P A G E . S IX
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C o q u ille V a l l e y
S e n tin e l
APRIL 21, 194».
COQUILLE. OREGON.
N A T IO N A L
E D IT O R IA L
SOUTHW ESTERN OREGON’S LARGEST W EEK LY
An Independent Paper Dedicated to the
Development of Southwestern Oregon
have found H « » b e . . „tore to ^ « h e u
home for over half a century
for the coming June brides that Coos county
can be the ___________________________
scene of lasting marriages.
Entered at the post office at Coquille, Oregon,
as 2nd-class matter under Act of Congress of
March S, 1879.
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careful regard for the welfare of
our own economy, it is good busi
ness. In addition to being a fairly
good business venture, , it has the
benefit of being most destructive
to the Russian ambition to com
munis« Europe.
It must be clearly understood
that the legislation just enacted
is only a law to A U T H O R IZ E the
continuation of the ECA program.
That bill did not appropriate
money.
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Many people, Including some
members of Congress, have tak
en the attitude that the sum
named In the authorisation bill
Is the amount we are putting
into the ECA program. That Is
not the fact. The actual ap
propriation bill comes later. I
E u r o p e \ta o w T ™ rc ? ^ h a ? b e e n
did what I could to keep the
nn this point by
’ r itt« n completed. If earned on with a
.
fnrMtpd Fish Trap a r e a lta ry effect of alerting the majority the above figure by at least one-
to the fl«» thiddy W W « M a
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t0 p o « , ^ deficiencies in U n - fourth.
where in the middle of a thriving and____ I euaie and
that might
We already have a debt burden
tling logging camp th e y o u n g ^ * ° r 8e Otherwise have gone unnoticed, greater than the combined total
Steward and Miss Lillian Thomas, botn na- However, the delaying tactics debt of all of the pther peoples of
tive Coos countians, were married.
have in the main been of no con- the world. Unless this congress
Whether
that structive purpose and have obvi- refuses to travel further down the
w n e w e r i it i was
woa Coos county weather
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made their marriage prosper, or the tact ously added substantially to the road toward bankruptcy and de-
the assembly. But nies the passage of the “Truman
that they hold a few of the
I that is democracy at. work and no spending program," we shall be-
happiness in their hearts,
devoted !one can i^ t l y complain.
come the most tax ridden people
that theirs is « tribute to a life well devoted i
mogt dUtri!Min< result Of on earth.
to each other.
¡the long session is the serious
Jugt u
, gioemy picture
On their Golden Wedding anniversary w e , hardship imposed on members CWBp|ete> we must not forget
know all of their friends will be happy to 1 whose modest means could not
gtate lncome Uxe> Bnd
wish them well; and we’re glad that t h is . well bear the financially strain. prsperty uxes must be paid an-
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Adult Education
Popular, and duly so, have been the
classes in adult education that have been
held in Coquille the past year or less. Under
two sponsors, one the department of adult
vocational education, and the other the ex
tension division of the Oregon System of
Higher Education, response has been highly
gratifying to the state.
In a recent survey of Oregon, we note that
Coquille’s enrollment has been as high or
higher than any other major city in Oregon,
Salem and Portland excepted, and that is
an interesting commentary on the intellec
tual side of our life down here.
We’ve been told with some pride by a
number of Coos countians that, we’re a lot
of fun-lovers and how we do like to party
and dance. But the adult education records
sort of prove that we also like to go to
school as a form of recreation.
The latest class is one that will conclude
on April 30th. It’s entitled “Personal Prob
lems in Everyday Life” and is psychology
and mental hygiene brought home to every
day usage. Members of the staffs of the
University and Oregon State college have
done the instruction work, and comment
from the students is that the classes are
wonderful.
Adult education is growing in popularity
in this area. Next year should see a suc
cessful expansion of the program. And it’s
a fine thing for all of us.
A Coos County Wedding
We think it of more than occasional in
terest, the story in this week’s paper con
cerning the “Open House” of Mr. and Mrs.
George Steward of 581 North Henry. For
they’re celebrating their Golden Wedding
anniversary on April 23rd marking a life
time together and all the time in Coos county.
These chipper and affectionate Coquille
people were married on April 23rd, 1899, by
a Coquille justice of the peace who rode out
in horse and buggy over the Fish trap road
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quickly
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neither timely nor wise to auto-
, matically confine such service to
bill I the subsidised or the well to do
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Backers of the move to have Senate
319 passed this session of the legislature are
not too pleased over the fact that the bill j
was killed in the game committee and that!
the Coquille river will continue to remain j
open to commercial fishing for the next few I
years at least.
The action of Senator William Walsh in
appearing as a “guest champion” of the billl
made many friends for him, but it was not
enough.
