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U o t O U b rw y PER COPY, at all newsstands. IOC Harbor ; Nowhere A Finer Climate - Nowhere a Finer Community Volume Six, Number Thirty-five City Ordinances Should Be Saved By Pilot Readers BROOKINGS. CURRY COUNTY, OREGON Descendants of Pioneers To Oregon Country ». » * $ » * » Better to acquaint all citizens of the city of Brookings with the ordinances they will obey, th-' City Council has caused to be published in this issue the first eight, known as emergency or M dinances, dated Tuesday of this week. That there be no claim of ig norance of all city ordinances of Brookings, the Pilot suggests all citizens save these ordinances as they appear from time to time in these columns, and become well acquainted with what is ex pected. Council Meets Weekly For possibly the next three or four months, or until such time when all city business may be cared for in a single monthly meeting, the city council will be meeting each Tuesday night, for the moment at the office of Pete J. Lesmeister. Wishing to do everything in the proper manner, the council Pictured at the re union were George Black, George wants the public to know, through these columns, of the ordinanceI Wilct>x, Mary Si net! berg, Robt. Wilcox, Edna Heddcrly, and acts taken by the council. ¡John Black and Lorena McCourt. (Pilot engraving) I* Ashland Architect Likes South Curry ’ Intrigued by the Oregon coast and especially the area of south ern Curry county, David I. Bock- ius, Jr., architect of Ashland. Sun day made quite a check of this area with idea of buying land on which he would like to erect his "dream house.” A graduate of University of Pennsylvania in 1935, Mr. Bock- ius has been in the west many years, recently with Pierto Bell- uschi, noted architect at Port land. before locating in Ashland. "The coast is what I would call an architect’s dream. I cer tainly would like nothing better than to have the opportunity to design buildings which would fit this area— that w o u l d be the height of my delight,” he told the Pilot. Mr. Bockius is located at 13 North Main, Ashland, in case a person wishes to contact him. On The M ain Drag Those beautiful dahlias in the Kruger windows. That mammoth specimen of fos sils embedded rock at Young’s Gift Shop. A loaf of Mrs. Don Yarnell’s home-made bread—delicious. Fashion Parade— ”W h a t the well-dressed duck will wear! A Paul Bunyan myrtlewood bowl at Moore’s Variety. Mrs. Lucia Ireland's plants and pottery giving that ‘certain thing’ to logging equipment. A reminder for meditation — that Bible lecture sign. An epidemic of cars bogged down— in mud. of course. Tony and his wrecker yelling for help. Ed Hoar taking orders for po tatoes for delivery, possibly next year. No State Emergency Funds Available For Brookings School District 'Plight' "There is no hope for Brook ings to obtain federal aid to iis schools because of the increase in school population brought on by the coming of the plywood plant.” said Mr. Turnbull, assistant sup erintendent of public instruction, in charge of school buildings and federal aid for the state super intendent’s office. The fact that the plywood or ganization is organized and mov. ed to Brookings, or even that the plywood plant may hold a fed eral contract or that a percen tage of its output goes to some housing project in a defense area, does not in itself qualify the dis trict for assistance under Public Laws 815 and 874. Public Laws 815 and 874 in tend to care for those children whose parents have employment on tax-exempt federal property. Such children are given attend ance credit only for such time as their parents actually work on H. S. Carnival Set For Saturday Eve Student body of the local high school has completed plans for the annual carnival and amateur show’, at the gym, Saturday. The affair will began at 7:30 p. ip., with no admission being charged. Votes for a king and queen will be sold and a nice door prize is to be given. Candidates chosen by the seniors are Jerry Ander son and Shirley, Bowlin; juniors, Schell Bennett and Dennis Fad- ling; sophomores, D i c k Grush and Juanita James; freshmen, Larry Horn and Joan Clendenin. ' Coronation will take place in the latter part of the evening, following the amateur show. Participants will be talented Miss Marie Becker returned individuals of the community .n to Brookings early this week af piano soles, vocal numbers, tum ter a business trip to Portland. bling, etc. ♦ federal tax-exempt property. "As far as I can see.” said Mr. Turnbull, ‘ ‘Brookings does not have sufficient children to qual ify under the law.” Lynn Hampton also interview ed Mr. Marchat. state school as sistant in charge of the basic school fund distribution, also in Supenntendt nt Putnam’s office. There are no monies available from that source merely because of increased enrollment in a school even though that increase may be a large one, or create an acute problem, according to Mr. Marchat. However, if such in creased enrollment creates a def- cit, and provision for the increas ed enrollment was not provided because such increase was not known at budget time, the dis trict may make application for funds to cover such deficit. Ai the present time no such deficit exists because the news of the plywood plant came in time for the local budget committee to make provision in the budget for the increased load at school. Also the Curry County Rural School District Board included the added budget items in the equalized budget of the county. Whether or not such a deficit will be created remains yet to be seen. As yet the plywood em ployees children do not constitute the major part of the school en rollment. Housing available when the plant starts operation and the number of families willing to live in trailers and tents will no doubt be the determining factor. Lynn Hampton returned from Salem on the early morning bus, Wednesday from the a.nnual two- day administrators’ conference, held at Salem. Mr. and Mrs Erskine Miller, ac- Aomp«ni«»d their d a u g h t e r , Mrs Alfred Bolz of Baltimore to Porland on the first lap of her return home. Thursday, October 25, 1051 Re-union Attracts Council Enacts Pioneer, To County 8 Ordinances At GOLD BEACH— An interesting re-union was held recently at the home of Mrs. Mary Smedberg, here, when seven first cousins gathered for a visit. These cou sins are John Black, 85, High land, Calif., George Black, 79, Gold Beach; Mary Smedberg, 78, Gold Beach; Lorena McCourt, 79, Seattle; Edna Hedderly, 72. Gold Beach; Robert Wilcox. 