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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1952)
w»' *■ An amazing guy, this Senator Jack Lynch from Multnomah county, who came to Coos last w e a | He has testimonials from grocers, laundrymen. workers, an/i pharmacists, ¿'•ctors, printers, and hundreds o f others. A handsome genial senator, Lynch has b uilt up a reputation fo r integrity and good straight thinking. Of interest to loggers and lumbermen, he also carries a nice letter from Charlie Ogle. Senator Lynch has filed for ihe republican nomination lo r state streasurer. He w ill be op posed fo r the GOP title by Sig Unander who once served as as sistant to Governor Charlie Sprague. An aside: Lynch helped B ill Walsh get his senate presi dency, too. He also aided in many w ild life and game reforms that mean much to sportsmen, ahd he also has th eir support. You'll meet him around. He’s coming back. ----------------St _ The staffers of The Sentinel got themselves a w orkqut last week, and were surprised to find that they could put out over 5,000 COOS COUNTY BUYERS GU IDES as well as nearly 3,000 Sentinels, and all done too by Thursday morning. We were surprised, too, to find out how the Port Orford country has grown. ------------* — ■ Lots of local people would have liked to have been in the Oregon Coast Caravan to San Francisco where the association directors w ill get entertained at the SUNSET Magazine new quarters in Menlo Park. Several North Benders did make the trip. SUNSET, an amaz ing magazine, has become one of the nation’s top magazines and de servedly so. Various men te ll us their wives wouldn’t be w ithout it. ------------ & — Whether it ’s true or not we don’t know but a car salesman — who doesn’t sell Cadillacs—told us the other day that Cads are one car that doesn’t take a big depreciation when they are sbf months or so old. "' & — Speaking of cars, the new ones may cost a b it more, but a recent editorial we wrote about lower prices today and the fewer man hours of labor required to pay for a car has been reprinted in no less than 12 papers and the names of C liff Gulseth, Clovis Church, Dan Steinmetz, and Ralph Mennlng ap peared only two weeks ago in the Lakeview EXAMINER. One thing we forget . . . things may cost a b it more . . . but we get more for our work, too. - A recent news story put River ton south of Coquille and in fact it is almost due west. One of the strange things about directions. One local oldtimer tells us that when he hunts in Eastern Oregon he always knows the doggone sun comes up in the west and sets in the east. & — B ill Fortier waited u n til Monday to come to town to buy a few extra copies of The Sentinel. He found out that The Sentinel was a com plete sellout and from now on B ill is Number I on the Thursday morning lineup for this week’s papers. B ill is one of our good customers and always sends out a few extra copies to various friends of his. A tribute to our news- gatherers and to our sports editor Jim McMahon who has a b it about B ill’s ball club and team every once in a while. »■ - & — Talking of ballclubs . , . Senator Jack Lynch of Portland was a semi-pro in the days when ball was really a hot subject, and he was president in 1937 of the Ore gon Baseball Federation. He was greatly surprised when he heard about Fortier Field w ith lights and a green tu rf. C oq u ille V a lle y Housing Looks Up In Local A rea;- Builders Busy Housing looked far more en couraging in Coquille this week with builders busy mak- « « P1« « the development of at least three areas in the city for spring construction, — - - L. „ Hooton , 1 *---- The A. tract * •------- has sold Its firs t six lota and builders w ill start to work soon, it has been an nounced. Other lota w ill be made available for building as soon as an official city approval la granted to the platting. The Riverside Lumber company is busy making plans for the con struction of homes on the Lund property on Sanford Heights and awaiting approval from the city planning commission. Thia ap proval w ill come as soon as a planning map for the area Is com pleted by C ity Planner W illard Morgan. George Oerding announced to day that he had sent his topo graphical map to the FHA in Port land and as soon as he has official approval the firm of Bauer and Edmunds w ill start work on a big housing project. Total score on proposed houses for the area: Nearly 100 by fa ll of 1952. • • George A. Ulett To File For Coos Senator Race George A. U lett announced today that he would file fo r the post of state senator from Coos and Curry counties. A republican all his life, U lett w ill seek the post left vacant by the announcement of Senator W illiam Walsh of Coos Bay that he would not be a candi date to succeed himself. U lett who came to Coquille on December 31st, 1928, entered the lumber business w ith Ralph Smith and associates of Kansas City. They purchased a small sawmill employing 