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The Coquille Valley Sentinel THE PAPER THAT8 LIKE A LEITER FROM HOME YOU XXX. COQUILLE, COOS COUNTV, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY M. 1M4. NO. 27. Buys Site for Auto Camp The firct annual meeting of the .Coos Produce Growers association was held at the court house at 10:00 o’clock thia morning. Producers from all sections of the county were present and considerable interest was manifested by the grow er». Five of the seven directors were re-elected— C. A.‘Baling, of McKin ley; Wm. Church, Leneve; Irvin Pe terson, North Bend; C. A. Holver- etott, Fairview;, and Rolf Hongell, of MarshlAeld. New directors chosen were Al Besoski, of Gravel Ford, and Ben Munson, of Lakeside. Final plans were made for the op eration of the association during the coming year and, according to the plan of organisation, an executive committee will be selected from the group of directors and will act as a marketing committee. It is proposed that the association will give its prin cipal attention during this year to im proving the marketing condition for potations by grading, labelling and better merchandising. The success of the organization in bringing about these better market ing conditions was practically assured when most of the merchants in Coos county signed an agreement to* use properly graded association potatoes in preference to those shipped in, when canvassed recently by Mr. Ba ling and a representative of the coun ty agent’s office. Short Council Senolon Monday Mayor Berg and all councilmen, except C. W. Gano, were present for the regular session of the city dads last Monday evening. B. D. Pulford, aa attorney for Louis Goll, who had offered to deed lots 7 and 8, in block 7 of Academy Addi tion, on Tenth street, to the city for reply. The city’s officials could noti eae 3100 but offered 833 as the Aiaait,' and Mr. Pulford stated Tie would . uh- mit that figure to He client. The city recorder was instructed to write the State Highway Commision, urging that body to do whatever is necessary to make the Coquille- Marshfield highway a permanent part of the Coast Highway, to thè end that state and federal funds may be used in widening and surfacing the thou sand feet or more stretch from the Coquille Service Station to the Ralph Nosier place. The franchise of the Natural Gas Corporation was formally transferred by ordinance, unanimously approved, to the purchasers of the gas plant and system in Coquille, the Coquille Gaa A Power Co. Lamb Show at G. B. Saturday An invitation to all sheepmen and others interested in Coos county to attend the Curry County Fat Lamb and Wool show to be hold in Gold Beach on Saturday, July 21, has been received at the county agent’s office in Coquille and while time does not per mit the extending of personal invita tions it is hoped that a representa tive group of livestock men and others from Coos county win And it possible to attend the show, where different pens of fat lambs will be judged and where buyers will gather to consider the purchase of wool. Gaa Co. to Open New Office The Coquille Gaa A Power Co. has leased the room in the Richmond- Barker building, formerly occupied by the Rainbow Confectionery, which will be used by the company as an office and display room for the various gas appliances which will be handled. Jack lefpTT» haa been named as manager by the company’s board of directors. A. L. Ginnell, who left the East Fork a few years ago and has since been living in ooutbern California, has purchased of John E. Paulson what is known as the old Collier property, on Front street, and pro poses to establish an auto camp there. It is the property lying west of G um Tilhn ana's service station, with a frontage of 320 feet on Front atreet, 100 feet deep at the suu end and 118 at the west Mr. Ginnell plans on a camp of 18 or 20 modern cottages, and will be gin construction at once. He plane on building from four to six this year and more in 1935. The old house will be kept standing of a year tyr two but eventually it will be replaced by cot tages. The cottages will be shake-covered, modern in every respect, with all the conveniences found in the most up-to- date camp grounds. The sale of the property was made through C. H. Hodgdon’s Coquille Agency. MYSTERY IS CLEARED UP A Ave months’ old mystery was cleared up on Tuesday of this week when J. V. ArmAeld found the body of Wm. A. Bailey, who disappeared from the Armfield ranch—about 14 miles from Myrtle Point on the old M. P.