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7)ne7 Number Twent-one
ilea Festival
;anization Will
Formed Here
une Organizations
To Be Heard
)m By Chamber
BROOKINGS, CURRY COUNTY. OREGON
Top-soil Was Taken
From Axford Driveway
Incensed over removal of rich
top-soil from the driveway to
their place on the winding road to
Harbor, Mr. and Mrs. H. Wj
Axford advertised, this week, in
the Pilot, offering a reward of
$50 for information leading to
arrest and conviction of the per
son or persons responsible.
“ This topsoil,” said Mr. Axford,
“ is rich with humus, due to the
rank vegetation of that vicinity.
I t would be exception for lawns
of the area, and perhaps many
people don’t think when they load
this up.”
Kenyon-Davidson
Price Schedule Is
Announced, Co-op
New Co-op Manager
Takes Over Duties
In This District
Mrs. Mildred Byrne To
Open Office, August 1
Brookings w ill have a public
stenographer.
Announcement is being made
in this issue of the Pilot by Mrs.
Mildred M. Byrne that she w ill,
on August 1, open up a public
stenographer’s office in the Cen
tral Building, across the hall from
the West Coast Telephone office.
Already connected w ith a num
ber of accounts in bookkeeping,
the demand for office space be
came necessary, so Mrs. Byrne
decided to open up downtown, and
has added this service.
Lily Capital
of the World
THURSDAY, JULY 25. 1946
Local Legionnaires
Attend Convention
Held at Portland
Brookings Lilies Make
Impression At Legion
Memorial Services
Mr. and Mrs Earl Templar and
Tallcut A. Perkins, formerly
Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Mendenhall
with the California Farm Bureau,
Sr. returned late last week from
with an eight-year record of note,
Portland where they attended the
became the manager of West
annual convention of the Oregon
Coast Growers, Co-op,, succeed
Department of American Legion.
ing Mark C. Cotton, who resigned
Mr*. Mendenhall Report*
June 15.
Mrs. Mendenhall, delegate from
Recommended highly by the
Chetco
Unit, American Legion
Bank of Cooperatives at Berkeley,
Auxiliary, reports that the con
Mr. Perkins is married has two
vention. under direction of Mrs.
children, Janice, who w ill enter
Earl Templar, Department pres
University of Oregon as a fresh
ident, had an extraordinary busy
man this fall, and Edmund, ju
According to H. T. James. Mon
session.
day, work on the perfume experi
The choir of the Baptist com nior in high school.
Child welfare will lx* increased
ments this year have been held
m unity church, under direction of Announce Kenyon Bulb Price*
this
year, reported Mrs. Menden
Following the meeting, held last up because of the coal strike and
Otto C. Turley, director, w ill pre
hall,
who added that rehabilita
sent a vesper service at 8 o’clck i Monday evening at the Chetco resultant lack of coal ta r deriv- tion of veterans w ill be stressed.
j
Grange,
the
co-op
set
the
follow
iatives and fats.
Sunday evening at the church.
District No. 4. of which the
M r James, who has been in-
Practices for the e'ent have ing schedule for Kenyon-David-
local post and unit are a part, is
tensely interested in this proj-
been held for the past couple, of I son bulb prices.
The purple stem variety, known ect, laments the fact that another outstanding in state membership
weeks, and much interest already
achievements. Being large and un
has been manifest in the coming as Royal, said to be the leading year w ill be lost in this experi- wieldy, the district has been di
event. A complete program of Kenyon-Davidson variety, was | menting. and delay of a business vided. and the local post and unit
the affair may he seen by turn picked as the basis for establish which might aid lily growers to now come under District No. 10.
ing prices. Since the Six-inch bulb a great extent.
ing to page seven of this issue.
Chetco unit received a citation
Proceeds of an offering w ill go in this lily compares favorably to
as a new unit and also one for
the 7-inch Croft it bud count, i t !
Pi»’«»-«
toward proposed purchase of a w
exceeding its quota for mem
ill he included in the schedule J
™
KlVers
Hammond organ for the church.
bership.
