Modem Facilities for Small Boats
Lure ilnglers to Winchester Bay
Harbor Provides
Launching Ramps
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Only a few years ago Winches
ter Eay was just another quiet
little hamlet on the central Ore
gon coast. Today, It's as busy
as Tunes Square for a good part
of the year.
The reason? Salmon.
Actually the salmon have Al
ways been offshore from Win
chester. The real reason for the
huge invasion of sports fisher
men is two fold: first, the am
bitious Salmon Harbor develop
ment with its capacious small
boat mooring and launching fa
cilities and gigantic parking lot
for autos and boat trailers;
second, the modernization of
V. S. highway 99 which puts
Portland and the Willamette val
ley within easy driving distance
of Winchester Bay.
South from Eugene, our white
Oregon State Motor association
motoriog car traveled pavement
that was four lane; the by-pass
near Cottage Grove Junction is
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explore Winchester Bay, you will
Turn on to state 48 at urain-Meo-
ford junction. This is a two-lane
roaa, intimately scenic.
Storm Destructive
When a storm devastated the
village of Winchester Bay in
1951 the people of Douglas coun
ty, determined to rebuild and
improve, created a superb har
bor which makes available the
rich fishing grounds that lie out
aide the bar.
Advertising of this place Is
mostly person to person. But the
rumors of good fishing By fast,
and the village is crowded with
busy. Intent anglers. With all
the activity there is little noise,
except for the sounds of the
'wind and the waters. The small
! restaurants are simple and
clean; there is do honky-tonk,
no promenade.
Five floats stretch far out into
the bay; concrete ramps for
boat launching run down to the
water.
Charter Boats Busy
Barry Ludwig, soft - speaking
manager of Salmon Harbor (as
the whole harbor area within
the community of Winchester
Bay is named), pointed out the
large charter boats. They do a
thriving business, attract parties
from all over the United States.
Rates are reasonable, $7 a per
son far a four-hour trip, with
everything tn the way of tackle
and bait furnished.
Most numerous are the pri
vately owned sports fishing
boats, all sizes, all kinds. With
so many craft going out each
day, some for the first time, the
personnel of Salmon Harbor an
ticipate difficulties and achieve
remarkable safety with sensible
precautions. An eye-arresting
sign warns: LIFE JACKETS
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A state park aarroanda the aid figbtbouae that guards the
mouth of the Cmpqna. at Winchester bay. It's a popular spot
for picture taking, and motoriog party paused for few shots.
MUST BE WORN. Ludwig him
self is on duty at four every
morning, seven days a week.
A branch of the U. S. coast
guard stationed at Umpqua light
hojte keeps three boats at ready
on the bay. At the drop of a
sailor's cap they can leap into
a boat and go roaring across
the bar.
Colored Prisms Used
The coastguardsmen are also
custodians of the unique Ump
qua lighthouse.
This is a tiny building with
a flat round tower which houses
a beacon unlike any in the
United States. In the turret a
single 500-watt light globe is
mounted surrounded by a great,
yet singularly delicate, cylinder
of glass prisms. Some are clear,
some a rosy color. "
These- prisms magnify and
multiply the rays from that
single globe and beam them out
across 19.5 miles.
The prism was constructed
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Good roads link Portland, Ea
gene and southern Oregon to
anglers' mecca at Salmon har
bor. Coast route forms loop.
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house in 1890.
Daytimes, the prism is heav
ily curtained, for the sun's rays
so greatly magnified would
shatter the glass.
Forest Park Entices
Convenient to Salmon Harbor
are many motels. We chose Cur
rier's Village in Lakeside, on
Ten Mile lake, seven miles south
of Winchester Bay. Accommo
dations there were immaculate
and spacious.
Ten Mile lake has several
white sand beaches; close by
the motel is a good dock for
fishing and swimming with aa
area roped off for different
depths. Summer mornings a Red
Cross instructor gives swim
lessons and is on duty most of
the day. Fishing there is report
edly good.
National forests along the Ore
gon coast are most beautiful.
Siuslaw national forest had been
beckoning us quietly for many
miles as we drove homeward.
We abandoned plans returning
to Portland via the U. S. 99
super - speedway and continued
north on 101 to Siltcoos park
where we stopped to cook dinner.
Tms park embraces sand
dunes, lakes, easy trails and ut
ter stillness. The an- is soft and
balmy; the foliage dense, yet
caimuy cleared by man for easy
passage and spots of soft sun
light. Sturdy outdoor stoves and
rustic shelters are everywhere.
but unobtrusive. Water from
pumps is pure.
People are everywhere m
there too, but walking softly,
like Indians. The roads that
wind through the camp areas
are good, easily passable It is
a spot that cries out for a tent
and two week's time.
IN AMBULANCE
Walkerton, Ind. (If) The
high school bfketball team
rode home in an ambulance
with the siren wailing after win
ning the St. Joseph County
tournament. The team rode in
to town on a fire truck last
year after winning the tourney,
but sub-normal temperatures
vetoed the outdoor ride this
year. And one player did break!
his leg in the final game.
