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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1937)
FAG« FOUR coquille valley The Sentinel * aseo raras is a smo tsww H. A. YOUNG MMl M. D. GRIMES H. A. YOUNG, Editor ===== Subscription Rates >2.00 One Year__________ —- . 1.00 Six Months ---------- ——- .00 Three Months____________ No subscription taken unless paid for in advance. This rule is impera- Advertising Rates Display advertising 30 cents .pel inch. No advertisement inserted for less than 50 cents. Reading notices 10 cents per line. No reading notice, or advertisement of any kind, insert ed for less than 25 cents. Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter. Office Cerner W. Flrat end WUlard St Coquille might as well quit trying to convince newspaper men that there is very little difference in distance between Bandon and North Bend whether the Coast Highwsy mileage is used or the Seven Devils route north from Bandon. From Bandon to North Bend the distance is .40 miles by way of the Coquille valley and seven or eight, or possibly ten miles, shorter by the Seven Devils. But newspapers whose editors are anxious to see Coquille cut off the state's highway map talk glibly of a 20-mlle saving when it is not half that. serve without pay and act only in an any firm that employs as many as advisory capacity to the state board. four persons even for a single day come under the terms of the act. In his second appearance before the A new 50-bed pavilion for the east egislature since the present session •onvened Governor Martin this week ern Oregon tuberculosis hospital at cracked down on the legislators who The Dalles was practically assured ire sponsoring bills aimed at the state this week whep the ways and means Highway fund and the regulation of committee put its “okeh" on Senator Highway traffic. Bills now before the Stadelman’s bill appropriating >54,500 •ession, the governor pointed out, for this purpose. provide for the diversion of >1,700,000 Two of Governor Martin’s pet ac >f the highway funds. To enact hese, he warned, would create a def- tivities are under heavy fire. One of cit of >1,000,000 in the highway ac- these is the State Planning Board ount. Senators and representatives which many of the legislators are vhose toes were stepped on by the convinced has not justified its cost. ¡ovemor in his special message—and The other is the proposed mining .hey were many—did not take kindly board for which the governor is urg o the official castigation which ing an appropriation of >100,000. If amounted, in effect, to a notice that cither or both of these finally receive my of the objectionable measures legislative approval it will probably hat might get as far as the govem- be with a material reduction in the jris office could expect to meet up appropriations recommended by the vith the executive veto. governor. The parole board bill which came >efore the legislature with the bless- ng of Governor Martin, does not neçt with the approval of State Treasurer Holman. The bill would centralize the parole activities of the penitentiary, boys’ and girls’ schools under a single board. Holman ob jects to the proposed disruption of the parole staffs at the boys’ and girls’ schools which have been built up over a period of years with a view to giv ing expert supervision to these ju venile delinquents. Letter and Resolution Ad' dressed to Bandon C. of C. — Following is a copy of the letter sent to the Bandon Chamber of Com merce last week by the Coquille Chamber, which was addressed to Floyd Bennett, chairman of the Ban don organization: Smith Wood-Products, Inc I III I E, OREGON Knotty Port Orford Cedar T & G, V 1 Side Full Line of Douglas Fir Moldings 1 x 3 to 1 x 12 Clear Kiln Dried Douglas fir Finish As chairman of the highway com mittee of the Coquille Chamber of Commerce, I have been directed to address a letter to the Bandon Cham ber of Commerce accompanied by a CARS AND HIGHWAYS The perennial chain store bill, long resolution with reference to the im At the close of 1936 there were delayed, finally made its appearance provement of the Oregon Coast High 28,500,000 motor cars registered in in Saturday’s batch of new senate way in Cons county------------ ---------------- the V. S„ or a car to e v e iy fiv e pe r bitts: Tiie bill would levy anannuaT It would seem proper at this time sons, figuring the present population tax on all retail stores, ranging from to point out some of the advantages of at 130,000,000 From such statistics >1 for an independent store up to improvement of the highway per you can gather the real seriousness of >250 for each store In a chain of 75 manently in its present location.' the traffic problem. Every hour in or more. Travellers over the highway are very the day and night there are enough often people looking for location Now that the’house has clamped cars running to make our highways both fdr homes and business for dangerous, and we are fast getting down on new bills they are all com themselves as well as friends and first The too many cars for the good road mile ing in by way of the