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EUGENE ORE
The Importance o f Being Earnest
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Nowhere A Finer Clim ate - Nowhere A Finer Community
Thursday, April 19, 1956
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Pipe Dreams
LITTLE INCREASE IN CITY BUDGET
Late Registration
Fills Poll Book
3 y JOE MURPHY
Volume 11 — Number 9
FIRST OILING TO BE
FRIDAY MORNING
WELL CHILD CLINIC —
Te Well Child Clinic will be
held at the Brookings Grade
School on April 20th, between
9:3 and 11:30 am . Dr. Paul
Ronniger will give physical ex
aminations and immunizations,
assisted by Dorothea Miller,
A truck, and trailer ’oad of
A vertible throng of last-min
ute registrants filed to the City oil will be here at 8 a m. Friday
Hall this week, before the Tues morning for the first oiling in
the City of Brookings. The oil
day night registration deadline.
Russell Jenkins, who was as wall be put on Center Street to
Railroad first, and then Del
sisting wth the registrations, re
Norte Lane and other streets in AD-RIME W INNER IS
ported that 124 people registered
MRS. E D IT H MOORE
during the last three days. He that area.
Property ow-ners will pay the
The judges wrangled a while
also reported that the regist
cost of 10 cents per running foot on this one, but the winer of this
ration is much larger than be
for the heavy oil.
fore, although a final count was
week’s Ad-Rime Contest turned
out to be Edith E. Moore, Brook
not taken before sending the
AZALEA FESTIVAL MEETING ings. Mrs. Moore has a ten-spot
poll books to the county seat.
He said that therb were about
A committee meeting of the coming to her the next time she
200 new and changed regist- j Azalea Festival group will be happens to he in the Pilot office.
Her winning rhyme, fitting to
rations this year. He also report- held at 8 p.m., Friday night, in
ed that the late registrations the City Hall. Virgil Clark, one “Local Seller Service Free,’’ was
were running at better than 3-1 of the directors of the Chamber j "That’s The Promise, Buy and
Democrats.
1 of Commerce will he in charge.> See.”
Beleagured and bewildered tax
payers, hit every time they turn
around by somebody, will find a
small note of cheer in this year's
Brookings City Budget, which
will, suprisingly enough, stay un
der the 6 percent limitation, one
of the few cities in the state to
do so.
On the other hand, nothing
fancy awaits city residents in the
way of street improvements and
the like. The budget committee
decided, in view of the high
school and other taxes, to hold
the budget inside the six percent
(limitation, and no special elect
ion will be held this year on the
budget.
Total estimated expenditures
for the year will be $250,592, but
the total estimated receipts will
be $229,885, so that the amount
necessary to balanoe the budget
will be only $29,347. Adding est
imated taxes uncollected the tot
al level will be $31,005.
The big item on the total ex
penditures will l»e the setting up
of a city sewer system. Total
sewer construction was figured
to run to $68,640, of which the
property owners in the affected
districts will pay a proportion
ate share.
Otherwise there were few
major changes in the budget as
set up, ar.d a few frills were
added.
That little pit?ce I turned out
In a moment of hysteria last
week about being “Ping Pong
Champion” of Brookings, turned
out to be nothing but a pipe
dream. The ink wasn’t dry be
fore one of the really great ath
letes of our time, Art “Prof"
Guthrie hurled a challenge.
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On Friday afternoon we then
played for the actual champion-
chip before cheering, feet stomp
ing crowds, who didn’t pay any
admission. Art eked out three
straight decisions, leaving poor
old Joe only the second best ping
pong player in Brookings. Now
The State Highway Commis
I swatch my claim to straight
sion will receive bids on two pro
pool, and sit back and await ACCIDENTS HURT County Survey
jects in the city of Brookings, at
challengers.
THREE IN A WEEK Convo Tuesday
their next regular meeting in
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A
series
of
accidents
hit
the
Portland, April 26.
