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About Port Orford post. (Port Orford, Oregon) 1937-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1938)
ÜREGC’. 1 with mid- «T U8WWT THIS PAPER ENDEAVORS TO SERVE THE PUBLIC INTERESTS IN THE W IDE FIELD OF WHICH PORT ORFORD WITH ITS GREAT NATURAL HARBOR IS THE IN DUSTRIAL CENTER. at the were ’ Sa*- PORT ORFORD POST FACTS — NEWS TO GIVE THE FACTS ABOUT PORT ORFORD. ITS HARBOR, AND THE VAST REGION OF UNDEVELOPED RF.SOVRCM SURROUNDING THIS CITY IS THE AIM OF THIS PAPER. atlon- p for ferred VOLUME I PORT ORFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1938 Cres- per- NUMBER 52 OPEN LETTER ncisco week TO THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION Mer- ip to MILL OPERATION AWAITS BOAT No definite knowledge as to when Through Curry i Between Rains GOLD COAST R. R. HIT BY EXAMINER POSTPONED United Press dispatch from The We know that the flood-cursed “dike section” of the S. S. Portford would arrive Pictorial Edition of The Post Now Planned For Washington, D. C. on Tuesday stat- available as we go to press, the Coast highway southwest of Coquille is a recur was ed that an examiner had recom- April 8th Issue but weather conditions favoring, ' mended to the Inter-State Com rent headache to you. But to those who live south of the steamer may arrive shortly and merce commission that the per- that point, it is more than an irritation. It is a men operation of the Trans-Pacific plant Like Oaul, Curry county is divis • mits for construction of the Gold ace to all business activity, involves frequently haz will be resumed as soon as the boat ible into three parts, although the Coast railway from Leland to Port WE BOW TO THE WEATHER starts loading and makes space lines of separation are a trifle nebu ardous and dangerous trips with incidental damage available for storage of lumber. lous. The northern section is dom Orford and another to Grants Pass Crescent City organizations to cars, interrupts mail, freight and passenger stage No damage was sustained at the inated by the lumbering industry, and for a road between these two points dock or in the yards during the To do the canvassing and fact gathering neces- service and disrupts all the social organization of with dairying and stock-raising be withdrawn. furious storm. sary still important. The tourist busi- communities located along 120 miles of the highway. last _ including taking numerous pictures proved to be This dispatch seems somewhat , H. S. McDuffee is expected dur ness with incidental fishing, and ing the week end and he will be politics are the engrossing inter garbled as the Grants Pass-Cres- impossible of competion iri time to publish our pictor Patiently we have waited year after year for accompanied by Philip Smith.. | cent City route was never granted ial section as the first number of our second volume ests of the middle of the county something to be done. We realize any solution will in DeBruin who is interested in Mr. the about Gold Beach and the Rogue I a permit to build. The Gold Coast on April 1st. volve considerable expense and that to construct a tie-plug plant arrived in town this river. In southern Curry, about I railroad was howevei- granted an .■A*°nslon of time for beginning Brookings and Harbor, the once The traveling and writing could have been done highway along the coast between Coos Bay and Ban-; week. construction which, it is under- dominant lumbering activity has don would be most expensive and that engineering I under difficulties, but done, despite the series of fur stood, expires April 1st. waned to be superseded by bulb COQUILLE FLOOD IS problems are difficult in working out other routes or ious storms. But to do the photographic work was culture for flower production, tour in lifting the present level of the dike. But we under not possible and this tied in with the other prepara ist traffic, where like at Gold TOPIC OF MEETING CHEESE FROM GOATS tion. r Beach, emphasis is laid on fishing stand your engineers have made exhaustive studies except it is the Chetco river that is MILK IS PROJECT However, a week’s delay is not particultarlv im- of the problems from every angle. We leave the solu Gold Beach, Mar. 23—Side-track boasted instead of the Rogue, and tion to you for it is altogether your business. portant in this matter. The date of April 1st was se ing of all other highway interests a new industry based on milk goats. concentrating all possible ef That a factory to produce cheese lected partly for sentimental reasons as an appropri Last Saturday the writer, accom It can be