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U OF IV LIBRARY* HJGE í E ORE Harbor Nowhere A Finer Climate - Nowhere A Finer Community Volume io — Number 46 Thursday, January 5, 1956 SKETCHBOOK SEWER BILLS ARE SENT BY CITY I The die is c a st: The C ity of Brookings sent out city sew er service charge, and su r-c h arg e bills last w ek .and a t around th e sam e tim e i was announced that the m v v u i bond election > would be held o n J a n u a ry 20 of i this m onth. Phones vs. Storm ( itizens in te reste d in the Extensive dam age to the W est corning sew er bond election, Coast Telephone Com pany’s Coos Ja n u a ry 20th, a re urged to Bay district facilities resulting atten d the Citizens C om m ittee from the destructive late-D e- m eeting on J a n u a ry 9th, a t The Bowl gam es a re over and cem ber storm has been alm ost 8 j).m. in th e C ity Hall. At again the big ten team has ^ ea t com pletely repaired. G e o r g e th at tim e the S ew er Com m it A s tatei ent trom th e C ity of en a coast rival. N ine out of ten McBride of Coos Bay reported tee will reviewF in detail all Brookings id is follows: times. I ju st wonder if th e cu r today. phases of th e five-year sewer "The Ci of B lockings wish rent series which ends next New program . A form al report ! to express d, ir "A t one tim e everything we Y ears will lie renewed. w ill be p rin ted in next w eek’s j the citizens o| appri'ciation to had on w ire was o u t”, McBride this com m unity — S ketch Book — Pilot. T he Pilot realizes that the Com pany’s D istrict M anager for th eir fine e -i »Deration in the The coast team s w ill probably a fully inform ed v o ter is an 1 prom pt pay said. ‘‘It w as the w orst w eather sew er w'ant to go a fte r some other asset n t th e polls, and invites charges r e n , havoc I have seen in my IS ‘ <1 conference like the big seven. both sides of the issue to pre years in the business.” ‘‘Mr. E. C. 'u • w as not Then they will have opponents sent th e ir opinion in next Th? heavy rains and high wind only th e fj 9 pay his like Sam Gibson’s O klahom a w eek’s Pilot. rendered m ore than 5,000 te le hill, but pa i i 1 e a r in ad- eleven. phones in tlie district tem p o rar vance. Such < ’ n e w as, of — Sketch Book — ily useless. N early 2,800 of the course, very t dying, and They tell me Sam w as quite BROOKINGS BRUINS 9,000 telephones in the Coos Bay while the Cu U s not expect w orried about his Sooner boys TO VISIT ORFORD M arshfield area w ere knocked this to be do ie in every case, in the first half of th e ir O range The Brookings B ruins will tr; out of commission. will, at th e < r Bowl G am e w ith M aryland. The tim e, w elcom e to get back into th e spirit o Scores of poles w ere w’ashed any such advan< •e paym ents. In T erps had them 6 to nau g h t in out or pushed over by slides and basketball S a tu rd a y night, whei th e first half. I was hoping the fact, a m ajo rity of persons have falling trees, and lines every- they invade P ort O rford. The; 'ex p ressed a d<- '»•e to he bilk'd doctor w asn’t called aw ay during 'J w here w ere shorted or draggl'd have alread y decisioned P o rt 1 q u arterly , w hirl ' is m ore eon- the second half of th a t contest. down by broken limbs. High O rford once th is season. — S ketch Book — venient for them and also saves w ater and m ud not only m ade it A gam e w as called off bookkeeping am : l-.ilhng exjx’n- I am still an advocate of a la te difficult for w orkers to reach the * ses to the hie-. sum m er football classic here trouble spots but actu ally posed 1 in Brookings. T H E FLO W ER Since so v Im re chosen w hat McBride described as "as condition. Brookings w on’t play BOWL. Of course, th e QB Club th is m ethod < ’ th e ir bills. positive hazard to the bodily a gam e a t home until the has got to get going so we have Acclaimed as being one of th e the City vv;’’ ’’♦ the next safety of some of o u r m en.” m ade his w ay out of Mozam week in Jan u ary , w hen St. a team to field. Rem em ber th e ir Report The Death Of most beautiful n atu ra l p ark s in j billing for th •■> <hs of Feb- He said th at all available W est n ard s play here. In the bique and thence to America, m eeting, Ja n u a ry 9th, a t the M rs. Robert Williams the world, H a rris Beach S ta te ninr.v and mbined. and Coast crew s had to lx* au g m en t finaly building him