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-.-fJJ~w FRIDAY, JANUARY10, 1964 YosemiteNational Park, Calif. NATIONALSKI PATROL VILLAGESTORIES SPECIAL AGENT ENGAGED Anyoneinterested in joining a local by Andy Mr. Tom Thomas has accepted the i.:. chapter of The National Ski Patrol is There are times when a person position of Special Agent for YPCCo., ¯ invited to attend a meeting in the gets the urge to write; then there are according to Harold Ouimet, personnel training room at the Museumon Fri- times when a person is delighted to department head. day, January 17, at 8:00 p.m. write. Again, there are times whenhe Thomaswill be responsible for the DougLarabee, Section Chief of the feels, "Someonehas to do it, and I investigation of possible misappropri- National Ski Patrol, will .be present to guess it’s me." This is one of those ation or misuse of companyproperty discuss the advantages and responsi- times. and with investigation of cases invol- i: bilities of this organization. Last May whenMr. Walter Fitzpat- ving the conduct of guests or em- rick retired, a large vacancy was .i ¯ If there is sufficient interest in a ployees thought to be contrary to .r. . created in our community. The Lions i Junior Ski Patrol, steps will be taken accepted local standards. to organize a junior group. Club had to search desperately among It is felt by Ouimet that a company Bill Cooper, head of the regular its remaining membership to find with as widely diversified activities ) Badger Patrol will also be present to someoneto take the place of Secre- and so widely scattered as YPCC o.’s., answer questions. tary-Treasurer (which required some- is normally subject to a certain a- one whocould write and also balance 4 Ski movies will be shownand there mountof misappropriation of its pro- the books with the proper flourish to will be an election of officers. Every- petty. This likelihood is increased by makea desperate situation look like the great numberof short-term sea- one, (including family groups) a well-planned success). cordially invited to attend. Anyone sonal employeeshired and the hundr- The MasonicLodge feels that it has with questions in regard to the above eds of thousands of park visitors. lost a master of spontaneous oratory may contact ¯George Briggs or Dave (Continuedon page two) whocould maintain the interest of an -"’0~ Huson. audience from a period of two minutes HOUSING STUDY to two weeks. Membersof this caliber A detailed lemployee .housing study SAFETYREPORT are prized very highly. The Irish have is being conducted under the super- a gift for it. For the First Quarter of the year, vision of HousingDirector NedEnglish. Mr. Fitzpatrick was also postmaster October through December, YPCCo. in this project he is being assisted by for many years. Everyone loved him, Safety Director Ned English reports a John Curry, Dick Ditton and Gene including his secretary, Mrs. Fitz- 100%reduction in industrial injuries Ewing. The aim of the report is to patrick. compared to a year ago. On a Com- determine the need for improvement But the position he vacated which pany-wide basis there have been but of married employee housing and the caused most concern, to a very select 3 disabling injuries this year as com- increase in the capacity of single em- group, was that of head of the Audu- pared to 8 a year ago. Lost time re- ployee housing suitable for all year bon Society in this area. cords, too, are improved, with a total use. Folks whoare not familiar with the of 27 days this year, 162 last year. The survey is basedon four aspects: AudubonMovement ask whether it is The Maintenance Dept. and Hotel Div- Curry is gathering ’information from a right-wing or a left-wing organiza- ision, English stated, have been part- similarly situated areas on the numer- tion. Thefact is, it is a right wing AND icularly successfulin injury prevention, ical relationship betweenguests and a left wing organization. Actually, with Maintenance having no disabling employee capacity, along with the it is a sort of PERCHSociety which injuries or lost time days, as compared standards of quality maintained in usually leaves its membersout on a to 4 injuries and 32 lost time days last employeehousing; Ditton is document. limb. We may add the organization .year; Hotel Division has had 2 disabl- ing the present living conditions of is strictly for the birds. employeesduring the off-season; Ew- ing injuries and 20 lost time days as Everyone is invited to join. It’s comparedto last year’s 3 injuries, 102 ing is correlating off-season employee national and gets a lot of publicity. lost time days. turnover to housing, housing effect (Continuedon p,’:gc three) (Continued on page two) . ,.j..,.

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e . ¯ . ~l’e’¢’. ~ e.~e.e. . e e. e ¯ e.e e ¢.~l.e ¢.o,,,,,O4 FROMMAINTENANCE SPECIALAGENT ~i~,-.-.;: : Y.OS EMITE SENTINEL Makingtime while the sun shines, (Cominucdfrom page ’one) (Con :"" " Published by Youpeople frol [ ’ .. ¯ : YPCCo.’s maintenance menare en- Since 1945, Thomashas .been en- . i Yosemite Parkand CurryCo. ’ . ... gagedin several projects of plant pre- gagedin various fields of investiga- " ¯ for the information of i servation.Most activi.ty is in the Lodge tion for the united States Marine colonels, ~: Yosem.ite Valley residents. area, where TomRennels has a crew Corps,for the CalexicoPolice Depart- Mr. Gear i H. Oehlmann Advisor i charge of !. ¯ of ten carpenters, ¯plumbers and merit and for the Imperial County : H. K Ouimet Advisor electricians remodeling bungalows Sheriff’s Office. Whilewith the last or- (Birdwatch~ ’ H. Berrey ...... Advisor with bath. Scheduledfor completion ganization, he also servedas an in. It’S educatic ~. Mail communicationsto Yosernite by May 20 (when guests will move vestigation consul.tant for the Calif: the open.It Sentinel, C/o Y. P. & C. Co., or inl) twenty bungalowsare getting new ornia State Committeeon Narcotics, ¯ quires mar. i .... phone 372-4411. suspect, so ; ~eeeeee:ee,~.eeeeeeeeeee~4eeee e, tile floors, newwalls are goingup in helping write someof the present ten alcoves and six bathrooms are laws on the unlawful use of narcotics George,pro :. " READERSWRITE L being refurbished with new wash- and dangerousdrugs. Thomas’further " .little wood ’ In addition to the 1,400 SENTINELSbasins and formica-topped dressing qualifications include a credential around. i~ which are distributed in Yosemite, tables. All the spring-loaded water from the California State Department i " 330 are mailed to former employees. CHRISTMAS i’.. ¯ .. faucets (the kind that won’t stay on) of Industrial Relationsto instruct police ~ The Gueh ’ ..’. With a recent issue, went a note ask- are being replacedwith the kind that subjectsat the junior collegelevel, and : i ngfor chit chat about the life and whichis ,bei i ... youdon’t needthree handsto operate. a credential from the California State r times of former residents. 50 replies Ten bungalowswithout bath are hav- Institute of JuvenileControl. Women’s I iwere received and, from time to time, ing their interiors painted. All cabins A.t the present,Thomas’ family, his masgreetin! ~ parts will be reprinted in these that have saggeda bit .through the wife and two daughters, are living 9 from the columns.Herewith is the first instal- yearsand the floods are beingstraigh- in the SanJoaquin Valley, but will mothers:I iment. tenedup to level. movesoon to a homein El Portal. write you. I! FromJim Barbour, 1336 Lake Street, Electriciansare c o mpl e t i n g an -o- take the SanFrancisco. $8,000 job of replacing the old-type HOUSING arum, and "1 worked for Hilmer Oehlmann fuse boxes with new breaker-type (Continuedfrom page one) who make ba~k in the years 1927-34A.D., but electrical panels. And,four housekeep. on morale and housing effect on em- threequa’rtc neverfor a minutehave I lost interest ing bungalowswith bath are receiving ployeerecruiting. Englishis compiling having very in glorious YosemiteValley. I’m em- a newunderground electrical supply. a ten-year statistical history of the you a ployed by AmericanForest Products, -o- increase in off-season housecounts and happy although I’m beyond the usual th and the FORSALE and mealsserved, as comparedto the retirementage. I’m active in the Photo- of you and .? capacity of off-seasonemployee hous- chromeClub and CinemaClub of San 1957 Great LakesMobile Home,8x ing. Daniel are 27. Excellentcond., new tires, air cond. Francisco...Last winter I led a bus small card. $1695.Dick FreedVillage Station. Uponcompletion of the study, solu- trip’’ . to theValley tions will be sought to whatever And pret Bedroomset, davenport and chair Goodfor you, Jim Barbour. problemsappear to exist. the youngst FromMrs. TomKnowles, 215 Virginia. name your price. Audrey. Ewing, mothers:I 372-4481days, 372-4859evenings. Ave., SanMateo THE BURNINGTOWER AT BADGER mas, Happy "1 amstill in our apartmentwhere Underwoodtypewriter, office style, th for you 14" carriage. Dignified age, but re- The guard’s houseatop tower four we movedbefore Tom passed away. kisses." cently reconditioned. $18.95. Phone of the No. 1 Constamat Badger Pass ...... I aminterested in helping out 372-4776. caughtfire at aboutthree p.m., Jan- at a newChristian Science Homefor uary 5 sending its occupant, Mike ¯ MA~ Senior Citizens and manageto keep every day and whenI am alone, she The Mamr Soboslayscurrying for help. Apparent- reports that busY. I do wish someof the Yosemite spendsa night or two with me. There ly the oil stove in the housebecame Junior "Poinl friends would stop by when they are so many pleasant memories of overheated,causing the blaze. Several uary 18 are down my way~As for my family the Valley and myassociates". of the cross-membersat the top of ,- Bob and Sally KnowlesPlumb and From Tillie Sample, 709 W. Lemon Saturday, the tower weredamaged, necessitat- Drawing for the four grandchildren,they are living Ave. Monrovia. ing replacementat a cost of abou.t in Durango, Colorado and have been "1 havehad a very quiet life since held on Jan $1500, according to GordonWarren. ceivedafter there for morethan two years. Sally I left Yosemitein 1943.I hadstarted Thelift will be backin operationfor saysit is the nearestto living in Yo- in 1921 so I had quite a long time addedto the this weekend. Racefee semite." there. I send my SENTINELto Martha Bill Meachamand Dusty Cloward From Thoma Moran, 3565 Dimond Ewbankin Scottsdale, Arizona. She includelift were overcomeby smokeduring the ing Frida, Ave., Oakland.. started working in Yosemitein 1920. fire fighting; no injuries occurred;T- "1 havebeen ill for the past two L. Rustant I was in the park recently and of bar riders wereadvised by ski patrol- yearsso I don’t get out very often. I course visited with Cy and Agnes ling the de mento dismount, whenthe blaze was team’s visit with HelenDeLano over the phone Wright." discovered. ’.. ,/

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It’s also.interesting, but re- west. For part of the way he will have :. ., ’ however, one can picture better how company-Don Beam to Pasadena i, i quires more effort than one would attractive the area will appear when .. suspect, so I take my hat off to and Pat Thorsonto Phoenix. It ¯ ¯ completeand landscaped. i George, providing one of his sneaky Two young people, supplyman S " " Acco,rding to Gordon Warren, the .... .little woodpecker friends isn’t hanging Dave Evans and Server Linda Wag- .~r " ’,. ’ ’ entire 100 patios have been poured . around. goener, regulars in the Lodge Cafe- ]11 ¯ ¯ . and, in the shops, the metal work for teria, have becomeengaged. It. the ridge poles and for the beds is " ¯ .: I.CHRISTMAS.GREETINGFROM FRANCE They say good things comein small being fabricated. Screening fences in packagesand Sally Franco of the gift .. The Guehofamily of Molac, France, several sizes madeof cedar saplings, ¯ . which is .being sponsoredby the local shop is one. She and Charles Thibo- e too, are being pre-fabbed. deaux, former wine steward at The .: . ~r Women’sGroup, sent along its Christ- ... With reasonable weather, Warren ¯ ma greetings. A note dated December Ahwahnee, are engaged to be s s says he will have the units ready for ’~ 9 from the mother says: "Dear God. married in November. May Day. ¯ "mothers: I take a momenttonight to Billy Jo Nelson, Chris Skene, Ross HOUSEKEEPINGNAME CONTEST ..... write you. It is cold now. Wehad to Hallberg, Posie Stoeckel and Pat Thor- The SENTINELoffice has received ¯ : take the flowers inside, the geranium, son entertained during the holidays several suggestions for a namefor the in Hootenanny-fashion in the Moun- arum, and the dahlia. I love flowers new units at Housekeeping Campin : :who makeour house so beautiful, for tain Room. Four concerts were well the "Namethe Camp"contest describ- attended and with lots of good sing- ’ th:ree quarters of the .year. We are ed in the November29, 1963 issue of along talent. Anyone interested in having very cold rain presently. I wish, the SENTINEL. you a Merry Christmas and a good The nameshould relate to the local getting together with voice and guitar, see Pat at the Lodge. and happy new year with good heal. environment, either from an historic After muchinstruction and planning ~.~ th and the hope of a long life for all point of view, connected perhaps with ahead, Nick Fiore has assigned three ofyouand your family. Annick and the early explorers, the ’49ers, the Danie are joining me writing you a Lodge employees to .teach skiing to pioneers - or to an event, or other the local school children on their Wed- ¯ small card. Guehofamily". aspect of Yosemite history - or it : ’ And pretty little cards came from nesday ski-day at Badger Pass. Part- , : . .. might have some geologic reference. the youngsters saying "Dear God- time instructors are John CurryrWayne . The contest closes January 15. If Hildebrand and Spencer Grams. ~ mothers: I wish you a Merry Christ- the judging committee feels that WayneHildebrand is on the YL front ¯ mas, Happy New Year and good heal- among the names suggested a suit- desk and Spencer is YL cafeteria man- th for your family. Thousands of able one has been proposed, the ager. kisses." winner will be awarded $25.00. Bob Stone has left his position as ~O~ front desk clerk to becomethe busy MAMMOTHJR. SKI RACE WOMEN’SGROUP MEETING bee night auditor for YosemiteLodge. ¯ The MammothMountain Ski Club For the January 21 meeting of the Visiting hours are 11:30 p.m. to 7:00 reports that the first of the F.W.S.A.’S Yosemite Women’sGroup, a represent- a.m. Junior"Point" meets will be held Jan- ative of the Charles of the Ritz cos- uary 18 and 19, with the Slalom on LICENSE RENEWAL metic firm will be on hand to demon- NormanJaenecke, manager of the Saturday, the Downhill on Sunday. strate make-up and its application. office of the State Department of ~Drawing for starting times will be That part of the program is being Motor Vehicles at Mariposa, has ad- held on January 16. Any entries re- arranged by Gottschalk’s of Fresno, vised that the office will be open for Ceived.after that date will be simply where Charles of the Ritz cosmetics the renewal of motor Vehicle registr- addedto the bottomof the start lists. happento be available. ations on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Race fee will be $6.00, which will Preceding the program will be a Thursday of each week from January ¯ include lift privileges for the preced- luncheon in the Ahwahnee Dining 2 through January 23. ing Friday as well as race days. Roomat 12.45 p.m. All local women The final week of the man,h, L. Rust and C. Woessner,are hand- are invited to attend and are asked ling the details of the local racing January27-February 1, the office will to maketheir reservations with The be open every day, and until noon team’s participation. Ahwahnee by January 20. on Saturday. .~:;..;.;~i.~i;...... 7.-. L.i ...... ;’" .’ .. . . l’ .1 ~" T lil;1" ill lll ’ .. l’lll I l~l l~l ¯ i rlll lll 1l’ 11 ¯ tI l’ll " 11 ¯ YOSEMITESENTINEL ~l l l ¯ ~ " FJ~OMTHE AHWAHNEE !..i . ANNUALMEETING SET FOR YOSEMITE SKI. DAY HAS UPS AND DOWNS " :"All the employees came ’out of CREDIT UNION A hundred eager, youngsters turned ..’ The AnnualMeeting of the Yosem- out for the first "ski da’y".on Wednes-" ...... hibernation when The Ahwahneere- ite Credit Union will be held Monday, .;. "opened with.a bang on December21. day January 8 and, of this number:. , : ill January 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Yosem- ’:: .... For"the first few days, there were 40 were first-timers and some42 were ite Museum.It is requested that mem- from El Portal, Fish Campand Oak- !.. many tales of adventure being.ex- bers makeevery effort to attend, .as hurst. ii:i changed: During those six weeks, the a quorum (10% of the voting mem- There were instructors in abundance. " .. " employeestraveled in all directions- bers) is required before the meeting with Lenore Cross, Leroy Rust, Ann " some to the East, .some South, and . .i ! -’: others to Mexico. Although, apparent- may be openedand business transact- Hendricks0n, AmyEnglish, Ralph Par- ! ’ .ly everyone had a smas’hing time, they ed. ker, Chuck Woessner,Chet Hu.bbard,. 1 ; I 1 .. Pres. Gene Ewing recently announ- :i .~ were all glad to be home. Wayne Hildebrand, John Curry,Nick l l ced that a dividend of 4% has been Fiore and Dotty Power each instruct. ~:. ’ Apart from "the regulars", a num- declared, effective January4. For. all ing a group or helping wi.th equip- i . ber of the old collegiate summerset shareholders with accounts under ment, blowing noses, etc. were back for: the holidays and, also, $2,000 this dividend will be posted The best skiing was found on. No. i.iiii .quite a numberof brand new faces to their account. Otherwise they will 2 lift hill and all went merrily until !i .. were about. receive a check in the mail shortly. seven-yearold TomBetts, skiing .with ;!.":’!; For the first evening, practically -o- the Yosemite Ski Team, took a nasty i all the Dining Roompersonnel were P.O. NEWS spill. It was determinedlater that he ’. on.duty in order to get "gened Up" The United States Post Office at had broken both bones in his left leg. L~-. for the:.busy holidays, and the guests Yosemite has a new assistant Post- Today’s bulletin, from the hospital were highly amusedat seeing little master in the shape of John Hansen.. states that Tom’s coming along well ¯ :: g:rOups:of threes running up to a table John has been with the P.O..Depart- and will soon be UP and. swinging ’ for.two- three wine stecvards at your ment for 20 years, he’s lived in the about on a pair of extra legs. service, Madam,three tea stewards Park 31 years and put in some 10 NEW AT BADGER .... for afternoon tea, .three boys to bring years with N.P.S. and YPCCo. In addition to’snow the Badger I ~. ’ out the boxlunches, and so on. This change has brought another. area now has a "pla.tter run" where .i.’. ’ :Well, we. didn’t quite hit a record Annie Reynolds will moveto the Yo- non-skiers may d’isport themselves ~. house count, but very near it, as, for semite Lodge Post Office as station with safety and without the ridicule ’~ seven days, the coun.t was over 250. superintendent. often heaped on them by skiers. The I think..we...owe..a, big..thank...y.ou to -o-- N.P.S. has designated a run east of the the Lodge, as they were most generous JOHNEARLE JOINS COMM’L. DIV. Ski House from the water tower down i~ 1tI and loaned us some roll-away beds. John Earle has been named where platters may be use. N.P.S. The Bracebridge Dinner was a rav- Studio Supervisor by C. N. Proctor, cleared the area, the YPCCo. Badger ing success with no hitches and, as YPCCo. Commercial Division head, crew maintains it. Pla,tters may be always, everyone was very impressed as replacement fo’r Hal Morris who rented at the run. .at the perfect timing, formation, etc. left in early fall. An Oliver tractor has been added of the waitresses, waiters and busboys Earle, most recently from Pasadena, to the snow motor flee.t. This new, )i ’’ is originally from Chicago. There, he ,j as they madetheir grand procession one-man, vehicle has tracks 36" wide was employed by Marshall Field Co. Ii1 into the Dining Room.However, there which makes it most suitable for was much lamentation at the absence for twenty-three years, w o r k i ng slope packing. i ¯ through and up in the organization of the carolers. It is hopedthat next ANSEL ADAMSPHOTOS AT i ~ ~ ~ with responsibilities which included year we will be able to form a little 55 GRANTAVE. buying and merchandising women’s group-nobody expects a Caruso or Thirty magnificent photos done by sportswear,furs, suits, etc. ’t a Sutherland, and our effor.ts, feeble Ansel Adamsnow hang on the walls ill He attended Northwestern Univer- or otherwise, would be very much of the Y.P.C. Co. office at 55 Grant :! sity, earning a degree in Business appreciated. Ave., San Francisco. These were on Administration. 1963 went out with a grand exit to display at the Adamsshowing in the During WWII, Earle served in Europe the tune of much merry-making, gay de Young Memorial Museum, which ... with an Infantry Regiment and, at hats, noisemakers, etc. and 1964 ended last month. Employees who ~ll’l war’s end, set up and operated the ¯ warmly greeted. may be in S.F. are welcome to stop Obersdorf, Germanyski area, second h in for a look at the collection. Weare happy to welcomeKen Fris- largest in the country. byback again. This was Ken’s twelfth In addition to Marshall Field, Earle store manager. Bracebridge, but this time he plans has been with J.J. Haggerty in Bever. Mrs. Earle and son and daughter, staying on until the summer,as assis- ly Hills and Palm Springs and with ages 12 and 14, are now in Pasadena tant manager in the Dining Room. ill Kaufmans in Colorado Springs where and will moveto the park at the com- -Dolores Hallinan he was ski shop buyer and branch pletion of the current school semester. ’ i,1 ....

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Preston most favorably with last year when position with the Grand Teton Lodge ~i:: announced. !~![I the operating loss wa.s $116,951. The observance will mark the sign- Co. Wayne Whiteman, former Camp Ho.wever, it will be recalled by all t:. ingby President Abraham Lincoln on Curry head, will take over manage- that we experienced a prolonged ment of the Lodge, and Keith Whit- June 30, 1864, of an Act of Congress drought last year and enjoyed no ski field, who has been in YPCCo. Hotel now commonly referred to as the activity until late February. Division office, will manage Camp !’Yosemite Grant" whereby there was Examiningthe operating record for Curry. ~ transferred to the State of California the past six years, the 1961loss figure ~ ’ "The ’cleft’ or ’gorge’ in the granite John Curry has been connected of $49,768 is found to be the lowest. 1 with YPCCo. year ’round since 1951 i peak of the Sierra Nevada Moun- This year’s loss is about average. : 7 .i " ¯ " ’ ¯ ¯ and has worked in the Hotel and Per- ’ tarns known as the Yo-Semite Valley it appearsthis year that we mayex- sonnel Division office, at CampCurry, :i ’ , and what is known as the’Mariposa pect normal skier patronage, with pre- The Ahwahnee and has managed Wa- Big Tree Grove’." The grant was espe- sent snow conditions, and it is hoped wona Hotel and Yosemite Lodge. .~ cially notable, Park officials said, be- that the secondquarter will be at least ll ’ Whiteman, formerly Camp Curry ,: : cause it was made on the express as goodas the averagefor this period. Manager, has worked in all YPCCo. il condition "that the premises shall be This can only be accomplishedby care- hotel units except the Big Trees Lodge, !i held for public use, resort, and re- ful operating procedures on the part ...... and has served as High Sierra Camp ~ creation inalienable for all time." of all employees, for as the near- Supervisor. He has been with YPCCo. ,] Supe/’intendent Preston added that disaster of last year highlights, our since 1955. assurance has been given the Park in L, bs.iness is highly subject to the ’:I Keith Whitf.ield’s permanentservice ~: a meet,ing w, ith officials of state vagaries of the weather that influence with YPCCo. began in 1951. He has county, and local organizations of Yosemite visitation so strongly. been most recently Director of Stan- ~ their cooperation in a proper obser- -o- dards for the Hotel Division, and over :i vance of a significantdate in conser- HISTORICALSOCIETY MEETING the years has worked at CampCurry, ] vation history. Such assurance was JANUARY26 ~, forthcoming from Charles A. DeTurk, the Lodge and the Village Restaurant. ~1 -o-- The next meeting of the Mariposa director of the State Department of County Historical Society will be at TOASTMASTERS’CHARTER NIGHT Parks and Recreation; Earl P. Hanson, the CommunityBuilding in El Portal . deputy chief of park management of The newly formed Pohono Chapter on Sunday, January 26 at 2 p.m. AI the Division of Beaches and Parks; of ToastmastersInternational will re- Rose of Modesto, perhaps the most Superior Court JusticeThomas Coak- ceive its charter at a special meeting outstanding historian of the Yosemite ~! ley; JamesDePauli, representing the to be held on Thursday evening, Feb- Valley Railroad, will be the speaker, .’,: Mariposa County Historical Society ruary 6, .in the Mountain Roomat Yo- and the film entitled "A Day on the and speaking for the TuoiumneCounty semite Lodge. This will be a dinner YV", which was given to the National H~istorical Society and the Golden meeting and ladies’ night at 6:30 p.m. Park Service recently, will be shown. "~. Chain Council of the Mother Lode; and and will include a full program of Immediately following will be an Open Lilburn Schatz,. chairmanof the Mar- speechesand table topics, as given at housefor the newly restored rail.road iposa County Board of Supervisors. the regular Toastmasters’ sessions. vehicles at the center. Everyone is Guests are welcome, and a special ¯ The several Park concessioners also invited. (Continuedon page two) (Continuedoa page four). 4., " ,~:~..~..

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" i ’i ’ i..., i .’. ::.:.H.Oehlma nn Advisor the crow flies)for the first of ~he has becomeacquainted . with .- Miss .,". .".As is :" .... " ~. ’H.K Ouimet Advisor season’s Junior Point Meets. Leslie Karla and hasreported on her inter." ~ went m ii..: H..:Berrey _~...... Advisor Rust, ~ike and Greg Pawer and esting background. " .. ...: .. .. ¯ . . toirelie~ ". ¯ ¯ Mail communications to Yosemite Chuckie Woessnerwere entered in the ’ dischar " Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or In Miss Karla’s bungalowshe .has ..... Group 3 compefitian, Robl~ie ..and posted a large park map. on thissl~e ’ on Janl : : ... phone 372-4411. Anne. Woessner in Groups 4 and 5, ating a: . l,eoeo#oeoeeeoeeeee~,~e a~ ¯ ¯ ~e plots her day’s walk or hike, attempt. ’- respectively. This meet ordinarily i.. FortY I... :. .i .CENTENNIALTO. BE OBSERVED ing all those open a.t the t:ime. She .. " .¯. .... attracts’nearly 200 youngsters. photographs earnestly the changing~.i narrow i . " ...(Continued’ from page one) ¯ The group arrived .Thursday even- Valley scene, and her fin.ished pro.. i day.ab~ I." have offered their cooperation. ing, in time for a swimin. Hot.Creek, ducts are outstanding. In addition to cy .. .""Thestipulations in the legislation where hot water, gurgles up from her accompi~ishmentsas a photogra-.i ... visit, Jo elude ..: " regarding public use of the granted some. subterranean fissure to warm pher, she has a long background in.. make li i.i: " .". lands,¯ and the implied admonition the otherwise cold stream. .. music, having begun a musical career The ¯ :.. : that tl~e natural ¯wonderswere to be at the ageof 18 whenher’stringed tr!.o...." Rusty reports that storm clouds Beach . " ...~p.reserved ifor future generations had" gathered Thursday evening and. curl- performed on Radio WJZin New York . ’. the e.ffect of creating the first "public ed over the Sierra crest, foretelling City. i ~ .. park" in the United States to be ad- of "weather" the nex.t day. Friday, With her family she moved west/ ’ . ministered. by a State government," indeed, was miserable, complete with settling in Matin County, joining ’the ¯ ~ ¯ Selec ’. .: M.r. Preston ¯commented."It maythere- WoodingStudios, designing and man- i.... fore.be~.iSaid, ’’ he added, ."that the winds, so fierce that the chair lift. o- " from D perations were halted, and 14 degree ufacturing rings and pieces of red-. ."It h~ ¯ .:’. Yosemite Valley. and the Mariposa temperature. Theyoungsters practiced wood. YPCCo. studios carried .many. ¯... .. Rockies .... ¯ Groveconstituted the first State Park. slalom, which event was scheduled of her products.. Whenthe business the ea ¯ ’ ¯. "The condi.tions imposedfor the use. for Saturday. The weather Saturday was sold, on her father’s death, she beensl~ ’" ’ Of the ¯lands also is seen as the begin- was, if poss.ible, more unpleasant took her talents, to the Matin Ship- and bit :. ~ ning:0f a new. concept in public land than on Friday, and becauseof.visibi- yard, working in the model section, ¯wise, drafting and turning out scale models. .. ,.’ management-aConceptthat.has since lity, there could be but one of the ways ... beenapplied in the establ,ishmentand usual two slalom runs. The smallest ofthe ships to be bu.ilt. too ¯’ admi’nis.tration of.other areas of great racers, those in groups 4 and 5, had Having kept in touch with the world prune : i. naturalbeauty, and interest as Nation- great difficulty staying on the course, o~: music, Miss Karla workedwith the same ! Mar.in Public Library’s Record Loan :.al Parks." .. : / and several small ones were literally "Rod* Section, and there for 18 years mana-...... Twenty-s’ix years after the Yosem- blownout of the starting gate. gie Har~ ged the distribution of phonograph to go ¯ ¯ ite Grant," again by Act. of Congress, Amongthe local skiers, only Leslie records to li.brary patrons. ~ ¯ . ’Yosem.ite National Park was establish- Rust and Greg Power fini.shed the Safewc Upon retirement, she ¯found her ..i:ed,~.around the State-administered one slalom run, the others suffering at the friends devoting their time to travel- . lands as a meansof conserving the disqualification. Lesl,ie was eighth palling ing abou,t the world. She, however, adjacen,t Sierra wilderness.¯ Th’is and among 18 e.nCrants, Greg 14th out think th ¯ decided to gratify an early wish - to other-National Parks established a- of 25. and ho! spend as much time in Yosemite as " bout the same time were placed under ville Jol At bedtime there was little hope she chose and this is just what she’s the: guardianship of the U.S.A.rmy. have.d~ that there could be a down mountain doing. afte ’, ¯ " .The State continuedits control over the race Sunday unless the weather im- -Pat Thorson i original grant until 1906, whenit re- ’olates, proved, which i.t didn’t resulting in ~o--- princip i .. ceded its lands to the Federal Govern- cancellation of that event. So, .with- PAT PATTISONLEAVES Y. L. !i.". ~.. m.ent..ciVilian, supervision over the "A bl out dallying, the dozen Yosemite-ites ¯ " Pat Patt.ison, .who. has beenw.ith was. he combined areas became effective in headed for home, stopping the night YPCCo. for the past nine years, .will will be .... .1914, and since 1916 when the Na- in Bakersfield. leave YosemiteFebruary 1 to return .to ’ Check . tional Park’ Service was established, P. S. Next race at DodgeRidge. his homein Fresno. Pa.trick tended .the Park has been a part of the Na- ’ "We the community shower rooms on the .. tional Park System. i nvited tive programs throughout the year. Lodge grounds and had a.cheerful .... With m~ ¯ Preston said that centennial plans Other meansof observing the centen- hello for the vis.itor. He and Mrs. :to:dateinclude publication of a sou- nial w,ill be developedin the nextlfew Patti.son plan a month’s trip to and ven~ir booklet and special interpre- monthS. around Hawaii.

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.. J. G. L. IMPROVING. DEATH AND - ma. California runs NewYork aclose second,with $304per inhabitant.: re .:,. Muriel Ouimet,who hears regular- State and local taxes keep going up ge .ly fromNancyLoncaNc on the progress and, accordingto the National Indust- Citizerts of the fifty statescontributed ~v- of:John, reports that a letter dated rial ConferenceBoard, averagedlast morethan $41 billion, per year in state ’til .January. 14 states "Johnis improving year $223 for eachperson in the U.S., andlocal taxes.

~SS, daily". . an increase of more than 66 percent The accompanyingchart, one of the ,iss As isgenerally known,John under- since 1953. Taxes per capita varied N.C.B.’s "Roadmarpso,f Indusltry" er- went major surgery on December26 from a high of $309 per person in showsthe rise of these taxes over the to relieve a stomachproblem. He was NewYork to a low of $132 in Alaba- last ten years. dischargedfrom St. Joseph’sHospital has on January 10 and has been recuper- he ating at home! in LagunaBeach. ~t- Forty pounds lighter and on a narrowdiet, he is up for a bit each ng day abouthis homeand garden. Nan- ~0" cy report that on the doctor’s last to s visit, John’sdiet wasexpanded to in- dude baked squash - which must in make life muchmore worthwhile! ~er The Loncaric’s address in Laguna .° rio Beachis 708 GainsboroughPlace. ~rk -o- NOTE FROMVAILSVILLE

he Selections from a January 18 letter from Dick Connett read as follows: !d- "It has snowedlightly all day in the ny Rockiesand apparently the passesto the east, Vail and Loveland, have ~he been slick as glass with manyslides p- and blocks. So our business, drop-in- ,n, .wise, wasoff. Yi, Yi! Businessis al- ~ls ways something in a resort-either too¢ muchor too little. I wonderi.f rid prune or cling peach sales have th~ he sameproblems?" an "Rodeover to Leadville with Mag- ICt- gie Har.risonHirsch yesterday. She had ~h io go to the bank, and I enjoy th’e Safewaythere. Lunch (mit martinis) ~r at the Cloud City Restaurant was ap- ~el- pallingly bad and disorganized. You’d er, think the old Vendome(opened in ’88 to and host to somePresidents and Lead- as ville JohnnyBrown and Tabors) could AIa, ¯ - havedone better, but no. Felt hungry afterwards and boughta box of choc- on olates, whichis against all mydietary principles." CLASSIFIEDADS "A busy weekendrecently...ABC TV FORSALE good condition. 1 bed frame, large ith was here taping the Pro Raceswhich Upright piano, see to appreciate, casters, newcondition, $6. Call 372- ~ill will be on ’Wide Wide World soon. $100. Maynard, 372-4203. 4700 after 6 p.m. to Checkyour TV Guide, pls." 1960 Falcon. Reasonable.Call after Davenport and chair, ideal: for ed "We’rehaving a buffet tonite - I’ve 5:30, 372-4248. children’s room.Priced for quick sale he Phone372-4859 after 5 p.m. invited Maggie and husbandto come 15-speed Schwinnbicycle. Exlnt. with me." cond. 26" frame. $85. SpenceGrams, WANTED rs, "YosemiteEast" YosemiteLodge Cafeteria. Cleaning lady, one day per week, FRC 1 pr. skis, HeadVector, 210 cm., any day. Call Lee Miller 372-4838:

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’1 j -. . ,’, ,...,.,..,_._ .i YOSEMITESENTINEL : .’ .L TOASTMASTERS HOTNEWS FROM THE FIRE DEPT. CIGARETTESALES DOWN, GUMUP ¯ " " (Confillucdfrom pagc one) The Yosemite SENTINELof Novem- : " invitation is extended to anyonewho Ellen Whitfield,.head of the tobac- ber 29 mistakenly deposed Bob Lee co department at Village Storere- maybe interested in joining, the or- from his position of Fire Chief, nam- ports that the sale of cigarettes has. ’ ganization..Th@ dinner is priced at ing Phil Foster as chief. This wasa $3.50 a plate; reservations should declined 3~%following the vast a- plain error; Lee is still Fire Chief, bemadewith Earl Pomeroyat Yosem- mount of anti-smoking news appear- Foster is Captain, captain of the YPC ing in the press. Shereports, further, ite Lodge, between. February 2 and 5. Co. Volunteer Fire Department. that she has sold four pipes to custo- District Governor Bert Du Montier, The Volunteer Fire Department, in- of Reedley, will present the charter mers.formerly addicted only to cigar- cidentally, is made up of YPC Co. with, appropriate flourish. ettes. Gumsales, on the other hand, i employees who donate their¯time for ..: Charter membersand officers are have increased 10%, due mainly, i. training and, on occasion, for fight- ,she feels, to GeneOttonello’s frantic ias.follows: Frank Betts, Robert Bev- ing fires. attempt to kick the tobacco habit. ii.n.g’l’0n,~,William Breckenkamp,¯John Chief Lee states that empl.oyeesare iC~r:r~;~-Secretary, Harold Danz--Vice asked to familiarize themselves with ~O~ ¯ . president, Edwin Deckelman,Ned Eng- the location of fire extinguishers near- FRESNOBEE SKI RACE lish, Spencer¯ Grams, Donald Hall, All local skiers are eligible and wel- est their place of employmentand to ’ ,~,Chester ... Hubbard, Roland Johnson, study the directions for their use. And come to enter the Silver Ski Race, Roy Langley, Wayne Leedy, Harvey any employees feeling that, for any sponsored by the Fresno Bee and Yo- .. ¯Lyon-Treasurer, Frederick Martis- semite Winter Club. Details and entry .! reason, the extinguishers in his area ¯ chang, William Meacham-Educational are out of whack, should report same blanks available at YPCCo. advertis- ~ice-Pres.ident, Dana Morgenson- to his superior. The supervisor should ing office 372-4411. president, Earle Pomeroy-Sergeant-at communicate .immediately with Fire Becausefire extinguishers are the -Arms,¯ Harold Schmidt, Leland Shac- Captain Foster at. 372-4298; if kelton, James Taylor, Ben Twight,’ "first line of attack" on fires, they must he cannot be reached, Bob Lee should be used for no other purpose bey:~nd Keith Whitfield. be called at 372-4258 or 372-4851. that for which, they are intended, .... ’ .. THE SNOW Furthermore, employeeswhose duties namely,fire fighting. . " . At press ¯.time, the 32" of snow on involve the handling of fuel oils are Available from Foster are small, I . i the Valley floor is a record depth¯ for expected to know the correct method gummedstickers, giving t’he fire alert at least the past ten years. This amount of storage and transferral. The fi’re phone number, 372-4444, which ¯ i . fell ¯between Saturday, January 18 chief will make periodic inspections should¯ be pasted on or near all YPC and Wednesday;January22:’Approa: "of shops and offices to determine that Co. business and residential phones. thing this depth were 25" on March ’,~imple but effective housekeeping t. " Anyone not having these may obtain i ¯ 16,¯1963;.21", February 11, 1959. procedures are being followed. themby ask, ing Mr. Foster. AUDUBONBIRD COUNT Sharp Shinned Hawk, 2 Dipper, ...... 10 ".. Cooper’s Hawk ...... Each year, across the nation, the 1 Canon Wren ...... 6 Red Tailed Hawk, Audubon Society organizes a bird 2 Robin ...... 13 1 Sparrow Hawk, count between Christmas and New 1 Varied Thrush ...... __ 2 BandTailed Pigeon, ¯ Year’s. The 1963 Yosemite count was 50 Hermit Thrush .... 1 Mourning Dove .... ¯ ¯held on December30 in the El Portal, 27 Western Bluebird, ..... 95 Pygmy Owl, Big .Meadows, Yosemite Valley and 13 Townsend’sSolitaire, 1 Belted Kingfisher, Badger Pass areas, embracing elev- 7 Golden-crownedKinglet, 29 Red-shafted Flicker, ...... a.tionranges from 2,000 to 8,200 ft. 9 Ruby-crownedK, inglet ...... 37 Acorn Woodpecker, Twenty observers worked¯ in four 48 Hutton’s Vireo, _ 3 Red-breasted Sapsucker, parties in the four areas above. Part- 1 Solitary Vireo, 1 Nutta}.l’s Woodpecker, ...... 2 icipating were: MesdamesTom Coak- Audubon’s Warbler ...... 14 White-headed Woodpecker, 2 House Sparrow, ...... 25 ley, Alfred Glass, AndrewKoller, Don Black-backed 3-toed Woodpecker__ 1 King, DanaMorgenson, George Oliver,¯ Purple Finch ...... 2 Black Phoebe, ...... 4 Evening Grosbeak, .... Harold Ouimet, Grace Wimble Shu- 19 Steller’s Jay, 136 House Rnch, man, Avery Sturm, Mary Curry Tres.id- 8 ~. Scrub Jay, ...... 12 ¯ tier and GordonWarren, with Messrs. Pine Siskin, 43 Mountain Chickadee, 11 D. H. Hubbard, Hoppy Hubbard, W. American Goldfinch, 3 i Plain Titmouse, ...... B. Jones, G. R. Murphy, G. W. Sielaff, 5 RedCrossbill, __ 30 : CommonBushtit, 45 i. . T. D. Thomas,.:.and R. F. Upton, and Rufus-sided Towhee ...... " 17 White-breasted Nuthatch ...... Anne Meux and Mary Lou Sturm. 1 Brown Towhee, 40 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 6 Slate-colored Junco, ¯ The following 48 species, and 979 1. / Brown Creeper, 4 Oregon Junco, ...... individua birds were recorded: 178 Wrentit, 2 Golden-crownedSparrow, " l 9 ,’i

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MONDAY,FEBRUARY 10, 1964 YosemiteNational Park, Calif. BEE RACE HOTEL-MOTELTAX ADOPTED BADGERFIRE BY COUNTY Frank Carter becamethe first racer A fire, of as yet undetermined to defend successfully his title in the Mariposa County Supervisors voted origin, caused about $50,000 da- Silver Ski Race, held for the eighth adoption of a hotel and motel tax at mage Thursday morning to the Bad- year on February second at Badger a January 27 public hearing. The ger Pass Ski House. Pass. Carter’s 43.3 sec. was .5 of a ordinance, which is known formally YPC Co. ~ire chief Bob Lee and .¯second ahead of 15 year old Pat For- as the Uniform Transient Occupancy Phil Foster, amongthe first on the tune of Fresno. Liv Norman, of the Tax, imposes a 4% tax on all hotel scenereport that, on their arrival at ¯ .’! and motel rooms within the county. about 11:40 p.m., heavy smoke was There are approximately 40 hotels pouring from the building’s eaves. and motels within the county outside Ranger Gary Brown and the Badge.r the park. However, the bulk of the Pass employees were playing water new revenue will comefrom guests of from 3 hoses into .the blazing area, YPCCo. hotels and camps. located ma,inly in the upstairs passage Sterling Cramer, YPCCo. controller way against the north wall of the building. They were unable to enter appeared at the hearing and gave the 1 information that had the tax been in the building becauseof heavy smoke. effect last year, the revenue to the The N.P.S. fire rig and crew arrived 3 county from park establishments at about 11:45 p.m., and, under the would have been about $96,000. direction of Chief RangerElmer Flad. mark and acting fire control officer. Thereexists at present a 1~ local sales Frank Carter, over-all race w~nner, Lee Shackleton, began immediately ~.lashes through control :f!ags tax which returns approximately $50, 000 to the county. putting more water on the blaze. ski school staff, had the fastest time Shackleton, wearing a S u r v i v a i r The tax becomeeffective April 1, for women,with 47.6 sec., 1.1 seconds breathing device, was able to enter and the first quarterly collection will faster than last year’s girls’ champion, the basementof the building and pour be due July 1. Chris Crane of Fresno. Third spot went water on what seemed to be the to Leslie Rust, 13, with 54.9 sees. Several counties in the state have source of the blaze. Six hoses were Dan Sturm’s 43.9 was good for over- adopted the tax as a means of se- in use at this time, and despite the all .third place, aheadof Jim Berry and curing revenue to encourage tourist hundreds of gallons of water poured Ron Hosking, both of whomran the visits to the county through various on the blaze, it did not appear to be 39-gate course in 44.4 sec. promotion programs. The Mariposa controlled until about 2 a.m. All fire- supervisors said that the county’s new Some150 young and not-so-young fighting personnelstayed on duty until revenue will not be earmarkedfor any racers turned out for the meet, spon- about 3 a.m. Through the morning special projects but will go into the Phil Foster and the small companyrig sored jointly by the FRESNOBEE and general fund. However, according to Yosemite Winter Club. The BEEpays stayed on to guard against a later a FRESNOBEE story "It has been in- outbreak. for the racers’ lunch, the ski lift rides, dicated that the construction of a new and awards. Y.W.C. "puts on" the Gary and Pat Brown held "open jail and sheriff’s office is nowa step house"for the fire fighters, supplying race, providing courses, officials, etc. closer to reality". The county jail is, coffee, a warmstove and dry socks. To allow anyone, regardless of age in fact, in lamentable condition and They also removedsk.is from several or talent, to complete against others has been condemnedby the state fire basement lockers when it appeared of a like skill, the field is brokeninto marshal. It is to be hoped that when that the area might burn. Temperature seven groups, and scoring is done this necessary building is replaced, was a brisk 18 degrees and wet fire with.in the group. There were two hotel tax funds may be used for some fighters found their clothes and whis- courses, one for the four experienced purpose meaningful to the attraction kers freezing. The Brownscontributed (Continued nn p,’~gc tl~rcc) of tourists to the county. (Continuccl on p;~ge two)

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YOSEMITESENTINEL +qpeee-eeee+-+e+et~,.eeeee+ee¢ WELCOMES-FROM THE AHWAHNEE LIONSTO FETELIONESSES YOSEMITE SENTINEL Needless to say, we were all very The Yosemite Lions Club will hold its (Co~ Published by sorry indeed, to see Mr. Maynard annual St. Valentine’s Lad,ies Night groups, the Yosemite Park and Curry Co. leave and wish him every success in at an AhwahneeSki Supper, on Thurs. novices. Followinc for the information of his new position. John Curry has re- day, February 13. This activity was Yosemite Valley residents. placed Mr. Maynard and we take started five years ago as a "thank of local yet and times H. Oehlmann Advisor this oppor.tunity to welcomehim. you" offering for all the help and GROUP 1 H. K Ouimet Advisor Marion Dimock, foodchecker, retired encouragement the Lionesses have H. Berrey Advisor last month. All the staff got together given the club in its various projects 1. Frank Mail communicationsto Yosemite and presented Marion w.i.th a very nice throughthe year. It is, Lions President 3. Dennis Group 2 Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or hair dryer. Don Hall, formerly Desk WayneLeedy pointed out, about the phone 372-4411. Clerk at Yosemite Lodge has replaced only club activity where the better 1. Liv Nor Marion. He was just a little dubious halves are not asked to donate their 1. Dan BADGERFIRE about the "Ahwahneeches" but has time. He hopes all membersand their (Continuedfrom page one) 3. Henry now decided we are not such a bad mateswill turn out for the affa’ir. wood far a bonfire to warmthe chilly bunchafter all. Well, at least wedon’t 7. Ken M~ crewmen. bite! If it makesDon feel any better, GROUP3 Again, the NPS fire laddies and just for the record, we are all very WARRENMILLER FiLM AT Y.L. 1. Leslie R their fine rig operated by Bill Hull, happy indeed to have him with us. Warren Miller’s newest ski film Ranger Gary Brown and the YPC Co. A big "Welcome home" to Benny "AROUNDTHE WORLDON SKIS" will 1. (Pat people all are to be congratulated for Lara, busboy. Benny had a major eye be shown at Yosemite Lodge on Sat- 4. Chuck saving the day-or night. operation in Fresno and spent several urday, February29. Miller’s films al- 8. Greg P Almost before the smoke cleared, weeks recuperating but he is now ways are enjoyable, and the advance 10. Bobby YPCCo. ma~intenance people were at back to normal health and is as sprite. notices about this one ind+icate it to 12. Louis Badger evaluating the damage and ly as ever. Bennywas very muchmiss- be a round up of skiing in each area 13. Rick planning repairs. A.t last reports, it ed+at The Bracebnldge Dinner and of the globe where there are snow GROUP 4 appeared that while certain neces- many guests inquired as to his where and mountains. 1. (Janet sary structural work would take some abouts. He was usually the last in The film will commenceat 8 p.m. 2. Anne time, the cafeteria and lounge and line in the "grand entrance" of the Admissionprice is $1.00. Snowflake Roomwould be in condi- waiters, waitresses, and busboys and --o-- 1. (Mark tion for use by the weekend. was always just a few paces behind 2. Don Be RENT TAX DEDUCTION --o- the others, beaninghis tray with much 3. Tom DIVOTEERS,NOTE pride as though it contained the Crown Sometime ago, companyattorneys 5. Rob Wc The Yosemite winter golf circuit Jewels. informed us that employeesliving in GROUP6 (s will swing into action again on Sun- With the new working regulations YPC Co. owned lodgings may ex- 1. (Mary Tc day, February 16th at the Turlock for women,we have had an onslaught clude the rental value of such lodging 3. Roberta Golf and Country Club. Those squeaky of waiters and take this opportunity from income, both for Federal and 8. Virginia swingers (who haven’t played for of welcom,ing Douglas Ditton, Dominic State income tax purposes. wh,ile), and those who putt on the Trichello, HowardHarris, and Anthony Certificates for certifying to the a- 1. (Tom Bol living room carpet every evening are Cabezut. Peter Guenter, formerly a mount of rent paid during 1963 are 6. Allen Pa urged to start planning and give Pro busboy, has also joined the white co~t available at the Personnel Office. The 15. Tom AIh Charlie Eagle a call with advanced workers. Now that busine:s is boom- certificate includes a statement of the 23. David sign-ups. Telephone 372-4600 after ing at Badger, Peter is acting as part- facts and legal reasonswhich serve as GROUP 7 7 p.m. time ski instructor and doing a very a basis for the deduction. 1. (Scott S~ The Merced and Fort Washington good job too, we understand. --o- 3. John AII~ home-n-home matches are rapidly -Dolores Hallinan 8. Steve A~ OSTRANDERCARETAKERS shap,ing up and should materialize for -o- 9. Ken Met about the middle of March and April, Y. L. PROGRESSREPORT Duke and Viola Malone have ac- cepted the position of caretakers at respectively. Both these occasions are According to Norman Graham, work B competi.tive, popular events on the on the five new guest accommodations the Ostrander Lake Ski Hut and, next In add local calendars. buildings at Yosemite Lodgeis in the week,will be put-putting out to their Badger Pass -o- final and detailed stages. At work newdigs. page, Bobble FORSALE now are the plumbing and heating From Anaconda, Montana, Duke the followini Men’s black stretch ski pants (worn people, electricians, glaziers and tile has been in the copper business and and found twice), 34" waist, 33" leg, Franconia. setters. has been active in volunteer mountain Bill Meach $10. 372-4237, Dimock. Completion still is expected by May rescue work. Viola has done consider- Mills gave it 1956 Chev. ~ ton pickup. See Dale 1, although several days were lost be- able cooking-which will be, indeed, a good deal at the Y. P. C. Co. MachineShop. 8 am cause of a shortage of material. Gra- an important a:sset at Ostrander. ham says hamsays "we will make it up". to 5 pro. Phone372-4686. ExP. 5 Goodluck to them both. 35 miles lone

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BEE RACE (Continued from page one) groups,the other for junior an:l adult no,~ices. Followingare the placings by group of local youngsters: bracketed names and times are for first-place winners. GROUP1 Secs. 1. Frank Carter 43.3 3. Dennis Parrish 46.3 Group 2 1. Liv Norman 47.6

1. Dan Sturm 43.9 3. Henry Berrey 45.2 7. Ken Melton 48.6 GROUP3 1. Leslie Rust 54.9

1. (Pat Fortune 43.8) 4. Chuck Woessner 50.1 Junior, Chzss C champsi~z Sil.vcr Ski Rrlce were, l. I,o r,, MarkTltruer, Leslie R~tst, 8. Greg Power 54.6 Jcmet Tur’~erelrid in Class C, D~t~St u.rm, 10. Bobby Ringrose 55.9 12. Louis Parker 58.8 13. Rick Ringrose 61.8 GROUP4 1. (Janet Turner 65.5) 2. Anne Woessner 66.6

1. (Mark Turner 53.6) 2. Don Bets 54.6 3. TomCross 57.0 5. Rob Woessner 68.5 GROUP6 (short course) 1. (Mary Taylor 30.5) 3. Roberta Barnett 35.6 8. Virginia Ann Parker 38.0

1. (Tom Bourchier 30.9) ...... i 6. Allen Parker 32.5 15. Tom AIIcock 37.7 23. David Hackett 49.4 GROUP7 1. (Scott Schoenfield 33.0) 3. 37.6 John AIIcock Begin~ers’divisio~ vicT;ars I.. t.n r. Sca~tSchoel~,[c:lcl, Mctr~dTaylor, Bre~TclctScott, 8. Steve Adams 57.6 L?ln~TeShipley a~cl TomI3ourcrhier, 9. Ken Metherell 57.8 The season’s first Flyin.q Fifty was LIONS SPONSORSKI RACE ~o--- run las; Friday under excellent snow Four Sugar Bowl youngsters in- BADGERBRIEFS conditions, Liv Norman’s 1:09.8 was vaded the local slopes and took home In addition to other news from low for the womenrunnners and fast most of the trophies in Sunday’sLions Badger Pass which made the front enoughto put her seventh on the Fly- Club Junior Giant Slalom. page, Bobble Hendrickson reports on ing Fifty ladder. Claudia Reynolds of First three places follow: B. G. Wal- the following: Rail Creek was tried Fresno ran a very respectable 1:12.8 and found wanting. lace 89.9 secs.; Jack MacKinlay 98.5 and gained tenth spot. Among the secs,; Bob Wallace 98.6 sees. Leslie Bill Meacham,Bill Cooper and Les men, Bernard Quessyran a hot 1:01.0 Mills gave it a try and encountered Rust 109.5; Jeannine Ditton 114.7; Kaki MacKinlay, 124.6 secs. a good deal of breakable crust. Meat- But, as fast as the time was, it only hamsays the trail seemedto him to be tied that of the tweny-fiflh rnan on the Lion President Leedy and Coach 35 miles long! board. Rust presided at the awardsceremony.

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NEW REVERENDFOR PARK CHURCH the little valley into which they dis- FIRE REPAIRSACCOMPLISHED a p peared. Reverend Stephen Walker of New Between the cold, gray dawn of Hampshireis now Protestant Min,ister ’With the cascade of embers came Thursday, February 6, when the Bad- for Yosemite a n d conducted his sticks of papala wood, flaming bril- ger Ski House appeared burned, rip- first services in the Village Chapelon liantly as they fell, like falling angels. ped apant, wet and badly smoked So light is the wood,so muchlike the Sunday, February 9. and Friday noon, dramatic repairs Reverend Walker is not new to the foamof the sea, that, before the burn- were made. National Park Service, having served ing sticks had fallen far, the sweepof at Lassen Volcanic National Park and rising air caught them up and carried By 9:00 a.rn., Dick Di.tton, Gordon . . : ,. at Death Valley National Monument. them, upwards, sidewards, in all di- Warren, Chet Hubbard, C. N. Proctor, Stuart Cross and Ike Jomison had met . . .i, An ordained Minister in the Congrega- rections, like shootingstars. Rising and tional Church, Reverend Walker is a sinking uponthe breast of the air, they and mappedout plans to get .the place graduate of Boston University and flared and glowed, lighting up the back in operation as soon as possible. Theological Seminary. face of the cliff as though ghost-peo- Bill Meacharn had been out of town during the fire but returned as soon . ~Om ple dancedupon its steep sides, until, burned out at last, .they were sudden- as he had the sad news and took ALICE HEWITSON charge of the reorganization. Alice Hewitson, who left Yosemite ly extinguished. .f just about 8 years ago, sent an in- ’In one last burst of flame a whole Maintenanceelectricians and plum- ¯ ..~. bers were first on the scene locating ¯ /. ;. teresting letter to the SENTINELlast enormousblazing tree was sent slid- week. ing over the edge of the cliff. Roots and repairing damaged wiring and She seems to have been with Cap- first it fell, the fire streamingupward appliances, checking and repairing 1 well’s in Oakland in the intervening over.its long trunk into the outspread the steam plant. A cleanup crew was ¯ " I and twisted branches, to which the recruited from Fresno, and Cross Lum- years and comments that retailing i,. seems to be about as pressurized as leaves still clung. As the fire reached ber Companymen arrived from Mer- ced to replace broken windows. Lew her work in YPCCo. personnel. them they, too burst into flame. It i’: , ¯ Alice reporl"s that daughl;er Doris, looked like a womanfalling, her hair Yanceyand all his painters began on now married and living in Bend, Ore- ablaze as she came feet first, down Friday morning to cover the smoked gon, is the mother of two sons, the. into darkness." areas in the kitchen, cafeteria, Snow- oldest of whomis 6, and a daughter. -o- flake Roomand bathrooms. Cleanup continued during Friday with truck- WhenAlice was living in Yosemite "QUIZ KIDS" loads of debris being hauled off to the 1: she madea trip to Hawaii. Many may An advertisment for the Warner j. El Portal dump. J, remernber her "cocoanut bank" in and Swasey machinery building firm which she deposited coins to finance which appeared in a recent issue of By the time the first skiers arrived I! her trip. Sheintends to visit the Islands U.S. NEWSAND WORLDREPORT car- Saturday, there was scarcely a trace again this fall, and in anticipation of ried the headline "Quiz Kids’". The of damage and many asked, "Where the visit, has recently completed the copy read: was your fire?". Food service was new Bushnell book "Molokai". In it "EconomicIll,iterates, that’s what as usual and in fact, an outdoor bar- she found a passagethat she thought too many of us are, and maybeit’s becue had been set up where ham- maybe of interest to Yosemitepeople the businessman’sfault. burgers were selling like hotcakes. as it described what m,ight be called A large manufacturer asked its The extraordinary job of getting a an "Hawaiian Firefall": young Executive Trainees (high school severely damaged plant back into "Whenthe singing contest was over and some college graduates) what operation in such a short time could and the prizes were given out, the they thought the companythey work- have been done only by energetic, i night had come. Then was it time for ed for made in profits after taxes willing, cooperative and technically I. the fireworks. as a percent of sales. Average answer skilled people. ’Like a river of lava pouring down ! 15%,High answer60o,/o, Fact 6%. the wall of the mountain did they they vote in union meetings or any- What do all American manufacturers ! come,like a fall of Pele’s blood cours- where else if we don’t tell them the make? !; ing downthe face of the pali. High economicfacts of life." Average answer 16%, High answer ! up on the very edgeof the cliff, burn- The answerto the first question, so ’i 80°/, Fact 5.4% ing embers were emptied from great far as YP Co. is concerned is: Our What investment must the average cauldrons, one after the other, and the average profits on sales after taxes company make per employee -i.e. ’ i’ fiery coals and The smoldering sticks is about 5% Third question: YPCCo. what does it cost to provide one job? burst into flames as they fell those has a capital investment of $13,126, Average answer $17,300, Low answer i. thousands of feet toward the plain on 000 and an average employee count $100, Fact $20.000. which we sat. Like waterfalls afire of 700, which works out in round they descended, grandly and slowly, Try it in your ownplant! figures, to aninvestrnent per employee loath to plunge into the darkness of How can we blame them for the way of about $20,000. /

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YOSEMITE FILM TO JAPAN CHAPELTO BE REHABILITATED YPC Co.’s film YOSEMITEIS MY The Yosemite Chapel, a landmark HOMEis being "redone" and, on com- familiar to visitors to YosemiteValley pletion of revisions, will carry a Jap- since 1879, will undergo a program anese language sound track. of stabilization and rehabifitation in- Thepicture i.tself will not be altered, tended to ’insure its preservation for save for the translation of the main many more years. Superinttenden~t and subtitles into Japanesecharacters. Preston stated that the work will be Ed McGlone, of the firm of Cate and done this year under the supervision McGlone, producers of the film in of experts in the field of rehabilitation 1962, is handling the technical details, of historic structures. with Professor George Takahashi, of The Chapel, which is used as a non. the U.C.L.A. Asiatic LanguageDepart- denominational church, has a seating ment, makingand recording .the trans- capacity of 100 persons. It is the last lation. Because, in the Japaneselan- remaining public use building in the guage, more words, by about one- Old Village. The tiny New England- third, are required to makea state. style church was built under the spon- mentthan in English, certain editing of sorship of the California State Sunday the dialogue was necessary. School Association in 1879 while Yo- When the film is completed, on semite Valley, along with the Mari- about March10, a print will be taken Liv Norman,21 year old ski instructress from posa Grove of Big Trees, was still a Oslo, Norway,knocked three sees. from low to Tokyo and Osaka and shown there State Park. Much of the original time on FlyingFifty ladder. Shealso wonover. by representatives of the San Francisco $2,343 needed to construct the all first placefor womenin tile SilverSki race. Convention and Tourist Bureau, on a building was raised by children in the tourism promotion mission. SundaySchools of the State. The bal- FLYING 50 RECORDBROKEN According to a NEWYORK TIMES ance came from individual Liv Norman,Norwegian instructress story, currency restrictions on the subscriptions. on Fiore’s staff, smasheda six-year amount of Japanese money that can Delegates to the National Sunday old record by running last Friday’s be taken from the country will be lifted School Assembly meeting in Yosemite Flying 50 at Badger in 61 seconds. April 1 so that a national maytake out Valley at the time, filled the Chapel Prior to Liv’s red-hot trip downthe $500 in foreign currency and may pay to overflowing at the first service on three-quarter mile Schuss,low time for transportation costs in Yen. June 7, 1879. ladies was 64 sees. Frank Carter, with In view of Yosemite’s proximity to The original reed organ in the a 1 rain., one-tenth see., earned22nd SanFrancisco, the principal west coast Chapel was a gift from Miss Mary place. port of entry, it is hopedthat the dis- Porter of Philadelphia in memoryof play of the film will encourageJapan- Florence Hutchings, first white child On the Flying 50 ladder are posted ese travelers to visit the Park. born in the Valley. Perhaps the most the fastest twenty-five times for men --o-- celebrated person to play the memor- and for women. The spread, on the LIONS CLUBEVENT ial organ was Sir Arthur Sullivan, men’s side, is something less than The YosemiteLions Club is sponsor- famed composerand collaborator with seven seconds between the fastest, ing a program at Yosemite Lodge on Sir William Gilbert in the Gilbert and Haldor Reinholdt’s 54.2 see., and the Tuesday, March 3 which is open to all Sullivan operettas. Sir Arthur was slowest time of 1:00.3, held by Bill Yosemite residents and park guests. visiting in Yosemiteat the time of the Nutley. Amongthe girls, the difference The program, "The Mission of Edwards death of President Grant and accepted between first and twenty-fifth is 17 Air Force Base", showsin de.tail the an invitation to play at a memorial seconds, slowest time being held by work that is being done at Edwards service in the Chapel. Irna Morganstierner. (Continuedon page three) (Continuedon page two) .’; ~:",

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’ . " .e~-,~c,c.~@ec.~.~,.~.~eeeeeeeee~.eee¢.4eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee FIRE DEPARTMENTURGES CAUTION ’ " A e. WARRENMILLER FILM AT Y.L. ¯ i :) :"".... YOSEMITE SENTINEL Fire Chief Bob Lee and Captain Phil Sweet m : Published by ¯ Warren Miller’s newest ski film~ ~"AROUNDTHE WORLDON SKIS" will~, Foster are campaigning~vigorously to are ha : Yosemite Park and Curry Co. ~be shown at Yosemite Lodge on Sat-~ awaken employees to the dangers of. ~ . Trio. LeadeJ . for the information of fire and the ease with which most fire ~urday, February29. Miller’s films al-~, at the Royc Yosemite Valley residents. hazards can be eliminated. " don and H. Oehlmann Advisor ~ways are enjoyable, and the advance~ ~notices about this one ind,icate it to~ Here, and elsewhere, smoking in San H. K Ouimet Advisor ~be a round up of skiing in each area~ bed and burning cigarets left on a Children ar H. Berrey . Advisor i. ~of the globe where there are snow~, flammable surface are the greatest: semite. Wit, Mail communicationsto Yosemite ~and mountains. potential causesof disaster. Then, bad drummer fl Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or ¯ Geib from e The film will commenceat 8 p.m.~ housek=~.ping-com bustible materials . phone 372-4411. bass and I ~¯ e~- ¢. ¢. 4. o.g.¢. ¢’0 ¢ ¢,¢; ¢ ¢ ,~ .~. ~ ~, ¢.,~ ¢. -~.¢ 4., ~Admissionprice is $1.00. such as cleaning fluid, lighter flu.id, eee¯e¯eeee¯eeee¯eeeeeeeeeeee even certain ski waxes-left about add " quite a ’ ’ ’;CHAPEL TO BE REHABILITATED ~O~ to the conflagration, onceit starts. Lee and a ver, ’ (Continuedfrom page one) LODGE NEWS and Foster encourage all YPC Co. Peru in The li.ttle churchwi.th its steeply- Titles of the upcomingfilms sche- dorm, apartment and residence dwel- this opport pitched roof and tall, pointed-steeple duled for the Yosemite Lodge a,re lers to exam,ine the:ir premises and Torres. Pric was built on a rise near the bose of shownbelow. F,i,lm.s are.. shownon removeany. of these hazards. Thomas st~ the Four Mile Trail. I.t was torn down Tuesdayand Thursd,ay evenings in the Thoma’s.wo On the job, too, employeesare ask- . : and reconstructed On the present site lounge at 9:00 p.m. also at the ed to. keep a sharp eye out for situa- i in the fall of 1901. The eight steps Feb. 25 Tarawa Beachhead Pass. Joinil tions that may provoke or aggravate ,’,.., to the front door were reduced to two Enrique NL Feb. 27 Sweet Smell of Success fires. Suchconditions, reported to one’s ’ in thereconstruction on level ground. , "Loco").Loc Mar. 3 Wack.iest Ship in the Army.* supervisor, will beremediedpromptly. Numerouschanges to the inlerior at Badger. Mar. 5 Anatomy of a Murder haVe beenlmadesince 1901, including Fires, along with other disastrous adminis.tral replacement of the original slat ben- Mar. 10 Long Grey Line* even.ts, are too frequently viewedwith pops up ar ches with pewsfrom the First Presby- Mar. 12 Notorious Landlady the optimistic or indifferent at.titude, every week : .terian Church of Fresno about 1945. Mar. 17 Solid Gold Cadillac "it won’t happen to me!" Wesuspect for him du Furnace and office rooms were added Mar. 19 Song W:ithout End* that this may have contributed to ing Dairy .... onthe rear of the Chapel, and a small some of the hotel fires read about. It’s thetc Catholic Chapel was built at the side Mar. 24 The African Lion* However, the unfortunate victims are oneis sire Mar. 26 Gidget* . in 1953. These additions will remain. not available for interview. wine now "It i.s hoped," Super ntendent Pres- * Color flake ton said, "that the only available respective rounds. WayneWhiteman reports employees Power’s ow~ ~photographof the interior as it was The pair is embarking now on a are welcometo attend the Wednesday haven’t aln will enable a degree of restoration to new venture, having set themselves up n’ight bingo parties (8:30) and the a treat in be done in the course of the stabiliz- as a singles and doubles traveling Friday night pizza p.arties held in the the Snowfl, team representing the Lodge and the ation work. It is also possible that Mountain Room. ly well research will determine the original Park. They bowled this week in the Wayne Hildebrand, Lodge Front of thankinc exterior colors which can be duplica- Capital Tournament in Sacramento, Office Manager, and Linda Connor, Room Mane tedl At any rate, the work to be done which will be followed by the Wash- formerly of I’he LodgeCafeteria staff, for their will permit continued use of the old ington’s Bi.rthday tournament in San have announced their engagement, making this building asa place of worship, and Francisco, on to Richmondand through ’though no wedding date has been set. ing the cou out the year~ in and aroundthe state. will insure its preservation as a re- Roomw’as minder of the early days of Yosemite. BowlingBig They are the only bowlers in the U.S. and his -o-- C.harlie Schellenberg and John representing a National Park. despite the WHERE THE MONEY WENT Halifax e n t er e d a Bowl-a-Round Other than that, they work in the on regard According to NPSNews of February Tournament in Fresno, as reported Lodge HousekeepingDepartment. on the ten 14, gross salaries of $1,628,482.54 recently. The competition was held MauriceRolli has joined the staff at ado. were paid to Yosemite .Park Service in 37 states to choosea re.inner fo.r The Yosemite Lodge Front Desk. In employees during the calenda.r year an expense paid trip to Hawai.i plus his seven years with YPCCo., Maurice 1963. Residentsof California collected a cash prize. John and Charlie didn’t has been Ahwahnee pastry cook, $1,555,570.40 of that amount. The fi.n’ish in f.irst place, but they bowled Assistant Manager of The Ahwahnee The SEN7 next highest amount, $8,195.57, went against the top 10 pairs in Ca.lifornia. Dining Room and Manager of Camp ces to Ned to Texans. Arizonans collected $7,352. Charl.ie sa.id, "They were very pro- Curry Restaurant. death of for third place. In all, 27 states and fessional and mature opponen,ts." It Also new to the desk at the Lodge Memorial the District of Columbia were repre- was exciting, and the boys won a is Ed Foster. Ed was at CampCurry Ned’s .fath sented in the payroll during the year. trophy apiece .for placing in their last summeron the Front Desk. July 28, 1 ¯ , ..

