The Coquille Valley sentinel., June 13, 1940, Image 1

The Coquille Valley
INDEPENDENT
Sentinel
NEWSPAPER
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VOL. X3QKVL
NO. n.
Wrecks Have
Been Frequent
Past Week
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Elbert Schroeder's 1936 Dodge was
a complete wreck last Monday after­
noon when it was hit and jammed into
the high bank at the north end pf
Henry street, on the turn at the Harry
Krantz place—th* Fairview road.
The car which did the damage was
a Ford, driven by E. C. Stolp, who
was passing another car on that blind
turn. Elbert saw the two cars abreast
about 25 feet from him when he came
to the curve but had no chance to
avoid the head-on smash.
With Stolp were Chester Norsted
and Ralph Zenor, all three of whom
are employed in the Bailey mill be­
tween Fairview and McKinley. All
three went to the Belle Knife Hospi­
tal for treatment for cut* and bruises
and Norsted received a fractured arm.
Stolp mad* an agreement with Mr.
Schroeder to take care of his loss, as­
suming all blame for the accident.
None Seriously
Hurt In Wreck
Two sisters, Dolores and Phyllis
Belloni, of Myrtle Point, were taken
to the Mast Hospital last Friday morn­
ing, and Ralph Todd, of this city, came
to the Coquille Hospital, after their
care collided near the north end of
the North Fork bridge on the Myrtle
Point highway.
Mis* Phyllis wa* able to leave the
hospital and return to her work in
the county clerk’s office on Monday,
but Miss Dolores remained in the hos­
pital for several day* longer. She
is an employee of the tax collection
department.
Mr. Todd wa* not seriously hurt but
both car* were considerably damaged.
Others in the Belloni car and who
not Injured WssW'Mrs. Marian
Lions To Install
For 16th Year
At last Thursday boon's meeting of
the Coquille Lions club the follow­
ing were elected to serve for the com­
ing year:
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President—F. A. Pook.
1st, 2nd, 3d Vice Pre*.—B- W. Dunn,
E. E. Terhune, Wm. Barrow.
Sec.-Trea*.—N. C. Kelley. .
Tailtwister—L. W. Claver.
Lion Tamer—Harold Kolkhorst.
Dilector—S. C. Gaulke.
Installation will take place on the
evening of June 27, with J. L. Stevens
as master of ceremonies and B. W.
Dunn as toastmaster.
This month will conclude the fif­
teenth year of Lionism in Coquille and
Mr. Stevens is the eldest ex-president
of the club now living here. Begin­
ning with Clyde Richards, elected in
1925, the presidents, each of whom
served a year, are Jno. E. Roes, J. L.
Stevens, Homer T. Gant, Wm. A.
Zosel, W. V. Ferguson, R. A. Jeub, D.
E. Rackleff, Geo. A. Ulett, R. L.
Stewart, J, R. Bunch, F. W. Martin,
J. D. Gillespie, Lafe Compton and J.
E. Axtell.
Next week the annual Lions state
convention is to be held in Marsh­
field, starting Sunday and ending
Tuesday. About 600 Lion delegates
and ladies of the Lions Auxiliary are
expected to be present from all over
Oregon.
New Manager
Coquille Motors
Logs Crush
Truck Driver
Pretty Church
Seeking A Start
On Coast Highway Wedding Sunday
Relocation Plan
First report* that the logging truck
—Prominent among the week’s so^
accident which took the life of John
cial actiivties was the wedding Sun­
J. Birman about 7:30 o’clock last
day afternoon at Pioneer Methodist
A letter was read at the Chamber
In circuit court last Thursday the
Thursday night at a point four miles
church of Helen Kyle and Roy Adam­
of
Commerce
session
Tuesday
noon
jury brought in a verdict of guilty
from Coquille on the Myrtle Point
son. The bride was lovely in a wed­
highway, were that a log binder chain from a manager of the “Ask Mr. Fos­ ding dress of white, brocaded satin against John J. BeU, the aged Power*
justice of the peace, who was indicted
ter
”
nation-wide
travel
directing
had come loose and caught on the
with leg o’ mutton sleeves and train,
Judge
rear wheel causing it to lock and agency, in which he praised very I which shimmered gracefully behind for larceny of public funds.
forcing the truck to slide off the high­ highly the entertainment provided in I her. Her finger tip length veil of Brand sentenced him to a year in
way. It landed with it* front wheels San Francisco recently by Arch B. j white net, edged with dainty lace, the pen and he was taken to Salem
in the ditch and the load of log* slid Sanders, manager of the Coast High­ ! was attached to a becoming satin tur- yesterday by Sheriff Howell.
