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V. of O, Library i irmliins-flarbor fìbf Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere a Finer Community VOLUME FIVE, NUMBER XXXIII. BROOKINGS. V. F. W. Dedication Will Attract Vets To Area, Sunday; Post Started In 1920 CURRY COUNTY. OREGON THURSDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1950 Basic School Fund Bill Explained Last Thursday Eve at First P.-T. A. Meeting Basic School Support Bill, the fourth on the ballot, to be voted Next Sunday, October 15, VIPs galore will honor Brookings and at the November 7, election, demands thought, said Albert Joy, its veterans at 1:30 p. m. when the new Veterans of Foreign who made an explanation of the bill and of the future of Oregon Wars post building will be dedicated. schools, unless the bill is passed by the voters. This bill calls for Possibly the best known will be Major General Thomas E. Rilea, raising, by $30 per pupil, the present $50 per pupil state support Oregon’s djutant General, and commanding officer of the north-1 to schools. Oregon's school population, since 1930, statistics show, west’s own 41st Division, which made its name in the Southwest’s' has increased more than 125 per cent more than any other state Island-hopping. He is considered a Curry County boy, having been in the far west. brought up at Agness, a few miles up the Rogue from Gold Beach. | Three factors, Mr. Joy told the assembly, figured in enormous Hon. Harris Ellsworth, member of congress, and veteran of1 increase in Oregon school enrollment: Birth rate since 1930 has World War 1, will be here from Roseburg. Bill Gaarenstroom, state tripled, and these children are in school; 420,000 new people have iirector of veterans’ affairs, will be here from Salem. The cere- moved to Oregon in the past decade and have children in the Bonies are to be conducted by the V. F. W. Department Command schools; rising costs have devaluated the dollar until it is worth er, R. L. “Red” Henderson, accompanied by Mrs. Marie Dana, past about half what it was in the ’3O.s state head of the ladies auxiliary. Oregon is going to need, he continued, in the next ten years: Dedication day will be preceded by a district meeting, the night 9,000 new classrooms to handle the further increase that is al before, with the ladies assembling at Odd Fellows hall, later to ready on the school census rolls; 9000 new teachers to take this join the ment at the V. F. W. building. teaching load; and some 230,000 new descks and other school-room There will be a re-union of the surviving charter members, oft equipment which is up to the individual distrists to supply. 1934, some of whom will come from considerable distance. The post A vote of 306X Yes, will aid the already plagued districts by here ranks as one of the oldest in the country, having been orig giving further state support toward the education, thus enabling inally started in 1920, but was dormant for a Tew years. the districts to build in preparation for the forthcoming children. Because there will be so many prominent veterans gathering Following the explanation of the school support bill, Mrs. Horn höre, the veterans ask that those who have flags will display them, introduced her P.-T. A. officers, and Lynn Hampton introduced the both Saturday and Sunday. teachers of the school, and told of conditions now being faced by Seat reservations have been mailed, covering a wide area. Ow the district. Refreshments were enjoyed in the home ec room. ing to the probability of a large crowd, the sponsoring groups sug- gest it will» help help immensely if local people will continue fully Breckel told Rotarians that the national president had set a to co-operate in extending every courtesy to the visitors. goal for his club year of one new club a day. District No. 154 must organize four. It falls to Brookings club to be the first to accomplish this feat, by being A trailer load of 4x4s was sponsors of the Gold Beach club, strewn from the Harbor post Harris Ellsworth, congressman Joe Breckel, governor of Dist. whose charter will be sent to office to Hanscam & Sons store, for the fourth district, will be in No. 154, Rotary International, them within a short time. about 10 a. m. Saturday when Curry County next Saturday and paid his official visit to Brook one of Fox Bros, truck, driven Sunday, he notifies the Pilot. by Paul Hoff, turned over. No ing, Monday and Tuesday and LOCAL NEWS He will be in Gold Beach early one happened to be in the area Saturday morning, there to meet conferred with the board of di Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Sandho at the time. tHe port committee. Sunday he rectors, Monday night. He gave have been moving to their newly- According to word from some wW participate in the dedica his address on the aims of Ro purchased home in Brookings, fishermen who were on the river tion ceremonies of the V. F. W. tary, Tuesday noon. Five Gold the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. at the time, the truck was go hall in Brookings. Beach club members were pres Leonard Smith will soon move ing at terrific speed, evidently Ellsworth’s first stop at Gold ent to confer with him about into the Sandbo property which “ trying to make the hili’’ on its charter plans. they have purchased. way towaid Eureka. Following the trailer capsising, the truck went about 375 feet before be ing stopped, as this distance was checked by