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THE PAPER THAT’S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME
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COQUILLE. OOM COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY,
36. 1948.
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Babson's Authentic Statement
Copyright—ISIS—Publish«» risanclsl Bureau, tac.
Fenster Tells Of
Tulelake Affair
Everett Smith
Killed In Action
In South Pacific
Thirty-seven Called
By Coquille Board
Gas Shortage
Becoming Acute-
''Share A Ride |
Clark W. Fensler, of Tulelake, Cal
The following men were ordered to
ifornia, was the guest speaker at the
report for induction on December 28
fl
noon meeting of the Rotary Club
by Coos County Local Board, No. 2,
Wednesday.
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Coquille:
Mr. Fensler, who was a former
Robert Thomas Fanner, Bridge.
War’s tragedy again came home to
Reports from all along the coast
resident of , this county but who has Coquille folks last Thursday, in a
Robert Wayne Carman, Myrtle Pt. indicate that the gasoline shortage is
lived in the northern California town more personal way, when it became
Raymond E. Schroeder, Coquille. becoming more acute, with service
for the past seven or eight years, gave known that Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Smith
Alphonso Howard Zuppe, Marshfid. stations having to shut down for
a very vivid description of the reCent had received a telegram from Marine
Milton Watson Rodgers, Coquille. one, two or more days, until their
disturbances in the Jap relocation Corps vheadquarters in Washington,
Raymond Leo Tucker, Bullards.
next allotment can be secured.-
center in that district, where twenty D. C., that their son, Everett E.
George LeeRoy Hultin, Coquille.
The first question brought to mind
thousand of the worst enemy aliens in SmitH, had been killed in action in
Lloyd Leroy Eggers, Myrtle Point. is: what are Coquille motorists doing
the United States are concentrated, the Pacific war theatre. Where his
Vivi&n Tike Cook, Coquille.
to help relieve the situation?
fed, housed and paid regular money death occurred was not given, but
Richard Albert Anderson, Coquille.
Dr. C. G. Stem, commander of the
allowances by this government.
Elgin Lester Strader, Coquille.
people here generally believe that
Legion here, says one morning he
In return, he stated, they revile they know where it happened.
Andrew Vine Hastings, Coquille. made a check on cars and counted 65
the United States, destroy property
Edgar Philip Gillespie, Bandon.
Everett was a member of the Ma-
with only the driver in the car.
and tyeap insults upon the soldiers rine Corp*, having enlisted in May,
Francis Albert Arrell, Coquille.
B and C ration cards are issued on
and guards and, by striking at har 1941. but having continued with his
Wilmot Milton Hoffman, Norway. the agreement to “share the ride,”
vest time, allowed $1,000,000 worth of Studies at O. S. C. until early this
Robert Clayton Davidson, Coquille. and the Legion has made affange-
crops that they had planted and cul ynr.
Dale Evan Dalrymple, Coquille.
ments with the local rationing board
tivated, go to waste in the ground.
Melvin Ernest Erdman, Bandon.
The telegram stated that his body
to act as a clearing house where those
Up to the time of the Nov. 1st dis would be temporarily buried near
Alfred Leon Roberts, Myrtle Point. having room for one or more in their
BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR 1944
turbance the Japs had been petted .where the battle was'fought
Frank LeRoy Woodward, Coquille carl or those who may have to go
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By: Roger W. Babson
and coddled by a paid force of social
Alonzo James ICribblns, Bridge.
Everett was one of the moat popular
out' of town may register for a ride
Edward Leroy Aasen, Coquille.
Babson Park, Mass., Dec. 30—Most t)
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or register their cars as available for
Stanley Johnson Dornath, Bandon. others.
quille High. His prowess as an ath
firms are booked to capacity. If any ( surplus will be given to the peoples a few minor officials of the W.R.B.
One of the demands of the Jape at lete was far above ths average and
Cecil R. Blaylock, Salinas, Calif.
more business were offered they of Continental Europe and China.
