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Iced Logs Don't *
Make Good Meal
For Lumber Saws
BASK OF T H E l«2-foot self-supporting KW RO vertical-rad toting lower, adjacent to the Sanford
Heights transmitter-studio building la shown above, shortly after completion of the structures.
The
tower was erected by John J. Hoke of Hoke Vertical Radiator Company. The building was engineered
by E. L. Perrott A Sens, of Coquille. (Inset) K W RO Staffers (I. to r.) Bob Harris, B ill Cook. Ralph
Brown, and Curt Raynes. go through their paces on a "dry run” rehearsal of the opening of a station
studio production.
(Coquille Studio)
Heritage of Freedom Must Be Prized
.Safeway Official Tells Chamber Body
Courthouse Funds
Opposed For New
Buildinq By Bandon
“The independent man producing in a stage of freedom
is the first cause of our progress, and the heritage of freedom
that has given birth to America can be lost by taking it for
granted,” Ted Medford, Salem, Safeway division sales man
ager, told a crowd of over 130 Chamber of Comrperce guests
Tuesday night.
Delivering the main address of
the annual installation and annual
meeting banquet in the Coquille
Community
building,
Medford
who is president of the Salem K i-
wanis club and past president of
the Salem Toastmasters’ club,
told of visiting the Freedom Train
in Salem last summer and com
ing away with a new realization
of what had helped to make
America as great as it is.
I t was freedom of opportunity,
freedom to create, freedom to
share in the fruits of extra effort,
freedom to think and to talk that
gave birth to the rich state of the
Individual in America, the speak -
Broadbent Stays
Out of School •
Consolidation
Broadbent Consolidated school
district No. 23, voted against con
solidation with the M yrtle Point
school when a vote was taken on
January 6. Voting to consolidate
were school district No. 23, Lee;
school district No. 28C, Gravelford
Connsolidated; school district No.
33, Bald Hill; school district No.
41C, M yrtle Point Consolidated,
and school district No. 43. Nor
way.
The consolidation w ill become
effective on Wednesday, Janu
ary 12, 194», and the new district
w ill be known as No. 41C, Myrtle
Point Consolidated.
The count of ballots revealed
the following: Broadbent, yes 22,
no 36, challenged 1; Lee, yes 23,
no 1; Gravelford, yes 15, no 9;
Bald H ill, yes 8, no 0; M yrtle
Point, yes 37, no 0; Norway, yes
29, no 11.
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Tracing the history of freedom
in America, the speaker told of
the early Colonial days, the days
of the C ivil W ar and the differ
ence in the way a German Kaiser
and President Lincoln regarded
the deaths of a mother’s sons,
reading both a letter from the
German Kaiser and the famous
Lincoln letter to Mrs. Bixby of
Massachusetts.
“We’re not great because we are
intellectually superior, not be
cause we work harder than other
peoples— many work harder than
we do — not because we have
more natural resources — many
have as much or more than we—
but rather because we have free
dom for effort, that we forge
ahead,” Medford said.
America has seven per cent of
The power situation is “touch
the earth’s population but more
libraries, more hospitals, 85 per and go,” Manager Bill Head of
cent of the automobiles, 67 per ¡ the Mt, States.Power said today.
Lights were off for two hours
cent of the life insurance, one
telephone for every four people, Sunday morning, and during the
48 per cent of the radios, 46 per evenings the Coquille district was
cent of all electric power, 44 packing 7,0Q0 kilowatts which is
per cent of all daily newspapers,, two to three thousand in excess
30 per cent of all highways, and of the transforemr capacity.
The extremely cold weather in
much more, the Salem man stated.
Scoring the apathy which caus Oregon has caused ice to plug
ed so few people to vote on No the turbines at the Prospect
vember 3rd, Medford stated that dam and no relief is seen by
the right to vote was won by Head from the power emergency
people with their lives. Such until the Klamath river resumes
apathy helps a benevolent state its normal flow free of ice.
set-up, which is the first step
toward despotism, the speaker
said, an<T Russia. Germany, Italy,
ail came about by people not re
garding their privilege of free
A chimney fire starting at the
dom as important.
