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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST S. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Regional Roundup by Clave Twilchell Mail Tribune Regional Editor In an era of high-speed freeways that are devoid of billboards and roadside business establishments, it is rather a refreshing change of pace to drive a quaint old winding highway dotted by signs and tourist attractions. Southern Oregonians are fortunate to have several such quaint old highways left in the area. There's high way 62 from Medford to Crater Lake with its riverside motels, state parks and rugged scenery. And, of course, there are highway 234 and old highway 99 along the Rogue between Sams Valley and Grants Pass, and high way 238 through Jacksonville and the Applcgate valley. But the one we find particularly quaint is highway 199 from Grants Pass to Crescent City especially the stretch between Wildervillc and the California stale line. This road features a ghost town, deer park, cobra farm, a couple of museums and a small zoo, all in a space of about 35 miles. Many of the attractions are advertised along the road in both directions by humorous large billboards extolling the features of the establish ment involved. Around "Deadman's Curvt" The first few miles of 199 south of Grants Pass con sist of a new four-lane highway that is rather uninter esting. But the pavement narrows just north of Wildcr ville and the southbound motorist is given a taste of what lies ahead as he swings around "deadman's curve," a 45 degree sweep that requires some care in negotiating. Between Wilderville and Kcrby lie a number of landmarks that will shortly disappear a series of nar row bridges that are currently being widened. While the new bridges will be safer, we will miss the challenge of trying to get across them while a bus or logging truck is passing in the opposite direction. First of the quaint tourist attractions is the Kerby ville Ghost town, operated by Jack and Wanda Sowell a couple of miles north of Kerby. The Sowells have en deavored to recreate the atmosphere of old Kerbyvillc, a town (located where Kerby exists today) that 85 years ago was the Josephine county seat. In operation three years, it includes a tavern and restaurant, assay office, general store, Judge's office, sheriff's office and jail, Cluggage and Drum stage line office, blacksmith's shop, trading post and dance hall. Feeding tha Deer Farther down the highway one encounters Woodland Deer park, perhaps the most impressive tourist attraction along 199. Here on slightly in excess of four acres are kept about 50 deer, many of which run loose among the visitors. Russell Hamilton and Myrtle Tally are the own ers. The park, open for Just a little more than a year, offers visitors a chance to hand feed the tame deer inside. Also featured are peacocks, monkeys, Iambs and guinea pigs, a number of them included in a Mother Goose sec tion that portrays scenes from fairy tales. A mile or two beyond the deer mark is a cobra farm, operated by Leo and Marian Marmolcjo. The farm has some 20 cages of reptiles plus one chimpanzee. The snakes include one cobra, a boa constrictor, some rattle snakes, various lizards and others. As you make the round of the exhibits (guided tours are provided) it is amazing to note how many snakes not only are non poisonous but also are actually beneficial, because of their ability to destroy harmful bugs. Exhausting Trip Continuing on down the road one comes to the Twin Pines zoo virtually at the California-Oregon state line. We were so exhausted from viewing ghosts, deer and snakes that we did not stop at the zoo last trip. Perhaps we'll look In at some future time. An interesting climax to this little journey down 199 Is provided by the Randolph Collier tunnel construction, where workmen are rapidly making progress toward Hie conclusion of this project, which is supposed to be ded icated Oct. 13. A drive over the road which will he replaced by the tunnel gives one an appreciation of the Improvement that will be made. Unfortunately there will still be many curves left In the road between the tunnel and Crescent City, but we suppose improvements have to begin somewhere. We won't mind at all if many of the curves In 199 are eventually eliminated. While it Is a quaint road, it's also a mighty tiring one to drive. McLlne Group Makes Trip To Squaw Lakes Applegate Valley George McUne of Jacksonville stage lines and group of nine pas sengers made a covered wagon trip to Squaw Lakes recently, staying over night and enjoying a "campfire sing" in the evening. McUno's son, G. H. McUne Jr., of Medford, accompanied by his wife and three boys, were at the lake and did the evening barbecuing and pre paring breakfast. The pioneer travelers re port wild cat screams and other nocturnal noises no doubt done by adventuresome Squaw Lake youths. Kermon Kennedy of Grants Pass, now employed