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THE COQUILLE VALLET REI PAOS FOUR — around a case of too many bosses. ! C. A. Rcberson Replies to While Jack Allen, Pendleon demo Dr. Jas. Richmond crat, is supposed to be administrator, a toas SAMs is a mso rswa On Townsend it is young Eugene Kelty, Portland H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES republican and assistant administra Publishers 1 tor, who has been actually "adminis To The Sentinel: H. A. YOUNG. Editar I am a resident of Coquille- I air tering" the afafirs of the commission, a situation which makes for anything hopeful for the enactment of th« Subscription Rates but harmony in the organization. Townsend Plan into law, and'I air $2 00 Om Year ...------- ---------------- Six Months...... ...... ........ - - 1.00 Those who pretend to be in the know crusading for that cause. Thi .■«.• Months---- ---- -------------- — .60 say that Allen has been ready to I submit to you for publication, ii Ku subscription taken unless paid quit and return to the more peaceful you will give space, the following a: for in advance. This rule is impera pursuits of his own private business an answer to an article appearing ir tive. at Pendleton but that Governor Mar your Nov. 15th, 1935, issue by Dr James Richmond, entitled: “Dr. Rich- islny in has insisted that he stay put. Display advertising 30 cents per The present situation on the liquor • mond Tells Why He Opposes Town inch. No advertisement inserted for send Plan.” less than 50 cents. Beading notices board is admittedly intolerable but It would be easy to overlook this 10 cents per line. No reading notice, whether Allen will be thrown over or i.dverlisement of any kind, insert board in an effort to restore internal article were it not for the fact that ed for less than 25 cents. harmony or Kelty will walk the po- Dr. Richmond is a very affable, well educated, and influential gentleman Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as itical plank and with him at least >ne member of the commission re in the community of Coquille and for Second Class Mail Matter. Qiis very good reason some well —- - - ■------------------------- --— 1 ■ - 1 mains to be seen. meaning folk in that community Office Cerner W. First and Willard St Definite progress in the campaign might be misled by the caustic phras - id reduce traffic fatalities on Oregon es and attempted ridicule which the highways is shown in a report corn- article contains. ■ . The first paragraph of the article died by Secretary erf State Snell vhich shows that for the ten months shows very plainly that the doctor rf the current year only 204 persons' has not diagnosed the plan correctly ............... ------------------------ “ of, -the doctor does not understand the -ave lost their - lives as a result highway accidents compared to 259 different phases and general , pur fatalities for the same period a year poses of the Plan. The Townsend Traffic accidents, however, Plan does not propose,’ merely to give iXlLUJUA old. .. The valuation of all tax- show nn increase from 17.777 the following interesting purposes: 312 in spite of the campaign against able properties in Oregon this year (a) Economic Justice, for the old Only 19 fatalities aggi.gate $924,071,620.84, a reduction reckless drivers. people. were recorded during October com of epproximately $20,000,000 from <b> Econonyc Recovery, that is, the assessments of Last^year, accord pared to 34 for October, 1934. balanced and sustained by a forced ing to ffgures compiled by the state A large framed portrait of former draft of circulation of purchasing tax commission. Of the total assess power evenly and equitably distri ment $761,129,734.32 represents prop governor Oswald West was delivered buted, thereby, allowing the law of to the executive department this erties assessed by the county assessor supply and demand to function. and $162,941,886.52 represents utility week and will share honors with the (c) Employment Assurance, by al properties assessed by the state tax recently painted portrait of ex-Gov- commission. This makes the fifth cmor Julius Meier which hangs in lowing the many persons now gain consecutive year that assessed values one of the rooms occupied by Gov fully employed—60 years of age or over—to refrain from further compe have shown a reduction in compari ernor Martin and his staff in the state titive labor with younger persons, . son with figures of the previous year. office building. thus creating an immediate demand Material redqctions in the acreage of D. O. Hood, state budget director, for those seeking employment;—plus tillable, non-tillable and timber lands on the assessment rolls .as well as re who harbeen in California on pri- -new jobs made necessary by virtue ductions in the valuations of build vafe business since adjournment of op business acceleration through the ings and other