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Newspaper Page TextPAGE THREE Scenic 34-Mile Rim Drive Provides Varied Glimpses Of Crater Lake MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OKEflOy. SUNDAY. JULY 2S, 1940. RIM VILLAGE IS STARTING POINT FORiVELTRIF Many Lookouts Afforc Sweeping Vistas of Lake And Adjacent Area. By John C. Doarr Combined with the scenic 82 mile drive from Medford to Crater Lake, the 34-mile drive around the rim of Crater Lake offers countless opportunities for enjoying many of the unsur passed scenic values of Med ford's Rogue Wonderland. Paved state highway 62 from Medford to Crater Iake tra verses the upper portion of the famous Rogue River valley and the Rogue River national forest. The highway makes accessible the excellent fishing waters oi the river and its tributaries as well as numerous resorts, cabin accommodations, and forest ser vice camps, in addition to, inspir ing river, mountain andforest scenery. State highway 62 enters Cra ter Lake national park sixty eight miles from Medford. The park was established in 1902 as the sixth national park fn the United States of America, its establishment being for the pur pose of preserving for the bene fit and enjoyment of the people an area which lends itself to many types of all-year recrea tion and an area which contains not only several features of great scientific value but also a feature, namely, Crater Lake, ' -which is described frequently by ' world travelers in terms such as, ."One of the scenic wonders of the world," and, 'The most beautiful natural feature in "America." "' From the west or Medford Rogue Wonderland entrance to the park a drive of seven miles through forests of pine, fir, and hemlock brings us to Annie Spring, a place long famous in the history of the region. A na tional park service ranger greets us at Annie Spring. He not only checks our car but gives us in formation on facilities and fea tures of the park. Four miles above Annie Spring we pass Park Headquar ters. The Crater Lake post of fice, administrative offices of the park, and the residences of park employees are located at Park Headquarters. At the head quarters area we find the Castle Crest Wild Flower Garden. The half mile' trail through the na tural garden makes accessible one of the most colorful concen trations of alpine wild flowers in Medford's Rogue Wonder land. A three-mile drive from Park Headquarters brings us to the rim of Crater Lake. There, 82 miles from Medford, we satisfy our desire for a first view of the lake. Other views will come in rapid succession as we start on the 34-mile drive on the rim road which circles the lake, but first let us become acquainted with the services and facilities near the terminus of the road from Medford. This part of the crater rim area is called the Rim Vil lage. Hotel, cabin, store and cafeteria facilities are available in the park in the Rim Village. There is a free public camp ground in the Rim Village as well as information service and museum facilities. Leaving the Rim Village we proced clock-wise on the 34-mile Rim Drive around Crater Lake. Mileages indicated arc from the Rim Village. A drive of four miles brings us to The Watch man parking area, not the first lookout point reached on the Rim Drive but certainly one of the many lookout points at which we should stop. At The Watchman parking area the highway comes out to the very rim of the crater, af fording an excellent view of the entire lake. From this point on the rim we are high enough to look into the crater of Wizard Island and to look down almost 1400 feet to the exceptionally clear and colorful water in bays near the island Skell Channel. Yes, that object on the water is a rowboat. The people in it are fishing. To the right of the park- AUTOMOBILE WINDOW REGULATORS. DOOR LOCKS. ETC. REPAIRED Hohlweg'sTop & Glass Shop Sill Rartlett. Fhone s7. VMON CRSEK MBDFORD Crater Lake Rim Drive (A) WTRAtL eagle " WPOMT Medford. south entrance checking station. (B) Park Kasdquar tars, 79 miles from Medford, Milaage en Rim Drive frem Park Headquarters. (C) Rim Village. 3 miles. (D) The Watchman. 7 miles. E North Entrance checking station, miles. F) Cleat, wood Cove, 13 miles. (G) Cioudcap, 21 miles. (H) Ken Notch, 23 miles. (B) Park Headquarters, 33 lng area is the peak known as : The Watchman. A trail leads to i its summit. What is at the sum- j mit? That is another of Med- j ford's Rogue Wonderland trips. , To the left of the parking area as we face the lake is Hillman! Peak, the highest point on the rim of Crater Lake. The peak is named after the man who dis covered the lake on June 12, 1853. Hillman Peak is 8,156 feet above sea level, its summit ris ing almost 2,000 feet above the lake. At 4.6 miles we turn out in the parking area from which one gets a fine view of the Cas cade peaks to the north of Cra ter Lake. There is Mount Thiel sen. Mount Dailey, and Diamond Peak, Nestled among those peaks we see Diamond Lake. Farther to the north are the Three Sisters and many lesser peaks, all of which are evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity. At 5.S miles we see a sign in- dincating the Devils' Backbone. A hike of less than 100 yards takes us out to the top of the backbone from where we look steeply down into the blue wat ers of Crater Lake. It is a most thrilling