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HIRE NEW PRINCIPAL
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B R O O K IN G S -H A R B O R
VOLUME XII
NUMBER 22
THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1957
BROOKINGS, OREGON
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HIRE BERGSTROM AS NEW
HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Norm Bergstrom was hired
as the new Brookings-Harbor
high school p rin'ipal.
The appointment was announ •-
ed by Superintendent of s hools
Gene .Allison.
Bergstrom who was a coach
at Echo high s-hool for the Iasi
at Echo high s-hool for the past
eight years was in Brookings
Thursday house hunting.
The new principal was born
in Eastern Oregon, where his
fathe r was a wheat rancher. H
graduated from Racific Univer
sity, and took his graduate-work
at Pacific and the University of
, Oregon.
Bergstrom coached all three
sports at Echo, and last year his
team took second in the state- B
tourney.
He had spent 38 months in the
Navy, and was an officer on an
LST. He holds a Lt. rank in the
Naval Reserve.
Bergstrom and his w if e ,
Barbara have two ehildren, Donna
7, and Diane 4.________
THIS BEACH SCENE IS WHAT THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS are coming to see. This view was taken at H arris Beach State Pa. k
which has been called by many as one of the most beautiful spots on the coast. The tourist season is just getting underway in t h i s
FIREMEN IN RED
area, and the camping area at the park has been filled many tim es. Motel owners and restaurant operators have reported brisk
The Brookings Volunteer
tourist business so far this year. Many more seines like this will be opened when the new road between Brookings and Gold Beach
Fire
Department had a whale- of
is finished
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a time showing off their fire
work display last Wednesday
night, to an estimated 2300 ob
serv ers.
The Coos-Curry Cooperative
However, they reported that
RAINY OREGON
received notice that their loan the volunteer contributions for
It must be true what they say
D istrid Ranger W.E. Ragland I Ragland said that next week
payment of the- fireworks f e l l
for $702,000 from the Rural
about
always raining in Oregon
Electrification Administration about $150 below cost of th e
reported that plans are now ■ he, Robt. Irwin, and contractor
—at least on Wednesday even
Roy Weideman would make a
was approved by that group in show.
underway to begin work on the
ing rain was coming down in a
preliminary
trip
into
the
wild
Fire Chief Val Mendenhall ask
Washington, D.C.
monument honoring eight navy
steady patter.
erness to see how the monu
The money will be used to ed that anybody who forgot to
fliers who were killed when
However, the only com fort
ment can be erected.
connect 500 new members, and make- their contribution to the
their plane, a Navy two engine
ing thing about it is that it is
He
believed
that
it
was
very
to build branch offices an d
cause can still do so.
PBY crashed into the wilder
the first rain this area has had
likely that the m aterials may
storage yards in Brookings and
ness about 30 miles up the
in better than six weeks.
have to be dropped in by air.
Port Orford, and to improve
south fork of the Chetco.
The rain took the strain off
The
ranger
said
that
the
mm
their system . That was the
The bodies of the airmen
will pack in, and camp overnight the backs of many a lawn water- word received from C ongress
are buried with their ship, and
e r, and washed the dust off many
at the site. It is about 3 miles
man Charles P o rter, who sent
their graves currently are un
by trail from any road, and an a car.
a wire to the Pilot Wednesday
marked, except with a tem por
other couple of miles across
informing of the loan
ary m arker.
some of the most rugged country
W E Ä T H
Dr. Roy White was taken to
Work is progressing rapidly
Ragland said that the gover
anywhere.
Pere.
Min.
the
Veteran's hospital in P o rt
Max.
now
on
the
Coos-Curry
build
nment plans to erect a con
Ragland said that he will con- July 3
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ing in Brookings. The lower land Saturday by plane, when h<
crete monument, with bronze
tack the Explorer Scout in an
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July 4
floor is just about complete be<^me seriously ill.
plaques with the names of the
effort to gain their help in the July 5
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with
the roof to go on shortly.
However, reports from P ort
c rtw .
project.
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July 6
Roy Weideman Is the contract land We dnesday indicate that he
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July 7
o r.
is much improved.
Many Brookings youngsters
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July 8
Dr wmte became U1 on Wed
visited the Eureka Shrine circus
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Julv 9
nesday last week, and on Friday
TWO ARE NATURALIZED
on Thursday.
he was taken to Seaside hospital
Two people from Brookings
and from the re he was flown in
were among eight naturalized by
a special Vete rans hospital plane-
Circuit Judge Robert Belloni in
to Portland.
Coos Bay Monday.
Dr. David Brown flew up with
They currently are pouring
Those admitted to citizenship
The road and bridge, when
The
Lillebo
Construction
Co.
Dr.
White.
piers,
and
abutments,
and
have
were from Turkey, Germany,
completed will free a consider
has gotten off to a good start on completed the sm aller bridge able amount of Federal Forest
The illness was diagnosed as
Sweden and Brazil.
a blood clot in the lung, and was
across Mill Creek.
Th two from Brookings were the bridge across the Chetco
tim ber.
they
are
building
about
6
miles
very
painful.
They
still
have
a
great
deal
of
Brita Dahistrom, and Carl W.
- About 12 men are working on
His address is Ward 4-B,
up-river.
work to do on the road to the the structures, which is costing
O1 ander, both of Sweden.
Room 212, Veterans Hospital.
bridge from the existing road.
around $250,000. _
MONUMENT TO FLYERS
TOBE ERECTED
CO-OP GETS MONEY
DR. ROY WHITE
IN HOSPITAL
BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION