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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1942)
1 in' interest. Of the state bonds now outstanding $16,175,000 were issued by the World « «sso Macs is a coso raws War Veterans State Aid commission, $11,541,750 by the state highway R8 (Taken from The Sentinel of Friday, bald. Yell leaders are: Moonshine £1- commission; $1,900,455 are Oregon lingaen. Caveman Miller, Whit<fir April 28, 1922) District Interest bonds and $31,000 i Coquille was well represented at Johnson, Homespun Hartson, Pill are farm credit bonds. • By A. L. Llndbeck $1.00 toe annual banquet of the Marshfield roller Harlocker, Winchester Huling, As a partial off-set against.this out Taxes, about which so much c<im- Six Months __ 1.00 Chambet of Commerce last Friday Calico Fensler, Pastime Clinton; wa standing indebtedness Scott points X'te tea *$30,355,W2 Three Months..——«. -60 night, among those who went over be- ter carrier Hugh Harlocker and um No subscription taken unless paidi. uz c chuu Mr pires, Sparkplug Martin and Phoney cent of the state’s revenue and income tor in advance. This rule is impera-< in< «r «“* ■<«• sets represented by cash, mortgages, tqxes comprise less than nine per gve. 1 and Mrs. R. A Wernich, Mr. and Mrs. HaU. real estate contracts and property. ■“rz z— -r— r. ... _ s: —- 1 g. m . Nosier, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. cent of the total revenue handled byi Had these outstandng bonds been Entered at the Coquille Poetoffice af y^eejs Mr and M„ A N Gould, Next Friday evening the high the state treasurer. This is revealed) Second Claes MaU J<atter.____ .Mr. and Mrs c L Newman, Mr. and school play, ‘Much Ado About Betty,* in a report by State Treasurer Leslie ¡ issued with callcable provtisons, Scott points out, they could now be refi- | | nanced at an average interest rate Office Corner W. First and Willard Bt j44x8 ChM Crouch, Mr. and Mrs. will be put on at the Liberty Theatre. M. Scott. Chas. Willey, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Member^’of the cast are: Kenneth . Soott’s report shows that of th« ' of two per cent instead of the four Jeub, L. H. Hazard, J. A. Lamb, John Kastner, Errol Sloan. Hermann Rada- $92,500,000 collected and disbursed to six pOr cent the old bonds bear, 1 Ross, Lomax Turner, E. D Webb, J. baugh. Leland McGilvery, Ralph fay his department last year, only i'P. Beybrs, J. L. Smith, F. O. Leslie. Harry, Macy Anderson, Lorin Schroe $24,500,000 came from taxes—prop • IE ' Aaron Wilson. J. E. Norton and H. W der, Mary Gegney, Jennie Price, Myr erty, income, inheritance, gift and . Chas. V. Galloway, chairman of the state tax commission, who has been Filili tle Mast, Mabel Wileox, Frances Kist- gasoline. The remaining $68,000,000 Young. the butt of considerable, criticism at ner, Della Sherwood. Harriet Gould. came from fees, fines, interest on the hands of newspaper editorial Pointer and Adrienne Hazard. loans and bank deposits, contributions Manager Geo. Bryant, of the Coast Ione writers and political demagogues the • - l - t * ' ‘ by the federal government, revenues Auto Lines announces that if the post year, is at last going to break Wednesday evening at 5:30 Justice from liquor sales and privilege taxes present fine weather continues, pas his silence and strike back. Gallo senger auto services to Gold Beech J. J' Stanley performed the ceremony and contributions by employers and way is digging down into his own which united in marriage Mias Irma employees to the industrial accident will start about May 1. private purse to pay for 30 minutes Bunch and Lecter L, Sumer 1 in, both and unemployment compensation of time on radio station KGW be America is at war. In a hundred of McKinley. A funds. < ways that fact is brou^it home to us Another pioneer of Coot county tween 9:00 und 9:30 o'clock Saturday There were'no property taxes col and not the least of them is the sight' passed away at 1:15 this morning night. May 2. at which time he will Capt. O. P, EUmgsen, of Parkers-, lected by the state in 1941 but income of fir-trimmed jeeps upon Vie high-1 when Mrs. A. Bbyrie died at her homo give his version of the unifqrm as bug, died Wednesday afternoon at taxes produced a total of $8,012,722 way. Government armored cars, dis- on Henry street. sessment order, the shift .in the tax (two O’clock, at the home of his daugh- Gasoline taxes, about which little or . guised with boughs of evergreen, are paying period and other controversial C. W. Ashton, at "Bandon, no complaint is ever heard, yielded following the same principle of cam i Mr. and