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Nowhere A Finer Climate
BROOKINGS.
VOLUME FIVE. NUMBER XXXXV
Nowhere a Finer Community
CURRY COUNTY.
OREGON
THURSDAY. JANUARY 4, 1951
I
First Aid Classes
Will Start Monday
Game "Spectacle/ Pomona Grange
Reports Lesmeister Favors Gross
That east-west game, at San
Francisco last Saturday was a Income Tax
“American Red Cross classes in
t first-aid training and casualty­ spectacle to watch, averred Pete
care are being made available to Lesmeister upon his return. The
residents of the Brookings and pre-game parade of bands, and
Harbor area by the local Seventh- marching unit.s of the drum and
Adventist church,’’ Pastor Leo bugle corps of various schools
VanDolson announced Tuesday. was also something to watch.
Staged annually for the Crip­
Classes will be held at the Ad­
pled
Childrens’ hospitals, this big
ventist school on Easy Street, on
Monday and Thursday nights, game always attracts tremend­
beginning Monday, Jan. 8, and ous crowds. “It is worth while
will continue until after Feb. 8. for anyone, regardless of what he
Classes commence at 7 p. m. and had to pay to enter, Plete con­
anyone in the community who cluded.
would like to take advantage of
i
this training is urged to be pres­
ent next Monday night to enroll.
Recognition and authorization
has been obtained for these class­
es from the county chapter and
GOLD BEACH Mrs. Mina De-
the Pacific area headquarters of
Voe,
chairman of the 1950 Christ­
American Red Cross and Red
mas
seal sale expressed her ap-
Cross certificates will be issued
to all who successfully complete preciation to everyone who had
worked for the success of the
the course.
J. B. Meehan, who is building sale, including every county res-
tiie local Adventist church and ident who bought and used these
has had extensive experience in Christmas seals.
She had a special word of ap-
teaching standard and advanced
f o r local chairmen.
predation
first aid classes, will lx? instruc-
Although
th°
seal sale officially
ti r of the group.
closed
Dec.
25,
a great many of
These classes are presented at ,
the
people
have
not contributed
absolutely no cost to the public I
but
will
probably
do so before
with exception of the smal charge
the
books
are
finally
closed.
made by the Red Cross for the
textbooks.
The county returns, Dec. 23:
The local Seventh-Day Adven­
Harbor ............................. $184.25
tist church is making this train­
Brookings ...................... 279.25
ing available in co-operation with
Pistol River ................ 28.00
the national civil defense pro­
Hunters Creek ............ 21.55
gram and in harmony with ac-! Gold Beach .................. 186.05
tion taken at the recent Autumn ‘ Weddorburn-Agness .. 72.00
Council of Seventh-Day Advent­
Ophir ............................... 61.00
ist leaders at Grand Rapids,
Port Orford, Dec. 14.... 113.50
Michigan.
Sixes ............................... 53.25
Resolution was made and was
Denmark ...................... 20.00
adopted at this session to ask
Langlois ........................ 86.00
the entire membership of Ad­
Bond Sales .................. 48.00
ventist churches in North Amer­
$1,152.85
Total
ica to prepare tot respond to the
call of the nation to meet atomic
or national emergencies by train­
ing in first aid and disaster care
through the American Red Cross.
Mrs. DeVoe Cairns
"Seal Sale" Gains
First meeting of Curry County
Pomona Grange met at Sixes
Saturday with Worthy Master
Henry Adolphsen in charge. A
number from Coos county were
present. These represented a reso.
lution from McKinley Grange to
favor substituting a gross income
tax in Oregon for the present in­
come tax on the books.
This would raise more taxes
as well as reach temporary res­
idents of the state who now’ en­
joy all thp benefits of the state’s
schools and other tax-paid-for
privileges, but who now pay no
taxes toward the support. It was
voted that Pomona favor this res.
olution and the secretary was in­
structed to w’rite ta the state
master of Indiana to get infor­
mation on how’ the plan works
in that state where it has been
in effect many years.
It was decicded to honor R. M.
Knox at the next Pomona meet­
ing, which will be held at Ophir
on March 3, and a special invita­
tion will be sent to him to be
present a that time.
Two Buildings Now
Await "Weather"
Floyd Clark, former owner of
the camp across the highway
from Hanscam’s store, was a 3-
day visitor at the Paul Whirry
home at Christmas. Now em­
ployed by the Bonneville Pow’er
Administraiton, he asserted that
power was due to Curr^ County
later in 1951 unless unforeseen
war restrictions are placed.
He now’ is in charge of three
sub-stations in the Coquille area
Bonneville administra-
for
tion, southern extent of the line
at present.
Friends here were afdvised of
the death of Mrs. Bertha Wood,
at Santa Rosa, New Years eve,
passing aw’ay in her sleep, with­
out any apparent illness previ­
ously. The funeral was to have
been held at the Welch Funeral
Parlors at Santa Rosa, on Wed­
nesday at 2:30 p. m.
Mrs. Wood, w’ho was preceded
in death by her husband, Mark,
by a year and a week, was very
well known in this area where
the Woods lived many years. In
1924 they sold the Harbor store
to E. E. Hanscam, after having
conducted it for many years. An
obituary will be published later.
LOCAL NEWS
Weather Report
Brookings Rotary’ club will be
meeting at the Rod & Gun club
house for the next few weeks,
or until a suitable place is ob­
tained to hold meetings. Last
Tuesday Mrs. Leo Lucas served
the weekly luncheon, w’hich ar­
rangement will temporarily be
carried on.
