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Scenic Jackpot Hit on Motorlog
To Washington's Mt. Rainier Area
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BY JALMAR JOHNSON
Sunday Editor, The Oregonlaa
Like most residents of the
western slope of the Cascades,
this writer and his family are
quite familiar with the western
Mt. Rainier country, but had
never visited tho eastern at
proaches to the mountain and
Rainier national park until a re
cent week end when we headed
the Oregon State Motor associa
tion's white Ford in that direc
tion. We hit the scenic jackpot
the majestic Columbia gorge,
the sagebrush of central Wash
ington, the green orchards of
the Yakima valley, rushing
mountain streams, virgin pine
timber on the eastern slope of
the Cascades, the verdant green
of the moist west slope.
Two Days Sufficient
We found that a Portland
motorist with scarcely more
than 500 miles of driving can
see all this and visit both sides
of Mt. Rainier national park in
as little as two days or as
many more as he cares to de
vote to the trip. He can stay in
comfortable hotels and moun
tain lodges and eat in modern
restaurants, or he can camp out
In the open in forest and national
park camp grounds.
Our assignment was to log a
loop trip from Portland up the
Evergreen highway to Maryhill
then north on 97 through
Yakima and northwest by high
way 410 over 5440-foot-high
Chinook pass, then west by
Washington state highway No. S
through the southeast corner of
Mt. Rainier national park to the
junction of the Pacific highway
at Marys Corner, the well
known western turning-off point
for Mt. Rainier.
Two days before we left
Yakima to explore the upper
reaches of the Cascades and de
termine what the loop was like,
Chinook pass had been opened.
A record winter fall of snow
had been sliced through by
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Fishermen try their luck in Naches river north of Yakima.
snow plows, as with a knife,
leaving huge banks of snow on
either side of the highway.
Much of this snow will remain
well into the summer, it seemed
certain.
We passed the summit, crowd
ed with skiers, amateur camera
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Map shows loop trip that takti in both sides of Rainier park.
enthusiasts and just plain sight
seers, and reached the junction
where highway 410 continues on
to Seattle and state highway 5
heads west for Marys Corner.
There a sign, "Road Closed,"
blocked the entrance to high
way 5. We had to retrace our
route through Yakima and back
to the fcvergreen highway. We
had made the trip a few days
too early, but a check-up on our
return revealed that by the time
this article is in print the road
will be open and the east and
west entrances to Mt. Rainier
park as well.
Western Oregonians and
Washingtonians are prone to
think of the areas east of the
mountains as desolate stretches
of sagebrush except where Irri
gation has caused orchards and
green fields to sprout or dry
farming has develoDed era in
fields. There are such stretches
and from the valleys the hills
seem bare compared with the
country west of the Cascades,
but our trip up the east slope of I
the high range was a revelation L
to us.
The mountains were covered
with green timber high, large
dimension, virgin stuff, un-i
spoiled by cutting. Naches i
river, running swift and highl
from the snow banks above, wal
as pretty a stream as we badi
ever seen west of the mountain. 1
Fishermen dotted its banks, try
ing their luck with rod and fly. I
Cool, grassy camp grounds
along the river looked inviting.
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Morrow County Fair and Rodeo
this year. The Tillicum Club is
sponsoring the Princess and the
dance will be in Heppner Satur
day nifiht July 28th.
j ne miicum Club met at the
Mrs. Elvin Ely home Tuesday
evening July seventeenth. The
following officers were installed
for the coming year. President,
Mrs. Clayton Allen; Vice-president,
Mrs. George Gwinn; Re
cording secretary, Mrs. John
Wa lker; corresponding-secretary,
Mrs. w. E. Ganrer and treasurer
Mrs. Dale Russell. Installing
officer was Second vice-president
or Oregon State Federation of
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therford, Arlington. Other out of
town guests were Mrs. Kiester
and Mary Holland, Arlington
Fifteen members were present.
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$mo!ey, The Firc-Prcvcntin' Bear, Says:
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the most
range fires
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Tnii year, with grain and feed still critical, we
can't afford range fires I But they'll continue
unless we get wise to who starts most of them.
Lightning, for instance, gets a lot of blame but
starts only I fire out of 10.
Some folia think most range fires are deliber
ately set by criminals, arsonists, and other
demented peoplebut that's all wrong too.
The fires started for revenge and other such
reasons are almost negligible.
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Now ... get ready for a shock. Behind this
door is the real culprit that does the big dam
age. This will hurt, but we've got to stop
burning America's ranges. So . . .
Yep . . . it's Mrv A. Good Citizen ... an
average American fellow like you who starts
the most range fires. Just plain carelessness
on your part accounts for nine out of ten!
This year with more folks traveling through the grazing
country-America's ranges may suffer the greatest catas
trophe in history I It is Imperative that you be par
ticularly careful with fire outdoors.
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