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VOL. XXVIL NO. SI. HAPPÏ NEW TEAR The Sentinel Wishes For Ito Readers and Patrons a Very Prosperous 1932 * Happy New Year! What a wealth of meaning there is tn thorn three words. To. wist happiness, prosper ity, all the good thing* of life, spiri tual and material and physical well being, is to desire for the recipient of the greeting every beneficent good that can befall one. To all of its readers the Sentinel extends the greeting—HARPY NEW YEAR! With the advent of 1932, let us put away the pessimism, the depressing attitude and grumbling that charac terised our attitude in the year just closed. Let us face the coming year with a smile, a confident hopefulness that shows our faith in our town, our state, our country, and the whole world. This nation is not going to the bow-wows. It has in the past gone through more severe trials and tribu lations than 1931 gave us, and with the return of a rational prosperity this year, we can look back on the drab days of 1931 as a needed lemon to give us fortitude and strength of character to meet all of life’s future tribulations. To too many prosperity is only thought of from the material stand point, the accumulation of dollars. They are necessary, it is true; but there ia a prosperity of the mind, and of the spiritual being in all of us, that is just as necessary, and more so, to the rounding out of a splendid personality. May we all have a bet ter concept of the reason for our ex istence, to overcome the human weak nesses to which the flesh is prone, and mount round by round the ladder of success and eventually attain the highest development of our God-given faculties, and become more like the son of God who suffered the same sorrows and tribulations that se do, nineteen hundred years ago. Happy New Year! ____________ ____ • • • - - B. B. Starts Next Week Today is the opening day of the year, 1982, and one week from thia gala even* comes even a huger occa sion—the commencing of the current regular basketball season far the Co quille Red Devils. Well oiled, accurately timed, and property primed the Coquille machine goes to Myrtle Point January 8, meet ing the growling Bobcats of M. P. H. S. The game should be, perhaps, one the beet of the year, notwith standing that it will be the first. Ri valry is intense between the two schools and has been for some time past During the 1981 schedule Coquille downed their opponents two times, 27 to 25, in the first and by a much larger score in the other encounter. Myrtle Point, however, evened this up, even more no, by blasting the rod and white horde from the tournament The trick waa turned in a semi-final game, thus eliminating a top favorite and bringing to the fore an outsider. Pre-season encounters show that Coquille has been defeated three times, while winning a like number of games. Riverton fell once, 29 to 28, and Port Orford twice, 52 to 21, and 28 to 17. On the other hand the strong Arago quintet was victorious, 28 to 14, and, 25 to 23. The ether fray was dropped to the alumni ag gregation, playing under the name of Fortier’s White Angela, 19 to 12. During the playing of them encoun ters, the Red Devils showed many po tentialities, which broke forth on dif ferent occasions to allow Coach Hart ley’s basketeers to sweep wide fields before them. * Nothing much is known about Myr tle Point, aside from the feet that she will have a full team of lettermen, therefore poaeeosing much the larger amount of experienc. Lions Club Presents Radio Members of the Lions Club called at the home of Mrs. Clare J. Miller Sunday noon to present to her daugh ter, Miss Leila, a radio. The electri cian member of the club connected it up and put it in working order. Miss Leila has not been able to see for some time and this gift by the Lions is enabling her to enjoy many hours which have heretofore been most monotonous. Choral Club to Meet Jam. 7 The Choral Club will meet' in Pi oneer Hall next Thursday, Jan. 7, at 7:90 p. m. All members are requested to be present as practice on the can tata, “The Rose Maiden,” will bo con tinued. COQUILLE. COOS COUNTY. OR Steam Service to Stop Numerous business houses in Co quille have been preparing this week to provide their own heat, M. O. .How- kins, receiver of the Coquille Lumber Co., having announced that bo would bo forced to close the steam plant at the mill an Jan. 1. The action was “forced”-because the court does not allow any of its appointees to incur indebtedness which he can not pay, and under preBent circumstances the steam plan* is operating at a loos. If the demand for lumber waa such that the mill could bo operated, and only brook oven,, the income from steam heat would show a profit for the receiver’s operations. But when he must buy fuel, at a coot Of 810 or