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
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"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.
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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
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