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TPnri övfovri Ainus Port Ceford, Voi. H No. 40 L o ca l C rab s R a te H ig h Curry C ounty McKenzie Puts Hat In Ring Rod McKenzie of Sixes an nounced last week that he Is a candidate tor the Republican nomination for the Joint Coos- Curry seat In the State legis lature. He received the nomination In 1964 but was defeated In the general election by Incumbent representative Carl Back (D) of Port Orford. McKenzie, 46, a Curry coun ty i anther and livestock buyer, served In the legislature dur ing the 1953 and 1955 term s. He has long teen active In county affairs, serving on the Intermediate s c h o o l board, county budget committee, draft board and as a director of the Coos f orest Protective A ssoc iation. During WWI1, McKenzie was a Marine buck sergeant and a m ender of the famed Carlson’s Raiders. He Is a 1945 graduate of Oregon State University, a men tier o: the American I-e- gion, Elks Lodge, Sixes Grange and a 12nd degree Mason. He and his wife, Grace, have two sons, Rick 14,andDavld 11. Cregon Thursday, January 2<\ 1966 Price T e n C e n ti Curry General Hospital To Raise Room Rates Cornelius Guilty On Assault Charge Charles Edwin Cornelius pled guilty to a charge of aggravated assault In circuit court Tuesday afternoon and was sentenced to five y ea n in the O cgon State Penitentiary. The charge result ed from an attack on Mr», Helen Burt 1 esen in the parking lot ad jacent to the Rod 'n Reel in Gold Beach. On a motion by district at torney Robert MUIer asking for a longer sentence, Judge Nor man ordered Cornelius held in Curry county Jail for pre-sen tence investigation by the state board of parole and probation. Dave Krake was transferred to the Oregon Correctional Insti tution Wednesday to begin serv ing a tw o -y ea r sentence for forgery. He had een arrested by sheriffs office in Brookings. Plane With Gold Beach Trio Found ance c o s t against incom e," Thompson said. However, this raise will not balance the entire differential and unless the pa The bodies of a missing Gold tient load improves,the hospital Beach pilot and his two teenage will continue to operate in the daughters were found late Wed red, the administrator noted. nesday afternoon crushed in the Comparative financial figures wreckage of their light plane between the last six months of where it had crashed into trees 1964 and 1965 show sales being on the south side of Bull Gulch, down $2 7 ,4 7 7 .8 1 ; receipts up about one and a half m iles east by $5, 380. 98 and expenditures of Carpenterville, which is a- down $2,082. 63. The 1965 fig bout 2 0 m iles south-east of Gold ures for those items were $87, - Beach. 361.03; $83,393.91 and $102, - The trio, Richard Watson and 650. 35, respectively. da ughters, Doreen, 15, and J oyce, Major statistical figures be 13, had been the object of a tween the last half of the two w i Jespre ad a ir and ground search years show adult patient days since their plane was reported off by 611, admissions down 86, overdue from Ashland Friday em ergency o u t-p a tien t cases City police are investigating evening, January 7. down by 116, laboratory out the btvglary of the Dale Smith Wreckage of the plane was home on Jackson St. January 12. patient procedures down by 277, found by Rose Walker of Pistol Police said that Smith reported in-patient lab procedures off by River and Dale Lively of Prine he had fallen asleep while wat 819, major surgeries down by 17 v ille after the debris had been and in-patient x-ray procedures ching TVand somebody had en spotted from the air by pilot Ed tered the house through the back down by 102, Sporthaven, Inc., H a r b o r , Carpenter. The main section of On a minor ; lus side of the door. Ore., submitted the apparent the plane, owned by the Gold Smith said the back door was ledger, the administrator said, low of three bids at $14,420 Beach flying club, was found a - Slightly ajar when he woke up. baby days were up by 40 and in Wednesday when the Portiand bout 250 feet off Bull Gulch road patient lab procedures up 17. He c 1 o s e d the door, sat back Average patients per day was U. S. Army Engineer District high above a steep cut. down and started to light a c ig A total of 38 men had flown opened bids for rental of dred arette w h e n he discovered his 8. 