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THE COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLE. OREGON. THURSDAY. MAY 30. 1943.
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floating labor goes up to war Indus-
Navigation is Just beginning with ‘
Lax law enforcement regarding prop-
tries in Kansas City area, works for the slackening of the current.
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Contrasted with our own rather a month at high pay, and then goes powerful diesel tug. butting its head .
have depleted iwitli tlie fisli and their
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wet spring is tlie unseasonal dryness home to loaf for a while and save the against the rear imine, was slowly '
natural spawning beds.
The elk
prevailirgf in the G?eat Plains area. country while sitting in the shade. pushing a string of oil-barges up the
LAN8 LENEVE
season was opened, despite a strong
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Farmers plowing are kicking up a lot All hard farm work is disdainfully stream in Kansas City. ' It was the I 4« -
of dust as they go. Dirt highways are refused. But it now seems likely that only commercial river traffic noticed
We are hoping that Governor Earl sportsmen of Coos county and the
rutted by the blowing away of the the ease-loving gentry are heading on the entire 200 miles between ; Sne|| wilI Iend an effoft toward
herds that had staged a slow come
top-surface in the wake of auto traf for trouble if they don't itay on the Omaha and Kansas City. Soon there ing pontic* out ot our game affair, back over a period of forty years
fic. Several cloudy days have failed job. The public toleration that made will be many such tows. The river |and we believe that he will,
were sadly depicted. Open seasons
to produce the threatened rain and their loafing possible is at an end. bears a heavy traffic in season.
in the past various game comrnis- are declared upon otter, which at the
The loose soil carried by the river Klonli have been composed of mem present Lime faces toful extinction.
farmers are somewhat worried. A It’s work or else from now on.
blankets the flo^d plains and blows bers including personal friends of The little skunk, known as a civet
repetition of dust-bowl conditions
would be bad right now.
Maybe
The unluvcliewt river in the IT. 8. away in dense clouds of dust when governors and high state officials cut tintl-Mi enemy of 4iur game birds,
Mother Nature will relent later on. is the “Big, Muddy” Missouri.
Its it dries in the sun.’ Erosion is quite a And it,was through i>oliticn| reasons is p.utected and there is a elused
<t Farmers, even in Missouri, seem pea-soup waters curl about the jet- problem on the rolling hills of the thal Ciiptaiu A E. Burghduff, in our seas, n on the nest-breuking skunk
to be forsaking the horse and mule ties and bridge piers and spill over Kansas side of the river. Farmers opinion the peer of all state game of the striped back species.
for the tractor. Am told that it is levees on to rich farm lands that line use willow-brush and contour fur wardens, was ousted from office. The
And during all these years since
because of the man-power shortage. its banks. It is now subsiding into rows to check it. But the fields are state of California was mighty glad tlie game conimisison wus created,
One man with a tract« >r can handle normalcy after a spring high water often deeply gullied and hard to | p, secure Captain Burghduff's ser- Coos county has had only one serve
work, Yet most farms have a pros« vices when he was ousted from office as a commission member—Dr. Pea
more grpund than if he used a team. that did much damage to the rail work.
And farm produce is high enough to roads and highways. The Coquille perous look.
in this state and the captain has been cock, of Marshfield. And while we
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make it more profitable to use gas River flood basin looks like a mere
seizing
position with
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than hayburners. Note that most of puddle when compared to the mighty
Took occasion to call upon a Ran- the California Division of Fish & tor's idea regarding opening the sea-
the tractors used are of the steel Missouri flood plains.
,ince—a period of some Sdn on elk, he nevertheless got in
And “Big sas City lumberman interested in Game
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wheel type. Very few rubber-tired Muddy’* packs a tremendous wallop one of our county’s leading mill oper- 1 thine
some mighty good strokes for the wel
thing like
like eighteen
eighteen years.
ones in evidence.
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when in flood. The current is so ation, Ralph L. Smith,
One thing we cannot understand is fare of southwestern Oregon during
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Mr. Smith was astonished to glance i the fact that since our state game the Ume he servyd on the commis-
Plantings exceed last . year's and swift and the volume of water is. so
through his office door and behold ccmmission was first created that its sion. And it looks to us again as
those crops above the ground now large.
look good. Very few of the tradi
Hundreds of piling jqttk'M, driven my homely visage. |t was my first members have always consisted of at though politics entertd the picture
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tional loafers ijn» the little Missouri out jnto the stream at an angle of (rip to his city and first pail at his least one and many times two doctors when Dr. Peacock was not re-ap
" towns. Hear that there is a wide abount 30 degrees, serve to control office, nicely situated high_ up in a of medicine. Just why, M. D.’s should pointed ut the expiration of his term ,
building.
spread movement under way to en erosion of the banks. Evidently the modern
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^possess a better knowledge of game with the Commission.
His firm is one of- the several old ¡affairs than the common lay man-' served,« Coos county had an active I
force a local work-or-jail system drift-wood problem is not great- be
aimed at getting the crop* harvested. cause very .few bridge-piers have and, well established lumber com-, i the men tyhd spend a larger part of say-so in game and fish, affairs, but I
panics tjuit have helped to make I their time in the field and along the [ as the situation now stands we art*
Farmers are mad because much protecting fender piling.
~ Kansas City pnd vicinity a leading ¡'.dreams has always been a profound in the same position us we were when 1
production center.
Tliese firms mystery to us.
