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L ib r a r y U n iv e r s it y e f Oregon TM<’en e, irrwA»o.> 3 Price; 15 Cents ; * * * * * jPott ©rfnrd vol. 15 No. 25 Thursday, September 21, 1972 Tilt V o id of Northim Curty County «/ H T » •* • Port orford, Curry County, Oregon 97465 Port Hires Engineer For Development Plans Engineer Dick Nored, of the Thursday, Sept. 28, for an In- Coos Bay firm of Harland, Ges. spectlon of the port area. sford and Erlchsen, was hired A D , Van Loo, cape Blanco by the Port of Port orford Road, told commissioners that on an hourly basis Tuesday he was Interested In future night to begin a development port plans because he was study of port facilities. The contemplating buying into engineer, who Is presently "The Dock,” with the possl. assisting the port with their bllity of expanding Into a fish application for a federal grant flletlng operation for the hot. tor construction of a sewer tom fish market. line to the dock, will be spe. A Gold Beach charter boat dflcally concerned with work, operator, H.C. Kern, appear, lng on federal grant posslbll. ed to request a franchise for Ities for long-range planning charter boat service, along studies for port Improvements. with a bottom fishing barge. Two areas of Immediate con- Kern told the port that he had cern are additional parking a 28 foot and a 35 foot boat and pleasure boat facilities. ready to go, and could oper- Nored will meet with Port ate a third if necessary. He Commissioners at 2 p.m. on would also consider building a 60 foot by 150 foot barge to be anchored out In the bay to use for bottom fishing. The barge would accomodate about 70 persons fishing at a time a • •v * lr / /« -"/-v < i. A '; - * V \ - -•* •*- Food Stamp n Review Set *v ¿ - « . . w / A 'X « ’ • t ' •A Ì't ' • - i Reviewers from the Public Welfare Division in Salem will be conducting eligibility reviews In Jackson. Josephine. Coos and Curry Counties of participants on the Food Stamp Program The review will consist of reading the eligibility material in the case file and a visit tc the par ticipant's home to verify elig i bility as stated in the case file Additional contacts will be made with collateral sources to secure and document facts un obtainable through the partici pants Verification will be made on the applicant's eligibility as given to the Food Stamp Certi fier in the local office in areas such as income; resources, i.e. bank accounts, stocks, bonds, excess real property, boats, trailers, etc.; number of people in the household; residence; cooking facilities, etc and would be self-contained, in- eluding a small snack shack. He would run a taxi-boat to and from at either one or two hour intervals. The barge would be the only one of Its kind on the coast he said, but there is a very great potential for sport fishing at Port or* ford if facilities are here. He said he would need about 80 feet of floating dock for the operation. The Curry County road meet - Kern was asked to return ing was held in regular session at the October meeting of the with Commissioners Glen Hale. Ira Tucker and Gene Colegrove, port and present a complete and also Myron Baumer. Pur plan and requirements for con sideration. chasing Agent. attending Port president Leo Phillips The Payne road In the Cape Ferrelo area is under construc reported that the Army Engln. tion eers said they were sending Construction on Borders Point their new bfower-type "dredge” on the north bank of the Roque back to the port for more work. * - 5 7 * < v « .1 and Jerrys Flat road is progres The Engineers said the dredge Mari w. Privette, who re. sing according to schedule Construction of roadway ac had been improved to some cently passed the Oregon Bar ross Saunders creek is nearing extent and that they hoped to examination and will be sworn A RECENT find at the Joliu HaiCher home on The Heads completion be able to move the sand near in as an Oregon attorney, plans was this old cannon ball, held by Tippy Hatcher, believed to Memory Of Fish are being released In the the mooring and dock area to to enter into a partnership be from a skirmish between soldiers stationed at Fort orford, Curry County Commissioner May 1 Curry county streams as fol the end of the jetty with the practice with attorney Bruce located down the hill and south of the Hatcher residence, and’ Indian War Gene Colegrove said Tuesday plans for the swimming pool lows 140,00 fall Chinook and hopes that winter storms would Manley in Brookings. local Indians a few years after the settlement of Port or- that the county has received „11 for a 45x75 foot Olympic 75,000 Steelhead In the Chetco; move It seaward. Mrs. Privette is a graduate ford. Julie Hatcher shows hole near base of stump where approval of a $48,500 grant sized pool, which will be part 650,000 fall Chinook in the Elk cannon ball was unearthed Bills In the amount of $306.71 of the University of Missouri rom ,» Bureau of outdoor of a complete recreational com. River and 250,000 Cohos in the were approved for payment. at Kansas city (1962) where Floras Creek drainage Recreation. plex planned for the site at she received