measure exempting property from lation. It is hoped that in time many all voters to give more thought to se they should keep the lawmakers riers," the judge points out in his taxation up to $1200 of aaeeased v*l- of these streams can be made rela lection of csndidates who will serve pretty busy for the full of their al uation have now amended their meas- tively asfe. Pemone swimming in opinion. in the legislature and make the lotted 20 days and then some once the I Regulations from which contract ure so that the exemption would ap- these streams should safeguard them state's laws. Why every legislative session is convened. And it should carriers will be relieved if Judge ply only to taxpayer* who reside in selves from typhoid fever and para act should be in the interest of the not be long now. Towelling’s decree is affirmed by the Oregon. This, in the opinion of con typhoid by protective inoculation. state government and its multitudin supreme court include the filing of a stitutional lawyers about the Capitol, There are a number of points of ob ous officials, and to the detriment of The Grim Reaper still rides the good faith bond, liability insurance, would in itself invalidate the measure servation which will be helpful in de county, city, port, school and road Oregon highways. Twenty -five per schedule« of minimum fees and a vast even if it should be approved by the termining the probable safety of a districts, is something not difficult to sons met death in motor vehicle i seci - amount of data with the public utili voters. swimming place. understand when it is remembered dents in this state during July, Five ties commission. Common carriers, 1. Remember that a that every state agency is working of the victims were pedestrians. however, will not be relieved from Safeguarding Swimming Hole safe to swim in unlesa on the members of the legislature, all any of these regulations. drink. (Oregon State Board of Health) with a selfish interest, while the lo And Charlie Pray’s boys of the This is the season when swimming cal governmental agencies are unable state police continue their war on 2. Don’t place confidence in the While revenue» from motor fuel takes it« place as the leading outdoor to keep a lobby at Salem to watch reckless drivers. Arrests for traffic appearance of water. A water biay oil taxes have increased more than sport. From the “Old Swimming look perfectly clear and still be out for the interests of counties, law violations during the month to-1 sevenfold in the past 12 years re Hole” and from «he sandy beaches the grossly polluted. cities, schools, 'etc. It’s time our tailed 467. Eighty-eight of the ar funds from these taxes have increas joyous shouts of bathers are heard. state senators and representatives rests were for reckless driving, 42 for, 3. Observe the location of the lake ed 45 times in the same period. This is as it should be, for swimming were elected with the idea of serving driving while drunk, 25 for riding or stream in regard to drainage; Whereas back in 1921 only one dollar is a most healthful and refreshing what are the possibilities of pollution their constituents and not the state four in the fVbnt seat and 32 for fail-J out of every 60 collected was paid sport. It is so aHuring that many from cottages? Are there streams government officials alone. Follow ure to stop at a stop sign. back to the consumer as a refund now the tempted to indulge in its pleasure running into the body of water in ing .is the paragraph referred to: one dollar out of every nine is re- at improper times and places without If and when the legislature is con- , . . —, ___ . .. . , . .. ... . ■ funded. The answer, in the opinion regard to safety. No attempt is made which you intend to swim, and if so, It is local bodies which suffer. The vened in special session, there will be , . _ v , .__ 1 _ of James Young, chief auditor in ths to detract in the slightest degree do they contain water of known puri state has given itaelf a perfect set-up. two vacant seats. Representative , . . . 1 \ . ty or may they be polluted by drain - , o r. , . . r ^ , \ »tate department, is to be found in from anyone’s pleasure, but we do age from the area through which It not only drags in all the property Earl B. Day of Jackson county for- ., , . . ., e-u-i uu i- -u. u ______ v.l “ 1 * » ^creased tax. When the tax wish to safeguard thia form of health they run? tax it levies, having made it the feited his seat in the House when he. j was only one or two cent* a gallon ful exercise. county duty to pay the state in full accepted appointment as county judge' the refund item, to the average con In very small lakes and streams While swimming is considered one no matter how little taxes are col and Senator Linn E. Jones of Clack sumer, was comparatively inaignifl- lected, but it also has monopolized the amas county is now the paid secretary of the finest forms of exercise, «Ince there may be a possibility of person cant. Now that the tax has been it gives tone and vigor to the entire to person infection, but in large new courses of revenues — income of .the state pharmacy board which boosted to five cents a gallon, how taxes, inheritance taxes, insurance preclude« his participation in legis body, especially the digestive system, bodies of water thia ia not usually