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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1949)
know your county a check is made 6ft pAHMtti prop the Vet- erty, logs, krniber, eto., to loca 1.. ratte« the property ffi the eorrtfdt tee distribution of cash to vet district. Aerial photographe made of logs and lumber. erans. The total w ill be two “We can’t be everywhere at billion, eight hundred millions once, and this has proved a very of doUars' Think what that valuable check," said Forrest amoont of new, Wnobiigated,. by A NN LIE N K A EM PE R One m ill owner reported no logs spendable income w ill do to or lumber; however, the photo» increase in the valuation in Coos ward bolstering up a slightly 2 ? U v t d^ FeaSe’ PerhaPs one-half mill, on the indicated a quantity of both. The pictures were referred to him, his sagging U. 8. economy. No. for this year, according to Charles W. books and inventories checked and once an outpouring of federal ?.SST T A 8reater decrease will be re- it was found that he had $10,000 By The Hon. Harris Ellsworth money to not listed under the ahs°S L dlstncts Pr°viding their budgets are of assessable merchandise. A n V . 8. Representative heading of government spend ihe same this year as tost. Three The first *ew days after the ing. This will be tee return to iree new new plats plats have have been been filed. filed, other m ill reported $72,500 when Forrest attributes this Increase the High Court Park addition near it had an assessable inventory of House of Representatives moved veterans of World W ar I I of into its new quarters in the Ways overpayments they have made in valuation to the extensive pro Coos Bay, the Wilkinson additiod $271,000. gram carried on to assess all near Empire, and the Mingus These discoveries are beneficial and Means Committee room in the ’ on their National Service Life buildings as constructed, and also Park Heights addition in Coos Bay to small land holders, since they new House office building, Insurance Policies. that reports of personal property which has been amended to sell decrease their taxes, stated For thought the temporary set-up The Veterans Administration rest. 4 would work out Well. I- have returns filed w ith the assessor in smaller lots. refers to the payment as a spe changed my mind. The sessions cial dividend. Aayone « * • held Takes Office Nine Years Ago show much target inventories of City Boundaries Enlarged Nine years ago, on January 1, are little short of bedlam. In spite logs, lumber, etc., than last year, NS L I for as long as three The boundaries of M yrtle Point ownership records are up to date, have been enlarged and in Coos Forrest took office. Formerly he of every effort on the pert of the months to eligible for payments. and budgets of cities, school dis Bay the two new plats, Mingus was a longshoreman in Coos Bay. presiding officer, the noise and Veterans need not write the VA said, " I saw this chance to bet-1 confusion is terrible. As a result tricts and ports are in. Taxes w ill Park and High Court, and Hub He about this. Application forms 4 - . - .__ ____ _________________________________ 1 be extended «bout August 15. w ill aoon be available at all post addition area were added to the ter my position in life and I of the general high noise level on Lasts have been submitted by city. The assessor’s office has also took it.” He had never had ex the floor, the loud-speaker system offices. A ll the veteran needs the State Board of Forestry on handled the consolidation of ten perience in tax work, but he liked used by those who address the to do to obtain a form, fill It out land under fire patrol. Tim ber is schools, and the consolidation of to wotk with figures and was con House is operated at what seems and m ail it to the VA. to be fu ll volume— with six am pli patrolled for six cents an acre part of school No. 49 with No. 17 fident he cauld do the job. In a letter I received recently ‘ “M y opponent told me he was fier units blaring down at us from and grazing land for 3V4 cents by East of Coos Bay. from V A Administrator Carl R. along the walls. A boiler factory Gray, J r - be states, “Every ef the Coos Fire Patrol association, a In addition to these changes, inexperienced, too, but was ‘scared private corporation. Last year the there are about 15,00« others each to death’ he might win the election in fu ll production would be a nice fort to being made to speed up per acre costs were 5 cents and 3 year, such as in ownership, in and not be able to do the job. quiet place by comparison. work In connection with pay A few days ago I was asked by cents. the 80.000 parcels of property in That’s where we differed,” Forrest ment of the dividend. We hope a wire Service reporter what I explained. In citing this as a very busy Coos county. to mail out the first checks some His