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July 1969

Ford Times

DAVIONS

Via Mizner

Palm Beach in the Summer

Q and A about the Maverick.

Oregon's Timber Carnival

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Ford

Ford Times

The Ford Owner's Magazine

Publications Manager

RICHARD MORRIS

Editor-in-Chief

PATRICK J. KREMER

Editorial Director

ROBERT M. HODESH

Managing Editor

HAL BUTLER

Design Director

JOHN C. WEIGEL

Technical Editor

BURGESS H. SCOTT

Women's Editor

NANCY KENNEDY

Art & Design

BILL F. SCHMIDT

LEONARD JOHNSON

MALCOLM T. YOUNG

Circulation Manager

RICHARD W. SMITH

Front Cover-The Spanish

influence is predominant

in this painting of the

Via Mizner where visitors

to Palm Beach find the

smartest shops. Painting

by Robert Curran Smith;

story on Page 2.

DISCOVER AMERICA

CONTENTS

2 Palm Beach in the Summer

LAWRENCE DAME

8 Oregon's Timber Carnival

BYRON FISH

13 New Playground in Kansas

KENNETH D. MACE

17 The Anatomy of a Mule

IRWIN ROSS

22 Q and A on the Maverick

26 The Great Nantucket Food Hunt

LESTER J. BROOKS

34 Pack-Trip into the San Gabriels

BARBARA HORTON

39 Remember the "Mamie"

LEWIS A. CARTER

41 Upper Michigan's Craftsmen

NANCY KENNEDY

45 '69 Shelby GT 350/500

BURGESS H. SCOTT

July 1969 Vol. 62. No. 7

50 The Old Campground Has Changed

MELVIN BECK

60 The Canyon That Time Forgot

CHARLES HARPER

Glove Compartment-48

Favorite Recipes from Famous Restaurants-56

Performance Corner-64

Board of Publishers: T. H. MECKE, JR., Chairman W. P. BENTON, G. C. CURRAN,

W. A. HELLER, L. A. IACOCCA, P. J. KREMER, P. F. LORENZ, G. B. MACKENZIE,

R. MORRIS, J. J. MORRISSEY, J. B. NAUGHTON, J. E. SATTLER, FRED THOMPSON

Published monthly and copyrighted 1969 by Ford Motor Company,

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Oregon's

Timber

Carniva

Once a year the town of Albany stages a logging show.

Here's a chance to witness speed climbing, tree topping,

log chopping and other backwoods events

by Byron Fish

photographs by David Falconer

OGGER SPORTS, like the rodeo,

LOGGER

evolved from hardy outdoor

jobs that demanded strength and

stamina. Among both loggers and

cowboys the combination of skill

and pride often led these men far

beyond mere occupational effort.

They wanted to prove their superior-

ity in competition with their peers.

There is no truly comprehensive

term to describe logging contests,

so they are presented by whatever

name the sponsoring town gives

them: Timber Carnival, Loggers'

Jubilee, Forest Festival, Timber

Bowl or, emphasizing the competi-

tive angle, a Loggerodeo.

Scores of towns hold them every

summer, wherever logging is the im-

portant industry. The biggest ones

are naturally where the biggest trees

are found. In the United States, that

means the Pacific Northwest a

northern California.

A league of sorts has develope

over the years, although not as of

cially as in rodeo, with its standard

ized rules and cumulative points f

the season. Loggers actually go fro

one contest to another, though, com

peting for prize money in event

that are common to all shows.

The top show is at Albany, Ore

gon, sponsored by the local Jaycees

and held on the July 4th weekend

"World Championships" are deter

nival largely because Albany an

mined at this annual Timber Car

nounced them as such some years

ago and backed up its claim with

the best prize money, the most ef

ficient organization, a special "st

dium" and enthusiastic crowds.

As a result, the Timber Carniva

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Siver jewelry and hollow

ware was designed and

made by Olive M. Craig

representatitve for all

Upper Peninsula craftsmen

of his

Gordon Goehring produces

pottery from native

Upper Peninsula clays

in his roadside work-

shop in Hessel

A selection of hand-woven

table linens designed and

loomed by Ruth Scherrer

in her Trout Lake studios

PALM

BEACH in the Summer

This typical winter resort is peaceful

and uncluttered in Florida's off-season-

and, therefore, a pleasant place to visit

by Lawrence Dame

paintings by Robert Curran Smith

GILDED SANDSTRIP anchored by hundreds of palatial estates,

A modest bungalows and flowering trees, Palm Beach, like

Janus, has two faces. One is the glittering image of an island win-

ter resort, famed throughout the civilized world; the other is a

community that comparatively few visitors know, for it is the most

neglected, least crowded and least publicized summer playground

in America.

From mid-December to early April, the Palm Beach that so

many know fairly teems with people, rich or otherwise, famous

or obscure, all seemingly caught in a social whirl of gala charity

balls, cocktail parties, private soirees, public fashion shows, art

and theater openings, sports and, invariably, the big parade of

celebrities and sightseers along the chic shopping mart called

Worth Avenue. Many docks harbor millions of dollars' worth of

trim yachts, from modest cruisers to floating hotels. Dogs with

diamond-studded collars are walked on Worth Avenue-and

sometimes even a Siamese cat is seen chafing against its leash.

All this activity comprises a sort of winter "Vanity Fair" in a

superb climate where practically no one except the merchants,

caterers and service people seems capable of serious, sober

moments.

