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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1958)
' Him f'TjSp-' j LITTLE ROCKERS IN MINNESOTA John Arhens (left), 17, and Bobby Keene, 16, two high school students from Little Rock, Ark., finishing their senior year at Hutchin son, Minn., told 150 members of the Hi-Y Club in Hutch inson that they believed that students in Little Rock would have preferred integrated schools to closed schools. The pair added that the troublemakers in Little Rock were the kind of youths who would have made trouble in any schooL Autumn Best Time to See Crater Lake; Road-Building Tales Told (Editor's note: The follow ing story, about Crater lake and the time fhe Rim road was under construction, was written by Nelson Reed of the Klamath Falls Herald and News. It is reprinted from, that newspaper.) By NELSON REED If you want to see Crater Lake at its best go now. The tourist mobs have departed, most of the "overstaffed" Golden Mantle chipmunks have gone to bed for the win ter. The bears have given up the summer's WPA and have gone off to rustle on their own for a while until they find a snug den for the winter. . While you eat a picnic lunch at one of the many mag nificent view points and gaze with never ending awe at the unbelievably blue' water a thousand feet below, flocks of migrating Spec and Snow geese pass a few hundred feet over your head. From the endless yacking you guess that last year's migrants are telling this year's children all Local Physician Among Those Watching Situation in China With Interest Among those watching the situation in China with keen interest is Dr. William W. P. Holt, Medford physician. Dr. Holt was born in China and lived there until he was nine years old. His father and mother were missionaries there. Living in the area of Shanghai he learned to speak the Shanghai dialect, he said, speak the Cantonese . dialect since most of them are from . Canton. 1 Dr. Holt's father spoke four .different dialects. The mis sionary's health failed him and the family had to return to the United Stats. They moved to Portland in 1884. There, Dr. Holt's mother acted as in- ierperter in the courts. : Dr. Holt was graduated from the University of Ore gon medical school in 1905. He came to Jackson county to practice medicine in March, 1906. His offices were in Eagle Point until 1921, when he moved to Medford. The first three years he attended his patients by traveling on horseback. One time, he re members visiting three pa tients from Friday to Sunday night while traveling to Butte Falls and back. The young doctor kept his horses at the Sunnyside hotel at Eagle Point run by A. C. Howlett. Then a railroad was being built from Medford to Butte Falls. Dr. Holt visited the railroad camps twice a week as specified in a con tract with the railroad. WHY DOCTOR DURNO f. I- ' -r 1 ; . iwfj- j Q. A. A. A. for Republican STATE SENATOR? WHY is a successful sur geon interested in politics? Dr. Durno's entire productive j life has been spent in Jackson County. He wishes to repay the kindness with service to hit community. WHY is Doctor Durno a candidate for a seat in the Senate? . As a Senator ... His training, experience, and deep sense of responsibility will be invaluable to the people of the Valley. WHY is Doctor Durno the logical choice for Senator? Because he has the analytical mind, the deep reserves of character, the stability we need in a public servant. If You Don't Know Edwin ' Durno . . . ask a friend LISTEN KBES-TV 10 p.m. October 13 on "BUDGET BARRIERS" DURNO FOR SENATOR It wasn't until 1914 that the doctor had a car. After using horses and a cayuse he used a team and buggy. His teams were usually fast. One Mor gan horse he owned could cover a mile in four minutes. Longest trip made was to Elk Creek, 25 miles from Eagle Point and from Elk Creek back to Eagle Point and over to the county farm between Medford and Phoenix and up to Butte Falls.' Four horses were used, to make the trip. Several Operations The veteran doctor made several operations in the early days on kitchen tables in re mote farm houses. Kerosene light provided illumination. During the first such opera tion, Dr. Holt had two phar macists and two doctors help ing him. A wash-boiler was used in which to sterilize in struments. The doctor's 52 years of un broken service is thought to be the longest record in Ore gon. Dr. Holt was honored recently by his fellow physic ians of Jackson county. He was honored then with an honorary life membership to the Jackson County Medical Society. . He was. also nomi nated doctor of the year. Steering Failure Another Factor In Idaho Crash Payette, Idaho - (DM) ' - A steering mechanism failure yesterday joined wild geese as a contributing factor in the j crash .of a two-engine C-123 ' air force transport plane near here Thursday night. All 19 persons aboard perished. This was revealed when an Air Force power and prop spe cialist team reported the find ing of part of the steering mechanism of the aircraft some distance north of wheie the plane came down. One official said, it was be lieved "control trouble" was the cause of the last nose dive -of the plane into the sage brush field on the Claude Smith ranch 10 miles east of here. Witnesses earlier had re ported the plane was on a downward glide -pattern with its wheels down and lights on when it suddenly nose-dived to earth. They said the plane's engines began missing after the craft knifed through a flock of wild geese. . John 5. Day Named To Heart Association John S. Day, "Central Point, has been named a new mem ber of the board of directors of the Oregon Heart ,associ ation. Officers and new direc tors were elected at a meeting in Portland last week. Dr. Roger Keane, Portland, was elected president of the association. Other officers in clude Robert Cameron, president-elect; Dr. Charles Coffen and Kenneth Hume, vice pres idents; Mrs. Ray F. Becker, secretary; John Kendall, treas urer; Irving D. Wilsow, chair man of the board. about the country: "Sure, Crater Lake is beautiful to for whom I had to get "special dispensation" to use "un naturalized