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A bill has bewn passed referring
u, get the
the people the question of inc r ea s ing th>t pwr^.
the number of state Senators from failed to p
thirty to thirty-one and giving Lake,
Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson
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counties a new senatorial district' waa
These counties are now in with' The
Klamath in Senate representation,
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should be on a district basis rather i^y
than according to population. The
theory to that the House should be
apportioned by population and the
Senate by district.
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There is a rumor buzzing around i
£lnal anawer, but M this that an attempt may be made to ban
after-midnight listening to radio pro
grams. If serious, this may take the
form of a Federal Communications
Commission order, shutting down
One of the disappointing failures of come to an
M y^t happens night.
While definitely possible, I
the legislature was the killing of whUa
labor draft uu u ltiU ln doubt that this step will be taken to
House Bill, No. 345, the motor trans- Conference, it will be argued by some conserve power.
portation bill, which had been set up that compulsory labor legislation to
as the result of an intensive two- more
y,,,, ever to offaet a
Dr. O. H. Clarke Cleared
year study. The motor transporta- predicted let-down, since we still
Of
That Narcotics Charge
tion laws had been thoroughly and have a major WBr ln the Paclflc to
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item which appeared a month
expertly studied with a view towards , fight. The counter-argument will be
reconstruction «af a scientific rather . that Cut-backs ¡n war production will ago in one of the several daily issues
than a political basis. But again we follow
collap8e of Germany and of a Portland paper which does not
find political pressure intervening to.^
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no
man. come to Coos county, is herewith
presented in justice to Dr. O. H.
block constructive progress and the poWer probiem then,
Clarke of Myrtle Point:
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net result of the two-year effort is‘
merely a resolution continuing the
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study. It to to be hoped that the next
° * c IU,L 1 hav* «introduced
A federal grand jury today found
legislature will be less susceptible to I«* bU1 ***»*<« to settle th«T dis-
a not true Mil in the case of Dr.!
oressure lobtrvtns
pu»« between the Department of the Oliver H. Clarke. Myrtle Point physi
I Interior and the Department of Agri
cian, who was charged by narcotics
culture regarding which Department ■*
agents with dispensing narcotics “not
is to have jurisdiction over some
in the course of professional practice
450,000 acres of land in the indemnity
only” on or about September 19, i
limits of the old O A C grant. Other
1944.
A complaint was filed on
Coquille Red Cross Unit will be th,n ,or • <*»«»<• in the last section ' Clarke at the same time that similar
unable to hold the rsgul.r meeting <* “>• Mil, it to the same bill that I
complaints were issued on two Med-
scheduled for Friday. March 23, on introduced early in the last Congress, ' ford doctors, who were indicted and ■
account of continued lack of ma- “nd w»>ich was reported favorably ’ sentenced to five-year terms. Dr.
by the Public Lands Committee just
tortala
’ Clarke was released on his own recog-
adjournmwt.
Extensive
Sitkum Red Crow group, under the ‘ before
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nizance last September when he ap-
direction of Mrs. Hilda Durrell, has hearings were held on the biU during
' peared to answer the complaint.
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again sent in another nice lot of
last Congress, and the Committee I
finished sewing.
approved it unanimously, so I am
Norton’s carry a nice selection of
The Unit expresses thanks to Dor- hopeful that it can be passed during
records and sheet music.
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cas Society of the Adventist Church this session.
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for another donation of scuff slippers.
The last section of the bill has to
Sympathy to extended Mrs. Lily do with mineral rights on the O A C
Hattig and family in the recent loss land« *nd provides the same rights
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of a sister, Mrs. Ellen Carl. Also to °° these iands M on °th*r lands
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Mrs. L. C. Braly for the the toes of owned by the government. The
her husband. Mrs. G. B. Howe re- change made in this section was in
ports that Mr Howe to recovering the nature of clarifying it and broad-
nicely after a recent surgery, per- enin« “ «> th,t the provision will ap-
formed at Mast Hospital.
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¡ply to all O A C lands. If the bill
As soon as supplies are received. ia Paused in this form, it will not be
workers will be contacted and the necessary to give further considera-
workroom will be open as usual on tion to another bill I have introduced
wliich calls for granting mineral
Fridays.
rights on all O A C lands.
