wr* TM® «f 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 --rrr“-g ' _ ' u"'' .1 UU, meeu... 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» Harry Lindsay, Emest Hatcher, i to high school here. She is staying E- J., Myers. LLB ’ ’ ^tthehoip* ofh.rbrother - oenu------------ -- - V fnd ------------- T.«- ,nd -- f.m- Fairview News Register Far Fuel ■ • Rationing At Schools| Mrs. Andy Parks and Mrs. Arago News u m 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. ’ ,. . ; 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, 4 •’ . • 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 ___ Ai ____ ...in. nt L,,., _ ___ -i. A — ,. .. _ i 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 ____________ 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 • GG \ 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. ________ _____ 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 • ■> by driving nails, Mrs. Waller Laird ReneWOlS lOI* February 20. was lucky at prize-witurilng a a • A W 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. ---- ----------------- — 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