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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1947)
APRIL 17. 1947 gROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON The Land of O pportunity e Anri Some N S E N S E P ag1 must figure out a way with what tools he has at hand. True, once completed, such a shop should be filled with all necessary tools for proper instruction, in the community some place there are old automobile engines. Boys are tickled to re-work these motors and much can be learned about mechanics. Do this, District. 17, and watch your problems vanish into thin air. Cost money? Surely, but w ill it cost half as much as just a little juvenile delinquency? , Bulb Price Drop As Huge Crops Is Reported • TIMELY ITEMS ' • Til • FINEST QUALITY i MONEY SAVING PRICES W all S tre e t J o u rn a l A rticle E x p lain s F o r Low P rice Dewey ujt finished setting in type *»y of Juanita Kinion. in h she gives her ideas of "The Home—The Cradle of I Citizenship” should perform b as well as other commun- Careful study of this es- fcould cause faces of m any its to turn a bit to the ft side. ‘‘The potted lily you buy this i E aster should cost at least 25c per bloom less than a year ago. The florist who bought the bulb last fall paid the lowest price since pre-w ar days. The w ar time price of SI per bulb are dead pigeons. Rampant produc* tion killed them. When florists bought bulbs in the autum n of 1946 for this Eas- wj o parent is no easy ta sk ' te r’s lilies, the top price paid » tometimes quite difficult in this bulb capital (referring to the parent has too m uch Brookings) was 60c for a 10 to I interest of his own so he 12-inch bulb. The average price noire little where, how and was about 40c. Some bulbs sold lie children entertain their as low as 17’ic. And back of this tumble from rtainly I do not put myself the $1 level is a tale of dizzying s any model parent. How- acceleration in lily bulb h o rti I did discover, much to my culture. It started with Pearl bt hew much fun it can be Harbor. In Pre-w ar days, Japan ip my son as little as I can yearly poured an avalanche of A thought for this com m unity ¡some 23 million bulbs across the Boy Scout tasks, his Uwi to climb in scoutcraft. m ay solve much of this problem Pacific. Then the avalanche was Mreshing, indeed, to have here before it becomes one of abruptly halted. w to me ever so often and m ag n itu d e: Suppose this com Oregon, a modest producer in Tad I did this tonight, and m unity, by some means or a n those days, saw its bulb prices f have but two more tests other, p l a c e lum ber and such soar 900H as the w ar progressed. e th e r necessary m aterial on the And, this prompted, the produc- ground at the school, and put ' tion ram page got under way. Fig the youth of the district to work E T IS D A L E S ures show much ram pant it was. con stru ctin g th eir own m anual Oregon's pre-w ar output: about , r t of the World's F inest a rts shop? 100.000 bulbs yearly. The 1945 &QFT EASTER LILY Absurd? W ait a mom ent. 8i»p- crop: 12 million bulbs. Last year "tmg and Forcing Stock pose you digest these fa d s along the total was 31 million bulbs. 3>gs. Ore. u . S. A. w ith others while pointing out Although Oregon, accounting so-called objections: for about half of the nation's Set up a shop course for the production, heads the parade; boys, sta rtin g a t the seventh other states have climbed onto grade. Let the boys learn by do the bandwagon. Notable among ing, and perm it them to eject these were California, W ashing th e ir own shop. There are plenty ton, Louisiana, Florida, Texas of men in the community, dads Georgia. of boys who will take this new and The hulb growers, s o m e of course, who could help say a day whom had yearly returns of as Funeral Director now and then tow ard comple much as $20,000 an acre when and tion of this project. the fantastic boom was at its Ambulance S ervice There m ay be enough idle car peak, are now nervous. And the p enter tools in the district that • towering production isn’t their „ Phone 1091 could be given, loaned or be only concern. They w orry over queathed to the school that such the return of the Japs to the •r^ e n t City, C a lif, w ork could be carried on. field. A boys learns most when he Around the first of the year, the first im ports of Jap bulbs since 1941 slipped into Seattle. J The total was only a skimpy 21.000 bulbs. But the U. S. grow ers can’t help thinking this may be the vanguard of an arm y of bulbs to follow. “In any case, the prospect for the E aster lily purchaser is a happy one. As one Oregonian put is: • “The E a ste r lily is going to , dinner orders get out of the orchid class and back to its own level.” — Wall Ice C ream Street Journal. Cheleo Cafe HOME C 0 0 k I N C Equip Your Car With T ir ts to n t DELUXE CHAMPIONS Up to 5 I° o Strong»«- • » Up to 3 3 % lo n g o r Mil»« Up to 6O°o M or» N on-S kid A nglo* New In design! New In material»! New In performance! Tested and proved by miiiloua of miles of service! Buy tue best! 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