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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1959)
PARE TWELVE HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SUNDAY, JUNE 7, Vm if, -r'-rrt . .":"., Li1 c ' X?-" $ i P - ?i BEN PICKETT Remember When... POTATOES were just a crop grown in gardens? AS MODERN FARMING has progressed, so have our Services! KLAMATH POTATO DISTRIBUTORS Wolt Lossett and Cecil Cheyne Cattle Raising No Picnic In Early Days There were no traquilizers to quiet a nervous beet critter, no black molasses to mix with con centrates nor a hammer mill in the country to chew up hav for a bovine when Ben Pickett came to the Klamath country but there was plenty of bunch grass to stick to the ribs of a white face or a red durham. Ben Pickett, w"hose parents, Charles and. Carrie Pickett, came to Poe Valley long before the ar rival of the Czech colonists, re calls the beginning of the family cattle bushiess. No rancher at tempted to raise anything that couldn't walk to market in those days. The nucleus of the Pickett live stock holdings came from a herd of about 1.000 head of cows owned by a widow. Charles Pickett paid a premium of a dollar or so a head for the privilege of picking the herd. For $15 a head, he picked fat, three-year-old cows, each with a heifer calf by side. He traded 12 mules for 320 acres of land, gave $1,000 for another 160 acres north of the 'present town of Malm and that land is still part of the Pickett estate. Thousands of head of cattle be ing trailed from Eastern Oregon to Montague in California, term inal of the railroad, passed through Harpole Gap and the Pickett place in Poe Valley daily from mid August to January 1, stirring the dust in drifts, bedding at night on ranches. The Pickett boys, riding herd for the big cattle outfits, earned $35 a month, ted and board oa the trail. There were no scales to weigh an animal and cattle, lumped off to the buyer by the head, brought $16-$18 for a fat, 1,200 pound 1 or 3-year-old steer. Baby beef wai an unknown quantity when the Klamath country was young. The Pickett ranch was a mecca for the traveling Klamaths bound for Tirie Lake to hunt and fish and to gather duck eggs. A thous and egg harvest per family was not uncommon. The Klamaths of ten worked for the farmers in the Malin area and there are still living on the reservation descend ants of those who were friends of Ben Pickett's family. Mrs. Pickett (Anna), is the daughter of one of the original couples, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pospisil. Ih& li fev7j 4 , i" 1 ii n'l i ii n tun mm 4 mom--'-- 3 LOVENESS COMPANY plant taken from hill above lumber mill looking across fertile fields of Malin ranches. The plant cut 14 million board feet of lumber in 1948, 40 per cent pine, 40 per cent white fitand 20 per cent cedar and Douglas fir. Logs are being hauled at present from White Horse, California. Progress Reported On Klamath Basin Mill IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS.... Suitors used to come courting on bicycles high as their shoulders, and wore metal garters to hold - their trousers snug around the ankles while cycling. Modern dress, modern hobits, and mod ern social customs have altered greatly -, yet o'ne thing stands true FOLKS LIKE TO TRADE WHERE THEY HAVE A FINE SELEC TION OF QUALITY MERCHANDISE SUCH AS YOU FIND AT OUR STORE! won CLOTHING FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY MALIN, OREGON i Malin's sawmill operated by the Loveness Company was built in the late 1920's and operated by George McCollum. At first the millworks were powered by sev eral small motors, and the lum ber and IOS WPrP h.-inrilr! hu horses and manpower. Logs were Mnaoea irom wnere the trees were felled in the forest to the loading site by teams of horses. Logs were hauled to the mill in short 16 foot lengths on cabless trucks. Men with cant hooks rolled the logs off the truck into the log pond. When the logs were ready lor the sawmill they were again rolled by hand onto the carriage. Lumber was moved from the green chain to the drying yards on horse drawn carts where it was piled by hand. The first big Improvement In ACTOR'S ANAGRAM HOLLYWOOD LTD Mladen 'cql Sekulovich stars in "The Hanging Tree'' but under a name he concocted from his real one. Sekulovich is known profession ally as Karl Maiden. "I took my new last name from my old first name.'' he said. "Just changed two letters. And I chose Karl for my first name because 1 liked it. CHILD HAS BAD SPELL MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) - Mrs lia Huff, a Girls Club director, knew one of the small girls filling out a registration card for mem bership. The youngster put down church membership as "Babtist " "Honey." said Mrs. Huff, "you're not a Baptist, are you?" The girl said! ' Vrt I t-. i V . " '" l".Faiian. dui iJ.W lpell,it", operations came m 1933 when the millworks were converted to steam power. Eventually a Caterpillar Sixty diesel tractor replaced hors es in the woods. The plant .operat ed thusly until 1948 when the Love ness Brothers purchased it. Lumber carriers replaced the horse drawn lumber carls in the drying yard, and lumber is now stacked by fork trucks. By 1050 the entire plant was convert ed from steam toelectric and air power. These changes enabled the plant to increase its average production from 35.000 bd. ft. to 65,000 bd. ft. per shift. At first the majority of the plant's products were shipped lo cally to the box factory and mould ing plants in Klamath Falls. Pres ently, lumber cut in Malm is shipped to practically all 49 states as far as the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic seaboard and some is sold overseas in foreign markets. With large national forests to the south and east of Malin, oper ated by the federal government on a sustained yield basis, it believed that there will be lumber produced in Malin for many more years. CITATION OF MERIT ROC1IKSTK.R. N. Y. UPI An organization representing 3. 000 nursery school teachers has awarded a citation of merit to Bob Keeshan, who portrays Cap tain Kangaroo on CBS-TV. The award is the first of t kind to be presented by the New York State Council for Children Keeshan is cited ". . . . for distin guished service in the field of children's television program-raing." i
