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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
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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.
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DAIRY-SMITH
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O let not the oppressed return ashamed:
let the poor and need praise thy name.
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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.
It is with regret that we announce: ,
.Due to ill health Mr. Jack Burpee, by his request,
has resigned as Distirct Manager of the
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