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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1939)
O- *e-* PAGB. FOU« and also keep time even though no nearly 8140,000 over the previous one sees them but the janitors and year. charwomen. a SOM OAKS IS A MM TSWS If the automobile business is any criterion the people of Oregon are (Taken from The Sentinel of Aug. more prosperous than they have been One Year _______________..... .82.00 15. 1919) for many years. Statistics compiled Six Months ...-------- -- --------------- 1.00 Robert Trigg, of Ferndale, Calif., Three Months._____ ___ ______ .60 by Secretary of State Snell show that The state agricultural department No subscription taken unless paid came in this week for a visit with his 15,732 new cars and trucks were sold had a representative down this week for in advance. This rule is impera brother, Lester, who lives in Norway. by dealers in this state during the tive. conferring with the county court first half of the year. This is an in relative to the successor of J, L Naomi Knowlton started for Berke Entered at the Coquille Poetoffice as crease of 35 per cent over new car Smith, county agent, who has resign ley, Calif., this morning where she Second Class Mail Matter. sales for the same period in 1938, ed to enter private business. The fate of no Oregon public of will enter the university. Snell said. ficial ever aroused greater public in- Office Corner W. First *“ id Willard 8t. Will G. Barrow, who Just returned i terest than did that of Chas. P. Pray, Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Jennings Private au' xnobiles operating as from France and was one of the Co came down from Eugene Saturday to > superintendent of state police last “for hire” carriers are in violation of quille boys who saw considerable ac 1 week. visit with her foks here. Mrs. Jen the state law, warns O. R. Bean, pub fiATiea tion on the western front, has gone Publication of a rumor that Pray nings wm formerly Miss Cigjfe Sher lic utilities commissioner in declaring to Berkeley, where he has six months was scheduled to “ walk the plank ” wood. «g--------- rfr-TT.'-1 " war on this practice. to complete his college course he at the expiration of his term brought started before going to the wgr. - The professional reliefers will not a flood of protests to the executive Within the next few weeks all units agree with the following most true department from every corner of the of the Oregon National Guard will be The Farmers Unions and Granges utterance by the La Grande Observer: state. supplied with the new style long held their annual picnic at Norway “The fewer 830-every-Thursday In announcing the reappointment trousers and canvas leggings to re grove Sunday and a most enjoyable plans for non-producers, the more of Pray last Friday Governor Sprague place the breeches and wrapped leg outing was held. Besides ribbing the • 930-every-payday for workers.” 'characterized the rumors as “re Bandon climate, the speakers held porters’ guesses” but at the same time gings which have been the regulation Milk Board Loses — The Oregon that there is much in store for the issue for enlisted men of the army (Special to The Sentinel) he explained that he was investigat Art McDuffie is now giving dances Milk Board lost a rather important heretofore. Major General George Washington, D. C., Aug. 10—Con farmers of the valley. twice a week on the new platform he ing certain phases of the state police decision at Baker on July 25. It had gress has extended the time for con-! A. White announced this week that problem which indicated that he was built on the Collier lot. caused the arrest of Andrew Hansen struction of a dike preventing flow — J. F. Lee, bf Riverton, left yesterday orders have been placed with the war undecided and that there was some for selling milk without possessing a of tidal waters into. North Slough, for Colfax, California, for several department for enough of the new R. S. Knowlton returned Monday foundation for the rumors.. license. It seems also that he did not Coos county, construction to be under weeks’ visit from a two-months’ visit to Berkeley. Pray, one of the most popular style trousers to supply the 1500 men charge He a quart as decreed by the direction of the Oregon highway com He stayed longer than expected in members of the state’s official family of the 186th Infantry and the 218th board. The major question involved mission. C. E. Spense, master of the state Preliminary surveys have order to see his son, Clay, who had was apparently, the least concerned Field artillery who have not yet re was whether a farmer might sell milk been directed by army engineers of grange, was to speak at the W. O. W. just returned from France. about the rumor. It is known that ceived them. on his own farm without being li the channel to Charleston, in South he had not asked for reappointment, censed. A justice court jury found Slough, in one of the last acts of the Twenty-two arrests were brought his analysis of the 8800,000,000 slum acreage when the present sugar quota being of the opinion that the govern for Mr. Hansen. His attorney was session. about through efforts of the livestock clearance bill that exposed the real expires and a new allotment is per or should have a free hand in his State Representative A. S. Grant. selection of appointive officials. Pray theft investigation division of the innards of the measure and proved mitted. The large sugar refining Grant’s contention was that the law Washington, D. C, Aug. 10—All state department of agriculture dur that the 800 millions was not a self company, located at Nyssa, Oregon, has served as superintendent of the permits waiver of the licensing pro members of the Oregon congressional state police bureau