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Coquille Sentinel I THE PAPER THAT« LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME — 1 VOL. XXVIL A HSH Nd 52. COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY «, 1MX SÜPT.0FSCHDDL5 Chester L. Ward, of Hubbard, Ore., Chosen for the Posi tion by Directors , • * —' 'I * * The school board of the Coquille district have come to an understand- , ing with Chester L. Ward, of Hub bard, Ore., to become superintendent of schools here next year, although his signed contract has not been re ceived by the board. Mr. Ward was here during the Thanksgiving holidays to confer with the board, and was one of 15 appli cants for the position. Hs is a man of 37 years of age, has been superin tendent of the Hubbard schools for three years, and had one year's ex perience prior to that. He taught for three years in the Seattle schools, and was an institute speaker in Washing ton for three years. He impressed the board members as very well qual ified for the position. Mr. Ward will be both superinten dent and high school principal and will be instructor for one class. His salary as agreed upon will be 82400 a year, and the board will provide a full-time stenographer and clerk in his office. E. F. Grider, who has filled the posi tion at high school principal so satis factorily for the past three years, has indicated to the board that he will not return next year. Mr. Ward is a brother of Mrs. Wade Arstill who has informed the board that she does not expect to teach next year. To Get Gas at County Cost The county court this week made an order that in view of the fact that county warrants are only cashed at a 10 per cent discount, that all coun ty employes be permitted to buy gas and oil at the county barn hare at wholesale cost to the county. For gas thia means 16 cents a gallon. How ever the employes must have an or der from the court before they can secure it. The name of the Marshfield-Empire cut-off roed was officially changed to Ocean Boulevard. Fred C. McNelly, superintendent of the county farm, was made fuel pur chaser for the two court house build ings, and the county farm truck is to be used for hauling the fuel pur- flhssed An order was issued directing Sher iff H. S. Hess to turn in a statement each month of the cost of feeding prisoners in the county jail, itemizing the feed cost plus the labor charge. 84.50 per week per prisoner is all that the court can legally pay, according to the order made. <r Britton Remains Scout Executive Ned C. Kelley, J. L. SteVens, H. C. Gets and Wade Arstill drive to Rose burg last evening at attend the an nual meeting of the Douglas-Coos Boy Scout Council. There were about 36 present E. A. Britton was retained as Scout Executive for another year. The elected officers were, president O. L. Johnson; treasurer, W. F. Har ris, both of Roseburg; Walter S. Chiens, Marshfield, Scout Commission er; snd the following district chair men—W. B. Wimberly, Roseburg dis trict; T. H. Ness, Marshfield; N. C. Kelley, southern Coos; and H. G. Kern, North Bend. These seven will compose the executive board for the coming year. 3 Fishermen Drowned at Bay Three fishermen were drowned off the Coos Bay far last Saturday after noon and at last reports their bodies had not been recovered. They were Alton Andruss, 22; Buell Magee, 82, of Marshfield; and Albert Risen Stein, 32, of Westside. The fishing smack was in trouble as it approached the bar and the coast guard started to its rescue. Before they could reach ita huge comber sank the fishing boat and upset the rescue boat, dumping its occupants out and throwing it up on the beach near the north jetty. The coast guardsmen all saved themselves, but the fishermen who were about 100 yards off the bar sank and were not seen again. _______ - Postal Receipts Off 4.6 Percent « f 1 Postal receipts in the Coquille post- office were off 4.6 per cent in 1981 from whst they were in 1980, the to tal for last year being 814,894.51. However, that drop did not endanger Coquille’s standing as a second clsss office. We understand two offices in the county were in danger of being net back to a lower classification, so large was the lose in those two. 82.M THE YEAR Dean Parsons to Be the Speaker Dean Philip A. Parsons, of the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Oregon, win be the speaker of the evening at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce which will bo held in the hotel dining room at 6:30 p. m., on Wednesday, Jan. 20. President Wm. A. Zosel has asked Mrs. E. A. Woodyard to arrange for the musical entertainment at the meeting. The business will consist of the election of officers for the com ing year and the