P ace T wo
1951
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
it was about thirty years ago
we first saw plywood. Think of
radio, television, maybe we had
better’ stop recalling. We must
look ahead, or at least try to
keep abreast. That's going to
be no small task.
IT SEEMS TO ME
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT
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 , F.ditor and Publisher
SU BSCRI PTION R ATES:
Cracking down on gambling is
making headlines in and about
Portland. This should have been
done years ago, but it took the
national scandal o f basketball
bribes to bring the movement in
the open, and as widespread as
it now is.
Gambling is as old as man. It
is practiced in all nations and
always will be. However, when
it takes a strangle hold on the
economy of the country as it is
in the United States, the time is
“later than you think.” Natur-
aally there exists difference in
opinions, but gambling should
: never hare the political hold it
does today.
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IMPACT IS BEING FELT HERE NOW
lined to feel, now is being felt by everyone in town.
New people are daily inquiring for properly to buy
to erect new homes, to become a part of this area. The
By Dewey
I wish to make a public ac-
knowlegdgmeMt to Vic Anterson
and David Crockett for supply
that faith in the community these several years.
ing information concerning the
“old-time” picture published in
last week’s Pilot. Really it was
tractors have been making surveys of the area. While the first indication of the pop
ularity of these pictures, and it
none have come out and made themselves known to was
indeed gratifying to me.
the Pilot, some of the people who have come to this Both these men, natives of the
county, have much which they •
office for information have asked questions which are can tell Emil Peterson, now in
the process of compiling a his- ।
such that might be expected of men on such mission.) tory.
David's mother has infor-
1
motion
which I believe Mr. Peter,
Those ‘earthworms,
son will jump at the chance to
obtain. These men spent much
the day, Saturday, telling of
plant. About 200 yards of earth per hour are being of
the early day in the county, of
the whereabouts of certain men
shifted from one spot to another, with two bulldozers who
played an important role in
eff\iirs about the turn of the
present century.
is fully loaded. Movement from one spot to another is • This week, elswhere in this
paper, appears a picture taken
about 30 miles per hour, at the minimum.
I in 1889, showing the Sutton fam
ily—before George Sutton, pres
ent county assessor was born. It
a is certain that this picture will
create quite a bit of talk among
new and modern type of construction.
those who happened to be liv
ing in the county along about
that time.
1 For me to tell much more of
Sentiment toward incorporation of the town of Brook- the Sutton family than what is
contained in the few lines be
neath the picture, would be folly
for
I know absolutely nothing.
Thursday evening may be taken as indication. Many However,
I do know that there
who opposed this movement in 1947, now arc °Pcnly lies quite a story about this old-
time family. If George could be
in favor of the movement, saying: “The time is here." persuaded
to talk, I believe the
story
would
into quite
Police protection and zoning seem to be the two im- a yarn uhich unravel
everyone would
enjoy.
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power as only incorporation can bring, will create such Have you watched the power
machinery move the dirt and
rock at the site of the new ply
ano industriai scctions. so that a residence will noi bc wood plant ? Really it is a sight
for any who have never seen
next door lo a plani of sudi nature lo cause thè vaine modern
machinery in action. I
tried to picture the tedious and
< h mai residence u> sihuik in vaiuc.
difficult task some forty years
• ago, almost on this identical lot,
I llis problem will become more and more accuk
where another mill was erected.
In those days most everything
was done by hand, and team, if
may be too late in some instances.
they ice re available, In those
days the concrete was mixed by
hand, every shovel of it, and tn
incorporation would lx
the present operation, hands are
not likely to play too important
/tart. except in manning the ma
chines. In the dirt-moving oper
10 mills, which means
ation, four men. on tiro cater
pillar bulldozers, and two earth-
valuation, or Si0.00 f<
moving carry-alls, ten to eleven
\ as yards arc move in a matter of
whisked away as far as
well as that of such countries os Poland, Estonia and seconds.
a half mile and back in less than
minutes. It almost makes
others. This communitv is the largest in the state of five
one dizzy witching the move-
ment.
The site to be used by the ply
wood plant is much greater than
a couple of baseball parks, and
certainly the landscape has been
Il might be worth your taxes over a 10-vcar period changed until nothing remains to
one of the old contours.
to have a zoning ordinance, which might prevent some remind
When the incorporators said the
person from building a slaughter house next door to plant would take eight months
to build, many were skeptical -
your home, which is vour palace, be it worth Ssooo or but if the same rate Qf operation
be maintained in all con
i business building of certain can
struction. it is not likely to take
that long, providing there is no
5O,O( H
delays in materials.
wants to establish a junk and wrecking yard next door. Of those who have lived at
least a half century. progress di
\\ ithout incorporation, how can you regulate this?
any lines of endeavor have ad-
vanet d much more rapid that a
Irrespective of persona! view’s concerning incorpora lot
of
individuals. Things we
tion. the movement must come, now, possibly too late believed to be true only twenty-
(rc years ago, b fay arc taken
to do the most good for the town and area.
• in u mai ier-oj-fuc t way. a may,
Lack of courtesy on the high
way can cause much pain, as is
attested by the fact that Mr.
and Mrs. Whirry, Mr. and Mrs.
Bollinger and Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Perkins were involved in an ac-
cident Saturday night, not far
from Rivers End. In the first
place a parked car had no busi
ness being on the highway, but
the worst calamity came from
failure to dim lights on the part
of some motorist.
What has become of the moral
fibre of our citizens? What has
come over some people because
they find themselves with km
auto steering wheel in their one
or two hands? At the present
rate of law-breaking it would
require at least a squad of pa
trolmen a mile on nights after
a dance or function somewhere.
LOCAL
NEWS
Mrs. May Robinson is visiting
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Eastburn.
Mrs. Robinson is renewing ac-
qaintance with Mrs. Goldie Smith
whom she knew in Condon, Ore., >
where both lived some 30-odd
years ago.
About 11 members from the
local post, VFW, attended install
lation exercises ât Gold Beach
post, Tuesday.
Mrs. Harriett Baker was hos-
tess at a stork shower at her
home on Easy street Wednesday
afternoon, honoring Mrs.s Marie
Thatcher. Many friends attended.
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