ever since its in ing the first half of 1939. Nineteen liquidating loan but would cost the is Interested in the proposition and vision—along with other board re and Washington delegation have re ception eight years age and in that of the arrests resulted in convictions, quirements—in communities of less ceived a petition from the Washing treasury three times that sum. This has been corresponding on the sub time has built the organization up one defendant was acquitted and slender young chap demonstrated that fject. Domestic production is now than 15,000 population. As one part ton state grange asking for a law to three cases are still pending. Peni a freshman member of congress, under rigid control by the department to a degree of efficiency which has of the initiative move by State Sen require a majority vote of all eligible tentiary terms aggregating 17 years earned for it national recognition. without being spectacular, can ren of agriculture, the control extending ator Thomas R. Mahoney, Mulnomah voters in the United States before the were meted out to six of the defend down' to the point of designating county, for a general vote on repeal United States can enter an armed der great service to the nation. Official Oregon was well repre ants but five of them were paroled Representative Albert Gore, age wages for pickers. of the milk control law, many granges conflict on foreign soil. sented at the annual gathering of the from the bench and only one of the 31, is a fanner irf Tennessee as well of the state are being polled. A sub number actually went to prison. as a school teacher. He showed that Efforts to develop the shipbuilding Order of the Antelope on Hart Moun stantial percentage of the granges go > Washington, D. C, Aug.. 10—Of tain last week. Among those making while the 8800,000,000 would be re industry on the Columbia river and on record against the law and many Oregon’s owner-operated farms 49.8 One evening last spring a kind- the pilgrimage to the central Oregon members become signers of the initi per cent are mortgaged. Only 12 turned by the cities in a period of 60 Puget Sound have received little en shrine were State Treasurer Walter hearted motorist travelling along the couragement from the Federal Mari years, at the same time the USHA ative petition. The petitions must states have a higher percentage of E. Pearson, who holds the title of highway down in Coos county picked bear 25,531 signatures. — Oregon mortgaged farms. Records for the would make a contract paying the time Commission and it has awarded Keeper of the Canteen, in the organi up a couple of youthful hitch hikers. contracts for five cargo carriers to be municipalities a sum to subsidize low Voter. sister state, California, are Identical rents to people who could not afford constructed in Southern California. zation; Secretary of State Earl Snell. The grateful hitch hikers explained with the percentages in Oregon, with to pay rents. In other words, al- Every proposal suggested for the es- Dan J. Fry, state purchasing agent; to the kind-hearted motorist that they Washington state having 47.7 per though the cities would repay the tablishing of yards. north of San Jerrold Owen, secretary to the World had been kept in after school and had cent of its owner-operated farms 800 million, the subsidies would so Francisco bay has been discouraged War Veterans State Aid commission, missed their bus. They also regaled carrying a plaster. Considering that and Lewis Griffith, secretary to the the kind-hearted motorist with tales A press dispatch in Monday’s pa- these three Pacific Coast states are exceed the repayments that eventu by the commission and where there of their numerous pranks at school at State Land Board. are no facilities the commission de ally the government would be out of pers tell of 116 persons in Moscow blessed with abundance of water, un the expense of their teachers, most clines to award bids. losing their decorations “for conduct surpassed climate, rarely cursed with pocket two billion dollars with noth of whom, in the opinion of the youth A total of 5472 predatory animals ing to show for it, not even a copper unworthy of order bearers.” This crop failure and the people have one were killed by hunters in Oregon ful hitch hikers were deaf, dumb and One of the essentials in war is tin. cent. One single speech by the young may bd- the prelude to another mass of the highest cultures in the Union, during the first six months of 1939, blind—especially dumb. All of which purge. Stalin is so afraid for his own the number of mortgages is intriguing. farmer-teacher disclosed a situation The administration favors exploring according to J. D. Mickle, state di interested the kind-hearted motorist the United States in the hope of de that had escaped the other 530 law head that thousands of others must For the entire United States the per veloping a supply. Government offi rector of agriculture. The list in immensely for he had once been a makers. fall to give him a feeling of security. centage of these mortgages is 41.5. cials say traces have been found in cludes 4944 coyotes, 496 bobcats, 23 boy himself, and as a boy had at Tyrants behave the same in any age Farm tenancy in Oregon is 21.7, tended school and may have played Interest slashes by HOLC and FHA Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Cal bears and 10 mountain lions. or race. A phiase from one of the (California the same), with Washing okes on his “dumb” teachers even ifornia — all around Oregon, but no will affect thousands of Pacific old Greek dramas expressed it well ton 20 per cent..' Farm tenancy is as did these modem hitch hiking Oregon ’ s 1940 automobile license trace in Oregon. 