Debited, Hit&ensive Plans Being Made for
OregCBa IFoirt Clatsop National Memorial
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RICHARD C.,tUW5S
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I believe my ccmttitiiieftta
are going to t flgpjilj u-
prised by the decile, n4
extensive plan presently
under considecation tfv he
formal estlishmOrit c tt
Jrort Clatsop nation! ,m
morial, near Astoriv
This unit of our SSstionel
Park system ? hiKotic
shrines was authorise T t&
bill signed into 1 on May
29 by President Eisenhower,
after unanimous paSssge in
both the Senate end the
House. Of course, e reat fleal
of preliminary aiscussion tna
effort preceded tha active
sponsorship of the legislation
by Representative Walter
Norblad in the House nd by
myself in the Senate
Fort Clatsop National Me
morial will be the first his
toric shrine unoer the direct
custodianship of the National
Park Service ever created in
tfie state of Oregon, despite
Oregon's abundance of his
toric riches.
Minor Phase
Fort Clatsop National Me
morial will do far more than
preserve the rebuilt version
of the old log Fort Clatsop,
which was erected a& part of
Astoria's sesqui-centennial ob
servance of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition in 1955. In
deed, tnis is merely a minor
phase of the preparations at
ready begun by leading offi
cials of the QNationai Fr
Service.
These elaborate plans call
for a permanent headquarter?
building and interpretive
museum to be constructed &t
a cost of at least $110,000,
perhaps more. In addition,
there will he built two 9tftff
residences ata combined co9t
of approximately $36,000.
There will be continually
on duty at the Fort Clatsop,
Memorial a superintendent
who is qualified in both his
torical and administrative
matters, as well as a National
Park ServiceOhistorian whoso
chief duty will be to deliver
lectures to groups of visitors.
He will cater particularly to
tours of college and high-
school students and others'
with a special interest in tha
significance of the winter
bivouac in 1805-1806 of th
Lewis Md Clfk Expedition,
Annual Budget
The annual budgetfor per
sonnel at the Fort Clatsop Na
tional Memorial will b di
vided tentatively smong a
superintendent (permanent),
$7,029; historian (permanent),
$4,037; laborer (permanent),
$3,910; ranger-historian (part
time), $1,878; and stenograph
er (part-time), $1,017.
These people will operate
complete andP integrated his
torical operation, ' so that
visitors can obtain some
genuine and authentic knowl
edge of the bleak and event
ful wiSter spent along the
shores of the Pacific Ocean by
the first party of Americans
ever to cross our continent.
The details of this operation
represent the outcome of
three years of careful and
diligent investigation. It was
in 1955 that my first bill on
this subject passed Congress,
directing the National Park
Service to conduct a thorough
survey of the possibilities of
Fort Clatsop for national an
shrinement. The eventual re
port was favorable, vith the
result that Representative
Norblad and I sponsored this
year the enablin legislation
which officially afla fort
Clatsop to our CQatiagfil Trfc
system. q
Shocked, Dfeiusfafi
Ye it is fair to joint out
that the arccolot end
historians wno Studied Jort
Clatsop for th4 National Ttrt
Service jyere ShtrSafl and dis
turbed By th && in fhich
the site ad WPfciell? taes
abandoned.
They had grafts fio fche
foresight and iftftom c$ the
OregonPHistoricl Society in
acquiring the immetiftte tite
of the ancient ftJ, hut the
report submitted to Contrast
stressed that oven "Vie oreaze
marked plate w(& efcolea at
least three timB bsteeen
1929 and 1942. Jthoufh re
covered each tima, is ftat to
be removed entftrelf muring
World War II to sft-ae it from
being taken and soldi fti tcrap
metal. The Oreon Historical
Society was unable to obtain
maintenanQ? assionc luring
World War II, ftn he cite
was neglected Coglaiiit
werertiade that it & Vauaf
used 'as a garbage flurry'."
But the report ca? aha
2lonal Park S&rvyd W
4ouM4 qualifications of Fort
Cletaop for national - historic
ain status. In fact, promi-
ncM figures in the service
Mve aaeured me orally that,
aft their opinion, Jort Clatsop
Me equal historic lustre and
aiamiiicence with units of the
System that have been com
memorated for decades and
tven fenerations.
Vita Plana
Xhia may help to explain
zhy the National Park Serv
ice is proceeding with careful
and painstaking plans for de
velopment of the site. At
least 150,000, fori example,
will be spent to assure ade
quate entrance roads and an
ample parking area. This is
eipected to be one of the
principal tourist attractions
on Highway 101, between
British Columbia and south
ern California.
Total cost of developing
Tori Clatsop as a National
Memorial will bes somewhere
in the neighborhood of $266,-
008. Pobably this sum will
ba provided in the budget of
the Federal government for
the fiscal year 1960, which
begins on Junly 1, 1959.
However, some of us are
requesting the full amount to
be appropriated in a supple
mental money bill for the
1959 fiscal year, which starts
a year earlier than this. .The
fate of this request is still in
doubt.
Littie Doubt
Wa have made it in hope
that at least the land area at
Fort Clatsop may be dedi
cated some time during Ore
gon's centennial year of 1959.
There is little doubt that the
full sum of $266,000 ultimate
ly will be appropriated by
Congress, and the sole uncer
tainty is the year in which
tha amount will become avail
able.
Because of my interest in
Oregon history generally and
in that of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition in particular, I
have had a number of con
ferences with Herbert E.
