GOOD SAMARITAN A passerby, Mrs. Atta Junker, protects and comforts Mrs. Casimira Garcia, 67,
from passing motorists after the elderly woman was struck down in a Los Angeles street. Mrs. Garcia,
hit by one of two cars that collided in an intersection, suffered leg and elbow fractures.
Mt. Lassen, America's Live Volcano,
Shasta Dam California Attractions
Huge Power Dam,
Beautiful Lakes
On Motorlog Trip
The following I condeoaatton of
m motorloff appearing In the July 13
Jsaoe of the Northwest's Own Maga
zine. Sunday Oregonlan. It Is one of
a series sponsored Jointly by The
Oregonlan and the Oregon State
2tfotor association.
BY GEORGE SPAGNA
Mount Lassen gives you some
measurement of immortality, if
Wits possible.
Its beginning was a million
years oetore tne ice age.
Yet It is but a remnant, a part
that remains of the collapsed
jrim oi a great ancestral volcano
kralled Mount Tehama.
Tehama was destroyed In
glacial times. Cracks caused
(tremendous masses of it to
founder and sink, leaving a rim
of peaks like Lassen. A river
(then breached the south wall,
jdraining out any crater lake
hat might have been formed
after.
It is this prehistoric destruc
tion you can visualize all around
Mount Lassen today amid evi
dence that the area is still
,'alive" boiling springs, lakes
jet ill steaming hot and hissing
(sulphurous vents.
As recent as 1914, - Mount
Iassen erupted like an awak-
S-ned sleeping giant, spewing
ava and ashes that have been
smoldering since a time before
iman. It boiled over like that
Hor seven years, throwing mud
Sand 20-ton boulders into valleys
(below.
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(mountains around, five miles
way ana more, were relied uni
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Lying astride the mila-wide Sacramento canyon. Shasta dam
contains enough concrete for an earth-girdling sidewalk.
Highway 89 from Mt. Lassen
to Mt. Shasta U fast, scenic
Before that it had been auiet
zor ouu years.
It was docile and slumberin?.
like the rest of the Cascades on
whose southern edge Lassen sits,
wnen -eier i.assen lea wagon
trains of Nevadans into the Sac
ramento valley. He had used it
as a guidepost until his death by
Indians in 1859. He gave it his
name.
Today it stands, a 10.453-foot
peak in northeastern California's
skyline, the only recently active
volcano in the United States.
To preserve its volcanic ex
hibits. Mount Lassen was pro
claimed a national park stretch
ing over 163 square miles.
It was another stop on our
week-long motorlog, a 1500-mile
vacation trip arranged by the
uregon btate Motor association.
We reached it by a 52-mile drive
over highway 44, straight almost
all tne way from Redding, the
northern hub of the rich Sacra
mento valley.
Redding is the gateway to the
wondrous Shasta country. The
great Shasta dam is only ten
miles out of the city.
Jeweled Manzanita lake and
its luxuriant lodge offering
every desired comfort, greets
the traveler at the northwest
entrance to Mount Lassen vol
canic national park.
I he lodge is the only service.
other than rangers, operating in
the park, and this under gov
ernment supervised rates. You
can have a tent 'or a cabin or a
bridal suite. It opens by mid
May or as soon as the highway
to the foot of the mountain is
cleared of the winter's snows.
Mount Lassen highway itself,
cutting through the park, is gen
erally closed to public travel
until late June. Snow packs in
30 feet deep through the winter.
It was still closed the last week
of May when our white AAA
motoring car reached the moun
tain. It is this highway that takes
you to all the "remnants" of the
ancestral Tehama.
There are Chaos Crags, an
other mountain alongside Las
sen, believed to consist of old
lava plugs that were pushed up
by the eruptions hundreds of
years back.
On Lassen's lower slopes are
groves of small conifers known
as the dwarf forest. Some of the
stunted trees are more than 200
years old.
One of the most spectacular
thermal areas in the whole park
is a morass of ashen ruin of hot
springs, gurgling mud pots and
boiling pools. They call it Bum
pass HelL and the name seems
to fit
There is an extensive area of
ruin called the Devastated Area,
only recently becoming reclad
with trees and plant growth. It
was denuded of all its life in
Lassen's last eruption.
There is a good trail, VA
miles long but a five-hour trek
leading to the top of the vol
cano. There is a chain of emerald
lakes dotted through the entire
eastern section of the park open
to fishing and boating.
Redding is the key to the
whole Shasta country, though
the hurrying traveler is rationed
to but a quick sight of it.
No traveler to Redding should
miss a visit to the giant Shasta)
dam, a 20-minute drive from the "
city.
Shasta spans the Sacramento
river at the great valley's north
ernmost tip. It is the giant man
made key to the central valley
of California, a land of great
achievement.
By the magic of irrigation
and drainage, the dam has
turned a desolation of swamp
and desert into an area of rich
farms and attractive cities.
The great valley is 500 miles
long, covering 18 counties and
supporting 83 cities.
In height, Shasta is exceeded
only by Hoover dam. In mass.
Grand Coulee alone is larger.
In beauty none of the others
compare.
Long-Time Resident
Here Dies in East
The death of Mrs. Leon E.
Williams. 82, a long-time resi
dent of Medford. was reported
today from Royalton, Minn., by
relatives.
Mrs. Williams liveded at 520
South Peach until 1947, when
her husband died. Mr. and Mrs.
Williams moved to Medford in
1911.
Mrs. Williams was born at
Dale City, Iowa, and educated
at Iowa State college.