We understand that Bud Cross
All
interested
persons
are
in
area this week. Wells Moody had
One project is being let by the
was questioning a group of in-
his right foot crushed whei> a vited to attend Curry County’s state, which will pay $15,000 of
tinerant vagrants this week,
Economic
Survey
Conference
to
800 pound piece of steel fell on
the total construction costs, and
camping out at Harris Beach
his foot. Dr. Ronniger treated be held at the Ophir Grange Hall the property owners will pay the
Park. He asked them how long
Tuesday, April 24th, starting at
remainder. It will include the
they were planning on staying, him.
Monday morning, Clarence 10:30 a m., to hear the results of grading and paving of Pioneer
and when they asked why, he
more
than
four
months
of
hard
Keays, a logger, was hurt when
Road between Pacific Avenue McKenzie To Head
replied that if they stay more
a falling tree limb hit him on work by the 80-odd members of and Easy Street, and grading
than two days the City will have
the head. Keays was working the Economic Survey Committee. and paving on Easy Street from Elmo Committee
to send them a sewer bill.
Overall purpose of the survey
Thomas McKenzie of Brook
far up the North Bank Road, for
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has
been to plan a long-term Pioneer Road westerly about 370 ings has been named as chair
the Swan Lumber Co. when the
feet.
Everybody was screaming at
man of the local Elmo Smith for
accident happened. The limb program for the development of
Plans also call for paving the Governor Committee. R. A.
the Pilot bowling team to whip
the
county
based
on
collection
of
, __ .
i
i
crashed though his hat, and he
Kerr’s Monday night to keep
_
.
x
» economic material and butressed school bus parking area on Easy (Dick) Rawlinson of Salem, the
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them ____/.in
from falling
into the —
sec- ’ suffered head contusion, and also by- the best available projection Street. Pioneer Road will be im state chairman of the Elmo
proved to a width of 53 feet, and Smith for Governor Committee,
ond|half championship. However, I fractured several vertebrae in of future expansion and needs.
his back.
Easy Street to a width of 38 has announced.
I couldn’t sell a subscription
Effectiveness
of
the
group
to
He was taken to the Seaside
feet. This work is scheduled for
among the rooters. And Kerrs
date
has
been
demonstrated
by
Other Elmo Smith for Gover
Hospital.
completion this fall.
were hotter than Texas on the |
nor Committee members so far
On Wednesday, Gunnar Hedberg the fact that a number of inter
The improvement of the 1.23
4th of July. Bob Rettke, who •
suffered severe burns on his face, im recommendations from the miles of the Oregon Coast High in Brookings include Robert
seldom bowls his weight, shot a
hands and chest, when a fuse he various sub-committees have al way in Brookings will also I m * Dimmiek, Warren T. Smith, Har
200 plus game, as did Bud Lowe,
was fixing flashed out. Dr. ready been adopted. Among these contracted for on the same date. old R. Moore, Ray Pisarek, Jos
and Bill Higham for a total of
Brown treated him for second have been the appointment of a Plans call for the straightening eph Murphy, Arthur Knox, Sam
974 in the first game.
degree burns and a good deal of juvenile advisory board to assist and reconstructionof the highway uel A. Hall. Pete J. Lesmeister,
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the county juvenile counselor in
and C. H. (Charles) Grayshel.
bandaging was required.
We had Mr. Cooper’s class
handling youth problems; the to a two-lane status from Park
“We feel very fortunate in
visit the Pilot last week, to see
decision to budget funds for a View Drive to Easy Street, and having a person of Mr McKen
how things were in the news Azalea Club
county sanitorian; and the step the widening the highway to zie’s caliber as head of the Elmo
paper industry. They were a well
ping up of the re appraisal pro four lanes from Easy Street to Smith campaign in Brookings, ’
Pacific Avenue. The two-lane Rawlinson said “We expect to
behaved bunch of youngsters too. Names President
gram.
