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Coquille Boys Home
On Furlough From
Various Stations
Oregon Nurses Assn.
Joins Federation
The announcement came yesterday,
through Mrs. O. C. Sanford, of one
of the important gains made during
her administration as president of the
Among the boys home on short fur­ Oregon Federation of Women’s Clubs.
loughs this week are a number who The Oregon State Nurses Association
were high school students here a year voted to become an affiliate member
ago.
of O. F. W. C. This is an organiza­
Charles Mclntee came in Saturday tion with 1620 nurses as members, ac­
night from Corpus Christi, Texas, cording to a letter received this week
where he has just finished the Naval from Aura Nely R. N., secretary and
Aviation course and is now a chief board member. Thi» is something
petty officer, He had expected to be the Federation has worked for and a
married this week and may yet, If, recognition
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which it appreciates. They
he is allowed a Uttle longer stay at have »tressed “Recruiting of Nurses' !>•
home, but his bride-to-be, Bonnie I , as one of the major projects in the
Billings of Myrtle Point, came down ' national emergency. It is estimated
last Saturday morning with the that 30J100 nurses are needed for
mumps.
military purposes besides many IIIBIW-
LeRoy and Ixtuis Gilbert, Waiter and for civilian needs.
Thomas and Dale Stevens came in
Two clubs in the state have each
Sunday evening from Ontario, where raised *250.00 as gifts for student
they have been in Naval Aviation nurses and many others are support­
training since early last November. ing a fund for nurses. The scholar­
The Gilbert boys are expecting orders ship loan fund is offering loans to
to report at the pre-flight school at student nurses up to a period of four
Del Monte, Calif., for further school­ years, without interest. Club women
ing. They have already had more are urged to attend classes in First
than 60 hours apiece in flying. Dale Aid, home nursing and nurses aid.
expects to go to Del Monte also.
Also they are urged to encourage re­
tired nurses to offer their ser­
Dorward (Don) Strong, former Co­ vices. Young women are being urged
quille radio man who has been with to take nurses courses. The need
the Army in Alaska for the past two is urgent.
years, rs home on a furlough. He la
in charge of one of the army's radio
station« in the north.
Marc Shelley and A. M. Willey left
this morning for San Francisco,
where they are stationed, the former
in the Navy and the latter in the
Marines. Male arrived here last
Wednesday evening after receiving
word that Mrs. Shelley had under-
gon a serious operation on Monday
fast week. He says ha likes the Navy
life very much but does not know
how soon he may be sent to sea.
Mr. Willey, who had been home for
ten days had been stationed at San
Diego prior to his furlough.
Coquille Hospital
To Close Monday
The closing of the Coquille Hospital
for the duration on Monday of next
week is a serious matter to the peo­
ple of this community, for both the
local hospitals have been taxed to the
limit for months.
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The inability to secure nurses is
the reason for Mrs. Lucille Living­
ston’s decision to close the hospital.
Four of her staff are leaving at once,
some to go into defense industries,
and some to take more training, and
she says that she herself has beeome
Howard Hiekanu formerly' in the
bank here, and who has been In the
Navy on a Coast transport vessel run­
ning out of San Diego, came In Tues­
day on an eight-day furlough. He is
a motor machinist mate and has been
in the Navy for fourteen months. He
intends going to Portland this eve­
ning and from there will return to
his boat at San Francisco.
Mrs. Livingston has made arrange­
ments to enter the U. at O. Medical
School in Portland the last of this
month, for a year of post graduate
work. Her sister. Miss Norma Chap­
man will return to her home in Ar­
kansas City, Kans.
The only birth reported there this
morning was that of a baby daugh­
ter weighing * pounds, 9 ounces, and
who has been named Mary Dee, to
Mr. and Mrs. Delos Richardson. Dee,
formerly with Stevens* Grocery here,
called up the night before the little
Mrs. Ed McKeown has recently had miss’ arrival, just before he sailed
word from her son Pat, writing from with his unit for an undisclosed des­
a hospital in New York City. At the tination.
time of writing, Pat had been in New
York two weeks and had just re­
turned from a second trip to North
Africa. He was being hospitalized for
frozen hands. There was no infor­
mation or explanation.
