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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1953)
I Local N ev/s H appenings A b o u t Folks You K n o w Miss Ruth Woodward will go to Portland about March 25 for a week’s vacation from the office of Attorney Sam Hall. -— ♦ — Mr. and Mrs. A1 Phillips and children drove to Portland last Thursday and will combine busi ness with the pleasure of visiting relatives. They are expected home today. FOR RENT 4-room unfurnished apartment. Heat and wafer furnished. Sorry, no children. Corner 2nd and Ransom Ave. Pierce Apts. 3-2* ♦— Mrs. Charles Crosby left on Monday afternoon last week for Salem to attend the funeral of a school chum of Mr. Crosby’s, Sam Richards. - -♦ ---- Miss La Von Wagner, teacher Mt. Emily Gem & Mineral So- THURSDAY, MARCH 19. 1953 in the elementary school, drove ciety. to Roseburg on Sunday, where che v ill spend part of the spring Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rettke are in vacation with her parents. Portland this week to be near ♦ their son. born March 2 in Cres Mr. and Mrs. James R. Gri .»- cent City. Born with the rare zell of Milwaukie. Ore, were ••Rh” blood factor, he was flown forced to wait in Brookings for a to Portland through the sen ices s o n to come f r o m V a n of Mercy Flight organization, Nuys. Calif., to pick them up where seven blood transfusions PLANER ENDS after their car was wrecked about were given the small lad. If im 14 miles north of Brookings On provement continues it will be their way to Pasadena. Calif., to possible to take him from the help celebrate the birthday of an hospital to the apatrment of Car other son, their car was badly oline Kerr, sister of Mrs. Rettke. Easy Street damaged when it slipped in loose yet near medical aid and a little gravel. Fortunately they were later to be brought home by his unhurt. parents. FREE Firewood Westwood Co. Mr. and Mrs. IL G. Nelson at Mrs. M. N. Jones was a visitor tended the Coos Elec. Co-op. board in Portland this past week. ♦ Gifts, Yeltons. •----* ----- meeting in Coos Bay on Saturday ♦ - Mrs. Maggie Knee and two Judge Nelson is one of the direc Jimmy, son of Mr. and Mi’s. F children left on Friday by bus to | tors. N. Tygart. celebrateti his eighth pend a two weeks vacation on ----* ---- birthday Saturday with a partv their ranch near Richfield, Utah. ♦ N ew F low ercraft, Y el tons. Mr. Knee spends most of his time for a group of friends. They en there in improving the property. joyed ice cream and cake at the Tygart home and then saw the —♦ - x A LAW SU IT ♦ Extended Play afternoon show. Records, Yel- - A G A IN ST Someone hurt w h ile on your premises . . . and now it might cost you e v e ry th in g you own. Don’t risk it! Our modern liability policy COSTS SO L IT T L E - PROTECTS S O M U C H ! Insurance Agency ARTHUR KNOX Gallagher Bldg. PHONE 2211 N orthwest C asoalty t O M F ArR V ■>. tons. Mrs. William Thompson re- reived a badly burned ankle Thursday when the hot water hose on the washing machine came off when she was doing laundry’. •---- The jeep station wagon belong ing to Leo Zuber was wrecked on the Harbor hill south of the Chetco bridge on Saturday night. When Mrs. Warren Smith was Jn Portland early in the month on her way to the home of her son in Chehalis. Wash., she attended the Portland Garden Club’s an nual Spring Flower Show’ held on March 6 and 7 at the Colony, a group of old Portland homes moved to the new’ location on JefTerson street. Mrs. Smith feels ♦ N ew Wood Burning Plaques, it is well worth the time any Yeltons. visitor to Portland will take to _ ♦ - visit the community which will be Bobby Berger had too much to opened to the public some time carry home when he