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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1955)
M ft 4 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT — BROOKINGS, OREGON FOR WHAT • Mr. and Mrs. Franw E n d ert of S m ith R iver a re the p a re n ts of a baby boy, born on A ugust 13th. a t Seaside H ospital. H e has Ix’ea B y CLIFFORD R M nam ed Roderick Francis. G ran d I doubt if th e re is anyone living p arents a re Mr and Mrs. R. H en ry of H arbor, and Mr. and today who doesn’t at somft tim e M rs F re d E n d ert of C rescent o r a n o th e r wish thart he had enough money to buy all the a r t C^ity. icles offered for sale on the m a r The E nderts aiv m an ag ers of th e Sm ith R iver D rug S to re and ket Being subjected to a c o n tin ual barrag e of advertising in the the G reyhound Bus Agency. press, TV and radio, it really is Mr. and Mrs C lan nee Bailey, a m iracle th a t eweryone Isn’t head over herds in debt. • of lam ath Falls, fo rm er Sm ith As fa r as I am concerned, I'm R iver residents, are calling on glad th at I don’t have any s u r relatives and m any old friends p lus m oney; and I ’m ’.vjually glad th a t my fa th e r im pressed on me e a rly in life th a t one should never Mr. and M rs. Jam es “Jim m y" try to live beyond his income. H arris, d a u g h te r Billie Mrs. Gus W hen I read of airplane trip s H a rris) and the la tte r ’s three to H a w a ii as a rew ard for buying children of S a n ta Rosa, left last a new e a r or of giving m ore on 3 T hursday, a fte r a weeks vis I here. trade-in th an one would be re B rookings w as th eir old ho ne for quired to pay for a new one, I m any years. Jim m y cam’ !■ re to alm ost br ak down and w eep in C urry C ounty from his home in sp ite of the fact th a t I don’t need P e rth , Scotland, to live w ith his a new car. S im ilarly, my home uncle, the late George Scot H a r suddenly ap pears shabby and u n ris whose home ranch took in at) i t tra c tiv e w lvn I see the pictures of the so-called Daw'-on 'It t and of new homes w hich can he p u rc h th e H arris Beach S ta te Park, a s e d for p ractically nothing down nam ed a fte r the original iiw irr. and a lifetim e to pay the balance. M rs H arris has several n la th e s In spit*' of all these te m p ta t aro u n d here w ith whom th<*> also ions, however, to keep up w ith the Visited: Mrs George F itzhugh, of Jom s's, I still m anage to derive B rookings; M rs H enry i ’oofrer, a great deal of satisfactio n from S m ith R iver and a brother, E ver know ing th a t I am living w ithin e tt, a t Langlois. Billie went m., m onthly salary. W hile it is an th ro u g h the local schools and w as established fac* th at A m ericans a stai a th le te enjoy a higher sta n d a rd of living IT'S WORTH Mr and Mrs. F red Jones took a w eekend vacation from th e ir fern p eking and went out to th e ir old stom ping grounds in tl.V back c o e n try gold m ining areas. They looked ovvr th co untry at the end o f th ? road sw inging rig h t from K erby and crossing the Illinois at th e A nderson Ranch. They used to have a prospect out there, years ago, in com pany w ith Mr. and Mrs. Jim F razier. th an any o th e rs in th e world, I*Tu sometime*« prone to come to the conclusion th a t m any a re enjoy ing a higher sta n d a rd th an they can afford. My fath er, who recently passed aw ay, had no savings and no prop e rty R earing a fam ily of six children on la b o re r’s w ages had m ade such a situ a tio n impossible. But at the sam e tim e, Dad neMW owed a debt th a t he didnt pay off; he never bought anything w hich he co u ln ’t afford; and as a re su lt his children learned to be happy w ith w h at they had. Dad didn't leave us any prop erty, but h© did leave us som e thing fa r m ore valuable. We le a rn ed from him