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Nowhere a Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community
Volumi» Four, Number Fifteen.
BROOKINGS,
I
PARK DEDICATION
WILL BE PART ftE
CEREMONIES HERE
CURRY COUNTY,
OREGON
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Brookings School Auditorium
8.00 o'clock
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1919
1 hursday, June 9, 1949
COMMENCEMENT
BILLED FRIDAY
EVE FOR. B. H. S.
According to Leo VanDolson,
! pastor of the local Seventh-Day
Adventist church, Brookings has
raised $1003 at the recent In Processional, "Pomp and Circumstance” .. . .. Mrs. Lloyd Morris
Gathering of that group. The en Invoccation.......................................................... Rev. Nick N. Neufeld
county raised $1406.83, being
Committee Sets Budget tire
"I Passed By Your Window," Broke Lucas
assigned a budget of $1320.
Nineteen Will Receive
For Expendtures of
The money, so raised, will be "Venetia." Kerr Zamecnik..........................
Girls Sextette
Diplomas Friday At
used for foreign missions, and
“Lily Blossom Time”
Salutation, "Welcome".......................................
Ruth Hassett
establishing of hospitals in for
Commencement
eign lands, for which the group Elementary Valedictorian................................
Carol Kay DeMartin
Dedication of Loeb Myrtlewood has become internationally noted.
Rex Putnam, state siqierinten-
“The Sense of Balance
park, by the state federated gar
dent
of public instruction, will be
den club, assisted by Azalea Gar
Solo, "The Gates of Spring," Eric Coates ..
.. Betti Goldizen the commencement speaker, Fri
den club, will be the event of
Valedictorian. “We’ll Always Remember" ..
.. .. Joan Byrne day evening at eight, at the high
Saturday, July 2, first day of
the third annual "Lily Blossom
Introduction of Speaker.......................................
Lynn O. Hampton school gym, w hen 19 seniors will
receive diplomas. Two of these,
• l ime," it was decided at a meet
Commencement
Address
.......................................
Dr.
Rex
Putnam
Richard Barton and James Ro^l-
ing, last Thursday, by the com
!
erick,
are graduating with the
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
mittee on arrangements. This
i class by virtue of proficiency cer
part of the program will be de
The regular meeting of Chetco Presentation of Class ..
Lynn O. Hampton tificates, earned elsewhere.
cided by the state federation.
' Grange was held Friday. County Presentation of Diplomas
(The commencement program,
Mrs. Gladys Kindel
It is said that much of the day Deputy and Mrs. Fred Adams, and
seen
elsewhere on this page, will
will be used by the dedication, Curry County Pomona Master Processional, "The Community Grand March" .. Mrs. Lloyd Morris
be
held
at 8 p. m. at the high
with a basket lunch at noon at and Mrs. C. Phipps, all of Ophir
school gym).
Bruce hole, with speeches, and Grange, and Mr. and Mrs. A. F.
High School Graduates
talks following.
! Randall of Lake Earl Grange,
Raymond Lyle Reekman
Sunday, July 3, will be devoted were visitors of the evening.
Ina H .Payne
to conducted tours of the area,
The newly-organized ladies de
Barbara Mae Stoller
especially the lily fields, if grow- gree team initiated three candi
Ruth Hassett
ess will help with this
"
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function,
dates, Joan Fadling, Ann Blank
Betti Allynne Goldizen
In the afternoon a baseball game enship and Wesley W. Smith in
Marilyn Lee Struebing
will be played at the local dia- the third and fourth degrees. The
E. C. “Sandy” Smead, Radio Announcer, Is
Joan Kathleen Byrne
mond, part of the Rogue Valley degree team was highly compli
Thelma Lee Salmon
Displaying
Valuable
“
Topper
”
At
Chetco
Cafe
League schedule.
mented on the splendid way they
Kenneth A. Janicke
The parade has been set for put on the work.
George Lester Gardner
Monday, July 4. with this pro
Clara Hyland was installed as
No one in Brookings, yes, Curry County would buy a hat for
Gene Noel Colgrove
gram being w’orked out.
secretary as Verna Asche re
Heading the tour committee for signed that office the meeting be- the mere price of $10,000- or any part of it for that matter. How Frederick Eugene Reiling
Phyllis Ann Warnock
Sunday will be Carl Bolin, with ; fore. Earl Carson, Grange repre ever, such a hat exists, and currently is on display at Chetco Cafe
Vernon Theadore Crockett
whomever he may appoint.
sentative on the Lily Blossom and Big Jim’s Tavern, with its owner, E. C. Sandy’’ Smead, present
Vern Robert Garvin
Budget Is Set
Time committee, gave a report
Doyle Elman Rausch
To aid in financing the forth of the progress. He was appointed to give the story of its being.
