Valley Setjäiel
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THE PAPER THAT'S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 4t.
Council Proceedings
WereEnlivened
Monday Evening
Sarcasm, pathos, recitation of po-
etry and a supplication on bended
knees, turned an otherwise dry and
matter-of-fact council session Mon­
day evening into a half hour of light­
heartedness and humor, as Leo J. Cary
appealed to the erty fathers to refuse
the prayer of four petitioners for the
vacation of a portion of Fairview
street on Knowlton Heights.
The petition had been signed by
Councilman Stark and Burr, Dr. T.
De La Rhue and Dr. R.,F. Milne. The
A”®
strip asked to be vacated was t__.
from Knowlton avenue north to the
edge of the Dutch John creek valley,
about 175 feet, and south from
Knowlton avenue 250 fe?t, between
Dr. Milne’s and Mr. Burr’s home
properties. North of Knowlton av­
enue that portion of Fairview stieet
liee between the Dr. De La Rhue and
Dr. Stark homes.
Mr. Cary is his appeal to turn
down the application stated that he
was unalterably opposed to vacating
any street or portion of a street in
Coquille; that when he served as
councilman 30 years ago that he had
fought for making the streets wider
than the 60 or 80 feet so many of them
are and pointed to the fact that on
several prominent residential district
streets signa have been posted for­
bidding parking on but one side of
those streets.
Mr. Cary owns quite a tract in the
Dutch John bottom, below the street
in question and visualized a day when
a winding road on an easy grade
would lead from the heights down
into the valley.
An exchange of semi-caustic re-
(Continued on page six)
B. W. Dunn To Be
H. S. Principal Also
perintendent, in addition to his pres­
ent duties, will take over those Of the
high school principal beginning with
the second semester January 17, ac­
cording to action taken by the Co­
quille school board at a special meet­
ing held in the Washington school
last week.
Superintendent Dunn will be pro­
vided with a full time office secretary
who will have charge of all perman­
ent, report, and attendance records.
Two candidates for the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Clarence
Osika, high school principal, were
found available, but since Superin­
tendent Dunn has announced that he
is retiring from the Coquille superin­
tendency effective at the close of this
school year next June, the board
thought It wise to consolidate the of­
fices for the balance of this school
year. In this manner it will be pos­
sible for the incoming superintendent
who succeeds Mr. Dunn to select his
own principal rather than find a
ready made one in office when he
takes ovsr.
Miss Madeline \McKeown, law
graduate from the University of Ore­
gon in 1938, has been secured by
Superintendent Dunn to handle the
routine duties in the general school
office.
First V-Mail Christmas
Greeting Message Received Here
A most- unique overseas V-mail
Christmas greeting card, was that re­
ceived by Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Kuen-
zli of this city, from her • nephew.
Allen B. Bell of Seattle.
It was
mailed in October from "somewhere
in Sicily,” and if the drawing was his
own it showed unusual cleverness
with its speeding truck loaded with
packages and a tag attached to the
largest, bearing his aunt’s name and
uUdlca*.
The R. A. Eastons Continue
To Enjoy Living
On a Christmas card to the Sentinel
force, wishing a Merry Christmas and
a Happy NAv Year, R. A. Easton
writes from Ashland where they have
resided for several years, “Wife and
I are reasonably well and continue
to enjoy JJfe and living:”
Mr. Easton was formerly Eas^Tork
correspondent for the Sentinel.
88.98 THE YEA*
Fourth War Loan
Drive Starts Jan. 18
The Fourth War Loan Drive, which
is scheduled to start Jan. 18 and end
Feb. 15, has a quota of *14,000,000,-
000 set by the Treasury Department.
The bond purchases for the first
three drives, in 1942 and '43, totalled
Mo,384,000,000, while the quotas for
the three aggregated *37,000,009,000,
or 85 per cent more was raised than
was asked.
The first drive was oversubscribed
by *3,907,000,000, the second by *5,-
533,000,000, and the third by *3,944,-
000,000.
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Of the more than fifty billions
worth of bonds bought in the first
three drives, »10,260,000,000 was pur-
Ceased by individuals, partnerships
onrl rmrajinnl
tmzwMinio Inanx
and
personal trilut
trust accounts.
Insur-
ahce companies took *8,727,000,000
worth and banks subscribed for *13,-
426,000,000.
Corporations invested
*14,858,000,000 in the U. S. securities,
while the balance was taken by state
and local governments, Federal agen­
cies. dealers and brokers.
