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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1948)
Return to Werib—Mr. and Mrs. Clif ford Bissen have returned US work at the No-D-Lay Cleaner* after ben.x ill with the flu. e • Visitor to Salem—Mrs. Jack Moore was a week-end visitor to Salem where she assisted in instituting a new Job’s Daughters’ Bethel Taxes: Your Share Is $276.66 This Year Timely Topics C o q u ille v a lle y t j _ . - Jientinel Oregon’» per capita share of the during 1947, »4.50 will be spent as requested »39,669,009,000 budget for Oregon’s share of the proposed 1949 j cost of Federal government for fiscal cost of Federal government, accord ing to Senator Bridges’ analysis. « . « - i. when FEBRUARY 1». 1946. C O Q U IL L S , O R EG O N Oregon» per capita share of the incumbents must appraise bank a c -■ WQfnan and child in Oregon accord- counts, wet a finger to test the drift of | inir to 1945 Oregon wMmlutioTesti- proposed 1949 spending budget, or public opinion, and decide whether to X d 1 362 066 amf 143 382 000 »366,852,000, is a little more than Return teem Salem—Eddie Neufeldt one-quarter of the state’s assessed and William Woelke returned after take the plunge into candidacy. Leg- I United States population ’ ’ ,c la » iv . c a r v i f . has ha« h rrth financial f i n a n c i a l and . v O U I l t i p o p u la t io n . valuation, and the total proposed spending a week with her parents islative service both A breakdown of this state's per political aspect for most legislators. capita portion of the proposed Fed budget is equal to ooe-fourth of the there. • • This is particularly true under present eral government cost for year end 1946 national income, Oregon Busi Heme From Hos*4tai—J L. Stevens, prices and high income taxes. The ing June 30, 1949, shows that Coo» ness & Tax Research pointed out “This tremendous burden on Ore who underwent an operation at Mast cost of legislative service has in share will he »8,728,623. gon taxpayers and everyone is a tax hospital, Myrtle Point, last week has creased more than cost*of living and county’s figures have been released payer to the Federal government, is returned to his home where he is now every aspirant should first make sure by These IK CÄCIU1 SCIENCE MONITOR. You .... rw Oregon Business and Tax Re reflected in cost of food we buy, convalescing. that he can afford it. Rapid growth ‘ search, • • Inc, clothing we wear, cigarettes we of the state makes it seem certain that On basis of 1947 Federal taxes ■ smoke, where there la a 7 cents Visits Here — Freddie Vogt, who is HwrxWiti o fuller, nctwr und«r*tanding of todoyte vital S iwip hum It* sxckaiv* taotura* on henwmohing, sduco- with the State Highway department ’hidden tax’ per package”, F. H. at •w , ihooM t. muuc. radio, «ports. Salem spent the week-end in Co “ WlU ‘" - ” .1 budget. , X Young, manager of the tax research quille visiting his mother, Mrs. Lu T h T c h iu tio n Sconce PublnMno Society . . FB’ 5 organization said. cille Vogt. 1 e according to figures supplied state One. Norway Street. Boston*1S. M o *» , U S A . “Naturally we can’t expect to trim • e I Endorad w » I. for «flieh pieoto rand me The O v a tio n The man on the street probably has , taxpayer MsocUtions by Senator | Science Monitor tar one month. httle comprehension of the cost of style. Bridges, R.-N. H , chairman Federal spending to a pre-war level. In Coes Bay -Mrs. Helen Endicott But certainly there are many places legislative service. Many people do the Senate purse-strings Appro- of the Coquille telephone staff, spent not knqw that the legislature m eets; p o tio n s Committee of which &Tna- where substantial sums can be saved. the week-end in Coos Bay as a guest only on odd years in Oregon and that tor Guy Cordon ia a „ember, ac- We need to reduce Federal payrolls. •t the home of Mrs. Fred Midden- the Representative term is for one cording to the tax research organiza Overlapping and duplicating Feder dorff. to n e . o • C it y , t i o n the term of Senator for two t ion. This is at rate of »247.41 per al agencies can be trimmed, and ob solete and unnecessary Federal bu Oregon’s present rate pays about half Oregon inhabitant See “Spike” Leslie lo r inawraaoe of all kinds, pbouo 5 or <W-L. 2Uc the average legislator’s expenses if f^ re a c h » lo f s ta te ta x e s collected reaus eliminated ” he lives frugally. Many legislators ........... — — ~ e s ■ ■ i •H manage by employing their wives as j secretaries. But even this device i falls far short of meeting total costs.1 The truth is that unless a candidate can afford to pay from »500 to »1,000 for the privilege of serving, or unless he is subsidized to that extent, he should not throw his hat in the