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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
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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.
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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.
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Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Barratt
were in Spokane a few days the
end of last week.
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