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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1941)
I paos rom M, IMI. The Sentinel TWENTY YEARS AGO a asso nm m a coeo jgwa H. A YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES (Taken From The Sentinel of Friday, E. E. Fraederick has filed a petition September 23, 192U) in bankruptcy with Referee A. H. L. P. Maury and daughter, Miss Derbyshire at North Bend. One Year ------------ ----------------- $3 00 Bess, returned Tuesday afterhoon 4» Six Months --------------- ——■L00 from a two weeks’ visit with rela- Mias Mariun Jenkins, of Portland, Three Months.............. — •• 00 has been secured to teach the B divi No subscription taken unless paid tlves near Medford. sion of the 5th grade in the local tor in advance. Thia rule is impera tive. Tlie city council in regular session schools. Monday evening decided to rebuild Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as the T bridge and to start work there Superintendent C. E. Mulkey says Second Class Mail Matter. at once An assessment district will this week that all schools are crowded be formed for each bridge, Spurgeon Coquille has added two teachers. Myr so much .that the claims in this case HiU property paying Tor the bridge tle Point one, Bandon two, Marshfield involve the payment of benefits ag on that street and the city and prop three and Powers needs two more. gregating between $75,000 and $100,- erty benefited standing the cost of 000 as it is that the case may set a Ht Some high scores were made by precedent which will coat the com IIATftt the Moulton street section. cheese makers at the Coos and Curry pensation fund many times this Mr. and Mrs. Gene Nosier, who live fair last week. The winners were: amount in future cases involving shut F. D. R. FAVOR8 A CEILING ALL out on the Fairview road, are re George McDonald, Norway, 94.75; downs .following labor disputes. AROUND TO STOP INFLATION joicing over the birth of an eight Reed Farmer, Marshfield, 94.50; E. and one-half pound girl last Monday Newhouse. Myrtle Point, 94.25,- Art With Earl Snell completing his The President himself has said vir morning. Gene is so delighted that Homes, Marshfield, 94.00. Arago won tually the last word on the difficult he has promised to swear off using first prize in the community exhibit second Ujrm as secretary of state and barred by the constitution from seek subject of prices. Here’s Mr. Roose tobacco. contest. ing another term in that position the velt’s analysis: >, . ---- T ■ • • ------ - —--- way is left igien for a free-for-all ‘ "There cannot be price stability 10 percent tax levied on jewelry in der the recently adopted re-employ- Scramble for that - important office. if labor costs rise •abnormally—Labor stock. Many jewelers declare it is ment program set up by tiie shite di Nor does 1t appear tliat there will be has far rtlore to gain from price sta so great that they can not sell their rector of selective service in cooper any dearth of candidates for the bility than from abnormal wage in- goods now on the shelves and make a ation with the state employment honor of serving the state in this t creases, for these are likely to be il profit; that mostly they will have to service. Adams, who has just fin capacity. lusory and quickly overtaken by sharp pocket the loss Thia tax was inser ished a three year “hitch” in the regu On the requblican- side of the fence rises in living cost. . . . ted with very little publicity and the lar army is now digging post holes Robert Farrell, Jr., w I h > served as "Labor as a whole, fares best from jewelers were not aware of the swat and stringing wire as an employee speaker of the House of Representa a labor policy which recognizes that taken at them by the senate finance of the Salem division of the Pacific tives in the last legislature, has been wages in the defense industries should committee until the bill had been Telephone und Telegraph company. /ecognized as an active candidate not substantially exceed the prevail passed—it had only three days debate Lt. Col. Elmer V. Wooten says tliat for this post for several months. In ing wage rates in comparable non and the news did not reach the north at least 500 Oregon men will be re fact Farrell’s candidacy is regarded defense industries where fair labor west in time for a protest. Other leased from military service during as having gained considerable im practices have been maintained.” complaints are coming from the the next three months and it is hoped petus during the legislative session. Facing facts like thoae would be northwest on other items taxed. that jobs will be available for all as George Flagg, deputy secretary of a good start towards handling the soon as they get baek into civilian state under Snell would like very “little man upon the stair’’—the dan v Northwest farmers who are build garb. much to succeed his chief but will ger of inflation.