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Page 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, July 19, 1951 Nine-Hour Cruise on Lake Chelan Delights Oregonian Motorloggers The following li a condensation of motorlof appearing In the July U lawue of The Orefonlan't Bnnday Majailno lection. It li one of an annual eerlee of motorloga ' eponiored Jointly by The Orego nian and the Orofon State Motor association. BY GW1ADYS BOWEN Stall Wrtltr, Tht Oral onlaa (Photo br Author) A 7uu-mue drive to take a boat ride seems, at first glance, incongruous. But when the boat ride is the 120-mlle cruise to the head of Lake Chelan and re turn, the trip is entirely under standable. Lake Chelan Is a beautiful body of fresh water in the foot hills of the Cascades In north eastern Washington. It is fed by small streams and waterfalls tumbling down from a range of snowcapped mountains rising 8000 and 9000 feet on either shore. It ii a truly "Believe It Or Not" lake, for the surface of its clear blue water lies 1100 feet above sea level, and its depth is lust under 1300 feet This means it is actually both above and be low sea level! Tht lake drains Into the Co lumbia river east of the town of Chelan through the Chelan river, reported to be the short est river in the world. This tiny river drops in a cascade of falls through a narrow canyon to join the mighty Columbia below. A drive to this point, four miles from Chelan, Is a must. Glacier Created Lake According to geologists, the bed of Lake Chelan was cre ated by glacial action during the last ice age, when a great gla cier moved from the present summit of the Cascade moun tains toward the Columbia. In its move it gouged out one of the world's deepest canyons. Then the glacier melted, leav ing the lower end dammed up and making a narrow, mile-wide canyon plugged at both ends. In I r-mt 4 : ..J r mik 7 m Typloal view seen from boat on nine-hour trip along Lake Chelan. Many visitors describe it as America's Switzerland. time, this canyon filled with wa ter from the great watersheds which drain into the Stehekin river, which in turn empties into the extreme upper end of Lake Chelan. The traveler reaches the lake at its southeasternmost end at the town of Chelan, named for the lake. From Chelan a comfortable, small, diesel-powcred boat leaves every morning auring summer for the head of the lake, 55 miles away. The nine-hour trip is varied by numerous stops, as the boat laces back and forth to pick up and leave passengers, freight R YAKIMA ! L J THI PALLE PEMDIE70M R?RTLANt Route taken by writer of accompanvim nr".le Is shown above. Many other loop trips are possible to and from Chelan. and various bits of shopping the skipper has done for residents on the upper shores. They are dependent on the boat for all their supplies. An hour's layover for lunch Is made at the Golden West lodge at the upper end of the lake, called Stehekin. The boat trip is spectacularly beautiful. A road on the east shore extends uplake some 25 leads to the little community ol Manson. A road on the west shore extends up luke some 25 miles. Attractive permanent homes as well as summer cot tages with green lawns running down to bathing areas and boat moorings on the lake front are numerous in this area. But the ends of the highways bring wilder, more rugged" scenery with greater distance between resorts. From 25 Mile Creek northward to Stehekin, regular visits of the boat are highlights in the lives of resort owners and their guests. But resorters are not the only Inhabitants of these wilder re gions in the upper Cascades. There are numerous mining camps forest and country roads out of Stehekin lead to several copper mines. Chehan residents refer to thr lake as "the Switzerland o' America." And truly, with itr waterfalls tumbling over sheer cliffs into the lake and perpet ually snowcapped peaks rising ruggedly into the blue, the up- Iiar lake Is not unlike Switzer and. Luxuriant fruit orchards and grape arbors abound near Che fan itself. Fishing excellent The whole area Is a sports man's paradise with excellent fishing and hunting in season The boat leaves Chelan ever morning from June 16 to Sep tember 30 at 8:30 a. m. Aftei October 1 it only runs to Stehe kin on Sundays. Mondays, Wed nesdays and Fridays, leaving at 9:10 a. m. The round trip il $5.50 per passenger. PHONE 862 Complete Plumbing Service and Supply Whatever your plumbing needs just phone 862 and a man will be there in a Jiffy. Whether you need service or want to select from Heppner's most complete stock of fine plumbing fixtures you will find Just what you want at Case Furniture. Remember the phone number I SPECIAL WHITE CHINA WASH BASIN A modern stylo white wash basin at a special reduced price. Regular price $26.41. now only $21.90 Less Trim Case Furniture Co. FRANK COLCLESSEli, Plumbing Mgr. Phone 862 Heppner Lexington Man to Train in California A. P. Hill Military Reservation, Va. Private first class Floyd R. Breeding, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al bert M. Breeding, Lexington, will leave next month for Camp Irwin, Calif., and five weeks training with the 43rd Winged Victory division's 143 tank batallion. Pfc. Breeding, who has been assigned to the 143d division since last Novenber 6, Is a tank crewman in the 143d. At Camp Irwin the tankers will have a chance to fire and man euver In some of the army's new est medium tanks. They will be tested under some trying wea ther conditions in the area, used as a training site in World War II. " The 43d division, a former Ver mont Connecticut, Rhode Island National Guard outfit command ed by Major General Kenneth F. Cramer, is at A. P. Hill Military Reservation for six weeks field training. It is scheduled to take part in the joint army-air force exercise Southern Pine near Fort Bragg, N. C. in late August. Hodge Opening Very Successful Attendance at the opening last weekend of the new Fngidaire department of Hodge Chevrolet company taxed facilities to the utmost, stated Charles Hodge, owner of the new store. The crowds caused many women to miss the cooking school held at the store on the two opening days. Hodge said that he regretted being unable to serve everyone who tried to attend the school, but that plans were being made to hold another schol in larger quarters in the near future. o Mrs. Floyd Adams and Mrs. Clive Huston went to Pasco, Washington Saturday and visited Mrs. Herman Parker, daughter of Mrs. Huston. Later they met Mr. and Mrs. John Roscoe and daughter Kathie Jean of Kel logg, Idaho. Kathie Jean will vi sit in Heppner with her grand mother, Mrs. Adams while her parents are on a vacation into Canada. Nancy Adams return ed also from a vacation In Kellogg. Rural Resident Asked to Adopt Safe Practices For the state's farms to be safe places to live and work ru ral residents must think safety declares F. E. Price, dean and director of agriculture at Oregon State college, who adds that July 22 to 28, Is national farm safety week. It is a good time for every farm person to adopt "safe farm prac tices" .as a personal slogan, says Dean Price, who is state chair man of the farm safety week program. Most common types of Oregon farm accidents, according to fig ures compiled by Jim Wiles of the state industrial accident commission, are falls and being struck by objects. The agencies usually associated with this type accident are working surfaces, hand tools and vehicles. Although by no means all of the farm accidents which occur in the state are indicated In figures released by the state In dustrial accident commission, the summary is considered a good oarometer of what is taking place. Commission figures are con fined to accidents covered by the workmen's compensation act. In 1950, there were about 11.000 ac ricultural accounts canted by the state industrial accident commis sion. Last year, farm accidents re ported to the commission totaled 2,224, lust slightly fewer than were reported in 1949. Of this total, 1,474 represented "time loss" claims. 652 Involved no ab sence from work. Four accidents were fatal. There were 10 fatal farm ac cidents covered bv the comoen sation law in 1945. An encouraging note in the accident commission figures Dean Price explains is the fact that fatal accidents have tended to decline each year since 1945. Total accidents, meanwhile, have stayed approximately the same arjout z.uuu annually. Of 630 total accidents reported up to June 1 this year, there were no fatalities and the time loss mishaps totaled only 429. 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