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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1956)
U OP W LIBRARY* EUGE SKITCH » M H iinjs-flarhnr Nowhere A Finer Climate - Nowhere A Finer Community Volume i i — N um ber 4 bud Pisarek M c K enzie files FOR STATE SENATE rod Azalea Festival Dates Are Set For June 9 and 10 Thursday, March 15, 1056 NEW TAX RE-ASSESSMENT PROGRAM GETS INTO GEAR Up until several days ago 1 h esitated to m ention anything about baseball training. T h ere’s no holding back now. — Sketch Book — I doubt if Florida has any b e tte r w eath er than Brookings T he Azalea F estiv al date has Rod McKenzie, sta te leg islater but 1 m ust adm it they undoubt from C urry County, who an- been set. and plan are under edly have m ore baseballs. nounced last week th a t he would j w ay for the big event. The Feat- I — Sketch Book —• not be a candidate for re-election *val will be held on June 9-10 j I tried aw fully hard but I The big C u rry County problem announced this week th a t h e. Ibis y ear didn't find any youngsters here of re a p p ra isa l got a w orking T he directors of th e Brookings- filed, Friday, for S ta te S en ato r in the are a playing the co u n try ’s over this weekend, as a com H arb o r C ham ber of Commerce num ber one game. Especially Red Cross C anvassers w ere from this district. m ittee on T axation and Finance, m et w ith rep rése n tât ivies of the He said in a note to the Pilot w ith the schools not in session. out in force this week, but the set up by the County E xtension o th e r o rganizations last T h u rs The C urry C ounty C ourthouse th a t ‘‘I have filed for S ta te W hattesa m a tte r K id s ? ? ? big drive, w ithin th e city limits, P lanning Com m ittee, this week, office .and headed by chairm an — S ketch Book will ta k e place Sunday, M arch S en ato r from this district be- day, to plan th e annual com- C harles Gravshel, met w ith other negotiating w ith H arold The Brookings City Council is G etting back to the big time, 18th, according to Rev. John cause I feel th a t it m akes for a m u n ity event. county officials and sta te tax F u rth e r plans w ill be made met T uesday night and discussed G rappe, Coos Bay co n tracto r, in representatives, Monday. I notice th a t the W isconsin en try Shideler, local Red Cross C am h ea lth ier situ atio n for th e voters to have a choice of candidates.” w hen the group m eets M arch 22 various and sundry items. L ittle an effort to get costs down on in the big leagues, the M ilw au paign chairm an. T he com m ittee, compost'd of O ther candidates filing in the at 8 p.m. in the C ity Hall. concrete action w as taken, a l the proposed courthouse. kee Braves, are doing alright? Canvass w orkers m et Tuesday T he Lions C lub are planning though th e council did by a res Grapi>e bid $404,756 on the rep resen tativ es from all over the An Alabama., boj, H ank Aaron, afternoon to p rep are for th e I ^'o u n ty are as follows: olution set up a P acific-Pioneer- courthouse and w as low bidder. county, met w ith the court w ith has been pounding the ball. I t ’s w eeks work. All w orkers are in- * d u n ty ( lerk O leta A. W alk- a boat race for th e sam e date. O rganizations sending rep re Easy S tre et Special A ssessm ent T he C dunty had planned on th e object of find out how soon good to see som ething favorable vited to an open house a t th e Ie r - 00,(1 B each: Ellen D ougherty spending $265,000 fo r th e new a re-appraisal of C urry County come from th a t southern sta te home of Mrs. Helen Rice, follow of Gold Reach; County Commiss- sen tativ es w ere: The Beta Io ta j o istrle t would tak e place, ioner Robert H. Ism crt, Byron C h ap ter, Beta Sigm a Phi, (»am-j w hich includes stru c tu re . for a change. ing the conclusion of th e drive, m a G am m a C hapter, Azalea , At the m eeting w ere G ravshel, The group decided to negotiate ‘‘Roy’’ B rim m and F red Flynn. — Sketch Book — the school area, is to install a on M arch 18. Ju stice of Peace D istrict 1: Roy G arden Club, Rebekahs, V.F.W. sewer system , and base and pave w ith Grappe, r a th e r th an reject Don V aughn and Tom M cKenzie It m ight be a little early for all the