more a day, and pay 3100 or more a month for a man to tend the fire and boilers, there is no hope of pay ing expenses. The «team line receipts have been 8412.60 per month, not sufficient to pay management, labor and fuel, al though when the mill was running the fuel cost practically nothing and the line was showing a good profit. Before reaching a decision to shut the plant down, Mr. Hawkins con ferred with those now enjoying the service, but found that too few of the steam customers were willing to increase their monthly payments by 50 per cent, to hold out any hope of continuing the central heating plant. SERVICE UNIN TERRUPTED Coos county towns have boon quite fortunate the past wook, with all the wind and storm, in having uninter rupted electric service. In the old days with a good deal lees severe a storm the juice used to bo off for hours at a time. And it was a lucky break that the Juice was not off Tues day morning. Ono of the polos out in several feet of water near China Camp waa down almost to.the water, having pulled up its anchors, but the notice came to the office here just in time so that the crew could get out wire struck the water. An item in the Oregonian from Coos Bay Tuesday told of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. plant being flooded, and the electric service in this section “in termittent.” A mistake. The juice flow has been regular and steady from the Mt States plant at North Bend, except for a minute a couple of times when some short kicked a switch out at the plant In fact Roseburg would have been up against it for two or three days this week had it not been for the Coos Bay plant. They could get electricity there from neither the north nor the south and the line across the Coast range was all that kept them lighted and powered. Another thing not generally known is that should the Copco plant be down for any reason, and the Mt States plants at North Bond, Springfield and Albany be out of commission, and the wires to the north still working, all this section would be connected up with the Portland power plant, and receive juice within three minute«. But the trouble usually is that when the juice is off here it is because wires are down, and Coos county has been well served this winter because the Mt. States company has spent thou sands and thousands of dollars in new line construction sll over the terri tory. But the local crew has been kept busy, early and late, keeping the lines working during the recent severe at tacks of the elements. , FRIDAY. JANUARY 1, 1932. Kept Water from Engine Room OF 0. ELECTION Highest Water Here for Several l |To Be Held Jan. 20—Change in Years — Snow, Thunder, Time of Holding Annual Lightning, ’■ Everything Meeting Suggested ,< ? . - ' < row— , The Chamber of Commerce nomin An inland sea this week in the Co quille valley gives a little idea of how ating committee met recently and the “Father of Waters,” the Missis prepared the following list which sippi river, looks when in flood. From will be submitted to members at the the railroad track at the edge of town, annual election, Jan. 20: For president, Geo. A. Ulett, of the to the foothills beyond Fat Elk, there is a solid sheet of water, something Smith Wood-Products company. For vice president, R. L. Stewart, not seen here for several yeans. It is the highest flood of the Coquille of the Mt. States Power Co., the pres river since 1925 when the dike was un ent incumbent. - For treasurer, W. S. Sickels, cash der water. Some stock may have been lost ier of the Farmers A Merchants Martin Clausen sent an 8. 0. 8. call Bank, present incumbent. For directors, W. A. Zosel, clothing in to Coquille last Saturday to help him rescue drowning cattle, but for merchant and retiring president; Dr. the moot part the water rose so grad J. R. Bunch, dentist; Clyde E. Niles, ually that ranchers were able to move of the Ford ageney; E. D. Webb, cashier of the First National Bank; their stock to higher ground. Five inches of rain fell in five days, R. T. Slater, proprietor of Slater's beginning last Saturday, and the to Variety Store; J. P. Beyers, county tal since the first of September is assessor; Geo. R. Dickinson, of the close to 82 inches. This is more than Farmers A Merchants Bank; F. W. two-thirds of the total rainfall last Martin, manager of the J. C. Penney Co. store; A. B. McLeod, superinten year. With the let-up of the constant rain tendent of the highway shops here; on Tuesday the river began to fall and Lyle Goodwin, of the Quelle Cafe. that night and dropped about four Nominations from the floor will also feet, but Wednesday’« contribution be in order at the annual mooting. sent it up a couple of feet again by The need of holding the annual Thursday morning. meeting before the end of the year,' Slides in the Middle Fork canyon in late fall or early winter, is again have slowed up but not stopped traf being talked, and there are several fic, and the emergency road crews good reasons for making the change. have kept them cleaned away in good If the official roster is selected in time. One between Coquille and October, or November, or December, Riverton, at the point just this side the funds for carrying on Chamber of the J. E. Norton ranch, slid clear work can all be solicited before Jan. across the road Monday night. 