Since there are very few E s-, End Girl Is Announced
A very impressive memorial
tate lilies grown in Curry County, | Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williams, was held at the sunken ball
Vernon Goldizen Was
but sizeable fields in Del Norte i of Rivers End, near the state room of the Masonic Temple at
announce the engagement of Portland, on the second day of
Honored At Party, Tues. county, it was necessary to estab-
lish
a
price
on
this
type
of
lily.
|
their
daughter. Joy. to Clair John- the convention. Edith Low. of the
A going-away party was held
As
confusion
has
been
in
minds
of
son
son
of Mr. and Mrs. M illard local post, furnished lilies for the
Tuesday evening for Vernon Gol
dizen at M ill Beach, given by his many of the growers a to price Johnson of Fort Dick,
cross, about six feet in height,
The couple, both graduates of to be p la c e d on a simulated
pre and Compass Club — parents and friend of the Com of Crofts, set at the Coos Bay
tmeeting, the following list has p (>i Norte high school, plans to he grave. A picture of this appeared
Hanscam.
m unity church.
jmarried in October.
last week in the Oregon Journal.
Vernon left Wednesday for his been released by the co-op:
rbor Community Club—Mrs.
Price
to
Jobber*
These lilies were in memory of
camp in New Jersey, after en
b Wood.
Under Over
Mrs. Low’s brother, and his son,
t' -lite Club Mrs. Lillian Wie- joying a furlough he/’e with his
No. in Price to 500 500
Allan Bynon and Lt. Allan By-
parents.
He
is
in
the
army.
nan.
Size Case Forcers Cases Case*
non, Jr., killed in March of this
« No. 966. V. F. W. — A.
CROFT
year.
ollinger.
7- 8 250 $135.00 $110.00 $100
Deputy Vice-Commander of Dist.
8- 9 200 $135.00 $110.00 $100
A general field day on the VFW
J" W. Auxiliary—Mrs. H ar-
V A Mendenhall Sr., retiring
9- 10 150 $135.00 $110.00 $100 building site is scheduled for Sun com meander of the local post, was
Stephenson.
100 $110.00 $90.00 $82 day. July 28. when all members picked as vice-commander of the
chamber has yet to hear
ROYAL
of the post are to show up and newly-formed District 10, which
many of the other organi
Last Saturday, one of the hot 6- 7 300 $135.00 $110.00 $100 clean up the grounds, prepartory
comprises Douglas, Curry and
s in g that their dele- ter days experienced by this area
Coos Counties.
b »ill soon be named and this summer, when people here 7- 8 250 $135.00 $110.00 $100 to the proposed new building.
s- 9 200 $135.00 $11000 $100
Work w ill start at 8:00 a. m.
" rk toward this permanent complained of the 65 degree
$135.00 $110 00 $100 and members w ill not only bring
“Nation can be started,
just 75 miles, the way a hfrd
their own tools, but w ill arrange Ralph Vincent Finishes
KENYON-DA VIDSON
first meeting of the dele- would fly, at Medford, people did
Lily Photographing Here
300 $110.00 $85.00 $80
* »'ill be calle at an early not have the energy to complain
Ralph Vincent, for many years
$85.00
$80
$110.00
250
''ssib’.y the first part of —under the 115.2 degrees of heat.1
official photographer for Oregon
200 $110.00 $85.00 $80
Notice w ill be given to
Brookings, on that day, was
Jurnal. and who w ill soon make
150 $110.00 $85.00 $80
/ ,eWes. Mr. Vincent prom- the coldest place in the nation,
dozer couldn’t do as well as hand Brookings his home, has com
ESTATES
present with sugges- reporting to the U. S. Weather 7- 8 250 $110.00 $85 00 $80
pleted photographing of local lily
and ideas.
Bureau 50 degrees cooler than 8- 9 200 $110.00 $85.00 $80
fields for growers, and is leaving
Medford and averaging 35 degrees *9-10 150 $110.00 $85.00 $80
for Portland to move his equip
cooler than any other place in
ment here to open up his new
$81.00 $65.00 $C»0
100
Oregon, reporting temperatures.
veteran who wishes to contribute . office.
