The Coquille Valley sentinel., September 18, 1941, Image 1

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The Coquille Valley Sentinel
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INDEPENDENT
VOL. XXXVII.
NEWSPAPER
NO. 36.
$460,500 Has Been
Allotted To Coos
Eledric Co-Op.
Hunters Leave For
Eastern Oregon
Front Elevation of the New Coquille
Community Building From Archited Sketch
B. P. W. Reception
And Installation
Felled A Tree
Across His Car
Intentionally
Coquille has the reputation, wher­
Honoring the new teachers and bus­
ever sporting events such as hunting,
inesswomen in thq/community, the
fishing or golfing take place, of turn­
Business and Professional Women’s
ing out a bigger attendance than any
club held its annual reception Mon­
The director* of the Coo* Electric town of its size. On the Rogue, when
Justice of the Peace Clarence Bar­
day evening at the Guild hall. Past
Co-operative, R. E. A., met in the steelheads are strikihg, there are
presidents of the club, who included ton stated this morning that the case
local office Monday evening this more Ccquille fishermen there than
.ecna G. Bryant, Ruth Beyers, Inez in which he bound Howard Frank
week, discussed the extensions and there are from any other single com­
Chase, Vtyla Newton, Georgia Rich- Brown, of Camas Valley, over to the
business of the Co-dp and heard re­ munity.
•tnond and Brrtha Smith planned the g- apd jury last evening was the most
ports of. federal appropriation* for
And Den Gillespie says that when
party.,
unique in his experience. Brown is
the extensions contemplated.
the game warden looked over their
“Home on the Range’ ’and “Love’s accused of damaging an auto with
Dick Connarn, manager, reported camp in eastern Oregon, during the
Old Sweet Song,’’ were played by intent to defraud the insurance com­
that K. P. Brown, of DesMotnes, 1 deer season, and found IT mule deer ;
'
Inez Rover with Ruth Beyers, pro­ pany.
Iowa, had been approved as project 'hanging up, he wanted to know if
Last
July
12
he
placed
his
car at
gram
chairman,
leading
group
sing­
1
Etili-' j*I ill
engineer for the *C” line extension ■ the whole town had moved over there
ing.
Clara Bosserman.
president, the foot of two trees near Priwers, a
from the “A”and “B’ lines down to I One of ,the first parties to start
fir and a maple, which grew at an
welpmed the guests.
and including Port Orford, and that ' for eastern Oregon for the dew season
• X feature of the evening was the angle, forming a V. He then went
• the Brown organization will soon send 1 which opens Sunday, left yesterday
installation of new officers. Leona G. across to a tree, 120 feet tall, on a
a resident engineer in here to lay mormi* It consisted of' Mr. and
Bryant, junior past president of the small Knoll, undercut it and felled it
out the “C” line. The Brown com­ j Mrs. Don Gillespie, Drue Cunning*
Oregon Federation of Business and *o that it would fall between the V
pany ha* supervised the building of ham, Lee Hand, C. V. Smith, Ralph
Professional Women’s clubs, was the of the trees, which it did, completely
Above is a drawing by Bob Harbi­
Their
18,000 miles of R. E. A. lines. — — ‘ Taylor and Bert Taylor.
installing officer. Mrs. Bryant intro­ mashing hi* car. His bond was placed
The “C" line will add 152 miles of equipment consisted of five cars and son, showing the front elevation of
duced each of the new officers, who at $1000, and he Indicated to the jus­
electric line to the present Coos Elec­ ! two trailers and they took 1500 pounds the new Community Building as it
are: Clara Bosserman, president; Na- tice that he would plead guilty in cir­
will appear when the building is com­
tric Co-op. system, and for which of groceries along.
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omi Crews, first vice president; Ida cuit court.
$224,000 was allotted by the R. E. A. I They make their camp on Hay pleted, with the entrance to the au­
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Qerding, second vice president; Dale
Last Friday Justice Barton fined
in Washington on July 24.
