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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1953)
V U □ Library Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community Thursday, April 30, 1953 BROOKINGS, CURRY COUNTY, OREGON \ olitine 8—Number 9 Shepherds Aid By-Pass Open Hunters, Fisherman On Gilbert Creek The Gilbert Creek by-pass on Highway 101, south of the state line, was officially opened to tra v el a t about 1 :00 p.m. on T ues day, April 28. T here is an 820- foot deto u r east of the original highway bridge, which was w ash ed out in one of the torrential rains of last w inter. The detour goes through land belonging to Ray Struebing and over a culvert w here the creek narrow s and is less deep. Traffic had been routed over the old highway and across a bridge built by logging companies and private in terests a fte r the 101 highway bridge went out. It is hopixl that a perm anent bridge will be built in this loca The Shepherds left Monday for tion on 101 before another win a tour of th eir territo ry . te r rolls around. Mr. Shepherd and his wife de signed and built at th eir P ortland factory the Shep-C raft boat for 8b outboard motors. The factory was sold before .their coming to Last rites w ere held on W ed Brookings. They m ade it possible for the Lions club to offer a nesday, April 29, a t Crescent Shep-Craft to raffle through the City for Mrs. Ray Wilhelm of sale of tickets. This sale of tic k Kalispell, Mont., who was a pas senger in a private plane that ets is now going on. Gordon Goetz of Goetz C ot crashed near th ere April 2. Her tages is local rep o rter for the brother and two small children Fishing and H unting News, and w ere on the plane. They had phones in fishing conditions been visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Scotty W right of C res weekly. cent City, and sister, Mrs. Rita Tierce, of Brookings. Mrs. W ilhelm ’s decapitated body was found in the Crescent City harbor on Friday. ------------* —i-------- Blossom Behee will present a ballet concert May 7 at the high school gym at 8:00 p.m. It will be sponsored by the P.-T.A. and will be free to the public. The C urry county home ex ten A thirty-m inute ballet, entitled "The Fairy G arden,” will be p re sion u nits will hold a festival at sented. Also other num bers will the O phir G range hall, eight include "Chinese Dance,” "In a miles beyond Gold Beach on Clock Shop,” "The W altzing C at.” Highway 101. G arm ents m ade this year by "The Magic Music Box,’’ “R ag gedy Ann and Andy.” "The S k a t home extension units and 4-H e r s ' W a l t / . " ‘‘The OM Piano Roll groups will be modeled. The date is May 6 and tim e Blues,” and "Red Riding Hood 10:00 to 3:30, w ith luncheon at and the Wolf.” noon, costing $1. Also a nursery T w enty-three youngsters will is provided at a cost of 50c and participate in the program . Stage settings will lx* done by child’s noon lunch All m others who used this facility last year Mrs. Cliff Lindskoug. w ere very pleased w ith the care. Mr. Tom Poffenberger, family life specialist, will bi* the main speaker; also Mrs Iva Kilj>atrick, president Oregon S ta te Home The Lions Auxiliary held a Extension Council, will speak m eeting April 24 at the Chetco about the coming world m eeting Inn. The following officers w ere of Hom em akers of the World. elected: Boots Shipley, president; A rrangem ents are being made Jean W hite, vice president; M ar by Faye S ta n h u rst in hope every garet Phillips, secretary; Elma one wishing to go shall have a Mitchell, tre a su re r; Laurel P hete ride. teplace, lion tam er; Z erreta Reed. All cars and those needing a Amanda Hammon, and D orothy ride are o m eet a t the C entral H erm ann, board of directors. building at 8:00. All those wishing to become Everyone is welcome c h a rte r m em bers m ust a tte n d the Mr. and Mrs. Pillars have re next meeting, to be held Friday. May 1. 8:00 pm . at the Chetco opened the Town House, which i was closed since Ja n u ary 1 Inn Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Shepherd have been appointed rep resen ta tives of Rudy L aehenm eier’s Weekly H unting and Fishing News for southern Oregon and northern California. This very popuar publication is valued by fisherm en and h u n t ers as the very latest conditions in the area to be fished or h u n t ing are phoned in to the P ortland office weekly and can be referred to. How the w eather conditions are, if the fish are biting, w hat bait or tackle is taking fish, etc. The ‘‘know’ before you go” phone compiled fishing conditions is fast becoming a m ust by the fishing public. Services Held Wed. For Plane Victim ♦ Ballet Concert Presented May 7 Homemakers' Festival ♦ Lions Auxiliary Elects Officers ♦ SPRING CLEAN-UP WEEK Next week a proclam ation by Mayor Robt. Dimmick will sta rt the ball rolling in the Spring Clean-Up W eek campaign, and we hope the dirt, rubbish and tin cans will begin rolling off to the garbage dumps. All and sundry will take up rakes, brooms or paint brushes to give our streets and yards a grooming that will be very ap parent when our Azalea Festival guests arrive at the end of the m onth of May. It isn’t a bit too soon to begin, because a fte r the big jobs are finished, many sm aller ones will crop up to take our e x tra time. We can pick up the com busti ble, decomposable and broken m aterial from our yards, garages and vacant lots, clean street areas, and have all rubbish re moved. A fter these things are done we might plant a few shrubs or flow ers and apply a new fresh paint job to dress up our new’ growing city for the approval of those visiting us. Many hands m ake light work, our grandm others used to say, and working to g eth er we can accomplish much in cleaning up unsightly areas be fore Festival time. Bus