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24-Hour Vigil For
Planes Kept
On City Hall Roof
Terry's Name
On Lions' Cup
At the high school assembly last
Thursday morning, 15 members of
the football squad and the manager,
Verne Eldridge, were awarded the
coveted “C” for their gridiron activi
ties the past season. Those who re
ceived letters were eleven seniors—
Wayne Terry, Crouch, Butler, Hol
brook, Bob Martin, Whereat, Thorn
men, Winnegar, Gilbert, Hurlbutt,
Newton—and three juniors—Tom
Martin, Red Irvin, Wally Moore—be
sides the manager.
That noon thirty members of the
Red Devils squad and Coach “Spike”
Leslie were guests at the Lions club
luncheon at which time Wayne Terry
was awarded the Lions cup for being
the most valuable player on the 1041
team. The decision, was made by the
team, the high school faculty and
the Lions committee. “Spud” Crouch
ran a close second to Terry for the
honor of having his name engraved
on the cup.
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Jim Dixon, line coach at O. S. C.,
and Everett Smith, former Coquille
High star, were also guests at the
luncheon. Mr. Dixon talked foot
ball in a general way and urged the
football players to attend some in
stitution of higher learning next year,
but because of the so-called “Ather
ton purity code,” he was very careful
to mention all the schools in the state
where football is played and not
stress Oregon State College any more
than he did the rest—Oregon, Wil-
lamette, Portland University, Ash-
land Normal and others.
A moving picture, in slow gear,
was shown as an added feature of
the meeting, the session lasting near
ly two hours.
Occasionally Dr. T. De La Rhue,
captain in charge of the observation
squad which maintains a 24-hour
vigilance in the outlook post on
top of the city hall, gets “burned up.”
A couple of times he has had word
from district headquarters at Rose
burg that one or two planes had
passed over Coquille which had not
been reported out there
It is not strange, howevey, that
this has happened.
Visibility • bas
been extremely poor the past week,
with the rain and clouds as dense as
they have been, and automobiles on
the street, beside the hum of machin-
ety, has matte f rnwpoMTBIe fo'heari
these high-flying planes.
The crew, under the doctor’s di
rection, work in pairs, for a two-hour
period to the pair, and their job the
first of this week was not one to be
envied.
The lookout now has a roof over
the station and is boarded up from
the city hall’s roof for about three feet,
but there is a two foot opening be-
ween those walls and the station’s
Cop where the wind and rain have
beaten in unmercifully at times and
there is always water on the floor.
The doctor is planning on having
narrow glass pieces set in at each
of the four corners of the station, on
either side of the uprights for the
roof support, where the watchers
may be a little more protected from
the elements than they are now, but
without impairing audibility.
In the basement of the city hall
an office is being fitted up as a police
reserves headquarters. “Pat” Hol
land is in charge <rf the offiee and it is
here the reserves assemble before go
ing on duty and receiving their in
structions.
Since the cancellation of the nightly
This office relieves the congestion
blackout of last week—if and when
in the police office on the first floor.
there is a blackout alarm in the fu
ture it will be the real thing—the
civilian defense regulations now re
quire that lights may be left on all
night, at home, store, office, plant,
etc., provided there is some one
The resignation of Sherman Morris, always on hand to turn off the lights
city police officer who has been ap should the alarm be sounded.
pointed on the state police force and
This applies also to Christmas dec
is temporarily located in Coquille, orations. Just because the U. S is
was accepted by the city council at at war is no reason to forego the
Monday evening’s session at which usual Christmas lighting and cause
all councilmen were present before the town tc look like a morgue. Let's
the early adjournment.
be cheerful and joyous at the Yule-
Stanley Curtis is temporarily fill tide season, but with the thought al-
ing the vacancy and Earl Reilly has way in mind that neon signs, Christ
also been named on the force.
mas lighting, etc., must be turm»d out
Another vacancy is expected at any instantly should there come an alarrh.
time, the calling of Harold Kolkhorat.
