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u- oí o. Library V OLUME h IV E, NUMBER XXXIX 0. C A. Named Officers At Confab Held Last Week BROOKINGS, CURRY COUNTY, OREGON New Zealand Flax Offers Possibilities For Coastal Area THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1950 Churches Plan Special Services For Thanksgiving The local Christian Science Church will hold special Thanks giving sen ices at the church at 11 a. m. today (Thursday). There will be the regular Sunday serv ices also. Baptist Community church is to serve a church Thanksgiving dinner this evening, beginning at 5:30 p. m. All church mem bers, their friends and attendants of the church are invited. fhe Episcopal church is hold ing Thanksgb mg services at 10 a. m. Thursday (today). COOS BAY—W. F. Badley, of The Look-out, Otter Crest, was elected president of the Oregon Coast Association at the con clusion of its two-day conven tion here last week. Badley has been recording secretary of the big highway and tourist develop ment organization for the past year. * Charles Grayshel, Brookings, was named recording secretary of the association; C. S. Row and was elected treasurer; Wm. P. Manion is past president. Verne H. Tinnerstet continues to be manager. 'The new county vice-presidents elected by the membership to office on the new’ board of di An ultra-modern grocery, be rectors are: Bud Campbell, Tol- ing completed by Lyle Redfield, avana Park, Clatsop county; H. will be put into use Saturday. A. Roberts, Florence, Lane Co.; Dec. 2, at the formal opening, Walter Asplund, Coos Bay for Mr. Redfield told the Pilot ear Coos County; NI. E. Kelley, Port lier this week. Orford, Curry County; James H. The building 40x80, built by Hight, Smith River, Del Norte Roy Weideman, has about all County, California. Re-elected the modern conveniences to be vice-presidents include: John Ep found in any large city. A com ping, Tillamook, Tillamftok Co.; plete butcher market will be in Stan Allyn, Depoe Bay, Lincolr conjunction. An announcement County; and George Gratke, o: will appear in the next issue of This is how New Zealand flax appears at the hoy. e of 'w. L. Crissey, overlooking the Pacific. Cui- । w in appet Reedsport, Douglas county. New members elected to the ture of this plant offers great economic possibilities for this area, and if processing plants were board of directors include: Carl Curry County growers. Jensen, Cannon Beach; H. B. established, great future wealth is possible for Hammell, Pacific Coty, Harvey are engaged in a fiscal controversy which threat BY B. MILLER, Author of “Azazlea Row” Curry, Newport, Stewart John ens our supply. Jute is used only less extensively ston, Florence; Stillman Wess- The' United States government has set its plant “The Hearthstone,” a chummy- eia, Reedsport; Wm. Saunders, sleuths to “investsigating” New Zealand Flax than cotton and flax, a source of cheap, durable o(Iicia|ly North Bend; Don White, Port fabrics ;, twines, inferior cordage, but lap, bagging Qppppd Monday for service to the Orford, J. C. Bragg, Wm. End- phorynium tenax. No culprit this, but a possible and rugs and carpets. Sisal and hemp imported school children, and already has ert and E. B. Serruys, all of benefactor to inhabitants of the United States, from the Philippines are used for marine cordage, found many friends among all the Crescent City, California. and a brand new industry for Chetco Valley in- youngsters. Just across from the sail and tint cloths. Sisal is an important plant grade school, this new’ business is Board members continuing will habitants. /be Art DeDmpsie, Astoria; John serving inexpensive hot lunches, for making cordage fibre. Henry D. Barker, chief of the department of Phillips, Seaside; Jack Weber, ice cream, candies, sodas and the Donald Fisher, Corvallis, Oregon, representa Manhattan Beach; Roy Smith, Cotton and Other Fibers, Bureau of Plant In- delights of any youngster. Tillamook; Axel Johnson, Wald dustry, United States Department of Agriculture, tive of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has already Owned by C. A. MacKenzie, the port; Orville Cox, Oceanlake; Al requested Bill Crissey to send seeds of New Zea established experimental farms in Corvallis and । lunches are under supervision of Greer, and Jack Jacobson, Flor • Ophir, where New’ Zealand flax is being grown. • Mrs. E. A. Elston. ence- E. L ’Tolman and Caude land flax to the agricultural experiment station, Occasionally, hereabout, one sees New Zea F. Sanders, Winchester Bay; P. Beltsville, Maryland. land flax growing as an ornamental shrub, It J. Lesmeister, Brookings; Clay These have been shipped. They will be planted ton Driscoll, Coos Bay; Robert is a majestic plant with spear-like leaves, rising For the week ending on Sun- Thompson, Coquille and Paul A. in Beltsville and young New Zealand flax plants Max. Min. Rain day: to a height of ten feet or more. The flowers, distributed to experimental farms throughout the Woods, Gold Bench. .lì 42 Nov. 13 .... ....... 