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VOLUME FOUR, NUMBER XXXII
Members Named
New Directors At
Annual Election
Taxes from lands, including all
farming, pasture and timber, tc-
gether with city property, mach
inery, merchandise and personal
property is expected to raise a
sum of $6,212,370 for Curry Coun
ty, according to a summary of the
assessment roll for 1949, released
by George Sutton, assessor.
Mill for each character are:
County General fund ....
.11.84
School Library ................
. .03
County Hospital ..............
. 4.03
Total County ....................
.15.9
City of Port Orford.......
. 8.9
City of Gold Beach ....
.12.3
G. B.-Wedder- Fire Dist
. 3.4
Brookings Fire Dist........
. 3.3
. 4.2
Port of Port Orford ....
Rural School Dist.............
.41,5
. 1.4
Union H. S. No. 1............
Union H. S. No. 2
1.1
School Dist. No. 1
. 5.4
School Dist. No. 3...
. 1.3
23.7
School Dist. No. 4.».
School Dist. No. 12.................... 13.5
School Dist. No. 17 ................ 19.7
State Fire Patroll, per acre •.... 5c
Brookings Light Dist, 3377 feet
23.5c
at, per foot
George Roberts of San Fran
cisco spent ten days in this area
helping with the bulb harvest and
staying with his cousins, Mrs.
Bernadine Steele and Kenneth
VanPelt.
CURRY COUNTY,
OREGON
Beautifying, Landscaping School Yard,
Azalea Garden Club's Project For Year
COQUILLE—Ivan Laird was
re-elected president of Coos-Cur
ry Eelectric Co-operative here on
Saturday after the members had
named the directors for the com
ing year. At the same election a
new’ zoning amendment was add
ed to the by-laws, re-arranging
the zones to represent geographi
cal locations of the territory now’
served by the co-operative. The
> results of the election were:
ZONE I—Brookings
A. E. Sandbo ........................ 102
Gordon G. Goetz .................... 42
ZONE II—Gold Beach
Earl V. Foster ........................ 71
Clarence H. Young................ 70
ZONE III—Ophir
Fred W. Adams ........................ 102
O. W. Bettis ................................. 20
ZONE IV—Port Orford
Charles W. Brooks .................. 108
Arthur F. Neiman .................... 37
ZONE V—Bandon
Elmer A. Gant ........................ 83
John Neilson ............................... 57
ZONE VI—Gaylord-Broadbent
George L. Boren ............
54
Ellis E. Schull ............................ 84
ZONE VII—Bullards Route
David Philpott ............................. 77
Ison Robinson ............................. 63
ZONE VUI—Sitkum
Ivan C. Laird ............................... ; 119
Howard Leatherman ................ 30
ZONE IX—Myrtle Point
L. B. Jennings ............................. 86
Powell Lancaster ...................... 56
(Additional news concerning an
nual meeting of Coos-Curry Elec
tric Co-operative may be seen on
pages 3 and 6).
Curry County Will
Tax $6,212,370
For Curren Fiscal
BROOKINGS,
A test of a community at its
most exact and best level is how
it feels about its children—its
growing generation of young cit
izens. The beautiful new school
for the children of this area is
something all may feel so good
about. Children and their teachers
are proud of the building. How-1
ever, without landscaping it is
like a lovely painting without a
frame.
In a city or larger community,
the landscaping could have been
added to the budget and passed
on to the taxpayer. A professional j
landscaping job, if figured in our
budget, would have cost between
$4500 and $5000, approximately.
This could not be considered at
this time nor in the forseeable
years ahead. But what to do?
There must be some other w’ay to
accomplish this without further
tax burden to the taxpayer—and
there is!
A group of community-minded
citizens approached Warren Smith
—chairman of the school board—
to discuss this matter and he put
this “$64 question” to the Azalea
Garden Club.
Azalea Garden Club was asked
to spearhead a community proj
ect of donated man-power, ma
chinery and extra community fi
nancing to get this job done. The
project is already under way with
the honor roll of donors growung
daily.
