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1 The Bend Bulletin. Wednesday, August 21, 1957, Garden Clubs Work Throughout Year To Beautify Central Oregon; Vicinity Women of Redmond and To Make Hospital Landscape Plan By MARTHA STKANAIIAN Hiillclln t'orrcapandiwit "Teach us to see and appreciate not only the beauty of the low ers, th- trees, the sky, but also teach u.i to look for the Eood and the beautiful in every soul." This plea is stated on the fore page of Redmond Garden club's program booklet for the year, and no doubt each garden club of the 10 in Deschutes county, the IS in the Cascade district, has a similar molto. , , Garden clubs arc dedicated pri marily to the beautification of the land. One stated aim of the Ore Kon Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. is "To aid in the protection and conservation of natural re sources, and to promote civic beauty and roadside improve ments." Other objectives arc the promo tion and encouragement In the art of gardening and study of horti ' culture, creation of new garden clubs, cooperation among existing ones, and with other agencies that seek to conserve natural resources and promote civic beauty. Itadmnnd Hospital Is Kxnmpln The Cascade district which takes In the three Central Oregon counties, appears to be accom plishing these objective purposes. One protect of civic improve ment Is the landscaping around the grounds of Central Oregon district hosDital in Rcnnolds Acres, Red mond. Earlv In the spring of 1956 JVlrs Jess Tetherow, famed for flowers and gardens, proposed that sever al local earden clubs undertake hl Drolect. A meeting of club representatives was called. Lead ers were Mrs. Tetnerow, rars. Neva McCaffcry and Mrs. Pearl Wpi?and. The project was endorsed by the hospital board, the garden ciuos Involved and the county extension nervice. Don Martel, landscape rnhitect from Oregon State Col li., met with the garden club members and discussed general olans. Martel spent two days studying the hospital grounds ana worxing out a detailed plan of landscap ing. There was no charge for this service. Clubs Begin Landscaping The cooperating clubs In the hos nlinl district area went to work. They were the Powell Butte, Smith Rock, Juniper, Triangle, Town and rmintrv. Juniner Butte, Pleasant Valley and Redmond garden clubs. They bought petunias, lobelia and chrysanthemums and made an at tractive planting on rne east sme of the hospital, just as a first-yenr project, To raise money to buy the Irres, shrubs and perennials specitied In Martel's landscape plan, the eight clubs prepared for their second Christmas show. The first one had netted n small amount. . The 1056 show, held In John Tuck school auditorium, was suc cessful again for displays and also ' because It produced funds from the sale of Christmas decorations and the tea table. Mrs. McCaffcry another name long associated with gardening and civic projects was chair man for the Christmas s,liw t ach year, and also was chosen to head the hospital project. This spring her committee ordered and plant ed some of the trees. They esti mate It will take about three years to complete the landscaping to Martel's specifications. Many Variolic Aro Planted In the courtyard facing south are now three Amur maples, two Ilopl crabapple ' trees and corm-r plantings. The last Include An thony Waterer splrea. marigolds and lobelia. Eventually there will he altogether in the courtyard the Ihree maples, four cianappies, three white birch, an Austrian pine, Oregon grape and Pfilzer juniper along the west and east walls, Meyer junipers In with the spirea and marigolds. At the entrance to the hospital there Is to be a red-leafrd Japan ese maple. A Mugo pine is already planted to the north of Ihe en trance. Nepata will be In the wall border south and north of the en trance and along the south wall of each solarium wing, where the pe tunias and lobelia are again plant ed this year temporarily for ap pearance. Women of Ihe eight garden clubs cooperating In Ihe project held a work day this spring to set out trees and flowers. With the excep tion of some foot work on the spades furnished b'j. A. Schnink and hospital maintenance men. the women did all the work them selves. The Culver Green Thumb club, while not participating in the project, furnished a flat of petun ias this spring. There are comnated metal strips sunk into the ground about four feet In diamater around the trees to prevent grass from creep ing In- Thr Women Tid Proje tn the planter strip south of the main entrance U a row of ehry santhemums. a gift from Craig Coyner of Bend. Martel has sched uled periwinkle tVinca Minor! a low growing ground cover for that strip and the corresponding plant er north of the entrance, but the chrysanthemums may remain be cause they are doing well. Coyner reserves the right to take cuttings from the plants. Persian lilacs, hawthornrs, Vanhoutte spirea and another Miiko pine will be plantid on the northwest: stagtiorn sumac, forsythia