Pete Lesmeister, and other real
Temporary offices w ill be open
to this job. or anyone else who
estate men of the area, want ad
feels a community beautifying ed in the Central building, next
ditional copies of the Pilot this
urge, w ill find plenty of room to door to Attorney Ed Ackley’s of
^ 1Ve Tuesday, the Nook week to point out the desirability
fice, in what was once the pay
swing a mattox or brush hook
At last Wednesday’s well-at- master’s quarters in old m ill days.
. as leased by Mrs. C. I. of the area for a permanent res
The entire James family, of | tended post and auxiliary meet-
»
^as been chief cook idence. Earlier in the week, with
Hugh C. Gearin was author- Sidewalk At Nook Cafe
' ago*
re*open*n8 a short an 80-degree temperature, peo Harbor, Thursday, suffered a se-
ple here lamented the fact that | vere attack of ptomaine poison-, ized to advertise in the Gold
1 ing from what was believed to Beach, Crescent City and local Sank About A Foot
m J??*0*1*
has been in it was “ hot.”
When the supporting wall un
Early
morning
and
late
after
the from a meat roast they h a d ; paper for sealed bids for the
/ ,a for more than a year,
noon fogs, coming in from the ¡cooked a couple of days before. , building now located on the plot. der the front entrance of the
lo w in g of friends,
ocean have helped immensely in
In recounting the developments This advertisement should he seen Nook Cafe, gave way, the side
¡f ~
t0 learn of her Keeping pretty much uniform the
Mr. James told the Pilot that he in this issue of the newspapers^ walk, last week, sank about a
r une in entering business, j
foot. Monday, when the old walk
temperature of the area
; had taken a beef roast from the Money obtained for the sale of was removed, it was discovered
to serve the best pos-J
| freezer locker, his wfe had roast thia structure w ill be added to the
the sill, and much of the retaining
contingent upon the
T. A. Perkins, manager of the ed, and they had eaten one meal building fund.
to * wi,l also be my de-;
wall had decayed, necessitating
James
A.
Rulla.
who
served
West
Coast
Bulb
Growers,
and
from it earlier in the week. Mrs.
the best possible 1
J new sill and considerable repair.
Ed Farmer, one of the board of James put the remainder in the with the Eighth In fa ntry Division
Bob Davis, owner of the cafe,
Thp moment, I w ill directors, w ill work in this area refrigerator. When it was taken during World War 1, a member of
refrigerator,
i
eu Ganges, using the' for a few days this week on out for the next meal, nothing the VFW post at Newport, affili ’ began work immediately and a
\rV>nnel of The cafe,” as-
w ill be poured.
ated himself with the local post, new walk
was noticed about it.
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co-op business.
t
Patrick. Tuesday.
| having recently purchased the
John Bow'dish and Chas. Ward
Mr. and Mrs. Buckley Bell and
owner of the cafe,
Mrs. Helen Held of Oakland .former Leming property, next to
family of Roseburg were visitors
completes repair to the w ill leave Saturday for Medford was in Brookings over the week- the Odd Fellows hall._______
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sunderland
W? rP. ans to return to Van- where they w ill look after bus
looking after business in-
---------------------------- -
iness
matters.
on Monday
I
Subs'T’bed
o
The
P
ilot
today!
where he is in-
rrv Pilot Classified Advert isi
" * tavern.
a meeting of the directors
ie Brookings-Harbor cham-
>f commerce, last Thursday
sing, Ralph Vincent, long-
staff photographer for the
.Journal, and closely as-
led with Portland’s Rose Fes-
program, told the directors
he would take charge of a
to form a permanent or
ation.
Vincent pointed out how
an organization would ad
íe this eommunoty and how
ilea Festival could be made
outstanding event, able to
ete with similiar affairs over
state His long association
the Portland Rose Festival
ization would give Brook-
the value of his experience.
time ago, members of
amber of commerce had in
an organization sim ilar to
one outlined by Mr. Vincent,
üd not know how to proceed,
srganizations of the commun
ity had been contacted by
each to send a represen
to become a member of
Azalea Festival group. To
the following have been ap-
ted for that group:
id and Gun Club — Herfry
Perfume May Not
Be Realized Soon
Choir Will Present
Vespers, Sunday
V. F. W. Post Will
Beautify Grounds
Brookings Coldest
In Nation, Saturday
J Cafe Leased
Mrs. Patrick
Family Suffered
Case of Ptomaine