For the week ending on Sun-
Max. Min. Rain
day:
T
48
♦ December 25 ..... 56
.20
48
December 26 ..... 55
42
December 27 ..... 56
1.96
46
December 28 ..... 53
.19
52
.....
55
December 29
.96
41
.....
48
^cember 30
Mr. Pralls of Pralls Sewing Ma-
.08
36
....
53
«December 31 ..
'
chine
service, Grants Pass, was a
....3.29
Rainfall for th(T week...
‘
week-end
visitor in this area, to
..14.82
Rainfall for December .
obtain
an
agency for his service.
105.28
'Rainfall for 1950 ...........
GOLD BEACH According to C. H. Young, vice-president of the
Curry County Bank, a deal was closed. Dec. 27, for the Crissey
building, Brookings, which will house the New’ Brookings Branch
of that institution which has been granted a charter to do bank­
ing business, expanding the chain to three banks.
No date was named by Mr. Young as opening time, but impres­
! sion was derived that it will be soon possibly by the first of March.
The Pete J. Lesmeister agency, a tenant of part of the building,
was given notice to be vacated by February 1, to allow the con­
struction of a suitable vault and necessary remodeling.
At the semi-annual meeting of the directors, it was announced
that the usual semi-annual stock dividends were declared and that
a bonus to employees of one month’s check, were made. The re­
sources of this banking concern were reported as $3,326,190.83, at
the close of business just prior to Christmas.
1950 Gains Of Area Show Greatest
Of Anv One Year; Future "Promises"
Much conjecture of the progress made by this area and Curry
County in 1950 seems to be the principal topic for discussion.
Much of the progress, naturally, came from the expansion of the
lumber industry in the county, especially in this area, where new
mills were added to the list. Greatest growth, possibly was in the
number of new’ homes which have been erected in the past twelve
months, increasing the valuation of the area many thousands of
dollars. New business houses have been erected, and this will be
carried over into the coming year, with the Manley and Freeman
buildings first on the calendar.
Lack of time for this week prevents the Pilot from giving a de-
1
tailed account, which may take a couple of weeks to compete.
The coming year hold much in way of promise for expansion,
unless all business all over the county is demoralized, most peo-
Weather, fitting to dig base­
ments, is all that is holding up
the construction of the Clive
Manley building next door to the
Vincent building, and the. Wilson
Freeman building, an addition to
the Chetco Store.
Roy Weidtman, who built the pie of the area believe.
Redfield Grocery, will have the
construction of Manley’s store
building, to be partly occupied
by Young’s 5c & 10c.
Yelton Remodels
Apratments
Mrs. Bertha Wood For
James Yelton is remodeling his
one-time
shop into
Died At Santa Rosa a number rnyrtlewood
of apartments, thus
Power Due In "51
Says Floyd Clark
I Crissev Blda. Was Sold To Curry County
Bank For Second Branch In Curry Co
trying to alleviate in a measure,
the housing shortage of the area.
Yelton, quite a builder in his
own right, will convert the old
shop into a number of modern
apartments, These may be fin­
ished later this spring.
Local Rainfall For 1950 Exceeds 20-Yr.
Aver. More Than 25 Inches, Records
Paul Whirry, local weather observer, submitted to the Pilot a
recorcd of rainfall for the past nine years, which shows the pre­
cipitation by months during that period, together with the 20-year
average which has been furnished by the weather bureau.
It is recommended by the weather bureau that this data be cut
from the Pilot, pasted on a piece of durable cardboard, so that
the 1951 precipitation might be added for a 10-year record, from
which may be computed a ten-year average.
Attention is called to the cycles of high and low precipitation,
and with the regularity they follow, one with another.
Rainfall For Past Nine Years Together With 20-Year Ave.
The foregoing figures were supplied the Pilot by Paul Whirry, local weather observer, which unit
be useful to local flower growers to clip, paste on a cardboard, and post each ' monthly rainfall for
r
rainfall.
the coming year to compare to former years. Note the cycles of high and low
Ave. Ave.
computed to
Records of Past Nine Years —
Acc.
1950 20-yr.
1949
1948
1947
1946
1945
1944
1943
1942
Month and year.
11.77
23.97
.........
1.96
11.01
8.00
11.65
11.48
9.01
9.47
lOJanuary ........ ....... 11.97
21.33
9.56
11.44
15.31
14.53
413
11.32
17.21
10.59
6.14
February .......... ....... 9.80
30.41
9.08
11.99
11.55
9.21
8.06
10.39
13.15
4.18
9.94
March ................ ... 7Í173
35.93
5.52
4.42
2.35
15.22
3.84
2.47
5.58
7.87
7.25
April ................... ....... 5.99
39.30
3.37
1.89
6.89
5.35
.27
2.18
5.41
5.16
6.36
May ..................... ........ 9.41
2.35
41.65
1.75
12
.90
7.72
1.71
.02
1.37
1.64
June .................. ....... 2.24
42.95
.63
.10
.25
1.08
6.40
.46
.07
.11
.38
July ..................... ............. 90
.67
42.95
.17
.38
137
.31
.09
.39
.52
1.72
August .............. ............. 10
45.72
2.77
2.75
.92
2.06
1.00
.93
1.48
2.90
.53
September ....... ............ 59
51.31
5.59
22.02
5.93
5.85
16.43
8.86
7.97
4.22
10.38
3/95
October ............
12.52
63.83
996
7.87
8.18
4.06
16.85
19.55
15.57
10.64
25.61
November .......
11.60
75.43
14.82
7.51
17 46
8.69
8.23
18.33
9:16
3.20
23.41
December .....
75.43
69.50 105.28
.........
92.75
68.91
75.14
70.66 100.64
67.65
..... 101.70
[Totals ......................
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