numerous honors By count, 75 fall Chinook from The funds, along with mat. Ransom Avenue and Second St. the Chetco have been reported and awards, including outstand, ching funds from the county, When completed, the park will from the coast of California to ing Woman Law Student In the will be used to construct a Include a baseball diamond,ten. the Chetco; 50 fall Chinook have State; order of the Coif, sec- swimming pool at Brookings. nls courts, basketball courts, been reported from the Chetco ond in class; and served as Colegrove said the bid open, picnic grounds and other fa. north to Coos Bay and one Elk editor-in-chief of the Law Re- lng for the pool Is set for clllties, Colegrove said, adding River fish was reported from the A local office of the curry view. Sept. 27 and It Is planned that that he was "very pleased” Columbia River After becoming a member of County Health Dept. Is now lo- The Jacks creek fish trap will the facility will be opened by the grant had been approved. be repaired next week cated at unit B, 406 W. 9th the Missouri Bar Association, St., at the corner of Wash, she was associated with a law Curry and Josephine counties firm as their first woman at. ington. have retained attorney Bailey The office is open between torney. in 1966 she moved to Two Oregon men have ap operation using only a 4-6 inch Lang of SanFrancisco to rejw New Mexico and became 2 and 5 p.m. on Mondays and plied to the U.S. arm y corps of dredge line. No shore fa cilitie s resent them In connection Wednesdays. Tuberculin tests licensed there in 1967, enter, engineers for a perm lttodredge would be needed. with the suit brought against will be given and read on lng the general practice of law in the ocean in the area be D ivers would do more bottom the U.S. Department of AgrU a s a partner. tween Humbug mountain and exploration firs t with work to those days, respectively. culture (Forest Service) by the Prior to law school, she was P o rt O rford. s ta rt soon i f the perm it is Sierra club. a dally television performer Clem Eslinger of H illsboro granted. The counties hope to get testi a s the Story Lady in the Book and Robert Julian of Banks have E slinger said this would not mony presented before the judge over KCMO-TV. applied fo r the p e rm it todredge The following job openings harm the beaches, that he re a l in the case so he w ill allow She has published many ar to a maximum depth of 120 izes great care must be taken the Siskiyou National forest to have been listed with the Gold ranging from one in feet removing approximately not to disturb them. Beach office of the Employ, ticles, continue cutting tim ber under House Beautiful to a legal 1200 cubic yards of sand per ment Division; its present five-y ea r plan. Brookings- brush cutters, work for the multi-volume working day by hydraulic Although the judge's ru lin g method. chokersetter, lunch program su series, Proof of Facts; and in the injunction in connection Free Senior The m aterial would be pervisor, sporting goods sales, some 18 or more childrens w ith the case is not completely stories, seven of which were pumped through a beneflciation Citizen Posses person, domestic couple. clear, said Commissioner Glen plant on the barge where ce r Gold Beach; body and fender re-printed in book form, titled Hale, it sounds a s . if it w ill tain m inerals would be ex Passes which will admit any repairman and painter, exper. Little Green Dragon Tales, and tracted. not allow the forest service to School District 2CJ senior cit. lenced carpenters, dinner wait- given with each cassette of these cut any tim ber u n til an impact The applicant states that ap re ss, housekeeper, licensed stories she recorded for the proxim ately 20 percent of the izen to any Pacific high school study is made. The forest se rv contest, as. ice has told the counties it practical nurse, Public Health Unity School of Christianity. dredged m aterial would be re home athletic sembly, concert or other extra, would take at least ten years She is currently working on Nurse II, fry-cook, Ilve.in care- three novels, besides plan moved as m inerals. The re clrrlcular activities are avail, to make an impact study on the taker couple, baby sitter. jected sand would be redeposit able at the high school office. Siskiyou forest. Port orford; shrimp pickers. ning her new office. ed into the ocean behind the To secure a pass, a senior REPRODUCTION in black and white doesn’t do justice to the If anyone Is Interested and The attorney w ill also appear dredging operation. citizen has only to apply at at the p re -tria l hearings to see new painting of the city hall complex, but it does show that qualified in any of the above E slinger said that gold and Register Now For the office and identify himself Fresh Paint the office building, new library and council addition and the positions, contact the office In other valuable m inerals in the as a district patron. The of. i f the judge w ill allow the fire hall are now one color. counties to be represented at the the court house annex in Gold sand are what they are fice is open weekdays between tr ia