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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1954)
W Or O tTBMAR? POLICE Day — 3193 Night — City Phone 3341 2854 flarhnr ftlat ELKS SET DATES M eeting d a te for B rookings Lodge 1934. B PO E has been set as the first and th ird T h u rsd a y s in each m onth, according to a r announcem ent by S e c re ta ry W es ley S m ith. N ext m eetin g for th e group will ta k e place A ugust fifth, at th e C hetco Rod and Gun Club. Nowhere A Finer Climate — Nowhere A Finer Community \ ohimè S—Number 22 uk ( h > k i \ ( , s , ( i k k i I’KICE ON c o u n t y , o k k » h > n N E W SST A N D S— TEN I hursday, Inly 22, IQ54 < ENTS Lily Parade Enchants Big Crowd With Lovely Floats B rookings, H arb o r, an d five or six thousand visito rs w atched S un d ay aftern o o n as th e Lily C apitol of th e w orld unveiled nts eig h th an n u al Lily Blossom p a r ade. T hey saw 22 floats and th ree bands p arad e for an h o u r down C hetco avenue, betw een sto re fro n ts covered w ith lilies and o th e r flow ers in honor of th e oc casion. W e a th e r w hich had caused one th e postjHHiement it w as a high- o p erated grudgingly. T he skies w ere overcast but dry for the event . T h e p arad e was not q u ite as larg e as last y ear's, and th e crowd w as also sm aller. But considering th e postponcm em nt, it was a high ly sa tisfa c to ry tu rn o u t lor the Lily city 's big day. Ii!.( )SS( )M And th e flo ats W’ere as lovely as ever. T h re e in p a rtic u la r brought ap p lau se from th e crowd. One w as th e S w eep stak es w in ner, the e n try of the B rookings Bible C hurch. It w as a larg e open Bible on a field of flow ers, and th e re w as a cross, ra d ia tin g rays of light on th e front. It played m usic in keeping w ith th e them e as it trav eled down the A venue. A close second w as th e float of th e A zalea G arden Club, it was th re e fairy rings, all of lilies in which fairies gam boled, w hile a I he p a ra d e was led by the C hetco W ran g lers, who w’ere fol- I lowed by th e "clean-up” squad, compos»»»! «if Bob K err, Ed S am uels and Bud M cCourt. T he S cotia band, resplendent in m aroon and brow n uniform s led th e flo ats into C hetco Avenue. T he band, sponsored by the P acif ic Lum ber’ C om pany of S cotia, is one of N o rth e rn C alifo rn ia's o u tsta n d in g m usical organizations. T he A m erican Legion float a t tra c te d a tte n tio n It was an A m er ican flag eom[M)sed of re 1 and blue pain ted lilies in addition to n a tu ra l ones. W in n er in Ju v en ile o rg a n iz a t ions w as th e W inchuck L ivestock Four-11 club, w ith a float d e picting th»' activ ities of its m em bers. Laziest o rg an izatio n th e re w as the D rum and B icde corps of tb e C rescent C ity S hrine. Dress»»»! in C en tennial costum es, they did th e ir m arch in g on top of a M itch e l1 B io th c is tru c k Continued on Back Page inday s Lily Blossom parade. In the up p er left, F estiv al royalty y ol loyal Lily G row ers. Left to right. P rin cess Reba Sm allw ood ?eut C ity ; Q ueen G w en N ew ton of P ort O rford ¡P rincess Lois Ch; hillips, Langlois Below’ th»» court is th e e n try of th e W inchuck >n w inner, and below th at is th e B rookings F<’»»d and Seed float <*ct 1\ below is the sw <‘<‘p s,a k e s w inning e n try of th e Brookings AU photos courtesy of the Del Norte T iii
