s
, for Primary Flying.
He also
qualified as sharp shooter with the 45
Mr. and* Mr. Andy Parks visited
“«d hU *>“dron’ »•
□Id friends, Mr. and Mr. John Mor-
renge record with the most
risey, at Marshfield Sunday of last cadets to qualify.
Rey. and Mrs. W. J. Wheeler, The
week.
Regardle« ot the supposed shortage
Surls Sisters and Mr. and Mrs. Os
Little
Melvin
Jensen
fell
out
of
the
of ammunition, tne National cham
made a
car, driven by his mother l«t Tu«- ! car Schmidt, evangelists,
pionship match« were held in Ohio
trip
to
Bandon
Monday
afternoon.
day morning.
He was severely
.1 few weeks ago. Hundreds of thou
scratched up and suffered quite a I This was the Surls Sisters’ first
sands of .rounds of ammunition were
wound on his head.
‘ „ --
* —• : glimpse of the Pacific ocean.’ They
He - is steadily
fired -ammunition of all calibers and
and
is
out
of
any
danger also visited the cranberry bogs and
improving
bores.
Enough ammunition was
had their first sight of deer in the
now.
burnt to go a long ways toward the
wild, also elk, while here.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Hurry
Kelly
visited
killing ot game by sportsmen to re
Mrs. L. L. Buoy and Mrs. T. H.
last Sunday at the M. Aasen home in
lieve the present meat shortage—if
Benham
have taken the job of pa
Myrtle Point.
such a shortage actually exists.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 7—In the
pering the Ed Isaacson house, the I I
The
Homemakers
Extension
Unit
New records were «tablished at next few weeks, selective service___
_ __
met Tuesday, September 28,
at the j former Wait Norris home.
the big shoot—new champions made h^ad^U*f^r’ *1U
after ,o,ne ot Grange Half The office of vice chair-
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Miller, of
and many purs« pulled down by the the 700,000 single farmers who now mur^ f|lled by Vlviun L.Br^ch who Gravelford, und Mr. and Mrs. H. S.
shooters—small bore shooters, big have agricultural deferments. These bag moved away, is now being held Krantz and son, of Coquille, were
bore shooters, pistol shots and shot orders have been prepared and will)by Hazel Benhami voted,in at that guests Sunday at the home of Mr.
gun artists. Cups and medals were go forward to the many draft boards meetins Mrs charie, Holverstott and Mrs. L. L. Buoy.
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handed out freely before the smoke very soon. The draft boards will be and Mrs Wm Butter were choaen to
The chalk drawings were given
elearqg away and thousand dollar instructed to resurvey the farm sit- demonstrate “Meat Extenders," on last week to Mrs. Harry Lindsay for
guns stored away in their cas« and uation in their districts, taking par- November 23 at the Holverstott home, being presept every night of the
. . al3O
.
c arted home by wmlthy sportsmen fir»«liar
ticular notice rvf
of ih«
the nraaanf
present deferred __
7^ club
voUd - to gpon>or .._ evangelistic meetings and the Buoy
<>f the shooting fraternity.
foT’schotaishFp. Thw pres family who had been present the
list, f
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But what was actually accom believe tighter interpretation of the *
ent were Mrs. Chu. Holverstott, Mrs. next number of nights.
plished? That championship match, rulw will pull a good many of these
Mrs. Lloyd Teagarden is expected
.Glen Richardson, Mrs. Harry Lindsay
so far as we can see. did nothing men into service. _No attempt will be
and Mrs. T. H. Benham.
z home as soon as transportation can
toward winning the war. It did not made to campaign for repeal of the
After suffering a partial stroke, be arranged. She has been in Denver
in any manner relieve the meat I Tydingg amendment to the selective
G. B. Dow was taken to Keizer Hos the past several weeks visiting her
shortage; and. too, the money squan- «rvice act, which mak« mandatory pital in North Bend last week. He sister, Mrs. Bertha Graham, and two
dered at that match would have ' the deferment of farm workers. How- j was expected to return home the first sons, Russell and Harold Young, who
bought a heap of War Bonds. And -ever, officials are confident that ¡part of this week. Several of the had furloughs from the U. S. Army
so far » we have been able to «-^thousands of so-called farm workers children are expected home soon. and met her there.
certain to date, is the fact that duck are not following the plow, and it’s
Rev. and Mrs.' W. J. Wheeler and •
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hunters will be lucky if They are al- the« men the draft boards will go the evangelistic party, the Misses
loted one box of shotgun shells or a after. Washington and Oregon have Eva imd Freda Surls and Mr. and
box of rifle ammunition, and only | approximately 20,500 men so deferred
Mrs. Oscar Schmidt, were dinner
specified calibers are designated.
