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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1958)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE 3-D Silly Season Opens With Bubblegum Contest; Many Zany Contests In Memory . i i -k V?t GOOSE LAKE, once one of the miahtier of the West, it Dictured here, shot from the high way just beyond Willow Ranch Mill. The big lake lies on the loop between Lakeview and New Pine Creek for those making the Lakeview, Alturas loop from Klamath Falls. A SWIMMING POOL is always a welcome addition to any community when the hot days of summer roll around. This pool, complete with bleachers, is located in Lakeview. Visi tors are always welcome and those stopping in Lakeview for the first time will be af forded a sample of friendliness and hospitality typical of the West. Lakeview is located 100 miles east of Klamath Falls on Highway 66. h A BY DOC QUIGG United Press Inlcmiilionnl A CHOST VILLAGE of stone teepees seems to rise off this sagebrush hill, one of the many you pass through in the Alturas region on a tour of that country. These symbolic rocks wero mapped by Herald and News photographer Don Kettler near Chimney Rock. NEW YORK (UPD These are the days when the silly season creeps across the land the wack iest time of the year. No tan yebrow is hoist when the news of Carol Pfarr's triumph seeps out of Chicago. Carol. 13. captured the bubble sum blowing championship for the second year, out-bubbling 200 oth ers. The winning bubble: 1114 inches. Not too long before Carol's feat, a North Carolina lady won the na tional talking championship by yapping without surcease for 92 hours. Whereupon a local news paper remarked editorially: "So what's so unusual about that?' Perhaps this ability to yawn in the face of our national wacky seizures is what has brought us through those trying times down the years. A country mat can with stand, for. instance, an epidemic of flagpole sitters, mooning away on their perches, must have vast internal strength. Let s look back at some of our zany periods bock past the on slaught of flying-saucer sightcrs, of radio treasure hunts, telethons and such. We can eliminate such professional individualists as Jim Moran. who sat on an ostrich egg until he hatched it, and consider only mass stunts. - It was a character called "Joe College" who 30 years ago went on a binge pt racoon-coat wear ing. But 10 years later he really let go with a brief but violent fad goldfish swallowing. This higher educational pursuit start ed, naturally, at Harvard. On March 4. l'J39. a Harvard man, on a $10 bet, gulped a live, tail-flirting, three-inch goldfish. Im mediately it was a rage on the campuses. The summit was reached when Gordon bouthwortn. 21, a veterinarian student, stood on Waltham, Massachusetts, com mon and swallowed 67 wriggling fish in 14 minutes, using milk chasers. It was the all-time rec ord. Afterward, he ate a peanut butter sandwich. Miss Scottie Hunnicutt, a jun ior in Texas, choked down three live goldfish and claimed the fem inine intercollegiate title. At the height of the craze, they began swallowing at random. One student ate three 10-inch phono graph records. A sophomore in the southwest downed a 13-inch king snake. Those were heady days. In the 19r0 s, the male colle gians have turned to such com paratively uninspired drollery as panty raids. Finally the worm turned. Last May, in Boston, more than 100 Jackson College coeds chanting "we like shorts," raided men's dormitories and a frater nity house in reprisal. Sponsored talkfcsts have been going on for a long time. In New York, in 1928, there were 31 start ers in a talking marathon. After 70 sleepless, but gabby, hours, all had folded except one man and one woman. They were finally moved nut of the building, still talking. The U.S. Senate, too, has been remarkable in this art, but, then, they are professionals. Throughout the years pics have furnished excuses for millions of local contests on three levels of endeavor baking, eating, and throwing. And various methods of getting from here to there have been utilized for odd contests such as pancake races, waiters' races, and even egg rolling. But it took a professional promoter to focus national attention on the Sim plcst form of all walking. It was in 1928 that C. C. (Cash and Carry) Pyle, the promoter, had athletes walking across the U.S. in the first international bun ion derby." He tried another, in 1929, but it fizzled out in miu- contincnt. Flagpole sitting, however, Just never dies out. As late as 1955, in the state of Washington, a woman claimed a record of 1K9 days on n 0-foot pole, saying she had spent more than five of her seven months of pregnancy there. In 1929, flagpole sitting among juveniles broke out so heavily in Baltimore that at one time three girls and 18 boys all were sitting at one time on poles aottea over the city. Some had divans on top; others, just poles. The mayor com plimented their "grit and stamina." The most rugged national con test was a depression craze, be gun about 1930. the dance mara thon. In one ot these, in uucago in 1931, eight couples were still going after six months more than 3,300 hours of dancing, with 10 minutes out of every hour for sleep ing on beds raised at the loot. Swaying away, couples would fall to the floor, sound asleep, only to be jerked upright, slapped, ana forced to shuffle on. Their feet were taped, wrists swollen, faces puffed, eyes black-circled. Women dancers wore out two and three partners. Spectators paid $1.50 a seat. . Anyone for a vicuna-shearing contest? Job - Rated DODGE Power House Farm TRUCKS Cunningham & Rickey Motors So. 7th & Commercial Attention Ranchers Canvas Dams Cooper Treated, No Mildew, All Sizes in Slock, S'x7' Thru 9'k13' White Roll Canvas 5' and 6' Widths Lowell Prices! ARMY STORE 320 So. 6th Ph. 4-920 Own sTIopn'? 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