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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1955)
112 SAY "GOOD MORNING TEACHER" FOR THE FIRST TIME Or. hundred and twelve young sters of the Brookings - Harbor area said “good morning teacher” fo the first time in their young lives Tuesday morning. The stud ents are all first graders here. The number of first graders is 17 iniire than enrolled last year. those enrolling are: p ip e Bobbie Anderson. Monty An- kiom. Ray Barton, Larry Beal. Ricky Berger, Evelyn Bodenham- er„ Rosemarie Bonde. Linda Bord- well, Timothy Brace, Thomas B ritts(|n, S tcvtn Brooks, Linda Carson, Danny Chadboume, Mich ael Carrigan, B arbara Cress. Ronald Davis, Wenda Davis, Dwayne Darnell, Shirley deBlock, Paul deBlock, Kathy Duncan, Paul hide, Susan English, Stephen 1” anger, Alvin Elory, Robert F ree man, Cindy Froeman, Kathleen German, Sadie Gordon. W illiam Hall, Rodney Hamann, E’avid Hanscam, Merlene Han- st. am, I imothy Hanscam, Mervin Hervey, Kathleen Hoagland, P atty Koffert, Carol Houvilla, Larry Hyde. Eldred Jensen, Arbella Johnson, Bonnie Jordon. Lynda Jordan. D .nnis Kobfce, Rochelle LaBonte Ferdie Lessman, Laurence Loring, Jerideen Marks, Rocky McVay, M artin Mendenhall, Norma Mess- er, Roy M lddlebuaher, pimmic Moore, C arol Moe, Lee Musser, IV nnis Nelson, Donna Nelson, Janice Nelson, Steven Nelson, Karen Noteboom. Sally Popkin, David Olson. John R apraeger, Deanne Ransom, Ron ald R ettke, C harles Robbins, Lin da Rockwood, L orraine Rowley, W alter Sanders. John Shidler. Joy- Smith. Lenn Smith, Neil Smith. Donald Snyder, Mihael Spees Jill S tu art. Kathleen Such, Russell Suitor, Linda Swanberg. Bruce Thompson. Janet Thomp son. Melody Thompson, Mededith 1 hompson, Nancy Thompson, Ron ald Thorton, Donald Vaughn. 1 amela Vining. dsteamd. Loren Wallace, B arbara Young, Nota Young, Sharon Wellenbrock, Susan Christensen, Wesley Davis, Brenda Montgomery, Lonnie Bill- it.gsiey, Rosalie Rush. Susan All- son, Carol Hopper, Daniel Clark, Kenneth Hein, Dan Brown, Denial Taylor, Billie Walker* William Edward, John Arzner, Linda Sim mons, Robert Boner. Harter f i b Nowhere A Finer Climate - Nowhere A Finer Community (»llllllC IO----\ ( ) . 2Q /ae niusipluf. Enrollment Before we go any further, let us toss off a lily bouquet to Georg Funk, who was practicing at theAzale a Lanes Wednesday night, and slammed off a 267 game, third highest ever scored here. George smashed seven strikes in a row, before getting a ‘‘tap” on the eighth. Of course, we never m ake ex cuses for being late anymore, but tee power went off at m idnight Wednesday night, just when we r ally got started around here Anyway, we may have the press problem solved. We Went to N orth Bend Saturday, and bought a newspaper press which should help out a lot. It is a four-page press (instead of two) and should do twice the work as our older machine. All of you who are in terested in looking it over, should stop down around the 15th, and you can help us unload it The four coastal towns Brook- ings, Gold Beach, Port Orford, and Bandon, have a lot in common, i believe. All have fishing boats moored in their harbors, except Brookings, and yet Brookings sf ms to to doing all the build- ing and growing, a t least com- paratively speaking. • * * * * * I couldn’t sleep last night. Had a nightm are I guess. I rem em ber retting up the N orth Brookings R oosters ad. but couldn’t remem- U t if I had used two O’s in the Boosters, or if I had carelessly put in an ‘A Of course, they are a bunch of fine fellows out there, SO I decided that they wouldn’t care either way, and finally went to sleep. Hears 1OOO Ragland To Be Speaker At C. of C. Enrollm ent in the Brookings- Harbor school district neared the l ligure today, as late enroll- rr.ents continued to drift in. A Rags Ragland, Chet co district total of 693 had enrolled in the ranger, of the Siskiyou N ational Forest, will be the speaker at the grade school, with more expected. A total of 247 have enrolled in the