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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1946)
: n n - APRIL 4._ 1946 ^ k u u iu ?.GS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON tw een 25 and 95 degrees and much supplies free. us talking, and much of it is not w ill work toward greater devel- of th a t scale wouldn’t be use. lo make the fullest use of this entirely correct. opm ent should strive to interest The m ercury rarely gets below unique factor he who would take Perhaps it is best for the area a greater diversity. the frost point and as rarely a fling a t com peting with the th a t such is talked, but the storv Seated as it is in a dairy coun reaches, say, 80. The sam e outfit eastern florist should study the is in many places: “It takes a try, creameries should be bigger of clothes can be worn the year m arket and pick his crop on the pile of money to get a s ta rt there businesses. Sittin g in the I’irgi» round, a layer of rain clothes be basis of clim ate, prim arily, be- in anything. Through this talk stand of tim ber, lum bering m ust from Page One ing added in the w inter but, us cause this single factor is h is ! some deserving people are kept come to the front. ually, they’re too hot. principal and highly advantage- j away, and again, maybe less de- T ow ard t h e s e goals should the shore-line. Unlike alm ost any o th er area ous toe-hold t o w a r d successful sirable will not come because the this area work. Since the area so closely contiguous to competition. on e a rth , thundershow ers along ing anit* is too high. has all the potentialities, the re acific the area is n a tu ra lly the im m ediate coast are unknown One of the first questions on m aining thing is development of <ted to storms in w inter but w ith exception of an occasional the lips of m any: “W hat school these resources. who have lived much along flash or two during a w inter facilities are offered there A m jiderable stretch of the Ore- storm . Maybe once in five or ten answ er to this question m ay keep and California coasts freely 4-H Sewing Club Works years a hard lightning storm will some away, because the fu tu re of t that we, in our sheltered O ur m eeting was called last pass across the m ountains behind the children us forem ost tw the Friday with the repeating of our experience them less than the towns but no one resident can minds of many. 4-H pledge. O ur song and yell ind its protection. Unlike m ost recall a lightning strik e in the It is evident, too. that the lum leader led us in a yell. Roll call . bpeas where rains are chill, im m ediate vicinity. ber situation, alm ost alone, i.s w as answ ered by the name of a our winter storms are usually And. again alm ost unlike any holding down the more rapid de bird. emperatures upward tow ard o th er area, pestiferous and dis- velopm ent of the area. C harlotte Simpson was named Agrees—again ocean influence ease-carrying flies and mosquitoes The W illam ette valley, w ith its as secretary’ to fill the vacancy the warm winds rushing to- are absent—possibly an o th er ben traditions of conservatism , sm ug caused when Elaine L aC lair re us from heated cen tral Cali- efit of the w eather. ness, and such isS the least ^in- signed. i. Possibly, once in 20 years, T here is alm ost no tim e of day interested of all sections in area. T^sa Lee Kinion dem onstrated will whiten the ground near or night th a t there is not a breeze Q uite self-sufficient unto itself, it a flat felt seam and Phyllis Dar- beach, but immediately m elts. blowing along the coast. There is quite difficult for the average ger dem onstrated a French seam. e Curry county grandm others are no “dog-days," when one can resident of th a t region to visual Sewing followed adjournm ent of e never seen snow fall, not draw a life-size breath. ize any o th er section surpassing the meeting, a fte r which refresh ur recorded annual rainfall, P etunias, fuscias, geranium s, the opportunities which the W il m ents were served by Janice M a raging about 74 inches, is corn- and such-like are, practically, per lam ette valley claim s to offer. rie March and Mary Lou Berger. able to most of the United ennials, here. They’re m aking progress. — Jan- ^h is area, to become more at- tes. the difference being th a t D uring the hard w inter storms, tractive than ever to people who ice Johnson, reporter. it falls in a more concen- when wind and sea conditions are ted period while elsew here it right, huge blobs of foam, some rues in snow, thunderstorm s, tim es as large as barrels, are d occasional showers. Sum - whipped up from the rocky clefts its here are usually quite dry, anfj burled inland a mile or so. idities sometimes falling be- Come upon, bounding through the 10 per cent, but not such as air, by the unitiate, they are Called away last week-end be- bring the level of w a te r sup- tru ly alarm ing, but, like one of cause of sickness, it was my lot ?s to exhaustion. W inter rain- th eir component bubbles,—th a t’s to go by bus to Salem, on which is sometimes reach w hat in how fragile the mass is. trip I m et m any people. These, i ler areas would be devastating j n the early days, settlers from together with friends who met »npours, with sometim es over fess-favored areas w’ere quick to mei were anxious to know about ir inches a day. In Ja n u a ry of t ake advantage of the w eather Brookings and this area in Curry K), a total of 31.94 inches fell j n a t Ure offered them here. Be- county. Gold Beach, followed by over cause of it, they farm ed the year § o ra p id has been the growth t inches during the first three | >roun(j instead of in brief, intense ¡n this vicinity, so busy have peo- ys of February. Echoing our pe r jofjs of WOrk or enforced rest pie been in th eir work, they have ighbors to the south, is was C attle, sheep, hogs, poultry could failed to tell the world about the ally unusuai w eather. practically live off the land. Mild developm ents as they should have Because these clim atic condi- w e a ther made outdoor forage pos- done. »ns have existed for centuries, gible w ithout effort and hogs fa t This area, w ithout doubt, is the astal topography has yielded to tened for m arket w ithout ever m ost highly advertised section in f extent that such m oisture as seeing grain. Sheep lam b in the not the northw est. not absorbed by the soil quick- open and are never bothered with industry, w ith its fan Proprietor runs off, giving us drainage except at m arking and shearing tastic growth, with capital made fficient to remove any danger tim e. Fresh garden truck, any flooding, yet sometim es this day of the year, and fru it almost in such astronom ical figures, a distorted idea has gone ram pant n-off causes damaged in erod- never blighted by frost. all over the world. The gold rush g of soil on tilted areas. In fact, as tim e has pointed Thermometers, h e r e a b o u t s , out, this unique clim ate, closely in California a b o u t m id-nine Oregon Brookings mid well have only a range be- approxim ates t h a t which plant teenth century could have excit ed people little more. The world grow ers elsew’here m ust make in order to produce certain crops. Keep Fit With Massage W hile we are experiencing mild, humid w’e a th e r the eastern grow ers are expending vast sums in th eir effort to duplicate, under Graduate Swedish Masseur glass, w hat n atu re hands out to us w ithout effort. O ur clim ate i s : Member of a dependable, fixed elem ent. To Oregon State Assn, of it has already been adapted t h e , Medical Masseurs grow th of many plants which the greenhousem en can o n l y grow By Appointment with his burden of m an u factu r Nelson Bldg. 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