The Sentinel
II A «4M raws
TWENTY YEARS AGO
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(Taken from The Sentinel of Friday, when Miss Geneva Clair Robinson, of
October 8, 1923)
this city, became the bride of Otto
Following a major operation at the Celestin Shindler, of that city.
Coquille Hospital, Mrs. Hugh J. Law
Bradley A Neal are going into the
horn, of McKinley, passed away Tues
poultry business on a large scale at
day evening.
their Fairview ranch, having 350
E. D. Webb has sold his residence birds now and one of the best yards
.
,
Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as on east Second street and expects next in the county.
Second Class Mail Matter.
week to leave with his family for
southern California where he will en
Washington, D. CM Oct. 7.—direc
gage in business. He will locate at
tor McNutt of war manpower board
Santa Ana.
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reveals that an additional 18,000,000
workers should be engaged in war
Don’t be discouraged by a few
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productive work by the end of 1943.
rains. The Scandia people think that
Hill
THUS
A. T. Morrison says that the crop Of this total he estimates that 11,-
with a couple of weeks more of fine
of potatoes he is now harvesting in 098,000 nAist be semi-skilled, which
weather they can finish gravelling the
the bottom land of his place on the means that they should, in mod cases,
FGURING OVERDRAFTS AS
highway from here to Myrtle Point.
highway fs a fine one, some of them receive considerable instruction and
A MUNICIPAL ASSET!
yielding at the rtrte of 300 bushels per training before reportng for duty.
We wonder if that is the trouble - Tho Coquille High School football scsa—____ -
_ This is another of the labor prob
,
lems wkich are developing apace.
with out federal government? Figur team goes over to Marshfield tomor
row for the first game of the inter
ing its debts as resources’
Miss Eva Lennox, of Roseburg, Whether the computation is accurate
The following came in by stage yesterday to assist ly based upon productive require
The thought is brought to mind scholastic schedule.
by a letter written to the City of Co is the probable line-up: Veloria Cali, for a month in the county clerk!» of ments is not doubted, but the assump
quille by some minor U. S. treasury Ralph Harry, Zed Finley, Allen fice, writing up the poll books and tion comes that something must be
official who sougnt to get the city to Young, Ted Bennett, Robert Trigg, handling matters pertaining to th« done to reach these figures aa to num
Invest some of its surplus funds in Vincent Swinney, Don Pierce, Cyril coming election.
ber of workers. No one in the feder
War Savings Stamps, and which was McCurdy, Layton Nosier, Earl Rice
al service seems to be suggesting that
read at the council session Monday The rest of the squad are Walter ■ George Chaney, Coquille timber out of the 3,400,000 civilian employes
Paulson, Lester Wilson, Ed Flitcroft, owner and logging operator,
evening.
had a now on government payrolls there
From the city’s financial statement, Warren Brandon, Lyle Beyers and miraculous escape in an auto collision could be some reduction for the sake
as the official read it, there is a bal Harry Varney.
with Wm. Myers of Marshfield, at of industrial production. At the peak
_o—
ance in the' Improvement Bond Sink
Gravel Ford, Chaney's car going over of the first world war civil employ
ing Fund of 37,064.14; in the Fire
A very quiet wedding was solem a sixty-foot embankment and rolling ment by the government was slightly
Equipment Sinking Fund of 32,030.50; nized at Bandon Tuesday evening over three or four times
mare than 900,000. Already, before
in the general fund of 3626.42, and in
the army has exceeded in numbers
the cash and securities fund of 313,-
peered in print recently do not in that of the first world war total, em
097A0.
crease our faith in the workers who ployment is up d>proximately 150 per
But Treasurer C. G. CaugheU, show
are supplying the sinews of war for cent above the employes needed at
ing the typewritten financial state
our fighting forces. Coddled beyond that time.
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ment, pointed out that the first three
Some people have been so bold as
belief by pleasant working conditions
above mentioned were all overdrafts,
Last Sunday Hermann Goering and with fat pay checks including to suggest that at toast one million
totalling around 38,725, and that only
blared out over the radio that there extra rate of pay for time over forty of these federal employes engaged
the 312,097.80 cash and securities
would be no starvation among the hours, these workers are said to be with innumerable new deal emergency
were BMOts.
