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Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere a Finer Community
Volume Six, Number Nineteen
BROOKINGS, CURRY COUNTY, OREGON
Thursday. |uly 5. 105t
Parade Set For Sunday
Salmon Would Come Up Chetco With This Breakwater
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I Committee Urges
{'Incorporation'
TO THE VOTERS AND
RESIDENTS OF BROOKINGS:
We, the following named, who
are members of the Citizens’
Committee chosen at an open
meeting of the residents and vot­
ers of Brookings to incorporate
this city, have proceeded to act.
We recommend that the voters
of Brookings vote “Yes” at the
incorporation election to be held
on July 10.
Providing our recommendation
approved and the city is in­
corporated we pledge ourselves
to carry out the following pro­
gram:
1. We shall continue to carry
on as a commit tee until the city
officials an’ elected and in such
capacity try to serve the best
interests of Brookings.
2. We shall carefully consid-
er the qualifications of all candi-
4 proposed jetty or breakwater at the mouth of
Chetco
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3. We shall recommend to the
water to the north bank, enabling the river to keep depth and would permit salmon voters
of Brookings such candi-
to come up the river in the fall unhampered by shallou water. A committee is at dates for the City Council as we
believe will best serve us.
work on this project, and will make an announcement later.
4. We shall require that all
such candidates be fair and im-
partial and that they shall pledge 1
For the week ending on Sun-
t Itemselves to economical and
I day:
Max. Min. Rain
! June 25 . ............. 57
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A Miss Hicks, repoted to be common sense city government.
We shall not recommend
At the dedication of the Girl June 26 ............. 57
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.... from Roseburg, was fatally in­
any
candidate
who will not prom­
Scout Camp at Darlingtonia, Sat­ June 27 . ............. 56
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.... jured just after noon Sunday,
ise
to
keei>
city
taxes at the ab­
urday evening ten local girl June 28 . ............. 56
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T on Hwy 101, north of town, as
solu te minimum.
scouts received awards, present- June 29 . ............. 58
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.... she was passenger w i t h her
ccl by Mrs. Elma Heady from the June 30 . ............. 58
fhe above statement is issued
_ . brother, in a truck. While many
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your friends and neighbors. ’
National Branch office at Palo July 1 ... ............. 64
by
__ details are lacking, it is said
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Alto.
Rainfall for June ....
... .08 she' suffered a badly crushed We make it as a group. ’Phis is I
Second class pins were given to
June, 1951, with .08 of an inch arm, and expired about the time not a one-man affair. We all have
Janet Crump, Joy Gott. Juanita of rainfall is the driest June on the local ambulance reached the our homes in Brookings and we
united for the purpose of,
James, Roberta Zook, Virginia record since 1915, according to hospital.
as
we
believe, making Brookings
Akers and Karen Simpson.
available records of the Pilot, In
Her brother, also badly injured
Phose given tenderfoot pins: 1915, only .02 of an inch fell, In in the accident, is still at Sea­ a better place in which to live.
Anna Ettinfer, Carol Rausch, Juee 1919, .12 of an inch fell, In side hospital. Miss Hicks was We sincerely urge every voter in
Brookings to vote “Yes” on in-
Sharon Johnson ant Anna Jean June, 1950, 1.75 inches fell.
reported to be 17 years old.
corporation on July 10.
Gardner.
Redfields In Collision
J. Elmer Parker, Gordon
Dorothy Rowley received
a
Mr. and Mrs. Llye Redfield Jr. Goetz, Luther Tisdale, A. E.
number of proficiency badges with
while returning from Klamath Sandbo, R. L. Phillips, J. T.
Ja-
the Smith River group, as the
Falls, Sunday evening, wore in­ cobs, II. E. Haggerty, B. E. Kerns,
major part of her work was done
At the meeting of the Harbor volved in an accident with a W. L. Crissey, Ed F. Ackley, Le-
there.
