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PAGE FOUR The World’s Best Climat’ BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON Brazil Is Land Of Opportunity And Of Strange Customs, Rotarians Are Told “While Brazil is a land of opportunity, it is a land of strange customs,” Del Harvey, of Medford, told the Rotary club, Tuesday noon. Mr. Harvey and his family lived for a year in that country as a manufacturer’s representative, returning to this country just a little over a year ago. “While Brazil is a big subject for one talk, I will confine my remarks to characteristics of the people mainly,” Thursday, May 26, 1949 Keep America Green Program Important To U.S. Forest Future he said in prefacing his talk. “A little larger than the U. S. ; lure by a physicist. He said that most of Brazil’s 55,000,000 peo the scientist told of the Bikini ple live along a 100-mile strip of test, and how awful was the after the Atlantic coast. Its culture is effects of the atomic bomb. The divergent from savages to the next war will be the last, he said, most highly education. Most of I if such methods are employed. Named President the people arc of Portuguese and Hendricks At a board meeting last ’Thurs Italian extraction with Portu day evening, Archie Hendricks guese as the language. was named president for the com- ■ “With lots of opporunity Brazil ing year, and Warren Smith as is held back by its government. vice-president. Being a democracy, government In commenting ufxm his elec officials are underpaid, so resort tion after announcement was Io graft to make a living. Espe made, Tuesday, he said: “It was cially is this true of the post of an honor to be president of a club fice department. One cannot re-1 for a couple of reasons. First, a ly upon the mail in the least. Rotarian is noted for the good “Rio deJaneiro and San Paulos he can do and second for the re are principili cities, and are pro sponsibility he is willing to as- KEEP GREE. gressive in many ways. However, sume. If I had not accepted this STATES the Brazilians are crazy drivers responsibility. I would have felt and are constantly running poo-' it was my duty to resign from ple down on the streets. A pe- Rotary.” culiar law of that country is that He will name his appointments no one can touch an injured per- at a later meeting after he has Thn nation’s Sunday punch in its rentable. The solution to the whole operating successfully under the indi son until first the police give per given study to the new job. mission. Any risk insurance is never ending battle against forest fires forest fire problem, they reasoned, was vidual banners of at least two dozen unheard of in that country. is the three-word slogan, Keep America education. major wood producing states. Results “If you want mail to go through The problem required more than a are uniformly encouraging. Green. you cannot use the mails. You Mr. and Mrs. Roy O. Lovell of In less than a decade the Keep Green “Don’t do that” approach. It requires Like contagious diseases, man-caused send it by some chartered air Seattle have sold 2.85 acres on1 idea has spread across <e continent endless education on a personal level to line, and then pay plenty for the Easy street to Mr. and Mrs. Em- forest fires may be controlled or pre the imagi effectively show the ordinary men and service. 1 am reminded of my. ery D. Hyland of Harbor. It is capturing and challcn., vented. Intensive Keep Green pro nation of citizens everywhere. The women of America what forest fires telephone service, which had to understood Mr. Hyland plans a be obtained through bribe. It is subdivision of this tract into low- phrase Keep America Green has be mean in terms of taxes, wages, profits, grams, carried out in the 48 states, also true of obtaining a visitor’s priced lots. The transaction was• come a symbol for millions of alert recreation and living standards. Pre promise to do to man-caused forest passport, of obtaining a drivers handled through the Pete Les citizens who understand the very real sented in this practical, pocketbook fires what vaccination has already don® license, or to ship any goods into meister Agency. role green and growing forests play in phraseology, forest fire prevention to smallpox. the country. the economic life of the United States. makes sense and gets results. States States participating in the “Keep “While Brazil is Catholic as a It wm launched in a Western state that have had Keep Green programs America Green” movement include: whole, the religion of the aver age Brazilian is fatalistic. He be I wish to take this opportunity eight years ago by a group of conser longest have reduced forest fire losses Arkansas, California, Connecticut, lieves firmly that God resides in to thank the people ot District vation-minded men representing the materially. Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louis Brazil, and through this belief No. 17, for their favorable vote I forest industries, government agencies The Keep America Green movement life has become cheap in that last Monday evening. It will make and the general public. These men is sponsored nationally by American iana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, country. Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New possible the restoration of the “When a couple marries in that local budget to the figure planned t knew that 90 per cent of the fires that Forest Products Industries, Inc., of each year destroy U. S. timber capable Washington, D. C., an organization Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, country first the ceremony is per by the local budget board. formed by a civil authority. änä The budget as planned xvith ! of producing a billion dollars worth of supported by the wood-using industries Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, then the couple may have a Cath provide $398.66 per capita on the products were man-caused and r - - M the United States. The program is Virginia, Washington, West Virginia. olic wedding if they desire. It is basis of high school pupils en an accepted custom that the wife rolled this year. The budget com school’s First Annual Pic Feed. Mrs. Edith Griffith, Mrs. Marge Mrs. Estelle Garrard returned is to produce babies. The hus mittee felt that this figure cov- Pie all you can eat, and coffee! to her home at Woodland, Calif., Oberg, and Dick Griffith arrived band may have as many or few i rod the essential items for the Short program featuring: after spending a couple of xveeks recently and are established for at the Cheteo River home of the summer at their summer res “ Tiny Babe Gardner. ” high school. are a bun Natural Per-capita amounts for opera in the “Moth and the Flame” her son-in-laxv and daughter, Mr. idence up the Cheteo. dant in that country, but due to tion as allowed by the Curry Co. and “The Buzzard, in Buzzard’s and Mrs. Sam Dotson. Mr. and Oregon Coast Travel Informa the religious beliefs, the people Rural Board for the other high Strategy,” also R. S. “Bob” Per Mrs. Dotson, who have been liv are not concerned about develop schools of the county, figured on kins in a musical variation. ing Brookings during the school tion signs have been placed at ment. They care nothing about this year’s enrollment For benefit of the high school year, plan to move back to their Brookings Chamber of Commerce, new crop methods or any ad- ; at Winchuck Village, and at The baseball fund. Pie Ticks. Adults, home soon. $780.61 Gold Beach .......... vancement, unless it is originally Villa Cottages, by Oregon Coast 75c; Students, 50c. Remember the $580.17 Boit Orford ...... from Brazil. Mrs. Verna Asche returned on Association, these have volun date, Friday, May 27. 8:00 p. m. “One of th»' nrincipal crops of f riday from a couple of weeks teered their services in giving the at the high school gym. Brookings ............ ..$321.08 the country is lumbering from visit at Portland. She reports her literature and information on the The foregoing figure is not ti the eucalyptus plantations. This son. Melvin, who broke his leg Oregon coast to travelers. wood ’.rows quickly and its use misprint. The Rural Board Ac about two months ago, is still Mrs. Lynn Hampton, who un- is mosi extensive of all for th * tually allowed Gold Beach twic*. in the hospital, and it appear that Jack Tungate and a party of he must remain there for some derwent major surgery at Eman as much, plus $66.22. and Brook usual budding. uel Hospital. Portland, recently, “We max laugh at their customs; ings’ new amount made possible friends of Butte Falls spent the time vet. has gone to Newberg, where she bx vour vote in our local district week-end here enjoying camming and thoughts, but aftei Fred Gardner and his forest is visit ing her parents. She will a year in that country a person I is $381.95 per capita pupil en and fishing. They x ¡sited Mr. anti ran also find