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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 . . .
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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
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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
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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.
Pilot Photo
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com inral, w ith K aren U e ste rn . 2* ! fim m i C h ip m a n H erb ie Ril
m o d o rg in ia l an d T im W ilson. 2 n d . lee eream and hot Jogs w ere
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trim m . They are, le fl to rig h t,
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and F a r r le t C h ap m an , Ist.
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