Supplemental gas for those with
that time was that all of these be be continued that activity when a
Einor Running, Eugene.
wothd not be able to handle it for Salsa Prospeets
B and C cards is out, and A card
I forecast that retail dollar sales dismissed and that they be allowed student at O. S. C., which he at
Robert Earl Majors, Colorado owners may soon find themselves
many months. This is roughly my
forecast for 1944. The Baboonchart will average 6 per cent to 10 per cent to administer the camp by themselves. tended for two and one-half years. Springs, Colorado.
out of fuel for their cars also. “Share
-Mr. Fenslef stated that the citizens Hu played in the Jan. 1, 1942, Rose
Sales
Ellis Melvin Crosby, Eugene, Ore. the ride;” find out if another wants
Index of the Physical Volume of Busi higher tn 1944 than in 1943.
Cassius Alfred Goodman, Ska-
ness for the final quarter of 1943 volume of consumer goods will again of that community feel that not only Bowl game, which was transferred to
to go to Marshfield or Bandon, or
_____ _ South
,
_______ ,_____
_ __ mania, Washington.
Carolina,
and »-year
average 141 compared with 150.7 start to climb as smaller companies their property but their very lives are Durham,
anywhere else, by inquiring at the
endangered
by
the
presence
oftMr
gg
0
This
"coming
Saturday
played
Victor W. Gentry, Eugene, Ore. local ration office is Dr. Stem’s plea.
for the same period of 1942. The all- get the okay on postwar merchandise.
Henry G. Stinnett, Eugene.
time high was reached in December I expect some decline from 1943 in vast concentration of dangerous ene with the Oregon State team in.Michi
If three or four thousand miles of
Kenneth E. Shirley, Coquille.
1942 when my Index stood at 155.6.It the physical volume of retail sales my aliens, yet at the same time, he gan.
driving a month, in Coquille, could
Ronuld E. Russell, Coquille.
He was a clean-cut, fine' looking
is not possible that this record can due to scarcity of goods and less em stated, there are nine different or
be saved it would relieve the gas
ployment.
Substitute merchandise ganizations working through Wash young man, and his myriad of friends
James Norman Crane, Coquille.
be exceeded in 1944.
shortage that much.
has sold well but manufacturers and ington to have these Japs returned to —he had them wherever he was
Keith M. Mintonye, Myrtle Point.
Military requirements on the west
their normal lives and to be assimi ted most deeply the loss which his
Arthur L. Hathaway, Coquille.
War developments will influence wholesalers are now wary of it. As
coast are now taking over 50 per
lated by the people of this country.
Wayne E. Sharp, Coquille.
death brings, and their sympathy goes
commodity prices' during 1944. Ths good war news increases, consumers I
cent of our gasoline and the need for
This is one of the after-the-war out in unstinted measure to his be
Daniel LeRoy Thompson, Coquille. war purposes will Increase rather
collapse of Germany could result in a will wait for new postwar merchan
problems, he said. What are you go reaved parents, brothers and sister
sharp, thought1 temporary, reaction dise rather than buy synthetic war-
than diminish. The saving of gas is
ing to do about it? The returning sol
Everett was bom in Coquille, Sept.
in leading wholesale indexes. If the made goods. Merchants should keep
a “help win the war” duty and there
dier at the end of the war will prob 33, 1921, being more than two months
going in Italy or elsewhere should a workable inventory. Do not over
is besides the selfish interest of one
ably have something to say about it. past 32 years of age. He^giSended
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prove unexpectedly hard—indicating stock.
and all that if gas is saved, by cut
Mr. Fensler also talked to the Lions the Coquille schools most of his
a longer war—prices should firm.
ting out needless driving, there will
The following ten states are tops for Club last Thursday and to the Sorop- school life, except for a few months
Cattle and hogs may bring lower
be a little more for each civilian
There
iq
a
Strong
probability
that
timist
club
on
Tuesday.
when his parents resided in the Bay
driver.
average prices.
Soybean and corn 1944: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Logan Kag, who resided in Coquille
The list of visitors would read like district.
prices face the test of large market Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Texas,
And if civilians will not “share the
the roster of the Myrtle Point Rotary
Besides his parents, who reside at some 1 • er more years ago and who ride” and do their part in gas saving,
ings. They will be well to hold. In California, Oregon and Washington.
had
a
contract
with
the
government
club as seventeen of them attended the Russ ranch at this end of China
creased Imports of coffee, cocoa and Of smaller volume states, I like:
the rationing boards have instructions
Other vis Camp bridge, he is survived by one for work on Wake Island and was
Georgia, Minnesota, Florida, Ne the meeting in a body.
sugar will hold down their prices.
to clamp down on the issuing of ra
there
when
the
Jape
took
that
spot
a
itors
were
J.
