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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1956)
Thursday, June 15, 1956 BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT BROOKINGS. OREGON EM BLEM c lu bs for Ml no — A consoling thought, enduring SOME COMMON FALLACIES ABOUT WOOD these many years, absorbed from an old British sea captain who by said he’d never seen a storm Forest Products Laboratory, yet but what it cleared off after it. Forest Service US. Department of Agriculture Madison, Wisconsin Surprising how many called That trees exposed to storms the PILOT, after the official scedules of the past weekend had ami rough weather all then been doubly checked by all the lives form stronger and bettei wood than sheltered trees. principles, to point out parts of This idea is mere poetic lic it that were all wrong! ense, as it never affects the sel ection of wood in manufacture and actual use. Trees exposed to extra severe conditions are apt to be deformed, gnarly, twisted, stunted and fit mostly for fire wood. Trees grown under normal conditions make the best lumber because they arc straight and regular in grain. Piece for piece, their wood is as strong if not stronger that that grown under the wildest conditions of expos ure. FOR WHAT Information bulletins, soil sam pling service and other Oregon State College Extension services will be available. Extension Service To Open Branch Office Here NEW BURNER INSTALLED - A new, double walled refuse IT'S WORTH burner has been installed at tnc By C L IFF O R D P. ROWE South Coast Lumber Co., replac Despite the competition off ing a single-wal’ed structure ered by television, I still derive ! which had outworn its useful my greatest pleasure from the ness. The County Extension Service reading of a good book. In fact. will open a branch office in I am convinced that reading is Brookings, on Wednesday, June about the only form of enter-! tainment today that doesn’t take ifornia. Dick will be associated 13, and will be open each Wed more out ol the participant than with the Leonard Realty Co., nesday thereafter, except Hol it offers in return. while Earl hates to leave Brook idays. The office will be located After a long session of TV sit ings, he wants to be nearer his in the rear of the Coos-Curry ting, with my mind completely children. He has been a longtime’ blank, I invariably find myself in and well respected neighbor and REA Coop Office and will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. a stupor which sometimes lasts will surely be missed. for hours. I feel that my eye balls are protuding at least a gixxl two inches and that my hearing organs have stood at at tention so long that a period of more than two minutes of absol- , ute silence would burst the ear drums. Not so,, however, in regards to > a good book, for in spite of the j fact that one is required to em-I ploy the mental processes some UP-COUNTV VISITORS what, the physical relaxation Quite a few up-county visitors which results more than makes j were taking in the sights this up for any thinking effort ex -! past weekend. Mrs. Paul Wag- pended. In addition, I have dis nes, of Elk River, and daughters, covered through long years of Mrs. Zumwalt and Mrs. George experience, that a good novel can 1 . LEAN ROUND BONE Sutton; the John Segers, of Go'd afford the means of getting away , Beach; Mr and Mrs. Tony Rath, from many of the tedious com Mr. and Mrs. Goertzen and the plications of daily living. For instance, if my good wife Ken Priests, also of Gold Beach; Mr. and Mrs. John Vale, of Port wants me to mow t.he lawn, she Orford; Mr. and Mrs. Ted Wim has no compunction whatsoever mer and Mrs. Fannie James, of about walking into the room, Ophir. Phobably there were a turning off the TV, and then, in U.S.D.A. CHOICE lot of others this writer didn’t the ensuing ear-splitting silence, see and probably more would issuing her orders. But for some have attended if it hadn’t been reason or other she has a terrif for the early morning downpour. ic respect for a book. If she makes her labor request while I am reading and after a repetit Frequently heard at the Blow ion of the order for the fifth or er Show “Why don't exhibitors sixth time still receives no in CENTER CUTS put THE name on their exhibits, dication that I am even of this 'especially t h e horticultural world, out of sheer respect for specimens?” Visitors as well as something or other, she invar fellow contributors of pretties, iably tip-toes from the room. would learn more from the show. Even modern youngsters hold KFWTL'I AY STRAIGHT No one person can know the a similar respect for the printed BO. HBOS WHISKEY names of all the exhibits. word. While the yhesitate not U.S.D.A. CHOICE, Pan Fry T»i O n H i i m i u . i <■ V "«< it •« !