THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1950
"Schools Must Be
Kept Standard,"
Rotarians Are Told
Accusations made against the
school board and people of the
area, through the columns of the
Curry County Reporter last week
by M. L. DeMartin, in an etTort
to block a passage vote in Dist.
No. 17, were explained by War
ren Smith to Rotary Wednesday
noon, when he told ot a party
consisting of C. A .MacKenzie,
Elmer Parker, as president of
the Chamber of Commerce, and
himself, representing the school
board, called on Nir. DeMartn.
Wednesday morning, asking Mr.
DeMartin to name the people
accused.
Mr. DeMartin refused, and in
the same breath. to:d the three
the "they had better being go
ing.” It was ascertained. Tues
day, Mr. Smith stated, that M.
L. DeMartin had caused to be
published his slanderous remarks
in the Curry County Reporter of
last week.
"Brookings schools are barely
standard now." Mr. Smith told
the club, "and if we want these
schools io remain so, we must
pay for' the conduct of them.
Such men as Virgil Goldsberry,
Homer Kessler and Ear! Carson,
as members of the budget board,
did not ‘pad’ any budget for the
coming year Every ugure was
based upon the cost of previous
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON
years, plus tht' fluctuation of any!
costs in the meantime.
1
"The district’s books have been'
audited by the state department :
and not once have they ever
been found to be out of line in
any manner. In fact, the dis-
trict has been complimented upon ,
its business-like manner.
"Conduct of the schools during
my regime, and 1 am certain it
has been so before, have been
as economically as possible. We
are educating our children at a
per-pupil cost much less than
any other school in this section
of Oregon. We are paying our
teachers less than the standard
of southwestern Oregon.
"And. mind you, the Southern
Curry County Taxpayers League
wishes to cut oil the entire bud
get for water,’’ said Mr. Smith
in closing.
Port Orford History
More Spectacular
Than Other Places
By Emil R. Petcrsor
Historian, Coos-Cu rry
Pioneer Association
No cheerful movement fluctuate
gale
the gale,
No busy steps the grass-grown !
foot n ay tread,
For all the bloomy flush of life
Ims fled."
UNKNOWN
It was about this same time
-in fact it was near the end of
May. 1859, that the steamer Co-
lumbia. making one of its usual
stops at Port Orford, as it had
done before on its regular run
from San Francisco to Portland,
landed a group of some sixty or
seventy* people, including several
families, and a number of single
men. They were on their way to
the Coquille Valley in c oos Co.,
destined to take an important
part in the agricultural, business
and political development of
their adopted homeland. The
group came to he known as th*
Baltimore colony, for they had
come from Baltimore. Maryland.
Their leader was Mr. Henry
Hermann, with his family. The
oldest son. Binger, was then 16
years of age. Binger grew up to
become an outstanding leader, I
not only in southwestern Ore-1
gon, but throughout the stated
He taught the first school in the.
Coquille valley: he studied law |
and became a member of the;
state legislature: he was elected
to the United States Congress at i
a time when Oregon had only,
one congressional district, and so
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he represented the entile state
of Oregon in Congress. 1 here is
much more to the story of the
Baltimore colony, and its mem
bers. But let us return to Port
Orford.
Sixty-five years, two months,
two weeks and a day or so alter
the Baltimore colony had landed
at Port Orford, Binger Hermann
returned. It was mid-August, in
1924. Port Orford was Holding a
celebration, honoring t h e pio-
neers of southwestern Oregon.
It was reported that some 3(XK)
people attended that three-day
jubilee.
History records that "the cele-
brat ion opened on the beach near
Battle Rock with the arrival of
the Grand Old Pioneer and the
Statesman. Binger Hermann, now
81 yerrs old. He was escorted by
the Bandon Beachmen, the Ban
don band and the Boy Scouts ot
Coos County. Mr. Hermann spoke
on the spot where he had first
touched Oregon soil, in 1859.
This was Mr. Hermann s fare
well address. More than 2000
people were furnished with a
sea-food dinner. The tables at
which they ate, stretched a quar
ter of a mile from Battle Rock
southward.”
