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About Port Orford post. (Port Orford, Oregon) 1937-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1940)
THIS PAPER BNBRAVOKS TO SHKVB TW rUBIJC INTERESTS IN THE *DC FIELD OF WHICH PORT ORFORD WITH ITS GREAT NATURAL HARBOR IS THE IN DUSTRIAL < ENTER PORT ORFORD POST NUMBER 19 PORT ORFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940 VOLUME IV I CU d AHY will NOT REBUILD N Y A WORK IS AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL YOUTH Langlois Cheese Factory FACTS — NE TO GIVE THE FAC M> t PORT ORFORD, T . RI' AND THE VAST «ON O» UNDEVELOPED • ICHCU SUKKOUNDINC ■> LITT I* THE AIM OF Th PAPER. Port Orford Has M'NARY WIRE 1 LUMBER IN HARBOR PORT ORFORD Mild Weather „¡WILL HAVE PROMISES AID ™ Three ship» WEEK either arc loading or dbe to load lumber this week at During July Trans-Pacific lumber dock in one of, BANK SOON I THREE BOATS LOAD ON PORT PLAN the busiest periods of the year. Ap Young men and women of Port Precipitation for the month of July proximately two and three-fourths mil Orford between the age» of 18 and in the Port Orford are« during the last Changes Plans Construction of Building Notification Ceremonies lion feet of lumber from the local mill ’ 25 will be able to benefit under the kjur years has been increasing instead The Cudahy Packing company’s changed regulations and new rule. •f lessening, according to a check-up of For Branch of County Will Prevent Attendance will be shipped out on the boats. The S. S Susan Olson arrived Tues cbe~ factory in Ungloi, which was , of the National Youtn Admlnl.tr«- the records of tbe local weather oflice, Bank Begun Thursday Of Senator at Hearing day to load a full cargo of lumber for destroyed bv fire about two . eeks ago. Gon according to Mr. Gilbert E. made this week by F. B Tichenor, U- San Francisco. The Olson boat sailed «.II not be rebuilt despite eany reports «able who recently made • trip to S Cooperative weather observer. Total Immediate construction of a new , „ 1 Marshfield to confer with the NY a rainfall during the past month was 1.42 Indicative of interest shown in Port Thursday night. " The H ^i^Hansen Cheese factory oi dfatriet supervise from The S. S. Hubert Schafer is scheduled building for a Port Orford branch Orford's proposed harbor developments inches. of the Curry County Bank was de Langloi» and the Swift plant at Sines 1 AnY >'ou"« m*y be Following are the precipitation figures by the Oregon congressional delegation to arrive Friday morning to load ap K ,0|umi. oi ible regardless of family income in inches for July for the past six years: is a telegram received this week by the proximately 700,000 feet for San Pedro cided at a meeting of the direct have taken over the entire vi 1 and w.ll noto have to be passed up- 1935, 0.53; 1936, 1.25; 1937, .00; 1938, Port Orford Chamber of Commerce This boat will leave Sunday evening, ors of the bank Wednesday in Port Washington, D. C.. Aug 1.—Alarm the milk formerly supplied to the Cud Orford, and work was started at on by the relief office in Gold , 04; 1939, 1 47; 1940, 1.42. from Charles L. McNary, Republican according to present schedule. ists are worrying «bout the compulsory ahy plant the site Thursday. Beach. A social »ecurity card will The S. S. Port Orford is due Monday, senate majority leader and the party The average temperature (uring July military training «nd registration of ev Opening of the new branch Is ex be necessary as will an affidavit of .1940, was 68‘ which is coR enough vice-presidential nominee, which states August 5, from San Francisco to load en male between 18 »nd 65 ye»rs They pected by September 1. according cititenahip I even for the most exacting summer va- his intention to do his part in the cam another full cargo of Lumber for San want to know whv American citizens . Preference in NYA work at .. the I cationer. Highest temperature was 75 paign to bring a new era into existence Diego and San Pedro. The Port Orford to present plans. should be drafted into uniform when Contract for the building was let present time fa being given thoae, sailed south last Saturday with 1,058,861 for Southwestern Oregon. there is no war nor war in sight Anny j clerical and mechan-. during Ju,y toU(ed „ The telegram from McNary to Reeves feet of lumber aboard for San Francis Wednesday to the Avendale