Air WAC Committee
Lt Aida Henddricks, WAC officer
of the Portland Army Air Base was
in Coquille Thursday to appoint a
civilian committee to afd in recruit­
ing for the Air Corps. Recruiting by
branch has been opened to women
just recently and Lt. Hendricks says
there are many new apportunities
open to women who are eligible to
serve with the United States Army
Air Corps.
Mrs. Jack Dolan has accepted the
chairmanship, and other members of
her committee are Mr. and Mrs. E.
E. Leslie, R. L. Stewart, F. W. Martin
and H. A Young The committee
members will have information to
give to interested women between
20 and 49 years of age.
Four Stars In
Council Chamber
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hanging back of the mayor’s desk in
the city hall, indicate that four <_ ,
the city’s official family arb-now in
Uncle Sam’s fighting forces and, if
the members of the fire department
who have gone were included, the
number would be largely Increased.
The four for whom the stars are
shown are City Health Officer Mar­
shall Kennedy, City Attorney Tailant
Greenough,
Councilmen
Everett
Seeley and David E. Biegger.
Red Devils Will Be Ready
For Season Opener, Jan. 7
It is ^uncertain yet whether there
will be any practice games for the
Red Devils basket ball squad next
week or not. If the high school
furnace arrives, as was expected so
that it could be installed during the
holidays there will be no games. If
it does not arrive, Coach Leslie an­
ticipates one or more games with the
Bandon Coast Guard qulntel
In last Friday evening's game with
the Guardsmen, the Red Devils lost,
50-28, after leading at the end of the
first half, 23 to 20.
The local quint is coming along in
good shape, although DeNoma has
been under the weather the past week
and unable to play or practice, but
Spike belives the boys will give a
good account of themselves when the
season opens Jan. 17.
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Wins D. A. R. Coquille**
Good Citizenship Award
Winifred Van Fleet has been chosen
by the C. H. S. senior class to receive
the Daughters of the American Revo-
I lution good citizenship award for Co­
quille. She is now one of the group
of high school students in the state
from whom one will be chosen to re­
ceive the state award and a trip east.
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Will Talk To Liona About
The Tule Lake Affair
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Fensler and
son, formerly of Myrtle Point, came
over from Klamath Falls Wednesday
to spend Christmas at the Theo. L.
Clinton home at Johnson Mill. Mr.
Fensler is attending the Lions club
session this noon and will talk to the
Lions on the Tule Lake insurrection.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Berg drove to
Eugene on Monday to meet their
daughters, Patricia and Martha, who
Ten Day Holiday For
were returning home for their Christ­
The Coquille Schools
mas vacation. The girls will be here
Coquille schools which closed at until Jan. 5. They are attending for
3:30 Wednesday afternoon for the their second year the Dominican
Christmas holiday season will reopen school at San Rafael. Both are sen­
iors in the high school.
Monday morning, Jan. 3.
Coos County Lands The Tanker 'Coquille’
Launching Was An
To Jergens Co.
Impressive Sight
A Merrier 1944
Christmas Our Wish
♦
Merry Christmas’'"may not be the
moat appropriate greeting for this
holiday season, with boys from here,
there and everywhere, scattered all
over the world and threatened with
the danger of never returning to their
home land, so the Sentinel will wish
to all its readers and friends the hope
that Christmas in 1944 wil be a mer­
rier one and that the international
Hun and Jap gangsters will all have
been relegated to the oblivion which
they so ricly deserve.
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Two Coos Pioneer
Ladies Of 1870 —:
Have Gone Beyond
That prospecting for gas and ail In
Mayor O. L. Wood, who with 20
Mrs. Elizabeth Delcina Gehlke
Coos county is to be thorough and to 25 others from Coquille and the
Another of Coos county’s earlier pi­
conclusive during the coming months, valley, attended the launching of the
oneers,
Mrs.
Elizabeth
Delcina
is evident by the entrance to the local tanker, Coquille, at the Kaisef ship­
Gehlke, wife of Peter F, Gehlke,
field of the Jergins Oil Company of yard near Portland last Wednesday,
passed away at her home near Co­
Long Beach, Calif., to which organi­ says that the ceremonies attending the
quille, last Friday at the age of 87
zation has been given a lease cover­ launching and christening of the ves­
years and three days.
sel
were
most
impressive
and
it
gave
ing 5824.69 acres of county-owned
The funeral services, conducted by
land, according to L. D. Felsheim. a wonderful thrill as the vessel moved
*■ ■ -
the Church of Christ, Scientist, of
county judge, acting for the Coos slowly and majestically down the
which she was a member, were held
ways into the water, without a shiver
County Cpurt.
at the Schroeder Bros. Mortuaries
The lease covers county lands in or a slip of any kind.
here at two o’clock Monday after­
'townships 27, 28 and 29, and the first
All the employees who work on a
noon. ■ Interment was in I. O. O. F.
drilling operations are expected Io vessel are given time off to attend
cemetery, No. 2.
