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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1947)
Always For A More Progressive Brookings-Harbor Area! THURSDAY, MAY 29. 1947 BROOKINGS. CURRY COUNTY, OREGON TU’O, NUMBER TH IRTEEN ■Day Festival To S tart re Posts To rve Memorial Friday A. M. Queen Joane 1 Invites You To Come! 1947 Azalea Festival Begins With Street Dance Friday Evening, Closes Sunday Three Dances, Carnival Concessions, Barbecue and and VFW To Joint Service; To •mble At Hotel Coronation Will Entertain Festival Visitors day each year, reminds [endenhall Jr., commander ro Post. No. 138, Ameri- pon. is set aside for use thought to Ihose who attd given their lives th at r.tiy may continue united the remaining veterans,” i’mued. “who have worn Btm’s uniform, humbly ask join us in homage, this ¡al Day, hallowed by the ps vour kin have endured 1 ¡al i ng as there remains one ¡live, so long will he ask I ¡neighbors join him in the fa', n of a few moments j ”• ry. each May 30, fori rho have passed on, and, ask. this Memorial Day. ! b meet with us and join re^.ng our solemn appre- j to those comrades who pne on before.” Ben and women who have i any branch of the serv- any time, are asked to R in uniform, if possible, t' not, come - anyway) at mplar hotel, Brookings a t m Memorial day. Scouts are especially in- [The march will be to the Park, where eommemor- frvices will be held by the tod auxiliaries of the Vet- °* Foreign Wars and Am- Legion. ion Poppy Sale >rt Published -I Plans are completed for th e :S u n d a y . A combined choir of all 1947 edition of Azalea Festival, churches will sing for the occa- to open F riday evening with a sion. carnival and street dance on the A basket lunch for those who street between the high school care for such, is planned for all and Azalea P ark. The carnivals at noon. Sunday. will open a t 8:00 p. m. Then a t | ffuMies W ill Have Game». Show nine, the GI Band will sta rt the Sunday afternoon at the park, dance. the kiddies of the area will en- Saturday P rogram Full joy a pet show and various types S ta rtin g a , 11:00 a. m. Queen k-am.-s. F o r the m ore erudite Joan,. 1 will be crown Azalea and ’ P o r t a m ind**-,» Festival Queen at the Park, n e a r gam e has been scheduled for the Ihe "overlook" will, Boh Perkins high school „ Ih le lir held , . (W as m aster of ceremonies. A color- P m betw een Brookings A ll-stars lul coronation program has been and a I n-M.-n I i y i a . worked out. w ith M arshall Dana, > <-r Miow Open Sunday, Too e n d , o f Oregon Journal. Port- H it visitors who like ,o view land crow ning the queen, and 'h e floral show of this area the giving a lalk W ith high school G arden Club flower show will re- glee c l u b furnishing the mu- m“ ‘" “ Pen a l' <’»>'• 5T:,. S ' d e ^ X n “ e6 f S “ ma"ked t h ^ 'm n ^ r g 'e o u " . "w ikT haw g" bargecue held t h i s t,f hI1 shows ever to be i 1 n“ held u in this section of ____ the siatv. year in the open area, just . l)e- Queen Joane I, who will reign over the land of the Azaleas a t the festival beginning tomorrow evening, extends a cordial invitation to everyone to come and enjoy the extensive festiv ities planned for the three day celebration, .May 30, 31, and June 1. “Brookings Azalea Festival in 1947 will be just a preview of those to be held in the future," Jone told friends this week. “I t is my hope th a t everyone, regardless of where they live, will tak e advantage of the three-day Mmorial Day week-end and came to to a spot w here the sea breezes are cool and invigorating. People from elsew here in the state, especially those sections plagued by h eat and drouth, will find rest and refeshment at the seashore.' no report at the tim e this W ith h er court, composed of princesses from other C urry ioes to press from th e Poppy- saje sponsored by county high schools, as well as Crescent City, will reign over the ‘ nans of Foreign W ars, affair’ which begins w ith a street dance Friday evening. Saturday learned that th e L e - , d 603 poppies, for a to tal m orning will see the coronation at Azalea park, a free barbecue a t noon, flower show in the afternoon. Queen Joane, a fte r ma • ?J'gina Haggerty, in re- ing h er choice, will officially open the flower show at 2 p. m. The ' ‘”l the Pilot, gave this Queen s banquet and ball will take place in the evening at the lent. ’he department for H arb o r G range Hall.. poppies ordered at Religious sen-ices, w ith all churches aiding, will he held a. J i*r 1000 ..............