The Coquille Valley sentinel., November 06, 1941, Image 1

illey Sentinel
INDEPENDENT
VOL. XXXVII.
NO. 43
Two Killed In Motor
Accidents-Douglas
Donsted At Eugene
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"Button, Button,
Have You
Got A Button?"
Style is quite an issue,
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Though styles just come and go;
In the passing of Douglas Donsted Still, here is something different.
at Eugene last Sunday morning, Co­
It’s the best style that I know.
quille loses one of its cleanest-cut,
To be in style right now.
upright and most popular young men,
To be “Up There” with the best;
a boy whom everyone who knew him
Is really not so tough.
liked, respected and admired,
Just wear 9 button on your vest.
His death was due to an accident
Row
tills is a special button,,
when his car was hit by a Southern
Of a very special brand;
Pacific freight engine on the Jeffer-
son street railroad crossing ( in the It proves that you have joined,'
The “Community Building Band.'
university city. His car was dragged
by the engine for more than a block This building is right, here,
and he died an hour later at thè
/\nd this is where we live;
K. «4» »>»4 4^1 GUI
«Hit thi'IT
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Douglas had gone out for the game
on Saturday and with him, at the time
of the accident, was Miss Esther Eck-
lund, of Eugene, who was seriously
but not fatally injured.
Funeral services were conducted
at the Gano Funeral Home at 2:00
p. m., yesterday. Rev. Chas. M. Guil-
bert officiating.
Pall bearers were
members of his fraternity, Pi Kappa
Alpha, at Eugene, being Lowell Wag­
goner, Kennett Lawrence. Gene Bon-
ickaen, Gerald Saint, Orville Weekly
and Orville Clinton Interment was
in the Masonic cemetery.
Douglas Warren Donsted was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Donsted
who live on South Coulter street. He
was bom in Fresno, Calif., Aug. 18,
1921, being two months and 14 days
past 20 years of age.
The family came to Coquille in
1931. He attended school here and
graduated from Coquille high school
in May, 1938. The first year fol­
lowing he attended Fresno State Col­
le* in California, and then trans­
ferred to the University of Oregon
which he attended two years. He ex­
pected to fit himself for dentistry and
since June this year has been em­
ployed at the Smith Wood-Products
plant, intending to go to the dental
school in Portland next fall
Besides his panmts he is survived
by a «Mer, Betty Lou.
Mrs. Margaret Donovan
, Mrs. Margaret Donovan, 75-year
old resident of Coaledo, died at the
McAuley Hospital in Marshfield nt
four o’clock last Sunday morning.
She was taken there after being
struck by the car of Walter L. Addi­
son, of Coquille, as she attempted to
the highway at Coaledo Sat-
evening.
A coroner's jury at Marshfield,
which investigated the acident, ren­
dered a verdict Tuesday evening that
Mr. Addison was not negligent nor
criminally responsible for the death
of Mrs. Donovan.
t
The driver pf a car following Addi­
son’s swori that the death car was
not travelling more than 45 miles
put hour, and Mr. Addison’s testi­
mony was that when the car hit Mrs.
Donovan it was not traveling in ex­
cess of ten miles per hour. He said
Mrs. Donovan took three or four
steps slowly, as if going to stop, and
that she then started to run across
the highway.
State Officer Todd B. Knapp testi­
fied that his testing of the brakes
on the Addison car showed it to be
conditioned according to the code,
that it could be stopped in less than
the distance required at various
Mrs. Donovan is survived by two
sons, George and John, and a daugh­
ter, Mrs. Wm. Kinnunen, all of Coale­
do. Her husband, Dennis Donovan,
passed away six years ago. She is
also survived by three sisters, Mrs.
T. Worthington, of San Francisco;
Mrs. Wm. Reichert, of Empire, and
Mrs. Susan Schultz, of Ukiah, Calif.
Sentinel Apologizes To_
Ra.v Vaughan About Salary
In order to escape payment of an
additional $12 a month to his salary
ds head of the tax department. which
Ray Vaughan says he will collect
from the Sentinel, we hasten to say
that "the budget for his position, as
set by the committee fast week, was
■A Sentinel Want Adv
Brought About This Sale
The sale qf the Marc Shelley home
on Knowlton avenue, reported in thd
Sentinel last week, to Floyd Jackson,
was the direct result of an advertise­
ment in the Sentinel columns, which
was placed by Geo. E. Oerding and
through whose agency the deal was
made. Sentinel want advs. pay.
