HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUQ. 12, 1937
PAGE THREE
LEXINGTON NEWS
Lex Man Cuts Wood;
Nearly Loses Finger
By BEULAH NICHOLS
Fred Fulgham almost cut off the
index finger of his left hand while
chopping wood early Friday morn
ing. Fifteen stitches were required
to close the wound.
Lexington grange will meet at the
hall Saturday night. All members are
urged to be present.
Mrs. Elsie Beach was a visitor in
Portland last week.
Bill Burchell, who has been visit
ing relatives and working in harvest
here, has returned to his home in
Corvallis.
Juanita Matlock of The Dalles is
visiting at the home of her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvannus
Wright.
Gloria Sharkey of Pendleton is
spending the summer with her
grandmother, Mrs. Olive Swaggart.
Miss Sharkey has but recently re
turned from a trip to California.
Charles Cox, Heppner postmaster,
was calling at the local postoffice
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvannus Wright
are in Portland this week. '
Monte Bundy of Clatskanie is
looking after business interests in
this community.
Mrs. McKinney of Wasco is spend
ing a few days in Lexington at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Eslie
Walker.
Mrs. Lee Sprinkel and Mrs. Fred
Wehmeyer of Heppner were guests
of Mrs. Vernon Scott Monday after
noon. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Wheeler, who
have been visiting at the home of
Mrs. Wheeler's mother, Mrs. Olive
Swaggart, have returned to their
home at Pendleton.
Leland Castor, Pacific Telephone
company lineman, was making teL
ephone repairs in Lexington Mon
day.
Lexington was well represented
at the dance at lone Saturday night.
Mrs. Florence Beach is visiting
relatives in Portland.
the hospital, where she was taken
Friday because of a broken blood
vessel.
' Mrs. Claude Coats and Mrs. J. F.
Barlow motored to The Dalles Sun
day to visit Guy Barlow and Chloe.
Mrs. John McClaskey, Mrs. Rob
ert Wilson and children and Janet
Gorham motored to Pendleton Sun
day where they visited Mr. Wilson.
Miss Lena Rose is visiting at the
Compton home this week.
Misses Janet Gorham and Kate
Gorham returned home this week
after spending two weeks vacation
in Portland and Seaside.
A show by the name of "City Lim
its" was given at the grange hall
Monday, evening. It was very well
attended.
Mr. and Mrs. George Sales who
have been living in Messner moved
to Stanfield last week where they
will make their home.
The Ladies Aid held a quilting
bee in the church on Friday after
noon to finish a quilt to sell. The
BOARDMAN NEWS
Typhoid Fever
Hits Barlow Home
By LA VERN BAKER
Guy Barlow and daughter Chloe
were taken to The Dalles hospital
Friday and both were pronounced
to have typhoid fever. Mrs. Barlow
is in The Dalles with them.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Christensen
and daughters, Grace and Nelda, of
Portland visited at the Chas. Dillon
home Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lubbes return
ed Saturday from a month's visit in
Klamath Falls, where they visited
their daughter, Mrs. Wilson.
W. A. Baker made a business trip
to Baker Saturday.
Robert Wilson was taken to the
Pendleton hospital Friday where he
underwent an appendicitis opera
tion. He was reported doing as well
as could be expected.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Ransier were
visitors in Boardman over the week
end. They moved their furniture
out of Mrs. Eva Warner's house.
Joe Manns and Mr. Woods mo
tored to Meacham Sunday where
they attended a union meeting.
Silver tea was held at the hotel
Wednesday afternoon. There was a
good attendance and refreshments of
punch and cookies were served. It
was decided at the meeting to hold
another ice cream social on the 14th
of August.
Mr. and Mrs. Darr and Mr. and
Mrs. Cringe left Monday for Clark-
ston, Wash. Both families have been
employed among the river men who
have been working here.
A dance was given in the grange
hall Saturday evening. It was well
attended and refreshments were
served during intermission.
. Sunday was the last day that
church will be held until the second
Sunday in September. Rev. H. B.
Thomas will be on his vacation at
this time.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Sullivan returned
this week after a short vacation.
C. C. Kruse motored ot Tilla
mook to bring Mrs. Kruse home
She has been visiting her daughter
there for some time.
Ed Barlow drove to Hermiston on
Sunday to bring Mrs. Roberts, moth
er of Mrs. Guy Barlow, home from
ladies made coffee and brought a
sack lunch.
Mrs. Olive Attebury returned
home this week from Condon where
she has been visiting.
Stewart Baine and Jess Cox of
Seattle are visiting the Coats home
this week.
