2 Brookings-Harbor Pilot, Thursday, October i, iQ53 For Whet lt/S Worth
By CLIFFORD P ROWE ’■
I have long dreamed of becom-
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}n!d see - why it was a
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••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
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\RY HUGE '
a hu£c sum ’° ’he lumber indus-
try.
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, ’¡ 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.
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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.
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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”.
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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?
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Safe
And did you know that a box
in our vault, adequate for
family needs, rents for as
little as $6 00 a year?
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BROOKINGS. OREGON
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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
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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
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To accommodate the school
Phone 3671 office
2583 Residence
children, the library will be open
the additional hours from 11 a m
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to 1 p.m.
The advisability of having ad
ditional high school girl unpaid
help in the library was approved.
A NEW POLIO POLICY
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