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Vol. 13
No. 43 Thursday, January 21, 1971
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"SERVING NORTHERN CURRY COUNTY"
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Storm Closes Schools Friday
Livestock Meet
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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
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Buses Vandalized
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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
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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
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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.