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.
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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!
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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.**
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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 ."
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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
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