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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1971)
Frog jumping contest billed at Mt. Hood CC I T he fam ous A m eric an w riter, Samuel Clemens, more commonly known by his pen THE Sandy Post name of M ark Twain, gave birth to the frog jum p when he penned the famous story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” over 100 years ago. On M ay 5 M t. Hood Com Peggy Flemming with Ice Follies great w ay THE M T. HOOD PLAYG RO UND S A N D Y . O REG O N , T H U R S D A Y , A P R IL 29, 1971 munity College w ill re-enact the original frog jum p at the Fourth Annual Frog Jumping Contest, to be held at noon in the college m all. Contestants are urged to bring their own frogs - any frog is eligible as long as it ’s body size is at least 3>*> inches long. The Circle K Club, sponsor of the event, w ill have about two dozen frogs on sale at $1 50 each for those who can’t catch a frog I C A t j T A G >et£ THAT of their own. BY: N E L L HOW E glow worms were made . i ' i , B Never did figure out why the ESPEC ia ll '»' F O R T W E The winning frog and jockey I decided for the benefit of all B I R O S T H A T G O hum GO v sinks were so high Even the will receive a $25 cash prize, the newcomers on the moun A T W ie > H T adults usually stood on and their names w ill be in tain, that a trip down memory something. Can you conceive of You'll agree that at scribed for ever on the Frog lane about the area would all the dishes that were used Jump's plaque on campus. be interesting. Also interesting Sandy Rexall Drug every day, three times a day. According to G ary Horger, to the few of us that are left everything is done to All that cooking, all those Circle K president, the winner from way back. please you, the service cookies, cakes and pies. And will be eligible to send his frog At the end of the Welches is courteous and when the pigs were butchered to the world famous “ Frog road, at one tim e there was one friendly. The values and they had all that fresh lard Jum ping J u b ile e ” in of the most interesting hotels in are excellent. then the big treat of all, Calaveras, Calif. the area. Back in 1910 it was homemade raised doughnuts The contest is open to the known as Hotel Maulding, also S& H Green Stamps covered with both powdered public and in past years has for some years after that. Clackamas County and granulated sugar. drawn over 50 participants, Known to us, who spent every Bank Money Orders M y mouth is watering all inclu d in g a re a citizen s, summer there, as the Tawney Pay Station for over my typewriter. It is a part students, M t. Hood staff and Hotel. It was run by M r. and TH E OLD T aw ney H otel that burned down in 1913. P.G.E. board of education members. M rs . F .H . T aw n e y. W hat of my childhood that I will long West Coast Telephone mush, one always old fashioned remember and can always say E n try blanks are available at wonderful people they were. wood range were used to boil all Northwest Naturai Gas the w h ite things before oatmeal, that had been cooking were certainly the good old 50c each from the Circle K Club The Hotel, as near as Gene on the back of the stove since days. No m atter where we and the Student a c tiv itie s and F ra n c is T aw n e y and washing. Then it was all hand SANDY the night before with bacon, liv e d , Idaho, O regon, or Office at M t. Hood prior to the myself can rem em ber, con ironed, with a sad iron. Most of h am , eggs, frie d potatoes, C a lifo rn ia we spent every jump. sisted of about 15 room s. the food was grown right on the r J 1 toast, jam , coifee and m ilk or summer at the Tawney Hotel, Bring a good jumping frog, Outside on one side of the hotel place. Beef and pork were L / b u tte rm ilk . H and skim m ed Then when Jennie Welch built give him a good name, and join were either 10 or 15 tent houses. ra is ed th e re plus a ll the aio eaocToa Avi-sANor.oeiooN erosa cream for your cereal, that was her cabins, w e continued the fun on M ay 5. T h a t’s exactly what they were. chickens. Cows