Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 1, 1957
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Famed Sun Valley Winter Resort
Offers Many Summer Attractions
Many Families
Motor to Spa
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tnr In Tha Sunday Oreronlan.
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ponsored Jointly by tho Oro
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and The OrPKonlan.
BY HAROLD HUGHES
SU1 Writer, TIM Ortionlan
Under the winter snow banked
and drifted around the lodges,
inns and chalets of Sun Valley
is the richest bluegrass lawn In
Idaho. This grass, which lies
frozen and dormant during the
exhilarations of the skiing sea
son, Is symbolic of the trans
formation the resort undergoes
from winter to summer.
Such a good job of bathing
Sun Valley in dazzling winter
ized glamor has been done, what
with peopling the place with
movie stars. Dresldents. interna
tional celebrities, beautiful
women and handsome men, that
the average budeet-conscious
family was once timid about
tackling the resort In the sum
mer season.
Anyway, who would go to the
nation's most famous ski resort
in summer when the snow
Is all melted?
Well, lots and lots of people,
both the Hollywood species and
the budget-reminded family are
showing up at the Sawtooth
mountain resort to sip a cool
temperatured vacation loaded
with all kinds of entertainment.
Many Arrive By Auto
DesDlte the fact the resort was
built and is owned and operated
by the Union Pacific rauroaa,
a large number of guests arrive
In automobiles, Just as we did
when we arrived In a white Ore
gon State Motor association mc
torlou car and hlchballed the
family Into a couple of comfort
able rooms In the Challenger
Inn.
Here, 13 hours' driving time
from Portland, we began an ex
citing stay in the bluegrass
DrlnclDality of Sun Valley.
The hottest attraction in the
summer is also the coolest. It is
the 16.200-sauare-foot ice skat
ing rink, said by the builders to
be the largest year-round out
door rink in the world.
In no time at all, say a few
hours, children who have never
been closer to ice than an elec
trio refrigerator are actually
standing upright on skates. In
a few dnys, some are skating
backwards, thanks to the he"
of the Olympic caliber skating
pros.
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One wintertime activity continues throughout summer at Sun
Valley. Here the writer's children, Sheila and Joe, tried Ice
skating under the warm sun. This Is popular attraction.
The rink is in front of the
Lodge Terrace, so It is possible
each night to enjoy tne Best
food in Sun Valley and watch
the skaters spin on the bril
liantly lighted rink.
If vou eet either bored or
hrulsed bv the skating, there
is the Sun Valley Opera House,
which shows first-run movies
each night; there are two bars,
nightly dancing, two dining
rooms and a cafeteria for the
(tiiv who has to watch the fam
ily dollars. There is also good
television, for those who retuse
to escape.
Jlnvrnck rides and nack trips
aboard horses to Trail Creek
cabin where a jazz trio provides
dancing music are offered twice
a week.
Kldt Have Playground
There are two swimming
nnnls' a nine-hole eolf course
with 18 tees; one of the finest
trap or skeet shooting rigs In
the nation and a rifle and pistol
range.
There Is trout flshina In near
by creeks between June 4 and
October 31 and restricted fishing
for lazv euests in the Sun Valley
lake. There are four tennis
courts and a Dro to Improve
your shots. There are also 100
western riding horses and a
superabundance of wide open
spaces.
A special playground, stocked
with baby sitters, is provided
for young children. Also, the
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Oregonlaus can reach Sun Valley by auto via U. S. highways
tO or tO to Boise, V. 8. 20 to Shoshone, then onto V. S. 93.
common between the two malor
hotels has no auto traffic, so
children are safe walking there.
Bicycles and tricycles can be
rented for modest ums. Cycling
is a favorite form of transporta
tion for all ages.
The Imnressive lawn and
landscaping, never seen by the
winter visitors, Is not just to
look at. Comfortable lounges
around duck ponds and picture-
book bridges and watenans
make the common an Ideal
place to soak up the sun and
ignore the world.
Rooms and rates to fit most
pocketbooks, ranging from cele
brity - like accommodations in
the lodge to dormitory rooms
for four at motel Drlces. are
available. You can spend as little
or as much money as you line.
However, most of the entertain
ment and rides, except for the
swimming pools, which are tree
to hotel guests, will cost extra
money.
Shoshone Is Railhead
The maximum aver ace tem
perature In July, generally the
hottest month In the vauey,
which is 6000 feet above sea
level, is 80.1 degrees. August
is about the same and Septem
ber averages about eight de
grees cooler.
Drivers from Oregon and
Washington will approach Sun
Valley from the west through
Boise. It is 121 miles from Boise
over U. S. highways 30, 26 and
20 to Shoshone, where rail visit
ors are picked up on busses for
the 55-mile trip north to tne re
sort. Only an hour's driving time
from Shoshone are the volcanic
and lava splendors of the
Craters of the Moon, one of the
geological wonders of the na
tion. Four and a half hours more
driving will bring you to Yel
lowstone national park, where
nature has Indulged In super
exertions to provide scenery.
Summer activities at Sun Val
ley run from June 1 until Octo
ber 15, when the resort is closed
down for repair and refurbish
Ing In preparation for the ski
season that opens at Christmas
and rum to early April.
Lexington News
By DELPHA JONES
Dick Kuhl, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. E. Ruhl, is a patient in IMoneer
Memorial hospital suffering from
(second degree burns and shock
when he was Injured at the farm
of his grandmother, Mrs. Elva
Ruhl, during a wheat fire on
Monday.