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"".,,:’. .. ’.AHWAHNEE NEWS FONDUE, ANYONE JR. SKI TEAM ~: i: ¯.’."Sweet music at The A hwahnee: We Ahwahnee Manager John Curry CoachRust reports that last week- i are happy to welcome Jack Sab.ine’s states without qualification that his end’s ski trip w,ith the junior, racing ,, . . . . i i Trio. Leader Jack Sabine studied music fondue is the best fondue available team to DodgeRidge was a good deal this side of St. Moritz, whichis practi- morepleasant than an earlier trip to ¯ i at the Royal College of Music in Lan- ... .i;. "..don, and also at Trinity. He is from cally the birthplace of fondue, and Mammoth.The weather was find, the" ’: .san Francisco and h.is wife and two that all locals are welcometo join the snow conditions were excellent and ’..children are simply thrilled with Yo- Tuesdayevening fondue parties in the former Yosemite instructor, Ray Pat- semi.te. With.Jack are Richard Crooks, Indian Room. These are held between .ton, hadset excelient courses. ... ’ . . Kathy Betts, the Rusts, the Power.~... " " .... drummer from San Jose, and Richard 9:30 and 10:30; no charge. Geib.from Fremont. Richard plays the However, beer or champagne or and the.W o e s s n e r s accompanied ¯ bass and vibraphone, the latter being other refreshments go awfully well the seven youngsters to the Slalom ’ l : l quitea new sound for The Ahwahnee with fondue. and Giant Slalom F.W.S.A. Point Meet. and a very definite improvement. TRAINING DIRECTORFOR YPC Co. ¯ While the Giant Slalom results are not yet in, young Rabble Woessner, Peru in the lead againl We take Miss Ruby Gray has accepted the racing in Group 5, took a 2nd in the this opportuniiy of welcoming Thomas position of Training Director for YPC Slalom, to bring homethe only trophy. Tortes. Prior to coming to Yosemite, Co., according to H. K Ouimet, person- In Group3, Lesl.ie Rust ran 7.th in a .~...... Th0mas studied English at Berkeley. nel department head. field of 14, Greg and Mike Powerand .: . Thomasworks in the Dining Roomand Prior to com.ing to the Park she wa: Chuck Woessner ran 38th, 39th, and also at the Snowflake Roomat Badger for ten years with Consolidated Milli. 40th in a field of 55, while DonBetts, Pass. Joining.the ranks once agai.n - nery, largest wholesale millinery or- in Group 4, was 6th among12 boys, . Enrique Nu.nez (otherwise known as ganization ¯ in the U. S. W.ith that firm and Anne Woessner, .in the same "Loc0"). Loco iswine steward here and she supervised the operation of nine i.. a:t Badger. He is studying business shops in the West and was respon- group, was 6th among8 girls. Rust reports that this is probablythe adminis.tration at Oakland. Luis Huaco sible for the training of some 100 employees.Mak.inu. ’~er homein Stock. last major trip of the season, but the ¯ poPS u’p and gives us a helping hand activities of the junior racing team ¯ ¯ .. every week.end,but its. backto school ton, she traveled L~tween cities and will be continued at Badger. " .for. himduring the week. Luis is study- ¯ .was obliged to be awayfor periods of ng Dairy Husbandryat Col Poly. several months. The great amount of ¯ ...... FOR SALE traveling, Miss Gray says, was th~ It’s the talk of the tov~n! Yes,every- Portable Zenith Stereo, 3 speakers, main reasonshe resigned the position " one is .simply raving about the mulled record stand. Moselle Handin, Yosem- and came to work for YPC Co. ’ wine now being served at the Snow- ite Lodge. Or can be seen at Camp6, flake Roomat Badger. This is Glen GIRL SCOUTING Trailer E-3 between Noonand 4 p.m. Pawer’s ownspecial recipe, and if you The Yosemite Girl Scouts have one ¯ or after 8 p.m. " haven’t already tasted it, you’ve got project underway and a second on the 1957 Ford, 4 dr. sedan, Thunder- a treat in store for you. Incidentally, horizon. Currently efforts are directed bi.rd motor, rad.io, heater, automatic the Snowflake Roomis doing extreme- toward compiling a scrap book of drive. Has newplugs, fuel pump,bat- ly well and we take this Opportunity pictures and stories about the lives tery and tires. $495. WebcorHi Fi and of thank.ing Paul Marsh, Snowflake and activities of Yosemite’s young radio comb., plug-in jack for tape ~- RoomManager, and his entire crew people to be sent to France to the corder, $65. Also records for sale. for their very wonderful efforts in Geuhofamily, which is sponsored by WestinghouseElec., Automatic Roaster ¯ " makingthis sucha success.Even du.r. the local Women’sGroup. and cabinet, $29.95. Mary Tanner, ing the couple of days the Snowflake Coming up is the annual Cookie 379-2295. Roomwas closed becauseof fire, Paul Sale. This will be the first time the LIONS CLUBEVENT and his gang got busily to work, and local girls haveparticipated in the na- (Contim]ed from page one) despite the chaos, managedto "carry tionwide program. From profits from makingtest flights on all newly-devel- on regardless" by serving luncheon the sale, at 50c per box, 10c is retain- oped mannedaircraft. The hour-long on the terrace without much fuss or ed for local troop activities. The presentation is made with colored ado. balance is turned over to the Tioga slides and motion pictures and the nar- --Dolores Hallinan Girl Scout Council. The Council sup- ration is doneby Lt. Col.. O’Harra, as- por.ts the new summer camp on Big sited by Lt. Freeman.This .is reputed MRS. E, G, ENGLISH Creek, near Wawona, which a num- to be an interesting presentation and The SENTINELex.tends its condolen- ber of local girls have attended. The the Yosemite Lions Club urges that ces to Ned and Amy English on the local Scouting Commi.ttee concluded everyone attend. death of Ned’s mother at Lewis that by turning over a part of the There is no admission charge for Memorial Hospital on February 18. cookie sale profits to the Council local the program, a public service project Ned’s totherpassed away here on girls would be making their contribu- of the Club. It will be presentedin the July 28, 1963. tion to the camp’s operation. Yosemite LodgeLounge at 8:00 P.M. ¯ .¯- ¯ ,.,.¯, ¯ .¯¯¯ ......

¯ . J ~.. .’ L I’ YOSEMITESENTINEL ! ¯ p ¯¯,r¯¯¯ ¯ ¯.¯¯ ¯¯ GOLF ROUNDUP NEWS FROM THE PUMPS AROUNDG.H.Q. i " .". ¯ " ¯ ’ .The WawonaMen’s Golf club re- Chevron Station Supervisor Bob Melba Smith, YPCCo. cashier, found . .. ¯’ i¯ ¯ ¯..¯ , herself unable to work efficiently, ’, .... Billcently Schnet!!er elected ’its picked 1964 for officers, pres’ident. with Bevington reports that ChuckHarrison, ,. formerly Lodge station manager, is stumbling over stacks of greenbacks ; and wading ankle-deep in coins. Bob . . .:Others. . .. onwinning ballots were Leroy nowat the Y-1 Station (near the Gen- !.: Chivers was summonedto build an i. Rust, secretary-treasurer; Curly Dierk- eral Office), replacing Dick Freed, who ! i.sen, handicap chailrman; Gene Ewing, left February 11 to work for a Ford addition to the Smith-YanceyBank. i" Larry Brochin’i and Harold Sener, tour- dealer in Concord. Larry Behymeris This completed, the cashier ladies ! ’ nament¯committee and Charlie Eagle now the Lodge station manager and now have room to attend to that most i.. :and Charley Proctor, green’s commit- ¯JimMoulton is at Chinquapin. Beving- important business - taking care of !. .~. tee. ’ ton also reports that gallonage and money. i ".1 . .’ ...... ’Twenty-four avid Yosemite golfers accessory sales are about the sameas The Personnel people, on the other: i. hand, have given up their photo i teed off last Sundayin Turlock, ham- for a similar period of 1962 but con- studio in the G.O. foyer to allow more " . Pered by gal winds, for a round that siderably aheadof 1963. He is in the e room for job-seekers and employees I ~ : Was. not like a walk in the park but midst of a personnel training program during the processing procedures. The 18 holes of howling anguish. Scores which emphasizesparticularly the im- present area now occupied by. the were not the best. However, consider- portance of customer relations. This seven personnel employees is to be . ing:.that the balls were blown off the program i s supplemented by training rearranged, mainly to allow better tees, about the green and fairways, films supplied by Standard Oil Com- communications between office mem- i ¯..they Weren’t bad. pany. ¯I bers and to permit direct passageinto ~ ’ Thehardy men played on 18-hole Bevington pointed out, while speak- the Training Roomfrom the foyer. ing of automobile maintenance, own- ~ ..i par. point tournament which resulted These rearrangements caused con- ! in.the .following: Rex Hickok (37), ers of automobiles which according sternation in the mind of Special Agent ~’ Harold Ouimet (33), Herb Ewing (31), to manufacturers, need to be lubrica- [ . , ,., TommyThomas, who walked into the i¯ ¯ ¯ ted only every ten or twenty thousand I’ .Guy Lamoreaux (30); and¯ Ned English General Office building after being miles, depending on the make, take ¯ _.(29)...iNewg01f balls, and. a respite awayfrom the area for a couple days. particular care to have preventative -. ’from the cold wind, werethe awards. He looked around the foyer in front maintenance inspections made every ; The not-so~.hardy womenstruggled of the Personnel Office and noticed twelve months, irrespective of the through a 9.-hole medal sweepstakes that the familiar photograph and elapsed mileage since the last com- play.-which blew in the.following storage room had been removed. He plete service. It is quite possible that winners:.Nita BondshuCnet39), Ruth remarked, "Somebody stole partof an owner may drive his car but six Ewing and Rhesa BagbyCtied for sec- the building while I was gone!" L .¯¯ or seven thousandmiles during a year. ond with nets 41), Madeline Hickok In GeorgeOliver’s Sales-Reservation I Thus, under the twenty thousand mile (42), Muriel Ouimet (43) and Audrey Department, Ruth Tennis’ monkey-on- service recommendations,three years Ewing (43~). the-back, the teletype, has beenshift- t may elapse before vital mechanical ed to Caroline Allen. In the reservation It was commendable that even parts are inspected. All these main- section, Olive Kirk has signed on. And, blustery elements failed to smashthe tenance procedures are carefully fol- bouncing between reservations and spirits of Yosemite swingers, because lowed at the local Chevronstations. after a slow winter, they now face ~m commercial has been Helen O’Bryant, presently in the latter department, . a stiff golfing agenda when they A recap of these important events i must either defend honors or build up is shown below: helping each department "catch up". reputations. Marcl~ 8 -Merced Home-n-home In the Accounting Office, newcomer GeneO’Neal, of Fresno, is manipula~ Definite dates for the home-n-home at Merced. ting a calculating machine at great matches include March 8, when Yo- April 26 - Fort Washington Home-n- speed on the daily profit and loss semite will face the Merced Club at homeat Fresno. statements. Richard Allison, also from Merced. During the last battle that June 7 - Wawonahost to Fresno’s Fresno, is back at his auditing work, took place at Wawona,the local men Fort Washington. replacing Robert Irrgang, wholeft us lost by one point - 13 to 14. They ’ Eagle Eagles for Sugar Bowl. also lost a year ago 10 to 26. On -o- - Sunday, April 26, the memberstravel Pro Charlie Eagle made news re- ¯ to the Fort WashingtonClub in Fresno cently at the Fig Garden Course in REGISTRATIONNOTICE to defend their tHles. In the last two Fresno whenhe traveled the 444 yard, Yosemite residents who wish to re- home-n-homematches with this group, 14th hole, in two, sinking his 225 yard, gister to vote, may do so with Helen Yosemite men and women emerged three woodsecond shot. "It is the first Ledson, phone 372-4270, Marge Cro- . victorious. On June 7, the Fresno eagle on the hole in the five and a half mer, 372-4631, or in El Portal with squad travel to Wawonafor a return years the course has been played," Olive Kirk, 379-2237or Bartley Burgin bout. Professional GordonKnott said. 379-2420. I

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.FRIDAY,MARCH6, 1964 YosemiteNational Park,. Calif. ,I ,’l ANNUALSPRING CLEAN-UP LIONS SPRING CARNIVALSLATED BADGERFIRE ARSONSUSPECT +l T.he SENTINELhas in hand a note The local Lions Club is resting its James McSweeney,a cook’s helper ..1 at Badger Pass Ski House, who was from SuperintendentP.reston’s ¯office thespians this Spring and, instead of taken into custody here and charged ?i regarding the annual "Park Spring a theatrical, will present a Carnival ¯l with arson before U.S. Commissioner /i Clean-up",. w.hJch this year Will be at CampCurry Dining Roomon Sat- f i!,~. Ottonnello, is to appear before the between March 15-21. We quote ap- urday, April 4. 25 Federal Grand Jury in Sacramento propriate parts of the Super.intendent’s Much of the fun will be for the .! today.. . ~ " ¯communication. youngsters with dart games,fishing, -¯ The fire, which on February 5 !l ¯ "Befo’re the arrival of summervisit booths, old motion pictures, etc. caused $55,000 damage to the Ski i ors andEaster,it is our desire to .have The adults may enjoy, more some .t cleaned up all winter debris and litter House, was of incendiary origin, i: than others, the booth where for a i; ¯ o that the Park will present a neat, having been started in the basement. 7 dime, they can throw wet sponges at ’?i inviting, and attractive appearanceto Twoadditional fires were found in the past presidents of the Lions Club, a- i our visitors. dormitory above the ski shop. mong whomare Harold Ouimet, John As soon as possible¯ after the fire. .... Eachemployee is responsible for Curry and Bill Breckenkamp. 2 was subdued, an investigation of the cleaning up around his ownresidence, Greatest fun of all will be the ;? origin of the fire was begun jointly -1f yard and garage area. The various "Cake Walk", a sort of combination by the N.P.S. and Tom Thomas, YPC !i Division heads of the governmentand ’:! of musical chairs and wrestling match. Co. agent. Becausethe fire was con- .~. concer, sioners, are responsible for The rewards, fine homebaked cakes, cluded to have been of incendiary ? ¯ fqontinued on page three) . are worth the investment and exercise. t ’C origin, the National Board of Fire ;1 LIONS SPEECHCONTEST And, imported at great expense Underwriters and the Federal Bureau Robert Rummel of Midpines was from Las Vegas,will be gamesof skill of Investigation were notified. YPC the winner¯ in the annual Yosemite and chance which may be played with Co.’s agent, along with the other "i ’ Lions SpeechContest at the regular money from the engraving plate of three representatives, conducted in- .:1 meeting on February 20. The victor printer Parker. terrogations of Badger personnel, at is a student at Mariposa High School As is true of all the Lions Club acti- the conclusion of which McSweeney as are the two other competitors, vities, the proceedswill go to support was arraigned before U.S. Commis- Jaseph Coakley of Mariposa and Brad the Club’s local projects and outside sioner Ottonello and charged with "i Ditton of Yosemite. All three spoke on charities. arson under the Federal Code. the subject "Moral Integrity Imperative -o- If indicted, he will be tried .in Fed- .!’! for Survival." PARENTSGROUP PLANS FILMS eral District Court. If found guilty he is subject to imprisonment of from i" ¯ Robert, whoreceived a trophy for Mike Hackett, secretary of the Yo- /! two to twenty years. .!< his winning efforts, will next repre- semite Parents Group, reports that 7 sent the local Lions in the ZoneContest at the next meeting there will be WHERE? at Sierra Sky Ranch on March 6 in shown two outstanding color films The YPCCo. publicity department :!! competition for one of two scholar- supplied by NASA,the federal space is smarting, following an incident oc- ships which will go to eventual win- probing agency. I:ntitiled "The John curring this week. !,! Pub. Dept., "1 would llke to place ~.’ ners of successive competition at the Glenn Story" and "Your Share in a long distance telephone call .to Los .; District and Arealevels. Space", each dramatically illustrates -i Judges fo.r the contest here were our country’s progress in this fascin- Angeles." Merced phone operator, "Where are .! Mrs. Pauline Shorb, Mrs. Thelma Mc- ating subject and the importance of Gregor and James Ackley. Dana the NASAprograms. you calling from?" .! Morgensonwas chairman of the con- The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. P. D., "From Yosemite National .i Park." ,..~. test. James Aspen of the Mariposa in the local school’s multi-purpose room on March 16. The usual business M.P.O., "What state is that in, ? High School faculty coached the :1 speakers. meetingwill preceedthe films. please?"

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"i" " ~.". ’ HOT NEWS ~... . . ¯FUNDS BAKESALE ’BRINGS IN BUNDLE ...... ~,, :’YOSEMITE SENTINEL According to the Yosemite Parents Volunteer firemen .John Curry, Glen.i.. ’ ¯ ’ ,’.i" ’ ~: ...... - "~ ’ ublished by Group head baker Dorothy Johnson, Power, TomThomas, Harry Comstock,.i " i . ...,, ... , ’"- ’ P this year’s bake sale netted the organ- Bob Bevington, Dick Deverlin, Carl A letter i. i yosemite¯Park and Curry Co. Strickland, Bob Jac0bs, Larry Behy- . ciation eJ ~:_ ii ~ for the information of ization $124. Sale Chairmen Johnson mer, along with Fire Chief Bob Lee Junior Ski Yosem.ite Valley residents.¯ and Jean Leedy wish to thank the ..: i:i / i H. Oehlmann Advisor ¯ March. iS- , . ..:. Sales people, Marie Duncan, Helen and Fire Captain Phil Fosterparticipa- financing Johanson, Mary Ann Danz, Wanda ted in a two-hour fire drill last week...... i. . ... ¯ , ’:’"- ~. H. K Ouimet Advisor McLanahan and Olive Martischang, Included were refresher .drills on .. COU rse : H. Berrey Advisor ./ procedurers. These were followe~ by. :ii ’ Mailcommunicafions to Yosemite and Jack Ring for spacein the Village The Alp .i " .’: ,.- . . . practical applications .... . Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or Store, and all the bakers and buyers. Alpine MI i. "" .. " phone372-44.11.. at Squaw ! . peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, however, i. , ~../. ~ .... : EMPLOYEEBENEFITS COST RISE .Alpine evl i’: " " " . " " ’"i’.: ’ PresSstories/from the National ln- EmployerPayments for The Un ~. dpstrial conference Board come from originally " . timeto:time, to the SENTINEL.office. $22.6 verily Vail Empl,)yeeSecurity ,.... ,.. ’ The most recent, as i.s shown below F.W.S.A. L. . in detail and on the accompanying {.. , .. ,.. , . . move the i:... graph, points out another in the chain Private Industry and Squa : :of circumstances causing private in- . ¯ . : ...... ing to F d.ustry’s costs to rise. Valley is ¯ :: P r.ivateindu’stry’s paymentsfor em- 8.2~ ~ ~i pl0yee security-in the form of pension i ’ .the meet Payments Total S.A. beca " i-:.and.welfare funds, social security, ~7.1% as Per Cent oF Payments the iunemPloymentinsurance and injury EmployeeCompensallon (Billions) the meet, , /.compensation-rose in the U.S. by mittedto ; some $2 billion during 1963, reaching 15 dollars ’ :an ¯estimated $22.6 billion. tele :. ’: Total¯ payments for these benefits Always nowlrepresent more than 8 per cent F.W.S.A., of all employee;compensation(includ- particular !. ing ¯salaries and wages), up 100 per is conduc cent since1949 when they comprised Head Vec 0nly 4 per Cent of¯total compensation. I : 1 I0 chance. A ¯ Since¯¯ 1¯959, wagesand salaries eta] weepsand salati0s price of tl have increased by 20 per cent, but 1929 1939 1949 1959 1963 employeesin private, in- dustryincreased by 20%since S.A. to employer payments for employee se- 19.59,but employerpayments for employeesect~ity rose staging ; curity I~ave jumped40 per cent. 40.~,As o resull,’ thesesup- plementsclimbed from 7.1% ley and ¯ The fastest growing segment has of aggregatecompensation in 1959to 8,2%In 1963.Over will be a~ been dnemploymentinsurance, which the pastfive yearsunemploy- mentinsurance,payment s have In addi has doubled over the last 5 years and almost doubled,increasing faster thanany other segment S "Junior B. now accounts’ for 21 per cent of all of employeesecurity. They now account for 20,8%of the F.W.S payments, as compared to 15 per total payments~compared ¯ cent¯in 1959. Private pension and with 15,2.%In 1959,Private pensionand welfare funds In a pk welfare funds take 43 per cent; sur- nowtake 43,4%; old.age, sur- Foeger, n vivors anddisability insur- vivors and disability insurance, 29 ance28,8%; and compensa- and Chiet tion for injuries7,1,% per cent; and injury compensation, 7 theSENT per cent. great ne. o While YPCCo.’s employee security 1929 ’31 ’33 ’35 ’37 ’39 ’41 ’43 ’45 ’47 ’49 ’51 ’53 ’55 ’57 ’59 ’61 1963 a hand-~ ¯ program does not parallel precisely tion and ¯ that outlined above, figures that re- the meet. late most nearly are interesting. Dur. Social security taxes and Workman’s YPCCo. paid a total of $3,525,523 tity on ar ing the fiscal year 1963, YPCCo.’s Compensation Insurance $281,517 in employee compensation; thus on between Group Life Insurance 21,949 a comparative basis it paid 10.3% payroll .was.S3,160,323,including, the that he [.. value of meals and lodgings; Major Medical Plan 21,009 of total employee compensation to Yosemite employee security costs break down Pension Plan 40,72.~ employeesecurity benefits, 2%greater He can as follows: Total $365,200 than the national figure. Meadows i.

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" . .. , YOSEMITESENTINEL FUNDS(AND FEET) NEEDEDFOR BADGERPASSES ANNUAL CLEAN-UP ,n JUNIOR RACE The Badger Pass people seemto/oe (Continued from page one) experts in "doubling in brass", for Iri " A letter frorn theFar WestSki Asso- cleaning up around their respective each one, atone time or another, must ciation’ explains that the National take on duties other than those assig. installations. YPC’Co.residents should Junior Ski Championships, to be held place all litter within the brownrefuse ned. Jim Byers, for instance, is normal- March 18-24, are in need of certain containers. ly and generally a ski patrolman. financing and of personnel to help in However, he can and does drive a The Yosemite Elementary School ~n course.preparation and course patrol. Snomobileand can attend the first-aid children will clean up the area around ’y The Alpine events are to be held at room. The sales room girls, Bobble their school. Alpine Meadows, the Nordic events Henderson and Sonja Rice, tend the All residents on privately-owned at SquawValley. Assistance is needed, shop, selling merchandise,lift tickets, land within the Park are urged to however, only in connection with the etc., and on Fridays becomemodels participate in this campaign. You are Alpine events. for the weekly fashion show. free to Use the regular dumpingareas RetdairmanRoger Richie is the gen- established for such purposes. The United States Ski Association Except for residential areas in the originally awarded the meet to Hea- eral h’andyman about the Lodge; TrackmenJack Boyde and Jim Strea.. Valley, debris burning permits will be venly Valley, one of the bidders in the required. F.W.S.A. Recently, it was decided to ley are Cirst rate snowshovelers, while F.ire Control Officer Frank Betts has move the meet to Alpine Meadows ski fitters Doug Vagim, Tom Campos been designated as overall coord.ina- and SquawValley, although, accord- and Tony Herrara can bus dishes and tar. District Park RangerLes McClana- ing to F.W.S.A. officials, Heavenly tidy up the place when needed. Doug han will coordinate and inspect the Valley is supplying all trophies. When Vagim has a cabin at Wawona to operations in the Valley proper. Super- the meet ch’anged locations, the F.W. which the crew retreats from snow visory Park Ranger Bill Wortkington S.A. became obliged to underwrite and people on days off. the expenses involved in putting on. Whenthe boys signed on in Decem- will handle matters in the El Portal and Foresta areas. District Park Ran- the meet, and, at the present, is com- ber, noneknew how to ski. After three ger Walter Gammill will be in charge mitted to paying for several thousand months of the environment, they can .of the Wa~wona,Chilnualn’a and dollars of equipment rental, such as be found grabbing a quick run dur- South Entrance areas." telephones, timing devices, etc. ing their lunch breaks, after the lodge closes, and even under the moonlight. Always behind the efforts of the QuesseyMakes Flying Fifty Ike Jarnison, the resident supervisor, F.W.S:A., and junior competition in Bernard Quessey,last Friday, made reports that, after hours, ping pang, particular, the Yosemite Winter Club a very good Flying Fifty run, clocked is conducting a raffle on a pair of television (Channels13, 3, 4 and 12) at 0:58.2 secs. This gives him tenth and an occasional joust at cards HeadVector model skis, at $1.00 per spot on the ladder, bumps former occupythe crew’s time. Ike incidental- Chance. All proceeds, beyondthe cost instructor Bill Nutley, and leaves, of ly, on his three days off, jetted to price of the skis, will be sent to F.W. all people, Nick Fiore low man. Nick Portland, Oregon and Bellingham, S.A. to be applied against the cost of has taken a ribbing for his undisting- Washington,a two thousand mile trip! staging the Alpine events. In the Val- uished positionl ley and at Badger Pass raffle tickets Buck and Addle Martin are in their will be available. eighth season at Badger. Buck keeps Ski InstructorsSlalom the lifts going, Addle is the "Girl In addition, there will be on hand Ski teachers are generally excluded Friday" in the office. Summers,the "Junior Booster Buttons" supplied by. from Badger competition because Martins are at WawonaHotel, Buck the F.W.S.A. for sale at $1.00 each. they’re busy ski teaching. So, March as maintenance man, Addie as house- 3, they ran their own slalom, with In a phone conversation with Luggi keeper. the following results: Foeger, now ski school head at Alpine Race ComingUp and Chief of Coursesfor Alpine events The 8th Annual North-South ski Two Runs the SENTINELlearned that there is a race, sponsored jointly by the SAN Min. Secs. great need for skiers who can give FRANCISCOEXAMINER and the ~’o- 1. Bernard Quessey 1:26.4 a hand-or a foot-in course prepara- semite Winter Club, is in the race 2. Marcel Barel 1:28.6 tion and control, before and during schedule for the weekend.This year’s 3. Liv Norman 1:31.1 the meet. Help is neededin any quan- race will find Liv Norman, Bernard 4. Dan Hyche 1:32.8 tity on any day of the meet or before, Quessey and Dan Sturm members of 5. Reidunn Doving 1:41.8 between March 14 and 22. Luggi says the northern squad. In the absenceof 6. Cris Skene 1:42.0 that he will be delighted to see any sufficient snowto use Rail Creek for 7. Gary McCulley 1:53.1 Yosemite people who are available. a downhill course, there will be three 8. Aldee Beaudoin 2:17.7 He can be reached at Alpine slaloms, two run on Saturday, one on 9. Jack Jonathan 2~39:2 Meadows.Tahoe City, JUniper 3-4232. Sunday. Nick foreran the course. ’...... r.

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¯FROM THE LODGE GIRL SCOUTCOOKIES YOSEMITE WOMEN’SGROUP TO PRESENT UNUSUALPROGRAM i Along with 30,000 others, four The Girl Scouts cookie sale in the I ~ Lodge fro’nt office people celebrated Valley will begin on Monday, March Zona Deckleman, ¯program chair- I. ChineseNewYear’s in San Francisco, 16. So local cookie bakers can let man of the Yosemite Women’sGroup, ! ’ February 22. WesSteele, Marion Ham- their inventories run low! Pairs of announcedtoday that the next meet- f. ilton and his new bride, Barbara, Pat Junior Girl Scoutswill sell their good- ing of the organization will be a Thorsan and Ross Halberg, managed ies door-to-door at 50c per box, offer- dessert on Sunday, March 22 at 8 p.m. i i .to ¯plow their path up Grant Ave., all ing a choice of creme sandwich, mint at The Ahwahnee. 1 7the way to The.Old Spaghetti factor wafer, pecan nut, or lemon thin. After a short business meeting, a i on Green St. and to hear WoodyHer- Of each 50c sale, 10c will be kept part of the marvelous miniature¯ col- man at the Off-Broadway. After all for local Girl Scoutactivities, the bal. lection of Jules Charbneau will be that, they went their respective ways, ance going to the Tioga Council displayed. Charbneau, an appraiser ’ Pat to Yosemite, Westo his work at toward building the Scout camp near of fine arts objects, ownsthe world’s the ¯Santa Clara Co. Adoption Agency, Wawona. outstand.ing collection of miniatures -o- which he has gathered from all over .’ . " Marion to P."G. and E. and Ross back i. the world. The entire collection num- i tO U.C.. AHWAHNEE ! ¯ Ray Hemenezhas traded his cafe- Congratulations to Jim Weddleon his bers 30,000 pieces; those to be on dis- ¯ I ~ ¯ . teria whites for work behind the front new appointment as Assistant Dining play here are from a part of an i. / t desk. Claims he’s a different manin RoomManager. Jim came to work at extensive exhibit presently on display !: a d,ifferent jacket. TomRiley, also a The Ahwahnee as bartender in the in Seattle. Everyoneis invited. .... :¯former cafeteria employee, is "out Dining Roomlast May. Prior to coming i: front", getting sharpened up for the to Yosemite he worked as Desk Clerk FROMTHE N.P.S. MAILBAG . bellman’s life before¯ spring visitors. at the Cliff Hotel in SanFrancisco but Amongletters received recently by L . ¯ as muchas he liked the Clift, he was the National Park Service is the fol- Bowlers Score very anxious to get away from the Iow.ing, car.rying a return address of L Minnie John and Joe Josep.h won hustle and bustle of city life and has El Reno, Oklahoma, and was signed first place in the Snowline Bowl’s taken to Yosemitelike a fish to water. simply "Occupant." The writer, appa- "bowler of the month tournament" Weare happy to say that our Ski rently planning a trip to the Park, held the third Sundayof each month. ~Suppers are being well a,ttended wrote as follows: Minnie’s 585 series was best for the "During the day could I be alone /(Mondays, Wednesdaysand Fr!days womenand worth a trophy and $7.50, and at this stage we would like to and do somephotographing (secretly). while Joe’s 603 copped the men’s extend our sincere thanks and appre- Would rather not register, for ques- trophy and $5.00. ciation to Tony Palmari and his crew tions may be asked I don’t care to -o- for the very attractive andartistic dis- answer. No emergencymessages is to WHATDID HE SAY? play of salads, cold cuts, etc. be given to you and not to me either. .When trouble developed with the We are happy to welcome Kenneth While in the Park no ranger is not to steering on the Sno-Caton the Ostran- Cook from Fresno. Ken is the newDin- bother meand shortcuts will be taken tier Lake snow survey last week, Herb ing Roombartender and whenhe first at times. Ewing radioed Shop Foreman George P. S. While in the park no one is to ,!. camehere just over two weeks ago he Murphyto explain the trouble. After couldn’t mix a drink to save his life know of my where (abouts) not even .i , sokne cogitation, George called back (never having done this type of work the (rangers)." iJ to say that the problem sounded to before). Now, under the capable gui- (Signed Occupant) him like a hydrostatic lock in the dance of head bartender HughMerritt, ~O~ orifice. he can mix just about every drink in HELP WANTED Syd Ledson, along with the ¯party, the book. From time to time, YPC Co. can em- overheard the radio conversation. -Dolores Hallinan ploy Jocal men, women or dependents Placing his hand over his heart, he --o-- for part-time work. Harold Ouimet summedup his feelings regarding the FOR SALE suggests that any locals interested in possibility of a long trek through the 5 ft. woodskis, $10. Ski boots, size temporary work put their names on deep snow by saying: "If we have to 7 or 7½, $15. See Pat Thorson, Yosem- record with YPCCo. personnel office. walk out of here, I’m going to have a ite Lodge, 372-4451, or write Box 659. J. G. L. RETURNS hydrostatic lock in my orifice." 2-wheeltrailer, all metal, easypul- John Loncaric, who has been on the A walkout was not necessary, how- ler, spare tire. Call Dick Begeman, sick list for morethan two months, is ever, as Herb was able to guide the 375.6271. expected to return to the Valley March vehicle to the Glacier Point Road at WANTED 8 and insists he’s going to work im- Chippy Meadowwhere it was loaded Piano, not too high priced for four mediately. Nancy will accompany onto a truck for return to the Valley. children to study on it. Call Violeta him. 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EASTERSCHEDULE VILLAGESTORIES REPORTFROM YPC Co. HOUSING Religious Services by Andy Harold Ouimet, Chairman of YPC The schedule of religious services I just recently returned from a long- Co. Housing Committee, reports that during Easter week, ¯announced by needed vacation. The old saying that he views with optimism negotiations Rev. Steve Walker and Fr. Joseph Mur- a changeis as good as a rest is very between N.P.S., YPCCo. and F.H.A. phy follows: true, especially for those of us who toward the creation of a family hous- Protestant: Lenten vespers, Chapel, have a soft job. A vacation is just ing development in El Portal. When 5:15 p.m. March 23, 24 and 25; Holy another place to rest. the program is effective, employees Communion,Chapel, 8:00 p.m., March While driving aroundin the big city maybuild homeson certain El Portal 26; Good Friday Devotions, 12 noon I saw a sign that said, "Down with land, with financing arrangements to 3:00 p.m. Services conducted in vice!" l thought that was a good idea, made through F.H.A. While neither 25 minute worship periods; Easter Day so I downedas muchof it as I could they, nor F.H.A. will have title to the ? Sunrise Services 9:45 a.m. Mirror manage, and now I know why they land, as it is federally owned,YPC Co. Lake; Worship, Chapel 11 a.m. Univer- call it vice. The next day my headfelt plans to guarantee the loan to the sityof Pacific choir will sing at Mirror like it wasin one. F.H.A. In addition, a homeowner who Lake and at 11:00 a.m. services. In the big city, parking space is for any reason, leaves the employ of RomanCatholic: Thursday and Friday, non-existent. People who are lucky YPCCo., maysell his equity to another March 26 and 27- Confessions 5:00- enoughto get one, park their car and employee;or, if unsuccessful, YPCCo. 5:45 p.m. Mass, 6:00 p.m., Chapel. just never moveit. Oneused car deal- will purchasethe equity. EasterSunday,.Masses6:45, 8:00 and er advertises that he will sell you a Housing Director English ¯reports i. 9:00 a.m., Chapel, Confessions be- car that’s already parked. that the new men’s housing section fore each Mass. The big celebration in San Francisco at Yosemite Lodge is nearing com- was Chinese New Year. Gung Hay Fat Ski Schedule pletion. With the new facility, men Choy, for you who understand Euro- employeesthis summerwill live in the While locals are welcometo enter (Cnntinued on page four) (Continued on page three) (Co,~tinued on page two) PRINGCARNIVAL LIONS SPRING CARNIVAL LIONSSPRINGCAR Fu, & gamesfor the whole, family Includingthe fabulousand fascinating CAKE WALK CAMPCURRY CAFETERIA-- APRIL 4 7:30 to II P.M. Adm..50adults ’ Children.25 ...~. IONSSPRING CARNIVAL LIONS SPRING CARNIVAL LIONS SPRI

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--************************* EASTERSCHEDULE AHWAHNEENEWS ¯ . .., . YOSEMITE SENTINEL (Continuedfrom page one) Convention season is here ¯again Badger Published by and openedto the tune of ’¯’Western putation all the ski activities plannedfor Easter Orthopaedic Association"¯ Chet Hubb Yosemite Park and Curry Co. Week,the racing set is reminded that A big welcome back to a few re- Henderson for the information of the American Legion Junior Giant Yosemite Valley residents. turning old-timers: waitresses Bee squaw Va Slalom starts at 11:00 a.m. on March Ollino, Vera Church, and Edith Wiggs. Bill Meach H. Oehlmann Advisor 22; the Yosemite Junior Trophy Race H. K Ouimet Advisor ¯ . ."Hello, girls, it’s nice to haveyou there, exa at 11:00 a.m. March 27 and 28 and your H. Berrey Advisor back again." Also we would like to ¯ (Slalom Friday, Giant Slalom Satur- Mail communicationsto Yosemite welcome bellman Caesar Oyague. soon for P day). Each event limited to those 16 Incidentally, Caesarwill be married in Two Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or years and under. The season’s windup May to Diane Farmer ¯from ¯ Menlo crew, Ed phone 372-4411. to the weekly Sunday Slaloms, the ¯ ~o~,,,,,oo4,~,,4,~.,*e~4.~.e~*** ~. Park. Diane worked as life guard at ler, with Yosemite Winter Club Slalom Champ- the Lodge swimmingpool last summer partake of PAULSTREETER pionship, is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. where Caesar first met her, and he time skiing Word has been received by H. Easter Sunday. says, "It was love at first sight." The Oehlmannthat Paul Streeter, an em- Members of the Yosemite Winter After the wedding, Caesar and his andin retrc ployee between about 1924 and 1940, Club and their familes and guests are bride will comeback to the Park until ed a lot- died February 14 in Long Beach and invited to lunch on the top of Tempo the fall, whenCaesar will return to Cleaning o, was buried in Dayton, Idaho. Dome at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, school. each eveni Mr. Streeter was a Swiss and a March 26. Price $1.75 per person, More wedding bells: Dining Room It has bee great lover of the out-of.doors. During childen 10 and under, $1.00. Snomo- Manager Ted Kosinsky and fiance about the his years here, Paul did the greens bile service can be arranged. Barbara Hart, of Merced, are being one else - and floral arrangements at The Ah- ~O~ married in April. The ceremonywill in fresh po wahnee, the Lodge and at Camp LION EGG HUNT take place at the Old Village Chapel blow in an~ Curry. privacy¯ w The Yosemite Lions Annual Easter followed by a reception at The Ah- Even during his advanced years, Dave Dc Egg Hunt will be held on Easter Sun- wahnee. he traveled in Europe and Russia, Brenda Hass, who has been with his talents. day afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on the visited the Seattle World’s Fair and superv sot: local school grounds, according to Irv YPCCa. on and off for 7 years has was planning on a trip to the New been¯ transferred from telephonist to in charge Duncan, huntmaster. All local egg- York World’s Fair this summer¯ desk clerk, and with her charming ment hunters, pre-school and through the Wordof Mr. Streeter’s death came smile and delightful personality, she be in chart third grade, are welcome. in a letter from Julia Nosborne, a is decidedly an asset to the front desk. machines, ~O~ former Yosemite resident. We have had so many inquiries There’s Shortly after newsof Paul Streeter’s FOR SALE as to who our new blond cashier is, air here death reached the SENTINEL,a letter 1"960 DodgeCHP Interceptor. Good the time has come ¯when a formal in¯the par~ was received form his nephew and Cond., 6-ply tires, oversize brakes, introduction is necessary¯This¯ charm- or home,s( niece, Bob and Mary Reeves. It is special rear end and suspension. Ex- ing blond happens to be none other all winter quoted herewith: cellent mountain car. $850. Doug than Diane Montgomery from San miss each "This note is to all the people who Hubbard, Box 21, phone 372-4611. Carlos who has, in fact, been here REPORT wrote¯ us telling us they at one time 1959 Chevrolet Impala coupe, auto- since last August, but as a brunette, worked in Yosemite when our late matic transmission, radio, heater, just a few weeks ago and at her ¯ Lodge are, Uncle Paul Streeter worked there. We white wall tires. Goodcondition. $300 fiance’s (Jim Weddle) instigation, thereby gr thought you may know each other and and assume payments. Jack Sabine, Diane decided to take the plunge and between h would like to correspond. So here are Orchestra Leader, The Ahwahnee. becamea "pro- vocative" blond. She someYosemite Park friends and their assuresus it’s the best thing she ever Rhea B, addresses: wood, California. did and, as she puts it "having just maid, resi~ marriage Elizabeth Cookson, 420 E. Morris Lidwina M. Wiemals, 1401 Park one life to live, why not live it as a make thei Ave., Modesto, Calif. (Note: She was Row,La Jolla, California. blond". So, if you are fed up with in Yosemite 28 yrs.) being "little miss mousey", why not Rippitoe is John Ivanoff, 978 Ellis St., San ’i GeorgeF. Hopkins, Jr., 1645 E. 32nd make a beeline to Bonnie Smith, our "E Dorr Francisco 9, California. ing compl St., Tacoma, Washington. new hardresser, whom, Diane feels, Perhaps some of you know each given thei Jules Fritsch, Route1, Box46, Little- she owes her new life. ~ther and will get fun corresponding or green rock, California. Pearl Ditton’s parents from Modesto remembering times you had together. Florence Morris, 1023 RogueValley celebrated their 54th wedding anni- And ing, some~ Manor, Medford, Oregon. Fondly, versary on March15. The entire family Louise & Julia Nosborne, 129 Alba- Mary & Bob Reeves which includes four boys and two of the res facilities. tross PI., El Cajon, California. Box 822 girls, waspresent, together with their Carl H. Davis, 615½Lime St., Ingle- Crestline, California" (Continuedml page four) the alterl~ ....

YOSEMITESENTINEL FROM BADGER n Badger employeesretain their re- "n putation as a much-traveled group; Chet Hubbard, Les Mills and Robert Henderson having just returned from ,~e Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows; s. Bill Meachamspent a day or two u there, examiningthe lifts and slopes o and your reporter, who is heading 3. soon for Phoenix. n Two new additions to the resident o crew, Ed Hendrickson and John Spit- tt let, with others domeciled at Badger, r partake of a little evening and lunch e time skiing nowand again. The season’s approachingits close, and in retrospect, wefeel we’ve learn- ed a lot - snow shoveling at 6 a.m., cleaning out the ski house and area each evening - even fighting fires. It has been fun, too - knowing all about the ski conditions before any- L)u:n L:mghlln tff O;lkland d,’;nvs the lucky r:fffle ticket for a pal," of Head skis from John Cur,’y’s COZltllillel’ ~11 ll,lclger Pass, M:n’ch 15, Yosemite Winter Chnb sponsored the raffle to raise money one else- making our ownfirst tracks Iowarcl the Far West Ski Association’s expenses in sl’nging the National Jtuuliox" Ski Ch:,mlfionships. in fresh powder, watching the storms Carhon Chef,3’ of l.arksln:r, won the skis in :,bsentia. Mo,’e than $300 was nelled from the raffle. ¯ bl0w in and recede- the sort of quiet privacy when all the pebple leave. Dave Downingsoon will be turning CENTRALBAKE SHOP IN OPERATION SCOUT COURT OF HONOR his talents from lift and slope-packing A central bake shop facility at The Yosemite Scout Troop 50 held its supervisor to his summerassignment, Ahwahneeis now in operation, accor- Court of Honor March 18. The follow- in charge of pools, bike and refresh- ding to Executive Chef Fred Pierson, ing scouts were awarded badges in- ment stands. Weunderstand Dave’s to and by summer will provide baked dicated: Tenderfoot, Steve Adams; be in charge of the several ice vending goodsto all YPCCo. hotel units, except Second Class, Keith Clark, David machines, come summer. the high Sierra Camps.With the cen- Hackett, Ed Walliser, Bill Ward and There’s certain anticipation in the tral shop, Pierson says quality control Scott Earle; First Class, Bob Beving. air here - some of us will remain can be assured, and because of the ton, Karl Biastock, Paul Broyles, Rob in the park, for others, back to school quantities needed, the efficient use Johnson, Mike Martischang, Ken or home,somewhere. And, after living of materials and bakers’ time can Metherell, Eric aster, Louis and Allan all winter this close-togetherlife we’ll be made. Parker, Jim Rosander, Chuck Woess- miss each other - and Badger. Pies, cakes,rolls, etc., will be baked net and Brinky Liles. -Ike Jomison during two shifts daily and transpor- REPORTFROM YPC Co. HOUSING ted on portable rolling racks to trucks The First Class Scouts were present- (Continuedfrom page one) each day for delivery to the hotel ed with traditional "lemon squeezer" Lodgearea rather than in Camp 6, units. hats, NewZealand army hats, vintage thereby greatly reducing the distance Certain baking machinery which no WWI. These were secured and donated between home and work. longer will be needed at Valley and to the local troop by Ray Cleland, Rhea Burris Bevel, "E" Dormitory outlying units is being installed in Superintendent of New Zealand Nat- maid, resigned recently, following her The Ahwahneebake shop, where Ray ional Parks. marriage to Joseph Bevel. They now Wilson, head baker, supervises baking Scoutmaster Doug Hubbard and make their homein Midpines. Johnny operations. Assistant Scoutmasters Rod Broyles Rippitoe is the new dorm maid. -a- and Dick Day are formulating plans "E" Dormitory paint project is near- LlY NORMANINJURED to maintain an active summerscout ing completion. The residents were Liv Norman,on a ski teacher’s holi- program.They are assisted in this pro- given their choice of colors - beige day at HeavenlyValley, is reported to ject by a committee composed of or green -- for their rooms. have severely broken a leg in a fall. Granville Liles, Chairman; Ralph Par- And the "A" dorm girls are await- According to Nick Flare, to whomLiv’s ker, Leadership and Training; John ing, somewhatanxiously, completion mishap was phoned by Gary McCul- Earle, Advancernent; Roland Johnson, of the restoration of their plumbing ley, Liv suffered a doublefracture. She Finances; Chas. Woessner,Logistics; facilities. Thosein "B" dormhave been was taken to a Carson City, Nevada Bob Bevington and Jake Metherell, the alternates. hospital. Camm itteeme n-a t-la rge.

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i ’ .,,. ¯AROUNDTHE GENERALOFFICES WAREHOUSENOTES VILLAGE STORIES i To. DanaMorgenson’s reservations (Continued from palze one) I.. " . Warehouse.Supervisor Sonny Whit- i .°ffice,Linda Kastner has reported as field reports that the big trucks of peanlanguages. This is a special year. i i’ ’ the first of the "phonegirls". Shewill Leslie George and HobbsParsons have It is the year of the dragon. DadRing i~:.... be joined by five others, when the ;: . .. commencedto bring in loads of sum- says, "We are ahead of the Chinese :~. Staff iS complete. !:: mer stock. Bill Malone and Dave on that. My loyal crew hasbeen ~ :. Dana reports that the mail received Tucker are the first new men added draggin’ for years." I also saw a number of people :i : ’by his department during the month to the warehouse crew to work the of February increased by 25% over increased quantities of merchandise. demonstrating against demonstrations . a year ago. The bulk of the inquiries In addition to the nearly numberless - a mixed group. They admitted they ;- has been in regard to summerstays. varieties of merchandisethat has al- were all mixed up. i A letter from Maxine Rowland in- waysbeen stored at the Central Ware- Wealso spent a few days in Car- . dicates that she’s happy in her new house, the service station accessories mel. The weather was beautiful, and ’ home, Palm Beach Shores, Florida. are now there, as well. To store se- the ocean put on a spectacular dis- :She’s reservations .manager for the curly the tires, batteries, etc., two new play. The waves were beautiful and cOlOnnadesHotel, a right handsome cages have been constructed. high as they broke over the rocky hotel .on the seashore which would Farewell Party for Johnsons cliffs. I heard one red-faced fellow " appear from the folder to have a hun- The warehouse, print shop and whowas leaning against his converti. ¯ tired or so rooms. Son David swims butcher shop people gathered last ble say, "1 never thought water on da!ly. week for a fine spaghetti dinner at the rocks could be so enjoyable." i Maggi (Mrs. Steve) Walker, new the warehouse to bid farewell to. CAR THEFT the Commercial Division, is on "de- Punch(Bill) and Judith Johnson. Bill A thirteen year old Fresno boy was tached service "with the Hotel Division will report sometime after March 20 taken into custody March 13 by N.P.S. since the departure of Cherie Ami for Work with an outdoor advertising rangers for assertedly having rifled Hartman. firm in Sacramento.Judith and child- seven automobiles, stolen an auto- And, in Accounting, welcome to ren, Gretchen and Dirk are in the mobile, and for attempted burglary. Dianna Fozzard, niece of the Duke capital area house hunting. He was released to civil juvenile au- 1 ii Mal°nes, Ostrander caretakers. thorities in Fresno. AHWAHNEENEWS George Oliver and Wendell Otter, TomThomas, YPC Co. agent, points i (Continued from page two) Sales, recently attended the Annual out that had the vehicles been locked, Meeting of the California Association respective husbands,wives, and child- ren. This was indeed a very joyous the rifling and car theft would have of Convention Bureaus. occasion for the happy couple, and been impossible, and it was with a Of particular interest to YPCCo.’s ¯ according to Pearl, it has been fifteen tool from one of the rifled cars that two representatives was the presenta- years since the whole family has man- a windowin Best’s Studio was smash- tion by the S. F. ConventionBureau on i.’ . aged to get together. ed, in the attempted burglary, Thomas the newly imposed hotel tax. Oliver further commentedthat, with the ap- participated in the panel discussion Pearl and Dick have just returned 1 from a trip to Seattle, where Dick’s proach of summer and a great in- that followed the pro and con presen- crease in the numberof visitors, some tation. It was learned that Mariposais mother is ill. This was a sad trip for the Dittons on the whole, but visiting of whommay have dishonest inclina- the 0nit county in California to invoke tions, car owners should lock doorl !; the hotel tax. Mel and Helen Potter at their lovely ha’me on Bainbridge Island added a and remove the ignition key when ON THE JOB leaving their cars unattended. A walk around the site of the new little spark of light to a somewhat i’ dreary scene. Mel and Helen have i buildings at Yosemite Lodge reveals bowed in defeat by chalking up but great activity in the "finishing-up" been coming to Yosemite each summer 1~ points vs. 16~ for Merced. work. No?manGraham reports that and, in fact this summerwill be their The team of Nita Bondshuand Mur- 4, fourteenth year. Pearl was very glad ’i the project is on schedule and that, iel Ouimet gained one-half point and barring a catastrophe he will deliver for the opportunity of seeing them Audrey Ewing and Ruth Ewing scored ¯ i. buildings "C", 31 units and building again and discussing Yosemite with one-half point each. It appearedthat them. Incidentally, the Potters send "D", 20 units, on April 14, as planned. no one played well enough, since the Thereafter, "B", 31 units, should be their fondest regards to all. low gross of the field was 102. -Dolores Hallinan i: ready April 17, buildings "A" and The host club presented Yosemite "E", each 20 units, on April 23. YOSEMITE GOLFERSBENCHED with not only a fine steak dinner after I: carpenters, floor and wall-finishers Yosemite men and womengolfers the matches but two redwood benches !.,i are now installing ¯ finish hardware, are licking their wounds after the appropriately inscribed to indicate the vinyl flooring and wall covering. Yes- sound trouncing handed them by the popularity of the home and home terday, the 117 pre-cast concrete steps Merced Golf Club on March 8. The series. The benchesrepose safely in a i: were set in the 9 staircases in the men lost their match to the tune of local golfer’s garage, awaiting the three 20-unit buildings. 20 to 13, and the women,likewise, return to Mercednext fall. !:

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i , ... ¯ . i FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1964 14. ’ Yosemite National Park, Calif. ., ’ . . ... ~’ ~. . , :NEWS¯ . FROMTHE COLONIES LOCALS SCOREIN SKI EVENTS .I , . . SAFETY AWARENESSPAYS OFF ,’~ . ¯ :i The SENTINELsalicited the two During last week’s ski events at The mid-way point in the fiscal !’: branch offices of YPC Co., in San Badger Pass, several Yosemite racers calendar ended March 31, and Safety /. Francisco and Los Angeles, for news were amongthe outstanding competi- ii Director Ned English; in summingup i.:I . of the activities of the flatland em- tors. YPCCo.’s accident history, states it ployees. The fallowing piece was re- On a snowy Sunday, March 22, Mike i~ is beyondhis most optimistic anticipa- ~ Power, in the American Legion Junior .~.. ceived from the Grant Avenuers, tion. ~.~ " i auth0rship anonymous. Giant Slalom, took first place over The important thing in accident Diane Owens has become an au- visitors Peter Fischer and Jere Foutz, statistics, English points out, is the h . :thority on the care.and propagation while amongthe girls, Jeannine Ditton numberof disabling injuries sustained ¯ of guppies. She started out with two and Leslie Rust ran second and third by employees and the resultant num- ::, ¯newly¯weds (since she loves to make to former Yosemite skier Diana Ihlen- ber of dayslost. ¯ i feldt, nowliving at Lake Tahoe. ¯.. reservations for honeymooncouples), A recap of this period’s experience ~ . and the population ¯explosion, under In the Yosemite Junior Trophy Race, as contrasted to a similar one last : ~ I~er expert care, nowfills a five gallon a two event and combined meet, the year shows the following: .. tank. It is Suggested no one show results for the first three placesfollow: 1963.64 1962-63 an interest ¯ (or even mention the sub- Slalom - Friday, March 27 Disabling Injuries ect) unless he is interested in running Girls Run 1 Run 2 Total Hotel Div. 2 5 a hatchery or has an excess of tartar 1. L. Rust 44.7 45.8 1:30.5 Commercial Div. 2 6 ¯ sauce on hand. 2. J. Ditton 44.5 47.2 1:32.7 Maintenance 0 5 Life in the big city is filled with 3. D. Ihlenfeldt 48.2 54.0 1:42.2 YTS 1 1 intrigue daily .... each lunch hour we Boys 5 17 1. C. Woessner 48.2 41.5 1:24.3 can spotI a lady pushing a twin baby Lost Time(days) buggy downGrant Ave. with two little 2. J. Foutz 42.2 42.7 1:24.9 Hotel Div. 20 111 , boys running alongside. The thing that 3. Rick Cook 43.1 44.9 1:27.6 Commercial Div. 8 34 makesthe story most unusual is the Giant Slalom (One Run) Maintenance 0 38 ¯ fact that inside the baby carriage ore Girls YTS 2 1 .. two monkeys, one dressed in pink, 1. Leslie Rust 44.7 It is plain that the Maintenance ~ the other¯ in blue .... and the family 2. Diana Ihlenfeldt 45.1 people, performing¯ what are pro- ¯ resemblanceis¯very remarkable. 3. Jeannine Ditton 48.2 bably the most hazardous tasks, are Am reminded of the lady who Boys exerting serious effort toward safety asked the new S.F. clerk if she could 1. Jere Foutz 39.2 practices. give her the mileage from Tuolumne 2. Chuck Woessner 42.6 Other areas typically producing in- 3. Rick Cook 43.3 .,.. Meadowsto Merced (meaning Lake) juries are kitchens and Badger Pass. and if it were possible to walk it with Combined The reduction of injuries and lost ease. The new girl figured for quite Girls days in all hotel operations, from five a ¯while, then answered, "Yes, it 1. Leslie Rust 2:15.2 last year to two this, and lost days111 would be possible to walk it, but 2. Jeannine Ditton 2:20.9 to 20, likewise indicates serious ¯con- wouldn’t be too easy since it was 3. Diana Ihlenfeldt. 2:27.3 cern for employeesafety. BadgerPass, about 130 miles". Boys whose figures aren’t isolated from If you are in S.F., and stop by the 1. Jere Foutz 2:04.1 other CommercialDivision operations, .f Moulin Rouge some evening, you 2. Chuck Woessner 2:06.9 has experienceda reduction in injuries ¯ might be lucky enough to catch the 3. Rick Cook 2:10.9 from 19 with 276 lost days in ’61-’62 exotic dances of Miss Ellaneous and The season’s last competition, the to 2 injuries and9 days this year. Etcetera (better knownas Lynn Carey Winter Club’s Slalom Championship, Units with no lost time thus far in i,t and Barbara Edelhoff). These two en- held Easter afternoon, found the corn- the fiscal year are: The Ahwahnee, ..4 (Continued on p.’tge three) (Continuedon page four) (Contintled on page two)

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:.: .. .. 4~I,¢,¢~I~’¢4~i,@@e,@¢,@@0~@@@@41,0@04 nel --to acquire what our community SAFETY AWARENESSPAYS OFF REPO (Continued from page one) Former ,. i. .." .YOSEMITE SENTINEL .already has in KQED. The Same is " Richard Mc ’...... " . Publishedby the case in Los Angeles, where Dr. CampCurry, Village Restaurant, Cen- : Easter. wel ¯ " .. :.Yosemite ¯Park and Curry Co. Dubridge and a committee have been tral Warehouse,Village Store, Studios, i . " :for the information of working for the past three years or Stables, Wawona Hotel, Chevron Richard is .’. ¯ as Dining i" ~ " Yosem, iteValley residents. more to raise the funds necessary to Stations, and amongthe maintenance Jackson La .... H. :Oehlmann Advisor acquire an educational channel to shops, Plumbing, Electric, Paint, Car- ’ The East ! H..I K: Ouimet ...... Advisor serve the Los Angeles area. Ten years penter, Machine, Labor. J’LI , ¯7 English concluded his statements Terrace wa H..Berrey Advisor ago, webegan operations with used !: with particular praise for the outstan- .... Ditton hel i Mail communications to Yosemite and. borrowed equipment and $30, : we were bc Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or 000. in the bank. Today, we are still ding comparative safety records es- searching fl ’:" phone 372-4411. operating with used and borrowed tablished by Maintenance and Badger: equipment - with no funds in the Pass, and voiced his hope that all in which bank and $79,500. in accumulated supervisors and employee will con- arrived fi~ i "" ’ "" " KQEDMAY LEAVE AIR s unpaidbills. tinue their vigilance against accidents. . result that ! ’" Local TVwatchers are aware, no was terribl On the positive side of this de- --o- ’" "doUbt, that KQED,. the San Francisco FOR SALE- EL PORTAL ered up co pressing picture, in the past four i":. .educationaJ. television station, is re- House -- 5 rooms- bath - enclosed with a littl years, we have tripled our paid mem- ~. . " ceived ’in Yosemite, and that the back porch, garage with small room least amou .. bership and quadrupled our viewing .sfation, accepting and broadcasting attached - telephone 379-2354. ... Welcom~ audience. In ratio to population, we no advertising, is dependenton corn- nist from F~ !" munity Support for its operational now have the largest viewing audi- NO WINNER IN CAMP*NAMING sportation I ’ " " " ence and .paid membership of any CONTEST .. expenses. .... Ron ., communitystation in the United States. In November,the SENTINELannoun- timore, ¯ Mary Tresidder has received a letter On paper this reads very well and at ced a contest in which participants !. gift shop, ¯ ¯from Mr.¯Gordon Claycombe,director first glance would appear to be. a could suggest names for the new ¯ ’of KQEDdevelopment, parts of which major accomplishment. units at Housekeeping Campto. be i. J_ are¯quoted herewith ..... "1 know of If we translate these figures into opened this spring. A $25.00 prize you.r personal interest in KQEDand was offered for the nameselected. " (Col i. percentages, we find that our pro- terprising that of ¯other Yosemiteresidents. For grams reach 792,000 homes in our What was sought was a name for I ¯ somelega ~ r this/we here at KQEDand our Board nine-county viewing area - 98% of type of unit. Most of the namessub- salaries, a L are grateful and appreciative. mitted seemedto relate to the entire these families are not members of paper (no Ai this w.riting and after serving KQED.We know that 198,000 families campor to that area in which the new units are located. girls -- no the. nine Bay Area counties for the in our viewing area watch our pro- sary" (ant past ten years, our station finds itself grams regularly each week and are As the jury felt no namewas en- for this). ~ in dire financial troubles. As Jim Day enthusiastic in their praise of our tirely suitable, none was selected. Names were submitted by Norman for the pc is fond of saying, "We are long on programing services. However, 92% their first Wade,¯ Alice Cramer, Andrew Scar- fameand short of cash." It is no secret of these fans are not members of rather scc Channel 9. brough, Ha’nk Stith, Henry Pasalakis, that we have lived from one financial round the crisis to the other and have managed Melba Smith, Hugh Merritt, Michael Seventy-oneper cent of the support each other Harris, and Helen Ledson. to survive them. Today, short of a we do receive to meet our annual cut from a miracle, ¯ we may not be able to pull The Hotel Division and the SEN-. budget comes from those who view held their ourselves out of our present difficul- TINEL wish to thank all those who our programs or make purchases their chest. ties. Inthis emergency,we are turning took the time to submit suggestions. through our annual auction. The latter, (The Presic to old friends like you in the hope incidentally, producesonly 21%of the yOU." exotic dar that¯you, the Curry Company,and our m~inimum income needed to keep George Oliver and Jim Pais.ley The two other Yosemitefriends will find a way Channel 9 on the air. The remaining have arranged our television recep- and then to assist us. 29%of our operating budget is earn- tion equipment so that Valley resi- back offic I dislike, "rattling the tin cup," or ed by KQEDthrough the production dents can watch KQED,which trans- reminded Sheddingalligator tears of self-pity, of programsfar use by public, private, mits unquestionably the most worth- stables). but a brief statement of our predi- and parochial schools, as well as pro- while, informative and interesting TV will ¯have camentis as follows. ductions undertaken for distribution programs offered on the coast; plus the ¯patter Ten years ago, Channel 9 was ac- through our national network (NET). which, the programs are without the will nearl quired as an educational television Fromthe above, I think it is rather frequent advertising interruptions One mi station at no cost to the community. obvious that there is no place for necessary on commercial channels. to the ph Subsequently, New York, which had KQEDto go but up or off the air. If Any contributions made by local overly been without a communityTV station, you can be of any help or have any people to KQEDmay help forestall convinced had to ¯raise, by. public subscription, constructive suggestions to make, I removal of Channel 9 from our TV Ia call to c " $6,250,000. merely to acquire a chan- would really appreciate hearing from fare. -and wa

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YOSEMITESENTINEL REPORT FROM DOLORES Former Dining Room Manager ~en- Richard McKechniewas here over the ~ios, Easter weekend. Later this monlh ~ron Richard is going to the Tetons to work ince as Dining Room Manager at the -’at- Jackson Lake Lodge. The Easter Egg Hunt on the East .~nts Terrace was a great success. Jeannine on- Ditton helped us hide tile eggs and es- we were both up at the crack of dawn get searching for little nooksand crannies

all in which to put the eggs. David Curry 7.-, . On- arrived five minutes late with the ¯ . -,,.. result that he only found one egg and was terribly disappointed but he che- ered up considerably when presented ~ed with a little bunny-the prize for the am least amountof eggs. Welcometo Patsi Brown, telepho- nist from Fresno.... Jim Moore,Tran- sportation Agent from Tucson, Arizona

Jn- .... RanGoldstein cashier from Bal- timore, Md. .and Leslie Guenzel, gift shop, from Fresno. be -o- ize NEWSFROM THE COLONIES (Continued fi’om page one) terprising young ladies, in search of Jb- somelegal meansto supplement their ire salaries, answeredan ad in the local BADGERCREW DISPERSING HOSPITALBENEFIT .bw paper (not the Sentinel) for "chorus With but a week longer of opera- girls -- no previous experience neces- tion at Badger Pass, several of the Hazel Warren, local spokesmanfor sary" (and they certainly qualified staff membershave announced their the annual Mariposa County benefit for this). They felt they were cut out intentions for spring work. drive for the John C. FremontHospital, tin for the part until they arrived for Badger Lodge supervisor Chet Hub- announcedthat this year’s event will :)r- their first interview. After seeing the bard will resume his former role as be held on May 7 at the Mariposa rather scantily clad girls posted a- assistant managerof Yosemite Lodge. County Fairgrounds. Described as a round the entrance they looked at Jim Byers, ski patrolman, and his salad luncheon, it will start at 12 each other and decided they had been intended, Sonja Rice, will move to Noon and, following, there will be N- cut from a different pattern. But they Seattle whereJim will return to school. bridge, other card gamesand bingo. held their heads high and threw out Bill Cooper,ski patrol chief, will be Table prizes will be awarded, plus their chests and went inside anyway. head bellman at CampCurry. a grand cash prize of $15.00. (The President Follies never called it Bobbie Henderson will be in the exotic dancing.) Call Hazel at 372-4244for further Reservation Office until June, when information and reservations. The two girls can be seen every now she will open her "outpost" office at and then practicing their act (in the South Entrance. The two Norwegian ski instruct- back office, of course), and one is Wawanawill have the services of resses will stay in the U. S., and at remindedof a saddle trip (leaving the Roger Ritchie at the ChevronStation, present Liv Normanis recuperating stables). Onecan only note that they Les Mills on the hotel desk, Ralph from her broken leg in Fresno. Reidun will have to add to and subtract from Diefenderfer and Homer Armstrong Doving is with an architectural firm the pattern to fit the costumesthey on the golf course, Bob Ray in the in SanFrancisco. le will nearly wear. golf shop. Buck and Addie Martin will One might mistake their attention return to Wawono,where Buck will Dick Reeves and Dean Conway to the phones as being that of an be Mr. Fixit and Addie again will will wrangle the dudes and the horses overly eager employee - but we are be housekeeper. Between jobs, they at the stables. convinced they are only waiting for will visit Buck, Jr. at his ski area at Ed Hendricks, Jim Harsh and Tony "V a call to comefor an actual audition Ashland, Oregon. Aldee Beaudoin will Herrara will lend their talent and - and warmer weather. tend the pool. brawn to Maintenance. ...’~:.

