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Big Bend Country Along Rio Grancie Scenic Wonder
Washington Along the lower i country of Big Bend the very
Rio Grande, where the wander- plants bristle with spikes and
ing stream cuts a giant loop ; morns, ana norns ana sungs
tain fastnesses made ideal hide
outs for hostile tribesmen, ban
dits and cattle rustlers on both
between west Texas and Mexico, i protect many of its animals and ! sides of the border.
lies a wild frountier that has few I insects.
scenic equals around the world.
On the United States side the
area is enclosed by the Big Send
National Park, dedicated for
mally at recent ceremonies held
there.
A gift Taxes presented to the
nation in 1944, the Big Bend
preserve now covers more than
1,100 square miles. It is a stark
but strangely beautiful region of
painted deserts, castellated
mountain rangr, weirdly carved
boulders and 1600-foot canyons
that drop darkly to the river's
edge. Occasionally flash floods
roar down steep arroyos to
overflow usually dry water
cour&. Out of Fire an Water
In the harsh and armored
Fossilized remains of sea life,
dinosaur -bones, petrified wood,
cracked plains and tilted peaks
tell of ancient eras when oceans
drowned this land, earthquakes
rocked it, volcanoes erupted and
erosion began the slow process
of scupturing bizarre features
that delight and amaze today's
visitors.
The Big Bend is next to the
youngest of the national parks
and still partly unexplored. Yet
in 1535, nearly a century before
the Flymouth landing, a Spanish
adventurer, Cabeza de Vaca,
crossed it.
Later, Spaniards and Mex
icans fought the Indians of the
Rio Grande loop, and when the
American West was young, its
lonely valleys and remote moun-
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PARENTS AWAIT SECOND TRAGEDY Eileen Sue Van
Lopik (right), 2, one of two identical twin sisters stricken
with leukemia, died in her sleep in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Van Lopik, resigned to
the "one-in-a-million" chance both twins would be stricken
by the same disease, have been told by doctors the second
twin, Kathleen Jo (left), has three or four months to live.
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Hollywood (U.R) Fifty
film actors, headed by Vanessa
Brown, have organized the
town's first
stage repertory
company com
plete with its
own theater,
bar,, .school,
magazine, tele
vision show
and even. di-
rigible.
This unusual
Aline Mosby group is Holly
wood's answer to the famed New
York school of T-shirt acting,
the Actor's Studio.
But while the Actor's Studio
only teaches, the American Act
ing Co. also will stage a play
once a month, beginning in
April. The group now has a
deal practically in the bag to
stage the play as a television
spectacular.
Theater Acquired ;
"We have our own theater in
the Hollywood area, but we
can't say which one as the papers
aren't signed yet," said the
breathless Miss Brown, who
single-handedly organized the
group. "Television will help us
by paying the bilfs."
The theater will have a Holly
wood touch of a patio bar and
tearoom plus a dirigible flying
overhead. The huge balloon is
expected to attract customers.
"I've always wanted a di
rigible, and now my husband has
promised to buy me on," signed
Vanessa, sounding like the girl
upstairs she played in "The
Seven Year Itch" on Broadway.
Urge Related
Getting down to earth,-Vanessa
revealed she has had an
urge since 1943 to establish a
repertory company here for film
actors. .
"There's no place here where
you can develop in front of a
live audience," she said. "You
have no chance for experience.
On the stage you can experiment
and play old men and offbeat
parts."
The acting company includes
Lloyd Bridges, Ricardo Montal
ban, Josanne Beranger, Beverly
Michaels, Cathy O'B-onnell, Joy
Paige, Bonita Granville and Ann
Rutherford.
The plays may be cast outside
the group.
Vanessa is busy lining up such
stars as Dorothy McQuire, Greg
ory Peck, Jose Ferrer and others
interested in pushing local
theater.
Out of a turbulent past have
come tall tales of pioneer prow
ess, legends of lost treasure and
hidden mines that may some day
come to light.
