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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1956)
The HOUSE NUMBERS — Pop Reed, City Works Super intendent, tells us he has sent to the West Coast Telephone Co. a street and number listing of all their subscribers hereabouts, for inclusion in their new directory. BEACH CLEANING — Declared by Fite Chief Lyle Griffin, of Crescent City, an ex treme hazard, the supervisors of Del Norte county have author ized the expenditure of money for the disposal of the tremend ous amount of flood drift on the beaches at that city. Acknowledging the value of the drift to beach combers, and especially to tourists, this is set by the dangers of fires in the drift. The supervisors advised Griffin to obtain equipment and build suitable fire breaks, piling the drift, and burn it. There is also a lot of drift around the docks, which is hazardous In many places, the beaches have belts of* debris a hundred feet wide and several feet high, consisting mostly of logs, trees, limbs, parts of houses and brid ges, and all the material was sluiced down in the winter's floods. PILOT BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT Enured u AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER seconrf-clasa mattur, at the postoffice at Brookings, Oregon. March 7, 1948. under the Act of March 3, 1879 Ray Pisarek, Joe Murphy Editors and Publishers SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 33 00 »3.50 One Tear In Advance (tn Curry C o n t y ) ----- One Year tn Advance (outside Curry County) NEW SPAPER P U B L IS H E R S N A T IO N A L PAGE THREE BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT — BROOKINGS, OREGON Thursday. March 15, 1956 E_D I T O R LA I A SSO CITAT LQ.N A S SO C IA TIO N SOMETHING DIFFERENT THIS TIME The Red Cross has been to many just another contribution. It has been an abstract thing, away off in the distance. “It could happen to those other people, but not to us’’ has been the thought. However, this Sunday, when the canvassers cover the Brookings-Harbor area, perhaps another thought may come to mind. The thought of the help the Red Cross provided, quickly, when the recent flood hit neighboring areas—Klamath, and other cities. The Red Cross expenditures in the Western States in the recent floods was over $4,604,000 by February 21, which included mass care, food, shelter clothing, medical care to over 52,000 people—YOUR Neighbors. They provided individual assistance to 7,720 families and small businessmen. Disaster aid is based on NEED, not on loss, supplying what cannot be otherwise obtained without excessive hardship. Over 10,000 families have applied for post-disaster recovery aid. This aid is entirely free—an outright gift of the American people through the support of the Red Cross. Remember that Sunday. MRS. CHASE VISITS KIN — Recent visitors to relatives in Harbor and Smith River were Mr. and Mrs. Red Chase, of Chil oquin, and their twin daughters, Sharon and Karen. Mrs. Chase is the daughter of the late “P at’’ Van Pelt. The couple are em ployed at the Klamath Indian Agency. Bank deposits in Curry county went up from $7,928,247.80, on Dec. 31, 1954 to $9,520,342.28 a year later-up $1,592,094 48, a jump of 20 percent. Department sdore sales in Port land dropped greatly during the first week in February, when the weather was bad, and Seattle stores noted a similar drop. SOUTHERN CURRY REALTY THE BERRIES — Cane berry growers of Oregon are facing a favorable market this year, according to an OSC release but the prospects for strawberry- growers isn’t so good. It looks like this luscious fruit will be overproduced, out where the growers really make a bus iness of growing them. The ear ly over of frozen stramberries, according to the report, is pretty high. iflC MM P harmacy is one of the oldest of all the learned profesi lions. It had its beginning more than four thousand years ago an»! has been practiced in one form or another eve» since. The modern drug store bears little resemblance to the apothecary shop of old, but today’s pharmacist is in spired by the same honorable principles that governed 2 ACRES, SMALL SHED 3 MILES NORTH BROOKINGS 2 BEDROOM HOME PLUS 2 ^ ACRES IN HARBOR the conduct of his forebears. The pharmacist’s chief in terests, now as then, are the relief of suffering and the 10 ACRES IN BROOKINGS — LOW DOWN PAYMENT prolongation of life. Prescriptions come first in our stores Your doctor may not like to recommend any particular 2-BEDROOM HOUSE* FURNISHED *— $4,000 DOWN pharmacy, but he will never complain if you bring h i 2 FumishedApartments — All ready to move in to. “Heat, Linens, Stove, Dishes, etfc”. You pay light bill. Nice and Clean . . . Convenient to Shopping Center. 