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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1942)
/ INDIPINDINT VOL XXXVIII. NEWSPAPER NO. 1. Takes Own Life With A Revolver Last Sunday Dead Spots Found in Civilian Defense Speakers Tell Alarm Signal Tests What To Do In Aid Raid The blackout signal tests at 2:00 p. m.' Sunday afternoon demonstrated that in Coquille at least the fire siren was not altogether satisfactory The alarm was not heard out by Aie high school, yet it was heard farther north at the oounty farm. Ned C. Kelley, who lives on Cunningham creek,'be tween those two points, could not hear the sound, but at Guy Kelley’s place, 400 feet distant, it was heard. The screech was heard at the Yoak um place, four miles out on the Marshfield highway, at the Olson place across the valley on Fat Elk, and at a point four miles out on the Myrtle Point highway. The Caquilte Police Reserves were used as observers being stationed at' various points out from Coquille on the highways. It is reported that the federal gov ernment has plans for establishing alarm signals at points, regularly spaced, so that the whole coast can be notified in case of an air raid. Gerald Eaton, employed as a ranch hand by A. M. Willey at his dairy on Sanford Heights for the past three months, committed suicide in the Willey home last Sunday after noon by shooting himself in the right temple, using a revolver belonging to Mr. WiUay and which the latter did i ow tiie young man had *ver He kept it in his desk. After passnig through Eaton’s head, the bullet pierced the double wall into the kitchen, hit the ceiling a glancing, blow and made a deep dent in the bathroom door. Eaton, who was past 27 years of age, iiad been despondent tor some months, and various utterances gave the impression that he contemplated self-destruction. Marital difficulties, he having been separated from his wife for several months; and the prospects of being drafted into the army, were th* thing; that seemed to have preyed upon his mind. Funeral services were conducted by Dan W. Brown, of the Christian church, at Schroeder Bros. Mortuaries On another page will be found the here at two o’clock Tuesday after annual report of City Teasurer noon, Interment being in the Masonic Caughell submitted to the city council cemetary. rr f Monday evening. He was born in Douglas, Wyoming, In a supplemental report 'submitted Nov. 10, 1914, but spent most-of his to Mayor Milne and the council mem boyhood life in Lincoln, Nebraska, ( bers, which the charter provisions do coming to this section a couple of ( not require publishing, Mr. Caughell years ago. , shows that the city’s general fund He is survived by Ms mother, Mrs. $5,742.95 and the water fund C. L. Knupp, of Coquille; his wife, gained ' $3,100.10 in IMI over what the es Thelma Eaton, and two children, timated receipts and expenditures Leonard G., aged three, and Jams* were figured when the MM1 budget Michael, 18 months, of Marshfield; was prepared. a sister, Mrs. Walter Meier, in Lin Total estimated receipts in the gen coln, Nebraska, and a half brother eral fund were $6,130. but actual re here. x ceipts were $24,459.74. a gain of $18,320.74. Over expenditure of the budget and other items of expense re duced this to the $5,742.95. On the water fund the estimated receipts for, 1841 totalled $22,905, W$M sm the * actual rmeiptajgmountod to $28010.20, making the $7,000 29 Total Defense Bond sales at the gain. Included in the over expendi local post office, up to close of busi ture of the budget items was th* $5,- ness last night, Jan. 11, amounted to 572.77 spent for iron pipe and con $27,318.7$. Sales started in May, nections which are still in stock. with sales of $2,250.00 but jumped in December with the declaration of war to $7,218.75, and this far in Jan uary to nearly $4,000.00. City Gains $8,843 In Two Funds Lost Year Postoffice Defense Bonds Sales $7,318.75 Dec. Basketball Schedule For The Week Two Coquille Boys In Navy Trainload Coos Conf North Bend g Coquille Tom Thrift and Ray Kirkendall, Marshfield ........ 1 son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kirkendall Myrtle Point ,. ......... 1 <rf Coquille, were two local boys who were aboard the train which left The Coos county basketball con- Portland last Sunday evening at 9:45 ference schedule calls for the North for San Diego. There were 182 young Bend Bulldogs to meet the Red Devils men on the train, all enlisted in the on the gym floor here tomorrow (Fri Navy the preceding week, whose des day) evening, and the Myrtle Point tination after their three weeks’ train Bobcats to play the Pirates at Marsh ing priod at San Diego is not known field. nor would it be published if it were Next Tuesday evening will find the known. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thrift Red Devils playing at Marshfield, drove up to Portland Sunday to bid while Myrtle Point and North Bend Tommy farewell. have open dates. ‘ I 19 i« 1 a 11 t Basement Floor To Be Poured Mair Shelley, superintedent in charge of construction at the Com munity Building, says that the crew is starting today preparations for pouring the concrete floor of the basement, and that the sanding of the present floor on top of which a dance floor will be laid, will be done In a few days The top floor will not be laid until there is heat in the build ing and the windows have been set in. County C. of C. To Meet January 26 Generous Guys Feed Hungry Horde At Rotary As a result of the recent attendance contest of the Rotary club which ended December 21st, Harriman’s Hungry Horde were given a free feed yester day at the hotel by Greenoughs’ Gen erous