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P l u JÜUKBINDING SVC* 6 0 1 7 S E 86TH AVE PORTLAND ORE s -fla rm r May Raise Sewer Charge To $ 2 Month Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community Volume io— No. 40 skctcmmmm Thursday, November 24, 1955 Highway 101 Association Acts 0n Haat! IN V ETS H O SPITA L I t is reported th a t Louis P e te r son is seriously ill a t the V eter ans Hospital, P ortland. Mrs. P e t erson w as sum m oned to his bed On D ecem ber 8th th e Azalea side. G arden Club is planning to havy - C hristm as P a rty a t th e V.F.W. Hall, com mencing at 1 :3O p.m. T here will be no business m e e t ing a t this C hristm as P arty . Each m em ber is asked to bring a gift for the gift excitant??. T his gift is to be som ething su itab le for a garden clubber in her garden or house. Each m em ber can invite One of C urry C ounty’s largest someone at this C h ristm as P a rty lum ber operating groups is q u it but to be su re and b ring a gift ting. H. W. Crook, O. W. Bettis, for th eir guests for th e exchange. and Law rence Payne, operators The reg u la r m eeting of the and ow ners of tim ber and saw Azalea G arden Club was held in mills. announce they have th eir the V.F.W. Hall on T hursday, en tire holdings up for sale to the Novem ber 10th, and th e program highest bidder. was on "P erennials.” A very in te r They hold th e ir in te rests as esting rep o rt on, th e nam es, origin, w orth around two and a h alf m ill planting, dividing and cane of per- ion dollars and are reported to renials w as given by R uth B ath- give th e ir reason for q u ittin g is iany assisted by C lara Kerns. the squeezing out of th e sm aller Some very lovely Thanksgiving operators in bidding fo r govern arran g em en ts w ere on display by m ent tim ber. some of the m em bers of the G ar T he trio a re offeing some 2000 den Club. Mrs. E lizabeth M cKenna acres of D ouglas F ir Stum page, gave a very good dem onstration The Ocean View L u m b er Comp on how to m ake an arran g em en t any and the Gold Beach L um ber for your Thanksgiving table. Co. concurrently saw ing some 130. The luncheon table for this 000, ft.; per 8 hour shift and em m eeting was very beautifully done ploying about 125 men. in a red, w hite and blue a rra n g e They a re calling for sealed bids m ent depicting the A rm istice Day to be opened a t 2 p.m., Ja n u a ry 20, holiday. Hostesses for the day 1956, and a m inim um of 2 9 # of w ere Mrs. Alice O sterm eier, Mrs. th e bidder’s price as a down pay M ary H anks, and Mrs. Eunice ment. Wollam. Garden Club Plans Christmas Party by \ P ilG S iek W h a t’s a gay in Brookings, O r egon got to be T hankful for in ’55? Ju st look around you and count your blessings brother. W e can be T hankful for th e 265 r u t holes in every block of city roadw ay. T his is way above the n atio n al average, and everyone w an ts to be above average. — sketch book — We can be T hankful th a t some of this liquid sunshine we have had th e leventy seven days is wet. (And we don’t have to shovel it.) We can be T hankful we have no tra in service here. T hat elim in a te s all th e engine smoke and m akes w ashings ten tim es w hiter. — sketch book — We can be T hankful for ou r cry stal-clear w ater. Some people have to drink beer, m a rti-is, and V irginia Dare. W e can be T hankful for our high school football team s unde feated season. T he fact th a t we h av e no field, no uniform s, no coach, and oh ,ves> no team, should m ake th a t feat outstanding in itself. A — sketch book — W e can be T hankful for our tw o a le rt service, clubs in town. O ne known for its youth and zest fulness, the o th e r m ore reserved and should we say refined tsom e sre you know.) Som ething has to se p a ra te the men from the boys. — sketch book — W e can be T hankful for the many curves in the road from here to o u r little sister to th e north. W hat else would keep you aw ake as you drive th a t fa r? We can be T hankful th a t the P IL O T comes out every T hursday. And if some of you guys com plain