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Library fimbns-flarbr mot Nowhere a Finer Climate - Nowhere A Fi nerCommunity •L- ME FIVE. NUMBER V. BROOKINGS, CURRY COUNTY. OREGON ______ THURSDAY. MARCH 30. 1950 =S---------- Air Corps Training Described To Club Members, Tuesday Brad Page Seen Over Television A card from May Lytle, who left here at Christmas time to live at San Jose, re veals her surprise, recently to see Brad Page’s face on television. The card: Editor, Pilot: Guess who entered our parlor, through the medium of our television s t? None other than Brad- ley Page! I think he is in the wrong racket. However, we prefer him as we knew him today. Jim and I were so excited at seeing him. that we don’t know who else was in the picture, and no. he didn’t get the girl. Regards to yourself and aU our friends. May Ly tle, San Jose. Air force training, as experi enced by Ben Kerns, was ably told to the Rotary club, Tues day noon. All processes employed by the air department of the army were fully described and revealed, as they affected the trainee on his course. “No doubt the air force did the most precise screening ever thought of,” Ben told his listen ers. “At all times they were do ing their level best to ‘crack’ up the men, rather than send them out half trained, or incompetent* in such a highly-technical game as was the lot of pilots, regard-1 less of the type of plane they1 were *in charge of. ‘‘We were actually given col lege training enough io gradu ate most men, a <uil four-year course, in just three months. We had to make it, or we were sim ply washed out. We started in with simple arithmetic, and at! Mrs. Roy Weideman announc es committee chairmen to as the end of three months could sist her in the annual Azalea handle calculus problems. We Garden Club show and art ex had a complete course in physics. j hibit, who are: in meteorology, in ground school Schedule — Mrs. Charles Gray- training, and everything which! shel. might be needed to make each pilot self-sufficient to himself, to) Ent nes—Mrs. Max Brainard. Classification Mrs. Ray Guer- be his own navigator, i f neces-1 rett az. sary. Judges Mrs. Almo Newton. “I have some books, which at Hospitality Mrs. Roy Parker. one time were secret, but now । Publicity— Mrs. Erskine Miller are common knowledge, since all' Horticulture — Mrs. Walter W. the trend is toward jet-type air-' Wollam. craft. (Here he showed books on Awards—Mrs. Guy Rice. the B-24 and B-25 planes). Not Conservation Mrs. Harry ice the instrument panels. Not-' Lockland. ice how there was no guessing Tea Room— Mrs. Archie An- left to the pilot. I finished my derson. primary at University of Mis Tea Room Decoration — Mrs. souri, had some of my basic and Clifford Lindskoug. advanced training in Texas at Tickets —Mrs. Victor Reynolds different fields. We were given Art Mrs. Alice Perkins. our last training in Kansas. Movies—Mr. Lloyd Moss. I was just completing my en Plant Sale—Mrs. Ben Ker^s. tire training program when the Sr. Tentative appointments for war ended in Europe, but we staging and properties have bee i fstill had Japan to lick. and will be announced later. “Pilot training did not come' easy to me. I thought I would never learn to make a perfect landing. It seemed that it was all at once, all alone in a big plane that I suddenly came to know how to do it properly. . Mr. and Mrs. Archie P. Hend- “At every new camp, and on ricks and familv returned late all assignments, there was a con-! Tuesday from Salem where they stant screening. We were never had been called to attend the allowed to forget for one mom funeral of J. B. Hendricks, 73, ent those things which we had father of Archie, who died of all the way through training. It cancer Friday. was no snap, and I saw many Born in Michigan in 1877, he fine fellows ‘wash out,’ some as lived for a time in North Dakota late as two weeks before gradu before moving to Oregon in 1925. ation and commission. Mrs. Hendricks died 22 years ago “The education the government at Portland. Surviving are six gave the pilots is expensive. The children, three sons and three equipment they handled was so daughters and 15 grandchildren. expensive. It was with this in A retired railroad man, he had mind, together with the mission enjoyed the best of health until each was being trained for, that about two years ago. He had on training had to be just that rug several occasions, visited in this ged at all times.” area. Death came while he