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U. of O. Library raûfans41arfor flit Nowhere a Finer Climate - Nowhere A Finer Community BROOKINGS, VOLUME FOUR, NUMBER FIFTY-TWO CURRY COUNTY. OREGON THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1950 Fashion Show Postponed "Great Books" Local Store Sold Due to harbor opening celebra First Work Has Been Done To Launch tion at Crescent City, set for the same day, the Spring Fash '50 Azalea Festival And Flower Show Club Will Be To Californians ion show, planned by Satellite Social Club of O. E. S., has been Brookings Market, owned for postponed from Saturday, March Started Here many years by Thor and Peggy “ Dollan-A-Year ” Will Seek Memberships In Ask, has been sold to Robert O. v’“Death must be good, because 18 to Saturday, March 25. There will be no change in it is universal,” so opined Plato, plans, other than the date, Mrs. ancient Greek pholospher, whose! works will be studied locally by Roy Brimm told the Pilot. “We a group to be organized Friday,! felt that we did not want to in March 3, at the high school when terfere with Crescent City, for “Great Books.” study course will we want as many as possible be launched locally. W. H. Hib from there, to attend our func- bard will be leader at the first! tion. We will announce plans at a later date.” meeting. Designed as four-year course, “Great Books” is a product of a board centering around Rob ert M. Hutchins, president of the University of ’Chicago. The dis cussion from this gyoup is meant ’ to creat enjoyment for the mem-1 bers; to help them understand1 themselves; to understand the world as it is today; to become! Gold Beach High School Pan interesting persons; to build an thers won the county basket individual philosophy; to rise out ball tournament last Friday eve of the commonplace; and to be ning at Gold Beach, but they had come great conversationalists. to put out every ounce of energy These aims will be open to all possible, to emerge winners, by who wish to join; irrespective of a 38 to 36 score over a deter educational background. Discus mined Brookings squad which sion panels will be directed by also had tournament honors in a series of booklets or pamph mind, but definitely. lets, costing $9.60 for the year. Gold Beach had previously lost The group functions best when but one game, that to Brookings 20 to 40 people enroll, the ex on the Bruins’ floor, and from perience shows. this experience the Bruins had A sample of the year’s discus- definite plans pf sinking aspi ra sion for the first year includes: tions of the Panthers in the 1. Declaration of Independ-, county tournament. ence; the Old Testament (1 Kings The box score : 21; 2 Samuel, 11 and 12). Gold Beach fg ft Pf tp 3. Plato: Apology, Crito. Wallace, f ........... 3 2 10 3. Plato: Republic, Books 1 Decker, f ................ 4 4 0 1 and 2; Schneideau, c ......... 3 1 2 7 4. Thucydides: History, J Se- Baxter, g ................ 3 2 4 8 lections; Laffeid y, g ........... 2 1 4 5. Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Birds, Clouds; Totals 16 6 13 38 6. Aristotle : Ethics. Book 1; Brookings ft fa Pf tp 7. Aristotle, Politics, Book 1; Simpson, f 3 3 9 8. Plutarch : ‘Lycurgus,’ ‘Nu- Brown, f 1 0 0 2 ma,.’ ‘Alexander ’ ‘Caesar;” Kinion, c 4 1 9 These great philosophies are Vaughan, 2 0 3 4 basic reading for what is hoped Fitzhugh, 4 3 10 2 g I by many to become one of the! uy io uecome oi me , puffv s 1 I» 2 most enlightening evening of the | 0 s 0 1 0 «1..U ujaKiewicz, month, once this club gets to functioning. Totals 15 6 14 36 plans are to have meetings at Free-throws missed : Brookings the high school library thus dis- ]0. Simoson 2 Biown 1, Kinion couraging the chance of becom-1 2. Broun 1, Fitzhug 2, Vaughan 2, Duffy ing a social unit in which mem-1 1, Jaklewicz 1. Gold Beach'"15: bers will vie one with another to1 Wallace 3, Schneideau 5, Deck be hostesses. Study is the aim.! er 1. Lafferty 4. the goal and enjoyment hoped Down Friday by the group now urging every-( Ophir Brookings Bruins made it cer- one interested to come out at 8; tain that they would enter the p. . m., «.hnddy' March 3 at ♦u«l the! finals Friday by downing the illgn SCHOO!. Idnhir Indiana QO Thiirc- ¡Ophir Indians, .IQ 49 ♦ to 30, Thurs- । day evening. Kinion, with 15, Hoop Playoffs Set For paced all scorers: fa ft Pf tp Monday at Local Gvm Ophir James, g ........ 3 4 7 Stein, g ..... ..... ...... Ó Because the two teams 2 2 2 Whittaker, c . ...... 0 ended the season in a tie 7 5 7 Moore, f ........... ...... 2 for the county hoop league 0 5 4 Michelson, f ... ...... 3 leadership gave reason suf 1 2 7 ficient that Arthur Guthrie, Nash, s ............. .......1 1 0 3 »... — Brookings hoop mentor, and L. P. Sydow\ Gold Beach Totals ......... ...... 