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Sewer Construction Underway! Port Orford Voi. 10 No. 3 Youth Work Offices To Open THE FIRST sewer line trench ever dug In the city of Port Orford was started an Idaho near the comer of lMth Monday morning a t Oregon Construction Co. of Salem began the big Job of construct U ir Phase 1 of the new system. Two local men have been em ployed to round out the ll>-nian crew. Construction time I’ expected to run through to August. Teenagers who are seeking summer Jobs are invited to participate In the youth em ployment program sponsored by the C u rry County Court. Youth employment offices will open the week of June 12 In Port Orford, Gold Beach and Brookings. Every effort w ill be made to find jobs for those who apply. Last summer over 100 students were placed In va r ious Jobs. However, the num ber of applicants has always exceedtd the number of avail able positions so one should not depend completely on the employment service. G irls are usually the most difficult to place. It Is hoped that pro spective employees w ill plan to h ire more g irls when they de velop th eir summer work sch- edul es. Applicants are presently be ing screened for the Lobster Creek Youth Camp and the C u rry County road crews. In formation regarding these pro jects has been distributed In the local high schools. The final selection of personnel w ill be made after consulting with school authorities. The Lobster Creek Camp w ill start Its eight-week program June 12. Twenty-four boys, who w ill be 14 but not over 15 by June 12, w ill be hired to do developmental work at the camp. Most of th e ir tim e w ill be spent splitting shakes for use on shelters. These boys w ill be paid $1.25 per hour for a 32-hour week. A nominal mean c h a r g e of $1.50 per day w ill be deducted from thetr check. A ll work w ill be performed under the direct supervision of adult counselors who w ill g i.e instruction In tool handling and firs t aid. However, their p rim ary responsibility w ill be to assist each boy tn the de velopment of good work habits. They w ill also organize an ex tensive recreation prog'am for leisure tim e. The camp cook w ill be M rs. Lena Moore who is a veteran at the Lobster Creek project. The final phase of the project should be completed In late July. Organizations are wel come to use the facilities for youth activities after Its com pletion. Three road crews w ill be hired to do general maintenance work. The project to receive top p rio rity this summer Is the clearing of debris from along county roads. Boys must be at least 16 years of age to apply for a Job on the road crew. TTiey w ill also be required to have a social security number and a copy of th eir birth certificate before being assigned to a crew. Those who are hired w ill be paid $1.50 per h u r for a 40- hour week. Each crew w ill be directly responsible to the county con struction superintendent and the maintenance foreman In each area. At least one adult w ill be working with the boys at all tim es. LINE crewmen install first sections of new sewer pipe. Nearly six m iles of these sections w ill be needed for Phase I of the new system. State Issues 'Outlook' Book Growth of diversified manu facturing, tourism and agricul ture are major elem ents con tributing to a strong economy and an outlook for continued growth, according to the fourth edition of "The Economy and Outlook, " just issued by the Division of Planning and D evel opment, Oregon Department of Commerce. Prepared by the Division's re search section, the 26-page re port Includes statistical infor m ation on trends in em ployment and personal incom e, as w ell as summary of the outlook for the major elem ents In the economy. Noting that em ployment in the state's electronics Industry has increased from 2, 000 to 10^000 in the past 10 years, the report pointed out that Oregon is becoming relatively m o r e attractive to science - related industries. FIRST manhole was constructed at the Intersection of 18th and Idaho St. Tuesday morn ing as sewer lin e moved west an 18th St. So far this decade, the report notes,Oregon's population grow th rate has exceeded that of the entire U. S. —11. 3 per cent for O r e g o n , 10.9 p ercen t U. S. average. The report concludes: "Oregon durbig the next 10 or 15years w ill exceed the rate of growth during the 1950's, and there is a real possibility that It could approach the rate of growth experienced during the Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon 97465 Price Ten Cents Bridge Painting Bids Are Asked Bids will be received by the- Oregon State Highway Commis sion on Thursday,May 4, in Sal em,for 27 projects estimated to coat approximately $5,700,000. The only project in Curry at this time involves maintenance painting of the Ih o n a s Creek Bridge on t h e Oregon Coast Highway (US 101 j, about nine m iles north of Brookings. Plans call for cleaning and painting of all structural steel in the bridge. Completion time is 175 calendar days. UFO Only Plastic Bag Coast Guard sources at Cape Blanco loran station identified a drifting"UFO*' Tuesdaym om - ing as just another kid's plastic bag sailing acroas an almost windless sky. Reports of the long cylindri cal object floating upright, ap pearing to have a post-like tube in the center and drifting in a slight north-easterly direction started com ing into the News office about 10 a. m . and within a short period scores of people fr o m all points of town were