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The Sentinel
TWENTY YEARS AGO
(Taken from The Sentinel of Feb.
9. 1923)
The Dyke Is Sure—State Highway
$2.00 Commission has made agreement
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> with McLeod Bros, to do the dredging
on the highway.
Road To Be Built—County Court
Assures Fairview Residents That
Entered al the Coquille Postoffice at Fairview Road Will Be Improved.
rims
G. A. Ditto, of Springfield, Oregon,
Road To Grove—Property Owners
in Patterson Grove Section Asked to was a Coquille visitor last Monday.
He and his partner are expecting to
Present Petition for Improvement
have a tile building put up here this
W. C. Griffin, the storekeeper at spring for their own use.
Arago, was a Sentinel caller Wed­
G. Russell Morgan returned the
nesday. He says th?y are absolutely
mud-bound across the river now, and first of the week from a two weeks’
the only way to get out is by boat. visit at his old home in Hillsboro,
ATI««
and Fancy
of military age, provided they have
been educated in the United States.
The American born, if they attended
American schools, are regarded as
loyal .to Uncle Sam, generally- War
cancel the Allied war debt.” The department contends that a good
Coquille debaters ape Claräbelle Min- American citizen is entitled to fight
tonye, Errol Sloan, Ronald Harville for and defend the stars and stripes
and Jackson Knife.
and for this reason wishes to give
the Japanese-American. a chance.
Members of congress have received
many complaints concerning the re­
location centers.
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Tomorrow is the birthday anni­
versary of Abraham Lincoln. It has
been said the American people are
building a legend about the martyred
president and that his fame grows
as the years pass. That may be true
to some extent but he was also hon­
ored by those who knew him when
they walked this earth with him.
The following lines were written
on the death of Lincoln by William
Cullen Bryant:
-• Following is the list of jurors drawn
for February term of court: Albert
Bezosky, Frtjd L. McClellan, Chas. F..
McCallum,-Albert F. Merchant, May-
belle Ford, T. 8. Zimmerman, Herbert
A. Busterud, Maude E. Burmster,
Peter R. Bue, Theo. L. Clinton, P. J.
Rooney, Hugh J. Lawhorn, Fred
Mast, Geo. P. Laird, Jas. M. Caughell.
E. H. Hamden, W. J. Sweet, John H.
Laird, Geo. H. Chaney, John D. Carl,
Paul E. Breuer, T. Spencer Small,
Thos. D. Guerin, Aaron Wilson, Per­
ley Crowley, Alice Vestal,
Curtis
Townsend, E. E. Johnson, W. C. Cut­
ler, Ralph T. Moore, Gordon D. Gage.
and spent some time in Portland.
A Coquille five has finally been
assembled which could clean up on the
North Bend bowlers, who had been
invincible heretofore, and on the
Oerding alleys bore Wednesday ev-
ning G. Earl Low, Stewart Norton,
Walter Oerding, Elmer Briner and
Groves Markabury trimmed the bunch
from the bey by 199 points, winning
each of the three games.
One of the principal troubles with
the conduct of the war on the civilian
front is that key men are not familiar
with the branch over which they
have charge. A Harvard degree is
more important than the know-how.
For example, the chief of the indus­
trial branch, office of civilian supply
in war production board, went to
Harvard and, until he Joined the gov­
ernment seven months ago, was vice-
farmers he has issued a staterpent
that food production can be increased
by a better use of horseshoes. He has
four suggestions: (1) Re-set the shoes
to get more wear out of them; (2)
eliminate the shoes where the horse
is doing something non-essential to
war; (3) eliminate unessential styles;
(4) horse owners can save shoes by
removing them immediately after a
period of necessary road work, where
shoes are necessary only during cer­
tain periods.
The Harvard graduate apparently
thinks shoes can be slipped off and
on like a pair of rubbers and that
they come in a variety of styles,
whereas there are only large, medium
and =nnll.
gman This man might be cap­
able in the paper division, but not in
dealing with horseshoes.
Again on Wednesday evening the
Coquille basketball five of the high
school showed that their defeat of
“Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare.
