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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1955)
Thursday, November io, 1955 BROOKINGS-HARBOR WEEPING SPRUCE, A RARE TREE, CAN BE FOUND IN THIS AREA One of the rarest tie es in the world is a neighbor of ours. Very lew foresters, even, have come upon it and very few would rec ognize it as it does not become prom inent u n til w ell along in T*~ .„„u > , • i hmeal nam e is P icea brew erania, and its common n one, or.e, W eeping Spruce It is one of the most spectacu lar of conifers and is rarely found below 3 or 4,000 feet in elevation. It has been reported In the up- per reaches of th e Chetco, the Illinois and scattered here and t ...... ’.ere usually m th e e .. “ in • the Siskiyous. usually textbooks state, on the n orth side c . ridges. It is known to [vach ^ kA « C I 7 « A C Y H »z-v » 1 A A " f t S - . « » £ * _ t l f ___ n I ^ 12 foot diam eter, breast high. TIRED i k IT HURTS? ^an ■tosf wMHpmp »-*• 4 ? M o o d ... Save You from Being Dragged O u t... Easy Prey to Minor Ills!* N u /.’an: c. pc .« rev b — i In ro oke d food« plus fa u lty d ie t m ay fce scriouc?/ irn re rru iC n g y o u r e n e rg y , s.rongt»:, c m r e . ¿:¿.ace, .. _ . j « . j fee- cn e c r e —, , . fS ng y c y r e p p e /t» —« p o /in g y o u r t :? p —be.c js e yo ur b i d / is v.. a a iin e n d .. on s fa . . cd. •T h e s e s. m ntsm s if due to a vitam in d ef'c.e n c y occu r only » ,<n < y .n f ,c c t v f i . . . . . G X > C 2. • nd ntac.it is less tu en m in im u m daily rc a u .re - OtOrtts over .. p it ttrg . J p e r.o 'l. In th em selves, they u r o f p ove a c.« ary tie .c.c.tc« as t.iey may Lave e th e r causes or ue c u e to tunct.onat conO.ttons. How You Con Sic? Chronic Vitamin £ Iren Starvation i oe'ey . .. Feel Like o Now Person! Supplement your diet every day with High-Poleney Bevel Capsules. Just or.e o f these w onderfully strengthening capsules give y o r the full vitamin a-'d iron cor..?nt ns* re provided n the groups c f the fc. owing foods b tjort PILOT — BROOKINGS, OREGON The?.? is quite a stan d of Weep- ing S p ru ce in the vicinity of Btea»- Basin B utte, n ear the head of Siskiyou Creek, a trib u ta ry of S m ith River. The tree e is is easily easily identified identified hv by m e tre a iong, slender tru n k w ith reddish X J T oS quently, in early sum m er, each festoon is term in ated w ith — orange ------------- — .......—— ... yellow ‘'blooms,” w hich la te r dv- v»lops into) seed ones. These cones, odd * in sPruce ‘ f s t size’ a re 000 n the lne spruce hav*n8 stubby, smooth ’ dged scale^ seeds are m a t. ™ and may stick > 8- • ' to th e co ne « does not have a ttra c tiv e com m er to the cones until th e next year. cial value, being soft and shot A ttem p ts to grow th e W eeping th ro u g h w ith knots. L is in th e •c pruce aw ay from w h ere N atu re upper branches and th e foliage p ut them have m et w ith failure th at we beet identify th ? tree. The and it is for this reason and the limbs have a very def nite droop fact th a t few people inhabit or thro u g h o u t th e ir leng h and th e t.'avel in its native ra n g e w hich needles attach ed in long festoon i, i lakes it q u ite unknown. deep yellow green, resem bling W hile it grows in w ith o th er C hristm as tree decoiations, and t-ees, should you come upon a a re swayed, in ripples, with ev ery specimen ______ o by ___ _ you standing itself, pa.i. ir.g breeze. These festoons do w ill be seeing one of th e w orld’s not become noticeable until live i.iost b eautiful plants, tree is 30 or 40 y ea rs old. F i d - ___________ cooking: 1 1 quart of paste. 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Of coirs®, we overlook th e fact th a t every tim e we get the gas tan k filled w e are paying taxes. Ywt we pay these w ithout P erhaps th e recipe for a happy ronnlace. one wholly u naw are of its ta x burden, would be to have ell taxes hidden. It is m uch ea sie r to pay so m uch a gallon for g as oline, unaw are of the* oercentavp coing for taxes, than it is to re- ! eeiw? a sta te m en t asking us to I fork over o u r hard-earned cash lor w hat ap p ears to tie nothing in retu rn . W ith th a t in mind it m ight be 'veil to rem ind those who com plain | that it is alw ays w ithin th e ir lower to got out of paying those taxps. All one has to do, is to do ' thout those things lo r which tax money is used. If one is w illing to do w ithout loliee and fire protection, the tax ill can certain ly he reduced. If >ne p refers th at his children grow ip w ithout tiie education which this nation furnishes to all it> ard lc-s of class o r creed, the burden on his pocki?tbook can lie definitely lightened. If one is w ill ing to go back to tlz horse and carriage fm- tran sp o rtatio n , th ere certainly will be no need for those taxes necessary for building and m aintaining roads. ’ i r words, if we an willing a forego the benefits which a - vancing civilization has brought, he costs of governm ent can be drastically reduced and taxes as a nesult be lowered. F o r myself, when I am tem pted to complain about taxes. I only look about me at all the services provided by my city and county— O regon's O ctober traffic death count was set te n tativ ely a t 38 Thursday, eight few er th a n thn 46 fatalities reported in O ctober a y ear ago. S ecretary of S ta te E arl|T . New- bry said th is pegs th e toll fo r th is y ear thus fa r at 327 as com pared w ith 332 a t th e sam e tim e la st year. He aaid the m argin m ay be narrow ed, however, if delayed fat- alit reports force an upw ard re- visi i of the O ctober figure. 1 e sta te has an excellent chance of com pleting the y ear w ith a net reduction in traffic d eath s if the N ovem ber and D e cem ber totals can be held a t or below 1954 levels, the secretary said. Thirty-seven Oregonians died in traffic last N ovem ber and D e cem ber accidents claim ed 53, th e w orst m onth of the e n tire year. Suspend 2 89 Drivers Licenses Licenses of jst) Oregon drivers w -■? suspended during O ctober e ith e r on co u rt recom m endation < r through discretionary action of the S ecretary of S tate. F igures re le a s’d by S ecre tary ol S ta te E arl T. N ew bry showed th at a bail driving record—too m any accidents o r traffic viola tion convictions accounted for 95 of the 289 suspensions. Five o th e r drivers were ' grounded" because of involvement in fatal mishaps. 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