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Ray Pisarek, Joe Murphy
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W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives ,
New York
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Sunset Magazine
Has Article
On Oregon Coast
new spaper
p o .w n i c at E w c U lr^ , Oregon.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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along.
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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
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; •’, 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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v, bat we know about an ob
ject. from past associations th a t
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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.
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„t ,4é//te to ,Atr«utgua
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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’
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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
ΠUE.ilE! A SUNDAY SMILE
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'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
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A fter a nigh
th«
d «WV
sleeping, we h
vour pr< riptions to us with the assurance that you get
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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.
I a fte r a nft*mher of the expedition
p arty 1 doubt .if the nam e will
B R O O K IN G S ,
O R E G O N
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it-
i hoM w ater, as probably dozens of
U a m p lK ’ll B u i l d i n g ' people have toon th re t»efoix'
Telcphtuic
However, it is p re tty m uch of a
mu«l hole, and thick w ith w a te r j
«logs, ami
and m
M u urphy
ake seem ed
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I la n d Jk * a half I » in
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FRANKS
RICHMC& 'S SHciL SERVICE
PHARM ACY
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Brockings
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