was Following his talk Ben an at the home of his youngest swered many questions which daughter, Mrs. Mildred Smith, at had been in the minds of the Salem. club members. At no time did he Funeral services were from hesitate for an answer. He told the House of Holman, and inter- •the club that he was not dis ment was beside his wife in the charged. He is on active reserve. Riverview Cemetery, Portland. In case of war, all flying per- sonnel can and will be called to service. World War 1 Pilot Chamber Speaker, Thursday Evening With many projects which de mand considerable finances, as well as work. Brookings chamber of commerce is launching a drive to increase its membership to over 200 members for 1950, it i was announced last week. To-| ward this end a dinner meeting: Chamber Speaker IV. AL “Jack Bartlett, vet- ('ran pilot of World War I, will speak tonight at March meeting of Brookings Cham- ber of commerce. He is a registered profes- sonal engineer, receiving his B. A. Degree at Willamette University in 1917, and his mining degree at OSC four years later He has been ac tive in the operative and ad ministrative phase of mining, vas plant manager for the Atomite Corporal ion (diato mite mining and processing plant), director of the plan ning division of the federal ivorks administration, state planning engineer, and has been for the past two and a half years director of the Oregon state board of aero nautics. has been scheduled for tonight at the Grange hall, when every one in the community is invited. Foremost in the plans of the chamber, naturally, will be the development at the mouth of the Chetco and prossibility of the Chetco Cove development as a deep-harbor project. Business membership are $12 a year, with private memberships at $6 per year. The dinner be gins at 7 p. m., with the meeting following immediately. Reservations Due People are urged to make res ervations for Chamber of Com merce dinner to be served at the Grange hall, Thursday. Reason for this urging on part of the chamber officers is to allow the Altar Society women time t o food for the number coming. Reservations for the meal may be left with Charles Grayshel, Mrs. Eva Lea Long, for the Lumbermen To Meet past six years a representative at the Coffee Mill Cafe, or with Regular meeting of Del-Cur of the Standard Life Insurance any director of the chamber. Lumbermen’s Association will be Co., of Portland, is located at: held at Crescent City, nt Pat & the office of Pete Lesmeister. To help Nick Baumgarner cel Guy’s Bar-B-Q on Hwy. 199, at Insurance problems, needs, and ebrate his 71st birthday in man p. m. March 25. All lumber- any j^oblems confronting people: ner befitting the occasion, Nick wn of this area are urged to of this area are what Mrs. Long Baumgarner, Jr., of Concord, ar attend as important business is would like to discuss, she told the rived early this week. He was to be acted upon. Dinner will be Pilot, early this week. Her ad- accompanied by Mrs. Ann Reev served, according to A. P. Olson, I vertisement appears on another, es of the same place. Nick’s took secretary oi the group. 1 page in this issue. )n. Tuesday off for the New Agent Here _____________ _______________________________ - - ■ ____ ___ ________________ ¡Model» Ready To Last of the eight pinochle par- Display Fashions ties, given by the Rebekah So- r 7 cial Club, was held March 11 with only a small crowd present Saturday Show due to other public affairs on the same evening. At the close of play, William Weideman was found to have the highest total score of all the parties, and was given a prize. Winners of the evening were: High, Fred and Tora Gustafson; low. May Waterman and Phiince VanPelt; pinochle prize, Grace Edwardson and to George Mur ry, and door prize to Glen Sjmp- son. I hi rd a n n u a 1 Fashion Show and Dance, sponsored by Satel lite Social Club, have been set tor Saturday night at the High School Gym, for the show and the \. F. W. hall for the dance. Members of the club will add a feature this year in the form ot “all nations” costumes, which will be worn primarily by the Easter Star members and their daughters. These costumes are not quickly gotten together cre ations, but are in the whole, au thentic costumes, purchased in the countries they represent. In the commercial show cot- tons, sportswear, tailored suits, afternoon dresses and forma Is PORT ORFORD C. A. Boiler! will be modeled by Beverly Stol and Dr. R. E. Stephenson of ler. Mary Lou