D.
Rankin
and
D.
B.
Mrs. 1 Emma Henderson, of
Continued heavy demand is in braska, Utah and Arizona. Floridu
tion coupons—and if civilians cannot
Keener, of Coquille, and Rotarian H.
o, CaSÍ., , and three brothers, couple at years ago. is still alive, a find gas to buy, whet good are those
dicated for most Industrial commodi may see ■ real boom. Outstanding
prisoner
of
the»
Jap
concentration
C.
Obye,
of
Grants
Pass.
i
two of whorh are in the service. Wm.
coupons!
tise. To what extent efforts to roll salsa cities are scarcer. A year ago
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Capt. Hale B. Eubanks was also K. Smith is at Camp Adair, near Cor camps.
back food prices to September 15, | it was simple-to spot cities with ex
The first report at the time was that
present and gave a short talk on vallis, and Jack is at Palm Springs,
1941, levels will succeed is problem pected gains of 40 to 50 per cent.
Later the- CHriStmOS WfCCk
some of his experiences as chaplain in Calif. Elwood Smith resides here. he wa» killed on Wake
Now
more
cities
will
show
gains
of
atical. Mounting over-all shortages,
Red Cross reported that he was a
south
the
transport
service
in
the
unprecedented demand and the neces only 5 to 10 per cent in 1944 over
prisoner and still later the American
Pacific.
sity for maximum output will tend a year ago. Here is the pick of the
Red Cross reported that he had died
to maintain strong upward pressure lot: Detroit, Michigan; Jackson, Mich
in the prison camp.
That Christmas wreck at the Fat
igan;
Knoxville,
Tennesee;
Phoenix,
on most prices.
Advancing parity
Now,
according
to
word
received
Elk
bridge, the longer one at the end
I
prices, storage, insurance and black Arizona; Portland, Oregon; San Diego,
here by Mrs. Ned Kay from Mrs. of the dike on the highway to Ban
Savannah,
Georgia;
markets further tend to keep prices California;
Speakers expected to be present for Logan Kay, who resides in Oakland, don, at three o’clock last Saturday
high. Subsidies will be granted cer Springfield, Massachusetts; Topeka,
the
annual meeting of the Coquille Calif., the Swiss Red Cross reports afternoon, put two men in the hos
Kansas, and Wichita, Kansas. It will
tain producers during 1944.
The well being drilled on Davis
Chamber of Commerce, in the Coffee that an error has been made and that pital, one of them being quite seri
make a difference in 1944 business
Slough for the Phillips Petroleum
Shop dining room on the 11th of a Swiss representative had contacted ously injured.
Businessmen should watch the Gov. whether Germany cracks in the early Corporation was down to a 3940 foot
Jim Dale and Norman Johnson,
January,
are _______
Mayor Houston of Logan at the camp recently. The
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or
latter
part
of
the
year.
When
this
emsssnt’s policy of disposing of its
depth yesterday. The drill bit was Klamath Falls, one of the most inter- I wor<* came through just before Coast Guardsmen from Floras Lake,
hugs inventories of consumer mer happens Washington will begin at still going through the same shale
were driving this way and had picked
esting and dynamic speakers heard in ! Christmas.
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chandise. With supplies at a much once to cancel war orders, especially formation that it has been for the
up a soldier stationed at Bandon,
Tommy
'
Verification
through
the
Red
Crpes
Coquille
in
years,
and
higher level than in World War I, on the Atlantic Seaboard. The army last thousand feet and until that is
agency
is
now
being
sought.
John
Eachers.
Hoxie, public relations official of the
retailers, wholesalers, and manufac will accept no more recruits, may be gone through nothing of an interest
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For some unknown reason their
Kaiser Shipbuilding Yards at Port I
gin
orderly
demobilization.