th a t living w ithin one’s m eans w as m uch m ore s a t isfying and m ore conducive to peace of mind th an living in the m idst of luxuri s which rightfully didn’t belong to us and by no stre tc h of the im agination could ever possibly l>e ours Thursday. August 25, 1955 GOME STATES TELL OF WEDDING TO GIVE BONUS OF JOHNSONS S everal sta te s have recently n'is.sed v e te ra n s' bonus acts, in one form or an o ther, am ong them : C onnecticut's K orean v eteran s who lived in the s ta te for at least one year befoiv active duty m ay be eligible for paym ent up to $300 A pplications should be m ade to t i e Bonus Division of the S ta te T re a s u re r’s Office, H a r t ford. P ennsylvania's W orld W ar II vetoranc m ay have up to $500 com ing to them and applications a re available a t th e W orld W ar II V eteran s C om pensation B ureau, H arrisb u rg , Penn. In Iowa, the house passed a bill, au th o rizin g paym ents up to $500 for K orean v eteran s and c e rta in oth ers who died of service con nected disabilities. The m a tte r will go to the voters at the N ovem ber 1956 election for a proposed bond ‘ si v. New York has several K orean bonus bills pending, but It is doubtful if any of them w ill be processed d uring the c u rre n t sess ion. V e te ra n s’ o u tfits in New* Jersey a re form ing up a cam paign for W orld W ar II and K orean bonuses to be financed th rough various sources o th e r th an general taxes or a bond issue. The H ouse of R e p resen tativ es in Illinois voted, 119-6 on an act to pay K orean v eteran s up to a m axim um of $892.50 hut fu rth e r action is [ending. ne n.tkiiy friends of H om er and Osa Johnson w ere ver.* pleasan tly rprised to te a m or th e ir recent wedding Bo»h cam e from K lam - a<h F alls to this area, some ten years ago, and made* th e ir hom e on an acereag e overlooking th e Chetco, and now w ithin the citv lim its. They w ere wed A ugust 17th. at 8 a m. by Rev. Allen Gibson, at the Hour»? of P ray er, Hiouchi, atten d - ed by th e ir dau g h ter, Phyllis, and h er husband, Nick Baum gardnor ¡ J r . T he bride w as g iv .n in m ar- , rag e by her;son. R obert, an 1 th ere w ere present all five of h er sons and one d a u g h te r, as vvvll as old Iriends. Mr. and Mrs. W alter P a rk e r. A fte r th w edding the newly wet’s left for a short visit w ith ' th e bride’ n?»ce, re tu rn in g to th e ir ‘‘Tween P o in ts’’ homv here. t he coi p’e have been recipients of m any valuable and handsom e gifts. R E T U R N W ITH BUS I ■ t Lu as and h's d a u g h ter, Helen, tong ju st a we; k to drive to B rookings th e 66 passenger school bus, from the factory, at Lima, Ohio. O utside rem ark ab le clim ate and a th rillin g experience n eg o tiatin g th e Big H orn m ount- ain * w ith touchy brakes, Leo and H elt n rep o rt having a fine trip. X 1955 BOAT and MOTOR SHOW FEATURING . . /♦ s . 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So for America, for your ch ’ ’ --n, pledge yourself to be extra careful with X Me Vivacious VIVIAN LEE With Her Exotic Dancing Numbers matches, smokes, ca m p fire s-any fire That’s why apparently harmless, slow- Make sure every spark is o u t - dead out! hurning grass or brush fires are in reality Remember those tiny trees hidden away as deadly as though they were burning m die $rass, ¿;row in£ for tomorrow. the big trees. These "harmless' fires are yo u can I W ILL BE CAREFUL! PREVENT WOODS FIRES! I*« «Ita Amene or kwuneu firmi we believe that bwunen boi o roiponubiMy to (mtnbvte to the pvbix weitere Tkn •Svortaomeni it Ibeietore isometri m <oop«rabort witfc Ibe ASvertniRg (evrutl U S end Stole Iw.eU So»**«» bf: South Coast Lumber FREE Spaghetti Dinners I M P '’ X Will Be Served Until ,9 p.m. on Opening Night PRIZES-LAUGHS AND JIGGERS OF FUN FOR ALL the C liff H ouse XX