72, Ash land; anti George Wilcox, 71, of Oakland. Oregon. Two other cou sins. Claude Wilcox, 69, Idvewild, Calif., and Jack McGee, 76, of Portland, were unable to attend. All are direct descendants of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McGee, who crossed the plains by wagon train leaving Richmond, Mo., April 28, 1864, with a party of about 100 and Mr. McGee was head team ster. They traveled every day ex cept Sundays and arrived near Oregon City in October, 1861. In the group was Henry Black, who later married Sarah, one of the McGee daughters. The Mc Gees settled at Oakland. Oregon, and George Wilcox still farms the original farm settled in 1864. Henry and Sarah Black took up a homestead on Catching Creek Inlet, near Coos Bay, in 1875. They came to Sumner which was the end of the wagon trail. There was a toll gate at Coos Bay wag on road and it took three days to visit their parerfts at Oakland, traveling by buckboard. T h e y reared a family of five children, three of whom are John Black, George Black and Mary Smed berg. John Black began teaching in 1887 and taught at Sumner, Fair- view, Langlois, Cape Blanco and Marshfield. He was postmaster of Marshfield under Cleveland’s ad ministration for four years, 1891 to 1898. He went into the gro cery business in 1901 in Southern California. He now operates an orange grove in the Redlands dis- 1net George Black worked with the Coos Bay Hardware from 1910 to 1921 and then went into the same business for himself in California. He was badly injured in a car accident while there and in 1947 came to make fiis home with his sister, Mary Smedberg. Mary Smedberg, a graduate nurse, attended the University of Oregon and went to San Fran cisco in 1901 for further train ing in the hospital there. She was in San Francisco during the earthquake in 1906 and can tell many interesting stories of that time following the quake. She returned to Marshfield in 1907. to the first hospital in Coos Bay, the Marshfield General. A f ter her marriage to Carl Srned- berg, they lived on a ranch in the Coos Bay area. They later sold the place and came to Gold Beach and in 1926 they estab lished the first hospital here. Tues. Meet. Many matters of importance to city welfare were cared for at Tuesday evening’s meeting of the city council, when this body was faced with one of its busiest eve nings. Eight ordinances were read for the final time and declared in full force and effect. (These may be seen on pages 5. 6 and 7). A city recorder office will be set up, Nov. 1, in the room to the rear of Pete Lesmeister of fice. with Charles Grayshel to hold office hours from 2 to 5 each afternoon. The entrance is made by side door, on the drive way leading to Coos-Curry Elec tric Co-op shop. Charles Echols, who will be the city engineer, appeared before the council in behalf of seven sub- diviisons for council approval in order to record at the court house. Approval was granted on all, after explanation. V. A. Mendenhall Sr. appeared before the council to give the city deed to a 50-ft. street on his subdivision. It was accepted for recording. Application of James O. Rob inson, to establish a club, in order to obtain a club license from the state liquor commission, was tak en, but no action was taken at the meeting. Application for re newal w'as granted Norris Kemp for Pine Cone tavern. By action the council appoint ed Charles H. Grayshel as city Recorder and Samual A. Hall as city attorney for the year. Discussion of the new city li censes, effective Nov. 1, was held. These must be on display not later than Nov. 15, in all busi nesses in the city. Since this is a measure to realize immediate funds for operation, the council is making an appeal that all who can to pay the 1952 license at the same time they pay the remainder of the 1951 license fee. Many have already signified this intent, it was reported to the council. Street work, which will not lie possible until funds are available, was discussed and it was report ed that Ross Putnam had volun teered to do such necessary work any time, and wait until funds will be available. Some of the heavily traveled streets are re ported to be in poor condition. Hallowe'en Parties Mrs. J. L. Mumbower’s high school age Sunday school class is giving a Hallowe’en party at the church basement Thursday eve ning. At a recent business meet ing the group elected officers: President, Kay DeMartin; vice- president, Ronald Akers; treas urer, Pauline Hendricks; secre tary. Jean Gott. A monthly bus iness meeting with occasional Mrs. Stanley Patterson is ill parties are planned, to work on with bronchai pneumonia at her a project to send Bibles to Japan, home here. Her mother, of Para as well as to gather clothing for dise, Calif., is helping to care for shipment to Korea. her. The young married peoples of Son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd »he Community church will have Young who is with the armed a Hallowe’en party at the church forces is spending a few davs at ' b'.s me” *, i f -»day night of next the home of his parents and en- week. Mrs Dal Sanders is th’} joying some fishing. cinr- toch er.
