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Att. Gen. Renders
Decision In Student
Residence Status
District No. 17 school board
has just received a copy of an
opinion from the district attor-^
ney of Curry County, dated on i
June 29, addressed to Mrs. Geor-.
gia Fromm, Curry County school ,
superintendent. 'This letter and
opinion was sent to the loca
board in response to a letter,
asking to be advised concerning
the residence of the Johnson chil
dren. The opinion of the district
attorney:
“It is my opinion the residence,
of the children here is the resi
dence of their parents, who have |
an undisputed residence within
Curry county, Oregon. Therefore
the children are entitled to free
tuition in the Brookings school
district, and should be counted as
residing in said district for the
purpose of establishing the num-
ber of resident pupils within said
district for purpose of school as
sistance aid.”
This opinion should clearly an
swer a number of articles and
letters to the effect that Brook
ings school board should not have
allowed the Johnson children to
Brookings school
attend the
without tuition.
Among the numerous protests (
might be cited, the folowing:
1. Article in the Curry Coun- (
ty Reporter, Thursday, May 25:’
“While it may make the enroll
ment look a bit more rosy to in
clude these five children from
California, nevertheless it is and
decidedly so, a misuse of the
state basic school support fund
as well as a misuse of the local
taxpayers money to accept chil
dren from another state and not
collect tuition.”
2. Letter from Milton DeMar
tin to Rex Putnam under date
of April 6, 1950 asking that Supt.
Putnam discourage the authori
ties of the Brookings school from
accepting or enrolling children
from California.
3. Letter from Mrs. Donald
Crockett to Earl Newbry, sec-
retary of state, stating misuse of
basic school support fund by rea
son of bringing five school chil
dren who reside in California with|
their parents into the Brookings
school and collecting no tuition.
4. Oral question a t annual
school meeting asking when this
tuition would be collected
The foregoing opinion from the
district attorney answers the
questions raised above.
There, therefore, is no tuition
due since the children “are en- i
titled to free tuition in the Brook
ings school district.”
There has been no misuse of
basic school support tun since the
children “should be counted as
residing in said district tor the
purpose of establishing the num
ber of resident pupils within said
district for the purposes of school
assistance aid."
The school authorities would
have no right to not accept or
enroll these children since they
are entitled to “free tuition in
the Brookings school district.”
It might be further stated that
the local school board investi-
gated this matter in 1947, and
upon the basis of the' investiga- ,
tion admitted these children to
school privileges. It is indeed
gratifying that the opinion of
the school board and school ad
ministration has been sustained
by the district attorney, concluded
Lynn Hampton, Wednesday.
SMITH RIVER
Mrs. Eddie Westbrook and
Mrs. Agnes Westbrook were co
hostesses for a group of friends
one recent afternoon at West
brook home, honoring Mrs. Ford
Wood and Mrs. Viola Allen, w’ho
are visiting friends. Other guests
wAre Mrs. Ella Plaisted, Mrs.
Ada Hursh and Mrs. Henrietta
Woodruff.
Smith River residents and the
business houses have the dial
telephone service now. New and
shiny equipment was installed in
the back room of the Smith Riv
er postoflice building. This will
be a big improvement over the
ild telephone system which will
include 24-hour service.
Mr. and Mrs. James Curley
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THURSDAY, JULY 6. 1950
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON
The World's Best Climate
have purchased the property of I
Mr. and Mrs. Forest Durham and
are making plans to move to
their new home. Mr. Curley is
proprietor o f Curley’s Welding
Shop, and garage. The Durhams
have purchased a home at Ban-1
don, Ore.
Among the young folks who
are leaving this week-end to at
tend Youth Institute of the Meth
odist church at Woodland, near
Fort Bragg, are Misses Dorothy
owley, Joane McClish, Shiela
Mathews and Marilyn Naill.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tyler of
State Line Motel, purchased the
property in Smith River from the
Crag Lumber Co., former lum
ber yard owned by Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Foote. Tylers plant to
make improvements on the build
ing, which will include apart
ments.
j
Mr. and Mrs. Marland Rice and
three sons of Albany arrived in
Smith River the Fourth to vis-
it pa rents of Mrs. Rice, Mr. and
Mrs. Will Morrison and other
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Horn and
two children of Klamath Fa'Is
spent the week-end visiting the
mother of Mrs. Horn. Mrs. Mabel
Browne.
oividual owners had as many as
2 d , or even up to 30 pack animals
—in some cases a man with his
sons might operate the train;
or the owner hired extra men
to help. Horses must be fed, must
be kept shod; saddles had to be
kept in repair. Feed and shelter
and pasture must be provided I
for the animals.
