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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1955)
P l u JÜOKBINDING SVC* 6 0 1 7 S E 86TH AVE PORTLAND ORE SMTCMOOK G-fliirhir flint Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community Volume io—No. 34 by Pud PiAciSieJz I dusted off ‘he old sketchbook and took it along to the early morning luncheon with Senator Morse and found time to scratch a few thumbnail sketches of the man and some of the*oth?rs pres ent. — sketches —■ , Ed Ackley explained to the senator the facts of the Chetco harbor project. While Ed did a splendid job of pleading his case i. did hamper my sketch of h;m. Ihs mouth was a waggin and a wavin so much I couldn’t do his profile justice. Some day I hope to get Ed in one of his less talkative moods befon? I a t tempt to sketch his sketch. — sketches — I got one of Mayor Brimm. It looked very much like the Mayor was deep in thought and the lines on his face were more etched than usual. Probably thinking about all those sewer bills. — sketches — Clive Manley sat next to me and the close angle prevented me from immortalizing him. And any way he’s another one of those guys who is constantly changing the contours of his face so. A good artist is supposed to be able to catch movement. In fact, he’s supposed to be able to sketch a man falling out of a 15-story building and finish it befote the critter hits the pavement. T hat’s really moving. But did any of you [>eople ever see Clive work on that snuff of his? — sketches — Senator Mors? was on a very vigorous and tight schedule. The iSelegation drove him down from Cave Junction at 1 a.m. and he was up and about early that same morning looking over the harlxjr. People often wonder how he and the other 95 senators can keep up such a sleepless life. All one has to do is remember that Congress convenes again the first of the w a r th a t’s when the boys catch up on some of that sleep. RIVER IS MUDDY BUT CLEARING Salmon fishing on the Chetco has not been so good because of the sluicing down of silt during the weekend rains. As we go to press, the river seems to be clear ing nicely. With th© fresh water thrust out to sea, better fishing seems in prospect. Wednesday, several fish were landed, the larg est being taken by C. A. Bolter, of Los Angeles, who got a 39 pounder. , r » "lisi i «I Thursday, October 13, 1955 VFW AUXILIARY TO MEET PRESIDENT On C of C Cards Tn analyzing the 496 postcards returned by travellers on High way 101, a project of the local Chamber of Commerce, shows that many of them did not like it and those who didn’t were* very emphatic about the stretch be tween Brookings and Gold Beach The majority of those ’expressing dislike were apparently exper ienced travellers who look upon a ‘*U. S. Route” as a road where travelling is convenient, which they didn’t find in the section noted. The cards were returned from 37 states, 5 provinces of Canada, one from England, and one from Alaska, and one from the Phil ippines. One factor of consider able intenaist is that, by far, most of our visitors were from California 188 of them, of which 90 were visiting Oregon via 101 for the first time with 85 enjoying what they had seen of it and 103 disliking it. Of the total 496 cards returned, 22 were without comments at all. 371 indicated their impressions of 101. Of these 197 enjoyed it but even many of them expressed their dislike for the 38 miles north of here and some were quite viol ent in their opinions as were many of the 174 who reported the. didn't fancy it. A second and concluding col umn of traveller’s comments on the cards appears elsewhere in this issue. CITY GROUP TO ATTEND CONVO Mrs. Clara Bowlin, president of the local VFW Ladies Auxil iary, urges all members to be presant at the next scheduled meeting, October 19th, to greet the district president, Mrs. Edna Lafferty, of Ashland. Other post and auxiliary visitors are expect ed. ARRIVES TO WORK AT TH E PILOT Dick Wills, of Alliance, Neb raska, has arrived to work at the Pilot. Dick, a recent high school graduate, arrived by train ar. 1 bus Tuesday, and started to work Wednesday. He is a brother-in-law' of Jim Huddleston, linotype oper ator at the Pilot. SMITHS LEAVE FOR EUROPE Mr. and Mrs. W arren Smith left last w’eek for San Francisco, and plan to sail out of that port for Europe. They plan to tour Northern Europe first, and then eventually the southern half of that continent. Their tour will take about four months. NEW AND USED FURNITURE STORE TO OPEN NOV. 1st Darrell Bell is going to open up a new and used furniture store in Brookings starting the first of the month. Bell announced his plans after signing a Rase with Mrs. Minna Akers for a portion of the Pilot building. Bell, and his wife, Arlene, have two children, Flood and Garold, 10 and 11. They have lived until i-ee.iLy in Anchorage, Alaska. However, Bell is a former Med ford resident. He also