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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1948)
] /PAGE EIGHT -------- —---- -—~ i Harbor Club Holds SFORTSME N S CORNER Christmas Party tors, a little cold weather, such 7?od and Gun Club Doings— The turn-out for the first reg as we had last week, drives them ular practice session of the Ram indoors to do their fishing in front rods basketball team lived up to of the fireplace with tales of the away. When the fondest expectations as re big one that got the result ported by Merle Hanscam, presi the river clears from this week dent of Chetco Rod and Gun Club, of the rain here early be should which organization is sponsoring the steelhead fishing hotter’n a firecracker. the team. Twenty-three stalwarts beat the gym floor into a pulp; so much so, in fact, that several players finished practice with sore feet and man-sized blisters. Unless first impressions are de ceiving there is going to be very Last Saturday the thermom little to choose between the first and second teams when the time eter at the local U. S. Weather comes to get them lined up. Many Bureau station registered 32°— of the players pack loads of abil just freezing, and people went ity and know-how, yet show no almost wild w'ith the cold. At the same instant, almost, resentment at suggestions made by the coach, which all adds up t h e entire midwest, stretching to terriflic and powerful team from the Rockies eastward, was work when they get rolling. Fast in grips of a blizzard, said, by breaking forwards backed up by the press to be about the worst a heads-up defense is going to in many years. prove an unbeatable combination. On the higher elevations in Just a reminder: weekly prac-1 southwest Oregon, snow could be tice sessions at the high school 1 seen from this area, and the gymnasium eve Thursday at damp breezes, coming from this 7:30 p. m. Special practice ses snow', made a "raw' wind” almost sions will be set at this time unbearable, to the tropically-clad for the forthcoming week. natives of this area. Noticeable, especially Friday SPECIAL NOTE to all Rod and evening, at the basketball game, Gun Club Mi mbers Election of officers will take was the sheet of ice covering all windshields of erpx parked out- place at the next regular meeting of the club, 'Tuesday evening, Ice was on the street, even at at low elevation, but on the of town, strangely gamzanun is becoming noted for main sect ion condii ion did • not getting things done with every exist. member d< ing his share so let’s theremometer Maybe there not register the cold the people and vote! 'actually felt, but most were in- deed thankful that they were on 'The weather this past week । the west coast instead of in the has prevented much fishing. Few great midwest. boats were seen on the lower iver and the boys and girls who Rummage and White ish the upper reaches were eith- at or St. Timothy’s Woman’s Auxil home. In any other area the fish- rm< n would undoubtedly be out iary Rummage and White Ele •v 1 he hundreds but here, where phant sale, Saturday, Dec. 11, at in the habit of basking Mrs. Hogan’s, next to Brookings ! hev adv. in the sunshine ol our mild win- Market. Cold Here—Maybe! Nation "Suffers" Real Cold Wave tai We now nove AMPcRIN, the revolutionary I »»®w UQ’HD for F^^rrhoid?. AMRFRIM is »’ÄRÄHTI «o nKTI0îJ not tot you COGETE COR ?C7sry relief only even* 3 to o niest». grantee if not satis- **er bottle »L - wo'f advanced cotr, ASK YOUR DRUGGIST TODAY CHETCO DRUG COMPANY BROOKINGS Harbor Community club met at the Grange hall, Friday after noon with the Christmas party as the theme. Visitors for the afternoon were Mrs. A. L. Travis, Mrs. L. A. Humphreys, Mrs. L. D. Becker, Mrs. W. W. Wollam, Mrs. R. D. Chambers, Mrs E. H. Jaggers and Mrs. Blankenship. Mrs. Travis, Mrs. Becker, Mrs. Jaggers and Mrs. Wollam joined the club. Two new’ members who joined last meeting were Mrs. Clara Hyland and Mrs. Marie Rapraeger. Ways of raising money to car ry on the community library were discussed at length and then ta bled until the January meeting. Contributions were made to Boys Town and Tuberculosis seal sale campaign. Recreation chairmen, Helen Hanscam and Vivian Hudson, con ducted several games in Christ mas theme, followed by an ex-1 change of Christmas presents. Refreshments of pudding and coffee w’ere served by the hostess es: Hazel Hendry and Melita Kamph. MEETING THURSDAY— Thursday’s (today’s) meeting is our Christmas party. Nellie MacKenzie has been do-re-mi-ing with the Carol Singers in prepar ation for the occasion. There will be the usual "gift exchange”— something home-made or grown— in fact a quite extensive pro gram. Last but not least our district vice-president will come all the way down from Coos Bay to be our guest. Undoubtedly we may look forward to a short talk to the club from Mrs. Farr, and,' again to remind you, this is our last get-together for the year of 1948—so let’s all be there! Thought For The Day— "He who looks into his book stops crying.” Local News Items Gilbert Christensen and Carl Wallin made a business trip to Chicago, leaving last week. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hanscam Sr. made a trip to Eugene over the week-end. They visited their daughters and families at Eugene and Mrs. Hanscam remained with the Leland Pettigrew family as Mrs. Pettigrew had an infected hand and unable to use it. Troop 32, Boy Scouts has set Jan. 10 as date for a Father-Son Banquet, to be held at the Odd Fellows hall. More details will be announced later. Mrs. L. A. Humphreys of Port land is visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Olsen. Mr. and Mrs. Ed F. Ackley ex pect to leave next Wednesday or Thursday for San Francisco and Los Angeles. They will be gone until Feb. 1. While away they expect to attend the Rose Bowl Game at Pasadena, New Years day, between University of Cali fornia nda Northwestern Univer sity. Mrs. Ackley is an alumnus of California. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ander- i son spent three' days at Medford and Ashland, shopping, and also went to Montague, Calif., where i they visited Mrs. Anderson’s sis ter, Mrs. W. B. Seward, and fam ily for a day. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Walker of Albany, Ore., were house guests i of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Stafford I for several days last week. Mrs. Bertha Beers of Klamath j was a visitor at the home of her i brother and sister, Kenneth Van Pelt and Mrs. Bernadine Steele, NOT ONLY TO CAESAR the first of the week. The book, "Our Plundered Mr. and Mrs. Earl Carson re Planet,” by F. Osborne, purchased turned home from a visit over by the Garden Club for the li Thankgiving at San Francisco, brary, takes in a lot of territory. with their son and daughter-in- To give you an idea of its scope law, Mr. and Mrs. Don Carson. the following excerpt: Saturday evening Mrs. Carson The study of history will be slipped on a frosty porch and fell, illuminated if emphasis were put breaking a bone in her ankle, so that conditions on the that her foot is in a cast and suiting from man’s misuse of nat- she will be getting around on a pair of crutches for the next six nite factors in the movements weeks. origins of wars Mrs. Herbert Payne and daugh . . etc. ter Helen made an overnight trip The spiritual concept of con to Coos Bay the first of the week servation asks us to take cogni on a shopping trip. zance of the past generat ions of At the last meeting of the i living man a past so extended Grange it was announced that as to be lost in time, the future the next meeting would be th 4 generations, their number, lost in infinity and the very short annual Christmas party and that present where we are in the mid each person attending is to bring dle of these two. using up our a gift for the exchange. Refresh Pioneer Merchants small time and space. When we ments will be pot luck. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weigel Oregon Harbor buy land and pay taxes on it, we returned from Elkton where they art' only "rendering to Caesar” a further debt and were called by the illness of their t here responsibility laid upon us and daughter, Mrs. Wade Henderer. nMD that is to keep the land of our. Mrs. Henderer and daughter re use well balanced, built-up and turned borne with them Saturday to pass it on to the next gener and will remain until after th*? & Interior Decorating ation as good, if not better than Christmas holiday's when they Paper Hanging—Spray Painting will be joined by Mr. Henderer we received it. In this way we Rural and Farm Buildings and son, who is in school. Soon | render to God what is His. Anything in spray or brush work. after returning home Mr. Weigel A pat phrase ot our "Caesars” is "ignorance of the law is no sprained his back and is now Dodson Painting Co. excuse.” The worn out places of laid up from the injury. Across from Pilot Office or Elmer Hanscam Jr. made a bus the world, the turbulence of the I PHONE 41 times is a reminder that failure iness trip to Portland the first of FREE ESTIMATES to contribute to God’s long plan, the week, going via Southwest ignorance of the laws of nature Airw ays. has. likewise, no excuse. " •The “roots of the present are in the past." Our Conservation Chairman ■ The fall is the time to test soil for fertility requirement s so that next year’s fertilizers can be chosen for particular needs of the soil. The leaching effect of heaving rains, constant cropping remove among other thing the trace elements from the soil. Bo ron, magnesium and manganese are the trace elements and are known as such because the re- qu i red (but necessary) amounts are so small. When horse * ma* nure is available in large qua»* BODY AND FENDER WORK PAINTING titles those are provided, How- « ever, with most growers using chemical fertilizers, these t race MILLARD BATTERIES TITAN OILS elements must be added to the essential nitrogen, phosphorus & potassium. In ordre to get th ? best from any fertilizer the soil must first be balanced. This bal ance of th® soil w€l be taken up by our conservation chairman in ■ her lecture on “Building and 3! C. N. Goldizen G. AV Darbng Preservation of the Soils" at th*' 9 February meeting of the club. U □ U - a — AN IDEAL GIFT! Along Azalea Row E. E. HÂNSCAAA & SONS Brookings Garage a pad. leave e nic. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1948 BROOKING6-HARBOR PILOT, Brookins«, Oregon The World’s Best Climate (By-the-Sea) OREGON