bids. Raym ond M arks, of Brookings; C larence B rooks, Brown. Brookings; Dist. 2: W ill and A uxiliary, S atellite Social p art of PionPer and Easy> me to get out on a limb and set iam Fuller, Gold Beach; Dist. 3: Club. W rang’ers, Rotary, Lions sta te w ill co n trib u te a large arch itect, has been called into Langlois; Rod McKenzie, S ixes; down my predictions for th? Engstrom , P ort O rford; E lm er < lub. E m blem Club, Elks, and shane of the actu al paving, th e parley. A rth u r Niem an, Port O rford. com ing season, but I've done rrh e pnKjnpPr County Judge, Guy Forsyth, Bankus, Ed Seger, Dave F o rc h - For School S uperintendent — t h e ( hetco (»range. cra zie r things. engineer w w as as dj directed John E dw ard Seger, Gold Beach. — Sketch Book — to m ake a survey and p lat of the said M arks has subm itted revised ier, Ken P rie st and the co u n ty plans and th a t th e com m ittee court. Also th ere w ere Lee Hein, F o r P ort of Port O iford Com I look for the M ilwaukee area and subm it a report. Policemen seem to ' come and m issioner Ira Tucker, John V. B raves to m eet the Boston Red The council also adopted p la n would aw ait com pleted plans on and Virgil C lark from the Brook- Sox in th e w orld series. Does go in Brookings. C u rren tly the O ’H ara, and Roy Mills. P o rt of ning com mission reco m m en d at a new basis before aw arding any ings Plywood Corporation. A sum m ary of th? m eeting anyone, and th a t includes P ete sta tu s is 1. A new m an was hired Gold Beach Commission—G rady ion 21. which g ran ted the request contract. brought out several im p o rta n t L esm eister. w ant to challange this week by Chsef Bud Cross. 2. You no?. of E lm er B ankus for perm ission G eorge H am m ond has announced th a t ? to deed a 70-foot strip for In Opal Elkin Wins Rime conclusions. One, th a t prelim in I Republicans filing for com his resignation from th e force. ary w ork would sta rt on the re — S ketch Book — d u strial S tre e t as p latted . The m itteem an or woman include: A H eritor woman, Mrs. Opal H ired w as David Lee Mackey, They a re m aking things easier property is located behind M ur Elkin, won the latest sweep- appraisal in Ju n e of this year. iC hetco P recin ct—Vernon H an- for the _ ----- fans — nowadays, too. I 26. form erly of Coos ,, Bay. He w as scam. Lois Peterson, H arbor. ry Motors at R ailroad and Cen sta k e prize of $10 in the P ilo t’s Two, it was hoped th a t th e re ---- ----------- T he poulation of * Brookings is te r h ear w here the Chicago Cubs k? nf ,or th e S outh Coast Brookings PrPcinct No. 2—Tom ap p raisal would be com pleted Ad-Rime contest. A check is all continuing its upswing w-ith in 1958, if m an pow er w as av ail are installing moving sidew alks L um ber Company. A s e c o n d recom m endation M. McKenzie, Sylvia T. Knox; 3,063, officially c a lc u la te d as m ade out, and aw aits her a t the H am m ond announced th a t he in th e ir stad iu m All you have No. 1—Ed. F. Ackley, Hope residents, according to both the called for th e Council to tak e Pilot Office. H er Rime, to go able, or in 1959 at th e la test. The com m ittee had a n u m b e r to do is buy your ticket, stand in wras leaving Brookings to buy Lindsey; F errelo Precinct ^Var- action to prevent la rg e vehicles w ith ‘‘shop nearby a t less ex s ta te and federal form ulas. City line and bingo you in your seat out the C rescent T ra ile r Sales, ren McNeeley, Violet G illette. such as logging tru ck s from pense»’ was "D on’t Leave Your of questions to ask the co u rt i w-ork su p erin ten d en t, Pop Reed, and consequently would not be and the tax men. It w as brought w athout moving a muscle. D em ocrats filing for com m it announced a t th e beginning of parking in a re a s causing traffic M erchants On T he Fence.” able to continue on th e force. out th a t th e assessed v aluation teem en or o r woman Chetco P re the week, th a t he had subm itted h azards .such as highw-ay 101. of tim her w as only a t $1.50 per cinct Andrew Hoffeldt, Edna th is tallv 'o r official recognition The Council tabled th e recom GOVERNOR ALERTS thousand, and the county re Weigel, H arbor. Brookings P re w hich will probably he fo