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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1953)
ot last year. A le tte r from the dent, as installing officers. brought Brookings to life and sta te highway departm ent was gave Crescent City and oth er lo The officers for C urry County THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1953 read in reference to installing a calities a boost. It concerns the Post 966 for the coming year are long culvert on the east side of whole comm unity. It was Tonv as follows: Commander, Al Phil the veterans’ property and bring A joint installation of officers lips; senior vice commander. Mson and his wife who first con ceived the idea of m aking this a was held W ednesday, April 1, by Ralph Wallace; junior vice com ing the present ditch area up to bulb country so we all could m ake C urry County Post 966. V eterans mander, W. L. Webb; adjutant, grade. a living and pay our taxes from of Foreign W ars and the A ux George Nelson; quarterm aster, our land. Many of us rem ember iliary to the Post, with W alter Howard Wallace; chaplain, Don well th at very few of us could I hatcher, jx>st comm ander, and Bingman; three-year trustee, The Lily M arket Investigation raise our ta xes from our land 15 H arriet Baker, past district presi- Homer Brown; surgeon, Sid Luce: post advocate, Milton Foster, and com m ittee is getting inquiries as years ago. The Olson idea was to w hat is doing this year. It is for the com m unity to pull to consume each year. The Croft officer of the day, Ezra Ross, thought best to put a report in the gether. The association was orig has few* com petitors as an east- The officers of the auxiliary to Pilot so all will get it alike. There inated on that plan. But unfor ern lily, but it has plenty of C urry County Post 966 for the a re reasons to believe there will tunately there are not enough ot them as a cutflow er. Lily bulbs coming year are as follows: P resi are beginning to come in from dent, Bertha W hirry; senior vice lx* a surplus again this year. Not the Olson kind. The jobber who bought the Cuba. If we are not interested to president, H enrietta Dill; junior n thing in the world can be done AFTER THE FIRE to save our lily business unless bulbs for six cents put them on w’ake up and get together on this vice president, Eleanor K ohler’ the m arket at the price ethical we definitely do som ething to take surplus problem someone else is. secretary, M ary Wallace; treas IS TO O LATE jobbers paid the grow ers w'ho The question is: Are we going urer, Clara Bowlin; chaplain, E r ca re of the surplus. Last year while the good job tried to hold things together. He to let this business go to the madee Let us see that you have LaBarge; conductress, bers did all they could to help us goes about among the growers winds, or do we have enough Frances Bingham; musician, Alice PROPER fire insurance to keep the business right-side spreading discord, then he goes com m unity pride to get busy and Beem; patriotic instructor, K ath protection NOW . up, a few other jobbers took ad hack to his place of beginning and try to save it? ryn F oster; historian, Mary Ol has many a good laugh over the van tag e to m ake them selves some The lily bulb business was sen; trustee, Gladys Brainard; Come i n . . . or ¡uit call. big money and ruin the m arket. jxxrr hayseed grow ers and how’ sta rte d in 1937 w’hen the late color bearers, M argaret Phillips, According to rejxirts from some easy they are to handle, gullible Sydney Croft brought his bulbs Helen Arlandson, Florence Davis of the unfo rtu n ate growers one to get all the gossip they c a r down here from Bandon aftei and ’ H arriet Baker. ‘ ARTHUR KNOX Jobber got a large percent of his about one another. The fact of the Bandon fire. The lily has The past post com m ander’s pin Insurance Agency bulbs for an average of six cents. the case is the grow ers ought to been the most profitable bulb was presented to Julius Kohler, O f course it was business for this wake up and pull together. The grown here. The business was the outgoing comm ander; a past Gallagher Bldg. Jobber to get his bulbs ju st as jood jobbers could pull w ith us. sta rte d to help those people who president’s pin to the outgoing PHONE 2211 cheap as he could according to but, as is, all jobbers and grow had a little land and am bition president, Gladys Brainard, and a his way of business. If the grow ers can see no fu tu re for the lily to m ake a living here at home, m usician’s pin to Alice Beem in e rs would do their part in getting business until the grow ers ta k e , It was not intended for ju st a recognition of the three years’ to g eth er to take care of the su r care of the surplus problem. We few’ to grow’ big on. It is still a service she has given in th at po MUTUAL T I M A S S O C IA T IO N plus this could not have hap all know’ that the capacity of the good business if only all could get. sition pened. lily bulb m arket is about 6,000,- the com m unity spirit and let all The auxiliary group later held It was the lily business th at (XX). T hat is all the m ark et will live. We truly face a crisis. This ch a rter draping services in mem- hly business will soon be in th e or>' of Mrs. Verna Asche, one of I hands of a few big growers, a n d ’ ^ e i r ch a rter members, who re others who have income from cently passed away in Portland. other business th at enables them D uring the installation, past to carry on their lily business at com m ander T hatcher read a spe SELL IT THRU THE « loss so as to bracket their in cial le tte r from the state com Pood at its best - - - T he best for less comes lower. m ander to Koehler for bringing About wages! T heir is no s ta n his m em bership away past that O U R D IN IN G R(X)M N O W O P E N FO R dard wage. Growers are paying as ’hey please. The lowest we have Breakfast ........................................ from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. heard of is 75c per hour. At least d in n e r week days 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m one grow er is paying $1.35 anu Sundays 12:00 nooon to 8:30 p m . on grow e r is paying $1.35 per hour R otary Club each Tuesday, 12:00 noon I his grow er has other business to Lions Club, 2nd and 1th W ednesdays, 7:30 p.m. live on One weedcr is getting UiiiiiU! P e ’. huj . muni!; lmnm m m m i;:(y:nn .i:.i:uu;muiuuui!:!fjuuilt!uuju::aunii;;iin;;iu m;;.;;;; i > a0 and feel» he m ust raise to SEWER LINES, WATER LINES. «.165. Best plan could be for all tntmnuuffife growers to grow ju st w hat they DRAINAGE DITCHES, ETC.. can take care of them selves and let the ones u h o have lilies as a sidehne pay $1.65 ,o r weeders. At $12.50 PER HOUR 6 Brookings Harbor Pilot V.F.W . 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BRADY O anlner Bldg hat would and take care of the surplus, too In spite of w hat happened last \e a r in the way of surplus, it is beyond all sense of business to com prehend why the growers planted back even m ore this year than last year. Surplus m eans bulbs grown by grow ers who have no m arket for th eir lilies. Thev expect to “snitch” a m arket from some o th er grow er—from just any neighbor, and at just any price. It seem s that Solon of old himself would have a hard time to know how to handle the situ a tion But if every grow er would do his honest honorable p art there would be no problem at all. M arket Investigation Comm Brookings. Oregon BROOKINGS AUTO PARTS A U TH O R IZE D BROOKINGS CLINIC your directory! There ot your fingertips are all the businesses, services and products you need. Next time, shop the classified way and take the hopping out of your shopping! Office hours. 9 a m 5 p. m DR. R. E. SMITH D EN TIST PH O N E 2831 Dr. Richard L. 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