The Coquille Valley sentinel., May 29, 1941, Image 1

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Petition For One
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School
Director Filed
With the annual school election less
than three weeks away—the law
specifies the date as the third Mon­
day In June which is June 18 this
year—it is high time petitions were
being circulated tor one or more
candidates. District No. 8 being one
of the first class it is necessary that
nominating petitions be- filed and
that the election be by ballot.
It ta not a legal requirement that
a school board member be the parent
of one or more children attending
school, but there is a feeling among
many that thia should be the case.
Any one of the citizen members of
the budget committee would be a
good board member—Mrs. J A. Berg,
Dr. C. A. R let man, J. L. Smith, F. S.
Emery; H. A. Stack, L. L. Bonney
and H. S. Norton.
Other pos-
sible candidates who have been men­
tioned without any more being made
to get their names on the ballot are
Geo. H. Jenkins, J. <. Axtell, Mrs.
Gladys Gano, F. L. Stevens and there
may he others whom the Sentinel has
not heard mentioned. But the time
is getting short for filing nominating
petitions and it must be done within
the next week or ten days.
Sinae the above was written the
petition has been filed with the dis­
trict clerk which nominates Ralph T.
Harry as a candidate for the five year
term as school director. Mr. Harry is
bookkeeper at the county shops and
is well qualified to serve in the ca­
pacity of director.
To Be But One
Day Holiday
An agency in Marshfield has caused
some confusion in Coquille by an­
nouncing yesterday iWT i ln g that
qutile would ronow
by suspending business not . only on
Memorial Dey but on Saturday also,
making a three-day holiday season.
No organization here has sponsored
such a movement, the mayor has not
declared Saturday as a holiday and
there was no ground whatever for
such an unauthorized announcement.
Coquille business men feel that they
can run their own affairs without in­
trusion by anyone else who may have
an axe to grind.
Coquille Boys On
O. S. C. Hqnor Roll
Two Coquille young men are on the
graduating class honor roll at Oregon
State College and who will receive
their degrees next week. They are
Robert McGilvery and Frank Biasca.
Frank will graduate first in the en­
gineering section of the class and
ranks fifth in the entire class.
Robert stands second in the chemis­
try division and fourth in science.
E. C. Briner,
District Deputy
Mr. and Mrs. Vai Harless, Mrs. Geo.
Holbrook and E. C. Briner returned
Friday from Baker, where they at­
tended the Grand Lodge Encampment
last week. E. C. Briner was appoint­
ed special district deputy grand mas­
ter for the current term. Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Schaer. who were also
grand lodge delegates, returned Sat­
urday. Both carloads of delegates
from here encountered snow when
they crossed the Cascades and Mrs.
Harless said that the McKenzie Pass
had over nine inches of snow when
the party crossed it.
Visiters From So. California
And Medford Here This Week
Mrs. Fred Slagle, of South Holly­
wood, Mrs. H. N. Butler, of Medford,
and the latter’« daughter, Gertrude,
and husband Mr. and Mr»- -Angus
Borner, of Ashland, arrived here test
Simple Memorial
Day Program
Tomorrow, Decoration Day, will be
generally observed by Coquille busi­
ness houses as a holiday, with all pub­
lic offices also closed.
Obseivance of the day is to be con­
fined to a short memorial service by
the Legion and Auxiliary at the Le­
gion Home, after which those attend­
ing will march to the bridge where a
salute will be fired and flowers
strewn upon the water. From there
the procession will go to both ceme­
teries where salutes will be fired and
the graves of former soldiers dec­
orated. The Woman's Relief Corps
will have already marked and flower
bedecked the graves of veterans of
the Civil war.
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Wage Increase At
Smith Plant
Is Announced
Judge King
County Rood
Funds Divided
Legion Commander
Urges Observance
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In conformity with the
made some weeks ago between
Wood-Products, Inc., and
and fir mill unions that the wage
justment made in northwest
ences would be put into effect
>Geo. A. Ulett announced this
that increases in the wage scale
being made, the effective date e
this month not having yet been
ed upon..