section will be 38 feet wide and conduct a vigorous state-wide
Kids just aren’t wild any more
The conference, which will the fourlane section will, in gen
The Azalea Garden Club met
like they were when us older
drive to keep Elmo Smith as the
convene at 10:30 a m will ad
last
Thursday
at
the
VFW
Hall,
eral, be 68 feet wide between the
people were kids.
journ at noon for a luncheon at concrete curbs. Pavement is to governor of Oregon, but will
with
a
dessert
lunch
before
the
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also, depend on a grassroots cam
which time those ¡»resent will be
he asphaltic concrete. This pro paign to permit every voter in
Speaking of kids. I see one business meeting.
the guest of the Gold Beach
New
officers
named
by
Mrs.
ject, also, is scheduled for com the state to )>ecome acquainted
industrious boy, Henry Kerr’s
Chamber of Commerce at a home
pletion by this fall.
son, has set up a business down Bob Swan, chairman of the
with Governor Smith’s abilities
meal prepared by Andy
town, shining shoes. I hope the nominating committee are: Mrs. »co°kcd
and
accomplishments.’’
Anderson
at
the
Grange
Hall
and
SPRING CONCERT
City don’t make him buy mult T. F. McKenna, President; Mrs. served by the 4-H girls.
Henry
Ostermeier,
Vice-Presi
iple license. I like to see this
Mr. and Mrs. Beaulieu left for
General chairman of the meet DATE IS SET
enterprise in our youth, and dent; Mrs. A. F. Arrell, Secre ing is Norman Chenoweth. Re
Corvallis, Friday afternoon, to
The
Chetco
Choral
Club’s
tary;
Msr.
Virgil
Goldsberry,
w ith our dusty streets, h? should
Treasurer. The officers will l>e ports are scheduled from var spring concert will be held on visit her daughter and grand
make a success of it.
ious committees as follows: April 30, it was announced this children. They returned late
installed at the May meeting.
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Taxation
& Finance Committee. week by Mrs. Helen Rice, who Monday night.
Henry Kerr showed slides of
Chamber of Commerce mem
his
recent
trip
to
South
America.
I
PrePared
under
the direction of directs the group.
bers were startled Thursday-
Mr. and Mi’s. L. G. Frazier, of
The Choral Club has been
Brookings;
night when glass shattered in the They were very beautiful and Specialty Grayshel,
Crops, under the dir practicing all through the year Grants Pass, visited friends in
very
interesting.
After
the
pic
City Hall, and a little round
ection of Cecial Watt, Harbor;
the Brookings area the past
hole appeared. It looked like a tures, a parade of original hats Dairy Industry, by Ray Zum for their anual concert. The con
week Mr. Frazier is the pastor
cert
will
begin
at
8.00
p.m.,
and
was
held
with
Mrs.
Grayshel
bullet hole—but then who would
walt, Sixes; Tourist & Recreat- will be held at the Assembly of of the First Baptist Church in
be shooting at C. of C. members? winning the prettiest; Mrs. Emil
Grants Pass.
Edwardson for the funniest and !ion’ M E' KeIk?y, Port Orford, God Church.
Mrs Hugh Mackey winning third ;
CLEAN-UP WEEK prize for originality. Some very '
clever hats were sown.
Four new members joined the
SET FOR CITY
club: Mrs. Olaf Kruger. Mrs '
The Brookings-Harbor Cham Lloyd Morrison, Mrs. Joreph
Ronniger and David Brown will chorage, appeared to tell about
The Brookings Council met on
ber of Commerce board of direct Spesse and Mrs. Charles Hoff
the closing of a private road, by
take over the ambulance.
ors. meeting Thursday, night, set man. All new members were Tuesday, mainly in a discussion
No details on what the actual Elmer Bankus. leading to (’oast
up a Clean-Up Week program. presented corsages. A basket of session. They talked to Mr. and operation of the ambulance will Guard Point and the Chetco
Ed Aldrich was appointed head lovely camelias was passed a- Mrs. Kindel, about the possibility be available from the Woodland Cove. Hewitt said that the road
of the committee Banners pro round by Mrs. Ruth Bathiany of making a deal with the Kin- Park Clinic, because Dr. Ron must be opened, or* he would lose
claiming the event were ordered, for the members to each have dels relative to property the city niger was out of town. However, a great deal of the tourist trade.
needs in setting up a pumping the possibility of buying a new He pointed out that Mr. Bankus
and the last week in May was one.
