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Nowhere A Finer Climate
BROOKINGS,
L W. Johnson Sues
Milton DeMartin
For "Prosecution"
Nowhere a Finer Community
CURRY COUNTY,
OREGON
1
Rainbow Rock" Beauty Spot Ot Local Pacific Shores
S eptember
28. 1950
Merle Hanscam
Relates life' To
Rotarians, Tues.
GOLD BEACH—Lawrence W.
Johnson, Winchuck rancher, hasi
Merle Hanscam, vice-president
commenced legal action against
and one of the younger members
Milton DeMartin, another Win
of Brookings Rotary Club, who
chuck stockman, in Curry County
never before had a chance to
Circuit Court, for $25,000.00 dam
tell “about himself,” was given
ages.
that opportunity Tuesday noon,
Johnson alleges, in his com
at the regular luncheon.
plaint, that DeMartin went to
Born in 1918, on the Anderson
Judge A. E. Sandbo’s court, on
ranch near
Merlo told
/Sept. 9, and there obtained a
how his lather had been a gold
ax arrant for Johnson’s arrest.
placer miner in his youth, and
DeMartin complained that John-
how the family had come to this
son was “letting his stock run
area in 1924.
at large.” After his arrest John-
Graduate of Brookings high
son showed the coutr that, due
school, Merle attended and was
to legislation passed by the 1919
graduated from University of
legislature, letting stock run at
Oregon in 1941,, in time to do
large in Curry county
no
a stretch in the service.
crime. Johnson was found not
Interesting was his narration
guilty by the Court and was
of work with the army engineers
charged from custody and
in Panama, constructing fields
case was dismissed. After being
?
for ferrying bombers to Europe.
y
ï
exonerated by the court Johnson
After a year of this work, to
commenced h i s action against
gether with a stretch in Alaska,
DeMartin, charging the latter
By B. Miller, author of
to bend as if it were some plas
Merle joined the navy, to serve
with malicious prosecution, ask
“Along Azalea Row"
tic material subjected to heat.
three years.
ing $25,000.00 damagess. Ed F.
The philosopher of Weed y Thus Rainbow Rock was bent
Merle completed his three
Ackley is Johnson’s attorney.
Acres says, “We get into the car, into a series of anticlines and
months as chairman of the pro
Among other cases filed are: out on the highway, off to a tar syniclines.
The simple arched
gram committee. Homer Hag
Delmar Colegrove Jr. vs Free distant place to view some sce upfold is an anticline, and the
gerty will be chairman until the
man T. Gatchett, Pistol River nic wonder.”
downward, or inverted anticline
first of the year.
mill owner. Colegrove alleges he
We willingly pay the price of is known as a synicline.
Several visiting Rotarians at
In one of the prettiest weddings
delivered certain logs to Gatchet admission. We docilely follow the
This is the scientific explana ever seen in Brookings, Patricia tended the Tuesday luncheon.
and that Gatchet refuses to pay gHide and respectfully listen to tion of Rainbow Rock. The Cali
La§t mddth Brookings club
for the logs. Ed F. Ackley is the lecture. While here at home, co Hills near Daggett, Calif., Brown became the bride of Jo took third in Dist. No. 154 in
seph L. Hellrig at the Star of
Colegrove’s attorney.
in solitary splendor stands Rain are another example of shirply-
the Seas Catholic Church, at attendance with a 97-plus per
folded strata.
State Highway Commisison of bow Rock.
high noon, Saturday, with Rev. centage.
Oregon vs. Elmer Bankus and
Sunning itself in summer sun-
The wonder of Rainbow Rock’s Father Don Denman officiating.
Jane Doe Bankus, his wife, if shine, its hues enhanced by win formation, the beauty of the rib- The altar was banked with fall
any, has been filed in court. ter rains, unseen by busy Brook- bon layers of color await the flowers from firends’ gardens,
This is a suit against Bankus by ings and Harbor folks, it awaits coming of the new road, and the effective background for the im
the State of Oregon to condemn the new coastal highway and tourists from afar.
pressive nuptial mass.
It is interesting to note that
Jertain land, owned by Bankus, easier accessibility.
“What did the ocean say to
Patty’s gown was of white sat
wr road purposes.
The state
the
price of the 7s and 8s lily
Rainbow Rock is about one the shoref
in, made with a graceful train,
v^lnts the land for the purpose mile north of Bird Island, on
bulbs
seems to be on the raise.
the
It didn't say anything. It just and she wore a traditional veil.j
of completing the new road over coast, and can only be reached waved.
The lily crop this year is very
Maid of honor was Helen Swear-1 short almost every grower has
the Chetco River. The Attorney! at low tide. W II. Brady is the
ingen,
her frock of pale pink.
General appears for the State of I fortunate owner. . We drove out
reported to the Pilot in the last
The bridesmaids were Beverly week, and there is an unusual
Oregon.
to see it one afternoon and park
Hill, dressed in soft green or demand for smaller sizes.
