RS '—>■ ■ E. E. Johnson Succumbs To Heart Attack Last Night Air Observer Volunteers Needed « City Council Puls In A Busy Three H our Monday Eve. I Fred R. Bull yesterday received his certificate of appointment as war­ den for Coos county of the U. S. Army Air Warning Service, but says he cannot oversee all the posts in the county. In connection with the Air Warn­ ing Service Week, Aug. 1-7, at which time honors are to be paid all those on the Pacific coast who so loyally and faithfully attend to their duties as air observes, without one cent of remuneration, and during which week it is hoped to secure additional observers, Mr. Bulj/says that all posts have now been made comfortable and it* locations where ladies can easily ascend for observing, and that anyone who can devote as little as two hours a week will be acceptable. Men and women are needed all over the coun­ ty. His office here and the Washer Service Co. office, both on Front street, are recruiting offices for air observer volunteers. historical Exhibit ¡Week Aug. 15-21 I The Old Oregon Trail Centennial .1 ■ ................. .... 1. 1 !■ L A. Man Looking For Possibility Of Oil In Coos County Commission has designated the week beginning August 15 as Historical Hal R. Clark, a Los Angeles at­ Exhibit Week. They are asking the torney who hss had ground floor ex­ different towns and cities of the state perience in the development of the ' Some inquiries have been made of The city council, with Mayor Wood, The death of E. E. Johnson at the to bring out from hiding the old fam­ oil and gas fields in Kansas, Okla­ Mrs. Ines Chase if it is necessary to Councilmen Burr, Pettit, Purkey and Mast Hospital in Myrtle Point, at ily relics and exhibit them to advan­ homa, Texas, and quite a little con­ pay one dollar in order to attend the Taylor present, at the regular mid ­ ten o'clock last night, came as a ter­ tage in prominent store windows nection with gas and oil in southern Coos-Curry Pioneer Association an­ monthly session Monday evening, rible shock to his hundreds of friends where they may be seen by the California, arrived here Tuesday nual picnic in Myrtle Grove here this spent more than an hour and a half in Coos county who have admired greatest number of persons Mrs. R. night to look over the possibilities coming Sunday, July 38. It is not. discussing the Sanford Heights water and loved him for many years. A. Wemich received a letter this that drilling in Coos county will The dollar fee which has been men­ problem, for which the council had He had suffered a heart attack at Week from Walter Meacham, execu­ bring about a development along the tioned in the press is the membership not heretofore set any definite policy, his home at Bradford Station, near tive-secretary of the commission in same lines in this section. charge which will be set if the con­ and which was referred to as being Camas Valley, last Thursday and un­ Portland, asking her to serve as Co­ While he has no official connection stitution and by-laws are adpoted at in considerable of a mess. der the doctor’s orders had been quille chairman of the exhibit com­ with the Philips Petroleum Corpora­ the meeting at the group Sunday far -------------- r------------------------------ , — The matter was further complicated mittee here. brought to his home here on West tion of Oklahoma, one of the largest those who sign up as supportlag by the Public Utility Commission’s Fourth street for a complete rest. He The following committee members independent gas and oil companies in members of the association. *~ There letter which permit« dissolution of had apparently been improving and reported last evening at O. C. San­ the country, he is related to one of are always expenses connected I with the Coquille Water Supply company was able to be up and around the fords’ office to formulate their plans the legal officials of that corporation the picnic and some incidental ___ _ is ____ _ as a _ public utility. This the __ or- house the past few days and at seven to cooperate with the Exhibit Week and knows the geological surveys penses at other times which* this 8LM ganization which has heretofore sup­ o’clock last evening, when Chas. idea, Mr. Sanford, Mrs. Annie Robin­ that have been made for that com­ fee will take care of but there is Qo plied water to that section but whose Kash came to report on the work at son, Mrs. Inez Chase, and S. M. Nos­ pany the past few months. charge for attending the picnic d*d supply is insufficient for the needs