The Coquille Valley sentinel., July 30, 1942, Image 1

VOL. XXXVIII.
NO. M.
Krome Corporation
Is Building Two
Plants In Valley
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Real development of the black sand
resources of western Coos county,
north of the Coquille river and east
from Whiskey Run In the Seven
Devils country, are now assured, and
it is expected that by the first of the
year the Krome Corporation plants
will be in f«U* opération, handling
two. thousand tons a day of the
chrome-bearing sand.
Sincqpthe Doc Fitzgerald fiasco of
several years ago, more or leas con­
sideration by various parties have
aroused hope that the minerals in
those black sands would some time
be- recovered and the huge deposits
would be a source of income to the
coünty. Doc was interested only in
the gold the sands contain.
The Krome Corporation, starting
now as a war defense operation, is in­
terested in the extraction of chrome
from the sands and their tests, ex­
tending over a period of time, have
proved that there is a substantial ton­
nage, which will require years to
produce, in the black sand area of
several thousand acres which the
company owns and has under lease.
With the start of grading operations
on the former Jack Mast ranch ad­
joining the Yoakam ranch this way
from Beaver Hill Junction, specula­
tion has been rife as to how much
of a development is anticipated.
From a company official the Sen­
tinel secured some information as to
what is contemplated, but it is not
the corporation’s policy to brass-band
their operation, rather letting it show
as the work progresses, what is to be
dune.
The plant at the Beaver Hill Junc­
tion site will be a 100 by 75 or 80
feet building where the clean-up
process is carried on. The primary
concentrating plant where the sands
will be first handled will be in the
sand deposits. It was detentaned ÜuÎt
the extraction of the chrome would
be easier handled in two separated
operations than to have it all done in
one plant, the separator plant being
located adjacent to the Southern Pa­
cific tracks
Within a couple of weeks there will
be 40 or 50 men employed on con­
struction, followed by installation of
machinery and equipment on the
former Mast place, which the cor­
poration purchased from Mrs Belle
Knife, and by the first of the year it
is expected to have it ready to oper­
ate.
The production of chrome is a war
time necessity and it is for this rea­
son that the Oregon State Highway
Commission was induced last week to
let a contract for an^ access road,
west from Beaver Hill to the Seven
Devils country, which will be from
six to eight miles in length and will
be used to haul the concentrates to
the separator plant
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Twenty-One New
Golf Club Members
J. D. Gillespie reported at the
Chamber of Commerce meeting in
the hotel Tuesday noon that good
progress is being made on bringing
the Coquille Valley Country Club
membership up to the 88 required by
Mrs Maloney in order to assure tile
continuation of the golf course.
Twenty-one or 22 new members
have been*secured in Coquille, of the
89 needed and Myrtle Point is also
working on the plan to increase the
memltership.
Mr. Gillespie stated that I.arry
Lundquist and Bob Harris were the
ones making a showing in the drive.
Bob Nelson, who attended the
luncheon as guest of B. W. Dunn, was
introduced and said he liked Coquille
so well that he was going from Chi­
cago, where he attended a naval
training school for several weeks, to
his station at Norfolk. Virginia, by
—way of this, his former home.
Coquille Schools
To Open Sept. 8
Coquille Schools will commence
this fall on Tuesday, September 8,
according to statement by Supt. Bur­
ton W. Dunn.
School buses will
operate again this year on the same
routes that they did last year.
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Teaching staffs in the Washington
and Lincoln Junior High schools were
completed last week with the hiring
of three new teachers
Mrs. Mary
Ellen Borgard has been employed to
teach fifth grade in the Washington
school and Ellen Arrell and Wanda
Cochran will teach in the Lincoln
Junior High. All three Orf these teach-;
era have lived in Coquille for a num­
ber of yearti.
Two vacancies are still existent in
the High school teaching staff, one in
thé commercial department and the
other in science and girls' physical
education.
Fat Elk will transport their ele­
mentary pupils to the Coquille grade
school this year and will pay tuition
for their instruction there. This plan
was adopted to cut down the high
per capita cost of hiring a teacher for
mo few pupils.
