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Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere a Finer Community
\ olume Six, Number Seven.
Power Machines
Hasten Work On
Plant Construction
BROOKINGS. CURRY COUNTY. OREGON
Turleys Report Gratifying Increase In
Easter Lily Bulb Sales For Coming Crop
After about ten thousand miles, and two months of
travel, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Turley returned home last
Those vv ho were here back in Monday much gratified with their business success, they
the days when Brookings Lum-{
ber Co. constructed the mill in told the Pilot Saturday, “li e received a gratifying in­
the days between 1912 and 1915,
are more than amazed at the crease in business from the same greenhouses which had
speed shown by the power dirt
moving machinery which now is
readying the site for the new
plywood plant, due to be in op­
eration shortly after the first of
the year.
Back in those days, the Pilot
is informed, everything was done
pretty much by hand, with teams
employed as much as possible.
At the fastest rate, then, it was
a slow and tedious process, and
a man-killer.
One caterpillar tractor with a
scarifier, loosens the ground to
a depth of two or more feet. Two
earthmovers, with rapid mobil­
ity, which are pushed into the
loosened earth to the capacity
of the machine, by another cater­
pillar, and away the ground is
moved. The two carry-alls are
fast enough that one caterpillar
is practically kept busy pushing
them into the dirt to be moved.
The little knoll has been lev­
eled, the dirt aijd rock put into
a low spot, so that now there
exists a huge site, much larger
than many big league ball parks,
on which the concrete'slab will
be poured for the foundation of
the plant, covering more than
two acres.
The concrete mixing and lay­
ing, it is said will be carried out
in the same machinery method.
In the meantime, trusses are
being constructed for the roof of
the plant, and are being stacked
in readiness when the timbers
of the framework are put in place
later on. All steps in the con-!
struction seemed to be planned i
with watch-like precision, and;
the entire construction will be
one for revelation of the twen-1
tieth century methods.
Bruins Teske Gold
Beach Hi, 5 To 3,
In First Game, Fri.
Brookings Bruins know there
is a first time for everything -
especially in being able to beat
Gold Beach High in baseball, and
it took them three years to find
out how it was done, last Friday
afternoon on the local field. The
ball game, errors and all. was
a good one to watch by the fans,
for the 5 to 3 score about indi­
cates the comparative strength
of the clubs.
Roy Johnson, on the hill for
Brookings, limited the Gold Beach
hitters to three hits, and right­
fully had a shutout in his grasp.
He had a shutout, that is, ex­
cept for seven errors on the part
of Brookings, four of which were
Johnson’s. Three times in his ef­
fort to nip runners on bases he
threw wild, allowing runners to
advance into scoring position.
Score by innings:
r h
Gold Beach
010 000 2 3 3 4
Brookings ........ 300 002 0 5 3 7
Bill Hart, foreman of the state
highway crew, presently at the
»-Biddles Motel, and his family,
enjoyed a visit with his parents,
and Mrs. Hart of Portland
in uncle and aunt. Mr and
Forest of Pendleton, foi
“after roasting m Texas and Arizona, using chains
to get through snow higher than the car in Iowa, dust
storms in Colorado, it is just too good to be home. How­
ever, we had one great thrill at Denver Easter Sunday,
and went to a down-town church where our own lilies
were used to decorate the entire church, which had se­
lected them from one of our greenhouse customers.”
University of Missouri horticulture department is at
present running a series of experiments to determine
Fred Cleveland
Died, Grants Pass
Funeral Services
Friday For Mrs.
resident' Mildred Franklin
Fred Cleveland, once
of the Arnold Lane section for
about two and a half years, died
April 3, nt Grants Pass, friends
in this area learned too late to
attend the funeral which was
held Friday at Hall & Hall Mor­
tuary, Grants Pass. The body
was taken to Kansas, his old
home, for burial.
Mr. Cleveland sold his hold-1
ing here last fall, when his ill
health forced him to cease work.
Since that time he has spent a
number of weeks in hospitals.
Cancer of the digestive tract
was said to have been cause of
death.
Johnson Files Suit
In Curry Co. Court
Word of the death of Mrs. O.
L. Franklin, at Kansas City, Mo.,
came late Friday, to Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Kerr, just after Mrs. Kerr
had arrived home from taking
care of her daughter for a couple
of weeks. Her recovery, at the
time Mjs. Kerr left Kansas City
seemed improved, and that Mrs.
Franklin had fully recovered.
Funeral services will be held
Friday at Chehalis, to where the
interment will be made.
Mildred Mae Kerr was born at
Chehalis, Wash., August 22, 1926,
and grew to womanhood at Pack­
wood. the family home. She was
graduated from the schools of
that place, Randle, Wash., High
School and Centralia Business
College. Besides her husband, O.
L. Franklin, she is survived by:
her pa rents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Kerr of Brookings; three sisters:
Mrs. Miriam Rettke of Chehalis,
Carolyn and Shirley at home;
three brothers: Cpl. Robert, and
Allen and Richard, at home; and
her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs.