Navy
turers should insist there be no dump
ing nature can be expected.
car crashed into a post at the lower
land. The latter will present the city
ing on domestic markets. This could men may be in for two or three years
All the formations thus far en-
end of the bridge and it was a quite
with a picture of the tanker Coquille,
more.
Army
demobilization
may
smash prices. Flooding the export
countered are quite similar to for-
complete wreck.
recently launched at Portland, and a
start
around
election
time
in
1944.
markets could make it difficult to
mations in other proven oil and gas
Dr. J. D. Rankin was called and he
bronze plaque to go with it.
This
should
help
retail
trade.
sell goods abroad at a fair profit.,
fields, apd those directly connected
took the men to the Mast Hospital
The
capacity
of
the
dining
room
(Continued on page seven)
I hope a substantial portion of our
According to a radio broadcast in Myrtle Point where it was found
with the operation are not discour
is 75 persons and when that number
Wednesday morning* Major Marion Johnson had suffered a skull and
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aged, but are very sanquine, that
of tickets is sold there will be no op
Carl, who has again been on duty jawbone fracture, with several teeth
things will begin to happen out there
portunity for anyone else to attend.
in the Pacific for the past few months, knocked out, and that Eschers had
before the 6,500 or 7,000 feet depth
Both the candidates nominated for
got his seventeeth Jap plane this received a fractured breast bone.
which the contract calls for, has been
president of the chamber next year—
week. He had 16 to his credit before Dale’s injuries were cuts and abra
reached.
L. W. Claver and J. A. Moore—
being returned to the U. S. as an in sions on the face and he has since re
Again on Wednesday morning this
A happier 1944 than the past two
have stated that they positively can
structor several months ago.
turned to duty.
the
B.
W.
Dunn,
Dorothy
E.
Bishop
years have been is the sincere wish' week the thermometer reached
not serve in that capacity in 1944,
Johnson was taken to the hospital
and at the suggestion of those inter
of the Coquille Valley Sentinel. Its 36 degree mark, six below freezing, Married Friday In Portland
at Camp Adair the first of the week.
A. T. Morrison Sells His
publishers believe Gen. Eisenhower as it did a couple of weeks ago. This
ested
in
C
of
C.
activity.
Geo.
E.
Burton W. Dunn, local school su
knows whereof he speaks when he is not as low a temperature as often perintendent, and Mrs. Dorothy E. Oerding, who has made a good rec Cranberry Bog Near Bandon
comes
during
each
winter
but
it
is
says the Nazis will succumb during
Arthur T. Morrison, mayor of Co- Mrs. Lanis Bosworth Joins
Bishop, Coos county home demonstra ord as president this past year, is
this coming year and that alone will low enough to cause real Oregonians tion agent, were united in marriage considering accepting the office for quille 30 years ago, who has for sev The Wees—Is In Des Moines
This
make 1944 a happier year, with the to hope and pray for rain.
Christmas Eve in Portland at the another year if the memebrs so de eral years past operated his 4M< acre
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Wood have re
fall of the treacherobs Jape a fore morning the mercury stood at 32 and home of Mrs. Myrtle Lamb, mother sire. There has not been a great cranberry bog southeast of Bandon,
ceived word from Mrs. Lan is Bor-
gone conclusion but with their end it has hovered around that mark of Mrs. Bishop.
deal the chamber could do in 1943, has made a deal for its sale to L. L.
worth that she is now Private Gladys
every morning except Wednesday for
as a belligerent still uncertain.
Supt. and Mrs. Dunn, who returned but George has attended to all its Hooker, now living in San Francisco O. Boaworth of the Wacs, and that she
It can be added, too, that events in the past week.
business
faithfully.
and who operated a garage in^Co- is in training at the Wac center in
to Coquille Tuesday night, will make
1943 also presage a happier 1944 on
The regular directors' monthly quille ten or twelve years ago.
their residence at 261 South Heath
Des Moines, Iowa, and will be in an
the home front, a consummation de Donna Dean Bosserman, Wave
meeting will be held in the hotel din
Mr. and Mrs. Hooker will not take Army Air Corps finance office. She
street, Coquille.
ing room at noon next Tuesday, Jan. possession of the property until May
voutly to be wished.