The increase in the Plywood is fivfe
cents an hour, from 70 to 75 cents. Ih
the fir mjll it is 7 % cents an
or a 75 cent, rate for the future,
increase affects 800 of the plant em,»
ployees. ’ ' •
Negotiations are now in progress
between th* management and the ce­
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dar plant employees and an agree­
" FeSlGeS I OdOy
ment in that department can be ex­
It became Judge Pal M. King Mon­ pected at any time.
day morning when he signed the cer­
tificate and took the oath of office
immediately after Judge J. T. Brand's
resignation became effective as he
took the oath as associate justice of
the state supreme court.
The county court yesterday made
Judge King took his seat on the an order distributing the $18,588.50 of
circuit court bench for the first time county and district road funds now
this morning. It was motion day and in the county treasurer's hands. Coos
the grand jury, in session this week, county's road fund is to receive $11,-
will report to him some time today, «13.87, Coquille $1,010.48, Myrtle
too late for the Sentinel to mention Point $454.28, Bandon I31S.SO, Marsh­
their findings and indictments.
field $2,995.18, North Bend |1^37.W,
Judge King has appointed as circuit Eastside 8178.28 Empire $138.18, and
court bailiffs, L. C. Sherwood, who Lakeside $38.49.
had served by appointment by Judge
Brand, and L. P. Fugelson, who suc­
ceeds Grant Harry in the position.
May Lease
For Airport
Wm. Strong, who has been work­
ing for some time on the proposed
Arago airport project, has received
information from the aeronautics de­
partment that the additional M to 00
million dollar appropriation for air-
porta, makes now the proper time to
All legionaires are requested by
Commander George E. Oerding of Co­
quille Post No. 38. American Legion,
to assemble at the legion hall at 9:30
a. m. Friday, May 30, for Memorial
». which will begin at 10
SSsMhswe W® “*7
.
Bill alflo says that a change in the
It is to ba remembered, said Com­
government’s attitude win now per-
mander Oerding, that Memorial Day
| mit the leasing of land for airport
originated at the close of the Civil
purposes—it was formerly required
war. The American Legion honors
that title be in some municipal cor­
not only the dead of the World War
poration—and that Clarence Schroe­
but also the veterans and dead of all
der who owns the Arago tract would
other wars of the United States.
lease it for that purpose.
All patrotlc organizations and cit­
izens who wish to honor the memory
of those who gave their lives in the Nancy Sonneland Also An
service of this country are urged by Outstanding OJ3.C. Freshman
Commander Oerding to take part in
It has been brought to the Sentin­
the reverent ceremonies of Memorial
el’s attention that in our item about
Day.
young ladies who have made good
records the past year at O. S. C., that
the name of Nancy Sonneland. who
lives at Fairview, was omitted. She
was also chosen as one of the 28
outstanding freshmen girls on the
Arch B. Sanders, manager of the campu»-and was Initiated into "Ta­
Coast Highway Association, was pres­ lons,’’ the sopohomore women's honor
ent at the Coquille Chamber of Com­ society.
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merce meeting in the hotel Tuesday
noon.
He made an interesting talk about
the workings of the association, tell­
ing of the beautiful wild flowers along
the highway of which he bad made
Sergeant Edgar S. Anderson of the
pictures for Oregon coast publicity,
U. S. Army Recruiting service, who is
and of the hundreds of clippings he
working with the American Legion
receives showing that this coast and
on the “To the Colors Committee,’’
its attractions are getting nation-wide
called on Commander George E.
newspaper publicity.
Oerding Wednesday. Sergeant An­
derson placed on display in the win­
Coast Travel To Be
dow of the Oerding office a card il­
Heavy This Summer
lustrating how to respect and display
Lafe Compton who returned Tues­ the American flag.
day evening from his good-will trip
M. F. Pettit left Sunday on a busi­
with four other Oregon hotel men,
says that from all he could learn ness trip to Portland, expecting to
travel to the northwest this summer return the middle of the week.
is to be quite heavy and that pros­
pects for tourists on the Coast high­
way are very bright. He found that
travelers going south had expressed
most favorable comment on the Co­
quille Hotel and that everywhere he
There were 32 members of the Justa­
went the installation of the new ele­
mere club, their families and friends,
vator in the hotel here had become who sat down to a most sumptuous
known.
and satisfying repast at the club's
Sanders Tells Of
Coast Publicity
Placard Shows
Flag Display
Harriet Webb
Married Friday
Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Chaney Had
A Fine Trip
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Chaney re­
turned last evening from their ocean
and land trip which required about
six weeks. The Sentinel regrets that
time does not allow this week a
more extended account of what they
say was a most enjoyable vacation.