R. L. Stewart has been making
to duty with the F.B.I. having been arrangements with individuals for
indicated in word received here. turning out the electrically lighted
Mayor Milne named Jack Arnold to stars in the streets decorations should
succeed Harold on the force when he the need arise.
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leaves.
The council voted to refund $10 to
C. G. Garroutte, whose application
for a club license had been denied
by the liquor commision.
The following applications to the
The Coquille Branch of the Coos
liquor commission for beer licenses
County
Chapter of the American Red
were approved by the council, the
fees to the city for the nine totalling Cross will hold an organization
meeting on Monday evening, Decem-
845:
jn st jameg> Parish House at
Orville D Weekly, A package store
8:0o p. m. The purpose of the meet
at Coquille Auto Park
Wm. O Morris, B package and B ing is to perfect plans for the par
ticipation of local organizations in
retail store at the Rainbow.
V. L. Cornelius, B retail and B the emergency work "of the Red Cross,
package store at the bowling alley. made necessary by the outbreak of
W. H. Fortier at Bill’s Place and war.
The Rev. Charles M Guilbert,
S. H. Donsted at the Pastime, each a
chairman
of the Coquille Branch,
B retail and B package store.
At a special meeting of the coun urges all persons interested in the
cil last week the mayor's proclama work of the Red Cross, especially
tion for the duration of the emer those who took part in its work
gency was approved and firemen during the last war, to attend this
were instructed to be on duty day meeting.
and night.
To handle the immense amount of
clerical work in connection with the
Civilian Defense and police reserves
the council voted to employ H. H.
Holland for the position at a salary
The Coquille Hotel dining room
of $5 per day.
and coffee shop will be closed from
noon today until Monday, Lafe Comp
ton announced Tuesday noon. It is
an annual custom of the hotel, giving
the kitchen and serving crew a vaca
tion, and the time is utilized in
The city council Monday evening painting and redecorating the rooms,
voiced an appeal for-more-volunteers and ntftamg sych repairs as are
needed.
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Trees Gap Still
Be Lighted
Short Couitc
Session Monday
Red Cross To Meet
Monday Evening
Coffee Shop To Be
Closed Two Weeks
More Police
Reserves Needed
Coquille Civilian
Defense Notes
Organizing For
Coos Agricultural
Conservation
The mqgor's (Akte Of police
of Civilian Defense units <4 all
cities in Coos county wiU meet in
the Coquille city hall Sunday after
noon to discuss and decide upon just
what they must do in handling the
various phases of protection during
the Rational emergency, how far their
powers go, and many things which
are not definitely covered by the
orders from state headquarters. Chief
of Police English states.
He confirms what has been pre
viously reported, that neon lights
and inside lights must be turned off
at 5! 00 p. m. daily unless there is
always some one available who will
turn them off within ten minutes in
case of an air raid alarm.
. The police who have been per
forming this service at certain points
are too busy now to continue this
service.
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Mr. English emphasizes the state
ment in another item that more men
are needed for the special police re- i
serves. The requirements now are'1
««•elected to the position at tbs
county convention, held in Coquille
on Decemer 13, J. D. Carl of Arago,
Will serve as chairman of the Ooun-
Agricultural Conservation committee
and presidept of the Conservation As
sociation, which includes early 1766
farmers and ranchers of this county,
according to George Jenkins, county
Agricultural agent, who serves ¿he
association as secretary .
< Abe Grossen dr Larson Inlet, was
re-elected vice-chairman for IMS and
Dennis McCarthy of Marshfield will
serve as the third member of the com
mittee replacing Ben Mahaffy of Cooa
River. Roy Shull of Myrtle Point and
serve as alternates and second atter-
nate members of the committee, to
serve in the event of sickness or in
ability of any of the regular mem
bers to attend meetings.