Ed T. Stelle, at the Chamber of Qaver, secretary, and Florence Bar- three'"inen whom the state police
This ’ creek, 50. mile* north and west of ditorium in the center, the library at
brings the total allottment for the Burns, and expect to be gone a week. the northeast corner and the junior Commerce session in the hotel Tues- ton, treasurer. After giving each of picked up just inside Coquille as they
room at „the southeast.
Coo« Co-op. up to $460,500.
day noon, told how the Marshfield the new officers a hri^r outline of were returning from the fair. All
Good progress is being made by Chamber
i
The plans contemplate the doubling
of Commerce turfed' the her duties and instruction* concem- were from the Bay. Harry Clinton
the crew setting the forms for the gridiron on Golden Field at an ex- ¡ng them, Mrs. Bryant presented to Baker was given 30 days and fined
in size and capacity of the sub-station
foundation and by the latter part of pense of less than $100, paid by the ir
at Norway which will not only take
. each an arm bouquet of gladioli. Add- $100 for driving while drunk. Hi*
next week they should be ready to chamber and later repaid by the j
care of the three projects already ap­
companions, Wm. Brownfield and
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pour concrete.
nrnvirie a grass
»rate ■
proved, and built, but of a further
school district. It will provide
Robert Deveraux, were fined $10 and
Better weather the latter part of
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At thi* time of year, of course, ev­ field for this year and in a year or
extension from Pot Orford to the
served five days in the county jail
the week brought the attendance up erything depends on the weather,
Califonia state line, which when it
f two the new field adjoining the high
for being drunk on a public highway.
at the Coos County Fair at Myrtle but Supt. Marc Shelley believes he
is approved, will add 100 miles more 1
> school will be ready for use.
Nathan Vance pleaded guilty, after
Point and Saturday brought to a can get it under cover before the
tp the 340 already approved.
The preliminary estimate there was
being picked up out in Douglas coun­
close one of the most successful fairs steady downpour starts.
To ascertain whether the extension
around $2500, until it was learned
ty on a warrant from Justice Barton’s
yet held by the Association.
In an interesting talk to the Lions court, to driving a car without ■an
df the line south of Port Orford is
that the field had already been
The races and entertainment fea-
club Thursday noon. Sergeant Irving
drained.
desired tv the people of central apd<ture9
ked the
and
operators license and to having no
■nuthorn
lirrv Aniintv
moot,
southern ( Curry
county, o a mncc
mass meet
­ j
Boys interested in having a turf Larson, head of the state police de­ tail light, He was fined $5 on each
bleachers to capacity and the large
k field assisted largely in the work; the partment in this district, gave reveal­ count.
ing has been called, to be held in the
number of horses present made the
seed was secured at a low coat; a ing statistics concerning traffie fatali­
Chetco Grange Hall next Tuesday
Harris Martindale was released on
racing feature the best ever.
ties and their eguses.
evening. Sept. 23, and anyone inter­
$250 bonds after being bound over to
The city council was in session but plumber improvised a cheap sprink­
The exhibits of cattle, poultry and
According to the figures given by the grand jury on the change of ob­
ling system, a special rate was made
ested in the project down that way is
agricultural
products
completely a few moments Monday evening, ad-
Sergeant Larson, it is apparent that taining money under false pretenses.
by
the
water
company,
an<
this
fall
Urged to be present at that time.
fillled the space allotted to them and journing quickly so that the budget
the Marshfield gridiron will be a gras* j the novice is the most careful driver. The allegation is that he wrote one
Mr. Connarn states that those who
were a splendid representation of committee could continue its labors
; Statistics show that 2.1 per cent of
plot.
already have or will be served with
or more checks without having funds
the resources of Coos county. The in preparing the budget for the first
drivers involved in accident* have had in the bank to cover them.
Supt.
B.
W.
Dunn
was
named
by
gtectridty when the A, B and C lines
six
months
of
1942.
