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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1953)
2 Brookings Harbor Pilot T hursday . august «. iw BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT T H R K K *H E n te re d u NO S I H H T IT I T E »eeiirid-ela«» m a t t e r , a t the 7 , 1 M I , u n d e r th e A r t FO R of C IR C ! E A T 1 O N a t Brooking»., O re g o n , M a rc h 3 , 1 * 7 * . M a rc h M inna A kers , Owner and Publisher H I R M R 1 P T IO N KATES: On« Y ear, In advance (In C u rry C ounty) .............. .................................... .... ....- >3.00 One Y ear, In advance <outxl<le C arry County) >3 M C laralfled A dvertisin g Rate», 15c per line M in im um 5Oc eaah. A ll advertlalng copy muat be In by 5 o'clock Tuesday evening to insure pub lication. New s Items and classified ads w ill be received up to Wednesday Boon. N a t io n a l A d v e rtis in g U e p re e e n ta U v e W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , I nc . New Y o rk * C h ic a g o < D e tro it > P h ila d e lp h ia N O T IC E TO S U B S C R IB E R S : K indly no tify o f any change o f address In a d vance. F a ilu re to do so ouqta two cents |>er Issue sent to the old address. H u b eclp tlo n w ill be dropped unless subscrlbr notifies Pilot o f change. The Telephone Service in Brookings Brookings and the surrounding area is served by the West Coast Telephone Company. But never was the word “serve” put to a m ore perverted use than it is in this case. We have here an entire area whose economic w elfare is ham strung by what is, in our opinion, the worst telephone serv ice th a t could be visited upon a city. Along the coast, we are at the mercy of our com m unica tions. There is nothing connecting us w ith the rest of civiliza tion except the coastal highway and the telephone lines. And th ere is nothing remottjly amusing in the spectacle of Brookings business men driving forty or fifty miles to neighboring dities because the telephone is chronically out of order. And neither is there anything funny in a situation wherein a com m unity of 2,500 people, and a trading area of six or seven thousand, have resource to only a handful of telephones. The people of Brookings have waited long and patiently for the tele phones necessary to carry on th eir affairs, and the telephones have not been forthcoming. And, finally, the lark of facilities locally to carry on rep air operations and business dealings is one more indignity heaped upon our community. We like Crescent City it’s a lovely city. But we’re tired of running 28 miles down there every tim e we w ant to report the telephone out of order, which is an average of four times per day, more or less. We do not know how much of the trouble we have w ith our telephone service is due to the fact th at our central station is in an o th er city and another state. Certainly, with the great am ount of trouble we do have, that m ust contribute to it. . . even west C oast couldn't arrange all that poor service a fte r getting through c en tral But even apart from the horrible service, there is no need for this community to be dependent upon business facilities which are so remote. W est Coast will undoubtedly claim that there are too few telephones here to justify central facilities. That m ay be tru e now, hut it is true only because West Coast has failed to install tin* phones necessary to this community. W hen a company assumes the sta tu s of a public utility, it also assumes an obligation to the com m unity it serves. W est (. oast has consistently fail«*d to meet th at obligation, and its failure has hurt this city If it continues to do so, we in Brook ings must take every available action to gain the telephone serv ice we need. W GP ! Letter From Washington i ! ert A. Taft of Ohio cast a deep sadness os er the closing hours of this session S enator Taft was genuinely liked, adm ired, and re spected by every m em ber of Con gress. He was a tower of strength to the Eisenhower A dm inistration ind was truly "Mr. R epublican” in th«* S enate and in the country. The death of S enator T aft fol lowed within a few days the pass- ng of S enator Toliey of New Hampshire, also a respected and popular Senator, During the less than seven m onths "since this session began four o th e r Senators and R epre sentatives have died, including enthusiasm lies in the n a tu re of Cx x the work which had to be done l © l © V I S I O n □ I Q T I S during this session. It is far m ore ■ a . pleasant to spend money lavishly IH w T C in tS iQ S S than it is to pinch pennies and . save. I his session of Congress is • ... . . I he first one in m any years to . ? f a J'".. „ R° " , laSt crack down sharply and h e a v i l y ',? ? ’ L dldn 1 have much c i’ on budget requests. It knocked al- f u ,r , most 20 per cent tone-fifth) off Ch. nn‘? , K ®ES' TV ,f the post-election T rum an budget ^ a ""t ' A “ m ™ nw i* «Peratrnn which, I believe, he dared Cbn- ®® " r n y; „ gross to try and cut. The reduc- BAYVIEW GARAGE At State Line Open Evenings 7 to 9 p.m. GEO. SHH’LEY, OWNER . . a,r for several tion figure in dollars will be close Although local dealers made no I to fourteen BILLIONS. effort to receive the valley s ta But even so, and to fu rth er tion. it was reported that it gave dampen any feeling of cheerful a very faint signal in Crescent ness, it has not yet been possible City. to provide any tax relief. This Local people are saving th eir will come at the end of this year. efforts for the E ureka station, Then to top off the financial which should story, one of the last acts of this a few weeks. be on the air within r session