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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1942)
k .wen ------- JE__________ INDEPENDENT JS - ‘X, 1 NEWSPAPER NO. 48. Now Looking To The Farmers For More Scrap Metal and Junk Coos Co. Financial Condition Is Most Excellent * Stauff. who attended the convention of Oregon county treasur ers in Portland last week, reports that State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, In his address before the meeting, talked of debt retirement by the coun ties and mentioned Coos as the out standing county in the state in this regard. When the various county treasurers present were called upon, Mr. Stauff added to the state treasurer's com ment with the statement that by August 1. 1944, Coos cqunty, tender, the present program. will be entirely out of debt. He gave credit for this county’s splendid showing by the statement that fairly good times in Coos county and the payment of a . great deal of delinquent taxes made it possible. < *• The net county debt, as of July 1, this year, was $322,021.80, and the outstanding bonds, callable Aug. 1, 1944, total $322,000. Of this sum $50,000 worth of bonds are due at that time and the balance may be called. The policy of the county court in levying for the retirement of bonds as soon as they are callable makes the prospect almost certain that the county will be out of debt August 1, 1944 For the first six months of 1942 the court levied $76,428.41 for debt retirement, and for the 1942-43 fiscal year the taxes levied for this purpose total $81,083.79. Theqe funds, as they are accumu lated from tax payments, are judi ciously invested in securities which can be cashed as desired. Of the funds already in hand for calling bonds . $97,000 has been invested in the county’s own bands, and $50,000 in government war bonds Mr. Stauff adds that possibly 50 per cent of the 1942-43 taxes will be collected this month and that the fund set aside for debt retirement .will be jst’ested in like securities which may be cashed when dCdtred, by August 1. 1844. All county warrants now—Ulis does not include Non High School war rants—are now on a cash basis, so the prospect of Coos county being entire ly out of debt in 20 months coaid not be better. But, of course, that will depend on tax payments and on whether any large commitments for county improvement« are made dur ing those twenty months. Adv. Asks People Not To Travel The Pacific Greyhound bus lines, which have for years run advertise ments in The Sentinel, seeking travel customers, has now changed its ap peal and urges that people do not travel, especially during the coming holiday season when so many of the boys in the Army, Navy, Air Corps and Coast Guard will have a few days of furlough. Their advertise ment on another page seeks thé pub lic's co-operation in making these home tripe as comfortable and enjoy able as possible for the boys in the service. ~ ■ —-q ■ VOL. XXXVIII. W?—■ . - '**"■ *" Was On Torpedoed TankerOn This Coast Capt. John (Bluejacket) Yoakam, of Everott, Wash., and a former Coos county resident, was in Coquille on Tuesday. He told about the torpedo ing of the^ tanker, a month or more ago, off the Port Orford coast. She was empty and not a man was injured. The vessel could have been gotten to port had a towing vessel of sufficient size been secured. As it was the boat did not sink fbr five days. Capt. Yoakam is a nephew of the late John Yoakam. Lloyd Gregg Now In Rhode Island . W wsmyed. a Libya stating that he It letter from ___________ now stationed in DevisviUe, Rhode Island, where he is in a construction bataillon of. the Nbvy. He left Co quille when called on his recent.en- lis|ment, on-November 13. Harold Charles Welch, of thia ¿ity, who recently enlisted in the Navy, has been inducted and the first of last week began his training course at the Navy camp at Farragut, Idaho. 1,000 Register For Mileage Books The folloMng telegram, received this morning by . the Sentinel from Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Produetion Board, is self-explan atory As he says, the farms of the United States are the most likely place to find the vitally needed scrap metal and junk, and a strenuous cam paign is to be made for the remaining five weeks of this year to get it col lected and .to the steel mills at once. The tpessage reads: The Government is asking the' American farmer to dedicate the re maining weeks of 1042 to an intensive scrap hunt. Steel mills need more heavy scrap and the farms are one of the best sources of this type of. metni. We need your further help in this farm dfive and In aiding our salvage committee to continue this effort throughout the next few weeks. All salvage committees are being in structed to continue to make available to the farmer all their transportation facilities and man power and to co operate in every possible way. The nation is looking to the American fanner. I am sure, with your help, he will come through.