Medford mail tribune., June 10, 1952, Image 4

FOUR MEDrOHD (OREGON)
Motorlog of Oregon's Far Corner
Takes Traveler to Basque Country
Allow Plenty Time
For Side Trips
; On This Vacation
' The followlaf le oendeneatlaa
: ef metorler appearing In In
. Iforthweit'e Own Ms'". Sun
day Oreee-nleri. Jan 1. It le one of
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' br The OrCKoalaa and tha Orr-goa
Htata Molar aseoctatloa.
BY PAUL MAUSER
tan wrtm. Tltt Oraiooua
"I had Christmas dinner with
my neighbor, and I didn't lee
another lady until March 21.
For a while the telephone line
was out, but I finally got Tex
to trace out the break and fix it."
Mrs. Agnes Payne retted In
Floyd Accaregui's service station
at Jordan Valley In the evening
and recalled the rigors of winter
on a cattle ranch high on the
headwaters of the Owyhee river.
"Tex wasn't in a hurry to fix
the line, but I asked him how
he'd feel if ha were the only
man in a family of women and
never a man to talk to. So he
took snowshoes and found where
the line was broken."
Mrs. Payne had dropped in to
get a tire repaired. She had been
down checking on her 55 cows
and their calves and doing what
he could to settle one fretful
cow that had not yet dropped
her calf.
The animals were In a field on
the outskirts of Jordan Valley,
where the expectant cows had
been driven over the snow,
packed into a rough trail by a
caterpillar tractor a ftw weeks
before when the Paynes ran out
of feed on their ranch.
Now the calves had come,
each one worth $70 almost the
moment ft was born, and Paynes
would soon be able to return to
their ranch high on the Owyhee,
u miles from Jordan valley.
"I guess It's Just about the
last frontier," said Mrs. Payne.
Tha Paynes, Tex and Agnes,
and their two sons, Pat, 11, and
Ted, 7, are Idahoans, residents
of Owyhee county, and they and
'their neighbors in their high
mountain valley are somewhat
of a concern to the superintend
ent of schools of Owyhee county.
Schooling is turned around
where tha Paynes live. Pat and
Ted and a handful of other
Joungstera there go to school
t tha summer time.
"Thev'va flot to so to school
when they can get to the school-1
From Portland and tha Willamette valley, tha Owyhee river
and Jordan valley country is reached via Bend and Burns.
iff 07 TIICllOODS
By J7h Gfekens
The Famt ef Smokey Bear
It was the first I'd heard from
Michael Larrity since his retire
ment on social security at the
end of the war. He was nigh on
BO then he said. But he still
writes with a sure hand. What he
had to write about was the out
break of Smokey Bear In a
cover story that used up five
more pages of a great newsweck
magazine.
"Shame be unto you," wrote
Larrity to me. "Here you've
been concocting tales of Paul
Bunyan,' ballads about frozen
loggers, and all varieties of facts,
fads and fancies on the forests
for nigh on 30 years and who's
the wiser? What's ailing you,
son? Why don't you have them
magazine greenhorns back In
New York so well primed on
what's going on in the woods
that they could never have been
led astray so far on the trail of
Smokey Bear? Hmm? Where've
you been? Lost In your dream
Outs
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Basques In tha Jordan vallaf are abandoning many of their
old country customs, but tha woven construction of their
corrals is evidence of the Pyrenee mountain origin.
house " said Mrs. Payne. "Super
intendent wrote us a letter and
scolded us for only having an
eight-months' school. She said
we were a rich enough district
to support a nine-months' school.
"We Just wrote her it wasn't
a question of that, but of the
winter weather. Why, we'll be
lucky this year it we get in
seven months."
As a school board' member,
Mrs. Payne has found it a diffi
cult chore hiring teachers for a
school that starts when most
school children are counting the
weeks until summer vacation.
Few teachers are available and
very few are willing to live so
remotely. ,
We met Mrs. Payne on the
course of an Oregon State Motor
association. The Oregonlan mo
torlog, and the meeting assuaged
to great degree our disappoint
ment In not being able to get
over to Mahogany mountain and
look down on ' the Owyhee
breaks.
That section of the Owyhee
river canyon has a local reputa
tion as one of the great scenic
wonders of the world. But we
were advised not to try it before
June without a Jeep.