Prior to his departure next week
He said the condition was improv­ for Princeton, N. J., where he will
ing and for his mother not to worry take officers’ training preliminary to
as the hands were healing. He prom- being commissioned a captain in the
ined^notheg^tter before he left but
Army. Fred Lorenz has been having
as yet nonenaa followed. Pat was some very attractive changes made
on one of the first destroyers to in the Lorenz Department Store, in
reach North Africa in the surprise the ladles' department. Down both
armada.
sides of the room are glass show
Mrs. McKeown
Hears From Pat
Lorenz Store
Is Remodeling
Tom Martin 1$
Seeking To Enlist
Tom Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
F. W. Martin, who would have grad­
uated from high school this spring,
left Tuesday afternoon for Seattle to
take his physical examination, his
preliminary application for enlistment
in the Naval Aviation Corps having
been accepted.
Bob Martin came in from Eugene
Tuesday evening. He is attending U.
of O. there and if his name la not one
of those called* by the Portland board,
where he is registered, he will return
to the campus next week.
Wayne
Terry, a fraternity brother and a C.
H S. graduate, is also a guest at the
Martin home.
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cases and down the middle of the
room with ample aisle space on either
side, is a series of white display table
cabinets, the entire color combination
of the east room being harmonious
and pleasing to the eye.
Ini reused space has also been allot­
ted to the ready-to-wear department
at the rear, with mirrors placed to
show the style and fit of the dresses
or garments being tried on.
Junior Class Dance
Friday Night
China Town Ball, with decorations
and lanterns simulating a Chinese
i gala scene, is the name given the Jun­
ior dance, to be held in the high
school gymnasium Friday evening,
March 12. Rudy’» orchestra is to
furnish the music and admission will
be, Including tax, 40 cents per per­
son, or 75 cents per couple. It will
be InformaL-Mrw MMris—class ad­
viser, states.
Proceeds from the dance will be
The Cooa county high qchool debate
forum is to be held at the Coquille used for the Junior-Senior banquet
high school next Wednesday at 1:00 in the spring.
p. m„ the participating schools being
Friends here have received an­
Coquille, Myrtle Point, North Bend
nouncement
of the wedding at Med­
and Marshfield.
Kessler Cannon, of Marshfield, ford of Gene Archibald, son of Mr.
county chairman, has announced that and Mrs. Clint Archibald, who was a
the two student speakers from each youngster of seven or eight years
school will each speak for five min­ when they lived in Coquille fifteen
Gene is in the Coast
utes on some probing» of national im­ years ago.
Guard, stationed at Astoria.
portance and interest.
Coos High School
Debote March 17
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Observance Of Dim- Coquille Has Not
Mel Its Red Cross
Out Regulations
To Be Demanded Quota This Month
{Punning For Farm County Farm Not
To Operate Its |
¡Labor Io Coos
County This Year Cannery This Year
Red Cross Treasurer L. H. Hazard
Some apprehension over the pros­
A vaUey rancher asked the Sentinel
reported yesterday morning that the pects of recruiting enough seasonal yesterday if it was true that the can­
Red Cross funds so far turned workers to harvest Coos county crops, ning plant at the county farm was not
to him amounted to *1515. This and the perennial problem of locating' to be operated this year, that no
Is only half of Coquille's quota of enough experienced dairy hands to cans had been ordered. He added
,000 and is about the same amount care for the herds of Coos and Curry that last year the produce he had
t was collected last year, soon af- counties was expressed by federal, taken to the cannery for himself and
Pearl Harbor.
itate and local agricultural leaders, others had made about 5,000 cans and
The need for Red Cross support is as well as attending farmers them­ he was fearful that much produce
gretaer this year than it was last, selves, Thursday at the sixth day­ and vegetables would go to waste if
great humanitarian organization long session of the 1»42 county farm the cannery did not operate.