Mrs. Charles < Grayshel and plant station for the new sewer ambulance was discussed by the had closed the road because of
set as the date. The City has
promised cooperation in the pro Mrs. John Molino conducted a system They need a 30 by 30 doctors.
garbage littering the property.
ject.
class in arrangements after the piece of property. It was agreed
H ew itt th o u g h t th a t B an k u s
Virg
Goldsberry
appeared,
re-
to let the Sewer Committee han
Clean-Up time was set, to be meeting.
would
lease the land to the City
The next meeting will be on dle the details of the negotiat res^nting the Chetco Wranglers, at $1 a year, if the City would
gin just before the state of the
wondering
if
the
City
still
want
Azalea Festival.
May 10th. at which there will be ions.
ed the Wranglers field. Council- promise to krep it free from the
a worksop. getting ready for the
A contract with the Harbor men were of the opinion that if garbage. Hewitt said that he
Dr. and Mrs. Will Lamay, San Annual Flower Show.
Rural Fire Protection District
would get help to clean it up
Francisco, were guests, recently,
Hostesses for the luncheon was discussed and renewed, un the City could have acquired ad now. It was agreed that council
jacent
property
the
deal
would
of the Alfred Mays, of the Win- were: Mrs. Roy Weideman. Mrs. der the same conditions as last
man Clive Manley, and Hewitt,
chuck. Also visiting the May- George Dunning and Mrs. Mary year. The district paid the City have been fine, but rumors have should get together with Mr.
reached Mayor Rnmm that the
home were Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Fisher.
of Brookings $378 for the pro adjacent property owners want Bankus and a?e what could be
Christian, of Rancho Santa Fe,
tection.
$16,000 for the land, and the worked out.
California.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Drobaugh
A long standing city problem council agreed that the City
A crack-down, on littered prop
drove to Gold Beach. Sunday, which has caused hours and
erty
was announced, and several
couldn't go along on that basis,
Mrs John Burback re and enjoyed a fresh-land?d sal hours of discussion looked like
letters were to be sent out, warn
cuss
ion.
turned. Wednesday, from a bus mon at the home of Mr. and it was at an end, when it was
John Hewitt, of Hewitt’« An- ing violators to clean up their
Mrs. Ike Smith.
iness trip to Portland.
announced that Doctors Paul
property. The City agreed to
TO OPEN 101 WIDENING BIDS
THESE THREE ARE FEATURED In the J u n o r C lass P lay,
to be presented Friday Night, at 8:00 p.m., at th e H igh S chool
G ym. I elt to right in the picture are: J a n e t G lass, Chuck
Hoffman and Charlotte Jensen.
GASOLINE b u rn s —
Tommy Griffin and another
boy, it is said, were trying to do
some burning, Friday. They had
dumped some gasoline on a pile
of trash and when it was ignited
Tommy was quite badly burned
about the legs. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs, Merritt Griffin.
PHONE SERVICE
IMPROVED HERE
About 300 present 10-party
telephone cusomers in Brookings
will begin receiving four, two or
one-party service in May, when
the West Coast Telephone Com
pany enlarges the exchange’s
present base rate area.
FREIGHT DEPOT
The has»? rate will be enlarged
to about six times its present
CONSTRUCTION
size. It will be bounded on the
NOW UNDERWAY North by Ransom Avenue, on
Building in Brookings picked the East by the Chetco River,
up this week, with the announce and on the South and West by
ment that Consolidated Freight thp Pacific Ocean.
A high percentage of numheis
ha* started work on their term
now assigned to the 300 10-party
inal and freight station here.
