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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, 0r., Wednesday, November 12, 195S Millions Poured Into Grand Tetons Tke Mlewtae It e ce4nufl ef e Mtortof eepeerlne tat The Oreecnie end fli second ef two articles deeiine viM the jacksoa Hot country and rand Tttm National Park in Westera Wyomina. These travel articles are e ceenneiae series sponsored ieinrhr by the Oreeoe State Motor Assa. and Ike By JOHN A. ARMSTRONG Sunday Editor, The Oreoonian When John D. Rockefeller Jr. contributed $6,000,000 for construction of Jackson Lake Lodge, a magnificent hotel with guest cottages in the heart of the Jackson Hole coun try, he was moved to do so be cause he knew the increasing thousands of yearly visitors to Grand Teton National ark had no place to sleep. Jackson Lake Lodge, located on U.S. 26 at Moran Junction, Wyo.. is big 525 feet long. It is definitely impressiv with its much photographed main lounge picture window, 26 feet high and 60 feet long. framing Jackson Lake and the Grand Tetons. It is an expensive looking Bhowplace $600,000 spent on interior oecorauons, witn mo tifs drawn from the mountain men who at one time roamed this area, and furniture (oak) and color schemes conforming with the alDine wild flowers and natural surroundings of Jackson Hole. Yet we found that you can enjoy one of the 50 rooms in the luxury of the main lodge for the same price you would pay in a first-class hotel in any large city, $14 to $18 a day iper couple. The latter rate is I for a room on the front, with the prize view. Other Rooms Cheaper There are 250 additional rooms in the comfortable, mod- tffi guest cottages (tile baths, room service, telephones) with rates comparable to similar accommodations along the na- i toon's highways, $12 for two ipersons, $15 for four. Jackson Lake Lodge is built on land leased for 20 years ;from the Park Service. It is operated by the Grand Teton Lodge Co., a subsidiary of Rockefeller's non-profit conser vation foundation, Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc. The company also operates the Jenny Lake and Colter Bay resorts and the park's trans portation company. Any profits realized from any of these op erations must go back to the Jackson Hole Preserve. Inc. for making more national park improvements and carrying Jackson Lake Lodge, built at a eost of $6,000,000, stands Hole country In western Wyoming. la the background are out other conservation proJ ects. What is there to do in Grand Teton National Park? Well, there's a good deal more to do than just sit in the sun and look at the Grand Teton moun tains, watching the flitting changes of mood and appear ance that occur from hour to hour during the day. Local Guides Available There's a full daily social schedule at the lodge, organ ized by a full-time social host ess (who also can provide baby sitters), which includes such activities as: six-hour float trips, 30 miles down the Snake River m large rubber boats; guided horseback rides over back country trails; sightsee ing bus tours of the park; moonlight hayrides and weiner roasts; evening park natural ist programs; story hours for the children. If you prefer to be on your own, some of the possibilutes for vacation tun include: stream or lake fishing from June 1 to Oct. 31 (Wyoming license required, boats or fish ing tackle can be rented, or guides hired, at colter Bay); swimming, hiking on the 130 i . r i "l r . .t i miles oi trans in ine pain. some through the valley, more rugged ones leading to the high country and alpine lakes. portions oi one oi me larg est elk herds in the nation. more than 15,000, can be seen at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson, or at the wild life range near the east en trance of the park. Buffalo also can be seen in the latter lo cation. You may see moose or beaver in the marshes near iL...... JXmuaMa C I tarn uit looct " mm n mis Jackson Lake Lodge, or if you're lucky, spot a rare trumpeter swan. Lectures Offered Park naturalists provide a full program for the public from mid-June until Labor Day free guided nature walks, campfire programs, informal illustrated lectures. wild flowers are a major attraction m Jackson Hole dur ing June and July, and during July and August in the alpine meadows of the Tetons. Wild geraniums, lupine, larkspur, fireweed and Indian paint brush are some of the many varieties you will see. U.S. Supplies Data Detailed information on the park can be obtained by writ ing: Superintendent, Grand Teton National Park, Moose, Wyo. Six miles north of Jackson Lake Lodge on the wooded shores of Jackson Lake, the Colter Bay recreation area provides another level of over night accommodations, de signed for low-cost family vacationing. in the heart of the Jackson spires of the Grand Tetons. ? This extensive development, opened in full last season, is a pilot project for Mission 66, the National Park Service'! 10-year program for improving our parks. Two Join in Effort Colter Bay was developed jointly by the Park Service, which furnished land, utilities, roads, parking areas, camp sites, boat basin and concrete launching ramp, trailer instal lations and visitors center, and the Grand Teton Lodge Co., which contributed more than $1,000,000 (a gift from the Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc.) for tourist accommodations and service facilities. Cabins, trailer park and campground are grouped around a central area of serv ice facilities cafeteria, gen eral store, snack bar, laundro "mat and bath building, marina, picnic area, ampitheater, serv ice station and park visitor's center. The trailer area is the first of its kind to be developed in a .national park, providing 112 paved parking spaces, stag gered to give maximum view, on a site that slopes gently down to the lake, and designed for pull-through parking to avoid backing of