The Eckley
country wi,th its natural prairies,
was almost an ideal location
v here forage and pasture were
available almost throughout the
year; and hay could be produced
locally.
There was an abundance of
excellent timber for the build-,
ing quarters, barns and fences. I
There was plenty of good rich
soil for the growing of gardens:
vegetable, small fruits and or
chards. Here was an ideal stop-
ping point between Port Orford
and the gold mines further to
the east and the south. Ships
from San Francisco and Port
land made regular stops at Port
Orford when weather conditions
permitted. From there pack
trains radiated out, loaded with
supplies, tools, equipment for the
miners.
From the 1850’s to the nineties
practically all the supplies for
the mines and the Johnson Crk.
and Salmon Mountain district
were jacked in from Port Orford
nding o. bv way of Eckley. So men then
Vm Ra^
brought their families and set
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tled in this “Little Switzerland”
in the mountains from which the
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Sixes river springs. Among the
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early settler were the Haines
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family, the Guerins, the Greenes,,
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the Gibbs, the Bigelows. Others:
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came and went with the passing I
tears. But those listed here are!
names long associated with the
Eckley country. The home of the
Weather Reoort
tor the past
Sunday
June 26
Junt'
June 28
June 29
June 30
July
July 2 ............
Rain for June
.
Max
67
65
64
.70
.70
81
.84
Historical Bits Of
Coos, Curry Cos.
range throughout the year; very
little feeding is required, except
to cows and calves at times. The
steers are marketed usually at
the age of three years, being
rounded up in July and August,
when they are loaded into trucks
and taken to the Portland mar
ket. In addition to the home
crop of calves, some feeders are
bought whdn available.
Cows
that are not to be kept for breed
ing purposes are sold in the us
ual manner along with the steers.
The east portion of the Eckley
country, on the Coos county side
of the divide, commonly known
as the Deer Park area, now be
longs to Albert Powers, who car
ries on a cattle business similar
to that of the Dements.
Since the coming of the whites,
there have been, we might say,
three epochs in the history of
the Eckley country.
With the discovery of gold in
the Johnson Creek area in the
early fifties, miners rushed in.
many of them, with nothing but
what they could pack on their
backs. Some few had horses. All
were so busy staking out claims
and hunting for gold that there
was little time for other work,
except to kill an occasional deer
or elk or to catch a mess of trout
in the streams.
Flour, potatoes, bacon, tobac
co, an occasional change of over
alls, shirts, and flannel under
wear, and tools these must be
packed in.
Horses and mules
were needed.
So other men came with pack
animals. Gradually these teams,
or pack trains as they were call-
ea, increased with the growing
demand until some of the in-
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HUNTER
Haines family, that of the Guer
ins. and of the Greenes became
stopping places for the miners
and for others going to and from
the mines. Many a pleasant ev r
ning was spent before a
place, binging news from the
outside or spinning yarns of ad
venture.
Travel increased when people
began coming in from the Co
quille side, up the South Fork,
over the divide, adding another
spoke in the wheel of which Eck
ley was the hub. When mail
service was established, a car-
tier started from Myrtle Point
at the same time that another
cue started from Port Orford.
Fach one would reach Eckley in
the evening, stay over night, re
turning to his starting place the
lol lowing day. Thus Eckley be
came a stopping place between
Myrtle Point and Port Orford
as well as from the latter place
to the mines. A road was built
in from Coquille side in 1895, en
abling residents to go and come
in style—in buggies.
Came the second period, or
epoch, when the mines began to
peter out. Gone were the days
of the old pack trains. Men turn*.
ed to other fields. The settlers
vv ho had provided the pack ani
mals, and who had provided the
miners with butter, cheese, eggs,
bacon, vegetables, fruits and the
other necessities, must now look
t o other means of supporting
their families, educating their
children. There were large fam
ilies: ten children in the Guerin
home, twelve in the Gibbs, four
teen grew' up in the home of
Joseph Haines. There were many
Greenes and Bigelows, but I do
not know just how many.
To Be Continued
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