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raised a family, who about the
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to live
have nnllf
only followed a ra Civil War period, again went women. The same can be said of
piittern made, many, many years to the “Far West” then Kansas, those who first landed on the
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ago, and which will probably Iowa, Missouri end Nebraska shores of Canada, whether Brit
continue ‘o be followed, long Their families, in turn, took off ish, or French, and even the ear
Ray Pisarek, Joe Murphy
after we are gone. Everyone we on a much longer trek—and pos lier settlers of Louisiana were
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meet along the “coast” is in the sibly an easier and more public content with such companionship
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same category. There are very-, ized one beyond the western as they found indigenous, until
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very few slight diversions but slope of the Rockies. In this tran the "Basket Girls” arrived and
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they are insignificant.
sit, from the Atlantic across to even then, there weren’t enough
If you investigate your origin
N A T IO N A L E D IT O R IA L the chances are you will loose the Pacific, frequently four or ladies from the homeland to go
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whjte waqx there may be colored times think all these adventure« en and offshoots of all of ttx»m
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threads, gathered along the way. who came west were borne by have migrated to become our
The census of one of Oregon’s the prairie schooners, that those neighbors. In the process, the
earliest settlements reports a loved ones who did not arrive migration is directly proportion
j very small minority of white were buried on the lonesome al to the facility at hand. When
We want to start off by advising you N O T to males unattended by Indian lad prairie, overlooking a very con those facilities, trails (or none)
ies and in Bibical time« Greek siderable number especially from roads, railways, highways, and
vote in the city bond election, to be held this Friday. soldiers
brought home their the Atlantic coast who set out airways, finally evolved because
This may seem to be a shotking bit of information, Etheopian wives and their child. from their homes and either more people wanted to use them,
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quicker, the migration speeded
and we want to elaborate. We advise you not to vote, i’(»n ‘
I attempted rounding Cape Hom up from the slow movement of a
down the families of in theirf own jerry-built craft
unless you are informed in the matter. Your vote is any Chasing
of us, here on the coast, or anything else that would generation at a time to what we
very important, and unless you have determined right follows an almost axiomatic < noat or even those who were have today. We who have lately
their journey from the I persuaded to come via Nicara- come within this generation —
from wrong in the matter at band you may be doing pattern
Allantic Seaboard to the Pacific! gUa. Some engaged transit to the will find that the trip we easily
yourself and your neighbors a dis service by voting. *lope. Such as can tie Learned Atlantic side on the Isthumus, made in a m atter of days is not
be compared with the stories
We believe firmly that an informed voter is a horn the early comers show' they sure that they could cross it and »»me
of our neighbors can tell
made the journey in periods of walk up the western coast of
good voter. We don’t care particularly if you agree or generations
us,
of
the almost unusurmount—
and some of the the country to California, not
able obstacles their forefathers
disagree with the city's bond proposition, because if ate comers and some of the knowing that such a journey is endured
during their migration
the people don’t want to accept the bond, then everyone can travel from Berlin to Brook- almost impossible.
in
which
they not only estab
mgs without missing much sleep
Many of our substantial west
lished
civilization
along the route
should be satisfied.
compared to the journey from coast families came almost dir-
but,brought
it
to
in
However, before you cast your ballot for any \ itginia to Kentucky which took ectly from Eusope, crossing the preparation for us Brookings
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late-comers
some of our ancestors a year or Atlantic, some with their fam-
proposition, especially one so vital to the city as this, more.
ilies, crossing the plains, and
Whether there fore-trekkers
W IT H D IV ID E N D S
we feel you should check on some questions you surely Various influences practically setting up their first American were - urged by « a .-. succession
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depoulated
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European
Now,
you
can get the best protection
home among those who had ’ *h<‘riffs or some inner and honor-
must have.
| countries during some 250 year made their journey in generation ah,e motive, we owe them much,
available and cut costs on your auto
You can pick up your answers from letters, and of contemporary advance in stages.
insurance at the same time. S afeco In
They are the ones who slashed
surance
Company of America, one of the
transportation.