Tr -ar »rnr blurt“ for ■ airitui;—
And now’s the time to "give.”
For here's a point of interest,
That perhaps you didn't know;
In order to finish our building,
We’ve get to have more dough.
And before we get it finished,
We all should do our bit;
So the sooner you flash that button,
’
The less times you'll be “hit.”
Just get yourself a button,
And pin it where it shows;
For it has a special meaning.
That everybody knows.
MLK.
The above was written by the pres­
ident of the Bachelor Girls club,
which has undertaken the sale of the
buttons as one of their projects.
Former C. H. S.
Boys In Football
JessezBarton, who is with the 249
Coast Artillery, Battery B, at Fort
Stevens on the Columbia, and who
has been acting sergeant for a short
time past, has just received his war­
rant as a Sergeant.
He and Kenneth LaBraneh are two
valley boys who played on the 249th
football tram last Saturday which
held the Oregon Frosh to a 0-0 score.
The soldiers' 'would have won had
nut'a ball carrier fallen down with
no one near him.
Another former Coquille High boy
who is making godd at college, in a
football way, is Everett Smith. He
made so good a showing with O. S.
C. against Idaho last Saturday that
Coach Stiner intends using him
against U, C. L. A. at Corvallis this
coming Saturday. Everett is a soph­
omore at the college.
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NEWSPAPER
COQUILLE, COO» COUNTY. OUGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER C. IMI.
Coos Electric Co-op
Buys The Pori
Orford Power Plant
Christmas Opening
Set For Nov. 28
Events To Be Held
On Armistice
Day Holiday
State To Repair
3 Coquille Blocks
4
In the absence of President R. L.
With Mayor Milne and four coun­
Stewart and Vice President O. L.
cilmen present a short session of the
Wood who was in Seattle, Treasurer
city council was held Monday eve­
L. L. Bonney presided at the Cham­
ning, at which time Recorder Leslie
The Public Utilities Commission ber of Commerce session in the hotel
Next Tuesday Armistice Day, will reported that the State Highway
of the State of Oregon held a public Tuesday noon.
be observed in Coquille as usual as Commission had signed an agreement
hearing at the Legion Hall in Port
“Andy” Anderson reported that the a holiday, with places of business with the city, as if has with other
Orford, Curry county, and authorized chamber’s Retail Merchants commit­ closed.
cities of the state, to keep certain
the sale of the Port Orford Light tee, after contacting local business
The big event of the day will be streets in repair which are not high­
and Power Company to Coos Electric men, had decided to sponsor a Christ­ the final Red Devils scheduled foot­ way streets. The agreement cites
Cooperative, Inc., an R. E. A. co­ inas opening for Coquille on Friday, ball game, the Myrtle Point Bobcats that in Coquille it is the block east
operative at Coquille, Oregon. This Nov. 28. The store windows will be furnishing the opposition. The Bob­ from the highway on
d to the
meeting was held under the direction unveiled that evening, the band is cats are one of the few undefeated city hall, thence sou
two blocks
of T. O. Russell, chief engineer, and to be asked to-furnish music for the high -school teams in the state and to the Myrtle Point high ay at Front,
Joe Kennedy, chief accountant.
occasion, and It is expected to have won their first game with C. H. S. a The reason given is tha these three
Frank Seal, oivner of the plant, inJ the holiday street '’decorations in few weeks ago. The game will be blocks receive a greater ise, by traf-
cheated a desire to dispose of his, place soon after Thanksgiving, Nov.’ played at Athletic Park here, start- fic leaving the highway, then other
jBisesrtoJo. the cooperative, which 4 SK __
_ ing at twu .u':
nuevtsf ana ttisv tnat tne npavy log
under the management of R. J. Con-'
The Coquille American Legion post hauling trucks tend to break down
The committee expects to award
nam. The agreement for the pur-< prizes for the best decorated win­ will have its annual breakfast in the the pavement.
chase of this property was entered dows and expects to have the business Legion Hume at 1:30 o’clock Tuesday
The street commisioner was in­
into on September 10, 1941, between section better lighted through Decem­ morning and the Myrtle Point Post structed to notify the property own­
Coos Electric Cooperative and the ber than it was last year.
has been invited to attend the break­ ers to repair walks in front of their
Port Orford Light and Power Com­
If was requested that business houses fast.
places, the need for repairs on the
pany,
l>any.