55 Interesting meetings were United States to determine what growing con which are insignificant, in size and appearance, Nov. 14 .... .......... 51 .40 40 held with a recommendation that are of a reddish-brown color. Humming birds are 1.92 47 ..........53 Nov. 15 .... ditions best suit them. Then, in five years, the Oregon Coast Association endorse 1.36 46 especially fond of the flowers. The seed pods are Nov. 16 .... .......... 52 a proposed $75 million state bond perennial harvest will begin, and in government 1.45 48 Nov. 17 .... ........ 54 dark red, and the seeds burnished ebony. issue for arterial highway im testing laboratories, the long tough fibrous leaves 1.02 52 Nov. 18 .... .......... 52 provement. The proposal war will be “retted” and processed similar to flax Just when this plant was introduced from Nov. 19 .... ....... 60 .02 41 outlined before the convention ..6.28 week .... Probably it was Rainfall for New Zealand is not known. Monday by Ben R. Chandler, to determine all commercial possibilities. brought to this country at the same time as the There is a good reason to believe that New state highway commission chair Pedrioli Drive has been closed eucalyptus trees were from Australia. There about a week while larger cul- man. It would involve spending Zealand flax will become a native source of com- $15 million a year for five years are many varieties of New Zealand flax growing verts were installed. Every rain mercial cordage and binding twine. Housewives and result in modernizing Ore- in California. But nowhere does it grow more has caused the drive to become gon’s highways several years in well recall synthetic substitutes during the past a regular st ream, as he culverts luxuriantly than in southwestern Oregon. advance of the present financing w’ar. Paper string and nylon clotheslines which w ere too «n *11 to h Lidie all the program. About 25 years ago, W. L. Crissey saw a row water draining in that area. In stretched and broke. Lack of potato sacks was Chandler told the delegates about 50 feet long growing near the shore-line recent heavy rains several resi- that highway commission plans a nightmare to farmers, and w’orst of all, was the drive have been at Crescent City. It was told that Mexicans had dents along for Hwy 101 in 1951 include the the shortage of rope and binding tw’ine in mari flooded, even into their homes or planted them about 40 years ago. It was from garages. placing under contract: Improve time industries and manufacturing plants. ment of 41? miles at Cannon Mrs. Clara Kerns is visiting these that he obtained the start for those now If New’ Zealand flax proves a substitute or Beach: finishing the Agate Beach relatives near Klamath Falls growing in his gardens. to Newport section; modern- improved source of articles which are now man- over the Thanksgiving holidays. New Zealand flax thrives in the fog and salt izing the highway between Port । ufactoured from jute, sisal, or hemp, imports Most of the crew of the Par Orfordand Gold Beach; finishing, and Philippine isiands. it will air, takes the wind well, a«d withstands sum- ker-Schram Construction Com the Coos Bav-Coquille sector! mer droughts, Growing on a cliff overlooking pany has gone for the winter but |with improvement of the Delmar-! be a profitable industry and a boon to a war- will be back when good weather the sea, is an ornamental plant of dramatic, comes in the spring. The com Coos Bay stretch. ' time economy. 1 he Coos delegation recom- Even now Pakistan, which produces the world tropical beauty. (See photograh above). pany uses few’ local men as it mended that out-of-state sports by Pilot and Typo-Print ) maintains a steady crew. Co.whahd on Page Bin of jute, and India, which processes it, Redfield Grocery Will Open In New Quarters, Dec. 2 /Hearthstone' Has Proved Popular Weather Report