32 and the per cent of o c ging equipment to dredge the on the search and as many as 17 lighter a n d cigarettes missing cupancy was 33. 7, down 3. 41 entrance to the boat basin on airplanes were in the air from fro m the end table beside his and .3 .0 for the last half of the the Chetco River at Harbor. Gold Beach airport for more chair. He then got up to look a - two years. The equipment to be rented than 148 hours in the air. Hospital operating deficits are r o u n d and also found a silver Includes a two cubic yard drag Watson and his daughters had dollar, gold wrist watch and a made up Lorn the county’s gen line, a tractor dozer, dump left Ashland about 3:30 p. m ., Churchill commemorative m e eral fund. a f t e r keeping a m edical ap trucks and a towboat. dal missing from a jewelry box Col. William J. Talbott, Port pointment for Doreen in Med o t the dresser in his bedroom. land District Engineer, said the ford. •v ch e e l Tu-s lay at W.,a’. • ,, Police s a i d the silver dollar other bidders were Interstate The bodies were brought out . ■a a Co ItB. .'a .ile , wltn was spent at Bartlett's the fol Heavy Hauling Company, Port Wednesday afternoon by th e the : .r e e ls to ot.. further die low ing day. Juveniles are be land, $19,450; and F. L. Som Curry comity sheriff's office and Llors’ alghi program-. lieved to be involved. City police chief Harold Hight e r s, Medford, $25,860. volunteers. Al Brew , L.ccs presl -e t, reported that vandals removed The work, which Is regular state that this I cok h*J over all the valve stems from tires ' maintenance dredging, will be 1, u-cleesai I in.iv > e or i« l- AMBULANCE DRIVERS W ils o n O n P o rt on night officer C. McBride’s accomplished In two parts. Riv e l 1; calling Lar.-lcl» 121 ar.J URGENTLY NEEDED pickup ana two cars belonging er conditions permitting, the piacir an oraer with TedDtck. Ryce Wilson, Sixes, C u r ry Responsible volunteer drivers to Hight's son when they were first will be shortly after award county commissioner,was turn Vlaltln; the clul at their parked at his residence at the of the contract and the second ed Tuesday night to fill the un Tuesday -.1 hi >>eetlng were are urgently needed by the Fort Lion.' B ertel Bail and Wilf ur Orford Community '.mbulance end of Lakeshore“ D r iv e the not later than five months after expired term of Roy Enlund on award. \ssociatlon. Driver» must be at night of January 3. Green. the Pert of Port Orford Commis i tight said also that a quantity The boat basin entrance chan sion. least 2Syears old and maintain A tyone In erested n k .cw;." ot rusty nails, screws and other nel is to be dredged to a depth excellent driving habits. Anyone mot • aboj “he L ors chib Is Commissioners also discussed interested may c o n t a c t Leo debris h a 1 been Jum ped around o: 10 feet below mean lower low ways and means of repairing re tr.vlted to atte n l the meetl-.-S the \ chicles and over the drive water. Width of the channel will cent storm damage to the dock Phillips at the Rexall drug store. c i the I a n :l >Is c lu ', heldevery w ay area. be determined by the full cast approaches. 2nd and 4th TWaday o f each, of the bucket from the sooth month at W.ialens. bank. The tractor dozer will re move excavated material from the dragline dump to the final spoil area while the 10 cubic yard trucks will be loaded by Curry County had four traf the dragline for spoil disposal at the upper end of the site fic fatalities for 1965. This William T. O’Connell, D is figure represents a decrease since dozer use is limited there trict Manager of the Portland of one fatality from 1964. by a U. S. Coast Gusrd Install office of Dun& Bradstreet, Inc., 1949 was the safest year for ation. will be open for questions. The Oregon Coast A ssoc announces that statement re The towboat will be used to driving In Curry County, with T he luncheon speaker will be iation aa; a n n o u n c e d com no traffic deaths recorded In the quests were m a ile d to 763 Pratt, business editor of haul the dragline bucket out period since 1936. The worst businesses In Coos County and pletion of final planning slag: s Gerry Into the channel beyond the the Oregonian, and presiding of the urban-rural conference 231 l>uslnesses In Curry County. y e a r was 