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Palm Beach Daily News, Sunday, February 9, 1997 Page B7 February 1977: William til. 6 XL 1 1 3j3 FILE PHOTO Winston Churchill vaints while iMfp SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY tencer Harper helped ther when he was iter of the first post in Palm Beach. Clementine observes at Casa Alva in Manalapan, 1948. PHOTOHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY Embers rom the J925 Breakers fire blew across the island, also destroying Sidney Maddock's Palm Beach Hotel. Nine months later, Thomas A.

Clarke opens this new version at 235 Sunrise Ave. fir ws? -J-JTS i Kir, I ,4 3 I'll i PHOTORICHARD A. LITTLE The first services in the new, and permanent, Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea were held Christmas Day, 1926. Early Episcopalian settlers worshiped on Sunday afternoons at the 'Little Red after the Congregationalists finished their morning services. Billie Burke (Flo Ziegf eld's wife) 1958.

On Jan. 1, 1927, the Bath and mberships, which were fully subscribed at opening. Cudahy, heir to a meat-packing fortune, ranking member of the Palm Beach Civic Association and former president of the Bath Tennis Club, is elected the 10th mayor of Palm Beach. He sue cessfully lobbies for a major town-charter revision that passes overwhelmingly his last week in office, after he announces he will not seek another term. 1979: The Town Council forms the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

February 1979: Mack L. Ritchie, structural engineer and all-around "Renaissance man," elected 11th mayor of Palm Beach. He simultaneously holds the posts of Manalapan town engineer and Jupiter Island town engineer. As mayor, he initiates long-range capital-improvement study. April 1979: The Retama polo team of San Antonio defeats Tulsa 7-5 to win the Palm Beach Daily News International Open Championship Cup at Palm Beach Polo and Country Club.

1980: Population of Palm Beach according to U.S. Census: 9,729. Jan. 15, 1980: Preservation Society of Palm Beach incorporated. Name changed to Preser vation Foundation of Palm Beach a year later.

1982: Palm Beach Daily News expands coverage by hiring a full-time business and real estate editor. February 1983: Yvelyne "Deedy" Marix, a descendant of Charlemagne, the daughter of Count and Countess Henri de Marcellus, and the granddaughter of a British suffrigist, is elected the town's 12th mayor. May 1984: Henry's Flagler's Seagull Cottage, the oldest house in Palm Beach, is saved from the wrecker's ball during The Breakers' expansion by the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, which moves the house to its current site, by the Royal Poinciana Chapel, and restores it. Sept. 27, 1984: Tropical Storm Isidore's high winds and rough surf cause severe erosion on Palm Beach, sending an entire section of State Road A1A plunging into the ocean.

Nov. 23, 1984: The 500-ton Venezuelan freighter Mercedes I crashes into Mollie Wilmot's sea wall during a Thanksgiving weekend storm, where it will remain, stuck in the sand, for the next 104 days. 1986: The old Daily News Building at 204 Brazilian Ave. is added to the National Register of Historic Places. Nov.

20, 1986: The Pafm Beach Daily News computerizes its editorial operations, forever forsaking manual typewriters, editing crayons, glue pots and green eyeshades. 1990: Population of Palm Beach according to U.S. Census: 9,667. April 1991: Patricia Bowman of Jupiter accuses William Kennedy Smith, nephew of Sen. Ted Kennedy, of raping her March 30 on the grounds of the Kennedys' Palm Beach estate after meeting Smith, Sen.

Kennedy and his son Patrick at Au Bar earlier in the evening. May 1991: Agnes Ash retires. Palm Beach Daily News and Palm Beach Life magazine editor Joyce Reingold Harr named publisher. Oct. 31, 1991: Remnants of Hurricane Grace cause sudden avalanche of towering waves to hit Palm Beach.

The force of the waves breaks plate-glass windows at The Beach Club and swamps the club's oceanfront dining room, sending diners sprawling. In other parts of town, giant waves crash over seawalls at the Midtown Beach, upending cars and sweeping away a pedestrian walloped by a wave on Ocean Boulevard. No one seriously injured; moderate property damage; heavy erosion. By 3 p.m., police close island to all but residents and residents. Dec.

11, 1991: William Kennedy Smith is acquitted of rape in Palm Beach County Court after a trial that draws international media attention. February 1993: Paul Ilyinsky, son of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia and the former Audrey Emery of Cincinnati, elected 13th mayor of Palm Beach, a position he still holds. 1995: Temple Emanu-El builds new sanctuary and fellowship hall. Oct. 1, 1996: Palm Beach Daily News classifieds go online on the Internet: www.pbdailynews.com Feb.

12, 1997: The Palm Beach Daily News the oldest -newspaper in South Florida marks 100 years of continuous publication as Palm Beach's only community newspaper. 7 i 1 vi--i 11 I la 1 i at lib III1 EJ3 PHOTOBERT AND RICHARD MORGAN STUDIO plague the town, including parking woes and construction noise in residential areas. He serves as mayor until 1953. 1935: Oscar Davies retires as active Daily News publisher to devote himself to Christian Science. Ruby Edna Pierce is in charge of the paper, which Da-vies still owns.

Jan. 14, 1936: Palm Beach residents form an art association and charter it as The Society of the Four Arts. Everglades Club president Hugh Dillman is its first president. Dec. 19, 1936: New airport, Morrison Field named for Palm Beach architect Maurice Fatio's business manager, Grace K.

