SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuaiday. August 19, 1957
Highway 97 Takes the Motorist
Through the Heartland of Oregon
Motorlog Party
Lured by Lakes
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Assigned to investigate the "97
rarieties of vacationing" offered
along C. S. hiiway 97. which
bisects Oregon from The Dalles
to California.! we left Portland
with the Oregon State Motor as
sociation' white motorlog car
loaded with enough equipment
to cross Africa.
By "we" we mean the writer,
his wife, teen-age daughter and
son and a nervous Brittany
spaniel named Lithia. Before
our 1000-mile trip was com
pleted we tramped over more
lava than we ever knew had
cooled on the surface of the
earth. We saw it in all shapes
spread like glistening black
glass, piled in grotesque heaps,
encasing what had been tree
stumps, and ground into fine
powder.
We visited lakes high in the
mountains, beautiful acres of
dear water guarded by tall
peaks and. Jagged rims. We
passed vast bird refuges and
saw where rivers through the
ages had carved deep gorges
when blocked by lava flows.
On the way from The Dalles
to Maupin, highway 97 hugs a
wall of Tygh valley, a welcome
break in the scenery. It is in
Maupin that one meets the tur
bulent Deschutes river and a
fine view of it is to be had from
the bridge on the edge of town.
Dozens of fishermen were mere
specks at the water's edge.
Deep Cbaam Visited
Few hurrying motorists take
the time to visit what is called
by many the Grand Canyon of
Oregon. It is Cove gorge and
lies five miles west of 97 at
' Culver. 35 miles north of Bend.
It is a vast chasm 1000 feet
deep where the Crooked river
and the Deschutes fought it out
for possession of a "no man's
land" for unknown eons. The
edge of this chasm is reached
over a level road from Culver.
In early afternoon we pulled
Into Pioneer park in Bend and
lunched at a picnic table on the
lawn bordering the Deschutes
river.
Lava Butte, ten miles from
Bend, is a unique extinct volcano
with ten square miles of lava
flow which came from a "blow
out" at the south base of the
cone. There is a paved road to
the summit.
Lava River Caves State park
is 13 miles south and east of
Bend, easily accessible from 97.
Here will be found a spectacu
lar tunnel a mile in length.
We chose to visit Lava Casts
forest A left turn was made
off 31 a short distance south
of Lava River Caves state park.
The forest lies some ten miles
in from the highway. No one
should attempt this one-way
road unless driving a dust-proof
tank. Powdered soil filtered into
the station wagon, covering the
food box. clothing and baggage,
It sifted into our throats, ears,
and turned our hair a premature
gray. The dusty trail threads
Tunnels formed aces ao rait ia lava beds of Central Oregon.
Molten lava buried trees. Wood bnmed away, leaving tunnel.
through dust-covered trees and
within minutes you are driving
through weinf country so still
and quiet you can hear your
watch tick. This must be what
is called the middle of nowhere.
Before reaching the clearing
where the United States Forest
Service maintains picnic tables,
an outdoor fireplace and rest
rooms, the ear must traverse
an incline strewn with hunks of
lava and a hump which will
hang your car up unless you
drive with two wheels riding the
ridge.
It should be mentioned here
that the Forest Service has done
and is doing a magnificent job
in the development of camps
and picnic areas throughout this
part of the country on a limited
budget. Operation Outpost is the
name of the Forest Service's de
velopment program and we hope
tt will include improvement of
the Lava Casts Forest road in
the future.
Hiking Shoes Advised
From the rest clearing a quar
ter mile hike over a wooded
trail brings the hiker out onto
the lava flow. This is no place
for high heeled hiking. Sturdy
shoes are a requirement for in
spection of the awesome region.
Stumbling over the black mass
in the stillness of utter desola
tion, our young son just about
hit it on the head when he said,
"1 feel like an earth man visit
ing Mars."
Returning to 97 H is but
a short run to the turnoff for
Paulina and East lakes. This
is one of the prettiest 13 miles
experienced in the 1000 miles
covered during the week. The
highway is of red crushed
pumice, nice contrast to the
green of the Jack pines ' that
border the road and cover the
hills.
As we entered the Paulina
East Lake highway, our son
commented for us: 'They've
rolled out the red carpet for us."
The description fit the reddish
road to perfection.
East lake was our destination
for an overnight stay. It is a
sister to Paulina, the lakes be
ing only a couple of miles apart.
Both lakes are a part of the
Newberry crater, 40 miles south
east of Bend.
East and Paulina lakes are
rimmed by high mountain
ridges with Paulina peak pok
ing her head higher into the
blue sky than the others. Both
lakes are spots where fishermen
would like to spend the rest of
their days.