r^ uIar monthly luncheon m eeting high school, with a potental en Brookings-Harbor Cham ber rollm ent of about 260. ° ornmerce- Last years figures show that in m eeting will be held next f,uisday, Septem ber 15th, at the May ,661, 32 less, wvere in the grade system, while only 209 were ( LUC° ^nn‘ beginning a * noon, Ragland will talk on the tim ber enroIled in high school. poss,bi,»tles of the area as shown A break UK down nown of oi the me grade grade school school in the U . ,S. National Forest Showed that 112 were in the first X were were in in the tho second All those interested in attending grade. grade’ X «« an. asked too, regardless if they .’“ J " 72 are Cham ber m< mbers or not he ^ J i h Li h? h re F IV E DOGS ARE TOSSED PO U N D 1 Did anybody miss their litth Puppy dog this week? Five dogs are in the city pound, aw aiting a word from their owners. F or the first tim e in the history of the City of Brookings, a dog catcher, Jim Nichols, was out. He picked up the five license-lesg dogs and tossed them in the dog-hoosegow Owners may claim the dog b contacting the Brookings police departm ent Thn departm ent. The dog catcher will be out again this week Chief of Police Bud Cross said CARD Cards Criticize IN FO R PA RTY IS S E T SEPTEM BER ,6 t h 1 hursday, September S, 1955 P.T.A. To Meet Thursday Night FIRE HAZARD SERIOUS The first regular Parents- Teahers Association meeting will be held tonight, Thursday, at the high school, loginning at 8 p.m 1 he program will consist m ain ly of the introduction of the new superintendent D. D. Williams, ___________ and the teaching staff. Also on the program will he the C I I I E F C R O S S W A R N S Sea-Flats, a gals quartet; Clar- erce Dial, the new music teacher, OF SCHOOL TRAFFIC wiH play on th'? piano- President With the schools starting, Chief of the group this year is Elaine of Police Bud Cross, has issued a K err. warning to Brookings - H arbor drivers to slow down, and take it easy, especially during school hours. Chief Cross said that especially This paper, from time to time in the noon hour, and during the plans to publish historical data three ‘° five rush- wa’i ,he confv rning the area including nation critical. Children spending Historical Data Will Be Published t’De| Nor£ 'cmX al1 “ "»»«• in ,he ° ld Manager Is Named I r * tire hazard in the Siskiyou National Forest in the country ht hind Brookings is very severe, ai cording to district Ranger Rags Ragland, but, Ragland said thus far the district has been free from Shelves are being put up in the the tires that are plaguing the new Littrei P arts Store, in the w est. Goetz building, on Hillside Ave., I he Chetco district was esp eo with an opening planned for Oct ially fortunate in the last storm. ober first. Ragland said. The Siskiyou is Al Wilson, assistant m anager about the only National Forest in at the G rants Pass Store, has the A est that doesn’t have a fire lx* as "««n«Kei m anager « of ? n n designated ...... >• as yet. For Littrell Parts here ,^ 7 ’ and w111 •>“ county- At . ,..................... _____ “ here with his wife to m ake his thp moment 1 w e worip are keen on hav- ho,e’ are now on the «trtv ts in home shortly. <"* ......K . „ „ m„ ing anything concerning Thomas ^,e<d numbers, and caution ui The Brookings store will service Sharp- an ° ld-»l"’w. apparently u ,»!l'd- W i n X t S h h.,he ' an'1 7 ? *"<” •" «" Sid"s <* 'He , “ <d '' hat cross-walks would n o rtlT tV p o rt O r C state line. be painted this weekend, and Everything went off as per Mayor Roy Brimm is pretty ask®d m otorists to stop for them. the parts busness, were in Brook- schedule Tuesday, and little con sure S harp is buried on land t o ------■---------- —— ings installing the shelves, and fusion resulted. now owns at the upiier Chetco getting ready for the opening Classroom space is adequate, crossing. We would like to know D I S T R I C T M E E T I N G Several van loads of parts are M r‘ D D- Williams, superinten- precisely where Sharp's body lies expected to arrive early next week dent of reported, although and anything about the man as O F V F W P L A N N E D the music room hasn’t b«vn fin- he plans to put a permanent .. . . t .. , ishcd as y et- He reported that he m arker on the grave. *"e district meeting of the waa PIeaspd w ith the wav the high Kindly address: Historical, c/o Oregon VFW, and Ladies Aux schooJ youngsters hav e'b een re- PILO T? Box 338 Brooknes Orn <r iliary will be hi Id at G rants Pass, sP°nding to pleas for the care of is a week from Sunday, on Sept. the new high school building. 