Mi s. Geo. Robinson return Itor, Mi issues. ouflage that paints oqr ships with ed lust Friday from a seven weeks* at the age pt 76 years and four a dotal of $14,898,611 or more than months. T’ one and three-fourths as much as the broken lines and drab colors. ■ Tire riitiomng is beginnnig to be J trip to California. They spent some income levies. * Inheritance taxes Camouflage is a comparatively new J reflected in reduced gasoline con time around Los Angeles, at San The nnnual meeting of the Wo yielded $1,471,643 and gift taxes, word in the English language, being sumption on the part of Oregon mo Francisco and otlier points visiting man's Club held last Tuesday evemnf' $198306. a gift from the French in the first i former Coquille people. torists. Sales for both February and resulted in the election of Uus follow In addition to gasoline taxes Ore- world war and neT1 included in our March were down below the levels ing officers: Mrs. Bertha J. Smith, gop motorists contributed an addi dictionaries before that time. How for the same month last year, ac- ever, it is an old pracUq^, how old The following Is the line-up of the pres.; Mrs Catherine Dungey, vioe tional $4,474,363 to the grand total i cording to a report by Secretary of we dare not venture to guess. r.‘_ Coquille '**“ valley Mfcs hfijUbwH 1 ‘ UNBin pres.; Mrs. Mildred Parr, sec.; Mrs. of state revenues through the medi I State Snell. However, due to a big um of regtatratlon fees «nd mileage know that Macduff used it when he scheduled to meet the Coos Bay Elks Ida Owen, treaa. January increase, gasoline consump and gross revenue fees. . ordered that “every soldier hew him ' on May 7 and May 14; Come-7. Low, tion for the quarter was still above The registration in Coos county for The gross income ot the Liquor down a bough, and bear’t before Myrtlewood Oerding, Sunny Jim Col- | lier, Zerolcne Perkins, T-bone Currie, the primary has been tabulated and Control commission, all of which that for the same period a year ago. ■ him," thus making Birnam wood re move to Dunsinane to the undoing of ■ Bankexfat Dement Kilowatt Page, the total number of registered voters passes through the state treasury, Plans for the protection of Ore , Purebred Clinton, Fullhouse Stanley, is 8788; of these 5574 are republicans amounted to $13,903,274. The state’s Macbeth. ' ’ gon’s forests from fires through sa ! Wild Bill Hull, Steelbridge Archi- and 2456 are democrats. share of the “take” from pari-mutuel botage this summer were made by a Having recently run across the betting ,on horse and dog races committee of the state forestry board phrase, "the real world war,’? it amounted to $132,378. known to the people in the vicinity meeting in Salfm this week. In struck us all ot a heap that our pres Federal grants to various state where it is placed. cluded in these plan; are greater ent war would probably be so ¿ailed Government was alow in recogniz agencies totalled $9,538,599 of which restrictions on entry into timbered di ’’1 ÏA V by future generations; that is, if the ing Oregon but now it is going to $2,810,886 went into new highway areas, more closures o( I «rests and allies win it and can ■dictate' the town in a big way. There is no poli construction. an absolute prohibition on slash and peace terms. ... Contributions by employers to the tics involved in the locaton of the With the four freedoms as a foun unemployment varous air bases, munitions dumps, compensation trust dation, the era of a thousand years, a , Cantonments, etc. ' Members of the1 fund, including federal allotments Hi iinir of peace might be ushered in at the ■ 4 congressional delegation know noth- , ior administration and maintenance close of the conflict now raging. ing of a development until they are <rf the ,ree employment offices,1 J ~"" J tevsi «as, as* It will be a big question, however, confidentially advised. Until all is set amounted to $9,746,766 and another ¿ • ' to police the world and outlaw pi the high command refuses to discuss $6,382,040 was cqjlected by the State f .'ti1 ¡Í racy and would-be dictators. Un Industrial Accident commission. plans with anyone. . i less that can be done, it would ap Interest earned by state trust funds »Siu 9 pear that mankind is doomed. A FUHRMAN’S PHARMACY Litpe of the army’s preparations is and bank-deposits added RNMM 1 world war every twenty years would handled by Oregon contractors. The to the year’s total of revenue oollao- soon leave the earth to the species of Washington D. C., April 39—With army has preferred dealing with cot»- animals which do not war among in a few months there