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!
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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
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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.
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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.