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THE COQUILLE VALLET SENTINEL, COQUILLE. OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 8, 1939.
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HOLIDAY LAST MONDAY
WOULD HAVE BEEN MISTAKE
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Monday morning in Coquille was
as busy a day in th* down town sec­
tion a* has been seen here in months,
which rather refutes the statements
of those last month that there would
be no business or activity of any
kind on that day preceding the,
Fourth. And credit for pot declaring
ahoIldayfbrJuly thlyd goM~to the
four of five grocerymen whose fore­
sight was keener than some hind-
Parking space was at a pre­
sights.
mium all over down-town Coquille
Monday morning.
We have unemployment because
business is stagnant.
Business is
stagnant because of a lack of new
investments. There la a lack of new
investments because the govemcent
is diverting investment funds to its
own non-productive political uses, and
because present high taxation and the
prospect of even higher taxation in
the futute discourage investment in
private enterprise.—Letter to New
York Times reprinted in La Verita,
of Waterbury, Conn.
other commodities. Th* fish will be
distributed to families on relief.
Washington, D. O, July 3—Presi­
dent Roosevelt is irate at congress
and with reason. Just before going
away for the holidays congress ad­
ministered sevqyal blow*. He was
forced to sign the relief bill despite
hi* objection to many of it* provi­
sions: he was, apparently, deprived
of hi* control over the dollar; the
neutrality bill he wants was so
amended in the house that it contains
the mandatory embargo feature—the
one thing lie didn't want.
Three
strikes would make any president
mad.
Mr. Roosevelt did
glorious Fourth reading the Declara­
tion of Indenpendence to hta neigh­
bors nor popping off firecrackers. He
W*a running up telephone, bills con­
sulting with hi* lieutenant* and plan­
ning a campaign to make congress
gig-back on neutrality and the mone­
tary matter. Mr. Roosevelt refuses
to “take it.” He refuse* to admit
that he is licked and is preparing to
go to the mat immediately with the
legislative branch of the government.
When Mr. Roosevelt believe* he is
right he keep* right on fighting. He
has what the sport* writers call “a
fighting heart.”
Reason the president regards con­
tinuance of hi* control over the dollar
and the sort of neutrality bill he fa­
vors as vital is based on confidential
report* that in late August or early
September the long-expected war
will materialize. AU the inside in­
formation Mr. Roosevelt has received
say* that as soon as the harvest is
over in Germany Herr HiUer will
start something Mr. Roosevelt wants
authority to meet the situation, This
accounts for the unpublictaed con-
ference* He ha* been holding. ■
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TWENTY YEARS AGO
Little Robert L*e Frye is spending
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a few days with his grandmother,
(Taken from The Sentinel of July
A picnic in Lamb** Grove Sunday
Mrs. Henry Huff, while his parents,
II, 1919)
afternoon comprised both th* noon
Mr. and Mr*. Robert Frye, of Coo*
dinner and lunch at night. Those
River, are gone on a trip to California.
Postmaster Leneve is happy to re­
attending included Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
R. A. Lindsay returned Thursday
port that the Coquille post office has
Lamb, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Sanford.
to hta home at Medford, after spend­
been advanced from a third class to
Mrs. Ida K. Owen and members of
ing about a week here with hta son,
a second class post office. The salary
the Sentinel families.
aUottment ha* been raised from
Harry Lind*ay, and family.
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82800 to 85100 annually by thi* ad­
Miss Nell Watson was honored on
H. S. Tuttle of the local high
vancement.
Wednesday afternoon of last week,
school returned to the city today after
with a lovely bridal shower, given at
a short stay on his ranch at Klamath
William Jennings Bryan will speak
the Grange hall. After the many
Falls.
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in Cod* county next week. It is ex­
gifts had been unwrapped and ad­
pected that he will talk in North
mired, delicious refreshments of cake,
Mrs. Burkholder has purchased the
Bend, Marshfield and In Bartle Point
hemsitching machine of Mrs. Oddy jello and Kool Aid were served at
Among
now and will hereafter do this work prettily decorated tables.
The city council is planning, to put
nt were Mesdames Wm.
in the White House in the First Na­ those p
some more planking on the sidewalk
Herman Koch, Elmer Magill,
Wa
tional Bank Building.
on Front street to connect with the
rdman, Leonard Watson. Ray
Lyle
new 20-foot bridge..
Culver, A. O. Hooton,
L, A. Liljeqvtat and family have Beckett;
Bessie Ocheltrte,
gone to McMinnville, where they Will O. W. Heath,
S. V. Epperson was named water Visit with relatives for a few day*.
Dwight Culver, Vern Magill, W. New­
superintendent for the city of Co­
man, H. A. Hatfield, O. B. Finch, Rob­
quille.
Theodore Roosevelt, the son of a ert Ocheltree and Misses Virginia
great president, is coming to Oregon Beckett and Mary Lou Culver and the
Sheriff Gage and Deputy Wm. Cat-
' Uti* tall to talk for the organization honofee, Miss Nell Watson.
