SUNDAY, AUGUST 7. 1955
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATO FALLS, OREGON
PAGE THREE
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) BASIN BRIEFS
HOBO JUNGLE, a no-man's land along any railroad tracks, is
the haven for people from anywhere with nowhere to go. This
i 76-year-old man is an example of those "on the bum." He
was once a sheepherder in Montana, but now rides the rails
from place to plaoe. His days are spent sleeping and occasion
ally eating, and oftentimes, just sitting.
Klamath Hobo Jungle Shows
Vagabonds Still Ride Rails
By JOE RIOKRT
The old man was sitting on the
0und, leaning against a tree. He
Vasn't looking at anything in par
ticularjust staring into epace.
Nearby was a woman of about
60. She was sleeping on an old
blanket, probably because she had
nothing better to do.
The scene was under a shady
grove of trees near the railroad
tracks. They call it hobo jungle,
a no-man's land of wanderers.
They come from nowhere in par
ticular. Their destinations are tne
eime.
Some are old men, some are
young men. and some are even
women. They all have a story to
tell. . '
"I don't like 11," said the old
man. "This bunimin' is no good."
He was wearing a pair of soiled
overalls with no shirt. It looked
as if he had scraped a blade of
some sort over his chin a lew
days ago. Ke aid he was 16 years
old.
"I used to be a sheepherder in
Montana," he droned. "I even had
my own sheep lor awhile . . . Then
we had a couple of bad winters
... I only started this life a year
ago . . Yes, I've traveled some
. . . been ti California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana . . . There
t Isn't much I can do anymore . . .'
ican't work-hard like the yonng
fellers . . . arthritis bothers me
now . . . v:an hardly get on and
off the cars ..."
A younger man staggered up car
Iving a paper bag. The contents
clanked noisilv as he walked. He
was looking for his brother, whom
he hadn't seen since 1948.
"We always get drunk when we
ce each other," he slurred.
"There's a lot of those kind,"
Raid the old man after the unsteady
one had left. "Mc, I don't drink or
' gamble , . . live longer that way
. . . But now I'm an old man . . .
won't live much longer . . . can't
get social securily because 1 don't
have a birth certificate . . . guess
1 11 go back to Montana if I can
get some money ..."
Then the old man lapsed into
silence.
The woman awoke from her su
perfluous slumber. She was dressed
in levis and a T-shirt. A pair of
cowboy boots completed her ward
robe. Her dark hair looked slight
ly uncombed.
"I like it while I'm on the rails,"
she said, "but it's the jungles I
hate . . . nothing but mosquitoes,
ants, flies . . . would you believe
that I washed this shirt yester
day? . . . Well. I did . . . My
husband travels with me . . . we've
both been married three times, so
we get along fine together."
She sat up on the edge of the
makeshift bed and continued with
her story, as if glad to find some
one willing to listen.
"Mv husband found a Job here
, . We want to get enough money
to buy a car . . . then we'll drive
down to California . . . I've lived
in Los Angeles since 1921 . . . took
my first ride on the rails in 1953
. . . have done it ever since off
and on ... I like to travel ... see
different places and different peo
ple .. . really see some char
acters . . . one guy used to take
his burro on the boxcars . . . an
other had a dog which had tra
veled 5,000 miles with him . .. .
"Yes, there are other women on
the bum . . . some because thev
have to . . . some because they
want to . . . There's a lot of peo
ple ridln' the rails this year : . .
more than I've ever seen before
. . . sometimes as many as 14
in one boxcar.
She was a big woman . . .-said
she weighed 221 pounds. Two
hearts were tatooed on her lelt
arm each bearing some Initials.
bne didn't say which husband they
rrprrsemca. un ner rignt arm was
ine image oi a cat Derched aton
ine numoer 13. underneath was
inscribed "USN."
She revealed that she was born
in Iowa. She used to travel all
over the country by . bus and bv
thumb. She's missed only three
states to date. She affirmed that
she was part Indian "Sioux, but
not enough to collect any money
from the. reservation."
