Duncan Sharply Criticises Local Coast Guard Station Closure As More Federal “ Waste” Voi. 6 No. 16 SUNNY DAY combined with i llw maurpaaed »emery of Pori Orford’ » bay are all that's need- to inturr fu ll-u p attendance •i nettle Rock State Perk dally. I A »troll on the beach, to cap­ ture the scene on film , or but reel and look are valid excuses I lor a »top here. — New» Photo Community Center Lags In Reorganization Plans Lffort» to revive the C o m ­ m unity Center A n o c U t l o n I uesday night were »tyniled by a legal te c h n ic a lity , a» w e ll ai lack of a q u o r u m . Preiident Johnny M ayea »aid that hr had been n o tifie d by the Corpora- ( U o " I * ! * « " » m t of Oregon that ■ ,h*' c ‘» ""’’ u»uty C e n te r Associ- • “ o ,‘ w , ‘ ,M” 1,1 K °°‘! »««mUng * t,h ,h r rW paKtnent and could *"V leg al bualne»». Department to business c o u ld be conducted at a meeting let for Tuetday, July 30. What route action may take then 1» » t i l l questionable, if Tuesday'» meeting 1» Indicative of local intereit in a community An o ld faihioned »teak bar- center. Even the feeling among becue |u»t lik e they used to those p r e i e n t varied from a hold .town on th r farm w ill building, to a rwlmming pool, be a July 17 event »|>on»urrd by to a park, to clearing a lection the Port O rfo rd -I a n g lo li Q uar of Garrison Lake east of the Par­ trrb a .k C lu h I Mayea »aid this wa» due to the adis»-Point road f ill for recrea­ H eld at the M a n h ranch on I , , c t ,h * ‘ th r * * * ' • “ « « * • » »» tional use. I l k R i v e r Road, )u»t eart ot w l,h ,h* ' r " ,nu* l corpor- In order that something con­ We.tern S t a t e . Plywood, the , J u « •« ear. ty for the swimm ing c la s s e s . The next meeting w ill be T h is container w ill be le ft on Monday, August 5, 8 p m. , at lakeshore property for the con­ Pacific high school. venience of picnickers, courtesy of the Rotary Club. Mr. Bob Knox of Gold Beach and Union O il Co. representative Miss Holly Rempel, Palo Alto, California, were guests at the m e e tirj. ASKEW MIT C irru ll I asset Io three years in the Oregon Stale Penitentiary in con -N e w s Photo Tuesday became Ihe fifth stale polk-rnian to resign from Ihe Gold Rearh office in Curry Coun­ ty within Ihr last mooth. With his resignation came word from district Capl. E. W. Tlch- r. Medford, that supervisloa of stale police arlivllies In Curry County would temporarily hr under Sgt. Robert White of the Coquille office in Coos County. It was further rrvraled by Capt. Tlehenor that two ef the fire state polierm ra who have resigned were asked to do so. They were Donald Houston and who Investigated the accident, ••m e 47 feet across the south­ ♦he Ettorer cor, traveling bound lane end into the bank north, pulled across the yellow on the west side ef the high­ line in an attempt to pats the way. car In front when Ettorer taw According to the police, the the Downs vehicle approach­ car hit the bonk at almost the ing, traveling south, same instant that it was struck Realising that he did net on the passenger side by the have sufficient clearance to Downs cor. pass, Ettorer attempted to pull Downs' wife, Donna Raa. and back into the northbound lane, bar I ’A-year-oM-son, Tracy but In doing so, the front of Ray Weed, were passengers In his car struck the roar ef the ♦hs car. Mrs. Downs was vehicle In front ef him, oper­ treated at the hospital for un­ ated by H. G. Greenwald of determined head injuries and Sixes. than released. Ettorer then reportedly lost Ettorer, who it a designer for control of his cor, veered off the Anaconda Co.., and hit onto the oast shoulder of the wife were on vacation. highway and then careened photo by Mary Dufort 10,4 Youth Director, Child Services Director Start 2 STATE N IKE BULLETIN Ralph Kenneth Rale». » _Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon Robert .McDaniels. Houston was suspected of having filed false e la im l, Capt. Tlehenor said. It was disclosed that another officer, Dennis D allrv who later resigned, learned of Houston's al- legod false rlaim s and reported It to the Medford office. Capt. Tlehenor said an