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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1956)
b’ OF Q LIBRARY» EUGENE ORE Campbell, Flynn, Ackley, Sutton appear to be winners The election is over. One of the hottest cam paigns in Oregon his tory, and certainly the closest in C urry county brought out a tre- m encndous vote—and generally speaking things w ent w ell for the Democrats A quick run down locally shows th a t Fell Cam poell was elected m ayor by an easy two to one m ar gin over Bill Spencer; Fred Flynn narrow ly beat Brookings Mayor Roy B nm m for county com mis sioner; Ed Ackley was elected dis tric t attorney over W illiam F u l ler; O leta W alker eased out rival Ellen D ougherty for the county clerks office. B ut the closest, most bitterly contested battle was for county assessor, w here incum bent George S utton ended up w ith 6 votes m ore than Brookings’ candidate A1 Mincer. Sam Hall was beaten by Demo c r a t Carl Back in w hat appears to be a dem o landslide. On a state w ide level tw o of the most im portant races are yet to be decided—b etter than a full day after the polls closed. Late re ports have S tate S enator Bob Holmes leading Republican Gov ernor Elmo Smith. And surprise of ssurprises—late reports have Dem ocratic C harles P o rter in a neck and neck race w ith H arris Ellsw orth for con gress. E llsw orth was expected to win easily, but th e heavy Demo cratic vote could tu rn the tide in th at b attle as the sragglers come in. Most of of the heavy shouting in the cam paign— the W ayne Morse, Doug McKay battle looked close only for a short while— then Morse began pulling ahead, by 3,000, then 7,000 and on and on. Locally, most of the interest was hung up w aiting for P ort O rford's precinct to report. It didn’t come in un til almost 7:30 W ednesday night, and threw just enough votes for Sutton 370—to 292—to give Sutton a slight edge over Mincer. R eturns Tuesday night in all the races except the city w ere in conclusive, as the long ballots kept m any a precinct w orker sw eating until th e early m orning hours. In Chetco precinct count ers w ere w inding up at about 10 a.m Brooking 11 had reported in a little past midnight. Early partial retu rn s showed Brimm carry in g Brookings by only a sm all m ajority w hile Flynn cam e in m uch stronger than expected in the north end of the county. In Sixes, for ex am ple Flynn swept through w ith a 76 vote m argin 125 49. Chetco gave Brim m a 60 vote lead, but it tu rn ed out that it w asn't enough The Pilot's unofficial total showed it to be. M incer was strong in th e south end of C urry, sw eeping through Brookings, Ferrelo, and Chetco w ith a plurality of 700 votes, but S utton pulled heavily m Gold Beach precinct, for exam ple. Re publican Sutton slid through w ith a 200 m argin. M incer and hi.- v. orkers are con- sidering the steps necessa v for a recount of the ba! lots. They feel th at the six votes iu st «sift enough TOTALS (Several are only partial « the 13 Curry precincts.) HALL BACK 1888 BRIMM FLYNN 1933 21 16 MINCER SUTTON 20-6 2052 ACKLEY FULLER 1887 1396 WALKER DOUGHERTY 2225 1933 NELSON BROWN. ROY 578 269 of a m argin Ackley met his hallenger, Bii! . all r. h ;ni on in most of the c un ; 14 precincts. Fuller, a w: L - n appeared about 300 votes belli:: 1 at the end. Again, w inner Ackley was strong locally, w ith a m argin of b etter th an 400 in the four lccal precincts Ackley was r p ? 3 nitxl D. A. by Gov Elmo Sm ith a f w m onths ago. Fell Campbell ju st breezed through the city election for m ay or w ith a record 630 votes, com pared to Spencers 308. Campbell has been on the council for three years. In the city election two council- men w ere elected: Thev w ere Ben Fhetteplace w ho h.id 647 otes an ^ Percy Hanks, who ju st edged oil Lee Hein. 531 to 520. Hein and ” anks ran into a dead heat in B’ o 'k in g s I. w ith each netting 265 votes. M ayor elect Fell C am pbell— who will take ofti e on Ja n u ary 1, said th at he probably would appoint Hein for the third coun- ell P^st, which w ill exist after he becomes mayor, if Hein would accept. H. G. Nelson won the Ju stice of Peace election rath er easily, as a w iite-in candidate. Roy Brown, in cum bent on the ballot, has left the area. Bill Brown, the other w rite in candidate died on elec tion eve. Sam Hall, at an early reading, with several local precincts left out was in an even tie w ith his opponent Carl Back, each w ith 1888 xotes However, Back pulled away in Democratic Coos county. Last m inute write-in votes for Brookings P ort Com missioner saw Dr. Roy W hite and Wilson Freem an take the two vacancies, w ith W arren MsNeely running third. The question of w hether the w rite-in election is valid or not rem ains to be answered. Freem an w ith W arren McNeely running pointed by the governor for a term ending at the general elec tion. They have just had one meeting. SKETCH BOOK . . . nl < Nowhere a Finer Climate — Nowhere a Finer Community V o lu m e X I, N u m b er 38 T h u rsd a y , N o v e m b e r 8, 1956 By Bud Pisarek It was quite a day for voting, b u t man w hat a night. It was th ree a.m. and we w ere still hang ing on hoping some returns would come in from the n o rth . • t ♦ Some of the counting boards m ust use the ten fingers and all toes m ethod of counting. Brook ings precint num ber2 was the first to come in w ith a com plete total. Max B rainard and his crew should be highly com m ended for th e ir fine work. • • • All the election re tu rn s d idn’t go as m any expected except for th e Ike race. Callers to the Pilot try ing to get retu rn s from us would chim e back w ith . • . “and how did Ike do”. Of course we have to have a little hum or in the deal. When th e new M ayor. Fell Cam pbell, w alked into the office early W ednesday