•Ing step with the armed forces labor program planning meeting,
Talking with two members of the
en all fronts, and Coquille has just as sponsored jointly by the Extension county court later, this scribe learned
Compelling an Incentive to meet the Service and the United States em- why that decision had been made.
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Aw mumuij (g um ligiu— i tu dr"
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Hies which have » gone over the top. Coquille city hall.
at the farm shows there are from
Many Individual
individual contributors
cunmtraiors have
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One of the reasons for the agricul­ 50,000 to 60,000 cans of food on hand
this year continued their former prac­ tural labor supply problems which now.
Last years’ production was
tice of giving one dollar to the Red now are prevalent throughout Ore­ around 70,000 cans.
Lack of recent enemy action on the Cross but it it not enough, and with gon, was illustrated by Professor L.
Shortage of labor to do the canning
Pacific Coast should not lull Civilian higher wages now being paid there R. Briethaupt, Extension project is the principal reason for the deci­
Defense Corps members into a sense are hundreds of people in this setcion leader for farm labor, who used sev­ sion not to operate this year. And,
of security, according to General John who oould easily have doubled their’ eral chai ts to »hew national trends of County Judge Peterson adds, “there is
L. DeWitt, commanding Western De­ former support.
farm labor and wages as compared enough on hand now to take care of
fense Command and Fourth Army.
Rural residents, who may have with Industrial labor and wage trends. the farm and jail needs, and the
“Enemy inaction along the Pacific been missed last week can always find
“Today there Is less than one-haU lessened number of indigent» whom
Coast during the past several months some one in the bank here who is regular farm hands for every esse*>- the county will have to supply with
may well give rise to a relaxation of authorized to accept Red Crow con­ tial agricultural job in the United food in 1943.*'
public interest in Civilian Defense tributions and write a receipt.
As to the wasting of fresh vege­
States,” Prof. Briethaupt disclosed,
measures,” General DeWitt recently I Also for the next payday, March adding that during the depression the tables, if the county plant does not
stated in a letter to James Sheppard, 30, there will again be Red Cross converse waa true and there were operate, Judge Peterson’s statement
director of Ninth Regional Office of booths In the bank and at the J. C. more than two men available for was that there should be a good mar­
Civilian Defense, San Francisco.
■ Penney store, E. T. Stelle, local chair­ every existing farm job. Scarcity, of ket for fresh vegetables through reg­
"A shrewd enemy,” continues the man, reports and it is hoped many course, has caused farm labor prices ular retail outlets, with the army
letter, “takes advantage of a public additional hundreds of dollars will be to soar until no*v they are more than and navy needs running into millions
state of lethargy, and may even at­ received there.
double what the prevailing rates of cans, and it was his belief that
The volunteer solicitor» have done were In depression days. Moreover, every Coos county gardener or truck
tempt U) cause civilian population to
be lulled Into a sense of security, a splendid job in calling on practical­ the proffeasor contined» “farm labor farmer who raised a crop this year
thereby creating a favorable oppor­ ly everyone In Coquille and vicinity wages are more than 70 per eent would be able to sell it to tha whole­
tunity for attack. The mere fact but the results of their efforts has higher than the national average.” sale or retail trades.
that enemy raids have not taken nut Increased the total amount col­
The original cost of the plant, the
Prof. Briethaupt used four words
place along this coast should be a lected to much more than was raised which he called “four-bittera,” and judge said, was around *2500. The
challenge to Civilian Defense to re- here last year.
which his listeners raised to *15 each, equipment and machinery there could
Let us all look at it from this angle to summarise ideas and resolutions 1 not be bought outright; it was secured
(CooUnued on page three)
—“If I had a boy on the fighting passed, by two major Oregon organi­ on a lease basis.
Of course, the
front would I not want to know that zations vitally concerned in the pres- shortage of tin for cans also enters
the Ited Cross wus there to look af­
into the picture, but our farmer friend
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ter his welfare and care for him if
asks if the need for food for the
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he was injured?”
armed forces is not as greet as it the
need for
in the,
A, ft, Gould yesterday was «Mttng
war equipment and
on friend« here, introducing Mie.
