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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1949)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1949 First-Day Sign-up Equals z48 Record School enrollment for the cur èrent year about equals that of ▼last year, Lynn Hampton inform ed the Pilot Wednesday morning. There will, as in the past, be a few late pupils in enrollment. On Monday the classes stood: Seniors ................................... 19 Juniors ................................... 18 Sophomores .......................... 25 Freshmen ............................... 26 Total for high school 88 First Grade ................ Second Grade ........... Third Grade .............. Fourth Grade ............ Fifth Grade ................ Sixth Grade .................. Seventh Grade ............ Eighth Grade ............... 39 35 26 29 25 35 20 18 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS, OREGON Bruce Shavere, manager of the Coos-Curry Electric Co-operative, Coquille, was a business visitor in this area Wednesday. He said bids will be opened Monday for construction of line from Cali fornia to Gold Beach. Plans for the first annual Hal lowe’en party to be staged by the “All-Year Events Association,” will be completed and announced within the next two or three) weeks. Entertainment features will be furnished by the local P.-T. A. qnit. Mr. and Mrs. Leo VanDolson let t Tuesday for California on a vacation trip of two weeks. Along Azalea Row From across the* continent comes news of interest to all who attended the Azalea Festival, and Azalea Garden Club congrat ulates Sidney Armer, whose, graceful painting of the matilija Total for Ggrades 227 poppy appears on the cover of j Total for School .. 315 the August edition of the Jour-j To Institute This Week nal of the New’ York Botanical Opening week of school was Garden. Inside is an explanatory cut short as the teachers left late note which speaks for itself. Wednesday for Coquille where the will attend a two-day insti tute. Classes vyill resume Monday. LOCAL NEWS C. 0. LEONARD L. L LEONARD Brokers . Complete Beal Estate Service NOTARY PUBLIC CLAUD WRIGHT, Salesman Bo? ¿11 South end of town Brookings, Oregon Just Listed! acre for beach home site — This is no BLUFF! But right on the ocean. Ground ready for building and landscap ing—best clamming and fishing at your front or back door. • * • Exceptionally well built 6-room • and bath, electricity. Staled with firtex and masonite. Not com pletely finished on outside. Good view’. Large trees, electricity. To tal price $3750, $1000 down, bal ance $50 per month, including interest. About four miles from Harbor just off Hwy 101. * * * 2’o acres with live stream, over looking ocean. This is truly a beautiful building spot. The total price has been greatly reduced to only $1575. ♦ * * Buy 3 acres in the heart of Brookings for only $3950—will throw in nice practically new house—fronts on two graveled streets. Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! * * * Have large house, 6 acres, good soil, fine well, close to Brookings. Want trade for something with stream, on upper Chetco for mink and game raising. Will make real proposition. * * * Some good stock ranches of all sizezs for sale. Good terms. • • • Over 1000 acres for good stock ranch, really priced right. We Work With SPEED to Fill Your NEED!.......... but we would not have them back for a little while. We enjoy being alone for ’tis autumn and the leaves are dry. the rustle on the ground’ and we run ahead to meet the winter rains in our preparations. It is pickle-making time, and winter garden time, and wo are busy preserving ami conserving. There’s t*iat word again! Conservation! Women are ghuq guuu u: Turning i tuning but naturally good ui at it! canning fruits, preparing compost heaps. Making do. They practice conservation in their homes and turn with enlightened efforts to community and national! resources. Plenty here to learn' about in forestry and fish and game laws. Seeing sixty fishing boats at work off our shore the other day made me wonder just how much the catch was, and if, it would curtail future fishing opportunities. I’d like to be bet ter informed on this subject of conservation of our natural re- sources. Accompanying Mrs. Dorothy Lockland around on a tour of our two new schools today, I was wide-eyed in admiration of ont' PAGE FIVE of our efforts toward improve-- m mt of our natural resources, fhose children of ours, and our friends. First up the hill to the new Seventh-Day Adventist grade school where we met the new teacher, Mrs. Harriett Turvey, a sweet-faced woman, capable ap- pearing and intelligent, and view ed the new school which the la- her of love hath wrought. Built bx the minister and members of the congregation, it was almost small counterpar in modern facilities of the larger school dow n below. If you havt ”’t visited both these school to do so and see them. Schools have changed since this grandmother in th e fust grade. Not furbelows, but prac tical common-sense improvements a real investment in our young people who will feel an added sense of responsibility and dig nity in such surroundings, we hope. It is a school worthy of Brookings. B? sure to see the home econ- »mies rocm, the rest rooms, and the little people’s rooms, so well-equipped and all painted to reduce glare. WHY THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD STRIKE? Gene