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Nowhere a Finer Community
B rooking , C urry C ounty , O regon
1 HURSDAY, J anuary
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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
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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
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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
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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 .
.
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. 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;
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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
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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.
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Bulb Growers Set
Meeting, Tuesday
Weather Report
MARCH
DIMES
JANUARY
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