by the stage lines, went as a helper. Passengers Included Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Lemley of Central Point, Misses Michell Littrell. Vicki Milnes and Carol Enig of Medford, and Miss Veronica Mulkey of Jacksonville. Regional Calendar Prospect .Saturday, annual Hillbilly Jamboree at com munity club grounds. Y r e k a Thursday, 12:15 p.m., women's missionary so ciety of First Baptist church of Yrcka will hold annual picnic at city park on Miner st. The picnic will be pot-luck style. Each person is asked to bring his or her own table service. Yrcka Thursday, 2 p.m., Yrcka Council of Republican women will meet at L 4i B cafe. South Main st. Speaker ! will be F.rncst Hnydcn, presi dent of the Siskiyou Miners association. The public is in vited. Yreka Saturday, 10:30 TELEVISION LOGS KVIP-TV (Channel 7) Wrdnesdav A 00 Captain CnmM 5 .10 Hrnkrn Arrow 6 00 NrwKhmt Nnrthatata 1.1 Huntlry-Brlnkley fl :io Shannon 7 (lli How to Marry A Millionaire 7 .10 Wacon Train n 30 Top Cat ft 00 Hawaiian Eya 10 Oil Naked City 11 on Nrwi rinal 1 1 00 Spnrtcat 11:13 Tonight Show a.m., California Gov. Edmund G. Brown will arrive at Sis kiyou County Airport. An 11:15 a.m. meeting with coun ty leaders is scheduled at the Tast-T Cafe on Broadway, Yreka. Following the meet ing he will make handshake tour in downtown Yreka and Montague, departing by air at 1 p.m. Reading Club Holds Picnic at Trail Shady Cove-The Round-the-World Reading club held a picnic at the picnic grounds of Mr. and Mrs. Ranald Axtcll of Folding Hills ranch, Laur ulhurst road, Trail, July 25. The Reading club is a six weeks program for young readers conducted by the Jackson County library, Omar Bacon, head librarian for Jackson county, presented awards which included read ing club certificates, Smoky Bear pins and reading club book records. The hostess, Mrs. Axtcll, is a member of the Friends of the Library. There were four adults present plus the many youngsters participating. 'J V? ' , V T TV-' jiiae 1 a i HOLD FLY-UP Brownie Troop 27 held a fly-up ceremony in the Lone Pine school gymnasium recently. Mrs. Norman Vance and Mrs. B. J. Spencer are leaders of the troop, as sisted by Mrs. Kenneth Blair. Mrs. B. E. Culy of Scout Troop 60 assisted in the ceremony. Pictured above are: top row left to right: Mary Goff, Kathy Reiser, Debra Corwin, Cynthia Harrison, Mertie Nelson, Linda Wickersham, Gcorgenia Hatfield, Karla Davis and Dalene Pratt, bottom row left to right: Barbara Blair, Barbara Vance, Dawn Sclby, Jackie Spencer Michella Huffman, Mary Margaret Baird and Debra Barr. Bessie Peterson Family Has Reunion At Union Creek Park Prospect-A Peterson family reunion was held at Union creek Aug. 4. All 11 children and families of Mrs. Bessie Peterson were present. They celebrated with a big picnic dinner in the Union Creek park. There were 33 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. In the after noon they played games, in cluding baseball and Softball. Mr. and Mrs. Michal Callas of Portland came down. Mrs. Callas is Mrs. Peterson's daughter, Helen. Most of Mrs. Peterson's children went to Prospect schools. Prospect Gardeners Plan Flower Show Prospect The Prospect Garden club will meet at the home of Mrs. Everett Shafcr Tuesday, Aug. 14, at 1 p. m. Plans will be made for a non-compclilive flower show lo be held in September on the Prospect Hotel lawn. Rural Reflections By MAUDE ZIEGLER Applegate Valley A grand finale to the Jacksonville jubilee pageant, that was going to top the promcnaders and the cancan girls, literal ly fell down on the job when the prospector's donkey re fused to get up and do his act. Director Edna Sawyer re ports that five men frantical ly trying to get the donkey up, failed completely, and he never did appear on the scene, leaving emcee Boyd Gibson apologizing for pros pector Glenn Saltmarsh walk ing on stage with his poke of gold without the proverbial donkey. "Now honestly, isn't that something!" says Edna. And to top this off, it was Isabel, one of the burrows at George McUne's village at the north edge of town. It was learned from other sources that the pageant management had ordered a burrow hard to manage, but had not expected this much difficulty. Surprised One of the most surprised people of the entire jubilee was Carol Matheny, whose oceanside float captured sec ond prize, and brought Carol $32. The float was piloted by Don Stoner, and was manned by Lola Offenbacher in bath ing suit of ancient vintage with Carol beside her in modern suit. The float was captioned "The Applegaters," 1862-1962. The cab represent ed the ocean waves with reams of pale green paper napkins and plastic sheeting. Carol said she made up the float herself. It didn't lake long just all day Saturday, Mention of the jubilee wouldn't be complete without adding Lyal Hartman's com ments about the good old days of the 1910 era when Jacksonville staged 4th of July celebrations and the present jubilee scene