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. o ibrary xx k fta Nowhere a Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community VOLUME FOUR, NUMBER TWENTY-ONE BROOKINGS, CURRY COUNTY, OREGON Work Resumed On New Former Local Man Magician Show Grade School Building Acclaimed Best To After being held up for want Killed Near Orick of materials, unavailable during a Gunst, former resident of Be Shown In Area recent Portland strike, work on this Louis area, was killed while driv * Raymond & Carole, magicians,! who came to Brookings under the auspices of Chetco Post, No. 138,: American Legion, were as good as they had been billed. Their act. long for this type of show, thrilled everyone who saw the performances. Raymond, who has staged this act for the past almost three dec- ades, is a master at illusion. His wife, Carole, is a master at the training of doves, said to be one' of the most difficult to train ef' all lower animals or fowls. These white birds performed acts of amazing ability, not expected of birds at all. The night before the first per formance, Raymond, a diabetic, suffered one of his “bad days,” and was really too ill, actually, to go on with his show, but did, however, under the old saying: “The Show must go on.” fhe show is heading toward Seattle, where, later this summer, is scheduled to go to Alaska for the winter. Raymond and Carole both came from that territory, Carole’s father going there dur ing the gold rush days. Wedding Held At Nelson Home, Fri. * Shirley Jean Marr became the bride of Earl Richard Baxter, at a wedding held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Nelson, Fri- day evening with Rev. Nick Neu feld officiating at the candlelight ceremony. The home was decorated with gladiolus and fern for the occa sion. Given in marriage by her fath er, the bride wore a gray sports suit with accessories to match Attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Neil Nelson, as maid of honor and best man. After a wedding trip to Crater Lake the couple will make their home in Harbor. The groom is employed by Craig Lumber , . The bride, a graduate of Lewis and Clark High School of Spo kane, Wash., and the groom of Coquille High School, both are recent newcomers to the area. Film Writer Visits Relatives In Area John Meehan, of Beverly Hills, Calif., top writer for MGM, who did all Norma Shearer pictures, and “Boys Town,” “Kismet” with Ronald Colman, is taking a much- needed rest in this area, and is visiting h i s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Page. Mr. Meehan spent twelve years in New York with George M. Co hen. and is widely known in the movie and theatre field. Read Class advertising—it pays the new grade school building was resumed this week. Accord ing to Lynn Hampton, the con tractors said they could have the building ready for occupancy by August 15 to 20, as they were bringing in enough workmen t , complete the job in that time. ing a tractor at his Arcata home when it tipped over and crushed him, July 7. Born Jan. 21, 1886, he is sur vived by his widow, Elva; two daughters, Mrs. Thelma Hoar of Bellflower, Calif, and Mrs. Lou Comstock of Greenville, Calif.; five grandchildren: Donald, Betty Ann and Bobby Comstock and El va and Donna Louise Hoar. Funeral services were held on July 11 from Paul’s Funeral chap Through efforts of Coos and el at Arcata, and interment was Curry county postmasters, state at Greenwood cemetery. convention of postmasters was ae event of last week at Coos Bay, when over 230 attended. Mrs. Goldie Smith, of Brookings, was responsible for many of the lilies and other flowers used for decor ations in the main hall. • 1 Walter Myers, fourth ässistäni | Bradley Page, president of the postmaster general, was princi Chetco Rod & Gun Club, is brag pal speaker, and gave several ging about the co-operation he sessions of instruction to post received Sunday, when a group masters. with ideas which post reported at the club house (the masters may obtain from frequent former Harbor school) for work to re-model the place. Those re bulletins from the department. Mrs. Smith told the Pilot she porting were: was more than just grateful to Hans Nelson, Wesley Smith, all the people of this area who Jim Shrader, Bill Wridge, Bill furnished the lilies and gladiolus Weideman, Lloyd Stefani, Lloyd for decorations at the convention. Harbin, Blaine Gribble, Charles For this favor there was a ris Bickner, John Hogan, Clyde Bray- ing vote of thanks at the conven nard, Bill Duggan, Virgil Golds tion for her. berry and Bradley Page. Walter Myers told the post Beginning about 9 a. m. this masters they were high priests group accomplished a great deal of thought in the nation, and re toward the remodeling of the in minded them that a nation which terior of place Another group is has free churches, free speech, expected next Sunday, Mr. Page free press and schools, cannot be told the Pilot. I ---------------------------------------------------- - | come a slave of tyranny as may be seen now in Russia. Miss Cordelia Cantrail of Klam Many entertainment features ath Falls is enjoying a week’s enlivened the convention, Mrs. visit here with her brother How Smith told the Pilot. ard Cantrall. State Postmasters Met At Coos Bay Gun Club Members Worked On Club House, Sunday Grahams Tell More About Extended Journey Through Eastern United States With Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gra ham home from their extended trip throughout the east, the Pi lot again has been favored by a letter describing some of their experiences. This may be too long to