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. 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