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aext two years and report back to the
next, session with recommendations
.or raising additional revenue, a part
A UNO WM M * AMD TOWS
>f which will go toward relieving the
H. A. YOUNG ami M. D. GRIMES counties of tbelr tax load.
The Sentinel
H. A. YOUNG. Editor
gambling bill has bi ought a storm
criticism down about the govern«
head.
The governor’s action, it
pointed out, throws the bill open tol
the referendum which would sus­
pend its operation for anotlier two
years. Oswald West, former govern­
or and staunch supporter of the ad­
ministration, openly charged the gov­
ernor with lying to friends of the
measure in that he had assured them
he would sign the bill.
Reports that Charles H. Carey,
Itate corporation commissioner, and
Frank Wire, state game supervisor,
are to be replaced have been denied
jy Governor Martin. The governor
jxplained that he had made no
change in the corporation department
md that the game supervisor was un-
Of a total of 925 bills introduced
Advertising Ratos
ler the game commisison of whose into the legislative hopper during the
Display advertising 30 cents pel
■. 57 days of the session just closed, 468
inch. No advertisement inserted for Tians he knew nothing.
made the circuit of the house and
less than 50 cents. Reading notices
10 cents per line- .No reading notice,
One of the wildest scenes staged at senate and reached the governor's of-
or advertisement of any kind, insert­ .he currant legislative session—or at flee, Up to Tuesday night the gov-
ed for less than 25 cents.
any session in recent years for that emor had signed 308 of these and
Entered at the Coquille Poetoffice as natter—was enacted in the house filed two without his signature,
Second Class Mail Matter.
ate Saturday afternoon over the te­ Eight bills had fallen under the ex-
nie of adjournment. The senate had ecutive veto, three of this number
Of flee Cerner W. First and WUlard 8t sent over a resolution calling for sine being repassed over the executive
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die adjournment at 5:00 p. m. Mon­ veto.
EDITORIAL COMMENTS ON
day. This was promptly tabled by
Legislative
appropriations
SUPREME COURT PROPOSAL .he house. A motion was then made
prove^by the recent session together
"For 150 years under a written •o adjourn until 10:00 a. m., Monday.
Constitution the American people This was promptly amended to read with millage levies financed withia
the six per cent constitutional limita­
have worshipped at the altar of .5:00 p. m. Tuesday, and the amend­
tion amount to the grand total of
• sportsmanship. They have accepted ment again amended to read 10:01 a.
$14,676,659. This is $433,488 in ex­
the doctrine that it is fundamentally m. Monday. Then the amendments
: unethical to refuse to respect an ad- were withdrawn and the same pro­ cess of estimated revenues within the
X decision. " Traditionally the cedure repeated again. ' This . horse­ six per ¿ent limit for the current bi­
ennium.
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of America has been that if play continued for more than an hour
you do not like the rules of thé .game, until the members, exhausted by
change the rules—but don’t soak the their own parliamentary maneuver­ Tima for Filing Work
ing, were content to knock off work
umpire.
Sheets Is Extended
“The Judicial Department of the for the week-end and come back
: government ia the umpire. The Su­ Monday morning.
Bad road conditions hs many sec­
preme Court for generations has been
tions <g the state were responsible for
extending the daté for filing w«*k
the umpire in deciding what are and
Four state officials wU1—
. Subscription Rates
One Year...-.......
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Six Months
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Three Months.............
At
No subscription taken unless paid
for in advance. This rule is impera-
tive\nd legislative branches of the
ger and better pay checks. Salaries
government within the meaning of of the three industrial accident-un­
the supreme law' of the land — the employment compensation commis­
, Constitution."—David Lawrence.
sioners were increased from $3600 to
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$5600 a year and the state insurance
“No people ever recognize their commissioner was given a pay boost
dictator in advance. He never stands from $3600 to $5000 a year.
for election on the platform of dicta-
^torship. He always represents him­
Oregon's 39th biennial legislative
self as the, instrument for expressing session is now history. Sine die ad­
the Incorporated National Will. When journment came officially at 11:00 ,
Americana think of dictators they al­ o’ctock Monday night, although ac­ .
ways thing of some foreign model. tually the time was rapidly ap­
If any one turned up here in fur hat, proaching the midnight hour when ,
boots and a grim look he would be Speaker Boivin’s gavel rapped (Hit ad­
recognized and shunned.
Likewise journment in the house, President
any one resembling six Roman Em­ Franctecovich having closed the sen­
perors, or sorr)<‘ one you must greet ate session some 15 minutes earlier.
; with a stiff arm and a Heil.