From San Pedro, through the Pan­
ama canal to Hoboken N. J., was a
21-day boat ride. The freighter on
Which they traveled carried 10,000
tons of merchandise and required a
toll fee at Panama of $7000.
From Hoboken they went to Flint,
Mich., where they picked up a new
car which they drove home.
A wedding which came as a sur­
prise to her many friends in Coquille
was that of Miss Harriet Webb,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Webb,
of near Bandon, who was married to
Thomas Joseph McEniry, of South
Pasadena, Calif., in Reno last Friday
morning.
Mr. McEniry, who is a brother of
Don McEniry, of this city, visited here
a year ago and recently went up to
Portland on a vacation trip. Harriet
was taking a business course there
but decided to give it up for house­
keeping and they came down to Co­
quille last Wednesday, visited the
Webb ranch until noon the next day
and then left for Reno.
The groom is employed in the credit
department of the Texaco Oil Co.
in southern California, and is the son
of Mr. and Mrs*. M. S. McEniry.
Bandon Slate Park,
Chrome, Airports
Co. C. of C. Subjects
One of the best Coos County Cham­
ber of Commerce meetings held in
years was the one at the North Bend
hotel Monday evening which was at­
tended by twenty or more representa­
tives from the various chambers of
commerce in the county. There was
no set program but matters of interest
to all sections .of the county - were
brought up and talked over.
The
meeting was presided over by Presi­
dent Wallace B. Dement of Myrtle
Point
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One of the first matters brought up
was the need for a state park on the
bluff overlooking the ocean at Ban­
don. There are several acres avail­
able there, and the tract could be
fitted up for a splendid park if the
It was another of those needless
state highway department can be in­
accidents last Saturday afternoon
duced to take it over.
when Donna Dean Boaserman re­
Sam Boardman, in charge of state
ceived such a blow on' the head that
parks, has expressed his desire to
Outgoing officers of the Junior have the tract to add to the state’s
she was unconscious from four to
five hours and remained in the hos­ Woman's club surrendered their posts system of parks. Some years ago a
to the new officers Monday evening deal for this tract was practically
pital till Monday.
She was with Janie Kramer in the at a candlelight ceremony held on completed by the highway commission
Plymouth coupe of Mr. and Mrs. A. the shores of Laurel lake. Taking but a change in the executive office
J. Ragsdale, and they had just picked part in the ceremony were the fol­ upset the apple cart.
Georgianna
up Jean Laird at the Geo. Laird home lowing old officers:
The county chamber went on rec­
on the Marshfield highway and had Vaughan, president; Mary Stevens, ord as favoring the acquisition of the
driven out on to the highway, getting vice president; Gertrude Swinney, land for park purposes and urged all
25 or 30 feet from the drive way en­ secretary; Carol Young, treasurer; chambers of the county and the
trance when they were hit from be­ Emma Briggs, historian; and Helen county court to urge action by the
hind by a 1933 V-8 coupe, driven by Ayers, parliamentarian. New offi­ highway commission.
Thomas Farley Minor, an 18 year cers, who accepted their positions as
Clarence H. Coe talked at some
club executives,
were Marjorie length on the W.P.A. work being done
old timber faller of near Bandon
The impact was terrific knocking Knight, president; Evelyn Elliott, vice in drilling test holes on the beach,
the Plymouth, still in first gear, up présidons, Helen Ayers, secretary; south from South Bay, to ascertain
on the bank in front of the Sam Ar­ Jane Kramer, t> cisuser; Mary Stev­ the thickness of strata .and chrome
nold place, and causing the Ford to ens, historian, and’Eui.n Sandall, par­ content of the black sands. He said
crash oft on the other side of the liamentarian. Mrs. J. Arthur Berg, that it the deposits are found to be
who has been the club's contact chair­ xmple the development of this min­
highway.
