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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1942)
■ The « INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER a——gg .jaX- VOL xxxvm. 'J," A Southern California Coquille River The Highest It Has Been Car Went Into The flood Yesterday Asked if he did not feel pretty lucky to have escaped with as little physical discomfort as he had ex perienced yesterday morning, Chas. Hubler, whose home is in Long Beach, Calif., replied that he didn't feel very lucky. He was busy in the Southwestern Motors garage, when asked, emptying water from motion film cases, his projector, and other equipment, which had been Immersed in the drainage ditch this way from the Fat Elk bridge on thè dike, yes- , (terday morning. Hubler, who is in the Coast Guard and had been up in the apple country around Hood River, was on his way home, and started to pass a logging truck just as the truck started to a pass a car in front of it near that drainage ditch bridge. When he saw he couldn’t make it, Hubler had slowed down his Willys, panel truck and was practically stopped' when he hit the truck and the end of the bridge railing and after teetering there a moment, slid into the flood I which covers the valley, ra*» "Pats” Collier, who was sitting in his car there, waiting for Walt Mar- rion to come over in a boat from his i home beyond Fat Elk, saw the entire • accident and backed up to help in the rescue. One man suddenly emerged from the muddy water and soon another came to the surface. Hubler had I picked up a hitch-hiker and he was the second man. But where Hubler was fortunate, was in the fact that his car, after slip ping into the water, stuck a boulder which prevented it going down into the 18 er 20 feet of water there. Just the tosai hewed when it ■X To Contact All Firms For Payroll War Bond Plan Oesif E. Oerding has been ap pointed Coquille chairman of the Pay Boll Savings for War Bonds organiza tion of which Geo. C. Huggins of Marshfield is county chairman, and there will be a meeting in Mr. Oerd- ing’s office here Friday evening with the members of his committee and Mr. Muggins in attendance, at which time plans will be made for canvassing ev ery employing firm in Coquille to get those firms’ or business houses' co-operation. The effort is to be county-wide and Mr. Huggins hopes to have the campaign completed by Dec. >1. Some little time ago a similar cam paign brought forth good pledges but the results have not been altogether satisfactory of late, there has been some slipping in the co-operation and the effort is being made to revitalize the county's part of this national ef fort •. The idea is, of course, to secure the consent of every employee to a ten per cent of his wages in bonds agree ment. « Eagles Buy $500 Of War Bonds , The Coquille Fraternal Order of | Engles last Monday purchased an other $500 worth of war savings bonds, which makes 81,000 worth that the lodge now has in its treasury. There are 415 members of the lodge in good standing. Besides the 58 F. O. E. members already in the armed service of the United States there are eight more who are only waiting their call to ' report within a short time. The policy of the Coquille lodge is to present each member, a soon as he certificate JJi.»------------- ■!"! L .j j. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1842. NO. 48. 1., . S'. i Gene Loird A Jap Prisoner Dr. Dubach Speaks Tonight Another Call For Coos County Coal Mrs. Sanford Is A Busy President Call For $59,419 Non-High Warrants Horold Neal In The Coast Guard tlon of the war. He is entitled to all the benefits that he would have re ceived had he remained in civilian life, and in good standing, Secretary Fred It. Bull states. Three-Day Holiday Is Proposed Coquille Orange will meet Dec. 18, with a potluck dinner at 7:00 p. m. Short business meeting. Christmas tree and party gift exchange not to exceed 35c. Family and friends of members and Santa Claus welcome. A movement under foot in Coquille and which has already been agreed to by manjr local merchants is to make Dec. 26 a holiday, with places of business not opening from Thurs day, Dec. 24th, until Monday morn ing. the 28th. A card from L. H. Hazard tells of his and Mrs. Hazard's arrival in Pasa dena last week, only seven hours late. There were 400 passengers on the train of 22 coaches. Mr. and Mrs. Hazard have taken an apartment in Pasadena for the winter. . ------- ------------------- Lafe Compton made a trip to Port land Monday night, in connection with Smith Wood-Products business, and returned home yesterday morning. -■!1 ■ ............... . —■ For Several Years The City Council George Oerding Is Holds A Stand-up