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Rotary Convention Coming April 8-10 EUGENE-—Final plans for a convention of Rotarians from Oregon and southwestern Wash ington, to be held here April 8, 9 and 10, were announced this week by District Governor Joe Breckel of Vancouver, Wash. The convention will involve 40 clubs in the two states, including several from Brookings. Principal speakers for the three day affair, which is expected to attract nearly 600 Rotarians and their wives, will be U. S. Sena tor Wayne L. Morse, and Harold T. Thomas of Aukland, New Zea land, a representative of Rotary International. Morse, who will come here especially for the con vention, will discuss some impli cations of the nation’s foreign policy and will hit hard at the isolationists of the country. Other speakers will include Rabbi Julius Nodel of the Temple Beth Israel at Portland, Dean Eldon L. Johnson of the College of Liberal Arts at the University and President Newburn; Presi dent Edward Clark of Multno mah College, Portland and Olin D. Sharp, regional executive of the Boy Scouts. Of special interest to Rotary wives who attend the convention will be a preview of the Broad way stage hit, “Finian’s Rain bow,” to be presented by the University Theatre. A style show by Eugene merchants and featur ing the latest in fasions from New York and Hollywood, also is scheduled. The meeting will be held in the new Erb Memorial building on the University Campus. Enlistments Open In Air Force Mar. 15 Beginning March 15, enlist ments will be accepted by the Coos Bay U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force recruiting station for a special all-bay and coastal area regular army platoon. The pla toon will be strictly volunteer and enlistees will leave the Coos Bay recruiting office in a group. Those found qualified will be en listed and forwarded as a group platoon to the training center. Thirty men from the bay and coastal area will be qualified to form this special platoon. Volun teers must be between 17 and 34 year of age with no depend ants anti meet regular army en listment standards. The group will be forwarded from the Coos Bay station on April 14 for group enlist merit on April 15. This will be an opportunity for young men to volunteer as group and to be one of the “first for the all-bay coastal area special reg ular army volunteer platoon. All volunteers found qualified and ac ceptable will be eligible for sj>e- cial army technical schools in the various arms of the regular army they may qualify, including army officer candidate school if they can meet the required standards. Young men desiring to volun teer for this special group are asked to call at the recruiting station in the post office building as Coos Bay to be placed on the volunteer list in order in which they apply. A special numerical block of serial numbers will be obtain and assigned to each in dividual in order of his enlist ment. Date Set For Big Charter Festivities March 31 is the date set for the newly-formed Crescent City chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America to receive its charter. In connection with this event, a regular show of Barbershop Quartets will be held. This Har mony Jamboree will take place at Crescent-Elk grade school, be ginning at 8:00 p. m. Many outside foursomes have been invited to strut their stuff that night, and from all indica tions, it will be one of he finest shows of its kind ever held here abouts. Both the Crescent City and Brookings Choruses will be on the show. The "LumberladsT current champions of the Northwest dis trict, will participate and quar tets from Sacrament and Port land have accepted bids. The Brookings chapter is spon soring this “new baby” and the local fellows are doing all in their power to see that the char ter night is a big success. Growers Received Good Daffodil Price Eighteen local grow’ers wrho shipped their daffodil blossoms through the* Brookings Flower Growers, completed their first year of marketing their blossoms through one organization—a total of 1,150,000 blooms were shipped by air greight to the east coast as well as the midwest. Air freight shipments included 50,00 to New York City, 100,000 to Clevveland, Ohio, 50,000 to Chicago. Minneapolis, Denver,^ and Montana cities were some of the areas contacted this year. Coast cities of San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane purchased a large number Through local co-operation this year, the price will average out higher than previous years, all of which will be revealed at a meeting billled soon, when growers will de cide on steps to carry out next year, reports Charles Grayshel the graduation of J. Arthur Ben son from Palmer School nf Chir opractic at Masonic Temple, at Davenport, Iowa, at 8 p. m. on Thursday, March 1. Lt. Col. and Mrs. William B. Brown of Portland were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Percy nanks. the past week. They are much enthused over the progress made in this area during the last three years, when they pre viously visited here. Mr. and Mrs. George Funk ar rived home from an extended au tomobile trip, taking them as far east as Bay City, Mich., and to Corpus Christie, Texas, on the "Walking" With Easter Seals Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hill were brief visitors here last week-end to attend to business connected with the sale of real estate. They were en route to Santa Monica, Calif., for a month’s vacation, taking their trailer house. Mr. and Mrs. George Schmidt were over-night guests of their grandmother, Mrs. Percy Hanks. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Har-1 wood of Medford and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Harwood of Cres cent City spent Sunday with Mrs. Anna Muchmore. Wesley Kerr of Packwood, Wn., is a guest of his brother, Henry Kerr, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Slagle (nee Margaret Byrne) are now residents of Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Parker have bought the Clyde Hill house on Pacific avenue. He is connect ed with Nyberg Lumber Co. Mis. Parker was a former employee of the veterans administration at Roseburg, resigning March 3. Mrs. Percy Hanks just returned from Portland where she visited her mother and helped her cele brate her 89th birthday and to h a v e a five-generation picture taken. The picture was taken by Ralph Vincent, now’ photograph er on the Oregonian. Announcements have been re ceived by friends in Brookings of It’s a long, hard climb for 6-year-old Gary Struthers of Eugene, a cerebral palsy victim, but he and others at the Easter Seal agency’s hospital school for crippled children at Eugene are learn ing. Little Gary practices walking upstairs under direction of Mrs. Jean Huffstutter, physical therapist. The school, open to children from throughout Oregon, is financed through the sale of “seals” • lesoAfen^ Yes, more convenience., .more fre quent schedules everywhere. More comfort in air-conditioned Super Coaches. More miles per dollar, too...savings you can count! Why settle for less? Go Greyhound for fun and economy on any trip! TODAY’S BIGGEST T ravel bargains MEDICAL MASSEUR READY TO SERVE YOU B Y APPOINTMENT ! B rookings , O regon TEAMWORK wins prizes on the IHEMORRHOIDS GsfAlof Hr A lot LUCIAN A. HARVEY S tudio B uilding south. The spedometer registered 12,000 miles with no tire change. The car turned on its side once in heavy snow but was righted with no damage. In all the Funks report it about their most suc cessful trip. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Roush, of Grants Pass, old friends of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Beem, called on Sunday to visit Mrs. Beem who had been bedfast several days. A Winchester repeater shot gun, Sunbeam Mixmaster and a Glider bicycle will be give away at the VFW hall, Saturday night to some one, in the boy scouts endeavor to raise funds for a scout building. Try Pilot class ads to clear those unwanted items. LOCAL NEWS KEEP FIT WITH MASSAGE! c of- °f the bay area is establishing his I lice in the Hotel Lauff and will be at Crescent City every . j Thursday for hemorrhoid work. Hemorrhoids can be com- ■ pletely obliterated without surgery, loss of time from workj ■ and painlessly. With our years of experience, you can feel con J Siident that your case can be successfully handled if taken by us a Don's neglect even a “simple case of piles.” Consultation frosts nothing and places you under no obligation. Appoint- ■ meni necessary. Dr. J. D. Clark, D. C., Ph. C. La uff Hotel Thursday, March 15, 1951 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON pA1U Sis Thursday Only___ Crescent City Phone 1181 Party Line Telephone, too! 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