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Thursday, May io, 1956
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT — BROOKINGS, OREGON
FAGE TWO
5 CLARK HOWELL INJURED
Friends here of Clark Howell,
former Brooking&ite, have word
that he will be a patient in the
Good Samaritan Hospital, Port
land,’ for several months, follow
ing ’ injuries in a car wreck.
Clark, and his brothers, were
widely known here for many
years and he has a brother, ‘Bill
living at Gold Beach. He has
been badly injured a couple of
times here when the former (’
& O mill was running.
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>45 00
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Complete assembled, with stand
F.O.B. Coos Bay — $ 8 0 0
Also Stock All Types of Storage Tanks
or will build
Coos Boy Steel Fabricating Co.
Phone CO 7-4515
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BEY! boss, LOOK
MONROE
Machines
,
for Business
Sales and Service in the Brookings area
Is Now Being Handled by . . .
1). 1). BRISBIN
Factory Representative
1257 Myrtle Avenue — Eureka California
Phone 3725 — Brookings
And Let Us Know If You Are A Monroe User.
ATLAS
TIRE
SALE
Prepaid PostCards
G etting Around
International Prepaid reply
postcards are getting around.
Latest to adopt them are the
Radio Amateurs — the ‘‘Hams.’’
One of the problems of this huge
group of men, women, boys and
girls has been to establish w rit
ten confirmation of their radio
contacts. They are essential as
evidence in the several inter
national communications con
Longer hours for log hauling tests and they are also something
are being asked by the Associat to prove beyond all doubt that
ed Forest Industries. They want two widely separated ‘‘hams”
to haul for a couple of hours have actually talked to each
later than the current 8 pm. other.
Here-to-fore the trouble has
limitation, their arguement be
ing that improved equipment has mostly been due to the pre
made later hauling not as dan ponderance of licensed operators
gerous as it used to he. The State and the availability in the US.A.
Highway Commission in making enthusiasts of so-called 'QSL''
a study of the request specially in International radio signals
in reference to lighting the loads “I acknowledge.” American stat
and the checking of weights ion owners frequently have these
printed, some of them quite elab
hauled,
orate, and they send them to
such contacts as they make, hop
KNEES PICTURED —
Mr. and Mrs. L .W. Knee, who ing that this courtesy will be re
used to make their home in Har turned from abroad. But, the
bor, are pictured, in color, in the foreign contact may lack the
M a r c h National Geographic. facilities for returning the favor.
They are standing on a huge Possibly he is in the mid-Pacific
petrified pine tree, many thous on an island dot or in some small
ands of years old, Mr. Knee is Swiss town. Then too, even if he
credited with having found near does have a ‘QSL” card of
his own, there is the task of dig
their home, in Southern Vtah.
ging it out, stamping, filling in,
and mailing. There are a hundred
AGNESS DROWNING —
and one obstacles preventing the
Raymond Breeden, of Agness, much needed and desired con
is reported to have been drowned firmation
at the mouth of the Illinois Riv
But with the International
er, last Tuesday. He had been
fishing from a boat which was Prepaid Reply Cards, many ob
found overturned and the anchor stacles are flattened, and espec
gone. He is said to be the father ially if they are accompanied by
of four girls and an adopted son, one of the formal, decorated ones
and a longtime resident of the he can keep his confirmation.
When they arrive, all he has to
area.
do is signify his actually having
made the two-way contact, re
GORSE YET*
ford the card, his name and add
A special breed of weevils has
ress, of course, scratched out,
been released around Bandon.
and drop it in the mail box.
According to the story, this
Whether by air or surface, it is
breed of critters, when in th eir
on -its way to its mission.
youthful stag e ju st dote on gorse
aped. T he w eevils w ere collected
by Dr. Jam es Holloway, in Ire
land, th e native home of gorse
and Dr. Holloway is w orking
w ith th e U niversity of California
and O.A.C.. It is hoped th at the
work of these weevils will check
| som ew hat, the spread of gorse
“ through th e seeds as the larva
„ | of the weevil feeds on them while
i the seed an* still in poda. They
have no effect on the m a tu re
plants.
The eradication of gorse is said
to be alm ost impossible a fte r its
first y ea r of growth. Seedlings
can easily he destroyed hut once
they form woody stems, and w ith
th? seed in th e ground, it is a
very- difficult job.
T O L M A N vs. MacCOM RER
A suit is reported to have been
filed it\, th e Del N o rte County
C ircuit C o u it by Robert L. Tol-
man ag ain st Archie MacComher.
in a com plaint charging b attery .
P laintiff asks for punitive d am
ages th e sum of $60,000; general
dtiniHges, $20.000; and special
dam ages. $750.
M O TH E R H E R E
Mrs. Larry Hobson, all the
way from Camas, W ashington
has been spending a wee k or St
w ith her d au g h ter, Mrs. P»?tt\
Young and family.
“T he pages of history arc
strew n w ith th e w reckage caused
by those in governm ent vh<
MR. ST A F F O R D IS MOVED
W ord com es th at our old tried to spend m o/e money th i~
neighbor, Lucien Stafford, is now the tax p ay ers could pay.’
Exchange.
in a rest home in P ortland, h av
ing been taken out th is past
W hen the cross-roads b lack
weekend. ‘‘U ncle Lucien" is one
sm
ith shops fell into disuse, did
of our oldest and best known
neighbors and our good wishes th e government buy up all :h<
su rp lu s horseshoes?
go w ith him
Nominate the M an
Who CAN W IN in November i
VOTE FOR David C.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE for CONGRESS
Mature - Experienced
Energetic - Effective
Pd. Pol. Adv. by Shaw for Congress Comm. Ellen Dougherty, Sec. Gold Beach. Oregon
THIS SUNDAY
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