Weekly Lefler From Washington, D. C
BY CONGRESSMAN HARRIS ELLSWORTH
i County Court News i
g
(By Judge L. D. Felsheim)
Coos county’s main evacuation ar­
tery in the event of an invasion—1
the old Coos Bay Wagon Road­
will be open to travel within a mat­
ter of days, according to Roadmaster
F. A. Robb, who ha* made arrange­
ment* with a logging firm operating
near the Douglas county line to use
it* equipment in clearing the road
of logs and trees. The Coo* Forest
Fire Patrol, under the direction of
Warden Keith Young, ha* offered to
cooperate in cutting brush in order to
help make the road Accessible for fire
fighting.
The county road depart­
ment will use it* grader and will
build the bridge that is out near the
j Douglas county line.
Douglas county has spent some
■even thousand dollar* in grading and
surfacing it* part of the road. This
"It appears that the production and was done last year with the under­
distribution of fresh and canning veg­ standing that Coo* county will do it*
etables and fruits will be so short as [part.
The road in question is the outlet j1
to leave consumers with limited or
no supplies whatsoever. Legitimate for all of Coo* county in the event 1
processors and distributors of food evacuation is necessary and the main 1
products are closing their doors be­ highways are reserved for the armed
cause of inability to secure supplies, forces. The County Court considered j1
and a large percentage of food is find­ the opening of this road necessary for 1
ing its way into the “black market." protective purposes. It 1* a matter of
While consumers are short, large insurance. If it should become a
quantities of vegetable* are rotting necessity it will be a* valuable a* a
in thé field because of the shortage parachute; if it doesn’t, and all Coo*
of labor and lack of proper transpor­ county hope* that it don’t, what­
tation, handling, and distribution,
ever expenditure is made will proba­
Miss Nancy Helen Sonneland,
“We are convinced that the chief bly be in vairu However, the cost to ( daughter of Mrs. Helen M. G. Sonne­
reason for this food crisis is the con- ' the county will be nominal, probably | land of the Fairview district, and
fusion and chaos resulting from the a third of what Douglas county spent. ■ who was a Coquille High graduate
fact that a multiplicity of agencies
three years ago, was united in mar­
are attempting to deal with food pro­
riage to John Louis Corl, of Cor­
duction and distribution. Lack of
vallis, on Saturday, June 12, at the
coordination, delay in formulating
Federated Churches in Corvallis, Rev.
policies, and failure to consult men
R. Wilbur Simmons 'officiating. Miss
Edith Bennington, of Corvallis, was
maid of honor and the groom’s broth­
er. Donald E. Corl, from Hobbs Air
Base In New Mexico, was best man.
Their parents are Mr. and Mr*. Le­
land David Corl, of Corvallis.
Following an informal reception
the couple left for a wedding trip on
the Oregon coast and on June 20 they
left for their new home at Emporium,
Penn., where Mr. Corl is In the gen­
era) engineering department of the
radio division of the Sylvania Elec»
trie Product* corporation.
Nancy Sonneland
Married June 12
WAAC Corporal
Marries A Private
.. .«if**
M mì »
ilTtllt
1 J •
närnrnr
■
iinillllli
Roy Jewell Wed At
Lebanon June 20
H. C Obye, Orant* Paas, Slaldyou
forest supervisor, called at the court
house recently with the information
that the federal government contem­
plated the surfacing of some 20 miles
of the forest roads south of Powers
in order to make it passable for year-
round trucking of logs. The federal
government realise* that if lumber
production is to be adequately main­
tained In the war effort, logging oper­
ations must oontinue throughout the
winter months.
COTTONS
WsitfrfZ Men And
The proposed consolidation of the
cities of Marshfield and North Bend,
together with the intervening strip
of county land, into one city under
provisions of a law paaesd in the 1941
session of the legislature provides
Considerable interest la being
shown in the sale of land acquired
WHAT YOU SAVE
. . . SPEND WITH UNCLE SAM!