The Coquille Valley sentinel., July 21, 1955, Image 6

.Thursday, July 21, 19o5
COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL
w ere also guests and assisted w ith
th e discussion.
D eskin Bergey of th e Pacific
Pow er and Light Com pany stated
th a t th e com pany is w orking on a
project of line re-building which
w ill provide b etter pow er for b u s­
Mrs. H arw ood M. Schw artz of iness.
Los Olivos, Calif, is a guest for* W ord has been received by P ow ­
several w eeks at th e home of Mr. i ers friends of th e death of F ra n k
and Mrs. Jam es Gamwell.
Davis a t P ortland. He w as a fo r­
Mr. and Mrs. William McLyman m er resident and had been ill for
h ad as th e ir guests over th e Fourth th e past two years. H e w as 86
of Ju ly holiday, Mr. and Mrs. i years of age and his w ife preceded
W allace McLyman and son, Jeff him in d eath several y ears ago.
of Calif., Mr. and Mrs. William
Mr. Davis w as th e first shop
P reston of Canyonville and Mr. forem an for th e Sm ith Pow ers
and Mrs. B ruce Ryder of Eugene. L um ber Com pany (now th e Coos
Mrs. Bessie Copper of Clinton, Bay L um ber) and lived in Pow ers
Ark. has been a guest a t th e home for a n um ber of years, m oving to
of her brother, Loy Reed and fam - Eugene in 1928. He was first m as­
te r of Bingham Lodge, AFAM at
fly.
Miss Dolores W iwatowski, a Powers. S urviving are th ree sons,
student a t Providence School of Ben, Ray and C harles Davis.
N ursing in Portland is spending
Mr. and Mrs. Ted L ittle and
h e r vacation visiting h er p a r e n ts ,1 fam ily of N orth Pow ers have r e ­
Mr. and Mrs. Ed W iwatowski at turned from a trip to Texas, K an ­
th e ir new home in Powers.
sas and O klahom a. They reported
A son w as born to Mr. and Mrs th a t th e tem p eratu re rose to 113
T hurm an Elam at M ast hospital degrees in th a t p a rt of th e coun­
last week. This is th eir third child try and th a t th ey w ere glad to be
and second son.
back on th e cool Coast.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Anderson
This week w ill be Boy Scout
and children, Donna and Dennis
cam
p weekend and the boys p la n ­
have returned hom e after a trip to
C rater Lake, th e Oregon Caves ning to attend from Pow ers are:
Jim Boutin, Louis L am bert, M ich­
and San Francisco.
Mrs. Blanche Bow ser of Sea­ ael Hill, G erry F reem an, Mike
Rolfe, P hillip
side is a guest for th e sum m er at S tew art, L arry
th e hom e of her daughter, Mrs. Rhay, T erry Epperson and T om ­
my T ruax. Dr. H arold O sterud
Arnold Hill in N orth Powers.
Mrs. Eugene Boggan and two was in P ow ers Ju ly 14 to give th e
children of Cave Junction are vis­ boys physical exam inations.
Because of th e w ork being done
iting Mrs. Je n n ie Boggan.
T hursday night, Ju ly 7th a t the at the High School, th e Lions club
Rebekah hall, several m em bers of held its reg u lar m eeting a t th e R e­
Coos Bay Moose Lodge No. 678 bekah hall.
T he Lions club has ju st com ­
w ere Pow ers guests in an effort
pleted
p u ttin g in stairs, bridge,
to revive interest in reactivating
th e Moose Lodge. They w ere gov­ diving board, floats and a life­
ernor Earle R. Livingston and Mrs. guard station a t O rchard P ark
Livingston, H arry Reise, secretary, sw im m ing pool. Mrs. Carol C lark
his wife and son and Lewis Ebben, has been h ired to act as lifeguard
and will be a t th e pool from 1 to
prelate.
An invitation w as extended to 5 p.m. each day un til A ugust 21st.
th e Moose picnic w hich will be The Red Cross sw im m ing lessons
held August 7 at th e Norw ay are slated for th e first tw o w eeks
Grove. The Moose women m et F ri­ m August.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell D em ent of
day and it w as decided to hold a
potluck Ju ly 16 for all members, M yrtle P oint and tw o children are
past m em bers and anyone in te r­ living at P ow ers th is sum m er.
