Thursday, August 1, 195
BROOKINGS— HARBOR P IL O T
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year in Advance «in Curry County)
One Year in Advance (outa.de Curry County!
THE VALUE OF THE TELEPHONE..................................................
The recent fire up the North Bank Cheteo road has vividly
brought home a point which has become increasingly evident
during the past few years—that i s - t h e value of a telephone.
Obviously little could ever be done towards the inclusion of the
up-river country in any typ‘- of a fire protection district until a
telephone 11m- has been installed. We know that other emergen
cies exist in the many homes up the Cheteo, 3uch as a need for
a doctor, or an ambulance. We even feel that the lack of phone
service may be keeping people from building home there.
We are Intelligent enough to realize that the West Coast telephone Co
Is a business Just like any other firm —and as a business it must
look into such things as investment and profit. And that is, of
course, the reason why no such line now exists. It remains ev
ident that despite the fact that the phone company is also a public
service , they Just aren't about to build a line up the river until
it can pay for itself.
It seems so logical to any observer that it is just a matter of
time before more homes are built up the beautiful Cheteo river,
because of the paved road, and because of the healthy increase
in boating in the area, and too, because of the general populat
ion increase in this region.
Because all of this is so logical— we would like to petition the
West Coast Phone Co. to begin planning for the extention of the
line up the Cheteo, in the Interest of safety and in the welfare of
the inhabitants of that wonderful area.
Our voice is a small one, but we would suggest that, if the
people living up the river are really Interested in phone service
that now would be th« time to begin making noise to the W e st
Coast people, while the embers are still glowing from the l a s t
fire--and before the next one.
WE HOPE THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT KNOW..........................
We sincerely hope the highway department know«just what it
is about, in adding a third lam- to the Cheteo Avenue, leading to
the bridge from Oak street. This third lane is to be a "climbing
lane", ami as such is sorely needed by the many log trucks which
must make that steep grade to the top of the hili after turning in
from the North Bank Road.
Our concern, however, is with the other <1 rection. Ineffect
the third lane will bring the three lanes into a two lane bridge —
and a narrow two lane bridge at that. Many local people, includ
ing some with contracting experience have viewed the third lane
with some alarm . It could be dangerous.
We’d be foolish to sugg«-st a new bridge, or the elimination
of th<- 'elimbing' lane--but we hope that the highway department
conies up with something that won't be hazardous.
WORK IN SCHOOL PROGRESSES
Just because the youngsters
are having a vacation doesn't
mean that th«- Brookings-Harbor
school is deserted this summer.
Supt. ofSchools Gene Allison
reports that the old gym has .been
completely re-flnlsh«sl. Aisotht
grade school was painted inside,
and floors In two classrooms In
the grade school were replaced.
Everything In id 1 the* schools 1
Everything in all the schools
has been re-finished.
Thermostats were put in the
high school building. The high
school grounds were made ready
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to landscape, and that p r o j e c t
will be done as soon as the two
specialists come to term s.
SCHOOL TO START ON SEPT^i
The Brookings-Harbor school
system will get into gear again,
on Tuesday, S«pt. 3. There
will be a full day of school on
that day.
Registration will be held on
the week prior to school starting,
and It is planned now to e n ro ll
the Plywood youngsters earlier,
as many of the Plywood people
will be on vacation during th e
regular week.
SKETCHBOOK
IUD MSAIK
'Jfc' ' i'>» . s l*ictur«xi
f
this week are the many
unsuccessful volleyball teams
that chidlangi'd the ELK ALL-
STARS at the annual picnic last
Sunday.
A favorite history teacher of sing into limbo of long black
stockings and the harness onewas
mine in high school was noted
among the students for his re- required to wear in order to hold
petitous usage of the maxim them up.
’ History repeats itself'. Almost
But it was a big day, and I was
any event of our day he could
tie in with a sim ilar one in cen scared stiff. Pushed from tht
turies past which more or less = shelter of my home into thepub-
went to prove that there was 1 lie gaze, I stiffly strutted the
eight blocks to school convinced
nothing new under the sun.
that all residents along the a ay I
Shakespeare took somewhat
had received advance warning
the same tack when he compared
and were now peeking out from
the world with a stage with the ! behind curtains in order to give !
people as actors and depicted
my new breeches the once -over.
the seven acts of a lifetime which
Such is the conceit, or should I
went in a c irc le—beginning with
say self-consciousness of youth
the helpless infant and terminat
ing with the helpless adult who
That was about forty years age
again takes upto himself the
and now I find history repeating
characteristics of his infancy.
itself.With the hot weather upon
1 us and my days confined to the
So is it in the life in any of us ; maintenance of my yard, I ex-
Often we will be confident that i perience an inner crav i ng rnshed
what is now happening has hap I my trousers and to go forth in
pened before. And when this oc : knee pants once m ore—or Ber
curs, itis interesting to observe
muda shorts as they are pop-
our adjustment. Certainly one ! ularly classified.
could safely assume that since
we had handled a sim ilar affair
But do you know, I just can't
before, we would be able to
, do It. .Alter bravely surveying
handle this reasonable facsimile
my knobby knees, my skinny
with efficiency and dispatch. Bit
shanks, and my once proud chtsl
such is not always the case.
