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second-clAM matter, at the pogtofflca at Brooking», Oregon.
Mareh T. »#4«. under the Act of March
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Ray Pisarek, Joe Murphy
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SUBSCRIPTION
HARDWOOD
IS
BROOKINGS. OREGON
COMING
It’s coining. We refer to the possibilities of
hardwood development in this area. We don’t look
for it this week or next, or jxrhaps not this ^.ar, but
it is coining. And Curry County is in a good spot
to capitalize on hardwood..
RATES
One Tear la Advance (In Curry Conty) _
One T»ar In Advaace (outalde Curry County)
IS 00
S3 50
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A re We Becoming $ Sign Victims?
GUEST EDITORIAL
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By Hal Pruitt
Francis Bacon, 16th century B ritish essayist, philosopher
District Forest Ranger Rags Ragland attended
a meeting, dealing with hardwfxxl, several weeks ago.
The Forest Service report on hardwood was encour
aging. They reported that the Pacific Northwest will
support an industry of 25,000,000 board feet of hard
wood, with an annual dollar value of $54,000,000 and
an annual payroll of $21,000,000.
Marines Offer
New Enlistment
In Reserves
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WANT ADS
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in this area
and in fpozcn
foods
** m m ade
bought
quantitv
lots In fact
eat
could he bought 2 cents less ,x«r pound and it would be fuHv
F uarankx'd As one m eat d ea le r stated, "I would have to sell them
«choice meat, or they would come hack and throw it in my face."
l . ««« T he,t' m u c h use carrving this on m uch fu rth er. When all
is considered, it pays to shop w ith the local people when tbev have
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»war of a big s,xxaa 1 som ew here or someone comes around w ith
« »w. ask the local boys w hat they can do O u r guess is th at thev
w herr you kot ,t and you don’t have far to go for an adjustm ent
ci .
yO? , W' H sto’’ *nd ,h in k ” -vnu
know th at no big o u t!
i J J h 7 ,tU’u H ln bl,iimess to «*'■’’
anv thing N o b J h e ls e '
from y o u r rric’n T
, ¡’u ' " hrn
R « ' ^ s ftp,,, you o'nieivd
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nelS ib°r. ,h ’’ local m erchant, you know where
it in your pocket, either,
not t
dollars
g • hms art
la k e tim e to stop and think!
IT-F-L-P is spelled for Crip*
pled Children when you give to
F a s te r Seals, So Giv e T txlay!
INGROWN
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REGISTER BEFORE APRIL I
to vote in fht 5f.tY ts >» new irte.
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Library Board
Holds M eeting
A slight increase in book cir
culation was reported at Monday
evening’s meeting of the library
board. Monthly book loans are
approaching 500, about equally
divided between adult and juv
enile volumes.
Several much-appreciated vol
umes have been contributed by
Shirley Berry, Eldis Jensen, Col.
Lee Rice, Kenneth Payne, W'ilda
Poole, Four Biddles, Mrs. L. G.
Stafford .Mildred Lent, Rev.
John Shideler and Walter Pear*
Some oí this w ill come to Brookings, we believe.
1nr statesm an, said, ‘‘T ake tim e now and then to stop and th in k ?
We have a great deal of tan oak and other hardwoods
T h a t advice is as good today as it was in the 16th ce n tu ry and
in the area. It is practically untouched and unexploited.
p erh a p s we need it even more.
The struggle for gold has a ttra c te d m an since tim e im This is for two reasons—First, the interest currently
m em orial. It has caused him to cross oceans, continets, fight the
p re a t cold and snow and ioe of the N orthlands, w ith er and die on is in the stands of Douglas Fir. Fir is easier to log, and
th e deserts, m ake great contributions and com mit m urder. In short,
it is easier to process. Secondly, the transportation
ft has brought out the greatest and w orst, the m ost noble and
debase in man. The adventurer« w'ho moved forw ard in all of th e picture again deters immediate action.
fu ry of th eir search, some finding riches and some finding m isery
and death, all learned in the end that ‘‘all is not gold th a t glistens.”
