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
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