«*•»»Of* one whit to turn to a channel of their own choosing just about MORE ON 101 HIGHWAY fht time that a detective is pre Upstate newspajiers stress the pared to validate your deduction re ssity or rerouting 101 be as to the culprit, they retreat in Î" 0 tween Gold Beach and Brook awe before the spectacle of some es. Almost all the “exchanges” one who not only is able to read U.S.D.A. CHOICE, Hondo» • • • i Z m’ng into the PILOT office but also can read more than ten ssert that this is a “must” on pages at one sitting. w 0, 9 u .......TAGE CO . OtVSlOR nF MTîOMAl 0-M lllE^ WtWCTS COPP . So, for selfish reasons alone, I he part of the State Highway IRANA.Ohi. -wMUCKY. M h’UCKY SIKAiGKl BOURBON ..............tS Kiüüf. i sincerely hope that books and Commission AND IT IS. the reading of books don’t be come so old-fashioned as to dis appear from the American scene Personally, I cm hanging on ten aciously to those 1 now possess. They should arouse much cur iosity among my own grand- hildren b afticularly those con taining pictures. A state conclave of Emblem Club members is in the process of formation with the inaugural meeting scheduled for Ontario, on June 16th. Attending from Brookings will lie Mrs. Wilbur Ostrander, Mrs. Pauline Carpen ter, Mrs. Clara Bowlin, and Mrs. Alice Bordwell. Mrs. Bordwell has a tentative appointment of Four Year Trustee of the new group. A branch office will also be opened at Dick’s Farm Store in the Langlois area. This office w ill also be open on Wednesdays from 8:30 a m. to 5:00 p.m. This service is being extended to the north and south districts of the county, for the conven ience of the farmers, homemak ers and youth groups who wish to use this service. C&K MARKET - FORMERLY KIRBY’S - FRIDAY — SATURDAY — SUNDAY SPECIALS ¿Xsk 2©ar.' ERMITAGE BRANO , . . . POUND 39C FORK ROAST an d t e l l t h e w o z ld yora k n o w ffjre a t s tra ig h t K e n tu c k y POUND 49t REEF ROAST tocm'boaaï G years old POUND 45E FORK STEAKS V POUND 69<t STEAKS POUND 69c SWISS STEAKS Ground BEEF 3 for JOODBYE MAJORETTE S T he west is loos.i.g one *: its -I u - C om e i n a n d g e t il - o n t h e n ev z •<* d Earally Pfon I t’s tailor-made for you! W ith thia new Ford Family Plan, you choose the Ford that fits your family's wants and needs. Then get it on a deal tailored to your family's own budget. There's no fixed down paym ent... no fixed monthly payments. You get an easy payment j ' in based on your Ford Dealer’s gcnctaus trade-in attoirance a n d on yo u r own m onthly income. Hear about it n o w - a t your Ford Dealer's! • L ” 3 a station v;ag:n family ? I ord has .«it of these w ork -or- p’ iyti nu* dandies (o choose from... n 1 . n jo y ... on the Ford Family G wbsstx r^saM HS^ Whale the Curtv County group never ventured far t.ci-.i th e .r ; ome ti w -., they would have been an orraune .. to any fes.vai ,n which they could have form ed cportion. \» h re thev dal .ppear h«.. fu ’. fillo a miss.on doubly apprecia'. d ecause they were of S and in 1 visitors. To Mrs Keen, and to every t d ;,n -ently retiring Gold i eh Aiaj tie. we of the Pilot a-, our r;i• gl-.bois ,n our Thanks I V\ - _ ! Ä „.WWW»««»* most colorful groups. The lo’d Beach Maj rettes, formed twc.i- ty years ago, has d.sl andeJ. . s Jcn.e Keen, their or ginator a..4 leader lor ail these ye.rs, has et aed. Their colorful uniforms have been layed away, never again to flesh in the sun or tiao in the breeze. : the br.giit m om ents you have -.ought to as. V ? hope those e> ! o a w tl revive another 1 : ajo rettes. trying, at least, to do as w ell es \o u did. The volume o! won’ at- n : i m Oregon Senators. I . ^ i ! Couie u..,i nuike your choice! Does a r ’*n fit you i\* - 1 ixvupes — there are fen nuxlel* i » choose from anti all with sr- t Thunderbird styling’ Plentv of colors anti color combinations, too. Your dealer will help you fit \»>ur choice to your family budget! *.*. i tten and oral, would m ake i • b an ic’e ‘ 'el like buck deer with laryngitis. door or lour d,x»r — hardtop« . DUNNING MOTORS Your Curry County Authorized Ford Mercury Dealer HIG! W AY 101 BROOKINGS I. A KF FISHING 4i v reports of : sh.ng at j D.amend Lake indicate the pois oning of trash fish and replant ing with trout has sure paid off Manx gixxl catches hav e been reported hut stories of lines freezing in the guides of the angler’** rods should be bom in mind as a weather indicator. > i \ 't ) Earl iXxlge re{xvrts he h s so! ! his house and a couple of acres of his land, his last local hold ing* to Mr and Mrs Dick Wi!- aon, w ho have just moved to I... M 1 i rs rxtL /X wI ( I . RADISHES and GREEN ONIONS 3 bunches 1 0 < CANTALOUPES ROYAL T U B SUNSHINE STRAY,BERRY PRESERVES 20 Ounce Jar 9« to CRACKERS 1 -Pound Box 27< 43< CHUBBY — Dog and Cat ood 12 for 1.00 W HITE OX . . . . 59? lo v e s FRESH CAUGHT, Sli d . . . . OCEAN SALMON HSlf OR WHOLE FRESH POUND 69C lb. 55c ............................. POUND HALIBUT Half or whole W IR 59i lb. 53c
