sa
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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
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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
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killed in all the nation’s wars.
The Constitution guarantees every man
P. Stuller .
Editor liberty and independence.
In America no
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. Advertising Manager one questions anyone’s right to go wherever
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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
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Henry
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The
are scarce in the Redmond North Bend council also killed Bay
—as scarce as the proverbial Heat, Inc.’s bid for an exclusive
teeth of the hens that lay them. 20-year franchise.
Local buyers report inability to
buy enough to fiU the demand and
ITE M IZE R -O B S ER V ER , Dalla«
late shoppers usually find the
—An 8000-ton crop of ____
green
grocery stores out of eggs.
prunes is predicted for Polk coun
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H E A D L IG H T - HERALD, THla- ty, acocrding to Frank Neufeld,
■Mek— M. W. Slankard is T illa president of the Polk county Prune
Many or
mook's new city manager. He as Growers association.
sumed his duties June 1, filling chards in the Dallas area are un
the vacancy left by the death on usually well laden wtlh prunes.
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M ay 1 of City Manager Jack
Tabor. Slankard was city man
W ESTERN WORLD. B a n d o n -
ager of Roseburg for four years Pori officials are looking for the
before coming to Tillamook.
person or persons responsible for
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shooting out lights on the south
N O R TH BEND NEWS — The jetty. The lights are part of the
budget for the North Bend-Coos mouth of the Coquille river and
Bay water board has been tabled without them night shipping is en
lo r further study by board mem dangered.
Prosecution w ill be
bers and the water department j turned over to the federal govern
manager. Councilmen objected to ' ment
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