Fred Johnson
coming festival, tags were print chairman of the Grange float for
The story behind this hat, as you’ll have something to remem Richard Lee Barton
ed. to wear on coats of both men the parade, and he appointed II.
ber me by.”
James H. Roderick
and women, denoting they are W. Weigel, Fred Gustafson and explained by Mr. Smead, cousin
At the fight, the hat was laid
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Z. Smith,
Eighth
Grade Graduates
boosters. Leo VanDolson bought Joe Zumpfe to plan the float.
on a chair, and unknown to Mr.
dates
back
to
1926,
when
he
was
Mary
Lou
Berger
the first two, within an hour af
Plans for sending fiow’ers to the a radio announcer on his way to Smead the hat was passed around
Betty
Joyce
Clauson
ter they were printed. These two State Grange session at North
the ring, with a flock of famous
Carol Kay DeMartin
thousand tags, if sold, will come Bend next week were discussed. broadcast the Tunney-Dempsey signatures attached.
Margie Eugene Freeman
close to financing the festival. Jessie Judkins is in charge of ob-1 fight at Philadelphia, when a sud
The $4.85 panama hat, on the
Pauline Merle Hendricks
A budget for expenditures w'as taining the fiow’ers, and putting den gust of wind blew' the hat next day, took a certain meaning
into
the
gutter.
Patsy
Carolyn
Hyland
completed by the committee last them on the Greyhound bus. In
in the life of Mr. Smead, who
With him at the time was said it was worth $5000.
Mary Elaine LaCIair
Thursday night, and includes:
dividual members are to take Sessue Hayakaw'a, noted Japa
LaVerne Lenore Landauer
Fireworks ...................... $200.00
all flowers they have to Mrs. nese movie star, who picked it
With this nuclues, Mr. Smead
Fae Ardis Rausch
Advertising ................. $130.00
Judkins.
decided its value would be great
up.
Wiping
off
the
mud,
he
said,
Patsy Ruth Cook
Prizes (cash for kids) 10.00
A social hour was enjoyed fol “here, let me autograph it and ly enhanced if there were more Bonnie Irene Salvage
Prizes, (merchandise) 30.00
lowing the meeting, with refresh
famous signatures on it. Then he
Alma Louise Duffy
Ribbons ..........................
3.00
ments of ice cream, cookies and
started traveling — around and
Jack E. Clauson
Band ................................. 100.00
coffee being served by Mr. and
around the country and world he
Donald Arthur Crook
Miscellaneous ............. 50.00
Mrs. Joe Zumpfe, Mr. and Mrs.
went, collecting signatures these
Dennis R. Fadling
Earl Simpson and Joe Morrell.
23 years.
Daniel M. Jaggers
Total Exp....................... $523.00
Kenneth J. McDonald
Of surprise to many of their ....On this hat are autographs of
Tags Will Be Required
General
John
Pershing,
Will
Rog
Raymond E. Murry
friends in the area will be the
The last two weeks, prior to
ers,
Rudolph
Valentino,
Lon
Cha
Elmer LaVaughn Salmon
wedding
today
of
W.
P.
(Spider)
the affair, wearing of these tags
Roger Alan Snyder
Clement and Alivena Miranda, at ney, Jean Harlow, Charles Chap
will be required of all residents
lin,
Marie
Dressier,
to
say
noth
Bruce
G. Yelton
Crescent City.
of the area. To stimulate inter
ing
of
the
more
than
a
100
other
James
Earl Parker
Mr. Clement, who left here two
ests, and to have a little fun in
An extra workshop for making
signatures,
which
would
require
years
ago
to
accept
employment
the meantime, a kangaroo court dress forms was held by Aldene
will be held the last week, each Aho, county extension agent of at San Francisco, was a resident a column to list.
