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(5) e A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfore,, Oregon; Thuniv, Jek 31, W O Rqnch Offoro Touch of Wild West looguin Miller Sprg'd Near John Dor Earned for Famed Gold Ruth &a ?ct Tlw Mtawlna it a conownaO af 1 Ci) nwwrtoi appwrlnt ia fh. SulY0Orv saiaa. SM at Mi trnxul aeries 1pm nnd loHtttr by The OVteoeiae and the ema Stat Motor Asm. Tim travel articles Mcrib vacation trip and dtt- flmatloos mreuahant Jfee Northwest and -are raeemnwnoad foT oot-oi-ftara vl li ters comlne to Oraeea durint th. Cen tennial Yaar observance. LEVERETT RICHARDS Staff Writer, Tht Oreaonian fce old WUd West of song and story. Tltit's what the dudes from the effete East (7) want to s? when they come w tfrt tn airi Old Han Ore- tpn's 100th birthday cake next year. rs TViflft ran find it (among oth- ---- . t - . er places) iuu ie on me mam iighway at the Joaquin Miller 4. ...,-,,-V, m miles snnth of UUCab lOiilrili V .....WW O John Day on Highway 395, just 10 miles off Highway 26, one of America's main streets. We set out on an Oregonian Oregon State Motor Assn. motorlog in search of the Wild O West to complete the educa tion of Jaao Wertheim. the . Dutch student who spent the year with us under the Amer ican Field Service program, i Cowbodys are scarce in tUs j Netherlands. So are moun tains. "We have just one. It is 300 eet high and all sand," Jaap jused to say. iPlna Trees Scarce Pin trees are scarce, too, i nd the deer are not for hunt ing. G Timlin Millpr dude ranch. .J rr. tha rnntin' mt.in' t 1 J ,U Aim- lnrflrtfl pOei OI gUtU liuu uajro, ,v like a frontier ranch should o rliwror nf red buildine With false fronts tlt loold likt. th VaA Tina sainnn Ond the DNld- -rr mnn Wall, the countrv i store and the blacksmith hop ; of a typftal cowtown an ne- o I JOAQUIN U, MILLER. I v . GUEST RAM4 j o Joaotin Milltjr Guest Rnco is da Highway 35, 10 miles south of John Day. Map sjiows variety of route? to raafk. tlo? in a mountain meadow un der redolent Dines at tha foot of Canyon Mountain. S'iro. pnnnzh there, is a sa loon, now converted to tamer 11C0- hlarltsmith shot), and a real western dance haa. There is also a cook housa wuere wnlrs mashed DOtatoeS. Die and cake are served family stvle in Quantities. There i also comfertablo swimming pool, 24 by 71 feat, fed by natural hot spr iRf,e an! nnpn from dawn to near mi- nifht. jame I. (Jim) Shejrp used to run the ranch as a pA 1ir rpwrt until ha and VoineT McHaley teamed up last ytar to establish it as a gues-. ranch and hunting headauar fpr cpason June 1 to Oct. 30. , w They hava caoins ior io quests on the banks of Canyon Creek under the murmuring pines, and apartments for a uu jmon mnra in thf main lodge" building, which includes dance hall ana lounge, iney also have horses, dozens or rhpm And therebv hangs a tale. Hwte'SaM Faxaas Diitrri student, had lunisr sppn a rpal. live saddle hronc close uo. much less straddled one. "Your horse Is famous," th ranch hands had assured him, solemnly. "Widow-Maker, thpw rail him. because he's filled so many riders." ;wnen 1 saw mat norse, now, I waa believing it, too," JMp liter confessed. "He was so much bigger and" stronger than I. But Jim and Deke and Frank McHaley, Dske's dad, mhn inrrnrliicprl bareback buck ing to the Pendleton Round-Up and a dozen dudes were wait ing with wide grins. So the Dutch boy got up. He and "Widow-Maker" whose call ing name was really Tracy- were close friends in a lew minutes, except when Tracy trotted. Jaap didn't trot when Tracy did. "Tracy is always coming up nrWn T am anmins down. What the matta vith him? Jaap complained. Nevertheless, tha vhola fam ily rode ten miles that day, winding through the. parklike r,,nnAa vn stpn hills and into r uuvij, "f - - r- , the open reaches of the hih country, where Deka and Jim rode oft taroujn tna cnaparrai to scare up a dozen deer. This is the heart oi uie e-a- country. Dudes have taea as many as 150 in a aay. in nunir ing season the open woods are ablaze witn guniire. am nai? and McHaley take their parties in to a o.uuu - acre pnv;e ranch near Izee where a hunter haa only to sit and shoot. The rancs adjoins the C a h y o a Creak archery reserve --ner only bows and arrows may be used. Here Jim and Deke drive tha dear slowly past the tiring lins for the hunters. Elk hunt in is more rugged, but good. Mere the 9,000 deer ana mere than 1,900 elk were killed is Grant County is 195. 