, rei
Other attractions for the holiday following streets being contained in
"-»main open evenings the week
The Coos Electric Cooperative wilB fa®
before Christmas, starting Saturday include afternoon matinees at both a report by D.E. Cruckshank: East aide
serve Port Orford and the territory evening. Whether his store is open the Roxy and Liberty theatres.
of Heath between Eleventh and
adjacent thereto, and it is its inten­ Christmas Eve will be up to the in-
The North Bend Bulldogs play the Twelfth; west side of Heath from
tion to serve as far South as the Cali­ dividual merchant.
Pirates at Marshfield the same after­ Eleventh to east of Holly; west side
fornia state line. Special mention was
A committee, consisting of J. L. noon and Reedsport High plays the of Coulter; Ninth street, Heath to
given R. M. Knox, county agent for Smith and B. W. Dunn was appointed Tigers at Bandon.
Beach, and the cross walk at Ninth
Curry county; F. L. Adams, Ophir; .to prepare a Coquille valley products
and- Beach.
W. L. Crissey, Mrs. L. D. Becker; Ed display to be taken by the Willamette
Geo. E. Oerding’s request from the
Ransom
and
Charles Warneck, University contingent which is leav­
Chamber of Commerce that a zoning
Brookings; Herb Payne and Dan ing early in December to play a foot­
ordinance restricting the kind of
Crockett, Harbor, for their cooperte ball game in Honolulu. After the dis­
buildings that can be erected outside
tion in the organization of the terri­ play has been on exhibition for ten
Those fortunate enough to have the fire district, was referred to the
tory south of Port Orford.
days an invitation will be extended heard Salom Rizk speak at the Co­ city attorney to prepare such an or­
Representing the cooperative were newspapermen and civic leaders in quille High School Gym last eve­ dinance. It will also contain a pro­
Mr. Connam and J. Arthur Berg, Co­ Honolulu to attend a dinner and par­ ning left the hall with a new con­ vision as to how far back from the
quille; Ivan C. Laird, president of take of the Oregon products which ception of what it means to be an sidewalk houses must be built.
the board of directors, Sitkum; Mrs. the University crowd will take over. American.
A restaurant license was granted
Louise C. Scofield, of Myrtle Point,
After an opening selection by the R. O. Garroutte for his club room at
Geo. Oerding reported that he had
and L. B. Jennings, Remote, directors. attended the city council session with high school band. Pprincipal and Ro- the south end of Taylor on Front
.On October 16, 1941, Coos Electric the chamber’s request that a zoning high school band, Principal and Ro­ street.
Cooperative made application for ordinance for the construction of tary President Oslka introduced the
The $500 in bills for material for
Bonneville power, and no doubt fa­ buildings outside tile fire zone be en­ speaker to an audience that entirely the sewer to the new Community
vorable consideration will be given acted. and that the council had agreed filled the main floor and bleacher Building were referred to th« Build­
this area by Dr. Rayburn and his to go as far as possible in restricting seats of the gymnasium.
ing committee’s treasurer, the coun­
staff all of whom have rendered the building of shacks or undesirable
Speaking in a tone of voice that cil voting that those expenses should
valuable assistance in the past in the buildings.
could hardly be heard in the rear of be paid out of the $6,000 voted as the
development of this cooperative.
The annual meeting of the cham­ the hall until the public address sys­ city’s contribution to the building
Approval for the inclusion of this ber will be held in a few weeks and tem was connected up, Salotn Rizk fund.
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no
district was given by- Edgar F.
■preliminary President Stewart refuted his assertion Ituft.hw ¡Was
w
Tha complaint Marc Shelley mad«
Shaw associate engineer R. E. AZ,
named Lafe Compton, Don Gil­ orator by holding bis audience I spell- verbally that there was trespassing
Washington, D. C., and George L-zwis, lespie and Alien Young to nominate bound until you could have heard a on his property near the water reser­
R. E. A. Applications and Loans Di­ candidates for the officers of presi­ pin drop at any time during his talk voir on Rink creek and that boys
vision. Approval for the purchase dent, vice president, treasurer and except when bursts of laugter re­ shooting up there recently had en­
of the property was given by Harry directors.
sponded to his rare bits of humor or dangered himself and property, was
Slattery, ‘ R. E. A. Administrator,
to his clever caricatures of Mussolini refererd to the city attorney to in­
Washington, D. C., on July 21, 1941,
and Hitler.
vestigate and report on the agree­
at which time an allotment of $224,-
Starting with the story of his ter­ ment made between the city and Mr.
