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IT ’ wf' JpJwnE T ? w I 3R. h à i i * s? j v h * h > * ■ k i 4 ? - g . P , Poet Office Box S 97465 Port Orford, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Second clet» mail privileges authorised at Port Orford, Ore. Louis L. Felsheim ......................................-. Editor end Publisher Paul L Peterson ............................................... Managing Editor Subscription In Curry County (per year in advance) ............. ............ $3 00 Outside Curry C ounty....................................................... $3 90 Single Copy............................. ............................................ 10 Cents Announcements, Notices, News and Advertising • Must be in the Office by St 00 p. m. Tuesdays N IW S P A P IR P U B L IS H III ASSOCIATION N A T IO N A L B IA t TÄN BB D D B ram Equal And Fair .Amid much speculation about where Curry county commissioner candidate Robert O^Dfanmick stands on county matters came the answers in the form of a .paid political ad that appeared in the two other county pap ers under the signature of the candidate. .An ad, by .the way, that Is highly optomlstlc in the opening statement. Dimmick confidently states that he has been repeatedly, requested to publicly state "how I stand on some of the issues confronting the people I am to represent. " He didn't s a y people that "I MAY get to represent— if elected. " We have nothing against Mr. Dimmick despite his self-expressed confidence. But we also feel the need to point out a few things we think Mr, Dimmick has over looked. It would appear from recent GOP releases in all county newspapers, and from Dimmick's own statement to the voters, that he was the top choice of the Repub lican central com m ittee to take the place of Pat M as- * terson who withdrew from the race. The fact is that the GOP central com m ittee looked high and low for a re placem ent for Masterson and could find no one except Dimmick to accept the vachted spot. This is no reflec tion an Dimmick but it does minimize the importance of his selection because there was no competition to- the appointment. — Another interesting point DimmicC makes in dis cussing three county issues that will be on the ballot in November is his ability to NOT call a spade 1 spade. In the first place he is apparently attempting to divert the voters try misnomer. We refers to the issues as the " Cold Beach convention center, the Sixes park and the Lane Ranch golf course. Actually, it is a Curry county convention center at the fairgrounds in Cold Beach, a Curry county park on Edson Creek and a Cufry'county golf course at Lone Ranch promoted by Brookings In terests because all other efforts to finance the golf course failed. When it comes down to telling the voters where he stands on the issues he simply says that because he had no part in formulating any of the proposals and having n s personal interest in the furtherance of any of them, he feels that his opinion as to their long range stimulus to the economics of the area would only be an opinion. He also said tha W hether these proposals became reality should be left to the voters.. . and that he will support their wishes. “ It might be well to remember that the golf course proposal w asrejectedseveral times by the counte court and budget com m ittee and finally "farced" on the bal lot by a Brookings group because of the other two pro posals. They even wanted all three proposals on one measure but the court would only agree to put each proposal to a vote on its own m erit. It is also true that the outcome of the election does not bind the county court in any manner. “~ Mr. Dimmick states that he will pot Be drawn into any intim ation or duscussion of sectionalism between one end of the county and the other because his policy is fairness to all. It should be noted that he very defin itely expresses his feeling on sectionalism by that brief statem en t.. . "one end of the county and the other. " A m a n com pletely unbiased, who drew : no lines, would say between one area and another. Finally Mr. Dimmick's feeling about sectionalism is strongly pointed out in the fact (hat he recognized only Brookings and Cold Beach in his attem pt to reach the voters. Northern Curry county was very obviously Ignored when he chose not to place his advertisement in this newspaper so OUR reading voters would also know that he believes in equal and fair representation to all. ~ ", . king a drunk walk will not 1 him back to sobriety any r than letting him sit it off. sast that's the recent find- >f an experiment conducted he University of Edinburgh ology Dept. That m aybe a r way to start this column think there may be a m et- th e re .. . somewhere, e received a lot of invita in my time but none quite one that cam e in the m ail veek. It*s from the Citizens dinating Committee on la m .. . they wanted me to them demonstrate Tuesday the vice president spoke Duncan dinner in Portland. a b o u t that? They were mstrating a gainst what they d the "m e-too" policies of v o m en .. .along with peace ietnam. Makes one pity the who have nothing better , Somebody should start an lization to demonstrate a- ¡t