Brookings-Harbor pilot., November 20, 1952, Page 6, Image 6

Thursday, November 20, 1952
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
PAGE SIX
Tidal waves, or freak waves,
can come at any day or hour. The
incoming waves along the outer
coast are always dangerous and
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should be treated w ith great re­
F. Rapracger
spect. Anyone walking along the
one of the greatest oceanic dis­ beach w ithin fifty feet of an In­
turbances in the early history of coming wave is in a dangerous
our race. If you exam ine a sub­ zone. The next wave m ight be
m arine contour m ap of the S tra its much m ore violent than its pred-
of G ibraltar, you find an enor­ decessor.
mous valley running up from the
M editerranean, right through the
The November m eeteing of the
S traits, and extending some dis­ Azealea Garden club was held at
tance out into the A tlantic ocean the Grange hall on Novem ber 12
This valley or gorge is probably w ith m any m em bers and guests
the work of the inflowing w aters present, including visitors from
of the ocean as they broke Sm ith River and Crescent City.
through the land barrier, perhaps The dessert luncheon, which pre­
in a tidal surge, and inundated ceded the meeting, was served by
the low-lying land on the other
M esdames Lyle Redfield, A rthur
side.
Knox and Don Craig.
It is believed th at people of an
The main topic of the afternoon
early civilization lived in the Med­
was “How to M ake C hristm as
iterranean land at the time, at
D ecorations,” and although the
the m outh of the Nile and else­
instruction scheduled to be given
where. Suddenly the ocean w ater
by the County Home Extension
began to break through over the
Agent had to be postponed until
w estw ard hills and to pour in
the following afternoon, Mrs.
upon them. The w aters rose and
Roy W iedman, program ch air­
never abated. H our by hour and
m an, gave an enlightening talk
day by day, the w aters reached
on how to m ake frosted and glow
higher and higher, driving man-1
candles,
the
construction
of
kind before them.
The ocean
w reath s and the use of driftwood
knew no bounds. It came o v e r 1 in C hristm as decorations.
the tree-tops. It covered d w e ll-;
ings. It filled the en tire basin
of the present M editerranean. It
did not stop until it lapped the
distant m ountain cliffs of Arabia
and the Holy Land. All this h ap ­
pened a long tim e ago in an ea rli­
er age than ours, long before the
dawn of w ritten history, thousands
of years before Jesus was born
Along Azalea Row
B y Mrs. E.
Held Over From Last Week
On election Tuesday when a
tidal wave of votes was sweeping
th e country, another kind of tidal
wave was sweeping across the P a ­
cific ocean at trem endous speed,
the cause of this oceanic phenom ­
enon being an earthquake near
the K uriles islands off the Si­
beria coast.
This tidal wave
lashfTl the coast of South Am er­
ica as well as Pacific N orth A m er­
ica and did varying am ounts of
dam age. At Crescent City w here
the tidal wave stru ck on election
night, fishing boats were sunk
when a strong-running current
»wished in and out of the harbor
four tim es between the hours of
8 and 9 p.m.
In this age of modern com m u­
nications and science, there can
be forew arning of tidal waves
and in most cases people will have
am ple tim e to find places of safe­
ty before the ocean w aters break
upon low-lying comm unities. In
Ja p an for exam ple where loss of
life from strong tidal surges can
be extensive a staff of exjierts
m akes an im m ediate appraisal
when an earthquake is recorded
to determ ine w hether the re su lt­
ant wave is apt to be damaging.
The power of the ocean is tr e ­
mendous.
Many years ago t he
e n tile area known as the Medi­
terran ean Sea was innudated bv
Many beautiful flower a rra n g e ­
m ents were on display, including
the C hristm as flower a rran g e­
ment created by Mrs. A. E. Sand-
bo with the common teazel as the
basic plant. “The Last Roundup,’’
an arrangem ent by Mrs. Almo
Newton, was very effective. This
consisted of clusters of lemons
and leaves in a brown vase. A
very unusual orchid from Mr. W.
Crissey’s greenhouse graced the
president’s table.
The climax of the afternoon
came when the curtain was raised
to reveal the Azalea Singers in
colorful
negro costum es and
blackened faces ready to e n te r­
tain the audience w ith Thanksgiv­
ing songs. W ith much rolling of
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broke into their first num ber, en­
titled “Ole A rc’s a Moverin,” ’
with Mrs. Stanley P atterso n ac-
compan.ving them a t the piano.
Then cam e “Clap Yo H ands’’ with
more swinging of hips. A great
sigh
of
disappointm ent
was
heard throughout the hall when
in answ er to pleas fofr an encore
Mrs. McKenzie appeared at the
curtain to announce “There ain’
no m ore.”
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