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
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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.
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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.
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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 ~_________
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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
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kb
Races Will Be Run
8
BIG
8
E\er\ Other
Events
SUNDAY
The Hard-tops Will Race EYery Other Sunday