th e demonstrators and could make a real mess >f things. • manner most demonstra- a r e conducted in only s out one thing to this kid lat the m ajority of demon- >rs show a definite lack of ling and com plete disregard ropriety. I believe in the to demonstrate and the am of expression but there right and wrong way to do ilng. till haven't found the k it- but I did get one call to ire a fluffy feline. There not be m any left so you d get your order in early, iday's Rotary Club fam ily c was cancelled because of tier. Then cam e Monday I Harry Z. Clarke and I will continue to do so. Yours Resi'ectfully, Ryce H. W Uson Curry County Cotton 1st iooar 2— Port Criard New», Th ir «day, September 29, 1966 to the. E dilor TO THE EDITOR Referring to the three contro versial Issues that will appear on the ballot in November, my opponent, Mr. Dimmick, stated in hisrecent political advertise m ent that he would abide by the wish of the voters. I, too, will abide by the wish of the people. I think,however,that th? people of Curry County are entitled to know how my opponent would have voted on these Issues had he been seated in my chair at the budget table. There will be other Issues coming up in the future just as controversial and just as important. He should get off the fence and let the people Snow where he stands. People know where I stand. I would like to explain to him that if he is elected to the of fice of Curry County Commis sioner, he will be only one mem ber on a board of three. He will be working with elected offi cials in the other departments who prepare their own budgets and run their own offices. He will be only one mtimber on a board of six u he sits at the budget table. Tie will also be governed by certain State stat utes. Promises will be -hard lor him to keep, I commend him on his pledge, "Equal and Fair Representation to AU." I like it and have been practicing it for die past four years as your County Commis sioner, my je c o rd will show this; wedding s t o r i e s , on the off chance the bride may be preg nant or th e g ro o m a fortune hunter or both rebounding from unhappy love affairs. The perfect newspaper could never print church notices, for there are those who don't be lieve - in churches and who op-" p o s e religion, and-the paper shouldn't offend these people. Shouldn't be any advertising, either, because advertising Is com petltive.and it isn't fair for one store to buy an ad because it m ight h e l p th a t store sell s o m e merchandise at the ex pense of some other competitor that didn't buy an ad. -No pictures, of course, for everyone knows they have a good and ba.d side for a camera, and besides,* the pictures never come out clear in the paper anyway. "" It goes without saying the perfect paper will never carry reports of city council meetings or school boar d he ar in gs, or c ourt trials, or publ ic he arings. We j is t c a n 't have the newspaper of fending politicians and elected officials and bureaucrats who as .everyone knows are the only ones who know how to run cities, schools and government. There will be no embarrassing quotes, no reports of what they did or how t h e y acted. Such offices w i l l reach a new high in ef ficiency. _ Social items? Never! Some one may be hurt because they weren't invited to Mrs.Whosit's social; no weather as everyone knows, it wasn't THAT hot—or cold; no legal notices, because they cost money and the judges anti lawyers want to_keep the estate costs as low as possible; and a heat w av e.. . as usual. There was another heatw ave no minutes of public meetings on the same date 30years a g o .. . such as the County Commission when the town of Bandon burned. ers because they are too expen Sunday's Oregonian carried a sive and nobody reads them any feature an the-f ire which, except way except.the taxpayers. "There will be n o news stories for at least a couple errors, was highly interesting and w ell pre of happenings or new stores or new people because somtfone sented. Bpb Meyer tells nje the movie may get a little free publicity he w i l l show-Friday night is and that's not fair to anyone really an outstanding production-^ else who doesn't have his name so try and attend the free event- in the paper that week. If a Democrat comes to town it will at the grade school.- be ignored for fear of offending "The Perfect Paper” The Midland, Michigan, News Republicans. If a Republican Jias come up with a new idea comes to town, same thing. There will be no sports stories, on "weeks'! Noting that we don't have enough special weeks now, for .there is always a loser in but t h a t we have Anti-Noise every girrre, and we c a n 't have Week and Anti-Litter Week, it losers in a perfect pa par-, flig h t feels one more could be added, al^i forget that Junior So and So called Anti-Newspaper Week. scored a couple of points and The Michigan p a p e r claims that omission might anger Mr. from all indications the newest and Mrs. So and So. Most important, there will be "week" should be a tremendous no editorials, and no personal success, and we agree. I t' would be an appropriate .columns; no attempt to explain time to join together to blame or comment or help the com the newspaper for