, and it is thought several thousand of I guests at the T. H. Benham home on
Just why the National match« that number will be in uniform when ' Wednesday of last week.
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should have been sponsored and all their local draft boards get through
Realizing that hot school lunch«
The prayer watchers who have
that ammunition practically wasted 1 giving them the “once over" again. '
been meeting at the church each pay dividends by developing more
te something beyond us. If it had
morning met at the home of Mrs. alert, happier and healthier boys and
been turned over to the sportsmen J
Home DAICI151UJ1
Extension
girls, the Rivgrton iwhic
The new tax bill, now "getting the Phil Jensen Thursday morning last
for hunting purposes it would have
Unit under the leaf
dership of Mn [
week.
Those
present
wary
Mrs.
W.
works” before the house committee
rain innninrino
provided a lot of meat for thousands
Wreley Frazier is again
sponsoring a j
on ways and means, will be drasti J. Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
of familiw throughout the country.
,
hot
school
lunch
program
for the Riv i
cally changed before it is enacted into Schmidt; Mi« Eva Surls, Miss Freda <
On the face of it, it looks like wanton law, uy the beat guessers around 1 Surls, Mrs. T. H. Benham, Mrs. L. L. erton
school, according to Mrs. Doro-
'
waste.
here. It is expected the house will. Buoy and Mrs. Jensen.
« ;thy Bishop, county home demonstra- I
There are thousands and thousands
nuj Parkeij,
r-ameij, of
01 Powers
ruwri, and
onu Ag-
/»«-
a8ent'
|
wrestle with the bill for the b«t | , Roy
of rounds of small bore ammunition
,n
«Up
part of two months before the meas- !nesi, was
—— a - gu«t
—— • at
-• the
•«-- Fairview . T°
being fired by girls’ shooting clubs
Friday evening.
He
is a
™tritioua
food and to j
ure is ready for the house hopper. In church
church Friday
evening.
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..
.
throughout the U. S.
Ammunition the meantime an array of authorittes i graduate of the Light House Temple !*®ve the surplus from neighboring
that could be used to good advantage, cm tax matters, both for and against of Eugene and is doing Home Mis- ¡^wtory gardens, seven of the mem-
especially here in the west.
And this bill, will parade before the com- ‘sionary work at Agness.
bers of the unit canned over 350
again, we fail to see where this is mittee with their arguments.
Dinner guests at the L. L. Buoy'<luart* °* vegetables at the county
necessary.
And again, seasoned
A strong bipartisan group, which, home Friday evening were Rev. and | cann®ry I“»! week, to be used during
shots, expert shots in the army backed by a flpck of labor organize- Mrs. W. J. Wheeler and the Surls tbe winter months in the preparation
men who demonstrate that^iey are tions and others, will attempt to put Sisters, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Schmidt
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qualified as expert riflemen and
"Furthermore,
” stat« Mrs, Frazier, 1
President Roosevelt’s cherished idea and Roy Parker, of Powers. -
shartshooters after they have fired
“we plan to go even farther—two or j
'1 ot $39,000 salary celling on Individual; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Benham and
their first few rounds, are kept on W" Incom«,
“ after
— - tax«, - back
a. in the - bill,
... . two children,
. .. .
-
-A , , I “*r members have agreed to furnish
Joan
and S «a
Dean, spent
the firing line with the rookies and Another group are also set to spring the week-end at the home of his
PrQV‘d'n8 t’*e
members
burn up hundreds of thousands of a aalM tax as the beat way to get a brother and family, Tom Benham.
either can It or put it in a locker,
rounds of ammunition usele«ly; am good part ot the MO billion Mr. Mor- The brothers hunted with some sue- This
we plan to do in a wook or ao.
.......
munition that could be turned oyer
. "The aucceae of our school lunch
genthau expects to raise next year. cess.
to the hunters throughout the U. S. No one believ« the bill, as now writ- !' Those attending the baskar social program 11« in the fact that we have
However, we are not censuring the
ten, will get by which, among other Saturday evening for the Juvenile such splendid cooperation from the
army for all the ammunition they
things, socks the middle class with grange of McKinley from this valley community. The Women who helped
wish to bum, for they are fighting
stiff additional tax«. Most congre«- ' were Ray Deadmond. L. A. Rogers, mo out at the cannery deserve an ad
our fight for us and we are behind
ditional amount ' ot credit.
