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Home of the Croft Lily Brookings-Harbor Pilot One, Number Ten BROOKINGS, CURRY COUNTY, OREGON ulb Prices Set A t eeting on Tuesday unty Meet Goes West Coast Bulb Growers Co-op Sets Gold Beach By Lower Prices To Meet Competition de Margin, Fri. bookings Came In rhird In Standings dade on Local Field ¡siting Gold Beach trackm en top honor here last Friday the first county-wide track •t since 1941. by accum ulating otal of 67 «points. In what was thought by many growers to be a movement toward stabilization of the lily bulb in dustry, and to meet competition furnished by the Florida and Creol lilies, West Coast Bulb Growers Co-op, set a standard price no all Croft lilies, Tues day at a meetitng held at the Coos Bay armory. Slashing prices by about 30 per cent, this organi zation did much toward unifying the (ndustry. In the schedule of prices, these were broken down to give jobber prices, and individual sale to greenhouses both by bulb and case lots. They are: [eld under ideal w eather con- ons, a large crowd turned out ratch the thin-clads from Gold ich. Port Orford, Langlois and Size Prices to Jobbers Prices to Greenhouses okings. perform. No. In Case Each By Case By Case Each mnutive Dan Pinson of Gold Bulbs ich furnished one of the best f'rmance of t h e afternoon Sevens ................ 250 $ ! .44 $110.00 $135.00 $ .54 .55 110.00 135.00 .61 ;n he went into a three-w ay Eights ................ 200 for first place in the high Nines ...................150 .73 110.00 135.00 .90 ip It was the climax of a duel 1 Tens ...................loo 90.00 .90 110.00 1.10 wn Pinson of Gold B e a c h ' M ark C. Cotton, m anager of W est Coast Bulb Growers Co-op, Marsh and Coburn of P ort i ord. when all three failed t o ! who recently made a survey of the m arkets of the east, gave a ir the bar at 5’, 7”. Pinson I >d five feet, six inches w'hen com prehensive factual report’ of the m arket conditions as he had found them, and was followed by W arren Bullick, grow er from E lk stretches. dd:e Freeman nad Bob Church ton, who gave almost an identical report from his finfidings. hered the 15 points which Competition of Florida a n d Brookings third place. F r e e - ! Creol lilies, which are put on placed first in the shotput the m arket at about half the tossing the pellet 35 feet, 4 or ice of Crofts, was the reason Bob Church copped first for this 30% cut in price. Also, oth the 220-yd. dash and 120- in the grading there will be a l hurdles. Eddie Freem an lowed U-inch tolerance, w h i c h in first in the 220-yard hur- W inchuck m arket road and the but was disqualified w’hen Lower Chetco road are being im m eans that a "seven” m ust m eas ure at least 7U inches. Constant cocked down three hurdles, proved with graveling and grad Concluded on Page Tw elve harles Lacy of Gold Beach ing, and new culverts where they Bel in one of the best per- are needed. W ork has been com- ti<inces of the afternoon by pleted on the Winchuck road, and ( R l’O okingS VV c ite r C O. IO., 'ng the discus 117 feet, 8 culverts delivered for placing in E n l a r g e C ity R e s e r v o i r .. ♦ hn Lower T numr Chnten rnnd ’ °n his first throw, the Chetco road. Brookings W ater Company is towing are results of the A rth u r Crook, county commis enlarging the reservoir on Ran its: sioner, with assistance of Presley Kenworthy, Gold Beach; Tryon of F ort Dick, and Morris some Creek to meet the antici [fr Langlois, Hale, P o rt Or- Logging Co., of Crescent City, pated demands this summ er. The explosions heard Monday Time 5:11.5. has completed the graveling and w ere the blastings at the reser \'rffd dash: Newhouse, Gold grading of the W inchuck road, Lacy, Gold Beach; Hilde- from the highway up about five voir to clear away large rocks, so th a t the basin can be both * Langlois. Time, 60.7. miles. widened a n d deepened. A key otput: Freeman, Brookings; Two truckloads of concrete cul Gold Beach; Asher, Gold v erts have been delivered this trench will he constructed to p er distance 35 feet, 4 inches. past week for im provem ents on m it the m aintaining the w ater '.'and dash (two h e a ts): the low’er Chetco road. The cul level