BROOKINGS-HARBOR P I L O T
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1957
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Ray Pisarek, Joe Murphy
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S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E S :'
C'ne Year in Advance (in Curry Countyl
One Year in Advance (outside C urry County)
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This Is Newspaper Week
This is National Newspaper Week, and if we tend to boast a
little just now perhaps we may be indulged. For the newspaper,
which regularly devotes itself to bring news and the interpreta
tion of news to your homes, has a message of its own. We b e
lieve that message worthy of some attention.
The American newspaper occupies a unique place in the world.
Its freedom to print is guaranteed by the Constitution. It h a s
been considered from the beginnings of the Republic and from
even before that —an essential instrument in the lives of th e
American people.
Its basic purpose has been and always will be the same: To
tell the happenings of the day. Here the function is to try to place
the facts concerning these happenings in perspective to g iv e
them meaning in the light of other events, past and present.
It has other Important purposes—to serve as a medium f o r
advertising, to entertain and amuse, to serve as a public forum.
You may, and undoubtedly do, on occasion become discourged
with your newspaper or even become angry with it. Yet it is an
lndlspensalbe item for intelligent living, and in more cases than
is generally realized it is the most constructive and most educa
tional item in a fam ily's existence.
Where newspaper are free from government restriction, a s
they are in the United States, you are free to select the reading
m atter of your choice. You are privileged to have a voice of p ro
test. You are favored by having news of Importance about y o u ,
personally, collected, verified and presented in readable a n d
understandable form delivered to your home each day or week.
The newspapers of America set aside this week, th e r e f o r e
to call attention to the services they perform . But more than
that they set it aside to remind themselves and their readers of
the obligation they owe the American public.
It is their constant hope that the reading public will continue
to trust the integrity of their services. It is their constant e f
fort to maintain the standards which have made this nation, more
than all others, a nation of newspaper readers.
National Newspaper Week, therefore, is not an occasion for
self-praise by newspapers nearly so much as it is an occasion
for self-appraisem ent. It is a time for newspapers over the land
to rededicate themselves to the trust placed in them by the vast
intelligent, progressive and enlightened American public.
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local News
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Archie Hendricks was in the
city over the weekend, attending
to business here. He was to re
turn to Portland this week.
Miss Neva Moore of Corvallis
was an over night guest of Mrs.
Ralph Reed. They are old girl
hood friends. Miss Moore has
been an employee of Greyhound
for fifteen years.
Mr. and M rs. Sam Gott drove
to McMinnville the past week
with their daughter, Joy, who is
in her second year at l.lnfiek
college there.
M rs. Tom Doherty anti Judy
S a d l e r an d Mary Gail Smith
drove to Klamath Falls over the
weekend to attend the student
conference held there.
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Mr. and M rs. Myron Guerney
of Coos Bay visited with Mrs.
G uem ey's s is te r, M rs. J. C.
Jaggers the past week.
Mr. and M rs. Bob Phillips
returned Tuesday from a vaca
tion, visiting r e l a t i v e s and
friends in various p a rts of the
country.
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CLIFFO RD ROW E
NEW SPAPER
PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
FOR 1957-58 SEASON
Final program dates were
set for the 1957-58 Community
Concert se rie s, according to
the Brookings chairman, Mrs.
C. Ed Dempsey.
Membership cards are to be
mailed by M rs. L .E . Bailey,
se c re ta ry -tre a su re r, as soon
as they are received from the
printers. About 150 people in
Brookings hold memberships.
The first program will be on
Tuesday, October 22, w h en
pianist Ozan Marsh appears at
the Del Norte County Fair Pav
11 lion in Crescent City. Mr.
Marsh was a sta r student of tht
great Dutch pianist Egon P etri,
and Emil Sauer, and was one of
the last pupils of Franz Liszt.
He is making a phenomenal
rise in the music world.
Members are asked to rem em
ber that the concerts for this yea.
only will be held at the Fair
Grounds Pavillion instead of tht
Crescent Elk school where ex
tensive repairs art* being made
to the auditorium. The program
with dates of each is printed on
the reverse side of the Member
ship cards.
FIRST LITTLE THEATRE
MEETING ON FRIDAY
The initial meeting of those
interested in organizing a Com
munity Little Theatre group
will be held in Room 5 at the
high school on Friday, Oct. 4th
beginning at 8 p . m .
Up to now, I have taken the
advance of civilization in stride,
Certainly I have never been one
to harp on the good old days or
to oppose chance lust because it
was change. Rather I have sin
cerely endeavored to go modern.
However, just last week I was
dismayed to learn of one innova
tion which had taken place with
out my even being aware of it.
My ignorance was undoubtedly
due to the fact that of late I had
not been accompanying the good
wife on her weekly shopping ex
pedition for groceries.
At any rate, I discovered that
a definite move is on foot to
eliminate the butcher as a public
relations man. Actually they
are putting him behind glass
where he can still be seen but
certainly cannot be heard. And
that is my complaint; for in my
humble opinion, a butcher with
out his public is as frustrating
as confining Marilyn Monroe to
head shots on TV.
I do want It known that I didn't
gripe when the grocery clerk
disappeared f r o m the scene.
I soon discovered that the r e
quired search for cleverly hidden
merchandise g a v e m e much
needed exercise as well as an
outlet for an exploring instinct
which had long lain dormant.
Furtherm ore, clerks had never
established themselves as dis
tinctive personalities anyway.
Now, alas, 1 find the meat all
wrapped, labeled, priced, and
piled In properly refrigerated
receptacles while In the back
ground, peering out through the
glass longingly, is the butcher
busily engaged in cutting, wrap
ping and marking. And all the
while that public, which once
was his, goes on its way ignor
ing him within his enclosure.
