Judge Harrison Wri tes :
Bond Sales Up
One Will Be Queen Friday
Sale of V. S. Savings Bonds
in Coos county are running
ahead of 1953. Lewis Wiltshire,
Coos chairman, said today.
Total sales so far amount to
$719,032 as compared to $643,-
284 for the same period last
Needs Of Coos County Roads Told;
Ballot Levy Measure Explained
By JAM ES W. HARRISON
Coos County Judge
year.
Friends of Coos County, I am pleased to attempt an answer
to the following question: “Why has the County Court asked
the people of Coos County for a 9% mill levy to raise $450,-
000.00 annually for roads—a levy to continue for five suc
cessive years?”
Primarily this request is being considered at this particular
time because the present 5 mill levy terminates at the end
of this fiscal year.
Knowing the status of county income, the County Court
knew that the road budget would have to be curtailed if ad
ditional funds were not made available when the present
levy runs out.
Secondly, there continues to be tremendous public senti
ment all over the county for an improved road system with
paving as the ultimate goal of all well-used roads. Such an
improvement program requires more funds than have here
tofore been available.
Residents Voting
By Absentee Ballot
Must Get Them Now
R esidents of Coos County who
w ant to vote in N ovem ber’s gen
eral election by absentee ballot
m ust ap ply for them by October
22, according t o G eorgianna
Vaughan, county clerk. The b al
lots m ust be retu rn ed to th e co u rt- i
house by O ctober 27.
Mrs. V aughan has announced
th a t any person not able to go to
th e polls N ovem ber 2 may vote
by ab sen tee ballot, if he is a reg - j
istered v o ter
Health Specialists
Conducting Survey
On Yellow Jaundice
ROADS TAKE ROCK—This picture of County Engineer Floyd
Robb, who is now recovering from a heart attack in the Hines
\ eterans Hospital in Illinois, and County Commissioner Fred
True, shows the two men checking the county quarry on the
Coquille river which has been a most successful producer of fine
gravel and rock for county roads. This year Coos county roads
have been given lots of rock and one reason is the operation of
county quarries such as this one. (Sentinel Photo)
Voters May D eterm ine A nsw er
Therefore, we felt that it was our obligation to the people
of the county to inform them of our problem concerning
roads, so that they, the voters, could determine whether we
should move ahead on the road improvements which we have
begun, or to curtail those improvements and perhaps even
curtail our regular maintenance standards.
Thirdly, Coos County has approximately 650 miles of roads
to maintain. It requires an expenditure of about one thousand
to fifteen hundred dollars to maintain one mile throughout the
year—depending upon the traffic, type of sub-soil, etc. That
does not include money for right-of-way purposes, new grades
and general improvement of roads. There are also a number
of miles of new roads and extensions to the old roads that
have to be made each year. We should figure approximately
S6.000.00 per mile for that work. Sometimes it runs much
higher. To slight the work on new road construction is false
economy. All new grades should be built to a high standard
in order to handle the traffic of future years and to cut down
on yearly maintenance.
All of this money must come from some source. Most of it
is derived from the gas tax. P.U.C. funds, and other sources.
Only about 10', comes from property taxes. I imagine that is
a surprising fact to most of you. It was to me when I discov
ered it.
Dr. G ordon G race and Mrs.
Vivian Ronte, two public health
specialists, arriv ed in Coos C oun
ty last w eek to m ak e a study of
th e spread of infectious hepatitis
in th is area. Dr. G race is epidem
ic service intelligence officer of
the U. S. Public H ealth Service
and Mrs. R onte is a m em ber of
th e O regon S tate B oard of H ealth.
A ccording to Dr. H arold O ster
ud, county h ealth officer, th e
specialists’ v isit is p a rt of a sta te
w ide to u r now u n d erw ay to d e
term in e facts relativ e to the rapid
spread of th e disease. H e stated
th a t th e objective is to try and
find m ethods for controlling th e
disease and p rev en tin g its spread.
Dr. G race and Mrs. Ronte will
I attem p t to d eterm in e how th e dis
ease spread s and periods of com
m unicability. They w ill also m ake
lab studies of th e acute cases.
Q uestionnaires are now being
circulated to residents in the
county w ho h av e had th e disease.
