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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1950 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON Storms Bury Many Localities In Debris, As Rains "Scatter** Destructive Floods Land Of Opportunities mous Rogue River. People weiel looking to is the magician show marooned there for three days.1 on on Nov. Nov. 28. 28. We We hear hear it it is is good. Highway between here and the I’he boys are to start basket- county seat is said to be weax- ball practice this week. We hope est it has ever been in recent to have a good team. Our goal is years. tor next year to have a six-man ....Flooded at Coquille toot ball team. Some has been The dike road between Ban played among the different class don and Coquille, according to es of school. Dorothy Collins and Doris reports, is flooded, with busses Brewer have come back to school being tied up at Bandon and at lor a tew weeks to catch up on Coquille. No word has been re ceived o/ the extent of damage. commercial studies and learn tne Telephone service was non-ex touch system on the electric cal istent during the same period, culator and adding machine. Pat as falling trees, both north and Hess is the only one in high school to complete and pass the south, took out the lines. adding machine. M hile no great material damage was suffered in this locality during the recent week-end storm, the entire coastal section was ► pounded by one of the worst storms of recent years, according to long-time residents. Perhaps hardest hit of any communities were Crescent City, Grants Pass, Roseburg, Myrtle Point and Eugene. The Rogue River made a lake of Grants Pass, said a radio re pot t; Crescent City had considerable dock and boat damage; Rose burg suffered storm damage, not as yet assessed; Eugene had floods; Myrtle Point and that section down Coquille river, experienced flash, floods which did undeter mined damage to property. by power outage. Grants Pass, Four fishing boats in the Cres- ?rom where California-Oregon cent City harbor were sunk, a a • Power Co. delivers current to lot of damage was done to a this area and Crescent City, was barge and the dock when, the blacked out for more than a Our annual carnival was held barge was dashed against the day when a Rogue River flood i last Saturday and brought in dock by the high waves. Other and high winds teamed up to some money despite the storm. damages were not learned, but put power lines out of commis For the first time in many years were said to be high. sion. Eureka and that section al a freshman queen was elected. so had several days without any Barbara Morgan was the lucky power when P. G. & E. lines were girl. The next event we are now ruined by the high winds. For the week ending on Sun The Willamette Valley, acoc.d« day: Max. Min. Rain ing to sketchy radio reports, had October 23 .. ....... 68 plenty of power trouble, togeth 52 October 24 .. ....... 58 52 .61 er with flash flood trouble. Eu October 25 .. ....... 56 50 1.80 gene was plagued with flood, and October 26 .. ....... 62 50 1.08 high winds put much of the area October 27 .. ....... 53 50 2.00 around Newberg in darkness by October 28 .. ....... 55 52 4.68 knocking out lines. October 29 .. ....... 59 52 3.74 North Fork Bridge Out Rainfall for week .. .13.91 Loggers, Tuesday, moved out the lasting loveliness equipment to replace, with a of a wave Rains, all along the coast, did temporary affair, the North Fork that's alive with luster undetermined amount of dam- bridge which the high water car ... yet soft to highways and bridges, causing ried out to sea. Some 30-odd fam ilies are marooned up the Chet- busses to be stopped for four as candle light* days. No daily papers reached co valley by this damage. Brookings for four days. Likewise, up the Winchuck a it*« the wonderful Myrtle Creek, and Bullards in number of families were maroon Coos County, were isolated for ed for several days by the high many hours when a flash flood water, although none were in hit the area and blocked all roads any way harmed by the calam in that section. Crescent City, in ity. Traffic is expected to be re a similar way, was isolated as stored by the end of the week, Smith River washed out part of it is said. the highway near Gasquet, and Rogue Up At Gold Beach water over the road, stopped all Considerable portion of Hwy traffic on Hwy 101 for a day. 101 north of Wedderburn was Coll for your appointment today The coastal section was not covered Sunday by the highest the only section in Oregon hit water ever reported on the fa- Courtier’s Beauty Studio Gold Beach H. S. Page Five "Classified Ads F or Rent: 4-room mod. home, $50 undfurnished .or $60 furn ished. Garage, basement, See Mrs. Pierce at Postoffice. • Dr. Robt. E. Smith DENTIST Office Hours: 9-12; 2:00-5:00 Evenings by appointment Phone 293 Goetz Building Send the Pilot to a friend—it