Medford was introduced by collar of the chimney and flue at
David Biegger, toastmaster of the the house of Robert Bailey, Bieg
evening. He was later presented ger Furniture employee, Monday
with a myrtlewood lamp from the night, did only $25.00 of damage
cranberry g i f t b o x f r o m E d to the wall and wallpaper, Chie!
Craig Perrott said today.
Hughes.
The house is located at 475 N.
Kenneth Talley, accompanied
Coulter.
by his v/ife, sang two solos.
Power Situation
touchy Again
Compulsory Vaccination Urged for Calves
county
Coos
A
group
of
dairymen went on record as
favoring compulsory calf vac
cination in infected herds and
in herds in proximity to infected
herds, when a meeting of the
dairymen was held on Friday in
the junior auditorium of the Co
quille Community building for the
purpose of discussing ways and
means of combating the Bang’s
disease prevalent in this area.
A resolution was drawn up
recommending that all calves be
tested at the time of vaccination,
be vaccinated with desiccated
vaccine, and be retested ten days
after vaccination. It was further
recommended that all reactionary
calves be branded and removed
from the herd and that indemnity
be paid.
It was thought advisable, too,
that adult cattle, vaccinated as
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B IL L W ALSH— Who is
the owners of KWRO.
Ice Causes 3-Way
Smash Wednesday
Three vehicles were wrecked
on the,Riverton-Bandon section of
Highway 101 Wednesday after
noon as a result of icy roads. The
smash-up occurred about three
o’clock on the section of the road
just before Lampa Creek.
. A car, driven by Margaret Frye
of Bandon, travelling south, skid
ded on the icy highway and
plunged head-on into a loaded
grain truck driven by Abraham
Berger of Langlois. The impact
of the collision pushed the car
back into its own lane and a
loaded logging truck, driven by
Donald Stoneburg of Springfield,
which had been following behind
the car smashed into the back of
the car.
The grain truck careened over
the embankment and turned over
while the logging truck plunged
into the opposite bank.
Drivers of the three vehicles,
though badly shaken, were not
seriously injured.
The car and
the two trucks, however, were all
damaged and had to be towed
from the scene of the accident.
Credit Group Will
Banquet January 31
A Credit Association banquet on
Monday evening, January 31st,
w ill find the Retail Credit asso
ciation of Coquille swinging into
action for 1949 with an introduc
tion of new officers, including
Donald Farr, newly elected presi
dent; a skit, and talks by Walter
A. Jensen, J. D. Mac Ewan, and
J. H. Fisher, all top-flight Credit
men.
Entertainment w ill be of a high
caliber, according to P. McDon
ald, secretary of the group, and
dinner tickets are on sale for $2.00
each. The dinner w ill start at 7
p. m. in the Community building.
Reservations for tickets can be
made at Steinmetz Motors, Farr
calves, be revaccinated after a and Elwood’s, and the Credit Bu
' three-year period.
reau office.
A request from the meeting w ill
AU business men and their
be sent to the county court asking wives and members of the Wom
that Dr. Bennett, county veterin en’s Credit group, the Women’s
arian, be sent to sessions at Sa clubs and the Soorptimists are in
lem in an endeavor to obtain a vited to take part in the program.
more workable vaccination pro
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gram.
DRIVERS’ EXAM S SLATED
Graydon Anderson
presided FOR COQUILLE TUESDAY
over the meeting which was at-
A drivers licenses examiner w ill
dairymen.
be on duty in CoquiUe Tuesday,
January 18, 1949, at the city. haU
COQUILLE MAN MAKES
between the hours of 9 a. m. and
HONOR GRADE ROLL
4 p. m., according to an announce
(Oregon College of Education, ment received from the Secretary
Monmouth.) A t the close of the of State’s office..
fall term at the Oregon College of
Persons wishing licenses or per
Education,
seventy
students mits to drive are asked to get in
earned mention by carrying at touch with the examiner weU
least 15 term hours and earning a ahead of the schedulled closing
grade point average of 3.0 or bet hour in order to assure completion
ter.
Among them was Louis of their applications with a min
Marvin Pinkston of Coquille.
imum of delay.