000 was made.
rific struggles 'for a bare existence in Shelley some years ago. It is rather
far away Syria, this Syrian-born an involved case and a locked gate
American dwelt briefly on his life in the fence which the city built to
The two successful bidders out of
there until proof was established that keep cows out of the watershed has
six who submitted figures for carry­ he was an American citizen and he been more or less a bone of conten­
ing rural routes mail yesterday were was allowed to come to America tion since. There is a county road
William Clovis Church and Victor where he found he could work and right of way, over the hill to Fair-
Coquille’s participation in the Pettengill and their contracts will
get an education and later could vote view also involved in the matter
Civilian Defense program-last Fri­ run to next June 30.
and have a voice in government equal Naturally this county road, even
day evening showed almost total co­
The calling for bids at this time with other citizens.
though the road does not go through,
operation in the first attempt to black was due to the necessity of splitting
His description of the wonderful cannot be barricaded in anyway.
out the city, as may be a necessiy if the Norway - McKinley - Fairview
opportunities, liberties and priv-
war with Japan becomes a reality. route, because of the large increase
leges that he found in this country,
“Almost” total co-operation ac­ in mail for that territory in the past
whch seem commonplace to us was
curately describes the Coquille black­ year or two.
very impressive.
out for practically all houses, stores,
Mr. Church will be the carrier on
Mr. Risk’s talk was sponsored by
and street lights were extinguished the route toward Norway, thence
the local Rotary club in cooperation
The October 30 luncheon meeting
during the ten-minute period. There over Shuck mountain and out to Mc­
with the editors of the Reader’s Di­ of the Lions Club was honored by
have been two or three instances re­ Kinley and back by the same route.
gest, which is sponsoring him nation­
ported of car drivers who utterly dis­
Mr. Petting! 11 will have the new ally, and he met with the club at having as guest speaker, Ed Sempert,
the president of the Oregon State
regarded the request to pull up to the Fairview route, going up the North
dinner at the hotel at 6:30 with a Pharmaceutical
Association
and
curb and extinguish their lights. Fork as far as the Ira Deadmond
capacity crowd in the dining room. 'member of the Myrtle Point Lions
Probably they regarded this test as place, and returning by the same
club. Mr. Sempert had just returned
child's play, but it won’t be play route.
from a trip to the southern states,
if a foreign nation attempts to do
where he visited Mexico and New Or­
what the Nazis have frequently done
leans. While in Mexico City, Mr.
to London.
There are always ob­
structionists.
Dates and hours for yarious schools Sempert was a guest of the Lions
Due to the fog and clouds no planes
for adults the coming week are an­ Club there and presented them with a
inyrtlewood block and gavel as a
flew over that night but the signal
nounced by Mrs. Jack Dolan.
Miller Grubb, potentate of Hillah
was given anyway, and the observers
Next Monday at 4:00 p. m. a class of gift from the Coos County Lions
atop the city hall could follow the Shrine Temple at Ashland; Jerry Je­ 15 ladies will meet at the high school Clubs. Many high-lights of the trip
movement of those detailed to see rome, a past potentate, of Medford, to attend the driving instruction were told and it was especially in­
that all lights were out, by the suc­ and Paul A. Rynning, of Medford, school, conducted by a traffic man teresting to hear about other clubs
cessive black windows replacing were honored with a dinner at the from the secretary of state’s office. and the way they conduct their meet­
Coquille Hotel Tuesday evening.
lighted ones.
At the city hall next Wednesday ings.
A more serious question of the day,
Coquille’s compliance with the re­ There were 18 Shriners present and evening, Nov. 12, at 7:30, a Red
the
purpose
of
the
get-together
was
namely
taxes, was discussed by
per
quest warn nearly one hundred
Cross first aid class will be conducted
to discuss the coming Shrine cere­ by two young ladles. About 30 are Charles Forrest, who recently visited
cent. ..
.
