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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1953)
• ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ " a M ethodist church on E aster S un : SMITH RIVER : day are as follows: Sunday school, 10:00 a.m.. w ith J. W. * ♦ Hall, superintendent. E aster m es ♦ By E thel Gendlin ♦ sage, 11:00 a m. Rev. Jam es Shel ton, pastor. A large group of friends from A cantata, The Glory of the all over the county attended the funeral of John L. Childs, which Cross, will be put on by the choir, was held T hursday afternoon, w ith Mrs. Evelyn S la te r at the March 26. from W ier’s M ortuary organ. All are invited to attend Chapel w ith Rev. Don Chase of this morning service. ♦ ■ ficiating. Miss Nadine Lehmkuhl, m em Mr. Childs was born in E ng ber of Sm ith River 4-H Club, has land May 27, 1863, and came to been selected by Del N orte county this country and settled in New club leaders as the A ll-Star girl York until he was 27 years old. in 4-H work. She wili a tten d the then came w est and went to Gold three-day session of the 13th an Beach w here he taught school. nual A ll-Star conference* to be From Gold Beach he went to held this week at Berkeley. Miss Crescent City and had m ade his Lehmkuhl is in her ten th year home there. He w as in the of club work and was presented newspaper business for a num ber with an airplane ticket by Del of years. He la te r was elected N orte Farm Bureau Association. county clerk and has also served She left on the plane Sunday a ft as district a tto rn ey and county ernoon for Berkeley and will be judge. He retired from public joined by 80 A ll-Star boys and life in 1950 a t the age of 87. girls from all over the sta te of Mr. Childs was active in the California who will atten d the development of Del N orte county conference. and rem ained active until his Early m orning sunrise service death. He w’as a m em ber of the Crescent City Masonic lodge, the will be held on E aster Sunday at I.O.O.F., the Moose lodge, Cham 6:30 o'clock at the ocean beach Rev. ber of Com m erce and ch arter near the S haker church. Jam es Shelton will be in charge member of th e Kiwanis club. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. of the m orning service. Bonfires Edna Childs; one son, R ichard will be m ade on the beach to pro Childs, and two grandsons and a vide w arm th for those who a t tend Following the service b reak host of old-time friends. fast will be served on the beach. ■— — Services at the Smith River All are invited to attend this se rv ice. In case of rain service will be held at the Com m unity church Mr. and Mrs. E v erett H ursh, accompanied by the la tte r’s Let Ralph Do It m other, Mrs. J. W. Moore, mo tored to Umpqua Sunday where they visited w ith Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hinkle. Mr. Hinkle is the Custom Farm Tractor Work son of Mrs. H ursh. Rotovatoing — Leveling Mr. and Mrs. John B arnum and three daughters left Monday on Ask For An Estimate a week's vacation to Portland and will spend E a ste r w ith the p a r ents of Mrs. Barnum , Mr. and Brookings, Oregon M rs M urtin Rice Phone 2274 RALPH A. YOUNG P. O. Box 596 aar 1 1 e w * DRYING AND hi I* FINISHING WORK BROOKINGS LAUNDRY “We do it ~~or — You do it“ Phone 2262 flc V A Y 'S G REEN H O U SE ON T H E W IN C H U C K POTTED AND CUT FLOWERS PHONE 2568 Harbor, Oregon Cur-Del Cleaners Fast, Efficient Cleaning & Pressing! PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE' IN BROOKINGS PHONE 2863 Agents far Del Norte Laundry was general and a station will soon be set up and functioning. Brookings 1 Labor Pilot Mrs. R uth Bathiany has offered THURSDAY, A PR IL 2, 1953 the use of a site and 24-hour ac cess to her private phone until W ith the organization of “O p one is available to the center ération Skyw atch,” by Civilian here. Those interested m ay con efense in the Brookings-H arbor tact Homer H aggerty for infor area, it brings to mind happen m ation. ings on this section of the P a -----------* .. cific coast at the beginning of W orld W ar II. Actually defense I Miss Grace Wells, dem onstra tor for electric appliances, visited PLANER ENDS work seemed a long way from her friend, Mrs. Eva Lee Long, this rem ote