Guys. The drawing for Defense Stamps was postponed for one week. One of Standard Oil Co.’s educa tional films was shown. C. C. Farr, of Marshfield, a former Coquille Lion, but who now belongs to the Rotary club in that city, was present as a guest, as was also Ro tarian Dal M. King, of Myrtle Point. "■ **'■"’ 1 ’ -..... ..... Jim Agostino From Alaska Here Visiting Home Folks The Coo« County Chamber of Com merce will hold itk first 1942 session, an i ft will also be the first with J. E. Norton acting as president, st the North Bend Hotel next Monday eve ning. Jan. 28, a dinner meeting. Any one interpsted in the commercial de velopment of Coos county is welcome James Agostino, who left Coquille twelve years ago and has been liv ing In Anchorage Alaska, during that time, came in Monday evening, sur prising his sister, Mrs. ^Margarita Brodie, and mother, Mrs. Finley. He received a month’s leave of absence and dwe*not know whether he will be to duty in the _army or'will The report current in Coquille after the Jap bombing at Pearl Harbor, tha young Paul Walker was among the missing there was incorrect When Mrs. C. D. Walker, who lives in San Francisco, heard the report she wrote to the Navy department and received word that be was alive and uninjured 193« What everyone should know be weigh from 100 pounds to two tons, forehand, in case of an air bomb- and are filled with metal thrown with I bardment, is: lie down on the floor, terrific force When the explosion ground, or wherever you happen to takes place. Fragmentation bombs weigh about be if the bomb is a large one—which would explode—and to put out an 100 pounds and are dangerous for a They travel incendiary bomb, a small stick-like distance of 200 feet. affair which are magnesium bombs, about 5000 feet a second, have twice douse with the finest possible spray the velocity of a high-powdered riflj, of water. Should it come through tha and contain about 4500 pieces of roof, the householder is 'admised to shrapnel or bullets. That is why it have a bucket of sand handy, dump is important to lie down before the the sand on the floor and with some bomb explodes. In the summer the greatest danger implentent push the bomb onto the sand before beginning the spraying. to this section from incendiary Do not ever pour water on it. Th*, bombs would be the forests. An air effect would be just the same as plane carrier, with a load of about pouring cold waler into hot grease 40 Jap planes, if undisturbed could —the sparks would shoot all over the set fires over an area six miles square. The magnesium incendiary bomb, room. These were the principal instruc whose canter is composed of thermite, tions given by speakers to CoquiUd creates a heat of about 4500 degrees, audiences last week and contained so and burns for about 45 seconds. This much the Same matter that this report ignites the outer magnesium covering will cover both talks.. and bums for 45 minutes at a 3500 One of them was made by Chas. degree temperature. These bombs Briggs, who recently returned from are used principally at night to set attending the F. B. I. school of in fires which will disclose the target to struction at Eugene, before the Lions the demolition and fragmentation club last Thursday noon, and the bombers. other was made by Chester R. Clark, The spraying with a fine stream of of Marshfield, at the public meeting water of the incendiary bombs ac in the high school gym last Friday celerates the burning so that it goes evening. out in two minutes. The speakers stressed the fact that In England they make a practice the United States can profit by the of having bathtubs full of water, with errors first made in England, where a stirrujj pump and 30 feet of hose the inhabitants learned protection handy, so that the incendiary bomba against bombing the hard way. may be quickly sprayed. It was learned there that air raid if bombs plunge to earth and bury shelters in the bottoms of buildings themselves don’t be inquisitive, said caused more deaths than did the one ot the speakers; stay away from bombs directly for hundreds if not it and notify an air warden. thousands were killed when buildings Instructions as to what to do should collapsed where the people might mustard gas be used in an attack have had a chance had they been were: “Stop breetMng; hold your on tiie higher floors. breath, do not fill your lungs; walk Flying glass has also been a source into the wind or to higher ground.” of many deaths during a bomb raid. The reporter at the Lions club com Mr. Clark declared if bombing pliments Mr. Briggs on making a most comes to the U. S. we can take it and interesting talk, Thursday noon. will give it back with compound in- L Mr. Clark was introduced at the achutists,” he said, “our duck and deer hunters can take care of them.” There are four kinds of bombs— the demolition, the fragmentation, the air grenade and the incendiary bomb. Bombs swell at least 50 per cent be fore exploding. Demolition bombs The C, H. S. band, under the di rection of Mr. Withnall, furnished splendid musical entertainment prior to the talk. It is an organization of which any community could be proud and their playing reflects credit on the instructor. Port Sells Tug To U. S. Army Riches In Southwest Oregon Hills . O. L. Wood, president of the Co quille Chamber of Commerce, and who is also a member of the Port of Bandon commission, reported at the chamber luncheon Tuesday noon, that the U. S. Army was taking the port tug and the two barges to Alaska. The port commission met Sunday with Major Dunn, ahd gave him a price of $175,000 for the tug and $60,000 for the two barges. An army engineer waa