North Bend was no flash in the pan,
Gentle and merciful and Just!
The county high school debates to­ for they won from the Marshfield
Who, in the fear of God, didst bear
night will be on the question, ‘‘Re- hoopers by the score of 16 to 8, on
The sword of power, a nation’s trustr|ao|ve<| that
United sutes should the latter.’ own floor.
W9
In sorrow by thy bier we stand.
long as he lived. That must have
Amid the awe that hushes all,
been their way of meeting him with a
And speaks the anguish of a land
President Roosevelt last year an­
That shook with horror at thy fall. band. Human nature and human re­
nounced last year that he wanted
actions to success and defeat have
8,000,000 tons of merchant marine
Thy task is done; the bond are free:
changed tittle in the thousands of
1 shipping. The production was 90,800
We bear thee to an honored grave,
years since the first Punic war was
more than he called for. One yard
Whose proudest monument shall be
fought two-hundred, sixty years Be­
alone, Oregon Shipbuilding Corp.,
The broken fetters of the slave.
fore Christ.
sent to sea a total of 1,219,400 tons
Pure was thy life; its bloody close
which represented 113 Liberty ships.
Hath placed thee with the sons of
Did you know: That there was a
The Vancouver yard-produced 30,800
light.
town “Guadalcanal” in the Seville
tons, or six ships, and Swan island
Among the noble host of those
province of Spain? That should not
yard 18,800 tons. Total of these three
Who perished in the cause Of be surprising when it is remembered
Kaiser yards was 8*4 per cent of all
Right.”
that the Solomon Islands were dis­
the tonnage produced in the United
covered by the Spanish navigator,
States.
Talking recently with a veteran ot Mendana, in search of-the riches of
Washington, D. Cn Feb. 10 — For
the first war about our,boys now the Orient.
Those old Spaniards
several
reasons there is no prospect f"
doing the fighting abroad and about certainly got around in their day
the ghastly experiences they were and left their mark and Spanish of a aeries of dams being constructed
in Yamhill river within six months. ~
going through, he reminded us of names on all the new world.
Such a flood control- project is being
something we had often heard before.
Did you know: That chenille in
Oregon
He said that the soldiers in the first French means caterpillar? Thus you urged. Army engineer, have been! WhUe 1M1
was
world war who lived in the front line
the
trenches and saw the most action spread as crawling with caterpillars.
to determining fcibllity of navIRa-ljj p,,
below
for 1H1
were the ones who talked the least
Did you know: That the aluminum
tion
and
flood
control.
There
is
»«Robert
8.
Farrell,
Jr.,
secretary
of
about the fighting.
bottleneck is broken and by the end
That same feeling will have to be of this year the rate of production in direct authorization for improvement ,twte. disclosed.
but there Is such au- , The death rate for the year was 8.9
respected, we. imagine, when the the country will be seven times what
the Willamette and its person8 killed per one hundred mil­
t ornation
service men return from the present it was in 1939?
tributaries. The Yamhill is a tri- , [¡on miles of travel. In 1942, the rate
“hell holes" of battle. They will
1M2 rate was the low.
want to forget as fast a. possible the NO ABSENTEES IN FOX HOLES butary and bared on this the study is WM n 7.
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P°lnt reached in this state since
horrors they have seen and they will L,.„
An ace of World .War I, a man of
About April 1 the study will be accurate accident records have been
wish to return to natural American
unquestioned
loyalty, a man who al­ completed by engineers in the field ke|rt
lite—that is the right for which they
most lost his life recently while per­ and
and it
it Will
will be
be submitted
submitted to
to the
the board
board
7___ ; in Oregon
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Travel
as
are fighting.
