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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1951)
V/. horary i ìrmlii^-flarfnr ffct Nowhere A Finer Climate V olume F ive , N umber XXXXVI Nowhere a Finer Community B rooking , C urry C ounty , O regon 1 HURSDAY, J anuary — 0. E. S. Seated 51 Officers, Jan. 2 At installation, held Jan. 2, I Satellite chapter, O. E. S. seated the following officers at the Odd Fellows hall: Worthy Matron Alice Rausch. Worthy Patron—Roy Hendry. Ì Associate Matron Iris Kindel. Associate Patron Chas. Schaal Secretary—Myrtle Schaal. Treasurer—Minnie Wright. Conductress— Rose Ilubbard. Associate Conductress — Edna : Young. Chaplain—Ethel Frazier. Marshall—Grace Yelton. Organist —Eula Brimm. Adah—Mary Jane Brimm. Ruth—Bernice Stanhurst. Esther Agda Bickner. Martha- Priscilla Robinson. Elect—Alice Perkins. Warder Grace Edwardson. Sentinel—Wesley Smith. Installing officers were Eileen i Swan, retiring matron; Robert Swan. retiring patron; Eula Brim m, marshall, assisted by Grace Yelton, Lillian Weideman, from power supplied by the secretary; Hazel Hendry, chap California - Oregon Power lain and Faye Sunderland, or ganist. Co., is something to “cry” B. P. A. Power Is Great "Demand" Chetco Grange Seated Officers Regular meeting of Chetco- Grange was held Friday evening with installation of officers the main business of the evening. Visitors for the meeting included Mr. and Mrs. John Peflley of Sams Valley Grange, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Adams and Mr. and Airs. J. O. Phipps of Ophir Grange and Mrs. Docia Sweet of Sixes Grange. Five candidates were voted into membership by initiation, with the event to be the first two degrees at the next meeting. Voted in were Mr. and Airs. Pete Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Keiser and George Gates. Instllation of officers W’as con ducted by Fred Adams, county deputy, assisted by the installing team of Air. and Airs. Phipps, Airs. Adams, Mrs. Sweet and Mrs. Grace Edwardson. The following officers were seated: about by citizens of this vi cinity. This company does not deliver sufficient volt age to the local Coos-Curry Electric Co-operative, and 'March of Dimes' ¡Needs Money To Meet Polio Cases “Penny Supper" Set For Saturday » m i i _,. i i , io ^ i — ------------------------------------------------------- Rain Records Of Intense Interest ticipatiiw the eood cats to Club Books Shoot Bruins Divide Pair i Here, Next Sunday With Gold Beach 1050 combined - many as the entire case load for the previous decade. March of Dimes monies needed for patient Arthur Guthrie, mentor of the care and epidemic aid during the Bruins hoop squad, breathed a three years amounted to $58- lot easier, and probably had a 000,00.00. good night’s sleep last Friday, “In this state last year,” Dr. after his proteges had downed cd by asking COPCO to Hedlund said, “one case alone Gold Beach 51 to 36 in the first cost more than $12,000. The dis- meeting of the two teams this do “somethng\ ease is always expensive, in dol- Played on the local floor, Bonneville power is al lars and cents and in human suf- season. the game never was in doubt, al most to the north Curry Co. fering, and this is a most cru- though it was continuously bat cial point in our battle against tled to the last whistle. The score it. Let’s all punch together to by quatrers: kayo polio.’’ most completed between Gold Beach 6 16 25 36 Brookings 11 28 34 51 Gold Beach and Brookings LOCAL NEWS The B equeds of the two high —Bonneville should recog Barn plans, drawn by Roy school, however, put on the best Weideman and submitted to the nize this need, ' and act ac- ¡Chetco Wranglers Club, were up battle of the evening when the score was never more than five COrdmgly. Eacly of power for discussion, Tuesday evening points apart, but with Gold Beach at Arnold Morris place when the coming out ahead 35 to 33. The has held this county bac!^ club met. Following the meeting score by quarters: Art Crook and Dave Crockett Gold Beach 1 20 35 served a chili feed to the 32 Brookings . 2 10 18 33 members present. Merle Hanscam Sells Store Interest -1 Precipitation records furnished last week by Paul Whirry, local weather observer, and published by the Pilot, caused considerable comment from the local citizens will soon for this has been the first such publication ever attempted for area. Those figures were not nied last fall when power this taken lightly nor were they just so many figures to the people. Several people who have lived in the area almost as long as the county chapters of the National1 covered by the record, did Foundation of Infantile Paral Saturdav Januarv 13, at period not “remember” it that way — ysis have been emptied or badly ' and to them many doubts were depleted during a year that has | raised. brought the state an unprece Heavy sales of the Pilot last dented 515 to 520 polio cases. week denoted that many copies Three hundred and twenty-five Oregonians wore stricken in 1949, take olace—unless another have been mailed away to other and carry-over cases from that power ñutaifc occurs, Mrs. areas. Weather records are vital sta year, and even earlier, have add ed to the drain on Oregon chap-! Ross 1 lorn, ail tistics to all growers in all areas tors in 1950. 