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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT Pilot Readers Register Complaint A group of citizens has come to the Pilot office with a complaint. The group complains (1) that logging and lumber trucks drive through Brookings at unlawful rates of speed, that some of the drivers sound their horns at all hours ot the day and night and that some of the trucks are either unequipped with mufflers or unreasonably open up these mufflers when they pass through here; (2) that the speed limit set for Brookings is not obeyed by the general trav- eling public, (3) that motorists unlawfully park their auto- mobiles in Brookings, <4) that Greyhound buses and com- Entered as second-class matter, at the postoffice at Brookings, Ore. March 7, 1946. under the Act of March 3, 1879. DEWEY AKERS, Editor and Publisher National Advertising Representative NEWSPAPER A INVERT I NG SERVICE. INC* IM W Randolph — Chicco I. H. , mercial trucks are being driven there without regard tor the courtesies of the road and at excessive rates ol speed. This group has requested the Pilot to publicize its com plaint in order that the situation may be corrected by those who are at fault. If the situation cannot be locally corrected the group has asserted that it shall petition N A Ï ¡ O N â L 0 R E cW)N 0 Sffihp E R P ublishers ^U socìatior Subscription Rate: Per Year, in Curry County, Oregon Per Year, outside Curry County...... IT SEEMS TO ME THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1949 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON PAGE TWO ... The World's Best Climate $2.50 $3.00 s= ■■■■-< this new course. She is, from ap pearances, easy to meet, and cap able in her work. The new school plant, which certainly will relieve the con gestion in the schools, will be open for inspection. Certainly it should please us to see what our money has gone to build, and where our children will be housed for seven hours a day, five days a week for nine months of the year. Those of the district who do not have children should come, also. The visit might convince you that this area has grown— has outgrown the old school sys tem and plant. It will show you how we have progressed in this area, almost despite ourselves. THAT'S RIGHT . . . the governor for relief. In this controversy the Pilot is not taking sides. As a medium of news the Pilot is offering this complaint for whatever it may be worth and shall print any communica tions, received by it, by any citizen who feels that the com- at Eureka, Saturday, and while there purchased three guinea pigs from which he expects to start S a 4-H project. His arm, broken at Curry County Fair, is healing nicely, he says. | Mr. and Mrs. Tom Yocum were week-end visitors at their farm near Grants Pass, arriving home late Sunday evening. WOOD! Stove length, fireplace and heater, in old growth fir. 2-cord loads for $24 Leave Orders at Leonard's WOOD! I plaint is not correct. Among truck drivers operating out of this communit are some of the most efficient and careful drivers on our highways. Our loggers are a public spirited group who are always anxious and willing to work for the best interests of the public. Our automobile drivers are conscientious and law-abiding. Our children are about to start their school year. More of them will be on our streets. If traffic viola tions are endangering their lives then we must stop these traffic violations. If traffic violations are existing in Brook ings the Pilot feels that public opinion can, and will, cor rect the situation and shall not require outside assistance in so doing. This is an earnest plea. ty tin cans, old paper plates, decaying food and those thous and and one other articles which free Americans discard after they have finished a picnic. One of these days some cur ious cow, that has fallen into an empty silo, is going to get the surprise of its bovine life when it discovers that it is being pulled out of the hole as beefsteek. Its exterior was not gaudy and its inside was quite neat, And it was constantly in use throughout the day. To those, who had use for it, no doubt it was a treat To linger there and while the time away. A path was leading to it worn smooth by hurrying feet And it stood there, quite alone, in all its glory. In going to and from it the fam ily oft would meet. It’s been many times, the theme of song and story. But today I looked out at and to my eyes came tears As I saw tiie workmen hauling it away. Now I entreat The retention of a memory, all through the coming years, For that little old outhouse across the street. A new kind of an outfit has sprung up in Washington, D. C. Its advertising st ts forth the information that it will handle the cases of all citizens who are in trouble with the government. It should get a plenty of business. Mother get out of the wash tub, fill up the bath tub, too. Johnny is home from the fair. Californians Seek New Home Site The answers to everyday Insurance Problems* By Pete Lesmeister ■ QUESTION: Recently we suf fered a fire loss which was paid by our insurance com pany. Note a friend tells me that my insurance policy ex pired with the settlement and I must take out a new policy. Is this true? "Scientifically, the belief that Mr. and Mrs. Beasley, retired seven years of ill fortune must poultry and egg producers and ANSWER: Not entirely unless Rex Hayes, owner of Cedar follow the breaking of a mirror extensive walnut growers of Po is on a par with the belief that the insurance company paid Lane Cannery, recently opened mona, Calif., have been visiting a dried spider, enclosed in a hazel the full amount