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BRIXiKINGS I lARliOR PILOT -
BROOKINGS, OREGON
T h u rs d a y , December 29, 1955
PILOT
BROC)KINGS HAR B()R PILOT
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in d epen d en t
FOR WHAT
IT'S WORTH
By C L IFFO R D P
RO CK HOUNDS M E E T
The Mt. Emily Gem and M »•-
eral Club held their regula •
m eeting at the VFW H all, on
D ecem ber 15th .at which tim e
gifts w ere exchanged and offic
ers elected for the ensuing year.
3 hose selected were Cha^ let»
Hoffman, P resident;
K enda’l
, Grover, V ice-President; V’erlois
L pp, S ecretary -T reasu rer; *u: 1
i Sue Jackson, Historian.
| Claude Goldizen reported t h ;
, ub’s library of gem and m iner-
a ’ books are now abailuble to
th e public at the Chetco Com
m unity Library.
C harles and Pearl Young
s owed colored slities of th e ir
t p north to A storia and south
' > P alm prings, California. Col
ored slides of the hybrid lilies
t teloped by Leslie Woodr I
•were also seen by the 25 mcm-
’ tiers present. R efreshm ents wer>
served by Verlois Upp and as
sistants.
R O B E R T M EAD. U S . N A V Y
Robert D, Mead, son of Mr.
and Mrs L. H Mead, enlisted in
the Navy, N ovem ber 25th .and
, is now taking basic training.
His address is 471-43-69, Co. 623,
U.S.N.T.G., San Diego 33, Calif.
Robert graduated from the high
school here this last y ea r and
would like to h e a r from any of
his friends.
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new spa per
I don't know why ghosts
should be on my mind this week
unless it is because I have had
Ray Pisarek, Joe Murphy
my annua] contact w ith Dickens
E d i t o r » a n d P u b lis h e r »
C hristm as
Carol,
and
o ld
SU B S C R IP TIO N
B ATES:
Scrooge, and his ghosts of the
• n s Ysar in Advance tin Curry Conty)
«3 00
Coast
present, past and future. In
• n s Tsar la A d v .a i. < outside Curry County)
S3 30
Area
fact, I am not sure that there
is any p articu larly ap p ro p riate
Blue M ountaii
N IW S R A P IR
E D IT O R IA L
N A T IO N A L
season for the subject of spooks.
Area
ASSOcfÄTllOkN
. P U B L IS H E R S
P robably H allow e’en would be a
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f f r - j
m ore proper time, but then I
A S S O C IA T IO N
usually find myself about a '
couple of m onths behind tim e j
w hatever the subject.
Anyway, I found myself rem
A
iniscing the o th er day and won
dering just w hat became of the
Last week’s flood was a terrible tragedy. Imag ghost, so popular when I was
a youngster. W hat form of a
sue how you might feel to have your home washed to
rtu re has replaced him in the
away, your lielongings disapjKar in a raging torrent, bag of tricks the older kids em
ploy to torm ent the younger
South C entral
your business taken away in a single night, your life ones?
W here have the forsaken
Area
savings floating out to sea. Jn some cases, even worse ghosts gone? Did they flee the
premises
when
electricity
elim
tragedies •ccurred, with the loss of members of the
the m ysterious shadows
f<ttiily. Ami .ill this just a day or two before Christmas inated
1950 Irrigation Acreage
from kerosene lam p-lighted kid
L_ I Additional Irrigation Acreage, 2000
About .ill that is possible for us to do, is to dies’ bed room»?
W hatever the reason, the once
extend our decjicst sympathy to those in the flood popular
tag of "scaredy c a t” has
It is easy, however, to sit down and point out p ractically disappeared from the
IVV RECO RD ER T E L L S
AD VENTU RES
a bright spot in th« disaster, even though it may seem nam e-calling vocabularly of the W hile the early freeze did an
The Chetco Home E xtensi .n
niosy grade-schooler Even the e s tin a 'e d 5 million dollars of
Mis. Mac S indh was the ccn-
callous.
