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BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
Thursday, December 18,1952
ment was used in an effort to sub
Subscribe to the Brookings-
sta n tia te this view — including 1
H arbor Pilot. Only $3.00 per
some th at seem fan tastic to the
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year.
lay reader
1 D uring recent m onths, beef has
y
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i been flooding into m ark et in huge
The Roanoke River in Virginia
However, the Federal
er 'q u a n titie s, and the prices of most
Series E defense bond sales d u r
isn’t a world famous or p a rticu commission granted the license to cuts arp lower than thev werp p ing November dipped 9 per cent
situation is sim i. below the corresponding period
larly impressive stream . Yet it the Virginia utility. Interior w*nt vear ago
is likely to become the most im- to court. The F P C decision was lar for some other m eats. For-
a y<*ar ago, according to C. M.
by
p jnz.
o rta
n t river III
in this vw
country
mill.
uiiiij. I unanim ously * upheld
•
• the U S instance, 11IV
ii-
the p<ll'KtTS
packers nave
have oe^n
been Gray, county defense uuuu
bond tiia
chair-
T h at is the point of a strik in g ! Gourt of Appeals for the F ourth , offering pork at average whole- , man.
article in the November issue of Circuit.
Now the m a tte r has sa je prices which are about 21
Total E bond sales throughout
See
t „i. tz ii
e e n t taken
a k e n to
n n re m e
e C
o u rt
— pe r ___
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ci c e o e e i
to th
the e S Suprem
Court.
eent
below .. the 1917 level, Tim
•the s ta te am ounted to $1,668,564.
The Reader’s Digest k by «, Jack
Kil 1 b been
p\-pn though wages and taxes and ¡County sales w ere $2,419. S tate-
patrick, editor of the Richmond 1 he needed pow i expansion has
most o th er costs of doing busi- wide purchases in all series de-
News Leader. And the reason already been blocked for four
for this, in his words, is th a t “If y°a rs -
ness have risen substantially since , f<?nse bonds w ere ju st under two
WRECKERS
million dollars.
the extrem e theories advanced by
W hat is the significance of all I then.
the Federal governm ent for the th is? In Mr. K ilpatrick’s words,
At the end of Hie sum m er of
OCEAN VIEW D RIV E
Roanoke river are upheld by Con- 1 In te rio r’s argum ent in the Roan- J 1951, by contrast, beef was in the
(Harbor
Oregon
I gress and the courts, nobody but | oke case am ounts to “urging th a t I sm allest supply in eight years TREES INCREASE
th e Federal governm ent will ever all m ajor stream s everyw here re i and prices were near their all-
11IRI A
again build a power plant on any gardless of their relation to navi tim e high.
im portant stream in the United gation or flood control, should be
Many things have contributed OVER HOLIDAYS
S ta te s.”
regarded as Federal property. By to so great a change in little
L e t’s keep C hristm as m erry!
The story is a long ’and com the sam e line of reasoning, no m ore than a year. One of them
This is the appeal m ade by the
plex one, but the highlights can vein of coal or acre of farm land is especially w orth noting. We I N ational Board of F ire Under
bebriefly presented. F our years is sale; th*re is no stopping point approached a point of crisis in our w riters every y ear at this time.
Bookkeeping
ago. a Virginia power company short of com plete Federal ow ner m eat supply when it became clear The reason, of course, is th at the
applied to the F ederal power ship of all n atu ral resources?
th at the price control authorities C hristm as tree, center of holiday
commission for authority to build
Pay Roll
Taxes
In o th er words, if In te rio r’s plan.led to in au g u rate a c r a c k - ! festivities in most American
a |K»wer dam on fhr Roanoke. Its prem ises are accepted, private d o w n policy which would have homes, can all too easily become
Insurance
region needed the ¡lower, and it enterprise wil Bind it impossible taken the profit out of m eat pro- the center of a tragic fire
was predicted that the generators to build hydroelectric plants. Gov duction while leaving the pro-
K e rr Building
t o
keep C hristm as m errv, the
would be in operation by the end ernm ent will have alm ost unim a ducer with all the risks. A new 1 N ational Board of F ire Under
of 1951. But the interior d e p a rt ginably sweeping powers over in black m arket in m eat began to j w riters Hsts the foUowing sug-
m ent opposed the application, on dustry, agriculture and enterprise emerge. Almost every au th o rity ’ gestions for holiday safety
Brookings, Oregon
the grounds that the en tire R o
over all the basic resources is convinced that m ore and m ore 1
anoke basin was reserved exclu and economic energies of this n a m eat would have been diverted ! ?
sively for Federal jxiwer develop tion. The door to to ta litarian so from the normal and legal chan
m ent.
Every conceivable argu- cialism will bc wide open.
nels, to the detrim ent of the vast o ♦
m ajority of consum ers, had not <►
o
Congress stepped in and amended ♦
♦
the price control law so as to
MATOT BUILDING
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curb those politicians who w a n t o
Please Place Your O rders Now’
o
ed to a rb itra rily reduce prices < ►
Com plete line of Gas Appliances - w ater h eaters
FOR
regardless of w hat happened to ♦
furnaces
-
ranges
-
floor furnaces
agricult m e and industry. Con ♦
Servel
refrigerators
and
space
heaters
HOLIDAY SPECIAL PARTIES
gress recognized the fact th at the
AND DINNERS
price a m an sells his products for
PROPANE GAS
m ust honestly reflect the cost of
T anks for sale, rent or lease
operating his business.
CLOSED DECEM BER 25, 26 AND 27
The
free m ark et
produces
Phone 2891
abundance because, by its very
nature, it encourages people to
GLEN’S MODEL BAKERY
work and invest and take risks
BROOKINGS. OREGON
in the hope of m aking a profit.
And because it is intensely com
petitive, the free m ark et g u aran
tees fair prices.
COMPLETELY FURNISHED
November Defense
Bond Sales Decline
A Year of Change
W orld's M ost
Im ortant River
If You've Lost
Your Bearings
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to be as severe as the week-end
blast in which 14 ¡»ersons lost
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gon.
month
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