Mrs. Jack Choppell, a niece of Mrs.
Messenger, and Myrtie Nuir of Los
Angeles were visitors at the Flick
inger and Messenger homes this
week.
The Juvenile grange was reorgan
ized in Boardman Thursday eve
ning with twenty-six charter mem
bers. Chas. Wicklander of La Grande
came here to help Mrs. W. A. Baker
organize. Mrs. Baker is matron. The
officers were elected as follows: Bob
Smith, master; Lee Thomas, over
seer; Eldon lily, lecturer; Phyllis
Wilson, lady assistant; Donald Ford,
assistant steward; Barbara Ledbet
ter, chaplain; Doris Wilson, secre
tary; Vernon Russell, treasurer; Mil
dred Miller, Ceres; Audrey Wilson,
Pomona; Arlene Lay, Flora; Harold
Baker, steward, and Dale Ford, gate
keeper.
Mr. Funkhauser and Harold mo
tored to Pendleton Tuesday to get a
load of ice for S. C. RusselL
Mr. and Mrs. Norkoski have left
for a vacation on the coast
Marietta Thomas, Hazel Parson,
Mrs. Skoubo and Mrs. Art Allen
spent Thursday in Hermiston.
Mr. and Mrs. John McEntire went
to Pendleton last week to visit their
daughter who is in nurses' training
there.
Buster Rands and Ralph Black
took a truck load of watermelons to
Pendleton last week.
SKIDDING
If your car starts to skid, says the
Oregon State Motor association, turn
the front wheels in the direction of
the skid and at the same time take
your foot off the accelerator gradually.
Turkey Problems
Listed for Meeting
Possibilities of increasing the use
of turkey meat through advertising,
a discussion of misunderstood tur
key diseases, and a report on the
turkey, industry from a national
standpoint are a few of the items on
the program for the second annual
turkey growers convention to be
held at Oregon State college Tues
day, August 24.
Growers from any part of the
state, whether they belong to any
organization or association or not,
are welcome to this all-day educa
tional conference, says H. E. Cosby,
head of the poultry department. A
review of the 3937 turkey marketing
outlook will be given by Herbert L.
Byers, manager of the Northwestern
Turkey Growers' cooperative.
Read G. T. Want Ads. You way
find a bargain in something needed.
Cruising for Fun
Shimmering Lakes and Towering Peaks of Oregon's Cascade Range Viewed by
Motor loggers on Trek Up 260-Mile Skyline Road
"This newspaper U co-operating with The
Oregonlan and the Oregon State Motor
, association In presentation of a series of
' motorlogs Under the general title, "Cruis
ing for Fun." It Is hoped thereby to
stimulate tourist travel and Increase ap-
Sreclation of Oregon's recreation facilities,
'his article has beea condensed from a
full-page article appearing In The Orego
v nlan, August 1.
BY J. LYNN WYKOFF
, Staff Writer, The Oregonian
"The Oregon Skyline Trail fol
lows the summits of the Cascades
, of Oregon from Mount Hood . to
Crater lake, a distance of about
260 miles. Some day it will be the
wonder way of Oregon. -
"The present trail is a combina
tion oc connection of rough moun
tain trail and road, located or con
structed in disjointed manner, at
different times by forest rangers,
stockmen, miners, trappers and In
dians. . . , The average elevation of
the trail is about 5400 feet. . . .
Eventually it may be made into a
highway."
These excerpts are quoted from
"An Ideal Vacation Land The
National Forest of Oregon," a com
prehensive booklet published by the
United States forest service in 1923.
And a recent trip over the Skyline
route by the white Oregonian-Ore-gon
State Motor association travel
car, with Secretary of State Earl
Snell, Sheriff A. C. Burke of Ma
rion county and the writer as pas
sengers, demonstrated the accuracy
of that 14-years-ago prophecy.
The Skyline trail has been made
into a highway. Not a wide, smooth
or straight highway, to be sure, nor
one conducive to high speed, but
a thoroughly enjoyable auto road,
easily negotiated in less than two
days, offering some of the grand
est mountain and lake scenery of
the state, If not the entire Pacific
northwest.
Trip Begun Monday
The motorlog car left Portland
early Monday morning, rolled down
the Pacific highway to Salem,
where the two official guests were
taken aboard, then headed east
through Stayton and Mill City
toward the Santiam pass. Pavement
is the rule as far as Mill City, with
a short stretch of good gravel road
beyond. Soon, though, the route
becomes rough, rocky and narrow
as it follows the tortuous canyon
of the rushing North Santiam river.
