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Strange Smoke Cloud On Crater Lake
Gives Rise To Theories Old Volcano
May Be Belching Through Lake Water
Br E. p- Leavitt, Superintendent.
Crater Lake National Park
Crater Lake, Ore., Oct. 8
Will volcanic activity again re
turn to Crater Lake, after an
absence of live thousand years?
This is the question to which the
staff of the park have been giv
ine serious thought within the
last few weeks, because of a
strange and unusual gas or
smoke cloud which has been seen
hovering over the calm blue wa
ters of the lake on three differ
ent occasions recently by at least
three reliable observers. This
smoke or gas cloud appears to
have risen from the waters of
the lake in the middle section
at a point where the geological
survey map shows the depth to
be 1956 feet.
This strange and peculiar dust
colored cloud was first observed
by Miss Linda Nowhall, fire look
out on the Watchman on the west
side of the lake, on September
15, who reported it as a dust
colored fog or smoke cloud form
ing on or arising from the wa
ters of the lake. At the time, the
lake was calm, the weather clear
and beautiful, and there was no
sign of a storm or fog condition.
Apparently it was not a dust
cloud caused by a slide of rock
and pumice from the Crater
walls, for the cloud was formed
near the center of the lake, far
from the walls of the crater. It
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rose sharply, then mushroomed
out, and finally spread and drift
ed away with the wind currents
Seen Second Time
The second smoke or gas cloud
was seen on September 17, from
the summit of Garfield Peak, by
Dale Vincent, photographer, na
turalist and writer, living along
the Rogue river near Gold
Hill, Ore., who was in the park
to take photographs of the lake,
On this occasion, the same dust
colored cloud arose from the wa
tcrs of the lake in long ribbon-
like formations. It too occurred
on a clear, cloudless day.
The third person to observe
this strange phenomena was
Park Ranger Kenneth A. Hul
burt on September 30. He first
observed it about 11:15 a. m.
from a lookout point on the west
side of the lake, between Hill
man peak and Llao Rock. The
cloud was about 300 to 400 feet
wide and extended upward to a
distance of 400 to 500 feet. It
was diamond shaped, narrow at
the top and bottom and wider
in the middle of the formation,
He observed it from all the var
ious lookout points along the
rim, as far south as the Crater
Lake lodge, and it finally drifted
away much as smoke does from
a forest fire.
Not Slide Caused
Hulbert is suvn it was not
caused by a slide and there was
no wind or storm condition to
cause it, as the day was bright
and warm with the surface of
the lake perfectly calm, reflect
ing magnificently the colorful
crater walls and forests which
surround the lake.
No explanation for the strange
and unusual smoke or gas cloud
seems plausible, except that a
blurb of smoke or gas was re
leased from some of the vents
which undoubtedly exist on the
floor of this old extinct or dorm
ant crater, and passed through
tho water to escape to the air
above. The staff has been direct
ed to watch for recurrences of
the smoke or gas formation, and
efforts will be made to obtain
a picture of it should the pheno
mena occur again.
Japs at Tule Lake
Will be Guarded By
Immigration Service
Newell, Calif., Oct. fl Ivan
Williams, representing the De
partment of justice and I.t. Col.
John Hazlejt, commanding of
ficer of the military police bat
talion now stationed here, an
nounced jointly today that
effective October 10 Border
Guaris of the Immigration and
Naturall7.ation Service of the
Department of Justice will re
place the military in guarding
the oenmeter of the War Relo
cation Authority's Tule Lake
Center here.
Colonel Hazlctt said the mill
tary camp here wil' be abandon
ed as soon after October 10 as
possible.
In connection with the change
of the guard R. R. Best, project
director, said there will be no
change in the administration of
Tule Lake Center, which will
continue to be directed by WRA.
SCIENCE MOVES FAST
Columbus, O. (U.P.) A student
at Ohio State University walked
into the medical center.
"Got an awful cold can
hardly breathe," he wheezed.
"Well, we can fix that up in
a hurry, said Dr. William T
ralchanis. "I'll spray your nose
with the atomizer.
"Oh, my gosh," gasped the
student, "don't tell me they're
using that on noses already.
The Parthenon on the Acro
polis at Athens is 2,383 years old.
It is made entirely of marble.
I.'S STORY!
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SALE OCTOBER 17
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A "Spot Sale" of used army
automotive equipment, open to
all qualified automotive dealers,
will be conducted by the Office
of Surplus Property, Department
of Commerce, at the ordnance
service command shop, at the
fairgrounds October 17, starting
at 9:30 a. m.
