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SANDY. OREGON, THURSDAY. MAY .’1. 1953
VOLUME 15
Women Prove Real Competition In Trout Derby
No S tr a w b e r r y
F e s tiv a l This
Y ea r In S a n d y
Single Copy 10c
Child Of Former
Sandyites Drowns
In Canyon ( reek
There will definitely be no Funeral services for Toni
Strawbery festival in Sandy this i Lynn Henning, 4'a year old son
year, and unless some extremely of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dewain
unforseen action takes place. : Peve, will be held tomorrow,
there will be no berry festivals j Friday. May 22, at the Sandy
Baptist Chapel at 2 p.m. Rev.
in the coming years.
Members of the Sandy Chamb Arthur Skogan will conduct the
er of Commerce, after sending service. Chapman Funeral Home
out cards to farmers in the area of Estacada is in charge of fun
Interment
and conducting an informal poil eral arrangements.
among other citizens of this I will be at Sandy cemetery.
The child was drowned in Can
area, reached the conclusion that
yon
Creek at Canyonville, Ore
the festivals were no longer serv
ing the purpose for which they gon last Sunday, May 17, about
7:15 p.m. He had been playing
were originally intended.
near the stream, which runs be
Began In 1949
The strawberry festivals be-1 hind the house where the fam
gan in June of 1949 and were, ily Is living, when he presumably
held for four successive sea-1 slipped and fell down the em
bankment onto the rocks be
sons. One of the complicating low
and was swept down the
factors in holding the festivals
The body .was recovered
was that they would come at a creek.
time when pickers were inusi, about 9-15 p.m. that evening.
Hugh Peve, the child’s step
needed in the fields. And since father,
was employed in Sandy
one of the reasons for having for a number
years by Mur
the festivals was to publicize the ray & Scales of
Lumber,
Bright
berry industry here and attract
Logging, and Alvin Eri
more pickers, the result was a wood
to leaving the area last
paradoxical situation which can prior
celled out one of the original fall. Mr. and Mrs. Peve plan
to move back to Sandy in the
motives for the annual event.
near future.
Grandparents of the child are
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Seigal
of Sandy, and Mrs. Winnie
Maude Henning of Troutdale.
Sandy Pilot Safe
I.t.
la m es
W. (h illu n
Sandy Jet Pilot
Escapes Death In
Tangle Of Planes
First Lt. James W. Chilton
from Sandy, pilot of a jet F-8-1,
suffered slight facial burns in a
triple air crash which claimed
seven lives in Germany.
The crash occured over flat
farm country, 40 miles south
trout 12 inches or over. Ester Lymp, also of
Excellent fishing on the Salmon river
west of Frankfurt during a for
(Mt. Hood) was enjoyed by Martha Krebs
Wemme, caught a 15 and 10/16 incher. Both
mation flight exercise, when a
of Wemme, as evidenced by this catch of
the larger fish were entered in the Mt. Hood
group of about 18 C-119 Flying
Rainbows taken recently. Sizes ranged from
Lions Club Trout Derby.
Boxcar transports lumbered into
7', inches to 15’« inches, with five of the
Photo by Walt B’.aisdell.
the path of 16 speedy F-84
(News of service men from
Thunder jets.
Sandy and the .Mountain area
Lt. Chilton and three crew
will be printed in "Sound Off” !
Dedication Sunday For
members of the cargo plane
each week. Relatives or friends
Rhododendron Gardens
of servicemen are urged to ]
bailed out but all suffered In
juries.
send, phone, or bring to the J
At The Ranger Station
office of The Sandy Post any I
The young pilot is the son of
By Mrs. A. B. Bradley
information concerning local
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Chilton,
The much-heralded dedication
men and women who are now
Mrs. Edith S. Green will be of the Wy’east Garden club’s
Services were conducted Tues Sandy. He is a graduate of
The annua! Poppy day in com a member of Uncle Sam’s
commencement speaker for the new rhododendron garden will
day, May 19, at 1:30 p.m. for Sandy high school, where he was
memoration
of
war
dead
will
fighting forces at home or Mrs. Henrietta Catherine Bitt a basketball and baseball player.