forming a service for his country, a of engineers in Washington, D. C., measured by gasoline consumption,
man who knows what war is all for approval or rejection. However,
The war in northern Africa is now
reached the astronomical figure of 3,-
about
from the pilot’s seat—Captain there is a general policy of war pro­
centering on the hills and valleys, the
017,918,780 miles. A total of 263,-
Edward V. Rickenbacker — recently duction board that no new projects
Mindy wastes and fertile
803,931 gallons of gasoline was used
and
made
the following comments on the will be initiated for the duration ex­
groves, where the ancient Carthagin­
in the state in 1M2. While the year’s
ians lived so many centuries ago. The war production situation to a group cept such as assist the war effort. total represented a 11 per cent de­
This is to husband materials and has crease from the total of 1941, it was
island 0» Sicily, whose airfields our of war workers in Detroit:
"There are no absentees in the fox caused a general suspension of work
boys are bombing, was the prize for
higher than any other one year in
holes,” Captain Rickenbacker said. on projects everywhere—the Willam­
which Rome and Carthage first went
“This is a most destructive war. We ette valley flood control project for
to war.
Carthage then was mistress of the' need-more planes, more tanks. Our example.
pilots and our planes are the best in
sea and the Romans determined to
build a navy that would challenge, the world, but we need all we can get.
Prof. Hyslop, of Oregon State col­
the fleet of their southern neighbors. I “If you could understand what our
lege, thinks that if the lend-lease
,
boys
are
doing
in
those
hell
holes
History tell, us that they did not
program is double-jointed, as re­
know how to build the vessels needed I : throughout the Pacific and the bum- peatedly attested by administration
’’ J santis of Africa, in order that
and only the accident of a storm
officials, and not a one-way street.
which drove a large Carthaginian yOUr way cf life may be preserved Great Britain should send to the
1
and
the
character
that
has
made
this
vessel ashore on Italian soil enabled
' j nation great may be carried on, you United States modem spinning and
them to start their new program. 1-----
weaving machinery for the rapidly
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They had built ships with three rows | would not worry about eight hours growing flax industry in Willamette
ofbut they newted". patted rfUm* lat
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valley. Fla* production in the val­
those with reven row. and the
ley is expanding so rapidly that it is
“
You
should
not
worry
about
wrecked vessel provided it
passing the capacity of present fa­
In sixty days the Romans built a j whether you are producing too much
cilities and, says Dr. Hyslop, there is
per
man
per
day.
No,
you
Would
be
fleet of one hundred and sixty first-j
need for spinning and weaving ma­
class ships, which feat must have | and should be grateful for the privi­ chinery to carry on this lustily grow­
lege
of
offering
everything
you
know
been as epoch-making as those per­
ing industry. Because of the war
formed by Henry J. Kaiser today. The i how. For none of us are doing so there were many linen mills shut
much
that
we
cannot
do
more.
This
Romans added a “crow” to the fore I
down in Enlgand and it is suggested
part of their new combat vessels, I is a life-and-death struggle for the that the idle machinery in one .of
welfare
of
this
nation.
which was original .with them. By
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“You have no conception of what these mills be shipped to Oregon. Sen.
a pulley arrangement a ladder could
be^towered"andured "for "grappling
W|OT«« ,re going trough, Charles L. McNary has taken the
matter up with lend-lease officials,
the enemy’s boat, and thus the hand Y°u ™ ‘»e home front are the force
who explain that if the flax people
to-hand fighting Romans hoped to th“ W,U b,in« de,Mt or vict°7, 1
will show that no modern machinery
overcome the seamen of Carthage. ¡J* 01 you
pu‘ forth
effort.
is available in this country and there
The ingenious leader, of Rome °°d knows our boys need it.”
is such in England, Lord Halifax will
even built stages on land where
be contacted to ascertain what can
troop, were taught sea maneuvers. I Pushing rubber conservation to the
be done.
This somehow brings to mind our nth degree, an aviation firm now has
naval recruit, who receive their first •»» planes wear wooden "shoes"
Maritime commission has agreed to
training inland at Idaho stations and while rolling through the assembly
on the great lakes during this war. tine for final testing
When the name a liberty styp, to be con­
structed at Oregon shipyards, in hon-
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so plane is ready for flight testing, reg-
Jt.is
said that the
ffiaabfe iiiiWiiiUi 11 wmri 'riiiriw me
descendants live at Marshfield. Col­
were completely taken by surprise are lubetituted.
onel Shaw was one of the early pi­
when the grappling ladders were low-1
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ered and th* fierce Roman warriors , A t unique “traveling refrigerator” oneers in the Oregon country, arriv­
surged on board their vessels. Forty- ' for shipping quick-frozen foods on ing in 1844. In the days of Indian up­
four of the enemy ships were sunk , railways, now is used successfully by risings in Oregon and Washington
or captured and ten thousand Cartha- the Red Cross to transport blood at (then all Oregon) the colonel dis­
ginians killed or made prisoners.
the necessary uniform 40-degree tem- tinguished himself, particularly in
the wars of 1855 and 1856.
