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IBROOKINGS-HARBOR Page 2 Aneatn The PILOT w u r .d an » IN D E PENDENT m u ter, at m . .X l- c U » March 7. UH«. under tha Act of March 3. 1*7* Ray Pisarek, Joe Murphy E d ito r s and P u b lis h e r s SUBSCRIPTION RATES: e . . Year tn A»Ivmc. (In Curry Conty) ............ .............- ................. O i , Yaar in A d v an ce ( o u t , He Curry C u n e y , ..................................... N E W S P A P l« P U B L IS H E R S N A T IO N A L £?1Y?R ^A L —: — I I A c?O d l AT I'QvN ASSOCIATION 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 W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , New York <-’h.ca«o Sunset Magazine Has Article On Oregon Coast new spaper p o .w n i c at E w c U lr^ , Oregon. t o e . P«tr«lt HAS ANYONE GOT A SOLUTION? We got into a bit of trouble last week with a story on the ambulance, operated by the Ambulance AhM.ci .tion in Brookings. However, we don t want to t e k X w ” .." f e ( M , They » • -here-. The »»bulanee T he S eptem ber Is s u e o ' the S unset M agazine has an exrefllent story on tD O regon Coa t vacat- ionland. Compl ete w th < ction m aps, beginning at th e O regon- (’’•d ¡forme s ta te line the a rtic le ta k e s in the 'n tire coast line. It t -Us of the driftw ood, a g a te s and ood. äo mv I t rtlew says th a t the south coast is a <‘qide'-y co untry w ith a ctini- fertab? w orn and w a th e re d look. T he a rticle w as prepared p a r t I took a trip th is w eek nd th a t ially through the w ork of the m ade me realize w hat a big coun O regon Coas* A ssociation, <5 joe. nut'i'phtf’. try this Oregon is. T hro u g h thv Mr. and Mrs. E arle B a’ley '»» courtesy of Rags R agland, fo r-st ran g er o f the ( ’hetco D istrict, we s e n d in g holidays in W ashington drove up to V ulcan Peak, and ’hen Mrs. H arold Roop, Sr., is filling, packed into V ulcan Lake for an in for Mis. Bailey .a lte rn o o n s <• the C ham ber of Com m erce in fo rm overnight cam p. ation c e n 'i‘r. I m ade plenty of notes and ob servations on my trav els. But th'* im portant th in g I w ant to get across is th a t no person should call him self a citizen of this country w ithout tak in g th e trip into th ' hack country. Man, w hat rugged scenery, and w hat a view w hen you get on top of V ulcan Peak. isn’t in a g<x*l condition here, because t it assoc u •isn’t in a good condition. A few months ago the insurance premiums on the ambulance couldn’t k - paid, because collect.ons were- pot adequate. The ami ulance wasn’t ava.lable for use •■~i»m” Frv has sold his home to the Dick Boardw ells, his i> \t door neighbor', and has moved into a trailerhouse. T he B oardw ells have fixed up th pla^e and hive te n te d it to the C harles B arnes, of Gold Beach. The R agland boys, Billi and Dickie, went a ’ong on th e trip, and they proved very line v. oods- rr.’en, not afraid to pack heavy loads in, over rough going. • • * » ♦ D o ng t 11' co m o : o u r tram o- ir g around I lost tl s te m t o on pipe, and lost my o e r pin•• o u t right. I would hi s' g 'von u; the fa t 1 smoking, except ft w ould have had t change tin nam e ol mv column W e a te our first lunch on the U pper S u m m er Bridge, which All in all it was a m'glVy seem s to he a favorite sjtot for trip, and I have noth ng mt then. eamjit r s and the like. We drove to praise for the healthful benefits Now again, the insurance is due, and again Long Ridgte and stopped to talk to of a w ek’end in the high altitu d e and Aunt Peggy, stationed at of the back country, I feel like a there is no money in . .e association’s funds. I he city Ken tbu fire tra il cabin there. Aunt new m an. , Peggy is half C herokee, and lost needs an ambulance, and it needs it despcrattly. four sons in th e service. 