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Thursday, March 8, 1951
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS, OREGON
BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT
tion members.
The customary
majority-minority sub-committee
ratio is either four to three or
three to five, depending upon the
size of the committees. It is also
traditional with most house com
mittees that the charman and
the ranking minority
member
may sit as member^ of all sub
committees. Cannon has ruled
out that ranking minority mem
ber right and has stacked sev
eral of the most important sub
committees on a five to two or
a four to two basis.
This gives the Republican mi
nority practically no voice on ap
propriations and will have the
effect of sabotaging the efforts
of those who are battling to re
duce non-essential spending.
When, or if, it becomes neces
sary to take this problem to the
floor of the house, Chairman Can
non will find his dictatotrial at
titude vigorously opposed on both
sides of the aisle.
The bill to authorize Federal
construction of access roads with
in the national forests did not
get to the floor of the house last
session, but I look for fairly early
action on it this year. The for
est service objected to the bill as
passed by the senate because of
what was considered to be bur-
IT SEEMS TO ME
Entered as second-class matter, at the postoffice at Brookings, Ore.,
March 7, 1946, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
D ewey A kers , Editor and Publisher
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MAYBE THEY HAVE SOLUTION
It will be interesting to listen to the youth of the
high school tonight, when these seniors give their own
views concerning the affairs today. It is not for the
elders to scoff at these ideas, because the elders haven’t
done too creditable job during their tenure.
Youth, today, with the radio and the many hundreds
of publications at hand, are more aware of conditions
of the world than were their parents, who didn’t have
these aids to learning. The youth today knows more
about more things than was thought possible even two
decades ago.
It isn’t at all unlikely that the youth will refrain from
criticizing elders of today for plight in which educa
tional program has been placed. It is likely that youth
will speak out against the influence which has been
theirs their entire life.. The Pilot is ready to give credit
to the modern youth for intelligence.
IT STILL WASN'T TOO COLD HERE
Storms which visited this nation as a whole, left a
reminder with southwest Oregon, in the past week, with
visible snows at the higher levels, and with freezing or
near freezing temperatures at the lower levels, dhis area
tucked in the blankets a little closer, too.
Power failures were many times a minute Sunday as
the main trunk hue in the Applegate country dropped
under heavy pressure of snow and ice. Crescent City,
and this entire area had only intermitten power Most
of Sunday. Other areas, too, were affected.
Whatever inconveniences we may feel in this section
of the country do not start to compare to that experienced
from the Rocky Mountain raingc eastward where bliz
zards and freezing storms grip all states as far south
as the Mason Dixon Line generally.
By Dewey
Was quite impressed by Vern
Mendenhall’s remarks to Rotary
club, Tuesday noon. Vern was
circumspect in his talk regard
ing things on the other side of j
the world, but he did tell things
which put people to thinking. He
betrayed no naval or military
secrets, so the powers to be need
not trouble their heads about a j «
real GI doing something wrong.
He minimized his job in the
war of nerves as he often called
it. He said he felt for those boys
who were wallowing in the mud
of Korea, many of whom didn't
actually know what they were'
were fighting for. That is true\
of every war in the world—It
reminds one of Tennyson's poem
“Charge of the Light Brigade."
Vern always was old for his
years, but certainly he is a full-
iledged man today. He isn’t one
who is inclined to foolishness. He
has seen things beyond the years
of many grandfathers, but he is
not one to mention them. It is
likely to be the same with all
the boys who come back from
that conflict.
Vern answered quesstions as
best he could, not betraying any
confidences the navy may have
put in him. Brookings should be
proud of her sons, such men as
Vern Mendenhall has proven him
self to be.
densome requirements regarding
holding hearings prior to con
structing roads. Industry repreï
sentative and others, however;
insisted that such a road pro
gram should be made a subject
of general public knowledge. I
recently helped re-write that sec
tion of the bill so that it is now
completely satisfactory to all con
cerned including the forest serv
ice. With this controversy remov
ed there should be little difficulty
in securing approval for the bill
because everyone, it seems to me,
recognizes the necessity of getting
roads into the forests so that ma
ture and over-ripe timber can be
utilized.
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Congratulations to Miss Lois
Jean Frolen, 1521 West 8th St.,!
Eugene. She is one ol 40 high i
school seniors selected from 13,-;
638 contestants as winners in the
annual Science T a lent Search
conducted by the Westinghouse
Educational Foundation and Sci
ence Service. Miss Frolen will
spend five days in Washington,
D. C., attending the science tal
ent Institute. Mrs. Ellsworth and
1 have been invtied to attend the
eception and dinner honoring
diss Frolen and the other 39
This annual science talent
search is really quite an under-
tenth year
taking, now in
The winners, in addition to win
ning the nice trip to Washing
ton. also may win valuable schol-
aVships.” They are inevitably
marked as the nation’s outstand-
ng science students. T h e old
heads know that the great scien
tists of the future will more than
likely come from the ranks of
w mners.
Oregon’s Fourth Congressional
district, and specifically the Eu-
ou t-
grne-Springtleld a r e a
standing in the production of
winners in this annual search.
No other state or congressional
district even approaches this
amazing record.
Even memliers of the
at
at majority are outrf
high-handed manner in which
i louse
Lannon of
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