and Oregon grae a'.on? the back north wall, peonies and red-leafed barberry along inner nnrlh ing. Mrs. Tetherow, Mrs. McCaffcry and Mrs. Welgand go out to the hospital occasionally to loosen the soil around the flowers, re-plant where necessary, (they found vol unteer lobelia had to be thinned this spring and that somehow purple petunia had gotten In with the pink ones). They decide if the liowcr berls need peat moss, saw dust or fertilizer, remove an oc casional dead plant, inspect the progress of the new trees, and stand back to visualize the com pleted planting as it will be in a few years. Clubs Make "Desert Hluoni" Through the years the county garden clubs have planted flowers and shrubs in parks and school grounds, in cemeteries, around the Redmond airbase during world war two, have participated in anll-litter-bug campaigns, assisted with state roadside beaulificntion and Blue Marker projects, held flower shows and plant sales, kept their own yards and gardens attractive, shared plants and Ideas with their neighbors, conducted wildNowcr tours, sponsored "Arbor Days'1 and poster contests, have studied horticulture, aided conservation. and in many ways have helped to "make the desert bloom . Through the efforts of Mrs. t,. W. Franks another name as sociated with gardening, and past state president of Ihe Oregon Fed eration of Garden Clubs a ser ies of flower show studies was launched three years ago. The five consecutive courses in the series, one or two courses taugiit each year, are for general instruction of all gardeners, and the specific training of those wishing to be come accredited flower show judges. Instructors for these schools are qualified teachers and judges. The fourth In the series was held August 6 and 7, in Red mond. Federation Now 20 Years Old The first garden clubs in the area were informal groups, start ing around 1928 and probably even earlier. The Oregon Federation of Gar den Clubs was formed in 1927, the same year the National Council of State Garden Clubs was organized. Mrs. Franks, who was a state vice president some years ago, and from 1931-1953 was state president, recalls that Bend Garden club joined the state federation about the time of its organization. Most of Hie other 18 clubs in the Cas cade district have been organized in the years since then, and all but three are federated. Mrs. Henderson will be chair man of the floral department, and Mrs. John Williams will be in charge of garden club booths nl Ihe fair. Mrs. Dee Rennels will supervise the women's building where horticultural specimens and other exhibits will bo shown. "Full many a flower Is born to blush unseen, And waste its swcelness on Ihe desert air." So wrote Thomas Gray in his Klegy Written in a Country Churchyard", but garden clubs of the area are preserving much of that beauty ond sweetness. V ; 7 . way yi . 11 $ : . Li! Ai rwJ 'J'r'i''' J "'' '' J UZ-ttL'JL HaVf- i afffltic rattiYlllii I I HOSPITAL LANDSCAPING PROJECT Mn. Jess Tetherow, Redmond, watches while Mrs. Pearl Weigand, Smith Rod, and Mrs. Neva McCaffery, of Powell Butte garden club, thin plants on the Central Oregon District hospital grounds. Eight garden clubs around the Redmond area are cooperating in an over-all landscaping project at the hospital. (Bend Bulletin Photo) Culver Rolls Wiih Punches And Wins, WrJfer Discovers By Al, GltflF.N Bulletin Correspondent Culver High School calls its ath letic teams Bulldogs and the whole town may well deserve that symbol of tenacity. For Culver has withstood the ravages of fire, the Prelims Started At Crooked River PRINEVILLE Thirty years of effort on the part of citizens of Crook County and Central Oregon will be rewarded if the appropria tions bill now before Congress for I the Crooked River Dam is passed. Local people are taking an opti mistic view for the approval of the bill and consider the construction of the dam will be the most out standing development in Crook County in several years. All preliminary engineering ha been completed and the present appropriations will be used toward reimbursing property owners in areas to be flooded by the dam, and the letting of contracts as well as securing the required amount of repayment contracts. The earth fill dam will cost ap proximately SS0.000. It will irri gate 20.000 Hcrcs in addition to having available water for indus tries and domestic use in the future. confusion of name -changing, and even rolled with the punch when completely missed by the all-important railroad. The town was first named Per ryvilie, after an early settler. Per ry Read. It was later dubbed Cul ver, for another pioneer, O. G. Coliver. Then came .the advent of the railroad and the running of the tracks a considerable distance from the townsite near Haystack butte. So the whole town just up and moved to the trackside. A farm shopping center, Culver is situated in the middle of rich irrigated farmland, and during the ladino clover boom shortly after the arrival of the first irrigation water, much