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Car Flips Al Humbug V ol. 7 No. 41 Curry County, Or« goni Long Distance Phone Rates Drop Again Annual Having* on long dla- atanc« ra ils will he liooatod Io an eallmatixl >150,740 (or rualom era of W«al Coaat T e le - phon« Company and Ila sub sidiary, 11 « a v e r Stale T e le phone, with the (Ding of new loll ta riff* on. Jan. 11, a com pany official said today. According to L. E. Croa», Weat Coaat'* Oregon Division in a ii 4 •• t , the now toll I.itc changea fllecl with the public U tility Commissioner correa- |ond to thoae change* announced e a rlie r by the Federal Com munication* Commlaalon for Interatate c a ll*, and are ach- nduled to b e c o m e effective Feb. 1. Included In the »avlnga, I, w ill be .ippi oxlm a- tely >13,700 In exclae taxes which are atlU applicable to long dlalance telephone ca ll*. The saving* emtlmale la baaed on the numtier of c a ll* placed by telephone rualomera In the past; however, Havings could be larger If calling volume 1» Increased. The lower ra te* will apply only to c a ll* placed on a ata- tlon-to-atatlon basla and not on pet ann-to-person meaaagea. Of particular Intereat are pro- poaed change» In time |*-rloda wher. the lower ra le * apply. The special night rate, a maximum of >1.00 for a th ree- "ilnule Htatlon-to-atatlon call to any point In the 48 adjacent »tales, w ill begin al 8 p.tn., Instead of 9 p .m . as It now does, and will also apply all day on Sunday. A lower even ing rale w ill go Into . rr.-< t between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. week days, as well as all day Sat urday. The regular day rale, applicable on c a ll* made be- tween 4:30 a.m . and 6 p .m ., Mon-lay through F rid ay, will not change. Ixmg dlalance aavtnga a * a result nf tti. tb ■■ i hanges will be supplemented by actual cost reductions on certain classes of Lex Cope Dies Funeral services were held Wednesday In the Bandon chapel of Schroeder Bros. Mortuary for Alexis Waldo (L ex) Cope, 78, who died Jan. 17 In the Southern Coos General Hos- pltal. The Hev. Timothy Dalrym ple, F irs t Presbyterian Church, of ficiated. Cremation followid at Sunset M em orial Park. Born Feb. 17, 1886, In F o r tuna, C a lif., he came to Lang lois In 1888 with his parents, W i l l i a m and Kate Emerson Cope ami his four sisters and three brothers. He Is the last member of his fam ily. M r. Cope had a dairy ranch on Floras Lake Road, and after retiring moved to Bandon a! out to years ago. He also served as a C urry County Commissioner for 10 years. lie m arried Eva Ia*nox In Kosetalrg Dec. 4, 1926. Survivors, in addition Io his wife, Include one daughter, M rs. Alton (M a rjo rie ) Strain of Port O r f o r d ; two granddaughters, Beverly and Delores, and sev eral nieces and nephews. M em orials are tielng made to the Heart Fund. Intrastate and Interstate mesa- ages. As an example of the effect of the reductions, Cross said t h a t under existing rates a three-minute call on Sunday from Beaverton to l./o» Angeles coats >1.20. A fter Feb. 1, that same call w ill cost 75?. Three Curry OTI Students On Rolls Have Curry county Oregon Technical liu tiiiite i t u d e n t a were named to honors for the fall lenn. J« rry Thomas, G o ld BeacK w ith a GPA In Auto Mecbanter of 4.Usml I'lu rle * Sugg, IXook- ing*. with a score of 3. 833 in D r tael, were both named U, thr Prvstdcnt'i Liat. On thr Dean'r List war George H ale, Brookings, a m echanical student with a GPA of 3. 277. Curry Council Told of Special School Classes The Curry County Council of PTA was held Thursday night, Jan. 14, at thr Ophir grade school. Mr*. Clarence W hittaker presid ed at the meeting. M em ben were reminded that the s t a t e convention of PTA would be held at Coo* Bay on A pril 27, 28 and 29. An intcreatlng re jo rt was g iv en by Mr*. W. E. Wilson who a t tended thr Governor's Confer ence on Children and Youth Nov. 19, 20 and 21 In Salem. She gave an account of th eir group studies and recommendation* given to the Governor's Com m ittee. M r. Ray Neugart reported on le g u latio o on education a n d gave a redone on employm» of youth in our county and Mate. M r. Al Johnson, program ch air man, turned the program over to M r. Ray Neugart, County Sup erintendent of school*, who spokc on the (p e d a l education pro gram being carried on in Curry county with c l a s i e t in Gold Beach, Port Orford and Langlois. Those attending the m eeting were: Mr*. Clarence Whittaker, Mrs. Bill Want and Mrs. Gene R e ilin g all of Brooking*; Mrs. W. E. Wilaon, Mr», J, W, Herndon a n d M r. Ray Neugart of Gold Beach; Rev. and