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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1932)
THE PAPER THAT8 LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME _ VOL. XXVIII. NO. la. — ■ Every member of the Coquille city administration waa renominated at the city caucus held in the Community Budding Monday evening. The ticket as named includes J. Arthur Berg for mayor, Henry Belloni, R. L. Medley and R. A. Jeub for councilman for four years, C. W. Gano for the two- year council term, and F. G. Leslie for recorder. s It was without doubt the largest caucus» ever held in Coquille. The bal lots cast for the two candidates pro posed for umyor totalled 271, but more than a'acore came in, after that ballot waa taken, and the 900 who at tended b probably half the voting population of Coquille. Two years ago the vote cast for mayor in Co quille wap 684, but there are fewer people here now than in 1980. The caucus Was failed to order by CHy Attorney Grant Corby and Ly man Carrier was named for chairman by Rev. G. A. Gray. Ho was unani mously sleeted. Keith Leslie, Tor secretary, nominated by Ray Jeub, was also unanimously chosen. Before starting the proceedings the chairman named Dr. W. V. Glabyer, Alton H. Grimes, E. G. Opperman and C. C. Farr as tellers and later named Boyers as a teller and Lafe Compton and Walter Oerding as judges. A new idea was introduced which greatly speeded up the eounty of bal lots, when the tellom were divided in to two groups and each group took half of the ballots to make the count instead of reading aloud each ballot with the secretary tallying. Mr. Carrier announced that the ballots would be preserved and would be ready for inspection should any one care to make a recount. Nominations for mayor being called pined Mayor Berg’s name before the caucus, saying that Ms rooted for the past four years speaks for itself. Dr. Jas. Richmond was nominated by John Quick and the ballots were distributed. The result was: Berg 151, Rich mond 120. F. G. Leslie waa placed in nomina tion for city recorder by J. A. Lamb; John Hickam by E. A. Wimer, and Geo. Swinney by Dr. C. R. Bloyd. The count showed Mr. Leslie to have received 155 votes and the nomination, Mr. Hickam 46 and Mr. Swinney 58. The call for nominations for coun cilman to serve four years resulted in nine names being proposed, but Mr. Carrier declined to have hb name con sidered. The following names were proposed: Henry Belloni by A. L. Simpson, R. A. Jeub by C. E. Niles, M. 0. Hawkins by John Saylor, R. L Medley by K. P. Lawrence, C. F. Hawks by >F. E. Poulton, Lao J. Cary by Fred McClellan, Marc Shelley by C. C. Farr, H. N. Lorens by E. G. Opperman and Lyman Carrier by Thos. Dun gey. The, tallying of the the following results: Medley 118, Jedb 118, Lorena 84, Hawke 77, Shelley 74, Cary 51. For councilman for two years, C. W. Gano was nominated by Dr. J. R Bunch and M. F. Pettit by Mm. Paul Van 8coy. The count showed Gano to have won 05 to 51. Before adjournment the chair ap pointed H. A. Young, C. C. Parr and E. G. Opperman aa a committee to All any vacancies which might appear on the ticket before election. COQUILLK. COM COUNTY. OMOON. FRIDAY. SECrBMBBR M, HR APPROVES C RELIEF REQUEST With 202,500 vote« tabulated in the Literary Digest poll, which la oat thia morning, Roosevelt, the democratic candidate, ia leading Herbert Hoover by 1882 vote«. The votes ao far coanted are from California, Con necticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In the New York figurm. Hoover leads by nearly 8,000, while in the next largest state vote recorded, Pennsylvania’s, Roosevelt is leading by 4400. PEOPLE’S CAU CUS NOMIMEES A second or People’s Caucus was ! called on Tuesday to meet at the eity hall at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, those calling it stating to the Sen tinel scribe that anyone dissatisfied with the action of the city cuneus would be welcome. There were about fifty present at the People’s Caucus, over which John Quick presided as chairman, and Geo. Swinney waa named secretary. Dr. Jas. Richmond was the unani mous choice of this caucus for mayor. Many names were considered for the three four-year positions on the council, several being found unable to qualify, either because they lived out side the city limita or because they could not conform to the charter re- uirementa regarding the ownership of property. The list agreed upon for this office eon so tod of John Quick, C. F. Hawke and J. E. Paulson. Dr. C. R. Bloyd was named for the two-year term on the council, and Goo. W. Swinney was nominated for recorder. • Fred Schaer was named as alter nate for nomination on the council, provided any of those nominated could not, or would not, accept the office. A committee consbting.of Walter Oerding, E. A. Wm. Wimer, E. Poulton and was named to aecure signatures to a petition placing the above ticket in nomination, to handle the campaign and do whatever ebe was necessary. A perusal of the election laws, as ■amended at the 1980 legislative as sembly, shows that Wednesday. 