PAGE FIVE
briet Q about ano Hier gatnermg
that is to meet in Po: t Orford
soon. It xvil be much smaller and
spoetaci: ar. It will
start from
Bend in the
morning of June 1. will pass
through Coos Bay thn ugh Co-
quille and Bandon and then on
to Port Orford.
The party will be made up of
<•
* * 1
• hv two
more couples at Port Orford, at
Castaway, by the Sea, where
Pres.
dinner \>ill be serxed
a ¡id Cherry Rohner.
The occasion \ ’0 be the ter
mination of a cn^u t based on
the census of Coos and Curry
counties Editor J W. rorester
Jr, of the Coos Bay Harbor, and
Editor H. P. Hornish nf the Coos
Bax T:m s. will be judges of the
contest. The party will bt made
up of the two judges and their
wiws: Hal Shade, manager of
KOOS.
wife: Emil R.
Peterson of "Meet the Pioneers,”
with his wife: and Mr and Mrs.
J. E. Norton of Coquille, who
are invited to represent the Coos
Curry Pioneer and Historical As-
social ioti. At Port Orford the
party will be joined by Mayor
and Mrs. Douglas Johnson, and
will be resei ved by Pres, and
Cherry Rohner, a t beautiful
Castaway by the Sea. SomewHere
along the line one more cuplé
will be added, consisting of the
contest winner and his or her
companion. .
In all this Land of Coos and
This was merely the hi ginning
Curry, perhaps no other point
of the three-day event, but the
is surrounded with so much his
story is too long for a single run.
tory as is Port Orford.
It will be continued another
It was in 1851 that Captain
time.. But I want tn tc H you
William Tichenor landed his par-1
ty there, hoping and looking for
a shorter route to the rich gold
fields a hundred miks in’and, to
the east of the coast ranges, in
to “FIND” and “BUY” It In CRESCENT CITY, CALIFORNIA:
southern
Too Late To Classify California Oregon, and northern! Where
A business and professional guide to Friendly Crescent City Concerns who
For Sale: ’36 Ford V-8 chassis
Tichenor failed in his main
share of your trade when d^inu your out-of-town shopping.
complete with five weels, and two purpose but his men and others merit a
new tires. $50 as is. George Cum- who followed did find rich de
nuns, Box 532. City.
14tf posits of gold on the beaches and
in creek and river beds up and
down the coast from Port Or
Card of Thanks
ford. There followed that mad
Gifts, Stationery
I wish to thank both Demo rush that always comes with re-1
Floyd Mulligan
crats and Republicans, voters of ports of gold strikes. Many, no
School
Supplies,
Cards
Brookings and Curry county for doubt most, of those who came
Repair & Installation
Silverware
their generous write-in support, were people of high moral char 1010 2nd St.
Telephone 2212
for coroner in the recent pri acter, with good intentions. But
Supplies and Appliances
Flatware
mary election.
Crescent City, California
among them were the usual ren
Hollowware
DR. A. O. SCHMITT.
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egades, the riffraff of humanity,
always bent on making trouble
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among those who otherwise would
CRESCENT CITY
be peaceful, progressive citizens,
Following the rich gold dis-
covcrics in 1853. Port Orford
mushroomed to a communi tv
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& ELECTRIC CO.
shall we call it a city? Anyway,
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it is reported to have had six
Complete line of hard
or eight hotels, as many saloons
and
Service
829 SECOND
and nearly as many stores. Gold
ware and electrical fix
Complete Real Estate Service seekers were setting up tneir
840 3rd Si
tures and appliances.
claims and their shacks up ano
NOTARY PUBLIC
the coast. Trouble by tne
PHONE 143
Bo.' ¿11
South end of town down
few renegades
stirred up
Phones 341 or 281
with the Indians. The natives
reta’iated. Soon the Indian wars
Brookings, Oregon
were on
Federal troops wore sent ’n tn Sheet Metal & Plumbin
ATLAS POWER TOOLS — and
Beach Frontage south of the re-on forco
loccl ’’okmtep^s.
