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PAGE TWO .. The World's Best Climate THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1950 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON one who has a fire. There are resentative for Hiram Walker so many things, worthless to a Corporation, was a brief caller m great many of us about a home this area, Monday. Entered as second-class matter, at the postoffice at Brookings, Ore., but these things hold untold in March 7, 1946. under the Act of March 3, 1879. trinsic value for the owners. A J few pictures of the relatives of J DEWEY AKERS, Editor and Publisher another generation is a good er-j for past week, ending on ample of this. Sunday: Max. Min. Rain Houses may be repain'd, fur- 39 .22 ...48 niture may be replaced, and new?'arc 13 40 .54 .01 14 SEBVICE. INC NEWSPAPER AD paint is always easily applied, rjarc 39 .53 15 but these cost more than one is Marc 45 ..52 2.07 ever able to receive from insur March 16 46 .54 .10 17 March ance. It is my sincere hope that 43 ..50 2.26 March 18 this community will be as gen 46 .58 .08 erous Saturday as it has in the March 19 Rainfall for week . 4.74 past. A dollar will not break a 41 .49 .09 person of the area, but it would March 20 46 53 .51 21 March Subscription Rate: be a boon to the victims. 41 56 Rest oration of a home means March 22 Per Year, in Curry County, Oregon $2.50 40 .50 23 .65 March more to a .community that may, per Year, outside Curry County...... $3.00 38 .46 .25 March 24 at first meet the eye. The res-| 38 .47 March 25 toration of a home is like the 41 47 .48 re-welding of a link in a chain—। March 26 . 2.91 Rainfall for week the chain will remain intact—, A letter from Charles Hassett, sophomore at University of Washing- 11.78 Rainfall in March it will be the same strength. By Dewey jng, telling of his experiences, as graduate of Curry County schools, January Rainfall 23.97 February Rainfall 11.41 tells better than anyone, the side of the people affected by the Was I glad to learn the reac 1950 rainfall to March 26. . 50.44 tion of a graduate of Brookings so-called economy drive in the schools of the county. Heretofore, high, now' in college, concerning] it seems only one side of the story has been presented—that of' the standards of the schools of taxpayers who do not care to understand any side but theirs. Curry County, and Oregon in COQUILLE The manager The letter, included in this column, should be self-explanatory:1 general, when Charlie Hassett of the Coos-Curry Electric conservatively told all of us the Osteopathic Physician Co-operative, Inc., with of 1738 Bradner Place, Apartment 181, Seattle 44, Wash. struggle he was having to mas fices here, received a tele Hours 10 a. m. to 5 p. m'. Editor, Pilot: I read, with interest, your editorial in the March ter college work. Please, Pilot gram from the Rural Elect Open Evenings 7:00 to 9:00 16 issue of the Pilot, concerning sub-standard in Brookings schools. readers, remember that Charlie rication Administration, on Let me tell you what I, a graduate of Brookings High School, have is a mature man, he has a defi March 24, approving the con On Hwy 101 nite goal in mind, plus a lot of struction of 32.7 miles of had to face since entering College. determination to reach that goal 69kv transmission line from As a major in meteorology, I am required to take mathematics not so with most graduates of t the California-Oregon state Mail Address dis- through differential and integral calculus, and nearly two years high school who will become line to Gold Beach, Ore. couraged after a quarter in col- Smith River California The low' bidder on this con of college physics. Furthermore, I am required to have had two lege. struction was the Del Monte This much I wish to point out years of foreign language in high school. 1 found myself deficient Construction Co., and was im in all three of the aforenamed subjects because of the facts that to Pilot Readers, too. Geometry mediately notified of the ap and algebra are now being in proval. Construction should they were not offered sufficiently in Brookings. NORINE HARVEY cluded on the curriculum cf the get under way within the At Oregon State College, I had to begin with advanced algebra local schools, but to date only next 30 days. accredited teacher and plane geometry, both of w hich were pre-requisites to the fun-'^^16^^ science and biology m t _ ... ' the limit of science available. It damental college physics course. In the following winter term I j nof iikejy that physics will be oi W’as permitted to begin physics without having had any in high' available for at least another Attorney Ed F. Ackley was1 school, but it was a struggle competing with students w’ho had been Vca,'f an^ n°t then unless the called to San Francisco on bus-j budget committee includes it 14 m prepared for the course, in high school. Furthermore, in order to iness, Wednesday. He will return the budget. complete the three-term sequence in physics and elementary anal-j More than 30 years ago, when the first of the week. Studio Building o John Holden, state sales rep- ysis Hirst year college jnath) it became necessary for me to con I was in high school, we were able to hate quite a selection of ( Brookings, Ore^ tinue studying through the summer in order to qualify for soph- courses, any of which were suf- omore standing the following year at University of Washington. ficent to gain college entrance. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF - At University of Washington I was immediately notified that I. My old high school had no more THE STATE OF OREGON, t enrollment than Brookings, and must take three quarters of German to clear my deficiency in I IN AND FOR CURRY COUN little if more assessed valuation foreign language. Ordinarily only two quarters are required in1 from which to finance this pro-| TY. Myrtle Hobson, plaintiff, vs. the field of humanities (art, music, language, etc.) but I am faced gram. How ever, we were afforded with the problem of taking three to clear my deficiency and two in! more courses than we are today. Thomas Francis Hobson, defend The answers to everyday In addition, for those who did not ant. Insurance Problems^ addition. Incidentally, the University gave me no academic credit care to go to college, a com To: Thomas Francis Hobson, By Pete Lesmeister whatsoever for the plane geometry which had taken about 132 plete commercial course, almost | defendant: equivalent to a business college, I IN THE NAME OF THE| hours ol my time at Oregon State College. was available. STATE OF OREGON: Ycu are College instructors have no pity for students who come poorly Personally, I'd like t o hea" required to answer the complaint taught on a fixed * high level, and the from some of the more recent filed against you in the above prepared. and cause within student has to lift himself to that level, preferably while in high graduates, now attending col court lege, as Joan Byrne. Marilyn four weeks from March 16. 1950. school, or be lost in the confusion of half-understanding. 81 ruebin g. and others. They may date of first publication hereof, The courses you outlined in your editorial are essential, in my be just as enlightening as tins and jf you fail so to answer on opinion, not only lor those who go to college, but also for every- Charlie Hassett. Knowing these or before the last day prescribed Question. I understand there young people as we do. it is aoihn the order for publication here- is a form of automobile in world of natural sciences. Physics one else who has to live in our likely that they would tell us of April 6th, 1950. for w ant surance for fire and theft was taught at Brookings some twenty years ago why not now? anything but the truth abot t the thereof, plaintiff will take jud; which specifically states the prepaartion this school offers to' ment against you, and will ap-: amount of insurance rather - Sincerely, Charles Hassett. — ------ -- the relief court * r for than given as "actual cash Charles Hassett, a returned GI. who has mapped out a future meet the demands of college life. ply to ** the demanded in said complaint, suc value at the time of loss." for himself, i typical of the young men and women facing the Isn’t it an admirable trait of cinctly; that the marriage con- i Why isn't the specific value world today, As a marine during World War 2, Charles certainly people, when someone suffers a tract and bonds of matrimony ex policy a better one for the average person to buy At was given th fundamentals in training for war. No excuses or loss that everyone wishes to do isting between you and plaintiff something to ease the pain of be dissolved. Service hereof is least you’d know exactly mistakes are permitted in that phase. that loss? I am referring to the made upon you by publication in what you’d get in case of But to face life, it seems that a dollar sign is placed before the proposed "Dig Deep Dance," to* the Brookings-Harbor Pilot, pub loss. lished in Brookings, Curry Coun- ’ be staged Saturday to help the the citizens of tomorrow prepare people who wish to educate and Answer. matter what Campbell family, hit by fire last ty, Oregon, for four successive —those people who some day will decide whether or not this na Saturday night. While the house weeks by order of said court amount is stated in the pol tion, and probably the world, will remain free tor mankind. What is not a pile of ashes, damage made March 7th, 1950. icy. the insurance company will not settle for more than ED F. ACKLEY, Attorney was almost as complete. will lie Curry Countys answer to this problem? For Plaintiff. Insurance unit not begin to the actual cash value at the No nation has ever risen above its educational system. This may cover damages such as th it suf Post office address, Box 625, time of oss. No settlement re- Brookings, Oregon. will be made in such a way fered by the Campbells, or any- also said of any state, county or school district. Education, as to give the insured a profit gardless of the so-called promises of this nation, is not free—it has from an accident or to be paid for at a price that has been expensive ever since the kind of loss. nation declared its independence. At that time value of education ♦1/ you'll address your own was emphasized. Since that time many groups have tried desper insurance questions to this of- flee, wt 'll try to give you the ately to de-emphasize educational advantages. There are millions correct answers and there'll of ways to cut costs, and not at the exiamse of the youth. be no charge or oblibation of any kind. First among these way, let the Pilot suggest that no state, county BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT IT SEEMS TO ME Weather Report * Local Student Explains His Handicaps! Line Bid Given REA Approval Dr. Silvia Challonet ; At State Line LOCAL NEWS PIANO SUMMONS Itou ipu Know! or community seek funds from the federal government for build' ing highway, harbors, postoftices, federal buildings, and such. Let us, if we do not have the money available, forego the pleaseures of highways airports, harlxHs and dozens of other government money grants which jump taxes. Make sense? PETE J. LESMFISTER Real Estate and Insurance Crissey Building Brookings