Mr. Riverman, contractor, has
offered $100 toward the project.
Elmer Bankus has donated and
placed on the school grounds over
200 yards of top soil. More will
likely be needed, and it will be
forthcoming. Ed Hoar and Floyd
Swearingen have offered to use
their equipment to scarify the
ground and Art Crook has prom
ised to move the top soil for this
scarifying.
The biggest and most important
Concluded on Page Eight
New Sawmill Soon Chest X-Ray Unit
To Start Operation Coming To County
GOLD BEACH—The chest X-
Near Gold Beach
Ray survey unit will be in Currv
“W hitey” Hold Out—
Has New Distinction
“Whitey” Matson, stellar
infielder for the Pelican base
ball team, had two distinc
tions the past season. In ad
dition to leading the club in
hitting with 49 hits in 87
trips to the plate for an al
most phenominal .563 aver
age, "Whitey” is also the last
player to turn in his suit.
Not that Pete Lesmeister,
business manager, is worried
about the suit but he would
like to have it returned so
that it can be cleaned and
put away for next season.
Chetco Cove To
Be Reviewed At
New Dote, Soon
“A new date, probably be
fore 60 days, will be set for
the army engineers hearing
on Chetco Cove,” Charles H.
Grayshel, president of the
chamber of commerce, told
the Pilot, Tuesday.
“There have been many ru
mors that the postponed re
cent meeting would be held
next April. That is not true,
for the army engineers as
sured me the first of the week
that they would call a meet
ing within the next couple of
months,” Mr. Grayshel con
cluded.
A meeting, set for Sept. 14,
was postponed, Mr. Grayshel
told the pilot, when it was
evident complete data was not
available. That data is now
all assembled, and the local
people are ready to present
their case.
GOLD BEACH—G round has
county for three days in Novem
been cleared for a sawmill site
ber, probably Nov. 15, 16 and 17.
and a mill pond dug on a 7-acre
spending
the 15th in Brookings.
tract, purchased from Wm. Coff
This has been made possible
man by Clifford Conradi, of Bin
by the state holding these dates
gen, Wash. This new mill is lo
for the county, and since we have
cated on coast Hwy 101, seven
a county nurse to do the follow
miles north of here, across from
up work, without which it is not
Neska Beach Motel and will be
worth while to make the survey.
known as the “Ocean View Lum
The state director of the chest
ber Company.”
X-ray survey service was here
The mill will be equipped to last Wednesday afternoon to make
turn out 40 to 30 thousand board final arrangements.
With her
feet per shift, chiefly for export.. was Miss LaNeve, state director
The management hopes to be in i of the Christinas Seal Sale. They
production between Nov. 15 and have called a meeting of the
♦he first of December.
executive committee and repre
G. C. “Jack” May, of Lewis sentatives of each district in the
River, Wash., has charge of the county.
clearing and construction of the
mill pond which will hold be
tween three and four hundred
thousand feet of logs. A dam has
GOLD BEACH—A check of the
been constructed across a small
three local sportsmens canneries
stream which will back up and
show's that the salmon run w’hich
First meeting of the 1949-1950 started Sept. 13, is still on in the
form an eight-acre lake, with
water being pumped into the school year for the local unit of Rogue. The schools have been
pond. Mr. May will furnish logs Parent-Teachers Association will heavy with silversides which is
for the mill. G. C. or “Jack,” as be held at the high school tonight the greatest in many years.
he is known, has spent many it was announced by Mrs. Lloyd
Monday a run of Chinook came
years logging in the w’oods in Morris, president.
in and many fish from 18 to 36
Mrs. Morris wall name her var- pounds were taken. Mr. Douglas
Washington.
ious
committees. Plans for the from Arizona landed a 36-pound-
Clifford Conradi has been in
“
Penny
Supper,” to be held on er that day.
the saw’mill business in Longview
Saturday,
October 15, will be
and recently from Bingen. Dur
In the salmon derby W. E.
made
at
the
first meeting.
ing the war he served in the navy.
