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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
'and fifty families coming to work
| in tiie plywood plant will even
tually mean another hundred to
Entered as second-class matter, at the postoffice at Brookings, Ore. enter business or professions.
I am glad to see that the Eagles
March 7, 1946, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
are gaining ground in this area.
This organization, while it enjoys
D ewey A kers , Editor and Publisher
lots of social affairs, has defi
nitely done much to further old
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age benefits in this country. It is,
1 believe, the first such group
to inaugurate the idea, which is
now quite a national plan.
I have noticed wherever an
Aerie
been located, in my
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS: Kindly notify of any years has
in the newspaper game,
change of address in advance. Failure to do so costs two the Eagles have a way of doing
things, and quickly. I am not
cents per issue sent to the old address. Subscription will quite
aware of the methods, but
I am certain they are good as
well as effective.
Coming as it does, right at this
particular time, I predict much
good will come from this or
ganization. I look for the local
to soon have its own home
The future of Curry County, long dormant and re Aerie
- which will be built by a lot
stricted because of transportation difficulties, was never of co-operation. In this home, I
also predict much of the com
brighter than today, as the area hums with activity, and munity
’s social affairs will soon
be
taking
place.
seeths with anticipation of the coming year.
There are a number of Eagle
members about the area who
to Aeries in other cities
here in the past is being rewarded. What was once the belong
who are talking up the proposi
tion about the town. They are
certainly hopeful that an Aerie
soon will be granted a charter.
All this progress has not come without pain—real In fact they almost demand it.
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT
FUTURE BRIGHT IN CURRY CO
growing pains—with many more to follow. The county
faces an accute housing shortage unless several hundred
houses arc built in 1951; the county school system is
practically torn apart at the scam in nearly every dis
trict in the county by the influx of students, that which
has been felt the past year, and the promise of more.
soon will be in a pitiable condition unless some drastic
action is taken at once. A year from now the picture
and make inquiry into the facts
of bad administration after it has
happened. For example, congress
has given the Department of
Agriculture authority regarding
the sale and purchase of farm
products. Senator Williams of
Delaware made an investigation
and learned that about the same
time the United States was sell
ing cheese at a grea loss to Eng
land, we were importing more
than 13.000,000 pounds of Ched
dar cheese from the British Em
pire.
The agriculture department
sold 50.0iMJ.000 pounds of Cheddar
cheese to the British Empire at
15c a pound. The United States
taxpayers had bought this cheese
at a rate of 31c a pound, thereby
losing $7,500,000 in the transac
tion.
Weather Report
For the week ending on Sun-
Max. Min. Rain
day :
March 5 . ............ 42
March 6 . ............ 47
March 7 . ............ 49
March S . ............ 50
March 9 . ............ 46
March 10 ............ 50
March 11 ............ 53
Rainfall for week
31
39
35
48
32
32
33
.27
.72
.12
.78
99
.08
...2.19
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Campbell
and son, Jimmy, who spent the
winter at Heber Springs, Ark.,
are expected home this week.
COURTIER'S
Beauty Studio
State Tax Man To
Come To County
Open Mondays through
Saturdays
A man from Oregon state tax
commission will be at the court
house, Gold Beach, next Monday,
March 19 from 8 to 12 noon, ac
cording to word received from the
tax commission early this week.
Evenings by Appointments
PHONE 381
Hungry?
5UIÏÏ»E
WEEK
By Harris Ellsworth. M. C.
Thore has been less actual
I House action during the first two
seriously about a few consolidations in addition to sev i months of this session that I have!
। seen here in several years. Only
eral building programs. That is the picture, today.
I one major bill hase been acted
I upon thus far, the extension of
the Reciprocal Trade Agreement
spending some anxious moments Act. Meanwhile, of course, com
perhaps some sleepless nights— mittees are working on various
trying to solve the problem. In pieces of legislation. Bills will
some ways they know not exactly be coming to thô floor rather
what to plan and in others it rapidly from now own. I expect
is definite the school population some people will start calling this
will double. In what grades will a ”do nothing” congress. My own
these pupils be? Things have a opinion is that it is the quality
peculiar way of not going ac of legislation passed by a con
cording to a pattern.
gress that is important rather
than its success in grinding out
Facing this area is the problem a lot of law’s.
of incorporation and that in a
The administration is still
relatively short time. True, many pressing for enactment ot the so
arguments are current against a cialistic -Truman Deal” program. ।
movement of this kind, but as Some of it. notably the principles
surely as night follows day, the of the famous Brannan plan, are
movement must be taken. Ac before congress thinly disguised
;rrE.i tive in this movement is a com- in the budget. It is pretty cer-1
imittee appointed by the chamber tain that the 82nd congress will)
of commerce , which has arranged eliminate all such hidden ball;
, a meeting w hen an expert on in- tricks that can be discovered.
corporation will be heard.