of the policy. just south of Harbor for all kinds nut shell and thus worn as an When an insurance company several days in Brookings. For of canning, including vegetables it amulet, will ward off fevers.” the past two years they have been , pays you for a fire loss, and fruits, was in the Pilot office From New Orleans, Item, New deducts the amount paid you driving up and down, back and last week, to have printed sev Orleans, La.: On this point we are from the amount of the pol forth throughout the United eral thousand labels for salmon willing to go along with the icy. Thus, if you had a ten States, searching for a suitable cans. While working out "copy” writer. Now, for the purpose of thousand dollar policy and the location for a permanent home. for these labels, there was a of proving his point and showing company paid you five thous In Portland they were told that and dollars, you would still section which he wished devoted his audience that there is noth have five thousand dollars in somewhere between Port Orford to use for boosting the commun ing to this old looking-glass su perstition, it is suggested that our ity as a whole. and the state line they would insurance. However, you should Southern brother deliberately insurance agent about having more nearly find the object of "What’s your slogan f” he in bieak a mirror. your policy changed to give their search than elsewhere in quired. "I want something in- you adequate protection again. The A. P. reports the attend Oregon. Having heretofore vis I! eluding the slogan about winter ance of sailors, from an Amer ited both sides of Brookings, *If you"ll address your own flowers.” So, on one end of the ican fleet which is anchored in local people hope these people insurance questions to this of label appears "Canned in the the Spanish port of El Ferrell fice, we'll try to give you the here will fund a home that will heart of the county of winter Del Caudille, at a bull fight correct answers and there'll provide them with contentment flowers." Nothing more, but that held at LaCoruna stadium. The be no charge or oblibation of and peace for their remaining /I. P. says, "The sailors lost lit th bit will be read, in time to years. While here they were din any kind. their hats in the stadium but Come by hundreds of people Iw- when they left LaCoruna mosf ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. mg cross the United States. PETE J. of them had a señorita on their W. Marsh. H"V comes Rex Hayes, who' arms." We devoutly hope that, has maintained a cannery at later on, our boys did not lose j REAL ESTATE BROKER [ Wedderburn for many years, to their heads. j Crissey Building Brookings: this community, and already he A majority of our states have Jerry Anderson was a caller IS trying to boost it to the world. passed laws prohibiting hitch How many of the remainder of hikers from thumbing rides our highways. If you uh tn this community could pat- along don't believe this just drive tern alter his example? Made me out over the highways and ob lv» 1 that 1 was negligent in my serve those hitchhikers who are duty, yes it really did thumbing rides. Rt r fold me that he was yo- A contract bridge experts says, “When playing bridge, women ing to get into ‘gift packages' of players always show more of salmon as a big business. He has their cards than men players." a mailing list of some ten or Women always sh ow more more thousands of people who _ _ . ...FOR CHURCHES than men. unll be likely to send out pack ages of canned salmon they had The fish are leaving the Eng lish channel. All those swim UTE-WATE R caught and had him san. With mers. who are paddling back these labels boosting this com and forth between Dover and munity as they will, certainly he Calais, are crowding the fish ★ Beauty has set a pace for some of us out of their home waters. it Fire Safety FOR SCHOOLS While watching a friend off ★ Insulation ‘natives' to follow. Don't you be- Sinclair Weeks, former senator ★ Durability lieve f ★ Weatherproof new from Massachusetts, has been last Friday on the bus, Mrs. Kathryn Sandstrom stepped on “Afo ofAw building material afUn chosen by the Republicans to head the coming campaign for a round rock, turned her ankle, io muth lot m little How many of you expect to go election of G. O. P. congress falling on her left arm. In the to the school either Thursday af men. Success looms in the off- fall both bones of her forearm ternoon or evening to view the ifig for the Grand Old Party. were snapped near the wrist. ~ • • • K» BUILDING? « mmmciai new plant, and to meet the teach Dafoili and Istimatet Now it is just a matter of In recounting her experience ers? It might do a lot of us much Weeks. to the Pilot, she wished a note good. We can see. first hand, the Harris State Park, adjacent to stating she would be unable to place, the type of training and Brookings, is one of the most care for her beauty shop for such that our children will be beautiful parks on the Pacific the next five or six weeks, at Coast. A new road through the receiving this year. least. "It ’ s terrible that a beau Home economics has been add park enhances its value as a ty operator has trouble combing place for recreation. Local res ed this year. Then, you will have idents should hasten and avail her own hair, but I'm thankful an opportunity to meet Miss Doris themselves of its use before its it was my left hand instead of KENNETH THOMPSON, Langlois, Oregon Jean Stewart, who will teach! beach is cluttered up with emp- the right.” Curry County Representative By Dewey Mrs. Sandstrom Broke Left Arm j ! LESMEISTER LOCAL NEWS with Smithwick PUMICE BLOCK Smith wick
