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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1940)
'■> : ■ FAGERWl ___________________ —= .................................. ...... . pared to give orders for i (not warships) that the are able to accept, but ton or another the local ” people have been holding back. A Canadian mission and a British ! mission have visited Portland to learn gave up his posi- if they ccr looit to that area for the Pharmacy last bullding of cargo vessels. The British week and on Monday went up to Myr- have sutiered great kro. in tonnage tie Point to open the Hariocker and with ^„ribs raining on British Ftarmqcy. shipyards, preventing construction ~there, they are negotiating for new Now that the election is over the „hip, in the United States. This op next big thing here in Coquille will portunity to revive a former industry be the Com Show Friday and Satur- on the Columbia and Willamette riv- day of next week. ers and powibly Coos bay, will not be ~~neglected. Shipyards mean payrolls The high school team here will and einwioyrnent of thousands of play football with the Marshfield high skiUed mechanics school team at Klstner’s field tomor- 0 „ row-unlerc it is too damp underfoot wl-n cof)giess resumel The Sentinel FT; YEARS AGO Off Pints —.. —J...,-------- ------- *» E S I.i£- JW'" i I tald me that he had never seen a time when the morale of the troops was higher than in this camp. Most encouraging to one who has been privileged to live with the troops in camp during the past four annual maneuvers was the attitude of the enlisted men. While there was some disatisfaction as is only natural in an army and under the circumstances, the mon were, generally, not only un complaining but highly appreciative of their treatment and of the improve ments being made in the camp for their comfort and convenience. the military highways subject will be token up. On the map prepared .’ showing what highways are of mili tary significance is one east and west ' | through Oregon (Old Oregon Trail ‘ and .Columbia river highway); The Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Thrift took the 'Dal les-California highway, and the ; train for Portland this morning. Pacific highway. The Oregon coast ¡While there they will visit their i I highway is not on the military map, daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and 1 as that highway is exposed and could : Mrs. D, Brooks Hogan. ’ be put out of commission by shells ‘ from an enemy warship offshore. The The G. in G. club, better known as 1 military highways are to eliminate the Hiking Club, held its first meeting bottlenecks and built to stand up un- this faU at the home of Miss Bess . der the pounding of tanks; the bridges John Craig Parrott, formerly of | Maury last Monday evening with a are to be strengthened to sustain these dozen members present. Two new Myrtle Point, entered the first grade Ì mobile forts. None of the arterial members were received, Misses Gen last Monday. . . One and one half J highways in their present condition evieve Thompson and Maymie Da minutes ware required to empty the meet all military .requirements „for. Officers were: Ada . nimaiux«.. Grade fire drill last tong. C_ --------- elected 1— „ ---------------- . J. . Building .. . ■ ■ in wkt ..» a Wed- movement of troops and equipment. Witteman, president; Dorothy Whit netday .—School Notes. It may bd necessary for congress to ney, vice president; Edna Asplund, make a special and specific appropria About sixty member, of the Co tion for the military highways pro secretary; Mary O'Farrell, treasurer. quille Club and their families attend gram. ed the party given at the club rooms To date it has been impossible for Tuesday evening to receive election the Oregon-Washington delegations returns. to induce the bureau of mines to take active interest in the mineral re three—one-third instead of three- sources of those states to the extent quarters—and that gain was made of ascertaining what can be done to before the advent of the new deal! find formulas for treating the vari Another article in this magazine ous ores in order to make them com deals with “The Twentieth Child,” the mercially available. The bureau is" one in twenty among the little chil busy in other western states, but is dren in the United States who toiled j Indifferent to the northwest. Experi at a machine instead af attending ments at Washington State college school. The pictures of these small have demonstrated the magnesium, a wage slaves are pitiful and are an metal lighter than aluminum, can be indictment of some industrial condi produced with native raw material. tions of that time. This one story This means a future industry. must have given great impetus to child labor laws which followed in the Bev. C M. Guilbert Will next decade. The most striking article, however, Be Thanksgiving Speaker Washington, D. C., Nov. 6—Now wai the first one in the magazine, The Ministerial Association in a entitled, “Heralds of Peace.” And that the presidential election is over meeting in the Church of Christ, Mon what do you suppose these harbinger, with and the post-mortems have been held, with a few exceptions the day, selected Rev. C. M. Guilbert to <>eak, Nov. 30, P. M in the Union pearod two and a half year, before American people will concentrate Thanksgiving services, which will be the outbreak of the flrot world war. their attention on the national de held in the Assembly of God Church The sub head announced: “Battle fense program, which was such a con thia year. Other local ministers will ships of the Air Now in Use Boom the troversial subject during the part two be on the program and it is planned months. Up to the present the Ore Doom of International Strife.” Its to have a union choir such as sang firot sentences were: “In October gon part of the Pacific northwest has last year. been almost neglected in the plans for Germany achieved complete mastery of the air by launching two power defense, although Washington has re ful airahips armed with machine guns ceived projects amounting to many ranged on top and along the sides of millions of dollars. Washington state, for example, has the hulls. No other nation is pre 'rofmeitf• of Fact • pared to defend itself against attack been selected for the construction of ¿aiFtutcy by such ships. No other nation has a fleet of destroyers, a number of airahips like these Later on we seaplane tenders, harbor net tenders, find: ‘‘No gun on earth can aim so several hundred airplanes of the fly rapidly that it will hit an airship cap ing tnrtrees type. Fort Lewis is being able of a speed of forty-seven miles expanded by #01 new buildings; Mc- an hour. . . . The European power, Chord flying field is being expanded. realize that the decisive war of the At Spokane an air base has been lo noble future will be an air war. . . . Mili cated and a housing project for the tary experts now realize that a large personnel arranged. The navy yard number of