HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1937.
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LEXINGTON NEWS
Alterations Start for
Lex Telephone Office
By BEULAH NICHOLS
Mr. Gunderson and Mr. Stiger of
the Western Electric company came
up from Portland Sunday and on
Monday commenced the work of in
stalling the new equipment at the
telephone office. When the work is
completed, about July 15, this office
will be operated by remote control
from the Heppner exchange and no
operator will be required here.
Representatives of the Martin
Roofing company of Walla Walla
were here last week and put a new
covering on the roof of the building
occupied by the Morrow Oil com
pany. The Lexington Home Economics
club will meet at the grange hall
next Thursday afternoon, July 8.
All members are urged to attend.
Jack Odell's Columbians have been
engaged to play for the dance at the
Lexington grange hall Saturday
night, July 3.
The next meeting of the Morrow
County Pomona grange will be held
at Irrigon on Sunday, July 11, be
ginning at 10 a. m. and continuing
through the day. A basket dinner
will be served at noon and initiation
will begin at 5 p. m.
Ralph DeWeese, who was visiting
at the J. G. Johnson home, left for
his home at Corvallis Wednesday in
responded to a telegram telling him
that his father had been injured
seriously when a truck load of gravel
overturned on him.
George Gillis and son, accompan
ied by his sister, Miss Margaret Gil
lis, returned from Portland Tuesday
and have gone to the Arbuckle look
out station where George is sta
tioned this summer. Mrs. Gillis re
mained in Portland.
Miss Irene Tucker has returned
from Portland where she spent two
weeks visiting friends.
Laurel Beach spent the week end
with his mother, Mrs. Elsie M. Beach.
Among Lexington people who
spent Sunday picnicking in the
mountains were Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Smethurst and daughter Betty, Mr.
and Mrs. John Graves and children,
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bauman and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Cutsforth and children.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dinges and
son Danny are visiting relatives in
Portland and Corvallis.
Miss Peggy Warner, Miss Helen
Valentine and Dale Lane of Lexing
ton and Clarence and Richard Hayes
of Heppner spent Sunday at Hid
away springs.
Arnold Sprauer has returned from
several days spent in Washington.
Claire Phelan of Heppner had charge
of the barber shop during Mr.
Sprauer's absence.
Mrs. J. G. Johnson cut her hand
quite badly on a shovel while work
ing in her garden Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hill of Red
mond spent the week end at the
home of Mrs. Hill's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. S. G. McMillan.
Miss Opal Briggs and John Barber
of Heppner were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Fuleham Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Burcnell of
Sheridan were week-end guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Johnson.
Mr and Mrs. J W. Waid of Stan
field spent the week end with their
daughter, Mrs. H. L. Duvall.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Majeske and
family motored to Pendleton Mon
day.
Mrs. Lorena Isom of Arlington is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Margaret
Swift.
Mrs. Maggie Doney of Portland
spent last week at the Hynd ranch
in Sand Hollow.
Mr. and Mrs. Oral Scott were bus
iness visitors in Pendleton Monday,
Mrs. H. S. Swift of Chicago is vis
iting relatives here and at Heppner.
Entomologist Lists
Strange Oddities
Insects and their habits are a never
ending source of wonder to mere
man. The following insect oddities
were compiled by Dr. Don C. Mote,
entomologist at OSC, for use in one
of a series of rural organization pro
grams issued by J. R. Beck, extension
specialist.
Insect pests of fruit have been in
existence for 300 million years just
99 million years longer than the hu
o Motor Cruising for Fun o
New North Santiam Highway Provides Entertaining Vistas and Easy Access
to Cascade Lakes from Willamette Valley
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Inviting pools and riffle tempt the angler along the new road; inset, the motorlog car at Suttle lake resort
TbJe D4papr Is co-operating with the
Oregon Stat Motor association and The
Oraconlan In presenting a aeries of motor
ernlMS under th title, "Motor Cruising for
Fun." It ia hoped thereby to stimulate
travel la the Pacific northwest. The follow
ing article has been condensed from a
full-page article appearing in The Oregonian
on July 4.
BY HERBERT S. LAMPMAN
Staff Writer, The Oregonian
Oregon's incredible Cascade lakes
are moved half a hundred miles
closer to Portland with the opening
of the North Santiam highway.
Though that winding thoroughfare
isn't officially completed, The Ore-gonian-Oregon
State Motor associa
tion cruise car managed to cover it
without difficulty recently following
a visit to Suttle lake.
Barring a brief detourwhich
was temporarily rendered difficult
by intermittent rain squalls the
highway is not only passable but
unique in its beauty. The new short
cut to Suttle lake, as good a head
quarters as any in the region,
brings that vacation spot within
139 miles of Portland. Compare
that mileage with the old route
through Raymond via Wapinitia
cut-off. That route totals 210 miles
on anybody's speedometer.
