T8HURSDAY .MAY;
RROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON^
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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
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m e e ts a t
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n a r o o r G range u. -
discuss prices for this y ea r’s Eas-
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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—
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Matinee at 2 p. ni. Sunday
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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
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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 .........
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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
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i n _ « j £ a r i a. Q ) m m j t s
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}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
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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.
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