the nation’s carriers as a whole, ceived by Marion Nance County
it was pointed out.
Service Officer H. C. Saalfeld
The recent shortage of refri- an<^ passed on to Veterans’ Affairs
gerator cars, it was emphasized, officials announced:
’’The buildings at Camp Adair
is due principally to the tremend-
Acting now to insure future i ous increase in production of per- are presently assigned to the Fed
transport ation for the West’s in- ishable crops. Fruits and vege- eral Public Housing authority,
creasing production of perishable | tables originated by rail in the Skinner building, Seattle, for dis
crops, Southern Pacific and Union I United States rose from 747,559 mantling in the veterans’ housing
jointly owned Pacific Fruit Ex ¡carloads in 1940 to a record total program."
The letter added that the lands
press Company to purchase 3,0001 of 974,514 in 1945, which increase
more refrigerator cars of the most of 30 per cent was matched by at Camp Adair are assigned to
modem design
the shipments originating on the the Federal Land Bank of Spokane,
This makes 5,000 "Reefers” or lines served by the Pacific Fruit which is "working up a program
of disposal at this time.”
dered by Pacific Fruit Express Express.
since the first of the year, a pre The new refrigerator cars will
Another abandoned war-time
vious order of 2,000 cars having weigh about 4,000 founds less project, the Salem airport, has
been announced in January De than conventional cars, and will been disposed of as follows, ac
li veries of all cars are expected have new type convertible bulk cording to the WAA disclosure:
before the end of 1947
heads, half-stage icing devices,
“An interim permit has been
Largest operator of refrigerator fans for circulating air in the cars given the city of Salem for use
cars in the world, Pacific Fruit air ducts in car walls, herringbone of airport and eight builingds
Express now has a fleet of more floor racks, one-piece hatch covers as operating facilities. Six build
than 36,000 cars, which will be wrought steel wheels, and easy ings have been turned over to the
raised to over 41.000 by the cars riding trucks.
state of Oregon, 36 to the De
now under constuction or author
partment of Agriculture, and the
ized. Its equipment is now in the
U. S. District Engineers’s office
national refrigerator car pool,
are removing the remaining 59
which was continued after war’s
to civil works projects.
enr in an all-out effort to over
When the Civil Aeronautics
come car shortages pending de
Administration have made their
livery of additional equipment.
The abandoned buildings at report on the lands contained in
During the war years only 1,000 Camp Adair near Corvallis, which Salem Army Airfield, and the
new cars were purchased, con at war-time peak housed some
are classified as airport and
struction of railroad equipment 70.000 soldiers, will be dismantled same
residential or agricultural, final
being limited by wartime condi and alloted to the veteran’s hous disposal will be made."
tions, but through an intensive ing program, the Department of The information came from
¡■«•pair and rehabilitation
----- - » program.
- » «in, I eterans Affairs was informed E. W. Barnes, deputy regional!
facific Fruit Express Company's this week.
director for the office of real prop-
is g n 'a h .V 'tb
Sen’,ce ' A letter from the War Assets erty disposal of the War” Assets
____
1 ’’at m aintained by J Administration in Portland, re- administation.
Cars To Be In Use
Camp Adair Will
Be Dismantled
Local News Items
WHITE ROCK
For benefit of friends who may
care to write. Carroll Reekman
has a new address: Pvt. Carroll
Reekman, Co. 50, AAR Tr Bn
! Fort Bliss, Texas.
Eddie Young, of Phoenix. Ari-
, tona, is visiting his uncle and
aunt. Mr. and Mrs. I. N. King
! who live six miles up the Chetco
River He will remain at the King
home about a month, or until
school starts again this fall.
Otis Young, up the Chetco has
.sold his farm. The name of the
purchaser was not learned at the
moment. His daughter, who lives
at Phoenix. Arizona, came Mon
day. and will drive the car back
to Arizona for him He will make
Phoenix his home
Mr. and Mrs. H W. K retzm eier
and children of Portland, who
nave been in the area for a week
«'Xfxvt to return to Portland on
Friday. Mr. Kretzmeier. who for
m erly hve, i here, owns Ocean
\ lew Iraets. which he has sub
divided and has put on the mar
Dining kooin And ( ocketail Lounge
at the
Oregon-California State Line
F E A T I
B IN
Dinner Parties
C.
