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EUGENE ORE
FIRST BROOKINGS FOOTBALL SEASON OPENS FRIDAY
Footballs will be flying through
the air Friday afternoon, begin
ning at 2 30 p.m. w hen the Brook
ings Bruin# football team have
th eir first gam e in the history of
the school. Pow ers high school
will provide th e opposition for th e
first game.
B u .k u s field, near the Brook
ings Plywood, has been graded
and leveled and the chalk line
m arkers set. Goal posts have been
set up.
Coach Doug M aeFarlane, w ith
Jim T hurm ond and Cal Pace have
Thursday, September 20. 1956
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been w orking the team out for the
past th ree weeks They had th e ir
first scrim m age S aturday, and
d id n 't look too bad to th e casu al
observer. They lacked finess, but
th a t was to be expected for boys
as green as th e Brookings squad.
A lack of w eight and experience
Lydon H. Oldonburg, 21, is sit
A sum m ary of assessm ent rolls seem to be the big d raw backs on
ting it out in the Brookings city
for 1956, sent to the Pilot by Geo the squad as they ready them
jail, aw aiting tria l on charges of
rge S utton shows th a t the total selves for the Powers battle. How*.
malicious destruction of property,
faxes and assessm ents levied for , ever, the backfield w ill have two
drunk in a public place, resisting
all purposes in C u rry county total boys w ith experience, Ronald Me-
an officer, and disorderly conduct.
$1,248,702.87. The total value sub i Cabe, who played last y ear w ith
He was arrested early Sunday
ject to tax atio n is $10,211.930.
Heppner, and Ron Lane, who was
m orning after he had picked up an
The fiscal year ending Ju n e 30, a q u arterb ack for Gold Beach last
enlistm ent sign and chucked it
1957 w ill see a 13.7 m ill general 1 season Both boys are transfers.
through the Post Office window,
county tax, to raise a total of Also in the backfield is speedy
breaking out a huge plate of glass.
$139,902. B lockings m ill rate is j Je rry Fox, who isn’t big, but is
Officers said th at O ldonburg in
18 6 on a valu atio in of $1,670,610. ; fast.
vited Elmer Ritchey, 44, into his
This assessed valu atio n is over
The line doesn’t have m uch beef
room in the K ruger Hotel for a
tw ice th at of Gold Beach who has i but can m ake up for that w ith de- .
drink. Then O ldonburg began
$756,030 but has a mill rate of 38.1 sire. The biggest boy in th e line
pum m eling Richey over the head.
Port O rford has a m ill rate of only weighs about 170 pounds.
Richey tried to get out but found
49.7.
Coach M aeFarlane has inserted
the door locked. Finally O ldon
Assed valuation in H arbor is several sophom ores in th e startin g
burg jum ped out the second floor
$599,840, w ith the m ill rate set at line-up, wdth the idea of prep arin g
window, and raced over to the
4.0 for the H arbor R ural Fire Dis now for th e next tw o seasons.
post office and threw the sign
FIRST CUSTOMER at the Brookings-Harbor Blood Bank registration was Don Ross, left, who re
trict, w ith $2,399, to be raised.
He has given the boys four basic
through the window. He is an ex-
cently received a large amount of donations from that organization. Giving Ross his card is Dr. Dave
School district 17C has a m ill plays, plus a couple of special
serviceman.
Brown. In the foreground is Fred Troutman. VFW, who helped registrations.
Pilot Photo
rate set at 97.1 on an assessed • plays, and several pass p atterns.
Richey was taken to Crescent
valuation of $2,884,120, w ith $280,-
C ity hospital, w here he was tre a t
047 to be raised.
ed for serious injuries. He was re
The comparision with 1946-56 is
leased W ednesday, and will make
as follows: Total assessed value of
a statem ent to the district a t
county; 1946—$4,956,570, 1956—
torney E<i Ackley F riday regard
ing the case.
10,211,930; Total ta x es levied in
county; 1946—$236,731. 1956—$1,
He is from C entral point, and
248,702; Assessed value of tim ber
w as visiting his brother here.
V oters w ent to the polls F riday ■ land; 1946—$1,427,950; 1956—$2,-
LEASES STORE
and colie lively em phasised th a t! 567,950.