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APRIL PARADE CAR THEFTS CONTINUE MAINTENANCEACTIVE . ,.! i During the winier months, when i ’." " With the warm days before Easter The thirteen-year old boy who, on .i ~t....the early ¯ flowers have been appea.r- March 13, stole and smashed a YPC most give Camp Curry scarcely a i." .ing in the fields that lead up to our Co. vehicle has been madea ward of thought, YPCCo. maintenance people ,l I!~i . ¯,foothills- buttercups and poppiesand the Fresno County Juvenile Court, have been at work accomplishing ¯ i "." i orangefiddlenecks - our first flowers according to Tom Thomas, YPC Co. major improvements. !’!. seem to echo the sun. The meadow- agent. The lad and his family are re- Lew Yancey and his crew have l. ."la.rks have long been bursting into ported to be returning to their former repainted completely the interior of ~ . ¯ song above them, here, where fields homein the mid-west. thirty bungalows with bath and a- i mong them, new bathrooms have :.remain, in spite of these sub-dividing The vehicle theft was madepossible beeninstalled in six. Thesehave tiled, ¯ .. suburban days! by the keys having been left in the stall showers and infra-red ceiling ". Now the processon is making its ignition. During the same spree, heat. Project cost about $9,000. way into the higher foothills and up several unlocked cars in the Valley Upcoming at Camp Curry Cafe- .. such., canyans as that of the Merced were rifled. teria will bethe installation of "sneeze " .i. River. The Wedge-leafedceanathus, or It was reported by Thomasthat four guards" along the serving lines. Along : California lilac of that area, is bloom- juveniles from the San Francisco area with this will, bea major rearrange- . " ing in profusion with the heavy sceni were taken into custody on. April 1 ment of ten major pieces¯ of kitchen which the. sun distills from its creamy in El Portal for the theft of three flowers¯ drifting across the road. Bush equipment between kitchens at Camp automobiles. In this instance, as well, Curry, Yosemite Lodge and The Ah- ¯ " Jupine often accompaniesthe ceano- the cars were unlocked. thus, and, on the Briceburg Gradeand wahnee.This is a part of a company-.. Between March 1 and 31, five wide program to centralize."kitch~ii:. ’.. upalong the Merced, the redbud has cases of theft in dormitories have been operations. . . . ¯ emergedfrom thefaint hint of cerise along. its . whiplike branches before reported to Thomas. Sumsof money ¯ ’ Other paint projects have been" the between $28.00 and $120.00 were eamplete refinishing of. tl’.e guest the many. buds opened to a burst of taken. Again, the temptation to com- rooms at Cedar Cottage¯ at Yosemite magenta with somewhat the air of mit thievery was aggravated by the Lodge and cleanup and touch-up work .fruit blossoms.In the Near East, where victims having left their bags or wal- in all Lodge main buildingsl Expendi: ¯ .. another species of this shrub becomes lets carelessly about. ture for this was$5,500. ¯ moreof a tree, it was on the limb of Thomas points out that while 14 On May 1, ten maintenance men one of these that Judas was fabled cases of thievery have been reported to .have hanged himself, and .the will start an all-out push setting up during his four months as special Housekeeping Camp, the new units ¯ flowers, blus’hed with shamethere- agent, it does not necessarily follow as well as the old types. Already . after.¯ I that there are more thieves among prefabbed are the required 204 bunk At. any rate, it becomesa gorgeous local personnel. Rather, that, in the beds, the cedar-sapling screen fences spectacle in these April days, and J’ past, these acts may have occurred and the tables.¯ particularly so¯ w.henthe blue of var- but went unreported. LOCALSSCORE IN SKI EVENTS ious lupines, notably the one men- Now, as he devotes time to the in- (Continuedfrom pa~e one) tioned above,, whenits long spikes vestigation of these acts as well as petition close amongthe men. How- rising from a cluster of thickly gray- 1...:i totheir curtailment, more cases have ever, first-place winner, Leslie Rust’s leaved stems, joins it in an early cometo light. 1:24.0 for two runs, was 9.4 seconds .1 surge of bloomng. The tiny white or ahead of Diana Ihlenfeldt. Brian Wil-

"j rosy .bells of several of our manzanitas FromIndian Flat to El Portal baby- hite made an excellent second run, .[ are out here and there, as well. One blue-eyes open to the sun on the nor- 33.5 sec., fastest of the day. His first :! ¯ early species is even in bloom above thern banks in the middle of the day, trip down the course had been off Chinquapin, several thousand feet as do the small yellow poppies along considerably and for two runs finished I higher. the grassy slopes above. neither win, place nor show. The delicate and waxenwhite blos- Dogwoodbuds are hardly swelling Girls 2 Runs " sores of the cliff buttercup, that first yet beyond their winter shells, and 1. Leslie Rust . 1:24.0 harbinger of spring days which comes it will be late April before they fill 2. Diana Ihlenfeldt 1:33.4 in lateFebruary or early March, have the Valley with their "airy fairy" white 3. Jeannine Ditton 1:39.1 withered from their moist crannies in rays. The azaleas hold off until the Men shaded rocks, though their basal dogwoodblooms begin to hide them- i. Tim Berrey 1:12.5 leaves, charminglyscalloped, linger selves amongtheir green leaves, but 2. Randy Rust 1:13.7 ¯ amongthe ferns growing there until many other lesser species will show 3. Bernard Quessy 1:13.9 the yellowish-orange of one of the themselves meanwhile along the As the day closed, Y.W.C. president stonecrops highlights the dark red- roads leading higher where winter John Curry presented silver Revere dish slate here or the granite farther snowsnow prevail. bowls to the Junior Racer winners up the river. -Mary Curry Tresidder and silver trays to the slalom winners.

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FROM DOWN SOUTH HOTELDIVISION ON THE MOVE THE AHWAHNEE From: the land of sunshine,, smog Members of the YPC Co. Hotel The sun shining, birds singing and and freeways, the Los Angeles Office. Division have been active about the bells chiming; a proper setting for a Will try to have this office repre- country attending seminars, on com- Saturday afternoon wedding. On April Sented intheSENTINEL,but if the con- mittee work, and in personnel recruit- 11, at the Yosemite chapel, Barbara tinuity is somewhaterratic, it is be- ment. All the activities are aimed to- Hart, Merced, was married to Ted ! cause between answering the ever- ward improving operations in that Kosinski, matre’d at The Ahwahnee jangling telephone, and keeping organization. dining room. A reception following people at the counter happy, ones Keith Whitfield and Fred Pierson, the services was held in the Solarium thoughtssomeh0wseem to get a little on April 7,8, and 9, attended a at The Ahwahnee. The newlyweds ...,. ¯ mixedup. National Restaurant Association sem- spent their honeymoonin Monterey. q,. ¯ Every day is a full day,with many inar in San Francisco which dealt At The Ahwahneefront desk also foreigners wanting to see the beauties with "Restaurant Merchandising". on April 11, there was a little sun- of Yosemite, and sorne of the conver- Whitfield stated that the several sub- shine missing. Brenda Hass, a good sations should go dawn in history. jects discussedall related to the pro- person as well as a good employee, Somehow,everything works out, and position that successful merchandising left the valley for Los Angeles. Brenda the people find their ways, or at least of food does not lie simply in the will be working as a secretary at ~ ¯ we hope they do: preparation of the food; in addition, ~,, the Bel Air Country Club. She was con- !)... Right now, we have the good for- and of varying importance are the nected with Yosemite for seasonal tune of having one girl that speaks general decor of the room, the menu periods totaling seven years. Spanishl and another that speaks covers, the presentation of menucon- The dining room staff at The Ah- / .French, so problems involving those tents, appearanceof employees,etc.., wahnee has been strengthened re- !i. languages are overcome, Now, what An interesting conclusion with re- cently by the arrival of a few new we need, is .someone that speaks spect to colors-of uniforms, table lin- hands and a couple of familiar vet- :l Japanese or Chinese. en, the room itself-has been reached erans. Our office, located where it is, in by National Restaurant Association Welcome to busboys John Potter, ) the Biltmore Hotel, gives us first looks research psychologists: blue is the Whitney Challoner, Gary Newell, Tom .i at many of the dignitaries who ar- color least conducive to restaurant Kresler, Randy Scott and John Chu. rive at the entrance of the hotel where sales, reds and oranges encourage New waiters include Jim Dunaway our windowsafford a front row seat. larger meal checks. Whatcolor is pre- J~ (Continuedon page four) ManyaV. I. P. has looked in our door, dominant in your favorite restaurant? WOMEN’SGROUP PLANS DANCE and wavedto the girls. General Eisen. This week, John Curry and Fred hower,, the late President Kennedy, Pierson are in Los Angeles on an em- Ruth Ewing, president of the Yosem. Ambassador¯ Cabot Lodge, Governor ployee interviewing mission where ite Women’sGroup, announced today Rockefeller, Adlai Stevenson, and Pierson will keep an eye peeled for that the organization would sponsor I. many more. Movie people are com- aspirants with culinary backgrounds. a spring dance on Friday, May 22 monplace, and our ownlocal political The pair are selecting employeesfor at The Ahwahnee. Eileen Berrey, high commandsare almost daily visit- all job categories. dance chairman, is planning an affair ors. Stuart Cross and John Curry last similar to that held last May i.e., )! One nice thing about being ¯where week attended a meeting of the Re- champagnecocktails, buffet dinner we are, too, is the fact that many sort Committeeof the California State dancing and door prizes. The tariff conventionsof all descriptions are held Hotel and Motel Association in Mon- will be $5.00 per couple, including ~lI ’.. ¯ cocktails, dinner, taxes and gratuities .? .. here and all the little advertising go- terey. Cross is the committee’s chair- ¯ odies are ours for the taking; and man. The two day meeting included and chances on the door prizes. The funds raised will be used to purchase . we alway s take, whether we have presentations and panel discussions on any use for the article or not. How- Sales and Promotion, Operating Pro- a television set for the YosemiteEle. (Continued mentary School. ¯) ¯ . on page four) (Continuedon page four)

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YOSEMITESENTINEL ~’.. ’ ~4.0¢,.,.~,,O,4~.~H,-,0,~H~O,~,~,+4requires much banging in the chang- SCHOOL YOUNGSTERSON ¯,",i, ,YOSEMITE SENTINEL ing of walls and making new rooms FIELDTRIPS ~ ’ out of old ones behind the desk. Eighth graae’ ’ . pupils of the local I ’;¯¯ . ¯¯ z i¯? . " i. Published by t iYosemite Park and Curry Co. elementary school recently joined with Over in the Cafeteria, Bill Germany i .... the Mariposa eighth graders for a for the information of is formally taking command, now visit to the Mariposa County Court ~ . Yosemite Valley residents. that Spencer Grams is taking Earl ’ Advisor House. Although court was not in se- H, Oehlmann Pomeroy’s place as assistant manager sion the tour started in the court .room " .... H.K. Ouimet Advisor of theLodge. Everyone is much plea- H. Berrey Advisor where Judge Tom Coakley took the... i ¯ sed with the relocation of jobs, new Steve Barrett ___ Yosemite Lodge bench, and with Sheriff Whitley in his . challenges, new vistas. Except per- role as bailiff, formally opened the . J . Ron Goldstein __ The Ahwahnee haps for Bill, for as Cafeteria mana- ! court, welcomedthe students, and in- .... HI Amodei YTS, Garage, Maint. ger hewill have long hours of hard ’ troduced various county officials, in- Mail communications to Yosemite work ahead of him. Earl will leave ! sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or cluding District Attorney Lauritzen, I for Curry on the 8th of May, to take County Clerk Wilson, and Auditor-re- phone372-4411. charge of food service there. That is ’ corder Harold Rowney. County ,qo- no small operationl either. One day THE ROCK vernment and the functions of the sporting a SENTINEL STAFF QUADRUPLED you’re closed and the next you’re in on the talus i - With the approach of the "busy court system of the state and federal Gordon War7 full operation. Wewill miss his hur- governmentwere explained. After the George Leds ¯ season", the SENTINELhas bolstered ried foot steps and the sudden roar Lem Barnett court session, the youngsters were its one=manstaff with three reporters. of his white GTas he comesand goes. f n place in taken¯ on a.tour of the court house, . ~ Writing news about Yosemite Lodge ¯ FRO~ i is Steve Barretti Ron Goldstein covers The new checker in the Cafeteria viewing historic files, early county is Jonathan Mitchell, Joe’s brother. we hear i " The Ahwahnee, and Honore Amodei maps,old furnituJ’e and fittings gath- Jonathan, after attending Arizona partment th~ ! will report the doings of the YTS, ered by Judge Coakley as a part of i the garage and the Maintenance State, has come to Yosemite to work the court house restoration program. ruing pool’ is Plans are to, operations.¯ and to study. His field is theology; Jean Leedy’s first and second gra- he hopes to find what capacity he ders, on April 14, made a splendid as the ’ " FROM,THE LODGE will someday fill, and hopes to make trip to Merced and Fresno. The 23 should be so~ TheGreat Yosemite Falls, a symbol the decision here feeling his formal children were driven by school bus June: of.Yosemite Lodge, seem to proclaim education is closed for the time being. to Merced, where they boarded the crew are .... ’ summerand this proclamation is re- lines, and In the employeesdining area in the Southern Pacific train for a ride to flected inthe suddenrealization that tion of the kitchen Cheryl King and William An- Fresno. While aboard, officials took we have many new faces on the prem- derson were discussing a FreudJan the group through the train.. from the se ises’- and many old ones returning. neeto the g l theory on what is instinct and what is On arrival at Fresno, they were , Finn Rhoan is making the grounds be complete not in the human man and woman. met by six mothers with large cars ready for the shrubs and tall grass begins. i~ William is a newly arrived bus boy, who drove them to Roeding Park that are to come, raking up the left- coming recently to Yosemite, he said, Zoo for a picnic lunch, a look at the specially sea " C~versfrom last fall. Hewas alone, out on a small motor scooter from Wyom- lions, tigers and giraffes-then home chosenby A i there in the sun working around the ing. Canit be possible? Cheryl is from to the Park. part of the ’ patio. He wanted to know why it was Fresno, just out of high school and It was a great day for the children resting nea so quiet, with only sunshinefilling the I with a background of musical theatre and was made posslble by the per- Ledsonexpl~ ’. air. It was deserted, but at the front practically ti I: having been in the Fresno Community severvance, effort and organization of desk, Maurice Rolli and Joe Mitchell Theatre productions of "Paint Your Mrs. Leedy. AhwahneeIc ! had plenty to do. Joe, after having tearing the Wagon"and "Bells are Ringing". With JAMES MORGENSONON DEAN’S LIST ’: left the Park last year, has returned, At Yosem her white blond hair this must be pos- James (Randy) Morgenson, son first to the Village Restaurantand now annex is nea i sible. At that moment,in the kitchen, Dana and Esther Morgenson, was to the LodgeDesk. He is training, and occupancy: i. she was waving a copy of Freud in among the 53 juniors onthe Dean’s ~.. getting his training first-hand; people after the oi the air and voicing definite opinion. List for a superior academic record i will flock to Yosemite in spring, as employees for the fall semesterat Arizona State ’ soon as the weather gets a little too And, one of the morefamiliar face, The new College at Flagstaff. .... warm in the Valley below us. Shelah Pederson is with us now, or necessitated A total of 217 students namedto Working at the front desk is no should I say, with the Lodge for the tion. This m~ the list represents 5.5%of the total quiet matter at the moment. To be first time. She worked last summer ing up the enrollment of 3,910. heard one must shout at the guests, and fall, in the accounting depart- to a differe~ ment, then left for the City. But, she and they shout in return;"A room with to be coming quickly, in the air and be found Yosemiteirresistible and had to a bath, in the Lodge"...And the re- in humanform, both the old and the guest bath h return. She is now a waitress in the ply "we’re all reserved on Lodge new, along with many early season house has Restaurant. rooms with bath, sir." You see, our changes.The settled time.of winter is ..... costs onthe new switchboard is going in and this And, as was said, spring does seem at an end. proximately YOSEMITESENTINEL

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THE ROCK~ The Maintenance Division’s project o] tran- ~ track of 10" I-beams zvas laid; 6" steel-p$pe rollers sepa?’a- sporting a ]i]ty-eight ton g?’a~ite rock ]rom its location ted the crib f?’o?~ the track. The?z, it was pulled ahead on the talus to The Ahwahnee pool site was engb~eered by gb],gerly, some ]~fteen ~eet at a time, by $he wi~ch on Gordon Wa?’?’e~ and ef]ec$ed by Ron Hibpshmc~?bJim Grey, Barnett’s Cat. This process was ?’epeated twenty times George Ledson, and Carl Stevens, w~th major ass~s~ ]rom before the rock reached iLs destination ~longside the pool Lem Bar?~ett, N.P.S., and his D-7 Cat. Once the rock was locatio?~ where it will provide a d?’m~czt~c part o] the rock- in place in its "crib", built o] 10" by 12"s by Joe Liskey, work landscaping. ¯ FROM MAINTENANCE THESICK LIST BUYERS’ ADVICE AVAILABLE we hear from the Maintenance De- Friends of Ben Laughter, YPCCo. YPCCo. Commercial Division head, partment that The Ahwahnee swim- garage serviceman will be happy to Chas. Proctor, states that nowin his ming pool is definitely going ahead. know that he is progressing toward office are copies of CONSUMERRE- Plans are to start excavating as soon recovery, although still hospitalized PORTmagazines available to those as the water level recedes, which at Lewis Memorial Hospital where whochoose to follow the publication’s should be sometimetoward the end of he was taken on March 21. counsel on the purchase of major ap- June. Meanwhile, Matt Gaganand his Ben is in his 25th year of service pliances, automobiles,etc. His office is crew are at work rerouting water with YPCCo., and over the years has open between 8 a.m. -12 Noon lines, and preparing for the installa- made many friends, who hope to see and1 ’til 5 p.m. tion of the filtering system. The steps him back soon. SCHOOLOPEN HOUSE from the second floor of The Ahwah- From YTS we learn that Dusty School Principal Jas. Ackley invites nee to the ground level probably will Cloward, who has been driving for all to attend the elementary school’s be completed before actual digging YTSfor more than six years, is recu- Open House on April 20 between 7 begins. There is a 58 ton granite rock, perating from surgery at his home and 8 p.m., as a part of Public Schools specially searchedout and specifically in El Portal. Dusty washospitalized in Week. In each room in the local chosen by Architect E. T. Spencer, as Fresno, and we join with his co-work- school there will be displays of the part of the landscape decor, already ers in wishing him a speedy recovery. year’s workof the pupils. resting near the poolside. George Dusty’s run to Badger Pass was cover- Following the Open House, a re- Ledson explains that he and others ed in his absence by Harris Corbett. gular parents’ meeting will be held. practically tip-toed this rock over The Ahwahneelawn, in an effort to avoid Tents are going up at CampCurry, windows will be boarded and shut- tearing the grass. too. That area is being policed and tered for the season. At Yosemite Lodge, the employees’ readied for the summercampers. Peoplearen’t the only ones whowill annexis nearly finished and ready for Residents of "A" dorm are quite enjoy the fruits of the Maintenance occupancy. Wiring is completed, and pleased with their remodeled, and Departments labors. A new manger after the oil lines have been fed in, nowdeluxe, facilities. All three show- has beenbuilt at the burro corral. It employeeswill be able to movein. er rooms were newly painted, beauti- will be difficult to tell, from the sounds The new guest units at the Lodge fully tiled, and newshowers installed, burros make, whether they like it or necessitated relocating the tent sec- complete with the latest in fixtures, not. tion. This meansmore than just pick- doors and fittings. About $10,000 has TomRennels is a victim of what is ing up the tents and carrying them been spent on this project. called "Hondo-Gout". Apparently this to a different spot. The area had to Nowthat Badger Pass is closed for describes any injury covered or en- be completely rewired, and a new the season, all fixtures and appliances closed by a plaster cast. Tomsuffer- guest bath house and employees bath that have been borrowed from Glacier ed a break in the bones of his left house has been built. Construction Point Hotel, Wawonaor Big Trees foot when some pipe dropped while costs on the bath houses totaled ap- have to be returned. The Ski Lodge he was working in the shop. Wewish proximately $47,000. will be readied for the summer. All him a speedy recovery. ..~..

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Audrey Ewing, Ex-Hand- In the fall of 1963, John Green, gage, Mrs. Sturm had along, in a i icap Chairman AmyEnglish, Ex-Tour- Pres.ident of the American Hotel and small, lap-size container, Ginny Ann’s nament Chairman Mary Proctor and Motel Association, appoLnted Stuart pet parakeet, Swinger. As with many Ex-Social ChairmanRuth Culver, along Cross chairman of a conservation com- caged birds, Swingercan’t fly a flut- with Ruth Ewing, Dete Oliver, Muriel mittee with the mission of studying the ter, so the commercial, "The only way Ouimet, Margaret AIIcock, Valerie ways in which the hotel industry is to fly" clearly applied to him. Eagle, Isabel Dierksen, Hazel Warren, ,involved in the national conservation A new nurse, Phyllis Bogdane,from and Vonnie Lamoreaux. program, and the manner in which Vancouver,B. C. has joined the staff. President Hazel appointed Ruth Ew- hotel mencan aid in this work. -o- ing Tournament Chairman, Muriel Cross called his first meetingearly THE AHWAHNEE Ouimet Handicap Chairman and Von- nie LamoreauxSocial Chairman. in December in New Orleans. The (Continuedfrom page one) committeset forth certain conclusions: With all officers and chairmenduly and .Steve (Ringo) Hoag. Jim and that. conservation should mean the elected and appointed, the group got Steve will also handle the Sweet Shop enHre relationship of manto his en- down to business, between sips of facilities whenthe fountain reopens. vironment; that the wisest use of the coffee and bites of cake. The members Mary Isles and Nan Stoddard, sisters resources which makeup that environ- decided to raise the dues from $3.00 from Scotland are, waitresses. merit should be sought; that all hotel to $5.00. men, whether concerned with urban, Leslie Clark has returned to The Ah- So, going into the season with a -1 resort or highway establishments, wahnee and is presently helping as fat treasury ($76.00) and an increase l¯ have a vital stake in the issue of con- hostess in the dining room. Welcome in club dues, the ladies are looking ¯! servation, as no hotel can be health- also to Sally W.h,itfield, telephone forward to a "let’s spend moneyand ier than the environment in which it operator at the front desk. Sally is not have fun" season. ’i e~ists. new to the valley, and The Ahwahnee FROM DOWN SOUTH is proud to have an experienced and At the second meeting, held March (Contin.ed from page one) efficient worker on its staff. (Shegig- 31 in Chicago, Cross and his commit- ever, we never get any samples of gles, too) clothing, or objects of art. :I tee proposed a program which, in a .i general sense, prescribed that reports The "Bobbsie Twins", Betty O’brien Our office staff consists of Evelyn 1 on pending legislation regarding con- and Judy Murray are back as waitres- Zillmer, Virginia Kelly, Helen McGarry servation, other information and com- ses after a stay in Aspen, Colorado. (who worked one winter at Badger ments on conservation matters would Larry Cook has returned as a waiter. Pass), Olivia Michel, and Ellen Hall [i be included in A:H.M.A. bulletins to A new Wine Steward and a red MG (who has piloted this ship for 14 members. with gray racing stripes; the manbe- years), and let’s not forget Marshall hind the bottles and the wheel of the Hall, who, with his manydiversified ON-- car is Peter Starring, a blond Dutch- duties for the Company, helps out THE CREEKRUNNETH man who never mixes drinks while whenthe office is busier than usual, driving. which is getting that way earlier each According to Tom Berrey, one of year. The new doorman who reads sports the most faithful, if not the oldest, Summerhelp will be arriving at the magazinesand parks cars in his spare Indian Creek-watchers,the first trickle end of Mayand the girls who will re- passed under the bridge-the road time, is TomKeitges. Tomwas a bell- man at CampCurry last summer. He turn are old-timers with us, too, bridge not the horse bridge-at about who go to school and work in the also spent two seasons playing minor 4 p.m., Sunday, April 12. Its volume summer. swells and diminishes with the time of league baseball with the Philadelphia We extend an invitation to all per- day. However, as of now, Tom feels Phillies and the Chicago White Soxs. sonnel in YosemJle to come and visit that it only will get larger day by day "TONY" says -- "Glad that Bob "and that shoes are no longer neces- us when in Los Angeles so you can Bowers is staying at The Ahwahnee get acquainted with the rest of the sary. Can it be that summer’s only Pantry instead of going to the Wa- YPC Co. people who you now know, around the next page of the calendar? wona this summer". only by remote control. iJ

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FRIDAY MAY 1, 1964 YosemiteNational Park, Calif.

Pc~rk BiologisL Jcdce .Me~herell, w~hsmall ]rie~lds, poi~lts o~t t, h e upper end, at El Capitc~nBridge, of ~ltx~t section of t.l~e MercedR~;er whicli has bee~l dcsiclnat~edc~s a fishery ~b¢i~lc~gemeli.t research arec~. Next, t.he dc~mend of the co~lLrol c~rec is exc~m~’necl. Right, you llg Mike Metherell, hi. anticipation oS the Mc~7t 2 season openfl~g, prepares his gem’ ]or the great, day.

LOCAL GOLFERSTROUNCED SPRING DANCEPLANS FISHING Tickets for the Women’s Group An hour before sunup (5:14 a.m.) Wawona men and women golf Spring Benefit Dance at The Ahwah- on May2, most of the Park’s trout pop- teams were defeated soundly at the nee on May 22 will go on sale at the ulation will be legal prey for anglers. recent match against the Fort Wash- Village Store office on May 13 be- However, there are two new regula- ington Golf Club in Fresno. tween 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Tickets tion to be observed: Twenty-six men and fourteen wo- not sold between these hours will 1. The tributaries of Lake Eleanor men players from Yosemite were mat- be available at Mrs. Herb Ewing’s (Eleanor and Frog Creeks), and the ched in equal numberby the host club. 372-4857. outlet to the Cherry Lake diversion Seasonal club memberssupporting the The SENTINELof April 17 mistaken- tunnel will be closed to fishing. The local effort were the Kaesers, Sahms ly stated that the charge for the din- closure will also apply to the lake and Morgans of Southern California. ner dance was $5.00 per couple. The itself within fifty feet on either side Despite the solid turn-out and ideal fact is, that the tickets are $5.00 per of the tributaries. This action is weather, Yosemite went down to the person. This includes champagnecock- designedto protect spawningfish in tune of 15 to 45 in points. tail party, dinner, dancing. In ad- efforts to keep the Lake, which has The Yosemite teams winning over dition, each ticket holder will have not been stocked since the early Fort Washingtonrivals: Harold Bond- a chance to win one of the many 1900’s, as a self-perpetuating natu- shu and Harold Ouirnet; Jack Keck and door prizes. Additional door prize raf- ral fishery. Charley Proctor; Clara French and Ra- fle tickets will be sold at the dance. 2. A Fishery ManagementResearch mona Sahm. Curly Dierksen and Bill Fromthe proceeds, a television set Area is being established in the Krause halved their match. for the Yosemite Elementary School Merced River from the El Capitan Wawonawill host the return rnatch will be .purchased; from each $5.00 Bridge downstream to the dam as on June 7th. - "The results will be ticket, $1.00, will be retained by the the beginning of an experiment different," states Val Eagle. {Coniinucd on page two) (Conliillil.,d on page ihrcc) :,!,

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up well-done steaks for a tender Y. T. Sl :i. ¯ YOSEMITE SENTINEL woman any day." YTSran the first Loop Trip of the Bart Published by Lake Tahoe has sent another good season to Glacier Point on Sunday, us on Yosemite Park and Curry Co. cook to The Ahwahneein the person April 26th. As soon as the Glacier last we~ for the information of of Leon Wilson. Lee, who was raised Point road. reopened following the the dill. Yosemite Valley residents. in the western hills of Kentucky, can weekend snow flurries, YTS was ad- H. Oehimann ...... Advisor be dependedupon for excellent foods. vised; but, too late on Saturday to shop, fc H. K. Ouimet Advisor Taking over the storeroom chores operate as had been planned. Mr. bundles H. Berrey Advisor for Terry (Marine) Leisure is David Whitfield, a YTSregular, will be driv- paired, Steve Barrett ___ Yosemite Lodge Birnbaum. Bob Wangis a new salad ing the GProute this season. in gh Ran Goldstein __ The Ahwahnee manin the kitchen and Phil Jivauean Summer schedule from ~erced to ~4va S, H. Amodei_ YTS, Garage, Maint. takes care of the desserts and baked Yosemite began on April ¯ 26th. Thi.~ Slacks a Mail communicationsto Yosemite goods. changegee.,, into effect¯ yearly¯ with the ¯ Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or the advent of Daylight Saving Time, is phone 372-4411. Sometimesforgotten but always ne- cessary is The Ahwahneenight crew. and allows the YTSbuses to connec~ the she Bolstering this fine group are Roy with rail and bus lines deploying at pa THE AHWAHNEE Vasquez, Upton Peck, Howard Ryley, Merced. Waworl, The convention season is upon us Fred Morgan, John Bowen, Clarence Dusty Clowardis still conspicuousby are once again, and with the increase of Loveless and Alan Torres. his absence. He has been on the sick- for oper guests, there has comean increase in list for several weeks, and is not ex- Maint The Jack Sabine Trio, the Indian the number of Ahwahneeemployees. pected to return to his job until the tents at Room’smusical wizards, acquired the A pretty addition to Jim McDonald’s middle of May. Curry ar talented services of Joe O’Hara, bass i. rambunctiousfrbnt.desk staff is Joan Frank Bonaventura returned to Yo- for occt player from San Francisco. Before Vallego from San Francisco. Joan ¯ semite last weekto begin his fifth Lodge i coming to The Ahwahnee,Joe conduc- worked at Housekeeping last year season with YTS. Each summer YTS being ted his own band aboard a Matson and soon will try her hand as room takes on approximately 25 drivers dates. liner sailing the SouthPacific. ¯ clerk at The Ahwahnee. to operate the summer tour buses. ¯ painted Jim Moore, transportation agent at Former Badger Pass employee Frank is one who spends his summers replaced The Ahwahnee,has recently organiz- Candy Cooper is now working in the here at YTS, while his winter home plumbin ed a sky diving club at the Mariposa gift shop of The Ahwahnee.Candy is is in San Francisco, where he is a checked, Airport. If you are interested, contact from Fresno and her blond hair is postal employee. and rea Jim at the front desk. No jumping real. --o- Matt¯ experience is necessary and use of ¯ "Pennies From Heaven"; and The WOMENSGROUP LUNCH enjoyinc equipmentis free. Ahwahnee has one in the dining Yosemite WomensGroup Program ing. Digger Solon attended the opening room. Penny Stewart has recently Chairman, Zona Deckelman, announ- ton and arrived from Los Angeles and will baseball game between the Milwau- ced today that the next Womens ¯"Dec" ha serve as dining room captain. (Too kee Braves and the San Francisco Group program will be held at 12:45 relax in bad Uncle Samdoesn’t have captains Giants. Digger Solon will attend the p.m. on May 12 at the Yosemite Lodge like Penny). doubleheader between the Giants and Mountain Room. Following luncheon the New York Mets on May 17. Digger Two more newcomers in the dining there will be a preview of fashions with room are wa:itress Chloris Ginger Solon eats many hot dogs and drinks from the Nawasa Shop at Camp lots of beer. Clark and busboy Everett Pemberton, Curry,¯ worn by local models. under Jr. "TONY" says-My apology to my Reservations may be made through Briefly If you happento see a bear dressed bosses Fred Pierson and John Curry May 11 by calling Yosemite Lodge, open for in a white coat and top hat in The for not getting a hair cut sooner. 372-4431. The charge for the luncheon special Ahwahneekitchen, do not fear, it Thank you for offering $2.00, Mr. is $1.50. Headc is only John Martell, new cook from Curry. Chef Pierson won’t have to The Nawasa Shop will open May in the a,-~ Manhattan, New York via Tucson, give mea violin. 15. three tr¢ Anglers Arizona. "Little" John, whocould pass Personnel Dept. should be very ~O-. for a Green Bay Packer, specializes proud of the office girls sent to The WANTED research in meats, but as John says, "I’d give Ahwahnee to help out during the Old ski boots, broken downinsoles. times a permit SPRING DANCEPLANS Lions Convention. Being in a strange Flexible enoughfor ski touring. Size (Continued from page one) surrounding and never having done 11 or 11~. Dave Roach 375-6271. Only fly Women’sGroup for this expense. waitress work; much praise is due will be p during the Lions Convention- thanks There will be but 150 tickets avail- them for their good efforts and even mit, whic to the guiding hand of Chef Pierson. ableso it is suggestedthat locals in- nicer personalities. answer~ Whenbetter coffee is madein the terested in attending maketheir plans has fis Once again, as always, the back of valley, Bob Pomeroyof The Ahwahnee and get their tickets promptly. the house functioned to perfection tain dat, culinary staff will makeit. determin

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. .._ .----. YOSEMITESENTINEL , MAINTENANCE CENTRAL WAREHOUSENEWS LOCALJUNIORS COMPETEIN he¸ gart Burgin, office manager, took ¯ The Central Warehouse, jumping MERCEDMEET ~,y, us on a tour of. the Maintenance with spring orders plus other day-to- last week and we got a chance to see ier day business, is now under the man- ¯ Thirteen local lads competedin the he i the different shops that keep YPC.Co. agementof Eldridge Whitfield, known last Saturday’s 20th Annual Junior renewed and repaired. At the canvas Olymp~ics in Merced and brought zd- to most as Sonny. shop, for instance there were neat homethird place in Division Iil for to , Familiar faces are returning for the bundles of tents which had been re- their efforts. summer, one of which belongs to iV- -.: paired, stacked and ready for set-up George Adams from Mariposa. Mike Power, competing in the 14 in high-country camps. Paint Shop Georgewill be in charge of the candy, ,and 15 year old intermediate division was, amongmany things, stenciling to gum, and tobacco divisions and will took first in the shot put (49’ 1" new ¯ slacks of saddle bags to be used on help out with other warehouseduties meetrecord), first in high jump (5’ ~ the coming pack ¯trips. All furniture in his spare time. new m’eet record) and a 4th in the e, is painted in the ¯shop, and dried in 180 yard sprint. Mike missed high Willard Van Gundy, late of the ~r.t’ ’ the shop drying.room. Recently, the warehouse, has been called into the point score by but one (measly) pointl at painters have been renovating the Dave Hackett Competedin all three WawonaHotel, and immediately, they Navy and is in San Diego to launch his newcareer. events, intermediate division. ~y are preparing Housekeeping Camp Amongthe junior division boys (ages k .. : for :opening on May 15th. Marcia Toman has been on sick 12 and 13), Tom AIIcock took a 4th x- Maintenance has finished erecting leave for a month due to a back injury, but we’re hoping she will in the standing broad jump; Brad ’le tents at Yosemite Lodge and Camp be able to return soon. Lamoreaux tied for 2nd. Lamoreaux . Curry and each area has been readied also took a 3rd in the running broad O- .. for occupancy. Currently, Big Trees Esther Davis, of Cascades,is help- jump. Tom AIIcock, B. Lamoreauxand th Lodge and Glacier Point Hotel are ing with the office paper work. She G. Lamoreaux and Bob Cross com- being¯ prepared for their opening and Lucile Byers are loaded with the peted for Yosemite on the 220 yard rs .... dates. All roomsare opened,cleaned heavy spring work. , team relay. Cross also competed in ¯ ¯painted¯ if necessary,and furnishings Onceagain Kay Aranguena is tack- the 50 yard dash. In this division, replaced or repaired as needed. All ling another season as the Studio ~rs Louis Parker and G. Lamoreaux com- le plumbing and wiring is completely Warehouse Supervisor, assisted by ¯ peted in the running broad jump. Par- ci checked, and the grounds are cleared some new people and some of her ker and Greg Power also competed in : and readied for guest occupancy. former crewmenwho return each year the soft ball throw. Matt Gagan and "Dec" Parrish are for the summer.Ronald Telshaw stay- - enjoying their vacations at this writ- ed the winter, and now is joined by In the midget division (ages 10 . ing. Matt has been on a trip to Stock- more assistants. Tom Weinzapfel is and 11), Steve Adamstook a 5th in ton and other stops along the coast. replacing Bill Malone, who decided the 50 yard dash, Mike Metherell "Dec" has elected to stay at home,and to return to Anaconda, Montana. H. 4th in the standing broad jump. Each

. relax in local surrounding.s. Daryl Savageis filling orders in Bill’s lad competedin the dash, standing FISHING old job. jump and soft ball throw. (Continued from page one) Margaret Storke, after a lengthy In the under 10, bantam division, with new ¯techniques to determine illness, is working in Studio Ware- 1s John Allcock took 2nd in the overall¯ future fish managementpolicies house. We all welcome her back! score with a first place in the 50 yard ¯ under increased fishing pressure. Violet Fisher has returned to Studio dash, 3rd place in the standing broad Briefly, the research area will be Warehouse after being away during jump. AIIcock and ShawnHarris com- open for fishing the year around, a the winter. peted in the jump and softball throw. ¯ special permit obtainable at Park Tilton Phillips is in charge of the Calvin Miller competedin the 50 yard Headquarters will berequired to fish Freight Office, assisted by Edwin dash in this event. in the area, and the bag limit will be Hendricks. Triton says "No Green three trout of 12 inches or longer. Stamps". The youngsters were taken to the Anglers who anticipate fishing in the Ken Larson is the assistant manager Merced meet by their parents. School research area a minimum of twelve of the Warehouse, with a capable principal JamesAckley acted as orga- times a year may be issued an annual helper in Garry Robinson, both of nizer and coach. permit by the park biologist office. whomhave been here several months. problems, after a successful winter at Only fly fishing (no spinning reels) Garry, soon to be married, will make the ice rink. will be permitted. Purposeof the per- his homein El Portal. mit, which will have questions to be B.ill "Punch" Johnson who has The Central Warehouse Butcher answered by the fisherman after he moved to Sacramento, has been re- Shopcrew is still "cutting up" under has fished the area, is to obtain cer- placed by Don Crawford, Jr. Weex- the direction of Lowell Willis. Joe tain data which will be helpful in pect that Donwill be kept very busy Schnable and Jim Conley are having determining future policy. all summer with vending machine a race for the title "HamburgerKing". "~.~:- b" . "..’ .....

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i,, ¯¯.YOSEMITE LODGE LIMITED SATURDAYPOSTAL SERVICE MAY FETE PostmasterRust reports that, in line ¯ Lodgereporter Steve Barrett, having The family of John Curry, Ahwah- with ~conomy measures ordered by been exiled temporarily to Merced nee manager, will converge on him the Postmaster General, Saturday while Leroy Purcell frolics on his 3- the weekend of May 8, 9 and 10 service at the post offices in Yosemite day pass, writes this pitiful note from to help him and his twin sister, Jeanet- will be curtailed as of Saturday never-never-land. re Curry Batchelder, celebrate their May 9. Windowservice will continue ."This is supposed to. be about Yo- 34th birthdays which fall on May to be provided on Saturday morning semite Lodge and the news activities Day. Jeanette and her husband, Wil- at present. However, no domestic or going on therei but this time, at liam P. Batchelder, and their three international money orders will be ’ monthsend, this reporter finds himself children will comefrom RedwoodCity. sold, no C.O.D.’s will be accepted, and .in "exile" as a waywardTransporta- David A. Curry, their older brother, the rental of post office boxeswill be .tion Agent, and his wife and two children Will confined to weekdays. All other ser- come .from Menlo Park, where David : : There is not muchto do here, out- vices will be provided. Side of workl that is.. Eventhat’s a is connected with the Stanford Re- little slow at the moment. However, GARAGENOTES searchlnstit~Jte. I have commandof at least one empty Ben Laughter went home from the Mr. and Mrs. Edmund(Ruth Curry) bUS and. many, many Hertz cars, a hospital on Monday morning, April .Burns, their mother and stepfather,. whole stable full of "64 Chevies. No 27th. Although he is recovering he will drive up from their homein Bal- i lack of local transportation. will be on leave for an undetermined i. boa. This is an annual get-together. i Now .and then people come in, length of time. of the Curry-Burns clan, but it was ’ other than the regular bus passengers At YPC Co. Garage, Roy Dimock feared for a while they would be Someonewanting to know how to .reports that they are expecting to unable to .make it, as Mrs. Burns is increase the staff to its usual summer recovering from a heart attack suffer- ~. get a job on the railroad, or .looking complement. The Garage triples its ed in Mexico City in December. HOW- i forthe rest rooms.. ThenI have had old codgers Cor~ing in for transportation staff during the summer,which brings ever, Mrs. Burns’ recovery has been back into the hills of MariposaCounty the total number of employees to so complete that her doctor adVises ’back to the old homesteadnext to about thirty. her the trip to this altitude will do no the old gold mine that never ran DOUG HUBBARD HONORED harm. rich: They makeinteresting listening Doug Hubbard is sporting a new John, Jeanette and David are now and then, whether you’re really pen set with a plaque designating him grandchildren of the late David A. !i interested in listening or not. California Teachers’ Association Citi- Curry and Jennie F. Curry, founders At this time of year, new employees zen of the Year for this area. of CampCurry, and niece and nep- enter, looking forward with appre- In making the award Richard hews of Mrs. Donald B. Tresidder. ii hension and joy, to a summer job Fiester, President of the CTA, cited Their father, Foster Curry, was iden- :’. wonderingwhat it will be like. I make Doug’sinterest in teacher-pupil rela- tified with Camp Curry for many it sound rich and full of fun - as it tionships as chairman of the Educa- years. can. be in summer,(even if I am get- tional Committee of the Mariposa ~O~ ting too old for beach parties.) County Grand Jury last year, his in- FOR SALE :i Mr. Dierksen paid a visit, smok- terest in the work of the Mariposa 1956 Bel Air Chevrolet 4 door. Call ing a cigar, anddriving a bright ,big CountyHistorical Society, and for be- George Murphy, 372-4833. Cadillac- giving two employees a ing a "good father." - ride into the Park. And a good thing out for the trucks, especially in a small it.was, too, as it always seemsthat sed more warmly than in the tub). car like mine. In Yosemite one is All joking aside, there is much I. run out of seats and the poor em- un-used to the "fight for survival" pretty country north of Town. Come I ployee is left stranded in Merced imposed by the Great Highway of down in the fullness of the moon- ..until the next bus, which sometimes the San Joaquin Valley. Before they in early spring if possible - it is a is the next day. changed the highway one had to be silver tapestry of pastoral beauty Merced isn’t the worst town to be very careful crossing 99: I.would stranded in. You can go to the Merced with cattle grazing on the grass-cres- leave the station for lunch, taking ted slopes and small, once lusty gold Theater and see a film you might have an hour -twenty minutes to get across seen a year ago or you can go to the towns now lying quietly among new the highway, twenty minutes to eat, leafed trees. The small streets are Strand and see a film from Mexico, if and twenty minutes to get back across quiet, the people, interesting charact- your Spanish is fluent. That is one the highway. But nowl just run across theater that showsforeign films with- ers, living a life so different from ours. blindly. !.. out subtitles. One really appreciates Yosemite in .Me, I soak in a hot bath reading its gold and green luster after Merced, So until I do return to Yosemite- Greek tragedies, or put the top down its trains, SuperBombers flying over, back to my Penthouse Apartment on the MGand Drag the Main. (dres- and the traffic. One must watch atop the Tioga Hotel to soak and read.

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FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1964 Yosemite National Park, Calif.

COMMUNITYCOUNCIL MEETS The newly appointed officers and the board of directors of the Yosemite Community Council met May 11. Three motions were passed: the 1964 Community Council Fund Drive will commence May 22 and run through June 30; the goal again will be to raise $2,700; the samenational and local organizations would re- ceive Community Council support as last year, these being: AmericanCan- cer Society, American Heart Associa- tion, American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Federal Service Joint Crusade, Area Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts of Ameri- ca- National and local, Yosemite Badgers and Scholarship fund. National organizations are constan- Mary Curry Tresidder, Della Tclylor Hoss, a~ld Tresidder Memorial Union Director tly at work to bring aid and relief Chester A. Berry selecting Delta Hoss prints for a~ exhibit tit Tresidder Memorial Union, May 16 to June 1, which wilt il~chlde linoleum block pri~zts by Mrs. in times of disaster and illness and to Hoss which illusLrcl~e Mary Tresidder’s book, "The Trees oS Yosemite." promote research for the prevention and cure of disease. Your willing SPRING DANCENEWS DELLAHOSS EXHIBIT generosity will help these agencies Details for the WomensGroup’s To spread appreciation for "this and our Nation in the relentless cam- Spring Dance, scheduled for The Ah- portion of our goodly heritage," Mary paign against the hopelessness, fear wahnee on May 22 are falling into Curry Tresidder and Della Taylor Hoss and hunger which are the daily line, according to the dancechairman. wrote and illustrated a book titled burden of so much of mankind. Door prizes are in hand from the "The Trees of Yosemite," which has Board MemberLes McClanahan re- becomea California classic. stated the purposes of the Community John Roth Chevrolet Co. in Merced; The linoleum block prints by Mrs. Council Fund Drive namely, as being Ray Douglas has donated two dinners at his Branding Iron in Merced; the Hoss use.d in the book, reissued last a method by which residents of Yo- new Del Webb Hotel in Fresno has year for the fourth time, will be on semite, El Portal and Wawonacould display May 16 to June 1 at Tresidder makea single donation to cover con- contributed an overnight stay for two; Memorial Union on the Stanford Uni- tributions to each of the recognized there are two tickets for the Ice Follies; versity campus. national charities and health organi- YPC Co.’s NawasaShop has donated The exhibit coincides with the an- zations and to the local organizations, a merchandise order; from Roger Van S., a magnificent blue leather lady’s nual Stanford CampusConference for each providing an activity for the handbag; several bottles of wine alumni and friends on May 23. It local youngsters. .honors Mrs. Tresidder, widow of Employees of Yosemite Park and from Beringer Bros., and Ernie Johan- Stanford’s fourth president Donald Curry Co. will receive with their salary son is providing several attractive Bertrand Tresidder for whomthe new checks on May 22 a form on which items from Best’s Studio. During the evening, there will be union was named, and Mrs. Hoss they may direct a payroll deduction, vocal solos by Barbara Fries, Fresno. whois an alumnusof the Class of ’23. or a return envelope for a cash con- Miss Fries recently was named the More than 50 additional works by tribution. National Park Service em- Mrs. Hosswin be in the exhibit - Sumi ployees and employees of the other winner in a national competition to (Continued on page two) (Continued on page two) (Continued on page two) . ....~ ..

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¯ ~ ~ 4~’~H~~4HH~’~Hb0...Q,-qH~ ¢,4 Y.T.S NEWS FROM TOPSIDE YOSEMITE SENTINEL Four employees are welcome addi- Dick Connett and Arvi Dorsey arriv- "This Published by tions to the YPCCo. Garage staff. ed at Glacier on April 27th and prom- of the coc Yosemite Park and Curry Co. Of the four, Charles Gerhardt and ptly were "snowed in". The storm One for the information of Oran Mansker are mechanics. Ger- which started on Mayfirst and lasted words Yosemite Valley residents. hardt and his wife, Blanche, cameto intermittently for 5 days deposited but a rec H. Oehlmann Advisor Yosemite from Phoenix, Arizona. Mrs. some 2½ feet of fresh snow. Mrl H. K. Ouimet Advisor Gerhardt is now switchboard operator The crew thus far consists of Neysha ¯ his 83rd H. Berrey Advisor at Yosemite Lodge. Manskerhails from Bellamy, checker-cashier, Walter these sa Steve Barrett ___ YosemiteLodge Colfax, and with his wife, has ¯taken Davis, food supervisor, David Houg- perie ncir Ran Goldstein __ The Ahwahnee up residencein El Portal in the Trailer ham, busboy who was here last year, all ihapp, H. Amodei_ YTS, Garage, Maint. Village. JamesKreller, a former resi- Peter Meyer, room clerk and Empsie Mr. Stein Mail communicationsto Yosemite dent of Fresno, will be parts-man; and Thomas, head maid and Shirley War- robbery Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or Bill Hansen,son of Lloyd and Lee Han- ner, server. Not to be ¯forgotten are and the phone 372-4411. sen both of whomare YPC Co. em- the cooks¯ Emile Ceresa and Tony Steink ~ec.~4.~l,e~eeeo~e~eeeeeeeeee¯ ~.. ployees, has taken over car washing Covarrubias. And last but not least, summer. DELLAHOSS EXHIBIT and tire service. Firefall man Gerry Ernest who has to the Pa (Continued from pa~e one) Hugh Campbell is off duty and to help h ¯ ... paintings, carbon pencil drawings, been briefed on bigger and better resting for a few days. Seemshis back day. etchings, color linoleum block prints, spectacles. did a "twist", resulting in a minor One o’ and four-color wood blocks of trees The Gift Shop again is headed by injury which makes moving about lights on of California and Japan, Yosemite Gladys Golden with the assistance a little difficult. number and Stanford scenes. of Valjean Jackson. Mrs. Jackson is -o- lands. In i928, the ariist went to live in the mother of Topsy A.raya, and Judi A LETTER America Yosemite as a bride. She remained Jackson who worked many summers venture a for 15 years while her husband, A letter recently received from Bar- in the Park. Mrs. Jackson hiked the The Ahwc HermanHoss, was an official of YPC bara (Mrs. Peter) Kat contains news Ledge Trail in 1924 and reports she an equal, Co. and federal judge there. about several Valley residents. is still enjoying the view! together She says, "My first impression¯ was "Believe meI wait for the SENTINEL Speakingof old timers Dick Connett tionship that all the trees in Yosemite were like a letter from home.With the busy celebrated, on May 10, his 35th sum- ployees, pineL Mary, in her scholarly way season upon you people brings back mer in Yosemite. He recalls that his barrel of and. out of her deep love of nature, fond memories of when both my de- arrival in 1929 was the opening of While taught me differently." ceased husband, Pete, and I worked the "new" Curry Dining Room and the custor Mrs. Hosssays that her association in the Valley. Cafeteria ..... and that all employees the Amer with Stanford is as close as that with The articles written by Mary Curry were greeted and briefed by Mother ing facts Yosemite. She received national re- Tresidder have been so descriptive Curry. "1 recall I was handed some most rep cognition when her carbon pencil and enjoyable. forks and told to set sometables and ways tha~ drawings of trees on the Stanford Recently I visited the Ray Lally it seemsto meI have been doing that Peru. This campus were used as ¯covers on the family in Fairfax and we celebrated ever since" reminisces Connett. In Lizzie Lally’s birthday. Joining us also order of service Dick is the 2nd oldest sent to us Stanford Alumni Review and earned garto" Ac a first award amongall university was the Bob Lally family from San Yosemite Park & Curry Co. employee. Felipe "CL and college alumni magazines. Her Mateo. Both Bill and Lizzie are fine. Improvements at Glacier are many Many old-timers will remember this season. All the roomsin the Main co" Nune cards ¯illustrated with familiar Stan- and be ford scenes have been sent to all Bill Kat who worked at The Ahwah- hotel have been refurnished and a Also frc corners of the world. nee for many years and will be glad number of them carpeted. The re- to hear he is hale and hearty at 89. placed furniture has been movedto is Jorge COMMUNITYCOUNCIL MEETS He recently returned from an eight the employees rooms where beds with in Chile. (Continued [rom page one) boy Mar4 park concessionerswill receive a note month visit in Panamavisiting his innerspring mattresses are the Order Guatamal suggesting a contribution and indicat- son, Bert, and family. In 1962 he of the day. From ing the methodof remittance. flew via jet to Europe to visit his (Continued on page four) Wang an Newofficers of the Community¯Con- native Holland. SPRING DANCE NEWS Awaiting thenext SENTINEL. the Philli cil are President, Henry Berrey, Vice (Continued from page one) our President, Charles Proctor, Secretary, Truly yours, select the outstanding vocalist among La:ra alol Bea Upton. Treasurer James Edeal Barbara Kat" high school students. Nick Cue~ is serving a second term. Directors, ~O~ Dance tickets sales opened on May Josue. FORSALE none new, are Eileen Ball, Pauline 13. The demand was immediate and From Trabucco, John Hanson, Les McClana- Schwinn Bicycle, 15 -~peeds; ex- sustained. Anyonewishing to inquire hostesswil han, Bill Meacham, Dave Downing, cellent condition. $80.00. Spencer about the availability of tickets may Another B Ralph Parker, JamesRosander. Grams, Yosemite Lodge, 372-4431. call Ruth Ewing at 372-4857. er, a blol . .. . ~ . ’......

i , ,f%~ YOSEMITESENTINEL THE AHWAHNEE Beethovento the Beatles. There is one SKI TEACHERSSCORE "This is a stick-up. Everybody out arrlv- other Englishman on the staff who Eight YosemiteSki Schoolinstructors ¯ of the coach and hands up." )rom- wishes to remain unknown,for finan- took part in the F.W.S.I.A. certifi. One m:ight hear these familiar storm cial reasons. He is planning to live cation examination recetnly at Squaw words while watching a TV western, ’asted like John B. Tipton and give $1 mil- Valley. but a recent guest of The Ahwahnee, lion away anonymously to needy Bob Ray scored second highest a- Mr. Jesse Steinhardt, who celebrated people. mong the 85 candidates, to become his 83rd birthday on May 11, heard -~ysha From the land of windmills and fully certified. He was topped only these same words while actually ex- I t er woodenshoes come the following gen- by Gilbert Mollard, who had an ex- periencing a stage coach robbery. It tlemen: Waiter Jan Verhees (he just toug- tensive record in teaching and racing all happened in 1900, the first time won a national medal for careful ,ear, in" his native France. Mr. Steinhardt entered the valley. The driving), wine steward Peter Starring Receiving the associate credential robbery took place between Wawona War- (he awarded the medal to Jan), and were A. Beaudoin, Les Mills, John Gee and the old Sentinel Hotel where Mr. are John "the baker" Brakman (the one Rob Forbes, and Bob Harris. Forbes Steinhardt Spent his vacation that and only). Also from Holland is baker was certified after but one year of roast, summer. Mr. Steinhardt has returned Alphonse Mulder. teaching. to the Park many times and we hope has Part-time ski instructor and waiter Bobby Cooper and Doris Henry, two to help him celebrate his 100th birth- ~etter from Germanyis Peter Guenter. Also of the ski school instructresses, atten- ¯ day. from Germanyare waitresses Helga ded the examination as observers. One of the most interesting side- d by and Irmgard Sadowski, and dessert School Director Fiore wasre-elected .lights on The Ahwahneestaff is the ance man Karl Guntz, New wine steward treasurer of the ski teaching organiz- number of employees from distant .is Rod Kobila is from Czechoslavakia ation. lands. These people have come to Judi along with baker Ladislar Hlavac TV COMMERCIAL MAY 17 America for money, education, ad- lets and salad man Ferenc Susztar. From Those who may have missed the venture and other similar reasons. At the France is cook Michel Nollet. first Eastmancommercial on television The Ahwahnee, where everyone is on she Notes of interest will have a second chance to see the an equal basis, the employees work Good luck to Fred Lundh over at local cast when the second one will together and learn together, a rela- Inett Housekeeping.The front office misses be shown, on May 17, Channel 4, tionship that produces quality em- sum- you already, especially the "9-5" in Walt Disney’s "Wonderful World ployees, lasting friendships and a cologne. his of Color". of barrel of laughs. Welcomeonce again to Kit Whitman TOUROF NEWLODGE FACILITIES, and While these people are learning YPCCo. Recreation Director. Kit spent HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP PLANNED yees the customs and "ways" of Americans, the winter on her ranch out of Coarse- FOR LOCALS the Americansfind out someinterest- gold and we are happy to have her ,ther All local friends and admirers are ing facts about foreign nations. The delightful personality with us. ome invited on a conductedtour of the new most represented country (in more Congratulations to Pearl Ditton on and guest rooms at Yosemite Lodge and that ways than one) at The Ahwahnee is her son’s graduation from thb Mari- the new units at Housekeeping Camp In Peru. This Latin American land has posa High School. between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. on sent to us wine stewards Henry "La- Best wishes tO Cesar Oyagueon his Idest Tuesday, May 26. YPC Co. Hotel garto" Ackerman, Luis "KuKi" Huaco, coming wedding. Cesar’s wife-to-be /ee. Division people will be on hand to Felipe "Cutato" Pastigo, Enrique "Lo- is Diane Farmer from Carmel. 3ny guide the visitors through the two co" Nunez, Tomas "Rubiosa" Torres George Wakefield invites every- outstanding new projects. and bellman Cesar Oyague. body to the grand opening of his d a At Yosemite Lodge the tour. will Also from a Latin American country Hollywood race track. Millie Michels re- begin at the east end of Alder Cottage, to is Jorge Jarpa, busboy who resides will provide the transportation. the easternmostof the newbuildings. in Chile. Moving north, we find bus- Question of the Month /ith At Housekeeping Camp, signs will boy Marco Leonardo, who is from Did Mr. Curry really buy his buck rder showroute to the demonstration unit. Guatamala. shoes from Pat Boone? Light refreshments will be served at From Hawaii is pantryman Bob "Tony Says" -- I’m not to fat for Housekeeping Camp. Wongan.d waiter Howard Reese. In my age - just not tall enough. Thanks the Phillipine.Manila area, we find to Ned English I am now a bonafide "Sort of a reciprocation for the won- our favorite pint-size busboy, Benny resident of Yosemite - I now have derful treatment I got whenI visited gng Lara along with Marry Aqu,azon, a garage for my convertible. her folks in Germanylast fall", said Nick Cueva, James Boyer and Leo Angelo Cozzaglio, SousChef, final- Angelo. Josue. ly got five days off. He and his Warren Temple, a nine year man and From merrie old England is our sweet wife, Gabriele, travelled to his with The Ahwahneenight crew, will uire hostess with mostess,Dolores Hallinan. old stomping grounds, Santa Barbara. be confined to the hospital. All your Another Britoner is waiter Nigel Fish- His wife and mother hit it off wonder- friends will pray for you and visit er, a blond-haired chap who prefers fully, making Angelo very happy. you at the hospital." ,v’

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NEWS FROM TOPSIDE ECKARTEXHIBIT IN S. F. MAINTENANCEOFF TO THE HILLS (Continuvd from page lwo) Pen drawings, oils and watercolors The Point promises to be more ex- Most of the activity !n the Mainten- by Charles Eckart will be exhibited at plored as the result of a fine story ance Departmentpresently is centered the San Francisco YPC Co. office intheMay SUNSETMAGAZINE titled around Housekeepng Camp and the "These are the Yosemite walks John during May and June. employees’ annex at Yosemite Lodge. Muir said to take". This four page Charles "Chuck" Eckart grew up in A crash-program is in effect, so that article, complete with manypictures Yosemite and has a personal and each accommodationswill be in top and a fine trail map, shows the ex- discerning knowledge of the Park in condition by May 20th. cellent ¯ ¯trail center that starts here all its seasons and moods. Prevalent All of the new housekeeping units and the numerous hikes that are in his work is a responseto the drama are being¯ decorated and furnished. possible.¯ Theseinclude the Four Mile and intensity of Yosemite. The depth In keeping with a trend to functional Trail, the PanoramaTrail (via Illilouet- of the Valley, the momentumof a furnishings, manyitems are built-in. te, Nevada and Vernal Falls and waterfall, the assault of a storm are (For a preview, a handsome scale ultimately, the Mist Trail); and The expressed with fervor. model can¯be seen at the frontdesk in the reservations office.) Landscap- PohonoTrail (via Sentinel Dome);the Now a Bay Area resident, Chuck latter being best in July and August has as original and exciting an ap- ing and furnishing costs of these du- plexes has totaled approximately $25 when the wildflowers are at their proach to San Francisco as he has to height. This article should certainly Yosemite. A few examplesof his work thousand dollars. be "must" reading for all employees on the inherent architecture of the Howard Schneider is heading a who wish to be informed. City are included in this exhibit. crew into the High Camps, where Comeup and see us sometime. erection of tent accommodationshas He received a B. A. in fine art begun at those four units. Syd Ledson (P.S. by Ed. Since this piece was from the University of the Pacific and will head the crew at TuolumneMea- received, Arvi Dorsey left Glacier and a B. P. A. in advertising design a I t daws, and similar activities are in is at CampCurry.) the Art Cen.ter School. He is now an progress there. While getting the tents Art Director at McCann-Erickson,Inc. toO-. up for the summeris the major job, I ¯ Previous exhibits have been at the CENTRAL WAREHOUSENEWS considerable time must then be spent "l" " University of the Pacific and with the On Sunday, May 3rd., Mr. & Mrs. in general readying of each camp Los Angeles Art Association. DonChristensen and family in Merced, for occupation. Painting must be done entertained ¯ many of their former All locals who may be in S. F. where necessary, linoleum patched¯ neighbors and friends from Yosemite. are invited to stop by the 55 Grant or replaced, and all plumbing and A garden party was planned, but due Ave. office to see Chuck’s exhibit. electrical systemschecked and repair- It o inclement weather plans were ed following the long Sierra winter. At Sam Mitchell and his family were i changed and the garage substituted White Wolf, the interior of the cabins there, as well as the Ellis Whitleys. as a serving place for a tempting are being painted, and the kitchen smorgasbord. Many people also Merced folks who attended the af- walls and ceiling will be recovered 4~ fair were the Ed Delaneys, their son, ’.! gathered around the cozy fireplace or papered. Dave and his family; the Walter in their lovely home, and enjoyed the Employees dorms are undergoing tt Ganns, Nick Nickoliasen, Edwin Pod- cordial hospitality offered by our redecoration, and in "E" and "F" liska, Harry Hart, and the Arthur former residents. dormssome of the furnishings, parti- :1 Gallisons; Bill Septien was also in :I Local guests included the Messrs. cularly dressers and desks, are being attendance. .i and Mmes; Tom Fisher, G e o’r g e refinished in a burn-proof veneer. ;i Adams, "Sonny" Whitfield, Robert Dave Stratton from Henry Coe Weare a little late in mentioning, ,f Bevington, Howard Schneider, Dick State Park attended, as well as but you only have a first grandchild Ditton, Bill Bomprezzi,Robert Jacobs, Leo Sullivan and Tilton Phillips. once, and Maintenance’s Girl Friday, and Ernie Byers. Lee Hansen,is one of the quiet types. Newpersonnel at the Central Ware- Out of town guests included the . .until you mention her grand- r:ii house are Margaret Pedrojetti, Gor- :I Christensen’s son, Tom, from Sacra- dcsughter, that is. Lee’s son, the new ,I don Sorg and Gregory Swalley. mento and a friend, Bob Adams.Also, dad, is also a YPCCo. employee. Like Father - like son! ! ! Rodney i the William Johnsons who recently Matt Gaganis back on the job, after Whitfield has been taking fishing .I movedto Sacramento. It was pleasant a vacation which included trips to :i visiting with Judy and "Punch", but lessons from his father and cameout Morro Bay, and Las Vegas. his inch long growth of whiskers a winner at the contest held in El And despite the fact that fishing served as a controversial subject! Portal last Sunday. Now Rod has a season opened almost two weeks ago, new rod and reel to catch some more Fresnoguests included Mrs. Christie we haven’t heard one good "fish- "whoppers". Ernst and her son, Fred and family story" from any of the boys in Main- who were visiting from Los Angeles. -Lucile Byers tenance yet. I [.

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FIRST RETURNSON COMMUNITY VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! YPC Co. DIRECTORSTARR COUNCIL FUND DRIVE All employeesproperly registered HONORED According to Jim Edeal treasurer of are urged to vote at the Primary Walter¯ A Starr, distinguished Calif- the Yosemite CommunityCouncil, the Election Tuesday, June 2, 1964. ornian, conservationist, b u s i n e s s first tally of contribution to the 1964 The Polls will be open from 7 a.m. leader, and memberof the YPCCo. fund drive showsthat the first 50 re- to7 p.m. Board of Directors, was honored re- sponses represented commitmentsfor According to YPCCo. president H. cently by the Sierra Club whenhe re- $500. Edeal posts the account on Sat- Oehlmann, any employee who does ceived the Fourth Annual John Muir ..u.rdays and the above returns are as not have sufficient time to vote, at Award. of May 23. at either the beginning or ending of ._~.~.-~,, ..~_~__PI The drive will continue through his work day, should arrange with June 30; the goal is $2,700. his supervisor before election day for National and local organizations to sufficient time to do so. The necessary ’i. receive. Community Council support time off may be taken without any ! are: American Cancer Society, Amer- loss of pay. ! ican Heart Association, American Red -o- I Cross, Salvation Army, Federal Ser- SCHOOL GRADUATION vice Joint Crusade, Area Girl Scouts, i According to Yosemite Elementary Boy Scouts of America - National and School Principal James Ackley, the ,] local, ¯ Yosemite Badgers and Yosemite 1964 eighth grade graduation exer- Scholarship Fund. J. cises will be held at 8:00 p.m. on Employeesof YPCCo. will receive Thursday, June 4 in the school audi- "The Fourth Annual John Muir Award with. their salary checks on June 7 torium. Grauduating students are: 1964 and 22 forms on which they may Paul Aranguena,Betty Cottrell, Kathy Presentedby the Sierra Club to di,rect a payroll deduction. A number Cromer, Arnold James, David Hackett, WALTERSTARR of employees approved a payroll de- Granville B. Liles, Jr., Glen Michael in recognition of his imaginative duction following the notice received Power,Leslie Rust. philanthropy, of his eye for with their May 22 checks. Those who Avery Sturrn will be the principal excellence have respondedwill please ignore the speaker; his announced subject is forms which will appear with the And more than that, his willingness "Keys to Success." next two checks. to sacrifice in order to preserve ex- too-- At El Portal, the elementary school cellence in the natural world in grati- PARENTS GROUPOFFICERS graduation is set for 8:00 p.m:, June tude for his support of books and Lee Shackleton was elected chair- 3, when Jim and John Clark, Tirn exhibits that have interpreted the wild man of the Yosemite Parents Group Harvey, Danny Hayes and Micki Will- places of America, that have led to for the coming year at the group’s inghamwill graduate. Mr. L. D. Cody, the creation and preservation of parks last meeting May 18. John Adams Director of EducationServices for N.A. and an understanding of their mean- is the new vice-chairman, Mickey S.A.’s pacific aea, will be the guest ing and in appreciation of the dili- Curry, secretary, Arlis Carter, trea- speaker. gence with which he assembled and surer, Midge Fiore, librarian. -o-- has kept current the most fitting monu- SchoolPicnic A.A.A. REPRESENTATIVEHERE ment to a son who heard the call of The annual school picnic, with the Jeff Scammell,representative of the the wilderness and wanted others to usual assortment of excellent food, California State Automobile Associ- be guided to the John Muir Trail and Bob McGregor’s cowboy coffee and ation, will have offices in Park Head- its High Sierra world ’of shining sum- the game-time will be held on the quarters commencing June 1 and mits, bright and cool.’ local school grounds Monday after- continuing through the summer His achievement carries forward noon, June 1. months. (Continued on page two) ...).~:,;i:.

