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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1951)
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON P age T wo IT SEEMS TO ME BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT Entered as second-class matter, at the postoffice at Brookings. Ore March 7, 1946. under the Act of March 3, 1879. D ewey A kers , Editor and Publisher ter completion, will be one of the most modern in the south west Oregon area. Madge Moore returned from the Bay area Monday, after hav- ing visited her son for a few days last Week. Mrs. Flora E. Weber left Fri- day on an extended bus trip through San Francisco and Los Angeles to Pomona, to visit rela tives. She will return through Bakersfield to Cottage Grove and Portland yvhere she will visit a sister and brother before return ing to Brookings. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: INSURE TODAY $3-°° THE AMERICAN WAY! NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS: Kindly notify of any change of address in advance. Failure to do so costs two cents per issue sent to the old address. Subscription will be dropped unless subscriber notifies Pilot of change. mu . AMERICAN INSURANCE CO INCORPORATION MUST COME Incorporation of Brookings, like the founding of this nation and each of its states in the past, is a step of progress. People who are opposing the movement have lost sight of the fact that this area no longer is an isolated spot- but is being swarmed under by new home-seeking citizens who will demand much of the area which they expect to heavily invest toward its future. Incorporation has ceased to be an issue of wanting to "stay like we are," but a move toward directing our destinies in a way these destinies should be. Somewhere along the line there must be a governing agency, empowered to exact certain standaids ot health and conduct from the citizens. With another couple thousand people here there must be traffic ordinances, zoning ordinances, health regulations and certainly conduct rules. What the opinion ot cac h । of us might be, there must be movements to safeguard the area which is now in the throes of the greatest expansion any place I has seen in the past half century. No parents would want to keep their children small any longer than nature allows. Parents want their children to grow up—to create for themselves an identity. Brookings has long ceased to be infant it has grown up it is still growing. Announcement of the corning of the plywood about tvxo months ago is but a beginning of expansion. The entire west coast is ex periencing the same intensity of growing pains. Thousands of people all over the nation have considered this area for their future location. Incorporation, then, is but a step toyvard being able to cope yvith any situation this section is likely to face. Vote lor it! NEWS BRIEFS AFFECTING CURRY EUGENE Bonneville poyver administration called lor bids for clearing on part of the Port Orford-Gold Beach 115 kv transmission line right-of-way in Gurry County, Oregon. Bids are scheduled to be opened at Portland, May 17. This right-oi-way clearing project consisting ot 7.68 miles in about 14 tracts represents final clearing work to be done on the Bandon-Port Orford-Gold Beach transmission line. Successful con- tractor will lx» given 150 days to complet the work. Copies ot speci- float ions may be obtained from Bonneville Power Administration procurement officer, Portland. Petitions to the county court, asking for an election to determine citizens’ willingness to incorporate the city, yvere presented this week to the countv court, yvhich yvill set the date for the evenL The committee, named at the April 5. general meeting to obtain signatures on this petition, obtained more than sufficient signa tures to call the election, which was presented to the county court at is monthly meeting Wednesday. I he committee told the 1 ilot it was the wish of the group to ask for Monday, June 4. Emil R. Peterson, yy ho has been compiling data for the Coos-Curry history, lets it be known that Coos County has furnished about 90', of the funds yvhich have gore into this work, yvith only 10G coming from Curry, none of yvhich has been furnished by the south end of the county. With this lack of co-operation. Curry county is likely to have but little mention. Southern Curry abounds with history w hich may’ be oyerlooked unless funds are available. A cabin tor a yveek. with possibly a little expense money for meals would suffice lor the moment to get Mr. Peterson here. business Increasing Kapu •Established in 1846 Let Nour Insurance Problems Be Mine— By Dewey "We are going to have base ball here somehow,” Pete Les meister. business