will be 90,000 tractor« who can put up a heavy bond, i Other revenue sources itemized in themselves. workers in the shtpyardS managed by a bond larger than any local contrac Scott’s report include: Fishing and Edg^r Kaiser in the Portland area, tor or group of contractors can pro hunting lioenses, $763,864; poundage The announcement that the huge Mr. Kaiser plans 30,000 men for his vide To help the Oregon contractors, fees paid by commercial fishermen, convoy, attacked off, Norway, was " ptant at Vancouver, 30,000 for Ore however, the Corvallis job was brok- $164,523; fees paid by insurance safe at Murmansk with the loss at ; gon Shipbuilding Co. in Portland, -en down Into sections—roads, sev companies, $932,141! Corporation'^ only one ship, was very reassuring. and 30,000 at Swan island, where 50 ers, construction being let individual fees, $830,063; fees collected by de Having heard’ nothing of it, except oil tankers are to be built on what ly instead of in the lump. , partment of agriculture, $484,860; that the Germans were attempting to will, be virtually an assembly line The navy too, is awarding a con fees collected by department of labor, destroy it, we feared another Java arrangement. These 90,000 do not tract for. a floating drydock In ths $66,713; litigants’ fees, divorce fees. sea outcome. The statement of a Rus include the workers employed at Wil Portland area. I Local experienced and filing fees collected by supreme sian spokesman in regard to receipt lamette Iron works, the Commercial contractors have been passed up and court, $50,906; collections by state of American aid that the less said of Iron works, and other plants with the job given to a Puget sound coq-. department from sales of law books, that, the better, only added to our navy contracts nor the plants with cem, Navy explains that as Port notarial commisisons, candidates’ fears. <■ ■’ orders to build engines for the “ugly land will have the drydock it should fees, etc., $64,556; collected from Bad news should not be withheld, duckling” ships at Portland and Van not begrudge the building job to an state wards, $145,313. that policy only makes defeat mor» couver. outside outfit. bitter. As for good news; well, we Where this army of workers will Conscientious objectors may be are willing to wait until the wrfr’s live, how they will find means of It will not be compulsory for the drafted for service as attendants and end to learn where the bombers were transportation to the yards (with women of Oregon to register, but orderlies at the two state hospitals launched that raided Tokyo. rubber tires wearing out and no more registration will be soliticited on a for insane at Salem and Pendleton. A Fortune survey reveals that streetcars available) and where they voluntary basis. Registration for The board of control has announced eighty per cent of our Citizens be- will be fed Will ___ _ __________ prove serious prob- women will probably be called for that such a plan is under considera lieve that “while there Is absolutely4terns for Portland and Vancouver. It July 4, at least that is the talk in the tion in order to fill the places of em no doubt that we will win thia war is proposed to transport 8,000 work national capital. There is expected ployees who are quitting Jobe in those -__ in the end, it is going to be a vary ers daily from Portland across toe to be 1,500,000 women working in institutions to accept better paying tough job.” Victory comes to a peo Columbia to the yard there, possibly munitions factories and on farms jobs in defense industries. The plan ple who face so valiantly a difficult the boat leaving the seawall In Port within 13 months, plus the thousands is said to have been approved by task and are upheld by the belief in land, but there will be 24,000 others of trained nurses required for the the national selective service board. the righteousness of their cause. on the Vancouver job, most of them armed force, and the women's aux If the "conchies" are employed, they Of course these iliary corps, the latter a uniformed will be given their “keep" and $2.50 On Monday of this week most of domiciled there. ’orkers áre ire to be tem- tem group which can be sent to any part a month. those registering in the national poll thousands of workers porarily employed, but they will be of the world where American troops were doing so for the second time in Sale of Marquam Lake to the state their lives. Those born between the working at least until the end of are stationed. years of 1877 and 1897 were the ones 1943, by. which time the maritime game commission for use as a