Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978, August 15, 1957, Image 9

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    BROOKINGS-HARBOR P I L O T
TO O
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2 5 0 PLYW OOD PEOPLE TAKE A N N U A L VACATION
TO
CLASS
FOUND: PARAKEET. Band MR
134, yellow, green , black, on
Monday night. Owner canclalrr
by identifying, and paying f o r
co st of ad. Phone 2701.
The Brookings Plywood Corp,
will shut down-the plant for two
weeks, beginning this weekend
to give about 250 people th eir
annual vacation.
LOCKERS
LVAILABLE
CUSTOM CUTTING
CABLES
Quality Market &
Lockers
hours
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1957
9:00 A.M .
to
8:00 P .M .
RODEO IS BEING PLANNED
FOR BROOKINGS SEPT . 1
A rodeo is being planned
for Brookings by F red Blunt anc
W arren McNeely on Sept. 1.
All the details for the rodeo
a re n 't available as yet, but w ill
be announced in succeeding
issu es of the Pilot.
The two men successfully put
on the C u rry County Rodeo last
w eekend.
May Blunt and Gladys B ark-
dahl serv ed as "Jennie and the
Mule" in the rodeo , and were
very well received.
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Normally the shutdown com et
o ver the July 4th period, but
because o rd e rs w ere in, it was
decided to wait until August
before closing the mill down.
About 30 men will stay at the
plant in m aintenance, and in re­
p a ir work which ca n 't be done
while the plant is in production.
The big Brookings plant will
resum e production on Septembei
3.
The office will rem ain open,
although it won't be fully staff­
ed.
AZALEA GARDEN CLUB
TOURS COMMUNITY GARDENS
Im provem ents made in t h e
gardens of m em b ers o f th e
A zalea Garden club were noted
Thursday while on toir .
Because of w eather conditions
the luncheon was held at th e
P re sb y te ria n Church with Me»*
dam es E rm a Rice, Cleo Rogers,
and M artha G rayshel serving
as h o ste sse s.
Many guests w ere invited to
p articip ate in the a f te r n o o n s
events.
The garden of M rs. Zclma
Jen sen , not yet finished, showed
much im provem ent in the last
y e a r. The basic work requiring
many hours of b a c k b r e a k ­
ing, fingernail chipping work has
been d o n e--all of this by hand.
M rs. Jensen is to be congratu­
lated on revealing what can be
done by using t h e natural r e ­
so u rc e s. A headgate and sm all
pump have been installed in the
cre ek so that w ater may be av ail­
able for irrig atio n .
Rocks and native plants and
shrubs have been used to stop
ero sio n , and to beautify. A
bridge connects the headgate,
and cin d er footpaths have been
added.
F eaturing a natural setting and
those plantings that req u ire shade
and m o istu re a re used at the
L illian and Roy W< idem an home.
B esides the native flow ers and
EIGHT THOUSAND CAMP
AT HARRIS BEACH PARK
Eight thousand people camped
at H arris Beach State p ark d u r­
ing the month of Ju ly , reported
F rank S tiles, p ark m anager.
He reported 1820 c a m p e r
nights, and 445 tr a ile r homes in
the p ark during the month.
The camp is growing each veai
both in demand and in siz e.
Many nights people have to be
turned away, even after :in•add­
ition of fac ilities this y ea r.
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shrubs and tre e s the W eidem an's
have made an in terestin g approach
by using New Zealand flax, Jack
Pine, buddelia, and heather.
F u sh sias, hydrangeas, and b e ­
gonias grow in profusion at th e
We idem an home and are a r tis ti­
cally displayed. Six types o i
trito rn ia are at home in this g a r­
den.
Spacious and yet having hid­
den nooks for priv acy and shade
with the natural setting known
only in southern C oastal O re ­
gon, is the chief attractio n of
M rs. Palm Stout's garden.
Dahlias for cut flow ers is all
that has been planted.
The Fred A nderson garden,
in H arbor featured the blooming
Century plant. This d e s e rt plant
is supposed to bloom once in
a hundred y e a rs, thus the name
however, it does bloom after
reaching m aturity.
Announcement of a November
m eeting for making of co rsa g es
and wall plaques of d ried m at­
eria l was m ade. This concluded
an enjoyable and in stru ctiv e
afternoon.
The club Niche, en try for the
fair was on display at the home
of M r. and M rs. A rthur Knox.
It took second p lace, and a ten
d o llar bill for the club.
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BROOKINGS
L ib ra ry B ooks
P o p u la r
A big in c re ase in the number
of lib ra ry books taken out from
the Brookings public lib ra ry was
reported for the y ea r ending on
June 30, 1957.
A total of 4004 Adult books, and
2854 C hildren books, and agrand
total of 6854 volumes was r e ­
p o rted.
This is an in crease of 1369
books over the previous y ea r, a
very- healthy in c re ase .
There a re 3,100 books on the
shelves, and 6 9 8 reg istered
b o rro w ers.
A total of 836 books c irc u la t­
ed in July, an in crease of nearly
200 over Juno.
KESSLER LEAVE CITY
M r. and M rs. Homer K essler
left Tuesday for C raig, C olora­
do, where they will join th eir
son, Phillip, who has been
working in that com munity
since June. They took th e ir
tr a ile r and plan to m eet M rs.
K e ss le r's s is te r ;ind family at
Yellowstone P ark .
M r. and M rs. K essler and
sons, Kay and Conner w ere
fo rm e r ow ners of C u rry County
Lum ber Co. They expect to be
gone for the school y ear.
The K essler home has been
leased to M r. and M rs. Lt Roy
P o llard .
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