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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1954)
New Courthouse Dedication Ceremonies Calls Citizens Hvïe Saturday Coos County will dedicate 1 its new modern, spacious courthouse Saturday. It will be a ceremony marked by music, reverence and satis faction—satisfaction in a job | well done for a large and growing section of an expand- 1 ing state. The official program of ded ication will begin at one I o’clock Saturday, January 23 with music by the Coquille High School Sand under the direction of Carroll Nickels. Rev. Jean Clark, rector of St. James Church, will give the invocation. Judge James Harrison will make an introduction of prom inent guests which will in clude among others. Justice James Brand of the Oregon State Supreme Court and At torney-General Robert Thorn ton. Mayor Donald Farr of Co quille will cut the ribbon opening the new courthouse and will then deliver an ad dress. Following the official cer emonies the entire courthouse is being opened to visits by the citizens of the county and each department has worked at preparing various exhibits of the duties it performs for the county official life. The new modern Home Ec onomics room in the County Extension Agent’s office, said to be the most modern Home Economics room in the state, will be shown to the public, and at the same time coffee and cakes will be served with out charge to all visitors. The new courthouse is out standing inasmuch as it is en tirely paid for. The construc tion of this courthouse* came about through the foresight of ty seat since the election of county courts who put aside I 1896 when it was moved from revenues from timber sales | and O and C land revenues Empire to Coquille. The pic to build up funds to pay for turesque wooden courthouse just torn down in the spring the building. The East w in g of the of 1953. was constructed at a courthouse, completed in 1951, cost of $37,000. cost $177,968; and the present Contractor for the new complete project of the West courthouse was J. L Hansen wing just finished cost $258,- of Coos Bay and architect 000. was Rowe Kennedy of Port Coquille has been the coun land. Sentinel VOL. L. NO. 2 COQUILLE, OREGON, Thursday, Jan. 21, 1954 LOTS OF RECORDS—The pulse of life of Coos County from the beginning of Coose County, Territory of Oregon, are found in the millions of recordings kept by Mrs. Georgianna Vaughan, Coos County Clerk. Mrs. Vaughan, who is a Coos booster, is busy pre paring exhibits for Saturday's open house at the new court house. (Sentinel Photo) Barton Asks City To Get Out Tile On Coquille Park Mothers March On Polio Set Tor January 28 City Councilman Clarence Bar ton asked that the city attorney, Tallant Greenough, get out the complete file on all correspon dence and conversations with Herbert Ketell, builder of the Co quille Park subdivision, before any action be taken on a letter received this week. Ketell had asked that new ar rangements be made for the city’s share of the cost on the access road from the highway to the park tract. He also asked to put in an as phalt curb backed by cedar sim ilar to those in some Portland residential areas. No action will be taken until a complete study is made as urged by Councilman Barton. • • Once again local mothers will participate in the Mothers March on Polio which has been sched uled for the evening of January 28. All residents who wish to give money to the March of Dimes are requested to leave their porch lights on that evening. The moth ers will stop to collect the dona tions. Another part of this year’s March of Dimes is the pancake breakfast. On January 21, the mothers and wives throughout the county will go on strike and the men will take the family to some local restaurant where they will be served pancake break fasts. Half of the proceeds from the breakfasts will be donated 6y the restaurants to the March of Dimes. A “ Kangaroo Court” will be held again Saturday on Front street. Presiding judge will be “ W. E. Sockum” who will sentence the guilty persons appearing be fore him to contribute to the March of Dimes. At Powers, a donkey basketball game has been set for January 27 between the Lions club and school faculty. The event will begin at 7 p.m. and an afternoon parade is planned for 3 o’clock. On Saturday, January 23, the Cub Scouts will sponsor a Block of Dimes in downtown Powers. A “Kangaroo Court” will be held there on January 30. Powers city chairman is Ray Getchell. • • VISITING HERE—Attorney-Gen eral Robert Thornton of Salem uill confer with District Attorneys John J. Pickett of Coos County and Samuel A. Hall of Curry county this weekend on a state wide study of law enforcement problems on the local level. Dis trict Attorney Pickett, one of the state's outstanding attorneys, has recently come in for much public commendation by Attorney-Gen eral Thornton. Thornton will also be a guest of the Coos county court at the formal dedication of the new Coos courthouse Saturday. Snow Reported READY FOR OPEN HOUSE—Coos County’s new courthouse will be ready for the citizens of the area Saturday when a big "open house’’ program starts at 1 p.m. with the county court and county officials serving as hosts. (Sentinel Photo) ASSESSING—C. G. (Hode) Caughell, Coos County Assessor, stands between his wife, Mrs. Caughell and Deputy Assessor Harry Johnson as they are busy opening personal property assessment returns. The Coos County’s Assessor’s office