THE coounxs VALLEY SENTINEL. COQUILLE. OREGON. TireRSDAY, JUL Y H. IMS.
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into glycerine, urgently needed for
war production of explosives and
nsedicinals, has increase«! 29 per cent
since January.
The polling disclosed that approxi- w
(Taken from The SentineJ of Friday, of the Farmers A Merchants Bank
niately 40 per cent of American
July 20, 1943)
building. . . Miller Bros, of the Co­
housewives' are now making regular
Complaints of citizens that^many contributions of inedible fata through
The meeting to consider the matter quille Hardware Co., and F. C. Hud­
of a Community Building, which was son, of the Hudson Drug Co., have
laundries are closing shop in the 1 meat dealers as Compared with 31
held at the city hall Wednesday eve­ purchased new fixtures and show
smaller cities of the northwest are per cent five months ago.
ning, was attended by a crowd which cases for the two lower rooms in
directing attention to the laundry 1' The number of house^vive« saving
occupied all the chairs and evinced this building. Dr. G. E. Low, who
facilities provided for the troop« in their used fata but so far not turning
the greatest interest in the proposi­ will have the suite of four office
the many cantonments and air banes them in regularly also increased from
tion. O. C. Sanford was elected
I rooms on the second floor, has also
in that section. While private laun- 59 per cent in January to 63 per cent
chairman of the meeting and A. O. purchased hew equipment.
dries have difficulty in obtaining in May, a rise of 6.9 per cent. In re­
Walker as secretary.
labor and the various materials used ply to queries as to whether they
The “Days of ’49” for the benefit of
for the bleaching of clothing, We mil­ ! knew of the government’s need for the
Office Corner W. First and Willard St.
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Harry De Long, a young man 21 the Coquille baseball club will be a
itary establishments have no such fats, 96 per cent replied in the affir-
years of age, was instantly killed at big event in Coquille next week.
troubles. At one camp in the Pacific ' mative in the May survey, as cora-
nine o’clock this morning, near Ran- ‘
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northwest the army has installed a I pared with 92 per cent in January.
i dolph, when a tree struck him. He > Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Mulkey are re-
laundry costing in excess of $1,000,000
America’s housewives apparently
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was a nephew of C. A. DeLong, of joicing over the birth of a baby boy
Army authorities will make use of and employing 545 civilians. This is' are responding to the call for fate and
HISl(EMf44st£l«TI«l
this city.
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| last Saturday morning.
the many abandoned CCC camps in bdt one of several of the larger laun­ are rapidly awakening to the realiza­
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Washington and Oregon to house dries furnished by the war depart­ tion that the salvaging of this mater­
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An event which has been expected
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hooker and her Axis prisoners of 'war. Two such ment. One of, these camp laundries, ial ia an extremely important con­
for some little time occurred at one j daughter. Garnett Stewart, from Los camps in Washington are now hous­ | however, takes care of the washing tribution to the war effort.
' d'clock yesterday afternoon at the ' Angeles, and Mrs. Bessie Armstrong, ing these prisoners, with more sched­ for a city of 35,000 soldiers.
Even more intensive cooperation
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Oerding home, when Harry H. Oerd- ' of San Francisco, who are visiting the uled to arrive in the near future,,
on the part of the housewives will be
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' ing. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. ' S. M. Nosier family, went down with CCC camps along the Wolf creek OrgnOIT Not MpptinO necessary, however, if a shortage of
At the close of the last war there Oerding, was united in marrlagg*to ' the' mayor and his wife to Bandon highway from Portland to the coast, V/re9°rT
glycerine is to be prevented.
was some concern expresesd in the Florence A. Miller, Rev. W. S. Smith Tuesday for an outing on the beach,
Oregon's quota of fate is 195,000
and several others along the Oregon ,Oi|c FotS Ouota
newspapers that enemies in the next officiating.