Plans presented to city work subscribers’ telephones will be
Superintendent, Ralph Reed, has changed, George McBride, <li»>
shown that the building would trict manager, snid.
“The number changes will be
be approximately 20 by 65, and
would be a Butler Building, con necessary in changing the tele
struction out of steel. It would phon»* to othpr classes of ser
have a concrete deck four feet vice,” McBride explained.
The new telephone numbero
from the ground, with an all
will consist of four digits and
concrete loading platform.
The whole lot on which the will ap|x*ar in the Crescent City
building will be on, 125 feet by ( «nd Brookings directory to be
200 feet will be blacktop,»ed. An published on June 9th.
New cable and line additions
office will lx» included in the
building A crew has already now under way will also (»rmit
started construction. C. M. Em- installation of 150 new tele
eis Co., of Portland, will do the phones here starting in May Ttw
building The estimated cost is company will spend $12,000 on
the work, which includes install
$11,500.
Also | ermits have been taken ation of add tiona, equipment on
out for two new homes. One is in the local exchange Dick R eio
to hr built by Dr. R. E. Kate, emer is foreman of the crew in
at an estimated cost of $13,700. stalling the cable.
Dr. Kate is a retired dentist,
and has property near the And
erson place on the Ocean. It will "W ebb” Longacre
be a two-bedroom honr, and will '
be built by Horton and Son.
A permit has also lx*en taken Rites On Friday
out for a home to l»e built by ' Funeral services for Daniel
Joe Kanick, at an estimated cost W. “Webb’ Longacre, 76, of
of $22.000. It will have a full Brookings, will be held at
basement, and is located on First Brookings Bible Church, at 2:00
and Ea: y Street
p.m., Friday. April 20th. Cc
rhe Brookings Bible ( hurch chiding services will be held at
has taken out a permit on a par
Ward Memorial Cemetery.
sonage for their church, for Rev Brown Mortuary is in charge.
I 'd Met 'lain.
Mr. Ix»ngacre was born In
Ringoid County. Iowa, on Feb
ruary 27, 1880, one of 9 children
of(Ephrium a**d Raida Iz>ngacre.
On June 1 ” 05 at Alliance,
Nebraska, b ••
n ite 1 in mar*
a .’ ’aude Mosier
work with the Chaml»er of Com riage to ’
who gurviv
merce on Clean-Up Week.
They hot * tea ' *<1 on a ranch
Ed McClain appeared to ask
•**y Nebraska un-
when the City would get started in Banner i
on the sewer system, ns the FHA til 1937. ’ n they came to
* >n. In 19,0. they
is holding up building fund* until Idaho and '
returned t< Nebraska. then in
the City has a system. •
-hort stay in Wyo
The Council, acting on pet 1945, after
ition, changed the name of Pipe ming an»' (’ »lorado, they re
Line Road to Marine Drive, and turned to Or , ’<»n and settled In
named (he road leading up to the Brookings wl ere they were en
Lookout Station, Bankus Drive. gaged in i i sing lilies and made
their home i *re since
In a special meeting last
Surviving, besides his widow,
Thursday, the Council adopted
are
a son, Cobern Longacre, and
three ordinances. 87, which was
2 daughteis. Mrs. Iola Mullen
an agreement he tween the State
and Mrs. Vedoise Upp all of
on the improvement on Easy and
Brookings,
2 brothers, Merritt
Pioneer. Ordinance 88, pertain
I/jngacre of San Jose, California
ing to ¡»arking, stopping and
standing vehicles in the City, and Ray Longacre of Lawrence,
Kansas; 3 sisters, Mrs. Grace
and eliminating diagonal ¡»arking
Peterson, of Broken Arrow, Ob-
exempt in specified areas Ordin
lohoma, Mrs. Eva Patrick, of
ance 89 related to the State's Ijimona, Iowa and Mr». Beanua
plans to fix up Highway 101 in
Brown of Beaverton, Oregoa»
the city limits..
Also 4 grandchildren.
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Doctors May Take Ambulance