Mr«. A. I , (Roy) H a l l , Mr. Tom Hawkins, Mr*. Jim R u c k e r and Mrs. C alvin Davis of Ophir, Mr. and Mrs. Al Johnson, Mrs. Donald Stole and Mr*. Kenneth Werner of Port Orford. The next me eting w ill be held M arch 11, at 8 p .m . in Gold Beach. Mr*. Al Johnson, ch air man of H e a l t h and M ental Health, w ill plan the 1*0gram on health for that meeting. Frica T «n Conta Bales Condition Is Still Critical No change In the condition ot C liff Bales has been re ported and hr remain* on the c ritic a l list at Sacred H e a r t Hospital in Medford. Bales was found in a c o m * last Wednesday -nomlng a n d was flown by M ercy Flight to M e d ford for an em rrgrncy operation because of an internal hemor rhage of thr skull. It was at first believed that Bales may have suffered the in jury from an altercation. Fur ther information, however, has disclosed that Hales had slipped while getting wood at his home thr previous Thursday and struck thr back of his he ad on a wooden step. County Suffers More Accident»- In 1984 Than in 1963 Oregon’s r e c o r d highway death toll of 576 was reflected In the number of traffic victims In most Southern Oregon coun ties. Coos, C u rry, Josephine and Jackson counties all suf fered more highway casualties In 1964 than during 1963. Kla math County, however, reduced the 1963 traffic toll. Many of the 19 Coos county traffic fatalities occurred In the Coos Bay-North Bend area. Four people died In one ac cident In the county, helping to push the 1964 death count two over the previous year when 17 people were killed In traffic accidents. Five people died In C urry county mishaps In 1964 com pared to four fatalities In 1963. Grants Pass area accidents accounted for most of the 17 Josephine county traffic fatal ities. 1964 deaths Increased two over the 1963 total of 15 tra ffic victims. Despite three accidents each killing three people, Klamath County finished 1964 with 25 traffic fatalities compared to 27 for 19( 3. Multnomah County recorded the most tra ffic deaths with 85; then followed by Lane County w it h 58; W a s h in g t o n , 40; Douglas, 34; Linn, 30 and Kla math, 25. Thu n ., Jan. 21, 1965 Engineers Make Flood Surveys Rivers and harbors In O re gon are being surveyed by the Portland U. 8. Army Engineer D istrict to determine changea In the navigation channels and find areas that require dredging as a result of the Christmas week rioods. Colonel W illiam J. Talbott, Portland district engineer, said crews are now working In the Columbia, W illam ette, Molalla and Clackamas Rivers and In the estuaries of the Rogue and Chetco Rivers on the coast. COQUILLE TO BE SURVEYED Also to be surveyed tn the near future are the estuaries Of the Coquille, Umpqua aixl Sluslaw Rivers and Coos Bay, all on the coast. In the Columbia River the aurveyboat Robert Gray Is cur rently surveying bars upstream from P illa r Rock--about tw o miles downstream from Brook field, Washlngton--to Portland. The aurveyboat Norman B ray Is working on the bars from Vancouver to Bonneville Dam. Col. Talbott M id very little shoaling has been found In the Columbia R iver so fa r, but •ome extra dredging may be required. After their present work, the aurveyboat* Robert Gray and Norm al Bray w ill probably survey the Portland Harbor and the Columbia R iver bar and estuary. Crews In the W illamette V a l ley are making surveys for flood restoration work on the M olalla, Clackamas and W il lamette Rivers. Col. Talbott said the survey crews are also marking high water marks and tn the Col umbia, W illam ette and coastal rive rs are making an Inventory of survey beacons and dredging ranges lost In the flood. He added that the surveys now being made are sim ilar to those taken after the spring freshet, each year. Swedish Schools Is PTA Subject The regular m eeting of Pert O r f o r d P. T , A. w ill be held Thursday, Jan. 28, at the Pert Orford grade school m u ltip u r pose room at 7:30 p. m. Toby W allace, Gold Beach, The program of the evening has replaced jack Evans as coun w ill be about education in Swe ty dog catcher is of Tuesday, den. Kenneth A. Stuart, super Jan. 12. Enforcement of new dog intendent of school* in Riddle, ordinance w ill be strictly fo l w ill be the guest speaker. He lowed accordingto W allace. A ll studied educational systems in dogs off prem lies without prop Sweden a year ago as represen er care according to law, w ill tative o f the Am erican Associa be picked up, lx-Id for five days tion of School Administrators in and disposed of if not called for cooperation w ith the State D e or identified. p artm en t He w ill also bring