Som ething new and d ifferen t is
Thousand-, have died to protect
Ja y Fountain, ow ner and opera they w anted the P ort of Brook | In the classification of property to be tried in Brookings this week.
your vote. The least you can do is
tor of the Chetco Meat Co,, has ings. By a m argin of more th an 8 in C urry county assessed v alu a A “K ick o ff B reakfast” is planned
vote!
enlarged his operation by leasing to 1 th e voters in four area pre- ' tion of farm land is $1,823,750; as for S atu rd ay m orning, as a pro
the meat dep artm en t of th e Gold cincts sw ept in the form ation of sessed valuation of tim ber and motion for high school football.
T hat Ransom C reek fill w as a Beach Drive-In M arket,. F ountain th e P o rt District.
tim ber land is $2,567,950.
The team opens th e ir season F ri
real corker. In th eir w ork in eli will continue to operate his Brook
The Port of Port O rford has a
T he total vote was 584 yes to 72
m inating the dangerous •Ander ings store, and will com m ute.. His no. Votes by preceints were: F e r - ' 6.1 mill levy, w hile the Port of day afternoon.
The breakfast will be held in
son” curve on highw ay 101 north w ife will continue to w ork in the relo 47 yes, 20 no; Chetco 119 yes, Gold Beach doen’t have any levy.
the C & K M arket, and all pro
of Brookings the W arren N orth Brookings Store,.
41 no; Brookings No. 1 205 yes: Brookings residents have an ef ceeds will go to the Q u arterb ack
west com pany had to lay a huge
2 no; Brookings No. 2, 212 yes. fective mill rate of 129.4, w hile Club, who have been in stru m en tal
Senator W ayne Morse will visit culvert in the creek bed, and then
Gold Beach has 147.7.
9 no.
in setting up football here this
Brookings and H arbor on O ctober fill and fill and fill some m ore
E arly in the voting day w’ord
year. P ancakes will be the bill of
11, according to w ord received
For th e past tw o w eeks the
spread around Chetco Avenue that
fare, and it’s one of those "all you
here by D emocratic party leaders. i trucks have been w orking on a
th e re was a conceited d riv e to
c. n
; ffai’-s. far 39c, w ith stu
A luncheon for the S enator is tw o shift basis— w orking u nder
get out the no vote. Im m ediatly
dents getting by for 29c.
planned at the G ran "? Laii. Cu«.i Lo';ts until past m idnight—h au l
"Yes" people took up the ch al
plans are still in the form ulative ing th e d.r* fill from H arris Beach
lenge and raced around urging
stage, and will be announced <u S tate P ark to dum p in the gulley.
One of C urry county's newest
everyone to vote in the election.
( Central Com m ittee
a later date.
C ontractors estim ated th at the fill groups. The C urry County Tim ber
Morse is m aking an intensive required about 40,000 yard s—and O p eiato rs As oc ition will have A ctually the vote was surprisinly
Th? C u rry county grand ju ry
cam paign around the state in an figuring on an average of eight th e .r next meetir. p on Septem ber heavy for a special election in the retu rn ed a secret indictm ent on H olds M eeting
effort to m aintain his seat in the yards to a tru c k —about 5.000 21 a t 8 p.m. a t t.ie Sunset Inn in com m unity, showing the interest A rth u r £,. Sherm an, county su r
The Republican C entral com m it
S enate against form er Secretary truck trips w ere m ade—ju st to eli- Gold Beach. O fficers will be elec created in the Port District.
veyor, who was arrested on a tee met Friday night w ith th e Re
The next step now is the can charge of tim ber larceny. The in
of In terior Doug McKay.
m ínate one curve. S tate highw ay ted a t th a t m eeting and an ad-
publican candidates, Roy Brim m ,
engineers can be appreciated m ore genda will be -et up for th e next vassing of the votes by the county dictm ent accuses S herm an, a for- G eorge Sutton, O leta W alker, Sam
court,
which
should
be
done
short-
nier
Brookings
resident,
of
steal-
now— w hen it know n th a t some three month period.
