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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1949)
COOS-CURRY CO-OP SETS DATE FOR BIG MEETING Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Funk At Oakland Flower Show GROWERS MEET BILLED, THURSDAY APRIL 28, HERE COMMITTEES ARE MAMCft / 4 A NAMtD rvH 49 El E“ 11 Ell CUrtlAI Mr. and Mrs. George L. Funk, Benjamin Russell, of Bend, who I who have been regular winners purchased the Chetco Inn early , I in the last two Oakland Flower this spring, and who has had a | Shows, left Tuesday to enter in crew of workmen remodelling the! the 1949 competition. structure, was in town late last ! ■ Mr. Funk had about 1000 lilies week, checking on the work. All Users Of Current forced by a greenhouse there for Two Noted Speakers Mr. Zirbel lias been appointed Flower Show Will Be this event, and prior to going, as hotel manager and will, in the Asked To Be Present had the Pilot print 40,000 lily Will Be Present To Held In Connection meantime, look after the remod bulb offer coupons, which will be At Grange Hall elling work. Explain Problems Wtih Azaiea Festival distributed at the show. Engaged in the irrigation and In previous shows, since he has Of vital importance to every Growers of all crops in south sprinkler business at Bend. Mr. According to Mrs. Dorothy been exhibiting, Mr. Funk has ern Curry county will be inter- Russell expects to sell as soon as user of electricity in this area,. Lockland, general chairman of all members of the Coos-Curry not only taken first prize but the lested in the meeting set for he can, but says it may be fall the Azalea Garden Chib Flower Electric Co-op, will be the talk sweepstakes as well. Thursday evening. April 28, at before this can be accomplished. Show, to be held in conjunction to be given at Chetco Grange hall Chetco Grange hall, when Ralph Mrs. Russell will move here after with Azalea Festival, May 21 and next Monday, April 25, at 8:00- । Clark and Dr. McWhorter will school is out, to live. 22, she has now completed her p. m. when Frederick Miller, a i be heard. roster of committee chairmen: field representative of applica- J Co-chairman Alice Perkins. Lily Growers especially are in tions and loans division of R. E. Properties Ella Rogers vited to attend this meeting to A., will tell about the future of Schedules Helen Dunham. learn of research reports, and of this section of the state. Staging Katherine Hardesty. marketing. Present also will be Bruce Entrance Dorothy Simpson. Tying in with this program, is Shavere, general manager of the Wishing Well Lillian Weide- a report from the county agent ’ s Coos-Curry Electric Co-op, who man. reporting on conservâtvion. Men Lead In Traffic office will introduce the speaker, and Baskets Rosalie Kelleher. Weed control was emprasized who will aid the speaker in fell Classificat ion : Arrangements—• Deaths 13 to 1 Over as the most important soil con District Still Must ing the plans for electric current Jessie Judkins; Horticulture — servation problem in Curry, ac Women Divers in Ore. cording expansion in southwest Oregon. Crissey. Vote Additional Funds Millie to John Donaldson, chair Co-op Making Expansion Entry Chairman — Myrtle To Conduct Schools Members of Coos-Curry Elec SALEM — Note to men who man of the conservation commit Schaal. tee. Ralph Beck, assistant direc tric Co-op have seen * many im blame our traffic problems on Horticulture Metta Hogan. tor of the Oregon State College provements made the past year, women drivers— While only 47 votes were cast Arrangements Dolly Brain extension service, and J. C. Moore after federal loans had been ob In Oregon last year, according conservation specialist, who met Monday evening on t h e rural ard. tained to finance this work. A to Secretary of State Earl T. school budget balloting, Brookings Art Olive Page assisted by power line is being surveyed be Newbry, men outnumbered worn-1 with the committe at Gold vote was overwhelmingly in fa Dorothy Harroun. tween here and Gold Beach with en as drivers in fatal accidents! Beach last Thursday, where this vor of exceeding the six per cent Judges Edith Newton. plan to put that section of the by 13 to one. The year before it decision was reached. limitation for the county. The Plant Sale Cornelia Ackley. Soil erosion and water con negative vote in Brookings to