is one of the spots where increased growth of Coos shows up first. (Sen tinel Photo) Forestry Scientists Visit A t Goulds Bruce Anderson and Don Bar nett of the Experimental labora tory at Oregon State college visited at the Pete Gould borne last week. Pete Gould is one of t h e outstanding myrtlewood lumbermen in the southern area. • • Coos county residents could take their choice of weather this last week. First part of the week was fair and warm; then came heavy rain storms; and followed up in the hills by a white covering of snow. City Will Continue Elliott Street Fill Development Coquille will place a culvert pipe at the bottom of the gulch on El- liott street and continue to buy right-of-way easements for the continuation of the project, the council voted Monday night. The action was taken following a report on fills and bridges by City Engineer Mike Huddleston and a request that the city take action on a fill for the North End. Councilman Jack Bowen asked that three bond issues, one for El liott, one for Heath, and an issue for Beach street be placed on the ballot. A big s.o.s. was sounded for This was rejected in favor of a Mike Huddleston, city engineer, when the oil tank in the front continuing plan to fill Elliott as yard of the new Community dirt was available. It would mean no bond issue for the taxpayers, building collapsed on Tuesday. City Engineer Huddleston with and main cost would be the $5,000 assistants got the Lloyd Bros, busy now which can be taken fir>m a on the job taking off dirt and put bridge and street reserve fund. It was also pointed out in the in a rubber hose and meanwhile hoped that the removal of the discussion that Elliott will event weight of dirt would allow the ually connect up with tbe new heating system in the community Myrtle Point highway near the building to continue to get oil. Coos Bay Lumber company plant. P.S. Temperatures were cold Former Councilman George Burr too, this week. is going to Salem this week to • • ask that the state make Ike con nection as a part of the highway 42 construction improvement pro. ject they are planning to do this coming summer. It seems slow, but blame it on Original plans of the city plan COUNTY TRFASl'REP—F.ff’eier-v -nrl r n n -'-v »r- V-y- the weather, the city council ning commission, approved by said Monday night when asked of the office of Mrs. Clara Stauff, Coos county treasurer. Mrs. three councils, have asked that El by the Coquille Valley District Stauff. and since then was elected by the voters of the county. liott street be filled as the most Boy Scout chairman when the (Sentinel Photo» new Boy and Girl Scout room satisfactory site for a crossing to allow for a North End traffic would be completed. artery. Councilman Barton said that Several months ago Heath street as soon as weather permitted residents and other North Erd the concrete roof would be poured, and then actual inside people had signed a petition ask In the meantime, the council ing that Heath street be filled and modernized. In the meantime, thee ouncil • • voted to allow the Boy Scouts and the Coquille Valley Boy Scout district council to use the Leaders training courses for facilities of the community Cub Scouters of the Coquille Val building without charge. ley Boy Scout district will start • • Monday night at 7:30 in the Odd fellows hall, it was announced to day. Sale of city improvement bonds The meetings will be held for was awarded to the Charles Tripp six weeks, and the first meeting firm Monday night when bids will be under the direction of the opened. Tripp bid $100.15 for the Bandon Cub Scout pack. B3 bonds for which he will pay Films and activity periods mark I 5 per cent interest; and he also the training. bid $100.25 for the larger sum of This will be the first time Cub bonds and an interest rate of 3% Scout den mothers and others from : per cent. tne newly formed PTA cub pack There was only one other bid- will have a chance to take train- der who asked 5t4 per cent. | ing. S.O.S. Sounded When Oil Tank Has A Collapse Boy And Girl Scout Rooms Underway Justice James T. Brand To Give Speech At Dedication Of New Circuit Courtroom James T. Brand, associate jus^ burg, circuit judges of the fourth tice of the Oregon Supreme C o u rt,, district. is scheduled to give the main ad- Judge King will introduce the dress at the formal dedication of guests. The Rev. Jean Clark will the circuit courtroom in Coos give the invocation and Mrs. Clark county’s brand new courthouse j will sing the national anthem. Saturday, January 23. A banquet has been planned for The big event is slalvd to 6:30 o’clock Saturday evening at get underway at 3 p.m. when the the community building. Invited Honorable Judge Dal M. King en- I guests will include members of ters the courtroom from his quar- the Coos-Curry Bar Association; ters and calls the court to order, members of the Douglas County Counly Judge James W. Harrison Bar Association; and visiting su- will give the welcoming speech preme court and circuit court ju s - Other county officials and judges tices. An invitation has also been will also speak. extended to their wives. State dignitaries coming for the Tallent Greenough, president of dedication include William Perry of the Oregon Supreme Court; the Coos-Curry Bar Association, Lawrence T. Harris of Eugene, will act as master of ceremonies. former circuit court judge and su- J J B. Bedingfield Sr., of Coos preme court justice; William G. Bay is in