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C OF Ö LIBI .BT ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ o o o o o o On the Reef By BILL PH E L PS arbor One of our favorite re s ta u ra teurs, Chad Chadwick, was res cued one night last week from a harrowing experience by Brook- j ings’ most dependable rescue squad, the Lucky 7 Club. Chad was driving up the River road one night at an ungodly hour, when he met a truck taking H H iM ih I M .S , < | K K Ì c o r x n . O R E G O N Volume S—N um ber 45 I’MM K O S N K W s x T A N I M — T E S ( E S T S Thursday, January 7, 1954 most of the road. Chad took to the ditch, and found th at it was an inescapable trap. Game Postponed The truck driver headed otT The basketball game sch -duled down the m ountain for help, and, between Port Orford and Brook according to Chad, about fifteen ings Saturday has been postponed m inutes later about half the club until Jan u ary 26. showed up. While Chad looked on, they practically picked up the car and carried it down the road. The robbery of th-' Brookings Chad had a heck of a tim e g e t S tate |X)litical races were be- ■ S ecretary of the Interior. He had ting them to slow’ down enough High School safe last m onth wtr* ginning to line up this w’eek w ith served as a sta te senator since solved recently, when Fresno. v x c .. to get back in the car. Calif., police apprehended three ' 10 announcem ent of the candi- 1944, and had become president men in th at city. Definite progress was made on dacy of Paul P atterson to suc- of the Senate in the 1951 Legis lature. The three men detained in the new Scout home being con- ceed himself as governor. Mr. and Mrs. Don Finch don’t Newbry also gained his present Governor P atterso n ’s entry, think much of someone’s C hrist Fresno are Frank Leavitt, Lester structed n C 'r Azalea park last week, as volu* *eers poured foot- which |iad been exjiected drew position by appointm ent, a fte r the mas spirit. They came home one Stockton and Thurston Garner. No details outside of the bul- ings for t be b u ik /n g thalinea p retty closely in the Re- ! ^ a t h of S ecretary Robert F ar- day and found th at someone had cut a C hristm as tree. . . right in letin to Oregon S ta te Police were , Sixteen yards of c tf - r o te were publican prim ary. Already an rell in a plane crash. He has available. The bulletin said merely the middle of their back yard. th a t the crim e here had been poured by the crew, with t?rpok- nounced as a candidate for the twice been reelected to the post. In this congressional district, Practically broke Berniece’s heart cleared by the arre st of the three ings Red-E-Mix contributing 0 * fu b arn ato rial chair is S ecretary R epresentative H arris Ellsw orth. concrete at less than cost. In the —she’d been caring for th at tree men. of g f tf » Earl T. Newbry. Roseburg Republican, is virtually tenderly for years. Oregon S ta te Police have not next week, the crew hopes to lay On the Dem ocratic side of the Certain to run again for his seat yet said w hether the men will be gravel for the slab, and begin the slate, little action has yet ap- in Congress. Only announced op extradited to stand trial here. rough plumbing for the building, We had made a New Year Presum ably, they have to answ er peared. inisi t ion Vet is a young Eugene which has already been promised resolution not to mention the city to other charges in California be Wiley Sm ith, M ultnomah Coun-1 a ttorney. Charles P orter, who ha* by local plum bers streets this week _ but we over fore they could be released to Tim bers donated by South ’y assessor, has announced his an noun-ced his candidacy for the heard someone else mention them , this state. Coast Milling have been delivered | candidacy for governor, but the 1>ost ifl the Dem ocratic prim ary, and I guess it’s OK to quote them. to the site, and building m aterials announcem ent created virtually I’ p evvr other office seekers have This person was laying plans for furnished by C urry County Lum no stir. Also mentioned as a pos- ! madp ^ f i n i te statem ents as yet. a golf tournam ent—a sport which ber at cost are being brought to sible Dem ocratic candidate is Al- j g ta te S en ato r John C. S. M erri- is very popular around here. bert Ullman. B aker R ealtor and fle id of M ultnom ah County and the site. "And ju st think,” said the person. In the crew which worked last president of the Hell’s Canyon S ta te Tl^casurer Sig Unander, ”e wouldn’t even need a course. The Plywood Pond Lilies and week were Ben Jones, Blaine Association. Ullman has not yet both Republicans, are reported as Ju st use the holes in the city W ilbanks M arket took an early Gribble, F ran k Kelly and three com m itted himself eyeing the Congressional seat of streets.” lead in second-half action in the Scouts, Russell Beem, Bobby Most speculation on the Demo aging R epresentative Homer An City bowling lead, Monday. The Page and Jim m y Gribble. cratic side concerned the plans of gell, who m a ^ not run to succeed Dry Ends defeated the Pond S ta te Senator Richard N euberger himself. Both * re also interested First Baby Born Lilies, 4-0, while W ilbanks were of M ultnomah County. Neuberger in the election' ,wo years from First reported baby of the New trouncing the Eagles by the same is expected to run for either the now, when the jSenatorship held Year was bom Monday, Jan u ary score. governorship or for Guy Cordon’s by W ayne Morse < comes up for 4, to Mr. and Mrs. George W right. In other games, Phillips defeat- U. S. Senate seat. election. The baby, a little girl, was named ed Fox Brothers, 3 to 