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NEWS FROM TOPSIDE to time, is a return visitor, nowliving is from O ground in .... YOSEMITE SENTINEL Buffets in the sky! in San Francisco. "Mel Panz1921 lhru 1926" is another listing, as well as ’ Park more ¯ Published by Glacier Point has hosted two buffet "Ray Clarke and F. A. EIli0tt 1926." the h ustle-k ~ Yosemite Park and Curry Co. dinners in as many weeks. The first There are notations of "It snowedon for tl-ie information of for the magazine and travel people, Ed.i.i May 27, June 5 and August 25, 1934;" Yosemite Valley residents. up for the spring tour of Yosemite Hats of and there’s a listening of snow on H. Oehlmann . Advisor Lodge and Housekeeping Camp on an old ado June 6 and 7, 1950. A hard-to-believe H. K. Ouimet . Advisor May 16 and the second, on May 22, goes wron writing says "snow on July 7, 1951" H. Berrey Advisor for the BoardOf Directors of the Calif- ’ always Anyway, it looks like we have a few Lucile Byers _ Central Warehouse ornia Council, American institute of Keeping facts for the historians. Ran Goldstein -- The Ahwahnee Achitects. Each group seemedto en- the night New employees since the last Wrl;’ ’ . .. ,. H. Amodei YTS, Garage, Maint. joy the spread, catered from The puts. the ing include Hazel Brand, maid, a.~.~! Mail communicationsto Yosemite Ahwahnee, and the brisk air and ccrning da Marjorie Harris and Dierdre Harris, sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or sunset from the porch of the main problem mother and daughter, a~ gift shop phone 372-4411 hotel. not Clutchil clerks. While ironing, one of our employees buffer, ym DIRECTORSTARR HONORED has gleaned the following interesting NIGHT-SIDEAT THE AHWAHNEE handle bar . (Continued from pa~e one) namesand facts that are inscribed on It’s 12 o’clock, and all through the TheI Ah . the historic work :of John Muir in the Walls of the laundry: house, not a thing wasstirring except houseis ni rescuing for our time those primeval "Francis L. Fox June 15, 1926.!’ Imidnight, guests for the Committee on the RED CROSSSWIM CLASSES and keepir John Muir Award" The annual Red Cross swim classes the front-lobby bustle leaves the air and a quiet, serene atmospherecreeps are a few : Amongother activities, Starr has will be held at Yosemite Lodge pool through the dim-lighted halls and al- ing to Yos~ served as president of the California June 15-26, Mondaythrough Friday. Pima Cour Connie (Mrs. Jake) Metherell will coves of The Ahwahnee. ’ Historcal Society, director of Save-the- son; Arizor Redwoods League, and president of in charge and youngsters may be Thenight shift is a special shift in Under the sierra Club. registered by calling her on June many ways. There is little contact with the guests or the rest of the we find aa Walter Starr. and his wife, Carmen 10 or 11 at 372-4695. Classes will employees. Work incentives are at The Ahwa were the parents of two sons Allen be held during morning hours and are t a minimum, although production i~ no introdu Moore Starr; an engineening graduate arranged according to swimming pro- at a maximum. Because of limited roundi dur form University of California, and ficiency. So, when the yo:ungsters numbers,the night crew is a tightly- night, anc elder son, Walter, Jr., a graduate register they will learn the hour of knit group, each memberrespecting baseball of Stanford Law School. A skilled their class. the other’s ability to do a job under sticking o~ mountainclimber, he lost his life in Instructors will be Pat Brown, Ann lonely circumstances. ain’t the 1933, while climbing Michael Minaret Hendrickson, Jan Haag, JoanneCross. Assista: Kathy Betts and Lenore Cross will Taking care of the front desk chores in the High Sierra. Young Starr had is Harold written the first complete guide to assist. between 11:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. from San the High Sierra and the John Muir Jr.-Sr. Life Saving Courses are night auditors Ken Daye and Gerald Smith. Aside from the accoun- got a fine Traill This work has been revised Junior and senior life saving cour- ting duties involved in their work, an argume Continuously by the senior Start and ses will be given June 15-26, Monday each must handle the switchboard, of wine." has becomethe bible for mountaine- through Friday evenings between 6 take care of any late arrivals or early Vince ers for some30 years. and 8 p.m. under the direction of check-outs, and generally oversee the "Dago ~O~ Joanne Cross and Connie Metherell. hotel. nee for ASTRONAUTIN FRESNO The junior class members must be Ken Daye has been with YPC Co. a great James Lovell, astronaut scheduled between the ages of 12 and 16 years, for over four years. He has workedin ing sound to makethe Gemini flight, will be in for senior classes, 16 years or over. the accounting office and as a room eyes, Vincc Fresno, under the sponsorship of the To be eligible fo the senior llfe saving clerk at CampCurry. Before coming ed bear st Fresno Bee, on June 12. Lovell will classes, one must have obtained the After to Yosemite, he did hotel work in speak on "Why Are We Going To the A.R.C. swimmerrating, or its equiva- Vince dec Mo0n?!, lent; those wishing to participate in SanFrancisco, sold insurance in Chica- go and taught junior high school in leave This will marl< the first time an as- the junior classes who are 12, 13 or Pennsylvania. new tronaut has ventured into the far west. 14 years must be members of the bed down morning swim classes. A shortened Gerald Sm’ith divides his night His appearancewill be at the Fresno Welcom programwill be offered those wishing auditing lime among The Ahwahnee, Memorial Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. Talbott fro There is no admission charge. to renewtheir A.R.C.senior certificate. the Lodge and CampCurry. Gerald (( YOSEMITESENTINEL ng is from Oakhurst and has a back- iru ground ill banking. Gerald finds the os Park more relaxing and tranquil than the hustle-bustle of the city (Oakhurst? o n Ed.). II Hats off to both of these men. It’s an old adage that "when something ve goes wrong, the night auditors are always blamedfor it". v./ Keeping the hotel shipshape during the night is housemanBill Gallant. Bill puts the public roomsin order for the !L’, :crning day and handles any cleaning ;’iS, problem that comes along. Whenhe’s not clutching the handles of the floor buffer, you’ll find him clutching the handle bars of a speedy motorcycle. he The Ahwahnee’s man-size light- ~pt house is night watchmanCarl Russell. nd Keepingringtail cats out of the second floor parlor, chasing bears off the

bn’l grounds, securing the safety of the guests and of the hotel’s property, On en~ployee Mspeetion tour. Above, Housekeeping Manager Fred Lu~dh and keeping the night auditors awake describes new unit to H. I(. O~rimet, Katy Strough., Jerry Hunt, Shirley Pearce and )s are a few of Carl’s jobs. Before com- Rich Allison.. Below, Chet Hubbard Yosemite Lodge Assistant Manager, leads iI- ing to Yosemite, Carl served with the Mary Fra~ces Wyly, Mi’ndy Rose, Diane Pomeroy rind Mari Kay ]~¢athews o~ Pima County Merchant Patrol in Tuc- tour of Alder Cottage, son, Arizona. in EMPLOYEI:TOUR Underthe direction of Digger Solon, icl Earlier this week, YPC Co. em- we find an outstanding night crew in ~" ,~ ployees and other locals were shown at The Ahwahneekitchen. Digger needs through the new guest rooms at Yo- is no introduction, for he is up and a- semite Lodge and the new units at round during the day as well as at Housekeeping Camp. y- night, and if he isn’t talking about baseball with a chewed-off cigar On hand as guides at Yosemite sticking out of his month - then it Lodge were manager Wayne White- ain’t the Digger. man and assistant Chet Hubbard; at Housekeeping, manager Fred Lundh Assistant coach on the night team describedthe newfacilities there. Both is Harold Finney, a three-year veteran :ll. LODGEAUTOMATED CASHIERING were received with muchentt’~usiasm from San Pedro. Finn says, "We’ve nd SUCCESSFUL and interest by the inspectors as were got a fine night crew; once in a while ’ a- The three National Cash Register the coffee and cakes. Y.T.S. provided an argument, once in a while a bottle ’ks hotel bookkeeping machines at Yo- transportation, with Bill Sproule at of wine." d, semite Lodge have had a two month the wheel. ’ly Vince Paciglio, famous for his workout and, according to Jim Taylor, -o- "Dago Red, has been with The Ahwah- chief auditor, seemto be performing COMMEMORATIVESTAMPS, MEDALS nee for two seasons. Two weeks ago, as touted. Installed to increase the John Earle, YPCCo.’s studio super- a great noise awakenedVince, sleep- accuracy of accounting procedures visor, has in his shopstwo especially ing soundly in his tent. Openinghis and to extend guest service, the three prepared items pertaining to Yosem- eyes, Vince sawa beautiful buff-color- model 52 machines cost a total of ite’s centennial. Available is a com- ed bear staring him right in the eye. $7OOO.OO. mernorative envelope known as a After several swings wilh a Broom, in The Lodge managementintends to cachet amongphilatelists, imprinted Vince decided that it was time to o- with an attractively designed extract leave Camp6 for a while, since his expand its room service for guests in of the original grant signed by Pres- new roommate was determined to in both the new and old hotel-type ident Lincoln. On these also, are lhe bed down with him for the night. rooms where telephones have been ht installed. The newmachines, here, will lc El Copitan stamp first issued in Welcome to new arrival Chuck expedite the accumulation and post- 1933 and the 1958 4c Lincoln corn- Talbott from Denver, Colorado. ~ld ing of guest charges. (Continuedon page four) (Corni,lucd on page four)

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HIGH SIERRA GPENINGS WOMENSGROUP DANCE PROCEEDS MEN’S 1964 SWING SCHEDULE Local impatient to get to the moun- MEET GOAL The WawonaMen’s Golf Club has :’ i tains maybe interested to learn that I Last Friday’s dinner dance at The a busy schedule prepared for tk~e the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge will t Ahwahnee, sponsored by the local season beginning with the First An- open June 13, less than two weeks, Womens Group, was attended by nual Doug Thomas Memorial Tourna- I’ or one weekendhence. The Store will i: : .some 130 Yosemite, El Portal and ment to tee up on the week-end of 1. open June 6, unless the weather be- I. Mariposa residents. From admission June 20 and to conclude the following :trays JackRing’s plans; the Grill is and raffle ticket sales, a total of Sunday.. ’..slated. to open June 6, unless the $189.50 was netted, about $29 more Other major competitions include weather betrays Nick Fiore’s plans. than was needed to pay for the tele- the Best Ball Championshiplined up .. (The Hotel Division now operates the vision set provided by the organiza- for the last half of July and first " ’ Grill). The camps’ operdngs are sche- ition for the Yosemite Elementary part of August, and the bJ.g club ’ :uled as follows: School. The WomensGroup wishes to championship tournament to run from . Glen Aulin June 19 thank all those who attended, The August 3 to September 6. Vogelsang June 20 Ahwahneestaff and YPCCo. for their Mixed group fun (men’s and wo- i:: i" MercedLake June 23 cooperation. men’s clubs) include the second half I. Sunrise June 26 Merchandise and money orders of the team match with Fort Washing- t. May Lake June 26 which were raffled were donated by: ton at Wawonaon Sunday, June 7, I NIGHT’SIDE AT THE AHWAHNEE the Branding Iron in Merced, Selbls, the 5th Annual Mixed Scotch Cham- (Continued/rom page two) ’ The night bakers are John Brakman Merced,John Roth Chevrolet, Merced, pionship on July 12 and the 3rd ¯ . and Howard Berger. John is from Del Webb Town House, Fresno, Annual Cy and Agnes Wright Mixed i . " George Campbell’s Ice Follies, the ¯ Graede, Holland and has traveled Scotch Open on September 13. Then, ¯ throughout the United States and local Nawasa Shop, Roger Van S on September 20, the Merced golf ,!.. : muchof Canada. Heis quite a soccer handbags,Beringer Brothers Wineries, team will meet Wawona on home player.as"well as a good baker-and Best’s Studio, Collins Handbags. To groundsto battle out the first half of if ’you don’t think so, just ask him. these rims, the WomensGroup also the annual home-al~.d-home. i.:. extend its thanks. i Howard is from Dearborn, Michigan ~O~ I . . originally, but now makes his home ~o-- ELECTROLUXSERVICE AVAILABLE I .. ... THE FLOCKGATHERS i .... in Hermosa Beach. He has been at Mr. C. G. Driver, a personablegent- The Ahwahnee about a month. At YTS, four of YPCCo.’s regular leman, stopped by the SENTINELoffice i Notes of Interest returnees are back on duty. Ed Mullin, last week.Mr. Driver, in the Electrolux I Congratulations are in order for who resides in Phoenix in the winter vacuumcleaner business in Fresno, ex- two members of the bellmen staff. and drives there for Tanner Greylines plained that he is willing and able Cesar Oyague is now a married is back for his sixteenth season. to cometo Yosemite to repair ailing man and his wife, Diane, will be "Hank" Gerhart, a former football Electroluxes--or will even part with a .i working in the paymaster’s office. coachand retired school teacher, lives new one, should there be a customer. ’.r l LewVerhaarand his wife, Mary, were in Grass Valley and has been driving His addressis: Electrolux Corporation; recently blessed with a 7 pound, 11 for YTS for about 20 years~ Howard 3064 E. McKinley, Fresno 3, phone ounce boy namedKenneth. The family Goodfellow starts his fifth year; 266-0569. is nowthree strong, plus Lew. he lives in San Francisco during the "Tony Says"- Frank Susztar came winter months. "The Deacon", Allen ! COMMEMORATIVESTAMPS, MEDALS i from Hungary seven years ago. His Shanesis starting his second season. (Conthlucdfrom page three) first job stateside was busboyat The About the 10th of June, Gene Cough. memorative stamp. Ahwahnee..... the past two years lin, who regularly drives the Yosem. Also commemorating the 100th he has been working in the pantry ite-Mariposa school bus, will trade anniversary is a bronze medal bear- doing a really great job. His hobby his yellow bus for a YTSgreen .job. ing a likeness of President Lincoln on is physical culture. His gym- I mean FOR SALE one side, El Capitan on the other.. garage - is always buzzing with Home of former employee Veta Through an error in minting, a num- activity. Three busboys, two barten- Morris: ! bedroom,furnished, fenced, ber of medals was struck off bearing ders and front desk clerks were seen good well, oak trees. See Ashby Real. the date "July 30" instead of the doing push-ups, lifting weights and tot, Oakhurst. correctdate, June 30. punching the bag. Zenith Stereo Phonograph:external While not associated with the Yo- Michel Mollet come s from speaker: Excellent condition: Contact semite Centennial, Earle has procured Chateauneuf Lorn. After his appren- Jack Sabine, Orchestra leader, The a supply of the John F. Kennedy ticeship in France, he came to The Ahwahnee. half-dollar attached to an attractive Ahwahnee - just wanted to stay in Webcor Stereo Phonograph; 4 speed key chain. one place long enough to establish 45 changer; 3 speakers. $76.00. Call All of the aboveitems are available ¯ citizenshi p. That was five years ago. Ron Telshaw, 3724881. in the various gift shops. i l

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FRIDAY, JUNE12, 1964 YosemiteNational Park, Calif.

PRESENTATIONOF PLAQUETO OPEN NEWSFROM TOPSIDE COMMUNITYCOUNCIL DRIVE CENTENNIALYEAR RESPONSELAGGING June 8 and 9, will be remembered Observanceof the Cen.tennial of the as this year’s big storm. The road to As of June 9, Communi,ty Council Yosemite Grant Will be touched off the Point was closed in the late Treasurer Jim Edeal reports he has re- on Friday, June 26. On that date a afternoon Mondayand some 11 guests ceived 174 donations, or a total of California Registered Historical Land- and 25 employees luxuriated around $1,778. $922 is needed to reach the mark plaque will be Unveiled at Park a roaring fire in the lounge and goal of $2700. The drive will continue Headquarters. The plaque will com- watched winter descend outside. through June 30, and it is hoped that memorate the signing on June 30, those who have not yet contributed The only real sufferers were those 1864, by President Lincoln of the act of (slipped the mind!) will do so, soon. who had come to spend the "summer" ¯ Congress whereby Yosemite ¯Valley Jim says he likes to be busy. and found that tennis shoes and shorts and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove were are not very warm or practical on ~O~ placed under the administration of the a January night in June! Wecan now FROM CAMP CURRY State of California. chalk up a new one on the laundry The act, now called the Yosemite Fresh pine needles have been Granfi was most significant because walls (rememberlast issue) "4 inches strewn over the grounds. CampCurry of snow on June 9, 1964". is ready for action. fit was the first Federal authorization to preservescenic and scientific values Newemployees since the last writ- The Kiosk Transportation Office, 1 the little building that stood on the .J. for public benefit. The grant constitut- ing are Charles Zaloudek and Brian ed the first State Park in America; the Durenbusboys, KennethTischner, fire- terrace of the Cafeteria in summers act was the basis for the later State .fall man, who hails from Perth, past, now stands near the main and. National Park.Systems. Australia, Tim Heyman,bellman from office, a fine addition to the skyline. The plaque is being placed by the London. Jimmie Hamer, resident assistant California State Park Commissionin -o- manager,divides his time betweenthe Cafeteria and Front Office. Jim is cooperation with the California His- SAFETY AWARENESSURGED showing Bob Eckart the intricate rou- .tory. Commission and the National Present at this month’s YPCCo. tine (and tricks) of being Chief Clerk. Park Service. It is hopedthat Governor Safety Committee Meeting scheduled With the return of Vick Wyler, Dale Edmund Brown will be on hand to for June 25, will be Mr. Herb Maier, Hammel and Dean Savage, along make the presentation, and that In- who is the N.P.S. Western Regional ¯ with more to come, Bob should have terior Secretary Stewart Udall will Director’s special assistant on safety. a fine, dependablecrew. It’s still a accept. Other Federal, State and local Mr. Maier has been assigned to im- little quiet at Curry, compared to ¯ dignitaries are being invited to take plement the N.P.S. Director’s recently the Lodge where the house is most part in the ceremony. announced national safety campaign always packed. Serving as master of ceremoniesfor in the park system. the program which is scheduled to There is still just time for a quick The Service’s safety policy wasvig- begin at 10:30 a.m., will be Horace cigarette behind the stockade. orously stated in a memorandumfrom M. Albright, Director of the National In the Cafeteria, new and modern N.P.S. Director GeorgeB. Ha.rtzog, Jr., Park Service from 1925 until 1933. fixtures adornthe serving line, includ- to the field headquarters, concession- The principal speaker will be Newton ing glass panels between the cus- ers and contractors. Addressing him- B. Drury, who was ,the Director of tomer and the display of food. An self to the above, Director Hartzog the Service from 1940 until 1951 aluminumrail provides for quick and said in part .... "1 ask each super- and later served as Chief of the Calif- easy passageof trays. But everything (Continued on pa~e four) ornia Division of Beachesand Parks. else .is about the same,still informal Also scheduledto speakis Francis Far- Castle Air Force Base. The Rev. James and with a touch of the long-ago. quhar of the Sierra Club. Murphy will deliver the invocation Betty Arnold is back for a second Music for the occasion will be fur- and the benediction will be by the summer,as is "Frenchie", the little nished by the Airmen’s Chorus from Rev. Stephen Walker. (Conlinued on p:~ge three)

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YOSEMITESENTINEL ¯ i CENTRAL WAREHOUSENEWS FROMTHE S. F. PROVINCE YOSEMITE SENTINEL The Ernie Byers madea quick trip Mrs. Kay (Kimi) Yap is the newest Hello, Published by to Washington during the week of addition to ou.r San Francisco’Office past bec~ Yosemite Park and Curry Co. May17, to see relatives and friends, staff. This meanswe can speak Japan- is a big for the information of and report that sons Howard in Gra- ese, German,French, Italian (with the reservatic Yosemite Valley residents. ham, Ted in Port Angeles and Jim in help of Gail Mosley - another new finds at H. Oehlmann Advisor Seattle are well and happy. THeByers addition) -- and a little English. answerec H. K. Ouimet Advisor celebrated their 31 st weddinganniver- Kimi is a pleasure to watch - and "phone g H. Berrey Advisor sary on June 3. Violet Fisher presented listen to - when she helps the many Eckart, Lucile Byers _ Central Warehouse Lucile with a delicious cake, so the camera-laden Japanese ladies and Hammel, Ron Goldstein __ The Ahwahnee celebration started early in the day, gentlemen who are eager to photo- Nar~,cy Mail communications to Yosemite and ended with a lovely dinner in graph and enjoy the beauties of Yo- a dai.ly Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or El Portal with friends. semite. She came to the U. S. with between phone 372-4411. June has started with a rush, and her husband in 1952. Prior to this lines more old friends have returned to she was a child actress in movies JAPANESEFILM INTRODUCED work. Jim Conley, Bob Irwin, Tom and a radio singer. Her career ended The recently completed Japanese Johnson, Anthony Farrow and How- whenWorld War II began (she is this da,te for language version of the film "Yosem- ard Cavanagh are helping in the old?), since the Japanesewere susp.!ci- desks at ite Is My Home" was previewed on butcher shop, as well as a new em- ous that Kimi’s English grandmother Rock. The June 9 at YamatoSukiyaki Restaurant ployee, William J. Stinnett. ( was a spy. week, an( inSan Francisco. The reception was to David Koehn has returned tothe In this country she worked for a Bobbi int, roduce, the film .to travel agents, warehouse, while new personnel in- while as a hostess in one of our finer trallcean bankers and passenger carriers. A- cludes Mary Fedders in the office, Japaneserestaurants but this was too Thisservi bout 80 people attended the showing, Rick Matthewsand Arthur Carson, Jr. much night life for her husband and year and 70% of whom were Japanese, and Duane Howe and Gregory Swalley children, age 9 and 12 (she is this fo"r, moto who apparently were quite pleased are helping Don Crawford, Jr. with old?). They complainedthat they never without r with the picture, primarily, and then vending machines. Tom Weinzapfel saw her, so she decided to look for commodat with the interest that YPCCo. has has been transferred from Studio Dept. day work, which turned out to be assuredot displayed in .their people by having to help in Freight. our gain. of when the film produced with a Japanese Robert Jacobs, Drug Dept. Super- Since arriving ’in the U. S. she has This gives sound track. visor, was called out of the Valley becomevery Americanized. She took park. Befc GRIZZLY CLUB STAYS YOUNG to attend the funeral of his step. dancing lessons from Arthur Murray park visitc Although the Grizzly Club, head- father. Weexpress our sympathy. and bought herself a wig --which tions wer~ quarters at CampCu.rry, has been On June 1 Rosemary Byers gradu- startles the rest of the crew when Valley an active since 1929, it’s patrons are ated from San Joaquin Memorial High every now and then s’he leaves it bed befor~ only as old as 13 or as young as 7. School in Fresno. She is scheduled to lying carelessly around on a chair or ing. .It all started way back then when work at the Nawasa Shop this in the ladies’ room. Have you rushed manychildren of guests were collected summer. to a typewriter and then suddenly. by an enthusiastic young leader .... --O-- realize that a big bushy head of hair , Wawom and the Grizzlies have been success- HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP COMMENTS beat you to the seat? Or in the ladies’ Olga Ossi, fully operating every summersince. From our original crew of five who room? You often wonder if the wig is relucta The Club which opens June 15, will were assigned to open camp on Mc~y is on her, or draped over a type- bu.t accorc be under the leadership of Suzanne 11, we now numbertwenty-five, with writer. If Kimi worked in Yosemite received i d!Artenay, who enjoyed working with still more to come., as only Main it would probably be even more shot a hob the children so much last year she Section is in full swing, both old ond exciting - someonemight take it ’For hole. The is looking forward to another, with new units. StonemanSection has been a ringtail cat or raccoon. and I deck Darlene Gandyas her assistant. open on weekends(ahead of schedule) ature golf Every year, many long-time Yosem- to take up the overflow, starting on The office staff is headedby Paul great care. ite guests bring their grandchilden to o fuji-time basis today. Marsh, Chief Clerk, and a familiar ed a swin .the club, which continues in the ori- Our hard-working housekeeping face around the Valley. To date we a golf ball ginal tradition of: "A club which was staff is headed by Hilda Rust and have welcomedclerk Fred Gulick (who I hated m originally set up with the thought Evelyn Hibpschman, both back for a- spent the winter at BadgerPass), and locals sons Bob Ewing and Henry that we of planning a program of recreation nother summer; Alma Brown from El miniature with greatest appeal to youngsters PortaJ, returning after an absenceof Berrey,J r. It was nip and tuck for the Main- and tuck and one that would emphasize and four years; and houseman Bob Cie. happened create a lasting appreciation of Yo. ments of Mariposa, all of whompitch- tenance crews who worked right one doest semite’s natural wonders within the ed in and readied the campsfor open- through Memorial Day putting our 102 newunits in order for use that week- check her ¯ mind of every Grizzly". ing date on May 22. (Contimsed on page four) proudly pl ¯ ..;.,

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MAY I HELP YOU? FROM CAMPCURRY FROM THE AHWAHNEE Summeris here - a newseason full Hello, Central is a thing of the (Continuedfrom pal~e one) st lady who makes so many box lunches of new sights, new sounds, and new past because the telephone business ce in the early-morning hours. There are employees, but it is also a time to is a big one - just ask the YPCCo. II- many new faces - it takes time to welcomeback the familiar faces from reservation office. The average day get to know them all. After all, the last year. finds at least 300 phone calls being ~W time goes so fast. Towering above Returning to the front desk for his answered by six lovely, full-time all this is Earl Pomeroy,supervising fourth seasonis Larry Lewis from Far- "phone girls" ..... Terry Bird, Nancy ~d the food service, in both the Cafeteria rell, Miss., Larry recently graduated Eckart, Patricia Graumann, Phyllis and Restaurant, whenthe doors open. from Delta State University in Missis- Hammel, Dorothy McGivern and ~d -Steve Barrett (Continued on page four) 0- NancySwenson. They rotate shifts on a daily basis and can be reached o- Per Capita Personal income. 1963 th between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m., (if the ¯ is lines aren’t busy, that is). P~. Ge~.9~,e., /953-/963 .~_.~. ~a.~e,/963 00% 40% I 70% 0 $1,000 $2,000 $3,000 Outpoststo Open ~ T ~ T T 1 I I I Saturday, June 13 is the opening D.C. ¯ Nev. is da,te for the "branch" reservations -~ DoI. I desk:s at South Entrance and at Arch Conn. :i- ¯ N.Y. Rock. They w.ill be open six days a I Call[. er ¯ ill, week, and will again be manned by -- N.J. Bobbi Henderson Mills at South En- : Mass. Alaska trance and Ken Thomasat Arch Rock. ¯ Md. This service was put into effect last Mich, ¯ Oreg, year and proved highly successful, Me. ¯ for, motorists coming into the park Wash. ~is ¯ Ohio without reservations can secure ac- ¯ ’’ Hawaii -~ Ind, ¯ :or commodations, pay a deposi.t and be Pa. assuredof a sleeping¯ place, regardless of When they show up to claim it. ¯ Wyo. -~ R.I. This gives them moretime to enjoy the A Colo. as park. Before these offices were set up, -" Wis. ok ¯ Minn. park visitors arriving without reserva- N.H. ay e Nebr. ch tions were obliged to come into the lowo Valley and spend time securing a Monl. ~n ¯ Kans. it bed before they could set out sightsee- ¯ Uloh ing. Arlz. or FIo VI. ~d -o- Vo. le~as OLGA’SHOLE-IN-ONE N Dak, Wawonagolfers beware! It seems Me. Okla. es’ alga Ossi, of the Accounting Office, Idaho S, Dak. is reluctant to talk about her golf, l N.Mex. )e- bu.t according to an anonymousnote W. Vo. ire Go. received in the SENTINELoffice, she e N.C. )re Ky, shot a hole-in-one recently on the 7th d~ For Tenn. hole. The story goes like this: "alga O ka, e AIo. I and I decided to play a gameof mini- Ark, ature golf. She chose her club with S.C. ~ul Miss, ar great care. Thenshe promptly display- ed a swing that would easily drive CALIFORNIA PER CAPITA INCOME Nevadato a low of $1,379 in Missis- IS FIFTHHIGHEST IN U,S. sippi. The next high incomestates are ha a golf ball 275 yards downa fairway. Per capita incomein the continental Delaware($3,250), C o n n e c t i c u nd I hated myself for having to tell her that we were only going to play United States averaged $2,443 in ($3,162), NewYork ($3,000) and miniature golf. The game was nip 1963, a 3?," jump over the previous ifornia ($2,980). The Far West - with and tuck until the 7th hole, whenit year and 37%above the 1953 figure, in- an average per capita income of as shownin the above table publish- ht happened,she sank her drive. If any- $2,886 -leads all other regions. At one doesn’t believe me, they can ed by the National Industrial Confer- 02 the other end of the income scale ek- check her score card, which she has ence Board. Average per capita in- proudly posted in her room." comesrange from a high of $3,372 in is the Southeasternregion ($1,819). . x-i. ¯ :- .... ., ¯ "...... ~.,... !i i~i

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ii SAFETY AWARENESSURGED WAWONA WINS FROM THE LODGE (Conlinucdfrom page one) !] ¯ intendent to enlist the support and Muddy divots flew on the home Yosemite Lodge has been endowed (i ." course Sunday when the Wawona with a bit of international flavor this :f~. cooperation of concessioners, con- r ¯ team reaped a sweet revenge on summer. .ii . struction contractors, and all others working in a park to join forces with Fresno’s Fort Washington golfers. The Restaurant is fortunate to have us. Working together as a team we Overall points gave Wawona40½, the Luck of the Irish. Miles Fleming, .i can increase our efforts to provide the For.t 22½. a busboy, is from Dublin, Ireland i for the safety of our respective .em- Despite the dampish weather, 84 and has been.in the U. S. all of eight ployees and the safety of park visitors golfers turned out. The Wawonawo- weeks. Prior to coming to Yosemite, as related to each of our operations men accumulated the greatest number Miles toured Europe and has visited in the parks ..... " mostof the major cities in this country. .I of points, defeating Fresno 20 to 4. It is the intention of YPCCo. to The men had a tougher battle, but He plans to return to Ireland after his summerin Yosemi.te, to finish work cooperate fully toward the realization Won 20~ to 18½. of the Director’s program. Through on his Bachelor of CommerceDegree the years, YPC Co. has been con- Jack Keck (Wawona member from at the University of Dublin. scientious in its insistence on an effec- Merced, had low gross with a 68, We find the charm of Norway in tive company-wide safety program Valerie Eagle’s 69 was low net. The the Yosemite LodgeGift Shop. To.reis with respect to employees and park most spectacular highlight¯ of the day Hall Eliassen (better knownas Tot), visitors alike. wasBill Schnettler’s "eagle" on No. 4 came to San Francisco from Norway In 1938 a safety committee was with but a drive and a 6 iron. sixteen months ago. Tot worked in formed and a full-time safety officer The players were served a buffet San Francisco as a governess prior to appointed. This committee has fun- luncheon between nines and a cock- coming to the park far the summer. ctioned continuously since that year. tail party and barbecue dinner after She feels Yosemite a good place for ¯ Since that time, Companyindustrial the match. Nels Nelson and Execu- her to practice her English, as well as injury exposure - that is, total tive Chef Fred Pierson barbecued in French, German, Danish, Swedish and hours worked - has increased at a the drizzling rain while golfers grab- Norwegian. On reaching 21 years, Tot more rapid rate than have disabling bed their bountiful plates and ran for plans to work as a stewardess for injuries. This has resulted in a gradual the recreation room. Pan AmericanAir Lines. but gratifying reduction in injury fre- We have Gerhard Juenemaunn June 20 starts the First AnnualDoug quency and severity rates. from Germanyto thank for the care ThomasMemorial 36-hole medal play With respect to the immediatepast, of the Lodge grounds. Gerhard is work championship Tournament, open to accident records for the first six ing on his English with his co-worker both men and women. Gene Ewing monthsof fiscal 1964 show that dis- and regular gardener, George Rhoan, and Curly Dierksen are in charge. abling injuries to employeeshave de- a Yosemite native-born MiwakIndian. creased by 70°,,’0 and that days lost ~O~ Our guests, as well, have been from per disabling injury have dropped FROM THE AHWAHNEE all parts of the world. We’ve had 80°,/0 below a comparable period of (Cnnllnurdfrom page three) visitors from Scotland, NewZealand the preceding year. and Japan, to mention only a few... YPCCo. Safety Director Ned Eng- sippi and has been granted a scholar- have even had some from Hollywoo& lish feels that ,this markedreduction ship to study law at the University of is a result of the continuing watch- Tulane. -Judy Kulcher mO~ fulness of supervisory personnel as Dining room Maitre’d Ted Kosinski well as a safety-conscious attitude on will have some fine help once again HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP COMMENTS the part of all employees. (Conlinucd froln page two) with the return of "Colonel" Morton, In addition, the Safety Committee, end. Theseduplex units are easier to himself, Barry Jackson and Bill Weems through its program of regular and take care of, needing only a sweepof from Mississippi, Ray Smith, from Eng- frequent inspections of guest-use the broorn and hose, since guests land, and SuzanneChristenson. Serv- areas, .tries to insure against mishap either provide their own bedding or ing as Captain is Lynn Moore, who rent our beddingkits. to Yosemite visitors. At the Safety has been a ski instructor at Badger. Committee’s request, safety experts Woodis a popular cornmodity at LennyPervis, a transfer from the Vill- representing YPC Co.’s insurance the Campand heretofore a good deal age Restaurant last year, is orginally of time and labor were involved in underwriters make semi-annual in- from England. spections of all properties. bundling the woodfor sale. This year In view of Director Hartzog’s inter- The Sweet Shop has been made the problem has been solved, thanks est in an intensified safety program, ever sweeter with the arrival of new to the Hotel Division, whocommission- the YPCCo. Safety Committee plans waitress Freeda Adams.Helping Free- ed Ran Hibpschman to deliver wood to exert every effort to insure con- da in his spare time is Richard Crooks, already neatly bundled with wire. cession cooperation in Yosemite. drummerfor the Jack Sabine Trio. -F. Lundh .t" ~::~’., tI:

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C. C. BRIEFS ASSISTANTSUPERINTENDENT LILES FUNDDRIVE CLOSES¯ Well-handled reservations, astute TO BE TRANSFERRED Community Council Chairm an room-clerking, plus demand at the Granville Liles, who has served as Henry Berrey reports that Treasurer desk resulted in a record 1,575 house assistant park superintendent at Yo- Jim Edeal’s June 26 summaryof the count at CampCurry Tuesday, June semite since July, 1962, has been CommunityCouncil fund drive reveals 23, according to smiling Keith Whit- appointed superintendent of Rocky that a total of $2,371.85 has been field, manager.Whitfield doesn’t re- MountainNational Park. Liles will re- subscribed. Out of 750 YPCCo. em- call the previous high count but feels place Allyn B. Hanks, whois retiring ployees, 144 responded; out of 300 itwas never greater than 1,550. from the service. The replacement to NPSemployees solicited there were In the south side of the Camp the assistant superintendency has not 66 responses. Contributions also came Curry Restaurant, the Sierra Club’s been announced. from 26 miscellaneous sources. "The American Earth" exhibit is now --o-- While the amount of money re- on display. The photos by Ansel FROM THE AHWAHNEE ceived is gratifying, the Community Adams, and the accompanying text, Council membersare disappointed in "I have eaten in thousands of r.es- tell a graphic story of the use, and taurants around the world, but this the individual responses. On a per- misuse, of the country’s natural re- is the first time that I have had the centage basis, only about 20% of sources, causing one to think in broa- pleasureof eating in the chef’s office." the more-or-less permanent popula- der terms of the uses, present and tion contributed. future, to which the land should be These words of contentment, after devouring an Ahwahneesteak, were -o- put. All are encouragedto see it. SCHOLARSHIPSFOR HIGH SCHOOL Porter Fred Bartlett gave the sea- spoken by Vongsanakip Jayarante, Prince of Thailand. The prince arrived GRADS son’s first "Hello, Glacier" call on June The Yosemite Scholarship Commis- at the hotel late one night and asked 13 evening. This is the 65th season sion announces to all high school for somesoup before retiring. Assis- of calling for the Firefall from Glacier. graduates the availability of $450 in tant manager Glen Power asked the Bartlett reports that the occasion was scholarship awards to be madesoon prince if he wanted to eat in the not marred by the wiseacres shouting for the school year of 1964-65. Any chef’s office and the prince was de- for Elmer. graduate whose parents are employed lighted. Chef Pierson put a steak on Program Director Glenn Willard, on a year around basis in Yosemite the broiler, Glen set the table and guitar, smile and warmth, is back National Park is eligible to apply. the prince had a meal fit for a prince. (Continued from page two) One scholarship of $50 a month TIOGA CONTROLS Two unexpected personalities ar- for 9 months is supported by the Yo- Employees who may be "east side rived ori the scene this week. That semite CommunityCouncil. Two other bound" should time their departures "Giant" of a movie star, Rock Hudson scholarships in the same amount are and their returns so they won’t be in- and Richard Deacon, producer and offered by Mary Curry Tresidder. Ap- convenienced by the controls now im- TV comedian on the Dick Van Dyke plications for these, as well, are re- posed by the construction on the Lee show, wined and dined at The Ahwa- ceived by the Scholarship Commission. Vining grade, on Highway 120 east hnee with Mr. and Mrs. John Curry. Oneis intended for college freshmen. of Tioga PassEntrance Station. Control The famous guests were served by The other may be awarded to a hours are: Annie Downey,who is famous herself. sophomore. Closed Open Annie said that "Rock Hudsonis sure The following are taken into ac- 10 p.m.-8 a.m. 8 a.m.-10 a.m. good-looking; I wish I was 40 or 50 count in makingselections: Scholastic 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 2 p.m.- 4 p.m. years younger." ability, financial need, leadership, 4 p.m.-8 p.m. 8 p.m.-10 p.m. Welcome back to Robin Williams personality, health, and general apti- There are no control hours between and Curry Johnson. Robin, on the tude. There is no particular signific- 8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Monday. front desk, is a student at Stanford. ance in this order nor does one The road is also open on legal holi- C, rry joins Jim Mooreas transporta- qualification have any special weight. days. tion agent. (Continued on page two)

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NEWS FROM THE HIGH CAMPS Marty has been with YPC Co. since YOSEMITE SENTINEL With Sunnise and May Lake High 1947, having worked at Tuolumne for ¯ Publishedby Sierra Campsopening today, the circle the first time in 1948. She’s what The first Yosemite Park and Curry Co. is complete and all six Campsare you m.ight call a "lady jack-of-all- ject to im trades", having been an A hwahnee for the information of in full operation. Thosewho will keep apartments Yosemite Valley residents. them going for the summerare: waitress, chief clerk, ski instructor; the H. Oehlmann Advisor From Merced, to Merced Lake come she now winters in San Francisco south side H. K. Ouimet Advisor Elgin and Lola Baxter. Their last ven- where she’s on the staff of the S.F. ages apartr H. Berrey Advisor ture was in Alaska, having co-man- Opera Co. Just recently, Marry re- scheduled Lucile Byers _ Central Warehouse aged a comm.issary and cooked for celved a commendationfrom the Win- be landsca Ran Goldstein __ The Ahwahnee the Alaskan Railway. Mr. Baxter re- ter Olympics Comml.t.tee for her fine between th Judy Kulcher ...... Yos. Lodge ports fishing is great and anything work as hostess during the 1964 each apartr Mail communicationsto Yosemite works -- flies, lures or what have you Gamesat Inns’bruck, Austria. rate outdoo Sentqnel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or andit’s not difficult to limit in an hour. And, keeping everything and every- phone 372-4411. At Vogelsang, Saul and Julie Wise- body organized and happy is Nick ¯ GOL~:ER~ man are keeping house and ali’s Flare, campssupervisor. Nick hikes TH( C. C. BRIEFS going smoothly. They met in Yosemite - at a half trot - between camps The seco~ (Continued from pa~e one) in 1960 when they worked at the and thinks no more of the Merced and states that John Molinari, accor- Thomas Me. Village Restaurant. Lake - Tuolumne Meadows jaunt dionist and Stan Noonen,vocalist, will be played Howard and Cordy Layne are back than most do of walking to the store. be on the Curry program tonight to GeneEwi, for their sixth season at May Lake, raG--. Women and Saturday. Admirers of these two having started there in 1959. They fine artists ae welcometo the even.ing WINDS, FIRE AT VOGELSANG holes, and also worked one winter at Wawona. On Friday, June 26 afternoon, winds Dale Findle program. May Lake is sporting a new dock this at Vogelsang howled with such force Ralph Dieffl The campfire circle is no more. year, along with new boats. that two tents were ripped and a fly Allcock, 136 Keith Whl~tfield claims that it waswith Clarence and Dolly Miller couldn’t rail wastorn from its bracket. Howard of medal regret that he had it uprooted and wait to get back to Sunrise Camp Schneider and Tex Wyly of Mainte- twenty-five removedafter all these years of camp- which they have managed since it nance were dispatched forthwith to complete th fires and .songfests. However, with opened in 1961. The M~illers like make repairs. Among more people in Camp, some of whom Yosemite, summeror winter, having Jane Rust are a decibel or two on the loud worked at Ostrander in 1962 and During camp set up, Gerry Manuca played thei side, its discontinuance has reduced Glacier Point in 1963. and Chuck Gipe were burned, though scores of 6 the noise level and the early-evening Chester and Hazel Patterson are no not seriously when Manucatried to E/wing fu congestion in the yard. newcomersto Yosemite. This is their hurry-up the fire in the stove by add- 12 is the Occasionsof objectionable conduct 7th seasonat White Wolf; they winter- ing kerosene or gasoline. The blaze Wawona M~ have all but disappeared since ed at Wawonain 1962. caught Manuca’s jacket afire; Gipe, MixedSc0tc{" the arrival of Bill Fraser, newhouse A bit of ole England can be found dashing to help him, kicked over a full 18 hc officer. Fraser’s a professional law at Glen Aulln. George and Margaret the gas/kerosenecontainer setting the a buffet{ enforcement officer and knows the Heath, mana.ging this camp, have tent on fire. Both menwere brought to club membe simple ways to maintain peace and been in this country for 13 years, but the hospital for treatment and dis- nines. quiet. Besides which, he’s 6’-3" and still have a lovely British accent. charged. "Sadie weighs 250 Ibs. Most recently they have been working Food supervisor Earl Pomeroyre- with the lad in Southern California. SCHOLARSHIPS ports the following: tubular infrared Advance The manager at Tuolumne Mea- (Continued from page one) heat lamps have been installed on the Rust and dows.is MartyMiller. Capable,s,’niling The basic requirements for the two service counters in the Restaurant. scholarships offered by Mrs. Tresidder charge. These keep food toasty during the Shop. Here, the service facilities have differ from the Yosemite Scholarship brief time betweentheir being served been doubled, allowing twice-faster only in that a "B" average minimum EM up by the cooks and delivered to the service. in an accredited school during the Camp Cu guest by the waiter. And, relates Recently reporting for duty as hos- preceding year is required. One of Tuesdays a, Pomeroy,locals wishing to have the{r tess is SandraSturgeon, wife of Cafe- these, under special circumstances, dances, dinner at the Restaurant will find the teria managerBill Sturgeon. Bill, at has been awarded occasionally to a p.m. The m service best after 8:00, by then the C.C. last season, is a law student, sophomore. Informaton as to appli- employees Curry guests will have finished; in the Sandra a school teacher. cations and procedure may be obtain- welcome; th Cafeteria the line will have dwindled In farewell, Whitfield wishes to ed from Leroy Rust at the Main Post or 35c by t by 7:30.45. Also in the Pomeroy ask, politely, if locals will kindly re- Office or Dana Morgenson, YPC Co. gular" danc sphere is the cone stand, wedgedbe- frain from parking in the 20-minute Reservation Office. Applications will dancing are teween the Cafeteria and the Nawasa registration section. close about July 15. 9to 11 ¯ L

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INDIAN CREEKAPARTMENT CENTRAL WAREOUSENEWS FROMBARNETTSVILLE ’IMPROVEMENTS One of the most important events Despite the mad, mad, mad. world ...The first port. of a two part pro- of the past few weeks took place in of 1964 - or more probably because. ject to improve.~rhe Indian Creek Merced, on Saturday, June 13 when of J.t- the stables seemsto attract Garry Robinson of our warehouse, apartments is. all but completed with more and more visitors. We’d like to .the addition of a sun deck along the married Miss Connie Cerda of that believe that all those parents bring south side of the four over-the-gar- cily. Locals who attended the cere- all those children to the stables to "° ages apartments. The second, stage, mony were Marcia Toman, Mr. and show them a three-dimensional horse. Scheduled but not commenced, will Mrs. Tom Fisher, and Mr. and Mrs. That the horse is an infreqLJently seen I- be landscaping and interior fencing "Mac" Hooper. critter is fairly .obvious. But the.re- between the two buidings to give The Robinsons are living in El mance of ealier daythings mustbe. 4 each apartment dweller a serni-pri- Portal and we extend our sincere yet alive in the youngsters, who. ap-. . vate. outdoor area. wishes for many long years of hap- pear totally fascinated by the sight of piness. them. The most fascinated are the Former employees who have writ- GOLFERSCOMPETE IN DOUG tykes setting off on the burro picnic - ten to us lately include several letters ¯ they’re ten feet high as they follow .~S THOMASMEMORIAL EVENT from Josephene Blossom and husband burro-girl Ann Nollau, and are hazed )s The ¯second round of the Daug Ralph. "Jo" worked in the Studio from behind be Joey Coakley. Joey, ~d. Thomas Memorial Golf Tourney will Dept. and now lives in Palisades, a full-size young man, rides a nt be played this weekend, acco.rding Idaho. They are enjoying their new pony barely high enough to e. toGene Ewing, Tournament chairman. home and the boat which they re- keep Coakley’s feet off the ground. Womenplay 18 holes, the men 36 centlypurcha’sed. Atthe present time, There’s nothing inhumaneabout this holes, and at the present reckoning, Ralph:is busycatching fish andgetting - Joey’s gentling the animal for the Dale Findley with a net 131, leads them smokedfor future feasts. "Jo" pony ring. Ralph Dieffenderfer, 132, and Herky is anxious to work amongher flowers The stables area is spruced-upwith AIIcock, 136, for. the required 36 holes ly but reports a late Spring, so has had a black-topped parking lot which has -d of medal play. There are, however, to postpone the gardening, but has reduced the dust raised by cars and twenty-five additional men yet to e- not neglected her bridge playing ses- horses. And, the burros have a new to ¯ complete their second eighteen. sions. manger out back. Among the 16 women entered, Another friend who recently wrote Dean Conway, who last winter o- Jane Rust and Mary Proctor have was "Punchy" Johnson from Sacra- :a perated snomobiles at Badger, is back played their 18 and turned in net ih mento. He reported that all were at the stables as Manager Bob Bar- ¯ scores of 65 and 69, respectively. well and that he likes his new job nett’s assistant, and, in the office, is Ewing further announcedthat July but misses his Yosemite friends. He d. Janis Lint, who triples in brass be- 12 is the date for the 5th Annual said that someof the bill-boards were ze¸ tween dispatching relieving on the Wawona Men’s and Women’s Clubs so high that he could see the passen- ~e, (Continued Onpage four) MixedScotch Championship. This year bers faces as the airplanes fly by-well ’er a full 18 holes will be played, with almost anywayl Their present address welcomeaddition. ,e a buffet lunch (provided by the lady is: Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnson, 10422 Gregg Swalley, who worked with , to clubmembers) to be served between Don Crawford Jr. on the vending lis- Buena Plaza Circle, Rancho Cordova, nines. Entry fee $2.00 per team; California. machines, decided to leave and has "Sadie Hawkins" partner selection Willard Van Gundy wrote recently been replaced by JamesKo. with the ladies selecting their partner. from his base in San Diego: "Hi Gang" Sunday was Father’s Day and I Advance sign-up is necessary° Leroy Talk about a pc~id vacat.ion! Tell hope all our men were treated with Rust and Valerie Eagle will be in "Ron" he should build the Navy up the love and respect due them on their charge. more. It’s lots of fun." Wehope he dayl Wonder how many went fish- ~ler --o-- ing? One man had a birthday, too; ~ip continues to feel that way and are EMP, DEN DANCES proud of him for serving his country. Mr. Eldridge Whitfield of Y.T.S. cele- Jm brated in the evening. His wife gave he CampCurry Den is the scene, on His address is: Willard S. Van Gundy a surprise dinner in their pretty yard, of Tuesdays and Fridays, of employee SR 778-12-38 CO 283, U.S. Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif- and besides their sons, Eldridge A. es, dances, held between 8:30 and 11:00 Zip Code No. 92133. and Keith and their families, they a p.m. The music is recorded; all park were joined by Mrs. Colleen Bennett ~li- employees with privilege cards are Margaret Storke of Studio Dept. and son "Robbie" from Los Angeles; in- Welcome;the charge is 25c per person, has been confined in the local hos- also Ernie and Lucile Byers. "Chef ost or 35c by the couple. These are "re- pital. She has had surgery, and we Sonny" really cooked the steaks to a Co. gular" dances. Those enjoying square hope for a speedy recovery. dancing are invited to the Wednesday Mrs. SamMitchell has started work- "T" and a most enjoyable time was had by all. 9 to 11 dosey-do dos. No charge. ing in the Studio office, and is a ¯ ...... ;...... : ...... " ...... " ...... " . "- " . .. " ~, ¯ ... .

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TV SET ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUTTHE LODGE OUTDOOREATING SECTION ¯ i.~ Below are printed letters to the With understandable pride, we sub- HorsebackBreakfast Dept. 7 Yosemite WomensGroup.acknowled- mit that the Yosemite Lodge Restau- !¯ Early-rising employees can spend a t .,. ging the television receiver bought rant is an altogether pleasant place delightful time on a HorsebackBreak- to eat. And, it’s madeso by the good ~’./ . for :the Yosemite Elementary School fast Ride, scheduled each Monday, ! ¯ . with the proceeds from the benefit food and the attractive countenances Wednesdayand Friday, commencing dance sponsored by the group: of the employees. .. Monday, June 29. ~’.T.he faculty and students of Yosem- You’ll first encounter pretty wait- The ride begins at the Stables at ite School wish to express their ress Jean Lahey. She’s in her third ¯ t 7:30 a.m. followed by an hour’s jog to appreciation to the Yosem.ite Womens year - wilh a brief time-out for the breakfast area along the Merced airline stewardessing. Jean claims Group for the new Magnavox tele- River. Having risen early, and with. i "vision set recently delivered to the she’s returning to college, comefall. I the ride in the brisk morning air, the ::. school. The need {or a high quality !Representing the land of mag- i hearty breakfast consisting of fruit, i nolias and spoon bread is Bruce I. machine such as this in the foreign bacon, eggs and all the hotcakes you ’"., .. language pr.ogram, as well as other White, a pre-med student at Walford I ¯ ¯ . can eat is most welcome. After cow- .. I ’ areas, has been evident, and I assure College in Souf Carolina. boy entertainment, the riders return Other strong links in our service !:::...... you it will strengthenthe educational to the Stables. chain are Pat Wayneeand Don Geer. ’ i. " program of Yosemite in the coming AhwahneeBarbecue Dept. This is Pat’s second.year at the Res- I.i....".Years: Thankyou aga.in, your thought- The AhwahneeFirefall Barbecues ’ ..... {u hess ¯ is certainly appreciated." taurant. Originally from Kenya, Pat are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, ¯ SignedJames F. Ackley, Principal. has studied medicine at U.C. Berkeley June 30 and will be held each Tues- .. The other letter, from Cleo Adels- and hopes to complete his medical , .. "~ day and Saturday thereafter. The !... bacB, Superintendent, M a r i p o s a education in England. Don, in pre- dinner consists of a delicious Western i " ’County Unified School Dist., is as dental school at U.C., is a newarrival. ,: ~ -. ¯ . buffet, barbecued steak, vegetables ’ . follo.wsi We seem to be well supplied with and dessert, followed by cowboy en- ~ "" ’ ,"Mr. Ackley,. Principal of Yosemite doctors-to-be. tertainment, as well as folk singing Elementary School, has just informed Steward Good, an assistant man- provided by Hank Reynolds, Pat Thor- ager, is a math and aeronautics major ~’" ,. me ..of the delivery of a beautiful son and Ross Hallberg. The dinner MagnavoxT. V. set to the school as from San Jose State and back for his ! - starts at 7:30 p.m. continuing until a gift from your-group. I am certain third summer.He shares the title with the Firefall. that with the increasing number of DonBaldwin, an El Portalean, and the -o- ¯ educational television programs the area’s Methodist Minister. Don, a NEWGOODIES AT V. S. .set Will be of great value to the pupils native, is also working with the Chris- A quick Stroll through the Village and. teachers. As a representative of tian Ministers in National Parks pro- :-’¢," Store reveals that, despite the summer the. Board of .Trustees and on behalf gram. pressure, Dad Ring always is after ~...) ¯ of.the Yosemite teachers and pupils There are others who keep our treats for local cooks. , I.wish to .express sincere appreciation restaurant hurnmng- this repesents In Vern Fuhriman’s produce depart- for the set and the interest the Yosem- a profile on but a few. ment, as attractive a greengrocers as ¯ ite WomensGroup has shown in the FOR SALE you’ll find, the prepackagedfruits and school." 1956 Chevrolet, 2 dr., hard top, vegetables appear to be approaching radio and htr. Has ’59 Pontiac engine, their prime-apricots, plums, cherries- ’ FROMBARNETTSVILLE all cleaned and bundled in pliofilm (Continud’d from page three) new 3 speed trans. Contact Daryel " bui’ro picnic rides and at the kennels. Savage, 372-4651. wrappers. Vern says that, packaged Cliff Bishop. is the head dispatcher. 1955 DeSoto, power steering, brakes: this way, they stay fresh muchlonger Torgy, Helmar Torgerson, who has good condition, cal Terry Savage at than loose. Grapes, which will come put in some23 years at the stables, 372-4545. later, also will be wrapped,defeating is out daily with the two hour guided 1956 Chevrolet 4 door Belair. the lightfingered samplers. rides. Fifty-seven riders go Out on each George Murphy, 372-4833 In the frozen food department, new of .the four gu!ded rides a day - so Lambretta Motor Scooter. Goodcon- are the pastries from the Johnston 228 park visitors have had .a chance dition. Excellent buy. $150. Terry Con- Co. Andy says they’re excellent and to experiencea pleasant ride in rather ner, 372-4854after 6 p.m. about a dime less than Sara Lee’s. outstanding surroundings. 5 rm. house,El Portal. Service porch, Further along, are the peas and mush- Denzet Rowland,. who performed garage, fruit trees, nice location. rooms, peas and onions and peas in before the cameras for Eastman Ko- Louise Ringquist, 379-2354. butter sauce from the ho, ho, ho, dak!s commercial, filmed here last 4 Hampshirespigs, Approx. Wt. 65- GreenGiant and Libby’s. j’. 70 Ibs. $15 each. Call Dale Allison Last, but not of least importanceis year, seems not to have deserted 1 wrangling for the films. He’s back and at YPCCo. Machine Shop or Mariposa the coming wedding in the fall of ! guides the half-clay rides. WO6-3817. Sharon Scully and Don Colp. ]. ,~t,"~’,.k~\ Illil//1~/,;2///’ i ~ ’~"~’"~~/i:/’/k" , itthl!,lli~lllllltI~//{i ;,~,~Z ilI~ II!lJJi,,:, /.’,,,,.,, ’ ,,¢l /,t YOSEMITE

FRIDAY JULY 10, 1964 YosemiteNational Park, Calif. THE FOURTH AT CAMP CURRY CampCurry,the 4th of July, 1964. This reporter, in his hunt for news found little of high news value. He did find, rather, a perfect kind of day in that it was somehowrelaxed and special. It was a day for awaken- ing and a newperspective. Take, for instance, the waitress that served me coffee in the center of the great dining hall known as the Curry Restaurant. The center of the room was sunlit and bright and warmafter the chill of the early morn- ing. "It’s slow", she said, smiling warm- ly. "Enjoy it for the moment,"I said. I could see the other guests re- ceiving special and warm attention from the smiling girl. I’m sure they left with a good feeling about the Camp. b "i.i At the checkout stand the cashier i::. ::.. i..: . was a little less relaxed; she could not find her pen. A young fellow ad- vised’her to go to the Post Office, they had plenty. That was where he got his. Little does he know the Post Office gets them from the Curry front desk. But perhaps this savings keeps OI1 illnt: 2~’1, ;i Ct’l’t’illOil)’ t.~,’;IS h~.!d¢~ll:!llm’~llhl~ lht’ ct’nicnni,~l :innlltci’:,l~lr)’ of the c,’il;lli]ishlllCnl the postage down !o 5 cents. In the ~)1~ Yfl’ien]iic’ Villley ;ind lhc Mr~i’[llll.,;~i GlOVc~i[ IIi14 Tl’cl’,~ ,’is ;i ,~tlllC p;irk, Cllnlll× of lhe lll’O~i’illil w;IS the l~lllc~’iilriit ~l[ :1 {;alil’olni:l llistorical L:indnlilrl¢, plaquehy the long run, we win. Cllli/lll’ili~i Slalt’ il;Irk C~lllnilli~.~hlii. hi ¢~mpc’ralloilwilh lht’ C:lllfol’nl:l l-lislory Coninlis,~ionand The front desk is relaxed, smiling. ihc Niillllii~ll ll~:lk St, lvie¢,llt’rt’, Y~.l~lm.,iit,N,II,S, I~.~iill4t’i’ RickAndersllll, Icfl, iintl Rllil;ild McCullllligh Cal:lvci-asI}it4 Ti’c~s~lalc l~iil’l¢ ~iilx.rvi.~

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HOWLONG’LL IT TAKE? A DAYIN THELIFE OF FIORE ".: .. "... NE i!.". ’ " ~ YOSEMITE SENTINEL Seve~-.LeagueBoots Dept. 1 ’ . , ROyDimock, ¯service managerof the ¯ li Was (,.- Published by Y.T.S. garage, is confronted daily by While this account may not be . .,.The. p. ~: ,’ Yosemite Park and. Curry CO. an average .of thirty visitors whose typical of a day in the life of Nick ¯ . emptied ~: for the information of automobiles are on the blink. Of the Fiore, High Sierra CampSupervisor, ¯ ¯and¯ane ....i .." ... Yosemite Valley residents. thirty, Roy estimates that thirty ask it is a representative day .and to bled to s~ : H. Oehlmann ¯Advisor ¯ "HowIong’ll .it take to fix it?", follow- many, enviable. .. Which wc ¯. ¯ H..K..Ouimet "____ " Advisor ed by, "I’ve gotla get home,my vaca- Departed Tuolumne Meadows Chuck.Za] ¯ H. Berrey ...... ¯ Advisor tion ends tomorrow." Why cars break Lodge at 8:00 a.m. for Glen Aulin hails Steve Barrett ...... CampCurry .. downhere, on the last day of vacation Camp. About two miles from Soda some " Ron Goldstein __ TheAhwahnee Springs, encountered ¯coyote perched remains a mystery to Dimock. The m~ .. Judy Kulcher ...... Yos. Lodge ¯ Roy’s responsible for keeping rol- on a high rock, apparently looking for Chinquap Mail communicationsto Yosemite ¯ ling the 100 vehicles - buses, trucks breakfast, which I did not become. with Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or and cars.- of YosemiteTransportation ReachedGlen Aulin at 11 a.m~ There dant. in ..: ph0ne 372"4411. System and providing repair service spent three hours w.ith camp man- ¯ brush for the visiting motorists. To accomp- agers, Mr.. and Mrs. George Heath, HOSPITALROOM RATES UPPED profusion lish this takesa crew of 1 8 mechanics, review.ing procedures, etc. ~.. Following the negotiation of a new ¯roadside. lubrication and tire men. During afternoon, hiked up Wild- ;.. contract with the Department of In- snow pla Sitting on an oil can in the garage cat Mountain, north of camp. Was " ter.ior, rates ,to membersof YPCCo. ¯ trail to Se fascinated watching a mountain blue "" Medical Plan, at Lewis Memorial ’in the late afternoon, we could see Adjacent bird (Sial.ia Currucoides) .- a fair Hospital, which have not changed mechanicsa.t work on a Morris, Volks- (forget-m wagen, Simca, Chevrolet, Austin-Hea- sized bird, whose colors range.from since 1957, have increased as follows: All .in all the palest blue to gray-blue to white. A ward bed is now $11.00 a day; "ley, Pontiac, Chrysler, Studebakerand country. a Hillman. Roy stated that this repre- In my concentration on bird, did not semi-private (2 bed room) $12.00; sented a greater numberof non-U.S. notice approach of large bear (Ursus private room, if available, $13.00- The Na cars than usual and commentedthat Americanus) who ev.idently d,id not $15.00. that foreign cars suffered from the same notice meuntil we were nose-to-nose...... There has been no change in the during th~ malfunction as domestic cars¯- fai- Bear advanced,I retreated - bird dis- costs to YPCCo. Medical plan par.ti- 4,..and 5. lures of fuel pump,brakes or ignition. appeared. cipants, for surgical procedures, me- cord, To the usual question, "Are cars as At 4:30 p.m. Started for Meadows. dical treatment, office or homecalls, Typically, well-built as they used to be", Roy At 6:30 p.m. was stricken by unbear- and :payroll deductions will continue came the replied that he felt that they were able hunger. In some panic searched at the samerate. Arch pockets and rucksack for a crumb. CAMP CURRY better. However,he went on, the own- and Tioc Came upon four boys, ages about (Condnu,’d from pa~:e one) ers don’t take care of themas earnest- something. One was on the Trans- ly as they once did. It was, in years 8-14, camped.Offered to buy a candy past, that a car owner invariably bar, or other morsel. Boys, showing portation Office counter top in the ¯. .. (C. sun but gave no explanation as to would have his car serviced and pi.ty and someconcern for a tender- was ordeJ his destination. They don’.t movefast checked over before starting a vaca- foot, offered candy bar and six Oreo " climber re’ but seemto be in a terrible hurry. tion trip. Now,they seemjust to drive cook.ies. Acceptedcandy, took but two Mt. Lyell, So it’s a quiet 4th. No long lines off, without so much as a minor in- Oreos. Youngest boy explained pat- Replied for eating, no unhappy people at specrion. This results in the collapse iently that it was but three miles to join searc ¯ ¯ the front desk, the buses going out on of somepart or’ function which would Meadows and allowed I’d probably passenger time- and the kids rocking. There have madeit, with a I.ittle mainten- makeit. aloft. Rec, is not muchin the way of "fireworks", ance. Upon arrival at Meadows(8 p.m.) Darkness unless Mr. C. plans something unusual In the courseof a year,the garage checked in with District Ranger. He. forced to with the Firefall. I’m sure he could people will work on virtually all (Continued on page three) at. Lodge. think of something. makesof cars, foreign and¯domes.tic, large. The exceptio n is the man who Other t! It’s a cool and routine day, yet including Rolls Royces.Roy says, how- has no place to sleep, and an ailing inform ¯ interesting if one looks about and ever, that the Rolls Royceowner gen- car. He, sometimes,becomes irritable. seems watchesout for the caterpillars. erally presents his car for storage, The garage people are called upon sang, most The fireworks are there someplace. and dur.ing the winter months, stops to repair cars of varying ages,¯ 1932 usual spot~ FORSALE by to take its temperature. to 1964 and obtaining parts for the ¯ and Merce 1962 Corvair. XInt. condition. Dri. Despite the fact that the typical older models is often a problem. The condition; yen only by lady to and from the garage customer is concerned about record for a prolonged parts hunt is bloom alor bank. Call 372-4810for details. his ailing car, the loss of mobility held by Bob Stone’s beautiful Riley sunnyslop, 5 rm. house,El Portal. Service porch, while on his vacation and the expres- Saloon. It took six months to get a bears con garage, fruit trees, nice location. sed necessity for "getting¯back to work wheel spindle from the factory in campgrour Louise Ringquist, 379.2354. tomorrow", they’re pleasant, by and England. dump.site. \

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FROM THE LODGE COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETS I .. . .. ’ " ¯ i ¯ ’: :. .. "..:..".. . .:."It. wasa busy’Fourth’ at thePoint. With this .fine, warm summer The Yosemite Community Council ~e-." ’: ,.":-’...":The".i. parking area.filled up and weather, Lodge guests and others, board met July 6 to Concludethe busi- :kl... :i".:"..]; emptied" manytimes during the day. some 400 daily, find the pool a ness..of.the annual fund raising pro- ,r,." .:;.: .:.,..and"an especially large cr0wdassem- source of great joy, and children ject. Treasurer Jim Edeal reported to"....:..i..::.i’,""i " bled to. seethe Firefall:" " fromthe top seemto make most of the splashers. that the community contributed, a .I .... ::.. .:..which.was done .to perfection by ¯ . ": ’ ... . . From his high perch, Maynard Moe total of $2,463.85. The boardappro- s ; ~... . i.%:.’ . Chuck..Zaldachek..Incidentally Chuck keeps an eye on them and Can spot. ved the distribution of funds as n.. .:...L: hails from. Berkeley and also spent . . ,. . . in a twinkling One who’s taken on follows: a " sometime.inSpain. . . ~... ., ...... , too much water. For Maynard, a Yosemite Scholarshi p Fund $3i5 d ..=. . Themeadows., on the wayfrom junior in F.S.C., this is his. fourth Yosemite Badgers 200 ".i :. ::]... .. Chinquapinare nowat high tide year lifeguarding. Janice Ponds, Ro- Local Boy Scouts ~..- .. ::wi!hshooting stars, and comasabun- bertBrindley, Jean Peters and Ronald 100 e.... National Boy Scouts ;;.dant in the moist areas and paint Miller are the other sharp-eyed 200

~’... . .;brush"andpride. of the mountain in guards. American Cancer Society. 400 .. ¯": .profusion¯ .., ¯ along the exposed granite .:. Jan Hubbard, a local young lady, Heart Fund .. ’300 ...... : :roadside. A.magnificent collection of American Red Cross I- tends the refreshment stand, sells 350 ..... -. ""sn°w. plants is to be seen on the swims and passes out the towels. ~s Salvation Army 400 : :trail to Sentinel Domefrom the hotel. Jan’s a high school senior and is pev...... :..,. Adacent.. Federal Service Joint Crusade 100 to. WashburnPointt.helapula. looking aheadto the fall of ’65 when Jr..:;.. " ...i"-..": ¯ (forget-menot)coversthe. Tioga Area .Girl Scouts 200 ...... openslopes., she will enter S. F. State to pursue .. .. All.in all nowis.thetime tosee high. The American Red. Cross, Tioga :..:..... a pre-med course. . .<". ’"country wildflowers. Area Girl Scouts and Salvation Army .. ’ ...... ’; : :... RECORDFOURTH Mike Schuler,. bellman, finds time received $100, $100, and $150; re- : : ’ .... The, National Park Service reports for an. occasional dip and dive. Mike’s spectively, moremoney this year than :~t ..i..": ..that 45,762 people entered Yosemite a.n expert diver and learned the last. This was possible because the ~.. ... ;.":., ;;during the three-dayperiod, July 3, sport in French Morocco- (how about community’s contributions exceeded i- " :.". i .: 4, and 5. This tops., the previous re- that?) F.S.C. is Mike’s destination, the Council’s commitments and be. . :".." -..cord, 44,218, of MemorialDay, 1.960. comefall. cause the Council’s reserve funds were . .::Typically, through South Entrance The Lodge Bike Stand, along with reduced .to $500. Treasurer Edeal ¯ .. ¯ .. . . . ’.. ’.. ,., .came the greatest number, 17,865; the pool, are a part of Dave Down- pointed out the Council cannot Commit d .. ’:’"";ArchRock, 14,020, Crane Flat, 6,253 ing’s domainhere. He is responsible itself to these increased amountsin ~’ ¯ ..."and Tioga Pass, 7,335. for the function of these two activities the future and recommended that I ¯ .. t " ¯ . " " . ¯ ~O~ which contribute so much to a Lodge the organizations so affected be so . :... . notified...... FlaRE¯ visit. Secretary Bea Upton is in the pro- ¯ (Continuedfrom page two) "Transportation Pete" H.ineman, and cess nowof drawing checks in favor of was .ordering. helicopter search for his staff, which includes Hans Wach- the o,rgc~n’.iza.tions receiving con.tri- climber reported to have fallen from smuth, Jerry Liles, Bruce Fladmark, Mt. Lyell,asked if I knewthe country. butions. .. .’.~ Bob Leonard and Tom Tischer have ...... Replied affirmatively. Volunteeredto quite a job to do. They arrange tours, The Council closed its meeting with .: join search. Found. myself strapped in on bus or horseback, barbecues, a resolution thanking the local people . .i passengerseat of helicopter and soon greet arriving bus passengers and for their generous response to this ~ aloft. Reconnoitered base of Lyell. smooth their paths. And, it seemsno year’s fund drive. Darknessfalling - air currents bad - matter what a guest wants to know, -o-- ¯ i. forced to return to Meadows.To bed he’s told to "See Transportation". FLOWERWALKERS ¯" : at. Lodge. Locals who can spare Monday .... Other tidbits.from Fiore include the TomTischer is on his first Yosemite morning, July 13, can spend a de- .."" i. n.f o r ma t i o n that: Mosquito-cycle summer and plans to attend U. of lightful two hours with the flower . :.... seemsabout at end, including Vogel- Hawaii this fall. Hansis from Heidel- walk in the, Bridal Veil-Badger Pass ...... sang, mosquito heaven; fishing at the berg, Germanywhere he is a mini- area. Ray Draper, Bridal Veil camp- ¯ .i.... usual spots, Townsley, Gallison, May ster in the EvengelicaI.Church. In the ground naturalist, will meet flower .. andMercedLakes good; trails in fine U.S. since last September as an ex- walkers at 10:00 p.m. at the camp- change student, Hans has been .. condition; flowers commencing to ground registration sign, lead them . , bloom along the trailsides and up the studying in Berkeley at the Divinity on the walk/ride over the old road ’ .i. .sunny Slopes; Tuolumnedump moved, School of the Pacific. to Badger, with stops enroute. Bring a ; ’ bears: confused; finding dinner in Understand that Chief Clerk Wayne lunch; lemonadewill be provided. .. campgrounds until they locate new Hildebrand has made his frist ski Fromall advancereports the flowers. ¯ ¯ .dumpsite. dive. "Ripcord" next, Wayne? in the area are lovely and profuse. . ., .