as desired. It is expected th at the work ^Gold Beach (25 sec.); Bob verts, two 6-ft, m aterial for an will be completed by the end of bookings (25.4); Cob- 8-foot culvert, and other sm aller this week. d it n ' )rford and C hristian, ones, arc being furnished by forest J>3ch. second in each. service to the county for roads >ard Hurdles Bob Church, leading into the forest area. Azalea Festival Plans K ristian, Gold Beach; At present, the eight-foot cul Are Being Completed > Gold Roach. Time 18.5 v ert will be built a t Joe Hall Plans for the forthcoming ¿ 'ard hurdieS: D. Asher of Creek. Swayback bridge is to be Azalea Festival, to be held L \aCh: G- Asher, Gold Beach. torn down and a six-foot culvert Saturday, May 25, are going • Brookings, disquali- put in its place, and other six- ahead rapidly, according to VV. C. Chadwick, g e n e r a l kyard run: Christian, Gold foot culvert will go in between Doyle G arvin’s and M orris Bros. chairman, who announces the K ^ n g l o « ; Ken- Ranch. coronation of the Festival 4. Gold Beach. The forest service is furnishing Queen will be held just before Ucy’ Gold Roach; Ha- enough sm all culverts w herever the barbecue, set for noon. L. . ; Plnson, Gold Beach, one is needed on the N orth Bank. A dance, under direction of fc. *. fete« 8 inches, All culverts will be approxim ate Bob Perkins and his commit- /-d a s h : Asher, Gold ly 28 feet long. The county is do ee, will be held in the eve CnkICC lntock- P ort Orford ing the work as fa r as the North ning at the Harbor Grange Por, Orford. Time Fork Bridge. hall, which will be the scene It is also expected th a t certain in the afternoon of the Azalea « Asher Gold Beach, logging interests in the a re a will Garden Club flower show. . Port Orford and L. help pay some of the expenses of It is also announced that • U n glois. Distance, 17 im provem ents on these roads the Altar Society will serve , J ♦ inches C* Tn a dinner at the Odd Fellows L-’ \ T ; ' , Pinson- Gold Beach, M arsh, Port Orford, tied for sec hall in the sevening, starting ¡/J ? Port Orford, ond place. about six o’clock. Additional T otal P oint: Gold Beach, 67; t R’ -^.t. 5 feet, 6 in. news may be found on page ' TpClintoek, Port P ort Orford, 29: Brookings. 15 tix of thv* old Beach and and Langlois, 11. County Roads Are Being Improved Lily Capital of the World THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1946 “Bud Count Low Everywhere,” Reports Mrs. Ray Streubing To Lily Growers "Greenhouse men told me. on my recent trip throughout the midwest," said Mrs. Ray Streubing. before a special m eeting of the Croft Lily Growers Association, "th at Croft lilies caused so m any of us to tak e terrific losses this year, and many of us will not grow (or force) them agani.” In prefacing h er rem arks, Mrs. Streubing told the estim ated crowd of three hundred, that she had not gone east on the trip to cut prices, as had been rumored. "Poor stock, due to greediness“ of so m any grow ers who slipped to propagate, and were selling at in yearlings, caused low a ‘bud a very low cost. Cut flowers, all count’ in so many of my reports tlowen in irom Florida, offered from greenhouses," Mrs. S tre u b another com petitor to Croft lilies. ing said, while telling of visiting Tulips, and even lilacs, have been floral centers at St. Paul, M inne tlowen in from Holland, and a t apolis, St. Louis, Kansas City and several eastern seaboard cities, San Francisco. "However, in Den jam m ed the flower m arket. ver, greenhouse men, as a whole "Florida lilies,” said Mrs. S tre u did have good luck with this y e a r’s bing, “were prolific with buds,— crop,” she added. and the bulbs cost the forcers "I found that lilies on the c o a s t1 only 25c. This com petition was, in did b etter than in the midwest, Mrs. Streubing’s opinion, one of although many green houses did the greatest. have plenty of com plaints to tell A nother feature, according to me,” she said. On the coast, greenhouse men Mrs. Streubing. of the flower m ar had a cost of $1.25 to force a lily ket this year, was the heavy ad bulb in readiness for East<*r. In vertising of other flowers, with the east this cost was about $2.00, Croft lilies most