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1971 Buck Evans, NPS 1929 – 1971, retires after serving 4 years as Chief Ranger at Crater Lake, and 20 years at Yosemite. Buck spent the last 5 years of his 9 years at Crater Lake serving as an Administrative Assistant. He spent most of his time acting as a file clerk and delivering interoffice mail.
January 14 1971 Park Commissioner title changes to “U.S. Magistrate.”
In the United States federal courts, magistrate judges are judges appointed to assist United States district court judges in the performance of their duties. While federal district judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate for lifetime tenure, magistrate judges are appointed by a majority vote of the federal district judges of a particular court and serve terms of eight years if full-time, or four years if part-time, and may be reappointed. As of January 2009, Congress has authorized 466 full-time and 60 part-time magistrate judgeships, and three positions combining magistrate judge and clerk of court.
Magistrate judges conduct a wide range of judicial proceedings to expedite the disposition of the civil and criminal caseloads of the district courts. Congress set forth in the statute powers and responsibilities that could be delegated by district court judges to magistrate judges.
March 28 1971 Nick Carlino of Grants Pass, Oregon disappears while snowshoeing along the Rim, just west of Rim Village. When his German shepherd returned to the Cafeteria Building alone, Nick’s wife instituted a search. Calino’s snowshoe tracks were traced to the Crater’s edge where they abruptly disappeared, giving the impression that Carlino had been carried over the edge on top of an avalanche when the cornice broke loose.
MT report: Man Falls off Crater Lake Rim; Fate Unknown – Snow Overhang Give Way Under Grants Pass Man – Rescue Workers Find No Trace – Nick Carlino, 30, of New Hope Road, Grants Pass, fell from the rim of Crater Lake Sunday afternoon to an uncertain fate. Rescue workers yesterday and so far today have failed to turn up a trace of the man. Workers, lowered from the Rim by ropes, are probing the 170 inches of snow for the Body.
According to Einar Johnson, Superintendent, Carlino had gone snowshoeing accompanied by his dog. Carlino’s wife, Cathy, was at the Coffee Shop when the dog returned there and led her back to the Crater’s Rim about 200 yards west of the Cafeteria.
Johnson said it appeared a snow overhang on the rim gave way, plunging Carlino down the steep cliff toward the lake. Carlino carried a large amount of snow with him down the cliff and Johnson said today it was impossible to tell whether the man had gone into the lake. The accident occurred about 8:30 p.m. An eight-man rescue team from Grants Pass led by Bill Pruittt, worked until 11:30 p.m. yesterday and resumed the search today.
The rim wall is about 1,000 feet high in the area. Workers first probed the area immediately under the overhang, a large amount of which remains, Johnson said, then with poles continued on down the slide path and were near the lake’s edge about noon. Temperature in the area dropped to 20 degrees last night.
April 7 1971 Nick Carlino’s body found in approximately five feet of water, encased in ice, near the base of the fatal avalanche. His snowshoes were found floating at Cleetwood Cove after the Lake Trail was opened in the spring.
July 1971 Major extension begins on the Cafeteria Building, doubling the floor area.
The Rim Road is turned into a one-way circle drive, beginning at the Rim Village Junction.
Park officials feel that considering the Park’s narrow and dangerous roads and with the size of motor homes becoming increasingly bigger, drivers would be much safer all driving the same direction.
August 1971 Sen. N. Sinnott’s daughter visits the Park
A large concentration of California Tortoise Shell butterflies are observed slowly fluttering their way through the east side of the Park.
All remaining historic log Boundary Patrol Cabins are razed by bulldozer in preparation of the Park’s backcountry being considered for Wilderness classification.
Wooden Annie Spring garage torn down.
August 8 1971 John Wesley Hillman’s great-grandson visits the Park and takes a boat ride.
August 10 1971 Four and a half acre fire, two miles south Annie Spring.
August 14 1971 Lodge Rim Tour bus totaled in accident behind Llao Rock after the driver, Bill Ellhart, blacks out because of a sudden pinching of a neck nerve as he turned to answer a question from his passenger and smashes into a rock road cut, with the bus sliding for 170 feet. Elhart is sent to the hospital with a broken back, four broken ribs, a broken nose and numerous cuts and bruises. Bill’s two elderly passengers sustain only bruises.
August 21 1971 Ranger patrol boat sinks at Cleetwood Cove following a small windstorm. The boat is refloated the next day.
August 23 1971 An employee car with four Lodge employees on board, rolls three times at North Junction. All four are transported by ambulance to Klamath Falls.
