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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1963)
PAGE S-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fallf, Oregon Sunday, August 111, 1963 1. 1 T I . .. , . I; V. Z?gr Problem Of Drunks Perplexing To City ENJOYS WORK 81-year-old Robert E. McCulley is shown here running a tractor on the Davis Ranch near Cedarville. He loves to spend his time in the fields mowing hay on tno Harold Davis Ranch. Cedarville Oldster Enjoys Helping Stepson On Ranch Bv BARBARA JOBE I ago when we iSol a new high speed ALTURAS "The longest days mower to replace the old one he I have are when I have to lay off "aa usea ior ju years, ne muugiii and do nothing." On weekends he ' was too fast for him until he and his wife Vesta go into the woods and chop and haul the win ter wood supply, but during hay ing time in Modoc County 81-year-old Robert E. McCulley of Cedar ville spends his 12 hours each day in the fields mowing hay on his stepson Harold Davis' ranch. McCulley, a native of Modoc County, has spent all his years in ranching and says the happiest he has had are since he has re tired and started working with his grandchildren on the Davis ranch. Retirement to Bob and Vesta merely meant shifting their time and labor over to helping out the grandkids and stepson. He and Vesta help with all the buckaroo ing on the ranch and spend weeks at a time helping to gather the cattle off the Nevada 1 range. "Vesta can really buckaroo better than me," McCully says proudly of his spry wife, who also helps daughter-in-law Eldred cook for the hay crew. They sold their ranch in 1053 and retired but kept 160 acres and still run 100 head of sheep to keep from getting bored. This year before going over to Ihe Da vis ranch to take over the mowing job, he put up 50 tons of nay on his 160 acres. Just enough to winter the sheep and Vesta's and my seven head of horses." "This year granddad had his first accident," his grandson Rog er reported. "Ho cut his finger while sharpening his mower's cycle blade and it sure made him mad. We thought he might have to give up mowing for us a few years found out the salesman who sold them was younger than he and had trouble with them too. Now he can run that mower like a vet eran. McCulley, in commenting on the mower jerked his bandaged thumb toward the hay chopping mill in the next field and com mented dryly "All I have to do is keep ahead of that chopper, and I'm two days ahead now." He wouldn't miss a football or basketball game that his grand son plays in for the Surprise Val ley High School and lias gone all over the state to watch his grand daughter Judy twirl ihe baton. He says that the best trip he ever took was last year to the East-West game with the family and grand children. He spent New Year's Eve at Disneyland and was quite the life of the party with the fam ily and other tourists. "They sure liked granddad's teasing and his cowboy hat, granddaughter Kathy reported. Ho look in the Rose Bowl game and the Hose Parade, which he says he is go ing to see again. , i He drives his own car and still hunts and fishes whenever he can get a day off. "1 can drive with anyone in the mountains yet but sure don't want to drive in that danged traffic in the city." When askett when he was go ing to retire and take it easy he retorted, "I don't intend to." At tile young age of 74 Bob was slowed down a bit with a broken appendix. Complications 1 of acute peritonitis kept him in the hospi- LITTLE PEOPLE'S PUZZLE 5 gtT4 ! 1 tk gsJ I7ACR09S r! r'M I I I I II njsxt.tt tal for weeks, but now he is hale and hearty as ever with only a slight deafness. He spends a great deal of his time reading and loves all the sports on TV. He has his television set rigged with special earphones for better hearing. . . . McCulIey's father and mother were two of the earliest settlers in Modoc County. He was born near Goose Lake, one of 13 chil dren of which eight brothers and sisters are still living. When he was 16 years old he and his two brothers, Lewis and Elmer, went on their own. That was when sheepmen stayed on the range with their sheep the year round. He was on the range up to six months at a time with out going to any town, moving the sheep from Warner Valley to the Callow Valley in Oregon as they grazed from summer tc win ter feed ground. "The only time we came into the home ranch was during lambing season and to ship." When he and his brothers sold out their sheep operation they were running 18,000 head of ewes He was B5 years old when he bought the McCulley and R e a hardware store in Cedarville. He ran this for some years but the love of ranching won out and he sold out to go back into ranching in Surprise Valley. He says that during his liletime the greatest change he has seen is in the weather in Modoc County. "Why the snow used to be so deep we could only travel on skis. I can remember crossing Goose Lake in May on solid ice. People were isolated all winter and the snow covered the tops of the fence post. One year the snow didn't ran oil until the 10th of March. The next day we woke up to find 10 inches of new snow on the ground." When asked how he accounted for the fact that he is still so ac tive and busy while most of his contemporaries are retired at best or many pretty well disabled he