Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978, November 01, 1956, Image 5

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    T h u rsd a y , N ovem b er 1, 1956
B ro o k in g s-H a rb o r P ilo t
The PILOT
l rte re d as second-class m a tte r a t th e postoffice a t Brookings, Ore.
M arch 7, 1946, under an Act of M arch 3. 1879
BROOKINGS IIARBOR PILOT
Ray Pisarck, foe Murphy
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.\s a newspaper the Pilot s in a position of being able to
say exactly how they stand on each of the candidates cur­
rently running for election. The publishers of the Pilot
have given each of the campaigns a great ileal of thought.
People have been urging us, as a newspaper, to “come
out” for this or that candidate.
We don’t, however, feel morally obligated to back
candidates hut because we are a newspaper. We G-l that
in several instances noth candidates have equal or near
equal capabilities, and consequently there is no point in
our making a decision to support cither one.
W e have made a few choices. We have decided that
( in some instances the public will lx- better served—and
we don’t hesitate to tell our subscribers that.
STATE SENA I E—Richard Chapman, and fames
bedingfield. both men live in Coos Countv. hut repre­
sent Coos and Curry counties in the state senate. We
hav .net both men during the past few’ weeks, and it
is our opinion that the interests of Southern Currv county
wcud be better served by Bedingfield. Bedingfield is an
attorney, and seems to have a better concept of law, and
its problems. He strikes us as the most personable of the
two. Bedingfield gets our nod on this one.
S I AT E LEGISLATOR—Sam Hall and Carl Back
m NTADS
NOVEMBER 1ST
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davs have made this choice even more difficult. How­
ever, we go along with Ackl y for District Attorney, lx
cause it seems apparent that Fuller didn't want this Dis
trict Attorney office until he was “pressured” into run
ning as a write-in. Fuller had refused the nomination
earlier, and is still on the ballot as Justice of Peace candi­
date. We’ve bad plenty of quarrels with Acldev. but it
is our considered opinion that be would make the k tte r
D’striet Attorney of the two men. We also feel that even
'f all other tilings were equal—we would prefer to string
along with the local man. We have fought for any years
to get Brookings Harbor representation on the countv
court. There is no point in chucking that aside now.
We'll cast our vote for Ed Ackley.
LOW BLOW
IS THE OPENING DATE
for
Holiday House
S P E C IA L IZ IN G IN H A N D M A D E
G IF T S & H O L ID A Y D E C O R A T IO N S
A/onogrcann’ng a n d P r in tin g S e r v ic e
fo r
S ta tio n e r y , G r e e tin g C a r d s
M A Y() R—Ca m p k l 1, S pencer
1 his race has been the bane of the election. We’re sor­
ry that more interest hasn't been taken in the city elec
tion, which is more important to all of us than any other
But. unfortunately, that isn’t the case. We’re going to
string along with Fell Campbell, because we feel that
city is in desperate need of experienced leadership, and
Campbell can provide experience, with over three years
of council behind him. Then too. we have always gone
on rhe assumption that the church and state is best sep
irated. We like Bill Spencer personally, and know him
to k a worker. However, we sec no reason to put the
city in the embarrassing position of having to explain
religion in its politics. We can see a million wavs that
question could come up if Spencer were elected. We
think, further, that even Spencer isn’t enthusiastic about
the race, because of the chur h question. Wc know that
Campbell will work in the best interests of the city as a
whole, and we can talk to Campbell about the city gov
eminent. We’ll put an X before Camnbeb’s name.
1 i*e choice is difficult because we know both men to
he good tlunkers. and we are sure either would do a job
for this area in the state legislature. We are proud to re­
commend San I Tall for several good reasons, though.
One v-e think Hull has an ability to speak to a group—
whic’’ »« necessary on the flcx>r of the assembly. Two,
Hall s back<rr< md in |aw gives him a Big edge, because
law is tip- important part of a legislators work. From a
strictly oersonal standpoint, we like Hall, and he is a
Brookings-Harbor man. it would lx excellent, indeed, to
have a local man representing a portion of the state that
has been long thought of as a part of California. An X COUNTY COMMISSIONER—Roy Brimm, Fred
Flynn.
for Hall.