senate. Impressions mean a great deal in the age we have. This is the main contri hopper of the upper house is clogged Let us show you our Lumber Stocks in warehouse decision they may make. Travelling bution to our death and accident rate. every day, a single day's grist during from California to Washington along and on dock at the Smith Then, too, most of us are not any too the past week totalling 35. the Oregon coast there is little to im careful about driving when we get Wood-Products Plant press the permanent home builder behind the wheel of a car. These two The 40-day period during which except the valley of the Coquille and factors combine to make of our traffic Oregon’s lawmakers are permitted to the country around Tillamook. Ad problem one of the greatest facing the draw their >3 per diem expires Fri mitting .¿hat the trip from a scenic nation. And we don’t seem to be day night. As yet, however, the end making much headway toward a sol of the session is not in sight and with standpoint is unsurpassed anywhere in the world and we do not underes 4 ution. When road builders fully re many major issues still pending not timate its value, yet at the same time, alize the fact that it is just about as even the most venturesome is willing We carry a complete line of 1x3 to 2x12 No. 1 and No. 2 Common we want to impress upon the traveller important to widen old roads as it is to hazard a guess as to when sine die that we have a substantial, growing Cedar, suitable for all building purposes, surfaced or rough. to build new ones, and when new adjournment will come. country with a wonderful future, in ones are built vyider than they are Consult the Retail Department for our low prices on Cedar So far no action has been taken on which to establish themselves, and we now being built there may be some the anti-strike legislation, one of the can think of no better way to do this hope of relief, and not until then. most controversial issues before the than to show them the possibilities of session. Neither has anything been the lasting growth of cities with * done about old age pensions, a ques back country like the Coquille valley. tion concerning which there are many This valley is in truth and will so ap sharply divided opinions. Nor have Support of all .efforts to attain an of it; again, the disease process may verstott. Mrs. Brownson is 86 years pear to any traveller, tributary terri the several parole measures ever tory to Bandon and the cities on Coos air port at Bandon, endorsing the be congestive on both side. For some old and a' great great grandmother come before the members for consid Bay and to us it would seem like a purchase of land for such purpose by of the types with which we have be and heads a lineage of five genera eration. come familiar, a specific serum has tions, including her daughter, Mrs. short-sighted policy of any chamber the Port of Bandon; State building needs, about which Support to the fullest extent in all been developed which will reduce the Carrie Benham; granddaughter, Mrs., of commerce to fail to grasp this ad most of the members agree that some vantage in the handling of tourist efforts to obtain harbor improvement number of deaths to a known degree. Myrtle Hol verstott; great grand thing should be done, will probably The question naturally arises, daughter, Mrs. Ruby Thurman, and travel. The little distance saved in at Bandon even though the expendi remain unsolved when the session Oregon is not yet reaay to abandon the re-routing of the highway through ture of considerable money was in “What is a serum? What does it do? great great grandchildren,, Allen ends becouse of lack of funds for How does it act?" The answers are Thurman and his small sister; besides its time-tried legislative set-up for Coos county would be of little advan volved; financing a building program, al Support of the Bandon schools by not simple and undoubtedly not yet members of the respective family. the unicameral system, in the opinion tage to us and certainly not worth the though there is much sentiment fa The “old swimmin' hole” and camp of the state senate. Two measures loss which we would sustain by rout the contribution of nearly >1,200.00 in complete. The understanding of the vorable to either a state office build treatment of pneumonia is based ground adjoining La Verne Park will calling for this legislative reform ing travellers through waste country. the present emergency; ing or a new library building, even Support of all measures for the re partly on fact and partly on theory. not receive their annual visitations in were killed by the senate this week. After all, we build highways primari though it means plunging the general habilitation of Bandon, inclusive of Some of the conceptions require spe the future from dozens of people who One of these, by Senator Carney, ly to develop Oregon and we can fund into the red again. would have vested the lawmaking think of no better way to do this than the remitting of and concellation of cial knowledge and some are based come from afar to enjoy the outdoor Thè ways and means committee