hearing of reports for 1931 activities. Another matter which will be brought up for consideration and a vote is the proposal to change the date of the annual meeting to some time in the fall, either October or November. The directors at their meeting Wednesday evening voted to recommend a change in the by-laws to the membership. Water Off Sunday Down Town Water in the down town or business section of Coquille is to be shut off for three hours Sunday, beginning at 1:80 p. m. The purpose is to allow a permanent repair to be made to re place the temporary patch job done on the main across First street on Hall. The old steel pipe there has gone to pieces and it will bo replaced by cast iron. BOXING CARD THURS. JAN. 14 Kermit Shaw, of Coquille, and Ter ry Kileen, of Salem, will headline the boxing card which Promoter Roy Watson has arranged for next Thurs- day evening, Jan. 14. The card was first announced for another date but as previously arranged basketball game caused the postponement until the 14th. Shaw has been in Portland for the past month, in training, and is a much improved fighter over whst he was when be gave “Bud” Bryant a trim ming last spring- Kileen has fought down here before and boxing fans who saw him know that Kermit will have to be good to win a decision. The bout is a six- round affair. Jimmy Byrne, of Myrtle Point, who received a lot of publicity when he stayed four rounds with Jack Demp sey last year, will referee. Twenty-six rounds of scrapping are scheduled, three of the fights being six rounds each. Bud Bryant, of North Bend, and Joe Corbett, of Rose burg, will meet for a 6-round go in the semi-windup, and Bud la still able to slug with the best of them. “Babe” Riddle, of Myrtle Point, and Charlie Wilson, of Bandon, will throw gloves for the first of the six-round encounters. Shirley Pettingill, of Coquille, and “Papoose" Thomas, of Cooston, will scrap four rounds in the second bout on the card. The curtain raiser will be between Archie Matthews, of Pow ers, and Dick Brown, of Bandon; four rounds. It looks like a mighty good card with all the men well known to doos county fight fans, snd plenty of ac tion will make it one of the best cards ever presented in Coquille. Ringside 8100, general admission 75 cents and ladies free. Farmers’ Meetings Scheduled Changes at the Court House Made by Carl Burgert Who Set As Shown by Annual Reports o' Fire to County Farm Build Officers — Interest Fund ing Monday Morning $6,000 Overdrawn Carl Burgert, 70 years of age, at tempted to commit suicide at the county farm Monday morning by set ting firj to s bunch of junk in his room, and had it not been discovered promptly he would not only have burned himself but killed several of the inmates in the main building. Burgert formerly lived under the bridge going up to Spurgeon Hill, where he kept goats. He had been at the farm this time for about nine months. Given to spells of melancholy, be had aroused the suspicions of Supt. F. C. McNelly. Burgert was in the habit of locking himself in hia room for two or three days at a time and only emerging when hunger drove him out. About five o’clock Monday morning he placed a stepladder and his bed against the door after locking it, piled all his clothes and possession on a piece of linoleum against the wall, set fire to it and then lay face down on the bed. He was almost suffocated by the smoke when rescued. At an earlier hour he probably would have destroyed the building, but one of the other men in the ad joining room happened to be awake, smelled the smoke and called to the hired man who crashed in the door extinguished the blase. Asked why he did it, Burgert re plied: "I try to kill myself, but I do poor job.” He was taken to the asylum at Salem Tuesday. Lions’ Team 2 Is Ahead With two new cubs—Geo. R. Dick inson, of the Formers A Merchants Bank, and Dr. W. V. Glaiayer—being admitted to membership at the Lions Club luncheon yesterday, the 190ft pointe now earned by team No. 1 in the eight weeks’ contest is just twen ty points behind the 210ft of Team No. 2. And with only two more meet ings to go, it looks much as though No. 1 would est beans at the ladies* night on Jsn. 21, ’while the No. 2 members are enjoying turkey. Ernest Purvsnce was a guest of the club yesterday noon snd gave a moat interesting talk on Alaska, that U. S. territory which is one-fifth as large as the U. S. proper, wider in miles than the diatance between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the states, cost 87,200,000, seventy yean ago, and has produced 85 times its original cost in minerals alone since its pur chase. “Seward’s Folly” haa proved to be the best investment thia country ever made. Couldn’t