1 and everything be in readiness for All the varieties of weather which starting the year right. old timers enjoy pointing out to the Another point will be that the con newcomer, as lacking in Oregon, have tribution to Boy Scout work can be been on tap the past month. Ttiere decided upon by the board which will was freezing weather earlier in De pay over the money, and the retiring cember, thunder and lightning in a board will not be in the position of moderate degree on several occasions, tying the hands of its successor, for and a snowfall of more than one inch the Boy Scout budget is made up in last Sunday night. And the famous deluge since shortly before Christ mas. At that we have not had the torrential downpour which made boats necessary in the streets of Califor nia’s largest city and its suburbs. Back in the hills the snow was much deeper which will tend to keep the river up for several days yet, and if the warm Chinook brings it all out at ones there is likely to be still higher floods. One of the pieces of road over flowed for the past ten days is at this end of the bridge across Cunningham, between the logging railroad and the Miller place. Several cam have been stuck there when they failed to follow the hidden bend in the roadway through a foot or more of water. The Roy-Fishtrap road has been under water out by the E. N. Shull place, and at the Geo. Gilman place in the Roy district a portion of the road washed out, but more gravel wls dumped there Wednesday and travel up the river on the other side from Coquille, has not been stopped. At noon Thursday, just as we go to press, the river had risen about three inches since early morning. New Foursquare Pastor Rev. T. R. Jackman, pastor of the Four Square church here, left Wed nesday morning for Loo Angeles in response to word that his father had passed away there the day before. The father was 75 yearB of age and had suffered his fourth stroke of paralysis. Rev. and Mrs. Jackman arrived here last Saturday in their ear after spending six weeks at his Thieves Are Active father’s bedside. Mrs. Jackmsn, who Even locked ears are not safe on is sn ordained minister, will conduct the street any more. Monday evening the services at the church here Sun Allington Glaisyer brought a carload day. of young people down to the Liberty and when he came out the ear was Gould Consolidates Stores gone. It was found the next day ov Thia week the Gould Furniture Co. er on Spurgeon Hill, abandoned. combined its furniture store and ox A tittle while before the young peo chance and second hand department ple left, the theft of four umbrellas under one roof, giving up their occu from the front door of the Glaisyer pancy of the old post office building, home had been discovered, and the and moving the stock across the street gas from the Oakland sedan of one of to the room vacated by the MacMarr the guests, J. J. Jackson, of Eugene, store. Until an opportunity offers to was drained, the loss being ten or rent that room they will use it for twelve gallons. their used furniture and exchange Saturday night Chas. Gardner’s business. coupe was taken from in front of his home, across from the Pioneer church, -Robt. K. Booth a Suicide and found about noon Sunday on East Robt. K. Booth, former Coon Bay First street timber man and well known in this section, committed suicide at his home in Astoria Tuesday evening. It is be lieved financial troubles wore the cause of his net He is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Kathleen Bennett, of Marshfield, to whom he MoTe important yet is the need to have Coquille’s two representatives on the Coos County Chamber of Com merce named prior to the annual elec tion of County Chamber officers. This year the county chamber will meet to select its officers on Jan. 18, two days before the 1932 official board of the Coquille chamber is chosen. Pro bably there would be no conflict over selections, but it would be more fit ting to have the new Coquille mem bers selected before the county cham ber meets. Th proposal to change the time of holding the Coquille annual meeting will undoubtedly be discussed a* the Jon. 20 session end there is every reason for changing the date, and very few reasons for not doing so. Who Owns This Rifle? Sergeant C. A. Hearing, of