0Va4 rWkieel AvailaUi Ticrn'rifr tOO. IS COOU OH Canyon Creek, and irresistible nn mnrp inaccessible tributar ies. The refrigerator was full nf tender ten-inch Rainbow rrnnt when we were there. We couldn't get our gang out of the oia swimming pooi m conr for ridin?. eatine and square dancing, however. The Mt. Vernon square aancen showed up in force and lured wimp of the dudes from the ranch into i o i n i n s their cnnarp There's something about the sweet scent of pine at high noon on a hot day that makes a man want to sieep oy wo murmuring creek. But our hosts had to show us soma more of the Old West a calf- branding bee on the Niles Sproul ranch in nearby Bear Vajey. .... . . There a nan aozen neignuor famii;p rnnverced around the big log corral on a sunny Sun day morning to t-ip win ma branding. Calves Xeaied, Heele" No fancy mechanical squeeze boxes here. These . cowmen "head and heel" their calves. One passes a loop around the rugged rauge calf, then leads the balky critter into the center of tha corral where another mounted cowhand passes hi loop over one or both of tha calf's hind legs. The well-trained horses then etrpfph thp hawlin? calf out while he is branded, vaccinat ed, emasculatea. nis ears notched and his horn buds cauterized. This was almost too much for our Dutchman on his first dude ranch, until he saw the calves frisk away unhurt bv their ordeal. "We were only sorry we could not stay for the potluck dinner which concludes these tradi tional branding bees. But we each had a date with a horse. We didn't want to waste a minute of the magic of Joaquin Miller ranch. At Miles Ifco-J's argwg, Jaap Wertheina tries kis haai with Waaoliae irao, haliiag it like a professional. Ranch is ee si last Hg aW "hea and heel" haaaUiag of calves. 0 Very, Very, Easy (9011 sis 5e:nrr at ewinf? Try O this Prind Pattern. It's cinch to mate an its so flattering) to evry fiure! That "princes' ilhouette, (35ugr (tecjline mate it per- feet fbr any sean fabrics cgaudjl or ressy! tinteoPttrn 9011: lfts' Sizes 1A, 1, 16, 18, AO. Size 16 requires 3! yards 39-inch. rirSed directions on each pttr part, tasier, accurtte. Sent FITY CENTS (coins) fbr th t)ttern add 9 ctnt fbr gch fattern for lst-clt mailing. Send to Marian Mar tin, cart of Medford Mail JYibunt, - Pattern Dept., 832 Vest lh St., New York 11, W.I. frint plainly NAM, sVppilSS with SIZI anel STXi,8 JJUMBEft. ILLINOIS VALLEY Clubs Plan GOP Picnic By RUTH XAUSCX Cave Junction The Illi nois Valley Republican Wom en's club, in cosponsorship with the Grants Past Repub lican Women's club, will hold the Republjcan picnic in Gray back park Aug. 17. Mark Hatfield, oPaul Ged des, Fay Bristol, and Louis Ringuette have sent word they plan to attend tha got luck affair. The Grants Pass clu will provide entertainment and the local organization will furnish colfee and drinks. Each? fam ily is to furnish its own table service. Last week this column printed an erroneous item con cerning the visit of Mrs. Josie Cook of Washington, niece of Mrs. W. A. Akers. The article stated Mrs. Cook, nee Josie Syl, was born in "the valley along Chapman Creek and had been away for the past 50 years. It should have read Mrs. Josie Cook, nee Josie Schleigh born in Anderson, Calif., and moved to the valley along Chapman creek when she was about seven years old. Mrs. Cook returned to the valley for a visit abcut 16 years ago. This was the first visit since then. " Mrs. Drews will leave Ta coma for Los Angeles and re turn to Cave Junction for the Labor Day weekend. The Paul Palmers, now liv ing in Sherman Oaks, Calif., are back in the valley visiting friends and relatives for a week. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gray and daughter, Susan, of San Franeiseo, Calif., were guests of Mrs. Gray's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave L. Looper. Su san will stay with her grand parents until LabQr Day when her parents will return for her. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Davis and family had a barbecue at the home of the Jack Yan dells of Jerome Prairie rd. Sunday evening. . Pf BElt 9Itt Huntington, 9i. Y. (CTff CharltJs T. Staurt, 75) pub lisher and reasureri of Ifli tor argl Pfiblishtr, nevspajjtr professional journal, e-iet os Tuesday amS canctr. ) IVretl Narrows, Cov Scotif (LTD . mother and six of her fO children droaned 1 Tue3ts night whn their cr plunf 9 S a ferry -fcjrf into g) c$ atr. Mr. and Mrs. Baker Twy- man, former owners of the Town and Country motel on Redwood highway, with Bert Lamar and Mrs. Geneiva Scott, all of Hollywood, Calif., stopped for a few days with the Hugh Fosters on their way home from Seattle, Wash. Mr. and Mre. Fred Salvage and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spitz entertained Mrs. Herbert Dres at dinner in the Spitz home recently. Mrs. Wayne Foster and chil dren have returned from visit ing her parents in Port Or chard, Wash. Kim Diana, a 6-pound, 13 ounce girl born to Mr. and Mrs. James Yandell July 14 in Summersville, Mo., is the fifth generation in her father's family. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Yandell of Jerome Prairie rd.; great grandgrand parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Holi of Gasquet, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spitz, Dr. and Mrs. C. G. Stem and Mrs. Fred . Salvage attended the ceremony held at the Grants Pass American Legion hall Monday night of the disposal of old flags. The annual Fireman's ball will be held in the American Legion building in Cave Junc tion Saturday, Aug. 9. The Pokadot four-piece band of Medford will furnish music. Bob Bottel's cousin, Jo Bush, of San Rafael, Calif., was a weekend visitor at the Bottel home. AID INDIAN INDUSTRY New Delhi, India (UPD American funds totalling $55 million were made available for loans to medium-sized pri vate Indian industries today under a- new U.S.