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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1947)
PAY, JA X U A g Y Z .Jg g . sold. O ur sta y there w as brought A light and call bell also, which to a close all too quictdy when you operate by a button arc close sa le s houses should employ only recom mended th a t a ceiling be we had to leave the hotel at 10:30 Have made' two trips to San bonded w eight-m asters, m a k e established on feed th a t could be a m. for the airport. Arriving Jose (12 miles away) w ith my brand inspections of all stock ar- charged by sales rings. _______ _______ th ere we found our plane would I son-in-law. Ray Comstock, to buv riving at the yard, and keep a record of all transactions to fa be an ho u r late ; which w as caus- produce in the open m arket. He Loral News Items ed (the captain said as I inter- buys two davs a week Tuesday cilitate theft investigations. The Mr. and Mi'« N orris Kemp and stockmen concurred in the r e CW»««< /«wi Pusre One viewed him about it) by the lan d -lan d Fridays, for the school. ' children visited, over C hristm as, quest that a sta te board to con ,OTalmost due south of Chi ing field in Cuba being toe smal me as out with relatives in the vicinity of to handle the business, and it w a s L f One V, ? / thing " “ r th at struck • trol licensing of livestock auction Salem. They retu rn ed home late didn’t get to se? Mexico like try in g to park in a down-' ■’ ol( inary in these days- I sales rings be set up and also last week. saw but one woman smoking « the airport is several tow n business section with all the Some things here are cheap, from the city and our plane; p arking places full. You ju st had to ¡eave at 11 a. m. The air- to m ill around until someone pull- others are very high. E lectricity is 2 mills per kilowatt hour. Nice there is a very busy p la c e ;; ed out. sweet oranges are one-half cent to make! So, in stead of leaving at 11 cramped building facilities o’clock, it w as a little a fte r noon each; bananas, $1.25 large bunch; Kite for the growing demand ¡w hen we sta rte d on our last lap. potatoes. $5.50 per hundred; beans are 9c and 10c per pound; eggs, The four-m otored planes have five air travel. 65c per dozen; butter, 80c per mg south from Mexico City, seats ab re a st and carry 55 pass pound; fresh tomatoes, 25c per «iter a twin-motor Pan Am engers; the tw in-m otors have 3- pound. Potatoes are put up in 1916 was good to all of us, but 1917 promises an which carries 21 passen- ab reast, and carry’ 21. T here were 260-lb. sacks and a 150-lb. man .v ... .. .. 18 passengers boarded the only 15 passengers on board, and “ i. to far surpass all the hopes we held for the past S a m in y of the fields they a re able to reach th e ir a ltl- ione helps him get It on his d barren and dry. and not titu d e m ore quickly th an when der onions are high, $29 for 100 year. With our complete freezer unit, we are we reached southern Mexico! the load is heavy 1 pounds; honey, $20 * for * five gal now in a position to do even more for the com it change very’ much. Over T here w as one plane crashed lons. Local Spanish peanuts are southern part our view’ was ¡not fa r from here, not iong ago; 15c per pound; shortening not now’ munity than we even thought of last year. kted much of the time by a full load and too heavy. It just available. Have all kinds of Am jds as our plane traveled up couldn’t m ake the altitude, and erican soap. A tailor-m ade two- Let us, at the beginning of this new year, ap ve them. We also ran into a crashed against the m ountain. All piece suit brings $65 to $70. These re head-wind, immediately, w ere killed; a veteran pilot was prices fluctuate from day to day. ply our efforts in a co-operative way, and make appeared above the door a t the controls. As soon as prices advance in the this area the greatest of the entire state. That ?rwg seat-belts fastened, F rom G uatem ala City the landj l • S. they immediately go up in we experienced our rough- below seem ed covered w ith dense! this country’. is our NEW YEAR’S WISH TO YOU! weather and were bounced vegetation, which proved to be Everything that has wheels and md considerably. It seemed at m ostly coffee. Among the short is used for moving anything has ¡we would take 25 or 30-foot coffee tre e s is grown plantian, a a license; h a n d -c a r ts , cx-carts, I One lady became yuite ill; slim tre e th a t grows n e a r 15 to trucks, passenger cars, bicycles, j neither Mrs. .. Graham , , nor . . I 20 feet ta ll and has a top that and you see them all. To obtain Thor and Peggy Ask upset in the least. At a spreacjs out and affords shade a car license, brakes are checked.! oimort in in TonopHiiln z-* airport Tapachula, IH the for the coffee trees as the coffee lights, w’indshield wiper, wheel +- I Mexican field, we turned our can ’t stan d much sun. alignment, and even the paint job can cards over to the au- The average grade of coffee i m ust pass inspection. Gas is 40c this y e a r is bringing 36c per lb. Pe r gallon. W ater tests here 99 Wf found the w eath er th e r e here. The best grade brings more. per cent pure. warm. We landed a t G u a t They claim the best coffee in the School is out this week. Vaca ala City at 3:30 p. m. W ed- w orld is grown around San Jose, tion until April. Coffee picking is I landing field th e re is th e and it all goes to England, as they now’ starting. Soil is deep. Pit silos are 20 feet deep, and reveal > •eautiful of the ('m ire trip , pay m