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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH VACATION fatu BiuJmAA. WONDERLAND California Parks Embrace Masterpieces of Nature ... At this tiny grave on the THE SIDE OF THE ROAD a near S. train stops D., every Memorial Day lonely prairie Elrod, while the erew conducts simple rites memorializing the friendship of Big Bill Chambers and The Little Fellow. A STOP BY Pogs Ivs I&OiVa ot SASA OF FRIEHDSHIP mid-Augu- For 58 Years, Mighty Railroad Remembers The Little Fellow WNU Features. Every Memorial Day since 1888 a passenger train has come to an unscheduled stop on the lonely prairie near Elrod, S. D., and while passengers wait and wonder, members of the train crew visit a tiny grave along the right-of-waThere, a moment of silence is observed, a few brief prayers are said and flowers are laid y. - A New York justice had before him a case involving an East Side youth who had robbed a loft of thirty bales of silk. The young mans lawyer, a notorious shrewd WNU Features. trader, went to the judge and Your Honor,, it was the pleaded: Nature created her greatest masterpieces in California and offense. first If he paid for the boys many of them are incorporated into the national park system. silk, would you not agree, and imUnsurpassed mountain scenery, embracing rugged peaks, would not the plaintiff agree, to let posing waterfalls and untouched wilderness areas, and the famous him off this one time? big trees are among the major attractions in national parks The court held counsel with the of the High Sierras. and plaintiff, magnanimously In 1890, three national parks were formed, all in the Sier- agreed to the lawyers plea. ra Nevadas of California. They were the first parks created Thank you, Your Honor, thank since establishment of the original you! the lawyer acknowledged. national park, Yellowstone, in 1872. above the valley nearly a mile, and Turning to the plaintiff, he said: The three additions were Yosem-it- e, El Capitan, nearly 4,000 feet of perWhat are you going to give us already famous for a single pendicular granite, are the water- off for cash? falls of this magnificent park. Upper magnificent valley; Gen- Yosemite fall has an unbroken drop eral Grant, a of 1,430 feet; Ribbon fall is even little area of higher, with a 1,612-fodrop. Nu300 to merous others from four range only miles more than 600 feet in height. Unforsquare containing tunately, for the late summer visithe General tor, many of these waterfalls go dry w w Grant grove of big trees, and Se- by when there has been to little rain or snow in the high counpreservquoia, dedicated chiefly ing much more extensive stands of try. these forest giants, but possessing According to geologists; the deep also mountain scenery of superb of the west slopes of the valleys quality. In 1940, Kings Canyon, a Sierra were carved by the rushing waters of the same streams which now flow down them. Originally and narrow, the Yosemite and others were invaded by' glaciers during the ice age and these, moving forward with inexorable force and power, ground away the sides of the valleys to give the present-da- y canyons their Yosemite valley is probably one of the most heavily used areas in Sluggard So lazy he wont the entire park system. On some even get up when a lady enters. Dogs days, as many as 30,000 persons are often listless when theyre not fed p have been in the valley at one time; right. Ribbon would give him every vitamin and mineral dogs as many as 12,000 persons have ocare known to need for vigor and cupied its campgrounds in a single vitality. Economical one box supnight. These, of course, are weekplies as much food by dry weight as end and holiday crowds; consefive of dog food I p quently, the visitor who wants to also comescans in Meal PeUEtts. in and avoid them will plan his visit at other times. on the grave. The trainmen return to their train and the trip is re- -' sumed. When curious passengers ask about the stop, they learn the story of how a railroad mans sympa- OX'- st Gro-Pu- thetic understanding of a small boys fascination for railroading led to a friendship that has been memorialized for 58 years even though both the railroad man and the small boy died years ago. The mans name was William F. Chambers, better known as Big Bill Chambers, and the small boy is known only as The Little Fellow. Back in 1888, Big Bill was a brakeman on the train hauling track ballast for repair work under way in the area. The Little Felson of the low was the couple who had charge of the kitchen and mess cars for the construction gang. Every day when Bills train pulled into the railroad camp, the boy ran to meet him and Chambers would spend hours telling him tales of the big cities and of railroading. Then, in August, the boy became seriously ill and died. He was buried . y and there along the Bill promised the boys parents he would take eare of the grave until they were able to return and remove the body. They never returned, but Chambers kept his promise even when he became freight conductor and later passenger conductor. Section crews helped him by keeping the grass and weeds away from the spot. Someone put up a boulder to mark the grave. Eventually Bill reached retirement age; yet he stiil visited the 'grave regularly on Memorial Day as long as he was able. Others took up the task for him and continued the practice even after his death in 1939. Vince J. Ford, conductor, married Chambers daughter. Every Memorial Day Ford has taken Chambers place, although he, too, now is retired. The flowers are sent by his wife and Mrs. Lydia Benson, another daughter of Chambers, both of whom reside at Redfield, S. D. Together with the train crews, these people have kept 'alive the friendship of Big Bill and The Little Fellow. For 58 years the Chicago and North Westerns train 106 has stopped on the prairie near Elrod, as it will again this year. Passengers have waited and wondered. They have heard the story and seen the ceremony. Not once has a protest been heard. AVIATION NOTES , AIRPORT CHATTER For the first time since 1934, Sioux Falls, S. D., will have air races in connection with a Civil Air right-of-wa- .. e. low-flyi- ng