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VOL. XXXVIU.
NIW b PAPIR
NO. 38.
A. G. Thrift Passes
Away This Morning
At Knife Hospital
Letter Received Here Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation Plants
From George Maiden
In Portland Area Are Doing A
Magnificent Job In Mass Production
Wiley Withdraws
From Sheriff Race
Mrs. Maybell ¿«oveland, of this city«
has received a letter from her brother,
George Maiden, written at a Jap con
centration camp somewhere in Cen
tral China. George was a Coquille
boy, who was working on Wake Is
land when the Japs captured that U.
S. outpost and this is the first word
his .father and sisters, (the other be
ing Mrs. Gertrude Ulett), have had
directly from him. The letter is type
written but Mrs. Loveland says the
signatu^-e is that of George. It reads:
Three Cent Float
Charge On Out-Of
Town Banks Ceases
A meeting of the republican coun
ty central committee was held in the
city hail here Tuesday evening, with
40 precincts represented..
The most important matter attend
With a smile on his face as he bid
There were nearly 100 newspaper
One of the finest industrial plant
Beginning today, October 1, the
ed to was the receiving of the report
his son, Ralph, goodbye, one of Co
ladies and men, from Oregon and hospitals in the United States has
float charge of three cents for each
of
the
committee
appointed
to
fill
quille'* most prominent citizens and
Washington, who accepted the invita been constructed here, a complete
vacancies on the ballot for next check deposited, drawn on other than
business men, A. G. Thrift, passed
tion of the Kaiser Shipbuilding Cor lay-out which was duly gone through
month
’s election. This committee, as thp depositor’s bank and which has
into eternal sleep at ten o’clock this
poration to be it* guest* last Saturday, and inspected.
announced
last week, had named been the rule here for several years,
morning. The end came at the Belle
and the visitors spent the entire day
The housing project for employees
‘eliminated, aceSedtag-ta a
Ralph T. 1
Knife Hospital, where he was taken
at the corporation’s three plants, Is a huge one with some h
statement made by one of the First
or
representative
in
the
two weeks ago tomorrow morning,
probably the busiest spots ip
Part
legislature from Coos county. The National Bank of Portland officials,
after suffering a complete collapse.
land yrv.j i i1
domiciles ready for occupancy, and
recommendation
was approved and Ben Chandler, at Marshfield,
His physical condition had been im
With more than 30,000 men ind also many -dormitories, all on one
J ajp
Itlls't-.niinrliinitv
The revised schedule of service
Mr.
Moore
’
s
name
has been certified
proving, however, for thj
'of assuring you of my good health women employed and more on the floor, where man may have rooms to the county clerk and the secretary charges which is being put into ef-
shock and well being. Our existence here way from the east, the three yards tor one or two occupants, all very
feet by nearly all the banks in the
of state.
to his family.
state
will probably be a little higher
is normal.. We are being fed three were moving swiftly and smoothly, comfortably furnished, as are the
Mr. Moore, accompanied by Mrs.
? - The body was taken to Scbroeder meals a day; and also are provided each on its appointed program, and lounging rooms. Including meals, the
than the service charge heretofore in
Moore,
was
present
and
made
a
talk
’Bro*.’ Mortuaries here, but funeral recreation in the form 'of various showed the splendid organization ef men will pay $18.50 per week for a
effect but there is also a monthly
arrangement* cannot be made until kinds of ball games as well as being fort by Henry J Kaiser and his son, single bedroom or $13.50 where two to the group, as did Harris Ellsworth, allowance made by the bank, depend
candidate
for
congress
from
this
dis
word is received from his son, provided entertainment such as band Edgar F. Kaiser.
men occupy the room. There are sim
trict, who came over from Roseburg ing on the average balance and the
Hamilton, who is in officers’ train concerts, etc.
The publisher* group left the Mult ilar houses for the women.
number of checks issued during a
for
the meeting.
ing on the east coast.
At Swan Island, which was former
month.