H all and Jim B eddingfield being
PIPE DREAMS . . .
ly. T hen the governor will appoint mg tim ber from th e property of introduced. Each gave a resum e of
300 curves betw een Brookings and
The organization, formed just a five m an com mission to serve
Fred L. Davis and G eorge P, Da the progress each has m ade in
Gold Beach m ust still be elim in recently, is comprised of tim ber
th e P o rt District.
vis of Portland. T he tim ber is a l th e ir cam paign for election.
ated.
and lumbermen in C urry county.
leged to have been taken from
Mrs. M innie King announced
All operators, eith er large or
holdings located near P o rt Orford. th at a b irth d ay party for "Ik e ’*
sm all are invited to attend this
E arlier a ju stice court case would be held in P ort O rford on
BEN JEWELL
m eeting The purpose of the g-oup
against Sherm an, charging him O ctober 13, and asked th at each
is
to
provide
for
the
betterm
ent
BREAKS LEG
w ith pointing a gun, was dism is of the can d id ates act as hosts d u r
Ben Jew ell, logging operatqr, of C u iry county roads, and to ob-
sed last week in Gold Beach ing day.
broke his leg last week when he -ain a more realistic view ofgov-
Sherm an was released alm ost at
got involved w ith a “C arry all" rig ernm ont tim ber in the county.
F orty three Brookings-Harbor once on th e larceny charge upon
in his lum ber operation near
w vmen attended a Republican posting $5,000 bail.
Sm ith River.
S herm an was indicted by the
luncheon S aturday afternoon at
He was taken to Seaside hoc. Plans Black Topping
C liff House. F eatured speaker on county grand ju ry on charges of
pital, and will have h.s leg in
th e program was Mrs. Marshal! larceny of trees. According to Dis
Of G rade School Yard
traction for some tim e yet.
C ornett, state chairm an for the trict A ttorney Ed Ackley, the val
By Joe Murphy
The first fall meeting of th e
G iad m g on the elementar;, W omen's Division of McKay for ue of th e trees involved is about
We w atched the first scrim m age
school
grounds is c ompleted, and S enator Campaign, and form erly a $7,500. S h erm an ’s atto rn ey is U pper Chetco P.T.A. will be held
S atu rd ay w ith interest. The boys RUN IS BEGINNING
Jam
es
N
orm
an
of
Coos
Bay,
who
Friday night S eptem ber 21 at
the rocking of the grounds is un n a t i o n a l com m itteew om an for
did rem arkably well for only two
The Salm on run cn the Chetco Ut-rway in prepara tu. i for the eight years.
reported th a t he believes the com 7:30 at the schoolhouse.
w eeks practice—although F rid ay ’s is picking up s, .cd. S everal fish er
Mrs. C ornett was introduced by plaint was based on alleged offens
Mrs. G ladys Payne, president,
gam e will tell a little more. Coach men rep ailed success w ithin the black topping of the en tire su r
the W omen's C hairm an of C urry es of em ployees of S herm an who will preside over the business
face.
Doug M aeFarlane. and his crew last w eek N othing real big has
were rem oving tim ber under con
T he en tire play area will be County for McKay, Mrs. A rth u r tract from land belonging to Mrs meeting. Mrs, Ruth P ay n e and
have done w onders— why it took b. n taken, but indications are
Knox. The table decoratvm s w ere
Mrs. Alice T hom as are in charge
:
black
topped,
and
then
different
me m ore than two weeks to figure that th e n re fish coming into the
of the program .
by Mrs. C. L Fallert. On the tele Minnie King.
out how to get on my shoulder Chetco. Two 27 pounders w ere j gam e p attern s will be p ainted on
phone com m ittee w ere Mrs Rose
P aren ts of ch ild ren atten d in g
pads.
taken last week, w hile Ben Phette- ! It is planned to have tw o eombina- Poole and Mrs. Lois Peterson.
th e school will have the o p p o rtu n
Í
tion
volleyball-basketball
courts
place netted a 24 pounder recent
ity of m eeting the new teachers,
Mildred Byrne gave a resum e of
N aturally I got a chuckle out of
painted as well as oth er games.
iy-
Mr and Mrs. Verne U ndetw ood.
her recent trip to the Republican
looking at the football roaster, and
R e fre s h m e n ts will be served.