-Langlois road—on February 15. Extensive search was made at that time but no trace of him was found. Mr. Armfield stumbled on to the badly decomposed body in dense brush, about a mile and a quarter from the present Armfield home and a mile and a half from the old home. The body was lying on its face, with one hand holding a stick under its chest and the other outstretched. Whether Bailey was looking for cat tle, prospecting or hunting, at the time the heart attack seized him is not known, but the coroner’s exam ination found nothing to indicate foul play. Sheriff Hess and Deputy Davis went up the mountain trail, which re- quired a four-mile drive in low gear, Tuesday «Aermww. but-taft tbWAuffy ai tt was until next day when District Attorney Flaxel, Acting Coroner Dr. V. L. Hamilton, and L. L. Powers, of Myrtle Point, accompanied them to the epot. In Bailey’s pocketbook were found two half doRers, a nickel and a penny; a pawn ticket, showing he had bor rowed |10 on his watch in 1930; and an old Odd Fellows membership re ceipt for 1931. The receipt was issued by the Iola, Kansas, lodge, and bore the name “William A. Bailey,” proving that the body was that of the man who disap peared. The skeleton, for there was not much left of the body except the tor so, was brought to the Schroeder par lors in Myrtle Point where it is being held while an effort 1« made to locate possible relatives. R. L. Smith Here for Vacation Ralph L. Smith, accompanied by Mrs. Smith and their nine-year old son, arrived in Coquille last Thursday evening and have been staying at the Geo. Ulett cottage at Bandon. They expect to remain in Coquille until the first of September and have been en deavoring to And a furnished house for rent, so far without success. On Tuesday evening their two daughters, Misses Margaret and Ann, Mm. Smith’s mother, Mrs. A. A. Tom linson. and Jack Platt, all of Kansas City. Mo., joined them here, driving through in four days. A Freak Larkspur Another freak of nature waa placed in the Sentinel window thia week, be ing brought in by Mrs. Herbert Coop er, who lives near the ball park. It Is a single stalk of larkspur on which flowers of two distinct colore grew. Two of the branches of blossoms were a deep blue and two were pink, High School to Hare Now Roof the latter two varying slightly in shade. Mrs. Cooper saved one of the The directors of school district No. blue blossoms for seed, hoping to per 8 held a long session last Thursday petuate thin freak by planting next evening, moot of the time being spent year. in discussing a new roof for the high school building. A Johns-Hansville North Bend Flower Show asbestos roof was decided upon and North Bend’s annual flower show the bid of the Coos Bay Roofing Co., will be open to the public Saturday for 81158, was accepted. noon and continue open Saturday af ternoon and evening, Sunday after noon and evenig. No admission charges. The show is believed the beet ever and everybody is urged to take advantage of this very excellent op portunity to see Just what kind of grown DLilGE PENSION SOUGHT 1 MOI Townnend Plan Approved And Rev. and Mrs. Hale Eubanks Couldn’t Find Mount Club To Work for It Formed Washington Here Tuesday There were upwards of 150 at the Community Building Tuesday evening for rhe meeting called by 3. M. Nosier to organize an Old Age Revolving Petuiun club for Coquille. The attendance was not canfiined to those over 60, who would be the beite- ficiaries should auch a plan be adopted for the United States, nor to those Who are nearing the age ,af throe score. There were many younger men and women present, all of whom wore intensely interested in the proposed legislation, which would insure jobs for all those under 60 and a comfort of living for the rest of their lives for all over that age. Mr. Nosier read from the publica tions, written by Dr. Townsend, ex plaining how the plan would be put in to operation and kept going. A straight 8200, paid monthly by the federal government, to every man and woman who has reached the age of 60, is the attraction which is draw ing the support of thousands upon thousands to the Towwerd- plan. That they wuuld have to spend the 8200 during the calendar month when it was paid is one of the absolute re quirement» of the plan. Also there must be no criminal record in the lives of those receiving the pension. It is estimated that upwards of two billion dollars might be necessary to start the pensions off, but after the first month the ten per cent sales tax Is figured to pay the monthly pen sions. Mr. Nosier was elected president of the Coquille ctab, J. J. Stanley, vice president; F. G. Leslie, secretary treasurer. Signers to a petition asking that congress enact an Old Ago Revolving Pension law were then signed by near ly all of