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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1943)
F • I F A ÛK FOCE N ..................... <2» The Sentinel Weekly Leiter From Washington, D. C. BY CONGRESSMAN HARRIS ELLSWORTH TWENTY YEARS AGO A. YOUNG Washington, D. C., September 25— ' effectively stalls our chances of hav- (Taken front The Sentinel of Friday, mously took a stand In favor of the county unit system of levying taxes September 28. 1823) ' ¡The Congress has not moved very ' Ing a plant for the production of alu The Sentinel is in receipt of tele for the support of schools in thia coun- I rapidly during its first two weeks mina clay installed ip .Oregon or Mr. and Mrs. Ubyd Oddy have Representatives from grams from J. L. Smith announcing ty- following the summer recess. Some Washington. sold their place on the East Fork to " ‘go of the new members are grumbling the two states are meeting on this that Coos county won the first prize Bill Otoean. . . Lloyd has a good Job . paid in the halls and corridors about thei subject, and are cooperating with in the coast division at the State B. or Wood came in from Eugene as bookkeeper in a veneer plant at Fair at Salem this week, with 29 Wednesday to take the position of rule to tmpera slowness with which we are getting the local interests. Marshfield. points over Tillamix.k. Although it pharmacist in the Fuhrman Pharm 1 under wdv but Oie Contre» ot» the Entered at the CoquEi/p^tofflc. « i United States is not a fast moving The concrete for the basement of It Is anticipated that the bill to did not win the sweepstakes, this acy Max Rietman, who lias been in Second Claes Mali Matts*. organiaztlon. Committee have been prohibit the drafting of fathers. In county was given the highest score the store all summer, expects to re J. W. Miller bungalow opposite the busy holding hearings and discussing troduced last spring by Senator in the state on appearance and effec sume his studies at the dental college court house was poured yesterday. Finishing lumber has been received legislation, and I believe we will soon Wheeler of Montana, will be up for tiveness of exhibits. Office Cerner W in Portland and John expects to move into the see very busy legislative days. debate in the Senate Tuesday. This Another pioneer of Coos county bill, S. 783, has had a peculiar his Sheriff E. P. Ellingsen returned house shortly. There is not a hand Tuesday, the House passed an ap tory. It was reported out by the passed to her reward when Mrs. Tuesday evening from a, two weeks* somer home in the city. propriation bill to take care of | Senate Committee July 2nd, with Price Robison of Norway died at Ban trip to California. He took his mo Work has been st a standstill on the ITIIR emergency maternity and infant card Sepate Report No. 384. It has been don last Monday. torcycle with him on the boat from new brick building being built by for wives of enlisted men in the ! on the calendar since that time. Since Marshfield to San Pedro and came A. N. Gould on Front street, for a The present court and all the act armed forces. The higher grades of the recess, however, hearings have back on it. FOB TAX RBCFUFICATION week or so. . . Gould A Gould expect non-commissioned officers, grades 1, been held on the bill. Ordinarily, ing members of the budget committee to move into it some time between Is there anyone today who does_____ 2 and 3, and commissioned officers. hearings are held before a committee at their sessions yesterday unani- L. H. Hazard is out again, though the first and middle of November. not feel the impact of the complicated were eliminated f.-om the benefits of makes its report, but that apparently mi . JSC— tax system? Can there be anyoneI this appropriation. Previously, a was noi on ------------- his costs, » which have ------ mounted in* piumiurc um case. At . — -------- --------- -r-—- not the procedure in this who does nbt feel the need for sim- The appropriation Just passed by the any rate, the bill comes before the 1 »«»W. with the result that 25 per plificatlon? the months of April, May and June. Senate during this coming week, and fent of the distributors of milk in Let these people take heart, for The »proriatlon Just passed by the indications are that it will not be Oregon ~ ’ have gone out of business in from Senator Walter F. George, House is for the fiscal year. Dtotribu- passed by the Senate. The Army and the last twelve months and numerous Chairman of the Joint Congressional tion of the benefits to those who are the Navy and Selective Service of dairy herds have been sold or slaugh Committee on Internal Revenue Tax- «,«4^ to them is handled by the ficials have vigorously opposed any tered. In holding the line, the dairy atlon, whose duty it is to investigate ltate,. The money, will be