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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1957)
U OF W LIBRARY* n n tJ L Oh COUNTY GETS $ 2 9 6 ,1 3 1 FUNDS U 8C MUNlfcg GRANTED CURRY COUNCIL DISCUSSES BOND ISSUE Most of the regular monthly meeting of the council was tak en with discussion on whether a bond issue should be voted to enable the city to build its own sewage disposal plant. Counc il men gene rally w e r e VOLUME XII NUMBER 27 THURSDAY, --------------- AUGUST ---------- 15, - 1957 SINGLE ----- —---------------------- COPY 10< opposed to bringing the m atter tiltOOKINGS, OREGON of the treatm ent plant before the voters at this time, but Mayor Fell Campbell pointed out that this would be one bond that would not cost the taxpayers anything. He said that if the bond issue was approved the the residents could eliminate some of their current $2 sewer assessm ent, which is paid monthly. Both the assessm ent and the bond would pay for the same thing. The advantages in the bond would be to get the work done next year, instead of the many years that the assessm ent would cover. Besides, Campbell pointed out that the Federal Government would give the city $33, 000 to help with the project. The city has to build its own treatm ent site, according to the state board of health. It was decided that nothing should be done at the time on the m atter, except to look into it further. THESE FOUR \OUTHS REPRESENTED Curry County at the Youth Range camp near Heppner, Oregon. Byron Brimm, Brookings, is at right. The camp was held in the Umatilla National For The Mayor appointed, with thi council's approval, 10 people uh< est, and gave the youths practical work in soil conservation, and range horticulture. The o t h e r three boys are Daniel Colson, of Port Orford, Mike Helmken of Sixes, and Mike Waterman of Four represent 10civic organizations Mile. Scholarships to the .camp were provided by local sponsors. to study the proposed bond issue from all sides. The committee would report their findings tc the council at their next meeting. W. £. E. Ragland, Raidunrt D B,'u♦ • istrict For- Named to serve on the comm FOOTBALL IN THE Am est Ranger, announced that near ittee were: Gordon Goetz, Murry Coach Doug MacFarlane re VAUGHANS TAKE OVER ly 50,000, 000 feet of t i m b e r Palm er, DickSmith, Earl Breuer ports that the first day of practice BEN AND EVELYN CAFE sales are all laid out in this d is Clarence Kruger, Harold Young, for the Brookings-Harbor high Alvin and Ruth Vaughan will trict of the Siskiyou National Forrest Hvsom, Jame Waller, school football players will be take over the Ben and Evelyn Forest, and will be up for sale Ferdie Stienmetz, and Walter on Labor Day. Cafe this week. soon. Sadler. Equipment will be issued Ragland said that much of the The cafe, lac ated in the Hi-way Other work accomplished by e a rlie r, and players are asked tim ber has been ready to go for Market building, has been oper- the council Tuesday: Listened to watch the Pilot for the time some time, but have been held erated since its inception by Ben to discussion on the r e p o r t and place. up for one reason or another an<l Evelyn Phetteplace. made by Fire Chief Val Menden MacFarlane has been working such as right-of-ways. The original name of the pop hall at the last meeting, where in Brookings, lately on the green Ragland was in Grants Pasf ular eating place was the Dairy he condemmed several city fire chain at the Plywood plant, and recently to check over t h e i r Creem. places as being unsafe. hopes that his boys are in as appropriations for the coming Alvin has been working at the Mayor Campbell suggested good shape physically as he is. year. He said that although the Hi-way Market which is owned that a contractor and an inspect The first game will be played appropriations were down, he by his brother, Lyle Vaughan. or be called in to examine the here on Saturday, Sept. 14 with expects an increase in tim ber His wife, Ruth, has been in th< defective homes so that they car St. Bernards of Eureka as the personel, which would broaden cafe for several months. explain it to the home owners. opposition. the scale of work. Campbell also called a halt He plans to develop another to all the heavy work that the camping site up the Chetco, with city is doing on its stre e ts, such toilet facilities, and fireplaces,' **************- • " - ----r r r r r r ffr