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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1963)
Influenza Cases Decline In State Over Past Week Influenza continued to lead I as the No. 1 communicable dis- ease in the state for the week I ending Nov. 16 but the num ber attacked by the disease dropped to 459 (rom a peak of 613 lor the previous week, the Oregon Stale Board of Health t has reported. The most recent state-wide figure represented the lowest number of cases since the week of Oct. 19. when 348 people were reported with ! the disease. In Klamath County, the case load of that disease dropped from 37 cases for the previous week to 16, representing t h e second highest number of influ enza cases reported in the coun ty this fall. Jackson County led other counties adjacent to Klamath in tlie number of influenza cases reported with' 53. Five other cases of communicable diseases were noted in that county, including measles and German measles with two each, and syphilis, one. The breakdown of eommuni cable diseases in other counties nearby follows: Lake, 16 influ enza. 16. Benefits Voted For Auxiliary MOUNT SHASTA - That Mount Shasta Auxiliary Police personnel will be given special police status was decided at the Mount Shasta City Council meeting on Nov. 26. Police Chief Harold Barnum pointed out that while the men would still be volunteer workers without pay, they would be giv en Iringe benefits such as insur ance against injury while on duty. These men now work without compensation and also supply their own equipment. This will still be the policy, but any hos pitalization or extra expenses incurred while on duty will be met by a coverage policy. Protect Agoinsr Major Medical Expense niih Equitable'! Living Inturancc John H. Houston h Strvlre Since Iti-M Dr. Neil F. Black will be in his new offices at 917 Pine, Corner 1 0th beginning Monday, December 2nd 512 Main Free Mt'i Deschutes, one pneumonia, one. Josephine. 16 scarlet fever, za. three; measles and staph infection, two each. onimunilu a Calciidt lar IVEUNESDW MIDLAND GItAM.K, lull, 8 p.m. grange PLAYERS CLIB. 7 meeting. Legion Hall. 30 p m DEGREE OF HONOR. Car nation Club, 7:30 p.m., meeting, Katherine Kains, 2413 Want land. ZLLEIMA NILE CLIB. 10 a.m.. cards, 1 p.m., luncheon meeting, Winema Hotel. Bring hospital toys. NATIONAL FEDERATION of federal employes will have pot luck at Shasta Grange Hall at 6:30 p.m. HENLEY PTA. 2:30 p.m., meeting, Christmas theme by grade school, cafeteria. .MARINE CORPS I.EAGIE, 8 p.m.. meeting. VFW Hall. Wives auxiliary meeting. THL'RSDAY VFW AUXILIARY. 8 p.m., business meeting, VFW Hall. EASTERN STAR, district meeting, 12 noon, no host lunch con, Pelican. Honoring worthy grand matron. Y-NE-MA TW1RLERS, 6:30 to 8 p.m., children's square dance instruction, YMCA. Y-NE-MA TWIRLERS, 8 p.m., square dance, YMCA. Bring doughnuts. BETHEL 6, Job's Daughters, 7 p.m.. election of officers, Ma sonic Temple. 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Celebrating his 89th birthday on Nov. 16, Demick assisted with cattle drives until 10 years ago. 89-Year-Old Modoc County Buckaroo Recalls Hard Winters Of Early Years By BARBARA JOBE ALTURAS Charles Demick. Modoc County's most celebrat ed buckaroo, was 89 years old Nov. 16. Demick was born in Smarlsvillc. Yuba County, in 1874 and came to Alturas and Modoc County in 1892 via horse back with pack horse in tew bearing all his possessions. "I couldn't afford a team and wag en in those days," he explains. When Charlie tells of his ear ly days in the county, it is easy to drift back to the day of horse and buggy, wild primitive coun try, and cattle drives lasting weeks and months over the des erts of Nevada and California. His piercing eyes sparkle as he relives with ycu the long arduous winters: the days in early spring when the plains were Utterly covered w ith ante lope, deer, and sage hens; the spirit of the zestlul cowboys; and the srt of the early ro deos and horse races. When just a young man, he was foreman of the Miller and Lux Black Rock Ranch in East ern Oregon. Nevada, and Cali fornia. For $75 a month and board he managed a spread en compassing over 100 square miles and controlled 17,000 head of cattle. He tells of his days with the legendary Henry Miller with clarity, reliving the long 12 to 14-hour days in the saddle as he rode from line camp to line camp checking on the caltle and his buckaroos. His head quarters were at Soldier's Meadows where, he says, "I checked in once or tw ice a year to make out the reports for Mr. Miller." "One time I went out to buy a new herd of cows for the ranch and bought quite a few hundred more than I had been USE YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT OR LAY AWAY! 1 4 ?::r:f;r-ii ' III ! v iiuiuJ inftitiHiiif ii iinm if "v4 4 " Can II' IS plvt tai fullmiB 121 II IMill' Olid lit . . . unless it's a lot less dampnest, moisture, dust. The interiors re beauti fully tailored, spacious. So, don't spend I barrel ol money. But get the most you cen for what you spend. Give Streamlite. for men: Brown Olive. Saod'e Tan, Colorado Brown. For women: Saddle Tan, leal Green, Hawaiian Blue, Rawhide finish. authorized lo do. It was some time later