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T8HURSDAY .MAY; RROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON^ Page Ten Home of the C r o ftL d y Bulbs & Bulblets Official Croft Lily Growers News Items privileges and responsibilities— w ith his expected friends and his neighbors. We re g ret th a t due to the large turn o u t expected a t th e May 4 m eeting, and to the lim ited seating capacity of the G range P lenty of /Ireworlw and f u . r - f l . y t ,n it wil be necessary to re- ing ure prom ised for next S at Growers Asked To Saturday Meeting X ■ s m e e ts a t th e n a r o o r G range u. - discuss prices for this y ea r’s Eas- .h o c X | I | | the ‘beautiful C ro fts’ w ith th e ir enorm ous, w ell-devel oped flow ers—w ith th e av erage bud count sa tisfa c to ry on the la rg e r sizes, but not on the 6s and 7s." Mrs. S tafford s ta te d th a t it is h er experience and is in terestin g to note th a t m ost dealers favor a 15c difference in price betw een th e 7- and 8-inch bulbs. « ^ r s . Mabel Streubing, . h o has T h e a tre Brookings Oregon Friday-Saturday, Mav 3 and 1 ----- DOUBLE B IL L - “Blondie’s Luckv Dav” With Penny Singleton, A rth u r Lake — and “Wildlire” a technicolor with Sterling Holloway, Wm. Farnum , Eddie Deen and Bob Steele. Sunday-Monday, May 5 and 6— • Matinee at 2 p. ni. Sunday 9 THE MUSICAL, HIT OF THE YEAR “Swing Parade of 1946” w ith Gale Sotnn, Phil Regan, The Three Stooges, Conee Boswell, U uiis Jo rd an and his Tvinpanv Five,* plus Will Osborne’s o r chestra in plenty o f tunes. Wednesday- Thursday, May 8 and 9— V 01 LL LAI GH—and maybe scream at ‘Tw o Yanks In Trinidad” Shirring Pat O'Brien and Brian Donlevev. M A SO N & EDW ARDS M i l FI iflitll Shoots Wife And g ^ e Wife Had Started Dirvorce Proceedings, It Was Reported mil.llv, and ihis y ea r should be Just re tu rn ed Irotr an extpnded exception F or so,,,,, „m e there m ark et,n g survey of he m id-w est have been rum ors, reports and covering some 5 0 0 0 m iles in H a rry B. S teiner, prom inent stran g e and ra th e r w ierd stories which she co n tacted m any larg e ra n ch er of P ort O rford, shot his vuvuitmiiK ... what ....... jobbers, n u rserym en and florists. wife four tim es, and com m itted circu latin g hereabout of this grow er or that grow er w as in the in terests of o u r ( rolt lilies, sUjc j(je ,, VUII<.,UUJ W ednesday afternoon. supi»osedly doing in offering his ar|d as official em issary of the scene o f the shooting w as crop for this or th at or some j C roft Lily G row ers Association. no^ learned at tim e the P ilot oth er price. As the old saying She will give a com plete report w enj press. go es: ”M order will out,” however. an cxjiert analysis ot a c tu a l ^ rs- g tein er, d a u g h te r of Dr. so th ere i likely to be some fam- m ark e tin g condition and possibil- yy C artw rig h t, of Gold Beach, ily skelet us (’ragged out into the ities. Ih is will he one of the out- wag shot through the head and open during this m eeting. standing events ot th e y ea r and S| Ornach. but was still alive late In an exclusive statem ent to W>!1 be w orth m any tim es t h e , W ednesday evening. S tein er, af- the Pilot, Judge A. E Sandbo, nom inal cost of m em bership in scooting his wife, then tu rn ed association, de- , the association. Ju d g e Sandbo e m -| .... *,un _ on him self and was killed president of the ......... .................. elan sl: "The Croft Lily G row ers phasized. 