The woman admitted that there
wasn't much to do between trips
in the boxcars.
"Just read and sleep . . . that's
about all ... I like to read . . .
anything but Westerns ..."
She picked up a pocketbook
wnicn sne had been reading.
I ve read tnis once before, but
don't have anything else to read
, , . may as well read it again
. . . maybe there's some passages
I missed the first time . . . It's
about a guy who rode the rails . . ."
The woman leaned back and
stared at the print.
The old man stared into space
This is what they call hobo
jungle.
Merrill The Merrill Presby
terian Mariners have cancelled
their meeting scheduled lor Mon
day night. Next regular meeting
will bo held September 11.
Mf. l.aki Cruliera Potluck
picnic of the Mt. Laki Community
Church Cruisers Club will be held
at 7 p.m. Monday, August 8. st
Malin Park. The Rev. Willtsm Aln-
ley, the church's pastor, baa In
vited all married couples In the
community to attend. He said baby
sitters will be provided for parents
who wish to take part in planned
recreation and swimming after supper.
Army Pvt. Donald P. Craig.
31, son of Mr. and Mrs. Price
M. Craig, Alturas, California, Is a
member of the 2nd Armored Di
vision in Germany. That division
during World War II earned the
reputation of "Hell on Wheels."
A 1953 graduate of Modoo Union
High School, he entered the Army
in December 1954.
Corrertlnn 1st Lt. Ronnie
Trotman USAP dental officer was
erroneousley listed as Pvt. Trot
man in Thursday's Herald and
News. Lt. Trotman is flying to
Ladd AFB at Fairbanks, Alaska
to serve on the dental staff of
the air base.
Travelers Home Lewis Jones,
Chief of Police in Chiloquln, met
his wife and their four children in
The Dalles when they arrived from
a month's visit with relatives in
Nebraska and the entire family
drove to Yakima. Washington for
a two day visit with other relatives
before returning home.
Sell House Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Doty, Bend, have recently sold
their house in Chiloquln to Mr.
and Mrs. Mose Martinez. The
place is just two doors from the
home of Mrs. Martinez' sister and
family, the Albert Avllas, and
across the highway from Mrs.
Mrs. Martinez' mother, Mrs. Rena
Gibbons.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Newlun of
Sprsgue River, Is visiting her sis
ter and brother-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Don Marvin at Complon, Cal
ifornia. Randy Marvin, who is vis
iting his grandparents at Snraguc
River, will go borne when the Mar-
vins bring Lou Ellen borne.
Cindy Crurue Sprague River
valley ranch owner, is receiving
medical care at Hillside Hospital
in Klamath Falls. Her son. Ted.
expects to bring her home during
the week.
Malin Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie
Stephens and son Kelly returned
Wednesday from a trip to the
coast with Stephen's nephew, Ron
ald Nlelsoen of Ringsted. Iowa,
who has been visiting here ' two
weeks. Ronald left the parly at
Eugene to stay until he returns to
Iowa to school.
GOC There will be a potluck
picnic at Malin Park, sponsored by
the Malin unit cf the Ground Ob
server Corps. Monday evening, Au
gust 8. starting at 6 p.m. This is
a regular meeting night.
Return Mr. and Mrs. Claud
Gaddy and daughter, June, are
home in Alturas after a vacation
in Kansas City, Kansas.
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Alturas Mrs. Clara Eddie oi
Alturas, one of the supervisors ot
the Modoc County schools, is in
Boulder, Colorado, . attending a
cuurse in scnooung.
Reunion Mr. and Mrs. Patrick
J. McAullfte have returned to Fort
Klamath from a three-dav trip to
Raymond, Washington, where thev
attenoed the class of 1935 alumni
reunion of the high school from
which Mrs. McAullfte was gradu
ated 20 years ago. They were
guests at the home of her brother
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Fisher. During their parents ab
sence, the McAuliffe children were
in the care of Selma Slionvs, who
is spending the school vacation at
the McAuliffe home from her home
at Red Bluff.