1958, with seven "The O r e g o n Coast Looks will be Larry Dlnneen of the normal cast of the dragline. The county figures Include The dragline will be required deaths recorded. State Planning and Develop \head,” OCA Manager Geo. Curry County’s total added nanufacturers, wholesalers, ment Division. Summing up the tor 240 hours with 10 hours to the record total of 682 deaths Weaver xinounced this week. and . "?rs In ‘lie areas. standby time and 10 hours over conclusions and Implications The Conference, to be held at for the state, highest ever oc He noted that each January Marshfield High School In Coos for action of the conference time. Use of the tractor dozer curring In Oregon’s history. business com eras In all parts is for 100 hours plus 10 hours Bay, Feb. 11, Is being Jointly will 1« JackE. Brookins, nrest- The Department of Motor Ve of the United States ate asked overtime. Dump trucks are to be sponsored by th e OCA, the Jent of Southwestern Oregon hicles urged all Curry County by Dun & Bradstreet for copies used 60 hours with five hours Commit "y College. Oregon Coast Chambers of motorists to drive with court o. their financial statements. P ioceeilngs will begin at 9 standby time and 20 hours over This year requests are being Commerce, O r e g o n Coastal time. Towboat use time is 50 esy, care, and common sense a.m., with lunch at 12 noon, and P o r t s Federation, OSU and In 1966 to help c u r t a i l the s e n t to approximately three the conference will be adjourned hours plus eight hours over grimly rising death figure for million Ixislness concerns—to other state agencies. time. The Inter-related problems at 3:30 p.m. The public has been Oregon highways. the cornet grocery store worth and potentials of the coastal Invited tc attend and participate. a few thousand dollars as well areas will be thoroughly ex as to businesses worth mil plored at the conference. Con lions. siderable focus will be placed The Dun it Bradstreet Ref on tourism and recreation, wa The rear end, engine and e l erence Book lists those manu ter and r e l a t e d resources, in response to the quarterly ectrical wiring of a Chevy Cor- facturers, wholesalers, and re transportation, forestry and ur statement of condition call by vair owned by John Forty caught tailers who seek or grant com the U.S.Comptroller of the Cur on fire and burned Monday night mercial credit but it does not ban-rural growth problems. Congressman Robert B. Dun rency,year-end deposit and loan In front of Chuck's Myrtlewood Include some of the service can will deliver the keynote figures have been released by Shop about 8:40. and professional businesses Forty told chief deputy sheriff First National Bank of O egon's s u c h as beauty and barber address and Don Jackson, State Operators of Oregon’s two 107 offices throughout the state. LE. Del am arte r, w hofinally ex shops, s e c u r i t y dealers and RAD from Newport, will be and three-wheeled vehicles are chairman of the proceedings. The Port Orford branch report tinguished the blare with a gar real estate brokers. There fore, the figures for total bus A panel discussion will beheld going Io have to prove they ed deposits of $2, 500, 895 and den h o s e , that he saw flames know how to operate not only loans of $1,208, 879 as of D ec shooting out of the rear motor in esses In the United States with Dennis Clarke, State High these vehicles but a full size ember 31, according to Branch vents, pulled off the highway would be higher than the three way Department; ArthurSmyth, car, too, In accord with a law Manager G. B. Rush. Weyerhaeuser Company;James and found fire engulfing the en million quoted above. scheduled to take effect soon. R. Bell, University of Oregon Comparable totals for the tire rear engine compartment. The number of business firms Riders of these vehicles may branch a year ago were $2, - In the principal communities of Bureau of Municipal research; obtain a form from the De 303,093 in deposits and $637, - Coos and Curry Counties are Donel Lane, State Water Re partment of Motor Vehicles on 267 in loans. sources Board, and Harry Mc listed below. or after January 17, on which The statewide banking sys COOS—Coos Bay 303, North Kay of Cornell, Howland, Hayes they can Inquire what steps they tem registered gains of 12. 