THE PAPER THAT’S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME
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COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1984.
NO. 51.
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Coquille Boys on Air Tonight
Federal Insurance for Bank
PUN ACTIVE YEAR
The First National Bank of Co
quille is one of the thousands of
banka in the United States which has
come under the provisions of the Fed
Big One Approved by Council
eral deposit insurance act by con
Tuesday—Work to Start
gress. There are some banks in the
United States which cannot secure
Monday on Others
deposit insurance, but a bank like Co
quille’s which has no need for the
State approval of Coquille CWA
federal insurance is not one of that
class. The insurance feature was not projects,, reported to CWA hesdquar-
devised for banks like the First Na- »•« * Marshfield this week, mclnded
tionai of Coquille which is as sound the Third «»reet widening, the fencing
cs the Rock of Gibraltar, and so ef- 1 of the reservoir at the headwaters on
Anciently managed, but not to accept ’ R‘«k creek, the grading of - Fifth
the
insurance might
the insurance
might have
have cast
cast »'»treat, east from the highway, and
doubt
the mind
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UP of the old ?l*nk*n8 on
doubt in
in the
mind of
of the
the public.
public.
1 the
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| Heath and Bush streets where the
Chamber of Commerce Commit-
tees Appointed, Projects
Listed and More Sought
In the absence of President C. W.
Gano, who was in Portland, Vice Pres
ident F. W. Martin occupied the chair
at the Chamber uf Commerce direc
tors’ meeting in the hotel Wednesday
evening.
Mr. Martin, in a talk to 'the dosen
directors present, streaeed the need
for a more extensive program for the
chamber in 1934.
At the meeting
two months ago the Coast Highway
Association was again made the ma
jor project for chamber activity this
year, and $20 a month was pledged
to its support. There is no greater
objective that any chamber along the
coast can undertake and when the five
bridge« are built the coast association
will have amply justified its existence
(t has anyway for that matter), but
even after the five major streams are
bridged there will still be urgent need
for co-operative effort in bringing the
opportunities of the coast section to
the attention of the world, and this
is what is being done under the man
agement of Ed Miller.
> Mr. Martin’s idea, however, was
that there is plenty of opportunity for
chamber activity here in town, in ad
dition to the highway program. He
suggested for one thing that the
chamber co-aperate with the Woman’s
Club in endeavoring to secure a great
er Coquille library.
After looking
over the large amount of shelf room
in the library, which is only partially
filled with books, he came to the con
clusion that an apepal to Coquille peo
ple would result in the donation of
hundreds of books to the library from
homes in the eity. He is right. There
are very few homes here which hare
hot a lot of books in their libraries
which the owners would be glad to
place where they would be appreci
ated.
"The making of a playground at the
baW park was another «nggestiaai.
A third ide« was that the witale eity
work for a better street lighting sys
tem in the business district. A few
yearn ago the city council had its
plans all made for an improved sys
tem but the 1929 cataclysm, and which
1« not yet ended, halted that project.
Another city need stressed was for
rest rooms. After six o’clocks, when
the stores cloae, such accommodations
ar« quite limited.
Still another matter discussed was
in regard to the raeport that oleo is
being used inseead of butter at the
OOC camps. In a dairy country such
as this is the use of oleo would be an
affront, but it was later learned from
Compare Coos’ Lot with Others cit*
anticipate, using a part of a
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carload o( grave). The estimated coat
With more than 25 inches of rain of these projects is around >4200, and
since the first of September, thia sec- u win
jre ,t le.gt , month t0
tion m well on its wsy towsrd another £omplete them. Work ta expected to
average year of precipitation of start on the jobs Monday morning,
around five feet.
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Altogether, City ¿Engineer Stacer
■But the weather has been mild, says, about 32 men will start to
almost
spring-like,
which make« work on these projects. The drawing
southwestern Oregon people congrat of names will take place at Chris.
ulate themselves on their happy con Boesen’s headquarters this morning
dition when they read of 25 to 52 de and he will make announcement
grees below xero weather in seme when he comes over thia afternoon.
parts of the country, floods and clotid-
It waa stated this morning that
bursta in others. Truly thia section
some Coquille men will be chosen to
of the United State« is the most sat work on the Bay airport at Easteide.
isfactory the year round that can be
A good-sited delegation of unem
found anywhere. Soon the cyclone
ployed, who had secured Leo J. Cary
season will start in the middle west.
to act as spokesman, attended the
Oregon doesn’t know that terror
council meeting Tuesday evening to
either.
learn why more men have not been
at work on CWA projects in Coquille.
