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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1942)
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER COQUILLE. COOH COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST «. IMS. Dr. Genevieve Chase Coquille Boy Of 18 Tells Of Changes j Afloat In Coral Sea And Life In New York More Than Two Hours The Prime Of Life B.P.W. Club Enjoys Council Ads On Interesting Meeting Many Mafien At During The Past Year Monday Evening Monday Session Dr. Genevieve Chase, who is Aca- * demie Dean of Adelphi College at Garden City, New York, which is about half way out un Long Island from New York City, arrived here Sunday evening for a three weeks’ visit with her mother, Mrs. Inez Chase; her sister, Mrs. Maurice Har vey, and her many other relatives and friends. Dr. Chase has been four years in <' the east with Adelphi College and her last visit home was ttfo years ago. She says she ' frequently sees Marvel Skeels, daughter of Mrs. Birdie Sheets of this e|ty. She is singing in mu sical comedy in New York and enjoys- her work very much. There are about 600 girls attending the college, who come from families of all social and financial standing, from the wealthy and the poor. The college is training "these young ladies for vocations later in life. For a time flying was also taught, Mitchelifield being located there)- but with all planes - needed now for Instructing men in army pitloting the course for Afloat in the waters of the Coral His hundreds and hundreds ■ Coos county's-bonded debt - the One of the most interesting as well Mayor Milne announced at Monday Sea for two ¡Ind one-half hours, alter friends in Coquille and nil" «ver Coo* only kind it luis now—was reduced as instructive meetings of the Busi evening's council session that if it the Lexington was sunk by the Japs county are 'going to miss Ray- by *294,111.17 between July 1, 1941, ness and Professional Women for was agreeable to the members of the curly this spring, was the experience Vaughan and his cheery smile and and July 1, 1942, according to the fi some time was held Monday evening council that he would appoint E. D. of a Coquille boy who graduated from greeting for a long time to come for nancial statement sent this week by at the home of Inez Rover. Webb at the Aug. 17 meeting to fill die high school here in Muy last year. he was one of the most popular yoUng County Treasurer Stauff to the state Dr. Genevieve Chase, dean at Adel the unexpired term of Everett J; He is Fred Veltum, von of Mrs. men of this city. treasurer. phi College, Long Island, was pres Seeley. Mr. Webb will have been Elizabeth Veftum who formerly lived ft wrrt a stunning shock lust Fri ., On the first of July last year C<x>s ent as a guest of her mother, Mr*. living in Coquille again for three here but now lives in Aberdeen, day noon when lite word spread that county had *661,900 in bonds out .Inez Chase. She gave a talk pre months by that time. and a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. he had passed away that afternoon at standing, with a sinking fund of $07,- senting the war time picture in the While the city carries fire insur Wimer here. > ,12:35 o’clock*—Cause- -of- death was- 000. leaving a net bonded debt of east, which gives New York the ap ance on all its buildings and equip- He came in on furlough oh Tues - '.»’“clot - 'V.; ..... • ___ on the _ brain. . „ . _ the reason for pearance of an entirely different citv ment_IJ has had n^ war risk insur day of this week and after visiting old which is not known-to medical sci On the first of last' month the in cnntin&ous dim-out, traffic lights ance and Recorder Leslie was au friends here left this morning; Mr. ence in most instances. Mr*. Vaughun bonds outstanding totalled *594,000 are blacked nut. A dot system in thorized by the council to secure a ■ and Mrs. Wimer taking him to Eu says he hud been subject to violent with a sinking fund of *240,363.74, the middle of the street or a thin policy of that kind covering all jts gene, from where he - would take the heudaches for which iw hud taken a leaving the net bonded debt at »353.