Mrs. O. V. Cutsforth Is again
at home after major surgery In
rioneer Memorial hospital In
Heppner.
Word has been received in Lex
ington of the Injury of Ernest
Fredrlcks of Salem. He is in a
hospital In that city
Mike Tatrlek spent the week
end in Portland.
Mrs. A. F. Majeske motored to
Portland on Saturday taking her
grandson, Stevie Ansted, where
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Mounts, met him from their
home in Randle, Washington.
Mrs. John Ledbetter entertain
ed with a swimming party on
Friday honoring Mrs. Dean Hunt's
birthday. Those attending were:
Mrs, Gena Leonard, Mrs. Bernlce
Lott, Mrs. Iris Campbell, the
honoree Lois Hunt, and the host
ess Lorcne Ledbetter.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Papineau
are spending some time in Lex
ington. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Northrup
and daughter Peggy took a load
of delegates to the Christian
church summer camp at Cove on
Sunday.
Pendleton visitors on Tuesday
were Mr. and Mrs. Morris McCarl
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Buddy and daughter Rosetta
motored to The Dalles on Tues
day taking Pvt. James Laney
there where he took a bus to his
station In California.
Mrs. Ethel Dunbar motored to
Arlington on Tuesday taking her
son Norman Miles to the bus. He
is returning to a Coast Guard
station in California.
Mrs. Eldon Padberg entertain
ed With coffee and cake on Fri
day morning honoring Mrs. Lois
Hunt. Those present were Gladys
VanWlnkle, Lorene Ledbetter,
Mildred Davidson, Cherry Herm
ann, Lois Hunt and Eileen Pad
berg.
O. Laney and son James were
visitors in Lakeview last week.
Mrs. E. E. McFadden is em
ployed at Gonty's shoe store in
Heppner this week.
Mrs. Marilyn Pullen and sister,
Rosalie Dickenson, were visitors
at the O. G. Breeding home last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. McFadden
entertained a sister of Mrs. Mc
Fadden, Mrs. Elouise Gibbs, and
Boyd Turner of Hermiston, on
Saturday evening.
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Austin
and children, Salem, who have
been visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. F. Butterfield, left
Monday for Elgin where they will
visit Mr. Austin's sister, Mrs.
Boyd Standley and family
OSC to Test Rye,
Clover Grasses
From Australia
New clover and rye grass vari
eties developed in Australia and
New Zealand will be tested by
Oregon State college next year,
reports D. D. Hill, head of the O.
S. C. farm crops department.
The varieties were discovered
by J. Ritchie Cowan, OSC agron
omist, when he attended the Int
ernational Grassland Congress In
New Zealand last year, Hill said.
Seed stocks of possible high
yielding rye grass and orchard
grass varieties and a new variety
of strawberry clover are now be
ing obtained so they can be
checked for forage production un
der local conditions and as pos
sible parent materials In plant
breeeding projects.
Cowan's trip to the congress
was financed in part by the Hys
lop Agricultural Research found
ation, according to Hill who Is
secretary of the foundation. The
foundation was established 11
years ago as a memorial to the
late Prof. George R. Hystlop,
former head of the OSC farm
crops department.
Gifts donated by friends of Pro
fessor Hyslop have been set up
in a trust fund, with the income
used to support research and oth
er investigations on plant pro
duction problems. The founda
tion is still receiving gifts, Hill
said, either to be added to the
trust fund for specific research
projects with both principal and
income used to solve some farm
crops problems.
The Australian strawberry clo
ver variety, named Palestine,
caught Cowan's eye because of
its high yield. Strawberry clover
has been found very useful in
moist, seepy areas and on alkali
lands in Eastern Oregon, Hill ex
plained, but forage yields of
presently used varieties have
been only fair.
Cowan also reported that the
Australian and New Zealand
workers have done considerable
research on use of minor fertil
izer elements such as copper,
zinc, molybdenum, cobalt, and
magnesium to solve grassland
problems. Some of their findings
might also be useful to Oregon
farmers, he said .
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Traffic Accidents
Decline in State
Nearly 24,000 traffic accidents
occurred on Oregon street and
highways during the first five
months of this year, the Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles' traffic
safety division reported today.
While this figure falls short of
the number of accidents reported
for the same period a year ago,
safety officials said it Is "only
tentative" and may have to be
revised upward if delayed reports
are received.
Injuries during the first five
months of the year totalled 6,042,
also a slight decline when com
pared with the same period In
1956.
During May. latest month for
which figures are available, there
were 2,107 accidents in Portland;
1,365 mishaps in other urban are-
as of the state, and 1,299 acci
dents in rural locations.
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and Bertha Hunt and Mr. and
Mrs. Alex Hunt.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hermann
entertained with a dinner party
Saturday In honor of Mr. and Mrs.
Dean Hunt on their birthdays.
Those present were, Mr. and Mrs.
Johnnie Ledbetter, Mr. and Mrs.
Hunt, Low Green and the host
and hostess,
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Padberg
and daughter Jill were visitors
at the Bissinger home in Pendle
ton on the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Miles
were Hermiston visitors on Sunday
Mr. and Mrs, Donald Can
ham, niece of Cecil Jones, were
weekend visitors with Mr. and
Jones and family from their
home in Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. O. Laney and son
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