straining to determine what it was. The object had reportedly been seen as far south as Gold Beach earlier in the morning, according to the sheriffs office. A Coast Guard spokesman, however, told the News the ob jec t was not a weather balloon . . . just another plastic bag. Future Farmers Elect Officers The Pacific High School Fu ture F arm ers of A m ericachap- te r elected officers fo r the 1967-68 FFA year. The chapter year Is from A p ril to M arch31. The new officers who were Installed at the recent FFA Banquet are David Knapp, president; B ill S eller, vice president; Calvin Higgins, sec retary; David M o r r ill, tre as u r er; Tom Brown, reporter, and Ken Bess, sentinel. S ellers, M o rrill and Brown w ill be seniors; Knapp, Higgins and Bess w ill be Juniors. The new chapter officers have set as th eir goal to make the 11th year of the Pacific FFA Chapter even more successful than the 10th year. Homemakers' Day Is Next Wednesday " T h e re ’ s Something N e w E ver Day’ ’ w ill be the title of the talk to be given by Velm a Seat at the 20th Annual Home m akers’ Achievement D a y , sponsored by the C urry County Home E x t e n s i o n Advisory- Comm ittee, Wednesday, A p ril 26, at 1 o’clock In the Ophir Grange Hall. M rs. Seat, Oregon State U n i versity extension service m a r keting specialist, w ill talk to homemakers about new food Item s, new trends In food pack aging and consumer food pro tections. Keeping up with new developments in the food In dustry Is a fu ll-tim e job and M rs . Seat has the latest infor mation to pass on to con sumers. A ll homemakers are Invited to attend. Registration w i l l start at 12 noon for the 1 o’clock program. Thursday, April 20, 1967 Mental Health New Police Chapter Elects; Chief Hired Dufort Director A resolution requesting af filiation with the Mental Health Association of Oregon was the first o rd er of business for the newly-formed S o u th Coast chapter at a meeting, Thursday. O fficers electwl to serve one- year term s were the Rev. Gor don Ashbee, M yrtle Point, president; D. F. Tankersly, vice president, and M rs. Vernon S o r e n s o n , sec retary, North Bend; M rs. H arry K irk , co r responding secretary; J a c k T a - nous, tre as u rer, and M rs. Ben Faw ver, delegate to the state board, all of Coos Bay. E l e c t e d directors Include Hank Dufort, Bandon; Bob Sch- weers, Gold Beach; Dortha P auli, Reedsport; M rs. E. F. Beber and Bob Powrie, M yrtle At a special m eeting of the Point; the Rev. Bruce Spen city council Tuesday night, Curt ce r and H a rry Slack J r ., Co Weir, 27, of Salinas, California, quille; D r. Am elia Llpton, M rs. was hired in unanimous action Hugh Hoyt and Vic York, Coos to fill the vacancy of chief of Bay; James Fox, M rs. Glen police. Sprogls and M rs. Jack Brook- Wet- w ill begin duty on May Ins, North Bend; Harold B ib- l.H e has been with the Salinas eau, Charleston. police department as s e n i o r Verne Davis, director of field patrolman the past four years. services for the state organi \s chief he w ill start at a sal- zation, was present to orient lo sary of $490 per month. cal d irecto rs on state pro He and his wife have two gram s. He stated that the suc children and w ill reside in the cess of the fight against mental Hamlet. Illness and the promotion of good mental health depends greatly upon the volunteer w orker. The Mental Health As sociation, as the only citizens’ voluntary organization whose p rim ary concern is with the mentally ill , encompasses a Saturday, April 15, Ray Peart, vast spectrum of problem publisher of "Northcoast Out areas. The association is con doors", a paper promoting tour cerned with the patient in the ism, hunting, fishing and recrea state hospital, the disturbed tion and also "California Out child In need of guidance, the doors" TV program on KVIQ, recovered mental patient t r y Channel 6 ,Eureka,photographed ing to find his place in the FoMmuntty, and w t r ir the - -some • 4 - r t h • - proposed -Curry East-West Highway routes con clergyman, police o fficer or necting Interstate 5 with the teacher who needs to know how Oregon Coast Highway in Curry to deal intelligently with people county. Not all routes were cov in his everyday work. ered for reasons of tim e, fog and Plans w ere made by the di clouds. Peart also covered the rectors fo r participation in coast from the California line Mental Health Week, May 1-7, to the Rogue River reef. The and for attendance at a meeting flight was made in the Cold of statewide interest in A p ril. Beach Flying Club plane pilot Program s for volunteer se r ed by Ernie Wilson. S. O. N ew vices, education and m em ber house, chairman of the Route ship at the local level w ere C om m ittee and "Heck" Timeus, di scussed. Curry c ounty corr.m issioner, also It was announced that a gen made the trip. eral meeting to which the pub Thursday, April 20, Channel lic is invited w ill be held May 6 TV, Eureka, w i l l show, on 20 at the IWA H all in North Peart's program, portions of the Bend. Local problems of men above, also the "White Water" tal illness w ill be presented by trip to Paradise Bar in connec a panel of professional p e r tion w i t h the proposed Curry sonnel engaged in the treatment County Fish Hatchery. Program of the mentally 111. tim e is 11:05 p.m. Thursday, and Volunteer workers and mem Saturday, April 22, at 4 p .m . berships are being sought by the chapter, and interested p er CURRY ON NEWS sons may w rite P. O. Box Friday, April 21, Channel 3, 1082, Coos Bay, 97420. Curry Film To Be On TV COMING EVENTS Thursday Luth. Ch. Women, 7:30 p .m . Friday Sunset Garden, 1 p. m . N. Curry R e c ., 8 p .m . Baseball, Myrtle Point, there TV, Eureka, w ill show on their news program a t about 6:15 p .m ., an item regarding the p r o p o s e d Curry County Fish Ha tchery.