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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1956)
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT - PAGE TEN — THESE PEOPLE From where I s it... / / Joe Marsh Doc Nurses a D ayd ream It’s a treat when I get together with Doc Sherman. Th e C la rio n keeps me mueh too busy —and Doc, w ell I think he r” ,ts in six teen hours a day al hospital. But Tuesday —a beautiful day —he an I I »lipped away for a ride around Turtle Lake. Doc’s driv ing a 1966 hum nger — i t ’s like riding on a cloud. A nyw ay, a t one p o in t Doc alowcd almost to a halt. “ Used to fish there as a boy, Joe,” he said. 44Used to sit anrl imagine myself up on the highway driving a hi;,'.. ; j we red car. Nowadays, I ju st sit here and wish I were down there again.” From where 1 tit. few of us are ever content with the way thing«, are at any given moment. It’s hu man nature. On the other hand. I’ve been rooting for years that someday r e r g l m i l i i w ill show enough g 1 American tolerance to respect l.i r. igiibor’a right U» enjoy afri giassof beer. When that day c • s I assure you that I’ll n ic e r «.„nt to change back. n n 6 /' Copyright, J956, Í ruled i. - - oieu.-n tujiiuutivn CÖLÖ fACTS a b o u t th e h o tte st b u y in t o w n ! NEW HotpM freezer IV s a fact TRVI FOOD FR ftZC I has 75- lb. capacity, separate cool i n g system. T ru e freezing! IV s a fact l O E / l — H U M ID IT Y RIFRIG - I R A T O R k e e p s a l l fo od s fre s h an d f la v o r f u l, w hen left uncovered! Il's even a fact Y O U N f V I R H A V E TO DE F R O S T heeause P ro tt-A w a y d o es it a u to m a tic a lly . N o dials, clocks, or gadgets! I t 's a fact CHOOSE THE COLOR Y O U WANT from lovely new e x te rio r Colortones . . . or Classic W hite. It's a fact gU YOU RAT IS JUST ONLY $359.95 (T his is the 16th of a series of 26 short biographies of the people who m ake up the busi ness establishm ents of the area. T heir nam es appear in the Ad- Rime directory in this issue.) MODE O’DAY located in th e K err Building is com parably new in Brookings. It was opened a y ear ago last M arch 10 as one of the ti(M) or more stores of th a t nam e in the United S ta te s and th e territories. The dress shop is operated by a p artn ersh ip between two ladies w ith considerable b ac k ground in m erchandising, Mrs. Emil W. M itchell and Mrs. Ray G adherry. Mrs. M itchell, whose husband is w ith the Brookings Plywood Corp., form erly owned and operated the T ots <fe Teens. She had sold out th a t business in Ju n e before opening the Mode O’Day. Mrs. G adherry had con siderable exjierience in m erch andising in the S ta te of A rk a n sas before moving to W ashing ton. She moved here from the neighboring sta te to th e N orth in November 1947 w ith her husband. He has been a lum ber and sawm ill m an in both sta te s for a num ber of years. • • • MAY’S FUN AND MAGIC SH O P in the Brookings H otel is p art of the operations of May Blunt. She says she opened the shop in April of 1954 because she couldn’t get anyoone to bite on her jokes at home anym ore. W hile the jokes add th e kicks to the business, she also handles a large line of jewelry* and a variety of gifts for all occas- sions. R efrigerator - /v LIVE HERE . . M A C IC TOUCH* T t • a i t o a c u b o insto» '« t T r - A - D It e DOOR l . U l r holds big bolllos. May is quite a busy woman. She also has a second hand clothing store on W harf and Spruce S tre et, she owns and m anages several a p a rtm e n ts and I ren tals and while she isn’t rest- , ing at the Fun and Magic Shop he is out helping her husband 1 red, on th e 1600 acre ranch t wh re she can slop pigs, feed chickens, milk cows and herd and sh ear sheep. The B lunts bought the old Duiey Creek Ranch and lease ■he Lone Ranch They cam e to the are a in 1948 w here in addi- on to farm ing, F red has kept | p retty busy in the logging busi- ! ness. MRS. CROSBY'S G U EST J brought production up to 14 wall and Jap an , organiation Mrs. W innifred Bissell, of tons. Unmulched plots during T y g art opened the O K. Rub P resent active d u ty stren g th P o rtlan d has been spending a the tests, yielded onlj 8 tons ber W elders shop in. the build of the WAVES is approxim ately Not only did the plastic increase ing now* occupied by the B rook few days w ith h er old friend, the yield but it kept down the 800 women officers and 6.000 ings Flow*er Shop in 1946. He M rs Lillie Crosby, weeds and prevented ro ttin g of enlisted women. built the new building and fru it th a t cam e in contact with moved to the present location in U N ITE D FU ND S eptem ber of 1951. It w as a t Coquille is the latest town to the ground as well as decreasing th a t tim e th a t H arro u n entered be considering the U nited Fund the am ount of irrigation needed. F u th er experim ents are being th e picture. m ovem ent w hereby all group T y g art and his wife, Pauline, solicitations are pooled. Deskin conducted w ith other crops, P ortable W e ld e r have th ree