those in attendance. Hr. Nosier stated yesterday that 250 fc«ve already signed the petitions he has in, circulation. Last evening be went to Ford to explain the O. A. R. P. and has had requests to go to Myrtle Point and Marshfield for the ■ same purpose. Neaa Heads County C. of C. Thos. H. Ness, of Marshfield, waa elected an president of the Coes Coun ty Chamber of Commerce at its regu lar bi-monthly meeting in Myrtle Point last Monday evening. An elec tion ws« made necessary by the resig nation of G. E. Krieger, who has been transferred to the main office at Ev erett, Wash., where he will be sales manager for the Wert Coast Tele phone Co. Ed Miller, manager of the Coast Highway Association, made a report on publicity distribution, and told of the satisfactory results, in tourist travel, which are accruing from the widespread distribution of pamphlets and maps. To digress from the Monday meet ing, it might be well to etate what Rev. Hale B. Eubanks told the Lions Club here yesterday noon. He said the* New England should be and Is a fertile field for the distribution of Oregon literature. The people back there know a little about California, but Oregon is vaguely known as a state or province soemwhere south of Alaska. To the well-to-do in Now England, who have perhaps been south to Florida, and who know Eu rope pretty well, civilization ends at the Hudson river, and west of Buffalo, or perhaps Chicago, the Indians and buffalo atill roam. The members of the county court, all of whom were present, were thanked for their efforts in securing improvements of the Coast Highway, and also for the county’s allottment to funds for publicising the Oregon coast country. Aa far as Coquille is concerned, the most important action taken by the County Chamber of Commerce waa the adoption of a resolution, ad dressed to the state highway commis sion, asking that a permanent route for the Coast Highway, from the south end of Broadway in Marshfield, to and through Coquille, be made. The reasons for thia need were ably presented by J. E. Norton and he was made chairman of the com mittee. consisting of himself, Herbert Brown, of Bandon, J. D. Clinton, of Myrtle Point, Dr. R. F. Milne, of Powers, Thos. H. Ness, of Marshfield, and H. G. Kern, of North Bend, who are to act as the county chamber’s highway committee, and seek the sup port of the highway commission in permanently locating the highway. E. A. Sayre, of La Grande, and Rev. Hale B. Eubank*, of Woburn, Mass-, were guests at the Liona Club lunch eon yesterday noon. Mr. Eubank* spoke to the club for 15 or 20 minutes, telling of their trip west, and also giving a slant on that section which most of the Lions never had had. . Speaking of the “abandoned farms” of New England whidh have been giv en considerable publicity, he stated that he thought it was more or less of a myth. True, there are some in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, but last spring ho attempted to buy one. They were very scarce, and those Which were on the market were ao absolutely worthless, with the build ings falling down, that they were im possible, and three or four prices were asked for them. One, advertised with a lake frontage and brook, which he investigated, had a pond 40 or 50 feet in diameter, and if there was a stream on the place it was so hidden Jfn the underbrush that he could not find it. On one trip which he and Mrs. Eu banks made up into Canada, they de cided to return by Mt. Washington and view that 5,000 foot mountain which is given so much prominence in the east. Falling to find it where it was indicated on the map it should be, thej stapepd and asked a farmer where it was. “Did you come by such and such a rout«,” asked the native. “We did,” wm the reply. "Then you drove practically around its base,” was the withering reply of the rustic. To the westerners, familiar with Mounts Adams, Rainier, Hood, Jeffer son and The Slaters, It had been simply a fairly good-sized hill. At the conclusion of Mr. Eubenka’ - Gen. -w Ulett roes to ~ remark that talk. le Mt. Washington was only 5000 U N THE TEAR Strike Practically Done With the general strike in San Francisco called off and the workmen returning to their jobs and the Port land general strike considerably more remote than it was a couple of days ago, it is hoped that the National Guard, ordered to mobilise at Camp Withycombe, near Clackamas, will not be compelled to go to the Portland waterfront where shippers have de clared their intention to proceed with wholesale loading of vessels. If they are needed the Guard units will be in readiness. Cottage Grove Here Sunday Cottage Grove’s baseball team will be