lived in Crescent City, and at one time operated a business in Smith Riv- ©r, the Smith River Feed and Seed. City officials of Brookings wi 1 atten '. \© a.n u al convention of the League of Oregon Cities in Portland, October 23-26. A wide variety of municipal problems are programmed for discussion at the convention, which will also include an observance of the League's thirtieth anniversary. Those indicating that they will attend from here include Mayor Roy Brimm; councilmen, Jim Yel- ton, Fell Campbell, Judge Hans N'elson, City Attorney Ed Ackley, A new dairy, Country’ Maid, will City Work Superintendent Ralph be servicing this area, according Reed and City Recorder Mae to Hank Westbrook, one of the Smith. owners. The new plant, modern in every respect, is located on the Reservation Ranch in Smith River. The bottling plant has just been set up, and the dairy is already w ♦ I servicing accounts in Smith River I and Crescent City. They plan to have milk in distribution at most Brookings stores this week end. The plant is operated by Hank and Chopper Westbrook, both res idents of Smith rtiv©r. Jim Carter is the manager of the firm. NEW DAIRY PLANT FOR SMITH RIVER 1 COUNTY COURTS FORM 101 UNIT A county court unit within the Oregon Coast Association was launched at a meeting at Newport Monday, of county judges and commissioners from the seven Oregon Coast counties. The county court unit, accord ing to Don Houghton, president of the non-profit travel promotion end highway association will hare broad supervisory powers. Realignment of US. 101 be tween Brookings and Gold Beach and the construction of a bridge over the Columbia River at As toria, both of which are multi million dollar projects occupied most of the unit’s initial meeting. R. H. Baldcock. state highway engineer, addressed the group at a dinner that owning. The county court unit proposed several plans for action: One call ed for "An appropriation of $1,200.000 has been set aside for the construction of that portion of the Gold Beach-Brookings high- way known as the Pistol River WORK IS NEARING COMPLETION on 'hese two latest project and since recently this additions to making Brookings or*? of the most modem com money has been “Borrowed” by munities in the area Above. Ev; Lee's will move into the the state highway commission for Morton Building next week, below, the old Azalea Garage use elsewhere, the county court building is shown before crews started to put the new front unit should go on record demand on the completely remodeled structure. P ilo t Photo ing its return forthwith.” I Val M?ndenhal!s Report On Trip To New York Mr. and Mrs. Val Mendenhall, Jr., are happily back from a most memorable trip. It came to them as a reward for Val, and his part ner, Ed Thornton in Ed and Men- dy’s Chevron Station, doing the most business of the over on • hundred similar service stations in northern California and Brook ings. It was an all expense air trip to New York City. Val and Mary left Crescent City by plane, on? morning and arrived at the assembly point hotel in San Francisco that even ing. joining the party of 26 sim ilar winning couples of the seven Western states. The next morn ing the group boarded a chart ered plane enroute to New York. The plane did not follow the scheduled route but flew them on a tour of the National Parks, the Great Lakes, and theno? to New York where they were immediat ely taken to their hotel, at which they found their baggage all lined up. They hadn’t st” n it s’r re they tagged it the morning before. From then?, their every wish was anticipated. They were almost overwhelmed with entertainment and Val’s attending business con ferences. During these periods, Mary' and the other ladies were shown sights more to their liking, including ultra stylo shows and such. Every evening, the group was taken eut to the top shows of the city and fed where ‘‘the elite come to eat.” After their New York session, each couple was asked if there were any sido trips they would like to take—at their own ex pense. Mr. and Mrs. Mendenhall nominated a trip to Washington, D.C. Hotel and tour arrangements were made by the hosts and Val and Mary "saw” Washington and its environs. The Mendenhalls returned by air to Crescent City, where their paid vacation was brought to a close. Mary brought home a wonder ful collection of souvenier cards, programs, etc., which she’ll as semble in a scrap book with which to refresh their memory for many years to come. Val tried to col lect ash-trays, towels, stiens, and siverwear but was dissuaded by air-baggage limitations. Val and Mary and Ed and Neva want this paper to extend their heartfelt appreciation of the public's patronage of Ed and Men- dy’s which made this vacation possible. LARGE TURNOUT AT P.T.A. MEETING A large crowd attended the PTA meeting last Thursday night at the high school auditorium. They heard W. Austin Simmons on the piano