snorted, Ah, they re lust lazy, By DAN' WALTERS One of the most common scenes in Klamath Falls today is that of a man staggering down a downtown street. The man may be young, mid dle-aged or old; wiiite, Indian or Negro. To the bulk of the citizenry he is "just a drunk." But he is actually the symbol of a problem that has perplexed civic and government leaders here for years recurring alcohol ism. Klamath Falls Police in 1962 made 2,603 arrests for non-traffic ofltnsos. Of these, 1.772 or 68 per cent were for drunkenness. The city boasts one of the high est drunk arrest rates in the state. Police do what they can to keep the drunks off the streets. Many times they are called lo a cafe or blore to arrest a drunk who is causing a disturbance. The men are booked under a M-year-old city ordinance which makes H illegal "ior any per son or persons to engage in dis orderly conduct, fighting, being drunk or under the influence of Intoxicating liquor or using ob scene or loud or profane lan guage within the limits of the city of Klamath Falls, Ore." Most of them arcn t strangers to police, having gone through the routine time after time. One man, for instance, was ar rested by Klamath Falls Police more than 125 times for drunk enness in a 13-ycar period. The period ended with the man's death in 1945. After booking, the drunks are left in a "tank," or large cell, on the main floor of police head- First enclosed baseball park was built in 1862 at Brooklyn. N.Y., 3snnN 'mvs '9 'adcosam ? 'asnoHcmia -v '3Dnvi -fiaWV 'l UMa HON3HA "0l 'jnvho '8 'AO9MO0 l 'oaios '9 'sna c 'snoavmo i "-v :So3msnv and called Union Grounds quarters. There, the officer duty at the desk can watch over, them. If they become sick, police give them aspirin and in some cases, the county-city health officer, Dr. Seth M. Kerron, is called. Most of these men are struck by a disease called the DTs. DTs are the deliriums which mark an advanced alcoholic. The disease is brought on not only by the alcohol which at tacks tlie nervous system, but also by the lack of nourishment 10 cairn tnese stricken men. Dr. Kerron uses a formula ot rest, food and vitamins. But usually the men serve their House Urges Mew Project WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House Reclamation subcommittee was urged Friday to renew its ap proval of the Crooked River pro ject extension in Eastern Oregon. Rep. Al Ullman, D-Orc, and J. Karl Lee, assistant chief of the Interior Department's division of project development, appeared be fore the committee in behalf of the $995,000 project. A bill to extend the project to supply water to an additional 2, 850 acres was passed by the House last year but the Senate did not act on the legislation. The Interior Department again reported favorably on the bill in troduced by Ullman b u t asked that it be amended to provide that power for pumping come from The Dalles dam at cost. 10-day terms in jail and are re-1 ill revert to their former lives leased before the medication can I if they return to the same lo- really take effecL kales, with the same associates In almost every case, the man who has been released after serv ing a term for drunkenness will be back in jail on the same charge within a few days and! in some instances within a few hours. This cycle will continue until the alcohol and lack of nourish ment begin to attack the brain. The man will become unable to function and finally will die. This cycle can be broken, how ever. "Sometimes," says Dr. Kerron "a man realizes he has reached the bottom." But to break the evele takes a great amount of will power. The man must admit to him self that he is an alcoholic. Then, progress can be made. Some men choose the path of Alcoholics Anonymous. Others are voluntarily committed to the state mental hospital. And a very few are aided by a man in Klam ath Falls who operates a way- station for men wishing to re make their lives. In this house, an alcoltolic who wishes to start over can receive, up to 10 days of rest and food to dry him out. Since this way - station opened year and a nait ago, several hundred men have been treated. Many of these men, given a chance to catch their breaths, are able to move to other towns, find jobs and forget their past A prime factor in nearly all treatments is a change in en vironment. Even those alcoholics who have been treated at a state hospital tnd the same problems. Not all of the alcoholic cases which are handled through the Klamath County Health Depart ment come through police agen ties. Many alcoholics hold jobs, have families and in other ways lead normal lives. A case may come lo Dr. Ker- ron's attention through the Klam ath County Welfare Department, or a relative of the alcoholic! may come to the health depart ment's mental health clinic for assistance. To these people. Dr. Kerron of fers the treatment of medicine and counseling The medicine again mostly vitamins and other nourishments is designed to combat the physical sickness which attacks the body. The counseling Is aimed at the root of the alcoholic prob lem which lies in the alcoholic s mind The best hope for solution of the alcoholic problem in all its forms lies in an understanding and acceptance of it and a de termination by the public that it can be licked. 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