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_______ Nowhere a Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community
VOLUME FOUR, NUMBER EIGHTEEN
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BROOKINGS,
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CURRY COUNTY.
OREGON
THURSDAY, JUNE
1949
Blossom Time" Will Attract Many
MARSHALL DANA WILL DELIVER
DECICATION ADDRESS, AT LOEB
STATE PARK, SATURDAY, AT 3:00
Marshall Dana, editor of Oregon Journal editorial page, and notea
speaker, will delivei the dedication address, at 2 o’clock, Saturday
' afternoon at Loeb State Park, seven miles up the Chetco rive, on
the north bank road. Rev. Nick Neufeld, pastor of Baptist Com
munity Church will give invocation.
Present for the dedication ceremonies will be Thornton T. Mun
ger, of Portland, president of “Save the Myrtlewoods, Inc., together
with reprsentatives of several Portland garden clubs, including Mr.
and Mrs. Leith Abbott and Mrs. Theodore Adams. Alfed Loeb, for
whom the park has been named, will come.
W. L. Crissey, of Brookings, honorary vice-president of “Save the
Myrtlewoods. Ins., will be master of ceremonies, Saturday.
Dedication ceremonies will be set for three p. m. Saturday (Pa
cific Standard Time), July 2, following the basket picnic at the
park at one. Azalea Garden Club members will be hosts to all the
out-of-town guests and officials.
Loeb State Park consists of 120 acres of rare myrtlewood grove,
seven miles up the Chetco, on the north bank road, and takes in
some of the ground known as Bruce Hole. To visitors who have
never seen this signt before, it is nothing short of astounding.
Chinese Communists Are Trying Only
To Eradicate Corruption In That Nation,
Returned Doctor Told Rotarians, Tues.
State Plumbing Inspector
Visits Area First of Week
The state plumbing inspector
was in this area the first of the
week checking on plumbing in
stallations, and said he would re
turn periodically. He pointed out
that he was paying particular at
tention to workmanship and qual
ity of material used in all plumb
ing done in the area.
He emphasized that all w'ork
must be installed by licensed men
who carry a license under the
state department.
Dora Fritz Became
Bride Of Louis H.
Grewe, Sunday
Dora, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Fritz, became the bride,
Sunday at 2 o’clock, at Baptist
Community church of Louis, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Gustaf Grewre of
Petaluma, Calif., with Rev. Nick
Neufeld, officating.
Before the ceremony, Miss
Betti Goldizen sang “O Promise
Me,” and “Because,” accompani
ed by Mrs. Stanley Patterson who
played the wedding march.
Given in marriage by her fath
er, the bride was dressed in her
sister’s wedding gown of floor
length white satin. The veil be
longed to the sister of the groom.
Maid of honor w'as Mrs. Frank
Mason, sister of the bride, and
bridesmaids were Dorothy Car
penter and Mary Ann Grewe.
Best man was Herbert Fritz,
brother of the bride and ushers
were Frank Mason, brother-in-
law\ and Eddie Frankenstein of
San Francisco, friend of the fam
ilies.
The bride was graduated from
Commerce High School at San
Francisco, and came here about a
year ago with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Fritz. The groom,
graduate of Petaluma high school,
is engaged in chicken raising near
Petaluma, where the couple will
make their home following the
wedding trip, which took them to
undisclosed points in central Ore
gon.
Mr. and Mrs. Gustaf Grew, their
daughter and her fiance, were
present for the wedding. Follow
ing a reception held at the Vin
cent Tea Room, the couple left
by car for their wedding trip.
Ideas about the Chinese Com thing that disgusted General Geo.
munists concerning their strug Marshall on his attempt to form
gle for mastery of the Chinese a coalition government in China
। nation were changed in the minds immediately after Japan’s sur
of Brookings Rotarians, Tuesday, render. When he returned to the
after listening t o Dr. Charles national capital it must have
Milford, who, with his bride, es been his recommendation to stop
caped from Shanghai on the last aid to Chaing KaiChek.
ship to make it from that port,
“I believe this communist rev
General Gordon.
olution is just another cycle in
“Chinese history dates back to China’s turbulent life, which has
a period over 4000 year ago, he prevailed all down through her
told the club in prefacing his re history. Before I went to China
marks about China, the people and I I always thought the Chinese to
their plan for life. Following his j be an honest law-abiding and
enlistment in the army through good people. I was not long in
the India-Burma-China campaign that country until I found out
Dr. Milford stayed in Shanghai that this was far from the truth.
Vhere he opened a clinic. It was
“China, because of her peculiar
soon apparent that the inflation
geography, her backwardness and
and the Nationalist Government’s
her long and many internal up
juggling of the country’s finances
risings, has become a world af
China was no place for him.
fair and problem of concern.