18th. C O U N C IL T O M E E T v ------------------------ The ruckus will begin w ith a A hearing before the Public W IT H E N G IN E E R S potluck dinner in the Grants Pass I tilt? s Commissioner will he held SECONDi COUNTY AGENT m o i t e n Blo(lkinks Council will VFW building, followed by bus- by West Coast Teh phone However, Ragland emphasized the fact that the worse may be yet to come. Then? has been no improvement in the situation, al ***“• v-unaiuon. W eather forecasts are alarm ing Eon'sters, though, as it looks Like .mother dry east wind period is due. Also the district is suffering from an acute shortage of help. Ragland reports that in the last week he has lost six men, mostly college stuikmts who have to re port hack to school. The smoke jum pers for this area, stationed at Cave Junction hav< ,heen busy workin » nierht Qr J day on other fires. o rk in j night and L Company on Tuesday, Septem ber In California sit- 20. t in regard to th eir application nation is deadly especially serious. the About to for a rate increase be held in the “ i^ h lt T a t e X X ^ Council C ham ber, of the City several c i t i e ^ r L t a ^ Phone Company To Have Hearin In Coos Bay ___ . ' .‘Specia sesslon tonight, A second county agent, Bill Archie Hawkins, has started work in .. «•■•l.u.sday) With .. . ---- n u Rice, u isin ci of ( urrv County. He is from Okla- ? ,. I’S ;nt’'ine' 1 >og firm, to homa, and will h , lp Ken p riest( -e rp n ib l^ COUnty a «pnt. E lm er Bankus has also b ^ n asked to attend. ir.ess meetings of the two grouj>s. distrief of i, ten comprtosd is Tho comprised ,n of r(’g’a ten rd units of southern Oregon, between are usually several visitors from other postfc Had Coos Bay- beginning at highway 101 has been blocked o f t Azalea Garden Club ladies re A n’ in v e tig a tio n will be con- ^ rn “ “ r port reservations are coming in ducted as to the services of the a n d m o st o f th 11 ° ° ° a c re # ’ very nicely for th eir Septem ber Company in the anea, as a pre- - - h° b,a20S a * out o f Cards, printed by the Brookings v / av « 7 ° C8rd party a t the control Forest officials report Chamber of Commerce are coming Hall, with proceeds to go liminnry to a ra te inrease. that it is the worst situation in in slowly, president Charles Gray- to u a id the Community Library. George McBride, district man 30 years. ager of the Wwst Coast Company sb?l reported. Almost 300 cards They invite your phoning in Logging bans continue in Jose was in Brookings Tuesday. He are in, but at least 1.000 are need- yours- at fifty cents a commit- phine and Jackson counties, and reported that his firm wanted to ed before any statem ent can be mf,nt, to either 3421 or 2537. The fh'c Chetco country was fort- granddaughter, Carol Ann Benson way of life ami how we feel about give lhe best service possible and ' fl,' s w, re reP°rted in presented to the highway com- ,adies have an evening of card unate In having had a visit from can own one. America and their help to us in 8eld th at two additional trunk Ma" ’ mission, or to the legislature. gam* s planned, beginning at 8, ^Irs Agda Hickner’s m other and stepfather, Mr and Mrs Aage and in r h , c J n ' 7 ’ W ry w L J 'S ! “ * ” * SeCOnd **"“ '° CrM cent CH? front Brook-' The cards as • the tourists what and a galaxy of prizes. ’rv e d m d K an' n oi C np en h a^ n , Lht? 7 n 7 7 e , l w h . 