Brookings-Harbor pilot., December 17, 1953, Image 1

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On the
Breakwater
By BILL PH ELPS
'Harbor fHût
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You’ll note, I hope, th a t I have f
changed the nam e of this colum n.
Phe reason is because of a deep
diabolical plot w hich C h arles j
G rayshel has been form ulating,
hut which he let slip at the last
C ham ber m eeting.
C harley is head of the H a rb o r
C om m ittee of the C ham ber of
Commerce, and he cSsually mert- Volume
tinned last week h e’s planning to
build a b re ak w ate r. And w here
will he build this b r e a k w a te r9
Right on the top of my reef!
C harley didn’t say so, but I ’ve ,
a sneaking suspicion th a t he p la n ­
ned to erect his b re a k w a te r at a
m om ent w hile I w as occupying
the reef, tool! M aybe he th in k s I
I’d sound b e tte r under a few tons
of concrete. Lots of people do.
Anyway, w e’ve moved. And we t
don't care if the b re a k w a te r isn t 1
\ ry su b stan tial.
W e’ve tak en
som e u n su b stan tial positions be- 1
fore now.
Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community
S—Number 42
BIO lliK I \
PRH r ON
( I KIU COI N TV . OREGON
NEW *STANI»S— TE N < I N T s
1 liursd.iy, December 17, 195$
School Vote Monday
ROBBERS GET
$260 FROM
SCHOOL FUNDS
We received this week a le tte r
to the ed ito r w hich rem inded us
of som ething we should have said
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q uite aw hile ago, and h av e n ’t. It
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concerns th e condition of the w a t­
er in the C ity of B rookings.
As o u r correspondent rem inds
us, the fav o rite topic of co nver­
sation in th e old days w as th e
shade of the w a te r on th a t p a r­
ticu lar day, and it could be p re tty
w arm topic, too. P robably m ore
nasty things have been said about
the w a te r here than have been
said about H a rry T ru m an , and
th a t’s going some.
But recently some changes have
lieen m ade, and th ro u g h th re e
terrific storm s w hat have we h a d ?
W ater. D rinkable, see th rough-
able w a te r th a t looked like w a te r,
and. as nearly as I can rem em ber,
tasted like w ater.
Now. m aybe Mr. B ankus th in k s
he was doing us a favor w hen he
cleared up the city w a te r supply.
But th e re ’s one thing su re . . . he
certain ly rem oved a sa lty subject
for conversation.
I ’m not su re w h at people a re
cussing about now.
Of course,
th e re ’s alw ays P ioneer Road and
the City streets, but th a t gets old.
We m ight even s ta rt a survey for
new things to object to. I planned
to stop in Gold Beach th e last
tim e I was th ro u g h and ask Ju d g e
F orsyth w hat he m ost objected to,
but a few kind souls dissuaded m e
. . . me am ong them .
I t ’s ce rtain ly tough, being un-
aWe to fum e about th e w ater. But
for heaven's sake, le t’s not a n y ­
body tell Mr. B ankus ‘th an k you’.
Might set a n asty precedent.
A Sorry Morning After
U nidentified
robbers
F riday
night broke open a safe in th •
B ro o k in g s-H arb o r high school o f-
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an<1 escaped w ith about $260
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m cash. Police w ere still search-
ing for them today.
T he thieves left deed, checks,
and o th e r papers w hich they
found in th e safe, ta k in g only c u r ­
rency. Included in th e loot w as
$98.00 in a stu d en t fund, $42.00
from a m ilk fund, $60.00 p e tfy
cash, and $50.00 in tex t book sales
receipts.
A ccording to S ta te Policem an
R ay G ard n er, th e opened safe
looked as if it w ere an a m a te u r
job. T he robbers pried off th e
knob on th e safe door, then labor-
ously pried th e sheet steel th at
com prised the door from its
fram e. O nce inside, th e pried th
bolts out of th e ir sockets to open
the door.
T his is th e v ew th a t g re eted S u p erin ten d e n t of Schools Lynn
H am pton S a tu rd a y m orning, a f te r thieves had broken into and
robbed th e safe in th e high school office.
In th e c e n te r is th e
m u tila te d safe, w hile sca tte red p ap e rs on the desk show h u rried
search of the b u rg lars for m oney.
