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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1937)
•Í- M '•■ otMöü. back to New York City to pay princi pal and interest dua-on this debt load. The total debt is nearly 550,000,two under the peak, reached on January , 1, 1928, since which time it has been i gradually reduced year after yeai. The Sentinel A 6000 FArtR IN A MM ***** H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIME! 11. A. YOUNG. Bonneville may be just a huge 83 00 540,000,000 power plant to the aver- Six Months------------- 1 00 abe citizen. But to the politically Three Months--------------- —— -60 minded it represents a gigantic am No subscription taken unless paid munition factory upon which to (or in advance. This rule is impera draw for material in the forthcoming tive. campaign. Advertisinc Ratal This was clearly indicated this Display advertising 30 cents per week when Howard Latourette, dem inch. No advertisement inserted for less than 50 cents. Reading notwM ocratic national committeeman, open Hi cent* per line. No reading notice, ed his campaign for the govemship or advertisement of any kind, insert with a blast at Governor Martin's ed for les* than 25 cents. stand on President Roosevelt’s power Knteied at the Coquille Postoffice as policy. A statement by the governor ‘.hat he saw eye to eye with the presi Second Class Mail Matter. dent in the matter of rates and dis Offlee Corner W. First and Willard EL tribution of Bonneville power drew from Latourette the charge that the STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP governor had executed a political The Coquille Valley Sentinel is somersault and about-faced com ?jblished at Coquille, Oregon. H. A. pletely from his previously declared oung and M. D. Grime* are the owners and publisher*. H. A. Young stand on Bonneville rates. To which ■he governor facetiously remarked is editor and manager. There are no bondholders, mort that “there will be Bonneville power gagees or other security holders own or all candidates by election time ing or holding any stock or interest whatever in the Coquille Valley ind at rates within the reach of ■ all ooliticians." Sentinel. H. A. Young, Editor President Roosevelt’s visit to Bon Sworn and subscribed to before me neville not only touched off the gu this 24th day of September, 1937. J. E. Axtell, Notary Public for Oregon. bernatorial campaign here in Oregon, My commission expire* Mar. 22, 1939 ft brought a lot of other candidates out of hiding to flutter for the time being in the reflected glorv of tlfl PURCHASING POWER One Year— ---------- steel worker earns in 1ft hours of labor an amount equal in buying power to the English workman’s 34i hour*, the German’s 7 hours and the Belgian’s 14 hour*. BLACK WAS NOT IMPRESSIVE Hugo L. Black’* radio talk last Fri day evening was not what should be expected of an able jurist. But, of course, his New Deal elevation to the United State* supreme court did not make an able jurist out of the for mer police court judge. Even hi* ad mirers, if he ha* any, must have been disappointed in his talk. It was something he had to do, after it had been written for him, and John W. Kelly, in his Oregonian column, say* the associate justice skulked around through dark alley* to reach the “mike" which had been set up for him in somebody's kitchen. iiWM fl"'** fith, WPA administrator and chair man of the committee on arrange ments. found it necessary to deny ru mor* that he was laying his political lines as a candidate for United States senator, but no such denial was forth coming from either Carl Donaugh or Elton Watkins, both of Portland, and both regarded as ambitious to contest WiUis Mahoney for the right to rep resent the democratic party in the senatorial campaign to unseat Fred erick Steiwer, who was unable to at tend the Bonneville gathering be cause of a hunting trip in eastern Oregon. State officials refuse to "view with alarm” reports from the national cap ital to the effect that Oregon is one of 18 states which failed to comply with the requirements of the Wagner slum-clearance and low cost housing program. Oregon has two measures on its statute books covering the sub-i ject. Both are enabling measures They were Included in a grist of “New Deal” legislation sent out from Washington by Secretary Ickes last January. They provide that if and when the need might arise the coun ties and cities of the state may set up housing commissions to co-operate with the federal government. The fact that no county or city has set up such a commission is taken here as indicative ot the fact that no need, for slum-clearance or