7
Rraveyards no longer call for dam age in M ultnom ah C oun’y
’er of emotions when she set out Club met a t Nellie Jag g ers far
to figures released
their- C hristm as P arty , which
VVc refer, of course, to the helping hand ex long detours around th e ir bor alone, home gardeners are ur- ! I»y According
I h ip u.
th e U. S. Buj. au of Census
was sta rte d by the group sing
ders;
ra
th
e
r
the
sheet-w
rapped
ious
how
they
made
out
w
ith
•
soil
a
n
-p
n
s
family
in
Southern
Uuded to the stricken areas by nearby communities. spectres have to com pete for
'h e re Will |,. m ore people in fli
the plants and shrubbery around
'•‘lornia. I Jn fortunately, she ing "Silent N ight.,” a fte r w h id i
Crescent City deserves .1 vote of thanks for the way space w ith privacy seeking- ro their homes In some p arts of hree Pacific coastal sta te s in ' A of as ta r as E ureka, via F ay e S tan h u rst recited a C h rist
1956 than all the o th er 13 sta te ,
they took the tl«H»d victims into their homes, and the m antically-inclined couples in th<‘ county losses will |>e very west of the Mississippi Rivet
and had to stay there foj mas poem and read a C hristm as
park ed jalopies.
heavy although tlv y cannot even
o( day,, until she gei story, followed by an accordion
way they provided f<xxl and clothing. Other com Even the once much dreaded be estim ated until new grow th These predictions ar? based up. * <-'cuple back
to C rescent City solo by Tommy Jaggers. Games
actu al surveys ar.d win« h
munities help too. Brookings and Harbor contribute, "haunted housa ’ with its cre ak should lie coming on. Most of the on igure
Plane lead of bread w ere played and then the gifts
California will have th •
ing doors, its ghostly footsteps roses have ap p aren tly been
L
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she
was delighted to meet w eie exchanged.
a great deal of clothing, bedding and the like.
on the stairw ay and clanking of eith er lost or suffered very .ser arg e st population in the coun
‘mei
B
an
k is. w ith whom sh e ' I Those attending and visiting
J he Civil Defense, under Bill Thompson, took chains in its cellar, is now sim ious dam age and the bud tips try. D uring the 1940-1950 e m
" l -K'k to Brookings. She was over th e ir ice cream and coffee
us period the population of the
w ere: M arjorie Moore, W inifred
uvsr well in the emergency. Radio hams did more ply regarded as a shack which of androm eda, daphnes, rhod ’hree w estern sta te s increased ' Ppointed in one way, yet Fitzgerald,
Bernice H ew itt, J e s
has outlived its usefulness. It odendrons, and azaleas, are all
db»y pleased to get home *
than then share. I lie police, and other authorities will soon be torn down to m ake p retty well damaged. R eports H tim es faster than the r \s
sie Berg. Ber tha Crosby, Be s
f the country w ith Cal torn a'
Miller. Susan Jackson, A nne
did their job efficiently. 1 he disaster was akin to a way lor a m odern residence. are th at tlx- shortage of blooms increase
33 percent and 39 6 for i
Mosier. M atilda P ate. F a v -
W here th? noor old ghosts go may seriously effect th e famed
< Iregon.
war eincigcney, and the lessons were good 111 that when thus displaced seems to R°se F estival,
S tan h u rst. M artha H arbin. Cleo
A lthough th e rep u ta tio n in- '
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C raig and Florence Davis., D o r
rcsjxxt.
w orry no one. Not even one
Com m ercial losses have been
ciease has slowed down some in
othy K irkpatrick and the ho>t-
congressional
com
m
ittee,
to
my
'
estim
ated
in
the
d
isaster
brack-
W care proud of the unselfish way that people knowledge, has advocated a g o v - , ?,s. n° t only in nursery plants »he past five years, th.- th re e ,
oss and children.
Pacific coastal sta te s a re ex
react 111 bad situations.
em in en t subsidy in th eir behalf. ,
décoratives hut also in the
panding th ree tim es faste r than
T hat is why I am glad th a t cane ar»d o th er berry crops. It K
th
e nation, as a whole.
th at I had the opportunity to ! probable, also, th at some bulb-
M ith the great increase in the
know them before an un-imag- OUs crops and gardens have been
»•oastal
population it is logical
¡native generation drove them
out. especially dahlias
ENJOY UTMOST SHAVING into oblivion. A p aren ts' p r o t 1 th a t have not >’<** been dug or to believe economic trends will
im .'arly shift.
M anufacturers
EASE AND CONVENIENCE tective arm s m eant som ething w eren’t sufficiently protected, ’ lie
eyeing the coast m ore and
H a lf - a liv e , h eadachy, w hen conatipa-
in those days w hen you ran to
tturi
aoura stom ach? B la c k -D ra u g h t*
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th eir shelter pursued by ghosts i x7’/1 T E V E T 'S M O R TG AG E ' m ore and th ere h as been a rapid
r e l ie v e s c o n s t ip a t io n o v e r n ig h t .
shift of all m ark etin g in ,
M elpe sw eeten aoui stom ach too
who p o p p 'd oui at you from be- I IN S U R A N C E CH ANG ED
•tiu n thM by locating on the
L«»tlv» StMaak Swaataaer Waits Orarnigtt!
