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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1957)
u r >« -u-j. JuGr&JE Oh I Hi H K I HltHWn U IW O C l.fM t his is the "hottest job in the state", Ls the word from the state highway engineers who indicated ¿ . o o « i M a « - HARBOR that it was thought probable that the first piece of highway 101 construction would be let by late October. The engineers have sent in the survey work on the first stretch of the relocated highway, which will cost between $16 anti $18 m ill ion to complete between here and VOLUME XII NUMBER 32 TH= SEPTEMBER 19. 1957 Gold Beach. The first section sent in will BROOKINGS, OREGON have to be worked up in a bidforn by the state* engineers. The engineers said that they were going to bend every e f f ort to build from Brookings to Pistol River. . The first section sent in by the local engineering crew will be the ing season, or take some other 3 l/2 mile stretch from the city for some other form of amusement action, such as closing high hazard of Brookings north, and will cost this fall unless the fire hazard in the neighborhood of $1,500, Oil w the forests can be checked, areas to all entry. The forest service will cooridin to complete. especially in Eastern Oregon. This is one oi the easiest se c That was the gist of a telephone ate its action »with other Forest from Hershel O bit, *ho Protection agencies in order to tions . They will get into s o m e areas where it will take a million is the D istrict Forest Supervisor preserve our forests. The forest supervisor reports dollars a mile to linlsh it. and has an office in Grants Pass. Two new field survey c r e ws Oble said that a report Wednes a d rier than average summer, day from all National Forests east and said that the Deschutes area have just gone to work, which brings the total men working out of the Cascades reveal that the For has had only .04 hundreds of an of the Brookings office to around inch of rain since the middle of est fire danger is considerably 35. This has been done in order higher than it was last year at this May. to speed up the survey work. Other east side forests report THF FIRST ONE IN—The salmon are In the Chetco. It lsn t tim e. There is a drill rig working, ■ceesarytt, sav how many o r how U rge. Bu, herew e h a v e Unless general rain relieves this below normal rainfall for the past as well ;is a seismograph crew. condition within the next w e e k three months. sual proof that they have arrived. This nice lo° “ ng h In addition an early spring rain as caught by Delmer Blair Monday, and weighed 22 lbs., H Regional F orester J. Herbert Stow w iU H th e rT k V L . Holmes to p o s t a s caused greater than average V U a on frozen herring in the Chetco near the mouth. An School Bus as hooked on frozen n irru i# m n nT PHoTO inflammable grasses and weeds. ihor couple ot H.h were also reported Monday. PILOT PHOTO This condition is already r e s In Accident ponsible for several large f i r e t Brookings-Harbor school A in Eastern Oregon this summer driven by Dave Paul, was bus, The U.S. Weather Bureau has Involved in an accident as itcami forecast a return to the drying off the Harbor hill with a lo a d condition with probable east wind A Brookings logger, Wilbur of school youngsters Monday mor and low humidity for the next few J . Stafford was killed Wednesday ning. days. in a logging accident. A c a r, driven by Mrs. Jespe Thirty eight people, just sh y n,»o would mean that there is Details of the accident weren t This Hoagland was backing out of tht of the 40 needed, gave b lo o d available a tp re ss tim e, although a potentially greatly Increased parking lot at Hanscam's when at the Bloodmobile visit in Smith it was understood that Stafford fire danger in all areas. "The Forest Service dislikes the bus couldn't quite stop in time River Tuesday afternoon. got pinned between a cat and a smashing into the rear end of the The Brookings people had to go the thought of having to re stric t log. - vehicle. 