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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 20, 1954 San Juans. Islands of Contentment, Draw Visitors Seeking Relaxation Graduation lo Be Next Week al Boardman School Motorloggers Travel To Puget Paradise By Auto and Ferries The following It romlenxu tlon of a miitorlcig appeiirlns; In thi" Mv 23 " N'K'I W KST rotn nrrtliin, Th Sunday Orpgiinliin mHta.lnc. It Is one of an nnniiul rnrles onor'(l Jointly l).v The Orp;nnlttn and the Oregon Mule Motor nirliitlon. I5V KKITII HAN'SKN Stall Writer, The Oronlan Pervading atmosphere of the San Junn islands, sensed even after a brief visit, is the content ment of the islanders with their uway-frnm-it-all existence. A good many of them left homes and jobs on the mainland to settle on the Isolated islands, which make up San Juan county, Wash., after first feeling the spell while on vacation. These new comers now outnumber the "na tives," nnd the process continues. A resort owner on the sleepy island of Iipcz said one trouble with the resort business was that this summer's paying guest, like as not, will buy a bit of beach property and will be back next summer building his own cabin. She didn't sny It maliciously, however. Sho was hnppy about It. She, too, came for a visit eight years ago and came back to stay. San Juan Islanders love folks who love their Islands. lutes Number 172 The 172 small, beautiful Islands, which are tops of a mountain range that sank beneath the sea, lie north of Puget sound between the United States mainland and Canada's Vancouver island, with in a comfortable day's drive from Portland, If you rollsh the quiet life, try them for a full vacation. Should you yearn for bright lights after a brief Interval, give them the quick tour by ferryboat and car. In the familiar white Oregon State Motor association Ford, we drove to Anacortes, gateway to the San Juans, and spent the night there. We spent three days touring Loiez, Orcas and San Juan islands, the regular ferry stops; then drove down Whidbey island to Keystone, ferried to Port Townsend and came home 'kv "rU".TI -H SvrfVV '" ( y wash" II Anisic Itwivt'-oni Jrj. AcOKU'i 4 Miami, 4 r: White ninlorlMg car pimwH at coast guard UghthoiiHA on San Juan Island, county seat for the Puget sound group. Across the water Is Vancouver Island, reached by Washington state ferries. MotorloK tooli writer norlh lo AiiiirortcN, Ho'" b.V ferry lo three of Sun Juans; home via Whldlicy Miind noil """'I '.l via the scenic Hood Canal high way. There was no need to hurry at any time in the trip of about 700 miles, a good part of it over San Juan Island roads. Washington state ferries offer regular year-round passage to the San Juans, and during the vaca tion season through them to Sid ney, on Vancouver isiunu. ine ferry ride itself is a scenic mar vel, winding among the many beautiful islands, sometimes with in slingshot distance of the shore line. Lonez island, our first stop, is somewhat flat but with the beau tifully rugged, rocky shore typi cal of the San Juans. Farms, many of them tended by fisher men in their off season, (lot tne landscape. It's a great place for complete isolation from city life, and only recently has it become resort conscious. Resort Offer Cabin Orcas. the largest and most nlctiiresoue of the islands, Is the most popular with vacationers Sump :!5 resorts make the tour 1st dollar a most important part of the islands limited economy. A rm the other islands, resorts offer chiefly housekeeping cabins, emnloi'tahle but unpretentious. Av,.r.'iin rental is S.'l.i a Week for two, with $r extra for each ad ditional person. ( )n ( Ircas is Mot , in state park mini acres, most of it within vir r,.ri..t with lour lakes and camp grounds. Orcas' prime attraction is Mt (,ur,(iiii,Hi 'Moll fret, hii'hest point on the islands. Its slope oh 1, l.iui'i' affords one of the world's most spectacular ma rine mows The San Juans lie calmly be low, seemingly almost under foot. There in I he near distance is Hcllingham. there Anacortes; snnw-cantied Ml I'al-er and the Cascade mountains line in one direction. Vancouver island's peaks in another and the Olympic range in another. Artificial vacation excitement on Orcas, as on the other islands, is almost non-existent. You fish for salmon on the troll, for bot tom fish near the rocks or for trout in the lakes you go hiking, you sit In the sun away irom your office. Take your choice. That a treat many people love restful San Juan vacations is in dicated by the Met that accom modations are crowded in July and August. The traveler should have a reservation in those months. San Juan Historical San Juan Island, site of Friday Harbor, the county seat, hasn't the scenic attraction of Orcas, but the fishing is just as good and the island history is here along with the island doctor (who uses a private plane), theater, and liquor store, Here was the final boundary conflict between the United States and Great Britain. Each nation claimed the islands, and in the 1850s each occupied a part or San Juan island. The old block house of the English camp still stands, along with some other buildings. Friday Harbor's annual Ren dezvous, this year scheduled Aug ust 11, is a summer highlight, a free salmon barbecue for visitors. This year plans are afoot to feed a crowd of .'5500 .Came is so plentiful in the Islands that residents look on their small deer and pheasants as pests. San Juan island itself has so many rabbits, offspring of a colony of Belgian hares, that high schoolers, it s said. maKe