The Roman commander who ac- perature.
Oregon Auto And
Traffic Figures
complished this victory was rewarded ,
with th. privilege of having a torch-
R
chamber.” now
¿ gtudy the effectg
bearer and a flute-player accompany on men and materials of altitudes as
him on all festival occasions for as high
the state’s history.
Motor vehicle registration in Ore­
gon totaled 424,777 vehicles at the
end of 1942, a decrease of 2.56 per
cent from the 1941 total of 433,970
vehicles. Private passenger vehicles
totaled 341.367, compared to 353,213
in 1941. Registration fees for the year
amounted' to , $3,352,722.68, a slight
increase over the total of $3,304,-
389.66 in 1941. The increase was at­
tributed to the increase in the num­
ber of busses and disel-fueled vehicles
in use during the past year. Busses
totaled 982, compared to 688 1n 1M1
while light trucks increased from 35,-
140 in 1M1 to 35,334 in 1942. Heavy
trucks totaled 42,907 in 1M2, a drop
from the total of 43,193 vehicles in
1M1.
Farmers Getting
Out Of Debt
Farmers of the four Pacific North­
west states took in more cash in 1942
than in any year on record and used
a good share of it to get out of debt,
R. E. Brown, president of the Federal
Land Bank'of Spokane, wrote R. R.
Strickle, secretary-treasurer of the
Roseburg office of the National Farm
Loan Associations thia week, in trans­
mitting a year-end report for the
Spokane institution.
“Never in the 2« years the Land
bank has been in operation has it
had such a heavy repayment of its
loans,” Mr. Brown reported.
Farmers cut their indebtedness to
the land bank 111,000,000 in 1942, Mr.
Strickle said, bringing the land bank's
mortgage loan account down to $83,-
500,000—the lowest In 20 years.
“The situation that existed all over
the four states the bank serves —
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon­
tana—was true in Douglas, Coos and
Curry counties, too,” Mr. Strickle
declared. “Members of our associa­
tions cut their debts to the land bank
approximately $81,000 during the
year. A total of 87 loans were paid
off, all of them ahead of time.”
The bank reported that more than
$7,800,000 of the payments it received
was used to retire nearly 4,000 loans
before they came due.
At the same time, delinquencies
were cut in half from a year ago.
This trend was paralleled in Coos and
Curry counties, he said. “We have
cut our delinquencies to 20 per cent
of what they were at the beginning
of 1942.”
Putting something aside for a rainy
day still is a good American custom,
and the land bank receive«! approxi­
mately $1,500,000 last year for its Fu­
ture Payment Fund — an interest-
r
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bearing reserve farmers may set up
in fat years to meet payments com­
ing due in lean years. Of that total
$8,000 came from Coos and Currj
counties. , -
Another place where the land bank
made progress was in the sale of its
real estate, half of which was sold
last year, bringing the bank’s holdings
on December 31 down to the lowest
point in many years. The bank sold
the last farm ywned in Douglas, Coos
and Curry counties last week.
Much of the money farmers paid on
their debts went directly into the war­
effort, for the bank bought $7,600,000
of United States bonds in 1942, as
well as retiring $10,7>b,000 of its
own bonds.
The bank added $490,000 to its legal
reserve and a like amount to its
earned surplus. On December 31
legal reserves totaled $2^75,000 and
earned surplus $1,638,000.
In ad­
dition, other reserves maintained by
bank ended the year with total assets
of $144,866,000 and a bonded debt of
$78,692,000. National Farm Loan As­
sociations, whose members all are
borrowers from the land bank, own
approximately $5,000,000 of stock in
the bank.
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