The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003, August 05, 1943, Page 4, Image 4

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TH1 CO4U1LL1 VAlXlY WN T INU, CUQUIMX ORE GO N, T MUBBI Wr A tMW T A -tMfc-------
PAGE FO Ut
The Sentinel
H. A. YOUNG. «Alter
TWENTY YEARS AGO
About Christmas
Mailing Over Seas
present the identification stub which
was detached from the application
blank
A new process has been developed
for dehydrating and packaging mo­
lasses.
(Taken from The Sentinel of Friday.
August 3, 1333)
President Harding Passes—Suffer­
ed a Stroke of Apoplexy at the Pal­
ace Hotel at San Francisco Last
Evening and Died at 7:30 P. M.
Wanted/ Men And
Women Who Are
Hard Of Hearing
T.o make this simple, no risk hear­
ing test. If you are temporarily deaf­
ened, bothered by ringing buzzing
head noises due to hardened or coagu­
lated wax (cerumen), try the Ourine
Home Method test that so many say
has enabled them to bear well again.
You must hear better after maxing
thia simple test or you get your money
back at once. Ask about Ourine Ear
Drops today at Barrow Drug Co.
from
some
reach
ALL HONOR TO TH« AIR­
WARNING WARDENS
The Coquille river claimed another
victim
Monday noon when Harold L.
All honor is being paid this week
to. the hundreds of men and women, i Ashton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W.
The young
boys and girls in Coos county, and Ashton, was drowned.
to the thousands along the Pacific man was out in a canoe, on the' op­
roust, who have so steadfastly and posite side of the river from where
without remuneration, devoted hours the family resides, and just below
upon hours to the Air Warning Ser­ the bridge. Just how the canoe came
vice. Theirs is.a monotonous duty, to capsize no one seems to know. . .
sitting hour after hour watching for Several boats and divers were sum-
the approach of possible enemy moned and efforts to locate him were
planes but they have given of their made, although unsuccessfully, until
time unstintedly and this week’s rec­ “Shorty” Martin arrived with his
ognition of their services is timely boat. .,. All efforts to resuscitate him
were futile.
and patriotic.
I
It may be that not one of the
thousands who stand watch between
the Canadia and Mexican borders,
alone the Pacific littoral, will ever
»ee or hear an enemy plane, but the
possibility exists and in this pre­ science and wonder whether he felt
paredness may lie our protection any remorse over the slaughter of
some time before "unconditional sur­ human beings for which he is guilty.
render” of our enemies, from forest One quotation attributed to him may
destruction by fire or the bombing of be considered prophetic. When ha
industrial centers, cities and towns. wrote: “There are those who have to
Besides the honoring of these be crushed by truth before they can
faithful “eyes and ears” of the A. W. understand it,” he probably did not
8., the week is also being used as a ' vision the day when he would lie
period for enlistment in this volun- crushed amid the ruins of his dreams
tary service by those who are willing of grandeur.
,
to spend a few hours each month in
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helping protect our great country • The Japs are out of luck If they
from attack. Help the United States had made plans to fire our forests
and its allies to win the war.
¡with incendiary bombs this week.
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Marshfield office. Lowell Simpson
took the place of warehouseman here
vacated by Mr. Nosier.
Our county commissioners are
planning to establish auto cam(M on
the highways of this county where
tourists can stay for the night with­
out trespassing on private property.
The Norway Orove and another at
Glasgow are being talked of.
Fragment» of Fact
and Foneg
EVERYONE CAN (Horten the war by keeping
'•yes aloft* in the Aircraft Warning Service. You
Can Serve by (igningtp during Aircraft Warning
Service Week, August 1 st to August 7th.
On the long, hot watches of the daytime, for
refreshment try a delicious wine 'cooler” and on
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the long, cool night watches try a
'keep-awaker* of hot, spiced wine,
,
T hi T own P omp
BY
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inspected
early
was guilty of its waste in any way. protesting the demands of labor for overseas for non-combat duty, which
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a rollback in food prices. The grange is now forbidden. Army Wacs have
As a child, did you ever stare at
P®rticularly strong in Oregon and always been eligible for overseas
yourself in the mirror until you felt Washington and is poltically influen- duty, and the navy would like the
your sense of identity slipping and tia* in S7 «tat*« What is has to say same eligibility for their Waves,
you had to break the spell by look- wiU> therefore, be given serious con- However, some navy brass hats say
ing away where familiar surround- «¡deration by members of congress no to the idea, plus a whole flock of
ings restored the normal reflexes. fronl agricultural districts who com- senators. High ranking naval offi-
Possibly that was self-hypnotism.
i P°«* the so-called farm bloc and they cers say sending the Waves and
One’s mind also veers away from 1 W,H not reat content until some Spars overseas would be sure to de-
the latest scientific pronouncement changes have been made in OPA velop into one grand headache for
that planets exist outside the solar. PoHclea-
'a11 concerned They point out that
system and that “dark companions”
The <ri,nge protest asserts that la- (there is plepty of work at home for
have been proved to revolve around bor’a demand for increased wages is , the Waves to do, thereby relieving
certain fixed stars.
The stars are inflationary and therefore to be re­
sisted; .-----
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difference
between
an unlimited multitude filling space----------
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—and extending beyond any limit Uvin< co“u and workers’ income is
imagined. If these heavenly bodies increasing at the rate of about $3,-
have satellites where life as known ObO.OOO.OiX) a month, and that a con-
on our earth is possible, then the “nuance of this disparity will bring
number of beings questing for know- aboul a further shortage in farm pro­
ledge in this universe is boundless, duction.
The grange agrees with
It makes one’s brain reel to think labor on on,y one P°*nt- and 01,1 la
of the infinite and to remain sane the necessity of paying subaidies to
one must put our earth back into Producers sufficient to cover the dif-
the center of the universe, however ference between cost of production
false may be that conception, and di- and lhc Prlc** rlxed b> OPA Laad-
rect our thoughts along familiar ,r* ot organized labor favored this
channels even as the child with the plan when Present Roosevelt’s sub­
mirror cannot long endure the search- 81 d^ program was being discussed in
ing for the core of consciousness.
congress and to it the grange has now