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Bandon Western World beaches in a jeep, often by Oregon State) was and aeronautics and some wanted you!” itself without a mar- by: Steven Greif alone, on 6 to 12-hour moved from California NBHS students took During our current ket since it was almost shifts. “My driving skills to the East Coast. The aviation classes at the crisis, citizens worry totally dependent upon Local residents under were improved consider- Olympics intended for Navy airfield. Physi- about the availability of exports to Japan. In the the age of 80 have no ably,” he recalled. Tokyo in 1940, and the cal education classes certain grocery items. In year after Pearl Harbor, direct recollections of the Perhaps 2,000 to 3,000 games scheduled for expanded. North Bend WWII, the government lumber mills slowed pro- largest crisis to hit the volunteers served at over London in 1944, were High started a gun club, actually restricted citizen duction when President South Coast during the 30 stations of the Aircraft both canceled. an archery club, and a shopping so that supplies Roosevelt banned all last century — America’s Warning System on the Like today’s fencing club. The school could be used for the non-defense construction entrance into World War South Coast during the COVID-19 crisis, es- district purchased a film war effort. Meat, sugar, and commandeered many II. Revisiting the history war. They coordinated sential and non-essential called “Fighting Incen- eggs, butter and other civilian ships for military of the early 1940s, how- with the Army to report workers were identified. diary Bombs” that was products could only be use rather than lumber ever, can provide lessons potential enemy aircraft. People weren’t quaran- shown to students. With purchased with limited transport. about sacrifice, adapta- Children were even tined but were told to so many men enlisting ration stamps that were Bay Area employers tion, and ingenuity as involved. A lookout was stay close to home or for the military and some distributed periodically in also became increas- Coos citizens cope with constructed atop Bandon work in case of an attack. women taking jobs in ration books. Many items ingly worried about the the COVID-19 pandemic High and was manned A local civilian defense war production factories, were in short supply. The loss of skilled workers in 2020. primarily by high school official said that, “if and the school board worried American Fat Salvage to Portland shipyards or Unlike today’s micro- boys. In south Coos when enemy planes are about its ability to staff Committee was created airplane plants in Cali- scopic coronavirus, the County, an 8-foot by sighted over Coos Coun- the schools with teachers. to urge housewives to fornia or Seattle. The use enemy after December 8-foot shack was built ty,” steps would be taken As a result, in 1942, the save all the excess fat of the chainsaw, which 7, 1941, was clearly across from the Bridge to evacuate non-essential board rescinded a policy rendered from cooking replaced the crosscut saw visible. Japan’s attack School. During the day, workers. As for essen- against the hiring of and donate it to the Army – and other types of new on Pearl Harbor spurred sixth, seventh, and eighth tial workers — “We’ll married female teachers. to produce explosives. technology – began to Americans to fight an graders would take turns stay here and take it,” he The next year the NB Almost everyone com- revolutionize the timber obvious security risk. manning the post. If a declared. The official was board responded to a plea plied with these mea- industry. The workforce Yet similarly, federal and plane was sighted, the concerned about having from the U.S. Employ- sures. changed when women state governments issued children were told to run enough protective equip- ment Service to use During WWII, there took wage labor jobs numerous directives and and tell their principal. ment, however. He hoped high school students to was, in effect, a travel during the war in indus- laws against the “enemy” The cupola of the old that “gas masks, pump- assist in Coos County’s ban. Unless you were tries, like timber, that that dramatically changed Myrtle Point High School ers, and fireboats” could fall cranberry harvest in deemed an essential had traditionally been the daily lives of citizens building was manned by be rushed to the South several commercial bogs worker (like my grandfa- the purview of men. Of throughout the nation and the Bobcats. Coast in an emergency. in the Bangor area of the ther, Roland Greif, who the 1,200 employees at the South Coast. Coos citizens obeyed The threat of an air raid city. delivered milk to homes), the Evans Products Co. Beaches were closed government “blackout” was not an idle one. The By 1943, every male drivers were issued an in south Coos Bay, 800 to the public and the directives designed only direct hit of the war student who turned 18 by “A” sticker for their were women during the roads west of Charles- to make it harder for by a Japanese plane on the end of the school year windshields which enti- war working primarily in ton were off-limits to enemy planes to bomb the lower 48 states did was drafted into military tled them to four gallons the production of battery all but essential traffic. the South Coast at night. occur on the South Coast service. Hugh Milleson, a of gasoline a week. No separators. A Navy installation was In late October, 1941, a in September, 1942. football player for North cars, commercial trucks, The saying “necessity built at Coos Head and 10-minute county-wide A floatplane, launched Bend Coach Vic Adams, or auto parts were made is the mother of inven- Louis Simpson’s home emergency blackout from a Japanese subma- recalled that early in the from February 1942 to tion” held true during at Shore Acres was taken system was tested. The rine, dropped incendiary spring the boys were October 1945. All sales WWII. Radar, nylon, over by the Army to lights even went out that bombs near Port Orford all sent to Portland for of cars were frozen by synthetic rubber, super- protect the West Coast. night during the football and Brookings with the physical exams. They the government’s Office glue, computers, and The North Bend Airport game at Marshfield with intention of starting took every student in the of Production Manage- penicillin were just some was converted to a naval Hood River High. After widespread forest fires. senior class. “We were ment as car companies of the things developed air station with pilots Pearl Harbor, there were Schools have been sworn in and then taken converted their produc- as result of the war effort. dropping dummy bombs no longer night football closed in Oregon during back to North Bend and tion lines to military It is the hope that scien- on targets on the dunes. games for the duration the spring quarter of back to school. After equipment. tists can soon develop Coast Guard personnel of the war. All over the 2020. They were open in graduation, we were Many people during tests, medical equipment, and citizen volunteers county curtains were WWII but student/faculty shipped out about five the coronavirus event and vaccines to make our patrolled the beaches pulled over windows at life was still impacted by days later to Fort Lew- have been thrown out of world a safer place in the with dogs or on horse- night, streetlights were the war. After Pearl Har- is,” said Milleson. “We work. During WWII, the 2020s. back in anticipation of shut off, and special cov- bor, the State Department traveled by train with employment picture in an invasion by Japan. erings dimmed car head- of Education requested boys from Marshfield Coos County was also ear r Marshfield student Philip lights. Blackout wardens that all manual training High. Then we were muddled. When Japan y r rea H e patrolled neighborhoods classes in Oregon high really in the armed forces diverted its civilian ships Matson was only 15 Try (and under the legal age to insure compliance. schools build 50 airplane … Everyone that was to assist with its con- The World requirement) when he Speaking of sports, au- models for use in the physically fit was in the quest of China in 1937, Classifi eds joined local reserves. He tomobile and motorcycle emergency training pro- armed forces, even if you the Coos Bay Logging had just learned how to racing were suspended gram in enemy aircraft did not want to go. I was Company had to curtail drive. But as older men entirely in the U.S. for identification. Home eco- not too crazy about going production because it had We can help make your dream were shipped off to the the duration of the war nomics courses stressed into the army but did not relied on Japanese ships come true South Pacific, he wanted due to gas and rubber household conservation. have a choice. You could to transport logs to Asia. to “do his bit” and was rationing. The 1942 Rose Science instruction em- not stay and work or go In 1938, the Coos Bay soon patrolling local Bowl football game (won phasized radio operations to college. 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