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About Port Orford news. (Port Orford, Oregon) 1926-193? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1928)
PortOrford*Oregoni Tuesda^ÌHNoveraber27t 2 ^ 8 ;i ing subscriptions for McCall's mag The commission they re ceive will go toward buying a phonograph. Mrs Chapman, teacher of the Intermediate room, who lives near Denmark, had car trouble when she was comng to town Friday and had to be towed to town. J. H Bllllngslea, supervisor of the Siskiyou national forest, whose office is at Grants Pass, passed through Port Orford Friday on a tour of inspection. Mrs. Orris Knapp and two chil dren, June and Harold Lloyd, re turned from Marshfield Wednes day. The children are much Im proved after a severe case of in testinal flu. Last week they were taken to the Wesley hospital at Marshfield under the care of Dr. Dixon. Mr and Mrs Biddle and family of Spokane are spending the win ter In Port Orford and have rent ♦ azine LOCAL NEW S ♦ ♦ Mary Anne, Jack and Myrtle Vhitsett spent the week at Arizona on as the guests of the Sweet hOdren. Mrs Grover Tlchenor was called e Portland last Monday night by he serious Illness of her mother. A P. Sweet, Wrn Wallace and fr. Ames of Arison a Inn motored o Port Orford Saturday night to ttend the basketball game between ’ort Orford High and Ophir. A O. Jackson of Grants Pass, isalatant forestry supervisor, was -i town Friday and Saturday mak ing arrangements for the forestry »totures at the church Sunday eve- ting. Students of Mrs. Rice's room lave been busy the past week tak ed Mrs. Fromm’s residence on Or egon street. C. C. Inman and Frank Tlchenor were In Bandon Wednesday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Leutwyler are now living In the little Cath olic church on the hill and are rapidly remodelling it Into an at tractive residence. S. J. Spoerl and Nat Perkins motored to town Saturday evening to witness the first basketball game played at the new gym. Mrs A. P. Sweet and children of Arizona Inn motored to town Sunday mornln. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Hatton were business visitors in Myrtle Point Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sauers have moved from Agate Beach park Into one of the Scofield cottages. Geo. Curry of Elk river was In town on business Saturday. FORMAL OPENING OF NEW HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM 2 B IG BA SKETBA LL GAM ES PORT ORFORD HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS ANI) BOYS JITNEY DANCE AFTERWARD Five-Piece Orchestra Cafeteria Lunch Served During Dance — — Saturday, 7:30 P. M. Sharp Admission 25c-50c (Space donated by The News) FOR SALE—Good second hand cookatove for sale. bargain. Price $20.00. Address M. care News, Port Orford, Ore. WANTED — To lease for three years stock or dairy ranch on shares. Graduate veterinary and thoroughly c o n v e r s a n t with breeding and care of stock. C. W Ebbert, Sprague River, Ore. Donations From Bandon Library Black Rock, by Ralph Connor; Children of the Abby, Roche; The Works of E. P. Roe, by E. P. Roe; If Winter Comes. Hutchin son; Silent and Oral Reading, by Stone; Facing Death. Henty; Bar riers Burned Away, Roe; Psy chology and the School, Cameron; Modern Elementary School Prac tice, Freeland; Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stone; The Light that Failed, Kip ling; The Magic Garden, Porter; One Increasing Purpose, Hutchin son; Natural Serial Stories, Roe; The Complete Life, West; The Progressive Music series, book 2; Scott's Poetical Works, by Sir Wal ter Scott. The board of directors and the reading public appreciate this gift very much. Ellen Whitworth Has Birthday Party RIVERTON HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS AND BOYS New II. S. Gymnasium Robert Forty killed a black bear weighing about 175 pounds, on Green mountain, some four miles east of Port Orford Friday. Bruin was exceptionally fat and the hide is a perfect one. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Whitworth i entertained Wednesday night, No- I vember 21, In honor of their daugh- i ter, Ellen’s, sixteenth birthday. Games were played and at the close of the evening a large birthday | cake, beautifully decorated and I lighted with candles, was presented to Miss Ellen, who shared it with her guests. Those who enjoyed ' Mr. and Mrs. Whitworth’s hospi- I tality were: Donna Joy McKenzie. I Edith Tlchenor, Alice Holmes. Ma- | rie Lindberg. Opal Price, Hazel I Jamieson, Shirley Forty, June Crumbly, Georgia Hutchinson, El iner Price, Walter Robison, Arthur I Hensley, Wilbur Holmes. Orris I Fromm. Wilbur Ponting and Clar ence Price. New Uses for Coal Pittsburgh, Nov. 21 A station ary market for