manager of the Pelicans, told me Saturday. "We thought for a time we yvould be in the league embracing Eureka, I Arcata, and others in that area, except that a Fortuna man nut a monkey wrench in the deal." । All this came about when a few teams withdrew from the. Southern Oregon League for rea-। sons beyond the stretch of most imaginations. Crescent City, also, is in the same plight has a team but no league to enter. With the Southwestern Oregon League in different, apparently the only hope is to get back into the old Rogue Valley league7 after one year in faster company. Fans of this area who have come to rely upon Pete Lesmeis- ter for their baseball, are quite sympathetic toward his plight at the moment. People here do like their baseball — the faster the more they like it. Pete was at a point where he felt he could put afield a pretty fast team. Pete and Roy Deo, helmsman at Crescent City, may be expect ed to figure out some tray to get baseball here, but as yet neither have come up with any solution. Pete, despite the delay in plans, is not letting down a bit in obtaining bull players to enter “some'* league when that opportunity arises. Was quite sorry to learn in directly from Emil R. Peterson that Curry county, especially the southern end, was indifferent to the forthcoming history of Coos and Curry counties. This area, so full of lore and interesting material, then, by necessity, must be ignored, as it were, in hay ing its history told in much detail. Histories cost money despite the fact that Mr. Peterson was 'dipping" into his own personal sat mgs to compile this data. It gms without saying that some- missing" idi opportunity one bu not coming tut ward with a little expense money for him. At Gold Bunch in February, he teas gnen a cabin for several days, and his meal checks were taken cart of by some interested person. This paper, to s< me expense, has acquire pictures, had cuts made and did what it could to arouse the people of the vicinity to the importance of this history. of the Almost without exception, busim to the Pilot in the past week that 1951 is months ahead of all pre vious years in salt's yoludie with only about a fourth of the year Bertha Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Crockett and Victor Anderson. It tor homes thus adding impetus to that spurred by the coming of cannot be expected that they are tin1 plyxvood plant. This year, Indiexe all business men, will never to carry the load. ec equalled again in percentage ot gain, not excepting the days Here. for once, ice arc passing xx hen Brookings I umb< r first established its workings here almost up an opportunity to really do 40 year.* a turn wor*h whil It may be such a few short months until H t st fnomts an gone and with Residents "Change Mind" About Incorporation them the knowledge of tthose North of t< yvn, where some 22 landholders signed a petition to long-ago days which did much to ask that their names ai d property be withdrawn from the proposed shafH the aistmits of this coun incorporation ot Brooku igs, alread> some have had "changes c ty and section of Oregon. Who mind" and affixt d their names to the petition which goes to th will write Emil Pf Prison at his county court, to set date of the election. These told the committee Eorth Di nd home, und offer him that the matter had not ht en properly represented xx ben they had at least expense money to come signed the petition asking yy ithdraxx al. lit re for his mission f Passing of Ikisehll P. Weter deprives this area of a grand old man yy ho had much effect on the founding of this community ¡'he short st route from seller the time the Brookings Lumber Co. started operations about 191 to buyer is an adxvrtisement in Although not one to go about teliin ; his yytilth. Mr. Weter nevei lodness. by his kindness to a thelvss made it teit by hi tee Pilot Classified \ds. the people yy i ì yy horn he came in contact. The area is much better man's new Chetco Store build ing indicates that the store, al- LOCAL NEWS C. O. Leonard Insurance Agency ES Hungry? CHETCO CAFE Home-Made Pies HOURS: 6:oo A. M. TO i :oo A. M. JIM'S CABINET SHOP Book Cases, Writing Desks, Comer Cabinet« Kitchen Cabinets, Breakfast Nooks, Doors, Windows, frames, cupboard doors, drawers. IF IT* 3 MADE OF WOOD— j YOU HAVE A JOB FOR J. E. FIFIELD! Turn off 101 at Beach Road. Follow the Signa Dr. Henry S. Crawford CHIROPRACTOR Office House . . 10 to 6, on all days Mondays, Tuesday, Thursday Evenings. 7-9 878 Front St., Crescent Ctiy Phone 2G02 (Next to Greyhound Bus Depot) Cur-Bet Ckaners Quality Cleaning and Pressing Also Agents for DEL NORTE LAUNDRY Pickup and Deliver^ Service, on CALL 233 BROOKINGS, ORE Mondays and Thursdays