Now long before the Civil
War, the United States Cavalry
tried a novel experiment, the
introduction of camels to
transport supplies through the
arid Big Bend country. The idea
seemed promising until the
trails' sharp stones cut into the
beasts' footpads and incapac
itated them.
Something for All
As a public park, Big Bend
has something for everyone,
vacationist to scientist. Open all
year around, it spreads rock pan
oramas that can be read like an
open book by trained geologists.
Wall paintings and drawings
preserved in dry caves tell arch
eologists of prehistoric Indian
life. '
For bird lovers the park holds
rare specimens, such as the
colima warbler, aplomado fal
con, and hooded oriole. White
tail deer, fox, lizards, mountain
lions, black bears, and the jave
lina, or wild hog, barely hint at
the teeming wild life. Botanists
delight in the desert's prickly
pear with its yellow blossoms,
the creamy Spanish dagger, the
thorny, scarlet-flowered ocotillo.
The weeping juniper of the Big
Bend -mountain slopes is found
nowhere else in the United
States.
Development of the park, long
delayed because of war and post
war problems, is now getting
well under way. While cabin
accommodations are still scanty,
new trails have been opened,
roads paved, and more camping
and water facilities made avail
able. To the heart of the primeval
Big Bend land there has even
come lately one of civilization's
greatest conveniences-telephone
service that links the outside
world to The Basin, in the
Chisos (Phantom) Mountains.
GOLD HILL
Marine Finishes Maneuvers
By MRS. SAM ELLIOTT
Gold Hill Marine Cpl. Rob
ert Quakenbush, who has been
on maneuvers on Iwo Jima with
the 3rd division, has returned
to his base at .McGill Field,'
Japan. He is employed at. the
headquarters and supply com
pany. Corporal Quakenbush,
who graduated from Crater High
school before enlisting, says that
he will be returning to the states
this summer and will be dis
charged. Steve Purinski and Maurice
Short left Feb. 28 for a few days
business trip to San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Van Horn
went to Reedsport on a business
trip last week and while gone
stopped in Langlois, Ore., for a
short visit with friends.
Mrs. Edward V. Tulare has re
turned home with her baby
daughter, whom they have
named Martha Ann. She was
born Feb. 23 and weighed 6Vfe
pounds.
The Gold Hill Grange ladies
of the HEC met last Thursday
at the Grange hall. While attend
ance was small they finished a
quilt and made a fair start on
another one.
Mrs. Eddington presided at
the business meeting and report
ed a satisfactory return from
the Land Bank dinner. Grace
Bruce won the attendance prize.
The Juvenile Grange met Feb.
23 and spent a profitable and
interesting time practicing rit
ualistic work. The office of
"Flora" was declared vacant,
since Dianne Smith has moved
away. An election named Linda
Walker who was sworn in.
Last week Mrs. Gerald Reeves
of the Blackwell highway re
ceived news of the death of her
14-year-old brother, Davis, of
Texas who was killed in a car
accident. No particulars known.
Opal Davis, a sister of Mrs.
Reeves who lived with her sister
here, is also in Texas.
Mrs. Grace Bruce is recuper
ating from surgery at the home
of her son in Central Point..
The Young Peoples group of
the First Christian church has
started a combined adult and
teenage study group, designed
for a better understanding of
the Bible. The meetings have so
far been well attended.
The meetings are conducted by
the Teenagers, but it is plan
ned to interest both adults and
the young people.
The next fellowship dinner
will be held at 7 p.m., March 11,
in the church.
The Gold Hill Grade school
has agreed to loan its projector
foi the showing of a 20-minute
movie, "The Crucifixion." It is
produced by Family Films of
Seattle and is to be used during
the weeks before Easter. The
public is invited.
Mrs. George Dorman has re
turned home from visiting her
son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Dorman, Astoria, Ore.
William Fields is now home
from the hospital and isTecuper
ating nicely.
Mrs. Maybelle Rains and son
Johnny left March 1 for a week's
visit in California. They are to
visit in Pomona with Mrs. Rains'
son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lins
ley Dotson. They will also stop
in Ontario, Calif., to visit an
other son, Joe Dotson, and his
wife and daughter Teresa.
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