According
to
a
community and grange exhibits were
President Stewart a* chairman of a less than a year's driving experience.
are completed now total 1092, but
ail very attractive and those of the law enacted by the last legislature all
committee to try and work out a Statistic* on those with one to five
■tore are coming in and signing up al)
Myrtle Point Garden club and the municipalities and tax-levying bodies
similar plan for turfing the west side years' experience jump in accidents
the time.
Myrtle Point Woman's club were es­ will hereafter provide for a fiscal
of
Athletic Park here where the field to 20.1 per cent, while 77.8 per cent of
instead of a calendar year schedule
pecially *o.
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hr to be laid out this year. Work on the drivers involved in acident* have
and
all
of
theM
must
'.duke-another
One of the feature*'of the Mer­
it will not start until after this sea­ driven for more than Six years.
chants building was a continuous budget prior to July 1, 1942.
Wendell M. Sandali, who ha* been
Sixty per cent of the acidents occur
son’s schedule is finished. The seed
movie-talkie of the sugar industry of
At the short council session a per­ and fertilizer ha* been offered free in rural districts, and most of these with the Mt. State* Power Co. for a
eastern Oregon.
mit, which had been approved by the of cost by J. L. Smith and Don Gil­ are non-colliaion. Thi* rate is at­ little over four years, the past two
C. C. Farr has taken personal su­
Another interesting exhibit was fire chief and building inspector, was
as cashier in the local office here, ha*
lespie and if the drainage system tributed to the high speed at which
perviaion of the Farr & Elwood store that of the .Caracul sheep from a granted the Mt. State* Power Co.
resigned his position and on Sunday
does not cost too much the local field cars are driven in sparsely populated
in Marshfield and when the deal now fur farm in Pomeray, Washington, of to make the alterations in the room
will leave for Eugene, where he will
area*.
November
and
December
bear
should have a grass covering by next
in process of making is completed, which Mrs. Leona Bryant purchased ft has been occupying.
have
charge of the office, for hi*
the
dubious
label
of
highest
death
rate
I
fall.
- tee will have acquired from the C. J. six ewe*, two with very young lambs,
uncle, of Nordling Parts, a business
months,
with
Feruary
and
March
run
­
Additional special police officers,
Then with the Community' Build­
Elwood estate all of the interest in and a rant for her Rock Creek ranch. recommended “by Chjef English —
ning them a close second. Contribut­ similar to the Earl Littrell Supply Co.
ing project completed, the service
the company..
’
Lloyd Gregg and Donald Chase— and other clubs can adopt a no more ing factor* to this condition are bad here.
He and Mrs. Farr expect to move
Mrs. Sandali, who is filling in on
weather and shorter days, which ne­
were confirmed by the council.
worthy project than providing the
to Marshfield, where he has rented
the Coquille teaching staff thi* year,
The council voted io accept ths field with flood light* for night cessitate more night driving. Tijpre
the Elwood home, but he hopes to
will remain here until the Christmas
were
356
lives
ended
in
automobile
street committee’s recommendation games. That can be done, too.
•ell hie home here before making the
holidays.
accidents in Oregon during 1940.
that the city pay the cost of the re­
O. L, Wood had floor and base­
change.
Miss Carol Young, who has been
According ' to Sergeant Larson,
A delegation from Gold Beach re­ pair improvement of Fourth street—
ment plans of the Community Build­ many accidents are due to poor judg­ with the company, in the Coquille
Don Farr, who has been associated
cently were able to »ecure more of a above the $150 which was deposited
ing, the front and south side eleva­ ment of distance. The drive* fails to office, for the past »even years, has
with his father in the store here,
promise from ‘he State Highway by property owners that day 'vith the
tions, as prepared by Bob Harbison judge the speed of an oncoming car been advanced to the cashier posi­
will be manager of the Coquille store.
Commission than Coo* county has recorder—out of the road funds which
and Marc Shelley, which were viewed and the car he is passing. To pick out tion.
Alton Elwood, who has already
.
been able to secure in the matter of the county pays the cities from tax
with interest by those present.
served a year in the army, as one
Mr*.