Miss Margaret Luttrell came home
‘ of the new soldiers’ national unit, the
simmering in the Smith place at
Sunday from Eugene to visit until
’ American Legion.
Johnson's mill and immediately con­
Tuesday evening With her parents,
fiscated it—disrupting the Fourth
Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Bloyd came Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Luttrell. Mr.
celebration. for many unsuspecting
down from Hillsboro Tuesday after­ and Mrs. Luttrell, Margaret, and Roy
persons. .
noon and the doctor is now back in Dwight Smith motored to Gaylord
Sunday afternoon to spend a few
his office here. .
The Sentinel carried L
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a picture
hour* with Mr. and Mrs. Thoma* Lut­
four gentlemen who would represent
William Norris started for St. Mar­ trell.
U. S. in resisting the purported “red”
Judson, Robert and Iverna Corn­
tin’s hot spring* in the neighborhood
reign of terror here in concurrence
of Portland to take treatment for wall, of North Bend, are guests of the
with the “red” revolution which is rheumatism.
Dwight Culver family. Robert and
sweeping all. of Russia at this time. . J ‘
Iverna came on Friday and Judson on
Mr*. I. Hacker and friend, Mr*. Ed­ Monday. They plan to remain until
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Laird left today
na Stoddard, of Pasadena, Calif., are the latter part of thi* week.
for a two weeks’ visit in Yellowstone
The Vern Magill home was the
visiting with the former’s daughter,
Park.
scene of a pretty wedding Saturday
Mrs. L. H. Hazard.
evening, July 1, when Miss Nell Wat­
whether the president or congress erally torn to shreds by the Pirates, son became the bride of John Koch.
shall say how many grains of gold the each seeking to have the job of Eric. The couple was attended by Clyde
farmer shall receive for his golden In fact, the group nearly made me Bartlett as best man and Mrs. Tho*.
«rain.
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walk the plank, but I roared ’em Howe a* matron of honor. Mr*. Roy
down and told ’em to keep their dad- S. Luttrell officiated, using the ring
A filibuster is merely, a device to blasted traps shut, that I was to be ceremony. Guests included the im­
mediate relatives of the bride and
delay a vote on a measure which a Eric, the Red.”
groom, the Vern Magill family, Mr*.
number of members do not want to
The motley group, in full regalia,
come to a vote. Technique in the will accompany the newly-appointed W. Newman and Mr. Luttrell. Re­
senate is talk to kill time. This is “Red King,” who, in private life is freshments were served after the cer­
impossible in the house where a V. A. McNeil, and participate in the emony. Mr. and Mrs. Koch will
speech is limited, frequently to ten hilarious crowning ceremony which make their home in a new apartment
recently added to the home of the
minutes, therefore a different meth­ “Eric” must undergo.
groom’s parent*. They have the
od is used to attain the same result;
Among "Eric’s” many duties is the
those seeking to delay demand a selecting of Redhead Roundup bath­ best wishes of a host of friends as
roll call, which require* more than ing beauty judges, appointments they set sail upon the sea of matri­
an hour. Then after a few minutes a which are eagerly sought by men of mony.
Member* and friend* of the Grange
quorum call, then another roll call all ages.
Coppery-topped
Nina
and these tactics are as effective a* Fahey, of Salem, 1938 champion, is
long-winded speeches in hte senate. again out to compete for sweepstakes
Both methods are now being used.
Donors and the world’s fair trip which
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What caused the senate to join the
house in prohibiting any relief.funds
for the federal theatre project was
a book and a manuscript The book
contained photographs of nude girls,
a catalogue of models available for
WPA art workers; the manuscript
was of a theatre project play with
plot and dialogue so "Strong” that it
made hard-boiled legislators blush.
Theatre project produced many ex­
cellent ^nd standard plays but it also
took taxpayer money to sponsor sev­
eral plays which were strictly propa­
ganda tor communism and against the
American form of government. These
jew bad apples soiled the barrel of
(Special to The Sentinel)
Washington, D. C, July 5—Here is good ones, Workers on theatre pro­
the economic picture of Oregon as ject were pampered; they were paid
quoted by one of the gigantic lending twice as much as the every-day re­
Greatest development the federal
liefer and given vacations on pay.
agencies of the government:
government has ever undertaken in
Basic and general factors affecting
real estate are strikingly favorable in
HOLC has foreclosed on 692 homes Oregon is the Willamette Valley
Oregon. Rent-paying capacity is ex­ in Oregon since it began refinancing project, which will start immediately
panding; rentals are moving upward; distressed owners, June 12, 1933. transforming the valley on a basis of
Efforts will be made
relief load is lighter; costa of build­ These are the foreclosure* out of flood control.
ing lower; residential activity in­ 9416. On this total the federal agency at the next congressional session to
creased; farm income greater; bank loaned 818,821,240 and March 1, this initiate broad heavily contracted na­
debits expanded compared with cor­ year, there had been repaid 24.9 per tional defense highways, one run­
responding periods last spring. Only cent, or 84,681,396. John H. Fahey, ning from Kelso, Wash., to Medford,
discordant note is the increase in headman of HOLC, a former news­ Ore., another along the Old Oregon
Present highway* are too
number of foreclosures. Employment paper publisher, points, with pride to Trail.
crooked,
narrow and light to serve
and payrolls trend is steadily upward. the manner in which the Oregon cli­
ent* are taking care of their install­ mobile artillery and brigade troop*.
