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PAGE SIX and is being assisted by a group of local I f they do it w ill be a fu women who are giving must to the city. tile and costly effort. The American Rea Cross with the aid of In its first six months this Con C o q u ille V a lle y the Active club of Coquille will send 100 gress has passed only two laws children to Sugar Loaf in the Coquille river which could be considered of importance. One was for free swimming lessons. Instructors wil outstanding the b ill to give the President pow be two Coquille young people who took spe ers for reorganization of the E x cial Red Cross swimming instruction in ecutive departments. The other COQUILLE. OREGON. JULY M, 1949. Washington, Patty Shaw and Norman Halter. was the Housing bill. The American Legion sponsored a junior The previous (80th) Congress N A T I O N AL E O I J O I 'A I baseball nine. A softball league is in full did an amazing amount of good and active progress. A women’s softball and constructive work. I said so in these letters at the time. I said league is underway. it every time I could during the And we like it all. last fall. Unfortunately Coquille is meeting, more than meeting in campaign SOUTHWESTERN OREGON’S LARGEST WEEKLY louder and more important voices fact exceeding, its normal responsibility to than mine were maligning the ward a recreation program for its citizens. • 80th Congress. Now we have a A n Independent Paper Dedicated to toe Much of this is due to either direct, or in chance, on the factual record, to Development of Southwertern Oregon direct support as in the Girl Scout Patterson compare the job we did in the ' Entered at the post office at Coquille, Oregon, Grove project, of the city government which first six months w ith what our de- famers have done in the same pe- na 2nd-cl a»« matter under Act o f Congress of has a fine park commission. The New York Times, in And that s where part of your tax money an editorial “ " 3 , 1U9. printed July 6th, goes. Goes, but comes back to make us all gives the best summary I have ............... 1111 1 c ...................... -saee better citizens. seen, as follows:, RUph P. Stuller M . D. Grimes S e n tin e l Publishers i P. Stuller _ W. C. Pritchard _ Advertising ■Ben N e s b itt___ W. H . O rtm a n ___ Society Editor , ------ Mechanlcal Sopt. I L D. G rim es___ Linotype Operator Lao C a ll________ A. Riddle 0IE F ilili How Is It Now? .Editor Job Printer iW ER ÌRTIRR - They Deserved The Vote We were gratified to see the city budget pass at its second time at bat. Having been a Monday night visitor twice a month for over four years at Coquille city council meetings we have been constantly amazed that it was possible to find business men who WQuld willingly put themselves in a position to get plenty of cussings, but little praise. We have never seen a negligent council in Coquille. We have never seen a council in Coquille that protected special classes. We have never seen a more democratic council than the Coquille council is. And for the record, they put in around six hours each council night, plus some ten hours per week on the Outside just check ing city affairs that have to be checked, started, stopped, helped, aided, and done. They get no. salary. Yes, we may differ with them on some points, but on the point that they are an honest, sincere, civic-minded, and capable council we insist. Their budget was what they needed for continued progress in Coquille. We’re pleased that a majority of the people felt the same way, otherwise this paper would have been indicted for not having helped in telling their story to the public. Coquille Does A Job A healthy sign of maturity is evidenced by the fact that Coquille is doing a job for its children. Recreationally, Coquille is tops among Oregon cities this summer in taking “[th e play development activities of the junior citizens. And we should be proud of the fact. A hundred more or less youngsters are having the finest play program possible un der the direction of the city park commission and the city schools. It is directed by Mr. and Mrs. Everett Peery of Eugene, both highly capable and fine play-ground di rectors. A hundred girls and Girl Scouts are revel ing in a Girl Scout Day camp in the heart of the city park commission’s green and lovely verdant Patterson Grove. Cooking, camp ing, handcrafts, arts, singing, and all that goes into a Girl Scout program is being taught. Mrs. Virgil Beaudette is director, Several months ago, whep the sere wind of a recession was giving people the jump- *?