experience to see the lake from the highest pinnacle of the backbone. At 8 miles we arrive at the north entrance checking station. The road to the left leads to Dir mond Lake. On this trip we'll continue on the rime drive to the right. Space does not permit even mentioning each lookout point, to say nothing of the particular view and features that can be seen from each. We must stop at ' certain lookout points. The first beyond the checking station is Clectwood Cove, 10.6 miles from the Rim Village. Looking down we see the most colorful water in the lake. The cove was named for the boat that was used in making the soundings of the lake in 1886. From those soundings Crater Lake can be recognized .as the deepest lake on the continent of North Amer ica. Continuing, we pass Palisade Point at 12.4 miles and Wine glass at 13.4 miles. Skell Head lookout at 14.8 miles is worth a stop. The head bears the name of a God of the ancient Klamath Indians, as docs Llao Rock, that great mass across the lake. From the lookout we have an excel lent view not only of Crater Lay.: with its special features of Wizard Islanc, Plantom Ship, and Grotto Cove, but also of a vast expanse of forest-mantled mountain landscape to the north and east of Crater Lake. Leaving Skell Head we pass Mount Scott on our left at 17.1 miles. Mount Scott rises to an elevation of 8,938 feet; it is the (o. ADMISSION (With your OUR SUITS CRATER LAKE EZ if TLBS RIM DRIVE 33 tllLEi a Annie Spring, 7S miles from miles. highest point in the park. The fire lookout ranger stationed on the summit of Scott during the summer months lives in the cen ter of an inspiring panorama of scenery. At 17.2 miles we arrive at the Cioudcap Junction. Turning to the right another mile of driving takes us to the Cioudcap look out, elevation 7,869 feet. It is the -highest point on the Rim Drive. Here we are over seven teen hundred feet above the lake. Continuing, we pass Sentinel Point at 20.8 miles. Following the 300-yard trail to the very end of the point, we get a superb view of colorful Dutton Cliff and the south wall of the crater from which we started our rim drive. At 21 miles we pass Reflection Point. Kerr Notch, the lowest point on the crater rim, is reached at 23 miles. Kerr Notch to many visitors ! is the most attractive part of the j entire rim. Firs, hemlocks, and i pines frame many interesting! views of Phantom Ship. In the morning hours the water below the notch seems unusually blue, while in the afternoon the Phan tom Ship from Kerr Notch seenls to sail into sunlit sea of silver. , Due to construction on the eight-mile section of the new highway between Kerr Notch and Park Headquarters, it is suggested that one bear left in leaving lierr Notch. follnuHns the paved highway three miles to the Lost Creek ranger station, ngm at mat point and following the old rim road eight miles to Park Headouartor. While this portion of the rlriv. oners no views of Crater lk aoes aiford many excellent views ot the Klamath valley and the Cascade peaks to the south. Arriving at Park Headouar. ters we have completed the tour around the Rim Drive of Crater wine. An easy two-hour trip re turns us to Medford in the heart of the Rogue Wonderland. For those planning to make this trip particularly those visiting Cra ter Lake for the first time, we suggest the round trip from Medford as an Ell-day trip. You will want to make many stops not only on the Rim Drive around Crater Lake, but also at points along the highway be tween Medford and Crater Lake national park. Honolulu Clipper Sails. San Francisco. July 27. fP The Honolulu Clipper left the seabase here at 12:09 a. m. to day on Pan American Airways second commercial flight In the new San Francisco-Auckland, New Zealand, service. Four teen persons were aboard, all company employes. SWIM IN DRINKING WATER Children 20 rn suit) Adults 20c 10c ADULT CLASS Continuing on Monday and Wednesday Ttninot at 7:00 o'clock. The water In this peat la ctoaAflec eaastaiMlf and Is rblortnalea ta oieet state require nesta MERRICK'S Opto t p. m. until 1:41 f. m. BLIND GENIUS OF SALEM URGES AID N MUSIC, ARIS Portland. July 27. 1& Mark Shoesmith. 28. blind Sa lem youth who "flopped beau tifully" as a musician, only to become famous as a sculptor, pleaded today for similar train ing for all blind youths. Shoesmith, a University of Oregon graduate in 1934, has been giving demonstrations of his work at the New York world's fair and teaching 33 students the plastic art at the New York institute for the edu cation of the blind. Of his music, Shoesmith said: I spent more time trying to get out of practice than 1 should admit, but somehow 1 couldn't take to music." Sculpture for the blind, he said on a visit here with his wife, should be a function "to give the students a satisfactory medium of expression" an avo cation, not a vocation. Shoesmith is now completing work for a master's degrecat Columbia univers;v. His sculp tures have drawn wide atten tion. TROEH CAPTURES TRAPSHOOT TOGA Portland, Ore., Ju 27. (V) Frank Troeh of Portland cap tured his second title in as many days today in the Pacific inter national trapshoot here. The Oregon veteran defeated Gene Robertson, 17-year-old from Los Angeles, in a shoot-; off for the doubles champion-: ship, 28 to 25. They had tied, with 113 out of 120 targets. Competition