Swedes," hard rock and packhammer men, because no others understood or took kindly to that kind of work. I well remember the first time Bill came into my office and said "I want to hire some Yail Men." I was puz zled. "Oh, those s,quare heads with the big feet that they put down hard, and the tough hands who have been out on a big drunk and who have been thrown in jail. "Soon as they are out I want them." Men Stagger I recall hauling several car loads of them up to the job. Barely able to stagger around, I watched them hang onto the handle of a thumping, jump i n g, banging jackhammer their first day on the job. I wondered how any human with a hangover headache could stand it. Then therewere those other Swedes who all day long car ried two five-gallon tin cans of water suspended from a yoke on their shoulders up the Wineglass trail from the lake to the camp. They furnished all the drinking water before a pump and pipe line were in stalled. I have watched them as we plodded up the Wine glass trail from fishing, and never once did they stop to rest. I saw them swing sus pended from ropes from the sides of the rock cliffs while they drilled powder holes with those jumping jackham mers. Sometimes I think' a plaque should be put up there to the square heads without whom the Rim Road could never have been built. Job Shut Down On around the Rim near the Diamond Lake turnoff, my toughest contractor and big gest headache had a rock quarry and crushing job. He repeatedly refused to hire his help through the Klamath em ployment office, as he was bound to do by law, and tried to. bring in whomever he look at but there is nothing' to eat for a hungry goose down there. Just wait until we get to Tule Lake and the Lower Klamath barley . fields." Gos ling, "It makes my bill water to think of it." Rim Road Days The trip around the Rim Road brings back many mem ories. As the firs manager of the Reemployment office dur ing the depression in charge of the CWA programs, we fur nished all the labor for the contractors who built most of the Rim Road. Dunn and Baker, who bid a fixed price for a tough looking stretch that appeared to be a solid lava rock flow, "struck it rich" when they dug into it with a steam shovel and it turned out to be a mountain of numice overlaid with a light cover of drift lava. Bill von der Hellen's outfit, Extension Plans for 'Bright Way' Told Ashland Ashland's "bright way" will be extended on Siskiyou blvd. to the junc tion of Highway 66, City Sup erintendent Elmer Biegel has announced. The "bright way" now ex tends from the fire station to Garfield st. on Siskiyou blvd. The highway department will continue the center divider from Garfield to the Highway 66 junction, Biegel said. The city will install neces sary poles for the new type street lighting. Equipment is now being ordered. There are 40 new lights in operation on the boulevard. Two Valley Men Are Fined in California Hilts, Calif. Dave Bech tel of Talent and Howard Rob inson of Medford were fined a total of S140 by Hilts Judge Robert Trinca Thursday for leaving a fire burning at the mouth of Hungry creek ifi the Yreka district of the Klam ath National forest. Bechtel was fined S50 on a charge of neglecting a . fire, while Robinson, who lit the blaze, was fined $100 for neg lect and failure to obtain a fire permit, according to Brian Youell, Klamath' National for est employee. Americans spent 592 million dollars on books in 1956, com pared with 152 million dollars in 1933. Paid Pol. Adv., Durno for Senator Commfttee, .Mrs. Justin Smith, 21 Geneva St., Chairman East Main St. L DAIRY-SMITH I ' Gcneisee O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and need praise thy name. - Psalms I I I I I I pleased from all over the country. Three times I went up there and checked his pay roll and warned him to obey the rules or else. Then I had the Bureau of Public Roads Authorities shut his job down and fine him $100 a day. He came roaring into my office the fourth day and offered to lick me. I laughed at him and told him he wasn't big enough, which was true. After I got him calmed down a bit he tried to hire me for twice what I was getting. I told him to go jump. Then he gave up and agreed to obey the rules. Next thing I knew the bu reau engineer discovered that he was docking everybody 10 minutes every time they blasted in the quarry, which was a dozen or so times a day. Even truck drivers several miles away got docked. Then they found he was keeping three sets of books, one for the men, one for Uncle and one for himself. It took all kinds to build the Rim Road. Beautiful Stonework Ever notice the beautiful stone walls at all the view points? Examine them care fully the next time you are up there. "Old Shakespeare," as we called him because of his goatee, can take credit for them. He was the bureau's in- MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sundiy, October 12, 1M I spector in charge of stone : work. Nothing but the finest ; was good enough for Shake-; speare. We combed the coun-; try for fine Italian and Aus--j trian stone masons who could ! satisfy him. When they showed up on the job he never questioned ! them. He just looked over ! their stone cutting tools. Only j real workers in stone ever ' went to work. One day Harold Ickes, the eternally unhappy secretary ! of the interior, showed up and i was taken for a drive over the ; almost completed Rim Road. "It's too narrow," he bel- j lowed. "Make it 20 feet wid- j er!" So the contractors who j had all the fancy sloping com- i pleted cursed, and the en- j gineers had fits, and it cost j Uncle Sam a lot more money, i they went back and made it 20 feet wider. Ickes Right Today, of course, it is easy to see that Ickes was right, but why wasn't it planned that way originally? Only a gov-1 ernment bureaucrat could telli you, but he won't. j ao next time, wnne you drive around the Rim Road and enjoy the magnificent scenery, pause and give some thought to the men who built it, who sweated and cursed and risked their necks every day while they got it ' done come hell or high water. 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