7 r' m ' *"«» haVe now connected, Refreshm ents will be sei they think of Highway 101, and .Vr7 " „ d ” " " m a' k ' - n , ^ e Sw e 7 i g 3 w 7 n n7 ° f EUrOpC ' hinka of th e ,brtn.''in« ,h e *»<al "< the ladies guarantee they are b ing passed out by service Mr. Klingspor, a retired mach- The American people are very ,,can w°men as spoiled and ° “ kht. stations and motels. It is very centrating their efforts' toward m aking it an enjoyable event inist. for many years on the frtendly to foreigners and are Pamperod out we nave seen noth- McBr«de also reported that 50 important to get more cards in but busy, ambitious young new ,ir*‘R have been installed in the hands of the tourists during H it is successful they promise Europe-China run. now has time quick to open their homes to us. . ................. . S< . i :ai . (x'ople hav,’ volunteered the next two weeks, Grayshel said, to continue them throughout the t n ’?njoy hls btelong hobby and is In the Club “Dauia” in Chicago w°men w ho seem to be able to fhe area during recent months, (’mployed as a pianist in one of they treated us like royalty and do every! rything in a short time. and th at an o th er 50 lines will be lheir help on "the ambulant'e serv. otherwise the cause may not hav© season, something that w as a v popular past time in v ' ' 5 >iS bometown large nightclubs, showered us with gifts, food and They kopl k?h MthCir f?ouses rM*at and put in here during the second icc h 'r \ <‘ag’ r to get the ambul- any value. He was relying on the by, around here 8°ne Many here will long remem her his flowers. their chi children clean and well q u a rte r of next year. anc»‘ hack on ,ts foot On r motel o{>erators and service s ta t playing « ___ dressed a r rived in San Francisco, t.,’* T 'th sc S° W,,y sboiddn’t the men The district m anager also dis- Murry, of M urn Motors h° ions for support. I pon leaving, they asked the July 6, where our daughter Agda M” bem. cussed the recent telenhorw • offered to li t ti , * ^a* Some of the cards returned Pilot to extend their deep, heart- Hickner and her friend, Helen We have ad this to tell them vey, taken here bv a t Put in his “mbulance be arage building, and h Vt carried choice comments on felt thanks to all who made their Hanscam met us w ith happy at borne hut we never would have E ngineer H p • i i ? °M t ' if his telephone w ould he visit so thoroughly unforgetful smiles and flowers. They took us known '» if wv hadn’t been here that h ■ ’ J « P ‘lot s.iui We th” highway. Many, of course, 21 hours llay, i( n, ^ send down full and assure their Brookings and to the St. Francis Hotel, which to ,o see f° r ourselves. ° U d have approved of the road, and ed. particulars on the survey as soon H arbor friends that the Klings- us looked like a huge castle. It On,? can see how fast B ro o k in s tell what a beautiful country this t e ? telling the mWtin5 I meeting A.g da _ is ^ K _ r e s s in g I spent many h o u S as the results are known. is But the m ajority are vocifer- mce has McBrde said th at no big ex no 1OUS in their condemnation of ihe o f^ h ^ R a m im « '’«-^!0'' °.i officers , ,ru th m re- aKa m a fte r 25 years, and we had watching how the men work and porting on their visit, when they much to catch up on Wv spent how fast a building can be fin pansion was planned in this area - hiKh » .y One said ,h a , u h a , ,n the a X k m ' V ' ’h t A t Also, Roy Brimm, of Acacia at this tirnv -u.■ again m their homeland. 2 days there, seeing everything, ished. Palm ers Variety Store was Us limo, umi anticipated no Laundromat, has offered ,..k , Oregon needs is e California School, a, s „ m w X , .'d‘rv line ne up the Chetco unt|| mor<, |n th). !lmb r.undry for Îo They want us to say their and to mi' San Francisco is the started a fte r we came and we Engineer." Septem ber 14th All parents and “Welcome M at” will always be most beautiful city I ’ve seen so attended their oppning. We wish S< bribers ,.k e r«iden™ there. charge as a service «Ô the Î 2 . Others tell of the crookwiness, X"ds are ,r,v ited to attend out, in