the attraction at Athletics Park here Sunday, and the Loggers will play out there next Sunday, July 29. Glenn Mbrray, the slugging pitch er-outfield, will be in the box for the Loggers. Not much io known about the Cot tage Grove team, but they have been winning their share of games this summer, and tied for third place in the Calado League. Game> starts at 2 p. m. “PAL NIGHTS 9f OUT AT LIBERTY Na more “pal nighbs” at the Liberty Theatre. Suspension of this popular feature was not the decision of the management, Messrs. L. W. Claver and O. L. Wood, but was curtly order ed by code authorities in Portland. Last week Mr. Claver received na tive to appear before the board in Portland for violation of the theatre code which prohibits two admissions at a less price than double what ie charged for one. The complaint had been filed from Coos county but the complaining wit ness did not appear when the Liber ty’s case was called. The judge there upon dismissed the cam, but the code authority notified the proprietors to immediately cease admitting two for 35 cento, when the individual admis- *lon *• 25 rente for those two nights, The •¿"•halon price on Wednesday » NEW PASTOR Rev. W. Raymond Wilder Com ing From Corvallis to Pi oneer Church Here Rev. W. Raymond Wilder was ap pointed as pastor of the Coquille Pi oneer Church last Sunday evening by Bishop Jas. Cannon, Jr, at the dosing session of the Northwest M. E. South Conference at Milton. Being in at tendance there at the Conference As sembly until yesterday, Mr. Wilder will not be able to move his family to Coquille until next week, and will de liver his finst sermon as pastor of the Pioneer church at the morping ver- vice on Sunday, July 29. Mr. Wilder has been pastor of the M. E. South church at Corvallis for the past two years. Ernest Purvance, of this city, was re-elected treasurer of the conference for the next four-year term, and Mrs. James Richmond was elected aa pres ident of the Conference Missionary Society for the same term. The Northwest Conference will l>e held in Corvallis in 1985. Bishop Cannon, who was named to that posi tion at the General Conference this year, for the Northwest, Pacific, Ari zona and New Mexico Conferences, was present at Milton, Ore., where the Northwest Conference was held. The Assembly, which started last Saturday, did not doss’ until noon yesterday. Mrs. Henry Ellis, ,La velle Dale, Eileen Kendall, Margaret Purvance, Don Stevens and Alvin Me- Quigg remained at Milton this week for the Aroembly. Mr. and Mrs. Er nest Purvance and Mra. Jas. Rich mond returned home last Sunday eve ning. (»range and Dairymen’s A im ' d The regular quarterly meeting of the Coos County Dairymen’s associa tion, which was previously postponed, will be held at the county agent’s of fice next Monday night, July 23, at 8:09 p. m., according to J. N. Jacob sen, president of the organisation. for Mj. Eubanks’ prompt retort was, “Yes, I’ve noticed that about nearly all easterners.” On their trip west, the visitors stopped for a view of the dam being built at Nyssa, Ore., for irrigation pnrpcoes. Until the Boulder dam is completed, the one at Nyssa is the highest in the world and will furnish water to bring thousands and thou sands of acres of sage brush land into cultivation. Mr. Eubanks said the depression had not been particularly noticeable during hie four yean* residence in the east, but ho did speak of radical labor elements which were continual ly fomenting trouble in the Massachu setts industrial center. ■ Loans for Home Reconditioning children. Had the complaining witness ap peared the management would have >een subject to a maximum fine of 1700 upon conviction. I th a case where both partiea are going to lose. Because of the number of single admissions at 25c on Pal Night,.with two being admitted for 35c, the theatre was averaging 22% cents per person. Now they will re ceive only 20 cents per for adults but a couple will pay Are cents more than heretofore. And it will benefit the one who stirred up the muss not one cent. Hyslop Inspecting Bent Grana The field inspection of bent grass Aelda throughout Coos county was completed on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of thia week by G. R. Hyslop, chief of the bureau of plant industry at the etate college, and Geo. Jenkins, county agent Several Aelda of potatoes grown by 4-H club memebri were inspected dur ing this time, for certification. While the acreage of bent grass in Coos county is somewhat reduced this year, the present condition of the crop indicates a fair production, Hyslop stated. Lloyd T. Terrill, of Eugene, was in Coquille yesterday to make arrange ments