1953 graduating class of the take place on next Sunday. May
be held this Saturday, May 23. abroad.)
Sandy grade school.
ner who passed away Friday He spent a year at Oregon State
24, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.
Twenty-five million poppies
A 3C Robert W. Thompson of morning, May 15, at a Portland college before going into the air
Mrs. Green attended the Wil Place, the Zigzag Ranger station
will
be
ready
for
this
sale,
Mr«.
Rt. 2, Box 294, Sandy, has re. hospital, after a long illness.
lamette University and received grounds. The forest service and
force five years ago.
her degrees from the University | the Garden club are co-operating Minnie Reed, chairman of the cently been assigned to the Hq Mrs. Bittner was born April
A short visit was made with
of Oregon. Graduate work was jin this project; the forest service local auxiliary, estimates. Dis 28th Air Base Group at Rapid 16, 1902 in Antwerp, Holland his parents in October of 1952
abled
veterans
who
make
the
City AFB in Weaver, South Da and had lived in Sandy for many enroute from Korea to his base
taken at Stanford University. gives the grounds and a good
memorial flowers from crepe
He is a member of th e 1 years,
where her husband. with the 49th fighter air bomb
i deal of the help in landscaping paper have been working for kota.
Strategic
Air
Command.
Rapid
,
Frank,
operated
the Bittner Plug group in Germany. •
i and so forth; the Garden Club is months to complete the huge City AFB is the home of the
A telegram from their son was
1 providing the money, work, and supply ordered by Auxiliary giant RB-36 Reconnaissance Bom Mill until two years ago, when
1 many of the plants themselves— units for Poppy day distribution. ber and is under the command they sold their interests and received by Chilton’s parents in
¡Sandy confirming the fact that
moved to Waldport.
I about 165 blooming size actually
The poppies will be on sale
Colonel Ariel W- Nielsen. The She is survived by her hus I Ills injuries were not serious
in the garden, and many more locally Friday and Saturday of of
is located near the famous band, Frank, one daughter, Mrs. I and promising a letter this week
still in the nursery across the this week by members of the base
Mount Rushmore memorial in Clark (Elinor) Howard, Port i with more details.
highway. Still others have been Legion Auxiliary.
Hie he.ut of the Black Hills of land; a step-son, Arnold F. Bitt
promised, but no more planting
South
Dakota.
ner and one step-daughter, Mrs.
can be done until fall. Many of Memorial Services . . .
* • •
Dorothy F. Warson, both of Se
the plants are now blooming.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Bob Keck, BM3e USN, arrived attle, Washington; one brother,
Everyone invited
will hold memorial services at home Thursday of last week to Henry C. Swerver, Coos Bay,
All mountain organizations the Sandy cemetery on Memorial
a 30 day leave with his formerly of Molalla and Oregon
have been asked to the dedica- Day at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 30. spend
By Mrs. A. B. Bradley
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack City; a sister, Mrs. Otto (Marie)
, tion ceremonies; also the gen
George
Beckwith of Bright
Keck of Rt. 1, Eagle Creek.
Motejl, Sandy and one grandson,
eral public, other garden clubs,
wood won first prize for the
Bob
has
completed
a
2‘s
year
Sandy
Hijih
Graduate
i
Dennis
Howard,
Portland.
and flower-lovers everywhere.
tour of duty in Korean w aters! Holman-Hankins-Rilance fun week ending last Sunday, in the
The complete program for the Elected To Honorary
aboard
the aircraft carrier Ba eral home in Oregon City were Lions Club Derby. His prizewin
Twenty-two
University
stud
formal dedication as announced
taan.
At
of his leave he in charge of arrangements and ner was a 20 inch rainbow trout,
by the Wy'east Garden club pres- ents have been elected to the will report the to end
Kodiak,
Alaska for burial was in the Mountain View weighing 2 pounds 814 ounces.
highest
scholastic
honorary
■ ident. Jo Drips, is as follows:
It was caught in Clear Creek
cemetery.
which the University gives, Phi duty .