I we started “on the outside looking
were founded in the days when river
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Part of tile funds paid in by hunters I in,”
traffic was predominant and Kansas and fishermen are turned over to the
If politics anil politicians were en- ’
City Ute key to a vast agricultural | state police, instead of being used ; lively v
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eliminated
from biiv
the ganiv
game u,iu-
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empire. They have grown with the [for the propagation of fish and game. mission and men who knew and un-
town and now number among them | And too, one has but to glance at the l derslo. d game conditions were ap
i leading lumber distributors in tlie various seasons on game and fish tq ! pointed to serve, we would gel sen
¡Industry.
Practically all lumber I lelize that most open seasons on sible legist taion regarding game and
traffic to that point is by rail snd|galne and Hah art. al| Wlln< Tht. fish. But ugain it looks as though
Kansas City possesses hugh railroad |dpei.
opens too lale and runs our lands are lied and we will con
1 yards that do a very large volume loo late in the fall. The season opens tinue taking it on the chin..
of business.
too lute on six-inch trout and closes
“Passing ■ law behind our
Almost everybody’s figuring
I As I entered the building I noticed ut a tinic when the lI out”7i-e' fol- Roy School Upper Grades
what things'll be like after the backs,” he says, “»»» violatin'
* number of girl stenographers hay- |<>wing up the Spawning salmon and Ilad A Parly Thursday
war. I talked about that today just what we wees flghtin’ for.
ing ‘‘cokes at the soft-drink joint ¡eating the eggs they are depositing.
with Jeb Crowell. Jeb-he’s a The very principles we fought
The upper grades of the Roy school I
¡in the lobby.
Remarking to Mr.
veteran of the last War-says: >• for in 1770. Law-makin’ without
enjoyed a potluck lunch at the
Smith's secretary that one could tell nobody seems to be able to do 'any
“One thing’s sure, Joe. The representation is one of the most
Teaeherage last Thursday, the girls
by the large number of “coke" drink thing ubout it.
undemocratic things we can do."
boys this time won’t return and
preparing cacoa and Kool-ade.
ers that the building was well-filled
Some people, being a little sensitive
find what we came back to.”
Those present were: Lillian Aber,
I guess we’re all agreed on
with busy offices, I was quite as about it, try to get space in compart
Jack Buckles, Helen Mass, Carol
Then he went on to mention that Most folks admit we made
tonished and amused at the heat of ments where their nocturnal nood-
Prohibition ... and I ought to a mistake once... but the boys
her reply. She emphatically assured | I lings CBI1 be somewhal atoned by Walton. Ahna Roland, Lorna Wil-
say right here that Jeb’s a man who are fighting this war can be
lard, Buddy Buckles, Robin Griffith,
me that those girls were merely Gov partitions.
They are embarrassed Richard .Gauer, Terry Parrishi la*ota
of moderation... a glass of beer pretty sure we won’t pull any
ernment office workers who drank by tlie curious glances of fellow pas
or two Is all he’ll ever take. It thing like that again!
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Johnson, Bobby Green und Ute teauh-
, “cokes’’ just to kill idle time. Regu sengers on the morning after wish
was the principle of the thing
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lar lumber office girls, she said, have ing to see what u person looked like ' ___
that bothered him.
Sometime back the primary girls
no time for such frills and look down who could emit such gosh-awful I |lad ¡,
Doll Picnic." Each brought
on the Government office gals us noises at night and still sleep through 1
Iter family u( dolls und miniature,
drones. Food for thought in tiiis. them.
dishes, cakes, etc.
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I noted that several Government
Muy la1 tills was how the modern
The Roy School will cluse Friday
agencies
were
listed
on
the
building
Pullinen compartment and bedroom evening. May 21, with a potluck
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directory as I walked out.
idea originated. Al any rale it's a supper and school program.
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j Thought I was pretty well posted this
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subject an
as one of
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| American plane production in April
on restaurant lingo after all these members of the Ancient Order bf
approached 7,000, WPB Chief Nelson
1 years but ran into a new one in Bedtime Buglers.
reports.
i Omaha.
| Was sitting at the counter - of’ u
sandwich dispensary when a waitress
hollered what sounded to me like
“two dried peaches out of the ash-
barrel."
After waiting a few minutes to
see what this astonishing pronounee-
[ inent brought forth out of the kitchen,
a tray appeared on whioh were two
SUIT-TYPE
fried eggs and sonic hash-brown po
tatoes. All me, live and learn.
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Out-of Doors Stuff
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From where I sit..
¿y Joe Marsh
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DRESSES
h tiling of note in this locality is
the low wage levels and low prices
in the stores. Wages for common
I labor are often as low as 50 cents
per hour. The general average must
I be far below ours.
And yet as one strolls along the
street the people look just as prosper
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parently though their pay-check has
fewer dollars, those dollars will "buy
more goods than ours and so keep
I their living standard about equal
i to ours.
It isn’t the large pay-check that
1 makes people prosperous
It’s what
that pay-check can buy. The only sure
road to prosperity leads through mass
production of goods and produce at
J low prices. These people with low
er wages and cheaper prices arc just
as Well off as we with higher wages
and dearer goods. It is false leadership
that insists on less work for more
1 money. It is true leadership that in
sists on maximum individual effort
I for commensurate pay. The truth
of this lias just been driven home
1 lo me by what I have actually seen.
There is strong evidence lately that
: the American workman la becoming
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