24 centuries ago: “For somehow this highest in the west in Idaho, 28.5 Northwest property owners whose plates will consist of blue numerals youths. Arrived at their destination Politics played a large part in the homes have been refinanced by disease in sovereignty inheres, of per cent. Heavy tenancy is in the HOLC or are under the insured mort recent congress, but when something on a white background. Secretory of the boys thanked the kind-hearted never trusting to one’s friends." south where the share-croppers’ gage system of FHA. These govern affected the country and was not State Snell estimates it will require motorist profusely for the “lift” and plight caused the administration to 375,000 sets of the plate to meet he in turn thanked them for their The great army of smokers in this launch its Farm Security Adminis ment agencies have reduced interest tinged with politics, White House and entertainment and as he prepared to the demand next year. Congress were as united as Siamese from 5 to 4ft per cent. Interest country should count their blessings tration through which loans are made “Step on the gas” he presented each Twins — the two billion dollars voted rates prevailing in Oregon and Wash and be glad they are not living in to tenants to purchase farms. Oregon’s liquor monopoly did a of his guests with his card. It read, ington (all types), range from 5 to for national defense, as an instance. Germany where all tobacco must be For the 1939-40 year, FSA has Although congress has adjourned, 88,361,561 business during the year “Rex Putnam, state superintendent adulterated with dried lemon rinds, 838,000,000 to carry on this farm 8:5 per cent, the average being 6J one man’s Job continues. He is the ending June 30 last, according to a of public instruction.” lavender, cherry and rose leaves, or purchase program. Out of this sum, per cent. chap whose duty it is to see that all report by the Liquor Control Com some such admixture. Judging by Oregon is allocated 8148,116; Wash Dr. C. G. Stem, LJuropractor. 292 In Oregon alone 8790 loans are the docks in the capitol, senate and mission. Profits for the year were the “fragrance” of much of the to ington, 8184,296, and Idaho 8155,601. reported as 82,864,861, an increase of house office buildings keep running | Moulton St., phone MJ benefitted by the reduced interest by bacco used here maybe Germany is Officiate expect to make 18 loans in only adopting some of the usages long Oregon, 23 in Washington and 17 in HOLC. It is estimated that 6.7 per cent of the urban families are paying practiced in this country. Idaho. More than 600 loans to ten off debts on homes through this ants will be made in Alabama, Texas, agency. Henceforth interest will be Now congress has adjourned we Georgia, Mississippi. Average loan predict the attendance at the fairs in Oregon and Washington is ex saved on one-half of one per cent on will pick up—the people must have pected to be 89000; in Idaho 89000, as approximately 813,000,000. Lower interest rates on everything their amusement. compared with 84000 loans in Ala was one of the earliest objectives an bama, Texas, etc. Reason: farms in If you are under 25 years of age, the Pacific Northwest are more valu nounced by President Roosevelt in 1933, and since his inauguration there you are ten times as liable to be in able. has been a general reduction in the volved in a fatal accident while at cost of borrowed money. the wheel of an auto as is a driver It was a young school teacher, of 50 years of age. Among pedestri member of congress but seven There is a possibility of Willamette ans, however,,eighty per cent of the months, who has saved the taxpayers deaths are among people over 55 more than two billion dollars. It was Valley being included in sugar beet years. Recently having escaped by the skin of our teeth from being hit by a car (though not having yet reach ed the 50-year mark), our sympathies are with the elderly people who are physically incapable of being as alert in eye and ear as they were when younger, to say nothing about their ability to jump like a kangaroo. The Sentinel Hiusipijr yrt tj of a wise old doctor who told his cret about pleasing expectant parents. When asked if the new baby would be a boy or girl he always inquired which they preferred and then pre dicted the opposite. Thus if correct he was given credit for it but if the baby was of the other sex the parents were so happy in the fulfillment of their wishes they forgot the doctor’s pronouncement TWENTY YEARS AGO tou Fragments Too much is too much. In eating only, is a little too much just enough, as one humorist put it. In everything else, and in that too, satiety brings repulsion. We are becoming weary of the "glamor girl,” “oomph girl” and other publicity tricks. “Praying” dolls, which are a new kind of talking doll, are promised for the Christmas trade this year. Little children will see nothing wrong in it and we are only a carping critic and old fogy to feel that there is something sacrilegious about it. We’d not like to think that through these dolls some little girls will hear their first prayers, though that is very probable. President Roosevelt and other ad ministration leaders are playing safe when they predict dire results every time they lose out on some pet meas ure. In his disappointment at the failure of the neutrality act amend ment the president declared a nice little business boom had been killed. That the opposite was true and the| market rose with each display of independence on the part of congress, he never recognized. It reminds us. B ? If you like good meat we can supply you with the best steer beer that the market affords. The best veal, pork ahd lamb is always available here. Pure kettle rendered lard in 1 lb., 2 lb., 4 lb., 8 lb and 50 lb. containers. J. L. STEVENS your Meal Mealing Place. %