’
Would appreciate your writing nomah Hotel at 9:30 in buses pro
There
will
be
a
vacancy
on
the
' Alexander G. Thrift, who was Harry Floyd and Mrs. A. Hutchinson vided by the corporation and did not ly an airport, the equipment for ship
The complete schedule of this ser
party
’
s
ticket
next
month.
A.
M.
known as “Sandy” all his life? -was and explain to them that you have arrive back there until near nine building seems to be of a more per
Wiley who was nominated at the vice charge is being sent each de
a native of southwestern Oregon, the heard from me, and inform all other o’clock that evening.
manent nature. The uprights for the
May
primary for the office of sheriff positor along with his monthly state
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Thrift. He of my friends in Coquille of this fact.
The first visit was at the St. Johns ways are of steel, instead of wood
has
enlisted
in the Marines, has been ment and it is not the purpose of this
was borne on the Thrift ranch in Likewise. tender them my best re yard on the peninsula, where the Lib as at the other two yards, and the
accepted
and
is now awaiting the srticle to go into detail. An example
Curry oounty, a part of which is now gards.
erty ships are being turned out so whole yard gives the idea that it was
call
to
service.
His withdrawal from or two will sufifee. -If an account’s
the town of Langlois, formerly palled
We have an abundance of time rapidly and where the Jonathan Teal to be continued indefinitely
the race leaves Sheriff Wm. F. Howell average monthly balance is between
Dairyville. He would hJVe been 89 which allows us full oppm-tunity to was launched last week in ten days
It was dinner time by the time the
$100 and $200, and ten checks are
unopposed
for re-election.
years old on the 17th qt this month.
<
visitors had made a cursory inspec-
think pf those friends, and* sincerely from the laying of the keel. F
written against the account, the ser
He was united tn. marriage to hope that j<ou are all in good health.
The visitors were present at noon at i tion of this yard and after watching
vice charge will be 60 cents but from
Florence Amy Rosa at the home of I am hoping that we may be together the launching of the Edward Everett, the operstions of the night crew in
that to deducted a monthly allowanae
her parents, Col. and Mrs R. H. Rosa, again in the not-too-distant future. which was christened by Mrs. Palmer rapidly building tankers, the crowd
of 30 cents for accounts between the
on the 28th day of April 35 years ago. We are naturally hoping to be repa Hoyt, and which had been something was ready to eat.
$100 and $200 balance. If 25 checks
Mrs. Thrift survives, as do their triated.
over two weeks on the ways.
•
The meal was served in a finely
are written the charge would be $1.30,
four children, Florence, of Piedmont,
The steel plates for these ships ar* appointed restaurant which the com
Coqnille continues to be a boys less the allowance of 30 cents.
Calif.; Kathryn, of San Francisco;
all fabricated under roofs adjacent pany provides for its employees and school, according to the report of B.
Above the 25 checks point each
Hamilton, of the U. S. Army, and
to and in front of the ways, the steel was an excellent chicken dinner.
W. Dunn, local school superintendent. additional debit entry to listed at a
Ralph, of Coquille, who manages the
plates being welded together before
At the conclusion of thedinner, the
Each school in the city system four cents charge.
store here; also by a grandson, Ralph’s
reaching the ships..
advertising campaign which the Ore shows a predominance of boys, the
The monthly alowance is a scienti
. son, Clyde H Thrift..
Of course cranes of all sizes were gon Shipblilding Corporation is soon high school has two more boys than fically arrived at figure, baaed on
Coquille voters, whose name* do sticking up all over all yards. Those to inaugurate was explained and girls. Junior high has 22 more boys
Mr. Thrift had always led a moat
the interest earning pewer of the
active lite. He had been in business not now uppear on the registration cranes are the keystone of H*nry J. the assemblage was addressed by Al than girls, and the Washington deposit..
in the Hawaiian Islands, on C.ooa fcy books in County Clerk Oddy’s office Kaiser’s huge successes as a builder. bert Bauer, assistant general mana- school has 85 more boy* than girls,
But the point which will interest
and other points, and for the last and who wish to vote at the Nov. 3 Anything he can build by use of a E; Edgar F. Kaiser being indisposed which make* a total of 59 more boy* all of the customers of those banks
twenty odd years had owned stores election, are warned that the last crane is duck soup for him.
