2 Brookings-Harbor Pilot
T hursday , june
3, 1954
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT
AN IN D E P E N D E N T N E W S P A P E R
Entered a t second-clan* m atter, at the p o sto ffice at B rookings, Oregon,
M arch 7, 1916, under the Act of March 3, 1679
LETTER FROM
WASHINGTON
The School Board Election
The Azalea Festival
o u r new telep h o n e d ire c to ry is going to press
If you have any changes to be m ade in y o u r nam e,
address, telephone num ber. o r if you wish new listings or
ad v ertisin g , please co n tac t o u r business office a t once!
1X)N’T D ELA Y ........ \C T TODAY!
LEFHOH CÔMPAIT
WHAT
HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M. C.
4th District, Oregon
L a te a t n ig h t one of th e te le
vision
sta tio n s h ere in W ash in g
M inna A kers , Owner and Publisher
ton b ro a d casts film h ig h lig h ts of
W ILLIA M G. P H E L P S , E d i t o r
th e days proceedings in th e so-
SU BSC R IPT IO N RATES:
called
A rm y-M cC arthy hearings.
One Year In ad van ce (In Curry C ounty)
..... - -------- --------------- S3 00
We
have been sta y in g up to
One Year, In ad van ce (ou tsid e Curry C ounty) .................... .....................>3.00
w atch th is film p re se n ta tio n which
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
ru n s ab o u t h a lf an hour.
I
W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , I nc .
thought in th a t w ay as a p a rt of
P hilad elp h ia
Detroit
CTltcago
New York
th e g re a t A m erican “J u r y ”.
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m ig h t be ab le to find o u t w h at it
N E W SP A P E R
N A T IO N A L
E D IT O R IA L
is all ab o u t—o r at least w hy th e
S J T I |A ig > c (jl^ N
PU B L IS H E R S
a rg u m e n t is considérer so im p o r
ta n t as to w a rra n t all of th e p u b
ASSOCIATION
A C T IV E
M EM BER
licity being given to it. It is a
lively and in te re stin g TV pro g ram
so I keep on losing sleep w a tch in g
it but I’ve about decided th a t 1
shall never find out w hy som e
people th in k it is im p o rtan t.
On J u n e 21st, local voters in School D istrict 17-C will p a r
T he plot of th e show seem s to
tic ip a te in a school election w hich has tw o issues , , , , th e a p
be th a t one of the s ta ff m em bers
proval of th e school b u d g et and th e election of th re e new m em b
of th e M cC arthy co m m itte e Mas
e rs for th e school board.
d rafted . H e becam e an o rd in ary
W e a re not fran k ly , too w orried ab o u t th e fa te of th e
p riv a te in th e Arm y. Som e of th e
school budget.
I t is a w ell-draw n budget and i t ’s excess over
co m m ittee
s ta ff
m em b ers
he
th e six p er ce n t lim ita tio n is no m ore th a n could lie expected
w orked w ith in civilian life and
in an a re a w hich is grow ing as fast as this, a n d w hich has the
p erh ap s th e com m ittee ch a irm an
co n stru c tio n p ro g ra m th is one has.
th o u g h t he w as m ade of b e tte r
B u t w e th in k it is th e tim e th a t th e people began th e
s tu ff and th a t his q u alitie s should
serio u s co n sid eratio n of th e m en who will m an th e school board.
be recognized by advancem en t and
T h e nam es m ust be filed by J u n e 14th. and th e ir accep tan ce on
m ore fav o rab le placem ent in «he
Arm y. T he A rm y heads, re a so n
file not less th a n five days befoe th e edection, w hich will end
ably enough, thought o th erw ise
« J u n e 21.
and proceeded and contin u ed to
The conduct of our schools here is a serious business,
tr e a t th e young d ra fte e ju s t as
and too often In the past it has been surrounded by controversy
all
o th e r young d ra fte e s a re t r e a t
and criticism . The men who are selected to this board m ust be
ed.
good men, and they m u st be prpared to do their job well.