Sigfried Graustom pleaded guilty
forward, crushing the cab and driver way Association, on behalf of the as­ I ban. Preceding the bride on her way
last Thursday to driving while under
sociation. Publicity representatives
> who lived but a few moments.
! to the flower laden altar, where
The track on the pavement where from all such agencies or highway as­ Reverend Howard L. Graybeal per­ the influence of liquor. He was fined
the wheels burned rubber extended sociations were guests at the ban­ formed the wedding ceremony, were >100, which he paid, and the jail
100 feet from the bottom of the grade quet and the scenic attractions and four bridesmaids, two clad in long sentence of 80 days was suspended
where Birman made the turn onto accommodations of the Oregon coast dresses of blue taffeta, while the other and he was placed on probation for
level ground, and when the wreck wa* we,* presented most clearly by Mr. two wore a contrasting shade of pink five year*.
The preponderance of witnesses for
inspected by a garage man the next Sander,.
taffeta. The bride carried a bouquet the defense did not sway the jury’s
Lafe Compton states that the “Ask
morning, he said he could find no
of roses, fiephanota and lilies of the
agency is
is responsible
responsible for
for
decision on Tuesday this week when
evidence that th* chain had locked. Mr.
«r- Foster” agency
valley, while the bridesmaid* and ma­
it brought in a verdict for >489.50 for
the wheels.
sending many parties up the Oregon
tron of honor carried bouquets of
the plaintiff. It was the case of Ewald
Mr. and Mrs. Clyd* Mitt* who live c°“«‘
sweetpeas. Each bridesmaid wore a
Keene vs. Ellis Donovan, the latter
near the scene of the wreck, were i
chamber directors voted to en-
wide band of sweet peas in her hair.
being sued for >906 for damage* to
there at the Urn* Sf the accident,dor*
proposed venture of H. E.
The Matron of Honor, Mrs. John Zan­
Baldinger
who
expect*
to
begin
the
the plaintiff’s truck when two trucks
watching the efforts to get a car out
der, wore a floor length gown of
of the ditch on the other side of the monthly issue of the "Coos-Curry flowered blue sheer and carried a being used on the dike-raising job a
Farmer
”
about
the
first
of
July,
couple of years ago collided.
highway and had to run for their lives
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the present the paper will be
Harry Slack was plaintiff attorney
as the truck left the pavement.
and although he had but four wit­
The body was shipped by Schroe­ tributed free to 4500 dairymen and
nesses to present and 13 appeared for
der Bros, to Roseburg and from there ranchers in the two counties. Mr.
the defense, nearly all of them truck
was shipped to the deceased old home Baldinger was given permission to
solicit local advertising for the paper.
drivers, the evidence of the 13, which
in Michigan for interment.
Lafe Compton, one of the chamber’s
he could not break down, was evident­
Mr. Birman was born Oct. 12, 1889,
Tuesday wa* Coquille’s warmest ly taken with grains of salt by the
in Michigan and leaves a wife and highway committee, left this morning
eight children.
His home wa* in for Portland to attend the meeting of day of the /ear when the thermome­ jurymen who divided nine for the
Davis, California, and he returned to the State Highway Commission. An ter registered 88 degrees in the shade, plaintiff and three for the defendant.
LaVell Gorringe, indicted last Feb­
Coo* county from Klamath Fall* about effort will be made to learn how soon not on top of a tall building as weath­
a week before the accident, with a and how much work is to be done er observation station* are but fix or ruary, on the charge of making false
statements to the State Industrial Ac­
new truck, and was hauling logs from this year on the North Bend to Co­ eight feet off the ground.
quille section of the Coast Highway.
Sunday started the warm wave with cident Commission for the purpose of
Rock creek to Coquille.
80 *4 degrees, Monday the thermome­ receiving benefits from th* state ac­
ter stood at 81, but yesterday the max­ cident fund was found guilty last
Thursday and was sentenced to a year
imum was 74.
Tuesday night was one of the few in the pen.
At the conclusion of the case on
times a year when a sheet is all the
The Coquille Post of the American covering required for comfortable Tuesday Judge Brand dismissed the
According to the figure* in the Legion has decided to sponsor the 6th sleeping. The minimum that night jury until next Monday. Four cases
county clerk’s office, tabulated by Column movement insofar as its ac­ wa* 49 degree*.
involving the State Accident Commis­
Deputy .Jno. W. Leneve, the cost to
sion are to come up next
ta subversive ac-
(togs county oLlast month’s primary
election was">4837 47.
been named by the commander, F. F.
