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Thursday, March 22,1956 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT — BROOKINGS, OREGON PAGE TWO — MOVE ON B A T T E R Y R A D IO S A move to have every P o rtlan d M RS. N E L S O N SO U TH — Mr. and Mrs. H ans Nelson sch o o l equipped w ith a battery - w ere called south by th e death operated radio to receive em er- of Mrs. N elson’s m other. The BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT By C L IFFO R D P ROWE judge retu rn ed right a fte r the AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER A P o rtlan d new spaper report- funeral but M yrtle expects to Koursd as seco n d -cla ss m attor. at the p o sto fflce at Brooking«. Oragon. er inform ed me recently th a t sta y for a while. March 7, 1M 4. under the A ct o f March 3. 187# when his colleagues are given , Ray Pisarck, Joe Murphy assignm ents outside the city, DAV/D’S SC A R ....................... - Editor» and Publisher» they jokingly rem ark th at they David Moore, 16, was hit sud-1 SUBSC R IPT IO N R A TES. a re "going out am ong the id rtenly, la st M onday evening, 13 00 One Year in A dvance On Curry C onty) —......... — ............ - iots ’’ A lthough they speak in w .th a pain which Dr. Ronniger __ »3.50 One Year In A dvance (ou tside Curry C oun ty, ................... - jest, such a conception is com diagnosed as appendicitis and, mon to m any who live in any a couple of hours later, w as re N A Tl O N A L E D IT O R IA L m etropolis. lieved of it at Seaside H ospital W Î3 » PU B LISH ER S W hile most of us derive much which is som ething of a record. a f f il ia t e „ .5 O C IA T IO N am usem ent from the belief of David, who m akes his home w ith the ancients th a t th e w orld was his folks at the form er Young’s flat, we can find ju st as much Motel, atten d s highschool here, hum or in some of th e ideas held playing a clarin et in th e band by m any of o u r m etropolitan and is a m em ber of the m instrel The timber interests in Curry cousins whose w orld horizons are troupe. A fter a few m ore days Things arc moving in the right County are our bread and butter. No bounded by the city limits. a t Seaside, he expects to soon be I am confident th a t m any of back in the swing. direction, as a tax committee, consisting body realizes it any better than us. Xct, th em tru ly fea r th a t if they of members from all over the county, a tax like that amounts to virtual sub trav elled m uch beyond th e end of th e car line, they would fall M R S H E L E N CO VELL - met with the county court, anti some sidy. W ord has com e of th e passing off th e edge of th e w'orld. And state tax men last week. Plans were We don’t hold to this idea of w hile they, perhaps, are suffic- j of Mrs. H elen Coveil, who died made to go ahead with the re-assessment raising taxes so that big timber owners iently civilized to reject any M arch 11th, a t Laguna, Calif. on m onsters or dragons in She and her sister, Mrs. E lla under the guidance of the state group. will he forced to dump their timber ideas th e o u te r darkness, they m ust be Boyd, lived in the duplex next A re-assessment is needed so either. We don’t think that it will make firm ly convinced th a t those who to the C om m unity Church, for do dwell beyond the city ’s fringe a few years. W English ladies badly, that it is unbelievable that irate that much difference to them. are definitely of th e D ark Ages. had form erly lived in Alaska, citizens didn’t rise up and howl long The tragedy of it all is th a t A ustralia, and South America, j Currently, timber has an assessed before this. Inequities exist throughout valuation from $1.50 per thousand feet, we "idiots” are so com pletely u n T here a re m any here who w ill j a re of our shortcom ings and rem em ber them as typical, very the county tax structures, and it’s time of which the county receives 3 percent, aw inadequacies. We are even so charm ing, ladies of the V ictorian that work went ahead on them. or .045 per thousand. 1 he approximate stupid as to believe th a t if the school, and will sym pathize w ith We realize that in a growing amount of timber being cut yearly in ¡»eople w ere asked to vote on a Mrs. Boyd in her loss. bond issue for the construction county, such as Curry is, there was the county amounts to 350,000,000 a of a recreation cen ter, and th a t bound to he difficulties in obtaining a year. The price of stumpage now runs if they overw helm ingly approved th a t parking will not be overly a cen ter would be built. concen trated in one area. fair tax structure. But we didn’t realize all the way from $50.00 ¡ kt M on up to such Also, in our "idiotic” sm all such a great divergence as does exist. $80.00, so it doesn’t take much research towns, we co n sid er,traffic a prob PA TR O N IZE We refer to the average Brook to discover that the $1.50 per M is a lem and so try to g et ca rs off the stre e ts and into p roper parking ALL ings projKrfy owner, who has a house, little out of line. areas. As an a lte rn a tiv e we try P IL O T to disperse o u r a ttra c tio n s so A D V ER TISER S of say $i5,tx)o value. lie pays around PILOT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH gency broadcasts in the event of . a power outage, has been laorv , ched by a P o rtlan d service club. , CARNIVAL High School Gym — 8 p.m. FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd Sponsored by Brookings-Harbor HASTE IS NEEDED IN TAX FIELD IN CURRY High School Student Body LARRY & GERT'S CAFE (Formerly Shanghai) • SEAFOOD • STEAKS • CHICKEN SPECIAL MERCHANTS LUNCH MONDAY thru SATURDAY $200 in taxes. Not too long ago a cer tain tract of timber, some 10,000,000 board feet sold for $300,000. T hat brought $258 in taxes into the County treasurer. This figures out as approx imately 15 TIMES AS MUCH for the property owner, compared to the timber owner. T hat is not equitable, and nobody will convince us otherwise. Some obvious recommendations would I k : i . T o use all pressure avail able to get the re-assessment program under way with speed’ 2. To assess the timber holdings first, because there is where the greatest inequitities lie; 3. Set the tax to he based on the selling price of lumber products so that it could I k equalized from time to time, as the price* vacilates. A "WHIRLEY BIRD” FOR BROOKINGS? A helicopter for commuters to Gold Beach might sound Ike a strange recommendation—hut we’re not even sure that we have our tongue in our «cheek as we write this. Personally a 15 or,20 minute ride by “Whirley Bird” seems a lot better idea than an hours (or more) drive over the fiercest high way in the United States. ’ What we suggest is that the community buy one of the larger var iety of helicopters, such as they use to haul commuters from the airports to the city. Then we could set up a regular schedule, say two trips a day to (¡old Beach. Maylx* on weekends we could get into Oregon “Proper” in another direction, with a trip to (¡rants Pass Perhaps we could interest the county government in the project, and on the first Wednesday of each month we could have a “(Courthouse Special M O R E H IST O R Y T here is being prepared for publication in the PI I ATT, a ser ial of local interest, Itemg a sto ry of the local coastal Indians T his will also be hasted on ree «»ids, the early visitors having found the natives ta r different from some of tfv stories that h ave come down to us GORDON IS UP! Gordon Olson js percolating hut in a lim ited area T lv med idine men say that 1, he mm s At (Curry (County, without air, water or rail transportation is definitely'in a hind. We must depend on a “narrow- thread of a highway” conn'- ting us to the rest of the state. This thread is cut several times a year by weather, and the rest of the time it is passable only by the (¡race of (¡<xl, and at the suffering of the motorist. Perhaps a whirley bird trans porting people around into “Oregon Proper” would he a novelty—and it might even shame the highway depart ment into action on the present high way. We don’t say that the 101 im provement should I k finished this year or next, hut we are of the opinion that the highway department could at least present a “schedule of improvement” so we would know how long we are going to have to wait before “Oregon Proper” takes us into her bosom. w hat they tell him they will lengthen his range and th at part of it is up to Gordon. 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