We were glad to be back in
Jordan Vallev anvwav and to
find that Floyd Accaregui has
mint tne motel ne said ne was
going to build.
AccareKul Is a Basaue gen
eration removed from the Pyr
enees wno gave up me nurry-
ing or ouices in uaiciana ana
Portland to so back to his
Suieter, happier homeland in
ordan Valley. He hasn't had a
stomacn-acne since.
Jordan Valley and surround-
world, hey? While the federal
boys In your field are busy tak
ing over. Shame to you!"
Old Larrity wrote on In strong
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Ing country is Basque country,
but except for the names and
the typical woven construction
of the corrals on the Basque
farms, the old country traditions
are dying. Nobody plays pelota
any more.
"I'd like to fix up that old
pelota court and get the game
started again," said Floyd, who
seems always to have a new
project. "It's really the only
Basque landmark left there. It
used to be the Sunday social
center. They had some doin's
there."
Pelota is a game the Basques
play in the Pyrenees, and which
they brought with them when
they came to Idaho and Oregon
to herd and raise sheep. It is a
sort of handball, except that
the ball is hard and of the size
of a baseball. The hardy Basque
Slayers played the game bare
anded. You can come to Jordan Val
ley from Burns, down through
Princeton and past Follyfarm
on state highway 78, or on U. S.
highway 95 up from Nevada ou
the road that leads to Ontario.
Sometimes In this country you
drive for miles seeing nothing
but rollnK, sage-covered hills
ranging off into the distance.
Then it seems that nowhere here
is human habitation. It Isn t on
the highways, where the only
life may be a leaping Jackrabbit
of a coyote slinking swiftly
across.
Far a surprise take a side trip.
It may take you 20 miles through
the desert, as our motorlog car
went, following a sign which
said merely "Oregon Canyon."
A column of smoke attracted us
that way, but from the hignway
nothing was visible but mora
sagebrush.
On we bounced though and
came out finally to green, lush
fields and tha well-kept build
ings of several ranches. We
stopped at "one of them and
watched lambs licking the
sweetness left from soda pop
from a case of empties on tha
front porcn of the modern bouse
set in the wide meadows.
It wasn't much to find soma
lambs and the ranchers busy
working on their fine mechan
ized equipment, but coming out
of the sagebrush we felt like
explorers.
That's the secret of satisfac
tory travel in the far reaches of
eastern Oregon. Leave vnnr.
self enough time for an explora-
iury sine inp now ana tnen.
language that now his social se
curity payments were coming
from money borrowed by the
government. With inflation
growing day by day, he could
hardly keep body and soul to
gether, he said.
"And now the good fame of
Smokey Bear Is being used to
build up the Federal power on
the western land still more,"
Larrity wrote. "The government
owns two-thirds of it already.
And has a strong hand every-
CITY OF PORTLAND
SCHEDULES . . . LOW FARES
where else. So Smokey Bear Is I
made to advertise, not Just forest I
fire prevention, but the glory of
the government in all things."
Taxpayer's Smokey
On the wall I face in the boom
pond shack when I pound a 1909
model Oliver Visible typewriter
to earn bread and beans there's
a Smokey Bear poster of last
year. At that time I gave Smokey
the leading part In the pageant
I wrote for the Shelton schools
to use in the Mason County For
est festival. I love Smokey.
Everybody with childhood left in
him at all loves Smokey Bear.
We save the forests for Smokey's
sake.
But he is also the taxpayers'
Smokey Bear.
Smokey Bear was created and
made famous by private enter
prise in many fields. First of
all, the joint'advertising council
of the private advertising agen
cies created Smokey Bear and
enlisted the aid of other branches
of private, taxpaying business to
make Smokey Bear a famous fig
ure In newspapers, on radio, bill
boards, streetcar panels, and
other channels of commercial ad
vertising. Then the "Keep Green", or
ganizations that had started in
Washington and Oregon In 1940
and are now in 31 states brought
local workers by the thousands
and tens of thousands into giv
ing time, thought .and effort to
forest fire prevention, always
promoting the Smokey Bear ma
terial. To forest industries' tree farm
enterprise, the vast programs of
better forest management pro
moted by pulp and paper com
panies with farmers, north,
south, east, west, together exert
ed giant force in making Smokey
Bear beloved and nationally
famous.
