Tip! COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLE, OREGON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER S, IMS.
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To Issue World at Home
L. D. Felsheim, after being offered
the use of nearly every printing shop
in tlvfc county to get out his issue of
the Western World this week, decided
that his own shop would be the best
place to produce the first copy of the
paper which is to serve the bigger
and better Bandon soon to rise from
the ashes of the old.
Just when
Louie’s -issue will appear is not
known here, but it was expected to
get electricity to his plant yesterday
afternoon. His linotype was cleaned
up and ready to go; his presses were
not damaged.
It is such attachment to home as
his which insures that the courageous
people of Bandon will go ahead to a
brighter and more glorious future
than might never have been known
had they not been baptized with fire.
RflETHREATHERE Protect Freedoin
at Polls: Landon
Coquille Was in Danger of Ban­
don’s Fate From Saturday
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I Dictatorship Leach to War,
Until Tuesday
He Warns; Lauds GOP
Platform.
(Continued on Page Six)
PORTLAND. ME.—The Pres­
idential election will lie a choice
between free enterprise under
which the humblest citizen has a
chance, and a system of invasiqn
of private rights characterized by
a million signs: "By Order of the
American Government. Keep
Off!" declared Gov Alf M Lan­
don in a speech before a vast
throng here.
Many Responsible for Havoc
He defined the issues of the cam­
Who may have been responsible
paign:
for all the fires in Coos county ovei
”Do we want the Government
the past week or two will never be
prying into every little detail of our
business lives?
known.
Probably some fires were
”Do we want the Government for­
started by those who had permits to
bidding us to plant what we want in
bum slashings and the flames go'
our own fields?
beyond control.
Other fires were
•’Or:
undoubtedly set by those who did not
"Do we want to be free tn plan
have permits, but whose actions could
for our future?
be hidden ifhder the smoke of the
“Do we want free government tn
other fires. This with no incendiary
Saturday noon and afternoon were America?’’
Coming of European System.
thought, but simply to get rid of spent in worry over the fire to the
Under the American system of
brush,
dead
grass,
slashings,
etc.
north
—
the
danger'
to
the
Miller
Cut by Harbor Photo Engraving
Photo by Cliff Herbage. North Bend
which is done every fall, usually just ranch, the McCurdy ranch houses free enterprise, Gov. Landon said,
Hartman concrete theatre building
Chimneys were part of Queen Anne cottages
people have been free to plan for
before the raihs start, but the rainy and the Kelley homes.
What remains of* Bandon's grade school
Also the themselves and
along the bluff
their children,
season has been very greatly delayed report of 400 sheep being lost in knowing that their goal was limited
building on Tenth street
Red and White Grocery and Westland Hotel
this year.
1 fire to the east made one shrink only by their own ability, subject
from imaging such animal suffering. to no handicap of birth or class
Saved Woman and Two Children And that evening came the news of distinction. But, he pointed out:
“Then came the N.R.A !
With
Dozens of stories of rescues at Ban­ the fire in Brewster and the destruc­ the enactment of this measure in
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don have been printed. It is impos­ tion of three Ko-Keel Kanu Klub cot­ 1933, our government, without man­
sible to tell all the heroic work done, tages there.
date of the people, adopted a new
or even give credit to the hundreds of
and completely different philosophy.
City Completely Destroyed by cases where it is due.
Sunday morning brought news of When I say ‘new’, I mean new
- ' Fire Demon Last Sat­
One unpublished story of rescue is the night’s horror at Bandon and the only in the sense that it was new to
that
performed by Lee Mannelin and shrieking of our own fire siren. The this country. It was a philosophy
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urday Night
well known ur.dcr the autocratic
a friend from Coquille. From inside xntiring efforts of the Coquille fire­
governments of Europe.
a house which was on fire they heard men is another story and praise for
“This philosophy decreed that
But that they
children screaming. Breaking in they them is unstinted.
prices should be regulated,*' said
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found the mother had fainted and the would labor in vain seemed possible Gov. Landon, “not by demand and
two children were hanging to her for a time during that age-long Sun­ supply, but by government edict;
touch, were Ole Jamieson's home, dress and crying.