Kahler, chief historian of the
National Park Service; Leo
3. Diederich, chief of Nation
al Park system planning, and
ith Roy K. Appleman, staff
Historian of the National
Park Service.
These capable career serv
ants of our government have
started thinking of the most
intricate and specific details
of tha planning for the Fort
Clatsop National Memorial.
They even contemplate tables
and benches and bunks for
the re-created fort.
Chief Concern
Jor example, one of their
chief concerns is that com
paratively few relics and
memorabilia of the actual
Lewis and Clark Expedition
itself still are available for
museum purposes. Those in
existence are jealously and
militantly guarded by their
nresent custodians. Readers
will remember the desperate
court ' fight waged several
years ago in St. Paul over
possession of certain original
diaries of Lieutenant William
Clark, which had been found
in a dusty attic.
"It may be." Kahler told
me, "that we shall have
furnish the museum, at least
at the beginning, with modern
materials which tell the Lewis
and Clark story. I have in
mind slides, brochures, dio
ramas and similar devices
From experience, we know
that many tours and busloads
of school children will be
visiting the Fort Clatsop Na
tional Memorial. Therefore.
we want to have on hand the
sort of thing which will be
sure to interest and fascinate
them. That is why our his
torian at the site will be es
pecially trained and equipped
to give lectures that should
have appeal for young visitors
of school age. Furthermore,
booklet will be published
for free distribution telling
historically why Fort Clatsop
has been saluted and hon
ored."
Many Oregon residents
have written letters, asking
me why the new shrine will
be Fort Clatsop National Me
morial rather than Fort Clat
sop National Monument. My
original intentions, at the
time the first legislation was
drafted in 1955, were for a
National Monument.
Find No Remnants
However, the archaeolo
gists who dug at Fort Clatsop
through a wet, cold winter
found no remnants which sat
isfied them as stemming from
the original fort erected by
the explorers in 1805 and
1806. They even questioned
the exact location of the site
itself, but were assured by
Thomas Vaughan, executive
director of the Oregon His
torical Society? that the loca
tion had been staked out by
his organization after the
most searching study and re
search.
In the absence of any origi
nal edifice to commemorate
the National Park Service
usually establishes a memori
al. When there is some exist
ing structure for enshrine
ment purposes, a National
Monument is more often
characteristic. However, there
is no real basic difference in
the importance, scope or
budget of the two different
entities.
To cite one example, the
only other park system unit
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associated with the route of
the Lewis and Clark Expedi
tion is known as the Jeffer
son National Expansion Me
morial. It is located in St.
Louis, at the very beginning
of the great journey to the
mouth of the Columbia river.
This memorializes the west
ward movement generally
and Thomas Jefferson's nego
tiation of the Louisiana Pur
chase. Of course, it was Presi
dent Jefferson who dis
patched Lewis and Clark on
their epic pilgrimage.
Preserra Trail
As part of the Fort Clatsop
National Memorial, officials
of the park service hope to
preserve part of a trail ex
tending from the site of the
fort westward toward Sea
side. They believe this was
the exact path followed by
members of the historic ex
pedition when they visited
the salt cairns on the coast.
It is my plan to contact
officers of the Crown-Zeller-bach
Timber corporation in
an effort to secure for the
Fort Clatsop National Me
morial a segment of virgin
evergreen timber stockading
this trail, so that school chil
dren can see the identical
trees which may have been.
standing when the first west
bound Americans passed this
way with our flag.
The exact architeecture for
the headquarters building and
Lumber Wholesale Firm
Gets New President
Portland (UPI) J. S. Hei
gel has been elected new
president of Dant and Rus
sell, Inc., it was announced
here Friday. The firm, one of
the world's largest lumber
wholesaling and exporting
companies, maintains its head
quarters here.
Heigel succeeds George M.
Syversen as both president
and treasurer. He previous
ly had been secretary-treasurer.
He said there would be
no basic changes in Dant and
Russell policies.
museum has not yet been de
cided upon. As soon as the
funds for developing the me
morial have been appropriat
ed by Congress, the San Fran
cisco regional offices of the
National Park Service will
undertake to start upon the
design of this and the other
buildings.
I have been informed by
Kahler that, on occasion,
these edifices are adapted to
the general atmosphere and.
traditions of the area in
which they are located. For
This reason I have suggested
that some effort might be
made to use in the Fort Clat
sop museum Douglas-fir lum
ber or other materials indi
genous to the timbered Ore
gon sea-coast. This recom
mendation, I have been as
sured, will be given serious
consideration by the National
Park Serivce at least in
part of the structure.
White Horse Park
Opens in Josephine
Grants Pass The White
Horse Trailer Park on Lower
River rd., near the Rogue river
about seven miles west of
Grants Pass will be formally
opened and dedicated Satur
day at 3 p.m.
The new park, first in Jose
phine county for the general
public, has been developed
under the direction of the
county "park commission.
Facilities include 21 trailer
spaces, seven with water,' el
ectric, and sewer connections,
and others with water and a
dry-well for waste; a utility
building with shower stalls,
toilets, and lavatories; and a
picnic area with table and
bench units, and -concrete
cook-fire units.
The camp is named after
White Horse riffle, about a
quarter-mile away on the riv
er.
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Portland Chamber of Com
merce announced Friday the
scheduled arrival of the four
masted Japanese training
barque, Kaiwo Maru.
The colorful sailing ship
will tie up at Swan Island at
4 p.m. Tuesday.
The Kaiwo Maru is one of
six sailing vessels used by
the Japanese Merchant Ma
rine for the training of en
gineering and deck officers.
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