Workshop There
Is A Good Idea
In reply to the Se.ntinel’s query last
week as to what the public thinks of
Morris Ray’s suggestion that the
basement of the Community Build-
ding be rented for a bowling alley, a
lady comes forward with a sugges­
tion that would put it to splendid
use, If the city can ever afford to fit
it up for the boys. Briefly it was
that it be supplied with equipment
With which the boys could learn var­
ious phases of building and manufac­
ture-tools of many kinds. Young­
star» are always interested in ma­
chinery and toots and a well-equip­
ped shop there ithight be the means
of keeping more than one boy out of
trouble, thinking of the old saying
abqpt “mischief’’ at^/’idle hmxiB”
Barn, Milk House
Burned Sunday Night
The large barn on the ranch oper­
ated by John Caudle, six or seven
miles from Coquille, on the North
Bank road, burned to the ground
about ten o'clock Sunday evening,
destroying the adjoining milk house
and its gas milking equipment. There
was no stock lost in the bam, but
there were burned the harness, the
hay carrier just installed last week,
und a large circular saw was dam­
aged. Only a small amount of old
hay was in the barn, this year’s crop
not having been put in.
There was no Insurance on the bam
which belonged to the Pershbaker
estate, and the Caudles have no idea
how the fire started. The chemical
truck from here was taken out by a
couple of the firemen but when a fire
has the start that one had the chem­
ical has no effect.
■'Mrs Earl Nosier, frqm the look-out
station overlooking the valley at that
point, said Monday that the flames
were shooting very high in the air,
between 50 and 100 feet and that she
notified the fire patrol in Marshfield.
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Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Johnson and
son “Buddy” expect to leave Satur-
day for their home in Long Beach,
Calif. They drove up to Medford
and were met there by his parent«.
Mr. and Mrs E. E. Johnson, and have
spent most of the time near the John­
son mill on the upper Middle Fork.
$11,000 DAIRY LOSS
Coquille Has As
Beautiful A Library IN TWO O'CLOCK ON PART OF U. S. PICNIC, PROGRAM
As Any In Oregon FIRE THIS MORNING CANNOT WIN WAR HERE SUNDAY
Fire, of unknown origin, de­
“There are target libraries in Ore­
gon but I do not believe there is one stroyed Wayne Watson’s Sunset Dairy
in the state that compares in beauty and large barn at his ranch half a
with the Coquille library room,” was '»ilc out from Coquille on the Myrtle
the remark of Mrs Pearl Ellingsen, Pulnt road, about two o’clock this
librarian, as the work of moving into morning.
Some one had turned in the alarm
the . new quarters in the Community
'before Mr. Watson, wtux Jives on the
Building was begun last Saturday.
And this northeast corner roorft of point just’ above the milk house,
the building is a veritable gem of awoke and called the department.
Response was made with both
beauty with
attractive floor de­
sign made by ar/anglng the plywood pumper and chemical and at one
on edge in squares, and showing. 8 time it was thought -die milk house
symmetry of design; the mahogany' could be saved but when, the water
walls; the curved plywood ceilipg; from the small creek became ex­
the mahogany shelving along the hausted the fire surged again and
north wall; the mahogany book and wiped everything out.
magazine racks; the beautifully built v A year ago Mr. Watson completed
began
using
as compact
and well
librarian's desk which deserves spe- 1 und -----
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rial mention by itself.
| arranged a milking house, bottling
There were very close to
grown-ups and children who sat
down before the tables spread under
the myrtle trees in the park, at the
rear of the Community Building last
Sunday, the occasion being the ninth
annual picnic of the Coos and Curry
Pioneer Association. And It was a
jolly occasion with reminiscenses and
the greeting of old friends not seen
since laid year’s picnic.
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- Mrs. Mary McNamara Randleman,
China, In lives and money, untold
this section vice president of the
numbers and amounts, more than the association the past year, and Who
people of tiilii country ever dreamed came to Oregon 72 years ago. in 1887.
of, to wipe out the threat of Japanese was unanimously chosen as president
domination in the Pacific.
(or the coming >ear. at the business
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Prof. Fisher is especially well session.
posted on Japailese affairs, having
J. Albert Matson, mayor of Marsh­
been an instructor in the university field, was chosen as vice president,
and naval academy in Tokyo for sev­ and Mrs. Inez R. phase, of Coquille,
enteen years and. Th that capacity, was re-elected' secretary-treasurer
having learned more than the casual The names of the three were pre­
visitor to the “land of the rising sun” sented by the nominating committee
can ever learn. It was a talk which which was composed of J. £. Norton,
everyone in the United States should J. P. Beyers and J. W. Leneve.
hear, and no newspaper report can
The retiring president, Walter M.
begin to do justice to the story he Laird,called for the election of officers
told, nor give an idea of the gravity before he Introduced the speaker of
of the situation as those who heard the day, remarking that last year the
j larger part of the crowd had departed
Mr. Fisher could grasp..
