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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON PAGE TWO ... The World’s Best Climate BROOKiNGS-HARBOR PILOT 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 Ad va ritti ng Representative MWSPAPEH AnX^nTlfclNC i*n *H.I.*»* o( th* • ) SERVICE. INC Editor^ A moor I kxn Serving America’» Adverti^ers^and^the Home Town Newspaper» It» W Randolph — Chicago I. » • OFFICI» • Hofcrook Wdg.. Son Franche*. C< Subscription Rate Per Year, in Curry County, Oregon °er Year, outside Curry County...... IT SEEMS TO ME ¡ITUZ.«1 By Dewey The trip to Seaside last Wed nesday, and the return Sunday convinced me that southwestern Oregon certainly has much ad vantages in way of weather over the counties north of Coos. You may say that I am biased (and I may be somewhat) but after leaving Reedsport 1 never felt any wind that seemed to lift the car, or try to tip it over. Bet ween Seaside and Cannon Beach, on a road which would make the Brookings-Gold Beach stretch seem straight, there were times that the old Plymouth was actually shoved across the yel low line in spite of all I could do to hold it in the right hand lane. Rain came in gusts. like the w t n d. and swipe seemed effectual. lamook, in a flat valley, \\ ater forced to (and getting deeper) for a dis- tance ol some quarter milt'. Tht experience gave you a queer sen you never Kation inasmuch Were sure ot your position on the roadbed, You looked ahead and tried to fathom the road course as liest you could. After leaving Otis Junction. until we called it a day. Sufur- day evening, at Taft, the wind, hurricane in strength. Level ground made the old motor lug as if it were quite a steep hill, Stopped at the Pints hotel for dinner, and the night. The Bray- tons entertained us royally dur ing dinner hour. They had pans over the dining room in spots where the rain actually seem to be blown through the glass. Their apartment is but a short distance from the hotel, and they were drenching wet before they went scarcely a half block, after the dinner was over. The next Morning (Sunday) Everett •aid he never recalled such a driving storm in his life. Southward from Taft to New port, Sunday, while there was no rain, the wind uas slightly strongt r than a breeze. Cars, on tht highway, zig-zagged craz- $2.50 $3.00 Uy as they approached you. From Newport to Florence, away from the coast some of the time, the wind never caused us any par- titular worry. To Reedsport, the wind seemed to quiet down to a breeze, and near North Bend, the sun made quite a valiant, although feeble, effort to shine. From Bandon to Gold Beach we saw considerable sun. From Port Orford southward, while there were plenty evidence of rain, the intensity seemed to lessen, the father southward we drove. Only on that exposed cape near Port Orford was the wind really strong. Football games, Saturday, cept to partisan fans, were dis- astrous to the West Coast lis- toners. Notre Dame toyed with Southern Caliofrnia in a game which simply “froze" •w a r m- blooded Ca I i forn ia n s. With Bill St erm doing partisan annou nc- ing, one would gather that USC was little better than a fourth- rate squad at South Bend. Bon Considine, in his descrip tion of the Army-Navy game, referred to the navy as getting its second congressional treat ment. While navy played vali antly, it never once had any chance, to make first downs, to say nothing of touchdowns. THAT'S RIGHT . . . Canasta has gone to the discs. We can now play on our phono- wo canasta records, named (1) How to They Play Canasta, and (2) Outwit ting Your Opponent. We do not know how to play canasta but and discovered sure way to outwit an opponent in a card game. We have some« Aody turn off the light when we are dealing the cards. The Fesno. Calif., district man ager of the Reclamation Bu reau says. “I can’t, for the life of me, see how you can take something, that he has never had. from somebody.” The man- ager should talk the matter with some god lawyer. Then he uxmld see. Then there was the man who was so full of talk that every time he was asked the time' of day he was always an hour late. It took him an hour to’ answer the question. Senator Taft complains that it would cost the government tu'elve billion dollars a year to juiy one hundred dollars a num th pension to every person, in itur country, over the age of sixty years. So what* Each year ut are giving foreign na tions a sum in e-rces« of twelve billion dollars. California now has approxi mately four million registered, automobiles. The population of this state is twelve million. If the golden state were to pass a law that providl'd each au tomobile should contain a min-j imum of three persons it’d immediately become the safest state in the union. There’d be no pedestrians. When it rains I go outside and set but it ain’t no use. I just get wet. But if it rained gold I wonder why, if I sat outside, I’d just keep dry. One motion picture star, com menting on several lush gents who are also members of the acting profession, says of these bulbous thespians, “They all add luster to the screen.” Yea, bo, they polish off the screen with alcohol. When all seems lost, when hope has died, when the future ap pears without promise, that is the moment to buckle up the belt and tenaciously hold on. History is filled with stories of the reward that has been reap ed from such conduct. Such a story surrounds Elizabeth, the great queen of England. Bloody Mary, “sovereign” of Britain, had decreed that her half-sis ter, Elizabeth, was guilty of heresy, and ordered that she be hung? drawn and quartered and the pieces