Taking a child day. If one looked to the north there that wages and hours of employees
standing in a sea of desolation on each under one arm they picked the was the smoke of the big fire beyond should be fixed, not by free and
Ninth or Tenth street, the Coast mother up with their free hands and the county farm; then to the south­ fair negotiations under rules assur­
Lumber Co. warehouse, on the high­ bore the three to safety.
west was the heavy blanket of smoke ing equality, but by officials in
way, across the street from the
shutting off view of the valley and of Washington; that the sort of compe­
tition which must be fostered, as the
cheese factory which did burn, the
State Temporarily in Charge the Fat Elk hills beyond. To the life-blood of free enterprise, should
Breuer building of wood, alongside
southeast was the menace of the big in future be prohibited by law . .
Acting under a state statute which fire on Rink creek, the roar of which
the destroyed Coast Guard boathouse,
NKA Lives On.
Photo by Gill Herbage. North Band
Cat by Harbor Photo Engraving
and the hill north of the highway permits the state superintendent of was plainly heard in town. To the
“What the N.R A really under­
banks to take over temporarily a state northeast was another blaze eating took to do in tins country was to
Bandon’s main street—First—looking west.
Gant Clothing store and where the high school and residences
bank during an emergency, Mark its way down a draw between the terminate our systsm of free com­
are was not touched.
Westland Hotel on right, Hartman Theatre at left.
The Seaside Bakery, a fireproof Skinner arrived here Tuesday night hills, licking at the very steps of a petition, and to substitute for it a
structure, was not destroyed, nor to take charge of the Bank of Bandon. house on the hill at the outskirts of system of government-created and
It is the intention to open that in­ town. It had often been the thought government • protected monopo­
were the Union OU service station at
stitution,
as soon as the vault in the of this writer upon viewing the town lies
the outside turn of the highway and
“The N.R.A. was the beginning
[burned building can be opened, in
the Standard OU sub-station a block
from the dike on return from a trip, in Americu of the mu. cm ent which
the Farmers A Merchants Bank down the coast that Coquille would throughout the world, has beer
or two east from that.
S. A. Peters, never be in danger from a forest fire sweeping atnde* private enterprise
Pitiful, acutely distressing and building in Coquille.
heart-breaking were some of the Jr, deputy superintendent, has se­ unless the whole country wept—and it favot of government control—a
scenes observed about midnight Sat­ cured a door for the vault in the such a catastrophe was very close movement which lias been substitut­
ing arbitrary personal authority for
urday as people were fleeing for safe­ former banking house here.
Sunday.
constitutional self government.
ty down the river bank to the jetty
“But—you may say—the N.R.A
Cabins Burned ta Brewster
and the beach. Families became sep­
The refugees from Bandon were is dead.
arated, children were crying, and yet
The fire which raged in Brewster arriving and cots, mattresses, blan-
“True enough
tne National In­
with it all there was tremendous valley and over the hills back from it kets, pillows were hastily assembled. dustrial Recovery Act is dead,
courage. No hysteria, no weeping, as last Saturday, destroyed, three of the The first request was for clean rags. thanks to the couruge and integrity
the hundreds realized in stunned sur­ cabins at the Kanu Klub ground,« Injured eyes and burned feet re­ of .the Supreme Court
"But the spirit of the N.R.A. lives
prise that their all could be wiped leaving only two,.the L. H. Hazard quired dressing.
Medical supplies
out so completely in a very few mo­ and the J. L. Stevens, at either end of were donated and food bought for the on. It lives on in recently enacted
laws. It lives on in the efforts of
ments.
the row, standing. Those consumed hungry. Extra shoes was taken to the Administration to gel around the
Cars by the score were burned and were the A. N. Gould, Mrs. A. J. those whose soles were burned decisions of the Supreme Court. It
yet half a dozen parked next the con­ Sherwood and S. M. Nosier places. through by walking over hot embers. lives on in this Administration's 1936
crete wall below the Coast Guard Those three were so near one another
platform. It lives on in the recent
living quarters were found not that if one went all were bound to go.
