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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1952)
‘ • * A V V- J _______Page Five The canal was started bv the I Bay. son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen French, in 1863. They left about c 'to t ' X ^ T ' ' ,'a r ,"' r ' ” 's™ >‘ i« '» in R at the hotel, u n til an 1893, with m alaria cause of the »oung, visited his parents here i i By Sonya Rush v * par<’n ,s l , Pai'tnient can he found, w hile over the week-end. Ray will com- here \ less of 24.000 men. At | n S,n' ,hc YounK« a«’ | getting the bakery established. H I—PANAMA CANAL In 1903 the United S tates took over and by 1913 the canal was Before reaching the canal we j completed. Last month the Unit- saw large tu rtles and flying fish. We docked at Balboa about 7:00 fed S tates took in $15,000.00. we and tound that we were the sec , pay Panam a a total of $450,000 ond ship to go through the canal a year. It cost the Chili about $4,000 to go through the canal. the next morning. As we approached Mirouores. There was little sleep for any the first lock, two row boats came one that night, as for myself, I cut to us and the rope throw ers rose at 3:00 a. m. to see the " e had t a k e n aboard earlier, "Southern Cross” which is a for threw them the ropes, and they, m ation of four stars. It can only in turn, attached to a cable on be viewed by people in the vicin the tiny trains (3 on each side of ity of the equator. the canal) which keep the ships Before the sun had risen, we in position as they go through had the pilot on board and 13 the locks. skilled rope throw ers, and were The second lock is Pedro Mi aw aiting the signal from the tow- guel, there first two locks lift the er to go ahead. ships to the level to Lake Gatun. When we were finally on our The third and last lock, Gatun, " a y , through the narrow body of drops the ship to the level of w ater th at leads to the canal, we. the Atlantic. could sec on that shore what ap There is a difference of 22 feet, peared to be a very pleasant a t high tide, betwen the level little city. We also saw scattered of the two oceans. This is an ex here and there, the rusted equip perience I will never forget. __ m ent left by the French, the last 1 To be continued. pitiable evidence of t h e b i tt e r ! struggle. Pilot Class Ads Pay—try ’em. AS I SEE IT! ..THUua Hearthstone ACROSS FROM SCHOOL HOUSE— TELEPHONE 2474 SNACK BAR BIG BOY BURGER CHICKEN-IN-THE-STRAW TO M M Y AND LULA THOMPSON r WANTED BY WILLOX VENEER MFG. CO . v»?,r.rAr,>7v W-: • • • • An Oregon CO-OPERATIVE Association 6 0 Membership Shares Authorized By Charter February 15, 1952 Requests for Information, Application or Subscriptions should be directed to WILLOX VENEER MFG. CO. n o « . . Claud« «¡Cord,. $ ♦ .„ «1«.: J « T « , ° *“ * * * • UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTION (Robbery, Attempted Murder, and Assault) DESCRIPTION caaftaamaat, b« ba« fired a* a * - c«r« ««eking bi« arrest and has ran through road blocks a t cscessbre *p««d. Age 24, born November 30, 1927, Clay County, Mo.; height, 6 feet 1 inch; weight, 175 to 185 pounds; build, medium, athletic; hair, Complaints were filed before U. S. brown, wavy; eyes, brown; com plexion, ruddy; race, white; na Commissioners at San Diego, Calif., tionality, American; occupations, and Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 20, 1950, and November 9, 1950, re fireman, fisherman, railway switch spectively, charging subject with man, truck driver; scars and m arks—scar on point of chin, %- violations of Title 18, U. S. Code, inch oblique scar on second joint of section 1073, in that he fled from left index finger rear, U-inch ob the State of California to avoid lique sear on back of left index fin- prosecution for armed robbery and %-inch oblique scar above attempted murder and from the inner point of right eye, ^-inch State of Ohio to avoid prosecution horizontal scar above inner point of for robbery. An indictment was left eye, three l-a-inch scars under returned by a Federal grand jury chin, cartilage removed from tip of a t Cheyenne, Wyo., May 9, 1950, nose, dim cut scar on left side of charging subject with a violation the same statute in that he fled forehead, ^b-inch scar* on right of thumb, 1-inch scar on left knee, from the State of Wyoming to ’¿•inch scar on right elbow, bullet avoid prosecution for assault with wound high on left shoulder; re intent to murder. m arks—jaw has been broken and person having i information v n i v i m i l l io n was wired, may be crooked; ap v Any which may assist in locating this pears extremely nervous. individual is requested to immedi ately notify the Director of the CRIMINAL RECORD Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bent has been convicted for armed United States Department of Ju s robbery. tice, Washington 25. D. C., or the CAUTION Special Agent in Charge of the fL Federal Bureau ’ . 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