Big Columbia river commercial packers By The Hon. Harris Ellsworth
U. 8. Representative-
are not upset over the fact that by keeping
the Coquille open they are helping to deci The House is in recess this week
mate the fish of this famous old stream. but in the last ten days or more,,
Closure of the Coquille *ould result to steps
by conservationists to close other riversi bullnes however, was not the
where the fish census has dropped to alarm-1 adoption of any part of a legisla-1
ingly low numbers. And that the fish in- tive program. The House worked i
mostly on appropriation bills and
terests do not want.
The smoke has cleared away and we during the last three or four days
recessing accounted for the
have found numerous Bandon people who before
of some 29 billions of I
wish that the river had been closed. Too late expenditure
dollars. Just exactly how much
they realized that closure of the river to money that is cannot readily be
commercial fishing would boom their tourist understood unless the figure is t
business, something they need.
divided into simple, small and
But . . . we do believe, that if a bill to close understandable terms. Twenty-
the Coquille is again put into the legislative r\jne billion dollars is equal to
hoDDer?then support from all Southwestern $200 for every man, woman and
in the United ®
States—or »800,
Oregon legislators should be forthcoming. I child *"
getting
harder
to
carry
on
¿a ter is
Wa
69 per cent oi
total budget for
shoulders. Even Coquille water.
the next fiscal year.
The total j
the “X ^ X H o v e ™ -
Recommended reading for the guys in.' buds¡eL
Salem who get paid to work for the good, * d u r i n g the 12 months be-
of the state, “Good Fishing is Big Money in ginning
innin_ July
j uiy _ i this year is 42 b il-
Michigan.”—Nation’s Business, April issue. lions, in round numbers. - This,
divided by the total population,
estimated at 140,000,000, equals at
What Coquille needs, says our cigar- cost of $300 per person.
chomping friend from the Coos Bay Lumber Think of it— federal government
company crew, is “A good water witcher. | ex^ ‘j‘‘t ” es' fOr the coming fis-
What kinda city council we got that don t cgl year win amount to an average
get a water witcher when tney dig for oi almost exactly $io® PER
water?”
■ month for each family of four!
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T he ancient philosopher Solon
Senator Richard L. Neuberger, despite the w ro te ..^ J o »ore t « * ' " ," ' t
fact that the Republicans don’t like him
ju ri how much
JVew
P o v n if
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T h e M o a t B e a u t i f u l T h in g o u W h e e l» !
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We are, of course, very proud and happy
that people everywhere are calling the
new Pontiac "the most beautiful thing on
wheel«.’’ Pontiac is a brilliantly beautiful automobile
—as handsome a car as ever rolled over America's
streets and highways.
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CHURCH
Timely Topics
Take a long look at the next new Pontiac you see—then
come in and give the car a really thorough exami
nation. That’s the way really to appreciate why people
are calling Pontiac"the most bea utiful thing on wheels. ’
P O N T IA C
Coquille, Ore.
4M W. Front St.
Birds Don't Mind Flies But • •
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Your Home needs protection from these pesky
summer visitors.
W hy Permit Your Home
to be taken over by a horde of summer flies when a few
dollars will give you a “fly-free” summer.
By DAVE 31EGGER . |
Some U. S. police officials
are experimenting with radar
equipment to check up on
speeding. As you pass-through
the radar zone your speed w ill
BY HON. R. T. MOORE
be recorded as accurately as
a Bing Crosby transcription
of' “Am I Blue?” The whole
From The Sentinel Files of 20 Years Ago
The session draws to a close in
affair would be picked up by
a little black box. Obviously
its fourteenth week and weary
this interferes with the free
A new real estate and insur legislators disperse to their re
(Taken from The Sentinel of F ri
right of a citizen to talk back
day, April 19, 1949)
ance firm has been formed in Co spective homes with the usual to the traffic cop . . . if you
feeling
of
frustration
over
lack
of
R. E. Koon, consulting engineer, quille which opened its office in
Talking
This assembly, feel big enough.
■pent Wednesday here going over the Nosier Building last week. It accomplishment.
back to a black box would be
the city’s present water system. is the Nosier & Walker, composed w ill go down in history as one that siUier than putting smoked
The only point on which he was of S. M. Nosier and C. D. Walker. has worked more conscientiously! glasses on black-eyed peas.
on more important legislation than
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willing to be quoted was his state
It would be like shadow box
ment that the selection of the well
The Marshfield Gun club has is any other session to date. Any
ing with an echo. But if it
failure
of
accomplishment
is
most
site along the highway was un sued an invitation to both the
stops speeding and saves lives,
certainly
not
due
to
lack
of
effort.
fortunate, that it was practically other gun clubs in the county and
it’s get a lot of support.
impossible to secure better than to all target marksmen, to attend A tremendous amount of study,
class C water from that location. the shoot next Sunday at the research and listening to testi
Plan now to attend the Co
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Marshfield club grounds.
This mony accompanied every impor- ' quille Woman’s club’s great
* There were sixty sportsmen who shoot is complimentary to A. J. tant measure. There was deter- | benefit May Day program the
participated in the shoot here last Sherwood, the dean of Coo« coun mined effort to evolve all of the ! evening of Saturday, April
For It la thia benefit
Sunday morning, coming from ty marksmen.
