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
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, 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
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1949
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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.
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Yocum were
week-end visitors at their farm
near Grants Pass, arriving home
late Sunday evening.
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Stove length, fireplace and
heater, in old growth fir.
2-cord loads for $24
Leave Orders at Leonard's
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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.
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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
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. ...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
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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.
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« 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
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