Con brass hats plan an army of 3,000.000 < The annual joint Coos-Curry-Douglas interested in struction company of Portland, men. whkh is not large for a country I 4-H Livestock Judging Tour will be leal training Mr» Gable brought ' Cloudy days totaled five, and part- Taylor, chairman of the Roads and co. En route north she is expected to and, according to Mr. Chase, ag back application blanks which may have a general freight cargo aboard. Harbors committee of the Port Orford 1 cloudy days were four. th^size oi the United States, but is held in Coos County Monday. Augu»t 6, ent for the contractors, local men be obtained from her. A busy week such as the local dock chamber of commerce reads as follows: | Prevailing winds were north on 17 very large and very costly as a peace- ovend>-bt camping at the Floras and materials will be used wher- is experiencing this week means a lot fays of the month, northwest on four time army. ! Creek Bridge 4-H Club boys will learn NL July 26 of work for local longshoremen. ever possible. Reeves Taylor, ' days, south on nine days, »nd southwest Another feature of tbe conscription j w jurge beef cattle, sheep, bogs, and Chairman Roads & Harbors Committee Site of the new bank building on one day. program, approved by the senate “ com* ' cows in preparation for a well Port Orford Chamber of Commerce, will be on the lot formerly owned it that any the Most oi the precipitation during mittee on militan affairs. ------- --------------- - , established contest ordinarily known at by Johnny Sylvester, juat one Port Orford, Ore. conscript taken from his job to respond moit fljn. Livestock Judging month fell during tbe past week, the block west of the post office. The to the call of the colors must be re-hired I Contest. Thanks for letter Glad to be advised week’s total being 1.1 inches bank has owned the lot since the of the date of the Board of Army En by his employer at the end of his com Curry county will be represented at first of the year. pulsory service. Severe penalties are tbe State Fair by a judging team. Three gineers will visit Port Orford. On ac- Plans for many innovations for A small building that has been 1 count of many situations shall be unable im;>osed on an employer who fails to boys from each livestock club will be the pre-»choo! project were formed on the lot for many years wag take back the draftee On the surface selected and tbe three boys receiving ■t a meeting of the Community UfTT T PTrNTC ON to attend hearings However, I shall scheduled for wrecking Thursday this looks good, but not for tbe employ highest scores in competition will make Recreation association last Mon- ; Wllala A IwUlv UH do my part. Kindest Regards The Currry County Dairy Herd and Friday, and the material» will Chas. L. McNary USS er At the end of the service period of up tbe team. day evening Improvement association led 24 , be hauled away. Washington, D. C. tbe conscript his old employer may be The Judging Tour is in charge of building. The new bank will be operated Oregon associations in average out of business, bankrupt or been com George Jenkins and R M Knox, agents At the meeting it was announced ; The annual Dairymen’s Picnic and Ir- butterfat production during the as a branch of the Curry County Due to the vice-presidential notifi pelled to reduce his employes to a min in Coos and Curry counties, respective that the project fill lo»e it» NYA rication Tour will be again combined Bank of Gold Beach and it Is ex cation ceremonies in Salem on the same month of June according to €he ( imum, or he may no longer need the a»»i»tant. Mis» Ruth Collin», on an(j y scheduled for Sunday, August 11. ly summary just received in the pected that it will have separate date that the local harbor hearing is •pedal skill of the conscript Regardless, July 31. It 1» not known at this , Since most of the dairymen and most of if uepvsivs deposits ara ] deposit insurance 11 scheduled. Senator McNary will not be County Agent’s office. however, the employer must re-engage time if the aasociation will be al- the irrigation developments are located Ted Cadman, tester for the Cur- sufficiently large. able to ccme to Port Orford to attend the worker who was taken »way by lotted any further help to the adult ¡n the north end of the county, the the meeting. However, the encourage ry County Association reported