children. Jim is 11 in Bergey, of the P P & L Co., Coos melons, among them. th e grade school and they have Bay, m et w ith a Coquille group Service son and d au g h ter m arried. They I to tell them how the plan was WAVES also serve aboard the a re from Gold Hill. It was th e re l w orked o ut in his home town. ships of the M ilitary Sea T ran s PHONE 4 2 0 2 th a t he becam e in terested in the ------------------ portation S e n ice in 25 of the tire recapping business and took ------------------ N avy’s 61 general service r a t a train in g course a t Medford. E U R E K A P IN C H IN G W A T E R H arro u n and his wife, Ada, Fines have been advertised in ings. cam e here from K lam ath F alls E ureka as liable to be imposed WAVES now serve as flight in 1949. Before en terin g the par- on any resident using w ate r for orderlies aboard M ilitary T rans- tn ersh ip w ith T y g art in the tire alm ost an ything besides house- business, he worked for the Die- hold use. W ashing cars will cost port planes flying to Germany, bold Lum ber Company in S m ith the culpit $50, and sim ilar levies River. He had also had consider- for w aterin g gardens, etc. able experience in tire shops- i ------------------ The H arrouns have tw o sons in th e logging business here, P a t DISNEYLAND TR1F George Goldade, who used to and Don, who are well knowYi in the area. They also have a live here w ith his p aren ts and son and a d au g h ter in K lam ath now at Hoquiam , was one of the F alls and a d au g h ter in Salem. two w inners am ong 300,000 In addition to the recapping aspirants, of a picture puzzle the firm handles new tires. For contest. H is aw ard w as an all Regular $2 sizes now only a num ber of years th e y so ld only expense paid trip , along w ith G ates tires but have recently his m other to Disneyland, din added the B. F. Goodrich line. ners for both a t K n o tt’s famous They have also recently installed berry farm and m any other points of in terest in th e south th e la test tru ein g machine. —-** I Cologne Dusting Powder twins land. in your choice of four A IR P O R T D A N G E R S fragrances. .. Ovation, M IL L E R S IN M EXICO Safari, Flamingo, Contraband. A very dangerous condition is Mr. and Mrs. E rskine M iller reported at the S ta te Line a ir have postcarded several of th eir port. D espite w arning signs, friends th a t they are briefly visi and a previous fa ta lity directly ting in Mexico City, having chargable to cars parked there, flown down. people persist in driving th e ir cars, and som etim es parking them , in a zone in terferin g w ith W H IT E S TO H A P P Y CAM P Wrecker Service MURRY MOTORS 9 T HENDRICKS FURNITURE STORE (¿ 'K c e S t'k ununer B itlh Fra",’a,,<’cs H c T h e L lo y d and E llis W h ite the landing of planes. It is said th a t Sunday a ca r was stuck families, who’ve lived mostly on the south end of the runw ay, around cen tral C urry and at an o th er attem p ted to get it free Powers, have recently moved to and deep holes w ere ploughed H appy Camp, California to m ake th eir homes. there. The public is w arned th a t they Some of the upper crust have a re liable to prosecution and a severe fine if convicted of viola f been sneering at the “sowbug tions. The en tire runw ay is in ca rs”. the sta te of Oregon. CO CHRAN -ENICK A m arriag e license w as recent- M m. Rotaot Baughn In Hospital^ jy gj-a-ted in Coos County to Mrs. Roscoe (Z elta) Baughn , LOujs C ochran and L avina Enick h ad n ’t been feeling very well , bo(h of Gold Beach. and Dr. Ronniger thought she’d best he hospitalized. Roscoe took P L A S T IC M ULTCHES hei to Ci escent City 1 u esd ay | Bv usj n g black polyethylene morning. sheets, four feet wide, w ith holes cut for th e plants. Vernon C lark son, OSC h o rtic u ltu rist, g reatly increased the yield of tom atoes. W ith a sheet 1.5 mil thick, Clarkson raised 12*.> tons to the acre and w ith one 4 mils, » • • Y our OLD R efrig erato r C~n m ake ti e clown pay- m e n t. Thursday, May 17, 1956 BROOKINGS, OREGON__________________ ____________ » T H E O K . RUBBER WEL- ERS is irtother p artn ersh ip • N. T y g art and Ben W. 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Or»et naw "laval C m »" N .w "TurF-Ridar" and »«aflflAr.d wh««!» For «v«n cwt on rough ground Won't »«alp Front and »¡do trim within Xg inch oF wall» or Fonto» Snop-on, Hr-Lo SoFoty HandU k««R» u»«r at taF» d<«tan«» Adjuttabl« whaal» Far 1" ta J" cut Light woight Super-« aF« Fully guarantood Never before 1 ive so many quality f T ares been avn;l- able in a rotary tiller to fit every* budget. 2 *, hp en * e with power to spare. Recoil starter. Lo Tone mufT.t r. Self sharpening tines guaranteed unbreakable, also ad justable from 8’ » to 20’ , inches. « .* • s u p e r b S i m p l i c i t y l» o ln r y T . l ’ o r t o d t y l Hanscam's Center Applitncc Dcpt. — Phone DUNNING MOTORS y<wr Curry Cottrrty Authorised Ftrd-Mercwry Dealer 12 Factory Repair for Briggs & Stratton and Lawn Boy Engines Authorized - Authorized - Authorized - Authorized
