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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
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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».