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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
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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.
Brookings ing an artificial clim ate approxi
m ating th a t which nature, here,
iste Of Area
J Factor In
Development
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