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.
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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.
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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
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the conduct of his forebears. The pharmacist’s chief in
terests, now as then, are the relief of suffering and the
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prolongation of life. Prescriptions come first in our stores
Your doctor may not like to recommend any particular
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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
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