1 he m eeting will get jnst a n tiy. Association is a dem ocratic o r - ' ,,r,a“ l‘ ay ,v prom n ram n ptly tlv at nt 7:30 t -.Ui p. n. m. under r w S te in er _ and his wife had been ganization w hich believes in e n - , ! sep arated for some tim e, and she 4 4 /^ couraging every m ctnlicr, w hether had s ta rte d divorce proceedings. ‘Good Reports” Were he has ten acres o r only one- T here seems, however, to be no Received of Crofts ten th of an acre of liles, to stand m otive for the tragedy. S te in er Mrs. May T. S tafford has on his own feet and declare him had previously th rea ten ed his received several encouraging self in o|M*n m eeting on any m a t wife, it was reported, but she did reports on the E a s te r lily te r affecting the hull) industry.) not sw ear out a ccgnplaint against It is just such things as these \ perform ance this past season. him. Good perform ance, esjieically th at have given us a national In the 1944 p rim ary election, in the la rg e r bulbs, w as noted. reputation and recognition by the S te in er was a can d id ate for s ta te One of Mrs. S taffo rd 's d eal entire industry, it is a m ark of rep resen tativ e from C o o s and e rs s ta te d in a le tte r to h e r distinction and prestige for every C urry Counties, but w as defeated th at, "We. too, h eard m any Illy grow er in this com m unity to by F red Adams of Gold Beach. com plim entary re m a rk s about join o ur association and sh are its S tein er was active in G range affairs a t P ort O rford and was interested in gorse control. O th er details w ere not learned by the Pilot at press time. Pine Cone Let M E Build I t ----- ! GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTORS p j i l r fill'd 1 ill I V lllU I tl i n _ « j £ a r i a. Q ) m m j t s - - ... R r }reag u rer, a t B rookings, I meetings ->r It. T. James, secretary, at H ar- Mr. and Mrs. Pete Salem are visiting Mr. and Mrs. are visiting friends in F. B. H assett. Mrs. W altz is a Falls. sister of Mr. Hassett. Brookings Oret We Are Local Agents For DU P O N T E X P L O S IV E Leave Your Orders With US For Blasting Powder Chetco Store Wilson Freeman Brookings, Ore?c $ '4 HOW TO WIN ERfENDS-AND KEEP THEM Making friends is important. Keeping friends is even Port Orford, Gold Beach Want Money Gold Beach and P o rt O rford have followed B rookings’ ex a m ple in raising "m atch money" for the money budgeted by the county f o r advertising. T h e original county budget set aside $900 for advertising purposes. w ith $300 going to each of the com m unities if and when they m atched it w ith an equal am ount, collectively. At the m eeting of the county court last m onth, both Gold Beach and P ort O rford declined to tak e ad v an tag e of the co un ty ’s propo- sal. At th at time, the Brookings C ham ber of C om m erce delegated L u th er T isdale to a p p e a r before the court and request th at $300 be allocated to the th ree - com m unities. sep a rately contingent upon th e ir raising the m atching am ount. This proposal was ac cepted by the court, w ith only B rookings tak in g ad v an tag e of it. At the county court m eeting yesterday both P o rt O rford and Gold Beach requested of the court th a t they be allow ed to accept I the proposal; and s ta te d th a t the m atching am ounts of $300 each had already k e n raised. ih e court order w as m ade a u thorizing paym ent of the money upon proof th at each com m unity had m atched it. This will be done by the secretaries of the two cham bers w riting a le tte r to the county clerk sta tin g th a t they! have raised the required m a tc h ing moeny. Mr. and Mrs. Chet S to ak s re cen tly purchased and moved into the form er D rake hom e on the c o m er behind the B rookings M ar ket. C het S to ak s is local agent for C en tral T ransfer, and has his office a t his home. Dr. R \t u m . more important. The telephone party line where everyone uses the telephone sharingly is a sure sign of folks who know how to make friends and keep them. So use your party line sharingly. It s the easiest way in the world to remain friends with your neighbors. Means better telephone service for everyone, too. West Coast Telephone Company Headquarters For Sporting Goods and Fishing Gear DUTCH BOY paints and sundries PUM PS Electric — Hand — Gasoline Powered A pump for every need! Complete Line of Plumbing Goods, STOVES, RANGES A N D “C U S T O M A IR E ” CIRCULATING OIL HEATERS We just got in a new shipment! J. J. Gallagher P L V M B I N G W ATCH T H IS CORNER