easily understand why you hesitate to and fort on securing a year around panied by Joe Fosse and Arthur from goat’s milk will be in opera- ate way to celebrate the first birthday The Post. load an already over-burdened budget with such an crossing of the Coquille River is Eddy, in the chastened and docile tion within the next month seems lobably, we as publishers are more concerned expensive reconstruction job. But the people of the unanimous endeavor of the but somewhat battered car, Eliza now assured, according to state- about this necessary delay than are our readers Such Gold Beach Chamber of Commerce. beth, resumed the trip postponed ments made by a group of those southern Coos and Curry counties have already sus At its last night meeting it was from the previous week when interested as producers in the pro apologies are required we offer. tained losses in dollars and cents from flood condi decided to bring pressure to bear, Elizabeth had to be rescued from a ject at Brookings on Saturday. The tions on this few miles of highway far more than to the exclusion of all other high canyon, as readers of a previous money has been arised for erection of fiierce storms with snow falling LAMBS DIE IN article will recall. It was assumed of the necessary plant a.id the site would be expended from your funds, to which we way interests, on getting a cross that even on the lower hill ranges has this would be a kind of after 1 has been selected, on the Christen- ing of the flooded river bed be rapidly changed the situation ior COLD STORMS have contributed our full share. cause any other action on the pro the storm trip but as it has been i sen ranch, four miles north of hetco and time. • anr re m gym body been the been the acks ■edit ased eers het- ‘lere of ved ity, ngs ang to and betterment of the high proved since it was just between । Brookings. Ai. the start there will We are asking you to get busy and do something motion be 200 goats producing for the fac way hinges on this one problem. storms trip. this year. We are fed up with evasions and non-com- As this community is now cut off It was impressed on us that keep tory. Dr. Mabel Handen brook will mital replies. We ask relief from a situation which from the north for third extensive ing a highway like our own boast be manager and a Swiss cheese- period in the current year and as ed Coast route open during the win maker by the name of Rolla will be grows more and more intolerable each year as traffic this condition is an annual affair, ter months is a herculean task. ! the expert in charge. It is believ increases. And in this The Post speaks for the entirei ; offsetting all efforts to bring more Keeping a highway which skirts ed that the product will be of high public in the large district affected. traffic and business to the area, the । most of the time steep hills and quality and command an excellent up The cold storsni of last week pro bably took a heavy toll of young lambs in Curry county, judging from scattered reports coming In from sheepmen. There will also be some loss of cattle on ranches where the hay supply has been ex hausted . Pasturage l as been un usually good all winter until the cold storms hit the coast country early this month bringing heavy snowfall in the high hill.;. Sheep have thrived well all during the winter with little need of special feeding or care as the numerous rain storms were accompanied by low temperatures. The lamb crop was excellent. B t th’ two weeks the worse. COQUILLE FOOD HITS MAIL SERVICE While the Coquille river was on a periodical rampage and as usual covered the highway over the dike southwest of Coquille for five or six days, mail service through Cur ry county was not only delayed but put in reverse gear. The first mail came into Port Orford from the south about 10:30 A. M. and the stage met the boat at Bandon for connections with a mail truck at Coquille, bringing back the mail to Bandon for points south and delivery was . ade jt Port Orford late in the afternoon. , chamber, backed by the commun- mountains on one side and the sea price. ' ity as a whole, feels that further on the other is some job. At in- j Officers in the Curry County production alone,to say nothing of MANGANESE RECEIVES D”1”” Goat * - association are: Hom- attendant freight, equipment sales, highway expenditures in south- numerable places there was evi- Dairy and other economic gains; (2) the ; western Oregon should be made in dene that small slides had been re- i er Hardenbrook, president; Chas., ATTENTION trade past with Brazil, cutting the ' crossing the Coquille with a