bituminous coal for years to come, unless leaders PORT ORFORD NEWS of the industry in the United States In addition to the coke, which is ered as a catalyst poison and care develop new uses for coal and Its suitable for both industrial and fully eliminated from the hydrogen byproducts, was forecast today by domestic uses, Mr. Plassman said, used in ammonia synthesis, may speakers before the second inter by-products of the process are even be considered as a valuable national conference on bituminous crude oil, which may be used for raw material. Through reaction coal at Carnegie Institute of Tech fuel without further refining: high- with hydrogen, it leads, for in nology here. grade gas. which is suitable to en stance, to methyl alcohol (wood Arthur L. Little and R V. Klein- rich city gas supplies, and tar free alcohol).” schmidt, consulting chemists of from ash or dust. Mr De Lorme said ethylene from Cambridge, Mass., emphasized the A valuable use for poisonous car the new process may be used to fact however, that hopes for im bon monoxide was forecast by Jean proved efficiency in the use of de Lorme, director of the ammonia manufacture anti-freeze mixtures coal are not exhausted and if pur department of the Society d’Alr and that a chemical known as methane will soon be promoted to sued with technical skill and fi Liquide, Paris, France. the dignity of a raw material and nancial courage they may be ex “Carbon monoxide,” he said, used perhaps in making synthetic pected to meet requirements of any normal expansion of industry with “which has been hitherto consid fuel. out any increase in coal consump tion for many years. Output Exceeds Demand. "With careful attention to the balance of industrial heat and pow er requirements and with the high economy now obtainable commer cially, our present coal production should supply roughly twice our Tourist Headquarters present heat and power demands," they said in a joint paper. "To the bituminous coal indus try, with its present lack of or Camping — Boating — Fishing ganization, the prospect of a sta tionary market presents a gloomy Free Wood — Good Water picture," they continued. “The sit uation is one in which cut-throat competition will not only destroy On the Ocean — On the I^ake profits but also throw an impossi ble burden on the miners, demor alize coal consuming industries and waste recklessly that natural re Owing to the limited number of cabins it source upon which the continuance of our prosperity is basically de is advisable to make reservations early. pendent.” Experiments with pentane, a chemical imp in the motorist’s gasoline. which causes motor “knocks,” was explained by Paul PORT ORFORD COMMERCIAL CO. Dumanois, chief engineer of the French air service. He said that mixing pentane with tetrathyi reduces the violence of ex- i plosion and presumably the knock tendency. Pentane, he said, showed upon both sides of the ledger in form ing the troublesome carbon in en gines. At some temperatures and pressures, however, it made car bon. while at others it left no carries a full line of trace. Methods by which slack and fine, dusty coal, now practically worth DRUGS, SUNDRIES, CANDY, KODAK less on the market, may be con verted Into excellent coke, crude oil and gas were described in a FILMS, and ICE CREAM paper prepared by Josef Plassman, director of the Chemical-Technical association of Dulsberg. Germany Varied Products Obtained. SCHOOL BOOKS — SCHOOL SUPPLIES Low quality coal, Mr Plassman explained, is coked in a specially constructed oven developed by his organization. AGATE BEACH PARK The Port Orford Pharmacy «*♦♦*♦♦*♦*>*♦♦*♦♦*♦«*♦«*♦♦*< X Port Orford’s Natural Deep Water Harbor THE KEY T o th e D e v e lo p m e n t of th e G re a t Mid-Pacific Coast Empire Depth of Water from 30 to 42 feet The logical tidewater outlet for the great Mid-Pacific Coast Empire with No Dredging its inexhaustible supply of rich natural resources consisting of 1-14 of all the standing merchantable timber in the United States, vast deposits of copper, iron, gold, chrome, cinnabar, .coking No Sunken Rocks No Pilot Service Protected from North and Northwest Storms of Summer. coal, granite, marble and a wide vari ety of the more precious mineral; and its great diversity of agricultural products. Requires Limited Protection from South and Southwest Storms of W in- 9300-Ton Vessel leading in Port Orford Harbor Repeatedly Selected by Hoard of Ar my Engineers as Harbor of Refuge for Pacific Coast. All Year Round Harbor for Deep Sea Fishing. Center of the Great Recreational Re' gion of Southwestern Oregon. Port Orford Chamber of Commerce PORT ORFORD, OREGON All Year Round Harbor for Deep Sea Fishing. y X y T T T y y y y y y y X y y y y
