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. of O. Library XX r ni iiniç- Í Lìrh ir fìlot Nowhere a Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community VOLUME FOUR, NUMBER XXXIII t i Alaska Revealed In Kerr's Pictures Shown To Rotary BROOKINGS, Want A Band? Do You Wish To Help Start One? Would this community want to have its own band? As one of its many proj ects for the community the All-Year Events Association is trying to interest people who play some band instru ment, to come out, next Wed nesday, Oct. 19, at the high school gym. Last lily festival this area paid out $168.90 just for the transportation of the Grants Pass high school band. This did not include the meals fur nished the group. Remember the date, the time and place! CURRY COUNTY, OREGON Whitey Still Holdout; Maybe He’s Too Old! THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1949 P-L A. BOOKS "PENNY SUPPER" AT HIGH SCHOOL, SATURDAY EVE Report last week that he had not turned in his suit to Pete Lesmeister, “Whitey” Matson has been pegged by teammates as “afraid” to do that act for a very good rea son—“He is too old.” Whitey could not be reach ed by the Pilot for confirma tion, but come next spring, it will be a safe bet that Whitey will be on hand and with a clean suit, even if it is the same one he holds. The annual Parent-Teachers Association “Penny Supper,” the function through which the group earns most of its finances to do its work, will be held at the high school gym, Saturday evening, Oc tober 15, starting at 6 p. m. A pro Some 1000 feet of motion pic gram has been planned followed tures, taken by Henry Kerr on the meal with the Barbershop his trip to Alaska, last summer, Quartet group as one of the high were shown to the Brookings Ro lights. tary club, Tuesday noon with Mr. People of the area, as well as Kerr explaining all scenes as they Card Party Funds To parents, are invited to bring a appeared on the screen. Aid Annex Building hot dish of some kind, and en W ith his boat starting two SMITH RIVER -A public card joy the get-together which has days off schedule, Mr. Kerr ex party, sponsored by the Woman’s become quite a tradition in this plained that the planned trio Club, has been set for Wednes district. was interrupted and disjointed day evening at 8, for raising of If you do not wish to bother for he expected to spend three funds to go toward completion about table service, paper plates days in Mt. McKinley park, but of the Methodist church annex. may be mad at the supper for had only one. People who come will be given a small fee. Mr. Kerr started his pictures PISTOL RIVER—The diesel the opportunity to play their fa electric sawmill, being construct vorite game; Canasta, pinochle, as he pulled away from the dock ed by Freeman Gatchet, here on bridge, 500, etc., said Mrs. Edna at Seattle, but hampered by no Highway 101, just south of the Ross, general chairman. sunshine most of the time, and bridge, is now being wired, with with fog some of the time, Mr. While the school building is un Kerr could not bring out the col- over 4,000 feet of conduit being der construction the church an ors in the pictures as he would used in the mill. Power will be nex will be used for a classroom GOLD BEACH-The 18 -acre have liked, From the boat, using furnished by two diesels, one a tract of land just south of Rogue- for the first two grades. There GOLD BEACH—George Chris a telescope lens, he took pictures tian of Christian’s Market, re 375-horse power for the head exists an unprecedented crowded wods, on the Rogue, on Coast of much of the coast line of Brit- ported here the first of the w’eek rig and one 150-horse power for condition in the local schools. Hwy 101, is being readied by Mr. ish Columbia, before coming to that he had dressed 19 deer so the remainder of the mill. and Mrs. C. C. Howard, for a Individual motors will be used Ketchikan, Juneau and Wrangell. far since hunting season opened. summer home and a private re throughout the mill for the He had several feet of shots taken sort. The lower parcel, an 8‘2- vari- Stanley Fendrick got a nice 4- acre piece, with 660 feet river in the salmon cannery, showing point buck, weighing 115 pounds. ous operations. The mill is on a frontage, and the mouth of Ed the barge of fish being unloaded, The hunting party, comprising concrete foundation and is 25x200 son Creek, emptying into an es and followed the processing to Sheriff Sabin, Dr. Raymond Erick- feet with a green chain 110 feet SMITH RIVER—Annual Rally tuary with a floating dock, makes the can. From Wrangell the party son, Douglas DeVoe and Hugh at right angles. Day of the local Methodist and the setting for the resort. The garage and machine shop took the train to Anchorage and Shields of this place and Col. Gushchu churches, held Sunday, A four-foot concrete flume was to Fai) banks, and nil along the Chas. Bell and Harold Burris of is 34x110, with all buildings be was attended by more than 100, built to keep the creek in the route points of interest were re- Port Orford, returned last Thurs- ing overed by corrugated alumi including many members of the same channel where it enters the corded. । day frOm a ten-day trip in the num and constructed for perma American Legion post, and Aux- estuary and making a 40-foot Fairbanks Flowers Gorgeous | Steen mountains near Burns. They nency. The capacity will be 40,000 iliary. roadway in front of the dock. Rev. E. At Fairbanks Mr. Kerr’s pic-J reported a successful tpp, all Hicks, pastor, told all board feet per shift and is so Logs and brush have been fast tures showed the beautiful flow-1 bringing back bucks. They en- constructed that it will be cap the group that it was the 95th an ened to the bank of the river to ers, which have about 60 to 90 countered a little snow on Mc able of handling large timbers. niversary of the founding of the keep it from cutting further into The 15-acre swamill tract has church in that area, and told of days growing season. These were Kenzie Pass. a 2^-acre pond. Logs for the the founders and the initial trials the property. The Howards ex rich in color inasmuch as the mill will be purchased on