The blow caused Donna Dean's man for the Woman’s club, was ing activity will keep 300 or more
head to hit an iron piece back of the begged to continue in that capacity. men employed in digging the sand
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seat;
Joan also received bruises but When Mrs. Berg was reluctant to ac­ and delivering it to the processing
( Janie was not injured, only shaken cept the chairmanship another year, plants.
Both can were almost completely Marjorie Knight, spurred by the pleas
Chrome is urgently needed in de­
W tck s d, the frames of each being of aU. elate . m e mbe rs, p u t thejyp i m t fense Industry pUuits and, if the work
badly wrenched, as well as other in verse.
being done under the supervision of
, damages to bodies.
The installation ceremony was held an U. S. geologist shows the amount
Although young Minor says he was after a picnic in the Berg's Laurel available justifies the expense, a re­
Dinner was served duction plant will be provied, al.
only driving 40 miles an hour, the lake cottage.
distance on the pavement which the buffet style and the girls billed their though it might possibly be nearer
wheel marks show he skidded were plates at a table decorated with rho­ Bonneville than is. Coos county.
stepped off by a state police officer— dodendrons and greens. Picnic com­
Mr. Coe said the- Pioneer mine can
33 yards! Minor had just purchased mittee members were Edna Sandall, produce 50 tons of ore per day and
chairman, Evelyn Elliott, Mary Stev­ that the chrome-bearing sands extend
the car.
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It is such reckless driving by ir­ ens and Gertrude Swinney. Grace from South Bay to Gold Beach.
responsible people that causes so Greenough was in charge of the en­
Arch B. Sanders reported that the
many of the accidents on the high­ tertainment. After the installation Cape Blanco road has been taken over
way. If the Plymouth had been hit ceremony, there was bridge and pin­ by the state highway department as
broadside there would have been loss ochle. Presents to show appreciation a secondary highway and that the
of life, probably for all three girls. for the fine club work they have done road 1s due to be improved this year.
during the past year were given to
J. E. Norton reported on the Rogue
Mrs. Berg and Mrs. Vaughan.
River Co-ordinating Board action,
Attending the picnic were Gertrude along the same lines as he reported
Swinney,
Evelyn Elliott,
Louise to the Coquille C. of C. last week.
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Schroeder, Evelyn Mattoon, Ruth
Claud Wilson, of Empire, a flyer
Clayton. Edna Sandall, Marjorie himself, and intensely interested in
the
The baaeball schedule for
Knight, Carol Young, Vesta Miley aeronautics, talked at some length
Southwestern Oregon League call* Myrtle Clausen, Mary Stevens Max­
about the need for an airport at Ara­
for the Coquille Indiana to play at ine Stevens, Grace Greenough, Crys­
go, where the field under considera­
North Bend, Sunday; Empire at Myr­ tal Henninger Margaret Belloni, Ma­
tion is almost the only level spot in
tle Point, Powers art Bandon, and bel Gould, Helen Ayers, Emma Briggs,
the Coquille valley large enough to
Marshfield at Port Orford-Langlois. Mrs. J. Arthur Berg, Georgianna
accommodate the length of runways
Vaughan, Gladys Peterson Ora Horn­ needed. It ta also ideally situated as
Federal Land Bank Meeting
ing, Jean Laird, Pauline Mintonye, being far enough from the coast to
Jane Kramer and Hazel Foss.
Held Here Yesterday
be outside the heavy fog belt.
While airports are very much in the
There was a meeting at the Title
limelight now, for military purposes
Guarantee & Abstract Co. office here
Mr. Wilson assured his hearers that
yesterday of Federal Land Bank of­
when this war emergency need is past
ficials with the directors of the Coos-
that such a field will be increasingly
Curry Farm Loan Association. The
needed as the development of cargo
officials present were Arnold An­
The Rotary club held their annual
derson from the bank in Spokane; W. Ladies Night dinner and dance at the carriers and travel planes progresses
A. Bartlett, field supervisor from Sa­ Midway Cafe at Coaledo last Friday - The president announced he would
lem; U. D. Powell and Bruce Thomp­ night, with an attendance of one hun­ appoint a committee to wait on the
the county court and secure the coun­
son, from Roseburg.
dred and twenty. .
ty’s co-operation in the purchase of
Besides a liberal sprinkling of Lions
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Wernich drove from the Coquille den, there were the tract.
