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PAGE FOUR The World’s Best Climat1 GRAHAMS TELL ABOUT TRIP TO "WASHINGTON" BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON 4-H Club Float In 1948 Lily Parade Will Visit AH But 8 States On Trip; They Missed Texas Floods THURSDAY, JUNE 'M 1949 agent and will continue to grow though home extension agents do come and go. Each of you who attend a home extension meeting or join a 4-H club are studying undei the specialists at Oregon State College and though you never leave Curry county, in > ears to come you can say, as many homemakers throughout the state have said, “Thanks to our county extension service for my college eduaction.’” camp at Camp Low Echo on Lake of the Woods near Medford, starting July 31. The girls arc busy selling tick- ‘ ets this week and popcorn will be sold at the hall before thcW show’ time. The many friends of Rev. E. C. Hicks are glad to hear he has been returned to the Smith River and Gushchu churches for another year. The annual conference of the Methodist church, recently I will be living near Crescent closed its session, held at Pacific City with my family and I wish Grove, in California. to extend to each of you, a cor Mrs. Eva Hill is again proud dial invitation to stop in and see Great-grandmother, when a 6 lb. us any time. And, so for now— 14 oz. daughter was born to Mr. Goodbye now.—Aldene N. Aho. and Mrs. Eddie Freeman at Sea- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Graham, residents of the Chetco valley, ar? at Tacoma Park, Washington, Il C., they informed the Pilot with following letter: Dear friends: After visiting the Grand Canyon, Hoover (Boulder) dam, the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, all of which are side hospital, June 24. The little very interesting, and having pro miss has been named Cindy Carol. ceeded the flash flood in Texas Mrs. Freeman is the former Carol by a few hours (you no doubt Project Tour Success Lee Crocket, of Harbor. A project tour by Smith River heard of it) we arrived here Fri Mrs. Agnes Maris has as her 4-H clubs accompanied by lead- day, June 17 at 5 p. m. house guest, Mrs. Sadie Petinger We have several friends here, er, Clarence Westbrook and club Indicative of what visitors to the 1949 Lily Blossom Time parade president, George Jacobson, and of Coos Bay, Ore. Mrs. Petinger and are staying in North Hall made her home for years at Ag- this year, is the 4-H float entered last year by the 4-H clubs of the with friends we met while in Brookings and Harbor area. This float, last year’s winner in the parents, was held Wednesday ness on the Rogue River. Costa Rica, C. A. Mr. Montgom juvenile division, is one of the colorful exhibits which make this evening when the youngsters vis Word has been received by ited the various projects boys and Vincent Photo ery is dean of men at the Wash parade the attraction that it has always been. relatives that James S. Hight, girls had taken up this year. ington Missionary College. manager of Hight Store, here, un • and w'ent through the library of 6 p. m. Just returned and are Today he and his wife took congress. Will only mention one The tour tour started started at at 7 7 o o ’ ’ clock clock derwent an ear operation at Hah- invited out to dinner at the Ar us for a day. It was a full one. ; thing: we saw the Declaration o* from the Rooney home, and on namen hospital at San Francisco thur White home, an old friend. We first visited the Robert E. Independence, and the Constitu to Westbrook ranch, where they on June 17, and is recovering sat- One could go on for hours telling; viewed the Guernsey stock of Ear] isfactorily. Lee mansion, which is kept up tion of the United States sealed about this city and never quite Brown. The tour moved to the by the government. Have a pam-i under heavy glass. There is much run out of something to say.. Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Garvin home, other places stopp phlet with pictures and informa very much to see of extreme in have returne home from a motor Next day: It is only 7 a. m. ed were Hugh Naill, the veget- • tion if any care to see it. We next terest. The building itself is tru trip to San Jose. They were ac visited t h e Arlington national ly marvelous. The president’s and is so hot am perspiring (and able garden of Nadine Lehmkuhl. i companied home by their daugh cemetery on the brow of the hill palace in Guatemala is next to sweating, too). We leave this and the last stop at Robert Sa ter, Miss Helen May, who has overlooking the Potomac river, it any we have seen. All the floors morning for New York. Expect rina home where Bobbie Sarina spent several years under treat and a few feet from the east por are laid with a4-inch tile in fancy to visit Boston, Niagara and on showed his prize Jersey bull and ment at Alum Rock sanitarium. west through Ohio, Michigan, Il other purebred Jersey stock. Fol tico of the Arlington memorial designs. linois. We came by way of Texas, lowing the tour the group met She has recovered from her ill amphitheatre is the tomb of the June 21 : Today we go to see New Mexico. Expect to have vis ness, it is reported. unknown soldier. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh the supreme court. Well, there ited every state except eight be Naill where cake and cookiLs Day and night a lone sentry ÍMA^AirüiütMirT ‘tilii was a long line waiting and only fore we return by middle July. were served. paces back and forth before this as one comes out can another be Think I will be glad to get back tomb. The change of guard which Benefit Movie For Girl Scouts admitted. We might have stood1 to the coast and its w'eather. — occurs on the hour throughout Plans are under way this week there for hours, so we left. Went Sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. Harry the day, is a short impressive tor a benefit movie sponsored by by the old soldier’s home. It has Graham. ceremony which attracts many Smith River Scout Troop 1, to the only farm in the District of By Local People thousands of visitors each month, be held Friday evening, July 1, Columbia, and the nicest herd of We have a pamphlet containing at the community hall. REASONABLE RATES Holsteins in the U. S. Passed interesting information and pic Ronald McClish has volunteer by the large water filters for BY ALDENE N. AHO, tures which will be gladly loaned ed to show t h e movie, “Black Washington. Perhaps a dozen County Horne Demonstration to any wishing to see them. agent or more are there and are round Beauty.” The proceeds will be P. O. Box 424, Brookings Forgot to mention stopping to Goodby, now: with brick outside, covered with used to defray expenses for seven see Lincoln Memorial. It is lined — Starting July 1st — This is my last Homemaker’s Girl Scouts to attend summer ivy. The largest press the govern with solid white marble. ment has, the largest Post Office column and my last week as Cur Th«* drive to Mount Vernon is in the world, one of the four big ry county’s home demonstratio i ten miles from the city, a beau agent. gest libraries in the world, are in tiful one with magnificent homes Our home extension program, Washington. on either side. both adult and 4-H, has made a W’e visited the house of repre We next visited the home of wonderful growth in the 22 past eneral George Washiington. It is sentatives, the senate, and sat months we have worked togethe \ set in beautiful grounds with na down a few minutes to listen to I have found whole-hearted co 8 filibustering in tive trees surrounding the place. discussions. operation from women, and from WORK GUARANTEED! It took one and one-half hours action. The capijol has 314 steps men, in every part of Curry coun to go through it hurriedly. Tht to top of dome, after having over ty. You have given your time present tract of 475 acres re- 20 to reach the first floor. and you have traveled at your mains of the grant in 1674 of June 22: We visited the U. S. own expense to help plan and car 5CUX) acres to .John Washington. I mint this morning. Then* are over At Texaco Service Station Brookings ■ ry on an extension program that Chi the first floor and in Georg? I 7000 employed by th«* bureau. The meets the needs of Curry county Washington’s bed chambers at bills ar«* mad«* of a half linen and homemakers. And. we have met the present time most of the piec half cotton. $1.00 to $100,000 bills their needs, else our growth would es on the first floor are the orig are printed. None of the latter not have been so steady and rap inals. An additional collection of is in circulation. There are bills id. Curry county’s home exten articles related to Washington and of $10.00 denomination and they sion work will always meet thei his wife at Mt. Vernon is housed are all accounted fod. Saw stacks needs of her homemakers because in a museum building north of of $100.000 bills. After bills ar* you and you —and you, will each the spinning house. There are numbered, sealed and signed, they spring, plan what is to be includ- several buildings. The old kitch are complete and are put in the ed the coming year, It is your en. equipped with utensils of the vault over night. The door of the ! program, planned by you and is period, some original. vault weighs 134 tons. brought to you from your state NOW IN OPERATION Bills in circulation for 3 to 3 The butler’s house, smoke house college. months are sent back and de- with several hams hanging there. It is with sadness that I sav wash house, with large wooden str°yed- People work two shifts. goodbye to home extension work tubs, barns, paddock, ice-house They p r i n t 65.000.000 postage in Curry county. Yet that sadness servant s quarters, gardens are in stamps each day. From the mint w e visited the Washington Mon-1 is joyous because of the future teresting. The mansion is 24 ument. It is 555 feet high, 55 before me. How very often do stories high. teet square at the base. We went we find it impossible to entirely* Here 12 or more of his people up in the elevator and had a separate our joy and our sadness! were constantly employed. The wonderful view of the city. “We Haul Anywhere in Oregon; to, from, and You will have a new home ex admission charge is 50c and they From here, after lunch, we vis tension agent. Miss Dorothy New within Curry County" INSURED CARRIER! collect a half million dollars in ited the national Smithsonian In ton, to work with you. Miss New a season. Several guards and care stitute and museum. There is just ton is a person each of you will takers are employed. Today there too much to talk about here. Saw ! love and admire. I will miss you I was a steady stream of people the Spirit of St. Louis, in which and I hope you will miss me a ' going through. ( harles A. Lindburgh crossed the little. Still, our home extension) We then returned to the city Atlantic. program is bigger than any home! SMITH RIVER Pickup Service "Homemakers" JIM SMITH o ------------- ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ " : LET US STEAM-CLEAN YOUR CAR ! TRUCK, OR TRACTOR! IRA BROWN TASK FREIGHT LINES General Transportation Heavy Hauling and Moving! 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