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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.