accompany Mrs. Graea LeClaire, and they heard Mrs. Joy Hill Gubser, state assist ant superintendent of education report on the “relationship be tween home and school.” RED CROSS MAN VISITS BROOKINGS R. H. "Bob” Williams, Field Representative for the American Red Cross was in town Monday, doing preliminary work for the establishment of a local repres entative. Mr. Williams said the agency had long watched the Brookings area and believed it time that something was done about it. •?' >. Subscription Drive Begins To Shape Up The subscription driv©, started last week by the Brookings-Har- bor Pilot, is going over success fully, although many of the part icipants haven’t reported in w’ith their subscriptions as yet, so there is no way of knowing just how many new subscriptions have been sold. The youngsters are shooting for a chance to win a boy’s bicycle, a girl’s bicycle, a radio and a cam era, furnished by Western Auto? Ilanscrm's, Ward’s Appliance Cen ter and Arrell's Chetco Drug Store, respectively. Also each subscription sold nets tL? junior salesman 50 cents, and in additional, several grown-ups have signed with their youngsters in an effort to win the $100 bonus. Saturday, 14 youngsters signed up, and six more have signed up rince then. Two weeks still remain in the contest, and others are welcome to sign up at any time. They are merely required to drop into the Pilot office and then they will be furnished a receipt book. DAIRY CREEM TO GET REMODELING WORK The Dairy Creem restaurant, located adjacent to the Hi-Wav Market, will be closed Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next w©ek to undergo a com plete remodeling program. The restaurant recently completed an expansion addition. An all-new horseshoe counter will bo installed, and new booths. A stainless steel kitchen will be put in. The seating capacity of the business will be increased to double its former size, and will hold 30 stools. A birthday cele bration is being planned for Fri day, Otober 20th. Coos-Curry Co-op Plans Meeting The seventeenth annual meeting of tie Coos-Curry Electric Coop erative will be held Saturday, October 22, at 10 a.m. in the Com munity Building, at Coquille, Oregon All members are invited to attend. Directors from Zones 3, 6, and 9, will be elected for three years each. Senator Wayne Morse will be the principal speaker at the meet ing. CITY LEASES OLD BA53K BUILDING IN MOVE FOR ADDITIONAL SPACE The City of Brookings made two decisive moves in the past two days. They got into the sewer business by passing an ordinance levying a sewer service charge, and they decided that a bigger city hall was necessary so they secured the lease of the old hank building. The sewer business move? was taken Tuesday night at the reg- ular meeting of the Brookings Council, while the action on the new city hall was at a special meeting Tuesday noon. An ordinance was passed, sim- ilar to one on the books of Albany Oregon, which establishes the in tentions of the city of Brookings to “operate and maintain, within on<j without the corporate limits of the city of Brookings, a sew- age disposal plant or plants, con- venient for a complete sewer sys- tern and disposal plant or plants; imposing an equitable charge." MERCY FLIGHTS A n n PLANES ” Pr-.. Flighls. a no-1 "-ofit air- ambulance service centered at Medford, announces they have added two twin-engined Beach- craft planes to their fleet, oper ated to provide air transnort for sick and injured. The added planes will bring the facility up to air- line standards, according to Geo. Milligan, Mercy Flights chairman who says that over 60 percent of the residents of Jackson Count> are subscribers to the service. Each of the new planes can carry a pilot, co-pilot, nurse and have room for four stretchers. Program Is Given For Concert Group 3 tie program for the Del Norte Community Concert Association in which there are many local r embers, has been announced as follows: L}ec. 5th, Monday: Paganini String Quartet. Jan. 26th., Thursday, Leonard Pennario. Feb., 24th, Friday: Song M ast ers. • April 3rd, Tuesday: Nan Mer- r.man. Ths concert will be held, ax usual, in the Crescent Elk Schoo! Auditorium. It is planned to have the membership cards mailed out sometime in November. Weather Report DAY TEMP. Prec. October 6 — 64-45 October 7 — 54-42 .64 October 8 — 55-46 3 86 October 10 — 59-45 October 11 — 58-43 October 12 — 79-51 A total of 5.19 inches of rain for thé week. SEN. MORSE PAYS VISIT Wayne Morse, the controversial Senior Senator from Oregon, vis ited in Brooking^ Wednesday, talking before two groups. He spoke first to the Chetco Improvement Committe at a 7:30 breakfast at the Chetco Inn, fol lowed by a coftee hour meeting at the Chetco Grange Hall, spon sored by the Grange. Morse arrived late Tuesday night, from Cave Junction brought over by Judge Hans N©lson. He stayed at the Crest Motel, and Wednesday morning he was taken