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About Port Orford news. (Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon) 1958-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1966)
House Passes Port Orford Harbor Funds *350,000 Allotted For Construction Storm Beaches Fish Boat Supplemental Financing Bill Backed At Annual Meeting Of Coos-Curry An early fall storm Saturday claim ed the fishing boat Golden Wert a f t e r her mooring line broke in the high seal and she was washed onto the beach east of the Port of Port Orford dock about noon. The 6 5 -foot boat, rigged for shrimp, waa owned by Richard "Butch" Crook of Brookings and fishing for the California Shell Fish Co. The boat unloaded here and the catch was trucked to California for processing. Heavy winch and high seas carried the «-raft stem-ward into t h e beach where a relentless surf succeeded in turning the boat parallel to the beach and onto its p o r t side. A steady pounding of the surf finally took its toll on the boat's hull and snapped her spar and trolling poles,tearing loose deck railing and washing gear on deck over board. An attempt to pull the craft up on the beach with a crawler tractor failed but a volunteer crew began salvage operations on the arrival of skipper Crook fr o m Brookings. With tractor power the hull was opened to perm it the removal of the diesel engine,power wenches and other running gear. Blaine Marsh and Lawrence Miller assisted the Brookings men with salvage of the equipment. The boat was partially insured. TOP PHOTO ------ LYING parallel with the beach, fishing b o a t Golden West is pounded by heavy surf in early fall storm after mooring hroke Saturday morning. CENTER PHOTO----- POUNDING surf finally caused spar and trolling poles to snap off, taking part of railing from seaward side of boat with them. BOTTOM PHOTO---- GOLDEN WEST after she was pulled apart so motor, anchor wench, and other gear could be removed, lies scattered on beach in mute testimony of the sav ageness of the sea. A resolution asking Congres sional members to support sup plemental financing b ill for e l e c t r i c cooperatives was a highlight of the 28th Annual Meeting of Coos-Curry E lectric Cooperative, Inc., held In Gold Beach Saturday. The resolution, asking Con- g res* to approve legislation to create a Federal E lectric Bank, patterned a f t e r the Federal Land Bank, waspresentedtothe membership by a committee, headed by B. H. Heflin of Gold Beach. Sam H all, D istrict court Judge, seconded the motion be fore the membership and It was unanimously adopted. Ivan Laird, president of the cooperative, discussed the past history of the electric cooper ative m o v e m e n t from Its Inception In 1936 undertheREA and the reasons for the present need for a Federal E lectric Bank. "T o s u m m a r i z e this struggle,” said Laird, “ the In vestor-owned utilities have said to Congress for 31 years, ‘let the cooperatives go to the mon ey market, don’t give them an appropriation.’ Now they are saying, ‘Don’t make It possible for them to go to the money m a rk et.’ This can only mean,’» I-alrd continued, “ an attempt to put the cooperatives out of business.” NAVIGATION PROJECTS Fred Bartel, special assis tant, U. S. Army Corps of En gineers, Portland D is tric t, dis cussed the navigation projects from Coos Bay to Brookings. He firs t discussed the two pro jects in the Coos Bay area, one for the Coos and MllUcoma Rivers Just completed Aug. 30. This project provided for a channel five feet deep by 50- • feet wide from the mouth of Coos-River to Allegany on the M llllcom a River. The other project is the deep draft channel and the original small boat basin at Charleston. Bartel said the Corps ts also preparing a report on the feas- lbllty of deepening the Coos Bay channel. He said there was also a study being made on extending the sm all boat channel In the south slough. BANDON PROJECT In regard to the Coquille River project at Bandon, he said that a study to provide for north and south Jetties and for a 13-foot channel had not received a favorable report, and that further study w ill be needed to come within the cost- benefit ratio required for auth orization. PORT O F PORT ORFORD The Port of Port Orford breakwater was authorized by Congress in October 1965 to provide a protective breakwa ter with an estimated cost of $696,000. Bartel said pre construction planning is un derway, but to date, funding for this work has not teen made by Congress. (This authorization has since teen made by Congress). ROGUE RIVER A review is now underway to determine the feasibility of extending the north Jetty of Rogue R iver at Gold Beach. Also underway, said B artel, Is a section 107 study for a small boat basin. CHETCO RIVER The Rivers and Harbors Act of October 1965 a u t h o r i z e d navigation Improvements esti mated to cost $1,350,000 for the Chetco River. These Improve ments Include a protective dike around the boat basin, an ex tension of the north Jetty, a channel 14 feet deep by 120- teet wide, a barge turning ba sin and a sm all boat access channel. Bartel said the P re s i dent’ s budget for fiscal year 1967 Includes funds for pre construction planning of these Chetco R iver Improvements. ‘DON’T LOSE H EA RT’ In his closing rem arks, B ar tel said, “ I would, however, like to leave this last thought . . . riv e r and harbor developments are firs t perceived by the local p e o p le , yourselves. Planning and construction of these de