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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1954)
I V ------------- Thursday, Jan. 21,1954 ___ COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL tween the Skeena and the Hum kapow! And for' the first time in j boldt. And, he invented the dough history a wild, wing-tailed mince nut. This is how I heard it. fell from a hunter’s gun.*And, ac Famous Feeds Paul Bunyan was the architect cording to logging history, that of the doughnut. Tomte Olson, his wild mince meat made the finest blacksmith, did the first building Christmas dinner of all time. job. The poor little runt had a That was in the Winter of the bile, he eats his spinach, and he tough time. That original grand- Big Wind— when on any day of Rainy Day M usings Old timers tell of a liars’ con harvests timber with a pQwer saw addy of all the doughnuts fell on the week it would take two men to Olson’s foot and broke his big toe hold one mans’ hat on his head. test in which the winner only said, instead of an ax. At home or in — seven inches from the joint. • • camp, he is yet a mighty man at “Once there was a logger who had But he was a game little feller. a trunk.” That was away back in the table, most of all on Sundays, So finally Paul Bunyan had a the era of the woodsman “who Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. batch of doughnuts to try on his- would eat hay if it had whiskey It is a tradition that goes back to axmen for a mid-morning snack. on it, and he howled in his sleep.” Paul Bunyan. He dropped a doughnut over the Paul Bunyan invented the lum head of each logger and ordered The Western logger of today not only has a trunk but a family, a ber industry, according to the him to keep right on chopping home and a late-model automo- most respected authorities be- timber while biting into the new New committees for the coming food that circled his neck. And year were appointed by members every chopper ate his doughnut of the Active club when they met to the last crumb, never missing January 14 at the Coquille Valley a lick with his ax. The log out Country club. put went up. The horse-collar Those named were Bob Caughell, doughnuts did the trick. Dick Maeyaert and Moe Marineau, Out on the West Coast Paul membership;’' Jerry Woodward, Bunyan invented a method to Alex Kreick, Win Kelley, educa hunt wild mince, a game bird that tion and initiation; Cecil Finley, All new Ampro 8mm Futurist flew like a blue streak, always in AND IT STILL WORKS—This calendar of the DuPont company a great circle. It had a poor mem Joe Marchand, Cecil Moore and Projector. Original Price $185 00 was presented the Coos county clerk's office in 1916. And it is ory, and a crazy curiosity, too. A Don Day, social and sports; Gene Ash, housing. wild mince rooster would fly still in use every day. Here Deputy Clerk Willard Waggonner —— ___ Others appointed were A1 Rein- backward half of his flying time, points out its lasting qualities to a Sentinel cameraman. It’s a just to see where it was he had ar, Gaylord Flug, George Litzen- museum piece, and DuPont is currently searching the nation for started from. The mince had a berger and Ed Moore, attendance; such calendars, however Coos county citizens love it too, and it propellor tail, e#sy to reverse. Dick Maeyaert, George Hannaford shall remain in the shining new Couty Clerk’s office in the new The Great Hunter and Jim McMahon, program; Coos county court house. (Sentinel Photo) Paul Bunyan studied the habits Monroe Swindall, . Dick Boyce, of the wild wing-tailed fowl. Then Harry Spalding and Walt Scolari, 1953 W asn't So Bad he made a careful calculation. By projects. it he bent the barrel of his bird- Other committee members in gun to follow the flying circle of clude Johnny Ellis and Ed Freauff, the mince. His planning told, with finance; Hal Roberts, Bob Kuenzli, his very first shot. The birdshot Ed Neufeldt and Roald Bjerke, whanged out of the gun’s berit bulletin; Win Kelley, public speak barrel and sped on a true circle ing; Gene St. Clair, Phil Seeber, for the target, a fine, fat rooster Jerry Montgomery and Lyle Rash, Portland, Oregon, January 14— mince. The great bird soon pulled visitation; and Phil See (Special)— Douglas fir region saw number of mills had to close be- ’ away from the birdshot, of course. inter-club cause of this price drop, Smith ber, historian. mills set several records during said, some permanently and some But then— its faulty memory Guests at the meeting were Jerry 1953. Prices skidded during the until economic conditions in the failed. Instantly the propellor tail of Bernam, district executive scout year as much as $14 per thousand industry improve. Production for t h e tw elve. the mince went into reverse, and director from,Coos Bay and Nile feet below 1952 levels. Mills in the western Oregon and Washing months, Smith said, reached 10,- backward the bird flew to see Gobel. • • ton rain belt had a record order 292,898',000 board feet; orders to where in thunder he had come file for the past quarter century. taled 10,171,657,000 feet; and, from—the shot of the hunter for DRIVERS EXAM SET They also cut and shipped more s h i p m e n t s were 10,243,396,000 gotten too. Then—-there it was— FOR WEDNESDAY lumber than during 1952 but fell board feet. the birdshot from the Bunyan gun A drivers license examiner will • • — a little black cloud, no bigger be on duty in Coquille Wednes below 1951 record highs. Harris E. Smith, secretary. West ON GI NNERY SHIP than a man’s hand. And then— day, January 27, 1954, at the City Norfolk, Va. (FHINC)— Com Hall between the hours of 9 a.m. Coast Lumbermen’s Association, and 4 p.m., according to an an said the price skid was due to a missioned battleship number 41 at drop in world demand for West NOTICE TO CREDITORS nouncement received from the Coast lumber. U. S. and Canadian Newport News, Va., in 1917 the 750 WATT • COMPLETE WITH CASE All persons having claims Secretary of State’s office USS Mississippi rounded out 36 mills diverted fir and hemlock years of continuous active service against the Estate of Curtis Lee Persons wishing original licen lumber usually sold in export to afloat Dec. 18. Blondell, deceased, now pending World’s simplest projector. Gives you far brighter home in the County Court of Coos Coun ses or permits to drive are asked U. S. domestic markets. Despite Serving aboard the experimen ty, Oregon, are hereby notified to to file applications well ahead of a record construction year, this tal gunnery ship is James R. Rigs movies. the scheduled closing hour in order extra volume of lumber depressed by, quartermaster seaman, USN, present the same, properly veri fied, to the undersigned Admin to assure time for the completion i prices, for it was just a bit more son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rigs Exclusive Dial-a-F'ilm gives you Forward . , . Stills . . . than the market could take. A by of Remote, Oregon. istrator at the offices of Geddes, of the required tests. Felker, Walton & Richmond, 217 Reverse . . . Rewind. U. S. National Bank Building, Roseburg, Douglas County, Ore gon, within six months from the date of this notice. Dated and first published this 21st day of January, 1954. Your Movie Headquarters Last published February 18th, 1954. Roxy Corner Coquille Phone 2341 J. C. BLONDELL Administrator of the Estate of Curtis Lee Blondell, Deceased. Adivians Name New Committees Barrow’s Scoops Again! 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