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Thursday, August 30, 1956
Susan Benham
Passes August 19
Susan, widow of the late C. M.
Benham, died a t Tanglewoo 1
Home, Bandon. Sunday. Angus
19, 1956, in her 94th year.
“Aunt Sue.” as she was affec
tionately called by old and young
around here, for many, many
years, was the widow of the late
C. M. Benham, sometime local
justice of the peace and post
m aster, who died several years
Brookings-Harbor Pilot — Brookings, Oregon
ago. VV ith her passing goes an
other of those rare good neigh
bors alw ays ready, willing, and
capable of m eeting every s itu a
tion, regaidle.-s of w eather or any
eth er condition. “A unt Sue" w.,s
a seem ingly indefatiguable w ork
er, w hether or no there was any
tem uneration, and her hands f it
ted equally Well a baby's first
band or the handles of a wheelhoe.
H er feet were alm ost as lively,
on the dance floor, when she w.is
well p st her ninetieth milestone
as they were when she firs t
m atched them to the rythm s back
in her Missouri girlhood. She was
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born back there on January S. neice, Mrs. Milton DeM artin. and Birch attended the ladies' m eet
W alking Blood Bank plans which,
1863.
j m any other kin in the east.
in g .
i he stated, were being closely
We shall all miss "A unt Sue.'
Funeral services were conducted
Birch, who owns the C rater watched in other communities.
each in th e ir own way. and as a
com munity. B ut we know “A unt
Sue" in h er wisdom, fam iliar
w ith both the beginning and en 1-
ing of all ea rth ly things, looking
back over the long tra il she had
travelled, realized th a t it w as
tim e she rejoined her friends, and
resigned herself to the inevitable
of h er own passing over. We who
knew her, feel she w as happily
resigned to th e p ray er of. “Thy
Will Be Done." and passed on.
in W ier's M ortuary. Crescent
! City, W ednesday afternoon, w ith
graveside services in the Wrn. J.
W ard Memorial Cem etery, Brook
ings.
\ IW Officials Visit
BROOKINGS POST
S tate Junior Vice C o m m an d s
H a n y Birch and Mrs. Biich. of
Locally she is survived bv her i Medford. Inspector Dan Krotz, of
Sandy Cove, and A djutant Ernest
Btaunig, of Medfrod. were v isit-’
ors at la st W ednesday nig h t’s
m eeting of the VFW Post and
Auxiliary. Mrs. B raunig and Mrs.
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Supply Co., Medford made a con
siderable nam e for him self in
raising nearly $50,000 for an O re
gon C ottage at the N ational VFIV
children's home, at Eaton Rapids
Michigan, work on which, has al
ready been .-tarted.
In hts brief address he com
plem ented the post and auxiliary
on its mem bership and attendance
and com mented th a t there woul 1
probably be an increa-v in v et
erans' atten tio n to organized
groups as they became older and
should th ere be a recession ftom
th e cu rren t high economic level
K rotz found the local post in ex
cellent condition .according to its
records, and inquired about the
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FRANK'S PHARMACY
- New Phone Number 1444
— Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. —
BANK
Consolidated Joins
N. A. Van Lines
P eter B a s i c h . Consolidated
h reightw aya m anager a t Brook-
ings, today announced his com-
i anv s affiliation with N orth Am
erican Van Lines as their moving
agent here
The now- moving and sto rag e
service will offer local and long
distance moving in addition to the
existing service through Consoli
d ated 's own moving van division.
Babich aid.
Basich sta rte d w ith Consoli
dated in 1949 as station clerk a t
1 icoma He tran sferred to Brook
ings as m anager in April of this
year, < ien construction started
on the com pany's new term inal
here. Now in operation, it serves
a num ber of com m unities in the
southern Oregon coastal area.
As agents for N orth American
V an Lines, Inc., Consolidated will
now supply moving van service
locally and to 48 states. Canada.
Alaska, Hawaii and P uerto Rico,
as well as to overseas points. At
present N orth American is opera-
fatin g n fleet of 1500 modern
vans and offers sto rag e facilities
in all principal cities.
Descriptive literatu re and esti
m ates will be furnished w ithout
cost or obligation to anyone in
q u irin g at C bm olic^ted, Basich
said.
BLOOD TYPING
PLANS PROGRESS
Plans for a repetition of fre-
blood typing are going forw ard
New advances in the method art
being throuughly looked into bj
Mrs
D orothea
Miller, count]
health nurse, in hopes th a t it'
several phases will be ooordinatec
so as to m ake the program rui
m ost smoothly.
It Is contem plated to includ
residents of Sm ith River alonj
w ith those between C arpentervilk
and the S tate Line, the are a pre
Viously s e t up. Initial plans a n
for th. typing of some 3.000 peo
ple frim which a much increase!
donor list may be built. Current!]
the donor list is too lim ited a n ’
tim e con.fcluming.
As before, it is planned to typ<.
all comers, from tiny in fan ts U
oldsters, each being supplied witl
jxiiket card bearing th eir nam e
blood type and address. In nianj
instance« this indentifi ation cart
has been of nntold value when it.-
• lata was used in checking foi
transfusions.
NEW PRIEST
A p rie t has been assigned tc
the Catholic church a t Itandon
and will have the mis ion ftarish
a t Port Orford to m inister to.
This will relieve Fr. Emil Reiss
who will now have not only his
home parish a t Bi’ookings, but
the one a t Gold Beach to m inister
to.
STARTS RECOVERY
Tim e fo r
S O M E T H IN G S P E C IA L !
th e lig h t r e f r e s h in g b e e r
Mrs. Maude Phillips, who has
been quite sick for the j>ast few
weeks is now on the road to re
covery. Her brother, W illiam Hoff
who recently underw ent an o p era
tion a t the Gold Beach hospital
h a i now returned home and will
sjxmd some tim e recuperating a t
tlie Phillips’ home on Del N orte
Lane.
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