8 14 18 30 Brookings principal-coach, to “have at . fa ft Pf tp Simpson, f ............. 4 it” again, this time, next 1 0 9 Jaklewicz, f ... .... 3 Monday evening at the local 0 0 6 Kinion, c ......... .......7 high school gym—for the ti 1 0 15 tle in league play. Duffy, g ........... .......1 2 0 3 Vaughan, g .... .......1 Advertising, telling of the 1 2 3 Fading, s ......... ...... 2 struggle, likely to be torrid 1 5 4 to unheard-of-heat, will be Beaumont, s ... ...... 1 0 1 2 Fitzhugh, s .... ..... 3 6 0 3 seen on page eight of this Carte, s ........... ...... 0 1 1 1 issue. Brown, s ........ ...... 0 1 0 0 ■ 1 — — 1 ■ —■ Mr. and Mrs. John Hall made Totals ......... .... 22 5 15 49 a trip to North Bend last week Free-throws missed, Brookings to take Mr. Hall’s brother, Geo. to the Mercy hospital, where he 14:Simpson 2. Jaklewicz 2, Kin will remain for treatment. He ion 3, Duffy 2. Fadling 1, Fitz has been ill for some time, but hugh 1. Brown 3. Ophir 6: Mich ¡1 able to be about part of the elson 1, Moore 1, James 4. time. Victor Anderson Jr. left re- Mrs. Wanda Ellis arrived from Medford Friday for a few days cently for Corvallis where h6 visit here with friends. She is is employed, after visiting his for some time. a former resident. pare Gold Beach Won Co. Title In 'Hof Clash, Last Fri. »■■II ■— ■i unii» —II— All-Year Events Association For Finance and Les Dimmick, with p)sses- sion by the new owners to be /Xzalea Festival, under “All with the 1 95 0 Flower Show, taken on March 1. Year Events Association, Inc.,' breathing fire down all backs. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dimmick of this area, chose Ground Hog Dorothy Lock land, conservation and two children, Bobbie and day,’ Feb. 2, to launch the open chairman, has a documentary Eddie, have moved into the Ask ing guns* for the Azalea Festival motion picture with sound: "The apartment above the store. Bob of 1950. To be sure, the ground Lifeblood of the Land,” for us. has had 22 years experience in hog saw’ not his shadow’ that day This is well calculated to sharp the grocery business. Nine years as the sun still continued its en our interest in and knowledge' ago he opened the Valley Food stubborn hibernation. So all au- of conservation and to aid the C enter at Castro Valley, near conservationists of the club in Hayward, Calif. He built the bus gurs well. Azalea Garden Club’s plans for preparing their exhibit at the iness up to the place where he its annual Flower Show and Art t show’. Mrs. Mabel Maris, con- was employing 32 people in the Exhibit, given in conjunction! servation speaker, will assist store, and when he disposed of with the festival each year, go| Mrs. Lockland. his interests, it was one of the into high gear at next monthly ROLL DEM CLOWDS AWAY! “show places” of the area. meeting of the club, March 9, The planning board of the gar Mr. and Mrs. Les Dimmick are at the Grange hall. Mrs. Charles den chib’s landscaping of the now in Brookings. After a short Grayshel, flower show practice school grounds committee, head trip to California for purpose of chairman with assistance of Mrs. ed by Lillian Weideman, Ruth settling up his affairs, Les will Elmo New ton, have offered more Bathiany and Eunice Wollam, become permanent residents of of their time to accelerate this have raised their voices to Jupi Brookings. He has several loca part of the program. She has ter, calling for a winged, not a tions under consideration as site called the flower arrangement pied piper, to come with his dry for his home. class at 10 a. m. the day of the ice and lure these clouds away, Relative to his move to Brook meeting. A sandwich o r two “Scat them to the south, ’cause ings, said, “I have wanted “dans la poche” might not be as the song goes Honey It's Wet to get Bob into growing commun amiss. Eunice Wollam will be down here and we w-ant to get ity and have a searched on hand with her precise horti started.” W’e’re all set and ready place in which to-raise for my a good cultural instructions of the new to go- and Honey, It's Dry Down ily. I also like to fish. After fam in members and answers to all the There" vestigation Mrs. Dimmick and questions. All-Year Events Association,” myself decided that the Brook- For the benefit of the new our new’ organization set up to ings-Harbor area was the place members ana those who are not co-ordinate the work of our two we so new’, and guests the Flower festivals, our Hallowe’en party, Les, were looking for. My brother, Show chairmen of previous years and other proposed “booster af sold myself and our families are will conduct a panel of flower fairs.” got off to a grand start is a on this area. We believe it show discussion at the meeting with the Hallowe’en party last and fine place in which to live that it has a great future, fall. The Azalea Festival