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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1947)
e • ■ c i J \ 'J __________ .. C n a n llle V a lle y £ /rt At 0w Vr- e n tln e l VOL. X L U I. COQUILLE. COO8K2OUNTY. OREGON THU RSD AY, AUG UST Z V 1847. NO. 32. Western Condensing Company Closing September 1 For Six Months Or More Closure of the Coquille plant of the Western Condensing company, manufacturers of dried milk, on September 1st was an nounced today by Ed Parent, manager of the Weal plant. Mr. Parent said today that the large inventory of dried milk now being held by his company plus.the slowness with which the product was moving necessitated the a* ¿77 77 7~7 shutdown. ! Penney Stores Hold there are the «hut- Annual Dinner A t • the present time eleven men affected by down. , Payroll of the company,has run around 25 men, but at the present tim e only 11 are working. Condensing officials hope to open the company next spring it their present inventory is sufficiently used up and demand increases. * Western Condensing company opened their Coquille plant about twelve years ago in Coquille. It £ • • IO^ i considered one of the best operated compaiues both pro- working personnel and the ducers. Ed Parent, present manager, came here from Ferndale, Calif., to man age the local company. • • Coquille and Coos Bay Penney stores held their annual banquet last Thursday night at Ripper's Cafe in North Bend. The store employees and their families enjoyed an even ing of dancing, following the dinner. Announced at the dinner were the winners of the blanket contest held during July. Winning prizes for sell ing the most blankets in both the Coos Bay and cequille gtolefi were Mrs. Fred Lafferty. Mrs. Ada How ard. Mrs. Elsie Stnith, Miss Myrtle DeLong and Miss Colleen Ireland. • • Coos Home Ec Committee Meets New York Pastor To Speak Sunday The Coos County Home Economics Advisory committee met at the home of Mrs. Burton W. Dunn on Tuesday for its monthly business meeting. Mrs. Dunn served a one o’clock luncheon to the following committee members: Mrs. William Jacobsen, Glasgow; Mrs. Alex Maskev. Coos River: Mrs. Robert Esselstrom, Greenacres; Mrs. Wesley Frazier, Co quille; Mrs. James Schoolcraft, Greenacres; Mrs. Jalmar Alto, East- side, Mrs. Iv y l Frye, Fairview; and Mrs. Helen Abrego, Coquille. The Rev. William Thompson, pas tor of the Second Street Christian church of New York, and Instructor in the Eastern Christian institute, w ill be the guest minister at the Christian church of Coquille Sunday evening, Aug, 24, at 8 p. m_ the Rev. Earl So ward announced today. Rev. Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Northwest Christian college and the University of Oregon. Mrs. Thompson who is in Coos county with her husband is the former Edythe Farr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Farr o f Coos Bay. »nd a brother of Donald Farr of Coquille. Cucumbers Now On Display I t CENTS PER COPY Legion Picnic Set For Sunday It w ill be picnic time Sunday for On display at the Sentinel office this week have been two cucumbeis, all members of the American Legion grown by J. C. Hall inside sms 11- and the Legion A uxiliary when the neck bottles. Inserted when they annual Legion picnic is held, starting were the size of a pencil, they grew at 10 a. m at LaVerne park. . Ja<-’k Hansel and Ben Barton, mem to fill the bottles within a week. bers of the arrangement committees, announce that anyone not having transportation to the picnic site should be at the county court-house flag pole at 9:30 where cars w ill be available to pick up passengers. On the program are games, music, free refreshments, and contests. Dired Air Mail Service Started The Coquille Chamber of Com merce "has been notified by Post master M. O. Hawkins that Coquille w ill have a direct air mail connection with North Band, starting August 22nd. On that date all air mail deposited in the the Coquille postoffice by 4 p. m. w ill leave on the West Coast Airlines plane at 7 p. m. for Med ford, and there distributed to all points. This special service is for air mail only and does not interfere with present mail service schedules. This culminates the Chamber’s t t - forts for improved air mail service, according to Secretary Clarence Osika \ • • Cranberry Tour Set For Bandon Sunday ' A to u t of cranberry bogs of the Bandon area w ill be made on Sun day. August 24, beginning at 8 ft. m. by studanta and Instructors of the veterans’ cranberry school, being conducted at Bandon, according to Jack Hansell, assistant county agent Bogs visited w ill include those of Rupert Boak, H arry Storm and James Casey. On Monday evening a meeting of the students in the school w ill be held at the city hall, Bandon, to summarize findings of the tour GRANDDADDY OF THE FOREST— This huge Douglas fir cut by the Stanley Brothers Logging company of Powers is the granddaddy of the Western forest and these pictures token at Powers lsst week prove It. < onsiderrd the largest tree cut in recent years, this tree has * solid measurement of 20.590 feet, or ss BUI Bos- serman of the Coquille plywood division of the Coos Bay Lumber company figured it, over 1,550 pieces of 4 by 5, id-inch plywood. In the photos appear Dutch Clinton, Coos Bay Lumber company o ffic ii: Bob Bushell. truck