______ ____ ing electrification administration lines probably not enter the lists as a con or who have recently installed them A new contract just signed by the tender for the position if Snell be wtllrbe up against It when they wish Board of Control witlj the Portland comes a candidate for governor. El to obtain electrical appliances for the General Electric fompany will cut bert Bede, Oregon newspaperman, farm. Mr. Priorities is stepping in the state’s “juice” bill for light and now located in Portland but formerly to interfere. A survey shows that power service at the several build of Cottage Grove, has been doing the most popular appliances of the ings and institutions in and around considerable scouting around and is first six months of this year are the Salem by approximately $1750 a year. understood to have lined up con radio, hand iron, washing machine, The saving is effected through a sys siderable support from members of refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, water tem of single billing covering all the newspaper fraternity but so far pump, hot plate, poultry lighting, and state buildings and institutions rather has made no announcement of his cream separator in that order. Practi than through any reduction In rates. intentions. cally all of these appliances bave At that the state’s electric bill in- the Democratic party leaders are un been placed under a ban because they jJaJenv area wly amount to approxi- derstood to have brought considerable have metals that are required for war mately $00.000 a year. pressure to bear on Rex Putnam, defense, and the factories are either state superintendent of public in turning to something else or are going Another $1,812,000 will be aliced struction, in an effort to persuade him out of business. It is interesting to Jallopy graveyards, those piles of note that when the farmer has elec from Oregon’s debt load on October to enter the lists as a candidate for junked automobiles found in the tricity the first thing*be buys is not 1 when State Treasurer l^slie M. Snell’s job but so far Putnam has outskirts of every community in Ore a milking machine, cream separator Scott meets the payments due at that resisted this pressure, preferring to time to retire a block of highway and remain in the teaching profession, es gon from Baker to Astoria and from or small motor, but a radio. bonus commission bonds. At the pecially If he ean continue in his The Dalles to Malin, are to be same time the state treasurer will pay present office which is a non-par ’ cleaned up under the prodding of Communities in the northwest SPAB, the new high command of wishing a new industry or national holders of state bonds $661,349 in tisan position. Bruce Spaulding, ag national defense, topped by Vice defense orders usually make the same interest earned up to that date. The gressive young district attorney of President Henry A. Wallace Word mistake. They write to their con October 1 payments will reduce the Polk county who gave I. H. Van Wink has been sent to every junk dealer gressman or senator, "We want such state’s outstanding bonded debt to le such a run for the attorney gen- v in- Oregon to sell all of the usable and such; try to get it for us.” No parts of the derelict ears in their pos data is submitted, no maps showing session and to turn the rest of the the area, the land available, the hous steel and iron in for scrap. The ing situation, labor resources, skilled wreckers have received or will re mechanics, the climate, elevation of ceive similar notification and the the town, means of transportation by abandoned cars will be disposed of railroad, river or highways. Without by anyone who claims them. a definite plan to present to whatever . Scrap iron and scrap steel have de agency is approached the member of veloped into a problem. It is re congress is helpless and all he can quired in the manufacture of steel. do is notify the agency that the com If the steel ingot business is to be munity wants something . The re forced up to capacity production 30 quest is placed on file and forgotten, million tons of scrap will be needed and the community decides that the tint! /.» Ill'll' lilies lim each year. Best source of this scrap congressman has thrown them down. are the old engine blocks and steel To obtain results the member must in the abandoned automobiles It is be fortified witli an array of facts asserted by SPAB that one old auto and be able to answer any question will produce 1,500 pounds of scrap, the agency may propound enough to contribute to the manufac ture of a light cannon; 20 such jallo pies contribute to a tank. H. A. YOUNG, Editor I $31,474,935 from the high peak of eralship in the last campaign, is un derstood to be giving serious con $66.062,810 reached 13 years ago. sideration to suggestions that he take One of the hardest nuts the Oregon a whirl at the job now held by Snell