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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1941)
The Sentinel TWENTY YEARS AGO people are also undergoing a change. Government is laying stress on the need of various vitamins and endeav oring to educate the people to use a balanced diet. In brief, food sup plice being purchased for Britain gives a general idea of what com modities are highest in vitamins. In the little valley, lying safe and <Jeep Where the mountain’s shaggy arm clasps it safe and steep, Up and down the corn-rows, hoeing side by side. Milking in the old barn at the evening-tide, Quiet inquiry has been started in the northwest to find garage me chanics who know their business and are ready to go to the Burma road to repair trucks constantly being broken down while hauling, muni tions to China through the back door. The Chinese can not make repairs and when a truck is down it stays down, whereas a mechanic would have it rolling again in a few hours. The importance uf maintaining the transport system on Burma road is so pressing that the government is trying to round up enough garage men to meet the situation. There are a few Americans now at shops along the highway but they are only a drop in the bucket compared with the number required. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Branstetter, who intend to move back to their old home in Humboldt county, California, by thè first of the year, will hold an auc tion sale of their household goods The Southwestern Oregon Daily and all the farm implements on the News suspended publication last ranch in the near future. Monday and T. T. Bennett, who holds a mortgage on the plant, has taken possession. J. Arthur Berg and O. Russell Morgan have former a partnership and next week will open a law office in the Farmers & Merchants Bank Hop marketing agreement by which hop mien of the three Pacific coast states do business with brew ers is about to expire. The agree ment la said to have worked so sat- ¡«fgftprlly with the hyp men that they are asking for its renewal. Com panion bills, one in senate and the other in house, have been prepared and will be introduced. The west coast produces practically all of the hops raised in the United States. Estimate of the nut crop of the northwest is placed at 4,500 tons of filberts and 5,500 tons of walnuts this year by the department of ag riculture. The department also says there is a brisk demand for pickers to harvest the nuts. Owing to war conditions, the tonnage will be con sumed in this country. Back and forth tlie talk floats, casual and free: Talk of yawls and fishing-boats, and of storm at sea. Mornings, it’s of sailing ships, schooner-rigged or square. Afternoons, uf Cocoos, and the treasure there. Up and out at four o'clock, doing up the chores. . . , . Olaf climbed a palm-tree once, on Marquesan shores, Lars remembers how among the islands of Japan Sampans scuttled from the path of the merchantman. "Beans is growin’ wonderful: there’ll be a bumper crop. "Boy, but how the gale blew, in that mizaen-top!” "Got to get the hay in: it’s blowin’ up a rain!" . .. : “Say, do you remember? .... off the coast of Spain ... "We should spray them peach-trees: leaves is gettin’ curled. "Hurry Pidgeon built a boat that sailed around the world! Firs just right for slup-masU growing on the hill, Rolls of thumb-worn blue-prints on the kitchen sill. “Thirty feet is plenty long.” "Myrtle-wood for knees.” "Shall we see the Orkneys first, or the Hebrides.’” “Some day, some day, we’ll build our boat and go, But weeds is ttuck as dogs’ hair: today we’ve got to hoe.* Frances Holmstrom Coquille, Oregon The above poem was written some years ago, on her farm at McKinley, before her adven turous son, “Buzz,” had begun to translate his dreams into re ality. This poem is one which will be included in Mrs. Holm- strom’s new volume, “Rich Lady,” which is to be published by Binfords & Mort, Portland, and should be off the press about Nov. 1. Mrs. Holmstrom would appreciate advance or ders from her friends. . "■■■ OPM has notified a timber con tractor in the northwest that he must produce heavily of spruce for air planes in December, January and February, the worst months in the year for logging. The operator is now seeking lend-lease funds, as the spruce is to be used by the Brit ish, to cut the logs before bad weather starts. No funds are yet available, and the operator is becom ing anxious. NOW is the time to choose your Xmas cards and NORTON'S is the place. s and starved, show the same bravery conditions? Unarmed, are helpless except as S tudebakers for 1942 now on display Strikingly original styling!Money-saving new peifitr Highest quality materials and workmanship!