driver, arid No We Stanley. The log w u cut eight mllee south of Powers and scaled by Charles Pullen of Coquille, Tahitian Banquet " Given Hosts School Bells To Ring September 8th; All Staff Positions Filled, Hunsaker Says ¡.JE' A real Tahitian banquet was the surprise treat Monday night of the N. L. Springer family when Miss It will be back to school Monday m im ing,' September 8th Phyllis Reynolds of Tahita prepared for some 960 Coquille youngsters when the 1947-48 school year a South Pacific sea island fish dinner complete with poi and ah .the various opens under new Supt. Ray Hunsaker. exciting additions. All staff positions are now filled Supt. Hunsaker says and Miss Reynolds, who Is a Tahitian, the complete staff follows: has been in the United States only High School dates is asked to contact Mr. James three years. She Is visiting the Ernest R. James, Principal. before Sept. 2. Springers with her father, Newton Imogene Cusac, Librarian Students not registering before en Reynolds of San Franclaco. Mrs. N. Idyle Godard, Commerce. tering high school w ill have their L. Springer is a half-sister of Mr. Enoch Jungling, Mathematics, Sci schedules arranged for them by the Reynolds. ence, Coach. high school office. Mr. Reynolds is a former business E. E. Leslie, Boys’ Physical Educa Classes in high school w ill start man in the South Pacific, and likes tion, Coach. with the regular schedule Monday the people and the country very Jacob Moomaw, Social Science. morning Sept. 8th, following a gen much. He is planning now on re Paul Snider, Industrial Arts. eral assembly at 9 a. m. A ll students turning. Ralph Staffer, Science. must obtain textbooks the opening • • Thora Watson, Ehglish. morning, Principal James stated. Carroll E. Nickels, Instrumental • • Music. Wilma Hefner, English, Latin. _ Don Pearson, Mathematics, Assist ant Coach. Mary Lou Slade, Home Economics. Four units of a modern motel were darted Thursday morning by Madeline Morgan, Girls’ Physical Clarence Summers on North Henry Education. There w ill be no meeting of the street. The houses w ill be made by Lincoln School American Legion A uxility this Wayne Smith, Principal. the Coquille Prefabricated Homes, month and, Instead, the members of Marie Stewart, Social Science. Inc., and w ill be erected under the the A uxiliary w ill participate In the Alice Lafferty, A rt, Reading. inspection of City Building Inspector annual Laverne park picnic and pot Vera Moomaw, English. Paul Snider. luck at the Coquille river recreation Wm. Poferoy, Mathematics. Harvey Slade, Science, Boys’ Phy area Sunday, Aug. 24th, it was an nounced today by officers of the sical Education. Auxiliary, Ethel Hatter, Fifth Grade. Members are urged to make plans Washington School to attend the picnic wheih w ill start Mrs. Hazel Hanna, Principal. at 10 a. m. Members not having Helen Thomas, First. Mrs. Gertrude Ulett has received transportation are asked to meet at Dena Pierce, First. the flagpole on the county court word that her son, Gerald, w ill leave Pauline Harvey, Second. house grounds where transportation Chicago on August 27 to spend 15 Arlene Robertson, Second. w ill be available. days at home from his duties at Great Althea Harrah, Third. • • Lakes, Illinois. This w ill be his first Ida Mintonye, Third. visit at home In a year and a half. Lavjnia Peart, Fourth. Following his discharge in Novem Jane Creager, Third-Fifth. ber, he w ill enter Oregon State col Valda Heenan, Fourth - Physical lege at the start of the winter term. Education. • • Wanda Cochran, Second. Mary Christensen, First. It was party night Friday, August Vivian Plummer, Music (Vocal), 15th, at the Club Midway for the em AU Schools. ployees of the George Burr Motors The Coquille Volunteer Fire De Lela Elrod, Nurse, All Schools. partment was called to the old Tway Ray C. Hunsaker, City Superinten comparty when the local company place at Cedar Point on Wednesday dent. gave a dinner and dancing party, and afternoon of this week. High school registration will com also a farewell party for Waunda A machine shop shed was com mence Sept, 2 with seniors and jun Kintzley who is going 'to Eugene. pletely destroyed by fire starting Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Stan from gasoline that was stored in the iors signing up, and sophomores Sept. Sherwood, M r. and Mrs. Max Pow shed. The fire department was hin 3, and freshmen Sept. 4th. The high ers, Mr. and Mrs. Arlan Fischer, Mr. dered by the lack of water, but man school is open from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. and Mrs. Don Gasnell, Mr. and Mrs. aged to save the ham and another each day, Principal Ernest James John King, M r. and Mrs. Kenneth Baker, Irene Burr, Waunda Kintz shed close tq |h« lire. ley, George Eckholm and Ross M in Th? Owner, David L. Stitt, has not announces. Any student not in town on those tonye. estimated the loss. Clarence Summers Starts Motel ANSWERS QUESTIONS— Frank Belgrano. »Jr*. president of the First National bank of Portland standing in this candid news photo token last Thursday at the luncheon meeting of the Coquille Lions club, gave club members a concise and thoughtful picture of world economic conditions and the part the U. S. must play in the present post-war world. President Belgrano termed the