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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1953)
Reader Protests Telephone Service we b? compelled to have our cen-1 ing Center. i ' on? Beyond question, Br<x»kino lvookings H aibor Pilot 9 lal telephone office established in I his morning we set up oui hould have a swimming, pool, another S ta te ? Why ia it that table so 1 have a better place tc s something our growing com- T t t p R s i n v . .ICI Y 30, 1953 ur people, who desire telephones, write. Tomorrow we will go to a vm ity can no longer lx» w it lion* The West C o a s t T elephone' are unable to get them ? museum. The w ater around here Beyond question also our citv ot t’omr.i.v Sm ith jx'ople have been Company is not giving Southern 1 These are some of the questions has so much clorine in it that we ait pros id? it. It is simply a asking w here to send monev for Curry County adequate telephone which the West Coast Telephone can hardly drink it. n a tte r of agreem ent, of getting lie pioj et Is it out of place to s nice. This statem ent of course, Company should answer to our July 17th rgani/ed, and of going to work. is not news to users of telephones satisfaction. Provided the tele Twenty-six and one-half m in ♦ is a "m ust" project for immedi ask the m ayor to designate a in this area. This complaint has phone company shall not so an- utes ago the Jam boree was offi ate action. small com m ittee to go to worl> been continuously prevalent in wver these questions it may be- cially opened by the tiring of a upon it without delay? A town swimming-pool will Respectfully, the past. We have complacently •ome necessary for us to place ..alutc. .□vide all the necessary safe C harles Dutden. overlooked the shabby m anner in iur questions with the Public Trading has been gtxxl. I went guards, and give opjxirtunity for which we have been treated by utilities Commissioner of the out with Gary Safley, Earl H u n t fellowship and recreation for all our telephone company chiefly S tate of Oregon. If we have to ington, John Sampson and Gene groups. CORRECTION because of its continual promises :ct tough in this m atter then let’s Horn. About halfway we met C ertainly I am thinking of all Inform ation in our Parade re-« get tough. that its service would be im- kids from other states, who w a n t roups and all ages, hut I am port last week gave the nam e ofl pfrbved in the future. ed my slides. 1 traded all of them villing to hold a torch for the Bonnie Kay Mincer a t Lion T am (EDITOR’S NOTE Ordinarily lor 2 Scout knives, a ball-|xunt But this future, as the word is en-ngers. This is som ething in e r on the Lions Float. Since that: ’be Pilot does not publish un pen and 2 lucky horse-shoes. used by the telephone company, which we can all unite for them, time it was learned tha the I m ' h u - Yesterday we went to K notts never seems to arrive. Last week signed letters, but this, we feel, is and something they cannot pos tiful young lady was none othefl and during several prior periods, n the interest of the people of Berry Farm . There were stage sibly do for themselves. than Diane Kanick. Apologies •oachcs and an old train and o th telephone users of Brookings this area.) ‘•Ince the drowning in the river Diane. er relics. could not connect with their cen Tomorrow we are going swim tral office. ming at H untington Beach. Long distance service out of I go to mass every morning. Brookings is often delayed and Scout Larry Hannan w rote this Well, I ’ll be seeing you the seldom is of the same degree of letter to his parents. 26 th efficiency as o th er cities receive. Troop 24. Sec. 24 Love to all, Why should all of this be? How MATOT BUILDING Irvine Ranch LARRY (H annan) long do we now have to wait be Santa Ana. Calif. P .S .:: I might get on T.V. Complete line of Gas Appliances - w ater heaters fore we receive adequate tele July 15. 1953 furnaees - ranges - tloor furnaces phone service to m eet the needs Dear Mom and Dad: :: Servel refrigerators and space h eaters of this com m unity? Why should LETTER TO TH E EDITOR On the card I wrote you I Editor couldn’t tell you all that I ’ve been The Brookings-H arbor Pilot PROPANE GAS doing. Tanks for sale, rent or lease Livestock Hay-Grain When we got off the train at D ear Madam, W ith the recent swimming-hole Phone 2284 San Francisco wp ferried across tiagedy in mind may I presum e the bay, then got on busses and to bring a m a tte r to your atten- went to the Naval Training Cen > ter for dinner. From there we « toured the town. We saw the City Hall and other interesting build ings. A fter our tour we went swimming and then to Chinatown. We then ferried across the bay BROOKINGS, OREGON again, and got on our train. W. L. CAMPBELL, Phone 2281 A fter riding all night we a r TED L. FREEM AN, Phone 2625 rived at the Jam boree, set up OFFICE, Phone 2411 camp and stayed there the rest of that day and night. The next morning we w'ent to San Diego where we went to the biggest and bbst zoo in the world. We had H. A. IOCHENS lunch at the M arine Training Center and a ride on a Navy land ing barge. The hay was full of destroyers, transports; subm arines and other ships. 1 have 12 pictures of them to bring home. A fter th at SALES AND SERVICE we went into Mexico where I got Phone 2661 Hotel Brookings a "hunch of junk," to bring home. Proved IN SERVICE Proved A r r r R they’re Internationals are You’ll like my souvenirs. We by A m erica’s m ost b u ilt! - .1 “Desert had supper at the Marine Train- i proved BEFORE In The Mail-bcx: I Curry County Gas Company HAULING Brookings Livestock and Trucking Co. PLUMBING they’re built at the w o rld ’s m o st a d v an ced a ll-tru c k engineering labora tory. 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