To report on the activities of the
County Agricultural Conservation
Association and to participate in a
discussion of the program on a state
and national basis. J. D. Carl, chair
man, and Abe Grossen, vice-chairman
of the Coos county committee attend
ed a state-wide conference for county
committeemen, held in Corvallis from
December 15 through yesterday.
George Jenkins, secretary of the
county association, also attended the
statewide conference prior to at
tending the annual meeting for atem-
bers of the staff of the School at
Agriculture, the experimental sta
tions of the state, and representatives
ber 17th through the 20th, Mrs. Doro
thy E. Bishop, home demonstration
agent, and Amos Bierly, assistant
county agent, also are attending the
state-wide conference for extension
workers
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Cow Ditches
Safeway Track *
Accident Cases At
Coquille Hospital
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for about 70 men at night and with
only 80 so far signed up, and some
of them not always available^ it is
making too long shifts for those who
have volunteered.
There is a bulletin board in the
haUway at the city hall, where all
civilian defense notices and regula
tions are posted, and everyone should
keep himself informed.
Building Use
Offered The Army *
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Geo. A. Ulett, community building
¡committee chairman, reported at the
Chamber of Commerce session Tues
day noon that the carpenters had that
morning finished shingling the roof.
When the building is finially finished
it will be shake-covered on the front
and shingled on the sides and back,
460,006 shingles being used on the job.
Mr. Ulett also reported that after
tion with several business
hud written CuJ Hazeltine,
offering use of the building to the
army contingents who may be quar
tered in this section, and advising the
colonel how much was still needed to
complete the building so that it could
be used for army quarters. Whether
army funds can be used to finish it,
will not be known until the colonel
is heard from, -with probably an in
spection visit here by some officer
in his command.
A Safeway truck, with trailer at
tached, was ditched 100 yards beyond
the John Martin place on the Marsh
field highway, about six oclock Mon
day morning. A cow, belonging to
C. E. Martindale, which started
across the highway just as the truck
got there, was the cause of the acci
dent. The front wheels of the truck
went over the grade and down about
three feet below the grade level.
Previous to the accident the ani
mal had been tramping around Mr.
Martin’s front yard lawn.
Mr. Martindale was summoned. He
County Treasurer Stauff received
put the cow out of its misery and re
moved the carcass and the South a very sizeable check from the state
western Motors wrecker pulled the highway department this week. It
was for $34,687.03, being the second
truck back on to the highway.
half of the annual payment to the
county for its share of gasoline tax
and auto license fees.
This makes a total of $68,470.71
this year, a check for $11,658.99 hav
ing been received last January and
Coquille schools close tomorrow af
$23,12460 in July.
ternoon for a two weeks’ Christmas
vacation, the return to studies being
set for January $..
At 10:20 Friday (tomorrow) morn
ing, the high school assembly will
be held under the direction of Har-
This week’s rains, which have
old Withnell, music director. Ac-
companied by the gee club, the as- again caused the North Fork to flow
backward because of the swollen
sembly will sing Christmas carols.
The Christmas programs in the Middle and South Fork streams.
several rooms will be held the last have brought another flood to the
15 minutes before school closes in the Coquille valley, although the water
was not as high, by two feet or more,
afternoon.
this morning as it was a few weeks
ago. The Fishtrap-Arago road at
Real Estate Deal» For
the end of the bridge was not under
Coquille Property Reported
water this morning as it was then,
The following real estate deals but the river is still rising.
were completed by George E. Oerd-
A welcome change was the warmer
ing’s agency during the week. Mr. temperature this morning, the past
and Mrs. Melvin M. Douglas of the few days have been unsually cold for
Coos Bay district purchased a five- a Coos county rainy period.
acre tract with house located half
way between Coquille and Marsh
field, from Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kohler,
apartment house owner in Marshfield.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. McBain, em
ployees of Smith Wood-Products Co.,
Foi the past month Mrs. Mabel
purchased the .home located in Burns Wernich has been handling the social
Acres, from Mr. and Mrs. Louis M and dubs department of the Sentin-
Sehadwita, of Ktamaht Falls.
