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v. of o. Library VOLUME FIVE. NUMBER XXVII. BROOKINGS. CURRY COUNTY. OREGON THURSDAY. AUGUST 31. 1950 CURRY CO. FAIR I .ISTS PROGRAM State Fair Starts SCHOOLS START FUESDAY, SEPT. 5; "Labor Day" FOR GALA WEEK-E ND FOR VISITORS On SALEM Oregon State Fair BUS SCHEDULES RI MAIN SAME TIME Tuesday morning, Sept. 5, will the bus with some neighbor’s grandstand. Patching and darn ing contests will be followed by home economics judging contest. Races will be held each day in the arena in front of the fair grandstands.. A feature of the fair will be the entertainment furnished by Charles Jensen of Langlois, noted band man, who will play the Hammond electric organ. Mrs. Aldine Aho, former Curry county agent and Mrs. May Mat FRIDAY thews, Roseburg, will judge the 9 a. m. 4-H cake baking con 4-H economics exhibits and con test. Bread Baking contest. 10 a. m. Crops judging, cattle j tests, held at the mess hall. judging, poultry judging at 11. Billed to enter the muffin bak At 1 p. m. home economics ex ing contest are Ruth Ann Porish, hibit judging will be made, and Joan Wolf, Marcial Bauer, Bar at the same hour the kiddies pa bara Fendrick, Dolorest Moore* rade will start at the court house and Helen Donoca. In cake bak and will be followed by livestock ing contest: Vesper Bailor, De judging. 4-H garden judging is anna Churchill, Glenda Holy also set for the same hour. cross, Eudora Moore, Iris Rob At 2:30 the 4-H showmanship bins, Dorothy Wigle, Saralee contest will be held in front of Wolf, Sharon Jerrett, and Janice the grandstand at the fair. Burns. 4:00 is the time set for the Saturday at the demonstra 4-H muffin baking contest and tions there will be Joan Melville, other 4-H demonstrations. Joan Gardner, Joan Wolf, Ruth Ann Porish Saralee Wolf, Wi- SATURDAY anna Schroeder, Janis Lever, At 9:00 the Dollar dinner con Dianna Melville, Patricia Ker test will begin and other dem ber, Darlene Gilfillan. Judie Mor onstrations. At 9:30 the horse show and judging will take place. ris. Marcia Koon. Vesper Bailor, At 1:00 the Rodeo parade be Joan Perkins, Stephen Ganong, gins at the court house. At 2:00 and Tommie Remy. In the style revue: Faye the style revue will be staged Rausch, Betty Chadsey, Deanna and the crowning of the queen will take place in front of the Churchill, Irene Sipher, Glenda Holycross, Iris Robbins, Erma Hull and Elaine LeClair. “Friday is Kiddies’ Day” at Curry County Fair, set for this week-end at Gold Beach. The young fry will have a chance to compete on best costumes, on best character portrayal, best musical group or individual, the best decorated pet. best decor ated bicycle, tricycle doll bug gy or coaster wagon. The program for the fair, in brief form, will consist of: Rotarians Will Aid Gold Beach Club in Initial Work As sponsor club. Brookings Rotarians will go again to Gold Beach, next Wednesday evening, then to help the newly-formed Ro tary club with its organization, and initial meeting, with thought to be given to charter night— which will be determined by the granting of the charter by Ro tary International. Reports coming here Monday, indicate that about 30 members will he taken into the great serv ice organization, in the newest club in District 154. Expected at the charter night festivities are members from every cluh in the the district, 38 in number, The sponsor club will likely send its entire membership to the event. Gold Beach club members, if the usual holds true, can prepare for at least 300 Rotarians and wives for the night. Don Cate, Rotary Fellow, who studied at Berne, Switzerland, is likely to be one of the principal speakers, if the night can be ar ranged toward the end of the week to permit him to come. He will give the crowd some inside information on Europe, and the prospects for the future in that part of the world. . Special entertainment will be T nished by the Brookings Ro tarians, which may include a quartet, and some specialty acts if Mr. and Mrs. Perkins will be home about that tone. will open Labor Day, a custom long since established, when the people of all Oregon will come with their prize-winning displays of crops, handiwork or products. To take their prize-winners to the state, most counties hold the I local fairs beforehand so that ' these same exhibits may be sent to Salem to compete with other counties. The fair in Oregon is one of the union’s greatest show places of the continent, claims have been made. see Brookings schools, both ele mentary and high in operation. School buses will operate Tues day morning at approximately the same schedule as when school closed last spring. Tuesday the buses will arrive at the school at 8:50 and will return at 11:15, so it will not be necessary for pupils to bring a lunch. The re mainder of the week, buses will arrive at 8:50 and return at 4:05. If anyone is in doubt as to when to meet the bus on the first day ask some neighbor, or wait for There's An Art To Outdoor Cookery Co. 4-Her Voted When family and friends tire Best In '50 Camp of the overworked “hot dog”, so GOT.D BEACH George Was singed oxer the open fire, they son, 15, Pistol River, chosen out may obtain more imaginative standing Bay Citizen at 4-H camp menus from their county home Myrtlewood, was presented with demonstration agent, suggests the Bachelor Citizenship cup, Miss Dorothy Newton, county on Aug. 12. demonstration agent. Home dem From Aug. 8 to 12, 100 4-H onstration agents recently Re club members from Coos, Curry turned to their counties from at and DoDuglas counties camped tending an outdoor cookery dem at Rock Creek three miles up onstration under direction of Mrs. from Bridge, Oregon. Agnes M. Kolshorn, nutrition Betty Chadsey, Gold Beach, as specialist, which opened the 1950 sisted Miss Dorothy Newton to training conference for home teach leather, tooling and cop- demonstration agents. percraft. A few of the interesting dish Other 4-H members from Cur es prepared included Kabobs, ry county were Dorothy Wigle planked salmon, corn baked in and Margaret Fain, Four Mile; husks, potatoes steamed in a Deanna Churchill and David pail cherry camp cobbler, vege