improvements account the special session, is expected to re spending of the Townsend Plan Pen for the smaller assessment. Slight sign his state job within the next few sions. (d) Honorable Retirement—at age increases are shown in the aggregate weeks. Governor Martin has given no indication as to who he will name of 60—and an adequate fund—which assessed value of merchandise, farm to succeed Hood. fund is involuntarily and collectively implements, horses and mules, cattle, created toy -all. individuals during sheep, hogs, goats and doge. Coos Gasoline sales in Oregon continue their lifetime. county’s assessment roll, including i to show substantial increases over Hence, the Townsend Plan is Foui- utilities dropped from $25,695,940.28 1934 sales. Figures compiled by the Square: in 1934 to $25.212.359.65 in 1935, a state department show total sales of (1) A Recovery Plan. deci case of more than $480,000. . 154,428,769 gallons for the first ten (2) Employment Assurance Plan. months of the current year, a gain of (3) An. Increased Purchasing The burden of the special election, January 31, will fall largely on the 12,808,840 gallons over the same Power Plan. period a year ago. Gasoline taxes of (4) An Honorable Retirement Plan counties. Dave O’Hara, elections ; $7,721„438 collected by the state are at Age Sixty. clerk in the state department estim- ; $640,442 greater than collections for The very fact that the good doctor ates the total cost of the elections at ' 1934 to October 31. has not thoroughly informed himself $65,000 of which the state will put up with the broad purposes and econom $15,000, with the counties shouldering I , Liquor sales for 1935 by state stores ic Intentions of the Townsend PlSf1 $50,000 of the cost. and agencies will exceed $6,000,000 in before presuming to write upon the cherish—as nothing else that has the Attorney General stating that County School Notes the opinion of Arthur K. McMahan, subject renders the whole article nec come to us. travel of the County Judge of Coos Seven motorists beat the train to From Mrs. Mulkey’s Office of Albany, chairman of the liquor essarily Void, but we shall go a little C. A. Roberson, County to his home each evening is grade crossings on Oregon highways control board. Profits of the liquor farther into his article. D. A. R. Presents Magazines Member Coquille Townsend Club not county business. Never mind the during October, acocrding to statistics commission from sales and licenses to The second paragraph of the article No. 1. The Empire School has received the law declaring the County Judge of compiled by the public utilities com October 31 this year total 81,471,394, undertakes a survey of the amount Coos County shall receive no other last ten years of the National Geo mission. In six other crossing acci according to a report filed with the of national wealth necessary to meet compensation than his $2000 salary, graphic magazines. These were pre dents the automobile ran into the state department. the economic demands of the Plan. Objection Raised to Never mind the little extra $750. sented by the Coos Bay chapter of train which was already at the cross Here again the doctor shows a com Travelling Expense Item | Debts, debts and more debts and D. A. R. The magazines make valu- ing. Roben J. Maaske, assistant state plete lack of understanding of the taxes! What about the increased abe reference material. superintendent of public instruction, economics which the Plan proposes, Writing from Marshfield to the budget? The budget comes up for Lakeview Voters in 13 Oregon pities of 5000 has been appointed state director of and this is the best possible evidence newspapers of Coos county, S. C. The Lakeview building has been or more population must pass on the final consideration the 29th, inst. at Americanization by the new state that he has not studiously read the Lapham finds violent objection to the The paint question of civil service for their fire Coquille. What are you going to do painted inside and out. Americanization commission created Townsend Plan in full. The econom $750 included in the Coos county was bought by the district and the la fighters at the1 January 31 special about it?” S. C. Lapham. by the last legislature. Mrs. Mabel ics of the Plan does not depend upon budget for travelling expenses for the bor was donated. The Lakeview election, under an act passed by the A. MclntUrff, of Marshfield, is chair definite sums of national wealth—but county judge for the coming year. We School has recently organized a har- regular session of the state legisla man of the new commission. • upon a “Transaction Tax” of 2 per quote the first and last paragraph of “Pontiac Safety Men” Careful monica band. A social was given ture. Ordinances authorizing the cent. Again the article falls short Mr. Lapham’s letter but have deleted Members of the “Pontiac Safety Saturday to