1QXO . . . of the country. This column is iers I nounces this week, maintained weekly in the Pilot, The National picture was so' in co-operation with the United according to Dr. I Everyone ” * invited to come to much the same, States Weather Bureau, repre E. T. Hedlund, Portland, who is|//,is Pot luck affair; to enjoy a sented locally by Paul Whirry, serving as state March of Dimes meal for a few cents and to be and assisted by Mrs. Lou Loring. chairman for the 13th consecu- ’ entertained b.v the local Barber- tive year. Dr. Hedlund said that1 . . - .. . ... . straight 4 • I.. year \shop chords; movies that will ap- 1950 was n,» the «I, third of high polia incidence in ‘this I P€al to the and old. country. More than 100.000 cases; ----------------------------------------- Thousands of Oregon polio fighters will throw their active support behind the annual March of Dimes Monday in the opening phase of a two-weeks campaign lor funds to carry the heaviest burden that infantile paralysis has ever imposed on the Ameri can people. Treasuries of many of Oregon' Another shoot, this time for coffee, ham and eggs, will be the order of the day, Sunday, Jan. 14, at the club house on Benham Road, it was announced Monday. Chetco Rod & Gun Chib, the sponsors, has acquired a modern trap shoot equipment and has attracted large crowds at all the previous shoots when ham and turkeys were given as prizes to the best “eagle eyes.’’ Advertisement of the event is elsewhere in this issue. Ellsworth Writes Column For Pilot “Washington Week,” a column written by Representative Har ris Ellsworth, while congress is in session, appears in this issu° for the first time in several months. While at Washington in the “lame duck” congress, Elis- worth evidently felt it unworthy or had little time to report all the events. It is safe to assume that Mr. Ellsworth will keep these coI umns coming weekly as he has Curry and Del Norte unit of always been in the habit of do- Pacific Bulb Growers Association, ing heretofore. Inc., will hold its annual meet ing Chetco Grange, Tuesday, Jan- ,1 uray 16, at 8:00 p. m., the Pilot was informed by A. Hoffeldt on Tuesday. Business at this meeting will ■ or ■ consist of reports, election of of ficers and general discussions. Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Har- roun have purchased a home and acreage north of Brookings from Mr. and Mrs. Head Merle Hanscam, for four years Klamath Falls. The deal was one of the members of E. E. handled through M. G. Becker, Hanscam & Sons, pioneer mer local realtor. chants. opearting the store at | Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Vincent Harbor, sold his interest to his J brothers late last week, and is were in town Wednesday on bus ness. They now live at Portland taking a rest for a time. where Ralph is photographer for The Pilot was unable to reach The Oregonian. Merle for a statement in time for this issue. Tuesday he was Rain Tuesday night reminded not at Rotary, and was reported people of this area that just a to be up the Chetco river at the year ago at this time this sec time. Mrs. Hanscam, however, tion was sutiering from freezing confirmed the sale, but offered weather, and subsequently power For the week ending on Sun- no information about their fu Max. Min. Rain day: outages when ice broke lines on ture plans. .03 1 1 36 Jan. the east side of the mountains. 1.98 I 45 Merle has taken an active in Liquid precipitation is stasier to1 Jan- 2 ....... .......... 51 .33 1 42 terest in all local affairs, has been handle about wires, linemen are ^an* 3 ....... ...........51 .79 42 Following the meeting a so- a director on the chamber of quick to tell you. , ^an* 4 ...... ........ 54 38 ........... 58 cial hour was enjoyed with re- commerce for more than a year, 1 Jan. 5 ...... Henry Kerr left this i Jan. 6 . .. 58 fieshments served. was vice-president of the Rotary ck for San Frai on a Jan. club, pa n-president of Chet C( 3.30 Rainfall for week ... Try Pilot Class ads—they sell! Rod & Gun Club. Master— Kathryn Reekman. Overseer—Benjamin Jones. Lecturer Hazel Hendry. Steward—Art Moore. Assistant Steward—Emery Hy land. Chaplain Jessie Judkins. Treasurer Roy Hendry. Secretary—Wesley Smith. Gatekeeper—Dave Crockett. Seres Eva Springer. Pomona—Violet Jaggers. Flora—Clara Hyland. Lady Assistant Steward- Lilli- an Zumpfe. Musician Edna Weigel. Executive Committee — Thompson, Roy Springer and Fred Gustafson. Home Economics Committee chairman Ruby Harvey. ■ Bulb Growers Set Meeting, Tuesday Weather Report MARCH DIMES JANUARY __________