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TWENTY YEARS AGO
(Taken from The Sentinel of Friday,
june i, 192J)
H. A. YOUNG, Editor
Last Monday the connections up at
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the big dam on Rink Creek were com­
1.00 pleted and the water from that stor­
Six Months......
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No subscription taken unless paid ’ fill the reservoir on the hill.
H. A. YOUNG and IE. D. GRIMES
tor in advance. This rule is impera
live.
L. O. (Peggy) Norton the first of
Entered at the Coquille Poetoffice as this week sold the Grotto Cafe to C.
Second Class Mail Matter.
R. Hancock, and leaves today for
Alaska.
Although Decoration Day Wednes­
day was a day of almost uninterrupt­
ed rain, the program of the day was
carried out here as fully aS possible.
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Gardiner people up on the Umpqua
are asking state help to complete
their county road from Reedsport to
Drain. That done, they say they can
travel to Roseburg in four hours—a
tr|p that now takes three days.
same words at different times
have different meanings.
For in-1 Mrs. Harry Kelley entertained a
number of small folks on Monday af­
stance:
A year ago the headline,
ternoon, in honor of the seventh
which appeared last week, “U-Boat
The
Sinkings Increased,” would • haveI birthday of her son, Harry.
guests
were:
Zelma
Bosserman,
Au
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meant that more victims of the sub-'
marines were going down but now it > drey Aasen, Sara Margaret Nye,
announces not the sinking by U-boats i Gretchen Neal, Dulcie Foote, Mar­
Hazel
but the destruction of the boats them­ garet Paulson, Ruth Tozier,
Mansell, Anne Barton, Esther Man­
selves.
sell, Marvin Skeels, Edwin Tozier,
We were sorry to read the Gallup Tommy Thrift, Bobbie Collier, Billiie
poll listing a percentage of those in­
terviewed as favoring a fourth term
if the war is still in progress but not
if Victory is won. For us that at-
atutde on the part of some voters is
one more reason for a more speedy
all-out effort to win the war before
next election time but for some peo­
ple it may engender the desire to
keep the war going until after
vember of next year.
The Army Air Forces will conduct
a school of Aircraft Recognition in
Walker arid Jeaae Barton.
Eugene. This school will be operated
for the benefit/Of our loyal citizens
“The Mikado,** presented by a . who have been manning the watches
strictly local cast under the direction I at our observation posts; and its pur­
of Geo. T. Wilson, was given ^at the pose is to make our observers even
Liberty Theatre last Monday and more efficient in their role as the
Tuesday evenings. .. It was the unan­ eyes and ears of the aircraft warning
imous opinion of the hundreds who service.
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witnessed the production of this com-
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1c opera that it was one of Ute best observers by the Army Air Forces
musical attractions ever put on in i in telling them that they are ready to The gnpund observer corps is an ac-
Coquille. . . . The principals and absorb a technical course of army tive- part of our defense against ene-
chorus were the following: G. Russell instruction is very great. When the my air attack and the fact that our
Morgan, Aaron Wilson, Mrs. E. W.
Lorenz, Mrs. John W. Miller, Miss
June Walker, Mrs. J. A. Harville, F.
G. Leslie, Hal Pierce, Lyle Nosier,
Maxine McGilvery, Mabel Hazard,
Rose Marie Martin, Zelma Strang,
Gladys Graham, Daisy Laird, Elva
Willey. Aileen Wilson, Amy Aasen,
Birdie Skeels,
Ethel Schroeder,
Margaret Crouch,
Mary Bennett,
Ruth Woodward, Jessie Richardson,
Effie Johnson, John A. Martin, C. E.
McCurdy, Ernest Perrot, Dr. G. E.
'Low, Ivan Laird, Jos. A. Harville,
Percy Schroeder, C. E. Mulkey, Geo.
H. Chaney, Dr. W. V. Glaiayer, and
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E. G, Opperman.
raids on our shores are always a pos-
Some shipyard workers resented it sibllity, especially if Tojo thinks
when told not to report for work j Japanese morale needs bolstering up.