AppeepriaiioM Bills. The House
Coquille Unit
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Weekly
Letter From Washington, D. C.
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It might be worth your while to
attempt to visualize the picture that
Will give you a clear idea of the
ca'use or causes of the existence of
salable value to land. Land pri
marily has no salable value.
It
¡clearly has a use value, which is
' something entirely different.
I It you take the natural opportun
ity (land), now known as the State
'of Oregon in its primitive state, it
very unlikely that any improvement would have no selling value and any
will be started Until after July 1. The one could come in and produce their
naw depot will cost in the neighbor- living without paying anybody for
hood of 120,000, when built. ,
such chance. If we go a step farther,
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two other elements qome in. Activity
The telephone company is ready and numbers of people and now such
now to enlarge the switchboard at land will have a rental value (site)
Coquille by adding two new sections and the most activity and numbers
and the work will be started in a' the higher the value. What you pay
couple of weeks.
for a house is interest, not rent nor
site.
Mias Clare 1. McCloskey, slater of
You have had a splendid illustra-
J. H. McCloskey, of Norway and Co- tion here in this state: You voted
qqllle, died Wednesday at Portland on a MU to move your university
and was buried In th« Norway ceme- from Eugene
to Corvallis, It was
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tery this morning.
defeated.
Let us suppose it had
carried and see what would have
Our question whether any of our happened in an economic way. Your
readers knew any older citizen than buildings, streets and sidewalks
Anderson Wright, of Sumner, who would be still in Eugene but rent
celebrated his 92nd birthday day be- would not be, it would be found in
fore yesterday, has been answered. Corvallis for the simple reason that
A Myrtle Point reader gives us the the cause of rent (association and
name of Isaac Nichols, an old soldier, numbers of people) had been trans-
who has lived in and near Myrtle ferred to CorvaUU..
Point for several years past, who will
Take another illustration: Oft Mar-
be 94 years of age on the 9th day of ket street about ten blocks (in San
the coming August. He says he is . Francisco) are six lots which were
willing , to run the Sumner non- taken over by said city on* a tax
agenarlan a foot race to decide which sale in 1856. These lota were rented
to a building corporation on the first
® day of July, 1944, (just hold your
•9 breath) for 99 years at a rental
'price of >30,500 a month, the price
increasing every ten years. If this
value were taken all over the U. S.,
CONGRESSMAN HARRIS ELLSWORTH'
it would amount to 20 billion dollars.
¡The yearly value of these six lota
a being considered by the Senate. The
would be 3366,000. If you capitalize Í
to next major appropriation bill to be
this sum, the selling value would be .1
»ft considered will ba the one for the
rr- Department of Agriculture, which, I 37,320,000. If you put a 100 per cent
tax on the yearly value the selling
oa I am informed, will come before the 1
value will cease.
de House March 20th. This bill carries
I Take an illustration in our home
ler the appropriation for the Madison
state of Oregon: Six lots between
ch Forest Products Laboratory and the
Stark and Morrison streets in Port
en Northwest Forest Service Experiment
land were leased in 1912 by a build
ir- Station. I recently made a speech on
ing corporation for 99 years on a pro- .
lat the Floor of the House, urging great
a
gressive lease. They are now paying |
er support of the forest products
3100,000 a year. There are 310,000
is research program. I also appeared
taxes on the building, 320,000 taxes
he before the Appropriations Committee
¡go to the state and 370,000 go to
ve for the same purpose during their
{Private individuals.
If we were
if- hearings on the bill.
I moral in government, we would take
ict
It is necessary for the Congress to
far the state the 390,000 produced by
he complete all regular appropriation
the state (site or location) and leave
he bills before the end of June, since
to the company the 310,000 tax on
ily the fiscal year ends June 30th. Often
the building. The state would get
lot some of the major appropriation bills
390,000
instead at 330,000, which it
to'are completed at the last minute,
| now gets. Under this system, we'
ily ' making hasty action on them neces-
take for the whole people, govern- i
ment or society, the value produced |
A. C. Schultz
Gilmore Service
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