Ralph and May Vincent have ed our car at Longacre’s ranch.
gandy; and Patricia Zook, in
The freeze last January was
filed an appearance in the case Carefully closing the gate in the
pastel
yellow.
Frank
Ilellrig
was
assessed
by many at about one-
of W. L. Crissey and wife vs. stock fence, we walked down the
Brookings school has received his brother’s best man, and the half loss. When warm weather
Ralph Vincent ,and wife. Herein road to the sandy beach, and word that Lois Ann Miller, mem
ushers were Wesley Hinton and came, this figure was altered so
Crissey asks judgment against northward a short distance.
ber of last year’s senior class, Ross Putnam. The bride was giv-
many believed that the loss would
Vincent for approximately $10.-
The cave at the base of the was one of a group of approxi in marriage by her grandfather, be no more than one-fourth.
000. In his complaint Crissey al cliff is visible from afar, but only mately 50 students who passed
John Hogan. She carried a white
However, at digging time, the
leges that he loaned this money as we
drew closer did the hues the college entrance English ex prayer book and a bouquet of average grower is wondering if
to Vincent. Buffington and Shaw in the
stratified rock become amination, and was not assigned rubrum lilies.
he will have one-third of a crop
are Crissey’s attorneys; Ed F visible.
to college “dumb bell” English
Vocal selections were sung by after the bulbs are in the crates
Ackley and John II. Kelley of
Far more fascinating to me without credit, at Hunmboldt.
Mrs. Helun Summerour and E. in the shed.
Portland apear for Vincent.
than the coloring, was the strat-
Teachers at the high school are R. Moor, accompanied by Mrs
This summer, quite dry, has
ideation itself, and the wav in more than gratified since onlj
Putnam, who had brought ! not given the bulbs a chance to
which nature took this cliff and approximately 20'
of enterin'» her Hammond organ for this oc- increase in size. Il is likely that
bent and twisted the rock : this freshmen pass this test. Lois Ann casion.
| bulb buyers will find that many
way and that, as if it were i some spent her entire high school ca-
The bride is the daughter ol | of their orders may not be filled
plastic material.
reer here.
Mr. and Mrs
as many growers will plant the
The October meeting of Azalea ! I am indebted to my friend,
Information is also received
the son of Mrs Emma smaller sizes back, hoping to
Garden Club has been changed; Vernon Goldizen, for 1 he when that Jimmy Vincent passed his
both families \
have large commercial next year
Io Oct. 19, instead of Oct. 12, and how of nature’s work on three placement tests with rat known and long time residents
and a higher price.
the scheduled date. Mrs. Harry Rainbow Rock.
ing of 10, 9 and 8, with 10 be- of this region.
O. Smith, of Cave Junction, 1
During the Jurassic geological ing the high s
given. Jimmy
The reception and wedding
show her kodachrome slides of period, which was about one hun-
entered Oregon State Col breakfast which followed were Mary Ann Biddle Was
trip to Pcurto Rico last dred and fifty million, or two
and Lois Ann, Hunmiioldt. held at 1 he Echols home in town Pledge At U. of Oregon
winter. Lloyd Moss will help in hundred million years ago, Moth-
In Tuesday’s Journal a list of
and attended by members of the
program, as will the Azalea er Nature in no playful mood,
women
pledged to sororities at
two
families
and
close
friends.
Singers under direction of Mrs. was busy forming the Pacific Mr. and Mrs. Kessler
cutting
two-tiered University of Oregon during the
C. A. MacKenzie. A big turnout coast, and the coastal range, our Retuhn From Colorado
wedding cake, the couple left on rush week, included Mary Ann
is urged.
long-range of fold mountains. In
Mr. and Mrs. Homi
Kessler a honeymoon trip to an undis Biddle, of Harbor, who pledged
A fall flower show, under di the surface, now exposed, of returned Sunday from a two closed destination.
to Zeta Tau Alpha. Manry Ann
rection of Mrs. Charles Grayshel, Rainbow Rock, you may see the week’s trip which took them to
was 1950 graduate of Brookings
wi bo held at that meeting. All result of the tremendous com their former home at Craig, Colo.
High School. She entered the U.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald
newcomers to the area are es pressing force« of heat and press and also to Denver. They visited are parent
an eigh pound last week, majoring in pre-med-
pecially invited to come.
ure which caused the rock to
ical course.
en route. Mr,
1er I 11-ounce sor
born at
stratify and agatize. Slow press
ide up his Rotary at
ure of ereaf form over n
For muck
Twin Falls, I(
da
m
Catholic Church
Scene of Pretty
Wedding, Sat.
Bulb Price Advance
Reported Likely
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Brookings Grads
Pass Requirements
Garden Club Meets
On October 19th