ring. He will find himself out-of-pocket by this substantial sum at the end of the session. The fact that Oregon has never lacked for good legislators is a fine •¿ A c tribute to the loyalty of its citizens. Certainly the lack of adequate com pensation has not resulted in deteri oration of average personnel quality. There have been enough men of sub stance and character to carry the burden and to mast of these the ques tion of expense was a minor matter. Perhaps the inadequate compensation serves the salutary purpose of screen ing out undesirables who always as pire to lucrative public jobs. Com-' prehensively, however, it should be noted that the trend is toward a leg islature composed of the well-to-do and the subsidized, the latter being an insignificant minority to date. A menace to our national security lies in the unfortunate stigma at tached to politics making public serv ice repellant to many of our best qualified citizens. Sensitive natures, common to people of character and intelligence, shrink from exposure to the ridicule and vicious demagogic attack that too often attends service in public office. In Oregon it has long been the practice of militant bi gots, whose flimsy structure of spe cious argument was shattered by the merciless fire of cold logic during legislative hearings, to impugn the motives of legislators and take direct appeal to the voters by referendum.! The trick is to reassemble the jerry- built structure, give it an attractive coat of paint and sell it to the voters I who have no opportunity for close: examination but must base judgment on cursory inspection. Too often this trick has worked. The public should protect itself against such imposition by electing good legislators and firmly backing them up. Any issue rejected after careful scrutiny by the legisla ture and later referred to the voters should be regarded with suspicion. The odds are strongly against its worthiness and as strongly in favor of its being someone’s special advan tage. The people must decide whether legislative service should, in effect, be confined to those able to pay for it. Although lack of adequate com pensation has had no appreciable ef fect on quality of legislators it would seem that the public interest would be better served if legislative seats were placed within reach of every worthy candidate. • • GLEN LEO POTTS Funeral services for Glenn Leo Potts, who was the victim of an ac cident which occurred on the Coos Bay highway on Thursday, were held on Saturday morning, February 14, at 11 o’clock at Mills Funeral Home, Coos Bay. Rev. Robert Greene offi ciated at the service. Interment was in Sunset cemetery. Many beautiful floral tributes were sent from Coquille for the service. Mr. Potts was 32 years of age at the time of his death. He had been a resident of Coquille for the past six or seven months, and was a driver for the Coos Bay Lumber company. He was a veteran of World War II, having served with the U. S. forces for five years in Germany, France and England. „ _ Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Er- nest Willard of Coquille and Mrs. Archie Currier of Roseburg, and two • Licensed Journeymen and Master Plumbers brothers, Harold Potts of Sumner and Walter Potts of Chicago. • • LEAVES FOR PALO ALTO Mrs. Corinne Walsh and son, Tom my, left Sunday for Stanford uni Said M r. McBride: versity medical school where Tommy will undergo treatment by medical • * _ school specialists in the Stanford uni versity medical clinic. They will be gone approximately one month. Bv HON R. T. MOORE HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT BY READING ANNOÜ It’s exciting... It’s NEW... It’s REAL NEWS! Y A N E W F IR M HAS COM E T O OUR T O W N UILLE PLUMBING ------ W ill Open ------ Wednesday, February 25th G E O R G E M. M c B R ID E -O w n e rs - G E O R G E R. HUGHES "W e will do our utmost to give the people of this Community the finest IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS In the Matter of the Estate of W R. McDOWELL, Deceased Notice To Creditors Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Ad- ministrhtor of the estate of W. R. McDowell, deceased, by the County Court of Coos County, Oregon. An persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same, duly verified, to the under signed at the office of Tallant Oreen- ough, Coquille, Oregon, within six months from the data of this notice. Dated at Coquille, Oregon, this 19th PIMPLES plumbing and heating work available. WE SHALL SUPPLY and SERVICE ALL TYPES OL HOT WATER HEATERS” >. A.» f » iT ■ ! ' r ~ •* " ’’ - - * -- 9 . ftthk .MAN*S PHARMACY 7t6* f’ »' ... . » * . • ’• ‘ 5 . , J ¿1 ■ ' jW rRiiil» a oquille Plumbing Co. 426 Front Street 49c . i Coquille, Oregon Phone 2-J
