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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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the development
of at least three areas in the
city for spring construction,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Myrtle Lane Gets
Ready For Opening
On February 29
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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- chicken
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a fam
ily ----
style
dinner at «
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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
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Malaya, Indo-,
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Take a . world
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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
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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
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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
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« » .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
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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!
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The. chamber also heard a land
and the big drive for members 127th,
I27th, Wednesday. Stan Hogate
Hogate
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I «««-iii oioH
« n th a
irin lrn ff I ¡s chairman of the member-
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_ kickoff