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2 Brookings-Harbor Pilot, Thursday, October i, iQ53 For Whet lt/S Worth By CLIFFORD P ROWE ’■ I have long dreamed of becom- T I I K f c f ü ' N O S t B S T IT I T K F O R < IK< t L A T IO N rtg famous to the -extent of K a te rrd as m a tte r, a t the ptm tafflee at Kr»w»ktu<», Oregon, Marrs ■ —j hrrvimg so.’P^ article of clothing. a 7, 'IB M . under tlB r A e( of M a rrti 3. lM 1f. country, or even a la w named ifter me like Prince Albert, .Co M inna A kers , 0 timer, and Publisher lombia, o r the Volstead act. I ' B tJ M C B ir r in » mates / believe ,>my dre-im is about to »3.00 ne T e a r, ln advance (ln C u rry C ounty) 2-----,— ^.2^ ,1..’.., »3.60 ebrne.’ true -I have discovered a' ne T e ar, ln advance (oijtittde C ürry" C ounty) -------- ~ — rtew. cr'pye. N a tln n a l A d v e rtl.ln c IU ro w n ta llv e y . --p all familiar with polyg- W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , I nc . '!,!<■ of having more New l o r k > ' c b leae n < D e tro it > •' r.- ore .wife at the same time. N O T IC E T O S U B S C R IB E R S : K in d ly n o tliy o f any change o f address In a,) r }n!d see - why it was a >»ance. M *T a |lu r« to do so coats tw o cents per lasua sent to the old addre»« ••ubec-lptIon w ill be dropfwd unless sutwcrlbr notifies P ilot o f change. time, though. A lw ays' figured •iiivone brave enough to try BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT * * * - " - \RY HUGE ' a hu£c sum ’° ’he lumber indus- try. , , ’¡ lie 1936 fife was almost as de structive as the one which swept the entire coast in the middle 60’s." FOREST FIRE NOTED I^ast Saturday. Sept. 26. was the anniversary of the starting of Lemendous forest fires in tfie neighborhood of Bosley Butte which swept thousands of acret before being brought under con trol. A series of fires to the tori hw aid wiped out Ihe city of Bandon. Locally,, the fire burned through to the coast, near Car- pbnterville, and millions upon millions of feet of merchantable timber was destroyed which, it it should be "com m anded ra th s now available, would have yielded ELSEWHERE in our paper is a story concerning recent im provements made by West Coast Telephone Company on their service between Crescent City and Brookings. According to West Coast, the new installation should give us seventy-six per cent more capacity between the two cities. We hope, sincerely, that the new installation will bring our phone service somewhere near what can be reasonably expected, and we're glad West Coast has completed the job. We realize they've had a difficult time, here, with the great growth of load in this area. Our greatest single gripe has been the difficulty in placing long-distance calls, and the installation of these cables should improve that. Perhaps, now, too, West Coast can turn their attention to doing something about the time lag in getting tele phones installed here. We really haven't wanted to seem punitive. When we accused West Coast of having the worst telephone .service ever visited upon a city here, we meant it literally—we think iCwas. We applaud their efforts to correct it, and w e’ll refrain from noting (except in passing) that they’re a little slower in doing ao than we feel they should be. But we're willing to watch, now, and sec if they continue to strive to bring their standards up to that given other cities by other systems. If they do so. we’ll be glad to have them here. . In the meahtime, we think w e’ll place a couple of calls. . . and suspend judgment. Make M ill Beach a City Park As far as we know, there is no other city in existence that is blessed with a beach like Mill Beach within its city limits. Of course, we could be technical and say we're really blessed with two, but Harris Beach is a State park, and it's only be cause we’re magnanimous with osir police protection that .it’s within the city. But Mill Beach is all ours, and whwt a wonderful beach R could be for the people of this community. With Its sweep of sandy beach, and its foam-shrouded rocks, It has everything .that could be desired in a beach. We say it could be, because we've realised very little of Mill Beach's potential. Lack of adequate policing has permitted It to become an unkempt beach, with broken bottles and trash littering its sands. And lack of adequate facilities there has condemned it to its present condition. If our Municipal Government w’ould police Mill Beach, and Install the proper facilities, the Bench would be a Municipal Park without equal. No great outlay w-ould be required.'. . as far as we can see. And it would pay off in rich recreational rewards for the people of thia area. The crime 1 have invented much more deserving of punish ment. I am calling it ^'consecu tive polygamy”. The law provides that when an individual has been found guilty on several charges, the judge may give him a sepa rate sentence for each one. say forty years, and order that he serve them consecutively. Thus when he completes the first forty, he starts on the second; etc., etc. Guilty of consecutive polygamy then would be those individuals, of whom we read each day whe mary some beautiful damsel, live with her for e period of time ranging from twenty-four hours to a year, pay her k half million alimony to get rid of her and start window-shopping for anoth er. I Could think of a much nastier word to use for these characters who purchase their wives and then discard them to flood the market with a second-hand pro duct; but consecutive polygamy will be sufficient if we can get a penalty to. fit the crime. My suggested p u n i s h m e n t would be that any man with over $500,000 who gets married will have to live with his wife for a> least 20 years before he can get a divorce. Thus he will be held down to three at the most in a lifetime which will certainly im prove the present situation. s I would predict that the gay blade with the fickle fancy would then think twice before galloping to the altar, and the girl with the dollar sign eyes would discardfter present slogan of "anything to earn a buck”. A $ 1 5 .0 0 Tile, Drain Tile, WeU Casing GRAVEL, SAND and CEMENT Phone 2545 Easy Street Sorry You’ve Been D isturbed... . . . but « • n t you glad now that all ot Tour valuables are secure, in Deposit Box in our bank? a Safe And did you know that a box in our vault, adequate for family needs, rents for as little as $6 00 a year? O REG O N STATE BAN BROOKINGS. OREGON ~^Tctir~D cpendable Hofnc In stitu tion *— Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Construction Starts On New Library Donors to the local library building Will soon be called upon for their offerings, according to decisions made at Monday night's meeting of ih e library board. Jim The city papers say that Rita Hayworth and Dick Haymes Fifield will begin the window and were married at "a very simple ceremony”. That makes it com door frames as soon as he gets plete . . everything about that match is simple. the material, the labor being his contribution. Roy Weidman, who is supervising the project, is ordering all material to be deliv ered on the site, the first being the reinforcing material, and as soon as that is there the slab will W IRING — HEATING -- ENGINEERING l»e poured. Because of the very- great . demands made upon this Shop Phone 2283 Res. Phone 2632 y facility it is imperative that more space lx* available. In August.' 548 books were loaned, an in crease of 100 over the previous month, and indications are that the September circulation will be higher than expected, with so « many readers working in the issued by LLOYDS OF LONDON. . , . bulbs. More than 20 new volumes have cost only for TWO YEARS . t>een ordered for the shelves, sev eral more have been donated, the . . . covers the entire family and provides up to $10.000 medical local Rock Hounds starting a sec expense for each member of the family. (Less than three, cents tion devoted to their interests and a day. . . See the intermediate Girl Scouts turned in $5.28 to be spent on books. CHAS. H. GRAYSHEL INSURANCE AGENCY > To accommodate the school Phone 3671 office 2583 Residence children, the library will be open the additional hours from 11 a m Brookings __ l P. O B ox 177 ' Oregon to 1 p.m. The advisability of having ad ditional high school girl unpaid help in the library was approved. 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