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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.
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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
——
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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.
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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
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