raise money for the li- election on the civil service issue and into error when it undertakes to the other paragraph. Men” in the zone office at . Portland brary. must be passed by the city councils President Endorses The Sentinel has frequently stated traveled upwards' of 25,000 miles in of these 13 cities by December 2, ac Kentuck Inlet Christmas Seal Sale convey the idea that a “Transaction Tax" and a “Sales Tax” are the same that communications are welcomed if October without a single traffic acci cording to Earl Snell, secretary of The children of Kentuck are work I Eelow is printed President Roose in kind. The “joker” in the sales tax written in a temperate way and with dent of any kintl. reports L. W. Ward, ing out programs from their class state. The list of cities affected by i this act includes Baker, Corvallis, La velt’s endorsement of the Christmas is, the consumer pays—the “Transac out personal attacks or display of ¡zone manager there for the Pontiac room work. An interesting play for Grande. Marshfield. Medford and Seal sale which started yesterday— tion Tax” will be paid 6y the seller. venom.' It is not the province of a ■motor Company. Thanksgiving is being built from If there is an exchange of stock newspaper to utter tirades, even “This tends to refute the popular their history and reading. They are The Dalles. Thanksgiving day: shares of $100,000,000 on the New against a public official, and there is ! conception that men driving com also acting out the workings of thè In the event voters of Oregon again “On Thanksgiving Day will again York Stock Exchange teday, and this rib reason why a private citizen pany cars, insured by the company, Supreme Court. defeat the sales tax, the state’s needy be launched throughout the country happens nearly every day--no sales should be allowed to do what a pub I are less careful at the wheel than is 4-H Clnb usner will win not no« do ao himself. nimsen. ah or the individual owner-driver,” said aged will have to be carrd for from the annual Christmas Seal sale of the tax would be collected. But on this. lisher All of The Charleston school on Friday. relief funds, according to state offi National Tuberculosis Association fori tiansaetion-and every one of its kind Mr. Lapham’s article is probably Ward. Nov. 22, had a pie social and pro, the Townsend Plan there I ‘ true, and the an opopr- cials who have made a study of the funds with which to <x>ntinue “The ‘Pontiac Safety Men’ com gram, which was very well attended the llUt? ine | 1 under i* uc, cuiu ni” public jjiiuiiv had iiau ail situation. While the state stands to fight against tuberculosis. ' The ap- ' wovdd l,e Pn*d • transaction tax of 2 tunity at 10 a. m. this morning to ex-, prise a new organization, nation The proceeds went to the 4-H club Mtsidera- per cent tf,is could not be passed on press their views on the various items wide, sponsored by the Pontiac Mo New clubs are being organized for lose all federal aid for old age pen pesl deserves the serious considera sions because of failure of the legis tion of everyone, for the disease con to the consumer, because it can neith- 1 contained in the budget, but whether tor Co . with seven members in the the year in cooking and handicraft - - , lature to finance this activity—except tinues to be the nation's foremost pub er. be eaten nor worn. i Judge McLain is entitled to $750 a Portland zone organization. The rest of the article is as faulty, year for travelling expenses or not, for the proposed sales tax—there will lic health problem—especially among “Most of these seven men traveling i • at be approximately $5,500,000 available the young. U is important that pro and as deeply in error as the two sarcasm and spleen have no place in J»nd”r wy direction from our Port- ] NO More LaXatlVeS—No for relief of the needy, including an tective measures which have been paragraphs considered hence, in the a discussion of public affairs. Below land headquarters drive upwards of ..________ unexpended balance of approximate found effective in preventing further scope of such error, require no an appears a portion of Mr. Lapham’s 3>000 miles in one month. They are and ly $3,000,000 in liquor profits diverted spread cf the disease shall be con- swer. communication. r almost * constantly on the go, moving I I am not writing this for contro to relief purposes by the 1835 session, inued. from one dealer to another over a no Constipation when you $1,000,000 diverted from the general "Leadership in the work of carry- versy, nor in a spirit of "satire,” al- “Ain’t the taxpayers of Coos Coun- .territory, take your little daily dose fund to relief needs by the special : ng* out these protective measures is thou«h an article constructed of so ty got fun?” Inster.d of cutting coun- In one ~ month their combined = of Kruschen Salts. r costs to the bone — and courageously 1™ileage *s as 8 reat as the ----------- average in- session, another $1,000,000 of county liven by the National Tuberculosis muth ridicule deserves an answer in I ty L — — “V ,7 ■ . - - ——— Take only as .much as will lie on' me finish with these ■ reducing estimated expenses, we funds levied for old age pensions but Association and its two thousand af- 8at're” —c are srs ' ' dlvidua1 d'vi.dua1 ’ ’ wn° does dois not use u,e his car in a dime in your morning cup of tea . . ...... . 