1 per Bend 154, Coquille 10 , Myrtle and Merryfleld, consulting en need to take to comply with The first whales officially cent in deposits and 15.7 per Point 70, Bandon 54, Empire gineers, appearing on the panel. the new motorcycle licensing cent in loans. New figures are sighted off the Oregon Coast The discussion will Involve the 31. lftW« $1, 269, 042, 189 in deposits, as were seen Sunday, eight m iles CURRY—Brookings 93, Gold various problems and poten The law, which takes effect compared with $1,132,979, 988 west of Newport. Beach 91, Port Orford 36, and tials of the Oregon Coast and July 1, requires motorcycle atthe end of last year,anJ$786,- Rich Wisner, captain of the Harbor 13. operators to have a special en 208, 199 in loans, as compared Tradewinds Sea Fisher, reported dorsement on their driver li with $679, 829, 126. sighting a group of four gray JINX CANASTA CLUB cense. Total resources rose about whales, "longer than m y boat", The form can be obtained $142 m illion to a record $1, - which is 36 feet in length. Sev The Jinx Canasta club played from any field office of the De 412, 646, 359. AU of the D ec en other passengers aboard the at the home of Marie Gerhardt partment of Motor V ehicles, or Tuesday, January 11. Local pharmacist Leo Phillip», from a driver license examiner. ember 31, 1965 figures are a ll- Sea Fisher watched the whales First prize went to Marie Ger as the boat tried to m ove in tim e highs for an O egon bank owner of the Rexall Drugs, was The department will then ad ing institution. hardt, second to Fern Ruth and close enough for photographs. guest spe aker last Thursday noon vise the would-be applicant what Marian Deaver, guest player,low. The whales made one turn a - at the monthly luncheon m eet tests must be completed be The club w ill play Tuesday, round the boat, then sounded a- ing sponsored by the Curry coun fore the endorsement can be Jan. 25, at the home of Shirley bout 300 feet away from the de ty sheriff's office. Phillip« ad Issued. Hardy. lighted spectators. dressed die group on the subject Oregon has more than 30,000 Later in the afternoon, the Sea of narcotics and drugs, including licensed motorcycles, but the Fisher again attempted to get In GRADE SCHOOL CARNIVAL their purpose and effect. department says It does not Thursday c l o s e enough to a mammoth Coming on S a t., February 19 Departments represented In expect that It will have to give Lutheran Women, 7:30 p .m . solitary whale, playing in the cluded city police from Coos tests to that many people, since water about one m ile SW of W’/ T HER Bay, C o q u i l l e , Bandon, Gold more of them are probably jayce»s, 8 p. m . Friday Yaqulna Bay's northjetty. It also B e a c h and Brookings; Curry already licensed to operate a Pacific vs Bandon Max Min Rain Date sounded when the boat drew c o u n t y , Coo» county and Del 49 . 18 S3 moto; vehicle. Jan. 11 there—8 p. m. near. Norte county, C a lif., sheriff's .0 1 50 Jan. 12 52 Northern gray whales are pre The law requires a motor Sunset Garden, 1 p. m. offices; the Gold Beach and Co .1 7 53 50 Jan. 13 sently beginning their Journey N. Curry Recreation, 8 p. m. cycle operator to first pass quille offices of the O egon State .8 2 49 51 Jan. 14 south to their winter grounds Monday all tests, Including a behlnd- Police and two members of the 54 . 59 Jan. 15 57 near Baja Peninsula, and can be the-wheel driving demonstra Cham, of C om ., noon board of parole and probation. .0 2 64 47 seen from shore as w ell as at sea Jan. 16 Wednesday About 30officers and guests were tion In a four-wheeled vehicle, Quarterback Club, 6:30 p. m. .0 0 54 51 as their numbers Increase w ith Jan. 17 before being tested as a motor present, sheriff Bill Gauntlett .0 0 49 52 Jan. 18 Duplicate Bridge, 8 p. m. wanner weather. cycle operator. said. Curry General Hospital will raise dally room rates $4 per day, m a k in g the bate room charge $26, private room $31, isolation room $31. 