«- l iving jitters, we editorialized a bit on the why-nots of a really deep recession at this time. Pointed out were the facts of high savings deposits, unfilled needs, government bond holdings, considerable caution in con sumer credit, and all the other things that pointed to a healthy economy once the r shakedown was accomplished. As you might imagine, we got called, and hard, by several of our friends, who couldn’t see anything good at all about the future picture. They asked us for our facts, and we dug The good old days when West members of the House of Rep them out from the various trade and bank ern resentatives could make prompt and union periodicals that go across our desk reply by telegraph to urgent in each week. But they were still doubtful. quiries or requests from constitu Now, comes the fact that the stock market ents ended July 1— unless we pay has gained for four consecutive weeks. The most of the telegraph bill out of construction industry has pepped up. Cop our own pockets. Formerly all per and lead are on the way up. Buying in terest is good and healthy where re-adjusted COSTS LESS prices have given the consumer a real rea son to start shopping. The next six months may not be one con CO tinued rosy picture, but chances are that our < business economy has a lot of life left yet, and with inflation-fear broken, healthy times are ahead. “O <u We still like to paraphrase Franklin Dela no Roosevelt who sort of inscribed perman ent words on a lot of the blocks of history when he said one night many years ago, “There is nothing to fear, but fear itself." ’ Evidently interest in PUD’s is spreading for Monday saw the first Coquille citizen in our office asking us these questions: “What are the advantages of a PUD? How much does power cost? Do you favor it?” For the record' Mt- States Power has been getting some pretty tough competition from public power minded areas, and a recent PUC ruling allows them to get competitive on rates where there is another company (or public power group) in direct competition. Spring- field recently joined the parade and voted a municipal plant which will run direct competition to the already setup Mt. States Power lines. Humidity is at one of its lowest pointy this summer, and constant awareness of the danger of fire should be with us all. The greatest tragedy that can happen to a tim bered area is fire. Be more than careful when you drive through woods, through brush-covered areas, along Bandon’s Irish furze roadways. We don’t want a fire this summer.. FOR PIPED SERVICE GAS APPLIANCE C O M P A N Y 480 S. T a y lo r Bandon is to be congratulated on its 4th of July celebration. Many nice things have been heard about the fish fry and night show. • • Both Aristotle and Demosthenes regarded torture as the surest means of obtaining evidence. Don't Be Like The Potato! C oquille Potatoes Have Eyes But Cannot See! You are more fortunate . . . You not only can SEE the difference, you can FEEL the difference immediately when your car is serviced by. a FORD mechanic. You’ll re ceive prompt, courteous and efficient serv ice when you . . . . . . . . . . Ford Mechanics Know Best What's Best For Your Car Coquille Ford Sales Cor. 3rd & Taylor Coquille Phone 34 Phone 344 North Bend is proud of its new First Na tional bank building which is replete with a lunchroom for women. Something new, eh? From The Sentinel F iles of 2» V ears Ago • C O Q UILLE GAS C O M P A N Y , and there were some— come home with ten, twelve, fifteen striped bass. For last Friday marked the beginning of the new lim it on stripers. From now on it is five fish per day, as voted by the last session of the legislature. The past few weeks have seen one of the heaviest catches of bass in recent years w ith many tourists making record catches, much to their surprise, and needless to say, loy. Bring Your Ford Home For Service LP (Propane-Butane) Gas Service beyond the Gas Main D4$T> (Taken from The Sentinel of Fri day, July 18, 1829) Irrigation in Coquille' was re «umed last evening for a period ef one hour only— from 6 until p. m. GIVES MORE 1. Cooks Easier 2. Cooks Quicker 3. Cooks Better 4. Cooks Cheaper I Ray L Harrison, Toledo post- who has been busy iting tlon in Coos Bay was a Coquille visitor Thursday, and had noth ing but high praise for the fer tile green Coquille valley. M r. Harrison who is a regis tered Guernsey raiser was visit ing fine dairy herds in this area. He also bought a Sentinel, being an omnivrrent reader of news papers with a list of 28 on his regular sabaeription list. s o That’s how many homes are using gas ranges in America. There must be a reason: There are several. These people have learned that a Gas Range----- <u . U u « i— Bass Lim it On Toledo Postmaster As For Friday Likes Coquille No longer can those lucky few — Visiting Here From A rk a n s as - Mr. and Mrs. Roy Roten of Leslie, Arkansas, are visiting in Coquille with their son and daughter-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Don Roten. They expect to remain in Coquille for the balance of the summer. Twenty-Three Million People Can't Be Wrong P A E A G IM P H f <1 I I I “That Eightieth. in fact, new looks like «unethlng of a cham pion. By this time In 1947, and at the end of its own first 8 months of work. It had adopted the Greek-Turkish aid pro gram, ratified peace treaties with Iita ly and the Axis satel lites; approved a constitutional amendment limiting the Presi dency to two terms; created the Hoover Commission on reor ganisation of the Government: the T aft-H artley Act and the portal-to-portal pay law; Yea. this was a Republican Con greaa, facing the difficulty of cooperating successfully with a Democratic President.” telegrams sent by Members on of ficial busines were paid for out of the legislative appropriation. There was no lim it except that measures be confined to official business. It seemed like a reason able arrangement to me. We al ways had to pay for our own tel ephone