T h ere ensued th em n u m ero u s
telephone calls and conversatio n s
in M’hich th e p riv a te ’s friends,
asked, urged, in siste d an d d e
T h e th o u san d s of visitors w ho saw and p a rtic ip a te d in
m anded a b e tte r deal fo r him
th e A zalea E stiv a l th is last w eek saw a sp ectacle th a t Is u n
T h e Arm y, tru e to its best t r a
d o u b ted ly u n riv a lle d in any city th e size of B rookings. W e w ho
dition, did not yield an inch. T h a t
live h ere can be proud, not only of th e F estiv al, hut of th e
is th e w ay it should be. If such
N a tiv e b e a u ty of th e w ild azaleas w hich inspires it.
o “ p re ssu res” w ere to succeed we
could not ex p ect to h av e a good
And we can be proud, too, of the people of th is a re a who
arm y.
h av e labored and w o rried over th e festival. W ithout th a t core
Up to th a t point th e w hole s it
of public sp irited people, this celeb ratio n would lx* as im possible
u
atio
n seem s to be both n o rm al
for this co m m u n ity as it would for o th e r com m unities.
and reasonable. I ex p ect high o r
So, th e next tim e you give th an k s for th is a re a in w hich
low of th e A rm y officers h av e
you live, give th a n k s, too. to th e p eople too num erous to m ention
co u n tless tim es received re q u e sts
w ho sw eated out th e A zala F estival . . . . and m ade it th e m a g
o r even d em ands— to show fa v
nificen t trib u te to th e B ro o k in g s-H arb o r a re a th a t it is.
o ritism in th e ra n k s, and have
denied such req u ests.
th e sto ry becom es co n fu s
At th e close of the m eetin g a baby
Meeting Features Shower show er w as given for M arg aret ed T hen
and com plicated, and leaves
T h e W inehuck W om en’s C lub S teinm etz. D elicious re fresh m e n ts th e norm al p a tte rn . T op A rm y
held th e ir re g u la r m eetin g last M ere served by the hostess.
p ersonnel took u m b rag e a t th e
w eek at th e hom e of th e p re si
of th e new d ra fte e ’s
No
business
m
eetings
Mill
I tc e ffo rts
den t. C lara Bowlin .Yfi in te re s t
frier.ds
and
o f all th in g s filed
ing talk on w ild flow ers w as giv held for th e next th ro e m onths, a long list of form al “c h a rg e s” a s
hut
the
group
plans
a
picnic
th
e
en by Mrs. G rover. M rs Zclla May
se rtin g th a t th re a ts and a tte m p ts
w as received as a new m em ber. last S unday in each m onth.
to in tim id a te them had been m ade.
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I As n ig h be expected, th e p riv a te ’s
frit -ds m ad e an sw e r including
sonv' "co u n te r-c h a rg e s”— and th e
fight w as on.
M aybe th e re is m o re to it th a n
re la te d aliove- b u t th a t is w h a t
t ’ve seen on th e la te evening TV
show.
COOS-CURRY
DIRECTORY
FOR
A d ire c to ry tellin g “w ho buys
w hat and w h e n ' is th e federal
g o v ern m en t” has been published
by the S m all Bus ness A dm inis
tra tio n , I h av e ju st been advised
by SBA A d m in ista to r W endell B
B arnes.
In addition to listin g ap p ro x i
m ately 4.000 item s and classes of
item s covering th e m ore th a n 5.-
000.000 p ro d u cts and serv ices p u r
chased b y th e federal gov ernm ent,
the d ire c to ry ex p lain s gov ern m en t
p u rch asin g m ethods and tells how
sm all p lan ts can o b ta 'n listin g on
agency bid d ers’ lists
V arious
form s of assistan ce o ffered sm all
firm s by th e SBA are ex p lained
in the p ublication, and sug g estio n s
a re m ade of w ays in w hich sm all
firm s can locate su b c o n tra c tin g
o p p o rtu n ities.