for the handling of blanks for the new repair or home recondition ing loans under the H. 0. L. C. Congress appropriated 8800,000,000 to be loaned to home owners for the repair or improvement of their homes. Buch loans may be included as a part of the H. 0. L. C. loan or may be made in addition. While here Mr. Terrill appointed C. H. Hodgdon, of the Coquille Agency, School to Open Sept. 4 to handle application loan blanks and anyone desiring to apply may secure According to the schedule sent the the blanks at his office. Eligibility Sentinel by Supt. P. W. Lane, who is forms for contractors and builders vacationing at Bandon beach, the Co are also on Ale at the Coquille Agency. quille schools will open on Sept 4, the Tuesday after Labor Day. High school registration will take place on Auxiliary to Giro Luncheon the preceding Friday. » The American Legion Auxiliary Christmas -vacation will start with will cook and serve another luncheon the close of school on Dec. 21, and Wednesday, July 26th, at the Legion end Jan. 2. Home, from 11:00 a. m. till 2:00 p. m. The spring vacation date has not Mrs. Helen Cunning is in charge of yet been Mt. but the year will dose the kitchen with Mrs. Gladys Gano, on Thursday, May 30. Mrs. Ethel Cummings and Mrs. Bon nie Green on her committee. Mrs. Vinton’« District Enlarged Ruth Axtell is ehsirman of the din ing room committee with Mrs. Thel E. L. Vinton, district engineer for ma Dale, Mm. Mabel Rackleff and for the SERA, has had two more Mra. Mary Arnold to aaaist her. counties added to the territory over Don’t miss this excellent home- which he exercises supervision and in cooked luncheon. 40 cents a plate. spection. In addition to Coos, Curry and Douglas, he now has Josephine and Jackson, which will keep him on Krieger Moves to Everett the jump and away from home for G. E. Kreiger, the popular and ef longer periods than he haa been. ficient Coos Bay district manager of the West Coast Telephone Co., haa P. M. Receive« C omm I m I m received a promtion which will neces Postmaster Gee. A. Belloni received sitate his removal to Everett, Wash., about the middle of August. He will his commiaion, with President Roose be succeeded as manager of thia di velt’s signature attached thereto, vision by Fred H. MadGongan. who Tuesday evening. His appointment in came to Marshfield from Everett the for the four-year term, commencing June 8, UM. Amt af th« week. elation sevs weeks ago, will en tourage the adoption of a program of xork for the coming year and a large ittendanee at this meeting where sev eral matters of particular importance o dairymen will be considered, is de sired, Jacobsen stated. Gei. Hampton, Pomona Grange master, has called a meeting of the subordinates ffirange masters and ex ecutive congnittees to be held at the same time and place—in Goo. Jen kins’ office—as the dairy association meeting will be held. Oregon Trail Pageant at Eugene Thos. Stoddard, aasietant manager of the Oregon Trail Pagedt, Jwly 26,- 27-28, and J. S. Magladry, chairman of the Parade of Progreso of the Pag eant, were here Monday morning, and attempted to interest the Coquille Chamber of Comemree in the proposal to send a princess and candidate for Queen of the Pageant to Eugene for the three-day celebration. Also they wanted an industrial float for the pa rade of progress from hero. The directors of the chamber, in session Tuesday noon, reluctantly turned down the proposition on the score of economy. It would require $25 to 830 to send a candidate out there for the three day* and, aa one member expressed it, the probable demands for relief here next winter would make it unwise to spend money for the purpose requested this year. Not a War Picture The picture, “Operator 13,” which is to be shown at the Liberty starting Sunday, July 29, is sponsored by the American Legion post of this city. The story is by the late Robert W. Chambers and was very interesting when published as a serial. While it deals with the activities of a spy dur ing the Civil War, it Is not the usual war type of picture. There are no bat tle scenes, nor maimed and wounded soldier sights. A romance is woven through the espionage systems of the North and the South, and it should bo an outstanding picture. May Exchange for Now Stamp« While it is no* the postofllce custom to redeem uneancelied stamps, Post master Geo. Belloni states that the department has authorised the ex change of eight cent air mail stamps for the new 6-cent airmail, a supply of which was received at ths^ local office Monday. The change in airmail rates is responsible for the exchange offer. The 8-cent stamps cannot, however, bo rodoowod tar oaqh.