16 men from the Oerd ing brothers and in 1929 started their cedar factory, cedar m ill, and b uilt a large boiler plant. In 1936 they b u ilt the Smith Wood - Products plywood plant which was sold in 1945 to Coos Bay Lumber company. In this plant they employed an average of 600 men and women. During the they cui cut height of their business s xney 100,000,000 feet of tim ber yearly. Following sale of the local plant to CBL, U lett purchased much of the stock from his partners in the Southerlln Timber Products of Sutherlin and operated this u n til 1950 when he sold it to Empire M illwood Corporation of New York. • He has been instrumental in many local civic affairs and was a guiding force behind the building of the community building and was general chairman of the Co quille swimming pool. Recently he has been prominent in organizing the new Coquille Plywood company and is its presi dent. He is married and has two ch il dren, W illiam of San Francisco, and Dr. George U lett of St. Louis, Missouri. A republican, his father is also a lifelong republican, recently vot ing the republican ticket on his - rthdav He .is a Mason, a Lion and a Ro tarían, and member of other groups. • • People who have liked Diamond Lake as a fishing and camping spot w ill be interested to know that the state game commission is to lower the lake a b it and poison the 5000 foot high Cascade lake to elimniate all trash fish. Cost is estimated at 3148,000. O riginally barren of fish. Diamond was stock ed w ith rainbows in 1913 and in the ’20’s the lake became fam ous for its fish and their size. Eight pounders measuring 27 inch es were not uncommon. In 1940 the roach was introduced by live- bait fishermen and the roach de pleted the lake of tro u t food. ----------- h — I f you've any dcubt about how kids like music then get a gander at the youngsters M illa rd Kinney of the local school music staff teaches. They love it. And he’s the best pianist we’ve seen around, too. His charges put on a wonder ful program at the Rotary club last week. And his tw o accom panists .Marcia Mauney and Allen Drews, were tops. More Kinney’s in a school system and the budget committee won’t have any trouble at all. (continued on page 8) Myrtle Lane Gets Ready For Opening On February 29 .__ i. VOL. XL1 NO. 6. THE COQUILLE VALLEY 8ENT1NEL, COQUUXE. OREGON, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21,1952. Pancake Supper Due Tuesday A t Parish Hall City Council To Fluoridate City Water Supply A popular annual custom of St. James’ St. Cecelia Guild w ill be held again Tuesday night, it ’s the annual Shrove Tuesday pan cake supper. Held in the parish hall of St. James’ Episcopal church, tickets are now for sale at $1.25 for adults and 50 cents for children. Serving is from 5:30 u ntil 8 p. m. • • Coquille’s city council has gone oh record favoring fluor idation of the city’s water sup ply. Before fluoridation can be put into practice, several steps must be taken. The city is firs t required by the state to send a sample of raw water from the city’s water sup ply for chemical analysis to see if it contains any fluorine. Analysis w ill disclose how much fluorine should be added to bring it up to the ideal balance of one part per m illion. . Before the state w ill grant per mission of fluoridation, opinions . of the local medical association a and dental association and any A top honor for the young other interested groups must be Coquille Valley Art associa- received. Next, a thorough check tion will be announced formal of the engineering plan of the ac ly Sunday afternoon at the tual installation and of the per tea from 2 to 4:30 p. m. in the son who w ill operate it is made. I f necesary, the state, w ill train junior auditorium of the com munity building. the operator. Berger Underhahl, general chair Coos Bay is reported to be ready to install the system and Port man of the American A rt Week for the American A rt association, w ill land is investigating it. announce that the Coquille group • • has won the state award for the outstanding achievement during National A rt Week. Present also to give a short talk w ill be George Ulett, a director of the Coquille Valley A rt association. The Coquille Valley A rt associa Good news for the residents of tion covers an area embracing Co Coos county was made today when quille, Bandon, and M yrtle Point. Rep. Ivan Laird, democrat, an Mrs. Orlando Anderson was art nounced he would seek to return week chairman. to the state legislature by filin g his During the tea which is in honor name for the May primaries. of Mrs. Maude Walling Wanker, A veteran of one term in the state director of Oregon and d i lower house of the state lawmak rector of the Lincoln county art ing body, Laird won much acclaim museum, a group of her paintings for his handling of legislative proh- , ^ 7 ^ ta a le m in in S Salem in the the 1951 w ill be on e x h ib it 1qdb session. sesslon Among them are “ M y Story of long Myrtlewood,” a, complete history Serving as a member of the lm - of the famous Ca»s county tree portant taxation and forestry com which has drawn much attention mittees, he also had time to be in the state; and eight other paint instrumental in securing better legislation on m ilk control and ings. Pouring during the tea hour aided in protecting the interests of lumbermen and truckers by using w ill be Mrs. J. E. Norton, Mrs. his wide knowledge of the two im O liver Sanford, Mrs. J. A rth ur Berg and Mrs. George Bryant. portant Oregon industries. a a Laird stated he felt he should seek a return to the representa tive’s post due to the fact that he has served hia firs t term and now knows his way around. However, friends point out that W illard H. Petre, former Union Laird did a fine job as he was O il distributor in Coquille, has named one of the ten outstanding joined the staff of the Ernie Smith freshmen legislators by the Capital Insurance and Real Estate office, Journal in Salem. , it was announced today by Ernie He is a rancher and lumberman Smith. Petre w ill handle both in living at Sitkum and is presently surance and real estate sales. • serving as president of the Coos • • Coos-Curry Electric cooperative. A t present he is also serving on the interim committee fo r reap POWERS (Special) — A Lions portionment of the state. club talent show w ill go on the boards Saturday night in the Pow ers gym under sponsorship of the Powers Lions. Prizes are $20.00 firs t; $10.00 second; and $5.00 third. Amateurs are welcome to participate. Coquille Art Groups Will Get Top State Honor Laird To File For 2nd Term ’etre Joins Staff O f Ernie Smith Lions Talent Show County B Playoff Here Tuesday Pole Concern Eyes Highway Areas A large Idaho pole concern is looking over Coos county in an at tempt to find a location for a re load and paint location. They have one picked out an official said today and announce ment may be made soon about the start of construction. • • CENTS PER COPY New Seventh-day Adventist Church Will Be Dedicated This Coming Weekend Dedication services for the new Coquille 3eventh-day Adventist church will be held this Friday evening and Sat urday morning, with Elder L. E. Biggs, president of the Oregon conference, giving the dedicatory address at 10:45 Saturday, Pastor W. D. Blehm announced here today. The weekend meetings w ill mark the end of a building pro gram launched by the Coquille congregation in 1949 to improve and enlarge the church facilities. ElderJ. H. Apigan, Oregon Con ference Revivalist, w ill conduct a consecration service Friday even Truckers and others interested in the log and lumber hauling in ing during which time members dustry are eyeing the all-day ses and friends w ill be challenged sions in Coquille March 1st, it w ith the necesisty of making was reported today by Vernon Christianity live. Estelle, vice president of the South The new $45,000 church w ith its ern Oregon Truckers League. Gothic interior is a far cry from The program which w ill start the small beginning of the church in the afternoon w ith a business which was organized in Coquille meetlng of ieague w ill feature in 1880 when there were 12 mem - T - chicken — ...-------. a fam ily ---- style dinner at « 7 bers in the congregation. The new in the community building, special edifice stands on the site of the movies of “ Hauling Logs,” and | first building erected in 1903. square dancing fo r all. | When Mr. Biggs dedicates the Prominent speakers include new church, "For defense of ltb - Secretary of State Earl T. New- | erty, fo r aggression against e vil," bry and W ilferd Laird of Coquille ELDER J. H. APIGIAN, minister I it w ill be complete w ith a new as well a? Clarence Osika of the in the S.D.A. Oregon conference electric organ, pews and public Chamber of Commerce in Coquille addres system. Pastor Blehm states and the governor’s safety commit will be a speaker at Friday’s con the entire project w ill be free of secration service. tee. debt. The building w ill seat 175 besides having classrooms, a Dor cas Welfare store room and a mod ern sound-proof mothers’ room. The structure also provides a k it chen and social room, for church gatherings, in the basement. W ith a 72 year history, the 95 members of the new Coquille Seventh-day Adventist church w ill world gl—------- globe and -------- mark otf only ------- Malaya, Indo-, • * » - ! g 5 Take a . world — — uplifting Christ The members of nesia, Indo China, Tibet and Red China heartland and you the church invite all their many can touch any other part of it and know that Lt. Lou Gilbert, 'friends to attend the weekend son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gilbert, has been there some time dedication meetings, the pastor said. during the past twelve months Have airplanes come to stay? matic m all and papers from coun Well, this Coquille high graduate try to country in service of their who