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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1949)
U. of O. Library mhmS’fWnr fìbr Nowhere a Finer Climate - Nowhere A Finer Community Volume Four, Number 34 _______ BROOKINGS, CUR r F c OUNTY, OREGON Thursday, October 20, 1949 P.-T. A. Attracted Many, Saturday, To “Penny Supper" =— Huge Crowd Expected Here Oct. 29th Raised; nResu“itator Equipment For S. P. |L B. S. Q. S. A. Charter Night Has Been Purchased While there is no way to ob tain a complete check of the By and through generous do number of people served at the / 11 _____________ _________ !.. - . All available accommodations ! thereafter be identified as Brook purchased at Grayshel’s Coffe* nations on the part of all organ 1949 Parent-Teachers Associa izations of the community, the tion. “Pennpy Supper,” several in the Brookings area will be ■ ings Chapter, No. 675, of the So- Mill. packed to capacity on Oct. 29, ciety for the Preservation and estimates say that more than due to the deluge of requests for I his special evening of unique much-advertised resuscitator has Quartet Singing in America, Inc., entertainment is another “first” become another item of property three hundred ate during the reservations from the evening. The association’s funds quartets and choruses. visiting which enjoys a membership of for Brookings and heralds another and will be put with the ambu- from the event totaled more than Vaughan, chairman of the Donald more than 30,000. step forward in the progress of ance where It will be ready m com- At Pine Cone Theatre $170, it was announced. Encouragement of Barber Shop any emergency. mittee for reservations, has been When the final amount had The Pine Cone Theatre, where this community. Started a few years ago, the swampted for the past few days been realized last week, the cit the celebration is to be held, will “penny supper” has become ex and states that if he Of all the chapters of the S. has this izens responsible for its purchase have nearly half of its seating tremely popular, and constitutes job to handle again, he is going P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. throughout remarked that it was another ex capacity ocupied by visiting quar the associations principal means to demand a staff of office help. the United States and Canada, of what ample tets and choruses which will leave of raising finances to carry on its there are very few located in tion could do. a little co-opera This Cavalcade of Harmony, only approximately 175 seats re annual work. The reported mem which the residents of Brookings areas as sparsely populated as The dual-unit resuscitator, dis bership at the supper was set at and Harbor will be privileged to maining that will be available to ours. It is therefore with special played for about a month at the local theatre goers and, as this pride the Pilot salutes the pro 174, by the membership chairman. hear, is brought about by the Moore ’ s Variety, is now in cus issue goes to press, it is under- A preview of the local chapter celebration attendant with the gressive and forward-thinking tody of the ambulance associa- stood that more than half of members and officers of the local ol S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. group presentation of its charter to the tion, and will be available to any these are already sold. Tickets chapter, No. 675, and say, “Wel was much to the liking of the new Brookings chapter which will person in the area. for the remaining seats may be come, S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A.!” people, who will be given an Left with the Rotary club last opportunity to witness the charter summer, a committee was ap- presentation of the group. Frost On Bridge Cause pointed to contact or- Decade Since Man- Owen Crocker And ganizations with an all idea other Mrs. Lloyd Morris, local presi Of Car Wreck, Sunday of pur dent, told of the association aims Within six weeks more Mary Ettinger Were chase. for the coming year, and intro Striking frost on the Winchuck Made Fire Raged than three-fourths of the amount duced all her officers and com bridge, Sunday morning, came had been realized. A list of donors Wed, Grants Pass follows: mittees. Lynn Hampton introduc near being serious to Mrs. Ro In Chetco District ed the faculty of the local school berta Stafford and Alma Lou Sal Surprise marriages are seem- American Legion Aux,... GOLD BEACH — The Chetco 10.00 systen). man, in the Stafford pickup. district of the Siskiyou National ingly becoming a habit here in American Legion ......... . $ 50.00 The eighth grade won the prize The pickup skidded, tore a hole Forest has now gone through 10 this area—couples find it is a Archie Anderson ............ 25.00 for the month of having the big in the bridge railing, and the consecutive years without having romantic thing to do. Fred Anderson ................ Owen Crocker, best known as Azalea Garden Club ..... 25.00 girl was thrown clear of a fire caused by human careless gest percentage of parents as as- Salman ' sociation members. the car and knocked unconscious. ness. Ranger Porisch reports that he rides his Fordson tractor in Ruth Bathiany ................ 25.00 Medical examination revealed a total of 12 fires occurred dur the fields of the area, doing cus- Better Half Club ..JLT.T 1.00 no serious injury, although the ing this period. Of these 10 were tom tractor work, and Mary -Et Boy Scouts ........................ 10.00 Funeral Held Mon. girls were badly shaken. caused by lightning, one by a tingcr slipped away to Grants Mr. and Mrs. Carman...... 10.00 1.00 burning house an,d one by a Jap Pass Oct. 11, and before a judge Curtis Chapman ............. 25.00 For Co. Treasurer anese bomb. The total area burn who was also a minister, were Chetco Grange................... 25.00 GOLD BEACH—Funeral serv Pioneer Builder ed over was only about 26 acres. married with two city officials as Chetco Rod & Gun Club ... 100.00 ices lor Mrs. Irene Boyd, county The Chetco district was for witnesses. Wm. Crissey .................... treasurer, were held Monday af Passes, Monday With many of his usual cus- Cub Scouts ...................... 25.00 tunate in having only two light &00 ternoon at 2:30, at the Commun ning fires during the lengthy and tomers or partons waiting for Fire District .................... 