Revelations regarding the scan
This area can be likened unto
j a bolt of cloth without form
dal in the RFC are the most
, with no pattern of procedure, no vivid news here now. One reli
plan for progress. Incorporation able financial publication says of:
would establish an identity, it it- "The sub-committee findings
By Deux y
would set a responsibility and a are mostly in the nature of offi
People as far away as Anchor goal. Like all questions, there cial confirmation of private re-
age. Alaska. ’ ish to subscribe to may be two sidt s, but the time is ports that have been increasing
the I’ilot, to learn of trends in at l and when the people of this ly prevaelnt since the war.”
urea must 'Irride upon a plan of
The president, ever loyal to his
this area. Li
unified
action.
gang
of insiders, has called the
-Will
you
letter came:
senate sub-committee’s report on
ruler nn subscription to the Pi
People
irea are reali) this subject -asinine.” But the
lot for one year and send bill to
I
hrilled
ict ion on con Washington Daily News stated
me by air mail. Earl T. 1'rosper,
P. O. Box I 111. Anchorage. Alas- st ruction begin on the new ply recently that -insiders
wood plant. It seems to many to White House was told in the
ka
be an answer to a prayer; it is summer of 1949 about an affi-
of
the
shut
a new birth of hope to those davit charging t h a t E. M e r 1
inquiries the Pilot rec
tn whose faith in southwestern Ore Young, former R F C employee,
most weekly rom some
the north wo; t. While nothing of gon has been unwavering all the had offered to influence the big
many years of residence here.
lending agency
th
reason was gi
and sicken-
Bringing to this community of (MM).” It is a s
t st shown. it
hundred and fifty ing story.
twern the lines'
('ey from the
rill not bring only ;
fa
Standing timber i n Western
I one where
rs for the ne
eongt sted arci
unity might
Oregon and Washb g ton is one
ill bring new
initiative and
item of commerce thaï will not
carry tin m fa
be troubled much by the impost
«
x,
dt
Wars,
nurses,
and
more
with a litt It
skilled tradesmen net ded to care tion of ceiling prices under ord»'
of J a n. 26. Prevailing ceiling
going
rommunity.
It
wouldn
’
t
be
with
mlich
ima
prices on timber stumpage are:
happen too
r, $63.00 per thousand
mat ion to eon 'ive ot new stores
situation will eventually be taken coming to the irea. it would not feet, weste rn hemlock $21.50; and
hink automobile sugar pine
care of, but in the nkaniime. I be amiss to
locating he
can set» jieople living in most any
law
may ex pec
shelter for a lew months. The what
f this new
which authorizes
school situation is almost one tor
department to d<
alarm. Ihcture, it you can the
f wha
it no longera has
Home-Made Pics
HOURS: 6:oo A. M. TO i :oo A. M.
IT SEEMS TO ME
lo then
aw ait
Book Cases, Writing Desks, Corner Cabinet*
Kitchen Cabinets, Breakfast Nooks, Doors,
Windows, frames, cupboard doors, drawers.
IF ITS MADE OF WOOD—
YOU HAVE A JOB FOR J. E. FIFIELD!
Turn off 101 at Beach Road. Follow the Signa
Dr. Henry S. Crawford
Office House . . 10 to 6, on all days
Mondays, Tuesday, Thursday Evenings
878 Front St., Crescent Ctiy
Phone 2602
(Next to Greyhound Bus Depot)
eaners
Quality Cleaning and Pressing
Also Agents for
DEL NORTE LAUNDRY
Pickup and Deliver , Service, on
CALL 233
BROOKINGS, ORE.
Mondays and Thursdays