President Of The Session Monday Eve. Coquille C. of C. day from the river bridge here, looking toward the Smith Wood-Products Picture taken by J. S. Barton plant. Engraving by the Coos Bay Harbor plant. " ■----- ’ - — ■■ -------------- The Coquille river flood, which reached its crest yesterday noon after rising about five inches an hour all through Tuesday night, la a little higher than that of six years ago. It has made of. the valley, between Co- A wire from Pat McKeown last His hosts of friends in southwestern quille and the foothills to the south urday sayfng he had just return« Oregon will be very glad to hear that west, one vast lake, more than two Norfolk, Va„ and a letter would fa - Major Oene Laird is alive, although miles wide and several miles up and low, was received by his mother, Mi i. a prisoner of the Japs in the Philip down the valley from Coquille. Mary McKeown, who yesterday n - pines. Thia information was recently .Thanks to the raising of the dike ceived the amazing letter in whi< 1 sent his wife by the War Department. some years ago that stretch of high he told of having been on the fir t way south was not closed, although destroyer which reached North Afr - the water did reach the center stripe ca. He came through it all, inciudii | on the pavement out at Fat Elk. The the battle of Java, without a aerate , eight feet by which the dike was he said. raised Is probably leas than sevSen He told of the compliments his . Dr. U. G. Duback will speak to- now since there has bean • toot or vision received from the admirals night at the Washington Bldg., from more of settling. ■ added "how impossible it was for . 4:00 to 8:00 p. m. The subject is At the Nilsen plaee, this side of to write all he had to tell them, "My Country at War." Riverton, the walers were over the would have to wait he said unUI if you are interested in hearing dis pavement but traffic was not stopped got heme-and could take a week off. cussed how we got into the war, what yesterday. This morning the water Mrs. Me was 20 inches deep there and cars - — could not get through. reached a line w “My great The highway to Myrtle Point w»s est worry now Is . " and as she turned practically closed Tuesday afternoon, the page it read "how you are going although some cars ran through wa to manage with the small amount ter up to the running boards, when of coffee you can have.” She said her the flood was over the road at the heart had been in her mouth over Johnson Mill low spot, at Rink creek, what his predicament might be! and on the straight stretch between Jack Wade, of Bandon, home from Myrtle Point and the North Fork the east on a furlough, called on Mrs. bridge. McKeown the other evening to tell Residents at Fairview reported that her he talked to Pat on the Street in the North Fork out there had not been Washington, D. C, last Saturday and as high in 15 years. that he looked fine and added that is the condition now and the peace to The North Bank road was under Pat had seen plenty of action and follow, you will not be disappointed. water yesterday, causing cessation of mentioned Pat had been in New The speaker relates this in a fascin > the graveling of the road being built foundland and also had crossed the ating manner. Dr. Duback is being brought to Co from the Seven Devils section to the equator. quille through the co-operative ef Krome Corporation plant near the forts of the Rotary, Lions and Business Yoakam place. and Professional Women’s Club of Co The flood caused the Smith Wood- quille. There will be no admission Products plant to shut down yester nor offering. day and it was necessary to raise and The high schools at each Coquille move a lot of motors and equipment City Engineer J. N. Gearhart Be and Myrtle Point will have the oppor that would otherwise have been sub companied a man from Seattle out to tunity to hear the same address at merged. look over coal locations in the Co each of their assembly periods. At the Swift & Co. plant the rapid quille < valley, Tuesday morning. It rise Tuesday night brought the waters was more in the nature of a prelim into the cooling room from which the i inary survey, and if his report is fa cheese had not been removed. vorable an engineer will be sent in The Riverton ferry which always to make a more thorough inspection. has to stop when the river gets high, The visitor’s statement was that an has been out of commission the past Mrs. O. C. Sanford returned last aluminum plant is to be located at few days. Cottage Grove and another some Thursday from a week and a half trip The men who live in “the jungles" where adjacent to the needed clay to Albany, The Dalles and Portland along the river west of town were all and the fuel need will run to about visiting women’s clubs of the State driven out and "Tine” Houser, who Federation, of which she is president. 