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10 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Tuesday. July 29, 1958 Wallowa Facilities Abundant 0 0 i ,-' a K , .- H, f - " li: , . ' . t'X-''? YWf I DUTH U. S. SATELLITE LAUNCHED The U. S. Aay's "Jupiter-C" missile is shown leaving its Cape Canaveral, Fla., launching pad and climbing into space. It becomes the fourth satellite successfully placed in orbit by this country. . Traditional Rain In Pennsylvania Waynesburg, Pa. (UPD The time-honored tradition that it almost always rains here on July 29th held true again to day for the 73rd time in the last 82 years. Permanent Buys Bellingham Plan! Oakland, Calif. (CPD Per manent Cement Company has announced completion of the purchase of Olympic Portland Cement Company of Belling ham, Wash., an English-own-fd firm. ' Permanente said owners of tlft'98 per cent of the one mil lion outstanding shares of Olympic agreed to sell for 8.75 a share. "The acquisition will strengthen our marketing po sitions in the Pacific North west and Northern Califor nia," said Vice President Wal lace A. Marsh. Precisely at the stroke of midnight, a light but steady drizzle began falling as a whoop went up from a hand ful of faithful believers who had gathered in the town square hopefully awaiting a glimpse of the day's first rain. As the group remained in the drizzle, one of the old "regulars" quipped, "This is probably the only place where not coming in out of the rain isn't considered being soft headed." It all started back in 1876 when a farmer told a druggist Bill Allison began keeping the official "rain-day" record. Attorney John Daley, the present official "one-day' Waynesburg weather prophet, makes a standing wager each year of a hat that the predic tion will hold true. Daley has a closet full of winnings. He has tangled with such no tables as Jack Dempsey, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, and has emerged victorious. 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TImm travtl rtiem dnenbo vacation trtpt and tfMtiftotions racommondod for out-o-tst visitor! coming to Orcvon 4ur inf fh Contonnial Ytar obsorvMCtt. By ROBERTA and MALCOLM BAUER August is a good time to vis it Wallowa Lake. The State Park development there -over the past six years has not only added to the recreational facil ities available; it has. wonder of all, eliminated the dust, that inevitable late-summer menace in those parts of the eastern Oregon pine forests neavuy pa tronized by touTBto. That achievement ean be traced to the network of ma cadamized roads through the camping and recreation area at the south end of the lake. Six years ago, when Foreman Al Zimmerman assumed re sponsibility for the new Wal lowa Lake State Park, he had six picnic tables and a few re fuse cans. Now there are more than 100 camping sites, includ ing a growing number of trailer accommodations, with electric ity, water, even sewage facili ties. As at other major state parks, there are modern utility buildings serving each group of camping sites, with laundry and toilet facilities, and hot and cold showers. Trailer Haven Cosy One night during our stay in the Wallowa Lake State Park campground we were treated to an unusual display of thun der and lightning and rain. Our 15-foot vacation trailer was a cozy haven compared with the quarters of some campers in sleeping bags. We had learned that some camp ers are not as dependent as is often thought on motor trans portation for shelter. A wom an and her teen-age daughter arrived on the bus adequately equipped with sleeping bags, pup tent and dog. We spent one of our three Wallowa Lake rest days mak ing the round trip to the near est of the mountain lakes Aneroid. Rest, hah! The trail winds sharply upward from the levels of Wallowa Lake and I &&&& ' ft Ti f?fr W Mary (left) and Bette-B Baser perch on a rock overlooking Aneroid Lake, a SVi-mil hike uphill from Wallowa Lake. continues 6V4 miles, virtually all on the upgrade. The view from the trail over Wallowa Lake and portions of Wallowa Valle is incomparable; and the clear, ice-cold streams that cross the trail at intervals give opportunity for the pause that refreshes. We iound, however, that Aneroid had apparently been moved farther back m the mountains since the time we had made the same journey 20 years before. This is the tenderfoot trail among those that rise behind Wallowa Lake. But it was rugged enough for us. We made it up in about 3V4 hours and down in 2VSs, the kids complet ing the ascent and descent each in about a half hour less time than