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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1955)
„Thursday, Oct. 13, 195» COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL E D IT O R IA L S Stock M a rk e t And Ike, *• And People THE HEART OF AMERICA STILL BEATS _______________ mm . , -g — - X , < u g:— 2% hours on Civil Defense; 35 hours sewing and sent $19 in flow ers. Rose Mills and Alice Petersen received the door prizes ATTEND MEETING Fr. Jean Clark drove to Portland and back on Thursday where le attended a meeting with the Bish- op to assist in choosing an assis tant for the Bishop of Oregon. Rev 1 Leslie B. Dunton of Coos Bay ac companied him. Zoning Is Coming For three weeks now The Sentinel has been carrying a brief news column on just Lots of people who didn't read the Dow what Zoning amounts to. So far we have had Jones averages before last week, started read no questions to answer, though several peo ing them with avid interest when the big ple have stopped in to visit with us and to break" of 1955 made history. The purported ask just how soon zoning would take effect. reason for the break in market prices and At to the time, that is up to the City Plan the wiping out of some $13 billion of values ning Commission and to the City Council,1 was the heart attack of President Eisenhow and to the people also who must give it ap er. More to the heart of the matter however, proval at officially-held public hearings. might be the fact that buyers of common But this much we do believe is certain, stocks have been adding up tremendous pa zoning will be with us soon, and if you have ; per profits for the past six years and this questions you should start asking them now. looked like a good time to reduce their long That way you can make up your mind what to do when a public hearing arrives. holdings. . x The economy of the nation is as strong to- dav as it was before it was found out by the world that President Eisenhower is pre\ to From Other Papers the same human failures as the average man. The trend is now and is continuing toward From H E McMurray’s JEFFERSONIAN more growth in a growing world. Stock (Pa.) DEMOCRAT prices which in many cases of the blue chips had been predicated on values and growths A NOTE ON SAVINGS BONDS in 1960 and even 1970, deserved to come down. In times like these, when nearly everyone The fact that the same human man is buy has a job and a car and an electric refriger- j ing stocks who was in the 1929 market is the news of the moment. He hastens to sell in a ator and a television set. when wages are go falling market and thus adds impetus to the ing up and the future looks rosier than it has looked in a generation, some of us are likely The bigger news, however, is the fact that to get into the “easy come, easy go" frame of investment trusts and insurance companies mind. It is a joyous frame of mind, but hardly a started buying an all low dips and their bet ting on the future is that even without an prudent one. It is true the outlook is for a Eisenhower in Washington things are going continuance of good times. It is true that most to be pretty good for a long time in the United of us will manage somehow to pay off the a cup each year to the winner of debts we have accumulated during these days States and the World. Cup Given Champ the bread baking Queen of the Vice-President Barbara Lund- of easy credit. burg presided in the absence of Fair contest at Myrtle Point. But . . . and there is always a but. • • the president at the meeting which Welcome To Our Fold In the old days, there used to be a saying. Fair Bread Baker had five visitors as guests. Guests Each week we look forward to a newsy “Keep something in the sock.” In more gen- WRC Inducts Two were Rose Mills, Jennie Cuin, El The gold loving cup-awarded for I mimeographed newspaper from up in the teel circles its form was “Lay something aine Adgen, Lena Dalpiaz and El- j tall firlands of Powers and get a thrill oilt aside for a rainy day.” However you decide the Best Coos County Bread Baker New Members la McAdams of the North Bend | _went to Mrs. Karl Bowman of of the manner in which the student body of to say it, it is good advice. Corps. Fourmile for the 1955 fair. It was The monthly relief report was Pow’ers high school led by Editor Nancy Hall Two new members were initi The best sock of all is a United States Sav awarded Friday evening at \Jrs. ated into the Douglas McArthur ! given and showed that the corps do a bang-up job of editing a real paper. ings Bond. Of course, it is patriotic to buy Bowman’s home by Russell Evans members spent 20 hours in child “Hi-Power’’ is the name on the masthead of savings bonds. Everybody knows that. Sav of the Evans Dairy in Myrtle Point. Women’s Relief Corps when the , care; sent 8 cards, made one sick group met recently. The new the verv readable publication of the Powers ings bonds are a brake on inflation. They members are Dorothy DeCosta ! call; spent 136 hours on Skywatch students, and the coverage of local news in help to keep the value of money stable. They ■ Mr. Evans said he plans to give addition to a right smart lot of school notes don’t hold out the hope of glittering rewards. ! is excellent. like some of the common stocks we have Welcome to the Fourth Estate, kids at heard of. They aren’t for gamblers who are Powers. We say ' all power to your ‘Hi Pow- looking for a lot of fast bucks. Rather, they er. are for the man who is thinking ahead, think-1 ing about his wife and his family, and the uncertainties of the future. Savings bonds are a hedge against most Coquille Valley Sentinel forseeable hardships. If, and we all hope, the economy of the country remains stable, they sit there in your desk or in your safe deposit box, piling up compound interest for years to come If. because of unwise economic policies, there should came a recession or even a de pression. the savings bonds would be the sal vation of the man who owned them. Stocks go down at such times even real property, like farms and houses, decline in value be-, N A T IO N A L iO H O tlA L cause few have the money to buy. But sav ings bonds stand firm, gathering their inter- cst every year. If the value of other things goes down^ the buying power of Government Subscription Price $3 00 Per Year in Coos County; bonds goes up. Ask Dad, he knows. $4.00 Outside County. And, if