“When I left there One Ameri
“The editor of a daily paper in
can dollar was worth about 2^
Shanghai once wrote: ‘If Russia
million Chinese dollars.
should succeed in swallowing up
Chinese people are pretty much
what one would call individual China, it would be a matter of
ists. he told the club, and it is but a few years until the Chinese?
not likely that Russia can bend language would be official in the
the yellow man to his way of streets of Moscow.’
“History has proved that all the
government, no more than the
Local News Items
Chinese
conquerors have been
United States has been able to
Operation of the lily booths in
swallowed up by the yellow men.
do in her dealings with China.
Brookings began Monday, with
Their
nature makes them difficult
Chinese Nationalist Govern
a group of women decorating the
ment was corrupt to the “nth” to conform to any pattern.”
booths early in the morning. The
When asked if he believed the blooms, although far from being
degree, and for this reason the
^ar broke out following the de present war w’ould drop China at their zenith, are beautiful and
feat of Japan, which had, up to from the force of world nations, tourists appreciate the gifts.
that time, held the various fac- Dr. Milford replied that he did
tions together. Graft among the not. He said that the Communis was misleading, although much of
government officials w a s some-1 tic label attached to the rebels their support came from Russia.
LILY PARADE ONLY ONE OF ITS
KIND TO BE STAGED IN WORLD;
THREE-DAY PROGRAM COMPLETE
Boast, perhaps, the only lily parade in the world, Brookings and
Harbor area. Monday, will stage a gigantic parade, depicting the
beauty of the lily, which has made this section famous all over th?
world. Starting with Saturday's dedication of Loeb State Park, con
ducted tours of the lily fields of the area, and Monday’s parade,
the three-dav program has been completed by the committee.
Last year, it was estimated that some 10,000 people lined the
streets to view the spectacle. With national publicity given the big
event this year, that number is expected to drop in the discard, de-
spite the fact that several adjacent towns are observing the holiday.
...PROGRAM. AT A GLANCE
Saturday, 12:00 to 2:00 p. m.,
picnic basket lunch at Loeb State
Park (Azalea Garden Club will
be hosts to visitors).
3:00 p. m. Dedication ceremony
of Loeb State Park, with Marshall
Dana as principal speaker.
9:00 p. m. Lily Blossom Time
dance at Grange hall.
Sunday, 10:30 a. m. Conducted
tour of lily fields (later ones will
be organized).
2:00 p. m., Baseball, Merlin vs.
Brookings Pelicans at high school
field.
Monday morning, conducted
tours of lily fields.
12:30 p. m., assembly of floats
at Grange hall preparatory to
judging and start.
1:00 to 2:00 p. m., Judging of
floats.
2:00 p. m., Parade Starts at
Grange hall, picking up others
at Guard Station.
3:00 p. m., Baseball at high
school field.
9:00 p. m., Fireworks display
at the mouth of the river, per
haps from sandbar.
Racing Turtles
To Show Speed
A bunch of racing turtles,
those noted for their fleet
ness of foot, are being im
ported from Kentucky for a
feature attraction of the Lily
Blossom Time, it was report
ed here Wednesday.
Especially bred to make
racers of them, these turtles
are also reported to be vici
ous creatures, and the pub
is warned to keep at safe
distance at all times.
Pressed for details by the
Pilot, Rod and Gun Club
members smoked ana were
non-committal, but did say
the public was going to be
surprised.
The turtles are to arrive in
the area today or tomorrw
by air express. Other details
are lacking.
At the Tuesday meeting of the
festival committee, final plans of
the parade route were decided.
Following wishes of state police
in not blocking traffic it was
decided to assemble the parade
at the Grange hall, all those
floats not over-width or over the
bridge height.
Since thq parade will start at
2 p. m., it was felt that movie
cameramen would prefer the sun
to their backs, and the westward
travel was deemed best.
All floats that can legally crosj
the bridge, will assemble at the
Grange hall, starting at
12:20
after which judging will start.
Those which cannot cross the
bridge, plus those afoot, will enter
the parade at the top of the hill
near the guard station.
'ihe parade will proceed west
ward to the old Chevron station,
where it will turn right, up the
hill and go to Azalea Park, where
many will wish to take pictures,
and where the band will hold a
brief concert.
By driving only one way, one
traffic lane will be left open at
all times, acceding to the wishes
of the state police The proposed
route will give the parade a 2-
mile run, considered plenty for
many thousand people to see the
entire spectacle.
Eddie Thornton, in charge oi
horses in the parade has asked
people to refrain from using any
fireworks which might excite the
horses during the parade. It was
pointed out that many of these
horses had never been in any
parade before, and may be ner
vous to begin with. A serious ac
cident could result.
Local News Items
The school board will meet on
Thursday evening to re-organize
and to care for business during
the fiscal year just closing.
Bruce Shavere, manager of the
Coos-Curry Electric Co-operative
was in town the middle of the
week. He promised to come bacx
to see the parade, July 4.