Traveler Recommends Alaska-Canada
Trip for Beauty of Lake and Forest
Jacksonville Mrs. Wayne cult to maintain because a com-
Eeavies believes that more trav
elers should take the route
through Canada and Alaska if
they wish to see spectacular scen
ery and have unforgettable ad
venture. Mrs. Reavies, with her
husband and two children, Jack
and Cathian, spent seven weeks
touring the northland and has
written the following impres
sions. Whenever we mention having
just returned from a motor trip
through Canada and Alaska, it is
a rare person indeed who does
not wistfully say, You know,
that is a trip I have always
wanted to take," and, after hav
ing traveled the Alaska highway
and most of the highway system
In Alaska, I can with all sincer
ity say, by all means, do take it
for it will prove one of the most
unforgettable experiences you
will ever have.
But in order to enjoy it, you
must have a lot of pioneering
spirit tucked away in your heart,
and go forth as a gay adventurer,
prepared for almost anything.
You will encounter more beau
ty than your eyes and brain can
possibly absorb; sweeping vistas
of gleaming snow-capped moun
tains, lakes like a necklace of
jewels strung along your path,
some partly covered by emerald
lily pads wearing jaunty yellow
blossoms, some capturing the
surrounding trees and hills in
their mirror-like surfaces, and
all providing homes for excel
lent trout and pike in their
depths just waiting for the
eager angler to wet his line.
Many Accommodations
We reached Dawson cree, B.
C. Milepost "O" on the Alaska
highway by way of Calgary and
Edmonton, both beautiful, thriv
ing, expanding cities. We then
prepared for the days upon days
of dusty,' empty wilderness. It
was dusty alright, there's no get
ting away from that, and for
nar!itMoIv hoiiv rain in the
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mountains (which shed water
like a raincoat) can have disas
trous results in the lower can
yons. Then too, there are occas
ional "glacier boils." a thawing
spot in a buried glacier that
creates a marshy quagmire, al
most impossible to overcome.
Thinking about the tremendous
obstacles that had to be faced in
the initial building of this high
way, fills one with great admir
ation for the intrepid souls who
undertook this project as one
negro worker so aptly put it,
"There's just miles and miles of
miles and miles."
After the road was repaired,
we found that in every bad place
that might have caused difficul
ty, there were men on D-8 cats
waiting to assist if necessary.
Visit Cemetery
There's a very interesting In
dian cemetery in a small village
called Champagne in the Yukon
where they have little houses
over each grave, their belief be
ing that the spirit lives therein
until such time as it can travel
to the happy hunting ground. On
the whole, the cemetery was in
much better condition than the
village itself, with curtains on
the tiny windows and picket
fences all around, like a Lillipu
tian hamlet.
Muncho Lake, B.C., Tesline
lake and Kluane Lake, Y.T., are
the three largest lakes along the
way. The waters of Muncho are
ever changing from deep green
to glistening turquoise: Teslin
holds a serenely quiet village on
its banks and some of the hugest
fresh water fish I've ever seen;
Kluane, the largest lake in the
Yukon is a creamy powder blue
in color. I think an artist could
go completely mad in this coun
try for around each bend in the
road there is a color and magni
ficence that if captured on can
vas would never be believed by
thousands of miles on either side .one who has not passed this way,
of the road there is wilderness
but the road itself offers many
more service stations, groceries,
and accommodations than do
many of our highways through
the southwest. An invaluable aid
on this trip is a small book call
ed "The Milepost," published in
Cathedral City, Calif., which giv
es a listing of every spot on the
highway and what services are
offered, also campsites and plac
es where drinking water may be
obtained, and points of interest.
The road Is much more heavily
travelled than we had anticipa
ted, and not once did we stop
(even for lunch) that someone
did not pull up beside us to kind
ly inquire if we were having any
trouble and did we need assist
ance: which gave us a warm
comfortable feeling that there
are many wonderfully thought
ful folks in the world ready to
lend a helping hand.
At Fort Nelson, B.C., we were
detained for three days because
heavy rains had washed out the
road ahead. Through certain
areas the highway is rather diffi-
The great Master Painter really
used the magic of the rainbow
in the far northland.
Whitehorse showed us the
splendor of some of the old river
boats that once plied the mighty
Yukon. They are now all up on
skids, but in standing and look
ing at them, in your minds eye
you can envision the days when
their decks were teeming with
avid gold prospectors and trap
pers hungry for the wealth that
lay in the gold fields and woods
of the Klondike. From the "Yu
koner," now paintless and deso
late; to the "Klondike," still
bearing all her fine brass orna
mentation; they all could tell a
thousand fantastic tales of heart
break and joy and treasures won
and lost in the conquest of the
northern wilderness.
Alaska's paved highways were
really a delight after over a
thousand miles of gravel. Fair
banks, our first stop, proved to
be quite a paradox; an unbeliev
able mixture of the old and the
new, the good and the bad; tiny
log cabins nestling on the skirt
tails of great, .tall, ultra-modern
steel buildings; dirty, dusty, nar
row streets crossing wide clean
boulevards; outrageous prices
for food and low clothing prices;
churches by the dozen and dance-
halls by the dozen; flamboyancy
and serenity rolled into one.
There's an excellent museum at
the University of Alaska, about
five miles west of Fairbanks.
There they have many fine speci
mens of native animals and
birds, and Eskimo and Indian
art.
Northernmost Point
Going northward to Circle,
which is the northernmost point
which can be reached by high
way on the American continent,
we passed over Eagle Summit
where tremendous herds of cari
bou go through on their migra
tion. A herd that passed there
three weeks before our arrival
were estimated at 40,000 head.
