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BROOKINQS HARBOR PILOT BROOKINGS, OREGON
Increase in
Packages Is Noted
Postmaster Hill Thompson an
noonced today
tod.ny that there has been
nounced
a steady increase in the flow of
Clirlstmas cards and packages
through the Post Offoe the past
Christmas. Keep in mind that
careful packing and correct add
ressing is equally handling and we
often have
to puzzle
puzzle over
over address-
address-
often
have to
es which are incomplete or simply
cannot «r
be irau
read «1
at au.
all.”
Advance care in preparing gift
packages for the mails and mak-
ing sure ,haf a)l addresses are
Use plenty of wadded tissue or
newspaper in the cartons for ex
tra protection against snocK
shock.
ComP|et' «»<* package by wrap-
P ^ r and tying it
• P1"? - >" heavy - --
s rong ( 1
As ’ extra
against loss,
f x ' ’* precaution
r" i'a^
ThOm.PSOn ad'’ised
SMITH
RIVER NEWS
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JAMES M. HOCKING
Funeral services were held here
Friday afternoon for Jamps M
Hocking.
w hn
Hocking, 72
72, who
passed »wav
away i„
in
a Grants Pass
hospital,
November
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Thp dece^Led^was a ° n a ti v e ^ f
Thursday, December I, 1955
^® inninK at 5 P m -
D um ber
2nd. Two huge baskets of food
will be
given as d00r
door Prizes
prizes. P
Part
06 glven
ar’
°f the Proceeds will be added to
,he
the annual Christmas TB sales by
the two organizations. Home tai-
ent has been planned for the
evening.
few
^ ' 7 7 and the recipiem’« address"'inride
had !iwd in ..Smith
fe
” davs. He said he was glad to
and the recipient’s address inside Rl," . L r
,
>n sm ith
see that many people are pitting disappointment to sender and re the carton or package before it is J ^ t i S w Z J T
W3S
ceiver
alike.
fh r'” Christmas gifts for distant
wrapped
a retired woodsman and is sur-
"If you have any articles of
points in the mail this week point
Gold
Beach, a new court
Don't «.»l
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vived by his w*dow, Mrs. Lottie
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oeacn.
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unless Hocking, a daughter, Mrs. Flor- house is needed and expansion of
ing out that packages addressed unusual size or bulk, better check v o n in e i. id
7 * C°n" ence Thoresen «'C rescent City, a the grade school is planned,
to folks living in other states with the Post Office before a t tent m eihandi r 7
There is a practically new grade
should ell be mailed before Dec tempting to mail them.” the Post ed for Dostal . inaneetv •• 'T*" S° n’ GeOTSe W- Hocking of Grants
ember 5th and those for nearbv master warns. “The limits of size with your return ad Ires" U h * PaES- He was an active member school building then? with more
and weight of packages varies,
points before December 10th.
address
Z
,
° f ,h<>
Earl Gran«? and the than enough room for al> ’he
Stressing the need for everyone depending on where you mail your label. t If
fl you
s
use C h r i s t ™ ^ ’^ -
N° rte r-umona.
Pomona viiavesiae
Graveside ser- county offices for many years to
to cooperate on his 1955 “Mail Package from.”
' • you use Christmas stick- vice was conducted by Rev Noel “ me
Some
"
“ Post ' Offices cannot accept b I c k o r av L rP r h th,em °" ‘a° ° ,sen and ths Lake Eari Grange
Except for vaults- it is ready
Early for Christmas” campaign.
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Postmaster Bill Thompson says packages that ana more than 72 an d n a c k a e e ■ s so « ---------*
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Was in ,h e S m ith
a " th<? C0Un,y offices and hav e
that by these three simple rules, inches in combined length and ai d Packages so that they will no: River Cemetary.
room to spare.
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you’re certain to have your gifts girth, nor more than 20 pounds in c°ntlict w*th the address on the
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It would
he 6„uu
good uusinesg
business ior
for
front Before - you --------
retease your DIP DINNER _____
DECEMBER
2 the county to buy the present
__weight In Brookings, the limits
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delivered before Christmas Day.
up to 100 inches in combined ’’ackages bo sure that proper post-
The "Dip Dinner" to be "staged grade school building, using the
Wrap them securely, Address
them correctly, and Mail them length and girth and 70 pounds in agc ls llrmfy affixed to each and by the Lake Earl Grange and the respectable court house fund as a
ea riy.
weight.
