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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1956)
E L E A N O R TO S P E A K — E leanor Roosevelt h a s a speak ing engagem ent a t th e H edrick M em orial H igh School, Medford, on A pril 23rd. T ickets are $5.00 copy and th e rep o rt is an ea rly sell-out is expected. Mrs. Roose v elt w ill speak a t a Roosevelt M em orial Dinner. In its announcem ent of an o th e r In te rim m eeting of the sta te legislative com m ittee, the pros* pectus announces it w ill deal w ith “fringe are a" problem s. The m eeting w ill be held in Coos Bay, F riday, A pril 6th, in th e C ity H all council cham bers. T here is an extensive program outlined having to do w ith a l m ost all phases of local in te rest and those unable to atten d are urged to w rite to the com m ittee. No surgery needed to reduce swelling of painfiil piles! I n d o cto r’s te sts, am azing new Stainless Pazo instantly relieved piles’ torture! Gave internal and external relief — without surgery I 6 medically-proved ingredients re lieve pain.itching instantly! Reduce swelling. Promote healing. You sit, walk in com fort! Only stainless pile remedy. Stainless Pazo-«. Supposi tories or Ointment a t druggists. CHETCO INN CLEAN & COM FORTABLE ROOMS AVAILABLE W ee kly and M onthly R ates A lso Com m ercial R ates ED NA SPA RK S, M anager Phone 2624 Mr. Goodlin was a retire d | dairy ran ch er and carp en ter, by Ellsworth Calls I trade. In his passing, Del N o rte For Rogue Project J lost a good and respected cit The Rogue River H arb o r p ro j ect calls for navigation facilities a t Gold Beach, Oregon, county se at of C urry County. T his pro* je ct w as authorized u n d er leg islation which I introduced in th e 83rd Congress. Since th e d ate of th e favorable recom endation by the A rm y E ngineers,rapid strides has been m ade in Curry’ C ounty generally. D espite handicaps, the people of th a t county have tak en the initiative in moving ahead w ith the developm ent of th e ex cellent resources in th e area. Since 1950, the n um ber of pow er consum ers has doubled. The school census indicated n e a r ly tw ice as m any children in th e schools. The Oregon S th te Board of H ealth finds C u rry C ounty the fastest growing county p er centage-w ise in th e S ta te of O r egon. I t is entirely possible th a t in this regard it is th e faste st grow ing county in th e U nited S tates. N ew forest inventories of p ri vate and public forest reserves show approxim ately 10 billion feet of tim ber as ag a in st a prev ious estim ate of ab o u t 6 billion. T he allow able an n u al c u t has been increased from 20 m illion feet to 63 m illion feet. T hese and o th e r developm ents m a teria lly change the cost-benefit ra tio on which the project w as based on 1.17 to 1 to 1.88 to 1 o r an in* crease in benefits of n early 50 percent. T he E vans P ro d u cts Com pany recen tly com pleted a p lan t now handling 100,000 feet of logs daily and 70,000 additional cap acity will be in operation la ter. T he U. S. Plywood Com pany is beginning construction on a la rg e plan t which w ill have a capacity of 185 million sq u are feet of plywood and lu m b er p er year. These facts not only serve to ju stify the wisdom of th e Con gress in authorizing th e h arb o r project, but give em phasis to th e need for the earliest possible s ta r t of construction of th e pro ject. Because of th e lack of ra il road facilities the real economic p otential of C urry C ounty is not going to be realized u n til w a te r tra n sp o rta tio n through th e h a r bor is available. H ighw ay facil ities a re inadequate and a t best involve costly long hauls. The sound grow th of th e lu m ber industry’, fishing in d u stry and the m ining in d u stry depend on h arb o r developm ent. I tr u s t th a t the C om m ittee w ill consider including in th e pending bill the funds to get the planning and construction of this h arb o r u nder way. izen. H e w as a m em ber of th e Del N orte Pioneer G range and Lake E a rl G range, and of the S m ith R iver M ethodist Church, in all of which groups he took an active p art. S urviving a re his wife, Mrs. E th el Goodlin; a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Lem kuhl, both of S m ith R iver; a son, M ilton of H onolulu; tw o brothers, John of F o rt Dick and Dave, of Escalon, C alifornia; four g randchildren and a num - berof nieces and nephews. Services w ere conducted, S a t u rday afternoon, from S m ith R iver M ethodist Church, w ith Rev. Jam es Shelton, officiating. Soloist w as R obert B atem an, who san g “No N ight T here" and ‘‘T he L ord’s P ra y e r” O rganist w as M rs. Clyde Bigler. F in al services w ere conducted a t graveside by th e Lake E arl G range. In te rm e n t was in th e S m ith River cem etery . fam ily plot, u n d er th e direction of th e W ier M o rtu ary Chapel. W lLHW ITH/THE WANtADS ALFAFLAi DANGER — S pread of th e A lfafla Aphid is causing serious alarm . F rom hav ing first been found in th e U S., in c e n tra l N ew Mexico, in Feb ruary’ of 1954; it had, by late 1955 spread to all of th a t sta te and Arizona. U tah and W yom ing and all but a sm all co m e r of Texas. O klahom a, K ansas ann C alif ornia and had shown up in Neb* raska. Idaho, and w as on th e bor ders of O regon. E notm ologists say it is impossible to predict eith er direction! or force in which th e aphid will spread and the chances are it w ill eventually infest th e whole of th e alfalfa growing areas. The yellow-bodied insect, w ith black «.pots, breeds as m an y as 20 g en eratio n s a y ear an d moves by flying or a ttac h ed to vehicles so q u ara n tin es are fru itless. Be sides sucking th e life o u t of the plant, it leaves behind it a hon- eydew in w hich a black fungus grows w hich becomes aooty- black and develops an odor which c a ttle w ill not to lerate. By th e end of 1955, according to rep o rts, ab o u t 1 m illion out of 3 m illion acres in th e alfalfa producing s ta te s had'becom e ser iously infected w ith th e aphis. FLOOD A F T E R M A T H — Several bulldoaers have been employed in m ak in g fills and sm oothing grounds a t K lam ath Gken, w here th e floods created much havoc last D ecember. U nder direction of Del N o rte I county officials one of th e p rin ciple jobs was properly burying the m any anim al carcasses which had been dum ped into one of th e depressions and im properly covered. The en tire w a te r system of th e lower valley is u n d er th e scrut* ing of s ta te officials, according to reports. 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