Of all the campaigns this was the most difficult to
Cf)L N I ASSSSSOR—A1 Mincer, George Sutton.
make an honest appraisal on. We know Brimm to be
We have made our feelings known, very emphatically,
on this one for some weeks. We feel that Sutton doesn’t honest, and we know him to be a hard worker for com
have the interest in the office. Because he “forgot” to file munity affairs. Yet. Flynn is a go-getter too. and is a lik­
able sort of guy. It seems to boil down to this: Our main
we feel that his neglect of the reappraisal program cost
the taxpayers money, and finally we are convinced that interest in the countv government lies in getting news
A1 Mincer, with the proper support from the people will and happenings of that government to the people. Flynn
has pledged his support in seeing that that information
do an excellent job. We’ll vote for Mincer.
is distributed. Frankly, we haven’t always had that co­
DISTRICT ATTORNEY—Ed Ackley, Bill Fuller,
operation from the city government, and so we’re going
rhe storm raised over Ackley’s bead in the past few to vote for Flynn.
This has been a cam paign full of charges, counter charges,
and m isrepresentatations. This has been a cam paign of smears, half
truths—and dow nright lies. N aturally we re sorry to see candidates
1 d -> uch tactics in an effort to w in a vote
The low est blow- of the local cam paigns was stru k las, week in
our com petitive new spaper, the Gold Beach Reporter, when editor
Withes Shaw cam e out with a big blast accusing County Clerk Oleta
W’alker of sloppy bookkeeping, and having a "lack of system ” in her
office.
SELL IT THRU THE
One Year in Advance (in C u rry C ounty) ................................... $3.00
One Year in Advance (out: id? C urry County) ....
$3.50
We moke our choices .
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Women are urged to atten d to
th eir balloting at tim es when
th e ir m enfolk are employed.
All are especially asked to
bring th eir neighbors to the polls.
Who is to Take the Blame
j
In the D em ocratic mouthpiece, the C urry County Reporter, there
was an item of in terest this week. A front page news story told how
Sam H ajj ancj j Ufjg,e Guy Forsyth agreed to “Take Blame for Reap-
! prai5aI Delay .
It is nice indeed th at George Sutton, county assessor, and his
apparent new found friend, Dem ocrat Wickes Shaw, could fine some
one w illing to tak e the blam e for the delay in signing the contract
w ith the state for the rcapraisal program T hat delay alm ost certainly
I or exam ple, the editorial m ade the statem ent th at “lawyer:
and individual searching titles to property, are helpless in C urry coun­ stands to cost the county some tax money. We adm ire Judge Forsyth
ty . lh a t lie is refuted elsew here in this issue of the Pilot by seven out for adm itting th a t he was in erro r on it. It is tru e th at the co n tract
me eight practicing attorneys in C urry county.
sat in Sam H all's office, b u t the point is nobody asked him for it,
Yet, the foulest thing about the editorial is not in the w riting BECAUSE NOBODY SEEMED TO GIVE A TINKER S DAM about it
itself—-but by a picture placed at the head of the editorial which
T here is the m eat of the whole issue. The reappraisal in C urry
shows the cluttered mess which is the county clerks office.
county is com ing—and it w ill still come w hether S utton or A1 Mincer
A little over a year ago, on Thursday, May 5, 1955 th e “ R eporter” is in office. We do,however, feel th a t we m ust make an issue over
Printed that sam e picture before. This is w hat the “R ep o rter'’ said th a t delay. To us it seems only logical and n atu ral th at if the assessor
at that time.
was interested in his office, ho would have been the one to follow
One look at the county clerk's office m ust have been alm ost th a t contract through, to m ake sure th a t the reappraisal program
enough for them (re ferrin g to the G rand J u ry Investigation). In th at would be expedited.
cramped space, built w hen one clerk could handle the county’s busi
The point is, and we repeat is em phatically. Sutton did not do
ness with time to spare, Mrs. Oleta W alker and her two assistants
druggie w ith an ever increasing case load, and legal records th at th at. Sutton did not follow th ro u g h — and th a t cost us, the taxpayer
seem to m ushroom w ith the years. The grand ju ry could sec w ithout money. This is an indictm ent enough.