county on the same source of was 11 to one. Organizations Ethel Olsen. servât ion for irrigation was also taled seven. energy supply. Hospitality Myrtle Hibbard. So what, you say? Men drive Two or three landowners be more than women. Doesn’t prove considered important. Cheap pow Publicity Maude Luick and tween here and Gold Beach are a thing—until we see that the er for irrigation will accelerate Max Brainard. GOLD BEACH Unofficial re blocking completion of this proj accidents of housewives are less) irrigation development during the turns from Mrs. Georgia Fromm’s Placement: ('hairman Maude ect by their failure to sign the likely to be fatal than those of1 next few years. We should ap office, the election to exceed the Sandbo; Arrangement Willa proach 8000 acres when the pro necessary easements. One in par Carson; Horticulture Bea Miller. six per cent limitation in Curry any other occupation group. If ticular, near Gold Beach, is said Mother is driving when an acci gram is completed as outlined by county rural school district, has Clerks Marion Hanscam and to have demanded easements in dent occurs, the odds are 631 to! the committee. Alice Perkins. apparently passed. which it would be trespassing for one against death, more than1 Water will be the limiting fac Conservation: ('hairman Mina With all of the larger districts the company to go on the land in double the 260-to-one odds for tor except along the banks of in Curry county, except Lang Christenson; Birds and Wild maintenance of the lines. larger streams. Beck agreed to lois, the vote stood 127 yes, and Flowers Jess Becker and Lillian all drivers. Easements in this area have direct the college program to 59 no. Voting by zones was: Mathews; Myrtlewood — Mabel Students have the worst acci meet this conservation need. been without question and about McVay. ¥ es No. 109% of landowners along the dent severity record, closely fol W. L. Crissey, Brookings, mem Port Orford .............. 33 2 lowed by farmers and laborers. ; ber of the sub-committee on the different lines. Ophir ........................... 37 6 Only professional and business i weed control, reported tremend Gold Beach ........ ,....... 12 21 men approach the housewives in । ous loss of top‘soil by sheet ero Brookings .................. 40 7 this safety comparison. sion during the winter in the Sixes 5 0 As a further sidelight, Newbry lily bulb area. Only 12 to 30 Pistol River ................ 0 23 Christ ian Science services adds that men are also more inches of top soil is left now. He Total ........................... 127 59 were held Monday for Mrs. Lu- likely to be killed in pedestrian . predicts that it will be gone in a difference of 68 votes ella Weter, late wife of H. B. To help raise finances to carry accidents. While only twice as ; 10 to 20 years unless present the With vote apparently cannot be Weter, with interment at Smith on the 1949 Azalea Festival, and many men are injured, four methods are changed. Mr. Moore defeated. It appears unlikely any to select a queen and her court times as many are killed. And suggested strip cropping and con of the small districts, not heard River. Born at Alton, Ill., Mr. and to reign over the affair, plans still we say “the weaker sex!” tour farming. He included this as from as yet, and Langlois will Mrs. Wider came to Brookings in have been made for the Queen a must in the recommendations make up the difference in the 1912, where he was connected at Selection Ball, for Saturday eve for assistance of the extension tally, although not impossible. Additional Scholarship the time with the development ning, at the Grange hall. service. It means the continua Another Election Eor Brookings of the old Brookings mill. For In the past these selections Due Some Youngster tion of a million dollar industry Cut about $13,(XX) from its re a number of years the couple op have been made by the girls by Warren Smith and Dewey for this county. quired budget, Brookings, by ne erated a laundry until a few popular vote, and the same prac Akers are offering a summer The transfer of surplus funds cessity, must hold another elec years ago in what is now the tice will be used this year it is scholarship to be given to the in other agricultural budgets, to tion to vote the additional cost Vincent building. * announced by the Festival Asso club member