low cost hous ing has arisen. N0RŒ HEAT CIRCULAT Oregon is taking a flier in oil. The State Land Board thia week author ized Lewis Lilly, Boise oil operator, to drill on a half section of school land in Malheur county, one mile south of Vale. If oil is found in pay ing quantities the state will receive one-eighth of the output but even Lilly admits that the venture is one of the "wildest of wildcat schemes.” p»wre once rrrvre HArf D mhi tw TO BOV T0 0PERATf- Pt/'bJ St opinion over the blocking of schoof lands recently threatened to disrupt the wonted harmony of that organi zation. At a meeting this week with only Governor Martin and State Treasurer Holman present it was ten tatively agreed to adopt the compro mise plan on blocking submitted by W. B. Snider and R. N. Stanfield- The compromise plan provide* for blocking state school lands into com pact bodies of not les* than ten sec tions in each block. If enough stock- men indicate an interest in the pro posal negotiation* will be started for exchange of the state lands for fed erally owned grazing'lands. • The Norge Heat Circulator gives you dtpndthlt til ¿ m J at a total cost comparable to that of coal! Your home will be coxy, dean —when you. have a Norge sending out an abundance of healthful, humidified warm air. And think of the greater comfort and convenience! There is a size • Doub/v• f K Burner .A m ., res Up to . MORE 20 HEAT 1______ astato** TERM* NOW $5 Down $4 per Mo. for every need—from one room A total of 1488 motorists arrested At LOW At during July for various infractions of Governor Martin who celebrated up to five. Unusually easy terms the state’s traffic laws contributed his 74th birthday Friday is the next nearly 811,600 in fines to the public to the oldest governor in the United purse, according to a report by Chas. States. Governor Wilbur L. Cross P. Pray, superintendent of state po of Connecticut was 75 on April 10, lice. Fifty-nine drivers charged with last. Governor Martin spent his drunkenness were fined an aggregate birthday in his office receiving scores AMERICA’S LEGION SOUTHWESTERN OREGONS GREATEST STORE of 54688. of congratulations and well wishes by This community, like every other, letters, telegram and in person. has it* contingent of American Le Present indications are that then* I ;» n ‘** gionnaires. Nearly a score of years will be no state tax levy against A 40-aere tract on the John Day ago they returned triumphant from property next year, thanks to in highway 15 miles north of Dayville is the Great War and became citizens creased collection of income taxes. to be preserved as a state park. The U. E. McCLARY, Manager to whom we point with pride. Today Revenues from this source to date ex tract which contains a large deposit PHONE SM-R 315 W. FIRST we can look upon them doubly proud ceed 85,000,000, topping tax commis of fossils belongs to James Moore, because the American Legion has sion estimates by nearly 51,000,000. Dayville stockman, who has agreed demonstrated itself as typifying the Siskiyou Forest Service a Big bedroom type, and 48 other», total in staff totaled 41, and men employed A mopping up campaign to be car to trade it to the highway depart true spirit of Americanism upon vestment 8133,573; maintenance, through ERA totaled 102, making a Business in S. W. Oregon ried on by the commission to catch ment for another tract of equal acre which this nation was founded. total personnel, either permanent or 84,859. the laggard* and dodger* is confi age. In New York City recently some Protective improvements, including temporary, of S48. Expenditure of more than half a dently expected to produce another 300,000 Legionnaires paraded that “This is the price the federal gov million dollars to protect and main- lookout houses, temporary dwellings, 5200,000. If 1938 collections, based on spirit up fabulous Fifth avenue for 18 1937 incomes, can be depended on to Speed Reduced, Fewer Fatalities I tain a government investment of and other* totaling 124, total invest ernment pays into the five counties hours in the most amazing demon more than 53,500,000 and millions ment 5130,7663; annual maintenance, affected by the Siskiyou forest for continue at the 1937 level it will be Voluntary reduction of five to fif stration ever witnessed by that blase protection and development of lands possible not only to wipe out the teen miles per hour in the habitual more in timber, mining, water, recre 51,668. metropolis. Up that fashionable Recreational . improvements, in set aside to properly conserve natural ation, and scenic values makes the property levy within and without the highway speeds of Oregon