2 Brook ings-Harbor Pilot, Thursday, March 18, 1954 LETTER FROM
W A S H IN G T O N
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT
AN IN D E PE N D E N T N EW SPA PER
By
H arris E llsworth , M.C.
Entered aa necond-ctaaa m atter, at the poatofflce at B rookings. Oregon,
March 7, 1®4«, under the Act of March 3. 1M78
N ever did I th in k it would ever
he m y lot to see a m iracle occur
but I did. 1 saw four people w ith
W ILLIA M G. P H E L P S , E ditor
four a u to m a tic pistols fire 30 or
SU BSC R IPT IO N R ATES:
m ore b u llets directly into the
One Year In ad van ce (In Curry C ou n ty)
.................... .......................... >3 00
m idst of som e 260 M em bers of
One Year, In advance (outsid e Curry C ounty) .....................................
>3 50
C ongress and floor em ployees in
N A T IO N A L A D V E R T ISIN G R E P R E S E N T A T IV E
th e H ouse ch am ber w ith the
W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , I nc .
m iraculous resu lt th a t no one was
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
killed and only one person was
icallv critically wounded. T h ree
NEW SPAPER
N A T IO N A L
E D IT O R IA L of the assassins fired alm ost con
tinuously for w hat seem ed to be
P U B L IS H E R S
m
ore th an a m in u te. The fo u rth
ASSOCIATION
did som e firing. I think, and p er
A C T IV E . M E M B E R
haps reloaded som e of the guns
for th e o thers. H e disappeared
from the gallery before the sh o o t
The Read Up the Chetco
ing ended.
W here w as I w hile this was
If th ere w ere one project which would insure th e fu tu re g row th
going
on ? As it happened. I w as
an d s ta b ility of th e Brook ingtU H arbor area, th a t project would be
p
erfectly
safe but stan d in g w here
th e co n stru c tio n of a highw ay up the C hetco River.
I could see it all very clearly.
And now is the tim e to get it.
H ow ever, I only saw the beginning
Die q uestion of a road across th e m o u n tain s to th e valley has and the tin s h , Som e five m inutes
been d eb ated and discussed for a long tim e. In recent years, a group before th e shooting I had m ade a
of m en, headed by Art Knox, C h airm an of the C h am b er's Road C om speech in w hat we call th e ••well”
m itte e have estab lish ed re la tio n s w ith th e cities of th e valley, and of the House and had th en tak en
h a v e p rom oted the eon stru cio n of such a road.
a seat right behind th e co m m ittee
F o r m any years, th ere w as no real en th u siasm in the valley, if ta b le because th e R ules C o m m it
not dow nright opposition. F or one thing. G ra n ts P ass w as tied tig h tly tee, of w hich 1 am a m em ber, w as
in to th e Redwood E m pire A ssociation, and w as w orking to prom ote handling the bill then u n d er
the Redwood H ighw ay to G ra n ts Pass. M edford w as a t w ork gaining consideration. O ne of the door
keepers then cam e to tell m e th at
new im p ro v em ents in highw ay 99, and K lam ath F a lls and A shland
a visitor wished to see m e at the
ro u Id not be in tere st« d as long as those gaps w ere o|>en.
m ain d o o r - w hich is at the op-
But the w ork done by Art Knox and his group has shown d efin ite posite end of th e c e n te r aisle from
c h a n g e s in the th in k in g of th e valley cities. T hey a re becom ing ex th e S p e a k e r’s ro stru m . I was
tre m e ly eoncious of the forest an d m ineral w ealth th a t is locked in stan d in g hack of the rail n ear th a t
th e valley of the C hetco. and they are as anxious as we a re to free it. door aw aitin g th e re su lt of a vote
T h ey a re developing in tere st in low cost w a te r tra n s p o rt, and they w hich had ju st been tak en w hen I
know th e first ingredient for it is a sh o rt road to the sea. And. finally, heard th e first shot and out of
th ey have discovered the vacation land th a t lies in th e ir own hack the side of m y eye saw the gun
flash. In stin ctiv ely I dropped to
y ard , and they d o n ’t like driving over O regon M ountain to get here.
So psychologically th e tim e is right. And, from a p ractical the floor. A fte r lying th e re for
p erh ap s a m in u te w hile th e flop
point of view, th e tim e is right too. T hese a re the reaso n s:
ping was going on, I finally d e
T h e F o restry S ervice has asked an a p p ro p riatio n of $17,000,000
cided th a t it m u st be a crazy d em
fo r the co n stru ctio n of access roads to free th e blocked tim b e r th a t it o n stra tio n by som e kids w ith cap-
holds, so th a t it can sell the tim b e r w hich is now being lost th ro u g h pistols—it sounded like t h a t —so
inaccessibility. T he C hetco is one of the basins which holds tim b er not 1 stood up again and w atch ed the
now being m arketed, and w hich would be freed by the co n stru ctio n end of it. I saw one of th e m en !
is m ost com placent. .
u n fu rl th e flag. T hen, hacking up i
In creasin g a tte n tio n is being paid to the m ineral deposits of the into th e c o rn er w as th e sh o rt m an
w est, as evidenced by th e developm ent of he R iddle nickel deposits. still a tte m p tin g to shoot but he i
T h e re is no doubt th a t th e governm ent would like to have the chrom e was a p p a re n tly having tro u b le !
and nickel of the C hetco m ade m ore accessible . . . and w a te r ship w ith his gun w hich a t th a t tim e
w as pointed to w ard the floor. At
m ent m ay be th e answ er.
th a t in sta n t th e m an who w as i
And. finally, this is an election y e a r If we a re to w ran g le funds
’’re la x in g ” in th e visitors g a lle iy
from C ongress for o u r developm ent, it m ust he done w hen C ongress dashed up the c o rn e r step s and
is m ore com placent.
lacing th e gunm an th rew his arm s
Now, th ere arc p itfalls ahead before such a road can be built, around him, hauling him down »lie
and we would he foolish to m inim ize them .
step s and out th e gallery door.
