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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1950)
u. of O. Library LIFE IN RUSSIAN ZONE TERRIBLE, VISITOR TELLS ROTARIANS, TUES. American Have No Conception Of How Their Efforts Are Being; Defeated By Communists Laudisti Chior Will Be Event Thursday Evening at Church ai FROST DAMAGE TO LILY CROP IS REPORTED HUGE BY LOCAL GROWERS Survey Not Completed By Unit of Pacific Bulb People of this area are being reminded of the appearance, at Growers Just How Each Field Stood Cold 7:30 Thursday evening of the Water pipes and the fuel tanks were not the only things which famed Laudisti chorus of Bible Carl Hampel, owner of Chinook Cafe, Gold Beach, who returned Institute of Los Angeles, at the suffered Tuesday of last week, when this area was visited by one home early in December from a visit of his brother in the Russian of the most killing frosts old timers say they can remember. Fields sector of Berlin, told the Brookings Rotary’ club how it seemed to CHOIR DIRECTOR lilies, up some one to three inches, were frozen, and the process actually live behind the “Iron Curtain,’’ and have to undergo all literally pulled the stems out of the bulbs, possibly damaging the the rules that only’ Moscow is able to devise for conquered peoples. crop an untold amount, according to dozens of growers. Mr. Hampel, who served in the German army in the first world Many’ growers, members of the Pacific Bulb Growers Associa war and with the Americans in the last, and who speaks with a tion, are busy making a survey of fields, in any effort to determine clipped, but understandable accent, proved his talk by a set of the extent of damage, and it may be a week or mo^e before com 50-odd pictures which he hired a professional photographer to take pleted, the Pilot was told Monday morning. Damage was greater in the eastern sector of Berlin, much of which still lies in rubble in some fields than others and in some spots, seeming to follow from the terrific aerial bombings administered by the Allies. no temperature pattern in its destruction. The bombing destruction, as While growers are not mini-' shown by the pictures, is almost mizing the loss through this kill beyond human conception unless ing frost, some are inclined to actually seen as Mr. Hampel believe that the forthcoming who wished to visit the scenes of weather of the next couple or his boyhood, which he left in the three weeks will determine just early ’20s to become an Ameri to what extent damage can be can citizen. Practically every big measured. A meeting of Chetco Commun building, especially in the east John D. Gardner, resident of Many feel that if warm days ity Library hoard members was ern section is in rubble. Only the this area about nine years, and will come, and if the old, broken held last Wednesday at the home residential sections and minor prominent in the real estate de stems are removed, new ones of Mrs. Myrtle H. Schaal, with buildings, which had no part in velopment, died at his home Sat Dr. Eva M. Tovey, noted mu will be forced, providing “side Mrs. Erma Rice, chairman, con the war effort, escaped. urday7 morning from hemorage of sic authority, who will be seen dressings ” are applied to force ducting the meeting. Mrs. Dor The Russians have no re-mod the lungs, said to have been re at Baptist Community Church, the' bulbs. othy Harroun has been appoint eling or re-building program in sult of cancer. Mr. Gardner had next Thursday with the Laudisti On the other hand, some of ed secretary to librarian, Mrs. their sector of Berlin, the Ro previously had a cancer removed choir from Los Angeles. the growers are skeptical for Dorothy Lockland. tarians were told, and attested from his sinus cavity by radium Mrs. Jessie Judkins is treasur by the pictures, many of which treatment, and for a time had Baptist Community church. No the bulbs being able to force a new stem, and amount to any er of library funds. Other assist were taken along the famed believed he was on the road to admission will be charged, but a thing for size, granting that the ants to the librarian are Mrs. Unter den Linden. silver offering will be taken for complete recovery. harvest time will be three or Dorothy Harroun, Mrs. Dolly Taken in November, these In his younger days. Mr. Gard the Institute. more weeks later. Brainard, Jessie Judkins and pictures gave the club members ner followed contracting in Ar Composed of over 30 voices, Pacific Lily Growers officials Mrs. Albert Joy. the feeling that the Russian plan izona, he once told the Pilot. He this group, it is said, conduct are making a field-to-field sur Plans are being made to stage for conquest would be complete later settled at Sweet Home, to' an entire evangelistic service in vey and will watch developments a “Hobby and Crafts Show” lat in its aim. For no excuse inno- add much in growth of that area । song. The group is directed by with more than a ‘ parental ’ eye. er in February with the ladies |cent people are being executed after advent of the p 1 y w o o d . Dr. Eva M. Tovey, noted musical of Brookings and Harbor work for crimes against USSR. Tur plant near there. After coming authority. ing together to raise funds to moil among the citizens seems here, he purchased the old com In addition to the voices, num purchase more new books and to be the means by which the pany store, did some remodeling bers will be given by a harpist, also to finance necessary running Soviets keep down any unified on it, for store buildings, and in- i a flutist, and a trumpeteer. The expenses. An over-all chairman etYort to revolt. vested heavily in real estate, a members of the group will be Brookings, which has usually will be appointed soon. His own brother-in-law, an great deal of which he subdivided feted at a dinner at the church, Present at the meeting were: led Curry county in all previous expert machinist, has been miss as in the case of the Dawson and will be cared for among the Mrs. Erma Rice, Mrs. Hazel Hen “ March of Dimes ” campaigns, is ing since 1945 when the Russians tracts, north of town. homes of church members. far behind, John Porisch, county dry, Mrs. Bertha Moore, Mrs. took over that section of Berlin. In 1947, suffering from what drive chairman, told the Pilot Edith Newton, Mrs. Jessie Jud No tracet no word or anything he believed was sinus infection, on Monday. Langlois, Sixes, Den kins, Mrs. Mae Simpson, Mrs. Concluded on Page Six he went to Eureka where he mark, usually not up with this Ethel Olsen, Mrs. Myrtle Schaal, sought medical relief. A small area, are far over the top of Mrs. Frank Pallady, Mrs. Dor othy Harroun, Mrs. Dorothy cancer was treated by radium. what was anticipated. After a few months, he believed “In previous years, Curry has Lockland. he had become cured. averaged some 33c a person, as compared to the state average Early last year he complained Funeral services for Mrs. G. of about the same amount. This This area, which usually has of his lungs hurting him, and W. Needham, who was discover year it will not come near in an average yearly rainfall of in recent months was reported ed dead in her arm chair when even equalling that figure. about 75 inches, got one-third of to have suffered from hemor- he arose, Monday morning, will Founders day was observed by “Many factors enter this pic it in January, according to the rages, last of which claimed him be held at Salem, according to ture,” he continued, “The bad the local unit of Parent-Teachers records of Paul Whirry, local Saturday morning. word from Roeder Funeral home weather certainly hurt Brook Association last Thursday, when weather observer, in his report at Crescent City. ings and Harbor’s effort at the a playlet, depicting the corner this week. Mr. Needham arose Monday Temperance Rally Set dance. However, the envelopes stones of Parent Teachers As The snow depths of Portland and discovered Mrs. Needham have not brought in the amount sociation were explained oy: and elsewhere in Oregon, depict For Coming Week-end Home, by Mrs. Duggan, mother sitting in a chair, where she had anticipated, neither have the do ed through the daily newspapers A rally, to arouse people of gone sometime during the night, nation cans, placed about the vi of three children; School, by from Portland, came down in this this community to the evils of when she could not sleep. She cinity. With an extenion, and a Miss Ruth Woodward; Church, area in the liquified form—rain alcohol, has been scheduled for had turned up the fire, and sat further appeal, Curry county is by Bill West, who substiuted for JXventy-three inches of rain is Friday, Saturday, Sunday and down when a heart attack claim likely to reach the $1300 goal Rev. Nick Neufeld; and Com equivalent to several feet of the Monday7, by Brookings Temper ed her life. set for the county. The sum is munity by A. P. Hendricks, pres • whiteness” which is usually dis ance Society, for Baptist Com ident of the Rotary club. Little was learned of Mrs. not yet a thousand,” he conclud munity church, when speakers, posed of by shovels or plows. Past presidents of the local Needham since coming little ed. as he left to consult Grange a The rainfall, for January, as films and other information will unit were honored. Founders of recorded by’ the local weather be presented. On page three of more than a year ago to open members. 53 years ago were represented station is 23.97 inches. (See the this issue appears an advertise up their agate and my rt levrood The Pilot will save much let by Mrs. Mary Hanks and Mrs. weather report elsewhere in this ment of the society, telling of the shop, next to the Brookings Shoe Beryl Bollinger. ter writing to relatives. Service. issue). program. A John D. Gardner Died, Sat., After ' Extended Illness Library Committee Sets Plans For "Crafts Event" Brookings Lags In Dimes Campaign Third Of Rainfall Makes Jan. 'Wef Mrs. Needham Found Dead Mon. Was Heart Victim P.-T. A. Observes '‘Founders Day”