the of the people who wished to have pect to build a fishing and hunt sun shines about 20 hours of the ing lodge on the bench overlook 24, at that latitude. open market as well as from the a house of worship. ing the estuary and river. logging operations on Pistol Riv Mr. and Mrs. Kerr, who have “History affects all of us im The 10-acre piece on the upper er. The enterprise will be known mensely,” Rev. Hicks pointed out for years aided an orphanage in side of the highway has winding in his sermon. “ The disciples of! as Freeman Gatchet Lumber Co. that country, visited the place, GOLD BEACH—A court of hon roads among the native myrtles, and will be in operation by spring. and took several feet of film or of Boy Scouts will be held at Christ were 'done away’ with. The firs and other trees with a sweep showing the methods of teaching the Community hall, Tuesday eve history concerning these men di ing drive coming to the site pick and care made for the children, ning, Oct. 18. At 6:45 a pot luck rectly affects us, more than any ed for their home. A concrete One little Indian child, whose dinner, with coffee furnished, will of us realize. The history of the reservoir is being built on a small parents were drunk. tossed it out- be served. founders of Smith River church, stream fed by spring which will 95 years ago, affects us more than side to freeze, and when picked Parents, especially with boys supply the water. The Howards we realize. up, had become partially paral 11 years of age or older, are Mrs. Jeri Funari has been se- spend the winter at the Alameda, yzed from the exposure. The pic invited as well as anyone inter ! lected as leader for the intermed History has a direct bearing Calif., home. ture, however, showed the lad ested in scouting. Scoutmaster iate group of Girl Scouts for this on us,” concluded Rev. Hicks as happy, despite hjs handicap. Clarence Phipps and Lee Hild area. Mrs. Crump will continue he told of the community co-op “Alaska,” said Mr. Kerr, due to reth, assistant scoutmaster, will to lead the girls of the Harbor eration in rushing completion of lack of sunshine much of the year assist with the tenderfoot inves area. The troop has been without the church annex that it might has the largest death-rate of any titure ceremony. Other awards services of a leader since Mrs. be used as a classroom until the part of the U. S. Possessions from will be given members of the Paul Shrader moved to Los An new school building was being construction. “That is the way tuberculosis. The natives, too, are troop. geles about Sept. 1. GOLD BEACH—Mrs. M a be I our forefathers would have done Mack, state extension agent, of about the heaviest drinkers of Mrs. Funari, who came here in whiskey. May from Aberdeen, Wash., has it, and certainly I believe they home economics, is scheduled to “In southern Alaska, the tim speak at the annual Curry Coun had a number of years experience would approve of our actions.” A pot luck dinner was served in ty officers training conference of ber was comparable to that along in girl leadership in this partic the banquet room of the Com extension unit members, Thurs Oregon and Washington coasts. ular age group. munity hall, following the serv day, Oct. 13, at 10 a. m. at the Frank Reynolds, of Smith Riv However, as we went northward, Announcements have been made er and Piercy, member of Califor ices to a large crowd remaining. Episcopal youth center, here. it became scrubbier, and of less at school of the meeting today, nia State Forestry Board, will value, except, possibly, in paper Mrs. Fern Townley, Port Or at the school building at 4 p .m., speak informally before today’s when Mrs. Roy Brimm, former manufacture.” ford, chairman of the county com meeting of Azalea Garden Club leader, will introduce her to her Honolulu Visitor Present mittee, will act as presiding offi Charles Frazier, of Honolulu, at Chetco Grange hall. His topic group. GOLD BEACH—Rains slowed cer for the day. T. H., was a visitor of the Club, will concern the California State Members of the county com All intermediates of last year, the salmon fishing a little. Mostly coming from his cabin north of Forestry work in the redwoods. and any other girls interested, be Chinooks are now being taken. mittee who will assist in train Present also will be a forester tween ages of 10 to 14, are urged The large fish in the last week’s ing officers are: Mrs. Grace Yel- Gold Beach where he was vaca tioning. He is a charter mem from the Santa Rosa regional of to be present. Rogue River Salmon derby was ton, Brookings; Mrs. Helen Fain, ber of that club, past president fice to give a motion picture ver taken by Willard E. Tapp of Mon Langlois; Mrs. Alma Russell, of sion of the work now' being done rovia, Calif., a 35 lbs, 12 oz. chi- Gold Beach, and Mrs. Mabel Os and past-district governor. Local News Items by the state in the redwoods nook. trander, Pistol River. conservation. Mr. and Mrs. Will Tolman were All chairmen, vice-chairmen, Program chairman, Mrs. Ralph visitors for several days with Art Bollinger and his broth Gene Reiling and his grand secretaries, and the following unit er-in-law, Charles Stevenson re- Luick, will introduce the speak relatives at Reedsport, returning mother, Mrs. George Anderson, chairmen: Azalea, A. C. W. W., turned Tuesday from near Lake ers. Garden club members are the middle of the week. of Grants Pass, spent the week publicity and recreation, are urged view where both shot deer. Art urged to bring guests to hear Mrs. J. E. Rouse, sister of Mrs. end at the E. E. Hanscam Sr. to attend to receive information still likes his hunting, despite these interesting story of the Roy Parker, is visiting her from home. Mrs. Hanscam as also Mrs. and suggestions on how to carry Casper, Wyoming. redwoods. Anderson’s daughter. the age his hair shows. out duties of each office. Pistol River Mill To Open By Spring Ground Broken For Resort, and Home 19 Deer Brought To Gold Beach Market Church Rally Day Mecca For Crowd G. B. Boy Scouts Bill Court of Honor New Girl Scout Leader Available Extension Leaders To Hold Training Forester Will Speak To "Garden Club" Fishing Slowed