always placed which, when so m any plants failed in the background. Croft lilies, if to produce blooms, caused heavy the future is to rem ain, m ust be losses to florists. In m any cases exploited with advertising in the 8’s and larger only averaged 3 ’a leading magazines. People have ceased to associate lilies w ith blooms per plant. In Minneapolis, at one green E aster. In summ ing up her report, Mrs. house, reported Mrs. Streubing, 2500 Croft lilies, 7s and up, aver-J Streubing offered a few ideas of aged 4 j 2 blooms, which was good, hers as reason for this terrific average as the florists came out slum p in Croft lily demand. F irst, well on their investm ent. In Chi- she suggested that many grow ers cago, she also met another florist had not been careful in grading, whose luck was good, but for the had put in yearlings for com m er- most part, every place visited on cial stock. Many people over-fer- the trip was only to hear com tilized, causing the plants to lx? weak, and in m any cases enough plaints. "Price, in some instances, was care w as not exercised following a factor,” Mrs. Streubing said, digging when the dam p bulbs, in when she told of one florist who boxse, might have been allowed m ade an assertion that ‘the west to "h ea t” before shipm ent. Sho bulb grow ers” w ere getting rich, also hinted th a t some greenhouse and they m ust come down on men w ere not too well qualified price if they expect to sell again.! as forcers, and did not exercise Mrs. Streubing noted on her the care they should. "C ertainly it is now up to the m any visits the com petition of fered by other plants, especially grower, more than ever, to bring hydrangias, which cost so little back this m arket which has been the w orst this year in its history,” she said in closing. Brooking Widely Advertised Area The story of Brookings’ rise in the w orld’s economic m arket is spreading l i k e oil on w ater. In the past week, the Pilot has received two letters, from out of state, one from Enid, Okla., and the other from T erra H aute, Ind. The lette rs are a result of a story w ritten by M. S. Brainard, and was sent all over the country by the United Press news wire service. The story, one printed in an e a rlie r issue of the Pilot, tells of the recent grow th of Brookings from a "ghost of the fabulous nothrw est lum ber ex ploitation e ra ” to a thriving com munity. One of the letters received re quested inform ation about the fir lum ber in this area, and the other asking inform ation about about the railroad possibly serving the community. These are not the first letters addressed to the Pilot regarding inform atoin of the community, but they are the first to be received the sam e week from such widely- separated points. No doubt others a fte r having read these stories, will include Brookings on th eir itin erary of the northw est this coming summ er. T ry Pilot Classified Advertising Price Suggestions Offered— At the business meting, preced ing Mrs. Streubing’s report, cards w ere passed to each m em ber of Croft Lily Grow-ers association, to fill in th eir suggestions for prices on bulbs of 7s, 8s, 9s, and 10s. In the count, results w ere: 7s—■ 65c, m ajority, with 60c average; 8s, 70c m ajority, 65c average; 9s, 75c m ajority and 74c average, while 10s stood a t 80c m ajority and average. This inform ation was obtained for the delegates, A. E. Sandbo, and H. T. Jam es, delegates who attended the Coos Bay m eeting of the Wflest Coast Bulb Growers Co-op, Tuesday. The box question cam e up for discussion. The source of supply which was thought to be definite, is now uncertain due to shortage of lum ber. Redwood boxes will be investigated, since a C rescent City m an said he could supply this wood. Growers had placed orders for about 12,500 boxes w ith the local association. J. C. Moore, m arketing special ist of Oregon S ta te College, spoke briefly about the newly-organized Pacific Bulb Growers, an over all organization of all local o r ganizations. A fter some discus sion the local organization voted to affiliate. R. M. Knox, county agent, told of the wage stabilization act, and told of a forthcom ing m eeting to be held at Gold Beach May 21.
