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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
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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
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Chetco Home
Extension Meeting
Planing M ill
Seady For Business
Dimmick Improves
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Heavy M ail Keeps
P. O. Staff Busy