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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1960)
PAGE TWO HERALD A VP NEWS. KLAMATH PALLS.' OREGON ' SUNDAY. JANUARY '24. 1P60 Early Day Mount Shasta Monument Perpetuated In History Through Big Mural Eighty -five years aeo. the 1'r.it ed States government decided to oetermine the magnitude and se cure measurements of the vast area comprising northern Califor aia Because Mt. Shasta towered ever ail lesser peaks of the region, h was selected as the silo for a Ceodetic signal station. The area was sparsely settled at the foot W the mountain and communion tion limited, so an unmanned sta Uon was decided uoon The United Slates Coast Survev officials determined that a refWi fcig signal device at the summit New Ranger Takes Over At Crescent Leslie P. Yates is beine nrn noted and transferred to the Iesehutes National Forest ac cording to an announcement hv Ashley A. Poust. surjervisor nf the Deschutes National Forest. He has been selected to fill the districi ranger position at Crescent, Ore Son. Yates is a l'.ftO graduate of Washington Stale University where he received his bachelor of sci. tnee degree in forestry. He worked on the Wallowa-Whitman Forest in Oregon during the summers of 1948 through 1950, as a fire lookout, recreation and timber sales as sistant. In late 1950 he received his first regular appointment as forester on the Bankhead Forest in northern Alabama where he was assigned to timber management and fire control work. In 1952 he was transferred to New Albany, Mississippi, to do tree planting end erosion control work on a l.irge flood control project under the joint direction of the forest service and the soil conservation service. Since 1954 Yates has been work ing on the Okanogan Forest, with one year at Tonasket, two years at Twisp and the past two years at Okanogan. During the past two years he has served as officer in charge of an important forest wide timber reinventory project. Yates served three years with Hie U. S. Army signal corns wilh foreign service in the Kurnpean J heater, lie completed his service in 1946 with a sergeant s rating, lie is a member of the Society of American Foresters and is pres ently serving as vice chairman of the Mid-Columbia Chnpter. He, ond his wife, Phyllis, and young son, Kenneth, will move from Omnk to Crescent about January 23. . Hir.CKST CLOCK NEW YORK lUI'D-Thc world's biggest indoor clock measuring 15 feet in dinmeter will be in stalled in New York"s Grand Cen tral Station. THE COVER A postman's lot is not ol woys a happy one, 'specially In the long, cold winter months in the high country. But the mail gees through anyway despite the discom. forts of Old Man Winter. Typical of the winter season life of a mail corrier is this shot of Bob Ross motina hl rounds on a snowy and cold January aay in lyoO. The Picture was take by Herald "d News photographer We Gderia, ...... ..V would provide a constant signal to connect the lone lines of the main triangulation of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. After the months required for constmriinn the device was set up in 1875 at an elevation of something more man 14,000 leet above sea level The monument weighed ahmii J.oou pounds and was transported in sections and riveted together at ihe site. It is recorded that the shaft sections were transDorfeH hv pacK animals to an altitude of 11. WW leet and thence to the sum. I mil by Indians who used canvas covers for each 26-pound section The whole pack triD to thp sum mit is Said to havp renilirtwt fnur uays irom Strawberry Valley The conoid was of rrinnpp nii-lrel plated and burnished "unlit its light could be seen as far away as .mi. si. Helena, 192 miles dis lant." The inside of the shaft was filler! with small rocks and the conoid top was bolted in place. The mon Ument was set in a Virile tuhir.1. was filled with rocks and boulders to weight it down. The work was Imally comp eted in October