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< u. of O. Library xx Minfrflarlm fllot Nowhere AFiner Climate — Nowhere a Finer Community VOLUME FIVE, NUMBER XXXII BROOKINGS, Andersons Return To Parade of Quartet Old Home at Baker Will Be "Event" Of Oct. 28 and 29 Music, the kind that made the gay ’90s lots gayer, will be the treat in store for people of this area, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 28 and 29, when a “Parade of Quartets” will be held by Brook ing Chapter, 675. SPEBSQSA. Big name quartets will be here to pour out “sweet” music as interpreted by the various quar tets. Perhaps all the favorites of n*cre than a half century ago will be given the modern twist and tempo. Among the sought quartets by the local chapter will be four from Eugene, one from Forest Grove, the House Bros, of the Klamath Falls chapter, and the possibility of the Queen City Four, of Seattle, national cham pions. It still is a question about the appearance of this famous group, but the local chapter of Barbershoppers is trying to find ways and means to bring the group. Master of ceremonies for the occasion will be Al Pearce, noted raaio M. C., who had charge of a like event at Klamath Falls several months ago. Pearce is expected to be one of the big attractions of the event. Tickets will be put on sale with a week or ten days, the Pilot was as sured late last week. Pictures Sought To Publish In “Pilot" Pictures, which have plenty of “contrast” that quality of a view wAch shows contrasting lights and darks, are sought by the Pi lot in connection with all news stories such as weddings, affairs of community nature, such as political rallies, etc. In addition to this service, the Pilot and Typo-Print have photo offset facilities, thus enabling the firm to illustrate any printing for any customer. Correspondents of the Pilot, by this announcement, are urged to send the pictures of any nature which will help their news. This hc^ds true of school functions. Pictures must be glossy print, of any size not under 3x5 inches. Mail these to W. D. Sibley, Gold Beach several days in advance of publication date expected to appear. Power Outage Delays Press Time Mr. and Mrs. Jens Anderson, who have lived in this area for almost three years, left Wednes day morning for Baker, their former home, to live. Mr. Nelson, who' had to leave that high alti tude because of health, said he felt much better, and since their property was at Baker, they felt obligated to return there. “If, after I get there, and find that my old ailment returns, I believe we will sell, and cer tainly return to Brookings. I do want you to send the Pilot.” CURRY COUNTY, OREGON Rotary Governor Will Visit Club At Oct. 10 Meeting Joe P. BreckeL district gover nor of Dist. No. 154. Rotary In ternational. of Vancouver, Wash., will pay his official visit to the Rotary Club of Brookings, Tues- From some unknown reason, on the COPCO system in Cali fornia, power was off for about an hour Wednesday morning. The outage, on press day at the Pi lot, delayed the edition a few COQUILLE—Grand opening of hours. George Rush was unable the new headquarters of Coos- to tell the Pilot where the out Curry’ Electric Co-operative is age originated. announced by the officials for UI irk on the new Redfield’s Saturday, Oct. 7 from 10 a. m. Grocery is progressing as rapid to 6 p. m. Refreshments will be ly as possible. A roof soon will served, according to an announce keep rains from the workmen as ment appearing on page 12 of the interior work is completed. this issue. New Headquarters Opening Saturday Bill West told the Pilot Tues day that he was going to rent his home here, preparatory to leav ing soon for Portland where he will enter Bible school to pre pare himself for the ministry. Active in church work wljile here, Bill was seriously injured several months ago in a timber accident, and for a time his life was hanging in the balance. He has been unable to work since. Shell Oil Pictures Shown Rotarians At Luncheon, Tues. School Boards Will Hold Confab Oct. 12atS. 0. C. E. Oregon School Boards’ Associ ation, to which all school board members and clerks belong, has planned a series of regional meet ings this fall for its members, it has been revealed by Georgia Fromm, county superintendent. The three colleges of education form the nuclei for these gather ings. They have helped, with the advice of local board members and school officials, to set up pro grams which meet the needs, and be profitable, to school boards and clerks over the state. School board member^ and clerks of Lake, Deschutes, Klam ath, Jackson, Josephine, Doug las, Coos and Curry counties are invited to attend the meeting to be held on the Southern Oregon College of Education campus, on Thursday, Oct. 12. A brief summary of the pro gram, as released: William Healy speaking: 1. What are the duties of the school board in public relations. 2. Com munity councils on education, or ganization and function. 3. Re sponsibility of the school board toward needed legisation. On Finance, Rex Putnam: 1. The School Budget. 2, State Aid and Childrens bill, as well as state obligation bond issue. 3. What kind of insurance program will provide adequate protection. 4. Federal-State-local relation ships in Education and how much, should education cost. In the afternoon H. L. Skirvin of Harrisburg, will talk on: 1. Relations between school board and superintendent. 2. Relations between the school board and teaching staff. 3. Policies, pro cedures and records o f school boards. 