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Thursday, August 9, 1956 Brookings-Harbor Pilot — Brookings, Oregon Page Six Fifty Years Ago , Enjoy Your Vocation - Drive Safely Traveling through Oregon, or any other state, on your vacation there is much that you will want FOR WHAT to see. Too often we forget the '-places in between” and think IT'S WORTH only of our destination. A wise ‘ vacationer will make plans ahead By Clifford Rowe of time so that he knows just about what he will see along the » • • way and he provides plenty of judging from the common to- Henry Moore and A. Auberry- time so that he can stop and en- of dlscussion to which j am reported taking $30 in gold for each of seven days with a rocker, joy them without having to ma,»a- exposed lately, nature played the while travelling down the Rogue up lost time by driving careless- djrty trjck ¿n mp by depriving from Grants Pass. They had been ly. The Oregon Traffic bate ’ me of the means of getting in a /h a t A wQrd occasionally. I am refer- upriver by boat to Grants Pass, Commission warns for their winter's groceries as dream of a pleasured-filled vaca- f.ng tQ djeting. Seemingly, everywhere I go there were no trails then from tion can become a nighmare loi the driver who sets out to covei these days, if one is not versed upriver into Agness. • * • too much territory in too lit e the latest methods for reduc- *- o f Sunny Brook • ing excess weight, he is looked Raleigh Scott, shipping out time.” A motorist on a busy highway UpOn as One who is somehow 20,000 lbs. of wool from the Chet- whiskey, that is!” co and A. H. Crook shipping out cannot get a good view of the shirking his responsibility to so- cial progress. At this date. I have of Rogue River as “the road to scenery and still itevote his . discovered o meth-xi for Arch Rock, their former shipping to driving safely. In many of t ie scenic areas there are places oft getting back into the conversa point is out of repair. rich as a prospector's dream, the highway where one can stop tional swim. • • • In September of '94 P. Mc- without becoming a traffic men My own existence has been a good as a man’s uord Creery left Gold Reach to work ace. These stops will be safety- dreary one as far as ¡mtting on • • »finest of fine Kentucky whiskies! in Hume’s cannery, at Klamath, wise in more than one way. First pounds or taking them off is con and the same paper tells us that of all they will get the gawking cerned. At the age of eighteen, I Joe Steve and Sandy Grant motorist off the road, and sec- weighed 145 pounds:; today, thir 4 '5 brought in to Gold Reach 140 sea' ondly they will provide an oppor- ty three years later, I have to lions’ skins Joe and Ace Carey tunity for the driver to stretch confess ~_________ ....... . ______ 4/0 qt shamefacedly that I have got. The skins were shipped to his legs and soak in a little fiesn onjy managed to raise the figure air. If the trip is to be quite long to 150. Even those five pounds San Francisco. and you are traveling alone it is I am afraid, are due more to mid Returns from the salmon sent wise to take these breaks often dle-aged spread than to any over to Frisco, on the FREE TRADE, to keep yourself alert. Plan your all development on my part. brought only $2 barrel as against trip so you can tell your friends As a result, I find myself some the $10 ber bbl. needed to pay for about it rather than Letting them what envious of those who can the fish, the barrel, the salt and find out about it from the obitu profit from the splurge of cur ary column of the local paped. rent advertising to the 'extent of labor. • • • Enjoy your t r i p ...............Drive experimenting with their obe Much tan bark was b e i n g Carefully! sity. I have even gone to the ex shipped from Frankport despite treme of eating all those items the low and falling price while A. OUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE on the menu from which my Youngsters often have a time friends bravely abstain in their H. Moore was down to Gold Beach A L S O A V A IL A B L E . from his mines (presumably on with their language and although battle against the bulge. Rut a ’l Ktnrut h Straight Salmon Mountain) to report his they are told a new word and ex to no avail; the bathroom scales Cheerful as its Name! Bourbon W hukty plained its meaning they don t having taken out $2,000 in gold. get the satisfaction they w'ant out stubbornly refuse to cooperate. Even as a youngster, my lot THE 010 SUNNY BROOK COMPANY, D IVIS IO N OF NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORP., LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY Goodall, Perkins & Co. bought of it so they "invent” a word of was not an easy one in this re KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, 86 PROOF. KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY, 86 PROOF, 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. »he docks at Port Orford. They their own My friends called me "Skin were San Francisco shipping a- ' Last Sunday Mrs. Charles gard. gents. I Grashel took her grandnephew ny”; and even some who were — —-------------------——---------- —— golfing with her. She told him not my friends had no hesitancy , that he could caddy for her. The in reminding me that I had been little seven-year-old repeated the deprived of my normal rights as word “caddy” over and over a human being. Today, those again. Then he began, “Cat, cat same friends look upon me pity ty, kitten, kitty”, and finally, ingly as one who cannot join “CatLio”. That seemed to he just them in the pleasant tortures of the word he was locating for, so dieting. I am made to feel that inspite of being corrected a num I am a slacker. My only hope is that eventually ber of times the little fellow “cat- the fad will pass away. Just as tioed" the rest of the afternoon. the bowlegged girl dreams of the In this same September, I. N. day when fashion will drop the I Muncy writes that in 1854 with a skirt hem-line to the shoe tops, i partner he entered the Rogue with so I look forward to the time I a small schooner, drawing three when plumpness will be an ob ' feet of water and sailed up to the jective to be desired rather than | ferry (Bagnell's?) where he avoided. Then I, too, will be able loaded out potatoes for Crescent to get into the fray and to plead City. There was then a deep chan- the cause of my own secret for the only transmission in the world with the 1 nel and tidewater was twelve mula. cruising thrift and the switch-pitch safety- Until that time, my lot will be j miles up from the mouth. The bluffs which were then on either that of being beyond the pale. I su rg e ta k en from th e m o d e rn p la n e ’s ' side of the river’s mouth were will continue to endure a mono O f . riously —where else can yon get so much propeller. ' sluiced away in the flood of 1861 tonous existence, limited to con snap and ginger at such a peach of a price? and th? silt from upriver mining suming the same ordinary round S o why wait any longer—when the time to has since made shoal water. Mun of normal meals and remaining W here else can yon get a big, high-powered, cy writes that Rill Winsor cam? silent as others suffer for the take action is note, so you can start enjoying down the river in 1869 in a boat cause. stea d y -rid in g h ard to p like this ’56 Buick all the golden months of summer and fall in he built near where Grants Pass N early h alf of O reg o n ’s 61 m il Riviera—at a figure that’s pretty close to w hat now stands and that Winsor later a new ’56 Buick? lion a cres is covered by fo re st. built a sawmill at Gold Reach. they re asking for similar models of the well- * * * b • • N ow —w hen Buick prices are as low as— known smaller cars? Mrs. Albert Snodgrass of Chet- BABY SH O W E R H E L I) The G am m a G am m a C h a p te r perhaps loner than—they II ever be again. ! co died about August 5,1894 of Nowhere else that we know of—te/nr/i is one hemorrhage of the lungs, leaving of th e B eta S igm a P hi honored Now— when your present car is at its peak of N o rm a A rchibald, M arian n e M u r husband and seven daughters. big reason ichy Buick outsells all others cars In August there was a strike at the ferry (salmon) salting house and the crew left for Port Orford While the men were sat isfied with the 20 cents an hour wage the catch was so small and the hours of work so few they counldn’t get ahead. “Pour yourself a smile, neighbor Sunny Brook W hiskey Plenty o f Zip atapipofaprice ( it 's a great time to bu y a Buick!) in America except tu o of those smaller ears. H i t right ai o \ c w ith low price is something else behind Buick s big success: Buick is a lot more automobile for the monev. It gives you more room and ln\nr\ — more zip and powt'r thrill fine handling and sure footed stability. And it gives yon something \on can get in no other ear —today s advanced new Variable Pitch lX n a flo w lf\ worth —and when today’s high volume ’56 Buick sales permit us to make you an even better trade-in allowance. Come see us—and look into the car that puts you years ahead right note. Cotne see tts today—and discover the dillv of a deal that will make you wonder w in on earth you waited as lone as you did. .You Advanced Variable Pitch D ynafloic is the only Dynafbnc Hui k builds today. It is standard on Roadmastcr, Super and Century — optional at modest extra cost on the Special. phy and N an cy P isarek w ith a A tr e e fa rm is a p riv iately baby show er la s t W ednesday ev ow ned, ta x p a y in g fo re st land de en in g a t th e hom e of Y olande d icated to the g ro w in g fo re st p ro V aughn. C o-hogtes e s wei» P a t D ent and Y olande V aughan. D es d u cts. s e r t w as served and g am es w ere played. LOOK LOOK LOOK Hard-Top Races T H IS S U N D A Y at GRENFELD SPEEDWAY MORE New CARS and DRIVERS Gen adm. Tax inc. Children 6 to 12 WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUUT BUiCk W i l l BUHO THEM' Highway 101 M E N N IN G B U IC K Brookings 1.50 50c Gates Open 12 noon Time Trails r:oo pan. Races 2:30 p.m. Come Early for Choice Seats There W ill Se From Now on O d i /* kb Races Will Be Run 8 BIG 8 E\er\ Other Events SUNDAY The Hard-tops Will Race EYery Other Sunday
