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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1957)
IHUK ô DAÏ, AUUböl ö, l»£M tKUUHINbS—ItAKtUK Welcome Wagon Sponsors trill Jeme you iteli 1 * * 1 1 .0 1 Harbor taxpayers face a com 16 79.9 97.1 parable situation. Their fire d is 17C 65.3 81.6 23 tric t dropped from 4.0 m ills to 3.7, while of course their Port Rural 11.8 8.3 D istrict, County, and School tax 23 65.3 81.6 are Identical to Brookings for a Rural 8.6 3.7 total drop from 114.8 m ills to UHS No. 1 104.5 m ills, or a drop of 10.3 CITIES 18.0 18.6 Brookings m ills. 38.7 38.1 Brookings city 18.0 mills com Gold Beach 41.5 49.7 pares very favorably with 41.5 in Port Orford Port Orford, and 38.7 in Gold FIRE DISTRICTS Gold Beach - Beach. 3.6 3.9 Wedderbum Taxable property in the county 3.7 4.0 shows a gain of $713,360over last Harbor year from $10,211,930 to $10, 925, PORT DISTRICTS 290. 7.4 Brookings Below is a summary of levies 5.7 6.1 Port Orford if the various taxing d istricts in the county. GENERAL COUNTY 13.5 13.7 SCHOOL DISTRICTS 1957 1956 2CJ No. 1 83.6 92<c 2 CJ No. 10 81.1 88.2 3 20.1 24.’ 4 9.1 9.1 Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Smith r e ?2 16.8 18.3 turned home Friday from a vaca tion trip that took them to the CHOFFH RIVE» Eastern part of the state. While 1 HOC * gone their daughter Eileen stayed Y U lir — I at the Clyde Braynard home. (3ouut tu County A ssessor George W. Sutton announced that taxes will be down in Curry County for the 1957-58 fiscal year. It was cheering news , indeed to the poor and pained taxpayer, who is generally accustomed to seeing taxes and prices move in the other direction. Reductions range from a 18.4 drop in part of Ophir, to a 6. J drop at Port Orford. Brookings city residents w ill pay only a 18.0 mill levy f o r the municipal government, com pared with 18.6 last year. They will pay a 7.4 Port D is trict tax, that they didn't h a v e to worry about last year, but they can breathe a lot e a sie r about the school levy for D istrict 17 C, which is only 79. 9 mills compared with 97.1 last year, a drop of 17.2 m ills. The total millage drop in the city of Brookings, which Includes the general county tax is from 129.4 to 118.8 a drop of 10«6 m ills. Ha rboi NEWS D airy THAT CASTOR OIL WAS KNOWN AND USED AS A REMEDY BY THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS 2000 B.C. the mu . ky way to health is via country maid I MILK ROUTE. IT'S A FULL- FLEDGED PRESCRIPTION THAT’S FULL OF VITAMINS AND A PALATABLE DRINK TOO. ***»♦♦***♦*♦**♦** M i lk Mr. and M rs. Gene Reiling and four children drove over from Grants Pass Sunday to visit at the home of M rs. Reiling’s p a r ents, Mr. and M rs. H erbert Payne. When Mr. and M rs. Reil- ■ng returned home that afternoon their children remained here to visit for a week at their grand parents home. »? __ 54 f ountry jY/|aid »♦♦♦»*♦**♦*♦*♦** « M W 1 I I W IOWCOS, G t l A D IM O N S T W IO N . -------a Mrs. Anna Bark ly returned to her home in Portland Sunday after visiting for three weeks at the home of M rs. Irene McPher son. M rs. Barkley is a well known old time resident, and she had a small restaurant on the bluff above Ransom Beach in the H arris Beach park for seven sum m ers, until the highway de partment decided that it should be moved from that area. As we rem em ber it, M rs. Barkley was justly famed for the wild black b erry pies she featured. ************** Mr. and M rs. Clifford Gilbert' drove over from Grants Pass on Sunday and visited at the home of M rs. G ilbert’s siste r, M r s . Vernon Hanscam. Their daughter ¡Catherine, returned home with hem that evening, after having njoyed a weeks visit here at the lanscam home. The annual picnic was held by ie members of the Winchuck ¿omen’s Club and their families it the Ralph Keiser picnic grounds the Winchuck River on Sunday, July 28th. A good representation >f the club families enjoyed a lunteous picnic near noon, and le afternoon was spent in swim- ling and visiting. ***************** "I'VE GENERATION PICTURE * 'AKEN FRIDAY A group of local people drove to Eureka Friday in order to lave some five generation pic- ires taken. The group going from here in- iluded Mr. and Mrs. William lempel and son Billie; Fred lardner, Harold Fred Gardner, toward Gardner, M rs. Anna lean Kelley and daughter Cary They went to the home of Mr. id M rs. Roy Gardner to visit, then with 93 year old A. F. Fletch) Gardner, who is in a rest home In Eureka, they had he pictures taken. The five gene rations are great- ;reatgrandfather, A. F. Gardner, ;reat grandfather, Fred Gardner, grandfather, Howard Gardner; m other, A n n a J e a n Gardner, and daughter, Cary Jean Kelley. The group returned home th e same day. On Monday Mrs. Kelley and her daughter, and her mother, M rs. Charles Stanhurst l e f t Crescent City by plane for New York, where Mrs. Kelley will leave later In the week by ship for Germany to join her husband, who is stationed there with the irm y. The two women plan to spend a day in Washington th e first part of the week. M rs . Stanhurst will return home by Mr. TO VISIT M rs. Kieth Weeks and four sort ire visiting her mother in d a r k e n , Washington. They will re - urn just before the sta rt of the school year. NUMBER ONE IN CROSSCOUNTRY ECONOMY TEST -CHEVROLET! Drive the car that recorded up to 17* greater fuel savings in a con clusive transcontinental economy test of the three leading low-priced car> sanctioned and certified by \ \ T \ ’ Running from Los Angeles Nett York, v bevy proved that it cost> lea>t to operate of all three. It just goes to prove that Chevy ofters nmre of the important things that make for happier driving. Remarkable pep and handling ease. Onb franchi'«'«! ( he*miei dea!« i- j CHEVKOl that kind of road-holding ability usualh associated with sports cars; and. to round it off nicely, outstand ing economy. Drive one soon at your Chevrolet dealer s. r in u u r MORI I’l o l ’l.L URINE i 11E\ ROLLI'S 1 11 W ANY O T H t R CAR di-jda* this fammi* trademark See Lour Local A u th o rize d C h evro let D ealer CONSULT Brookings OLDEST AND LARGEST AGENCY see or coll F i u e r s o - Le s m e i s t e r A g e n c y , InC. B o x 1188 B r o o k in g s , O r e g o n P h o n e 5411 - 5412
