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Illlllllllllllllllllllllll Vol. 13 No. 43 Thursday, January 21, 1971 jmrt Orford Axuis "SERVING NORTHERN CURRY COUNTY" = = Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon 97465 Storm Closes Schools Friday Livestock Meet ij Is Rescheduled =S 55 = = =2 == = 3= = -— = =5 35 == = S= - iocs The livestock workshop or» iginally set for January 16 was postponed to Saturday, January 23 at 10 a.m. in Riley Creek school, Gold Beach, according to Curry county extension agent Walt Schroeder. The threat of high water and road closures made it advis- able to postpone the meeting. Wayne Mosher and Lynn can» non will be with us on Jan. 23, added the agent. In addition, we will be showing an excel- lent movie from New Zealand titled, "Good Shepherding,” he noted. WEATHER Rain Max Date 0.22 Jan.13 43 0.71 Jan.14 50 1.93 Jan.15 55 1.10 Jan.16 55 2.10 Jan.17 55 1.55 Jan.18 58 91000002480101000001000201000200100123234848535348535348232348534848 Buses Vandalized ä BELOW OLD GARAGE on 7th St. behind wells Station was de molished by winds last Thursday night. THURSDAY night storm blew house belonging to Albert (Frenchie! Jolly off block foundation. Residence is loca. ted in Little America, west of the OSU Marine Lab. For the second time last week District 2CJ schools were clos. ed because of storm conditions. First closure was Wednesday because of snow and sleet con. ditions on back roads, the sec ond was Friday because of Thursday night’s wind and rain storm that caused flooding, pow. er and telephone outages and minor destruction to personal property, including one house that was blown off its founda tion. The house was the resi dence of Albert (Frenchie) Jol ly, located in the ‘‘Little Am. erica” area on Coast Guard hill. A trailer house belong, ing to Leo Vlolette near West ern States was also blown off its foundation. Wind gusts as high as 109 mph were recorded at the cape Blanco Coast Guard station and reached 175 mph at Mt. Hebo in one gust. A garage at the rear of Well’s Station was knocked flat during the night and reports said that a woodshed, double garage and a pump house were blown over on cape Blanco road. Several highway signs were also brok. en off at the ground and at least one business building win dow was broken. A guy wire on the large sign at Pacific Super Market was snapped and a truck had to be moved in to secure the line and keep the sign from toppling. Several families were report, ed evacuated in the Agness and Jerry ’s Flat areas and one fam. lly on the Chet co River at Brook, ings left their home. High wa ter from the Rogue River caus. ed the closing of Jot’s Motel at Wedderburn. The Agness road was closed but other county roads remained open. Coos-Curry Electric Co* operative said that some 180 customers were without power in the Gold 3each area as of Saturday. Local power was out intermittently in many areas with the Langlois Ridge-Floras Creek suffering outages that lasted until Friday evening. Phillips To Head Port Fire extinguishers were stolen from three District 2CJ school buses over the weekend and minor damage inflicted, school authorities were Inform, ed Monday when drivers pre. pared for their runs, on one bus, the battery had been run down, hoses pulled from wind, shield wipers and forward seats removed and piled on back seats. Hie contents of an extinguisher was also sparyed over the in terior. In another bus the con. tents of the driver’s log was removed and hidden behind a seat, and extinguisher contents sprayed about the interior. A distributor cap was also dis. covered broken. All buses were at the local grade school bus shed. The vandalism caused two bus runs to be late. A small “ crum. my” type bus had to be pres, sed into service and a second bus had to be secured from the high school before runs could be completed. Grand Jury Names Drawn A new grand Jury was drawn and instructed in Circuit Court last Monday, Jan. 11. Hobert (Ed) Crowder, Gold Beach, was selected foreman. Other jurors are Nancy J. Free- man, Merton P. Thompson and Betty L. Wlntersteen, all of Brookings; Dorothy M. Paulsen and Lenora M Taylor of Gold Beach, and Curtiss E. Ryan of Pistol River. Named as alternates are Bar bara A. Eells of Gold Beach and Christ Williams of Brookings. Free Food Dates Set The Curry County Welfare office this week announced that certification day for the abun. dant food program will be held on Monday, Jan. 25, at the Port Orford fire station from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Delivery day will be Wednes day, Jan. 27, 10 a.m., at the same location. SCHOOL Supt. Stewart Smith discusses weekend bus van- dalism with police chief jack waldie. Bus in background had discharged battery, vacuum hoses pulled from wind, shield wiper motors, forward seats removed and piled in back, and contents of fire extinguisher (stolen) sprayed over interior. Fuel Bids Awarded Circuit Court Jury Drawn The Board of County C om m issio n e rs have set a hearing lo r Monday, Jan. 25, 1971. 