7 . . — - sidetracked to general relief needs by filiated units throughout the country. slmple‘ unimpeachable statements; * informed that the 1936 budget is to - — be * 1 hlHlinnae bu,*nc"*- will will watl. pile up s In 2t4 yeais" or coffee—gain glorious health | --- ------------ L The Townsend I lan, when en- lnvrPBW - B the legislature, and $500,000 remain Their work has been of special value Ori^zers Pontiac Safety physical attractiveness — 40 cents increas ’d some $45,365 over expenses Or4aurers of the “ Pantian ing of the $1,000.000 appropriated for during the past five years when fed-' acted in,° Iaw W,U mc-‘ ,ts economic! of last year Men’? ranked the causes of highway At Rackleff Pharmacy and drug — — • state - • - * and • municipal . . _ _ I «... —S — by _ a a 2 ThIngSi * be not afraid, they are not acc!d8n,i in the following order: mis gists everywhere. relief of indigents by the regular ses -j- " :ral, administra- demands and requirements --------------- «MisissaM«,ta- - . - - nuiigs, ue nv$ Miiuiu, iney ... ----- sion. cions were extended to the limit in pCr sions P" f ^ cnt cn‘ tax‘ ’ Bnd without increasing going t0 raige raise your taxcs? faxes, < o , -------- applied J speed, passing on hill, fail- —-------------- --------------------- — caring for those who turned to them ‘hc burden oi ------------------ taxation a single dol- How kind? Why waMn't an honest |ure to signal, recklessness, poo; r Storm clouds are gathering over or aid __ I Br’ I effort made by the Budgeteers and judgment, neglect of mechanism ig the state liquor control organization “The coperation of every man, 2. A Transaction Tax in effect and the Court to drastically cut all costs, norance of laws and stubbo.neaa. again. Predictions are that a shake woman and child, every organized f“ct. is as far apart from a “sales tax"(reduce the budget and make a start up of the organization will be put in group and every governmental offi- as are the two poles, on all kinds of toward paying up and freeing the to effect before the first of the year. cial is needed in order to bring this 3» That the Plan will relieve the taxpayers from the fearful load of in» G. T. COOK At least one change can be expected dread disease under control. It is entire burden of taxation of an un- terest charges and debt they are now Brick Mason I _ in the personnel of the commission it oropcrly the duty of each local com equalized order and manner. ALPINE and SCORIH bearing? Why pile on more? Why fireplaces and (hlmnevH self while a number of republicans in munity to raise the funds fOcJts own 4. That the Plan will reduce crime not cut costs? .... Ï . O. IJo\ C2, ( i the ranks of the organization are said protection. Chistmas Seals give ev- by deleting the cause for crime— inorai and Long Distance ‘ Increase the budget. If the tax On Shelley ranch, east of Coquille I to be slated for sacrifice to make ^ryone an opportunity to do his part, which is born of “dire” necessity, payers can’t pay, take their property room for deserving Democrats who Che funds are spent in the communi- 5. The Plan will stop the “orgy” of away from them. Who gives a rap 11 , r have been howling for a slice of ies in which they are raised for the government spending. 1 for the low down Dirtdiggers, Slab-' r patronage ever since the present ad protection of all. The need is great.” I*hones 101 J—224 L 6. The Plan will promote econ wrestlers and Homeowners? She’s a ministration went into office. Al r —■. omic justice, prov ide economic secur great New Deal. Never mind little ready, it is known, some of the un Report cases of cruelty to cnildren ity, provide employment assurance, appropriations like $618,529. Never A. F. A A- M derlings have been notified that their tnd animals to Humane Society, secure the blessirgs of liberty to our- mind the objections of Commissioner Stated Communication I services arc no longer required. Medford. Complaints must be signed! selves and to our posterity, and make Charles Doane. Vote him down, Tuesday Dec. 10, 7:30 p. m. Trouble in the upper strata erf the by two or more witnesses. Informa-1 secure American institutions and Never mind confiscation of homes Election of Officers organization is understood to center lion confidential. 17tf American traditions—which we all1 and land. Never mind the ruling of The Sentinel More Cathartics— New low Price COAL HAULING Chadwick Lodge No. 68 Mansell Drayage & Delivery Co. L.
