B r o o k in g s-H a rb o r P ilo t
B r o o k in g s, O reg o n
T h u rsd ay, D e c e m b er 6, 1 9 5 6
’ done mechanically, and were well written—both basic County, Inc. is located in the
Budding, and is
elements of a good newspaper. She was a strong enough Johnson-Hurst
ihe 2bih oitice of tne Credit
person to print what she thought was right, regardless Bureau System , which operates
«.nrougnout urego.i a-.u
BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT
of consequences, and we respect this in a newspaper. \\ e oiueuus
Idaho. Francis W. Smith, tn>
Oregon bank debits, reported
AN IN D E P E N D E N T N E W SPA PE R
never doubted her sincerity, or the courage of her con company president is also at p*e- for October, were $1,729,803,012,
.. ...
adutiHdi P resident of tne an increase of 2.8 per cent over
N A T IO N A L
E D IT O R IA L
victions—hut only her premises.
N E W SPA PE R
Associated Credit B ureaus of Septem ber of this year and on in
PU B L ISH E R S
Well, that’s all over. We want to lx: among the first ..iiiv iau , representing over 30<Ju crease of 11.2 p er cent from Oc
Credit B ureaus in the United tober of 1955.
I
ASSOCIATION
to wish Mrs. Sh.iw arid her husband, Dave all the best
-o
Lu.iujd, i ne local
J
Bank debits, regarded as good
in the’r new' life in Eugene where he will be teaching office is equipped w ith the files indicators
of cu rren t business ac
bu*lt
over
tn
e
years
from
th
e
mer
E n te re d as second-class m a tte r at the postoffice at Brookings, O re
law at the University of Oregon.
chants of this area. C redit Re tivity, represent the dollar value
M arch 7, 1916, under an Act of M arch 3, 1879
and Collections will both of checks draw n against the de.
Too, our lx*st wishes goes out to Mi. and Mrs. Van porting
ue naod.e i by «.ne C redit Bureau posit accounts of ind-viduals and
Leer, who are moving in the Reporter offices. We know Rapid checking of references business firms. The B ureau of
Ray Pisarck, Joe Murphy
of this area can be handled B u n e ss Research at the Univer-
they have a lot of work ahead of them—and like any out
Editor» and Publisher»
through its state and nat.onai ity collects bank debits from 152
banks and branches mnothly.
business—a certain amount of grief. We assume that be affiliations.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
O ctober bank debits in the
cause the Pilot and the Reporter are, in a sense, competi
One Year in Advance (in Curry County) ................................. $3.00
Douglas, Coos and C urry counties
tive, we may have a disagreement occassionally with Em blem Club Sale
area, showed a decrease of 5.4 per
One Year in Advance (outside Curry County) ..................... 53.50
cent from October of this year
them. This is only natural because through the columns To Start D ecem ber 14
and an 18 3 per cent increase over
o f our respective newspapers the ¡xople of Curry county
The Brookings Emblem Club O ctober of last year. Total bank
become informed. It is a very serious business with us— w ill have a candy and g-ft sale debits for the area, w ith 12 banks
along w ith a rum m age sale, reporting, were $54,577,841.
, startin g December 14, through
Who will we fight with now? Our colleague to the and will be, we assume to the Van Leers
Again, we want to wish them the best in their new U -cem oer 15, in the H urst build Mr. and Mrs. Calvin F oster and
north, Editor Wickes Shaw has sold her Curry Countv
ing.
son Stevie of Junction C ity w ere
venture.
Reporter in Gold Beach to Boh \ an Leer of Eureka.
The sale will sta rt a t 10 a.m '
Bank Debits Up
In This Area
The PILOT
WHO WILL WE FIGHT WITH?
each day. All th e candy and gifts
W e feel like a puglist, whose arms are waving wind A c c o r d io n B and
Sm ith River stu d en ts partici will be donated by the Emblem
pating F riday w ere B etty Lou club members.
iniil fashion, only to find that his opponent has stepped P lays in P rogram
and Lester Leiber.
out for coffee.