spending money from a modern type "snipe hunt"-blinding the rabbits with bright searchlights, then netting them! Monument News ''I'l'H By Millie Wilson Andy Beanlsley was injured while working on his barn Tues day. His wife, Mildred took him fur medical aid. It was feared he had broken some ribs. Tlu schoolmasters dinner spon sored by the Ladies Aid netted By Flossie Coots BOARDMAN The Boardman high school Baccalaureate ser vices will be held Sunday even- ne. Mav 23rd at the Boarciman Community church with the Rev. A. E. Davis, Methodist minister, Ttermiston officlatinc. Music will be furnished by the church choir accompanied by Mrs. rranK Bar riw. Commencement exercises will be Monday evening, May 24 at 8 p. m. in the Boardman gymnas ium. Dr. Frank B. Bennett, presi dent of the Eastern Oregon Col lege of Education, La Granae win be the puest speaker. Special music will be by the trio, Miss Jean Scott, Miss Zelma Cowan, and Mrs. Eugene -Harwood, ac eomnanied hv Mrs. Lowell Shat- tuck, who will also play the pro-1 cessional and the recessional. Miss Davie Janes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Janes is the Valedictorian, and Leonard urn stead is the Salutatorian. Seniors finishing school are besides the two mentioned, Rena Anderson, Evelyn Hulit, Wilma Hug, Edna Knight, Bernadine Kress, Larry Thorpe, Ted Zivney, Keith Fer guson and Bob Smith. Eighth grade graduation will be Wednesday afternoon May 26 at 2 p. m. with superintendent of schools at Irngon, Eugene ins keep delivering the address to the following graduates, Duree John ston, Donna Ferguson, Donna Watts. Barbara Gantenbein, Kathleen Duncan, Ivan Kress, Jim Aardappel, Jim Thorpe, Jerry Peck, Gary Moore, Dennis Duncan and Gerald Anderson. Wednesday evening, at 8 p. m. will be the school class night when all the awards will be pre sented to the various students, by the teachers. Phil Jones had the misfortune to get one of his legs broken be tween the knee and the ankle Monday afternoon while helping unload heavy road equipment at EntorDri.se. He is now in the Enterprise hospital. Mrs. Jones, Etta and Archie Jones motored to Enterprise Sunday to see Phil. $27.00. The benefit dance for the Henry Cupper family raised about $-14.00 to help build their new home. Stanley Musgrave took Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith to Hansen. Idaho to get their household goods. They will be employed at the Mt. Vernon Rest Home. They left early Sunday morning and returned Monday. Harold Cork was called to Bend Monday to see his mother, Mabel Cork, who is ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mild red Johnson. The city council met Tuesday evening and voted to raise $750.00 my taxation to put street lights in Monument. The Galloping Goose party met for an early morning breakfast with Babe Showalter on the old Tommy Hayward place last Wed nesday. Onida Cork, Ossie Engle, Na omi Hooker, Pearl Martin, Ann Kimmell, Mattie Stubblefield.j Reta Clipper met at the home of; Edith Batty to hold Ladies Aid, meeting. ! Mr. and Mrs. Steve Kincaid andi Millie Wilson were business visit-1 ors in John Day and Canyon City last Tuesday. As soon as the Kincaids reached home, mey left and drove to Eaker that even ing. Mead Gilman Jr., and daugh ter Marlene will visit Mr. and Mrs. Mead Gilman Sr., until June 4th when Mr. Gilman will report at Fort Lewis. Mrs- Darlene Boyer, Mrs. Isobel Neel, Mrs. Jessie Jewell and Mrs. Margaret Holmes were all shop ping and having medical check ups in Prineville May 11th. They returned the same day. Rov Leathers and Jim Wedge- worth were doing jury duty in Canyon City this week. Doc. Hinton took his sister Ella, Durst to Heppner on Sunday to visit her husband, Henry Durst, who recently underwent surgery at the Heppner hospital. Monument's town team of base ball drove to Mitchell Sunday to nlav the Mitchell town team. Several car loads of people went with the team. Mitchell's team was winner by a large margin. Grass-Land Field Day Slated atOSC June 2 A grass-land field day will be held at Oregon State college June 2 instead of the annual farm crops field day, H. H..Rampton, associate agronomist and pro gram chairman, has announced. OSC's grass-land research pro gram will be featured. Visitors will gather in the sheep and beef barn and judging pavilion area at 9:30 a. m. Tours of the OSC hill pasture, south farm and dairy pastures will then be conducted by the college's scientists with discussions on the latest grass land research find ings of the agricultural experi- ment station. Those attending ...Mi i,,,. an opportunity to seeaTf.feedersiloattheWyatt farm. .Coffee will be Pd at noon but visitors are asked to bring their own lunch. o " " - - la Mrs. W. B. Bariatt 01 sawm visiting at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Barratt. DIVORCE GRANTED A decree awarding Vera E. But ler a divorce from her husband, Bonnie G. Butler was entered by the county clerk of Wasco county, Oregon on May 7. 'U- Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Barratt were in Spokane a few days the end of last week. o NEED Letterheads. Phone 6-9228. j8f w3b THE FARMER SHOULD NOT TAKE THE RISK WHEN HAIL INSURANCE COSTS SO LITTLE FARMING IS A BUSINESS It is Good Business to Protect Your Growing Crops with HAIL INSURANCE Turner, Van Marter 0 Bryant BONDS - INSURANCE - REAL ESTATE " PHONE 6-9652 HEPPNER V'-'y .,... r J, njuj i ii i L r V-'-1,''1"' :' s'-v K "" f BIG Pgf.HSYLVAE.IA SPECIAL Here's tlic greatest sale of the season. 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