BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
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BROOKiNGS-HARBOR PILOT
Entered as second-class matter, at the postoffice at Brookings, Ore..
March 7, 1946. under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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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*
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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
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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.
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PETE J.
LESMEISTER
REAL EETATE BROKER
^Crissey Building
Brookings