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THE AHWAHNEE GOLF NEWS CLIMBERKILLED IN MT. LYELL FALL :i . !... " ...Dolores Hallinan, Ki.t.Whitman, Nels The first Annual Doug ThomasMe- ¯ RayAndewKrogh, 39, 26415 Bassi i .! i;...~ Nelson and the busy, busy crew have morial Golf Tournament ended in a wood Avenue, Palos Verdes was kill- l...... our hearty congratulations for their 7 ¯ .. .: . tie between Herb Ewing and Dale ed Friday afternoon July 3 in a fall ¯ . , .. . - excellent Firefall Barbecueslnow Tues- Findley, each ¯carding net scores Of on Mt. Lyell. I.. ":. day and Saturday events. Movedthis 131. Play-off is slated for July 11. Krogh, with three other men, had i ¯¯¯¯¯¯year to the clearing east of the bung- climbed the north side of the 13,.114 t ’ The Wornen’s Division winner was [:: . al0ws~ some 150 guests and valley Jane Rust, who turned in a net 65; foot mountain wit.h the aid of ropes ~.. v.isitors..are treated to a.fine buffet Lurline Attardo’s net. 66 took second earlier in the day. They were on the ¯ .t i"."i . followed .bY a sizzling steak. Hank honors. way down, without ropes, when K.rogh i:." ’ Reynolds, Pat Thorson and Ross Hall- e reportedly slipped on a rock face and i;. Charlie Eagle received a letter from 1. be.rg, entertain¯ the well-filled guests fell approximately 150 feet, the last thewandering Hickoks who are in the t with folk.tunes until Firefall time. 75 feet on the ice of Lyell Glacier. East spending the summerwith their J " . DaveLyles, lastyear’s dining room .The accident occurred about 2 p.m., golf-pro son and his family. They sent "..’ Captain returned to his former haunts according to Whitney Anderson a last week. Dave’s now at Fort Ord - special greetings to all their Yosemite ¯ member of the party, who walked ’ ¯¯doing youikn0w-what. ¯ ¯ friends, and a $5.00 check as their out to Tuolumne Meadows, arriving (:lontribu.tion to the DougT.ho.ma’s ’ ¯Back for another season is Dick about 6:30 p.m., to report the acci- Memorial Tournament. ¯ -." ,. . Smith from Greenwich, Conn. Dick is dent. A helicopter on standbyfire duty in charge of the g01f and tennis faci- Prizes were given in the Women’s in the Park attempted to locate the lities at The Ahwahneeand is indeed club for their June Eclectic Tourna- party Friday evening, but turbulent t.- ¯ a Walking encyclopedia on the sports ment as follows: Marian Pierson, 1st air and advancing shadows hampered low net; Hazel Warren, 2nd low net; , ¯world.~ . ,. the search. The ..helicopter took off Newon the Morning Report Valerie Eagle, low gross. (Your non- again next morning with Fire Control .... New employees include busboys golf editor has learned that an eclectic Aides Gerry Chilton and Peter Wehner ¯ JamesPhillips, Roger Shepherd,Ash- tournament is one in which the impro- and arrived at the scene about 8 .win Barbhaya, James Herman, Joseph vementin score for a given period is o’clock. In the meantime,John Lewis, BIythe, III and David Condeff. Serv- recorded. The contestant lowering his also of Palos Verdes, had walked out ing .as assistant Maitre d’ is James score by the greatest number of to report that his companion .had Mathias from South Carolina..New strokes is declaredthe winner). died within a half hour after the fall. waitresses are Ramona Greb and The Fifth Annual Club Mixed Scotch Krogh’s body was removed by " Lillian Navins; The kitchen staff has Championship Tournament is set for helicopter to Tuolumne Meadows. ¯been bolstered by Gil Sheets and Sunday, July. 12, with 55 players Herb Ew.ing, District Ranger at the John Day. teeing off in foursomes to play 18 Meadows and deputy coroner for ’ . The last of the Peruvians, .Jose holes. This is the largest participation TuolumneCounty, ordered its removal "Panzon" Lizarroga, has returned as for the joint club tournament. Instead by the TuolumneCounty Sheriff’s De- ’ ¯ a wine. steward. WhenJose is not of the, buffet luncheon previously partment. ¯ .workingat. the hotel, he spends his ar~nounced, the tournament will be LEWIS MEMORIAL time taking care of his adopted son, followed by a picnic supper as pro- Several SENTINELShave gone by Loco Nunez. vided by the women’sclub. without a report from the L. M. ,Tony Says" - It is nice to have --o-- Hospital. friends, especially in the Tahoe-Reno YOSEMITEON FILM Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wass(Pat Kirk) : area. I visited Frenchy and Martha becamethe parents of a baby daugh- Within the week, tWO motion pic- -. Meyers over the weekend. Frenchy ter on June 27. Baby Tanya Marie wants his friends to know that they ture companieshave been in the park weighed8 Ibs., 2 oz. on arrival. recording the Yosemitescene for tele- ¯ -are assured .of gas Lmoneyback to Dr. Laurence Cutner has joined the ¯ vision release. CBSis including Yosem- the park if they go broke while visit- hospital staff. The Cutners, from ite in a project, ominously entitled ing him. Indiana, have a fine family consisting "What We Are Dong to The Face of The other day, I remarked to Chef of three daughters, ages .12, 6 and 3; America". Release is planned for the Pierson, "You sure are loading tile three sons, ages 8, 7, and 1. work on me". He replied, "You asked fall of this year. for work when you came here". Yes, The National Educational Television release date will be reported in the I did, but if a manasks for a drink company has a crew, with elaborate SENTINEL. of water, you don’t turn the hose on tape-filming equipment, in the park Jack Wolper, an independent pro- " " him ...... now shooting the John Muir segment ducer, who did the "¯very successful The question of the month is: Will of its "Pathfinder" series. This, too, "Making of A President" documentary, Loco and Jose make enough money will be televised in the. fall. Locals will be in next weekon an exploratory this summerto buy Indian Flat?¯ may watch in on KQED. Its exact mission, with a future film in mind. ’i !.

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W. B. LEWIS WIDOWDIES HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP M. C. T. REPORT Mrs. Washington¯ B. ¯Lewis, widow Our own Inquiring Tattler made Mrs. Tresidder recently returned’ to of the first superintendent of Yosem- the rounds of a number of the new Yosemite following a trip aboard. ite under the National Park Service, units, to obtain from the occupants The SENTINELwill print, in install- 1916 to 1928, died of cancer on a cross-section of "guest reaction" ments, her account of the journey. Saturday, July 11th, 1964. to the innovations wrought therein. "So many people seem to have Following a heai’t attack in 1927, Q. Good morning;Mr, and Mrs. Neill been interested in my recent trip to I. ,Du’sty" was transferred to the Wash- of Oakland, I believe? Switzerland and Norway that I deci- ington, D.C. ¯office as all Assistant A. (by Mr. N.) No, not Oakland- ded to take typewriter in hand for Director in 1928. After his death in Oakdale! What’s the matter with a report. 1930 Mrs. Lewis returned to her old your clerks - can’t they read? "After three days in Paris at the homein Parkersburg, West Virginia, Q. Oh. Sorry. Just wondered how beginning of June, our trio - Mrs. and. had lived there since that time. you were enjoying your stay in Vincent Butler, Miss Anne Meux and (Continued on page two) our new units? I - crammed with gourmet food, FROM WAWONA A. (Mr. N. again): Can’t say the flew to Zurich, where we rented a This season at Wawonastarted thing itself is too bad; but weasked small" Hertz Chevy and drove by way. dramatically as MGMrolled in and for a river tent, and we madeour of Lucerne and the Lake of the FoUr took over for two weeks, turning our reservations six months ago - Cantons to Grindelwald (elev. 3,402 quiet retreat intoa Nazi war hospital. (Mrs. N., interrupting): But dear, the ft.) at the foot of the Jungfraumassif, The ~Corthcoming movie is entitled clerk explained all that - in the BerneseOberland. "Thirty-Six Hours" and stars James (Mr. N. interrupting her): Shut up! "There we stayed for a week and Garner, Eva-Marie Saint, and Rod We didn’t get a river tent, and a half at the Regina Hotel, which Taylor. we’ve been coming here for 18 is owned and managed by Alfred Soon after MGMleft came another years. And the man didn’t pick up Krebs and his wife. He had worked ¯ lively weekwith the U. of C. Alumni our garbage, either ...... at The Ahwa’hnee in the winter of ¯ gathering. Then a restful week was Q. Oh, the housemen don’t collect ’39-’40, and I have stayed at the enjoyed by all as a group from San garbage while the units are occu- Reginaseveral times. It is a very well Francisco passed the Fourth of July pied: only on checkout. Yousee, the run hotel, beautifully set among .’i holidays with us. As they lefL families idea of HousekeepingCamp is -- larches, spruce-firs and plane trees, began¯their annual one or two week A. (Mr. N., of course): Well that’s facing the green slopes where the stays¯ here, and we look forward to hell of a way to run a camp, not little electric train runs up to Kleine having the "younger set" predominate collect garbage! Scheidegg,take-off point for the cog- ’i Q. Er - thank you for.. your com- wheel railway which goes through :i for the rest of the summer. Returning for another season are ments, sir. And madam. tunnels in the solid rock to the Jung- :1 After a slight interval for rehabil- fraujoch at 11,350 feet. From these :? Joe Mason as Chef, Helen¯Lais as Dining RoomHostess, Buck and Addle itation, our Tattler proceeds: green and flowery slopes rises the Martin in Housekeeping and Main- Q. Mrs. Evelyn Johnson, I believe? sinister black wall of the Eiger (13,039 tenance, Rosella Armstrong as Chief You’re from Burbank, aren’t you, ft.), scene of so manyharrowing rock- Clerk, Chuck Dias and Mark Reuter Mrs. Johnson? climbing experiences. as Bellmen, and "lke", "Manny", and A. Yes, that’s right. Are you the "We had a wonderful sparkling head of things around here? morning at the Jungfraujoch, from ..:’i Paul as busboys in the dining room- Well, I guessyou could call it that, all dependable employees whomWa- Q. which the Aletsch Glacier streams (Continuedfrom pa~e two) wona is proud to welcome back. (Continued on page three) They, and our newer employees, son’s invention of a 10 foot long by some of our more ambitious gathered for their first party at Big marshmallow and weinie-roaster, people. Weare anxiously anticipating Creeklast Thursday;e s p e c i a I I y the singing led by Chuck Dias, and a promised watermelon bash in the memorable was Harvey Christopher- the walk up and back undertaken next few weeks.

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J BIG TREES LODGE HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP advance: ¯ YOSEMITE SENTINEL (Continued from page one). As many may know, this Lodge, Q. Mr. Published by (ha-ha). We were interested south of Wawona,north of Fish Camp, We’d Yosemite P.ark and Curry Co. your commentson these new units, miles from civilization (as weknow it), the new for ffhe information of Mrs. Johnson. is quite’small. For those employees A. "1 Yosemitei Valley residents. A. Oh, were you? How nice! They’re reveling in the extremely active and filthy! H. Oehlmann Advisor very pretty, of course, and Smart- varied social life, B.T.L. may hold park H. K. Ouimet ...... Advisor looking, compared to the older liitle fascination. But for those who rest-re H. Berrey Advisor tents; but we’ve been coming here are interested in people, in living here Mail communicationsto Yosemite so many years, we’re sort of closely with them, Big Trees is the water Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or in love with the canvas tents. It is "!... place. should phone 372-4411. nice, though, to be able to enjoy Indeed there are many advantages an electric blanket. A.nd we are wept to being in an outlying lodge such prices ’GossIP FROMGLEN AULIN using the electric frying-pan and as ours. There is much greater free- the rotisserie ...... night ¯ Horse¯ shoes and dart ¯board for domin one’s work (a flexibility un- Q. Will you come back next year out the guests, a hammockfor the staff. heard of in the Valley); and then, to a new unit, then? body T’he.only thing missing is cold beer. there is our own time off, a time A. Oh, dear; I hadn’t thought of that. and ¯ Holly Hart is the official greeter for when we hike, migrating to such Much as I love the old tents - I Q. Yes, all saddle trips, and the horses get places as Bass Lake, etc. guess it will be a new unit. But have priority. The walking trip people get We have taken many exhilarating HOWdo we get a river tent? We’ve spect. less lavish attention. jaunts throughthis part of the country, been coming here so long and - maril The routine is settling downto a but an especially noteworthy one Q. Thank you! But I must run ..... more steady, seven.day grind. (Sympathy occurred just the other night. About Anotherfront is attacked: A. I w is here expected from all the other 8:45 p.m., six of us (a coed group) Q. Mrs; Sadie Nesbitt? You’re from is our High Sierra Camps.) decidedto take the trail to the Grizzly Petaluma, ma’am? want Bruce Burnett has a very nice friend, Giant. It all started pleasantly, if A. Well, yes, that’s right. This here’s get a Fuzzy the Bear, who doesn’t know unevenfully. The mooncasting ghostly my daughter - got her hair in servat which way is up. One momenthe is shadowsacross the granite. But then curlers, of course. Wouldn’t you Q. Wel being fed all the garbage, and the in a large meadowabout half way know, every time a man comes A. Ime next minute when he comes near to our destination we lost the trail around - a rese; camphe is greeted with a fusilade of and wandered aimlessly through the Q. I see you.’ve been ¯using the the Iocl rocks. A bear cub’s life was never a dense brush and thickets. We could electric hair-dryer. Howdo you en- Q. But happy one. have sworn that we were just walking joy these conveniences? itself? The da~k horse of the staff is our and crawling in a big circle to the A. Oh just wonderful! ¯We’ve hooked A. Oh, lovely Jeannie Timby, who is a great left, but John, our pathfinder, even- up the radio, and the electric bar- can hc hiker and is looking forward to climb. tually led us to the trail, just when becue pit, and the toaster, and the from tl" ing Mt. Conness before the summer we were seriously considering spen- roaster - it’s marvellous. of the is over. Shealso loves the mules. ding the night in the wilds. Q. I can see you’re really enjoying can he Whilst Margaret Heath was slaving Thus, one can see that our life, campingout. Er- is that an electric. Q. Yes, in the kitchen over a hot stove hus. though far removed from the beach heater, too? that fo band George was trying his hand at parties of the Valley, does have its A. Yes, it gets kind of chilly in the of baf ~ fishing. Hefinally got fed up. reeled variety. : early mornings, you know. And space in the line, and guess what - there Wedon’t have the spectacular gran- next year we’ll brin’g along the TV, A. HmF .was a fish on his hook, and he didn’t ite of the Valley, but we do have now that we know how grand rooms. knowit. Needlessto say it was a real the sequoias. The bulk and age of everything is. Q. lunker, all of 3 inches long. He did these trees that climb towards the Q. But you know, Mrs. Nesbitt, the One m~ not photograph it for the record, as sky constantly remind us of our re- units are equipped to service only pattern: he is a great talker and the fish will lative smallness and impermanence. two appliances in the cooking area, Q. Gooc no doubt grow to its proper size, It almost seemsthat they light the and one, like the hair-dryer or an of Bak, given time and a poor memory. way for mento try to be as noble in electric razor, in thesleeping area. you W. B. LEWISWIDOW DIES character as that these grand trees I hope the fuse won’t blow out on units.. (Continued from page one) appear to express. Somehowthe quiet you ...... A. Oh, Bernice Lake, below VogelsangPass pleasures we enjoy at B.T.L. compen- A. Only two appliances? How do they you ho which was namedfor her, is on the sate fully for the absencesof the more expect anyone to camp out with think it headwaters of Lewis Creek named urban life of the Valley. onlytwo? Why, you might as well withoul for her husband. The W. B. Lewis If onemustwork, an outlying unit forget the electricity entirely ..... but wh Hospital in Yosemite was dedicated such as ours seemsto allow more rap- Q. Thank you Mrs. Nesbitt ...... for th as a memorial to him in 1930. port from this grand land, Yosemite. But nothing daunted, our Tattler plenty .,...

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YOSEMITESENTINEL advancesagain: TRAVEL CONSULTANTHERE GOLF NEWS. in Q. Mr. Hal Green, of San Francisco? Mr. Milnes, proprietor of the Fresno We’d like your comments, sir, on nits, Travel Center, with offices in the Del The play off between Herb Ewing the newunits ...... Webb Towne House and the Man- and Dale Findley for top honors in :y’re A. ~1%$.!? ! The rest-rooms are chester Shopping Center, is now the the First Annual Doug ThomasMemor. bart- filthy! Why, every camper in the representative for Yosemite Transpor- ial Tournamentresulted in Herb’s win- Ider park has found out about your new tation System.In addition to handling ingover Dale with a net 68 to 70. 1ere rest-rooms, and they all converge Yosemite-boundbus passengers, Mil- Jane Rust was the winner in the wo- of here in OURcamp, to use the hot nes conducts an active travel agent men’s division. t is water and the new fixtures! You business. The YPCCo. Sales Office has Twenty-six .teams teed off July 12 should put a stop to this! Whatare arranged for Mr. Milnes to be in Yo- in extremely warmweather to vie for are we paying for? Lord knows the semite during mid-August, when he the championship of the Annual Club prices are high enough - $8.00 a will be glad to discuss any travel Mixed Scotch tournament. night for only four people! - with- plans being formulated by YPC Co. Valerie Eagle and Ned English - ear out having to foot the bill for every- employees.Milnes is active in arrang. low gross, 82. body else in the Valley to horn in ing transportation and i.tineraries for Charley Proctor and Alice Hanson, lOf.. and crowd out your own guests! travelers to any destination. and Jack Greenwell and Clara I Q. Yes, Mr. Green; we realize we do The exact date of his visit here will Frenchtied for’ first place with But have a Slight problem in this re- be announced in the next SENTINEL. a pair of 61s. .~’ve" spect. But we’d like to know pri- M.C.T. REPORTS Keith Kaeser and Audrey Ewing marily if you find the new units (Cont/nued from pa~¢ one) 2nd place, net 62. more comfortable than the old? away 12 or 13 miles to Brig. On a Harold Bondshu and Isabel Dierk- drizzly day we went on over to A. I wouldn’t know, frankly; this sen, 3rd place, net 63. is our first year here. But what I Wengen and browsed in the sport Ruth Ewing and Bob Cromer, and shopsthere, especially Molitor’s. want to know is why didn’t we Les Shorb and Hazel Warrentied "One day early in our stay we get a river; tent? Wemade our re- for 4th place with nets~of 64 in servations two weeks ago! went up the cog-wheel railway above Prizes were also awarded at the Interlaken to the noteworthy wild. picnic following the tournament for- YOU Q. Well, you see, Mr. Green - flower garden at Schynige Platte, a recent "best 9" contest in the Wo-. les A. I mean, what’s the use of making where, in addition to a great number a reservation at all, if you don’t get men’s Club. Winners were ..Mary of wild flowers growing ill what Proctor and Valerie Eagle. the location you want? approximatestheir native habitat, and Local golf club membershave all .m- Q. But do you like the new unit, all neatly labeled, there are spec- been saddened at the recent and itself? Are you comfortable here? tacular views of the Jungfrau group, A. Oh, it’s all right, I guess; but you suddendeath of Dr. Lowell Rantz Of. can hear every bit of conversation the Wetterhorn and other snowypeaks Stanford. Dr. Rantz, his wife, Helen, rising from the placid lakes and and daughter, Liz, have vacationed from ’the people on the other side valleys of the Thun-Brienz region. at Wawonafor many Summers, spen- of the duplex, and probably they A booklet published by the garden ding every day on the golf course. can hear ours, too. gives a most interesting account of ’ic. Q. Yes, we’re going to try to solv~. nq~.. the various types of soil and exposure that for next seasonwith somesort under which different groups of Al- FOR SALE le of baffle at the peak of the air pine flowers live. Wefound this trip VW, 1958, sunroof, rebuilt motor, ,d space betweenthe tents. a valuable briefing for the manywild good tires. $700. Call 372-4282, Mar- A. Hmph!To get back to those rest- flowers then in bloom, one of our ion Becker. d rooms ...... main objectives. 1955 DeSoto, good condition. Call Q. Thank you, Mr. Greenl Terry Savageat 372-4545. e Onemore try, to fill out the sampler know, for the first time in years, we 1 17" Airline T.V. table model, Y pattern: succeededin getting a river tent! I Good Cand. $50 _ 1 1~ Ton G.E. Q. Good morning, Mrs. Roy Syverson think your office staff is extremely Refrigeration air conditioner like new I1 of Bakersfield? Just like to trouble capable and courteous...And those $75 -- 1 small water type air cooler l, ’ . you for your opinion of these new poor janitors! They clean the rest- in good cond. $20. See, Jim Simpkins n units...... roomsconstantly, andisn’t it terri- lot 11 El Portal or call 379-2485. A. Oh, I’m so glad to be able to tell ble what the guests do to them? I no- you howmuch we like them! I didn’t think the Campis a delightful spot, WANTED think it would be muchfun camping and very well runl We’re very Wanted to buy: Small bedroom without the old kerosene lamps - happy! rocker, prefer maple or one that can but what a joy to have the hook-up Q. Er- could you please repeat that be refinished. Contact DorothY/Conner, for the electric rotisserie! And ma’am?Just once more?! YPCCo. Reserv. office or phone after plenty of light ...... And, do you ...... The Tattler 6 p.m. 372-4854. t YOSEMITESENTINEL THE BINGAMANSTORY "Ranger Billy Nelson was the guide NEWSFROM TOPSIDE ItJ John Bingaman was a park ranger for the King and Queen. They rode iI in Yosemite for 34, almost 35 years. horsesup the Four Mile Trail. While the CowPalace is a long ~,vay He and his wife, Martha, retired in "Prince Leopold insisted on a pack from Glacier Point, the recent events 1956. There follow some anecdotes trip next day. So Ranger Nelson and there had their impact on us in person regarding their experiences during I were detailed to take the Prince as well as thru TV. Governor Scran- their first seasonin Yosemitein 1919.. and his bodyguard to the Bridalveil ton’s children spent the night here as did Jackie Robinson and his family. Bingamans’home on Glacier Point Meadowson an overnight camp out. Werode horses. I was the cook. The Robinson was an alternate in the New 1919-1920 Prince wanted to make flapjacks and York delegation. ¯ "October 1, 1919 we were selected toss them up in the pan "cowboy" The face of the main building is to be winter caretakers at the Glacier style. Hegot a big thrill out of this. We about to have a coat of paint. The Point Mountain House. returned via Illilouette CanyonTrail job which will require scaffolding, "Thomas Farrow was General Man- next day. A successful campout. ager of the Yosemite Park Company. two weeks and approximately 125 "The next day the Royal Party de- Mrs. Cook was manager of the Sen- gallons of stain and will be handled parted for San Francisco. This party tinel Hoiel. Both were very helpful in by Lew Yancey and companyl was very gracious and thanked us getting us acquainted with the work for a wonderful time. A recent visitor was retired Ranger to be doneat the hotel. John Bingaman,* who filled us in on "We were packed up the trail, on "Early Novemberour first snowstorm a number of facts concerning the riding horses. Our personal belong- closed the road to traffic, and this early days "when". During the sum- ings and six months’ supply of food finished our housecount for the sea- mer of 1919 he was supervisor of wassent up by truck. There was plenty son. The new hotel was boarded up, the operation for the YosemiteNation- of can food and dry staples, but no doors and windows secured for the al Park Company.He further reports fresh things as we had no deep free- heavy snows. By the last of January that the dining room and kitchen in zer.in those days. Wehad no radio or we had tell feet of snowon the level. the main building were in use during T.V. The telephone line went down There was plenty of hard work to keep this time and that approximately 100 i - with the heavy snowstormin January. snow clear of porches and valleys. guests were housed. The Mountain i Mrs. Cook sent Dick Hyland up in late "The summer cook was Wang, the house accommodatedonly employees C’hinaman, a very good cook. He left January to help shovel snow..Lucky and the present cafeteria area down. a few days after we arrived, so I ¯ for meas I fell off the roof andsprain. stairs was used only in the winter. became cook. Somehowmy bread and ed my knee. And this handicapped mefor a week. Our fine Doctor Stine Arthur Merlitti, dinner cook and cakes did not turn out like Wong’s Michael Bruton kitchen helper have ¯ But I learned in time, the hard way. came up and gave me necessary treatment. joined the staff since last writing. ’;We lived and cooked in the up. (* See Bingamanstory, page 4) stairs of the Mountain House and "March the heavy storms decreased and we were able to get out on snow- guests were assigned the eight rooms long, and we were curious about how shoes. Easter I sent a firefall over the there; over that count we had to place things were going on the outside. We themin the big hotel. point, for special occasion. however, did not get so bad, as ask a question, and then answer it. "Stages brought guests up nearly "March I made two trips down the Four Mile Trail to pick up mail and every day when weather permitted. "Well, first of May camebefore we take back a few pounds of fresh Wehad up to twelve guests one night. realized it. Mrs. Temple, with a crew There was only one extra girl to wait meat. I had snowshoes to make this of six, arrived to take over and open trip. Going downwas easy, but climb- on table, to help Martha. I remember the hotel, both buildings, for the sum- ing back was a different story and I baked a large ham that day. The mer visitors. guests were from Java. They thought took about five hours. "The kitchen and dining room was it was delicious, along with apple "During the long winter evenings used in the new hotel and was very pie and plenty of coffee. we read books and studied about popular, as it was filled to capacity- "October 10 theKing, Albert, and nature and animals. We had bear, fox, skunks and squirrels for our 125 every night during summer. I Queenof Belgium and party of twenty believe no more than 15 employees neighbors, as well as bluejays, juncos arrived for a two day stay. Much were used to operate both buildings. and chicadees. preparation took place. Mrs. Cook "The old Mountain Housebuilt in 1878 sent up the best help she had, about "Our first visitors were R/anger by JamesMcCauley, still in operation. six extras, to prepare meals and Townsley and Rich. They brought a The Newhotel built in 1916 by Guet- wait on the Royal Party. Martha turkey and did we have a big feed taman Bros. It was an experience we assisted on waiting on tables. Meals that night. 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YosemiteNational Park, California FRIDAY, AUGUST7, 1964 BIG TREESBREEZES M.C.T. TRIP FROMTHE T.M.L. The Cat Howls (Part II) Three of our desk clerks camehome Flowers of the Tyrol Wereport the latest hiking adven- one night to what has been called a tures of members of the Big Trees "Fairyland - -"; their tent had a We made several expeditions up Lodgecrew -- these involving two sor- i wall,to-wall-a nd-floor-to-ceiling car- the "First" chairlift, which rises 3,000 l ties to the top of 8,700 ft. Mt. Ray- l feet above Grindelwald to a high penting of pink meal tickets; and there mond, outside the par.k’s southern were tickets in every book, shirt plateau with very good skiing in boundary. Two girls from the staff winter. In summer,one looks downat pocket, pants cuff; tickets pasted on have madethe climb, at the present, fields and pastures crowdedwith wild clocks, flashlights, owls, dark glasses others wi.II makeit, for it has become white geranium, somewhat larger and fishbowls. Merry Christmas from now a matter of pride and curiosity. the waitri, who avoided decorating than our pale pink variety, a kind of Margo Loowe, John Gabel and Gene’s high sierra hens and their coop knotweed with long, creamy plumes, Santi Rogers set out on a hot after- only because of rain. The chickens dark red nigritella, blue campanula, noon last week for the 5 mile, 3,000 enjoy it here and manageto lay an buttercups and huge dandelions and ft. trek. After 2Y-’ hours of strenuous egg a .day. We’re thinking of adding manyother flowers, with plane trees exertion, the summitwas reached and, a mountain goat to our livestock col- scattered about the slopes. Thencome after sunset, the return trip began. the yellow globe-flowers or trollius, lection - if Sunrise can have a cow, Soon, from the thick brush flanking which is a persistentrumor. anemones both white and sulphur colored, dainty lavender soldanella, the trail they began to hear unusual Dr. Jan Popperof the U.C.L.A. opera noises. Margo, now quite exhausted, with dark conifers crowded on the workshop gave a program of opera had stopped for a moment’srest. She steep mountain-sides above them; and light opera that sounded won- finally, toward the top of the lift, heard the noises more plainly, but derful-in spite of the introduction attributed them to the boys, whohad ("Ladies and gentlemen. Dr. Yore several of the gentians (verna, stem- less, kochiana) comeinto the picture continued down the trail. However, Kippur-uh Pooper-uh, Popper. ¯ .") with their deep blues, and occasional not positive, she joined the boys and in spite of a piano missing many promptly. The off-trail noises contin- keys. The number of favorable com- patches of delicate pink mosscampion and even a few white crocuses edging ued and the group concluded it was ments from guests indicated they a- being followed by somesort of ani- gree with us, that there is something the snowdrifts. It is rather like clim- mal. The animal made a brief ap- bing up through the different Life fine about the combination of two Zones from Yosemite Valley to Tioga pearance a bit later whenit bounded beautiful, if different, things-opera on to the trail directly behind them, Pass. and the High Sierra. skidded to a stop in a cloud of obscur- Wehad a fine excursion to Murren, T. Meds’ desk clerks turned main- ing dust and then as quickly disap- also, the early skiing capital of Sir tenance menrecently-Tim Berrey laid peared into the brush. This frightened Arnold Lunn and his skiing cohorts. seven bridges across several streams; John and Santi more than Margo, Dana Dee Ponte hemmed new show- We drove around to Lauterbrunnen she being too tired to care. Though and took the funicular up to Murren er curtains. Male guests may have the nature of the animal wasn’t (elev. 5,374). The charminglittle vill- been su:rprised to meet manager known, the three - boys with knives Martha Miller in the men’s restroom age is perched on a precipitous drawn - trotted back to the Lodge. scrubbing walls in a frenzy of clean- bench with gorgeous views across The second climb followed next the LauterbrunnenValley (often cited liness. day, with John, Bob Ashley, Karl Red- as the typical glacial valley) toward Nonworkingtime has also been fill- elshimer and Marren McPeak in the the other side of the stupendousJung- ed-what with Ron Viale frightening frau massif - Jungfrau, Monch, Eiger party. Two took a wrong turn some- bears, John Buckley’s photography, where along the trail and darkness Silberhorn, etc. A new aerial tram is Cathie Carr’s bugs, and Annie Kin- was falling by the time they met. On being run from the upper Lauterbrun- sella’s kiteflying. Evenorganization- the mountain top, from somedistance nen Valley to the Shilthorn above Mur- man Bill Taylor tore himself away (Continued on page two) (Continued on page three) :i (Continued on page three)

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,--.--,._,. THE AHWAHNEE YOSEMITE SENTINEL LINKS NEWS Pool ProgressReport Published by ProctorsDefend Titles A round hole, from which over 200 Lowe~ Yosemite Park and Curry Co. cubic yards of soil were removed in The Best Ball Championshipof the employe for the information of a single day by a bulldozer, was the Wawona Men’s Golf Club was won wife, He Yosemite Valley residents. start of the pool. Also in one day a I-his year by the following teams: home to H. Oehlmann ...... Advisor cementlining, applied by the gunite Ed Deckelman and Dick Ditton, net will join H. K. Ouimet ...... 118; George Oliver and Herb Ewing, Advisor process, was blown around the hole. Co., a fi H. Berrey --- Advisor Thus, within two days, the Ahwah- net 121;Hal Bondshuand Curly Dierk- Harold. Mail communications to Yosemite nee’s swimming pool, scheduled to sen, net 123. This tournament con- Lowell’ Sent, inel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or open near the end of August, seemed sisted of 36 holes at match play. Co. du phone 372-4411. on its way to completion. Qualifying for the 1964 club’s 1934 an( 1’O #’e’ooeooooo~l, eoc, ooee e, oooo ~o 0, The gunite process combines sand, championship tournament bega n 1940. He BiG TREES gravel, water and cementin a central August 3 and c o n t i n u e s through wahnee, .... (Continued £rom page one) hopper, the mixture being air-blown August 16. Charlie Proctor is the de. Army in came loud screeches. These caused a through a thick rubber hose. The hose fending champion. Army as h~,ckle or two to rise, but weanswer- was held, or perhaps, battled, by one San Fran~ The women’s group completed its ed with such rousing cries as "peanut manwith muscles as large as grape- The Bo qualifying rounds for. the annual club butter" and "hey, cougar". The scree- fruit. looking championship. The Medalists were ching ’continued (it remindedthe wri- traveling The pool will be 44 ft. in diameter Valerie Eagle, low gross 94-90-184; ter of the mating call of his Siamese associa and 8~ feet at the deepest point. A Marge Cromer, low net 222-82-140. cat). Before starting our descent; we Yosemite. diving rock will be placed at the deep The ChampionshipFlight matchedthe discovered in the dust, tracks made Lt. in the end, and, for sun lovers, there will be following in first round competition: by the large pads of a cat-type N. C. Th a 58 ton "sunning rock" in the land- Valerie Eagle vs Isabelle Dierksen; animal with a stride of about 3½feet. working scaping. The great rock was removed Ruth Ewing vs Mary Proctor; Inky¯ These convinced us that it was time Lake this laboriously and carefully from the ta- Petersen vs Sophia Kaeser; Muriel to go home, which we did, and along U.C. at Bc lus behind the hotel. Ouimet vs Hazel Warren. The Presi- the way were accompanied by crash- A sunbrust-shapedconcrete terrace, dent’s Flight shows Marge Cromer ing in’.the underbrush alongside the As the to be finished in mutedearth colors, playing Dete Oliver and Vonnie La- trail. We:reached the the Lodge at stated, Mr will surround the pool. And. there moreaux playing Audrey Ewing. Mary 1.1:00 p.m. --no casualties. Travel Ce landscaping features includes a three- Proctor is defending champion. ¯ ’ With the two experienceson record, landing staircase from the second aid any plans. Milr we’re fairly certain that Mt. Ray- floor balcony, allowing swimmersto EXPANSIONAT Y. L. sonnel Tral mon~d’s summit is the home of a move to and from the hotel without perience mountain lion - and we’re holding parading through the main lobby. The Yosemite Lodge’s Restaurant is ex- panding eastward, with six new eat. on August the mountain with respect. Wesuggest road-side area will be screened by you do, too. moundsof earth covered by plantings ing areas beautifully located among and on -Bob Ashley of native shrubs. Stepping-stone rocks the bowers. Four are sort of scalloped M shaped, adjoining an existing wall<- DIOGENES,N.B. will enable guests to cross the creek way;the two others are set amid the ren, which There’s an honest manin Missouri to the susan garden, a fine afternoon dogwoods,each with its private path- slopes wh~ "To: CampCurry Gas Station sunning-area. way. With their seclusion, they would winter and The pool’s filtering and heating From: Arthur Dunham, 1709 Hink. seemjust great for tete-a-tetes. With swales and son-Apt. 2, .C°lumbia, Missouri. system will be located in the hotel’s The AI basement. Because of the huge pipes less romantic arrangements,forty per. "On checking, I discovered that I rhode ld needed for these, blocks from the sons can be accommodated. received too much in change this om on hotel’s concrete underpinnings were morning. dependence Day was concerned, the gentian removedto admit the pipes. "You cashed a $20 traveler’s check many of the party guesls, after a above on th FAREWELLS to pay for little PeruvianPisco punch,celebrated valleys of. On Sunday night, July 26, Ahwah- Ecuador’s and Bolivia’s also. FIowerbask~ gas nee employees celebrated Peruvian $6.82 Congratulations are in order for Of the vi IndependenceDay and said their fare- Oil .73 waiter and part-time food checker we were th radiator cap wells to Henry Ackerrnan and Felipe 1.92 "Jungle" Jim Dunawayfor his tre- of them we Postigo. Henry and Felipe have been $9.47 mendousprogress as a ~ky diver. Jim also many bar waiters at The Ahwahnee and "1 received $11.53 instead of $10.53 is nowfree-falling and, accorc~ing to Indians (Hin, have returned to Peru to spend some in change. I return one dollar here- transportation agent Jim Moore, any- a few Scan time with their families before return- with." body can do the same. If you are in- of tour parti ing to Estados Unidosto College. Thank you, Mr. Dunham. terested, contact Mr. Moore. a little earl As far as celebrating Peruvian In- were beginr -Ron Goldstein we left, in .f~%

YOSEMITESENTINEL ~, "..i’ . - COL. BONDSHURETIRES JIM HAMERTO GL. POINT HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP Lowell Bondshu, former YPC Co. Jim Hamer was appointed manager Midsummer’sheat, capacity house- employee, writes that he and his of the Glacier Point Hotel, July 31, ., counts are full upon us, as we lurch wife, Helen are returning soon to his replacing Dick Connett. courageously into August, determined home town of Mariposa, where he Hamer has been with YPC Co. to carry through until that day of will join the Mariposa County Title since 1941; since 1961, he has been ~et days, Labor Day. Co., a firm headed by his brother, assistant manager of CampCurry. ,g, The Mercedis sinking fast, but the Harold. Jim says he madethe transition from k- visitors’ that dot the Housekeepi~ng Lowell was employed by the YPC 4,000 ft. to 7,300 ft. with no need ii1 - beaches and splash in the river seem Co. during the summer, from 1928 to for oxygen and that he’s enjoying unconcerned. One near-drowning is 1934 and year around from 1934 to his work immensely. the only serious incident s() fa~:’ this ~’S 1940. He was Chief Clerk at The Ah- Connett is now with the San Fran- n summer. wahnee, when he was called into the cisco Hilton. He began service with .. "’i ~.~;. ~h Army in 1940. He will retire from the YPC Co. as a summer employee in The sprinkler truck, driven .on.ergo, le- Army as a Colonel at the Presidio of 1931 as a bus boy in the CampCurry tically by JohnClark, :.he ps. settle.the San Francisco on July 31, 1964. Dining Room, while in U. C. After dust stirred, by our v!sitors .traips!ng its The Bondshusreport that they are graduation he returned as a full-time in and out to register, check out, looking forward to settling downafter employee and, except for an absence buy wood, take showers, rent equip, ment, shop at the Store, use the Laun- !re traveling over the world and to closer for military service’during WWIIand dre-Carfacilities, use the o.ther faciii- N; association with their former home, a fall-winter tour at Vail, Colorado, 10. Yosemite. Their son, Arthur, is a 1st has been employed continuously. ties or just ask .for informa..tion,.. ~te Lt. in the Army,stationed at Ft. Bragg, Through the years, he has worked at The front office has.undergonere- n: N. C. Their daughter, Elizabeth, is or managedall the major hotel units organization, and.John.Blaxall,. from working as a sports director at Bass and Badger Pass ski house. England,is our newChief Clerk... Lake this summer,and will return to EMP. DANCEAGE RESTRICTION Jim Waltonof Mariposa,Gus Srn’i’th~ iel U.C. at Berkeley this fall as a senior. Becauseof apparent misinformation of El Portal, and Mike Dillahunty~of si- TRAVELEXPERT HERE abroad regarding the age regulations Fresno are recent additions:tothe er As the last Yosemite SENTINEL at the Employee Dances at Camp ranks of our hard-working housemen. a- stated, Mr. Fred Milnes, of the Fresno Curry, the YPCCo. Personnel Office Our Stonemen Section has.. been ry Travel Center, will be in Yosemite to states that no one under 16 years old improved by redesigning the parki"ng aid any Ior.,.Is in formulating travel will be admitted. area and blocking all campe’ntrances, plans. Milnes will be in YPCCo. Per- T.M.L. thus eliminating the problem ~-and sonnel Training Room,armed with ex- (Conl~nued from paXe one) dangers - of vehicles driving into from the books long enough to orga- perience and travel literature, etc., Camp. Welcome to Diane;’Bbwler of ){- nize a square dance, and enjoy it. on August 12 between 2 and 8 p.m. San~.St Diego,one- whohas joined :the It- and on August 26, same hours. Couldn’t keep politics from the mea- ~g man maids. " dows due to the eagerness of our . !- ¯ L M.C.T. CONTINUED d .L.. Hilda Rust BesetBy Bees (Continuedfrom paue one) Goldwater maid, Mary Maughn, ren, whichwill give accessto the steep whose baby picketpin unfortunately Housekeeper Hilda Rust seems to le slopes where the "Inferno" is run in died before he could becomea con- have recovered from her recent"afiack h- winter and to more of the flowery vert. of "bees in her bonnet", brought ion Id swales and valleys in summer. Bruce Kinnison and Bob Watson when a swarm of angry-wild bees re- Ih The Alpenrosen (a rose.colored seem to be climbing everything in sented her attempts to oust thern from r- rhododendron) were coming into blo. sight-Conness, Cathedral, Cockscomb their new homein Hilda’s Mariposa am on these sunny slopes, as well as plus up Mount Lyell and back in a living room. Hilda was seriously in- the gentian and other flowers noted day for Bob. Harry Coza and Housh capacitated for several days as .the above on the "First". Oneof the upper Rafinia ran from here to the Valley result of their stings. a valleys of Murren is known as "The by way of Merced Lake, hitched a ~d Flowerbasket". ride back and fell exhaustedinto beds OVERHEARDAT RESERVATIONS Of the visitors at the Reginawhile -that someonehad kindly filled with COUNTER we were there, probably about half 40%Bran Flakes. After talking to Mr. Morgenson, of them were Americans; there were The charcoal drawings of Tuolumne the mother turned to her two children, e- also many Germans, a party of country that hang in the dining room saying, "We have a choice of staying Indians (Hindu, that is, not American), don’t last long-they are snappedup at YosemiteLodge in their newrooms, to a few Scandinavians, and a couple right after hanging, by guests and ,,r at CampCurry in a tent." /. of tour parties of Japanese. Wewere employees-Artist Dick Shields has to Replied one youngster: "Oh, let’s i. a little early for the crowds, which spend nearly every free minute re- stay in a tent. St,6ying in the rooms were beginning to come by the time plenishing the supply. would be too much like staying in in we left, in mid-June, for asia. -Edith Fleming Los ’Angeles."

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:’ San¯ Joaquin, Sacramento Valleyi came when Santa Claus (Mac Mac- . ’... . ’ and Sierra Region 284 118,940 Donald) arrived. Each employee re- 645 333,603 ceived presents from St. Nick, who, all t ....¯ ..... ¯ San Francisco & No. Calif. Area ’ ’ii~ ~ :IL0sAngeles. & So. Calif. 184 111,450 the while, tested each box to see whether it might contain a gurgly re- ..;, , .~...OTHER ..STATES -. , : ..’. :’, ./:.....i. ~." iAlabama.. . 3 15 membrance. 1 28 A week later, on August 1, came .~.! ! ’i AHz0na 3 2,511 NewYear’s’ Eve. This time employees . Colorado 3 962 descended on Fish Camp where¯ a .. . .. 2 216 pizza party awaited them. A lively -.,’...., ..... :_i...District of Columbia 13 71,700 and good time was had by all. ¯ "i. !;....-::. ’..’ : Hawaii 2 3,794 Needless to say, for days after .’"~". ’. " . ¯:... .Idaho. . ’ 6 1,174 each big holiday, guests could be ",, .: ¯ .-..., :..~illinois ¯ ... ¯ ..,". : ": . Louisiana 2 7O heard muttering, "l could have sworn ,.-:. : .i Maryland ’ 1 834 I heard someone say ...... " ii" i :., i: :Massach usetts 2 55O -Joan Willicombe .,::i.i’;.~,~:-~:.i:Mich.igan. ’", 3 1,103 -o-- 1 2O UP COMING -:.i:,,,i-:iNis-,ouri-i. L 154 Events coming up of greater than ;:~".": ’~ J /:M6nta na : 2 221 casual interest: BAVARIANNIGHT at ."..- : NeBraska 15 2,160 Glacier Point Hotel, August 26, 7:30- ’ ." ’ Nevada 2 3,100 ¯ ,.’ .... 8:30 p.m. A buffet - Ahwahnee-style 3 270 1-" i New Jersey - followed by a feast of Austrian ¯ . !: ~: .. NewYork 18 21,109 and Germandishes. Near full-moon; 11 4,655 fine night for a walk to Sentinel t .i : Ohio 770 i.’.i". : . i Oklahoma. 2 Dome.Bring your zither! $3.75 adults; ¯ I.. i.;.Oregon .. 9 988 $2.25 children through 9yrs. Reserva- :!: ’ " Pennsylvania 4 844 tions at The Ahwahnee. " " I" " ’ RhodeIsland. 1 5 j’:t "III l:I l ’ J WAWONABARBECUE, August 15, I 252 Texas 3 7:00-8:00 p.m. Fare similar to Ahwah- " Washington 5 9O4 nee barbecue. Served around the pool, 1,333 846,431 Total U.S.A. etc. $5.50 adults; $4.00 children. Re- 6 293 Foreign Countries servations at VCawonaHotel 375-6355. ¯. . TOTAL 1,339 846,724 WHITE WOLF FLOWERWALK, Aug- FORSALE er, $15. Contact Pat ThorsonY. Lodge. ust 14, 1:00 p.m. from campground ¯ 1950 Mercury, See Barry Jackson, Ladies winter and summer Ward- registration sign. RangerNaturalist Tent No. 90, Boys Town. drobe, sizes 9 and 10, teas. priced. Will Neely will conduct the walk - .... Westinghouseportable¯ record play- 372-4838. Free lemonade!

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FROMTHE T.M.L M.C.T. TRIP BIG TREESBREEZES ¯ I Three of our desk clerks camehome (Part II) The Cat Howls one night to what has been called a Flowersof the Tyrol Wereport the latest hiking adven- "Fairyland --"; their tent had a We made several expeditions up tures of membersof the Big Trees" wall-to-wall-a nd-floor-to-ceiling car- the "First" chairlift, whichrises 3,000 Lodge crew - these involving twosor- penting of pink meal tickets; and there feet above Grindelwald to a high ties to the top of 8,700 ft. Mt. Ray- were tickets ir:l every book; shirt plateau with very good skiing in mond, outside the park’s southern pocket, pants cuff; tickets pasted on winter. In summer,one looks downat boundary. Two girls from the staff clocks, flashlights, owls, dark glasses fields and pastures crowdedwith wild have madethe climb, at the present, and fishbowls. Merry Christmas from white geranium, somewhat larger others will makeit, for it has become the waitri, who avoided decorating than our pale pink variety, a kind of now a matter of pride and curiosity. Gene’s high sierra hens and their coop knotweed with long, creamy plumes, Margo Loowe, John Gabel and only because of rain. The chickens dark red nigritella, blue campanula, Santi Rogers set out on a hot after- enjoy it here and manageto lay an buttercup’s and huge dandelions and noon last week for the 5 mile, 3,000 egg a day. We’re thinking of adding many other flowers, with plane trees a mountaingoat to our livestock col- ft. trek. After 2½hours of strenuous scattered about the slopes. Then come exertion,¯ the summitwas reached and, lection - if Sunrise can have a cow, the yellow globe-flowers or trollius, after sunset, the return trip began. which is a persistent rumor. anemones both white and sulphur Soon, from the thick brush flanking Dr. Jan Popperof the U.C.L.A. opera colored, dainty lavender soldanella, the trail they began to hear unusual workshop gave a program of opera with dark conifers crowded on the noises. Margo, now quite exhausted, and light opera that sounded won- steep mountain-sides above them; had stopped for a moment’srest. She derful-in spite of the introduction finally, toward the top of the lift, heard the noises more plainly, but ("Ladies ¯ and gentlemen. Dr. Yom several of the gentians (verna, stem- attributed them to the boys, who had Kippur-uh Pooper-uh, Popper...") less, kochiana) comeinto the picture continued down the trail. However, and in spite of a piano missing many with their deep blues, and occasional not positive, she joined the boys ¯ keys. The numberof favorable com- patches of delicate pink mosscampion promptly. The off-trail noises contin- ments from guests indicated they a- and even a few white crocuses edging ued and the group concluded it was gree with us, that there is something the snowdrifts. It is rather like clim- being followed by some sort of ani- fine about the combination of lwo bing up through the different Life mal. The animal made a brief ap- beautiful, if different, things-opera Zones from Yosemite Valley to Tioga pearance a bit later whenit bounded and the High Sierra. Pass. on to the trail directly behind them, T. Meds’ desk clerks turned main- Wehad a fine excursion to Murren, skidded to a stop in a cloud of obscur- tenance menrecently-Tim Berrey laid also, the early skiing capital of Sir ing dust and then as quickly disap- seven bridges across several streams; Arnold Lunn and his skiing cohorts. peared into the brush. This frightened Dana Dee Ponte hemmed new show- We drove around to Lauterbrunnen John and Santi more than Margo, er ¯ curtains. Male guests may have and took the funicular up to Murren she being too tired to care. Though been su~rprised to meet manager (elev. 5,374). The charminglittle vill- the nature of the animal wasn’t Martha Miller in the men’s restroom age is perched on a precipitous known, the three - boys with knives scrubbing walls in a frenzy of clean- bench with gorgeous views across drawn - trotted back to the Lodge. liness. the Lauterbrunnen Valley (often cited The second climb followed next Nonworkingtime has also been fill- as the typical glacial valley) toward day, with John, Bob Ashley, Karl Red- ed-what with Ron Viale frightening the other side of the stupendousJung- elshimer and Marten McPeak in the bears, John Buckley’s photography, frau massif -- Jungfrau, Monch,Eiger party. Two took a wrong turn some. ¯Cathie Carr’s bugs, arid Annie Kin- Silberhorn, etc. A newaerial tram is where along the trail and darkness sella’s kiteflying. Evenorganization- being run from the upper Lauterbrun- was falling by the time they met. On man Bill Taylor tore himself away hen Valley to the Shilthorn above Mur- the mountain top, from somedistance (Continuedon page three) (Continuedon page three) (Continuedon pall©two) IS :t

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¯ e.9 e, ,~ e.Oe, 0.,.~ e.e’e’C,4,-~~e,4 THE AHWAHNEE LINKS NEWS COL. YOSEMITE SENTINEL Pool ProgressReport Proctorsdefend titles Lowell B, ~ Published by employee, A round hole, from which over 200 The Best BaH Championship of the ~Yosemite Park and Curry Co. wife, Helen cubic yards of soil were removed in Wawona Men’s Golf Clu~b was won for the information of home a single day by a bulldozer, was the this year by the following" teams: ¯ Yosemite Valley residents. will join" tl" start of the pool. Also in one day a Ed Deckelman and Dick Ditton, net " ¯Advisor H. Oehlmann cement lining, applied by the gunite 118; George Oliver and Herb Ewing, Co., a firrr ¯ . , . H. K. Ouimet ...... Advisor Harold. process, was blown around the hole. net 121; Hal Bondshuand Curly Dierk- H. Berrey ...... Advisor Lowell w Thus, within two days, the Ahwah- sen, net 123. This tournament con- Mail communications to Yosemite Co. during nee’s swimming pool, scheduled to sisted of 36 holes at match play. sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or open near the end of August, seemed 1934 and Qualifying for the 1964 club’s phone 372-4411. on its way to completion. 1940. He w championship tournament began The gunite process combines sand, wahnee, wl’ August3 and c o n t i n u e s through BIG TREES gravel, water and cementin a central IArmy in 19 August 16. Charlie Proctor is the de- (Continued l~rom page one) hopper, the mixture being air-blown Army as a fending champion. SanFrancis, came loud screeches. These caused a through a thick rubber hose. The hose ¯ The Bond hackle or two to rise,, but we answer- was held, or perhaps, battled, by one The women’s group completed its looking . ed with such rousing cries as "peanut manwith muscles as large as grape- qualifying rounds for the annual club traveling Ov butter" and "hey, cougar". The scree- fruit. championship. The Medalists were Valerie Eagle, low gross 94-90-184; association ching continued (it reminded the wri- The pool will be 44 ft. in diameter Marge Cromer, low net 222-82-140. Yosemite. T: ter of the mating call of his Siamese and 8½ feet at the deepest point. A Lt..in the Ar~ ¯ Cat). Before starting our descent, we diving rock will be placed at the deep The Championshi’p Flight matchedthe following in first round competition: N. C. Thei discovered in the dust, tracks made end, and, for sun lovers, there win be Valerie Eagle vs Isabelle Dierksen; working as by the large pads of a cat-type a 58 ton "sunning rock" in the land- Lake this animal with a stride of about3½feet. scaping. The great rock was removed Ruth Ewing vs Mary Proctor; Inky UIC. at Berl( These convinced us that it was time laboriously and carefully from the ta- Petersen vs Sophia Kaeser; Murie’l to.go home, which we did, and along lus behind the hotel. Ouimet vs Hazel Warren. The Presi- dent’s Flight shows Marge Cromer As the the way were accompanied by crash- A sunbrust-shapedconcrete terrace, playing Dete Oliver and Vonnie La- stated, Mr. ing in the Underbrush alongside the to be finished in mutedearth colors, Travel Cen: trail..We reached the the Lodge at will surround the pool. And there moreaux playing Audrey Ewing. Mary aid any Io 11:00 p.m. -- no casualties. landscaping features includes a three- Proctor is defend’ing champion. -o- plans.¯ Miln4 With the two experiences onrecord, landing staircase from the second sonnelTrair~ floor balcony, allowing swimmersto EXPANSIONAT Y. L. we’re fairly certain that Mt. Ray- perience,a’l mond’s summit is the home of a move to and from the hotel without Yosemite Lodge’s Restaurant is ex- on August mountain¯ lion - and we’re holding parading through the main Iobbyf The panding eastward, with six new eat- and on Au, the mountain with respect. Wesuggest road-side area will be screened by ing areas beautifully located among M. you do, too. moundsof earth covered by plantings the bowers. Four are sort of scalloped me.-- of native shrubs. Stepping-stone rocks shaped, adjoining an existing wa’lk- ren, which will enable guests to cross the creek way;the two others are set amid the DIOGENES,N.B. slopes whe to the susan garden, a fine afternoon dogwoods,each with its private path- winter and There’s an honest manin Missouri sunning-area. way. With their seclusion, they would swales and I "To: CampCurry Gas Station The pool’s filtering and heating seemjust great for tete-a-tetes. With The Alp From: Arthur Dunham, 1709 Hink- system will be located in the hotel’s less romantic arrangements,forty per- rhododendr son-Apt. 2, Columbia, Missouri. basement. Because of the huge pipes sons can be accommodated. omon thes~ ’;On checking, I discovered that I needed for these, blocks from the the gentian dependence Day w~ concerned, receivc~d too much in change this hotel’s concrete underpinnings were above on many of the party gue:ts, after a morning. removedto admit the pipes. va ys of little Peruvian Piece punch, celebrated "You cashed a $20 traveler’s check FAREWELLS Ecuador’s and Bolivia’s also. to pay for On Sunday night, July 26, Ahwah- Of the vi nee employees celebrated Peruvian Congratulations are in order for gas $6.82 we were tl’ IndependenceDay and said their fare- waiter and part-time food checker O]1 .73 of them wells to Henry Ackerman and Felipe "Jungle" Jim Dunawayfor his tre- radiator cap 1.92 a*lso man’ ~, Postigo. Henry and Felipe have been mendousprogress as a sky diver. Jim Indians (Hi~ $9.47 is nowfree-falling and, according to bar waiters at The Ahwahnee and a few Sca l transportation agent Jim Moore, any- !. ’!1 received $11.53 instead of $10.53 have returned to Peru to spend some of tour part i. body can do the same. If you are in- in change’ I return one dollar here- time with their families before return- a little ear with.". ing to EstadosUnidos to College. terested, contact Mr. Moore. were begin As far as celebrating Peruvian In- -Ron Goldstein Thank yo., Mr. Dunham. we left, in ’i .i ÷. ~J

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YOSEMII’ESENI:INEL ¯¯ ¯ .. ... ¯ - . .. COL. BONDSHURETIRES JIM HAMERTO GL. POINT ¯ . ’ . " HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP ..’: . Lowell Bonds’hu, former YPC Co. Jim Hamer was appointed manager the . " . emPloyee, writes that he and .his of the Glacier Point:Hotel, July 31~ ..... Midsummer’sI~eat, capacity house- ¯ .’ , . Wife, Helen are returning soon to his replacing Dick Connett. counts are full upon us, as we lurch : " .. home town of Mariposa, where he Hamer has been with YPC Co. courageously into August, determined to carry through until that. day of net ¯.will join the Mariposa County Title since 1941; since 1961, he has been ’.Co., a firm headed by his brother, assistant¯ manager of Camp’ Curry. days, Labor Day. erk- Harold. Jim says he madethe transitibn from The Mercedissinking fast, but the con- Lowell was employed by the YPC 4,000 ft. to 7,300 ft. with no need visitors that dot the Housekeeping ¯ Co. during the summer,from 1928 to for oxygen and that he’s enjoying beachesand splash in the river seem .. 1934 and year around from his work immensely. :. unconcerned. One near-drowning is ub’s 1934 to 1940. He was Chief Clerk at Conner, is now with .the Sa’n’Fran. the only serious incident so far this an ¯ The Ah- wahnee, when he was called cisco Hilton. He began service with summer. ugh into the ¯ Armyin 1940. He will retire from the YPC Co. as a summer employee in The sprinkler truck, driven energe- de- Army as a Colonel at the Presidio of 1931 as a bus boy in the CampCurry tically by John Clark, helps settle the San Francisco on July 31, 1964. Dining Room, while in U. C. After dust stirred, by our Visitors traipsing. its ¯ The Bondshus.report that they are graduation he returned as a full-time in and. out to register, check out,

:.lub r . Ioo’king forward to settling downafter employee and, except for an absence buy wood, take showers, rent equip- ere traveling over the world and to closer for military service during WWIIand ment, shop at the Store, use the Laun- 84; ¯ association wi.th thei.r former home, a fall-winter tour at Vail, Colorado, dre-Carfacilities, use the other facili. 40. Yosemite. Their son, Arthur, is a 1st has been employed continuously. ties or just ask for information. the Lt..in the Army, stationed at Ft. Bragg, Through the years, he has worked at The front office has undergonere. N. C. Their daughter, Elizabeth, is or managedall the major hotel units organization, and John Blaxall, from working as a sports d.irector at Bass and Badger Piss Ski House. ¯ England, is our newC’hief Clerk. Lake this summe.r, and will return to EMP. DANCEAGE RESTRICTION Jim Walton of Mariposa, Gus Smith U.C. at Berkeley this fall as a senior. Becauseof apporent misinformation of El Portal, and Mike Dillahunty of .., TRAVELEXPERT HERE abroad regarding the age regulations Fresno are recent additions to the .As the .last Yosemite SENTINEL at the EmpJoyee Dances at Camp ranks of our hard-working housemen. ~.a- sta.ted,Mr. Fred Milnes, of the Fresr~o Curry, the YPCCo. Pesonnel Office Our Stonemen Section has been ry Travel Center,¯ will be in Yosemiteto states that no one under 16 years old improved by redesigning the parking aid any locals in formulating travel will be admitted. area and blocking all campentrances, plans..Milnes will be in YPCCo. Per- T.M.L. thus eliminating the problem - and sonnel Training Room,armed with ex- (Conl~uedfrom l~le one)’ from the books long enough to orga- dangers - of vehicles driving into X" perience and travel literature, etc., on August 12 between 2 and 8 p.m. nize a square dance, and enjoy it. Camp. Welcome to Diane Bowler of San Diego, who has joined the Stone- and on August 26, same hours. Couldn’t keep politics from the mea- dows due to the eagerness-of our man maids. ed M.C.T. CONTINUED k- (Continued from i~lc one) Goldwater maid, Mary M.aughn, Hilda Rust Beset By Bees ren, whichwill give accessto the steep whose baby picketpin unfortunately Housekeeper Hilda Rust. seems to slopes where the "Inferno" is run in lh- died before he could becomea con- have recovered from her recent ¯attack winter and to more of the flowery vert .... of "bees in her bonnet", brought on ~ld swales and valleys in summer. th Bruce Kin.nison and Bob ...Watson whena swarmof angry-wild bees re- The Alpenrosen (a rose-colored seem to be climbing everything in sented her attempts to oust them from }r- rhododendron) were coming into blo- sight-Conness, Cathedral, Cockscomb their new home in Hilda’s Marip0sa om on these sunny slopes, as well as plus "-up Mount Lyell and back in a living room. Hilda was serious y in- the gentian and other flowers noted d, day for Bob. Harry Coza and; Housh capacitated for several days as the a aboveon the "First". Oneof the up’per Rafinia ran from here to the Val.ley ¯ result of their stings. :d ¯ valleys of Murren is known as "The by way of Merced Lake, hitched a ~o-- Flowerbasket". ride back and fell exhaustedinto beds OVERHEARDAT RESERVATIONS Of the visitors at the Regina while -that someonehad kindly filled with COUNTER we were there, probably about half 40%Bran Flakes. After talking to Mr. Morgenson, of them were Americans; there were The charcoal drawings of Tuolomne the motherturned to her two children, a’lso many @ermans,’a .party of country that hang in the dining room saying, "We have a choice of staying Indians (Hindu, that is, not American), IO don’t last long-they are snapped up at YosemiteLodge in their new rooms, a few Scandinavians, and a couple #- right after hangingl by guests and ¯ ,r at CampCurry in a tent." ,.of tour parties of Japanese. Wewere i- employees-ArtistDicl~ Shields’h’as to Replied one ’youngster: "Oh, let’s a little early for the crowds, which spendnearly eve’r~ fi:~e’"mihuie’ re. stay in a tent’. Staying in ihe rooms were beginning to come by the time n plenishincj the supply. ’ ’" would be too’ much like staying in we left, in mid-June, for Oslo. -Edith"’Fl’~’m i ng Los Angeles."

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i FRIDAY, AUGUST7, 1964 YosemiteNational Park, California

FROMTHE T.M.L. M.C.T. TRIP BIG TREESBREEZES Three of our desk clerks camehome (Part II) The Cat Howls one night to what has been called a Flowersof the Tyrol Wereport the latest hiking adven- "Fairyland --"; their tent had a We made several expeditions up tures of members of the Big Trees wall-to-wall-and-fl oor-to-ceili ng car- the "First" chairlift, whichrises 3,000 Lodgecrew - these involving two sor- penting of pink meal tickets; and there feet above Grindelwald to a high ties to the top of 8,700 ft. Mt. Ray- were tickets in every book, shirt plateau with very good skiing in mond, outside the park’s southern pocket, pants cuff; tickets pasted on winter. In summer,one looks downat boundary. Two girls from the staff clocks, flashlights, owls, dark glasses fields and pastures crowdedwith wild have madethe climb, at the present, and fishbowls. Merry Christmas from white geranium, somewhat larger others will makeit, for it has become the waitri, who avoided decorating than our pale pink variety, a kind of now a matter of pride and curiosity. Gene’s high sierra hens and their coop knotweed with long, creamy plumes, Margo Loowe, John Gabel and only because of rain. The chickens dark red nigritella, blue campanula, Santi Rogers set out on a hot after: enjoy it here and manageto lay an buttercups and huge dandelions and noon last week for the 5 mile, 3,000 egg a day. We’re thinking of adding manyother flowers, with plane trees ft. trek. After 2~’.~ hours of strenuous a mountain goat to our livestock col- scattered about the slopes. Thencome exertion, the summit was reached and, lection - if Sunrise can have a cow, the yellow globe-flowers or trollius, after sunset, the return trip began. which is a persistent rumor. anemones both white and sulphur Soon, from the thick brush flanking Dr. Jan Popperof the U.C.L.A. opera colored, dainty lavender soldanella, the trail they began to hear unusual workshop gave a program of opera with dark conifers crowded on the noises. Margo, now quite exhausted, and light opera that sounded won- steep mountain-sides above them; had stopped for a moment’srest. She derful-in spite of the introduction finally, toward the top of the lift, heard the noises more plainly, but ("Ladies and gentlemen. Dr. Yore several of the gentians (verna, stem- attributed them to the boys, whohad Kippur-uh Pooper-uh, Popper...") less, kochiana) comeinto the picture continued down the trail. However, and in spite of a piano missing many with their deep blues, and occasional not positive, she joined the boys keys. The number of favorable com- patches of delicate pink mosscampion promptly. The off-trail noises contin- ments from guests indicated they a- and even a few white crocuses edging ued and the group concluded it was gree with us, that there is something the snowdrifts. It is rather like clim- being followed by some sort of ani- fine about the combination of two bing up through the different Life mal. The animal made a brief ap- beautiful, if different, things-opera Zones from Yosemite Valley to Tioga pearance a bit later whenit bounded and the High Sierra. Pass. on to the trail directly behind them, T. Meds’ desk clerks turned main- Wehad a fine excursion to Murren, skidded to a stop in a cloud of obscur. tenance menrecently-Tim Berrey laid also, the early skiing capital of Sir ing dust and then as quickly disap- seven bridges across several streams; Arnold Lunn and his skiing cohorts. pearedinto the brush. This frightened Dana Dee Ponte hemmednew show- We drove around to L auterbrunnen John and Santi more than Margo, er curtains. Male guests may have and took the funicular up to Murren she being too tired to care. Though been surprised to meet manager (elev. 5,374). The charminglittle viii- the nature of the an’imal wasn’t Martha Miller in the men’s restroom .age is perched on a precipitous known, the three - boys with knives scrubbing walls in a frenzy of clean- bench with gorgeous views across drawn - trotted back to the Lodge. liness. the LauterbrunnenValley (often cited The second climb followed next Nonworkingtime has also been fill- as the typical glacial valley) toward day, with John, Bob Ashley, Karl Red- ed-what with Ron Viale frightening the other side of the stupendousJung- elshimer and Marten McPeak in the bears, John Buckley’s photography, frau massif- Jungfrau, Monch, Eiger party. Two took a wrong turn some. Cathie Carr’s bugs, and Annie Kin- Silberhorn, etc. A newaerial tram is where along the trail and darkness sella’s kiteflying. Evenorganization- being run from the upper Lauterbrun- was falling by the time they met. On man Bill Taylor tore himself away hen Valley to the Shilthorn above Mur- the mountain top, from somedistance (Continued on page three) (Conthsued on page three) (Continued on page two) i .’ . L , .. . .. ,.:-: ¯ ...... ’- . . ; , ."

