? Brfx>kingi Harbor Pilot BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT T I IC R K ’M WO h l H h T IT I T K F u lr r r d u * i m m h I el a »» m a i i r r , ttt tin- 7 , 1»»«. un d e r the A r t FO B < IK ( I L A T IO N al of M a rc h Brooking», Oregon, M a rc h 3, 1M79. A/ inna A kers , Owner and Publisher h l K M H I I T IO N K A T L S : One Y ear, In advance (In G urry County» ............ ...... ............................................ 93.00 One Yeur, In advance (uutalde Curr.v C ou nty) <3 50 Cluaelfled A dvertising Kates, 15c per line M in im um 50c cash. A ll advertising copy m ust be In by 5 o’clock Tuesday evening to Insure pub­ lic a tio n . News Item s and classified ads w ill be received up to Wednesday noon. N a t io n a l A d v e rtis in g R e p re s e n ta tiv e W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , I nc . N ew Y o rk > ( hlea g o * D e tr o it ♦ P h ila d e lp h ia N O T IC E T O S U B S C R IB E R S : K ind ly n o tify of any change o f address In a d ­ vance. F a ilu re to do so costs two cents per Issue sent to the old address, ttubscrlptlnn w ill tie dropped unless subscrlbr no tifies Pilot of change. WE CAN LEARN FROM OUR TENNESSEE NEIGHBORS From Tennessee comes the following advice, as applicable here as in the Smoky Mountains. Gatlinburg, at the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, believes in preparing for the many touristy who come its way in endless numbers from April through October. Read this, just substituting the names of BROOKINGS and HARBOR for “Gatlinburg” and,con­ sider it an earnest appeal from our own AZALE1A GARDEN CLUB. Let’s start preparing right now for the passing parade on Highway 101 and the Azalea Festival. If we prepare, the pa­ rade is not so apt to pass but will linger with us, to enjoy the charm of this area. “The Gatlinburg Garden Club committee, appointed by the club to «p-^rhead a city-wide Clean-up campaign, has enumerat- ed the following musts’ for a successful drive: *1. ( leaning the lawns of all residences. The committee points out that tourists take walks not only on the main street •»" like to go hack into th , residential areas, so it Is important that these areas be clean and attractive. ‘ Z ( leaning up the creek beds. The mountain streams that run through Gatlinburg are some of our greatest attractions, and as such should be kept free of debris. “3. Unsightly coal piles and trash piles should be moved to the rear of buildings, and not left on the street, in full view of passers-by. -4. Weeds shoutl be mowed down and trash piles removed f T i'" ™ " lo,s- “ wel* front homes and businesses I lie committee points out that cleaning up the city is not only health and beauty measure, hut is also good business All re, dents of Gatlinburg are in the tourist business dTX tlv or Indirectly, anil the impression that each tourist gets of our town S -he one he tells Ins friends. I, this won, o- mou,h a d v ertJsZ is complimentary it is the best possible of all advertising." •__ ______ _ (Signed) time i i e \ c i c u i n c b m i n i HIUlUl buses lade out of the picture as a means of transi»ortation. My affection for the highway carried is nourished by the tact that it is about the only place remaining in our highly advanced civiliza­ tion where people gather with nothing particular to do dt the moment. * I took a trip by bus the other day; and as I studied my fellow passengers. I became increasingly aware ,haf they gave one a fairly representative cross-section of hu­ manity as well as excellent ex­ ample of our more common ♦ »••fits For instance, there was one fellow who sat looking at his feet the entire trip. The scenery flit­ ting by. the fellow creatures around him.held no interest for him whatsoever. He was going somewhere and the destination Oregon’s vegetable canning industry, an important segment of was all that concerned him. Any­ the state’s vital food-processing business, has increased its annual output almost 2,000 per cent In the last 25 years. American Can thing which might happen be­ Company, pioneer developer of food containers, estimated that the tween the farting point and the 1952 pack of 8,404,618 cases brought more than 824,000,000 Into end were jut o many blank pages Oregon. in the history of his life. Then there was the woman who what unwilling assistance on my regaled the entire group with the For W hat It's W orth part. details of her daughter’s divorce, For a period of three days, I the rigors of her last operation, By CLIFFORD P. ROWE will swear that the telephone and the brutishness of her “old” I HAVE just recovered from a rang at least every fifteen min- man. Passengers trying to cover siege of measles. I didn’t have u te r This necessitated my an- the|r embarrassment at being let the maady myself, but my young s iti. ik i , summoning the in- ¡n On family secrets, hastily start- daughter did. I valid from her .sick bed on the ed conversations with the strang­ would have suf- living room davenport, and then Ifcred less. I be- listening to a measle-by-measle ers sitting next to them. Daily riders were recognized I lieve, If I had account of the progress and de­ [been the one cline of the ailment on a home- easily by their boredom. Equally noticeable were those making I onfined. to-home hook-up. It has been Following the three days of their first trip on this