The Ex-TJ. D. special election cost Schram, to hear reports of such a na­
r
>152.10, pay for clerks and judge to­ ture.
talled >2,287; rent* for polling places,
A plot for the rifle range, which
The taxpayer voter* of Coquille
>303.25; ballots >987; the Port of Mrs. Jack Dolan has asked, where la­
SWtfall League
school district, No. 8, will vote next
Bandon bond election, >34.50; new dies may engage in target practice,
Monday, June 17, on the question of
ballot pouches, >303.90; registration
has also been offered by a Legion increasing the tax levy by more than Plywood
fee* prior to the election, >281.60; member.
The site ii to the north of six per cent over the present tax base. Tip Top
while other supplies brought it up Coquille.
At the same time all voters in the Steven* Hdw.
to the >4837 total.
district may vote for one school di­ Jr. C. of C.
The new ballot pouches, the P. U. D.
rector. The term of R. T. Slater ex­ McKinley 3-C
and Port of Bandon bond election*
pire* this month and a petition, asking Pastime
created the amount in excess of the
that his name be presented to the Eagles
usual primary cost, Mr. Leneve said.
voters for re-election is the only one Christian Church 0
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What kind of stuff does “Jonah which has been filed with Clerk Keith
Leslie.
Mr. and Mr*. Roy Watson came in Shorty” Martin feed the fish at Riv­
The most exciting game of the Co­
The polls will be open at the high quille Softball League the past week
from Portland last week to visit rela­ erton anyway? “Jonah Shorty” is not
tives and old friends here. Roy drove responsible for the latest fish story school building between two and sev­ was last Friday night’s game when the
back to Portland last Saturday, re­ from there, at least he isn’t the one en p. m., and all voters should make Tip Top shaded the McKinley camp
turned Sunday and on Tuesday took who told the Sentinel scribe, but it it a point to attend and cast his or team, 8 to 7 in an extra inning.
Fred Nosier out to Eugene for ex­ was about an Idaho man who caught a her vote.
Chub Allard added to hl* laurels as
The hearing on the proposed budget the outstanding soft ball twirler in
amination and treatment. Mr. Nosier mud cat measuring three feet and
who conducts the fruit and vegetable four inches and weighing 76 pounds. will be held immediately after the the county when Plywood won from
stand out on the highway, just east If the “kingfish”-erman from the polls close but in a first class district the Junior C. of C., 6 to 1. Not a
of the John A. Martin place, has not river town had told it we would the voter* do not ballot in it* adop­ single safe hit was made off Allard’s
tion.
been in very good health lately.
slant*.
know it was true!
Other games the pa*t week saw the
Junior C. of C. defeat Pastime, 8 to 3,
last Thursday evening and the Eagles
win from the Christian Church team
last evening. 10 to 2.
“Did you ever meet a bear?”
queried the local Oregonian man, J. Two Coquille Boy* To Join
A. Hannon, Tuesday. "Well I Hid Oregonian Special Tuesday
Sunday, the first one I ever saw not
The two Coquille Daily Oregonian
in captivity.”
carriers, who will leave next Tues-
He was up in the Fishtrap country
day on a free trip to the San Fran-
with his boy* and they had stopped
cisco fair wish to express their ap-
to do some target shooting. Mr. Han­
preciation to the subscribers who
non started up a gulch, on a path, to
made this trip possible for them. They
see “Pete” Peterson, when rounding
are Bill Lehmanowski and Franci*
a curve in the path he found himself
Hannon who will join the Oregonian
within 10 yard* of a black bear. He
special at Eugene and be two of the
immediately went into reverse, with­
300 carrier* of the Portland paper in
out turning around and kept his eyes Oregon who will make this trip. The
on the bear a* long as he could. He expenses—railroad fare, meals, hotel
let out a yell to call the boy* but by accommodations and expenses for
the time they arrived his bearship
seeing the fair are all to be borne by
had disappeared in the brush.
the Oregonian. They will return the
latter part of next week.
Besides the Coquille boys others
from Coo* county will be two each
from Myrtle Point and Empire, three
from Marshfield, and one each from
Ernest Purvance wa* selected
Bandon, North Bend, Millington and
the recent quarterly conference
Port Orford.
Pioneer church to
church a* delegate at
Bids To Be Opened For
ference to be held in
New
Route Through Bandon
week At the same time the chprch
Bids
are to be opened in Portland
membership went on record a* re­
questing that Rev. H. L. Graybeal be next week by the state highway com­
returned a* pastor of the church here mission for gradlhg and surfacing a
half mile of the Coast highway
for another year.