-Indian agreement. PILGRIMS VISIT SHRINE Lourdes, France (UPD Near ly 500,000 pilgrims have vis ited the Shrine of Saint Ber nadette here since March 22 when the centenary celebra tions were started, it was an nounced today. "Na thanks, Lady. Those irt SANTIAM BLUE LAKE STMNGLSSS GREEN BEAMS!" PROSPECT Jamboree Quoon Named BY DOROTHY JEWELL Prospect Sally McKillop was crowned queen of the an nual Prospect Jamboree last Saturday. Runners up in the queen contest were Helen Jantzer and Joyce Moore. The Jamboree was reported to be a success by sponsoring officials. It started with a pa rade at noon, and a float made by Marlys Owens and Joe Robinson from Charley Skeet ers camp won first place. Mrs. Margaret Grines won the sack dress contest. Mrs. Georgia McKillop won the rolling pin contest. Dancing was to the music of Bob Roberts. The Rev. W. Bruce McHen ry was taken to the hospital Friday after a heart attack. He was stricken while per forming his daughter's mar riage ceremony. Latest re ports are he is doing as well as expected. Jimmy Allison, nephew of Doc" Bean is here for the summer. - A surprise party was given at the parsonage of the Naz arene church for Mr. and Mrs. George Finch.Mr. Finch is the new minister. Week end guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Heston Grieve wer the Fisch family and the W. E. Collar familv. Former residents of Pros pect who were here for the Jamboree included Walter Friday, Steve Hoag, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hoag, Bob Jones of Portland, and Mr. and Mrs. Middlebusher. Mrs. Reva Hamlin of Pros pect plans to return to Okla homa. She will leave about Aug. 1 with her daughter, Freida -Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sasni of Grants Pass were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Morris. John Shellenberger is going to Cave Junction for a month's rest. Mr. and Mrs. Struck and Baghdad Partners Agree on Policy , London (UPD The United States and her Baghdad Pact partners are in broad agree ment on a revamped Middle i-ast policy, including neutral ization of Lebanon and Drob- able ultimate recognition of the new Iraq regime, accord ing to authoritative sources. The outlines of the Dolicv emerged during the two-day session of the "northern tier" alliance council which ended here Tuesday. It was attended by the prime ministers and foreien ministers of Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles represented the United States at the opening meeting Mon day. Yonnie nave returned how.a after making a month's trip in the east. Week end guests of Mr. -and Mrs. Robert Owens were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jacobs of Paso Robles, Calif. Also at the Owens home were Mr. and Mrs. Mussleman. Guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Johnson were Mr. and Mrs. John Hall and children; Hall's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Samuel Ha.ll of San ta Ana, Tex. Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Dey announce the opening of their trout farm at the Evergreen Ranch. They have one acre of water and up to 3,500 rainbow trout. The fish run' from 7 to 9Vi inches long. This is all mountain spring water. The Evergreen Ranch i located on Crater Lake Highway, 38 miles from Medford. Roy Shafer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Shafer, was home on leave from the Coast Guard recently. He will report back for duty July 29. Doris Turner and daughter, Dee, will be weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Shafer. The Eugene Burrill family is home after making a trip to Washington to visit friends and relatives. Week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Goode were Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Harrison and family of Coulee Dam, Wash. Jack Nyross, who has been in the hospital with a broken hip, is home now, but will laafe aturday for Banflon to visit friends. Jackie Hunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Conger is home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Knudt son, former residents, of Pros- pect, have sold their grocery store in Eagle Point and left for a trip to Canada. Marlys Owens, daflghter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Owens, is leaving this week end for a month's stay with friends in Paso Robles, Calif. 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MORE MINERAL content than 2Vz dozen egfs. uJll pnwawn PLUS ALL of the require! vitamins including carotin for the dogs' eyes. with Chlorophyll is a p safe candy treat that will control your pet's breath, end makes the perfect training reward. Buy a box today you'll be doing your pet a favorl mm V THE PRODUCT WITH OVER 100 USES SprinkU a geawooc amount of SANO-DRY in th bottom of the barbcu ta prav.nt rust and burning through. SANO-DRY makes an ideal bed for charcoal ... reflecting heat upward giving a mora even heat. SANO-DRY will absorb grease drippings ... help prevent dangerous flare-ups and because SANO-DRY deodorizes, it eliminate rancid odors. 70
