The Sentinel II A «4M raws TWENTY YEARS AGO * (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. * reveals that an additional 18,000,000 workers should be engaged in war Don’t be discouraged by a few » 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. • •••••••• 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 * . ” -------- »r «—-_____ _ ____ 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 _______ 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 • 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. ' — iwmww —— 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. - e 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 ■ next mouth. ‘ 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. : Calling cards, 50 for $1.00. * • 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