calls and that was fa ir enough since with mailing anu telegraphing furnished, we should be able to pay for our own offi cial phone conversations. What happened was that a bill was brought to the floor and passed one dull afternoon when mo6t members were in committee or attending to office work. This bill provided tor long distance tel ephone calls as well as telegrams —but limited the total amount to 2500 per yegr. The result, so far as Pacific Coast members are con cerned. was to lim it our telegrams to three or four PER W EEK —and that’s all! Our telegrams, due to the distance, average about 23 each. The government w ffl save no money by this arrangement- Few Easterners were using $500 worth of telegrams per year— but having the privilege of telephoning now they w ill certainly use the full amount. The scheme was merely a redistribution of the communi cations cost with nearby mem bers gaining and members from a distance taking it on the chin.’ The irony of the whole thing reached a climax when Time Magazine with its usual sarcasm toward Congress reported that the House of Representatives had with "open handed generosity” voted itself an additional $500 for telephone calls! by Rev. Gus A. Garboden, pastor of the M. E. Church of which the deceased had been a member for 25 years. Besides his widow he is survived by his son, Ralph E. Nos ier; three brothers, Amos L , John Wesley and Bird E. Nosier. room in the Gould building which the Gould Furniture has used for a crockery room and expects in the near future to open a w ell- stocked music store. TIME TO CLEAN...REPAIR...REPAINT...RENEW! A change in management takes place in the Roosevelt Super Serv- vice station today when W. D. Fish and H. Tillmann take over the stock of the the minority holders, N. C. Kelley, F. F. Schram, Guy M. Kelley and J. J. Stanley. M ike Clapshaw retains his stock but retires from active management. One of the saddest tragedies in Coquille for many years was the TTuTTTac^Farr store w ill open in suicide of Ross King, 14-year old son of Jack King, who took his its new quarters in the new Gould K. E. Medford is the own life by hanging some time building. last Friday night, in the basement manager. of the unfinished O. T. Nelson house on North Coulter street. The annual report of the Co • quille Valley Cow Testing associa An incorrect story is being used Lion shows continued increase in in some quarters as a reason for production by Coos county cows. opposing the $85,000 water bond The average production as shown issue which is to be voted on A u by this report is 305 pounds but gust 5. The present council, when terfat per cow for the year; in i t decided to put the water system 1925 the average production per in the best of condition, and to se cow fas 282 pounds butterfat. The cure adequate supply, determined high herd for the year 1925 made No more than two weeks should to put the matter in the hands of an average of 391 pounds butter- be needed to complete the major an expert. For this reason M r. fat, which was increased to 424 items of legislative work neces Koon of Stevens & Koon was em for the high herd in 1928. There sary before adjournment The ployed, and even if his fee was were 1127 cows tested during the Senate should act on the Atlantic past year. to be 28,000 (which it is not), it treaty. Congress should finish the would be worth it to have enough appropriation bills, several of good water during the summer Mrs. Emma McDonald of Oak which have not yet had Senate ac season The contract between the land, California; Mrs. Edna Walls tion, and then we should adjourn. city and Stevens A Koon is on file and daughter, Jean, of Modesto; I suppose, however, the Ad in the recorder's office. Mrs. Charlotte Gros and children, ministration and administration of Portland, came In Tuesday leaders in Congress w ill insist on James T. Nosier, pioneer settler evening to attend the J. T. Nosier keeping the session going several in Coquille, passed away Monday. funeral. weeks more hoping that some Funeral services were conducted thing might be done to prop up at the Chapel yesterday afternoon H. S. Norton has rented the the sad record of this 81st Con- Beautify Your Home With two full months of good summer weather still ahead, you’ll want to be sure that your home is put in tip-top s h a p e - inside and out—“Lovely to look at” and snug against the coming winter blasts of penetrating cold----- PENETRATING IF your home is not fully protected. Have You Looked A t Your Roof? Perhaps you’ve been thinking that roof might last another season. Well, per haps it will and perhaps it won’t. It’s a big risk to take when you consider the resulting damage to the interior and furnishings If You Guess Wrong! Don’t Gamble — Be Safe — Be Sure. Let us advise you and supply your roofing materials AT A NEW LOW PRICE W h a t About Outside Paint? Paint not only adds beauty and value to your home — it is the finest PRO TECTION money can buy. SHERWIN- WILLIAMS paints give you necessary protection against Winter rain and Sum- heat ----- SHERWIN-WILLIAMS new color combinations also add charm to your hom e----- both INSIDE & OUTSIDE Mason Hardware & Paint Co. 321 W. Front St. “YOUR FRIENDLY STORE” Store hours 7:30 A. M. to I P. M. Coquille, Oregon Phone 08
