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Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community
Volume io—No. 34
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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.
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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
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servicing accounts in Smith River
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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-
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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« >-
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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.