TBB COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLB, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1953.
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The ultimatum of the federal gov
In other worlds we have signed a contract to keep our
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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
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mosjt serious financial situation« this
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order to keep our stores open this number of hours
state has ever faced.
During the
PUBLIC WORKS UNDER WAY
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"•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
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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
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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
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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
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.. 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.
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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
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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
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another year or two any prospect of
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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
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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.
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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- .,
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tax.
When
the
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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
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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
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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.
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