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BROOKTNGS-HARBOR PILOT. Brookings, Oregon
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT
present but for the future is pre and through Holland by way ot invasion.”
carious.”
Allotted but 25 minutes to tell
Antwerp. Those last two, there
Demands of the federal govern .was considerable open talk, so about the subject the speake*
Entered as second-clast matter, at the post office at Brookings, Ore.,
ment* have increased, too. Gone the Germans never knew’ w’here said at the outset that he could
March 7, 1946, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
are days when roe deal in millions to expect the invasion, and thus only touch upon a few’ high points
DEWEY AKERS, Editor and Publisher
in budget matters. Billions are not be able to concentrate all ef —most of w’hich would inclu tW
the terms now employed. Fore fort at one spot.
the magnitude of operations.
most
in
demands
are
those
for
National Advertising Representative
“Work on the invasion, people
social security and old age pen wonder, was kept so secret. This
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Weideman
NEWSPAPER AlbVERTl
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sions, thus insuring people of a
was done because each man was and Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Akers
future when they have passed assigned to a specific task and
(an
oi
!
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attended the installation of offi
the days of productiveness.
he was not allowed to keep any cers of the Crescent City Kiwanis
Demands upon the state are notes, except the reports made
Serving Americe’t Advertiser* and
Home Town Newspapers
constant for highw’ay construc to supreme headquarters. All the club last Thursday evening. The
tion. Highway construction is not carbon copies, notes ,etc., were ladies night affair was in form of
• MW Randolph — Cbicaço I. Ill • O F F I € B S
a chojv mein dinner, with all dec
done without teriffic expense. It burned every evening.
orations and “favors” following
must be paid by the people who
the Oriental motif. Fourteen new1
“
Normandy
invasion
called
fcr
wish these highways to travel.
Subscription Rate:
members
were inducted into the
an
enormous
amount
of
men
and
Demands are made of the federal
Per Year, in Curry County, Oregos
club
that
evening,
government for harbors, for na materiel. Each unit made its re ।
ner Year, outside Curry County......
$3.00 tional aid to state highway funds quests, and these were filled in1 <
—and it is the taxpayer who pays, j some manner. So well carried out
Advance of civilization, and the was everything, and so well timed
raising of living standards makes [wasi every movement that the
To be chosen as a representative for a troop to some council all of us unsatisfied with condi Germans were kept in the dark |
DAY OR NIGHT
honors is a great honor in itself for a troop of Boy Scouts. To be tions short of the best. We ac until the moment they wrere hit.
tually demand the best—with no The air corps saw to it that little
chosen for a council as representative in the region is still another thought that it is us and us alone or no material on the beaches
greater honor, but to be chosen to represent the region in national who will pay for these demands. were destroyed by the Germans
I have heard many people say.
Boy Scout week usually is but a dream, to a boy, his troop and
“The American soldier and the
“Those were the good old days.” non-combattant troops certainly
his council. However, all this happened right here in Brookings-
Sometimes they may be right at are the most ingenious of any in
and .Jimmy Vincent will represent Region XI at New York and that for their wants in those days
Day, 1701; Night 2R2!
the w’orld. I firmly believe that
were simple. People traveled by it was because of this that we
Washington, D. C. at Boy Scout Week Festivities.
Crescent City, Calif.
Knowing how proud his troop is of him, how glad Troop 32 can team, or walked. They used kero won the war, more especially the L ।
sene lamps, and they knew noth
boast of this honor, it is also easy to see how’ proud Jimmy’s par ing of the advantages of the re +
ents must be of his good fortune. It is easy to see how such might frigerator and electric range.
When many of us were young
affect their equilibrium. Brookings bursts at the seams with pride.
( an eighth grade educat ion was
In Region XI are such troops as Spokane, Seattle, Portland, and1 sufficient. Today, even the col-
all the larger cities. These boys, too, have scout ambitions. They loge graduate finds diffic ulty in ।
Road Building, Land
are good scouts, too, and covet such a chance to make this trip. competing on the labor market]
jor jobs which offer just more
Leveling, Clearing!
In ( urry county, Brookings has long set the pace in scoutcraft.
than a passing security. We have
This honor should, if properly taken, add impetus to scout work come to like the comforts of
among the troops in this county. Boys of other troops should want life, and we have learned that
to become proficient enough to be considered as a possible can- cue may obtain more.
on Easy St., or write
It goes back to the remark II
Closed Sunday and Monday
didate for this honor.
made earlier in this column, that
TOWING!
Brookings Honored By Natl Boy Scouts
MEADOWS1
Auto Service
BULLDOZING
ZADA’S
BEAUTY
SHOP
If such a thing is possible, Brookings is as proud of Jimmy Vin-
cent’s success as he is, but has no way to show it, except in way
of congratulations. Brookings hopes Jimmy will be a great am-
bassador to the Atlantic seaboard, and will come home knowing
he has placed Brookings on the maps used in that section.
IT SEEMS TO ME
we must pay for what w’e receive
whether w’e know that we are,
paying for it or not. We pay the
fiddler when we dance, be it in
pleasure or government. If we
want to advance (and who does
wish to stand still?) we must be
doubt change the legislative pic w illing and ready to pay the cost
ture considerably. The road sit of these advances.
The world affairs are going fo-
uation in the state demands a
lot more than the program that ward the socialistic side—and it
has been followed during the past seems there is little any of us
('an do to stop the movement. It
decade or more.
I
seems
to be the pleasure of most
To meet demands of the state
of
us
to
enjoy this trend—asking
it seems almost curtain that a
the
“
government
” to do things
bond issue by the state will be
for
us.
coming out of the legislature, It
is a guess, however. but that
one of the reconnue ndations of
the interim committee. Fish and
g ¡me lairs are due for a revision
and that wiH bring out much
controversy over the state. The
« astern part of the state wish s
engineer,
another member on the commit-]
a
t( » . and so far the western part and memlM'r of Medford Rotaiy
Club, was principal speaker on
Tuesday,
at the regular meeting
The lecislaturo is faced with
of
the
local
club. Mr. Harvey told
the problem of devising ways and
of
at
on
June
6,
1911,
when
he was at-
on a program which the
tached
to
the
army
railroad
corps
dodged many years. It
as general overseer.
up. Governor McKay,
"Picple cannot realize the big-
ness the magnitude of this op-
Wc may as well fact' t
('ration. No one man could have
The financial condition
ever planned it. hut with hun-
state of Oregon not only for the’dreds. each doing his share. and
1 by the placing of these efforts in
! one plan, made up the final ar-[
rangements for the invasion.
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“It was the plan of the su-
; pre me headquarters to have dif-,
ferent points where the invasion
might be made. Besides Norman-1
dy, the “plan” included Norway,
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