self a home high school. the third bi’1 n- W ord has come from Salem P ark, vvith’r. the lim its of the and ranch buildings at th e ed by two crew s brought in from 'll then include — S ketch Book — th e m onths of April, May and that Mrs. Robert W illiams died i City of Brookings, had thous m outh of the creek which now E ugene and th at they worked lois. Everyone interested in the pig ♦ here December 17th. She and ands of guests d u rin g this past • 1 Ju n e.” right through the C hristm as hol bears his nam e skin gam e should atte n d th a t her husband had lived, for m any i sum m er. A le tte r ' ” nv or Roy idays. D am age w as so w ide H ere he ranged sheep, m ade meeting. D on’t feel th a t ju st be y?ars, on a ranch on the Cape ' Brimm w,- C ontaining m any acres, it is welcome all trav e lle rs and, being spread th a t it has defied im ■ 1 *n th e in- cause you haven’t been asked F erre lo Road, w here ‘‘Rob” still a sm all portion of a huge tra c t 1 itial sewver 1 i' The le tte r m ediate estim ate by com pany personally th a t you are not w el lives. The com m unity is sadden req u ired by the late George elderly an 1 lonesome, had his officials. | read in pp - ' Hows: nephew, Jam es, come out from come. It is going to tak e a lot ed by h er passing as she had a Scott H arris, a B erth Scotsm an D ear Clti -en: P erth. Only the .ong distance micro of people to put this thing over, host of friends w ho will sincer who had a most adventurous Enclosed ■ n 'iis t hill for T hat bane to defenseless w in The elder H arris, passing to w ave relay system between Coos not ju st a few. So get out for ely miss her neighborliness. ca reer even before he landed in his rew ard, w as succeeded in Bay and Eugene, Coos Bay and dows, the B-B gun, has m ade its 1 the Sewage ' ’ 'c^ordance th e m eetings, especially you C urry County. As a young man, ow nership * ’ as passed appearance this week a fte r the w ith O rdinal the property by his CH IEF CROSS TELLS Bandon rem ained unaffected by fath ers w ith sons. You will w ant George form ed a p artn ersh ip in nephew whi a fte r several years he big w eath er disturbance, Me C h ristm as giving, according to by your Ciri 1 i Deeem- to m ake sure your boy has an ()p FEATHER RIVER her 13th, his hom eland and spent m any a m erchant ant! postm aster of Bride said. He also disclosed th a t Police Chief, Bud Cross. ’i'd inanee (is on file opportunity to grow up to be a M r .and Mrs. Bud Cross, years selling cotton goods, pri- Brookings, f" ’.’ H all for now lives w ith his installation of six additional cir- T h? B-B guns have broke out q u a rte r back. | your insp?c ‘ < a Brookings Police Chief, w ere a t m arily red bandanas am ong the fam ily at S an ta Rosa i euits being put on the Bandon several hundred dollars w orth the F e a th e r R iver a t Yuba City wild native tribes of S outh A frca F ifty pe ' ' hill will Realizing the suprem e scenic m icrowave system supplem ent- of windows during th e jp ast week — S ketch Book — W hen the Zulu and M atabeie possibili; ies a • an ad ju n ct to the ing existing radio lines to Lang- Chief Cross reports. He said th a t tx* deposit. ‘ •ve fund Now. you fathers of little when the river broke through in r th e con- girls, don’t be slighted. You all a m ajo r flood d isa ste r recently. W ars m ade th e co u n try u n ten Stati? P in k s system , successive lois, P o rt O rford and Gold Beach the ¡Milice are going to hold the which is to ' re disposal come too. Somebody has got to Chief Cross said th a t th ere was able for a w hite m an, George tra c ts wen- bought until the would he com pleted Ja n u a ry 9th p aren ts responsible for the kids’ st ruction < r ' • present acreage w as reached, or 10th. 