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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1952)
V of O L ilra ry On all newsstands ...... IOC 'Harbor fìlol Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere a Finer Community , ohimè 7— Number 41 BROOKINGS. CURRY COUNTY. O R E G O N STORMS LASH LOCALITY Tickets Out For Fireman's Ball Christmas Night The annual ball given by the firemen to raise funds for the yearly C hristm as tree and tre a ts for children will be held this year a t the V.F.W. hall on C hristm as night. This com m unity service has been sponsored for m any years by the V olunteer Firem en and a huge C hristm as tree is erected each year on the strip before the en tran ce to the C entral building. . S a n ta arrives at th a t location early on his C hristm as round and dispenses candy to all children gathered to m eet him on a cer tain night. The firem en m ake th eir truck available for his use while he gives his reindeer a rest during his visit in Brookings that night. Singing by choral groups also will be. p art of the evening’s C hristm as celebration. Donations are accepted tow ard the tre a t fund by the boys at any time. The date S anta will arrive will be published next week. Sharp Decline In Lamb Prices (ialc force winds and pouring rain which has continued to plague the area let up somewhat before going to press, but intermittent showers drench this locality every few hours.. Considerable damage to* property by the terrific winds, was done in all parts of the community during the recent storms. 1 he roof of the recreation room and apartment at Don’s Cliff 1 louse was blown off. Norris Kemp’s pump house, south of Harbor, was blown down. Shingles and a window in the Kerr building, and four large 6xio-ft. windows at the Conn Motors in West Brookings were blown out. The overhang at tjie rear of the Community church also was blown off and many porches and windows of residences damaged within the last week. Electricity was off at one time for alxmt ten hours and for short periods many times. Roads were blocked by trees and slides and tele phone service interrupted. Utility services are getting back to normal and workers are catching up on much needed rest. HS Basketball Rev. Shelton Pays Season Opens Brookings a Visit I Ititrsd.iy, I \ Scouters Attend Annual Meeting S coutm aster Howard C rane and Dali Sanders, accom panied by Mrs. Sanders and Mr. and Mrs. Henry K err, represented our dis trict at the Trail Council m eet ing held in the Erb Memorial building on the University of O re gon cam pus at Eugene. The program sta rte d nt 1 p.m Sunday. Dec. 7, with the men at- ‘ ending various training classes of one hour each, while the ladies were entertained by a social and ner was the highlight of the eve- tea. The Scouters recognition din ning when over 300 Scouters and wives w ere served a roast beef dinner. Roll call and attendance award was given by Guy P. Miller, Scout executive, w ith the group from Douglas district the w inners of most “man m iles.” New officers were installed by Roliert T. R us hy, deputy regional Scout execu tive. of which H enry K err is our local representative for that de partm ent. Boy Scouts To < m ix i i i, 195 Lighthouse Crew Safe After Many Days Stranded Men at Saint George’s Reef light house w ere able to m ake it to Crescent City W ednesday m orning by boat a fte r being m a- reened for ten days. Radio re- [xjrts designated that by W atch ing lor a lull period the n>er| ’"braved the sto rm ”. Quoting from W ednesday even ing’s Oregon Journal with a d a te line ol Dee. 9 A.P. news tells ot ‘he conditions during the m a rooned period. Nil.ç ro ast fcllhhl l|Kh thouW men spent th e ir 10th day of stm m-imposed isolation on a bleak, w ave-battered reef off the California-O regon coast today as a new' blow’ howled down from the N orth Pacific. The nine— three light keepers, a relief crew of three and three re pairm en were stranded Novem ber 30 on 140-foot high St. Georges reef light. Raging seas and high winds prevent them from lowering th eir boats and bar coast guard a t tem pts to reach the reef, seven miles ofl the rocky coast n o rth west of here. The Brookings H arbor High Rev. and Mrs. Jam es R. Shel- S rh a rp declines in m arket prices Schoo, Bruins opened the b ask et | ton. Sm ith River, w ere Brookings for lambs m ay be bad news for ball season last Friday night by I callers Tuesday, getting some- All Boy Scouts and th eir p a r producers but are go<xi news lor i playing a doubleheader w ith ! what acquainted in this section. consum ers, according to Harold , Crescent City, losing both games • Rev. Shelton was recently ap ents are invited to a roast tu r Cohn of Heppner, chairm an of to the Del N orte boys. pointed pastor of the M ethodist key banquet to be held at the the Lam b Prom otion com m ittee Th* first string lost by a score church, Sm ith River and K lam ath. V.F.W. hall Tuesday, Dec. 16, a t of the Oregon Wool G rowers a s of 44 to 36. The second score, Services have also been sta rte d at 7:00 p.m. sociation. 