was cov ered with buggies and pitched tents. Hwy 199 Traffic At All-Time High O'Brien Traffic through the Redwood Highway Inspec tion station reached an all. I time high for the first 30 days of July, with 42,409 vehicles passing through the plant quarantine headquarters. This figure is almost double that for June southbound traf fic which was 27,464, not con sidering the 31st of July for which only a conservative es timate of 1,500 is available at this time. 97 Reservations for 4 Homecoming Dinner Hornbrook Reservations for 97 dinners have been made to date for the Horn brook Homecoming planned for next Saturday, Aug. 11 at 6 p.m. at the Grange hall, ac cording to Mrs. Ruth -Cummins, a member of the plan ning committee. Former pupils at the Horn brook grammar school have responded enthusiastically from all over the state to the invitations sent out last month. Applications art now be ing accepted for a motor rout dealer in tha Kla math River-Happy Camp area. Please submit your application to Dal E. Erickson, circulation man ager, Medford Mail Trib una, P. O. Box 1352, Mad ford, Or. Paintings By Gold Hill Housewife To Be Exhibited By MARY KELL Gold Hill Mrs. Jean Mowrey, busy housewife and mother of several children, has many interesting hob bies. Her newest is oil paint ing which she did for the first time last February. During the past six months she has painted about 80 pic tures. Her first oil painting entitled "Lonesome Road," in black and white, will be ex hibited at a premier showing of paintings by Mrs. Mowrey Friday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Park View department store in Ashland. There will also be a display of her' paintings at Lithia Park Saturday and Sunday. "Lonesome Road" gives an impression of a road at night. Mrs. Mowrey was inspired to paint this particular picture while on a trip from Pros pect one night last winter. She said the glow of head lights shining on a road at night while driving has al ways fascinated her. Mrs. Mowrey says "If you have something worthwhile, you owe it to self and others to pursue it." She always thought oil painting would be difficult until trying. She has had no previous art instruc tion only what she remem bers from grammar school and one semester of art in high school. Saw Art Show She first became interest ed in what she could do with painting because of an art show given in Medford last December by Rogue Valley Art association. However, due to the busy holiday sea son and her interest in other handicrafts it wasn't until February that she began to experiment with oil paints, a set that had belonged to one of her youngsters. Her husband, James W. Mowrey persuaded her to go on with this new found tal ent. She said it was because of his great interest that she showed some of her work to Eugene Bennet, Medford ar tist. It was the encouragement given her by Bennet that gave her confidence. Mrs. Mowrey became a member of Southern Oregon Society of Artists about two months ago. This has all hap pened so fast, she said, it will be exactly six months to the day since she painted her first picture that the premiqr PAl ) y NT WITH Why Buy a Cheap 2-Coat Paint When TREASURE TONES covert in one? MEDFORD PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE 6th and Holly Diagonally acrotf from tha Post Offlct Phon 772-9321 showing will commence. She hopes her experience will be an inspiration to others. Asked how a mother of several active children finds time for this painting, she re plied "Having a helpful fam ily makes it possible." Her husband gets much of the credit, she added. He cuts all of her canvases, fits them on stretchers and makes all the display frames during his leisure hours. Mr. Mowrey is a sales man ager of the Copco division of Pacific Power and Light com pany in Medford. She continued, "Of course the biggest rooters are the youngsters." Six of them live at home, ranging in ages 3 to 17 years. They are Ellen, Mark and Tim Mowrey, the six year old who will start school this fall at Patrick Ele mentary school in Gold Hill. Kirby and Mike Koopman, both sophomores at Crater High school, and Kerry Koop man, who will be a freshman at Oregon College of Educa tion at Monmouth this Sep tember. A son, Cpl. Kent Koopman is stationed with the U.S. Marine corps in San Diego, Regional News "L f iff- - 11 f l . ' Z ... . - w - if t a it itm if woniaji iniinnr I i n -Charles A. Meyer, s It ' . i superintendent "WE NEED A ROOF' of School District 6, and Onita Simmons, one of the Mail Tribune's Central Point correspondents, wonder if spectators at Crater High school football games this fall will have to use umbrellas. The fund drive to build a grandstand at Crater still lacks the some $5,000 needed to build a roof. California and a married daughter, Mrs. J. W. O'Brian resides at Azusa, California. The Mowreys have four grandsons and three granddaughters. 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