More than 40 facts before final action. Such a 30tfc.
M yrtle Point, Bandon, Marshfield years ago M r. Sherwood organ policy makes for slow progress as May Day and dance following
that w ill help pay for the new
and North Bend. Coquille’s high ized the first gun club in the a legislature but for better gov
ernment.
modern lighting system the
guns was C. D. Ray, 24; Charles A. county, here in Coquille..
The
measures
which
have
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Woman’s club recently placed
Baer, 24; E. A. Woodyard, 23.
in the Coquille Public library.
At the quarterly meeting of the seemed so important at the mo
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The petitions for the paving of bankers of southwestern Oregon ment of consideration fade into Mr«. Ardis Sherwood to chair
relative insignificance when there man of the May Day, and we
17 or 18 blocks in the north end in North Bend Tuesday evening it
is realization that statutes have a compliment her on the beau
were laid over by the council was unanimously voted that the
tiful affair coming up next
Monday evening. City Engineer closing time for banks in the coun guaranteed life of but two years.
Staver’s estimate of the cost of ty should be at noon on Saturday. The next session can, and often week-end.
does, amend or repeal. This cir
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grading, sidewalks, curb and pav
The American Medical As
Mr. and Mrs. Chet Stonecypher cumstance is both a protection
ing was »49,287.95, and for sewers
against ill-advised statutes and sociation claims “neither mas
along the same frontage, »10,- are packing up their houeshold
mechanical
devices,
goods, preparatory to leaving to safe-guard of the people’s liber sage,
948.42.
tonics, lights, hormones or
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morrow for Malin, 35 miles south ties.
w ill grow hair.
The closure of the session was vitamins”
Rainfall since last September east of Klamath Falls, where he
That’s a mighty bald state
not without the frantic man
totals 48 inches, which is 20 inches has a homestead.
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euvering to secure the passage of ment. Dishes, dishes, dishes,
short Of our annual crop, although
favored measures nor was it free they are enough to give any
E.
L.
Vinton
this
week
pur
there is two months of the season
from
the usual minority tactics of woman gray hair. Why not
chased
the
northeast
corner
lot
of
'y e t to go.
the Harlocker place, aacross from delay with purpose to discredit get a GE dishwasher from
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BIEGGER’S, 3rd and Taylor.
P. E. Drane and Mrs. Ada the J. S. Barton and A. O. Walker majority action. There has been
Let it do the work.
Phone
Barklow were quietly married by homes, and expects within ten more partisan politics exercised
420.
during
this
session
than
for
many
days
to
begin
the
construction
of
Dr. J. E. Snyder at North Bend
years and the efforts of the m ill- 1
yesterday morning upon the ar a modern residence, which w ill
cost in the neighborhood of »5500. tant minority have had the salu-
rival of the morning train.
P A E A C E A IW
Pontiac for 1949 offers a totally new kind of ride—a
ride as smooth and effortless and comfortable as a
car can be. And either of Pontiac’s famous engines,
six- or eight-cylinder, is a sweetheart for power.
Remember, too, Pontiac is the lowest-priced car
in the world offering the ease of Hydra-Matic
Drive. Available on all models at extra cost.
But Pontiac’s retd beauty cannot be fully appreciated
until you drive the car yourself. For the new Pontiac
is beautifully engineered, too—to give you a completely
different kind of automobile performance that simply
must be experienced in order to be believed.
has come out of this session of the Oregoh | he»1;
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state legislature as strong potential Demo- Nevertheless. only the existing
cratic tiimber for the governorship. A rid program of federal expenditures is
don’t laugh. He’s done more to get popular accounted for in the above gloomy
support than all the Republicans. When his figures. The program on which
case lost, the Republicans appeared to be President Truman was elected last
and which he is trying fran
going against the good of the people. In fall,
tically to get enacted by Con
many respects the 1949 legislature is the gress, would if passed increase
80th congress done over again on the state-
scale. And it may mean a Democratic vic
tory at the polls in Oregon.
Bill Fortier last week gave back $100.00
that had been given him in over-payment.
Friends say that in the time he has been in
business, overpayments totaling $1,000 have
been made, -and every time, Bill makes the
refund even before the payor finds it out.
He usually collects *a slight liquid token of
esteem for the refund, however, which is
cheap enough.
taking the floor. A portion
my statement to the House fol-
lows’
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. . . I feel satisfied Io vole
for the bill as a continuation of
a program we have started hut
the record must clearly show,
and the people of the eountty
must clearly understand, that
we are not today dealing with
an appropriation but we are
setting a figure which to • ® * » -
tmum for the program.
I feel certain the appropriation
for ECA wiU be considerably less
than the five and one-half billion
figure in the hill.
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Knend Easter In Eugene— M r. and
Mrs. Louis McCuskey and ^ n ’
Lauren, spent the Easter week-
1 end in Eugene, visiting at the
i home of Mr. McCuakey s sister.
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