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COQUILLE. OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST ». 194$.
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A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES
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August 25, 1922)
H. A. YOUNG. Editor
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The Oerding Manufacturing Co.
gabserlpUaa Ratee
$2.00 has started work on the construction
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of a new building for their myrtle
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No subscription taken unless paid wood factory on the ten acres they
tor in advance. This rule is impera­ recently bought on the highway ad­
tive.
joining their ranch out there and just
Entered at the Coquille Postoffiee as east of the new bungalow Sam Ar-
n< id is building.
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county, was struck by an auto at
Eagle Point on the Coquille highway,
last Monday morning and then drag­
ged for forty feet and fatally injured
Mrs Jennie Miller and her step sou,
Hugh Miller, who have been visiting
here this month with the family of
Rev. W. S. Smith, started on their
return trip to tireir home near In­
dianapolis, Indiana, on Wednesday.
Office Corner W. First sad Willard St
They are taking with them Miss Ix>is,
Natal Day is to be observed in
Smith, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs.
don next Thur»day, Aug. 31st.
Smith, who expects to remain with
Recorder John S. Lawrence com­ them until next spring.
pleted a deal this week fqr his home
place which he has occupied for the
Earl Nosier came in from Hoquiam,
past 28 years. Amzie and Claire Mln- Wash., last Tuesday to visit his moth­
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j tonye are buying it for their par­ er. Mrs. Win Brown.
WHOM AU YOU FIGHTING.
ents. Mr. Lawrence has since pur-
HITLER OR THE JEWS?
| chased a lot from the M. E. Church
Raymond Ek Baker, formerly su­
Is this your war? And are you ! South, between the parsonage and perintendent of schools in Coos < oun-
fighting Hitler, or the oppressed peo- j Pete Miller’s new bungalow and ex­ y and. later of Coquille schools and
pie of Nazi Germany, the sunje race, pects to begin work immediately on Brownsville school. this week is mov­
ing to Albany where he will became
of which Jesus Christ was a member a six-room bungalow there.
one of the faculty of Albany collage,
when he was on earth?
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These thoughts come from rf'coji-
Iuwt Sunday Was the first day of
sidetation of the scrap metal drive, i
deer season in this State, but it
Melvin J. Kern has been named as
now just
to start, which the
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federal government has inaugurated dent. < Royal Ostrander, of Port Or- month.
for collecting all the unused metal ford, a young man of 19, was the first
scraps and articles which can be ¡victim reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo, C. Chaney re­
found on every farm or ranch in the
turned Sunday from their month's
United States, in every home, busi­
Rev. M. W. Goss, who has for some trip east, during which they visited
ness house and plant.
months past been pgstor of the M. E. at their old home in Michigan.
The thought is too often expressed, church here, is -leaving for his new
“I’m not going to collect metal to let field at Philomath.
Next Wednesday, August 30, wtil
the Jews make a fortune out of it”
be old settlers* day in Coos county
If the truth were known they are
Tuesday morning the home of Mr. and the invitation to attend the cele-
not. We leam of one junk dealer re­
and Mrs. L. Farris Powell was made ballon in Colutile la genera).
cently who shipped two cerloads of
sèriqf metal "whiett after Wing
happy by «« arriva‘ °'a ^by *rl'
$4 or $5 a ton to the owner, loading,
««“» P«undB. Mr. Powell is
The Southwestern Oregon I.O.O.F.
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the
minister
of the Christian Church Association picnic will be held at
unloading, loading again and de-;
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North Bend next Sunday, Aug. 27:
iivering on the cars, was out of here. j.7.
over a hundred Odd Fellows, Re­
pocket $2. At the $14 ceiling price,
Henry Sengs lacken, of Marshfield. bekahs and tlteir families are going
which has been set on junk metal,
no one is going to make anything on® <* the best known men in Coos from here.
out <»f this nation-wide drive to col-1
ieet the essential metals so necessary wJ1| convince any one of the truth of
in the manufacture of Offensive and the Department of Agriculture report
defensive equipment.
(that farmers received more income
Collect your scrap; turn it over to jn IM| than ln any year a(nce 1920
tiie authorized agents who will pay
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you for it, and do your part in win-
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nmg thia all-out war.
dored
make
w|(h
The need for whole-hearted co-op- the Norweglan church
Fear of
eratten m this scrap metal drive is ,invaaion ot Norway
the offer
no less important than is the P«»- c tw. oUve branch
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chase of war bonds and stamps.