we w ilt th re a te n to put it out every day. sketch book — Cert, n'individuals in town have a lot to be T hankful for in add ition to the m ass benefits outlirx’d above. — sketch book — F o r instance, M urary P alm er should be very Thankful* th a t w as only a bank of te rra firm a th a t cam e crashing dowm on him r a th e r than the U. S. N ational, O r the F irs t N ational, etc., etc. DECEMBER 1 TO BE S -D DAY T hursday, D ecem ber 1st will be th e second annual S-D Day, or S afe D riving Day. Its purpose is to d em onstrate, again, th a t traffic accidents can be greatly reduced when m otorists and pedestrians fulfill th e ir m oral and civic re sponsibility for safety. It is s|K»nsoied by the P resid e n t s C om m ittee for Traffic S afety in cooperation w ith prom inent national organizations. H enry K err is the local chair- n a n for S-D Day. N ational, sta te m d local organizations a re all joining in to com bat traffic acci- jen ts. T he challenge to every com m unity, and to Brookings, will be: Not a single traffic accident d u r ing th e 24-hour period in day light o r darkness. T he record la st year w as good. It produced nationally a red u c t ion i» th e accidents and deaths. S-D D ay 1955 is expected to be even b etter. L ast y e ir. during all of 1954. th is is w h at the traffic accidents did ih fhe U nited S ta te s: Killed "86000 people; Injured somebody every 25 seconds. A to ta l of some 1.250.000 persons w ere disabled beyond the day of th e accident. Cost an t stim ated $4 4 billion in m edical bills, property loss and o th e r ex p e n d s. T here w ere nearly 10 million traffic accidents in the C nited S tate s .n 195?. LARGE TIMBER HOLDINGS GO VF ON SALE BLOCK Engineer Writes A letter, signed jointly by U.S. S enato rs W ayne L. Morse and R ichard L. N euberger, dated Nov. 18, 1955, encloses an o th er le tte r from M ajor C harles G. Hoile, U.S.A.. Chairm an, Board of Rivers and H arbors, U. S. Engineers, as follow s: “D ear S en ato r M orse: I have your le tte r of 8. November, signed jointly by yourself and S en ato r Richard L. N euberger relativ e to the unfavorable prelim inary ex am ination report on Chetco Cove, Oregon. “I appreciate very much your in terest in th e desired h arb o r im provem ent a t Chetco Cove. Rel ative to your reference th a t the report does not ev alu ate th e re lationship and benefits of the authorized Chetco R iver im prove m ent to the harbor im provem ent, th e Congressional Resolution authorizing the study lim ited in vestigation to the Cove. However, certain considerations w ere given by th e reporting officers to th e correlation of the riv er project w ith the harbor project. I am sure th a t you appreciate th e fac t th a t any benefits th a t had been alloc ated to the river project could not be tran sfe rred to the h arb o r p ro j ect in order to justify th e h arb o r project. “R elative to your sta te m e n t per taining to th e construction of a m ajor highway in th e anea, in vestigations w ere m ade of the possibility of th e construction of such a highway. The are a office of the B ureau of Public Roads and th e Oregon S tate H ighw ay Com mission in Salem, Oregon, w ere contacted by the D istrict E ngineer ol the P o rtlan d D istrict, on this subject. The D istrict E ngineer re ported to th e board’s office th a t ‘‘N eith er agency has any plans for providing a highway froip the M edford-G rants P ass area to Brookings w ithin th e foreseeable future. The Bureau of Public Roads is planning tim b er access roads to faciliate harvesting of tim b er w ithin th e g eneral area, b ut these roads would not provide th e direct, high-class ro u te envis ioned for economical tra n s p o rta t ion from the interior to th e coast. T he H ighway Commission sta te d th a t such a route m ay be a poss ibility w ithin the distant fu tu re, possibly 50 to 100 years, but they had no im m ediate plans for th e development. Such inform ation in d icates th a t thene will be no m ajo r change in tran sp o rtatio n routes w ithin th e forseieable