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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
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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
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