Visitors to the Japanese islands are before the election was held; that
always feted and dined and shown that was the reason he got in aa presi­
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every attention but they are not al­ dent!
lowed to see the war preparations
The program started with the sing­
there, and the usual report brought ing of "America” and several other
back was, in the past, that Japan songs, led by Mrs. Ruth Beyers.
wanted no war with the United
Rev. W. B. Smith, who said it was
States, was not preparing for one.
the first time he had attended a Pi­
But with his inside connections, oneer picnic here, although he came
Prof. Fisher knew that thia war’s in­ to the. county in 1887, was a visitor
ception began with the peace settle -
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All the mahogany was contributed <md cooling room as any dairy in the
by Geo. A. Ulett for Smith Wood- Mate, according to what the dairy
Products, and the interior finishing inspectors said, but it cannot be re­
was under the supervision of E. L. placed now for love nor money, due
Perrott. He, it was, too, who built to priorities on so much of the ma­
this most complete desk, with its terial.
The barn, 50x50, two-story and
smoothly moving drawers, its shelves
and compartments for receiving re­ built about 25 years ago was still in
turned books as they are brought in. excellent condition and Mr. Watson
The desk is nine feet long by four had made arrangements to have it
wide, with rounded instead of equate re-roofed but the work had not yet
In it there were 18
corners at the front, and it is really been started.
tons of hay, new and old, which was
something to rave about.
Two
The children’s table and benches, still burning this morning.
which have not yet been madC will calves in the barn were saved.
None of the twenty cows in his herd
also be of mahogany and placed in
nor the truck or milk wagon were
the southeast corner of the room.
The four book racks will be spaced burned but everything else was.
Mr. Watson says that he could not
equally apart along the south wall
and the reading tables, one placed replace what was destroyed in.a few
under each of four windows on the hours with fl 1,000, even if he could
north where the natural light is best. get .the material and equipment now.
Just when lighting fixtures will be The equipment in the dairy cost him
better than $4,000
The insurance
available is not yet known.
The heating »rangement calls tar a tarried was $7,000.
blower system from the gas furnace --^Although It is not definitely known,
to be installed- in the second story the fire probably started in the barn
store room at the back of the library,' f
jt was burning through the roof
.... Five Coquille . fishermen F. S.
In the northwest corner
tka. department arrived. Th* ' t Roy Whobrey, ■ 42 year» of age,
Emery, Ted Foss, Ralph Taylor, F. U
book rack with solid back Will ex­
probable explanation is that
passed away at a local hospital about and Tallant G reenough . —struck
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tend from the north wail permitting some one want in there at a late hour 8:30 o’clock Iait nlght. Re "had been Just right down on the Rogue last
privacy for the repair department.
to sleep, tried to smoke, and started
ill for the past three or four years week end, the five landing 30 steel­
This meager report on the new Co­ the conflagration. Of course, with and came to the' hospital from Reeds­
head salmon. Tallant hooked the
quille Library does not begin to do war conditions what they are, there port.
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largest, , a six pounuer.
pounder:
justice to a city activity of which Co­ is also the possibility of sabotage, but
The funeral services will be held, |
Boats were so thick at the jaws last
quille citizens can be most proud and no one knows, or if some one does, he
morning that one could
probably Saturday, at the Schroeder ‘ Saturday
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the Sentinel suggests that if there is is not telling. Mr. Watson said that Chapel in Myrtle Point, with inter­ walk across the river at tfoe mouth
anyone who has not visited the li­ he had no enemy, as far as he knows,
ment in the family burial plot near without getting his feet wet, that is
brary this week that he or she do so who would deliberately bum him out. Gaylord.
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one could until relayed orders to get
It is possible, too, that spontaneous
in the near future. They will be well
He had lived in the Coquille valley off the river were delivered. The
combustion started the -fire. Eight
repaid for the visit. —
the greater part of his life, having reason for the army orders is for­
Mrs. Ellingson has not had time yet tons of the eighteen were last year's been born at Myrtle Point.
bidden to be told by censorship rules
to get things arranged as they will hay and ten tons of this summer's
Besides his widow, the former Zada but as it turned out there was really
be. but the present view of the li­ cutting.