—Donald M. Nelson, Chairman. The Congress of the United States, in return to long-honored t^ustom, having fixed the last Thursday in November as the day for national Thanksgiving, now, therefore, I, Charles A. Sprague, Governor of the State of Oregon, do proclaim Thursday, the twenty sixth day of November, 1942, as the date for Thanks giving observance in the State of Oregon. Z1-. The continuance of peace is usually hailed as a principal cause for a natioh’s gratitude. This year that source of thanksgiving is denied us. In the year past the United States has become involved in a great and terrible war, a war in Which the existence of the nation is clearly at stake. In this situation we still may find much to be thankful for. The nation is meeting the test of war with courage. Our people make the necessary sacrifices without hesitation. Thd youth in our armed forces are bearing the burden of battle with inspiring bravery. There is generating a deeper loyalty to our country and to* its foundation principle of human freedom un der law. We should indeed be grateful that the Ameri can people prize liberty above life, and war in the cause of justice above a craven peace. Ceiling On Holiday Fopds The following is a list of holiday food items on which a maximum price was set by Regulation No. 250: Mincemeat, plum pudding. Fig pud ding, date pudding;-Christmas cookies, fruit cake, holiday candy, chocolate- covered cherries, sweet apple cider, g laced or candled fruits and peels, stuffed dried fruits/ dried figs, pure sorghum syrup, dates and date prod ucts. This bulletin summarizes the main leatureaof a new O. P. A. regulation effective October 20, 1942 The Co quille War Price and Rationing Board have these bulletins on hand and George Ulett, Jr Highly Honored * There are other reasons for public thanksgiving. In this critical year God through nature has blessed the long toil of the husbandmen, giving bountiful crops now safely harvested. The state has been spared natural calamity and waste and loss from fires in our forests. No serious contagion has impaired the health of the people. Unemployment is no longer the dread spgplre at many doorsteps I call on the people of the state to assemble in their places of worship on the day herein appointed, there to offer solemn thanks to Almighty God for the blessings we enjoy, to pray for divine guidance for our nation, and to beseech divine favor on the progress of our arms. In the hoamwJkt the day be spent soberly, Without gluttony, ma«9tutS'4c these war times the Spartan courage of our soldiers with Spartan continence in Hving. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the State of Oregon to be affixed. . . . ■. -V- .*■ I George Ulett. Jr., who is this year L . j in his senior year at the U. of O. DONE in the City of Salem this sixth day of No Medical School in Portland, with vember, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred another senior was invited to become a member of the honorary society, forty-two. Nu Sigma Nu, which he did. He has CHARLES A. SPRAGUE recently received a certificate desig Governor nating 'him as the “most valuable (Seal) student to your school for the past year.” Just now he is doing special re search work for the government at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation plant at St. John, on head injuries. The work includes operation of an electro-encephalographic instrument, Geo. A. Ulett left Tuesday for which is a machine which measures The Sentinel, which comes out a day early this week, wishes all its Portland to meet Ralph L. Smith, of brain waves. friends and patrons a most enjoyable Kansas City., Mo., who will be here this week in connection wjth lend- Thanksgiving Day. The American people have much to lease* shipments from Smith Wood- be thankful for, although all branches Products to England. Mr. Smith is of its armed forces are engaged in accompanied by W. H. Drummond, the most stupendous war for human of Liverpool, England, who is with As soon as twelve Coquille ladies freedom this old world has ever wit English Ministry of War purchasing have notified her of their desire to department. He is also connected nessed. join a platoon in this dty. as a part We can be thankful that we still with the firm which represents Smith of Coos county Company G, Oregon have the right to worship, think and Wood-Products in England. Woman’s Ambulance Corps, Captain The last time Mr. Drummond visit — within certain limitations — say Jacqueline Braden will come down what we please. The axis powers ed Coquille was in September, 1036. from Myrtle Point to explain the de against whom we are fighting have He was here the night of the Bandon tails and what the duties of the Corps, denied to their people all the rights fire and visited the lower river sec in Civilian Defense are. tion during the fiery night. which this nation still enjoys. There are