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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1942)
I 1 Qlxt Qont ' KlcuHotU Recalled .CRATEfl LAKE s ilUNCTION !!m I H Mill juntos.' ,Lare 1 CEMETERY tkrJj DAR MONUMENT i ' " s X v. s ,1 7 .t'.'. " vii...ii " ". . s v x x v ' 4 TV f. " -S f ' i i Si : ; I i I i i ' t a , I 1 i 1 .1 ' I !' j 1 I i ; i v i Sews the 'Week v-ri llh44V - A Komiell-EUis NEW BOARD MEMBER Mrs. B. C. Johnston, Weyerhaeuser, .1 Klamath Union high school Rntn i-Pnrd NAVY PLANE ACCIDENT In pasture west of Klamath Falls this navy amphibian camo down ,JI?rr,ts-..--w,, for a forced landing, and upset after striking a power wire and a ditch. Note the Krnss and dirt ..v , . ,K&s&K2'..n '' hanging from one of the wheels beside the big pontoon. Ensign Coulson, pilot, and his teaman i proved for Herald and News use by the navy. L S.'.-f jf ssw s, "S&, Lf r-ir- s s-W feV"s f vW YUM-YUM Three kids eatmg melons at the recent recreation program picnic at Moore park are shown here. They are Jim Connor, Adele Bridge and Leslie Crump. HE SCARED 'EM Maurice Til let, the French Angel, fright ened half a huge houseful of armory grapple fans last Tues day night and defeated Crusher Jim Casey in two straight falls on the top event of the weekly card. Above, the Angel pun ishes Casey with a scissors and arm stretcher. Right, the 276 pound, 5-foot-6-inch. ugly man himself before the battle. The Frenchman won 180 straight bouts in England before coming to this country and has been undefeated since. As a wrestler, the grotesque gentleman was surprisingly fast and tricky but particularly strong. He has Jammed grapple arenas from coast to coast more on his ap pearance, however, than on his profession as a wrestler. V' y$ 'Ail' j'' itf'Ptlml 4 ! i t . - (tV " COMMANDER Colonel John W. Downer, above, is the new commanding officer of Camp Upton, New York. He served with the first division in the World war and was several times decorated. m fey a WX sl i ti tiiMAA AW1 I !., '.rt-fj J f ...Mil WOMEN AID LUMBER PRODUCTION A tremendous increase In the employment of women in the lumber industry is reported in this area. This picture of feminine mill employes was taken at Spraguo River, where the Crater Lake Box and Lumber company is working on large govern ment orders. The women work at such jobs as tallying, tailing off machines, and other duties. try Jp CHIEF GETS UNIQUE GIFT Retiring Police Chief Frank Hamm is shown receiving from Police Reserve Sergeant Jack Henry a unique pen set for his desk when the chief, takes over as new United States marshal for Oregon. Tho set was made of scrap metal by John Yaden, local-crafts man. The presentation was made at this week's police reserve picnic. J 8ar racks Soldiers Barracks Non'Com. Off. Quarters Officurs' T.' ' a yuarrera Parade 6 rounds Guard House T8 0 0 c o J3 i i ' " LARGE BARN A kftCom. Off. Barracks i 'Adjutant's i Office ' Sutiar'3 D Sutter '3 f Store ' 'Sutter' 3 0Houi Bridatk ' D Sutter's Store ' ' MANDALAY IN RUINS Picturesque Mnndaley, heavily bombed before If. Ml Into ttapancse wfe, id l a COMMANDING OFFICER'S QUARTERB Captain Gilbert 8, Carpenter with his wife and two dmiRhtcri, Laura and Elliabeln, occupied this house at old Fort Klamath from 1688 to 1800. Tha two women, silver haired now, recalled many Incident connect ed with those days when thny visited the site lost week. x'v ait !J'-"u f 11 OLD FORT KLAMATH As Laura and EllMlmlh Carpenter of Verona, N. J., recalled It wlin they visited tho site Inst week fur tho first time nlnro Ihey lived thcra for three years over a half century ago. They made their homo In the cnimuamllng officer's quarters, Indicated wlih a cross- Their father was Cnpt. Gilbert S. Carpenter, last officer In chnrun of the fort befor It was abandoned in 1080. Tho drawhiK is not nuido to scale and Is Intended duly to Imllcuto tlto relative position of outstundlng feiitures. Dotted lilies liullcato present-dny land murks. n By DORIS PAYNE nrilERE stood Ft. Klamath, drowsing in tho summer sun tha old Ft. Klamath, itarrl soucd by rugged, easy-going sol diers, visited by ragged, beKKlug Indians. The rutted wiigon road lay deep in dust separated from tho officers' quarters by a board walk. On tho opposite side the parade ground shimmered, bar racks lining- It on three sides. The guardhouse built of logs and tho gallows where Captain Jack and three of his head men were hanged looked grucsomely Incon gruous against the soft green of a wooded background. This I. the scene, once a t c.it Ity, which wns brought to life again by twe sisters, Lnura and Elizabeth Carpenter