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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1943)
pagi roua The Sentinel! TWENTY * MM MHS M * SMS TMM .... ' i YEARS AGO ,~'r~ H. A. YOUNG and MP. GRIME* A. YOUNG. Editor ,U.ll.'l.1,..ri.?._________ $2.00 b»...-..______________ 1.00 Entered at the Coquille (Taken from The Sentinel of Friday. January 1», 1023) Between eighty and ninety mem ber* of the Coquille Rod 8c Gun Club, their families and invited guests, sat down to the «even o'clock duck dinner th* club served in W. O. W. hall last Wednesday evening. The girls' basket ball game tonight at the High School gym will be start ed promptly at 7:15. The main event will follow and will be between Myr tle Point and Coquille. The boys front whom the team is to be selected are Don Pierce, Cyril McCurdy, Earl Rice, Jackson Knife, Layton Nosier and Albert Oerding. L. H. Hazard says that on Jan. 18, 1922, a year ago yesterday, we had the coldest weather of the year when the mercury dropped to 1« degrees above zero. In the nine year* the writer has residedln Coos county, he doe* not remember any colder weath er than that. So far this year frost has not been much in evidence here, being practically negligible. Oregon. One is a < distillery io pro* duce industrial alcohol fmm* from- Miirnliia surplus wheat, mid the ether is the location of an electro-development laboratory. The state has been looked over and several suitable sites have been spotted for the distillery, but the la boratory is more difficult. The plans call for ten acre*, with houses, like a college campus? but this acreage may not be insisted on. The location is now supposed to be wide open and those having sites will be given an opportupnity to state their case. If a distillery is assigned to Oregon it will presumably be somewhere along the Columbia east of the Cas cade*. I reach the floor.- But tint they must run the the* 0s* nt Id* t in committee, MimmittM. which gantlet report the bills out “Do pas*" t»r “Do not pas*,’’ and . It’S a cinch many of thee* measures will get a real work ing over from the lawmaker* who are on said committee*. One of the hottest of the hot bills Introduced so far is the measure to modify the tax paid by employer* to tire workmen’« unemployment com pensation fund. This measure will be bitterly fought by organized labor. Labor has a huge bankroll available to maintain a potent lobby to ward off any such effort on the part of em ployer* and this lobby is already on the scene of action. the golden egg. This is the season of the session when the politically wise make their guesses as to how long the legislate <; will remain in session. Many think the lawmakers will wind up their chores and be homeward bound by the time the fiftieth day rolls around. However, the old-timers who have been watching them come and go for many year* shake their heads and say 80 day* at least and mayb* more. It’s been close to 30 year* »Ince the law maker* finished their labors in the allotted time and adjourned sine die But things have changed in 30 years, and so have we. Frank Schram last week resigned his position with the S. M. Nosier grocery and on Wednesday left for Salem where he will reside in the fu ture. His wife has been there for Observations from the press box: One particular bill introduced last War production board says some several weeks helping take care of relief will be afforded farmers for week didn’t cause much comment at The railroad and truck lobbies are her father. ITIII necessary machinery. At the moment the time, but there wa* plenty of poli here, ready for the usual brawl. . . ulii there .is a demand for welding rod tics wrapped up in it. The measure Jimmy Donegan look* things over A class of eleven went over to iron and a search of source* of or would consolidate the office Of cor for the lumber people. . Giles French, “DON’T WA8TE OUR MONEY" Marshfield last Friday evening to dinary supply disclose* that none is poration commissioner with the state the lawmaker from Moro ’4* floor Fire Chief Geo. Swinney has called take the two degrees of the Royal i available. For month* farmers, have banking department. Just a week be- I leader for Speaker McAllister, and An open tetter that appeared re a meeting of the volunteer fire de and Select Masters of Masonry. The i been calling attention to the dwindling fore Mr. Sprague became an ex-gov- doing the usual good job; -French is cently in a metropolitan newspaper uddreased to “Dear Senator" and partment at the city hall next Mon initiates were J, S. Lawrence, F. G. supply of spare parts and pointed out ernor, he re-appointed Mr. Lloyd Serving his fifth straight hitch as a signed by John and Jane Smith, Mid day evening. All those who are will Lesliq, E. G. Opperman, E. H. Ham that unless something was done there Smith, corporation commissioner to legislator. . . . Stan Pier of Portland dleville. U. S. A., points out two ing to volunteer as a fire fighter den, R. H. Mast, C. T. Skeels, L. H. would be a sharp decline in the 1943 another four-year term, which de is his able colleague, also an old- Hazard, Dr. W. V. Glaiayer, O. C. cultivated acreage. It has arrived, at prived Governor Snell of a juicy plum timer at the business. . , The Grange very important aspects of th* people's should be present at that meeting. Sanford, J. W. Miller and H. A. Young. - the. point where farmers are renting for someone of the boys. However, boys, headed by Mort Tompkins, look war effort. Last Saturday the county court . And so does Allen •> 1. 