motorists thoroughfare—acene of May Day pa constitutional six percent limit but to may be instrumental in reducing au Siskiyou national forest one ot south cluding improved camping grounds, resources, including timber, soils, rades when the red flag of Commun buildings, and water system, 63 in water, scenic and recreational pile up a small surplus for support of tumn fatalities. Secretary of State ern Oregon's hugest industries. ism is flaunted and where the flag* Recent annual reports for the fiscal all, total investment, 887,414; main values," said Mr. Mitchell. — Grants the common school* if and when the Earl Snell said this week in opening and soap box champions of other Pass Courier. legislature seta up the machinery for a special campaign to make the last year ending last June 30, prepared in tenance 84,535. “isms" beg attention and follower*— Telephone lines, extending 729 apportioning this surplus among the quarter the safest instead of the most the office of Supervisor G. E. Mit the American Legion paraded the chell at Granta Pass show interesting miles over the forest, at a total in Calling cards, 50 for 51.00. several countie». dangerous of the year. American flag and demonstrated to figures regarding the number and vestment of 883,244; maintenance, “ Last year 37 per cent of Oregon ’ s the million* who lined the avenue Pin ball machines and slot ma traffic fatalities occurred in the last amount of improvements as well as 85,630.’ that there is still a deep patriotic rev These include the principal cash in chines are gambling devices designed three months,” Snell pointed out. “If the cost and investment made by the erence for that flag and the Constitu to attract the patronage of the ignor we can reverse the statistics this fall federal government in the Siskiyou vestments of the national forest ser tional rights of every one of thia na ant and simple, Attorney General we will be in the vanquard of states forest set-up situated in one northern vice in the Siskiyou forest. Mainten tion’s 130 million citizens. Van Winkle declared in a brief filed which are seeking a solution to the California and four Oregon counties. ance work alone include* upkeep of In convention the legion delegate* "Maintenance costs each year 19Ö buildings that must be painted, with the supreme court this week In problem presented by mounting au did not ponder political and partisan makes the Siskiyou forest one of bested, glazed, lighted and plumbed. support of the state’s appeal from the tumn accident figures.” issue* but voted on matter* of far In maintaining the roads and trails, southwestern Oregon's big indus decree of Judge Walker of Polk coun Assistance of city officials, civic greater national import. They voted tries,” said Mr. Mitchell. "Under pre the Siskiyou forest own* and uses 134 ty, who had dismissed two suits groups, schools and newspapers to ask Congress for an investigation brought against C. C. Coats. The ap throughout Oregon will be sought in pared and approved plans, the ser piece* of equipment Including rock and deportation of those alien ’i'sm" peal puts the legality of these devices the attack on autumn accidents, vice continues to advance with new crusher», electric welder*, concrete groups and they reaffirmed their squarely up to the supreme court for which numbered nearly one-third of improvements and investments each mixer*, sir compresser», gas »hovels, faith in the Bill of Right* aa a living year. Reports made by the regional graders, caterpillar tractors, stake the first time since the . drive was the total mishaps for 1936. document designed for the protection office show current additions and to and dump body trucks, pick-up launched to outlaw these machines Snell quoted a survey completed by of the humblest citizen. trucks, snd delivery car»; a shop is tal improvement* on the forest. more than a year ago. Yale Professor Charles J. Tilden, This community is fortunate to “Most are made through the CCC maintained, end a full ______ force _______ of ms- which show*, amazingly, that the av have among its citizens a number ot WE UNDERSTAND Unde Sam stands ready to con erage motorist steps on the accelera organization, other through the ERA chanics is retained these true Americans—the Legion emergency appropriation. However, Total expenditures during the past struct the transmission lines for dis And because we do understand tor even harder in winter than in naire*. However, it is regrettable the regular federal appropriation for year was 8691,209.17, which Includes your needs, as well as our own tribution of Bonneville power, in the that the legion’s gigantic parade up