and the We shall continue to give the Azalea Garden C 1 u b’s Flower same degree of excellent service Show’ and Art Exhibit, together that has been charactristic of with a most promising exhibit the Brookings Market.” from the school cihldren, the ju While Brookings welcomes its nior conservationists, should do The newly-organized Sunday much to boost this central all- new residents, it regrets to see school of the Full Gospel church year planning organization Ihor and Peggy Ask retire. Dur will begin a contest next Sun along. Then comes our wonder ing the years they were in busi day. It will continue the follow ful Lily Festival with the only ness, they have increased their ing six Sundays with the close on lily blossom paradi' in the world!) host of friends. Starting business Easter. A goal of 75 is not too Everyone in the community is in May, 1939, with a service sta much to work for, as there were asked to share in this organiza tion and a small store, they de 36 present last Sundav, said Mrs. tion work. Just a dollar mem veloped the business to a point Bill Ward. bership and you are an active where the present building was A Thompson chair reference part of your community. The erected in 19464. Additional im- provements, now being made, Bible will be awarded to the membership does start Jan. 1, of .... . ------- , adult bringing the highest num this year. So don’t delay! Step 1 make it one of the larger ber, with several other suitable right up with your dollar for stores in the area. This was ac- wards for boys and girls honor membership. Help put heart in comphshed through integrity, ed likewise. the members of your community hard work and their pleasing A rally on Easter Sunday will who are working hard to make treatment of people. bring the contest to a close and everything tick. Mr. and Mrs. Ask have moved winners will be announced then. And who do we pay our dollars into the duplex apartment that With spring weather soon at to? Let’s tell you what. We’ll had previously been occupied by hand it is hoped many hibernat just put our “Dollar A Year” Mr. and Mrs. Erick O. Ask. Said ing” Sunday school and church men on the streets and every Thor: “I’m sure the people of goers will begin regular church where, “right handy” for you. this community will be pleased and Sunday school attendance. Anyone you meet wearing a $1 with the service they shall re A personal invitation is not -a-year Man, of All-Year Events ceive from the Dimmicks. They needed, Mrs. Ward continued. Do Association of this area, will know their business and, togeth come and encourage us, as well have a membership card for you er with their families, will aid as helping your spiritual needs. signed by Nell Parker, Secre and assist in the development of A welcome awaits everyone, she tary. And W’hen? Starting next their new home. Peggy and I will concluded. week or the week following at take a short vacation and then the latest. Find out more about get back to work in a new ac this organization and you'll be tivity we have under considera Sixth Card Party Due tion. We intend to make our with it. riere Saturday Night home in Brookings. We are most COMMITTEES NAMED The sixth in the series of pi- The following committees have grateful for the support that the nochle parties being given by been selected by All Year Events public has given us while we the Rebekah social club, ’ was association for the purpose of were in business in the Brook held at the I. O. O. F. hall last carrying out the plans for the ings Market.” Saturday evening, with good at 1950 Azalea Festival: tendance. High scores were held Food; W. S. Chadwick, Mick by Mrs. Dorothy Simpson and ey Gould, Leo Lucas, Ed Hoar. A. E. Sandbo Honored Wm. Weideman; low by Mrs. Barbecue: A. C. Thompson and On Eightieth Birthday Grace Edwardson and Glen Ed Hoar. Sunday afternoon friends and Fisher; the traveling prizes by Publicity: Mrs. Bradley Page. Mrs. Dolly Brainard and Wm. Royal Court Selection: Lynn neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Ridge; door prize by Mrs. Grace Hampton with aid of the school Sandbo called at their home to congratulate "Judge” on his 80th Edwardson. faculty. Seventh in this series of par Queen’s Selection: Mrs. War- birthday. He remarked: “I do not deserve all this attention.” ties will be held at the Odd Fel ren Smith. lows hall this Saturday, Feb. Grounds: Luther Tisdale and but evidently his friends were determined to show their re 25 at 8 o’clock. Leo Lucas. spect and affetcion. Over 100 Athletics: Pete Lesmeister. called during the afternoon. Mrs. Eskine Miller will co-or- Mrs. Lucille Molino returned! A za lea i Refreshments and a festive Sunday from Seaside hospital, dinate publicity ft ¡time was enjoyed by the visitors. Tuesday. following Sunday School Contest Planned
