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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1946)
• . ait^taraeiaim,'! , ji £ cmhulu fall » ■ ' W # ♦ ■3—~r Ou tof-Doors Stuff LAN* LBNBVB ' ' * ' ................ ' «mm. ............. Belle Knife Hospital NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING l'l » The following patients were ad I« S» mitted to the hospital, E. A. Brettin, Dec. 27, treatment; on Dec. 28, Wil liam Bettys, treatment, and H. L. Cardwell, surgery; Dec. 29, C. W. Warn*teff, treatment; Dec. >1, Frank Ctowcher, Medford, treatment, and W. R. Casey, treatment for Injury re- a calendar and tofctaived in farm accident; Jan. 1, Mrs. Mir names on it James H. Duke gave birth te a baby all » warm and ap- boy; Mrs. Ann Giles, treatment; Whit you. The Co- Morris of Powers, trevtmentj Jan, 2, linei and we wish to Mrs. Ellis Martin, Bandon treatment, y errors that we’ve Dec. 30. Mrs. Henry Ware 4.’ The old L. C. Smith has been cased. Notice w» *i*en »«ley that a pub- With loving hands we administer«! llc hearing will be held by the War ' the last rites of the season—several Department on Thursday, January 24, clean rags shoved through the bar- 1948, in the city hail in Coos Bay, rels a final oiled one. | Oregon, beginning at 10:00 a; m. to For thirty-five years this old gun consider proposed regulations to per- has received this same treatment at i«1“ •» specified times and under spe- : the close of each duck season. That’s IcUled conditions-the floating of loose a lot of years! Yes, for thirty-five ind “ck rafts in the waters of years we have roamed the marshes ‘he South Fork of Coos river between head the mouth and the fields, that old gun fucked thah " J of tidewater ------1 *u and ------------------ . I beneath our arm. From the old of Bessie Creek. A tentative draft of the proposed black powder, brass shell days, up to the present high power ammunition regulations follows: ■ » A 1 ¡ I » ■ » I » shooting grounds. And as it is un lawful to sail ducks upon the market, why should it not also be unlawful to sell them upon the wing? That is what occurs when men purchase the right to shoot them—they are pur chasing the birds on the wing. Each county should have a public shooting ground in order to give every one a chance to hunt. As it now stands, the average hunter will purchase a license to hunt game birds such as “Chinks” and ducks, then he looks about him and wonders for trespass notices adorn practi cally all the fence posts in the coun try today. Oregon Journal Approved: Secretary of War' All interested parties are invited to be present or to be represented at the hearing and all will be given an opportunity to be heard, either for or against the proposed regulations or in the matter of provisions or wording of the regulations. Statements ih writing and exhibits may be sub mitted at the hearing or be addressed to the undersigned at Room 628, Pit- tock Block, Portland 5, Oregon. Any J such written statements and exhibits should be submitted in quadruplicate, . and if mailed should reach the office of the district engineer on or before January 22, 1948 • ; * I a . i, G. J. Zimmerman, I ern dealers before February 1. A Two Carriers Wanted For Oregonian Routes See Mrs. Talbert er Call 201 THE OREGONIAN AGENCY Coquille Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kester visited Mrs. Jack Hale. Mr. and Mrs. Hale formerly lived in Coquille. Insurance Advice FREELY 1 given J. B. Itali Night 106-L Phone 303 Blank Warranty Deeds for saie si -da office. Ml r . ....... ■ HHM The above figure represents the total deposits in the First National Bank of Portland and nine independent banks affiliated with it in the State of Oregon. t F IIIOQ if First National Bank of Portland 4 MOM*» 31, IMS pisoiiitcif Cash on Hand and Due from Banks.......... $115,897,543.74 U. S. Bonds, including U. S. Gov’t Agencies.. • 329,470,833.90 $445,368,377.64 Municipal Bonds - - . 60,514,309.26 v Other Bonds ........... 1,601,115.94 Loans and Discounrf^^^^^WSi^^T^ 83,404,335.70 'A Stock in Federal Reserve Bank- r 300,000.00 Bank Premises, Purmtiire and Fixtures • • • 4 • e e * 2,629,671.99 Other Real Estate........ ................... '»............ None Interest Earned 1,965,378.33 Other Resources 195,618.13 Total Resources 595,978,806.99 LIABILttlRB | e Capital • • $ 4,500,000.00 Surplus.. V • f 5,500,000.00 Undivided Profits and Reserves.......................... ill,706,164.75 Reserves Allocated for Taxes, Interest, etc..... Acceptances ♦••♦•••••................................. .... ■Wr Interest Collected in Advance- < *............ v ¡ Other Liabilities......... . ..................