Mr. Miller wrote me about the deal and said with his German accent. "This is fine and I rise you" . . . meaning Charlie got a raise in pay. Once a year Demick and his cowboys would drive the cattle to be sold to market in Winnc mucca, which was the nearest rail head. Here, after a seven day drive, the cattle were sold at prices of four and a half to five cents a pound for t o p steers. In 1916 he left Miller and Lux ' and went to work for the Un ion Land and Cattle Company. During his time as a ranch foreman he managed most of the big spreads in the country such as the Lake Shore Ranch, the Corporation Ranch, and the XL Ranch. Most of his days were spent in the open range country, but around Christmas time he would come lo Alturas and stay at the Niles Hotel for the holidays. He tells of one winter he missed the holiday season as he and his cowboys were out on a 10 day cattle drive near Surprise Valley. On New Year's Day the snow was three feet deep and they were moving the cows out to the Nevada winter desert range when, the cattle would subsist on the high protein brown sage and range grasses. Frozen feet and hands were second nature to the cowtjoys. "Why we were lucky to have burlap to wrap our feet in at times." There were no insulated boots and high quality overshoes then, but Demick says he had a sure cure for keeping the feet w arm. "Just put some cayenne pepper in your shoes and that will warm up the feet!" H luggage tyticitlj , It was Kill before the railroad came to Likely and later Altur as. When the .SCO narrow gauge came into (lie country, il freed the primitive northeast ern country of California from isolation. M;uiy times Demick and other cowboys would turn to in the winter to help the old engines puff over the Madeline grade, shoveling and clearing drifts of snow ahead of the en gine. It was nothing for t h e passengers to climb out into the snow and also help with the track clearing. Charlie says one of the fa vorite stories of the early NCO struggle over the Madeline grade was the engineer who finally wired the lleno office saying "I'm stuck on Made line." The head office wired back. "Marry the girl and come on in.' The old buckaroo says that it is beyend the present day hunt ers' wildest dreams to visua lize the amount of wild game that ran rampant over the open ranges and plains. Many times he has seen up lo 3.000 head of antelope in one herd and just as many deer. The sage hens were so thick that they would literally cover hundreds of acres for as far as one could see. "II was quite a sight in the spring lo sec acres and acres of desert land covered with the great roosters as (hey did their mating dance, which consists of the bird going into wild jump ing gyrations. The whole earth shook w ith the noise and motion of the thousands of birds." He was an early director of the Alturas Roundup and in 1923 promoted the only bull fight ever held in the northern county. He had heard that there were two Mexican boys working on the railroad who were bull fighters. He recruited the boys and put them into the ring, giving the local citizens one of the most thrilling afternoons they were to sec in many days. One of the Mexican boys fought too closely to the bull and was pulled under Ihc bull's feet and trampled. His partner rushed in to divert the bull. Charlie Demick, who was in the arena on his horse as pick up man, jumped from the horse and ran in to pull the boy from under the wild rampaging bull . . . saving his life. "I wasn't too bad off though." he says with a twinkle in his eyes, "I always had the old six shooter if the buH got too tough." Although the Indian wars were over when Demick came into the Modoc country, he was a member of the posse that hunted down tlie renegade In dian Shoshone Mike and h i s braves. The Indians were re sponsible for tlie wanton slaugh ter of four prominent Surprise Valley ranchers in 1911 while they were camped on tlie Ne vada desert. The famous hunt for the kill ers in the dead of winter by irale Surprise Valley citizenry is now legendary in Northern California. Demick and h i s friend, J. D. Van Norman of Likely, arc the only survivors of the posse. Until 10 years ago, Charlie kept his hand in with his old trade of buckarooing, helping on cattle drives on the Baylcy Dor ris ranch. Even then he could stay in the saddle along with the youngest cowboy. Sow he isn't quite so active, but his hcallh is good and his days are spent in caring for his yard at his home in Alturas and visiting with old-time cro nies at the Warner Hotel. "I always said 1 would live to be 90." he says, "and now I can sav I'm cuing on 90 " Tht most pertonol Chriitmot miMJgt PERSONALIZED CHRISTMAS CARDS Color er Block t White Photo LEO'S CAMERA SHOP HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Protestant Assembly Will Pay Tribute To Nation's First Catholic President PHILADELPHIA iCPl '-Protestant church leaders will pay a unique tribute tonight 1 1 America's first Catholic Presi dent, In Philadelphia's massive Convention Hall, mure than 5.000 representatives f 31 ma jor denominations will join i.i thanking God (or Ihc "inspired leadership, unswerving vision and courageous dedication" of John F. Kennedy. The