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.
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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.
Parking 5th & Klamath
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BUCKAROO'S BIRTHDAY Traveling by horse, to settle in Alturas in 1892, Charles
Demick has become Modoc County's most noted buckaroo. He still vividly recalls the
early cattle drives in the primitive California country which lasted for weeks and
months, the establishment of the first railroad to Likely in 1911, and the posse hunt
for a renegade band of Indians the same year. 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
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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!"
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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 "
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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:
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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.
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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.
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DISTILLERY CO., LOUISVILLE-OWENSBORO. KY.
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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.
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