question concerning the V- S. part In supplying the world with funds and goods a “884.M” question, but started answering It at onee. Pictured with Belrrano from left to right are Lion Ernest James. Präsident Irvin g Larson. Osear H. Keller, vice-president and cashier. Ward Kelley, assistant trust officer, and Lion Burton W. Dunn. The entourage of bankers was on a six weeks’ tour of Oregon visiting the various Oregon communities in which the First National branches are located. Also with President Belgrano was D. C. Silverthorne, assistant vice-president, and John Richardson, public re lations director. This is a trip to familiarise Belgrano with Oregon as he was recently appointed president of the Oregon banks, having formerly been a prominent California banker and financier. (Photo token by John Richardson) Eleven Year Old Coquille Miss Makes Plane Trip To Coquille From Chicago Miss Tamaraleo “Tammy” O’Doll, eleven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest O’Dell, returned home Monday from a month’s visit with her grandparents and other relatives in Illinois. Tammy boarded a “Chicago and Southern” airlines plane in St. Louis, Missouri, Friday afternoon at 5:30; flew from St. Louis to Chicago, where she changed planes and board-: ed a “United Airlines” plgne fop Portland. They took off from Ute Chicago airport at 8:$7 p. m. Friday evening ana Tammy stepped d“ the plane the nept morning, |2 hours later, in Portland- She was met at the airport in Portland by her par ents and brother and sister. She was all excited about the many things she bad seen and done. See ing Chicago from the air with al) the lights oq was one thing she was very thrilled about. Also lying past Mount Hood in the morning, Shp says the stewardesses were very nice to her on both planes. Be fore she took off from St Louis, her aunt took a picture of her and the stewardess together. She had a grand time but was very glad to be home again with her family and the cool coast weather. While in Portland the O’Dell’s vis ited many friends and the Washing ton Park zoo, Jantzen Beach and some of the big .downtown stores They also drove over to Vancouver, Washington. On their way home they stopped over night with fri< Vote Consolidation Patrons of Prosper school district voted In favor of > school consolida tion between that area and the Ban don public schools, it was announced today by Mrs. Martha Mulkey Purdy, county school superintendent. Also approved this week was a consoliadtion of North Lake and Lakeside schools. Gerald U lett To Visit Mother Burr Motors Host To Employees Fire On Tway Place ROM A T 1(7 HISTORY O f COASTAL COUNTIES Putting together a colorful, his their coastal lands to the U. S, gov toric picture of the days of 1855 in ernment in an Unratified treaty. Southwestern Oregon, is Miss Nadie Court Favors Indians Strayer of Baker, Oregon, who this Last year the U. S. Supreme Court week was completing research work rendered a decision in favor of the In the dusty pages of Coos county Indiana by which they are to receive records. Miss Strayer la checking payment for these vast acres upon Coquille Elks, their families and the earliest mining records and other appraisal of their value of almost 100 friends enjoyed the Elk picnic which old documents to establish the value was held Sunday at McCloskey grove, (by virtue of being mineral-bearing years Counsel for the Indians who tried near Norway, I| was estimated that land) of over two and three-quarter the case are the firm of Sanders, over 1500 people attended the gath million acres in Curry, Coos, Lincoln Gravelle, Whitlock and Harvey with ering, which is an annual affair of the and Tllamook counties. Elks. They have recently leased the i* Appraisal of these acres of Indian offices in Washington. D. C. Oregon McCloskey grove for 20 years, so 'trib al land is being made to estab attorneys in charge of the tribal that each year the picnic can be held lish the value as of Nov. 9, 1855, lands case are John G. Mullen, North there. at which time the Indians gave up Bend and E. L. Crawford.-Salem. 1500 Attend Elks Picnic Sunday Legion Auxiliary Cancels Meeting around her home in Baker, Oregon, Miss Strayer's part in the appraisal gave Nadie Strayer her specialized consists in working in conjunction background, but as she states, with and assists geologists, Dr. delving out facts in this research Warren D. Smith, retiring head of project is made easier because she is the department of geography a n d ' a newspaperwoman by profession. geology of the University of Oregon! During the w ar she edited Baker’s and Dr. Lloyd Staples, a member of I Record-Courier and carried on as that department The two geologists news editor until all the men re are on a trip into interior Curry turned to the staff from the armed forces. county by pack train at this time. Minerals most valuable at time Timber Also Considered Beside the survey and appraisal of of the survey were gold and coal, and the minerals produced from the the tribal lands based on their being land through the years enter into the mineral-bearing, complete appraisals are being made to set values as to mineral appraisal. timber, agricultural and other re Has Mining Hobby Her hobby at gold prospecting sources, Miss Strayer commented. Works With Geologists
