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Vol. 11 No. 36
Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon 97 ' ~ Prk
Bank To Issue
Mod-Art Checks
Four Oregon scenics and a
m ulti-color mod design are all
part of a new custom-designed
checking program introduced
last week by FirstNaticnal Bank
of Oregon.
Bank President Ralph J. Voss
announced that five personal -
ized checks are now availabl e
fcr bank customers.
Vivid coastal and mountain
scenes taken by noted Ckegcn
photographer Ray Atkinscn are
depicted co two of the checks,
while an outline map of the
state, a "posie"check fcr w o
man and a swirl of colors high
light the other three.
Voss explained that the new
checks w ill insert color and in
dividuality into die matter-of -
fact business of personal check
writing and that more designs
are planned for die future.
Declare Dividend
The board of directors of
First National Bank of Oregon
at Its meeting Tuesday, Nov.
26 declared a regular quarterly
dividend of 45 cents per -share
payable Jan. I, 1969 to share
holders of record at the close
of business Dec. 16.
Thursday, December 5, 1968
Nicholson Store Robbed
By Two Young Gunmen
Commissioners
Weekly Report
Commissioner Gene Cole-
grove made a r e p o r t to the
Board of Commissioners on the
meeting of O and C Counties
that he attended In Portland.
Commissioner Colegrove was
appointed to the Road Commit
tee, representing the O and C
Counties.
In a motion the Board ap
proved hiring Calvin Kearn and
John Dawson on the recommen
dation of the Parks and Rec
reation Committee, to do main
tenance work at the Lobster
Creek camp.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sher
man of Nesika Beach have an
easement that they desire to
dedicate to the public as a
beach access.
Fred Flynn was authorized
to provide transportation for
the Food Commodities to
Brookings for $22 per round
trip.
Hie Board of Commissioners
met with Jim Izett and Charlie
Ames of the South Coast Lum
ber Co., regarding a request
for a hangar site on the Brook
ings airport. This commit
tment was made sometime In
the past.
In motions the Commission
approved the issuance of a DB
license to Gordon E. and Pear-
lie May Miller for Sporthaven
Inn and a PB license toWllliam
Guthrie for TopO* Hill Grocery.
Orders Authorizing Refund
to Norma L. Van Horn and
Richard J. Hale were approved
by the Commission.
The road meeting convened in
regular Wednesday afternoon
session with Commissioners
Tucker, Kerber and Colegrove
and Howard Newhouse, Bruce
Shaner, Myron Baumer and Ed
Sypher present.
Report on road maintenance
was given by personnel present.
Cattle crossing on Floras
lake road has been completed.
The work on Tenth Street
in Port Orford has been com
pleted for this year, with the
exception of some finishing.
In the Gold Beach area a
36 inch culvert has been put
in place at Hatchery Creek-
needs some finishing. Drive
way left in usual passable con
dition.
On the north bank of the
Rogue the Sweet property is
being prepared according to
agreement.
Three hundred yards of
crushed rock have been put on
upper north bank road.
Nesika Beach garbage dump
has been put in shape.
Je rry s Flat “ slip out” being
repaired, also culverts.
Euchre Creek portion of road
sealed and repaired.
In the Brookings area main
tenance has been done on all
roads. Cape Ferrello ap
proaches and dry washes being
put in.
Speeds and loads on north
bank of Chetco are complying.
Maintenance Is being done
in Agness area and theBlondell
rock site has been fenced.
Ocean view drive project
being brought up to date.
Hunter Creek Heights road
staked for future work. Steel
post on corner markers put
In.
Hunter Creek road to bewid-
ened and improved.
Myron Baumer gave a report
on the workshop conducted by
Association of Oregon Counties
held in Portland.
r . Cents
Rotarians Slate Power Failure Causes School
Spaghetti Feed Closures And Shut Downs
Port Orford Rotarians have
scheduled a spaghetti feed for
Saturday evening at the grade
school multipurpose room from
5 to 8 p. m.
The menu will also feature
tossed salad, white and garlic
bread, coffee and a urink for
children.
Proceeds for the $1 a plate
dinner will go towards the Ro
tary's bus shelter project.
Dope Is Subject
Of PTO Meeting
SUSAN NICHOLSON, owner of Nicholson's store south of Elk River, points to doorway
leading to kitchen where young armed robbers forced her to turn over $12 in dollar bills
to them last Wednesday night. One of the pair knocked a visitor of Mrs. Nicholson, Bill
Dixon, to the floor while she and two of her grandchildren watched. Cash register is lo
cated at Mrs.Nicholson's left elbow. Robbers were captured at roadblock south of Bandon.
Log Exports Top Last Year
Third quarter 1968 softwood marily western hemlock and
log exports from Oregon and true firs, 80.5 percent.