• explanation that th e re’s no m ore room for the storage of docu­
ments irt the so-called fire p ro o f vault.”
We recognize th e need for a change in the office, and we think
th at A1 M incer has th e capabilities to m ake the change. We know
At this tim e Mrs. Shaw used the picture to proclaim the fact
a'“ tnat C urry county needed a new courthouse. We understand ‘m at th at equality in taxes m ust be a goal—and we are convinced th at
d* 'his tim e Mrs. ¿haw rsked Mrs. W alker to strew some papers Mincer, if elected, will strive tow ards th a t goal.
around to m ake it look cram ped and messy
NOW OVER A YEAR LATER out comes the SAME picture to
°q-Jtt Mrs. W alker's so-called ineffectiveness in nandiing tier olace.
Readers, we would like to point out the f a t, that this is dirty
Politics at its dirtiest. A pparently Mrs Shaw comes from a b i g e r
Y o u r C a n d id a te
where they can get away w ith th a t type of deliberate siar ler, C h o o se
out we feel that in small, friendly com m unities like Gold Beach it
13 an unpardonable breach of ethics.
as Y ou s e e P it
We feel that a great deal of good can be said for both candidates
for the county clerk ’s office. We have had our differences w ith Mrs.
<<Ker, but generally have found her friendly and helpful. We know
B U T , A b o v e AU
Mrs. Dougherty to be* a capable woman, and we can't believe that
•de had anything to do w ith the editorial picture.
V -O -T -E
However, we are alm ost inclined to cast our vote for Mrs. W’alker
just out of sym pathy w ith her because of the foul and u n ju st smear.
ELECT
WARREN
WOODRUFF
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LOCATED BETW EEN
T R A IL E R A N D C E D A R L A N E C A N N E R Y
IN H A R B O R
OPEN LETTER TO THE EDITOR
1
D ear Mr». S h a w :
In regard to your e d ito r ia l last w e e k on
the C ou n ty C lerk s o ffic e , w e th e u n d er sig n e d ,
c o m p risin g six out o f th e s e v e n a tto r n e y s p r a c ­
tic in g in Curry C ou n ty, w ish to sta te e m p h a tic ­
a lly th at w e h a v e n ev er fo u n d o u rselv es to be
h e lp le ss in se a rc h in g title s in Curry C ou nty.
T h e c o m p le te
in a d e q u a c y
of
Mrs.
W a l­
ker s o f f ic e sp a ce, th e lack o f room for file s,
and
th e
alm ost
im p o ssib le
c o n d itio n s
u nd er
w h ich sh e has w o rk ed in th e old Court H o u se
is w ell k n o w — in fa ct w as w ritten up in a very
th orou gh m an n er by your n e w sp a p er w h en you
w ere c a m p a ig n in g for the n ew C ourt H ou se. It
h as a lso b een very c a p a b ly c o m m e n te d on by
the H o n o r a b le D al M. K in g , C ircu it J u d g e , in
last w e e e k s R ep orter.
cu lties
w h a tso e v e r
W e fe e l that an y d if f i­
e n c o u n te re d
in
sea rch in g
title s or a n y oth er m atter or d o cu m en ts in her
o f fic e are ca u sed e n tir e ly by th e tiny, cra m p ed
sp a ce in w h ich th e record s by n e c e ssity m ust be
p a c k e d , th e lack o f a d e q u a te ta b le or d esk
sp a c e in w h ich to sp read out th e record s, and
the a lm o st total
lack o f
filin g c a b in e ts and
sp a c e p ro v id ed for her.
In c o n c lu sio n w e e x p r e ss th e h o p e that the
voters o f the C ou nty w ill return Mrs. W a lk e r
to o f fic e on e le c tio n day.
W e all look forw ard
to s e e in g her in sta lle d in th e n e w C ourt H o u se
w ith a d e q u a te , m od ern o f f ic e sp a ce.
V ery T ruly Y ou rs
• F R E D E R IC H. S T A R K W E A T H E R , JR ..
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