29 to 33. the Indian Mission. All Scouts will be in uniform Lam b prices cu rren tly are 35 In a retu rn gam e at Crescent Lozella Sternberg, who a tte n d Mr. and Mrs. Shelton, form erly to 40 per cent below last spring, City last night (Tuesday, Dec. 9) of Crescent City, have four chil and parents are asked to bring ed school in Brokings before an and some 250,000 lam bs being the Brookings boys split with the dren. one son in the Navy, a n their appetites. This will be a accident burned her severely last fattened for m arket in northw est 'Del N orters on their home floor. other attending Pasadena college, fine opi>ortunity for parents to see year, is now able to walk about feed lots m ay depress prices even The second strin g cam e from be and two daughters go “to Crescent what Scouts are doing and are and is improving. Friends and fu rth er, Cohn said. hind in the third q u a rte r to win City high school. schoolm ates will be happy to hear asked to keep the date o|>en. The com m ittee is sponsoring the game 41 to 40. The first of her progress. She has been in a “M id-W inter Lam b F estival” in strin g in an “anybody’s game a Portland hospital for the past the period Deccember 10 to J a n tussle’’ finally lost the gam e 48 year under the care of doctors uary 1 to step up consum ption to 45. through the generosity of Brook of lamb. Next Friday night, Dec. 12, the ings residents who am assed a Depressed m ark ets for both Bruins meet P ort O rford on the fund to fly her to Portland from lam b and wool, Cohn said, th re a t home floor in Brookings. Crescent City and procure the en to force fu rth e r reductions in medical help necessary for her the s ta te ’s already-low shep num welfare. bers. Such a situation, he said, would work to the eventual dis advantage of consum ers. Many Oregon retailers are co operating by planning special pro The Decem ber m eeting of the motions on lam b this weekend. Chetco Home Extension will be at the home of Bernice S tan h u rst I«arge sacks of mail and C hrist at 10:30 a m ., Dec. 17. mas packages have already begun Subject is Rolls and Bread from to arrive at the local post office Sw eet Dough. every day and the post oflhi» staff Potluck lunch a t noon. is getting a w arning of the “ru sh ” The W estwood company recen t Drive down Easy street till you th at is to come for the next two ly rebuilt planing mill, located on see signs directing to B. S ta n weeks, until several days a fte r E asy street, did the first com hurst home. C hristm as Is over and all C h rist m ercial work Dec. 5. The week All ladies welcome. mas packages are delivered to before th at sam e lum ber was put the proper persons. through the m achinery as a d ju s t m ents w ere made. SM ITHS RETURN A FTER On Oct 18, two weeks a fte r the W ord has come th a t Orval LONG T i y p fire, work was sta rte d clearing Dimmick has improved consid - Photo by Alexander Studio. Mr. and Mrs. W arren Sm ith, and m aking ready for rebuilding. erable in the last week. Mr. Dim I HE AZALEA CHORUS of the Azalea Garden Club in costum e retu rn ed Monday a fte r a three The plant has been built w ith an mick suffered a severe heart a t | improvement in the arrangem ent tack Dec. 1 at W heeler. D uring for the Negro spiritual, with which they regaled the m em bers at weeks trip. They drove to Tuscan, the Novem ber club m eeting; Arizona w here Mr. Sm ith spent of the jobs to be done. the storm period when telephone Left to right they a re : Mrs. Mary Fisher, Mrs. Nell McKenzie, bis tim e on a eatle ranch w ith E. C. Cole and A1 Hopper, own- service was in terrupted no word are to be congratulated upon was received of his condition. His director; Mrs. I>orothy Widney. Mrs. Ida Hall, Mrs. Helen Hanscam, friends. Mrs. Sm ith flew to and their integrity and faith in this son, Bob. left W ednesday to be Mrs. L ucretia M artindale. Mrs. M arie Funk, Mrs. Bernice Swanson. from G atlinburg, Tenn where she Mrs U ilhim ina Donnelly. Not in the picture but taking p art in the attended the business of the S e t section of the country. with him for a time. production was Mrs. La Merne Christensen. tlem ent School. Entertain Parents Local Girl Recovering From Burns AZALEA MINSTREL CHORUS I Chetco Home Extension Meeting Planing M ill Seady For Business Dimmick Improves I u e \ • Heavy M ail Keeps P. O. Staff Busy
