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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1959)
Okinawa Readies Exhibit at Fair Portland - (UPD - Okinawa Monday began putting up an exhibit at the Centennial Ex- i position's International Trade Fair. Okinawa, 24th nation to ex hibit at the Fair, will show the famed Ryukyu lacquer ware, textiles and ceramics, and a collection of preserved marine animals and crusta ceans. - Marge Alexander, -coordinator of the Fair, said now that the wholesale buying is over "and we have a chance to catch our breath, we are go ing to do a job of rearranging and housecleaning." Portland hotel and motel operators said there are plen ty of housing accommodations available in Portland for visi tors to the Exposition and Trade Fair. They expressed fear that ' "erroneous reports" that ho tel and motel space was scarce in Portland might have dis couraged some residents in other Oregon communities from coming to the Exposi tion. They said that last week end, eight major hotels in Portland reported 900 vacan cies. Hotel and motel spokesmen met Monday at the Chamber of Commerce Visitors Infor mation Center to plan a pub licity campaign concerning the housing situation. . The Atlantic ocean and riv ers and lakes comprise al most two-thirds of the bound aries of Uruguay. Honduras' greatest poten tial wealth is in its rich min eral deposits. ,11 ' ' T: a . taste of excitement That solid, center-of-the rac quet twang 'as your backhand sizzles one overthe net Liken it, if you will, to your first sip gf Kessler Whiskey with its sipooth-as-silk blend and its fully welcome low price. Luxury taste. ..honest valut 0 .- A. ft. M SMOOTH AS SILK Kessler HIES SBSH ft., lAMOKBOR, MB -111180 IHISKET B PtCtff 724 CEA1X NEJUIALSPIKTS. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfortf, Or. Tuesday, Jun 30, 1S 5 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The On -to -Oregon Caval cade, following the historic pioneer trail, is encountering some of the hardships of the early day travelers. Two members of the wagon train company have become ilL A Sheridan (Ore.) woman had to leave the train be cause of an asthmatic condi tion. Weaver Clark of Hills boro, oldest member of the group, suffered from tick fe ver, but is able to continue. While members of the group can be transported quickly to modern medical facilities if the need arises, some of their experiences indicate the haz ards of travel a century ago. rpHAT calls up memories. A Many years ago, not far from Bend on the highway to Burns, there was a pathetic little gross, surrounded by a pathetic little fence. The wood of the cross was aged and weathered, as was the wood of the fence. Somehow it all seemed to speak, and speak eloquently, of tragedy - trag edy and pathos. I wondered about it when ever f passed it. It must have a story. It just couldn't help having a story. Eventually, the story was told to me by a Mr. Bushnell, who was- a mem ber of what is known in pio neer tradition as the Lost Wagon Train, which chose the route across Central Oregon and crossed the Cascades by what was later known as the Old Military Road, which led past Summit lake to the head waters of the South Fork of the Willamette. THIS is the story he, told: In the train was a young woman a young mother. Somewhere in the vi cinity of old Fort Hall, she fell ill. There were no doctors in the train 03 ANYWHERE in the wide West within reach. She grew weaker and weak er. But she was sustained by a flaming hope - the hope that before the dark angel of death overtook her she might reach the green valleys of Oregon and see her family settled in the Promised Land. In the slow course of ox team travel, the train reached the lovely meadows of the up per Deschutes, at what came to be known among its mem bers as Farewell Bend, from which the town of Bend takes its name. The young mother was fail ing fast. The members of the train knew she couldn't live much longer. So they made camp. There were two reasons for pausing in their journey. One was to pasture their stock, which was gaunted by long miles of desert travel, on the lush grass of Farewell Bend. The other was to wait for the inevitable in the case of the young mother, whose courage and resolution to live to the. journey's end had so endeared her to them all. The end wasn't long in com ing. They gave her a simple funeral, standing there in the high desert, their heads bared and tears streaming down their sun-tanned and weather beaten cheeks. For her, it was Farewell Bend indeed - fare well to her hope of a new home in the green valleys of the land of the setting sun. mHEY laid her away beneath A a juniper tree, and over her grave - carefully protect ed by rocks to fend off -the scavenging coyotes they erected a simple little cross and around it they built a rude fence. 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