m orning a few of the gang here w atching the re tu rn s started telling Fell w hat th ey w anted done in the city. Fell was still sm iling when he last left th e off.ee and we hope he can keep up th a t attitude. It will be a long tough row ahead and v. e wish Fell all the luck in the world. * * * The Election P a rty we held here at th e Pilot otfice was well attended. Some of the tension w as eased a bit when Tom McKen zie and M urry P alm er presented Virg C lark w ith a sm ypathy card w hen Ike m ade his accepting speech. Virg had a last laugh w hen the Morse returns started coming in. Schools Plan Open House NOVEMBER 11-17 Schools . . . for A Strong America th e tem an t life teache-rs, and the schools sys w hich plays sush an im port p art in the present and fu tu re of your child. The future of o u r nation and our w’orld depend upon our- youth. W hat do YOU know about th eir developm ent? Your child spends a large p art of his w aking hours in the schools which your School costs, according to cu r taxes help to support. Do you know how this money is spent and re n t estim ates of the U. S. Office how our youth is being prepared of Education, exceeded $19 billion last y ear for all purposes. to m eet fu tu re responsibilities? T he average cost of educating an A m erican youngster was $380 “Back to School” Night per year. The local school district Wednesday, November 14 expended a total of $300,345.05 High School last y ear from the general funds, 7:30 • 9:30 p.m educating 998 students. The av e r age cost of educating a Brookings- “ Back to School” night for the H arbor stu d en t was $300 86. parents of students in grades 7-12 is to be held on W ednesday night, November 14, in the high school A fter a short general assembly, which is to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the gym nasium , to acquaint them w itn the policies of the school Vehy little hope seemed to be parents will be able to follow' the offered for a plane, lost last T hurs com plete daily schedule of thei day n ar here. Word from area son or daughter. Class periods will pilots said th at it was believed be ten m inutes in length. School th a t the sm all plane, w ith th ree will be dism issed at 9:30 p.m. persons aboard, was lost at sea. P aren ts are encouraged to com ’ About 30 small planes and a and to inform them selves concern helicopter searched th e ocean a n , in? th e objectives of the various inland S atu rd ay and Sunday S v classes, the textbooks used, the eral local planes w ere in the teachers’ assignm ents or grading group. policies, and other m atters of in The plane gassed a t Gold Beach terest to them. and took off in fogey w athei for Average cost $300.00 Here Curry Kirss Oester As New Agent C urry county has a new county agent, to rep ace K n Pri st, who left to join th e Coos-Curry Co-op as a public relations m . i . Ju st hired was Lou Oester, w.ao re- signed his pos.tion as special ex- tension agent in Colum bia county. O ester has been on the exten- sion staff in Colum bia county for m ore th an a y ear and prior to th at tau g h t vocational agriculture at Scappose high school for th ree years. C h ief C ross R ep orts N o H a llo w e e n D a m a g e Chief of Police Bud Cross re porte-1 tn a t adow een in Brook ings was one oi the q..ie.u^i ever. No dam age nas b u n reported i.. the last two years. Chief Cross w ants io thank t.ie k.ds, and tell them th at he is "very orouu’’ of their fine record, iu- also — to th an k the Lion’s club for th e ir Baby Girl Born in Station Wagon The story runs like this— M other Elizabeth (G ary) Wim berly, at the family supper table S atu day evening, m entioned to her husband she thought she ought to be on the way to a place propi for accouchem ent. On a previ as sim ilar decision, she and activity as their recent party was G ary got alm ost to Seaside hos pital but their first d au g h ter a r A ■ rived. curbside, in the Del Norte THE WEATHER county seat. So - - - the couple Max. Min. Free. loaded into the family stat.on w a 0 84 gon and headed south, p.onto! Oct. 31 47 38 1.12 D idn’t w ant a retu rn engagem ent. Nov. 1 45 53 0.01 63 49 Nov. 2 They got as far as the south 0 00 end of the Sm ith River bridge 66 50 Nov. 3 0 00 w here Mrs. W imberly added an 61 Nov. 4 47 0.00 other ir! to the family and at 45 Nov. 5 58 0.00 1 last reports, all w ere doing well Nov. 6 ...... 45 64 Smalt Plane Lost O ff Lccal Coast P a r e n t’s N ig h t ♦ ♦ • T hursday, November 15 G rade Schools 7:30 p.m. Gordie Olsen got down here in tim e to install a TV set for th e festive occasion. The set up the national headquarters had on ta l lying their returns was a bit more elaborate th a n our chalk board. B ut as m any of the losing candi dates said, “W ait until nex t elec tion”. The parents of all children in grades 1-6 are cordially invited and urged to visit the classrooms of th e ir children on P aren ts’ Night, T hursday, 15 November, beginning at 7:30 p.m. You are urged to take this opportunity to become better acquainted w ith ___ | jLa \\ k jr, ■n K the south It was later reported unable to clim b out of the fog. A ra d a r station at K lam ath reported to the plane by radio th a t it was eight miles off th e cost and off course. No reply came subsequent ly from the aircraft. The pilot was Louis Jansen. 45. o perator of a trucking company at N ew port. The two passengers w ere John Delzell and Don Dim mick. The Coast G uard planes w ere also in on the search. N oth ing w as reported. F O | K DEER WERE BA G G ED by G unnar Hedberg, his wife, and M-n, Carl, during a recent hunting trip in Eastern Oregon. Two of the deer had a huge raek of horns, w hil" one was a doe. lledherg was also lucky in a duck hunting expedition. 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