north to Gold Beach by Dave Shaw, Gold Beach attorney. Morse was shown the proposed Chetco development by Judge Nelson and Wilson Freeman be fore the breakfast. Attorney Ed Ackley made the presentation of th© case to Morse telling him of the benefits to be gained by the improvement. He told of the population increase, of the climatic conditions in Brook ings and th© possibilities of the area. Mom? promised in a short talk to contact the army engineers on it, and said that if he could get their approval in writing he would be able to present it to the bud- g'-t committee for possible action in the 1957 budget. He said that the project looked feasible, and that he would like to help in any way that he could. At the Grange Hall, Morse told a gathering of som© 100 people that he was against “private mon opoly” and hit at the present mon opoly in oil and rubber. He stress es th at he believed in better prac tices in Federal Forest manage ment, and emphasized the im- , poriaace .of more access roads. • following a question by Mr. Clark . of tb? Brookings Plywood on tim- ■Wr. ' ’ « rse said that the government # Morse must fihd fin a formula to keep th© small mill owners operating. Morse hit at the farm machinery increase, and said that it was im portant to “protect the purchasing power of the farmer.” Again the Senator told about th© power problem, and said that despite atomic power, the US. is going t o heed all the elect, ical power it can get, and assailed the government for giving away pot ential powsar at Hells Canyon with low dams. He called it a “steal.” Following the meeting Supt. of Schools D. D. Williams took Morse on a short inspection of the schools. The ordinance calls for a levy On "all owners of property just and equitable charges for sower service or subsequent service.” of 75 cents a month for single family residences. Each additional unit, as in apartments will be an addit- ional 75 cents a month. The commercial rate will be 75 cents per month for the first two fixtures and 25 cents apiece for additional five fixtures, and 15 cents apiece for additional six to 10 fixtures, and all over 10 fix- tures 10 cents f<y each additional one. A third class, industrial, lias been set up. as similar to the com mercial rate until tests are made. T h ' ordinance calls for the rates to ge into effect on December 1st, with he first city bills to go out on January 1, 1956. The ordinance was passed main ly so that the city could begin work on getting a bond vote set up. so that the city equid buy the existing sewer. One of the require ments to getting the bond special ist Schuler to act on the bond <lu,?ston was that the Clt>' have a SeWer ordirlan« >- * council met in a special session Wednesday to pass a res- olution which called for the leas- *n£ ^ e old bank building, be cause of the additional space need ed. The city engineer has no office at the present time, and more space will be needed to hire add itional help for the sewer depart ment.-Also the Engineering firm which is coming to make a water survey will need space temixirar- ily. The vntire building was leasod> and ofljees wjji pUt ¡„ UpSt ajrs, while the downstairs will furnish an cjf,ce for the city recorder, and provide a meeting place. It is expected that the move will be made by the first of Nov ember. The building has a built-in vault, and will provide plenty of room. The old city hall is in reality a fin? hall, and will be leas©d back to the fire department, council- men said. The old bank building, is owned by Delmar Colegrove, Sr. and Sophie Colegrove. Th© sewer ordinance, passed on Tuesday, directed that all money paid into the account will go into a fund called ‘‘sewer charge ac count, special” and will be used to begin s?tting up a fund to build a disposal plant. It was the in tention of th© council that a sew age disposal pjant must be con structed "at the earliest practical date,” and «hat it is “essential for the health, p?ace and safety of the public and th© preservation thereof.” An additional 25c will oe levied on those who have grinders, ac cording to the ordinance. Also, according to the council an add itional 331 3 percent will be put on those already served by the existing sew'er line for maintain- ance The Beresa Tract will he ready for sewer connections soon, it was brought out, and they would qual ify under th1? ordinance, although the city would still have to make seme ogreem?nt with the Brook ings ¡.and and Towns! te Company. Other things covered in the council meeting included: The hir ing of a new police officer, Leon ard Parker, a former Navy man with Korean war experience Mis. Mathiason protested the condition of her sidewalk and the drive. 11«+ home is located on the Woodland Park Addition The city agreed to pour a new sidewalk for her. if Beresa will tear up the existing sidewalk. Mrs. Gragg deeded some land to the city on Cemetery Road, for street use.
