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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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,
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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.
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