Image provided by: Chetco Community Public Library; Brookings, OR
About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1954)
2 Brookings-Harbor Pilot T hursday , may LETTER FROM W ASHINGTON la , 1934 BRO O K IN G S-H A RBO R P IL O T A N IN D E P E N D E N T N E W S P A P E R Entered u In m y le tte r last week I told of the hearing held by the Housr C om m ittee on P ublic W orks on m y b ill to authorize the construc tio n o f C ougar dam on the M c Kenzie w ith the cooperation of the Eugene W a te r and E le ctric Board. T said 1 thought it was a good hearing. E v id e n tly it was be cause ju s t fo u r days la te r the com m ittee m et in executive ses sion and reported the b ill fa vo r a b ly to the house. In o rd in a ry words, this is referred to as “ g e t tin g the h ill out of com m ittee.” It is a big step fo rw a rd fo r the legislation. I hope we can get it on the flo o r o f the house soon. secon d -class m atter, at the p o sto ffice at B rookings, O regon, March 7. 194«, under the Act o f M arch 3, 1879 M inna A kers , O w n er and P ublisher W IL L IA M G. P H E LP S . E ditor S l'B S C R IP T IO N R A T ES: One Year in ad van ce (in Curry County» ......... ....................... One Year, In advance (outsid e Curry C ounty) ... ... ......... ...... N A T IO N A L A D V E R T IS IN G R E P R E S E N T A T IV E 13 00 13.50 C hicago D etroit NEW SPAM R N A T IO N A L P U B LIS H E R S 'W / I I A S S O C IA T IO N Philadelphia E D IT O R IA L A s T a : o c fA T L C ÍN 3 J H I V E M EM BER The County's Most Im portant Bill C u rry C ounty voters who go to the ¡Mills next M ay 21 w ill fin d an im posing lis t of candidates fo r th e ir consideration. They w ill be faced also w ith one im p o rta n t b ill; the one c a ll in g fol a reappraisal of C u rry C ounty p roperty values. And, probably, the reappraisal b ill is as im p o rta n t to this ro u n ty as are the choicesthatt he people m ake in th e ir elective officers. The o n ly th in g to be re a lly feared, concerning the reappraisal b ill, 1s th a t people w ill m isunderstand it. I t has been charac terized as a b ill to raise taxes I t is not. W h a t the b ill w ill do is s im p ly th is : I t w ill provide the coun t y ’s share o f the funds to have properties in C u rry C ounty re appraised. so th a t each piece o f p ro p e rty w ill pay its ju s t share, and only its ju s t ahare in taxes. S tate R epresentative Rod M cKenzie, a m em ber o f the legis la tiv e tax com m ittee says they have found properties paying as li t t l e as th irte e n per cent o f the ta x they should pay; they have found o th e r properties paying 275 per cent o f the taxes they should have assessed against them . N o one can argue fo r the present system, w hich applies values to p ro p e rty th a t are hopelessly out o f date. W h a t is needed is a reappraisal th a t w ill provide the tru e tax th a t p roperty should pay . . . no m ore and no less. C u rry C ounty voters should m ake sure th a t th is b ill passes. Ross L. Putnam The death of Ross P utnam has taken one of B rookings’ most |M»j»ular citizens away from us. In the seven years th a t Ross had lived here, he haii b u ilt up a circle of friends w hich num ber the greatest p art of this com m u n ity . P ro b a b ly no one who ha« ever known him has escaped th e sadness w hich his passing leaves. Ross did a great deal fo r this com m unity. The business th a t be established here was an im p o rta n t fa c to r in o u r economy. B u t m ore than th a t, his c o n trib u tio n s to o u r co m m u n ity life have made this a ric h e r place in w hich to live. Ross leaves a b e tte r tow n than he found . . . and it is beause o f the c o n trib u tio n s he made to it. He w ill he sorely missed in the B ro o kin g s-H a rb o r area By C L IF F O R D P. ROW E So, ta rd y as I m ay be, I want A bit of m y past caught up w ith me the other day; and as him to know th a t I am thankful is often the case, I was not too and at the same tim e would like happy over the fact that I had to express s im ila r appréciât. »¡1 0 a ll those adults w ho take time forgotten it. H aving been invited to Madras from th e ir d a ily chores to offer to address a group of high school I a kind w ord to a youngster who. newspaper staffers at th e ir firs t although seem ingly independent, does crave the guidance of those The house has ju s t com pleted C entral Oregon Press conference who speak fro m the experience of banquet I dropped in to chat another item in President Eisen 1 years. how er’s le g isla tive program . The w ith the publishers of the Madras G reat indeed m ust be the b ill w hich provides fo r U nited Pioneer. There, m uch to m y sur States