Barklow, Langlois; Deanne and tables steamed in aluminum foil Walter Schroeder, Sharon Jar and spice cake baked on a re rett, Ruth Ann Parrish, Joan flector oven. Wolfe and Johnny Hughest, of Kabobs are tender cuts of beef Gold Beach. or lamb cut into l’a to 2 inch squares about half inch thick. These are run on a sharpened green stick alternately with ba A 2-year-old pony, donated to con and onion slices leaving a to the scout group of this area little space between so heat can to add impetus to the campaign penetrate. Kabobs are roasted for raising fiends to build a For the third time in about over coals. They may be dipped year and a half, E. E. Hanscam scout shack on Wharf Street, is to be given away next Monday, in barbecue sauce while roast & Sonss store was victimized by ing. After the moat is almost burglars, s o m e time Saturday local scout authorities reveal. done, the Kabob may be wrapped evening. Eent rance was gained Those having tickets are ask spirally with %-inch wide strips by breaking a window on the ed to turn them in by Sunday, either to Mike Page or to War of biscuit dough. south side. Missing, according to Merle When father proudly lugs home ren Nixon, says the advertise a salmon, it’s an occasion to serve Hanscam, are six .22 calibre ri ment elsewhere in this issue. the prize on a plan. After the fles, two 30-30 ri fl les and two backbone is taken out, the sal shotguns, aggregating about $500 mon is split in halves and nailed in value. Authorities wore noti skin down to a hardwood plank fied, and a lookout will be kept with strips of bacon going cross for these if any are put up for Something new in this com wise. Large headed aulminum sale anywhere. Last winter someone, immedi munity will be the new confec nails work best. The plank, about ately after noon hour, when the tionery-lunch room, now under a foot longer and wider than the force was busy, walked into the construction across from the new fish, should be soaked under wa office* and made away with sev ter over night to prevent scorch grade school building. eral hundred dollars in currency ing before the fire. The planked Set to open about a week af salmon is leaned against a block kept in the safe to cash local ter school starts, the building is of wood or other support at the payrool checks. being erected by C. A. MacKen- edge of a medium fire. When The first robbery was gained zie, who had added many mod about half done, the plank is re by breaking the window of the ernistic touches in the construc- versed so that the upper part lies front, which is not lighted to tioin. A fireplace will warm the any great extent. next to the ground. youngsters who patronize the es Fresh corn can be baked in tablishment. Mr. MacKenzie has Raymond Gallagher who spent husks. The silk is removed and not announced the manager at the last two months at Los An the moment, but has provided a cobs are tied. Then the corn is geles, returned home last week. spacious and attractive apart soaked in water for a half hour While away he was guest of ment in the rear of the building and rolled in wet newspapers or Pres. Hirsch of Beaumont Movie for the people who are placed foil. Corn requires about 45 min Co. Hollywood, and Paul Ing utes on top of coals to steam. in that trust. ram, mam ger oi Bendix Air “We want to serve a low-cost craft Co. Mr. Gallagher was in Avalow J. Keeler* electrical hot dish for the youngsters, to the movies himself a few years supplement their cold lunch.“ it contractor of Berkeley, i alii., ago. He has lived here for the was pointed out by Mr. MacKen was a guest of Brookings Ro past few years. tary Club, Tuesday. zie in telling of the project. Scout Pony Will Be Given Monday Confectinoery Will Serve School Youth Guns Stolen At Hanscams, Sat. child, who attended last year. Up to Tuesday noon, 11 high school students, 26 elementary pupils from the 2nd to eighth and 26 beginners had registered. Of this number all except 14 be ginners were not registered at school last spring. Again it is urged that all be ginning pupils, all transfers from other schools, and all high school students register this week if they have already done so. Pupils may register at the high school office from 10 to 12. and 2 to 4:30 August 31 and Sept. 1. Both elementary and high school pupils to register at the high school office. Parents of beginning pupils should bring the child’s birth certificate. Total regist rat ion tor 1930-51 will be released next week. Crump Named Director Harold Crump was appointed by Georgia Fromm, county sup erintendent, as director, filling the vacancy caused by the res ignation of Warren Smith. Veterans Given Preference, Says White Rock Man “Oregon veterans will be given preference,“ said Mr. Davis, de signer of the “Redw’ood Home of the Future,” in a conversation with the Pilot, Tuesday evening, while placing an advertisement to that effect in the Pilot. “The state V. A. office gave the okay to H. A. Sanders at Salem, on Tuesday, and telephoned me im- mediately.” In answer to the question: “Have many people visited this new home?” Mr. Davis said that since Sunday morning, August 20. when open house was held, more than 2(MX) people had been through it and had inspected the structure with the most critical eye. Everyone voiced their ap preciation of its value, Mr. Da vis asserted, and said that many of the 2000 were certainly pros pects with a capital “P”. Mr. Davis has been triyng, be- tween visitors, to draw plans for the remaining models the com pany expects to market as the different models. He has been forced to work late at nights in order to get any work accomp lished. These home’s, pre-cut from the Crag Lumber Co. redwood, are to be sold in five models, which may be altered to suit the in dividual to certain extent, and will be erected in from four to six days, depending upon the size of the house. The cost quoted includes the plumbing, bathroom* range, water heater, refrigerator and all built-ins. Pete J. Lesmeister Agency in Brookings is representing the company in southern Curry. A representative will be if not al ready, be appointed for each community between Klamath and Gold Beach.