But
The end -was comparatively peace­
when our dictator turns up you can ful, fairly devoid of the . chaos and
depend on it.that he will be One of confusion that all too frequently have
the boys,'¿nd. he will stand for ev­ marked the dying hours of an Ore­
erything
traditionally
American. gon legislature. Last official act of
Since the great American tradition is the senate was to take the power
freedom and democracy you can bet memorial, together with the commit­
that our dictator, God help us! will be tee amendments, from the table,
a great democrat, through whose lead­ adopt the amendments and then put
ership alone democracy can be real­ the memorial on Tuesday’s calendar
ized."—Dorothy Thompson, in New for third reading, where it still re­
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mains. In the house the closing hour
servation Program and any farmer in
Coos county who nas not already
done so may file a work sheet up to
March 15, at the county agent’s of­
fice, with C. M. Connor at Hollow
Stump, on the highway north of Coos
Bay, or with George Cmith at Coos
River.
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Approximately 75 per cent of the
crop land in Coos county has been
signed up under the Agricultural
Conservation Program, according to
figures released at the county agents
office since the sign-up campaign!
was started by committeemen in dif­
ferent sections of the county on Feb­
ruary 25. This signup represents 650
work sheets signed by that number of
fanners.
In adidtion to those who signed
work sheets for the farm program
about 150 range operators are ex­
pected to apply for benefits under
this program as range applications
will be. received up to May 1, at the
county agent’s* office.
Most of the larger farms in the
county, representing three-quarters
of the total crop land, have 1
work sheet. Owners of approx
ly one-half of the farms in the coun­ •
ty have not yet filed a work sheet for ■
this year even though All farms have 1
a minimum allowance of $20.00 to be i
used in carrying out practices this i
year it was stated by W. E. Cross,
chairman of the county association
during 1936. For the purpose of this
program three acres is considered a
farm and all those operating places of
this size or greater, are urged to file
a work sheet by March 15.
In cases where both crop land and
range land is operated in the same
unit, most farmers this year have in­
cluded all the land under a work
sheet listing the range as non-crop
pasture land.
was enlivened by a tirade from Rep­
resentative Jeannet, of Clackamas,
denouncing the practice of stopping
the legislative clocks, Representative
Hannah Martin’s vigorous protests
against a final appropriation bill and
Representative Mahoney’s attempt to
resurrect a ways,and means commit­
tee bill which sought to reduce the
personnel of county relief committees
... Oregon, will shift its old age pen­ from seven to five members.
sion set-up to include needy persons
The last day of the session was
65 years of age and over effective filled with important developments.
January 1, next, 4f Governor Martin In the house the long pending strug­
.signs tiie. bill, which has passed both
gle between the labor group and the
the house and senate As he is ex­ anti-labor group at last came to a
pected to do.
showdown with the laborites scoring
During the remainder of the cur­ a 35-to24 victory in the defeat of a
rent year, however, pension pay­ bill which would have required la­
ments will be limited to needy per­ bor unions to register with the cor­
Heavy Air Mail Last Year
sons of 70vyears and over under the poration commissioners. In the Sen­
Final reports from the office of the
terms of the bill which is now in the ate a group of three bills designed to
postmaster general for the fiscal year
hands of the governor.
reform the state's system of parole ending June 30, 1936, show that ths
Reduction of the age l-equirement and prison sentences were defeated
air-mail services had the best year in
for old age assistance, it is estimated, by decisive majorities. . Offered as
their history, both from the stand­
will cost the state an additional $680,- administration measures defeat of the
point of poundage transported and
400 during, this biennium. The sev­ bills brought W. L. Goealin, secretary
airmail revenue. During the fiscal
eral counties will also be required to to Governor Martin, to the legislature year of 1936, there were 15,377,99#
budget this additional amount next in an eleventh hour attempt to save
pounds transported with postage rev­
year to meet their share of the pen­ the measures. So insistent was Goss-
enue of $9,702,676.46, as compared to
sion coot. t ,t
iin in his demand for reversal of the 10,775,248 pounds transported during
In pasji/ig this pension program, senate action that he went onto the
the fiscal year of 1935, with postal
which represents the original ways floor during the senate session to
revenue of $6,589,534.44.
and means committee proposal, with lobby members. Two attempts to re­
In the report of the postmaster
only one minor amendment, the vive the measures, however, were
general, attention is called to the
house receded from its stand for im­ unsuccessful
present domestic air-mail system,
mediate reduction of the age require­
The* house and senate finally got which is so designated that it serves
ment to 65 years and for a shift in together on a state building program
the entire United States, and that by
the cost ratio, which would have before final adjournment. When the
means of train and star-route connec­
imposed one-third of the tptal bur­ house refused to accept the senate
tions, every section is served.
den on the state, with the counties program providing for a loan from
Attention is also called to the fact
paying only one-sixth of the cost, in­ the workman’s compensation fund to
that many patrons do not know- that
stead of stat£.jmd counties each pay­ fipanci purchase of aditional land
a$y-mail is transported over night
ing ohe-Tourth of the cost as under and construction of a new state li­
from coast to coast in regular routine
the present program.