an i Many of the accounts already tbe draft workers in the pre-school adult * picnic will be held at the Floras Creek ment given local people by the strong average of 44.02 pounds of butter- carried by local merchants and program. Bridge Park as usual. support of the Oregon delegation in fat per cow, Tillamook showing business men wdll be transferred According to Mrs. Florence Pont Art King, irrigation speciaist from Portland Woolen Mills has sold blan second with an average of 42 63 from the Gold Beach bank to the ing, it is desirable to have more Corvallis, will spend Saturday and Sun Congress has brought about a feeling ' local branch, and it is expected kets vslued at $186.562 to the army, that the harbor hearing on August 28 pounds. help at least for the period before day in the county. Famers from the that * accounts may be transferred and M«'nrkey & Kallender. Portland, in the Fourteen herds are on test The northern division of the Curry- grade school starts as the project southern section who are unable to at- will bring results. have been awarded a $33.950 contract Coos from other banks also. north end of Curry County. As announced last week in Tbe Post, County Health assooiation will meet has had «n active enrolment for tend tbe picnic are invited to visit the A new bank in Port Orford rep lor buildings at Vancouver barracks. the United States War Department Bay ranked third with 41.44 pounds next Tuesday, August 6, at Langlois at July of 38 children. This means p q Bowman irrigation project in it- the resents the confidence of the di- The navy has bought pine lumber valu of fat. Four cows were culled due the Woodmen’s h»D, it was announced that all of these children have Jerry* Flat community at 1:30 and the board of engineers for rivers and har to udder trouble, three were sold rectors and stockholder of the ed at $40,788 from Daugherty Lumber Thursday by Mrs Ed Malby. Pot luck been present at least one-fourth of j Turner project on Hunters Creek bors is expected to visit Port Orford for dairy purposes and two were Gold Beach institution in the pro- Co., Cottage Grove, raw linseed oil tor August 28, according to present plans. dinner at 7 o'clock in tbe even? ' will the school days. disposed of for other reasons. j »pective growth of this city and th. Bt 3 00. Mr. Bowman using an auto- $11,764 from Kerr Gifford A Co., Port- JVhilg here, the board will go over H la mter»«Ur.g ‘o note that 89 ^Lile engfae foe pd'-io-pumping rar*- Five years of asificlation testing area surrounding it. fand. and lumber at $*42« from Geo be 1 feature al tbe meeting. testimony oi previous hearings and bear All who can go to the meeting from children were registered during ter from a well while Mr Turner has E Miller Lumber Co., Portland These has increased the average pro- ( Director» of the Curry County Port Orford are asked to meet at the July, many of whom were daily pump mounted on at ruck with a an' new information that has not al duction approximately 100 per cent Bank are Louis Knapp, president; are tbe first national defense orders , J 1 . TV. .nnnunc- I borne of Mrs Roy Corson at 6:30 p m present,” Mrs. Ponting said. H. H. Hansen, Steve Spoerl, Dr. power take-off from the transmission. ready been presented. placed in the state q. ! Evfnonr ,bv wfahes to attend is invit- Those persons and organizations who according to records kept in the [ Cartwright, Plans are being made to have a Very excellent results are being obtained C. H. Buffington, nwnt will report a $2.00C000 order io. | Gold County Agent ’ s office at Ladies' silver tea on the last Mon- j.eaf wjtb irrigation, according to are vitally interested and affected by Beach. Grant Williams, and Mr. Hans four naw boats to tbe Commercial Iron । ed . . . h ur navy noats io At thf thf propo^i for or. day in August to help along the decision of the board of engineers cam. C. H. Young is cashier of 1 the । Gounty Agent R. M Knox. Works of Portl.nd^_ ! „nuation of a Northern Curry Health I will be called upon to present such in pre-school project. the bank. I The schedule for Sunday follows: formation and evidence as may be nec- . . , . . —aw-»-« mark»* . association will be taken up and will Officers for the Port Orford i 9 A. M. W. J. Sweet Ranch, Elk River FIRE CONTROLLED With tbe . mencan > - I y voted upon by the members The rivers and harbors commit essary. branch have not been selected yet, 10 A M Marsh Bros. Ranch shot to pwces on .ccount of 1 Alw . tee of the Port Orford chamber of IN SIXES AREA but announcement is expected । 