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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1956)
Page Ten Lrof/kings-Harbor Pilot — Brookings, Oregon fire anniversay W ednesday, the 26th, th a t this portion of Oregon had one of its w orst series of fo rtst fires. Start- Ihursday, September 27, 1956 ing in th e vicinity of Bosley I to the ocean edge. Several thous Butte, one fire covered literally and civilian and CCC firefig h ters thousands of acres. It was then w ere on the lines for over tw o the flam es raced over the Carpen- weeks. It was during this "ex tra terville hum p to burn clear down dry period that fire raced through the gorge near Bandon, and de- royed the town, even burning ! the bridges on H ighw ay 101, in : s'-veral places, stopping all traffic ! Highway travel in C u rry county was also forbidden. SEE M E N N IN G OLDSMOBILE - GMC TRUCKS Coquille Auto Co. Downtown Apt. FC3 RENT I IT S 4 MILES FURTHER. AIR LINE, T b O'BRIEN, ON 199 THAN TO GOLD BEACH. The next tune you leave Brook ings for Cave Junction, or be- >oupd, ch ick your speedom eter I here and at O ’B rien post office i and see how tar you’ve d riv en to ! i each 30 miles from w here you ! started. EVERY TIME YOU GO TO GOLD BEACH you’ve driven 12 ' extra miles and gone over an i 100 foot ph, , hump. I t ’s only 26 miles airline. A y&IT « 1 A A ccording to C. C. Caughell, -as sessor of Coos county, th e levies for the 1956 57, for N orth Bend, ! 104.5 mills; Coos Ray, 114.1 mills; and Em pire 113 8. This represents an increase over last y ea r of 4 l mills for North Bend, 7.3 m ore lo r Coos Bay, and 15.4 for Em pi re. For Coos county, as a w hole 1 -t year the m illage was 7.8 has been raised to 9.7 mills. Couple or Bachelor PI IONE 2252 AAAhLrr ôuîLDîNG ■ J < From where I s i t / y / J o e M ars! Changed Her Whole "Point of View' Vl (• Some local high school teachers ■pent the summer taking courses at th e S ta te U niversity. They learned a lot, but one of th em » Mbs Williams —got homesick. “ To eave expenses,” she re port«, "we chose a hotel th at was d ean but grim. When I found my window looker! out on a coalyard • m y h e a rt ju s t sank!” But, when Miss Williams no ticed a pot of geranium s on the window sill —and a not«* saying * Look a t these instead, (signed) L est O ccupant” - s h e decided to ■tick it out. She kept those flowers w a te re d and ten d ed to m ake things th at much easier on the next occupant. From where I sit, it’s often hard to adapt to naw surroundings — just as new custom* often seem strange to us at first. For in stance, if you’ve always had tea with your meals you might find it odd that I prefer a glass of beer. It s OK to prefer what’s familiar to you . . . but also keep an open mind on what's not. Copyright, 1956, United Statet B reuen foundation / M ant y, End , 1(l D n h ' m m Th Kn k streets. The ................. . , B R O O K IN G S NEW S IT E M S • n ’•‘«hl Y .rg ln la Mani, y, Muf ion ( hap,nan, l m an «»jw n house and a r t display. ‘ K ,o< lh d a l “ M‘Ut and H e n / a < which tim e th ere will be C. B. P etty of Brookings is rc ported to have been the victim of ze„Mr. X ‘E k X ’E t 1 N e h a l e m . a rear end collision near K lam ath ivcently. When attem pting a right lu ra, Calif, to be w ith his fath er ’ S a , S .aU? Snd th ° Yafluin a* hand turn, his car is said to have w ho suffered a henrt »o l i A n g le s took 10,200 steelhead S ^ b i a ° ^ ’e X T IT been hit from behind by one - e k and driven by A irm an J e rry Rushin. Tom King left W ednesday f o r ' i m , ,, f , produced ’ Wh‘1<! ,h ° “ i*“ “ C. Ed Seger, county veteran s G erm any w here he » " ¡ H e sU service officer was dow n fro m tioned for a year. He spent his Had 2’695, Gold Beach, Tuesday, aiding sev furlough w ith his wife and infant eral local