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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON
1 hursday, July 24, 1952
Redfields Re-Visited Japan, This Time
Landing At Kobe For Sight-seeing Trip
■ to town; so we through, but we nected with the American embassy- exhibitors, and will include not
J learned th at we went the wrong in the Mitsubishi main building. only ag a te and m inerals from
i direction. Instead we came to a We purchased our cultured pearls Lincoln county beaches but Jalso
stieet which was purely Japanese through her. A fter visiting, she specimens from all over the -.TOrld.
—both
sides of the street were fill- took us to our station and put us M embers of oth er ag ate and min
The Redfield* review their recent trip to the Orient, with another
de
w
ith
taverns, eating places, on the right train for Yokohoma. eral societies throughout the en
article telling of some of their experience* w ith the A*iatic*.
May 6 at 7 . m. we landed at Kobe, Japan. A fter breakfast about [jenny arcades and Japanese music There the ticket man called a taxi tire northw est have been invited
9:30 a. m. we took the ship’s shore tour. We were thankful the sun coming out of little holes in the for us and we reached our ship to bring displays.
All steps of polishing agates will
was out. We were each given a carnation as identification on board walls. The street was jam med with in safety and felt real proud to
ing the bus. Drove through the w aterfront business center of Kobe Japanese and we saw no other Am have gone on our own in Japan. be dem onstrated continuously dur
and on to Kobe station. There we changed for an electric train for ericans. I was a little frightened That same day at 4 p. m. our ship ing the show.
Kyote, called Classic C ity” of Japan. Awaiting the train we noticed but thoroughly enjoyed the fan- sailed for Hawaii.
tacy of everything. There we really
- great nym ber of elevated rail
v « v
saw the tru e Japan.
ways everyw here you looked and
stairw ays leading to the m any dif
Next m orning (the 8th) we
train s coming and going every few
ferent trains, and the people were
braved it alone to go to Tokyo.
m inutes. The Japanese boast th at
Mr. and Mrs. P aul L. Peterson
like ants, they were so num erous.
We took a cab and gave the name
th eir trains are always on time,
left last Friday for a ten-day va
We w ere taken by bus to the
of the station; which we failed to
and I can fully believe it as they
cation trip which will tak e them
Hotel Rakuyo for a short rest,
OCEANLAKE, Ore.—The N orth to Asoria, where Mrs. Peterson
put down in our diary. We walked
• r e a very efficient people.
then taken through the city of
to the ticket office, there the man Lincoln Agate Society will hold will visit a relative, and to Ta
A fter a short wait we were es
Kyoto and on to the elaborate
spoke English, and he pointed out its tenth annual agaate show on coma w here Mr. P eterson will vis
corted to our seats aboard the
Buddhist temple, Higashi-Hongan-
train for Kyoto, the capital of old ji. which is the headquarters of the stairw ay we came and gave Saturday and Sunday, July 26 and it an old boyhood friend. Mr. P et
Japan.
us the track num ber for the right 27, in the Lions club room, oppo erson is employed at the Pilot.
the Shin-shu sect of Buddhism.
Bain. Going down this stairw ay site the theatre, here.
The country side of Japan is
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Chambers
Ilere the Japanese put coverings
Doors will be open Saturday and family of P ortland left last
q u ite picturesque, passing through over our shoes before we went we came to a long wide hall with
many, many stairw ays leading up-1 from 10 a m - until 10 p. m. and week a fte r spending a week vis
groves of bamboo, farm ing coun
up the steps of the temple. E n te r
try, villages and through several ing here we saw m any Japanese wad. Finally we came to one of on Sunday from 10 a. m. to 5 p. iting his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Inhwvlos) Tokyo so we r followed
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F v n rv
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m. Every
will - receive
a Bob Cham bers of Cham bers Fir
them labeled
large cities, Osaka being the larger sittin g on their feet in worship, them
it and on to the track num ber and fiee beach agate as a souvenir of Courts. They enjoyed the lily pa
and the main m anufacturing city.
m any had their lunch with them
boarded the electric train for tin the 1952 show.
We saw many flags representing
rade and thought it grand. "How
and we were told they sit in w or
The show will feature collec- can such a small com m unity do *
carp and another fish, its nam e I ship the full day. This tem ple was city of Tokyo, a 55-minute ride.
do not recall, flying from flag-poles
s 01 am ateur and commercial do so m uch,” was his comment.