fu tu re." T herefore, based on this official inform ation available to th e Board th e probability of the construction of th e m ajor highway appears to be ra th e r rem ote. "W hen the report is before the Board for review on 29 of N ovem ber, your le tte r will be culled to th e atten tio n of the Board fo r its consideration in connection w ith your cb.sired im provem ent of th e h arb o r at Chetco Cove. Sincerely yours, /« / Chas. G. Hoile, M ajor General, USA. Chairman. Insta II N ew Press The paper you have in your hand w as printed on a new press we have. It isn’t exactly a new press in one sense of th e word, but it is new to th e Pilot. T he press is a C otrell, and is m anufactured in New York some years ago, some tim e a fte r Lincoln m ade his fam ed G etty sb u rg Ad«i- ress. However, th e new piece of equipm ent is in excellent shape, and will definitely be an improve m ent a fte r a few of th e bugs are ironed out. It w as operating in N o rth Bend until last Thursday, prin tin g the “N orth Bend News," a 16-18 page newspaper. The "N ew s” bought m ore m odem press, and released the Cottrell. T hursd ay it w as dis- m ant • d and brought down F ri day bj Cons, iuiateti fre ig h t, A press ex p eit. Izoral Hoover, from P o rtlan d , w as in Brookings for th ree days to install it T he new press prints! four pages a t a time, instead of the tw o on the press we used before, enabling th e Pilot to cut press tim e in half Also attach ed to the press is an "O m aha” folder, which will elim inate, mainly, th e hand feeding required by the old folder. T he paper will come off the press, and into the folder au tom atically. A djusting th e ink, ro llers and cylinder packing may ta k e some weeks before a really good p rin t is obtained. The press and folder is ano th er a. i.t.on th a t will enable th e Pilot to give b e tte r serv ice.to th e com-’ m unity. In recent m onths th e j'tio t has installed a new Jbb press A ddressograph and m etal saw' to ‘s i st of equipm ent. CHRISTMAS MAIL BEGINS HERE “I t ’s tim e to s ta rt those C h rist m as m ailings!” P o stm aster Bill Thompson w arned to day, launch ing his 1955 “Mail E arly for C h ristm as” campaign. "On the calendar It’s a m onth aw ay but here in the Post Office it’s C hristm as today and every day until Decem ber 25th.” be said. E x tra office help have been se cured Post Office inkwells filled, and in fact everything is ready for the m am m o'h flood of C h rist m as mail th a t is expected to sm ash all records. The Post Office has already dis patched a trem endous q u an tity of gift packages h e a d 'd for m em bers of the Armed Force« over s': as. C hristm as cards for service personnel can still be delivered in tim e if they are sent by a ir m ail before December 1st. In the U.S.A., sm art people are now buy ing gifts for friends and relatives and m ailing them, especially those 1 k g in o th er states. P o stm aster Bill Thompson es pecially calls on house-wives to hedp in his effort to deliver every package and C hristm as card be fore December 25th. “The lady of th e house.” he emphasized. “ is really in charge of each fam ily’s C hristm as m ailing program . She selects th e C hristm as cards, buys m ost of th e gifts and sees to it th a t the m ailing list of friends and loved ones it up-to-date.” ‘‘A ctually, success in having all C hristm as gifts and greeting cards delivered on tim e is largely a m a tte r ol advance planning and p rep aratio n which should be done th is week.” P o stm aster B i l l Thompson pointeef out. He urges th a t you ta k e the following steps a t once: Get o ut your C hristm as card list and ca re fully check through it. Make sure th a t each address includes th e full name, street and num ber, city, zone and state. Then pay a visit to tire Post Office, stock up on stam p s (Use three cent stam ps on your C hristm as cards for first- class mail service) and ask any questions you m ay have about m ailing regulations. You can do this in a leisurely w ay if you will come to the P ost Office a fte r 10:30 a m. or