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THl COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL. COQUILLE, OREGON, THURSDAY. MAT 10, IMS.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO
i (Taken from The Sentinel of Friday-. he Liberty Theatre Sunday, May 27„
May 18, 1923)
it 11 a. m„ which all churches and
With forty or fifty autos, carrying citizens are invited to attend. Rev.
upwards of 266 from Coquille and I. E. Russell will preach the sermon.
many more from Myrtle Point, Pow­
ers, Arago, Norway, Gravel Ford and
The street signs, white lettering on
elsewhere, the pilgrimage of the Co­ an enameled blue background, have
quille Rod & Gun Club to Roedburg ^radically all been posted at Intersec­
last Sunday made the unlucky travel­ ions over town and the city is now
Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as er coming this way think that all of ready for an ordinance compelling all
Second Class Mail Matter.
Coos county was on the move. Not >ouses and places of business to be
the least pleasurable part of the numbered.
day’s program was the fact that Co­
quille again beat the Roseburg team
F. G. Leslie has purchased the
on the latter's home grounds. True, former Peoples’ house on East Sec­
the difference between their totals ond street and this week moved into
for the ten man team shoot was only
one bird, but the local club was in
S. M. Nosier and Cecil Phillips are
the lead.
Tribute to the New Deal: Never be­
getting so cocky over their record al
fore have so many done-so little for
Nineteen high school students will horseshoes that they dre out with a
so much.
graduate here next Thursday: Ralph challenge tq pitch any pair .of tosser.r
Barry. Cyril McCurdy. Ingie Rey­ in town.
nolds, Margaret White, Teresa Clin­
Miss Harriet Gould returned lust
«'J'lte New Deal, in its campaign for ton. Ruth Matthews, Albert Oerding,
i Fourth Term, apparently is trying Irma Wilson, Ann Hooton, Esther Saturday from Portland, where she
to isolate the President from the M^Gee, Delia Sherwood, Charlotte has- been attending the Behnke-
fault* of his administration in OPA. Bell, Pauline Lorenz," Nellie Morgan, Walker Business ■ College since last
foodstuffs, and the l*and|ing of the Robert Trigg, «Folia Dondono, Myrtle September.' She came home a little
Mast, Maude Pieraon, Grace Watson. ¿arly so that she might accompany
labor question.
Dr. and Mrs. Jas Richmond and
The President himself, returning
Tlit siren, ordered by the fire de­ family on their trip back b> the duc-
from a country-wide tour, reported
that the nation as a whole is far partment a few weeks ago, arrived . tor’s old home in Michigan tu visit
ahead of Washington in morale and yesterday and was tried out last his father.
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war spirit. Wshington, he said, is night. It was connected v^ith the 110
logging in war spirit and understand­ volt wire and while it made a tre­
The American flag is irtill in Eu
ing of what is necessary to win the mendous noise it was not as loud as rope, even though the last doughboy
it will be when connected with a 220 has left the Rhine. It floats ovei
war.
In other words he aligns himself volt line, and mounted SO feet in eight cemeteries, six in France, one in
"¡th the Denote and against his own the air.
Belgium, and one in England, where
nrnod. It is like a mother trying to
32,000 American soldiers are gathered
Memorial services will be held in in their last bivouacs.
avoid criticism for the bad-raising
of her children by siding with the
truant officer.
unti-Japanese sentiment.
Of the total, 76 cases were revoca­
Four more years of the New Deal
tions and 81 were suspensions. Of
is not just four more years of Roose­
Starting early is a bill authorizing the 76 «'evocations, OB, or 90 per cent,
velt, however.
As Senator Styles the construction of a dam at Umatilla were for driving while intoxicated
Bridges, of New Hampshire^said re­ in the Columbia river between Ore-
cently, “Four more years oF Rooae- gotf and Washington. It is S. 348. Of
velt means four more years of Harry the various projects for potver dams
Hopkins, with his spend and spend, in the Columbia Umatilla was the
tax and tax, and elect and elect first proposed and was the subject
policies operated from within the of congressional hearings.' Later a
White House iletrtf. It means four start was made at Bonneville and the
more years of Government by lame Grand Coulee dam came into being
ducks . . , four years more of New but engineers have always contended
Deal waster* spending recklessly ,
that Umatilla is a natural site for a
four more years of planned agricul­ dam and fits into the development of
tural mismanagement which has re­ the river. An argument for the Uma­
duced America for the first time to tilla dam is that it would provide a
Lunger levels; four more years of suitable waterway for produce from
crucifying small business, and, above Grand Coulee farms when that recla­
all, four years of WPA ov>r the mation pr.oect materializes. Action
world at the expense of the American on the Umatilla dam will be deter-
taxpayer.”