the state police, says he has a rifle and deer which will be turned over to the owners, especially the gun, if they will come and identify the property. He doesn’t want anyone to think that the stuff was stolen. Mr. Hearing and Fred Watson were up Salmon creek above Powers Tues day looking for game violation evi dence, and became suspicious when a man who caught up with them on the railroad track, suddenly cut across the ridge. Before long he came back, after circling the way he had gone, chatted a moment and went back to ward Powers. Before long two men came down the track, but as they had neither gun nor deer, the game warden did no* stop them. However, the officers did back-track the other two and found the gun and deer a couple of miles above Powers. They also followed the tracks and found where the one had met the other two to tip them off that the officers were in the neigh borhood. _________________ Visited Perry Lawrence Mr. snd Mrs. Kennett Lawrence re turned Tuesday evening from a trip to Portland on which they loft Satur day. They went up to see their broth er, Perry, who is in the Veterans’ Hos pital there. They found him about the same as he has been for several months, not very strong physically but looking bettor and weighing more than ho did. He enjoyed getting oat with them for an auto ride the two days they were there. Perry asked them to tell his friends here, who remembered him with so many cards and expressions of good will at Christmas time, that he appre ciated their thoughtfulness and would cis be j more than glad to answer each one if be were able to do so. His throat trouble still bothers him, but his mind is just aa clear as it over was. The saw mill at the Smith Wood- Products plant was out of commis sion Monday and Tuesday, due to the high water and it was found neces sary to pull two motors. The engine room at the plant would have had four fleet of water in it had not the door been battened and made water proof. As it was, it was necessary to k|fp siphons going to pump out the i water which came up from the ground I beneath the machinery. Prompt action Sunday by the com pany employee saved the boomed logs as the river crept up to the bank edge, and not. a log was lost. Visitor From Africa Here Ernest Moser, a former Coos county boy who was raised in thia section but who has been for several years in northern Africa, where he serves aa treasurer of Presbyterian missions, was a Coquille visitor this week, hav ing recently come back to the United States for a vacation. He visited his brother, F. F. Moser, in Corvallis, be fore coming here to visit his sister, Mrs. F. M. Jeffrey. He intends leav ing soon for Eugene and then will go to San Francisco to study and better fit himself for his work before re- turing to Africa. GAME COMMIS- SIONTOBEHERE Ernest L. Crockatt, of the education department of the State Game Com mission, was in Coquille Thursday morning making arrangements for the meeting of Coos and Curry counties sportsmen which will be held in Co quille Thursday evening, Jan. 21, un der the auspices of the Coos A Curry Game Protective Association. Three or four hundred sportsmen from the two counties are expected to be pres ent The meeting place has not yet been announced. This is one of a series of district meetings to be held in the state this month, and will be attended by three members of the game commission and representatives of the State Game Department. Those who wtH ’be present are Marshal Dana, of Port land, chairman of th? commission; M. F. Conigan, of McMinnville, and Ir ving Vining, of Ashland, commis sioners; H. L. Kelley, state game su perintendent; Matt L. Ryckman, su perintendent of hatcheries; Gene Simpson, superintendent of game farms; Arthur M. Fish, research di rector; Mr. Crockatt; and Capt. C. H. McClees, in charge of the game di vision of the Oregon State Police. This meeting is to be one of a «dries of district hearings held in the state, solely for the purpose of get ting specific, first-hand information from the sportsmen who know best what should be done hi their particu lar section, said Mr. Crockatt when here. The information being as sembled from all parts of the state will guide the activities of the com mission in 1982. Meetings have already boon held in McMinnville, Pendleton and The Dalles. Others to be held next week are at Albany, Salem and Eugene. Another is scheduled for Jan. 19th at Klamath Falls, at Medford on the 20th, Coquille the 21st and Roseburg on the 22nd. Wreck Due to Slippery Pavement The slippery pavement last Friday morning caused the C. L. Willey ear to skid from the highway near the Shingle House slough bridge, just thio side of Flagstaff. Fortunately the car did not turn over as it ran down the 15-foot embankment and neither Mr. nor Mrs. Willey