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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1953)
V OF 0 LIBRARY x On alI newsstands IOC flartor Pilot Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community X ' >inine S— N u m b e r i 3 BROOKINGS, CURRY COUNTY, OREGON Brookings To Be Host To Many At Azalea Festival THEY REIGN IN AZALEA LAND Thursday, May ?S, i.,s; Harbor Plywood Plant Will Start Operating Aug. 1 Next Saturday and Sunday, May 30 and 31, will occur the annual Azalea Festival, a time- honored event in this town when we of the Brookings-H arbor area will play host to m any guests. The crowning of the queen, the installation of her royal couii of princesses, the Flow er Show by the Azalea Garden Club, the queen’s banquet, the baseball games, the Sunday open air church services and the barbecue are the features to which we are all accustomed. This year there will be an innovation w ith the exhibit of the Mt Emily Gem club. Elsewhere will be found de tails of the program . The sub ject of this particu lar article is financial. BU TTO NS H eretofore it has been the practice to “hit the m erchants” for contributions to finance the costs of various projects. Presi dent George Funk, right bower A rthur Knox and the com m it tees who have donated hours upon hours to this com m unity project, decided this year on a new plan for financing. T h at is, by selling buttons a t one dollar (T urn to Page 4) School's Largest Enrollment Closes For Vacation Friday, May 29 m arks the clos ing of the school year, w ith the largest enrollm ent in the school’s history, w ith overall enrollm ent in the elem entary school reach ing 604 and the high school 202. Both the elem entary school, with 54 graduates, and the high school with 27 graduates, m ark the largest graduating classes up to date. Students will come for their report cards as follows: Town elem entary pupils, 2.00 p.m., Friday.. Country elem entary and high school, 3:00 p.m.. Friday. Student body officers for next year were installed in a m eeting last Friday: Ray W esteren, president; B ar ry Sage, vice-president; Carol Ann Benson, secretary; Ann Ritchie, treasu rer; Raleigh Burr, sergeant-at-arm s; P a t Herman, Annual editor; Peggy Gran, as sistant editor. Scout Building To Start Soon At the m eeting of the Chetco Scout building com m ittee Friday evening it was approved, when and if the lot site is approved, the building will be sta rte d w ith in two weeks All m em bers with plans and perm it are ready to go The next m eeting will bei June 5 at the Odd Fellows hall at 8 00 p m. I Plant superintendent of Lake P leasant Plywood C o., Inc., H ar bor, was named Tuesday. Gordon Asp, M yrtle Creek, will assist Robert K. Molloy, m anager. The name, Chetco Veneer Corp., was changed last week and registered as given above. The plant will employ forty to fifty men w ith operations s ta r t ing August 1. Two shifts will be used w ith the possibility of a third being added letter. W ork will be sta rte d nt once on the office building, which will be located at the plant. Mr. Molloy stated that he hoped to employ ns m any lecal men as possible and do ail the buying here he could. Gems and Rocks To Be Displayed During Festival Princess M ary Lou Berger, Queea Carla Whillock (seated) and Princess Princess Sondre P a rk e r and P rin ess Joann Clendenin. Elaine LeClair. Front, It has been and is the custom among m any peoples in many places to celebrate annual flower festivals. T here are Rose Festi vals, Tulip Festivals and C herry Blossom Festivals celebrated around and about America. We have our annual Azalea Festival. This area is singularly blessed by the abundance of this gloiious flower th at grows about us in pro fusion. Its glorious colors defy description. Its beauty leaves the observer speechless. It is lovely and it is frag ran t. W ith the a r rival of la tte r Spring and the coming of early Sum m er our Azaleas burst forth into boom along our highways and in our forests. They lend an added touch of beauty to a beau'iful area Azaleas «bloom in other sections of American but nowhere do they a tta in such a degree of splendid display that they attain in Southern C urry county. Contained within the lim its of Brookings is Azalea S ta te Park. This park is unique and sensa tional. H ere N ature appears to have concentrated its efforts in creating Azaleas which shall su r pass all other azaleas. T hrough out centuries N ature has silentlv and ceaselessly been at work to accomplish her purpose She gave us our great fir trees, our graceful m yrtles, our stately oaks, and then, as a final addition to set off her work, she placed a crown upon her labor. In her act of coronation she chose the Azalea as her symbol of regal dignity. It is most fitting and pioper that we, who live in this area, should pay our homage to this lower. It is most approp. iate th at, once a year, we should gather together and show our ap preciation of what has been so freely and unreservedly, given to us. To those of our citizens who have given unstintingly of their ime and efforts to arrange our Azalea Festival and to those of us who have contributed funds to insure the success of our Azalea Festival we extend our apprecia tion. To those citizens of this area who, down through th e years, have labored unceasingly Park Vandalism To Be Dealt With half th eir tim e repairing, r e placing, or hauling aw ay dam aged or destroyed equipm ent, The only Azalea Festival which is a sham e to the entire events depending upon the community. w eather are the barbeque This is not the first tim e de struction of public property hast and baseball game. In the been noted. There is more than a; event of rain the rest of the possible chance that this will be events will proceed, the lota brought to a sudden and costly tions of which will be an end. 1 nounced. Azalea S ta te Park is now at its beautiful best. The H arris S ta te Park is also beautiful but m arred by crim inal vandalism. P arkkeeper Tisdale says he and his crew have to spend a t least to perpetuate this festival we ex tend our gratitude. O ur Azalea Festival has be come an institution. Ix»ng may it endure. It has been nationally advertised. Each year people from all parts of America, in increas ing num bers, come here to see the azaleas in bloom. We gieet our visitors in the spirit of good neighbors and proudly exhibit our gorgeous azaleas. We invite our visitors to be with us, we are happy that they have been with us and we pray th at when they leave for their respective homes that their memories of th eir visit with us shall at! be pleasant. To all of those who come to us, and celebrate our Azalea F esti val with us, we hum bly and mo destly suggest th at here is a land of unsurpassed beauty inhabited by cheerful, happy and hospitable fieople. To our visitors we s ly, “You are our guests. We are at your command “ To such effect we dedicate our 1953 Azalea Festival. E. F A Should It Rain! The newly formed Mt. Em ily Gem and M ineral Club will stage Its first Gem and M ineral show in the hallw ay of the Brookings grade school May 30 and 31, d u r ing the Azalea Festival. T here will be m any interesting displays of m ineral and gem m a terial in its direct from the mine and field form ; also precious and sem i-precious gems a fte r they have been cut and polished. T here will be displays of beau tiful agatized wood from trees th a t grew five million years ago. You will see Oregon’s famous m yrtle wood, pet rifled and col ored by n a tu re ’s m agic process, in tints of reds, browns and black. You will see crystals and other beautiful specimens from nearly every country In the world You will see and understand why the gem and m ineral hobby has become the third largest and taking rapid strides tow ard I»*- ing the first largest hobby in the world. As an added attractio n they will cut and polish gems during the two days so that you m ay see how a very unlovely looking “rock’» can become a beautiful 0HB* Don’t miss this interesting and educational collection of n a tu re ’s wonders. Doors open at 1:00 p.m. Admission free. Lions Lose Drive; They Eat Beans Mr. Hendricks, overall chair man for the drive for Boy Scout funds for the Oregon T rail Ccun- cil announced the R otary O u b was w inner in the recent compe tition. E ditor'* N o te to Lion*. The barbeque com m ittee has 100 pounds of dry beans to be cooked. In case the barbeque m ust be Tnmtnr'«<'d the Lions will be wel come to the beuiu».