$25.00 th e park. Sunday morning, with the festivities end,ng w tth the « the proceeds a fte r r;-ng cost 25.07 children's pet show and races in the aft, in..on. w disabled n o c per C arnival concessions, which will be composed of food bnotta. for liM7 mem- , u ro m»v be enjoved. have been planned . •—-..... ............. 3 60 and o th e r places w here fun may ne enj fo r "midway.-- the road between the park a id the high .Choo. fmi’ted to depart- ’ headquarters ........ $53.07 AH these are under supen-iison of H enry Horst, and are being ^ ‘x ‘!ary> in charge of the e st.b l.sh e d by all th e organizations of the community w .sh in , to and Saturday, wishes 'he Boy Scouts, girls all others who helped h ’ VtB o y X ? u n will have charge of parking at the festival, and . »ale as successful as w,U also seli souven.r b u tto n s adve g to be. Many d ig n .t.n e s f r o m ^ a n o u festivities. ,*Ver> minute of the P o rtlan d and Salem, are expected to he present ea Festival. fore entering the picnic area. W ith the queen and h e r court j being served first §o the court may go to the high school gym, i w here Joane 1 will m ake the 12 Baptized In Chetco River, Sun. •Queen’s Choice” at the flower -------- show. She will officially open this w ith E lder S tre v e r of Gold part of the festival a t 2 p. m. Be a ch supplying for J. J. Doll- when she cuts the ribbon at the ¡nger, whose wife is critically ill, door. twelve people w ere baptized up Queen's Banquet at Grange Hall the Chetco river at the O stenburg In honor of Queen Joane 1 and place Sunday, by the Seventh her court, a banquet will be held Day A dventist church. Those be at the G range hall, beginning at ing received into the church m- 6 d . m., when the festival asso- eluded: elation and guests, totalling 150 Mr. and Mrs C larence Over- or more will be present. Served man and daughter, Anita, John by ladies of the L a tte r Day Saints Stiver, Audrey Itew m an, Eunice church, this banquet will begin and Neil Scott, Janice C hristen prom ptly at 6 p. m. to perm it sen, G eraldine Bulis, Richard the hall m anagem ent to ready Adams. Je rry Marsh and Merlin it for the Q ueen's Ball, to sta rt Crook. im m ediately a t 9 p. m. | ~ " o ld Tim e Dance Billed, Too Q u e e n ’s B a n q u e t T i c k e t s For those who care for old „ , . D eD O t tim e dancing in preference to the I Ml ?>aie A l r»U. P0 modern another dance will be Tickets »0 of them, for the held at the I O. O. F. hall at Q ueen’s Banquet, to be served a t ih ‘ same time T .ckets bought | H arbor G range hall, will be on at eith er place will be honored ¡sale today a t the Bus Dapo at the other. L arry Pinson and when Mr. and Mr». T. S. Abbott his orchestra w^ll furnish the will make reservations music for this dance while the .Tins there is a lim it on the newly-form ed GI band will fur- num ber which can be served at X h the music for the dance at this banquet, it must he remem- h5.ll bered t h a t “first come, first Limches w.ll be served at both served.” Reservations m u . t be Lun " made for this affair. P resen t at dances, it was announced. The m erchandise, gifts of the the occasion will be M arshall of Oregon Journal. Festival Association, will 1 m - g i v - Dana, ------- - editor ---- - rcM ivni . | the court, and members of the " r ^ S L e f t t of Ihose attending | A zalea F e .tlv a l asaociat.on. e ith e r dance, the queen and h e r court will divide her time be tw een both dances. Religion» Service» Sunday A. M. W ith all churches taking some p art, religious services will be 'h e ld in the park, a t 11 a. m. p p move to th e ir new residence on th e cem etery road, about June 15. They have taken th e ir home off th e m arket, and have rented it it to Mr. and Mrs. C. Stoakes. i