de- moved or passed by for later re- i Rie®, vice-president; Frank Hass- moval while work was being done iter’ secretary; Judson Bell and R. tariff virtually in half and apply pendable highway. | This project will probably be tak- at critical points by the mainten- ! VanCamp, directors. That there are large deposits of ing to other important foreign i en up with considerable vigor by ance crews. Creeks were running ; It *■ expected that the number of manganese ore in Coos and Curry sources, has had the effect of bring i the Gold Beach delegation at the : banks full ___ mcnieu ; goats milked will be largely in- and rivulets trickled counties is well known to all min ing domestic production to a stand | forthcoming coastal chamber meet- I down every little ways or cascaded ! creased as other parties are plan- ing men. Just now there is action still, and (3) there are sufficient I in minature waterfalls from the I ning to add these animals to the | Ing in Port Orford, March 24. pending in Congress for accumula manganese ores in this country for । rocky cliffs. I Stock carried on their ranches and WK « ><•« : „ tion of a million ton stock-pile as a all peace time or wartime purpos I The sun came out at intervals il- new residents are expected to set es, although we now produce less preparedness step in anticipation NON-SUCH I luminating wild and beautiful tle soon in the vicinity of the new j than 7 per cent of the national con of possible war. scenery washed and glistening after plant and engage in the business. I sumption of manganese. BILLED SATURDAY In an interview this week, Earl a week of furious storms. The sea A limited amount of stock is being! Oregon’s principal manganese de- K. Nixon, director of the State De "The "Non-Such Circus will ar- surged white with anger against sold locally to finance the initial pcsits are in Jackson, Coos, Curry, partment of Geology and Mineral j rive promptly in Langlois on Sat- | ' urday Mar. 26th this week and will shores below. It was a trip live in operation of the plant until the IWWWISRBIJWC::' •’ Industries urged civic groups and Josephine, and Grant counties. memory. products can be marketed. News quoted from the Port Or- cows; Mr. Yeoman, thirty cows; "The building of a manganese begin at 8 o’clock. business leaders to use every effort I We approach with caution cn- ford Post, published January 27, and Mr. Martin 15 couws. Mr. Mc to secure action in Congress to stockpile, vitally necessary for Her majiesty, the Queen, Miss ‘ joined by the road signs the treach- 1881, by J. H. Upton & Son. Vey, living about seven miles be have this stock-pile created by ore national defense—doig it by devel Lois Perkins with her attendants ! erous sections on either side of Ar- low Ellensburg, had his house car mined in the United States. It opment of domestic deposits rather will arrive at the stroke of 8:30 j izona Inn In the Mussel Creek val- A BRAVE WOMAN ried away by the stream which ran IN would mean much for manganese than by merely buying it from o'clock. Let us all be there and । ley but found these places passable. foreign sources—and the restora give them a hand and hearty greet It was not until we were going mining in Oregon. During the late freshet, Mrs. near the house, but which, before tion of fair tariff protection would ing. Gillispie, Of Rogue river, awoke the freshet was only a few inches NIXON QUOTED The clowns, tumblers, ath down from Kobelanzar's station Politics warmed up considerably during the night to find the water deep. The damage to the cannery “Of prime interest to this state bring grea benefits to Oregon” NJiX- letes, rope walkers and menagerie that came upon slide that blocked all be present. It will also be a the highway where ten or a dozen during the past week in Curry. It one foot and a half deep in her at Ellensburg is assessed at $5,000. are actions now before both hous on said. es of the national congress,” he good place to loosen up your stiff men directed by Bernald Forty has been generally understood that house. At the time, there were in From Mr. Geo. Guerin wc learn joints to the lively tunes of the । were shovelling mud and gravel ov- there would be a struggle for the the house besides herself, her three that very little damage was done in said, “for they virtually hold the JOINT CLUB MEET Everest orchestra and all for the . er the bank from a mass that con- j nomination on the republican tick children and her mother-in-law. the vicinity of Newcastle, except fate of the potentially vast domest IS PLANNED small admisison harge. et as district attorney and this is