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TUESDAY. AUGUST 19. 1958 HERALD ANT) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SEVEN .x If "th ', ..." -V ' , .---'. v -: A SUMMER IN GERMANY as an exchange summer student has been a Montague girl's experience this year. Carol Petersen, right, is shown with her German "sister," Maren Vagt. Carol left for Germany in June and will return in September. She has been living with the Vagt family in Bargteheide, where this picture was taken. 4-H Girl Spends Summer VVffi North German Family By BETTY DOW MONTAGUE - For the first time in her eight years of 4-H Club work, Carol Petersen, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Aage Peter sen of Montague, will not be an exhibitor in the Siskiyou County Fair. In past years, she has ex hibited dairy cattle, fat hogs, sheep and clothing. This year her summer aftivi fies arc of a different trend for she is spending the summer in Bargteheide, North Germany, a city about the size of Yreka, as an American Field Service ex change summer student, and is living with her German "parents" Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vagt. While there she is enjoying the com panionship of two of the Vagt's children, Carol's German sister. Maren, aged 18, and her German brother, Wolfe, who is 15. An old er son, Hans Jocken, is not at home at present. Carol, who is 17, left Montague on June 3 for an exciting and ed ucational trip she will always re member. And missing participa tion in the county fair is not the only "first" event for Carol that this trip has brought about, be cause 'for the first time in her life, she boarded a train in Port land. That was only the beginning of train travel for Carol, as most of her transportation in Europe has been by train. 1 Upon her arrival in Germany, Carol "found that the German schools were still in session, so she had the opportunity of visit ing school with Maren. When she visited the English class, she an swered many questions for the students. Both students and teach- GiDMTf Are WILD FLOWER TOl'R By Irene Seely you looking for a love crs were interested with her Yre ka High School Iweater for school sweaters seem to be unknown in German schools. Durmg the month of July. Carol and Mren spent 10 days in Den mark, where they visited with many of Carol's Danish relatives and visited several of the large ranches. They also visited t h e Is land of Fyn, stayed in Aarhuse. and spent some time at the sum mer home of relatives on the Kat tegat. Seventy five American Field Service students, who are spending the summer in North Germany, enjoyed a four day trip to the Ruhr District with a convention at Essen. It proved to be a most exciting time for these young peo ple to meet their fellow Ameri cans again for a few days. When she arrives home, tome time in September, Carol says she can hardly realize what it will be like to have people understand what she is saying. With all these experiences and memories, which add up to a won derful education and vacation, Car ol says she will be happy to be home again with her family and friends, the farm animals, and feel the "good old Siskiyou sun shine" again. The weather in Ger many has been cool and damp since she has been there. charm? Or just something differ ent for Sunday dinner? Members of the Klamath District garden clubs who went on the wild flower tour around Klamath Lake recent ly found those things and many more. Fifty eight varieties of wild flowers were identified and nine species' of birds were seen on the day-long trip.' The tour was under the direction of Mrs. Noah Nyhart. district bird chairman, and Mrs. George Houck, district wild flower chairman. Ten members and their guests made the trip. The group stopped at Kimball Park for lunch and noted with pleasure that the park is in excellent shape with clean facili ties and convenient tables. Of the 58 varieties of wild flow ers found blooming, 20 are edible and formed a part of the diet of the early Indians. Others were used for such purposes as arrow- shafting, soap, weaving, medicine. and at least one can produce a sizable hangover. Flowers having edible bulbs in clude the Harvest Brodiaea or the harvest cluster lily which resem bles the potato in taste, the wild tiger lily and its slightly larger cousin, the leopard lily. Edible berries are numerous. False Solomon's Seal and Spike nard are distinguished only by the color of their berries, the former being blue and the later being red dish. Both are loved by bears Low Oregon grape has an acid blue berry. It can be distinguished from the more common Oregon grape by its low growth and weak spines. Golden currant, which also known as Missouri or buffalo currant, has a bright orange ber ry and is very noticeable now along the roadsides. Neither the service-berry nor the chokecherry is ripe yet, but both show prom ise of a heavy crop later. Both were used in making pemmican by the Indians. Not all berries are edible. The single fruit of the bitter cherry fulfills its name only too well, while the snowberry, a beautiful and attractive white fruit, is ac tually slightly