F o r one thing, the S ta te of O regon h as no g reat in terest in a
I f w as not until som e m in u tes
highw ay which covers so much F ed erally ow ned land T h erefo re, we a f te r th a t, in fact not u n til I
m ust devote o u r effo rts to g e ttin g the forest access roads built here, w alked hack dow n to w ard th e weil
of the House and saw C on g ress
so th e s ta te will have a reason to reach them .
m
an B entley on the floor bleedin .
Secondly, th ere a re rough a re a s in th e C hetco region, which p ro
th
at I realized real bullets w er i
du ct' littIt' tim ber. But p art ot these a re a s have produced tim b e r in
fin'd I d o n ’t know why it was
th e past, hi tori' being scourged by fires and will produce again. The
hut th e shots did not sound like
F o rest S erv ice says th at fifteen m illion feet p er y e a r can com e out
an> g u n fire I have ev e r heard
ot tht* i hetco on a sustaint'd yield basis But. the> say, ninetv million ! he noise w as th at of sm all fire- j
feet could com.- out if the burned lands w ere p lan ted and m ade ac crackers o r toy cap pistols.
cessible. In tht' in te re sts ot conservation, such a p la n tin g program
It w as a te rrib le incident. Ttie
w ould d ic ta te m ore than ever th e need to open this land which now only good thing about it is the
p ro d u ces nothing, and could produce so m uch
fact th a t as th is is w ritte n it
seem s c e rta in all who w ere stru c k
St) w e m ust tight for our road . . . and keep on fighting
T he tim e to begin is now Ed Ackley, local atto rn ey who w as re- w ith b u llets will fully recover.
C tntlv in W ashington. brought back w ord th at C ongress is m ore re R ep re sen tativ e Bent lev of M ichi
cep tiv e to plans for th e developm ent of access roatls now th an it ever gan is, how ever, still in a serious
condition.
lias been. It is his opinion th a t a cam paign now would have g re a te r
T he H ouse is ab o u t to begin
chance of success th an it ever has had
w orking on th e big bills of this
But it m ust com e from us . .. the people o f B rookings and H a r session. T he second re g u la r ap p ro
bor. W e need th a t road d esp erately , and we m ust do all we can to p riatio n s bill has been com pleted
get it
'tie to provide m oney for the
M inna A kf . rs , Owner and Publisher
35S1 I a !§> c W
n
Ju stic e and C om m erce De- !
p a rtm e n ts. N ext will conic the tax
code revision bill, an excise tax
hill, th e big F ed eral-aid highw ays
hill and th e first bill of the P re s i
d e n t’s h ea lth p ro g ra m is ready As
1 heard M ajority L ead er H alleck
re m a rk we a re ab o u t to s t a r ’
run n in g m th e big gear.
S t a le .
W A TC H FOR O PE N IN G
0 ' H 0 11E R A N ' S
1
W E A T H E R MAN H E R E
f
E dgar
G
Johnson, F . S.
V e a th e r R ureau. F orecasin g D e
p a rtm e n t, S e a ttle , w as a brief
visitor at th e local sta tio n last
W ednesday
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By
C L IF FO R D P.
ROWE
The most perplexing problem
facing me or any citizen today is
that involving S en ato r M cCarthy.
So m any confusing elem ents are
involved th a t even those w ell-in
form ed in national affairs become
bewildered.
P rim arily to be decided is the
m a tte r of com m unism . Is it a
defin ite th re a t to the survival of
th e nation o r is it m erely som e
th in g to be shrugged off as fan
ta stic and im possible? Some oi
those who ta k e the form er stand,
.particularly S en ato r M cCarthy,
a re inclined to froth at the m outh
and shoot at every shadow on the
possibility th at it m ay be red.
At the o th er ex trem e are those
who ta stin g the sour grapes of
political defeat in the last election
become fa n atic in th eir attem p t
to p o rtra y M cC arthyism as an
ven g re a te r d an g er than com
m unism .
P ersonally, I can accept neither.
In tern atio n al developm ents of the
p ast ten y ears convince me that
com m unism is an e v e rp re se n t
m enace to any dem ocracv. Y< t 1
feel th a t the best defense against
such a th re a t is th e preservation
and s tre n g th e n in g of those very
principles of h u m an ity which th
com m unist seeks to destroy.
M cC arth y ’s m ethods would in
th e end d estro y those foundations
of ju stic e w hich we w ish to pro
tect. But even th o u g h his methods
are rep u g n an t to th e American
m ind,.m ost of us still have enough
faith in th e d em o cratic processes
to be co n fident th a t M cCarthy
will ev e n tu a lly go th e w ay of ail
those o th e rs whom histo ry records
as having fo rg o tten in th eir de
lusions of g ra n d e u r th at thev
re p resen te d the people.
P resid en t E isen h o w er faces a
tough problem . He has my sym pa
thy, but he also has my confi
dence. It m ay not happen tom or
row. but sooner o r la te r the pres -
dent along w ith th e citizeniy
which he re p re se n ts will cut to
size th e s e n a to r w’ho has become
too big for his britch es.
This decline of th e senator, how-
ever, m ust not com e as a result
of the e ffo rts of those who oppose
him because he fig h ts com m unism.
It m ust he th e decision of a people
rejectin g a m ethod, not a princi
ple.
T E E N -A G E N E W S
A Teen-A ge club dance was held
last F rid ay evening a t the V. F. W.
hall.
O u r chaperons w ere Miss Fitz-
gibbon and Miss H ew itt.
We hope to see a good turn-out
next time.
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