TUESDAY. AUGUST 19. 1958
HERALD ANT) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE SEVEN
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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-
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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,
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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? The root of the
many-leaved lupin if eaten raw
while it is young and tender in
the spring is said to give all the
effects if not the pleasure of
bottle of Scotch.
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