Chimney Fire Does
Little Damage
Iced logs don’t saw good at all,
and they’re no more palatable to
the saws of the plywood division
of the CoquiUe Cooe Bay Lumber
plant.. So say plant officials as
they turned off the last day crew
Wednesday afternoon .at 3:30 lo r
a vacation from work until mid
night Sunday.
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AU shifts wiU be “down” tke
company said today until the ply
wood shift goes back on Sunday
midnight.
The logs are ice-covered in the
booms and make poor sawing In
the sawmill and are not satisfac
tory to work with in the plywood
division, hence the quietness of
the miU’s whistle today.
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BANDON _ (Special) — The
Bandon Chamber of Commerce
voted at its meeting January 3rd,
to protest to the County court
opposing the spending of county
money for the proposed addition
and repairs on the county court
house at the present time.
It is the feeling of the Chamber
of Commerce that thia money
should be used in the construction
of a bridge at Bullards over the
CoquiUe river.
John Fitzsimmons, president of
the Bandon Chamber of Com
merce and delegate of the Seven
Devils community, stated that if
the Bullards bridge is turned
down and that the court house ad
dition is approved, that the peo
ple of that community would file
a letter of protest to the County
court and would ask the people to
vote for or against the addition to
the court house or building a new
court house, and if the money is
voted for a new court house, that
a suitable site be picked between
Coos Bay and North Bend as that
section is the center of population.
Fitzsimmons further stated that
over $23,000 a year is 'spent by
the county at the present time on
a ferry at Bulladrs and one at
Riverton. By building a bridge
and eUminating this expenditure
and applying $23,000 a year to
ward the expenditure of the
bridge, it would soon be paid for.
Approximate cost of the bridge
is $600,000 and Coos county would
have to furnish $300,000 of this
amount.
Head Gets Trophy
For Chamber Stunt
Better late than never might
well be the slogan for the presen
tation of the Coos county fair
trophy for the best Chamber stunt
when it was presented Tuesday
night to retiring president Bill
Head of the Coquille Chamber for
winning the 1948 stunt contest.
Ed Hughes was chairman of
the Chamber stunt that beat out
M yrtle Point, Bandon, Coos Bay
and North Bend.
E. L. Clausen, veteran chairman
of the Coos fair board, made the
presentation at the annual Co
quille banquet
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A t Powers
Coldest W eatfier
In History (?)
Powers experienced the cold
est weather in history. It was
three decrees below zero on
Eden Ridge, two degrees above
at the Coos Bay shops, three
decrees at the Ranger station.
Schools have been closed Mon
day and Tuesday due to inabil
ity to heat rooms.
All kinds of grief from broken
Pipes!
o o
A t Longlois
Schools Closed
It was cold down here in
Curry county and for the first
time in many years the pipes
in the schools closed.
So. it
was no school for all the chil
dren the first part of the week.
Temperature stood at a low of
IS degrees.
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A t McKinley
W ater Pipes W on't
Give O ut W ater
McKinley is almost like the
saying goes, "Water, water
everywhere, but not a drop to
drink.” Pipe broken and froz
en. and in other words, no
water where is shoifld be. We
have tola of snow and lee,
though: No school and no
it doesn’t
At Riverton
Woodcutting Takes
Priority This Week
Wlth
is kept busy catting
keep-
ing fire s-going, etc.
frozen and broken water pipes,
etc,, and oh! the ears are giving
troubles. Bat the children and
older ones have enjoyed the
snsw-sledding and making of
Abner Johnson
Nearly Loses Leg
A slip into the chipper saw
which he was running at the Coos
Bay Lumber plywood Monday
morning at 1 a. m. nearly caused
Abner Johnson to lose his leg.
Johnson slipped and caught his
leg in the chipper saw which
cut it in many places, and cut it
very dangerously. Every effort is
being made to save his leg, and
over two hours surgery was need
ed to sew up the cuts.
Johnson is at the Falk hospital
and w ill be hospitalized for sev
eral months, attending physicians
report.
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Free Matinees End
On January 22nd
Saturday, Jan. 22nd, w ill see
the end of the free movie matinees
at the Liberty theatre, and the
first Saturday show that kiddies
w ill pay for w ill be on Saturday,
Jan. 29th. So stated Lloyd Clav-
er, manager of the Liberty today.