McBains hqye been renting the
Thwe
Coos Co. Receives
Highway Check
Schools To Be
Closed Two Weeks
High Water In
Valley Again
Mrs. Mabel Werhich
Is Society Editor
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Two victims of accidental shotings
were brought to the Coquille Hos
pital the past few days.
Last evening Clifford Dow, 31, son
of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Dow of Fair
view, who is in the navy and was here
on a furlough, was out riding with
his wife. In some way, not known,
the gun they had with them in the
car was discharged, the bullet strik-
ing him in the left foot.
Raymond Norris, son of Mrs. Tom
Benham at Fairview, was hit by a
bullet from the rifle he had laid down
while he and another man were
looking over cables on the hill out
there in Fairview valley last Friday.
Whether the wind blowing the brush
caused the trigger to be hit or not is
the gun w»i diaeharg-
ed, the bullet striking him in the
left side and coming out on his left
back shoulder, without touching a
bone. He was in he hospital but a
1CW
few UÖJ3.
days.
, Mr». Bertha Wilson, 61, , of Coquille;
was
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admitted last Wednesday
Wedn
when
it was found she was suffering from a
fractured vertebra, received when she
fell Monday evening at the Townsend
meeting.
More Christmas
Carolers Needed
While it is hoped to have 100 par
ticipants in the community sing,
sponsored by thé Rotary club, and to
be held Christmas eve, as yet only
35 have registered for the sing, and
Chairman Donald Farr urges those
who will take part to let him know
at once.
Every church, lodge, club, profes
sional group or other organization is
invited to have members join in the
sipg, as are individuals without such
affiliation.
The group, whatever its size, will
meet at 10:30 p. m. next Wednesday
evening at the corner of Second and
Elliott, on the court house lawn,
where the community sing will take
place. Following that each organi
zation unit will be directed to some
point on the city’s outskirts from
which point they will carol their way
back to the center of town, and be
tween 11:30 and 12 o’clock, the Ro
tary club will serve refreshments in
the hotel dining room.
Rev. Orval L. Kerr, song leader,
requests that all participants be fa
miliar with “Come AU Ye Faithful,”
“Joy to the World” and “Silent
Night”
Masons To Install
Next Tuesday
Installation of the new officers of
Chadwick Lodge, No. M, A. F. It
A. M., will take place in Masonic
Hall next Tuesday evening, Doc. 23
at a closed meeting I of the lodge. Re-
R. E. Jeub
tiring Worshipful Master
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will install his successor, Don Mc
Cune, who will install the other mem
bers of the official family in their re
spective offices.
Christmas Party
At Rotary
Considerable merriment was occa
sioned at the noon luncheon of the
Rotary Club at the hotel yesterday
by the attempts at original verse with
the distribution of Christmas gifts to
all the members.
Afterwards the
gifts were assembled to be given to
needy children.
Don Farr repqrted that there had
been a change in the place where re
freshments were to be served after
the carol singing Christnrihs eve and
that the singers would assemble at
the flagtasff corner of court house
square at 10:30 and after the sing
ing go to the banquet room in the
hotel instead of to the Southwestern
Motors salesroom.
Mr. Brazil, of the Bonneville Pow
er administration, was present as a
guest.
The Christmas eve meeting of the
club has been abandoned.
C.ofC. Secretary,
Committees Named
By New President
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At an unusually targe attendance
of the Chamber of Commerce in the
hotel Tuesday nopn President O. t.
Wood announced the appointment,
which was confirmed, of Ta Ilan t
Greenough as secretary for the com
ing year to succeed Mrs. J. E. Norton,
who after several years of most satis
factory conduct of that office had
notified the directors that she could
serve no longer in that capacity. .At
the suggestion of George Ulett she
was given a rising vote of thanks to
which she responnded by expressing
her appreciation of the—courtesies
shown her.
The salary of the office will con
tinue to be the same as tn the past,
$25 a month and 83 per month—the
amount which has been paid for col
lecting dues.