interdenominational me morial service lor the assassi nated President uiil be held in New Command Heads Navy Patrol Squadron MOKFETT NAVAL AIR STA TION. Calif. lUI'D-The Navy announced Monday the forma tion of a new command to sti pe r v i s e all administration, training and logistics for Navy patrol squadrons in the Pacific. The primary mission of Navy patrol squadrons is antisubma rine warfare. Operational control of both air and surface antisubmarine warfare will remain wilh the Navy's Hawaii command, but the other aspects of the air pa trol program will lie consoli dated under Ihc new command. Fifteen officers and 30 enlist ed men will staff the new com mand under a rear admiral whose identity will be an nounced later, the Navy said. The command w ill be establish ed at Moffctt in January. "The organization will be staffed with the best talent in antisubmarine warlare and will be responsible f o r complete standardization of training lo achieve maximum utilization of men, money and material," the announcement said. It said the present high cost of training, added to the cost of aircraft and the vast Pacific expanse to be covered "dictate coordination and intensification of all training and administra tion of Pacilic palrol squad rons." The Pacific squadrons include Fleet Air Wing 10 at Mnffett: : ,7,.T V , V", Christmas card All you need to wrap up your Christmas shopping is some paper, some ribbon, and a BankAmcricard. Good at thousands of stores in California, a BankAmeri card puts all your purchases in one package. You get just one bill, write just one check for everything you've bought. Or if you prefer, you can spread out your payments for a small service fee. How much docs a BankAmcricard cost? Nothing. You don't even have to be a Bank of America customer t get one. And it costs you nothing to use if you pay in 25 days. Why not get a head start on Christmas this year and put a BankAmericard at the top of your list! Bank of America NMioxic nun M ujmi noeufit) ttiHiia riiiiii i'siit itiuttact cti'Oittioa TULELAKE BRANCH, Main and C Streets, Tulelake, California Falls, Orejon Tuesday, December 3, 1963 connection with the triennial General Assembly of the Na tional Council of Churches. It marks the first time in its his tory that the National Council has devntcd an entire assembly session to honoring the memory of one man. Some of the Protestant lead ers who will take part In to night's tiibute were among those who publicly expressed fear, during the l0 presiden tial campaign, that a Catholic President might jeopardize re ligious liberties. FAW 1 wilh the 7th Fleet; FAW 2 at Barber's Point Naval Air Station on Oahu, Hawaii; FAW al W'hidbey Island Naval Air Station near Seattle; FAW 6 at the Marine Corps Air Station at Iwakuni. Japan, and FAW 14 at North Island Naval Air Slalion at San Diego, Calif. Pair Looks, Lives Alike FREE PORT. 111. L'PI - El vin and Melvin Dameier met Margaret and Elizabeth Finch at the I960 International Twins Convention in St. Louis. The twin brothers were elect ed joint presidents of the asso ciation at the meeting. The sis ters were picked as tlie most identical twins in attendance. The two couples were married June 29, I9fi2, and they took up residence in adjoining houses on a farm at Lena. HI. Each sis ter gave birth to a girl, and later to a bov. Last year, both sisters sued fur divorces on identical charg es of cruelly, each claiming they were struck by Iheir hus bands. Circuit Court Judge Marvin F. Burt grained divorce decrees lo both wives Friday, giving each custody of the children and each gut possession of a 11160 tnmilv car. i i mi iiuwiniwm Mil LI. "' " " ""r '"7 , During his biicf presidency, Kennedy refuted those fears and won I lie confidence and re spect of Protestant leaders s have few presidents of modern limes. Kennedy had accepted an in. vilat'on to address the General Assembly tonight. Instead of scheduling a substitute speaker, ceu.icil leaders arranged (or the memorial service, conducted by the Rev.' Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, staled clerk of the Unit ed Presbyterian Church and for mer president of Ihc National Council. Dr. Blake said the service would pay tribute especially to Kennedy's "championship of liberty and equality" and to his "leadership on behalf of civil rights and racial justice. " The snuggle for racial justice has emerged as the dominant concern ot the I'eneral Assem bly. The council's retiring presi dent industrialist J. Irwin Mil ler of Columbus, lml.. declared Monday that "race relations is our No. I challenge." "Unless churches lake a con vincing, effective, courageous stand on this overriding moral issue, nothing else they do is going lo count for very much," Miller warned. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY - U PROOF - YELLOWSTONE DISTILLERY CO., LOUISVILLE-OWENSBORO. KY. PAGE I The Itev. Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the Commission on Religion and Race which tlie council estab lished last June, reported at a dinner meeting Monday night that an ever-grow ing number of white church members are "deeply engaged" in the fight for Negro rights. Codi No. m-B Pint Codl No. Hi C 1 maw&m t-.d BJ Ml tl VI 4 IS! J
