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VOL. 47 NO. 4

WILLIAM D. KENNEDY

APRIL, 1955

Art Director

ARTHUR T. LOUGEE

Managing Editor

EDMUND WARE SMITH

Roving Editor

BURGESS H. SCOTT

Associate Editors

ROBERT MARTIN HODESH

NANCY KENNEDY

JEROME PALMS

Production Manager

MALCOLM T. YOUNG

Circulation Manager

PAULINE SYLER

Board of Publishers

WALKER WILLIAMS

Chairman

R. F. G. COPELAND

J. R. DAVIS

B. R. DONALDSON

WILLIAM D. KENNEDY

ARTHUR T. LOUGEE

CHARLES F. MOORE, JR.

Ford Motor Company

Dearborn, Michigan

Printed in U.S.A.

FORD TIMES

Contents

Last of the Klamath Wilderness......

Walt Whitman's Long Island.

NED FRENCH

Feathered Dive-Bomber.....

FRANK WOODFIELD

R. A. PARKER

CHARLES HARPER

Custom Conversions...

How to Attack the Ramp.

New England Journeys-Number 3.. 26

Pleasures of a Detour.....

TWILA CARMAN

The Alewife's Double Destiny. ... 32

The Vanishing One-Man

Cheese Factory..

Salvage on the Mississippi..

CHARLES RAWLINGS

JEROME PALMS

HELENE HUFF

BURGESS H. SCOTT

. 53

Ranch Wagon Ideas......

The Bily Brothers' Clocks.

From the Almanac...

A. M. WETTACH

Favorite Recipes of Famous Taverns.. 57

Americamera-8, 19, 46, 55; One-Picture Stories-13, 37;

Then There Was the Driver Who-62; Letters-63.

The Ford Times is published monthly by

Ford Motor Company, 3000 Schaefer, Dearborn, Michigan

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photograph by Fred Swartz

PYRAMID

YRAMID LAKE, shown in the picture above, is one of

the West's strange bodies of water. Laden with chemicals

from springs within it, and slowly evaporating through

the years, its shoreline and islands are crusted with

mineral deposits in weird shapes.

Despite the bitterness of the water, there is consider-

able natural life in it. Paiute Indians who live on the

shore get fish from it, and on one of its islands is the

largest pelican rookery in the West. There are 10,000 of

these huge and beautiful birds.

Steep-sided islands, some over 400 feet high, give the

lake its name. It is thirty-five miles north of Reno on

State Highway 33. The road is adequate but don't try it

right after rain.

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Last of the

KLAMATH WILDERNESS

KLAMATH

Sacramento

story and photographs by Ned French

HE little town of Klamath lies in

THE

the northwest corner of California on

U.S. 101. From the town a road runs

up the river for about six miles, ending

at a sawmill. For those anglers who can

recall when each season brought silver

hordes of salmon thrashing and plunging

up practically every Pacific Coast river,

large or small, it might seem that no

stream, today, could offer a thrill. But

California's great Klamath, which rises

in Oregon, still does. There are some

interesting reasons why.

True, the salmon no longer fill the

current as far as the eye can see. But still they run,

river from bank to bank, churning the

inevitably the steelhead follow. The steelhead, a sea-run rain-

bow with extra energy and fighting power built in, is in part

the subject of this article. The rest is for the fisherman who

and

likes his wilderness. And the story begins at the sawmill six

miles above the town of Klamath. Above the sawmill, the

next twenty-mile stretch of the Klamath River is a game- and

Above right: Crowded boat-fishing at Klamath River mouth

Below right: Salmon anglers convene in tidal lagoon at sunset-

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CUSTOM CONVERSIONS

'34 Convertible Reborn

BATTERED and partially dis-

mantled 1934 Ford convert-

ible in a junkyard caught the eye

of R. E. Stockton of Urbana,

Ohio, and caused him to go into

the remarkable restoration which

is described below. The photo-

graphs above show the old parts he

hauled home, and the one at up-

per right shows the restored car.