Banquets
BEER BY CASE TO TAKE O U T:
B k 0 () K I N (,’ S - H A R B 0 R
Real Estate For Sale
ket for hom es
Mr and Mrs Larry L ittleto n
and d a u g h te r of The D alles are
v o tin g
th e ir son-m -law
and
d au g h ter. Mr and Mrs Bob Da-
\ is ow ners of the N«h>k Cafe Mr
L ittleton. long identified w ith the
bank at The Dalles, is q u ite in
terest«^! in this area
Mrs ROy McLean and son Ed
w ard. w ere h e -? from Medford
for a few days, visiting at the
1 p Cro,iS a r d daugh-
♦ r s h e a tten d e d grade school
S,>e “P ete” when in need of a home, bulb land,
Pete J. Ix‘smeister Agency
a! Estate And Insnrance
Central Building
Brookings. Oregon
£•
her fo rm er schoolm ates
Mix G ladys P ayne re tu rn e d last
w,«ek from Ashland w here she
atten d e d the sum m er s e ^ o n of
S o u th ern O regon College • m
ju r a t ion.
‘
Andr«'w Jackson spent the last
w«‘ek-en«l hetv w ith his fam ilv
from O nek. Calif., w here he
is
e m p l o y W h i l e here he sub- |
¡aeriNM to the Pilot to have
it
. p e n t him at Orick, declaring it
¡w as the best little p ap e r h< had
seen in a long tim e
'Î
looking lovely, too!
A new perm anent will p rep are
>ou fo r a sm art and active
«unm er. Z ada‘s will rfve ™
n a n 7 b a t Wfl-’ Iook ni« 1' "0
Z A D A ’S B E A U T Y
sh o p
Closed Sundays and Mondays
They continued on to San
cisco where they are vi
othe. of his broth«, ?
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Foster
and son of Kelso, Wash., visited
Mr. Foster’s brother, Milton, and
family for three days last week.
arrive tomorrow to sp^
^ yl wiLh.his father. u Z
at the Pilot office. He rji
the seventh grade this
Ronald Akers, of Da'
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Millwork and Cabinet Shop
Door and Window Frames
FLUSH-TYPE INTERIOR DOOR
CABINETS A SPECIALTY
We make special size sash, too!
M ASO N
& EDW ARD
general contractors
Box 157
Brookings. Orejo«
PUNCTA TUM spectocti
uur tuutm
FOR SALE IN NOVEMBER
Place Your Orders Now
_ . _ .
For Fall Delivery
T IT U S
Harbor
BULB
FA R]
Closed on th e S a b b a th
CUT FLOW ERS
and p l a n t s
isitors Are Welcome Anytime
Hendry's Greenhouse
At the W inchuck Bridge
i
or any property m the Brookings-Harbor Area.
Insurance ( overage For Your Even Need!
E N J 0 Y SU M M ER S P O R T S
but keep your hair
Miss Pat Percival left on the
Tuesday evening but to return to
her home at Portland after visit
ing the E. E. Hanscam home for
a week.
Mr
and Mrs
j tV Rush left
^ a tu n la x for P a rk e r A rizona
» -'I,-
, Wepe called pn
,7 ? . ? '
r'-,urn h”me ak'u«
th< ,enth of August.
Ph1? “'«
” elen Pa>i,e and
Ph>lli- Huffman return,M home
H u ffm an , relatives at M onterey
| 101 tUo WpflK
TO ALL MY FRIENDS:
C
! “esda-v - Jul.V 23. I leased the !
. £ A. Ik- hope to carry on in a manner
n ?? Xt
area, which has been mv homt
v th * .
t0 have the best possible n
son niu*1' ruit; Ve,Lretable and delieaev in
son, always on the menu.
faith
1
endeavor to justify
F p p 1 u-a\
1 a n( s have shown me in the ’
our d-it \
l° come any time, except Mon
Dui day to close.
Mrs. (’. I. Patrick
hessee of the
Hooh Cufe
F eatu rin g
S T E A K D IN N E R S
—and—
fr esh seafo o d s
— at noon—