August 27 1971 Half A Century As Crater Lake Launch Ends For “Sparrow” – They are going to retire “The Sparrow”. Ceremonies have been scheduled for 2 p.m. at Crater Lake where the lunch named for the late Alex Sparrow, one of Jackson County’s most distinguished citizens, has plied the lake’s blue waters for more than 50 years.
The same ceremonies will mark the christening of the Sparrow’s successor to be named the “Rudy Wilson” honoring the man who has built, operated and maintained the boats on Crater Lake since 1959. It will be christened by his wife, Peggy Wilson.
Announcing the ceremonies to be held at the water edge at the foot of the Cleetwood Cove Trail, Ralph Peyton, concessionaire at Crater Lake, extended an invitation to all who want to make the journey down the trail. Special guests will be members of the two families to be honored and Einar Johnson, Superintendent. “The Sparrow” will not return to the lake’s rim, Peyton said. It will be dismantled and destroyed at water’s edge. It made its original journey to the lake down the old trail east of Crater Lake Lodge – in parts.
The 35-foot launch, with a seven-foot beam and four-cylinder engine, was built on Wizard Island and launched in July 1921. The late Judge Sparrow, as he became best known to Jackson County citizens, was then superintendent of Crater Lake National Park. He held that position from 1917 to 1925.
In 1926 the four-cylinder engine in the launch was replaced with a six cylinder Hudson engine. It was taken from a bus and already had 400,000 miles on it.
The launch’s nameplate is to be preserved, mounted and presented as a plague to Mrs. James S. Firth (Francis) of Kirkland Road, Central Point, daughter of the late Judge Sparrow. Sparrow, appointed park superintendent by Secretary of the Interior Franklin R. Lane, went into that position from a career in the U.S. Army and engineering. He served in the Army 30 years, chiefly in the Philippines and Cuba. Upon retirement he returned to his home in Toronto, Canada, but was soon back in government service as engineer on the Celilio Locks in the Columbia River. From that post he moved to engineer for road construction in Crater Lake National Park and a short time later received the appointment as superintendent. In 1925 he resigned to enjoy ranching but was soon again drafted into public service. He was appointed Jackson County judge in 1928. (Mrs. Firth, Sparrow’s daughter, told this author that she remembers the Rogue River freezing over in 1924, the same year Crater Lake froze over. They drove wagons across the river.) It was while on a tour of construction In the interests of Jackson County that he suffered injured in Klamath Fall, causing his death four days later January 24, 1932. Judge Sparrow, in his haste to get going, leaped out his car and charged into the interior of the yet unfinished County Court House. The interior was dark and the Judge did not realize the floor had yet to be installed. Charging in, Sparrow fell to his death.
A permanent memorial fund to child welfare was established in his honor and took immediate form in the Alex Sparrow Memorial Clinic. It was included in construction of the courthouse, which now houses Jackson County government and was moved to the new Jackson County Health Department when it was built on Maple Grove Drive. (MT)
August 28 1971 The “Rudy Wilson” Lake tour boat is officially added to the growing Crater Lake navy, replacing the venerable and 50 year-old “Sparrow”. The Sparrow is burned on the Island, with the nameplate presented to the daughter of former Superintendent Sparrow, Francis Spairw Firth, who lives near Applegate, Oregon.
August 31 1971 Armed robbery occurs at the Lodge. A 22 year-old man robs a Park visitor, at gunpoint in a Lodge restroom. The robber gets away with about $38.
The FBI is seeking a young man, 19 – 23 years of age, for the hold-up of a vacationing park visitor. The victim, Andrew L. Stills, was robbed at gunpoint of $38 in a restroom. The suspect reportedly drove a blue sport car from the scene and headed north. The car had California license plates.
September 10 1971 Ashland Daily Tidings – The personal effects of a Navy pilot who crashed in Crater Lake National Park more than 25 years ago were found this week by two park employees.
Some bones and flight equipment were found by Bob Misterek, 23, of Beaverton, and Paul Asntesson, 19, of Mt. View, California, about a quarter of a mile from the site of the crash, near the picnic grounds. Five uniform buttons, a rubber life raft, leather jacket, earphones, parachute, a religious medal and a first aid kit were recovered. The Navy Hellcat crashed Dec. 3, 1945, in a storm on a flight from Pasco, Washington to San Diego. In August last year the pilot’s skull was found and identified by the Navy. The wreckage of the plane had been found years earlier, but there was no sign of the pilot until last year.
Visitation 1971 557,958 visitors (Online says: 535,000)
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