what's wrong munity. This is the best way to with the community and with offend people so let's cut It out the people in It. Everybody can right now. Who cares if we have get it all off their chests and sit a better community ?Whocares at h o m e in the evenings and if someone attempts to speak drink beer and watch tv, secure for the people? Who cares—if in the knowledge h e y have done the newspaper doesn't? There you have it—the per their parts. Committees or associations fect newspaper. Nonews,no ads, can be organized to work out the no editorials, no pictures. Take details but we fell special em an imperfect newspaper a n d phasis should be given to news color it black and blue from the reporting. The com m ittee or lumps it takes while doing its association can campaign that job. Take the perfect newspaper the paper should only print good and color it nothing—for that's news, and glad tidings, and nice exactly what it is and what things about nice people. They more could you want? can campaign to do away with bad news and prohibit papers from reporting that people do get involved in auto accidents, receive traffic tickets, m a k e f o o l s of themselves, go into bankruptcy, shoot people, assault theIrneighbors,try to set fire to H SAT. OCT. I « a school, embezzle money, and FOl TMt spend tax dollars foolishly. The Michigan paper suggests there could even be a special award for the newspaper that doesn't offend anybody. But of course, the paper to receive the award couldn't run ORDER MUMS HOMECOMING GAME OCT. 7 OodL 3 3 2 - 2 3 2 2 lla r r y Z. C la rke of l.anglola, on a fishing t r ip w ith John Botokal ol 1 anglais to Rogue TO THE EDITOR If those in the saddle who want to s;wnd county funds, tor every thing from soup to nuts, would open their eyes and look aroiuid a bit, here are some of die tilings ( ju s t to mention a few) that would come to die Ir notice. First, a lialf mile section of die Win- chuck County Road, adjoining t h e Siskiyou National Forest Camp Ground,nine miles up the Winchuck River from die state highway, is a disgrace to Curry County tor die reason diat it is much too narrow and extremely dangerous to travel over. The county has penetrated die Sis kiyou National Forest wldi road Improvement In this area for a- bout tliree miles, and lias wid ened and black topped die road, but somehow, lias failed, Inex cusably, to take care of the last one half m ile section between Elk Creek and the picnic grounds. Leaving the picnic grounds, and going in an easterly direction up the Wlnchuck River, the For est Service has widened and built up the service road to al most boulevard [reportions for about four miles, and showered it with a heavy coat of crushed gravel,but like die county, It too has failed to improve die dis graceful, narrow and dangerous half m ile section of road re ferred to here above. Buck passing or no buck, pas sing—die public is entided to a bet ter deal dian the one it got. Second, between die old and new highway north of Brookings, are a couple Of trailer parks that are just about empty the year around, due to the practice of * encroachment on private enter prise by the Brookings Port Coni- missionersrand in tliis particular case—with a crude set-up on thé beach at the mouth of the Chetco" River, t h a t exacts a 'charge of fifty cents for an over ni^ht stay. The previous en croachment by the port com- missionerson private*" enterprise, involved die discouragement of a privately owned facility for the comfort of the sport fisher How to meet an e v e r - ln - men (such as the one at Klam- c re a sln . dem and fo r llm lier athGlen, Klamath River J a short from the National F o re s ts of distance up stream from the the D o m fla s -flr region Is the Chetco River bridge, at no cost aim of a plena?, rin g study now whatever to die taiçpgyers. underway In the F o re s t’ S er Th®. result of this eneroach- vice. . m ent was a terrific lots to die J. H e rb e it Stone, reg io nal port district taxpayers. fo re s te r, said the study w ill This severe and wholly un consider effects of va ito u s in necessary loss, is being increased te n sitie s of management and with the expansion and cosdy tim b e r ha rvestin g ia te s b y dec operation of the facility as re ades ovgV.U le next 8b ye a rs. flected in the annual port dis ■ , trict budget. In die area where B ty recently. the two trailer parks are, a num " A s ig n ifica n t p ro p o rtio n of ber of.people have their homes. The roadserving this area,leave; most union pension funds are the old highway near die drive- Invested In co: iro n stocks. As ijo i ' • head! , in theatre and extends beyond we kn the trailer parks. This road is the stock m arket lias declined also somewhat of a disgrace to 20 In the past few months. the county since it needs im T h is ret ix scnts a loss to each affected nrtlon m em ber of about provement badly. • i a; l l a l . In this day and age, with a m arket analysts attrib u te m illion dollars in the road fund, Stock the re e n t decline to u n ce r the Improvement of dangerous ta in ty — u n c e r t a i n t y ove r In county roads should have prior fla tio n , un certainty over V ie t ity over politics. And die