Wachington, D. C.—A statewide ment«,* Incidentally, of the money Third terin boosters assert Mr. Roose­
educational program has been ap­ loaned,' 81,771.000 was used to pay velt now has 280 delegates in th*
proved as eligible for WPA fund* taxes. President Roosevelt designat­ nominating convention next year,
with an estimated allotment of 8281,- ed Fahey as chairman to clean out the which convention will consist of more
858. This project, under the state de­ politics which filled HOLC originally. than 1000 delegates.
partment of education, is for supervi­
sion of educational activities for un­
derprivileged adults in literacy, vo­
cational, parent, worker* and public
affair*.
Also approved i* a statewide pro­
ject under the state board of control
for educational and informational
service for roadside beautification.
This is to consist of typing, filming,
mimeographing and sending publicity
to paper*, the project to be operative
in every county where an agency can
be accommodated. Estimated cost,
821,645.
Sponsors of WPA project* Under
the new law must, after August, pay
25 per cent of th* cost. From Febru­
ary this year Oregon’s local contri­
bution to the projects ha* been 23.2
per cent; Washington’s 24.4 per cent,
so th* new requirement will not be i
much of an added burden. But from i
the beginning of WPA to last Decem­
ber the average local contribution in
Oregon was 18.9 per cent; Washing­
ton’s 18.5. All told, as of December 1,
1938, (reported by the federal treas­
ury), Oregon received federal WPA
funds amounting to 836,363,621;
Washington, D. C — Intended a* a Washington, 877,044,955. It-averages
help to fishermen and the fishing in­ about 836 for every man, woman and
dustry on the Columbia river and child in Oregon..
elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest is
a bill authorizing the Federal Sur­
Here is what the row over the de­
plus Commodity Corp, to purchase valuation of the dollar means to the
surplus stocks of fish and shellfish. Pacific Northwest wheat farmer: Be­
The bill has received a favorable re­ fore 1933 the farmer received 2580
port from the senate committee and grains of gold for 100 bushels of
will soon be placed on the calendar. wheat; today under full devaluation
By this measure the corporation is (the president was authorized to re­
authorized to remove stocks of sur­ duce the dollar content 50 per cent)
plus fish in the same manner that it the farmer for 100 bushel* receives
bas bought surplus wheat, prune* and 1290 grains of gold. The fight Is
Bridge Briefs
is 'pres
¡sentad to the winner of the
ba thing J beauty classic.
Any red-
headed miss is eligible to compete tor
the valuable trophies which reward
the winners.
Another suggestion made, which
may be worth considering,
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they be built on City-owned property
in the Cunningham bottom, north and
west of thF Folsom Apartments.
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Redhead Roundup At
Taft August 5 and 6
A nautical theme will be intro-
duced into the Redhead Roundup,
scheduled this year for August 5 and
8, at Taft, when the Coos Bay Pirates,
of Marshfiled, will take their leader,
Chief Skull M’Neil, to the coast re­
sort to act in the capacity of “Eric,
the Red,” ruler of Titania, who, to­
gether with the redhead queen and
her court will preside at all festivities
and functions during the Roundup.
When the official invitation was
extended to the Pirate group by Man­
ville Robison, president of the Red­
head Roundup association, Chief
M’Neil reports, “The letter was lit-
enjoyed a wienie and marshmallow
roast Friday evening, on th* Grange
grounds.
An interesting program
was presented, using the new loud­
speaker for the first time.
Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Perkins, Who
have been visiting in Myrtle Point
since disposing of their property in
Salem, are spending this week here
with Mrs. Perkins’ stater, Mrs.
Dwight Culver.
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The evangelistic campaign, which ..
began here on June 13, closed Sun­
day evening, July 2. Holly Jarvis
was unable to remain later than June
30, because of another appointment,
so the Saturday and Sunday night
service* were conducted by Dr. T. M.
White, of Myrtle Point A baptismal
service was held Friday afternoon at
Camp Myrtlewood, when ten were
baptized.
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Mr. and Mr*. E. J. Walker, Ruth
and Jerry, went to Marshfield Sun­
day to spend a few hours with Mr.
and Mrs. Roy McAllister. Miss Mari­
an Franzer, who had been a guest
of the Walkers since Tuesday of last
week, returned with them to her
home in Marshfield. .........
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