here a few weeks ago appraising the tug and asked a rental as well as a sale price. When Major Dunn came he stated the army was not interested in rent ing, but that the tug and barges “would be taken or bought.” The commission thought it would be bet ter to sell as the boats could not be in as good condition after war as they are now. The army expects to take them to Alaska and will retain Capt. Guchee and the mate now on the tug. The port's bonded debt is now around $80,000 and whether it will be possible to secure another tug or do without one at the river’» mouth during the war is something that has not Jjeen decided. Practically no vessels are coming in to Bandon now, the Smith plant here and the Moore mill at Bandon shipping byrail from Coquille. Whether this sale of the tug^and cessation of water shipments l^om Bandon will have any effect railroad terminal rates the C valley now enjoys was something that gave the chamber of commerce members concern but the opinion was that the interstate commerce commission would not allow the S. P. to increase freight rates to and iwn tho vaUqy during theem®rgeney. Les Child made a talk at the Cham ber of Commerce session Tuesday noon on minerals and mining in southwestern Oregon, in the course of which he said that he had been in all the counties west of the Mississip pi in which minerals are found and that southwestern Oregon, which he has covered so thoroughly the past few years, on honeback and on foot, was the richest in minerals that he had ever seen. The minerals are here in the greatest abundance, he said, but too many so-called miners do not recognize th* various kinds of minerals. there are, and, too. it has been difficult to interest men with money in the development. He said that since the O. P. M. ex ercised priority rights over chrome stock piles that none of that mineral had been sold for the past three months but that the government was now wilting to contract for chrome in 1000 ton lots. , He said another thing that had in terfered with mining in Coos and Curry counties was the chiselers, met} who stake out a claim without regard to whether it is privately or publicly owned, take a few samples and show to some one, asking for a grub stake in order to do the assess ment wok and then walk off and leave it. Such happenings have disgusted a lot of people and the impression has been created that there are no min eral properties in Oregon worth de veloping. But the idea is all wrong and he envisages within 25 years that there will smelters and ore reduction plants on this coast that will surpass in volume of output anything now existing in the H r ’ . z. Those of us who do not like this foolish idea of day-light saving, by setting the clocks ahead one hour the ninth of next month, will take it without uttering one word of com- aint, because of the emergency, but makes the idea no Joins Marines i Max Morgan, who. has lived in the Clifford Kern home for the pest sev eral years, has enlisted in the Marine Corps and he left last Saturday for Portland, from which point he was to leave Monday for the Marine base at San Diego for a period of training. Minute Ladies1 Soliciting For Defense Pledges IWO T0M| Pl HR By Can Here Yesterday That they are “making a the flag” will be one solicited to amount each mo« of defense bonds “minute men” wk the campaign to get ever y oa t of U. S. 35.000JM» people w regular incomes to sign oa tad line. •No coercion is to be use« solicitors, the sigmag to be voluntary, and the imoui be left entirely to the ; Th« pledge may be n> time if the signer finds able to keep up the program, aad records are confidential and may be disclosed to anyone. In Coquille the “minute men" ladies, the Woman's duh, by ks president. Mrs Julius Ruble, agreed to do the soliciting for In fact all the Cora county zations, as secured by County Chair man Clarence H. Coe. are lady’s. In Powers it is also the W dub, Mrs. Minnie King, in Myrtle Point the Wow Mrs. C. S. Lehmanowsky, in Bandon the indies an Lumber A Sawmill Workers, A. F- of L, local No. 354. and the Eagles Ladies Auxiliary of Marshfield has contracted to handle the adidtatam for the entire Coos Bay are« field. North Bend, Empire ton. East« territory, The co« day la to be completed as sible A selfish angle U Valin Yaw wn by the “minute Indie«" purchase of bonds starts the ing up of a reserve fund for war years, and that the deemable at any time. ------ K_______ Valley View Bas Wrecked Friday Join the Chamber of Commerce For Funds Ready For Labor Temple Mecums Again Make News Mark and wornen, from Ball, of Chiloquin hove been in a lot of trouble since they sideswiped the Virgil Arrell cor near the Union Oil Co. tank here. They were with failure to stop at the an, accident, after being Myrtle Point. Ball, who was fined $50 by Justice 1 and the two Mecums were fined $10 each for being drunk by the J. P. Then yesterday Gone Mr non waa driving a car while his licenee is re voked and when taken before Mr. Barton this morning asked for a day before pleading. The wo incarcerated in the city jail One of them ha. a . >dly face, received when her I shoved through the car« her common-law husband^ ip Myrtle Point. » ; .. . —- Confirmation Class also been a handicap to the develop ment of southwesten Oregon’s min that Bishop B. D eral resourves which its richness Coquille on Palm would so amply justify. for confirmation at copal church, and that Cards which left Palm Springs, classes for adults, i California, January 14 from Mrs. Geo. ning, will be held Chaney to friends here, tell of their evening until the Bi for boys good times there, but not of the date of their B. C. Jeffrey