PAGE S-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fallf, Oregon
Sunday, August 111, 1963
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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-
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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-
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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.
Dr. Kerron says there are signs
that this awareness is becoming
fact as more and more alcoholics
and their relatives take advan
tage of the rehabilitation services
offered.
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FAMILIAR SIGHT This is the place where a "drunk"
in Klamath Falls spends a lot of his time. At left is the
booking window at police headquarters where a map
being arrested for being drunk is processed. After book
inq, he is left in one of the large cells called tanks at
right.
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