1100 tons a day. lives in a float house just below the * On Friday Mrs. Sanford was a guest bridge, was hollering like a good fel of the Marshfield Civic Club when low for help yesterday morning. His they held their Christmas meeting. shack is attached to a boom and the Today Mrs. Sanford leaves for Port rising waters had tipped it to so land and eastern Oregon on Federa rakish an angle it threatened to fall The call for Non-High School war tion business, to return home Dee. over. The city crew borrowed a boat 18 or 18, when she will remain in and went out to the house and brought rants, appearing elsewhere in this is town until her January engagements sue, by County Treasurer Chas. him to shore. are to be filled and she will leave Stauff, will mean a total payment, The rural mail carriers could not again. These trips involve visits and go out this morning and the failure for warrants and interest, by the addresses to clubs, receptions, con treasurer, of 858,419.62. They are of the Sentinel to have its regular ferences and luncheons, al) a part of news items from Arago and Norway warrants endorsed between Feb. 24 an organization throughout the U. and October 10 of this year, and Mr. is due to the flood stoppage of the Stauff says that when the current S. A. of two million women. mail routes. A nearly ten-foot tide yesterday turn-over is made by the tax depart helped to hold the run-off of the ment the Non-High School fund may waters but this momiqg the surface get on to a cash basis. He says also that there are yet out of the huge lake was about two feet lower at the Bandon end of the bridge 8374.03 of such warrants called some here than it was yesterday morning. time ago, which have not been pre Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bennett enjoyed The crest is passed, unless the warm- sented and which ceased to draw in- a visit, lust week-end from their Pat McKeown Was In North Africa —— ................... , The regular first of the month ses sion of the city council was held in the engineer’s office Monday evening, with every one standing for the hour period. The council chamber was be ing used by the Civilian Defense or ganizations in holding a practice on Pearl Harbor day. - An ordinance was adopted pro viding for an increase of $15 a month for each of the three police officers now on the force, the agreement with the '■ officers being that the three— Chief Arnold, Officers Creager and Miller—would handle the duties, day and night. There w>re' suggestions made by another employee that living costs had risen for ail city employees and that all should be given an increase. While admitting the truth of his statements, the councilmen did not feel that they could exceed the bud get adopted last summer and the mat ter was left to be worked out for fur ther increases, If it can be legally done. The increase for the police leaves an unexpended item in the budget for the latter was prepared for a four-man force, while now there are only three. The /following are the figures as (Continued on page eight) George E. Oerding as president and George H. Jenkins as vioe president, were unanimously chosen at the forum «nesting of the Coquille Cham ber of Commerce, held in the hotel Tuesday evening. Mr. Jenkins made a good campaign talk, giving as a rea son why he should not be chosen that his many duties as county agri cultural agent, and the correlated war duties in connection with the office, would leave him little time for other work. U was pointed out, however, that with u active r president as Mr. Oerding, and thè further fact that there would not be great deal a Chamber of Commerce can do until after the war, that the duties of a vice president would not be heavy, and he did not press his objections fur ther. Mr. Oerding thanked the members for the honor given him and said tje would fill the office to the best of his ability and that meetings (Airing the duration would be held but once a month, as has been the custom for Some months now. The meeting voted to accept the nominating committee’s suggestion that the board of directors consist of < (Continued on page eight) Registration Dates Twenty-three Inches > For 18 Year Olds Of Rain This Year Beginning tomorrow young men The Coquille valley has already had a third of its average annual rainfall, since the first of September, the total being 23 Inches. _Jn September there was .82 of an inch, in October 2.15 Inches, in No vember 13.48 inches and up to last night 6.81 inches had fallen in De- eaniber. The greatest amount of precipi