8 p.m . to be held in the C ircuit Court room of the C ourthouse on Flood Insurance. R obert T. Evans, staff m em ber of the State W ater R eso u rces Board Jurors named to serve on the January term of Circuit Court for Curry County include: Sixes-Harley F . Lancaster, Odette V. Hanson. Brookings-Margaret N. Har. rel), Louise M. Medsger, Mar garet F. Chenoweth, Clarence W. Landis, Thomas Cox, Kate A. Hull, Mary N. Hills, Corrine M. Trosper, James M. Jones, Beatrice B. Magnuson, Birger E. Dahlstrom, Leroy C. Weld, eman, Lorraine E. Hedenskog. Gold Beach-Richard K. Ful- wyler, Raymond G. Stevens, Jud. ith M. Becker, Dollle L. Bar. ton, Marjorie M. Crossen, Lei- la A. Bennett, Rhoda J. Cm- lin, Frances O. Scripture, Lor. ren F. Zink. Port orford — Pearl D. Grimes, Elmer Bens, Vernon G. Magneson, George Arm- strong, George W. McClure, Russell C. Juola, Margaret C. Sizemore, Margaret A. Wagner. Langlois—Carl R. Platt, Jose phine Fuller. Harbor— Kenneth W l-rb, John M. Beckley, 1 velyn G. Jakle. wlcz. Wedderburn—Dorothy A. Wll- sie, Belva E. Holderman. Denmark—John M. Donaldson. Holdovers from 1970 term to serve commencing Jan. 5, 1971 were; Thomas H. Yates, Brookings, and Donald G. Har- roun, Harbor. D e liv e r y P o in t B ro o k in g s Gold Beach P o r t O rfo rd will attend G asoline and D iesel fuel bids w ere opened Jan 13 at 1 p m., in the office of the County C om - m issio n ers. C ontract was awarded to R ichfield Oil C om pany for th eir low bid as follows: G a s o lin e .23 .244 .253 D iesel .1365 . 1465 .1565 O th e r com panies s u b m ittin g b id s w ere : Union O il Company B ro o k in g s Gold Beach P o r t O rfo rd S ta n d a rd O il Company Gold Beach P o r t O rfo rd Computation was based on gasoline at 133.369 gals and D iesel fueld at 33.366 gals The Road dep artm ent met in re g u lar sessio n with the C o m m issio n ers. John Madding. R oadm aster. Ed Sypher. a s s i s tant ro ad m aste r and Myron B aum er. purchasing agent, a t tending A rep o rt of the w eek's a c tiv itie s was heard John Madding has been w ork ing on right of way p rocedures on the north end of Ocean View d riv e and surveying possible realignm ent of p a rts of the north bank road of the Rogue riv e r Road on the north bank of ths Chetco has been re p a ire d Snow plows a re working in the north and south a re a s of the county .253 .252 .251 . 147 . 146 .144 .2551 .2541 .2531 .1 171 . l*»0l OSU President To Visit Curry The new president of Oregon State University, Dr. Robert MacVicar, will visit southwest Oregon on January 26,27 and 28,announced Walt Schroeder, Curry county extension agent. MacVicar has made it a policy to visit all parts of the state to find out what Oregonians are thinking and to discuss his phil osophy of education, noted the agent. The president will speak on Wednesday, January 27, at Gold SCHOOL Supt. Stewart Smith, left, bus driver John O’ Beach Rotary Club at noon at Hara, right, and school employee Harold Robinson, cen- the Rod ’n Reel. Rotary club ter, examine Interior of bus that was vandalized over week- president Larry Hess has in e n d . _____________________________________ vited those who are interested to attend this meeting either for lunch at noon or to hear Mac. COMING EVENTS H ear at approximately 12:25 THURSDAY Lutheran Ch. Women,7;30 p.m. p.m. MacVicar will spend Tuesday The fourth annual meeting will discuss the types and habits Port Commission, 8 p.m. in Coos county observing fores, FRIDAY of the Coos-Curry Small Wood of small mammals causing try, marine facilities and ag lands Association is scheduled damage to Coos County forests Brookings, here, 6:15 p.m. riculture, Wednesday he will to start at 8 p m on Wednes Also on the agenda of this SATURDAY visit the OSU Marine Science day evening. Jan. 27. according meeting is a question and an Sixes Grange, 7 p.m. to association president Sam swer session designed to wrap- !.ab at Port orford, speak at MONDAY McCauley. All members and the Rotary luncheon, and ob. Chamber of Commerce others interested in farm for up the Small Woodlands Assoc serve lily bulb research at estry are cordially invited to iation tax shortcourse held on Harbor. attend this meeting which will January 19 and 20 In addition be held in the Coos Health De Recruiter Due DATES TO REMEMBER partment Conference Room in