unemployment compensation com and is expected to announce in due mission has ever been called on to time as a candidate for the Democra crack involves the claim of the 350 tic nomination. JK —O- non-striking employees of the Mont gomery Ward Portland store for job ' The secretary of state in addition less insurance benefits as a result of to presiding over the destinies of the the loss of their jobs when the store state department, including the mo closed on May 3. A referee of the tor vehicle division, i> also a mem commission has approved the claims ber of the board of control, land but the company has protested the board, banking board, printing board structed, referee's ruling The final action is and several other state boards and similar sentiments. now up to the commission, it is not commissions. STOMACH GAS EXPELLED The state board of control adminis- istered a gentle slap on the wrist of the business office of the state uni versity this week when it turned down a “rush" request Covering the pui-chaae of 50 beds for the dormitor ies at the institution. Holding that the university officials should have, been able to foresee the need tn time to forstall any emergency situation the board directed that the requisi tion should go through the regular procedure. Dan Fry, state purchas ing agent, told the board that simi lar “rush’' requests had been re ceived at the opening of school for the past several years, the institu tions waiting until the last minute to fill their needs and then going out into the open market and buying without the formality of asking for bids on their needs. The board ol control held that this practice would be permitted in the future only after a real emergency was shown to exist. There is n*> need to kt st«— a r k gas cause loss at sleep and upset y—» disposition. Just take a spoonful at Bisma-Rex in a glass of water before going to bed. Bisma-Rex rebeves stonyach discomfort due to acMLusds- gestion quickly. Buy a bottle of 5* doses for 50c at the Rexaii Drug Store —Fuhrman’s Pharmacy With ttie Farberware Bruder every meal is prepared more cunvrmenUy No need now to run beck and forth to the kitchen no need to rtrn n u— a large oven. Ti«e Brulrr way is the modern healthful way to cook. Flavor and juices are sealed in See the GOODYEAR SHELL SERVICESTATION There will be no attempt to con struct the new million dollar state Wrecker Service Night & Day 7 Day» A Week New modern “Holmes Speedking” wrecker Devices for Towing and Picking up- so that yi not be further damaged in handling. Coll Coquille Day 83—Night 105 green Southwestern Motors CHEVROLET & BUICK Myrtle Point SALES A SERVICE COQUILLE ----------- 1 i---------------------------------— Here comes Ohl Imlli/ul r * No one knows how many derelict cars are scattered around Oregon; i they can be found everywhere; worth less, useless, rusting in the rains, an eyesore and a blot on the landscape. Probably 100,000 of such cars are available for scrap; possibly a greater number—no one knows It is as STATE CAPITAL sumed by SPAB that there are eight Sponsors of the attack on the free million such wrecks in the United textbook bill have failed again in States, but thia ta only a guess. It their effort to gH their miUative is known how many new cars are measure on the ballot Circuit Judge produced annually and about 2,500,- McMahan of the Marion county cir- 000 cars are scrapped In a year; the>cujt court this week denied the- peti- dlfference ia supposed to make an ap- . tion Fioyd D Moore for a writ of proximate estimate. j mandamus requiring Secretary of Pursuing its new plan to distribute State Earl Snell to recognize their contracts more widely, SPAB is to initiative petitions as adequate. Snell present an exhibit of “bits and pieces" 1 had refused to accept the petitions as ■ in Portland. The exhibits will consist adequate on the advice of Attorney of parts of guns, range finders, etc. General Van Winkle. The idea is that a small factory oper ator can examine these items and1 ochical schools whose students were figure what ones he can manufacture; | eligible to receive the free text books- whether his machine tools can pro- under the terms of the bill under at- duce any item or whether his tools tack refused to qualify for various can be altered to make it. Inquirers reasons One school held that tbe will be informed horw many of -any 'measure violated tbe principles of the pfrticula^part is required and how' ' contstitutional guarantee of separa to go about obtaining a contract. An tion of church and state. • that with approximately only 7500 students registered ih private and parochical schools throughout the state the cost of this measure to the taxpayers if all schools took advan tage of.it would be only about $5000 a year. A Polk county boy. Private Charles W. Adams of Rickreall has the dis tinction of being the first returned soldier to be provided with a job un- '’if- T tw