Columbus,
in
his
other material printed recently in the Pilot. You can
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<nd fought their way to the
famous General of America Companies,
search for a shorter route to the
Further south, in California, j Chetco, they ane those' who est
study the ordinances which are at your disposal at the jjepper market (with which to t a u7h'n.‘h P!' t,ern h i°"7 Wed **■ *blished
h t e . th e n ,
offers you nationwide 24-hour claims ser
vice and personal attention of your local
though
there
some
of
the
oldest
by
attracting
others
to
further
preserve
m
eat)
uncorked
a
flood
City Hall: Or you can find vociferous dissenters ready
, «geat or broker . . . and you save money*
fanuhes came out from Spain to, our national scheme, and the
of
wanderlust
as
soon
as
word
and willing to give you their opinions.
got ‘round. A couple of centuri«« Mea co. encouraged and fostered evident progress they m ate
The point of this editorial is as follows: We later some religious unrest, fol by the Catholic Church. Here which we accept as our h eriû g t
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want you to vote, but only if you have determined lowed by plunging economic and again the pattern is the same. cannot stop with'us
P E T E J, L E S M E IS T E R A G E N C Y
The early Spanish did not
social Devolutions along with pol
logically which course you want tlx city—your city itical upheavals. Much of the bring their ladies with them to
too,in our generation, are
to take.
flood came to the Americas- all any great extent. The g»ntiy Pioneering, or at least, it will be
the Americas, North. South, and may have but the peasant and •°» a hundred years hence,
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Central. Those who came to our the soldier class acquired native
Atlantic seaboard, both Canadian
and US A., plopped down on the
The Brookings-Harbor Chamber of Commerce nearest, handiest land ,and there
their families.
is starting off a new year with a new leader, Carl Yahr. raised
Now, there has always lieen a
Now would be a gotxl time to make a few pertinent contention about these families.
observations concerning the Chamber of Commerce. Among them were those who
stayed put and those who moved
First,, we could observe that a lot of communit on. Some say the less desirable
ies don’t have .1 Chamber of Commerce—and those h ik d of their own accord or
were invited to, the ‘respectable’
communities are slow moving, and stagnant. Second, staying
at home and others say
we see that some communities have an active vibrant the ‘respectable’ and energetic
Cbamlxr of Gunmerce, anti those cities are alive anti came west and the laggards stay
ed behind.
going somewhere. We want the Brookings Harbor Whichever way it was, in trac-
area to fall in the latter category.
ig several of the earlier coastal
w > can just about fore-
• Ford’s Thunderbird V-8 engine,'
I Imistkiy night the ( liamber of Commerce’s settlers
ce, in each cast», where the fam- j
Board of Directors .ire sitting down, each with a list ly came from the seaboard ’
the standard "8” in Fairlanes and Station
of things they would like to have accomplished in this states around the time of the
of 1812, to what was then
Wagons, is the most powerful ”8” in its
aita this year. 1 lie group will toss each of the proposal »'»ar
he Ear West" Kentucky, Ohio,!
anti come up with some definite type of program for Indiana and Illinois. There they
field at no extra cost. Ford has built more
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Thunday, January 19,1956
THO8B UTILITY BOYS!
store up all to our
Now that the furor is over,
fair-weather way of life.
let us all exhale so we can bow
low to the gentlemen who eased
Many of these men
our burdens by helping us keep ( themselves and their families
in touch with the outside world. much—soaked to the hide, mi ga
They, all of them, are our neigh my meals, and often in the HaHr.
bors and despite the fact that ness— and in the midst of tht
they are,most of them at least, Holiday Season at that. Their
are on our collective payrolls, ministrations were vital and
that does not lessen the oblig their rew rd lies in the apprec
ations nor does it measure the iation of their neighbor* and
indebtedness.
inner satisfaction that their
Casting aside those who un work is acknowledged to be in
wittingly complained of their in the "WELL DONE” Class.
convenience, we should not con
template our ’phone, power, and
An architectural innovation is
road interruptions in any other
manner than to imagine, if we the surgical tape binding the
poorly can, the work these men corner windows of orve of our
did, out then? in the worst storm newer business buildings.
of gales and downpours to re-
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NEWSPAPER
poitofflca at Brooking«, Oregon,
under the Act of March I. It?*
A Ballot is an Im portant Piece of Paper
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A NEW YEAR FOR THE C. of C.
afield
the year.
What would you like to see the ( liamber of
Gunmerce achieve tim ing the coming year? Remember
they represent you, too. Why don’t von corner a tlii
cctor on the street, anti tell him w hat you think, d ell
bun that you personally want to see more industries
here, or a harbor, or a road to Grants Pass, or a bigger
ami Ixtter Lily Festival, or more publicity about
Brookings distributed, or whatever other project you
nay want. Don t ask linn tell him. Ami while you’re
telling bun remeinlxr to slip your membership fee into
bis hand became no organization can operate prop
erly without support.
We wish the new Cbamlxr, anti the new Pres-
dent well this year.
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