Dad is wise, he knows that when the time comes for the children to go away An Independent Paper Dedicated to the to school or college, it is pleasant to go to the Development of Southwestern Oregon bank and cash a few savings bonds to pay T he F airlane A ictoria is one of F o rd s for them. He knows that if ill-fortune strikes, IK new Thtindi rbinl-inspired models for Entered at the post office at Coquille, Oregon, sav a big hospital bill or an accident, it is a y„„ can see Thunderbird beauty in as 2nd-class matter under Act of Congress of great comfort to know that the bonds are its long, low lines ami graceful silhouette. March 3, 1879. there, in the old sock, if you like. A man we know began buying savings I Ralph P. Stuller - Editor and Publisher bonds on a small scale back in the early for Edith J. Stuller - Co-Publisher ties As his income improved, he increased his investment ifi the payroll savings plam Before he knew it. he had several thousand Advertising News dollars, enough for the down payment on a RUTH HOGGARD LEN CALVERT W. H. Ortman Mechanical Supt. pretty house in the suburbs, and some left P. W. Church Linotype Operator friend Today he is sitting pretty, if anyone over to buy into a business run by a trusted Ed Punzel.................... „ Apprentice-Printer » ____________ “Scotty” Kelly............„...Compositor-Printer is. Spectoculor S t.n ie n .iM f and H ighw ay Tim rsbr Coach« S w v k . to oil 4 8 Stale«, Canoda, ond Io M exk» More Thrv-Expr«» Bu»« Io and from more p lo t« Escorted Town ond Pre-Planned Vocation, oH over Americo Group Charter Trip«. . . more fun thon a hoyrid. Nationwide Package Expre»« Service. . . fo»t, frequent y o u t r ie d G R E Y H O U N D la te ly ? G R E Y H O U N D A G E N T N E A R V O U Drive it today ! VETS M A H BAG - A . a aervlre to veteran« In the community. thU newspaper will publish a weekly column of news brief» from the Veterans Ad ministration. For further Infor mation. veterans should contact ir write their nearest VA office his capabilities and attitudes, so line will have passed? A. No. Under the law, a veteran that he is in a much better posi actually must begin his Korean tion to make a wise choice. GI training before his starting Q uestion o f th e W e e k Filing an application My deadline for starting deadline alone is not sufficient and the law school under the Korean GI Bill comes in November. I applied to grants no exceptions. start class this fall, in plenty of ~ 'niokiakarta a time. A family problem has come The s u l t a n t o p î up so that I won’t be able to begin Java city of 295,000 people. * J until around the first of the year, some 300 dancers and female r^ ' Will I still be able to get in under Hives in quarters to which he the Korean GI Bill, since my dead- ! alone has access. 56 FORD.../ w ith n e w T h u n d e r b ir d S ty lin g w ith n e w L if e g u a r d D e s ig n eterans Using Korean GI Bill Urged To Check Course Veterans who want to leam whether the course they desire to enroll in under the Korean GI Bill haa either State or Veterans Ad ministration approval may obtain thia information from their near est VA Regional Office or Center, VA said today. VA urged the veterans desiring to check on the courses to write to their own state offices, and not to the VA headquarters in Wash ington, where the information is not available Each State Region al Office or Center keeps an up- to-date record of approved courses available to Korea veterans Veterans were urged not to ask for an entire list of apr-ovd courses, hut to limit the request to the line of study previously de cided on. A veteran should have a fairly good idea of tht type of . training he wants. \ A said, when he contacts the VA for informa tion In this way VA can easily furnish him with the names of schools offering courses in his chosen field, so he can decide where to train If the veteran isn’t sure of wha. kind of training he wants, he may avail himself of VA’« vocational counseling Through tests and in terviews the counseling process enables the veteran to understand > *N uniat B l < £ 2 f t M ZZ NX I « H IM To« V m , just • storiea tall— »X teetadiM penthouse' Only 151 dinar« t u W * eammodated at one time la m t PaN 4 NEW U ttG U A tD K A T O « * new deep-center steer ing wheel, new double-grip door locks, optional new padded instrument panel and sun visors, and optional Verde Room for the Weal’s fin e * new Ford seat belts. A glance tells you that the o6 ^ord has tlie long, low lines - . the dazzling beauty of the fabulous Ford Thunderbird. But wait till touch gas pedal! Then you'll know that Ford goes like t l* Thunder bird. too. With the new 202-h.p. Thunderbird Y-8 engine, available in Fordomatic Fairlane and Station Wagon models, you'll pass with new confidence, smile at hills. And there’s even bigger news! It »Lifeguard Design. With the cooperation of leading univer sities. medical associations and safety experts. Ford found that most serious accident injuries were caused by the driver being thrown against the steering post, occupants being thrown for ward against hard surfaces, or from the car. So, Ford developed a new Lifeguard steering wheel with a deep-center structure to help protect you from the steering post . . . Lifeguard double grip door locks to give added protection from doors springing open under shock . . . optional Lifeguard cushioning for instrument panel anti sun visors, to help lessen injury from im pact. . . optional seat belts that help keep occupants securely in their seats Come in soon! See the ’56 Ford, test its power, and leam what Lifeguard Design means for the greater safety of yon and your family. Then you’ll know exactly why the '56 Ford is . . . the fine car at half the fine-car price ! food. Onr El Capitan Loun*e testa a Mere 58 people We’ve only I h ^ « » e t rooms, and just 3 elevatar*. D M we’re loaded with fenulne Weaaaew hospi tality' Rate« from a thrifty M- M A N L. IRELAND* * ■ * * • ? " Visit Sunny, Scenic Santa Clara V alley LfcS DIANZA Moat T o m . OeOU. Parklane, luxurious new 6 passenger “wagon" is one of nx new .«ml handsome Ford Station Wagons for 56. Customline Tudor and its Fordor companion feature a Dew and distinctively contoured body molding for 1956. Lounsbury I Mainline Fordor is a refreshingly dean-lined beauty as are its “running -nates" the Tudor and Business Sedan.