were milked so thick you had to spoon it out coming up here every summer Wooden sides about head height twice a day and all the m ilk put of the pitcher. I gain pounds and every other year spending with canvas roofs and window into the m ilk house. All the butter for the hotel was hand just thinking about it. the winter also. covers. W hat’s more they even churned. Sneaking into the root cellar, On M a rc h 26, 1913 the leaked some. Another chore we clamored ORDER BEST SEATS TODAY! and getting apples, or just Tawney Hotel burned down, It seems to me, if I can re m e m b e r c o rre c tly , th ere for was picking wild black sneaking into smell the m ar- The new one was sta rte d velous smell of all the fruit and almost imm ediately and was were a couple of cabins in the berries for pies. Homemade bread and all the potatoes. open for business in 1914. The back. Can’t rem em ber whether they, were rented out or for canning that went on was a s tro n o m ic al and most fam ily. H om em ade You entered the Hotel into a g astro n o m ica l. huge living room that had a sausage, that had anything large fireplace and a wide beat that you can buy, and staircase going to the upper home canned pork that was out of this world. floor. In the sum m ertim e the tables ANO N IE ! In the spring and summer T H E 6JOP.LD there were always flowers or in the dining room were full for , FAMOUS 5 K A T E R I every m eal and sometimes greenery of some kind in huge , , . vases in the room. Large < *°P le were w aitmg their turn. At least once a week Grandpa comfortable furniture. There Tawney would catch enough was one rental room off the living room with two double fish to feed the whole crowd. beds and this was the room my Out of the Salmon river, yet. Native trout. fam ily always rented for the y??- Such meals you have never summer. seen and w ill probably never From the living room you even hear of again All this entered a massive dining room. cooking done on the largest Down each side of the room kitchen range I have ever seen. were tables that seated 12 to It covered one entire wall of the each table. It seems to me there kitchen and had at least four were at least 6 tables down ovens. All those marvelous each side of the room. At the pans, wonder what became of opposite end of the dining room them. was another fireplace. There were always cookies I can rem em ber, when we for the younger set. Huge sugar PORTLAND MEMORIAL COLISEUM would stay up all winter, of cookies that we would smell no com ing down sta irs and For g ro u p sales in fo rm a tio n p h o n e 2 35 -87 71 m atter how far away we were T IC K E T S : C o liseu m P o rtla n d (2 3 5 -8 7 7 1 ), S teve n s A S on-Lloyd C tr. & S a lem dressing in fro n t of the and we would appear in tim e to M e ie r A Fran k -D o w n to w n P o rtla n d , L incoln S a vin g s A L o a n -B eave rto n fire p la c e before going to get them fresh from the oven. school. No heat in any of the P R IP F C S H IP S T A D S & J O H N S O N CHILDREN'S MATINEES The smell of fresh baking Sat May 1 5 -2 :3 0 PM rooms, and did that fire feel All Seats Reserved ICE FOLLIES OF 1971 Sunday May I S - « : 00 PM bread, the waiting for the heel $5.00 $4 50 $4-00-S3.501 MAIL ORDER AFFLI CAT I OH (DSSP) 16 Yrs. 6 U n d er- % Price good. Each room supplied with with a big slab of homemade a basin and p itc h e r and Please Enclose Stamped Self Addressed Envelope for Return of Tickets. Send no cash! butter and jam on it. Tastes All erders should be addressed to: Ice Fellies, P.0. Be« 2746, Portland. Oregon 97208 naturally the good old thun- that can never be forgotten, or Enclosed is a check □ money order □ totaling $__________ in payment lor _____ adult dermug. returned. tickets at $_______ each and________ children's tickets at $_ _____ each. Please make There was a bathroom off the The fun of twisting the gut for the above charge to my "BankAmericard" my # is:------------- living room which you almost the homemade sausage, of SIGNATURE___________________________________________ (for •BankAmericard'' Only) needed