Program
• • •
with
eggs. The prize was an
Invocation—Rev. Thyra Strand Betta Kappa, this week. They
She was a teacher in the Salem
automatic
reel.
PACIFIC
FLEET
IFHTNO
—
will be initiated May 20.
Antique Shop Opening
and Portland public schools and , of the Chapel of the Hills.
Second prize went to Dean
Taking part in “Operation Sea-
No
members
of
the
senior
Song
-
-The
Sweetest
Story—
a former legislative chairman
Warren of Portland, for a 17%
jump,” a large scale amphibious! Set For This Saturday
for the Oregon Congress of I Chapel choir, led by Roberta class were considered for mem training exercise off the coast
Jennie
Welch
is
opening
her
inch
fish weighing 1 pound 15
Parent Teachers. She is now ' Gadwood and acompanied by bership who had an accumulative j of Southern California, is Alan new Antique shop on Welches ounces. It was caught in the
grade
point
of
below
a
3.38.
Dorothy
Hansen.
doing public relations work for
on Saturday, May 23. It is Sandy with eggs. The prize was
Among those students selected L. Gunderson, seaman, USN, a road
the Oregon Education Associa Speech of Dedication—Jose
beautiful
little building, with a plastic fly box.
son
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Alfred
Gun
for membership in the honorary
phine Drips.
tion.
a
fireplace,
filled
with antiques— Walt Blaisdell says that he
derson
of
Sandy,
Ore.,
serving
Acceptance by the Forest Ser was William S. Harris, son of aboard the radar picket destroy glass, copper, brass, some furn saw two fish caught that were
Graduation exercises for the
Mr.
and
Mrs.
W.
H.
Harris,
61 students will be held Wed vice—James Langdon.
iture and rugs—which she has bigger than the second prize
er USS Ernest G. Small.
nesday evening, May 27, at 8 p. Talk—Lloyd R. Olson, Super route 2, box 40, Sandy.
been collecting for a long time. winner, but the fishermen ne
The
climax
of
the
exercise
visor of the Mt. Hood National He is a senior in chemistry at will be full scale land assault Shelves everywhere are full of glected to register for them.
m. at the Sandy grade school.
the
University
and
is
a
gradu
Forest.
by amphibious forces supported beautiful things. She is also There weren’t many fish turned
Bids Due This Week On
Talk—Mrs. L. W. Franks, of ate of the Sandy Union high by air units and helicopters showing modern gifts, for birth in this week, and that is too bad,
Redmond, president of the Ore school.
Snag Removal Project
landing attack forces, against an days or anniversaries, for those as the prizes are worth while
gon Federation of Garden clubs.
"enemy" entrenched at Camp who do not care for antiques. and every fair-sized fish has a
North Of Brightwood
Talk— C. I. Sersanous of Port
Pendleton, Oceanside, California. The lot on which the shop is chance to win.
A snag felling project, affect land, president of the American Scout Court Of Honor
Will Be Held Sunday
Guilt is nicely graded, with some
Lucky McKenny of Govern
ing some 50 acres of burned-over Rhododendron society.
flowers in front. Landscaping ment Camp wasn’t so lucky
forest lands north of Bright Introductions
May
21,
At
Dodge
Park
of
various
will be done soon. Next month though, this week. He had a
wood, has been announced by friends of the Rhododendron
A Boy Scout court of honoi
Mrs. Welch expects to begin her fish 17 5-8 inches long which
the Bureau of Land Manage Garden, by Jo Drips.
will be held Sunday afternoon
new house, which will adjoin missed getting the second prize
ment. Final date for the receipt
May
24,
at
Dodge
Park
in
con
Musical Benediction, Bless this
the shop. Later on, she will by Just 1-8 inch.
of bids will be 2 p.m., PST. May Ground—Chapel
junction
with
the
Scout
Camp-
Choir.
probably give lessons in rug
Only two more weeks to go.