of the precious seed was shipped from Culver ware houses. Culver is known throughout the j state for sports. In any given year, It's a safe bet that a Culver team will be in the running for state championship honors in at least ! one sport, and much larger schools j generally go down in defeat to the Bulldogs. They went all the way this Inst year in six-man football, taking the state title without much seri- j ous trouble trom other highly-rated ; contenders. And this happened in 1055. too. j Culver is a town which, though small, is progressive, alert, and justifiably proud. Prineyille Moves Ahead; Many '57Jmprovements Special to The Bulletin PRINEVILLE The major pro ject . city-wise, and the most out standing sign of progress in Prine viUe, is the new city hall, com pleted and occupied by the 40 city employees last December. The $163,000 ultra-modern struc ture houses the offices of record er, superintendent, municipal judge, a large and attractive coun cil room, the city palice depart ment, state police office, jail, and the volunteer fire and ambulance departments. A unique feature of the building Is an indoor glass en-1 closed garden. The new hall, however, is only one of the accomplishments rea lized by the city, its townspeople: and employees, for the past year has been an impressive period of Improvement and progress in the entire municipal program. New Street raving Sixteen blocks of city streets; have been paved and the second I street improvement project Is ; scheduled to begin soon with eight I more blocks to be paved and curb ed. The street Improvement pro gram for 1958 calls for 30 addition al blocks, with the end result that 98 per cent of Prineville's streets will be paved and curbed. The city this spring also began a new , program of street cleaning, where- j in every city street is swept and flushed weekly. A major street repair job cost-! ing $32,000 was recently completed at 10th and Main streets. In Sep tember, the city will undertake j construction of a new bridge across Ochoco Creek at Harwood . . street ana nas ouogeiea u,uuv mr this jod. ; A cooperative project. Harwood street was paved by the county j with the agreement that the city pumping fire truck with American LaB'rance equipment. Drainage System Completed A new drainage system at West Ninth street has been completed and begins the new program of storm drainage construction to help lower the city's high ground water table. A $10,000 improve ment project along this line is be ing contemplated for next year. A survey is currently being made and plans formed for the re vision of the sewage treatment plant, providing for sanitation sew-; ers which could be extended Into; the fringe areas of the city should those be annexed. ' ; Landscaping of the south side or the new city park adjacent to the three-year old swimming pool was completed this spring, putting the final touches on the park project which was begun about two years ago. Millican was named for George Millican, a rancher, whose son, Walter, was born in 1870, the first white child who came into the world in Central Oregon, so it is said. Back in 1930 it was the one man town of Postmaster Billy Rahn, who moved it to its present location to keep it on the Bend-; construct the bridge. Purpose of Burns highway when that road ; the project Is to relieve Main street was rerouted to the north. When ; of the mill traffic congestion. Rahn died, the post office was dis- ; The major equipment purchased continued. i this year was a $13,000 750-gallon mmm CONGRATULATIONS and Best Wishes to The Deschutes County Fair CONCRETE PIPES of all types IRRIGATION SEWER CULVERTS HEAD GATES DESCHUTES Concrete Products Co. Redmond, Oregon THE ONE ... THE ORIGINAL Oro Russet leather, exclusive with Red Wing, most water repellent leather known. Wedge-type ettshlon crept soles with nail-less con struction. ' "Sweat-Proof" leather Insoles, won't crack r curL Be Sure To Sec Our Large Display of RED WING BOOTS & SHOES AT THE DESCHUTES COUNTY FAIR St Lynch The Men's Shop Redmond Phone LI 8-2S39 Attend The 38th ANNUAL DESCHUTES COUNTY Central Electric Cooperative Serving A Great Agricultural Region 5 LIVE BETTER NF LIVE BETTER 'k takm etc i leu Today, electricity is a versatile "chore boy" on the modern farms of Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook and Grant Counties . . . Helping To Get More Done in Shorter Hours! Your Central Electric Cooperative is proud to serve the farm homes of this great agricultural area. The County Fair which we celebrate,in Redmond this year is a wonderful testimony of the modern agricultural advances being utilized by our local farmers, for at the fair will be lined row upon row of their most prixed products. We urge ysu to attend your fair this weekend and examine the products that make Central Oregonians proud of their agricultural industry. Central Electric Cooperative INCORPORATED "Owned By The People It Serves" CROOK DESCHUTES GRANT JEFFERSON Counties Redmond Lincoln 8-2144