Memorial day and gathered to pro- '
test their inactivity. In this par- j The Chicago Tribune is still exper­
ticular case shortage of materials imenting with the chemical waste at
was the alleged reason for the shut­ its newsprint plant, using the Nor­
down. The laborers had felt the sting wegian method. The experiment is
of reproach in the past when absen­ i to determine whether this waste
teeism was charged against them. | can be converted into industrial alco­
The evils of absenteeism are not hol, which is used for the manufac­
always understood. It is .often better ture of propellants, synthetiic rubber
to close a factory completely on oc­ ' and various other items of warfare.
casion, than to try to produce goods | If the experiment is a success there
when some important workers are not I are rumors of its being applied to the
present Along assembly lines a few pulp and paper mills of the north­
key men absent may throw out of west, where, at present, the chemical
gear the wbote .works. and it is.no.t
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men but the disruption of the work
of those present which cuts into enjoying every blow his fists gave
production. If a man's work is im­ the taller, sniveling Raymond, as he
portant he should realize he is a vital drove his victim ahead of him down
cog in the vast machinery we are the street. Our hatred for the little
operating to win the war.
bully was only surpassed by our con­
tempt for the beaten cry-baby who
When we were in the fourth grade let the other boy get the best of him.
we saw a fight between two boys on Somehow John L. Lewis reminds us
their way home from school. Charley, of the truculent Charley of forty-odd
the little fat, pugnacious bull/, was years ago.
country deems it necessary and im­
portant enough to have observers
learn aircraft recognition should, in
itself, stimulate our own desires to
serve.
The Coquille Observation Post ex­
pects to haveits Aircraft Recognition
course about July 1, 1943.
People
interested in the work should con­
tact'Chief Observer Ward for more
details.
See the new “Cloister Craft” Photo
holders and War Bond holders at
Norton’s. These are made of genu-
iiuiuvio
nie leather and make excellent gifts
for Father's Day and for men in the
service.
TIME
YOUR TRAVEL
Without notifying their relatives or
friends, Paul Walker and June Willey
left very early yesterday morning for
Roseburg, where they expected to be
married.
senate comr.ilttee investigated this
alcohol-from-waste last year in a
probe into the synthetic rubber situ­
ation but nothing waa accomplished.
A northwest exporter has an order
for 3,000,000 feet of Douglas fir in
north Africa. The army controls the
cables and he cannot send a message
saying whether or not he will ship the
lumber, He is told that all available
shipping space is reserved for the
Recently a magazine writer
army and lend-lease, apd there is an
called that Bismarck once said thit
economic council set up by the treas­
“the most important fact in modem
ury, BEW, lend-lease, army and
history is that North America speaks
navy which is not interested in lum­
English."
Washington, D. C., June 2—The re­ ber. The exporter is mad and kick­
In the twentieth century Americans , cent indictments obtained by the dis­
ing at everyone in the national cap­
and Englishmen had become trade trict attorney of New York city
rivals and often got on one another’s against high ranking officials of the ital. J.
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nerves. If Germany had forgotten Hod Carriers and Common Laborers
War production board will proba­
her dream of military conquest, she
union and the Union of Operating bly let down the bars and permit the
might have gained an economic
Engineers in all probability will reach manufacture of passenger buses for
stranglehold on much of the world
out all the way from New York to use in the larger cities of the north­
today and, by exploiting the antagon­
Oregon. The Indictments charge ex« west. As the war work speeds up
ism between United States and
tortion and shakedown to the tune and employees are Increased by the
Great Britain, could have widened
of over $700,000 from well' known thousands the question of transpor­
that breach.
'contracting firms and individuals by tation becomes more difficult. Car
For this reason we’d say the fact
I these union officials. Several Ore- pools and share-the-ride do not meet
we speak English in North America
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»on contractors who have been en- the situation, WPB is informed.
has had less f
«« completing contract, in-
tory than the fact that Germany
volving millions of dollars were not
A physician from the northwest
wanted first "her place in the sun"
mentioned in the New York indict­ has attempted to sell the idea to the
and twenty years later “lebensraum”
ments because they were not within navy of feeding the sailors vitamins
for her breeding millions, under the the jurisldiction of the New York dis­
extracted from the livers of soup-
state policy of more people for Ger­
trict attorney. However, investiga­ fin sharks, insisting that it would
many, then more land for Germans, j
tion is now going on in Oregon and it improve the eyesight and have other
until the whole world would be Teu­
is said that the hear future will good effects.
The navy gave the
tonic.
I bring to light some starring charges doctor the brush-off without trying
The fact the same language was
| of racketeering and shakedowns.
the vitamins.
spoken in England and United
States was important only to those
The recent appearance of Kilseo K.
who wished to do harm to one or the
Haan, a representative of the Korean
other of'us.
National Front federation, before a
j house committee at which time he
If every pint of blood donated to
■ further elaborated upon his warning
the Red Cross means a life saved,
’ of two years ago concerning Japan's
there should be more centers estab­
¡plan to attack the Pacific coast, is
lished to accept it. Those of us in
I nothing new to the army and navy
the hinterlands would welcome the
I high command. In 1941 Haan sub­
chance to give of our life blood to
mitted to the committee detailed
those who are doing our fighting for
maps and documents showing the
us.