amusing things of, rollment, less than Gold Beach Mrs. Herbert Payne during their service road crew have started return to Brookings shortly af- stay in the district. on the maintenance work on the t r school is out. our own customs upon the return,; a as allowed. Redwood Park and Upper Cheteo like courtesy and leisurely liv- We have no quarrel whatso- Mrs. Rolvert Chambers arrived roads which is done each year by (onctrsman Harris Ellsworth, ing,” said Mr. 1 larvev in closing ex er xvith the Gold Beach. Port home Sunday evening after spend- in a letter to the Pilot, told of the forest service. This work his talk. Orford or Langlois high schools, ing five in Persia. Iowa Heard Atomic I a but we do desire that the people where she had been called by the badly needed on all the roads in the forthcoming competitive ex aminations for appointments to Lloyd Stefani, who visited at of our own immediate area. In serious illness of her mother. Mrs. this area this spring. vacancies at both U. S. Naval Coos Baj Rotan last week, told School Dist. No. 17 understand Chambers reports that he mother Mr. and Mrs. E. II. Groot en and I . S. Military Academies to the club of the pictures and let and appreciate our local school was greatly improved when she deist and family completed the be conducted by the U. S. Civil problems of school finance and left Iowa. moving to their farm east of Har- Service Commission. Monday, Ju expenditure. LYNN O. HAMP- bor Sunday. 'Phi \ had made ly 11. at the Post Office building, Mrs. B. E. Kerns Sr. has gone tensive improvements o n t h c Albany. Coos Bay, Eugene, Med- to Watsonville. Calif., for a visit house. lord Grants Pass, Roseburg and At the annual student body until after Memorial Day. Reedsport. Estate of Albert V. Much more, ' election held May 23. Gilman Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gero ar- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weigel re In the County Court for Curry Dully was named president; Dar rived from Fresno to spend the Second and fourth Tuesdays lene James, vice-president; Mar turned home Friday afternoon summer at the home of Mrs. County, Oregon. cf each month, at I. O. O. F. hall, from a three-weeks trip which Notice is hereby given that the garet Byrne, secretary; Eugene Gero’s sister and brother-in-law, Topaz Rebekah lodge. Members took them to Idaho, Washington undersigned as Executrix of the Simpson, treasurer and Lyndle Mr. and Mrs. S. Web.b on the and northern Oregon points. urged to attend, and visitors al estate of Albert V. Muchmoro, Fadiing. sergeant-at-arms. form r Al Clement place. ways welcome. d<»ceased. has filed her final ac- Mr. and Mrs. S. K. George of count in the County Court for| Roger Oliver left during the Activities for the remainder of Eugene at their summer Every Tuesday noon. Rotary Curry County. Or 'gon, and that school year are: week-end for Portland to get ac- near the beach for a short club, at Vincent’s Restaurant. All Friday the 21th dav of June. I Monday. Max- 30 Memorial hol- home quainted xvith bis first grandchild, t ime. 1949, at 10 o’< a son born to his daughter and visiting Rotarians are welcome. A. M.. and the idav’ (school holiday). court room of said court has been I May 31 P.-T. A. noon com Mrs Dale Bravo and son spent husband. Mrs. Oliver has been at Reach 5000 prospective custo appointed by said Court as the munity picnic and game with the severa days at Gold - - - - - last ■ Portland for over a week. Beach mors through Pilot Class a .D. time and pine for heh ri ng of ob- Crescent Citx* team. week when the young man had June exams. jections thereto and settlement Mrs. Roy Brimm was rushed. his tonsils removed. thereof. June Tuesday evening to Seaside hos- Pilot Classified Ads Get Mrs. Violet Bramlex of Nott pital. Dated and first published Max' June 5 Bacca lau reate at the nt City, with xvhat 26. 1949. You Quick Results Community church. 8 p.m. ingham. England, and Miss Helen to be an attack of■ Margison of Hollywood, spent a appendicitis. No word was re- Date of last publication. June! June Final exams, They are low-cost way of ten number of < 23, 1919. | June 9 H picnic. there when this pa-1 ing what you want, or have to xi sit ing Gee Hall and John per went to June 10 nencement. sell. They bring results, too! Ge o Hall families. Miss Br a the Pilot today’ attend Brookings high niece of the two Halls Realty Transfers School Notes LOCAL NEWS Notice of Final Account