YOSEMITESENTINEL . . . . THE AHWAHNEE LINKS NEWS YOSEMITE SENTINEL Pool ProgressReport Proctorsdefend titles Lowell Published by A round hole, from which over 200 The Best BaH Championship of the em Yosemite Park and Curry Co. cubic yards of soil were removed in WawonaMen’s Golf Clu’b was won wife,¯ Hel I. for the information of a single day by a bulldozer, ¯ wasthe this year by the following teams: home to~ Yosemite Valley residents. start of the pool. Also in one day a will join H. Oehlmann Ed Deckelman and Dick Ditton, net Advisor cementlining, applied by the gunite Co.,a fi. H. K. Ouimet Advisor 118; George Oliver and Herb Ewi,ng, process, was blown around the hole. net 121; Hal Bondshuand Curly Dierk- Harold. ¯ H. Berrey Advisor Thus, within two days, the Ahwah- Lowell Mail communicationstO Yosemite sen, net 123. This tournament con- f" . nee’s swimming pool, scheduled to sisted of 36 holes at mal:ch play.¯ Co. durin Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or open near the end of August, seemed 1934 ant phone 372-4411. Qualifying for the 1964 club’s on its wayto completion. 1940. He I’.. l,e.ee4.0 eooe.oo4, ¢.e.e ~¢.o¢,,~ ¢,~go~ ~ ~ e. championship tournament began The gunite process combines sand, wahnee~" August 3 and c on t i n u e s through ¯ BIG TREES gravel, water and cementin a central Army in August 16. Charlie Proctor is the de- (Continuedfrom page one) hopper, the mixture being air-blown Army as fending champion. came¯ loud screeches. These caused a "through a thick rubber hose. The hose San Fran hackle or two to rise, but we answer- was held, or perhaps, battled, by one The women’sgroup ’completed¯ its The Bo ed with such rousing cries as "peanut manwith muscles as large as grape- qualifying rounds for the annual club looking butter ~’ and "hey, cougar". The scree- fruit. championship. The Medalists were traveling ching continued (it reminded the wri- The pool will be 44 ft. in diameter Valerie Eagle, low gross 94-9¯0-184; ter of the mating call of his Siamese and 8~ feet at the deepest point. A Marge Cromer, low net 222-82-140. Yosl cat).. Before starting our descent, we diving rock will be placed at the deep The ChampionshipFlight matched the Lt..in the ¯ discovered in the dust, tracks made end, and, for sun lovers, there will be following in first round competition: N. C. Tt~ by the large pads of a cat-type a 58 ton "sunning rock" in the land- Valerie Eagle vs Isabelle Dierksen; working animal with a stride of about 3½feet. scaping. The great rock wa~ removed Ruth Ewing vs Mary Proctor; Inky Lake this T heske convinced us that it was time laboriously and carefully from the ta- Petersen vs Sophia Kaeser; Muriel U.C. at B~- to go home, which we did, and along lus behind the hotel. Ouimet vs Hazel Warren. The Presi- Ti the way were accompanied by crash- A sunbrust-shapedconcrete terrace, dent’s Flight shows Marge Cromer As th~ ing in the underbrush alongside the to be finished in muted earth colors, playing Dete Oliver and Vonnie La- ¯ stated, M ¯ trail. Wereached the the Lodge at will surround the pool. And there moreaux playing Audrey Ewing. Mary Travel Ce 11:00 p.m. - no casualties. landscaping features includes a three- Proctor is defending champion. aid any ¯ With the two experienceson record, landing staircase from the second --o-- plans. we’re fairly certain that Mt. Ray- floor balcony, allowing swimmersto EXPANSIONAT Y. L. sonnel perience mond’s summit is the home of a move to and from the hotel without Yosemite Lodge’s Restaurant is ex- on Augusl mountain lion - and we’re holding parading through the main lobby. The panding eastward, with six new eat- the mountainwith respect. Wesuggest road-side area will be screened by ing areas beautifully located among and onA you do, too. moundsof earth covered by plantings the bowers. Four are sort of sca]Joped of native shrubs. Stepping-stone rocks ~o--- shaped, adjoining an existing wa’lk- ren, will enable guests to cross the creek DIOGENES,N.B. way;the two others are set amid the slopes to the susan garden, a fine afternoon dogwoods,each with its private path- There’s¯ an honest manin Missouri winter sunning-area. way. With their seclusion, they would "To: CampCurry Gas Station swales an. The pool’s filtering and heating seemjust great for tete-a-tetes. With The AJ From: Arthur Dunham, 1709 Hink- system will be located in the hotel’s less romantic arrangements,forty per- rhododenc son-Apt. 2, Columbia, Missouri. basement. Because of the huge pipes sons can be accommodated. om on "On checking, I discovered that I needed for these, blocks from the the received too much in change this hotel’s concrete, underpinnings were dependence Day was concerned, above on morning. removedto admit the pipes. many of the party gu~:ts, after a valleys of "You cashed a $20 traveler’s check FAREWELLS little PeruvianPisco punch,celebrated Flowerbas On Sunday night, July 26, Ahwah. Ecuador’s and Bolivia’s also. to pay for Of the nee employees celebrated Peruvian Congratulations are in order for gas $6.82 we were IndependenceDay and said their fare- waiter and part-time food checker Oil .73 of them radiator cap 1.92 wells to Henry Ackerman and Felipe "Jungle" Jim Dunaway for his tre- a,Jso mar Postigo. Henry and Felipe have been mendousprogress as a sky diver. Jim $9.47 Indians (H bar waiters at The Ahwahnee and is now free-falling and, according to a few Scc "1 received $11.53 instead of $10.53 have returned to Peru to spend some transportation agent Jim Moore, any- of tour pa in change. I return one dollar here- time with their families before return- body can do the same. If you are in- a little with." ing to EstadosUnidos to College. terested, contact Mr. Moore. were beg] Thank you, Mr. Dunham, As far as celebrating Peruvian In- -Run Goldstein weleft,

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YOSEMITESENTINEL ’ ’" .’ " COL. BONDSHURETIRES JIM HAMERTO GL. POINT HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP .... ’ . Lowell Bondshu, former YPC Co. Jim Hamer was appointed manager employee, writes that he and ,his of the Glacier Point Hotel, July 31, Midsummer’sheat, capacity house. )f the counts¯ are full upon us, as Welurch wife, Helen are returning, soon to his replacing Dick Connett. ". .won col~rageously into August, determined . home town of Mariposa, where he Hamer has been with YPC Co. eamsi.: to carry through until that day of will join the Mariposa County Title since 1941; since 1961, he has been.- n, net. days, Labor Day. !wing/ Co.,- a firm headed by his brother, assistant manager of CampCurry. The Mercedis sinking fast, but the Dierk- Harold. Jim says he madethe transition from Lowell was employed by the YPC 4,000 ft. to 7,300 ft. with no need visitors that dot the Housekeeping con- ,.. ¯ Co.. during the summer,from 1928 to for oxygen and that he’s enjoying beaches and splash in the river seem , . 1934 and year around from 1934 to his work immensely. unconcerned. One near-drowning is club’s 1940. He was Chief Clerk at T.he Ah- Connett is now with the San Fran- the only serious incident so far this ga n wahnee, when he was called into the cisco Hilton. He began service with summer, rough Army in 1940. He will retire from the YPC Co. as a summer employee in The sprinkle r truck, driven energe- lede- Army as a Colonel at the Presidio of 1931 as a bus boy in the CampCurry tically by John Clark, helps settle the San Franc.isco on July 31, 1964. Dining Room, while in U. C. After dust stirred, by our visitors traipsing ~d its The Bondshus report that they are graduation he returned as a full-tin’le in and out to register, check out, I club looking forward to settling downafter employee and, except for an absence buy wood, take sh.owers, rent equip- were traveling over the world and to closer for military service during WWIIand ment, shop at the Store, use the Laun- )-184; association wi.th ~hei’r former home, a fall-winter tour at Vail, Colorado, dre-Carfacilities, use the other facili- h140. Yosemite. Their son, Arthur, is a 1st has been employed continuously. ties .or just ask for information. the .. Lt..in the Army,stationed at Ft. Bragg, Through the years, he has worked at The front office has undergonere- .... N. C. Their daughter, Elizabeth, is or managedall the major hotel units organization, and John Blaxall, from k.sen; ¯. work.ing as a sports director at Bass and Badger Piss Ski House. England, is our newChief Clerk. Lake this summer,and will return to EMP. DANCEAGE RESTRICTION Jim Walton of Mariposa, Gus Smith U.C. at Berkeley this fall as a senior. Becauseof apparent misinformation of El Portal, and Mike Dillahunty of Pres.i- ..... TRAVEL EXPERT HERE abroad regarding the age regulations Fresno are recent additions .to the omer As the .last Yosemite SENTINEL at the Employee Dances at Camp ranks of our hard-working housemen. La. stated; Mr. Fred Milnes, of the Fresno Curry, the YPCCo. Pesonnel Office Our Stonemen Section has been IMoy Travel Center, will be in Yosemite to states that no one under 16 years old improved by redesigning the parking aid any locals in formulating travel will be admitted. area and blocking all campentrances, plans. Milnes will be in YPCCo. Per- T.M.L thus eliminating the problem - and sonnel Training Room,armed with ex- (Continued from page one) dangers - of vehicles driving into from the books long enough to orga- s ex- perience and travel literature, etc., Camp. Welcome to Diane Bowler of nize a square dance, and enjoy it. eat- .. on August 12 between 2 and 8 p.m. San Diego, who has joined the Stone- Couldn’t keep politics from t.he mea- .and on August 26, same hours. man maids. M.C.T. CONTINUED dows due to the eagerness of our aped Goldwater maid, Mary Maughn, Hilda RustBeset By Bees ’a’lk- (Con~nuedfrom i~e one) ren, whichwill give accessto the steep whose baby picketpin unfortunately Housekeeper Hilda Rust seems to the slopes where the "Inferno" is run in died before he could becomea con- have recovered from her recent attack ~ath- winter and to more ’of the flowery vert. ~. of "bees in her bonnet", brought on ’ould swales and valleys in summer. Bruce Kinnison and Bob .Watson when a swarmof angry-wild bees re- With The Alpenrosen (a rose-colored seem to be climbing everything in s’ented her attempts to oust them from per- rhododendron) were coming into biG. sight-Conness, Cathedral, Cockscomb their new homein Hilda’s Mariposa amon these sunny slopes, as well as plus up Mount Lyell and back in a living room. Hilda was seriously in- the gentian and other flowers noted capacitated for several .days as the rned, day for Bob. Harry Coza and.i Housh above on the "First". Oneof the upper resu.lt of their stings. er a Raf.inia rari from here to the: Valley "ated valleys of Murren is known as "The by way of Merced Lake, hi.tched a -o- ¯ FIowerbasket". ride back and fell exhaustedinto beds OVERHEARDAT RESERVATIONS Of the visitors at the Regina whi.le -that someonehad kindly filled with COUNTER for we were there, probably about half 40%Bran Flakes. .cker After talking to Mr. Morgenson, of them were Americans; there were The charcoal drawings of Tv.olumne the mother turnedto her two children, tre- a’lso many Germans, a party o.f country that hang in the dining room saying, "W.e have a choice of staying Jim Indians (Hindu, that is, not American), don’t¯ .last long-they are snappedup at Yosemite Lodgein their newrooms, to a few Scandinavians, and a couple right after hanging, by guests and ~,r at CampCurry in a tent." any- of tour parties of Japanese. Wewere employees--Artist Dick Shieldshas to Replied one youngster: "Oh, let’s e in- a little early for the crowds, which spend nearly every fl’ee minute re- stay in a tent. Staying in the rooms were beginning to come by the time plenishing the supply. would be too much like staying in stein ¯ we left, in mid-June, for Oslo. -Edith Flerning Los Angeles."

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.. ¯ , ...... YOSEMITESEN [INEL MERRY¯ CHRISTMAS ii " i~"."". YPC..Co. Accounting Office prepared for the Manager’s Office a cassifb ¯ "~"i.. " cation:of the shareholders¯ of YPCCo. Thereare a total of 1,339 stockholders Merry Christmas and Happy New ’ ’..’ .:owning.846,724 shares of YPCCo. stock. The following showsthe breakdown Year from Wawona! Guests who hap- pened by the Recreation Hall on the " ’ ~nd !geographicdistri bution¯ of stockholders: evening of July 25 couldn’t have been : i!." . . .. No. of Holders No. of Shares . ’i Held more bewildered. For, ¯inside stood. ’ ’ of Record ’ ....¯ " . "i :’ " "" ~ ’.. ,..., an enormousChristmas tree, with all 1,333 846,431 " ;/ii ’Domestic stockholders 293 the¯ traditional lights and decorations, .".;" ¯Foreign 6 562,830 and employees, who, with perfectly ::!.. Individuals - Males & Females 773 193,379 straight faces, exchanged Christmas ’ ’ ...... 343 Males greeting. "i.~"¯. iFemales 430 369,451 s 421 153,798 This was our annual Christmas-in- i ’ . Joint Accounts 22,549 July celebration. Much Credit and ": . ¯ Fiduciary Individuals 105 107,254 thanks go to Clayton Wardle, Sharon .i " ’ ;Al[other (sum of 4 lines below) 34 ¯ ,’ ’ .,.... 31,929 Cummings,Betty Millheim, and Chuck " " Fiduciary Institutions 5 18,578 Dias, who organized and decorated .! i ... Stock Brokers & Securities Dealers 6 10 22,981 for the holidays, and to our manager, i. .: Nominees . 13 33,766 Mr. Wright, for providing some of i’..’:. Institutions & Misc. the refreshments. : . ’ ..California 164,029 The highlight of the Christmasparty ’,’ ’ ’Yosemite area . ¯ 101 i : ’ ’San Joaquin, Sacramento Valleys came when Santa Claus (Mac Mac- I" ¯. ’ .:... 118,940 Donald) arrived. Each employee re- i. i":""- .: :..".. andSierra Region 284 645 333,603 ceived presents from St. Nick, who, all !:"":. ¯ .. ¯" ¯ San Francisco & No. Calif. Area 184 111,450 the while, tested each box to see ’ " LOSAngeles¯.& So. Calif. whether it might contain a gurgly re- 1." OTHER STATES 15 membrance. ~. !.¯ .. Alabama 3 1 28 A week later, on August 1, came i""" Alaska 3 2,511 New Year’s Eve. This time employees¯ tI .. .. Arizona I... . .’ 962 descended on Fish Campwhere a Colorado 3 !’ . .. 2 216 ¯ pizza party awaited them. A lively {..- District of Columbia 13 71,700 and good time Was had by all. i...... Hawaii¯ 3,794 Needless to say, for days after .....¯ idaho 2 i . . 1,174 each big ¯holiday, guests could be " Illinois 6 t, 70 ¯ heard muttering, "1 could have sworn i i ’.: 2 II . Louisiana I heard someone say ...... 1 i Maryland 1 834 . ¯ .. ¯ . . --Joan Willicombe 2 550 ’Massachusetts 1,103 --o-- Michigan 3 .i 2O UP COMING Minnesota 1 154 ¯ Events coming up of greater than Missouri 2 2 221 casual interest: BAVARIANNIGHT at Montana 2,160 Glacier Point Hotel, August 26, 7:30- Nebraska 15 3,100 Nevada 2 8:30 p.m. A buffet - Ahwahnee-style 270 New Jersey 3 - followed by a feast of Austrian 21,109 New York 18 and Germandishes. Near full-moon; 4,655 fine night for a walk to ¯ Sentinel Ohio 11 770 Oklahoma 2 Dome.Bring your zither! $3.75 adults; 988 Oregon 9 $2.25 children through 9yrs. Reserva- 844 Pennsylvania 4 tions at The Ahwahnee. 5 Rhode Island 1 WAWONABARBECUE, August 15, 252 Texas 3 7:00-8:00 p.m. Fare similar to Ahwah- 904 Washington 5 nee barbecue. Served around the pool, 846,431 Total U.S.A. 1,333 etc. $5.50 adults; $4.00 children. Re- 293- Foreign Countries 6 servations at WawonaHotel 375-6355’ 846,724 TOTAL 1,339 WHITE WOLF FLOWERWALK, Aug- ust 14, 1:00 p.m. from campground FOR SALE er, $15. Contact Pat ThorsonY. Lodge. registration sign. Ranger Naturalist 1950 Mercury, See Barry Jackson, Ladies winter and summer Ward- drobe, sizes 9 and 10, reas. priced. Will Neely will conduct the walk- Tent No. 90, Boys Town. Free lemonadel Westinghouseportable record play- 372-4838..

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FRIDAY, AUGUSTY, 1964 YosemiteNational Park, California

FROMTHE T.M.L. M.C.T, TRIP BIG TREESBREEZES Three of our desk clerks camehome (Part II) The Cat Howls one night to what has been called a Flowersof the Tyrol Wereport the latest hiking adven- "Fairyland - -"; their tent had a We made several expeditions up tures of members of the Big Trees wall-to-wall-and-floor-to-ceiling car- the "First" chairlift, whichrises 3,000 Lodgecrew -- these involving two Sor- penting of pink meal tickets; and there feet above Grindelwald to a high ties to the top of 8,700 ft. Mt. Ray- were tickets in every book, shirt plateau with very good skiing in mond, outside the park’s southern pocket, pants cuff; tickets pasted on winter. In summer,one looks downat boundary. Two girls from the staff clocks, flashlights, owls, dark glasses fields and postures crowdedwith wild have madethe climb, at the present, and fishbowls. Merry Christmas from white geranium, somewhat larger others will makeit, for it has become the waitri, who avoided decorating than our pale pink variety, a kind of now a matter of pride and curiosity. Gene’s high sierra hens and their coop knotweed with long, creamy plumes, Margo Laowe, John Gabel and only because of rain. The chickens dark red nigritella, blue campanula, Santi Rogers set out on a hot after- enjoy it here and manageto lay an buttercups and huge dandelions and noon last week for the 5 mile, 3,000 egg a day. We’re thinking of adding manyother flowers, with plane trees ft. trek. After 2~ hours of strenuous a mountain goat to our livestock col- scattered about the slopes. Thencome exertion, the summit was reached and, lection - if Sunrise can have a cow, the yellow globe-flowers or trol/ius, after sunset, the return trip began. which is a persistent rumor. anemones both white and sulphur Soon, from the thick brush flanking Dr. Jan Popperof the U.C.L.A. opera colored, dainty lavender soldanella, the trail they began to hear unusual workshop gave a program of opera with dark conifers crowded on the noises. Margo, now quite exhausted, and light opera that sounded won- steep mountain-sides above them; had stopped for a moment’srest. She derful-in spite of the introduction finally, toward the top of the lift, heard the noises more plainly, but ("Ladies and gentlemen. Dr. Yom several of the gentians (verna, stem- attributed them to the boys, who had Kippur-uh Pooper-uh, Popper...") less, kochiana) comeinto the picture continued down the trail. However, and in spite of a piano missing many with their deep blues, and occasional not positive, she joined the boys keys. The number of favorable com- patches of delicate pink mosscampion promptly. The off-trail noises contin- ments from guests indicated they a- and even a few white crocuses edging ued and the group concluded it was gree with us, that there is something the snowdrifts. It is rather like clim- being followed by somesort of ani. fine about the combination of two bing up through the different Life real. The animal made a brief ap- beautiful, if different, things-opera Zones from Yosemite Valley to Tioga pearance a bit later whenit bounded and the High Sierra. Pass. on to the trail directly behind them, T. Meds’ desk clerks turned main- Wehad a fine excursion to Murren, skidded to a stop in a cloud of obscur- tenance menrecently--Tim Berrey laid also, the early skiing capital of Sir ing dust and then as quickly disap- seven bridges across several streams; Arnold Lunn and his skiing cohorts. peared into the brush. This frightened Dana Dee Ponte hemmednew show- We drove around to Lauterbrunnen John and SantJ more than Margo, er curtains. Male guests may have and took the funicular up to Murren she being too tired to care. Though been surprised to meet manager (elev. 5,374). The charminglittle vill- the nature of the animal wasn’t Martha Miller in the men’s restroom age is perched on a precipitous known, the three - boys with knives scrubbing walls in a frenzy of clean- bench with gorgeous views across drawn - trotted back to the Lodge. liness. the LauterbrunnenValley (often cited The second climb followed next Nonworkingtime has also been fill- as the typical glacial valley) toward day, with John, Bob Ashley, Karl Red- ed-what with Ron Viale frightening the other side of the stupendousJung- elshimer and Marren McPeak in the bears, John Buckley’s photography, frau massif- Jungfrau, Monch, Eiger party. Two took a wrong turn some- Cathie Cards bugs, and Annie Kin- Silberhorn, etc. A newaerial tram is where along the trail and darkness sella’s kiteflying. Evenorganization- being run from the upper Lauterbrun- was falling by the time they met. On man Bill Taylor tore himself away nen Valley to the Shilthorn above Mur- the mountain top, from somedistance (Continuedon page three) (Continuedon pagethree) (Continuedon pagetwo) .,...~.., r

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. el1, O e e,,qMi~e,~ eO ~.t, e e~,e~e.e,~ o4 THE AHWAHNEE LINKS NEWS col B Lowell YOSEMITE SENTINEL Pool Progress Report Proctorsdefend titles employee, Published by A round hole, from which over 200 The Best BaH Championship of the wife, Helen ¯ Yosemite Park and Curry Co. cubic yards of soil were removed in Wawona Men’s Golf Club was won ¯. . . . . home town ¯ for the information of a single day by a bulldozer, was the this year by the following teams: will join the Yosemite Valley residents. start of the pool. Also in one day a Ed Deckelman and Dick Ditton, net Co., a firm H. Oehlmann Advisor cement lining, applied by the gunite 118; George Oliver and Herb Ewi,ng, Harold. H. K. Ouimet ...... Advisor process, was blown around the hole. net 121; Hal Bondshuand Curly Dierk- Lowell wa~ H. Berrey Advisor Thus, within two days, the Ahwah- sen, net 123, This tournament con- ¯Co. during th Mail communicationsto Yosemite nee’s swimming pool, scheduled to sisted of 36 holes at match play. 1934 and yel Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or open near the end of August, seemed ¯ Qualifying for the i964 club’s 1940. He wa: phone 372-4411: on its way to completion. championship tournament began wahnee, who The gunite process combines sand, August 3 and c o n t i n u e s through BIG TREES Army in 1941 gravel, water and cementin a central August 16. Charlie Proctor is the de- Army as a C (Continucd from pagc one) hopper, the mixture being air-blown fending champion. San through a thick rubber hose. The hose came loud screeches. These caused a The Bondsl was held, or perhaps, battled, by one The women’s group completed its hackle or two to rise, but we answer- qualifying rounds for the annual club looking forw~ ed with such rousing cries as "peanut man with muscles as large as grape- traveling ove fruit. championship. The Medalists were butter" and "hey, cougar". The scree- Valerie Eagle, low gross 94-90.184; association The pool will be 44 ft. in diameter ching continued (it reminded the wri- Marge Cromer, low net 222.82-140. Yosemite. Thd ter of the mating call of his Siamese and 8½ feet at the deepest point. A The ChampionshipFlight matched the Lt. ,in the cat). Before starting ourdescent, we diving rock will be placed at the deep following in first round competition: N. C. end, and, for sun lovers, there will be discovered in the dust, tracks made Valerie Eagle vs Isabelle Dierk.sen; working as a 58 ton "sunning rock" in the land- by the large pads of a cat-type Ruth Ewing vs Mary Proctor; Inky Lake thls scaping. The greatrock was removed animal with a stride of about 3½feet. Petersen vs Sophia Kaeser; Murie’l U.C. at Berl<( These convinced us that it was time laboriously and carefully from the ta- Ouimet vs Hazel Warren. The Presi-" TRA~ lus behind the hotel. to go home, which we did, and along dent’s Flight shows Marge Cromer As the .I theway were accompanied by crash- A sunbrust-shapedconcrete terrace, playing Dete Oliver and Vonnie La- stated, Mr. F to be finished in muted earth colors, ing in the underbrush alongside the moreaux playing Audrey Ewing. Mary Travel Centc trail. Wereached the the Lodge at will surround the pool. And there Proctor is defending champion. aid any Ioc landscaping features includes a three- 11:00 p.m. -- no casualties. --o-- plans. Milne: Withthe two experiences on record, landing staircase from the second sonnel Train~ EXPANSIONAT Y. L. we’re fairly certain that Mt. Ray- floor balcony, allowing swimmersto perience Yosemite Lodge’s Restaurant is ex- mond’s, summit is the home of a move to and from the hotel without on August 1 mountain lion - and we’re holding parading through the main lobby. The panding eastward, with six new eat- and on Aug ing areas beautifulJy located among the mountain with respect. Wesuggest road-side area will be screened by M.( the bowers. Four are sort of scalloped you do, too. moundsof earth covered by plantings (’Con of native .shrubs. Stepping-stonerocks shaped, adjoining an existing walk- ten, Which will enable guests to cross the creek way;the two others are set amid the slopes wher. DIOGENES,N.B. to the susan garden, a fine afternoon dogwoods,each with its private path- winter and There’s an honest manin Missouri sunning-area. way. With their seclusion, they would swales and "To: CampCul’ry Gas Station The pool’s filtering and heating seemjust great for tete-a-tetes. With The Alp, From: Arthur Dunham, 1709 Hink- system will be located in the hotel’s less romantic arrangements,forty per- rhododendrc son-Apt. 2, Columbia, Missouri. basement. Because of the huge pipes sons can be accommodated. orn on these "On checking, I discovered that I needed for these, blocks from the the gentian dependence Day was concerned, received too much in change this hotel’s concrete underpinnings were above on the many of the party guc:ts, after a morning. removedto admit the pipes. Valleys of little PeruvianPisco punch, celebrated "You cashed a $20 traveler’s check FAREWELLS On sunday night, July 26, Ahwah- Ecuador’s and Bolivia’s also. to pay for Of the vi: nee employees celebrated Peruvian Congratulations are in order for we were th gas $6.82 IndependenceDay and said their fare- waiter and part-time food checker of them we Oil ,73 wells to Henry Ackerman and Felipe "Jungle" Jim Dunaway for his tre- a’lso many radiator cap 1.92 ¯¯ .. ~., Postigo. Henry and Felipe have been mendousprogress as a sky diver. Jim Indians (Hin $9.47 bar waiters at The Ahwahnee and is nowfree-falling and, according to a few Scan ’;I received $11.53 instead of $10.53 have returned to Peru to spend some transportation agent Jim Moore, any- of tour part in change. I return one dollar here- time with their families before return- body can do the same. If you are in- a little earl with." ing to Estados Unidosto College. terested, contact Mr. Moore. were begira As far as celebrating Peruvian In- -Ron Goldstein we left, in Thank~,ou, Mr. Dunham. L:.J’~’,

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COL, BONDSHURETIRES JIM HAMERTO GL. POINT ¯ HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP Lowell Bondshu, former YPC Co. Jim Hamer wasappointed manager Midsummer’sheat, capacity house.- employee,¯ writes that he and .his of the Glacier Point Hotel, July 31, counts are full upon us, as we lurch wife, Helen are returning soon to his replacing Dick Connett. courageously into August, determined .. home town of Mariposa, where he Hamer has been with YPC Co." to carry through until .that day of since 1941; since 1961,.he has been . i ..... will Din the Mariposa County Title days, Labor Day. ¯ ¯ CO, a firm headed by his brother, assistant manager of CampCurry. The Mercedis sinking fast, but the Harold. Jim says he madethe transition from Lowell was employed by the YPC 4,000 ft. to 7,300 ft. with no need visitors that dot the Housekeeping beaches and splash in theriver seem Co. during the summer, from 1928 to for oxygen and that he’s enjoying unconcerned. One near-drowning is 1934 and year around from 1934 to his work immensely. ¯ ..... the only serious incident so far this "" 1940. He was Chief Clerk at T.he Ah- Connett is now with the San Fran- summer. . . .. wahnee, whenhe was called into the cisco Hilton. He began service with .... Army n 1940. He will retire from the YPC Co. as a summer employee in The sprinkler truck, driven energe- ¯ . Armyas a Colonel at the Presidio of 1931 as a bus boy in the CampCurry tically by John Clark, helps settle the San Francisco on July 31, 1964. Dining Room, while in U. C. After dust stirred, by our visitors traipsing The Bondshusreport that they are graduation he returned as a full-time in and out to register, check out, looking forward to settling downafter employee and, except for an absence buy wood, take showers, rent equip- ’ traveling over the world and to closer for military Service during WWIIand ment, shop at the Store, use the Laun- .... association with l~hei’r former home, a fall-winter tour at Vail, Colorado, dre-Carfacilities, use the other facili- . .i.. ¯¯Yosemite.Thei.r son, Arthur, is a 1st has been employed continuously. ties or just ask for information. Lt..in the Army,stationed at Ft. Bragg, Through the years, he has worked at The front office has ¯undergonere- .... N. C. Their daughter, Elizabeth, is or managedall the major hotel units organization, and John Blaxa.ll, from .working .as a sports director a.t Bass and Badger Piss Ski House. England, is our newChief Clerk. Lake .this summe,r,and will return to EMP, DANCEAGE RESTRICTION Jim Walton of Mariposa, Gus Smith ~ U.C. at Berkeley this fall as a senior. Becauseof apparent misinformation of El Portal, and Mike Dillahunty of ¯ .. TRAVELEXPERT HERE abroad regarding the age regulations Fresno are recent additions to the " As the .last Yosemite SENTINEL at the Employee Dances at Camp ranks of our hard-working housemen. stated, Mr. Fred Milnes, of the Fresno Curry, the YPCCo. Pesonnel Office Our Stonemen Section has been Travel Center, will be in Yosemite to states that no one under 16 years old improved by redesigning the parking aid any locals¯¯¯ in formulating travel will be admitted. area and blocking all campentrances, Milnes will be in YPCCo. Per- T.M.L. thus eliminating the problem - and s0nnel Training Room,armedwith ex- (Continued from pazc one) dangers - of vehicles driving into from the books long enough to orga- and travel literature, etc., Camp. Welcome to Diane Bowler of nize a square dance, and enjoy it. on August 12 between 2 and 8 p.m. San Diego, who has joined the Stone- Couldn’t keep politics from the mea- and on August 261 same hours. man maids. M.C.T. CONTINUED dows due to the eagernessof our Goldwater maid, Mary Maughn, Hilda RustBeset By Bees. ’Continued from l~e one) .¯ ren, whichwill give accessto the steep whose baby picketpin unfortunately HousekeeperHilda Rust seems to slooes where the "Inferno" is run in died before he could becomea con- have recovered from her recent attack winter and to more of the flowery vert. of "bees in her bonnet", brought on swales and valleys in summer. Bruce Kinnison and Bob ¯.Watson when a swarmof angry-wild bees re- The AI (a rose-colored seem to be climbing everything in sented her attempts to oust them from rhododendron.) were coming into blo- sight-Conness, Cathedral, Cockscomb their new home in Hilda’s Mariposa om on these sunny slopes, as well as plus up Mount Lyell and back in a living room. Hilda was seriously in- the gentian and other flowers noted day for Bob. Harry Coza and Housh capacitated for several days as the aboveon the "First". Oneof the upper Rafinia ran from here to the. Valley resu.lt of their stings. valleys of Murren is known as "The by way of Merced Lake, hi.t.ched a --o-- Flowerbasket". ride back and fell exhaustedinto beds OVERHEARD AT RESERVATIONS Of the visitors at the Regina while -that someonehad kindly filled with COUNTER we were there, probably about half 40%Bran Flakes. After talking to Mr. Morgenson, of them were Americans; there were The charcoal drawings of Tuolumne the mother turned to her two children, a’lso many Germans, a party o.f country that hang in the dining room saying, "We have a choice of staying Indians (Hindu, that is, not American), don’t last long-they are snapped up at Yosemite Lodgein their newrooms, a few Scandinavians, and a couple right after hanging, by guests and ..,r at CampCurry in a tent." of tour of Japanese~We were employees-Artist Dick Shields has to Replied one youngster: "Oh, let’s a little early for the crowds,¯ which spend nearly every free minute re- stay in a tent. Staying in the rooms ¯ ¯were beg.nning to comeby the time plenishing the supply. would be too much like staying in we left, in mid-June, for asia. -Edith Fleming Los Angeles."¯

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HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP TRAVEL PLANNERHERE AUGUST26 NEWASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT It is alwaysinteresting to learn the Fred Milnes, proprietor of the Fresno David Condon has been appointed t reaction of an overseas visitor to the Travel Center and Y.T.S. Fresno agent, Assistant Superintendent of Yosemite U.S. in general, and to Yosemite in will be in YosemiteAugust 26 and will to succeedGranville B. L.iles. Mr. Con- i particular) so we asked our Chief be available to any locals who wish don will assumehis new post in the t Clerk John Blaxall, who hails from his services in planning vacation trips. near future. ! London,and who attends the Fletcher Milnes, experienced in arranging A graduate of Brigham Young School of Law and Diplomacy at Med- trips long or short, will be in the YPC University at Provo, Utah, the new fordl Massl the rest of the year, for Ccr. General Offices between9-1 1:30 Assistant Super~intendentholds a bac- his impressions. Here they are: a.m.; 2:00-4:00p.m.; in Bill Schnettler’s helor’s degree in botany and a mas- ¯ "And how do you find America?" Office in Park Headquarters between ter’s degree in geology. He beganhis i. Somevery popular compatriots of 12 Noon-l:00 p.m.; and at Yosemite career in .the National Park Service mine recently replied to this question: Lodge, at the hostess’s desk in the re- as a ranger-naturalist in Yellowstone "Turn left at Greenland." and probab- gistration lobby between 4:00-8:00 National Park in June 1931. He served ly 1:his is the only satisfactory answer p.m. as chief naturalist at RockyMountain ¯ .,"" " short of a lengthytreatise. It is difficult Milnes, during his last visit here, National Park, Colorado, from Feb- enough to summarise one’s impres- arrangedfall vacation trips for sever- ruary 1943 until May 1944, when he t sions of even so small an area as al employees.¯ left to enter the United States Navy !’. Yosemite, for the place has become He points out that manyprospective as a Lieutenant. Uponhis return from so familiar - and therefore immensely travelers shy away from travel agents the service in 1946, he again was more complicated -- since I wormed becausethey fear that there will be o assignedto Yellowstoneas chief natur- my way into an interview in June, fee for advice and for reservations alist, remaining until June 1959, when as a refugee from the Northeastern subsequently made. This is not the he was appointed assistant superin- summer. fact, Milnes says. The client, or vaca- tendent of the Great SmokyMountains The Yosemite Valley must hold with- tioner, pays nothing for the travel National Park, Tennessee and North in its brief extent more varied and agent’s services. Carolina. spectacular natural beauty to the mile All park residents are welcome to During his tenure in the Great than almost any other area in the discuss their travel plans with Milnes Smokies, Mr. Condon was active in world. After a while, of course, this at any of the times or places shown (Continuedon pagethree) magnificence loses someof its effect, above. DANCE IN THE MOONLIGHT especially if it greets one, rather The Blue Moon Dance, a sort of coldly, very early every morning. But LINKS NEWS traditional employeefunction, will be these towering granite cliffs, these The 1964 Handicap Championship held on the tennis courts at The Ah- glittering (if no longer thundering) Tournament of the Wawona Men’s wahnee on Mondaynight, August 24, water-falls, these woods and mea. Golf Club got under way with the between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. dows, lakes¯ and rivershores, these following qualifying results: GuyLam- YPCCo. Personnel Dept. promises are the essence and the dominating oreaux, club medalist with 150 gross; a full moon, music by a six piece influence of the place; it is on their Ned English was second with 151, band known as the Esquires imported account that.we are here. Harold Sener took first place as the. from San Francisco, refreshments and There are times when this seems handicap medalist with 132 net; Les a door prize. hardly true. Visitors to the Park are Shorb was second with 133. EmPloYeesmay bring one guest; those presumably attracted by the call of The women’s club announces the not yet sixteen years old are not in- the Great Outdoors, but some are winner of the Presiden.t’s Flight in vited. The cost is $1 per person. remarkably timid adventurers, inqui- their 1964 tournament as Vonnie Gentlemen are expected to have on ring more about the movie theaters Lamoreaux. Finals in the Champion- ties and jackets - in addition to other and the dance halls than about the (Continuedon pagetwo) ship Flight are currently being played. attire customarily worn.

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FROM WAWONA SCHOLARSHIPSAWARDED YOSEMITE SENTINEL The past weeks at Wawona have The Yosemite ¯Scholarship Commis- ¯ Life.in found most of our staff quietly re- Published by of course i covering from the C’hristmas holidays. sion has announced the following Yosemite Park and Curry Co. office) ": However, a few rugged outdoorsmen awards: for the information of vention. Yosemite Valley residents. and avid partygivers remain undaun- The David A. Curry Scholarship to We ar : . . H. Oehlmann Advisor ted. RosemaryByers, daughter of Mr. and beautiful ¯ . H.K. Ouimet Advisor Howard Jost, pool attendant, and we can b H. Berrey ...... Advisor Narendra Dhand, David Komote, Mrs. Ernest M. Byers, whowill attend dow box Mail communications to Yosemite Richard Torres, from the kitchen, re- FresnoState. cisco. Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or cently madea trip to the top of Yo- The Jennie Foster Curry Scholarship always phone 372-4411. semite Falls. A week or two later, to David M. Carter, son of Mr. and. ment. In lb OeOooe.,oOoe.# ¢. e.e. ¢. o ,:, ¯ ~. ¢.~O$ .~ ¢- ¢, Howardtook three days off and hiked Mrs. Arlis M. Carter, who plans to the HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP from Tuolumne Meadows to Wawo- attend California State Polytechnic ged sever (Continued ~rorn pa~c one) na. Another hiker, Sue Polese, hiked College at San Luis Obispo. repotted, all day in tennis shoes. Sue was natural pleasures of the valley. To a ing s obliged to rest for the following two The Yosemi.te Scholarship, suppor-. surprisingly large .number, the prime ly~ after" it days while her feet unflattened them- ted by the CommunityCouncil, was l ¯ reason for coming is apparently the selves. You might say the life of a awardedto SusanOttonello, daughter into the.to the toys (to me) rather anti-climactic r~itual hiker here has its ups and downs. of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ottonello, who dried out the Firefall- variously referred to An outdoorsmanon a different or- will attend the University of Calif- ¯ ..... if it was der is Chuck Dias who takes myster- ornia, at Santa Barbara. as. ’the,. Fireball,’ ’the. burning water t ious midnight swims in the nearby moved,b deal’, ’the firework’, or even on one Eachscholarship pays nine monthly a going-c river ..... occasion ’where they drop the neon installments of $50 or a total of $450. nounced. tubes over the cliff’. It seemsperverse Undaunted party-givers include Mary Curry Tresidder established the Time that the v.iew from Inspiration Point, Chuck D., Mark Reuter, and Clayton first two .in memoryof her father grew for example, should be merely an in- Wardle who frequently hold forth on and mother, co-founders of Camp (no go cidental on a visit to the Fi.refall, the second floor balcony of the main Curry. Our congratulations and best ers and " but. for manythis must be the case. building. Background music on these wishes to these three young students. tence on On the other hand the federal govern- nights-and also on many other as a junipe ment’s policy of allowing a controlled well-is provided by. Joan Sutherland ~O~ and J. S. Bach, via Chuck’sStereo. As beautiful E. minimum of commercial activity APOLOGIA nat seemsto me highly exemplary. I was these night owls drift off to sleep tructible !. greatly impressedat my first sight of the evening sounds are dominated by Last week’s SENTINELplayed fast new a brown Coca-Cola machine! a bull-frog in the fish pond (sounds and loose with Mary Tresidder’s story (upside d, i like a cross between a tuba and a about the flowers she encountered Such remarks, however, could be fog horn), who bewails his life of during her recent stay in Switzerland. we had appl.ied to tourists and to governments celibacy. With fine disregard for geography, a Grant Av in almost every country, my own not SENTINELeditor added to her piece not on the least; what is especially Americana- FORSALE the sub-head"Flowers of the Tyrol:"¯ overflowe ,.,, bout Yosemite?One obvious feature is Living room chair, brown and beige as any schoolboy knows, the Tyrol us (perha the number(and the size) of the cars, material ,$15. TomFisher Lot D-6 El is only in Austria. He has writ.ten our luck and the fact that large numbers of Portal Trailer Court, after 6 p.m. "The Tyrol is in Austria" 500 times. grand pi people appear never to leave them people at all during their entire stay in the detail- no rustic inn or mountain out showingmy birth certificate. than the valley. Again, it is a little startlin’~ hostel can be the climber’s goal, as in The West Coast is very different ed they to be tramping along a trail several the Alps for instance, but just drinking from the Northeast where I study, in music to thousand feet above the valley floor fountain and a toilet, carefully main- attitudes and ideas as well as geogra- l~een a cc and suddenly find that it is paved tained. And there is the notice near phically; this is somethingthat foreig- 13een with asphalt. There are the sophisti- the top of Half-Dome:"It is dangerous ners are very apt to forget (and that plumbers cated irrigation and spray systems, to use cables during lightning s.torms," Americans do not always remember). We ha which carefully preserve the ’untouc- ea, warning which must, I am sur Yosemite is a memorably beautiful "Bert" Fro hed by human hand’ appearance of have saved countless lives. There are valley, where I have met a very broad been in a~ the grassland in various spots. A touch the Rangers’ cars whose alarm give cross-section of people wholive and has bake] of automation - the little yellow out loud forest no.ises rather than the work on this side of the nation. It has and emph litter carts manned by men with moreusual wail of the siren, reserved been an exciting and a rewarding first came spiked sticks, charging around for all for fire emergencies.And in the strict experience. To answer the initial 1943¯ wh~ the world¯ like modern jousting Americantradition, I find it quite im- question, I might well quote another made ’up knights. There is a fine attention to possible to buy a glass of beer with- compatriotof mine: "1 like it here.!’ has work~

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GRANT AVE. HEARD FROM GLACIERPOINT NEWS NOTES FROM CAMP CURRY Old SchoolTie Dept. Life in the Big City (San Francisco, It is always pleasing to see an em. rlis- In addition to the news that Jim of course; with apologies to the other ployee do a fine job of public service ring . Hamer’s doing nicely in his new man- ...". office) goes on, even after the con- just after being promoted to a new vention. agerial job and that Dick Connett’s job. Suchis the case with Carle (Turk) not been heard from since he was tO. :We are not only proud of our Lewis, recently promoted from bus- absorbedby Beatlesville, and tl~at the Ideautiful office as a place to work, but boy to waiter in the CC restaurant. ~nd entire exterior of our hotel has had we can boast one of the biggest win- The following excerpt was taken from ~nd ’. a coat of paint, we’ve surveyed mem- dow boxes in downtown San Fran- a note handed to the management: bers of the crew about their univer- cisco. Whenthings get dull we can " .... Our pleasure was increased sity affiliations - past and present. ;hip ’ ¯ always look to¯our gardenfor excite- by the fine service and attitude of ’... We find that: Peter Hunter attends ment. In the two years¯of its existence, one of your waiters, Turk Lewis, who the University of Minnesota; Mickey to the planter boxes have been rearran- waited on us four or five times.... Hunter, is a pre-dental student at the ~nic ged several times, cut up, sawedoff, we do hope to see him again next University of California; MasaKuda- i.. repotted, and the antics of the water- year when we return." matsu, attends Berkeley Architecture ing system livens up each day. Short- Turk, by the way, is the grandsonof )or- School; Timothy Heyman,is a Classics ... ly after it¯was installed, it overflowed WashingtonB. Lewis, the first super- scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, into the toy store belowus. Fortunately intendent of the park after Congress lter ¯ England. Claudia King goes to San the toys were wrappedin plastic and Jose State, PamNorton to Berkeley; created the National Park Service .in dried out very well. Weare not sure 1916. Lewis served as Yosemite’s Mike McQuire, U.C. at Davis, Lorna if it was. the reason the store was superintendent until 1928, when he Brand, from the Cardiff Polytechnical moved,but soon after the inundation, Institute of Western Walesis a grad- becameassistant director of the na- hly ~ a going-0ut-of-business sale was an- uate in physical therapy and child tional parks. The Lewis Memorial nounced. Hospital is namedin his honor. psychology. the Time marched on, and our garden Then, there’s Charles Zaldudek, pre- The restaurant and cafeteria crews,¯ her ’ along with the cone stand attendants, "grew and grew and withstood aphis med. student at Berkeley; Reg Lan- Imp (no gophers), pigeons, window wash- are to be congratulated for a good ~"-- ~-Z caster, Andover Newton School of performance Saturday. For the first ers and the fire department’s insis- Theology, Boston; Katherine Nichols, rotS. :.’ tence on an escaperoute right through time in several years, the combined Stanford; Carolyne Davis, San Fran- a juniper.¯ And it looked even more cisco State; Larry Hook, Pepperdine; revenue cracked the $6,000 barrier. The cafeteria led the way with $2;931, beautiful when it was planted with Darrell Jensen, Fresno State; Mike ¯ native-to-Yosemite flowers, of indes- Barnes, Cal. State; Jim Trever, U.S.C.; the restaurant totaled $2,843, and the :ast tructible plastic. A few weeksago, a Wendy Brownton, San Jose State; cone stand pitched in with $377-a Dry new soaker system was installed~ Roger Lee, Berkeley; MaureenFergu- total of $6,151! (upside! ¯down) and for a short while HousekeeperFrieda Lienert’s maids red son, Fresno State; Neika Nichols, U. have unofficially been assigned to a ind. we had .a fountain spraying over of Cal. at Riverside; Elizabeth Provis, new job for the past several weeks- a Grant Avenue, ’though~ fortunately, music graduate of UCLA;Janice Woll- not on the pedestrians.It most.recentl’ (Continued on page four) chasing three unruly bears out of the " overflowed into the piano store tents and back up the talus slopes. oJ;/’ SHIRLEY SARGENTTO BE HONORED us (perhaps we do have gophers) bul The job is a never-ending one as the AT AUTOGRAPHPARTY our luck has improved and 0nly two freeloading bears return several times Shirley Sargent of Foresta, whose grand pianos got damp. The piano (Continued on page four) latest work "Galen Clark-Yosemite people have a better sense of humor NEWASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT Guardian" was published recently by than the toy people and even suggest- the Sierra Club, will be at The Ahwah- fContinued from page one) ’ent ed they play some rain or waterfall civic affairs in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. nee Sunday, September 6 to auto- in music to add to the atmosphere.It has His principal hobbies are photography graph copies of the book. She will be ra- Iseena couple of weeks since it has and woodcarving. In pursuit of the in the Lounge between 5:30 and 6:30 :ig- been re-worked, but we anticipate the former interest he prepared a moving and in the Gift Shop between 8:00 hat plumbers back shortly. picture on the Great Smok,ies which and 9:45 p.m. Copies of the book, to ’er). We have failed to mention Mrs. has been widely circulated among which former Yosemite Superintendent iful "Bert" Freedman who certainly has civic groups in the area and used in Carl Russell has written the forward, been in and out of the S.F. Office and park interpretive programs. will be available at the Gift Shop. has boken in more office managers Mrs. Condonis also a graduate of Locals are invited to meetShirley dur- has and employees than anyone else. She Brigham Young. They have two child- ing either of the periods above. ing first came to work for YPCCo. in ren, a son, Wilson Condon, who is a tial 1943 when she and Midge Pittmar :ast few years, and her job seems private in the Unted States Army at her mar~eup the entire office force. Sh~ ’.secure as long as she keeps knitting Fort Ord, California, and a daughter has worked summer seasons for th~ socksfor the boss. Marianne, of New York City.

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i: YOSEMITESENTINEL :f FROM TUOLUMNE MEADOWS FROM THE LODGE GLACIER POINT NEWS Films taken by manager Mortha As the ¯summer season ends, most (Continued from page three) Miller of the I.nnsbruck W.inter Olym- of us are anxious to return to school ard, Pepperdine.Finally, w e I c o me pics were shown the other’nigh¢ for .!." and old friends, And in the few weeks back to GeorgeKit, g, our peripatetic employeesand a few fortunate guests. night watchman. i ’remaining, someof us begin to think The films,-narrated by Martha, were of the opportunities we passed up We’re looking forward to our Ba- not only beautiful but also instructive this summer or the excitement we varian night on August 26. The sauer- --some of them showing various missed, braten’s soaking, the hasensare being stageso.f skiing skills. pfeffered and the beer steins dusted It is at this time of year weall try ’ Also in the entertainment depart- off. Guests and locals may well find to makeup for .lost time, forcing in this Yosemite’s answer to Munich’s men.t w.i.II be the "Dramabehind Tent everything that somehave spent mon- D" being rehearsed by leading actor, Oktoberfest. See you there? ths doing, actress and ham, Anne Healy, Margie ~O~ ¯ But, mostly this desire turns to Horowitz and Tom DeCenso. The vii. happy daydreaming, and our energy NOTES FROM CAMP CURRY lian, John Buckley, hasn’t rehearsed goes towards sleeping. (Continued from page three) and won’t need to, being diabolical daily. Here at the Lodgewe still have a few by nature. The maids, shouldn’t feel badly; commendableindividuals who fo.rfeit however, if they have been frustrated Alana Green and Dick Shields are their nap time to do something con. in their attempts to keep the bears planning on leaving late in August, structive. then comes Labor Day and no one away. Several visits to CampCurry by To the "Valley Singers" for instance, the rangers haven’t brought any better wil be here but the picketpins in a group of employees from the cafe- results than Frieda’s broomswinging tents 56 and 57 (just a hole in the teria, restaurant and kitchen give two maids. ground, but it’s home)and the family evenings each week to lend splendid of baby mice in Gene Field’s chest Dressing up one corner of the res- support to the park vocal.ists. They taurant is a beautiful photography 1 of drawers-wish, we could all stay have already given an excellent per- longer because the meadowsbecome display entitled "This is the American formance at Camp Curry and this Earth." Donated for summer use by even more wonderful as fall comes weekendare scheduled to sing at The the Sierra Club, the display, features closer, crisp in the morning and warm ~,’., ! Ahwahnee. ".2.;- - and clear during the day-the guests many Yosemite and Sierra Nevada Concerningmore physical activities, are ei.ther particularly happy this photographs by Ansel Adams. Valley a group of four from the restaurant year or particulaly vocal about it- residents should visit CampCurry .to hiked, on their two day vacation, to see the display before, the restaurant makeshaving a full house evey night Vogelsang High Sierra Campto spv"~d a pleasure. closes on Labor Day. the night. Howwonderful it is to dis- Twofierce desk clerks ran out with cover the High Sierra this way, as Others at the Lodge spend their broomsto hel.p a couple of screaming comparedto a fast drive up to Tuolu- times reading, and their.numbers are maids who Claimed there was a bear rune Meadowsand back in one day, increasing. In the lounge, at the beach, in tent 13,they shall remain anony- kidding ourselves into thinking we (and even at work they read) and the mous but the maids (Mary Maughn have seen the high country. interest is so great that someare put- ?. ~. and Margie Horowitz) won’t-they’re ting in "all-nighters" over the books. i Organized Sports :.,.,. quite proud. In activities closer to home, the These are a few things the Lodge If you’d like to know how not to housemen have organized a soft- employees have done recently. But spend an evening off ask Martha ball teamwhich challenges other units no matter how we’ve spent our time, Miller,.who spent a ghastly few hours every Mondayand Thursday nights. we will all leave, having gained at May Lake having dinner w.ith some As of this writing the teamhas a .500 something from working here. friends. Sounds innocent enough and average. In other sports, the cafeteria Changes Made all she wanted was peace. But she basketball teampractices daily, awai- Vail, the Colorado ski area, is re- wasassailed abou.t reservations while ting the day when managementwill sponsible (again) for changes in YPC mid-lake in a rowboat by an especial- finally showup for one of their sche- Co. personnel. MauriceRolli, Big Trees ly complaining type on shore. The duled games. Lodge manager has accepted a po- female half of the couple she’d gone sition as assistant manager, to Jim to eat dinner with said "Oh by the Rest and Half Dome. Bruce probably Wiggins, at the Vai’l Lodge. Spence I way, Marty, who’s managing Tuolu- has in mind .t~he entire John Muir Grams, a YL assistant manager, will mnethis year?" Trail on a lunch off. fill out the seasonat BTI., Bill Ger- Staying in the anything-you-can-do- The honey taffy made by Anne many, YL Cafeteria manager will r. I-can-do-better contest between Bob Healy and Jansy Wessenberg was a move into Spence’s job and Jonathan Watsonand Bruce Kinn’ison gets roug- great success-wesold it at the front Mitchell former checker, will take over her all the time-Bob went to the desk as petrified wood for $2.50 a from Germanyas cafeteria manager. volley the other day by way of Clouds piece. Vale, Mauriceand Elfri’ede...... , . .. . .; ,.,...... , ...... ¯ ...... :...__.i...... J.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER4, 1964 YosemiteNational Park, California

OLD-TIMERS’ DAY COMINGUP THE RACE SEASON’S-ENDMESSAGE A combination Old-timers’ Day, Box On Sunday, August 30 the Tenaya This is by way of a farewell salu-’ Lunch Social, and dedication of the Lake Sailing Club held its Third An- ration to our hundreds of seasonal Pioneer Yosemite History Center will nual Regatta a.t Tenaya. Four boats employeeswho soon will be scattering ’i. be held at Wawonaon Friday Sept- vied for the coveted trophy, held by in all directions. I ember 11. Mickey and John Curry’s Mickey II. Every summerI experience a degree / The day will be divided into three Competing this year were: Banana of nostalgia¯ on observing the college I.’.. parts: (1) 10 a.m.-12n., open house Boat (International 14) Earl and Diane ¯ students ¯particularly as my own the History Center; (2) 12n.-1 p.m. Pomeroy; Betsy-Ann (Sprite), Chuck acquaintance with Yosemite began dedication ceremonies on the Wawona and Chucky Woessner; Sharondipiti with three s u c c e s s i v e seasonsof I lawn. (3) this will be followed by vacation work as a porter and waiter L ’ (Lehman 10), Wes Conner and Harry l box lunch social, also on the hotel Nakagawara; (nameless as yet at CampCurry. In those years July !¯ lawn. (Beverages may be purchased Super Satellite), John Curry, Roger 4th was the peak of the travel, and but participants should bring their by August 1st many of us were i Hendrickson and Bob Bevington. The own picnic lunches.) starter, timer and handicapper was leaving for hiking trips into the moun- The principal speaker will be Re- Dale Hammel. tains. Now August is our busiest gional Director EdwardHummel of the month, as you know so well. Early in the day, each of the four NPS’s Western Region. W. M. Sell, Jr. In earlier years we had relatively boats was sailed around the two-mile will reminisce about early days. Su- few seasonal professional workers, course by the same crew (Pomeroy, perintendent John Preston will be and even some of the cooks were Woessnerand Curry) in order to esta- Master of Ceremonies. students or teachers. Now with our blish handicaps for each boat. Handi- The History Center consists of about much longer summerseason there are caps were: The International and the a dozen furnished buildings, each .manyfine people in virtually all cate- Satellite - no handicap, the Lehman- (Continued on page two) gories who come to us each year from 6 min. 47 sec. handicap and the ~0~ winter jobs in other recreational Sprite 16 min. 53 sec. handicap. TRAVELPLANNER HERE SEPTEMBER 9 areas, and it is good to see them Fred Milnes, proprietor of the Fresno The race beganwith a flying start, return each spring. Travel Center and Y.T.S. Fresno agent, BananaBoat holding the lead through. Manyof my friends in business and will be in Yosemite Sept. 9 and will out. The Satellite movedinto second the professions look back on one or be available to any locals who wish about half way through the course but more seasons of work in Yosemite his services in planning vacation trips. upset on the last leg and did not as highlights in their lives. Loveof the Milnes,¯ experienced in arranging finish. mountains, service to the public, en- trips long or short, will be in the YPC Winners of the 1964 Regatta were during friendships, and sometimes Co. General Offices between 9-11:30 Earl and Diane Pomeroy with a time romance culminating in matrimony a.m.; 2:00-4:00p.m.; in Bill Schnettler’s of 18 min., 48 secs. Other times (cor- have been among the rewards of Office in Park Headquarters between rected for handicap) were 19 min., this experience. 12 Noon-l:00 p.m.; and at Yosemite 37 secs. for WesConner and 19 min., Each year it strikes me that we Lodge, at¯the hostess’s desk in the re- 54 secs. for ChuckWoessner. have the best crew of seasonal people gistration lobby between 4:00-8:00 Spectators included Fred and Mar- in our history. The summerof 1964 p.m. ion Pierson, Gordon and Hazel War- is no exception, and I hope that many Milnes, during his last visit here, ren and the wives and families of all of you will want to return next year. arrangedfall vacation trips for sever- the competitors. Everyone stayed on Numerousunsolicited commentshave ¯!i al employees. for a cookoutafter the race. .ii ,.ome to rne concerning the friend- All park residents are welcometo .IL In another event the sameday Fred liness, helpfulness and genuine inter- i, discuss their travel plans with Milnes Pierson, Gordon Warren, Chucky est of our people toward park visitors, at..any of the times or places shown Woessner and Mickey Curry were and I add my own appreciation and above. (Continued on page fllree) (Continued on page two) !

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NEW GOLF CHAMPIONS HOUSEKEEPINGCAMP YOSEMITE SENTINEL The finals of the women’s cham- A word of appreciation to the en- Yosemit Published by piunship tournament for 1964 re- tire staff of Housekeeping for its Yosemite Park and Curry Co. C.G. sulted in the following winners: collective efforts this summer.Now, Maripos for the information of Valerie Eagle defeated Muriel Oui- in the last-week doldrums, all are Yosemite Valley nounced residents. met, 2 up in the ChampionshipFlight; anxious for the wind-up, and the H. Oehlmann employe, Advisor Vonnie Lamoreaux defeated Dete backd’o-schoolwhirl which most of the H. K. Ouimet Elementc Advisor Oliver 3 up in the President’s Flight; younger set await. Henry Berrey is H. Berrey ...... Advisor Ruth Ewing defeated Sophia Kaeser an exception; he will wing it to Mr. De~ . Mail communications to Yosemite 3 up in the ConsolationFlight. Luxembourg and begin there a six- College, Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or Score highlights of the final day months’ tour of Europe. Beach S phone 372-4411. a~ed witF play gave Inky Peterson and Valerie After inventory and packing up the ~eeeeeeeeeeee+~e~+o+~e+ee+++. from [ol Eagle the lowest scores of their links campfor the winter, Hilda Rust will OLD-TIMERS’DAY subs( careers- 85 and 88 gross, respec- return to CampCurry; Manager Fred (Cm~tinucdfrom pel~ one) degreeit tively. Lundh will be sailing in November telling a story of Yosemite history. The men’s annual tournament will from New York on a long freighter Physical college. The coveredbridge at the center is the come down to the wire on Sunday trip to South America and up the Elementa only One in a National Park a.nd one Sept. 6. Gene Ewing who defeated Amazoninto Peruvian jungles, hoping istrative of 12 remaining in California. An Charley Proctor, 2-up will meet Ned NOTto meet a head-shrinker with a Californic excellent collection of horse drawn English for the club championship. calculating look in his eye. vehicles and the machinery from the cation. English defeated Herky AIIcock. Buck We hope the Maintenance p~ople old Tioga mine are attractions. Martin defeated Harold Ouimet 3-up Befo will come up with enough space to The ThomasHill Studio (known locally and will play Herb Ewing for the Deere store all the fancy patio furniture as the Recreation Hall) which the President’s Flight title. Ewingdefeated and eigh (tables and chairs) from the new du- Yosemite Park & Curry Co. plan to re- Dick Ditton. In the Consolationrounds, plex units. Thesenew-style tent3 were He also store will be open for inspection with GuyLamoreaux will face Dale Findley, Counse]o a tremendoussuccess all season, and several Hill paintings, bearskin rugs, and Bill Schnettler will battle Ed Gree- School in later additional replacementunits will and photograp’hs of the original in- nemyer. His+ wi no doubt embodycertain suggestions terior on display. A lamplight tour of The Annual Wright Mixed-Scotch having made by numerous guests. the History Center is scheduled for Tournament and award presentation years bet In the works for this fall and winter 8:30 p.m. picnic will be held on Sunday, Sept- The De are more new structures, showers and A good turnout of residencs, neigh- ember 13. Pro Charlie urges all mem- age seveJ laundromat, utility and office build- bors and former employeesis antici- bers to sign up early for this big event. grade ings in a complete revision of the pated. Everyoneis cordially invited; Just before SENTINELpress time, half. camp entrance area. no formal invitations will be sent. Gene Ewing defeated Ned English, El Par -o- 72-73 on the 19th hole for the Wa- So, rather than looking back, it is Dan J. wonaMen’s Golf Champiohship.Eng- more fun to anticipate what changes NEW CO-OP LOCATION Ellen Sta lish, with an 8 handicap, gave Ewing will be in store for those of us who teacher ir The Yosemite Co-op is now located 3 strokes over the 18. return next year: and to wish all a to the rear of residence no. 21. Mrs. successful and happy year ahead. Mr. Mc -o- grade in Bonnie Bagley, the manager, has an- -The Tattler nouncedthat the hours will be 4:00 to FROMON HIGH in South 6:30 p.m. daily, except Sunday. Judging from the type of activities tant manager, Walt Davis, who left past thre( that have been going on at Glacier for a new position as cafeteria man- -o- cation wi Point, it would seem as though the ager at Yosemite Lodge. FORSALE minor in employees haven’t eaten all summer. It has becomea Glacier tradition Mishawa~ 1963 Fo.rd Pickup- Call 379-2698 One evening after the usual dinner that each employeereturning from his He an< evenings. Jahn McLeod had been served, Leslie Smith pre- three-days-off must bring back water- teach the --o- pared a full scale Mexican dinner for melons enough to treat all hands. Portal, w SEASON’SEND MESSAGE the crew: tacos, enchiladas, ferried Thus, watermelonfeasts have been re- teacherag~ (’ConlJnucd from pag©one) beans, hot peppers - the works. And, gular, and very popular. Mrs. M~ that of the staff for your excellent the following night, Leslie, Sue Rose, Jimmy Hamermade an internation- of Bethel performance. May success attend you Kate Nichols and others of the crew al splash with the Bavarian bashl A cation in whatever fields you may choose baked sugar cookies, which were hundred and thirty guests filled the The M~ to work, and may this season in Yo- served by the platesful with hot apple dining room last weekfor the first - old daugh semite be as meaningful an experi- cider. The fire inside and the rain but we hope not last - Bavarian ence as it has for thousands who pre- outside created a cozy atmosphere. Night Supper. The food - from The ceded you in "working in Yosemite". Somewhatdampening the festivities, James Ahwahnee - was magnificent and to serve H. Oehlmann though, was the departure of assis- disappearedin a trice. seventh-el YOSEMITESENTINEL

NEWS FROM THE SCHOOLS

n- YosemiteSchool Principal Selected its C. G, Adelsbach, Superintendent of W, Mariposa .County Schools, has an- re nounced that John C. Deere has been he employedas Principal of the Yosemite he Elementary School. is Mr. Deere attended El CaminoJunior to College, PasadenaCollege, and Long ix- Beach State College. He was gradu- ated with a B. A. degree in Education from Long Beach in 1953 and was /ill subsequently granted a Master of Arts eJ degree in Education with a minor in or Physical Education from the same el" college. He possesses the General he Elementary, Junior High, and Admin- ng istrative Credentials granted by the a California State Department of Edu- cation. Before coming to Yosemite, Mr. Deeretaught the fourth, fifth, seventh re and eighth grades in Garden Grove. I" He also served as Vice Principal and ~re Counselor of the Doig Junior High 6O0 nd Schoolin that city.

Pl6mure His wife, Marlene,also is a teacher, 4O0 having taught second grade eight years before coming to Yosemite. tgr The Deeres have two sons, Steven, !nd age seven, who will enter the second Id- grade and Bradley, three and one- Ig63 ’he half. "~ Excludes visitors from Canada and Mexico El Portal -- YosemiteTeachers Includes expenditures of travelers for business and pleasure, foreigners in is Dan J. McCannwill replace Mrs. transit through thc United States, and students, es Note: Data exclude both the number and expenditures of .~orcign government Ellen Stark as the fifth-sixth grade personnel and foreign businessmen cmployed in the United States, teacher in Yosemitethis fall. Sou,-ce: Departmcnt of Commerce a Mr. McCann’has taught the sixth FOREIGNTRAVELERS TO U,S, grade in the Henry Studebaker school ler in South Bend, Indiana during the One of the recent "Road Mapsof Industry" graphs (above) prepared by the National Industrial ConferenceBoard treated the matter of foreign visitors to aft past three years. He has a B.S. in Edu- the U.S. and compared the years 1960 through 1963. ::In- cation with a major in music and The activities of the United States Travel Service, a bureau of" the Depart- minor in English from Bethel College, ment of Commerce,are no doubt responsible for much of the increase shown. on Mishawaka, Indiana. This agency has offices in the world’s principal cities and spends about $4 He and Mrs. McCann, who will million a year on its operation and advertising. The aim of the U.S.T.S. is to teach the third-fourth grades in El adjust the wide difference betweenthe dollars U. S. travelers spend outside er- U. S. and the amountspent by foreign travelers in this country. ids. Portal, will live in one of the new re- teacheragesat El Portal. El Portal School for the comingyear. THE RACE Mrs. McCann, is also a graduate Mr. Bradley has an A. B. in History (Continued from page one) dunked in the middle of the lake on- of Bethel College with a B.S. in Edu- with minors in English and Education A cation and a minor in choral music. and an Ed.M. in Education from the while crewing under the expert skip- ~he The McCannshave a seven months University of Rochester. He has also pership of Mickey’s husband(called t~ old daughter. had graduate training in business at somethingelse at the time). Jan El Portal Principal SyracuseUniversity. The marvel of the mishap was how Fred was able to keep his cigar dry, JamesF. Bradley has been elected During the past ten years he h~s when everything else was soaked to serve as the new Principal and taught in grades eight through twelve thoroughly. seventh-eighth grade teacher at the in the schools of NewYork. ,:.:’..,~’.

