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Brookings-I larbor Pilot, Thursday, October 8, 1953
For What It's Worth Tisdale At Head
By C L IF F O R D P. ROW E
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT
AN IN D E P E N D E N T N E W S P A P E R
One of my read ers flattered me
very m uch recently by asking my
E n te re d ms second-el a « h m a tte r at the p o s to ffic e at B ro o kin g s O regon,
M a rc h 7. 191«, u n der th e A e t o f M a rch 3, ls7S
opinion in the H e ll’s Canyon dam
c o n t r o versy.
M inna A kers , Owner and Publisher
N othing p le a s ­
WILLIAM G. PH ELPS, E ditor
es one so m uch
S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E S :
as being asked
One Y ear in ad vance «in f u r r y C o u n ty ,
$3.00
for an opinion
One Y ear, In a o van^e «outside f u r r y C o u n ty i
13 50
even
though
N A T IO N A L A O V E R T IR IN G R E P R E S E N T A T IV E
Ihe chances are
W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , I NC.
th a t little a t-
N ew Y ork
C hicago
I Ȏtroit
P h ila d e lp h ia
t ntion will be
paid to it.
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N IW S P A P IR
N A T I O N A L E D IT O R IA L
The tru th of
I I A S 's b c f T l'ê N
k PUBLISHERS
the m a tte r is
c
I
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th at ev er sine«'
ASSOCIATION
A C T IV E
MEMBER
t h c squabble
broke out he-
tw een the D em ocrats and the R e­
publicans over the num ber of
dam s which should he built in
ihe S nake, who who should build
O ne out of every five people alive today are destined to die
them , and who should pay for
of cancer.
them . I have done m uch read n<
And one out of every tw o fam ilies will suffer the trag e d y
and listening and have finally
o f having a m em ber of th e fam ily strick en w ith cancer.
com e to th e conclusion that
know less th an when I sta rte d .
I t ’s not a p leasant thought, is it? Look around you, at your
All th a t I have discovered is
fam ily and friends, and count them olT, one by one, and ask,
th at both sides in the arg u m en t
for ev ery live; w hich one will it b e?
art light and th at they have ‘he
facts to prove it. Also it is very
But you can prevent it. You, and y o u r friends like you, if
x itlent th a t both sides are lia s
y o u ’d only tak e the tro u b le to do so.
and th a t proof on th at point is
T he horrihh thing about c a n cer today is not th e toll th at it
av a ila b le also.
ta k e s , so much as th e fact th at a g re a t part of 1 he toll is so
Pho w hole situ atio n sim m ers
needless.
down to th e fact that it is a po­
litical issue. R epublicans believe
B ecause, as Dr. P aul R onniger recen tly told the PTA, cancer
th a t prix a te e n te rp rise should
can he conquered. . . if it is caught in tim e.
have th e o p p o rtu n ity to build the
«lane, th u s enabling th e g o vern­
It cannot yet he conquered by w onder drugs o r m iracu lo u s
m ent to ob tain revenue from them
cu res, and the psuedo -m edical w rite rs in popular m agazines who
in the form of taxes.
In this
have w ritte n glowing a rtic le s in p o pular m agazines have prob­
way, ih e governm ent would not
ab ly caused a g reat deal of suffering w ith the false prom ises
they hold out
have to furnish the m oney for
co n stru c tio n of th e dam s, th u s
But it can he rem edied by X-Ray and su rg e iy , if it’s cau g h t
rem oxing th e necessity of goug­
in tim e.
ing the ta x p a y e r to th at ex ten t.
D em ocrats, on th e o th e r hand,
And how do you know ? How can you tell if y o u ’re th at
m
a
in ta in th at the governm ent will
fifth person m ark ed to die from c a n c e r?
build the best dam s and in addi­
F irst, you w atch your physical condition. Keep going to
t i o n will have the in te re sts of M r
youi physician reg u larly for physical checkups, at least once a
people a t h eart since it will not
y ea r. K<*ep on guard against cancer.
be in te re ste d in m aking a profit.
In fact, if pressed, they ’ could
And secondly, w atch for the seven d an g e r signs w hich w arn
very xve’l give the postal service
of c a n te r
H ere they a re :
as an exam ple of a governm ent
1. Any sore that does not heal.
e n te rp ris e which definitely proxes
2. A lum p o r th ick en in g In the breast or elsew here.
th a t Unch Sam is not inter« s ‘e<|
in m akin money.
