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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1950)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1950 Local Group Will Attend O. C. A. • A delegation of Oregon Coast Association members from Cur- ry County including Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Woods of Gold Beach; Pete Lesmeister of Brookings; Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Kelley of Port Orford; and Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Kirtley of Harbor, will at tend'the associations annual con vention at Coos Bay, Nov. 12, 13 and 14, and participate in the business and social sessions. The delegation will hear a well-rounded program of tour ist promotion, highway improve ment, fish and game problems, and related subjects. Scheduled to speak are V. A. McNeill, man ager of the Portland Visitors In formation Center; Leith Abbott, of Foote, Cone & Belding Ad vertising Agency, Portland; Jo seph Frank, of the Hollywood Boosters, Portland and C. A. Lockwood, state game director. Special entertainment has been planned by Coos County hosts. BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS, OREGON Young Collis worked in Soum in the last world war; but older Africa, toured England and made men, who have seen much and a leisurely way to Canada. He find this place good to look upon was caught up in the rush for and pleasant to live in. homesteads near Calgary. Life So it is with Jack Collis, who was rough and accommodations left his native Australia about rugged. Fifty cents it cost a man the beginning of the century. He to sleep on the floor on the out volunteered for service in the side of the ring of men. Positions Boer war and was turned down near the stove in the center of because of a minor physical dis the room rented for more money. ability. Not deterred, he shipped After many adventures, Jack for South Africa aboard a cat Collis returned to Australia and tle boat and there enlisted. He his native village, only to find saw little fighting as he was as that he had outgrown the life signed to guard duty in a refu there. It was America for him! gee camp. His own casualty was So returning, he married and a black eye. A burley Boer mat reared his family. Now Brook ron, inmate of the camp, swung ings is his home. her sonbonnet at him and the ehavy button caught his eye. As we admired the beautifu Curry Co.—Opportunity Land .JP&ge ebony cane with silver and carv Pelican Bay, down Crescent City ed ivory handle purchased from way on a clear day, even Syd an Arab artist in South Africa, ney Harbor takes a back seat!” I asked him why, he who had seen so much and been so many Pilot class das pay—try’ them. places, choose Brookings for his home. He laughed, and said he guess ed he came because his wife liked it here! A good enough reason, I though, but 1 suspect what he told me about Sydney Harbor may have had something to do with it. “You know,” he added, “The harbor of Sydney is one of the most beautiful in the world. The travelers compare it with the bays of Naples and Rio de Ja- nerio. But when I look out over Along Azalea Row By B. MUler “Assembly line homes are no means a modern innovation,” as serts Jack Collis, owner of the Fountain Rock addition, north of Brookings. “When I was a young teller out for adventure from my Australian home, I helped on a project of this kind in Durban, South Africa. This was just after the Boer war.” “Not many people recall that although Great Britain won the Boer War, she appropriated 10 million pounds to rehabilitate the Dutch farmers and rebuild their homes on the veld. So, about 1902, nearly 50 years ago, we were engaged in packaging homes to be sent into the veld on the backs of natives.” “These* human express car riers would hoist from 80 to 100 pounds of material on their heads, and no more! We ready cut the wooden floors and studs and packaged all materials with weight in mind. The homos were constructed of galvanized iron and lined with brick. All were packed in by native runners.” As I listened to Jack Colllis I thought of what someone said to a friend Oi' ’mine, that evry- one in the Chetco Valley is from some other place, and of course, that is quite true. There are few native sons and daughters. People come here because they wish to do so. No accident of birth forces them to labor and live here. And a surprising num ber have traveled the world over. Not just the young folk who were To The Voters: We, the undersigned registered voters, farmers and businessmen, residing in the north end of Cur ry County, endorse Percy K. Lantz for county commissioner for the north section of this County; and we request that the voters of the South End of Cur ry County unite with us in elect ing our choice of candidate to fill this important office. C. H. Brooks, farmer, Lang lois; Marian Brooks, Langlois; Lute E. Henry, hardware, Lang lois; H. H. Hansen, cheesemaker, Langlois; Ray Zumwalt, farmer, Sixes; Clarence Zumwalt, farm er, Sixes; Omar F. Townley, car penter, Port Orford; Charles W. Brooks, merchant, Sixes; John M. Donaldson, farmer, Denmark: C. Collins Guptill, farmer, Den mark; Chas R. Jensen, music director, Denmark; Adaline M. Niemann, insurance. Port Or ford; Ira Tucker, merchant, Port Orford; Thos. P. Sorenson, con- tractor, Port Orford; W. D. Spen ser, realtor. Port Orford; C. S. Hanson, property manager, Port Orford. a(h‘. DON’T BE TRICKED INTO PROHIBITION The initiative measure on your November 7th ballot to outlaw the “sale of pro- motively advertised alcoholic beverages” is one of the most deceptive measures ever placed before Oregon’s voting public. This measure cannot stop advertisings of alcoholic beverages originating outside of Oregon... but it will bring back Pro hibition... Prohibition and all its evils—bootleggers, racketeers, phoney brands and bribed officials. No thinking citizen wants these things in Oregon. \ These Prominent Publications Urge You ; to Vote 317 x NO! ¿ LINCOLN COUNTY TIMES—“TA# bill if passed would mean . . . good ‘ old 'moon and 'bathtub gin'." MEDFORD NEWS— "The sponsors of the petition . , . want prohibition . . .** OREGON LABOR PRESS-“J/7 X xor , OREGON STATESMAN—“/r’j a big job ... to try to control advertising in or from the other 47 states." | OREGON VOTER— feel this it a backdoor approach to total Pro hibition. ” PORTLAND OREGON JOURNAL —"The Journal't fundamental objec tion ... it that it seeks to accomplish by indirection what it cannot accom plish by direction." ROSEBURG NEWS REVIEW—“TA# measure will detract from the dignity of our lawt. .." THE DALLES CHRONICLE—“TA# thinking behind thit bill it dangerous." TILLAMOOK COUNTY NEWS— "However well-intentioned its spon- tort may be. the bill is a bad one ...” WALDPORT RECORD— "It uou' ’ not in any way be conducive t- per anee." I’^OLN COT’NTY LE * ASHLAND TIDINGS— tn eof " discriminate in the advertising of one legal product at compand with another.** * BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE— should spend our energies and time in ‘ I a positive approach to temperance A rather than the negative striving fof ’ a furtive Prohibition." ’ BEND BULLETIN—“TA# people of Oregon, it teems to ut, will thumb down the bi IL" ALBANY DEMOCRAT-HERALD— "It would encourage bootlegging." CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES— "Let ut not pass a law that will accem» . plish nothing but confusion. Vote 317 x no ." i 1 ; I CANBY HERALD— "Ambitious boot» leggen will favor the measure, fof they could turn an easy buck" COTTAGE GROVE-SENTINEL — "Ue can t throw in with any measure that would deny ut the right to make "r own choice in the matter." N CITY TIMES— "This . emphatically rejects '»/y of attempting to i