velopments can only be realized by your hard-headed thinking, by your expenditure of tim e, effort, and funds, and Anally by your perserverance and not losing heart until your goal has been reached.” County Judge C . Fell Camp bell, who welcomed cooperative members to the meeting, dis cussed the need for greater dlverslAcatlon to take the area away from a o n e - in d u s t r y economy. “ We can see the importance of this today,” said Campbell, “ with the lumber situation as It Is now . . . a depressed lum ber market . . . workers laid off or working short shifts . . . woods closed to logging at tim es . . .we must seek actively to diversity. We must seek ways to Increase our tourist business and search for ways to attract new industry and services to the area.” "T h is fall, at the Nov. 8 election,” said Campbell, “ we are asking the voters to ex press their opinions on three m easures--a convention center at Gold Beach, which is part of an expansion of building at the fairgrounds, approval of a park up the Sixes R iver, and partial aid by the county for the construction of agolfcourse in the Brookings area.” Campbell explained each of the projects and said he was in favor of all three. He then suggested that sectionalism should not enter into the vote if the whole county is to pro gress. He said, “ these three ballot measures, If passed, may well be a start to the objec tives I ’ve mentioned.” Rex Castle and his “ L ittle People” highlighted the enter tainment with an excellent pup pet show. Despite the firs t good rain fall of the season, approxlma- . tely 400 persons turned out for the meeting. Incumbent d l r e c t o r s ,V e r n Kolen, Zone 3; Jack Dean of Bandon, Zone 6, and Ivan C. Laird, Zone 9, were re-elected without opposition. Rankin Named Co-op Head The Board of D irectors of C o o s -C u rry E lectric Cooper ative, Inc., who met Immedia tely after the annual meeting held in Gold Beach Saturday, elected a new slate of officers. F a rre ll Rankin, M yrtle Point, an 11-year m e m b e r of the Board of D irecto rs, was elect ed president to succeed Ivan C. L aird , who has been director and officer since Incorporation in 1939. Vern Kolen, Gold Beach, was named vice president, and Jack Dean, Bandon, was elected sec re ta ry -tre a s u re r. Other dlrectorslnclude: Nor man Oberst and E. L. Thornton representing t h e Brookings area; Ray Keen, Wedderburn; Nicholas M arsh, Port O rford; David R. Phllpott, Coquille; and Ivan C. L aird , Sltkum. The new officers w ill serve until the next Annual Meeting. A ll directors are elected to th ree-year term s with d irec tors for three zones elected each year. Forest Lands Are Closed O ver 2,211,700 acres of ex tra-hazardous forest land on 28 areas scattered throughout Oregon are presently closed to entry except by p erm it, accord ing to a release dated Sept. 15 by State Forester J. E. Sch- roederr Some 1,253,900 acres are posted with closure notices in western Oregon, while the o t h e r 957,000 acres are re stricted to entry east of the Cascade mountains. P erm its w ill not be given for recreational use, Including hunting and fishing, on some 463,000 acres coming under this closure In the Klamath Falls Protective Association. Suf ficient rainfall has not occurred In this areatoalleviateextrem e fire conditions. Elsewhere in the state, recent showers have brought about only temporary re lie f, Schroeder said. Drying east winds common at this time of the year could quickly sap this lim ited moisture from the forest fuels, he continued. In areas for which entry p er mits are being w ritten, the ap plicant w ill be required to re frain from smoking except In designated places; build no open fires except In areas that might be designated and have fire equipment when using camp fires . Request for perm its can be made at local headquarters of the State Forestry Department and Forest Protective Associa tions nearest the particular area under closure. Rep. Robert B. Duncan an nounced that the House Approp riations Committee approved Sept. 15 more than $106 million In planning and construction funds for public works in O re gon. Funds w ill be spent mainly by the Arm y Corps af Engin eers, the Bureau of RetSamatlon and the Bonneville Power Ad ministration. Duncan, a member of the Appropriations C o m m i t t e e , said that the Oregon allocation represents about 2.6% of the total $4.1 billion appropriation for all public works in the Nation. Oregon’ s population is approximately 1% of the nation al total. For work In Oregon, Duncan said, the Corps of Engineers received $73.6 m illion or 6.7% of all A rm y Corps of Engineer fu n d s approved for public works. The Bureau of Reclama tion received $4.9 m illion for spending tn Oregon or about 1.8% of all B u r e a u funds ap proved for this prpose. Main tenance and operation funds are not Included tn either case. Ten projects were funded tn the Fourth Congressional D istrict represented by Con gressman Duncan. They are: A p p le g a t e Dam, $200,000, planning; Blue R iver, $8.7 m il lion, construction; Cascadia Dam, $200,000, planning; Chet co R ive r, $30,000, planning; Elk Creek D a m ,$150,000,plan ning; Gate Creek Dam, $195,- 000, p la n n i n g ; Green Peter Dam, $12.2 m illion, construc tion; Rogue R iver, $500,000, c o n s t r u c t i o n ; Port O rford Breakwater extension, $3 50 ,- 000, construction; and Reeds port, $494,000, construction to prevent high tide flooding. The full amount requested by the