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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1960)
DRIFTING SNOW reaches lodge. On even mild winters Winter, Early Spring, In Crafer Lake Park Are The Real Scenic Beauty Times The winter i i andeur of Crn-ing to .Superintendent Olto M. tcr I.iike National Park is wil- Urown. IliRhwny IS, I e a v i n j! ncsscd by loo few people arrant -.through Hie paifc, and Ihe park A 0r. 17, ltM Livestock Figures Up An official nose rount shows cut-. overwhelm the building during an lie, sheep, anil hog numbers in average winter when snowfall lo Oiegon al an all time high, re-pals r0 feet, jwrts Mrs. Elvora Horrell, cxten The w inter of I!'.I2 33 brought a sion agricultural economist al record snowfall of over 73 feel. Oregon Stale College. .However, recorded depths on Ihe This year stalled with more ground al the National Park Scrv than l'i million cattle and calves ice gage have never exceeded U on Oregon's farms anil ranches, feel and 2 inches. Mrs. Horrell found as she studied Stipei'inlendenl Frown explained reiwrls from the U.S. Department that while the road is oen lo ot Agriculliiie. This put caltle Ihe rim of Crater 1-ake. Ihe numbers six ier cent alwive ai"warming hut'," sei-ving light re year earlier and the highesl onjlreshnicnK is npon only on week rreortl ends and liolidavs until ihe first M.ci f ilii in-i-i'ii. in rattle numbers was in beef - tvpe an-j'w "I"'" dady. For visitor enjoy minis. Mrs. Horrell said, although!"''", a path is maintained lo n nuhVlvpe animals also increased viewpoint where one may look in number, lleef cow numbers ini''w" inl Crater Uike and also Ihe slale now stand at the highest hf its Wicint Island Ihe deep level on record, and milk cow"'1'" o( " li'k', l"idcs a sink numbers are the highesl Mnce ;ng eontral w th Ihe snowy-whitc rr c;U(lira wjvls. For skiers, the Nn-1;,5S- L ,i n..L- c.,; nm,.:.lc The m.se counl showetUivebeeflwo, skj t;.ni, fmm Him ViIlafie rows lo every I wo milk cows in Ihe slate, Mrs. Horrell also found. This was in contrast lo Ihe early l!MOs, when cow numbers in Ore gun were alxnit evenly divided between milk and beef. Hogs and sheep in Ihe slate are also more numerous than at any time since the mid-l!WK Mrs. Horrell added. Horse and mule, numbers held even W illi last year1 at 45,000, still Ihe smallest num- ber in Oregon since records we' c started in 1IW7. Slightly fewer chickens were also on hand as the year started and fewer turkey breeder hens. Nationally, livestock trends were reported much Ihe same as in Oregon, except the horse and mule numbers continued down ward, Mrs. Horrell said. . nearly to the third story of the the lodge will be nearly buried ro jjroad to Him Village ore kept open ,i. (he year except for a ifew hours following heavy storms. I Even in this mild winter, snow at Park Headquarters and at Him 'Village averages 8 to 9 feet and has formed deep drifts in places. The giant drift in front of Cra !ler Lake Lodge may completely 'veck in Anril, a'tcr which it w to Park Headquarters. AH visitors are welcome at the headquarters building which is open daily from 8-12 and 1-5. Jl'ICV D1SCOVKRY HONOLULU il'PI) Christo pher Columbus discovered both the New World and pineapple, a major product of its newest t:l:ite Tlii Pinp.-mnle flrowei-s' Association of Hawaii says the1 (ruit nativc 0f Brazil, was found by Columbus on his second voyage to America. The dale of ils transplanting to the 50th state is unknown, but the first record ed evidence appeared in 1813. About 80 per cent of the pine-j apple sold in the United States today is Hawaiian-grown, Crater Lake when winds ' 'naM'"'- ' v,'"' '" 1 X, ".:--'"' V : .5i' ; AN AWESOME SIGHT in the winter and early spring months is to be found at .Crater Lake. This typical shot of the lake shows Llao Roclc with Mt. Thielson in the dis tance. Winter travel, reminds Superintendent Otto Brown, can be a beautiful trip. Keep it in mind, he says, for .next year. v POTATO CHIPS BIG BUSINESS CINCINNATI (UP1 Potato chips will be a billion-dollar-a-ycar industry in another decade. according to an official of the Olin Malhieson Chemical Corpora tion. Noting that the industry's yearly sales volume is now 500 million dollars, George R. John- i-son said sales will increase by 50 million dollars in 10 alone. heap the snow up around the rim structure. out Mt. Garfield in the background. FEARS SCOTCHED NEW YORK (UPI) Don't think you've got the DT's if you happen to run into a 23-foot-high, 1,600-gallon empty scotch bottle. It's just one of three 350 pound dummies recently arrived from Glasgow for the very so berest type of rooftop advertis ing, according to British Infor mation Services. In this picture you can make ' m It THE COVER This early spring shot of Greenhorn Dam and Res ervoir was taken an a re cent Siskiyou County jun ket by Herald and News photographer Wes Gu derian. The dam is lo cated not far from Yreka
