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?
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Bulb Price Drop
As Huge Crops
Is Reported
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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
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Street Journal.
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April 8 ............
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April 9 ..
56 48
April 10 ........... 58 46
April 11 ..........
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April 12 ..........
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April 13 ............ 82 61
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