Coos County Highway Dept Reports 179170 Spent in Year
The Coos County highway department spent 179170 during the year ending July 1 per the county court annual report. Major items include 106600 for market and county road maintenance and 387 new bridges were completed at 7581 total cost. The Bullard and River ton ferries carried thousands of vehicles and passengers monthly, with rock and gravel from nine pits totaling 6370 yards. A new ferry scow was being built with 4308 charged in the report year.
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Coes County
Myrtle Point
McKinkey and Dora
Bandon
Coquille River
Riverton
Cooper Bridge
Kuhnert
Danish System Judging At Equity Fair Winners
Judging among 4 H home economics contestants used the Danish system at the equity fair. Champions were named in most classes with blue red and white prizes. Homemaking I champions included Leeta Johnsen and Elsie Jebnecen and Johanna Ferry. Homemaking II champion Aldino Larson with red ribbon Karen Peterson. Homemaking III champion Betty Hammond with Issbel Halmer and Marion Koski noted. Home Beautification winner Monty Lund.
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Leeta Johnsen
Arego
Elsie Jebnecen
Arago
Johanna Ferry
Ruth Sandquiat
Bend Route One
Mary Rose
Devereux
Hauser
Leulee Johnson
Aldino Larson
Red
Kéren Peterson
North Bend
Betty Hammond
Eastside
Marion Koski
Coos Bay
Issbel Halmers
Monty Lund Gaylord
Shetlands Judged At Fair Show Top Honors
Habby Meyers of Myrtle Point won top honors in the Shetland judging contest at the fair. Eugenia Borland placed second with her Shetland ponies in Saturday events.
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Habby Meyers
Myrtle Point
Eugenia Bor‘arland
4-H Clothing Winners Crowned at Coos County Fair
Readable excerpts list 4-H clothing winners across divisions at Coos County Fair. Winners include Shareen Laharty and Patricia Hurley of Benker Hill sharing top honors, with blue ribbons awarded to Carol Archer Patricia Mager and others from Bunker Hill Enatelde Mullers etc.
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Coes County Fair
Shareen Laharty
Patricia Hurley
Benker Hi
Carol Archer
Patricia Mager
Bunker Hill
Betty Jo Ostberg
Barbara Johnesa
Julia Alto
Enatelde
Betty Grout
Greesacres
Reds
Kay Simmons
Virginia Ward
Mullerds Revte
Irene Sawa
Charlene Fort Bhirley Davenport
Peggy Luscomb
Donna Palenconi
Catching Inlet
Barbara Varley
Rastalde
Marjeria Radke
Joanne Lacey
Coquille
Clampion
June Anne Tert Bunker Hill
Bluea
Caroline Gowan
Bethel Delere
Lorraine Costello
Bunker Ilrede
Gloria Garbutt
Bunker Hil
Patricia Sanford
Haynes Inlet
Virginija Niven
Bunker H
Henry VanCalar
Sumner
Blue
Charles Carlbom
Eastside
Ed Robert
Frank Christers
Pair of Kings Crown Winners at Coos County Fair
Sworge King of Myrtle Point won first in the Saturday musical chairs event at the Coos County Fair, with Allan King finishing second in the competition.
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Sworge King
Myrtle Point
Allan King
Coos County Fair
Coquille Takes Poultry Honors at Coosa County Fair
Coquille dominates American breeds poultry exhibits with top awards to William Ziedrich for American breeds and Marie Churchill for a pen of one cockerel and three hens. Coquille residents Robert Neilson and William Nelson win multiple classes in bantams and other breeds, with 4-H poultry winners named from Arago, Bandon, and Coos Bay routes.
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Coquille
Coosa Conty Fair
William Ziedrich
Marie Churchill
Coquill
Robert Neilson
Bantama
William Nelson
Edward Bretsel
Ernest Bretsel
Arago
Alvin J. Adams
Myrtle Point
John D. Patten
Coos Bay
W. H. Kirk
Coos County Fair Horse Race Results
Woman rider Dene knee de Pot le mt placed second on George Meyers' horse Blase Velma Bee. Margaret Hughes Alborn of Coquille rode Copper King for third place.
