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'Friendly Travel'
Greyhound Theme
“ M ore and m ore people are
ta k in g vacations in the fa ll,” re
p o rts Glen G. Magnuson, general
tra ffic m anager o f P acific G rey
hound lines. A u tu m n w eather is
u su a lly good, w ith p le n ty of sun
shine, in a ll p a rts o f the country.
As a re s u lt w e are selling more
pre-arranged autum n vacations
every year.”
T his fa ll season, the bus execu
tiv e said. “ F rie n d ly T ra v e l” is
the keynote o f the a d vertising
cam paign Greyhound is ru n n in g
In the newspapers fro m coast to
coast. "There's som ething about
a Greyhound th a t makes it the
frie n d ly w ay to tra v e l,” the head
lines say, then the ads go on to
describe the frie n d ly personnel,
frie n d ly service and frie n d ly peo
ple one meets tra v e lin g bv bus.
"T h is new a d ve rtisin g cam
paign stresse frie n d ly G reyhound
tra v e l
everyw here,”
Busman
Magnuson said, "and o u r expens
es-paid vacation tours fo r fa ll
trip s are increasing in in s u la r
ity .”
on Septem ber 1. He was post
m aster at San Leandro, C alif., fo r
10 years before coming to Cres
cent C ity w ith the T rip lic a te .
T here were about s ix ty post
m asters present fro m De N o rte
and H um boldt counties in C a li
fo rn ia , as w e ll as Postm aster O l-
m in o f Gold Beach and the local
s ta ff fro m Oregon.
JUST PERSONAL
^ n T ïîrs d a ÿ ^ è p tè m E c B o ^ Q ? !
o f these people who w ill how l m it, has real neighbors— real and the o th e r fa rm w o rk is done
w ent out to vote at the elections? friends who recognize th a t when —and A. C. can re la x and pamp
♦ ♦
a man is ill, th a t is the tim e fo r er his health w hich has been none
A. E. Sandbo, w h ile at G rants neighborliness. H is lilie s are dug. too good this summer.
Pass attendin g the state conven
tio n o f the Justices of the Peace
o f Oregon, found h im self out-
taked by o th e r justices who w ill
hold the convention in Bend next
year. Can’t say th a t Judge A1
didn’t tr y to bring them to B ro o k
ings. The fa ct th a t there m ight
be fishing, m ig h t be som ething to
see hereabouts didn^ receive the
OPTOMETRIST
a tte n tio n th a t Judge A1 figured
was his due.
Permanent Offices at
Dr. Arthur F. Durbin
♦
♦
W ilson Freem an was lik e a lit
tie kid w ith a new’ toy in his
new’ store at the grand opening)
last S aturday. He has a license i
to be, fo r the new store is some-I
th in g to p u ff up the chest and be '
proud to own. People flocked in !
and took advantage o f the hos-1
p ita lity , a ll of w hich made the,1
crew happy.
♦
B R O O K IN G S
C L IN IC
9:00 to 6:00 p.m.
EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT
Specializing Corrective Eye Exercises and Eye
Glasses for Children
♦
A. C. Thompson, we m ust ad
Post Office Force
Honors C. Hansen
By DEW EY
M rs. Goldie S m ith, postm aster
of the Brookings post office, as
sistant postm aster Goldie Sw er-
ingen, and clerks. Janette Pierce
and N e llie S chlisner drove to
Gasque on S aturday night to a t
tend a fa re w e ll din n e r honoring
P ostm aster C. H. Hansen, w ho is
re tir in g from th a t office in Cres
cent C ity. H<‘ w ill take the posi
tio n o f clerk, g iv in g him m ore
tim e w ith his fa m ily than he had
as post master.
M r. Neisch, e d ito r o f the
T rip lic a te of Crescent C ity , aa-
aurned duties as new postm aster I
E very social organization has
at least one the m em ber who
cannot a fford the tim e to serve
on a w o rk in g com m ittee because
he's sure he is m ore valuable as a
c ritic when the jo b has ben fin
ished.
♦ ♦
C an't you hear the w'ceping,
w a ilin g and gnashing o f teeth of
Ihe m any citizens about tow n
who w ill w ant the c ity council to
'do som ething” about th is or
that, w ith o u t considering the d if
ference on the next tax b ill. L e t’s
be re a lis tic about it how m any
There's something about a
GREYHOUND
Since the end of W orld W ar II, the W est Coast Telephone Comn.iny
has added »almost 30,000 telephones to its num ber of stations in serv.ee,
an increase of 6 7 .4 8 % . D uring th isjtam c period, we have added almost
six million dollars in plant investment and equipm ent in service.
,
011 are now able to place telephone
” calls to more people than ever before.
W e believe you will agree that your
That mokes it the
FRIENDLY way to travel!
, ers telephone service as fine as that
• available anywhere in the nation,
Something about the people you m eet . . . t h e y seem
m ore n e ig h b o rly and easier to talk to. Something about
the d rive r, s in c e re ly in te re s te d in y o u r c o m fo r t and
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enioym ent. Something about the service, m ore o fte n to
every new telephone we install. And,
unlike most businesses, the more tele
phones we have in service, the more
fu l best. Something about a fall vacation, to o . . . you
see more, spend less by G re yh o u n d !
Scm thing about the s avin g s.. . look at these low fares
Sample fare» from Brookings:
« 5 «
Detnott
MT 65
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enver
n
15,00
R. C. R E T IR E
B R O O K IN G S
P H O N E 311
Miami
But while your service has been
improving, our expenses have been
, mounting. I oday it requires a plant
investment of $200 per station for
m ore pieces than any o th e r travel way. Something about
the s cen ery...especially in fa ll w ith nature at her c o lo r-
V
telephone service has been steadily
. improving since the end of W o rld
W ar I I. W e will continue our program
o f expansion and improvement until
* we are bringing to all of our subscrib-
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it costs to operate each one.
O u r total expenses have increased
at a much faster rate than our total
income. O ur wage costs are one-and-
a-balf million dollars higher today
than they would have been under the
wage rates prevailing in 1946. O u r
plant investment has risen since 1946
from $7,833,061 to $15,365,661. O ur
construction expenditures for plant ex-
pansion have increased from $650,000
in 1946 to over $2,(XX),(X>0 ¡n 1959,
oyer $1.000,000 in 1951; and we a r e *
now planning a new expansion program
which will total about $10,000,000
during the next three year».
Consequently, in order that we may
be able to obtain the capital necessary
to finance our program of new con
struction.
we
find
it
necessary
to
request increases in telephone rate»
(the first increases since 1946). There
changes are far below the increases n
groceries, clothing and most
prices during this same period.
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