before 3:30 p.m., thus missing the rush hours. On your w ay hom e pick up a supply of heavy w'rapping pap er, stu rd y em pty cartons, strong cord and k raft paper adhesive t a p e . A modest investm ent in these neceessitles will pay big dividends in safe delivery of your cherished C hristm as gifts. A fter your gift w rapping and packing is com plete, plan your m ailings so th a t those for the m ost d istan t points go first. T ry to get all long-distance m ailings into th e Post Office before Dec em ber 5th and those for nearby [mints should be m ailed by Dec em b er 10th. You'll be glad you did. P o stal regulations require th a t all sealed packages m ust be m ail ed at the first class (le tte r) rate, if they do not carry a notation th a t they may be opened for postal inspection This is best done by using a Paroel Post label b ear ing the proper inspection notice. T hese are NOT available a t the P ost Office but they may tie ob ta in e d a t any variety store. Sealed packages presented at th e Post Office for mailing a t parcel post ra te s and which do not have th e req u ired notation of laliel will be refused and MUST lie tak en care of by th e maiker. The Brookings Council adopted in full a recom m endation to th e city atto rn ey by th e new ly ap- pointed sew er com m ittee th at would boost th e sew er sur-charge to $2.00 for class one, o r residence outlet, instead of th e 75 cents per m onth form erly agreed upon. The recom m endations included several o th er im portant items, and although the council agreed fully on the recom m endations, none w ere acted upon as ordinances, and w ouldn’t be until th e Dec. 13 m eeting. The Oregon Coast Association has m ade its num ber one recom m endation to the sta te highw ay th a t th e Gold Beach-Pistol River section of Highway 101 be com pleted. The action was tak en during th e groups annual convention in Ccean L ake this weekend. Also it w as reported a t th e m eeting th a t the monies tak en from the 101 project, some $1,200,000 has been returned. T he enmmittiee consisting of A ttending the convention from C urry County was M. E. Kelly, of Jam es Yelton, Tom McKenzie, and P o rt O rford, Irene S haffer Bonn Percy Hanks. T heir recom m endations w ere as Motel; T ex Breedlove, County Com m issioner and Mr. and Mrs. follow s: C harles G rayshel of Brookings. 1. The com m ittee recommends th a t th e Council through th eir a t torney amend o r replace Oi-din- anee 78 P articu larly itself w ithin th is ordinance to th e following- Section 3 should read "The ju st and equitable sur-charge« . . .* A good tu rn -o u t w as recorded Class I charges be each increased n t th e C ham ber of Com merce to $2.00 per month... under B. to m eeting last T hursday noon at read “ next th ree fix tu res each th e Chetco Inn. The group heard 25 cents per m onth," under C. a series of reports from directors "next five fixtures each 15 cents on some of th e projects u nder per m onth,” D rem ains the same. In Section 4 we recommend the tak en d u rin g the last year. M urray P alm e r reported on a use of th e words "Sew er Fund" recent trip to Medford on the in lieu of ‘'Sew er C harge Account, h arb o r and on a highw ay project. Special.” An additional section to carry A rep o rt w as given by Virgil Clark, Plywood T im ber b uyer who th is thought, th a t 50 % of the attended th e recent Congressional surcharge herein above establish ed be put into a sinking fund to be Tim ber H earings in Medford. C lark told about w hat the v ar uaed exclusively in the co n stru ct ious groups asked for, such as ion of a sewage trea tm e n t plant access roads, increased Tim ber and for the purchase of the re sales, and a re-study of federal quired property for such tr e a t m ent plant. forest lands. In ano th er section we recom I t w as reported by P resident C harles G rayshel th a t the board m end th a t a sim ilar statem ent of d irectors had voted to am end such as is contained in Section 5, th e by-law s to include a la rg e r (1) of O rdinance X be stated in numbeh of directors for th e C ham O rdinance 78. We fu rth e r rec ber, A list of nominees for the ommend th a t th e d ate in Section 1956 board of directors was read. 9 o r O rdinance 78 be changed to They include C arl Yahr, Al P hil Ja n u a ry 1, 1956. 