was keen in the first half of the 16-yard shoot which ends tomorrow. H. E. Woolsey of The Dalles broke 100 to finish a point ahead of Ray .Glass. Eugene; Dean Hurt, Salt Lake City: O. E, Fine, La Grange, Cel.; Roy Turner, Port land, and Gene Robertson, Los Angeles, all with 99s, Scores in the 16-yard shpot included; S. G. Mendcnhall, 97, and H. Croisant of Grants Pass, 98i E. H. Lamport. Med ford, 92; A, L. Bowser, Grants Pass, 68, MEXICAN OILMEN FAVOR CARDENAS Mexico City, July 27. UP) Mexico's powerful petroleum workers union, 18.000 strong, took drastic measures today against efforts to enforce Presi dent Lazaro Cardenas" recent decrees for economy in the gov ernment oil industry. The union told the general manager and general sales man - ager of the government oil ministration it would do "every thing possible" to have them ousted from office and, as a trump card, reportedly was ready to call a strike of its 18. 000 members at 10 a.m., next Monday, Idaho Day at Fair. San Francisco, July 27. Wl The gem state of Idaho came into the limelight at the Gol den Gate exposition amid thou sands of visitors today. HMVfr M rot 7i .ratiwiitj n. ; nil '" III"' Iron 2 00 Minimum raTCS Mormon Meteor Smashes World . ' - - r , - , A L - . - Ab Jenkins, famous racing ma?er of Salt Lake CM?, sat a new world 24 sours speed record when ha drova 3868 miles it an average spaed oi 161.18 miles per hour on Bonne villa Salt Flats. The sleek streamlined car that was powered with regular stock Gllmore Elhrl gasoline Is pictured above on the famous saline course. NAVY YARD CITY SHORT OF ROMS; RENTS SKY HIGH Bremerton, Wash., July 27. : i) With rents sky high and families forced to sleep in jail, on the grass in the city park.! in parked automobiles or in ents pitched at the cily's out skirts, a newly created housing authority today plunged into the problem plaguing this navy yard city. Eugene C, Searle was appoint ed executive secretary of the Bremerton municipal housing authority which plans a $3,000, 000 home building project with federal aid. The navy yard payroll Is higher than at any time since She world war. There are about 7,800 persons employed, and more being hired. But new comers can't find lodging, and what is available is priced steeply. At police headquarters, an of ficer said as many as six and seven newcomers are sheltered In the city Jail in a night. "And they have money in their pockets, too," said a desk officer. "They're not bums and they have good Jobs." Bremerton's population is 15. 000, an increase of 5,000 over the 1930 census, and the 15,000 does not include navy yard per sonnel. COURSE OF TRUE . LOVE NOT SMOOTH Seattle, July 27. W Sixteen-year-old Edith Ceroid was separated from her 31-year-old school teacher husband, Char les Ceroid, today while her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Good rich, police and her husband sought to untangle their diffi culties. i . . ' Who K. luiu girt a uaicins outiuk the ceremony, the parents ob jected and called police. Both said they wished to remain mar ried. Ceroid first met the girl when she was 11 years old, while he was teaching in Sumas, What com county, and he fell in love with her then. Police Capt. L. L. Norton said. At Olympia, it was disclosed Mrs. Gerold gave her age as 19 and Gerold as "legal." HoTeL MANX C. Crtteh)o Jioel O. Wjlie Co-managers EXPOSURE OEATH DEFENDANT CRAZY Shoshone, Idaho, July 27, iiP) Chester Phillips, one of four charged with murder in the exposure death of his father-in-law, was committed to the slate mental hospital to day. Philips, 22, alarmed Lincoln county authorities by hysterical activities and wild cries. In hearing before Probate Judge Howard Adkins he was adjudged insane. Phillips, with his wife and her two brothers, is accused of trussing Charles Sanders, 48, hand and foot and leaving him to die on the desert. Prosecutor C. C. Shaw said the demented man had been climbing bars at the front of his county jail cell and throw ing himself upon the floor. He also had refused food and his shouts were audible in court house offices some distance away. With his wife, Flossie, 18, and her two brothers, George Sanders, 18, and Joseph San-1-ers, 20, Phillips had been await ing district court trial next No vember. LEAFLETS WAFTED ON FRENCH SOIL Vichy, July 27. 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Make your trade before the old-car troubles Speed Record SEEK SPIRIT TO GIVE TESTIMONY N DIVORCE CASE Los Angeles, July 27. tfft A process server is hunting "Sho Sha," a spirit! to appear when the contested divorce suit of Mrs, Lillian Boyce against Dr. William A, Boyce, wealthy Hollywood eye specialist, is re sumed Monday. Mrs. Boyce. 56, denied in tes timony that Sho Sha was ever her "soul mate, as her hus band charges. "I don't believe In soul mates," she dciared. "The spirit was a teacher who visit: ed the meetings I attended with Mrs. Loretta Jlian, the spirit ualist. The spirit's real name is Sheiand Shaimwnd. S. S. Hahn, her iawycT. who had the subpoena issued for; Sho Sha, said "every effort will : be made to get him to testify and if necessary to establish the proper seance conditions, we will ask for a night court ses sion. Mrs. Boyce charges her hus band mistreated her for the past five years. 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