irts In about Ihp sanv mnnlh lorrc the monument disappeared from the summit. Controversy exists over the reason for its dislodg ment. Some claim it was struck by lightning and toDDled over and others maintain it was hWn over by the high winds that pre vail about the mountain peak. Examination of Ihe monument after it was found some nine or 10 years later, led the exDerts In believe it rolled end over end tin. ti it came to rest near the south base of the summit pinnacle. Desultory attempts were made to restore the monument in nni lorm or another and abandoned chiefly because of the ecess!v cost of such a project. The conoid was finally removed and is now reposing In the museum at Yrcka county seat of Siskivnu Cmmiv Credit for brini'ini? Ihe nose nf Ihe monument down is generally given 10 John K. Kichard, who was custodian at the Sierra Cluh Alpine Lodge, and two compan ions. 11 appears he was finally paid $200 for his efforts and the monument ton was eiven to ihe Siskiyou County Museum. (It is ;aio, loo, that the conoid was tak en to a body and fender shop where the dents were removed he- fore it was placed on display). A local man. Matt Kohn at one ime associated wilh K.uanna fjim. her & Box Company, was raised n tne vicinity of Mt. Shasta. As a young man. he recalls nmnv climbs to the summit of the moun tain and on one occasion, in iv he guided a tourist to the ne;tlf In l:ikc a picture of the geodelic mon ument. Now. he has had a mural cite made from the old glass plate and has given it and two other old pictures to be hung on Ihe lounge walls of Ihe Mt. Shasta Ski Uowl Lodge at that winter resorl It was Matt Kohn. too. who is credited with finding Ihe dented am broken shaft about M12 after it hail toppled from the Deak. With I.nrry French he made what is tnoughi to be the first flight over Mt. Shasta, in 16. and nega tives of pictures taken on that night nave been restored and print ed again. Mr. Kohn was sorting old nie. tures the other day in his home on Lldorado Street and decided that these three should be pre served for Ihe interest of this and coming generations. He arranged the restorations and gave the mur alelles lo hani? in the Ml Shiili Ski Bowl Lodge on the slope ef; Mt, Shasta. . it i f " -' -'4 Mi . x a I , , f.EDET!f MfNUNT pictured here stood on the summit pinnacle of Mt. Shasta from 1875 until early winter in 1903 and. ike a I marker. r,:.J .1 i.l.j onto its metal surface. Matt Kohn, 1217 Eldorado. Klamath Falls, guided on Eastern visitor to the scene to make this picture in 1902. The visitor gave him the glass plate as ?.TaT 2 the trip and 1 arncd muralette which he is shown holding is one of three he has had made bv F ovrl c Stnrl n fn. u . n, n . ?, . , . , ,:u . i 1 r.-.M,aiiun 10 me ivir. snasra ski Dow Lodge, w.th explanatory notes concerning the early day activities on the mounter,. 1 aa'" 5 1 IIBWJI iifc. 11 iii, 11 jf 1. r 11 - ii r ?t " ,, m fth MU on a opofMt. Sh.sf. made in 1926 by Larry French of Klam- was 1-k.n ab-.I,PthmMV Pfne ?h.artred bV h!m Matt Kohn. The picture m?t taken from ! llanl "t -foo evel and is hougl, to be the first picture of the sum made bv jS . FlovS h "''u VI T'i end h!l 3040 " '"ch -"uralette was Z o9theyr I" Kation 9'Ven the Sh",a Ski odge along with CADDIES PICKET BRATTLEBORO. Vt. ll'Pn Nine young caddies picketed the country club here seeking a straight fee of one dollar far .h nine holes. They were retlinv n cents for the first nine and 50 cents for the seceed. . ... 1 KINDS OF ICE CREAM NEW YORK UPI Ice cream now comes in 199 different flavors, according to Ihe people who make Dixie Cuns. includins confetti ran. dango, peppermint chocolate twirl, apple strudel, cranberry, licorice, imint julep, pumpkia wend vaaillai HE GIVES, THEY TAKE MONTPFI.IKB v mpii The Slate Liquor Control Board sus pended the license of Guardmo Inc., a wholesale dealer, for of- fArin.. a .n. n n nf cut,, with . l . 1 1;, wt vi oiru " - - the purchase of every case a(
