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
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Yreka. Following the meet
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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.
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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.
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ing accepted for a motor
rout dealer in tha Kla
math River-Happy Camp
area. Please submit your
application to Dal E.
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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
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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,
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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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