22.
At a meeting held recently at making at which she is an ex so everybody get busy and win
Benediction—Father William oree of the Thunderbird district.
Prospective bidders met with Delplanche
Sandy
scouts
who
will
receive
the
city
hall,
the
Mt.
Hood
soft
of St. John’s Church.
one of those prizes.
Everett Meier, forester for the ' Wemme.
second class badges will be Bob ball league elected the following pert.
Bureau, at the Brightwood post
Community Song—God Bless Berglund. Jack Weitman, Ace officers: Butch Pullen, president;
office at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. America—Chapel
Choir and as Koch, Billy Bigelow and Danny A. C. Baumback. vice president;
May 20. for a field trip to the sembled guests- -Led
Otto Schneewind, secret ary-t reas-
by Dotn McLean.
snag area in order to familiarize
George Sponsler, teacher at urer. On the board of directors
Ruffatto,
principal
of
Welches
interested parties with the loca
the Sandy grade school, is Scout are A. Calkins. Fred Emil and I
tion of the area and conditions ' school.
master for this ¿?roup. A1 Can Roy Allen.
that will have to be met.
non of Cannon Hardware, is Teams will be sponsored b y '
Open House Held This affiliated troop chairman and Brightwood Logging.
Sandy j
Saturday By New Case Ralph Richardson of Richardson Super Service, Allens. Erickson
Chevrolet, is advancement chair-1 Machinery and Supply, dealer,
Dealer West of Sandv
for Massey-Harris. Summit Lum
The new Case dealership in man.
ber Co. and a group of Sandy
Baccalaureate services for the this area will be Faubion & Sons,
Merchants.
high school graduating class will located just east of the Clack Self-Service Laundry
A jamboree will be held Mon
be held this Sunday evening. amas County line on the Loop Opening This Week Is
day evening, June 1. League play
May 24 at 8 p.m.. at the high highway in Orient. The Nelson A “First” For Sandy
will start Tuesday June 2 with
Farm
Machinery
company,
school auditorium.
Rev. Clare Bishop will have owned by A1 Jensen and Clar Sandy's first self-service laun each team to play three innings.
the opening prayer; Rev. Arlan ence Siefer, formerly the Case dry opened this week in the lo
Berglund will give the sermon; dealers at Sandy, sold their in cation across from Meinig’s Oregon Postmasters To
Rev. Forrest Forbes Will have terests to Faubion & Sons.
formerly occupied by Mt. Hood Convene May 22 and 23
Open house will be held at the Cleaners.
the scripture reading, and the
The annual state convention of
benediction will be given by Rev. new dealership this Saturday.
Owner and manager of the the Oregon branch of the na
May 23rd. with free picture new business, named the Sandy tional league of the district
Arthur Skogan.
Selections by the Sandy high shows and refreshments. The Selfservice Laundry, is Ray postmasters is to be held In
school choir will make up the latest in Case tractors will be Boone who also has the self- Bend on Thursday and Friday,
The fourteen students who received straight “l ’s” for this
on display
balance of the program.
service laundry at 12 Mile Corn- May 21 and 22, with headquart
six weeks |ierliid are, (from left to right) In row 1: freshmen,
Commencement exercises will
Faubion & Sons will sell and er.
ers at the Pilot Butte Inn.
be held next Thursday. May 28th service Case machinery in this
Boone has had several years
Many advance reservations are David Winchester, Tom Gamble, Bill ( amlell, Marion Marsh
at 8 p m. at the high school. For
be the experien« ?e In the self-service in and all Indications are th a t1 and Jenean Mills; second row: Florence Krebs and Gary Gaulke,
a full page of pictures of the
and "LA” laundry field. "I’m looking for- a very large number of Oregon sophomores and Ken Meyers, Clifford Sander and Doug Kam-
1953 graduates of Sandv High.
hydraulic ward." 1 he said, "to being in Postmasters will be in attend low, juniors; third row: Lotus Darnell, Rita I pdegrave. Bar
bara ( lark and Beverly Johnson, seniors. Byron Edmonds Photo
in Sandy.”
ance.