went fishing in April. The Sunday Oregonian on Saturday and left his fishing of March 1 carried a full page pole for someone else to carry. of pictures on the front of the In some way it was f()rgotten and society section in regard to the later found by Bob Swanson, who flower show and the lovely old brought it to The Pilot office Kamm home, the Knapp house, about a half hour after notifica grill work from the Portland ho-' tion of its loss was received. The tel and marbled banisters from look on Bobby’s face when he the old Oregonian building, all recovered his precious pole, gave combined to preserve the beauty those present an uplift for the I of a bygone era for posterity. balance of the day. I I A MACK G. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Shehan and daughter, Colleen, were wekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Gould. The Shehans live in Coos Bay but will be remembered by friends as living in Brookings about five years ago. M ALCOLM General Building Contractor ♦ Residential— Com mercial— Remodeling ♦ Hobby C raft, Yeltons. ALL WORK GUARANTEED ♦ Apartment above Gibbs Lumber Co., or can be contacted through Pete Lesmeister Agency! HIM? The weekly Rotary luncheon and meeting was held Tuesday at ; the Chetco Inn with Homer Kess ! ler in charge in the absence of < President Earl Breuer. Ross Put nam showed pictures of bis log ging operations at Boonville, Cal., and also up the Chetco. ROY H. BROWN MORTUARY “Brookings' Otvn" Phone 2244— Day or Night Brookings, Oregon Hillside Street "Cof/r/roNj, Dependable Service T R E N C H IN G WORK DONE SEWER LINES, W ATER LINES, DRAINAGE DITCHES, ETC., At S i2.50 PER HOUR Frank's Plumbing & Electric Shop P. O. Box 1240 HARBOR, OREGON First House South of Sunset Motel THEATRF— —OCEAI N HIGHW-'Y 101 - 5 MILES NORTH OF ('RESCENT CITY AT WONDER STUMP ROAD ♦ ♦ Storage Files. Yeltons. NOTICE BROOKINGS GARBAGE SER\ I( E V, III Be K nown lle rr a fle e An SMITH GARBAGE SERVICE Serving the a rea south / h* ‘ O arage Dum p locate«! J / 10 of a ™ «pen Sunday m o rn tn f 9 . u*p m'uBh ba*nk*of °Chetco River will be PW)n for ,h« convenience of those who own r t u - e . (SU i> AT E N TRA N CE TO IX MP) For Service In This A rea W rite SMITH GARBAGE SER\ K E BROOKINGS. O iV ll 1 1 1 OR?.. BOX 424 Cur-Del Cleaners * Word from C. O. Leonard at a Eureka hospital since surgery more than a week ago, says that he is holding his own but has been a very sick man. Friends hope that he will soon be able to return to bis home in Brookings and take his usual place behind his desk. ♦ R, ised Bible, Yeltons. If you see a man, woman or youth intently searching the beach sands, suddenly ¡Miunce on a rock and strike it a few blows, think nothing of it. He isn’’ cracking nuts, he's a rockhound just looking for unusual and beau tiful rock specimens. Pt »bably a ( member of the newly organized. Fast, Efficient Cleaning & Pressing! PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE' IN BROOKINGS JT X Let Ralph Do It 2863 Agents fcr Del Norte Laundry "RANCHO NOTORIOUS" MARLENE DIETRICH - ARTHUR KENNEDY “FLESH AND FURY” TONY CURTIS - MONA FREEMAN - JAN STERLING Sunday and Monday, March 22 - 23— "S H O W B O A T " KATHRYN GRAYSON - HOWARD KEEL - AVA GARDNER “ARCTIC FLIG H T” WAYNE MORRIS Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, March 24-25-26— "CIMARRON KID" AUDIF. MURPHY -- BEVERLY TYLER “T H E ROSE BOWL STORY” MARSHALL THOMPSON - VERA MILES RALPH A. YOUNG Custom Farm Tractor Work RotoV ’D ing l.eve’ ng PHONE Friday and Saturday, March 20 - 21— Ask For An Estimate P. C. Box 596 Phone 2274 Brooking*. Oreggi •'riday and Saturday, March 27 ’ 28— "BIG CARNIVAL" KIRK DOUGLAS -- JAN STERLING “SHORT GRASS” ROD CAMERON