40 days before the election, is the last day on which the names of candidates hay be filed with the' eounty clerk, and Mr. Quick stated yesterday that the Peoples Caucus was held a day too ¡late to have its nominees appear on ! the geperal ballot in November. Whether they would confine their ef forts to a campaign urging the voters to write in the names of the Peoples Caucus nominees, or would attempt to have stickers applied to the ballot on election day was uncertain when Mr. Quick waa interviewed yesterday. But the caucus Wednesday evening assures the voter» a choices between at least two candidates for every mu nicipal office to be filled. Judge Brand, in Circuit court on Tuesday, refused to dismiss the case of R. R. Watson and P. W. Culver against Coos county to mandamus the eounty to pay officers and employees in cash. The reason given by the at torneys for the‘County waa that the complaint contained conclusions of law, not properly allowed in a com plaint. Judge Brand’s ruling was that as it waa not a jury case the wording of the complaint waa imma terial. The case waa continued yesterday at which time the Judge granted the plaintiffs the privilege of striking from their complaint the words which seek to mandamus the county as above mentioned. Under the amend ed complaint the injunction is sought to prevent the county treasurer to use the funds now on hand in redeeming warrants, aa advertising to be done on Monday of last week. Should the injunction be made per manent, the next step would proba bly be a mandamus action to cortpel the eounty court to pay salaries in cash. * County Clerk Watson takes issue with the Sentinel on its statement that were all the taxes unpaid for the past flve years now paid, that the county would be on a cash basis. He points to the great numbers of lots and tracts which the cqunty has here tofore bid in for delinquent taxed aa causing the issuance of warrants which cannot be paid, but alee adds that Were all taxes paid every year the funds so received would take earn each year of the county’s budget of expenditures. But it would not wipe out all of the 8800,000 outstanding warrants. Stdwer Talka at Lions Club guest of the Coquille Lions Ctab you- terday noon and entertained those present for k quarter of an hour with a son-political talk. One tip he gave Coos eounty and the Coast Highway section was that this was the opportune moment for securing bridges across the five wat erways in Oregon where ferries are now in use. The last congress in creased by one per cent the amount of federal funds avallatfe far high way construction. There is also the three and one- half million dollars, al located to Oregon, for use in unem ployment relief, to be used on high ways, and-the senator said it would be a long time before the * united States would again bo in a position to help so materially^highway work in Oregon. He mwely suggested prompt action. x Another point the aenator com mented upon waa that when commod ity prices dropped ten, twenty, forty per cent s couple of years ago, the rapid decline was spread aH over the front pages qf newspapers, but that the sensational comeback of wool, which has risen more than 200 per cent in the past few months has been eo consistently overlooked by the press which is constantly seeking bright spots to play up. J. E. Axtell was also a guest, as were also Russell dale. Geo. Wilson and Cecil Laws who spoke briefly on their Smith- Hughes projects on which they were awarded prises and ribbons in large numbers at the fair last week. Their projects were Dorset sheep, Jersey purebred cattle and poultry. Coquille Racket Men Won Coquille tennis players turned the tables on the Myrtle Point team at the Smith Wood-Products court hero Tuesday evening by winning two sets, 8-8 end 8-4 and were loading 4-8 whoa darkness halted the tournament. Kerb Eatery and Don McKeown formed the Coquille team. Karl Kaufman and Wallace Dement played the first set for the visitors after which Mr. Beal, county singles champion, replaced Mr. Dement. The men played hard, fast and good tennis and are anticipating another meeting. «
