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Belle Knife Hospital
NOTICE OF PUBLIC
HEARING
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The following patients were ad
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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
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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 "
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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:
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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
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i, G. J. Zimmerman,
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ern dealers before February 1.
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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
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J. B. Itali
Night 106-L
Phone 303
Blank Warranty Deeds for saie si
-da office.
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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.
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IIIOQ if First National Bank of Portland
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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
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Other Bonds ...........
1,601,115.94
Loans and Discounrf^^^^^WSi^^T^
83,404,335.70
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Stock in Federal Reserve Bank-
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300,000.00
Bank Premises, Purmtiire and Fixtures • • • 4 • e e *
2,629,671.99
Other Real Estate........ ...................
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None
Interest Earned
1,965,378.33
Other Resources
195,618.13
Total Resources
595,978,806.99
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Capital • •
$ 4,500,000.00
Surplus.. V •
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5,500,000.00
Undivided Profits and Reserves..........................
ill,706,164.75
Reserves Allocated for Taxes, Interest, etc.....
Acceptances ♦••♦•••••................................. ....
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Deposits (Excl. of reciprocal bank deposits) .71
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Total Liabilities
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696,624.32
None t
176,097.30 g H f$V’~ *
182,816.04
573,217,104.58
595,978306.99
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LiVESJOCK-KENTON BRANCH
SOUTHEAST PORTLAND BRANCH
UNION AND RUSSELL BRANCH
ALBANY
COQUILLE
ENTERPRISE
FOSSIL
GRANTS PASS
GRESHAM
HEPPNER
HILLSBORO
HOOD RIVER
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BORTLAND BRANCHSS
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KLAMATH FALLS
LA GRANDE
LAKEVIEW
MARSHFIELD
MEDFQRD
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MOLALLA
NEWBERC
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NYSSA
OREGON CITY
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AFFILIATED BANKS
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COTTACI CSOVI
Loans and Discount«.................... «..$ 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
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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
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CLATSOP COUNTY BANK, SEASIDE
Loans and Discounts...........................S 181,449.54
Deposite ................................................. 3,626,741.25
THE SCIO STATE BANK
Loans and Discounts........................... $
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17,686.83
Deposits .............................................. 1,249,794.99
BANK OF SWEET HOME
Loans and Discounts ... ................... $
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DEPOSITS 9 ether Oregon Banks affiliated with First National Bank ef Partland...
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11JQ9S. 727.24
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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
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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
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gun in that space of Ume—thirty-five »«wful except under Regulations pre-
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'years of close association and such a^^hed by the Secretary of War.
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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
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to the Beaver Slough marshes. We on Mondays only during the months
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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«..»..»
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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.
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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.
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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.
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,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 ----
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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
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not be flown at any time other than
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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.
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