charge of the dedication East and G. F. Skipworth of Eu program and Harry Slack is chair gene and Carl Wimberley of Rose- | man for the banquet. One of the famous Disney films, this time the first in his exciting new series of “ People and Places,” The Alaskan Es kimo is set for the Roxy theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, it was announced by Lloyd Claver, manager. In full technicolor, the movie is a sequel to the nature studies of Walt Disney. This time peo ple and places of the world will be depicted. • • Sewer Line Start Ordered Monday By City Council A resolution calling for the start of the $44,039 sewer construction project on Sanford Heights was ordered Monday night by the city council. The sewer line will serve San ford Heights, White Cloud and other parts of the newly annexed area, and will run across to the site of the new filter plant at the Charles Eugene Watson, 71, end of Front street. died here January 19 at the fam • • ily home. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday from the chapel of Schroeder's Funeral Home. Watson was born April 12, 1882 Commissioner Fred True filed at Bieber, California and came by for re-election to the post on the wagon to the Coquille Valley in county court this week. Com the spring of 1906. Accompanying missioner True who is now com him were his brother, Isaac and pleting a term filled with many his family. activities building up the county, He had been a dairy and live- is a resident of Coquille. Before stockman for the past 15 years moving to Coquille he operated near Myrtle Point. the general merchandise store at Surviving are his wife, Nettie Broad bent. Watson of Coquille; two sons, He has been active in Coos Wayne W Watson of Coquille and Floyd E Watson of Redmond, county affairs, and is familiar with Oregon; a daughter, Ellen I. Ar- the problems of the county having rell of Brookings; three grand come here when a young man to children, Elsie Watson, Louise take responsible positions in the life of the area. Watson and Jerry Arrell. • • Other survivors include three brothers, Handy Watson and Jay Watson of Gridley, California, and John Watson of Redding, Califor nia; three sisters, Margaret Whit- inger of Gridley, California, Rach el Love of Susanville, California Mrs. Helen Payton has resigned and Julia Rodgers of Coquille. her teaching position in the Co Numerous nieces and nephews quille public schools. No succes also survive. sor has yet been named. Charles Watson Dies January 19 Commissioner True To Seek Re-election Lions Club To Bring OSC Coach To City Tor Talk At Dinner Honoring Gridsters New Cor Comes To Town Newest car to pick Coquille as ( for this area. its home is General Motors Olds- 1 The cars which have been corn- mobile Announcement was made P?etely rfe$esi«ni d now . .. shown at Coquille Auto on Front this week at the time of the show- slreet ing of the new 1954 OldsmoWle In addltion to lhe oldsmobile that Coquille Auto company, for- line, the firm has alao taken the mer Studetoaker agency, would franchise for the GMC trucks and handle the fast sleek new GM line | pickups. Set For Roxy Resigns School Post New City Bonds Coquille Auto Company Now Shows New General Motors Oldsmobile Disney "First Mrs. Helen Payton Training To Start SCHOOL KIDS FRIENDS—Lillian Farley. Coos County School Superintendent, leads a busy life taking rare of the thousands of school children in Coos County. The day her picture was taken she had Just eome from a meeting with the Rural School Board who were busy working eat their budget for the next school year. (Sentinel Photo) 10 Cents Per Copy METHODIST SPEAKER—“Why Our Charch Needs Men” will be the subject for the address of District Supt. Meredith A. Grove« at the Methodist Mens’ Club Supper Friday evening, January 22 at 6 pun. in the Pioneer Methodist social rooms. Rev Groves is a graduate of Willamette university and Kimball school of theology He has held successful pastorates in Cottage Grove. Seaaide Roseburg. Medford and store June has been district superintendent of the Methodist church for this district. He 1« aloe a Maaon. Oddfellow, Kiwanlan, and member of the Grange. Kip Taylor, head football coach at Oregon Statp college, will b e ! the guest speaker at the L io n s' club’s special luncheon honoring1 members of Coquille High school’s "A ” and “ B ” football squads. The I event will be held at the C oquille. hotel January 28 at noon. Following the speech, Mr. Tay- | lor will show a film to the guests 1 of honor. The Lions club will also be hosts I to the football players for e l movie “Crazylegs”, which i s scheduled to be shown January 29, 30 and 31 at the Liberty the atre The film is the story of El roy Hirsch, famous football star with tbe Los Angeles Rams. Also appearing in the picture is Nor man Van Brocklln, former Uni versity of Oregon football star who now plays for the Rams. I Weaver, Riedel Named To Scouting Earl Weaver, Kiwanis club president, and Biegger Furni ture manager, and Dr. Robert Riedel, Coquille optometrist, have accepted appointments to the Coquille Valley District Boy Scout executive committee. They w ill work on the corn mlttee on Scouting and A ctivi ties. One of the first projects they are to aid on w ill be the February Boy Scout week din ner— potluck in the Coquille community building at which Boy Scout people from Ban don, Powers, Arago, M yrtle P o i n t , Fairview, McKinley. Broadbent and Coquille w ill take p a rt
