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MOTHER VISITS 4 - Port Crford Newt, Thursday, October 24, 1968 Mrs. Dick Barklow went to Myrtle Point on Monday and brought her mother, Mrs. T. G, Summerlin, home with her to stay for a couple of days. N o rth C u r r FROM ROSEBURG BPW To Send Boxes To Vietnam On Tuesday evening ot last week the Port Orford Business and Professional Women’s club met for a business session at the City Hall. A report was made showing the the "Country Store’’ held recently was very successful. Since the next meeting date Is scheduled for election day. It was decided to meet on Nov. 12. It was announced that the dinner meeting on the first Tuesday of the month will be held at 7 p.m. and the time for the business meeting on the third Tuesday of the month will be at 7:30. The suggestion was made that one theme be taken for the year and all the program work for that and all agreed that the programs should be kept close to the local situations, such as welfare, civic Improvement and the restoration of histor ical landmarks. It was a n n o u n c e d that E v e ly n Molr, Curry County treasu rer and an officer of the club, entered Sacred Heart Hos pital In Eugene Friday for sur gery. THIS IS BPW WEEK It Is planned that organiza tions will get together to pre pare and send boxes to our boys In Vietnam and that this group shall send gifts to the W o m e n ’ s Prison In Salem, which Is one of the projects. The committee In charge of arrangements for Christmas consists of Mary Woodruff, Pat Starr and Anona Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. D avid Hat- maker (Cherl Nowlin) from Roseburg visited at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hatmaker, In Langlois last weekend. PEABODYS MOVE Mr. and Mrs. Rick Pea body have moved to the Aif Port road from Port Orford. Their children have transferred to the Langlois schools. OPEN HOUSE SET The Port Orford Elementary and Battle Rock schools are announcing that Open House will be held Wednesday, Nov. 13 and everyone Is asked to mark their calendars now. Everyone In the town and countryside is Invited and urged to attend. BRITTON BABY ILL The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Britton of Denmark Is In McAuley Hos pital In Coos Bay. He Is very seriously 111 with lukemia. MRS. MITCHELL BETTER Tom Kreutzer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kreutzer of Floras Creek, Is at the Nat ional F. F. A. convention In Kansas City. FOSTER VISITORS Recent visitors at the Don Foster home In Langlois were Mr. and Mrs. Adrian French from Tieton, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Erickson, from Kent, Wash. Mrs. Erickson Is Foster’s niece and French Is his nephew. To have a lot of fun and a change of scene, Mr. and Mrs. Don Foster went Into the Jahn Day country of Eastern Oregon and her son, Don Wood, from B row n s v 111 e went with them. There was snow and 18 degree temperature, but she got her hair point mule deer and her son also got his buck. They report they all "had a wonderful time’*. IN MEMPHIS Rayburn Guerin, J r ., son of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Guerin of Langlois, Is out of Boot Camp and Is attending Naval Train ing classes In Memphis, Tenn. He and his wife visited his parents In Langlois for a week and then drove to Memphis. E n jo y in g the home-cooked dinner prepared by Peggy Bell at the Sportsman’s club in Lang lois last Wednesday were Del bert Neal, Burrell Babb, How ard Beasley, Jack Smith, Ira Tucker and Wilbur Greene from the Port Orford Lions Club. The Langlois Lions club took In three new members that night. The birthday celebration din ner that has been planned by Port Orford for Oct. 26 has been postponed until Nov. 9. Mrs. Lee Mitchell, mother of Leo Mitchell of Port Orford and a former resident of this area, Is Improved and able to return from the h o s p i t a l In Portland to her home In Wil lamina. 1. BUSH ENROLLED Dennis Lee Bush, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bush of Port Orford, is enrolled In Mt. Hood Community College in Portland. He is planning to major In Biology. VISIT ZUMWALTS ERWIN GUESTS FROM ARAGO 3. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 PURPOSE: Broadens present county constitutional debt Urn- itation so as to authorize agreements to purchase or lease real or personal property for a period not to exceed 10 years. Agreements entered into by a county must be pursuant to law ^nd for a public purpose. YES □ NO □ Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jansen of Bend, parents of Norman Jansen of Silver Butte Road In Port Orford, were visitors with their son and his family for a couple of days last week. VISIT FATHER Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Brocksen of Port Orford went to. Yakima, Wash., to visit her father who had been 111, and other relatives. Open For BREAKFAST Hot Plate Lunches H O U RS Sunday thru Thursday 6 a. m. to 8 p. m. Friday and Saturday 6 a. m. to Midnight North Port Orford Stub To be tom off by the Clerk depositing ballots stitution This amendment would provide for the consolidation of city-county governments in counties having a city with more than 300,000 inhabitants. The Legislative Assembly is to pro vide by law the manner of consolidating the government so that it may function under one set of officers. Incorporation to be made under general laws providing for municipalities. Noninconsistent provisions of constitution are still applicable to cities and counties. XTf) v 1—4 |—| ■—• V g g I- ) M i —| Ordinance Repeal Submitted to the Voters by Initiative Petition Shall Ordinance Number 26 of the City of Brookings, Entitled as follows : An ordinance relating to traffic, creating a parking meter zone, placing limitation upon parking in said zone, providing for the installation, regulation and control of the use of parking meters and said parking meter zone, providing for parking fees, au thorizing a method of payment for parking meters and allied equipment and the installation thereof exclusively from the receipts obtained from their operation, providing for enforce ment thereof, fixing penalties for violation thereof, providing that invalidity of part shall not affect the validity of the re mainder thereof, repealing paragraph (a) of Section 14 of Ordinance No. 10, and declaring an emergency. be Repealed? Yes, I voté for the repeal of Ordinance No. 26^ No, I vote against the repeal of Ordinance No. 26 Yes Q No □ l—J Facsimile published pursuant to O.R.S. 249.356 NO □ BERNARD I. MATHER, County Clerk Proposed by Initiative Petition Bond Issue to Acquire Ocean Beaches — PURPOSE: Constitutional amendment confirming existing public rights to ocean beaches and accesses. Authorizes state acquisi tion of privately-owned beaches bordering Pacific Ocean from extreme low tide to natural vegetation line, and accesses. Au- thori/e; at any one time not to exceed $30.000.000 state general obligation bonds for acquisition. Prohibits construction ot highways on beaches and ocean sand spits. Imposes for four years one cent per gallon tax on fuel for private passenger motor vehicles to retire bonds. ESTIMATE OF FINANCIAL EFFECTS: The proposed amend ment authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds by the Legislature in amounts up to $30 million at any one time, plus the interest payable on such indebtedness. Such bonds, if retired, could be reissued for the purposes of the amend ment. The amendment further provides that a lc per gallon increased passenger vehicle fuel tax be levied for four years with the proceeds dedicated to retirement of the bonds and interest. State revenues from this source are estimated to be $41 5 million for the four year period. Additional revenues to the Stale would accrue from the interest earned on these funds between the time of their collection and the time of their ap plication in payment of principal and interest on the bonds. — CITY OF BROOKINGS — 51. Government Consolidation City-County Over 300,000 — PURPOSE : Amends Section 2a, Article XI of the Oregon Con- YES 1 I Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Sequine of Langlois went to Salem last week to bring hts grandmother, Mrs. Irene Dorsey, to their home for a visit. Home Offices Bloomington llhnoit VISIT SON Pacific Drive - In protection districts would be reduced by about $150 million in the first year of its effect. The State would then automatically collect at least $6,500,000 more after the first year from personal income taxes, cor poration excise taxes and other taxes. This gain in State rev enues would result primarily from: (1) smaller deductions for property taxes on itemized income tax returns of homeowners; and (2) smaller property tax deductions on business and com mercial property owners’ income tax returns. The administrative costs to carry out this proposed amend ment cannot be determined until enabling legislation is enacted. Oregon law limits this statement to the effect of this pro posed amendment on State government finance. Empowering Legislation to Extend Ocean Boundaries — PURPOSE: Amends Article XVI, Oregon Constitution. Per- YES I I Constitutional Amendment Broadening County Debt Limitation — GRANDMOTHER HERE State Farm Insurance Companie» A new c h o k e r setter lor Crowley Brothers Logging Co. of Coquille is Charles Rob inson who moved from Alex andria, La., Just a month ago. With his wife and two little boys, Robinson Is living on 19th St. in Port Orford. NEW MANAGEMENT MARK A CROSS (X) OR A CHECK MARK ( / ) INSIDE THE VOTING SQUARE AFTER THE WORD “YES” OR AFTER THE WORD “NO”.