The river was alive with drift at the carrying away of Newcastle ic industry of producing man ; tinually crawled toward them. bridge. The proceeds from this unusual I ganese, the indispensabe element in We made a precarious turn on materializing with the announce the time, but to remain In the The Sunset Garden club met with entertainment will be used for the ments coming from Wood of house was almost certain death to making sound steel. A bill by Sen , the side hill and followed directions LOCAL NOTES ator John E. Miller of Arkansas Mrs. Ruth Adams Friday afternoon furthering of 4-H club work and in folowing a piece of hte old coun Brookings, Herbert Dewart and all; so taking her children, the with Mrs. Margery Brooks as joint other needs of the Langlois Grade Rev. C. A. Phllbrook went down provides for acquisition of a mill ty road down the steep hill as a Grant Williams, both of Child brave woman started, the water hostess. It was arranged at this school. ion-ton stockpile, domestically-min detour, to reach the Euchre Creek Beach, all registered as republi being above her waist, for the up to Crescent City to assist the pas meeting invite the Port Orford ed. of this No. 1 strategic mineral. , bottoms where Ophir nestles. From cans. Other contestants are rum land back of the house, which she tor of the M. E. church in conduct Women's club to the next meeting reached not without considerable ing a protracted meeting. The concurrent resolutions of Sen- 1 Ophir to Gold Beach we could ored as possibilities. SEASON to be held at the "white house" in A small bomb shell was trown danger as the current was so ator James E. Murray of Montana ( mage a good time over a hghway the Hamlet Friday, April 1st, as R. D. Hume came up to Ellens and Congressman Francis H. Cace j in good shape until we approached in the unexpected filing of E. B. strong as to carry them out Into luncheon guests. I Gold Beach where a piece of sunk- Sypher, of Langlois for county the main stream. Returning she burg to be present at the launch of South Dakota in the House call At the banquet held at Silver j en grade was found. commisioner, an office he filled for carried her mother-in-law to the ing of the new steamer upon the Secretary of State to ex- DINNER PARTY FOR Springs Inn Thursday evening of elude manganese in proposed new I Entering Gold Beach from the two or three terms some years ago. place where she had previously last week by the Trans-Pacific bas 1 A. W. Cope of Langlois had filed taken her children. During the ex The only house that was endang tariff treaties and to remove it bridge the Rogue looked mighty BIDDLES GIVEN ketball team K. L. Stanniger, man- the week preceding for this office. citement they had naturally for ered by the flood on Floras Creek, from the schedule of commodities and majestic as the mile wide | ager, was presented with a fine Both are republicans and both are gotten to take matches, and, as a we learn, was Mr. Boise's. Mr. B. in the Brazil reciprocal trade pact Mr. and Mrs. W. T. White, Jr., stream flowed out to the sea. Look , Gladstone bag of saddle leather. It well-known and popular In the consequence, being a good distance was at the bay and Mrs. B. aband of 1935.” entertained Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Bid- ing up river the several Islands X P'aC! *he trophies । were only markea by nodding tree north end of the county. Probably from any neighbor, were obliged to oned the house for fear that " more Nixon explained that, in a recent die and family, Mr. and Mrs. John 1 the division of the vote in the south stop in the woods all night without Was coming.” They lost some pigs. hearing before a sub-committee of Marsh and Maurice Redcliff at din- as ehamnions of P®s two aeasons । tops in the yellow flood. the Senate Military Affairs Com ner Sunday evening, honoring the ' Oreeon Inden i it outhwestern ! That we could probably get end of the county will have much any fire. John Fitzhugh, C. E„ has accom mittee in Washington, it was Biddles who leave soon for their । uregon Independent league in the । through to Harbor was the infor- to do indeciding the contest. R. plished a feat In civil engineering WAY HACK—LONG AGO brought out that: (1) the proposed home at Loon Lake, near Spokane. | custody of the Port Orford high 1 ■ mation gained at Gold Beach, in L. Wagner, incumbent by appoint hithertosupposed to be impossible, million-ton stockpile, if produced The Biddles have spent a number school. Guests attending the func- ' terspersed with some political dis ment, is unopposed for nomination We are Indebted to