5Q, and the nursery from $3 to $5 per day. Administrator K en Thompson said the necessity for the raises lsdue to rising costs of supplies, services and labor. "The hospital does not have the patient load necessary to m eet the cost of operation and must raise charges to help bal- Home Entered A i Owner Naps Harbor Firm Gets Dredge Bid Langlois Lions Selling Books For Sight Help Tires Flattened, Nails Dumped CRABS by the box full move over the Cape Fisheries Inlying station at the local dock wh<-i the crabbing is good. Then, In to the c o o k i n g , picking and packing room for speedy pro- cowing. Loral crabs have j ' io been shipped live to be so1)! at the m a t k e i s of fisherman's Wharf In San francisco. Local era ba he w a high reputation lot their excellen t qua lits. Curry Business Population Told THOUSANDS of crate wait for processlng,or shipment,In these huge live holding-tanks on the dock.Note crabs showing In near com er of box. Unemployment Hils New Low Salem —Gov. Hatfield report ed here today that Oregon's 1965 average em ployment totaled 771, 500, according to prelim inary estim ates, an all-tim e re cord fo r average annual em ployment In the state. At the same tim e, the Governor said, unemploym ent averaged 32.7OQ a r a t e of 4. 1 per cent of the average labor force of 804, 700, die lowest annual rate of total unemployment s i n c e present estim ates were started In 1947. Gov. Hatfield said that aver age wage and nonfarm salary em ploym ent in the state was al so estim ated at an a ll-tim e high in 1965 at 606. 500. These fig ures compared to a wage and salary em ploym ent of 573, IXX), total em ploym ent of 738, 300 and labor force of 773, 800 In 1964. The record low unemployment total In 1965 compared to 35, - 300 and a rate of 4, 6 per cent ill 1964 and the nearest low rate was set In 1951 at 4. 2 per cent, the Governor said. He added that tlie nonfann wage and salary Index for D ec ember reached 129. 2 an a ll- tim e high, and prom lsed to cl Imh further iii January and February, a harbinger of a good em ploy m ent econom y ahead. Duncan Bill Asks Dam Introduction of a bill to auth orize a dam on Olalla Creek near Roselxtrg was the first or der of business for Congress man Robert B. Duncan In the opening minutes of the 2nd s e s sion of the 89th Congress Mon day. Senators Morse and Neu- berger will Introduce a com panion bill in the Senate within a few days. "This dam would provide for Irrigation of 14,450 acres of land, would afford flood pro tection, Improve l>oth resident and anadramous fisheries, and would serve as a base for wa ter-orientated r e c r e a t i o n , ” Duncan stated. The bill would authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to con struct the Olalla Dam, water diversion and distribution fa cilities, and facilities for the enhancement of recreation, fish and wildlife values. Reservoir space allocated to flood control w o u ld provide for handling floodwaters from the O l a l l a Creek watershed In volumes ex ceeding those expected on a 50- year frequency. The costs for the construction project are estimated at $21,442,000,based on April 1964 prices. "The report on the project from the Bureau of Reclama tion has been reviewed by 811 affected agencies, and the re sponses were favorable,” Dun can added. "The people In the area have supported the plan to build the datn. The next major hurdle Is to get Congressional authorization, and I will do all within my power to acquire this approval as soon as pos sib le .” ___________ Senior Day Slated At University Oregon State University will hold open house Saturday, Jan. 22, for approximately 4,000 high school seniors, their parents, teachers and friends. The day-long program Is de signed to acquaint visitors with educational programs and fa cilities of the university. Most of the day will be de voted to school meetings a'- which students and their par ents will be briefed on fields of study, course and graduation requirements, and career op portunities after college. Other session s will present information on housing accomo dations and costs; admission requirements; financial aids, Including scholarships, loans and part-tim e work opportun ities; advising and counseling programs, and ROTC programs for men. East year, more than 3,400 persons attended the special open h o u s e . This year’s pro gram will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Coliseum. Curry Notes Four Deaths OCA Completes Conference Plans New Law For Cycle Riders To Take Effect Bank Deposits, Loans Climb Car Burns First Whale Sheriff's Luncheon Is Well Attended