______________ Great Britain includes Eng land, Scotland and Wales, all in one island. OTHER BUSINESS A letter was read from the Dept.of Housing and Urban De velopm entdem anding payment of the $14, 000 planning loan by June 12. Public works commissioner Jim Peterson agreed to look in to the matter of an alleged over charge* on water service at the Thage M o tel. '"’ tt was agreed to re -b ire the firm of Yergen 6 Myers as city auditors. The first budget m eeting was set for next Tuesday, April 25, 8 p. m . at the city hall. Pre-School Clinics Set A pre-school hearing and vi s i o n «clinic sponsored by the Curry C o u n t y Public Health Department and the O r e g o n State Board of Health for 3 to 5 year-old children will be held in Cold Beach at the Gold Beach grade school on Tuesday, May 9, from 9 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. Parents or guardians must ac company children. Please phone the C o u n t y Health Department, Ch 7-7352 for appointments. DATES TO REMEMBER Birthday wishes go out this w e e k to Elva Johnson, Patty Bowman,Mary Ella Knapp, Betty Livermore, Bryce Barkiow, Kitty Tucker, Pat Price and Donnie Alexander. Baseball, Gold Beach, here Southern Coos Hospital Auxil'ry Plans Style Show - Luncheon T raffic volume on most of Oregon’s highways continued to show an increase in February, 1967, compared to February, 1966, according to the monthly report compiled by the Oregon State Highway Department. A summary of the permanent tra ffic recorder data for ru ra l and urban state highways re vealed an Increase of 4.7% In vehicular traffic in February of this year, compared to the same month last year. The firs t two months of 1967 showed an increase of 4.8% In traffic compared to the firs t two months of 1966. The wife who drives from the back seat Isn’t any worse than the husband who cooks from the dining room table. The city council at a special meeting Tuesday night infor m ally agreed not to act on the collection of sewer assessments until such tim e, if any, that funds will be needed. The orig inal assessment for the Phase I portion of the sewer had been tentatively set at one cent per square foot. The council now, however, feels that the assess ment may not be needed be cause of the favorable construc tion bid and available st’ tr and federal grants. Property owners should not get too excited, though, because, should the city find it necessary, the assessment could be impos ed at the one cent figure.. . or any other figure the city might deem necessary to com plete the system. In any event, the city will wait until additional funds are needed. Aldermen Herb Thage and Harry Price also reported that they h a d m et recently with members of the Federal Water Pollu»‘on Control B o a r d and were informed that chat agency will provide up to 30 per cent of the coat of certain portions of the sewer system, in addition to grants already obtained.Por tions included would deal pri marily with the treatment plant, attorney fees, bookkeeping and other office expense. It was also pointed out that field engineers are working a - headof pipe laying crews to de termine placem ent of laterals to service private properties. T h is w ill insure that la t e a Is are located as near as possible to existing septic tank lines. Mayor Frank St. Clair ap pointed Harry Price to head a com m ittee,including alderman Jim Peterson, recorder Loraine Haines and city clerk Ruth Wahl, to interview persons for - ~t tim e bookkeeping job in con nection with the sewer project. M onday Cham, of C o m ., noon Tuesday Rotary, 12:10 p. m. Tops Club, 1 p. m. Lions Aux. Traffic Volume Up If Evolution works, Nature w ill produce a pedestrian who can jump three ways at once. City May Call O ff Assessments Tickets are now on sale in Bandon for the Style Show and Luncheon, sponsored by the Southern Coos General Hospital Auxiliary, planned for next F r i day, A pril 28, in Theresa Hall. There w ill be two shows, one at 11 a.m. and the second at 1 o’clock, at which time M rs. Ann Person of Eugene w ill show her "Stretch and Sew" fash ions. Also on display w ill be wigs and hairpieces from the Holiday House Wig Salon In North Bend’s Pony Village. O An A u xiliary spokesman also announced that a series of "Stretch and Sew" c l a s s e s would be offered to Interested women of the community In May. Tickets for the style show and salad luncheon are $1.50 and can be purchased at Ray’s Pharmacy or The Style Shop. The Auxiliary Is extending a personal Invitation to women of the Port Orford-Langlois area to attend this social event. On Dean's List "BIG STICK-UP" of the American Cancer Society is joined by Oregon's First Lady, Mrt. Tom McCall, at her home in Salem, where she is shown sticking the 7 Cancer Warning Signals inside her m edicine cabinet. Warning signal stickers are being distributed throughout Ctegon as a part of the Cancer Society’s April Crusaue for funds and public education. Carl Lang,Langlois, was nam ed to the Dean's List for the winter term at Oregon Techni cal Institute in Klamath Falls. Lang Is an accounting technol ogy student with a g. p. a. aver age of 3. 00.