In this area the United States
Forest Service has done a su
perb job. The service operates
three excellent camp grounds
and a viewpoint trailer camp
at East lake. Many improve
ments in facilities, including a
new boat landing, have been
made. Certainly no camper
could ask for better conditions
than those offered at the two
lakes.
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Excellent highways connect
Portland with Central Oregon
points, lead to scenic wonders.
The Family Council
Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each
article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give
advice; It merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by
responsible agencies and counselors.
Richard K. I'm an outcast
in my own family.
Susan K. He doesn't under
stand sfoout faith.
Richard K. At 52. I find
myself a lonely man. an outcast
in my own family. My wife, my
four children live in their own
world and seem to haS little
interest in me.
I was a widower with two
children when I married my
present wife. She belonged to a
different faith, but this seemed
no problem at the time of our
marriage. V"e had two children
and then one day I learned to
my surprise that she had taken
them into her church. She gave
me no advance hint about this.
Now I discover that the two
older children have also willing
ly joined my wife's church. They
refuse to discuss this with me.
I have begged them to consider
how their own mother would
feel if she knew, but they say
they are of age to make their
own decisions and can't consid
er any parent's feelings in such
a manner. I can't understand
why they have all turned against
me.
Susan K. When we married
my husband said it didn't mat
ter to him what faith our chil
dren were brought up in. I did
not know myself what I wanted
to do about the matter and did
nothing at all for many years.
After discussing it with a
clergyman of my faith. I decid
ed the children should have
some religious background in
my fsh. I had a feeling Rich
ard would make a fuss, so I did
not discuss it with him.
I never ciid anything to per
suade the older children to join
my church. I brought them up
and loved them as my own and
perhaps they were influenced by
my love but nothing else.
They say they feel closer to me
than to their father.
I don't see why Richard
should take such a nasty atti
tude about it since he was nev
er a strong one for religion in
any form. He doesn't understand
about faith.
The Council There is some
right and some wrong on both
sides here and both parties
should try to understand all the
issues in the interest of re-establishment
of family harmony.
Susan was wrong to take this
important step witflout a word
to her husband. Whatever his
faith or lack of faith, he had a
right to know what was going
on ; even if it occasioned a
family blowup. Susan was not
straightforward in the way she
managed things.
On the other hand, Richard's
self-pittying frame of mind is
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all wrong. His family has not
"turned against him. They have
simply acceptetd a faith. His
own disinterest in religion evi
dently left a vacuum in his chil
dren's background and when the
older children saw a possibility
of filling this vacuum they then
reached out toward it. This is
no betrayal of their father or
of their dead mother.
Richard's hurt feelings could
be soothed somewhat if his wife
and children would acknowledge
that they did wrong in not con
sulting him in this matter. They
should show him that they will
not "live in their own world"
and that they love him as much
as ever. Their faith certainly
doesn't make him an "outcast"
in the familv.
(COPYRIGHT 1957
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New York Movie producer-composer Boris Morros, on his 12
years as an American counterspy:
"I have never been a spy before. I don't know where I found
the courage to do it the first time, but believe me, to tell the truth,
I don't think I could do it again."
Washington Anthony Doria, former secretary-treasurer of the
United Auto Workers union, on the union activities of racketeer
Johnny Dio:
"If Dio had one failing, it was the inability to say no to any
body." New York Elder statesman and financier Bernard Baruch, on
his career in Wall Street:
"As I moved into public life I was to find that what I had
learned about people from my speculator days applied equally to
other affairs. Human nature remained human nature, whether it
stood bent over a stock ticker or spoke from the White House."
Beirut, Lebanon President Camilla Chamoun, on Communist
infiltration into the Middle East:
"I earnestly believe that Communist infiltration into the Mid
dle East is highly dangerous to the very existence of the Middle
East as sovereign states."
Detroit Midwest Teamster leader James R. Hoffa, in a sharp
verbal exchange with Michael Novak, president of the Wayne
County CIO council:
"There are certain people in labor who are bums and every
body knows what to do with them."
Detroit Buddy Parker, in a surprise announcement of his in
tention to resign as Lions' football coach:
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Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
'"f- L
Hollywood HP) Pat Boone
has finished two movies and a
telefilm without kissing the her-
oine and he
may never ex
cept in special
i n s t ances, he
served notice
today, because
"a star has a
moral respon
sibility to his
fans."
"Not that I'm
Aline Mosov a g a 1 n st kiss
ing," the earnest, sincere new
singer said. "But some of my
young fans may wonder why I
kiss girls on the screen when
in real life I'm married.
"You have to think of the in
fluence you have upon the peo
ple who watch you perform.
This Is the Standard
"Whether I will ever kill a
girl on the screen, I don't know
know. It depends on the script.
If I decide the fans could sep
arate Boone the actor from
Boone the person, perhaps I
would kiss a girl in a movie
if the love scene were clean and
wholesome, such as young lov
ers or a husband and wife, the
kind you would want your chil
dren to see.