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' coast where reforestation and road
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pounds per month. Since the incep­
war ipight use disease gdrms to over- |
| Fred C. Sefton, ot Salem, was a building are needed
will no doubt
American women are responding to tion of the program last August, the
come their opponents. Just as poison
The carpenters and painters are Coquille visitor last Monday. He is house many of these Axis prisoners editorial campaigns being conducted following collections frnrfi this state
gas had been introduced by the Ger­ through with the new building Ar- an old-time Coquille resident, having very soon,
by newspapers and radio' stations haVe been recorded with the War
mans in World War I so these writers thur Ellingson has put up on Taylor Worked on the Herald here for D. F,'
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throughout the country urging house­ Production Board in Washington,
of some twenty years ago feared that! and Front streets, enclosing two sides Dean thirty-five years ago,
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Doubtless
calculated
to
impress
the
wives
to salvage waste kitchen fats. D. C.:
fiends of the future would loose
public mind, Capital letters are used
August, 28,590 pounds; September,
This statement by the Fat Salvage
harmful bacteria over their foes, in- i
yards wages paid these two months’ by the federal power commission to Committee of the Glycerine and As­ ! 37,121
pounds;
October,
55,039
eluding non-combatants as well as the
trainees or graduates in many cases declare thSt “Electric operating rev­ sociated Industries is based upon a , pounds; November, 63,003 pounds;
armed forces. So far the Nazis have
equal or surpass the hourly wage enues of the larger privately-owned recent survey of the Office of War ' 1 December, 63,339 pounds; January,
confined their war against civilian
rate of experienced loggers. U. S. 'electric utilities in the United States Information which shows that active : 68,274 pounds; February, 70,804
populations to one of bombing and
employment service officiate are up in May, 1943, increased
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by 7.9 per participation of housewives in salvag- pounds; March, 81,715 pounds; April,
they dare not use poison gas because
against a serious problem in supply-| cent over May. 1942.” The
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state - ing used kitchen fats for conversion ' 83,750 pounds.
• nev fear retaliation ten-fold.
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ing the necessary hands to the nu- ' ment is made ir. a report just issued,
i ru> ior the Japs, the great imitators,1
merous logging operators of the . but buried in the body of the report
it has been charged that they have
northwest. The armed forces have is the further statement that ex­
used gas against defenseless Chinese. I
called many of these men for service penses, including depreciation and
Of course, the little ape-men have '
snd hundreds of others have enlisted, taxes, for the same period increased
studied every suggestion made for
adding to the headache and problems 8.4 per cent.
Higher taxes very
waging a war and doubtless took to
of this important war industry. Plans largely accounts for this increase in
heart the idea of speeding disease
are now in the making by U. S. em­ expenses.
germs.
ployment service to conduct a vigor­
Reports that come from Jap con­
¡77 1.1 ous campaign which, it is hoped, will Just like the shortage of help in
centration camps, via the internation­
Washingtiki, D. C., July 2J—The persuade lumber workers now em­
logging, the Important fishing indus­
al Red Cross, indicate that too many logging industry of Washington and
ployed in non-essential industries to
try In the northwest is up against
of our American soldiers, who are Oregon is still up against a. serious
return to the forests and mills.
the same problem. With by far fewer
' prisoners of war in the Philippines,
labor shortage. Unlike other indus­
BRAND
boats and experienced hands to plow
are dying from natural causes. There
Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
tries, it takes years of experten«« to
The build-up Jias been started by the briny deep than ever before, the
should be a very low death rate
make a good woodsman. Just any­ a prominent group of Republican war
1943 pack is expected to drop sharply.
"CHEERFUL AS ITS NrAME’'J Sx **“'•*' ¡
among men of youthful age at the
one can’t cut the mustard when it horses for Governor Bricker of Ohio.
Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
time their vitality is greatest, if or- '
comes to logging. There Is no such Bricker Is one of several aspirants for
National Distiller» Products Corp., N.Y.
K
Ickes estimates this year’s pack will
dinary sanitation is provided in the thing as turning out a good logger in
the Republican presidential nomina­
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be at least 2,000,000 pounds less than
prison camps.
Half starved men,
' six or eight weeks, such as the ship­ tion but to date he has been running
_ however, would be ready prey to an
yard training schools turn out weld- a poor fourth in the several national
artificial broadcast of harmful bac­
, ers, electricians, mechanics, etc. Ship- polls conducted during the past year.
teria.