German people this coming winter, very erratic about sticking to their agencies could be'dispensed with and
It would be wonderful if the huge that the reich would be well fed even
jobs, often being absent on the hunt permitted to take work in factories,
U. S. debt could be figured as an as though all other people of Europe
for better paid work, thus disrupting but thia suggestion falls upon deaf
set—and get eway with it!
earn. On the other hand, women will
starved and food had to be taken at essential war production.
,
The council referred the request the point of the bayonet from con
Another disillusioning story is that be importuned to heed the industrial
that Coquille invest in war savings quered territories.
,
of four factory workers waving big call to the tune of about six million.
bonds to the finance committee to in
This announced policy shows up rolls of bills in the face of soldiers Whether this is a gallant course, ac
vestigate the desirability of investing j&ie nazi leaders and the German peo
and taunting them with the cry cording to old standards of chivalry,
water department funds in the bonds
ple to be what they are. The gulf be “Hello, Sucker!” The fitting sequel has not been made the subject of con
against future water bond maturities.
tween their inhumanity and Christian to this story is that the workmen were gressional debate.
charity is as wide as that between reported and were soon inducted into
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PRODUCE — AND ATTACK
heaven and hell and a people who the army themselves. But was the
Farm workers are the most criti
United States troops (soldiers, need assurance that others will starve first part true, are those who are
cally needed in all the labor fields.
sailors, and marines} are now fight that they may eat have sold their
reaping a golden harvest, derisive of Reports are pouring in that perish
ing or stationed in 31 foriegn coun souls to the devil.
the men who may be called upon to able crops in many sections of the
tries or territories.
Small wonder,
Civilization has developed and man give their lives for their <;ouhtry?
county were partly lost due to lack
then that industry may go full force, has ascended from savagery only
of labor for harvesting. One report
takes
a
tremendous
amount
of
for it
when his nobler instincts have been
Speaking of rumors there are bom the northwest is to the effect
dements to equip these men. predominate.
war implei
A crust of bread enough of them flying around town that out of a crop of 60 tons of cher
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Rallying ! to the cause, baby-carriage shared with another less fortunate to make your hair curl. The presi
ries only 20 tons wese saved. Some
manufacturer* have converted to food will feed not only the body but the
dent’s jaunt over the country is not farmers, Too old to operate except
carta for field hospitals. Producers soul of the giver.
the»only secret well kept by the press with the aid of modern machinery and
of lipstick cases have converted to
and radio.
whose boys have been taken by army
bomb fuses, outboard motors to gun
How much more patriotic are the
or navy, frankly state that they will
carriage*, business machines to shells, boys who have been collecting keys
Among all things secular, respect be unable to. make the farm produce
hair clippers to projectiles, beer cans for scrap metal than are those who
as it should. While processions of
to hand grenades, mouse traps to raid the scrap iron piles and pilfer and honor for the uniform of United
States soldier should come first. The farm tabor have gone to shipyards
tripod mounts, - adding machines to the junk which appeals to them!
uniform is like the flag in that it is and war industry * factories, leaving
automatic pistols, vacuum deader* to
the symbol of so much we have taken the farms inadequately manned, farm
gas mask parts, motor cars to tank
Patriotism is not monopolised by
for granted in the past and have wages are climbing rapidly, and in
and airplane engines, radios to flying the younger generation. More than
failed to express in words.
some cases soaring toward shipyard
instruments, typewriter* to »hell-can one octogenarian in town has found
The man in uniform stands be levels.
ing», and common pins probably to al his niche in the economic life here
After the scholastics and economists
most any other munition that can be and is holding down a job to help tween us and death. He defends our
shores from invasion, he meets the and politicians have finished planning
relieve the shortage in man power.
enemy overseas in order that those and debating it is possible that some
The job of conversion has been m -
at home may not know butchery, hard-headed type of individual will
compliehed but there are still two
If «ver you arc tempted to com
rapine, torture and starvation.
He come forward with a rational and ef
major jobs to be done, one on the plain about the new meat rationing
bears upon his shoulders the respon fective program for balancing the
home front and one on the batttofront. and insinuate that this country Is
sibility of continuing our way of life, labor situation. It is, without doubt,
Our fighting men cannot do the job overflowing With food, it would be
our free schools for children, our one of the big problems of the day
until we civilian»—all of u* at home— well to remember a couple of facts.
freedom of worship, our health stand and will become more serious each
do ours. That job is production, unin The first is that this cut in home con
ards and even our habit of three week.
terrupted production, the most amaz sumption of meat would never have
meals a day- He is the protector of t
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ing production job the world has ever been taken it not vitally necessary
the baby in the cradle, the happy
known.
and the other is that the Italians, allies
It appears to be only a matter of
This war is • race against time. of Hitler, do not have in a year the youngster playing in the street and days until workmen will begin re
the youth in high school. In starving
moving the 70 miles of rails of the
The ships, planes, tanks and guns amount of our weekly ration of meat.