f> > fr fjf,jj as laying culvert, etc. to keep up with the increasec The Brookings Chamber of He said that the city has very West Coast director of th e demands of the tourists. Commerce Board of D irectors little money right now, and such United States Chamber. Mr. The new camping site will announced the sta rt of an ambi Bailey has indicated that he work would have to be curtailed, have to wait for a road, which tious plan for community im should be available to meet with even though the budget calls for is in the construction stage. provement this week, starting the group, and is particularly it, the money just hasn't come Ragland reported that a road with a meeting of representativet qualified to speak on community in. survey crew will come in next of all the local service organ problem s. Following the Sept Mike Page appeared to protest week, to make surveys for new izations to plan objectives. em ber 5 meeting, a dinner meet to the city about the charge for roads up the Chetco. One crew This meeting will be held on ing of the general chamber m em the Scout Building water hook-up will survey for a spur up the September 5 at 8 p .m ., and the bership will be held at th e but was told that the city h ad South Fork of the Chetco, and general public is invited. regular October meeting to r e no control over what the w ater the other will survey the main Projects that will be of benefit port on the progress of th e company could charge for work branch of the Chetco. to the community will be dis improvement campaign. At this done. About 10 men will be in the cussed and a selected list com meeting, the final list of object Charles Echols tendered his crew. piled, on which the efforts of ives will be presented, an d resignation as the assistant Ragland also said that there the Chamber will be concentra prelim inary planning for meeting city engineer. He is leaving seems to be increased activity ted. them announced. to take a job with the city of in the mining claim business, The Chamber hopes to have A report was made to the d i Arcada. with claims being staked in the as a guest speaker, Ron Bailey re c to rs on the progress of v u a r- r The council directed a letter • '-'s* v vi Snow Camp area, as well as in bew rittento Echols, thanking the Red Flat country. him for his services. SO MILLION B F TIMBER SALE READY The ;innual bonaza from the O & C timber fund to Curry County will amount to $296,131 this year. The figure is down somewha from the $359,663 payment in 1956, but nevertheless will be very welcome in the county. The money comes from the Bureau of Land Management, to 18 western Oregon counties entitled to share in receipts iron tim ber sold on revested Oregon and California Railroad grants. The money paid in is actually 75% of the total receipts, which were $19,067, 000, less $4, 495, 000 allotted by the counties for road construction. The volume of O & C tim ber sold in 1957 was 624.5 million board feet, compared with the 664.8 million board feet which was sold in 1956. w e a t h e r NO FINER CLIMATE................ The weather during the past week has definitely favored the grower, lumberman and tourist. Warm nights, little wind, and early morning partial c lo u d coverage with relatively high humidity , plus moonlight on the water for the young at heart. With many people of this area traveling elsewhere during the sum m er, the weather of Brook ings is indeed nice to come home to. Aug. Max. Min. P rect. 7 — 67 55 8 67 55 .21 9 — 65 52 10 ___ 67 52 .... 11 71 50 12 .... 73 52 13 — 74 55 LIGHTS SEEN OVER OCEAN How many people saw some peculiar looking lights over the Pacific Sunday night? Several persons called the Pilot to re port them. Nobody seems to know anything about them, othei than they were lights. Several people saw lights at about this time last year, also. These current ones seemed to be heading from land out o v e r the ocean. PLANS ious chamber activities for the preceding year, indicating that the Chamber had suecessfullj sponsored an outstanding Azalea Festival this year, and has seen the culmination of years of effort on the part of all the local and coastal groups in the recent bond issue for the improvement of highw ay 101 between Brookings and Gold Beach. Another project that the Brook ings Chamber has been actively interested in for some time, the Chetco River mouth jetty, also is well on its way to completion here.
