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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 17, 1950
More Monument - -
Harshman and Carmel Broadfoot
to Portland this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Hobby
were attending to matters of bus
iness in Mitchell Friday evening.
Mrs. Buel Harshman and Mrs.
Harold French were in Canyon
City Friday attending to matters
of business.
The Big 4 Lumber company
shut down the mill Thursday for
repairs. A new carriage was in
stalled at this time.
Miss Anita Moore and Miss Pa
tricia Forrest spent several days
last week in Heppner, They were
jjuests of Miss Moore's grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ad Moore.
Mrs. Chance Wilson drove to
Echo for her daughter, Mrs. Ho
mer Wlliams and children. They
will spend a week at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson.
John Simas of La Grande has
been visiting friends and rela
tives in town this week. While
here he was a guest of Mrs. Daisy
Simas.
Darrel Cork visited his sister,
Mrs. Earl Sweek and family this
week. From here he went to John
Day to meet his wife who is vis
iting her father in that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Dooley from
California were visiting friends
in Monument. While here they
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dew
ey Spurgeon. They left Sunday
for Bend.
Mr. and Mrs. Lews Batty and
daughter Linda were business vis.
itors in Heppner Friday. They
were accompanied home by J. F.
Eudy who visited with his dau
ghters, Rose Griggs and Virgie
Broadfoot.
LaVonne West and Hazel Spen
cer were Heppner visitors Satur
day. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mahon and
children visited over the week
end with his brother and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Alvie Mahon in
Heppner.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sweek went
to Portland Sunday.
Mrs. Lois Bleakman and dau
ghters and Mrs. Edith Musgrave
and children were shopping and
attending to matters of business
in Heppner Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Saddler
and children were attending to
matters of business in John Day
Monday.
CAMP 5 BABE
a visit with Mrs. Hamlin's son,
Donald DuBois and family.
Week-end guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Edmond Gontv were Mr. and
Mrs. Byron Henry of Enterprise.
Mr. Henry is state president of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
and was here for the Saturday
night convention.
Mrs. Agnes Currnn returned
Sunday from Portland where she
has spent the past two months
with her daughter, Mrs. Helen
Greene.
Mrs. Lilian Clofrston has re
turned from New York City where
she attended the international
convention of Jehovah's Wit
nesses held there in July.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hynd
were up from their ranch at Ce
cil Tuesday. Their daughter Car
olyn is spending a brief vacation
with her aunt Mrs. Annie Schaef
fer at Freezeout.
Irv Benett was admitted to the
hospital Tuesday afternoon.
National Parks of Rockies Area
Thrill Oregon Motorlog Visitors
TWi u a eondnuatlon of the wrand
Of two motorlORs coverlne national parka of
the west. It win appear In The Sunday
Oreeonian July 30. The Oreeonlan and the
Oregon State Motor auoclaUon Jolotij
ponaored tne trip.
BY JALMAR JOHNSON
Sunday Editor. The Oregonlan
The national parks of the
Southwest are expansive and
the traveler who aproaches
them as we did, from California,
is introduced to them in an ex
pansive way by the Mojave
desert and the city of Las Vegas,
Nev.
We had decided to start our
400-mile jump in the Oregon
State Motor association white
travel car from Sequoia Na
tional park to Las Vegas in the
afternoon so we would traverse
the hottest part of the desert
after sundown. It was a wise de
cision. It was hot on the desert
after dinner, but it had been
much hotter probably 110
during the day.
Shortly after 10 p. m. there
loomed in the desert the bright
neon lights of the block after
block of swanky hotels and mo
tels that line the highway just
out of Las Vegas.
We slowed down and looked
at this week-end paradise of the
Hollywood movie colony, but
uiuvc iuiu luwu 10 our own i
more modest at S13 a niirht fnr I
the four of us but entirely
comfortable motel.