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YOSEMITESENTINEL ,. . . . M. C. T. TRIP a great deal of the terrain. However, ed roofs in the belief that it affords (Part Ill) in summer,the Norwegiansstretch out protection against lightning and fire". The SENTINEL’Saccount (August 7) their days to the utmost. Shopsoften In Norwayone passes very quickly of Mrs. Tres~dder’s trip, left her and close by 4, always by 5 at the latest’ from the lowland with the bogs and her friends in Switzerland. Werejoin and very promptly. Clerks do not farmlands, through the bands of con- them in Oslo. linger in the hope of making a sale, ifer and mountainash and tall birches We arrived in Oslo on June 14; and the customer is politely but to an intermediate region with a great there we have Norwegian friends firmly ejected on the dot. In commun- deal of bilberry and other low shrubs who give us an authentic glimpse of ities along the water, sailing is a very among them a kind of manzanita ¯ Norwegian ways in their home on livelysport. The fleets of sailboats known there as bearberry, then a the fjord and a taste of the Norwegian are a lovely sight in Oslo and Bergen bleak area at or near timberline with specialties in food -- smokedsalmon harbors, for instance. dwarf birches and least willows and with its lacy fringe of fresh dill, We were amazedat the number of what they call Dryas-heaths, which cloudberry preserves from the moun- large resort hotels we came upon in are often rich in wildflowers for their tain pastures, etc. isolated, out-of-the-way places, and very brief snow-free time. On the 17th we left Oslo for a most of them were filled to capacity, After the abundance of flower 6-day bus trip (Bennett’s Viking Tours) not with tourists but with Norwegians books and postal cards in Switzer- toBergen, on the west coast. The first on vacation. A number of English land, we were surprised that there morning, we headed north through people comeup there for their holi- was so little information to be had farming country and along the shores days, too. Later, on our boat trip to about the flora here - in foreign lan- of Lake Mjosa, Norway’s largest lake. the Noth Cape, about half the passen- guages,at least. Wehad luncheon at a farm which has gers were from the United Kingdom, There are many kinds of grasses been in the owner’s family a century. with a scattering of French. and sedges, and even among the He had been educated in forestry, was One thing we were looking forward mountains there is a great deal of connected with the Norwegian Em to was a comparison of the flowers bog-land. Oneof the interesting plants bassy in Washington for eight or ten of Switzerland, which we had just encounteredin great profusion is the years and was familiar with American seen at such a spectacular peak, with reindeer lichen; the reindeer often practices in agriculture and forestry. those of Norway, as well as with our must strike downthrough the snow to He said frankly that he would have own mountain flora. get at it. its occurrence, or lack of preferred to remain in America, but The Flowers it, limits their pasture lands. Wesaw whenthe farm fell to him he felt it At Grindelwald the elevation was a couple of reindeer groups on one his responsibility, to .carr.y. on. He-and about 4000 fl. and riding the "First" of our days on the tour, on a mountain his wife enjoy creating "an exchange chairlift took us to a little over 7,000 slope, above an almost-frozen lake of good will", as he put it. They gave ft. Here, at the sea level of the fjords, near Grotli Pass, at about 2,500 ft. us a number of Norwegian special- the vegetation along the lowland elevation. Ugly creatures! ties for luncheon, and explained about roads is often quite lush, grasses and them. One thing in particular which COMMERCIALDIVISION sedges dotted with a daisy nicknamed, Winter Sports Section we enjoyed and had frequently there- the "parson’s collar", and with many after was the sour cream porridge, flowers similar to those around Grin- On September 9, the Commercial almost a gruel, served hot or cold and delwald as we went only a little Division will host a luncheon meet- to begin or end a meal, as required. ing at The Ahwahneefor the Sierra higher- tall, creamy plumes of buck- Ski Area Association. The membership In the afternoon, our bus climbed wheat, dark Nigritella, white wild is made up of ski area managers of up through the mountains to the hotel geranium, flowers of the wide-sprea- at Gausdal, a favorite skiing resort ding wild carrot family, and then, at Northern California. Bill Meachamis at 2,400 ft. elevation where our a slightly higher elevation, a great YPCCo. representative. friends often go. A lift rises another deal of the yellow Globe-flower, The construction contract for the ex- thousand feet to a bluff above open Troilus, thistles, white anemones,a tension of the cafeteria at Badger ¯ slopes covered now only with low numberof saxifrages, and still far- Pass, an area of about 18 ft. X 65 ft., shrubs. Already we were at timber- ther up, in the sub-alpine zone, a to be enclosed by sliding glass panels line, which, however, shifts notably great deal of Monk’s hood, which and an overhead sun deck, has been with the exposure tosun and wind. they nickname "louse-hat", because let to the Robert Jolly Construction Nights are Long a concoction made from it is used Companyof Fresno. The cost of the With long nights for so much of as an insecticide. One of the sedums .new construction and furnishings will the year, Norway makes the most of is used for medicinal purposes and be approximately $63,000. the correspondingly long summerdays also as a shampoo, according to the A contract to repair fire damageto whenthey come. In mid-winter, skiing one little flower book we were able the old 1ouilding at Badger Pass has is limited by the short daylight hours to find in English; it adds that "it been let to Chivers Construction Co. - ten to two, much of the time, in has often been planted on turf-cover- of Mariposa.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER18, 1964 Yosemite Nationa Park, California

M.C.T, TRIP" AROUNDTHE AHWAHNEE FROMTHE LODGE Chapter IV There was considerable activity pool- Spencer Grams relieved Maurice On June 23rd, we took off on the side at The Ahwahneelast Thursday. Rolli at the Big Trees Lodge when good ship Meteor of the Bergen Line Electricians, plumbers, pool-people Maurice left to accept the assistant for the cruise up the Norwegiancoast were attaching wires, opening valves managerposition (with Jim Wiggins) to North Cape. (The coast line mea- and performing last-minute chores, at Vail Lodge in Colorado. Spencer sures 12,500 miles, with all its twists attendant to getting the pool ready is back at Yosemite Lodge as assis- and indentations.) The Meteoris a ship for Saturday’s ’first dip’. Froma fire tant manager; Bill Germanyhas gone of 2,900 tons, 296 ft. in length and hose, water was pouring in a giant to BTLto take over there until closing. 45 ft. in the beam, with a draft of stream, but the water level seemedto Chet Hubbard recently attended a 16’6"--all of which combinesto allow rise very slowly. Everything appeared clinic sponsored in Palo Alto by SKI its penetration of the narrow fjords, to be under control, except that the BUSINESSMagazine. Chet, along with though attimes you feel you could hotel guests on the fourth and fifth Dave Downing and Bill Meacham, reach out and touch the cliffs on floors couldn’t take a bath-or work participated in two days of panels either side;There was one inlet where the other plumbing. One would pre- covering all phases(relating to skiing) we went up to the end, and the Meteor sume that this dilemma was solved of ski resort operation. really was like the "strawberry roan" Somehow,and fast. The C.C. Transpotation office has -it could turn on a nickle and give The pool is beautiful. Its bottom moved lock, stock and barrel color shades from light green at the you the change. to the YL Transportation desk. Steve shallow end to dark at the deep end. One of the loveliest of the fjords Barrett has temporarily left for Merced This gives an "old swimmin’ hole was the extremely narrow Trolifjord, to relieve LeRoyPurcell, whowill va- effect," a great relief from the very some 50 yards wide, among the Lo- cation for two weeks. Roger Brier (Continuedon pagetwo) foten Islands, off the coast, and the will head the Transportation Desk at sun happenedto be shining for once, HISTORYCENTER DEDICATION the Lodge, with Darrell Jensen, ex- as we went through. Another was the Approximately 350 persons attend- general utility manat Glacier Point Geiranger Fjord, with the misty Seven ed one or all phases of the program all summer,as his assistant. Sisters Waterfall shimmering down a held at Wawonaon Friday, Septem- The Lodge Front Desk may show sheer, darkcliff. ber 11, to mark the dedication of the signs of stress - due to the two young Stormy Seas Pioneer YosemiteHistory Center. lawyers who are awaiting results of There were times, as we ventured The day opened with an inspection their bar examinations, namely, Bill into the North Sea waters, when we of the History Center, preceding the Holton and Mel Najarian. There is slithered in our bunks and things dedication ceremonies at noon on the also a young med student, Jack Emer- slid off the dresser. One very rough lawn of the WawonaHotel. Principal son behind the desk. For legal or medi- spot took even the dining room ste- speaker at the dedication was Re- cal advice, just see the Front Desk! wards by surprise, at tea time, and gional Director Edward A. Hummelof From Camp Curry came John then again the waters would be the National Park Service, San Fran- Mitchell, now a waiter in the Restau- smooth and almost glassy. cisco, who paid tribute to those who rant; Steve Falconer, one of the bell- All in all, there was a good bit had a hand in planning the Center men; and Bob Churchman in charge of wind, but we didn’t have the and in preparing the exhibits which of the Bike Shop. And, Don Scott, blizzards we had been told might makeit a unique adjunct to the Park. sporting a cast on his left foot, is now harass us, and we were especially’ Also speaking were Will Sell, Jr., of a cashier in the Cafeteria. lucky at the North Cape, where there Ahwahnee,who offered reminiscences Hank Reynolds, Western entertainer were clouds enough for a golden sun- from his long association with Yose- all summer,as well as Valley horse- set at midnight as the sun disappeared mite, and Congressman Harold T. back breakfast guide, now rides herd into the western sea and gradually (Bizz) Johnson, who attended with at the Lodge Pool. Leaving for Cal madeits way around to come up from Mrs. Johnson. Superintendent John C. Poly, majoringin electronics, is Harin- ~Continuedon page fouO Preston acted as master of ceremonies. (Continuedon pagethree)

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i 1 YOSEMITESENTINEL ¯ ~,e.e,¢.l,¢,~ ~ ¯ ee e ~HHl~e-e ~e 4 ¯ YOSEMITE SENTINEL BADGERGRIDDERS PRACTICE POINTING WITH PRIDE CA The Yosemite Badger footballers YPCCo.’s advertising department, Published by For .the have completed their first week of never known to hide its light undgr Yosemite Park and Curry Co. CampCuJ practice and, according to CoachJake a basket, submitted the following for the information of stored in Metherell, the 45 boys whoturned out Yosemite Valley residents. ¯ accountof (but) two of its activities. some 1 represent a record squad. H. Oehlrnann Advisor A series of small space ads on The tresses an Metherell will be assisted this year Ahwahnee has been running in the H. K. Ouimet ...... Advisor ing scrub by Bill Schnettler, Tom Thomasand NEWYORKER magazine. A reader, H. Berrey ...... Advisor masked Elementary School Principal John Mrs. Lucille Davidson of Glendale, Mail communications to Yosemite are some Deere; Sterling Cramer is serving Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or 7writes: "Your New Yorker ad reall i n g.to again as the BadgerAthletic Director. got to us....natives though we are! ph. one 372-4411. According l,@OOO@e,e4.@e¢~,~ 6~. 41,e,.~....~J..~. ~-~.,,. 4..,~ a.6 Seventeen boys of varsity age and Please send brochure. Whatis :the nea- ember AROUNDTHE AHWAHNEE size are on the squad presently; re- rest airport? Servedby what air lines? ing. (Continued from page one) turning varsity lettermen are Louis Whendo the autumncolors reach their usual and garish odd blue of most Parker, Karl Biastoch, Greg Power, peak? See! We’re hookedl" Whitfie~ pools. Contrary to rumor, it was not Division o Brad and Gary Lamoreaux, and Ed One ad stated in the copy "And painted gree so as to be invisible as n Walliser. Mrs. ¯Whitman pours tea at five." A from Glacier Point. The pool isn’t summer, The bulk of the Badger plays will NewYork night club, called Upsta’irs visible at all from Glacier. cords and work with a balanced line and two at the Downstairs (or Downstairs at The magnificent wedge-shapedrock them to m tailbacks - Brad Lamoreaux on the ,the Upstairs) and said to be very which will be up-ended when in its One aspecl right, TomAllcock on the left. From smaht had amongits entertainment, a ultimate position no doubt will be- lish the observation of the week’s practice musical revue called "Ads Infinitum", come a symbol of the pool area. The presented young Darryl Schmidt shows consider- at the opening of which a copy of the "diving rock", instead of the usual i. e., how able promise as a fullback. NEWYORKER is held up for the audi- springboard, should further set the were Selec The tentative gameschedule finds ence to view, and the opening line pool apart from all others. The land- chicken or the Badgers matched against: of the script is, "On (page) one-twenty- scaping, to embracenative planting, is com.plet September 26 Lodi, here one Mrs. Whitman serves tea, In will add to the effect of a natural to predict, October 3 Mariposa at Mariposa Yosemite Park at The Ahwahnee." pool, rather, than one s.imply placed October 10 Menlo at Menlo many ord~ The SAN FRANCISCOEXAMINER’S in. the ground, with no rapport with (Stanford Univ. vs. Rice Institute be preparq travel editor, Georgia Hess, wrote a thesurroundings. same weekend) Jim Hal John Curry reports.that new furn- piece during the summerwhich she October 17 Mariposa, here from his headed "Hotels That ComeAlive". A- iture for use aroundthe pool is on its October 24 take char, Menlo, here mong other noble hotels around the way. Planned, but not scheduled yet, October 31 Open(possibly Lodi) fall and world, The Ahwahneewas included. are buffet lunches to be served around The 1963 Badger squad turned in a White Wc Fromthe text, a direct mail piece was thepool. record showing of 5 wins, 1 tie. Mayers wi While the proper schedule for the prepared and mailed to several th~ou. first snows FOR SALE use of the pool is yet to be discovered, sand former Ahwahneeguests. Some . Single size bed and mattress: legs i at the outset it will be open between of the responsesare printed below: fold. $12.00. 372-4852, Morgenson. 9:30 in the morning and 7 in the Mrs. Albert Anderson, Palos Verdes (c, L Housein El Portal, 4 bedroom,bath evening. Closing the pool at 7 would Estates: "Thank you for Hotels That der Singh and a half, large level yard. Call seem wise - pools seem to be noisy, ComeAlive. I have never before writ- India is J, Walliser, 379-2344. and with The Ahwahneepool so close ten a fan letter to a hotel - I do not, Walt Davi.. to the hotel, an early evacuation of Shirley Sargent, Foresta authoress in fact, care very muchfor hotels - having tra~ swimmers is good; use of the pool w h o s e GALEN CLARK YOSEMITE but the Ahwahneeis in a class all Welcome will be restricted to hotel g uest~ and GUARDIANwas published recently by alone". Lodgeho.~ their guests. the Sierra Club, sold upwards of 60 Mrs. Ralph Brown, San Francisco: also report In the statistical department we copies at her autograph-reception "We just couldn’t resist your recent pondoutsic learn that 965 new-type light bulbs party held at The Ahwahnee,Sept. 6. pamphlet on the lovely Ahwahneel" pleted, wit have been installed in the main floor Amongthe ne.w people now on duty Mrs. John Greene Santa Barbara new lawn fixtures; 499 are in the Dining Room. are telephone operator Suzi Ginsberg "Yesterday I received a brochure from of sproutin, These are Dura-Test Flamescent lamps of Fresno; Mike Mulligan is now an you reminding me and my husband Mr. Jose and give a brighter but moreconfined assistant dining room manager, an of a delightful two days spent at received yc illumination. import from the Camp Curry Cafe- The Ahwahneelast October." it remindec Ruth Beckwith, of the Gift Shop, teria; Dick Burlingame, late of Wa- Mr. Lewis Andrews, Hawthorne: stays at Th reports that she saw Hal Morris and wona, is a new dining room captain. "You shouldn’t have mailed rne your 1962 and fam’ily recently in Santa Cruz; all are Night auditor Ken Daye grew weary booklet Hotels That ComeAlive. Now Mrs.L. S. well and happy and Hal’s enterprise of nights and now works days as a you have my wife and I in the mood thank you coming along nicely. Ruth reports that cashier. again". we note yf ruing pool ...... ¯ ,, . . .:,: . ... .".

YOSEMITESENTINEL CAMP CURRY FAREWELL MAINTENANCEMENACTIVE 1965 EMPLOYEEHOUSING PROGRAM ment, ~:: For the 66th fall, the 429 tents at With Monday’s closing of May Lake under CampCurry are being dismantled and Housing Committee Chairman H. K. Camp,all the High Sierra campswill stored in the Curry garage, along with Ouimet announced this week that have been dismantled for the season. vities. some1,200 pillows, 900 dressers, mat- capital authorizations totaling $48, Howard Schneider with a crew of The tresses and beds. The kitchens are be- 048 had been secured for employee eight struck the camps during the n the ing scrubbed down, the brightwork housing for the coming year. last two weeksand saved $1000in the ~ader, masked against the elements. There In the Tecoya area, bathrooms in process. Customarily, the dismantling Id.ale, are some 20 employees on duty tend- six Tecoya Apartments will be re- crew has included eleven men. Twen- really ing .to the needs of the 4-500 guests. modeled,as will all washroomsin "B" ty-two fewer mandays were required arei Accordingto Keith Whitfieldl the Sept- Dormitory, "A" Dormitory will be com- nea- this year, to effect the saving. ember house~ounts have been gratify- pletely refurnished; two coin-operated ines? ing. Dick Ditton accompanied the crew clothes dryers will be installed in the their observing the procedures and search- laundry room. The two six-bed rooms Whitfield has movedto the Hotel ing for ways to cut dismantling costs in "C" and "D" Dormitories will be Division office pursuing his activities and improve camp operations. He, converted into four single rooms and "And as Director of Standards. During the ~." along with Schneider, will .incorporate two three-bed rooms. , A summer, he gathered statistical re- the findings in a procedure manual. In seasonal valley housing area, stairs cords and during the winter will relate 40 additional oil stoves will be install- rs at thorn to menuplanning for next year. The unusually fair weather, Ditton ed for spring, and fall use. Programs very Oneaspect of this researchis to estab- says, enabled the crew to work in of tent door installation and canvas .~ n t, Ii.sh the popularity of one entree when comfort, contrasted to other years m 1’, when snow and .rain have hampered furniture replacementwill continue. presented with certain other entrees, the undertaking. At Wawonaand Glade Point, em- the i. e., how manyorders of lamb chops washroomswill be remondeled. were selected when on the menuwith The "big push" of the maintenance chicken or roast. Whenthe research people presently is at Badger Pass, --o- .~nty- is complete, the kitchen will be able where a program budgeted at $25, CLOTHINGDRIVE In 000is in progress. This includes, along The Yosemite Community Church II to predict, with some accuracy, how manYorders of a given entree should wi.th the usual preventive mainte- will conduct a used clothing drive for be prepared. nance work, the installation of a 10, those in need overseas. The clothing )te a Jim Hamer soon will come down 000 ga:l. gasoline tank at numberone w,ill be distributed by the World she from his aerie at Glacier Point and life, replacementof certain lift tim- Church Service, which is a nondeno- A- take charge of CampCurry for the bers, painting lift towers, overhauling minational organization. Any good, the fall and winter. The Patlersons of mobile and stationary engine on lifts clean, used clothing .will be welcome. White Wolf, will replace Jim; the and in snowmobiles, renewal of por- Please place clothing in a box on your ,was Mayerswi.II return to Glacier with the tions of the electrical system. This front porch by 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept- first snows. work is proceeding, simultaneously ember 26, at which time it will be ome -o- with the two contract jobs, the re- picked up. For Valley residents living FROMTHE LODGE pair of the fire damagein the ski on the Row, please leave box at back (Continuedfrom page one) house and the sun deck-cafeteria ex- door. that der Singh Bhatia from India; also from pansion. The former contact, awarded --O-- India is Jain Dass on the Front Desk to Bob Chivers is in the amount of AN HONEST COOK not, Walt Davis is now at the Cafeteria, $55,000; the new construction, hand- in the YPCCo. mail recently came having transferred from Glacier Point. led by Roger Jolley Co. of Fresno, is a box addressed to CampCurry. In- all Welcome to Jeanne Weaver, the new for $63,000. side was a skillet with a note saying: Lodge hostess, who besides all this, Chivers is to return the ’old’ build- "1 worked as a cook at CampCurry C’O: also reports that the lovely reflection ing to its original structural condition in 1941.When I left l took this skillet. pond outside HemlockCottage is com- :ent and appearance. This entails the re- I amenclosing $5.00 for its use during oe. pleted, with a running stream and a placement of major structural mem- this time". Keith Whitfield has been new lawn which shows signs already ar~ bers, portions of the roof, walls, par- wondering where that skillet went. of sprouting green. titions and the electrical system. Com- ~nd pletion is expected by late October. at .the west end, and sliding glass Mr. Joseph Ellis, Los Angeles: "We at doors along the meadowside. The received your brochure recently and The new construction will include new areas, outdoor and indoor, will it reminded us of our most pleasant the enclosure of an area off the lounge provide some 2200 additional square he: stays at The Ahwahneein October in -cafeteria of about 16 feet deep by feet cf d;.~;ng-sunning area for Bad- 1962 and 1963." 70 feet long. OW ger guest..,. Mrs. L. S. Andersen, Alhambra: "We Outside access to the new upstairs At the v~est edge of the new build- )od thank you for your brochure in which area will be by a staircase at the ing a walkway from the road and en- We note you have provided a swim- east end of the porch; to the lower trance to the downstairs locker area ruing pool for your guests." area, through doors at the breezeway are being built.

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M.C.T. TRIP (really little crayfish, I think), lobster, LINKS NEWS (Con~uedbum ~|= one) sardines, pickled herring and beets, The team of Mary Proctor and Buck ¯ theeast. cucumber pickles, baked ham, air- Martin with a net 30~ were the ! ¯ The Cape is dark and stark and dried beef like thaf of the Grisons in victors in the recent Wright Mixed overpoweringand its surface is bleak, Switzerland, salami, stuffed eggs, Scotch Tournament staged September with boulders strewn about, but there tongue, chocolate pudding, caramel 13 by the Wawona men’s and wo- in one of the fissures of its sheer wall custard, vanilla pudding, stewed men’sgolf clubs. we spied a clump of Moss Campion, plums, floating island, stewedcurrants The competition was Played accord- a delightful little plant of the Silene (preiselbeeren, rather), pears, two ing to the Chapmansystem. Competi- genus(related to our Indian Pink), kinds of pastry, and at least three tors were grouped in mixed fore- delicate pink flower rising from a varieties of cheese.It wasreally mon- somes.Eachplayer hit a tee shot; on moss-like cushion,¯ which we had last umental. There were somevariations, the secondshot, hit his partner’s ball. seen on the slopes above the trail day by day, but always a groaning Thereafter, to the cup, the best ball from fhe top of the First Chairlift to board. Breakfast was on a similar but was hit, but by the opposite team the Bach-Alp-See above Grindelwald. smaller scale, with eggs and meats on member.Runners-up in the event, for There is an arctic gentian which grows order. second, third and fourth places, re- here, too, but we didn’t see it. There Twoof the shore excursions covered spectively, were Jane Rust and Harold was an airy white flower we couldn’t some of the same terrain we had Ouimet, 31-~; Clara French and Gene identifyl and somemosses and lichens already seen above the Sognefjord. Ewing, 32.~ Addle Martin and in amongthe gravel and boulders of Another, to the hotel at Stalheim, Charley Proctor, 33. the surface. Notrees, not even shrubs took us up from the fjord to a height There was a three way tie with a net break the sky line. where we had a spectacular view of 34: Isabel Dierksen and George The little coastal’ village wherewe into a long, glacial valley muchlike Oliver, Audrey Ewing and Dale Find- ley, Muriel Ouimet and Guy Larr.,:r- landed for the bus trip to the North Yosemite or Lauterbrunnen in Swit- eaux. Cape.was like so rnany of the villages. zerland, in its U-shape and imposing The main feature was a long line of cliffs. There were the remains of Ger- TIOGA ROADTO BE CLOSED racks with drying fish turned to the man gun-emplacements that had com- TEMPORARILY sun. The climate is so humid that to mandedthe road up the valley, one According to the National Park Ser- of the points of accessto inland Nor- vice, engineers on the Tioga Pass con- .! dry hay they must mount it on racks also, and it may take days for it to way, and over the walls of the re- struction project will close the road be dried enoughto store. doubts rock-gardens had been built from 9 a.m. October 5 un,til 8 p.m. There was an excellent hostess on the up with mountain wild flowers, many October 9. Thereafter, the usual con- Meteor (she reminded us of Kit Whit- of which we had not seen in bloom, trols will be in effect. Theseare: the man, and what could be greater such as larkspur and white columbine road is OPENas follows: 8 a.m. to and forget.me-nots and a familiar- 10 a.m.; 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.; and 8 p.m. praise!) Shore excursions were schedu- looking sedum. to 10 p.m. during the week. It is open led almost every day, and there was dancing every night in the long semi- On the 6th of July we steamedback from 8 p.m. Friday until 10 a.m. Mon- twilight. Thenthere were special af- into Bergen. After a day of intensive day. fairs-travel talks, a ladies’ night, and shopping for things we had vainly PAT THORSEN,FAREWELL a Norwegian evening, when the pur- hopedto find in someof the isolated We were sorry to see Pat Thorson ser and the head dining room ste- places (for conversationpieces, if no- leave for tile San Francisco bright ward and the doctor and others shed thing else), we had an excellent dinner lights. Pat put in two years of fine their dignity and put on folk-games at the Flien Restaurant high abovethe hostessing at the Lodge. In addition to and songs. Of course, there was a city, reached by a funicular. It has a this, she wasan outstanding entertain- ceremonial crossing of the Arctic Cir- tremendous view across the harbor er having great skill and charm with cle, on the way up, and on the way and the city to the fjord with its the guitar and folk songs. She and back we celebrated the Fourth of July changing clouds and setting sun - Ross Hallberg pleased hundreds of with American songs and a conga our farewell to Norway. guests during the summerseason. line, and Americanbourbon for every- TRAVELERS,N. B. FOR SALE one to drink. Fred Milnes, travel counselor and 1963 Plymouth 2-doo: Savoy, The Norwegian Cold Table (with agent, will makehis bi-monthly trip V-8, standard transmission, seatbelts hot dishes) was always offered for to Yosemite on September23. He will front and rear, less than 10,000 miles, luncheon. I counted the dishes one day be available at the YPCCo. General 5 year or 50,000 mile warranty trans- and the numbercame to 36. Four hot Offices in the morning, in Bill Sch- ferable, air conditioned, heater. Am platters, with fish cakes, beef stew, nettler’s office in park headquarters selling because of transfer to area lamb and omelets were the main during the lunch hour, and in the where car is not needed. Contact Les !. offering, then an array of cold dishes: YosemiteLodge front office during the McClanahan: Office 372-4466 Home afternoon and until 8:00 p.m. 372-4405. .i shrimp salad - and such shrimpsl i, ¯ " !’. ’ ~ .~’,/"~/ "

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YosemiteNational Park, CaliforMa FRIDAY,OCTOBER 2, 1964

YPC CO. SAFETY SUMMARY Safety Direclor Ned English has summarized the accident record for the first 11 months of the 1963-64 fiscal year. The results of certain cur- rent injury cases are not known, thus the September figures are not avail- able, Shown below are the company- wide safety record statistics covering lost time injuries: DisablingInjuries This Yr. Last Yr, Hotel Division 20 18 CommercialDivision 5 8 Maintenance 8 8 YTS 3 3 Stables 0 0 Other Units 2 2 Total 38 39 Lost Time Days Hotel Division 742 194 CommercialDivision 25 43 Maintenance 34 104 YTS 22 4 Stables 0 0 ¯ OtherUnits 4 4 TOTAL 827 349 Units with no lost time injuries through 11 months: Central WarehousePlumbing Shop (Continued on page ~wo~ IT’S DRYTHIS FALL Accordingto the National Park Ser- vice, the water supply for Yosemite "1"he r~bore phr.~Logr’,q)hS~l)l)li(’d l.r~ tl~(’ SI".,NTINI’21-, I)?l G?/cr oJ’ I. he SINRRA Valleyis potentially critical dueto the STAR,torls m(Ide d,rim.l ~he Sel)l,e~nber 11 dt, clicrl~icn~ of. ~lt(: Yose.mil, e Pio,e.er extremely dry year. The supply a; Histor!] Ce,l.cr. Pitjuri,(d in lhe histor!] of Wilu~o,(~ (tre the yolrr mtm shmo,I h e’rein. AI l.he left is Ck~rr2,ce Wrlslzbllr)l. son of the late Joh, X,Vashb,r,, present is adequatefor normal use, "who.with his lhree brr)l.her:~’..Inlius, lfe,r!j (~,d E(llt~(trd b~lill, a,¢l (fl)crctl.t’tl but the concentrated heavy use can X.VcI~.~)t)nr~ l-h)It’,l Jr(~m1875 to 1!1’32. He u,~(~s the Iclst mcln(If/er of the Wr~t~;t~m~ drain the storagereservoir. Until the l-l(~tel I)efure il wr~s i)ic:l~lclc!(I i)~ l.hc (;9cralicm of YPCCo. Ne,rl t() W~tshbltrn rains relieve the situation the sprink- iy, Willic~lnSell. ,Jr. (~J" .;Xhtocthm’e.~cll .,qr~rl(2(t li(¢’ c~s ~l .,qtcl(.lecoa(.’h (Iril)er all(I ling of lawnsand groundareas should fl(,,.ller¢ll rolL~l.(~l)()lll ifl the’ ~.Val(~O)la(Ir(:’a r/lid I.rll.(H’ IIl.C Icfle(l C(llll.I) L, osl. Arl’ou). be controlled. Sprinklersshould not be whichu_)~s I(~c(~t.(:cl i)~ lh(’, pr(..’.~:e~t NPSresicle,lktl ¢~1’c(~,Cr~mp ,Xh.~tmh,(’e fool . allowed to run for long periods of of Ill(.’. Pollr Mile Truil. r~,cl the Sc,li~wl llol~’l. ,~.Ir. Sell is I))’es¢’)tl.l!l nl.f~ml(.]e’r r~J" lhe l:)~fll(!r Ilolel i~ [ll(lir, N(’,~I, is "l’t~m G(n’t/tm ,too a resicle,t of .¥h~ril)o.~’tl. time and never overnight. (;t~r(hm i~(Is tt stt~!l,.’ctmrh drirer ’(,r the Yt~.s’(~ntite ,";u tie a,(I Tltr~l.)ilc(’ Co. i~l If youhear the fire siren, youshould th(’ !lcur.’~ tlrt~l~(I th(’ t.~lr~ of the (..eMllr!j. .4it)l) th(: .’~Itt!l(2 ~ I~IIt)W,H (I,"; I.ho turn off all sprinklersso that all waler "X.V¢t.’d~l)tlr~." u,(I !/il;(;, lf~ the l)i¢),c~q’ llixlm’!l Center 1)!1 5"PCC(). is l’](I(l!l is availablefor fire fighting purposes. Gorclr)tl. curl!l (Irl?l sl¢lqc rlri~,(’r ,ml i)re.’~e,tl!J "’(:()rrrzl Ims.’¢"u/. the XVr~lc’omtSlrzl)les.

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YOSEMITE SENTINEL HOSPITAL NEWS THE AHWAHNEE PA The delivery room has been the Published by Glen Power, assistant manager of busiest area in L.M.H. wi.th six young The Yosemite Park and Curry Co. The Ahwahnee,supplied the following in the s’, for the information of ones arriving during the month. Doug tid-bits of info related, in a general and Thelma Warnock’s little Kirsten with Chl Yosem,ite Valley residents. way, to his domain. arrived on September¯ 3. Kirsten was Treasure H. Oehlmann Advisor The pool, after a minimumof open- weighed in at 8 Ibs. 14 oz. Next day, the subs H. K. Ouimet Advisor ing pains, is being enjoyed by Ah- September 4 at 1:22 a.m., Louise Parents H. Berrey Advisor wahneeguests, especially during the Woelbing presented husband Clarence excJ Mail communicationsto Yosemite warm afternoons. The only complaint with a son, their third, who tipped Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or came from a gentleman who, when Re the scales at 8 Ibs. 4 oz. He was phone372-4411. shown the ’diving rock’, commented Mr. S Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~e,eee,e,e, promptly namedMa’rk. that it certainly wouldn’t give very culty me Another Mark, Mark Conway, was FORSALE muchspring. is Dan Sear’s best thermostatically control- born to Carol and Dean Conway on George Heath, who with wife Mar- led wood heater (similar to Ashley) September24. Mark II weighted 7 Ibs. garet managed the Glen Aulin High the refin has heat controlled dampening and and 5½ oz. Sierra Camp,is nowon the hotel desk. dergartea thermo controlled two speed circula- Elizabeth Ann Stewart, the daughter of Larry and Cheryl Stewart and a Mrs. Heath is ’at home’ in El Portal. rece tion fan. Used 5 months. $80. Phone will be playmate for sister Robin, arrived on The Heaths are intending to winter 372-4755 between 8 am and 5 pm. and September 12. at Ostrander Lake Ski Hut. The hun- about th~ SAFETY SUMMARY Dick and Ann Ray have a new ters, Gordon and Hazel Warren, Fred (Con~aw~lfimm lll~ -,c) and Marian Pierson and Dotty and Village Store Electric Shop daughter, Terri Lee, born September Glen Power, had a fine hunt the open- Studios Paint Shop 18. This gives the Rays two boys and ing of deer season on Everett Philp’s Princi Stabiles Machine Shop two girls. And the Gerald Telles’ baby of teachi boy, Robert Duane, arrived on Sept- place near Fish Camp.Marian brought This year’s experience in Hotel Di- 8th grac ember20. The score, three boys, three homethe only venison. vision food preparation and service mented girls, which, Dr. Sturm, shows com- The Power’s oldest boy Michael, a areas, where 19 of the division’s 20 writers. plete impartiality. freshman at Mariposa High School, Ios.t time injuries and 815 of its 827 for The score waseven until AnneHen- figured in a scoring play in last Sat- lost time days have occurred, has been on the sd urday’s Mariposa J. V. vs Merced disappointing. drickson gave birth to a baby boy on OOOOOI Frosh football game. Mike, a driving Other divisions, notably Main- OctoberI. fullback, pushedthe ball over for the tenance and Commercial, have achie- CONNER- HILDEBRANDWEDDING only score of the contest. Less suc- ved substantial improvementsin their The Ahwahneegarden was the scene cessful was the Mariposa Varsity, frequency and severity rate this year. on September 27 of the marriage of which lost to the Merced J.V. squad Lost time days in the Maintenance Lynda Conner and WayneHildebrand. by a 14-6 score. Local footballers on Department, for instance, have been Ma’id of honor was Bonnie Conner, the the Varsity are KennyMelton, a full- reduced by over 200%. bride’s sister, while Wayne’sbest man back, and Clark Martin, Jr., an end. Stables Manager Bob Barnett has was Tom Riley, formerly of the Yo- The Mariposa J.V.s are now two-for- demonstrated again that work can be semite Lodge staff. Other attendants two, having beaten the Tuolumne performed safely under hazardous were bridesmaids Pat Hildebrand, High School squad 6-0 in a practice conditions. His Stables have a perfect sister of the groom, and Sue Bowers, game September 19. record through the year to date. a friend of the bride. Young David SCHOOLNEEDS TYPEWRITERS Curry madeout nicely as ring bearer, RETURNOF RIVER RAT John Deere, principal of the Yosem- while Karen Whiteman madea lovely Those of you who missed Dr. Mar- flower girl. The ceremony was per- ite ElementarySchool, is a qualified jorie Steurt’s last lecture in Mariposa typing instructor. He has offered to formed by the Rev. Don Baldwin of will have the opportunity of hearing teach typing classes starting with the El Portal. her on October 6, 8 p.m. at the Mari- Following the reception the bride 7th grade. This would give the posa High School. She will tell of her and groom departed for a six weeks’ students an opportunity to begin at a experienceswith the first party to ever much easier age for learning than trip to NewYork. Upon their return ride a raft on the swift rapids of the they will be in residence in one of waiting until the 10th grade, when Fraser and Columbia Rivers. the Tecoya Apartments. typing is taught in high school. The Refreshments will be served, so problem is absence of typewriters, writers. Machines will be bought as there will be an opportunity to visit whichthe school is not in a position to money becomes available. Should with Dr. Steurt after the program. furnish. readers wish to contribute moneyor Donationswill be $1.00 for adults, 50c The Yosemite Parents Group has ideas to this causetheir help will be for studen.ts. The moneywill go to started fund-raising with sights aimed gratefully received. Chairmanfor the the John C. Fremont Hospital Volun- at $1200 to purchase 12 rebuilt type- drive is Doug Hubbard. teers. OOOOOq J~t.’,~.’

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YOSEMITESENTINEL PARENTSGROUP MEETS I’ieve the teachersoF this time-consum- COMIN’S AND GOIN’S AT The Yosemite Parents GroUpmet, . lthat,ng in responsibility, other areas itit iswas quitepoin,ted common out YOSEMITELODGE in the schoolhouse on September 21 The last SENTINEL startedwith with Chairman Shackleton presiding. for parents to participate. Teachers Spencer Grams-- so we might as well Treasurer Arlis Carter gave his report, desperately need their lunch period start v~ith h’im this time - forthe ne’xf )en- the substance of which was that the for a few minutes rest in privacy few weeks we’ll see Spence~. at the Ah- Parents Group has on hand $20.39, and for much needed time to prepare front desk while WayneHildebrand the exclusive of the library fund. for the afternoon work. Henry Berrey is honeymooning in New York. And, was appointed to prepare a statement by the time Wayne gets back, the Repair Projects Underway and questionnaire to be considered newemployees will all be’.in the sCvin’g." ted Mr. Shackleton introduced the fa- and completed by the parents. of things. ¯ ":: ’-" ery culty members.New amongthis group Welcome to Dan Cunning" Alleh’ MembershipDrive to Start is Dan McCann, 5th and 6th grade Valkie, ManuelCalle in tl~e Cafeteria. ~ar- instructor. Several reports were made: Pauline Trabucco, John Deere, Mar- Theseare only a few of the newones. igh the refinishing of blocks for the kin- ian Woessner and Kathy Betts were And we have a numberof trdnsferred’ appointed to a fund-raising com- }sk. dergarten is being accomplished; TV employees - Valeria Bussell, who tal. reception is being improved; shelves mittee; it is apparent that additional worked at May Lake, is spend’ing’the ~ter will be forthcoming for the library, revenue will have to be obtained in winter months .in the housekeeping o~’der to improvethe condition of the un- and new benches are to be placed department. Kathy Stebbins is in the red about the school grounds. group’s treasury. Somemoney will be Cafeteria, coming to us from Camp madeavailable through the forthcom. nd Parents For NoonDuty Curry. Jean Timby worked at Glen ing membership drive, which will Aulin and is now in the Gift Shop. Principal Deere discussed his hope start soon. Local people who may Mary Elwood, a very talented young of teaching typing in the 7th and not be parents or whosechildren are lady at the piano, transferred from 8th grades. Several members com. no longer in the elementaryschool are housekeepingto the Restaurant. Mary, mented on possible sources of type- by the way, will be playing the piano a writers. Mr. Deere described the need eligible to join the parents group )ol, on Sunday night from 8:30 to 9:30 for Fc4rents to assumenoontime duty and their membershipis indeed wel- in the Lounge. ;at- on the schoolgrounds in order to re- come. (tonguedon l~scfour) :ed ~ooo~oooooooooooooooooooo~oooooooooQoooooooooooooooooo~oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo~ ng Ihe ~uc- ity, ad on I1- ~d. lr- hne ce

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YOSEMITESENTINEL MARIPOSAFOOTBALL SKED SUMMERSWING WINDUP Loca’l football enthusiasts whodon’t WRITE NElL MORGANWED IN ¯PARK It seemsthat the Yosemite golfers Nell Morgan, San Die cjo newsman, have seasontickets for the 4’9ers, the habitually get trounced whenthey in- Indians or the Bears, may be inter- was married to Miss Judith Blakeslee vade the Merced club’s environs and ested in the following schedule for in the Yosemite Chapel by the Rev. that the reverse is true whenthe flat- the Mariposa High School Grizzlies: Stephen Walker Saturday afternoon, landers cometo the hills. In the last September 26. Home-n-Homecontest, September 20, Morganhas written several pieces Oct. 3 * S.J. Memorial (J.V. and at Wawonathe local men defeated for his syndicatedcolumn Assignment Frosh) Merced 17K, to 15~; women’s com- , West, the most recent, an account of f. Oct. 9 * Livingston r petition did not materialize because a mule back trip to three of the High Oct. i6 X Le Grand .i of insufficient representation from Sierra Camps. i. Oci. 23"X Denair Merced. However, the womenplayed The bridal party flew from san Oct. 23* Merced Freshmen in a medal" sweepstake, with Mary Diego¯, .to the airfield at Mt.. Bullion .i t. Oct. 30 X Hilmar i Proctor winning with low gross of 91 drove to the park, were married, !. Nov. 6 X Orestimba Inky Peterson took second place with toasted by a few local friends, re- f Nov.’ 13"X Ripon 92 and Laureen Dunn, third, with 93. *Home games turned to Mt. Bultion, flew to Los Low net was won by Jane Rust with Angeles in time to board a jetliner ’!,~ X League Games a 69 and a tie resulted next between ¯ WINTERFILM PLANNED for London. All the above took place ",~ Kay Jirsa and Mary Proctor, each with between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. ¯ The firm of Pyramid Film Producers 71s. The weather was ideal and at of Santa M.onica has been engagedby FREE MOVIES the picnic supper everyone voiced en- YPC Co. advertising department to Theatrical films will be showntwice thusiasm for next spring’s Home-n- produce a winter film on Yosemite weekly at Yosemite Lodge in the Homein Merced. 9" during the coming winter season. Loungeat 9:00 p.m. Although the pri- Mostnotable subjects which have Farewell and Thanks, from Charlie marypurpose for providing this enter- been done by Pyramid were the "Leaf" On October 4 the Pro Shop at tainment is for YosemiteLodge guests, and the "River", both of which were Wawonacloses for the season and its employeesare also welcome. staff scatters for the winter. Pro Char- filmed in the park. Fred Hudson did Following is the schedule through lie extends his thanks for a job well the photographyfor both of these. It October: done not only to the golf course main- is expected that he will do the bulk Oct. 9 "Man with. a Million", Gregory tenance crew but also to his top shop of the nature photography in the new Peck and Jane Griffiths. picture. assistant of two years, Sotero Mar- tinez. Always working and smiling, Oct. 12 "Four Feathers", Ralph Rich- At the present time, the story is be- Sotero has managedto console many ardson, C. Aubrey Smith. ing prepared by writer Carleton Moss. a frustrated golfer. He will remain Oct. 16 "BambooPrison", Robert Fran- Actual camerawork will begin in late in Yosemite for the next year. Doug cis and DianeFoster. October, then continue in January. Vagim, Fresno student, also assisted Oct. 19 "Cape Fear", Gregory Peck, YOSEMITE LODGE Charlie this summerand now has re- Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen. (Contimled from page three) Welcome.back to Pat Patterson who turned to school. The seasonal golf Oct. 23 "Champion", Kirk Douglas, Ar- has returned from the Fresno Hacien- course crew under the direction of thur Kennedy. da. Andl goodbye (Minnesota schools greenskeeper Homer Armstrong and Oct. 26 "Adventures of Robinson Cru- asst. Ralph Diefenderfer functioned must start late) to TomGoossen, who soe", DanO’Herily. was a houseman in the new units, well during the summerwith a chang- ing crew which included Jimmy Oct. 30 "The Golden Age of Comedy" and is leaving .to return to school. with a great list of star comedians Strealy, Bill MacDonald,Sparky Philp, Congratulations on the Woelbing’s in their best comedybits. (Red) 7th wedding anniversary. Their Jim Devineand Les Mills. third son was born just four weeks The work of repairing; planting and WANTED ago. "putting the course to bed for the Steamertrunk. Contact Dolores Hall- Steve Falconer was all smiles the winter" is now in process. inan, The A’hwahnee, 372-4421. other day- his Pam(McGhee) arrived BOY SCOUTSFOR UNICEF In acknowledging the Scouts’ 1963 earlier th~is month cLfter spend!ing Onceagain the Scou.ts of Troop 50 gift of $71.15 UNICEFsaid, "Your three monthsin Europe. Their wedding (Yosemite-ElPortal) will sell Trick-or- generosity will enable UNICEFto give date has been set .for December19. Treat candy in advance of Halloween. health and the promise of a happier And, on the not too pleasant side, The proceeds will be shared equally future .to still moreof the world’s sick. our sympathy to Charlene McMillan between UNICEF, the United Nations and hungry children. Thank you on who is sporting a neck brace after Children’s Fund, which aids millions their behalf." a fall. Grace Grant has been in the of needy children and mothers in The boys hope to double last year’s hospital for the past week - get well more than 100 countries, and the gift, so don’t stock up on Halloween i" fastl troop fund. i" candy until they ring your bell! ~ ":.%.j’..,’.~: ’ XI’1~, " ’if,

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! :i.’. The abov( were ~;atce~ during a controlled scrimmagewiLh Mc~ri oos~. Bo~h teams scored twice. A practice game such as this gives both co¢~ches ~ chance to work w:th ~h, eir boys wnder irene co~di~.ions, according ~o corwh Jake Metherell. On the left No. 17 is Brrtd Lamoreau.~: with the ball, with No. 30, TomAllcock, r~nni~g interference. On the right No. 56 is Daryl Sch, midL get~h~g of] a pass, before a Mcn’iposaboy brings him down. In their first "real" go, me with .Menlo on October 10 the A te~n~z lost to the score of 18-0. However, the B ~eam won by 6-0. Bol:h ~eams were heavily out-weigb.ed by ~he Menlo boys. (This ~s ~ot a’n. excuse - only a st~cmem.). T,V. ASSOCIATIONREPORT INDIAN SUMMERDAYS HALLOWEENCOSTUME DANCE As the end of the fiscal year for Betweenthe Indian summerdays of Savethe date, Tuesday,October 27, YPCCo. is September 30, it seems late and the season’s dryness, our for a good time in the Indian Roomat appropriate that the Yosemite Com- autumncolor is advancing slowly and the Ahwahnee (remember, The Ah- munity TV Association should submit as yet, rather pallidly, though the wahneecloses November1, reopening a report on its activities. report from the East Side is that the December22). The Yosemite Parents The Association was formed in 1957 aspen in the canyons running up into Group wishes you to have fun, and at the sametime, raise moneyfor the and at that time YPCCo.authorized the the mountains are magnificent with expenditure of funds to bring one TV their copper tones. school. Admissionis $1.00 each, with total proceedsto go to the school. channel to Yosemite Valley. The Com- On the floor of the Valley manyof The theme is "ComeAs Your Favor- pany agreed to finance the project, the maples are sunshiny yellow, and ite T.V. Star" and the affair will be but only with the understanding that many are still green, though some from 9:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. There the Community who was to benefit have simply dried up. The dogwood will be fine prizes for the best cos- would work out a plan to repay with is spotty, so far. There are a couple tume, plus o midnight buffet. funds collected on a monthly or annual of trees with brilliant leaves at Happy Tickets will be on sale at the Parents basis from a membership made up of Isles and a few along the road be- Group Meeting October 19, or may residents of the Valley who were en- tween Tenaya Bridge and Mirror Lake, be purchased at The Ahwahnee or joying the television programs. To especially near the Iron Spring. South Yosemite Lodge desk or the Village .q:::em~’is’.~ this end, the Yosemite of Pohono Bridge and around Fern Store. C:mmuni~y TV Assoc. was formed. Spring they are coming on slowly, A ::~r.:r:,itt~.-~ from the Company,Park many trees with some leaves green GEORGELEDSON RETIRES ~’er\’!c~ an::l T,~!ep.honeCo. was ap- and somepale red to scarlet. The black After sixteen years with YPCCo., r’c~in]:d to sul::ervi~.e the operationoF oaks have not really started to turn Maintenance Dept., George Ledsonre- Ii~ .’:’s;.q:ialicn. Onechannel was re- yet, but they are usually at their peak tired recently. He cameto Yosemitein ::r:a:’.cast into the Valley commencingat the end of the month rather than June, 1948. George, as he was fondly in 1957. The system was UHF, and the rniddle.. Indian hemp,a plant two known to many Valley residents, has while fairly satisfactory, proved very to four feet tall, is one of the best bought a home in Cathay, where he is nowliving. (Cnntinucd nn page two) (Continued on page two)

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.’.. . YOSEMITE SENTINEL EARLYENGINEER VISITS YOSEMITE NICK’S TOUR ¯ Publishedby Our correspondent reports a plea- Each November,for the past seven Yosemite Park and Curry Co. sant hour spent in conversation with years, Nick Flare has visited ski clubs Folks for the information of a Mr. Phil Gutleben in Room914 of ski shops and schools to. discuss ski- General Yosem.ite Valley residents. Cedar Cottage at YosemiteLodge. Mr. ing and Badger Pass. This isn’t Nov- In the P~ H. Oehlmann Advisor Gutleben is a retired engineer and ember yet, but already he has begun has gone H. K. Ouimet Advisor contractor, now living in Alamo in what looks like his busiest schedule. ing form H. Berrey ...... Advisor Contra Costa County. And, with the Last weekendhe spent three days was in th Mail communicc~tionsto Yosemite orderly habits attributed to engineers, in Southern California at May Co. Became h Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or has kept careful track of the construc. stores - Downtown,Wilshire, Valley Kent, near phone 372-4411. tion work he did in Yosemite between and Eastland. MayCo. has ten stores who has I’eO4e’¯’¯’~O44e~ 4e.ee,¢,~ +e¢. ee # # # o. the years 1916 and 1926. and this fall openedski shops in four Westfall r. V. ASSOCIATIONREPORT The National Park Service was form- of them. If the shops becomepopular heading (Continued from page one) ed in 1916and, with its first director, they will install them in the other six Francisco costly to maintain. As a result, and Stephen Mather, and the park’s first stores, and, according to Nick, the south wit in order to provide more complete superintendent, W. B. Lewis, Gutleben people were trying on and buying hopefully, programming,in the late fall of 1960 was involved in a number of .first ski sweaters and stretch pants as of absen, all of the networksplus the education buildings, several of which are yet though it was winter, instead of hot worked at station in San Francisco were rebroad. very much in use. Along with the (’90 degree), smoggyweather. this summ ¯ cast into the Valley on VHFfrequency. N.P.S. work, he was builder for the Nick is nowfree for a much-earned spot. Mr. This is the present arrangement now DesmondPark Co., one of the two holiday until November4. Then, and Schleuter, in use, and in most cases everyone is principal park operators. through the month, he will visit the her folks enjoying better than average tele- In 1916 Gutleben built for Desmond folio.wing: Single Ski Club, (L.A.), Hol- is looking vision reception. a laundry and loath house in the lywood High School Ski Club, the Foot- Moore wi As anadded service, in the very Lodgearea. In May, 1955 this build- hill Ski Club, Bakersfield Ski Club and husband, near future it will be possible to also ing was razed for all practical pur- the Modesto Club; between November left by Ba bring in Channel Two, Oakland. Chan- poses, only the concrete slab floor 13--16 he and three of his instructors Office. A f~ ¯ nel Two carries manysports events-- having been left. On this foundation, will demonstratesl~i techniquesat the ring end of football, baseball, basketball and Cedar Cottage was built in ’55. That Winter Sports Showat the CowPalace. There’s ’hockey-and will be switched to the the floor has held up over the 39 Others on his schedule thus far are mercial - present education channel on week- years attests to the durability of Mr. visits to the Castle Air ForceBase ski los, is on Mi’ ends, as that is not in use at that time. J Gutleben’s work, and that he wanted enthusiasts, the Stockton Ski Club and invoices, etl To date, a total of $37,248.12 has to stay in Cedar Cottage attests to the Katharine Branson School skiers, San Mateo been spent on the TV system. As of Mr. Gutleben’s being a slightly sen- at Ross, and Salinas’ Camber Ski here (and October,.1, 1964, the Association has timental engineer. Club. A new fa, a debit of $6,059.41 with the Com- (’Continued on page three) In addition to the above, Nick will is Gerry i " pany. It is hopedthat w.ithin the next ’i. still a little of the bright yellow of conduct a dry land ski school in Fresno genson’s ri two years the Association can repay several of the rabbit-brush family on November17, 24 and December1, Her main jc all monies advanced by theCompany and its associates, and here and there with a fourth lesson to be held on the but .that bei in which case Association dues could a little scarlet fuchsia, Zauschneria slopes at Badger Pass, later in Dec. days, she t~ be lowered. Presently there are 147 Californica (a mouth filling name), ember. With all this activity, Nick daily mail, dues-paying membersin the Associa- above the WawonaTunnel, especially could very well feel the ski season telephones, tion. along the curve. The aspenson the old half over, before any snowflies. to operate ’ INDIAN SUMMERDAYS dirt road above BadgerPass are turn- AHWAHNEEGIFT SHOP Mih (Continuedfrom page one) ing orange and apricot. The meadows "MOVES" TO LODGE displays so far. it makespatches of Speaking in the Valley are tawny, for the most Haveyou been looking at a certain to report tha vivid yellow along the Merced River article at The AhwahneeGift Shop part, without the kaleidascopic color ating nicely between Rocky Point and Pohono that perhaps you’d like to get as a they often show, but Royal Arch mea. under the c Bridge and also in the meadowbehind dow, with its moist earth, has pools Christmas gift? And then about the the Chapel, where the skating rink hope it won’ of russet and green. middle of December when you want fore you’re b was long ago. It’s in the dogbane to purchase it, realize The Ahwahnee By way of compensation for the grounds" ag family, and the Indians used its long slowness of the color, the sugar pine is closed? Here’s your answer. John black roots in making their Indian daysafter tl’~ cones this year make a tremendous Earle, Merchandise Manager, tells us baskets. showing after several lean years. he plans to move approximately one- Along the Wawonaroad there is a AHW, Somehave fallen, but manywill stay third of the stock from The Ahwahnee little pale lessingia, although most (Conti on the trees until spring, or until a high on November1 to the Yosemite Lodge Beckwith, an of it is gone from the Valley. Beside wind brings them down. Gift Shop. And, if there is something Lodge. When the roads out of the Valley there is special you’d like lo have, tell Ruth M.C.T. the stock w (Continuedon pagethree) "home". .’ : ... ,~ . ....~..... ;L .;. f.. ¯ -:. ".. ¯ ,. ¯ ¯ .... i

.i YOSEMITESENTINEL PERSONNEL.ITIES EARLYENGINEERVISITS YOSEMITE BACK4TO-SCHOOL.NIGHT Folks coming and going, in the ubs (Continuedfrom page two) The October 19 meeting of the Yo- General Office - from left to right - Very likely the most demandingof ski- In the Paymaster’s office Meg Sams semite Parent’s Group will feature a Gutleben’s projects in Yosemite was OV- ¯ has gone back to England after work- "back-to-school-night" schedulefor all U n the 1916-17construction of the Glacier parents, starting at 7 p.m. ing for Melba Smith since May. She Point Hotel (the Mountain House had was in the U.S. for 18 months, but Principal John Deere has announced tS.. already been built, in 1878). The road becamehomesick for her Chislehurst that the purpose of the "back-to-scho. CO. to Glacier was terrible, even for Kent, near London. Marl Kay Mathews ol-night" is to give each teacher an ley mule--drawn wagons, and during the who has been a big help to Agnes opportunity to presentthe entire cur- fall of ’16, 100 .mules were employed res .Westfall in the Paymaster’sOffice, is riculum to the parents and to show in hauling in materials. Whenwinter heading for the bright lights of San them books, materials, and" various lar put a stop to this, 17 menwere left Francisco after a brief visit down other teaching aids that the children six at Glacier to work through the winter. south with her family. Agnes says, will be using throughout the year. lhe Despite the hardships and the almost hopefully/"She’s only taking a leave This is not an open house, but rather ’Fig totally isolated situation, the building of absence." Sharon Cummings, who an opportunity for the teacher to re- was opened on schedule for the sum- as worked at the WawonaCoffee Shop view the program for the year with :Jot mer season 1917. this summer, is taking Marl Kay’s the parents. The regular business spot. Mr. Cramer’s secretary, Marilyn During that winter, Gutleben had meetingwill take place in the all-pur- led Schleuter, is leaving for a visit with occasion to snowshoe into Glacier. pose room at 8:45 p.m. following the :nd her folks in Chicago, then she too, This set him thinking about the use sessions in the individual rooms. the is looking to the big city, S.F. Joyce of the area for winter sports. Also, --o-- Moore will take her ¯place. Joyce’s he designed a tramway from the ,ot- AHWAHNEETRIO AT YOSEMITE husband, Jim, has filled the vacancy Valley, starting at about the bottom of LODGE left by Bart Burgin in Maintenance the Four-Mile Trail, to Sentinel Dome. Office. A few changes in the accoun- The drawings which he prepared for During the month of October, the ting end of the office, we’d say! the tramway project showed four Jack Sabine Trio is playing in the the Mountain Roomon Wednesdaynights There’s a bright new face :in Com- 20-passenger cars with parasol-tops ’ce. from 9 to 11:45. According to Mana- mercial - Carol Pechacek,of San Car- which ran on a track in tandem, two "ire ger Wayne Whiteman the first two los, is on MindyRose’s job of checking up, two down. The lower and the dances.werevery successful. It’s very invoices, etc. Here from the College of upper terminal buildings were most ld kind of you, Mr. Curry, to share your San Mateo, Carol says she likes it attractive and reminiscent of the Geor- "S, orchestra. However, it seemsWednes- here (and vice versal). gian or "Republican" architecture as- I days were a bit slow at the hotel, but A newface in the Reservation Office sociated with the turn-of-the-century Long Island summerhomes of the rich. busy at the Lodge. All is Gerry deChant. She is Dana Mor- genson’s right hand gal these days. The Glacier Point Hotel originally had -o.-. a drivb-through .porte cochere on tha Her main job is the High Sierra desk, FORSALE entrance side. Its absencemay account e but that being somewhatquiet these 1959 Black MGsports coupe. Phone for the rather monotonouslyflat ap- ~c- days, she takes dictation, opens the 372-4475. Rusty pearance of the building today. An- ck daily mail, works on the counter and telephones, plus, which, is learning other high-altitude job of Gutleben’s there in 1903 by the Sierra Club. In to operate the teletype. was the construction of the cableway 1924, when the Currys wanted to ex- on Half Domein 1919. Some years pand their Camp, they paid Gutleben Miles ReCOOPERating earlier, in 1875, GeorgeAnderson had to moveand reconstruct it at its pre- Speaking of the m’ail, we’re happy drilled holes and inserted eye-bolts sent site. to report that Miles Cooperis recuper- into the granite to the summit. Re- Whenit was time to leave, our man ~p ating nicely from his recent operation, placing the bolts, and stringing cables, inquired of Gutleben whether he a under the good care of Lucille. We Gutleben built the cableway about as thought the Valley was more or less hope it won’t be too long, Miles, be- it is today. nt fore you’re back to your old "stomping attractive, with its moreorderly build. grounds" again. (Perhaps only a few Buildings for NPS ings, its roads and parking areas. Gutleben replied that its beauty cer- clays after this is printed?). Aside from the Glacier Point Hotel, tainly hadn’t been marred -,.nd pr,’,- the three best known buildings for bably was moreattractive than in the AHWAHNEEGIFT SHOP which Gutleben was responsible were early days. Mrs. Gutleben, who, (Continuedfrom page two) the park headquarters, rangers club Beckwith, and it will be sent to the through the interview sat quietly house and the museum. Lodge. When The Ahwahneereopens, crocheting, volunteered, "And 1here the stock will then be moved back T’he LeConteLodge originally stood certainly isn’t all that awful dust all "home". at CampCurry, having been built over everything."

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I ¯ . . ¯ .. i i Yosemite National Park, California FRIDAY, OCTOBER30, 1964 ACCOUNTING NEWS PARENTS BASH A SMASH BADGERWINTER PREPARATIONS YPCCo.’s accounting department is To paraphrase Archie, last Tuesday The past week’s rain had Badger manned by 28 people performing night’s Parents Group Dance at The manager Bill Meachamsquinting up various fiscally-oriented jobs. And, Ahwahneeindicates "there’s life in the at the sky and guessing when the there’s little in this world moreimpor- old girl yet." Badger slopes would get their first tant than being fiscally O.K. Carl The community, which fairly can be ,. white mantle. Meanwhile, the brush- Strickland, one of the numbers wiz- called conservative, dropped its cutters are at Work, scything off o.f- ards, evidently felt his fellow workers fending clumps and twigs to makethe guard and turned out in marvelously were being overlooked by the SEN- imaginative Costumesintended to por- slopes usable with little morethan a TINEL, so wrote, on his owntime, the heavy frost. Dick Reevesis the head tray favorite television performers. following piece. There were lawyers, politicians, doc- swinger and has instructors Bob Ray The time has come! The time has tors, nurses,cave-dwellers, B-girls, hill- and Gary McCulley, Winter Club rep arrived for news of the accounting billies-people w.ith exposeddigestive , Les Mills and Ernie Peigneon the team. i office to be knownto all. tacts, head colds and dandruff. In the Ski House, Dave Downingis At the end of each fiscal year (Sept- After maddancing ’til midnight to training Bruce Robertson and Jim Car- ember 30), John F. Forbes and Com- the tunes of Jack Sabine’s made-up- 1 nahan to be ski repairmen. This is a pany sends men to do the annual as-waiters trio, the judges retired to t hi~thly important activity, for aside audit. This year, the men are from. I their chambersto pick the best cos- !. from doing simple patch-ups, the re- Forbes’ San Francisco office. At the tumes.The first prize, overnight at The i pairmen must be able to set bindings moment, we have two here determin- i on a pair of $150 competition model Ahwahnee, was won by Jim Edeal, I... ing if things are according to Hoyle. 1 Heads, which is something akin to They are Bob Breitfeld and Hollis decked out as the director of "Satur- day Night at The Movies", wearing spitting a large diamond. Hardin. Both are very likable, and miles of motion picture film, dark Dariell Jenson, formerly with the they are doing an excellent job. That glasses and a beret. The Shackletons LodgeTransortation Desk, is readying can be bad news, especially when were Mr. and Mrs. Jolly Green Giant. equipment and apparel for the Bad- they start using their CPAtalk. Mr. Lee,painted green to the eyeballs, ger Ski Shop and for the one at the Marvin Baker, chief auditor for Forbes, wore a leafy crown and skirt and "ho Lodge. The Lodge Shop will be moved is the head man fo the team. He ho I~o’d" most convincingly. Ti was a from the RedwoodRoom in the Rest- (Continuedon page two) lovely just-picked ear of corn. They aurant to a section of the studio. The WOMENSGROUP TO MEET won the champagnefor second best. latter will open November26. The first meeting of the season of Marilyn Asay, in the Commercial Third place went to Dick Begeman. the Yosemite WomensGroup will be ¯ Division, is gathering ski locker rental Dick wore a magnificent Indian garb held Thursday, November5, according fees and assigning lockers. Those who with horns, feathers, fur and beads. (Continuedon page two) have reserved lockers but have yet to Zona Deckelman, Chairman. Lunc- eon, which commencesat 12:45 p.m. VOTERSNOTE AND VOTE to pay for them, should do so. in the Yosemite Lodge RedwoodRoom, In the event it has escapedanyone’s The snowmobile fleet will be ex- will be followed by a talk and color panded by two new machines, a Bom- attention, the voting polls in Yosemite slide presentation by Thelma McGre- bardier, which will carry 21 passen- will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 gor on "Evidences of the Renaissance gers, and an Oliver Tractor for slope- p.m. All YPCCo. employees who are As they Appear in RomeToday". packing" The passenger fleet of two elgible are encouragedto vote. Any- Mrs. Deckelmanwishes to point out one not hav.ing time to vote at either Bombardiers, one Trackmaster, one that the luncheon and program are Spryte and two weasels can haul a the beginning or end of his working open to all Valley women; cost for total of 80 passengers on the scenic day may arrange wth his supervisor the luncheon is $1.50 and reservations loop. Dave Downing in charge of the before election day for sufficient time should be made by the evening of to cast his ballot. The necessarytime vehicles’ operation. November4 with the Yosemite Lodge P.S. Wednesdaynight’s storm left may be taken off wthout loss of pay. about a foot of snow at Badger. desk.