Mayor Berg explained that as rap
idly as local projects were approved,
and the names drawn at the Bay, the
men were put to work; that aside
from approving local projects the city
Chargee of assault-have been filed council had absolutely no jurisdiction
against Joe Coffman, who is still in in the matter.
the Knife hospital here, being treated
It was further reported that a re
for his hand from which the ende of cent ruling required that the names
two lingers were blown off Monday of ex-service men, registered, be
night.
given the first consideration in the
The affair happened at the Loren selection of those to be put to work.
Knight home near Johnson’s Mill.
New projects approved
by
the
Coffman was drunk and, according to council
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Tuesday evening will, if ap
the story told J. J. Stanley, others proved by the county and state or
were too. Coffman and Knight en ganisations,, moan the putting to
gaged in a fight, ending when Coff work at 35 or 40 mors in the sear
man drew a big knife with which he future. *'
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stashed at various
ibers of those
On# project was that of renovating
present, narrowly missing a little girl the library and repairing all books
in one of his lunges.
there. This will be a job for women
Just as he had the knife raised to mostly.
plunge downward into an intended - Another project approved by the
victim, Seth Lanagan fired with a council will mean the employment of
shot gun. hitting Coffman’s hand about 35 men for a period of sixty
which held the knife.
The knife < days.
dropped and the melee ended, and
There are several divisions to this
Coffman was bought to the hospital, project. One section is the levelling,
vowing vengeance on those who were grading
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and improving at the ball
in the party.
park, including the repair of fences.
Coffman is a prise fighter who Another
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is the cleaning out of the
came out here from Brooklyn, N. Y., ( creek which flows through the city
a few years ago and for a time from the hills to the east, between
knocked out all opponents' in the Fourth and Sixth streets.
welter weight who met him.
Still another division is the grading
of Eighth street, from Henry to Coul
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Legion Program at McKinley ter streets, and the grading of Tenth
street east from the paving on Heath.
legion Netted >112 from Dance
D. E. Rackleff, commander of the The earth removed from those streets
All dance attendance records in American Legion here, has assembled
will be used to fill Seventh street,
Coquille were broken at the American five or six numbers which will pro
where that bridge is to be replaced,
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Legion Watch Party Dance in the vide the entertainment at the Mc
Aragon Ball Rooms when 560 couples Kinley OOC camp this evening. In and to fill under the east end of the
Spurgeon Hill bridge. Nearly half of
paid admission to celebrate the birth cluded on the program are Ernie Fer
of a new year. In numbers present rari and his accordion, E. G. Mans that bridge needs rebuilding and the
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the Open House dance last week may field on the banjo, Gross Wood and idea is to fill and tear out the old
section. As soon as the project has
have exceeded it by a couple of hun his magician act. R. A. Jeub in a
been approved Fourth street will be
dred, but at the former the crowds talk on Americanism and one or two
closed to traffic, the weakened portion
came and went, while at the Legion other numbers. The McKinley quar
dance they came and staid to the end, tet will furnish a number and Mr. of the bridge removed and th* work
of making th« fill will start
ebout three o’clock In the morning.
Rackleff is planning on a community
Traffic from Spurgeon Hill will be
It is also described by those who singing.
required to come out by way of the
attended, as the most enjoyable dance
We are sorry we are not aWe to
of the season, with fine music by tell the program to be given at the Odd Fellows cemetery, the county
highway shops, and down Sixth »treat
Ernie’s dance band, a noisy welcome Fairview eamp this
evening
by
to nineteen thirty-four, and a general Marshfield talent if lone is to be given. to the highway.
Still another section of this big pro
jolly time was had by all the eleven
The Bay town asked to be allowed
ject
is the removal of the old plank
hundred.
The 'Legion netted $112 to furnish the entertainment at the
ing on Coulter street, from Tenth to
as its share.
Fairview camp, but according to a re
the ball park and the grading of the
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port from Pairview made here yes
street after which it will be gravelled.
Oregon All-Stars Coming
terday, they have yet to see their
A real rest Is in store for sports first program presented by that gen-
Forger In the Toils
lovers-Southwestern Oregon on erons town.