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monial at Ashland and ascertain how expected to attend. These two young the Tax Clinic. Mr. Forrest gave an
many from Coos county would be ladies will also soon be conducting interesting and sound outline on new
City Collects $252 In
candidates at that time. At least one classes at ‘Myrtle Point and Bandon, methods of keeping tax records. He
Fines During October
Coquille man is known to be intend­ and at Fairview where 12 Home Ec concluded his talk with the bope that
Recorder Leslie reported this morn­ ing to “hang onto the rope.”
club members are awaiting instruc­ soon the out-moded system now in
use would be replaced by a more
ing that fines collected in hia office
tion.
during October totalled $252 and that Telephone Bldg. Nearly Done
At the Coquille Legion Hall every modern and accurate method.
No meeting is complete _ withoul
teta than $3 was »pent for meals.
The handsome new home of the evening this .week at 7:30,-Harold
Arrested by the city .police the past West Coast Tefephone Co. In Co- Berensten, of San Franc!neo, will some comedy and this was ably
nished by Florabelle Boob«r who en-
quille is expected to be finished next conduct an Instructors’ Course in Red
Hundreds Hear
Salom Rizk
Two Rural Carriers
Will Replace One
Coquille Blackout
A Success
Intelligence Test
Main Requirement
A. Friedman, chief machinist mate
in the Npvy, whose headquarters for
the next two months will be in
Marshfield while the campaign to
secure enlistments in the U. S. Navy
is on, was a caller at the Sentinel
office Tuesday morning. He is seek­
ing contact with all young men who
may be interested in the opportuni­
ties the navy offers, and emphasized
the point that the education a young
man may have or does not have, is
not a consideration with the Navy.
His ability to pass the intelligence
test and the physical examination are
what count
The Navy’s recruiting station at
Marshfield is now open, and names
of those who may sign the qpupons
below the Navy’s advertisements now
appearing in the Sentinel will be
sent to that office as well as tc the
Portlahd office The coupons should
be left at this office.
Pro-America
Meet Tomorrow
Mrs. R. A. Wemich, Coos County
chairman of the Pro-Amer icah or­
ganization of Republican Women,
announces that Mrs. Roy -Bishop,
president of the Oregon chapters, will
Mrs. Bishop, who is touring Jhe state
The meeting will be held at the for previous sentences, suspended
city hall tomorrow afternoon at 2
during good behavior.
oelock.
E. J. Pierson forfeited $6 bail post­
■ -
ed and Ellis Barker $10, following
October Fees in Clerk’s Office
their arrest on Sunday.
' Fees paid in to the county clerk’s
office during October totalled $1,-
McKinley Grange H. E. Club are
042.85, seggregated 1 in the various sponsoring a bazaar, program and
items as follows: Recording, $504.05; other entertainment on Saturday,
circuit court, $349; probate and coun­ Nov. 15, 7:30 o’clock, at the McKin­
ty court, $83; marriage licenses, $84; ley Hall. McKinley, Oregon. Lunch
miscellaneous, $42.80.
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will be served. The public is invited.
Sempert Guest
Speaker For Lions
Hillah Temple
Various Classes
Being Taughf
Potentate Here
McGougan, Cpoe county manager of
the company, says that it will prob­
ably be the first of February before
the new and larger equipment is re­
ceived and installed.
Mrs. George Potter came in Tues­
day evening, after a day on the Bay,
from her home in Pasco, Wash., to
complete the deal for the sale of her
house at the east end of Knowlton
avenue, to Dr. Gerald E. Stark. She
will bi here for two or three days.
tending*includes: Vic Adams, uoroiny
Burgess and Francis Waterbury, of
North Bend; Roy A. Roberts, of
Marshfield; Eve Strong, of Bandon;
Roy A. Miller, Lee Powell and Ed­
gar Rickard, of Myrtle Point; Mil­
dred Goodwin, Laura M. Green« W.
L. Harrison Cherie Mae Hartwell
Clara Johnson, Ruby Kirkendall,
Clark Lovel, Frances Lovell, Hazel
McKibben,
Rita Milligan, Clara
Pierce and Wilda Mae Van Meter, all
of Coquille.
Repainting Street Signa ■
Sherman Morris, recently named
by Mayor Milne as street commission­
er for Coquille, and who also con-
tinues his duties as police officer, says
that the street name signs around
town were taken down Saturday so
that they could be repainted. They
will be back on the standards at in­
tersections when the repainting is
completed.
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