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TPott (Orford ?Ceuis
Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon
Vol. 10 No. 26
Group To Hear
Commissioners
At Meeting
Curry County Commissioners,
C. F e l l Campbell, chairman,
Ryce Wilson and H. E. Time us,
will be invited to appear in
dividually b e f o r e a citizens'
committee on Monday, Oct. 9,
8 p. m ., in the Gold Beach city
hall to express their views on
current problems plaguing the
county board. The committee
was formed Monday night in
efforts to improve county gov
ernment.
Committee members repre
sent all areas of the county and
include DickBarklow,chairman,
Langlois; N o r m a n Crowhurst,
vice-chairman, GOP c e n t r a l
c o m m i t t e e chairman, Gold
Beach; Bob E a r le , secretary,
Brookings; Bruce Manley, city
o f Brookings; L eo Shurtleff,
Brookings chamber o f c o m
merce; Morris McGrew, Chetco
Grange, B ro o k in g s ; Howard
Hauschildt, city council, Gold
Beach; Dick Larsson, Gold Beach
chamber of commerce; Norm
Chenoweth, Ophir grange; Frank
St. Clair, city of Port Orford;
Paul Peterson, Port Orford cham
ber of commerce; Frank Morris,
Democrat committeeman, Port
Orford; R.K.Erwin,Sixes grange;
and D.N.Eggers, Brookings, rep
resenting the rural area.
Statements made by com
missioners will be strictly con
fidential, the committee stres
sed, w i t h a time lim it of 30
minutes for each presentation.
The committee pointed out that
it Was solely interested in bring
ing harmony back to the board
of commissioners.
Before the committee went
into executive session, members
of the audience were given time
to express their views on a plan
of action to solve differences
on the board and re-establish
communication. Asking for re
signations or instituting a recall
were two considerations sug
gested, but it was felt that for
the good of county government,
it would be better to attempt a
reconciliation of differences.
PTA Will Host
Teachers Tonight
An extra special program has
been planned for tonight's PTA
meeting, the first one of the
school year, according to Mrs.
Dee Wood, president. All teach
ers and school staff, plus new
members, will be greeted by a
special welcoming committee.
Mrs. Wood stressed that this is
a meeting designed to get ac
quainted with teachers and for
new members to m eet and be
come acquainted with teachers
and other members.
Plans for the coming year are
being discussed and Mrs. Wood
urged that parents join now to
in s u r e a successful program.
Special emphasis this year will
be on an increased membership.
Tonight's meeting will be at
7:30 in the grade school mul
tipurpose room.
July Traffic
Shows
Increase
The volume of traffic on most
of Oregon’s highways showed
and increase in July 1967 com
pared to July 1966, according
to the monthly report compiled
by the Oregon State Highway
Department.
A summary of the permanent
traffic recorder data for rural
and urban state highways show
ed an Increase of 2.3 percent
in vehicular traffic InJuly 1967,
compared to July of last year.
Judge Hall Refuses Timeus
'Intent To Kill' Cause
Not Shown, Judge Says
Chamber Hears
Road Program
Election, Reports, Entertainment
To Highlight Electric Co-op Meet
"Bonneville's Role in the
Thermal Age" will be the topic
of Bernard Goldhammer at the
29th annual meeting of Coos-
Cu.Ty Electric Cooperative in
Brookings on Saturday, Sept 30.
Goldhammer, assistant admin
istrator for power management,
Bonneville Power Administra
tion, will discuss present and fu
ture plans of the Boxmeville sys
tem. He is scheduled to speak
at 11:15 a. m.
Registration will begin at 9
a. m. at the Brookings-Harbor
high school with the business
meeting to start at 10 a. m. with
a flag ceremony and invocation
by the Rev. Roland Wittrock of
the Trinity Lutheran Church.
Bruce Manley, mayor of Brook
ings, w i l l welcome members
and guests to Brookings and an
nual meeting.