J. B. Tlche- from domestic ores, would mean of winters at Port Orford. A so- I tion besides Mr. and Mrs. Stanni- cussion. Then we were on our way on the democratic ticket thus far nor for the opportunity to inspect by constructing a reservoir at Op While both are unopposed at the * hir beach, which will add greatly to 68,000.000 man-hours of employ- clial evening with games and danc , ger were: Mr. and Mrs. Delmar agalnn found at Cape San Sabast- a journal and ledger kept away the capacity of the mine. Wrigut, Mrs. Hairy Helmken, Miss ptimaries, a close race is antici-! ment and a 124,000,000 payroll for ing followed the dinner. ian a wintry grandeur ii, the seeth back In 1953-4, in a store belonging es. Esther Deitrich, Mary Jean Ray pated between Roy Carter, demo ing, white-capped sea. Then came to Capt. Tichenor. Those were Last week a portion of the stern mond. Evelyn Baird. Patricia and cratic incumbent, and Heinie Dol- ' familiar winding roads through the days of high freights and fabulous Frances Moyer. and rudder of a vessel came ashore ge, popular garage man of Port ' forests with only minor slides un- profits, and yet many of the staple The team won 21 out of 23 games a few miles below Rogue river. The Orford for the office of joint re this season and made a total of I . til the verdant beauty of the Pis- I presentative In the legislature. The commodities were cheaper than wreck appeared to be that of a new now tl River valley greeted the eye. 1 boat. points to 647 made by oppon- I Important factor In this contest before will 922 ents. I Here the river was over-flowing its will probably the division of votes birthday party marked banks. STORM NOTES , Saturday evening in Coos county. last, Mrs. A few miles farther on we came Greater damage was sustained Blacklcok gave her son Willie a aim make list 100 per cent paid up to TIE-PLUGS SHIPPED to the big slide where the highway : during the late freshet in the low birthday party, to which Invita the second year publication, April had dropped down gome five feet or 1 DIESEL PLANT STANDS TO DENVER er part of the county than In this tions were issued and numerously more where it crossed a piece of section. Chetco river was three texponded to. In the dining room BY DURING STORM A car load that just order of tie-plugs collapsed ground. The highway feet higher than In 1861-2, being up were arranged temporary stage set were shipped from the local plant crew were on the job difficult or at inconvenient some sub Wednesday The new diesel plant in Port Or to the door of the residence of Mr and had tings, and aided by his brother to Denver, Col., for the gravelled the two ends of the break ford was called upon to take over I^ke, and also up to the caves of Johnnie, Miss Blanche Bates., Willie scribers. In that case why and Denver * Rio Grande railway. and a roadway through. Se _ we the load several times during the James Stitt's house, carrying away Bates and Arthur Upton, Willie en- will be There were 1.250,000 tie plugs in the dipped In and pulled out again and storm period when wires were shipment, The consignment was found ro serious obstacles to ob- broken and on Sunday the broken his barn and large quantities of tertained the company for some oats and hay Mr Miller last his time with character sketches, songs tricked to Coquille for shipment struct the way between there and lines of the Mountain States Pow season's catch of fish. On Smith tableaus, etc. In which the young by rail and was the first shipment Brookings, reached at noon, after er company which affords stand river, the dairying interests suf participants acquitted themselves made from the new plant which is passing Carpentarville perched up by service to the Bandon system fered severely, principally from the with credit. The remainder of the new part of the Trans-Pacific set in the hills. According Our Records interrupted service making the use loss of stock. As far as we can evening was pleasantly occuppied up, constructed during the past Brookings and Harbor are two of the diesel plant necessary to learn those who lost dairy cows ’ inform us if there has a in dancing and playing the various few months. (Continued on page eight) n.aintain service in Port Orford. were: Mr. Bailey who lost fifty games peculiar to such gatherings. FEDERAL CIRCUS PORT ORFORD 57 YMRS AGO POLITICAL CONTESTS LOOM CURRY VICTORIOUS IS CELEBRATED All subscriptions expiring April 1st below. We to our begin of 1st. We realize at this time payment may be least for tell us and when we reasonable. be YOUR SUBSCRIPTION EXPIRES to Kindi} been mistake made.
