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.
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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”