brary building, conferees of the house with a total of ten trips daily which
The only other change of any con­ and senate got together on a pro­
operate regularly in the 24-hour pe­
sequence in the old age pension pro­ gram calling for a direct appropria­
riod from various points on the Pa­
gram at this session—assuming that tion of $850,000 from the general
cific coast to points on the Atlantic
, the governor signs the bill—was an fund to finance the program. The
coast.
amendment under which aged per­ compromise was acceptable to both
North and south routes connect
sons, otherwise qualified, may use house and senate and the measure te
trahs-continental routes and are so
their pensions in paying for a portion now in the hands of the governor.
interspersed that the service reaches
or all of the cost of their keep in a While this revised program involves
into every state. Practically one-half
private institution. .This provision, a bookkeeping deficit of
some
however, will not apply to persons $432.000 in the general fund. It 1s be­ of the mail schedules are flown at
night through the use of lighted air­
who have paid or are able to pay lieved that the governor will permit
ways and radio beams
their own way in one of these homes the measure to become a law be­
The United States foreign air-mail
Chief concern of both the house cause of the overwhelming mandate
now gives service to Central and
and senate, in liberalizing the pen- in the house
senate —
that
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sion program was the ability of the adequate provision be made for hous­ South America and the West Indies,
to Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippine
counties to meet the additional cost. ing of the state library.
Islands; it will soon be extended to
The state, it was explained, would be
Governor Martin in a statement to i China, where connections will be
able to meet its share of the increase the press Tuesday declared that “on
without any additional revenue, the whole the legislative session was < made to all the countries in the
Orient
whereas some of the counties, it was sound and one that the people of the
Both domestic and foreign air­
admitted, will be hard put to meet state can be proud of.”
i mail may be registered. Insured and
the increased burden.
With this
C. O. D. parcels may also be sent by
problem in mind an interim commit­
Governor Martin’s veto of the domestic air-mail.
tee will study the problem during the
in the Martin antl-
It te the desire of the poet office
COQUILLE, OREGON
otty Port Orford Cedar
T &. G, V 1 Side
Full Line of
Fir Moldings
1x4 Tongue and Grooved
We Carry Portland Cement
Let us show you our Lumber Stocks in warehouse
and on dock at the Smith
Wood-Products Plant
No Order Too Small—A Stick or a Carload
We carry a complete line of 1x3 to 2x12 No. 1 and No. 2 Common
Cedar, suitable for all building purposes, surfaced or rough.
Consult the Retail Department. for our low prices on Cedar.
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Dance in Coquille with Tony1» — Ask for Cow Bell Dairy cream and
department that every American be
milk, the only milk and cream made
fully cognizant of the splendid ser- six-piece orchestra.
safe by pasteurisation.
vice which the department has pro-
vided for its patrons. Full informa-
tion on schedules, both for mailing and
for the next 5
arrival will be cheerfully furnished
months of
by your postmaster.
M. O. Hawkins, Postmaster.
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Income Tax Deductions
Allowed for Automobiles
Every penny paid to the state in
the form of gasoline taxes, registra­
tion and other special fees related to
motoring may be deducted when
making out federal income tax re­
turns, according to an announcement
by "the Oregon State Motor associa­
tion. The one-cent federal gasoline
tax, however, may not be deducted.
Briefly, the A. A. A. outlined other
deductions for motorists as follows:
1. Interest on money borrowed for
purchase of an automobile is deducti­
ble.
2. If a passenger car is used wholly
for business purposes, all expenses
incident to maintenance including
depreciation, may be deducted.
3. If used partly for business and
partly for pleasure, only a propor­
tionate part of the maintenance and
depreciation may be deducted.
4. Loss sustained by reason of
damage to a passenger automobile
while being used for pleasure is de­
ductible. It must be an actual loss to
the person. If compensated for by
insurance or otherwise it is not de­
ductible.
5. Damages paid for injury to a pe­
destrian are deductible, provided at
the time the injury-occurred the car
was being used for business.
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6. Fines paid by a motorist are not
deductible, as a fine does not consti­
tute an "ordinary and necessary busi­
ness expense.**
7. Loes sustained from the outright
sale of an automobile may be de­
ducted in computing net incomd sub­
ject to the provisions of secticxi 117
of the revenue act of 1936. This does
not apply to trade-ins.
9. Amount paid for insurance on
automobiles used for business pur­
poses and also the amount of finance
charges on a purchased car which
covers interest and risk on the loan,
may be deducted, but not the amount
covering
the premium oa insurance
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to protect the finance company’s in­
terest.
Body and Fender repair work done
by experienced mechanics. Our body
painter is an expert.
Let us prove
we have the beet of repair senice
Mansell Drayage &
Delivery Co
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