Yeoman, Expected Tonight
enlisted after Lanis had been trans
To all its readers the Sentinel ex
14.
1, and Mr. and Mrs. Morrison will ferred to southern California, from
Miss Donna Dean Bosserman, Yeo- Mrs. Hal Ilowell Has Been
tends the season's greetings, with the
remain there until that time
which bue he is on duty in the Ta
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wish for each of them that their life's auut UiU«i ciaat io Ute Waves, is ex- Afflicted With Rheumatism
cific.
1
pected
to
arrive
here
this
evening
for
To Operate the C. & D.
hopes will be realized during this
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nosier left last
$784,891.74 To Be November
a short visit while on her way to
Mill In Camas Valley v'
coming year.
Friday
evening by bus to spend
-her first assignment.
Since com
Tax
Turnover To Treasurer
Less Than 16 Inches Of
»
Philip E. Johnson, who was up here
pleting her preliminary training at Christmas with their son, Layton,
Rainfall
Since Sept. 1
A.
O.
Walker
reports
that
the
No
earlier
this
month
from
Glendale,
Hunters College in New York she has and his family in Portland. Mrs.
Roxy Confectionery
Calif., left on Saturday*before Christ vember tax turnover, which has not
December,
1943, has
probably
Nosier
was
then
going
to
Seaside
for
been attending the Yoeman school at
To Reopen January 5
mas for the south. The mill which yet been made to County Treasurer broken a record for minimum preci
A. & M. college in Stillwater, Okla. a short visit with her daughter, Mrs.
The Roxy Confectionery and Lunch, She will arrive by bus this evening Hal Howell, who is living there while succeeds the one burned near Brad Stauff, will total $784,891.73. That is pitation for this month, the total
which Alan Bailey re-opened a few from Eugene.
Hal remains stationed near in the ford Station a few weeks ago—the for both current and delinquent being only 2.58 inches. That state
1
ment may Or may not be correct for
months ago has now been transferred
Coast Guard. Mrs. Howell has b«*n C. & D. mill—is located in Camas taxes paid.
rainfall records have not been kept
to Lorraine Rice and Sue Aitkeg, who
quite ill dor the past two months jvith Valley where a saw mill was formerly
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sciatic rheumatism. TfarNosier Bar-' in operation, and the manufacture of
will operate it when it reopens next Mrs. Mabie Laird Is
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kash came over here until the past year or so.
The total rainfall for the weath
Wednesday, the place being closed Much Better Now
ber shop will be closed throughout lumber began there Monday morning from Roeeburg Sunday evening to
cf this week.
from this coming Sunday until Wed
A Christmas letter from Mr. and this week.
move the furniture from the E. E. fiscal year now stands at 15.73 inches.
nesday. It will be open six days a Mrs. Lloyd Laird, at Petaluma, Calif.,
Johnson home which was recently
I
week, not being open on Mondays. says that his mother will soon be
Jack McCracken, who enlisted last
Mrs. Geo. Loveland, who has been
Stan Sherwood is severing his con- sold. The furniture is being shipped
The new proprietors are asking a able to leave the hospital and return with the Consolidated Freightways nection the first of the month with to the Kash home and some of it is spring in the Army Air Corps, left
continuation of public patronage.
home, although she has had three office here since 1938, is leaving to- the Southwestern Motors Car •nd to be stored. Mrs. Johnson is spend Christinas night for Monterey, Calif.,
Mr. Bailey had to give up the busi special nurses in attendance upon her day to take a position in the com- Home Supply store and will join the ing the winter with her sister and where he was to be inducted. From
ness when called by the Selective and for a time it was uncertain that pany’s office in Oakland, Calif. She ( Geo. F. Burr Motor Co., where he brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ben there he goes to Buckley Field, Colo-
she could recover.
i rado, for hit prelminary training.
Lawrence, in Indianapolis.
will reside in Berkeley.
Service.
will be in charge of the office.
Logan Kay
Reported Alive
Drill Down 3940
Feet Yesterday
Puts Two In Hospital
Annual C. of C.
Meeting January 11
Major Marion Carl
Gets 17th Plane
A Happier New
Year Our Hope
26 Degrees
Again Wednesday