Wolves always follow these
herds, and woe be unto any
stragglers. Bounty hunters in
planes locate a herd of caribou
and shoot the wolves for they
can get a $50 bounty and SI 5 for
each pelt. Circle is a tiny village
of about 60 people. We were for
tunate enough to be there when
a river boat arrived from Ft. Yu
kon, and the entire populace
turned out to watch the landing.
The trip south along the Ri
chardson and Glenn highways to
Anchorage made us feel very
luxurious as the the highway had
been newly resurfaced most of
the way, almost as if old man
Alaskaiwas rolling out the black
velvet carpet just for us. There
were moose up to their knees in
lakes, munching on lily pad
roots and they disdainfully ignor
ed our presence; beavers, busy as
always; mountain sheep cavort
ing on precipitous slopes and
bald eagles lazily sweeping the
skies with their huge wings. And
the ever-present, ever-changing
mountains. The Matanuska val
ley was a crazy quilt of velvety
looking hay fields and striped
brown and green potato and cab
bage patches.
Anchorage Thrives
Anchorage is a thriving city,
wide thoroughfares and beauti
ful homes and gardens, and lit
erally buzzing with the drone of
thousands of aircraft, both pri
vate and commercial. Where our
auto traffic is a problem here,
their aircraft traffic is a prob
lem there.
The Kenai Peninsula is one of
the loveliest spots in Alaska, and
afforded us some really fine fish
ing in Deep creek, which flows
into Cook Inlet. The silver sal
mon and Dolly Varden trout
were running and both are a de
light to even the most jaded
palate. There are canneries along
the way where you can have
your catch smoked or canned at
a reasonable price.
The Richardson highway down
to Valdez offers the most spec
tacular scenery of the entire trip
and should never be by-passed
by the traveler. You can run the
gamut on this one rolling hills
and gigantic peculiarly shaped
mountains, high meadows and
low birch forests, quiet streams
and turbulent rivers. The Worth-
ington glacier can be climbed
upon, and you can shudder while
peeking down huge apparently
bottomless clefts and delight at
the brilliant electric blue shad
ows on its icy face, and even
munch on the crystal-like ice you
can chip while standing on a
shelf over a rushing stream that
careens down under the glacier.
Keystone canyon, just a few mil
es north of Valdez, has sheer
rock walls towering sometimes
500 feet above you. It' is just
wide enough for the highway
and the Lowe river, a milk gray
violent stream with the mad pace
of a fugitive trying vainly to es
cape its rocky prison. Here, too,
are the breathtaking cascades of
Bridal Veil and Horse Tail falls,
falling almost sheer down 300
feet to the river below.
Yes, it was a memorable trip.
Oh, there were times when we'd
have traded our eye teeth for
the sight of a bathtub to soak
in, and a good laundry and aces
sation of the hum and buzz of
the ever-present mosquito. But,
as we shook the dust of the jour
ney from our shoes and unpack
ed the boxes and suitcases and
various impedimenta included
on any camping trip, we looked
at each other and remembering'
all the wonderful things we had
seen and the fine kindly people
we had met said, "Let's do it
again, and soon."
Sunday, October 21. 195S
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Women May Decide Election
Head of Foundation Declares
Gay Pauley
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday 10 a.m Monday tor
Monday: other dav 5 "30 srevious day
By GAY PAULEY
United Press Correspondent
New York OI.R) The head
of the American Heritage Foun
dation believes that this year
for the first
time the wo
men may de
cide the out
come of the
president i a 1
election.
"That's my
own opinion,"
said John C.
Cor n e 1 i u s,
presi d e n t of
the non - partisan organization
"I'm not speaking for the foun
dation." Cornelius, an affable man who
used to be an advertising agency
executive, said a look at the fig
ures voters' backed up his pre
diction. This year, he said, the Founda
tion estimates there are 104,866,
000 eligible voters 53,700,000
of them women. Women out
number the men by 2,500,000.
In 1952, he said, an estimated
31,100,000 men voted, compared
with 30,500,000 women. The to
tals represented 65 per cent of
the men eligible to vote; 59 per
cent of the women.
Still Climbing
"But," he added, "the percent
age of women voting has been
climbing since suffrage.
"This year, we expect more
women to vote than ever before.
And, we expect them to put
number the men both in num
bers and percentage of eligibles."
"That is," Cornelius added,
"if they go to the polls with the
same zeal with which they've
been working so far."
Cornelius said he never had
seen women more active in
politics than this year either
working for the election of one
specific candidate, for a whole
party slate, or on a non-partisan
level, to increase voter interest.
Why all this femine enthusi
asm? "I think women just naturally
have more sense about these
things . . . they're realists," he
said. "They seem more consci
entious than men about their
duties as citizens."
Cornelius said that in 1952,
some 53 national organizations
worked with the foundation to
get out the vote.
This year, 144 organizations,
a big 'chunk of them women's
groups, are participating in what
he called "the campaign against
the third party the party of
indifference."
Well, with the feminine vote
increasingly powerful, what are
a woman's chances of one day
being President?
"Not very good," said Corne
lius. "I doubt if we ever have a
woman President. The women
themselves will prevent it.
"I've yet to talk to a woman
on the subject who didn't say,
'That's one job for a man'!"
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Use bacon drippings to moisten
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Wins Burns Contest
Mrs. Oliver P. Mann, route 3,
box 73, Medford, has been nam
ed winner of a set of the Ency
clopedia Americana in the week
ly contest conducted by Eugene
Burns, naturalist-writer. Burns'
column, "Is- That So?" appears
four times weekly in the Mail
Tribune.
Each week Burns offers a set
of the encyclopedias for the most
interesting letter or question on
wildlife. Mrs. Mann's article was
on quail.
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