*’ *• a g°°d >dea to place a ptece of Church of the Latter Dav Saints down payment to help finance
It is always better to use cor- ’' a”sparent cellophane tape over will be held in the Grange H»n j building one new complete grade
H e w ent on to say, ‘‘O f co u rse
early mailing of all Christmas fugated cartons for shipping your ,he address portion of the label —
; school as I understand plans are
cards and gifts is a big factor in Blf,K especially where there are t0 Prewnt defacing in its transit,
i now to have two grade schools a
getting them delivered before a number bf various sized objects. Make sure- of course- to include
j half mile or sc apart,
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the recipient’s full name, street
i The taxpayers in Gold Beach
I
address, city, zoos and state
are faced with not only paying
into the court house fund but are
going to have to pay the school
XMAS COLOR — NORMAL
costs too. and this includes main
taining, at double cost, two build
ings—-for utilities, janitor, etc.
Number of fires and acreage
Normals and all colors slightly h'ghcr
Not going into this --------
deal thor-
burned
on national forest pro
oughly would cost every taxpayer
KA RES and BREEDERS OF ALL SORTS
tective aneas in the Pacific North
Reel Estate in Curry County, and especially
YOH MAY SELECT YOUR BABY BUDGIES NOW.
west Region during the 1965 fire
Gold Beach, a lot of money.
We Will Hold It Until Xmas For You.
season wene close to the previous
Agency
Another thing, as I look at the
T H E S E M A K E L O V E L Y P E T S FOR OLD a n d YOUNG.
five-year averages, according to
picture of the proposed new Curry-
Kermit W. Linstedt, Eorest ervice
♦ Insurance
County courthouse, I wonder how
Regional Fire Control Chief.
much it is going to cost to sup-
PHONE CRESCENT CITY 4541 — ON ALDER ROAD
Fires started numbered 1,008
port it. My guess is around $1,500
Notary
and acreage burned totalled some
a month. At least, it will be a lot
C ut H ara
CUT HERE — Cut Here — CUT HERE — Cut H en 16.179 to the end of October. Of
more than the overhead of the
Public
£
the 1,008 fires 342 of them oc-
present grade school, which costs
£ curred in September and almost ¡
easily can be had from the school
all of the fires that month started
clerk-
LIVE AT THE EDGE OF
T
.
during the dry lightning storms
JX * :
TOWN, Near’y 3 acres, 3 bed
° which occurred over the Labor
committee looking into the new
room home, double garage,
Day weekend on seven Oregon for-
fine water system, view of the courthouse matter, and think they
G ests. During the period September
Great Pacific Ocean, a very should consider this alternative as
4th to 12th about four-fifths of
a part of their and our business.
convenient home, only $8950.
jj. the entire season's acreage of burn
J. B. Smith
£ occurred from the spread of those i SOME FOLK LIKE IT CLOSE
w
IN,
this
2
bedroom
all
nicely
2 Gres.
75« PER DAY *
B
decorated and lots of handy
. ’ During the season lightning set
built-ins is >ncated right in the
MONDAY—Steak Dinner
620 fires. Man-caused fires were
heart
of the City and we have
as follows: railroad 15; lumbering
tf TUESDAY—Eat Left-Overs At Home
a price of S7250 with conven
20; camp-fires 129; smoker 133;
ient terms.