11 A M. Phillip Cope Ranch tbe .dm.n»trah°n >s taking farther . [hf h g public commerce will handle al! details con soon. | This program permits a completion rtep. to affront the las fa, cusome (P fa { Fire in logging operations northwest nected with conduct of the meeting. : of the field tour before the potluck for Amencan produrts-J.p«n Jbe^ thf of This committee urges those who have of Sixes last week destroyed a consid NUPTIALS HELD I lunch which will be served at noon. of the tbe risinc _ risine sun is tne tniru larsest . ceipts additional facts and evidence to get in erable area of second growth timber.; by the county ourt. buyer of United Slater goods and only CCC workers were rushed to Sixes to ] Eleanor Bullard and Vernon Turner touch with members of the committee. Miss Dorothea Seebers, county health a tew days ago purchased one of the TWO BOYS INJURED fight the fire, but found the blaze prac- of Gold Beach were married Tuesday nurse, will be present to outline her ac William Robert Johnson, 70, a resi largest supplies of flour sold on tbe Pa tically under control upon arrival. of last week. Their wedding was a tivities for the coming year and to il dent of Port Orford for the past 46 IN ACCIDENT cific coast this year. Now official Almost an inch of rain the same eve surprise to many of their friends a* HEALTH ASSOCIATION lustrate tbe need for health precaution« vears, died at his home Thursday, July Two boys, both riding on the same Washington is talking of an embargo no previous announcement had been 25. Funeral services were conducted bicycle, were injured a short distance TO MEET IN GOLD BEACH ning was sufficient to reduce the fire on oil and scrap metal to Japan. Pa । within Curry county. hazard a great deal. After the rain, made. Saturday afternoon by Rev Turner Mc above Silver Springs last Friday evening, cific coast business firms and exporters | Miss Bullard is the daughter of Mr. The Curry county health association only a few snags were still afire but Donald in tbe Community church in when a car driven by Mrs. Gilbert are alarmed over the treatment accorded APPENDICITIS HITS and Mrs. W. E. Bullard and Mr. Turn they were still burning Thursday, with will meet Friday. August 2, at Gold Port Orford Interment as in the Port Gable struck them America's best customer er is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ac» TSe boys, Wayne Robinson and the Beach, at six o’clock potluck supper a small force of men guarding the baze. Orford Cemetery. FIRE LOOKOUT Gold at the community hall, it was announced Seen from Port Orford Wednesday, Turner. The couple plan to make their Mr Johnson was born in Jackson Studley, were later taken to the While severrf million children in of Brafh em- Wednesday by Mrs. Woward Sands, the burning snags were still bright en home on the Turner ranch at Hunter ill-clotbed. ill-fed and iD-boused in the , mount county, Iowa. February 28. 1870. and Studley, ere later taken to the Gold creek. ___ ough to light up the sky. came to Oregon with his parents at the president. _____ _____ _____ Beach hospital for treatment. United States, their plight» overlooked ] P age of three. He was married to Lillie The accident occurred after dark by humanitarians who are urging i broucht to th, Gold Bcil(h Spiral fa»t McBride in 1895 He is survived by his when it was diffiult for Mrs. Gable to of American merchant veweh and tbe | fw in ,,mrn[rn(.v oprrati<1n foi United State* navy to bring thousand» , a,)prndlcltk a(Ur br had iailed t0 makf widow and six children. Mrs. Ima see the boys who were riding without of children from England to save them his regular radio reports to * the fire Strahan. Harold. Juanita. Velma. Arlin, lights, it is reported and Leota all of Port Orford, and two fron. the expected German uivasion i patrol headquarter». Furthermore, there are several thous ! Hickock was scheduled to report over brothers, Hugh Johnson of Bridge and and well-to-do American families anx the radio each hour. At the time of Melvin Johnson of Port Orford ious to provide homes for the little the last lew reports he made, he com- i On September 8, 1934, the luxury] retary of state's