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, mined largely on the availability of
material for construction of the dam
i and this, In turn, on the length of the
I war.
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MARCHES
Member* of some of the rationing
boards are writing in and protesting
, that they 'are giving more of their
■ time than they can afford and sug-
| gesting that a different group or panel
be appointed to handle each sep­
arate item, such as meat, gasoline,
1 fuel oil and othqr commodities as are
to be rationed later. By expansion
of the panels the work would be
simplified and not all loaded on the
harks of the original rationing boards.
Washington, D. C„ May 19—Log­
Cloakroom gossip now proposes
gers, miners and others who are en­
that
one billion dollars be made
gaged in the hardest kind of manual
labor will get not an ounce of addi­ available for ’construction of high­
tional meat, according to Mrs. Phillip ways after the war, when Johnny
Crowlie, employed by the Washing­ comes marching home and wants a
ton, D. C., office of OPA. f Mrs. job instanter. A few senton sug­
gest a larger sum. Eastern members
Crowlie, who is rated by OPA as a
“typcial housewife consultant,” re­ are insisting that the money should
be allocated on the basis of popula-
cently spent one full day in Portland
tion, which would give the thickly
investigating the request of loggers,
settled east the lion's share of the
minei and other* employed in the
funds. The present method of dis­
heavy Industries for an extra allot­
ment of meat. "It would be unwise tributing road money is based on
to grant these men any extra allot­ population, area and postroads, and
these three factors provide an equi­
ments of meat,” said Mis. Crowlie,
table portion of the money to each
when interviewed here a few days
of the western slates, which are dis-
ago. “I have just returned from a
I tinguished for their area and miles
plane trip to Oregon at which time I
of p»u>Uoad*. if small populations,
investigated the request for extra
The northwest states, out of one bil-
meat rations for loggers,' miners, etc.
lion dollars, might each conceivably
they must learn to change their eat­
I receive $36,060,000; poskibly more.
ing habits, and the wives of these
men must make adjustments in their
it is estimated that one-half bil­
cooking," asid the lady "expert” on
ttie subject. So, there you have one lion pounds of cheese will be acquired
<,f the numerous reason* why so in 1943 for the armed forces and for
many people would like to shoot some lend-lease. Another estimate is that
of these OPA experts who are sitting Herbert H. Lehman, director of re­
in the driver's seat and giving orders lief and rehabilitation, will want
on subjects they know nothing about., 106.000,000 pounds of cheddar when
Any schoolboy would know that men !
starts feeding the hungry mouths
working in heavy industries need and !*M
reconquered countries, This
must have more meat than the piti- | *lon€ would account for more than
ful amount they are allowed if they i ball the cheddar production, provid-
ing the output this year is as large
are to continue in their work.
as it was in 1942. One government
agency, however, states that 50 per­
There seems to be very little pos­ cent of the total output will be taken
sibility that any of the west coast by the fighting men and lend-lease.
Japanese now in relocation centers The government estimates are always
will be returned to., western Oregon subject to revision these days, wheth­
for farm work.
American Legion er» the need is for aluminum, steel,
posts have now joined with the rubber or evaporated milk.
ing such action by any agency of the
government and iheir protests are
being received by memebrs of the
Oregon congressional delegation. The
Oregon state grange was first to file
an official protest and its action was
closely followed by the farmers union.
Last week similar protests were re-
Cv'ved from American Legion posts,
further indicating the strength of the
69 Ixtse Licenses In April
Because of Drunken Driving
Suspension and revocation proceed­
ings were invoked against 157 Ore­
gon drivers during the month of
April, following their convictions tor
violations of motor vehicle regula­
tions, it was disclosed at the secretary
of state's office today.
I f you are an experienced hand in logging camp
or mill, there is no better way you can help in­
vade Europe than to work at your trade NOW!
Because when the Big Offensive begins, our
troops will need thousands of crash landing
barges, PT boats and sub chasers of WOOD.
They’ll need thousands of gliders and transport
pitnes of WOOD. They’ll need shell cases —
and miles of ponton bridges of WOOD. WOOD
is a military material of the most vital kind. We
must get it to ’em.
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Keys made for aU locks. Stevens
Cash Hardware Coquille. Ore.
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In action our troop« are learning the tricks of
the trade that make an army click. The same is
true in lumbering. Experience is our greatest
teacher. That is why your experience is so im­
portant NOW. That is why the War Manpower
Commission has asked all the loggers in ship­
yards to go back to the woods. If you are not
now working at this trade —get back into it I
Urge your friends to do the same. So when the
day of invasion comes you can proudly say, “X
did my full part.”