reservations to use. It w atch ing the pigs being MAKE CHECKS OR MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO: ICE FOLLIES had the bathtub and all. May 11—8:00 pm •Sat May 1 5 -2 :3 0 pm □ Tue Picture all the beddings in scalded, of feeding the horses, CHECK May 1 2 -8 :0 0 pm Sat May 1 5 -8 :0 0 pm □ Wed PERFORMANCE G RANDM A TAW NEY on th e H otel porch. those rooms and cabins and and being especially fond of the M ay 1 3 - 8 00 pm Sun May 1 6 -2 :0 0 pm □ Thur DESIRED old gray one named Nell, •Sun May 1 4 -8 :0 0 pm May 16—6:00 pm □ Fri then re a liz e th a t a ll th at Walking down the clothes line . _________ •CHILDREN—16 Years and Under-HALF PRICE Sat 2:30 pm and Sun 6:00 pm lau n d ry was done in the swayback and all Eating the washhouse w ith a hand 0815 foT the 1hors“ ' and checking the bags of cot- NAME AOORESS operated washing machine. We cooking them for cereal in to go cheese draining. Standing c m 6 2IP_ -PHONE- on a high stool and helping with kids used to beg to run the fo r o ffic e u se o nly Breakfast was two kinds of the dishes. washing machine. Peggy F le m m in g has achieved the im possible dream .” She is the only ice skating star of all time to make the successful tran sitio n fro m am ateur status - she won the only Gold Medal for the U S. at the last Olympic Games - to star in her own netw ork The old Tawney Hotel is a mountain memory UzxíZ ____ h« MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED NOW 1971 SHIPSTADS^JOHNSON & with special guest star TUES., MAY 11 thru SUN., MAY 16 new one is the one I remember, however, my folks and brother came up during the life of the old one. This story will be continued next week with a look at some of the people who stayed at the Hotel and some of the com ments they made about their visit and their travel in the area. Also there will be more pictures. Continued next w eek. Kurtz leaves college G eorge K u rtz , assistant business manager at Mt. Hood Community College for the past three years, is leaving for a post at the new Rogue River C o m m un ity College in Roseburg. He w ill be replaced, subject to board approval, by Bob Scott, currently director of a u x ilia ry services at th e college. K u rtz w ill be business manager at Rogue River. He was an instructor at Pacific University before coming to M t Hood Scott, a graduate of Oregon State, was assistant business manager at Oregon College of Education before coming to Mt. Hood He has been here for four years. television Speicals - both of w hich have g arn ered e x tra o r d in a rily high view ing audiences And all at the same tim e, she has been appearing as the Special Guest Star with the Ice Follies. She returns to Portland when the show opens a 6-day engagement at the M em orial Coliseum, M ay 11 thru M ay 16. Headlining the show, which is a salute to Americana this season, is Richard Dwyer, in his 21st y e a r as “ The Debonaire.” Snoopy, Charles Schulz’ life like character is the surprise attraction—cavorting around the ice in an attempt to achieve skating stardom. All-American sets and music are featured in this 35th Ice Follies season. Tickets, priced at $5-$4.50-$4- $3.50 are available at the Coliseum Box Office, Stevens & Son, Lloyd Center and Salem, Meier & Frank in downtown P o rtla n d and a t Lincoln Savings & Loan in Beaverton. For group sales, phone 235-8771. Pipe rem oved Plumbing pipe valued at $270 was reported stolen April 22 from a constuction site at 16030 SE Alder, according to the sheriff’s office. T H U R S D A Y N IG H T SPECIAL STUFFED BAKED PORK CHOPS 2 /*4 FISH ( CHIPS 2 / ’3 N o w o p e n 9 a .m . S u n d a y s . T.J.s F IR E S ID E D I N I N G SUMMER-IZE Spring In to Summer Now In A CARLSON CHEVROLET Our even; Low Overhead Price*, that were in effect during the past 70 day Chevrolet Sales Contest are still in effect. Our selection is larger and so are our trade allowances. W e S e ll a n d W e S ervice Free Snow Tire Removal - Free Brake Inspection with Our Special Front End Alignment. 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