Average value of all log ex
Washington totaled 528 million
board feet, Scribner scale, ac ports In the third quarter rose
cording to data being assembled to $100.52 per thousand board
by the Pacific Northwest For feet from a second quarter
est and Range Experiment figure of $99.27. Douglas-flr
S ta tio n for its quarterly mar prices declined from $97.50,
keting report, “ Production, while the prices of Port Orford
prices, Employment, and Trade
cedar and other softwoods In
In N o r th w e s t Forest Indust creased to $323.69 and $98.91,
rie s.” The third quarter ex respectively. The total value
port volume represents a de of all log exports from Oregon
crease of 4.8 percent ftom and Washington ports was $53
second quarter 1968 shipments. million in the third quarter.
Hie volume for the first three
Lumber exports from Wash
quarters of 1968 totals 1,524 ington and Oregon dropped from
million board feet or 30.9 per 109 million board feet in the
cent above the same period second quarter to 85 million
board feet in the third quarter
in 1967.
Log shipments from theOre- of 1968. Plywood exports totaled
gon Customs District totaled 8,574 thousand square feet,
169 million board feet, down about the same as s e c o n d
5.9 percent from the previous quarter shipments. Chip ex
quarter but up 21.1 percent from ports from the Oregon Customs
third quarter a year ago. In District Increased to 277.3
the Washington Customs Dis thousand cords In the third
trict, exports were down 4.2 quarter, 19.1 percent above the
percent from the second quarter previous quarter’s total. In
to 359 million board feet but the Washington Customs Dis
up 14.8 percent from third quar trict, third quarter chip ex
ter 1967.
ports totaled 26.4 thousand
Japan received 95 percent of cords, a drop of 31.6 percent
the total shipments or 499 mil from the second quarter level
lion board feet. Canada re of 38.6 thousand cords.
ceived 2 percent or 10 million
Third quarter log shipments
board feet, and the remaining from n o r t h e r n California In
3 percent, 18 million board feet, creased 76 percent over second
went to South Korea.
quarter shipments to a total
Douglas-flr made up 18.5 per of 76.5 million board feet. Chip
cent of the shipments, Port exports from the same area
Orford cedar 1.0 percent, and totaled 17.4 thousand cords, a
other softwood species, prl- drop of 24.9 percent from the
Lions Outline Park Plans;
Call Meeting On Tuesday
Hans for a future city park w ill be outlined and discussed at
a meeting next Tuesday at the grade school, according to Liens
Club park chairman Burrell Babb.
Last week the Lions announced they had completed negoti
ations for purchase of the old Trans-Pacific m ill site property
frem the Buffington estate. The property, situated north of the
State Highway b a r n between Arizona St. and Lakeshcre Drive,
contains about 20 acres.
of the big projects to be discussed will be ways and
means of paying far the site, which is being purchased cn a ten-
year contract. Development plans wBl also be co the agenda as
w ell as a proposal to reactivate the Can?minity Center Associa
tion. A major problem the former C. C. A. faced was land acqui
sition, Babb said, but now that problem is solved.
The Tuesday planning and orientation meeting will be held
at 7:30 p. m.
Serving with Babb an the Lions perk committee are Howard
Beasley and Dal Weir.
Savings Bonds Sales Climb
“United States Savings Bonds
sales continue to climb In Ore
gon,” Curry County Savings
Bonds Chairman C. E. Ziegler
reported here today in his mon
thly sales release.
“ S a le s within this County
amounted to $15,244 f o r the
month
of
October,”
he
continued, compared to $10,094
tor last October.
“Sales throughout the state
totaled $3,321,844 as compared
with $2,786,522 for O ct., 1967.
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previous quarter.
Alaska log shipments were
down 39 percent from second
quarter to a level of 12,468
thousand board feet.
Russians Turn
In Salmon Tag
State F i s h e r i e s Director
Robert W. Schonlng announced
in Portland today that a Rus
sian fisheries sclentlest has
returned a Fish Commission tag
from a chlnook salmon cap
tured August 8, 1968, on the
high seas north of Heceta Bank,
approximately 33 miles off the
Alsea River mouth.
The Soviet research vessel
OGHON captured the salmon,
which was tagged by Fish Com
mission biologists off Port Or
ford in September, 1967.
Hie tag and pertinent biolo
gical Information were for
warded to the Commission’s
Astoria research headquarters
by Vladimir V. Fedorov of the
Pacific Research Institute of
Fisheries and Oceanography In
Vladlvostock, U. S. S. R.
The OGHON has conducted
extensive fishery research off
the Pacific coast of the United
States and has been a regular
visitor off the Oregon coast
In recent years.
In the past, Soviet fleet com
manders have publicly acknow
ledged taking salmon In limited
quantities while trawling for
bottom fish. They have stoutly
maintained, however, that they
do not fish specifically for sal
mon on the high seas, even
though they feel they have the
right to do so.