In this w ay, th e specialists w ill
be b e tte r able to d eterm in e how
and w h ere th ey got it, how sick
they w ere and possibly how it is
CRANBERRY ROYALTY—These charming Coos county girls make up the royal
court of the annual Cranberry Festival at Bandon which celebrates the gallant red
berry’s history in Coos county each year. One will be named Queen Friday night in
special coronation ceremonies at the Bandon school gymnasium. A full two-days
program has been arranged at Bandon for the Cranberry Festival with a festival
parade Saturday morning at 10:30; a Cranberry Fair at the V.FAV. hall Friday and
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VOL. L. NO. 41
Grange Talent
To Be Featured
At Annual Meeting
COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL Thursday, October 21, 1954
150 Books M ake
Up Elrod Memorial
Council Accepts
R. Gallia's Bid
Income Drop Foreseen
In other words, out of a budget of $900.000.00 for roads last
year, only about $100,000.00, or about 10%, was derived from
taxation—that is for the money levied in addition to the 5
mill levy. Of course, the 5 mill levy was extra and was res
ponsible for $195,000.00. Our additional levy would raise that
amount to $450,000.00 which would be used exclusively for
major road improvement and black-topping. Our annual in
come is nearly adequate at the present for maintenance pur
poses. It will not be if income should drop, and we believe a
drop is inevitable within this next year because our receipts
from timber sales and land sales are lower, and because the
gasoline and P.U.C. fees are not holding up as they should.
They are up a little over the same period last year, but not
enough to make up for the increase in cost of road mainten
ance. Our traffic problems seem to grow rather than diminish,
so we must make up in tax money what is not available
through other sources.
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It should be remembered that the total cost of this special
levy would not exceed ten dollars ($10.00) for each one thous
and dollars ($1.000.00) of assessed valuation. One automobile
or truck tire saved would more than make up for the differ
ence in cost to you.
Rotarians Hear
Music Wednesday
Audit Committee
Named by Chamber
. . . .
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M us,c by vocahsts and ban d
m em bers of th e C oquille high
school m usic d ep artm en t w as
presented W ednesday noon to th e
Coquille R otary club. Ju d y M ilne
w as th e pianist for th e group.
Both C arroll N ickels and W alde-
m ar Hollensted, m usic instructors,
w ere present.
At T uesday noon’s C ham ber of
Cornmerce m eeting president j y
Hughes appointed th e follow ing
to an auditin g com m ittee: J e rry
M acM urray, tre a su re r; Jo h n P u r-
key. chairm an ; and Sig P eterson,
They w ill m eet som etim e w ithin
the n e a r fu tu re w ith C larence
Osika. cham ber secretary to au d it
the books.
Coos Men Named On Committee
To Promote Senator's Campaign
Coquille Plywood
Buys Timber Stand
In Powers Area
W. M. Tate, Sublim ity rancher
and ch airm an of the state-w ide
“F arm ers for Cordon” com m ittee
said today th a t an active group of
O regon farm ers are backing the
candidacy of the senior senator
: from Oregon
O ptim ism was expressed by
Tate on the Nov. 2 and outcome and
said a fine group of Oregon farm
ers w ere active in his cam paign.
H ighest prices paid for timb«
T hose nam ed to the Coos County
in
the Pow ers area in recent yeai
•'F arm ers F or Cordon" com m ittee
are: A dam Donaldson, Coos Bay; was th a t th e Coquille Plywoo
, Clifford Brunell, Coos Bay; Her- C orporation of Coquille gave ft
ERVIN L. PETERSON, Oregon di ‘m
rector of agriculture, who has an Brelage, N orth Bend; E v erett ten and a half million board fe<
been named assistant secretary of Messerli, Coos Bay; Carl Peterson, of all species.
agriculture under Ezra T. Benson. i Coos Bay; Cedric Cross, RivertoD;
T he tim b er is in th e Johnso:
J. D Carl, A rago; W. J. Sweet,
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Bandon; Jo h n Caudle, M yrtle Creek area and fir sold for $32.5
P oint; J. E Norton Coquille; A. per thousand.
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W. Sweet, Sixes; F rank Root, Jr.,
North Bend; W illiam A. Donald-
I son, Coos Bay; Dr. George E I)ix,
1 nos Bay; C. F. McCulloch, North
W hen Ervin L. Peterson leaves Bend; Leonard L. Rood, Coos Bay;
Salem for W ashington to become F rank B. Rood, Coqulile; G eorge
assistant secretary of ag ricu ltu re and Doris Youst, North Bend;
undre Ezra T Benson, it will be G eorge W Rood, Coos Bay; Reu
an o th er case of "A m erican farm ben H endrickson, Coos Bay; Wil
son O. Rogers, Coos Bay; N. R<>fcer
hoy m akes good.”
For prio r to becoming Coos Barnes Coos Bay; Leah E. Barnes,
County Ju d g e in Ja n u ary , 1941, Coos Bay.
At M onday evening’s hearing or
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he operated the fam ily dairy farm
the proposed assessm ent of Sew
n ear N orth Bend. (H e sold the
er “C”, the city council agreed
farm ea rlier th is y ear.)
th a t possibly th e form ula used
Since M arch, 1943, he has been
was inequitable to certain p e r
d irecto r of the Oregon sta te d e
sons in th e assessm ent district.
p artm en t of agriculture, to w hich
Cost of the sew er is $38,375.29
post he was appointed by th e late
and th e re are 478 building sites in
G overnor Earl Snell. He has
C ounty
C le rk
G eorgianna the area, each of w hich has been
served u nder four governors.