2. We fu rth e r recommend th at lips, Tom McKenzie, Virgil Clark, M errill Bullock, Vernon Hanseam, th e A ttorney be instructed to D. D. W illiams, A rnold Peabody, w rite a new ordinance covering Jim Yelton, C harles Grayshel, N. th e sewer charge service. This V. Ström en, Ed Aldrich, M orris ordinance to be sim ilar to O rd in ance 78. E stablishing a service Cordem an, and Bob Dimmick. charge of 35% of th e total su r charge. The monies from the se r vice charges to be placed in a fund known as “S an ita ry Sew erage M aintenance and O peration Fund.’ We fu rth e r recom m end th at the The first m eeting of the new B eta C h ap ter w as held Tuesday lim its of the above mentioned •evening a t th e home of N orm a fund be defined sim ilarly to th at Archibald, and officers were elect w ording of Section 5, 11) of O rd ed. In stallatio n will be held on inance X. 3. We fu rth e r recommend th at December 3, to be followed by a form al danoe a t th e Chetco Rod the A ttorney subm it an ordinance sim ilar to O rdinance X which and Gun Club. Officers elected w ere President, sta te s the opinion and intention Thelm a H ouvila; vice-president, P a t H elrig; R ecording S ecretary, L orraine Eide; Corresponding Sec retary , Yvonne Fox, and T reas urer, B etty Seejey. C of C Meeting Well Attended New Beta Group Is Formed Here ROCKS TUMBLE INTO STORE HALL APPOINTED TO I t end, TWO COMMITTEES some Sam H all, Brookings attorney, and d istrict atto rn ey for C u rry County, w as inform ed by Geo. A. Rhoten, president of the Onegon S ta te Bar, th a t he has been ap pointed to the tria l com m ittee, fo u rth Congressional D istrict. H all w as also appointed to the Com m ittee on Crim inal Law and P ro cedure by Rhoten. New Policeman Starts Duty Here rained in Brookings last week and caused some dam age and consternation. T he w orst dam age resulted from a bank cave-ln behind th e P alm ers D ep artm en t S tore S a t urday night. T h e under-cut bank caved in onto a recently acquired city alley, and slam m ed into the re a r of th e new D epartm ent store building. T he rocks and mud w as hurled through the near door, breaking it rig h t off the hinges. W ater also entered th e building b ut only little dam age w as done to m erchandise, m ost everything being kept off the floor. W a te r en tered several other1 business buildings in Brookings, including th e Pilot Building and Coast P ow er Saw and E quipm ent. A new policem an was hired/here last week. He is Raym ond E. Sw itzer, form erly of K lam ath F a lla S w itzer sta rte d oh the force on N ovem ber 15th as a patrolm an He is m arried and has a son,20, who Is in th e Navy, cu rren tly is WARNS ON SPEED, overseas. DRIVING VIOLATIONS stationed ’ Sw itzer has spent 15 years w ith T he disappearance of a H arbor Chief of Police Bud Cros- has the K lam ath F alls force, and is issued a w arning to »hose vio lat also a well qualified FB I school man, Slim Jenkins, w as disclosed today by Police Chief Bud Cross. ing traffic ordinances in Brookings trained officer. Jen k in s hasn’t been seen o r heard th a t m ore a rrests would be made. from since the first w eek in Nov Cross said th a t some of the com Miles H orton, 86, passed aw ay em ber. It w as rep o rted by Chief m onest violators w ere speeders, and driving through school cross at a S alem hospital, Momiay. N oe Cross th a t his w allet and w rist w alk s w ithout Stopping- 21. Mr. H orton had lived in B rook w atch w as found betw een Jenkins’ Chief Cross em phasized th e fact ings for th e past th ree years, house an d th e beach. H e is m ar th a t it gets dark early, and th a t having moved h ere from Lebanon. ried. Chief Cross asked th a t anyone th e youngsters a re still coming He is survived by his widow, N a n o u t of school a fte r five, an d th a t ny, 83. now