1 Unfurnished Apartment — Walking distance to shopping area. ERMA D. RICE — BROKER CHARLES GRAYSHEL, A gent PHONE 2671 or 2312 prescriptions to ua. FRANK'S PHARMACY - New Phone Number 4444 — Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. — Council Meetings Are A Problem . . . It may be harder and harder to get good men to serve on the City Council of Brookings because of the time element. Even now it is difficult, because most businessmen or others capable of serving, on the Council have plenty to do usually in their own right. In Brookings, as in hundreds of other commun ities, there are church and social and service club meet ings by the dozens. It is difficult for a man to stay home once a week to watch his favorite TV program—and it is important to attend the various meetings, too. Not too long ago, the Council met only once a month. The Charter of the City of Brookings says that the Council shall hold a regular meeting at least once a month. The Charter also says that “The Mayor upon his own motion may, or at the request of two members of the council, shall, by giving notice thereof to all mem bers of the council then in the city, call a special meet ing of the Council for a time not earlier than three nor later than forty-eight hours after the notice is given.” But it appears that the Brookings Council now meets once a week. We certainly should give the council credit for the time they arc giving to their work. However, we feel the council should definitely announce to the citizenery that their intentions are to I meet once a week at a given night, at a given time! and at a designated pi ice. We are not going to set ourselves up as critics and accuse the council of having “secret meetings" because they aren’t. I Iowever, they have abandoned the idea of notifying the press—who represent the public as much as the council, as to their meeting time. Three weeks ago, the (Souncil met on an “off’’ Tuesday and O.K.’d the arrangement with Elmer Bankus and the Beresa Tract sewage. We feel that the public was entitled to know that at the time, because the Council did authorize the expenditure of $50.00 a month of the taxpayers’ money. Last Tuesday the Council met and discussed the license committee rec ommendations, and presumably acted upon them. We were criticized because we didn’t present a report on the meeting in the Pilot. We in turn feel obligated to criticize, because we didn't know of the meeting. We feel that the Council could consider all their business in their regular meetings — perhaps twice a month if necessary. They do that in most other communities. If, however, they feel that they must meet once a week—then we feel that it is their obligation to make that fact public so that die taxpayers can attend the meetings and listen to the arguemens and recommen- daions that come up from tune to time. HOY MILLER REPORTED ILL Roy Miller, a member of a large and old time Curry Coun ty family, is said to be quite ill at the Sens: ’e Hospital. Crescent City, following surgery. He lived at Agness and Gold Beach, as a boy. - NOTICE - Anyone interested in estab lishing a Southern Baptist work in the Brookings-Harbor area please write or call Rev. Troy Kelly, Box 569, Crescent i City or phone Crescent 8333 you For Top in y o u r of d riv in g ! Come in and well prove that you get more GO fo r your dough in aFord V S You got h or-e power th at makes horse sense in Ford’s new 225-h.p. V-8. 'The purpose of this new horsepower is more torque . . . more rotat ing power to turn the wheels of your ear. With more torque you get greater response* quicker getaway, swifter passing power. You’ll find it the silkiest, quietest, thrillingest engine you ever commanded. Y ou get top performance for your kind of driving! This new 225-h.p. Thunderbird V-8 engine has a displacement of 312 cu. in. which makes it the biggest engine by far in the low-price field. And it is available in all Fordomatic Fairlanes and Station Wagons, at slight extra cost Equally important, these new 225-h.p. en gines are rolling ofT of Ford’s production line non . So plan to see your Ford Dealer soon. He’ll be glad to show you why you get more GO for your dough in a Ford V-81 DUNNING MOTORS YOUR AUTHORIZED FORD-MERCURY DEALER" BROOKINGS, OREGON