The Brookings-H arbor student
The Dave C rockett Accordion
of
p articipating G et \ o t e From M amie
It is imjxtssihle to sit in our offices and say like a band of Sm ith River and Brook w ere Mi. Alice C rockett's
Sm ith, Linda Vernon,
ings-Harbor
played
for
two
co”
hypocrit that Mrs. Shaw was our dearest friend in the certs last F riday, Nov. 30 in the Taom a Sanders, Joy Salmon, M ar C arrie M aude Metzgus, a long
Longacre, Marilyn Hover, time resident of Pistol River,
newspaper field. We can’t help hut think hack at the Langlois and P o rt O rford publ e C ianne
urtis Nelson and W alter Biddle. celebrated h er 90th birthday re
cently. She received a congratul
many, many times during the past two years that we’ve schools.
atory note from Mrs. Dwight D.
Mr. C harles Jensen, music in
battled it out in the columns of our respective newspa stru cto r for both system s called L ocal C red it B ureau
Eisenhower on the occasion.
pers. Mrs Shaw had a completely different basic concept an hour long all grade general M an ag er A p p o in ted
assembly in the Langlois school
of the community newspaper field than we have, and before which this group played.
A ppointm ent of Vern Casey to U nit to M eet
consequently we disagreed vehemently on many occa A I ke general assembly v a be M anager of the C redit Bureau The December unit m eeting of
sions.
Despite all this, ami despite our somewhat strained
relations following the last election we do want to say
that in many ways Mrs. Shaw was a very competant
newspaper woman. I ler issues of the Reporter were well
also called at the Port O rford
grade school w here the band
group was very well received
While in P o rt O rford Mr. Jen
sen favored the group by asking
them to sit in on the high schoc.
instrum ental band class in the
m id-afternoon.
•
I
of C urry County, Inc. was re-
ceived th is week. Casey, a veteran
of the U. S. M arine Corps, has
been em ployed w ith the Credit
3 u .e u S ys- m as A ssistant Man-
ager of th e Credit Bureau of Med
ford, Ore.
The Credit B ureau of Cl{rry
the Brookings Unit of
tension will be held a t
of Florence Davis, 330
on Dec. 12th at 1:30
program is “C arried
There will also be an
of Christm as gifts of $1
Home Ex
the home
Maple st.,
p.m. The
Lunches.”
exchange
valuation.
w eek end visitors in the A
Foster home.
O.
Mr. and Mrs. M iller of C orvallis
are visiting at the home of Mrs.
M illers son, A lbert R ichards and
fam ily of Brookings.
Mr and Mrs. George Funk
retu rn ed from two trips l a s t
Wednesday. Mr. Funk traveled by
bus to San Francisco, and then by
plane to Chicago, to check on th e
shipm ent of his lily bulbs. He
retu rn ed by air, ju st before his
wife, who went to P ortland for a
visit.
Farm L oan s E x p la in e d
Provisions of the new farm
operating and developm ent loan
program for farm ers w ho h ave
part-tim e em ploym ent off th e
farm w ere explained this week
by Wendell L H arris, th e F arm
ers Home A dm inistration county
supervisor for C urry county.
He said th a t although the
main purpose of these loans is to
help farm ers who live in areas
designated for th e ru ral develop
m ent program , th ere may be
other farm 'rs having part-tim e
em ploym ent off' th e farm who
may be eligible for operating and
farm developm ent loans.
To be eligible the applicant
i m ust be of legal age, a citizen
of th e United States, unable to
get cred it from o th er sources and
have had farm experience or
train in g sufficient to indicate
reasonable prospects of continu
ing successful farm ing operations.
He m ust be an established farm er,
conducting substantial farm ing
operations and six .d : ; r. ; j,
portion of his tim e farming. The
a p p ’leant must have a dependable
source of outside income.
The loan ap p lican t’s farm must
be of such size and productive
capacity th at th e expected in
come, plus th e income from part-
tim e em ployment, is sufficient to
pay farm operating and living ex
penses, pay debts, and provide a
reasonab e reserve for emergen,
civs
The county com m ittee will
determ ine th e eligibility of each
applicant. Ray Zum w alt, Louis L.
| Knapp, and Donald T. Crockett
I an He members of the county
F arm ers
H 'm e
A dm inistration
com m ittee
The office serving C urry county
is located in Room 210 Post Office
Building. Eugene, and is open
M ondays through Fridays. Mr.
H arris may be contacted at the
• County A gent’s office m Coquille
th e th ird W ednesday of each
month.
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