report disclosed. Af loose from its bearings and hurled it Britishers (also mostly from prominent plained of a pain in his side, and when liner Moro Castle caught fire and burn- ] ter the car was forced into the ditch a ten feet away from the wreckage. The The bulb growers near Brookings are and well-to-do families», who are not his reports stopped and he could not be digging Japanese Iris bulbs now The 1 ed off the New Jersey coast. The holo second car stopped, hooked a rope to driver was thrown to the pavement and at all interested in the und r-priveleged . reached by radio, a party went in to daffodil and narcissus bulbs have all caust claimed 134 lives and throughout the first car and started towing it out. killed. li's raining fish in Gold Beach I There were several accidents which the civilized world, the disaster was ] Another car came along and its driver, American kids. been dug in the past few weeks People in the south part of the coun > his station to bring him out. demonstrated the wild gyrations possible ty seat have been wondering several viewed with dismay. But during the seeing what was happening, slowed I __________ ____ ______ _ when cars go out of control while mov Any skilled mechanic of tbe Pacific i days how so many small pilchards got first six months in the state of Oregon, ] down, but sliii another car behind did ing at high speed, Snell’s report »bowed. not slow down and crashed into the rear traffic accidents claimed a toll of 160 ] northwest who does not soon connect into their yards. There has been a One car went out of control and crashed with a job has no one to blame but ! heavy run of the fish along the coast human lives and comparatively few per- of the one that had. This car then into a seven-foot bank on the left side himself. The government wants every I here for the past two or three weeks sons took any notice of the loss, accord- smashed into the one being towed out of state,! of the ditch, crushing a man who was of the highway. When office:» exam trained mechanic it can find, and in tbe ( j and quite a few of the fish have been ing to Earl - Snell, secretary • .* . _ I — L. ■ «I va C ix II az I roo In the ined the scene of the wreck, they found northwest tbe principal market at pres ( found scattered over tbe ground at a who recently summarized the accident pushing the stalled machine. parts of the car stuck in a tree on the ent is tbe navy yard at Bremerton. Sev- considerable distance back from the w»- situation in the state for the first half confusion, the crushed man was not no ticed because he fell in the water in top of the bank, 22 feet above ground, of 1940. . ter, according to the Curry County Re- U reSutXn^ ' New* reprinted from tbe Port OHotd of July we will not call it even a son As automobiles plunged, crashed and the ditch and while the two or three indicating the machine had leaped that ELLENSBURG porter. cannon. of a hurtled the 160 persons to tbeir deaths. ; others who had been hurt were rushed high in the air after hitting the bank. ,ng merchant and navy ve«eb No P»’ 26' '^“ h Upton The mystery was solved this week A Huge Slide wooden ship program, such as was el- Port Orford. Oregon, by J H Upton they injured approximately 2,500 and to the hospital, he remained in the wat- The car’s leap landed it 14 feet away A land slide of considerable magni - when a housewife observed several gulls perienced in tbe first world war is cont- ( A Son. caused thousands of dollars worth of er. He was found later by an officer from the place it started and killed one fade just below town presents some in- , flying overhead and fighting in mid-air Sheep Shearing property damage. There were several who was sent out to investigate the occupant, seriously injuring another. An emplated, however. The lumber busines« teresting phenomena A large section of ' Soon afterwards a small fish dropped Shearing bas commenced ratber ear- crash. Before the cars could be remove- other car, whose driver was believed to the bluff gave way during the past 1 into the yard Further observation of accidents in which two persons were have gone to sleep at the wheel, leaped Winter, sliding down upon the sand ! the antics of the gulls showed that fre- ’ killed, a few in which thiee met death ed from the scene, one driver drove over a 50-foot cliff and sailed -’00 feet beaib. and. though the