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sa . since to preserve it. It is written into the American people. Americans will never question the value C o q u i l l e V a lle y of independence, but it is time for all of us to weigh the price we pay each year to cele brate it. Last year, when the Fourth of July pro vided a four- day week end holiday for many C O Q U ILLE , OREGON. JUNE 21, IM I. persons, the accident death toll hit an all- time high of 793. Traffic accidents alone took 491 lives. Other miscellaneous acci NEW SPAPER dents, such as drowning and fire, claimed 302. P U B L ISH E R S. The calendar will save lives this year, since ASSOCIATION the Fourth falls in mid-week, bringing only a one-day holiday for most persons. . But iption Price M OO Per Year in Coos County; even so this annual celebration of our na tional independence will bring tragedy andi $4.00 Outside County. death to many Americans. A n Independent Paper Dedicated to the The traffic accident death toll already is Development of Southwestern Oregon up ten per cent this year. Add to that the heavy travel and recreational activity of a red at the post office at Coquille, Oregon, holiday and the Fourth remains on the na 3nd-class matter under Act of Congress of tion’s danger day list. 3, 1879. Since the invention of the automobile, the number of Americans killed in traffic acci R A LP H P. STULLER Mr D. GRIM ES dents is nearly twice the number of patriots Publishers killed in all the nation’s wars. The Constitution guarantees every man P. Stuller . Editor liberty and independence. In America no Anderson . Advertising Manager one questions anyone’s right to go wherever N e s b itt___ -Society Editor he please to celebrate Independence day, or H. Ortman Mechanical Supt. any other holiday, but level-headed Ameri D. Grimes _ Linotype Operator cans are questioning the right of a minority C a ll_____ -------------- Pressman to endanger the lives of the majority. Henry _______Job Printer The • police alone cannot curb accidents without the wholehearted support of the na Be Alive On The Fifth! tion’s motorists—the very people whose lives are at stake. (From National Safety Council) There is much talk today about preserving Independence comes high. Many Ameri the American way of life. If we are to pre cans bought it with the price of their lives serve American lives we must set up volun- in the Revolution and many more have died tary controls over carelessness. X è n tln e l Letter To The Editor PA C À GRAPH/ € F TF1F FAST---- From The Sentine! Files of 20 Years Ago (Taken from The Sentinel of F ri- day, June 19, 1931) The fifth annual flower show sponsored by the Coquille Flower Lovers club was held in the Com munity building last Friday. M ay or Berg opened the show. He spoke of the disappointment it was to the city council that the people did not use the city water to keep their lawns and parkings green. He told of the gallons of surplus water and said the average fam ily did not use the minimum of 40000 gallons allowed them for $1.50 Mrs. J. H. McCloskey was high score winner o f the show, carrying o ff 16 ribbons. • Coos county, like all other coun- ties in the state, is going to be hit by the law passed by the last leg islature requiring that payment of •4 0 per month be made to the state for insane and feeble-minded per sons sent to the asylums and $60 per month for those going to the tubercular hospitals. Relatives are required to meet the bills if possi- Oiling of the highway between Riverton and Bandon started this morning and, with fair weather, w ill be completed in twenty days. • The largest attendance at a school meeting of Coquille District No. 8 in a decade was that at the high school Monday evening when 333 votes fere recorded for di- sector to serve a three-year term. Lyman Carrier received 145 and Ms nearest contestant 82._ For Keith Leslie won out in a I of four. A showing of hands showed the meeting as overwhelm- .ngly in favor of the employment of a music teacher. In a talk be fore the election Chris Terres ex pressed the opinion that the tax payers should be given as much consideration as the children. Mr. Carrier stated that it was expected to have the district on a cash basis in 1933. District Clerk H. S. Norton reported the census for the district showed 429 boys and 435 girls. M r and Mrs. L. H. Daily of spending their honeymoon here the past week. Mrs. Daily was formerly Miss Agnes Whetstone for many years an employee at the local telephone exchange. • Paul McElwalne of the South western Motors, returned Wednes day from Portland where he at tended a meeting of the Oregon Chevrolet dealers. The reports for Chevrolet sales in Oregon showed an increase of 15 per cent over last year. • Coquille students returning home from college the past week were Barbara Richmond, Gertrude Mehl, Clarence Barton, Virginia M iller, Jean Young, Gretchen Mehl and ■ Pauline Elllngsen. e St. James’ Episcopal church was the scene of a very pretty wedding Monday morning when Miss A dri enne Hazard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hazard, became tlifc bride of Frederick Morrison Ser- combe, of Portland. Bishop W al ter Taylor Sumner, assisted by Rev W. E. Couper of Marshfield, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Luckey L. Bonney was matron of honor. Gentlemen. Please accept the thanks of the Coquille Soroptimist club for your valuable assistance during our 1950-51 club year. We especially appreciate the fine publicity for the March of Dimes, for which our president, Mae B ar ton. was county chairman. I also want to say a word of praise for Ellen Nesbitt, who is also so nice, so appreciative and so accurate. Many thanks. Clara A. Stauff, Publicity chai; - man. BY HON. H A R R IS ELLSW ORTH In our heavily wooded country there is a method of fighting for est fires which is sometimes used in desperation. It is called “back firing.” Fires are not only fanned by the wind but generates their own wind which speeds them along. The back-fire technique is to go into the green timber a quar ter of a mile or so ahead ot the running fire and set a series of small fires across the path. When the big blaze reaches the line of small fires its momentum may be broken and the fire brought under control. I f the back-fire plan fails to work and the fire sweeps on, no harm is done