poisonous. Plants with edible roots include the edible thistle which can be distinguished from the bull thistle because it does not guard itself with spiny points, and the cow parsnip whose boiled roots taste like carrots. As with the berries, not all roots are edible. The monkshood, a love ly blue length of dancing bells, OSBORN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. Mn. J. R. Early Job Early Jr. Proprietor! Thoroughly Modern is also known as, wonsDane be cause of its poisonous root. It was sometimes used by the Indians to poison arrowheads. Seeds also played an important part in the native diet. Both the common sunflower and the balsam root which resembles it furnished seeds which were ground into an oily meal in stone mortars and made into a form of Dread or used to thicken soups. The sticky tar- weed or common madia which opens at night and fades during the day contains an oil equal to olive oil. Two of the plants which formed the principal crop of the Indians are in bloom now. They are the wokas, or yellow pond lily, some times called spatterdock that can be seen growing literally by the thousands along the west side of the lake. The oily seed of this water lily formed the principal food of the Klamath Indians. A special two horned form of pestle was developed to grind the roast ed seeds into meal. Every moist roadside ditch is filled with the other mainstay of the Indians the cattail. Every part of this plant was put to use. The tender shoots were eaten, the fibers furnished thread for weav ing everything from pots to floor- mats, the fluffy down became pad ding and the whole leaves were used to construct a sort of grass skirt. Many plants have a medicinal value. The wild geranium, known as the Oregon crane's bill, can check bleeding, dysentery and di arrhea. Some have magical pow ers. The common pest known as St. John's wort, or Klamath weed, which can ruin a pasture and is said to be poisonous to sheep, also has the power to dispose of evil spirits, and was known as "devil chaser." On the other hand, the yarrow, which raises its still white head everywhere along the road, is a potent love charm guaranteed to get results. ' A few rare specimens were found, and some not so common seen. A yellow form of Indian paint brush was found, and aspec imen of pine drops. The latter is found only in the pine woods of the North American continent, and is a parasite, having no green col oring at all. Kin to it is the pyro- la, sometimes called wintergreen, which is halfway to being a sapro phyte. Jacob's ladder, salmon-colored collomia, butter-and-eggs (alias dead man's bones or impudent lawyer) yellow monkey flower, mullein, goldenrod, fleabane, Ore- A PFC. LARRY BUELL. 17- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Olson, 1804 Wiard Street, recently finished his course in radio teletype op eration at Fort Gordon, Georgia, with the U.S. Army Southeastern Signal School, and is now stationed in Chicago. BASIN BRIEFS In France Army Pvt. Jimmie.tinue R. Cuttler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Cuttler, Weed, recently arrived in France and is now a member of the 7805th Military Po lice Detachment at Maison Fort. Cuttler. 20, is a 1956 graduate of Butte Valley High School, Dorris. and attended Shasta Junior Col lege, Redding. llousegueiti Visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Dow in Montague for four days recently were Air. and Mrs. Harry Francisco and small son. Ian. from Los Angeles. Fran cisco will be remembered by many Siskiyouans for his produc tion of a pageant during the Sis kiyou County Fair in August, 1952. Returns Lollie Smolskey, Siski you County court reporter, has re turned to her Yreka home from a week in Houston, Texas, where she attended the national . convention of court reporters, and a week in the Bay Area. Vacationing Mr. and Mrs. Jess O'Roke of Yreka recently flew East to Michigan where they will pick up a new car, and will con History Group Names Emcee Paul Dellar will emcee the pro gram planned for the annual pic nic of the Klamath County His torical Society to be held Sunday. August 24. at the Bly recreation picnic area. The picnic grounds are six miles east of Bly on Sprague River. The turnoff will be plainly marked. Women members of the Bly Grange will have a concession where lunch may be purchased. Those going should provide own table service. A program of music and the history of the Bly home steaders, to be given by Ken Mc Leod, president of the society, will start at 2:30 p.m. Practically all U.S. public wa terways, including canals, are maintained today by U.S. Army En gineers. 7 gon sunshine, bleedingheart, nutka rose, mallow and wild hollyhock, blue flax and pink spirea, deli cate oceanspray and sweet syrin ga. columbine and buckwheat and even one last Shasta lily purple with age lend color to the fields and open woodlands. Fiddleneck and bed-straw, wild mint and pennyroyal, cinquefoil and bog orchid are not so forward but very sweet. Chinquapin covers me nuismes ana lire weed and eve ning primrose borders the marsh. The hangover? 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