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CENTRAL POINT TIMES
over the shacks. Visiting with an
turned from a trip around the
from Central Point to Medford.
world. Mr. Lundstrum, a high
old Indian woman, I asked, “Who
The bus driver swung into the
built those houses?’ She scow
way department man, was away
Centennial lot and gave us a
by Mabel Van Horn
on an inspection trip and Mrs.
led and shook her head, after
birds eye view. I was more in
a minute thinking she said, “No
Anderson’s husband was away.
terested in seeing the Univer
He has a barge line which runs
want white people here, only
sity. Had lunch there and then to
The last meeting of the Home
from
Tacoma,
Washington
to
white
man of God and school
the museum, which is very good.
Economics Club of the Central
Juneau and brings up ready cut
teachers.’
Point Grange was held at the
I walked around to see the var
buidlings.
So
we
had
a
grand
The
next
day
I
was
invited
home of Mrs. Ed Lull, with
ious buildings. They are well
visit.
out to see the sawmill. Seems
build and the gounds are well
Mrs. William Foley assisting.
On our way back to the hotel
like there is a demand for woods
The program was given by
laid out. Late afternoon back to
Mrs.
Anderson
asked
me
if
I
workers
at
Haines.
Then
again
M iss Marsha Wilson. She gave
Fairbanks by a different route.
visited Douglas - - this is join
I was invited out to see a Sal
a review of her 4-H award
The evening I spent at the Pu
ed to Juneau by a bridge over
mon cannery and the cannery
trip to Chicago. She also showed
blic Library.
the
Gastineau
Canal.
She
showed
boats.
The
season
would
open
slides of the trip at the meeting.
As my time was getting short
me many of the houses her
the next week. The cannery ten
Chairman was Mrs. Don
I left the next morning for Mount
husband had brought in and as
der boat was manned by an Ore
Faber. Mrs. Edwin Gebhard
McKinley Park arriving there
we came to an auditorium she
gon fisherman.
gave pointers on the bazaar
in the early afternoon.
The strawberry beds were in
asked me if I’d care to attend
to be held this fall.
We saw the sled dogs and a
bloom and if the berries were
a square dance Jamboree. We
Ranger showed us how they were
went in and I was invited to
as big accordingly as the blo
Mrs. Anna Tonn of Central
hitched to the sled. He gave
have
punch
and
cake
and
watch
ssom s they must be gigantic.
Point and her daughter, Mrs.
quite a talk on the Husky.
the dancers. In fact we stayed
Leaving Haines by limousine
Roy Grigsby of Medford, were
That evening we were enter
I arrived at Haines Junction,
until 11:30 P.M. The music was
hostesses for an outdoor picnic
tained by slides and a Ranger
good and so was the dancing.
Yukon Territory, about noon.
at the Tonn home, recently.
described different flora and
Monday I was invited out to the
This is one hundred and sixty
Those attending were: Mrs.
fauna of the park. We were up at
United States Government Buil
miles from Haines. Waiting for
Don Wiley, Mrs. Ethel Hoe ft,
three the next morning, ate bre
ding for lunch with Marion and
us there was a Canadian Travel
Mrs. Maysel Hoeft and Mrs.
akfast and off on a trip thru
a friend. I wandered around in
bus bound for Fairbanks. We
Maud Lockwood, all of Med
the park, which was interesting
the afternoon, had my hair done
traveled all afternoon thru more
ford, Mrs. Ella Terrill and
as the bus driver and hostess
(which
cost
$3.75),
and
next
or less
muskeg with small
M rs. Julia Dow, both of Eagle
were quick to point out var
day left for Haines on the ferry.
spruce and on a little higher
Point, Mrs. Amy Grisson and
ious interesting things and ani
The porpoise gave us quite a
ground Popple, then perhaps a
M rs. Wesley Householder, both
mals we might miss sight as
show,
also
saw
a
whale
spout
small
range of mountains with
of Lake Creek, and Mrs. Harry
we passed, by. There were
some snow peaks.
while going up the Lynn Canal,
Tonn and Mrs. Richard Dunn
several bands of Caribo; differ
We docked at a slip about two
Had a lunch at Burwash La
and daughters, Diana, Kathy
ent bunches of mountain sheep.
nding, 19000 feet elevation, and
m iles from Haines, Loading
and Sandy, all of Central Point.