the Bradford mill, was in good spirits ier. Mrs. M. O. Hawkins and Mr«. Mr. Clark is but one of several men get-together of the pioneers. out there. and seemed better. Pearl Ellingsen will serve also, but from the Mid-Continent oil fields Arrangements are practically cote- 1 When the matter was first broach­ In less than two hours he had suf­ pitted for this event which attracts ed to the city council it was stated were unable to attend last night’s who are showing interest in what the fered another attttek and was rushed meeting. Westport Arch may be able to pro­ hundreds each year from Coos and there would be 40 users on Sanford to the hospital, where he passed ' Merchants have been contacted for duce in the way of liquid gold. Curry counties. There is to be vepy Heights of city water. It now de- the use of window space and every j Mr. Clark had a lot of bus experi- away soon thereafter. little program, aside from the t busi- | velops there are only 24 houses whose Funeral arrangements will not be one in Coquille or vicinity is asked ence after leaving Eureka u —■— Monday neas session, leaving those in owners will connect up with the city to cooperate in making the Exhibit evening. He was the thirty-eighth made until the arrival of his son, tendance free to reminisce and i main and, go far, there have been as complete as possible. This sec­ I passenger to get on to the bus which Philip E., at five o’clock this evening. I old friends whom possibly they 1 only six or eight connected Philip had reservations made for a tion has a rich pioneer back ground would seat tweltyufive. Then a few The postponed budget meeting oí not seen since the last pioneer pienfc. John Purkey and George Burr, of plane trip north before bearing of and Coquille should put forth an ex­ miles north of Brookings a truck School District No. 8 will be held in There will be two short addresses the city's water committee, spent con­ his father's passing. ceptionally interesting showing. forced the bus into the ditch and the Mr. Johnson was bom in Michigan the high school building next Tues­ by early residents of the county, L siderable time out there Monday af­ It is fortunate at this time that the driver had to hitch-hike back to. day, July 27, at 7:30 p. m., at which J. Simpson and Mrs. Alice Maloney, ternoon investigating conditions. Coos and Curry Pioneer Association Brookings where he got a Coast' Nov. 23, 1878, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson. The family I time the budget provisions may be of Berkeley, Calif., daughter of that They found meters, without box cov­ is to hold its meeting here next Sun­ Guard crew and truck to pull the bus came to the coast and operated a mill discussed and the budget voted upon Coos pioneer, Dr. McCormick. Both erings as required, set out in the day. It will be an opportunity to con- ) back on to the road. A few miles at Fort Bragg, Calif., before coming by all qualified voters. The quali­ demurred when asked to talk by high grass, or anywhere else the tact in a group many of the very further one of the tireq blew to Coquille 46 years ago. They fications for voting at this election Mayor J. Albert Matson of Marsh­ consumer might have picked on; in ----------- persons ..1™.. through whom articles might and when he got here he found his landed in Coos county on Mr. John­ are that the voter must be the owner field, but finally consented to say a some places two or houses be loaned or information gained: baggage had gone on north. It ar- of real property within the district. few words. nected up an one son's twenty-first birthday. tnufnswt -I» »tmiita ¿»4 tTlC flCXt dtiy toward ikz» the whereabouts of further The estimates, as prepared by the Coffee, cream and sugar willbe line from the end of the c a main at treasures for showing. In 1898 he was united in marriage | He expects to go up to Portland by here to Miss Julia Drane, who sur­ budget committee, of expenses for furnished by the arrangements com­ the auto camp buried so slightly that Luckey Bonney, George Oerding, tonight's train but will return the vives. To this union two children the coming year, are 3148,975 for the mittee, but those attending should the Uno may freeze up in winter, Henry Lorenz and Frank Martin have first of next week, were born, Philip E. Johnson, now general fund and 813,810 for the bond bring their own dishes, including with the added probability that a already signified their willingness to highway scraper would knock off the give window space in their stores, living in Glendale, Cal|f., and Mrs. interest and sinking fund, or a total cups, as well as their lunches. With ghe prospects good for fine T's on connections where the line Mary Esther Kash, of Coquille and of 8162,785. Estimated receipts and i --- ---------------------- cash balances on hand total 8118.635- weather Sunday, the attendance may runs alongside the pavement. Camas Valley. 