Operates On Daylight Saving Am. Legion Aux. Honors Officers Beavers Hosts To Merchants Sunday The local American Legion Auxiliary entertained at a lunch eon a t Don’s Cliff House on Thursday. April 23, honoring de partm ent and district officers. Mrs. Gayle Kreason, d e p a rt ment president of the S ta te of Oregon, m ade her official call D epartm ent finance officer, Nell W alters, accompanied her. Mrs T reasea D evereaux of Coos B a \. Dist. No. 10 president, anil J e u i S tra tto n of Port Orford, d e p a rt m ent ¡Americanism chairm an, were also present. The elaborate luncheon was a t tended by 20 guests. Mrs. R e a son sp ik e on Com m unity Serv ice, N ational Security, Am erican ism and G irls’ State. Mrs. Blossom Behee presented her dance pupils in a program , and the guests w ere taken to Marine H eights for a view of the surrounding country and coast line. The Brookings Beavers will p’ay host to the ('rescent City M er chants in the first practice gam e of the season on the local high school diamond at 2 o’clock next Sunday afternoon. Wet grounds prevented the* Beavers from working out th e •>as‘ two Sundays and they will go into the first game with noth ing hut two light practices which are scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday evenings of this week. Pitcher-m anager Jim L ow m ai has not designated a mound choice for the Sunday game and it is likely that he will spread the pitching chores between two or three men due to no h u rler being in shape yet. Bunky P e ter son will do the receiving. F irst new’ player to report to the club is Ron Monello, outfielder, from Los Angeles. O ther players who will see action for the Beavers on Sunday are W hitey Matson, Frank Burdell, Jim B arrett, Don Karns, Bill Darnell. Bill W allace, and Gale Allman, the la tte r from Crescent City Infieder Len Rey- noldson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Rcynoldson, will also play w ith the Beavers during his leave from the Navy. Ken K im ura, popular outfielder with Brookings during the 1950 and 1951 seasons, will be back this summ er. Ken is currently playing for S o u th e rn Oregon at Ashland and may be able to m ake the trip to B ro o k ings this weekend. On Sunday, May 10. the Beav ers will play the M erchants a retu rn game at Peterson P ark in Crescent City. ♦ New P. O. Boxes Being Installed Six hundred new post office boxes arrived last week and are being installed at the expense of the local Cham ber of Commerce This will m ake a total of 1.000 private boxes and were all on a w aiting list and im m ediately rented to patrons. T here will yet be a gixxlly num ber in general delivery. R earrangem ent of present box and hall space has provided wall, space for the new boxes, but gives the post office staff less working space. Pacific Greyhound Lines' bus schedules will operate on Day light Saving time effective April 26, 1953, in those areas observ ing the tim e change, according t< an announcem ent made this week by Glen G. Magnuson, general traffic and sales m anager of the company. A rrivals and departures listed in the bus com pany’s tim e tables, and clocks of Pacific Greyhound At a w ell-attended meeting, depots in the areas affected will following the annual fellowship coincide w ith Daylight Saving supper, the Community Baptist t ime. church last Wednesday heard re ports of the y ear’s work and elected the new officers. Dr Charles Durden, the interim pastor, was elected m oderator, Members of the Board of E du and reports were given by all of cation, their wives and husbands ficers and workers. and wives of the faculty were Many new plans were laid for guests of th e Brookings-Harbor the year ahead and it is expect teachers’ organization at a dinner ed that im m ediate operations on held Tuesday night, April 28. at the new building will commence Don’s Cliff House. shortly. Following the dinner a short The parsonage is. being reno business m eeting was held and vated and painted, and Dr. and the officers for the ensuing year Mrs. Durden will move in shortly. took th eir oath of office. Mrs Communion service will be ob Carol Baldwin was elected presi served next Lord’s Day in tin dent; Miss La Von W agner, vice m orning service. The pastor’s president, and Mrs. Iris Kindel. topics for the day a re : 11:00 a m . secretary-treasurer. "In the Cup"; 7:30 p.m , " P e r Mrs. Peterson, w’ho will teach suading Men Concerning J e s u s ' in M yrtle Creek next year, was The public is most cordially in presented a "going aw ay" gi t. vited. A fter adournm ent the group CLEAN UP — PA IN T UP enjoyed the movies recently made by Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Redfield, READDY FOR AZALEA FESTI- \*AL Sr., in Mexico. ♦ Comm. Baptist Ch. Annual Meeting ♦ Teachers Honor Board and Elect ♦ —♦---- Mr. & Mrs. Jacobs Married 53 Years Mr. and Mrs Joseph T. Jacobs celebrated their fifty-third wed ding anniversary on Tuesday, April 28. They w ere guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Fisher, Sm ith River, at dinner and called a t The Pilot to show friends photos taken at the time of their m ar riage. This fine couple w ere the hon ored guests at a golden wedding reception three years ago on this date, when m any guests gathered in Chetco Grange hall to con g ratu late them. Friends and neighbors tender their congratulations and good wishes. Mr. Jacobs is a retired Advan- tist m inister, who came to the Brookings area when the C rott lily bulb w as first grown and in demand. He grew the bulbs on an extensive scale until the las. couple years. The Jacobs are at home iu W est Brookings, on Highway 101 and Easy street. — ♦ -------- _ Mr. and Mrs. Fay W illard. Dallwood, were weekend callers of friends here. Mr. W illard was employed by the Plywood plant last sum m er.
