10 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Tuesday. July 29, 1958
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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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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
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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. ,
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