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U OF W LIB R ARY* EUGENE ORE 1956 AZALEA.,FESTIVAL PRINCESSES KAY NICHOLS BARBARA HEDBERG ANN BALDWIN MARLENE OLSON SYLVIA (LVI lis Harbor filo! Nowhere A Finer Climate - Nowhere A Finer Community Volume ii — Number 15 Thursday, May 31, 1956 MELODY BRIMM To Pick Queen On Friday Night Coach Is Hired To Head Football The Azalea Festival Queen will be anounced this Friday night, right after the graduation cere monies, at the Senior Reception. Supt. of Schools D.D. William» A head football coach was will make the announcement. hired last feek by the Brookings- llarbor school district, according The girls on the Azalea Court to D. D. Williams, superintend are; Melody Brimm, Sylvia ent. He reported that Douglas Gates, Barbara Hedberg, Kay MarFarlane, of Parkrose, Ore., Nichols, Marlene Olson and Ann Forty-four Brookings - Harbor will become the new math teach Baldwin. One of these will reign students will graduate from high er. and will b? the head football as Queen. The girls were chosen on the school Friday night, in the 31st coach here, if football becomes a following points 25 points for anual graduation exercises here. reality. Dr. James Millar, .director of MacFarlane is a graduate of school popularity, 25 points for Oregon Good Citizenship Foun the University of Washington, grades, 25 points tor poise, per dation will give the commence- and played football under Howie sonality and charm and 25 points ment address on “Your Immed Odell. He was the lightest line for school citizenship. These ratings have been used iate Problems." man ever to play at that school. The high school band will play He taught at Parkrose three for the past two years in select the processional, under the dir years, as an assistant football ing the Azalea Court, and the ection of Clarence Dial. Rev. coach, and in the mathematics committee had an extremely Emil Kies will give the invocat department. He comes highl> difficult task in the final tabul ion. necommended in the mathemat ation of points to select the court for 1956. The Salutatory address will be ics field, Williams said. given by Kay Nichols, while the Also signed were Mr. and Mrs. Valedictorian address will lx? Valentine. Mr. Valentine w^ili given by Marlene Olson. The sen teach high school, probably the PET PARADE ior ensemble will play the ’ Re English and math, while Mrs. ROUTE LISTED cessional.” Valentine will teach Junior High I he band will play four sel or elementary. They are from The parade route has been an ections. Crane, Oregon. Mr. Valentine nounced for the big Azalea Fest Mrs. Catherine Doherty will has a masters degree from the ival Pet Parade, to be held Sat present scholarship awards. Gen? U. of North Dakota and Mrs. urday morning, June 9th. The Allison, Principal, will present V alentine has a bachelors from parade will form at 9:45 in the the graduates, and William Valley City State Teachers. She lot behind the Mobil Gas Station Thompson, chairman of the has a music background. and will travel down Chetco Ave school board, will present the to the lot adjacent to the Ber- Mrs ( .harlotte Rassmussen diplomas. Rev. Ed F. McClain esa homes, where prizes will he Suffers Attack, Dies will give the benediction. awarded. Mrs. Charlotte Rasmussen, The graduates; Children entering the parade formerly of Hood River ------------I and for are asked to register at Mincer's th( last fL-w months the book- Jewelry. Starting time for the LOCAL ELKS keeper at the C. Ed Dempsey parade is 10:30 a m. Agency died early Thursday Awards are divided into eight ATTEND CONVO morning. She suffered a heart divisions: Division I. Horses; A group of local Elks will a t attack. Division II, C’attle, sheep and tend the State Elks Convention, Her son. James J. Macleod, of Goats; Division In, Cits, which slated for this weekend a, Sea Eugene, will arrive in Brookings side, Oregon. The convention to handle the arrangement. Roy is divided into these sub-divisions starts on Thursday, May 31, and Brown has taken charge of the last entry; funmejt; prettiest; ugliest; and largi st. ends Saturday, June 2nd. remains. A full obituary will be Division IV, Rabbits, chip- Those leaving here are Merle given next week. monks, ducks, eh ckens; Division Hanscam, Exalted Ruler; Bob V, Dogs, which is sub-divided Rettke, Lary Rcemmich, Fred Last Saturday Bert L Moss th«* ..... same u.i as voia, cats; L/DlNUn Division VI, . VL Moore, Gordon Goetz. Clarence and Stan I atterson were busy Bikes, trikes and other convey- Krueger. Jim Violett, Glenn Sandstrom, and Andrew Nilson, n<’^ng t Patterson*« furniture ances Division VII, Individuals, ” 11 '*'* ' new home up. costumes, clowns, etc. who will be initiated into the com 1 ♦ "/” They hoped f° Division VIII, Miscellaneous Lodge there. completely moved by Sunday. j entries. 