ore for it. W e m ade one stop between the same kind of soil all the way is lone enough for p la n e s of At the New Year, we wish to pause a moment hugest size, and is paved. G uaternala City and San Jose, a t ; down * entire field aside from the ^ an Salvador, in El Salvador. We Usually the sun shines in th e' to reflect upon the h’essings received during the kw is like a large lawn The w cre t h e r e 20 m inutes. Soon morning until about 11 a. m., then fldir>are the nicest and mosti a.f te r we rcached the cruising al-j interm ittent rain finishes the day.; past year, 1916, and to thank people of this area foie of all, with better fac il-1 td u d e <9.500 feet) dinner was ^ h is holds good for about eight »hrhandling the p a sse n g e rs. IServed’ and 1 think everyone was m onths of the year, then four for the patronage since we opened up our new ’Guatemala City is a place of lead y f ° r I t hadn’t been served m onths of sunshine and no rain. to with many places around !sooner because the going was so \v P will soon en ter the sunshine business in the area. We are grateful tor every equal interest. It takes three rough, and you couldn’t be s u re , p erjod. At. this altitude of about thing you have done for us. fs to make the rounds by sight- the tra y and contents would sta y ^ g p o feet, w’e don’t suffer tooi much from heat. tog busses and $65.00‘ please. put. F . rom San S alvador we In 1917, we hope to continue this friendly as ver. alace Hotel where we spent . , traveled feet San ___ Jose is ----- 1800 ----- «wmg and night is m anaged!a Iong w ay ovcr the shoreline o f |Ther<? are m any heautiful h ju ie s ! sociation, and at this time we wish to extend to • Norwegian, and we were s Panish H onduras and N icaraga, ,w re Most buildings have gal- ' happy to find English speak- coming over the m ainland as we vanized sheet. iron roofs .Y ou won- j you the best wishes for the NEW YEAR! The main court and cross the b°un d ary hne of Costa der why —earthquakes disturb the /«decorated with palms Rica. peace once in awhile and a gal W e w ere much surprised to see vanized roof isn’t as hard on ones '*ajiful poinsettas. The wea- n ' 'Js' right, cool and balmy. such fine looking cows as ouri head as a tile roof although they Johnson Bldg. Archie P. Hendricks ) contained one of the plane sought a lower level, p re -jhave many tiIp roofs. I 1 Markets I have ever seen paring to land. Good cows cost There are four active volcanoes one roof. It seemed as i f 1 frorn $800 to $900 here, and not -n ^ OS| a RjCa. The one nearest ^rything was in it. and t0° good a t tb a t- here has the side out opposite us, I h. one hurried to t o 1 The landing field in San Jose is so we don’t w orry about it. Seem- / the smells a nice one, but not long enough ¡ngiv there isn’t any worry’ about *ne didn't need to contact for th e large Planes t0 land- The anything especially a m o n g the g a n g e r , because G uate ' buildings ------------------------------------- ‘ " ^'or pef)pie of the C0Untry. also look very nice, s. currency are on the first tim e on our trip a stew Noticeable, also, is the absence some of the largest ardess looked a fte r our welfare. of the middle class of people. It had ever seen, some From Los Angeles to G uatem ala is e ith er the rich or thc poor. I | « J medium-sized cocoa- City, and G uatem ala City to San guess I had better bring this to 3c each. Bananas, Jose a stew 'ard looked a fte r our a close before the Pilot editor de —and we are proud and happy to be associated >eein®d h, be no needs. Above every seat on the cides it is too long. Harry’ H G ra H . ‘ anything one could w all is an a ir tube l 'z inches ham, San Jose, Costa Rica, C. A., with the latest step forward. e or needed. The most across, this device controls the Apt. 1320. 5 2 Wer<; around a small am ount of a ir you want, also the ladies hose were direction in which you w ant it ,ta Rica Life ’¡Id In Letter To it Subscribers HAPPY NEW YEAR We Will Be Able To Do More, Now! BROOKINGS MARKET Hoppy Hew Year Thankful For B lessing o f P ast Y ear I—,, HENDRICKS FUR NITU RE CO. Ao Announcement Community Progress C ontinues /A u c t io n Sales To Be Regulated Soon THE, TISDALES L owers of the world ’ s finest c RO FT EASTER L IL Y W anting and forcing stock Brookin?s, O regon U. S. A. GOLD BEACH—A state law to establish workable control over livestock auction sales in O reg o n ’ evidently is one of the topics that will iccupy attention of thc O re gon legislature a t its next session, j Basic principles of proposed legis lation in this field were considered by w estern Oregon stockmen last w’eek at the annual m eeting of th a t association a t Salem. Repre-, sentatives of the auction sales business were present to give th e ir| views. The tw’o groups were in a g re e -; ment th at legislation should des-| ignate auction sales houses as quarantine areas to secure tatis- factory disease control m easures, I They also agreed th a t auction A N ew Shell Service Station, as modern in design and construction as any in the largest cities, will soon open in Brookings, and it was ouro good ortune to be granted the operator’s franchise. We recognize both the op portunity and the responsibility this carries. We feel that Roy Sunderland is to be congrat ulated on this latest community asset. It’s his property and his idea. We’ll give our best. This new establishment will be known as H aggerty ‘T w in-Service’ Formal opening will be announced next week. HOMER AND HOWARD HAGGERTY
