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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1947)
P ag e Tw’o w v r ia s r in e s i ^ iirnaif not help them. But our years of and positive need of such action bum per crops ended this year. is brought hom e to them. I m T. _ E ntered as second-clasr m atter, a t the postoffice at Brookings, Ore O ur production of grain has ---------------------------------------- i t H E ii dropped 500,000,000 bushels—or March 7. 1946. under the Act of M arch 3, 1879. alm ost exactly the am ount of have purchased the Bill M erritt ÇR0F7 EAfing, grain we are planning to send hom e and a re re-conditioning the D E W E Y A K E R S , E d ito r an d P u b lish e r Planting 4 h* r o. to Europe. We a re face to face n te n o r. Mr. .L oring is local dis- w ith the grim m est of problem s rib u to r for D isston Chain Saws. Brookings, On;. U d.o a national I re Bob which can ouly be solved by the ■people themselves. I $'.35 b; Controls a re not the answ er. With has Controls in a free country the size of ours breeds black m ark ets Nation«! A d v a e titinq Repea*«f*4atfva and g re a te r m isery for people I Kogan It firs t w ith low incomes. (E urope has N E W S P A P E B A I ^ E B T l à l X « S E B V tC E . 1BC. controls, but you can buy any »nosco (•« atf<!>•«• ot *• thing th ere for a price.)' P rice [the set control on "vital com m odities" as r y and \ IW. A . ® suggested by the P resident would of re; Serving America** Advertiser* and^rfte Home Town Nswupe p o n obviously drive production aw ay his fi from those item s to uncontrolled •M W CWo^o l . a . o r r i c i l • Hafc.uu t M » , &«• fewcbco. Cd. ¡Odd Fel and hence more profitable items. of thi: This would m ake the scarcity T. W. Zenier ILnday 1 situ atio n worse. % phone |everyon< S u b sc rip tio n R a te : I in this Per Year, in Curry County, Oregon..................$2.50 T here is not enough grain to go around if consumed a t the [tended Per Year, outside Curry County......................... $3. qo ra te we have been consum ing it |for the the last few years. G rain m akes with t f m eat, b u tte r, milk, poultry and n is e eggs. A m ericans will have to eat the e r That a Grants Pass to Curry County road would less if E uropeans a re to e a t at all this w inter. According to aid this section, that the Chetco river is one of the th e statistics, this would be no coast’s best fishing streams and that cut flowers real hardship. Before the w ar, may he shipped from this area to eastern markets th e average A m erican a te 125 pounds of m eat and 300 eggs a are foremost in minds of people of this area, the i year. Now he is eating a t the iow k,n?s' Harbor ,cbarn^er of commerce looks to ra te of 160 pounds of m eat and ICE CREAM TO TAKE HOME l.llS and a year of work along these projects. 375 eggs each year, which rep j 0| A meeting last week gave rise to belief that manv resents a 28 percent increase in the consum ption of m eat and a were opposing the chamber of commerce. Such was 25 percent increase in the con not the intent—rather many local citizens feel that sum ption of eggs. At present lev eager enough effort has not been made toward realization els we need ouly e a t 13 percent ot these goals, although some progress mav have less m eat. 15 percent less milk, and 18 percent few er eggs, to been made in the past year. balance the food budget. If p re The community hall, need for which is felt more w a r consum ption levels w ere and more as time passes, becomes another of the reached by voluntary conserva J‘ the tion, we should achieve a su r chambers projects for priority rating. This, accord- plus T hat L eaky F au cet That New Hi which would knock prices mg to members of the chcamber, must be a com downward. Repaired! PlunMi munity project—in every phase of construction. If we w ant to fight starv atio n —Myers Pumps & Plumbing Fixtures— . ambulance soon should be ready for use in — and I am sure we do, for we a re C hristian people we simply this area in the not-too-distant future as almost the Templar Hotel Bldg. Brookings. m ust be told facts, face them and amount necessary already raised. •» then do som ething about it. If Sreets (lights, if opinions are indicative, should be it is going to tak e a policeman sect along the main street within the next few