Our bus came just too late to
stopped at Tok Junction for the
near was a Japanese ship taking
see a grizzley bear. The bus
on logs - “Cants’ - they are
night. This is a cluster of ca
The YT Club met Monday for
ahead of us saw him but scared
called
as
a
thin
slab
is
taken
bins
and hotels and a garge or
a one o’clock luncheon at the
him away. Saw some Ptargamin,
off each side. This I under
two. We were traveling with a
home of Mrs. Alice Van Sickle
a bird that changes from white
stand
is
so
they
don’t
roll.
The
group that had come up on the
at Myers Court in Medford.
to brown as winter changes to
lady driving the bus from the
inside passage to Skagway and
H ostesses were Mrs. Van
spring.
ferry was very nice. She could
took the scenic railroad trip to
Sickle and Mrs. Elvis Larsen.
It was raining so Mount Mc
n’t take me in the Volkswagon
White Horse and then boarded
During the business meeting
Kinley didn’t show, alth o w p had
bus first trip. I was a little
the Canadian Inis.
the date of September 8 was set
caught a glimpse of it before
slow getting off the ferry, so
There seemed to be two hours
for the next meeting at the home
getting to Fairbanks a couple of
she
came
back
for
me
and
hel
time difference bet ween Tok and
of Mrs. Oscar Minnick.
days before, also saw it when
ped me find lodgings, which ha
Haines, and I hadn’t set my clock
Members voted to dispense
I was nearing Anchorage on the
ppened
to
be
run
by
Schnables,
back
and three o’clock (five
with the August meeting.
train. It’s a beautiful mountain,
who has a big electric saw
o ’clock by my tim^) I vas up
Those attending the meeting
20,300 feet high.
mill - - sawing cants for the
and wandering around it was just
were Mrs. Ted Hill, Mrs.Sadie
The trip thru the park was
Japanese. Later while I was in
beautiful. Tlie sun shining so br
Cyphers, Mrs. Alice Sukow,
worth while and the hotel is
Anchorage I saw by the paper
ight. In about an hour and a half
M rs. Iva Starks, Mrs. Oscar
very well run. The staff is
Mr. Schnable was putting up a
I got worried - no one was
Minnick, Mrs. O. T. Wilson
college youngsers
and are
sawmill
at
Steward,
Alaska
to
stirring
and we were supposed
and Mrs. Arthur Foote.
pleasant and helpful, a Joy to be
saw more cants for the Jap
to have breakfast and leave by
with.
anese. Seems like the Japanese
seven o’clock. At last I went
The next day I was Anchorage
Pomona Grange will hold
have quite an interest in Alas
to see what the time was, and
bound. The railroad from Fair
their annual picnic at Valley of
kan forests, which by the way,
it was nearly five - Tok Junc
banks runs thru beautiful coun
the Rogue State Park on July 30.
tion time.
don’t compare with Oregon tim
try to Anchorage. Some of it
ber, at least not anything I saw.
That was one noticeable thing
will in time be agriculture, no
After I was settled in my mo
in Alaska - the sun was still
doubt. The trees are good size
tel I walked out to Port Chila-
shining at 9:30 P.M. and was
and are mostly Popular and
koot - Home of the Chelskoot
up and at it at three A.M. I
cont from pg l col 3
Birch. Wild flowers are beauti
Dancers - to have dinner at
got used to sleeping during day
Glacier. In size it is comparable
ful and lots of them. The wild
light.
“Halsingland,*
a
popular
hotel.
to the state of Rhode Island.
rose is so much deeper pink
This used to be an army base,
The Inis stopped if anyone was
We visited the Shrine of St.
than those that bloom in th?
Fort
Seward,
and
was
sold
later
interested
in
taking
pictures
or
Therese, a church, surrounded
states and with the blue shoot
in when it ¿1 sbanded to a group
at interesting places. One stop
by statues of the Saints, on a
ing star and white fuzzy flower
of soldierswho had been based
was at a Husky Dog Kennels.
little island, also visited a park
make a beautiful showing, iris
there.