Vem Kolen, Gold Beach, act
ing president of the cooperative,
will conduct the business m eet-
ing.Jack Dean,Bandon,will give
the financial report. W. A. Cook
will give a management report
and L. G. Bloomer a report of
operations.
The afternoon session will be
highlighted by a talk and slide
presentation by Mary Lou Tur
ner, Bandon high, and Alan Rap-
raeger, Brookings-Harbor high
school, o f their "Washington
Youth Tour" sponsored by the
co-op.
Special entertainment will be
the "Sawdusters" of Coquille
who will present "olio" acts of
the "Gay Nineties" era. The
Sawdusters, under the direction
of Karen and J ohn Moore, ha ve
just c o m p l e t e d a successful
summer theatre run.
Members will elect directors
from three zones to the board of
directors. Candidates are: Zone
2, Ed Thornton, incumbent; Zone
4, Thomas Hawkins, C h a r le s
Knox and Frederic H. Stark
w e a t h e r Jr.; Z o n e 7, Thor
Jamsgard, F. L. Rema andR.E,
Doyle.Balloting will close at 11
a.m.and a ballot report will be
made at 3 p. m.
Prizes will be awarded through
out tire afternoon session and
free luncheon tickets will be
given to members and guests at
the morning registration.
Drivers Cautioned
To Drivers
Watch
Children
need to keep a sharp
lookout for s c h o o l children
loading and unloading fro m
school buses,advised Chief Curt
Weir of the Port Orford Police
Department^
Many youngsters have to cross
a street to board the bus in the
morning. After school, children
are anxious to get home and
often run blindly from the bus
without thinking about oncom
ing cars.
"Also," the Chief pointed out,
"children who are g o in g to
school for die first time are not
fully aware of safety rules. "
Chief Weir reminded motor
ists of the school bus stop law.
"Traffic must stop when the
upper red lights of the school
bus are flashing. On a four-lane
highway, only the two lanes of
traffic going the same direction
as the bus must stop. Cars from
both dirictions must stop and
remain stopped on two or three
lane roads, " said the Chief.
NEW DEER SEASON
OPENING
OCTOBER 7
The State Game Commission
t o d a y postponed opening of
Oregon's deer hunting season
from this coming Saturday un
til O ct7 because of high forest
fire danger.
State Game Director Phil
Schneider said the action was
taken reluctantly "with full re
alization that it will disrupt the
vacationandrecreationplans of
tens o f thousands o f Oegon
hunters.
The emergency action was
taken at a telephone conference
after review of latest weather
forecasts and consultation with
sportsmen, landowners and land
management agencies.
Also affected with a similar
postponement a r e the grouse
and partridge hunting seasons.
The commission expressed
confidence that Oegon1 s 285, -
000 or more deer hunters would
be careful with fire. But it said
the probability of congestion
and confusion arising from ex
tensive public and private land
closures, added to the fire dan
ger,made it adviseable to post
pone the opening.
The commission also said the
deer season would not be ex
tended beyond the normal clo
sure dates.
Such action, it said, could re
sult in an excessive harvest of
deerat a time of the migration
and breeding season, and also
would conflict with scheduled
opening of the elk season.
The closure includes the arch
ery season and the bear season,
plus the Wallowa pack and Hart
M ounta in c ontrol led se asons, the
commission said.
Abundant Food
Schedule Set
Following are dates for the
Abundant Food Center in Curry
County for the month of Octo
ber.
Brooking»—Coos-Curry Co-op
Building, 9 a. m to 1 p. m. Oct.
2,certification, Oct. 4, delivery.
Port Orford—Coos-Curry Co
op Building, 9 a m. to 1 p. m.
O ct 23, certification, O ct 25,
delivery.
G o ld Beach-Fairgrounds, 9
a. m to 4 p. m Oct. 5 and 26,
An earthquake zone in Japan,
near the Bay of Tokyo, is said
to average four shock» a day.