I unable to attend.
than girl* tn the whole school sys which have agreed to this state-wide
in CoquiUe, Myrtle Point, Bandon and opportunity to register is Saturday,
After a Liberty ship is launched it
Naturally the advertising to to be tem.
service charge is that the three-ceat
Oct. 3, before 12:30 p. m., when the requires only a few days to outfit to secure additional employees for
Gojd Beach.
Only two grades show a predomi float charge has been abolished.
He had been in poor health for clerk’s office closes for the day.
it and it to then ready for sea. The the expanding operations of the yards nance in girls. They are the seventh
So far the registration has been ten-day from keel to launching Teal but a part of the outlined program
the past year or more but it has only
grade with two more girls than boy*
bean for two week* that his condition very light, but no total* wil be aVail- was practically ready when tt
awed that the corporation
- .
„ wanted
...
Junior dees in
»bie until next week
Itaher groap saw ft Saturday.
Ihtarfsi* aa little u IttataM*
Which has four more gh*
boys.
Mr. Thrift was a good <o»n, a Jin*
At the pr esen t rate of sinking of the economic conditions of the small
It to surprising, say* Mr. Dunn,
type of citizen and hi* passing wilt be
U. S. ships by axis sub*. it can be er cities and towns and the plan and that the high school still show* a ma
mourned by an unusually large circle
safely stated that the Kaiser three hope to that men going to work there jority of boy sinee so many young
The board of divector* of the Co-
of friends and acquaintances.
yards around Portland are producing will leave their families *L home. ■
men have enlisted in the various qullto Chamber of Commerce, at the
This sketch of his life does not do
as many vessels as are lost
Naturally a weekly newspaper can branches of the armed service. ...... ”■ regular session held in the hotel Tues
justice to tiie activity which has beep 1
The group had lunch at the cafe not go into too much detail as to
day noon, voted that for the present,
Hanis Ellsworth, of Roseburg, re
one of his chief characteristics for ports that he will be in Coos county teria at the St. Johns Yard and then what is being accomplished at the
probably for the duration, that regu
upwards of half a century and the 1 from October 8 to 10 inclusive to , were taken to the yard east of Van- Oregon
Shipbuilding
Corporation
lar sessions will be held only on the
Sentinel will next week have a more ' further his campaign as republican , couver.
plants, nor would it be allowed under
first Tuesday of each month, a lunch
extended account of his business ca- nominee for the office of congress
Here a different type of vessel, our censorship rules, and this story
eon meeting in the hotel.
Special
meetings may still be called at any
man from the Fourth congressional known as the assault ship, was being gives but a poor picture of what the
Keith Leslie left the first of this
___ time by the president, when matters
produced, not as rapidly as to the newspaper people saw but it was an
district.
He plans, he reports, to visit all of Liberty cargo vessel, but With a fine enjoyable day throughout and anyone week for Portland and may be by this of importance make them necessary.
the principal communities of the record made. The publishers were who can secure a pass to visit any or time on his way east, although no def The next regular meeting will I m
county and desires to contact all per asked not to go into detail in regard all of the yards will not be disap inite information has been received next Tuesday, Oct. 6, and the suc
by Mrs. Leslie
pointed if he takes advantage of it.
ceeding sessions on Nov. 3 and Dec. 1.
lons who may, tn the' event of his to these assault ships.
Some time ago he was advised to
It was announced Tuesday that the
election,
have
particular
matters
upon
The Selective Service Board, which
make application for a position with American Legion will donate all the
has been operating in the northeast which they may desire his services
the Internal Revenue department, net received from the annual Armis
corner of the hotel building here since in the national capital
which he did, and was notified to ap tice Day ball to the Community Build
He
writes
he
will
not
have
an
op
it was moved from Myrtle Point, Is
pear in Brooklyn, N. Y., for a 45-day ing fund.
being moved to the rooms in the old portunity to contact the people in the
course in the school there. Whether
R. L. Stewart, treasurer of that
district
after
election
and
will
com
court house just vacated by the ra
he decides to remain at a position in buildtng fund, announced that the
tioning board. That office hqp been bine his campaign for election with
Mrs. Jack Dolan, chairman of the senting the War Production Board, Portland or has gone east for the gov State Unemployment Compensation
moved to the second floor of the bank inquiry as to the needs of the county.