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The “kick-off” of the Bricker build­
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from “The Sicilian Vespers,” written up started a couple of weeks ago
Right now we warn the powers that
by John Greenleaf Whittier more through a lengthy article by a wel-
be not to un-ration sugar. Double
than five hundred years after the known political writer, Forrest Davis,
or quadruple the amount each one
massacre by Sicilians of their French
may buy, according to the stocks on oppressors, whose slaughter began
hand, but if the bars are lifted It may with the tolling of the bell for evening
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be expected that every family would
prayer on that Easter day so long
immediately purchase from one to
ago.
ten sacks, according to its pocketbook.
It makes one wonder if the drama
During the last war sugar fell from
and bravery of today’s conquest of
its two-bits a pound price only after
Sicily will inspire some poet half
every household had at least one sack
a millenlum hence to embalm in im­
'TiTiTf
hidden in a closet or on the back
perishable verse the exploits of
stairs.
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American soldiers on this island of
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antiquity.
We venture the guess
According to Ambassador Grew,
that the troubadors of the future
a Japanese official warned him that
will find more romance and adven­
Japan would feel compelled to make
ture in recounting the daring feats
40* bu''**“10 ’ar9e
war against the United States if we
uf pilots and commandos of the
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entered a shouting war with Oer-T
i twentieth century than that furnished
tor .he B°r'°9
many. We began arming our «hip»
' by the pageantry of the age when
against the German U-boats lome
¡chivalry was in flower.
months before Pearl Harbor. The am­
ilitory tru
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bassador's disclosure verifies the con­
vital *°r
See Norton’s for everything in pa­
tention that those at ths helm in
per. Right now they have an ex­
Washington had information denied
ceptionally fine stock of writing pa­
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the American public and that they
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per, either packaged or boxed, from
were criminally negligent in the
10c to 31.75. For a small additional
preparation for defense in the Hawai-
charge you may have your stationery
ans and the Philippines.
I monogrammed or your name im­
Gilh J
EVERY FIRE IS ''M’S**'
printed in gold or colors.
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369 West Front
Coquille, Oregon
A story on the radio recently told
AN AXIS FIRE!
of the failure of a couple of OPA
Culling cards, óu ter 41.OO.
officials in their effort to catch gas­
oline violators. At their station on
a highway the only cars which passed
were found to be on essential and
legitimate business with no pleas­
ure drivers abroad that day. It later
transpired that a couple of small
boys at- the intersection up the road
were carrying signs which read,
"OPA inspectors ahead. Detour!” i
This tendency of the younger gen- i
eration to flout governmental regula- j
tions reminds us of the law-breaking
era of the flapper age which followed
the last war. Again the men of the
army will come home with a fine
sense of discipline but the juveniles
who will attain their majority after
the war will kick over the traces
and thumb their noses at law and
order,
TWENTY YEARS AGO
appearing in the Saturday Evening
Post
Davis is the same man who
acted as political adviser, etc., to
i Oregon's Chur les L. McNary when the
i Republican minority leader was the
No. 2 man on the G. O. P. ticket three
years ago. The “log-cabin Abraham
Lincoln” style, plus small town boy
who made good, will be the strategy
used to sell Governor Bricker to the
public. . Rumor has it that two of
Governor Bricker’s scouts now in the
Northwest trying to l.ne up G. O. P.
bigwigs for their man have not met
with much success
Another story
has it than congress' glamor girl,
Clara Boothe Luce, who is scheduled
to make several politicsl talks in the
northwest this fall, will in reality
be an emissary for Governor Bricker.
last year unless mor« fishing boats
and fishermen are made available im­
mediately. With the armed forces
taking over 50 per cent of the entire
pack, very little if any will be left
for the civilian consumers.
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Coquille Auto Company
"N First National Bank 10W-C0ST
loan is the business-like way
to borrow when you need cash
Victory gardeners who have watch­
ed their pole beans spring up into the
sir at miraculous speed are beginning
to think there mây be some truth in
the legend of Jack and the Bean-
stalk.
for an emergency"
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the sons of Oaul,
>Th«y were
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To the harvest of the sword:
And the morning sun, with a quiet
smite;-—-------- .
Shone out o'er hill and glen,
On ruiped temple and smouldering
pile,
And the ghastly forms of men.”
The above is one stanza taken 1
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