BROOKENGS-HARBOR PILOT
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March 7, 1946, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, JUNE SB, 1949
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS, OREGON
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English .......
4 credits
Mathematics
4 credits
Language ...
2 credits
Vocational
2 credits
The remainder of the 16 cred-
its necessary for graduation, may
be divided according to the wish
es of the individual student.
Adventists Play
Baseba'I To Settle
Picnic Dinner, Sun.
Members of the Brookings Sev
enth-Day Adventist church met
Sunday for the annual picnic of
th^* church, when about 100 were
present for the day.
Following the lunch at the M.
F. Ostenburg place, Sunday the
men, who had eaten well, felt a
little baseball would be good for
that overstuffed feeling. Harry
Newman and Bill Fisher chose up
sides, with Fishers team victors
in the close 24 to 11 game, fea
tured by Leo VanDolson’s unas
sisted triple play and the reckless
baserunning by the fleet Howaid
Adams.»
Monday it was noticeable that
few of the participants were seen
about, on their own power. No
casualties, however, were report-
ed to the Pilot.
Dorothy Newton
Named County
H. D. Agent
march on friends, when he and
Bernice Johnson of Smith River
were married at San Francisco on
June 17, at the home of Mrs.
Chedister, former Smith River
resident.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanhurst are at
heme in the former Baxter house,
near the Baxter auto camp, in
Harbor.
A reception has been planned
for Wednesday evening, June 29,
at the Grange hall for them. All
friends of the couple are invited
to come.
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LOCAL NEWS
Ed F. Ackley, who had been in
the Bay region for a couple of
weeks, returned home last Thurs
day morning for some legal mat
ters at Gold Beach, and left for
San Francisco again late Satur
day, where he expects to be gone
another week at least.
Notice To Creditors
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In the County Court of the
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State of Oregon for the County
of Curry.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed
, Administrator of the Estate of
' Elsie Elizabeth Hogan, deceased,
GOLD BEACH—The state
by the County Court of Curry
tension service has announced the County, Oregon, and has quali
appointment of Miss Dorothy fied. All persons having claims
Newton as county extension against said estate are hereby
agent (home economics) to fill notified to present the same, duly
the vacancy made by the resig verified as by law required to
the undersigned at the office of
nation of Mrs. Aldene N. Aho. Hugh C. Gearin. Brookings, Or^-
Miss Newton was graduated from ^on, within six months from the
Linfield College, McMinnville in date hereof.
1945 with bachelor of science de
Dated and first published, June
Bargain Fares round trip, fam-
gree; and has since taken grad 2, 1949.
ly plan, and joint fares discounts
Last
publication.
June
30,
1949
uate work at Oregon State Col
ask for details. Call Southwest
EDWIN RANSOM,
‘ irwavs. 2771, Crescent City.
lege.
Hugh C. Gearin,
Adminisrator
.
Following her graduation at ■i—■ ■ .............
Linfield she taught at Newberg
DAILY
Union High School. For the past
two years she has served as the
county extension agent (home
economics) in Washington coun
ty, working in both adult horn?
extension and girls 4-H work. She
will begin her work in Curry
county Aug. 1. She will have
DAVE FRANKLIN,
charge of the adult home exten
Owner
sion program and the girls home
Closed Sunday and Monday
CHAD’S FOUNTAIN,
economics 4-H club project work.
Local Agents
Mrs. Aho who has served as
It
home demonstration agent for
two years, is moving to Crescent
Gity, Calif., where she will be at
See Classified Section for BETTER BUYS!
home with her family, after the
first of July.
Some of Oregon’s high schools
offer agriculture as the vocation
al courses, and certainly I think
this has no equal in the commun
ities where agriculture predom
inates as an industry. I know a
number of boys icho have ‘made’
themselves through EE A work
in high school, and as far as then
are concerned, are somewhat fit
ted for life at graduation time.
Another addition to high school
studies, I firmly believe, should
be a course of general nature to
By Dewey
try to determine the life-work of
students. In some states this is
One of the most revealing ar
aptly called “Vocational Guid
ticles yet published by any Ore
ance.” I have had considerable
gon daily, appeared Sunday in
experience along this line while
the Oregonian, under the By-Line
at Whitefish, Mont., as member
of W ilma M orrison , and gave
of Kiwanis club. This committee
reasons “Why Do College Fresh
men Flunk?’’ This article has interviewed seniors and made an
put into the proper words ideas effort to ascertain their likes and
long advocated by the Pilot, es wishes for the future, and at the
pecially since this dirstrict has same time obtained for them a
had difficulties convincing its cit several jobs leading toward this
I might review, as far as
izens that the local schools were
my
memory
serves me, of one
far below standard.
boy
who
was
about the first in
Oregon and Oregon State, be
cause of this sub-standard condi this vocational guidance experi-
tion of the high schools generally ment, in 1928:
This boy, let's call him Les,'
over the state, have had to low
er their own standards as far as for his name reas Lester, wanted
¿reshmen ice re concerned. This fo own a store. Hi' liked selling,
fact does not speak well for the he liked meeting the public. One>
educational system of the state, member of the club hired him to |
in face of the increasing demand work in his clothing store, eve
for more "speciaU'cd" graduates nings and Saturday. The next
While away on his two-wceks
Certainly odds are against them year h e ('nt( red University o f cruise as reserve officer in the
under present conditions.
Montana to major in business ad- navy, Bob Stanhurst stole a
Under criticism in the Oregon-! minis' ration. I heard of him a
ian article was the lack of Eng number of times since. Last time r äm
lish and mathematical prepara he was genera1 manager of Miss
tion of the freshmen entering all oula Mercantile Co., a multi-mil
colleges, and the apparent inabil lion dollar concern. Surely, he
The local Greyhound bus depot
ity to read correctly. Compared was a natural.
will be open these hours:
to 20 years ago, the article con-
Another lad. by name of Lloyd
t inues,
lit' woefully weak. Hovde. an orphaned son of a bar
7:00 a. in. to 5:15 p. m
As a result both Oregon and Ore ber, came under this committees
6:45 p. ni. to 8:00 p. m
gon State must conduct high attention. He wanted newspaper
Every Day Except Sunday
school English and math classes work. I helped him and another
Closed all day, Sunday
tor about one-third of the fresh senior, a girl by name of Helena
men entering these institutions. Jones to start a school paper,
Martha Steen
Long have / insisted that our and the first year they won first
Local Greyhound Agent
own schools should offer more for that size school in the state.
mathematics and science courses, Twenty-one years later, Lloyd is
Personally I cannot think of a general manager of the Great
boy or girl graduating from high Falls, Mont., Tribune Publishing
school without at least three or Co., and Helena is his wife, I
four mathematics, and likewise understand.
I feel the boy or girl has missed
My criticism of schools today
something if they have not had may be simply summed up in this
and
physics before they graduated in sgrena nt: "What preparation is
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high school. The war proved how made for the student’s future* ’
- ¡adequately these schools pre Invt stment in the future'of thes^
pared boys for the air corps.
youth means security for the na-
Personally I do not feel high tion in less than a generation in
Crescent City,
school is anything but mockery the future Is this a rash state-
California
unless it includes these:
ment! Then prove m wrong!
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