rth m endation, b u t recom m ended G overnor Elm o S m ith has ceives only 3 jiercent of th a t fig Chief of Police Bud Cross to cinct No. 2—C harles T. M. E ch coming. alerted all sta te agencies th a t ure. T im ber now brings any w arn flag ran t violators. ols. H arold G. P ru itt; F errelo ThT. Is an increase of 730 Minute* of a previous m eeting will be concerned in any w ay w here from 35 to 60 dollars « P recin ct—May R. Blunt. since th e official count last year. concerning a license com m ittee w ith potential flood th re a ts in thousand. T he county reoeiveff T here w as in increase of 49 p er n thousand ort w as read. Th ? com m ittee w as of the next weeks to be prepared to from 4 to r ST A F F O R D IN H O S P IT A L — cent in the population between Ed F. McClain, well known down. the opinion th n t a t this tim e spring into action im m ediately, most tim ber although th e re a r t Mr. L. G. Stafford has been in the count of 1950 and 1954 and Brookings building contractor, T he 20 new individually styled instances in excess of, and below there w-ere no com bination bus- if Oregon stream s overflow. announced th is w eek th a t the three-bedroom hom es will all ,,1P ^'f>as’r,e Hospital in C rescent 24 ner^?nt in th e past year, The G overnor said th a t ex th a t figure inc o p eratin g in the city. T he increase w as based on F ederal H ousing A dm inistration have fireplaces. Som e w ill h a v e |City for the past two w eeks He It was brought out also th a t G ere Gould appeared to suggest perim ent stations reports indic has approved the plans and spec one large bath and some w ill15t 87 years o,d- and is Pa rtia l,y i electric meters and building per- to the council th a t a flat ra te ate record-breaking s t r e a m th e last tim b er cruise in som e ifications on 20 new- hom es in the have e x tra plum bing, McClain Pa ra l>’* < b u * was reported to I m ils. be charged, which would elim in flow in Oregon this S pring based instances w as back in the 1930?« ------------------ ------ C ity of Brookings totallin g about said. S tre ets w ith curbs and con- ** "holdin8 his own" W ednesday on heavy snowfall in 14 m a jo r and in some cases are over 231 a te th e inequititiea. nection w ith a public sew er will niffht $300,000. years old. w atersheds in th e state. The council took no action, but W O R K IN G B O YS — The homes w ere approved on , be a fea tu re which is required by reported th a t the com m ittee is Dc,r, n »>nx->nm H ENRY KERR RETU RNS — an individual basis and each the FHA. T h ree youths have been pret- w orking on th e set-u p for next t f * ° S.S RKPORT T Twenty-alx w enty-six em ergen ergency calls, hom e is on a different plan, he McClain is no novice in t h e ’ H enry K err retu rn ed from a tying up the stre e ts dow-ntown, year “ ......................................... from local people, for help from said. building game. H e s ta rte d o u t °-v*nR i r ’P lo and about th.' herded by John Molino. T heir - - — . v ii • o ti u i Discussion w-as held on the the Red Cross have been handled McClain had purchased the 20 w ith his fa th e r back in Iow'a Amazon ' alley, m Brazil. H enry services are much appreciated, j am bulance. T h e com m ittee lots in the W ade T ra ct some several y ears ago. He cam e to says hp <iaw a lot of tim b er and g ath erin g up dust, loose rock, I w ants to tu rn it over to the city, here during the past year, ac tim e ago. He has been building Or?gon in 1943 and built homes 11S e' i(lences of tbe v irility of etc. T he crew consists of David and the council agreed th a t they cording to Rev. W illard Spencer, homes all around th e 'tr a c t since *n Lebanon and LaComp. Five Korne of ,h e Brazilian insects. Bushnell, Bob H arvey and Je rry , would ta k e it, but no action who has taken on th e job of Dr. Paul Ronniger announced handling such cases. Most of th e 1951, w hen he and his fam ily years ago he cam e to Brookings. Sm ith. could be tak en u a til the old this w w k , the association at calls have been brought to a first cam e to th e area. He has built 20 hom es in this Dogs Reported Poisoned am bulance group w as dissolved. David R. Brown, M D. Physician happy climax, Rev. S