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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1953)
r or o t.’rrj.nv On all newsstands.—. IOC Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community \ ohune S—Number 20 ________ BROOKINGS, CURRY COUNTY, OREGON Lily Blossom Parade Sunday SCHOOL GROUND GETS FACE LIFTING A convoy of dum p trucks reach ing from Brookings to the other side of San Francisco would be needed to haul the earth which baseball fans are moving on the school grounds located a t the corner of Pioneer road and Easy street. Baseball boosters are fu r nishing bulldozers and other earth-m oving equipm ent to fill the huge gulch which bisects the 17-acre school property. When the job is completed they will level the entire area and prepare it for a student .playground as well as a municipal baseball park. About 225,000 tons of ea rth are being moved at very little cost to the school district. C ontrac tors estim ate it would cost nearly $20,000 if handled commercially. The school board has furnished tile for underground drainage of the gulch which bisects the prop erty and has com m itted itself for other expenses of a m inor nature. Baseball boosters are donating the equipment and labor which m akes the lion’s share of the $20,000 earth-m oving job. Among the donors of equipm ent are Wilson Freem an, Ross P u t nam, L. D. Anderson, Art Crook, Floyd Sw earingen, M erle Han- scam, A1 S arver, W arren Mc Neely and Webb Logging Co. N u merous individuals have worked on the project including W hitey Engaging the eyes of m any visitors this week will be countless lily blossoms grown in the fields Matson, Hom er H aggerty F rank adjacent to Brookings. Shown above is a sample preview of what more and more tourists are look- Chapin. F rank Burdell, Ron Mo nel lo, Archie Hendricks, Corky __*nK h u u .n d to when viewing the popular Lily Blossom Time Festival in this area. (Continued on Hack Page) Supper to Meet Governor, Party A buffet supper will be held at the Roti and Gun Club in honor of Governor and Mrs. Paul L. Patterson and his m other, S a tu r day evening. Because of the limited space on ly one hundred tickets will be for sale at the Chetco Drug Store. 'Eddy' Krause Goes to Reward Masonic funeral services for Edward “Eddy” K rause, 82. were held at the Com m unity Baptist church on W ednesday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. Mr. K rause passed away on Sunday, July 12, at the hospital ift Gold Beach. He was born at Ann Arbor, Mien., March 16, 1871. The body was taken to Grants Pass for cremation by the Brown Mortuary. HARD TO P RACES CANCELED The hardtop races scheduled for Sunday. July 19 at Gold Beach have been canceled in favor of Lily Blossom Time. VARIETY FEATURE FOR PARADE The seventh annual Lily Blos som Time will he celebrated in Brookings this w’eekend w ith a parade on Sunday led by Gover nor Paul L. Patterson. It form er parades are any indi cation of what may be expected guests, friends and neighbors will not be disap|M)inted in this year's «‘vent. Hundreds of thousands of I E aster lilies will be used to deco rate floats of organizations, places of business, the tim ber industry and of the growers of Croft lilies as well as outside entries. Bands, horses comics, teen-agers and children on bicycles or leading pets are expected to join the pa rade which undoubtedly will lx» the most beautiful held here. I'he Croft E a ste r lily that is seen most abundantly in this sec tion ot Oregon and northern Cali- I fornia norm ally blooms at this time of year. Bulbs, two years old will be m arketed this fall and forced to bloom for the E aster trade. 1 he parade will form on the Cross road near the ClifT House at 12:30 lor Judging. Highway traffic will be routed around town via Easy street. The parade proper will s ta rt at 1.30 p m. and proceed on Highway 101 through town and dis|x»rse near H oagland’s property. Adult lily pickers are needed to supply blooms for floats. Any- ( Continued un B ack Page) Ackley Appointed POSTOFFICES TO BE CONSOLIDATED City Attorney All over the country the Post Office D epartm ent is consolidating Post Offices where there are two close to each other, and that is what is being planned for Brook ings and H arbor a fte r the first of the year. In the central part of the county, W edderburn is be ing combined with Gold Beach. W hile definite plans a re n ’t com pleted, rural routes will probably Hanscams Give Orchids H anscam ’s S h o p p i n g C enter was a popular place Friday and S atu rd ay of last week when the H anscam s featured the F rigidaire refrig erato r on special sale. A model finished in silver and gold gave the housewife some intim ation of w hat she could ex pect in the Frigidaire line. Orchids were presented to the ladies and tops to the children Many viewed the electrical appli ances carried by the store and kept all clerks busy until a late clus.ng hour. | be run out into the area form erly served by the H arbor Post Office. The change is not planned until a larger place is found for the Brookings Post Office, which is now not large enough to serve the people of Brookings adequate- ly. Mrs. H arriet Payne, postm aster at H arbor, is planning to retire a fte r 35 years of service, all of GORDON OLSEN IN LUCKY’ ACCIDENT Gordon Olsen had one of those lucky” accidents last Thursday night when he was returning home from a trip to Medford. About 2 a m . he took to the ditch in his ’51 Austin to avoid knocking a deer in front of an o th er car about two miles west of Cave Junction. The car was turned upside flown but neither he nor his 12- year-old daughter, K athleen, were hurt. A passing truck helped right the car and furnished enough deisel oil to get him to a station. They arrived home at S a m . the next day. which was at the Post Office here Mrs. K athryn Foster was added to the force as clerk when the rating was changed to third class in 1944. In order for a station to become a first class Post Off! re it is necessary to have total receipts am ounting to $40,000. The com bined proceeds of Brookings and Harix)r are approxim ately $34,- 000. Ed F Ackley was appointed city atto rn ey Tuesday evening by the Council, to fill the vacancy occurring when Sam Hall was ap- appointed C urry County Distrie A ttorney. When asked for a statem ent Mr. Ackley said: "I greatly appreciate my ap pointm ent as city attorney. Brookings is my home town I like it. I have watched it grow from a small spot on the highway to th e position of im portance it now holds among Oregon cities. Much of our com m unity growth is directly a ttrib u tab le to the The Lions (Tub will have in energy and foresight of those fin«» stalled 50 m etal street signs hy men who comprise our City Friday night on all the principal Council. It is my pleasure and streets of Brookings privilege to work with them as A cem ent m ixer donated by their atto rn ey .” Elm er Bankus and a chain-saw Mr. Ackley first came to Brook jiost hole digger which the Brook ing! the la tte r p art of 1945 with ings Auto P a rts loaned to the [ his office in the C entral Building m em bers helped get the signs in now occupied by Brrxikings Ply sooner. Metal posts set in ce wood P lant. He moved his office ment with m etal signs are g«xxl to the H endricks Building two looking and will last a long time. years la te r where he also has These signs were purchased by | living quarters. Mrs. Ackley the city and the Lions have in (Cornelia) is away at tim es serv stalled them as a comm unity ing in her profession as labora tory technician. set vie ». Lions Install Street Signs