N ational Convention. Mrs. C ornett
seeing all the 135 pounders listed.
told about her duties at th e con
But then w hen I think back I
vention giving out tickets. She al
weighed only 130 pounds in those
j so reported on McKays record as
days and I was the greatest th reat
A second linotype machine w ai
a leader. She stressed the im port being installed in the Pilot th is
the coach had on the bench.
ance of getting people out to vote. week A ctually an In terty p e aiin-
We are getting more and more
Mrs. C ornett said "My objective lar in principal to a linotype was
into the thick of the political brick
Four local boys, L arry L astroh,
Ju d g e Hans Nelson, w ho has is to have a co-chairman in every the machine in» ailed.
throw ing. Dave Shaw , Gold Be^ch L IL l HARVEST
G ordon Bullock, S terling Becher.
com m unity, besides one in every
Neil
Jorgenson
and
G
urney
Pyne
held the position as Muncipal
attorney, director of the Co-op,
county.” She reported that "w e of the Pilot -taff left T hursday to and Billy C lark won free trip s to
The lily harvest is in full sw ing Ju d g • for the City of Brooking-
form er congressional candidate,
have a fine product to sell and we pick up the machine in Brow ns Pendleton w here they atten d ed
Oregon law school instructor to-be, H undreds of thousands of Easter for the past five years, has accept are go.ng to sell it.”
ville. Oregon They returned Sun th e fam ous P endleton Round-up.
and husband of Wickes Shaw, lily bulbs are being lifted and ed the position left vacant by Roy
The boys, along with W illiam
day. The second linotype will give
editor of the Gold Beach paper, packed for shipm ent to cold sto r Brown as Ju stice of Peace. Judge
the pilot m ore versatility, and C lark, local Jo u n ral m anager,
w rote Tom McKenzie a letter last age qu ite all over th e continent, Nelson ' as sw orn in this w eek by Achieve ment Tests
more news in its column. As ea 'i w ent to P o rtlan d by car and then
1 ne of type has to be set on t boarded the special ch a rtered
the
C
urry
county
court
us a copy, but w asn't nice e■nough They vill la ter be brought from
R e s u lts are Told
Th«1
po
ition
vacated
by
Judge
linotype,
it had m the pa < b> train th a t took them on to Pendle
enforced dorm ancy and
ton
to do it before our deadline . Send tlieir
Nelson will be filled bv Jim K erb
come difficult for a'.l th e m aterial
in another Dave, and try t<> keep gi owr on to bloom, next Easter,.
About 600 boys from all over
<?! Brookings, who will continue to
to get set. The second machine
it short and to the point—if
the state attended. The all expense
When
should
solye
m
ost
of
th
a
t
problem.
possible for an attorney.
trip was a prize foi
\\ inarm*
for
for, r ^production in th e form of
The In terty p e acquisition is getting new Jo u rn al sub LTiber
» average
And then th e re is Ht nry K err.
bulbb ts wrtl be graded and
b
d in
J. P C
the I
tkinas stu I a Io g the line of expansion and
We we e bowling for R ,-. r>■ Mon-
th«
‘ity Fire
or c letter than rep icing of older equipment. I I N MUIS MOM.
day night when he said, "I don't the larg er ones rep lan ted for next
nat nai av e rai ;e in every in- During th< pa-t tw o years th •
The L eonards Real Estate Firm
think I'll be able to make it next y ea r’s crop H undreds of w orkers form erly occupied by the C.ty Re
Monday as I have to go to Alas are in the fields, m any of them corder and reg u lar court days will stance. W illiams attrib utes the ; ublishers of the P ilot have has moved into their beautiful
F:
j
» 7 00 success of the te s t
zery com txmght sn au to m atic job press. new m odern office adjacent to the
k a ”. I've heard a lot of fine ex are q uite skilled from long ex p e ri n Ti ■
cuses for not being able to bowl ence and the handling of m atu re o’clock. At any other tim e the p etan t instruction, The tests are four page new spaper p .’ess, folder, Pilot. The G reyhound Bus De|»ot
on a g.ven night, but th at seems bulbs requires a great deal of Ju d g e may be contacted at hi» given from grades three through m etal »aw, Elliot m tiling machine has moved into L eonard's old
and a speed graphic cam era
h"m e bv calling 2353
care
eight.
building."
to be off *he beaten oath
Nowhere a Finer Climate — Nowhere a Finer Community
Man Arrested
On 4 Counts
Tax Summary
Sent Here
Kick-Off
Port district wins by 8-1 vote
Breakfast
Planned
40,000 Yards of
Dirt Moved
Senator Morse to
Visit October 11
Timber Operators
Plan Meeting
County Surveyor
Given Indictment
Republican Women
Hear Mrs. Cornett
Upper Chetco
PTA to Meet
Nelson named IP .
Second Linotype
Arrives at Pilot
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