weeks at our elbow’ to m ake us do w hat our norm al charitable and much to the attractiveness of the district. hu m an itarian instincts bid us do. Vith the mouth of the Chetco kept open the we might as well send for Joe 5 car round, salmon fishing should become coast S talin and ask him to take over. w ide in appeal, since the Chetco has always been The overw helm ing success of the Friendship T rain project noted for tis game fish. th e point. If people are All these project can be accomplished if everyone proves told w hat they can do to help in the community labor in that direction. It takes ¡in this crisis, they a re glad to tvet \diie everybody, individually and collectively. do it. Each person’s p a rt in the solution of the food shortage hrols. and act favorably on some problem is simple and not b u r densom e If each of us eats one of th e o ther proposals made by the President; will not a u th o r or m ore few er slices of bread each day. there will be enough ize another OP A. food and prices will be held On Woolens, Silks, Draperies, Blankets down by adequate supply. Local B it Harritt Rlmcorth The inventory of the situation Opinions of members of the taken by Congress during the re com m unities can and will ta k e I up this program and put it o v e r' House of Representatives on IE IT CAN BE CLEANEB- cent recess indicates prêt» y just as they responded to t h e 1 President T r u m a n 's s|>eech to WE CAN CLEAN IT! the joint session tall into three clearly th at P residential and appeal to fill the Friendship I A dm inistration thinking and i i a m - a s rapidly as the stern general classifications The out planning for the post-war- era and out left-w ingers applaud was too little anti too late. Now the en tire program accept all to attem p t to recover from that recom m endations lock-stock-and erro r, the proposed program is b arrel; the middle group which to be too much and too hastily might be referred to as liberal- adopted. We are about to pa> conservatives approve the em er most dearly in troubles at home gency aid request, questioning tor losing two and one-half years th e to tal figure which they think l 'u n e n il D ire c to r before form ulating any plan to should be cheeked. seem willing w ard the solution of troubles an d to go along with most of the in abroad. flation control suggestions, but A m b u lan ce Service balk a t giving Presidential a u N» doubt th»> g re a te st trouble th o rity to bring back pi ice con Phone 1091 confronting us is the grim possi tro l and rationing; the hard- b ility that a chain-reacted infla Crescent City, Calif. boiled conservatives may vote * «tau tion will begin. It hasn't really Hi peri for some em ergency aid to E u r sta rte d yet, but it can. Inflation ope, but will have none of the takes place when money is p len t rest of the menu iful, but things to buy are scarse. The e x trem ists at both ends S hortage of luxuries and non-es BRICK : LIME : ROOFING of the political spectrum mav be —National, Rheem, Jud about equal in num bers, but in sentials resulting ln climbing to tal they do not represent any prices is not an alarm ing condi W hHehead, Mission, Mon CEM ENT : TILE ••»»w w here n ear a m ajority of the tion. But shortage of essentials, food, is disastrous. We lag electric and gas fired House a reasonable guess, especially therefore, is th at this session will have been exporting enormous water heaters. appropriate money to help stave quantities of food. Millions of people in various parts of the ■ urvation tn Europe this '•y. Will r e s to r e c re d it c o n world would starv e to death if s u l a t e commodity ex- we had not sent them food plumbing r?»reSS tb° USands ™ay die of st lengthen export con- staU ta n a tie n this w inter if we can- PHONE 101 Smith River, Ci BROOKINGS-H ARBOR PILOT «»fiWQlptsTOu TISD eo n om a L - piÆV Ç ASSOCtATlON Chetco Drug YOUR R E X A L L STORI E Ready To Serve You Alw ays Newspapers C. of C. Outlines 1948 Projects Cigar C H A D ’ S f o u n t a i n service Sandwiches - Salads - Cofo Magazines H. A. J O C H E N S PLUMBING fozZ/Z <--/ Letter From Washington Y ou May Depend Upon Us F« Fast, Quality Workmanship Murdock G. R 0 E I) E R Cur-Def Clean» Phone 233 Brookings. See Us For M O U L D I N G , LUMBE<| WE J. J. Gallagher D E L IV E R ! Builder’s Supply iws I