This famous hat, insured for
at mail time, to enforce wearing Curry County, for Pistol River of this area many years. His
of the red tags.
and Chetco Units at the Chetco bride-to-be, daughter of Nick $10,000 by Lloyds of London, is
Baumgartner, lived here most of of great value to Mr. Smead. He
Float Registration Promising
Grange hall last Thursday.
Fred Moore, looking after the
The demonstration was conduct her life, until she moved to Con says it would be a big pile of
Three boatsmen, all proven by
money before he could even be
registration of merchants’ floats, ed by Port Orford unit. The first cord, Calif.
their
credentials, took a boat,
tempted
to
part
company.
After a wedding trip which is
told the Pilot early Monday that dress form workshop was held
powered
by an outboard outside
he had but one turn-down, and at Sixes in 1947. Many forms planned for Florida, and possibly
Robert Ripley, the very day the mouth of the Chetco Sunday
felt much encouraged at the re have been made in the northern Mexico, the couple expect to go he died, Mr. Smead told the Pi for a spin on the briny. All went
into either a motel business or a lot, was going to make a radio
sponse shown. Mrs. A. P. Hen part of the county since.
well until their return to the
dricks is urging juveniles to reg
A pot luck luncheon was held seashore resort, expecting to con bid of $20,000 for the hat, which mouth, homeward bound.
ister with her all floats they may at noon with 13 present. Twenty struct it themselves.
was going to be turned down by
These three, Hans Nelson, B.
wish to enter, so that a place seven, in all, attended. Models
Mr. Smead. flot long before the
may be arranged for each in the were Pauline Carpenter of Pistol! Paint Demonstration Due time this was to have been done, J. (Micky) Gould, and Gordon
parade.
Smead heard over the radio that Goetz, failed to negotiate the tide
River Unit and Pat Kern of the
Here,
Friday,
Saturday
Ripley had dropped dead of a at the time, and were actually
The next meeting of the com local unit.
"dunked" as any one of them
mittee w ill be held Tuesday, June
Mr. Kerlinger, factory repre heart attack in New York.
Members of Port Orford pres
might treat a good doughnut.
15, at the Coffee Mill Cafe, at ent were Fern Townlev, Noma sentative for DuPont Co., will be
This prize is kept under a plas
Reports say that they got the
eight o’clock p. m.
Thomas, Echol Nutt, Mary Lee in Brookings at the Chetco Home tic cover, well covered to pre
Anderson and Martha O’Hara.
and Auto Supply Co., Friday and serve its life from the elements. boat home, with its motor. All
meeting, locally, will Saturday, June 10 and 11, it is People may look and turn the the rest, including their dignity,
Vacation Bible School To Another June
14 at the home announced elsewhere in this is- container about to read all the was lost.
otart Monday, June 20 ! of Mrs. Alice Perkins, at 1 p. m. sue of the Pilot.
While it isn’t possible to ob
names, but no hands will be per-
He will demonstrate DuPont mitted to touch it.
tain an inventory of the goods,
Baptist Communitv Church is Everyone interested in having a
From this area Mr. Smead will Gordon lost his spectacles; there
planning a Vacation Bible School dress form should attend. Those Paints and Varnishes and will lx?
ko begin June 20 and run through) irom Pistol River should contact glad to help anyone with their go northward, as far as many was a quantity of tackle, and a
points in Canada. He may stop bunch of gear.
~uly 1. Rev. Nick N. Neufeld an Mabel Ostrander for date of th? paint problems.
meeting in that locality.
along the way to Portland by
Elmer Parker, owner of Par
nounced Tuesday.
ker
’s Anchorage, has no sympathy
way
of
Grants
Pass,
he
said.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Joe
Bush
arrived
Children from four through 15
An advertisement appears on for them, as he claims he urged
years of age are urged to enroll. I An old time dance is being giv- Monday from Parker, Arizona,
at their
Hours will be from 9 a. m. to 12 en by the Grange this Saturday’ to
*« spend the summer —
------ page eight of this issue, telling them to take his larger boat and
powered with a bigger motor.
noon.
evening.
| Chetco River home, near Harbor. of the display.
1
Three Candidates
Given Degrees At
Grange Meeting
$15,000 HAT ADMIRED BY PEOPLE
OF AREA, SHOWN AT CHETCO CAFE
Coulpe Will Wed At
Crescent City Today
Dress Forms Made
At Demonstration
Three "Boatsmen"
Dunked In Chetco