,
The
fire
department
has
___
been
be in the Bandon area, although a the launching and there was quite 9.
Mrs. Gehlke was the daughter of
called out four times since our last
thorough geophysic survey of the crowd present.
Mr.'and Mrs. Thus. J. Perkins, and
report.
The
“
Coquille
”
is
considerable
of
a
entire structure is first to be made.
Last Thursday evening it was called was born in Salem, Ore., Dec. 14,’
A. T. Jergins, president at the boat, having a 67-foot beam and being
1856. The family came to Coos coun­
Jergins Oil Company, is known in 526 feet and six inches in length. to the Tom Detlefsen ranch home, be­
ty and settled in the Coquille valley
tween
Norway
and
the
river,
where
southwestern Oregon. He owns a That means it would extend from the
in 1872.
lodge on Rogue river near Illahe, highway and Second street intersec­ a lard-rendering operation was in
Besides her husband she is survived
progress
in
the
kitchen.
The
grease
and is one of the largest property tion at the bank corner well into the
by a sister in Bandon, Mrs. Maryette
caught
fire
and
the
resulting
damage
owners in Curry county, having ac­ Community Building. It is a 17,700-
Morse; a soil by a former marriage,
quired the lands formerly owned by ton vessel, and has a carrying ca­ is estimated at around *350. The
Fred Von Pegert; two grandsons. Law­
electric
range
was
completely
ruined,
pacity of JBO million gallons of high-
the Macleey Estate.
ton and Sheldon Von Pegert, and one
The Jergins company is one of the tast gasoline, besides an upper deck the buckling of the top of the range
great grandchild.
probably
being
due
to
water
thrown
major oil producers on the Pacific storage space which will hold 12,000
Mrs. Gehlke was held in high es­
in the attempt to extinguish the blaze
coast, having some 40 rigs in opera­ barrels of oil.
teem by all who knew her; her cheery
before
the
department
and
it«
chem-
Following the launching a fine
tion at the present time. Entrance
smile and kind words brightened
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to the Oregon field in Coos county lunch was served in one of the cafes ical arrived.
many a day. As a young women she
Friday
morning
the
call
was
to
a
_
_
__
on
the
grounds,
with
half
of
a
large
follows closely the starting of oper­
expressed the true pioneer spirit;
ations by the Phillips 1 Petroleum ' lobster in each portion. The visitors car which was burning on the high-
she never wearied in helping others
way
just
this
side
of
Johnson
Mill,
were
guests
of
the
Kaiser
company
Company of Oklahoma, who are
and gave as well, her warm sympa­
and
which
was
practically
destroyed.
driving a well in the Davis Slough at the luncheon and a fine program of
When the boys answered in re­ thy and entire understanding. Those
area on tl^ Westport arch, and who music and short talks was presented
who knew her, count her friendship
have already reached a depth of by the shipyard’s orchestra and per­ sponse to the alarm the Dumper truck
was driven out of the fire hall quick­ among those treasures that cannot
between three and four thousand feet. sonnel.
be destroyed.
AU Coquille residents who went ly, but the cold chemical truck en­
That the Jergins company plans
gine
would
not
start
and
had
to
early drilling is signified Ijy the fact up to Portland for the occasion were
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Stauff
that a stipulation in thercounty lease unanimous in their praise for the shoved from the hall by hand and
calls for drilling operations to be way in which the entire proceedings down the slight decline on Second
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Stauff, mother
under way within two years, other­ were carried out with clock-like pre­ street before it finally began to work. of Charles Stauff, Coos county treas­
Sunday evening the call was to the
wise the property under lease will be cision.
urer, passed away in Ojai, California,
Elmore Peterson place, near Seventh
quit-claimed back to the county. Ac­
on Monday, Dec. 20, at the home of
and Heath, where a burning flue did
tual operations are expected within
her son, James A. Stauff.
no damage, and later that evening
a matter of months.
