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
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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
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> 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
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Your most convenient shopping con be easily done '
by telephone with the help of the classified poges of
W. H. 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
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