trailers. The fee for all of this is $1.50 per day. The public campground Is free. It provides 250 sites, lo cated along paved access roads. Each site has its own paved parking space, cooking grate and table with benches. There are tiled rest rooms throughout the area. Employment Goal of 200 Persons Set By Handicapped Industries, Inc. Handicapped I n d u s t ries, Inc., has an employment goal of at least 200 persons, ac cording to Eric A. Allen, its president. Allen held up a sack of colored wooden blocks before the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable Mon day noon and gave a pro gress report. The blocks, he said, are currently being distributed to grocery and drug stores in the valley. He said a firm in Portland has placed an order, and that Montgomery Ward in Oakland, Calif., has order ed 500,000 bags. Use Mill-Endi "No other colored blocks on the market," he said, "sell for less than $1.98." He said Handicapped Industries uses mill-ends for the blocks, color ing them with vegetable dye. "We practically get the wood donated here in the val ley," he said. He quoted the price for the Handicapped In dustries blocks as -98 cents. Allen said four handicap ped persons are currently working in the plant at 825 West Jackson st. He said there were about 800 handicapped persons in the Rogue valley excluding Camp White, at least 400 of whom are capable of employment. Set Up Plants He said 75 to 100 could work in the West Jackson st. plant and that he hoped to set up assembly plants in Ashland and Grants Pass. Others, he said, could work in their homes. "I'm going to be disap pointed if we don't have at least 200," Allen said. Allen discussed other pos sible projects. One is assem bling Christmas tree lights. Another is Indian "Whoopee" sticks, an example of which he demonstrated. A "whoopee" stick is a notched stick with a propeller at one end. Rubbing the stick with another stick causes the propeller to spin. But when, according to Allen, the oper ator says "Whoopee" the pro pellor spins in reverse. "We can sell millions of these," he said. Allen also mentioned a pat tented toy consisting of a man in a parachute sent up a kite string. When the man reach es the kite, a release is trip ped and he descends in the parachute He said Handicapped In dustries could get an exclu sive right to manufacture this toy in the United States. The first toy to be assem bled when operations started last summer was a toy rock et. Thousands of them have been put together so far, he noted. Handicapped worker, Al len said, could double the out put of unhandicapped per- SOC Faculty Takes Part in Meeting Yreka, Calif-Faculty mem bers and students from South ern Oregon college, Ashland, participated in a county-wide meeting of Future Teachers of America in Yreka recently. Miss Florence Allen, ad visor of the Student Oregon Education association from SOC, and ' Mrs. Betty Lou Dunlop, associate professor of education, SOC, were among the speakers. Students participating in a panel discussion included Miss Marlene Addington, Dave Deller, Miss Yvonne Fields, Miss Toby Kay Fox, Miss Lois May, Mrs. Judith Paulsen, Don Sutton and Dan Thompson. It was the first county-wide meeting of the FTA in Siski you county, and grew out of the expressed interests of members of the Yreka High school Future Teachers club. Moscow Adopts Chemise, Sack Line London-(UPD-Moscow has ac cepted the chemise and sack lines-with reservations. Moscow radio broadcast a fashion survey Tuesday night in response to questions from London listeners. " "The chemise line," said the commentator, "is convenient in modified form for the aver age working woman and very suitable for the fuller figure . .. . as for the sack line, it's not so popular as the chemise line." The broadcast summed up: "Most of the new lines are in troduced and worn here, but in moderation. sons. "They have improved our methods on their own," he said. "We're not making products to sell on the Handicapped seal alone. We're not looking for any sympathy or dona ations." Allen reported that Handi capped Industries has receiv ed its permit from the state to issue stock. He said the cor poration is authorized to is sue 25,000 shares of common stock. Par value, he said, is $1 a share and 1,000 shares is the limit per person. i But selling stock, he said, is "not really our problem now." He said it is too late in the year for large orders, but that with sufficient financing he hopes to be in high gear by next March or April. On Profit Basis . Allen said the enterprise was on a profit basis since it would be too difficult oth erwise to distribute the pro ceeds without causing faction al disputes. But, he said, "We want ev eryone in the valley to have a small part of it. We urge our workers to be stock hold ers." Allen said that when the time came for taking large orders, more capital would be necessary in order -to fill them. "I can sell all the orders," he said. "I don't turn any body down and so nobody turns me down." Allen said Handicapped In dustries could become "One of the largest industries in the valley." He explained that by employing handicapped people the project would take them off unemployment re lief rolls. Noxious Fumes Fell 47 Persons Fayetteville, Ga.- (LTD -Noxious fumes accumulated in a local Masonic hall Tuesday night and overcame 47 per sons attending a civic club meeting. Ambulances rushed the vic tims to hospitals here and in Atlanta. Doctors said all were expected to recover. Investigators attributed the accident to carbon monoxide from an unvented natural gas heater that had just been in stalled in the building. They said fumes from wax applied to a concrete floor also might have been involved. PORTRAIT PAINTER DIES Stamford, Conn.-UPD-How-ard L. Hildebrandt, 84, a well known portrait painter, died Tuesday in a rest home. 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