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
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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-
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