Berger, Charlotte Oregon State College, Corvallis, Simpson, Carol Ann Benson. Pat visited the Oregon Coast Berry 1 sy Cook, Mrs. Mary McMann, Co. last week to see its blueberrv i Mrs. Harriett Stephenson, Mrs. nursery and planting. Boiler is’Agda Bickner, Mrs. Charlotte an assistant horticulturist in Crook and Mrs. Jack Kaiser. charge of blueberry research and C hildren’s school dresses and experimentation and Dr. Steph Easter togs will be modeled by enson is a soil scientist, and pro Beverly Brimm. Dixie Duggan, fessor of soils. Nancy Hull and Marilyn Brown. Dr. Stephenson and Boiler, as The men will not be forgotten sisted by George D. Asdel, own and there will be a showing of er, set out a fertilizer trial in-1 the latest in garments and sports eluding minor elements as well1 wear. Those modeling have not as major elements on a plot of been announced. three-year-old plants. . When .. re- । The various merchants of both suits of the tests are known, the. Brookings and „ h £ information will be made avail- ni«jV lotn«» A i. able to all interested parties at ,,la> the latest styles available, OSC Men Study Blueberries In Co. Flower Show Head Names Committees J. B. Hendricks Passes At Salem '■ Entertainment numbers plan a field day as well as being in ned for the evening are: Girls corporated in future station bui-l letins. | Chorus, Millie Barker, Charles The Corvallis men spent an en-| T ow, C harles Bickner, Ernest E. tiro day Inspecting the recently Jones, Patsy Cook, Mrs. Gilbert expanded lath house and hot Christensen and Mrs. Stanley beds where several thousand cut Patterson, and Tom Smith. tings have been planted, also the Dance tickets are on sale by nursery and commercial planting. any member of the order. There Many phases of blueberry prop-1 will be a door prize, so everyone agation and production were dis is urged to get a ticket. cussed. One of the purposes of their trip an inspection tour of all blueberry plantings on the coast from Newport to Port Or ford. They looked at plants, took soil samples and visited the dif GOLD BEACH ferent growers. Fort Dick, topped the Del Norte It is their observation that DIHA by producing a 461-lb. but blueberries are being planted on terfat average on 95 cows. Old an ever-increasing scale through neighbors remember Jepson as out the western part of Oregon. a tenant on the Kenworthy ranch Boiler is planning an eastern near Langlois, Ore. He moved to tour in August to visit blueberry California in the late ’30s and growers in Michigan, New Jer there established one of the best sey and the U. S. D. A. experi commercial dairies in the state. ment station at Beltsville, Md., Doyle Garvin, Smith River, al noting new developments in all so classed in the top ten herds. phases of the industry from de His herd of 30 cows averaged velopments of the industry from 400 lbs. Garvin moved from a propagating to production and small ranch on the Chetco near marketing. Harbor during the later ’40s. Dr. Stephenson was in the area These production records are two weeks ago working out a taken from the annual report of fertilizer trial on the Chenoweth the association released from the Croft Lily farm south of here. agricultural extension office by Harry B. Tucker, farm advisor. Gordon Smith, Smith River, has served as tester during the past year. Twenty-seven herds include 1892 cows produced an average J. E. “Jim” Fifield, who has of 336 pounds of fat during the been doing building work in this time covered by the 1949 sum area for the past several years, mary. This compares to the 241 Monday, announced to the Pilot pounds in 1948. Since Biere is no dairying in that he was leaving for Portland that day to acquire cabinet-mak Central Curry county this asso ing equipment with which he is ciation includes dairy herds in to open up a cabinet shop in the the Harbor community of Ore gon. The Langlois and Port Or area. Decision to do this was made ford dairymen are served by the after Harold Jesser had said he southwestern Oregon assocation was leaving the area. Mr. Fifield with headquarters at Coquille. This association has an aver will also act as a clearing house for the area in obtaining cai- age in 1949 of 331 pounds 'of fat penter help for when building is on 2467 cows. The average for being planned. A statement will 21,265 rows tested in Oregon in • 1949 was next week. pounds of butter- be m; m Portland. turns Ex-Curry Dairymen Leaders In Calif. Fifield Will Open Up Cabinet Shop
