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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1946)
day . JUNE) JUNE 6, 1946 ^ ^ ^ M 2 g _ P IL O T BROOKINGS OREGON Home of the Croft Lilt, the organi; 'an, of -ousin, Irday evenj ‘n route rk. Mr. s during dc for the -India-Bu >ns. He the Daj iy- Sullivan om Re her daughti e. Mrs. d in he; vestigations have revealed that none of this destruction was wan ton. Property deliberately de stroyed consisted almost entirely of ammunitions, gases and other items of the chemical warfare service, and armament, including combat aircraft, which had no salvage value or which it was not desirable to leave in foreign countries. In some instances the property could be demilitarized ♦ stripped of its military signifi cance) but in others it was much cheaper to dump it in the ocean or b u rn .it. Spoiled food, rotten or lice-infested clothing and cer tain useless items which presented a fire or health hazard were also destroyed. ffHOUND BUSES TO GLOW IN DARK Newest Highway Safety Measure j of Grrvhmmd buses will soon t night from reflected lights o f i, according to the president o f abound Lines F. W. A ckerm an. | jifetv, Greyhound will trirr i w -deveioped plastic film thousands o f m icroscopic _ s in every square inch. T h e d dog and designs on sides, L mr tie covered with this ma- ppetnnce of the bus rem ains 1 in daylight. re In the Pacific, however, due to lack of buyers and the rapid de- j Greyhound's 4,500 buses safety feature w ill cost . Mr Ackerman said, and it is i Greyhound's example will en- ! other motor vehicle operators t similar safety m ethods. J Greyhound drivers carry emer- |iires, so our buses are at n o ¡thout illumination,” th e bus : said. "Most large truck corn- site similar precautions, but OUT INET terioration of property, it has Nevertheless, even if the govern been decided to return for sale ment dies not make money by in this country new and service bringing certain of these surplus able items selected for shipment es hack, this property will lie useable in American in the over by General MacArthur. It is an all domestic economy and will not ticipated that through July. 125 be left to rot uselessly in the ships will leave the Pacific bring Pacific bases. ing back property, a large part of which will be goods of civilian Mi and Mrs. \V. L. Crissey re character. It is problematical, Mr. i ceived a card the first of this RoyalJ said, that the sale of the goods so retruned will make any week, from Mr. and Mrs. II. O, money for the United States since Eri, of Boring, saying that they loading, shippingg, unloading and had arrived home without serious warehousing and selling in this inconvenience following their ac country will be quite expensive. cident just north of town. May 25. Shipments back to the United States have included only needed items of a strictly military char acter plus a specified list of crit ical items. Markets for surplus property in the European thea tre are available, storage facili ties are good, and prices paid justify retaining the material at those places for future use or dis posal. other vehicles stopped along (he high ways without lights are a magx hatard. 'is'e believe when motorists see how effective this new reflecting plastic is, they will adopt rt and demand (hat manufacturers make it standard equip ment on new cars." Piiije N in e O’ NEAL E L E C T R IC A L E L E C T R IC C O N T R A C T IN G New Philco Table Models and Portable Radios are here now. We have several used and reconditioned radios—reasonable! Used Montag Heater—Used Wedgewood Range We have moved next d o o r-fo rm e r office of Dr. Stevenson, dentist < r' Gr*^^üüWH- of the Foreign Liquidation Com missioner has completed its sale. Records of all items must be kept regardless of the disposition made, and inventories will con- JJty-four per cent of Amer- tinuc to he checked. The whole mny property estimated as Pr°blem is being expedited both lto the needs of the armies , bY the army and the OFLC in upation has been screened ordcr to release troops needed boosed of in some way in *° handle and guard the prop- theatres, according to erLv« to avoid deterioration and ■nent issued bv Under-Sec-i ,oss of value; and to afford op- "t War, Kenneth C. Roy- Portunities to realize as much his return from a globe- as Possible through the sale of tnp to study the whole surPlus items. f army surplus prop- i n order to facilitate handling property not needed by the ••‘present, he said, prop- occupation troops two or three '' v >!ue ot 11 billion,* large depots have been set up doll.itx which has in each of the European countries F t *"1 laration as I *diere vast quantities of supi L destruction because were available to American arm- ^•'eat to world peace, life ies. In the Pacific smaller bases r its return to the are being rolled up and their : ’ ' ' national supplies transferred to centers i'’r ’raining pur- more accessible to buyers and, Z maintenance of where they can be guarded and army This does not maintained by the least number . ^ne^’ iba* army of troops. M to othe 'Pcrty Mr. Royall pointed out that it s is quite true that the army has I r-b, ? 1 * warehouse, ( destroyed property at a price 1 ^ntain property de- cost of over one billion dollars. us until the office However, he emphasized That in- )Ius Property tsed Overseas 1 CABINETS CUSTO M B U IL T Drawers Doors Breakfast Bars And such built-ins MATERIALS on hand A x D Y M ELLON At Sand bo Auto Camp to i en M ost Other in* Fares in Ur egan are 40% Lower Since 1933 STRANGE as it sounds. Pacific G reyhound fares in O regon have been reamed BECAUSE the service is being increased/ L ook at it this w a y ... As Oregon commun.ti *s grow an ’ a more frequent service is people ride Pacific Gr< ’ passengers can be e a r n . . Aaub*ul ColorCover Blankets r 00 < in peach, cedar, blue and rose colors. ( orner Shelves ..... Special i ...- T. S. ABBOTT, Agent j, ; J • no more than it costs to carry 25. I t costs little more to operate a d epot fo r 6 buses a day than it does fo r 4, and so on. If more people ride, Pacific Greyhound’s t > go down. A n a Pacific Greyhound ; . »ei this saving on to the people o f Oregon... ♦ r . of lower fares and better, more u >ei vice than ever. Woody Building, Brookings $ 1 .0 0 tieere x Variety and apparel shop PACIFIC GREYHOUND Convenient, Dependable Local Service
