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Medford Man Hikes From Happy Camp To O'Brien After Flood
Residents o Rogue valley who
have relatives and friends living
in Happy Camp, Calif., were no
iuied(3)today that residents of
Happy Camp are all well, de
spite being isolated by the re
QOcent Klamath river flood.
O Fiay, Jim Atkins, 313 Mary
st., Medford, hiked 'over the Sis
kiyous from Happy Camp to
O'Brien, south of Cave Junction
on Highway 199, a distance of
ahgut 40'miles. Some of the
hike, he said, was through snow
Hats
Horns
Noisemakers
Serpentines
THE
Toy House
317 East Main
ranging up to more than 13
inches deep.
Becomes Stranded
Atkins said he was working
south of Happy Camp when the
Klamath river started rising. He
became stranded in Happy
Camp when the highway and
bridges were washed out.
He said residents of Happy
Camp asked him to notify rela
tives and friends in Rogue val
ley that they were all right. At
kins said several Happy Camp
residents had to evacuate homes
when the river flooded part of
the town, but none of the homes
was washed away as far as he
knew.
Several summer homes along
the river were undermined and
washed away, Atkins said. Some
summer homes were in the Clear
Creek area south of Happy
Camp and some were nearer
Happy Camp.
IS Hour Hike
Atkins said he left Happy
Camp about 11 a.m. Friday and
arrived in O'Brien about 3 a.m.
Saturday. He hiked along a for
est service road in Siskiyou Na
tional forest. He encountered
snow and wind near the top of
pass over the Siskiyous, he said,
but most of the time moonlight
furnished enough light by which
to see.
Atkins said he hiked to a cafe
about halfway between O'Brien
and Cave Junction, where he
ate breakfast and obtained a
ride to Grants Pass, where he
stayed with relatives before
coming onto Medford.
Atkins said the California
Oregon Power company used
the forest service road Thurs
day when two trucks returned
to Happy Camp after being
called into the Medford-Grants
Pass area for emergency repairs
to power lines.
FLOOD REFUGEE CHRISTMAS PARTY
Red Cross and volunteer workers hold im
promptu Christmas party for young evacuees
from the northern California floods in the
Civic auditorium at Stockton, Calif.
Atkins said the superintend
ent of the California state prison
camp at Clear creek told him
prisoners would devote full time
to repairing the Klamath river
road between Highway 99 and
Happy Camp. Prisoners - have
been working on another sec
tion of a secondary highway
south of Happy Camp.
December 28, 1955
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
awards. As
Hollywood (U.R) This is the
season of "the year's best"
a TV fan I would
like to nomi
nate honors for
the. f u n n i est
TV boners of
, the year.
While TV
producers are
toting up their
successes of the
year, armchair
critics at home
Aline Mosby get a chuckle
by remembering mistakes that
millions of viewers saw.
A gold engraved statuette for
the all-time greatest fluff of
1955 should go to the Jackie
Gleason show. Art Carney, play
ing the comic's sidekick, started
to enter the Gleason apartment
but couldn't get the door open.
The quick - thinking Carney
climbed through the window.
This appeared to be a stroke of
genius, except it had puzzling
moments for viewers. For one
thing, the glassless window was
supposed to have been closed.
Furthermore, the Gleason apart
ment allegedly was on the sec
ond floor.
A runner-up award could.be
handed to "Climax!" In the mid
dle of a stirring drama on that
CBS-TV program a corpse got up
and walked away in plain view
of the camera.
Came Tumbling Down
Then there was the time Jer
ry Lewis pulled a towel off a
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rack on the "Comedy Hour" and
the entire wall came with it. j
Jerry turned the boner into a gag j
by hauling out a real prop man j
to hammer the wall back into '
place.
Host Bill Lundigan of "Shower
of Stars" won the biggest laugh
of the evening, but by mistake,
when he introduced a ballet
dancer as a "belly dancer."
Jimmy Durante goofed when
he identified comedienne Pat
Carroll as Pat Crowley. But
James Mason outfluffed them all
to take an "Oscar" for introduc
tion boners when he started to
introduce Rhonda Fleming on
the Lux Video Theater and
couldn't remember her name.
Jan Sterling once said on a
live TV drama, "I chose this play
because of the character I be
tray," instead of "portray." On
other live dramas there was the
usual quota of wandering stage
hando and microphone shadows
caught by the camera. One char
acter couldn't get a fireplace to
work on "Robert Montgomery
Presents" and saved the day by
muttering, "Damp Wood."
No Safety in Film
But even the filmed shows
racked up boners. On "Alfred
Hitchcock Presents" Joseph Cot
ten was shown weeping as he
was lying down in a mortuary.
The tears rolled down instead of
sideways in the close-up.
On "Waterfront" a crew was
shown loading a schooner. When
it sailed out of the harbor the
boat was suddenly a sloop. When
it arrived in Honolulu it was a
yawl.
Jero Jim Arness stood in a
graveyard on "Gumshoe" while
the wind blew across the grass.
But the tombstones revealed
they were paper props when
they bent in the wind, too.
NBC's "Matinee Theater" has
had its share of red-faced mo
ments. One character talked for
three minutes into the wrong
end of a telephone. Another day
Irene Hervey couldn't zip up her
dress on cue. It stuck. She had
to play the scene clutching the
gap in her gown.
'55 Lumber Shipments
Ahead of Past Year
Portland (U.R) Total 1955
shipments of lumber at Pacific
Coast ports are running ahead
of 1954 although shipments dur
ing November declined from No
vember of last year, the Pacific
Lumber Inspection Bureau said
today.
Oregon's total for the two No
vembers dropped from 115,254,
309 board feet to 62,066,017. Ex
ports were 13,025,183 and do
mestic shipments 49,040,834 this
November. British Columbia,
Washington and California also
showed declines in November.
The U.S. Pacific Coast total
for the year up to Dec. 1 was
1,917,291,120 board feet, a gain
of some 200 million board feet
over the first 11 months of 1954.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE TIf:
Time Picks Curtice 1
As Man of the Year
New York (U.R) - Time
magazine yesterday named Gen
eral Motors President Harlow
Curtice as its 1955 "man of the
year" for his "leadership in. the
free, competitive, expanding
American economy that is the
keystone of the defense of the
West against the Communist.
world."
The magazine said Curtice
was not named because his firm
is the world's largest manufac
turing corportation but because
of his "billion dollar bet" on
prosperity which, it said, gave
confidence in 1954 to a business
world gloomy with a thought
that the postwar boom was about i
to bust.
At that time, Curtice announc
ed GM would spend 81,000,000,
000 to expand its plants.
Musical Program
At Rotary Meeting
A musical program arranged
by George Maddox was featured
at a luncheon meeting of the
Medford Rotary club Tuesday
at the Jackson hotel. Sons and
daughters of members were I
special guests.
PomeRoy Sorum, Oregon
State college, clarinet; Blake
Maddox, trumpet, ind Raoul
Maddox, trombone, comprised
an instrumental trio, with Mrs.
George Maddox as accompanist.
Blake Maddox attends the Uni
versity of Oregon and Raoul, a
graduate of the university is
band and chorus director at
Mapleton high school.
Vocal selections by George
Maddox and a reading by J.
Scott Heatherington completed
the program.
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