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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
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"Homemakers"
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