Housewives gathered together sil­ public utterances of the President
Photo by Gill Httbag«, North Band
Cut by Harbor Photo Engraving
scorched at five o'clock in the morn­
ver and a few keepsakes, packed and his spokesmen.
May Lead to War.
ing
while
those
left
across
the
street
clothing,
bedding and a few necessi­
Pioneer Church Relief Measures
Western World office in old First National Bank building. Telephone
“But above all, it lives on in the
on
the
ocean
side
were
still
burning.
ties
from
the
kitchen,
choosing
al
­
exchange on second floor destroyed.
spirit of the President who has con­
The Pioneer church basement was
The entire story of that wild night
ways the best clothes, the best quilts fessed no error—who has let it be
probably the first place in Coquille
will never be written. Many, many
and blankets.
They gave a sorry clearly known that he considered
made ready to afford shelter for Ban­
»tories of rescues, acts of heroism,
glance at a favorite picture, a choice It would be a catastrophe if the
don refugees.
Ernest Purvance
death and destruction, have been
piece of china or an easy chair. The American farmer should 'once
started the
fires going Saturday
published, but all—it is impossible to
children were sober-eyed and quiet more become a lord on his own
night to provide hot water; beds
even scratch the surface.
and more than one boy chose his gun farm' . .
were made up and for two nights,
“It was no acctdanl that Con­
Along Ocean Drive the auto camps
as the one thing to be saved at all
until the other relief agencies were Fcosts. Many garden hoses were in gress delegated its functions to the
were practically all destroyed. W. J.
President.
completely ready to function at high­
place for emergency but just how ef­
Sweet's new three-apartment struc­
“Power ot tins magnitude is dan­
est efficiency, a dozen or more were
ture did not bum, nor did J. J. Stan­
fective they would have been was gerous from the e.unuimc as well
cared for in that quarter.
ley’s cottage a couple of blocks north,
questionable. Plans were discussed as from the politu-al point of view
nor did two ot the Ocean View cabins
as to where refuge might be sought. No man’s judgnic.nt is sufficiently
All Postal Supplies Lost
All roads—to Myrtle Point, to Marsh-' infallible to justify living him con­
near the turn.
The heroic work of J. A. Lamb, A. - All the postoffice supplies and field, to Bandon—were endangered trol—either in private business or in
N. Gould, Geo. Bryant, A. O. Walker. records at Bandon were destroyed. by fire, no escape in any direction government—over the standard of
living, the savings, and the destiny
But there was the river
Mrs. J. L. Smith and probably others' Tuesday Postmaster Hawkins sent was sure.
of his fellow citizens When the de-
saved the Coquille colony cabins Alton Grimes down there with a sack here and some green fields along the' cisiorvbf one man allects an entire
|rom destruction by stopping the de­ of supplies from here and he helped dike, to stay seemed safest.
country, a wrong decision means
mon at the J. E. Paulson cottage. That Postmaster Jack Wade in the tem­
nations disaster
one. and those belonging to Mrs. porary postoffice which had been set
But Sunday afternoon the wind
“The Republican Parly opposes
Birdie Skeels, C. J. Fuhrman, J. A. up in the Coast Lumber Co. ware­ died down, the smoke settled over us, unlimited executive power for an­
This reason is that
Lamb, J. L. Smith, A. O. Walker. Geo. house, from where mail was distri­ shutting out the rest of the world and other reason
the world wide trend away from de­
A. Ulett, Geo. W. Bryant, H. A. buted that morning. All the office the glare of the fires. Eyes began to
mocracy means but one thing—that
Photo by CNN Herb*«». North Bend
Cst by Harbor Photo Engraving
smart and the taste and smell of one thing is WAR .Any weakening
Young and Mrs. A. J. Sherwood—ten records went up in smoke.
smoke was to remain for days. That of democracy here, mearu the Anal
in all—were saved.