in the Brookings- Mrs. Weter returned last Wed the weed sub-committee, County on the district. This will be held ciation. This year, however, the Harbor area making the most nesday from the hospital where Judge Guy Forsyth approved the as soon as possible, probably in competition will be between Joan improvement in club work, co she had been under treatment early part of May. proposal and volunteered to rec Byrne, Marilyn Struebing, Ruth operativeness and personality. for a few days. Death came the ommend it to the county court for Hassett, Cora Mae Miller and This type of scholarship is in next day, when, it was thought, Margoret Byrne, voted as can- keeping with the highest aims of action at the next regular meet she was on the road to recovery. ing in May. diates by their classmates. 4-H clubs. Although 4-H work is Had she lived until June the Advertising placards are being set up to teach home economics, R. M. Knox reported satisfac couple would have celebrated tory progress in the development placed about town, telling of the and agricultural skills to boys their golden wedding anniver It, event. Tickets will be available and girls, the goal is better citi of weed-control machinery. Sea Scout Ship No. 232 gave sary. Surviving, besides her wid will be ready for operation by at the door of the dance since no zens. This and only this will make its second annual crab feed at ower are one brother of Alton, advance sale has been planned. a better world tomorrow. These May 1. Don White, county weed Chetco Grange last Wednesday 111., and a sister living in Wis inspector, will be transferred to two men are offering the scholar it from rat and mole control. evening with almost 300 people consin. The couple have no chil ship which is of the greatest hon enjoying the feed and the pro dren. This equipment will be avail Eastern Stars Will Hold or to earn. Born Luella Andrews, she was able for use on private property gram of pictures which followed. 4-H club members should re at a cost of operation basis after District Meeting, Here The scouts realized about $100 76 years of age. Order of Eastern Star will hold member that all applications for the county right-of-ways have! net which will be used to com its first district meeting in Brook summer school scholarships must been sprayed. Mr. White already plete repair and painting of the ing. Saturday, April 23, at the be in the county extension office has requests for spray work that boat obtained by the Rotary club The Norris Kemp property, Odd Fellows hall, beginning at by May 1 w’hich is less than will keep the equipment fairly from the navy almost two years two weeks away. These scholar just off Easy street has been ago for the organization. busy. 8:00 o’clock, p. m. ships will be awarded as soon Serving was done by the boys purchased by Dora Drake. Gold Beach chapter and Satel House and property, 5 miles lite Chapter will hold a joint after May 1 as possible. Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Smith of the ship, assisted by some of *left the first of the week for the mothers and a few of the south of Brookings on Hwy 101, meeting, at which time Worthy Local News Items Grand Matron lima Thum, will Seattle to make their home. Mr. Rotary members and girls. Mrs. belonging to Wilson Freeman, Ajn ike her official visit to the two After about two weeks with Smith has been associated with Ira Brown did considerable of the has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Fred A Blunt, who expect chapters. out any precipitation that would his step-father, Louie Stoller, in direction in the kitchen. to start landcaping and remodel Educational films used in the A cordial invitation is extend count. Wednesday, rain began to the gravel business. Ernest Fos-j ling soon. /Both sales were han local schools were shown, with ed to all Eastern Star members. soak the ground which already ter and son, George, have moved 5 dled through C. O. Leonard, lo Gene Garvin running the projec back into their house which was | had become quite dry in that cal realtor. tor. i occupied by the Smiths. Try Pilot class ads for results! length of time. WHO'S TO BLAME NOT TRUE STORY WITH OUR LADIES DIST. NO J7 VOTE i OVERWHELMING ON CO. BUDGET Mrs. H. B. Weter Passes, Thursday * Queen Selection Ball Set Saturday Sea Scout Crab Feed A “Success” Realty Transfers