Mr. Wilson also spoke of the need
out to Oakland Tuesday.
— delegations of Rotary guests from the of signs along the highways notifying
Marshfield and Myrtle Point clubs
the traveling public that they are
and all were enthusiastic over the suc­
now entering the myrtle wood section.
cess of the party.
The myrtle is one feature that_all
There were no set speeches at the
This
banquet but several guests made brief tourists are interested in.
brought a statement from Elton
anyone could ask.
responses to their introduction.
Schroeder that the Myrtle Point
During the dance which followed
Only one member of the party went
Chamber of Commerce had under
fishing—and he had no luck—butrthe the dinner. Mrs. Ola Bosworth sang
consideration the establishment of
hours passed all too quickly in these and Lanta Bosworth distinguished
such sign boards at the Coos Bay
happy surroundings.
himself as a raconteur. Charles Kash
highway junction with 101 and on the
Guests for the occasion were Mrs. sang several solos.
Umpqua highway.
Fred Slagle, of Pasadena, Mrs. H. N.
Elmer Russell, a former president
Butler, of Medford, Mrs. Jane Wil­ Dr. Bunch Family To .
of the Coijnty C. of C., welcomed the
liams Mrs. Marvin Lyons, Leroy Make An Eastern Trip
delegates.
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Richards, Don Kramer and George
Dr and Mrs. J. R. Bunch, Phyllis
The next meeting of the county
Folsom. Members of the club and
# ttte- WHie -lto-
at member« present were; Ind Jfth. wilt leave ttrts-comwìif-Sun- dambtec.W
Could Easily Have
Been More Serious
Marjorie Knight
I nstalled As President
Ball Games
On June 1
Rotary Club's
Ladies Night
Justamere Club And Guests Enjoy
Sunday Picnic At Fuhrman Home
picnic at the ranch home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. J. Fuhrman on Sixes river
last Sunday. The ladies of this club
have long been famous for their
Rev. M. M. Short, accompanied by
cuisine and last Sunday's collation en­
Mrs. Short and their daughter, ar­ hanced that faihé. f
rived here last Saturday from Albany
wh,XelfeB!* was a slight drizzle for
weather did not
New Pastor For Nazarene
Church Comes From Albany
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Borner left Sunday for home and the
other two ladies left today for Med­
ford. They are sisters.
Mrs. Slagle, who left Coquille about
twenty-five years ago, says that Mrs.
Effie Miller is bookkeeper for a jew­
elry concern in Burbank, a suburb
of Los Angeles, and that she and Mrs.
Ula Leech have an apartment in that
place.
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located in Albany for the past three
years and came originally from Texas.
He has been in the ministry for 30
years. They are occupying the house
at 208 South Moulton street.
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the get-together.
Although there are yet a thousand
and one things which Mr. Fuhrman
expects to do in bringing his ranch to
the perfection of his desires, the house
which was remodeled last year is as
comfortable and comodious as any­
one could desire and its setting, on
the hill above the river, three miles
from the Coast highway, is all that
wood. Mrs. Leona Bryant, Messrs, and
Meedames C. J. Fuhrman, E. E. John­
son, J. A. Lamb, F. L. Greenough,
M. O. Hawkins, J. L. Smith, Bert Fol­
som, H. W. Pierce R. A. Wemioteand
H. A. Young, Messrs. L. H. Hazard
and O. C. Sanford.
The next picnic of the club is to be
held at Mrs. Bryant’s logging camp
on Eden Ridge an Sunday, June 15.
trip They will go first to Detroit to
pick up a new car and then to visit an
uncle of Mrs. Bunch’s in Ohio. From
there they will go to Washington, D.
C., and return home by the southern
route to Los Angeles, without any
definite itinerary set as to how they
will cross the continent coming home
except that it will be through the
southland
Coquille was represented at the
North Bend session by J. E. Norton
and H. A. Young.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fitzpatrick left
Monday for tttoir home in Newport.
They came down Saturday evening
and spent Sunday with her sister,
Mrs. C. A. Machon