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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
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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
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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.
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