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Planning For Coos
Victory Gardens
The growing of a garden on all
farms and by all rural and city resi
dents who have suitable land avail
able for it is the only method through
which civilians can expect to obtain
the necessary fruits and vegetables
to supply their needs durnig this year,
according to an agreement reached at
a county-wide Victory Garden Con
ference held in the city hall in Marsh
field on Friday, February fi.
All agencies which may be in a
postion to assist in a garden pro
gram including garden clubs, schools,
Smith-Hughes Departments, the Farm
Security Administration, and Exten
sion Service are working for an in
creased number with a goal of 8,000,-
000 farm gardens and 12,000,000 city
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at this
meeting by V.
Oí T. McWhorter,
Lillaverle Myers returned to Arago
with them after visiting with them in
j
Coquille.
Harold
Mr. and Mrs. George Gillespie came
1
Ladies Aid met Wednesday at the
Young were Marshfield callers Fri- in Tuesday evening from the Look
church for an all day’s meeting and
February 16, 18, and 17, as far an day. They combined business with out station at Camas Valley, where
quilting. There was a potluck din
*
they are stationed and spent several I
it can be ascertained, are the datas pleasure.
ner at noon. Those attending were:
By long distance telephone Harold days at their home in Arago..
set for the receiving of applications
Mesdames A. If. Aasen, Ward Evans,
Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
by the schools for fuel oil ratio n V«. Norris informed his mother, Mrs.
Robert Fish and Gene, Albert Lillie,
This will take place in certain ale- Tom Benham, that hewas leaving Bishop, was operated on for appendi
Albert Gulstrom, Charles Griffith
unentary schools which have been da- Thursday, Feb. 4, for Fresno, Calif., citis at the Knife Hospital in Co
and Loretta, J. L. Burtis, J. D. Carl,
signated in each county aad the com Ito start bis training as an air cadet. quille last Monday night. He is get
S. C. McAllister, Wdrner Plaep, Dick
He
has
been
in
reserve
since
enlisting
ting
along
nicely.
puting of the amounts will be under
and Bobby. They will meet again
There were two basket ball games
taken by the high schools. The ma last November.
this Wednesday. ,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Paul
Bales
and
fam
played
in
the
Arago
gym
last
Tues
terials for the elementary schools
The Arago girl’s volley ball team
day evening. The Arago grade school
were mailed from the office of the ily moved to Coquille last Sunday.
and the boy’s basket ball team met
The Ladies Mission-Aid met at the boys were defeated by the Coquille
county school superintendent on Mon
the Bandon teams Friday evening at
team
church Thursday afternoon for their sixth grade —
ly, reoruary
a.
... by a score of 24-4, the Arago Gym with the girls defeat
day,
February 8.
The school sites which have been regular meeting. The main discussion ' and the Arago high school boys de
ing the Bandon girls by a score of
designated for the receiving of the was about “Guest day." They plan feated the Coquille Junior High team 41 to 39 and the Bandon boys defeat
applications for fuel oil are as fol- it to be held at Mrs. Robert Holver- 27 to 7.
Miss Lillaverle Myers, who has ing the Arago boys, 19 to 17.
stott’s, March 17. There will be more
lows:
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Halter and
Millington School, Bunker Hill “bout it in this column later. Those been attending school in Albany, re- I Mr. and Mrs. J: W. Barnett were
Empire
present
were
Mesdames
W.
J.
Wheel-
'
turned
to
Arago
last
week
and
started
School, Eastside School, 1
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
l»<lL,
field Schoo), North cr> Harry Lindsay, Emest Hatcher, i to high school here. She is staying E- J., Myers.
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Fairview News
Register Far Fuel
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Rationing At Schools| Mrs. Andy Parks and Mrs.
Arago News
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Logan Kay Is
A Jap Victim
Logan Kay, a well known Coquille
man some ten or more years ago,
was evidently a victim ot Jap star
vation and unsanitary conditions some
weeks ago, the following notice of his
death at Shanghai appearing in last
week's Western World. His brother,
Ned Kay is a Coquille resident:
D. C. Kay and Mrs. Ray Bates of
Bandon received a wire from their
sister-in-law, Mrs. Logan Kay of
San Francisco, that she had been in
former of the death of her husband
in Shanghai, China, the information
coming in a brief message from the
Navy department.
Logan Kay, brother of D. C, Kay
and Mrs. Ray Bates, was a construc
tion’ foreman for. the government on
Wake Island when tbe Jaaa attacked
bn .
ei w e that outpost in the Pacific. He was
Extension Horticulturist at Oregon School, Fairview ScbS»t“'McWnty! At the Sunday school teacher.’(and Mrs. Harvey Myers.
were Sunday evening callers at'the among the civilian prisoners taken
The regular monthly Missionary
State College, who is leader of this .School, Power. School, Myrtle Point meeting held last Wednesday evening,
home of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. McAllis and apparently was transferred to a
project in the state.
