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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1950
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON
The Home of Winter Flowers
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
The Pilot will open its columns
to those who wish to write their
ideas concerning a pool, meth
ods of achieving, and such. All
hitters offering reasonable so
lutions, will be published.
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I am told that Mrs. Clara
Kerns, well up in years, Sat
urday, disregarded her heart ail
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Mrs. Kerns, busy with unloading
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to realize what had happened un
til the girls had gone to their
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was doing, rushed to the scene to
dive deep and quite often to res
cue the body of one of the vic
tims. I am cognizant of the fact
An incident, Saturday, brought home to people of this area that all was done that could be
that swimming instruction is important—immensely important. It done to bring back life by arti
ficial respiration, and that the
cannot be emphasized too much, the value of swimming, and the resuscitator was rushed to the
value of life-saving knowledge. Those two little girls, who are no spot as quickly as possible, but
longer with us, never realized what water might do. They thought nothing could be accomplished.
Children are so thoughtless —
they could swim and perhaps cold, to a certain extent.
they seem to realize no danger
People who live near the ocean, or near rivers inherit a re- | , and this incident is not the fir^t
bpect for the water. Most of them learn to swim and become ex time that they have caught the
pert at swimming hut this knowledge makes them all the more adults “flat-footed” to rush into
tragedy. Back in my youth 1 was
cautious of the power of water and its dangers.
perhaps no better, although 1
Mrs. Kerns, who was with the two girls at the time, had no was always fortunate in that I
^Chance to actually save them. At the risk of her own life, she made never was connected with any
thing close to tragedy.
a valiant, however, futile effort to rescue them. The blame lies
If swimming were taught here
in society’s failure to start swimming lessons as soon as the chil and if everyone in the community
dren are started to school. Too much emphasis is still not enough. had a general idea of life-sav-
Scout training emphasizes swimming, but a small percentage ing. and if people could impress
upon the youngsters the danger
of the children avail themselves of scouting. Other organizations that lurks in even placid waters,
have tried to obtain swimming instruction here, but the general maybe we would have no more
attitude is lacking—people seem to be of "don’t bother me” at tragedies. The first step is to
learn swimming.
titude. Perhaps with the five drownings of the past year this area
should slowly awaken from its Rip VanWinkle sleep, and act.
Brimm Bros, have offered the community use of a bulldozer,
and operator, gratis, to the community, it a community-wide in-
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THIS AREA NEEDS SWIM POOL
terest can be aroused in building a swimming pool. What say?
Pilot, late Saturday, following
the tragic drowning of the two
Klamath Falls, that they would
furnish a bulldozer and operator
gratis, if the community would
acquire a piece of ground suit
able for a swimming pool.
According to Roy Brimm, who
acted as spokesman, “This com
munity must do something to
teach children, as well as adults,
the art of swimming and also
train a number of life-guards to
help out in the area. These girls
had they known fully how to
swim, might have been saved of
their death and the anguish
the families.
’’This community must do
share- it must provide this nec
essary training, or we will go
on and on, having these trag
edies, year after year,” Roy con
cluded.
Roy suggested that each and
every organization of the com
munity send a representative io
a mass meeting, there to form
plans for a community swim
ming pool— and that soon.
LOCAL
joy the sport.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Stotenburg
returned early Sunday from Sa
lem where they visited Bob’s
father, who is convalescing from
a nervdus breakdown. The senior^
Mr. Stotenburg is reported to
recovering satisfactorily.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ward
and son. Billy were Portland vis-
itors several days last week and
were privileged to attend sev-
eral of Billy Graham’s evange-
listic meetings while there. Thev
also visited Rev. and Mrs. Dun
ham at Eugene en route.
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KATHERINE'S
Beauty Shop
At Residence in
HARBOR, OREGON
Slosed Saturdays
Open 9 to 5 Daily
NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Goldi-
zen and daughter will leave to
day for their home at Camerillo,
Calif., after visiting for several
days with their parents. Mr. and
Mrs. C. N. Goldizen, and brother,
Vernon.
J. W. Vernon of Klamath Falls
and his friend, accompanied by
Mrs. Don Redfield, arrived here
Saturday to haul the household
furnishings for the Redfields. The
group spent the week-end at the
A. F. Pierce home, and tried a
bit of deep-sea fishing. Most of
the group became too sick to en
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GEORGE SHIPLEY
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Brimm Bros. Offer
Work on "Pool
Cliff and Roy, of the firm o'.
Brimm Bros, sawmill, told the
PATSY COOK IS "THROUGH"
Pasty Cook isn’t angry because she did not get the privilege
to sing on the Mel Venter show at Eureka, Aug 5, but sho is
provoked to think she was never given a chance from the stand-
of ability. The one contest I won, last December when I was
promised a radio, the station has never given what they promised.
“I am sorry Dave Hildebrand is gone, all because of the way
the judging went, and 1 realize Paul Corbin would like to keep
his job, so 1 hold no grudge toward anyone. The little winner was
a Eureka girl, and it is only natural that she would be wanted
to be represented on the program. I am through with KIEM and
any contest it may stage in the future. 1 had my lesson.” she said.
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IT SEEMS TO ME
By Dewey
pensive to build one th? size
we’d need here.
Then, too, there is the ques
tion of ground not just any spot
but one where they would be
ample parking space nearby for
ears, and not near enough to
thorofares to cause traffic haz-
zards. This plot should be somt -
what reasonably level, should b(
not less than one acre in size.
ihe community has co-opera-
tixelx accomplished several dif
in the past
feront
few years, such as the fire truck
the ambulance, the resuscitator
While this endeavor would take
considerable more money it is
not out of the realm of the pos
sible b\ any means.
At the icuth of the Chetcc
be dricen, about th
piling m<>
sue needed Jar a swim ming
surrounded bu some tu
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I have been thinking
most peo i
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about the
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toward
the
pool
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a
bulldoze
Bros, to fi
and sine the need is never more
a swimming
excavation
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, this project wuuH
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for this
well
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th while lor the peo-
imm
told mt
this fall and winter,
about
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in
tins
Bros, wore s
ert
he five drownings of
this much toward realization
ear should bring the
a pool for the area. However,
pas
excavation
much as
pool
than ever
pool will L h
will mean.
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It s a
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Our community chest is really
a kind of group insurance- did
you ever think of it that way?
We all get together on a plan
to guarantee help to those of our
community who need it and when
everyone contributes his share,
no really big burden falls on
anyone. T h e various welfare
agencies which ha\e earned oui
confidence and gratitude over a
long period of time, jointly cul-
and administer the funds
ibscribe and do a much bet-
ter job than we could do indi-
\ ¡dually, because of their gre^t
experience. We al know from past
experience, w h a t a wondenul
feeling of accomplishment we get
from having had a full share i
a good job well done, so let’s gt
at this communit chest job wit
enthusiasm it merits. How abut
it? Will >ou do your share?
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be no charge or oblibation of
any kind.
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