Bonce
McCready, of Eureka, Calif.,
Januar. 14! and 13, when Iron Mike
was brought back from there the first
Mikulak and hit Oregon All-Stars
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Local Gas Plant Sold
of th« week and was bound over to
come to Coos county for basketball
The
local gas plant of the Natural the grand jury on a forgery charge.
games with the ‘^Bill’s Place” basket
ball »quad here on Friday night and Gas Corporation of Oregon was in The complaint on which he was ar
the North Bend Aces at the Marsh- j cluded in the sale of aU-the company’s rested charged that he passed three
field Armory on Saturday, Jan. 13. holdings in Oregon and Washington forged checks in Coquille on Decem
The remainder of Mikulak’« team con which was made by the Natural Gas ber 20, each for $5.60, those cashing
sists of Temple. Gee, Hughe«, Cuppo- Properties, Inc., to Bernard W. Ford them being Hudson’s Drug Store,
letti and Wishard, all members of and associates at Ban Francisco this Fuhrman’s Pharmacy and J. A. Lamb
this year’s U. of O. championship week. Mr. Ford said the new owners Co. At Marshfield he cashed five,
footbaH team.
Mikulak, Cuppoletti had no announcement to make at this each for $10.50 and had some weeks
and Hughes all played in the New time but might have after they had previously operated at the Bay. He
was bound over to the grand jury by
Year’s game at San Francisco be time to confer on the matter.
Besides the Coquille plant the prop Justice J. J. Stanley.
tween the East and West and were
outstanding men. Coos eounty is for erties included in the sale are those at
tunate to secure these stars at the
FalU. CoUege Grove. Bend, Turkey Feed at Regular Meeting
The Dalle« and La Grande, in Oregon;
The
regular Legion
Auxiliary
zenith of their popularity.
Aiiacortes, Camas, Port Angelus, Port business meeting will be held in the
Jan. Clearance at Sam Tayior’a Townsend and Shelton in Washington. Legion Home next Monday evening at
The T. Warner menls elothing store, [
eight o’clock. The Legion will bold
HE IS CHARGED
WITH ASSAULT
conducted by Bam Taylor, is the first
Coquille store to inaugurate a January,
clearance «die. It opened thia morning
in the Odd Fellown Mock With all
prires greatly reduced for the event ‘
Bee his a<v- sSnawffaa w w la this lane.
It is reported to the Sentinel that
the heavy blast last Sunday night,
just as the new year was being usher
ed in, was dynamite used te break up
a coal vain on government-owned
¡land
BLANKS FOR IN
COME TAX DUE
Mrs. Ora X. Maury Is «lowly recov
ering from the effects of a fall last
E. L. Vinton, who returned from Saturday afternoon when she Was at
his trip to Portland Sunday, accepted home alone. She remembers nothing
the position of district engineer for from the time she started down the
the CWA for Coos and Douglas steps to the basement until she re
counties and has been on the jump.covered consciousness and found her-
since early Monday morning, trying J self lying at the foot of the stairs. She
to keep up with the work.
He is ' managed to drag herself up the steps
one of fourteen district engineers in 1 and by tapping on the window attract-
the state, whose dutie« are to visit ed the sttention of a boy outside who
and report on every project in their summoned Mrs. Hal W. Pierce and
district each week.
As there are Miss Beas Maury.
No bone« were
already 58 approved projects in . broken but she has suffered coneider-
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Must Inspect Over 100 Projects
can be seen that he has his time
fully occupied.
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Mr. Vinton hss received instruc
tion« from th« head office in Portland,
also to observe and report on flood
conditions in his district, which may
its business session at the same hour. mean that the federal government
After the sessions the two organ contemplates some effort at flood con
isation members will sit down to a trol in southwestern Oregon
turkey dinner, provided by the Le-
gion, and later be entertained by a
I program furnished by th« Auxiliary.
COQUILLE’S DEBT
Bobby (Burns and Randolph Lorens
left last evening for Portland to take
part this evening at the Broadway
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Theatre in the state finals of the Mc
Corn and Hog Producers Asked Kesson Drug Co. contest. This con Reduced >2,48« During Past
test waa started Ideally during the
to Take Part in Adjust
Year—Water Fund Gains
Corn iBbow and later Randolph won
ment Program
>12,822.
the right, over KEX, to represent Co
quille in the state contest this week.