V aughan has announced th a t re g tentatively assessed $80.29.
As assistant secretary, Peterson istratio n of Coos county voters to
T he council m em bers decided
will be in charge of fed eral-state tals 22,617 w ith th e D em ocrats that since certain areas included
relations in th e d ep artm en t of ag leading th e Republicans 12,589 to will not be served by the sewer
ricu ltu re. B ranches of th e d e - , 9,560. She stated th a t th e other for som e tim e, th e parties living
p artm en t u n d er his direction will 468 registered a re Independents th e greatest distance from the
include F orest Service, A gricul or in m inor p arties T he re g istra tru n k sew er should be assessed
tu ral Research Service, Soil Con tion lists a re now closed in p rep - for the sm allest part.
servation Service, Office of E x p aratio n for th e Novem ber 2 g en
T he council will re-assess the
p erim ent Stations, A gricultural eral election.
area and another hearing w ill be
Extension Service, Service to
T he record reg istratio n of 23,- held at th e Novem ber 15 meeting.
F arm er Cooperatives, and A gricul 101.w as posted for the 1952 presi
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tu re C onservation P aym ents P ro den tial election.
grams.
T h e D em ocrats led in all areas
except Coos Bay w here the Re
pub lican s totaled 1,918 to 1,650.
R egistration to tals for cities In the
county w ere as follows: Coquille,
2,206; M yrtle Point, 1,050; B an
don. 727; Pow ers, 494; Coos Bay,
Word was received In Coquille
3,633; N orth Bend, 3.539; Empire,
this w eek th a t Dr. G enevieve
1,463;
an
d
Eastside,
653.
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Chase, New York City educator
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03836224
and psychologist, has passed aw ay.
An autopsy disclosed she had
suffered from cancer of the lung.
Coquille Girl Scouts are b u s y f
She w as th e d aughter of the
prep arin g for th eir C arnival w hich
is scheduled for October 30 a t the ' F u n eral services for Ancil K ight late Mrs. Inez Chase, pioneer Co
who died W ednesday at th e Rose quille teacher, and had taken her
Com munity building.
F eatured a t the event w ill be I burg V eterans hospital, will be Ph D at C olum bia university. She
was the au th o r of num erous books
gam es, candy and o th er goodies | held at tw o o’clock F riday a fte r
on education and was a recognized
noon
from
th
e
Coquille
Schroeder
Each Troop is planning an in te r- j
leader in h e r field.
esting gam e or some food item Bros. Chapel with th e Rev. W alter
Her n ea rest survivor is Mrs.
A lthough th e re will be no adm is N aff conducting the rites.
Ancil K ight was bom at E ck M aurice H arvey of G uam , a sister.
sion, th e re will be a nom inal fee
for h te gam es, most of which are i ley. Oregon in 1897, and had been
especially planned for local ch il if» th e V eterans hospital for th e
past several years.
dren.
He is survived by th ree sons,
Mrs. H arold Dey is ch airm an of
the cake and coffee booth c o m - ' G alen K ight, U S . A rm y; Gordon
m ittee and Ju d y P erro tt of Troop Kight, Riverton, and G eorge Kight,
12 is chairm an of th e com m ittee B lue I-ake, Calif.; a stepson, C ort
land Sm ith; five daughters, Mrs. FOR RENT — Furnished apart
collecting prizes.
Lola Hansen. Santa Monica, Calif.;
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m ent w ith garage See Gertrudi
Mrs. Don Ross, N orw ay; M rs
(U lett) S andine o r phone 6026
ORIENTAL BAZAAR
I Jew el Bonnickson, and Mrs. S her-
TO OPEN FRIDAY
41t3i
1 ley H atcher, Coquille; tw o b ro th
An Oriental Bazaar will be ers. Ellis Kight and W alter Kight
held Friday and Saturday at of R iverton; and five g randchild First paid classified advertise
Burr-Sullivan Motors by the ren.
ment to be brought into the Sen
Oriental Shrine Band of the
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tinel office Thursday morning wil
( «os County Shrine club of ED WALKER BACK
be re-printed in this space eael
llillah Temple. According to
Ed W alker of Coquille Service week. Office opens at >:M. Re
'lilt Ashton, chairman, the sale Station is back on th e job again member. Sentinel Want Ads al
will feature hundreds o f varied I this w eek a fte r a tw o w eek siege ways bring results!
articles.
with lung congestion.
