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”
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The car turned on its side once
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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
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La uff Hotel
Thursday, March 15, 1951
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