Coos county farmer« Who have pro The preliminaries will be held this
Considering tax delinquency and
duced for thè past two years an av
everting and the finals, to determine the general period of “repression”
erage of 10 acres of corn, three litters the five who will make trips to San through which Coquille, with the
of pigs, or both, and who expect to Francisco and Hollywood will be held rest of the world, has been passing,
take advantage of payments which Saturday evening.
and from which we are now »lowly
will be made under the corn-hog ad
Bobby Burns was not a contest win emerging, the annual report of
justment program, should see that ner but w«s engaged by Skipper Don City Treasurer"W. 8. Sickels, made to
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their name is included at once in the Mills to make the trip south on whic^i the council Tuesday evening, is high
list of Corn or hog producers, accord the contest winners wiH make a tour ly satisfactory. It will be found in
ing to instructions being received of the theatres in central California, detail on page seven of this issue. ■
daily at the County Agent’s office and he Will probably go on to Holly
From it we learn that the city’s to
>here the list is kept.
tal indebtedness has been decreased
wood with the contingent
Any farmer who has produced an
Here’s wishing Randolph success in the past year by 82,486.44. Outatand-
average of three or more litters of first appearance before a metrópoli- >ng bonds have been decreased by $6,-
pigs and who wtykcontract to reduce tan audience, and hoping that he may' 808.12, water fund warrants outstand-
the number produced during 1934 to be one of the five from Oregon who, ‘"g by $3,635.82, and special fund
75 per cent or less of this average, gets a chance in the entertainment warrants
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.. , $28.50.
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Against this
will be paid an extra $5.00 a head field.
there is an increase in general fund
Above the regular market price re
It was announced over KEX yes warrants of $6,985.80 over the amount
gardless of what is done with the terday that both the preliminary to outstanding a year ago.
hogs. Contraete run for one year only, night and the finals Saturday night
The decrease in total indebtedness
ind the singer agrees that, during was to be broadcast from the Broad would have been much greater than
that year, he arili also refrain from way theatre over KEX at ten o'clock. that had all the warrants of the eity,
Increasing his total crop acreage.
taken in on texes, street improvement
’ To those who Nave produced ten or
assessments and for water payments
more acres of corn for the past two H. S. Registration Next Week been cancelled, but they are being
years regardless of whether the corn
Registration for the second semes held in the city treasury to wait untH
is harvested for green feed, oilage, or ter for the high school will be held in warrants issued prior to their dating
fcrain, and who will agree to take Supt Ward’s office in the high school have been called in and retired.
from 20 to 30 per cent of this acre building on Thursday and Friday of
The annual report of Recorder F.
age out of production, the government next week, Jen. 11 and 12. All thoee G. Leslie furnishes further informa
Will make payments in the form of expecting to enter high school the tion of bow greatly the city’n finan
rent at the rate of. 30c a bushel on the week following are requested to call cial condition has improved during
average yield of the land taken out of at the office and be enrolled.
1938. Total receipts from ail sources
corn production.
in the general fund have been $13,-
A preliminary state board of review
920.84 during the year, while only
to be in charge of the corn-hog cam
$13,007.32 in general fund warrants
paign in Oregon has been appointed
have been issued, making a gain for
by Paul V. Maris, director of exten
the citjr during the year of $918.52.
sion, at the request of the Secretary of
In the water fund the gain is really
Agriculture, and it is already at work.
The 1988 Federal income tax re startling, being $12322.58. Receipts
Aided by the experience gained in the
turns were mailed on January 2nd, and were $16,406.01, and only $8,688.49 in
wheat campaign, this board ie pre
Should reach taxpayers within the warrants were issued.
paring to expedite the work of the
The total gsin for general
and
week. The requirements for filing in
•orn-hog adjustment program. Mem
dividual returns are the same as for we ter funds is $18,796.04.
bers of the board are L. R. Breithaupt,
Mr. Leslie’s complete report was
the year 1982: 1. e., each single per
«hairman; H. A. Lindren secretary;
son with a net income of $1000.00 or ah follows:
John S. Denes, federal ^statistician;
General Fund Receipts
over and each married person with a
M L Potter. G. R. Hislop. P. M.
net income of $2600.00 or over, or each Special Tax ... ...................... $12,148.19
Bnadt, JT..L. Ballard wUh R. *. Jack
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275.15
person with a grots income of $6,060.- Road Tax
man and W. L. Teotsch alternates.
861.00
00 or over must file an income tax re ^^1 nas
George Jenkiaa Cooa County Ag*nt,
Building Permits .................
25.00
turn.
is atu -iing a district meeting in
412.00
If separate returns are filed by Licenses ..................................