Josephine
Crumrine,
a
Dogs were raised mostly for
near Auk Bay, then to her home
was Just coming Into bloom
popular Alaskan Artist, has a
sport sled racing, Each dog had
At one place near the rail
a rest and out to dinner.
showing
of
her
Alaskan
pictures
its own dog house, and the mo
road, way out from anywhere
Next day I attended church and
in the lobby. They are very in
ther dog with puppies had runs.
was a little log cabin and garden
Sunday school and as I entered
teresting.
We
were
there
at
feeding
time.
spot
worked up, it looked so
the hotel I noticed a lady was
While
there
I
met
a
lady,
a
The
dogs
weren’t
the
fierce
mellow
and nice. A woman and
taking care of the Chamber of
Star
Route
mall
Carrier.
She
two girls were planting the gar
kind as all seemed friendly. Not
Commerce, so I stopped in to
den. They waved as we passed
invited me to make the trip
far
from
Fairbanks
we
stopped
visit. She mentioned a trip by
by. The brakeman said they
the next day out to an Indian Vi
at the “North Pole Postoffice,’
mail boat that might interest
stopped anywhere for pass
llage. On the way we saw two
where a big wooden Santa Claus
me. She didn’t know the de
engers.
It must be quite an
moose cross the Chilikat River.
stood sentinel.
tails so called a Mrs. Lund
accomedatlon.
The village was a cluster of
Then on to Fairbanks, an old
strum she knew had taken the
At Anchorage I met my son,
shacks, with two well framed
Frontier Town. Tanana River
trip. Mrs. Lindstrum asked to
Perry,
his wife and two daugh
two and a half story houses,
flows thru the town. After vi ters, that
speak to me and Invited me out
had flown from Adak
built perhaps at the turn of the
siting the Chamber of Commer Island to meet me. It seemed
to roast moose, said a friend,
century. The sheet iron roof
ce I boarded a bus to the Uni so good to see someone near to
Mrs. Anderson, would call for
ing
had
been
mostly
taken
off
versity of Alaska. It must be me. altho, thru the whole trip
me which she did. Mr. and
and the windows gone, but «till
at
least seven miles out. The I never was without good com
Mrs. Lundstrum had just re
stood square and loomed up big
fare was the same as the fare panionship. Among them was a
July 13, 1W7 7
CENTRAL POINT
NEWS
!
young man from Germany, that
found every place that sold beer.
He could carry it tho. Two wo
men from New York City; a
librarian and a social worker;
teachers on a Sabbitacal leave;
a druggist and his wife from
California; a North Dakota Co
uple. I believe the balance of
them were California retired
couples. About twenty come thru
to Anchorage, and then we part
ed. I was the only person on the
trip that was strictly on my
own. The others were with Tour
leaders.
After visiting with my child
ren for two days and a half, one
day which was spent at Matln-
uska and Palmer viewing the
farms and stopping at Parks or
Coffee Joints visiting with peo
ple, I left for Seattle on the
North West Airline.
One sad thing came last. A
young mother from near Palmer
sat by me with her Infant son.
She was bound for Rochester,
Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic.
The poor babe never moved
all night and I wondered if It
was a futile trip.
But another day and I was with
my Rlnton children, and on to
Portland where, son Richard,
met me and we drove home to
gether.
Oregon is a beautiful place.
by Mabel Van Horn
R. L. (Lynn) Hamilton and
wife, (Arlene), and three child
ren, Christy, David, and Joni,
from Portland, Oregon visited
recently with Lynn’s grand
mother, Mrs. Lola Ann Buck,
at 136 Oak Street, Central Point
Lynn is employed by Con
solidated Freightways.
Arlene is a kindergarten tea
cher in the Portland Public Sho-
ool System District «1 at Port
land, Oregon.
NOTICE — Committee meeting
of the Crater Memorial Swim
ming Pool Assn, will hold a
meeting at the American Legion
Hall Monday 17th at 8:00 P.M.
The public is urgently invited
to attend this meeting - The
pool
will be one of Central
Points greater assets, not only
an attraction for out of city chi
ldren but a safe and healthy
way for the youngesters to be
entertained in a clean environ
ment. Through the hot summer
months.
The public Is encourged to
go to these meeting and be en
lightened on this fine project.
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