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DON J. ZUMWALT
Weed ' representatives at the
city and county civil defense coun
cil meeting here last week included
George Oeschger. Weed Long-Bell
fire chief; Weed Volunteer Firemen
including Chief Rolland Riley, and
Commissioner James Mallory. May
or Fred Lloyd; Councilman Mar
jorie Young and Grace Pickthorn
of Dunsmuir and Jim Moore and
Mrs. Nell Schilling of Mt. Shasta
also attended, Harry Reents. as
sistant to the general manager of
Long-Bell, Weed division, was one
of the speakers.
Malin The Westminster Fel
lowship of the Malin Community
Presbyterian Church is holding a
wiener roast and picnic at the
church barbecue today, Sunday,
from sixth grade age up. Picnic
starts at 5 p.m.
Lake view Building is under
way for a new punv.ee block struc
ture to house the Collins Brothers
Motors. Dodge-Plymouth dealers in
Lakevlew. The firm suffered fire
loss in July. Dan Collins, manager
announces the new building will be
60 x 80 feet and will include
truss type roof.
Merrill Legion,
VFW Hold Picnic
MERRILL The Malin park was
the scene of a picnic and swim
ming party for the boys and girls
who sold Buddy Poppies for the
American Legion Auxiliary and the
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
of Merrill.
The party was held Tuesday, Au
gust 2. and attended by Charles
and Pat Henderson. Kenneth Pol
niateer, Jim Bob Merilees, Dickie
Marks, Shirley and Frank Swisher,
Diane West, Nancy and Paula Har
ris. Kathy and Christine Cole, Mary
Lou and Joanne Turner and chap
erones, Mary Turner. Pearl Harris
and Mary Lou Swisher.
GITY BRIEFS
Siskiyou Road Tax Approved
YREKA The Siskiyou' County ' tlve would be to delay purchase
board of supervisors Tuesday voted I of needed equipment and to lay
to levy a 20-cent road tax for this
year. ......
The tax will raise an estimated
97.600 for the road department,
and will be added to the general
Ux rate.. It will be levied against
each SlOO in assessed valuation. The
general tax rate will be set later
tills month.
Road Commissioner Orel Lewis
inlrl hnsrrl iliol tinlnee t rrnt
more money, his department ' ?erA' aVate ,UJ ' oboul W'42
ia rnri Ihtc XCBt, nc ItlllU Utl.l Ulliuniun
off members of the crews. This, he
said, would hamper work on sev
eral projects this year.
Supervisor W. A. Barr (Mount
Shasta)! made the motion to levy
'.he tax, anil Supervisor Clint Jack
son (Edgewoodl cast the lone vote
against the measure.
County Auditor Ernest Johnson
said that the tax would raise the
would be $84,000 In Ibe red this
year.
Lewis said that the only alterna-
Go Home Mr. and Mrs.
George Wood hsve returned to
Aurora after a week's visit at the
home of their son. Nelson Wood,
and his family at Dairy.
Mrs. Olive. Kraley and son,
Jerry are home at Dairy after
two weeks at Fort Dix, California.
15. F. Bisbey of Dairy is re
modeling his home and putting on
a new roof.
Beth r.nhley of San Francisco
recentlv spent two weeks with Mr.
and Mrs. Roy McNeill of Merrill.
A Merrill High graduate, she is
now medical secretary to an eye
specialist in the Bay City.
Harold Garvey has returned
to Cottonwood. California, after
compleilng extensive Improvement
to the Fort Klamath summer resi
dence of Mr. .and Mrs. Joseph C.
McAuliffe. Last year he built the
McAuliffe winter home at Bald
Hills near Cottonwood.
Fort Klamath Sgt. Donald E.
Trainer, U. S. Army Air Force,
official Ground Observer Corp rep
resentative for this sector, was in
Fort Klamath on two trips last
week. He was with the group of
Italian air cadets also when they
went to Crater Lake.
