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
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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-
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a * i
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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
.
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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
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