-, crescent of light above the regular property. r~ bus to Aberdeen. a well-known pain-killer, but he had 636.26. But a further reduction from light signals replace the former The report submitted by Fire Chief Fred said that 92 per cent of the attributed the trouble to the fact that I that last figure is the wurrant cash method of traffic control. Snyder declared the Hersey building men on the Lexington were saved1 he had not cared for a hearty break-‘ reserve of *31.614.66, making the net There is much Red Cross activity on First street, west of Stevens Hard and that U. S. planes hovered around fast, but of late had been eating a debt as of July 4, i»42, *322.021 Co. and Canteen groups are very busy. ware store, to be in a dangerous con i « In addition to the *594,000 bonded Living a mile .from Mitchell Field, dition and that the building should be for protection purposes until ail those larger morning meal.. -in the water had Been rescued. He Shortly before noon last Friday he debt a year ago there were outstand largest flying field in the United condemned and removed. The char got back to Portland July 1. had gone to the lavatory of the sher ing *22,132.77 in warrants, which Stntrn, Miss Chase says, there are ter provides that ten days’ notice of The Lexington received five di iff's office and u few moments later have since been paid, making ^he piunt-s in the air constantly, at time« a condemnation hearing shall be given rect hits before it finally went down Mrs. Alice Perrott heard him call for ; total deb* a year ago *616,132.77. De as many us 25 in formalin. Flying and the evening of Aug. 17, in the and of the 100 Jap planes engaged in help. She summoned County Clerk ducting from that figure the $322,- ..as been taught at Adelpbi College council chamber, was the date and the attack 57 of them concentrated t.Mdy, who rushed to his aid and was 021.6U debt the first of lust month for two years and there are many place set for the hearing, at which their fire on the Lexington. ____ by , ifie“ _................... ,__ , that __ r shows the *294,11147 debt reduction greeted siatement by Ray time Mrs. Hersey may submit any (Continued on page two) Fred lias been in the Navy for he thought he had had a stroke. He for tlie year, proof that the building is not dan (Continued on Page Two) eleven months. After a one-month was dizzy and his right arm and leg From that sinking fund on hand gerous, before the council takes final training period he was assigned to were helpless. He asked to be taken July 1 *240,303.74—bond payments action. duty on the Lexington on Oct. 14 and to the hospital and, with assistance, due were *5o,ooo on August 1 and There having been some right-of- the next day the vessel sailed for Mr. Oddy placed him in a car and *15,090 cn Sept. 1. That will leave way deeds given the city on Willard Pearl Harbor It was on general1 drove to the Coquille Hospital, where approximately ,175,000 in the sinking street, north of the stub bridge ex Tallani Greenough had an Inter» tending north from the Spurgeon Hill patrol duty x before the war started artificial respiration, efforts were fund, to which will be added this and on Dec. 7 was at sea. made for an hour or more, death year's tax payments for the sinking rating experience Sunday afternoon bridge, in order that Willard street but faded to bug the bobcat. A party may be widened there and improved, Fred, who Is orfly 18, says the sea coming at 12:35 fund, and the county m. „ , p. ............ ar-»» - will have a.sink- uf.-fah-nds had been fishing on the Tallant Greenough submitted a re where be was afloat was covered with the council requested the street com Funeral .services were held al ing fund on hand for retirement of port at the Chamber of Commerce oil and gasoline and it took a long Schroeder Bros.’ chapel at two o'clock . the next butch of callable lamda, Rogue and as they were coming up mittee to look over the site and make meeting in the hotel Tuesday noon, time to clean up after he was rescued. Tuesday afterpoon. Rev. Geo. R. Tur- which ix in August. 