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AGO ] Out-of-Doors Stuff Gorse Menace
Combat Committee
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LANE UMBTR
■» To Meet Aug. 15
concert and a street dance K . ■................
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( Taken from The
of Friday,
July 25, 1924)
The city council Tuesday evening
instructed the marshals to arrest all
autoists who stop in the middle of
the streets.
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It appears that the State Game
The first general meeting in con
Commission somewhat relented con nection with a proposed brogram de
cerning the opening of the season on signed to combat the gorse menace in
cow elk in Coos county and at a re Coos and Curry counties, haszbeen
cent meeting declared the season scheduled to be held In the city hall
open only upon bull elk, but with at Bandon, Tuesday, August 15, ac
their usual disregard concerning con cording to an announcement made by
ditions, the season is to be opened H. B. Steiner, secretary of the Gorse
when the elk are at a very poor stage Investigating Committee of the West
and many of them unfit for anything u ern
_ Oregon
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Livestock Men
’s asaocia-
short of dog feed when it comes to tion.
their consumption. 7«
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composed of H. M.
Open territory fa Coos county in- Knox. Gold Beach; Steve Spoeri, Nat
led upon by thy Coquille
Concert Band St their weekly rehear,
sal last evening. The concert will be
field on the street next Xpasday eve
ning, July 29, beginning at 8:30 and
the dance will start at 9 o’clock shaft».
The following is the list of those
comprising the bancfl‘John E. Rosa,
Burr Auliner, Ernest Smith, Geo. O.
Leach, V. R. Wilson, H. S. Norton,
Tracy Leach, Jack Leach, C. L.
Willey. Claude Ford, Earl Nosier,
L. L- Hooker, who recently came Fred Lorenz, W. S. Bickels, Earl
here from Loe Angeles, and Geo. Schroeder, Ernest Townsend, A. G
Steward, of Riverton, have opened an Miller, Welman Ball.
automobile repair shop in the new
Pythian garage building on Hail
Art Berg picked up a “cute” little
street.
pet on the Coos Bay highway Sunday
The remodelled Coquille Service
Station, which is now practically fin
ished, is one of the most modem and
best equipped for service of any tn the
state. Not even in Portland can be
found a handsomer dispenser of mi
and gas, nor one which can handle a
larger volume of business during the
day than can this one in Coquille.
Hillstrom Bros, have begun to dig
up the streets in the southeast sec
tion of the city preparatory to laying
the First street sewer and connecting
a terals.
Fifteen Coos county corporations
pay over «400,000 or 38 per cent of
the county*« taxes.
Washington, D. C., July 27 — If
coming events cast their shadows be-
tore them, then the poet-war era is
running faster than the average citi
zen realizes and will be here before
50 per cent of the proposed projects
are in the blueprint stage. It re
quires no prophet nor the son of a
prophet to Interpret the signs. The
war department is looking forward to '
the windup of hostilities in a matter
of month*—a year at the outside,
apparently.
Already military installations, some
built scarcely one year ago, are be
ing abandoned and orders have been
issued for the removal of buildings.
At Camp Adair, near Corvallis, the
department has decided that it will
not need 45,000 acres of the best
farm land in the Willamette valley as
a training reservation, The build
ings, now emptied of troops,.are tar-
rlcaded »nd the last 15,000 soldiers
were moved away this month. The
milkshed which supplied that popula
tion is now without a customer and
grade A milk, which reduced the sup
ply of that grade for olvtliartk for
U distance of 90 mile«, Is qpw raleaeed
for dviuap eenawnen,
To help
camp Adair, adjsoent eitles amended
their ordinances and permitted lower
grades of milk to be sold.
Camp Abbott, pn the high desert of
central Oregon, which was used as a
training ground for the engineers, is
being abandoned and this activity
transferred to the Pugef SOUty<|
Arn y mappuyprj |as| summer on the
high deser) Involved 109,000 met». On
the Oregon coast ha|f a dpzep $-
staiiatlong for tfcp epast
1»*«
been orejerfd removed and contract-
PTC have bgen Invited to b|d on the
razjng.
Bhe pevnapepi can|oqm^|
in «’uthrni Orrfon, PfbR Pwge a .
Wh|tg, hag been apandpned, the last
Iropps moved out and tbf Pin0« 1«
now headquarter fqr hundred« qft
prisoner pf W9F:
School Tax Offset For Coos
County To Be «131,403
am*
’S. S. S. F., the monqy to be appor-
i tinned coming in from the surplus
State Income Tex. Many school
directors, clerks,' teachers and others
u« Coos, circulated petitions in 1942
in order to get a measure on the
ballot making this possible
The office of County School Super
intendent is required to make the
district distribution sheet In order
that the assessor (pay be able to de
termine the offset.
There will be 3131.405.44 appor
tioned to Coos County School Dta-
iricta as o property tax offset, ac
cording to County School Superin
tendent Martha E. Mulkey, from ad
vice sent to her by Superintendent
of Public «Instruction Rex Putnam.
This amounts to a little lees than 17
centa, namely 10.92398 cents for each
day's attendance at school.