President Wood listed as major pro
jects for chamber activities the com
ing year an annual celebration, a
fish derby and a county automobile
show.
Other suggestions he made were
that the chamber adopt a set of by
laws; that a monthly financial report
be submitted by the treasurer; that
five chamber members who are not
on the board of directors be invited
to ait in at each weekly luncheon and
that a special booster group which
will get the city all the publicity pos
sible at ail times be named.
Due to the dining room being cosed
for two weeks the next directors'
meeting will be held Jan. 5.
In appointing the folowing com
mittees for the coming year, Presi
dent Wood gave as his opinion that
active work by the committees would
make for a more successful Chamber
of Commerce year, and asked that all
of those named be active in their
work for advancement of Coquille’s
best interests:
Fish and Game—Gillespie, Stevens,
Ulett, Gould.
Membership - Entertainment
Slater, Compton, Milne, Gillespie.
Retail Trade —Anderson, Biegger,
Ctaver.
Civic Affairs—Dunn, Jeub, Barrow,
Publicity—Ctaver, Jenkins, Young.
Transportation—Pur key, Cunning
ham, Harbison.
Industry — Jeub, Jenkins, Berg,
De La Rhue.
Legislation—Norton, Young, Ulett.
Finance-Budget — Rankin, Milne,
Stelle.
Roads-Highways —Compton, Nor
ton, Lamb, Milne, Berg.
Agriculture — Jenkins,
Smith,
Gould.
Christmas—Biegger, Ctaver,
derson.
Mineral Resources—De La Rhue,
Child, Rankin.
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County C. of C.—Lamb, Compton,
Stewart, Jenkins.
Saturday Night Opening — Milne,
Young, Compton, Claver
River Improvement—Stewart, Ran
kin, Ulett, Cunningham..
Celebration—Stelle, Barrow, Har
bison, Slater, Ulett, Stewart, Dunn.
Night Street
Parking Forbidden
Chief of Police Lewis English asks
the Sentinel to call attention to the
state’s Civilian Defense rule which
forbids a car being parked on the
street, either ih_ the residential or
the business district, after 12 o’clock
midnight until daylight.
The reason for this rule is that a
parked car could easily cause a seri
ous accident should the blackout
signal be sounded. Officers and
others so permitted may of necessity
be operating a dark car during a
blackout and the possibility of colli
sion or possibly fatal accident is one
the rule is designed to prevent
Forty-two Below
At Fairbanks
year’s sub-
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six-hour shift, due to the number re
quired each night and Mayor Milne
said a larger number would permit
cutting down the length of time each
would haye to be on duty at a stretch.
On thiC coast especially there is
a great deal required for civilian de
fense which can be done by those
not subject to the military draft.
Mrs. George Jenkins and little
traffic hazard, cause 1 the car driven
by Tom Dimmiek of Ophir to skid daughter and Mrs. L. H. Hazard re
while traveling on the highway south turned last Thursday from their sev
of Bandon last Saturday. Mrs. Dim- eral days trip to Portland
mick Ading in the car, in an effort
to protect their two year old son,
was badly shaken up and bruised.
There was slight damage to their
may call her, phone 136J, or the Sen
tinel, 58..
One urgent request is made by the
Sentinel, that all items be turned in
at the earliest possible moment, for in
the rush of Wednesday and Thursday,
some items may be overlooked which
would not be if they were given in
earlier in the
. Thank you, and
you.
The regular Christmas exchange of
the local carprtiters union is. sched
uled to be held In I. O. O. F. hall
next Monday evening, starting with
g potluck dinner at seven o’clock.
Families and house guests of members
are invited to attend, everyone being
expected to bring a gift for the ex-
grees below zero and don t know how«
much longer the dre«lge will run.
Have had a real good season up here
so can stand a little cold weather.
Not much snow, only about 12 inches.
Judge Dal M. King has announced
a motion day in circuit court for next
Tuesday, Dec. 23.
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