living here, a d au g h ter th a t knoww his w hereabouts or has port to ex trem e care is neded when dri"- ??rs. Floyd (M ercedes) Cal ph, and inform ation on Jcnki - t e r husband, now living in E ureka. the Brookings Police S tatio n irg at th a t tim e. HARBOR MAN CALLED MISSING of the City Council w ith regard« to establishing sew ers and dis posal plants, and also establishing a basic sew er connection fee. S tatin g w ithin this ordinance the intention of the city council to use any surplus funds generated, to the retirem ent of th e G eneral Obligation Bonds is to be s’ated a r in Section 5. (g) o r O rdinance X w ith the exception and th a t is th e 5^5.00 basic connection fee be increased by $10.00 p er y e a r to a m axim um of five years. In o th e r words the fee at the se nnd year would be $85.00, the third y ear $9o.00, and reaching a m axim um fee at the fifth year of $125.00 We suggest th a t Section 5 ( J ) of O rdinance X lie elim inated in its entirety. 4. We fu rth e r recom m end to the Council that they direct their A torney to determ ine ti e 'egat aspects of acquiring the present facility in D istrict 1. Wc are recom m ending to the council th a t the i-s tm e t ’h eir atto ri • ■ in n ■ , ■ ng at the ea tjiest m v n e n t;. to , v ew th e above m c.iti d ordinerew s with this com . e and w ith Mr. Shuler. To p in e before th e council on Do m her 13, 1955 these -rdinance«? for th e ir passage together w ith such o th e r ordin ance and o r inform ation th a t is required to set forth a definite date to? the bond election a t the reg u lar council m eeting on Dec em ber 13th. The reco m m en iatien s cam e afte r a m eeting w ith Archie Rice, engineer, who approved them al most ir full. It w as believed by the eom m itto? that a program of procedure m u st be followed in order to set the city’s sew er pro gram on a sound financial basis. They had figured th at th e ear- lier I- —, d 75 cent would not he enour . to pay the sewers off in five ye- Th will be' .ilxiut SSO c it" locations affected. On th rlie - e’-y, in five years only S3. COO would h av - hern real- ¡zed, the com m ittee reported, and $158, 00C would be requined to develop ■cv/er system in .ill nine d lstrj.is : i .rn as follows: S78.I ft basic city sewer (main a 1 p ip i e g st.il ions) $75,000 ' a t r 'm en t p lant, and 39,00c ..c.' _ rrp -ix irin g . Wit) " p 'an $102,000 ould be ra five years, ai d along with .' <■ es-d $50.000 g e n m l oblige' '■ "d it would be a “Pay-r- '-go’’ plan, w hereby th? c ! Id have a com plete sewer i paid for in five year r urse, residents w «iM still 1 ay for the laterals. besid thia. M ' ’ ’t'i the council will meet to t- k e up the re tise d ord- inance, and to set the d ate for the bond issue. The com m ittee also asked th a t they be allowed $500 ad ditional legal expenses to hire ex p e rt legal advice. F inally the com m ittee ask th at the city issue a sta te m e n t to “help end confusion which e x is A " The statem en t. "The city couiW cil anti em ployees in th eir o llirin f capacity wish to express p u b tid y th a t they a re not advising the hr citizens m the m a tte r of the ment of th e ir individual s charges to the Brookings and Tow nsite Com pany.” In o th e r actions in the me M ayor Brimm issued a pre ation setting aside IC-i 1 as S afe D riving Day in Brookings. M ayor Brimm appointed D. I>. W illiams to serve on the hudaaC committee. An ordinance No. 79 w as cre ated, which set up a local ryjm- ization for civil defense, an d n t up a civil defense director, runnt then appointed Bill Thom[>so«i as Civil Defense D irector. A fter an absence of a b o u t Iff months, the old so-called "Gi River” ordinance reared its TWO M S , Je rry B utler, axd| Jhsur ance man, and M cKovgjA Brush man, each pri ordinance. , No action w as t a l f l ^ B rim m and the agreed to se t up fivdCmen f l k l • “screening com m ittee"! to people th a t w an t to s II In tffff“’ City A ttorney Ed cklegr Mb in stru cted to draw up r: to tiie licensing ordì _ v h would increase m ost city licenses.