They
men are very cagy on stiffer tax« at Kenneth Holverstott and Harold
them to the finish. We are merely
were:
Mesdam«
Stanley
Clauaen,
Al
Reason—elec- Stock,
»
this particular time.
pointing out the waste of ammunition
tion time is not very far away, and | Mrs. Lillie Johnson spent the ton Clausen, Lester Clausen, Lillie
and what we had «pecially in mind
the middle class are the on« who week-end from her home in Co Stewart, George Shelton, Lillie Hep
was the holding of the National
do the larger part of the voting.
quille with her brother, Ray Dead ler, Katherine Brewster and William
match« during war tim« when there
Church."
mond, and family.
is supposed to be a shortage of am
The Riverton Home Extension Unit
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The
one ____
man ____
who r could,
and ____
did. ! Carl Knapp returned home Wed-
munition.
glv'e many orders to President Roose- :n«day of last week from Mast Hoe- is one of IS units throughout Coos
We have been informed that there
velt which Were always obeyed is pital, He had a limb broken while county organized forrihe purpose ot
are hundreds of rounds of all sorts of
carrying out an educational program
about to pa« from the Washington working at Cal Ray's oamp.
ammunition stored in one large
scene.
Col. Edward W. Starling, I Mr. and Mrs. Earl LaBrancb and under the sponsorship of Oregon State
sporting goods store warehouaw in
chief 01
of the
House secret ser- —
daughter,
have ----------
moved tu College Home Economics Service of
cniei
me White
wiuvc mnwc
—w----, - Julia,
——•
’Frisco and that thia «me condi
vice and No. 1 protector to five preri- Reedsport, Mr. LaBranch having so- which Mrs. Bishop is local represen
tion prevails all over the country.
tative, who says:
dents during the past 30 years, is cured work there.
Wild game taken by hunters last
"We encourage our units to sponsor
about to retire. The six-foot-two, 87»' Mrs. Andy Parks has been ill over
season in the U. S. was more than
hot lunch« where ever such a pro
y«r old veteran secret service agent the week-end with a severe cold.
one quartdr billion pounds including
wm always on hand to carefully look
Mrs. ChM. Holverstott and Mrs. i ject is feasible. Units that have
60,000,000 pounds of venson, 9,000,000
over the flockof newspapermen In the Bill Butler were in Coquille, at the done an outstanding piece of work
pounds of elk meat, and 08,700,000
ante-room prior to each weekly pres- home of Mrs. Dorothy Bishop, to and deserve much credit, in addition
pounds of wild ducks and geese—
¡dental conference with the pre«, learn the demonstrating of “Meat Sx> to Riverton, Include Englewood, Mrs.
enough to provide 700,000 soldiers
The colonel, always popular with the tenders,” to be held in .November at Keith Harris, chairman; Eastside,
with one pound daily for one whole
men of the fourth estate, had a larger the Grange hall in connection With Mrs. Jalmar Alto, chairman, and
year.
Broadbent, Mrs, Ralph Gibbs, chair-
acquaintance
among the newshawks the Homemakers Extangion Unit
It is doubitful if a single kick
ihait,"
They
will
be
the
project
leaders
on
would be registered by a sportsman than the president. Starling h« vis
Information regarding organization
this subj«t,
ited
almost
every
city
in
the
nation
,
and that each and every one of us
of 4-H clubs in Home Economics pro
The
Osborn
family
of
Sumner
at»
would be glad to case our guns for m advance agent and protector to1
jects may be obtained from Mrs.
During the almost ll tended church In the valley lari Bun
the duration if we knew that by de presidents.
Bishop, and for dubs ih agriculture
day
evening.
priving us of shells that it was help years of the present administration
from
the Assistant County Agent,
The Surls Sitter, evangelists, and
ing win the war But when ammuni the colonel h« traveled by far more I
court house, Coquille.
party
left
Tuesday
morning
for
Eu
tion is being store, when it is being mil« with President Roosevelt than
gene, after «pnding two and one
burned in such exhibitions as the the combined distance traveled with
half weeks here, holding rervjoee. Four Per Cent Interest Rate
matches held in Ohio, when it is being his four predecessors.
They will be greatly missed for those The Maximum For Farm
shot away by girls, we figure that
who have been In close contact with
the sportsmen at large should be
The report req Mated by Senator
Loan Association Borrowers
them have learned to love them. The
given a small percentage with which McNary from the army engineers on
Federal Land Bank borrowers in
Surls Sisters will start evangelistic
the further development of the Col
to bag game.
meetings at Wendling next Bunday. Coos, Douglas, and Curry counties
And too, unless farmers and umbia river and its tributari« wi|) be
1 Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Ryan have re with national farm loan association
sportsmen are supplied with ammu made available in the next two
ceived word from their son, "Bud,** loans which mature after June 30,
nition, it means that will not only a weeks. Rumor has it that part of
that he is stationed In England and 1944, are now assured thtat the inter
valuable food supply go to waste, but the report will contain further defin
est rate on their instalment payments
!ie well.
reommendations for the develop-
it will allow such pests as rabbits, ite
ite reominenoauonsme
Wendell Goodwin writes ho has will not exceed 4 per cent during the
squirrels, different rodents and birds, ment of the Umatilla rapids project.