0 ’, i implement* from neighbor* when the state banking Job is up for ap- things over. “We know you have to think in big A. T. Morrison for the posi- Mr*. S. A. Ribble, mother of Mr*, they are he had, and in many ln- ' pointaient in a short time. Hence If Smith, the big time lawyer. . . Roy sum* and spend a lot of money for named___________ the war,” the letter reads, “but, try tion of Juvenile officer, and his wife, Geo. Chaney, of this city started stances these machines are in, need the two department* are consolidated Meyers is on the job as usual; he has and remember how hard Mother and Mrs. Anna Marriaon, as alternate, in Monday for San Francisco, by the of repair*. The secretary of agricul- as outlined in the bill, Mr. Smith I been around the lobby longer than I worked to buy 1200 worth of bonds. cases requiring theservices of a Elizabeth route. After visiting a few ture has attempted tp pry loose pri- will be out of a job. Get the point? anyone else. . . . Phil Metschan drop* day* In that city she was going on by oritiea for farm machinery parts but in to say hello.. Ex-Governor Sprague “Don’t let them throw our money woman. boat to San Diego, where she proposes — — >-< ------------------ - feel* at home when he visits the up • to now his ------------- success ■- has been negli away or waste even a little. A wasted In the first two weeks more bills Lloyd Oddy and Glenn Shores were to spend a couple of month*. gible. million dollars won’t save any sol have been introduced this session pres* room. . . The weather stays diers’ lives. And it will hurt five in Coquille yesterday from their than last. The lawmaker* are really beautiful, and so do prices for every Judge John C. Kendall took hi* thousand families like our* who Gravel Ford ranches. They went be Last four units of Bonneville dam trying their best to wind up the ses thing in this man’s town. fore the county court to endeavor" to place on the bench for the first time wiil be installed and generating sweated it out in bonds and taxes. sion com*, the fiftieth day. For the Some time during the 78th Con “And listen. Senator, don’t worry secure an appropriation for road work at Tuesday’s session of the Circuit power this year, 'Ehey will develop first time in many year* both houses Court. about whether we’re going to co in their district 200,000 kilowatt*, which will be avail, were in session every da/ during the gress, a move will be made to estab able for industry, If any industry can flrat week. Harvey of Portland and lish, on a statutory basis many Fed operate or not We’ve given Uncle i ■ 11-------- -------------- ’ -------------- " Sam our boys, our businesses, our era had to defend their island from be found that is looking for large Friable of Baker hold the lead for eral agencies now operating under ex money, and all our confidence, and if invasion by the Turks who seized the blocks of cheap energy. This power introduction of new bills in the house, ecutive order so they will be directly It would you think anybody that will give this small adjacent isle, Gozo. For many cannot very well be disposed of to while Wallace of Portland holds first responsible to Congress. much is going to quibble about a gal I year* the Knights of St. .John held farmers as there is no oopper wire honor* in the senate. A ruling by require these agencies to obtain ap lon of gasoline or a can of beans, this small outpost of Christianity available for transmission lines or Speaker McAllister that the old moth- propriations directly from Congress when you took the train to Washing against Turkish and Moorish pirates even to wire the house*. eaten custom of “Mr. Speaker, I ask instead of from th* RFC or some ton you left all your common sense on and they built their new city, Valetta, that the courtesy of the house be ex other fund tlje President may have platform back here." - with the donations made by Christian tended to Mr. Blab” is out this ses available. countries in appreciation of their sion, caused McAllister’s stock to rise serviceP’^’It was said to be a “city To relieve war workers of the still higher a* a presiding officer. built by gentlemen for gentlemen.” The horseplay to please' vanity only nerve-wracking noise of certain fac Fragments of Fact In spite of the great fortification* caused the house to lose many hours tories and shipyards, industry has and Fancy of valuable time in sessions gone by, devised individually molded' ear poleon in 17»» without itruggle. He and everyone around here is glad it’s stopper* of smooth, translucent plas Looking at our Maltese cat recently <only ltayed there ,ix days but carried lout; and here’s hoping it stay* out tic or platser of pari*. we wondered if her blue grey color oW ireat plunder from the churches, indefinitely. 