SOUND OFF
Eighth Grade To
Hear Edith Green
At Commencement
Mrs. F. Bittner
Rites Conducted
At Oregon City
Legion Auxiliary
To Sell Poppies
Friday, Saturday
George Beckwith
Winner Of Week
Soft Ball League
Schedules Games
Starting June 2
They Made Highest Honors
Baccalaureate To
Be This Sunday
NUMBER 21
Banquet Date
Set M ay 29th
For Farmers
Invitations went out this week
io farmers in the Sandy area io
attend a "banquet and social
evening” as the guests of the
business and professional men
of the City of Sandy.
Date for the occasion is Fri
day, May 29th at 7 p.m., in the
Sandy grade school, auditorium.
Top caliber entertainment has
been promised for the evening
and literally "no expense has
been spared” to assure the finest
of dinners. Food preparation will
lie done by ladies of the Eastern
Star.
This Is Important
In order that preparations
•‘•ay be mau«- tor the proper
number, those who receive in-
, in
w ill!
the invitation which states
•hey will or will not be able to
attend the bampiet.
Hue to arrangements that
must la- made, reservations
will be held only for those
Kuests who mail the cards say.
¡ng they will be present. Mail
'•'K <>f the cards by return mail
Mill be greatly appreciated by
Ihe committees in «barge of
preparations for the banquet.
Sponsors Next Week
A list of the sponsors of the
dinner will be published In The
Sandy Post next week. The com
pleted list was not available by
press time yesterday. Between 30
and 40 sponsors are expected to
participate in the event.
Pow-Wowers Plan
Costume Party
At Zigzag Inn
’
— - —•••-j vuatui
Jt ans, ginghams or any d
will be acceptable. Fifty c
out of each ticket will gO
ward the resusitator fund '
is something that has I
needed in the mountain area
»ave lives. The mac
Mill be stationed at the Rai
Station in Zigzag, for the us
any who may require it at
time. An urgent invitation tc
to accept a pleasant evet
Mith a fine smorgasbord tc
served at 11 p.m. and at
same time assist in a r
worthwhile project. Tickets
be available from Ross Fanri
Larry Pendergrass, Sr., i
Zimmerman, C. A. Wyman
Ed Marckx in Gresham.
Sandy you may purchase tic
from Robert Medley, Ivan B
er. Jess Hite, Robert Smith
Vic Bowman.
Mrs. David Howe is In charge
of al. tickets from Brightwood
to, and including Rhododendron,
fo r Timber line and Government
Camp, A. L. Greenwalt will have
tickets available.
Larry Pendergrass will be the
Master of Ceremonies for the
evening and stunts, games, danc
ing and a general good time will
be enjoyed. Please help out this
worthy cause and at the same
time have a glorious time with
the Pow-Wowers.
Erickson Machinery &
Supply Open On 82nd
The new location of Erickson
Machinery & Supply was an
nounced this month on S. E.
82nd street at Sunnyside roaiL
one mile north of Clackamas
Partners at the new location are
Norman Erickson and Ronald
Krebs.
Erickson has long been a
Massey-Harris farm machinery
dealer and is well known in this
area, having had a dealership
just east of Sandy and another
in Gresham.
Krebs Is in the lumber hauling
and logging business at Sandy,
and is a former member of the
city council here.
Lutheran School Holds
Graduation On May 25
Graduation exercises for the
Lutheran school Is scheduled for
the 25th of May at 8 p.m. at
the Woman’s Club hall. Rev.
Schuldheiz of Shefflin. Oregon,
who is also a member of the
district board of education, will
be the speaker.
The nine graduates In the class
this year are Lulu Clark, Sharon
Gehrts, Curtis Isakson, Barbara
Neumann, Dick Huhmann. J o
anne Richter, Lawrence Logan,
Ernest Schwartz, and
Jack
Weatherby.