Greece the babies have been the first
produoed and delivered to our many The need for us to feed the people of
Shaniko branch of the Union Pacific
to die, in fighting Russia children of
battlefronts on time can decide our other countries associated with us in
Sherman and Wasco counties,
eight and ten years are laboring in
fata. If we hold the Axis hordes on winning the war should be evident.
the protests of county offi
the factories, in England the teen age
the present fronts, while our strength England has formerly depended upon
cials and property owners of that
boys and girls all have their duties.
gathers, it is possible that we can look Argentina for much of her meat but
area. The Metals Reserve Co. has is
Our way of life no longer means a
forward to a not-too-far-distant vic now there are not ships left to bring
sued a requisition for the nails
bathtub in every bouse, a car for
tory.
meat from there and to carry the mu
through war production board. De
every family, nor a chicken in every
We face the supreme test. We have nitions of war all over the globe. Also
cision to abandon the road was
pot It means freedom to follow our
adopted the only strategy that can trade with Argentina now is of indi
reached at a hearing in The Dalles
destiny. It means the right of every
win victory for the Allied Nations. rect benefit to the axis countries.
before the interstate commerce com
child to an education. It means the
For all we cherish, for ourselves and Some meat can be brought from Aus
mission. Despite considerable effort
giving of labor and service of each one
for those who follow us, in a land we tralia as ballast in the ships that
in the national capital by those in
of ua.that all of us may be mutually
love and revere, we will produce carry supplies to the down under con
terested in keeping the road in ser
helped and live together in harmony,
whatever we need and attack with tinent but that amount is not suffi
vice their arguments proved futile.
worshipping the God of love and
cient to maintain our past standard of
everything we’ve got.
Officials insist they have weighed all
mercy.
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consumption and send the supply
factors and that rails and other steel
Scrap iron and steel were not im abroad which is essential to the
from Grass Valley south to Shaniko
portant raw materials in Civil War continuance of Britain and Russia in
will be removed. The steel from Biggs
days. The open hearth furnace, which the war. Also it is imperative to
to Grass Valley will be removed later.
today uses 90 per cent of the scrap feed our own soldiers well.
Grain growers and other shipping
Oct. ®—Dwight Richard Manning,
consumed by the steel industry, was
interests are already worrying about
not operated in this country until • There is a rumor tracer committee, of Empire, and Lois J. Emery, of moving the IMS wheat crop. Sherman
North Bend. They were married last
1969.
originated in Boaton, where, many a
Saturday at the M. E. parsonage in county, largely agricultural, has pro
harmful story has been run to earth
North Bend by Rev. Everett H. Gard duced more than two and a half mil-
and found to be axis propaganda.
lioh bushels annually for the past 20
ner.
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Such a shifting of fact and fiction
years Whether it will be possible to
Oct. 3 -Jas W Bootier and Vivi
will be a help on thia ooast, too.
move this crop to market on trucks
enne Lake, both of Bridge.
They
A couple of stories that have ap-
in 1943 is a moot question, with no
were married by Rev. G A. Gray at
one
apparently in position to guar-
his home here last Saturday
pltoe might be
by 900,-
000.090 pounds before the winter Is
over.
Since it ha* been requested that the
200,000,090 extra birds be produced
with existing equipment it would
seeiu that the Pacific coast state* will
be called upon to furnish a good share
of the total increase, as many of the
mid-west state* are not equipped for
cold weather production. Wheat and
vegetable oil meals will be an im
portant part of the feed required for
the chickens, and thé supply of the
latter is by no mean* what it should
Mpat Have Auto Registration
Cards For Gas Rationing
Motorists who have misplaced or
lost their automobile registration
cards were warned today by Richard
G. Montgomery, state OPA director
that these cards will be necessary to
obtain gasoline rationing certificates
when national gas rationing starts
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next mouth.