Carl Holland Jr., ASCS office manager, will duscuss the new Birthday wishes go out this Sgt. McDougall, U S. Army the basement of the courthouse ly approved Rural Environmen week to Suzie Marsh, Harold in Coquille. recruiter, will be at the port Main speaker for this annual tal Assistance Program as it Orford city hall at 10:30 a.m. < aughell, Alan Lenox, and Dav. meeting will be Chris Maser, will apply to forestry practices or. W'dnesday, Jan. 27. id and Darrel Bjerg. of Bandon, noted zoologist, who In l‘»7l Chris Maser To Address Small Woodlands Association Crab Feed Date Set Attending the Monday night meeting of the Port Orford Vol unteer Fire Department were chief Vern Sonderman, Harold Robinson, Delbert Neal, Chap lain Harold Best, Ed Longton, Bob Keeler, BUI Huret, Clyde Gore, George Gehrke, corky Huret, Jim Allison and Alan Mitchell. The crab feed slated for Jan- uary 30 was the main topic under discussion. Allison re ported that so far four of the local businesses have donated door prizes. They are Western Auto, Port orford Drug, Port orford Variety, and Bob and Guy Baldwin’s soon-to-be-named hardware store. Allison said the crab feed would be held at the fire hall from noon til 7 p.m. and that the price for adults would be $1.50 and that family rates would be available also. The meal will consist of salad, French bread, crab and cof fee. The profit will go Ipto the fire department’s new equip- ment fund. Chief Sonderman wanted It to be known that household size fire extinguishers will be on sale at the feed for $10.95. Sonderman also reported that the alarm answered at the Rain bow cafe Involved a short clr. cuit caused by water getting In to some wiring. State Traffic Volume Climbs Art Classes T raffic volume on m ost of Show Work Mrs. Mitchell’s Battle Rock O regon's highways showed an in crease in O rlo b er, 1970, com art classes have on display un pared to O c to b e r.1969, accord til February 1, various kinds of ing to the monthly re p o rt com- potato,block relief, stencil and piled by the O regon Slate High string prints at the First Na way Division tional Bank and the city library. A sum m arv of the perm anent traffic re c o rd e r data for ru ra l The students whose work was and urban stale highways show - select«! for exhibition are Don ed an in crease of 7 5 percent In Alexander, I.awayneFrost, Ter- vehicular traffic in O ctober, esa Greene, Taml llatnmerberg, 1970. com pared to O ctober of Cathi Huret, Janet King,Rhonda the previous year Loan, Rhonda McCune, Cindy The first 10 months of 1970 McKenzie, Colleen Moore, showed an in crease of 8 5 per Peggl Nelson, Rebbeca Royal, rent in vehicular traffic com pured Io ihe first 10 months Margaret Thomas and Shelley Wilson. (if 1969 Leo Phillips was elected to head up the Port Commission Tuesday ’i ?ht after Jim Allison and Paul Peterson were seated as new commissioners. Pe. terson will serve as vice chair man, Frank Morris as secretary and Philip wrlght as treasurer. Phillips also named Wright, Morris and Allison to meet with county commissioners re garding the proposed boat ramp at the dock. Peterson was ap pointed to contact Army Fn- glneers about dredging the har bor area that has sanded in and Allison was asked to spearhead a drive to have the dock and parking areas cleaned up. Dock manager Wayland Liv ermore reported on damage to piling at the south end of the dock caused by a boat tied there. He said three piling and a ladder would have io be re placed. The port agreed that the boat owner would be charged for the repairs, and collec. tlon for boat storage and park, ing fees should be pressed be fore taking lien action. Liver more was also given permission to proceed with construction of an addition to the hoist shack, at an estimated cost of $150. He was also ordered to check on the fuel storage situation. A 90-day extension was grant, ed to the chamber of commerce for removal of the boat Judy K and additional parking for'sports fishermen was discussed. Al lison also suggested that future piling have old truck tires plac. ed on them to absorb shock ac tion. Bills In the amount of $1,- 556.15 were approved for pay ment. Pacific Bulb Growers Meet A trip to the flower grow. Ing area of Europe Is In store for members of the Pacific Bulb Growers Assn, and their wives at the annual meeting of the group on January 23, an nounced Flap Lovenborg, assn, president. Dr. Al Roberts, pro fessor of horticulture at ore- gon State University, will show slides of his recent trip over seas. The meeting will start with a social hour at Sporthaven at 6 30 p.m. followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m.Advance reservations are necessary.