But the problem of
Gould, to whom he was married it
help necessary to operate the can­
a quiet wedding In Portland on Mon­
A largely attended funeral was held nery this year was the big problem
day of this week. His bride waa the
in
Myrtle Point Sunday afternoon for influencing the decision. The judge
former Mrs. Georgia Woodward, of
It was reported in the Portland pa­
said Mr. and Mrs. McNeiiy have hod
Hood River, who has been a member pers Tuesday morning that the Civil Mrs. Jos. Laird, who passed awsy
a great deal of trouble for months
at
the
hospital
there
last
Friday
of the draft board in Hood River re­ Aeronautics Authority had approved
past, trying to keep the farm and
cently. They will make their home an airport project, to be located at morning after an extended illness,
hospital functioning smoothly with
and
interment
was
in
the
family
plot
at his place on the Gould tract north­ Port Orford, which would cost *865,-
at the Dora cemetery. She had been insufficient help.
(100 for buildings and field.
west of the city.
The Sentinel joins their many
This 'will be, If it Is done, the first ill for eleven months.
She was bom Ora E. Weekly,
friends in extending congratulations government war project between
and wishing them much hapiness.
Cooa Bay and the California line, but daughter of those early Coos county
there was a rumor going around here settlers, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Weekly,
yesterday, no one knows where it at Dora, Sept. 4, 1881, and was united
The directors of Coquille School
originated nor whether there is any­ in marriage to Mr. Laird at Fort
District, No. 8, at their meeting last
thing to It, that Coquille or vicinity Klamath, Ore., March 19, 1905.
Besides her husband she is survived evening, ordered that contracts be
has been selected us the site for an
by four children—Major Eugene E. tendered to the entire corps of teach­
army
or
navy
training
camp
of
some
Wayne Watson, of the Sunset Dairy,
Laird, who was taken prisoner by the ers, including superintendent and
this week purchased of George Lor­ kind. *
Japs when they captured the Philip­ principals, for the 1 »43-44 school
That
there
Is
any
fondation
for
the
enz the latter’s dairy and herd of 16
pines last year; Wilford Laird, of year. Whether all will be accepted
cows, a short distance below town rumor the Sentinel could not ascer­ Sweet Home, Ore.; Shirley Laird, of
or not, the board does not know,
tain.
and across the river.
Springfield, Ore., and Mrs. Elton but each one is to have the oppor-
He expects to remodel the barn
Schroeder, of Myrtle Point, and by tunity to teach here again next year.
and dairy house and will make it
four grandchildren. Surviving sis­
Normal salary increases were given
the source of his dairy operations
ter» and brothers are: Mrs. Irene all
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teachers, r with
added _____
salary
ad-
during the summer, using his present
Stelle, of Portland; Mrs. Opal Barker I jùstments being made to teachers
location, a mile out on the Myrtle
and Mrs. Fran Cowan, of Springfield; whose salaries were too far below the
Point road, for his winter milking
This reporter noticed last Friday Edwin Weekly, of Lebanon, Ore., Wm. prevailing teacher salary in this local­
headquarter
morning that Mrs. O. L. Newton went Weekly, M>f Mt. Vernon, Wash., and ity.
The enlarged Sunset Dairy will now to take a look at the cars parked in Smith Weekly, who is in the east.
Mrs. Lav ini a Peart, who is now
be able to supply all the milk re­ the middle of Willard street, west of
Another son, Keith, was killed in teaching in the Valley View school,
quired by its customers.
the Sentinel office, and then turn a camp accident a year ago.
was employed to fill a vacancy which
back up the street, apparently satis­
will occur in the Coquille grade school
fied.
next year.
It was not until later in the day that
Miss Audrey Hall, teacher at Her­
we learned the why of her scrutiny.
miston, Oregon, was employed to
She had driven her car down Thurs­
teach in the Coquille high school,
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Miss Margaret Smith left Sunday day morning, had started to walk
filling
a position which will become
A check for *89 was handed E. T.
afternoon for Medford, where she home in the evening and was picked
vacant at the end of this school year.