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Duplicate auto registration cards to
replace those lost or misplaced, may
be obtained, Montgomery said, from
the motor vehicle division of the sec
retary of state’s office in Salem or
Portland.
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Calling cards, 50 for $1.00.
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The following to what the Oregon
Voter has to say about Coos county’s
legislative candidat«*:
Ralph T. Moore, Sr., head of two
lumbdr operations at Bandon and in
terested in others, prominent in civic
affairs of his community, has besn
named republican candidate for repre
sentative from Coos county. He takes
the place won in the primaries by
Publisher L. D. Fblsheim, who found
it impracticable to run because of
war conditions affecting his news
paper business. Moore is president of
Moore Mill * Lumber Co. and Me
kinley Lumber Co. at Bandon, also
of the Cape Arago Lumber O>. of
Empire, and la chairman of the board
of Bcott Lumber Co.r Burney, Cali
fornia. He entered the sawmill busi
ness at Bandon with his father in
1814, in 1932 succeeded hia father as
head of the busineas they had built
up. Has long been member of Bandon
school board and now is chairmtan;
has served two terms as city council
man, several terms aa president C of
C, one term as president Cooa County
C of C. Appointed members of Coos
County defense Council by the govn
ernor and is block warden. Has had
top committee jobs in looking after
Bandon's welfare, particularly after
the city’s devastating fire of 1986
ion and Shriner, KT, K of P. Mar
ami has one ten. Was born July
27, 1892, at Port Huron, Mich. Edu
cated in Port. Huron HS, Univ, of
Mich, and holds BS degree in en-
gineering from Univ, of Cal. Partv
leaders are gratified that he e<m-
senta to make the race for ths legis
Men, Women Over 40
Don’t Be Weak, Old te
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of Fact •
and Fancy
Ralph T. Moore
For Legislature
For sals at all good drug stores
everywhere—In Cogulllo, at Fuhr-
atan’s Ptoarmaoy.
lative seat.
from where I sit...
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/J- /y Joe Marsh
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En Caur, our fire chief, came
stomph’iato the primin' office last
week, madder’s a hornet.
“Say!” he yells. “If I could get
my hands on that fellow Goebbels,
rd stick a fire hose in his mouth
and tarn on the. pressure," Ed
shouts, poundin’ my desk. “Do you
know what he’s pnttln* on tho
Gorman short-wave propaganda to
America NOW? He’s tailin’ folks
that American army camps are full
of drunkenness! Can yon beat It?"
“Calm yourself, Ed,’* says I.
_ “Nobody’s going to beltova what
Goebbels tells ’em.”
“But don’t you see? He’s puttin’
this bare-faced lie on the air to
stir up trouble.”
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“Pretty stupid propaganda, I’d
say. Pretty silly, even for the
Nasis,” says I.
“How so?” says Ed. “There’s
people in this country that want
beer taken out of the camps. That
sure is going to hurt army morale.
And this lie certainly is fuel for
their fire.”
as. People realize that if Goebbels
wants beer taken away from our
soldiers—there must be a reason.
The enemy won’t stop anything
that's Aarting ear army. They’ll
try to stop whatever’* Aelpinp it."
“Say I That’s true, ain’t it?” Ed
began to grin.
“Of course it’s true—and rea
sonable people can't help but see
it So instead of makin’ trouble—
like they hope—they’re just con
firmin’ what the Secretary of War
and the other Army leaders be
lieve—that among the other good
wholesome things.« fighting man
can get at the canteen in.camp—
America should include beer.”
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From where I sit—I can guess
wuy Goebbels wants beer eat of
tho camps. Tho Nasis would a heap
rather face an army that already
leaf its rights than one that was
fighting for freedom it could touch
and taste and feel every day
Wouldn’t you?
“Not If I know Americans," I
says. ’ And tho Nasis don’l know
No. 49 of a Serie»
Marriage Licenses
enough to esse the rubber crisis
things:
Drive only when absolutely necessary.
Keep under 35 miles an hour
Keep your tires properly inflated
Have them inspected regularly
Share your car with others.
WILLIAM M JEFFERS
Rubber Director
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Oregon poultrymen will have a busy
fall and winter if they do their share
in producing, the 200,000,000 extra
chickens that Secretary of Agricul
ture Wickard has called for. Wickard
has asked that these chickens be held
from the market until they average
three pounds in order that meat aup-
a