Unlt<d gtatea life of their loans, R. L. Strickle, sec
pheasants and even deer to multiply which h»i been in the blueprint stage
and at the time ot his writing wm retary-treasurer of the Roseburg Na*
to the extent of becoming real peris for years. The senate committee on
tional Farm Loan association at Rose-
"somewhere In the Pacific."
and a menace to crops in many sec commerce, who will receive the re- ( Ben rfoiverstott is now at Amarillo, bu^8- »nnounc«-
port, are expected to act favorably
, Mr, Strickle la advised by R. E.
tions of the country.
Authoriti« claim there is not a on recommendation, made by the Tex«, and say. he "doem’t like It 1 1 Brown, president of the Federal Land
shortage of powder or shot, which army engineers concerning these there.
Bank of Spokane, that the bank's
Arnold Harold Norris writes hei board of directors has approved sub
leads us to wonder as to "just what’s Columbia river projects. It is also
understood a considerable part of the h« graduated from Pre-Flight school!
cookin’?"
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stitution of the 4 per cent rate for
“• Base
and
' report h« to do with postwar plan- at the “
Banta Ana Army Air
“
higher rates on nearly all of the loans
was to be en route by last Friday for
I ning for projects in the northw«t.
closed prior to June 24, 1935. While
lost
Thunderbird Field at phoenix, Ari-
all association loans closed since 1935
War Food eAdmintetraior Marvin
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carry a 4 per cent rate, the bewd’s
Jones has his hands full trying to producers, have been "battling any action guarantees earlier association
figure out a remedy for the acute thing that smacks of general subsidy. 1 borrowers that the interest rate
milk supply situation which is getting However, competent observers fiTmly ! through the life of their loans will not
worse each day. Milk producers are believe subsidy is the only way out. ' exceed this amount.
screaming to the high heaves« and In order to give some farm groups a
"The land bank's 4 per cent rate is
demanding that something be done chance to gracefully back up on their . the lowest at which farmers general
immediately to relieve them of the attitude on subsidi« some flossy ly ever have been able to obtain long
squeeze they are in. The only way nam« will be «uggreted for this term mortgage credit," Brown told
out seems to be a subsidy an feed new program, such as “processor sub Strickle. "While the 5 and 0 per cent
for whole milk producers. It is «- | sidy, producer subsidy,” or “trans
rate charged on loans prior to 1935
tlmated that such a subsidy will portation subsidy”—anything to get were low when made and reflected
coat over 9100 million and many farm away from the fact or name of a con- the cost of money in the bond market
organizations, including flocks of milk
subsidy.
BARROW druo co.
in tbo« times, the land banks
Fairview News
Out-of-Doors Stuff
th«t time have refinanced their high
est rate bonds and the voluntary re
duction by the banks of the higher in
terest rates on their older loans is
simply pawing on to their borrowers
the savings made by such refinancing
and by economies effected in operat
ing costs.”
Mr. Brown added that the interwt
rate on loans not made through an
association shall not exceed 4 V« per
cent or 4 tk per cent, depending upon
the class of loan made
thslr frlsnda ths next day with a
clear comslaxlon. There is no risk.
The dret application must ooavtaao
you or you ret your money back.
Only SSc. Join the happy Ktosrex
users who are no looser embarrassed
with unsightly pimples. MvM and
recommended by
BARROW DRUG CO.
Callin« card«. SO fur 11.00.
THE TOWN
Opened
Friday, October 1
Hot Lunches At
Riverton School
Every day in the week
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Mrs. Gertrude Menning, Mgr
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52 Lbs.!
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From where I sit
// Joe Marsh,
Every time Lem Martin hears
about another Jap battleship be
ing sunk-or another Nazi city
being blasted-Lem grits his
teeth, and digs into his pocket
for more War Bond money.
"With our soldiers over there
doin’ better
better at their
scorin’," Lem «ye grimly, **we
can do the same at home.**
It’s easy to think that if the
war is going well, we can afford
to let down just a little instead
o* realizing that the bigger our
offensive gets the more our boys
are going to need equipment
and munitions.
Frotn where I sit, here's the
way it to... It’s up to everyone
of ns to put not only our spare
money Into War Bonds, but to
figure out new ways of saving
no that well have still more
money to Invest In Victory.
As Lem says: “We asked for
plenty of action—and we’re sure«
getting it All over the world our
men have got them Axis fellas
on the run. Let’s Back the At
tack with War Bonds.”
No. 71 of t Soriot
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Softly draped spun rayon with dainty shirring at
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