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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1939)
! PAGE FOUB Fifty-six commercial fishermen are portant points of right-of-way for Oregon drivers, Snell listed these now operating on the local river, bringing a considerable amount of items. A 6SM MHI M A (MO TSWS 1—At intersections vehicles on cash money into the commuuity, as the right, regardless of which one en the season so far has shown a fair (Taken from the Sentinel of Oct and jumped up into the seat to back tered the intersection first, have the average for the river.—Western One Year-------------------------------- 83.00 out and accidently placed the lever in right-of-way. The exception to this World. 17, 1819) Six Month«.__ ____ 1.00 The Coos county teachers voted at forward movement. ’» Three Months 00 rule is when the intersection is con No subscription taken unless paid North Bend for a minimum slary of trolled by signals or a police officer. for in advance. Thia rule Is impera 31000 payable in 12 monthly install Mrs. E. D. Sperry left last Monday 2_ When a driver is turning left at tive. ments per year. This proposition will for Berkeley, California, where she an intersection, he must yield the be put before all school boards of the will remain for the winter. Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as right-of-way to a car approaching county. Second çi»— Mail Matter. from the opposite direction and con The Roll Call campaign of the Co Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Wickham re tinuing straight through the inter Office Cww W. First sad Willard St Mountain States Power has rented turned from their visit to Douglas quille Branch of the Coos County section because in this case, the car one of the two rooms in the First county and Portland. £hapter of the American Red Cross going through the intersection is on National Bank building. John J. will be headed by Mrs. Ida K. Owen, the right of the car as it makes a who was announced this week as Absolute control of wheat produc Bateman of Marshfield has rented the Mrs. H. A. Isensee is preparing to left turn. chairman of the annual event by local join Mr. Isensee at Hood River and tion, with a grower being licensed to other room in the bank building. 3—At a through street, the driver expect to leave Sunday with the four must come to A complete stop and committeemen. cultivate a certain acreage, is one of RADICALS ABE TO New officers of the Farmer's and youngsters. the far-reaching législative proposals Mrs. Owen has long bden interested yield the right-of-way to other ve BE WEEDED OUT farmers will discover sometime after Merchants Bank are John E. Ross in the Red Cross and its work and in hicles in the intersection or approach Headlines about Europe’s war and January, 1040. Under the plan a far and L. L. Turner. Resignation of R. Judge John S. Coke has been ap ing so closely as to constitute an im- other social service. She is a mem America's neutrality fight have over mer would no longer be permitted to H. Mast, and F. E. McKenna as di pointed chairman for Coos and Curry ber of the Coquille Women’s club and shadowed one of the most Important seed as many acres as he desires; he rectors was accepted. J. E. Norton counties for the spiritual and finan nqediate hazard. the Business and Professional Wom 41 — Any driver entering an inter pieces of news to emanate from Wash would be told how many acres he and C. J. Fuhrman will serve as cial campaign the Episcopal church Her assistants will be section at an unlawful rate of speed en's club. ington in months—the forthcoming could devote to wheat by officials in president and vice president. has planned. forfeits his right-of-way privileges. members of the former club the same "purge” of radicals from Government the Department of Agriculture in 5— A pedestrain crossing a highway as last year when they sd generously The taxpayers of Coos county met service. • Mrs. L. L. ■ Hazelton went up to Washington. The program would or street within any marked or>in- gave their time and energy to the at a special road meeting held in the Representative Martin Dies, chair prohbit a farmer from being master Portland yesterday morning to see Roll Call. courthouse Monday and decided that her daughter, Marjorie, whom Mr. marked cross-walk has the right-of man of the House committee investi of his own holdings. ■ Pointing out that Roll Call funds way over automobiles. it was roads the county needed moat gating un-American activities, pre Hazelton took there about a month This idea has reached the point 6— In questions of right-of-way, a make possible the carrying on of the dicted the purge. He said that the where the house committee on agri and they favored bonding the limit ago for an operation for hip disloca car is considered to have entered an many important and emergency tasks Justice Department had prepared a culture, at an executive meeting, has to give the residents roads. tion. intersection when the front wheels of the Red Cross Mrs. Owen declared, list of some 2,800 radicals or sym agreed to start hearings on the pro cross an imaginary line drawn from “I want to urge that all civic and David Baiter's car backed into the pathizers and that they would be dis posal when the regular congressional D. D. Pierce started Sunday for a corner to comer of curbs or boundary business groups and leaders who in window of Fuhrman's Pharmacy and missed. visit of two months at his old home, session opens after the first of the the past have aided Roll Call in such lines. What Dies did not say, however, year. A rough outline of the plan smashed it to splinters. He had been in Michigan. splendid fashion begin to prepare to cranking the car. and had it started was why he knew there would be a has been drafted, with the cooper take part in this worthy cause again." BIG STRIPED BASS purge. There’s an interesting story ation of the agricultural department. would be employed in other than en Traffic Accidents Mrs. Owen has already started pre behind the story: CAUGHT IN THE RIVER Behind the thought to regiment the umerator capacity in his jurisdiction. Decreasing In Oregon paring the ground work for the 1939 More than a year ago the Justice Commercial and sports fishermen wheat growers of Oregon and Wash From a democratic party -uiewpoint, — For the fifth consecutive month, Roll Call and stated she would an Department prepared its list. The list along the Coquille river are interest ington, as well as all other wheat sec it is said the best fund raisers in the traffic accidents in Oregon during nounce her committee selection soon. was submitted to various executive tions, is a desire to prevent a repeti northwest were women, and they will August showed a decrease over the ed in an unusual catch made near The campaign is from November 11 to 'officials. Nobody was fired. Riverton Tuesday night by Martin corresponding month a year ago, says 30, Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Recently, the problem of radical in tion of the World war experience, ba recognized. Earl Snell, secretary of state, who re Randleman, commercial fisherman, Day (the original date) as in past fluences within the Government has when farmers cultivated every acre when he found à 58-pound striped vealed a 43 per cent decline in the become more important. So a sena available, a practice which subse yfars. , While national guard quotas under death toll this August. There were bass in his net. Pleasure of the Red Cross Branch tor, at the instigation of the Dies com quently resulted in the dust bowls, Although striped bass are common President Roosevelt's executive order but 24 persons killed, compared to 42 ruined farms and farmers and caused mittee, gathered together all of the here in Coquille at Mrs. Owen’s ac in the waters of Coos Bay, this js re were quickly filled in Oregon and a year ago. During the first eight material he could get showing the terrific, depression for wheatmen. ceptance of the chairmanship was ex Concretely, the theory is to place Washington, to arouse 552 young men months of 1038, there were 101 per ported to be the second one to have pressed by the Rev. George R. Tur background of one high official. And been caught in the Coquille river. It in Washington, D. C., to enlist, the sons killed in traffic accidents, a de he took the information to another a limitation, rigidly, on the number guard is staging a series of mock crease of 7.72 per cent from the same is of unusually large size. There is ney, chairman of the local branch, higher executive who had the power of acres devoted to wheat. This is considerable conjecture on the part who with his committee, Messrs Rob aerial and bombing attacks on the period last year. to dismiss the man in question and expected to prevent too great surplus ert Stewart, Dr. J. D. Rankin and Ray with consequent low prices. To grow national capitol. Bit of war hysteria. Thirty-three per cent of all drivers of both sports and commercial fisher Jeub, urged full cooperation qf all said* 2.1 as to the possibility of the striped men wheat the department would issue involved in traffic accidents in Ore **It seems to me that the situation bass coming into the Coquille in any workers and leaders in taking part in now is such that this man should not a permit, or license stating how many The White House is now so care gon during the first eight months of numbers. Some commercial fisher the campaign this year. acres each farmer could use for that 1038 listed failure to have right-of- be kept in government service.” fully guarded that the baker who has men believe that it would mean a de The reply was to this effect, “I crop. The plan is materially differ been bringing buns for hot dogs for way as a contributing factor in the cline of the salmon industry on the Bring your out-of-town guests in ent from the present voluntary crashes, according to reports from the don’t see how the situation now is any years is stopped at the iron gate and to see our flowers and myrtlewood river as the bass are purported to office of Earl Snell, secretary of state. different than it was. He stays.” And agreement. There would be an in investigated. novelties. Bergen's, Phone 64. s direct processing tax, which would go In an attempt to clarify some