The hardwood industry is highly specialized,
W hile the days of ‘49 and the Yukon are past, th e search
and
the
processing is different, and in some ways is
fo r gold continues even though via a different route. S m art ad v er
tise rs are wise to this tr a it of man. T h ere is nothing sin ister difficult. But with modern technical skills this should
nbout th at, it is just part of their business. On the o th e r hand it
is the business of the consum er to ‘‘stop and th in k ” to see if he is not be much of a problem.
tieing taken. In the gold rush days, m ore dry mines w ere sold
th a n good mines. More planted gold and yellow rock has been
The big hug-a-lxx) is still transportation. That
sold a thousand tim es over than has ever been mined and sold to
th e good old U S A. To Ihe gold-hungry prospector, th e w ord gold word seems to stymie progress here in a lot of ways—
nnd a pit dug in the e a rth suggested the end of the rainbow, and it t(X) can he overcome.
l i e w as blinded by the very thought of gold. A nything th a t m ight
suggest bis dream coming tru e was easy to grasp. T h e sharpie
We definitely feel tfyat hardwood can he listed
knew this w eakness and mined his gold w ithout th e hard sh ip of
prospecting for it. He just picked suckers and basked in th e su n as one of our potentials.
shine and w eallh while the floor sucker slaved in yellow sand and
begged for a sandwich.
The slogan today is not ‘‘On To C alifornia” but Save A
N O TIFY the County H ealth
D ollar. Almost every advertisem ent, radio, and TV com m ercial, ’
N urse if you know a child who
rx to le s the dollars you can save by taking this one and only i
needs help through the E aster
w onderful, exclusive and out-of-this-w orld product.
Seal Fund.
People have become so sign-conscious today, and they a re
bet •oming m ore and more conditioned to th a t thought, so th a t it
is easy for any company, well verwxi in the psychology’ of man,
The U.S. M arine Corps re program is now in the hands of
to build a sales slogan or presentation th at will suggest the savings
cru itin g station in P o rtland, an all local U.S. M arine Corps re
o f dollars an d the custom ers grab the hoQk like th e lu sty tro u t
nounced plans to enlist men for cru ite rs and inquiries are in*
sn a p thi• fake fly into his a rtic u la te m outh.
two years active d u ty in the Re viied from any interested young
T here is certainly no attem pt to criticize an.vont for trying
to save a dollar or dollars. It is a tough job for the av erag e m an serves. The R egular enlistm ents men betw een the ages of 17 and
to keep his family in the latest things and the best food today, i to r 3 and 4 years are not affect 26.
lh> must he saving in the way he s|N*nds his h a r d e a m e d dollars. I ed by the new 2-year enlistm ent
Any local young m an in te rest
’J’his w riter has been the victim of as m any gim m ick supposedly w hich is being offered on a ed in m ore inform ation is re
dollar-savings advertisem ent as anyone. This w rite r has been a lim ited basis for men who w ant quested to w rite to : T ./S g t.
su c k er m ore than the average. T hat is why he is able to say w hat only to fulfill th e ir m inim um Barney L. S hanks Office in Coun
bo is saying now.
d uty service requirem ent.
ty C ourt House, Roseburg, Ore.
Now we a re going to come to a point or two. We are in
The new 2-year enlistm ents
fav o r of shopping at home but we are going to criticize some of are open to m arried men while in
th e local m erchant«, too. One nice thing, they can ta k e it and we the R egular program , men w ith
love them for it.
dependents are not eligible for
Well, let's give the boy« around town a little bit of a razzing enlistm ent.
before we say anything good nlxait them On second thought, th at
Full inform ation on th e new
is ra th e r hard to do. They all seem so nice and w illing to please
th a t we have to dig down deep to give them a bad tim e. But w'e
van find something, th a t’s because they are hum an, like us. and
som ething we will find H ere it is: They need to get a w ider «el
ectio n in th eir stores Maybe we can excuse them a little for that
because the town has grown so fast that they haven't h*en able
to keep up w ith the dem ands nnd maybe the salesm en who cover
the te rrito ry h av e n ’t aw akened to the fact th at this is a full-fi edged
com m unity. Anyway, most of them know th at and are tak in g nec-
v m a ry steps to correct it and those who haven't should give the
m a tte r some im m ediate thought.