3 LITTLE GIRLS to Smith River, because the Blood- hunting or other public use of the Stafford has resided in Brookingi The Hoagland car was badly I REPORTED "LOST" mobile can’t come into O re g o n . for the past three years. He op fo re st," said Stone. smashed in the re a r end, although wo little g irls, 9 and 10 years The Community did Itself proud erated as an Independent logger. The season was due to open were the object of a search with the 38 pints, however, and Mrs, Huigland wasn't hurt s e r- The accident happened J u s t on the next weekend. lrday night. They were re - the Bloodmobile will be back in North of Brookings at a b o u t iously. She did suffer a twisted ted as "lost", but as it turned a month, on Tuesday, October 9:40 a.m . Wednesday. neck in the accident. later, they had just ran away 15, for its second trip. He was brought into the office tnhomc to go on a little camp- of Dr. Leschin, but was p ro - A ll five of the local grocery trip. nnounced dead on arrival. < stores contributed coffee and ’his is the story: T h e tw o He was born on Jan. 8, 1906, orange Juice to the project, while ng ladies were sent down to Min. Fret. Max. Date W.E. Ragland, d istrict F o r and is survived by his w ife , some grocery shopping with a the VFW auxiliary took care of 56 — 64 est Ranger reported that several Sept. 11 Victoria. the clerical work there, as well ——— 57 67 i check. boys from Scout Troop 32 are Sept. 12 No funeral arrangem ents h a d as furnishing the bakery goods. --- [hey decided that they would go 52 61 Sept. 13 been made by Wednesday n ig h t, leaving Friday for Vulcan L a k e The Emblem Club Womenser np<ng instead, so they loaded 55 64 ved as baby sitte rs for the after but are pending at Wiers Mortuary where they will stay for the week Sept. 14 ——— with such necessities as dozens 58 62 Sept. 15 end. noon to those that needed them. Chapel in Crescent City. 57 cans of dog food, for their dog 67 The boys will be engaged in Sept. 16 «*****••* Frenchie A rrell, and Robert .01 57 a project to improve the trail to Sept. 17 63 tom they took along, and p ro - Rettke, Exalted Ruler of the Elks Work has been completed t h i s eded to buy other goodies. the lake. They will return here spearheaded the drive to try to week on the Memorial being built They loaded their "foodstuffs on Sundav. bring the Brookings blood situat up the Chetco river. sacks, and piled some of it /abike, and took off up the river. ion back to normal. Those who visited the B lo o d - They had left for the store i n mobile were the following e morning, and along about Laurence Hagen, Jean Hagen, jppertime the parents b e g a n Jeane Stoller, Dorothy Kilpatrick, i worry as parents do. Merc Jaklewicz, George Wiitala. Chief of Police Bud Cross was Myrtle Hover, Nellie DeBlock, otliied at about7 p .m . as it was Mabie Thompson, Irene Killen, 1 ready dark. „ Charlotte Steers, Jam es Violette, He began organizing a *posse Velma Violette, Francis A rrell, o hunt for the g irls, and had about Dr. Anthony Leschin, Kathryn 5 out searching. F o s t e r , Earl Vining, Joseph .» - A carload of searchers spotted Hefferle, Jam es W aller, Albert . rHric the North he girls romlng coming down u , Duncan. Bank road just above Snug Harbor Harold Johns, John C u r t i s , re heir way ________ home. They w e r e Don Manson, Wm. P rieslnger, overed at about 8 p .m . none Lloyd Weeks, Howard Ray, Bruce worse for wear. Stewart, Paul Fauerso, Mervyn towever, the worried parents P a l m e r , Dr. Richard S m ith , ame angry parents short v Harold Moore, A .L. Anderson, re after. B y r o n Hill, William T e m p le Melvin Brooks, Ruth C u c k s e e « . «talwart is Ron McCabe, fullback ST LOAD OF LELY BULBS Homer Brown, Paul De Block, Jr. | TOUCHDOWN—Somewhere under that pile o ° , ' Brookings touchdown of the year. rS SHIPPED OUT THE WF.F.K E d g a r Williams, A1 Stonedahl, t o r i e Bruin. Ron i . to «he • ' « “" f , ' r ’ ‘ " 3 , , , » ol Eureka. 1« w«U he first load of lily bulbs this Dan Baird, Dathryn Baird, Vernons However, 1« » aan't quite e n o u g h ® ™ ‘X ™ x , n’ll. a leak«. MCOUhttr. PILOT PHOTO r was loaded on a Consolidated Rag and. Doyle Harroun, and Mil be nitaola Valley at Brookings this Saturday ightways truck for shipment dred Swanson. Inesdav at the O liver- W ood- place. MAY CLOSE FORESTS FOR DEER SEASON LOCAL BOY SCOUTS WORK AT LAKE w p