Medford this week where final ar-
204.50
husband and wife, the exemption may Miscellaneous i.............
rangemanta are being made for start
be taken by either or divided between
ing th« program in Southwestern Ore
Total
113,920.84
them. In addition to the personal ex
gon counties. Immediately following
Warrants
drawn
18,007.32
emption, a credit of $400.00 may be
this, meetings will be held in various
claimed for each person (other than
sections of Coos eounty to acquaint
Gain for year.................... $ 918.52
husband or wife) under 18 years of
the growers with this program. Sev
Water Fund Receipts
age, or incapable of eelf-support be
eral hog raisers in Coos county have
cause mentally or physically defective, Water Rentals ...................... $16,117.68
already made inquiry regarding its
10.00
who receives hie or her chief support New Services ........................
operation, Jenkins stated.
278.3«
from the taxpayer during the taxable Miscellaneous ........................
yuar.
Grange Meeting Last Night
Total .................
816,406.01
Before preparing the return, the
3,583.49
Coquille Grange No. 396 held a very taxpayer should assemble carefully Warranto drawn ,-
interesting business
meeting
last all information; he also should make a
Gain for year ..
$12,822.52
night, the sales taxes being the main study of the instructions on the form.
subject of discussion. , Several inter When the return has been completed,
esting letters from other Granges over sH working papers should be held by Car Skidded From Highway
the state were reed, some being for the taxpayer for future reference.
Mrs. Mabel Scobee, of Gold Beach,
and some against the sales tax.
The oath will be administered with suffered bruises and shoulder injuries
Remember, Grangers, we are having out charge by the Collector, any depu about "nine o’clock 'last Friday evening
another rodent content with Myrtle ty collector or Internal Revenue when her Ford coupe skidded from the
Point Grange beginning January 1 Agent.
highway four and one-half miles be
and ending June 80. Save your dig
Although taxpayers have until low Coquilia, and turned over a couple
gers, rate, moles and other pests.
March 15, 1984, in which to file re of times before coming to rest 20 feet
Also remember the Pomona Grange turns, Collector J. W. Maloney wishes below the highway.
meeting at McKinley next Tuesday, to impress upon each one the desir
She was on her way to Marshfield
Jan. 9. All fourth degree members ability of compiling his information to spend New Year's and when an
ar« urged to be present. AM business and filing his return at an earlier date other car approached she applied the
will be conducted in the fourth de in order to avoid last minute rush. brakes. In the muddy crossing of the
gree. Our master states some very This early filing will permit all tax highway, just below the upper Joe
important business i>-tb'Le discussed. payers to receive the full, courteous Nilsen place, the car started to skid
Bring your lunch, leap, and tools.
assistance Collector Maloney desires and she could not stop it.
All the
Mr. Selbig of the Swift A Co. plant rendered by his corps of deputies.
glass was broken, except the rear
here is donating ten pounds of Brook Corporation and partnerships are re window, and the right /ide of the
field cheese to help out on our lunch. quired to file Federal income tax re coupe was caved in.
Mrs. Martha Mulkey will talk on turns, regardless of the amount of net
Mrs. Scobee has been taking treat
education and there will also be other income.
ment from Dr. C. R. Bloyd for her in
speakers for the lecture hour. We
juries while the Southwestern Motor
will have a good meeting. Be there.
Co. repaired the damages to the ear.
Mrs.
Maury
Injured
in
Fall
Ray Storer.
Retrial of Damage Suit Set
Redecorating Power Co. Office
The retrial of the Turman Hartley
vs. Harold Berg damage suit has been
set by Judge Brand for Feb. 6 at
which time a portion of the jury panel
wiH be recalled, in the first trial of
the case, Truman was awarded $7600
damages for the injuries he received
when Berg’s car went over the grade
at King’s creek, st the Henry Bryant
ntace whan Delos Druliner was killed
in May, 1931.
The supreme court sent |he case
back for retrial because in the court’s
instructions the jury was told that
W the Berg car was on the wrong side
6f the highway the driver was guilty
of reckless driving.
The Mt States Power Co. office has
been receiving a needed re-decorating
treatment at the hands of W. H.
Mabin, and now is as spotless as it
was originally.
Moat of the stains
which marred the ceiling was caused
by faulty plumbing whan th« hotel
W. E. Marrion, who arrived here
Sunday from
southern
California,
say« that J. P. Furr la coming up
from the south in the near future.
Whether thia mean« renewed activity
at the Pat ®k oil well hae not In-
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