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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.