handled action by Congress that would pre- man has been required to take money measures and methods for the sim- in Oregon by the Oregon State , vent the drafting of fathers. If the out of his pocket and give it to some plificatlon of taxes, comes this state- j Board of Health, and I understand Senate fails to pass the bill, then body else. ' mmt: ! that Board has completed its ar- Chairman May of the House Military O m of ths best-liked farmers Folks are pitching in to help “Tf a statute is supplemented by rangemente for taking care of these Affairs Committee has a bill ready to In discussing the ceiling on apples in these parts is Bert Childers! their neighbors harvest grain, complicated regulations or technical caaea of the federal funds be- act upon, but has withheld action, before Fred Vinson this last week, And he has the best way of and trait, and vegetables - and interpretations, li|tle is accomplished ginning October 1st. pending the decision of the Senate. I noticed the same type of thinking beatin* the man shortage, too. are taking their reward in soci by a simple law. . i | Obviously, If the Senate will not pass going on with reference to that. Ap Come husking time, Bert In ability when the Job's done. "However, X believe that the first | The hardest problem, not only be- such a* bill, there is no use taking parently, the War Food Administra And from where I sit. that's a vitee all of his fanner neighbors step towards simplification which fore Congress, but for the whole the matter up in the House. tion and the Office of Price Adminis over to have a glass of beer. mighty healthy picture of Amer- -hould be undertaken by the Com- country, now, is the manpower abort tration are expecting the apple grow When they aak politely lean life —peo, iple working lo mil tec is to make the income tax law a<a j heard Bernard Baruch made The milk problem, whifh has been er to take money out of his pocket "Where’s the beer?” Bert points gether to get I in the food this more simple and understandable. . .1 hi, report to the Senate Military Af- critical in Oregon for some time, has to give to somebody else. This seems to a bucket-full of frosty bottles country needs - and afterwards. "I believe that emphasis should air, Committee. It was an excellent finally become a national headache, to be known as the “squeeze” policy— Bittin' around like good friends, in the middle of the field. first be directed towards the income aummary. He suggested that a Pro and is No. 1 problem now before the a term borrowed from the Canadians. over a moderate glass of whole “ All you got to do," he' says, tax rather than the excess-profits tax ductton Priorities Committee be cre- administrative agencies. The simple It is becoming apparent that the some beer. I'm for it' "is work your way out to it. ” tax, as I hope the excess-profits tax for the entire West Coast, com- facts of the milk problem, not only “squeeze" in so far as milk is con can be repealed immediately after ot representatives of the gov- Well, Bert’s Mee has craght In Oregon but nationwide, are that cerned has gone Just about as far as the termination of the war, in order ernment agencies affected, with the n all over the coentry side. the hold-the-Une policy has been it can go, and now something must be to encourage new ventures and stim- ! ' War Production production Board rep reprqsenta- resen ta- dumped alomet entirely in the lap of done and done quickly. I cannot, ulate private enterprise.” Itive as chairman. In making this the producer of milk; nothing or very . at this time, however, predict what This is a very definite step in the suggestion, he points out that such a No, 70 of a Serit» little has been done to hold the line that something will be. right dhcclion, and, more fortunate- 1 committee would be helpful in the ly, it comes from a man thoroughly1 future when greater emphasis /w conversant with the nation’s tax pic placed on fighting in the Pacific, and ture. Less preoccupation with the new demands will be made on the excess-profits lasts which are drain West Coast Donald Nelson recently ing industry’s post-war reserves, and issued a directive in which he de more attention to the tax quandry clared no new plants of any kind of the large majority of the nation 1 would be authorized on the West would make this phase of the war Coast. They all seem to be taking program far easier to take. a swing at our part of the world, and I for one am beginning to wonder if it is a fair designation. Manpower is short all over the nation, and from Fact my own observations when I was and Fancy there this summer, I do not believe I I I t t • I « I the difficulties on the West Coast The destruction of Neples by the are any greater than in many other Meanwhile, German vandals is apparently the parts of the country. first