1944, . the hill from Brushes creek bridge, recommendations before any definte showing that the funds or its equiv He has Itad an experience which ney of Mursliheld officiating. - a , Qoos county is in better financial U»e cat cressed in front of his car and action is taken. alent, turned over to the Community will live with him always and one The chapel, around the casket, was 'condition now thun it has been for stopped part way up the bunk) about A letter from the Library Associa Building from the balance left in the which- very few boys his age have banked with’beautiful floral pieces, * a king time and this fact is further MMeet from the road. tion, requested that the city pro 4th of July celebration fund, is *1,- had but one which w i ll be mo re win« wreaths and sprays, the presentatiMf proved hy thw4»«i i ll .te vy -for « juo - Tailant slopped the car to take, a vide 4200 tor the making of the ma 253.37, Of this amount *900.23 Is in mon as this terrible war continues. of hundreds of-sorrowing friends. [ fy purpose-« which was set by the good look at the varmint, and then (Continued on Page Eight) cash, and *353.14 was the cost of per Pall bearers were close friends of county court fu£_ the. 1942-43 fiscal answered Its snarling growl with one manent wbrk done on the buildings— - ' the deceased -J. E. Axtell, Dr. L. B. year after the public hearing on tlie of his own. toilets, sanding the floor of the main No one in either his party’s two Gould, Don J. McEniry, Thus. Djm- I budgr t last Monday auditorium, the plywood wails of cars, nor in the one which came up ■nick. John Hawkins and JusUu . that room—which the building com behind, m iuou. <i«u had a u gun aiong, along, blit . he' Henslee. >> J though! of his bow and arrow ancl mittee wtraW have had to pay fori Interment was in Sunset cemetery Open house at the new Coquille Mr and Mrs. R, A Jeub and son when the work was done. opened the trunk to get the equip at Marshfield, where tee was 1 arrived home last Saturday night Mr. Ulett said that the ceiling of Public Library in the Community ment out and began stHTtgtn» the rest beside his mother who preceded the main auditorium would now be , Building is scheduled for tomorrow, bow and using a steel-tipped arrow. from a vaWBUon trip on which they The fire which destroyed three cold Friday, and all friends, patrons nnd him to the better land by only two started. ' The Cat moved back a little and left July 20. • From Portland they decks of Smith Wood-Products’ logs ( ".ontinued from Page Three) •• It was also brought out in the talks i those interested in the Library ar»1 sat peering through the brush, went by the Evergreen Highway and and a part of Mike Morrison’s logging that R. L. Perrott has done a great Invited by the library board and by plainly visible, and growling all the through central Washington to Yaki equipment at his camp jus) over the ma and Oroville, where they crossed deal of work around the building, of Mrs. Pearl Ellingaen, librarian, to time. ' ----- - -------------------- Coos-Douglas county line on the Mid one kind and-another, for which he visit this beautiful library and in When Tailant let fly with the ar into Canada. From there they headed dle Fork last Saturday afternoon, lias submitted no bill, or at a figure spect the furnishings and arrange row the bob-cat went straight up in west to Vancouver, over to Victoria, started from a back-fire by the don way below .what the regular charges ment. ‘the air for about six feet, and every- 1 and from there by ferry to Port An key engine. There was" a some stand The open house hours will be from would be. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Pettit ieft last one there thought he had bagged his / geles, and then to Seattle where they 'wqre guests at the home of Fred A committee consisting of Geo A. 3:3U to 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon Saturday fur Corvallis in response ing timber burned but not a great cat. Ulett, Geo. H. Jenkins and H. A. and from 8:00 to |0:U0 in the evening. to a wire that his father, J. B. Pettit, deal. However when they went to the Ingham, treasurer of Smith Wood- Geo. A. Ulett says _the company's Young was appointed by President -A memento of the open house Will had passed away ft the hospital there pot tliey found only the broken ar Products. At Portland tliey spent a loss was about *20,900, partially cov be printed mahogany veneer cards, O. L. Wood to act in-conjunction with that morning. He was 80 years of row, the point with fur clinging to day or two at the West Coast Lum committees from the Lions and the made of the same wood in which the uge. Funeral services were held at ered by insurance. it, indicating that his shot had only bermen’s Association meeting and Rotary clubs which will sponsor the Library is ftfiished" and al) of the new Corvallis on Monday this week and gone under the skin, and tliat the ar then home. They just barely got by on gas in