3. U nusual bleeding o r discharge.
In spit« of the fact th at I have
4. Any change in a w a rt o r mole.
becom e c nvinced th a t engineers
5. P ersiste n t indigestion oi «1 ffieuffy in swallowing
can falsify ju st as m uch as law-
6. P ersisten t hoarseness o r cough.
x ers w hen it com es to presen tin g
evidence to support th e ir side of
7 Any change in norm al bowel habits
• '-issue. ’ find th at my vote goes
’Elie sy m ptom s described above don’t necessarily m ean Thai
io p riv a te en terp rise.
you h av e ca n cer
But «they indicate you max rtw ve. and only
1 haxe alw ays had ju st a liti
y o u rid o c to r can te ll yod for sure?
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m ore confidence in the ab ility o
’’.«■ fellow’ w ho is in bus ncss ‘ "•
Anti rem em ber, again, we can win
fight against can cer
¡e is o n a l profit th an 1 have in th ?
it you w atch lor th e dang« r signs.
, guy w ho is th ere prim arily l-j
T he A m erican C ancer Society says That of e v e n KO persons
spend th e m oney w hich I have
w h o h a v e skin can cer, 98 could have been cured . . but a r e n ’t
c o n trib u te d in taxes.
becau se th \ don t com e in m e Only fo u r p e r cent of stom ach
c a n c e rs a re cured now. . . 13 per cent could he. if the victim
120 A tte rd
w atch ed loi the seven d a n g e r signals. Eighty to 90 per cent of
b reast can cers e«»uld he cured
33 p er cent ac tu a lly arc. Anti
so tin dovvn the list.
P T A M e e tin g
$2
Of Planning Board
L u th er Tisdale was nam ed last
week to the City P lanning com ­
mission by M ayor Dimmick, and
v a s prom ptly elected ch airm an
of th e com m ission by its o th er
m em bers.
T isdale will replace C harles
Young, who resigned ea rlier in the
m onth.
T he planning commission, which
m akes recom m endations to the
C ity Council concerning zoning,
new developm ents, etc., now con­
sists of T isdale, Jim Yelton, Ar-
th u r Knox, Roy W iedem an, Ken
O sburn, E. S. A ldrich and O D.
Arp
C h arles Echols, city engi­
neer, is an ex-officio m em ber.
GIBBS
Concrete
Transit Mix Concrete
Septic T a n k Supplies, Chimney
Blocks, C em ent Blocks, Culvert
Tile, Drain Tile, W ell Casing
G R AVEL, SA N D and CEMENT
Phone 2545
A
NEW
P O L IO
P O L IC Y
issued by LLOYDS O F LONDON. . . .
cost only $ 1 5 . 0 0 for TW O YEARS
C overs th e e n tire fam ily for less th a n 3c a day! P rovides up
to $10.000 m edical expense for «ach m em ber. Also covers
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P.O. Box 177, Brookings, Oregon.
Phone 2671
T he B rookings-H arbor P a re n t-
P icher A ssociation m et last
T h u rsd ay night w ith 120 present.
T h e p ro g ram included group sing
ing led by Mr. Dick, a film on
c » pc r and an explanatory talk by
Dr. R onniger ami tap«' recordings
of two upper g rade classes.
O xer half the C h ristm a s card s
w ere sold at th e m eeting, so we
should sot»n haxe a new coffee
m a k e r of o u r «w« Th«' cn*vK- xxill
h on sale again at th e N ovem ber
n u e tin g .
Pile m em bership drive being
c a rried on this m onth und er the
d rectio n of Mrs D orothy H erm an
is progressing well, hut it is hoped
th a t many m ore p aren ts will join
before, the m onth is out so the
goal of UK» Tier cent can be met.
T he N ovem ber m eeting will l»c
belt! W ednesday. Nov 3. ra th e r
♦han th e usual T hursday, so th a t
p a re n ts will he ahh to visit the
classroom s and view some of th e
w ork the r children have been
doing
Easy Street
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CORSAGES
Winning the War on Cancer
T h e re ’s a job to he done, right there, saving your own lives.
The A m erican C ancer S ociety is tloing its best to fell you of the
w ay s io stop cane« i
But you, ami only on, a
tin» one who
m u st w a tc h y o u r body tor the seven dangei s.gnwis, ami ta k e it
to v o u r doctor.
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