now three platoons of Another cause for thankfulness is Company O in the county, one at the growing advantage which the al Myrtle Point. Powers and Marshfield lied forces are winning on all fronts ( each, and it is hoped to have one at —Russia, Africa and in the Pacific. Coquille and another at Bandon. That the global combat may Jast Anyone interested should notify for one, two or three years yet, is, The new man on the Coquille po- Capt. Braden at Myrtle Point. of course, possible but the probable I lice force, who succeeded Ernest 1 '• • • defection of Italy from the axis part I Pagle, is Otho Miller, who has spent nership and the lessening force of I nearly all his life in government that arch enemy of the human race, service. For years he was a mem the Austrian paperhanger, lend hope ber of the Marine Corps and for the to the thought that he may be elimin last four years has been in the For Seventeen Red Devil grid warriors ated ax a world menace before estry service. were awarded letters at a Coquille Thanksgiving Day in 1043. ■ The three Coquille police officers There is not as neuch indication that now are Chief Jack Arnold, R. H. high school assembly last Friday, in accord with the recommendation of the Japanese — are they human Creager and Mr. Miller. beings?—can be brought to a fealiza- Coach “ijplke" Leslie. dolxWL «üwyeji. Jettera-ww », âÎS&JÈO h>A, pSwer ___ _____ ... ..lerarfftr Jack McCracken, Wally Moore, ‘i1e : _____ ocean within a year’s lime but their In Enlarged-Quarters Thomas Martin, Boyd Hendricks, The No-D-Lay Cleaners have this Robert Kline. Hugh Irwin, Robert Mc eventual defeat is certain. Let us all follow the president’s week occupied the store room just Carthy, Alvin Hick^m and Wilfred suggestion, that Thanksgiving Day be east of their location on Front street. Wasson. ( Gerald Ulett and Jqmes Howe were devoted to prayer for the elimination This will give them more room for destructive, dictator their pressing machines and also help the two juniors receiving letters and of the hate the single sophomore was Louis Allen. forces which threaten our very ex in keeping down the heat in their There were five freshmen in the istence m a free nation. work room. ’ honored squad—David Kline. Robert An opening has been made between Al born. Homer Andeksoo,. George the two store rooms and they now Hurst'and Floyd DeNcgna. ^jhave a double front on the street. America Can Be Thankful R. L. Smith And Englishman Visitors Woman's Ambulance Corps For Coquille Otho Miller On The Police Force Seventeen Red Devils Receive Letters There were 1001 who registered for gas or mileage ration books at the Washington school house last Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday after noons and evenings. ' This is probably not alt who Will want to be issued coupon books but such delinquents will have to wait until the Coquille valley rationing board is ready to receive their ap plications. ' « Supt. B. W. Dunn reports that about thirty Coquille teachers participated in the work; being divided into two shifts, one from three until six o’clock, and the other from six until nine o’clock. Four others who assisted were Mrs. Ethel Littler, Mrs. Caro lyn Huff, Miss Inez Rover and Bert Gould. State Suing For Right-Of-Way A suit was filed in circuit court this week by J. M. Devers, attorney for the State Highway Commission, whose object is to ascertain what the state shall pay those having an in terest in the land for a right-of-way for the Seven Devils Chrome Mine Access road, from the Coast Highway t£ a connection with the North Bank road, a distance of two and one-half miles. The road is needed for the trans portation of black sand and minerals from the Seven Devils country and the state is co-operating with the federal government in having the road built. Mr. Devers had been unable to come to an agreement with the own ers as to what should be paid for the right-of-way. The owners aginst whom the suit is filed are W. P. and Minnie E. Kausen, husband and wife, and Edith Hammond Williams. Included in the defendant list are W. E. and Rose Marrion and the Marrion. Rock Co., Who have a lease on the land, and Coos county which has a lien on it. Bill Paok&ggfk Season's Greetings Bill Pock, writing from some where in the Pacific to his former associates on the local Mt. States Power Co. crew, wishing them a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, says he wishes they could be with him where it is “hot," and have to climb mahogany poles as he does. He adds they would surely enjoy Coos county weather and the fir pedes to climb after an experience over there. He also said that he had just finished reading the Sentinel, and in another letter he remarked to his parents that he hadn't supposed the time would ever come, as it has now, that he would be interested in read ing all the advs. in the Sentinel. C. ofC. To Elect Tuesday, Dec. 8 The annual mealing and election