forthcoming Junk Rally, or scrap iron furniture and equipment is made. row was broken ng the beast fell back the burial service was at the Port salvage campaign, which the cham to earth, and that it hud tlien pulled Canada. The rationing there per land Crematorium. mits only 16 imperia) gallons a year, ber directors voted to do Tuesday. the pount out with its teeth. Mr. Pettit returned to Coquille The chamber voted to pay the third Tuesday evening but Mr!. Pettit re Although the members of the party 20 galloua U. 3. measurement, and, although Mr. Jeub filled his tank be quarterly dues for 1942 of *100 to the mained a few days longer at Cor Elsewhere in this issue is a resume i-Miked around for further evidence fore he left the U. S. he barely had Coast Higiiway Association. vallis and is expected home today. of the dim-out regulations, just pro they saw po more of the cat. enough with the-16 imperial gallons The directors also adopted a reso Tallant *teys that as much as he has mulgated l).\ Col. DeWitfin San Fran Ladies, you are urged to give your he could buy there, to get back into lution and authorized the sending cisco, and which are to be enforced in tramped the Woods this was the first spare time in helping your country. ’ ! ¡ nnc of a telegram to Gov. Sprague, pro No experience necessary. Mrs. Gladys *-,OnS VlUlHl II the State«. bob-cat he had ever seen. every coastal county in Oregon, At one point along the western trip testing the tying up of logging trucks Washington and California. through southern Canada a freight for four days or more, while the P. U. Gano. Red Crraa Production chair- ^QS The regulations become effective train passed them in which there C. plates are lifted for minor traffic man. urges all to do their bit. . „ Aug. 20, and do not vary a great deal In these days whan lum- I s,le has appointed Mrs. Eula Al- ________ There has been a Tot of razzing were two carloads of buildoxers and violations. 1 ____ —, -_________ ■ 1- — O««l S CS Heath •*»*«<. 4«. tnlrn and joshing between Lions and Ro- from the ones now in force. How her and plywood are so'much needed *»rm at 312 to take | railroad building equipment, being ever, there is a severe i»enaity pre ' shipped to build the Alaskan high for defense industries the Idleness of charge of hll Red Cross knitting.. No tary c]ub members this week <>vei scribed for violation, and it behooves Mrs. Chas. Stauff, with Inez Rover way. “There goes some of your trucks used to bring in the logs is a previous experience necessary as Mrs. the tournament played at the Co every one to become familiar with at the piano, led a song service with equipment to build our highway!" was serious matter, and to suspend plates Alborn is an efficient knitting in quille Valley golf course last Sunday, the provisions. the Rotarians at their luncheon meet-' the remark by a Canadian with whom because the load contained a hun structor and will give her time on the Lions claiming that’ anything ing at the hotel yesterday. Mrs. Mr. Jeub was talking. dred, or even a thousand, pounds in Tuesdays and Friday from 10:30 a. other than a tie would be rank in Stauff also read brief sketches of the excess of the limit, dbes not make m. to 5:00 p. m„ to instructing be justice. Time other than this may origin or inspiration of each song. Of course, the Rotary deserved to sense. As it is, some of the mills are ginners. An- invitation was read from the likely to be down a part of the time be made by appointment; call 94J lose for they were two men short and library board for the open house to this coming winter because of log This is an excellent opportunity to Clarence Arney and Joe Axtell were learn to knit The yarn may be se drafted from the Lions to help out the A pre-Labor Day dance, on the be held tomorrow afternoon and eve shortage. cured from Mrs. Alborn and the fin brother service club roeter. Clarence Saturday before the Monday holiday, ning. The governor was asked to take Miss Mary Ella Cary, who Is one Plans have been completed for the of the ladies of the W. A. A*. C.— the matter up with the highway de ished garments be returned to her won his match 3-0 and Joe I<ust his is being planned by the Community Those already having unfinished 0-3. Building committee, and the entire stag dinner to be held at tlie J.' A. Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps — partment and work out a plan more There were 34 men participating in net proceeds of the dance will go to I llerg cabin at Laurel Lake tonight stationed in the Women's Armory at considerate of the Industry’s necessi garments, when finished, should re turn them to Mrs. Gano, at 190 S. the tournament and the official score the building fund, to help complete 1 and a list of guests was registered, registered. ties. Des Moines, Iowa, writes Mrs. James Coulter street. Rev. Chas. M. Guilbert had the is declared to be 26(4 for the Rotary finishing the interior. Richmond that she now believes what Mrs. Gano will continue with the to- 24 Mi for the Lions. The dance will be held Sept. 5, and cigars passed around to celebrate Mrs. Richmond told her, that “women Red Cross sewing. There are still When Mr. Arney won his mutch the arrangements are being made for a . the recent arrival of a new son. should never join the army." She is several hospital garments to be made. Lions immediately began the clamor crowd which it is hoped will rival the ! Rotarian guests present were IL quite homesick, although duty there C. Obie, of the Forestry department, for a “tie score" announcement. July 4th successful dance. extends free»-reveille at 5:30 o’clock Selection of the orchestra which of Grants Pass, and Wm. Robb, of until taps at 11 p. m. - Chas. Randall, the Coquille to Ban- will furnish the music has not yet j Marshfield. Alton Grimes, of Co Ix-gion Auxiliary To. There are 120 girls in the company, . <)on rural mail carrier, who g<»es down been announced by the committee. quille, was also present. enlisted for the period of the war and Install On Aug. 14 the North Bank road and return by six months thereafter, and Mary Ella the highway, this week bought the The Coquille Legion Auxiliary will is a squad leader. She is studying to "He looks like his grandfather,”- hold installation at 8:00 p. m„ on Vic '■Denning place on North Elliott be a dietitian and outlines the ■ tteU munite . ■; arid the Hit The Cat But Not For A Kill Community Building ' Netted $1253 From The 4th Celebration Open House At Library Friday $fo,ooc Worth Could Get Barely Enough Gasoline: Of ^1-09$ Father Passes At Age Of Eighty Severe Penalty For Dim-Out Violations Urgent Need For Red Cross Workers Claim It Jjg $COre Song Service Entertains Rotary Community Building Dance Sept. 5 Says It Is Hot And Wet In Iowa Chas. Randall Buys Vic Denning Place Claims Grandson Loôks Like Him Labor Council To 1 : ’ ___ rw ^eartrw- drive up here early in the morning and back down after he was through in the afternoon. He figures that the 36 or 37 miles he saves each day, by living here, means a saving in gaso line alone, of better than *300 a year. And the extra sleep he will get by starting his day’s driving from here instead of from Bandon . is worth something! W b Moiidayeveni^g W not "Bum" Gartln's orchestra will fur daughter, Margaret, and husband— be held because of the meeting later (ipt. and Mrs H. R- Turkel — in nish the music for the public dance to in the week. Washington, D. C., last Friday. The be given in the new Community young man who has been named Building this coming Saturday eve Dr. Cha* c Talking At ning, Aug. 8, by the ¿oquille Labor William Charles, weighed seven and one-half pounds. Capt. Turkel, who Lions Sessions This Noon Council. The committee in charge is in the U. S. Army Air Ferry In Dr. Genevieve Chase* is giving a is making splendid preparations for telligence Service, is now somewhere talk at the Lions club session this a very nice dance and dance goers in Africa This is their second child, nun on what effect the war is having can be assured of a fine evening of the first being a daughter. on the nation’s educational program. 1 pleasure, with good music. Eagles Picnic At The members of- the Coquille Eagles lodge and their f-imilies will hold their annual picnic this coming Sunday. Aug. 9, on Cherry creek near McKinley. There will be free pop for the youngsters and a fine program of sports has been arranged. Each family attending should bring their own lunch the committeeman in charge of arrangements says.. more study. She should feel much at home in one respect for she says that it has been raining a great deal, but adds thfit it is also very hot. which is not so pleasant for one accustomed to this breeze-swept, cool Oregon coast. Warranty ana nargain and Sal.- Deeds for saw at in* Sentinel, office