______________________ 7. Constitutional Amendment Changing Property Tax STATE Limitation — PURPOSE: Repeals 6% limitation. Limits property taxes to YES □ Referred to the People by the Legislative Assembly 1H% market value. Exempts: (1) Existing bonded indebtedness; NO □ Constitutional Amendment Broadening Veterans (2) levies approved in November by majority equal Loan Eligibility — ing 20% of registered voters. ESTIMATE OF FINANCIAL EFFECTS: If the voters approve PURPOSE: Article XI-A amended authorizing farm and home YES □ this proposed constitutional amendment, the State Tax Com loans to Oregon Veterans with 210 days of active duty service, mission estimates that property taxes levied locally by counties, part of which service occurred after January 31, 1955, or dis NO □ cities, school districts and special districts such as rural fire charged for disability. Application to be made within 20 years mits legislature to extend state's seaward boundaries or juris- diction under authority of laws heretofore or hereafter enacted by Congress of United States. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Garrett of Langlois have been In Acton, Calif., visiting her [»rents and other members of her family. PHONE 332 4603 Recent guests at the R. K. Erwin home In Langlois were Ed and George Woodruff from PURPOSE: Empowers legislature to provide procedure for Supreme Court to remove Judge of any court from office for: (a) Conviction in any state or federal court of a crime punish able as felony or which involves moral turpitude; or (b) Wilful misconduct in a judicial office, involving moral turpitude; or (c) Wilful or persistent failure to perform judicial duties; or (d) Habitual drunkenness or illegal use of narcotic drugs. Amendment's removal procedure and Article II. section 18, recall provision, made exclusive. GARRETTS TRAVEL Your Port Orford State Farm Agent MEETING CHANGED The Rhododendron Garden Club will change their October meeting to the home of Mrs. R. K. Erwin with Mrs. Wilbur Browning and Mrs. Erwin as hostesses. Mrs. Mary Corrick of Lang lois and Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Jackson of Bandon visited Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Zumwalt of Sixes last Sunday and report that he Is continuing to improve. Constitutional Amendment for Removal of Judges BIRTHDAY PAHTY LARRY HOOVER IOVE TO PORT ORFORD Guests at the home of Mrs. Ralph H e lm k e n of Sixes last week were Mr. and Mrs. Pete Wostenberg and son, Bobby, from Coos Bay, Mrs. Diva Scatterfield and daughter, Barbara, from Brookings and Mrs. Jack Dean from Bandon. On Tuesday Mrs. P. G. Sweet from Floras Lake and Mr. and Mrs. W ayne Spencer f ro m Eugene were visitors at the Helmken home. after leaving service. World War II cutoff date changed from December 31, 1946 to July 25, 1947. World War II and Korean veterans qualify where part of 90 day service occur within war dates. ESTIMATE OF FINANCIAL EFFECTS: An estimated 60,000 additional Veterans would be made eligible for Oregon Veterans’ farm and home loans upon passage of this amendment, and an approximate 9,000 each year thereafter. To meet the loan needs of this new group, additional bonds would have to be sold in the amount of $3,500,000 prior to June 30, 1969, and $10,000,000 for the following two-year period. This money, plus interest, would be repaid by the Veteran borrowers, so there would be no cost to the State or the taxpayers. Floras-Wlllow club will have their annual Thanksgiving din ner at the Community clubhouse In Langlois on Nov. 14. It will be potluck with the turkey fur nished by the club. All mem bers and their husbands and Invited guests and their hus bands are urged to attend. Insurance, See helmken visitors Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Cannon of Langlois took a five-day vacation trip to Bieber, Calif., to visit her mother, Mrs. Har wood, early In October. They report a wonderful trip, with beautiful weather. Mr. and Mrs. C a n n o n ’ s grandson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arvls Cannon of Sweet Home, has been very 111 with Influ enza. He Is two months old. Jackie Cambell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell of Port Orford, spent the week end from Oregon State Univ ersity In Corvallis. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell took Jackie back to college Sunday, and also took Terry Sweeney and Lory Tope who had come home with Mike McWilliams. Precinct No.......... Curry County, Oregon FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1968 CLUB DINNER SET For Auto, Life and Fire I Donald Stryker, who has the Nursery on Highway 101, was taken to the Portland Medical C e n te r on Sunday with pneumonia and last Wednesday evening was stricken with a severe heart attack. At last report he was very 111. His b r o t h e r , sister-in-law and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Stryker and Debbie,from Salem came on Sunday and took him to the hospital. GRANDSON ILL HOME FROM OSU SAMPLE BALLOT FOR MEASURES CORRECTION A p o lo g ie s are due to the Steinmetz family for the e rro r In name of Mrs. Bill Steinmetz who was In the automobile ac cident near Ophir. Her name is Shirley, and we are glad to report Improvement In the con dition of the Port Orford res idents who were hurt In the two accidents. Last Tueasy was the 10th birthday of Blair Barklow, sun of Mr. and Mrs. David Barklow of Langlois, and his mother gave him and his friends a hot dog feed at his home. Those enjoying the fun-filled occasion were Greg Wilcox, Bobby Hil debrand, Terry Wahl and Danny Smith. Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis of Lang lois during the past week were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Sherych, of Reedsport. BRIDGE NOTES Ruby James and Betty Eyman from Broadbent. FOLD TO THIS LINE 6. f Duplicate bridge was played on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Legion hall and the winners were 1st, Ed Rust and Mike Simpson; 2nd, Mr. and Mrs. C h a r l e s Dougherty and 3rd, Mrs. Ira TUcker and Mrs. Har ry Kalina. STANDARIZED SAMPLE BALLOT FOR USE IN ALL PRECINCTS First Grade Group Conference Set For Today Fishers Have Twins IN KANSAS CITY Langlois Lions Host Port Orford The football spirit Is really at fever heat at Battle Rock In Port Orford and at the Jun ior High of the Langlois school, and the teams are receiving good backing from parents and friends in both areas. Two of the three games be tween the rivals have been play ed with scores so close that they were positively breath taking. The first one was a tie, 7 to 7, and L a n g lo is "squeaked’’ by with the point after touchdown to make the second one 7 to 6 In favor of the northern school. The third game was played last night, too late for this report, but we will have It later. The roster for the Langlois "Panthers” is Ralph Cope.HB; Curt Lords, QB; Jack Tucker, HB; Glen Sypher, HB; Steve Storm, E; Mitch Rosenberry, T; Mike Hanna, G; Roger Short, C; Mort R o b b in s , G; Keith Wright, T; Sam Conley, E; Gary Wulff, T; Dean Williams, HB; Matt Hanna, E. Jim Taylor and Chris Lords are managers and Vernon L. STRYKER ILL Mr. and Mrs. John Beickel of Langlois were in La Grande for two weeks recently visiting their children. On Thursday of last week Mr. and Mrs. Elton Dwlre and Mr. and Mrs. Justin Potter and daughter, Connie Jean, of Sixes and Mr. and Mrs. Fran cis Schrader Qeanle Dwlre) of Coos Bay had a birthday cele- b r a t i o n for Eddie Dwlre In Hauser where he and his wife are living. Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Fish er of Port Orford are parents of twins born Wed., Oct. 16, at Southern Coos County hos pital In Bandon, a boy, Ray mond Dell weighing 5 pounds, 2 1/4 ounces, and a girl, Carol Lee, weighing 5 pounds, 2 3/4 ounces. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Jamieson of Port Orford and Mrs. Walter Gor- such of Langlois and the great- grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hall of Fremont, Calif., Mrs. Warren Jamieson of Port Orford and Harry Horner of Coquille. The babies are Joining older brother, Eric, and the three will see to It that the Fisher household Is a busy place. Two troops of Brownies,with 10 members In each troop,have been organized in the Port Or ford area. Muriel Gehrke and Beverly Crose are the leaders Ice Johnson and Ann Sandness are leaders for the third grade. Regular m e e tin g s of the troops will be after school on Tuesdays attheCroseandJohn- son homes. Arago were In L a n g lo is on Tuesday of last week, visiting old friends and proudly exhib iting the big buck they had kil led In this area. VISIT CHILDREN T o d ay (Thursday) at 2;30 p.m., the two first grade teach ers at Port Orford Elementary School, Mrs. Milton Leer and Mrs. Gordon Britton, will have a group conference with the par ents of all of the first grade children. The teachers will show and discuss the lessons and school work the first grade children are doing and tell of the future plans. There will be a question and answer period f o llo w in g the demonstration. Baby sitting will be pro vided. HONOR ED DWIRE Football Roster Brownies Organized From Langlois Lords is coach. The cheerleaders are Linda Moore, Karen Aldropp, Linda Hildebrand and Janell W11 cox, backed up by the popsters, Paula Roberts, Leslie English and Cindy Loshbaugh. YES □ NO □