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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1948)
BROOKIN’GS-HARBOR PILOT. Brookings, Oregon lay, January 29, 1948 Byron brought a football to We are working very hard on first grade chil-j arithm etis to try to finish to w ith. M arjorie page 171 by the end of the week, brought a little ru b b er ball. Some of the children in our We a re m aking w all paper for room a re making sm all m urals our house. We need brown and about very interesting t h i n g s red cold w a te r p a in t for the o u t j th a t we have learned about. side. We h a d another arithm etic SECO ND G RAD E test last week. M arjorie Moore Rosalie C hapm an is retu rn in g won in tpeed and Dick Fadling to New Mexico this week. We are won in accuracy. They got little books for prizes. sorry to see h e r leave. We have not had many chil New’ m onitors w e r e chosen this week. W ednesday we will dren absent in the last week or i two. have an o th e r alp h ab et test. On our book reports chart, W e experim ented w ith a th e r m om eter by p u ttin g it w ith ice Richard Cochran has 20 book illiam M. and Joanne cubes and then w ith hot w ater. reports. W e drew’ p ictures of O ak Hill D. have 13 book reports. Connie farm and F riends and Neighbors J. and Jimmy E. have 11 book drew a picture of Friendly Vil reports so far. Dixie Allsup has lage. We have a picture of m oun made 10. ta in goats. . V»’e are making book covers ! for our weekly readers out of FO U RTH G RA D E N E W S W e a re glad th a t this week newspapers. Then we can keep will be th e end of the first se them altogether. m ester. We will have our sp ell Tuesday we made questions for ing test then. a quiz program in geography. for th e v Scout News | school dren to play . jS the first of a re g u la r Doings column. Scouts, you urged to read it to keep (St of what your troop is st don t forget the meet- omcht is at the church. Dr. going to give us Ik 0V1 first aid. personal hy- e and public health. Any of fellow > a little w eak on any ,ese better bring pap er and il and take notes.. i Dr. Schmitt's ta lk we’ll i a scavenger hunt.. You pa- leaders’ better get your men you'll need them to win. count on your new score B. member. 7:30 a t th e church, e patrol is service patrol I week, that means 7:15 for I Eagles. le've got a big deal cooking, ting after next. B e tte r get r mess kits shined up. 'Nuff A word to the wise is plenty. Du fellows woh didn’t go on fishing trip surely missed out the fun. No fish, but a swell ?. Cowboys 'n Indians ’r> stuff. Lytle, did you light th a t fire i one match? Some rod and , huh, Schley? T h at knife'll e in real handy, come next ting season, Dick. We certain - we a vote of thanks to M erle the Rod and Gun club fo r yell time, rig h t? See you to-, it.—Brad. ’ T hursday Ja n u a ry 29, 1948 O ur teach ers is reading us a i book. The nam e of it is "The W hite P a n th e r.” The next chap te r is "The Men Who W alked on the W aters." Clifford G uthrie, Harold Jones, T o help finance the p la n n e ' L arry Myers, Charles Tierce, pro g ram of the year, Azalea G ar Dixie Allsup, V irginia Akers, den Club has announced a can! B a rb a ra Gould. Lois LaClair, p a rty for F eb ru ary 4, at- '[«arbor Lois L ockhart, Connie Jacklew icz G range hall. Pinochle and bridge got large gold sta rs on the man- will be played. iiti’s ci.art last week. The garden club, - k : c ' r t al O ur seed c h a rt is growing most entirely upon du to fi very much. T here is stilt room nance its program , m ust aug for m any seeds, though, m ent this by card parties or by Richard Cochran b r o u g h t a plant sales. picture of th e c a t fam ily. We have been trying to find the Local News Items p a n th e r in it. . Jam es Yelton ret ed l a t e J. P. Ramondini. district pass last week from a trip to P o rt enger agent for Greyhound, was land w here he w ent in in te re st of his novelty item ; of vn—’nqg a caller in this area, Monday.« \ . . i h exceptionally low tides local woods. The south side of the C entral Sunday, m any local people went z to the beaches near the m outh building is Ix’ing re ’ of the Chetco for clam m ing. A ! c a rp e n te rs this week. W hen com «.ke lot w ent home w ith a sm all pleted. the buihhng will 1 it had ju st been built. am ount. Garden Club Bills Card Party, Feb. 4 ib Scout Doings ]most al lthe boys had th eir form on at the pack m eeting »day night. C ubm aster Ben ns passed out cards, gold sta rs community strips to all the s. Games were played and the es were given to the w inners, i the second baseball gam e I Wednesday, w as won by 1, ll-10.Ronald A kers, den If. >en 2 wishes to rep o rt th a t largest per cent of th e boys very enthusiastic and regu- in