UndJy ovarturea wlu lnakv
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the Norwegians feel friendly toward
their oppressors or less anxious to
aid their liberatbrs who may seek
to open the second front on Norwe­
gian shores.
With the recent announcement that
our armed forces now number four
million men. it is interesting to re­
member that United States mobiliz­
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ed approximately four and one-third 1
million men during the last war.
Do you go to sleep with a prayer
in your heart for our fighting men
who are risking their lives to keep
the enemy far away, thus making
your slumber safe and secure?
WHO WIIJ. BLUSH AFTER
Paul de Kruif, the noted scientist, I
is authority for the assertion that !
THIS WAR?
syphilis is now being cured In one
“It has been our American tradi­
day. Popular education about this
tion." says the New York Post, “to
disease had tended to diminish the
hold an investigation after every war
number of cases until the war again
The smoke dies on the battle field
caused an upturn. A one-day fever
to rise again ln Congress.
Usually
treatment, with doses of arsenic, is
the American people are treated to
coring many cases and patients who
two or three years of proof that
were headed toward insanity, are
interests made a pretty penny out of
saved to live a healthy and useful life.
the conflict. We heard much, last
time, about those juicy. munitions
"Ninety million dollars a year is
contracts and those shells which were
spent to send out ‘news' to boost vari­
never delivered.
The question is.
ous departments (at Washington, D.
1 who will do the blushing this time?
C.), and their heads.”—Senator Harry
"In plain truth," the Post editorial
F. Byrd.
continues, “the first prices to be con­
A large share of this “news” goes
trolled in this war were the prices of
into the waste basket and the money
the products of large corporations.
paid far it is an utter loas.
If we
Meta) prices were curbed before
were not at war and if the pennies of
Pearl Harbor. Steel was rigidly con­
children were not solicited for war
trolled. The Aluminum Co. watched
bonds and if the necessities of life
a big competitor set up. with govern­
. were not taxed, this example of bu­
ment help. The auto industry was
reaucracy at its worst would not be » 1
■onverted 10U per cent to war.
so tragic.
"Nor are the big industries crying
in public. They probably would have
Synthetic rubber, which has been preferred to stay in private business.
promised in quantity in about three Rut U. S. Steel, and Aluminum Co,
years, now sells for 65 cents to one and General Motors are taking ads in 1
dollar a pound but the price may newspapers and magazines to tell Cie
drop to 25 cents when factories get stcry of the war effort, the story of
into production. This latter price is the blast furnace or a new airplane
comparable to that of former rubber engine.
imports from abroad
“There hasn't been any labor re­
However, there is a rubber plant pression to speak of either, iis Wage
now being grown near Salinas, Cali­ rises have come qqjckly.
Average
fornia. Down there they have 50,000 , wages are the highest in our history.
acres of guayule planted with tlie Farmers will draw down about 15
help of money from the pockets of billions this year for their products,
Uncle Sam. Ten cents a pound for almost three times as much as during
guayule rubber is supposed to be a the depression. The big drive to up­
profitable price and it is believrM it set this temporary stability comes
can be produced for five cents.
from the farm bloc which is yipping
The fly in the ointment is that it for fantastic food prices and from la-'
will be four years or in 1946 before bor which is demanding higher basic
the five hundred thousand tons and wages.
over needed annually in United
"If you were to try to decide who
States can
many
ning this war is still "on order.’
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If you have a sweet tootli that de-
mands more than the allotted ration
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of. sugar and
“keep a bee" you might try raising
sugar beets In your backyard. The
syrup from their cooked pulp is very
satisfactory it is said.
and
run g. the
supply base for clay containing
ulumina, which is processed into
aluminum. The deposit, which has
been known for years, is now attract­
ing the Interest <>f the interior depart­
ment and the bureau of mines has
shipped samples to a laboratory or
pilot plant in Utah to determine the
amount of alumina content. Off the
record, the report is that Molalla
clay is tops, richer titan the proven
deposit at Castle Rock, Wash., or a
clay mountain near Cottage Grove.
The MiJalla find increases in impor­
tance as German submarines con­
tinue sinking cargoes of bauxite en
route from Dutch Guiana, making it
inevitable that domestic days must
bo substituted for tlie imported
bauxite unless the pigboats are dis­
posed of.