cooperation w ith Canada in prise, I found at the linotype m a w ealth o f s a tisfyin g memories b u ild in g the St. Law rence Seaway chine the man who w ay back in w hich become the heritage of has been passed by both House 1925 gave me m y fir s t jo u rn a lis those who have helped a youth along his e a rly road. and Senate. A n o th e r Senate- tic break. As e d itor of the lit t le w eekly passed b ill, w hich at least in part is in accordance w ith the P resi paper in m y home town, his was The pow’er to love tr u ly and de d e n t’s program , is the legislation the firs t establishm ent I visited votedly is the noblest g ift w ith pro vid in g statehood fo r H aw aii when I returned home from ccl w hich a hum an being can be en and Alaska. A lthough he recom lego on vacation. In fact, it was dowed; but it is a sacred fire that mended statehood on ly fo r H a w a ii d u rin g m y firs t sum m er vacation m ust not be burned to idols.— I understand President has ex- th a t he let me cover m y firs t M aria Jane Jew sbury. pressed him self as being satisfied storY f ° r his paper; and when I to see the Senate b ill adopted. ’ saw *n P*™*» I was fhe proud- T his b ill is at present in the est kid in the state of Wash- hands o f the House C om m ittee on *n Kton- In te r io r and In s u la r A ffa irs where That I had never forgotten ; one RfcY COUNTT LUMBER CO i t was sent a fte r it came fro m Just doesn t forget such m ile- the Senate. stones. B u t in o u r conversation, W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , I nc . New York FOR sions become p re tty discouraged and had shared m y troubles with him. From his rem iniscings I gaih- ered th a t his k in d ly advice bad strengthened m y determ inatio n to keep going in spite of difficulties. This was the p a rt 1 had for gotten; and as I traveled west w ard the next m orning, I found m yself try in g to fig u re out why. M y fin a l conclusion was that yo u th in his closeness to his troubles is too often unaware of those factors w h ich are to influ- i ence his la te r life. M R .2 M ^ ______ he told how in those trying days A , o f earning m y own way through A p p a re n tly the recent C ourt of T kQA * 1 j . ~ college, I had on several occa- Appeals decision on the O and C __________________________ controverted lands case w ill not d is tu rb plans made by the legis- com m ittee, has filed his report on la tie com m ittee in both House and j the H a rry D exter W hite case. I t s Senate to consider the b ill w hich a shocking story of to ta l disregard S enator Cordon and I have in tro - o f reports on government cm- duced O u r b ill w ould not only ployes accused of Com m unist and settle the dispute and provide fo r 1 espionage a c tiv ity . the d is trib u tio n of the money, hui “IL ¡»rated exposures by the it also provides sp e cifica lly re- F B I of subversive a ctivities by garding the a d m in is tra tio n of the several top T reasury D epartm ent lands and d irects an cxchang ? | o tiic ia ls in the previous adminis- program between the tw o d e p a rt tra tio n failed to result in the f i r m ents w hich w ill remove what is ing ot a single one of them .” J l i now a checker-board p a tte rn of ner inform ed the Senate. The report explains how a po- ownership. A lth o u g h the court de- cision c le a rly declares the disput- litic a l party, anxious not to d s- ed lands to be a part of the O tu rb le ft-w in g support, can hide ’Are you working for Pefrillo and C land grant, and that money behind the F B I fa ilin g to follow or us?” received fro m the sale of timbe» through when the ¡»roof of sub on the la rd s should be considered version is available. We Give S and H G reen Stam ps O and C money, it does not c la ri 1 he report also revealed that fy tli troublesom e question as to several of the Treasury D epart- A complete line of building 1 w hiei d p a rtm e n t of governm ent an t l n.pk yes on whom F B I r '- I shall ad m in iste r o u s h th e an sw e r m u rf be clea rly Cong iess w hich lot's. th e lands. Ol h » s ist (. »ubt. including Wh 1 to th a t question and Coe, w ere prom oted to b e tte r siM’lled out b\ ,1 ■ Which provided even g re a te r is w hat o u r bill o p p e itu n ith s for raiding th • fil s f o ir go» 'in n ii nt and passing its st c ets along to an agent, not to S e n a to r W illiam Jen n e r, R e me tiou th e go’den opi»ortunit es publican of Indiana, ch a irm an of for tw isting o u r policy to favo: ’he S énat In te rn a l S eeu n tx Sub Soiet R ussia.” materials CURRY COUNTY LUMBER CO. 3 FRIENDLINESS & G O O D SERVICE IS OUR POLICY PHONE 2201 BROOKINGS, ORE. DEMOCRATS THINK VOTE FOR CHARLES DOANE (P a id P o litic a l A dvd