At Detroit the motorist encount
ers construction work in progress,
extending almost to the juncture
of the North and South Santiam
routes. Over this part of the road
the going is slow, although a good
grade and wide curves presage an
excellent piece of highway con
struction when it is finished.
Shortly before Its juncture with
the South Santiam route, the high
way changes to smooth gravel with
wide sweeping curves, and after
passing the junction, skirts beauti
ful Blue and Suttle lakes. From
Sisters the route is over pavement
to Bend, where the motorlog group
stopped briefly for lunch, then
southward on The Dalles-California
highway, speeding along through
central Oregon's pine forests with
Broken Top, Maiden peak, Diamond
peak, the three Sisters and other
mountains of the Cascades tower
ing to the west.
Soon after passing the little town
of Chemult Is encountered the
paved road leading directly toward
the mountains, with Crater and
Diamond lakes waiting at the pave
ment's end.
A good night's sleep and break
fast at Crater Lake lodge, the too
few minutes available for gazing
in awed admiration at the shim
mering indigo of the lake, and the
trsk north was under way.
As the highway leaves Crater's
Sheriff A. C. Burke of Marion county, left, and Secretary of State Earl Snell
admire a Skyline scenic vista Elk Lake with Bachelor butte looming in the
background.
rim the motorist begins to get an
idea of what will be encountered
throughout the 260-mile trip: Ahead,
beyond a vista of sweeping fir-clad
ridges and valleys, Mount Thielsen
pokes its sharp pinnacle 9178 feet
skyward, with Mount Bailey seem
ing no less altitudinous, despite its
more rounded peak. Between the
two nestles the sparkling expanse
of Diamond lake, while Bald butte
and Hemlock butte rear upward in
the background.
Out of Diamond lake the Skyline
road rapidly gained altitude, until
its narrow but surprising smooth
dirt surface was winding along a
high ridge, through the lodgepole
pines of near-timberline. The en
tire section of road, including the
crossing of Windigo pass, was dry,
reasonably smooth, and well engi
neered to eliminate steep grades.
The drive around Crescent lake
offers the motorist a delightful
view of mountains and water, cul
minating in the arrival at the at
tractive resort situated on the
lake's north shore.
Odell Is Largest
Less than ten miles north of
Crescent lake is Odell lake, largest
of the lakes adjacent to the south
portion of the Skyline i .-oute..
At the town of Crescent Lake Is
encountered one of the few signs
of civilization seen on the entire
Skyline road it is the rails of the
Natron cutoff, Southern Pacific's
cutoff from Eugene to Klamath
Falls. Turning north from Odell
lake, however, the Skyline traveler
soon forgets this momentary in
trusion of modern progress as he
passes 6990 - feet - high Kaklaks
mountain, glimpses towering Maiden
peak to the northwest, and sees
numerous other high mountains,
many white with snow, ahead.
Nestled in a valley is Davis lake,
nearly as large as Diamond, Cres
cent and Odell, but offering variety
in setting with its margin of mead
owlands. Elk lake, where the boating and
fishing attracts many central Ore
gon vacationists, has a delightful
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setting, with grim-visaged Bachelor
butte seemingly rising almost from
the water at its west shore.
From Elk lake the road swings
east to skirt the rugged Three
Sisters; a 24-mile portion of the
Skyline through the Three Sisters
game refuge, and over the very
shoulders of the peaks themselves
was the only section not yet open
to traffic. It was still closed by
snow, so the motorloggers headed
for Bend, passing Devil's lake and
Sparks lake.
Merges With Santiam
From Bend the route led again
to Sisters, and back across the
Santiam highway. Here for a dis
tance of 57 miles the Skyline road
and Santiam highway are one and
the same.
Although not directly on the Sky
line route, Clear lake the motor
loggers' second night stop is well
worth the short time required for
a side trip, as are many, many oth
ers of the lakes situated from one
to several miles from the main
road.
Branching from the North San
tiam to the South Santiam route,
and from the latter on a forest road
which passes Fish lake and pene
trates a heavy stand of tall first
growth timber, the travel car ar
rived at Clear lake shortly after 7
P. M. .
Recapitulating the day'3 Journey
from Crater lake that evening, the
motorloggers found they had passed
through portions of one national
park Crater lake and four na
tional forests Umpqua, Deschutes,
Crater and Santiam and had tra
versed some of the most rugged ter
rain in the state on a road which had
been surprisingly smooth and easy
to drive.
The next morning was to find
the white travel car returning to
the Skyline road for the continua
tion of the trip north to Mount
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