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TWENTY YEARS AGO
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(Taken from The Sentinel of Friday,
April 4. IMS)
Nearly seventy-five Knights Temp-
lar of Pacific Commandry No. 10 and
a few .visitors were here last Sunday
for the Easter services which were
held in the Liberty Theatre at 11
o’clock. . . . Special music included
solos by Mrs. C. F. McKnight, with
flute obligato by A. A. Buck, and by
G. Russell Morgan, as well as a choir
of a dozen ladies' voices. Rev. A. W.
Bell delivered the morning’s address,
f ragment» of Fact
and Fancy
Selective Service
Log Branding Law
Employer Procedure ¡In Effect June 7
It is a metier of common know-
ledge thst
cble-bodied male of
military age is subject to call for
service. Therefore, no employer can
say that he has not been warned that
his employes are likely to be called,
In order to obtain deferment of an
employe, the burden of proof is on
the employer to show to the satis-
faction of the Selective Service board
ttiat tile man is doing more in hi«
present occupation to win the war
than he would do as a member of the
armed forces.
This must be proved to Hie local
board befsrt and not after the man
has been placed in Class I-A.
Regulations
provide that the
board’s decision shall be based solely
upon the written information in the
Hubert A. Robbins left Monday for ffle; If the employer has not filed a
Loa Angeles, where he will engage in written statement prior to the board's
decision, he has no one but himself to
business.
blame If the decision does not go to
his liking.
If information is submitted after
government service.
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John Gaffney got
choker line down at
yesterday morning
considerable distant
fall resulted in twc
numerous bruises a
shoulders and back
on the boat alone I
Dr. G. E. Low's of
have his injuries
fractures reduced.
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After June 7 of tills year logs to
be floated on the waters controlled
by the state in the region west of the
Cascade mountanis in Oregon, and
intended for commercial booming,
reprocessing or manufacturing pur-
poses, must be branded on the side
or end just like little dogies adrift
<>n the big plateaus and around the
great lakes of central and eastern
Oregon are identified.
Ownership
of the logs is indicated by the brand,
Every logging concern that floats
its logs must register a brand with
Commissioner of Public Utilities, Or-
inond R. Bean, with a drawing of the
brand selected, unless it chooses to
file a declaration refusing the protec
tion of the new law.
No brand can in any manner du
plicate one already filed and re
corded in the “brand book,” the com-
missioner will open in his office,
Several log brands have already
been offered for registration.
It wiU Cost »3 00 to record a brand,
The government has recently is
sued a brochure of instructiori for
in .fkss
pilots xorvea crown in,
inc
v*
or
<* recording a disci aimer,
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immediately south of Dr. ,f. G. is entirely optional with the board
the South Pacific.
Among other terday morning.
as
to
whether
or
not
the
case
shall
Brands
are asstgna e.
Bunch’s residence in the north part
things the advice is to effect a crash
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J. i .ji 5 w . ,ra"|g l . re- j 1 -'"a -J".
A letter from Corvallis the first of of town.
landing rather than resort to the par
achute. After the flier is on foot this week brought information that
in the wilds of these semi-tropical the Coquille myrtlewood exhibit at
islands he really needs the informa 1 the O. A, C. business show there last
tion printed in the booklet. For in week won the fourth prize out of IS
be deferred because
stance, warning is given not to eat | entries. . . Credit for this showing be
necessity, he should
anything with a bitter taste or any longs to a great extent to Fred Wimer.
42A immediately. If
vegetation containing a milky juice. |
employe should be
However, he may eat anything he 1 Due to the cutting down of the ap-
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sees the monkeys eat and then he is proprigtions by congress for postal
Mrs. Sarah Frances Mulkey, died at
told he may eat the monkeys, too. employees, clerks in postoffice are be- the home of her son. County Superin-
,'gh! that would be too much like ing laid off all over the country. The tendent Charles E. Mulkey, in thia
dining on one’s distant cousins.
' effect in Coquille was that Gus Ben- city at 4 p. m. Monday, April , after
We v/onder, however, if the use of der, who has been working half time an illness lasting only two days, at
monkeys as food has been the prime for several months, is now (Hit o£jhe^theage^^78^ears.
reason for the widespread custom of
cannibalism In the south sea islands. •
Possibly it is a hard-hearted view- ,
point but the occasional sight of a ’
beggar sitting on the sidewalk of
our down town section, with his hat |
held out tor alms, does not arouse the J
feeling of charity that it formerly;
did. Whoever has two good hands
nowadays is not justified in living I
off the generosity of other people.
Many cripples have found their
niches in this working world and ev
eryone with g pair of hands, even
though
handicapped
otherwise,
should be able to perform some use
ful task, thereby becoming self-sup
porting and also aiding in the total
war effort.
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The law also permits the use of
branding irons, but is silent as to
whther they may be burned onto the
carcass of the log or driven into place
with a weighty hammer.
Blotching a brand, or smoothing
it off, to make way for a different
mark is made a penitentiary offense,
while lines and terms of imprison
ment are provided for various viola
tions. such as wrongfully claiming
unbranded logs that may slip into a
river and become part of the boom
round-up.
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BARROW DRUG COMPANY
FLYING KITES
Always Your Friend and Helper,
KIDDY KILOWATT
Because of the war the lookout sta
tions of forest rangers have mostly
. been turned over to observers watch-
i ing for an enemy air raid scattering
incendiary bombs such as were
dropped by a Japanese flier near
Brookings last year. With pride the
service announces that the portable
radio invented in the laboratory at
Portland is now being used by the
army and is better known to the gen
eral laiblic as the “walkie-talkie,** a
soldier going in advance of troops
and signalling back from his outpost
or foxliole to the comand.
There were 53 incendiary fire« in
gun powder and synthetic rubber for the