SCHOOL BOARD
RECOMMENDS
WITHDRAWAL
V o ters of th e B ro o k in g s-H arb o r
High School D istrict will go to
the polls M onday to decide w h e th ­
e r D istrict 17C should w ith d raw
from th e C ounty R u ral School
D istrict. T he polls will be open
from tw o to eight P.M. at th e
school.
M em bers of the school bo ard
u n an '* ''o u sly ag reed last w eek to
ta ll the election, a f te r it becam e
?p a r t th at the local d istric t
I had g ra d u a te d in to class A s ta tu s.
B rookings, w ith 1019 children lis t­
ed in th e school census, is th e
first d is tric t of th e county to
reach th a t sta tu s.
T he th re e board m em bers also
u n anim ously recom m ended to the
v o ters of the d istric t th at they
approve w ith d raw al, saying th a t,
in th e ir opinion, it would c re a te
very s u b s ta n tia l savings in tax es
here.
If th e d istrict does w ith d raw
from th e C ounty R u ral School
D istrict, it m eans th at tax es from
th is d istric t will be used to s u p ­
p o rt this d istric t, instead of be­
ing ap p o rtio n ed in a county w id e
fund as th ey have been.
W hile th e savings to the d is­
tric t w ould be h ard to estim ate,
due to y e a rly v aria tio n s, m em bers
of th e school Iwiard believe th a t
it would save about .$20,000 this
year.
F o r an ex am p le they cited Iasi
y e a r’s budget, in w hich the C oun­
ty School B oard cut D istrict 17’s
budget by $14,000. A fte r the tax
levy, ta x p a y e rs of th e d istric t
bad paid $27,(XX) m o re in school
tax es to the co u n ty th an th e ir
d istrict had received, and w ere
still short th e 14,(MX) budget cut.
A seco n d ary re su lt of an af-
| firm ativ e vote on w ith d raw al
would b< to m ak e th e office of
C ounty School S u p erin ten d e n t in
elective office, ra th e r th an an a p ­
pointive one u n d er th e control of
th e county school board.
A ccording to Lynn H am pton.
S u p erin ten d en t of th e school, the
robbery took place betw een 10:30
F riday night, and before 8 S a t ­
urday m orning. Police agreed th at
he job m ust have tak en a c o n ­
Tht B ro o k in g s-H arb o r Cham -1
h er of C om m erce looked back this w o rking m ay be g e ttin g n e a re r
siderable tim e.
week on a y e a r which saw defi- i r e a Hty, and th e C h am b er’s effo rts
E n tra n c e to th e building w as nite progress for th e C ity of to g et th a t road built seem to
rained th ro u g h a back door. T he Brookings.
be b earin g fru it.
hieves first tried to tak e it from
T h e rejM>rt delivered to th e
And action tak en by the C ham ­
ts hinges, then tried to pry the
C h am b er on a H a rb o r also m ade
ock off. F ailing to do so, they ber th is year, u n d er the lead e r­ th a t project seem feasible, and
broke a w indow in the door to ship of re tirin g president Clive th e g roup is opening a cam paign
M anley, lay th e groundw ork for
reach th e lock.
to bring a H arb o r into re a lity
w en m ore im pressive strid es in
in th e n e a r fu tu re .
T he robbers also pried open a fu tu re years.
P resid en t M anley told m em beis
locked file in Mr. H am ilton’s o f­
D uring the past year, local re si­
fice, prying the door out of th e d en ts saw the population as well of the C h am b er at th e last m eet­
fram e. T hey evidently failed to as th e n um ber of businesses in ing at w hich he presided th at
ta k e th e tro u b le to find out th a t th e city swell rapidly. A ccording c e rta in ly th e g roup could lx
(a) th e file w as unlocked, and to th e s e c re ta ry of s ta te ’s office, proud of th e ir effo rts th ro u g h th*
I was in close conversation the 'b i th a t th e keys w ere hanging B rookings is probably the m ost past y ear, and th a t they looked
fo rw ard to g re at things to com e
oth er day w ith a person who, from beside it. It contained nothing rapidly grow ing city in Oregon.
of those efforts.
h's m ud-stained appearance, is in but papers.
And business here is. in the
close contact w ith the problem of
belief of th e C h am b er’s d irecto rs,
Pioneer Road.