Sheriff Sabin, who was called. Many people of the area have Oregon Coast Association, made up of business men along Hwy. told the Pilot that trucks, both 101, will meet at Coos Bay, Nov. 12, 13 and 14 .for the 1950 con lumber and log, have made this vention, when matters of vital importance to coastal economy will area one of great hazard, since bo discussed. National advertising of the Coast Highway will be most of them are racing to keep from shifting down to low gear of the matters up for discussion. to climb the hill. The tourist trade, which has become Oregon’s third major indus Merle Hanscam, in a state try, will be constantly in the minds of the group at all discussions. ment to the Pilot, said: “It was Charles Grayshel is county vice-president, and Pete J. Lesmeister a miracle that no one happened to be in tfiat vicinity at the mo is one of the directors of the association. ment. Had there been anyone, President Wm. R. Manion of M. H. Durbin, motel and service they could never have escaped Seaside, this week announced ap station operator, Gardiner; and with their life.’’ pointment of a nominating com Wm. Buckner, Buckner Chev mittee to select candidates for rolet, Smith River, Calif. This LOCAL NEWS the 1951 officers and a recom committee will meet with its mendations committee to screen chairman at the meeting, Oct. Hershel Obye, supervisor of and present recommendations to 23 and 14. Siskiyou National Forest, with the membership at the business On the recommendations com headquarters at Grants Pass, Beach will be at the Sunset Inn, meeting of the association the mittee are Deane Ruth, Seaside was a Tuesday visitor here, and where he hopes to meet mem final day of the three-day meet baker, chairman; George Good attended Rotary Club. He is a bers of the country Republican ing, at Coos Bay. rich, Tillamook attorney; Guy member of that club. Central committee. On the nominating committee McCauley, hotel operator, North Mrs. Marge Oberg and Mrs. Thursday and Friday he will are L. R. Case, Tillamook real Bend; Don White, motel opera Edith Griffith returned to their be at Bob Owens place up the tor, chairman; Wm. Saunders, a tor, Port Orford; L. G. Gardner, homes in the Bay area after be Rogue river. He will try his luck hotel operator, North Bend; Al motel operator, Newport; Richard ing at the summer home on the fishing during this time. Greer, motel operator, Florence; Carroll, druggist, Florence; W. Upper Chetco Tor the summer. Pete Lesmeister, Brookings real A. Burdick, druggist, Reedsport; Claude Wright and son, Larry, Turn those extra items into tor; F. E. Gilkey, Newport; C.' and Herbert J. Fehely, Klamath, spent the week-end at Eureka! E. Short, Hotel Elliott, Astoria; California. visiting relatives and friends. rash by Pilot Classified rds. Ellsworth Will Be Club A Day Object County, Sat., Sun. Of Rotary Growth Ore. Coast Association Sets Nov. 12-14, As 1950 Convention Dates, at Coos Bay Truck Spills Load Over Landscape At Harbor, Sat. Al Pearce Will M.C. Parade Of Quartets Here, Oct 28 & 29 Music, the sweetest this side of heaven with plenty of har mony, as only quartets can put into songs will be the treat of everyone in this area who are lucky enough to got tickets, for the Parade of Quartets, October 28 and 29. Al Pearce, noted radio master of ceremonies, will be here to lend his talents to a great show that only members of the great S. P. E. B. S .Q. S. A. are cap able. To try to list some of the old favorites which are likely to be heard is to try to guess what next w’eek’s weather will be or who will come home with deer. On the back page of this issue appears an advertisement of the local group, telling of the forth coming treat, something which a few of the larger cities are bless ed to hear. It is going to cost plenty of money to bring those ten quar tets to Brookings and naturally the tickets are going to sell for something higher up than pea nuts and two performances are needed to make expenses. Pictures of these quartets will appear in a future issue of the Pilot. According to members of the local chapter, those who wish a seat- there is no time like the present to lay out the money for the ducats, or to stand out- side and listen. First come, first serve will be the policy no re served seats. S. 0. S. Hurries Out Coast Guard PORT ORFORD — A distress call wras received by the coast guard here about 11 a. m. Mon day, Oct. 2, from the 50-foot drag boat Westwind which was then aground on a reef just outside the harbor in the face of an ap- proaching storm, with a burned out clutch and no rudder control. Coast guard officer in charge, Arthur Hinderlie, and his crew immediately launched their sta tion life-boat and went to the rescue. First they towed the boat into the harbor here so that they could obtain ice to preserve two tons of sole aboard. Then the vessel was towed eight miles north of Cape Blanco where the Port of Bandon tug took over and towed it on to Coos Bay, where the fish could be sold and repairs made The Westwind was on a fishing trip out of Astoria, bound for Eureka. Other coast guardsmen who as sisted Hinderlie were Erwin E. Fredericks, James E. Michaels, and Joe McKenna E. T. C. from Coos Bay life station. It was midnight before the local men returned in extremely rough weather to this station. Mr. and Mrs. Ed F. Ackley were at Medford Tuesday where Mr. Ackley appeared before the interstate commerce comm is on for his clients.