Started last May the free
movies were a part of the Retail
Trades committee program to ex
pand the CoquiUe trading area
and to furnish more activity for
the youngsters of the area.
Water is running out of the
Assessments
levied
against
city pipes in town — because members of the Chamber group
people are leaving their pipes individually paid for the shows.
open to keep them from freez
A recent ballot from contribut
ing — faster than the reservoir ing merchants showed that they
can fiH ap. City Engineer Joe were not in favor of continuing
K uffler warned the people of the show.
the city today.
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Extreme care should be ob UPHOLSTERING CLASS
served by city water users. POSTPONED U N T IL JAN. 18
K uffler stated if we are to have
Due to illness, both the day and
enough water to get over the evening adult classes in uphol
cold spell.
stering have been postponed un
The city of Myrtle Point had til Tuesday, January 18.
water trouble late Wednesday
There are vacancies in both the
because of a frozen pump but upholstering classes. Anyone in
had the situation in hand today. terested should contact
Mrs.
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Guorge Taylor, phone 140L; Mrs.
PENNEY M E E TIN G M O ND AY
Archie Walker, phone 14M, or
A t MEDFORD
Mrs. Walter Laird, phone 64.
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A district meeting of the J. C.
Penney company w ill be held HAVE NEW FURNACE
Monday and Me 'day night in
The old furnace at the Coquille
Medford and w ill be attended by Christian church broke down this
Manager and Mrs. Ernie Kuntz of week and a new furnace is being
the Coquille store.
installed immediately.
W ater Supply
C ritical!
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THU RSD AY, JANUARY 15. 1949
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Kuntz Installed As President of Chamber
At Annual Banquet Meeting Tuesday
New president of the Coquille Chamber of Commerce
is Ernie Kuntz, J. C. Penney company manager, who was
installed at the annual banquet and installation ceremonies
by retiring president W. J. B. Head Tuesday night at the
Project Chairmen
Named By Kuntz
Chairmen for the important
committees of the Chamber of
Commerce were named today by
President Ernie Kuntz ana an
nounced by Executive Secretary
Clarence Osika.
Named as chairmen were: Mem
bership, Noble Chowning; Retail
Trades, U. E. McClary; Finance
and Budget, Ralph StuUer; High
ways and Roads, George Burr;
Agriculture. Ed Detlefsen; Audit
ing, Jack Bowen; Civic Projects,
Clarence Barton; Legal, J Arthur
Berg; Boathouse, Paul Snider;
Publicity, Chuck Pritchard; Parks
and Recreation, J. D. Rankin;
Tourist Promotion, Bob Mason;
Education, Craig Perrott; Trans
portation, Buzz Smith; Postoffice,
Harry Slack; Housing Projects, L.
G. Scharfer; Highway Safety,
Carl Hooker; Fish and Game;
Ernie Smith; Youth Camp and
Activities, Donald Farr; Industry,
Ed Parent.
Xmas Seal Money
Still Coming In
Communoty building.
Other officers installed were
Noble Chowning, vice-president;
Donald Farr, treasurer; and C lar
ence Osika, executive secretary,
and directors Andy Anderson,
Dave Biegger, George Burr, Ed
Detlefsen, A N. Gould, Ed Hughes,
George Jenkins, W illiam Head,
Fred Logsdon, U. E. McClary,
W. C. Mason, Jack Moore, H arry
Slack, Ivan Smalley, Ralph Stull-
er, Lewis Wiltshire, Orville Wood,
Delbert Driskeil, ' Chet M urray
and Evan Alborn.
Retiring president B ill Head
was presented an old-fashioned
lantern as a joking gesture lo r
the effort he has put forth to
light up the city in his capacity as
manager of the Mt. States Power
company in a period of critical
power surpluses, and in a serious
vein a fine wristwatch band.
A gift to the Chamber of Com
merce was a colored lighted pho
tograph mounted in a myrtlewood
frame presented by Evan Alborn,
former president and director of
the Chamber who was not present
due to the fact that he is on a
vacation in the South at preaent.
Treasurer Donald Farr reported
a balance of $3901 as of January
1st, 1949, as compared to $1981.94
on January 1st, 1948.