Mr and Mrs. Weldon E ndicott
ested in reactivating th e lodge in
Powers. I t the plans m aterialize, and tw o children of Springfield
th e men plan a building program . are visiting his parents, Mr. and
Senior regent C lare Peterson ap­ Mrs. A ugden E ndicott and o th er
pointed th e follow ing com m ittee relatives. Mr. E ndicott is rec u p er­
ating from a severe accdient.
chairm en:
Mrs. Florence L ottm an of T illa­
K athryn
Edw ards, publicity;
Ruby W inklem an, M ooseheart and mook was a guest th is week at the
Moose haven; Peachie Hall, social hom e of her d au g h ter, Mrs. Jam es
service and lib ra ry ; B ernadine Bagley and fam ily.
Mr. and Mrs. G lenn S torm er
G rant, ritu a l; M ary W hite, ways
and children, Bobby and L au ra
and means.
Vincent S ta rr of th e B ureau of w ere visitors o ver th e F o u rth of
Land M anagem ent was guest July holiday at th e hom e of h er
speaker Ju ly 6th of the Cham ber ( sister, Mrs. L yle Murdock.
Mr. and Mrs. Dot McAlock. Miss
of Commerce at a luncheon a t
T im berline Inn. A vailability of Elvira Olsen of N orth B end and
tim ber w hich is to keep local in­ Mr. and Mrs. F ran k Fish of Bridge
dustries going and attract new w ere recent visitors at th e hom e of
ones, was th e topic of discussion. Mrs. Florence W arner.
Jam es M cCart form er bus op­
G eorge Lowes of th e Selco Com­
pany and W illie K ow ner of the e r a to r in Pow ers, who has o per­
mill n ea r th e forest boundary ated a store at Cougar L ane in Ag-
A t Powers
Uranium-Seeking Motorloggers
Travel to Historic Oregon Caves
Mrs. H. Schwartz
Guest O f Gamwells
THE BAFFLES
By M a h o n e y
V a c a tio n S ite
F e a tu r e s T o u r s,
L o d g e F a c ilit ie s
< - with ordino'» cornerò
| with K .yvto n. Olym pic
It’s a
Picnic...
taking better movies gf
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BY K1GUAUD NOKhS
C ity E d ito r T h e Oregonian
COSTLY DIGITS . . . P ianist
Virginia Parker, known as "pl-
anothon G irl,” exhibits Lloyd's
policy Inenrtng her fingers tor
| l U ,000.
ness for th e past several years, has
sold his business and will move
to K lam aht, Calif, w here he will
o p erate a boat on th e K lam ath
river, tak in g men to work in the
logging industry. H e w ill be ac­
com panied to his new hom e by
his fam ily.
A su rp rise reception w as held
recently fo r Rev. an d Mrs. D uke
and son, D avid. T he ev en t w as
held in th e ann ex of th e Church
of th e O pen Bible, of w hich Rev
D uke is th e new pastor.
F eatu red on th e program w ere
readings by Mrs. R ussell Pow ers,
Mrs. W illiam G rove and Mrs. Joe
H arris; a d u et by Clyde T horp
and A rt Sm ith.
R efreshm ents w ere served fol­
low ing th e program .
Mr. and Mrs. S h erm an G arv er
retu rn ed from an exten d ed trip to
M issouri w h ere th ey visited re la ­
tives. E nroute, th ey visited th e
Rev. H. L. Bagleys and D w ain
in Fresno and th e Jo h n H arrelsons
in S o u th ern California.
Mrs. N ellie P ro cto r of Concord,
Calif, is visiting h e r dau g h ter, Mrs.
A rt S m ith and fam ily.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. G raack and
d au g h ter are visiting his p aren ts
in M aywood, Calif.
A t Powers
Former Students
Wed A t Roseburg
A w edding of in te rest to local
young people w as th a t of Miss
B arb ara Bay. d au g h ter of Mr. and
Mrs. C harles Bay of R oseburg and
D ennis Shorb, youngest son of Mr.
and Mrs. A lbert S h o rb of N orth
Pow ers. T he young couple for­
m erly attended school here.
T he cerem ony w as perform ed a t
th e F irst M ethodist church in
Roseburg. A reception w as held at
th e Bay home.
T he young couple w ill live a t
Gold Beach w here th e groom is
em ployed by th e Coldiron Logging
Com pany.
A ttending th e w edding from
Pow ers w ere Mr. and Mrs. A lbert
Shorb, Mr. and Mrs. W illiam
Shorb, Mr. and Mrs. Jo e Shorb,
Scott Shorb, Mr. an d Mrs. R o b ert
Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Jam es Rob­
ertson, Mrs. G loria Coombs. Mrs.