RECIEVES LETTER
West Newbury, Mass. (IP)
Patrick Dixon, 16, said he re
ceived a letter from Mary Jane
Campbell, 12, resident of the
Isle of Barra off the coast of
Sco,tland,-v informing him she
had picked up the corked bottle
containing his address which he
put into the Merrimac River
last summer.
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HOUSE THAT BILL BUILT Big Bill Russell, one of the
fabulous five who helped make it possible? looks over the
construction of the University of San Francisco's new
gymnasium on the Dons' campus. Russell, now a pro with
the Boston Celtics, was an All-American on USPs Nation
al Basketball Championship teams of 1955-56 which en
couraged financial support for the 6000-seat gym. Basket
ball fans throughout the West contributed to tie building
fund. " "'" "
Police Seek Chance
To Catch Nudisls
Evansdale, Iowa (IB A Mid
west police chief today sought
a chance to catch some alleged
nudists without the goods.
"I wish we could catch them,"
Chief Clifford Schake said. "We
have been patrolling by there
quite a bit."
"There" is the backyard of
Chester Froit, 45, who fenced off
the area so he and his family,
and occasionally nudist friends,
can sunbathe together. Schake
has been investigating the case
for about a month.
A neighbor of Froit's, Ken
neth Stedman, has complained
both about the alleged nudism
and the high board fence.
"He's got a nice home there
and he says the fence cuts off his
view," Schake said of Stedman,
leaving unanswered exactly
what view had been cut off.
" Froit struck the pose of the
indignant taxpayer when ques
tioned about his right to build
the fence.
"When a man owns a piece of
ground and pays the high taxes
we have to, it seems to me he
should have a right to build a
fence," he said.
Schake said he has "heard"
that the Froits have held nude
gatherings in their yard, and ap
parently believes he can make a
case against them when the facts
are brought into the open.
Froit has neither confirmed
nor denied the reports, but left
no doubt he thinks discretion
the better part of valor.
"When we do get a chance to
go to another nudist camp we
have to sit around in the shade
for fear of getting sunburned,"
he said. "This way we can have
enough of a tan when we go to
be able to enjoy the games."
PENS STOLEN
Portland, Me. (IP) After
many new ballpoint pens were
stolen from the Maine Automo
bile Registration Bureau
chains and all officials re
placed them with the old-fash
ioned variety.
'Hinky Pinky' Game
Latest Craze of
Teen-Age Groups
Salt Lake City . Iff) The
latest rage in the teen-age set
and with many fun-minded
adults in these parts is a
word game .called Hinky Pinky.
The name Itself doesn't make
much sense. But playing it is
contagious.
It's done by forming two
teams. In turn, one team chal
lenges the other to guess what
"hinky pinky" it is thinking
of. The time taken to reply
or to give up is scored to
determine the winner.
The replies have to rhyme.
That's part of the game. As when
one team asks its opponets to
guess what's a "hinky pinky"
for "cover for -a mental- hos
pital." The answer is "goof
roof. Or a winter carnival"
turns out to "be show."
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Thme rules are simple. The
"asking" team gives only the
definition. And it must, when
requested, say how many sylla
bles there are in each of the
two words of the answer. Be
yond that, the challanged squad
is oh its own.
Hinky pipky has even re
ceived "official" recognition in
one of the Salt Lake City high
school student newspapers.
Editor Brent Silver of the
East High Leopard, in a' recent
column, cited these examples:
Bar in a blimp balloon sa
loon; crazy mixed-up boat
daft craft; frost-bitten moron
cool fool; mistaken Shakespear
ean character erroneous Pol
onious; uncolorful crustacean
drab crab; small insect wee
bee or scant ant;, speedy preach
er faster pastor.
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At other recent get-togethers,
game players came up with such
examples as:
Tired vichysoisse pooped
soup; unmannerly bare rude
nude; comfortable insect snug
bug; greasy pullet slick chick;
immobile cargo carrier stuck
truck; ineffective look weak
peek; sad posie dour flower;
big" excuse tall stall; raised
finger rigid digit.
Sometimes the definitions run
a little longer .
"What you can get the day
after Christmas" is answered by
"free tree." Or "boar door" is
"a device to keep male pigs,"
"gob knob" is a "door opener
on a mariner's house" and "dap
pled apple" answers "results of
a hailstrom in an orchard."
The "hinky pinky" that broke
up one party called for an ac
cent. The guessers had to give
up when asked about "a South
erner reporting northern weath
er." The answer: "mo" snow!"
Youth Said Missing
From California
Patrick Little, 13-year-old
Woodland, Calif, youth has been
missing from his home since
Aug. 10, his mother Mrs. J. V.
Little, writes in a letter to Mail
Tribune.
The youth is described at five
feet, two inches tall and when
last seen was wearing a white
T shirt and brown leather
jacket. .
He was last seen hitchhiking
north on Highway 99W near
Dunning, Calif, on' Aug. 11.
' Those having any information
to the youth's whereabouts are
asked to call coUect MO 2-5873
Woodland, Calif.
Yolo, county sheriffs officers
said the boy left home Aug. 10
after wrecking his father's pick
up truck.
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