staff of eight have all begun thought of the situation, and when year, Forrest noted these changes. time In January 1950, and to On qr near January I each year work since he took office. Next I thought we were going to ad have the payment substantially to him in seniority is Mrs May En- journ this session. Among other completed by June SOth.” sele, accountant. Ellis Selander, comments I said, “We should ad chief deputy; Robert MacLeod, journ and go home.’'1 This re The announcement of plans for building appraiser and personal mark I find was widely quoted on property deputy; A lvin Hickam, the radio and in the newspapers. distributing insurance dividend building appraiser; Francis Flan There was, however, a great deal checks to some eleven or twelve agan, building appraiser and sur more behind my remark than re million veterans during the Con veyor; Elvin Armstrong, acting vealed by the short easy quote. gressional campaign year of 1950 draftsman and tentative building A fter watching the House of Rep touched many political nerves appraiser; Mrs. Elda Hansen, resentatives in operation for near around the capitol. I t was freely Ju»t one of the many delectable flavors clerk, and Mrs. A riel Riggs, clerk, l y two weeks under these ex stated by Republican members of available in Arden “FLAVOR-FRESH” tremely trying and adverse con Congress, arid on pretty reliable complete tbe staff. packages . . . at your nearest Arden ditions, I am convinced that no information it seemed, that these Every Haase Appraised Building appraisers spend most more than the vitally necessary checks actually could be sent out dealer. of their time in the field. Every bills be considered now. This ses during 1949 but that the distribu building In the county has an ap sions must, of course, complete the tion was delayed until next year I offer no I t for political reasons. praisal record on file. The old annual appropriation bills. ones are inspected about once ev should also complete action on a opinion on this becasue I have no ery five years, and the new ones few unfinished items of relatively direct personal knowledge about it low importance — and then ad — but I do know that things of as constructed. that sort have happened in this The draftsman makes new maps journ. I am certain that consideration big government of ours . when old ones wear out. On file W ith hot day» coming one right in the assessor’s office are 2«« and action upon highly important plat maps, 500 land class maps, and complicated legislation should after another why not treat the not be attempted under present neighborhood kids to some home and 500 miscellaneous maps. made fruit-sicles. Simply fill an Since he has taken office, For conditions. ice cube tray with apricot whole rest has incorporated all record There has not been a great fru it nectar. When It is partially keeping into a very scientific sys tem. of publicity given to the fact, frozen insert a wooden spoon in each cube and freeze until solid. Perhaps the most revealing bat before long the Federal thing about this job, Forrest con cluded, is how little people really know about the tax system, and especially about their own proper ty holdings. Many don’t even’ know how many acres they own. PAGE m r» Cws Assessed Valuation Up $3,000,« Which Means-Slight Drop In lax Levy X e n tin e l COQUILLE, OREGON. PAPER H A N G IN G BRUSH OR SPRAY enam eling Darrell L. Cox CoquUle. Oregon. Since 1929 Telephone 447-MM ORDERS FOR F IN E PAPERS E S T IM A T E S A N D COUNSEL' ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES LIGHTING FIXTURES fo r instance . . \7 c' Lstt¿' ¡.Luing’ Return From East Coast— Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hughes returned tost week from an extended East Coast trip that took them to the cran berry center of tbe world, Massa chusetts. They report a severe drougth in the east which to hard on cranberries. M r. Hughes who is local manager of the National Cranberry Canners group in Co quille visited officials of the or ganization. . P A IN T IN G CONTRACTS CHOCOLATE F JULY 21, Find Weather Hot— Mr. and,Mrs. j C. L Tuttle who are en route to Lake Louise, Alberta, have w rit ten friends in Coquille that the temperature in The Dalles last week was as high as 110 degrees. • • Return From Idaho Mr. and. Mrs. Dennis Winn and two daughters have returned from a vacation trip to Pend Oreille, Idaho. o • ^(Fluorescent & Incandescent) Installation & Repairing Estimates Given CARROLL’S Gift & Electric Supply 315 W. First S t Coquille, Ore. Phone 347 A new spectrom eter tells sim ultaneously how much of 1« dif ferent elements are in a metallic sample. F O R S U M M E R . . . J U S T R IG H T ! i« f FOODS .1 ft • 4* BUTTER Grade A lb. 69c 29c 39c DUZ Lg. Pkg........................ ....... ............. 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