Happen, But Did G. S. Fail, travelling man driving a Naah coupe licensed in Utah, had a peculiar experience Monday morning and was very fortunate that he did not take an involuntary bath in the, flood waters at the western end of the dike, near Fat Elk. There was still two or three inches of water over the highwsy and he was following about 20 feet behind one of the Pacific Greyhound stages, both going about 15 miles an hour. A momentary stoppage of the Nash gas fine caused Mr. Fail to step on the gae and then as the car shot ahead he stepped on the break. This caused his ear to skid around and he struck the back of the stage hard enough to damage both can and crack both gas tanks. The right rear top of the Nash was torn loose and the broken glass in flicted severe cute behind Mr. Fail’s ear so that hie head and overcoat were covered with blood when he ar rived here with A. S. Currie who hap pened along. The stage proceeded on its way to Bandon, leaking gas, and the Nash was brought in to the S. W. Motor Co. for repain. The Smith Hughes department of Agriculture of the high school will again hold a night school for farmers. The flnt meeting will be held Tues day evening, January 12th at 8 p. m. in the Coquille High School. These meetings have been well at tended in the past and it ia hoped that an equally large turn-out this year will be obtained. There is no charge for this work. The school is in the form of discussion groups and any problem of interest to the farmer can be introduced and discussed. Last year considerable time was given to the study of fertilisers, per- ticularly super phosphate. As a result of these studies several fanners car ried out trial projects. The results of Basket Ball Here Jan. 12 a these projects will be studied this The opening game of basket ball in year. the regular schedule to be played in the Community Hall will be Tuesday Looks Like an Early Spring evening—'North Bend invading the It looks like an early spring. The red and white sector to carry on her pussy willows are out, the mornings fued with Coquille’s well-known Red are cool but not cold, and with more Devils. settled weather than for the past A formidable lineup will compete month, it is a return to regular south for the bay team in this encounter, western Oregon weather. with Maurice Ward, a letterman ef two yean back, leading the Bulldog Rebekahs to Install Jan. 13 quintet He will be barked by Mamie Rebekah Lodge, I. O. O. F., Hughes, a regular last season, and the will hold installation ceremonies in two Rice brothers, who transferred the lodge hall next Wednesday even from Coos River. The first game will start at 7:80 ing, Jan. 13. AU members and visit ing Rebekahs are urged to attend. between the scrub teams. - z / The annual report of Recorder F. G. Leslie, submitted to the council Monday evening, shows the general fund receipts in 1931, from all sources, to have been, 827,987.98, and the total of all warrants issued to have been 826,903.22, making a gain of 81,084.71 in the general fund. Water receipts for the year amount ed to 817,848.60, with warrants issued totalling 810,745.66, a gain over ex penditures of 87,102.94. This was for the calendar year. City Treasurer W. S. Sickel’s report for the fiscal year, from Dec. 1, 1980, to Nov. 30, 1981, appears in full on that the only fund overdrawn is that of the Improvement Bond Interest Fund, and that is over 86,000 in the red. To keep the city’s financial repu tation good, the treasurer pays all in terest on improvement bonds as cou pons are presented, whether the fun<fa are in that fund or not, and that is tending to keep the city’s cash on hand to a low point, with no accumu lation to pay off bonds nor outstand ing warrants. General fund warrants are called up to Jan. 1 a year ago, and water fund warrants to June 1, 1931. If street improvement assessments were paid as soon as due there would never be this overdraft in the inter est fund, but there ia so much proper ty in the city on which improvement texes are delinquent that the interest fund overdraft is becoming greater every month. The City has not the funds to carry this heavy load of delinquent street improvements, and that ia why a de termined effort is to be made to col lect such delinquents. Failing in that the properties are to be advertised and nold, and the list includes many homes in Coquille. IW Not Grant New License* All members of the city council were present Monday evening for the first session of 1982. *A letter from the general land office in Washington, D. C., conveyed the information that it will require an act of congress to grant to Coquille the 80 acres request ed on the watershed at the head of Rink creek for