• v.......... L Deposits (Excl. of reciprocal bank deposits) .71 D • V ____ ...J D « • D • D Total Liabilities ' ■ I J 21,706,164.75 696,624.32 None t 176,097.30 g H f$V’~ * 182,816.04 573,217,104.58 595,978306.99 * •) LiVESJOCK-KENTON BRANCH SOUTHEAST PORTLAND BRANCH UNION AND RUSSELL BRANCH ALBANY COQUILLE ENTERPRISE FOSSIL GRANTS PASS GRESHAM HEPPNER HILLSBORO HOOD RIVER _______ Í t. r ASHLAND ASTORIA BEND CONDON u ' ■ a FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP PORTLAND BORTLAND BRANCHSS M 1 KLAMATH FALLS LA GRANDE LAKEVIEW MARSHFIELD MEDFQRD ' MERRILL çv MOLALLA NEWBERC NORTH BEND NYSSA OREGON CITY PENDLETON ' V ■ .■V Gasoline Usage U> A G AFFILIATED BANKS FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COTTACI CSOVI Loans and Discount«.................... «..$ 100,488.32 Deposits .................. ............................ .. 5,135395.11 FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF FOREST CROVE Loans and Discounte ......................... $ 134,029.99 Deposita ........................... /................... 3,591,805.29 FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF EUCENE Loans and Discounts ..., è..............$ 3,969,564.06 Deposits ............................................... 43,827,710.02 FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PRINEVILLE Loans' and Discounts............. *............ • 342,357.46 Deposit* ......w.7;...................... •• 334S35r.86 ' * COOLIDGE D McCLAINE, SILVERTON Loans and Discounts.........................$ 18J,267.38 Deposits ............................ .................... 4,782,191X30 BANK OF SELLWOOD, PORTLAND Loans and Discounts............S 44,788.51 Deposits ................................................. 4.060345A1 11 CLATSOP COUNTY BANK, SEASIDE Loans and Discounts...........................S 181,449.54 Deposite ................................................. 3,626,741.25 THE SCIO STATE BANK Loans and Discounts........................... $ i 17,686.83 Deposits .............................................. 1,249,794.99 BANK OF SWEET HOME Loans and Discounts ... ................... $ * Deposits ........... I 69328.92 ................... 1,979,69131 > ■ LEFOSITS First National Bank ef Portland.......................t................................................. DEPOSITS 9 ether Oregon Banks affiliated with First National Bank ef Partland... GRAND TOTAL.............. 1 ....... ¥ I $573,217,104.5» 11JQ9S. 727.24 » 'e453U,S31.82W”: * FIRST NATIONAL BANK I Ì OF PORTLAND — —-À. '¡1 4 i ......................... » « ■J J I 4 s Oregon motorists used- 246,345,545 gallons of gasoline during the first eleven months of IMS, an increi of 13 per cent over the consumption for ; the same period of 1M4, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr, said '“a" r LOB ANOBUS, JSA. ID—Before the end of January, the big par^t plant of Studebaker, at South Bend, Ind., should be turning out new au tomobiles at the rate of 400 a day and, “barring unforseen tieup,” shis should mean new Studebaker Sky way Champions in the hands of West- —ROYAL NEIGHBORS in Coos Bay Sunday with Mr. and craze, the voice of tlie Smith has The Law nun, mam. Floating of loose logs and sack echoed across the marshlands. A sort of of grow» grow» up up with with »' A fellow fellow sort a1 ««f rafti to ln navigable navigable atreama streams is is un-j un gun in that space of Ume—thirty-five »«wful except under Regulations pre- • 'years of close association and such a^^hed by the Secretary of War. < gun is looked upon as. a good, true; (Sections 1 WM 2, River and Harbor friend, an old standby. ¡Act of May 9, 1900). That gun and the writer has watch- The Bernia lions ? ed the steady advancement of civili- ' Floating loose logs and sack rafts zation, the cutting of the vast stretch- to ‘he South Fork of Coos river b©- i es of willows that once adorned the ‘w«*n the hqad pf Ude and the mouth Coquille valley from lower Fishtrap oT Bessie creek is hereby permitted I to the Beaver Slough marshes. We on Mondays only during the months ! of August, September, and October, have watched the gradual encroach ment of the farmer, the cutting of and on Mondays and Fridays only the willows, the converting of the during all other months of the year, vast marshlands into fields of culti- j at the times and under the condi vstion, the gradual decrease of the tions herein provided. On each, of the day« above desig ducks in numbers, as their natural ' hatraror were shorn from the land nated loose loogs or sack rafts are i allowed to enter the navigable stretch and converted into pasture land. hereinabove designated at or near Marekea Were Filled I the head of tidewater within a two- Time was, when hundreds of thou-, sands of ducks winged their way hour period beginning one hour be- i Starting ’round ‘ore ,nil ending one hour after the | —lands,of the valley. L«..»