"I never would act in a love
scene that was suggestive, such
as on a couch."
An approved love scene, he
says, could have been in his
second movie for 20th Century
Fox Studio, "April Love." The
script called for him to almost,
but not quite, kiss Shirley Jones.
He was considering kissing her,
but the resultant publicity made
him to decide not to "o my fans
would think I had been pres
sured into the kiss by the di
rector." Pat also just finished filming
a guest appearance on "The
Gale Storm Showk," to be seen
on CBS-TV later thisy ear, and
in tender romatic scenes with
Gale he doesn't buss her, either.
"I have to remember teen
agers who look at the screen
and do not forget I am Pat
Boone," he explained.
No Private Life
"An entertainer has a tremen
dous obligation to his fans. Some
entertainers think they should
be allowed to lead completely
private lives and do as they
please without the press of fans
knowing about it.
"But I think entertainers,
especially those who appeal to
young people, should not think
that way. I don't see how a fel
low who knows he influences
young people can say he wants
to live his own life.
"I welcome the opportunity to
help teen-agers by setting an ex
ample. I am in a dangerous posi
tion because I influence teen
agers. If I should decide to
smoke, I also would be hurting
other bodies of people who
would smoke just because I did."
Church To Benefit
From Widow's Will
Peoria, III. (IP! The Yirst
Church of Christ Scientist in
Boston will received an esti
mated $1,499,602 in a non-taxable
bequest from the $1,972,348
estate left by Mrs. Thomas Love
lace, wealthy widow and mem
ber of a prominent banking and
distilling family, it was disclosed
Monday.
The balance went to two
cousins, Daniel Hamilton, Phila
delphia, and Allan Hamilton,
Miami, Fla., and Peoria's Brad
ley University and two charit
able instutions.
NOT SO TENDER TRAP
Grand Rapids, Mich. (IP)
Parting is such sweet sorrow. A
32-year-old man needed several
stitches in his lower lip when
his girl friend bit him during a
goodnight kiss.
Lightning May
Have Caused Air
Disaster in Canada
Issoudin, Que. (IP) A bolt of
lightning may have been the
cause of Sunday's crash of a
chartered airliner that took 79
lives in Canada's worst air dis
aster, an investigator said today.
However, most experts be
lieve that' either severe thunder
storn turbulence or pilot fatigue
resulted in the crash of -the four
engine DC4 Maritime Central
Airways plane. All 73 passen
gers and six crew members died
when the aircraft crashed and
exploded Sunday in a swamp,
15 miles south of Quebec City.
The craft, bound for Toronto,
was carrying a group of British
war veterans and their families
on the return flight from a vaca
tion in the British isles.
U.S. authorities in Washing
ton noted that in aviation annals
only one crash of a commercial
airliner has been blamed on
lightning. In 1940, a commercial
DC3 was struck by lightning
over Lovettsville, Va., and
plunged to earth at an estimated
300 miles an hour.
Det. Lt. Martin Hcaley, in
charge of the provincial inves
tigation of Sunday's crash, said
"nothing is known for sure, but
we are not overlooking the pos
sibility that the storm had some
part in the accident."
Dr. Schweitzer To
Vacation in Europe
Conakry, French West Africa
(IP) Dr. Albert Schweitzer, No
bel Prize-winning humanitarian,
was steaming up the African
coast today on his way to a
brief vacation in Europe.
Schweitzer left his hospital at
Lambarene, French Equatorial
Africa, on July 31 and boarded
the steamer Brazza at Port
Gentil.
Boy. 7, Missing; Foul Play Feared
Brazil, Ind. HP) A thousand
volunteers today began an inch-by-lnch
search of woodlands,
water-filled mine strips and a
"haunted house" area for a 7-year-old
boy police are con
vinced met with foul play.
A general scouring of the area
Monday failed to turn up any
clues as to the whereabouts of
Billy Earl Martin, missing since
Saturday.
Police said they intend to press
the investigation on four fronts:
Unsatisfactory results from lie
detector tests submitted to by
Billy's maiden aunt and an itin
erant guitar player, a traveling
carnival, and the search itself.
Police Chief Joseph Russell
said lie tests administered to
Elizabeth Martin, 41. of Carbon,
Ind., the maiden auni, and Harry
Allen Higgins, 53, a wandering
minstrel who lodged at the Mar
tin home, "show a strong possi
bility" both have knowledge of
the boy's disappearance.
Billy's mother, Mrs. William
Martin, stood by Higgins, saying
he "loved children he'd spend
his last dime on any of them."
Elmhurst, 111. (IP) A group
of 150 families living in house
trailers presented a unique ar
gument when told they had to
move to make way for a toll
road. They said they had no
place to go.
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