'tv peinent actions. Chief Cross said fu rth e r plant. The cheer those boys on to victory. w a te r everyw here, and a t one tim e au th o rities had 1500 men D uring earlier y ears of p u b l i c --------------------- oust ruction th at th e city is no place to tu rn is to lx' use | — Sketch Book — w orking to bolster the |pvy. of mains ov ze, for the ow nership several groups of the kids h o se w ith guns. This tim e of year everyone in Chief Cross also said th a t a The siren atop th e old City j ( C C s w orked on the park, ’ pressure W indows all over town fell pum ping i ' business is taking inventory. Joe very good friend of his, E arl Hall and F ire D ep artm en t has building trails, clearing brushi prey to the youthful gunners, lines anil f . v •♦-> > • ration and S ayre w anted to hold a contest I'lackbourn, undersherifT there, been fixed up w ith a new tim e and tidy.ng it up, a job la te r • nme including several in th e Seventh niainten.np c for the business houses to see and bis son w ere both drowned clock arran g em en t, which will taken over by resident keepers Your bill iceordance to Day Adventist Church. Chief which one finished first. Of try in g to help in a rescue. enable th e w histle to blow w ith- when conditions dem anded Cross said th at he has a p retty the follows eh.argos; R esidence course he didn’t suggest th a t out being trig g ered by a h u m a n , T rav ellers on hundreds of fair idea of who th e boys are, Single Fe.i i ’ R ddenee, $2.00 The W. H. S hehans of Long hand It has been agreed by the miles of U S . 101 sought, all the until he was sure th eir w as all ind ex|M*cts th a t some will lx* I>ei m o n t h , r diple fam ily res- C urry County again leads all taken cane of. I wonder w here Beach, California are in Brook- council to blow the siren at noon way along for a place w here they r m onth, first picked up this week. He said idences: $2.'d Frenchy picks up those shrew d ings visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rob- from now on, and at 10:30 at could actu ally get down to th e the counties of Oregon, this tim e th a t th e guns will be tak en aw’ay unit, and 75 -• nt; a m onth each g u y s? . tert S hehan and family. m ght for the curfew . beach. Ih e ir appreciation of the in percentage increase, during from th e (‘boys, and held until th e additional unit. the past six years, of reta il sales. Com mercial l i.’st tw o fix- facilities a ailable to them at p aren ts and boys can show gixxl his increase am ounted to 103.4 H arris P ark have m o i“ th an cause why they should h? re-] lures, $2.00 per m onth; next th ree fixtures y; •ents each; th e justified p a d , present, o r any percent according to figures re turned. leased by the U. S. Census of next five fixtu 13 c e n ts each fu tu re expense. E iness. and each addite. •d fix tu re 10 From every sta te in the Union hile m ost of the listing is re n ts each p. r m <nth. and from outside th e U nited by counties and covers the p er It is estim ated that th e above S tates, they m ay lx* met with, iod between 1948 and 1954, some charges, plus a X),(XO bond is- in storm or sunshine, night o r J towns have t(0en M.Kregate(,, and I sue which will be l-’U ix'fore th e day, revelling in w hat of the in thi field, the increase in I t’s all th? rage down in Gold citizens co n m u tte“ on J a n u a ry A nother plea for a share of th? the money to th e schools in the and spending the O & C F unds many, m any featu res appeals to Beaverton, am ounting to 160.7 Beach. Tin H ats for ladies, th a t ^0, 1956, will pay for th a t part th at way w as called a “Good them. O and C T im ber funds was m ade county. percent, is the only one noted is. A new style for th e rugged of th e sew er system th a t w ould by S uperintendent of Schools The C ourt said no thought had In v estm en t” by the Court. T here is am ple room for p a rk which exceeds the gain of C urry fro n tier th at C urry C ounty is, become a general obligation to D. D. W illiam s W ednesday a t a been g.ven to the distribution of D istrict A ttorney Sam Hall County. has been set by the th ree women the City as a whole, in a period m eeting of the C u rry County the money, following discussion asked th a t a public m eeting be ing along the highw aj for those Losses in business during the in the C u rry County C ourt house of five years. who just love to sit and w atch C ourt. in Brookings last m onth, because called to discuss the d istribution I he $50,000 bond issue will bo th e ocean, th ere is an easy ap period noted am ounted to 21 including County C lerk O leta of the $113,000. W illiams asked for a p art o f , of the recent flood emergency. percent in W heeler county and, W alker. discharged w ith the monies re- proach, alm ost to the w a te r’s Breedlove took an antagonistic SI 13,000. unbudgeted by the The th ree women, all office reived from S ew er Service ch ar- „ « a * i * i A clipping of th e Coos-Bav attitu d e tow ard using the money edge, and