Stewards chosen for the coming through Bandon. The new route will ,
year were R. T. Slater, Ernest Pur­ leave the present one at the Ferry
vance, L. W. Oddy, J. L. Smith, O. B. creek bridge and reach the top of the
Harriman, R. B. Knife, E. M. Wilson, hill, south of the business section,
IMO
O. L. Newton, Mr*. Birdie Skeels, with a long sweeping curve, and not
Mr*. L. P. Fugelaon, Mr*. W. F. Oerd- as nearly a right angle turn as there
is at Capp’s Service Station now.
ing and Mr*. Lizzie Oden.
88 Degrees
Here Tuesday
Election Cost
Coos County $4837
Legion To Work
With Sixth Column
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AnotherHead
On Sunday
Don McEniry tells of a bad wreck
he saw Sunday afternoon between the
Mulkey school house and Mr*. Ross’
residence, the former Hollow Stump
location. Don was following the Best
Why car, coming south, when the
Herman Shely car going north was
unable to make some of those sharp
turns in that section and the cars met
head on. Ms. and Mr*. Why, of North
Bend, were bruised and shaken, and
Shely, of Marshfield, was taken to
th* hospital fOr treatment.
Let People Know
Says Mayor
S. N. “ACE” BOONE
Coquille Motors, local Dodge 8c
Plymouth dealers, started out this
week under new management, with
S. N. “Ace” Boone from the Marsh­
field office as the new manager.
Wm. Canterbury, who built the
new showroom, office and used car
lot several months ago, has been in
poor health for some weeks after an
attack of flu recently and left Sun­
day to consult a specialist in Portland
and expects to do a little fishing and
resting.
The personnel of the new organiza­
tion consist* of Tom Anderson and
H. P. McQuiston, who came with Mr.
Boone from the Marshfield office;
Les Tythcott, Fred Christiensen and
Bill Snyder, of Coquille, and Stella
Shrivner, of Gold Beach.
Mayor R. F. Milne ha* the idea that
the taxpayers—the people who pay
the bills for municipal expenses—
should know how their money is be­
ing spent. With this thought in mind,
he requested City Engineer J. N.
Gearhart to prepare the graph which
appears elsewhere on this page.
As readily seen, debt retirement is
the largest single item in th* city’s
1940 program, the 22.4 per cent of the
total, which will go to the payment of
bond* and interest meaning a cash
outlay of >11,734.
The personal service* total, which
Mrs. Elizabeth Perry and her
on the graph ia shown for each officer
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‘ i* daughter May—Mrs. H. H. Churchill
and for the police department,
—have been guests since last Wednes­
41.7 per cent, or >21,842.
day at Mrs. A. J. Sherwood’s home
and expect to viist at the C. J. Fuhr­
man ranch on Sixes before leaving
for their homes next week. They were
residents of Coquille over a third of
a century ago, having left Coquille
Mr. and Mr*. 8. M. Nosier, Mr*. A. 97 years ago, and do not find many
T. Morrison. Mr*. Birdie Skeels and of their old friends here now. Mrs.
Mrs. Mary Gag* intend leaving early Perry last visited here in 1928.
Sunday morning for San Diego, Calif.,
The latter spent last winter with her
where they will be present for the daughter in Los Angeles and when
golden wedding anniversary obser­ she leaves here will proceed to her
vance of th*» brother, Alva Nosier home in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.
and wife, next Wednesday. The lat­
ter were married in San Digo, June
19, 1890, four years after Mr. Nosier
had gone there from Coquille.
All the Nosier brothers and sisters
will be there next week except Gene
who was not abl* to get away at this
Just how the Sentinel reporter
tim*. Thsnin* were all. together here came to misquote Oscar Lai son as to
the number of car* aold by City Mo­
three years ago.
had had a family reunion in 25 yean. tor* in May is not known, but Mr.
The southern California members Larson say* the figure was 29 and
of the family, befide Alvajire Mrs. that the 45 additional cars mentioned
Hartley, I. H. and Oscar Nosier.
was erroneous.
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Mr. Larson was quite enthusiastic
Mr. and Mr*. Don Estes left Fri­ over the actual record they made, as
day for San Francisco, where they are he well could be, and did not desire
attending the Golden Gate exposition. to stretch the truth.
Mrs. Perry Left
Here In 1903
Go To Attend ;
Golden Wedding
City Motors
Sold 29 In May
Two Sentenced In
Circuit Court To
A Year Each
School Election
Next Monday
Another Big
Riverton Catch?
The Coquille Citizen's Dollar For Municipal Bear Causes
Back Pedaling
Mr. Gray beat's
Return Asked
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Allard Pitches
Mo-Hit Game