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The Sea of Galilee is actually
a lake.
NEW TELEPHONE building
at Langlois nears completion
this week.
The $36,000 facility will
house equipment for a complete
new dial system which will bring
all-new seven-digit numbers to
the Langlois exchange shortly
after the first of the year.
—photo by Warren Strycker
NewASC Community
Committees Elected
Improvement of inland roads
in northern Curry county is not
included in county road pro
gram plans at this time, the
chamber of commerce was told
at its Monday noon luncheon
meeting by county commission
er Ryce Wilson. The commis
sioner appeared at the request of
the chamber, whose members
were concerned about the pos
sibility of an inland access road
from this area to Highway 42.
Wilson explained that opening
of such a route would require a
considerable amount of study
and t h a t he couldn't see any
hope of such a road for some
time. He indicated that at this
time an inland route could not
be justified and that other pro
jects were more pressing.
There are,however, other road
improvement plans in the hop
per for this area, Wilson said. One
is straightening the upper end
of the Hensley Hill road, another
is a route to Silver Springs from
the Paradise Point road. He also
noted that three miles of paving
hasjuft completed the surfacing
of the Elk River road to the
hatchery site, about ten miles
up the river.
The commissioner also noted
that new methods of preparing
surface mix, preparing roadbeds
and new equipment has greatly
reduced the per-mile road con
structing expense. And new ac
counting procedures m a k e it
possible to keep up with project
costs on a current basis.
Other points discussed by the
commissioner included the Six
es River road to Powers, that of
the county's 200 miles of roads
there are 110 paved miles, signs
on inland ccc county roads, the
summer youth work program and
the Elk hatchery.
At the next meeting, Fred
Flynn will speak on the Com
munity Action Program.
Results of the Sept. 18, 1967,
election of ASC c o m m u n ity
committeemen of the northern,
central and southern communi
ties were announced today by
Wm. V. Crook, chairman Curry
County Agricultural Stabiliza
tion a n d C o n se rv a tlo n C o m -
mlttee. The elections were held
by mall, and ballots were tab
ulated publicly by the incumbent
ASC county committee Sept. 19,
demonstration room In the
Courthouse in Gold Beach.
Farm ers elected to the com
mittees Include: n o r th com
munity, John M. Donaldson J r .,
chairman; Richard C. Hilde
brand, vice-chairman; L lo y d
Kreutzer, member; George W.
Woodworth, 1st alternate com
m itte e m a n , and R o b e r t L.
Hildebrand, 2nd alternate com
mitteeman. Central community:
Wilbur C. Moore, chairman;
Earl Hockema, vice-chairman;
Ralph Walker, member; Elma
Ismert, 1st alternate commit
teeman, and Ralph Ismert, 2nd
alternate committeeman. Sou
thern community: Fred Blunt,
chairman; James F. Crown,
vice-chairman; Eldon Harroun,
member; Ray Nidlffer, 1st alt
ernate committeeman, and Roy
J. Liles, 2nd alternate com
mitteeman.
The ASC community com
mittee chairman, v ie e-chai r-
man and third regular member
automatically become delegates
to die county convention, where
farmers are elected to fill va
cancies on the ASC county com
mittee. The a l t e r n a t e com
mitteemen become a l t e r n a t e
delegates to the convention. The
county convention will be held
in the home demonstration room
In the Courthouse Sept. 28,
1967 at 1:00 p.m.. After the
county c o m m itte e m e n are
elected, the d e 1 e g a t e s deter-
mlne which of the regular com
m itte e m e n wll s e r v e as the
committee chairman and vice-
chairman for the coming year.
ASC county and community
farmer-committees are
In
charge of local administration
of such national programs as
the Agricultural Conservation
Program and the National Wool
Program.