The annual report given by
Executive
Secretary
Clarence
Osika told of the work of the
Chamber of Commerce during the
past year when 3583 bulletins
were mailed out and 453 letters
written to people asking pertin
ent questions about the CoquiUe
Contributions in the Christmas
seal sale are still being received,
according to chairman. Mrs. Clara
A. Stauff. Those wishing to con
tribute who have not already done
Listed as number 1 project was
to, are asked to mail their dollars
immediately in order that the the gaining of the start on the
highway 101 Coquille to Coos Bay
books may be closed.
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sector and the seeing to it that
the highway would be completed
to make a modem connecting
link between the county seat and
Coos Bay area.
The formation of a definite
Services for Judge Allen How trade booster group was related
ard Boice, 87, who passed away by the secretary in which he list
late Monday * afternoon at Gold ed the special promotions of the
Beach wiU be held this afternoon year by that group under the
at the Langlois hiigh school.
leadership of Fred Lorenz, the
Judge Boice who retired Janu sponsoring of free matinees, and
ary 3rd after twelve years as Cur other events.
ry coynty judge was bom on Flo r
Number three was the definite
as creek on August 5, 1881. He policy of the fish and game com
attended school at Langlois and mittee on closure of the CoquiUe
was married to Caroline Priscilla river and work with the state fish
Guerin on Jan. 1, 190«. The wid and game commission to estab
ow survives as do twelve children. lish hatcheries in this area to
Judge Boice had been active in make the fishing more of a tourist
the truck and logging business in attraction.
Coos and Curry counties and had
Flood
control,
agricultural
served as county commissioner of work, sponsorship of the Farming
Curry county before becoming Report (n conjunction with other
judge.
civic groups in the county, promo
The Schroeder Bros, mortuaries tion of industrial growth and the
addition of many new businesses
are in charge of the services.
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were cited also by Osika. A net
gain of 40 new businesses were
reported by -the secretary.
As a preliminary 1949 program,
Osika said the development of
I f you’re one of the cranberry tourist trade through advertising
growers who has been inter and better facilities was a must
ested in what was happening for the year. He also cited that
the chamber group would work
to the cranberry market the
past few months, then you’ll for water, sewage disposal, better
get the dope right straight from hospital faciUties, and growth and
the source when M. L. Urann, diversification of industry In the
president of the National Cran community.
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berry association, talks over
R AD IO KOQS. Coos Bay, at
12:45, Saturday. Jan. 15.
M. L. Urann delivered the
same talk In the East last week
and the transcription was sent
to Coos county for local grow • On Sunday evening, January 16,
ers this week.
Mr. and Mrs. James Kimsey of
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Northwest Christian college, w ill
MEASLES HIT CITY
be guests at the CoquiUe Christian
A number of cases of measles church. M r. Kimsey, who is a
have been reportedly among the CoquiUe boy, wiU speak on
younger children in Coquille dur "Christian Education.”
Musical
ing the past week.
Over si My selections w ill be given by Mr.
youngsters were absent Irom and Mrs. Kimsey.
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Washington school, although there
w e r e no noticeable absences Leave For Eugene Wednesday—
among students in the higher Mr. and Mrs. Lin Swain left on
frades.
Wednesday to visit in Eugene.
Judge A. H. Boice
Services Today
Cranberry Dope
On KOOS Saturday
Kimsey's To Talk
To Church Group
Plumbers Busy During Cold Spell
CoquiUe plumbers have been
working overtime this week in an
endeavor to keep up with the
broken pipes and pumps and
frozen drain lines, caused by the
wintery weather so unusual in this
section of the country.
Local hardware stores have
completely sold out their supply
of blow torches, and pipe clamps
are becoming scarce.
The entire Coos Bay Lumber
company m ill in CoquiUe closed
down Wednesday and wiU remain
closed until Monday in order to
repair the broken pipes and
mains. The difficulty of peeling
logs in which the sap is frozen
has made the shut-down of the
plywood imperative.
Damage to fall seeding on
farms in the area can not as yet
be estimated, but there is little
doubt that there w ill be some
damages caused by the cold
weather.
Considerable incon
venience has been caused by
broken water systems in the farm
area and, according to County
Agent George Jenkins, the cold
weather is very hard on cattle
here where barns are not con
structed to withstand cold weath
er.