Community club, last Friday, truck near Fort Dick. Mrs. A. F. Roy Weideman, Committee.
Leaders and others attending Mrs. Margaret Rapraeger was Pierce, riding with them, suffered
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from this community were: Mr. named president; Hannah Travis, a badly hurt leg, and foot.
We, the following undersigned,
and Mrs. Bob Stanhurst, Mr. and vice-president and Clara Hyland
approve of the statements, here­
Mrs. Harold Crump, Mrs. Etting- as secretary-treasurer.
LOCAL NEWS
inabove made, of thè Citizens’
ci, Mrs. Roy Brimm, Mrs. Dewey
Mrs.
Louis Gunst, former resi­ Committee, and urge and recom­
Incorporation of the library
Akers and Mr. and Mrs. R. D. was discussed, so that it may be dent here, now living at Orick, mend that the voters of Brook­
Rowley.
empowered to do business in the had the misfortune to fall and ings vote “Yes” for incorpora­
More than a hundred people, future. Twenty-two members and break her ankle last Saturday, tion on July 10:
from Crescent City, Smith River three viistors were present: Mrs. and was taken to Eureka hospi­
Robert O. Dimmick, Lester I
and Brookings were present at Knee, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. tal where she will remain for a Dimmick, V. A. Mendenhall, M.
the dedication ceremonies, and Bird. Mrs. Knee and Mrs. Ander­ time.
E. Graber, Fred W. Moore, Bert
enjoyed the scout services.
son became members.
Mr. and Mrs. Less Miller and DeMoss, J. E. Stevenson, N. M.
Games and entertainment were Mary Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Jones,
J. Lesmeister, Archie
Mr. and Mrs. Thor Ask. of conducted by Mrs. Grace Edward- Gartula of Siletz and Kernville, I*. Hendricks, Dewey Akers.
Vashon, Wash., spent several son and refreshments were serv­ arrived here Friday and went up
/days here visiting her mother ed by Lillian Mathews, Jo Mas­ the Chetco for a few days where
Mrs. Ina DeMoss and other rela- sett and Emma Waldien.
they camped and looked over
Word was received by relatives
fives and friends The Asks like
some timber that the Millers own.
their new loca tic n at Vashon.
the death of Jasper Seward,
Pilot class das pay—try them. | They left for Drain late Monday.
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Accident Fatal To
Young Lady, Sun.
Officers Named By
Community Club
LOCAL NEWS
Fifth Annual Event
Booked For 1:00
P. M.; Game Later
Fifth annual Lily Blos­
som Time and Parade has
been set for one P. M., Sun­
day, probably to start at the
new Mobil Station on the
highway, and will eventu­
ally end near Azalea Park»
Floats will assembled on
the streets in the vicinity of
of places in the parade. All
should be on the site well
in advance of starting time.
The Rotary float will carry the
Queen and her Court. Bands, of
several nearby towns, will be
interspersed among the floats to
give length to the spectacle..
Growers have assured those of
the area who wish to build floats
that all the lilies they wish will
be available for the trip to the
fields.
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Baseball Game To
Follow 'Parade'
Immediately following the pa­
rade, a baseball game, between
North Bend and Brookings, will
be played at the local high school
field. Brookings and North bend
have not met before this year,
but dopesters claim the two are
evenly matched, insuring a real
game.
A dance has been set for Sat­
urday evening, July 7, at Chetco
Grange, opening the 1951 Lily
Blossom time.
Youngs Delayed
In Store Moving
Young’s 5c & 10c, which had
planned to be in the new quarters
by the end of this week, ran into
difficulties and will not be able
to open until later, it was an­
nounced earlier this week.
Delays due to material short­
ages, and completion of all the
interior finish were given as the
reasons for delay.
Clive Manley, in whose building
the Youngs will operate, will be
well along by the end of this
week on the second section, be­
tween the first section and Vin­
cent building.
at Ukiah, Calif., June 22. Mr.
Seward was here for some time
a cousin of the
Gardn