44 To Graduate Here on Friday ★ Pipe Dreams New Commercial Building Planned KROOKINGS-HARHOR H IG H SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS OF 1955-56 More than $60,000 in building Mabel Ann Baldwin Stephen Hugh Henry % permits have been taken out al ready this month, according to Darlean JoAnn BaTnes Ralph Franklin Ingle Ralph Reed, city work spperin John Richard Berger Lois LaClair Johnson tendent. Reed reported that new’ commercial building was Charles Milton Blair Joan Marie Kuhnhenn the biggest item of new con Melody E>aine Brimm Wiljian Dean Land st ruction. Work was expected to start on Gary Lee Bowlin Ted Lloyd Loring the new building late this week By JOE MURPHY It will be built by Dr. R. E. Cate Sharon Lee Center Gerald Kenneth Myers What with the graduations, adjacent to the Campbell Build Lendle Jay Colbert Norma Kay Nichols Azalea Festival, and other ing in North Brookings, which various activities around it keeps houses the Western Auto Store Gary Lee Coates Marlene Jane Olson a guy hopping. Virg Clark seems and Franks Pharmacy. The com Janet Irene Crump Shiri*y Beard Pate to be hopping more than most. mercial building will be 48 feet In trying to co-ordinate 15 odd wide. with recessed fronts and John Wyatt Curtis Vernon Lee Pettegrew festival committees he has his will be 65 feet deep. work cut out for him. Then, of Horton and Son will do the Joanne Elizabeth Darger Virginia Akers Pullen course, he has the Boy Scout construction. It will be of con Bruce Edward Ellison John Francis Smith fund drive, the building, and the crete block. camporee to worry about. He Thelma Cleo Erwin Four new residential permits Jean Gott Stacey does have some work for the were also taken out, Reed dis Richard Eugene Fadling Judith Louise Stonedahl Chamber of Comerce to help closed. Ira Darst will build keep him out of mischief. It home on Tanbark Road, at an Sylvia Jeanne Gates Charles Scott Tierce must he difficult to buy any estimated cost of $12,600. logs for the Plywood under those Loretta Anne Waldien G. P. Christensen will build « Douglas Scott Goldsberry conditions, but he seems to be $13,800 home on Iowa Street Joy Bernice Gott Karen Arlene Wallace doing it. Billie King will build a $9.375 — Pipe Dreams — Barbara Kaye Gould home on Moore Lane and the Sandra Jean Way I attended “little Paris" the B and W Construction Co. will Dennis Patrick Graham Valnora Joyce Washburn other night in Clive Manley’s build a $11,350 home on Memory garage. All the artists in town Lane. Clifford Francis Guthrie Gay Leroy Weaver were congregating with paint Also Don Horton will spend Barbara Ann Hedberg brushes in hand. I was out of Victor Robert Yahr about $1,000 on an addition to place, but drank my tea like a the Morgan Apartments, which WILLIAMS IS A WINNER — BUYS HOME stout fellow. It was the first he recently purchased. Merrill Fell Campbell has purcased artist garrett I was ever in that Delos D. Williams, Superin Bullock will build an addition the home of Ivan Wick, on Cris- forced a Lincoln out in the rain. on his home; Juanita Echols will tendent of the local schools, has sey Circle, adjacent to the home — Pipe Dreams — put a car port addition on her been aw arded a $100 scholarship of Williaqj Crissey. The Wicks Along that line, Les Dimmick home; and Fred Fox will spend to the Workshop m, Economic who recently built the home, are has a new type of frame hanging an estimated $2.700 to remodel Education, meeting in Portland moving to Grants Pass, where he in his offioe. Tlx* frame is fine, the home he recently purchased plans on going into the trailer but the picture doesn't seem to Jun? 18, to July 6th. Irom Homer Haggerty. house business. do him justice. — Pipe Dreams — The Boy Scout drive kick-off breakfast was well attended. Ben PhetteplaQ? and his crew did a nice job of serving chow to “I I g give i ' P you J OU a a garden!’ g a rd e n . . Wiped wiped out. out o e S ta te H ic rh tv n v frild m- of f th the State Highway folder the crew before they departed on Howard Tilton, Walter Pear- er. Ch. rl.e Cooper, and Sam It is to two of our own Brook With these words, Sam Board- with the added attraction, Miss their mission. All donated to the mine, and Mr. and Mrs. Wes Borland i t memory serves, the cause by Ben too, which is quite man. as superintendent of the ings neighbors, all people will Martha, as a living subject. The Kindell. orchesfia numbered Dave Crock an amount in itself, considering Oregon State Parks System, pre ever owe this rapsody of Nature, picture was also used exclusively Mrs. John Musser was in the that I wolfed down three pieces sented to the people of the world Elmer Bankus and Will Crissey. in color, in National advertising charge of reception committee ett Irene Porter (Mrs. Claude Clayton) and Clarence Crook. of ham and drank 5 cups of coff renowned twenty odd acres over "Elmer” managing the remains of Oregon. at the park. Then came the war and even looking the Chetco, at Brookings. of the old Brookings, of which ee all by myself. In '41, the Azalea Festival and The Flow r Show committee though re trictions were restrict the park was a portion, just had That was just sixteen years ago, Flower Show really got under was Gladys Kindell, Marie Hick the