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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1939)
FAGE FOUR THE COQUILLE VALLEY The Sentinel A 6000 SAMa IS A 6000 TOWS TWENTY YEARS AGO , SubseripflMS Rates One Year ----------------- 42.00 Six Months..—.___________ ____ 1.00 Three Months................ ________ .60 Last week Attorney General Mur No .subscription taken unless paid for in advance. This rule is impera phy announced that his department tive. of Justice would start an intensive campaign against foreign spies. If Entered'at the Coquille Postoffice as the efforts of G-man are backed up Second Class Mail Matter. by Washington, D. C, we predict some sensational disclosures — and deportations. Many unexplained acts of sabotage in factories will probably be solved and possibly the cause of the sinking of the Squalus will be re vealed. We have recently stocked an as sortment of Novelties — many neat, artistic wooden handmade models at Bergens. s FINIS TO BANK NIGHT In accordance with an agreement between District Attorney Flaxel and the motion picture operators in Coos county, the Roxy Theatre last evening presented its final bank night. The order by the D. A., following the su preme court’s decision .that bank nights are a lottery, was made some weeks ago with instructions to cease by July 1. Admitting that there is the element of chance, which might be considered' as gambling, in the bank night busi ness which swept the country, still the grand prize was a gratuitous of ■■'M ui» » i fer by theatre managements and the Washington, D. C., June 20—Kept patrons received two or more hours a secret for the present is a plan to of entertainment for their admission have Bonneville Dam, Grand Coulee fee. and other government power projects Fragments Next Tuesday is Independence Day and as a holiday is second to Christ mas only in importance. July 4th was chosen as the national holiday of this country because it was on the evening of the fourth that the Declar ation of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. Twelve of the thirteen colonies, by their del egates, voted for its adoption then and a few days later the state con- vention of New York authorized its delegates to ratify it. The document was at that time signed only by John Hancock, president of the congress, and Charles Thompson, secretary. The fifty-six delegates, who' im mortalized- themselves by the act, wrote their names on the engrossed copy over a period of years, most of thejn signing on Aug. 2, 1776, al though Thomas McKean, of Dela ware, who was a delegate voting on July 4, did not sign until five years later, in 1781. The battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill had occurred in the spring of 1775 and it had required more than a year for the colonial settlers to unite on a common plan. It was on June 7 that Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, offered to the con gress his resolution which was a fore runner of the declaration. In it he declared, "That these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, free and independent states, and that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown.” In debating this measure, John Adams made the chief speech and the most powerful one in congress during the revolution. Prob ably due in part to his eloquence, the resolution was unanimously adopted July 2 by the twelve colonies voting and that Adams considered it a great step toward independence is evi denced by the following passage from a letter written to his wife on July 3, 1776, and accurately foretold the manner in which the fourth of July has been celebrated. He wrote: “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epochs in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliver ance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be sol- elmnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bon fires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.” Ray Jeub has purchased Lund's Confectionery. Mr. Jeub, however, plans to retain his position in the county clerk's office and hire the work done in the new business and assist there week-ends. Caleb C. Robison has been ap P. E. Drane has purchased a Ford- pointed postmaster at Arago and finance themselves without appropri Pearl D. Clapshaw postmistress at son tractor which he is having fitted ations from congress. The central Denmark. up for hauling wood. idea is to permit the management of these projects to Issue bonds and put out next year. The securities would them on the market when they re be in the nature of “revenue" bonds quire funds for expansion, such as with the moral backing of the federal transmission lines, additional gener government. ators and the like. A start is being made in this experiment by authoriz Inside story of how the house ing TVA to issue bonds to pay for changed its position . on parity private utility planU and systems, paymenU in the agricultural bill and instead of asking for an apropria- finally adopted the senate amend tion to absorb these competitors. ment, is just a case of swapping. De These projects, Bonneville, Grand feated first, the farm lobby button Coulee and TVA, are supposed to be holed members from city districts and self-liqudating In thory they are offered to help increase relief funds to sell enough power to reimburse in exchange for votes to reconsider the government for the outlay made and pass the parity item. City con and the repayment U to be made by gressmen have no farmers among the consumers of the power. By issu constituents but have an army of re ing bonds for any future capital re liefers. quirements the consumers and not The trade was consummated on the general taxpayers of the United that basis, but the parity paymenU States must carry the burden, as is carried by an eyelash majority, ex the case when congress makes an ap actly five votes. Pierce, of Oregon, propriation. voted for the proposal, his ““line guns. Resort to bonds to further flnqpce Mott and Angell, republicans, against. Bonneville is being studied because The Washington delegation split of the increasing opposition to gov ernment owenrship of power by con gressmen from eastern districts. While the idea has not developed suf ficiently for the president to pro pose it to congress it is now in the laboratory stage and may be brought Strangest political development of “profit motive” for the federal gov Ted Pettereeh Cleaners Coquille Branch Coquille PURSES Clever new styles! Extra large! 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