we, who served in part as pack animals. On the shore of Aneroid we ate our lunch and indulged our aches and pains in a swim from a convenient ledge of rock. Silver Tip, who for so many years superintended cabin and horse rentals at An eroid, is there no more. The same accommodations are op erated under the direction of Keith Wilson, district attorney of Wallowa County. His con cessionnaires charge 45 cents for a cold bottle of beer; and it's worth every penny. There are accommodations at Wallowa Lake outside the state park area. Wallowa Lake Lodge serves elaborate and delicious meals and is equipped with that sine qua non of civil ization, the cocktail lounge. There are horses, tandem bikes and motor scooters for hire. For a family vacation, with a different schedule every day, Wallowa Lake is hard to beat. Seventh and Eighth Days Home to Portland Via Pendle ton 329 Miles. - Our circle of the state could have been made easily in seven days a week around the state. But true to our original goal and our friends in Pendleton we stopped a night in the Rcund-Up city and finished our tour the next day, our eighth on the road. The shortest, quickest route between Portland and Wal lowa Lake, unbeknownst to most travelers, follows State Highway No. 204, which crosses the Blue Mountains over the Tollgate grade between Elgin and Weston. Traffic is lighter and the distance is 13 miles shorter than on U.S. 30 through La Grande. The road is good, the scenery, spectacular. Right on the road near the summit of the Blues is Langdon Lake. a resort popular with -eastern Oregon and southeastern Wash ington families for many years before the construction of the new hard-surfacec highway. Fendleton is one of the state's liveliest cities, a good place to spend the night, in or out of season Round-Up sea son, that is. We were iust a bit too early for the big frontier show. A trailer would be handv there, accommodations being at a premium every Septem ber. The last lap of our journey, along the Columbia River, was as well furnished with diver sions as anv portion of the eight-day trip. The south or Oregon bank of the Columbia is becoming one of the North west's b e s t-patronized play grounds. Among the newest and most surprising of Oregon's state parks is that at Hat Rock, nine miles east of Umatilla on U.S. 730. Here on the shores of the lake behind McNarv Dam is a 369-acre oasis, with an im proved swimming beach, pic nicking area, electric stove shelter and other accommoda tions. Shade trees are rising confidently where once the saee was unbroken. On down the Columbia, par ticularly in the gorge through the Cascades, there is a wide selection of picnic and camping sites Lindsey Creek. Starva tion Creek. Eagle Creek all chronicled as waystations in the iournals of early overland emigrants. As thousands of Portlanders already know from personal experience, the new state nark development at Rooster Rock is a great place to spend a summer afternoon. Scenic Route Worth Time The driver who hasn't lately taken the alternate scenic route over Crown Point will fino the escape from the traf fic well worth the few minutes extra. And so our around-the-state-in-eight-days adventure came to an end. Phineas Fogg en tered the Reformers Club at the appointed time with no mcre satisfaction than that with which we greeted the sight of our front door. The state and national parks are great, but a family with chil drencan find no happier ac commodation than that o f home, exnecially on the first night of arrival from a wide ranging vacation. Even so. the smallest fry preferred to bunk in the trailer as it stood over- nisht in our driveway. This eight-day circuit of Ore gon is not to be recommended to the faint-hearted. But it had great value as a scouting ex pedition to discover spots to which we hope to return with more time on our hands. Oregon Included in Fund Apportionment Washington (UPD The Commerce Department today announced apportionment of $33 million to 40 states and two territories for improve ment of roads in and around national forests during fiscal 1960, starting July 1, 1959. The apportionment was based on the area and value of land owned by the federal government within the nation al forests in each state. Among the larger alloca tions were Arizona $1,857, 456; California $4,726,004; Colorado" $2,369,837; Idaho $3,359,886; Montana $2,630, 481; New Mexico $1,32,331; Oregon $4,545,904;. Utah $1, 095,914; Washington $2,293, 608; Wyoming $1,407,712 and Alaska $2,676,474. , SELECJ EARLY! 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