hind an apple tree during a bed- [ Beginning next month a the
N « harsh g rip in g M ade fro m pu re
’ "t th<> :! , not havp fhe jon
S u p e r-S p e e d
v e g e t a b le h e r b s T h o r o u g h ly b u t
tim e session of "run, sheep, ru n ” ow ners °f homes ujMin which
'•'a
':ls and fi 9 ff,t rates to corn
g e n tly u n e e ik a «logged mtevtia<w
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Oregon
v
eterans
loans
hove
been
—
in an unlighted backyard
■ rin g s e b in fo rtln g r e lie f In m ornin g
e
t
- w th. Industrially, the area
T h e n life looks sunny a g a in ! G e t
to d a y s parent has Iven cheat- m ade will receive notice of the
B la c k -D r a u g h t tod ay
g rad u ally g ettin g away f ,„ m f
ed. He was deprived of his role new *y in au g u rated m ortgage in-
• f a e<i«id«r a r O ra n u la /rA form
aa<f
a a w to a e w
m v - t o - t a / t r 7 u k i . f i In n '
as a pro tecto r when the ghosts I surance Plan. I nder this schemt the seasonal economics of n a t
W hen
aoaallpatlnn
u ral resources which, m con-
1 OR C t.'ll D R fN tour»
r h lld ra n « d l-
lost th eir hunting licenses.
those w ho com ply will be pro
flM .la e a ad dlapoaiUoa* got Syrup a l Itla o k -
B r « u ( M T b e y lava ta in bona»-»« « at Hquldl
tected in event of death a t which lunction with ch eap er and more
dependable pow-.?, is rapj ¡,
n a il polish N n a il s gone tin v the s ta te will release the
anging the whole setu p of the
Mrs. Amber Campbell has balance of th e m ortgage then west
coast.
still
payable.
chewed
ofT
her
nails
and
nail
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polish fre ttin g over h er son,
I he S tan d ard In su rau ce Co., of
Dickie, who left Camp Carson Portland, was th e successful
for home a week ago. Dickey bidder on the co n tract, which
walked in on his parents, on will become effective when 7.)
C hristm as night. He had been 1M’rceni of the m ortgage holders
held up m Reno, because of th ? have signed up. The ra te will I k
floods
2S cents per m onth per thousand
on the unpaid portion of the
mortgage.
( . • im m i M
«Moud , i u , m aitur. at th« po.toff.c* at Brookings. Orsgon.
M o ifb 7. 1M «, under th . A lt of March 3, l»7k
^oc3
r
A DISASTER STRIKES NEAR-BY . . .
Gardens Suffer
POPI LATION
PREDICTIONS
•
N-O-T-l-C-E
Starting January 3f 1956
P ILL THE PLIG
OH STOMACH UPSET
Ail Hair Cuts $1.50
SLOP HOURS—9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Gillette
RAZOR
Tuesday through Saturday
Jake's barbershop
Lloyd's Barbershop
Chetco Barbershop
ii I
liiiiiet'ful
Brookings Resident:
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ÏIA CALItURNIt
RETURN
VI* NORTHERN ROUIE
For Demonstration or Information regarding a
\
New 1956 Cadillac, write or call collect, Mr. Eck
at Lou Bianc, Inc., 2nd and Anderson, Coos Bay,
T h , vr t „ r , t n ECU)ES h , vc broug M man ( r
n-Uh r, |,.r .a „ „ „ g ,o h. . . |lh , r h f
Or reverse the dnection. E ither way it costa
only a few dollars more than to go straight
east and back.
Thl» w a y d o u b le s the variety and interest of
your trip. Vo«
San E r a n c is e u .l^ Angeles,
I ahn Spriwgs, Phm m.r, Tuesun and other cities
you ve heard so much about. Stopover any
where.
Ride fame us street *‘a? rj with all-roum 1
mans and luxury chair cars, all the way In
planning your next trip East, investigate tins
remarkable travel bat gain.
Oregon — Phono Congress 7-2153.
„ of
,H. teased materially. Con„der d iabe.e., f.., example,
u l , lee » a , first recogm ied about the tim e o f Mo.es. or
.1X1 te a r , betore the b irth of K ,„g T ,„. I, was
,„ „ d
Now is the time to place your order from the
lo d a v
Curry County allotment for early delivery.
,h ro „ gh the use of | „ , „ | in
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H - b t o » , all about tb e tre a tm e
And remember this, all adverttse,! cures for dial»,,
tes aie
questionable, p on ,
victimized.
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