aeroplane, are useless for at Bremerton, on Puget sound, has attacking because they cannot man been assigned all the fighting ships euver in close enough formation to it can construct and a large housing concentrate on one spot." The argu project has been ordered there to ment was all in favor of the Zeppelins shelter the thousands of mechanics. and the huge airahips and say,: Two important developments under 1 ’Warfare will be revolutionized by ignoring armies, battleship and strong the defense program can be expected I iortiflcations, when, without risk ft in Oregon—ship construction and air | The naval air station at retaliation,., whole country is accessi bases. ble. . . It means that an air cruiser, Tongue Point, near Astoria, from with an armament vastly inferior to which patrol squadrons are to operate, a water cruiser, by concentrating its is to be expended. The Columbia air attacks on the weakest and most vital port at Portland is to become a base ¡points can lay waste an entire na for swift pursuit planes and will have a personnel of a few thousand men, tion." An editorial note calls attention to fliers, ground crew mechanics, etc. ■» table of the air navies of European Then east of the Cascades a bombing i nations and warns in words now range will be located where bombers The strangely familiar: “Aerial warfare is can practice hitting targets eminent and in this important de- bombing range will be on waste land Near Umatilla will be established . elopment the United States is incon- the munitions base for the entire Pa cific northwest. Here will be a aeries of magazines in which will be stored the bomba, ammunition and similar explosives to be used by all the army air force in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. It will be the largest muni tions dump west of Utah, where the heavy bombers will be supplied; the bombers in the Pacific northwest will be the type known as light bombers The base to be established at Spokane j will be supplied from the Umatilla j fectly certain that Socialism is the, ™e “<’uor »•« only power that will give the ma-i"“^*? P* 1*“"« headquarter, in ,. é 11 iRwÍ - • » ■ . Tir TT- ]frí7 i It was the privilege of this writer to spend two days this part week with troop, of the 41st division at Camp Murray, Washington. In a painstaking survey designed to uncover conditions in the camp, I found that in spite of almost contin ual rainfall which has, naturally, Oregon is seemingly short of skilled added to the discomforts of camp life, labor available for employment in de the troops are well fed, fairly com fense industries, according to Otto fortably housed, adequately clothed; R. Hartwig, vice-chairman of the state the morale of the troops is high, the board for the mobilization of labor. health ot the camp excellent and there With good prospects for the location is a minimum of complaint among of some of these new industries in the the men themselves over the condi Bonneville power-area on both sides tions under which they live and train of the Columbia river this new board in the new role as soldiers in Uncle is now engaged in a survey of the Sam’s regular army. labor situation throughout the state The last of the squad tents has now in an effort to discover just where been equipped with a board.floor and skilled men are available and the na work is now under way on board side ture of their skills. W'‘ > ;■ ■ walks for the tents to further protect the men against the inctement weath Oregon’s assessed valuation slump er of the wintry days ahead. Each ed another >4,430,000 during the pest tent is equipped, and has been from year, bringing it down to »06,661,000, the outset, with a Sibley Move, en or approximately on a level with the tirely adequate for heating purposes. valuation of 1#11. The men sleep warm and comfortably Compared with the peak valuation on steel cots supplied with good mat of >1,125.100,000 attained in 1830, this ’ tresses with three heavy woolen blan net loss of approximately >350,000,- kets—some have four—sheets and pil 000 represents a drop of 30 percent lows, the latter heretofore looked in the state's valuation in the past upon as -e- luxwy in an army eamp. - », ai Clothing issued to the men includes piled by the state tax commission. two work blouses, two pairs of wool This situation is explained by tax slacks, two pairs of heavy army shoes, officials as due to four causes;. Defla one complete fatigue uniform of tion of values following the depres heavy blue denim, three suits of long sion; foreclosure on tax delinquent wool underwear, three suits of light properties which has thus been re cotton underwear, four pairs of wool moved from x rolls; depletion of socks and three pair, of cotton socks the state’s ■ cf timber either a heavy army overcoat and a rain through fires or cutting operations; coat, a regulation army hat and a acquisition of privately owned prop cap for dress wear. A few of the men erties by federal, state and local had not yet. received their full issue agencies. of clothing, due in part to inability to fit the men with their proper size, With voluntary enlistments on the particularly in shoes, and in part to inability of clothing and shoe fac increase, Oregon will not have to call tories to meet the suddenly expanded up a single man in the firot quota of draftee, to be ordered into the army demand for army equipment. On the day I visited the camp only on November IS, in the opinion of 130 men of the division were in the Lt. Col. Elmer V. Wooten, state di hospital, which is not many out of a rector of selective service. The Mate city of 13,500 population, especially board has just received from national when it is understood that fn the headquarters a copy of the table army every suspicious case Is imme showing each state's quota of con diately hospitalized whereas in civil scripts against which is credited the ian life most of these cases would be voluntary enlistments which in this treated in homes or the men would state is expected to more than offset continue about their usual activities the November call with a good pros- with siighf colds or a toucTi of Tonsili- TeCTUnt eveiHKe second call will be largely fitted by volunteer,------ tis. Major John W. Beard, veteran chaplain of the 163d Oregon regi A traveling examiner of applicants ment, whose experience with the for automobile drivers* licenses will troops of the Oregon national guard be at the Coquille City hall next dates back to pre-World War days. Wednesday, Nov. 13, from 11 until S. •A i .3 • Fi ..... ... Supplementing these naval and army air bases, there is a probability that airports in as mqny as ten Ore- ijiniTary 4.11.11«! £ I A study is now being conducted in the ten communities and a report will be made in December, according to pres ent estimates. There are more unused facilities for ship construction in the Portland arce t than in any other section on the Pa cific coast—or Atlantic coast. The Coquille >' iva l-.yr’Ä« Myrtle Point jf Bandon JI