will save letter-writing. DON’T BE Weather Report O ELLSWORTH FOURTH DISTRICT—LINN, LANE, DOUGLAS, JACKSON, JOSEPHINE, COOS, AND CURRY COUNTIES EXPERIENCED...a loyal American who believes in OREGON! Read what OREGON'S NEWSPAPERS tay about REPRESENTATIVE EUSWORTH We think Republicans owe Ellsworth a large vote of con fidence. .. .We respect his integrity, the careful study upon which he bases his conclusions.” — EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD “Harris Ellsworth has filed for re election to Congress, Fou" District; this is welcome news throughout the state to aii’ who have come in contact with his effectiveness in as'vngfon.” — OREGON VOTER r e iourlh district Representative, Harris Ellsworth, is one of the most effective Republican members of Congress, ski■ cd in agriculture, forestry, mining, fisheries and other prc-.cms in his disli.ct and state. His influence has in creased steadily since his first election in 1942. He has the ability to develop all the facts and to carry the fight for Oregon s interests to success in committee and on the iio^- —PORTLAND OREGONIAN Congressman Ellsworth has the reputation of being one of the most astute and level-headed members of congress, ard it i$ paying off for the state by jetting him senior ap- pomtmenls to important committees. ... We can't think of a better man to send to Washington than Congressman Ellswo‘h." — COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL FOR EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP •elect HARRIS ELLSWORTH Paid Adv. ELLSWORTH FOP CONGRESS COMMITTEE ■ e i Bret | . man I. E. McClintock, Medico! An» Biug., Roieuvrg, Tr«uiv.«r | TIME CONFUSION IN HIGH EDITORIAL CIRCLES Excerpt from Editorial Page, Canby Herald, September 88,1950; by Thomae W. Gerber, Editor If you know any brave word-and-phrase explorer who happened to read the editorial comments of both the Oregonian and the Journal Sunday (Sept. 24) on the subject of so-called daylight saving time and the bill to be voted upon November 7, watch him carefully for a few days. He may begin cutting out paper dolls or try ing to pick daisies off the ceiling. But he’ll recover. A few paragraphs of Bob Ruark or Drew Pearson prob ably will put his trolley back on the wire. Both of these eminent newspapers seem to have as signed the top experts of their Departments of Utter Confusion to the task of befuddling folks about Ore gon’s little argument as to the measurement of time. We doubt if there was collusion, however. Both writers started their arguments from erroneous premises, but from different ones. The Oregonian’s word-slinger set up a straw man for his shadow-boxing. He started off by advising people to give some thought to the “obscure” measure on the ballot “which has been miscalled a ‘daylight saving* bill,” and which, he says, is “a legislative4>hony.” Great Scott, where art thou ? Nobody has been calling this measure a daylight saving bill. It says right here in the title it is a measure “TO ESTABLISH STAN DARD TIME.” It says so emphatically in the text. The act contains a safety-valve by which the governor may change the state’s time in case of dire necessity, which is a good, flexible provision, although it is unlikely any governor would invoke it The Oregonian author says he’d like to see a clear-cut state vote on Standard versus Daylight time. Okay son You’ll get it. The Journal man simply got his facts tangled. In the blithely informal style which causes readers to feel friendly without being able to understand what they’ve read, he wrote: “It s like this: The Oregon legislature adopted a bill which authorized the governor to proclaim daylight saving time,...” etc., and: “ ’Twas then Portland voters adopted the daylight saving amendment.” The fact is, Portland started the whole mess by foist ing a semi-annual time change on neighboring commun ities which had no voice in the matter. Portland voters adopted it by a very narrow margin, but they did adopt it. THEREAFTER the state legislature almost unani mously passed the law establishing standard time in Oregon. The primary purpose of the law was to bring about uniformity and prevent Portland from continu ing to inconvenience other sections of the state. Putting it somewhat more crudely, the law was intended to cor rect Portland s bad manners. The Journal writer com placently and erroneously concludes that he will get daylight saving time if the state law is adopted by the voters. ’Tain’t so, Joe. J Local autonomy is a workable and efficient political principle in matters affecting only local communities When the effects of local legislation react far beyond the municipality which enacts it, intervention from a larger political unit becomes necessary. The Oregon legisla ture acted wisely. ° ÄF®" UN If OHM«-' - Standard Time < • * VOTE 4 ■ • 310 * , ■ ; ■ • , ««I*- Or*'«on i’andorrf Timo Commit*»«, . f l r f r L i