School,
Bandon
School,
Sitkum ProKress on the new literature was meeting was held last Tuesday at the
ter.
concentration area at Shanghai,
To assist in developing a Victory , School,
Bridge School exchanged. Thoae present were Rev. home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Burtis
Ellis Rackleff spent Sunday ^ight where he died. No details have been
with
the
following
ladies
attending:
Garden program, s committee consist- i Th« elementary school, will also j “nd ®drs- Wheeler, Mrs. Harry Lind-
at the home Of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. received.
’
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;
Ing of u representative of each garden J have charge of the registration for ,say’ ®ltri L*
Bu°y ahd children Mesdames O/H Aasen, Robert Fish,
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Carl.
Kay, a former Coos county citi
Ward
Evans,
Ann
Fisher,
Werner
club in the epunty will he appointed i ,*tjoniiig for War Ration No. 2. The and Mrs T- H Benham.
Mrs. Corda Lewellen, of Myrtle zen, was for a number of years a con
’ by Mrs. John. Walsh, county chair
chair- center, have not been definitely de-' An item reported too late for last Plaep and Dick, and Mrs. Burtis.
Ptant, spent Thursday night at the struction , contractor in California
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Orvus
Miller,*
Phyllis
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week's
items
is
the
renort
of
srade
man, to meet with representatives of elded upon as of this date, Monday, iweek'* itema U the fW»rt Df «rade
home of Mrs. Grace Rackleff.
before entering the government ser
the Extension Service and other FebrUa"r7"8,'but will be'\nnoune^d . #cho°1 PuPHs who e,ther Phased and Alice, of Myrtle Point, were Sun
The Arago community was shocked
day
evening
dinner
guests
of
Mr.
and
vice.
bonds
or
completed
their
stamp
agencies involved, tor that purpose. later. More elementary school dis- !
and saddened by the^death of one of
It was suggested by speakers at the tricts will probably be used for this books between December 15, 1942, Mrs. Nile Millar.
their most respected citizens last
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Harold
Fish
spent
and
January
30,
1943.
The
following
meeting that persons who have had purpose. People should seek infor- I
Old papers 6c a bunth
Thursday morning, Feb. 4, when
Sunday
at
the
home
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
gardening exeprience be selected in mation through the school districts j children received souvenirs of pieces
Lawrence
Rackleff
was
instantly
of wood from the Battleship Oregon Frank Fish in Coquille.
each community to assist neighbors as to these places.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fish, Donald, killed when a pile of slab wood,
for doing the same: Barbara, Ann,
in controlling insect and rodent pests
FOR
Date, for the registration for the
which he and Robert Fish, Harold
and other problems confronted by receiving of War Ration Book No. 2 Jimmie and Clair Freeman, Norman Ralph, Lloyd and Gene, were Sunday Fish and Ithamer Robison were cut
MAXIMUM
Chezem, Harold Stock, Lula Lind callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
the
” gardeners.
nave
have own
been cnangeo
changed at airiereni
different times,
ting for the Arago Factory, fell on
Mrs. Dorothy Bishop, county home ■ but wlll
announoed definitely say, Betty Hatcher, Rosalie and Alice Nile Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. George Zinzerling, of him. He will be missed by his many
, Matthews, Ellen and Keith Ellis,
demonstration agent, presided at the ghertly.
Albany,
and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin friends in Arago who wish to ex
■ Duane and Ivylena Frye, Emery Hunt,
meeting and speakers included Me-
.
Shaw,
of
Coquille, were Sunday press their sincere sympathy to his
I
Irene
and
Anna
Quivey,
Betty
Hill
Whorter; Leonard Rice, local super-
.
visitors
at
the
home of Mr. and Mrs. bereaved family in this trying hodr.
visor Farm Security Administration; ( CtOIISerVCI tlOn Of
and Merle Boone.
FEED
J.
L.
Burtis.
A
re-election
of
superintendent
of
Dick Connara, manager Coos Electric
Mrs.
Charles
Griffith
received
word
Will
Sign
Up
Herds
For
Co-operative, Inc.;
Mrs. Walsh, I ireS, TtlDeS UrOed
the §ynday school was held Sunday
morning.
The superintendent is Monday of the death of her father, Testing In Lower Valley
Marshfield;
Ted Kirsch, Smith-
Scarcity of repair parts, also the Mrs. Harry Lindsay; assistant,, Mrs. whose home is in Missouri.
Hughes instructor. Myrtle Point; Mrs.
Willard Norris, reporter and an
Jack Knife was ill with the flu this
Leia McCue, chairman Home and Ru- shortage of sufficient tires, are ths Ernest Hatcher.