Picnic The Klamath Falls
Yacht Club picnic will start serv
ing at 2:30 Sunday afternoon.- No
reservations are needed for this,
outing at Rocky Point. Members
are asked to bring their own eating
utensils. i
Artifartors The Artifactors
Club will meet at 11 a.m. Sunday
August 14 at the . county library.
Any one interested In artifacts
Indian relics and lore are asked
to telephone 4944.
Anyone Interested in subbing
in the Ladybug League contact
Joyce Ross, phone 2-1545.
Picnic The annual picnic for
post office employes will be held
Sunday, August 14 at Collier Park.
Carriers will furnish the coffee, Ice
cream and pop. Potluck dishes are
to be taken by those attending. All
members of the post office staff
and their families are Invited.
Improving Paul Pfefferle, em
ploye of Weyerhaeuser, who submitted-
to an emergency appon
denctomy August 1 at Klamith
Klamath Valley Hospital is im
proving in the hospital. He is Ex
pected to return home next wctk.
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Rebekah Lodge
Meeting Held
MERRILL Rebekah lodge pro
cedures In Alaska were explained
by Thelma Mattson, of ChuMch
Rebekah Lodge No. 10A, Anchor
age, at the regular meeting ot the
Merrill Rebekahs on August 1.
The Alaskan chapter is under the
Jurisdiction of Washington.
It was announced that the dis
trict convention will be held at
Paisley on September 10. The! Mer
rill Lodge is to seat the D55-56
officers and will also entti the
contest on the Bee Hive.
Edna Bradley, president If Re
bekah Assembly nf Oregni will
pay her official visit at tie dis
trict convention.
Noble Grand Vivian Cunrieham
presided at the August 1 meet.
Next meeting will be heldAugust
Youth Chased
By KF Police
A 65-mlle-an-hour chase by city
police's paddy wagon through
Klamath Falls streets Fr 1 d a y
night ended in the arrest ul an
18-year-old Chiloquln youth who
had to be captured by physical
iorce.
Patrolmen Frank Weaver and
John Kennavd arrested Wendell
EKKsmen. driver of the car. alter
a pursuit which began at Eleventh
and Pine streets. -
With the strcn blazing' awuy, the
pursued car ran several atop signs
along . the ' route out Eleventh to
Oregon Avenue, and then out Ne
vada Avenue.
Just after the speeding car
crossed Fremont Bridge n e a r
Moore Park it failed to negotiate
n turn and came to a halt after
spinning around on the Highway.
When patrolman Kennard ap
proached the car, Eggsman at
tempted to strike him. but was
subdued by the two arresting police
men and locked in tne paaay wag
on.
Two 17-year-old youths, one from
Chtlonuin and one from Klamath
Falls who were passengers In the
Eggsman car, were also arrested
and were turned over to Juvenile
authorities.
Ejgsman was booked at the city
jail on charges of reckless driving
and no operator's license. He will
appear in municipal court on the
charges. Bail .was set at $105.
Arresting patrolmen said beer
was found In the vehicle.
compares
with last year's rale ot $2.1U and
the 1953-54 rate of $2.49.
The surplus over the Immediate
needs of the road department Is
tentatively slntcd for a road equip
ment tuna. It will be placed In
the road department's unapprop
riated rescrvo fund.
Siskiyou County, up until now,
was one of the few California
counties not having a road tax
Most counties use the "In lieu"
tax money collected by the state!
In the form of motor venlcle fees
and returned to the counties for
road funds, but Siskiyou County
does not do so.
Last year, tills "in lieu" money
totaled (13,000 In the county.
By Rl'TII KING
The son of a California stock
man, brought up on cattle ranch,
who turned his back on ranching
to become a civil engineer, has
left the imprint of his life's work
on practically every nook and
cranny- of the Klamath Country.
Don J. Zumwalt, born July J,
1871 in Eldorado County, Is the son
of John H. Zumwalt who rode
across the plains with an ox team
In 1854 and Clementine Graham a
California belle. They put down
their roots in the Sacramento Val
ley while they considered the choice
of making a fortune in the rich
gold country nearby or of staying
with the business of raising crops
and cattle. The farm won.