Joel Ray, Miss M adelon McMahon,
G ene Cook, Lynn P ost Jim G nock
and Gorden Low ry. Mr. and
Mrs. R oland of Rem ote w ere also
present.
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There's no uranium in the
marbled halls of Oregon. It was
Joaquin Miller, literary giant
of the F a r West, who many
years ago stood between two
large columns deep in th e O re­
gon caves near G rants Pass and
turned the "m arbled halls of
Oregon" phrase th a t helped
m ake the caves a g reat tourist
attraction.
Fam iliar w h ite O regon S ta te M otor a sso cia tio n m r is show n
It was a motorlogging crew
in front of th e com fortab le $400,000 c h a te a u w ith 32 rooms
from The Oregonian and O re­
at fam ous O regon ea x es in Ihe heart of Slsl.-tveu m oun tain s.
gon S tate M otor association
w h ic h ret11 tor Sb double with
th at recently determ ined there
an ex tra cot available for $1.
was no uranium concealed in
For those w anting to camp
those subterranean passage­
; out, facilities are available at
ways.
Grayback campground along
Really, we hadn’t expected
the approach highway eight
any. W rong kind of country,
miles from the monument. Pic­
our how -to-hunt uranium book
nic facilities are available near
said, although southw estern
the chateau.
Oregon generally is considered
The coffee shop in the chateau
a possible source
was entirely redone a year ago
The youthful guide looked at ! g
and is one of the most modern
us with an expression th a t
in the W est. It is appropriately
wavered between resignation
finished in natural woods and
(tourists will do anything) and
is efficiently arranged. It con­
disbelief (either I ’m n u ts or
Map traces rou te ta k e n to the nects with a more form al din­
they are).
"Anyway,” he said, "You’re m arble-w alled c a v e s on m o- ing room which has an added
the first people to tak e a Gei­ torlog, touching C alifornia. attractio n of a creek running
’hrough it—a creek born deep
ger counter through here.”
T hat m akes our place in his­ ..used above the sea as p art ol •n the caves.
a mountain range. It was d u r­
tory secure.
C ock tails A vailable
H ospitality was the keynote ing this uplifting th a t the m ar­
A sm all bar was added to the
ble
was
broken
in
many
places.
a t the caves. M anager Richard
Sabin, who joined the caves Through these fractures w ater facilities last summer, princi­
company staff under an uncle carrying carbonic and other pally to serve the Californians
in 1924, has learned through acids began to dissolve the who are used to drinking in the
the years how to m ake a to u r­ marble. Over an eon or two wonders of the West.
College students provide the
this process resulted in the
ist feel a t home.
bulk of th e summ er staff. The
caverns
D is c o v e re d in 1874
The caves, in the h eart of the student guides are trained by
The Oregon caves, probably Siskiyou mountains, became a the lodge m anagem ent and the
third in im portance among national monument of 480 acres p ark service. The tours sta rt
America’s caverns, w ere dis­ in 1909 and have been under daily a t 8 a. m. and continue
covered, the story goes, by control of the national park until 1 p. m .
The to u r of the caves takes
Elijah Davidson, who in 1874 service, departm ent of interior,
roughly 1 % hours, unless the
crawled fearlessly into a dark since 1934.
The chateau building, pri­ p arty is held up by one section
hole in the Siskiyous in search
vately financed, cost about interested in probing for u ran i­
of a bear he had wounded.
The caves are about 4000 $75.000 to build Today the um. as ours was.
It seemed almost like dese­
feet above sea level, and it plant is valued roughly at
seems impossible to the tra v ­ $400.000 The lodge has 32 cration to put our atomic era
eler th a t an ancient ocean once rooms ranging upw ard from $8 (listening device against the
covered the area. In th is ocean double with bath to $13 for walls of Joaquin Miller's age-
formed a thick deposit of lime, suites. Rooms with detached old chapel. Paradise Losi. G ar­
which la ter hardened into lime­ showers are $150 double. An den of th e Gods or other famous
ex tra cot will be provided for cham bers within the caves
stone.
But n atu re nad the last
This lim estone was tra n s­ $1.
M anager Richard Sabin also laugh, tor the clicks were far
formed under terrific pressure
and heat into m arble and was has seven two-room cottages between in the earphone.
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