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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1952)
* ‘ ili ve, of 0. Library '” •’*' 16 Pages, this issue U». V ww O n all newsstands ..... IOC Harbor fìlof Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere a Fine rCommunity Volume Seven, Number 21. BROOKINGS. CURRY COUNTY, OREGON Parking Meters To Await Passage of City Ordinance Library Board Has Named Officers On The M ain Drag Enough scrap paper in the g u t ter near the post office to use for kindling for a week. LeRoy Pollard jeeping up and down the town. Lynn Ham pton going to the school as if by force of habit. Flossie Buchanan perspiring a, her range. Lou H arvey’s cheerful chuckle again sounds gixxl. Orville Gensm er wishing he had some of the R otary renegades in his club, too. Dr. Ronniger m uttering to his typew 'riter at that he isn’t an operator. Leslie Woodriff chuckling over a new lily he has come up with. Will be ten years before he is sure that he has something. The new dads about town how they do stru t. Sleepy Pat Kerns, Monday morn ing ask her why. • • • The Chetco Community Library held its annual m eeting at the library Wednesday. July IB. Offi In order to meet the demands cers re-elected for the coming of the sta te highway departm ent, year are: and to be able to participate in a Chairm an Mrs. Guy Rice. num ber of the road-building aids, Vice-Chairm an - M r s . Earl the City of Brookings, next Tues Mr. and Mrs. Edw ard Jackson Simpson. day evening will read the final Secretary Mrs. Charles Schaal. r i d i n g of the parking m eter or of Hayfork. Calif., are parents T reasurer Mrs. Jessie Judkins. dinance. A n order h a s already of a baby girl born July 1. She Mrs. Rice reported th at plans been placed for m eters which will has been nam«.d Diane Louise, and is the Jackson’s second daugh were b e i n g completed for the charge from lc for 12 m inutes to ter. Mrs. Jackson is the form er forthcoming house-to-house solic 5c for an hopr, to be placet! on Leta H assett. itation of the Brookings, H arbor the m ainstreet from the Mobil Relatives have received word and Winchuck areas for the pur station to Yeltons place of busi from Melvin S tark , now m aking pose of raising funds f o r the ness. on both side of the street. his home at San Diego, th at he building of a ¡»ermanent home for Long a fte r the City of Brook and his wife are parents of a 7-lb the library. ings to m ake the main street all daughter, who was born on July The federal government is hold parallel parking, the highway com 11. They have named the new ing a parcel of land in Brookings mission finally prevailed on the comer Linda Marie. in readiness for the tim e when the city council to aid in alleviating Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hodges necessary $7.500 for the building the parking and traffic problem on are parents of a 9-lb., 5-oz. son, has been pledged in money, labor Hwy 101 through town. The sta te highway commission born at Seaside hospital July 13. and m aterials. The library build will have a crew here in August They have named the young man ing funds stand at present at a little over $2,000. When a further to paint parallel lines, and m ark David Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Don Johnson are $5,000 has been pledged the fed m eter spots, and the m ete r com pany will have installation com parents of a 7-lb. son, born at eral governm ent will hand over Seaside Hospital, Crescent City, the land to the library board at a pleted probably by mid August. Following an illness of many Friday. J u l y 18. He has been nominal fee. The fund-raising years. Mrs. W illiam O. Sm ith, a named Clifford LeRoy. Mrs. John campaign is tentatively scheduled recent newcomer to this area, son is the form er Shirley Sisk. for early August. succumbed at the Seaside hos Born to Mr. and Mrs. F r e d • • • pital, S atu rd ay afternoon. She Samples. July 20 at the Brook been rushed then* about noon, on ings Clinic, a son. weight 8 lbs., Friday. 3 ' a 07. Tb-' vnung man has been In hojx‘s to benefit her health, P icture great-grand dad going named Couul Allen. Mrs. Sm ith was brought here just to Medford on a business trip. He about a month ago from Southern went eith er by pony, or by self- propelled power—afoot. Sam Hall, Hom er Kessler and California. E arlier in her life she G randad m ight have had some Earl Breuer, m embers and offi had suffered inflam atory rheum a kind of a road, but still it was the cers of Brookings Rotary club, a t tism. horse th a t took him there and tended the district conference at O bituary Born Irby B. Fields, the de back, perhaps a three-day trip at Coos Bay last Friday and Sat the shortest. ceased cam e to Brookings in May, GOLD BEACH C urry county urday. The new district governor Dad, with his road and the fair, Aug. 22, 23. and 24. will have was one of the featured speakers. hoping to benefit her health, last car could m ake it over anti back m any opportunities for 4-H club P a rt of the entertainm ent was rites were held Monday at W ier’s M ortuary, Crescent City, at 2:00 in one day, if he hurried and was m em bers, according to Clifford a picnic near Em pire, and some lucky to get his appointm ents in Jenkins, county agent. antics staged by the Pirates of 1». m. Crem ation will follow and rapid order. a m em orial service will be held All projects m ay be exhibited Coos Bay. None of those a tte n d later at Los Angeles. W hat’s all this leading up to? ing would admit t(x> much about It was ironical that her passing Tuesday, about 11 a. m. Junior in the 4-H division. this P irate entertainm ent. There are also special contests came alm ost to the hour on their H anscam had a business appoint • • • tw enty-fifth wedding anniversary. m ent at Medford, but he also had such as dem onstration contests. Mr. Sm ith expects to retu rn to one in Gold Beach. How did he Any standard club may e n te r a Brookings to m ake his home. solve the situation? He wound dem onstration in their ¡»articular up his plane, flew to Gold Beach, project. Club m em bers in cooking proj from where the took up the Rogue ects have special contests planned valley Medford-bound. for them. Cooking 1 m em bers may W hile the cost of living r o s e , He accomplished his mission— en ter a cookie baking contest. during the first half of 1952, Ore-1 at both places and was back at gon residents purchased over 11 Cooking 2. 