Young Zumwalt entered Stanford
University and graduated with the
"pioneering" class, first to be
graduated, In 1895. Among his
classmates were Ex-President Her
bert Hoover, actor Holbrook Bllnn,
authors Charles Field and Carlos
Ager and many others whose names
have since been seen In the news
papers of America for outstanding
accomplishments.
From his parents he inherited a
pioneering urge and alter trying
his engineering wings with the
Santa Fe Railroad, the open coun
try of Oregon beckoned and he
arrived in Klamath Falls on St.
Patrick's Day in 1904. He Joined
W. K. Brown, Charles Hawkins
and Ben Oould of the Klamath
Canal Company who had visions
of watering the virgin acres down
the valley with a stream from
Upper Klamath Lake.
The fledgling project was soon
sold to the federal government and
the young engineer went Into pri
vate practice. He served as city
engineer for more than 25 years.
made the first map of .the city of
Klamath Falls, put in the first
paving In the embyro town and
laid out the first sewer system
During these years he maintained
a private office with the Klamath
County Title and Abstract Company
which he owned with the late Allen
Sloan and Joe Pierce.
He laid out the townslte of
"White Lake City," between Mer
rill and Malin on the California-
Oregon state line for E. B. Hall i
of this city, an undertaking that
was never developed. -
The levels of many of the Irriga
tion ditches on the Klamath project
and ot many of the logging roads
that snake through the forests were
developed over Zumwalt's de3k. Bo
was engineer for numerous dams
that still control the water flow
In the basin and he gave unstinting-
ly of his time and knowledge to
many Individuals In! the new coun
try who needed st "word of advice''
on some problem within his field.
He laid out grades and curves on
highway srteries that link this
country to the north and the south,
tne east ana tne west.
After he arrived in the Klamath
country, he returned to Hayward.
California and brought back by
way of Thrall and the Poghema
switchback, a bride, the former
Julia Kinsey. whom he married on
June 38, 1005.
They arrived via a four - horse
stage on a hot July day to find
there wasn't single lemon in the
town to make a cool glass of lem-
onade. The following winter the
butter supply ran out and they
ate butterless bread until a new
supply came in over the moun
tains. These were minor discom
forts of living In a new land.
The new Mrs. Zumwalt estab
lished herself in musical circles
while her husband affiliated with
Masonic bodies, the- Blue Lodge
Chapter, Knights Templar, the
Shrine, the Rotary Club and worked
hard at his hobby, photography.
This year they celebrated the 50th
anniversary of their wedding day
when their friends remembered
the date with congratulations and
gifts.
Zumwalt, who retired three years
ago, has hunted deer and ducks
in the hills and the marshes and
has fished the nearby streams.
Today he recalls with keen mem
ory those early years when the
young city ended near the present
location of Waggoner's Drug store
and dust lay deep between homo
and office; the arrival of the first
train and the passing ot the old
order of living when the town was
young. ,
The family home Is at 435 North
second street.
Coming to Klamath Fall
Dollar Days
THURS. - FRI. - SAT.
Shiloatcha Unit
Camp Night Held
CHILOQUIN The Shiloatcha
Nanka Camp Fire Group with itsf
guardian, Mrs. Dwiglit Kirchcr
and one of her assistants, Mrs. f
uien Kircncr. iook an overnigni
camping trip Tuesday and Wednes
day at the head of Fort Creek.
Each girl attending earned at
least 10 honors in outdoors cralt
by trying many different types of
outdoor cookery including kabobs,
bread on a slick, baked Ilsh. vis
itors Tuesday evening were assls- i
tant guardian, Mrs. Victor Sisson
Sr. and Mrs. Francis Wilder.
Ten girls made the trip. Three I
others were unable to attend. The j
majority nf the girls are working1
en their third rank In Cnmp Fire,
that of fire maker, the others arc
working on wood gatherer. I
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