For better results and increased
active member of the Riverton Chap
profita, feed one of Triangle
Mrs. Faye Holverstott was ill with week and unable to drive the school ter of Future Farmers ot America,
ral Life committee; Mrs. Martha E. two most important reasons why
Dairy Feeds .. 1 Triangle Milk
Mulkey, county superintendent of operators of trucks and pickups should flu the last part of last week, She bus. Virgil Todd was driving for has accepted a position offered to
Maker, Bar-None Dairy Feed,
him.
schools; Clarence Coe, chairman Civ- conserve in every way possible in is much better at this writing.
Triangle Milk Ration and Albina
him by the Coquille Valley Dairy
Mrs.
Ward
Evans,
Pamela
and
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Dairy Feed. Each is built from a
ilian Defense Council, and George «heir use, acording
.to Jim H. ______
Busch, __ Mrs. Albert Thommen has received
Herd Improvement Association. Wil
a representative of the Office of De- word that their aon, Harvey, is sta- Maureen, and Mrs. Ann Fisher visited lard has worked on a dairy farm for carefully balanced formula of
Jenkins, county agent.
cereal grains, minerals and con
i fense Transportation, Medford of- i tinned at Farragut, Idaho, for his at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester
the past five years. He has also centrates for maximum milk
; fice, who met with mem ben of the training. He is in the U. S. Navy Wilson, at Norway, Saturday.
production
had considerable experience in tell
Mr. and Mrs. Nile Miller received
jCounty Farm Transportation commit- and likes it fine.
Aik your local feed
ing with the small cow testing Club
dealer about Triangle
The Grange will hold its regular word from their son, Wallace Miller, that was organized at the high school
tee in Coquille on February 9.
Dairy Fetda Now I
Even though the amount of rubber meeting next Saturday night at their that they had moved to Dixon, Mo.
last year. Willard Will contact farm
Oliver Myers, of Myrtle Hoint,
i which was thought earlier to be avail hall.
ers in the lower Coquille Valley and
An experimental project has peen
Mrs. George Millard oalled on Mrs. visited at the home of his parents, northern Curry county soon and will
able for tire manufacture will toe re
sponsored in Coos county of trans
Mr.
and
Mrs.
E.
J.
Myers
Monday.
duced materially, it appear» now that Albert Thommen Saturday afternoon.
MULING COMPANY
porting farm workers of other sec
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tilghman, of Co sign up the herds that farmers Want
Ray Deadmond attended Grange
the drastic parts situation is even
665 N Tillamook Street
tions of the United States and pro ! more critical, Busch stated, as he sug at North Bayside Sunday.
tested.
The
fees
for
testing
this
year
Portland, Oregon
quille, spent Sunday night at Mrs.
viding training to place them on gested that the local committee urge
Miss will be $1.25 per cow
The Fairview church wishes td an- Tilghman’s home In Arago.
farms in Coos and Curry counties.
farmers and others who operate npuhee that the special offering taken
The United States Employment trucks, to make arrangements early Sunday to go for the prevention and
Service, in cooperating with the Farm to obtain repair parts which will be help of infantile paralysis cases
Labor Sub-committee, have had re needed in the near future.
amounted to $5.30. They take this
quests for year-round farm workers
Shipping of livestock to market means of thanking those who sent of
on dairy farms in Coos and Curry ■and hauling of milk within the county ferings to this most worthy casue.
counties which they were unable to were explained by the Transportation
The Ed Cook family at the head
fill either locally or on, a state-wide ‘ Committee to the O. D. T. represen- of the valley invited the following to
basis. Therefore, they certified this i tative, as being the principal agri- a party and dance at their home Sat
fact to the Farm Security Adminis ; cultural trucking operations in Coos urday evening: Mr. and- Mrs. Chas,
tration, which has the responsibility county, and the full cooperation of Geitner, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dead-
of recruiting, transporting and fur ¡that office I in attempting to solve mond, Ray and J. A. Deadmond and
nishing subsistence to the workers ' transportahi ion problem that may arise Mrs. Juanita Heddon, the latter from
during the training period and until during the year, was assured.
Marshfield. Refreshments of cottage
they are accepted for employment.
H. G. Avery, assistant extension cheese, sandwiches, cake and coffee
The State Division of "Vocational specialist in marketing at Oregon were served.
Education, through the local vocation State College, who has been working
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Kenyon and
al agricultural instructors will pro i closely with County Farm Transpor- children left last week on a business
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vide the necessary training, under i tation committee, explained arrange- and pleasure trip to San Diego, Calif.,
the Rural War Production Training 1 ments which have been made in other and to visit his parents.