Vault in city hall, containing Ban Jon’s official records
Those along the bluff which were Camp Grounds Burned Next Day evening radio reports of virgin timber rout of democracy everywhere. . .
burning and false stories of loss of
“The temper of the American
wiped out were thosevof Dr. M. Earl
Last Friday evening J. M. Biggs, a other towns by fire were depressing.
public is no longer complacent. It
Wilson, Mrs. W. S. Slckels, Reider
former newspaper man at Hermiston,
has definitely set its (ace against
Buggee, J. S. Barton, Dr. Jas. Rich­
completed a deal for the Bandon-by-
Monday
morning brought the monopoly and unfair trade prac­
mond. the Smith cabin near Dr. Wil- '
and eas«l the rtroin on tices. The pledge in our platform is
sort’s, and the Seagull, owned by a the-Sea camp grounds, across the ■ blt.Med
road
from
the
Queen
Anne
settle-
[
nervet
.
n
algo
Mw the
CroM not mere words It does not mean
Medford lady.
to me fruitless inquisitions that im­
The Silver Spray dance hall, the ment. He had intended to gradually functioning smoothly and efficiently, pede recovery and delay re-employ­
replace
the
old
buildings
with
mod-
That
evening
brought
the
national
Wecoma Bath buildings, and all other
ment. To me it means not only the
steady relentless enforcement of ex­
ocean front property was destroyed. ' em cabins. Saturday night he lost guard and all was well,
it all—except for the |750 insurance
isting laws but the strengthening of
on the property
those Isws. Ahd it means the en­
Coquille
Needs
More
Fire
Hose
Three Ambulances There
actment of such additional legisla­
Coquille’« moat serious defect in tion as is necessary to put an end
Schroeder Bros., who conduct fun­ CCC Boys Saved High School
fire fighting equipment Sunday, had to monopoly, unfair trade practices
eral parlors at Coquille and Myrtle
Credit for saving the high school the need arisen, was hose. From one and all special privilege
Only if
Point, and did at Bandon, kept three district at Bandon goes in large meas­
to two thousand feet, in addition to we follow this course can we escape
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ambulances at Bandon all day Sun­ ure to the CCC men from four camps what the department has was needed. .■----- —•------- of *_
government
regulated
day and Monday until all injured and —McKinley, Sitkum, Walker and one
monopolies
sponsored
by
this
Ad­
Fire Chief Gardner made arrange­
ministration.
emergency cases had been trans­ other. This is a matter which has
ments on Tuesday to borrow a thou­
"If you do not believe this, you
ported to places of safety.
been generally overlooked in press sand feet from the State Forestry de­ had better not vote for me
For I
reports. Not only did the 3-C boys | partment.
am pledged by the Republican plaL
Photo by Clifl Herbas«, North Bend
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Cat by Harbor Photo Enerarías
fight the fire but many heroic sav- j
form to save our system of tree
Orvil Haga and Clovis Church grocery, Westland Hotel and Gant Cloth­
enterprise.''
ings were performed by the mem-
Dr. C. <
ing store,
ben.
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warmth to the east wind that yras
blowing. An east wind in this coun­
try is an evil one. It brought the
disagreeable dust storm in April,
1»31. And it brought the first ashes
ind charred myrtle leaves which fell
all over our town last Saturday. We
natives of this coast country enjoy
our north winds of summer which
give us resort weather unequalled by
any section in the United States and
we love our south winds of winter
bringing the gentle rains, but an east
wind spells disaster. The east wind
warmed byTnany slashing fires out of
control grew hotter as the day pro­
cessed and by night the weather was
hat of a summer evening in Kansas,
ill coats and wraps dispensed with,
ind entirely pleasant except for the
terie east wind.
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