It will probably be several
months before the North Santiam
route is cleared to fast tourist
travel, but it will be available this
summer and can be traveled with
a minimum of difficulty.
Loop Trip Made
The cruise car made the big
loop3 from Portland to Bend and
then up to the lake. The Portland-Bend
highway needs no de
scription and the road from Bend
to the lake is as broad and smooth
as a ballroom floor.
Like most of these mountain re
sorts, Suttle lake . is girdled with
trails and with a road that circles
the area. If you wish to try your
hand at riding, horses are available
a short distance away. v
One tharm of the place lies in its
proximity to other recreational
area It is only six miles from
the MetoHus river a famed stream
wller m rainbows may be taken
and oary n scant dozen miles or
so from Clear lake, headwaters
of tn M'ICenzie river.
The fishing at Suttle lake isn't
of the best, although the lake Is
fairly well stocked. Fish are small.
The lake is sl.ocked with rainbow,
eastern brook, Williamson' white-
fish and land-locked silverside
salmon measuring seven inches.
When we left Suttle lake we
turned the car onto the North
Santiam highway and turned in, a
few miles distant, to Clear lake.
In other years this lake was at
tainable only by dint of driving
over an extremely difficult road
to Fish lake and walking the re
maining two miles to Clear lake.
We drove to Fish lake over a nar
row but excellently kept road and
continued on, over the same sur
face, to Clear lake, where we met
Ted Rodman, state police game
warden, and Captain Charles Mc
Clees, chief of the game division of
the state police.
Captain McClees insisted that we
row across the upper end of the
lake and see for ourselves the vast
spring that gives birth to the
McKenzie. We did. The sight was
more than incredible. This spring
wells out of the flank of the Cas
cade range in a lazy fashion form
ing a pool some 40 feet across.
Jagged lava rings it and the same
brittle paving covers the bottom.
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Map shows route covered by motorloggers
"How deep do you think that
pool is?" asked Rodman.
"About 10 or 11 feet," we chor
used. "Well, it's exactly 28 feet deep I ,
measured it yesterday," he re
plied. The water, clearer than the clear
est of glass, magnified every object
on the bottom until you'd have
sworn that it was less than 12
feet deep. Some idiot had tossed
an empty tomato can into the
center of the pool. It looked as
big as a cookie tin of 30-gallon
capacity.
Then we set forth again en route
to Portland. The highway was
broad and fast for a dozen miles,
and then we hit the only rough
"going" on the trip a detour of
perhaps 600 yards. For 10 or 12
miles the highway was rough and
muddy but easily passable, and
then we hit the finished surface
along the Santiam.
Road Follows Canyons
We didn't get excited about the
river until we reached Detroit.
Here the road starts through the
Santiam canyon proper and no
trout fisherman ever saw a more
inviting river. The mountain road,
hard and smooth, twists through
the canyon now 50 feet above the
river and now a full 200 feet over
the water for miles and miles.
The river is one endless succes
sion of rapids and deep holes,
whittled down through the ancient
basalt. If you are an angler born
you will have difficulty in driving
the road, since every other bend
presents an angling eddy that sur
passes the last one.
As a scenic highway, completed,
it will surpass any road in Oregon.
It is the most beautiful drive in
the state right now.
The road follows the river down
the west slope of the Cascade range
in a grade that is an engineering
masterpiece. The slope Is so grad
ual that you won't even notice it
for many miles unless you observe
that the car's motor is "lazying
along" under semi-compression.
Suddenly you bounce out at Stay
ton, surrounded by some of Ore
gon', most beautiful farm country,
and thence to Salem and so to
Portland
H is a drive you might make
on any Sunday, over a highway
that drops you into the land of
tall pines and sagebrush in a
space of little more than four
hours.
man race, according to best esti
mates. The Hessian fly received its com
mon name from the fact that it was
introduced into America in straw
by the Hessian soldiers during the
Revolutionary war.
The female European earwig, now
widely distributed in Oregon, pro
tects its eggs and mothers its young
like an old hen.
Many insects possess various pro
tective devices. These devices are
hairs, stings, odors, flavors, and irri
tants. In the eastern states only
cuckoos will feed on hairy cater
pillars. Blister beetles with their
irritant fluids are apparently im
mune from all but the king bird.
If every form of pest control on
growing food stuffs were stopped for
five years there would not be enough
food grown to feed the human race.
Some insects prey upon other in
sects thus helping keep nature in
balance. Examples are the earwig
parasite and one on the codling
moth.
Shellac is made from the secretions
of the lac insect. This insect lives
on trees of the fig family in places
like India, Burma, and Ceylon.
Twenty-five thousand tons of these
secretions are collected and sold an
nually. The pea and vetch aphis female
gives birth to living young without
the necessity of a male aphid.
Perhap's Oregon's oldest bug ia
the blackberry mite. Fruit attacked
by this very small insect remains
hard and red and is preserved for
many weeks, almost as if it were in
the best of refrigerators.