SUNDAY, MARCH 6, I960
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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SKI JUMPING was a popular sport back in the days of the Crater Lake Sk! Club. Here
instructor Al Oren, a veteran ski jumper who hailed originally from Ironwood, Michigan,
is shown with a couple of his young students. On the left is Alfred B. Castel Jr. of the
Crater Lake Club and on his right is Bunny Miller of the Klamath Falls Snow Clan. Castel
not only entered the jumping contests but was a winner in the event.
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DOG TEAMS WERE NO NOVELTY around these parts in the earlier days. Here Scotty Al
len of Soda Springs, California, is shown wi.h Tony Castel's dog team in Crater Lake
Park. His passenger was not identified.
Over The Garden Gate
Fort Klamath Ski Tourney
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Although athletes from outside
points were in the majority in the
various ski events at the tourna
ments, at that time Fort Klam
ath boasted some fine skiers and
jumpers also. Skiing knows no age
limits, and in those days, young
sters and adults alike.were ski en
thusiasts. The list is much too long
to compile here, but oldtimers
in the area will remember (ho
people, all of both families being
experts on the skis. Elsie Moon,
Ktlielvu Loosley, Doris Noah I now
Mrs. Maurice Benedict of Klam
ath Falls); the late Delbert Den
ton, also a fine skier; Mr. and
Mrs. N. B. Drew of Klamath Falls
and their sons, who never missed
a tournament. Among the jump
ers were Dick Varnum and young
Alfred B. Castel Jr.; many of the
local skiers competed and won in
some of the scheduled events on
the tournament programs.
torious in a record time of fuur
hours, 30 seconds. This year
also saw an added attraction with
the presence of Scotty Allen of
Soda Springs, California, with his
Alaskan sled and team of Male
mute dogs. In later years Tony
Castel had his own team and sled
dogs and became a familiar fig
ure exercising the dogs in the
winter. He had bought a female
Siberian Samoyed dog, "Biddy,"
and Scotty Allen's lead dog "Wolf"
( a beautiful specimen of the
Alaskan Malemute) was the fath
er of Biddy's nine pups which be
came Tony's sled dogs.
In 1934. the winter sports pro
gram was sponsored jointly by the
chambers of commerce of Klam
ath Falls and Medford, by the
Rogue Snowmen of Jackson Coun
ty, the Bend Skyliners and the
Crater Lake Ski Club. Due to bad
snow conditions, the long ski race
was canceled and a crowd of over
3,000 people enjoyed a varied pro
gram of winter sports events. In
1935. Pete Iledburg was the win
ner in the last of the long ski
races, for it was decided by mem
bers of the Klamath Winter Sports
Association and the Crater Lake
Ski Club that the contest was too
grueling, and it was dropped.
Despite blizzard-like weather.
conditions prevailing for the 1930
meet, a crowd of over 500 turned
out for the program of ski jump
ing and ski events, with several
novelty attractions. Events in 1937
were staged in Crater Lake Park
with a large crowd attending. The
year of 1938 saw the final tourna
ment, also held in the park, with
slalom races added to the events.
Although the Crater Lake Ski
Club did not immediately disband,
from that time on for the next
two winters its activities were
confined to giving skiing instruc
tions in the park. Plans were dis
cussed to develop the Crater Lake
Park area as a winter sports
paradise, but all such plans were
disrupted by World War II, and 1cm: commodity control, product
were never realized. The ski jump'disposul both at home and abroad,
at Annie Creek was dismantled price control, direct payments, re
and torn down: the large commu- source control to influence produc
nily dance hall was eventually ,'tion, and a combination, of pro-
Wheat Excess
Solutions
Discussed
Possible solutions to the nation
al wheat surplus problem are de
scribed and appraised in a new
bulletin published by the Oregon
State College agricultural experi
ment station.
"Decisions on what is wanted,
and how to secure it are funda
mental to attaining solutions to Uie
problems of wheat and of national
agriculture" the new bulletin says.
It was written by Dr. Harold F.
Hollands, OSC professor of agri
cultural economics.
Hollands points out that U.S. ag
riculture will continue to produce
too much wheat for available mar
kets for some time unless ad
justments are made.
He then lists six promising types
of action programs that might
solve the wheat surplus prob-
tso torn down, and nothing re-
muincd of the popular winter rec
reation tournament which had at-
grums.
Commercial wheat farmers and
other interested Oregon residents
traded so many visitors and con- can obtain a free copy of "Gov
testants from all over the North-ernmcnt Programs for Agriculture
west except in the memories of for Wheat" from their county ex
ilic thousands who had been pies- tension office or the OSC bulletin
ent. clerk, Corvallis.
Two new roses, both developed
especially for West Coast growing
conditions, have just been intro
duced to rose lovers by a Cali
fornia commercial grower.
One variety is a large pink hy
brid tea rose, Pink Glory. The oth
er is an unusual floribunda rose
that even under the blaze of a Cal
ifornia sun grows no higher than
24 inches. Appropriately titled
Border Gem. the handsome rose
is the product of the talented
young hybridist, Dennison Morey,
who developed the All-America
Floribunda, Fusilier.
Border Gem has exquisite coral
flame flowers that possess a lum
inescent translucent quality that
glows like sunlight on copper.
Individual flowers are two to 2 ',4
inches across and are produced
in constant succession singly and
in small clusters.
The new rose. Border Gem, will
be a delight to the busy gardener
THE COVER
It might not be spring yet
but the children don't seem
to know it. As proof Herald
and News Photographer
Wes Guderian went out the
other day and shot this
picture of Renee and Teresa
Wright, top, and Jay and
Debbie Mitchell busy mak
ing their own fun on a sunny
morning.
because of its low-growing, com
pact habit that requires almost
no pruning. Its foliage is disease
free, is reddish bronze when
young, turning dark green as the
seasrti progresses. It performs
well,' both in partial shade and
full sun. .
Pink Glory, on the other hand,
is a tall-growing ro'se with large
flowers. This rose is a seedling
of peace which has proved ideally
suited to the West Coast.
The- color is a deep, rich pink
as the bud opens and. the blossoms
have a strong, rich fragrance -in
all stages from bud to full-blown
flower. The long, slender buds
open slowly to a semi-double flow
er, slightly cupped . , , jo.
to behold.
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PINK GLORY, one of the mott exquisite roses to be pro
duced in many years, has been developed especially for
West Coast gardens. This large, hybrid teais richly fra
grant, flowers are large and lusciously pin?.