80, leaving 844,149.20 to be raised possibly exceed ail previous records. The water committee's suggestion Two sisten, Mrs. Esther Dollar, of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Mrs. Ethel by taxation, plus 810,000, the amount No one is barred becasue he or she was that the city install a master Mehl, of Mabel, Ore., and a brother, of taxes which tt is estimated will did not arrive in. southwest Oregon meter at the end of Its line, require Mr. and Mrs. Ned Lawrence arrived C. McC. Johnson, of Marshfield, and not be collected this year, or a total some time in the last century. Rar the users out there to designate some here Sunday from their home tn Oak­ to read meters, collect the month- ■ | . Arago School District, No.. 3, will land, Calif., for their regular two also of 854,149.20, which is within the cent arrivals are just sig par cent limitation saw al­ attend a oaa and pay the city the amount probably send its high school stu­ weeks vacation visit “beck home.” agreed upon for the water passing dents the coming year to some other Mr. and Mrs. K. P. Lawrence met away * lowed by the statutes without a tor half special vote by the taxpayers. through the master meter with a bond high school or schools for the 1943- lhem in Roseburg. Ned plan­ given the city as a monthly payment 44 school year. Johnson, the name by which ned his vacation so as to be here for . _ __ familiarly known, was one of (ConUnued on page nine) At a meeting' of the directors qf the Pioneer picnic next Sunday He God's noblemen, a kindly courteous District No. 3 Tuesday evening, no­ came to Coquille at the age of 8 years, gentleman in the strongest meaning tices were ordered posted calling an in 18*8, and has not missed a year of that word, a loving husband, a election to be held at the school house in visiting here since. " He said Mon­ Mrs. J. E. Norton arrived huiiw devoted father, and a true friend of there at 8:00 p. m., Saturday, July 31, day his ambtion is, when he gets old Mrs. Elwyn Nosier received a let­ from Portland yesterday and reports his friends. ter yesterday from Mrs. Gene Nosier that Mr. Norton is still improving at which time the.patrons will vote * enough to retire, to have a small His name was Everett Ellsworth who went down to San Francisco on the question of suspending the1 place out on Cunningham creek, most satisfactorily. She will go At a moating of the Coquille city Johnson. at north of town, where he can raise last week, stating that Elviyn who north again next week and on over council wltli three Itantord HMghU Ara<° high ’cho°1 tor thu He had been in the lumber man­ was badly burned at the Naval Hos­ chickens and enough garden to keep least. Into Idaho to visit her mother while residents who hava been prominent ufacturing business all his life, oper­ pital in Oakland, on July 11. was them. He is like so many of the ___ __ Mr. Norton stays at the home of his in arranging for city water for the 1 The reason for the suspension is ating for many years the old Johnson healing nicely and that the bandages boys in the service, after being sta­ residents out there-" Mrs'. Thora wit- th * ‘ Ralph Long and Mrs. daughter in Portland. When Mrs. Lumber Co. plant on the river bank would be removed Saturday to as­ tioned in other parts of the country, Norton returns from Idaho they will son, Geo. P. Laird and Chas. Briggs- .Lo« who is a teacher in the high here and which was later known as certain if any skin grafting is neces­ who say “There is no place to com­ accept an invitation to stay at the it was stated that 34 had signed up**001 lnU’nd to ,eave for 83,1 J,clnto- the Coqupie Mill Co. pare with Coquille and the Coquille sary. and paid their deposits for use of city I CaUf ” where wlU •* Principal and Dorchester House for a week, or two, The body was brought to the Elwyn is a cook ln the Navy Hos­ and probably they will not return water. This is only six less than the "** • He u not br*aldn« Valley." -Schroeder Bros. Mortuaries here to­ pital and early that morning when home till the latter part of next original agreement and Mrs. Watson hlf