Sara
Margaret
Anderson en­
drivers
in
thi*
class
ia
difficult
for
the
speeding up the Cooquille-Marshfleld collections. Engineer Gearhart's es­
of the selectees inducted last year,
A suggestion was made and ap­ driving examiner. The only solution tered on her duties at assistant in the
section of No. 101. The commission timate was that the improvement
has six months yet to serve under the
promised that it would take up the would cost $300, leaving $150 for the proved by the chamber directors, for the reduction of traffic accidents, office this morning.
six months’ extension act.
that it would be a splendid traffic said Sergeant Larson, is for each
matter of making the highway 80 feet city's general street fund to pay.
control if a figure, similar to the driver to exercise extreme caution
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wide through the business section
Some of the dirt which went into
Attending Two-Day Clergy »1H there at its October 9 meeting and the
one* on Second street near the Wash­ and give the utmost consideration to
the fill there, east of the Henry street ington building, was secured and
Conference At Eugene
others on the road.
Curry county people are hoping that
bridge, in the swale, was from that placed in the middle of the highway
Rev Chas. M. Guilbert, Coquille, the improvement will be started this
excavated for the new Community near the high school, particularly
Bev. Geo. R. Thmey, Marshfield, and winter.
There were ten present for the
while students are going to or from
Much of the road south of Gold Building basement.
> Richard B. Bartlett, assistant to Mr.
police school in the city hall Tues­
school.
Guilbert at Bandon, left this morn­ Beach has been resurfaced this sum­
day evening and it is expectd there
ing to attend the two-day Episcopal mer and driving over it Sunday thi*
will be more of the special officers
Clergy conference—today and Friday. writer’s opinion was that 101 in Ore­
The Coquille Fraternal Order of appointed next Tuesday and every
The conference is for the Diocese of gon is just as fine a highway a* it
Eagles, which now numbers about 350 Tuesday evening.
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Oregon—the
western _ part
of the state is in California. Nor does it suffer
membership,
has taken a lease on the
Harold Kolkhorst made a fine talk
Bob Harris suffered acid burn* at
Lafe Compton, of the Coquille Ho­
35 are expected to at- ' in comparison with the Grants Pass-
—and about
i
the City Cleaners establishment on tel and who is president of the Ore­ ground floor and basement of the on F. B. I. subjects, which he learned
MacMahon building, corner of Front at Washington, D. C., recently and
tend.
L ! Crescent City section of the Redwoods Front street last Saturday that he did i
gon Hotelmen’s Association, left last
One feature of
or the
tne sessions will
win bcj
De Highway.
and Hall streets, and it is now being other speakers are to address future
the service of ordination at St. Mary’s j One bottleneck has been eliminated not think amounted to much until the Saturday for San Francisco to attend remodeled for a lodge hall for the meetings. Every three months, F. B.
acid began to eat deeper. He even the annual convention of the Pacific
church in Eugene, Friday morning, in the highway at the Bay with the played golf on Sunday and has con­
Eagles and Auxiliary.
I. representatives will be present at
i
Coast Hotelkeepers association. He
when a deacon from each Portland, concreting of the approaches to the tinued at work,
The Riveria is already out of there, Marshfield with motion pictures, in­
t with several of expected to return Saturday of this
Tillamook and Seaside, will be ad- Coal Bank slough bridge and the his fingers cov
only the restaurant being left. The formation and demonstf^tions for the
with medicated week.
abandonment of that narrow wooden stalls.
vanced to the priesthood.
basement will be used as a social hall. special officers a* well as the police
affair in front of the Evans plant.
This evening the Marshfield Eagles forces of the county.