fact nam and p rin c ip a lly , u n ce r that the two trailer parks men ta in ty ove r the future p o lic ie s tioned here-above, are empty o f an un predictable A d m in is tra nearly all die time for the rea tio n , " D ellenbark m M, son that they cannot compete " T h e iverage w orking m a n ," with borough owned trailer parks he continued, "h as seen h ts- that undersell, such as the one wages ris e In m onetary value, aV the mouth of the Chetco Riv hile d e clin in g In te rm s of the er, is, in itself,a good reason why w the Curry County Court should goods and services he ean buy w ith them . If he wants to buy stay out of the trailer park bus a home, he cannot get a loan; iness and not encroach on pri I f he wants to buy a c a r, he- vate enterprise. Yours for better government at must pay m ore In te re st than eve r be fore. A n tL if he wants to a better price. _ buy an appliance, he finds .the . . Southern Curry County te rm s e xtre m e ly d iffic u lt. If Taxpayers Association not Im possible to m e e t," D e l M.T» DeMartin, Secretary lenback continued. • Mrs. Pritchard Dies M rs. W aiter (Loulae) P ritc h ard of I’ lppa Paaaea, K y., died Sept. 11 follow ing a short I l l ness. M rs. P ritc h a rd and her hus band aiid daughter, Shasta, are fo rm e r residents of Cold Beach and Sixes, leaving here several years ago fo r Kentucky where M r. P ritc h a rd Is a rt In s tru c to r al A lice U oyd College. She Is survived by h e r wid ow er; daughter, Shasta Dawson of Saida C la ra , C a lif.; a grand daughter, and three b ro th e rs , Kdward U tte r of Veneta, O re ., F u rl U tte r 6f Fust sound, W ash., and F rank Cox, Portland. P ritc h a rd , a fo rm e r, a rt In s tru c to r at the U n iv e rs ity of Oregon, designed and helped ■ la illd the dinosaurs at P re h is to ric Cardona. Foresi Service Study Aimed At Increasing Timber Yield Union Pension Funds Decline "M o s t union m em bers have s u f f e r ^ d ra s tic and m eas ura ble losses d ire c tly related to t h e u n ce rta in ty re su ltin g fro m the econom ic p o lic ie s of the A d m i n i s t r â t io n , ” Re publican Congressional nom inee John Dellenback told the Coos Bay R otary Club In Coos “ But hefe in Oregon’ s Fourth D is tr ic t, h is problem Is com pounded even m ore by the threa t to his v e ry Job. The- woods products Ind ustry is threatened by the decline In home b u ild in g , as It has ra re ly been th re a t ened before. And with It, every Job dependent upon Its health Is also in Jeopardy. Right here In Coos Bay, fo r exam ple, the shipping In d u stry has begun to feei the i l l effects of the de cline In wood products produc tio n ,” Dellenback concluded. HOME OWNERS CONTRACTORS A Special Service For You OPERATEC A v a ila b le : A n y w h ere - A nytim e AESO READY MIXED CONCRETE WESTERN BUILDER* SUPPLY, INC. • “¿kt t 0 Z" W ' 61 River F rid a y , suddenly became 111 aixl died before the (wo men could re tu rn to town. C la rk e , ret lie d , had lived In lainglola fo r aeveral years. A W orld War I veteran, he tud been employed du l l ng (he taat war al la s Vegas. S ervices were held Tuesday al (he Langlois C om m unity Church with the HeV. Wm. Mai o ffic ia tin g . B u ria l w ill be In III» Iodic, III. S u rvivo rs include Ida tw in b io t lo i , i h . i i l e a , who with hla w ife, came from G allop, N. M ., fo r fhe funeral.______ re tu rn s , ami. evaluate Im pacts on-other fo re st u se s.C o n sid e r ation w ill lie g lv e n to s u c h ma)oi fo re st managert.1t m easures as: 1. M ore I n t e n s i v e man agement p ra ctice s, Including thin nings, salvage, accelerated r e f o r e s t a t i o n and staixt im provem ent. 2. A c c e l e r a t e d road con s tru c tio n to make thinnings and salvage cuts In advance of re g u la r tim b e r harvest. Stone d e s c rlle d the study, scheduled fo r com pletion I y July o f 19C8, as " a pioneering job— a f ir s t atten.pt to p io v ld e a sound basis for- m aking the key de cisio ns necessary fo r m odern, effective management □f National F orest tlm lie r re s o u rc e s ." The Regional F o re s te r as sured that the study would give fu ll con sid eratio n to manage ment and p ro te ctio n o f other National F orest r e a ou r c e a— re c re a tio n , w a te r, s o il, forage, fish ind w ild life . FEEDING THE BIRDS. Seagulls enjoy an afternoon repast as "Tlsne mien daan*scrap f Uh from slirtmp boxes. Republicans Backs Duncan Ben Doerksen of Gresham and B a rry C ris t o f "Portland announced today the fo rm a tio n of an Executive C om m ittee of Republicans In Support of Con- g re s s m a b . Robert II. Duncan who is iin W n . fo r the United States Senate against Gov. M ark ll.itfle l I. They announced that the com m itte e 's p rin ary function w ill tie to "co rre la te atid lead the a c tiv itie s ' of a ll Republicans In the State who support and w ill vote fo r Congressm an Duncan In the November elections. The organization m eeting was held at the Duncan fo r ' Senate C om m ittee o ffice at 915 Cas cade B u ild in g and anyone seek ing fu rth e r In fo rm a tio n should contact e ith e r of the men at hat address. OUR 101V PRICES AND Q uA u ry Port Orford Rexall Drugs