I WED. Real Home Made Spagetti Dinner
ÿ ! ctebris burning 27; incendiary 1;
While waiting »»nice on their
HOW
ABOUT A WELL BUILT Station Wagon at a local filling
3
and
miscellaneous
63.
g 1 H UR SDAY—Baked Beans with Brown Bread
HOME FOR $6.950? This one station, a white-haired lady en
I
In reviewing the fire season
7
and Ground Round
is practically new and built tertained their elderly dog in the
Q Linstedt had these comments to
g FRIDAY—“Fish Day” Cream Crab or Shrimp C make: ”Jh e serious situation like a battleship. It has a big office. The pootch, somewhat grey
lot (68 x 132) tpo. If you are about the chops himself, was sash
_ j which confronts foresters Sept
I
on Toast
in the market you should see aying around on three'flippers and
ember 4th
4th and
and 5th
5th over
over the
Kie holi-
hoii-
w SATURDAY
f'l ’ »
CL
•
« ; emuer
this one.
packing his other one. Friendly-
«
Christmas Shopping at North 2 day w«*end could easily have
old
cuss, keen to get acquainted
developed
intc
a
major
disaster
81950 DOWN and the full price
a _____
Brookings — Eat at Dairy Creem
deve,ODed in,r "
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v>iccm | September lightning storms have
is only $6500. Over acre, chick with everybody-.
h
.
lad a gotxJ dinner last Sunday at the O s’rock beton?. in number of fires en house, garage, cabin goes
The Mistress explained they had
Dairy / Creem — Let’s
with it and it is right here in a lemon and orange grove, down
U íkií Go
V n I Back
DdlK Todav £ “*htnini storms in early septem-
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”■ f>er of 1938 set 399 fires on four
the big City of Brookings. And in the smog country and that a lot
national forests, but the storms
of course there is a nice little of her neighbors also had dogs
so
were accompanied by heavy rains
home with 2 bedrooms to boo’. but she didn’t fancy the fancy
purps they cherished.
and the total burned acreage on
g
Highway io , — North Brookings
£ these four hardest hit forests 3 BEDROOM FAMILY HOME
When they got to going too
right in the midst of some of strong on the merits of their dogs
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,:l'
Here
CUT HERI
CUt Htefc
CUT HE1 ' totalled only 1,857 acres.
the nicest homes in town, with
she asks them. "How's it on chas
hardwood floors, in top con
ing lemons?”
dition, extra large lot with a
“Why—our dog never chases
2 car garage. 812,750 on terms.
lemons and (Blah blah blah!)"
"Well.” I tell them, "my dog is
8500 DOWN AND TOTAL OF
nuts for chasing lemons, will even
82500 for a 3 bedroom home
go out and fetch lemons to the
Sure it ain’t so fancy but it is
house for us to throw so’s he can
liveable, it is clean, it has a
chase and bring them back to us
good water system and a real
for another throw.. He spends all
nice lot right in town.
letter to the Editor
- XMAS SPECIAL -
$1.75 Each
Each $1.75
FOREST FIRES
NEAR AVERAGE
SHAPS BIRD FARM "
MZf IS My
luoc/i Box
★
THE Tale Of A
Working Dog . . .
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hi. spare time chasing oranges and
lemons that fall off the tre«s and
that’s
th
ats how he got lamed—skidded
around a tree trying to catch a
lemon before it hit the eround
ground
How's your dog on chasing cats
off the place?”
Mercy! NO! Why, we just love
cats and wouldn’t think of letting
any dog chase any cat!”
Our dog don’t let a strange
cat on ’be Place and, besides, for
that matter, runs off all the
Br°und squirrels and f i d s t h e
placp of rats and mice.”
‘‘Why! My dog NEVER does
anything like that!”
I wonder,” mused the admiring
pootch’s mistress, “Just what they
harbor a useless critter like that
for.”
Rsd came in the office just
’hen and leaped aside as the dog
sniffed his pants cuff, with that
one hind leg cocked up in the air.
Bottleneck Road
Hit At Meeting
NEW LIFE CRUSADE
WITH
EMU GAVERLUK, Evangelist
ALKE GAVERLUK, Soprano
PRESENT: Chalk
BUSINESS FOR 8650
That is right, a real nice little
business for 8650 and that in
cludes inventory«. Just plop
down the money and start mak
ing money, lease on building
and an apartment. Business
and apartment $85 per month.