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iton Henderson announces that of­
fice of price administration is taking
■»no present action to place a ceiling
on fresh fruit and vegetables." This
was his reply to fruit and vegetable
growers in Oregon, who said that a
ceiling would injure their market. As
already repotted in this column, there
will be national meat rationing and
from present indications it will come
sooner than predicted. The talk is
Washington, Ü. C„ Aug. 2«—Klam •
that the ration on meat will be about
ath Falls is to liave a dehydrating
three pounds per person per week.
piunt for potatoes, approval >raving
And Secretary of Arigulture Claude
been given, priorities arranged and
Wickard can be expected to turn
construction work has already start­
turtle and recommend the elimination
ed. Contest for location was a three-
of the 110 of parity; says conditions
way pull. South Dakota was in the
Umatilla county will have a new have changed since he supported that
running, then Washington. One rea­ housing project, to be announced plan before a congressional commit­
son the Klamath basin is being picked sometime in September, according to tee.
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was the 12,000 acres seeded to po­ advices. The new munitions plarH at
tatoes, which last year yielded 360 Hermiston and the ail' base at Pen­
A prominent member of the Ore­
bushels to the acre, a harvest of be­ dleton have made it imperative that gon state grange who has always co­
tween four and five million bushels. more dwellings be provided. State­ operated with labor unions in upping
Piactically the entire-output of the ment is made that the houses will be wages, now thinks the unions have
plant will be taken by army, navy and i located where they will benefit , sur- gone too far. He is asking Washington
lend-leaje.
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¡rounding communities *-»A”
to put u ceiling'on wages. To gather
his crop lie now has to pay 95 cents
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>»ak«i the coalof
MUll ™1i‘“ 1>f
te w»
the commodity to the consumer more
preparing
a
directive
aimed
at
school
basin presents a labor problem and
than the latter is willing to pay. He
an appeal has been made to permit buses. As proposed, the school bus
has been informed that the only per­
will
not
pick
up
any
pupil
who
lives
the hiring of Japanese evacuees, of
son who can control wages is the
whom there are 16,000 in the re-lo­ within three miles of the school. Ar­
president, and the president has been
cation camp nearby. General De­ gument: A three-mile walk will not
Witte refuses to permit the Japanese hurt any youngster, and three miles keeping hands.off as the wage scale
soars.
Another rancher says that
to go outside the center to work. Po­ of hiking is what moat of the parents
his
man-of-all-work
left the farm
and
grandparents
had
to
do
when
tato growers are wondering wliere
they can find 3000 or 4000 workers to they were going to school and the in eastern Oregon and went to the
shipyards, where he is now dragging
dig the spuds. It is known that one bus had not yet been invented.
down $400 a month.
citizen in the basin w.ho has lost
Hop glowers who thought they
two sons, one at Wake island and
For life of the tire repairing of
the other on Bataan peninsula, says might solve the picking problem by
he will shoot the first Jap who leaves having soldiers from Camp Adair cuts, bruises, breaks and blowouts,
the center, and this threat may lead given a furlough long enough to go see your O. K. Rubber Welders Tire
into the fields counted without Sec­ Shop, Coquille, Ore. Phone 155. s
to further complications.
retary of War Henry L. Stimson.
Writes the secretary, a furlough will
Glass Brick Vases at Gregg Hard-
Molalla may became an important be granted for a death or similar Hardware.
General W. D. Styer of the U. S. Army En­
gineers told the Pacific Northwest —
’Lumber...it une of the meet important
basic elements in the national defense
program. ..the Army fully appreciates
your splendid work...we are confident
you will not fail ua now."
General 8tyer, we’ll NOT fail you! Eve
We’ll house the troop*—you train them!
We’ll help build the planet and gliders for
attack—you invade Europe! We’ll have the
timbers ready for pontoons—you cross the
Rhine I We promise timbered decks for all
the aircraft carriers and mosquito boats you
want —you go after Tokio.
Right now nine out of ten logs rolling from
two groups
exempt from most price curbs. You
don’k win such concessions without
having real power," the New York
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Attention--Students Coquille High
School. To save paper you may now
use 3-hole Note Book Paper. Get your
covert and paper at Barrow Drug
A single day’s shopping for. food Co.
emergency in the family of a sold io.
but no furlough to harvest crops. A '
soldier's job, says Stimson, is to train
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