Last year, 120 farm ers— 4%-
of all the farm ers in the county
took part In one or both of the
programs administered by the
ASC committees. Funds dls-
bi -sed under the committees’
supervision am ountedto$58,-
525. Of this amount, $32, 834
was
incentive payment to
wool growers. Lest year, also,
1507 acres of farmland in the
county were improved under the
Agricultural Conservation Pro
gram c o s t-s h a rin g arrange-
NOTICE
Elk River road from mile post
4. 8 to mile post 7. 8 is now a
Curry county road by nature of
an agreement with the Forest
Service. This additional m ile
age is now under the Oregon
Transportation Act and will be
subject to PUC regulations.
ment. This cost approximately
$64,227, with over half coming
from the participatingf a rm er,
and die balance from ASC.
Timeus Will
Pursue Action
Curry County District Judge
Sam Hall has refused to issue a
warrant for the arrest of county
commissioner C.Fell Campbell
because of insufficient evidence
submitted with the charge of as-
saultwith intent to kill filed by
county commissioner H.E. Tim
eus last week.
The charge is the result of an
County To Share
Comp Dividends
Distribution of the record
workmen's compensation divi
dend paid by the State Com
pensation Department has start
ed.
The first of checks going to
955 employers in Coos and Cur
ry counties went into the mail
on Sept. 25.
Total dividend for over 25, -
000 employers in Oegon is six
million dollars. Coos and Curry
counties share is $212, 040.
Some dividend checks will be
delivered by representatives of
the SCD's North Bend district
office,headed by District Man
ager Loyal Bums.
Charles B.Gill Jr., State Com
pensation Department general
manager,saidchecksrange from
a high of $220, 000 to a low of
$5.
To be eligible for the divi
dend, Gill said, an employer
must h a v e been insured with
th e State Compensation De
partment within the 1965-66
fiscal year. Dividend declara
tion date was Aug. 2.
The dividend is the highest
ever in Oregon for workmen's
compensation. Previous record
was the four million dollars
paid to employers by the SCD
last year.
The current dividend is ap
proximately 19 per c e n t of
earned premiums.
Spanish women are gaining
more freedom. Girls can now
attend one of 12 universities,
which their mothers could not
do. More women are working,
and chaperons have all but dis
appeared. Also, ladles can stay
out later at night.
alleged altercation b e tw e e n
Timeus and Campbell in which
Timeus claims to have been hit
over the head with a glass ash
tray, causing cuts to his head.
Campbell has said his hand was
cut.
Timeus' attorney, John Pick
ett, told the News Wednesday
morning there were no new de
velopments in the case but that
he was continuing to represent
the commissioner. Timeus has
indicated he has much more
supporting e v i d e n c e to his
charge and that the matter will
be pursued. He said he has no
choice.
However, Judge Hall has de
clined to issue the warrant be
cause "The facts alleged in the
information of felony and those
set forth in the affidavits here
in are not sufficient to satisfy
me of an 'intent to kill. '"
In support of the complaint
are affidavits from Timeus and
Sheriff Allen Boice.
In the letter filed Monday.
JudgeHall said it appears to be
discretionary with District At
t o r n e y Robert Miller as to
whether or not he will appear
on behalf of the state "in such
kinds of proceedings. "
Miller filed an affidavit last
week in circuit court advising
the court that in any legal ac
tion brought by one Curry com
missioner against another he
would be disqualified to prose-
c u t e the case on the grounds
that he has a client-attorney
relationship with members of the
board.
Circuit Judge James Norman
rejectedM iller's affidavit, say
ing that "rendering advice to a
county officer in his official
capacity doesnotmean that the
district attorney and the offi
cial are associated in business. "
NEW EMPLOYEE
AT FIRST NATIONAL
The appointment of Robert
Bock to the operations depart
ment of the Port Orford branch
of First National Bank of Oregon
has been announced by Manager
Gil Rush.
A First National employee
since October of last year, Bock
replaces RichardBusby, who has
been transferred to the bank's
branch in Phoenix.
Lillian Russell’s real name
was Helen Louise Leonard.
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