game subject to this latest call to sign up. commission may provide more con Reclamation service announces that preserve has been held up pending During the former registration twen tracts for more boats carrying over it will carry on investigation of the investigation of complaints by farm ty-five years ago, the birth dates into. 1944. feasibility of projects at John Day, ers of Sauvlea Island that the game Locating all of this labor when for the basin; Pendleton, Talent, commission's program will interfere of those of military draft age ranged between 1887 and 1897 and many the armed services are drafting men Medford, Clear Lake, Sam’s valley with plans for draining of thia dis were the Harrisons and Grover is no simple manner. Scouts will be and five projects in Willamette val trict. Clevelands enrolled. The Chesters sent to the midwest, to Colorado to ley. They are intended to be "back and Arthurs are among the oldest toJ Kansas and Wyoming recruiting logs" when the war is over and there Oregon’s bonded debt which in register this week, while the Wood workers for the shipyards. will be need for public works to 1928 hit a high ot $66.062,810 is now rows were drafted over a year ago provide employment. No appropria down to $29,648,235, according to a The war department is spending tion was allowed for continuing the and are now bearing arms in Uncle report by State Treasurer Leslie M. many millions of dollars now in Ore Deschutes project, but it will not be Sam’s forces. Scott. gon and expects to spend many other We pray there will be no need in suspended as there is sufficient sur Interest on state bonds which at the future to register the Franklin millions before it is through using plus from previous appropriations to the pepk amounted to $2,928,323 a! and developing facilities. Much has Delanos and Douglas MacArthurs, carry on the work at least for one year is down proportionately to only though they, could form a small army been talked of the two cantonments, more year, say into, the summer of $1,233,508, a saving of $1,634,815 a Medford and Corvallis, representing IMS. • themselves a decade hence. year, Scott's report shows. , 1 . approximately $60,000,000, and it is • ----------.-------- - ---- - , . Since 1917 when Oregon started its Tomorrow is May Day and should ■ known that the army air force at See South wertem Motor Co.’s spending orgy by authorizing its first be the time for rejoicing. In England Pendleton has a large statioib with the people formerly went “a-Maying" i another at the Portland-Columbia air Gpqdyear store for information on road bond issue, taxpayers of this i X, state have paid a total of $51,031,052 on this day and brought home the May base and the hundreds of concrete lew tires and tubes. • The Sentineí TWENTY YEARS AGO | debris bumint after May 15. Warning that Japan can be ex pected to strike back at this country for the bombing of Tokyo and other cities of the island empire, Jerrold Owen, coordinator of the Oregon de tense council has sent word to all county defense coordinators to keep their organizations constantly on the alert. "A bombing fleet over the Pa cific—and that means Oregon—Is not impbssible,” Owens declared in his bulletin addressed to the county co ordinators • • •••••••••• Fragment» of Fact • • and Fancy ♦ • •••••••••• iä Cv ir IS. EMrgetic Experienced LEADERSHIP to speed Oregon *$ war effort. LEADERSHIP for Oregon's tax problems. LEADERSHIP - for Oregon’s indus trial development, LEADERSHIP Grouchy” Husbands rhsr is efficient, • effective, friendly ¡¡¡-»Sb.- ST. A GRAND OLD CANADIAN NAME COMES TO OREGON * . »boughs.-. ^he.Br«l Bayxrfdtfnss iaa*«ita$eswnlstawy but*t»n»doei»ar«6jiipte69 the-day often chosen for violence and. the list. There are shore stations for rebellion. However, a story teller 1 the navy along the coast, ah elabor - once pretended to have delved into ate program of air fields which em- the dark and mysterious origin of this brace every section t the state, a day and pictured our ancestors as ' munitions' depot on' the -Oregon side practicing theTiteaffertiUring land to of the lower Columbia river, a pro be tilled with bits of flesh from hu- posed shell loading plant in eastern man sacrifices. Today4he battlefields Oregon, two bombing ranges in the of the world art drenched with blood I central and southeastern sections of and Hitler and Hirohito have not the the state. Under present conditions excuse of ignorance and superstition1 the location of many of these facilities as had our prehistoric forebears. cannot be divulged^although each is COURTS! fl ehet cor. srRAcuf i