Program.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Phillips, of
sections of the state to bring about
Farm
Security
Administration, conservation in travel including the Coquille, visited in the valley Sun
through
investigation, determined pooling of hauling by creameries and day.
that there were no workers of this other commodity organizations.
Mrs. Juanita Heddon, of Marsh
I
type available in the plains states or
field, is at the home of her parents,
Middle West and has recruited fifteen
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Deadmond, caring
farm laborers in Arkansas, and the
for her mother, who is quite ill again.
Farm Security Administration has
Lillie Johnson was out to her ranch
Coquille Townsend Club, No. 1, met and visited relatives from Saturday
sent a man from their regional office
to personally advise these workers of Tuesday evening with shout 35 mem until Monday morning.
the condition under which they will bers present. After all business was
Miss Ethel Fish visited over the
attended to, a very interesting pro week-end at Arago with her parents,
have to work.
These workers will leave Little gram was enjoyed and, in the con- Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fish.
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ciji
test °f button sewing, George Davis
Rock, Arkansas,
on or _ about m Febru-
ary ¡5,’ arriving inMar.hfield'about won me prize ano, in miuai makln
« n
making
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by driving nails, Mrs. Waller Laird ReneWOlS lOI*
February 20.
was lucky at prize-witurilng
a a
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After
VCI
the
IIIC IllVCllIlg
meeting C1C
closed
’S“Q with
W
all
Your electrical appliances, particu
i were
AU school busses wiU have to have
served in the dining hall.
Next
war necessity certificate renewals in
larly now, represent a very vital value
Tuesday evening pie will be served.
order to continue functioning. The
The door prize was won by Mrs.
• first instructions received by the of-
not only to yourself, but te the No-
Death came last Saturday to Perry Alma Halter.
Houston Weaver at a local hospital,
Don’t forget that Sunday, Feb. 28, ifxa of county achbal superintendent
]stated that these would have to be in
after an illness of nearly four years, wil^ be county caravan meeting and
tion at large. They ore responsible
j by February 1, howeyer, the supplies
and funeral services, conducted by also birthday dinner at noon, in the I
I for these were not received in the of
the Gano Funeral Home, are being W. O. W. Hall. Plan to attend,
for many additional hours of valu-
held at two o’clock thia afternoon at
— Press Correspondent, fice until thia week, so it is neces
sarily implied that the ruling would
the Presbyterian church in Bandon.
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oble time to the war effort.
not go into effect at that tme.
Rev. E. E Rosenkilde officiating, and Harvey H. Thommen In
Martha E. Mulkey, county school
Interment is in the Odd Fellows cem
; Navy Training At Farragut
superintendent, is assisting contrac-
etery at Bandon.
Now, while your appliances can be reoalred, may we smqest thol
Mr. Weaver was bom June ___
16, f | A few days ago he was a civilian, tor* *n making the maps of the routes
1901, at McKinney, Texas, and had but rM>w Harvey Hubbell Thommen, and in filling out the question-
you make arrangements to have it done soon. Repairmen, in
lived in Oregon twelve years, and at aon oi Mr “nd Mrs. Albert Thommen, ’ naires. This will thus relieve the
Four Mile below Bandon for three Fairview Route, Coquille, la wearing »chooi clerks of a-great deal of work,
some districts, tare scarce, repair parts for some equipment are
and one-half years.
—*he uniform of an apprentice seaman The maps are somewhat technical
Besides his widow, Nettie A. Weav- “nd is receiving his recruit training $hat • “P*rial code has to be fol
MILK
TRIANGLE
' »AIRY fiibs
To Bring Farm
Labor From Arkansas
TRIANGLE
K eep T hem
RKING
Townsend Club
P . H. Weaver Buried
School Busses
<ivin®
pi«i«c. puddings
At Bandon Today
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laho
ter Houston and John Albert Weaver,“auagul
of Bandon, and Rhea Weaver, of Hon-
Dressed in the smart uniform of a ,
olulu; one daughter. Perry Winona U. S. Navy Bluejacket, he is rapidly
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Weaver, of Bandon; a sister,
Mrs. I learning
learning the
the fundamentals
fundamentals of
of his
his new
new
of Monta Vista, duty. He will be instructed in sea
Marjorie White,
Calif., and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. manship. toughened in the Navy’s
J. W. Weaver, who arrived Tuesday physical ha r*ning program and im
from Blanca, Colorado, to attend the munized against disease. On gradua
tion, he, with his many comrades, will
funeral.
either be assigned to a Navy service
school for training in a specialized
See Norton’s for Valentines
your friends and love*‘ones.
Valentine's Day a week from Sunday, action at
1
Mai, Women! OH at
40,50,60! Get Pep
paired.
Call a repairman today and give him time to work ou*
your problems.
Ftel Years Younaer, Full ef Vim
■un-down feeltac
u what A ditto
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