Morrison is dedicated in West Palm Beach. She dies the previous September in a car crash. 1938: Bob and Murray Green open Green's Pharmacy. 1940: Population of Palm Beach according to U.S. Census: 3,747.

1942: S. Bobo Dean, the Shiny Sheet's first owner and publisher, dies at age 75. Jan. 11, 1942: Practice "blackouts" put Palm Beach in total darkness. Dec.

11, 1942: U.S. Army commandeers Breakers Hotel, renames it Ream General Army Hospital. April 1948: John H. Perry Sr. of Perry Publications buys the Palm Beach Daily News.

1950: Population of Palm ij I v- il '-1 i A a i V'' 'by Mil police break up a retired postal worker's assassination plot against President-elect Kennedy. Jan. 20, 1961: John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States. Easter 1962: President Kennedy presses a telegraph key on his desk in Palm Beach to start the Seattle World's Fair.

1962: Meeting at Col. C. Michael Paul's house where the president often stayed because it was easier to secure than the Kennedy estate President Kennedy conducts military talks with Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. McNamara stays at the C.B. Wrightsman estate.

Christmas 1962: Paramount Theatre marquee proclaims, "Merry Christmas to JFK and All the Family." Nov. 17, 1963: President Kennedy spends the last weekend of his life in Palm Beach, then returns to Washington to prepare for a trip to Dallas. Nov. 22, 1963: President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. 1963: Temple Emanu-El founded as a conservative congregation, with services held in the Royal Poinciana Chapel.

July 1, 1969: Cox Enterprises buys the Palm Beach Daily News. 1970: Population of Palm Beach according to U.S. Census: 4 I v- -LA rr Tji I iL L.3j PHOTOHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY FILE PHOTO ilm Beach, was rvation Founda-and restored it. 77ie sta, and probably the printers, of the 'Daily The woman in front, on right, is Editor Ruby Edna Pierce. This photo was likely shot in West Palm Beach, where the paper was printed.

chobee. In near-deserted seasonal Palm Beach, 150 mph winds destroy 1,500 homes and 500 businesses. October 1929: Staggered by his losses in the stock market crash on "Black Monday," Mayor Warburton resigns "due to press of business" but remains active in social and civic life of the community. 1930: Population of Palm Beach according to U.S. Census: 1,707.

1930: Clubman John Shepherd elected sixth mayor of Palm Beach, squelches a movement to amend the town charter to give the mayor a vote. He vows to make Palm Beach "the garden Beach according to U.S. Census: 3,886. Sept. 15, 1950: Southern Boulevard Bridge to Palm Beach opens.

1953: Claude Dimick Reese, son of one mayor (T.T. Reese) and grandson of another (Cap Dimick), becomes the only native-born Palm Beacher elected mayor, the town's eighth. In all, he will serve 45 years as mayor and town councilman. December 1954: Sen. John F.

Kennedy arrives in Palm Beach on a stretcher via ambulance to recuperate from back surgery. During his seven-month stay, he writes Profiles in Courage, which will win the Pulitzer Prize. June 15, 1955: Circuit Judge C.E. Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie Croude McKinley are abducted from their Manalapan beach home and murdered in the early morning hours at sea. Summer 1955: South Palm Beach and Hypoluxo are incorporated.

1960: Population of Palm Beach according to U.S. Census: 6,055. Nov. 30, 1955: Flagler heirs sell water plant to West Palm Beach. December 1956: Sen.

John Kennedy addresses The Society of the Four Arts and discusses his book. May 16, 1959: New Royal Park Bridge (middle bridge) opens. December 1960: Palm Beach 9,086. February 1970: Yvelyne "Deedy" Marix elected first female member of the Palm Beach Town Council. 1970: Town Council approves comprehensive zoning ordinance.

Feb. 1, 1971: Palm Beach Daily News makes its first political endorsements: former Ambassador to Cuba Earl E.T. Smith for mayor, and former Ambassador to Pakistan Benjamin Oehlert Jr. for Town Council. Both win.

1973: Barbara Hoffstot publishes Landmark Architecture of Palm Beach and calls for preserving the town's architectural heritage. 1974: Temple Emanu-El synagogue at 190 N. County Road completed. June 5, 1974: The Palm Beach Daily News completes its move to its current office at 265 Royal Poinciana Way. The building formerly had been band leader Marshall Grant's nightclub, 265 Place.

1976: Agnes Ash, a career journalist, becomes publisher of the Palm Beach Daily News. Sept. 2, 1976: Syndicated columnist John Keasler of the Miami News added to the Shiny Sheet roster. Jan. 20, 1977: Palm Beach Daily News publishes special edition, "The Day It Snowed in Palm Beach." 4 spot of the American continent." 1931: Nellie Cluett establishes the Cluett Memorial Gardens at of the Episcopal Church of Bethes-e- da-by-the-Sea in memory of her ce parents, George B.

and Amanda Cluett. 1932: Palm Beach Garden Club admitted to membership in the Garden Club of America. 1934-35: Royal Poinciana Hotel is demolished. 1935: James M. Owen Jr.

elected seventh mayor of Palm Beach, after serving as acting mayor to fill out the term of the resigned Barclay Warburton the only time this has happened in the town's history. Owen would run successfully for various public offices 33 times. As mayor, he was the first to deal with 5- modern problems that still.