mass is far re- ! quently when one bird captured a fish and in some, as high as twelve persons through without stopping and clicked through the air before it crashed into fenders with two other machines and it would be pursued and attacked by were injured Fatal accidents during army- + got up his flock and commenced to moved from where it started, some of other birds until the fish was dropped, the first six months of the year varied still another driver, who came upon the a huge tree. It bounced back several On the national advisory defenre ' shear yesterday, and we hear of others the trees still stand erect upon it, as if feet and settled down on the bank of a » .... —— from a car turning over at a speed of scene too fast, turned turtle when he they had grown on the spot. The pres Wmmi-on the only member who is ^¡2 applied the brakes and added two more river, but not until it had catapulted ' less than 25 miles an hour to an auto sure behind and next to the bluff is its driver through a door and into the i which rolled and skidded for approxl- to the list of injured. maliar with tbe Pacific northwest and a second clip to follow early shearing so great as to keep the mass on the sea Thal Big Gun Tire blowouts brought tragedy to river, from which the body was recov- ' mately 600 feet and then hurtled the its possibilities it Ralph Budd, railroad Furnished By F B Tichenor miles below the scene of We ha"e got a new cannon in Ellens ward move, though so gradually, as in 1 driver another 50 feet when it went out several Oregon residents during the first ered several magnate in charge of transportation. U. 8. Cooperative 'Ohnerver tbe case of a glacier, that no motion the crash. burg It is not the one Mark Twain half jieriod. In one case, a front tire 1 of control while traveling 100 miles an (Budd has been an enthusiastic vi*itoi Temperature is perceptible to the eye, yet so consid- When one car started to pass another blew out and threw the car into the to Pendleton Roundup) industrial mo spoke of when he visited the tomb of er Prec hour. Min Mai a DM* nas erable has wen been me the mv^ciunn movement uuimiu during ( Abelard and Eloise; nor Lilian Dud The relatively mild incident of a car path of an oncoming vehicle and in the on a curve, it met a third car coming guls E R Stettinius Jr. in charge of 00 52 72 the months since the slide occurred, that ilhu July 25 ensuing crash, two passengers in the first in its direction. It swerved to one »ide ley’s. which grew from a little pistol 99 sideswiping another and sending it into raw materials, and William Knudaon, 54 68 bad its base not been continually abrad | Fri., July 26 a ditch started a chain of events which rar were killed Another tire blowout to avoid a collision and turned over, in charge of production, think in terms to a full grown cannon It is said to ed by the surf at high tide, it must ere Sat , July 27 55 72 rolling over five or six times. The 00 \ led to one death, the injury of several caused a last moving vehicle to start of »tee! and automobiles, which mean* have cvme Irom Mexico and has seen this have completely obstructed the ' Sun , July 28 55 swaying from side to side till it crashed drver of the car that had been passed war in Maximilian's time The China and eventually involved five cars in one Pittsburgh and Detroit, where major 05 56 72 broad beach occupied by it; as it is, it |Mon . July 29 told officers he saw the rolling car ten (X) of the most spectacular accidents dur into the front of an oncoming bus. The industries of tbe country are concentrat men think it is a good gun, and feel proves an inconvenience to travel up ] Tur . July 30 71 56 Continued on page eight safe; but the fisherman say it is spiked 00 ing the first half of the year, the »ec- force of the collision broke ihe motor ed They want TVA expanded (which 49 70 and down tbe be«cb when the tide is In Wed , July 31 Well, if it cennot be heard on the 4th Continued on page tight 4-H JUDGING TOUR IS AUGUST 5 89 CHILDREN REGISTERED AT PRE SCHOOL CURRY DAIRYMEN CURRY COWS LEAD OREGON FOR JUNE FLORAS CREEK HEALTH GROUP PLANS MEETING AT LANGLOIS FUNERAL RITES ARE HELD FOR WILLIAM JOHNSON FishFallhrotnSky At Gold Beach Ellensburg Has New Cannon! 58 Years Ago From The Post WEATHER REPORT Traffic Accidents Claim Toll of l6o Lives In Oregon During First Six Months of 1940