In fact, the Soviets have lab
eled high seas salmon fishing
as being “barbaric.”
Schonlng said the Soviet re
port of the tag recovery Is In
keeping with the current ex
changes of scletlflc Information
between U. S. and Soviet fish
eries biologists.
In a letter to Fedorov, Schon
lng complimented the Russian
scientist for returning the sal
mon tag and furnishing related
biological and catch Infor
mation. He also requested ad
ditional information on any
other salmon which may have
been caught In their research
or commercial fishing activit
ies off the Pacific coast.
In a telephone conversation
with Schonlng earlier this week,
Donald L. McKeman, onetime
Oregon Fish Commission Re
search Director, now Special
Assistant to Secretary of State
for F i s h e r i e s and Wildlife,
pledged State iJepartmert as
sistance In efforts to obtain
further Information on salmon
taken during Soviet fishing
operations ntt the Pacific coast.
The Port Orford PTO met in
the multipurpose room of the
elementary school an Tuesday
evening, Nov. 26, with a very
fine crowd even though the no
tices were given over the tele
phones an Monday night and
Tuesday.
The Honor Choir from Pacific
high,with WayneMerrell as dir
ector, presented several numbers
and really thrilled the crowd.
The Junior High drill team
presented their routines in their
usual lovely manner and their
leader Mrs.Jean Samudio, an
nounced to the audience that
the group had received a gift of
$25 from the Lions and another
$25 from the American Legion
to help purchase their uniforms.
Allen Boice, Curry county
sheriff, and Curt Weir, Port Or
ford police chief, were next on
the program with their explan
ations of "Dope, its harmfulness
and control. " This was a most
inte.asting discussion of th is
timely subject by men who are
dealing with the problem every
day and was most educational
and helpful to everyone present.
Thelma Belcher won the door
prize.
It was announced that the PTO
will hold the annual Smorgas
bord at the grade school m ulti
purpose room an Dec. 14, begin
ning at 5 p. m. and continuing
until 9 p. m.
The officers of the PTO wish
to express their appreciation for
the fine attendance and hope to
give longer notice next time.
A power failure in the rugged
China Mountain area of Bonne
ville Power Administration’s
coast line caused a complete
power outage from Bandon to
the California state line at
10:20 a.m. Monday.
Reported cause of the outage
was a broken sleeve in the
115KV line serving the area.
China Mountain is south of Port
Orford and east of Highway 101.
Location of the broken line
was reported to Coos-Curry
Electric Cooperative by Miles
Munson, General Manager of
W estem States Plywood, whose
timber cruisers located the
downed line. Aerial observation
was also used in the attempt to
locate the break.
A line crew from Coos- Curry
Electric Cooperative patrolled
the area until equipment and
men from BPA arrived to make
the repairs.
Power was off in the Port
Orford-Langlois area 30 to 40
minutes.
In Gold Beach the outage
lasted from one hour to five
hours In various areas. U. S.
Plywood, Tamco, Inc., and the
veneer plant of Brookings Ply
at Hunter Creek were forced to
close.
All schools In the central
Curry area were closed and
children sent home.
Although a limited source of
power from PP&L south of the
California state line was fed
Into the Brookings-Gold Beach
circuit large power users such
as South Coast Lumber, Brook
ings Plywood as well as those
mills In central Curry were
forced to shut down their op
erations.
Brookings schools were able
to carry on after a short out
age period. Consumers, par
ticularly in the outlying areas
In southern and central Curry
districts, were without power
for periods up to five hours in
duration.
Complete restoration of the
BPA line was made by 3:40
p.m. Hits was the largest pow
er outage since the Columbus
Day storm power failure In
1962.
The original outage in the
Brookings area affected 2400
consumers at 10:20 a.m. Par
tial power restoration at 10:55
a.m. put approximately 1800
consumers back on service.
By 11:30 a.m. an additional 300
had service restored. By 1:15
p.m. another 200 consumers
had electricity.
Gold Beach was out of power
completely from the time of the
original outage until 1:30 p.m.
when a limited number of con
sumers was served from the
south.
A partial shift of 45 men at
South Coast Lumber with a
payroll loss of approximately
$600 and a production loss of
50,000 board feet of lumber
was lost due to the outage.
Brookings Plywood had lost
time for 350 men In their op
eration which included the ve
neer plant at Hunter Creek.
Production loss was 225,000
board feet with a dollar loss
estimated at $12,000 to $15,-
000.
U. S. Plywood, one of the
largest Industrial loads In the
affected area, was unable at
press time to furnish loss of
time and production figures.
Annual Yule
Decorating
Context Set
The annual Christmas decor
ating and lighting contest will
again be sponsored by the Com
munity Christmas Association
and Coos-Curry Electric Co-op.
Both homes and business build
ings will be judged, with cash
prizes of $15 first, $10 second
and six $5 third place awards
fcr the best homes.
