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.
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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
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—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
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| 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.
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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.
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