a Swedish exchange student who attends high school in Riddle. His program w ill consist of a lecture and showing slides. A question and answer period w ill follow. New Dog Catcher Farm Losses Nay Be Deducted On Income Tax Return Specially prepared Informa tion on claiming Federal Income tax casualty losses on farm property b e c a u s e of recent flood* has been published by the Internal Revenue Service and Is available at the County Exten sion Office In Coquille. F arm ers, home owners and other persons s u f f e r i n g per sonal property o r farm and business losses because of na County extension ag-ntx have tural disaster may deduct cer been asked toprovldt inform a tain of these losses on their tion to local comm unities on Federal Income Tax return. procedures to follow in estab These special i n f o r m a t i o n lishing com m unity action pro sheets prepared by the Port grams under the Economic Op- land D istric t office of the In B ills authorlz.tng the approp I'ortuiilty Act, reports Dwight E. ternal Revenue Service cover riation of >14,750,000 (January Haugen, Special assistant to the the types of damage and losses 1962 prices) for the Secretary Governor. that are d(-ductahle, notes Fred of the Interior to construct Extension agents lneachcoun- Hagelsteln, c o u n t y extension Sexton Dam and reservo ir on ty arc being provided inform a agent. Jump O ff Joe Creek north of tion on how to establish a repre The Internal Revenue Service Grants Pass w ill be Introdu sentative com m unity a c t i o n ced in the Senate and the House idvlses taxpayers claiming los early this week by Senators group, the procedures to follow ses that they should be able to In obtaining a grant and possible Maurlne Neuberger and Wayne substantiate the n a t u r e and Morse and Congressman Rob- activities that can be covered extent of thetr losses. Photo under the Economic Opportunity e rt B . Duncan. graphs taken a^ er the casualty Act. The authorization for the Com m unity action programs and before the damage Is re M erlin Division of the Hogue stored w ill be helpful In show H lver Basin project must he w ill provide technical and f i ing this. nancial assistance for urban and passed before funds for plan Persons having flood losses ning and construction can be rural comm unities to fight pov may obtain copies of these In e r t y . Individual communities appropriated. "T h e re Is still formation sheets by calling or w ill decide how to do the job a long road ahead," the legis contacting the county exten lators cautioned. "Strong local w ith private and public resourcei sion office tn the courthouse tn that w ill be augmented by fed support w ill be necessary." Coquille or the Internal Rev eral assistance. A s im ila r measure was In enue Service In Coos Bay. Specific local com m unity ac troduced In both houses In the tion programs m ay include rem last Congress tait was not acted e d ia l reading, literacy courses, upon. job training, em ploym ent coun seling, hom emaker s e r v ic e s , Job development and training, W EATHER REPORT vocational rehabilitation a n d George Anderson was fined $50 Rain health services. M ax M in Date . 01 53 55 Jan. 12 "A program that addresses all in Recorder's Court Jan. 6, after .0 0 o f theie d ifficu lties in a system pleading guilty to a charge of SI 56 Jan. 13 . 00 atic fashion w ill truly help a trespassing. Anderson was charg 52 61 Jan. 14 44 .0 0 ch ild and hla fa m ily to remove ed on a c o m p l a i n t file d by 53 Jan. 15 .0 0 th r shackles of poverty. This Is Adolph Windmaiser. Judge lo r - 43 45 Jan. 16 .(X) the Intent of com m unity action," alnes Haines suspended $25 of bo 55 Jan. 17 the fine for a period of one year. .0 0 Haugen said. 51 58 Jan. 18 County Agents To Give Data on Economic Act Dam Bill I i Introduced Trespassing Brings Fine Morse Sponsors School Funds Senator Wayne Morse said today that the Administration's education program which he ts sponsoring In the Senate would bring about >9,036,748 to O re gon schools per fiscal year. The nation-wide expenditure th e firs t year w ill be >1.2,’ 5 b il lion. N early >7 m illion of this will Into schools faced with ed ucating the children of very low In c o m e fam ilies In an effort to upgrade their educa tion and lift them out of a re curring fam ily pattern of pov erty. The remainder of the Oregon funds w ill provide >1,069,776 f o r supplementary education centers and services, >980,782 for school lib ra ry m aterials, and >133,013 to strengthen the State Department of Education. JUSTICE C O U R T Cases appearing before justice A r t h u r F. Niem ann in Justice Court since last report were: George Stuait Merchant, Jan. 13, angling in prohibited arcs, $25 fine, $4. 