1 hey art* from th e Idaho M ountain area, We certainly are not blaming the association, and a re certain ly fine people. because on the contrary, we feel they deserve a lot of Aunt Peg is well liked by the lookouts, and bakes bread and cake for them occasionally. praise in carrying the thing this far. oy rown, • • • • * Lucas Val Mendenhall, Bud Stotenhurg and a tew F in ally we m ade it to V ulcan Others’ have been doing die driving, cleaning, bookwork Peak However, you can only get w ithin a m ile of the peak by tru c k and the rest for .he group-without any compensation. the rest of the w ay is by foot W e had to pack in some supplies Roy Brown, especially, has done a lot of driving. for the lookout there. He doesn't It is im|xjssiblc for a group to function without have a r y w a te r at the top, hut all of it has to tx* c a rrie d in from the public interest, however. Despite the work, the rea road. • • * • • effort put forth by a few, it is just expecting t<x. much T hat w alk to the sum m it w as- i not easy e ith e r It is-only a m ile for them to donate so much. but alm ost stra ig h t up. The look- 1 'J here seems to he three solutions. None of out, a fine lad from New York, | was happy to see people again. which would he impossible, hut each would require a He has been up th ere most of the j sum m er, and hasn't had a visitor yet, o th e r than suppliers. H ere | little planning. would he a project for you civic One, the cit could take over the ambulance, m inded jieople some S unday a f te r Go up and visit the poor despite some opposition in the council. It has been done noon. lookout, and ta k e som e w a te r elsewhere, and it could he done here if we have a city that is umrested enough in its citizens to find out how. Two, the ambulance could be sold or leased to some private party, such as the cab company, or perhaps the P lyw o o d would take it over, and assign a man per shift to drive it in emergencies. Three, the association could I k * re-organized by public spirited men. It could be put on a paying basis, by raising the rates of the ambulance service, and set ting up collections, to see that it is paid for d ins would require the services of, say, five or six men, who could alternate weeks m which they would I k * required to drive. Again, the above is no criticism of the present group, because they’ve had their share of doing good for the community. It is time somebody else rose up on their hind legs and did something constmctive. 1 low a b o u t it ? along. « « • ra le in the I nion, from every corner of the world— , piun, limn Turkey, anise from F«ypt, and caffeine from l’.azil. to mention but a few. Others come from west of Zanzibar, from north >f Labrador, from south of Singa pore. It i» a part of our professional service to have these YERaDpaTIFE P E R C E P T IO N P a rt 8 t ast week we briefly th s.u siv d ow the m ind fills in th e blind ¡Mit in <air vision. This w eek I hall cit o th e r exam ples, to show ow tl? m ind functions in visual ?rc p’ .on. E veryone w ith norm al ision has, at som e tim e or o ther, i ’tenet tl optical illusions of th • irder, which is being discussed ct ?, howev er, few j'o p le have vet’ thought m uch about it. P th.'.ps everyone has seen a might light w hirled ag ain st a ttickground of darki ?ss. Any one w itnessed a F o u rth of ho ir» w orks, has seen the •t ti dark n ess p e n e tia t d by i bright m oving light. V hen a sm all, bright light sur- rtiuiidcd b» i' a i e ¡css, is w h illed rapidly, at gives the illusion of a o ous hand of light. If it is vd'. ’l d rapidly in a com plete Ircle, it looks like a circle of i ;ht, son wh it like the 1 Ite r O cf a neon sign. ( r e could say th a t a brigh* I ght, which spins rapidly and i ; •’, I , darkness, gives the !i ; i )r h \ ngia fail, som ew hat ’. • , h i i 1 of a comet. ,s > s • h as H elm holtz . > R od have explained this * We sh e’M s ‘op at th s p u n t to sav sum thing about the t ’mber. T here ju st isn't any m ereh v table tirib e r a f te r th»' first 15 miles in The rest of the count rv is serp en tin e rock, anti can onl.v support scrub p i ' \ How ever, in the Chet- co district, th e re is quit a hit of t m her .ebout 2 billion feet, w ith an an n u al harvest of about ”C COO COO f ’et a year. But if there w as tim ber beyond, we w mid hav * a road to G ran ts Rase h\ n w as the loggers w ould w ant to get in a fte r the tintl'.'r. * • • * • F rom the peak, Vulcan 1 ake was an t xquisite »ewe, Gr. en, an 1 I surrounded by pine Man, w hat a ; sight • * H o w ew r, it w an ’t as easy to i get into as all th at We packed in ¡about a mile again, all s t r a i ’h, iip. T h e two boys lugged in packs, too and I don’t know if they ¡w ere as tired as old Joe. N atural iy. the trip didn’t tx d h er R. d hand at the he an any, gam< Tin iv in niFvvs for v mr prescriptions come from every reality and o u r in te rp re ta tio n of it a re not alw ays one and the at ie. Tast experience is a m ore a c c u ra ’" m eans of d eterm in in g t^ a n im m ediate perc ption. . -•!