on generally understood and accepted comforts. A spar pole and donkey functions in a single organization of to build our main arteries of travel taxes; was all set to loose a flood of appro Support of proposition to build a phenomena. No conception, however, engine are now located in its midst not fewer than 30 nor more than 36 through the best of Oregon. priation bills on the house Thursday. members. No time limit would have The blocking of traffic on the high new tug boat for Bandon at a proba can be separated from a consideration and many of the trees which shaded These represented only the regularly been placed upon sessions of this law- way due to overflow of the dike road ble expenditure of >25,000.00 of tax of the reaction of the human body. the river have been cut and the budgeted items, totalling just short of money, cost of which, under the pres What goes on in the human body dur limbs broken from many others. R. making body and their aggregate pay >14,000,000. Paring a few dollars below Coquille is comparatively a would have been fixed at >60,000 for small matter to correct as against the ent conditions would necesenrily be ing a siege of pneumonia? For the A. Wemich and Bill Kay, of Coquille, here and adding a few there the ways paid largely by Coquille xSclnity; and sake of simplification we may liken are logging myrtlewood and myrtle the biennium, this sum to be divided and means committee has just about construction of an entirely new route. Whereas, The people of Coquille, an attack of pneumonia to a siege in burls from the land across the river. equally among the members, whether The raising of the dike, a matter of managed to keep abreast of the gov through their Chamber of Commerce which pneumonia germs are the be 30 or 36, and the members to hire Rev. G. A. Gray, of Coquille, will two or three feet would accomplish ernor’s recommended budget total. arc urging the improvement of the siegers, the human body the besieged, conduct services at the Fairview their own stenographers. The other the desired purpose and could be Savings of approximately >200,000 Oregon Coast Highway in its present and the defenders are represented by school house next Sunday. A group unicameral legislature proposal by over the governor's budget were handled probably under the mainten location, serving the needs of all of the white blood cells. It is the duty of 39 was in attendance last Sunday, Senators Burke and Staples, would ance program whereas the construc claimed by the committee ui^til it have abolished the house of represen Coos county to the greatest extent of the white blood cells to destroy in which was remarkable considering tion of a new highway in a different yielded to the pleadings in behalf of tatives and left the law making func possible; vading pneumonia-causing germs. the weather, time of year and need higher education and increased the location is a new project which has tions entirely in the hands of the sen Therefore Be It Resolved: That we Antibodies in the blood stream lessen of temporary arrangements to hold very little chance of realization even governor’s recommendations for this ate. Senator Strayer, chairman of the urge upon the Bandon Chamber of the activity of attacking germs so that Sunday school meetings in the school item by approximately >250,000, wip should the Highway Commission be resolutions committee which hgd rec Commerce the advisability of recon the white blood cells may actually house since the church burned. so inclined, for a great many years to ing out not only its savings but dip ommended that the measures “do not The Highway Commission is sidering the action taken and joining destroy them. ping substantially into the governor’s come pass” declared that Oregon could not Whether a person will survive an already on record to this effect and this Chamber of Commerce in a pro surplus, established at >381,000 at the afford to experiment with the pro gram of development for the Coquille attack of pneumonia depends on the only result which such requests last report. G. T. COOK ’. posed reform. He urged that this Old age pensions continues the big could accomplish might be the possi Valley which means so much to the many factors, the kind and nature of state await the outcome of the experi future of Bandon as well as one tend attacking germs, the resistance of the Brick Mason problem before this committee. The ble delay of the straightening and re ment now being tried out in Nebras human body and the presence of anti sub-committee dealing with this construction of the present highway. ing to encourage and strengthen the Fireplaces and Chimneys ka. We trust your chamber erf com co-operation between the communi bodies in the blood stream. To wage problem had tentatively agreed to The senate also blocked the move P. O. Box 62, Coquille ties interested. a successful fight it is necessary to merce will give this matter more con trim the governor’s figures for this to refer to the voters a proposed con Coquille Chamber of Commerce determine the type or kind of attack item by >200,000 but advocates of a structive