added protection for the water supply. Congressman Haw- lay has stated that he will introduce such as bill, and he is to be asked to include two more quarter section griQtj.in hie bill, which, if passed by congress, will give the city title to all the land around the city’s source of supply which drains into the big reservoir. A petition requesting | the council not to grant pool hall licenses to any new places of business in Coquille was not acted upon, but the council men, individually, expressed an op position to permitting any new places to be opened. The opinion was ex pressed that flagrant gambling and violation at the liquor laws could be the only result if new pool hall« were allowed, for none of the present four ar« making any money and two or three of them are for sale. Licenses were granted as follows: E. L. Wilson, at the former Casey Jones place, with Geo. Burr and Guss Gillman as sureties on his bond. J. L. Holycross, with Dr. J as. Rich mond and Hal Baxter as sureties. Davis A Reynolds, adjoining the hotel building, with J. E. Norton and Drue Cunninghsm as sureties. Street Commission Stecer was in structed to have barricade ^nd red bullseye installed at each dead end street in the city where the terrain might cause damage to autos running off the pavement end. The cost of upwards of 850 was figured to be cheap insurance against damage suits. An ordinance was passed, approv ing and ratifying the three-yeas light ing contract, recently signed by the mayor and recorder with the Mt States Power Co. Highway Flooded New Year’s The high water of last Thursday reached an even higher level New Year’s eve, and last Friday morning stood at a foot and a half to two feet over the dike between the bridge here and the foothills beyond Fat Elk. Stages and trucks made it through without trouble, but it was a three- mile trip through the water. The highway between Coquille and Myrtle Point was not submerged, although the water reached the lower edge of the surfacing at the Jas. N. Jacobsen place. . r—a-w- Calling cards 100 for 91J0. Carpenters were busy the first of this week in the frame court house building, remodelling the rooms on the main floor, formerly occupied by the roadmaster and the county agent. As soon as completed the two offices will be occupied by the county school superintendent and the county health department. Mrs. Mae Waggoner,! who has been in Mrs. Mulkey’s office for the past year will act as sten ographer and secretary for both Mrs. Mulkey and Dr. Gregson. The basement room where Mrs. Mulkey has heretofore had her office will be used for storage purposes. The roadmaster’s office has been moved to the county highway depart ment barn near the Odd Fellows cem etery. Rev. J. J. Handsaker Will Talk on That Subject in Coquille Next Tuesday ' Big Pond te Full Water Superintendent Epperson closed the gates at the big dam on Rink creek on Wednesday, Dec. 30, and a week later, on Wednesday of this week, the reservoir was full, or within two feet of the spillway and it has since reached that point. Be fore the rains stop next spring he will still further raise the level of the lake by placing boards across the spillway. The slide on the inner surface of the dam, noted two or three weeks ago, was found not to bo of a serious nature, probably being caused by the swirling water alongside the intake. GAME COM. TO BE HERE JAN. 21 The Chamber of Commerce directors at their bi-weekly session Wednesday evening extended an invitation to the sportsmen of Coos and Curry counties and to the State Game Commission to hold the Coos county meeting in Co quille, and pledged the chaamber’s co operation in every way possible. The meeting will be held in the cir cuit court room of the court house, on the evening of January 21, and it is suggested that each delgation from the severs* districts appoint a spokes man to present to the commission the matters which they deem of impor tance, thus saving time and enabling the conference to give the commis sioners a clear idea of the needs of this section, which will be considered for a part of the contempleted ten- year program in state fish Vnd game matters. And everyone interested is invited and urged to attend the meeting. It is hoped to have 300 or 400 present. Ask Open Season Extension * The Fat Elk Duck Club held its an nual meeting Wednesday evening and re-elected Alton H. Grimes as presi dent. Jas. W. Laird was chosen vice president, and Lucky L. Bonney se lected as secretary-treasurer, succeed ing Geo. W. Moulton who has acted in that capacity for many years and who wished to be relieved of the duties. Several recommendations were made along fish and game lines. One was that the limit of 80 fish