Truly, the mighty have fallen.
The lady of the household as
yet has made no complaint, but
somehow I sense a hidden sorrow.
No longer can he proudly dis -
play a slab of bacon as he extols
Its m erits and convinces h e r
that he has fought off the mob to
save for her this particular cut.
So I'm afraid our better halves
are going to miss the butcher.
He could always be depended
upon to reinforce their egos by
saying those nice things to them
that hubby was always forgetting
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AT THE ALLEY—we find one insurance man with a b o w lin g
shirt with "Smiling Charlie" neatly embroidered on the back. It
serves to bring cries of "Smile Charlie" from the opponents if
he m isses a pin or two.
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IN THE WOODS—We understand that Erenchie Arrell and son
Je rry nailed their bucks with only one shot apiece, which is n 't
bad for a couple of amateur hunters. They report that it sound
ed like a war was going on over in the Steen Mountain country at
the opening of the season. Another hunter we know that has a
sporting goods store here claimed he missed his buck because
of a gun sight that wasn't lined up. And yet the poor guy s p e n t
hours and hours lining up sights for just about everyone in town.
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AT THE GAME—Coach Cal Pace watched his Junior Varsity
squad get run over by Port Orford. The only difference was that
the Port boys were mainly juniors and seniors, while the Brooks
were almost all freshmen, with a few sophomores. This is Port
O rford's first season with the sport, and they looked pretty’good
but with about a 20 pound weight advantage per man almost any
body could look good.
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ALONG CHETCO AVENUE--Our illustrious mayor, hiz honor
Fell Campbell just isn't the proud type. He has had his m o d e l
A Ford pick-up out on the s tre e t, riding around just for show
Apparently the good mayor doesn't want to take his later model
vehicle over the streets, considering the lack of paving.
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WITH IHE BRAVES—Bill Hammond drove back to Milwaukee
this week, but said that he wasn't planning on taking in any of the
world series games. Hummm. He'll have to visit the games if
he wants to visit anybody there, or do any business, because it
is apparent that most of the city will be at the game. We'll pick
the Braves to win the world series in three games.
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FOREST TREE SEEDLINGS
AVAILABLE TO PLANT
A b o u t 3 1 /2 million foresi
tree seedlings will be available
from the Oregon Forest Nurse
ry for landowners to plant this
year, according to Louis Oester
County Extension Agent.
Because of the great demanc
in Oregon for these seedlings a
limit has been placed on the num
ber an individual can purchase.
Last year the supply of trees
was exhausted a few weeks a f
ter the first orders were taken
The limit this year on Dougla*
Fir will be 50.000seedllog*pet
person.
The limit on other species
varies from 1,000 to 5,000.
WANTED:
AIRLINE AGENT
21 to 35 years old
2 years of college
or equlvllent required.
Must have experience
dealing with the public
Personal Interviews
only. 10 to 3 at Del
Norte Airport
SOUTH WEST AIRWAYS
FOR RENT
Unfurnished
2 bedroom modem house
In Brookings, close in,
near school. Phone 3102
The business analyst frequent
ly attempts to develop capsule
summaries o f total economic
activity. There are nearly always
dive rgent trends within our total
economy— in both good and bad
tim es. It is, therefore, not always
simple to determine which trends
are most worthy of consideration,
thus the task of capsulizing is
difficult.
A few intriguing statistics, how
ever, do serve to inform us as to
where we have been and give us
clues as to where we are. T he
Department of Com m erce's nat
ional Income se rie s is one sta t
istical exhibit which provides an
over-all evaluation of business
a c t i v i t y . This series includes
Gross National Product figures
(the value of all goods and service
produced). In the second quarter
of 1957, GNP was running at an
annual rate of $434 billion, 5 1/
% above the second quarter of 1956.
Both wholesale and retail prices
have been steadily climbing dur-
the past year. It is estimated
that about one half of the year-to-
year increase in GNP, since it is
measured in term s of dollars, is
accounted for by price changes.
Still, even when measured In
term s of constant dollars the
GNP continues to show signi-
icant gains.
Some industries are not doing
as well this year as last. The
home building, non ferrous me
tals, paper, textile, meat pack
ing, steel and railroad Industrie!
for example, show lower oper
ating levels than a year ago.
O th e r industries, however,
show an improvement in opera
tions compared with last year.
They include the electric utility,
industrial and public construct
ion, retail sto res, petroleum
electrical equipment, shipbuild
ing, food products, coal, mach
inery, and office equipment
industries.
Onbalance, it is apparent that
those industries whl"h are doing
well more than offset those which
are lagging. Thus, in the aggre
gate, our economy continues to
move ahead.
A consensus of economists
would seem to indicate that the
over-all level of business act
ivity’will continue during the nexi
few months at an even keel.
Consumer income and spending
are at record levels and still
r i s i n g . The depressed farm
economy seems to be picking up
and farm prices have been run
ning about y e a r-e arlie r le v e ls
for the past 15 months.
Business s p e n d i n g for new
plant and equipment, although
leveling out, remains at 6^ ahead
of last year, and retail sales
are also 6% about 1956 levels.
Employment in August rem ain-
ed at record levels and unemploy
ment continues low .
New housing starts in the month
of August jumped above a one
million-unit annual rate for the
first time this year and appear
to show’ continued improvement
in September.
Measured optimism is emana
ting f rom Detroit on auto industry
prospects after introduction of
the 1958 models.
The business scene is review
ed weekly by the Research De
partment of J. Henry Heiser &
C o ., Investment Managers, wltl
offices in principal West Coast
cities.