3 and 4 m em bers the store just a little past mid- may en ter a sponge cake baking million dollars in series E de atternoon. Who says tim e doesn’t Word came early this week of contest. Cooking 3 and 4 memlx*rs fense bonds an amount equal to fly. Junior says he saves tim e by a near tragic crash of W ilbur flying, and the land-locked have may enter a bread-baking contest. the corresfxinding period in 1951. Stafford and his four-place plane, For these three contests the "Throughout the state a total no rebuttal. carrying three passengers, some club m em ber will m ake the prod of 11.201,406 in E bonds was p u r His companion on the trip was 6(X) m iles into Mexico, south of Ronald Akers, who saw much of uct at the fair in comjxdition with chased," C. M. Gray, county de Los Angeles. The accident hap the un-surveyed land in the back other club members. In this way fense bond chairm an, stated. "An pened late last week. w orkm anship can be judged as additional $2,597,152 were tx»ught country. While details about the accident well as the result. in all other series defense bonds, are m eagre, it was learned Wil 4-H clothing club m em bers will to bring the total sales for the Mr. and Mrs. E rnest Haever- have s(>ecial contests at the fair first half of 1952 to $13.698.558 bur had made previous trips to nick of Forest Grove, with his this ¡»articular field, and since the also. Those m em bers who have The substantial purchase of small m other, of Silverton, were over previous time, a high-tension line made dresses will have an oppor denomination series E bonds, pri night guests Tuesday of Mr. and had been installed near the field tunity to model them in the style m arily by payroll savers, reflects Mrs. Dewey Akers. Mr. Haever- Evidently in his landing attem pt revue. a healthy th rift p attern that is nick is accountant for McCready W ilbur hit this line. These are only a few of the highly commendable and desir Lum ber Co., of Forest Grose, hav- He anti his three passengers ^ 4 retail sard s all along the PH contests planned for the C urry able for a sound business econ were unonscious when found and county fair. Prem ium books will omy.” coast and northw estern p art of badly cut, evidently from the wire soon be available giving a complete County sales in all series d u r Oregon. They are on their wav and crash. R eports say that the listing of all divisions of the fair. ing the same ¡x»riod am ounted to | to the Sacram ento \alley, and ex q u artet are in no im m ediate dan $55.250. • • • pect to retu rn homb voa C rater ger. W ilbur is a nephew of Mr. Death Claims Life Of Local Woman • • • Airplane Adds To 'Working Hours' • • • e Curry County Fair August 2 2 ,2 3 ,2 4 Rotarians Attend District Conclave Curry County Buys $55,250 In Bonds Lake, and the mid-section of Ore Your buyers read the class ads use them next week! 1 Inn sday, | m\ Wilbur Stafford In Plane Crash ’ j. 11)52 Hearing Held Tues. By P. U. C. In Local Water Complaint About titty citizens appeared at the Public U tilities Commission hearing against Brookings W ater Company, at the Grange hall on Tuesday to hear testim ony from both the public and from the w a ter company. Decision will be ren dered later a fte r the commission has made its complete study. Probably foremost among the com plaints was the refusal of the F H. A. to grant loans on build ings because the w ater situation, lack of chlorination, etc. O th er com plaints were the alleged fail ure of the company to m ake ex tensions. This was explained by the utilities as not the responsi bility of the company but the land-owner who wishes service. Beginning at 11 a. in. and con tinuing until about 7 p. m. all sides were heard. A city franchise will be negotiated by the w a te r company with the City of Brook ings, which, up the present, has not been accomplished. The commission requested th at the w ater company send in weekly w ater samples for tests. • • • Scout Camporee For Winchuck Camp Troop 32, with Scoutmaster Dal Sanders, leave Monday for the Winchuck forestry camp w here a three-day cam poree will be held, Monday, Tuesday and W ednesday, July 28, 29 and 30. According to Dal Sanders, all boys, m em bers of the I. O. O. F. Troop 32, are asked to a!tend. S coutcraft, fishing, hiking and swimming will be the diversions of th e three days and three nights. Evening sessions will be held by the cam pfire when interesting and comic stu n ts will be given. P aren ts of these boys and all m em bers of the sponsoring hxige are invited to attend or visit d u r ing the three-day affair. Woods Accident Claims Life, Mon. A woods accident claimed the life, Monday, of Carl K uchler of Harlx»r, near Carpenterville. He was crushed by a rolling log on the hillside where he was af work. He was an employee of H agen's Logging Co., and came here from Morton, Wash. An effort is lx*ing made to con tact relatives. No fu rth er details were learned in tim e for press. Paul Davis, ¡»resident of Br(x»k- ings Cham ber of Commerce, to gether with Hom er K essler and Charles Grayshel, were ¡»resent Tuesday at the m«*eting of the Gold Beach cham ber of comm erce and Mrs. L. G. Stafford of Harbor I when Gov. Douglas McKay was a I is well known in this area. 1 guest and speaker.