Former Coos Judge
Joins Cabinet
Assessment
Hearing Held
On Sewer "C "
Demos Lead List
Of County Voters
HEAR NEFBERGER—At the cof
fee hour arranged by Mrs. Mae
Barton, Coos county Democratic
chairman, local people met Mr
and Mrs. Richard L. Neuberger.
Bottom photo shows Mrs. Neu
berger with Mrs. Eranees Hotm-
strom. Coquille poet-artist, and
Sen. Neuberger. Neuberger ex
plained his stand on the present
administration and talked in fav
or of his candidaey for the V. S.
senate seat held now by Sen. Guy
C. Cordon. (Sentinel Photo)
Kight Services Set
For Friday A t Two
This Week's First
Classified Ad
Slash Burning
Now Completed
C u rtis Tow nsend. Pow ers forest
ranger, rep o rted th a t th e Pow ers
office of th e Siskiyou National
Forest has com pleted 200 acres of
slashing and burning operations.
D etention crew s have been d is
missed.
N ext project at th e P ow ers sta
tions will be th e p lan tin g of 75,-
000 seedlings in th e b u rn t-o v e r
areas.
Dr. Chase Dies
In New York City
Girl Scouts Busy
Completing Plans
G eneral Fund Used
Last year our road budget dipped into the general fund for
about $300,000.00. Most of this was made up of O & C Funds
and County Timber Sales. We do not believe the general fund
next year can stand that amount. Our road budget must be
stabilized so that we can plan our road program at least a
year in advance. That has been impossible in the past due to
the uncertainty of the amount of funds which would be avail
able from one year to the next »
We want to have good roads and we want to build them
economically. That is why we are asking you for an addition
al levy or a total of 9*2 mills each year for the next five years.
If you vote for this levy, you can help the county improve a
road system which at present is about twenty years behind.
The economy of an area these days is no healthier than its
road system. Decide for yourselves what kind of an area you
desire and vote accordingly. The County Court will, of course,
act according to your wishes.
JAMES W. HARRISON
Coos County Judge
10 Cents Per Copy
Farmers For Cordon
One of the finest C hildrens’
: shelves of new books is being
; catalogued and placed in the
I Coquille Public lib rary this week
F irst prize of a y ea r’s fre e elec as the Iris Elrod Memorial
tricity w ill go to th e g ran g e or I library shelf, it w as rep o rted by
com m unity group p u ttin g on th e , Mrs. Mary Alice W atkins, lib ra r-
prize-w inning ta le n t act a t th e i ian
C oos-C urry E lectric cooperative
Mrs. Hazel llan n a and Mrs.
annual m eeting S atu rd ay in th e
i Clifford G ulseth aided in the
Sixes G range hall. W inners of th e
contest will get $25.00 fo r 1st selection of th e books for th e
transmitted.
i prize; $15.00 for second; an d $5.00 I M em orial to Mr. Elrod who
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passed aw ay th is sum m er
for th ird prize.
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I T he an n u a l m eeting w ill s ta rt
at 10 a.m. and ru n until 11 w ith
the final acts to go on at 3 p.m.
At the m eeting reg u lar !»usin,Jt,
will consist of electing directors
for S itkum , Gold Beach, Bandon,
B roadbent and P o rt O rford. Also
The Coquille Public library p art of the program w ill be asking
has a regular voting booth—but for approval of th e C oos-C urry
R. O. G allia of North Bend su b
it's for youngsters not adults, en terin g into agreem ents to d ev el m itted th e low est bid for con
and the X’s are marked not be op hydroelectric pow er on th e Illi struction of the city ’s new storage
hind candidates names, but on nois river.
equipm ent building. The bid was
the favorite books and authors
accepted by th e city council at
A
ccording
to
B
ruce
Shavere,
of Coquille junior readers.
m anager, guests of th e cooperative th e ir m eeting M onday evening.
The books thal win will be will be county agents of Coos and Mr G allia’s bid was for $5,479
placed on a special Book Month C u rry counties, and conservation and he will sta rt w ork on th e
exhibit shelf during National d istrict officials, as well as others building imm ediately.
O th er bids subm itted w ere from
Book Week in November. Mrs.
A rep o rt on th e p ast y ea r will
Mary Alice Watkins, librarian, also be presented by P resid en t Iv H arold G rappe of Coos Bay for
$6,317 and T S. and Tom D rake
nounced.
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an Laird.
of Coquille, $5,900.
Children Voting
In Regular Booth
A t Local Library
Saturday: a harvest ball at Tanglewood Saturday night following the football game,
from left to right back row. Carolyn Moody, Randolph Community Club; Margaret
Olson. Southwestern Oregon Cranberry Club; Joan Fellows. Parkersburg Commun
ity Club; Sally Gladfelder. American Legion; seated. Jeanette Thompson. Langlois
civic clubs; Joyce Edwards. Bandon Civic Club: and Darlene Allen. Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
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