Word: klamath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just before dawn, and a cold fog hung over the marshes below Klamath Falls, Ore. Two men squatted in a crude blind. At 6:23 a.m., a flight of canvasback ducks wheeled confidently in. Muttered one of the men: "They got wrist watches on ... they know it's too early for shooting." The hunters inhaled cigarettes, took a nip from a bottle of bourbon, and waited...
California Invaders. The marshes around Klamath Falls, on the east slope of the Cascades, are a duck hunter's heaven. The two hunters last week, like other local citizens, want to keep it that way. But the fame of Klamath Falls has spread. Last week, hunters from as far away as Chicago swarmed into town. The natives were particularly scornful of what they call "California hunters,"* who swarm across the border, led by a Hollywood contingent in fancy hunting togs. Among movieland duck hunters: Clark Gable and Andy Devine...
...Klamath Falls sits astride the Pacific flyway, which will be flown by some 30 million ducks this fall. Some of its marshes and lakes are fed by water that bubbles at 200° from hot mineral springs-and ducks like to break their journey there. For a lot of ducks, it's the last stop...
...ease the brooders' minds once & for all, Captain Lowell T. Coggeshall, tropical disease expert of the University of Michigan, took a poll of mumu convalescents at an Army hospital near Klamath Falls, Ore. His finding, reported without comment in California and Western Medicine: mumu men have fathered twice as many babies as wormless veterans...
...Howel Williams, leading volcanologist : "Renewed activity is not out of the question." Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...