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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1955)
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT - Page 2 JEEP ACCIDENT FORCES HIKE H enry K e rr and V irgil C lark , the la tte r associated w ith th e tirnt' r-buying end of the Plyw ood, had a nice 5-m ile stro ll out of th e 1 C | *ek sn ag patch, last w •>’ end. Seem s th e y ’d been up looking a t some a ttra c tiv e stum p- a e and on th e ir w ay home, c ru is ing along not m uch m ore th a n a tr; 1, something happened to th e b¡. kes w hen they w ere pitched at a 45 degree (or more. Ile n ry says) angiv. Virgil didn’t have th e in- stru< tion hook w ith him. or som e tí ng. and yelled at H enry, ‘‘P r e pare to D itch!” or som ething like that, and tho next th in g H enry knew he w as knee-deep in th e {’. - bboard and the dashboard was dashboard-deep in the bank. Virgil and F* nry decided they had had enoa h jc ping for on© day and hankered to lim ber th e ir m uscles up w i t h a bit of hiking. Each thum bed a ride hack into town from just this side of the Upper Chetco Bridge. Most Accidents Happen At Night Letter to the Editor Thursday, October 6, BROOKINGS. OREGON makes Why THE BIG the bia news for 1956 I have h e a rd from several sourc es th a t th e re is a le tte r recorded at o u r C ity H all, from the League of O regon Cities, and one from Mr. Sam H all, w hen he w as City A tto rn ey , th a t in th e ir opinion th e people of Brookings already own th e now ex istin g sew er sys tem I am ju st a housew ife not know ing how to go about bring ing th ese things to the public’s a t ten tio n . If Mr. B ankus does own the sew er as he sta te s, then I say pay him. B ut, if th e people of B rook ings own it as these le tte rs sta te , w hy should we Lc forced to buy som eth in g we already ow n? I th in k th e presen t a d m in istra t ion should publish this le tte r or a g roup of m en go to the City R e co rd er and look into this m a tte r. T h e w a te r-se w er situ a tio n has been kept from th e people long enough and should be brought o u t in th e open w here it can be und ersto o d by all. S incerely yours, Bvtty Young 1 «MaRBSZá&asaan»-. '« - Fuel Sales High In August 1955 More than half of O regon’s fa ta l place at O regon m otor venicle furi sales night when tlo r c are considerably few er c a rs on th e road th n in jum ped 13 percen t in A ugust to daylight, analysis of re p o rts sub b reak all previous records for a m itted to the S e c re ta ry of S ta te single m onth, figures rep orted to S e c re ta ry of S ta te E arl I Now- Office reveal. Of the 359 fatal sm ash-ups re hr.v’s office revealed. The to tal w as 63,899,023 gallons ported last year. 188 w ere listed up 7.513.225 gallons over August as t a k in g p la c e during the hours a y ear ago. S ta te gasoline taxes of darkness and 79 of th e 152 h e f o r t h e m onth am ounted t o f als reported in the first half of $3,833,941 00. ap p roxim ately 11 1956 happene I a fte r dark. p ercent of which will be refunded A basic reason for this paradox fo r vehicles o p erated on p rivate U the d riv e r’s d isregard of the obvious fact th at dark n ess hides lands. In te rm s of street and highway danger. S ecretary of S ta te E a rl P. tra v e l, th e A ugust gallonage in N ew biy suggests. d icates O regon driv ers rolled a p "Sonvo di ivers seem to forget p ro x im ately 731 m illion miles d u r that at night a sta lk ’d ear. a ped ing th e m onth. N ew bry said, a estrian on the roadway o r any new a ll-tim e high. M ileage is e s t oth er object can ’t possibly 0» seen im ated from an averag e miles-pei • until it Comes w ithin headlight gallon fig u re com puted bv the range,’’ Newbry said "Then the P ublic Roads A dm inistration. hazard scorns to loom up on, of Traffic fa ta litie s in Augus* nowhere." reached 39 for a ra te of 5.3 deaths He said the w eapons against in each 100 m illion miles of trav el. such night • dangers are equally Tho ra le w as 5.2 in A ugust of 1951 obvious. “T hey’re a pair of good head lights, a sj>ee<l th at w on’t out race T h ere has recently been a pick those lights, and a eo n stan ' at- ing u p |o f Mercy Flight application titu .’n of alertn ess.” blanks, at th e print shop. More Lon or hours ot d ark n ess and and m ore people a re seeing th at stormy w a th e r which reduces th e an u al f'.v? of $4.00 is piettv v is ib ilit y even tu itlic r will lace cheap in su ran ce w hen m atched to nil dviv iis and jH'destrians in the th e a ir trans|x»rtation it bungs ni 'iiih , ahead the secretary re for the sick or injured. T his fee m in d 'd . Through A ugust, O regon assu res a w hole fam ily w ithin a trnffi • d» iths numb» red 2." 1 as rad iu s of 400 m iles and all for com pared w ith 247 at the sam e $1 0 0 a y e a r t>er family. tim e a y ear ago. ■ Co-op NEW DISTINCTIVE FLO-TONE COLOR STYl'NG .-nig two. tones ami solids for every ta h • Do at> i 1 »> - [>«•',. i in Uer< irv s h i-to ry —with a new h e li in u s M ' puv i' \ h u d - n e w group traffic accidents tak e of tell Safety-Engineered features for your greater safety and security! New im provem ents in famous Merc-O-Matic Drive ami hall-j«>int front -u-|>en-i»>n. 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