conclude in this issue, so may be continued next week. The let ter states: Dear Friends: We continue at the place I left oil. We spent the evening at Arthur White’s home. After dinner he showed us color film of Costa Rica, Jamaica and Cuba. Mr. Graham was in some he had taken while in Costa Rica. June 22 we visited the Review and Hera.d building. There are five floors and 270 employees. Crossed the Deleware on a fer ry. Forgot to say we visited the Bronx Zoo, largest in the world. Saw all kinds of animals. They have one large building called “the reptile house.” It really does give you the creeps. One small animal called a platypus, from Australia, is a sight, rhey are mammals. There were a pair, but I saw only one. They live in the water, but sleep in a dry place on hay—are very sensitive to the light so are allowed out in the light only one hour in 24, and then only in the shade. These animals are fed crawfish. In the afternoon we went to the Empire State building on N. Y. electric subway. The building is 102 stories, 1250 feet high. New York has a population of 8,000,000 people, and five million ride the subways daily. You can ride 1400 miles for 5c. They are welcome to it. I wouldn’t live there. June 25: Stayed over week-end not far from New Haven, Conn. Nice place except for mosquitos. A little rain fell last night—first for 30 days. June 26: Visited the Plymouth Rock at Providence, Rhode Is- Concluded on Page Eight THURSDAY, JULY 21. 1949 AZALEA GARDEN CLUB ASKED FOR VIEWS OF SOUTHWESTERN OREGON PICTURES OF THIS AREA SOUGHT BY 'NATIONAL GARDENER” PUBLICATION The Brookings and Harbor vi cinity, and all southwestern Ore gon for that matter, will gain a bit of publicity which will do much good, according to word received by Mrs. Irma Rice, re tiring president of the Azalea Garden Club. The letter, which follows, is self-explanatory: Mrs. G. F. Rice, Box 84, • Harbor, Oregon. Dear Mrs. Rice: Mrs. Hull has told me with greatest enthusiasm of the won derful flower show at Brookings which was visited by the dele gates to thq National Council in May. She had a photograph showing a group of the visitors at the show, but we wondered if we couldn’t get hold of a couple of good photographs of the show it self to use in the next issue of the National Gardener. Our time is getting a little short. I would like to have my pictures lined up during the week of July 24, and must have them at the end of that week. They would certainly have to be sent airmail. I hate to ask for any thing at such short notice, but 1 can see that there will always be something turning up for each issue just this way. But when a club does a wonderful job of some sort we want the other clubs to know’ about it. Yours sincerely. Gertrude M. Smith, Editor, The National Gardener P. S.: I forgot to say will you —if you send pictures, mark them lightly on the back with full iden tification of scene, any people, in teresting plant material. Photog rapher credit to be given if any. and whether you want pictures returned or not. Paper clips on pictures may leave marks which show on the cuts. Garden Club Busy Now Mrs. Olive Page, newly-elected president of the Club, is busy at the moment rounding up any and all pictures she can for use in this national magazine. A few of the recent lily parade, including the Garden Club float. The members of the Garden Club are elated at the chance to exploit this area more and more. They believe their first big step came when they were for tunate enough to have many of the national garden club council women present at the “flower show” in May. FORMER SHANGHAI, CHINA, BROKER TELLS OF CONDITIONS IN 'ORIENT' FUTURE OF CHINA DARK; WORLD HAS NO FAITH ANY OF CHINA’S LEADERS Chet Wentw’orth, an exchange broker, who had made his honw at Shanghai, China, was principal speaker at Tuesday luncheon of Brookings Rotary club. A Rotari an belonging to the Rotary club of his city, he told of conditions in China today. In prefacing his talk about the land of destiny, known as China, Mr. Wentworth told why he came to be in that country. Going as lepresentative of American Ex press Company, he remained in that company’s employe for two years before going into the bro ker office, maintained by various banks of this country, including Chase National of New York. He told about being interned by the Japanese at Shanghai af ter Pearl Harbor, but he said he ^nd his wife were not under the control of the Japanese army, but under a Japanese' consulate. “We weren’t mistreated, but our food was terrible. “I will try to give you c. gen eral impression of China. Its prim itive ways, its lack of industry to make it self-supporting, will always keep it backward. “1 was inclined to believe in Gen. George Marshall’s mission to China about two years ago, when he attempted to fnrm a coalition between the National ists and the Communists. He was disgusted at the condition of all things, especially the corruption of the nationalist government, un der Chaing Kai-Chek. “The nationalist government did not represent the people of China, and neither does the Com munists, as far as that is con cerned, although the Communi- ists are being aided by Russia in their attempt to overrun China. “It is easy for us, here in the United States to criticize our pol icy as far as China is concerned. But, when you consider all of the elements in the case, what side is right? What if we, in th? United Statess, had gone ‘al’- out’ to help the nationalists, the ‘Frankenstein government’ which might have resulted, would be as bad, if not worse, than the' of the Communists. Concluded on Page Fo*