Lyle and I had to stand the en
erected in 1895 and is surrounded
in beautiful colors from nearly with pure w hite sand, which they tii«' distance, and we learned that
every home we passed.
we were on the third-class coach,
call their sand garden.
We were told th at these flying
while we had first class tickets
H undreds of children, girls all
fish, the carp, were to help their
En route we felt the train jerk
dressed
in blue pleated skirts and
children grow big and strong, and
p
retty
hard and wondered if it
sm aller fish stood for their reli w hite middies, boys dressed in blue were going to leave the track.
coats and pants.
gion and to guard over them. We
L ater we learned that we had ex
A fter leaving the tem ple we perienced an earthquake, which,
thoroughly enjoyed the 55-mile
6'4 acres, ocean frontage home, also modern
train ride through the country were taken back to the Hotel R a it it had lasted longer might have
house and large lot on ocean front. Two large
betw een Kobe and Kyoto. Kyoto kuyo for luncheon where most of caused severe damage, probably
station was like a spider web of us took filet Mignon au Campig- wrecking the train, too.
lots, ocean front.
non, which was excellent, We o r
On reaching Toky o, we stepped
dered from the menu, pointing to off the train, followed the crowd
what we wanted.
down the stairw ay into anothei
Luncheon over, we were taken wide hall with many more staii
C a te rp ik a r No.
to Heian Shrine.
This Shinto ways. I stopped about a dozen per
shrine is famous for its formal j sons asking for the way out for
HOURS:
TO R E N T B Y H O U R O R B Y D A Y
W w k Days, 9 a. m. to 6 p. m gardens, filled with flowering Tokyo, and finally one of them
trees, oriental shrubs, many ponds understood English and escorted
spanned by tiny bridges or step us out and to a cab and told th<
SATURDAYS
ping stones. We also visited the driver to take us to the Imperial
9:00 a. m. to 7:00 p. m.
old Im perial palace, where the I Hotel.
• • •
coronation of the E m porer of J a
Here we did some shopping in
pan
takes
place.
The
gard
en
s-are,
the
hotel arcade. Later, according
7 wo Barbers on Saturdays lovely with lakes, bridges, flowers, ,
Phone 2589 or Write Box 417
to a prev ious apopintm ent, we met
N ext To N ook Cafe
and all its Japanese beauty. The our Japanese-A m erican born guide
BROOKINGS, OREGON
old palace itself is closed to the which we had met on the ship.
public but the grounds are loveTy She had disem barked on the first
• ro m
which one may view in ter call for Yokohoma, and was con-
esting arc h ite c tu re of the build
Sum m er Cut Prices!
ings of the palace.
We were then taken to a lac
quer-w are factory, several large
rooms of the most beautiful and
Mill-wood, cord
Sio.oo useful w are I ever expect to see.
The hand-paintings on these a r
1 lywood (.ores, cord $12.00 ticles are rare and now becoming
Now Available at the office—Phone 2282
priceless, as the old a rt is fast
becoming
a
lost
art.
\Ve
brought
A n y L ength!
back two lovely pieces and wished 1
• Adding Machine Tape
Phones 2546 or 2^41
we could have afforded more.
We were brought back to the I
• typewriter Rihlw.ns
hotel for a short rest and then
i taken to the Kyoto station to
board the electric express train
• Sales Books
«I.
I for Kobe, and again enjoying the
I b« aut> of the Japanese country.
ljt'estocf(
® Receipt B<x)ks
• ( 'a 1 bon a per
Arriving at Sarmomiya Station,
Hay — Grain
Kobe; the bus took us to ship-f
• 1 mie 1 lekets and Cards
side, just giving time to brush up
before the dinner chimes rang
• Statement of earnings
rh a t evening at 9 p. m. (May 6)
the ship sailed for Yokohoma.
• ( oast View Stationery
N‘*xt day, about 5 p. m . we ar-
508 H. St. Phone 1091
tKod at Yokohoma. the second
call and the w eather was perfect
• Scratch Pads
•D e b it Slips
CRESCENT CITY
A fter dinner Lyle and I walked
Agate Society Sets Just About Folks!
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