of officers of the Coquille Chamber of Commerce will be a dinner meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 8, place to be an nounced next week, President O. L. Wood stated Tuesday. The report of the nominating committee has not yet been submitted to the board of directors and is not ready for publica tion but will be by another week. Philip Stem Visits At Home ■■ V J ■ Pioneer Association Hopes To Get A Museum Started Here With the hope of forming a more permanent organization of the Coos- Curry Pioneers Association, and also the starting of a museum for pioneer relics, early settlers’ photographs and historical stories and data, the ad visory board of the association held a luncheon meeting in the Coquille Hotel last Saturday. All the board except Mrs. C. )L Worrell, of North Bend, and Chas. Stauff, of Coquille, were present and the latter was represented by Mrs. Stauff. Those present wep-e the pres ident, Mrs. Mary Randleman; Vice President J. Albert Matson; Sec- Treas. Mrs. Inez Chase, S. M. Nosier, J. P. Beyers, L. H. Hazard and Mrs. Stauff. To secure information about the Pioneers Museum in Tillamook county, Mrs. Chase had written A. G. Beals at Tillamook. His reply was that there were 000 members of the Pioneers association there, who meet three times a year; that the museum which contains over five thousand articles and items of interest is open for five days each week and that last year more than 5,000 people vis ited the museum. They were from every state in the Union as well as some from foreign countries. Setting the next meeting of the Ad visory Board for some tima in Jan uary, the members present decided to start working on a plan foY’a museum at once, with the idea of collecting stories, anecdotes, etc., of earlier days, photographs of the early settlers, and whatever articles of use in the last century can be secured. Mr. Nosier recalled that, ti>e first Pioneer meeting in Coos county was held in Empire in October, 1802, and at that time Orville Dodge was au thorized to collect data and publish the Coos County History, which he did. • . Mr Stauff, then a boy <>f l8. Work ing in a store at Empire, says he alto present at that ph of half a century ago. "My.Country At War" His Subject Reserve Thursday evening, Dec. 10, for Dr. U. G. Dubach’s address “My Country At War." This is the re quest of the Business and Prrfesaion- al Women's club, the Lions elub and the Rotary club, which are cooperat ing in order to bring this speaker to Coquille without expense to the pub lic. He is a very fascinating and well- informed speaker and gives a vivid picture of the world situation. His travels to South America, Europe and Asia have given him an intimate knowledge of conditions proceeding the war. He has been head of the Department of Political Science siace 1018 and Dean of Men since 1924 at the Oregon State College. Dr. Dubach spoke on October 30 before the Coos-Curry teachers at Marshfield and on the same day be fore the Lions club of that city. He was exceptionally well received by each group. His appearance at the Lions club luncheon led the service clubs in Marshfield to secure his ser vices for a public address, which will be given on the evening following his Coquille appearance. The Washington Schoo] Auditorium has been secured for the Coquille pro gram on December 10, at 8 p. m. j • Philip Stem, son of Dr. and Mrs C. O. Stem, arrived home last Satur day evening for a short visit with his parents. Philip came here di rectly from the most northern point in Maine, where he is stationed as an airplane mechanic and crew chief. His rating is Private First Class, Army Air Corps. He has been away from Coquille since Nov. 17, 1941, when he left to enlist in the U. S. Air Corps, the month before this country declared war and, for which fact he wears a gold braid bar just above the breast pocket on his uni- Air Mail Letter Over Year Coming George Wong, a Chinese boy who attends school here and works on Sat urday at the Coquille Cafe, recently received a letter from his mother in China. Although it had $20 worth of stamps on it, for air transporta tion, it had been a full year in reach ing him. Where it had been all that time he does not, of course, know. Wednesday Evening coast, Philip hat seen Ix>u Robinson, former Coquille boy, who it now in the 17th transport command. Philip The Coquille Community Building left again for the east on Tuesday. committee has arranged for a dance on. that wonderfully fine new floor for Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Carver and two Wednesday evening, Nov. 25. Wayne children left last Thursday for their Ry|n’s orchestra, one of the hottest home in Sunnyvale, Calif., after vis dance bands in the Willamette valley, iting since Armistice Day at the home has been engaged to furnish the of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. V. R. music and admission will be *100 s couple. Wilson. -'; ■