twentieth of this month— a notion it should be preserved way. It was held on May 3rd, | ner, Bertha Moore, Bertha Til ed the paik was a tranquil place where many, many went to com ANNUAL BOY SCOUT May 26, 1939- -and since that and “Will’’ undertook the tre with Miss Charlotte Lytle as the mune with their thoughts and to CAMPOREE JUNE ist date untold thousands of people mendous job of making ‘Elmer’s’ Queen. The Flower Show’ was ton and Ellen Johnson. renew their Faith in Their Coun Lloyd Moore, Bill Chadwick. The annual Curry County Boy have enjoyed its glories and have project workable for ail time. held in what is now called the try and the Omnipotent. May Lytle and Lily Myers were Scout Camporee will be held helped preserve them as a gar It rained, of course, on the ‘ Kerr’ Building, and occupied Memorial Day of '46 the west- near here this next weekend, on den w hich shall endure. Now here memorable day the park was the entire area, including the old in charge of the banquet, which June 1-2-3. according to Virgil else in the world is there such a dedicated! Many, many notables huge stairway. It was quite dis was held in the hall across the ivai and Flower Show were re Clark, district executive concentration of native, western attended and despite the show organized but kindly remember street from the present Brook-j sumed with June Shrader (Hart) The Camporee will be held on azaleas. All about them, unthink ers, appropriately took over the ed because the neighbors just ings Gaiage. This really was a reigning as queen, the flower the Tamba Ranch, up the South ing people have grubbed out tract, adjourning later to the brought in what they considered BANQUET, the principal speak show being staged in the present Bank of th? Chetco. Troops of these gorgeous shrubs to naake old “Community Hall,” which their prettiest posies. A passing er being Marshall Dana and the grade school gymnasium. The en Langlois, Port Orforl, Gold way for their less enduring used to stand on the now vacant editor of a national garden mag fact that the Cave Men attended suing years saw truly bigger Beach and Brookings will part wants. Others, elsewhere, unpro lot, back of the Chetco Inn. The, azine chanced to drop in and re warrants no dearth of entertain and better and more widely a t icipate. The boys w ill cook their tected. will undoubtedly will be affair, of course, warranted a marked it as one of the most ment The banquet was followed tended celebrations and the own meals, pitch their own tents redesigned to oblivion, the room Queen and King, the honors fall memorable show’s, because of by a dance in the Grange Hall. event began to assume, after the and m general, will have a real they have taken up since the be ing to Martha Hassett (Olson) this informality, that he and his ! The Ball was in charge of war years, more of a home com Claude Goldizen, Alfred Bell, ing and occasion for family gath outing. ginning of things, being required and Robert Stanhurst. lady had ever seen. Vem Hanscam, Dora Beaulieu, erings. for homes, shop», or manufact There was a rather local flur Will Crissey was overall chair-1 Jim Frazier, Mrs. C. E. Joelson And, in tlx? ensuing years, var Frank Hyatt's sister and hus ories. But in Brookings Azalea ry of a celebration the year that ious of our young ladies ruled band. Mr. and Mrs R N Peter State Park, fore-thinking, deep followed but the Azalea Park man of the events, that year of and Orval Nye. *41, the year the “Wild Hawg" Those on the reception com as Quo-ns. In '47, it was Joan son,of Pocatello, Idaho, were lowers of the beauties man hasn’t had a tremendous International feed was first staged This bar mittee at the dance were. Mrs. MacDonald; and in *48, C har guests at the Hyatt home for a improvel upon, made it imposs- boost when a colored picture of becue gang was composed of: few days last week. I ’Ae for them to be entirely the park was us*d as the cover! Wilson Freeman, Mike Page, Goldie Smith, Mrs. Marie Bick, lotte Landauer (Crook). ner, Leo Lucas. Mrs. Roy Beck For the Nationally famed do- History of the Azalea Festival, Park Reported ■ in’s of 1949, Miss Joan Byrne was the honored damsel. It was th a t year that the Azalea Gard en Club was In ’ d with the visit of nearly . ! ! Lite gar- den club presidt uie coun- try, who havn u of our ard show, interrupt11 i . : bus tour between San I ) and the N ational Corn n of Arneri- can Garden ( ’It . at Portland, to have a It k iee a whole Greyhound cha «•red bus load, And it was tha ane year that the club wain t >< Purple Ribon award, someth . that each and every club mt iixu and espec- ially of those yea lis w ill tell you all about at th? • slightest indie- ation of interest. Then in ‘51, Beverly HUI (Thompson reigned, followed by P atricia Highland, in 1952; Carla WhUlock in ’53; and in 1954, as a diversion, there was a Curry County-wide competition, won by Gwen New ton. of P ort Orford who queened, very regally. But, in '55, «elect Ion was resumed o t the lower end of the County with (Continued on Back Pag)
