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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1939)
PAGE TWELVE TB« COQUILLE VALLET SENTINEL. COQUILLE. OREGON. THURSDAY, OCTOBEE U. 1939 new building. Placing of the plaque was delayed when donors insisted that it be e placed In the executive suite an ai. rrangement to which Secre- tary of State Snell objected as setting a precedent that might lead to em barrassing complications in the fu ture. •, Despairing of the delay on the part of the Board of Control in providing flagpoles for the new capitol, the Salem American Legion post is con sidering a drive for funds to finance g-tt5uch to the new state this fini In 1914 Oregon’s highway system emergency board recent- . was “little more than a plan for fu house. , 1 the expenditure of $500 ture development.” Twenty-five years ly aupft for ihe poles, plus any funds that ; ago there were only 1000 miles of mij it be raised through voluntary partially improved roads on project contributions. ed state highway routes, only 20 miles sized farm.” explained Fletcher. “If four neighboring farmers cooperate with him in joint ownership and use of the equipment, each farmer would pay only $40 a year plus Interest, a net saving of $160 a year or $800 over the five-year period." The community and cooperative services program is designed to sup plement the regular Farm Security loan program in making it possible for smaller farmers to operate their units more economically through co operation. The coperative principle < an be applied to purebred herd sires, feed grinders, machinery and nearly every type of operating goods. Writ ten agreements between cooperators provide for equitable use and main tenance of the faculty. State Budget Director Dave Eccles is doing a lot of worrying p» days over a possible deficit in aw relief budget at the end of the biennium Not that the relief committee is in any danger of exceeding its appro priation but in Eccles' opinion liquor of which were paved. Today the profits will fall far short of meeting With petitions in for peoples utili the expenditure from that source ties districts in Portland Benton state highway system contains 7000 miles of improved roads, of which authorized by thé legislature. county and Coos county the Oregon 4500 are paved or oiled and 2000 The legislature appropriated $600,- Hydro-electric commission has its 000 from the general fund and auth hands more than full investigating miles are surfaced with well-main Groups of farmers or individual orized the expenditure of $6,500,000 the feasibility of these projects. Sev tained rock or gravel surfacing. These from liquor profits for relief. In ad eral other districts are also under facts are set forth in a report by the farmers in various communities of dition it authorized the use of the stood to be under consideration by state highway system covering high the county interested in organizing unexpended balance in the 1937 ap public ownership advocates in various way development in this state dur community and cooperative set ups ing the past quarter of a century. In may secure complete details by con propriation. This latter item in parts of the state. 1914, the report points out, there were tacting the county Farm Security Ad cluded a general fund appropriation I ., .. .... only 16,347 motor vehicles in Oregon. ministration office at 201 Laird Build of $1,500,000 and the unused liquor Governor Sprague struck swiftly! Now there are more than 365,000. In ing, Coquille. profits appropriation. This in itself this week to rid his administration of 1914 funds for state highway con was estimated to amount to $660,000. a rebellious board. Twepty-four struction and maintenance were pro Eccles contends that there was actual hours after the state board of aero vided largely by the counties, the ly no balance.in the liquor appro nautics had defied the governor by state contributing only about $250,- priation, On the contrary this ap- adopting a resolution continuing- the 000 a year raised through a quarter propriation had been overdrawn, In position of director of aeronautics as mill property tax. Today sU>te and addition he predicts that liquor a full time job the governor moved to federal funds spent on Oregon high profits during this biennium will fall purge the board of the four members ways total approximately $14,000,- at least $300,000 short of the legisla who took part in the meeting. Purchase of 1100 acres on the shore 000 a year. During the past 25 years tive estimate. Two weeks ago when the governor approximately $160,000,000 has been and watershed of Eel lgke was com AU told the budget director esti requested the resignation of Allan pleted this week by state game com spent on highway improvement in mated there will be only $7,864,761 Greenwood as inspector for the aero mission members, eliminating the last Oregon with another $40,000,000 going in cash available for relief during nautics, board he declared the posi barrier to use of Eel lake as a cut toward highway maintenance. the biennium instead of the $9,260,- tion to be an unnecessary expense throat trout egg-taking station. 000 estimated by the legislative ways which should be abolished. At the Eel lake is on the east side of and tneans committee. If therefore meeting of the board this week it not Highway 101 about two miles north of the relief committee operates on the only voted to continue the job under the Lakeside road junction. basis of the legislative estimate the the title of “director” in open defiance Sufficient land has been acquired relief fund will be $1,395,238 in the of the governor’s views but proceed by the commission to control the lake red by the end of the biennium accord ed to rub salt in the wound by con outlet and more than one-third of the ing to Eccles’ figures. shoreline. Deals are pending with tinuing Greenwood in his $330-a- Farm Security borrowers and far month sinecure for another month. mers operating smaller units in Coos R. C. Dunham and W. T. Culver com The prison commissary ha* been pany whereby the commission hope Greenwood, a leader in the young doing a profitablebusiness in spite of democratic club movement was ap and Curry counties can save thous to purchase the entire shoreline. the depression. In 1911 the legisla pointed to his post through the in ands of dollars by joint ownership and Use of the lake to supply cut throat ture created a revolving fund with fluence of W. L. (Pinky) Gosslin, use of machinery and equipment trout eggs is part of the commission's which to finance this business ven secretary to Governor Martin. Many through the community and cooper plan to restore fish in coastal streams ture conducted at the penitentiary outstanding leaders in the aviation ative service program, announces and lakes to former abundance. The for the accomodation of inmates who world have criticized the office as an Norman Fletcher, county FSA super- big problem in recent years has been do not have ready access to the out unnecessary expense and criticized I visor. Word has been received that a supply of native cutthroat eggs to side world. This revolving fund has Greenwood because of his alleged ample funds are available for a num be hatched in present hatcheries. now grown to $7,000 Warden George activities in promoting his own pri ber of cooperative loans in the county. The commission plans to stock the Alexander reported to the Board of vate interests al state expense One “An individual farmer requiring a lake at once, keeping it closed to fish Control this week. The board author member of the “purged” board has $1000 machinery investment to op ing. Screens may be put in to pre ised Alexander to return the original written Governor Sprague since being erate his farm efficiently would have vent escape of fish to the ocean. Wil 11000 to the general fund and to removed from the board approving to pay $200 a year plus interest on a lows will be planted at the lake’s edge spend the profits for the benefit of of his action and agreeing with him standard five-year loan, representing and fresh-water shrimp will be put the priaioners. A part of it will be as to the need for abolishing the job a heavy overhead burden on a family- in for food. used in the purchase of new books ................. ............. 1 i ' ■ i of inspector. for the prison library, and music and Members of the board removed by instruments for the prison orchestra. the governor were Dr. Paul W. Sharp, chairman, Klamath Falls; Dr. Ray mond R. Staub, Portland; Thomas A J Culbertson, Jr^ Medford, and Web ster A. Jones, Portland. In the place the governor has appointed Dr. Clarence Gilstrap, La Grande; Geo. R. Dodson, Portland; Floyd Hart, Medford; Lee V. Eyerly, Salem. The only member of the old board re-; tained was Arthur W. Whitaker of; Portland, who was not present at the meeting at which the board adopted the resolution which Govern« Sprague found “personally offensive to me.” tel Lake Tract Purchased By Game Commission Farmers Can Save By Joint Ownership The bronze plaque of ex-Governor Charles H. Martin, donated to the state by admirers of the former gov ernor, arrived at the capitol this week and will be placed in the memorial corridor on the lower floor of the THORNTON TIRE SERVICE BUY THESE PRODUCTS FROM DEALERS