1 Mast, he is survived by his mother, no cause for interfering with the un­
brary is meat -aattsfymg.
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Whether he can continue to de­ two brothers, Leo and Joseph, and usually good fishing last Saturday.
liver milk Mr. Watson does not know two sisters, Eveyln and Erma, all of Everyone is willing and anxious to
Boxy Beauty Shop To
yet. He has had offers of the loan Jerome, Idaho, and a brother, Walter co-operate in any measure for safety
of equipment by dairymen but how Whobrey, of Myrtle Point.
or winning the war, but good judg­
Reopen August 1
to replace all the necessary para­
ment should also be shown in inter-
The Roxy Beauty Salon will re-
phernalia for a 'milk distribution
ferring with persona) liberty where
open Saturday, Aug. 1. under entire-
plant is something he has not yet
sueh interference is unnecessary
i.V new management. The shop" hai
worked out
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Fllllvr
been redecorated and
fully
refur­ *
nished and will be operated by Hazel
Loren Waterman, who was severely '
Collins and Audrey Kreiger, the far­
mer a graduate of the Bartlett School
injured in a car wreck two miles
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of Beauty Training in Kansas City,
above Remote last night, was brought
with over twelve years' experience,
What appears will be one of the
to the Mast Hospital suffering from
and the latter a graduate of the Mar-
Kenneth Waggoner, day clerk at injured head, fractured arm and leg best dances ever given in Coquille is
inello school in Portland, with seven the hotel with which he has been as­ and other body injuries.
in the making. Coquille is putting
years of experience in beauty work. sociated for several years, left last
He has been unconscious and un­ on this dance and they leave nothing
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Saturday morning with Mrs Wag­ able to talk and just how the accident undone when they take over. Give
Another them your support and really enjoy
goner for Tacoma, where he had the happened is not known.
His Leg Fractured At '
promise of a good job in the ship­ man with him escaped injury but in­ a night of dancing. Remember Aug.
Sitkum Legging Camp
quiry failed to find who he was or 8. in the new Community Building.
yards.
where he has gone.
John Loomis, employed at the L.
Mrs. Compton has taken over the
B. A L. logging camp at Sitkum. was day clerk position herself, and now
brought to the Mast Hospital at Myr­ has the kitchen crew more satis­
Mr. and Mrs. Lei Child eame over
tle Paint by the H. A. Schroeder am­ factorily lined up with a male chef from Grants Pass yesterday, intend­
bulance yesterday.
He suffered a in charge. He came from Astoria ing to remain here for the rest of the
fractured leg while at work.
last week.
fe' . L.^.. week.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Pook enjoyed a
visit Monday night with her brother,
V. H. McKenzie, and his wife and
their son, who were passing this way
from Los Angeles to points north. Mr.
McKenzie is a public relations em­
ployee of the federal government at
i this time, his terirtory being much of
the United States and his investiga­
tions being of the conditions around
sites where cantonments are estab­
lished or the armed forces located.
One statement he made, quoting a
high ranking F.B.I. official, was that
since the war started there has not
been a single instance of foreign-in-
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Roy Whobrey Died
Here Last Night
Loren Waterman
In Auto Wreck
Changes In Hotel
Personnel
Steelhead Were
Striking On Rogue
Labor Council
Plans Fine Dance
Visitors Monday
At Pook Home
Coquille's New Community Building In Which Library Is Located
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Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Pook received
a cablegram Monday frortl their son.
Staff Seigeunt Wm A. Pook, notify­
ing them that he is In Australin He-
said he liked the climate and the
looks of the country, as much as he
had seen of it It required slightly
over a month for the transport to
make the trip as he left the United
States the evening of June 21.
The complacency of too many
Americans whose thought seems to
be, “Wait until Russia knocks Hitler
out and then we will make short work
of the Japs,” is one Which could easily
cause the allies to lose the global war
with the axis -dictatorship powers
was the summation " of Prof. I. J.
Fisher’s address in the Marshfield
high sdhool auditorium Monday eve­
ning. It is going to cost the United
States and England Und, Russia and
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and other catastrophes have been
proved to be not the work of sabo­
teurs.
George Gratke left for Poitland
yesterday to take a second examina­
tion in connectiqp with his enlistment
in the naval air corps. His third ex­
amination, it successful in this one,
will be in Seattle a month or mar*
hence.
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