veterans in some of daughter. th eir service problems. Seventeen m em bers of the Bap- , Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Jacques tist M issionary Society met at the I learning of the illness of his Ed Dempsey home w ith Mrs. fath er in N orth Dakota flew back Dempsey hostess for the group. this past week end in the local Mrs. Edith Moore led the devo- flying club’s tri-pacer. It took tion. Mrs. W alter Sadler was in p ‘? c* faiP llv room lawn and shrubs already in— has su b stan tia l bank loan am ost im m ediate possession. them 12 hours to go cast but 18 charge of th e program w hich was to come back as they w ere buck a study of Burma. I l ’S D IF FE R E N T . Yes. this new home is one you’ll be ing headw inds. fog and had to pitch down at P’ooJ to o w n ’ Superb w orkm anship and distinctive styling Gold Beach. pi it in a class by itself. Three bedrooms, fully plastered Get Unsafe Tires off the Road. M arge and Virge G oldsberry’s hardwood floors, entirely insulated, w ith a fireplace and hardwood paneling. Well, you ju s t m ust this to reallv Jo h n H ew itt took A rbee F re e store is g ety n g a new front, the ap p reciate it. Call us anytim e. " y m an to North Bend for some old concrete blocks having been truck parts Monday via plane. pried out, the small w indows re 4 BEDROOM HOUSE. P*e u- soon about this com pact H om ew ard bound, they ran into moved and th e whole face on new house w ith loads of b u ilt-in , an.’ a nice vnew We Chetco A venue being thoroughly would put the price in our ad.but we re afraid you’d th in k it w as an error. It's very reasonable. m odernized. , O ." DOWN PAYMENT to the right p arty. One full acre Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Pvne ar- in town w ith two small houses and outbuilding- The to ta l ri\ i'd at the hom e of his parents, price is only $4,000. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Pyne, from Del Rio, T exas for a w eek’s visit. Ocean front horn«* in H arbor w ith access to Sandy Beach and real privacy. This home has three fireplaces and an E rnie is on furlough from the air enclosed patio— tru ly a fine home! force base th e re w here he is stationed. Ix*t us show you this H arbor home on one-half acre w ith WANTADS BETTER BUYS AT LESMEISTER $ panoram a of all of Pelican Bay. T here’s alm ost 1700 feet of floor space in this hou-e a t the alm ost unbelievably low price of $12.750. Chetco River Catch Is Over 1,000 T hat youngster o f yours can he assured o f a college education through the magic o f a savings account at U. S. N a tio n a l — a good place to save. H e ’// do the g ro w in g w h ile you do the saving. R ight now, The Oregon S tate G am e com m ission reports th at th e hottest riv e r in the state for salmon prov ed to be the Colum bia w here ang lers reported taking 14,990 salmon d u rin g the 1955 season. This was closely followed by the U m pqua w hich produced 14.488 fish, and th e Rogue w ith 12,814 fish. The commission reported that the Chetco produced more than 1.000 salm on.but d id n 't list the ex act figure. About 10 riv ers in the state—Colum bia. Umpqua. Rogue, take that im p o rta n t first step to make sure How about Incom«* P ro p erty ? We have li tings on various tv pes of income property th a t a ie well w orth in vestigating W e also h ave a wide seleeti«m «if lots and ocean frontage. Save with bank safety at U. S. PETE J. LESMEISTER AGENCY P E T E J. L E SM E IST E R Broker PAU L L. FAUERSO, Salesm an Phone 3311 s la c k s ; Brookings "> • p c - .h « wln, ,h, blu, r.bboni |n ? .lack, I, DAY'S SAN JUAN. 6v actual I mponion, no Other, can molcb (|)> , P r . Z qi'e C kOmblno"'on of * ° » e r Tailoring, , Premion, Fabric,, Unexcelled Fil and A tecogniced Style leader,hip of . . . 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