Now w hat can we say good about these people who m ake
Up th e business com m unity of this lower C urry C ounty are a ?
A fte r talking w ith all of them tunder the w orst circum stances
selling them som ething) it isn’t hard, it ju st bubbles out.
The business people of this area are the nicest, as a whole,
th is w riter has ever contacted and th at covers a lot of te rrito ry '
W hy that is so could he anyone’s guess.
No need to go into
theories on that subject hut it is true, th at is all A nother thing,
they an” all proud people. They wouldn’t w ant anyone t<f think
th a t they exjiected patronage out of charity or Ixxause they were
located here. They invite patronage on the basis of good service
a n d quality merchandise.
Anothei nice thing alx»ut the m erchants of this com m unity
is th at most of them are just family outfits The idea of gimmick
o r fast figuring deals are foreign to their thinking They don’t know
how to go about th a t sort of thing just because they don’t w ant to.
T h ey like thv g o o d will and res|xx't of th eir fellow citizens m ore
th a n they w ant thx'ir dollars.
Hen” again, w e come hack to th a t sign, "All is not gold
h at glistens We have Just experienced an exam ple of th a t fact
in a recent sales cam paign carried on by a W isconsin Company
T h is Item w as sold to m any local ixxiplr who w ere convinced th at
Ihey w en ’ saving a lot of money m the purchase of a deep freeze
and a hxxl savings program This w riter int»*i-viewed th e m erchants
«’ he area Ihe finding w as than an equally good (a nationally
a d v e rtise ! brand) freezer could he purchased locallv for much less
«m l on b etter term s than the Wisconsin com pany offered The big
savings outlined on m eats and frozen foods seemed to be the
V n r1K' ' .sr.,hn* P**” 1 'rhe “Urve.v made by this w riter (and
? th ‘S
pPOVed w ith o ’lt » <^“ ht. th a t
r ght h< n
Thursday, March 29, 1956
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s in g le -p u r p o s e
RCTARY
T IL L E R
mine. The board wishes to re EDITH HYNES TO HEAD
peat that they surely welcome LOCAL VFW AUXILIARY
gifts but with the understanding
At the election of officers held
they may use their discretion as at the last meeting by the VFW
to their disposition.
Auxiliary. Mrs. Edith Hynes was
The board also heard reports elected President for the coming
that it was not a free library' year. Other officers who were
and wishes the public to under elected at the same time are as
stand that no charges are made follows: Senior Vice-President,
excepting for the rental of a very Dorothy Harvey; Junior Vice-
small collection of recent vol President, Margaret Phillips;
umes. fines for overdue books, 1 Chaplain. Ethel Molino; Treas
and a 10 cent charge for re urer, Marjorie Moore; Conduct
placement of lost borrower’s ress. Ermadee LaBarge; Guard,
cards, which is about what these Maude Phillip« and thnee-year
latter cost. Money obtained in Trustee, Clara Bowlin. „ Mrs.
this account is immediately ex Bowlin is the present president.
pended for some of the new vol
A public joint installation of
umes placed on the shelves.
officers with the VFW Post will
A report was made than an be held at the next meeting, on
unnamed donor would contribute April 4th.
The auxiliary is having one of
the lighting units for the rest of
the main room. These will cost, their popular rummage sales at
installed, some $300 and will be the VFW Hall, this week, start
a very welcome addition as it ing Thursday and continuing on
will bring light to the busy Friday and Saturday, with Mrs.
children’s section.
Ethel Molino in charge.
It was also stated that with
the breaking of the weather,
Give EVERY Crippled Child
further work on the grounds a chance—through Easter Seals.
should be forthcoming, especially
for sidewalks and parking area, their commitment of suitable
and that the Chamber of Com street and s;te signs.
merce would be reminded of
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