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Dene Knee de Potle
Coos County Fair
Geogre Meyers
Blase
Velma Bee- Be Waa
Margaret Hughes Alborn
Coquille
SSA Manager Carl D Monroe to Visit Oregon Offices
Social Security Administration Eugene office manager Carl D Monroe will be in Coos Bay on Tuesday September 24 and in Coquille on Wednesday September 25. He will be available at the United States Employment Service office in Coos Bay from 4 30 am to 2 30 pm and at the city hall in Coquille from 8 30 am to noon.
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Carl D Monroe
Eugene
Social Security Administration
Ons Bay
Coquille
Monroe
United States
Dairy subsidies paid to Coos county farmers in 1945 46
County records show Coos county received 85 197 192 in federal milk and butter subsidies from October to July 1946. County Agent George Jenkins compiled the figures with the Coss Conservation Committee and the federal CCC and other agencies. Payments were quarterly with milk rates from 48 cents to 84 70 cents per hundred pounds and butterfat from 5 to 17 cents per pound. In the last 1946 quarter Coos farmers received 180 £ 83 10.
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Coes County
Ead
George Jenkins
Coss [Iermatunnel Conservation
Federal Commodity Credit Corporation
J. Arage
Frank Reed
Coston
J. Q. Corrie
Bulle
Ceese
Coos
Interest Shown In Horse Judging At Coos County Fair
Coos county stockmen showed strong interest in horse judging at the fair on Friday September 12. Entries reflected the county s growing herds with awards across saddle horses draft horses and a stake race champion. Wayne Watson of Coquille won the champion stake racer title with Willis VanLeuven of Bandon and Roy Jenkins of Bandon placing.
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Coos County
Clase
Allien King
C. C. Brown
Powers
Clovis
Ray Claver
Myrtle Point
Blase
W. T. LaMar
Wayne Winteon
Coquille
Jenkine
Bandon
James Nevin
Bendon
Wayne Watson
Dons County Fair
Willis VanLeuven
Roy Jenkins
Garden and forestry 4-H winners named in Coos Bay event
In a Coos Bay area 4-H contest series the division garden winners included Darlene Sherbondy Sally Moenson Alma Marie Monson Geraldine Larsen and Lee Lund. Monty Lund and Lee Land placed first and second in the fleece contest while Kenneth Ressell won champion forestry. Red ribbons went to several Coos Bay and Eastside youths with Leo nard Alto taking the lone blue in forestry II and a Sears Roebuck garden prize awarded to Monty Lund.
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Darlene Sherbondy
North Bend
Sally Moenson
Alma Marie Monson
Geraldine Larsen
Hauser
Lee Lund
Hial
Banden
Barbera McKenney
McKinley
Robert Heiden
Vantaide
Lois Duryea
Coos Bay
Jim Springstead
Monty
Lee Land
Gaylord
Kenneth Ressell
Verner Tate
Eastside
Larry Leaton
Diane Hartley
Darrell Exkliad
Lis Baker
Leonard Alto
Patricia Brunnell
Alfee Jokirinta
Oregon Highway Deaths Hit Near Record in August
Oregon's highway fatalities rose to forty six in August, a monthly figure exceeded only once before. Secre ta ry of Stats Reibert Farrell disclosed the month’s toll from automobile accidents, noting the year’s overall deaths approach a high mark.
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Oregon
Stats Reibert
Mrs James Emery and infant released from McAuley Hospital
Mrs James Emery and her infant daughter of Mystle'vint have been discharged from McAuley Hospital Coes Ray in a brief hospital note.
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James Emery
Mystle‘vint
McAuley Hospital
Coes Ray
County Lands Payment Share Set At 40540 20
Payments to Coos County under the Act of August 28 are based on county tax valuations of O C lands in 1915. Coos County’s share totals 40540 20, per Raymond A Youngbleed District Forester in charge of the Goose Bay district. The payment is the latest since 1906 when these lands were under or ware title.
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Coos Csunty
Raymond A. Youngbleed
Goos Bay
Apa
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