I now dropped to my belt, I say
I to heck wit h history and cleave
For instance, one of the few < unto my all-concealing pantalo-
things I can still recall from my I ons, resolved that such a spect
early teens was the donning of
acle as me in shorts should be
my first pair of long trousers.
1 reserved only for those most
This was Indeed adav of emanci
near and dear.
pation, for it also meant the pas
PIPE DREAMS
JOE MURPHY
The Elks picnic was a lulu, with a bright sunny day, plenty
of good means of amusement, swimming for the kids, anil g o o d
barbequed chicken, done under the auspices of the wonderful Rey
nolds, Vic and Elsie. It was too bad, of course, that there was
not enough volleyball stars to give us experts a contest. We only
played about 15 games, which was just enough to convince us that
physically we are now over the hill and ready to take up less act
ive forms of amusements such as thinking. Our hats off to the
champs though, Willy Willey, Happy Chappie Chapman, Spiker
Sam Erb, and manager Paul Eide.
This business of watching the crew working on the jetty seems
to be getting contagious. Half of Brookings is down there now at
times, and I wonder how anything else in town g- ts done. If each
of the people going down to see how they're coming along woul d
only bring along a rock to throw in, we probably have the j e t t y
completed in a few weeks.
We overhead one youngster say on the way home from the pic
nic Sunday that they aren't going to have the sack race because
the man with th»* prizes fell asleep in the shade". At first we
thought it must have been Freddie Fox, but he just isn't the sleepy
type.
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Talk is being made in Crescent City’ about the possibility of
th» Coast Guard ship coming in then as a permanent station. It
would be nice if we could talk them into coming to Brookings in
stead, to get away from that California Sales Tax or something.
LETTER TO
THE EDITOR...
We appreciate your trying to
help us get a new post office
building, but please don’t forget
we have the best of post office
service and wish to keep it.
Friends ot the Harbor
Post Office
BOYfi ATTEND CAMP
Four Curry County boys are
attending the Range Management
camp being held at the Tupper
Guard Station in the Umatilla
National Forest this week.
The boys are Byron Brimm
Brookings, Daniel Colson, Port
Orford, Mike Helmken, Sixes,
and Mike Waterman, Fourmile.
They will spend the entire weel
studying range and forestry
management under the super
vision of the American Society-
of Range Management.
Scholarships for the trip were
provided by Jack Kronenberg,
Bandon, the Vulcan Logging Co.
Brookings, and the Coos-Curry
Electric Co-op.
154 END 2nd
SWIM SERIES
A total of 154 youngsters took
lessons in the second series of
the Summer Swimming program
being put on at Bruce Hole.
Fifty one of the 100 beginners
earned the Red Cross certificates
for completing the requirements.
Nine of 13 swimmers and four
of six in Life Saving completed
the requirements for certificates.
To receive beginner certifi
cates:
Hugh Mackey, Karen Rambeck
Linda Stuart, Jill Stuart, Vicki
Hodges, Chuck Kerr, K a th y
Hannon, John Washburn, Dianne
Hole, Francene Sanders, Corne
lia Schroeder, Jay Schroeder,
Carlton Thomas, Linda Vernon
Rosemary Bonde, Margaret
Hopper, Stephen Cribble, Johnny
Dahlstrom, Jeanne Ostenberg,
Mary Matot, Margie Christensen
Billy Woodward, Tony Smith,
Karen Westeren, Linda Travis,
Jill Giroux, Sylvia Hagen, Skippv
Harvey, Jeanette Hallman.
Sandra Keffer, Everett John
son, Karen Dent, Larry Marks,
Susan Christensen, Dale C hrist
ensen, Marty Collom, Jody
Dimmick, Charlotte Kimberly.
Jim Washburn, Sonja Hagen,
Joyce Geaney, Susan English,
Joyce Glass, Doris M a r k s ,
Jackie Botzek, Connie Swanson,
Claudia Schroeder, Harold Atkin
son, Richard Malcolm, Donna
Thornton, and Jim Miller.
I NT ERM EDLAT E ce rtificates:
Ed Collom, Kathy Huovila,
Wendell Guess, Carolyn Renhard
Jeanette Hedberg, Judy Travis,
Emily Leeds, Ron Kassa, Mer
edith Brown, Jackie K in d e l,
Barbara Dahlstrom, Patty Gragg,
Mike Brown, David Hover, Teddy
Freeman, Fred K a s s a , Jim
Harroun, M ike R o s s , Greg
Jacques, David Brown, John
Rosen, Vonette Johnson, Connie
Freeman.
SWIMMERS Certificates:
Sandra Freeman, Larry Lost-
roh, Clyde Elmgren, Mary Gail
Smith, Neil Berger, Jeff Morse,
Mike Hahn, Larry Formicola,
and Jack Connors.
Junior Life Saving certificates:
Shirley Freeman and Bob McNeeL
Senior LifeSavlng Certificates:
David Moore and Je rry Hahn,
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