. Japanese plan of attack on the Pa-
' cific coast.
The late Homer Lee,
Just as God is no distinguisher of hunchbacked soldier of fortune, who
persons so Nature must love her I j fought under Sun Yet Sen during the
own oreations. However, we are not Chinese revolution over 20 years ago,
very broadminded or we lack the predicted the same thing in his book
cosmic appeal for we find great written many years before Pearl
pleasure in looking at rows of well- Harbor.
The army and navy for
tended carrots, beets and onions, some time hive had information
green peas climbing skyward and which convinces them that Japan
lusty cabbage plants, all refreshed by plans such an attack, but they also
the most timely rain of the year, but have reason
__ to believe these plans
the sight of a neglected graveyard,
gone” astray’ With
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the island
full of weeds, some lots covered with of Attu now in American hands and
salmon berries head-high, is extreme- , j£ja)fa next on the list, the Pacific
ly depresssing, although it is Nature coaat can feel gafer fronl guch an
run riot.
attack. However, token or suicide
war first began and volunteers were
asked to serve on the observation
post, many people questioned the im­
portance of the work, and some were
out and out derisive. But the small
band of loyal patriots under the guid­
ance of their Chief Observer Melvin
Ward, continued their trek to the OP
and today they have real evidence of
their importance. They are going to
be taught the same type of course
that pilots, ground crews, intelligence
officers and other military personnel
içtcivr.
UIU3C who
WHO uucavrunvu
receive.
To those
questioned
thelr irnportarice, let this be a lesson.
Recognition of the Aircraft
Observation Service
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
On these four days, most service men and war
warben travel, and they must be served.
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Other travelers should con-
fine their essential trips to
these three days only.
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seats. Practically every seat is working
day and night to carry vital war tragic
and other passengers whose travel is
essential to the nation's welfare.
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Af 0s-
days are the busiest. On thesetfays there
is little room on the buses for people
whose travel isn't absolutely necessary.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
are the days on which we are better able
to serve travelers whose business may
not be direcdy connected with the war.
Even in mid-week, our frank advice
is: If you can postpone or eliminate the
journey, please do so.
And for those who must travel, we
repeat three important suggestions,
which, if followed, will aid the war ef­
fort by making conditions easier for
all travelers.
WARTIME TRAVEL SUGOEST1ONS
1. Consult your local Greyboundageut
•veil in advance so be can help you
choose tbe leastsnudod schedules.
1. Arrange trips whenever possible to
go and return during mid-week
rather than on week-ends.
*. Carry only tbe baggage that it ab­
solutely necessary.
tUVI AMIRICA NOW... SO YOU CAN St I AMIRICA LATIR
June 15 Federal Income Tax
Payments Must Be Made
Calling cards. 50 fur »1.00
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There ere only so many buses and bus
A flying fortress (Boeing) costs
»325,000; a medium bomber $175,000;
a fighter $50,000; a twin-engine patrol
bomber of the navy costs $200,000; a
navy dive bomber $110,000; a navy
fighter $90,000.
balances shown may not correspond
with the taxpayer's record of pay­
ments. All payments should be con­
sidered in arriving at the payment
due June 15 which must be sufficient
to complete payment of one-half of
the tax. Receipt of a statement will
not require a payment, if there has
previously been paid one-half or
more of the total tax.
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to aid the war effort
Having called for dogs for military
service, war department is now ask­
ing for 30,000 pigeons of the homing
variety. These birds are to be used
overseas to carry messages. After a
bird has learned to fly it can be
taught in a few weeks to return to
its cote. Homing pigeons were used
in a limited way in world war one
and proved to be valuable as message
carriers.
J. W. Maloney, Collector of Inter­
nal Revenue at Portland, points out
that the so-called pay-as-you-go leg­
islation now before Congress does
not relieve taxpayers of the duty of
paying the second quarterly install­
ment of the 1942 income tax due
June 15, 1943. There is no pending
or comtemplated legislation reliev­
ing taxpayers from payment of this
installment.
The Collector states that the tax
statements will be completed within
the next four or five days. He urges
that taxpayers return the appropriate
part of the statement with remit­
tances whether payment is made in
person or through the mail, as this
will greatly simplify the procedure
and insure that credit is made to the
proper account.
Because of the great volume of re­
turns filed, the statements which are
being mailed could not be posted up
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