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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1957)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957 8RQ0K1NGS-HÀRBQB T h e B r o o k in g s -H a r bo r PIILOT for what it 's worth P IL O T CLIFFORD ROWE AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER N A T IO N A L s 4 z { Q lT O tiA l 1 A sib ct A I 1 ON N IW P A M I P U B IIIH IK A S S O C IA T IO N Enter*-. I s<< < nd-cl»s- m a tte r a l t! <• p u s to ffire at Ftrooklnga, Ore M arch 7, UM6 under an A r t o f M arch 3. lM7a Ray Pisarck, Joe Murphy . Editori and I'ubliihrm SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Y i. in A d va r.it i in C u ir y County» One Year in Ad mce (outsiil*- C u rry C ou n ty) S3 00 J350 COLD RUSH DAYS T here a re num erous and encouraging indications that the m in e ra l developm ent of this a re a may be n e a re r to reality than a lot of us think. There is nothing concrete to rep o rt at this tim e, but neverth eless a m iniature "Gold Rush of 1849" seem s to be taking place in Southw estern O regon, and N orthw estern C alifornia. A C rescent City p ap er reported that a total of 114mining claim s w ere filed in Del Norte county during tha past month, many on the Smith R iver. O ther claim s have been filed in C u rry County d u r ing the p a st few m onths. R um ors a re preveiant In C rescent that a firm is locating a reduction plant th e re . We certain ly a re n 't in the new spaper business to re p o rt ru m o rs, but it is evident that the atm osphere for m ineral development seem s unusually high. We know that there is still plenty of chrom e mining being c a r ried on in this rugged country. We know that engineers have been up on Mt. Emily again, snooping around. We know that big hunks of pro p erty has been optioned in the Red Flats a re a , presum ably for the nickel content. We know that in neighboring Josephine county, n ear Illinois Valley, there is plenty of action in the co re d rilling on nickel d eposits. Wc know that to the north sampltn of coal are being taken out of the Eden Ridge p ro ject. We know o f sev eral people that have talked about people wanting to lease prop e rty for th e ir m ineral rig h ts. Nobody, it se em s, has any doubts that this country contains a large amount and v ariety of m in e rals. Everybody seem s to b e lieve that the m in erals are fairly low g ra d e —but new methods of processing and new types of reduction ce n te rs have made feasible the development of low grade o re s in other regions. It seem s obvious that the only reason that th ere has been little developm ent before this Is the lack of adequate tran sp o rtatio n . It can work both ways, however. We feel that it m ust be evident, that if a sizeable m ineral concern did come into this region, then the tran sp o rtatio n would n ec essarily follow. We ju st don't think that it will be too many y ea rs before the mining industry in this a re a will be a potent one. If anybody has any ideas on how we can speed it up—we’d be glad to hear from them. *********************************** SKETCHBOOK IUD NttlfK It is difficult to rea lize that th ere is any n ec essary activity existing today which does not have a form al organization sup porting it. Of late, though, I have becom e aw are of the need for one m o re. Fitting action to the thought, I now announce the form ation fo the SEIC, the Soc iety for the Elim ination of Idio tic C ustom s. M embership is op en to all who are not opposed to change. N aturally in o rd e r to be con siste n t with the purpose of our organization, no dues will be a sse ss e d , thus elim inating that idiotic custom before we s ta r t. In fact, no money will be re q u ir ed. C ertainly as founder andpr««- sident, I do.not expect a sa la ry (Unless the m em bership insists), with the resu lt that with finances m issing from the p ic tu re , even the office of tr e a s u r e r can be d iscard ed . As founder of this much need ed so ciety , I will from tim e to tim e bring before you m a tte rs dem anding of attention. Member becoming aw are of idiotic custtmt which need extinction a re also urged to a s sist by making them known. This week I want to bring up toi co nsideration an idiotic custom which has far outlived any u se fulness which it may have ev er p o sse sse d . I re fe r to the in tro duction of sp e ak e rs at public gath erin g s. This custom has be en given so much in creased a t tention and tim e that it begins to th reaten the very existence of that which it was created to a s s is t. The harm ful asp ects a re , I am su re , apparent to all. They in clude the po ssib ility of the In tro d ucer giving a longer talR than the sp eak er; o r the introducer giv ing the speechof the speaker; 05 w o rs to fa ll, the intro d u cer being so lulled by the sound of his own voice that he forgets the sp ealer en tirely . From this date hence, loyal m em b ers of SEIC when faced with the task of introducing a sp eak er will adopt the following form ula "L adies and G entlem en, D r. Raven Rant will now speak on the subject 'P etunia Culture among the E skim os' That will be all; no m ore, no le s s . How e v e r one should be on the a le rt for any possbile shock to the principal sp eak er. Being allow e d the p rivilege of utilizing all the tim e originally p ro m ise htn may be to much to b ea r. P ossible the next step in the so c iety 's cam paign may be to el-, im in ateth e m ain sp eak er as wdl It seem s that ev ery truck d riv e r I m eet gives me d irty looks, and I have never been able to figure it out. A pparently we wrote an ed ito rial a few weeks ago, proclaim ing the need for caution on the North Bank Chetco road, because of the traffic which is quite fit ret this su m m er. However, ail the truck d riv e rs got the idea that we were picking on th em —which was far from the ca se , as I p erso n ally feel that m ost truck d riv e rs make th e ir living driving while the re st of us a re s tric tly am ateu rs in the field. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ *♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The I’ll O f like so m any '-th r sm a ll town n ew sp ap er a • ■«! w ith the age oid prob, m o m aking an honest bu k mil to g iv e its r e a d e r s a to p n o teh ’P;li ! r went into actio n by sw e ping out t h e old outm oded m ethod o! i tte ip r* and anv up with a n w and Ivetter m ethod, ra ile d "O F F S E T S in c e its in stall;» lio n n.anv p a p e rs all o v e r th ■ontrv have w ritten th I'll OT Most d riv e rs will tell you that the w orst accident hazard in the county is the Sunday d riv e r, heading up the R iver road ju st looking at the p retty sc en ery . We ce rtain ly have no q u a rre l with m ost of the truck d r iv e r s —although they would be the firs t to adm it t h a t th ere may be a so u r apple in every b a r r e l. « M * t* tttt« * * * t* * tO * * 4 * * * * O tt« t Frankly, 1 have a lot of sym pathy with: One. The rock c a r r ie r s who has to slow down to a reasonable speed, while the chance o f his making a buck o r two depends upon how many trip s he can make each day; and Two. The Log truck d riv e rs , who m ust com e down the C h e tc o , and make that h o rrib le turn onto highway 101. Those d riv e rs would be quite justified in making city, county, and state officials make one tr ip —and one turn with them around that bend. Then, undoubtedly, th ere would action in pushing through that p r o posed cut-off. Like one d riv e r rep o rted Monday. "Things will go on this wav until somebody loses a load of logs on the highway, and somebody gets h u r t." 1 haven't been able to work up much enthusiasm o v er the firs t annual excursion to Bird Island. Where a re these people that made th* Oregon Trail tre k ? What about the g rea t weste rn pioneer s p ir it? Go West young man. Our main purpose on the island, would be, of co u rse , to investigate those flickering yellow lights people have been reporting seeing on the big rock. We got a chuckle out of the draw ings Tuesday night at the F air P rin c e ss spaghetti d inner. One of the top p riz e s was a bicycle, and it was won by Hank Houvila. Everybody in the place c o u l d imagine Hank riding the bicycle down Chetco Ave. The top p rize was a beautiful H i-Fi se t--a n d was won by M r. R oberts, owner of the Robe rts B ros. C arnival, which was in town when the g irls w ere selling tick ets. R oberts bought $10 worth of tic k ets. BACK CURRY CO LOG CUT TOLD Log production in the sta te of Oregon for the calen d ar y ear of 1956 was 9,335,810,000 .board feet, according to figures that have ju st been com piled in the office of State F o re ste r Dwight L. Phipps. This is 384 m illion board feet below that of the p r e vious y ea r and nearly half a b il lion board feet below the banner y ea r ot 1952 when the all tim e reco rd cut of 9, 802, 471,000 ,f was reached. C u rry County Cut 387,222,000 was 9th highest in the sta te . Douglas countv was in the leac in 1956 with a cut of 1,776,297, 000 board feet of tim b er, with Lane county next in line with 1, 107,384,000 board feet. Lincoln and Coos counties were the onb two additional counties which r> - ported a cut of slightly o ver the half a billion board foot m ark. In the breakdown of production by land ow nership, the rep o rt in d icates that the national fo re st of the state provided 1,876,000,. 000 board feet of tim b er while the Indian rese rv a tio n s produced 163,038,000 board feet. By fa r the g re a te r cut cam e from the p riv ate lands of the sta te . The exact amount cannot be determ ined since Bureau of Land Management cut is includ ed. but it will closely ap p ro x i m ate six billion board feet. State F o re ste r Phipps pointed out that his estim ate of the log production has no relationship to the lum ber production of th* sta te . He indicated that som e o f the tim b er had been p ro ce ssed ii Washington m ills while a lim ited footage of logs may have come in to the state from both C alifornia and W ashington. DODGE SCHEDULES ADS IN 3,700 NEWSPAPERS Dodge has scheduled ad v ertisin space in 3,700 of the nation's daily and weekly new spapers to back its "m ost agg ressiv e Sum m e r sa les p ro g ra m ", aceordin to W. D. Moore, d ire c to r of a d v ertisin g and m erchandising. M<x»re said display ads runnin from th ree to seven colum ns in size would be used in the o m p - aign which runs for a 1 0 -wee',-, period extending through Septen- b e r. The firm will spend m ore than $1,000,000 on th«- p ro g ram , including radio and television to supplem ent the new spaper c a m paign. Based on the theme "Y ou're paying for a new c a r-m a k e sure you get o n e !", the selling p ro gram is designed to take advan tage of the growing m a rk e t for c a rs in the Sum m er and Fall s e a sons; to m aintain sa les m om en tum built up through the firs t half of the 1957 model y ear; and .o m eet heavy "p ric e" campaign? by co m p etito rs, Moore said. Mr. and M rs. C. A. S peer, and daughter, M arilyn, o f S acram en to, are visiting M rs. S p eer's m other, M rs. Ethel Jack . M r. Speer will do som e deep - a fishing. M r. Speer is em ployed i an a irc ra ft plant. They will be leaving here the la st of this week. NEWSPAPERS ARE THE MERCHANTS BEST ADVERTISING BUY