the ever, the refund has reached such pro premiums taxes, gasoline taxes, truck lative deliberations. It is not believ there are many health hazards which case. In natural bathing places, the portions that few can affotd to’ ignore taxes, auto taxes, the whole list of ed that Governor Meier would call cannot be overlooked because the wat more important considerations are ■ft. In 1921, the first year of the re speicial taxes. The state has hogged special elections to fill these vacan er many contain disease producing sewage pollution and safety from in fund, only $15,853 was returned to the the tax field, and the localities can cies. At least he refused to do so to organism«. Only a limted number of jury or drowning. Swimming in wat consumer. This year the refunds will shut school down and let policemen fill vacancies in the Marion county lakes and streams are absolutely safe er containing sewage pollution or in total approximately $800,000 and next and firemen go unpaid. Meantime «he delegation two years ago. for swimming. Lakes and streams any natural waters when they are year, in all probability, will pass the head of the state, who fostered the are polluted to a greater or less de muddy ahould be avoided. In choos million dollar mark. last tax collection law, goes around The state highway commissioners, grees by sewages discharged by the ing a natural outdoor bathing place, due consideration should always be the state and preaches to the locali it now seem«, howled before they Three men, well known in political communities along the banks. It is ties that the state is economising and were hurt when they publicly be circles throughout the state have a known fact that a large number of given to the possible existence of that the real tax burden is due to the moaned the loas of a big chunk of found berths in the new department persons harbor typhoid and dysentery submerged rocks or logs, unexpected extravagance of the local bodies. The truck fees as a result of Circuit Judge of transportation created by the last organisms in their bodies. It ia not shallow places, any sudden incline of state has put its local bodies in the Lewelling’s ruling in the suit brought legislature. They are Frank Davey, an uncommon sight to see a diver bottom or treacherous current which hole, and it is the vital institution« by A. C. Anderson, a contract carrier. one time »peaker of the House and a come to the surface emiting a stream may sweep the swimmers into deep Judge Lewelling has explained that former Oregon newspaper man; Fred of water from his mouth and nose. water. One should never dive into of local government that will suffer— police protection, fire protection and his ruling does not affect in any par J. Tooze, former Clackamas county The only safe place in which to swim any body of water without first ascer taining its depth and making search spools. ticular fees imposed upon trucks and educator and newspaperman, and W. is in water that is safe to drink. busses by the 1933 act but only re- W. Ridehalgh, former Astoria ean- There is no way of knowing defin for submerged objects. e Calling cards 100 for $1.00. restrains the utilities commissioner nsryman bat morg recently supervisor itely ths purity of tbs water of a Cartain precautions should ba ex- Rolled Oats Motor Oil QQ 2 Fluffo 39c 4 Coffee 25c Malt 49c Oranges 3 DOZ. 29c Pork & Beans 5c Cookies 3 15c Vinegar 19c DUNHAMS of . Course COQUILLE PHONE g] I Pay the Deliveryman Toiletries and Home Remedies 75c Bottle of 100 Aspirin 39c $1.00 Box Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder 69c $2.50 Jar Colgate Cold Cream 1.49 Giant Size 75c Size Guiibert Cleansing Cream 49c 85c Jar Krushen Salts 69c All 50c Tooth Pastes 39c Heavy $1.00 Hot Water Bottles 39 ceach SPECIAL 1 Coty Powder 1 City Lipstick 1 Coty Perfume All for 98c MEAT DEPARTMENT All Steaks Fresh Hamburger 25c Giant Size PHONE 81 Tender Beef Roasts 9-10 and 12oIJi DUNHAMS of Course ereised in selecting a natural bathing place. Open water in large streams, “swimming hole” short of a bacteri ological test of the water. However, teste of lakes and streams located in lake and bays are ueually safe from the standpoint of duease if there is no discharge of sewage near by or above the bathing beach. Aug. 31 Deadline for Old Drivers’ Licenses After midnight August 31 only Oregon drivers’ licenses issued since July 1, 1981, will be effective. Those failing to secure renewals will find their old license« cancelled and them selves in a position of having no li cense at all, according to Hal E. Hoss, secretary of state. Police officials have indicated that immediate enforcement of the new motor vehicle law will Ve made. Re gardless of inhere a person is located in the state he may avoid action from such authorities by securing from the secretary of state’s office a regu lar application form, having his sig nature sworn to and returning the application together with the $1 li cense fee. More than 40 par cent of the appli cations for renewals are received by mail through the main operators’ di vision office in Salem and approxi mately 25 per cent come in from the traveling examiners. The remaining 35 per cent of ths applicants make personal contact through the Salem or Portland offices. SAVE MONEY! Have Your Tire« Re-Groved at SOUWSIDH MOTOR CO.
