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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1953)
z HARBOR NEWS WOODRIFF AWAY Alan WoodrifT is now in Boze man. Mont., where he is visiting at the home of his oldest son, Ray. A few days bef , re he left on the trip, he had the misfortune of breaking the small bone in his left arm and it is in a cast. Be fore returning home, he also plans to visit a sister and a brother in Denver. Construction Starts lor, Colgrovc I hint Brookings Habor Pilot 7 TRAVIS SON HOME Ken Taylor and Brother Col- l ilt RSDAY. AUGUST 27. 1953 On New Library Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Travis are grove lett last week for a month enjoying a visit from their son. Work began on the new’ library long hunting trip in northern While there they’ll be hunting Sgt. Albert L. Travis who brought Wednesday with the setting of the t anada. I he two plan to return for mooae, caribou, mountain with him his new bride, the wed forms by LeRoy Weideman. River about September 10. sheep, grizzlies, and any other gravel will then be spread and the ding having taken place August The pair plan to hunt in the game they might run across. 24x48 concrete slab poured as 19 at Fort Wayne, Indiana. After wilds north of Prince George. soon as Charlie Stanhurst spots a visit here and in eastern Ore 1 heir ultimate destination is a in the plumbing. gon. Sgt. and Mrs. Travis will re There is no friend like indus five-day pack from the end of the try; cultivate it, and you will This was the report given by road. turn to Fort Wayne where he is the building committee to the never tail. Bhartrihari. an instructor in the Indiana Na SPOKANE PEOPLE LEAVE and Mrs. Albert McCrow board at its Monday night meet tional Guard. He is also a vet and Mr. daughter of Spokane left for eran of the Korean conflict and their home Saturday after being ing. World War II. As soon as this plumbing work here a week visiting Mr. Mc- Another son of the Travis’, Sgt. MiCrow’s mother, Mrs. Tony Ol is roughed in, actual construction will be started. Dale Travis, recently received his sen. The board decided to ask by discharge from the army upon his postcard for volunteer workers HALLS HAVE VISITORS return from a year’s service in Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hall are when they can be used. Some will Korea. He plans to attend the University of Oregon this year, enjoying a two weeks visit from be required on the pouring of the Mrs. Hall’s sister, Mrs. Grace slab. 443 books were loaned in taking a pre-medical course. July by the library from its pres Mr. and Mrs. Travis plan to Goings of Orland, Calif. "Where Food is Food" ent quarters. leave soon on a trip to Sisters, MRS THATCHER HOME Oregon where they will become Mrs. Walter Thatcher returned acquainted with their newest home recently after being gone Municipal Records I or our friends and guests in Brookings— grandson at the home of another three months visiting her mother MUNICIPAL COURT son, Charles. and other relatives in Weisbolden, Beverley Jean Sanders, speed 1 he Finest Food on the G ust Germany. She made the trip hv ing, fined $20 with $10 suspended CALIFORNIANS VISIT air. upon payment of $10. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Severs and Irma Shearer, double-parked, son Dennis of Escondido, Calif., 4-H YOUNGSTERS WIN Breakfasts, Lunches and Dinners forfeited $5 bail. and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Severs of Members of the Winchuck Live John A. Klingensmith. solicit Alhambra visited at the home of stock 4-H Club were pretty good Merchant’s Lunch 85c Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bowlin on the calf scramblers at the County ing, forfeited $30 bail. Vernon B. Pierson, soliciting, Winchuck last week. They were Fair Sunday, with four of them Steaks on their way home after a five bringing home calves to raise this forfeited $30 bail. Walter II. Harris, parked on Nothing but the Finest Baby Beef week trip which took them up year and take back to the fair into Canada. next year to exhibit. Those lucky yellow line, fined $2. Donah! E. Cuddie, angle parked Sea F< xh I and tired youngsters are Mervin SHIPLEYS LEAVE Pettegrew, Janet Crump, Gary and meter expired, fined $2. Mr. and Mrs. William Shipley Bowlin and Clyde Oliver. have moved to Crescent City to weekend. Pat is thè 1952 Azalea O n H i g h w a y 101 N orth E nd of I o w n live as Bill, who has worked for HYLANDS AT WEDDING iueen and has been working in Mr. and Mrs. Emery Hyland Eugene since she graduateti troni the past five years at the Texaco F ormerly the T own H ouse Station in Brookings, is now em plan to go to Eugene this week high school last June. end to attend the wedding of their ployed at the Standard Station in daughter, Pat, the wedding being Crescent City. Need something? Try the want planned for sometime during the j ads- I a O'HoUeran's SO THAT THE PUBLIC MAY KNOW THE TRUTH! t:,ly oG h • r t n l'sk "l " l‘" WaV “ ■ ir,M,k" ’gs. Watcr Company is not “adequate and safe” as intimated by the action the Council, and uliat is the nature of the "emergency” that exists. We are unable to state what die Council system Z i t w T s p X h e d inents:S < > ' ,K Pl'hlK ‘nf° “ k"°W ab° Ut " f ‘hc a municipal water °f ' he unfounded rumors- we make the following state- 1. The water supply of the Brookings Water Company is more than “adequate” for the entire city with . n.neteen million (19,000.000) gallon reservoir for reserve just completed. No shortage for sprinkling would have k e n experienced this summer except for acts of certain individuals who made it inqx.ssil le for u t ,0 use part of our supply for a short period. 2. The water is “ safe”. Reports from the Oregon State Board of Health lak.ratory state, “This water con forms with accepted bacteriological standards of purity for drinking watcr”. 3. The Brookings Water Company is willing to immediately install fire hydrants throughout the City of Br.M.kmgs if the ( tty Council wi II give the necessary assurance IN W RITING that revenue for fire hydrant service will be forthcoming if the Brookings Water Company is to obligate itself for such a huge expenditure 4. No individual or group of individuals has ever k e n quoted any fixed price for the purchase of the B ook ings Water Company. At an informal meeting in the fall of 1952 at the office of the Broo kings Water Com pany, m the presence of two members of the Public Utilities Commission and m em krs of the City Council Mayor Dimmick asked if we would consider selling the Brookings Water Company. The answer was “ Yes” ’ 1 he next question was, “At what price?” At «hat time, and at all times since, I have consistently refused to fix a price, hut always stated that the only fair way to establish a price is to first have a reputable firm of cng„ u ,,.. SATISFACTORY' TO ALL PARTIES CONCERNEb. ™ ..... ... “ S I T J no such appraisal has been requested or made. 1 t * BROOKINGS WATER COMPANY E. BANKLS, Owner
