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Mt. Hood Skiers
Start Out Young
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By E. AA^Qstell
Up in« the Mt. Hpod area youngsters
may not be born with skis,- but they
do start learning how to use the lightn
ing boards at tender ages. This young
fellow ¿S’ h a r d l y o l d and he
may know- more about the; sport than
m.any ,p6ople\fwt times, his years.
Some times this particular ’young
skier ’ tires"1, evtn a t' his earlys age and
presses into-service one of the Timber-
line St. Berhards for anf uphill pull.
Howevefj, it seems that* the dog-power
tow causes him more spills; than when
he . is gliding down the slopes, . pho
tographer Ted Rosin reported.
Less than 20 years ago snow sjpprts
enthusiasts w,ere few and far'between
and just now and then some one would
know the difference between? a sitz-
mark and a gelandesprung. Now skiing
and kindred sports are I sweeping the
nation. Young America has taken I to*
skis'and that goes-for many oldsters,
too.
More than 300,000 snow .sports fol
lowers' visited the Mt. Hood area— at
Timberline and 'Government Camp
alone. A t least 1f I snow playgrounds
were available during the past, winter
in national forests throughout the state,
plus Crater Lake national park in south
ern Oregon.
Oregon’s snow sports have been in
the national eye for7 a number of years
but never so much as-during the past
winter when; nationalmagazines, news
papers and trade journals featured Mt.
Hood’s Timber line and' other areas:
E vena's t aid encyclopedias have made
requests for Oregon - skiing pictures' to
ilustrate their tomes.
Just like the automobile and the air
plane, skiing is' here to stay!
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Always speak well of your enemies,
remember you made them.
Volcanic activity of long ago be-
queathed Oregon a number of snow
capped mountain peaks, led by . Mt.
Hood near the Columbia river gorge.
It towers into the heavens for 11,245
feet, closely followed by Mt. Jeffer-
sbn, the Three Sistefs,' Mt. McLaughlin
and others. ^Modern trails make ascents
to the summit of Mt. Hood popular
during the summer vacation season,'.the
Oregon state highway commission tray-
el information department reports.
The staff is' indebted to the public
press mlea'ses of the Travel Informa
tion Department, Oregon State H igh
way Commission, for the following in
teresting briefs on some of Oregon’s
scenic attractions’ 'and historic back!-;
ground. I
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■ ^©nfe* of the I first governors of' thei
Oregon territory; would have been
Abraham Lincoln had he accepted that
appointment in 1848 from the presi
dent of the United States. Territorial:
establishment' Came in 1848, the cen--
tennial of which
being observed in
«Oregon* this ,year, with celebrations and
ceremonies scheduled for different parts
of the,/stateip^;
Oregon has the shortest river in the
wprld; Only; 400 feet long. Territorial
centennial year visitors can see I this?
unique stream along the, northern Ore
gon coast highway near Oceanlake. In
cid en tally ,.also has the shortest name:
The D river flows from Devil’s Lake
into the Pacific ocean.
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When pioneers Came to the Oregon
territory a century ago,, it- was covered
with the greatest® abundance of forests
in the nation. This territorial centennial
year finds Oregon with still about one-
fourth of the merchantable, timber in
the nation, which it J^d last year with
a harvest of more than six billion:'
board feet.