Coquille
salvage committee, and stated that the scrap metal must come ernment job will not be known until Commission has finally announced
During his stay in the county he
building, the four west rooms on the
that the building fund need not pay
members
of
her committee as well as in and that Coos county’s quota of he notifies Mrs. Leslie.
will
make
his
headquarters
at
the
First street side of the building.
representatives
of other organizations ■W00 tons during the next three
the $440 or more which it had been
A change in personnel of the Selec Chandler hotel in Marshfield and
months
will
be
secured,
even
if
the
co-operating
in
the
scrap
metal
drive,
claiming
as Ito 3.7 per cent , of the
urges
people
to
get
in
touch
with
tive Service board took place this
construction payroll and will refund
met Tuesday evening and selected the government has to take the extreme
week when Mrs. Lawrence Gutoeth him tffere during the week.
the $51 previously paid in.
Mr. Ellsworth, editor of the Rose Oregon dates—Oct. 10-17—as the time measures which can be used and
was named to succeed Miss Louise
It is considered most likely that
Tripp, of Myrtle Point, who resigned. burg News-Review, was given the when the next intensive drive for which will get the meta). He stated,
Just why she resigned she was not republican nomination by a substan scrap metal will take place in Co however, that the W. F. B. preferred
Glen Jones, of the KoKeel Shoe, the federal social security payment
to secure the needed metal through is closing up the shop this week pre will also be cancelled.
willing to have the Sentinel report, tial majority at the primary election quille.
Some little time was spent in dis
It is certain there are scores of tons voluntary donations.
but we extend congratulations any held in May
paratory to joining the armed forces
The Marshfield move to place col of the U. S. Mr. Jones had leased cussing the most*important war effort,
of
scrap
in
Coquille
and
vicinity,
way.
which were not turned in on the pre lection of metal in the hands of one the shop to a man from Myrtle Point for those not engaged in the service
The board, which is now composed
vious drive and in view of the ur concern at'the Bay, for the whole but the man decided that it was too —the collection of scrap metal. The
of L. L. Bunch, H. A. Schroeder and
gent necessity for all such metal in county, does not meet with entire ap much of a job for him and backed need is becoming more acute every
E. D. Webb, held a meeting last eve
the production of war material, every proval of the Coquille salvage com out. . Since that time Mr. Jones has day and the War Production Board
ning without passing on any matters
mittee, and it is ..
probable
the
deliv- » sold
of particular interest to the public In
_
.
.
wm urc
the sua
stock
. a on
on iidiiu
hand to
i<j u
a ivir.
Mr. oiltir-
Sher- may soon iind it neceeary to take
Edward LeRoy Jones is being held one should collect everything on the
enes will be continued at the same < rj|, of Marsh,ie|d who w|n
steps which will compel the bringing
general. The next outgo of selectees In the county jail here for the sheriff premises and turn it in.
I zva L k II a . K aba na Iwa tha nnei
I
r
piles here as in the past.
Mimeographed instructions, pre b stock
will be on Wednesday of next week of Columbia county. He is the young
! shop here soon. The machinery will in, to duly authorized collection
But there will be no leniency shown be stored for the duration.
agencies, of all scrap metal from
when about 40 young men are sched man found asleep in a car at Coaledo pared at the high school, are to be
home, business house, ranch or plant
uled to leave for Portland for ex- by the state police Sunday. The li distributed by block wardens, telling by the War Production Board and
the scrap must be turned In.
amination.
cense number on the car was one for where to turn the metal in, or how it
will
be
collected.
which the police had been looking,
The proceeds from the sale of the
the car having been s.tolen in Port
land. He admitted stealing the car Junk have previously been given to
and also that a revolver found in it the Coquille Civilian Defense organ
The national speed limit of 35
ization but should any donor have a
was stolen at Scapoose.
