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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1956)
Brookings-Harbor Pilot Art Festival Planned P lans are nearly com pleted for th e U niversity of O regon's F esti val of Arts, scheduled for Jan u ary 6— M arch 10. The them e of the festival this year, “ East Meets W est," will Response Called "Magnificent Lumber Price Drop is Slower will be m aking their first ap p ear ance in this country. One is an exhibit of secret relics of Ja p a n ese C hristian art and another is a showing of contem porary Ja p Crow 's Lum ber Price Index for anese oil paintings by m em be.s the m entally ill and m entally re the two week period ending • Th > whole com m unity can be tarded.” Those w ere the words of December 13th shows a continued of Kodokai, an association of proud oi the m agnificent response Supt. of schools D D. W illiams, dow ntrend in the price stru c tu re artists in Jap an . A showing of n sh- tifs collection p roject for local chairm an of the project, of all w estern lum ber products. Japanese ink painting and calli after the last box had been The industry average for all 75. graphy also will be featured. ' ¡at program in the loaded aboard a truck, bound for item s composing the in d e x w s e w i, built around the u n veil Salem. showed an average decline o f The festival will open Januai> ing of a large .jage pagoda, the $.72 per M over two w eeks ago. I Royal Ives, a state em ployee in s rcc ntiy im ported gift given brought a ton and a half truck and $7.84 over the past tw elve to C urry county W ednesday m orn months. o .h musem. The drop in green F ir prices ing. He had it almost two thirds in the two week period has been full after stops at Gold Beach and slight, and confined m ostly to Brookings, w ith gifts for the men low er grade boards and dim en tai institutions in th e state. W ill sion lum ber The faet that dozens iams said that th e response w as of small mills in Oregon and beyond his expepetations, W ashington have closed dow n said that he sincerely appreciated tem porarily has made lum ber a all that the m any organizations little h arder to buy, and accounts and individuals did in the drive in p art for the slow er rate of for gifts. decline. Most of these nulls say Mrs. Dr. E. W. Minty was the they will open up after the holi county chairm an, and Gold Beach days if the dem and w arran ts it. too went overboard in the collec t Dry F ir p ices have fallen at. Please Post N e a r Phone tion of gifts Ives w ill take the the same rate as green Fir, w ith truck load directly to Salem, the lower grades again leading the decline. Pine boards a r « w here they will be unpacked and steady now, but the b etter grades. distributed to those in the in stitu 1 —selects, m ouldings and shop, art center around the M urray W arner Collection of O rien tal A rt, p e r m anently housed in the M useum of Fine Arts. An extensive program of spe cial exhibits, lectures, d a n c e events, movies, music and dram a has been arranged by the com mit tee under the direction of W allace S. Baldinger, chairm an. | T hree collections from Ja p a n W E DON’T LIKE IT BUT Thursday, December 20, 1956 ock ngs, Oregon In M-’titatly III Gift Drive OUR PHONE NUMBER HAS BEEN CHANGED TO ÎI3 I BROOKINGS SUPPLY. INC. tions for C hristm as. losing ground. Sale Is Sti’l High A report from the Federal R e serve Bank of San Francisco, re ceived here shows that sales ol l F and H Bonds in th e county in ! November w ere $11.541, brtngm R ,he total this year to $29..85.- Sales here trrough N ovem ber ot 1955 w ere $159,132. Sales of these popular I n itu i States T reasury D epartm ent se curities in Oregon w ere h ig h er last m onth than in any N ovem ber since 194«. O regonians bought $2 937,310 w orth of them , am have puhehased $38,433.816 w o rth so far this year, a higher total in eleven m onths than w e have had in any other full year since th e w ar, except for 1955. The state Savings Bond offu reports th at U m atilla and W heel er counties com pleted th ie r 1956 sales quotas at the end of Novem- i r Joining Curry and Jefferso n counties, which had m ade th< irs earlier. U m atilla was the first the state’s tw elve largest counties to achieve this distiction. SATÖOAY DECEMBER 2 2 - 8 R . M . - I N FRONT 0F CENTRAL BUILDING J.. TRIP FOR TWO ~ ADULT AND YOUNGSTER R E G U L A B D R A W IN G FRIDAY NIGHT DECEMBER 21 - 8 P. M . - IN FRONT OF CENTRAL BUILDING First Prize: $50 in Merchandise - 5 additional awards of $5 Gift Certificate each Gamers Bakery Scld to Becks Michael and Fred Beck, ow ners of Beck’c Morning Fresh B akeries in Medford and Boise, Idaho, and George E. Hoover of N orth Bend’., have announced the purchase of G am er’s Bakery in North Bend from George Schutte and Carl Rowan of Butte. M ontana Hoover, m anager of fla m e r’s for the past five years an d ini em ployee for 10 years, will m an age the local operation. The* new ow ners w ill take o ver the N orth Bend operation S a tu r day. D ecem ber. 15, and w ill e x pand in the near fu tu re to pro- duce all M orning F resh products- now baked in M edford ami Boist O ver 46 varieties of b r e a d s anti rolls and 28 varieties of p astries are distributed u nder the M orning Fresh label. In addition to d istrib u tin g breads and pastries in N o rth Bend, Coos Bay, Bandon, C oquilfe Florence, R eedsport and Brook ings. the coast p lan t will also supply Roseburg and vicinity. The Beck operations in Med- ford cover nine counties in Ore* gon and California. D ram a G rou p T r a v e ls SHOPPING CONVENIENCE - THE DOWNTOWN STORES WILL BE OPEN FOR YOUR THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY evenings UNTIL 9 p.m . BROOKINGS BUSINESSMEN 5 ASSOCIATION A group of D ram a C lub m em bers were very successful m putting on a perform ance a t A rcata last Friday and S atu rd ay T he students w ere accom panied by director. Miss Ix’ster, and Mr and Mrs. John Peffley. STAR OF THE SEA CHRISTMAS PARTY T he C onfraternity of C hristian C/octrine of Star of the Sea church is sponsoring its annual Christina*- party on S aturday m orning. 22 December, for th e m ore than sixty five elem entary s c h o o l children who atten d the w eekly religious instruction classes. In charge of the Pa r t.V >n w hich randy, gifts, and en tertain m en t will be furnished are Mesdames Marian Hanscam, Dorothy Elm* gren, Eleanor K oehler, and Alcie ‘ Ro a n (Mt fat ft J SELL ŒTHR.U THE m NTADS