The burial service was con
ducted at Grace Episcopal
church, Royalton. Mrs. Williams
was also christened, confirmed
and married in this same church.
The body was interred in a Royalton.
The Federalists and the Repub
licans were the first two major
political parties.
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Ashland Man Plans !
1
To File for Council
Ashland Steve Laninovich,
owner of Florence Fabrics, is
the second Ashland citizen to de
clare he will file as a candidate
for the city counciL
A petition in his behalf will
soon be filed with the city re
corder, Laninovich said. He has
lived in southern Oregon since
1947 when he bought a ranch in
the Siskiyou mountains. In 1949
he moved into Ashland.
Laninovich declared himself
a staunch believer in youth pro
prams. If elected, he said he will
do all he can for the youth of
Ashland.
A check on two other rumored
candidacies proved both rumors
false. Emil Kroeger, on the coun
cil until 1951, said he will not
reenter the local political scene.
Ed Singmaster, an Ashland in
surance man, also said he was
not interested in political office.
Monday, July 21, 1952
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THBEE
Truce Negotiators
In Secret Session
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
Allied and Communist truce ne
gotiators held a 20-minute sec
ret session Monday but apparent
ly made no progress toward
settling the prisoner of war
deadlock.
Some observers believed the
brevity of recent meetings indi
cated the two sides again have
reached the "nothing new to
say" stage in the talks. Sun
day's meeting lasted 12 minute
and Saturday's 29. However, the
truce teams will meet again at
11 a.m. Tuesday.
One side or the other soon
may lift the news blackout im
posed on the talks July 4. Both
sides agreed to conduct the talks
in secret in the seemingly fu
tile hope an agreement could
be reached more speedily than
in public sessions.
PAST RECALLED
Hartford, Conn. (U.R) Re
minders of yesteryear are re
ceiving different treatment in
two Connecticut towns. Officials
at Naugatuck have decided not
to spend any more to maintain
watering troughs. Litchfield au
thorities are rehabilitating a
200-year-old elm which was
used as a whipping post.
Historic US Document Located by Accident
Washington (U.R) A simple
accident has uncovered from a
dust-filled drawer in a Senate
file room historic U. S. docu
ments dated back as far as 1791.
some bearing the personal seal
of George Washington.
Needing more space for bulg
ing files, Senate Secretary Les
lie Biffle sent his chief clerk,
Emery Frazier, .to investigate
the possible use of an inactive
file room of the Senate library.
The room was full of mail
sacks, unused boxes and rows of
ancient file cases that had been
collecting dust for decades. Fra
zier and a helper found a likely
spot for the incoming files, im
peded only by two supposedly
empty file cases which could be
moved easily.
To prove that the two cabi
nets were empty. Frazier opened
one of "about 800" drawers and
there, under an "inch of dust,"
lay a bundle of dirty papers
bound in faded red ribbon. Sig
natures of George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson and other
famous Americans appeared
clearly on the age-colored but
well preserved papers.
More Than 100
Among the more than 100
documents were nominations,
executive orders and messages
signed by Presidents George
Washington, John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson, James Mon
roe, John Quincy Adams, Mar
tin Van Buren, James K. Polk,
Zachary Taylor and the states
men Daniel Webster and Ed
mund Randolph.
One of the papers signed by
George Washington called the
Senate into special session (in
Philadelphia) to deal with "cer
tain matters touching the public
good" and "to receive and delib
erate on such communications as
shall be made to you on my
part." It was dated March 1,
1791.
Another Washington p ap e r.
though of routine nature, has
provided historians with pos
sibly the most valuable item in
the discovery the circular
watermark of his personal seal.
The seal consisted of a large
circle spelling out "G e o r g e
Washington" within which a fe-
maie figure in classic drapery
sat on a plow. Above the circle
was a bird with wings out
stretched and " the monogram
"G. W."
The most significant docu
ment historically was one writ
ten by Thomas Jefferson on Dec.
21, 1803, regarding negotiations
on a treaty with Spain. In his
message to the Senate, Jefferson
asked that "indemnities for
spoliations on our commerce
committed by her subjects dur
ing the late war," overlooked in
the Spanish treaty, be included
in the pending Louisiana Pur
chase Negotiations. Other doc
uments of . more than ordinary
historical value werei
Nominations by Jefferson, in
cluding Albert Gallatin of Penn
sylvania as secretary of the
treasury: Robert Smith as secre
tary of Navy and Gideon Grang
er of Connecticut as postmaster
general.
Nominations by John Adams
of John Marshall, first as secre
tary of war and later as secre
tary of state when Marshall re
fused to leave for the first ap
pointment. Also Adams' nomina
tion of William Henry Harrison,
later ninth U.S. President, to be
governor of "the Indiana Terri
tory." All the documents that bore
John Adams' signature were in
his own handwriting, with his
signature almost twice as large
as in his normal writing. The
other documents were written
by a clerk except for the signa
ture of the President or states
man. A nomination to the Senate by
Jefferson dated March 11, 1802,
gives a somewhat humorous in
sight on the day-to-day job of
our third President:
"Since my nomination yester
day of Benjamin Forsyth to be
master of the revenue cutter, I
learn that he is lately dead, and
therefore now nominate Henry
Putnam of Georgia to be master
of the revenue cutter late the
St. Mary's gallery."
The early papers, 30 of which
President Truman examined to
better understand his predeces
sors' daily problems, have stir
red up great interest throughout
the country. According to Biffle,
about 150 libraries, museums
and scholars have requested
more information or photostatic
copies of the papers.
The documents will be turned
over to the Library of Congress
and the national archives for
preservation treatment.
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