tation in 24 hours was the reading last Monday morning when 2.15 inches was the measurement for 24 hours. The next highest was in November, with a 1.68 inches reading. Ed Capps, who was up here from Bandon yesterday, said the Coast Guard gauge for 24 hours one day this week, showed 2.34 inches at the mouth of the river. i . —c--------------------------- Must Apply For Sugar Ration Books The Coquille Valley Rationing Board office in the bank building, re quests the. Sentinel to announce that no more sugar ration books will be mailed out except on application« either In persqp or by letter, from those who have not yet received such books. And such applications should be made before Dec. 15, indicating how many cans of fruit were put up the past summer and fall, and the number in the family. As the sugar books are also used for coffee rationing anyone who uses either sugar or coffee, and has not already received a book, should apply at once. The office force had started to mail out books to all who had registered last spring but so many were re turned to the office as undeliverable to the people to whom they were ad dressed that the ration, board ordered that the books be sent only when ap plied for. • Judge Peterson And Wife Lose Their Baby who have reached their eighteenth birthday anniversary since July 1st , of this year will begin regis , tering for Selective Service, at the of fice on the first floor in the court house here. The dates for register ing for the 18 and 18 year old boys are, according to a proclamation from Governor Sprague, as follows: Those who were or after July 1, 1824, but not after August 31, 1824, shall be registered on any day ( during the week commencing Friday, December 11,.and ending Thursday December 17. Those who were born on or after I September t 1, 1824, but-not after Oc j tober 1, 1824, shall be registered on , any day during the week commenc ing Friday, December 18, and ending Thursday, December 24. Those who were born on or after November 1, 1824, but not after De cember 31, 1824, shall be registered on any day during the period com mencing Saturday, December 26, and ending Thursday December 31. During the continuance of the pres ent war those who were bom on or after January 1, 1825 shall be regis tered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth; provided that if such anniversary falls on a Sunday or a legal holiday, their registration shall take place on the day following that is not a Sunclay or a legal holiday. The registration within each local board area will be accomplished un der the supervision of local board chairman under general direction of the State Director of Selective Ser vice and in accordance with rulerand regulations prescribed by the Di. rector of Selective Service. 1 Rudy Johnson Chosen W. M. At the annual election of Chadwick Lodge. No. 88. A. F. A A. M , held in Masonic Temple Tuesday evening, R. C. Johnson was elected Worshipful Master for the coming year. W. B. McLarrin was chosen as Senior War den; Stanley Ayres as Junior Warden and L. H. Hazard and E. E. Leslie were re-elected as treasurer and sec retary respectfully. St. John’s Day, Dec. 27, falling on Sunday this year, the instalaltion of the new officers will take place Tues day evening, Dec. 22. Judge E. L. Peterson went up to Portland Tuesday in repsonse to word that Mrs. Peterson was not so well but a telegram from him yesterday said that she was better now and that he expected tcKMturn home in a few days. Their ten-day old baby daughter passed away at the hospital where Mrs. Peterson is still confined, last Thursday night. Funeral services were tre held Friday and interment was * Christmas Cantata wer and sons, and rs. land. Harold Neal, who also spent some time with Harold's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Neal. All the visitors were from Roseburg and the Bennett home is in Kenwood Park northeast of town. MrB. Neal said that Harold, Beulah 'Chapter, No. 6, O. E. A, who enlisted recently in the Coast Ouard for a foor-year term, reported will hold its annual election of offi cers in Masonic Temple this (Thurs for duty at Portland on Nov. 30. day) evening. The installation of the new officers will take place Tuesday evening, Dec. 28. Beulah Chapter Election Tonight n 1 n _. J The Christmas Cantata, “Carols of Christmas," will be presented Tues day, December 22, at the Pioneer Methodist Church ’ by the combined choirs of the churches of Coquille. The choir of fifty will perform un der the baton of Harold Withnell, su pervisor of music for the Coquille schools. The accompaniment will be played by Myrtle Christensen at the piano and Bobby Burns at the organ The program begins at 8:00 p. m.