Persons wishing to enter their
homes are asked to fill out the
entry blank contained in this
issue of the News and turn it in
at the bank or News office.
Entries must be in not later
than Friday,Dec.20Judging will
be held on Sunday, Dec. 22.
EXTENSION OFFICE MOVES
The Curry County Extension
Office is now located in the new
Curry County Office Building
just northeast of the Curry Coun
ty Courthouse. The telephone
number remains the same.
LUCKY WINNER of this attractive A-frame play house was Mrs. Gordon Forty of Elk
River. The event was sponsored by the local chapter of the E. S. A. Sorority. The house
was built as a Pacific high school shop project with materials supplied by the sorority,
andcamewith tiled floor, dutch doors, window seat, table and stools. The winner was sel
ected at the <nnual Community Christmas Bazaar held Tuesday. Proceeds from ticket sales
will go to the Crippled Children's Hospital in Eugene and Camp Easter Seal at Lakeside.
Pair Nabbed
In Roadblock
Two youths were nabbed in a
r o a d block south of Bandon
shortly after an armed robbery
at the Susan Nicholson store
just south of Elk River Wednes
day night in which 12 one-dol-
lar bills were reportedly taken.
Held and charged with armed
robbery are Jimmy Lee Stepp,
18, Port Orford, and Roger Dale
Box, 17, Riddle. Bail has been
set at $10,000 fcr Stepp, the
Curry county sheriff's o f f i c e
said,and Box is in juvenile cus
tody in Douglas county.
The pair were taken into cus
tody at an CTegon State Police
roadblock about fo u r miles
south of Bandon shortly before
10 p.m . Police said the youths
were each carrying revolvers
but they did not disclose the
calibers.
Police said two persons wear
ing snow masks held Mrs.Nich-
olsan at gun point while taking
themaneyaround 9:30p.m. No
shots were fired.
Other road blocks were also
established near Brookings and
in the vicinity of Cape Sebas
tian on Highway 101.
Mrs.Nicholson said the youths
entered the store and walked
directly into her kitchen, which
is just off the rear of the store,
where the ^¿irger of the pair or
dered a friend watching tv, Bill
Dixcn, up from his chair, then
knocked him to the floor. The
smaller of the two stayed in the
background. Then, Mrs. Nlchol-
sen related, the yotitHlordered
me to give them tLe money
from the cash register and also
from her apron pocket.
Investigation of the vehicle
believed to have been used in
the robbery and the source of
the weapons continues,ihe sher
iff's office said.
School Band
Boosters Form
The Port Ckfard-Langlois Band
Boosters Club hits been re-or
ganized with the following of
ficers elected: (resident, Mrs.
Jean Samudio; vice-president,
R.D.Tucker; secretary-treasur
er, Mrs. Alma Deets; Langlois
representative, Mrs.Wlima Jen
sen; Port Crfcrd re;resentative,
Mrs.Frances Wallace; and Lau
rel Grove representative, Mrs.
Abbie Shaffarjkll parents of the
members of the band and the
parents of the pom-pom girls
are invited to attend the m eet
ings. Ken Nelsen, band director,
will send notices.
The main topic of discussion
so far has been how to raise
money for the band and pom
pom girls to go to Portland and
march in the Rose Festival Par
ade. Nelson explained that the
Rose Festival Association does
not meet until after the first of
the year,sono definite word has
been heard whether they will
accept the group or not. But, in
the meantime, plans are being
made.
The first money-raising pro
ject will be a rummage sale to
be held In the Coos-Curry Co
op Building in Port Orford on
Dec. 12 and 13, from 9 a.m . to
4 p.m . Anyone having rum
mage can leave it at the Co-op
building on Wednesday after
noon, cr contact Mrs. Samudio
or Mrs. Wallace. Those in the
Langlois area can leave their
rummage atthe Denmark Store,
or contact Alma Deets; and
those in the 1 aurel Grove area
can contact Mrs. Shaffar. Mrs.
Lois Smith will make the signs
far the advertising.
Other fund-raising projects
were discussed and it was de
cided to h a v e a pop-bottle
drive on Saturdayjan. 11. If you
are going to be gone but have
some bottles to give, contact
one of the band members, and
they will see that they are pick
ed up.
The club has decided to buy
a uniform for the Drum Major.
A motion was made and passed
tobuy tliis uniform so It will be
here in time for the parade.
Nelsen explained that he has
divided the band into two groups
the purple band and the white
band. They will take turns in
playing at the basketball games.
In this way,all of the band will
not have to be present at every
game, ft will be permissible for
a student to change places with
another student on the other
band, if be is unable to be there.
The next meeting will be
held the first part of February
and boosters urge all parents to
attend. Lots of help will be
needed to send the band to the
Rose Festival, it was said.