1, and There has been little activity Of the two Republican candi Anna Irene. Hendricks F u rn itu re took the Polio struck in Brookings this dates, P atterson is probably best on races affecting Cuf.’y County R otary Club, 3-1. week, with Frieda Matlock, 14 known here, since he was a visitor directly. No announcem ents’ CHARLIE YOUNG HOME High game score was a tie be year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs at the Brookings Lily Festival a been made concerning candidacies Charles Young, who underw ent tween Campbell and W arren, Floyd Matlock ns its victim year ago. A native of Hillsboro, for Coos-Curry’» S ta te R epresent surgery last Thursday, returned with 207 apiece. Gordon Olson Frieda is in the isolation ward of P atterso n became governor in ative, now held by Rod McKenzie home Tuesday. Although he is had high series with 549. Phil- the hospital in Eureka. 1952, when, as president of the of Sixes. And no announcem ents still not really up and around, he lips Dad *n* Lad took high gam e Dr. Paul Ronniger sa d that i Senate, he succeeded Douglas have been made concerning coun is making good progress, and and series, with scores of 808 and is still too early to tell how McKay, who had been appointed ty or city elections. expects to be back in the store in 2251. severe the case will be, but therr three or four weeks. •-------------------------- is hope th a t the case will be a Mr. Young’s brother and sister- MRS. FORGIE AWAY »light one. Frieda is one of five in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Young, Mrs. Florence Forgie and her daughters of the Matlocks, who used to operate what is now sister, who has been visiting her, John Porisch, county chairm an the Brookings Flow er and Gift were called to California Wed- of the March of D im 's, was in Shop, are visiting here during nesday by the illness of their Brookings W ednesday, to make The Oregon S ta te Highway De A new service station will open Charlie’s convalescence. brother the facilities of the N atio n s’ partm ent said Ibis week th at they in Brookings Saturday, the M and Foundation of Infantile Paralysis will surface the section of Fern P Richfield Service on the high available to the stricken family. Porisch said that the Foundation way north of the main business street in front of the city hall, a fte r the city does something will m ake the best possible care district. about draining the surface w ater The new station will he op available for Frieda. erated b> Charles A. Majors, th a t runs over that street. The statem ent was made by D. form erly of Tacoma, and Jim Payne, who has been in Brookings J. Sage, sta te m aintenance su some months. It will service cars, j pervisor of Coquille, in reply to and will have a separate service a query made by City A ttorney atea for comm ercial vehicles Ed Ackley on behalf of the city Publication of a geologic map «vher they w 11 not interfere council. of the Galicc quadrangle in Jose with passenger traffic. The S tate will also lake up the phine County of southw’estern M ajors was form erly road su- m a tte r of sidewalks along Cheleo Oregon has just been announced pervisor with the Los Angeles- ixiulevard with the city, accord by the S ta te D epartm ent of Ge Seattle M otor Express for several ing to Sage. The city has re ology and Mineral Industries. The ars. Payne has been with Rich- quested that th e sidewalks he re I S. Geological Survey, which co- fl(?id o n in Eugene for quite some paired, and, since the state holds operated with the Geology De- time. title to the land on which th • partm ent, printed the m ap in five . _ _ ______ sidewalks lay, has asked the state colors on a sheet m easuring o0 to do tiie work. by 30 inches. The map has a scale W HIRRYS MAKE TR IP Sage told Ackley th at an en of one inch to the mile and is gineer would be sent to Brookings Mr. and Mis. Paul W hirry the fust Oregon quadrangle to be to look at the sidewalks, and to spent the C hristm as holiday with printed in the recently adopted take up the m a tte r of responsi Mr. W hirry’s sister in San F ran form at. A uthors are F. G. Wells cisco. A nother guest was a bility for their repair. and G. W. W alker, geologists with brother from Los Angeles. the Federal Survey. During their stay in San F ra n SCI 1ELARS R ETU RN The map em braces a gold m in Carol Scholar, popular w aitress ing area, and tb » locations of 95 cisco, they saw a play being tele Pacific G re y h o u n d Lines is getting 75 new “ Scenicruisers ’ (top gold lode and placer mines are vised, and wer • conducted on a at C had’s, has returned from a picture), anti 50 more ‘‘Highway Traveler” air suapension buses trip w ith her family to W ra e, shown. The oldest rocks of the ’«»ur of KP1X television station * ¡ AVer), it has been announced T hey are part of a 200-bus order for They also saw one of the new Colo., where they spent the h< h- area are of Jurassic age and are lo s t di 'ivery and will join 100 H ’g’iw ay Travelers, already received, ird were very days with Mr Scholar’s sister and *ama m cs+im ated to be at least 150 mil- . g ot nu extra tarv through-expre» service ux the 'AA-t family M Ì impress 1 on years old ,1 to the r.ust. Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community SAFE ROBBERS CAUGHT IN CALIFORNIA Scout Building REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN LINES DRAWN AS PAUL PATTERSON ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY Makes Progress Plywood, Wilbanks Lead City League Polio Strikes Brookings Girl New Geologic Map Published Service Station City, State Plan Opens Saturday Street Paving