Now here I had to sit in the
mournful gloom of my boom
pond shack and ask myself what
I'd done to impress these and re
lated facts on eastern editors.
Well, nothing much. Nobody had
done anything much ot the kind
but the government men. And
they; of course, were not inter
ested In suggesting that anybody
but government had a part in
forest fire prevention and forest
fire fighting.
Loyal Yet
There was no getting around
It, I concluded, Larrity was right
in reproaching me for failure to
let the greenhorn editors of the
east know that there is a force
of private enterprise called in
dustrial forestry at work in the
woods of America, and that it
overwhelmingly dwarfs all gov
ernment forces In tasks and ac
complishments. So I've written Larrity, the
retired ancient and honorable
bullcook that I'll do better in
the future. But I also told him
I was staying with Smokey Bear
on forest fire prevention, yes,
sir!
Right now I'm looking up at
the magazine cover picture of
him where I've tacked it, fresh
and bright, beside Smokey's
1851 poster, specked and faded.
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Central Point Rural
Fire District Hearing
Scheduled June 17th
Central Point Preparations
are complete for the public hear
ing oil formation of the proposed
Central Point rural fire district
to be held June 17, at 10 a.m.,
in the Jackson county court
house, according to officials of
the Central Point Rural Fire de
partment. Petitions for nomination of the
five directors to be elected are
available at Krupp's Associated
service station on Highway 99.
Signatures of 15 property own
ers are needed to place a per
son's name on the ballot for di
rector at the coming election. So
far, four have consented to be
placed on the ballot. They are
Bill Lingas, Dr. Albin Roberts,
Albert C. Thompson and Kath
erine Hefferman.
Also noted here was a move on
the part of some West Side prop
erty owners to Join with the
Central Point district. These
owners, officials said, are at
present in the proposed boun
daries of the Jacksonville dis-
DAV Delegates
Back from Meeting
Robert W. Bryant, Grants
Pass, was elected national com
mitteeman for the Disabled Am
erican Veterans at the state con
vention in La Grande last week,
it was reported today by Med
ford people who attended the
convention.
Sam Booth, Portland, was
named senior vice commander
of the DAV auxiliary, and Dor
othene Simmons was elected col
or guard. Both are members of
the Medford DAV auxiliary.
Mrs. Robert Bryant, Grants
Pass, was elected national con
vention delegate.
Among the resolutions passed
at the convention were those
asking Increased statutory com
pensation for disability, and cre
ation of a committee on veterans
affairs in the U. S. senate.
Those attending from here
were Mr. and Mrs. i. R. Llllle,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Olsen, Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Simmons,
Lester P. Mathes, Mrs. Vander
mark and Pat Graham, who was
named publicity chairman for
the fourth consecutive year.
Graham has reopened the DAV
service office in the Brophy
building.
Berlin's recovery as a tourist
center is Indicated by an increase
of 73 per cent in the number of
foreign visitors and a gain of 66
per cent in the number of over
night lodgings last year over the
previous year.
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I trlct which has yet set no date
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Petitions for inclusion in tne
Central Point district are avail
able at the station, the officials
said. It has the following boun
daries: on the noth, all of lower
Table Rock east through upper
Table Rock and across Rogue
river; on the east, south to the
Crater Lake highway, east to
Foothill road, south to Coker
Butte road; on the south, west
2 Medford Men Get
Chin Up Club Posts
Two Medford men were elect
ed to offices at the annual na
tional convention, of Chin Up
clubs Field in Portland Sunday.
John Duffy, vice-president of
the Jackson county chapter, was
elected second vice-president of
the national organization) defeat
ing Leon Fiscus, Salem. Harry
Chipman, president of the Jack
son county chapter, was elected
to a two-year term on the board
of directors.
utner officers elected were
Fred Camp, Stayton, Ore., presi
dent; Arthur Boetger, Portland,
first vice-president; George
bahrs, Portland, treasurer; Opal
Judd, Milwaukie, secretary; Beth
Sellwood, Salem, and Tony Kar-
olivitz, Portland, directors for a
one-year term, and William
Judd, Milwaukie, and Wilbur
Lane, Salem, directors for a two-
year term.
Camp succeeds Beth Sellwood,
founder of the organization for
the physically handicapped, who
declined another term as presi
dent. She has served in the office
since 1941.
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