Coos is the tenth out of the total
Piione 223R, to Art Hooton for your
38 as to amount of money to be re
electrical wiring and repair needs.
ceived because of it's days attendance
He is located north of the ball park
being the- loth highest, this being
on the Fairview road.
52tfs
774,447.5 days.
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Keys made lor aU locks. St«
Keys made for all lacks. Stevens
eludes practically every area in-which Perkins, Port Orford; Joe Nilsen, SUM»« Fdhd, commonly called the | Cash Hardware^ CoquiUe. Ora.
elk roam, the areas closed boasting Langiota; Ellis Dement, Myrtle Point
few, if any elk. But the coffers of the and L. W. Lund, Gaylord, will meet
commission evidently being some at 10:30 in the forenoon to consider
what depleted, they seek to raise proposals which have been received
in the shape of a baby coon. It won’t funds an special elk licenses in Coos from various sources outlining pos
allow any familiarity and snaps vi county, special cow and bull elk sible methods of procedure, whereby
ciously at any hand extended toward licenses in other counties and special a unified program can be inaugurated-
it. His partner, G. Russell Morgan, doe sod buck tags in eastern Oregon, I
At 1:00 in the afternoon the com
has fixed up a cage home for the '
Wo hate to keep forever harping mittee wiH meet with delegates from
ba^y.
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concerning the bad moves of the various organizations in view of ef
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i State Game Commission. We should fecting an organization to cover the
Wm. Zosel, formerly of Salem, Ore- 1 bke very much to be able to publish situation. Some definite plan for an
gon, has purchased the Machon pool ! something pertaining to their credit, experimental project to determine the
hall, on west First street, and took ' some worthy move on their^art re best means of eradicating or control
charge of it Monday morning. Mr. garding a wholehearted effort for the iof
7* gorse,
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as well as to determine
and Mrs. Machen expect -to make a protection and propagation of our whether gorse has any
economic
game animals and birds.
trip to France this summer.
value, will be considered. Thia will
The Chinese pheasant season is u also include the question of finance,
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. W. Laird, tlielr joke in Coos countyat the present such as necessary for experimental
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pheeeaoti
can
be nr
guest, Mias Mery O’Earrali, and Mr. time.
prujrcn,
and Mrs. Pete Miner left Wednesday glimpsed In a single day in outside
Some of the subjects to be dis
morning in the Laird car for Crater counties than may be seen in Coos cussed are:
county tn an entire season. In fact,
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and Diamond Lakes.
1. Extent of infestation
and means
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> ¡they have grown so scarce here that of determining such extent.
The foundation is in for the nine- •. lot of hunters have quit hunting
2. Feasibility of a quarantine,
room story and a half cottage which them. An entire day may be spent for the purpose of controlNnr
Chas. W. Ashton is building north- , in their purusit in the Coquille Valley pest.
east of the court bouse, and the ear- without bagging a single bird. Yet
3. Prospects of state appropriation
penters are now busy getting the Coos county is left open to the bag to carry investigating work to de
jging of these birds.
frame work
termine the best means of eradica
; Occasionaly pheasants are libera- tion or control. '
of tb*a*
the books balanced. Many —
...... ted by the commission in the Coquille
4. Possibility of combining with
were important contracts and they
•*** when they are, many states of Washington and California
gave employment to thousand« of t^ne" ^*9 are liberated “P°n «un in request for federal appropriations
workers, who are now idle. Most of c‘ub groun4’ Prior to thp opening of to carry on control or eradication.
these terminated contracts have been ithe *ea*>n “**4 thf Poor sportsmen
Secretary Steiner ha« been gather
in the east, although a few have been wh®
rented land upon which ing
data from
various sources
in the Pacific northwest and in Cali- lohunt
rtowged from the picture through State and federal agencies,
inr-k
I Coos eouhty should be closed en-.
and will be prepared to make a com
Another sign of- what can be ex- Ur'ly
Pheasant shooting and birds prehensive report on the history of
pe«S IS t5? Private industry hra
- ^berated here by th.
the gorse question, and en the re
been permitted to «cqulre small Gam® Commission for several yean sults of experiments in the past.
.mounU of reStrietad material« with before * ’eMor
®P*h PpW
Invitations are being extended to
which to design samples of goods for: ^hem.
prominent officials identified with
the civilian market. This is a «tart, I Th* Chinese pheasant is one bird
agricultural agencies of the state
and with the'end of hostilities the
h“n‘t
«mP»‘hy of farmers and federal government. It is ex
olanta will be able to resume the in 8en,ral- as has the quail, owing to pected that leading authorities on the
manufacture of then commodities ‘he destruction of crop, by the
subject of weed control will be in at
with little loot motion a« quickly as and 1 believe that we gn |M* M
tendance. The gorse committee of the
sufficient supplies of the rostrlcted *“« »M half the farmer»^ wouldn't j livestock men's association has also
materials are available.