Lapp of Seattle won last week’s
A membership drive will be prize with a 35 lb. 12-oz. Chinook.
Local help will be employed as
launched.
The committee look B. S. Anslyn of Los Angeles has
far as possible.
ing after this detail, hopes all the largest so far this week, with
members of last year will renew a 32 lb. 10 oz. Chinook.
Local News Items
and also invites all new people
Fishing prospects on the Rogue
While w’ith her parents, Mr. in the community to be present. will continue excellent until a
and Harvey Ellis, of Ashland,
Music and refreshments will be heavy rain raises the river.
Mrs. George Hassett suffered a furnished tonight for enjoyment
It is reported that it makes lit
severely cut foot while swimming of all present.
tle difference whether you cast
in Bruce hole. Many people, it is
from shore, anchor, or troll, the
said, have a habit of tossing bot
fishing is god and many limits
tles in the river and using them County Treasurer Ill
are taken “The best in many
GOLD BEACH—Mrs. Iren e
for target practice.
years is what most everyone is
A group of Odd Fellows will Boyd, Curry county treasurer, is
saying.
go again, Sunday, to the Bob Ho- seriously ill, in a San Francisco
gan home to complete the roof hospital, according to latest word.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Perkins
for which material was shy two She has been receiving medical
weeks ago when the group put attention theer for the past few arrived home the latter part of
up most of the framework and weeks. Her son, Norman, and the week after spending the sum
rafters. Odd Fellows are urged to J daughter, Mrs. Barbara Seger, are mer in the northern part of this
state and in Seattle.
aid what they can.
with her.
Rogue Fishing Best
In Years, Reports
Many Fishermen
Meeting, Tonight
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1949
Bill Charter Fete
For October 29th
Newly-organized chapter of
SPEBSQSA will hold its charter
night October 29.
Don’t let that long lino of ini
tials worry you. Brookings is not
instituting a new* government bu
reau to plague the unsuspecting
public with a new group of ap
parently unrelated letters. Any
apprehension caused by the im
posing display of all those capi
tal letters should be dispelled
when it is learned that thev
mean Society for the Preservation
and Encouragement of Barber
Shop Quartet Singing in America,
Inc.
Formed several years ago by
a group of fellow's who believed
that the sheer joy of harmoniz
ing to some of the good old tunes
was being lost to most of us, be
cause of the ever-increasing tem
po of modern living, the idea be
hind the forming of this society
has swept the country and it now
boasts a membership of over 30,-
000 with chapters in almost every
town of any size throughout the
United States and Canada.
Charter night is an especially
exciting event of this organiza
tion which believes that each new
chapter should be started on the
road to success with a big fan
fare of music and harmony and
that all esstablished chapters of
the district should rally ‘round
to insure the volume as w’ell as
the quality of the harmonizing.
To this end the entire Klamath
Falls chapter, which is sponsor
ing the Brookings group, will be
on hand w ith its chorus and quar
tets. Quartets from the Eugene,
Roseburg, Medford, Ashland and
Eureka chapters will also be
present- so every song, from
“Sweet Adeline,” to “Some En
chanted Evening,” will receive
their special treatment.
Arrangements are being made
for sale of tickets to this cele
bration so that as many as possi
ble may enjoy this Cavalcade of
Harmony which is only experienc
ed once in the life of each chap
ter. As plans are developed, keep
watch on the columns of the Pi
lot for future details and mark
the date now on calender, Oct. 29,
Special Clinic Set
For School Students
Monday, Oct. 10, the State De
partment of Education will hold
an all-day clinic for vision, hear
ing, speech and emotional bal
ance. Five individuals under di
rection of Vernal Hogue will be
present for the entire day, says
Lynn Hampton, superintendent.
Clinic at Brookings will include
the local school as well as those
from Carpenterville and Upper
Chetco students.
Pupils have been scheduled for
various appointments during the
day and parents are asked to
come to the school at the ap
pointed time if they desire a con
ference with these specialists.
Send the Pilot to a friend!