This individual
m ore stab le th an it has been in
dum bfounded me, though, by c h a l­
past years. W hile the firs? blush
lenging me to a little test. 11“
is w orn off the boom, the city ’s
um in tow n v m. S e n t a C laus, as
offered to tak e me blindfolded
grow th has recen tly been solid
ch
ild ren eag erly aw aited his com ­
over Pioneer Road and some o th e r
and su b stan tial.
ing.
He v is due for his first stop
citv streets, and he bet th a t I
S ales of C h ristm a s seals in
.
A m ong th e principle achieve-
T h e m ain street of B rookings T uesday, ab o u t 11 a m., when he
couldn t
Ol2£‘ s ’re ^
* n ’ C u rr>’ co unty w ere up from la s ’ , m en ts of the y ea r to w hich the began ta k in g on a Y uletide glow would a p p e a r at T o ts To T eens,
ot ler. ion < t
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• '»*at. as th e d iiv e neared its clos- C h am b er could ¡mint w as th e this w eek, as C h ristm a s sh o p p eis and he would ap p e ar again on
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ng point, according to Mrs. Ire n e m in tin g a;,d d istrib u tio n of th “ crow ded th e s tre e ts and m er- C h ristm a s Eve at th e tree to he
i l l. K oeller, chairm an of th e d»ive. C harrioer’s brochures, advertisin g ch a n ts began e re c tin g C h ristm a s erected by the firem an in front
I didn t t a n
lm up on i or
R eceipts through D ecem ber 15 . rirookings as th e ideal city in d eco ratio n s,
of th e C en tral building
one thing, m pre y cer am a to talled $1,168.10. up $134.75 for [ w hich to live and to vacation T he
Local sto res p lanned to stay
A n u m b er of resid en ts wen*
I couldn t s *a ” a ‘ a '’ °
^axp
sam e period last year.
b ro ch u res have receiv d p raise open evenings u n til nine, from aw aitin g S u n d ay night, when o u t­
ing
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booth m a n n e r by v o lunteers from all over th e co u n try
S a tu rd a y on, to accom m odate the door d eco ratio n s w ere scheduled
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f ' nn r a n ’t m a t •
1 1P A / a ^ea G arden Club and
Also accom plished w as the «hoppers, alth o u g h m ost of them to be tu rn e d on for th e first tim e
inea. / t» i a , i
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1 °P«*z P.5>bekah Lodge at the O re- building of a T ourist Inform atio n would close at six on C h ristm as th is C h ristm a s season. Ladies of
»he stre e
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-?°P S ta te B ank c o n trib u ted to C enter, w hich has been v irtu ally ' Eve.
th e A zalea G arden C lub said a
they're streets?
he la rg e r sales. \ o lu n te e rs who com pleted, and will be ready for 1 T he holidays w ere in the a ir as g re a t deal of in tere st had been
m anned th e booth w e re: Mrs. action for next su m m er’s tou*'-j C h ristm a s approached. T he post aroused by th e ir cam paign for
MASONS TO HOLD S E R V IC E
Jam es E. K oeller, Mrs. L ester G. sts.
office, ov erlo ad ed w ith packag* s ou td o o r lights.
The annual St. Jo h n ’s service 1’wohy, Mrs. W ayne Davis, Mrs.
But m ore im p o rtan t, probably, opened a te m p o ra ry branch in th»
will be held at th e V FW H all E dith Ackley, M rs. G eorge M ur- was th e w ork done on th e tw o K err building to d iv ert som< ot A N N U A L PARTY SATURDAY
Decem ber 27. 1953, a t 8 p.m. w ith ry, Mrs. N orton L aB rook, Mrs. m ajo r hopes of Brookings. Con­ its traffic jam . And m ails w ere
T h e E agles will hold th e ir an-
Rev. Hugh Bronson delivering th e P aul W hirry, Mrs. D onald C raig g re ssm a n
E llsw orth
told
th e la te as w eary jiostal w o rk ers e n - , ittial Fam ily C h ristm a s P a rty S a ‘-
serm on All Masons a re urg ed to Mrs. W illiam Dubs. M rs M. I C ham ber e a rlie r this year th a t deavored to get them d i s t r i h u 'd urday. Dec. 19 at 8 p m . at th e
Morgan, M rs John Molino
attend.
’h ' road east for whicl they are
Tie- m ost eag erly a n ticip ated Jak lew icz A nchorage.
Chamber of Commerce Closes
Busy and Progressive Year
Christmas Seals
Sales Continue
BR'KINGS TAKES
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