Approximately 130 automo
tive units will be offered most
ly trucks including searchlight
trucks, radio vans, weapons car
riers, reconnaissance cars, l'i
ton Dodge pickups, and dump,
cargo and flatbed trucks. Duck
hunters, fishermen, amusement
park concessionaires and the
members of the younger genera
tion who arc interested in the
bizarre and unusual will find the
28 ' 4-ton 4x4 amphibious trucks
to be sold a not too difficult item
of reconversion all used but
ready for further service with re
pairs. While purchases may not
be made direct from the depart
ment of commerce, those inter
ested in the vehicles may consult
with local dealers.
Inspection of the equipment
may be made Monday through
Friday, from 0:00 a. m. to 3:00
p. m., by contacting the officer
in charge of the ordnance service
command shop. Since automotive
sales are on a "where is" and
"as is" basis, dealers should avail
themselves of pre-sale inspection
privileges in order to be assured
of ultimate satisfaction.
It Is Imperative with some
people that once they enter 8
car they must drive like a bat
out of the attic until they arrive
at some particular place they
have set as their destination.
Never at any time will they
slow down, let alone stop, to
take a look at a sunset, a beauti
ful view or a curious geologic
formation. And as for exploring
an intriguing littlo side road
the very suggestion brings on
apoplexy.
Even if the trip is one taken
solely for pleasure, the only
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i pleasure this type of driver gets
is to arrive as fast as possible
and by the shortest route. He
pants with desire to get there:
pants and steps on the gas a: id
hurtles onward.
My own driver is of this
school of thought. Perhaps
yours is too. If so, my advice
is to do as I lately did and diaft
a driver without this destination
fixation. Ready to start, the
question arose, where should we
go? It didn't matter. To be on
our way was all that counted.
At least, "Wonder where this
little road goes. Let's find out!"
And so we followed the winding,
up-and-down little road, the
mystery what lay around one
curve solved only to be on to
further mysteries around other
curves.
That the end was an aban
doned mining project seemed to
justify our having placed our
destination in the laps of the
Gods. And then suddenly, so it
seemed to me, the mine was no
longer abandoned. It was an
other summer and I saw men at
work, intent only on making
their dreams come true. Mach
inery was being brought in; a
sweating, straining, back-breaking
task. Nothing mattered
save the goal toward which they
struggled. Step on the gas of
lifel Keep the eyes on the road
ahead Do not stop to listen to
the nearby silver creek romping
to the seal Be so weary at night
there is no glance upward at a
star studded sky!
Yet in the end, their dreams
lay in dust about them; must
have, or there would not hae
been this abandonment.
I do not like to stumble onto
graveyards; especially those
where little dead dreams lie
buried.
School Girls Have
Respiratory Ills
New Orleans (U.R) Over 20
per cent ot all girls in New Or
leans public schools are suffer
ing from respiratory diseases, re
ports Dr. E. F. Salerno, school
board medical director.
A total of 9,075 pupils In pub
lic elementary and high schools
have the diseases.
Of these, 4,001 are girls in
elementary schools, or 20.7 per
cent; 970 diseased girls in high
schools, or 20.3 per cent; 3,797
diseased boys in elementary
schools, or 28.4 per cent. There
were only 398 diseased boys in
the public high schools.
Statistics also showed there
are 2,619 underweight boys and
girls in the whole system.
If you are deer hunting this
year and stop to smoke and won
der where the deer are, remem
ber the 500 destroyed in the Till
amook fire of 1945 and he sure
your cigarette and match are
out before you discard them.
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OF ROGUE RIVER
Grants Pass, Oct. 8 The Jose-,
phine County Pomona Grange,
with membership of all subsid
iary granges in the county, has
gone on record as concurring
with a resolution of the chamber
of commerce that the surveys
along the Rogue river be con
tinued so that the people of the
area can make a sound judgment
upon the prospects and advisa
bility of further development of
water resources of the basin.
The action of Pomona Grange
was taken at a meeting at the
Deer Creek Grange hall Satur
day night, when some 75 mem
bers endorsed the resolution
drawn up by Redwood Grange
at an earlier meeting.
The resolution said in part:
"Be it resolved for the good of
the community as a whole
do hereby request the combined
assistance of the United States
bureau of reclamation, the
United States army engineers,
and the United States depart
ment of agriculture in studies
looking toward the development
of the above mentioned resources
of the Rogue river watershed,
because it is our sincere belief
that completion of such studies
and surveys is essential in order
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to give adequate Information and
sufficient knowledge to permit
the people of the area to use
sound judgment upon the pros
pects and advisability of further
development of water resources
of the basin; and because the
facts divulged to date are not yet
official, that appropriate means
be employed to advise the public
accurately and truthfully of the
nature and character of those
studies."
In the preface of the resolution
the Grange has stated that with
the end of war hostilities and the
possibility of certain federal
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