of her body placed on spikes above Lon don’s gates. Confined in a fil thy cell, surrounded by prison rats, Elizabeth was awakened, on the morning of the day set for execution, by a great noise outside her cell door. The door opened, Elizabeth stepped out into the corridor, and there be- for her were assembled the no- bility of England. Bowing be- fore her, they hailed her as their queen. Bloody Mary had died the night before. People who live in glass houses keep nothing from t h e i r neighbors. Advising the love lorn, an ex pert in the field of human rela tions saiys, “If your sweetheart has left you treat it lightly. If he comes back to you treat it as if nothing had happened.” The expert seems to be run- ning around in a circle, The boy friend probably left be- cause nothing happened. We has just read about the remarkable incident that hap pened to a girl resident of our national capital. She went for a ride, in a bus, around Wash- ington and the next day she woke up in a hotel in New York. She said that this was a great surprise to her be- cause she did not know how she got to New York. Maybe she got to New York by the same method of transporta tion used by her historic pre decessor, t h e glamorous gal who went swimming in Mon terey Bay and sometime there after, found herself in the mid dle of an Arizona desert. Unless the Republican party gets the lead out of its pants it is going to wake up some morning, in the near future, and discover that it has ac quired some new neighbors. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1949 ing season was held at the Har Such as the dod bird, the two- bor home of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. toed horse, t h e ichthyosaur, Craig. and Pith yea n t ropus. Recently, of an evening, some Fourteen guests were present, body broke into a San Mateo including four generations: MrSjJ drug store. The next morning Damewood, mother of Mrs. he druggist discovered this en- g Craig; Mrs. W. S. Craig; her try. But this was not all he two sons, Don Craig and family discovered. He found that;of Brookings and Kenneth Craig whomever h a d entered h i s anj family of Walla Walla. Wash,- store had taken nothing there- The great-grandmother, Mrs. from. Instead the prowler had Damewood> of Selma, is 80. and tilled up the empty spaces, on j youngest of the seven great- the store shelves, with a new grandchildren are twin girls, 19 stock of goods. The druggist months old. asserts this new stock did not come f rom his supply room, From where it came he know- eth not. We have just had an occasion to view the empty shelves in our pantry. We men tion this fact just in case there is a San Mateo prowler in this community. Hans Eisler has written an an them. Eisler is the bird who re cently took a powdeer and fled to Poland. He had been sen tenced to serve time for com munist activities in America, but jumped his bail and got away from Uncle. The first line of this commissar ditty goes, “Arise from the ruins.” Behind the iron curtain, the peoples of the satellite coun tries should not experience so much difficulty in obeying Eis- We sell only high quality Pitts lev's command. The Kremlin burgh Paints made with "vitalized has given them a lot of ruins oils" to keep your home better looking longer. Come in for infor- / rom which to arise. motion and advice on any painting Ever since that day, when problem. money was first used as a med ium of exchange among men, Wallhlde there has existed an accepted Flat Wall method of showing gratitude Paint and appreciation. The value of today is measured by its contribution to tomor- row. Oh, Pistol River, where the cool, clear, crystal water flowed, What has become of that new Com* hi tur i _ . highway, the South Bank Road? **C©lor Oyn- ’ î’jrn*.** River of lazy moments with the promise of new beauties ’round Curry County each bend, Where has your South Bank road Lumber Co. meandered to, where does it end? Stream of eternal beauty, surg ing through canyons beneath the heaven blue, We ask, because w£ know not where your South Bank Road The answers to everyday has gone. Do you? Insurance Problems* Ziffer )èar- PITTSBURGH PAINTS Coo^ L onger / $4.16 • i n Play Postponed Because basketball, volleyball and other school activities com ing before the Christmas holi days, the junior class has de cided to postpone its play, “Bolts and Nuts,” to January 12, the Pilot was informed. Monday. Further details will appear in future issues of the Pilot. Four Generations At Family Affair One of the most pleasant fam ily re-unions of this Thanksgiv »4 H i I - r v*■ II ■ * —■ ■■ .1 • ■ I .... « ■ I m * ■ «—I. « ■ — — «* — I ■ « By Pete Lesmeister Question: We belong to a so cial group of about twenty couples and each couple takes a turn as hosts for a house party at which the others arc guests. Martha, a local maid of all work, always helps with the serving and cleaning up at the home home where the party is given. Last week Mar tha slipped, going dounstairs to the basement party room and although she wasn’t hurt some of our group thought we should take out some sort of insurance covering our lia bility in such an accident. Is Employer's Liability the prop er kind* Answer. Employer’s Liability insurance covers your legal li ability in accidents to sen- ants but it would be much simpler for each couple to own Comprehensive Personal Liability coverage. That sort of policy covers your liability for accidents to part time servants and gives a lot of additional protection for very small premium. No family should be without it. < PETE J. LESMEISTER REAL EETATE BROKER ^Crissey Building Brookings