step in the fulfilling of Hitler’s however, this clamor about the short throat that, If he went down, he age of manpower on the West Coast •Would pull all Europe down with him. The process of destruction is so much ery last mother's son of us will be easier than that of creation it does willing to forego all our rationed seem possible that Hitler may make gallons of gas and count the sacrifice good (or should we say make bad?) as nothing. that prediction. His other prophecy, Needless to say, when that time made wher^his hordes rolled over the comes there will be no hint of it frontiers of France, is also being com given in the press and it is to be pleted but in a manner he failed to hoped that those who are bound to foresee. He appealed to his soldiers know about it will be as mum as then to settle the future of the Ger the English were when a practice man people for the next thousand invasion across the Channel was years. The doom of the German em staged recently. pire was sealed then but it has taken over three years of bloodshed to make < The absence of German fighting apparent the fate in store for the craft on all fronts grows rather om "Fatherland." inous. The Luftwaffe cannot all have been wiped out. Possibly the German Pictures of King Christian of Den airforce is being massed for one last mark appeared in the press recently suicidal bombing of Great Britain. when reports of Danish insurrection On the other hand, all the fighting s'» against German rule were making the ships may have been called in for headlines. We fancied Wist there was refitting with the new German rocket The road to Victory must be paved with War Bonds. The purchase of bonds a resemblance between Christian and shell, which is proving more deadly I King George VI of England and in- in attacks on our fortresses. will help win the war and assure a sound post-war economy. Every dollar you ves'tiagtion proved that the Danish king was first cousin to George V of When President Roosevelt accused put into War Bonds does three vital jobs: Great Britain. Incidentally he was I the Congress of exceeding their pow also first cousin to the last Czar of ♦ ers recently and treading on execu f It helps shorten the war and thus saves American lives. Russia and to George I, former king tive preserves, it reminded us of a of Greece. Of course, It to well! ____ _ old __ _ pot _______ _____ ________ smoky calling a bright, shin- It protects your future as an investment. known that Christian Is brother offing aluminum kettle black, that other courageous old king. —o— It prevents inflation now and after the war. Haakon of Norway. j ¡ Today marks the end of September Attempting to trace the ancestry and tomorrow will be the first day of these two regal septuagenarians, of October. Did you ever apply the Our Government needs >15 Billion from War Bonds this month to ’’back rhe we found they were the sons of L.Un you learned lh school to these Frederick VIII of -Denmark and that months and realize their names in- their mother was the daughter of diCMted! they were the seventh and ♦ King Charles XV of Sweden and Nor- ^<hth months of the year and No 1 * way. Beyond that the royal line was vember and December, the ninth and difficult to follow because there tenth. The old Roman calendar were so many King Fredericks and from whJch our calendar today is de- Klng Christians. rived had only months in the It makes one thankful that custom year the laat four the same as Buy War Bonds from your local Bank or Po« Oft te allows ordinary people to have in- they arc today. The fifth and sixth •vidual names and not a numeral to months were once known as Quintilis an overworked name of a popular and Sextilis. Various Roman dicta predecessor. As recent as the ascen tors remade the calendar at will, sion of King George VI to the British adding or dropping months, changing throne, it was deemed advisable for names to honor caesars or to satisfy him to continue his father’s name other whims. ......... 325; ' Tl’* Pr°P°««<l. simplified calendar called^ Bertie tof thirteen months of twenty -eight ¿ A. YOUNG, Pnm Rom where I sit ’.. /y Joe Marsh • •••••••• Fragments of HIGHWAY to VICTORY and your highway to a better futuro 1. 2. 3. GREYHOUND Increasing restrictions on the use of gasoline here on the west coast may portend the outfitting'of a vast armada of planes and ships to be sent to the heart of Japanese empire for a knockout blow. When such prep arations are actually in progress ev- days each is often advocated for our modern world. Each month would begin on Sunday and the extra day at the end of the year would be a holiday. It is* doubtful if any change will ever be made. It would take a world-wide dictator to enforce the new way of counting days and even then the result would be confu sion confounded. »