forest surrounded this past week. She has ju st re- ! spot, yet a full-tim e civilian de ceived a q u a rte r cent-ury pin for fense set-up operated 24 hours faithful service. H er territo ry in a day. S trangly this was the 1 cluded the K lam ath Falls-M ed Easy S treet only place on the continental U S. ford, G rants Pass area, Cobs Bay soil that was bombed. and coastal areas. O ther places shelled w ere Go- leta, Calif., north of Los Angeles; Seaside, Oregon, and Estevan Point on Vancouver Island, all presum ably shelled by guns on subm arines. On the m orning of Sept. 9, 1942 at 6:24 am ., a small two-wing seaplane, w ithout m arkings and sounding like a model T Ford engine, came in from the ocean, supposedly launched from a sub m arine. H ying low’ over the house tops it circled ML. Emily to the east of Brookings and re turned seaw ard in about 30 m in utes over the Crissey residence. Howard G ardner was “Lock- 1 o u t” at the U. S. F orestry Serv ice Station on Mt. Emily at the tim e and rem arked th at he could have shot it had he known it was a Ja p plane. Report to Civilian Defense headquarters in P ortland brought SEWER LINES, W ATER LINES, Army patrol planes to the area im m ediately and at 11:0(T a m. an DRAINAGE DITCHES, ETC., unidentified subm arine was sight ed and bombed w ith u n d eter At $12.50 PER HOUR mined results. L ater a rem ark was made to R uth Bathiany, on whose place the patrol set up a center, th a t we wouldn’t have any m ore trouble w ith th a t one. About 12:20 a small fire was ob served on Mt. Em ily and G ardner, P. O. Box 1240 HARBOR, OREGON w ith Freddie Flynn, Bob Larson and K eith Johnson, proceeded tc First House South of Sunset Motel the spot, w here they found small fires and a foot-deep crater-like hole, three feet across. S cattered about were m any little pieces of some spongy stuff about an inch square and a half inch thick, each with a hole in the center, c a rry ing an odor like burnt rubber or the smell of a carbide lamp. Heat had been so great th at in spots the ground was fused like cooled slag. The next day Ed M arshall, ac companied by Le» Colville, assist ant supervisor of Siskiyou N a tional Forest went to the scene ON HIGHWAY 101 - 5 M ILES NORTH O F CR ESC EN T CITY of the fire. Digging into the c ra te r they, found m etal, includ AT W ONDER STUM P ROAD ing a piece which looked like the fusehead of a bomb, w ith a little fan-lik » propeller set in the nose. Friday - Saturday, April 3 - 4— A ltogether they found about 40 pounds of m etal fragm ents and rubber bits, but apparently the IR E N E DUNNE - DEAN JAGGER bombing had been bungled. The plane had flown too low to per “ BEST OF TH E BADMEN” m it the tim er to do its full work. ROBT. RYAN - CLAIRE TREVOR The plane was heard by Tom Page, Mr. and Mrs. Crissey, Asa C arpenter, and others. Sunday and Monday, April 5 - 6— In no tim e Brookings was full of “Big B rass,” and m ilitary re strictions clamped on the area. GREGORY PECK - SUSAN HAYWARD A Coast Guard unit had been in stalled in the Chetco Inn l>efore “ARMY BOUND” that time. Additional coast guns STANLEY CLEM ENTS were set up and troops alerted. The year before on Dec. 17, 1941. the Emidio, freighter, was Tuesday - Wednesday - 1 hursday, April 7 - 8 - 9— bombed oiT the Crescent Ciiy point. It drifted into the harbor and a portion of the bow’ is now ERROL FLYNN - M AUREEN O’HARA a historical m ark er set in cement across the street from the Lauff “I I IE RAGING T ID E” hotel. Citizens have felt for ‘some SHELLEY W IN TER S - RICILARD CONTE tim e th at a unit of the Civilian 1 DeDfense should be functioning Friday and Saturday, April 10 - 11— locally at this tim e and are pleased that the organization is beginning to get under way. Last week at the Cham ber of ANTHONY S T E E L - DINAH SH ERID A N Commerce dinner, Lt. N orton Guon and Airman N orm an Macht “THE GREEN GLOVE” of the Portland F ilter Center GLENN FORD - G ERALDINE BROOKS ■ w ere present and asked for vol- • unteers for the work. Response It Did Happen Here December 9, 1942 7 FREE Firewood Westwood Co. ROY H. BROWN MORTUARY T R EN C H IN G W ORK DONE Frank's Plumbing & Electric Shop — OCEAN THEATRE— “ IT GROWS ON TREES" "DAVID and BATHSHEBA" ' AGAINST ALL FLAGS" "IVORY HUNTERS"