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The Magic of Black Light
1 ligh Fidelity Music
«M A D
Violin and Vocal Solos
Many tasks to be done in the
GARDEN
Some plants NEED LIME here—
Clematis, Delphinium. Aralia,
Lilac, Hydrangea. White and Pink
LIFT DAHLIAS
If you are to Divide In Spring
Cut stems 3 inches from bulbs
TAG for VARIETY and COLOR
Store in Cool Dry Place
Until they sprout
CLEAN UP CALLAS
The Heavy Leaves Rot and make
a wonderful plaoa for Slugs to live
and Lay Eggs. Cut Off and
Sprinkle Stubs with
SLUGDUSTO
To Kill both Slugs and Eggs
LIFT GLADS
Cut Stem Near Bulb
DRY 3 to 4 WEEKS
Take Off OLD CORM
and STEM-STORE
in paper bags with NAPHALINE
Flakes or SPRAYDUSTO for
APHIS and THRIP
SOUTHERN
CURRY
REALTY
10 AC7 ¡ ™ t0W'n
f?et °" Pi° neer Road- Cabin- barn- "e»-
51.000 will handle.
Two bedroom homo - Insulated and weatherstrip^ed - with
a’ »ched garage on paved street near school. $9300 with
1 3 Down, Balance 856.00 per month.
Over Two Acres in town with large barn _ some berries and
fruit trees - Only $3^50.00. % Cash will handle
i Bedroom Home with attached car port and extra room
17C A
19 °un large COrner iot S11O°O. Only $1500 down
8-'X) T
2 CEAX FRO*TAGE within City Limits
SiboO Total Price. — $1500 Down.
ERMA D. RICE — BROKER
NOW LOCATED IN TH E KERR BUILDING
Phone 2312
MUNCY’S
Í
aintings
— by R U T H B A T H I A N Y
All possible influence will be
used by peven. united Oregon
Coast counties to get work started
early in 1956 on the elimination of
at least one of the coast highway’s
last two bottlenecks.
DIG BEGONIAS
Sparked by the recent formation
Dry 3 or 4 weeks — clean,
of a county court unit delegates
dust with SPRAYDUSTO
to the 25th annual convention of
to kill insects and mildew
the Oregon) Coast association went
STORE in COOL. DRY Place
on record at Oceanlake last week
until time to start growing
demanding immediate action.
MILLERS-SOIL-SLUG a|id
Given top priority at the con-
'ention was the rebuilding of the SPRAYDUSTO & NAPTHALINE
Gold Beach to Pistol River section GARDEN CLUB EXCHANGE
GIFTS
U. S. 101 in Curry County,
AT
Further impetus in every possible
wa-v " d i be lent to furthering BROOKINGS FEED and SEED
B y RU TH BATH
P|a ns for the building of a bridgZ
— by R u th B uthiany
over the Columbia at Astoria,
An enthused and nejuvenated
association which saw the larges'
.....—
l‘‘c ,al«scs'- Newport, and Mrs. Nevill Swan
„ ^ i Eear! alsd
corresponding secre-
greed to change the date of their tary, present officers will continue
nnual convention to late spring, to serve until election of new off-
mended by-laws were adapted, icers at the Coos Bay convention,
hscal year changed to July 1 witli
Functioning as a steering corn-
new officers to take over annually mittee of the county court unit
at that time and a decision to hold are Tillamook Countv Judge Otto
he spring convention at Coos Bay Effenberger, Coos Bay County
77
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Judge James Harrison and Clat-
on
oughton, president, of sop County Commissioner Don
Florence. Mayor F. E. Gilkey. of Malarkev.
Dairy Creem
BAPTIST COMMUNITY CHURCH
Garden Corner
Chatter
Market
i-RESH —
man MUNCY REPORTS
pound
\ ital Messages
D ecem b er 4 - 1 4
FOR SAFETY
• I '.ii Evening at 7:45 (except Saturday)
A d h e re to the rules
o f th e road. Proper
a u to m o b ile in s u r
a n c e is an a d d e d
s a fe g u a rd .
Sunday, December 4th
11 ;oo am .—Jesus Christ Can Give You Everythin
^•3” P-tn.
\ STEWING HENS
FRESH —
m>n>
Baptist Youth Fellowship
7:45 p.m.—Evening Worship
hal pru itt
w ith the Agency
KEEP CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS
--N O T IC E --
If yo„ /M,z „o Church Home we incite you
to come and worship tcit_h us.
SAVE UP TO 20*
For Your Insurance Needs
Representing
4 Largest Companies
North America
AETNA
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