We took a quick look around
this fabulous town, dedicated to
gambling, drinking, easy di
vorce and quick marriage. As
we made our entire 17-day trip
at an average expense of $6.64
per person per day, we had no
money to gamble. Vicariously
we thrilled, though, as more af
fluent persons threw silver dol
lars on the tables in the bril
liantly lighted gambling houses
that line the main street and re
main open night and day.
Next day the miles beckoned
us on to other sights and at noon
we took off on a side trip to
Boulder City and Hoover dam.
Out on the desert again, head
ed east, we sweltered in the
afternoon sun. So did the car
Crossing the corner of Arizona
into Utah, we climbed rapidly
and the engine temperature
needle edged forward. We
joined other motorists at the
side of the road for a few min
utes to let the motor cool.
Next we tackled two national
parks in a single day.
Zion came first, a short drive
from St. George. Zion is another
Yosemite in Technicolor. Of
about the same dimensions as
the California park, the valley
presents, however, a vastly dif
ferent view. Here the cliffs are
a deep vermillion two thirds of
the way up, topped by white.
Sometimes the white bears a cap
of red. Mauve and purple add
variety to the towering cliffs,
which erosion of the centuries
has left in fantastic shapes.
We made Kanab, Utah, our
headquarters. We left our lug-
9 m
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Grand Canyon (left) and Old Faithful in Yellowstone park.
gage there and drove on 90
miles to the North Rim of the
Grand Canyon.
High above the Arizona des
ert, at an altitude of nearly 9000
feet, the approach to the north
rim seemed like a welcome re
turn to Oregon. Here pine and
even some Douglas fir grow in
green abundance and the leaves
of the quaking aspen trees
quiver in the cool breeze.
Grand Canyon lived up to its
name Lon Garrison, assistant
superintendent of Grand Can
yon national park, showed it to
us from several view points. We
looked ten miles, across the
broken peaks rising from the
canyon floor, to the south rim
which is 1000 feet lower than
our vantage point. As we
looked, the giant shapes in the
canyon below seemed to change
color with the setting sun and
the shifting clouds.
The Grand canyon was with
out doubt the most majestic
sight of our entire motorlog
trip.
Beautiful is the word for
Bryce Canyon national park,
which we saw next day. As you
drive through it, you come to
viewpoints overlooking hitherto
unseen vistas of fantastic rocks
and pinnacles domes, spires
and temples decorated In all
the colors of the spectrum, with
reds, pinks and creams predom
inating. The major beauty spots
are found where streams have
cut into the cliffs.
We spent the night In Salt
Lake City. A quick inspection of
Temple square and the state cap
itol at night, a short visit to
Great Salt lake in the morning,
and we were off again toward
the last two national parks on
our tour Grand Teton and Yel
lowstone. Rain and snow spoiled our
view of the Grand Teton and
Yellowstone. It was not snowing
yet in Grand Teton park, but it
was cold and the clouds hung
low over the mountains, obscur
ing all but the bases of the
usually spectacular peaks.
As we entered Yellowstone it
began to snow and we shivered
in our inadequate wraps when
we left the car to view the
steaming paint pots along the
road to Old Faithful lodge.
There, despite the inclement
weather, travelers from all over
the country demonstrated that
Yellowstone still is the best
known and probably most popu
lar national park. It was so
crowded we had to wait for an
hour for reservations to be can
celed so we could get a cabin
for the night. Then we could get
only one double and one single
bed.
But Old Faithful performed
beautifully and we watched it
spew its boiling water into the
air from the warm comfort of
the lodge lobby.
The trip home was made in
two long, but easy, jumps, from
Helena, Mont., to Spokane, and
from Spokane to Portland. In
one extra day we could have
gone on to Glacier national park
on the Montana-Canada border,
but we had seen Glacier before
and our budget was running out
on us. Glacier is one of the
country's most scenic parks and
should be included, if at all
possible, in a park tour.
Although we skipped five of
the national parks on the giant
chain of the West we demon
strated that all 13 of them could
be visited on a three-week vaca
tion. We saw eight of them in
17 days, besides spending two
days in San Francisco, and see
ing a lot of new country and
towns in between.
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