Derwood Alderson of Centralia,
Wash.
For a number of years Mrs.
Franklin was ccnnected with the
Foster Hardware, at Chehalis,
and recently she and her hus­
band had been in grocery business
at Kansas City. About a year
ago she \isited her parents here.
The case of Lawrence W. John-
son vs. Milton OeMartin, of in­
terest to residents of southern
ods over the ordinary procedure, which information is Curry
county, will be tried at !
to be handed to greenhouses of that state. Elsewhere in Gold Beach, in circuit court be­
fore Judge Dal M. King, Mon­
this issue appears a picture of I urley's lilies m a Kokomo. day, April 23.
In this case Johnson alleges
Indiana, green house, this year.
that DeMartin had him arrested
maliciously and without probable
cause. For all of this Johnson
asks $25000 damages against De­
Martin. The case in all proba­
bility will be a jury case.
In another case inwhich De-
Martin
suing Johnson. con-
EUGENE, April 13—Two Ro­
Unties in Superior Court in Del
tarians from Brookings Lloyd A.
Norte County. This case will be
Moss, retiring president and War­
heard
April 12 (today). It was'
ren Smith, incoming president,
played an active part in the beginning of Work! War postponed to this date. In this
case DeMartin says Johnson ob-1
three-day conference held here,
structed the Winchuck River thus
Sunday through today. The con­
“The Way to Better Living,”
causing the river to wash out his a film from Westinghouse Co.,
ference drew nearly *600 Rotar­
ians and wives from 40 clubs in
«J,()rne>s claim s|lowing the advancement in the
Oregon and southwestern Wash­ evening with a dinner, it is that actually DeMaitin does nut construction and equipping all
own any along along the Win­ homes in America since 1630,
ington.
announced by Mr. and Mrs. chuck
River in California.
Principal speakers for the con­
wash shown to Rotarians Tues­
Ed F. Ackley, local attorney, day noon.
ference were U. S. Senator W.
is appearing for Johnson in the
L. Morse and Harold T. Thomas,
The first scenes were of the
two cases.
representative of Rotary Interna­
log cabin homes, bare in furnish­
tional from Auckland, New Zea­
ings, down through the years, to
land. Morse addressed the an­
advent of electricity. From that
nual banquet and Thomas the of the once-noted inn.
time, the picture showed how
I uesday luncheon session.
Chetco Wranglers will stage rapid had been the strides, and
their second dance to raise Ainos the picture closed, showing the
Accompanied by their wives,
Brookings Rotarians were given
to build a barn and probable ro- future home, with almost every-
three lull days of entertainment
uuii deo grounds, at the Grange hall, conceivable convenience imagin-
and business which they will be today and tomorrow tIritP^’s Saturday, April 14. Western able.
carrying back to their club. Mr.
music will feature the dance
and Mrs. Henry Kerry were reg­
This event, planned for sev­
Mrs. Robert Swan is in Aus­
istered but were unable to at­
eral weeks, promises to be one tin, Texas, becoming acquainted
tend, due to death of a daughter. portunity to sec what Mr. of the gala affairs of the season with a new grandchild, born to
if members can help, the Pilot Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Bell, the for­
was told. Tickets are on sale by mer Joan Swan the first of the
pared for the comfort of members.
week.
Two Rotarians
Attend Dist. Confab
Formal Opening
Of Chetco Inn Set
For Saturday Eve
"Modern Home"
Shown To Rotary
Wranglers To Dance
10 Mills Is Not 10
Pct. For Taxation
ment elsewhere in this issue. Incorporation Sentiment Crystalized;
Petitions Now Being Circulated In City
with rumors that the tax Garden Club Will
levy for the proposed in-*Meet This P. M
corporation will be io peri
for ten mills or I per cent
in this case.
itiön on real property ever
been io per cent orbile as-
Azalea Garden club will meet
Thursday afternoon (today) at
the Grange hail in the April
meeting. Mrs. E. w . Jermack,
chairman o f Siskiyou
!
district,
will be a guest.
Mrs. Stella Norris, of Bend
vice-president of the Bend dis­
trict, wiU also be present.
After "lection of officers and
a discussion o» the garden show
to be held May 26 and 27. at the
time of the Azalea Festival, a
program of songs will be pre­
sented by the Mothersingers.
There will be an exhibit of
garden craft. Hostesses for the
afternoon will be Mrs. Lloyd
Harbin and Mrs. Stella Mclndoe.
Petitions arc being circulated among registered voters
hires, to ask the county court to set an election date for
decision upon the incorporation, as result of Thursday's
chamber of commerce, discussion at the meeting appeared
to be pretty well crystallized in favor of the movement,
when but two objectors rose to voice opposition.
Foremost among reasons for incorportion seemed to
be that of zoning powers offered by a city government,
It will be thirty days or more before this election may