T he 92-page booklet is not a v a il
able for free d istrib u tio n Copies
m ay be pu rch ased for 50 cen ts
each, from th e S u p erin ten d e n t of
IX x'um ents. G overnm ent P rin tin g
Office. W ashington 25. P . C W hile
‘ th e S m all B usiness A d m in istia-
IT’S
FTr
WORTH
By
CLIFFORD P.
ROWE
W hen one lives in a dem ocracy,
he is u su ally so involved in its p ro
cesses th a t he u su ally isn ’t even
a w a re of its benefits. In a sim ilar
sense, he isn ’t alw ay s a w a re of its
defects; o r if he is, he chooses to
ignore th em for his own peace of
m ind.
One asp ect of o u r ow n dem o
c ra tic w ay of life w hich I, along
w ith m illons of o th ers, have a l
w ay s p re ferred to keep in th ?
background, got a d e a th blow last
m o n th w hen th e U. S. su p rem e
c o u rt d eclared seg reg atio n of
ch ild ren in th e public schools w as
u n co n stitu tio n al.
E ngaged as we a re in a w a r w ith
com m unism , m any of us have not
been too proud w hen o u r enem ies
rem inded us of th e sk eleto n in the
clo set: seg reg atio n
of
public
school ch ild ren by color.
Now’, how ever, as a re su lt oi
th e su p rem e c o u rt decree, chil-
d m can g row up to know’ th a t an
in d iv id u al’s w’o rth is n o t d e te rm in
ed by th e color of his skin, but
r a th e r by w h at he is and does.
“ A dult preju d ices cannot
be
changed even by leg islatio n o r d e
cree; ch ildren, th ough, a re in a
m o re fav o rab le position. W h ereas
legislatio n re la tiv e to seg reg atio n
could never hope to solve th e p ro b
lem am ong ad u lts, allow one g en e
ra tio n of ch ild ren to grow’ up to-
tio n ’s field offices a re not a u th o r,
ized to sell governm ent docum ent?,
each of these field offices h as been
supplied w ith o rd e r form s helpful
to b usinessm en in o rd erin g copies
ot th e ‘U. S. G overnm ent P u rc h a s
ing D irecto ry .”
A o th er p u b licatio n is in p re p
a ra tio n by SB A. hut no indication
h a s been given w hen it will be
com pleted. T h is docum ent. “U. S.
G o v ern m en t S p ecificat ions D ir
ecto ry ," will be a guide to th e
locations acro ss th e co u n ty w here
b usinessm en m ay co n su lt files cf
gov ern m en t
sp ecificatio n s
and
stan d ard s.
get her, to play to g eth er, and to
learn to g eth er and g re at strid es
will have been m ade to w ard te a c h
ing th e principle of e q u a lity a-
m ong all men.
Men and wom en of all colors
have learned to w ork to g e th e r in
all civilized p a rts of th e world.
In o u r own land they w orship the
sam e God; they toil sh o u ld er to
sh o ulder at th e sam e ta s k s ; and
th ey fight side by side an d die
side by side in th e g re at cau se ot
freedom for m an. Now’ th a t it will
be possible for them to live to
g e th e r in childhood, th e la s t ves
tiges of prejudices and stu p id ty
a re hound to d isap p ear e v e n tu a l!'’.
Most of the h ates betw een races
in this groat nation w ere to rn a
ce n tu ry ago in a civil w ar. C hil
dren will soon forget th ese if a l
lowed to decide for th em selves on
th e basis of th e ir own experiences.
B ETTY YOUNG HOM E
Mrs. H arold Young has r e tu r n
ed from ten days in P o rtlan d . H er
children who have been visiting
th e ir g ra n d p are n ts re tu rn e d w ith
her.
V ISIT IN G PA R E N T S
Mrs. Wm. G. T hom pson and
children left from P o rtla n d la st
S unday to visit Mrs. T hom pson s
fam ily in A uburn, N eb rask a.
Reach that buyer through
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