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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
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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.
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Nov. 13 .... ....... 55
Interesting meetings were United States to determine what growing con which are insignificant, in size and appearance, Nov. 14 .... .......... 51
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held with a recommendation that
are
of
a
reddish-brown
color.
Humming
birds
are
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47
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Nov.
15
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ditions best suit them. Then, in five years, the
Oregon Coast Association endorse
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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
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Nov. 17 .... ........ 54
dark red, and the seeds burnished ebony.
issue for arterial highway im testing laboratories, the long tough fibrous leaves
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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
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outlined before the convention
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week
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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