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
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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