l. General Election black Beach, or call 247.6400. after. It would not be a large 8 ¡18 a.m. and 4 p.m. In C urry county, 61.6 percent Fish Are Released Woman Plans Law Practice Brookings Gets Swimming Pool Local Health Office Open Two Seek Gold fountie’B Hir# Lawyer For Dredge P e rm it Timber Case JO B CA STK R 8. A. Martin To Be Honored of the land lies w ithin the Sis kiyou National forest boundaries and most of this is timberland. The county just received a check fo r $1,288,066.24 as its share of the tim ber sales on the Sis kiyou fo r the 1971-72 fiscal year. This fund is earmarked, with 75 percent going fo r roads and 25 percent fo r schools. Although the injunction would not affect the amount received from the forest service in the 1972- 73 fiscal year, it would Harris Beach State Park have a serious impact on the Upon the completion of the 1973- 74 funds and this could dedication ceremony there will hurt C urry county considerably, be a no-host luncheon at the Commissioner Hale pointed out.’ D edication O f N ew Chetco Bridge To Be Held Today New Roof Going On WORK is progressing rapidly at the Battle Rock Rod 4 Gun Club’s new facility located on Agate Beach Road Just south of the sewer treatment plant. Building here, is undergoing repairs of new roof and Interior to get It ready for indoor shooting range. Most of the work Is being performed by vol- u"‘e«r» from the club. The new trap range is located east of this building and the ground has been cleared and leveled for Installation of the traps. A native son of the Brookings - Harbor area and former long time employee of the State High way Division will be honored on Thursday, September 21, when medication ceremonies marking the opening of the new structure over the Chetco River on the Oregon Coast Highway (US101) are conducted The new bridge across the Chetco River between Brookings and Harbor will be named the B A Martin Bridge In honor of B A "Dot" Martin, who was born In Harbor on July 20, 1899, and has been active in affairs of the area for a great deal of his life He started work for the Highway Division In July. 1925, and continued with It until illness forced his retirement In April, 1960 While working with the Division, ' Dot" was respons ible for much of the location of the Coast Highway through southern Oregon "Dot” , as he Is affectionately known to thousands, did not cease his activities upon his r e tirement from the Highway Divi sion He became active in af fairs of the Port of Brookings, serving both as engineer and manager For a period, he was also city engineer for Brook ings Because of his dedicated community activities, he was named Brookings "Citizen of the Year" last year The ceremonies marking the opening of the bridge will begin at 11 a m at the north end of the bridge Activities will begin with the playing of the National Anthem by the Brookings Har bor High School Band under the direction of David Dulley The invocation will be by Father Jo seph Black. Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Brookings Introduction of guests and opening remarks for the c e re mony will be made by Allen Finch, manager, Brookings Branch, United States National Bank of Oregon Guests are expected from neighboring com munities, including those in nor thern California Mayor Lester R Williams of Brookings, rep resenting the people of the area, will be the next speaker He will be followed by Tom Edwards. State Highway Engin eer and long-time fellow em ployee and friend of "Dot " Mar tin The final speaker will be B A “ Dot” Martin. Following the speeches, there will be a ribbon cutting cere mony and unveiling of a plaque naming the bridge Prior to the bridge dedication ceremonies, there will be a for mal opening of the Brookings Safety Rest Area and State In formation Center Theseactivl- ties will start at 10 a m with coffee and cake being served The new center is located ap proximately one mile north of Brookings on US101. almost dir ectly opposite the entrance to Sporthaven Inn Restaurant, lo cated near the south end of the bridge The new, modern structure being dedicated, replaces a nar row bridge that was opened to traffic on March 1, 1926 Work was started onthe4 5-m ilepro- ject on January 4, 1971 The work is expected to cost $6 5 million In addition to providing a much safer section of highway, the new structure is expected to benefit the economy of the area Meeting On Food Stamps There will be a public m eet ing. Tuesday night, Sept 26, at 7 p m in the Food Stamp Office Fair Grounds, Gold Beach The purpose of the meeting Is to ex plain the Food Stamp Program Work on the rest area and in to any Interested persons formation center was started on The Food Stamp Certification August 9. 1971, with total cost Office is now open dally 8 a m estimated at $400,000. It will to 12 and from 1 p.m. to 5 p m be manned during the tourist The phone number is 247-7643 season and stocked with liters Stamps may be purchased at the ture telling of local as well as Port Orford, Gold Beach, or statewide tourist attractions and Brookings Post Offices between accommodations the hours of 10 a m and 3 p m