50 court cost, $20 suspended; Stuart E r w i n M e r chant, Jan. 13, angling in pro hibited area, $25 fine, $4. 50 court cost, $20 suspended; Alden Wayne Boicc, Jan. 15, no tail light, b ail posted, $10; Harold Dexter Ward, Jan. 15, no wheel covers, dismissed; Ivar W illiam Holhquist, Jan. 18, no vehicle l i c e n s e , $5; Charles Thomas Simpson, Jan. 18, no v e h i c l e license, $5; Roy Delano Mills, Ja n . 19, no re a rv ie w mirror, $10 fine, $5 suspended. Co-op Members To Attend Annual Miami Beach meet The Coos-Curry Electric Co operative, Inc., w ill send three of its members to M ia m i Be ach, Florida, to participate in th e 23rd Annual M eeting of the N a tional Rural Electric Coopera- Senate Bill To Remove Levy A Bill introduced in the State Senate by Senators Dick Chap man and Ben Musa Ian. 14, would elim in a te the right of p olitical party ccntralcam m ;ttees to as sess their nominees a percent age of wages or salary of the office for which they are a cand idate. Senate Bill 5 would amend Section 1,ORS 248. ISO to read: The county, state and city cen tral com m ittee of each m ajor p o litic al party is t h e highest party authority and may make proper rules,regulations and re solutions for all matters of par ty ¿-»vemment which are not controlled by t h is chapter or other laws of the state. Oppose Camp White Closure O r e g o n American Legion Commander C. Ray W il s o n today registered his "stlongest disapproval’’ ol the Veterans’ Administration plans to close the White City com lclllary near Medford In six months. “ T h is Is false economy and a fast-shuffling game of pre tended solution,” Wilson said. "Washington, D. C. seems to think by the mere elimination of 11 hospitals and four homes throughout the nation It w ill have eliminated the problem of caring for the aged and 111 veterans.” "W e strongly resent thedeg- redatlon Inherent in this man euver and w ill ask the national organization to marshall our total forces of nearly th ree - m llllon to protest closing tne much-needed VA f a c i l i t y at White C ity ,” Wilson said. “ We are In firm agreement with Rep. Robert B. Duncan that there ts far more reason to expand the scope of service rather than to curtail this op eration.” The Dom iciliary near Med ford was activated tn 1949 as a conversion of the Camp White hospital established by th e Army in 1943 as a part of the training camp. It has 1,011 residents and 220 Ctvtl Service employees. •■An on-the-slte study of vet erans’ needs tn Oregon would show that the White City fa cility should be converted Into a 100-bed ge«cral medical and surgical hospital," the Legion’ s Commander of the Department of Oregon contended. "W e I m p l o r e our Oregon Congressmen to do what they can to correct the Inclusion of the Southern Oregon facility tn this ’ economy’ m ove," Wilson concluded. tive Association, Jan. 24-28. They w ill be among the 8, 000 rural electric members that are expected to attend the meeting from nearly every state in the country» Attending the m eeting from C o o s -C u rry Electric Coopera tive w ill be Ivan C. Laird, vic e- president, D a v i d R. Philpott, secretary-treasurer, an d W. A. Cock, general manager. Leaden from the Johnson id- mimstration, the Congress, and power resource, consumer and labor groups w ill ta k e m ajor roles in the M iam , meet.ng. The m eeting w ill center on th e theme "Rural E lec trific a tio n -T o d a y a n d Tomorrow". Featured speaken w ill include Sen ato n A .S M ike Monroney of Oklahoma. T h o m as Juchel of California, and Lee M e tc a lf of Montana-, Ant.Secretary of a g riculture Dorothy Jacobtcn; Eric Sevareid, news correspondent for the Colum bia Broadcasting Sys te m ; and U. S. Representative John Moss of C alifornia and Leo- nor K. Sullivan of Missouri. Others include Clyde T. Ellis, general manager NRECA, Nor man H. Clapp, administrator of REA, jack Conway, director of the Community Action Program of the Office of Economic De velopment ( War on Poverty) and many other top experts in power, consumer a. J legislative fields, who w ill be featured in 16 panel discussions. One of the panel discussions w ill investigate the consumer aspects of new d evel opments in power pooling and in proposed new developments in water and power resource de velopm ent Delegates w ill deliberate and decide on a broad range of pol icy matters involving such top ics as water and power resource development, rural are a* d eve l opm ent REA loan issues, AID'S cooperative development pro gram, the Federal Power Com mission, a n d other consumer issues. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is the nation service organization for nearly 1,000 rural electric sys tems. The systems serve nearly 20 m illio n people in 46 states on a n o n -p r o fit cooperative basis. APPARENTLY no injuries were suffered w h e n this auto turned o v e r and landed on it's top at the edge of Brushes Creek in the jjf u m h u g turns. The accident The Oregon Department of was reported to the Sheriff's O f Veterans’ Affairs granted farm fice about 8:30 p. m. Saturday and home loans to 3,734 vet but no one was at the scene when erans last year tn the amount it was investigated. The car was of $41,723,000, H. C. Saalfeld, registered to Steve Beard, North d irecto r, reported today. Bank Road, Brookings. T his was an 8r Increase over — Sheriff's Office Photo 1963 when 3,552 veterans bor i . d . rowed >38,496,000. Last year’ s .-olume makes a total of 48,644 loans in the amount of some $415,996,174 to Oregon’ s World War I I and Korean War vet erans since the program start ed lr. 1945. Be sure to attach copy B of all In Coos County last year, loans were granted to 68 vet Forms W -2 to your 1964 Federal erans In the amount of >699,600 income tax return. Re funds can compared to 98 loans In 1963 not be paid nor can credit be thhe Id wi thout for >1,093,300. Since the start given for taxes of the program, loans have t h e required Forms W -2, the gone to 1,314 veterans here In withholding tax statements from employers. the amount of $9,898,300. This advice comes from A, G. In Curry County last year, loans were granted to 22 vet Erickson, Director of Internal erans in the amount of >235- Revenue for Oregon. He said that 450, compared to 13 loans In the Forms W- 2 should be attach 1963 for >127,100. Since the ed to the Form 1040. However, Erickson asked that start pi. the program, loans have gone to 251 veterans here In it apleaor pin* not be used on the card Form 1 0 4 0 -A. Card form the amount of >2,197,400. Saalfeld said that of the some returns are processed by m a >416 million borrowed, vet chine and staple or pin hole* in erans have repaid >254 million the cards interfere with proces in principal and interest. They sing Taxpayer* should be sure that are repaying at the rate of about >3.5 million a month, the W -2 attached to the return with Interest payments alone is Copy B, the one marked for averaging about >875,000. Of t h e Federal tax return. Ifth e the m o r e than 48,000 loans taxpayer had several job* dur ing the year, a W -2 form for granted, 29,116 were outstand ing on Dec. 31 In the amount of each job should be included. January 31 is the deadline for $268,175,232. employers in Oregon to furnish the ir employees with «atem ents DATES T O REMEMBER of Federal income and social Birthday wishes go out this security taxes withheld f r o m week to Herb Geer, R oger H of- their wages during 1964. This reminder was issued to sess. M ildred Russel. Joe I Brooks. Rick Wright, Edith Shook, Joan day for the benefit of any e m Kruetzer, D avid and D a r r e l l ployer* who have not already done so, said M r. Erickson. Bjerg. Veteran i Loans Top 1 9 6 3 By 8% Attach Forms To Income Tax Returns Do You Want TV? Be À1 Meet Last Friday night at 8 p. m. in the city hall, North Curry Re creation tried to hold its annual m eeting There was a total of 15 people present, including the board of directors. This hardly seemed to re present a m em ber ship of 90, N. C. R. said. The election of a new board of d ir ector* was postponed until Jan. 29, at the c ity hall, 8 p. m. A new nominating com m ittee consisting of Donald D e w e y , M arie Gerhardt and Delbert Neal was appointed since none of the members of the other nom inat ing comm ittee or a n y of the people nominated attended the m e etin g Last year 500 f o r m letter* were m ailed to non-membezs but no one paid the ir$ 1 0 to sup port television. If you want television in Port Orford be at the city hall at 8 p. m. Jan. 29, the organization said. Charier Day Set Sunday fc A L tN D M Thursday Jaycees, 8 p TO. Monday Chamber of Com. , I? noon Tuesday Rotary Club, 12:10 p. m. Wednesday Quarterback, 7:30 p. m. APPEAR A T C H A R T E R D A Y The Christian Church of Port Orford, has scheduled Charter Day Service* Sunday, Jan. 24, at the Legion h all, A potluck d in - ner w ill begin at 1 p, m. Sign- ingof the charter w ill be at 2:30 p. m. The speaker, Dean of Ac ademic of Northwest Christian College W illiam Siefke, D. D , , Eugene, w ill precede the Cru sader Quartet, Northwest Chris tian College. 4