since it would have gone ahead anyway. So the Administration has set up a “back-fire" against the sweep of public opinion against its foreign I m e iin ai draft of nearly every and domestic policies— against the important piece of legislation is public resentment over the firing written in that way. Inasmuch as of General MacArthur. The back the conference is limited to the fire consists of something they call principles contained in either the the “China Lobby.” There might be such an organization. If so, it House bill or the Senate bill or is supposed, according to adminis boti^ it is usual practice for both tration spokesmen, to have used Houses to acept a conference re sinister or other influence in be port. The final or conference draft half of Nationalist China. I f there is such an outfit I have never of the U M T -D ra ft bill is basically heard of it except from adminis the House bill rather than the tration sources, and it surely has Senate bill. The House version of been a complete flop in its activi the most important features of the ties judging from the present p iti bill was accepted by the Senate. fu l condition of the Nationalist Perhaps the two most contro versial and most discussed details government. Referring to the so-called China of the two bills was the draft age Lobby the following was stated by lim it and the method of starting one of the back-fire builders; “It UM T. The House 18*4 age lim it is alleged that from 1946 to 1949 for selections was approved as was the Central News Agency, a wholly the House procedure for establish owned instrument of the National ing a commission to work out the ist Government, spent in the details of a U M T plan. It should be noted that this leg neighborhood of $654.000,000 to in fluence American public opinion." islation does not actually set up a Now just think how absurd that system of UM T. It merely pro statement is. The sum sfx hun vides for the establishment of such dred and fifty million dollars a program. The Congress must act equals many times the total once more—on the report of the amount expended by all the news U M T commission — before any agencies in America which operate training program is started. • on a complete nation-wide basis. The people of Gold Beach and 1 mean several times more than the combined cost of operating the thF lo ^ er Rogue river country re United Press, Associated Press, In cently sent a group of very able ternational News, Trans-radio representatives back here to Wash Press, ete.. ington to appear before the Board Well, enough on the subject of of Arm y Engineers in behalf of back-fires but it is my guess that the proposed harbor development when you hear or read about at Gold Beach. The delegation something called the China Lobby, was headed by Earl Foster of Gold that’s what it is, a back-fire— set Beach and included the able and for the purpose of slowing down distinguished attorney John C. the big blaze of public opinion Kendall ot Portland (former cir which is about to consume the ad cuit judge for Coos county), and engineering consultant Don G ur ministration people. • nee. I attended the hearing and The House is about to begin con was gregtly impressed by the ex sideration of the new tax bill. I t cellence of the presentation— both w ill come to the floor under what oral and written. It seemed to me we call a closed rule. That means the Board could not fail to approve no amendments can be made on the project after hearing and read the floor. It w ill merely be de ing such overwhelming evidence bated and then the vote w ill be of need and benefits. For exam for it or against it— as is, just as ple, it was shown that the gov the committee brings it to the ernment itself w ill lose more than floor. I do not like that procedure half the entire cost of the project but must admit that when the end every ten years by not harvesting product is considered the people the allowable cuts on its timber w ill get a better tax bill if we acreage. That timber, if not used, take the one worked out by the w ill simply rot back into the soil. committee of experts instead of L ittle or no harvesting of Forest trying to write it on the floor with Service timber is being done now because of the lack of transporta amendments. • tion. The Board w ill give a de The appropriations bill carrying cision on the project at its July funds for work on rivers and har meeting. I t takes a long time to get such bors was passed by the House. A l though the total requested by the a project to the construction stage. Bureau of the Budget was cut In 1948 the first hearing was held more than twenty per cent, the on this project. The District En funds allowed for work on the gineer made a favorable report in two big dams In the Willamette 1949 which was approved by the Valley flood control project— De Division Engineer and sent to troit and Lookout Point— totalled Washington for Board approval. $15,000,000 each, which w ill allow The Board made a study and came work on both those important up with the statement that it was dams to proceed toward comple “unconvinced.” Hence the hearing tion for the earliest flood protec was called. Next step w ill be au tion and prodlictfcn of much need thorization of the project by Con ed poprer in the Willamette V a l gress. After that it w ill be eligible for appropriations. A ll of these ley. • • steps take a lot of time, but if the The bill which is generally re Board of Army Engineers gives its ferred to as the Universal M ili approval I think we w ill eventual tary Training and Selective Serv ly have a small but exceedingly ice bill has been finally approved. valuable harbor at Gold Beach. • • The last action in the long legisl a tiv e procedure of making a law SHRUBBERY T R IM MELD is the approval of the report of ARO UN D SCHOOL HOUSE Shrubs and hedges in the yard House .and Senate conferees. A bill is often drastically amend of the Washington school have un ed by one House after it has been dergone a trimming treatment by passed by the other. A conference the custodial staff of the school committee composed of ranking the past week. members from the proper legis lative committees of both House and Senate meets and adjusts the differences between the two bodies R ED M O ND SPOKESMAN — passing it on short notice. 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