1 c Washington» D. C., Jan. 20—Sen. originally came from slate colored The Maltese soon rebelled against the Funeral Spray* and Designs at rock* on the island of Malta. \We tyianny of the Bonaparte regime and Rufus C, Holman returned to the Governor Snell’* Inaugural address Bergen’s. Phone 84. were doomed to disappointment when after a „umber of year* the island of national capital glowing with enthu contained some very meritorious rec we turned to a reference book and Malta was awarded England by the siasm, over the chrome situation in ommendations to the legislature, but zaz >L* . . a a * a a e *_ _ found that ik« the *« rock* there were 1 treaty of Pari* in 1*14. And In all Oregon. He says that on one of th< on the other hand he suggested one white, grey, rrddish and yellow sand the succeeding years the British hold old beaches of southwestern Oregon or two moves that the tax-conscious stone. The environment on th* island on that island wa* never so threaten machinery is taking out 250 tons of can hardly get (and Who isn’t tex con- i* apparently too bright-colored to ed as in 1941. mineral concentrate a day and of.thls sclou* these days)? The governor account for the somber hue of the 42 per cent is chrome. Before March, Spark plugs contribute mentioned that an additional eight Maltese cat* unless for countless fe It is bad enough to suffer all the says the senator, production will be per cent excise tax be levied on all more to good gas mileage line generations they had lived in the upped to 100 tons a day of chrome ache* and pain* that accompany a State House, Salem, Jan. 20—As the utilities, but didn’t mention the Bon d cave* and underground passageway* cold without having the radio an concentrate. The operation is near legislature gets well into its second neville project, whlcn Is exempt from and the life of your motor on the island Coquille. According to Senator Hol nouncer* elaborate on these symptom* week of work the controversial bills all the numerous federal and state There is a Maltese dog, also, for man, there is an almost unlimited than any other part of your in extolling a cure. It would be are beginning to show up tn both taxes and has Oregon utilities for its merly quite popular. It developed much more pleasant to hear at this amount of minerals in the black sands, houses. Several tax bills are in which largest customer. This suggestion by car. They’re easy to change into a small lap dog, with silky white and exploration discloses that the de time a program sponsored, let us say, would modify the state income tex. the governor also in the face of ap hair, though some two thousand years by a sunbqrn remedy manufacturer. posit runs east for miles. and we have the right heat Truck bills are with us again which proximately a million dollar rate re ago- a Greek traveler met this dog In would increase weight and length. duction Just-ordered by the state range for your car Tri-weekly service on the Arling its wild state on th^island. Of course, Words are always interesting be ton-Condon branch of the Union Pa Several local option measures have utilities commissioner. As everyone it* color could be due to the white also been introduced, and more to knows, the utilities are the state’s rocks of its native home for dogs ar* cause they are th* vehicle* by which cific is scheduled instead of daily. come. Two have the strong backing largest taxpayer*. Millions come AMZY freer to roam abroad as they please thought is exchanged among human* Office of defense transportation ap of the Anti-Saloon League and the from this source each year to tax and from year to year or from cen proves of the change, a* doe* Oregon than cats ever will be and we can W. C. T. U. And of course it wouldn’t collectors for cities, counties, school imagine they lay on the sunny white tury to century they change in mean Corporation Commissioner Orman be the legislature if we didn’t have a districts, etc. So those who take an I ing or are lost to circulation. rocks for the seashore while the cat* Bean, and ICC gives its blessing. * few fish and milk bill* on the law interest in tax matters Just can’t Take the word ruthless for ex Clyde B. Aitchison of ICC says that. crouched in the cave* and shadow*. ample. It is a favorite adjective as the transportation situation in the Pa makers’ menu. All the above meas- make such ■ suggestion add up to applied to our enemies at th* present cific northwest has become one of the ures'are hot subjects and are sure to good common sense. There is such The island of Malta has been dec time but its very form presupposes bring forth much .oratory if they ever a thing as