Investl- gallon was made and “ It would appear there were false rlaim s. II didn't look quite right," said Ihe captain. "We didn't have enough to proscenia ths case," Sgt. Jov said todav that Hous­ ton admitted filing false claims but he wasn't charged. "W e just a rrrp trd his resignation,** said Joy. The other officer w ho resign- ed was Jack Widman. Sgt. White said today that tra f­ fic patrols out of Coos County would hr rslrnded Into Curry County and a state game officer would be sent Io Gold Rearh to aid Donald W rlp, the lone re­ maining o ffirer in Curry. Jaycee Officers At Exec Meet Frank St. Clair, District 8 vice president, and Jim Peterson, lo­ cal Jaycee president, attended the State Executive and Presi­ dent's Meeting in Prineville last weekend where more titan 150 officers laid out their planned y e a r of action and budget for the coming year. Oregon Javcees were honored at a Sunday luncheon by N ation­ al Jaycee President Dick Head- lee, from Bountiful, Utah. Head- lee addressed the meeting along the theme "What kind of a town would this town be, if everybody in town were just like me?" He a dlee was elected National President at the National Con­ vention held recently in Louis­ v ille , Kentucky. He and his fa m ­ ily, seven children, w ill move to the J a y c e e Whitehouse in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Local Jaycee Bob Woodworth a ls o attended the national convention. Will Talk Ports Curry County Tim ber Opera­ tor's w ill attempt to arrive at a decision on which port should be pushed at a director's m e et­ ing H iwingthe general m e et­ ing ton >rrow night, Friday,July The program for the meeting, scheduled at the Sunset Inn, w ill be to consider the deep water port objective of the association. A social hour, sponsored by the J GJ Tire Co. , w ill start at 7 p. m. with dinner set for 8. Thursday, July 18, 1963 City Works On Sewer Aid Request A communication received f r o m the State W ater Control Agency by the city council in­ formed the city that its appli­ cations for sewer assistance had b e e n reviewed and that four amendments were required be­ fore the applications could be processed. Mayor pro-tem Lloyd Rates directed city attorney Lynn M cNutt to complete the appli­ cations, a l o n g with engineer Erickson, and forward them back to Salem. W illia m Morton, Consulting Engineer from T akilm a , Oregon, approached the council on the possibility of the city hiring him as a p art-tim e consultant on the sewer pro) ect or as city engineer Morton estimated his fee at $50 p e r day. He also explained a new ty pe treatment process, ox­ idation, that originated in Hol- . land. Morton claim ed there is no maintenance or sludge problems w ith the process that us« an o x i- d a t i o n ditch and an aerating rotor. The system has been ap­ p r o v e d by the State Sanitary Authority, Morton said. In ad­ dition, the cost of installation is supposed to be considerably less than a treatment plant. No action was taken. MEET TONIG HT A special meeting of the city council ha^Lczu - a ll- d tonight at the request of R. H. Erickson, engineer, to further discuss the s e w e r project and federal aid requests. The meeting w ill be at 8 p. m. at the city h a lt In other action the council: Agreedto remove a tree near the Syneva Lindberg property. Approved a re quest to contact someone for J anitor work at the City hall. Took no action on a sugges­ t i o n to have a sign made to identify the city hall. Heard a report that the old city hall property had been ap­ praised at $2, 500, as is—w ith the ja il on it; $3,300 to $3,500 w ith the property cleared. Voted not to pay R.H. Erick­ son's b ill of $2,496 until it was itemized. Paid other bills in the amount of $2, 369. 