Copenhagen, ter their ia r‘ to say tfOOd luck to Brookings and m unity. the logging trucks, and some crit- , tO 60 m stalh d are: many Arr,?rican friends. When we arrived in Brookings a11 hs People, to thank all and r '.hers who are qualified Io act ieised «he fog. I, was unlikely. vw* were very tired hut we soon f,v<*ryone we’ve met for the kind Crayshel said, if the Brookings- GoU •’c h a r i b ^ ’p’hvlIi^Coi'T^H J ° V’ as d riw m are asked d to to leave le«v« their .s-._ When we sailed into New' York forB°t th at in meeting Charlie t^ e p tio n and lovely gifts and it’s n a m ’s with the Pilot, or with Harbor (Tiamber of Commerce Kay Nichols'; C h an lL i ’ ' J-?.,MJ in Ma> we were greeted with B*ckner and Carol Ann for the W|,h sad regret w leave here but ____ present members of th ” mu<ie and happy people. O ur son tirst time. We liked Brookings on ttoixl things m ust end and we could do much about the fog, hut W allace; Drill I ’ tf n,‘ I PO OttO?' H amnntr Ihn™ first n was among them and nrBl sight with the beautiful a,p looking forward to telling our cently at a m, utm g o / r i/' v ^ r, fiuirp f ' ' f d ,R ers won't be h,’ went on. if the cards were re- Olson; Choir Learder, Jackie r * Am< r- ' ' to *F*nd so m uch time. turned it would certainly h lp in- Sm ith; U>ve, Sharon B ennett, it was a wonderful exp?rience. m ountains on one side and the fr,ends and family of all we’ve ¡can Levinn a . (jnit N() uxiabary, Chetco n alert. fluence the highway commission R<il8ion. Carolyn Putnam ; Nat- The S tatu e of Liberty im pressed*fxean on ’be other. Your lovely loarrAyl a nd seen while here. us immensely. We had planned on Azalea Park was a place I visited You ask us to tell of things we . ____ u re. Janet Crum p The following members J m m o r t . l i t y L o retta H allm an; - < n ? som? o f Now York hut the a |most every day and to me it don’t like m America. That would ir ti t ,'," ’'vv,n8 memners were ilo not he rie««ihin .... . ratea: rx Jessie Trostad, Sherry J Fidelity, June Vining; P atriotism ’ hPat Was * ’rrible so we boarded SPf,ma a shame that more people n«t be possible as we’ve — . , • «— — us wp ve W in l — N E W C IT Y A L L E Y J a m t Glass; Service Dian Sim- our pIan,‘ that same daY and flew don’t visit it oftener. nothing we dislike. But we would n n‘‘y’ ^ b r a Niemie, Janet a ” d JoannP p a ’^ mons. Confidential Observer. Car- r h icago where we stayed six The Hickners took us on a tour like to see Brooking.«» have paved * IS B E I N G D U G ih e senior members taking part Ol Rausch; O uter Observer, Vir- wo° ks What impressed us most up the Rogv? River in a chartered strpcts so the dust won’t DANE TELLS VIEWS ON BROOKINGS VISIT Highway 101 Ambulance Gets Volunteer Help Installation Of Rainbow (¡iris 1 o Be Held Here Juniors Installed At Chetco Post Landscape Man To Visit Here Work is progr ssing on a new city alley, which will go from the «;ty hall, behind the Azalea G ar u-n building. Young’s Motel, the V S National Bank budding the -y v i„ , u . ^on” s e e r e t a r y . t r ^ r ; ; ? Weideman-Kessler Elks building, friends here ha- « b»w*n f L - ----------- Ann Rrewer. Verna Rae A rrctt, fh° very young It takes a life- very hospitable a- 1 Palmers Departm ent store and made us their ’*xx, r)ye «mil thank you for every- mie and Eleanor Koehler. thing. Ca™1 Ann Cross, bm e to sav « enough money to frtenda. we liked their inform ality The top soil is being removed this week, and w rty the school property »27 K err jud> Kemp Sandra K r un*' ,o m a,n' <" n onv- b“ ' our country Federgraa. and Ann White. here even a young gtrl like my Agda w„ With the hel„ Z Aage and Karen Klingspor Ingerslevsgade 162 ( openhagen V, Denmark o star, the prob|(,m of deve| • j. mg "ig a long range plan for the im- °! ,h:: «™"Wnga-H. r - '“ g g X ^ 7 n" » -he type, ’irVed at "U“ *b,e ,o p , J ti£ «chooí here? .. <>M ° and m unit eeting m enih..;, to the d e a X X ' ^ M n ^ " X <-h«™ Poa, and their families Ï new high school building thi< week