thought in the hope that stitutional amendment creating the By its Board of Directors ing organisms by means of a well- more liberal pension are holding out they will arrive at the conclusion that office of lieutenant governor and still established laboratory test. Success for a reduction in the age of pension the action recently taken was unwise another measure proposing an in ful treatment demands that the phy at this time and will put all their Special Treatment la beneficiaries which, if agreed to will crease in the pay of legislators from sician be called early when the pa Needed for Pneumonia necessitate a substantial increase in strength and support behind a pro >3 to >8 a day. tient becomes ill. In order that the this appropriation and might even en- ! gram for the improvement of High Although these proposed reforms tail a general fund deficit afteV all serum be effective it must be given way 101 in its present location all the Oregpn State Board of Health un are dead so far as the present session When symptoms are suspi | Because of its increased prevalence early. less some new source of revenue can way through Coos County;’: is concerned proponents of the uni cious of pneumonia, the physician at this season of the year, pneumonia be unearthed. THAT, la effect, is what we cameral legislature and lieutenant The resolution which accompanied frequently “makes the headlines.” should be called at once. give you when you buy one governorship expect to place the is Apparently both branches of the __ the letter was couched in the follow In stressing the fact that pneumonia of Southern Pscihc’s low win sue« before the people through the legislature are determined to clean ing words: FAIRVIEW ter roundtrips East. From is the “dread disease” at the present referendum. most western Oregon point,, out the slot machines, pin ball games Whereas, It has come to the atten moment, current warnings call atten Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Crump left for you can swing down I trough and other nickel-catching devices tion of the Coquille Chamber of Com tion to certain factors that may have Washington on Thursday of last Coiifortuo and then East, re Young Americans who live in Ore that combine chance and skill. A bill merce that a petition has been for a bearing on this. Thus the impor week. Miles Lepley acompanied turning on your choice of gon are not to be denied the pleasure by Senator Carney declaring these tance of hygienic livihg, pronipt at them. warded to the State Highway Com northern lines (or reverse that comes from burning one's fingers devices to be public nuisances and order)/or M/ owr ceut more mission by the Bandon Chamber of tention to the ubiquitous common Mrs. Juanita Hedden and baby roil fore then the lowetl roar- g or shooting out an occasional eye in authorizing their confiscation passed Commerce asking for the construction cold, and proper care of even mild in daughter, Alice, of Marshfield, ar trif directly Eotl and bach. the good old fashioned way on the the senate last week. This week the of a new highway which would cut fluenza are stressed. Each year slow rived at the home of her parents, Mr. Fourth of July. The house this week house passed a similar bill sponsored Coquille from the Oregon Coast High ly but steadily various factors oper Southern Pacific and Mrs. J. A. Deadmond, last Satur killed the Higgs bill which would by Representative Martin and a way; and oaiTNDY A- ating in pneumonia have become day evening to stay with her mother have banned the use of fireworks and group of other representatives. ros Pact Sc B Whereas, The development of Ban known, so that there is no longer need who has been ill the past week. firecrackers in this state. don is so closely identified with the of taking the fatalistic attitude that Mrs. Clara Kibler returned to her Hundreds of small businesses and growth and development of the Co nature must take its course in pneu home last Friday after spending sev Counties in which the state milk industries will be brought under the quille valley and by reason of port monia and the patient will either die eral days at the Coquille Hospital. control board has established milk operation of the unemployment com affiliation; and or get well. Mrs. Tom Benham and Mrs C A pools will have their own local boards pensation act through amendments Clinically, pneumonia may involve Holverstott motored to Bridge last Whereas. Coquille has consistently if a bill introduced this week is en written into the act this week by the maintained an attitude of friendly co the upper or lower portion of one or Thursday to visit Mrs. Melissa acted into law. The local boards, to senate and now up to the house fo; operation toward the city of Bandon, both lungs. It may affect in one per Brownson and Mrs. Carrie Benham be named by the governor, would consideration. These provide that as evidenced by: son the entire side or just one portion grandmother and mother of Mrs. Hol- 1x4 Tongue and Grooved Port Orford Flooring and Ceiling We Carry Portland Cement No Order Too Small—A Stick or a Carload i It