07. RESERVE MEETING The Port Orford unit of the Curry County Sheriff's Reserve w i l l hold its regular meeting next Monday, July 22, 8 p .m ., at the city hall. In a communication July 11 to A dm i r a l Edwin J. Roland, Comm sndart, U.S. Coast Guard, Congressman Robert B. Duncan sharply criticised the closure of the Pott Orford Coast Guard Life­ boat Station as a waste of tax dollars and perm itting another government Installation to rot from non-use. Duncan said he was in agreement w ith reactiv­ ating the station at Bandon, but in complete disagreement with closing the station here. "N o one w ill work harder for economy in government than I, Duncan said, but I don't believe in closing up the fire department Just because there have been no s e r io u s f i r « in the last year. Neither do I believe that we should close the Coast Guard S t a t i o n at Port Orford simply because the calls over the past year have not been considered extrem ely critical. It seems to me that search and rescue units, lik e fire departments, exist to perform in emergencies. One never knows when they w ill be needed and h o p e s they never are. But w h e n they are, they should be available." "1 shudder to think of the re­ percussions should a life be lost that might have been saved w ith a manned station at Port Orford. I don't care to assume that re­ sponsibility and I am prepared to support the Coast Cutrd in the solution of such budgetary pro­ blems as would enable them to continue at least m in im al man­ ned fac ilitie s at Port Orford. ' The economic im pact of loss of this station at Port Orford is obvious, Duncan said. He pointed out that Curry county is a low employment area and eligible for APW p r o j ects. "Here is a needed service w ith an Install­ ation already b uilt and in use and the Government is pulling the payroll out of the county. " Duncan urged further attention in the m atter, noting that Sen­ ators Wayue Morris and M a urine Neuberger joined in this request It appears, however, that the Coast Guard is not giving fur­ ther consideration to any pleas, V ice A dm iral D. McMorrison, A c t i n g Commandant of the Coast Guard, maintains the de­ cision to move ths manned sta­ tion to Bandon is "adequate to discharge our statutory- mrw-in. s ib iliti« and represents the best utilization of available person­ nel and equipment. " TJwugh the Coast Guard has fa ile d to honor a request by the cham berof commerce for a pub­ lic hearing on the move , M c ­ Morrison told Duncan he could be assured that the needs of the Port Orford community w ill be kept under close and constant surveillance and that as those needs change, appropriate ac­ tion w ill be taken to provide the required degree of service. Curry Radio Club Plans Picnic Arizona Ranch has been cho­ sen for the Curry Radio Club picnic, to be held Sunday, July 2 1 r, The potluck picnic w ill start at 10 a. m. wtyh dinner at noon. Coffee, cream and sugar w ill be furnished. Everyone interested in C it ­ izens Band and Am atuer Rad'o is invited to come. Third Rabid Bat Found A third rabid bat has been found in Curry county, this tim e on the Hunter creek area, ac­ cording to Jack Wright, county sanitarian. We apparently have a rabies epidemic in bats here, W right said, and he stressed that any­ one who is bitten by an anim al of any type should contact his personal physician im m ediately a n d f o l l o w h is advice as to treatment. Pets, in particular dogs, who have not been inoculated f o r r a b i e s should receive inocu­ lations. Persons seeing animals, es­ pecially bats, which appear to be sick, should be extrem ely careful not to handle them and should caution their children to leave them alone. Any prudent adult, who is be­ ing careful, can capture or k ill a sick bat, Wright said, but he cautioned that they should not touch the bat since there is a possibility that rabies can be transmitted t h r o u g h the bat's u r i n e or through a cut in the skin of the person handling it. Bats which are behaving nor m a lly s h o u ld be le ft alone, W right continued. The anim al, if possible, should be placed under observation, since this i the only protection the ind ivid ­ ual has. The location of the rabid bats found so far, at Hunter creek, Pistol River and at Loeb State park up the Chetco, indicates the rabies is wide spread,Wright commented. Anyone seeing a skunk out in the daytime is asked to notify Wright, since it is felt that rabies may also be present in the skunk population.