attendance. In th e p ast 6 tks the boys have done sten- ng. plastic work, w oodbum drawing and num erous o th er igs at their den m eetings. II regular attending boys are ing examinations for advence- it in rank. LaVern Menden- , den chief. ichard Cochran w as sporting new uniform a t the pack King. ►e had a s w e l l investitu re imony and lots of gam es and tes. t’e are going to play basebal ry Tuesday a fte r school now *’e arc sure glad to have Mi Iney back with us again. - ■ Ira King, den m other. Tie boys of the pack than laid Akers for his leadershi conducting the initiation cere nes, Monday evening. Georg Iney reports he did a good jol "/ V * __ 1 _ ~ <• --------- - first sem ester of the Brook- 'ChtMil ends this week. The lar schedule of th e school, ■ C"'irs( a series of final ex- tation*- If teachers a m going und with t h a t H ired look, • ' reason co rrectin g the I exam papers. X’ ; : day e v e n i n g the ■ in' 4nd "B ru in ettes” trav el • < • »rd for the final gam« ” Curry County league. !e »wing w eek-end they ; 1 will play the ng Florence team. Grade School N o tes FIRST GRADE N E W S ho won gold sta rs on he.'i.’h chart last w eek w ere Ona M arjorie, Jim - ’ ’ e. Tommy. Markey, ! >j Allsup. G ary. John- ef'ddy, Ernest. Freddy has >r missed a star. ’ my Rush has gone to Port- • to see a doctor. >ny and Robert counted to 3 Unions Block Labor Peace— Refuse Wage Boost Already Accepted by 13 Other Railroad Unions! T he R rotherhood of Locom otive E n g i neers, Brotherhood of Locom otive Fire men and E nçinem en and th e S w itchm en’« Union of N orth A m erica, representing 125,000 railroad employe«, have refused to accept the offer of Che R ailroads of a wage increase of 15K cents an hour. ihiH is the sam e increase aw arded 1,000,000 non-operating em ployes by an arb itra tio n board in Septem ber, 1947. T his is the sam e increase accepted by 175,000 conductors. trainm en and sw itch men by agreem ent on N ovem ber 14, 1947. A greem ents have been m ade w’ith 1 175.000 employes, represented by nine teen unions. B ut these three unions, rep resenting only 125,000 men. are trying to pet more. T hey are dem anding also m any new w orking rules not em braced in th e settle m en t with th e conductors and tra in men. Incidentally , th ‘ S w itchm en’s Union of N o rth America r r —?nts o il; aoout 7% oi all railroad »>*.i;•-< i n, the »ther 93% being represented b th e Broth* rhood of R ailroad T rainm en nd covered by th e se ttle m en t *«th t.ha, un. >n. Strifa Threat T he leaders of t !«<->•• tl.r»*e unions spread a strike ballot while n ;ot»atio«s were still in progress. T h 's is not a se< ret vote b u t is ta k e r by ana n I» « and votes are signed bv the erun.oy - in the presence of ui ion reore-- nt itn *. W hen direct ’»i'g o tist'o n a filled, th e leaders of the e throe unions refused to join tin* rail."» ids in asking th N ational M ediation 1 ¡wird to a tte m p t to settle tlie dispute, nut th« Board to k jurisdiction a t the request of •• «. arriéra and has been earnestJv attem p tin g Bine* N ovem ber 24, 1947, to bring loout a settlem ent. T he B oard on J a n ia r v 5, 1948. announced its inability to rem h a n. in tio n settle m ent. T h e leaders of th e unions rejected th e request of the M ediation Board to a rb itra te . T he railroads acrepted. W hat Noir? T h e Unions hav in g refused to a rb itra te , th e R ailw ay L abor A ct provides for th e ap p o in tm e n t o f a fact-finding board by th e President. T h e railroads feel it is due shippers, passengers, em f yes, stockholders, and th e general puhl « to know th a t th ro u g h o u t these* negoti tin ns and in m ediation, th ey have n ot oi y exerted every effort to reach a fair and reasonable settlem en t, b u t th ey have also m et every req u irem en t of th e R ailw ay I^ibor A ct respecting the negotiation, m ediation, and arb itra tio n of labor dispute's. Il seem s unthinkable that these* three unions, representing less than 10 per rent of railroad employes, and those among the highest paid, ran successfully maintain the threat of a par alyzing strike against the interest of the en tire country—and against 90 per cent of their fellow employes. 1 he threat of a strike rannot Justify grant ing more favorable ronditions to 125.000 em ployes than have already been put in effect for 1.175,000, nor will It alter the opposition of the railroads to unwarranted wag«* in creases or to changes in working rules which are not justified. A glance at the box shows what employes represented by the Engineers and Firemen make. They are among the highest paid in the ranks of labor in the United States, if not the highest. Compare these wages with what you make! 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