summer, although weather and road the service has been considerably re- 1 maintenance, salaries, and fire fight- opinion of Governor Martin. The professional duties, this Institu Fifth avenue could not have been conditions are must less favorable. duced during the past few year* when ing. In the year July 1, 1938, to June governor said that he gathered this tion's Funeral Service* have de More than 30,000 automobiles were made the entire length of the Lincoln emergency funds have been avail 30, 1937, the Siskiyou spent >162,000 impression in his conversations with veloped to the position of esteemed checked over a total period of four Highway. Had this been possible, able. fighting fires. Most of this was dur President Roosevelt on his visit to Importance which they occupy in there would not be a man, woman or months, in mid-yummer and mid “Nearly all government appropria ing the big blazes along the coast, Oregon last week. the community. Any family will growing youth in America today who winter, and the cold-weather riiotor- tions carry certain restriction,” he most of which was outside the forest appreciate .the friendly under would not feel reassured that there is ists averaged nearly 43 miles per continued, “limiting the use and bounds, but fought and financed by standing met with at a conference Thirty-one persons lost their lives, hour, while their more leisurely sum a strong patriotic ferver for defense places the money can be spent. CCC the forest service. with us. in fires in Oregon during the first six mer brethren traveled a little over 39 of individual liberty. camps have a definite area in which Administration of the forest in months of 1937, it was reported this miles per hour. to work. Projects or spike camps cludes a supervisor, assistant super Large Freshman Class U. of O. week by Hugh H. Earle, state insur Besides Imprudent speed, fxjel! may pot be established outside that visor, superintendent of construction, Eightty-eight listed the following factor* the "man With registration figures nearly ance commissioner. area without special permission from administrative assistant, one junior other other persons were injured in at the wheel ” must guard against: compiled and rush week over at the the director, and this permission is forester, gig rangers, six clerks, a Smooth tires and poorly adjusted University at Oregon, the freshman fires during the same period. not granted without just and suffi summer grakeflye force 86 men, Bandon There were a total of 2184 insured brakes—both more deadly on wet class boasts of being the largest at and trail and rpag crew* totaling 101 cient cause.” 10M fire losses during the aix month pe pavement. the University for a number of years. The Original investments and the men. CCC employees with the forest riod with losses totalling 51.200,115, Presence at school children along Students from Coos county, who past year’s maintenance costs were were among the 270 boys and the 514 reports compiled by Earle show. Ap the highway or at intersections. summarized by Mr. Mitchell as fol Glaring headlights after dark on girls to pledge this term include: proximately two-thirds of the 2184 lows: Georgianna Johnson, Alpha Delta Pi; blazes were in dwellings, although rainy days. Roads, 577 mile* at a total con Heavy traffic at football games and Ernest Detlefaen, Sigma Hu; and these losses represented only one- struction cost of 82,777,510, annual sixth of the total. during the Thanksgiving and Christ Bill Seeley, Phi Delta Theta, all being maintenance expenditure required, Careless smokers accounted for 482 mas holidays. from Coquille. 839,378- Low visibility and slipperiness due Bandon freshmen at the university, of the fires to head the list of causes. Trails, 1.948 miles at a total con Ralph Moore, Jr., and Rosemary Har Other major causes include overheat to rain, snow, ice and frost. struction cost of 8331,542; annual rison, pledged Kappa Sigma and Al ed and defective chimneys and stoves, maintenance, 821.607. sparks and open fires. WOOD — COAL — FUEL OIL pha Gamma Delta respectively. We have a new “Royal" Electric Buildings for road and trail con Cleaner on sale at the Hooton Electric struction, eleven in number; total cost STORAGE Oregon’s bonded debt was reduced Shop for only 539 95. A hand clean 825.439. this week to 540,585,010 when State er and the sprayer complete the out- Office Phone 36R Administrative improvements, in Treasurer Holman sent 52.568499 cluding six dwelling* at the three- MARSHFIELD. OREGON o*«l‘rtî-"»«*«*>»•■<» w COQUILLE BRANCH Reverent Attitude SCHROEDER RRO8. MORTUARIES, Inc r Benham’s Transfer ANYWHERE FOR HIRE