, Mrs. Stauff was the widow of Alex­
the call was to the White Cottage on
As an inducement to get further
ander Stauff, and they were pioneers
Front
street
where
an
over-heated
prospecting under* way, the Coos
of Coot county, residing on their
pipe started a blaze but it was ex-
County Court has made a low
week or *>-■8°
so. ago »
a Portland dally tinguiahed without damage to the homestead at Arago and later at Em­
io r-r-
Mr. Stauff was well known in
. i . ’
.
. ..
'T" printed a dispatch from Marshfield room or contents.
I pire.
'•
payable in advance, to the Jergins
Coos
county
as he served as Assessor
that fishing for steelheads in the
company.. This. Will give the county
from 1876 to 1878 and as County
Coquille was extremely poor, that
a modest return on its lands pending
Clerk from 1878 to 1884.
the river was muddy, and gave the
operations. In the event gas or oil is
Mrs. Stauff was born in Missouri
impression that fishermen should
developed the county will receive
on Oct. 24, 1856, a daughter of Ra­
shun the central Coos stream. . J,
royalties of one-eighth part of the
leigh and Eliza Jane Isaacs. With her
The item caused quite a laugh to
oil produced, or one-eighth of the
For L. H. Hazard the installation of parents she came to California, and
Orvin and George Gant and Roger
net proceeds from the sale of gat
officers ceremony of ChadWick Lodge the family later moved to Coos coun­
Stewart, for just a day or two before
from the leased lands.
No. 68, A. F. & A. M. on St. Johns ty in 1869. She was married to Alex­
they were down the river from here,
The Jergins drilling will be on an
Day, next Monday, the 27th, will have ander Stauff on Jan. 1, 1873, at the
between one and four o'clock, and
entirely different arch from that of
more than usual significance for it J. Henry Schroeder home in Arago.
landed 13 steelheads at a gross weight
the Phillips interests.
Success or
will be the fortieth successive time Mr. Stauff passed away in Marsh­
of 117 pound«. And at that 14 got
failure of the one has no positive
he has been installed as treasurer of field on April 3, 1910.
away, due to breakage of line, poles,
bearing on the other, according to
the lodge. The first time was on
Three children, Margaret Viola.
etc. Roger started with over 100
geologists, as each arch in the coun­
Dec. 27, 1904, and he has 'served in Edward and Earnest, have preceded
feet of line and came back with 18
ty has separate and distinct fxissibili-
the office for 39 years.
her in death. She is survived by
feet while Orvin’s pole had been re­
ties.
Most of the lodge records were de­ three sons, two daughters, four grand
duced to a mere stub. Poor fishing,
stroyed in the fire of 1918 when the children and three great graund chil­
indeed!
Mrs. Hersey Brought
lodge nail, then where the Sentinel dren. Sons are: Charles F. Stauff, of
building now stands, burned but the Coquille; William H. Stauff and
Home Tuesday
cash book he kept was in the safe James A. Stauff, of Ojai; daughters:
Mrs. Emily Hersey returned home
and he still has it as well as the ori­ Mrs. Alice J. Hall, of Norwalk, Calif.,
Tuesday by train, accompanied by
ginal bank deposit book.
and Mrs. May R. Cattral, of Ojai.
her daughters, Mrs. Julius Ruble and
Mrs. Stauff suffered a broken hip
Mrs. Geo. Hartley, of Murtaugh, Ida.
A Christmas exchange was the fea­
in a fall in her home on Nov. 20,
She was attended by two doctors
which resulted in her death. Her
when she reached Portland, one a ture of the Rotary Club luncheon at
two daughters and two of her sons
specialist from there, and the other the hotel Wednesday and the various
have been with her constantly during
brought from Beaverton by Ben attempts at versifying created con­
Hersey, her son. who with James siderable merriment.
After 24 years of waiting on the her illness.
Lou Holimon had the cigars passed public at their store at Broadbent, Mr.
Mrs. Stauff was a member of the
Hersey, her grandson, met her at the
around
in honor of his son who re­ and Mrs. Fred C. True are again go­ Episcopal Church and of the Coos-
train with a wheel chair. The attack
of illness, which occurred en route cently became a father.
ing to make their home in Coquille Curry Pioneer Association.