of Verona, N. J., who Inst week made their first visit in over half a century to tha site of the old fort where they spent three years of their girlhood. ..... Slow Trio Laura was 17 years old and Elizabeth six in 1880 whc.T they mado the trip by train from Van couver barracks In Washington to Ashland, thence by "ambu lance wagon" via l.lnkville to the fort. Their father, Cnpt. Gil bert S. Carpenter, commanding officer of tho 14lh U. S. Infantry regiment, marched with his men over the Cascades, making tho trip In a week. The two sisters' hair Is silver now. But thcro was eagerness in their eyei and excitement In their voices us they told of tho large, white two-story house with a veranda along tho front in which' they made their home. It wns a well-constructed build ing, they recalled, divided Into two separate living quarters like a "duplex." Prominent In their minds was the double living room, separat ed by sliding doors, and the largo kitchen, presided over by a tall, lean woman, part negro and part white. . It was here that the chil dren were given their Saturday night scrubbing!! In a largo wood en tub, they said, with the water heated in a huge wash boiler on the kitchen range. Upstairs Bathroom . Marvel of the house, howover, was the upstairs bathroom, for tho grown-ups with a rcal. 'hon-est-to-goodncss bath tub but no running water. This problem was solved by a trap door cut In the floor through which tho water was lifted from the kitch en in a bucket attached to the end of a rope. One experience connected with this arrangement caused the sisters a heorty chuckle as they told of It. The cook, It seems, had a great aversion of hnvlng anyone intrudo upon her domain, the kitchen. One morning a young soldier brought In some wood and started to build a fire for her. With a whoop and a holler, she slid down tho rope from the room obove, landed practically on his neck and bowled him over. The ensuing commotion, they laughed, was really something to remember. Early Inoidonti As tho two women talked, they recounted many Incidents, tho memory of which had sur vived the years. They told of travelers who put up at tholr place, there being no hotel, and were charged 15 cents for a harvest hand's meal. Thny lived again the suspense of waiting for the trl-weekly arrival of the mall, brought from Ashland In a buck board drawn by mules. They mado one see tha Indians arriving with baskets and buck skin gloves, eager to pocket a silver dollar In exchange for their handiwork. They men tioned, too, those who came beg ging for clothing, food, dolls or anything else they thought they might wangle from the soldiers or their families. Among theso was one old squaw to whom their mother had given a sheer whlto dress, They recalled with a smllo how they.' had watched her go out be- lvJ-kX Mil "t 6" Mir M ti ll -i LASS ; M V I k it ;.'kh SISTERS VISIT FORMER HOME Laura H, Cnrpenler and Elizabeth F. Carpenter who recalled memories of old Fort Klam ath where they spent three years of their childhood, They visited tho sito last week whllo on a trip west from tholr homo In Verona, N. J. i ' . hind tho woodpile, slip It over her dirty rngs, and reappear, grinning from ear to car, Fver Took Toll Out of tholr reminiscences camo lales of typhoid fever which took a toll of members of their family and a number of tho soldiers; of the coyotes that howled nightly near tho ceme tery and of how the gallows looked against tho sky; of tho an nual mooting of tho circuit court In Llnkvillo which was the oc casion for nn all-night shooting spree on the part of the clllzonry. On the happier sldo wcro fish ing trips to Williamson river on horseback and gala holiday occa sions. Young peoplo gathered from a hundred miles around, they said, to enjoy dancing 'til dawn, then eating broakfnst with tno soldiers. enormous flag -nearly 30 fe long flow from tho flagpole on the parade ground. They still havo that flag. Their family re molded nt the fort until II was nbnndoncd In 1 BBIi. At that tlm tho regular post flag wns hurnotl according to tradition, but tho holldny flag fell Into possession of their mother, who passed It on to mem,' j "Wouldn't II, bo flno If It could ' bo kopt In Klamath Falls nenr thn fort where It flow," they kM, ; and promised that as soon as they , returned homo, they would send It to tho chamber of commcrcs to bo cared for ponding cstnb-'l llshmont of a museum hero. i Sweden, Ilka us, will be highly J Interested In associating her M turo with tho free peoples of th i- wrmf rw Ann rkMU.,i BrlirlKflf .:' Ateuchtlmes. thcy related,,anl,to,.the Norwegian forolg'n offl