route, noses since I suffered telephonic communication. the Pressed against dirty windows as m a n y y e a r s young ladies had recovered to they tried to take in scenery my last attack such an extent that, although for- which rushed by as if being shown b u t 1 o o k in g bidden by law to return to school, j by a movie projector gone wild, back on the ex­ they proceeded by some ingeni-1 Almost last, but certainly not perience. all that ously arranged plan to move lcast in the attention of the young I can recall are around from house to house of J ad>’ riding the front seat was the q u a r i n t i n e those simlarly inflicted driver himself, smug in his cer­ blinds pulled down to protect ten­ They are all back in school tainty that his admirer was but der eyes from the glare of sun­ now; and the telephone, weak one of the many who rode in that light, and a seemingly long period and measle-scarred, is enjoying a same seat throughout the day. of separation from the company well-earned convalescence. So is This was all with the exception of my friends. the living room davenport. Never of the one character who couldn’t Apparently science has chang­ again will I hold lightly the seri­ mind his own business and so stu­ ed all of this. Measles is now a ousness of measles. It may be a died his fellow passengers to pleasure to be looked forward to chidren's disease but adults are later reveal them in print. by juveniles as providing a break the greatest sufferers. in the ordinary routine of things Reach that ouyer through as well as permitting of pleasures I (. ERTAINLY hope that Pilot Classified Advertisement. prohibited to those who are so un­ fortunate as to escape the disease. Fate was particularly kind to our young lady. Not only did she get the measles but also seem­ ingly did all of her friends. As a RICHER LA N D result Alexnder Graham Bell’s in­ vention got the worlwut of its lifetime; that is, along with some­ M E A N S RICHER FARMERS T hursday, April . j , 1953 MRS. WARREN T. SMITH. STATE’S VEGETABLE PACKS GROW , appropriations bill—why not just one bill tor the entire job?’’ In tact that idea was tried, but it t«x»k just as long, if not longer, to do the job in one bill as it does I • (he other way. The same subcom mittees have to do the same ! work. The difference and the HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M.C. tup i i disadvantage is that those com- I I . i.r.GiM.A I ION program mittee members who finish their ° UM kS afH>ut to narww work work early cannot get final i o mi o a consideraion of annua, action on their part of the bill appropriation bills. The Hause until all of the other sections are o iin g n a te s a ll money bills, acts completed. 1 believe the time the on , u rn and then sends them to “one-package” idea was tried, the fJr new year big hill was not finally passed un- , " a,i"ojniations are til some three months after the t< mi x’gln July 1. Time is fiscal year. Thus ALL depart* th.w.1,,,-,. ,h„r, in whi,.h ,o ments were compelled to operate eleven hill, through ,OTfh for a quarter of the year in a disarmament possible. I hope Houses of Congress The first system many of them could have everyone reads the speech. I be nne Will come to the floor „hou, been cleared on time. lieve I can obtain a copy and send April >2 ami ihP others will fa). PRESIDENT EISENHOWER it to anyone who missed it in the in rapid succession. The has i issued a ringing challenge to press and would like to read it. » ettse ,, n„t usually „hie to ban- | ,h< rulers of the Russian jx'ople Just let me know. <11« more than two such bills ,n and the iron-curtain satellites. It Washington, DC. is a crowded a week. city these days. I doubt if then was a challenge to make peace - Fortunately, the Senate has been holding hearings an«, other­ no, to make war. Sincere, simple, is a hotel room available in town. wise getting its preliminary work but with smashing directness Members of the Society of News done on the appropriations job President Eisenhower stated the paper Editors, the American Tlierefore. when the Senate re­ problem i peace in the world) Newgpajier Publishers, the Worn ceives a hill passed by the House with great clarity and offered an en’s Spring Conference of the Re­ »t can lx» acted upon quite equally clear solution. Without publican Party, the Daughters of promptly. rancor or bitterness but in words I the American Revolution, and The same question may occur m hich can be understood by any- i perhaps some other organizations to you which has been the sub* one. the President pointed the fin- I 1 are convening here. Every day >vt of considerable argument ger at the Russian dictators and J i groups of high school or college here That is: “Why so manv invited them to make peace and ' students, generally in chartered j buses, are visitors to the Capitol * 3crct:33nant!irxr.afcr I Members of Congress are pretty I busy at this season of the year NEXT EVENING OUT | hut none of them are too busy 1 to meet and talk to people from DROP IXTWN TO their home districts. I am de- El 1 lighted to have a chance to take ■ to folks from Oregon Maybe a | few letters will not be answered I loyd Mt wire’s 1 ■ it thej «»them-s, would be, but aside from that the work “ Soecial Fried Chicken” of your trepresentative is no also hampered. On the contrary, I ’eel it is most helpful to get »he <