anti-noi- With 30 Names 'Bobby' for Short VogsGoTot t IN ALL THREE of the High Sierra parks there is good fishing, for which a state license is required. Each also contains a great variety of wild animal and bird life. As in a number of the other parks, too great familiarity with the larger species, particularly black bear and deer, and the feeding of these animals by visitors are discouraged by National Park service. The is posgentle deer sessed of razor-shar- p hooves, which can and do cause serions injuries to incautious visitors. The bears also should be viewed at a distance, for their apparent tameness is deceptive. Feeding 'BIG TREES . . . Man is dwarfed these animals is no kindness to under the forest giants of the Conthem; foods prepared for human consumption cause them gress group of Sequoia giganteas in Sequoia National park. serious digestive troubles as well as getting them out of the great untouched wilderness of deep habit of seeking their normal and natural foods. canyons, rushing streams and more sequoias, directly adjoining Sequoia and Yosemite ha e Both National park, was established, and a wide Sequoiaof public accommodavariety little General Grant was absorbed tions, ranging from simple housein it. cabins on up. Both offer keeping The big trees, found at their accommodations the yedr best in all of these parks, often are and are very throughout in winter popular called redwoods. Actually they are since they offer excellent snow and closely related, yet distinct species. ice sports. Accommodations for visiof commission anyway, Mrs. Luns- The Sequoia sempervirens, usually tors to Kings Canyon are found only ford last fall started flying her two called redwood, grows only near the in what was formerly General children five miles to the school-hous- coast of California, with a few in Grant National park, although The plan worked out so suc- southern Oregon. The Sequoia many use facilities at Giant Forest grows only in a narrow belt in Sequoia, 30 miles farther away. cessfully that she decided to continue it indefinitely. The children from 4,000 to 8,000 feet in altitude, dont even get a thrill out of it any along file west slope of the Sierras. The sempervirens grows to greater more, their mother admits. height, although some of the giganteas are more than 300 feet tall. AIRPORTS ARE QUIETER Many of the latter exceed 30 feet in The noise nuisance from diameter. aircraft has been reduced substanThe General Sherman tree, tially in many parts of the country, probably at least 3,500 years T. P. Wright, Civil Aeronautics adold, in the Giant Forest in Seministration head, reports in reviewcamthe quoia National park, is believed of ing progress to be the largest as well as the paign. oldest living thing. Only a little Much of the annoyance .can be more than 272 feet high, it has a avoided by changing the traffic patbase circumference of over 101 and terns around airports by pilot its greatest base diameter feet; in suitable power fcooperation using is 36.5 feet. Sixty feet above the and propeller-pitc- h settings, Wright ground its diameter is 17.5 feet; declares. In many cases the traffic twice that height it is still IT at pattern has been altered to provide feet industhrough. Its largest branch, over travel water, that planes trial districts or wastelands rather 130 feet7 above the ground, la nearly feet in diameter. than over residential areas. Many trees in Sequoia approach The campaign, he reports, has reGeneral Sherman in size, and the in in the a substantial drop sulted Boy number of complaints against noisy thousands of others deserve the Is name of giant. A fallen sequoia, airplanes. burned hollow centuries ago, and KY. A WHITESBURG, as the Tharp log, was conknown eighth grade student here boasts a cabin by Hale Tharp, into verted one of the longest names in the a California pioneer, in the late 50s, world. and he occupied it for many years. Because they thought hed be the Bible still and the family last child THE FAMOUS Yosemite valley had four lines unfilled in the portion and the' Mariposa grove of big trees his parents, left for family records, comprised the first state park in the Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Stallard, gave United States, having been given to him this name: state the by the federal government Hugh Alexander Morris Gene in 1864, by an act for that purpose Saul Ralph Giles Gilbert Motoer Lincoln. AlAbraham Fair-chilby d signed TROOP CARRIER . . . This Marquis Miles Marion Mayo John Yosemite National though 2 park was one the 'of packet, Charles James Gordon Bennett latest-typ-e in the valestablished neither 1890, troop carrier planes Adams Christopher Columbus Eliof it was nor a the grove part ley for air forces, army developed jah Green Eversole Bradly Kincaid 16 FAMED CATARACT . . . Nevada California when until years later, is demonstrating latest developRobert Jefferson Breckinridge Stal-larUnited States. falls is one of the many spectacuto redeeded it the ments in and equipment Hardly less famous than the Yosem-ite- s lar waterfalls In Yosemite Natour of the Classmates call him Bennett or techniques oh a tional park. Half Dome; towering sheer area Pacific Bofeb for Short. Patrol air fair at the municipal airport Sunday, May 25. Other highlights of the event will be competition in bomb dropping and spot landing, a mass parachute jump by and the marlocal riage of a couple aloft in a plane. The Sioux Falls squadron is endeavoring to raise funds for a plane to be placed at disposal of the city, Red Cross and police or for use in emergency search and rescue missions. . . . Newest of the Rocky Mountain empires air transport services, daily flights between Denver and Salt Lake City have been inaugurated by Challenger Airlines company. Stops are made at Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Rock Springs and Kemmerer, Wyo. The company plans to open routes from both Denver and Salt Lake City to billings, Mont., in the future. . . . Mrs: Clara Frick of Goshen, Ind., experienced the most thrilling day of my life on her 80th birthday anniversary. She went for a plane . Mrs. Sarah ride with her son. 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