Rotarian
guests
present
were
Fred
Interment will be in the I. O. O. F.
and take a long, greatly deserved rest.
to Portland from Murtaugh, where
Mrs. Hersey had been visiting her McClellan, of Myrtle Point, and Ed They have purchased the Mrs. E. E. cemetery in Marshfield beside her
daughter, occurred following a seem­ Hughes, of Grants Pass. Other guests Johnson property at the west end of. husband. The body is expected to
ing recovery from a cold. It was not were Sgt. Cliff Gulseth, who made a Fourth street and expect to move into arrive in Marshfield on Friday morn­
ing by train, accompanied by her two
a stroke.byt was more a nervous con­ brief response to his introduction, , it around the first of the year.
They have made a deal with C. M. eons, William and James. Funeral
dition brought on following a clogged and Brick Leslie and Oscar Hendrix.
artery. Rest and time will be required
Bonniksen, who has been ranching services will be held at the Thuer-
for her recovery. Mrs. Hersey’s wish . Ernie Pagel Is Now
recently, for the store building, house wachter Home at two o’clock Friday
afternoon.
Friends are asked to
was to get home and now she is re­ Constable For Coquille District
and business at Broadbent.
please
omit
flowers.
laxed and sleeping well and her
Donald A. Burch having resigned
doctor says she is improved slightly.
as constable for Coquille Justice of Sgt. Carl Johnsop To Be
Mrs. Hartley will remain here with
The Biggest Christmas Yet
the Peace and Constable District No. Home On a Three-Day Leave
her mother until hqr recovery.
At The Coquille Postoffice
3, the county court on Monday ap-
Sergeant Carl Johnson, son of Mr.
poined Ernest Pagel to fill the va­ and Mrs. R. C. Johnson and who is
While the records as to sales in the
Mrs. Harry Oerding Of The
cancy and set his bond at *1000. also the ex-printer devil in the Sen­ local poetoffice, during the Christmas
Ernie was formerly a member of the tinel office, phoned from Geiger Field rush, have not yet been checked it is
Wacs Here For a Few Days
Mre Hnrrj* Oerding, rcrgcant in Coquille police force.
In Washington last evening that he the opinion in there that both Ineorr.
has a three days’ leave and expects to ing and outgoing mail was the largest
the Wil l and who is stationed at
this month in the office’s history. The
Seattle, came in Tuesday evening to Jack Cooper Buys Home
be home this evening.
His coming will enable his father, rush started ten days earlier than
spend Christmas and a few days with From Jack Reddy, Saturday
as his last initiation performance as usual and a couple of evenings the
Mr. Oerding and friends here. She
Jack Reddy, who formerly .resided-
master of the lodge, to confer the crew had to work after supper to get
has been with the WAC branch of
here and is now employed at a ship­
Master Masons degree on Carl at a the mail distributed. Yesterday was
the Army for nearly a year. Like so
yard near Portland, was a Coquille
special communication of Chadwick an unusually heavy day.
many people here, and everywhere
visitor last Saturday.
are doing, she 'was suffering from an
Lodge at 7:30 Friday evening.
Mr. Reddy came down to complete
attack of the flu when she came. She
Duck Hunter Hits His
the deal for the sale of his house,
must report back for duty on New
Big Toe With Shot Sunday
comer of 8th and Heath streets, to Twenty Wilf Be Heard
Year's fye
Mr. and Mta. Jack Cooper, who will Jan. 6 For Naturalization
only accident reported in this
occupy it soon.
There wiH be no more sessions of section during the open season for
High School Students Buy
the Coos county circuit court this ducks and geese, which closes today,
A Jeep In Three Weeks
Keith Leslie, who has been a reg­ year, the next motion day being set happened last Sunday when Aldo
Marca, who lives on the Joe Nilsen
For the three weeks period ending ular Finnegin, "in agin, out again, for Tuesday, Jan. 4.
Thursday, Jan. 6, has been set as place near Riverton, accidentally dis­
Dec. 10, the students of Coquille gone agin, Finnegan” since he moved
High purchased *1200 worth of War to Oswego near Portland, came in Naturalization day when approxi- charged his gun, some of the shots
Savings Bonds and Stamps which, is Tuesday evening and will return mately 20 will be present for the hitting his toes. He came to the Co­
the amount needed to buy a jeep for home Friday. ‘Brick” says he won’t hearing on their applications to be- quille Hospital to have the wounds
dressed.
the Army.
Finnegin again until about Jan. 10. ’ come citizens of the United States.
Four Fire Alarms
The Past Week
Yes, Fishing Is Poor
In The Coquille!
40th Installation For
Masonic Treasurer
Christmas Exchange
Party At Rotary
F. C. Trues Coming
Back To Coquille