Brookings-Harbor pilot., January 24, 1952, Page 2, Image 2

Thursday, January 24, 1952
BROOKINGS-HARBOR P IL O T , BROOKINGS, OREGON
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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT
Entered as second-class m atter, at the postofflce at Brookings, Ore.,
March 7, 1946, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
D ewey A kers , Editor and Publisher
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cents per issue sent to the old address. Subscription will
be dropped unless subscriber notifies Pilot of change.
NEW PHONES SYSTEM COMING
Cut-over to the 4-digit dial phones for this area is due
before the end of the month, The Pilot was informed
late last week, when Mr. McBride, Ctxis Bay, district
manager, when he asked that the Pilot print the new
Brookings phone numbers to serve for thirty days or
more, until the new telephone phone directories were out.
The new phones are a real improvement over the old
3-digit system, la k e for instance on a io-party line,
only two phones will ring. If the phone number ends
in an odd number, the ring will I k one; even numbers
are two rings.
Noted, t(x>, on the new phone numbers will lx- the
number ‘2’ in front of the former 3-digit number. Most
of the phones in the area have the same line, and num ­
ber, so that will cause little confusion. 1 liese new cards
will be delivered sometime this week, and probably a
number already have been given out.__________ _
save th e am azing c reatu re s.
T h ere w ere no m ore th an 150,-
(XX) of the seals left, some forty
G reed and w aste w hich have
years ago, and they w ere fast
robbed the w orld of m any birds
disappearing. At last a tre a ty
and anim als
alm ost put F u r
w as m ade w hich forbade killing
S eals out ot existence. But re c k ­
less men w ere baited in tim > to th e seals w hile they w ere m i­
g ra tin g in the ocean. It w as also
•- * , ' 7 ' y - t l ag reed th at only a lim ited num -
■* be of the seals m ight he tak en
each y e a r un d er the supervision
of the U nited S ta te s governm ent.
T h an k s to this portection, F u r
I S eals have increased in num ber.
The N ational W ildlife F ed eratio n
re p o rts th at th e re are now be­
tw een two and th ree m illions of
them .
Only w hen they spend a few
m onths of the spring and sum ­
m er on land does the governm ent
perm it betw een 90,000 and 100,00
to be killed. Eskim os do th e h u n t­
ing. and they tak e nothing but
young m ale seals never fem ales.
At th e sam e tim e this h u n tin g
<e Notional Wildlife Federation
gees
on. the seals are living on
Fur Seat
the cold, rocky P ribilof Islands
Fur Seal
in th e n o rth Pacific Ocean. The i
m ales a rriv e th e re early in May,
and th e fem ales come in June.
Soon a f te r th e fem ales w addle j
EIRE A N D A U TOM OBILE
ashore, th e ir yountg pups a re born.
H ’p are now associated with several Old Line Insurance Com­
T he babies weigti 10 to 12 lbs.
panies and can guarantee the best insurance service you can
apeiece. They are black at first. ;
obtain anywhere.
but la te r tu rn grey. T hough they I
all look alike, and spend th e ir
tim e to g eth er, th e pups cannot
Box 177
Phone 304
Brookings
fool th e ir m others. T he m others
Charles H. Grayshel
Guy F. Rice
can pick th e ir own pups out of
th e pack w ith o u t any trouble.
Martha Grayshel
Erma D. Rice
Along in O ctober and N ovem ­
ber, the herds begin to flop off
th e ir rocky islands. They plunge
into th e w a te rs of th e Pacific and
head southw ard. F rom then u n ­
til spring, they stay in the w ater.
T rav elin g in groups, th e F u r
S eals swim hundreds of m iles to
th e south, som etim es going as fa r
TO R E N T B Y H O U R O R B Y D A Y
down as C alifornia.
B ut they
n ever iget closer th a n a hundred
m iles off th e shore. Only a sick
o r crippled seal trie s to find land
Phone 589 or W rite Box 417
durin g the long w in te r m igration.
BROOKINGS, O R EG O N
At th e end of th e w in ter, the
packs m ake th e ir re tu rn journey
to the P ribilofs. A lw ays they keep
a sh a rp lookout for th e ir w orst
enem y, the k ille r w hale, and for
th e ir fav o rite food, sm all fish.
T he m ales are specially an x i­
ous to eat well, because they go
w ith o u t food from May to A u­
B R A K E S A N D M O T O R TU N E -U P
gust. The fem ales fa re b e tte r in
th e spring and sum m er, often
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leaving, land to get som ething to J
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N evertheless, the m ales are the i o
g ian ts of th e herd. By th e tim e
they are fully grown, at the age
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of .sevon, they w eigh from 400
to 500 pounds each. They are
black o r d ark brow n. T he fem ales
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a re lig h te r in color and sm aller,
w eighing an av e rag e of 80 or
m ore pounds.
T hough aw k w ard on land. Fu.
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