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Index Aasen, John, 83 Absentee ownership and management, reaction to, 9 Adelsperger, A. D., 33 Affiliated Computer Services, as subsidiary of global corporation, 191-92 Agrarianism, and timber harvesting, 124 Agricultural towns, as anachronisms, 167 Alcoholism, increase in, ix, 161-63 Allegany Community Church, 176 Allegany School, closes, 175-76 Allen, E. T., 48 Al Peirce Lumber Company, 162 Amenities, drive changes to local economy, xi American Association for the Advancement of Science, addressed by Franklin B. Hough, 21 American Federation of Labor (AFL), and south coast organizing, 146 Amsden, Forest W., 119 Anderson, Axel: arrives in Coos Bay, 33; mentioned, 70 Anderson, Eleanor: on Swedish influence, 33; on life in Coos Bay, 70; on marriage, 70; on Finnish societies, 71; on Great Depression, 88; on jobs for Finnish and Swedish women, 142; mentioned, 38 Anderson, John, 182 Anderson, Richard, 65 Andrews, H. J., as chief of Forest Service Region 6, 126 Army Corps of Engineers. See U.s. Army Corps of Engineers Asian markets, and raw logs, 173 Associated Industries of Southwestern Oregon, opposes unions, 148 Atiyeh, Governor Victor, supports continuing log exports, 175 "Bailout" controversy, 174 Baker, Rod, 187 Baker-Fentress Company, 83 Baldwin, Don: and state employment division, 156-57; on job placement, 164; on older workers, 164 Ball, John, 169 Bandon Dunes Resort, opens in 1999, 192 Banks, Robert, 52 Barnekoff, Lewis: on 1934 strike, 145; mentioned,143 Barter, during Great Depression, 89-90 Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, 183 Bay Area Hospital, as attraction to retirees, 183 Beckham, Curt: on logging camp, 58; early life of, 75; on Great Depression, 89; on timber supply, 123;mentioned,8~ 130 Beckham, Dow: on loggers as skilled laborers, 57; on logging bosses, 58; on employment of women, 62; on union influence, 63; on splash dams, 64; early life of, 75; on Great Depression, 89-90; directs IrwinLyons boom system, 103; on oldgrowth timber supply, 122, 123; on timber industry, 170; mentioned, 59, 83, 99, 100, 130 213 214 Beckham, Stephen, on coal mining, 14 Bend, Oregon, comparisons with Coos Bay, xiv Bennett, J. W., as local editor, 18 Berg, Florence: on Albert Powers, 34; early life of, 38; on C. A. Smith Company, 49; on logging-camp food, 60; mentioned, 43 Big Mill: construction of, 33, 41; production of, 39; and number of employees, 40; destroyed, 40; and West Coast lumber industry, 48; and strike of 1917, 50; and 1920s, 68; and Great Depression, 81 Blaming, xiv, 183-85 Boise-Cascade Corporation, 173 Booming and rafting, dangers of, 63 Bower, Helen Stack, 40 Bradbury, Bill, pushes bill to restrict foreign log sale on state lands, 174 Brainard, Bill: first recollections of, 79; on Great Depression, 91; and new technology, 131; mentioned, 108 Brainard, Henry: on childhood, 74; marriage of, 75; on Great Depression, 91; mentioned, 79 Bridges, Harry: as longshore leader, 145; mentioned, 151 British Columbia, logging camps in, 59 Brown, Don: early life of, 92-93; as local longshore leader, 145; as industrial unionist, 147; mentioned, 143 Buck, C. J., on sustained-yield management, 128 Buehner Lumber Company: purchases Simpson estate, 50; and foreign trade, 68-69 Building boom, 109; and gyppos, 110 Bull-team logging, described, 60-63 Bunkhouses, described, 60-63 Bureau of Land Management. See U.S. Bureau of Land Management Bush, George H. W., proposes INDEX allowing foreign bids on federal timber, 183 CaHall Brothers Forest Products, 182 California: dominates Coos Bay lumber and shipbuilding industries , 22; earthquake of 1906, 23 Canadian lumber, as threat to community, 168, 177-78 Cape Arago Lumber Company, 161; opens, 97; closes, 159 Cargo mills, 45; influence on Coos Bay, 17 C. A. Smith Company, 31, 34, 40; and timberland ownership, 31, 36; and Oregon and California railroad land grant, 32; plans paper mill, 41; improves harbor channel, 47; and ocean-going vessels, 47; and seedling nursery, 48; financial problems of, 48-49; sale of, 50; and steam donkeys, 56; and battery separators, 69 CB Cedar, 182 Centralia Massacre, 141 Chain saw, as revolutionary technology, 130-31 Chamness, Shannon: on changes in work force, 155; on mill closures, 158-59; mentioned, 10 Champion International Corporation, and mill closures, 168 Chaney, H. F., 49 Chard, George, career of, 139 Charleston: gentrification of, xi; economic rehabilitation of, 182-83; and opening of Distant Water Fleet FaCility, 187 Charleston Merchants Association, 182 Choker, defined, 56 Church, Quentin: as gyppo laborer, 111; mentioned, 90 City of Coos Bay, builds new boardwalk, 193 Civilian Conservation Corps (ccc), [18.118.205.186] Project...

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