v v t iu n as o a a U. w • S. foreign diplomatic country caurtu. chalked up a. total o i .i,- Onto three yopnfties have co, 000,000 miles travel made 95 per 1er service and they’re England, cent of his trips via air, too ” U. ” S. and 1 “ a mammoth ------ ,k service Now on active duty w ith the maintained by Russia. Each man U. S. navy in which he holds the has taken an oath that wherever rank of lieutenant senior grade, he goes his vital pouch of papers G ilbert is home on a twenty day w ill go w ith him. A courier eats, furlough. He w ill return to the sleeps, shaves w ith his pouch. Behind the Iron Curtain U. S diplomatic courier duty w ith the U. S. foreign service following 18 couriers are made to travel In pairs. In the free world they trav months of naval duty. A graduate of Coquille high el alone. G ilbert has many stories to tell, school in 1942, the Coquille man found naval tests to his likin g and there’s no doubt of that, but many went directly from high school to of them he cant’ tell. The famous Corpus Christi, Texas, emerging a story broke about Russia using the naval ensign and pilot of a naval picture of the Grants Pass Cave bomber. Driving the torpedo men and Governor Dewey of New bomber around the South Pacific York was taken from a personal I t wasn’t from the deck of a carrier, he letter G ilbert wrote. chalked up twelve months of duty supposed to have been made public. Some stories G ilbert can tell are In the South Pacific w ar theatre. Back home following the war he about such things as the tria l of enrolled in the U niversity of Ore W illiam Oatis, UP correspondent, gon to m ajor in Far Eastern Area who has been jailed as a spy in studies and kept an eye cocked for Ceneral Europe. An interpreter any developments that he thought from the U. S. Embassy who at tended the tria l of Oatis told G il ELDER L. E. BIGGS who will be might occur. He was right and in October, bert that the communist interpre here this weekend for the dedica 1950, he was accepted as one of ter was a fu ll sentence ahead of tion of the Seventh-day Adventist the group o f few^r than 100 U. S. Oatis all the time the tria l was church Is president of the Oregon Conference. , foreign service diplomatic cour going on. (continued on page 8) iers who carry pouches of diplo Truckers Eyeing Coquille Meeting Coquille Man Vanquishes Miles Lt. Lou Gilbert Makes 1,000,000 Miles During 12 Month Stint As U. S. Courier Champs of the B league high schools w ill tangle fo r the w in ner’s toga Tuesday night at the Coquille high school gym when Bandon meets Powers. The firs t game of the jun ior varsity is at 6:30 and the varsity quintets vie at 8 p. m. Admission is 31.00. Bandon starting lineup: Prewett, Smith, Van Leuven, Connors, Haga, Dornath, Hastings, Casper, Dev ereux, Domenighinl, Backlund. New paint waa going on at the Myrtle Lane Drive-in theatre this week and speakers and the huge screen were getting re furbished as the Coquille The atres got ready to open the pop ular drive-in theatre on Febru ary 29th. The drive-in will be open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each week during March. Later on In,, April if the weather Is Plans are underway for a cafe longer show dates will be teria dinner to be given March 12 gives ven. Rekaon for the March opening at the Methodirt church by the popular demand, Lloyd WSCS circles Tickets w ill not be Claver. manager of the Coquille sold in advance as price of the meal w ill depend upon the menu Theatres, said. selected by the guests. Serving o o w ill start at- 5 p. m. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS • • A dinner meeting at 6:30 Wed nesday evening w ill be held In the SOCIAL SECURITY MAN Hotel Coquille for the elementary COMES HERE WEDNESDAY A social security representative principals of Coos county, Mrs. Martha M ulky Purdy announced w ill be In Coquille Wednesday, Discussed w ill be number of days Feb. 27th, at the city hall from to be taught fo r the school year In 8:30 u ntil noon to answer any EXTERIOR OF THE NEW SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 1952-53 and other matters of im questions people may have. photographer • • portance to local schools ------------- ---------------------------------------------------- ■ " ...... — ---------------------------------------------------- --------- • • » Cafeterib Dinner Planned By WSCS church is shown in this picture taken last fall by a Sentinel . Soring Opening and Treasure Days Scheduled For March 14 and 15 W lw T l I I p O ■ « » .c ■ ■ till tra H p i I B o w en fissures B Approval of the « t^ trad e sJB o w e n ^ and 1 Chairman _ Treasure Day event on J B following n io h t M a rc h 14th g als s p rin g I r n d s y n ig h t, M a rc , of the spring! • ■ * * I . The. chamber also heard a land and the big drive for members 127th, I27th, Wednesday. Stan Hogate Hogate ▲ « I «««-iii oioH « n th a irin lrn ff I ¡s chairman of the member- ‘ _ kickoff
