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H. A. YOUNG and MP. GRIME*
A. YOUNG. Editor
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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.
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necessary machinery. At the moment the time, but there wa* plenty of poli here, ready for the usual brawl. . .
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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
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’, 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.
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at home when he visits the
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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
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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."
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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.
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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*
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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
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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
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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
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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
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| provide* for a study of crab*. Data
nicians were the first inhabitant* who
on the life habits of the crab are
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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
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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
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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!
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