100.00 ity church, with Rev. Mr. Kmecik GOLD BEACH—Frederick H. extremely dry 1949 fire season, him to prepare their lily ground Joe J. Gallagher ............. 10.00 of Bandon conducting. Interment Sorber, 68, died Monday at the One of these, the Kimball Hill for planting, Owen and Mary re Gordon Goetz ........... 25.00 was at the new' Gold Beach cem local hospital. He was born ----- at flre, burning in heavy oak brush, turned after but one day wed Harbor Community Club ... 10.00 etery. Gretna, Nebr., March 11, 1R«1. । reached a size of 25 acres before ding trip. Erskine Miller ................. 3.00 Mrs. Boyd, ailing for some time, He was married to Margarie 1 controlled. Only prompt action by The couple will be at home at Mrs. Bertha Moore .......... 1.00 died at the University of Calif- Monroe, of Monroe, Wise., at smoke jumpers, the district fire the Ettinger place, on Easy St., Odd Fellows ...... 70.00 fornia hospital, San Francisco, Grangeville, Idaho, in 1910. Fol organization, and the -ocopera- to their friends. P.-T. A..................... ..1ZZ 10.00 where she had been a patient, at lowing carpentry, the young cou tion of the Coos-Curry Fire Pa Rebekah Lodge ................. 25.00 intervals, for the past two years. ple moved to Seattle where Ruth trol prevented it from becoming Tax Statements Will Be John Rogers ................... 5.00 Born Gladys Irene Chenow’eth, Mary was born. They moved to a much larger fire. The other Rotary Club ....................... . 100.0 daughter of George D. and Mary Gold Beach in 1914 and a son. fire was put out by Emery Wal Mailed Out By Nov. 1 Satellite Club ................. 10.00 GOLD BEACH — This year’s Adeline Chenoweth, at Denmark DeForest Frank, was born in 1915. lace, rancher, living far up the Goldie Smith ..................... 5.00 tax statements will number about Mr. Sorber followed the build Chetco River. Oregon, Dec. 26, 1905, she moved V. F. W. Aux................ 12.50 2800 and will be mailed about when a girl, with her parents, to ing trade, working at Crescent Ranger Porisc wishes to extend Nov. 1, by Sheriff R. G. Sabin, V. F. W. Post ................. 25.00 Gold Beach, where she lived the City, Brookings and the surround- a well-deserved thank you for tax collceor. Collection Jars .............. 101.50 ing area, makings his headquar himself and his fire crew, to the remainder of her life. This year’s total tax assess In 1922, she wras married to ters here, except during the two | people of Curry county for their ments Total Collection $850.00 levied in the county for Ernest LaVerne Boyd, to which wars when he worked in ship excellent co-operation in prevent all purposes is $428,857.02. The union was born a son, Norman, yards. ing forest fires. Few, if any, com Surviving are his son, DeForest munities can boast of a better total value subject to taxation is Man Injured Near and a daughter, Barbara, both of Since 1945 the coun whom live in Gold Beach. Mr. of Gold Beach, daughter, Ruth record. It is proof that loggers, $6,212,370.00. ty ’ s total value subject to taxa Mary of North Bend and five Boyd was serving as Curry Co ranchers, miners, hunters, fisher tion has increased from $4,818,240 Ophir, Saturday grandchildren. treasurer when taken by death men, tourists and other users of Last rites were held here Wed the forests have been careful us to the present figure, making an GOLD BEACH—Kenneth Walk- m 1942 and Mrs. Boyd was ap increase in valuation of $394,- er, of Edmonds, Wash., was in pointed by the county court to nesday afternoon with Rev. Leo ing fire in the woods. 130,00 in five years. jured in an auto accident last finish his unexpired term. Since VanDolson, of Brookings, officiat It has resulted in the saving of In the same five-year period ing. Interment was at the local Saturday evening when his car then she has been regularly elect thousands of dollars of taxpayers the amount assessed in 1945 was cemetery. left the highway, turning com ed by the voters. money which would otherwise $134,433.22 with this this year’s pletely over, on the curve just Member of the Community ' have been expended in putting total of $428,857.02, or an in- south of the James ranch, out of Presbyterian church, she is sur * out fires. Merchantable timber crease in governmental cost of Donald Sosey Appointed Ophir. He was thrown out of vived by her son, Norman Ray, has been saved and old burns are $294,423.80 in five years. the car and received a bad blow County Treasurer, Mon. and daughter, Barbara Boyd Se- being permitted to re-produce, on the back of his head, render Ker, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. slowly but surely, to stands of GOLD BEACH—Donald Sosey ing him unconscious. He was alone George Chenoweth, two brothers, was appointed in a special session young timber for future use. Weather Report in the car and his cousin, Maurice Norman of Gold Beach and Wil of Curry County Court Monday for the past week, ending on Walker, who was following, gave liam of Oregon City; a sister, Mrs. from a group of several applicants Last Sunday at St. Timothys Sunday: Max. Min. Rain first aid and rushed him to the Neva Boyd of Gold Beach. to fill the office of county treas the infant son and daughter of October 10 60 42 hospital. He was released the urer, left vacant by the death of Mr. and Mrs E. Rapraeger were October 11 .58 52 .09 next day. The car, a late model, , Miss Rusty Briscoe and Doyle Mrs. Irene Boyd. Donald is a baptized. The Vicar, Rev. Chas. October 12 .68 50 was badly damaged. bHausch of Fortuna spent Sunday young World War 2 veteran, serv M. Lever, officiated. After the October 13 ..76 48 He had been visiting his mother, in Brookings and Harbor visiting ing with the marines. He came ceremony the congregation was October 14 .70 47 Mrs. Ruth Nielson of Saunders Mr. Rausch’s family and friends. to Gold Beach about a year ago entertained at a buffet luncheon October 15 48 .70 Creek, and other relatives here Both young people attended the and was married to a local girl, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rap October 16 63 48 .... and Pistol River for the past few Brook :s high school last year. 4 Miss Maxine Johnston. raeger. Rain for week .111 days.