The car was first stripped to the

bare frame, and then began the

task of reconditioning and restor-

con-

ing each part to its original

dition. Mechanical items were no

engine,

problem because most

drive train, suspension, and elec.

trical parts were available from

Ford dealers. Body and trim items

were another story, however.

Those which could not be replaced

from salvage yards had to be

stored by hand.

re-

A grille, front bumper, head-

light, and horns, all in first class

condition, were located at a wreck-

ing

lig

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Damariscotta Mills fish stream, Maine, 1954. Left to right: falls, w

The Alewife's Double Destiny

DAMARISCOTTA

Portland

by Charles Rawlings

paintings by Maurice Day

HE ALEWIFE, Pomolobus pseudoharengus,

most land-loving and domesticated of the

herring family, has to have fresh water to

spawn. If he, and probably more important,

she, can get to their mating place the hard

way through swift, tumbling current and

buffeting, rock-strewn rapids, that is the

course they choose.

At Damariscotta Mills, Maine, the ale-

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La Posta de Mesilla, built in 1820, was origi-

nally a hotel which boasted of such colorful patrons as Billy

the Kid, Kit Carson and Pancho Villa. Today it is a fine

restaurant noted for its Mexican dishes. It is located on State

Highway 28 in Mesilla, New Mexico.

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The Pink House includes a Manor House and

six cottages on six acres overlooking the ocean. Breakfast,

lunch and dinner daily except Sunday lunch. Club Hotel

lodging and vacation facilities by reservation. Dinner reserva-

tions advisable. Closed during December. On U.S. 17 at

North 43rd in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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Favorite Recipes of Famous Taverns

Taughannock Farms Inn is located in a huge

old country house. It is eight miles north of Ithaca in Trumans-

burg, New York, on State Route 89. Dinner served from 5:00

p.m. to 8 p.m. daily; noon to 8:00 p.m. on Sundays. Overnight

accommodations. Closed Thanksgiving to Easter Sunday.

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The Bily Brothers' Clocks

story and photographs by A. M. Wettach

ACH YEAR 40,000 people stop off in Spillville, Iowa, to see

what time it is. This tremendous interest in the time of

day is due to the town's remarkable collection of hand-carved

clocks which denote the hour in every conceivable way, their

performances ranging from the familiar cuckoo song to an

intricate chimes version of Handel's "Largo."

The clocks are the work of two brothers, Frank and Joseph

Bily (pronounced Beely), who took up clock-making as a hobby

over forty years ago. Farming was their occupation, but in

1913 a neighbor who had carved a clock asked their help in

installing the mechanism. The brothers became interested and

began designing and carving clocks as a pastime during the

long winter months. Joseph, the older brother, was the

designer while Frank did the carving.

The collection grew, and as its fame spread, visitors stopped

off at the farm house to see it. The clocks were never offered

for sale, but the town of Spillville recently arranged to display

the collection in the Dvorak House, the historic building where

the Czech composer, Antonin Dvorak, lived and worked in

the summer of 1893. The Dvorak Museum is on the second

floor of this building.

One of the first clocks made by the Bily brothers was the

Apostle Clock, with its elaborate Gothic carvings and figures

of the twelve apostles parading by on the hour. The Hall

Clock, the Apostle's Parade Clock, the Grand Tower Clock,

and the Chimes of Normandy and Westminster Abbey Clock

are all embellished with elaborate carving and each includes

an unusual set of chimes.

Opposite page: Frank Bily inspects the History of Travel Clock

(upper left), the American Pioneer History Clock (upper right),

the Apostle Clock (lower left), and the Village Blacksmith Clock.

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Compliments of

PETERSON MOTOR SALES, INC.

Barron, Wisconsin

Phone 70

32-7-149

Front cover This painting by John

Warren combines the promise of Spring

and the beauty of the side-road de-

tour. The Wisconsin scene, not far from

Madison, includes a farm house which

until recently was a cheese factory. A

byway tour of Wisconsin's rapidly

vanishing one-man cheese factories is

described in the article on page 38.

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