Gould and Carroll Reek- man left Sunday for Eugene to enroll at University of Oregon. Carroll will enter his sophomore year, while Gene is a junior. Are you looking for highway I frontage within a half mile of Brookings? Just listed fine busi ness site with new’ house and garage, unfinished. Real buy at $3000. Some terms. * * * “The C o v e r Picture. Photo graphed by Janet Armer, the il lustration of the matilija poppy (Romneya Coulteri) on this month’s cover is taken from a water color painting by Sidney Armer of Fortuna, Calif. This is one of sixteen of Mr. Armor’s flower painting on exhibit in the rotunda of the Garden’s museum building during the summer. Mr. Armor, who is retired commet cial artist, was awarded a silver medal by the Horticultural So- city of New York when his paint ings w-re exhibited there within the past year. Another group of selections of his work was on view last spring at the Azalea Festival in Brookings, Oregon. Several of his painting are owned by western museums.” Thank you, Mr. Armor, this is the kind of publicity we like. An acknowledgment of work well done. Our efforts are observed, our friends and guests go from here, the circle of knowledge about our seaside community is widening. House guests have gone from ‘‘Weedy Acres”, and are missed, The World's Best Climate Over twenty years ago, the Congress of the United States passed the Railway Labor Act. It was hailed by union leaders as a model for the settlement of labor disputes. of the Brotherhood of President Truman’s Board Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood Condemns Strike of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, and the There is an established legal method for Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen on tl>e handling disputes involving existing writ Missouri Pacific Rail wad have refused to ten contracts—just as there is such a avail themselves of the peaceful means method of settling any contract dispute provided by this Act for settling their dis which you may have in your daily life. putes. They insist that they be the sole The 1'resident of the United States ap umpire of their own disputes over tire pointed a Fact Finding Board to investi meaning of contracts. gate and adjust the Missouri Pacific dis pute. This Board reported, in part, as follows: There is no Need for Strikes he leaders T With all of the available methods for the interpretation of contracts, there is no need for a strike or even a threat of a strike, but the leaders of these railroad unions have ignored the ordinary pro cedures established by law and insist upon imposing their own interpretations of their contracts by means of a strike. The wheels have stopped rolling on the Missouri Pacific. They may stop rolling on other railroads at any time. Recently the Wabash Railroad was forced to dis continue operation for several days under similar circumstances. What are These Strikes About? These strikes and strike threats are not about wage rates or hours. They result from disputes over the meaning of exist ing contracts. They cover claims for a full day’s pay for less than a day’s work, or for payments for services performed by others who were fully paid for the work done. “... it is with a deep sense of regret that we are obliged to report the failure of our mis sion. it seems inconceivable to us that a coercive strike should occur on one of the nation’s major transportation systems, with all of the losses and hardships that would follow, in view of the fact that the Railway Labor Act provides an orderly, efficient and complete remedy for the fair and just set tlement of the matters in dispute. Griev ances of the character here under discussion are so numerous and of such frequent occur rence on all railroads that the general adop tion of the policy pursued by the organiza tions in this case would soon result in the complete nullification of the Railway Labor Act. . . .” Obviously the railroads cannot be run efficiently or economically if the leaders of the unions ignore agreements or laws. Provisions of the Law which are Disregarded There are five ways under the Railway Labor Act to set t ie disputes over the mean ing of contracts: 1 —Leribion by National Railroad Ad justment Board. 2—Decision by System Adjustment Board for the specif c railroad. 3—] )cci.‘ ion by arbitration. 4—-Decision by neutral referee. 5—Decision by courts. Tie Missouri Pacific Railroad has been and is entirely willing to have these' dis putes sett led in accordance with the re- quirt men is of He Railway I ahcr Act. Regardless of this fact, Hie union leaders have shut down that railroad. Innocent Bystanders Suffer Losses and Hard: flips T here are about 5,GOO engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen on the Missouri Pacific. They are known as ’’oiwrating” employes, and are the most highly paid of all employes on the nat ion’s railroads, but their strike action has resulted in the loss of work to 22,500 other employes of the Missouri Pacific. In addition, they have imposed great inconvenience and hard ship upon the public and tlie communities served by that railroad. The Railway Labor Act was designed to protect the public against just such in terruptions of commerce. If these men will not comply with the provisions of the law for the settlement of such disputes, then all thinking Americans must face the ques tion, “What is the next step?* R ailroad ' s