plenty of room to p ark am ong the cities, to a 29 4 slip C ounty Court. Th? total am ount _. in the city of Redmond below its w orkers, w ere w earing the sam e ges anil from S ew er A ssessm et . •' a v z -. j * au Tim es was read a t the meeting, v > i for schools, alth o u g h he said he and t u n around, and th e re are 1918 volume. of money sent by O and C to the ’ . style of h at too, norm ally some from S ew er D istrict No. 1. w here th? Coos Bay C ham ber of wag in favor Qf ,a an<J m iles and miles of smooth, san- county was in excess of $300.000 The figures are taken by com thing of a cardinal sin for a Com m erce asked for a road into schools. H? said “C u rry C ounty dy The S ew er service ch ars h and rock> chiTs to ex * W illiams said th a t if no add P ow ers and Agnes»- - ‘‘so all the schools are 50 y ears ahead of th e p,ore handy fishing off the paring the reported totals from woman. T he h ats w ere worn i n , when you a re connected to th e itional money can be secured tim b er won’t go out through roads ”. He also stated th a t the rocks or m arching the pebbly all types of retail businesses the C ourt House as protection C ity sewer, will be 35% Of the Brookings would have to double Gold Beach.” B rookings-H arbor gym was "as I crev ’ces f,,:’ d an v M any's the which were gathered in *48 w ith against falling plaster. They am ount show n on th e encl shift through the fifth grade those turned in in ’54. In 1948 w ere th e "tin h a t” com m only bill, 1 a , a single fam ily d w eiliiw C ounty Com m issioner T e x big as a house”—and asked why hour lovers can spend about th ere were 17.498 businesses re next year. He reported 400 associated w ith the logging In will pay 35f < of $2.00 or aeveiily Breedlove said th a t he was w-'tw tidal pool a real w orld class rooms w eren ’t built in youngsters are now double sh ift to rtin g as against 19,064 in ’54 dustry. alarm ed over the situation. The stead of the gyn.. cents p er m onth. all to itself. To the thousands ing. and said th a t the figure The C ourt House has been C ourt had discussed th a t clip I and thousands of people who o r a grow th of 1..566. P. T. A. TO M EET would reach 600 bv next year. Breedlove, com m issioner from Springfield boosted its bus- jacked up, ready to be tak en off ping in th eir m orning session, it live aw ay from salt w afer, th e ir He said th a t if some money was repotted. S :xcr. also said "I wish you could m tim a’e contact w ith the real ire* . 102 percent and Gresham the p roperty .only now it h as I HURSDAY N IG H T w ere given to this district out of have the biggest schools but if Die Brookings-Harbor P, T. A 'h m g c . «ver-never to be for e r n e up 815 percent. Business no place to go/ th e fund th a t Brookings m ight 'Die C ourt reported th a t they I e r n help it, you w on’t get a •• e n t below the 1946 level in Will meet tonight (Thu .day,* ftg gotten erperience. be able to build a classroom or 1 discussed the possibility of I dime of th a t money as the Lakeview, A storia and C latsop CLASS TO MEET ’he new Brookings-Harbor v y J tw o on the existing elem entary i. .• g most of the $113,000, or all i roads need it w orse.’ Some a re so en th ralled w ith county as a whole. The adult bookkeeping class i he mooting will be th e a n n o S building, to help relieve the «.,♦• o • m a sta rt tow ards building All the com m issioners and v h at they find a t H a m s Park All of Coos County showed a will meet .Monday night nt the N ight affair, with uation. road from Gold Beach Into Judge F o rsv ’h agreed th at o th er th. overnight cam pers gain of 30 3 percent and Jt« e - uivual hour, after a holiday r e - 1 ®bort plays planned by County Superintendent of *h< th at th e tim b er would pressure was being put on them < alcoves provided ine 27 6 while Klamath Coun- cess. If enough people express »rhixil children, and singi Schools, Ed Seger, and Dis: t • r to C u rry County. f v fi •? rvoix'y, a rd th a t they rt A tom ey Sam H ail also spoke st.,tutted th at such a wo have i in favor of allocating iomi of j d cost i»bout Sl.0uv.000 . > $<r<f Kisareit Beautiful State Park ties Within City tim its 8-B Guns Break Windows hi City LET TR BLOW! CURRY COUNTY AGAIN HIGH IN SALES GROWTH IN HAT STYLES -I I IS at Lf ne too THE LAST WORD L f- it Second Plea For Schooi Aid Is G iven To Cour? y ms pitia« m A4W|