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PARENTS BASH A SMASH THE LODGITES PARE Published by (Continued from p~gc one) "The end of labor is to gain leisure", The Oc so sayeth Aristotle. So after a long, Yosemite Park and Curry Co. Which TV person he represented was Night, m~ hard season, Vacation time is here and for the information of not clear. However,John Curry intro- ents Grou away the employees go. Manager Yosem.ite Valley residents. duced h.im as "Barry Goldwater in an 95 WayneWhiteman, and his family are H. Oehlmann Advisor Indian Suit",.which seemsas good a according vacationing in S. F., taking in the H. K. Oulmet Advisor tag as any. is a recorc opera and then headed north. Ger- H. Berrey ...... Advisor between clc A.fte supper,, the contribution of The trude Stewart is spending three weeks Mail communications to Yosemite A.hwahnee,dancing resumeduntill the curricul !.. traveling to Oregon, back down the Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or managementflicked the lights to sign- terials and i phone372-441 1. Redwood Highway, then on to Los al theend of the merriment. strated.. 1.@¢I.00000@0000,O’@0@@41.41’0@000@@. Angeles for some fun. Winona Cope- f Parents Group officials state that FollowinI ACCOUNTING NEWS land, who managedthe gift shop at their coffers are $164.00 fuller from was .held. (Continuedborn paEc one) CampCurry, is filling in-welcome to the proceeds. the Lodge, Winona. of the replaced Harold Clark, who came to gram, re the service station people believing Lewis Smith, our distinguished Chef Yoserni.te for the past 17 years to per- had been that the things he takes and uses is vacationing, meanwhilePaul Jones L. form the audit. This works out to be buy come under the head of !’product is relieving h’im. Chet Hubbardwill L" the same number of years that the leads on th . ’ testing". be pointing his Thunderbird toward i. Forbesoffice .has ’had the account. Mr. located. Hu Clark has movedto San Francisco from The task of being Chief Clerk falls S. F. and then to L.A. And, speaking of Chet, NedEnglish and a few others help Los Angeles and will no longer per- upon the shoulders of Jim Taylor. J.im by 7th will be happyto learn that the famous form field audit duties. He will be finds time to attend a music festival formal inst, : ;missed,"and there is a standing in- now and then, and, every Wednesday ’53 Ford is no longer his. Spencer Principal vitation to come back and see us at night he can be found at Lost Arrow Grams has been boning up on his hour duty any time. offering a guiding hand and foot to Spanish for trip planned into Mexi- assume oh, The accounting section is watched square dancers. SO, when you hear co. Ethel Bownewill be enjoying her activities dl over by YPCCo. Controller, Sterling shouts of "do-se-do" and "swing your vacation in S. F. and San Diego. lieving Cramer. His iron glove assure.s him partner" you can be pretty sure they And, oh!, those jolly three days- afternoon that he will,like what he sees. Among are com.ing from him. Kathy Diaz, Joann Muehlmann and gram thus the thousand and one duties that .he Clifford Baker took a fast trip to Nowfor somegossip. It seemsthat the parenl has, Mr. Crameris also the leader of Grant’s Pass, Oregon. Walt Davis Vicki Ball and Dave Tucker are really Deere fu the Democratic organization in the seemingly enjoyed a stay in S. F., going to go thru with it. They are parents wi area, a factl that would have been while Florence Settles spent a most going to say "1 do’s" at the Yosemite done their easy to guess, considering the massof enjoyable and much-earnedrest with Chapel this weekend. over the literature and pins that he has avail- Jim Edeal won first prize at the her family in Fremont. Dave Johnson able to Democrats. This might make Halloween affair this week. He al- journeyed to Monterey. RedPaquette, born, Michi Republicane mp’loyees a little uneasy most got second prize, too, when he an opera aficionado, has been attend- in Ford toL whenthey ask for pay raises. unmasked.His get-up as the director ing the operas i’n S. F. Red has 133 brands rec~ Bob Lee, the Office Manager, is a of "Saturday Night at The Movies" complete operas in his record collec- Ford Musta nice man. He and his bride, Beatrice, won, hands down. Huntley (your re- tion. Louis and Peanuts Handin spent of the coml: have been married for almost a year porter) and Brinkley (Jerry Smith) a few days in Reno. And Roger Briar Jan Rose had a smashingtime in Fresno. now. Besides managingthe office, Bob were there. Olga Ossi will be gone weather for is the chief of the Volunteer fire de- for a couple of weeks. She is going Goodbyesto: Judy Kulcher wholeft Hayes has partment. He is always the first man to NewYork to visit her mother who for S. F. and will be sharing Pat Thor- filling in as at the fire house when the alarm is having her 85th birthday. And to son’s apartment. Bob Boyd has joined well soon. sounds. That alone can cause hard- top that off, Olga’ssister will be there, Uncle Sam. WaynePI ships, but think howit must be for his also; they haven’t seen each other Wedding bells: Steve Barrett and been tappe bride to have all of those fire exting- since Olga was nineteen. Janet Lee were married October 17 Their first uishers, hoses, nozzles and fire fight- Eva Murphy,in charge of the filing, in Chester, New Hampshire-Congrat- place for ing handbookscluttering up the house! can .say the alphabet backward; she ulati’ons to you both. Tim and Rose- Mary EIw Bill ’Smith is the Assistant Office is now learning it forward. mary Fetterly announced their en- ist, will er Manager, as well as watch dog for Wewill try to makethis a regular gagement. Tey will be married next ployees eve the service stations. Oh, yes, Bill is feature. So, look forward to these June. Lounge. also a memberin good standing with items; on occasion they maybe infor- News from the newlyweds-Linda The Yoser the fire department; at least it would mative. You will receive the lowdown, and WayneHildebrand were the 200,- is now in appear so, because he has a fire de- gossip and rumors, and what better 000th and 200,001 visitors of 1964 good work partment sticker on his car. He must way is there to relieve the monotomy to tour Ford Mot& Co.’s giant Rouge youin first be a good salesman, too as he has of routine? auto manufacturing complex in Dear-

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YOSEMITESENTINEL ., PARENTSGROUP MEETING TAX PAYERS,NOTE lisure", ¯ YP&C-/CO. PERSONNEbCHANGES . The October 19 "Back To School J long, Most taxpayers will be due for an Night" meeting of tl~e Yosemite Par. unpleasant surprise when they file YP&CCo. General Manager’s office and on October 26 announced changes in ¯ ...ents Group was attended by about their incometax returns on 1964earn- ter the company’s safety, housing and .ily are~ " .,95 percent of the parents, which ings sometime in the spring of 1965. according to school principal Deere, budgetactivities, oil under the super- in .the .. The reason is that the new 1964 with- is a record turnout. Parents moved holding rates are just too low. With- vision of Director of Personnel,Harold Ger- i.. holding has been established at 14 K. Oumet. weeks between class rooms where the school .... curriculumwas explained, books, ma- percent of net taxable earnings. The GeneN. Ew.ing, was namedDirector the " terials and teaching aids were demon- old rates were at 18 percent. The new of Housing, along with his primary to Los .strated. duties as Assistant Director of Per- Cope’ tax reduction law which went into ¯ Following, a short business meeting effect in 1964 established the reduc- sonnel. ThomasThomas was ap0inted ~op at tion in two steps; half in 1964 and Director of Safety, in addition to his me to was. held. Doug Hubbard, chairman Z ’ of the typewriter procurement pro- half in 1965. The result is that the duties as Special Investigator. . gram, reported that, as yet, no funds 14 percent withholding rate is far too The safety and housing responsibil Chef i. ’ , : i- .. had been forthcoming w.ith which to low to cover 1964 earnings. On 1965 ties were formerly handled by Ned Jones. ": buy: typewriters, .ah.hough several earnings reported in the spring of ’66, English, whowill devote all his time will "leads on their procurement had been the withholding rate of 14 percent now as Secretary to the Budget Com- ¢zard ¯ ¯ .located. Hubbardencourages locals to will again be a close approximation mittee, aking ¯ ’ help ¯accomplish this program, where- of the final tax paymentunless the Mr. Ouimet, Chain~an of the Bud- others get Committee,stated that the activi- .. by 7th and 8th graders will be given tax.payer is in the higher brackets. formal instruction in typing. Thosewho have been filing quarter- ties of this committee:have grown to ~encer ly estimated returns during the year such a degree that the services of a his Principal Deere discussed the lunch hour¯ duty program werein parents have already encountered this pro- full4ime Secretary are required. assume charge of the school ground blem. For employees who have not, AUTOOWNERS, PLEASE NOTE her there .is one simple way to correct the i". activities during the lunch period, re-. The Chief Ranger’s Office has re- : .lieving the teachers to prepare for situation without running the risk of quested that all Park residents have PSi 11 ,: aftern’oon scl~ool activities. The pro- possible penalties and rather large their motor vehicle registration card and . . gram thus far has been successful, lump sum payments due April 15, visable from the outside of the car as .p to 1965. That method is to computeyour i the parents’ participation generous. required by State law. The card should i .. Deere. further, stated that once all tax for 1964rather closely and to in- be so placed that the owner’s name F., ¯ crease withholding amounts for the parents willing to participate had and address and the license plate rnost months of November and December. .. done their turns, the school will take number may be read through the with The withholding certificate filed with over the duty. windshield or a front wind0w. Citat- nson the Paymasterhas a place on it where ions are being issued for failure¯ to sette, ": born, Michigan, marking a milestone you may enter any amount you wish ¯ :i " observe thi~ requirement. . in Ford tour attendance. The Hilde- in order to make your adjustment. Also being enforced is the regula- 33 This space is Line 6 on the Form W-4 !. brands received scale models of the tion pertaining to parking i.n the area ~llec- ¯ .. Ford Mustang and were dinner guests which you file with the Paymaster. at Yosemite Lodgewhich is restricted " : : of the company. Beginning with January 1, 1965, you to 20-m’inute parking for guest regist- .riar may revert to the old schedule, for ; Jan Rosco has been under the ration. This is the area directly in weather for the last few weeks. Alice in that year the withholding rates front of the Lodgeoffice. left Hayeshas been doing an excellent job and the tax rates.will correspond as YOSEMITEON KPIX-TV " filling in as.acting manager.Jan, get closely as they did prior to 1964. ined well¯¯ soon. As a further reminder, the paychecks WandaRamay, who does the excel- lent "Noon News" show on KPIX-TV Wayne Porter and Gary Wilt have which will be distributed November ..: seemsto have taken Yosemite to her and been tapped .to handle decorations. 7 will reiterate the above. heart, having doneseveral little news. 17 Their first project is to embellish the LIONS SALERESULTS feature bits about the park and some rat- place for the Halloween dance. According to Dick Klein, Lions Club of its people. Most recently televised Mary Elwood, a very talented pian- Secretary, the recent rummagesale was Julia Parker, shown with some en- . ist, will entertain guests and em- netted the service organization $665 of her fine baskets andthose of earlier ~ext ployees every Sunday night in the and, as has been pointed out, this Yosemite basket weavers. Prior to the Lounge. amountis usedfor its various charities nda Julia Parker coverage, Miss Ramey’s The Yosemite Lodge bowling team and activities, not for the operation program included Glen Power on an 00,- is now in third place. Keep up the of the club. Lion Jim Johnson, the Ahwahnee tour, and some time ago 964 good work; we are expecting to see ¯ general chairmanof the sale, wishes she presentedan excellent short of the uge you in first place soon. to thank all locals, the sellers and the Valley generally. :ar- Jeanne Weaver buyers, for their cooperation. Miss Ramey, we thank you.

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AHWAHNEEGUEST’S OBSEVATIONS finally had backed into God’s Little BADGERSREADY FOR RETURN GAME Acre, he sat there for a momentcom- Among The Ahwahnee’s ¯frequent WITH MARIPOSA pletely spent .... only to find that and faithful guests is the Winters he¯ had parked at a fire plug. Badger footballers, smarting after family from Pebble Beach. During Missed Eddie Trossauer who always their defeat in Mariposalast week, are a recent visit, the doctor volunteered ready to avenge their loss in the served our breakfast. Looking splendid the following, which he titled game on the local school grounds in the morning with his long hair, his Strange Customsof The Ahwahnee Saturday, Nov. 1. Kickoff time is burning eyes, his suit and his point- 10:00 a.m., according to assistant Nine or ten years ago Mrs. Winters, ed shoes, and while serving, ex- coach Schnettler. Coach Metherell, Beverly, and myself first visited The poundedat length on his girl friends. i . Ahwa’hnee and have been frequent involved in last minute practice, was 11 ....9isitors ever since, it wasnot only the As Mrs. Winter and Beverly were unavailable at press time. beauty of the Valley but mostly the arriving a day late, I was alone. Therefore, selected a dinner partner. In the gameat Mariposa, the Bad- friendliness of the staff which made gers lost a scoring opportunity early us return and select The Ahwahneeas Wemet at 7:30 and were greeted at the Dining Roomdoor by Ted Kosinski, in the game after Garry Lamoreaux J: our second home. bow.ing chauvin’istically. As Ted escor- broke loose for 71 yards to the oppo- This month, as usual I’departed ted us to our’table, the womenseemed nent’s 11. An offside .penalty spoiled il1 from Pebble Beach, the golfing center to stiffen, the menstared, as my part- the scoring chance and the Badgers of the world, to invade the tranquility ner walked into the room. You cou,ld lost the ball on downs, Mariposa 1 of Yosemite and The Ahwahnee. feel mistrust and annoyancein the air scored before the half, racking up 7 !i points on a pass and the extra point. There was Joe Thomasas neat and She was utterly beautiful, and com- pleasant as ever tO meet me. I was pletely charming. She was elegantly Another pass, this one good for 22 home . . . Pat Garrard greeted me gowned and magnificently groomed. yards, added another seven points in in a Singapore British accent and un- All the men in the room, I am sure, the third period. The Badgers marched loaded my baggage from the boot stared over-long at her and then bur- to the twenty following the kickoff of the car. Bruce Bigelow and Robin ied their headsin their soupsas their "and seemed to be rolling. Another !! 1 Depewwere also on hand. Pearl Dit- wives chattered frantically at them. scoring chance appeared when Bob ton was at the switchboard, and Jim We were served one of Fred Pier- Cross intercepted a pass and returned McDonald was at the Front Desk. son’s delicious meals by Anne Oney, the ball to the Mariposa 19. A long Waved to Glen Power who flashed a most excellent waitress, and good penalty and several unsuccessful pass ill by as if he was carrying a messageto friend. Saw Eva Manley in the dis- attempts foiled the opportunity. The Garcia. Really I was home.John Curry tance, as busy as ever. There were lone Badger touchdown came as a was kneeling at the swimming pool, Benny Lara and Leo Josue rushing result of punt return to the Mar iposa and at first I thought he was thanking with loaded trays held high over their 29, a 12 yard gain by G. Lamoreaux the Lord for this wonderful gift. But headsjust clearing the table tops. En- with Darrel Schmidt skirting end to discovered he was cleaning out the rique (Loco) Nunezserved somegiggle scoring territory. Final score Badger leaves from the drains while Stuart water and I was ready for anything. 6, Mariosa 13. Cross watched in reverence. After dinner we danced... six in- The "B" squad saw Mariposa build Missed Felipe Postigo who was ches apart.., to the strains of "Handle up a 14-0 lead in the first half, scoring working his way through college, and With Care" played by the Jack Sab’ine each TD on reverses. Hammon,with a Henry Ackermann. Met both the boys Trio in the Indian Room.OH! . . be- 31-yard sprint around end and Bev- in Monterey, where they are attending fore Louis Huacomixes the drinks .... ington accounting for the extra point, the Monterey Peninsula College. The her namewas Dolores Hallinan. made the score 14-7 in the third other day, got behind Felipe, on the Mrs. Winters and Beverly have ar- quarter. However,the hometeam tall- prowl for a parking space. He waslike rived and soon we will be on our way, ied again on an 8-yard plunge to a tigress stalking a snack for her after a very pleasant stay at The Ah- makethe score 20-7, which it remain- young. Deaf to the threatening honks wahnee. The highways will change, ed to the game’send. behind him, he inched downthe street, high tension wires stalking across a mazeof small, winding streets to a shoulders hunched, his knuckles white¯ the pass will dive underground, ramps white house which we call home. on the wheel, his eyes narrow and will appear between the two lanes, menancing. He spotted a space ..... which will multiply to four. Houses Well, I’m sure you’ve found all this ..... first he swung in and out of will spring out of dim brown fields, very interesting and rewarding but it the spot to stake his claim. His back and soon the city will close itself doesn’t leave us muchs.pace to dis- lights flashed fire. He blew his horn, around us in a maze of overpasses, cuss the Strange Customsof The Ah- half in exultation, half in challenge. underpasses, arches, ramps, and ped- wahnee Staff. Never mind. The cus- With spastic gestures he waved the estrian walks in a fog-filtered light. toms aren’t really very strange any- other cars around him. And when he Wewill continue our progress through way. /" , YONEMITE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER13, 1964 Yosemite National Park, California RETIREMENTMEDICAL PLAN ADOPTEDBY YPC Co. At its October 31 meeting, YPCCo. Board of Directors aproved a medical plan for certain retiring employees, the cost of which will be borne by YPCCo., according to H. Oehlmann, President. The medical plan has been the re- sult of studies by Sterling Cramer, YPC Co. Controller and representa- tives of Travelers Insurance Co. The new plan is based on a $500 deductible clause, wherein the retired employee pays the first $500 of his medical and hospital expense. Total lifetime coverage is $10,000 with the employee paying 20 percent of the expenses and the plan paying 80%. As stated above, YPCCo. will pay the premium for the employee; the employee may include his spouse in In las~ Saturd~ly’s Badger-Menlo game, photographer Ha~’old Schmidt, snapped Gary Lamore~t~lx, cls he crossed the goal lone for the first Badgerscore. the policy, paying the annual pre- miums of approx. $100 himself. BADGERSDO IT Retiring employees are eligible for inclusion in this program when The Yosemite Badgers football stalled on the 9-yard line and two they have had 20 years of continuous squad made a heroic comeback for plays later Menlo’s speedy Kirk Hat- the season’s final game and beat service. Becauseof the deductible as- field broke loose around end for a pect of the coverage, it is probable the Menlo squad by a 14 to 9 score 71-yard scoring jaunt. Blaisedell add- that retired employees will carry on the local field November7. The ed the point to makeit 14-7. Near the their own insurance for lesser medi- Badgers had dropped the opener at end of the game, M.enlo again threa- cal expenses. In somequarters, it is Menlo, 18-0. tened, but the Badgers intercepted a felt that the federal Medi-Care pro- Darrel Schmidt’s long run to the 18, pass on the two-yard line to stop the gram will bcome law and will pro- after Menlo had gotten off a quick effort. However,after movingthe ball vide coverage for the first and kick that carried deep into Badger out to the five, Lamoreauxwas trap- smaller medical expenses. territory, set up the first local counter ped behind the line for a safety This type of coverage should be in the opening quarter. Gary Lamo- making it 14-9. The remainder of the considered as insurance against dis- reaux skirted end for the score and game was played near midfield. astrously expensive medical emer- added the extra point. The Badger B team winners at gencies. It has been established that Louie Parker, in the secondquarter, heavier Cubs was outstanding. On one of the most nagging problems snagged a 25 yard pass from Brad those occasions whenthe interior line among retired people is their con- Lamoreaux and added a 23 yard gave way, an alert secondary, with cern over major medical expenses. run to cross the goal line; Lamoreaux TommyAIIcock getting several key A number of prominent companies again converted to make it 14-0 at tackles, saved the day. have extended their medical insur- half time. The Badger B team, winners at ance programsto cover their reti~red The third period was scoreless, but Menlo by a 6-0 score, played to a (Continued on page two) in the fourth period, a Badger drive (Continuedon rmge four)

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EMPLOYEESRETIREMENT PLAN PROMOTION TOUR YOSEMITE SENTINEL Nick Fiore is about mid-way in Published by (Con~.nuedfrom pa~’e one) his "lecture tour", having appeared Yosemite Park and Curry Co. employees. YPC Co. management is at eight ski clubs and shops in South- for the information of gratified that the Board of Directors W’i ern California. Back in the park for a Yosemite Valley residents. approved this new employee benefit. employee, clean shirt, Nick’s next go will be at H. Oehlmann Advisor a poem o for the drag races. It sounded very the Winter Sports Fair at the Cow H. K. Ouimet Advisor a memorl muchas if she ’speed-kicked’ it the Palace. He, along with Bob Ray and H. Berrey ...... Advisor Kennedy. other day. Gary McCulley, will put on ski demon- Mail communications to Yosemite pet’s in tk strations. Nick and several of his Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or Our head cashier is Melba Smith book and instructors were highly commended phone 372-4411. She is liked by one and all - perhaps, due to on their presentations at last year’s ~eeeeeeeeeeeeee~,,~elee~. due to the fact that it is she who titled "Of W’inter Sports Fair in Berkeley. In cashes our checks. Besides counting wi’ll be p CARL’S COMMENTS addit.ion to the skiing demonstrations, money, she makes excellent brown- Congress. Time again for the accounting YPCCo. will have a booth from which section to makeitself heard. ies. Melba does have some rough its folders and propaganda will be Butler The people of this section could times, for frequently, during the rush distributed. Virginia. of summer, she’ll put in an around- provide material to create an entire Between now and Thanksgiving, England, the-clock day. Melba is aided in the television series. Wehave some in- Nick will makethirteen appearances States to j money bags deparment by Lee teresting people, some weird ones, in Norl~hern California, returning in He returnE Yancey, who, because of her diminu- and some plain characters. If you time for turkey day. The windup of attend Oxt tive size, is in charge of only small haven’t decided which are which, his trip will take him to the central one,half y. bills. Ithese a~rticles may help you. For coast cities, returning for his proper others they may merely confirm your Nowit is time for our gossip and duties as ski school director on Dec- the suspicions. rumor section. Sharon Deal and her ember 4. poem. Ho The accounting people are a hard- husband are going to Sugar Bowl - Freitases on Road ZINEis ave working, conscientious, underpaid perhapsto see if it really .holds sugar? November 13, Toney and Elsie stands. group. They thrive w.ith merely a pat Jessie Taylor has been unde’rstudying Freitas loaded their station wagon on the head. However, their moment Sharon in the accounts receivable with 5000 YPCCo. winter folders and of glory will occur in a week when section and may take over Sharon’s commencedtheir anual tour, spread- Last the auditors from Forbes and Co. duties. WandaLoe says there are not ing the word at hotels, motels and Meacham leave their midst. The moment of any Chinese in her family tree. Darol sporting goods stores betweenSacra- anticipatia glory will occur only if they leave Aslin does not work so hard without mento and Bakersfield and Monterey that ha as cheerfully as they arrived. Then, reason. He is trying to figure out a and Santa Maria. On a similar junket smack in the plugging and padding will begin way to take over the company. Lus- last year they made more than 500 snowflake again. cious Judy Lile soon will receive her stops. At this Snow~Snow, Snow diploma for excellence in operation PITY THE POORPEDESTRIAN inches of Someof our people thought that of the photo machine. Wild Bill Win- .The season’s first heavy storm start cran Perhapsthe washing machines had chester seemsto be starting a collec- pointed up a need for a word to of Noveml" overflowed. Others thought that the tion of English stamps. His correspon- drivers in Yosemite Valley concerning will be on Ajax Shining Knight had passed dence with Meg Sams, formerly of pedestrians walking along roadsides, shop w.ill through the park making everything our cashier department, now in Eng- school children and others w.ho must lockers. Bi white. However, even we accounting- land, is hot and heavy. Swinging travel on foot cannot readily step early-bird types knew that the white stuff on Kathy Marlar has adopted a Volks- aside when slush and mud prevail. hopes. the ground was snow. Already the wagen - cash on the line. We have Your courtesy in slowing down as talk is Of snow and snow games. The acquired a number of pieces of new Uponhi! you pass them will prevent their be- YPC Co. old timers .speak of skiing, Flying officefurniture; Bob Lee, chief deco- ing splashed, and will most certainly Fiftys and Run Number One. Others rator, seems to be showing little hundreds be appreciated. speak of cartwlleels, splints and the imagination in the refurbishment of and telet, opening. hospital. My own group speaks most- the office. There is a strong hope NEWPRESS FOR PRINT SHOP ly of the cute ski bunnies in the Tent that he will knock out the back wall YPC Co. printers, Hugh and Jim The we~ Room. and install sliding glass doors and a Parker, are elated over their new tinue until AgnesWestfall is the paymistress patio. Heidelberg press. The machine built December weekend for YPC Co. She is a lovely woman in Heidelberg, West Germany,arrived Don’t forget this is where you’ll and is held in hig.h esteem by the last week, is uncrated and awaiting 29, the ab get the lowdown on who’s who on working class. One of her duties is installation. Heidelberg presses have able the the scene. Readit regularly - all the Thanksgivi to see that the checks get out on been amongthe world’s best for the rumorsfit to print. ember 14~ payday. Off duty, she drives her past 114 years. It will print a 10" by DodgeDart as if she were practicing -Carl Strickland 15" sheet at the rate of 5000per hour. earliest da

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CONGRATULATIONS AND AWAYTHEY GO ..... in to GOODTIMES ARE HERE As I sit here trying to write this W. J. BUTLER According to two recent releases South- column, my eyes keep glancing out ¯ William Butler, a Yosemite Lodge from the National Industrial Confer- for a the window, watching the first snow- employee, has received notice that ence Board, the ¯typical American be at a poem of his has been selected as fall of the seasonl What a beautiful should be fairly content with his lot. : Cow sight! The11:40bus is ready to pull a memorial to the Late President and out for Merced and it is a joy to One story stated that during the Kennedy. It was reprinted from Har- ~emon- hear someof the Australian guests, last 28 years, since 1936, America’s per’s in the Novemberissue of Red- of his so excited at seeing their first snow. gross national product increased 222 book and is to be included ina book ¯ lended And, there go a few snowballs, the percent, employment, by 27 million, due to be publis’hed this month en- year’s group from the housekeeping depart- while unemployment dropped by titled "Of ¯Poetry and Power", which ey. In ment, on their way to lunch, splatter- morethan 6 million. Life ex.pectancy "will be presented to the Library of ations, ing each other. Joe Joseph, and his has increased 8 full years. Congress. which pipe, is out pushing the snow .plow Other statistical glimmerings indi- ~ill be Butlerwas born in ¯Newport News, (or whatever the thing is called)- cate that the nation’s population has ... Virginia. Hespent his boyhood in and he looks mighty wet. Phil Crapo risen from 127 million to 189 million; England, returning to the United just cameflying in, announcing that per capita income,in ¯current dollars, States to join the U. S. Navyin 1950. ~rances he was organizing a "Swim" party. climbed¯ from $472 to $2,449. In this. ing in He returned to England in 1958 to And I don’t think he meant a dance. span, automobile registrations in. ’lup of attend Oxford University for two and There goes Tom Lange, headed for creasedfrom 23 million to 69 million. one,half years; :entral parts unknown. As he waited for the A baby born today can be expected Because of copyright procedures, bus, he said he wasn’t qu.ite sure to live 70 years, rather than 62, the the SENTINELcannot publish Butler’s Dec. where he would spend his vacation. typical figure 36 years ago. poem. However, REDBOOKMAGA- Such independence. Tomtold me that ZINEis available at the several news- The secondrecent newsstory states Miles Flemming, from Ireland, will that the median income of ¯American Elsie stands. be leaving the Lodge the end of this families has jumped 88 percent be- an ---o-- month and will be headed for New "s and tween 1950 and 1963, up from EARLY WINTER Zealand and Australia. $3,319 to $6,249. However, this is Last SENTINELreported that Bill Farewell to Steve Falconer, Steve somewhatless encouraging, as prices and Meachamwas glancing skyward, in will be married next month and will rose 27 percent during this perlod. anticipation of snow. The next thing return to the Lodge to spend his nterey that happened was that he got hit And speaking of vacations .... honeymoon. Dan Cunning returned unket smack in the eye wit,h a great big Doug Frame was telling me he had from his three days in San Mateo and 5OO a great vacation, visiting different snowflake. announced .his engagementto Janet cities in California. The Woelbings At this ,reporting, Badger had 46 Iverson. Dan will be leaving the ¯ are v.isiting relatives n Los Angeles. inches of snow. Lifts 1 and 4 will Lodge in a few weeks. Weddingbells Louie and Peanuts Handin are on va. torm start cranking around the morning will be ringing this coming Saturday cation and Tony Palmed, from the to of November14. Several ski teachers for Signe Schulz and Bob Hicky. They Ahwahnee, is taking charge of the rning will be on hand, the sales and rental will be married in Fresno; a group of salad department during Louie’s ab- ~ides, shop will be open, as well as the restaurant employeesare planning to sence. must lockers. Bill Meachamis looking for attend. step early-bird skiers - in quantity, he In the Gift Shop, we see all sorts John Halifax is heading for the :vail. hopes. of new merchandise, very tempting International Tribal Indian Ceremon. as Upon.his decision to go into action, for Christmas buying. Gertrude Ste- ,ial at Gallup, New Mexico. Pare be- YPCCo. publicity office ground out wart has returned from her vacation, Yager spent a few days at Humbolt inly hundreds of ’news releases, telegrams looking muchrested. Marrianne Lang State College’s homecoming,her alma and teletypes to announce Badger’s has tansferred from the Glacier Point mater. Jain Dass went down to San opening. Luis Obispo to visit friends. Dave Gift Shop to spend this seasonat the The weekend operation will con- Johnson and his family visited Las Jim Lodge. Marrianne is from Germany tinue, until the ’grand opening’ on Vegas and took in the shows. new. and has been. in this country only built December 19. In addition to the for the past seven months. Charlie And with winter, the "Monster" ’ved weekend operation November 28 and and Jeanette Holmesare leaving for returns to the Lodge. There wasn’t ring 29, the abovefacilities will be avail- a five months’, vacation. Howdo you one happy face to receive this winter lave able the 26th and 27th for the like that? They are now readying guest and there probably won’t be the Thanksgiving holiday visitors. Nov- their trailer, heading it out of the until it leaves in the spring. The ember 14, incidentally, marks the by Valley, in which direction, they are monster is that awful clacking, de- earliest date that Badgerhas opened. our. not sure as yet. manding Western Union teleprinter.

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YOSEMITE EXCEEDS1962 TRAVEL PEAK Yosemite National Park, with al- most two full months left in 1964, has surpassed .its previous record year for total number of visitors, according to Acting Superintendent Elmer N. Fladmark. The total visitor count through Nov. 4 was 1,505, 502. The prior record for a full year was 1,505,496, set in 1962. Park officials had estimated earlier that the 1964 visitor count might reach the 1.6 million mark. Two other records were also estab- lished by the Park during the past summer. A new mark for a three- The last SENTINELcarried the story about Wayne and I_,inda Hildebrand’s exper- day holiday .period was set over the ience at the Ford Motor Co.’s Rouge 77mnufacturbTg plant at Dearborn. Because July 4 weekendwhen 45,761 visitors they were ~he 200,O00tha’~zd 200,O01st visitors to the plant they were feted by the Ford people with. a dinner, etc. The Ford publicity people sent along the above passed through the four entrances photograph of the Hildebrands. While they d~dn’t ge~ a full-size Musta~Tg, each to the park. The previous high had received a model, been 44,218 for the Memorial Day AHWAHNEEWORK IN PROGRESS CENTENNIAL BOOKLETSAVAILABLE weekend in 1960. Despite the darkened appearance There are a few copies yet avail- August 1964 proved to be the of The Ahwahnee, much is being able of the excellent booklet YOSEM- biggest month in the Park’s history donewithin its stone exterior. ITE, SAGA OF A CENTURYat the with a count of 377,102. The corres- Of a major nature is the "smoke Studios and at the Museum,accord- ponding month in 1963 had been the tower" being constructed around the ing to John Earle and DougHubbard, previous high point with 365,760. stair well between the ground floor who suggest that they (the books) Favorable weather was a big fac- and the sixth floor. This tower, in would make fine Christmas gifts for tor in attracting visitors, especially effect, isolates the central staircase the folks back home. summer campers, Fladmark said. A -e- from the room areas on each floor. good ski season through December SUE EARLE HOMECOMINGPRINCESS would add considerably to the total Thus, in the case of a fire on any floor, guests would be able to reach Sue Earle, daughter of Mr. and for the year. Mrs. John Earle, was chosen ecently toO.-. safety on the ground floor, where as the sophomoe princess to the FORSALE there is a shielded exit, without dan- ger or the discomfort of smoke in- Mariposa High School Homecoming Workmen’sinsulated boots, practi- halation. This work is being done by Queen, yet to be crowned. cally new. Size 10. Call 372-4237. Suewill attend the queen as she the Grahamand Jensen Construction mOm Co. of Merced on a $30,000 contract presides over the annual homecom- BADGERS arrangement. This is the firm that ing festivities, which include a ball (coa~u~lfrom pageone) built the five new buildings at the and the gridiron clash between Mar- scoreless tie with the Junior Cubsin Yosemite Lodge. iposa and Ripon. Miss Earle also the second game. serves as one of the cheer leaders The construction involves the move- The local gridders finished the sea- at the Mariposa JV team games. ment of access doors on each floor, son with a 2 and 2 record. They drop- new fire walls, and smoke vents. ped the opener to Mariposa by a 13-6 have been refurnished and redecora- Elsewhere, thirty-four bedrooms score, but came back to win the ted. On next year’s schedule are the are receiving complete remodeling second Mariposa game, 18 to 13. twenty-two cottage rooms. and redecorating. In each room there They, likewise, were defeated in the Furniture removed from the re- will be new drapes, carpeting, furn- first clash with Menlo 18-0. The decorated rooms is used at Camp iture and lighting fixtures. Eachroom second time out, last week’s game, Curry, Glacier Point and Wawona. they evened the score with the win. is being repainted. Earlier, the baths At the south end of the building, in all but five rooms had been con- Two gameswere to have been play- the Writing Roomand the Colonial ed here, one against Lodi, another verted to tub-shower combinations. Roomare getting new carpets, as is The romaining five are being con- against a Fresno team. The local the hallway on the fifth floor. The verted under this year’s program. conversation piece of the whole pro- field now is hardly considered play- able and the games have been can- Whenthe current project is com- gram probably will be the leather celled. pleted, all rooms in the hotel will covered desk counter! t’,

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER27, 1964 Yosemite National Park, California THE SEASONTO BE JOLLY CHURCHSERVICES AT BADGER SANTA CLAUS TIME COMING With the early winter storm comes Starting Sunday, December 6 and the hazards of the snow. After last Little Boysand Girls Dept. on each Sunday through the ski sea- weekend, Joe Joseph was limping son, there will be a skiers’ outdoor Santa Claus will swoop down on with a twisted ankle-slipped on the worship at Badger Pass, according Camp Curry on Christmas Eve and ice. A few casualities on the slopes, to the Rev. Donald Baldwin, minister will have gifts for all goodlittle boys few of the employees with limps - of the El Portal Community Church. and girls who are from one year old Spencer Grams, just back from a Mex- The fifteen minute service will be held’ up to and including those who are ican holiday, twisted his ankle. in the grove of lrees to the right, or in the third grade whose parents Claude Perfield got very brave and north, of the foot of the beginners are employed in the park. Santa de- took a few tumbles down the Number slope from 1:30 to 1:45 p.m. The livers the presents to each child and 1 slope. Pare Yager did it up good, interdenominational protestant ser- really wants them there to receive it. ending up with one leg in a cast. vice is sponsoredby A Christian Min- There will be bags of candy for L. L. Branscumhad a limp, too. Phil istery in the National Parks. the upper grade children. Mommies Crapo looks like Chester with his Skiers are welcome to attend the and daddies and older brothers and gameleg. His bike slipped on the ice. service on skis. sisters are welcome to come along. News from the Restaurant ..... Joe Remember,Santa comes to the Camp (Continued on page three) (Continued on page four)

Nick Fiore, o~ ~t ten-foot high. p/err:form, demo,~strates o kick tur~ before the 420 drylcnl.d skiers. The confi)~e.ment Ski inst’r~ctor Gcn’y .McCulley observes h~structor Bob Ray explains the my- rtn eager dry land skier as site limbel’s of: l, h e platform top cn~d the dctngling microphone cords .dded to the pro- steries of et ski bi’nding to novice Deb- "..p for the eve~ing’s exercise. blems of this ma~euver, hie Widgett. GRASSLANDSKIING enthusiasts. Present for this year’s Bob Ray assisted Fiore with the Nick Fiore, Bob Ray and Gary Mc- opening session were 586 eager ski calisthenics programout-of-doors, Culley represented the Yosemite Ski skiers, or would-be skiers. while McCulley did the orientation. Schooi at the FRESNOBEE sponsored The Playground Department people A third Fresno session will be held "Dry Ski School" sessions November had the entire green blocked off in December 1 at which Badger Ranger 17 and 24 at Holmes Playground in four hundred ten-foot squares and Gary Brown will discuss the Badger Fresno. on each, when the show began, was Ski Patrol activities and the responsi- The Ski School participated in the a skier. The balance of the crowd bilities of the National Park Service. program two years ago, at which the was ushered into the gymnasiumfor The final lesson will be held at average attendance ran about 200 an orientation talk and ski films. Badger Pass on December20......

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, . r - .. YOSEMITESENTINEL i. YOSEMITE SENTINEL LODGEFLICKS N.P.S. TRANSFERS Publishedby YosemiteLodge’s film fare for Dec- TheNational Park Service’s South- ¯ Vosd YosemitePark and Curry Co. emberfollows: west Region¯ has reached in to take local Dec. 7 for the informationof -- "Best of Enemies" three Yosemitepeople, all of whom 16. Yosem,iteValley residents. Dec. 11 - "Anatomy of a Murder" will becomeAssistant Chief Rangers ¯ heard H. Oehlmann Advisor Dec. 14 -- "Our Man in Havana" in their newassignments. i O’J: H. K. Ouimet Advisor Dec. 18 "Battle of the Coral Sea" First to get the call wosFire Con- . $15 H. Berrey .... Advisor Onoccasions, the films get mixed tume Mail communicationsto Yosemite up in schedulingand a substitute film trol Officer Frank Betts, who has The Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or shipped from the San Francisco dis- accepted a promotion and transfer phone372-4411. tributor. So, please don’t a.sk for to GrandCanyon. His moveis sche- receiv, you.r money back if this should duled for December18. Frank and in, Kathy, with Don and Tommy,came ships NOVEMBERIN YOSEMITE happento you. Besides, there’s no charge for attending the pictures, to Yosemitefrom RockyMountain in realiz~ ¯ (Ed. note Mary Tresidder wrote ~he which start at 9:00 p.m. on Mondays July 19,56. Theyhave been active in Best ]ollowing two weeks ago, but too late and Fridays. communityand school affairs during the tyj ]or the last SENTINEL.While it may their stay in the Park, and all have the p be a little late appearing and thus of their thin bark. The clustering beenardent skiers. $1200, present a somewhatearlier picture of leaves of the black willow trees glow HomerLeach was the next to be Thrc ]oliage than we now see it, we ]elt dark gold betweenSweetwater Creek tapped. Hewill take a lateral trans- semite it a nice piece, nonetheless.) and El Portal. Downthe Mercedmay fer to .BryceCanyon in Utah, andwith ture pr be seen elders, also, a roundish- Beth andJeff wil’l also leave in mid- school Novemberis often rather a dull headed maple with smaller leaves December.In fact, a deal is being The monthin Yosemite. The Kelloggblack than those of our commonbig-leaf oaks a,re brilliant at the beginning worked out whereby the Leach and local maple on the Valley floor. Manyof Betts belongingswill go out on the and of the month,usually the last of our both species have retained their same van. Homer, who began his the nc autumnleaves to linger. This Novem- leaves through the long dry, warm ber, however,maples, too, are lovely, Park Service career in Yosemitein plainec fall, but thosein Yosemiteare espec- August1959, has recently beenCrane replace their leaves green and sunshiny ially lovely’through their powdering Flate Area Ranger. man yellow still. And this year snowhas of.+ snow,often with pendenticicles. first cometo filter the colors andhang on Whereoaks and aspen leaves have’. T, he third transfereeis Dick Bege- cation, the da,rk evergreens.Pine, fir, Doug- fallen! on the snow,color andpattern man, who will go from South En- las spruce, cedar- eachof the ever- are delightful. trance to OrganPipe CactusNational clinic greenshas a characteristic silhouette held, Along the river ferns are coming Monumentin Southern Arizona. A which the snowenhances. The oaks, ski eq to fresh life in the moist crevices of departure date for Dick, Ka,ron, and with their gold to russet leavesstill and al the dark; gleaming rocks. Flocks of their youngsters has not yet been clinging to branchesleaning over the Juncosdart out from them here and determined. Dick has been with us roads, heavily dusted with snow,and since January 1963, having served their black trunks standing stark - there. Theriver itself is roily fromthe detritus brought downby the recent previously as a seasonalat Theodore these are perhapsthe choicest show heavy rains and snows, but more Roosevelt National Memorial and Chang at the moment. water is dashing downthe cascades Yellowstone before becominga Park amplifi From Mariposathrough the Brice- or flowing quietly through thd level Guide at Carlsbad Caverns. ed re+ burg grade and on the banks above places than wehave seen ~for several album: the River Road the toyon berries months. WOMENSGROUP MEETING DEC. 2 195L (so-called California holly) are rapid- book c TheCalifornia nutmegtrees; which The next meeting of the Yosemite ly reddening amongthe chapparal. ary. occur between A.rch Rock and Cas- Women’sGroup will be held at Yo- The red-bud busheson Briceburg are cadeFalls, havea few of their curious semite Lodge on Wednesday, Dec- RCA interesting, with their rusty pods long-olive-shaped fruits suspended ember 2 at 12:45 p.m. Following 4 Tape standing out against leaves that are from the tips of twigs amongtheir luncheon,for whichthe cost is $1.50, Marcia often still greenor "greenery-yaller". sharp, shiny needles. Mrs. Willard Melton will present a a.m. al Alongthe river in a numberof places The snowy cliffs and peaks or programat 2:00 p.m. the subject of the Fremontcottonwoods still retain domesalong the rim of Yosemite which will be "Holiday Decorating ¯ JEAN theilr lustrous leaves as do the com- and the broad, snow-covered mea- With Pine Cones". Mrs. Melton will Jear paratively few remaining black cot- dowscomplete a picture v~hich is demonstrate how to prepa.re and Yosemi tonwoodstheir darker foliage on the rare so early in the winter season. treat conesfor decorating. Shewill Septem floor of Yosemite.Cottonwoods, like A moonlit night adds the last full makedecorations and suggest ways TINEL’S the rest of the willow family, are ex- measureof beauty. for oneto executehis ownideas with Yosem tremely vulnerable to attack because -Mary Curry Tresidder pine cones. parent Jeanne ".8,;’.’ (.,-..%

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,4 PARENTSG, ROUPNOTES ACCOUNTING CHRISTMASCARDS AVAILABLE . .Yosemite Parents Group met at the We, of the Accounting Department, According to John E’arlei there are " local elementary School on November sincerely hope that all the Park many handsome Christmas cards 16. Various committees reports were People had an enjoyable ThankS- available at the Village Store and ""heard; the following being a digest giving...... Yosemite Lodge Studios. These may , ...... of these: ¯ - be had w.ithout printed signature at The people of our section have. ’ .$152.99 were netted from the Cos- .. ... been. ma,de aware of those among ted fc~r $1.00., or for $1.50, with k"i. tume Dance.: held in October. us .having status. Of course, titles are narfle imprinted. " TheSeventh and Eighth grade room a big help, but now and then a visual TIlE SEASON.TO BE JOLLY .... . received the $10 prize for bringing symbol is needed. We now" have a (Continued from page one) : in the highest number of member- Mitchell has: returned.after a week’s Visual Symbol System, and we shall .: .... Ships in the Parents Group: $130 were vacation in Arizona. WendyLawyer explain its meaning. Whenyou drop ’ realized. will be leaving shortly to makeplans,’ in to visit, or just to look around,look for her January wedding to Dean Sa- .. Best’s Studio donated $100 toward first for the ten-key adding machines. vage. Wewill miss you Wendy.":.,.’.: the.typewriter fund. The goal toward They will show you the people on Florence Settle left.f0rb muchearn.- the purchase of 12 typewriters is the wayup. People with brand new ed vacation.. She will.bespending the" $1200.. desks are yet a ’little higher up the time:in- Fremont. with ’ heF family~. ¯ Throughthe generosity of the .Yo- ladder. People with b r a n d new Claude Perfield spent three days in: semite Lions Club a new motion pic- desks and a ten-key adding machine Long Beach--Karen:-Schultz;,ithree.- ¯ ture projector will be provided for the are the ones that have arrived. Per- days in Fresno. Ethel B0one"returried.. school. haps the visual symbols make titles from her vacation andsaidthat after or pay raises unnecessary and may The .weekly Ski Day program for a leisurely trip up Nor.th, that she is end certain frustrations along those local pupils was discussed. The fees raring to go. ¯ .. -. .. .. and regulations were restated, and .lines. Drop in sometime and see -i. A 21st birthday was celebrated. " the need for bus mothers was ex- who’s where in the ascendency. by MartyMelton. Marty celebrated in: plainedl Darla Jones volunteered to ..... After two weeks of snow at Bad- Los Angeles with relativesand was -Z ’ replace Kathy Betts as Ski Day chair- get Pass many of the Park People [." .., . their guest at a lovely dinner party- man..The first Ski Day will be the have .had a fling at the ski slopes. .fo lowed by "My FairLady".. : " first Wednesdayafter Christmas va- Somehave faced reality, but some :.. . . Another engagement~. L. Barbara ¯ . cation, and on the Mondayprior, a, are still having a go at it. The pros Brankston and John Fetters, looking. ""clinic directed by Nick Fiorewill be are going strong, and the only thing very happy, announced that. they .held, at which time the youngsters’, that will stop them will be the lack would be married, in January. .. ski equipment can be checked, fitted of snow. Soon we will be able to News from the Gift Shop.~ . The . and adjusted, enjoy another winter ~sport - ice Shop has been Very busy shifting the skating. The Ice Rink should open merchandise around, getting ready shortly and just as in skiing everyone for the ski clothes and equipment. .[- FOR SALE ¯ Model RC 88/4 Garrard Automatic will have his "momentof truth" when Gladys Golden was snowed out of " Changer with 12 watt Eico Monaural fear or assurance enters the heart. Glacier Point and was finally able to amplifier and 10" speaker. 50 assort- The Accounting People will be seen get a few of her things out so that. ed records plus 3 Readers Digest on the rink performing Spread-Eagles, she was able to take her vacation’~ albums $175. Spins, and Cross-Ove..rs. Some,it must Grace Grant is back after a long ill- be .,admitted,’, will be flat on their ness-good to see you back, ’Grace.’ 1954 Brittanica Encyclopedia with backsl book case, World Atlas and Diction- Gertrude Stewart reports seeing Mar- ary. $75. For. those who do not know, we garet Storke.in her lovely apartment proudly announcethat Dick...Klein is in Fresno. Margaret worked in the: RCATape Cartridge Recorder’with our Cost Analyst. Dick is tl~e manto 4 Tape Cartridge and Case. ’$60.00. Gift Shopsfor a numberof years and see when you want to know how Marcia Toman 372-4651 between 8 is retired. She sent word by Gertrud’e much it costs to operate things. He that she would enjoy seeing or hear. a.m. and 5p.m. puts in a great many hours at his ing from her friends. ~O~ ¯. desk and machine. However, some We have Bob Ransome back,’ JEANNE WEAVER.LEAVES LODGE Of these are at his "bookie" activi- checkingin the cafeteria, after spend. Jeanne Weaver, who has served as ties. He may not be able to find his ing six. "months with theArmy, re. Yosemite Lodge Hostess since early corporate records quickly, but he can September and has been the SEN- serve. Kathy Diaz finally has her car give you the point-spread on any .... Kathy made a number of rushed .TINEL’S Lodgecorrespondent, has left gamewithin a couple of seconds. trips to Grants Pass to pick the cai" Yosemite for Livermore. Both her Joyce Moore is the new girl that up, only to find the repairs not finisl{. Parents have fallen ill there and has added grace and charm to our ed. Charlie Eagle is behind the Tran. Jeanne will be taking care of them. (Continuedon page four) sportation desk. :.’...

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. SANTA.CLAUSTIME COMING BABY-SITTERSNEEDED TWO CARS IN EVERY GARAGE During the Christmas holidays, The SENTINELis indebted to the Curry Dining Roomat 7:30 p.m. on guests at Yosemite Lodge and The National Industrial Conference Board Christmas Eve.. Ahwahnee frequently ’have along for the follc~wing information, at ~"’ ParentsDept.. their youngsters for whom baby- which you may take delight or urn- Please help Santa Claus by letting sitters may be needed during the brage. him knowif your child will NOTbe evenings. Local people interested in at the Christmas party. Phone YPC this work are asked to communicate United States automobile regis- Ca. PersonnelOffice - 372-4631. with the Yosemite Lodge manage- trati0ns amountedtO 71.9 million in ACCOUNTING ment or with Marge Cromer in YPC 1964, more than two and one-half (Conrin.ed~rom page three) Co. Personnel Office, 372-4631. times as many as in 1946, according section. Joyce is Sterling Cramer’s to the National Industrial Conference secretary. She has a great numberof BADGERBANQUET Board. tasks to perform and, through all of The Annual Badgers’ Awards Ban- quet will be held Monday, December Information released, recently shows them, she managesa smile and plea- 7 at 6:30 p.m. in the Yosemite Lodge that there is one car for every 2.7 sant word. There is some thought Mountain Room. Local youngsters persons in the country comparedwith that she Would look great in a sky- who have won letters for football one car for every five persons in diver’s suit. She could have the bene- 1946. fit of someinStrUction in sky-diving, and awards for track or skiing will be presented with Badger letters by The Pacific region has the highest since her husband, Jim, goes in for number of registrations per 1,000 that sort of thing. their respective coaches. ThoseYoung- sters will be guests of the Lions Club persons with 441. The Middle Atlantic You would .have to see it before region has the fewest, 328 per 1,000 you would believe all the work that for the evening, the Lions Club being !" the sponsor of the Badgeractivities. persons. Helen UnJta~s performs. She takes ’1 The cost to others will be $1.50. California leads all states in auto care of all the account cards and Coyt Hackett, Lions Club President, registrations with 8.1 million; Alaska accounts--payable checks. Helen is a i ! will preside. Footbal’l letters will be has the least with 66,000. Nevada very busy woman. She sometimes has ( has one car for 2.1 persons, the a sly smile and at these times you presented by coach Jake Metherell, letters for skiing by coachLeRoy Rust. highest proportion amongall states. get the feeling that she knows some- Track letters will be presented, al- Oregonfollows with one car for every thing going on that none else knows. though there is no track coach at 2.2 persons. At the other end of the !i One thing she knows for sure, that present. scale, the District of Columbia has l: most don’t- and that is where she one auto for every four persons. keeps her cookies and candy hidden A’II interested locals are cordially tl invited. t~ amid her maze of machines. FOR SALE Gossip and rumo.r time: Mrs. Vicki L. M. H. NOTES 6 ft. 9 in StandardHead Skis equip- Tucker is back with us. Her honey- Head Nurse Donna Laney has left ped with both Marker and Jift re- ’l moon must have gone very well be- to be married in Lafayette, California lease bindings. $65 see or Call Alice J cause she has rosy cheeks ond a on December4. Jim Riley, her hus- Cramer 372-4752. :.!’ band-to-be, was a seasonal ranger gleam in her eye. Sally Rathsack will BADGER TO OPEN EARLY i soon go to visit her son and grand- in Yosemite. He has transferred to Bill Meachamencouraged by the :! children - and then drive back with Death Valley, where they will live pat~ronage of the Badger ski area a newly purchased automobile. Fill- after the wedding. Eileen Desmond thus far this (early) season, has de- ing in for Sally while she is gone will is back to take her place, temporarily. cided to go on a daily basis on Dec- be Nell Moe, who has been here be- Jo-Ella and William Daminguez ember 12, rather than December19, fore and seems to know all of the becamethe parents of 9 lb. 4 oz. as planned earlier. There have been answers. Sharon Cummings, who Timothy Robbin on October 22. more than twice the numberof skiers could launch a thousand ships, also A guest, Helen Taylor, and hus- at Badger during the past weekends will work as a "Bunny" when the band from Huntington Park were than last season. Yosemite Key Club opens. Lee Huen- camping at Camp 4 recently. Mrs. Lift No. 1 will operate through the gradt caused some excitement when Taylor was expecting a baby in 10 week and will be supplemented by she started testing baby foods. (You days. The baby arrived early - in Yo- two or three others, if needed. The may have to think about that for a semite. They namedtheir new daugh- Ski Houseand cafeteria will be open minute.) Shirley Reedy ran the Pay- ter Olivia YosemiteStarr Taylor. though variety of food will be some. master’s booth flawlessly while Agnes you. If you have any Thanksgiving what limited; the rental and sales Westfall was gone. However, it may shops will be open. As during that i: leftovers, do not hesitate to call. In be a good idea to audit her next the meantime, remember that you week Nick Fiore will be having a .! check - there may be three extra "shakedown week" with his instruc- r read it here. zeros accidentally placedl tors, there will be no ski school on This concludes another session with -Carl Strickland weekdays.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER16, 1964 Yosemite National Park, California

ATHLETIC AWARDS DINNER HELD Young athletes were honored at the 25th sports banquet at Yosemite Lodge ,.on Monday evening, December 7. Presiding at the affair was Coyt Hackett, President of the Yosemite Lions Club. Letters and certificates for participation in football, track, and skiing were presented by the re- spective coaches. Movies taken by Ralph Parker of several of this year’s football games, by Frank Betts of activities of the junior skiers, and of Badger football games played iin 1953 were shown. Letters in football were awarded by Coaches Jake Metherell and Tom Thomas as follows: Varsity - Lester James, Lloyd Ham- man, Bill Whitfield, Bob Bevington, Allan Parker, Louis Parker, Karl Bia- stoch, Brad Lamoreaux, Gary Lamo- reaux, TommyAllcock, Daryl Schmidt, Eric Oster, Chuck Woessner, Ed Wal- liser, Greg Power, and Bob Cross. Junior Varsity -- Guy Hamman, John AIIcock, Rod Whitfield, Don Betts, Dave Bevington, Doug James, Don Cottrell, Steve Adams, Bob Wal- liser, Mike Metherell, Ken Metherell, Rob Johnson, Ashley McPhaul, Jim Whitfield, Paul Van Buerden, Stan CHURCH SERVICES AT BADGER STUART CROSS ADDRESSESA.H.M.A. Van Buerden, Leon Van Buerden, Stuart G. Cross, YPCCo. Hotel Div- Each Sunday through the ski sea- and Tom Cross. ision head, attended the recent meet- son, there will be a skiers’ outdoor Track letters were awarded on the ing of the Resort Committee of the worship at Badger Pass, according basis of performance in the Junior American Hotel-Motel Association at to the Rev. Donald Baldwin, minister Olympics in Merced to Mike Power, Del Monte Lodge. Approximately 100 of the El Portal Community Church. intermediate division, who set a new rnem bers representing resorts The fifteen minute service will be held meet record of 5 feet in winning throughout the United States heard the high jump and another of 49 from 1:30 to 1:45 p.m. The inter- Crass’s talk "Private Recreation Devel- feet 1 inch in winning the shot put. denominational protestant service is opment On Public Lands" on Monday, These wins, with a fourth in the 180 sponsored by A Christian Ministery November 30. yard dash, brought Mike within a Cross is chairman of the A.H.M.A. in the National Parks. half point of being high individual Conservation Committee and recently scorer. Mike Metherell took a fourth Skiers are welcome to attend the attended a meeting of this group in place in the midget standing broad service on skis. New York. (Continued on page two)

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ACCOUNTING NEWS YOSEMITE SENTINEL AHWAHNEEPROGRESS REPORT tly to dell Published by We people in the accounting de- Curious about the progress of the already hc Yosemite Park and Curry Co. partment would rather fight than several projects under way at The use two. for the information of switch. There’s a strange and strong Ahwahnee, we dispatched our man Invited Yosemite Valley residents. esprit de corps among us button Henry to observe the situation. He utes. Decl H. Oehlmann Advisor punchers and pencil pushers. While supplied the following notes. After sew H. K. Ouimet Advisor we are not clannish and welcome Attempted to enter service parking tions re! H. Berrey ...... Advisor visits from others around the maze area at rear of hotel. Car became Bracebrid Mail communications to Yosemite we do have our inner strength. We wedged between cement mixer and of new ¯ Sentinel, c/o Y. P. & C. Co., or are all four square and true blue - garbage-pickup machine. Abandoned missing i phone 372-4411. no frustrations, no back-stabbers or car. follow a under-the-table¯ dealers. Entered hotel by back door follow- progress. Two SANTA CLAUS TIME COMING To the news at hand. We have ing workmencarrying a load of pipe, had many inquiries about the Yosem- urged along by man pushing cement stallation ¯" Second Time Around ite Key Club and a deluge of requests dolly. off roor Santa Claus will swoop down on Iong-legge for information, so it’s safe to say Hotel interior dark, cold and Camp Curry on Christmas Eve and six flights the idea has caught on. Bill Smith ghostly. Furniture draped with sheets, will have gifts for all goodlittle boys was first in line to make a down floors covered with butcher paper, heard ex and girls who are from one year old smoke payment on a key. Even thougfh neatly taped down. Carpeting, in up to and including those who are Sharon Cummingsis the head bunny, huge rolls, occupied most .of elevator ction ,requ in the third grade whose parents moving, the accounting department is loaded lobby area. are employed in the park. Santa de- vents with other excellent material. Weold ¯ Hunted manager John Curry on livers the presents to each child and each sharp-eyed members of the Girl main floor. Unsuccessful. Passenger really wants them there to receive it. caseof fire Watchers Society can attest that the ebvator in use, ,rang fc~r service In order to keep the gift-distribu- down legs in our department are among elevator. Arrived from basement, tion moving, he will start giving gifts to smoke the very best. Wefeel that someele- doors opened, elevator full of furni- to children ¯whose last namesbegin netic door ments contend enough is being done ture and furniture movers. Walked. with the letter "M", proceed to "Z", open unti for the morale and ’betterment of the Finally located Mr. Curry in office. back to "A". Clear? Doorsclosl working class. But have faith swin- Tall man, huddled in great coat simi- There will be bags of candy for To gers, we’ll have a key club yeti lar to .that worn by WinstonChurchill the ¯uppergrade children. Mommies merly Iool Working in the cashier’s cage is a on bridge of North Sea patrol des- and daddies and older brothers and walk. sharp fellow by the name of Lawton troyer. Mr. Curry on telephone speak- sisters are welcome to come along. Large L. Bascum. Lawton has a good thing ing to someonewho wanted apparen- Remember, Santa comes to the Camp going, with his part-time job which wall, porti’ Curry Dining Roomat 7:30 p.m. on he needs as he now drives a Corvette take his bride to Fresnowhere he will door porch Christmas Eve. Stingray. Moonlighting pays Lawton finish his schooling. of t, rees, Parents Dept. says, but it can be rough. Not as Eva Murphy has returned from a Royal Arc Please help Santa Claus by letting rough, however, as his recent jaunt visit with her daughter and grand- Returnee him knowif your child will NOTbe to Badger Pass to watch the opera- children. Wethink Mary Wylie would floor bare at the Christmas party. Phone YPC tions. To be a nervous wreck at his look great in a Doublemint gumcorn. plete redo Co. Personnel Office- 372-4631, age is not good. mercial. Sterling Cramer is on a depth to s delier light ATHLETIC AWARDS Mildred Hickok is our competent Miami Beach and New York vacation. ostat. Cha~ (Continued [rom page one) comptometeroperator. She is a fine Jim Taylor makes a hot buttered, too much jump; Johnny AIIcock took first in friend to all of us. Her job is hard rum so full of butter and rum that it to create d the bantam 50 yard dash and third enough, but she also has to cope would cost $9.95 on the market. Bob sixty light in the standing broad jump; and with the dividend checks. This is Lee’s wife, Beatrice sent the accoun- In dinin. in the junior division, TommyAll- tough, since some recipients do not ting section somecookies. They were and chairl cock had a fourth in the standing cash them. Mildred has to balance so good that a fight broke out over Rafters broad jump and Brad Lamoreaux sec- the account and when someonehangs the crumbs. Keep up the good work. Cleanerme ond in the standing broad and third on to a 70c check, it becomesmad- Beatricet Evelyn Walrath suggests Mr. Curry in the long jump. dening. someonepackage "Beetle Soap". Use to undisck CoachLeroy Rust distributed letters Gossip and rumor time: Wild Bill it, and watch the Ring-go. by pool. for participation in junior ski team Winchester is working on his English That’s it for now, remember to events to: Anne, Chuck, and Robby accent, as he is going to England. of snow address your cards and letters to the green colod Woessner, Mike and Greg Power, It seemshe wants to say "1 do" with accounting office. And, above all, surface. St Jeanine Ditton, Leslie Rust, John All- an accent. He is gong there to marry smile, you may be seen by someone santly wa cock, Don Betts, and TomCross. Meg Sams,formerly with the cashier from the accounting office. Rejoined --N. P.S. News department, on January 2. He will -Carl Strickland ’ ..~-.,, !

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t YOSEMITESENTINEL tly to deliver Baldwin organ. Curry SLOPETIME FROM THE LODGE the’ : ¯ already.had Baldwin organ, couldn’t W, ith the departure of Jeanne use two. Badger Pass starts its daily oper- Weaver, Yosemite Lodge hostess and :. Invited to have seat for few min- ation December12, and if the past He ’ utes. Declined, warmer standing up. three weeks’ performances are any SENTINELcontributor, M a n a g e r Wayne Whiteman has provided us -.- ¯After several more phone conversa- indicator, Bill Meachamshould have with the following tidbits about Yo- :ing ¯.. tions regarding, in order, copy for a successful season. semite Lodge. I me .. Bracebridge Dinner menus, delivery According to N.P.S. ¯figures there of new carpeting, whereabouts of The front desk is losing Bill Cooper, was a total of 10,160 people at Bad- who will don the blue jacket of the missing .personnel, was invited to ger over Thanksgiving and the week- ski school staff. Bill has workecJ as follow along for tour of work-in end preceding in 1963 while in 1964 ski patrolman in the past. Dan Sturm progress. 14,660 winter sports fans turned up will replace Cooper. Two main construction jobs, in- for the same period: Badger Pass i...stallation of smoketower and balcony Returning to the front desk crew operated the weekend of November is John Hellmer, and .Earl Pomeroy .. off.rooms 104 and 105. Mr. Curry 14-15 with a turnout of 3,000. On the is moving from the hotel division " ind long-legged,forced to trot. Trotted up Saturday of the Thanksgiving holi- six flights of stairs, at each ¯landing office to serve as one of Whiteman’s day in 1963 and 1964 the visitor assistants. Spencer Gramsis vacating .heard explanation of function of ,er, count was identical, 3,960. the Lodge soon for his new duties smoke.tower and details of constru- in at Badger as food:supervisor. ction ,required. Good deal of wall- Bill Meachamplans, during the tar ¯moving,¯ relocation of doors; smoke week of December 14 to 19, to The management¯is looking with. jaundiced eyes at the ski ¯ vents cut.through exterior wall on operate only Lift No. 1 unless visita- activities on of room clerks Jain Dass each floor. Finally grasped that, in tion warrants an additional lift. Sno- and Bill ¯ Holten and bellman Roy caseof fi.re, hotel guests could escape mobile tours will be available if Harland. While it is to be ¯hoped that these ce down central stairs without exposure you have out-of-town relatives who agile young menenjoy skiing, it is tosmoke or fire on any floor. Mag don’t ski. Lunchis available in the ski ini- T ’also hoped that they incur no in- ¯¯’ netic door closers on eachfloor. Stay housecafeteria. juries which will incapacitate them. open until smoke’activates release. Roomwhere learned that bar deck Besides, a room clerk with a leg cast ¯ Doorsclose. Don’t understand. I- recovered. Handsometile-like lino- is bad for business! To room 104 and 105. Each for- ill leum made by Armstrong; pattern Ade Harders has been released merly Ioolced out on roof of entry !S- called "Montina". Behind bar, work- from the hospital following an oper- walk¯. Probably not an inspiring view. k- ings of Electronic Bar Mix Dispenser ation and will soon be back to the Large ¯French doors cut th.rough north, demonstrated. 7 rubber tentacles at- Tent Room"mixatorium". Joe Josep,h ~n- wall, portion of. roof removed, out- tached at one end to tanks of 7-up (whose ¯middle nameis Joseph), head door porch added. View now possible ,ill cola, quinine, collins mix, ginger ale houseman, and wife, Carol, report of t.rees, front lawn, flag pole and syrups, and to soda water and plain from various points south a fineva- ¯ Royal Arches rooms. Much improved. a Yosemite water outlets. Joined at cation trip. Returnedto first level. Main lounge other end to black plastic spout with eoeoooooooooeoooeooooooooooo, floor bare and glistening after com- seven buttons, about size of stops on ¯ AHWAHNEE TOUR PLANNED ¯ plete redo. Magnificent sheen and accordion. Pushthe button, out squirts ¯ All locals, N.P.S., YPCCo., and~ depth .to surface. Learned that chan- a mix. Got fingers mixed up, pushed ~others, are invited on a tour of The~ " delier lights nowcontrollable by rhe- n. wrong button. MadeScotch and Cola. ~Ahwahnee to see the major im-~ ¯ ostat. Chandeliers not used formerly; ~provements made there this year.~ d, During course of tour, noted var- too much light. Can now be adjusted ~Tour date is Tuesday, Dec. 22 at~ it iety of craftsmen at work. Verified to create desired atmosphere.Counted o°10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Coffee and~ ~b that sawfollowing: Lathers, plasterers sixty light bulbs in three fixtures. ~cookies will be served.¯ ¯ Indining room men waxing tables painters, steamfitters, refrigeration ’OOOOOOO¯OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0~¯ "e ’and chairs, cleaning ceiling rafters. engineer, cementfinishers, carpenters, FOR SALE .=r Two stereo speakers, 21"xl 1"X13", Rafters thirty.six feet from floor. plumbers, sheet metal workers, iron. k. walnut finish. 9" bass and mid range Cleanermen seemedsmall so far up. workers, electricians and file-setters. ts Mr. Curry excused himself to attend Mr. Curry beseiged by housekeeper, speaker, 3" high frequency driver ie with crossover network. $70. Spencer to undisclosed chore. Wandered out maintenance people, groundsman Grams, Yosemite Lodge, 372-4431. by pool. 1’4o ice on pool, few clumps and decorator. o 1955 Rambler Station Wagon, 51, of snow around edges. Pool dark e Felt time to leave. Returned to 000 miles, snow tires. $200. Call green color, vaporous steam cloud on I, point car abandoned. Found it care- Surface. Stuck finger in water. Plea- Stuart Cross, office 372-4656; home e fully parked, but boxed in by fence, 372-4233. santly warm. garage, fifty pound sack of cement 1958 Pontiac, 4 dr., H. T. Call Rejoined by Mr. Curry. To Indian d and a tree. Walked. Credit Union 372-4750. .’ ¯ . . , ... . ? ¯ i .

i~ j,,. YOSEMITESENTINEL ~o ! ... , !’. : MAINTENANCEMENINGENIOUS . . .. SKI TEACHERSARRIVING AT HOUSEKEEPING ?. The YPC Co. Maintenance people Already on the scene when this il. Deep Freeze ’ have a new device which allows the piece was written were seven new ski instructors, in addition to Steven The Graham and Jensen construc- ~..." cross-members on the towers of num- ber four Ski lift to be raised or lower- Hurd pictured elsewhere with Nick tion people building the two new i.. .. ed with a good deal less difficulty Fiore. From Grenoble, France (the shower rooms and the laundromat at L Housekeeping Camp deserve cheers j. .than wasthecase’prior to its construc- home of former instructor Robert for working under somewhat less I. ’ tion~ Faure) comes Jacques Dupont and I’ than delightful circumstances.It’s cold J ’. .When the snow level on the track Gilbert Rhem. Each is a memberof I " , " the E.N.&A., have instructed at Cha- there! , "of lift No. 4 changes as much as two ¯ F i" monix and have skied as well at feet, ¯ deeperor shallower, it is neces- Each of the two shower buildings i. Vol d’lsere. i." .sary to change the ¯location of the will have thirteen showers, one la- : . cross-armsin o’rder to assurethat the Bruno Zehetner and Gunter Hohl- vatory. The ladies’ building will have Fm two hair clryers, as well. In the laUn- J" "TS" will pull at the right angle, weg, most recently from Mt. Baker in . . Washington, were instructing there dromat building will be thirty coin- ! . .. When thereisa minimum of snow, ! . the angle between the cable and the for Franz Gabl. Zehetner is originally operated Westinghouse washing

! -."T" is too great; when there is an from Salzburg, Austria, Hohlweg machines, ten Aldry dryers. abundance of snow, the cable runs from Vienna. Michael Annett, a New The new laundry facility replaces i’.~, close to parallel with the snow. Foundlander, has skied and instructed i.. ~ ’ . the portable equipment formerly !’ , "~ During the course of an ordinary in the Laurentians; Sidney Jenson, in service at Housekeeping Camp. from Logan, Utah, had his own school winter,¯ it was necessary to raise or The shower buildings are additions lower the cross-arms as many as at Beaver Mt., Utah and skied Aspen, to the present bath facilities. five or six times. This required some Alto, Sun Valley, etc. Finally, Ross Baumgardner, an Oregonian, has in- The laundromat building has a . sixteen man-hours of work which had structed at Timberline Lodge, Mt. fascinating roof line, sort of pagoda ¯ to be ¯done after the lift shut down Hood. shaped, and immediately reminding . for:fhe day. one of a canvas roof, and in the Fiore this week .is indoctrinating ’seeking a way to reduce the chore, area of the canvas-topped tents, ap- the returning and new instructors in the maintenance people set out to pears quite at home.Also interesting anticipation of heavy patronage dur- design a. tool to do the job. They are the supporting vertical members. ing the Christmas holidays. ¯ came up with a plan and had it These are thick, round poles which executed by Paul Lockwood, machi- the height of the arm, the jack allows have been treated to give them a nistin. Midpines. The device is clam- it to slide down at a reasonable fine, green patina. ped to the tower below the cross-arm, speed. The contractor, intends to get the a jack. put into position and the cross- The hoisting-lowering procedure concrete floors poured this winter, arm jacked up to the required loca- now takes about four hours, rather returning in early spring to complete tion; Whenit is necessary to reduce than sixteen as earlier. the job by May 1.

CHRISTMASEVENTS Slalom - 1:30 p.m. Slalom, 1:30 p.m. There are a number of activities Monday, December 21 - Ski Pro- Monday, December28 -- Team Race ¯taking place at Yosemite Lodge, Bad- ~:i ficiency tests, YosemiteWinter Club, on Skis, 2:30 p.m. ~.. get Pass and the Village Chapel dur- morning and afternoon. Tuesday, December 29 - Snowshoe ing the Christmas-New Year’s holi- Tuesday, December22 - Short Cross Race, 12:45 p.m.; Dual Slalom Race, clays in which locals maybe interes- Country Ski Trip to top of Old Badger, 2:00 p.m. .. ted-and to ¯which all are welcome. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday,December 30 -- Yosemite There will be a Protestant Com- Wednesday, December 23 -- Slalom Winter Club Proficiency Tests, morn- munionService at 10:30 in the Chapel ing and afternoon. instruction and practice - 2:30 p.m. ’ Christmas Eve. At the RomanCatholic Thursday, DeCember¯ 31 - Yosemite Thursday, December24 - Short Cross Midnight Mass the Bracebridge Sing- Winter Club sponsored Junior Giant Country Ski Trip to top of Tempo ers will participate. Christmas Day Slalom (through age 16) 1:30 p.m. Dome,afternoon. Protestant services will be .held at 11 Friday, January 1, 1965 -- Profic- .. a.m.; Bracebridge Singers will sing. Friday, December25 - Yosemite Win. iency Tests -- afternoon. ter Club Slalom. Santa Claus arrives RomanCatholic Masses on Christmas The Yosemite Lodge is offering an to race, 2:00 p.m. Day in the Chapel will be at 6:30 and expanded motion picture schedule, 9:00 a.m. Saturday, December26 - Yosemite with films at 9:00 p.m. as follows: ski fans are welcorneto participate Winter Club Ski Proficiency Tests, Dec. 21 -- "County Fair" (C) in the following activities: morning and afternoon. Dec. 23 "Great Locomotive Chase" Sunday, December 20- Y. W. C. Sunday, December 27 - Sunday Dec. 27 - "Babe Ruth Story,, (c)