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T h u rsd ay , December 11, 1052
B R O O K (NGS-H ARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON
fered from burns on his face and
neck, caused from hot syrup his
m other was carrying to the table.
Tommy came dashing by and
didn’t see her in the dim lights
we’ve had here for two days,
By Mrn. F. F. Rapraeger
“lam ps,’ th at is.
BOUT 1760, a talented half- approxim ately 6,000 tons. A ponv
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Midwood have
_i breed Cherokee Indian named could lie down on the largest broken the record for short moves
Sequoinh was born in Tennessee, branch (7 feet in diam eter) and around here, which is from No. 1
the son of a white tra d e r and a not be seen from the ground 130 cabin into No. 2. the total of five
Cherokee woman. This man was feet below’.
feet.
the originator of the Cherokee
It has been mentioned that the j Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Scheier am!
alphabet and in his honor the Se Sequoias were once widely dis- daughter, Gale, have moved to
quoia
tributed and it is of more than Brookings.
* trees were named.
I passing intesest th at the bigtree
The Sequoias are of very
Asa C arpenter spent the day
cient lineage.
They flourishe I | anf* even the redwood, are now so here Friday visiting relatives and
during the mild humid clim ate of restricted in range. In term s of friends.
We have had sleet, snow, hail,
the Miocene epoch about 30 m il geological time, the bigtree is
m
aking
its
last
stand
in
scattered
lion years ago and even earlier
during the C retaceous period groves along the w estern middle
when huge reptiles ruled the * slopes of the Sierras. The range
earth. In Miocene days the Se ol the redwood is more extensive
quoias were very abundant and hut is limited to a narrow coastal
formed extensive forests through strip extending from the Chetco
1947 CHEVROLET
out the world, particularly in the river in Oregon to the S anta Lu- J
cia m ountains south of San Fran- '
AERO SEDAN
northern hemisphere. About 10
cisco
bay.
Inland,
where
the
'
Radio
-
H eater
lossil forms have been described
Good Condition
but the m odern Sequoias consist sum m er fogs from the ocean are 1
of but two species, (tfrquoiu </i- cut olT by the high coastal peaks,
HOWARD VINING
gantica and Seguoia emprovirons) redwood disappears. Even Hie
HARBOR - PEDROLI DRIVE
the redwood of the coastal fog m odern redwood loves the mild
belt (ewiproiHroas) and the big humid clim ate that its ancestors
loved so wel during the Miocene
trees of the Sierras (yiganticu). epoch.
Specimens of redwood are taller
N ature is red of claw and ruth
than the big tree but certain of
less. She rules a world in which
the bigtree are twice as old and
plants and anim als m ust fit, if I
much larger.
Several bigtrees
they are to survive. It is a very
now in existence probably were
good world but it is up to those
2,00 to 2,500 years old when Jesus
present to jolly well m ake the
was born in Bethlehem. They
most of it. There is no room foi
probably are the largest and old
a
race of shirkers or mistits.
est thing living u|x>n this earth.
Many
interesting forms of life
It has been estim ated that the
have
passed
from the face of the
weight ot the General Sherm an
e
a
rth
when
they
failed to adopt
tree in Sequoia National park is
themselves to the conditions. Tin
huge reptiles which once ruled
I the earth are no longer here.
N ature calm ly watched them
decline and then she w atched an
o th er more efficient form of life
gain ascendancy. The process is
slow inexorable and unyielding.
The Sequoias are the last of a
m ighty race of trees. The man
in whos(‘ honor they are named,
Sequoiah, the redm an, was also
among the last of a m ighty tribe
of Cherokees.
EX CELLEN T CONDITION
T hree R««d Leather Seats
olio, H eater, Ckx'k, Five tires
By MICKEY CA RPENTER
Along Azalea Row
A
rain and a good gale here in the
last 24 bout's,
“N orm ” says his house is list
H. A. JOCHENS
ing about 10 inches and the lin
oleum is floating, but “Cannon
ball” has him beat, says he has
to w ear spurs to get in and out
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Carpentcrville school has lost
five pupils in the last week or
two, which brings the total down
to 16 now.
Little Tommy Lenderm an suf-
BROOKINGS
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(Continued From L ast W eek)
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homes and business houses. They have made
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during the past year. We believe a record for
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he re, go to improve some other city.
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