Chetco River 190 teet on ocean \n armv post wps * stahfished
Hardware, also clothing for the
Household Appliances, entire
in one of the most protected '‘nd was given the name ot Fort
family, including boots &
irli fXAMiNIO
areas. Two rentals on property Orford. During th’« ngr’od the
Sheet Metal, Plumbing shoes. Come in and shop with us!
LtNStS GROUND
with plenty of acreage for new Tnd»ans wore "obbod of thnir
and heating supplies.
beach homes. Very fine terms.
ands, tbnir hunting and fishing
1280 Second Street
"rounds P^d fhrir
V- rn
Pho. 631
9(H) 4th St Phone 2752, Crescent City, Calif.
$100.00 down and $25 pei mo. destroyed. They were rounded up
buys a good town lot. New tract and shinned away to For-oft rCs.
being opened. See yours today.
creations under promise that
never was fulfilled and sG’i is
Carrell’s-Hedrick
Two acres close in could bel pending (hwn through ’h- third
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subdivided for profit or would fourth and nvpn to the fifth gen
make good motel site.. On beach oration But that’s anther s*nrv
road
Bv 1856 the cold rush n as los-
Chevrolet - Buick
’nP ’t.S momnntv-H md lyoc bp.
Sales-Service
Just listed ont' of the finest ginning to decline; the Indians
Your Hotpoint Store
For Price Quotations On All
2-bedroom homes in Brookings bad boon qh’nnnd nn+- thn trnons
Auto Repair, Painting BUILDING MATERIAL
rrmnvp^ pnd pn.-t Orford
in the ;»est of locations. Lovely
941
Second
St
was
approaching
the
ctptus
of
grounds. This must be seen to
Radiators Repaired.
Phone 1881
2nd & Market St.
be appreciated. $15,000 00 with
A DESERTED CHY
PHONE 931
Ph. 471 Crescent Citv
CRESCENT (TTY, CALIF.
terms.
Someone Wrote
"In the year 1859, Port Orford
Remember those lots with riv was no longer the live place
er boating privileges.
Nunn Bush Shoes
with its manv p^onk and n’ac^s
of amusement. Every year since
Arrow Shirts
--------- and soon
A truly fine 6-room (2-bed- 1856 saw its decline
MENS WEAR
Genuine Levis
rooms) home built in 1949 with it was deserted, only .hree fam-
3 acres of good soil. Four kinds dies remaining- Mr I irnan and
Pendleton Shirts
Jarman Shoes, Knox &
family: Mrs Knapp, known all
•of berries and some lilies, chick over
X-RAY FITTED
Jantzen Sweaters
Baxter Hats, Marlboro
the country' as Grandma
en house and small barn. Fine Knapp. and one of th * dn^rp^t
White Stag
Shirts
Phone 2102
well and pressure system. This and kindest old ladies that ever Mail Orders Filled
Complete Line
This is definitely not the average was. and her son. Louis: and I 828 2nd St.
Crescent City
920 Second St.
run of the mill homes and must Capt. Tichenor and family.
of
"Wierd. silent, ghost-like, re-1
definitely be seen to be appreci
Work Clothes
ated Priced at only $7500 un mained the hotels, the saloons,
the
stores:
hom^s
for
the
birds,
A Snack Or Meal
Sporting Goods
furnished. Will sell furnished.
storehouses for the wood-rats J
sport for the north wind that ! Yrou can’t go wrong by
played hide-and-seek through all
the broken windows and open
dropping in at the
doorways; broken fences, dosnrt-
ed farmyards, roofless buildings i
all were melancholy evidence j
Leave Orders at
of former life.
Store for Men”
But note the sounds of papula- 1
Cur-Del Cleaners
Mrs. C. I. Patrick
tian fail.
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G 0. LEONARD
L L LEONARD
Mulligan Plumbing
DIAMONDS
WATCHES
Nielsen Hardware
WADSWORTH
JEWELERS
Brokers
PHONE 2202
F. A. Carr & Son
Electrical Supplies
SURPLUS MAHT
Crescent
Chevrolet
CRESCENT
Lumber Company
Tom Brown's
DEL PONTE'S
Shoe Store
Del Norte Laundry
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