killing the goose that lay* most difficult in the whole nation be orated for bravery by the British the common use’ of the older word, cause of the volume and irregulai Crown during this last war. It is the “ruth,” which now sounds odd. About character of the shipments. Involved only bit of land to be so honored but two hundred year* ago “ruth” was is said to be a saving of one train if it* battle-scarred rocks could talk part of the language a* written by crew, two locomotives, passenger, what a tale they could relate! This George Washington and literary baggage and mail car. speck on the map is 17V* miles long men of that time. It* primary mean and »¥« broad and is athwart the sea ing, of course, is compassion, but Commercial fishermen on the Ore lanes of the Mediterranean. It* his sorrow and remorse are also listed in gon coast will be interested in know tory is the history 6f Europe in minia the dictionary. It has the same ing that two bills touching their ture. qtelling as the name of the Moabitess business have been offered in con It* historical roots are so ancient they ar* lost in tradition and mythi- | Ruth, who knew sorrow and afflic gress. One gives control of salmon tion. The noun, ruth, however, is cal lore. It was in the grottoes of related to the verb to rue (to repent), fishing to the fish and wildlife ser it* rocky shore that Calypso, the sea whose archaic form, rueth, is practi vice from the strait of Juan de Fuca I to California. Purpose of this bill is nymph, according to Homer’s legend, cally the same in sound and sense, as • to curb off-shore fishing by trolling kept Ulyssea for seven long years. ruth. I and drag-nets The other measure Leaving folklore, we find the Phoe ------------ s----------- | provide* for a study of crab*. Data nicians were the first inhabitant* who on the life habits of the crab are “INTOLERABLE" STOPPAGE left a trace of their culture, their pot unknown to any scientist in the fed tery and glass being common in ex In a world war and in the face of cavations. The Greeks left a few a desperate fuel shortage, 25,000 an eral government. The shipment of coin* to show their invasion of the thracite coal miners have laid down large quantities of crabs, caught in island*. The Cathaginian* drove out their tool* and gone out on strike. The deep water off slmre and sent to Cal- , ifornia market* is suspected of de the Greek* and, after many centuries, issues? pleting the crustaceans. It is to de- finally relinquished the island to the The miners want a wage increase _A*aMewxIsw — - « . 1 — — S. ? — — \c:i iniiic wncvTicr w!Toi(*sarP era Doing all-victorious Roman*. of two dollars a day and they are pro The shipwreck of St. Paul on th* testing an increase of fifty cent* a of this character is likely to exter island of Malta about 58 A. D. brought month in the due* of thj United Mine minate the crab that the legislation is offered. Christianity to part of it* inhabitants, Workers. though worship at the famous temple* Secretary Ickes, as solid-fuel ad This year the "general welfare to the Roman gods continued to flour ministrator, has denounced the war act” promoted in last session of con ish for some centuries afterwards. time stoppage a* “intolerable.” gress, has been reintroduced by Rep When the Saracens gained posses Labor union leader* have declared sion of the island in 870, the local against strike* for the duration of the resentative Magnuson of Washington inhabitants having massacred the; war. Machinery ha* been set up to With the new proposals of the presi dent for providing social security from defending garrison of 3000, strikes P ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • o Howdy Folks: M&WAuto Service to Medina. After a couple of hundred years the Norman-knights appeared. They levied tribute and set free the Christian prisoners. I.ater Malta became f fief of Sicily and it* people had a checkered history of fighting at sea in many battles for many cause* It was in 1530 that Emperor Charles V granted Malta to the Knights of St. John, asking as A change in the schedule of th* state driver*’ license examiner in this city, giving Coquille resident* addi tional service, has been announced. In the past, the examiner has visited Coquille one Tuesday of each month, with office hour* from 2 to 5 p. m. at the city hot!. Beginning the first of the year, th* hours are to be in homage only the annua) gift of a creased to those from 9 to 4 p. m, falcon by the knight*. one Tuesday of each month. His first Almost immediately th* new own- visit will be Tuesday, January 19. not receive Last session an attempt was made to force the general welfare bill out of committee by petition. A petition re quire* 18 signatures and thia peti tion fell short by a handful despite desperate efforts in the closing day* to induce the necessary number to sign. The general welfare act, sup ported by the Townsendites, had the backing of every member from Ore gon. Two federal project* may com* to! <
