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MX MEDF3RD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday. May 24,
1950 !
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Pickin' Pears
News, Gossip, Comment
From Camp White
Rv I.. J. "Tick" Malarkev
Every once and a while when
we punch out "Camp White" on
the typewriter we get to think
ing about the trout fishing trip
mat some 01 ua av rvaiuim iuun
the good General George White
on when the Oregon national
guard wai encamped at Clatsop
vaof hAFnrn Pparl Harbor.
A year or two before the game
commission naa reieasea several
thousand steelhead and silver
salmon fingerlings In Sunset
lake. We snot ciucks on mis wai'
r and had a portion of It leased
GUacman T.nvoll Altnri& Call
kl.ll.. llfti,. MW.. I
ucaici, ott oiut-i.
covered that these trout had
grown up since their release ana
that furthermore toward evening
.1 .. ,.,milr! iica In a flv
UICJ OUU1U - ....
General White was invited to
go fishing. In the afternoons a
northwest wind usually kicks up
and the waters of Sunset lake
become choppy. Such was the
situation the evening ine urau
(ha nmonn national
jimu ui l I w ft .
guard took his post, tackle in
hand, those years gone ay.
Tho armv man hpffan hlfl fun
u. Mnnantaj with n trnut and
ur njuiivm.v. -
lost it. The same thing happened
twice more, rinany uw
and the general and his fishing
gear became hopelessly and help
lessly eniangiea.
This writer has heard some
pretty good two-fisted cussing
nnn,.n4 InaoinO f-amnc. SBWmillS
and seining grounds, but never
has he heard a rival 10 ueueioi
George White. Not vulgar, not
ii obscene just plain All Ameri
can cussing that never repeated
Itself and never stopped for at
least 10 minutes. When it was
out of his system he untangled
and cast again this time he
landed and continued to do so
until a limit was taken.
"Thats all they needed." he
"And in Medford. General
White will always be remem
bered. This station is named for
him.
After the Mothers day services
last week, Chaplain John Cum
misky wanted me to meet the
two charming young ladies who
ang in duet, and the equally
charming lady who accompanied
them. This was arranged and
after a moment's visit it de
veloped that Mrs. Robert Corliss,
the accompanist, was the daugh
ter of Artie Hawkins who lived
at Ilwaco, Wash., for so many
years and whom I knew as a kid
and through young manhood.
Bob Corliss brought his family
to Medford some years ago and
is with the Bear Creek orchards.
The family make their home at
379 O'Gara street. Daughter
Phyllis and Gertrude Lewis are
a talented pair who have prom
ised to come again to sing at
Camp White.
Ilwaco Is across the bay from
Astoria, and as kids going to
high school and college we used
to be employed at Sand Island
by the Columbia River Packer's
association, horse seining for
salmon during the months of
June, July and August. This
method of taking salmon is now
illegal, but while it lasted many
a college kid owed pari of the
expense of his education to this
summer employment.
Well we remember the after
noon we landed 180.000 pounds
of Chinook on one tide and work
ad long past midnight getting
tha catch off the beach and to
tha fish scow, where it in turn
was hauled by launch to the As
toria canneries.
Met up with Irving Kenney in
the coffee canteen, presided over
by Vera and Gladys. The lad Rets
over the ground in a wheel chair
now, but for 22 years he was a
cop in Everett, Wash. When WW
I was declared young "Irv" Ken
tnlisted in a cavalry outfit and
was on the Mexican border with
it. Later they were dismounted
and he was assigned to artillery.
Greybeard Kennedy Is one of
the newer transfers to White
from Barnes at Vancouver,
Wash., and as far as he has gone
likes all that he sees out on the
plains. Plans on doing some work
in the hohby shop Just as soon
as he gets squared around.
"Come on Daddy, let's go fish
ing. I want to."
Chaplain Henry Anderson
looked up to see his teen age
daughter. Mary Lou, swinging a
baseball bat and dressed in jeans.
It was quitting time a few days
ago. So the chaplain went fish
ing he hasn't much sales re
sistance when it comes to Mary
Lou the youngest of his three
daughters.
From Central Point eighth
grade Mary Lou Anderson will
graduate in a lew days. And in
September a very important
year looms ahead she will be a
freshman in high school,
Vtrnetla Brainerd. That Is the
name of the lady who sat down
with a sigh in a coffee shop wor
rying about her project for the
woman of Rotary. "Tubby"
Deane introduced me and after
a while it developed that Ver
netta Brainerd took thousands
of pictures during the war years
out her at Camp White. Seems
that civilians were employed
during construction days, and all
had to wear badges with their
printed pictures on same. That
was Vernetta's job taking those
pictures.
Later when nusoano ran join
ed th army as a technician she
went with him from post to post.
Incidentally Phil was discharged
ergeant major, which in "Pri
vate M's" book is the finest rank
that Uncle Samuel can give. To
day in Medford he and his broth
er operate Brainerd's Photo and
Camera shop.
This is a suggestion to ver-
netta Brainerd. You women of
Rotary could have a project out
here on the plains of Camp
White which would last for. a
century or more. In brief, plant
some shade trees. Soft maple
would do good and grow fast.
From those Eagle Point boost
ers comes an invitation to at
tend their square dance jambo
ree to be held in the high school
gvmnasium the evening of May
26. With Lee Rausdale calling
the numbers, the good people up
Eagle Point way say that have
entertainment which is unsur
passed.
Proceeds oi tne jamooree go
to the improvement of the high
school athletic field.
Folk dancing every third set.
The Zuni Indians are famed
for their silver and turquoise
Jewelry, employing designs de
veloped before the coming of the
Spaniards In 1540.
Better Highways
Needed in Country
Washington, May 24 (U.R)
State highway officials appealed
to congress today for help in
stopping national "strangula
tion" by traffic congestion.
Present roads are totally in
adequate for either city or inter
state travel, they said. They
called for a long-range federal
state program to give the coun
try better highways.
They testified before a senate
public works subcommittee on a
bill to authorize $961 million a
year In federal aid to states for
highway construction. The house
last week approved a bill to au
thorize $646,500,000 a year.
JUST SALES TALK
Detroit (U.R) Cecil Bruton,
realtor, doesn't put "sold" signs
on the new houses he sells. His
read "too late." Better psychol
ogy, he said.
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