Then, as suddenly and mysteriously as the birds migrate, the

winter resorters pack up, close their shutters and are off to Europe

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by Kenneth D. Mace

paintings by Tom Palmerton

New Playground in Kansas

Once a strip mine area, this southeastern section

of the Sunflower State is now

the fastest developing recreational area in the nation

NYONE WHO still thinks of south-

eastern Kansas as flat, drought-

ridden cow country has a pleasant

surprise in store. The 50-mile-square

area roughly south of Chanute and

east of Coffeyville has rather sud-

denly (as such things go) become

dotted with low mounds and small,

clear, deep lakes-a fisherman's para-

dise. How this came about is one

Power shovel rips up the land while strip mining for coal near Oswego

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HE MULE IS a truly frustrated

creature. His frustration is deep-

seated and it accounts for his dis-

position. He wishes he were a horse.

And he might have been a horse

if humans hadn't stepped in and

fouled up the normal course of

things with their everlasting tinker-

ing. This the mule seems to know.

by Irwin Ross

Many people think a mule is just

a lazy, stupid animal, balking at the

slightest provocation and sitting

down under any sizable load. It is

easy to understand this misconcep-

tion. Nothing looks sorrier than a

mule. His long, floppy ears and

sleepy eyes, set above an oversized

Roman nose, his shaggy coat, short

Illustrations by Dean Corbitt

The anatomy of a

mule

The mule may be the world's most frustrated animal,

but one thing is sure-he's not the dumbest

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WHEN

MAVERICK HIT the American Road in mid-April, public

response rivaled the enthusiasm shown the Mustang when it

was introduced five years earlier. In addition to the intense inter-

est, many questions have been asked, and following are answers to

the more frequent queries.

Q. Why was the Maverick built?

A. To fill the big gap between domestic compacts and the small

imported cars. It has a wheelbase eight inches shorter than a

'69 Falcon and eight-and-one-half inches longer than the VW

1500, thus offering benefits of both sizes.

Q. Why were Maverick's dimensions chosen?

A. Every American generation is growing taller and bigger, thus

needing more leg, shoulder, and luggage room. For example,

Maverick's front shoulder room is nine inches wider than that

of the leading import.

Q. How many will it seat, and how much trunk space is there?

A. Four adults comfortably. In fact, a 250-pound, six-foot-two

man wearing a hat can drive Maverick with roomy comfort.

The same man can get a comfortable ride in the rear seat. The

trunk has 10.4 cubic feet of trunk space-enough for six medi-

um suitcases with nooks and crannies left over for many

smaller items.

Q. How much gas mileage can I expect?

A. With the standard 170 CID (cubic inch displacement) six-

cylinder engine and the right road conditions, a careful, econ-

omy-minded driver should get 25 to 26 miles per gallon. In

tests at our tracks, simulating actual driving conditions by

predetermined starts, stops, varying speeds, and terrain, the

Maverick got 22.5 miles per gallon.

Q. What about Maverick's engine?

A. Maverick's standard front-mounted engine is an in-line 170

CID six-cylinder rated at 105 hp at 4200 rpm. It develops

156 pounds-feet of torque at 2200 rpm.

Q. What will the Maverick cost?

A. The basic Maverick, one of the most completely equipped cars

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Remember the

"Mamie"

Thousands visit the USS Massachusetts to discover-

or relive-the days when the big-gunned battleship

was the Navy's most formidable vessel

by Lewis A. Carter

FFICIALLY SHE'S the U. S. S.

OFFICE

Massachusetts, BB-59, but to

the thousands of visitors who come

to see her at her berth in Fall River,

Massachusetts, she's "Mamie."

painting by C. Robert Perrin

If they have the right to address

such a venerable and formidable

battleship with this affectionate fa-

miliarity, it is because some of

them, at least, were among the

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The Great Nantucket

The bake master, pitchfork in hand, presides over typical clambake

O VISUALIZE American history,"

"To

my wife announced one eve-

ning, "there is no place to visit like

New England." I looked up from

my newspaper as she continued,

"... and think of all the wonderful

typically American dishes we could

sample there."

"Like baked beans?" I queried.

"Oh, nothing that prosaic," she

smiled. "I found this old New Eng-

land cookbook in the library yester-

day and discovered some fascinat-

ing 18th and 19th century dishes

we could look for on Nantucket."

Intuition and experience told me

that the locale of our upcoming va-

cation had just been nominated, if

not elected. "For instance," she

flipped through the pages, "wouldn't

you just love to try cranberry drop

cakes, finnan haddie soufflé, Cape

Cod turkey, or blueberry grunt?"

My wife was working on my

Achilles heel-food. "The last dish

did it," I said. "I'll go, if only for

a chance to sample the blueberry

grunt."

In the days that followed, my

wife dug up such essential travel

information as the number of old

whaling captains who had lived in

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'69 SHELBY GT 350/500...

Fire and refinement

47500

by Burgess H. Scott

The Shelby GT 500-a superb road machine powered by a 335 hp Cobra Jet V-8

FORD'S 1969 SHELBY GT 350 and

GT 500 custom road cars are

incredible machines, giving the high

performance enthusiast practically

anything he expects of an automo-

bile.

Both Shelbys come in two models

-the fastback Sports Roof and con-

vertible-with powerhouse Ram Air

engines, fiber glass hood inspired by

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NASA space research, front disc

and rear drum brake-cooling air

scoops that are functional, and heav-

ily padded roll bar with integral

inertia reel shoulder harnesses. The

roll bar and inertia reel are unique

among American-built cars.

Power for the GT 350 models is

Ford's new lightweight 351 CID

(cubic inch displacement) four-

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PES OF FAMOUS RESTAURANTS

Davenport Hotel, Spokane, Washington

Dining in the gracious atmosphere of old-time hotel-keeping

is a tradition in the Matador Room of the Davenport Hotel,

at 823 West Sprague Street, three blocks south of 1-90.

Open for lunch and dinner every day

except Sunday, with entertainment at night.

Spokane, in the heart of the eastern Washington recreation area, has

all sports, in all seasons, within easy driving distance.