in one day be retained but that all fish caught, of whatever sise, be retained and counted. It was asked that the duck season be extended a couple of weeks, making the open season last from Nov. 15 to Jan. 1, with a bag'limit of ten birds. It was also recommended that the deer season for this district bo chang ed so as to permit hunting from Aug. 15 to Oct. 1, and that kingfish, fish ducks and blue heron be not protected. They also asked that the Bandon hatchery be enlarged to provide more pond room so that fry need not be liberated until they had reached the legal limit of six inches, and that a cut-throat, or native coastel stream trout, egg-taking station be estab- lished on Coos river. Chest Depot Open 3 Days Week Beginning with the week of Janu ary 11, the Community Chest depot in the Sentinel Building will be open only three days each week, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday from p to 4 p. m. In case of any urgent call on other days for food or clothing, R. L. Stewart or Ned C. Kelley will go and supply the needs. For the period the depot hsa been open there have been a number of calls for aid. Any organisation or private individual having good used clothing would be doing a good turn by bringing it down to the community chest depot and thus malting it avail able for the needy. I Rev. J. J. Handaaker, of Portland, Oregon, Associate Secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, will spend the week beginning January 10 in Coos county, filling dates arranged by the Coquille Wom an’s Clubs and by Mrs. Martha E. Mulkey, county superintendent of schools. The coming World Disarmament Conference will be Mr. Handsaker’s chief subject He is known to many in Coos county as he was pastor of the Christian Church here in 1903 and 1904, resigning his work here to be come a missionary in the West Indies. For twelve years he directed the work of the Near East Relief and in that capacity occasionally visited Co quille. For three years he has been associate secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War for Oregon, Washington and Idaho. He has made two trips abroad, first for the purpose of studying relief work in southern Russia, Turkey and Greece and last year visited London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Geneva, to consult the peace leaders of the Old World. He npent two weeks in Geneva studying the work of the League of Nations which he says is inevitable for an or derly world as Is the city council for an orderly city. Mr. Handsaker feels that America’s part fliay be decisive at the World Disarmament Conference and on the outcome of that Conference may hang the future of the world. His first appointment in the county will be at a mass meeting in Myrtle Point Sunday evening, January 10, at the Methodist Church. Monday he will address the high schools in Myr tle Point and North Bend. On Tuesday, January 12, Mr. Hand saker will be in Coquille, appearing before the high school, the Coquille Woman’s Club and at a mass meeting in the Pioneer Church st 7:30 p. m. This meeting will be sponsored by the W. C. T. U., Coquille churches, Busi ness snd Professional Women’s Club and other organizations. Mr. Handsaker writes that he will be glad to fill other dates during the week if his time permits. The general public is invited to at tend any one of these meetings, par ticularly in the afternoon or at Pi oneer Hall in the evening. Will Speak in the Evening There will be an open forum meet- ing held in the Council Chambers of the City Hall, next Monday night, Jan. 11th, at 8 o’clock, to discuss the question of World Disarmament and allied .problems. The discussion will be led by Oran Rickard, of the high school faculty, and it is hoped that everyone who is interested in World Peace and in the Disarmament Con ference which will meet in Geneva, next month, will be present Monday night and take part in the discussions. This meeting, coming on the evening preceding Mr. Handsaker’s two ad dressee, will give everyone an excel lent opportunity to inform himself or herself on the subject. The meet ing is being sponsored by the locsl Business and Professional Women’s Club but is open to all. Marriage Licenses Off 45 County Clerk Watson reports total fees received in his office during the year 1981 as <10,931.84, just 8200 larger than for 1930. The marriage licensee in 1931 totalled 280, in 1930, 275, and the fees dropped from 8825 in 1980 to 8690 last year. Other fees Motion Day Tomorrow - received in the office were 85,511.14 Judge J. T. Brand will 4* in Co for recording, 81,042.50 for Circuit quille tomorrow (Saturday) to hold court cases, and 8872.80 miscellane motion day in Circuit court ous. <4