Johnson Administration was approved for eight of the 10 Fourth D istric t projects. In addition, funds were added In Committee for the Port O rford and Reedsport projects for which money had not been o r iginally requested. Duncan said the funds at Port Orford were the firs t Federal funds ever ipproved for Federally assist ed civ il works there. "Southwestern O r e g o n Is most fortunate to have received the support It did In Comm ittee for the Port Orford and Reeds port projects,” Duncan said. “ The Committee on Its own approved Hffiffhg for only two additional projects of w h ic h these were two. Of the 24, only two were for amounts of more than $1 m illio n .” Dun- car. said the Committee heard r e q u e s t s from Members of Congress to approve funds for 326 additional projects but ap proval was granted for only the 24. " I was greatly disappointed that the Committee did not ap prove funds to begin construc tion of the authorized Lost Creek Reservoir, which is so b a d ly needed In the Rogue Valley. The Committee d id p ro - vlde funds to continue the pro ject planned for Elk C reek, Gate C reek, and Applegate Dam In the Rogue Basin. 1 had also hoped to have funds approved for the Sluslaw dredging pro je c t," Duncan said. VICTIM of a side-swiping a c cident about 9 p. m. Sunday was this 1965 Oldsmobile owned by Ren Rundberg of Sixes. City po lice said the car was parked in front of Johnny's Cafe when the mishap occured. They are in vestigating a suspect 1964 red Dodge pickup that witnesses say was involved. — P. O. P. D. Photo New Appointments Western Bank Opening New Brookings Building Monday Western Bank Is celebrating the Grand Opening of Its newest office in Brookings Monday, Sept. 26. Barley Nissen, man ager of the Brookings Branch, states with enthusiasm his pleasure at being able to offer the ultimate In service through their lieautlful new building. Starting In 1904 as Bank of Bandon with total Capital of $25,000 and with five forw ard- looking founders, the hank now has total assets exceeding $20,000,000 and has wide lo cal ownership. It has an en viable record of service to Coos and C u rry Counties for 62 years, with the firs t 50 years’ business all done from Bandon. In 1955 the firs t branch of fice was established at Empire. The hank had total assets of $3,940,439 at the beginning of that year. Since then It has been one of the fastest growing banks In Oregon, now b e in g 11th largest In the state. Six years ago Western Bank opened Its Coos Bay branch which Is now the head office and the largest single branch. In 1964 the Brookings and Gold Beach offices were opened In temporary quarters. With the completion of the Brookings building, they now have five offices which are outstanding buildings tn each community. The Coos Bay, Gold Beach and Brookings offices were all designed by R. H. Erlchsen ai d Associates. They represent a departure from the old barred windows and stren architecture typical of banks tn the past, to a new concept of attractive, friendly-looking structures. The Coos Bay office has re ceived wide acclaim for the beauty and function of the buil ding and for Its attractive land scaping. Both the Brookings and the Gold Beach buildings carry out the same concepts which include wide use of wood prod ucts, local building m aterials and const ruction of local c rafts men. "The s to c k h o ld e r s of Western Bank have every rea son to he proud of thetr out standing record of growth and service to Southwestern O re gon,” commented A. W. Sweet, president. Last Summer Concert Dated Featured at the last Sum mer Band Concert in the City Park, Sunday, at the 20th An nual BandonCranberry Festival with Frank le u k and an 18- plece professto.ial Stage Band will be "The iouthwesters.” The group, watch plays and sings "T iju an a’ style music, is from Southw. stern Oregon Community Col ege and In cludes Connie Ji hnson, Bruce Vlk, D ia n e Goldman, Bruce Bennett, Janet Ruppert, Leuck, Jeanne White, J e rry Duerksen, Ruth Johnson, Larry Teague and the Rev. Benjamin Owre. The concert w ill begin at 2 o’clock. This series of outdoor sum mer concerts, a cooperative ef fort by Southwestern Oregon College and Local 520 of the American Federation of Mu sicians, has been made pos sible by a grant from th e Musicians Performance Trust Fund. EXAMINER DUE The drivers license exam in ers will be at city hall, Port Ck- ford,ITlday,Sept,23from 1 0 a .m . to 3 p. m. Three new appointments for the C urry County Duncan for Senate c o m m i t t e e were an nounced today by Robert R. Van lx»er, chalrm anofthecom - mlttee. Brookings area chairman is Dick O ’ Holloran, Brookings businessman and form er cham ber of commerce president. Chairman for northern C urry ts John (Red) M cW illiam s, real estate broker and motel own e r. M cW illiam s has worked for Duncan In past campaigns. Youth activities chairman is Fred Moy of Gold Beach, a senior at Gold Beach High, and active In student affairs. With Judge F ell Campbell as finance chairman, this com pletes the campaign team for the county. Van le e r said, " I am pleased to be working with such a dis tinguished group. When men of their caliber agree to work for Duncan it is an indication of how well thought of he ts in the county.” WEATHER Date Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. M ax 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 69 69 62 64 65 69 68 Min 46 51 55 55 55 Rain .0 0 .0 0 . 16 .6 4 50 .0 2 .0 0 57 1.47 â / > 1