Scores of *lve a b<x* whether all these bM« extended Invitations to all chambers
manufacturer, are tinkering with were eliminated from the field« «nd of commerce and public officials in
metal« trying to decide what they 0*n J"
th’,* the Coos and Curry ares, aaklng the
test mrite at the lowest price
W,rtl
chamber« td have delegates present
place on the consumer market in the |br hantly hued Chink,
and requesting the personal attend
shortest space of time. The makers
Phernnt bunting provides a real ance of county, district, state and
realize that there is a pent-up flood, j£rU.1..'^hcn.
btrdl
way
federal officials, representatives of
ef money which will be turn«! loose
but this proposition of walk- the Bouthwestem Oregon area.
J,», «MW. « y «*• -"t "*•
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This fund is known as the State
MID-SUMMER
CLEARANCE
$1.25
Girls' Coals
$6.00
$10.00
Women's Suits
$10.00
Women's Work Suits
$2.00
Assorted Women's Jumpers $3.00
Women’s Quilted Robes $4.00
Men's Suits
$20.00
Men's Poplin Jackets
$2.00
Girls' Skirts
Secretary Steiner recently presen
ted the gorse situation before the
annual meeting Of the Oregon State
m *■* «*>
Grange, declaring gorse as a definite
menace to the public welfare. The
state grange adopted a resolution in
ment^^%<i7hroXut X hunten hlt
»•
ment service offices tnrougnoui v»e
j-. h -_._ annuai pheasant hunt support Of the present movement to
country-dtacioae a situation with re- ■r’*
combat the gorse menace.
hard to get, and they Wish to take
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¡sezs.
spect to returning veteran« which had Bround, gtriotlv -ion-
been antioipgtod but the extent
<hh
which WM W»t fully ritallzed.
Alarm Clock. repaired at Schroe
der’» Jewelry. Men's Wedding Rings
to outl4dc point* tq keen the pro-
¿7° in stock.
This • d^^ZT^ wh^ rS
arises from the fact that many of the .
younger men in the army and navy ’
have received special training which
fits them for a better job than they
left when they entered the armed aer-
theta
men have ryuaw w return w meir
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Men's Swim Trunks
Men’s Ties
don. sbouTh
Om th‘n< *• know for • <*rtalnty
ta y,, fact
u , ,hame
man7 of our boys are in the service
and cannot get in on it. It is a .h«nw
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tte trainins an>'wdy to open it in th® first place,
»Te^vedTthe ar^v
aS We h-V?
,n
iMues of
they have received to thet
y
d
u lt were „ot a case of
the ^evriy aroukej Aita^rl
ta plac,ng
tmp»ed»ate.SnLnd in the locality
paltr> dollar ah^
I m 1 > " «Çi
,hp
"T*
Qwi' '•
Where the veteran desires to reside. h"Ve
«W** in the firtt place
rnd at^Um« the comptaxiqw are
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appointed
buntal tail thl 3lt tabula th>t r“Uy «n^rstandi
the
J^ple ui tat ituaK’whici must «'neral c°n.diUj’''a * the country,
"¿«rfronted
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y
__ take« |u*o v
consideration
the wisnes
wishes of
when
dkmpbUtaztion
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sportsmen-resident
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'counties regarding game legislation
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4M5 Mexicans Allotted
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aad ‘.ooka strictly to the welfare at
wildlife, rather than to the sn-
Qpegop for Fal| Happgs*
riehment of the game commission
Altosatlpn at 1500 additional Mexi- «»“««. Ul8R WC will have an ideal
can Zriraw f« arrival
Oregon «am* cwhihtaslon.
|he last half of AugU«| >111 bring to
approxUP«te|y 4000 the number of
The land at Camp A(|a|r Is tq foe 1 Mexicans available for farm work In
|J >e
H -T (Ute
■ - ' y«q' by the • end _ <4
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re-
sold It was purchased from farmers
^rts'T
itoMT^tato
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fa^'labor
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and th« original owner« will have the
first phance to buy it back, but after supervisor |n the 0 8. C- Extension
being a training «round tor more ’*ThT period from August 30 to
than « yw, filled with fox-holes
empty Shell cases, etq., it |a no longer (Weber id, Peek »«id, ta Oregon's
the beautiful farm land at pre-war most eritleal farm labor period. Mar-
days, Some of |he farmers are «till vast at «nap Wans, hops, apples,
pressing their claims against the gov peer«, prunes, potatoes and other fall
ernment, asserting they did not re crops will cell for thauaands of local
ceive full value for their property farm woriwn in addition to the Mexi
from the war. department. All cases cans, he pointed out.
which have thus tar been tried have
been won by the former owners.
* 1» the ata» ait« the amibition of
n'WW’lp, the evei -rasttrig propagation
neazi
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a « and
““d nrniaoil»»»
protacUon of our
«ame «- bird*
a
M™*T
Wshaye
norapecjal
quarrel
animals We have no eanecial auarrel
w«0 w* present game commission,
but we do pot hestitale to call them to
task for being out of line, regardless
of What they. or ethers may think of
IM regarding out attitude. The big
gest mistake ever made wse by tak
ing the enactment of game laws out
of the state legislature and empower
ing the game commission to change
and create laws governing game and
fish.
Congress has enacted laws for the
termination,of contracts, paving the
way for the return of war industries
to peacetime production.
Hundreds
of contracts have already been ter
minated, the contractors paid off sag
z