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U. of O. Library fimlímS'fMnr W Nowhere a Finer Climate - Nowhere A Finer Community ’ )I . E FOLR, NUMBER XXXX1X "Plans For 1950" Studied At C. Of C Meet Last Thurs. BROOKINGS, Munsons Are Attending Daughter’s Graduation Mr. and Mrs. Earl Munson, new owners of the Templar Ho tel, left Tuesday morning for San Francisco, where they will attend the graduation exercises cl their daughter from high school. The Munsons have been busy, since taking possession of the property, doing remodeling and re-decorating. They plan to do extensive work on the building before the next tourist season, but claim they are unable at the moment to say just the extent thty will go. CURRY COUNTY, OREGON Socialistic Inroads Threaten Life And Welfare In U. S 7 HURSAY, CHOIR DIRECTOR FEBRUARY 2, 1950 Laudisti Choir Of Area, Next Thurs. 30 Voices, Due In A copy of a speech given be The noted Laudisti Choir of fore Hoquiam, Wash., Rotary re I'he Bible Institute of Ig\s An geles. consisting of 30 voices, is cently, and generally broadcast throughout the west by J. A. scheduled for Baptist Commun Lamb, was read at the local club ity church next Thursday eve ning, Feb. 9, at 7:30. luncheon Tuesday by Archie Hen dricks, president. This speech is Directed by Dr. Eva M. Tovey, these 30 voices are well trained a parallel to the first article ap pearing in the February issue of in choral work, and are reported Readers Digest, except that the to give almost a complete evan gelistic service in song. Rotary speech told of the meth- ods being employed by the “wel- Accompanying the chorus and makinkg up part of the program fare” state proponents. are a harp solist, a flutest and “Subsidies to farmers, at a trumpeter. great expense to national tax Laudisti, meaning “Choir o f payers; a growing tendency to Praise, ” is making the tour in ward more and larger pensions Dr. Eva M. Tovey, noted mu- for those over 65 years; the ever .sic authority, who will be seen interest of raising funds for the mounting federal payroll; t h e at Baptist Community Church. Institute. Silver offering will be “socializing” of almost every pro next Thursday with the La udisti taken. Announcement appears on Brookings Bruins, who have fession, were given contributing another page in this issue. choir from Los Angeles. been laboring this season as the factors in the reason for thought second best, sprang to life with trend toward the welfare state. a vengence, last Friday evening, “The greatest menace in the to trip their traditional rivals, world today is not Communism Gold Beach Panthers, 50 to 39, for Communists are only the an in a game that held the fans noying ‘loud boys,’ but those of Partly because of weather in spell-bound Ihe entire time. Oregon which tok people’s minds power w’ho seek to ‘bore’ into To stop Wallace, the h i g h- every church, every lodge, every from things at hand, and es George H. Purvis, 82, retired, scoring lad from the county seat, organization of civic nature, and pecially the March of Dimes cam- civil engineer, was burned to Art Guthrie devised a certain to plant seeds of socialism to death in his Chetco home, nine paign in particular, caused the type of zone defense that clamp keep alive the general trend. campaign until the quota has miles from Brookings Wednes ed on the brakes with finality. been reached. “The federal expenditures of Gold Beach, usually rampant in all the presidents, from Wash day morning of last week. The Word from John Porisch, the the point-makinkg department, ington down through the three fire, which destroyed his two- county chairman, indicates that story cabin, was of undetermined struck a desert, Friday night. terms of Franklin D. Roosevelt, origin, and was totally destroyed[ Curry county will net less than On the other hand, the Bruins, including two world wars, is just $1000. In the three previous ones coming to life and realizing the about $11 billion dollars short with all contents. about $1300 has been reached Ed Thornton, closes neighbor, । each season is almost over, and little of the federal expenditures of drive. has been accomplished, w’ent out the past five years, Once Ben jä living two miles distant, noticed No indication has been mad? a glow in the sky shortly after and picked themselves up suffi min Franklin stated in his “Poor Midnight, and as the weather locally just how well the cam cient points to make a victory Richard’s Almanac,’ that no gov- was stormy and dark, and roadst paign has progressed. in a crucial game, loss of which ernment w’as good.............. if it took — 1U u w full of water and snow, the trag-I w’ould just about eliminated all more than one in every ten per- * ody was t not discovered until i possibilities for county honors sons to administer all phases of —1 morning. Kinion with 19, and Fitzhugh it.’ Today, it was pointed out that Sheriff R. G. Sabin and Dis- with 15, led the scoring attack almost one in every four was e e for the Bruins, While Wallace, in some manner connect cd with trict Attorney Hugh Gearin went of Gold Beach, collected 17, many the federal payroll, in one form to the scene immediately after being notified. from the free-throw route. or another. Although the elements wrere From a melted glass jug near The volleyball game was a ‘ Effects upon tne individual is the stove, it is believed that Mr. exactly in opposition, the senior With zero and sub-zero tem walkaway for the locals, w’ho several fold, when taxation eats Purvis had used kerosene to kin rance, last Saturday evening, a 49 to 11 score. peratures gripping much of Or piled up * • . . *7 * UP so much of the camines of dle the fire. Only the upper part faced such other attractions as egon as well as the west, Brook of the skull and a few charred the Rebekah card party and the ings area, Friday and part of Rod & Gun club’s old time dance any bones were found. Saturday, basked in sunshine — Beach grades, 27 to 21 and the capital investments, which ' and came out well, despite all. The victim would have been j temperatures comparable. This frosh won from the Gold Beach suit in more employment; While not too large, the crowd in- summer-like weather could not frosh, 24 to 12, at Gold Beach. dustry of the so-called ‘big busi 83 in May. He and his late w ife • v as enthusiastic and everyone moved to this 40-acre farm in continue, for late Saturday the ness’ class will not make any 1934 from Seattle. Mrs. Purvis “had the times of their lives.’’ rains took up where they had The 52-piece set of silverware, expansion to meet the demands was killed in an accident a num left off, and really the vicinity of increased business. The cha ber of years ago, and since then I given away by the seniors, went was drenched with more mois- otic state of business today in Mr. Purvis lived alone. A sister, I io Mrs. Mary Mendenhall. ture. Music for the event was fur the world today does not offer Mrs. Ethel Raunage, formerly of Portland, Sunday night and nished by Paul and Don Whirry, Warnborough, Va., but now of ( Mrs. Katherine Sandstrom has much inducement for growth.” Monday morning, had a new fall Don Vaughan and Mrs. Eddie Several other points were also ol snow’. Eastern and Central resigned herself to fate — that added by members, w’ho quoted Los Angeles, and a nepehew of । I reeman. Oregon were gripped in one of she is one of the most unlucky articles in various magazines of Portland, are believed to be the only survivors. Purvis was a the winter’s w’orst cold waves. people of the area. recent issue. The “ Pink Fringe ” to Mrs. Josie Struble Dies civil engineer before coming With her left arm broken twice Temperatures as low’ and 18 de in the Methodist church was an Curry county. In Sleep, Tuesday Night grees below' were reported in a in less than six months, depriv example brought to light; the ing her of more than tw ’ o months Funeral services are not as few’ place with some very near earning capacity, is added, Tues general thinking of modern edu yet completed for Mrs. Josie the zero mark.k cational training were examples Struble, who died quietly in her Sunday night, this area w’as day, frozen pipes at the shop of the methods employed to gain in Brookings, forcing her to re sleep, early Tuesday morning at visited with thunder and light this ‘welfare state’ end. turn to her Harbor residence to the Dee Scobbee home. ning, reminding one of the mid GOLD BEACH—Among Ore re-open her beauty parlor. Mrs. Struble had made her west storms of like nature. Rain Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Marsh gon counties turning in 100*% home on the Chetc for the past “ Please tell my patrons, espe aid snow showers came, but by who have been residents of the or over to the Oregon Chest is several years, and had a host of daylight, little snow was in evi cially those whose appointments Chetco Heights area for many Curry county, raising $993.23. intimate friends who were sorely dence, even at the higher levels I was forced to cancel, that I The report sent out by State years, left Monday evening by will return to my home, and grievod to learn of her passing, X isible from the area. there I’ll have heat and water,’’ bus for Loma Linda, Calif., to Headquarters at Portland said: k Brookings, with her 23 degrees she told the Pilot, Tuesday. spend the winter months. Their “Curry county this year, under tion and have some reserve in vn Tuesday, was still the ba I daughter, Mary, a registered chairmanship of Hugh C. Gearin, the bank for future use. This is nana belt of Oregon, even if the • Lots of ewes, in ihe uplands nurse, is leaving shortly for exceeded its quota o f Oregon an outstanding accomplishment bananas were frozen. Chemult are reported to be lambing, ana Wrangell, Alaska, to visit her Chest funds. Raised were $151 for Curry county and is a dis had a -39, to be the refriger many new lambs are seen along brother, Lowell, and posisbly to for USO, will contribute $60 for tinct credit to Chair Gearin’s organizing effort.” ator of the state. the highway. resume her occupation. At the first regular meeting, Presided over by the new officers, Brookings chamber of commerce laid plans, last Thursday evening for work this year. Foremost among the plans is the effort to be made upon con gress for the appropriation long ago approved for improvement y of the mouth of the Chetco River but laid aside when world war 2 came along. J. Elmer Parker, new prexy, told the group present that he would announce all his comma- tees within a short time, and he hoped for rnmnWe co-operation from the individuals on each as signed task. For benefit of those who were not present at the recent Chet co Cove hearing, Mr. Parker took time* to read the brief presented to the army engineers, and the supplement, which the engineers had asked for on their visit in the area learned much about all compiling this data, people cf the aera learned much about all the assets the area really has. ‘ It was actually astonishing to me, although I always had faith In the possibilities, to see what we really had here,” he sari. A number of guests were pres ent, Thursday, and many signed up for their membership. The ’50 campaign is expected to start soon, hoping to gain 200 mem bers for the group this year. Bruins Gain Break With 50-39 Win Over GoM Beach George H. Purvis Burned To Death In Home Blaze Lasts But Short Time, Rains Drench S. W. Ore. m ^Sunshine ’Dimes' Campaign Extended In Co. Senior Dance, Sat Attracts A Crowd Despite Conditions j Misfortune Stalks Mrs. Sandstrom County Exceeded Chest Quota, '49