waa in jured nor scratched. When the car stopped it was lying on its side. They were on their way to Marsh field to meet their daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Robert son who came down for Christmas. They left for home Sunday. Will Help the Small Mills Straws indicate the way the wind blows, and as one indication of an upward trend in the lumber demand, Roy Wernieh on Wednesday secured orders for 120,000 fee* of lumber, some of it for export. These orders the will be distributed among smaller mills of the county. Examiner to Be Here Jan. 5 Ward McReynolds, examiner for the operators’ division of the traffic de partment of Secretary of State Hal Hoss* office, vrifi bo in Coquille, next Tuesday, Jan. I. He will bo at the city hall between one and five o’clock to examine applicants for operators* and chauffeurs* licensee. Geo. Jenkins Tells of Activities . of His Office for the 5 Past Year Following ia a summarised report by the Coos county agricultural agent covering the period from December 1, 1930, to November 1, 1981: SOIL IMPROVEMENT This project which includes work in drainage, irrigation, commercial fertiliser» and manure conservation, is one of the most important carried on through the office. There are thousands of acres of good bottom land in the county which can be ma terially benefitted by drainage. Thia drainage in many cases can bo affect ed with the use of dynamite at low cost The productive period on over two thousand seres of land drained in the county during the past year has been increased from one to four months. The irrigation which has been done in the county is stimulating more interest in this project. Pro duction of ladino clover and other crops can be increased materially and production can be secured during the beet growing months of the year. Water can be pumped on many farms • at very low coot. The use of agri cultural lime in most sections of the county for best yields, especially on legumes, is essential. Also the use of commercial fertilizers, principally phosphates, has shown remarkable re sults in improving quality and quan tity of bent grass seed, root crops, la dino clover, and other crops. More thsn 50 per cent of the value of farm manure is lost to county farmers, which can be corrected by the use of manure pita. A. Drainage 1. Individual assistance was given on nineteen farms in the county in blasting drainage ditches dhd other forms of drainage work. 2. Arranged and conducted nine ditch blasting demonstrations in dif ferent parts of the county which were attended by 166 farmers. 8. Two thousand and sixty-five acres of swamp land were drained as a result of the drainage demonstra tions and individual work, increasing the crop period of the land from one to four months each year. 4. A ditch blasting battery and 500 feet of wire ia part of the equipment of the county agent’s office and has been furnished for the use of 13 farm ers in blasting drainage ditches. 5. As chairman of the flood control committee of the Coos County Cham ber of Commerce, active assistance has been given in the flood control program in the Coquille River valley, which has been partly responsible for the work which is now being done by the U. fl. Geological Survey in making measurements readings of the Co quille River at Coquille. B. Irrigation 1. The value of irrigation water ap plied to ladino clover and other crops has been established through irriga tion meetings conducted in the coun ty by the County Agent. 2. Assistance has been given to four farmers in Coos county in planning an irrigation system.. 3. Information on the value of ir rigation in this section has been sent out to 1400 farmers through agricul tural news notes sent out periodically from this office. 4. An article on the value of irriga tion under local conditions was also prepared and printed in all newspa pers of the county. C. Agricultural Lime Distributed 1. F out carloads, including 120 tons, of agricultural lime was secured from the state lime plant at Salem and distributed among..42 farmers in the county. 2. This lime was distributed at ac tual coat, saving at least 84.00 per ton when compared with the coat of other commercial forms of lime sold in the county, making a total saving of at least 8480.00 per year. 8. The application of lime is essen tial in moa* sections of Coos county in correcting acidity and making con ditions favorabe for the beat growth of alfafla and other legumes. 4. One hundred and twenty-nine soil acidity tests have been made in this office in order to determine the amount of lime necessary to neutral ise the soil. 9 D. Commercial Fertilizer Increases Yields 1. The application of phosphate fer tilizer» has given excellent results in increasing the yield of root erope, clover and other crops tn the county.