pencer says, C om m onw ealth Inc., of P ort- are a Chief of Police Bud Cross re- Sew er Bond sale w as discussed and they could not have been and Surgeon Ronniger also an land. w orked w ith the FHA in McClain also announced th a t ported today th a t th ere is dog and it was reported th a t as soon w ithout the facilities of th e huge nounced th a t they will lie mov securing long-term , low down the Leonard Real E sta te Agency poison out all over Brookings, as any concrete inform ation is ing into th e ir new location in the N ational organization. paym ent loans a t a low- ra te of w°uld handle th e sales of th e and w arned dog ow ners to be received the council can go ahead Pilot Building, on and a fte r the interest. , new homes, exclusively, and the careful w ith th eir anim als. He ‘‘6th of March. Mrs. M ary Mclndoe Anthony, w ith the selling of the bonds. Prices will range from $13.500 pictures and floor plans a re on said th at several dogs have been Word was received th a t the ONI ACT PLAYS Dr. Brown is a n ativ e of S ioun 89, a pioneer of Sm ith River for to $16,000 w ith as low. as $1.900 display there. kil'ed by th e poison. H arbor R u ral F ire D istrict TO BE PRESENTED City, Iowa, and attended S t, 73 y ears, passed aw ay at the Two one-act plays are sched Louis U niversity Medical SchooL S easide Hospital, Crescent City, w ants to renew th e ir co n tract M arch 7th, following a long ill on the present basis. No action uled for March 2th, by the Sm ith ' > practiced for five y ears in D akota, and m ore recently ness. She was bom a t Wedder- was tak en pending th e arriv al River W omen’s Club, u nder th e of councilm an Clivp Manley. direction of Mrs. E unice F arris. for a y e a r in P o rtlan d a t Cedar bum , Oregon on F eb ru ary 3, 1867. th e d au g h ter of the late , It was agreed ~ to „ ad v ertise for Th* titles are intriguing, "The Hills. Robert and Susannah Mclndoe. hlrt' " n " P n ! '" ‘ c a r ' wlt,, FD ing G randm other” and Mush- Dr. Brown, and his wife R ita, and w ithout trade-in. • om P a tte r.” T hey will start. have th ree children. David, J r. A sure sign of Spring. The an* ^ h ? cam e to Sm ith River as a A ttention w as called to a con- i t 8 p m . on th e above date, at 12; Michael, 10; and M erideth, 9. CALENDAR Dust Begins To Fly; nual S ate llite Social C lub's very .voung girl and made her jested are a ad jacen t to th e post | u e Sm ith River Com m unily H is fam ily w on't he moving to Fashion Show, will tie held this there ever since. She fol- of E V E N T S 4T h e S f f i ^ C” a S ^ 1 bC<h a r d ly iS a tu rd a y night a t th e new high ‘° Wed d T Ss m akin« for manv office on C en ter S tre e t, and a h all. Proceeds will go tow ard Brookings u ntil th e end of the general discussion on a proposed chairs for the hall. c u rre n t school year. t ypa rs and was alw ays very act- C ourtesy of Brookxngs-Harbor over, and the d u st has begun to »school auditorium . parking area for th e city w as O ver-all chairm an, Ann Nelson IV £> *n com m unity and church C ham ber of C om m erce - se. And, according to Police held. Chief Bud Cross. th e dust is H a n s o m and Agda B ic k -, wo2 k THURSDAY MARCH 15th is 1 — *----- Oiling of city stree ts, which ------------1 r un eral beginning to riar m ainly because ner have com pleted all ,h e » r ; ! • — ~ services w - - ere - " held " “ I will he done at the cost of the C ham ber of Com m erce lunch . t , rangem ents for the event which S a tu rd a y afternoon M arch 10th a num ber of persons a re exceed- ’ from W o ic. .’ individual pro p erty ow ners, at eon 12 noon, ('hetco Inn. tna the s ^ i iitni, in the eitv has the ..............0 a iro n , „ title of ••Stiver Sym- E lks Club- Elks Hall. 8 p.m ing the speed lim it in th e city. B urglars stru ck la st F rid ay es w ere si • 3 ” n bv th« loot- He said th a t th e lim it on city n ' a ‘a t intt. Soloist w as Carol Sian- ',iscu!* M A '50 ,h - v™- SATURDAY. MARCH 17th night a t H anxram 's C enter ,in ers around ’ ■ .af? while they stre e ts is 25 mikes per hour, and tbp Brooking-? m erch- X h m t houtth who sane 'W e N ever Sav “ ,h " ' “ Vendin S quare D ancing IOO F H all ♦bat arre sts would be forthcom - ar»ls who carry r any clothing line H arbor, and m ade off w ith sev- w orked to enable them to use a ^ h. • .. . , ,. . ; company objected to OES Fashion Show 8 p.m., ng. nted at th e affair, ' .’ and A?’,de | sticker charge of $5 pe will be represented eral hundred dollars, m ostly In light w ith o u t being seen from High School Gym. Is will display display the the -------_ L ________________ and local models , O rganist was Mrs. silver, and an undeterm ined ( the outside E lks D ance—E lks H all P .r ,ic ip .f in s Clyde c u rren t sty Ids am ount of m erchandise, picked Several th sand rounds of .22 Ambulance Meeting TO GARRY HISTORY S u rv iv o rs include a sister, Mrs. SUNDAY MARCH 11th stores are Shehans C lothing at random from th e general shells, and a o o th e r shells w ere ilbn« n Dad n ,i Wood, of B akersfield; a Is Set For Monday Everyone A ttend the Churct- OF SEWER SYSTEM Eva I ,?e’s. Palm ers. Phillips taken. Also several guns w ere store. B rother, W illiam Mclndoe, of A m neting of the D irectors of o f th e ir choioe. and La d. Mode O'Day. T ots-To Ju n io r H anscam , one of the stolen. Som e o th e r item s w ere In next weeks P ilot will be MONDAY. M \R C H 19th e a rn e d a fully docum ented Teen*. House of Shoes, M oore’s B rookings and a 7 half-sister, c ' T V Mrs. ’T the B ro o k ln g sH arb o r A m bul owners of the store, said th a t a noticed m issing im m ediately, „ . . . . 8 e ' U ash; ance A ssociation for th e purpose deposit wa« m ade a t five o’clock such as crow bars and o th e r tools. A m bulance m eeting—8 p.m. H istory of the S ew er System .»’ v ®riety and Mincers Jew elry Admission will be 50 cents for and a num ber of neices and of discussing th e tu rn in g o ver of F riday afternoon, ao th a t little C ig arettes w ere also taken. How a t the C ity Hall. Th? story will be w ritte n and thosA under 12 and $100 for nephew s and m any o ld tim e the am bulance and equipm ent money w as in th e safe a t th e ever, th e H anscam s w ere unable signed by a leading citizen of TUESDAY. MARCH 20th to th e C ity of Brookings, will tim e of th e robbery. , friends. to d eterm ine the to ta l am ount R otary—12 noon. Cliff H o u r the com m unity, who spent a those over. In te rm e n t was in th e fam ily be held M onday night in th e C ity The burglars cu t th ro u g h th e of the loss E astern S ta r, IO O F H all, a t 3 deal of tim e and . monay .' E leanor A rrell is in charge of Plot, a t Sm ith Rivier C em etery, H all at 8 p m. All in terested big sa e to get at the cash, using A hole was cut directly through B eta Iota C hapter. B eta^S igm a, ^ is c o v e n n g some facts on th e thp entP rtain m en t and loca, ta ,. beside her husband, the late p arties are a*ked to atten d . the safe, and the burglars then Phi 8 p.m at W anda Thom p P • -.s 1 Pnt perform . Russell Jen- M ark Anthony. N E W USED C A R D E A L E R — an acetelyne torch. The store was ap p a ren tly en reached In and snapped open the Phi Je a n E rbs Home, 8 p.m. /g B A C K W IT H US — kins will play the organ. Agda bearer» and friends of the T here is a new used-car lot tered afte r m idnight, Friday, combination lock. Then they cut W EDNESDAY. MARCH 21st P. v M arouis. our old tim e ^ k n e r will be in charge of an E r a s e d were C larence Hight, aet up next to Milt P o tocm k’s through a side window. Then th e through the inside door. V.F.W and A uxiliary— 8 p.nx neighbor, is back along the m ain ‘"rm isslon tim e snack b ar T ,hn Cooper. Everett Woodrtff, Richfield sta tio n , a t H arbor. front door was opened, an d th e S tate and county p o lk» were V.F.W. H all stem a fte r q u ite a bout in th e Rose H ubbard is ch airm an of I-^ater Ulrich, C larence W est-1 H arold S trong ia th e m an ag er j tools wheeled in. C ardboard box- investigating. 1 ■ — C urry County H ospital. the Door P rize , brook and Fred H aight. , and aaya he ia giving it a Red Cross Plans NEW DISTRICT IS SET UP BY COUNCIL Canvass Sunday Court To Lower Courthouse Costs Policeman Hired, As One Resignes 3,063 Population 2 0 NEW HOMES TO BE BUILT IN BROOKINGS BY ED McCLAIN Dr. David Brown To Begin Practice Pioneer Woman Obituary Told Fashion Show Saturday Hanscams Hit