The Coquille antelope hunters, who
miles an hour, as well as the meat
particular
charity
or
Red
Cross
or
"Spike" Leslie is not making any
Millard Fillmore- Ashcraft, found
were over in Malheur county, 80 or
John Kirk, missing sinee the *t-
rationing
of
2>,4
pounds
per
person
a
other public enterprise to which he claims about Saturday’s game here at
more miles from Burns, all had their
tack on Wake Island, is alive and well, guilty in justice court at Marshfield
or she wishes the proceeds to be Athletic Park, which sees the Coquille week, went into effect this morning, antelope last Wednesday before the
of
stealing
tires
on
the
Bay
was
although interned in a prison at
and
Gov.
Sprague,
as
will
the
other
given that will be arranged for in Red Devils playing their first game
Shanghai, according to word received brought over to serve a 25-day sen
47 governors in the United States, will hunting season was closed. Those
the distribution of the proceeds.
of the year with Myrtle Point’s Bob-
tence.in
the
county
jail.
He
was
also
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. O.
make
the necessary announcements from Coquille were J. F. McHenry,
But the all-imoprtant matter is now
Kirk of Sttkum, from the Interna given another ten days and fined $10 to get this scrap collected so that it cato furnishing the opposition. The which will keep cars down to the George Gilman, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
boys on the team have been working
for having no brakes on his car.
maximum
tiiwwring rubber Krantz, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Krantz.
tional,
Boys Predominate
Here In Schools
12:30 P. M. Sat. Last
Minute To Register
c. of C. To Meet
But Once a Month
Ellsworth To Be
Here Next Week
Keith Leslie May
Be On Way East
Draft And Rationing
Boards Moving
Strap Metal Must Be Brought In-
Intensive Drive To Be Oct. 10-17
Ko-Keel Shoe
Shop To Close
Four New Faces
In County Jail
Bobcats - Red
Devils Saturday
John Kirk In
Internment Camp
Smith Wood plant until he left here
a year ago last July.
» ; ■-"»————....
Coquille High Schoo! Student*
Buy $4A6.<5 Stamps and Bonds
War savings stamps and bonds
■ale* in the inter-class contests and
room sales at the Coquille High
School, for two day* this week totalled
$486 45 this .morning.
having been sentenced to ten days
for being drunk on the highway.
I Edward Edgmon was brought up
from Bandon nn Monday and held
under $1,0(N) bonds, set by Justice
Haynes on a disorderly conduct
charge, the disturbance occurring
eight miles below Bandon. Later the
chaifce was changed to one of vagracy
and the justice gave him a 30 days
suspended jail sentence.
* to the game ate assured they
Ilan’s-shop',' intfie oicTSKer- be ashamed of the 1942 Red Devils
wood bam on Hall street, to still the
official receiving depot for scrap.
Mrs. Lee Hand left yesterday morn
ing for an ii-lefinite stay with Mr.
At the ail-county scrap metal meet Hand at San Diego. She expects to
in Marshfield last evening, with all return later but does not know how
communities represented, the Coquille soon. Lee wired that he would not
delegation included Mrs. Dolan, E. be able to come home on furlough and
T. Stelle, M. F. Pettit, Geo. F. Burr that he was out of "boot" camp. He
was In San Diego recently and en
and Geo. H. Jenkins.
,
Hugh Mitchell, of Salem, repre- joyed his first steak dinner.
Thirty-Five Miles
Per Hour The Limit
Coos Co. Hunters
Bog Antelope
nW»
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.
¡«••■■■tew..*-
■
¡.WAig'-.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ifempton were
also out there from Arago^ L. H.
Pearce, Ernie Watkins and ’•Chub"
Mullin from Myrtle Point, and their
wives, and "Mac" says that every
The Safeway Store in Coquille will one, man and woman, had his or her
be closed next Monday and Tuesday, buck antelope.
Oct. 5 and 6, for remodeling and re
decorating. The paint for the interior
Mr. and Mrs. Lea Child, arrived
arrived this morning and the decora here Wednesday from Grants Pass to
tors will get to work this week-end. spend a day or so on business.
Store To Close
For Remodeling