im- live on trout and small salmon. stay the radical has. back to the producers, and this tax When this information got back to Capitol Hill, things began to happen. might be a fraction of a cent, plainly Dies committee investigators, who printed on each wrapped loaf of bread. never had been able to obtain the Justice Department list of 2,800 radi In Pacific northwest states, particu cals, went to work compiling their own. First, they listed possible sus larly, there has been a demand in re pects. Then they began to watch cent years to save the trees along them. They even took the automobile the highways of federal aid system, as license numbers of people who went these trees are being logged off. Un der the federal road act, funds can to see them at night. be used to acquire a strip of forest After gathering this kind of in on these highways if the state high formation, the investigators began to way commission will match the line up witnesses who could and money. However, highway officials would testify about the activities and prefer building more roads rather beliefs of the suspected radicals. To date, the Dies committee has than divert any funds for beautifi cation. compiled a list of something over 100 James W. Mott, of Oregon, out government radicals about whom at lined a proposal to meet this situa least three witnesses are available to testify. The list is being added to tion at the 25th annual meeting of dally. When it reaches the neighbor the American Association of Highway hood of 150. it will be submitted to officials this week. When the regular session of congress meets Representa executive, officials who have author tive Mott will offer an amendment to ity to fire the suspects. Time will be allowed for action. If there are no the road act specifying that two per cent of the federal aid funds allocated discharges, the Dies committee will hold open hearings, disclosing not to a state shall be used to acquire only past records of the radicals but timber. The two per cent would not require matching. Ranking member also some startling and very recent activities. Public opinion will do the of the house committee on roads, Mott would become chairman in the event rest. When the purge begins, it will, of of a republican administration. course, be popular with the public, Here is something that doesn't make for always in time of international sense: According to newspapers, stress Americans have turned away polls taken in the Pacific northwest from experimentaliam to fundamen show that 75 per cent of the people talism. They have, in short, gone con are for repeal of the mandatory em servative, That feeling, which began bargo on weapons of war, but the to develop because of the domestic ratio of letters received by Oregon- failure of recent experiments, was Washington members of congress intensified when war started in Eu- runs 80 to 00 per cent against repeal. rope. Even dismissing the engineered pro One of the largest fires, in point paganda, such as printed postal cards, of property destroyed, ever to occur the letters run 65 or more per cent in the United States was the Chicago to retain the embargo. There is dif fire which started Oct. 9, 1871, just ficulty in reconciling the wide dis 68 years ago last Monday, and was crepancy. Polls can be and are Jug the result of the widow’s cow kicking gled; letters speak for themselves. The Sentinel TWENTY YEARS AGO Chairman Roll Call Appointed hä ® over the lantern. K. C. Couch, father of Mrs. 3. R. Bunch, calls our attention to it and says that he was a boy of 12 at that time, living 200 miles east of Chicago, but that the impression made then and what he saw at that time has been indelibly fixed on his mind ever since. Coos county ranked fifth in Oregon last year in the production of butter manufactured, the total as figured in the office of 3. D. Mickle, director of the state department of agriculture, being 1,590,339 pounds in this county. Multnomah was first with 7,408,638; followed by Marion, 3,633,368 pounds; Yamhill, 2,363,858, and Baker with 1,678,046 pounds. The total for the state was 31,205,211 pounds in 1838. Gasoline consumption in Oregon for the first eight months of this year amounted to 159,219,430.65 gallons, an increase of 8,710,209 98 gallons over the consumption for August of 1938. Taxes collected this year totaled 87,- 960,971.63 compared to 87,525,461.00 for 1938, an increase of 8435,510.54. A government owned and operated plant to manufacture chemicals to destroy noxious weeds in grain fields of-the Inland Empire is-the purpose of a bill now in congress. It provides for a plant somewhere along Colum bia river, using power form Bonne ville, and the enterprise placed un der the direction of Secretary Wal lace of the departemnt of agricul ture. Hearings will be held in a few months. Author of the bill, Walter M. Pierce, is unaware that the meas ure has the unrelenting opposition of Secretary Ickes of interior depart ment. Bonneville power is under con trol of Ickes, who is jealous of his authority, and whenever the name of Wallace is mentioned Ickes blows up. 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