*’ , A -, z i •• v v, bat we know about an ob ject. from past associations th a t •. » __ gives th e object m eaning, and not w hat it ap p ears to be af a p a r t icu lar m om ent. W hen we see som eone w hirl a light in an oth erw ise d a rk room, we do not m ake m ista k e th e w hirl- . g light for a c irc u la r neon tube, l causé we knew» oth erw ise from havng s i 1 n th e light sta tio n a ry , sj»ectacle w ith a th ory of light etc. On th e o th e r hand if we and heat. T hey contend th a t light suddenly come upon a sign on the cells in th e eye heat up und er highw ay, th a t has a rapidly spin tro n g illum ination, and it ta k e s ning light, we w ould not question a little w hile for the cells to cool th e tru e n a tu re of th e light but off. *An E lectric light contiucs to accept it as being w h at it appeared glow for a second a fte r the light to be. has b tv n tu rn e d off. This is be V» have had experien ce of some cause th e filam ent is still hot. and kind, w ith n a rly e v ery th in g we until it cools o f f 'i t continues to perceive in the course of a day. em it light, even though th e c u r W e know it from th e sense of re n t has b<en tu rn e d off. It is touch, ta ste , smell o r sound. W ith reasonablie th •* a s.m ilar pro- out this experience, w h at we see ce d u re tak es place in th e eye. w ould have no m tan in g . T he grad u al cooling theory has It is not necessary to experience been su n o rted by an o th e r exam ple ev ery th .n g we see on th e sensual I f one looks directly a t a light el for it to have m eaning, but bulb, and then burns the light off, w? m ust have had experience w ith th e re is an im age of th'e bulb th a t ,m e.h ng of its kind, A m irag e lingers in the ey for a brief p er on the d esert w ould go unnoticed, iod. T his im age lasts only a couple .f it did not resem ble som ething ct seconds, th en reverses its- It th e person who say it, had e x p e r to form th e com plim ent of the irnag' Thia reversing process is ienced. T here is a st .ry of a child vis tie to re tin a l fatigue. a in g th e zoo for the first tim e. R e tin a l fa tig u e will be discussed at g re a t length, w hen we sta rt He savy a stra n g e looking anim al to a p p 'y the principles of visual frem tl.'j Amazon. A fter starin g perception to p icture m aking dis- a t it for a while, he shrugged his sh oulders and w alked aw ay — cursions. w ith th'e com m ent, "T liere ain t Som e optical illusions a re so no such anim al. c nvincm g th a t they have corr.o to b accepted as reality. H ow ever We c a n ’t say enough about the view from the top, even though it was slightly hazy, w ith a fog hank over Brookings. You have th e feel ing of s ttin g on top of the world. The P eak is th e highest in this area, at 4815 feet. ♦ ♦ • „t ,4é//te to ,Atr«utgua * Thursday. September i. 1955 PILOT — BROOKINGS. O REGON But the vim and ttv‘ swim and not too co the trip T he be any fish in it w as stocked w ere ph ntv o’ • a It is a littb su ita b le canipi ; lake i‘ in a r we ttid m anat w here the fix j and pitched ci is, perhaps, i round sh ajv d wort I it . . . t’lcar, w ort i tw’ice n't s teem to « T hen’ though it. le e a u se th« isin H ow ever ind sonic a ea ren t as hr rd. 'tie lake it! elf acres, ami Œ UE.ilE! A SUNDAY SMILE ' . . . 'every tlay of the week We ll fix a Hat in a jiffy — And ou r s e n ice is the sam e— da\ in and day out. It doesn t we ll call for and deliver your stop when we Id! your tank.W e Tar for S hellubrication or any always clean vour w indshield, till v o u r ra d ia to r and check other service. A nd y o u r car'll keep you \o u r oil. And we re always glad sm ilin g —it you keep it fid e d to a ir v o u r t i r e s an d cheek w ith Shell Prem ium G asoline vour hatterv. with T C P ♦ Shell s T iadem ark for this unique gasoline additive deveL >cd bv Shell Research. Patent app u for. T ie above statem ents niav also a ,v to other companies which produce high ostane gasolim d thev aie licensed to use 1CP. imiiili L »1 nru ' dit nt promptly available. You can bring «1« A fter a nigh th« d «WV sleeping, we h vour pr< riptions to us with the assurance that you get f«'i a ix valley W e w a n o th e r lake, which vve had seen just what th. doctor. i ler» in the exact quantities specified. from above. Wv finally ran onto it. a f te r tivkm g about all m ornng. We n.<ned the lake. Murphv Lake. 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