4. How new school board members can best learn their job and task. It is expected a number of the local board members will attend this meeting. Bill West Plans To Enter Bible School, Portland Joseph P. Breckel day, Oct. 10, it was announced *his week. Gov. and Mrs. Breckel will ar rive here Monday. Tuesday, 10 to 12 will meet with committtes of the club at Vincent’s It is urged that all memebrs, especi ally al committeemen be on hand with reports made out in trip licate. • Governor Breckel will be the speaker at the Tuesday noon luncheon. Gold Beach provision al officers and members are al so invited to be present if they wish. Pilot Will Become County-Wide Paper Application is being mailed to the post office department this week, asking change of name of “Brookings-Harbor Pilot” to “Curry County Pilot,” a move long planned by the management. Since it inaugural issue, Mar. 1946, the Pilot has gained in cir culation to a point it has the greatest coverage in southwest Oregon, but many of the resi dents of northern Curry county prefer that they subscribe to a county paper, than to one pub lished for interest of a single community. Coming with this announce ment of name change, is the announcement that the Pilot, in conjunction with its Gold Beach office, the Typo-Print, has com plete photo-engraving facilities, enabling this publication to car ry pictures each week, of those items which may be enhanced by pictures. There were many w’ould-be hunters in this area at the start of hunting’seison Saturday who found that the supply of deer tags from the state game com mission hadn’t been received by the local hunting license dealers. The tags arrived on the Monday mail, but that din’t help those who wanted to go out during the week-end. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1950 Charles Hasset Ordered Back To U. S. M. C. Service SEATTLE Recently called to active duty, Sgt. Charles T*. Has sett, of Brookings, a member of the Marine Corps reserve, left Saturday for California to under go intensive training at a Ma rine base. He is one of a large number of marine ueserves to be mobolized to meet the present emergency. Men from Washington, Idaho, and Montana are arriving at Seattle daily for physical exam ination and processing. Many seasoned leathernecks with sev- everal years combat experience in World War 2 are once again donning uniforms. They will be sent to Camp Joseph 11. Pendle ton. giant Marine Training base at Oceanside, Calif., for refresh er training. Reservists without any previous military experience will go through boot camp at the San Diego recruit depot. Men with aviation classifications will be ordered to the Marine Air Station at El Toro. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hassett, Charles is married, and father of one child. Last year he attended University of Wash ington, majoring in meterology. He had 28 months service in the marine corps in the Pacific, par ticipating in the Philippine cam paign. His wife will remain in Brookings. : Through the Shell Oil Com pany, Homer Haggerty, program chairman, pictures depicting the gigantic task of transporting oil pipe line from the southwestern Texas area to the industrial mid west, were shown Tuesday noon at Rotary luncheon. All steps, from the manufac ture of the pipe, to the expen sive job of laying the line, were graphically shown. This pipeline, when completed, pumps 35,000 gallons per minute from source to destination, sav ings in freight alone to pay the enormous cost of some sixty million dollars. Gold Beach Man Present Fred Starkweather, Gold Beach attorney was a guest of Merle Hanscam at the luncheon. Mr. Phillips, of Phillips Cloth ing, a newcomer to the area, was inducted in the club as a new’ member. Plans were made for commit tee reports to be handed to the governor on his visit next Tues Highway construction north day wrom 10 to 12 a. m. The from the state line has presented governor is making his official a new’ situation for residents of visit at that time. the area, especially those living along Hwy 101. While traffic lanes are kept open, many drivers of the late model cars find themselves in spots when the axles and differ entials drag the ground. People getting mail on the star route have another prob lem. Many times the carrier is GOLD BEACH This town is unable to reach the box, and rejoicing over the report of the since his schedule is set by the corps of engineers recommending clootat some may miss their reg harbor improvements at mouth ular mail unless the people watch of the Rogue river was received. and meet the carrier. Rogue Development Association, organized two years ago, immed iately prepared to take up all details of the local co-operati«n and to obtain easements. Little difficulty is expected in October 15 has been set as the obtaining these easements for in date for dedication of the local itial construction and soil areas VFW Hall built about two years as will be requnired, as practi ago mostly by volunteer labor, cally all land that would be re from a building bought at Camp quired is owned by people who White, Medford. are vitally interested in getting State leaders of the Veterans the harbor work under way. of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary, Operation of the harbor here R. L. Henderson and Mrs. Marie will mean an estimated saving Dana, both of Portland, will of of at least $4 a thousand feet on ficiate at the ceremonies. The lumber and logs shipped out of program will start at 1:30 p. m. truck haul, as well as making This building, estimated to be available much of the lower lum wtorth about $15,000, is result of ber grades which at present are labors of a small group from the not worth the long and costly beginning, who donated much trucking. time toward its completion. Only a small indebtedness remains, Pilot Advertisements carry a none of which is immediately due. lot of messages—read them! Highway Building Slows Traffic Here Harbor News Will Aid Gold Beach In Transportation VFW Will Dedicate Building, Oct. 15