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: SMITH RIVER :
day are as follows: Sunday
school, 10:00 a.m.. w ith J. W.
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♦ Hall, superintendent. E aster m es
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By E thel Gendlin
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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BROOKINGS LAUNDRY
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Phone 2262
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PHONE 2568
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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G ERALDINE BROOKS
■ w ere present and asked for vol-
• unteers for the work. Response
It Did Happen Here
December 9, 1942
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Firewood
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Frank's Plumbing & Electric Shop
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