- C. G. Caughell this week received a
Bill Pook has
rt of the
and drill team will pay the Coquille
letter from the colonel at Fort Lewis
huge army forces Which have been
Eagles a visit and a fine social eve­
Ines Rockwell, Former Coos
Hospital that 'his son, Ralph J. ning is being antfeipated.
having a practice combat in Louisi­
Caughell', was now out of danger and
County
Clerk A Visito#
ana. Being in the Signal Corps Bill
that his complete recovery from the
Mrs. Inez Rockwell, who was Coo*
has
been
engaged
in
stringing
about
Elsewhere in Ahis issue appears
injury he received in an automobile
county’s popular county clerk a
Mr. and Mrs. Iris Elrod are leaving 50 miles of communication wire. But wreck a couple of weeks ago is now
the opening announcement of the Co­
couple of decades ago, was a Coquille
he
still
thinks
it
too
hot
for
comfort
quille Bootery, exclusive ladies shoe on a month’» vacation trip next week
assured.
visitor Tuesday evening and yester­
in
the
south.
•tore, which Mrs. David _B. Biegger on which they will Teach the Atlantic
day mprning, spending the evening
hsul hoped to have ready for opening coast at New York.-where Iris has
Mrs. Goidie Brewster, of McKinley, s George P. Laird suffered the loss as guest of her friend, Mrs. Jane Wil­
' M. L. Daniels on Monday*thi* week
• month ago in the W. O. W. building reservations for the World SeriesT
will be in the Coquille Hospital for of the upper joint of thé middliMin- liam*. Mr*. Rockwell has been spend­
room on First Street between Miss games Snd for the Louis-Nova fight. finished moving from th* house on almost a month a's the.result of her ger bn hi* left hand arid a portion
ing the second half of her vacation
ilh Coulter
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—r «W-J May * Shop «nd the NdWeF BSTbeP
8R^’-ia®i*r<»
idfc-
M
teha a Chevrole
arrived and tlie opening ha* been and another in Portland on Wednes­ house recently finished above his night. She suffered a fractured pel­ others cut and mashed at his camp enteen years ad| and since the pass­
office and shop on the Myrtle Point
*et for Saturday of this week.
vis. Ovid Hfyant, a passenger in the early Tuesday morning.
day. .Mrs Elrod win join him there
ing of her husband seven year* ago
highway, this side of the golf course.
He was Shoowing how the binder is has been in the auditing department
car, escaped with scratches and
Thursday and they will take the
applied to hold the log* on a truck of the Multnomah County Welfare
Streamliner for Chicago, and will
bruise*.
" Bob Holzgang, superintendent of
when the chain was movpd from the Commission in Portland.
reach New York in about 61 hours
the Southwestern Motor* shop and
Mrs Edith Culin and her daughter, other side of the load ami hi* hand*
fmm Portland. They plan on being
garage, returned last evening from his
Alice, former Coquille residents, left were caught. The middle finger sev-<
home by Oct. 16.
twelve day vacation trip to San Fran­
’Attention is called to the eight*
recently for their home in Oakland, erance was as clean a* though done
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The 1942 Chevrolet cars will be
cisco and Los Angeles.
column spead in this issue by which
with
a
knife.
Dr.
Richmond,
who
_ on display _
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,W.
E.
Marrion
came
tn
from
Nevada,
Calif.,
after
a
ten
day
visit
here
with
in Southwesem Motors
Henninger’s Market is advertising a
showrooms here on Friday and Sat- i where he is engaged in mining, last
Ed Lorenz and Dan Brown left Mrs Culip’s sister. Mrs. V. R. Wilson, dressed the wounds, says that he be­
special price sale which is in effect
• urday of next week, the opening of (Sunday and left for there again the Tuesday on their annual trip to east­ and their many other friends in Co­ lieves all the finger* can be saved ex­
Friday and Saturday of this week.
cept
the
one.
y
quille.
ern Oregon for the mule tail deer.
the fall season.
next day.
rootball Turf
Field Is Talked
Fair Attendance
Was Average
Police Sergeant •
Talks To Lions
Short Council
Session Monday
W. M. Sandali
Goes To Eugene
C. C. Fdrrs WiH
Move To Boy
Gold Beach Gets
A Highway Promise
Police School
Started Tuesday
Eagles Lease
McMahon Building
•The Bootery To
Open Saturday
1942 Chevs Here
Next Week End
Iris Elrod To
See World Series
Geo. Laird Loses
Finger End