..» . ----- - 4:00 p. m. there was a conUnuous time of high tide at the point of entry, flight of birds from the Fishtrap ! «»d be floated to the mouth of Bessie country—thousands upon thousands creek, provided that such logs are across the magghlands. They circled handled expeditiously and the move- upon outepread*^vThga and alighted t ment in said navigable section is en- by the thousands in the ponds and “rely completed within five hours pot-holes throughout the marshes. after ‘he tlm' of high tide, and said And these birds were mostly all five-hour period shall be entirely mallards—the king of ducks. - within the period between 3:00 a. in. Those days are gone forever, for , end 8:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, as we have already stated, the wil- , Two high Udes normally occur each lows have been cut, the land has day. That Ude upon which logs are j been converted Into fields of grain, allowed to enter the navigable por- potatoes and pasture land-and only.a tion of the river shall .be the one pitiful remnant of the once great. which reaches high slack at the point flocks of birds remain that uaed to of entry between the hours of 3:00 frequent this district. THe choicest a.m. and 3:00 p.m.. Pacific Standard j of the shooUng grounds left have Time. The time of high tide at the been taken over by gun clubs and head of tidewater in the South Fork each year sees the Common sports- of Coos Bay for the purpose of men being gradually shoved into the these regulations shall be considered background, with his complete elim- as two hours and forty minutes after ination from the picture only a mat- : the predicted time of high tide at ter of a few years. * Humboldt Bay, California, (the port Yea, the Old Smith and we Ifeve. oLrefrtnce for Coo«. Bay), as publish- watched this encroachment, with a ed by the Coast and Geoodetlc Sur- certain feeling of resentment, upon ' vey of the United State Department our old familiar haunta. We are not 'of Commerce, alone, for there are many old timers A noaUng catch boom may be in the same boat as ourselvea. The j twun< the rork of old timer sUll retains the cherished River near but not beIow the mouth memories of those golden days when of Bessie creek for the purpose of he could roam the marshes at will, c^hing loose logs being floated as when there were no trespass, notices provl<tad; provided that such and when invitations were extended ln.place only during him to hunt upon practically overy'^ in wMch 8uch floatln< of spot in the Coquille Valley. ¡Iooae permitted and on the Each season sees more men taking dayl designated when- such move- to the fields and the marshes, many ment u under way and provldad of them being persons who have nev- further ,t al] Umeg when M(d er before Shouldered a gun, but be- catch u lwun< acroM a,«, rJver ing possessed with fyll billfolds with go as to obstruct or interfere with which to rant land, or purchase the navlfation. . a competent operator shooting rights thereon. J . ,h«U be in attendance and shall, upon Pooaeeaaa G o H od Maaaortsa the approach of any craft or tow de- We have had our full sljare of the llring to pass either upstream or ducks, have enjoyed the finest shoot- downstream, promptly swing the Ing of all time and pc*««« a store of boom so as to clear the channel and «Olden memories of the days when a|low such craft or tow t(J pagg more ducks could be glimpsed tn MDM.g ---- i At all times between sunrise and single day than may be seen in an sunset on the days when loose logs entire season at the present . time. or sack rafts are being moved in said Bft what we are wondering, is just stream in accordance with these reg how is the coming generation going ulations, and during a period of three to share in the royal sport of duck hours before such movement is to shooting? Young America warits to begin, a red flag not less than three hunt. Returning vets wish again to feet square shall be flown from a take up the old scattergun and fare staff on the river bank near the forth after the broadbQls But just mouth of Bessie creek so located that how is this to be accomplished if all it can plainly be seen by operators the choice shooting grounds are -1 of river craft proceeding upstream in leased or corraled in some manner?” that vicinity and said red flag shall We have always been for the com k--4- not be flown at any time other than I mon sportsman, being one ourselves. herein designated. Between sunset We haVe always been against this and sunrise a red light, instead of the idea of wealthy sportsmen taking red flag, shall be displayed as above over and controlling the choicest provided. p- Mbtawn Ta C um