was to face the necessity DAILY of raising the legal debt limit of the Federal treasury. Although that actually am ounts to little more than a legal technicality, it did serve to point out forcefully SALEM — Advance mail order th at the Eisenhower A dm inistra ticket sale for 1953 Oregon sta te tion inherited a flock of bills DAVE FRANKLIN, which m ust be paid before govern fair events opened this week at ment finances can be put on a the state fairgrounds, Salem. The Owner sound basis and taxes reduced. fair opens S atu rd ay morning. Sep Phone 2634 The situation we took over was tem ber 5 and closes S aturday OEOROE LO STROB night, Septem ber 12. som ething like th at of a person L ocal Af/ent Events for which reserved seats who buys a quit-claim deed to a business and then has to m o rt gage the property in order to get rid of the leins and old debts which are presented to him for paym ent. I t has been no fun eith er for the Eisenhower A dm inistration or CAPABLE CARE OF THE AGED. for the Congress to halt the happy stroll down the road to sta te SICK AND INVALID socialism. A super-state with astronom ical am ounts to spend can and does provide m any "bene AMBULATORY OR BED PATIENTS fits" and generally a condition that appears to be prosperity. It is tru ly a happy condition while it lasts if the costs are ignored. A ttention to Special Diets in Quiet, Pleasant But big governm ent, which does or promises to do som ething for H om elike Surroundings. everybody, m ust be paid for soon er or later. If the cost were in cash alone the problem would be simple. U nfortunately, people who 2 1 z 2 miles from Highway ioi on North Bank have surrendered their independ ence to th eir governm ent in re Rogue River. turn for "benefits” and "security” have found to their sorrow th at oppression and loss of individual freedom ultim ately follow. Recent * as well as older history records t Wedderburn, Ore. this fact. T hat is why the tight • Address P. O. Box ioi against big governm ent, although i it may he politically unpopular, is so vitally im portant to us al! O ur position in world affairs, which the new regime inherited, was anything hut pleasant. That responsibility lies m ostly w ith the President. He has displayed a firmness which I feel sure the « other governm ents of the world have noted with respect. Our policy of appeasem ent and retreat __ ___ which ran much too ___ long is totally ended. The shooting w ar in Korea has been stopped and for the first tim e since th»* so-called cold wai , was started by the Russian gov- i ! em inent, we are fighting hack ag- | I gressively w ith food and definite encouragem ent for those who will resist oppression. The cold w ar is n not and never can be a sta tic con dition it is dynamic. Communist aggression will either advance or it will be fought back it cannot By HARRIS KLI.SWORTH, M C. This is w ritten on Saturday. B efore long a weary and more or less gloomy Congress will close up shop ami the m embers will head for home It is always a little discouraging to hear a Con gressional recess referred to as a “vacation ” The tact is that a m em ber of Congress generally has less tim e to himself when he is home in his state or district than when he is in W ashington a tte n d S e n a to r W illis S m ith of N o rth ing the session We do not com Carolina; R epresentatives Joseph plain about this because it is a Bry.^on of S o u th Carolina, G arrett part of the job. and a pleasant ! W 'ith e rs of K e n tu c k y , and M er part, but a recess certainly is not lin H ull of W isconsin H ie t ’on- a vacation j gross with a total m em bership in I referred to this ongress ---------- as — i House - » a lx* "contained.” and Senate of 531 is being gloomy There are two very- relatively small body num erieaiy. 1 different sets of reasons for that I hese men all w ere our friends T his, I believe, is the last “L et condition First and foremost, the and we miss them. te r from W ashington” for this sudden passing of S enator Roh- The o th er basis for a lack of ' car I do not expect a special I _ session to be called so unless that | 11 H ' » M via VnmaarY- mjwj : uuuarffailrxiF fc Iocs h.ipix'ii I will not he w r u n g i from W ashington again until Con- 1 gress convenes its second session I in January Meanwhile, a fte r | about the 20th of August, we will ! U<* at home in Roseburg at home. i that is, unless 1 am visiting the • Specialising in Radiator Repair seven counties in the Fourth Dis l ail Sm ith River 330 or Box l.T Rrookings trict. I hope to spend at least a tor delivery service week in each county. • aj " rn °" ,hc are sold are the nightly grand stand stage show, the rodeo and the horse racing. Both the stage show and the rodeo will s ta rt at 8 p.m. all eight evenings of the fair. In addition, rodeo perform ances will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Monday (Labor Day) Sep tem ber 6 and 7. Horse racing post tim e is 1:15 p.m. daily except Sunday. Reserved seat prices for the stage show and the rodeo are $1.25 and 1.50 while racing re served prices are 70c and $1. The advance box office seat sale now is open from 1 to 5 p.m. daily except Sundays a t the fairgrounds in Salem, Freight Service Fair Tickets Now on Sale Coast Freight Lines MITCHELL'S NURSING HOME PHONE GOLD BEACH 14R55 <0 You «n «et v A ìo IVO«"0?* by savin«* 5 fl — ** «S *•<*- O u t p liC H itâ f O REG O N STATE BROOKINGS. OREGON A fly which cannot find a feed- j ‘ mg place will live only 3 or 4 days, while well-fed ones live as 1 ong as 60 days. BANK \ our Dependable H om e Institution" M e r a b i F e d e ra l D eposit In s u r a n c e C o rp o ra ti a
