fag * five AGO ] Out-of-Doors Stuff Gorse Menace Combat Committee ------------------------ - LANE UMBTR ■» To Meet Aug. 15 concert and a street dance K . ■................ TWE ( 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. . 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 _ ___________ Livestock Men ’s asaocia- short of dog feed when it comes to tion. their consumption. 7« .- ■ • The committee, ____ ______________________ 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. . i —......................... 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. ' . concerning the bad moves of the various organizations in view of ef­ —o— 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, _ 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 ri»---a _ Mtm 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, ___ and Diamond Lakes. 1. Extent of infestation and means • —o— > ¡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 Grange, declaring gorse as a definite menace to the public welfare. The state grange adopted a resolution in ment^^%'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 " •“'* 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 7 . - y __ take« |u*o v consideration the wisnes wishes of when dkmpbUtaztion — 1..1 sportsmen-resident --------- ---------------------------- of „ respect! —^.^Jve 'counties regarding game legislation r-r~.---- ----- ... 4M5 Mexicans Allotted ■ 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 _ „_____ re- sold It was purchased from farmers ^rts'T itoMT^tato ’ fa^'labor __— • — n_ i. i - k ™- 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 -------------- 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