»telle,
local
Red
Cross
chairman,
look the plane that night for Phoe­ up by a friend to whom she re­
yesterday afternoon for the men in
nix, Ariz., arriving there early Tues­ marked that the gas rationing made
the camp of the C. D. Ray Logging
day morning. Her marriage to Dick a lot of difference in the amount of
Co. at Fairview.
The company's
walking
done.
But
the
truth
was
that
Sherrill took place yesterday after-
contribution was not included in that
n<x>n after the ceremonies at which she had forgotten her car was down
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*>— -v check and it makes a mark for other
the groom was graduated from the town.
camps to shoot at.
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The Junior Women’s Club an­
aviation training school which he had
John D. Carl, chairman at Arago, nounces the date of their spring open­
been attending for several weeks. It Classes To Promote Efficiency
whose district includes Fishtrap, ing dance is to be March 20. For the
is very probable that the bride will In War Production Plants Start
Halls creek and other localities in first time the Community Hall is to
return to CoqulUe when Mr. Sherrill
Arch B. Sanders, secretary-mana­ the upper valley said the dairy men be decorated and the orchestra shell
is sent for over-seas duty.
ger of the Coast Highway Association, in his section had most of them con­ is to be painted. The Juniors are at
has recently been conducting classes tributed on the basis of 25 cents per work now on large floral prints to be
The Harold Goulds To
in war production plants on the Bay cow, and he brought in >400. express­ used on the walls between the win­
Move To Sutherlin Soon
for the War Man Power Commission ing the hope that when it was all dows and around the shell. The
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Harold Gould was here last week- and the State Vocational Training de- in that amount might be increased president of the Junior Club, Lunelle
CHMrisi, is geneeai-eheftwmn
gH&from Suthpriin. whan he Maar partmw^jMving.jnsIrWion
1 a noteworthy mark at which dairy­ dance.
gaged in laying out logging roads and foremen and key men in how to get is
in other sections might train
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surveying for Smith Wood-Products. the moat out of their jobs in an edu- men
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1 their sights on.
He has finally been able to rent a rational way.
Youngsters* Diseases
On Tuesday this week he started
house over there and expects to be
Hit The Benham*
back in a week or two to move his two classes at the Smith plant here, j Illness Of Speaker Causes, r
Benham's Transfer has been work­
one
in
the
afternoon
and
the
other
in
family to Sutherlin.
Postponement of Meeting
ing short-handed the past few weeks.
Their home on the Gould tract, the evening, with 10 to 12 men in a
Miss Viola C. Hill, missionary from First Ernest and Noel Benham were
northwest of Coquille, may be rented class, and he expects to be here on
by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Cochrane, Tuesday and Thursday each week. , China who was to speak at the Bap- laid up with the mumps and now El­
The Man Power Commission pays ; tist church Friday, March 12, will not mer has the chicken pox, catching it
who operate the Bergen floral shop
the expenses of the course and the be here on account of illness Fellow- from his son. Another driver, Walter
here.
Vocational department provides the ship dinner also cancelled till further Barner, left a short time ago to en­
instructional details.
¡notice.
ter defense industry work in Portland.
Calling carda, SO for »i.00.
The Oregon coast section has been
relaxing to too great an extent on
its compliance with dim-out regula­
tions and a more strict observance is
going to be required.
At the Civilian Defense “iheident”
practice, held in Bandon Tuesday
evening, Franck M. Shaw, Coos coun­
ty chairman, and Mr. Lundell, state
lighting co-ordinator for Civilian De­
fense, reported on the findings of an
Army officer who recently made a
trip along the Oregon coast. This
report made a stem demand that the
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In this connection the following
urge for greater vigilance is contain­
ed in a Civilian Defense circular:
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Bert Gould Weds
Hood River Lady
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$865,000 Airport
For Port Orford
Ftmerai Sunday For
Mrs, Jos. Laird
Coquille Teaching
Corps Re-elected
Wayne Watson Buys
Geo. Lorenz Dairy,
Her Car Was Where
She Had Left It
Markey Smith
Married Yesterday
Good Response From
Loggers, Dairymen
Spring Opening
Dance; March 20